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8 Tuesday April 4 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www. Our People Surfing photographer promoting .kiwi PEGASUS POST Warren Hawke, 64, is one the of the driving forces behind the New Brighton Duke Festival of Surfing. Born and bred in the eastern suburbs, he has surfed since he was a teenager. Sarla Donovan talked to him about books and his passion for Brighton SURF NUT: Warren Hawke and Monty. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN You’ve just finished running your second New Brighton Duke Festival of surfing – how did it go? It went pretty well, a lot more positives than negatives that’s for sure. We run about six different events and we’re still learning and adapting and changing things, but the surfing contest itself is possibly the biggest surfing event run in New Zealand with over 250 entries and that was run in three days which is an absolute record as far as contest management and judging goes. You’re on the New Brighton Pier and Foreshore Society aren’t you? Yes, I’ve been a member for about three to four years. It backs the surfing festival along with the sponsors that we pull in. Without the backing of many other sponsors and support from the community board and different grants groups we certainly couldn’t run what we do. Community groups can be hard work sometimes. Any frustrations? Not with the committee that we put together. The frustrating thing I suppose is the fact that it’s difficult to get information out there, to get the positives heard about New Brighton because there are a lot of great things happening. We’re just one of many community groups. I think there’s been a survey showing there are more community groups in Brighton than anywhere else in the country, for the size of the population. There does seem to be an awful lot. Well, there are a lot of new families that have moved into the area post-earthquakes, a lot of people that value the beach life and really see the area for its positives in bringing up kids close to the beach. For that reason they’ve hopped into many different community groups and see the qualities of what it is like to live on this side of town. You’ve always lived there? I’ve always lived on the east, but we were in Rockinghorse Rd for 30 years and in the back of North Beach before that. I started surfing in 1966 and have had a stand-up paddleboard the last few years – moved to the darker side. But we’re on the beach every day with the dog and our kids live on this side of town. There’s only one place to live as far as I’m concerned. Advertisers, we will grow your customers www.star.kiwi No.1 for Readership* Want more customers? We reach them! Contact us today to advertise in Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper, The Star. Ph: Steve 021 372 479 | E: steve@starmedia.kiwi *Source: Nielsen CMI Q1 16 – Q4 16, Christchurch urban, all respondents 10+, Thursday readership watch local | support local | shop local Join our hosts Geoff & renee on sKy ChaNNeL 83 Thursday 7.30pm repeaTs friday 1.30am & 7.30am WE SHARE YOUR VISION SKY 083 + On Demand WWW.STAR.KIWI for enquiries, contact Geoff moreton: 021 1066 177
PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi Tuesday April 4 2017 9 the positives of New Brighton Can you tell me a bit about your family? I met my wife Joy on a surfing trip to Westport when I was 16. She was visiting from Wellington. We’ve been married over 40 years now. She doesn’t surf though. She still finds it hard to tell me how big the surf is when she comes back from walking the dog. I’ve got a son and daughter, twins. Sophie lives about 500m away. She’s a teacher at Waitakiri School and does a bit of stand-up paddleboarding. My son Sam lives down the road from us, he’s a very good painter and artist. He does all the design work for the festival so we’re lucky to have him. He rides a Malibu board. What first attracted you to surfing? My brother started surfing the year before. I’d been a competitive swimmer and it was just one of those sports that really caught my imagination. It’s been my whole life really, apart from my career. You wore school jerseys with the sleeves cut off. Not very glamorous No, it was seen as a rebel-type sport and frowned upon and that was one of the things we liked about it; we could be within the mainstream but outside it as far as the sport that we followed. SMOOTH OPERATOR: Warren Hawke rides a wave off Mangamaunu,Kaikoura, in 1970. Now it’s becoming accepted more and more as a mainstream sport and something that families do together, which also has its pluses and minuses – the surf breaks get more and more crowded. Have you always lived in Christchurch? Yes, except for my first year teaching we spent in Westport and we went there for the mild winters and the good surf. How long did you teach for? I taught for 20 years, mostly at schools in the eastern suburbs, South Brighton, Burwood, Belfast. Then I was a principal for 20 years, at Governor’s Bay School. People are surprised that I’d drive there but it was only 25 minutes from Brighton through the Lyttelton Tunnel. You wrote a book about your life as a surfer – NZSurf - Captured by a Surf Lens. What made you want to write a book? I’ve been a surf photographer for 40 years and contributed to magazines around New Zealand and overseas, books and things like that and I really wanted to do something that was a reflection of me and what it was like in the 60s. Also the fact that I had control over what went in the book rather than an editor saying: ‘We want this, this and this.’ I wanted to do that myself. It must be a great feeling to have produced something like that. Absolutely, the feedback has been amazing and it’s been reviewed internationally. It’s something I got a lot of pleasure out of and it’s still selling. I’m working on another one now so that gives me some more direction in life. It’s going to be called The Collection. It’ll be a series of surf shoots on particular breaks and about people who are involved in surfing, artists and people that have made surfing their way of life, young people getting in to surfing and coming through, as well as some of the top surfers in New Zealand. What’s the wildest thing you’ve photographed? Surfing-wise, probably a reef break down in the Catlins, off the back of a jet ski in heavy waves but being able to sit in a channel and shoot it quite safely. Really heavy waves, surfers getting bounced off the bottom, and 3m waves coming through. Sounds like it could be addictive. It is addictive, yes for sure, everything about surfing’s addictive, and therapeutic too. CITY SOUTH VAN SPARES SERVICE CENTRE WOFS & TYRES 159 MACES ROAD | PH 389 6367 • Provide Full Workshop Facilities • Full Servicing & WOF Repairs • Towing Available • Good Hourly Rate • Same Day Clutch Replacement • 2 Day Engine Replacement • Mechanical & Exhaust Repairs PLUS CITY SOUTH VANS We buy, sell and dismantle vans and cars • We pick up out of Christchurch • Backpacker vehicles available WITH Guaranteed Buy Back 100% owned & operated 166 MACES ROAD, BROMLEY P. 384 8744 or A/H 027 222 3241 OPEN SATURDAY 9.00AM - 1.00PM OFFICIAL MALL OF THE
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