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2 follow us on facebook.com/riseupchristchurch Thursday February 2 2017 Inside FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK The Star News....................................3-16 NO SURPRISES to the reaction to city councillors Aaron Keown and Phil Clearwater’s idea of a fuel tax on Canterbury motorists we reported last week. Readers have responded en masse and we have published those responses on pages 16-18 today. One says they can stick the idea where the sun doesn’t shine . . . so it seems Keown and Clearwater are lucky they haven’t suggested the idea in election year. But then they’re probably too clever for that. I suspect the two have no chance of getting the tax idea across the line. On page 3, we report on a dust up between local body politicians over Donald Trump. Community board member John Stringer has taken exception to Facebook posts from Vicki Buck and the matter has turned to custard from there. Let’s hope Trump doesn’t find out. . . no knowing what his reaction might be. In sport today we turn the pages back and reveal what Trevor Crowe is up to. Go to page 31. – Barry Clarke The Christchurch Star Company LTD. 12 Venture Pl | Middleton | Christchurch 8024 CONTACT THE STAR Crowe reunites with an old flame Experience the magic of Bath TRAVEL 28 SPORT 31 GENERAL: 379 7100 | NEWS: Barry Clarke. 364 7422. barry@starmedia.kiwi | WEB: starmedia.kiwi ADVERTISING: 364 7429, shane@starmedia.kiwi | CIRCULATION/DELIVERY JOBS: 364-7451 or 7453 Viewpoint.................16-21 Fashion.....................................23 Gardening.......................27 Travel...........................28 & 29 Sport................................. 31 Puzzles.................................... 34 Driven................................35 Women’s rights advocate dies NEWS 10 DIGITAL EDITION starnews.co.nz ADVERTISERS YOUR BEST CHOICE FOR RESULTS! LOOK AT THE FACTS: • Over 92,000 copies delivered • Readership up 18% in latest survey • The only locally operated Christchurch newspaper • It’s FREE to every home in Christchurch Call us for a free advertising consultancy and creative solution for your business today! Contact Shane at: shane@starmedia.kiwi or call 3797-100 At a Glance BURNSIDE HIGH 57 TODAY ON FEBRUARY 2, 1960, Burnside High School opened. On that day in 1974, what was known as the “greatest middle distance race of all time” was run, with Tanzanian Filbert Bay beating John Walker in the 1500m at the Commonwealth Games. They both beat the existing record. On February 2, 1982, the Central Public Library in Gloucester St opened. On February 3, 1915, the Canterbury Battalion sustained New Zealand’s first casualties of World War 1 at Suez Canal. And on the same day in 1962, Peter Snell set the new world records for the half mile and 800m at Lancaster Park. ATTACK OF THE CONES PROVES POPULAR A GIANT arcade game that was installed in the central city in December has already been used about 23,000 times. The Super Secret Arcade is a Gap Filler project on the side of the Vodafone building on Tuam St. The game, which can be played by anyone, is called Attack of the Cones, and features a cyclist moving along a computerised Tuam St, with local landmarks and characters such as the Wizard.
The Star follow us on facebook.com/riseupchristchurch Thursday February 2 2017 3 News City’s politicians go toe-to-toe over Trump • By Bridget Rutherford DONALD Trump is fuelling political dust-ups in Christchurch. Papanui-Innes Community Board member John Stringer has hit out against city councillor Vicki Buck for posting “anti-Trump” messages on her Facebook page. Mr Stringer, the former Conservative Party chairman, said in spite of whether people liked Mr Trump or not, he should be respected in his role as president of the United States. But Cr Buck said what she posted on her Facebook page was up to her to decide. The former mayor last week posted a photo of a pair of “heinous” socks with Mr Trump’s face on them that she had been given asking if anyone had a good cause for them. Mayor Lianne Dalziel had been given the socks and passed them on to Cr Buck. Someone had suggested she get the image and print it on condoms, to which Cr Buck called an “interesting possibility”. Mr Stringer said a senior councillor should not be posting those sorts of messages, especially with the good relationship New Zealand had with the US. “I’m not sure suggesting the US president should be pictured on condoms screwing the west is the kind of strategic direction-making I want from Christchurch city councillors.” But Cr Buck told The Star she did not want to get into a debate about it because there were far more important things to worry about. “Most Americans in Christchurch are deeply offended by CONFLICT: The pair of socks Cr Buck offered to give away for a good cause. Donald Trump’s actions,” Cr Buck said. “I think the actions Donald Trump makes undermines pretty much everything we had hoped the President of the United States might do.” She said it was up to her what she posted on Facebook. Meanwhile, city councillor Glenn Livingstone was not happy with columnist Mike Yardley’s opinion piece in The Press about the Women’s March on Washington across the world and in Christchurch. In it, Mr Yardley said the march showed little respect for the democratic process. “There is something nauseously disturbing about the far left’s duplicitous affection for John Stringer Vicki Buck the voice of democracy and free expression,” he wrote. Cr Livingstone posted on his Facebook page in response to the piece. “You still want us to give Trump a chance, Mike Yardley NZ? My wife and I marched in Washington DC and we damn well knew what we were doing, along with the other thousands there and here in New Zealand. You really still think it’s just a ‘leftie’ thing? Surely you were only winding us up . . . ” Meanwhile, Mr Stringer reached a confidential out-ofcourt settlement in his High Court defamation case with former Conservative Party leader Colin Craig on Tuesday. Mr Craig alleged Mr Stringer defamed him in 2015. Mr Stringer would pay Mr Craig an undisclosed sum, as well as providing a retraction and apology. In Brief SHIP BERTH REPORT The city council will receive a report within the next month about a plan to rebuild the cruise ship berth in Lyttelton. Christchurch City Holdings Ltd chief executive Paul Munro said he could not discuss the details, but he could confirm it would report to council on aspects of the proposed berth within the month. The Lyttelton cruise ship berth was destroyed in the February 2011 earthquake. Akaroa has been hosting cruise ships since. COCKPIT IN THE GARDENS An Air New Zealand Boeing 737 cockpit nose has been installed outside Canterbury Museum next to the Botanic Gardens as part of the airline’s 75 th anniversary exhibition. Visitors will be able to sit behind the plane’s controls in the pilot and co-pilot seats, entering the flight deck in small groups from steps in the Botanic Gardens. The cockpit nose will be open to the public from Friday, 10am-5pm daily, weather permitting, until March 26. HAEATA CAMPUS OPENS Aranui’s new Haeata Community Campus will officially open tomorrow. The new super school, made up of Aranui, Avondale and Wainoni primary schools, as well as Aranui High, has been built on the site of Aranui High. Pupils, parents and staff will be welcomed with a powhiri. MEETING POSTPONED AFTER DEATH A water zone committee meeting had to be postponed last week due to an unexpected death in Environment Canterbury’s building. The Christchurch West Melton Water Management Zone Committee meeting was scheduled for Thursday. However, an ECan spokesman said due to a staff member suffering a heart attack and later passing away, the meeting did not go ahead as the building had to be blessed by local runanga. 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