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Riccarton’s Sam Laurie was 

named the best barista 

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• By Georgia O’Connor- 

Harding 

RICCARTON barista Sam 

Laurie makes between 

400-500 coffees a day, so it 

is no wonder he can make a 

good brew. 

In fact, his coffees are 

so good he was named 

best barista at the 

Columbus Coffee National 

Championship in Auckland 

recently. 

Mr Laurie said it was a 

huge achievement and he 

had been working hard to 

perfect his coffee since he 

started at Columbus Coffee 

Riccarton about three years 

ago. 

The 25-year-old started out 

as a barista at the Honeypot 

Cafe on Colombo St when 

it re-opened after the 

earthquakes in 2013. 

“It wasn’t until I started 

at Columbus Coffee that I 

started nailing my passion,” 

he said. 

He never was much of 

a coffee-drinker in high 

school but now his favourite 

coffee to make is a shortblack 

because it is “the closest 

flavour to coffee you can get.” 

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding 

HILLMORTON HIGH School’s 

principal does not support a 

proposal to remove its intermediate 

students to form a new school in 

Halswell. 

Principal Ann Brokenshire said 

Hillmorton High has a strong middle 

school culture and she would 

be “reluctant” to see it move to a 

campus in Halswell. 

The comments come after the 

Ministry of Education put out 

12 options for the future of 

Halswell schooling due to a 

predicted population explosion in 

the future. 

The survey asked participants if 

they would like to see Hillmorton 

High become a year 11-13 school 

only. 

But Ms Brokenshire said the advantage 

of having a middle school 

and high school on the same site is 

huge. 

She said advantages included 

working with specialist teachers 

and talented students could be put 

up a level. 

“If you are running two sites, it 

would be really difficult to do that 

in a seamless way,” she said. 

The other options include establishing 

a new year 1-6 primary 

school, a year 1-8 primary school 

or a new year 7-10 intermediate in 

northern Halswell. 

The survey closes on Friday. 

Last month, Western News 

reported the MoE confirmed 

land on Tongariro St will be the 

location for a new $15 million 

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WESTERN NEWS 

News........................................3-7 

ON THE front page today, 

Halswell looks like it could be 

getting a bit of a shake-up as the 

Ministry of Education tries to 

problem-solve how it is going to 

provide for future population 

growth. It is always difficult 

when you discuss schools – 

remember the awful time after 

the earthquakes when so many 

were closed or merged? It can 

create so much upheaval for the 

community. Fill in the survey if 

you can. 

What would you prefer? Being 

charged for car parking at 

Jellie Park Recreation and Sport 

Centre, or being rewarded for 

cycling or taking the bus, with 

free stuff? We look at what a 

community board is looking 

at to solve parking woes at the 

recreation centre on page 5. 

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Shelley Robinson 

Call for car parking charges at Jellie Park Recreation and 

Sports Centre 

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WESTERN NEWS Tuesday September 27 2016 3 


Noisy buses irk residents 


RESIDENTS LIVING on a 

quiet Halswell street say they 

will not put up with noisy buses 

on a permanent basis. 

Graycliffe St residents are 

frustrated, saying Environment 

Canterbury gave them the 

impression a bus route going 

through their street would only 

ever be temporary. 

But consultation on the route 

staying put, closes on Friday. 

The current Orange Line bus 

service travels through Patterson 

Tce, Halswell Junction 

Rd, Hamill Rd, Graycliffe St, 

Murphys Rd and Caulfield Ave. 

Resident Helen Smith said 

buses travel past her house from 

about 5.30am to midnight every 

day with about three to four 

buses at peak times travelling in 

convoy. 

“The noise is unbelievable. It 

is horrendous and our bedroom 

is at the front of the house so we 

hear everything all night,” she 

said. 

Residents on Graycliffe St and 

Murphys Rd have been putting 

up with the temporary bus 

route for about two years after it 

was set up in 2014. 

A consultation is under way 

STRUGGLE: Because the roads on Caulfield Ave and Hamill 

Rd are designed to slow traffic, buses have difficulty turning 

the corner. 


with ECan to extend a bus route 

through the subdivisions of 

Longhurst and Knights Stream 

to increase patronage numbers. 

But the consultation is also 

because buses cannot turn 

properly on the corner of 

Hamill Rd and Caulfield Ave, 

which is a retail area. 

The roads around the retail 

area were designed to slow 

traffic to provide safe access for 

pedestrians. 

Environment Canterbury 

public transport manager David 

Stenhouse said the city council 

had a strong preference that the 

intersection at Hamill Rd and 

Caulfield Ave is pedestrianfriendly. 

He said there is also a high 

density residential dwelling on 

the south side of Hamill Rd and 

the area south of Murphys Rd 

is zoned for further residential 

development. 

Originally the buses were 

planned to go along Hamill Rd 

onto Caulfield Ave and Richmond 

Ave. 

A meeting was held between 

about 30 residents, Mr Stenhouse 

and city council representatives 

last Tuesday. 

In July, Greycliffe St residents 

received a letter from Mr 

Stenhouse saying the temporary 

route was intended to be shifted 

onto a different route. 

“At no stage did he even alert 

to the fact Graycliffe St was going 

to become an option,” Mrs 

Smith said. 

In 2014, a temporary route 

was created for the Orange Line 

because roads in the subdivision 

were not completed. 

Halswell Residents’ Association 

member Ross McFarlane 

said they were disappointed a 

new subdivision has been built 

and a bus can’t turn a corner to 

go into the commercial area. 

“That is just poor planning,” 

he said. 

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In Brief 

QUARRY CAFE IDEA 

The city council will test the 

market to see if anyone is 

interested in setting up a café 

in Halswell Quarry Park. On 

Thursday the city council decided 

to put out for tender the running 

of a cafe at the park to gauge 

interest. The cafe will be near 

the historic Singleman’s House. 

Deputy mayor Vicki Buck said 

the city council will most likely 

look at a temporary solution 

for the summer. She said they 

will then look at a longer term 

solution which may involve a 

new building. Meanwhile, the 

city council has decided against 

turning Mona Vale’s gatehouse 

into a cafe at the same meeting. 

The gatehouse has been closed 

since the earthquakes. City 

council staff will work with the 

Fendalton-Waimari ward to 

decide on the future use of the 

gatehouse. 

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Work began yesterday to repair 

the earthquake-damaged 

wastewater system on Fendalton 

Rd and the wider area. As part 

of this work they will carry out 

a patch repair to the wastewater 

main and clean out a stretch of 

pipe between Fendalton Rd and 

Desmond St. The work will be 

completed on October 10. 

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Recently I referred a 7 year old 

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team at VSA and great results in the 

past. Dusty is a patient we have seen 

a lot of recently. He was recently 

neutered and treated for an enlarged 

prostate and more recently I have 

examined and treated Dusty for what we believed 

to be unrelenting lower back pain. 

Dusty is the perfect patient, amenable to a lot of 

manipulation and palpation, although he now 

often freezes and drops when he sees me coming. 

Previously Dusty has had CT scans, radiographs 

and blood testing to try to understand why at 

times he seems crippled with pain. He is unable to 

run with other dogs, play vigorously, jump, swim 

for long periods of time – in other words, “just be a 

dog”. His onset of pain 

is quick and he wears 

his pain on his little 

face. We have treated 

Dusty with numerous 

types of pain and 

inflammation 

modifying drugs 

with no real 

success, as well as 

physiotherapy and 

hydrotherapy. 

Dusty’s owner 

and I discussed in depth our next step 

which had to be an MRI at St Georges Hospital 

to determine whether Dusty was a surgical 

candidate or not. Dusty’s owner is a nurse herself 

and fully understands an accurate diagnosis is 

crucial if we are to understand Dusty’s pain better 

and do the best for him. Luckily it also helps to 

have pet insurance, as MRI diagnostics and spinal 

surgery are right up there in cost for the average 

client. Dusty may make the move to the UK soon, 

so I wanted to make real sure we were doing all 

we could for him. 

The staff at St Georges are helpful, knowledgable 

and lovely with our canine patients. I regularly 

travel with patients to sedate and monitor them 

for their MRI which can 

take up to an hour. It isn’t 

painful but they have to 

lie 

very still in order for the 

radiologist to get good 

pictures. Ear plugs are 

inserted as the machinery 

is very noisy. 

In Dusty’s case, even I 

could see the cause of 

his severe pain. He had a 

severe disc prolapse and 

soft tissue hypertrophy at 

the lumbosacral junction 

( L7-S1) causing spinal 

cord compression. His 

L6-L7 disc space was also 

moderately prolapsed. 

The radiologist also 

noted a congenital 

abnormality of his aorta, an 

incidental finding. 

The surgeon in Auckland had access to this 

MRI and could read the images. He concluded 

that Dusty would benefit from spinal cord 

decompression and stabilisation of the 

lumbosacral disc space, which would allow Dusty 

a far better quality of life. 

The surgeon liased with Dusty’s owner 

immediately and within weeks Dusty was flown 

to Auckland for a referral consultation, operated 

on successfully and is now 

rehabilitating in Auckland post 

operatively for 6 weeks, until the 

follow up xrays show that there is 

bony healing and stability of the 

plates and screws. Dusty is also 

receiving physiotherapy to help with 

a quicker recovery. 

A real success story for Dusty and his 

family and it just goes to show that 

the best veterinary medicine is often 

a collaborative team effort, where our 

primary objective is to successfully 

cure, heal and care for our patients. 

At McMaster & Heap we are also extremely lucky 

to have the expertise and knowledge of Steve 

Heap, in diagnosing and treating patients with Eye 

diseases and Catherine Morganti, who regularly 

preforms ultrasounds and endoscopy on cats 

and dogs, allowing us more diagnostic options 

to working up a sick patient. We also employ a 

registered veterinary dentist, when required, to 

perform root canal surgeries and pulpotomies on 

teeth, when clients would rather save their dogs 

teeth than us perform extractions. 

Steve’s caseload at McMaster & Heap would be 

80% eye referral work and much of this ends up 

being operated on. Steve also 

travels to Dunedin every 3 months 

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referral work and surgery. These 

vets have invested time to develop 

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help to us primary vets in providing 

solutions and treatments with our 

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Internet boost for students 

• By Tania Green 

HORNBY HIGH School 

parent Alesha Millard 

and her son Luke are 

some of the first in the 

country to be part of a new 

programme by mobile and 

internet company Spark. 

The programme Spark 

Jump offers families with 

school-aged children who 

can’t access the internet a 

standard internet package 

for a quarter of the normal 

price. 

Ms Millard said her 

family would not have 

been able to have internet 

in their home if they were 

not involved in the programme. 

The idea behind Spark 

Jump is to offer heavily 

subsidised and affordable 

broadband to families with 

school-aged children who 

•From page 1 

An area has been established 

on Milns Rd in 

northern Halswell, but no 

school is yet planned for 

the site. 

Meanwhile, parents of 

Rowley Avenue School have 

vowed they will fight any 

bid to relocate their school 

OPPORTUNITY: Hornby High School parent 

Alesha Millard and her son Luke are trialling a new 

programme by mobile and internet company Spark. 

cannot afford commercial 

home broadband services. 

Spark corporate relations 

manager Andrew Pirie 

said it is important every 

child in New Zealand has 

the opportunity to use 

broadband at home. 

“The reality is there are 

to Halswell. 

The school, based in Hoon 

Hay, was identified earlier 

this month by the MoE, 

principals and board of trustees 

in the area of possibly 

moving to Halswell. 

To complete the survey 

go to http://www. 

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WESTERN NEWS 

tens of thousands of children 

in New Zealand who 

come home every day and 

don’t have the opportunity 

to continue their learning 

at home . . . that is an affordability 

challenge and it 

is one we want to try and 

solve,” he said. 

Concern for future of school 

halswell-communityengagement-on-proposednew-primary-educationprovision/ 

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to see for the future of 

Halswell schooling? 

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Call for car parking charges 

• By Andrew King 

A CYCLING group says Jellie 

Park Recreation and Sports 

Centre users who drive to the 

facility should be charged for 

parking. 

Spokes Canterbury chairman 

Don Babe said instead of the 

city council’s proposal to offer 

free gear, food or discount cards 

if people travelled by cycle or 

used the bus, they should simply 

charge for car parking. 

The Fendalton-Waimairi 

Community Board decided 

in May to form a committee, 

chaired by board member 

Bridget Williams, to gather ideas 

around how to encourage people 

to leave the car at home. 

The survey is open now and 

will run for the next three weeks 

at Jellie Park. 

The idea came about because 

there was not enough parking at 

the facility during summer. 

Between December 2015 and 

March 2016, 238,024 people 

used the facilities, the park has 

114 car parks available. 

Among the idea was to offer 

discount cards, give out towels 

or free food as a reward to those 

who cycled or used the bus. 

But Mr Babe said the community 

board has got it wrong. 

He said it would be difficult to 

IDEAS NEEDED: Fendalton-Waimairi Community Board member Bridget Williams wants 

to hear any ideas about how to encourage Jellie Park users to get out of their cars and use 

alternative transport. 

PHOTO: ANDREW KING 

police who had actually cycled 

and who had just taken a helmet 

along to get a discount. 

He said the idea should be 

flipped on its head and for car 

parking to be charged instead. 

“Let us discourage the use of 

cars to get to a sports facility if 

people live close,” he said. 

Once the committee has gathered 

those idea it will use the 

best one in a trial in November. 

Miss Williams said it would 

be better to encourage cycling 

or public transport rather than 

charge for parking. 

“It is one way of controlling 

parking issues, however, I feel 

that encouraging cycling provides 

a benefit to the environment, 

the person and relieves 

parking issues,” she said. 

Extending the car park was rejected 

by a city council committee 

in May after overwhelming 

public response to the consultation. 

“The hope is to free up car 

parks, create healthy habits and 

make sure there is community 

involvement,” Miss Williams said. 

Currently, it costs adults $5.80 

to use the pool, while children 

under 16 pay $3.10. 

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TWO QUARRY operators have 

lodged an appeal after they were 

denied an application to dig 

deeper into the ground. 

In August, an application 

by nine quarries, called the 

Canterbury Aggregate Producers 

Group, asked to be granted 

permission to quarry up to 4m 

below the highest recorded 

groundwater level. 

It was rejected by an 

independent hearings panel 

last month. Two of those – 

Selwyn Quarries, now owned by 

Winstone Aggregates, and Isaac 

Construction Ltd – are appealing 

that decision to the Environment 

Court. About 500 out of 600 

submissions had opposed the 

application and all submitters 

were notified of the appeal on 

Friday. 

Residents were concerned the 

possibility of deeper quarrying 

could contaminate groundwater. 

This was a key reason why the 

application was declined. 

The Selwyn Quarries operation 

is at 58 Selwyn Rd in Broadfield, 

while the Isaac Construction 

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WESTERN NEWS 


Library, sports centre options 

In the lead-up to the local body elections, Western News is asking city council 

candidates their views on topical issues within the community. This week we 

ask Hornby Ward candidates what their preferred location is for the Hornby 

Library and South West Recreation and Sports Centre, and whether they think 

it should go into Denton Park, which is home to numerous sports clubs. 

Sara Harnett 

Kikstra: 

Independent 

Difficult question 

to answer without 

first knowing what 

the options are, 

feasibility studies 

of different locations, 

the opinions 

of local residents and the local cricket 

and football club. Denton Park, in terms 

of traffic, is already quite congested. 

Kyle Park, which is next to Hornby High 

School, may be an option, although I 

understand it may have been an old land 

fill and remediation may be costly. The 

new Riccarton Library is sited on school 

land and appears to be a successful partnership, 

which could be an option with 

Hornby High School. Hornby now has a 

plethora of industrial land and exhausted 

quarry pits on its boundary, which could 

be used without encroaching on its limited 

green space. This could be linked to 

local parks with a walkway. Ultimately, 

Hornby is long, long overdue for these 

kind of facilities. 

Jimmy Chen: 

The People’s 

Choice 

A site for the new 

Hornby Library 

and the South 

West Recreation 

and Sports Centre 

is still under active 

consideration by 

the council, including Denton Park. An 

option to co-locate these facilities on a 

single site is a part of this work. Before 

making a decision, the city council will 

be undertaking consultation with the 

community on a possible site(s). Feedback 

received from that consultation is 

important in helping to inform the city 

council’s site(s) decision. 

Manjit Singh: 

Independent 

During my campaign, 

I found 

out that Denton 

Park and the 

area around it 

seems to be the 

choice of the 

community. I 

believe easy access to transport and 

the shopping mall is another reason. 

Also, there is no reason why sports 

facilities can’t be accommodated in 

the same place. Denton Park is closer 

to the hearts of many in the community 

so having all the facilities in 

one place might be the answer to the 

needs of our community. 

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Tane Apanui 

Kyle Park. As well as being 

central to The Hub Hornby 

and Hornby High School, it’s 

located next to the railway 

line where the train station 

will be under my plan for 

public transport. The land 

needs to be remediated – let’s 

do that instead of leaving a 

possible hazard in the future. Denton Park has a 

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Improving safety 

in Riccarton 

In the lead-up to the local body elections, Western News is asking 

city council candidates and community board members for their 

views on topical issues within the community. This week we ask 

Riccarton Ward candidates what they think needs to be done 

about the anit-social issues at northern and southern Riccarton bus 

lounges: 

Catherine Chu: 

Independent 

Citizens 

The Riccarton Rd bus 

lounges were opened 

with good intentions. 

A warm, safe 

environment to facilitate people 

waiting for their transport. However, 

regardless of how much of a 

good intent anything has, no doubt 

it will easily turn into custard if it 

is poorly managed. That is what’s 

happening to our bus lounges. 

It’s now affecting the safety of our 

people and our local businesses. 

What needs to be implemented is 

simple – higher security, stricter 

rules and better management. It’s 

time we listen to our residents and 

put a solution in place to restore its 

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Ross Carter-Brown: Independent 

I spoke to users of the bus lounges last 

week regarding the recent violence and 

anti-social behaviour. Many people 

don’t feel safe using the lounge, or 

even being near it. The core group of 

trouble-makers are coming in from 

outside Riccarton and are using the lounges for the 

free Wi-Fi. That part of Riccarton Rd has always 

been a hub for buses, the only thing that has changed 

is the arrival of the bus lounges with Wi-Fi. Get rid 

of the Wi-Fi and they should stop coming. Also, 

many lounge-users feel that the current security contractors 

are not proactive and are ineffectual, so the 

contract needs to be reviewed. Metro Christchurch, 

Westfield Riccarton and the surrounding businesses 

should meet regularly to co-ordinate efforts to stop 

the anti-social behaviour. Another method would be 

to collectively trespass repeat offenders from all the 

sites/businesses involved and have open communication 

between security at the mall and bus lounges, 

as well as police. If we all work together we can get 

on top of this problem. 

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Elections 16 

Helen Broughton: Independent Citizens 

Time for stronger action – an on going police presence for this 

site and potentially the Riccarton business district. The behaviour, 

while disappointing, is predictable. City council experienced 

similar difficulties around the pre-earthquake city bus exchange. 

Riccarton residents and businesses raised concerns during consultation, 

but little attention was given to these concerns. The behaviour 

is not at the bus exchange and requires police intervention. City council 

installed security guards who cannot intervene with on-street behaviour. The 

young people concerned are not bus-users. Following a public meeting in February, 

the city council adopted the soft approach – youth advocates working with 

the young people. This has not worked – we need a stronger police presence and 

enforcement. 

Clive Waliyaparambil 

Antony: Your Fresh 

Voice for Riccarton 

After speaking to local 

business owners around the 

bus exchange, I am told that 

some fear for the safety of 

their employees and also theft has increased. 

Anti-social behaviour can be a 

result of a lack of outlets for young people 

to focus their energy. A dedicated space 

for youth could be a good start. A space 

that includes, hot desks, free-Wi-Fi to 

encourage collaboration, but also exercise 

facilities like kick-boxing to cater for 

the athletic in nature. A similar project is 

currently underway in Takapuna, Auckland, 

via the local board and youth council 

called Younite. 

Luke Chandler: 

Best for 

Riccarton 

Working with local 

businesses to ensure 

this anti-social 

behaviour is being 

reported. It’s also imperative we 

ensure we bolster police patrols 

of this area. It is an unfortunate 

result that the 99 per cent of us 

are getting it right, but it’s the one 

per cent that are letting us down. 

We need to call on parents to 

ensure they are aware of where 

their children are in the evening, 

as the majority of anti social 

behaviour seems to be a result of 

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Your Local Views 

WESTERN NEWS 

Readers respond to 

Western News article on 

the Red Cafe being the city 

council’s preferred option 

for the Te Hapua: Halswell 

Centre 

Antony Harrison – I’m very 

happy that Red Café will take 

over the Te Hapua Halswell Centre. 

I’ve been a customer of Red 

Café at Upper Riccarton Library 

for nine years now. They are lovely 

people and always welcome me 

with a smile. Their coffee is very 

nice and their food is fantastic. 

The Te Hapua: Halswell Centre is 

a short straight drive from work 

so I’ll be there. 

Gary Knight – The Wellington-based 

Wishbone cafe leasing 

the Te Hapua: Halswell Centre 

in Halswell was reflective of the 

blasé attitude of the city council 

by not retaining local business 

entities to run these ventures. 

The hallmark of any community 

should be to engage through 

retail or lease options only local 

personnel for business opportunities 

inclusive of cafes to retain the 

inherent spirit of that community. 

It is encouraging to note the preferred 

option of Red Cafe was the 

main contender to run and operate 

the Te Hapua:Halswell Centre 

cafe. Having cafes in Upper Riccarton 

and South Christchurch 

library bears testimony to the 

integrity and diversity of this 

local business operator. The city 

council should always consider 

local business personnel who 

contribute to the city council in 

terms or rates as opposed to out 

of town operators offering nothing 

in this domain. 

Readers respond to the 

Western News article on 

boy racers and speeding 

truck issues in Oakhampton 

St 

Marie Stanley – Maybe 

they have just had a gutsful of 

nothing ever being done about 

the problem. People can only 

take so much and councillors 

everywhere need to actually earn 

their pay. Residents you have my 

sympathy. Throw a brick. 

James Tucker – I don’t 

blame the residents for wanting 

to take action, but I drive a boy 

racer type car. I never speed 

or drive like a idiot but if I had 

rocks thrown at my car I would 

be incredibly angry so the residents 

just need to be careful. 

Jill Pitt – They’re not boy 

racers, they are selfish, stupid 

idiots, lets not glorify the name. 

If caught in the act, crush the 

car, three strikes then you’re out 

– immediate punishment, and 

don’t forget to charge them for 

the service. They come out after 

dark, frightened of being seen. 

Shelley Daly – The issue 

was they put speed bumps along 

Brynley St, absolutely overkill. 

Now Oakhampton St is used as 

a bypass. I’ve seen trucks take 

out about half the roundabout, 

knocking signs over. 

Kevin Garty – Speed bumps 

are more permanent, but I get the 

stone-throwing. Boy racers are 

actually infantile, not even boys. 

Diane Dick – I completely 

empathise with you. We had to 

put up with a lot of it in Halswell 

too. So glad I’ve moved out of 

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While we sometimes read 

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The qualified and highly experienced 

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OPEN: Summerset chief executive Julian Cook and 

Wigram MP Megan Woods unveil a plaque, while 

residents of Wigram Retirement Village make use of the 

facility. 


New retirement village 

• Sam Pickering 

A nationwide retirement village 

operator has officially opened a 

centre in Wigram. 

Summerset Retirement Village 

held an opening celebration last 

week, 

The new facility includes a 

swimming pool, bowling green, 

gym and cafe. 

The facilities are perfect for 

keeping 74-year-old masters athlete 

Justine Whitaker in shape. 

She will compete in the World 

Masters Athletics Championships 

in Perth next month. 

Justine will take part in the 

pentathlon. 

Summerset chief executive 

Julian Cook said the retirement 

centre is the heart of the village. 

“We’ve been wanting to come 

to Christchurch for some time 

now so we are really excited to be 

here at last,” he said. 

Riccarton-Wigram Community 

Board chairman Mike Mora 

and MP for Wigram Megan 

Woods attended the opening. 

Summerset Retirement Village 

is planning to bring another 

retirement village to Casebrook 

next year. 

Volunteers help 

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MORE THAN 100 

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Canterbury’s final planting 

event of the year. 

Community volunteers 

helped plant 1000 trees last 

Saturday. 

Trees for Canterbury is 

a charitable trust aimed 

at establishing a sense of 

involvement in the community 

for physically, 

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disadvantaged people. 

They also aim to educate 

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disabilities. 

The organisation plants 

about 45,000 trees a year. 

Projects co-ordinator 

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City council park rangers 

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the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist 

Temple, took part in the event. 

Mr Stove said Halswell Quarry 

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pursue jobs they are passionate about. 

PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER 

April McLennan is 19-years-old and has set up her own 

trust to help high school students to pursue and excel in 

work they are passionate about. She spoke to Georgia 

O’Connor-Harding about setting up her own social 

enterprise, life being home-schooled and her trip to the 

Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Palo Alto, California 

You have set up an 

initiative to help other 

Christchurch high 

school students. Why 

did you set up Limitless 

Charitable Trust? 

Last year was my final 

year of school and I 

noticed so many people I 

knew were overwhelmed 

with career and study 

path options and were 

unsure on what way to 

go. At the same time I 

knew people who did 

work they were really 

passionate about and 

were working to their 

strengths and they could 

talk about their jobs all 

day. I just thought how 

cool it would be if we 

could all do work we are 

that passionate about. 

How will this initiative 

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what they are passionate 

about. We are starting 

year 10 students with 

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Trust two-day conference 

in October. That includes 

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speakers. We will have a 

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including Kiwibank 

Young New Zealander 

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Ryan, Prime Minister 

John Key’s chief science 

adviser Dr Victoria 

Metcalf and entrepreneur 

Hannah Duder. The Zion 

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conference we will connect 

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students to opportunities 

that are relevant to them. 

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passionate about the environment 

and are looking 

for work experience 

we can connect them to 

the organisation. 

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students up well 

enough for the workforce? 

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challenging-we do live 

in a world that is rapidly 

changing. The workforce 

is changing and it can be 

difficult for a traditional 

school to keep up with 

that. I feel that knowing 

who you are, what your 

strengths are and what 

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students excel 

Do you have a view on 

NCEA? 

Being home-schooled I 

haven’t done NCEA but I feel 

that maybe the biggest issue 

facing education is that it is not 

just academics that matters. 

What was it like being 

home-schooled? 

I guess it was really different. 

I enjoyed it. I think the reason 

I enjoyed it was because it gave 

me the freedom to explore 

what I was interested in. 

Do you feel like you missed 

out on the social side of high 

school? 

Being involved with lots of 

groups and clubs didn’t mean 

I missed out. It gives you an 

opportunity to meet people 

from a wide range of ages, 

backgrounds and perspectives. 

You make an effort to be part of 

those groups. I was involved 

in World Vision New Zealand 

groups which I meet a lot of 

cool people through. 

What got you interested in 

social enterprise? 

I went to the Festival For 

The Future programme last 

year. They bring together a 

whole group of people who are 

innovators or thinkers passionate 

about a better future. 

EXCITEMENT: Limitless Charitable Trust founder April 

McLennan with fellow entrepreneur Waleed Yosemite, of 

Algeria, waiting for US President Barack Obama to speak 

at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in Palo Alto in 

June. 

Social enterprise was talked 

a lot about there. A lead-on 

from the Festival of the Future 

was the programme Live the 

Dream which is a social enterprise 

accelerator programme. 

You go into the programme 

with a problem you see in the 

world and in nine weeks they 

help you develop a solution. 

Limitless is what I developed 

over the summer with the 

programme. 

Tell me about your trip to 

Palo Alto in June? 

It was amazing. There were 

incredible speakers. US President 

Barack Obama and CEO 

of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg 

spoke. I also enjoyed meeting 

entrepreneurs from around the 

world and hearing about their 

experiences. It was amazing 

in spite of our differences how 

much we have in common. After 

the programme I connected 

with people including a guy 

from Montreal and a lady in 

Jordan who had really similar 

enterprises to Limitless. 

What was the most inspiring 

story or person you came 

across? 

I think meeting this lady 

from Jordan who had been 

working on a similar concept 

to Limitless. Wanting to get 

girls on a course she had been 

working on for 15 years. Also 

hearing President Obama 

was an obvious stand-out. A 

key moment in my life. He 

spoke about the biggest issues 

of today and how he sees the 

entrepreneurial spirit of being 

able to start your own business 

to create solutions to problems 

to where you live. He spoke 

about how the Government 

needs to step up and make it 

easier for people to start their 

own businesses. 

What do you like to do in 

your spare time when you 

are not setting up new businesses? 

I quite enjoy playing hockey 

and photography and I am still 

involved with World Vision. 

Just spending time outdoors 

with friends is what I love. 

•Registrations are open for 

the Limitless conference. 

To register go to www. 

limitless.org.nz 

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Paper Doll Making – Holiday 

Activity 

Tuesday, September 27, 2-3pm 

Discover how creative you can 

be when designing your own 

paper doll. A caregiver will be 

required. 

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre, 341 

Halswell Rd 

Musical Instrument Practice 

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Tuesday, September 27, 3.30- 

7pm 

Book a time to go solo or 

have a silent practice with up 

to four band-mates. There will 

be electronic drums, a digital 

piano, a Roland session mixer, 

mics and headphones available 

for budding musicians. You can 

also take in your own electric 

instruments and plug into the 

session mixer. 

Te Hapua: Halswell Centre, 341 

Halswell Rd 

Spinning Tops – Holiday 

Activity 

Wednesday, September 28, 

10-11am 

Make a spinning top out of 

recycled materials then see how 

fast you can make it spin. The 

programme is suited for all ages, 

but a caregiver will be required 

for younger children. 

Free – no bookings. Te Hāpua: 

Halswell Centre, 341 Halswell Rd 

Old Fashioned Games – 

Holiday Activity 

Wednesday, September 28, 

2-3pm 

Email georgia.oconnor@starmedia.kiwi 

by 5pm each Wednesday 

Try your hand at knuckle 

bones, barrel of monkeys, snakes 

and ladders and more. 

The programme is suited for all 

ages. 

Hornby Library, Goulding Ave 

Grandparents Storytimes - 

Holiday Activity 

Thursday, September 29, 10.30- 

11.30am 

Go along to the library to hear 

stories from grandparents. There 

will be stories, songs and rhymes 

for babies. Grandparents bring 

your grandchildren to hear old 

fashioned stories. All parents, 

grandparents and caregivers are 

welcome. The programme will 

be free. 

Fendalton Library, cnr of Clyde 

and Jeffreys Rds 

Holiday Programme – Lego 

Mindstorms Robotics 

Thursday, September 29, 

9.30am-3pm 

Go along to the library and 

work with Lego Mindstorms 

EV3. You will learn the basics 

of how robots work and how 

to programme them to complete 

a set of challenges. The 

programme is suited for people 

aged 10 years and above. The 

programme cost is $15 and 

bookings are essential. 

Te Hapua: Halswell Centre, 

341 Halswell Rd 

Antique and Collectors Fair 

Friday, September 30- Sunday, 

October 2, varying times 

This quality antique fair 

will be presented by The 

Antique Fair Charitable Trust 

(TACT), which supports the 

Christchurch City Mission. All 

items are for sale, including 

antique furniture, vintage tools, 

quality china, linen, crystal, art, 

glass and silver, clocks, books, 

jewellery (vintage/modern), 

collectables, vintage and much 

more. Dealers at the fair will be 

interested in buying gold, silver 

china and collectables. Eftpos 

available. For more information, 

phone Diane on 021 609 399. 

Christchurch Girls’ High 

School, 10 Matai St East, 

Riccarton 

Riccarton Community 

Gardens Awesome Car Boot 

Sale 

Saturday, October 1, 9amnoon 

Take along your trash and 

treasures for a giant car boot 

sale in the car park. It will 

cost $15 per space for stall 

holders and $30 for commercial 

businesses. Bring your own 

tables. Toilets will be open for 

use. All site fees are going to 

Riccarton West Community 

Gardens on Peveral St to help 

buy vegetable plants and seeds 

to feed the local community. 

Halo Bar and Lounge, 66B 

Wharenui Rd 

Holiday Programme – 

Bee-Bots Story Adventure 

Friday, October 7, 10am-noon 

Bee-Bots is a fun robot 

programme for juniors. Explore 

the story with a Bee-Bot and 

learn basic robot skills. The 

programme cost is $7. 

Te Hapua Halswell Centre, 

341 Halswell Rd 

TIME-TURNING: Go along to 

the library and bring your family 

history back to the future. Record a 

conversation between you and your 

child using old family photographs 

and the interactive storytelling app, 

Puppetpals, to create an animated 

movie to share with family and 

friends. No previous iPad experience 

is necessary, just bring along some 

family photographs and a great story 

to tell. The programme is best-suited 

for children aged 8-12. A parent must 

accompany children at all times. The 

programme is $7 and bookings are 

essential. It will be held on Monday, 

October 3, 9.30am-noon, at the 

Te Hapua Halswell Centre on 341 

Halswell Rd. 

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WESTERN NEWS 

CoMpLeTe Your Look 

relax & 

Be pampered 

Visiting the hairdresser is a chance to relax and indulge 

oneself especially when the stylists are highly skilled and 

the environment, modern and relaxing. 

The Hair Salon in Longhurst opened on 8th August where a 

full range of salon services is provided from women’s colour 

and fashion cutting including weddings and prom hair, to cutting 

and styling men’s and children’s hair, using L’Oréal professional 

salon products. 

The Hair Lounge salon 

in Longhurst 

“I’ve been hairdressing for 36 years and fortunate to have worked 

all over the world alongside some wonderful hairdressers, giving me 

collective knowledge that I draw on in my hairdressing today,” says 

owner Jenny Little who also owns Root 57 in Hornby and the Cutting 

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to be indulged and pampered, leaving their cares at the door. 

They are a local salon for local people, illustrated by the before and 

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Ali always wanted to be a beauty therapist. 

At 21, she had the key to her first beauty 

clinic. Now Ali has three MAX Beauty salons; 

in Tauranga, Merivale and more recently in 

Halswell’s Longhurst subdivision. 

Max stands for maximum beauty and the 

complete beauty package is available at MAX 

Beauty with an emphasis on natural products. 

Beauty therapist Courtenay, clinic owner Ali 

& cosmetic tattooist Maranda. 

MAX Beauty has fully qualified, internationally 

trained therapists: Ali, Courtenay, Maranda, 

Gabriel and Wendy available to provide a 

range of beauty treatments, from facials, 

Microdermabrasions, Glycolic peels, eyelash 

extensions, tans, make-up, massage therapy 

and nails, using ‘Orly’ nail polishes. 

Qualified make-up artist, beauty therapist and 

nurse, Maranda also specialises in cosmetic 

tattooing. 

Ali stocks the ‘Pure Fiji’ body care range, 

and the effective and ethically formulated, 

EmerginC facial skin care products. 

“I am passionate about natural skin care 

and environmentally friendly products. 

‘Pure Fiji’ employs locals and 

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Tuesday September 27 2016 19 

HEALTH & BEAUTY 

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Transform CliniC in mandeville 

street riccarton boasts a team of dedicated 

professionals, who include the clinic’s 

doctor, ian little, registered nurses and 

qualified beauty therapists, providing a wide 

range of appearance medicine and beauty 

therapy treatments for their clients. 

one of their main specialties is nonsurgical 

varicose vein removal. This is a 

simple, quick and effective walk-in walk-out 

treatment with no time off work required. 

Clients seeking advice about their varicose 

veins first undergo a free assessment, which 

enables the health professional to determine 

if they need treatment, and if so, what the 

most appropriate type would be. 

Two methods are offered – endo-venous 

laser treatment, which is used for both 

smaller and larger veins, and ultrasound 

guided sclerotherapy. following the 

treatment, clients need to wear support 

stockings for two weeks. international travel 

is not recommended for four weeks after 

treatment. 

Transform Clinic has an affiliation 

with health provider southern Cross and 

relationships with several other health 

insurance companies, which means clients 

may be covered for varicose vein treatment, 

providing it is included in their policy. 

appearance medicine is another key 

aspect of Transform Clinic’s therapy 

options, with skin rejuvenation and skintightening 

treatments designed to improve 

skin quality as well as enhance self-esteem. 

Treatments include the Vampire face lift, 

which uses Platelet rich Plasma or PrP, and 

fraxel laser treatment. These treatments can 

be combined to achieve the desired results. 

sclerotherapy is also used to remove 

superficial veins on the legs and face. in 

addition, the clinic offers mole mapping, 

mole removal and primary skin cancer 

removal. 

The Transform Clinic website, 

www.transformclinic.co.nz, has a wealth of 

information on the various treatments and 

regularly has special offers and promotions. 

They also suggest you ‘like’ their facebook 

page, to keep up to date with what they 

are offering. 

The Transform Clinic is discreetly located 

at 52a mandeville street. opening hours 

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Clients seeking advice about their varicose veins first undergo a free 

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Auction Date: Thursday 6 Oct 2016 - unless sold prior 

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This stunning home is for those who want 

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views have been made the centre piece of 

each of the living rooms, then to add to 

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THE shared title of the Christchurch Casino “The 

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black jack and roulette with some even testing 

their croupier skills, all of which combined to 

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Christchurch Casino “The Jazz Library” Poker Event 

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WESTERN NEWS 

Hornby High School 

Commitment, 

Achievement, 

Years 7 – 13 

Resilience, 

Respect 

School – 

make the 

most of it 

Kia ora koutou, Talofa, Kia Orana, Malo e lelei, Bula, 

Fakaalofa atu, Namaste, Kumusta. Haere mai ki kura 

Te Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka. Warm greetings to the 

Hornby High School community. 

Our new school is coming. Yes, I mean “our”, and yes, I mean “new 

school”. 

On the one hand I have been talking to students about our school 

values, and I begin with this parable. 

An elderly man is sitting outside the gates of a school when a teenager 

walks up and says, “Hey mister, what’s it like in that school?” 

The elderly man replies with the question, “Well, what was it like 

at your last school?” 

The teen replies: “It was awful, the teachers were hopeless, there 

was bullying, they sucked at sport… yeah, really horrible.” 

The elderly man replies: “Well, that’s what it’s like at this school”. 

The teen walks away. 

Some time later another teen walks up and asks the elderly man 

the same question, and again the man replies “Well, what was it 

like at your last school?” 

The teen says: “It was amazing. The teachers were awesome, the 

other kids were heaps of fun. We learnt heaps, had brilliant sports 

teams. Yeah, I loved it.” 

The old man replies: “Well that’s what it’s like in there.” 

It’s your school, it’s our school. It will be what we make it. As long 

as we share a common set of values it will be great. 

And on the other hand there is the matter of the “new school”. 

Planning is now well advanced for the rebuild of the school’s 

buildings and we are hoping to have some material available for 

everyone to see very soon. At the heart of the rebuild will be a 

main block nearly 90 metres long which will house a hauora (student 

wellness) area, administration and, occupying the bulk of the 

building, our specialist learning spaces. We have chosen to place 

the creative arts at the centre of these learning areas reflecting 

the belief that creativity is at the heart of our future. This reflects 

the belief that technology will increasingly replace human work 

in routine or repetitive activities. It will be our “humanness”, our 

ability to be critical and creative, that will lie at the heart of our future. 

Technology and sciences will operate alongside this creative 

hub in “state-of-the-art” learning spaces. 

This new building will be the first to be built, occupying an “L” 

shape where our current administration and library buildings sit. 

Once this is completed, three “learning hubs” with more general 

learning spaces will be built across and beyond the footprint of the 

existing A and S blocks. This rebuild will allow for our growth to 

approximately 800 students, a not too distant future as we grow 

at an unprecedented pace. 

And finally we will have a brand new gymnasium, but not in place 

of the current building. Rather, the new gym will sit alongside the 

existing gym which will be brought up to the latest building codes. 

The specialist block and new gymnasium will be built over the 

course of 2017/2018, and should be ready to occupy later in 2018. 

To achieve that goal, the fences will go up around the existing 

administration and library buildings around February/March 2017. 

The learning hubs will then be built, and the whole job finished by 

around mid 2019. 

And as if all of this weren’t enough, the existing music school and 

auditorium will get a makeover, at this stage probably over the 

coming 2016/2017 summer break – this is still to be confirmed. 

These are exciting times as your school, our school, is finally built 

to provide the Hornby community with the secondary school 

facilities that match the wonderful learning that goes on inside. 

Please do follow my thinking on issues that are both specific to 

Hornby High School and also of more general educational interest 

on my Principal’s blog “Whakatauki: He waka eke noa”, – https:// 

whakataukihewakaekenoa.blogspot.co.nz/. 

Ngā mihi 

Robin Sutton 

Principal 

Girls tournament success 

The Girls’ Football 

Team competed in the 

NZ Secondary Schools’ 

Tournament held in 

Christchurch. 

Sixteen schools from 

throughout New Zealand 

took part and the 

Hornby High School team 

qualified for the top 

eight. 

Mr Hilliard, HOD Sport, 

commented that at the 

end of the tournament 

the girls finished a very 

creditable sixth place. 

Casi Larion was selected 

as the most valuable 

player, and Bianca van 

den Berg was awarded 

team player of the 

tournament. 

Back row: Ms Johnson, Megan Heppell, Sophie Yale, Makayla Williams-Smith, Fatafehi Tongotongo, 

Paige Cornish, Qy’ana Curry, Lillian Bell, Jorja Woodgate, Mr Hilliard. Front: Casi Larion, Rose Eaton, 

Alexis Ropeha, Shannon Edgeworth, Iris Taramai, Aimee Musson Polwart, Bianca van den Berg. 

Literary prowess 

Principal 

Robin Sutton 

pictured here 

with Literary 

Award winners 

Kimberley 

MacKinnon, 

left, and Jorja 

Woodgate. 

Kimberley 

gained a Highly 

Commended 

for the Write On writing competition in the Senior 

section (Yr 9-11). Jorja entered the 2016 Write Off 

Line competition and one of her poems, ‘Just For Mum’ 

– has been selected to be part of the Write Off Line 

anthology to be published this month. 

Sports representatives 

The following Hornby High School students have been 

selected to play for rep teams 

Larenz Hepi-Brown U17 Canterbury Touch/ 

U17 Canterbury Maori Rugby League 

Tyran Smith ............... U17 Canterbury Touch 

Liz Kalaudou.............. Canterbury Primary Netball 

Jordan Coleman ........ U15 Canterbury Rugby League/South 

Island U15 Rugby League 

Sonny Avia ................ U14 Canterbury Country Rugby 

Jaedon Wellington ... U14 Canterbury Country Rugby 

KC Newton-Whare ... Canterbury Primary Rugby 

Arlan Perez ............... Canterbury Primary Rugby 

Joshua Mafua ........... Canterbury Primary Basketball 

Jordana Falconer ...... U15 Canterbury Basketball 

Iris Taramai ............... U15 Canterbury Softball 

Quinn Wickens ......... U17 Canterbury Softball 

Jemma Carlton ......... U12 Canterbury Football 

Good attitude… winning or losing 

Marylynn Matagi and Junior 

Stanley were nominated for 

the Spirit of Rugby Award. 

They are pictured here receiving 

a badge from the new 

Canterbury Crusaders coach 

Scott Robertson. The award 

is for players who showed 

leadership, sportsmanship, and resilience, and regardless of winning 

or loosing were able to have fun playing the game. 

Volunteers recognised 

Iris Taramai, Shakira Clark, and Lachlan Hickford receive their 

UC Student Volunteer Army UCan programme completion 

certificates from Daniel Stack and Bonnie Dalton, SVA In-schools 

team. 

Taiwanese students visit 

Hornby High School hosted 14 students and their teacher, Ms 

Julia Yen, from Hsin Kuo High School, Taiwan. The students 

stayed with host families in the community and attended 

lessons at school. Each student had a buddy who looked after 

them for their week at school. The buddies took them to their 

classes and generally made the students feel welcome. The 

Taiwanese students and their buddies are pictured at the 

farewell morning tea. 

Hope 

Church, 

Amyes Rd 

Saturday, October 15, 9am — 3pm. 

Fundraising for community services 

project in Vietnam April 2017. 

To book a stall contact the school 

office on 349 5396 

Car Boot Sale 

The Hub Hornby, proud to 

support Hornby High School 

Ph 349 7288 

www.thehubhornby.co.nz

Western News: September 27, 2016

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