Land size Garage Bedroom Carport Land Bathroom size Bedroom Lounge Land size Bedroom BathroomDining BathroomLounge Toilet Car pad Garage Garage Boat pad Carport Carport Pool Car pad Shower Lounge Dining Tennis court Boat pad Car pad Pool Boat pad Land size ToiletDining Shower Study GarageToilet Tennis court 1 2 3 4 Pool Tennis court 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Bedroom Shower Carport 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Study FREE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8 2016 Pegasus Post Proudly locally owned and published by Star Media Award winning publishing group Shop scan ENTER NOW! one of three $1000 SHOPPING SPREES SEE full page inside for details 379 7100 Linwood, Avonside, Richmond, Shirley, Burwood, Dallington, Wainoni, Bromley, Aranui, Avondale, Bexley, New Brighton, Northshore, Queenspark, Parklands, South Brighton Top scholars rewarded for effort CITY TO SEA: An artist’s impression of the proposed Avon-Otakaro Forest Park. Pioneering family offers to buy some red zone land TOP OF THE SCHOOL: After five years of hard work and dedication to their schoolwork, Sean Takai from Shirley Boys’ and Hannah Everingham from Marian College were awarded dux of their schools for their efforts. Shirley and Marian held their annual senior prizegiving evenings last week, celebrating the high achievers of the school year. Proxime accessit, or second to the dux, was awarded to Boris van Bruchem at Shirley and Bobbi Braxton at Marian. Other notable awards on the night were given for sports, academic, cultural and arts. •Turn to page 7 for more awards • By Tom Doudney A DESCENDANT of Canterbury’s pioneering Deans family has offered to buy red zone land to get the proposed Avon-Otakaro Forest Park off the ground – and he hopes others will follow suit. Hamish Monro, a great, great grandson of John Deans, farms in East Sussex, England. He believed there was a shortage of native forest in Canterbury and wanted to build on his family’s legacy at Riccarton Bush by buying “at least an acre or more” of red zone land to become part of the forest park. “With suitable covenants in place the sale of parcels of land would produce a return for the Crown and help make the [forest park] project self-sustaining,” Mr Monro said. “It is taking otherwise pretty dubious ‘housing’ land and recreating native, or semi-native, woodland rather than repeat housing which will always be subject to flooding and other risks.” Mr Monro said he was yet to raise the idea with the Government or anyone outside the Avon-Otakaro Forest Park group and would not pre-empt how much money he was willing to pay. •Turn to page 2 850m 4 2 1 850m 2.5 4 2 1 2.5 850m 4 850m 4 2 1 2.5 House of Hearing 100% NZ Owned & Operated CLINIC PHONE Fendalton 03 351 3535 Halswell 03 322 4326 Rangiora Papanui 03 310 7355 Ashburton 03 307 8949
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