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Thursday, <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
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TWO-YEAR MYSTERY<br />
NOW A MURDER INQUIRY<br />
• By <strong>Star</strong> reporters<br />
A CHRISTCHURCH man who<br />
went missing just over two years<br />
ago is now believed to have been<br />
murdered.<br />
Richard Hinkley, who was 49<br />
when he disappeared, was last<br />
seen at Kiwibank in Edgeware on<br />
December 12, 2015.<br />
But in a major development<br />
in the past few weeks, police<br />
have searched a property in<br />
east Christchurch. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has<br />
learned the search has confirmed<br />
police inquiries that he has likely<br />
been killed.<br />
Mr Hinkley’s body was not<br />
found during the search. Detectives<br />
have a key suspect.<br />
Mr Hinkley was 1.84m tall,<br />
and of solid build, and had a<br />
shaved head when he was last<br />
seen. He often wore a beanie or<br />
hat. He was last seen wearing<br />
dark pants, a black T-shirt with<br />
a large white pattern on the front<br />
and a blue peaked cap with a<br />
dark blue logo on the front.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been no sightings<br />
of Mr Hinkley reported to police<br />
since he went missing.<br />
Police appear not to have been<br />
aware of Mr Hinkley’s disappearance<br />
until March 2016 when they<br />
issued a media statement seeking<br />
information from the public as to<br />
his whereabouts.<br />
At the time, police said they<br />
were building a picture of what<br />
may have happened to him and<br />
were liaising with his family<br />
who had become increasingly<br />
concerned for his welfare.<br />
But information received<br />
recently opened a major line of<br />
inquiry for detectives.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> yesterday attempted<br />
to talk to detectives investigating<br />
the Hinkley case about the<br />
breakthrough. But they did not<br />
respond to phone calls or emails.<br />
<strong>The</strong> development in the<br />
Hinkley case is similar to that of<br />
missing Halswell man Michael<br />
McGrath.<br />
Mr McGrath disappeared 236<br />
days ago. In December, after<br />
months of investigation, police<br />
and his family conceded Mr<br />
McGrath was dead.<br />
Police still list his disappearance<br />
as a missing persons case<br />
but they have been running<br />
a parallel homicide case for<br />
months.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y spent more than two<br />
months searching the Kate<br />
Valley landfill site for clues and<br />
took away more than 200 pairs<br />
of jeans, some of which will be<br />
forensically tested.<br />
Police also made an extensive<br />
forensic search of a Halswell<br />
property belonging to Mr<br />
McGrath’s friend David Benbow.<br />
Police said he was a person of<br />
interest.<br />
LAST SIGHTING: Richard Hinkley (above) was last seen at the Edgeware NZ Post and Kiwibank on<br />
December 12, 2015.<br />
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STEVE MCLENNAN compares<br />
fighting fires with riding a bike:<br />
“Once you get on it’s hard to get<br />
off.’’<br />
On pages 14-15 today we profile<br />
Steve, who has been involved<br />
with fighting fires for more than<br />
half a century. That’s a very long<br />
bike ride.<br />
<strong>The</strong> likeable 70-year-old is part<br />
of the Lincoln brigade, and one<br />
of many firefighters around the<br />
district who serve a vital role in<br />
the community.<br />
Many are volunteers, giving<br />
their time freely to attend fires,<br />
motor vehicle crashes and other<br />
emergencies while we go about<br />
or usual business, or are asleep<br />
at night.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir value to the community<br />
can not be overstated enough, in<br />
my humble opinion.<br />
Jim Anderton’s funeral is<br />
tomorrow (see page 7) and no<br />
doubt it will be a full house.<br />
Jim was great guy who had<br />
a very good relationship with<br />
journalists. That was because he<br />
was a straight shooter, and would<br />
generally always return calls.<br />
If you were on the wrong track<br />
with the question line, he’d put<br />
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Anderton’s funeral<br />
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THIS WEEK IN CANTERBURY’S PAST<br />
This week in history saw<br />
the first trial of harvesting<br />
machines at Riccarton on<br />
<strong>January</strong> 8, 1877. On the same<br />
day in 1979 the first women bus<br />
drivers were introduced by the<br />
Transport Board. On <strong>January</strong><br />
9, 1871, manservant Simon<br />
Cadeno was charged with the<br />
Park Terrace murder. He was Lyttelton on the Matoaka.<br />
later hanged for murdering a Species included pheasants,<br />
woman servant and injuring partridges, blackbirds, thrushes,<br />
another. On <strong>January</strong> 10, 1867, chaffinches and starlings. <strong>The</strong><br />
European birds arrived at destruction of native insect<br />
READERS’ PHOTOS 21<br />
eating birds by hunting and<br />
fire had caused disastrous crop<br />
infestations in Canterbury.<br />
On <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, 1851, the first<br />
copy of the Lyttelton Times was<br />
published, it was edited by J E<br />
FitzGerald. On the same day<br />
in 1984, a live snake was found<br />
in a driveway in Parklands. A<br />
second snake was found the<br />
following day. On <strong>January</strong> 13,<br />
1891, New Zealand’s first public<br />
display of Edison’s phonograph<br />
(left) was held in the city.<br />
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her “once worn by mistake” wedding<br />
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News<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Disney’s Frozen star for city<br />
Actor here<br />
to train<br />
musical<br />
theatre<br />
students<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding<br />
THE STAR of one of the<br />
highest-grossing animated<br />
films of all time will be in<br />
Christchurch this month to train<br />
young adults and secondary<br />
school students hoping to<br />
pursue a career in musical<br />
theatre.<br />
American actor and singer<br />
Jonathan Groff – who voiced a<br />
leading role in Disney’s animated<br />
film Frozen – will fly in to<br />
teach at the Christchurch International<br />
Music <strong>The</strong>atre Summer<br />
School which opens for tuition<br />
on <strong>January</strong> 22.<br />
One of Groff’s most famous<br />
roles to date is that of the voice<br />
of Kristoff in Frozen, which was<br />
the fifth highest-grossing film in<br />
2014, making $1.219 billion.<br />
At the end of the theatre<br />
programme Groff, along with<br />
American actress and singers<br />
Julia Murney and Andrea Burns<br />
will bring Broadway to the city<br />
– performing a one-off concert<br />
on February 2 at Charles Luney<br />
Auditorium.<br />
Murney is best-known for<br />
playing the original role of<br />
Queenie in musical <strong>The</strong> Wild<br />
Party, while Burns is a Drama<br />
Desk Award winner – both will<br />
teach at the school.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school was founded by<br />
Christchurch musical director<br />
Luke Di Somma in 2014.<br />
It is divided into two streams<br />
of intensive theatre courses –<br />
LOVEABLE: Jonathan Groff voiced the leading role of mountain man Kristoff in Disney’s<br />
animated film Frozen.<br />
Andrea Burns Julia Murney<br />
one for emerging professional<br />
performers and the other for<br />
high schoolers.<br />
Thirty-two emerging professional<br />
performers and 120 secondary<br />
school students from all<br />
over New Zealand and Australia<br />
will take part with spaces filled<br />
“really quickly,” Mr Di Somma<br />
said.<br />
He said the city does not get a<br />
calibre of performer like Groff<br />
often and is excited to have him.<br />
“It is rare to have someone like<br />
him here,” he said.<br />
Groff, who is a two-time Tony<br />
Award nominee, is expected to<br />
arrive in the city on <strong>January</strong> 25<br />
and is expected to start work at<br />
the school soon after.<br />
Mr Di Somma was first<br />
introduced to Groff by two-time<br />
Tony Award winner Sutton<br />
Foster – who taught at the<br />
school in 2016.<br />
After meeting up with Groff<br />
in New York, Mr Di Somma<br />
invited him to come and he<br />
agreed.<br />
“Getting the meeting is the<br />
hard bit, once you offer them a<br />
chance to come to New Zealand<br />
it’s pretty hard to pass up,” Mr<br />
Di Somma said.<br />
Other tutors lined up includes<br />
West End musical director Mark<br />
W Dorrell, New York-based<br />
director Peter Flynn and New<br />
Zealand director Kip Chapman.<br />
Groff first began to emerge<br />
as a Broadway star in 2006 for<br />
his performance in the original<br />
Broadway production of Spring<br />
Awakening.<br />
He has since appeared in<br />
American television series Glee,<br />
Mindhunter and played the<br />
lead role of King George in the<br />
Broadway musical Hamilton.<br />
•To book tickets to Groff,<br />
Murney, Burns: Broadway<br />
Comes to Christchurch, go<br />
to https://www.eventfinda.<br />
co.nz/<br />
In Brief<br />
NORTHLANDS EXPANSION<br />
Work on the $18.8 million<br />
Langdons Quarter expansion<br />
at Northlands Shopping Centre<br />
will begin on Monday. <strong>The</strong> new<br />
food precinct will be built under<br />
the existing cinema complex,<br />
with two external restaurants, 12<br />
internal, a new pedestrian entry<br />
providing direct access to car<br />
park building and refurbishment<br />
of existing bathrooms. Tenancies<br />
are expected to open in October.<br />
AUTHOR, BOTANIST DIES<br />
Well-known botanist and author<br />
Bill Sykes passed away at Nurse<br />
Maude Hospital on <strong>January</strong> 5,<br />
aged 90. Among a long list of<br />
achievements, the St Albans<br />
man published several books,<br />
including Flora of the Cook<br />
Islands, co-founded of the Packe<br />
Street Park Community Garden<br />
with his wife Peggy Kelly and<br />
helped establish the Friends<br />
of the Christchurch Botanical<br />
Gardens. A funeral service was<br />
held for Mr Sykes on Tuesday.<br />
SMOKE INHALED<br />
A person was taken to<br />
hospital after a kitchen fire in<br />
Wainoni on Tuesday night.<br />
Three crews were called to the<br />
Ottawa Rd address at about<br />
10.30pm but found the fire<br />
had been extinguished. A fire<br />
communications spokesman<br />
said one person was taken to<br />
Christchurch Hospital for smoke<br />
inhalation.<br />
SUSPICIOUS FIRE<br />
Police are investigating a<br />
deliberately lit fire in a derelict<br />
building and garage in the central<br />
city on Tuesday night. Fire crews<br />
were called to the Armagh St<br />
property at about <strong>11</strong>.10pm and<br />
found a number of small fires.<br />
Specialist fire investigator Bruce<br />
Irvine told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> there are<br />
signs of forced entry and the fires<br />
were deliberately lit. “It is a<br />
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that creates a significant risk for<br />
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‘Lucky’ to walk away<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
A FRENCH couple<br />
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Zealand after managing<br />
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Christchurch Hospital<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Springfield, Kirwee<br />
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Fewer crashes in central city<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
THE NUMBER of crashes and<br />
injuries in the central city has<br />
reduced since the speed limit<br />
was dropped to 30km/h more<br />
than a year ago.<br />
Data compiled by ViaStrada<br />
senior traffic engineer and transport<br />
planner Glen Koorey shows<br />
there have been 17 per cent fewer<br />
crashes, and<br />
a 22 per cent<br />
reduction in<br />
injuries.<br />
In March<br />
2016, the<br />
city council<br />
dropped the<br />
Glen Koorey<br />
speed limit<br />
from 50km/h<br />
to 30km/h on streets between,<br />
but not including, Kilmore,<br />
Madras and St Asaph Sts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> move, which was part<br />
of An Accessible City, received<br />
mixed reactions. Some said it<br />
would slow progress, while others<br />
said it would make the area<br />
safer.<br />
Dr Koorey, a former Canterbury<br />
University transport<br />
engineering senior lecturer, has<br />
compiled crash and injury data<br />
for the area from the last four<br />
years.<br />
He gathered the figures from<br />
the New Zealand Transport<br />
Agency’s crash analysis data to<br />
see if there had been a change.<br />
It showed between September<br />
2014 and February 2016, there<br />
were 73 crashes in the area, and<br />
36 injuries.<br />
That dropped to 60 crashes<br />
since the new limit was put in<br />
place and 28 injuries.<br />
In other central city streets<br />
that still have a 50km/h speed<br />
limit, the number of crashes had<br />
increased.<br />
Dr Koorey said the increase<br />
could reflect unnecessary traffic<br />
shifting, although he had not<br />
compared traffic volumes yet so<br />
did not want to speculate.<br />
He said because more businesses<br />
and shops opening were<br />
bringing more people and traffic<br />
into the central city, he did<br />
not initially expect a drop in<br />
crashes.<br />
But Dr Koorey said he was<br />
pleasantly surprised.<br />
“It’s early days and I’d like to<br />
see how the trends goes for a bit<br />
longer (two to three years), but<br />
it’s an encouraging sign given<br />
that a key reason for introducing<br />
lower speeds is for road safety.”<br />
City councillor Sara Temple-<br />
POSITIVE:<br />
<strong>The</strong> lower<br />
speed<br />
limit in the<br />
central city,<br />
such as on<br />
Montreal St,<br />
has reduced<br />
the number<br />
of crashes<br />
and injuries<br />
in the first 18<br />
months since<br />
the change.<br />
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“It was quite controversial at<br />
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about that change,” she said.<br />
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decision was based on best international<br />
practice and the local<br />
data backs that up.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council has been lowering<br />
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It was reported police received<br />
at least five complaints about<br />
Inspector Fremaux relating to<br />
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One complainant was the<br />
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Funeral open to public<br />
JIM ANDERTON’S son Chris<br />
says he has been overwhelmed<br />
with support after his father’s<br />
death at the weekend.<br />
And for those who cannot<br />
attend the public funeral today,<br />
it is being streamed live on<br />
YouTube.<br />
Writing on Facebook, Chris<br />
Anderton thanked people for<br />
the messages of supported he<br />
had received: “<strong>The</strong>y uplift me.”<br />
Mr Anderton was two weeks<br />
shy of his 80th birthday when he<br />
died peacefully in Christchurch.<br />
He served as the Sydenham and<br />
Wigram MP from 1984 until his<br />
retirement from Parliament in<br />
20<strong>11</strong>.<br />
A Requiem Mass will be held<br />
for Mr Anderton at Sacred Heart<br />
Catholic Church, 70 Spencer St,<br />
Addington, at 2pm.<br />
Prime Minister Jacinda<br />
Ardern, who will attend the<br />
funeral, called Anderton a man<br />
of “huge integrity, huge compassion,<br />
a man who stood strongly<br />
for what he believed in and gave<br />
40 years of service both in local<br />
government and central government”.<br />
“He will be sadly, sadly missed<br />
by the Labour movement and by<br />
SADLY MISSED: Jim Anderton at the ceremony last year in<br />
which he received a Companion of the New Zealand Order of<br />
Merit.<br />
all his friends and family.”<br />
His Labour successor in Wigram,<br />
Cabinet Minister Megan<br />
Woods, is also expected to<br />
attend, as well as Finance Minister<br />
Grant Robertson, Labour<br />
Party general secretary Andrew<br />
Kirton, and Council of Trade<br />
Unions general secretary Sam<br />
Huggard.<br />
Close friend and former MP<br />
Matt Robson, who served in Parliament<br />
from 1996 to 2005 with<br />
Mr Anderton’s Alliance Party<br />
‘A man who stood<br />
strongly for what he<br />
believed in and gave 40<br />
years of service . . . ’<br />
– Jacinda Ardern<br />
and then the Progressive Party,<br />
will be one of the speakers.<br />
Mr Anderton’s legacy has been<br />
praised since his death, from his<br />
principled stance in 1989 when<br />
he left the Labour Party in protest<br />
over Rogernomics and the<br />
sale of BNZ, to his championing<br />
MMP as leader of Alliance.<br />
His work in the Helen Clarkled<br />
Government included<br />
helping to set up Kiwibank,<br />
the NZ Superannuation Fund,<br />
paid parental leave, and several<br />
regional development initiatives<br />
such as the Marlborough Wine<br />
Research Centre.<br />
After he retired, he served as<br />
chair of the Stadium Trust and<br />
pushed for the rebuild of Christ<br />
Church Cathedral.<br />
Last year Mr Anderton was<br />
made a Companion of the New<br />
Zealand Order of Merit for services<br />
to Parliament.<br />
He will be buried on Waiheke<br />
Island on Saturday.<br />
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CHRISTCHURCH Airport<br />
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December.<br />
Statistics revealed the number of<br />
passengers through the terminal<br />
was the highest for any month on<br />
record.<br />
Chief aeronautical and<br />
commercial officer Justin Watson<br />
said 638,043 passengers used<br />
the terminal during December,<br />
up 4.8 per cent on the previous<br />
December.<br />
“This equates to more than the<br />
entire population of Canterbury<br />
and the West Coast through the<br />
terminal during the past month<br />
alone,” he said.<br />
“New services or larger<br />
aircraft are now flying between<br />
Christchurch and Guangzhou,<br />
Hong Kong, Perth, Melbourne,<br />
Sydney, Brisbane, Pacific Islands,<br />
as well as domestically within<br />
New Zealand.”<br />
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December growth, with a 7.7 per<br />
cent increase across the month.<br />
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South Korea 23 per cent.<br />
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World Cup cricket<br />
Young stars take centre<br />
stage in Canterbury<br />
Canterbury will host more<br />
games than any other<br />
region when the Under-19<br />
Cricket World Cup starts<br />
on Saturday. Sports<br />
reporter Gordon Findlater<br />
previews the World Cup<br />
and gives an insight into<br />
some of the key matches<br />
and players to look out<br />
for over the three-week<br />
tournament<br />
HISTORY WOULD suggest that<br />
over the next three weeks we will<br />
be lucky enough to get an early<br />
glimpse at some of cricket’s next<br />
superstars.<br />
You only need to look back to<br />
the last time New Zealand hosted<br />
the tournament in 2010.<br />
Back then, Christchurch<br />
hosted a match between New<br />
Zealand and England.<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Zealand team<br />
featured now established internationals<br />
Tom Latham, Jimmy<br />
Neesham, Corey Anderson,<br />
Doug Bracewell and recent test<br />
debutant Tom Blundell.<br />
<strong>The</strong> England team on that day<br />
also had a few names you may<br />
recognise in the form of Joe Root<br />
and Ben Stokes.<br />
We have the best opportunity<br />
to enjoy the tournament with 26<br />
of the 48 matches taking place<br />
across Hagley Oval, Lincoln<br />
University and Rangiora Oval.<br />
Possibly the best news of all is<br />
that entry to every game is free.<br />
Christchurch will also play a<br />
major role at the business end of<br />
the tournament. Both semi-finals<br />
will be held at Hagley Oval on<br />
<strong>January</strong> 29 and 30.<br />
New Zealand will be looking<br />
to win the tournament for the<br />
first time. Don’t count them out<br />
– home conditions will work in<br />
GAME-ON:<br />
Hagley Oval<br />
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both of the<br />
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their favour. <strong>The</strong> major nations<br />
are expected to rise to the top.<br />
Only Australia (3), India (3), Pakistan<br />
(2), England, South Africa,<br />
and the West Indies have won<br />
the tournament which has been<br />
running since 1988.<br />
One team worth keeping an<br />
eye on will be Afghanistan.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir squad features two players<br />
who already have experience in<br />
their nation’s senior team. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
recently won the Under-19 Asia<br />
Cup, defeating Pakistan in the<br />
final. Afghanistan also made an<br />
impression in the 2016 World<br />
Cup where they won the plate<br />
final.<br />
BIG HITTER: Prithvi<br />
Shaw’s run-scoring<br />
feats have seen him<br />
compared to Sachin<br />
Tendulkar at the<br />
same age.<br />
Players to keep<br />
•Prithvi Shaw – India: <strong>The</strong><br />
three time champions have one<br />
of the most seasoned batsmen<br />
around in captain Prithvi Shaw.<br />
THe 18-year-old, who first<br />
came into prominence when he<br />
hit 546 in an inter-school match<br />
in Mumbai in 2013, now has five<br />
first-class centuries against his<br />
name.<br />
Shaw scored a century in the<br />
second innings of his Ranji<br />
debut and followed it up by<br />
scoring another century in his<br />
debut Duleep Trophy game – a<br />
feat only previously achieved by<br />
Sachin Tendulkar.<br />
•Mujeeb Zadran –<br />
Afghanistan: Zadran’s 4-24 in<br />
his one-day international debut<br />
against Ireland brought him<br />
into the spotlight, even though<br />
he had already helped his side<br />
win the Under-19 Asia Cup with<br />
figures of 6-28 in the semi-final<br />
against Nepal and 5-13 in the<br />
final against Pakistan. Perhaps<br />
most impressive of all is the fact<br />
Zadran is only 16-years-old.<br />
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•Kirstan Kallicharan – West<br />
Indies: Kirstan Kallicharan has<br />
been touted as the next Brian<br />
Lara after his unbeaten 404 in<br />
an under-14 school match in<br />
2014.<br />
He was a part of the squad<br />
that won the tournament in<br />
Bangladesh in 2016.<br />
A middle-order batsman and<br />
the current vice-captain, he<br />
scored a century against South<br />
Africa Under-19 in a 50-over<br />
match in July.<br />
•Jason Sangha – Australia:<br />
<strong>The</strong> 18-year-old is a righthanded<br />
batsman and rightarm<br />
leg break bowler.<br />
He made his first-class<br />
debut for an Australian<br />
XI against England in<br />
November during a tour game<br />
prior to the recent Ashes<br />
series.<br />
He scored his maiden century<br />
in the second tour match,<br />
becoming the second-youngest<br />
player to score a first-class<br />
STANDOUTS: Mujeeb Zadran<br />
(jumping), Jason Sangha and<br />
Connor Sullivan are looking to<br />
catch the eye.<br />
your eye on this month<br />
century against England.<br />
•Connor Sullivan – New<br />
Zealand: We can’t go<br />
without mentioning the lone<br />
Cantabrian in the New Zealand<br />
squad. <strong>The</strong> tall left-arm pace<br />
bowler plays his club cricket for<br />
Lancaster Park and is a product<br />
of St Bede’s College. He will be<br />
pushing his case for selection in<br />
the XI for New Zealand’s pool<br />
match against Kenya at Hagley<br />
Oval on <strong>January</strong> 17.<br />
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IT MUST be in the genes.<br />
Australia and South Africa both<br />
come to New Zealand with<br />
squads featuring a son of one<br />
of one of their finest cricketing<br />
products.<br />
Austin Waugh:<br />
One of the most<br />
prevalent names in<br />
Australian cricket<br />
looks set to continue<br />
with 18-year-old<br />
Austin Waugh,<br />
the son of one of<br />
cricket’s greatest<br />
captains.<br />
Steve Waugh is<br />
one of only 13 players<br />
to have scored<br />
more than 10,000<br />
test runs, led Australia<br />
to 15 of their<br />
record 16 consecutive test wins,<br />
and to victory in the 1999 Cricket<br />
World Cup. He was named<br />
Australian of <strong>The</strong> Year in 2004<br />
and was also inducted in the ICC<br />
Cricket Hall of Fame in 2010.<br />
Like his father, Austin is also<br />
an all-rounder, bowling rightarm<br />
medium pace.<br />
His Australian team play two<br />
group games at Lincoln University<br />
against Zimbabwe on <strong>January</strong><br />
17 and Papua New Guinea on<br />
<strong>January</strong> 19.<br />
Thando Ntini: <strong>The</strong> son of<br />
South African great Makhaya<br />
Ntini has no shortage of determination,<br />
claiming<br />
he doesn’t just want<br />
to emulate his father’s<br />
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them.<br />
It won’t be an easy<br />
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and 2000s. He is the<br />
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and the third highest in<br />
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Ntini was also the first<br />
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Thando Ntini was originally<br />
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started bowling regularly during<br />
his high school years to become<br />
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Ntini could be in action when<br />
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Spring Festival<br />
the “Chinese Christmas”<br />
With the Christmas season coming to an end, the Chinese<br />
communities will soon celebrate another important festival<br />
of their own, the Chinese New Year, also known the Spring<br />
Festival. <strong>The</strong> significance of Spring Festival to them equals that<br />
of Christmas to Westerners. It will be worthwhile to know a bit<br />
about this “Chinese Christmas” as the celebrations draw close.<br />
Spring Festival as the Chinese New Year is celebrated at the<br />
turn of the lunar Chinese calendar. Celebrations run from<br />
the evening preceding the first day, to the Lantern Festival on<br />
the 15th day of the<br />
first calendar month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first day of the<br />
New Year falls on the<br />
new moon between<br />
16th February to<br />
2nd March. In <strong>2018</strong>,<br />
the first day of the<br />
Chinese New Year is<br />
on 16th February.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spring Festival is centuries old and traditionally the<br />
festival is a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. It is also<br />
celebrated in countries and territories with significant Chinese<br />
populations, including Southeast Asia, North America,<br />
Australia and New Zealand.<br />
Mythology<br />
According to tales and legends, the beginning of the Chinese<br />
New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian.<br />
Nian would eat villagers, especially children. One year, all<br />
the villagers decided to go hide from the beast. An old man<br />
appeared before the villagers went into hiding and said that<br />
he would stay for the night, and decided to get revenge on<br />
the Nian. All the villagers thought he was insane. <strong>The</strong> old<br />
man put red papers up and set off firecrackers. <strong>The</strong> day after,<br />
the villagers came back to their town to see that nothing was<br />
destroyed. <strong>The</strong>y assumed that the old man was a deity who<br />
came to save them. <strong>The</strong> villagers then understood that the<br />
Nian was afraid of the red color and loud noises. When the<br />
New Year was about to come, the villagers would wear red<br />
clothes, hang red<br />
lanterns, and red<br />
spring scrolls<br />
on windows<br />
and doors.<br />
People also used<br />
firecrackers to<br />
frighten away the<br />
Nian. From then<br />
on, Nian never<br />
came to the<br />
village again.<br />
Customs and Traditions<br />
With the Spring Festival coming, it is<br />
traditional for every family to thoroughly<br />
cleanse the house, in order to sweep away<br />
any ill-fortune and make way for good<br />
incoming luck. Windows and doors will<br />
be decorated with red color paper-cuts<br />
and couplets with popular themes of<br />
“good fortune” or “happiness”, “wealth”,<br />
and “longevity”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens<br />
and earth, officially beginning at midnight. It is a traditional<br />
practice to light fireworks to make as much of a din as possible<br />
to chase off the evil<br />
spirits.<br />
Most importantly, the<br />
first day of Chinese<br />
New Year is a time<br />
to honor one's elders<br />
and families visit<br />
the oldest and most<br />
senior members of<br />
their extended families, usually their parents, grandparents<br />
and great-grandparents. Some families may invite a lion dance<br />
troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Chinese New Year as<br />
well as to evict bad spirits from the premises.<br />
Members of the family who are<br />
married also give red envelopes<br />
containing cash known as<br />
Hongbao (Mandarin) or lai see<br />
(Cantonese dialect), a form of<br />
blessings, to junior members of<br />
the family, mostly children and<br />
teenagers. Business managers<br />
also give bonuses through red packets to employees for good<br />
luck, smooth-sailing, good health and wealth.<br />
Family Reunion Dinner<br />
Nian Ye Fan(Grand Dinner on New Year's Eve) is held on<br />
New Year's Eve during which family members gather for<br />
celebration. <strong>The</strong> venue will usually be in or near the home<br />
of the most senior member of the family. Family members<br />
far away from home will manage to come back, regardless of<br />
long-distance travel, so the "Grand Dinner on New Year's Eve"<br />
is also called "Family Reunion Dinner". Every family will make<br />
the dinner the most sumptuous and ceremonious one in the<br />
year. Hostesses will fetch out foodstuffs prepared in early time<br />
and all family members will sit<br />
together and make dumplings in<br />
jollification. In most areas, fish<br />
(yú) is included in the dinner, as<br />
the Chinese phrase “may there<br />
be surpluses every year”(nián<br />
nián yǒu yú) sounds the same as<br />
“let there be fish every year.”<br />
Gift Exchange<br />
In addition to red envelopes, which are usually given from<br />
older people to younger people, small gifts (usually food<br />
or sweets) are also exchanged between friends or relatives<br />
(of different households) during Chinese New Year. Gifts<br />
are usually brought when visiting friends or relatives at<br />
their homes. Common gifts include fruits, cakes, biscuits,<br />
chocolates, and candies. Certain items should not be given, as<br />
they are considered taboo. Taboo gifts include: items associated<br />
with funerals (i.e. handkerchiefs, towels, chrysanthemums,<br />
items colored white and black);items that show that time<br />
is running out (i.e. clocks and watches);sharp objects that<br />
symbolize cutting a tie (i.e. scissors and knives);items that<br />
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(i.e.: shoes and<br />
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homonyms for<br />
unpleasant topics<br />
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like “separate”, and<br />
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like “fall apart” in<br />
Chinese).<br />
Clothing<br />
Clothing mainly featuring the<br />
color red or bright colors is<br />
commonly worn throughout<br />
the Chinese New Year because<br />
it was once believed that red<br />
could scare away evil spirits<br />
and bad fortune. In addition,<br />
people typically wear new<br />
clothes from head to toe to<br />
symbolize a new beginning in<br />
the new year.<br />
Greetings<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chinese New Year is often accompanied by loud,<br />
enthusiastic greetings of auspicious words or phrases. Some<br />
of the most common greetings include guònián Hǒo(happy<br />
new year), gōngxǒfācái (Congratulations and be prosperous),<br />
and wànshìrúyì(May all your wishes be fulfilled). Children<br />
and teenagers sometimes jokingly use the phrase gōngxǒfācái<br />
hóngbāo nálái(congratulations and be prosperous, now give<br />
me a red envelope).<br />
Chinese Shengxiao<br />
It is also worth mentioning that the coming Chinese lunar New<br />
Year is the year of dog. It has something to do with the Chinese<br />
animal zodiac, or shengxiao (“born resembling”) which is a<br />
repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year being represented by<br />
an animal and its reputed attributes. Traditionally these zodiac<br />
animals were used to date the years. In order, the 12 animals<br />
are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat,<br />
Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig.<br />
Dog is man’s good friend who can understand the human’s<br />
spirit and obey its master whether he is wealthy or not, so the<br />
year of the Dog is one of understanding, faith and devotion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chinese regard the dog as an auspicious animal. If a<br />
dog happens to come to a house, usually the host will be<br />
very glad to adopt it for it symbolizes the coming of fortune.<br />
<strong>The</strong> invincible God Erlang in Chinese legend used a loyal<br />
wolfhound to help him capture monsters.<br />
<strong>The</strong> City Council and the Chinese communities will hold<br />
a series of celebrations during the Spring Festival season in<br />
Christchurch every year, including the popular Lanterns Show.<br />
We welcome you to join the gala, and wish you all have a<br />
merry “Chinese Christmas” and a prosperous year of dog.
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GOOD TIMES THIS<br />
SUMMER<br />
Historic homestead rises again<br />
WORK WILL start this month<br />
on rebuilding the historic<br />
Risingholme homestead in<br />
Opawa.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 153-year-old building,<br />
which was home to a community<br />
centre in Cholmondeley Ave,<br />
was damaged in the September<br />
4, 2010, and February 22, 20<strong>11</strong>,<br />
earthquakes, forcing it to close.<br />
Risingholme then sustained<br />
further damage in an arson attack<br />
in June, 2016.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fire came a year after<br />
community centre staff told <strong>Star</strong><br />
Media they were concerned the<br />
building was a “sitting duck” for<br />
vandals and feared it would be<br />
burnt to the ground.<br />
When the arson attack happened,<br />
the city council was<br />
preparing to seek tenders for the<br />
building’s repair.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fire ripped through<br />
the roof and top storey of<br />
the heritage-listed building<br />
and caused so much damage<br />
part of the upstairs had to be<br />
deconstructed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> building was wrapped to<br />
protect it and prevent further<br />
damage from occurring while<br />
engineers and heritage experts<br />
worked to develop a plan for<br />
restoring it.<br />
HISTORIC: Risingholme Community Centre before it was hit<br />
by an arson attack in 2016. (Above right) – <strong>The</strong> building was<br />
covered in plastic wrap to prevent further damage.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
“Right from the start, the goal<br />
has been to get Risingholme<br />
back to the way it was but<br />
we’ve had to work through<br />
a number of issues,<br />
including the fire, and obtain<br />
building and resource<br />
consents before work<br />
on-site could begin,’’ city<br />
council heritage rebuild<br />
programme manager<br />
Richie Moyle said.<br />
“Those consents have all now<br />
Richie Moyle<br />
been obtained and the contractors,<br />
Cook Brothers, are ready<br />
to begin work later this<br />
month. <strong>The</strong>y’re going to be<br />
rebuilding the top storey<br />
and strengthening and<br />
repairing the remainder of<br />
the building to bring it up<br />
to 67 per cent of the New<br />
Building Standard.”<br />
Mr Moyle said as much<br />
of the heritage fabric of the<br />
original building as possible<br />
•<strong>The</strong> Risingholme Community<br />
Centre was originally built in<br />
1864 as a private residence<br />
by William and Mary Reeves,<br />
the parents of noted politician<br />
William Pember Reeves.<br />
•After the death of Mr Reeves<br />
in 1891, the house had<br />
several private owners until<br />
1943 when it was bought<br />
by philanthropist Sir John<br />
McKenzie, who gifted it to the<br />
city council for the “health,<br />
amusement and instruction<br />
of the public.’’<br />
would be reinstated.“<strong>The</strong> project<br />
is probably going to take most of<br />
the year to complete but when<br />
it is done Risingholme will be<br />
back to its former glory.’’<br />
<strong>The</strong> Risingholme hall and craft<br />
workshops, which date back to the<br />
1940s and 1950s, are also going to<br />
be refurbished and strengthened.<br />
Work on those buildings is<br />
expected to start next month and<br />
take about nine months.<br />
Orangutans<br />
feast on<br />
Botanic Gardens<br />
PRUNED FOLIAGE from the<br />
Botanic Gardens is being fed to<br />
orangutans at Orana Wildlife Park<br />
to liven up their diet.<br />
Two loads of foliage from the<br />
gardens that would otherwise have<br />
been dumped as green waste have<br />
already been delivered to Orana at<br />
McLeans Island.<br />
It included a goody bag of<br />
mulberry, roses, day lilies,<br />
bamboo, elm, kawakawa, mahoe<br />
(whiteywood), and coprosma<br />
grandifolia dropped off for the<br />
apes in December. Fern fronds and<br />
banana palm leaves were provided<br />
for them to play with.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Great Ape Centre at Orana<br />
has three orangutans – Charlie,<br />
37, and two females Melur, 27, and<br />
Wanita, 39, who arrived in late<br />
November. <strong>The</strong>y will live at the<br />
park for two years while Auckland<br />
Zoo builds its South-east Asian<br />
precinct. “For the orangutans<br />
. . . there isn’t as much tropical<br />
plant material here as there was in<br />
Auckland for them. Even if we can<br />
provide a few banana palm leaves,<br />
that provides some variety and<br />
enrichment benefits for them,’’ said<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Boat hire business set for return to <strong>The</strong> Groynes<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
HIRE BOATS may soon be back<br />
on the lake at <strong>The</strong> Groynes as an<br />
urgent meeting has been called<br />
to approve licencing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fendalton-Waimairi-<br />
Harewood Community Board<br />
recess committee will hold<br />
an extraordinary meeting<br />
on Monday to approve<br />
the operating licence for<br />
<strong>The</strong> Groynes Boat Hire on<br />
Recreation Lake.<br />
Phill Hanrahan took over the<br />
Johns Rd business in July. <strong>The</strong><br />
previous owners did not have<br />
a licence to operate, so the city<br />
council said he could not open<br />
until one was issued.<br />
After several delays to the<br />
process and almost walking<br />
away from the business<br />
altogether, Mr Hanrahan said he<br />
was “very happy” to receive an<br />
email from city council staff on<br />
Tuesday letting him know the<br />
meeting had been scheduled.<br />
However, he said he would<br />
not be pulling out<br />
the champagne<br />
prematurely. “We’ve<br />
been here before . . .<br />
we’ve had our hopes<br />
built up before. So<br />
we’ll just wait and see<br />
what the outcome is,”<br />
he said.<br />
Community board<br />
chairman David<br />
Cartwright said it was<br />
good news that the issue was<br />
David<br />
Cartwright<br />
getting close to a resolution.<br />
“I feel for the couple<br />
. . . but you can’t operate<br />
a business unlicensed,”<br />
he said.<br />
Mr Cartwright, a<br />
business owner himself,<br />
said if a child ended up<br />
drowning or any type<br />
of accident occurred<br />
and the boat hire was<br />
unlicensed, the city<br />
council would be liable.<br />
“It’s unfortunate he’s had to<br />
jump through a few hoops but<br />
we’re moving forward with it<br />
now,” Mr Cartwright said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> recess committee is made<br />
up of Mr Cartwright, board<br />
member Aaron Campbell and<br />
city councillor Aaron Keown.<br />
A staff report said a monthby-month<br />
licence would be<br />
approved, which acknowledged<br />
the future of the city council’s<br />
lease is yet to be finalised with<br />
the park’s owner, Environment<br />
Canterbury.<br />
Cancer survivor cycles with pros<br />
• By Sarla Donovan<br />
AT 73, Rob Dally is looking<br />
forward to riding with top New<br />
Zealand cycling pros like Jack<br />
Bauer and George Bennett.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cancer survivor and keen<br />
cyclist is taking part in the Bupa<br />
Challenge Tour next Friday<br />
– Santos Tour Down Under’s<br />
annual mass-participation ride<br />
in Adelaide.<br />
At the event, recreational<br />
cyclists get to ride on the same<br />
stage as the world’s top riders on<br />
a Union Cycliste Internationale<br />
world tour route. <strong>The</strong> competitors<br />
also raise money to help<br />
fund cancer research.<br />
Mr Dally was diagnosed with<br />
prostate cancer seven years ago<br />
and had a radical prostatectomy.<br />
But he fought through it and has<br />
been cancer-free since the early<br />
diagnosis operation. He now<br />
rides to celebrate this achievement.<br />
“I’m keen to ride a stage of the<br />
tour that the elites do straight<br />
after me and I’m keen to support<br />
a good charity,” Mr Dally said<br />
yesterday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Halswell resident flies to<br />
Adelaide on Monday with his<br />
wife Jan as his support crew. He<br />
said he was looking forward to<br />
meeting other passionate cyclists.<br />
Clocking up about 400km<br />
a week on average, Mr Dally<br />
regularly rides and drinks coffee<br />
with the Magpies cycling group.<br />
“You get hooked,” he says.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s a real camaraderie.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> former city council manager<br />
used to run for Papanui<br />
TocH but took up cycling 13<br />
years ago when his dodgy knee<br />
forced him to stop running.<br />
He says cycling is more exciting:<br />
“You’re going faster on two<br />
wheels – around corners, down<br />
hills.”<br />
In 20<strong>11</strong>, he was preparing for a<br />
130km road race and was as fit as<br />
he’d ever been, when his surgeon<br />
PARTNERS: Keen cyclists<br />
Rob and Jan Dally are<br />
heading to an event in<br />
Adelaide next week where<br />
cancer survivor Rob will cycle<br />
on the same course as some<br />
of the world’s best.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
called him in and said he had<br />
cancer. “It was pretty awful really<br />
. . . pretty sobering.”<br />
But he counts himself as one<br />
of the lucky ones and credits the<br />
experience with changing his<br />
thinking.<br />
“Do what you want to do today,<br />
don’t leave it till tomorrow.<br />
Don’t take things or anybody for<br />
granted.”<br />
Mrs Dally also took up cycling<br />
about same time as the cancer<br />
diagnosis and now the couple<br />
ride and race together.<br />
Last year, they rode across<br />
France to celebrate 50 years of<br />
marriage. “<br />
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Steve McLennan<br />
Fighting fires: ‘It is like riding a bike,<br />
Volunteer firefighters<br />
are the backbone<br />
of a community.<br />
Lincoln brigade’s<br />
Steve McLennan, 70,<br />
has been a volunteer<br />
firefighter on and off<br />
since 1964. He speaks<br />
to Andrew King<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Tell me how you got involved<br />
in becoming a volunteer<br />
firefighter.<br />
I was friends with a guy<br />
whose father was the fire chief in<br />
Roxburgh, where I grew up, and<br />
you kind of just get roped into it.<br />
He used to say to me: ‘<strong>The</strong>re is no<br />
use you sitting here by yourself,<br />
come with us.’ From there I was in.<br />
I think our first call out was a scrub<br />
fire on the hill behind Roxburgh.<br />
Why did you keep doing it?<br />
It is like riding a bike, once you<br />
get on it is hard to get off. You<br />
are helping the community. That<br />
is my whole reason behind it. I<br />
could do it with my business up<br />
here because they were related.<br />
It worked really well. I knew<br />
where all the water points were<br />
around the district because of<br />
my spraying business. It is good<br />
local knowledge, like knowing<br />
all the roads and farms and you<br />
can pass that on to the younger<br />
guys coming through. That is<br />
why I have kept around. People<br />
are always using my knowledge.<br />
What is the biggest fire you<br />
have been involved in?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been some pretty<br />
big plantation fires we tackled<br />
years ago near Rakaia that took<br />
days to put out and were really<br />
hard work. But the Port Hills fire<br />
was probably the biggest I have<br />
been involved with. We spent a<br />
lot of time loading helicopters<br />
with water and battling the blaze<br />
on Worsleys Spur. That is where<br />
you saw the full extent of that<br />
fire up and around those houses.<br />
It is not just fires you guys<br />
deal with, what are some of the<br />
other memorable call-outs you<br />
CLOSE COUPLE: Steve McLennan and wife Wendy. Meals have often been put back in the oven when fires have needed<br />
fighting.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
have had?<br />
I spent the first 19 hours at the<br />
CTV site after the earthquake<br />
(February 22, 20<strong>11</strong>). It wasn’t the<br />
best place to be but you do what<br />
you got to do.<br />
What was it like?<br />
As an officer, I was keeping the<br />
tankers moving at the scene to<br />
cart water in. We were fighting<br />
the fire in the lift well. I was right<br />
there. It wasn’t the place you<br />
wanted to be. We didn’t have a lot<br />
of training around earthquake<br />
stuff and we did our best. <strong>The</strong> big<br />
thing was everyone knew people<br />
were trapped and were working<br />
hard to free them. You could see<br />
the TV cameras pointed at us<br />
and that was a bit upsetting as we<br />
were just there to do a job.<br />
You had a hand in catching<br />
two arsonists about three years<br />
ago. Tell me about that?<br />
We were called to a suspicious<br />
house fire in Little River on New<br />
Year’s Eve. On our way back<br />
we found a hay barn on fire<br />
in Kaituna Valley, which was<br />
also suspicious. While we were<br />
fighting that fire, we were turned<br />
to another hay barn alight on<br />
Tai Tapu Rd and some trees on<br />
fire at the Tai Tapu golf course.<br />
We knew there was an arsonist<br />
running around. On our way to<br />
a flare up a few days later at one<br />
of the hay barn fires, we took a<br />
shortcut to the scene and saw a<br />
car sitting watching the flames<br />
from a distance. We handed the<br />
licence plate number to police<br />
and they were arrested for the<br />
arsons.
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
once you get on it’s hard to get off’<br />
You must have attended a few<br />
crashes over the years? What is<br />
it like to turn out to those?<br />
I would hate to say how many<br />
road accidents I have been to.<br />
You get hardened to them but<br />
they sort of stick with you.<br />
Any that stand out in your<br />
mind?<br />
I wouldn’t want to single any<br />
out. <strong>The</strong>y are all bad. You brace<br />
yourself for the worst scenario<br />
when you are heading there. It is<br />
easier to ramp down than up.<br />
So what paid the bills in<br />
between catching arsonists and<br />
putting out blazes?<br />
I spent 24-and-a-half years<br />
working for Fulton Hogan in<br />
Central Otago in the transport<br />
and cartage division before I<br />
moved to Canterbury in 1988.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n I was the freight manager<br />
for Maxwell Brothers for a few<br />
years before starting my own<br />
agricultural spraying business in<br />
1994. I sold that about three years<br />
ago now and I am semi-retired.<br />
Semi-retired?<br />
Well, I am now paid by the<br />
Fire Service to drive new fire<br />
trucks from Wellington to their<br />
destination anywhere in the top<br />
of the South Island. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
not many weeks where I am not<br />
driving a big red truck around.<br />
What else do you do for the<br />
Fire Service?<br />
I have been involved in a<br />
number of competitions in the<br />
fire brigade, including 22 years<br />
as an official. <strong>The</strong>re are four<br />
different divisions they compete<br />
in – waterways, road crash<br />
rescue, driving, and the combat<br />
challenge. I also represented<br />
the United Fire Brigades’<br />
Association and was the chair<br />
of the Mid-Canterbury subassociation<br />
and the Canterbury<br />
Provincial Association. I am also<br />
a life member of both of those<br />
organisations.<br />
Outside of the service, what<br />
do you get up to?<br />
I used to be into speedway<br />
racing when I was in Central<br />
Otago. I raced TQ (threequarter)<br />
midget cars. I actually<br />
hold the record for the fastest<br />
FAST AND SLOW: Steve McLennan at speed in a TQ midget car at Waitati Speedway, and standing in front of one of the trucks<br />
he drove in 1966.<br />
four laps and fastest six laps at<br />
Waitati Speedway, which was<br />
closed down in the late 70s.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y can’t take that from me.<br />
I had a bit of a go in Ellesmere for<br />
a couple of years but the business<br />
took priority and I gave that away<br />
about two years ago. We get out<br />
and watch it when we can.<br />
So tell me about your family?<br />
I am married to my lovely<br />
wife Wendy, who has stuck with<br />
me through the 30-odd years of<br />
me in the service. She has put<br />
a few dinners back in the oven<br />
while I chase flames. We have<br />
been married for 43 years. We<br />
have two grown-up children.<br />
My daughter, Jody Phillipson, is<br />
married with two children and<br />
works in the travel industry. My<br />
son, Dave McLennan, is a talent<br />
scout for the Crusaders.<br />
Hold on. Your son works for<br />
the Crusaders, but you are from<br />
Central Otago – how does that<br />
work?<br />
It makes for short phone calls<br />
when we play each other and one<br />
comes out on top. I don’t get any<br />
hand-me-down clothes from the<br />
Crusaders either.<br />
Would you want a Crusaders<br />
jersey?<br />
RESPONSIBILITY: <strong>The</strong> Lincoln brigade was tasked with<br />
fighting a fire in the lift well of the CTV Building after the<br />
February 22, 20<strong>11</strong>, earthquake. <strong>The</strong> volunteers also spent<br />
time loading helicopters with water and battling the blaze on<br />
Worsleys Spur during the Port Hills fire.<br />
No.<br />
What is the season looking<br />
like for fires?<br />
She is a bit dry out there. It<br />
will be a funny one. <strong>The</strong> spring<br />
rain has boosted the fuel sitting<br />
around with plenty of grass<br />
growth throughout the region.<br />
But the frustrating thing is people<br />
don’t take notice of what they are<br />
told. Some are burning rubbish in<br />
no fire season. It is a no-brainer.<br />
What do you say to those<br />
people?<br />
All you can do is extinguish<br />
the fire, take their details and<br />
leave it to the Fire Service. Some<br />
people you would like to throw<br />
everything at them, but you have<br />
to show professionalism. It is<br />
easier to shake your head and say<br />
nothing sometimes.<br />
I can feel the frustration. So<br />
any big plans for the year?<br />
<strong>The</strong> plan is to go whitebaiting<br />
as Wendy and I both love it. We<br />
have been going to more subdued<br />
spots for the past three years after<br />
Wendy got swept out to sea near<br />
the Rakaia River mouth. Luckily<br />
she was washed back into shore<br />
by the breakers but it was pretty<br />
scary. I love whitebait, but I love<br />
my wife more.<br />
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News<br />
Slice of history in blokey book<br />
Christchurch author and<br />
historian John Rosanowski<br />
has written another book<br />
– this time a novel about a<br />
murder mystery in Reefton<br />
Murder On Broadway.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book is peopled<br />
with crooked publicans<br />
and cops, cheerful exconvicts,<br />
hard-nosed<br />
prostitutes, confidence<br />
tricksters, white collar<br />
criminals and a quadruplet<br />
team of acrobats. Alyson<br />
Baker reviewed the book<br />
for kiwicrime.blogspot.<br />
co.nz/<strong>2018</strong>/01/reviewmurder-on-broadway.html<br />
A MAN who burned several<br />
large pieces of tree trunk<br />
claimed he didn’t know there<br />
was a fire ban.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Little River Fire Brigade<br />
attended an incident between<br />
PLOTS: Murder on Broadway is a companion book to Treachery Road also written by John<br />
Rosanowski.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
MURDER ON Broadway is<br />
a rollicking wild West Coast<br />
goldfields tale of murder and<br />
mayhem.<br />
When the obnoxious Reefton<br />
Police Sergeant Mackworth Snyder<br />
leaves Reefton in the hands<br />
of his new Constable Gordon<br />
Trembath, in the days leading<br />
up to the 1877/78 festive season,<br />
the reader just knows the hapless<br />
cop is going to have to deal<br />
with serious goings on.<br />
Fortunately, Trembath has<br />
the “town idiot”, Abe, to watch<br />
his back, along with Abe’s<br />
friend, the town drunk, Little<br />
Jimmy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> refrain “he said it would<br />
be quiet over Christmas” is used<br />
to good effect, as the plans for<br />
thievery, swindlery, sly-groggery<br />
and all sorts of other nefarious<br />
business are being made in<br />
Reefton and abroad.<br />
<strong>The</strong> main target for most<br />
of this activity is the annual<br />
Reefton Boxing Day race meeting,<br />
and tensions rise as the<br />
reader becomes aware of various<br />
scams being set up.<br />
Rosanowski’s plotting verges<br />
on the operatic, and is very<br />
satisfying.<br />
His writing style is<br />
straightforward and is from a<br />
self-deprecating point of view:<br />
“If his words were to be trusted,<br />
this show was going to be on<br />
a par with anything ever seen<br />
in London, Paris or Vienna.<br />
He could also have said, “or<br />
Hokitika,” because that’s where<br />
they had been performing before<br />
Reefton.”<br />
Murder on Broadway is a<br />
very blokey tale, told from a<br />
blokey perspective, and in the<br />
omniscient mode; the reader is<br />
sometimes asked to remember<br />
Prices Valley and Kaituna Valley<br />
Rds on Monday afternoon after<br />
being alerted by the public.<br />
When they arrived at the<br />
scene, chief fire officer David<br />
Irving said the wood looked to<br />
things, as they will become<br />
of relevance later in the story.<br />
But for all that, the tale is quite<br />
nuanced, with young Trembath<br />
becoming aware that things<br />
are not always black and white,<br />
right or wrong – that just because<br />
people are in a position of<br />
trust doesn’t mean you should<br />
trust them, or just because<br />
everyone says someone is stupid<br />
or a waste of space, that they<br />
necessarily are.<br />
<strong>The</strong> picture of the times is<br />
drawn as a slice of history that<br />
was part of the international<br />
wave of gold rushes – California,<br />
Ballarat, Otago, the West<br />
Coast. And the narrative is<br />
flecked with mentions of real<br />
historical figures such as Bully<br />
Hayes. And Abe’s friend Little<br />
have been burning for a couple<br />
of hours.<br />
He said while the man<br />
“appeared to be ignorant of the<br />
rules,” he was warned not to<br />
light anything else until the fire<br />
Jimmy also features in Rosanowski’s<br />
novel Treachery Road,<br />
set 10 years earlier, about the<br />
Maungatapu murders.<br />
But knowing about historical<br />
figures or the history of the<br />
West Coast goldfields is not<br />
required to enjoy this book. All<br />
the characters are given robust<br />
backgrounds, and you get the<br />
feel of the muddy turbulent<br />
mess of the bustling goldfields<br />
service towns, with their mix of<br />
hardworking people hoping for<br />
a break, petty scoundrels, total<br />
blackguards, and entertainers.<br />
And you also get a feel of the<br />
surrounding bush, in a time<br />
when the now declining bush<br />
robins would flutter around you<br />
as you walked.<br />
A very enjoyable read.<br />
Tree trunk fire results in warning<br />
ban had been lifted.<br />
Christchurch District is in a<br />
restricted fire season. Fires must<br />
not be lit in open air without a<br />
permit from Fire and Emergency<br />
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Playground<br />
bin gets more<br />
rubbish than<br />
it can handle<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
PEOPLE ARE flocking from<br />
across the city to check out<br />
New Brighton’s new $8 million<br />
beachside playground.<br />
But the popularity of the playground<br />
is more than its rubbish<br />
bin can handle.<br />
On Facebook, New Brighton<br />
residents have called on the city<br />
council to increase the amount of<br />
bins or times it is emptied at the<br />
Marine Pde playground.<br />
Residents say more often than not<br />
the playground bin and others in<br />
the area are full and overflowing.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is one bin next to the new<br />
playground’s toilet block, a ‘Bigbelly’<br />
smart bin which sends city<br />
council staff a message when it is<br />
full and needs emptying.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are other bins along<br />
the beach and by the old New<br />
Brighton playground.<br />
When <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> went to the park<br />
on Thursday, the city council had<br />
just cleared the bins.<br />
Janine Watson took her<br />
children and a picnic to spend the<br />
afternoon at the playground.<br />
She thought the number of bins<br />
was enough for the area, but said<br />
the people using them should be<br />
more considerate.<br />
Mrs Watson said it was a shame<br />
the bins were left in a “disgusting”<br />
state.<br />
She also said it should “not (be)<br />
the city council’s job” to increase<br />
the number at the park.<br />
Her message to others using the<br />
playground: “Take your rubbish<br />
home with you. If you’re going to<br />
bring a lot of rubbish with you,<br />
you should just take it home as<br />
well.”<br />
Development Christchurch<br />
chief executive Rob Hall said the<br />
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since it opened.<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
More residents on the<br />
outskirts of the city are<br />
facing a battle against a<br />
new quarry development<br />
after Fulton Hogan put<br />
forward plans for a new<br />
quarry in Templeton<br />
Gary Robinson – So the<br />
poor people who moan about the<br />
dust from these quarries think<br />
it only affects them? Well, what<br />
about the people who go in there<br />
or work there, does it not affect<br />
them as well or is it only the<br />
people that live by the quarries?<br />
I’ve been going in and out of<br />
these quarries for some 30 years<br />
and am still alive and I only live<br />
about 3km from one.<br />
Sophie McInnes – When<br />
will it end? I know it’s supply<br />
and demand, but this is getting<br />
stupid. And the argument<br />
of this block having few<br />
neighbours is daft – living<br />
next door isn’t required when<br />
strong Canterbury winds will<br />
ensure that dust is blown many<br />
kilometres N/E/S/W.<br />
Sean Woods – Plant some<br />
trees, amazes me why there are<br />
not more trees planted when<br />
everyone complains of dust.<br />
Bill Palmer – <strong>The</strong> quarries<br />
in that Yaldhurst area have<br />
been there for as long as I<br />
can remember. In fact, I’ve<br />
seen photos going back to<br />
the early 60s so why would<br />
any sane person buy in that<br />
neighborhood?<br />
<strong>The</strong> city’s worst<br />
intersections for red lightrunning<br />
have been named,<br />
with Moorhouse Ave and<br />
Colombo St taking the No 1<br />
spot<br />
Gavin Simôn – <strong>The</strong> article<br />
points out that they are not<br />
concerned with turning vehicles<br />
turning right on the red. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
are only concerned with straight<br />
through traffic going through on<br />
the red which is also blocking<br />
the right-turning traffic.<br />
Lyn Morris – I think it’s<br />
HIGH RISK: <strong>The</strong> Moorhouse Ave and Colombo St intersection<br />
was the worst for red light-runners. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
about time they sorted many<br />
of those intersections out. If<br />
you are turning, most times<br />
only two cars get through the<br />
lights if lucky. That’s only if<br />
they pull out into middle. If<br />
three or four back, sometimes it<br />
takes three to four sets of lights<br />
to get around. Talking about<br />
Carmen-Buchanans Rds, many<br />
get annoyed and go through the<br />
lights, seen it so many times at<br />
that intersection.<br />
Peter Osborne – Not a<br />
mention that maybe it is the<br />
timing of these lights causing<br />
the problem as much as the<br />
drivers. If they are looking at<br />
putting money into this, why not<br />
a study for why users felt it was<br />
necessary to go though the “red”<br />
light?<br />
Emajane Harwood –<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mary St lights are green<br />
for literally 3-4sec. People<br />
continuously don’t pay attention<br />
when heading north on Main<br />
North Rd and end up blocking<br />
the intersection so that when<br />
the light goes green for people<br />
turning right from Mary to<br />
Main North, no one can go. I<br />
have been tooted at, sworn at,<br />
had angry arms flailing at me<br />
from people in cars behind me<br />
when I don’t go. I don’t really<br />
blame people for running the red<br />
light there if it can be done so<br />
quickly. It’s about time whoever<br />
decided they would try and deter<br />
traffic on Mary St gets over the<br />
fact people will drive down there<br />
and just put the lights on green<br />
for longer.<br />
Barbara Edwards – I can<br />
understand Buchanans/Carmen<br />
Rds. Coming from Buchanans,<br />
the lights only stay green long<br />
enough to let one car through.<br />
Maybe reset the timing to let a<br />
few more through?<br />
Ali Mulqueen – <strong>The</strong>y<br />
need to have the lights green<br />
for longer at all intersections,<br />
especially the green arrows, no<br />
wonder there’s accidents, traffic<br />
jams etc. Turning right onto<br />
Waltham Rd can be a nightmare<br />
as only a couple of cars get<br />
through on the arrow. And that’s<br />
just one example.<br />
When Christchurch’s<br />
Bernie Smith competed<br />
at the world darts<br />
championship in London,<br />
England’s Justin Pipe was<br />
seen coughing behind<br />
him as the 53-year-old<br />
attempted to throw a<br />
dart for double 10 which<br />
would have won him the<br />
match<br />
Kerry Treymane – Great<br />
game to watch, great fight<br />
back, humble and honourable<br />
acceptance of the result. Well<br />
done Bernie, you looked like you<br />
belonged up there.<br />
Jeremy Maxwell – Top<br />
bloke Bernie Smith; humble man<br />
and honest.<br />
Kiria Metuatini – Best sport<br />
I’ve enjoyed in years. Well done<br />
Bernie you got me off my seat<br />
that’s for sure.<br />
Che Ritchie – I watched this<br />
match. Bernie played one hell of<br />
a game and to put himself into<br />
the position to win the game was<br />
sensational.<br />
Nick Crowe – A real gent<br />
is Bernie and he’ll be back after<br />
he’s plastered half the Ally Pally<br />
(Alexandra Palace, London).<br />
SO CLOSE: Bernie Smith about to throw what could have been a match-winning dart as<br />
English opponent Justin Pipe bursts into a cough during their first round match at the world<br />
championship in London.
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Gardening<br />
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Summer in your edible garden<br />
Rachel Vogan guides<br />
you through what<br />
needs to be done<br />
now to keep fresh<br />
produce flowing<br />
AS THE warm months take hold,<br />
gardeners should be reaping the<br />
rewards of what was sown and<br />
planted months ago.<br />
Many crops will be in ‘harvest<br />
mode’, such as courgettes,<br />
potatoes, tomatoes, beans, lettuce,<br />
brassicas, herbs and so many<br />
more.<br />
To keep long-term fruiting<br />
crops (such as beans, tomatoes<br />
and courgettes) producing, you<br />
need to keep picking the crop.<br />
This stimulates more flowers,<br />
which equal another round<br />
to harvest.<br />
For any crops going in the<br />
ground this month, it is vital<br />
to give the soil a boost with<br />
nutrients and goodies before<br />
replanting. Once that is done,<br />
soak the soil overnight and<br />
plant the next day. This limits<br />
stress on the new seedlings and<br />
helps prevent transplant shock.<br />
Watering in the new plants with a<br />
seaweed tonic give the seedlings a<br />
head start as well.<br />
STRAWBERRIES<br />
Maximise your harvest by<br />
giving plants a once over now to<br />
remove any dead or tatty leaves<br />
and to cut the runners off from<br />
the main parent plant. Apply a<br />
side-dressing of strawberry food<br />
(if you haven’t already) and give<br />
the plants a deep watering at least<br />
twice a week. A top up of mulch<br />
or compost is a good idea too,<br />
and refresh your layers of straw<br />
especially if the birds have skived<br />
off with it to make nests. <strong>The</strong><br />
straw helps to keep the berries<br />
clean and to avoid any mould<br />
issues occurring if the berries sit<br />
directly on the soil. And don’t<br />
be too proud to net your crop to<br />
eliminate any feathered residents<br />
of the garden helping themselves<br />
to your berries.<br />
Strawberries<br />
Capsicum<br />
CHILLIES<br />
A sunny, hot spot suits chillies<br />
best. Feed them with tomato<br />
or strawberry food, a type of<br />
fertiliser that promotes flowers<br />
rather than leaves. While chillies<br />
and capsicums are closely related,<br />
they differ a little in how you<br />
look after them, especially if you<br />
fancy some heat in your chillies.<br />
Once the chillies are about finger<br />
length, reduce the amount of<br />
water the plants get. You may well<br />
feel mean, but if it is flavour you<br />
are after this method works – less<br />
moisture in the chillies helps<br />
intensify the flavour. If you prefer<br />
more heat, water as per usual.<br />
CAPSICUMS<br />
Flowers and fruit will be<br />
forming now. To keep the<br />
energy up to the plant to get the<br />
best harvest possible, drench<br />
with worm wee or seaweed<br />
tonic once a week. For large<br />
capsicums to form, plants need<br />
hot temperatures and plenty of<br />
Eggplant<br />
water. If plants start to look top<br />
heavy, slip a couple of stakes in<br />
to support the main stem. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
begin to ripen from late summer<br />
and into autumn. <strong>The</strong> flavour<br />
changes as the crop matures from<br />
green then turns into shades<br />
of red, orange or yellow. Once<br />
mature they should be picked<br />
and stored in the fridge – they<br />
deteriorate quickly if left on the<br />
plant. Capsicums are a great crop<br />
if you like to grow vegetables in<br />
containers.<br />
EGGPLANTS<br />
<strong>The</strong> first batch of eggplants may<br />
be ready to harvest this month.<br />
Pick them once they get to size;<br />
for the large purple ones, this is<br />
when they are about 15cm long<br />
and fat and firm. Thinner types<br />
and round golf ball ones will vary<br />
in size depending on their variety.<br />
Cut fruit off using a knife or<br />
secateurs; don’t just twist or break<br />
the eggplant off the stems as this<br />
often causes the stems to rip,<br />
which can harm the plants. <strong>The</strong><br />
Chillies<br />
young ones have the best flavour.<br />
Over the next few months, water<br />
frequently and make sure the soil<br />
stays moist. Don’t let the plants<br />
dry out or you will not get the<br />
results you are after.<br />
TOMATOES<br />
With early types now ripe and<br />
on the menu, keep an eye on later<br />
maturing varieties to make sure<br />
the stems are well supported by<br />
stakes or wires. Pinch out the<br />
laterals, and remove the larger<br />
lower leaves from around the<br />
base of the plant. Removing these<br />
allows more airflow around the<br />
plant and aids ripening of the<br />
lower bunches. Once your fruit<br />
is at the desired size, reduce<br />
the amount of water you give<br />
the plant. It sounds rough, but<br />
this tough love does two things;<br />
it speeds up ripening and it<br />
sweetens the fruit. And its all<br />
about the flavour, right? And<br />
speaking of flavour, basil is a good<br />
companion plant for tomatoes –<br />
plant some more seedlings of this<br />
tasty herb now, they both enjoy<br />
the same conditions.<br />
BEANS<br />
How are your bean stalks<br />
looking? All types of runner,<br />
climbing and bush beans should<br />
be cranking along. To keep them<br />
going, remember to keep picking<br />
the crop, especially the big ones.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y love their tucker, so layers<br />
of compost or sheep pellets are a<br />
good idea to add to the soil now.<br />
Both add nutrients and help the<br />
soil retain moisture. Climbing<br />
beans do need a lot of water – a<br />
deep soaking twice a week is<br />
best rather than a little every<br />
day. Once harvesting starts, they<br />
can crop for up to three months<br />
if regularly picked. Any excess<br />
harvest can be frozen, pickled<br />
or given to friends and family.<br />
Remember to save a few pods for<br />
next year’s seed.<br />
COURGETTE<br />
Existing plants should be<br />
pumping out produce at a rapid<br />
rate of knots. You can plant new<br />
plants now too. One plant can<br />
keep producing courgettes for<br />
about four months. If mildew<br />
appears on the leaves, remove the<br />
worst affected ones and spray the<br />
remaining plant with a mixture<br />
of milk and baking soda. To<br />
prevent it coming back, try and<br />
water the ground only and not<br />
the leaves. <strong>The</strong> mildew doesn’t<br />
affect the crop so much; however,<br />
it can transfer onto other crops,<br />
which isn’t ideal. Pick courgettes<br />
when they are between 10–15cm<br />
long, if left on the plant they will<br />
eventually turn into marrows.<br />
PUMPKIN<br />
As far as low-maintenance<br />
crops go, pumpkins must be<br />
near the top of the list. You can<br />
literally plant and walk away. By<br />
now these rambling gourds will<br />
be quickly covering the ground.<br />
To keep them kicking along,<br />
water deeply once a week. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
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Vancouver Island home to Canada’s garden city<br />
• By Mike Yardley<br />
THERE’S NO more spectacular<br />
way to herald your arrival into<br />
Victoria than to splash down on<br />
a Harbour Air Seaplane.<br />
<strong>The</strong> unstoppably scenic 30min<br />
flight from Vancouver is a visual<br />
delight, aloft over the Salish Sea’s<br />
jewel-like collection of islets fanning<br />
out from Vancouver Island.<br />
Ogling these pint-sized planes<br />
steeply banking and touching<br />
down on their watery runway, is<br />
a riveting spectator pastime, best<br />
enjoyed from Laurel Point Park<br />
or Delta Ocean Pointe.<br />
It’s like water ballet, in addition<br />
to the frolicking bustle of iconic<br />
yellow and black striped water<br />
taxis, ferries, water skiers and<br />
fishing boats. <strong>The</strong> inner-harbour<br />
waterfront, liberally wreathed<br />
in candy cotton-pink geraniums<br />
and carpeted in blazing flower<br />
beds, is an irresistible visual<br />
symphony.<br />
Add to that the 1040 hanging<br />
baskets draping downtown Victoria,<br />
each containing 24 plants.<br />
Two men are employed full-time<br />
to water them.<br />
Victoria walks the talk on being<br />
Canada’s Garden City. Prized<br />
waterfront landmarks compete<br />
for your attention at every turn,<br />
as does the trove of sublime<br />
artworks, like the heart-tugging<br />
Homecoming statue, dedicated<br />
in honour of Victoria’s sons and<br />
daughters who served in the<br />
military.<br />
Also fronting the inner harbour<br />
is the Royal BC Museum, a<br />
remarkable storehouse of history<br />
which regularly scoops accolades<br />
as being Canada’s most impressive<br />
museum. Tracing British<br />
Columbian history in compellingly<br />
comprehensible fashion,<br />
highlights include the First<br />
Peoples Gallery and the Natural<br />
History Gallery – one of the few<br />
places in the world where you<br />
can get right up close to a woolly<br />
mammoth, albeit stuffed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> museum also features a<br />
replica of Captain Vancouver’s<br />
HMS Discovery which rocks and<br />
creaks rather convincingly, and<br />
a beautifully re-created frontier<br />
SCENIC: Victoria is a 30min<br />
flight from Vancouver. (Right)<br />
– pint-sized sea planes<br />
moored in Victoria’s harbour.<br />
town with cobbled streets and<br />
detailed store fronts.<br />
After admiring the statue of<br />
Captain Cook on the waterfront,<br />
surveying the horizon in front of<br />
the Empress, I was staggered by<br />
one particular relic on display in<br />
the museum – the actual dagger<br />
that claimed his life in Hawaii.<br />
Who knew?<br />
Within the museum, an IMAX<br />
theatre presents films on a sixstorey-tall<br />
screen. Playing several<br />
times a day, don’t miss a screening<br />
of Rocky Mountain Express. It’s<br />
an historical account of the epic<br />
and arduous struggles to build the<br />
trans-continental railway track,<br />
literally uniting Canada. You don’t<br />
have to be a trainspotter to enjoy<br />
it, lustily featuring the dramatic<br />
topography, saw-toothed peaks<br />
and woodsy grandeur of the<br />
Canadian Rockies.<br />
Tucked into the side of the<br />
Empress Hotel, an old-school<br />
secluded gem called Miniature<br />
World, a tour de force of intricate<br />
model-making. Thronging with<br />
dozens of sprawling diorama settings,<br />
with plenty of push-button<br />
action, this gob-stopping world<br />
of miniatures, spanning childhood<br />
fairytales and epic moments<br />
in history, is engrossing.<br />
More people walk to work in<br />
Victoria than any other Canadian<br />
city, hardly surprising given its<br />
HISTORIC: <strong>The</strong> dagger<br />
which is believed to have<br />
killed Captain James Cook<br />
is on display in the Royal BC<br />
Museum.<br />
photogenic vistas. A great stroll is<br />
to take the waterfront trail down<br />
Belleville St, into Laurel Park and<br />
around to Fisherman’s Wharf.<br />
I adored the cheerily coloured<br />
float homes moored at the wharf,<br />
alongside pleasure boats that<br />
also berth at the facility. Maybe<br />
they’re a glimpse of how many of<br />
our sea rise-prone coastal communities<br />
may look in the future.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 33 mobile float homes<br />
have been constructed on old<br />
wooden barges, cement bases,<br />
or metal pontoons. <strong>The</strong>y’d have<br />
to be Victoria’s tiniest homes,<br />
in spite of ranging in size from<br />
multi-storied complexes to lifesized<br />
gingerbread houses. <strong>The</strong><br />
last one sold for $340,000 after<br />
being listed for just 24 hours.<br />
Fisherman’s Wharf is also a<br />
great place to get your fill of<br />
fresh fish and seafood. <strong>The</strong> heart<br />
of town is studded with some<br />
flavourful hoods like LoJo, Lower<br />
NOT TO BE MISSED: Fan Tan Alley – Canada’s narrowest street.<br />
Johnson St between Wharf and<br />
Government St. Thickly flanked<br />
in colourful heritage buildings,<br />
the retail offerings are fresh and<br />
hip, giving rise to the neighbourhood’s<br />
buzz word “HeritEdge.”<br />
Storefronts predominantly<br />
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cosmetics, hair salons and coffee<br />
houses. It’s an example of how an<br />
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Pint-sized Chinatown is Canada’s<br />
oldest, once heaving with<br />
opium dens and gambling halls<br />
at the height of the gold rush and<br />
construction of the Canadian<br />
Pacific railway.<br />
Don’t miss Fan Tan Alley – the<br />
narrowest street in Canada.<br />
FAST FACTS:<br />
•Canada’s Garden City is a<br />
delight to explore across<br />
all four seasons. For more<br />
information, head to www.<br />
tourismvictoria.com<br />
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HOW TO COOK BARBECUE<br />
GRILLED BUTTERFLIED<br />
WHOLE CHICKEN<br />
Ingredients<br />
1 whole butterflied chicken<br />
1 to taste salt & freshly ground<br />
pepper<br />
Barbecue sauce<br />
Directions<br />
Preheat grill to medium. Get<br />
surface temperature to about 200<br />
deg C.<br />
Clean and oil well. Clean the<br />
chicken if you desire and pat dry.<br />
Cut the backbone out of the<br />
chicken with sharp kitchen<br />
scissors. You could use a knife,<br />
but the scissors are much safer<br />
and work great.<br />
With a large knife, give the<br />
breastbone a large nick in the<br />
front of the chicken to help the<br />
bird lay flat.<br />
Rinse the inside of the bird out,<br />
trim any loose fat and extra skin.<br />
Pat dry again. Give the bird a<br />
good sprinkle of salt and pepper.<br />
You could use any seasoning you<br />
want here.<br />
Place skin down on the<br />
grill. Flip after you get a nice<br />
browning on the skin after about<br />
12-15min.<br />
Give the chicken a good<br />
brushing of barbecue sauce.<br />
Grill another 3-4min until<br />
the sauce is browning well.<br />
Total grilling on the second side<br />
should take 20-25min.<br />
Let set for 5min then cut and<br />
serve.<br />
STEAK AND MUSHROOM<br />
PIE<br />
Ingredients<br />
4 large portobello mushrooms,<br />
sliced<br />
800g tri-tip<br />
steak, cut<br />
into 2cm<br />
pieces<br />
20g butter<br />
2 Tbsp oil<br />
1 onion, chopped<br />
2 cloves garlic,<br />
crushed<br />
1 serving flour, seasoned, for<br />
dusting<br />
2 cups beef stock<br />
½ tsp mixed herbs<br />
½ cup red wine<br />
1 Tbsp flour, mixed with 1 Tbsp<br />
melted butter for the thickening<br />
1 sheet short pastry (savoury)<br />
1 sheet puff pastry<br />
1 egg, for glazing<br />
Directions<br />
Heat oven to 180 deg C. Heat<br />
half the butter and oil in a medium<br />
sized pot. Fry the onions and<br />
garlic for 5min until softened.<br />
Dust the meat generously with<br />
flour and shake off the excess.<br />
Heat the remaining butter and<br />
oil in a frying pan. Brown the<br />
meat in batches then add to the<br />
onions. Add a little of the stock<br />
to the pan to deglaze then pour<br />
into the pot.<br />
Add the remaining stock to<br />
the meat along with the herbs,<br />
red wine and mushrooms.<br />
Cook on a low heat<br />
for 1 hour or until<br />
the meat is tender.<br />
Remove ¼ cup<br />
of the liquid<br />
and add to<br />
the thickening,<br />
combine<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Type R Civic represents<br />
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through the front wheels,<br />
and while the performance<br />
car purist might not relate<br />
to that, the entire handling<br />
feel is one of neutrality.<br />
At the media launch<br />
for the new Type R we, as<br />
journalists, were treated<br />
to hot laps at Hampton<br />
Downs motorsport complex.<br />
Rain was intermittent<br />
which made the track<br />
very greasy. Even with the<br />
natural push developed<br />
by front-wheel-drive the<br />
Type R was directional and<br />
controllable, and with the<br />
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was a disadvantage.<br />
When presented with<br />
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you can squeeze the pedal<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Type R is a true<br />
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faster than a brisk walk, your feet stay<br />
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that of a slow dance. This is a technique,<br />
once mastered, which will enable you<br />
to jog for longer periods of time (for<br />
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Casual cyclist to European tour<br />
Talbot’s rapid climb to the top<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
TWO YEARS ago, the only time<br />
Ian Talbot jumped on a bike was<br />
when he rode to university or on<br />
the occasional weekend joy ride<br />
with friends.<br />
But now the once casual cyclist<br />
is one of the most promising<br />
young riders in the country.<br />
Last week, the 20-year-old won<br />
the under-23 time trial title at<br />
the New Zealand road cycling<br />
championships in Napier.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Team Skoda Racing rider<br />
first realised he could give the<br />
sport a crack after tracking his<br />
time using an app on his phone<br />
while riding up Dyers Pass Rd.<br />
“I use an app called Strava<br />
which allows you to check your<br />
times against other riders. All of<br />
a sudden I realised I was in the<br />
top 10 per cent of people going<br />
up the hill, so I thought what<br />
could happen if I put my mind to<br />
it and train,” said Talbot.<br />
A switch was flicked and Talbot<br />
started training 15-16 hours<br />
a week and received coaching.<br />
In 2017, he rode a total of<br />
19,452km over 627 hours. He<br />
also climbed a total of 157,894m<br />
– the equivalent of going up Mt<br />
Everest 17 times. A big leap from<br />
riding 100km on average a week<br />
before 2017. This year, he’ll step<br />
up to the next level. Talbot has<br />
put his studies at Canterbury<br />
University on hold to pursue<br />
cycling full-time.<br />
He will spend nine months<br />
in Europe riding for French<br />
team UC Nantes Atlantique<br />
and will race at a top amateur<br />
level. He also plans to compete<br />
in a number of internationally<br />
sanctioned Union Cycliste<br />
Internationale races.<br />
“I want to keep going and keep<br />
pushing myself until I find the<br />
limit. Ideally, I want to go as far<br />
as I can,” said Talbot.<br />
Since moving to Christchurch<br />
to study mechanical engineering<br />
three years ago he has worked<br />
part-time at cycling store Chain<br />
Reaction. He says his staff<br />
discount has proved helpful on<br />
his journey into what can be an<br />
expensive sport to compete in.<br />
Before moving to Christchurch<br />
from Nelson, Talbot hadn’t even<br />
owned a road bike.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> mountain bike was a bit<br />
slow around town. I got sick of<br />
QUICK LEARNER: Ian Talbot won the under-23 national time<br />
trial but only took up cycling 12 months ago.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
taking an extra 15min to get<br />
anywhere and eventually found<br />
the money for a good bike,” he<br />
said.<br />
His first competitive race was<br />
in February at the first round<br />
of the Calder Stewart Cycling<br />
Series in Cheviot. He finished<br />
a respectable 22nd overall and<br />
fourth in the under-23 division.<br />
It didn’t take him long to<br />
improve, finishing seventh at the<br />
second round in Otago before<br />
claiming a podium at the Hokitika<br />
Classic in September.<br />
Talbot described his first experiences<br />
riding in a peloton as a<br />
huge challenge and is admittedly<br />
still finding his feet in terms<br />
of the strategical side of road<br />
racing. “It’s like playing chess at<br />
40km/h,” he said.<br />
Riding in a bunch wasn’t an issue<br />
when he claimed the national<br />
under-23 time trial title on Friday.<br />
His winning time of 53min<br />
52.80sec over the 40km course<br />
saw him finish just under 18sec<br />
ahead of fellow Canterbury rider<br />
Jake Marryatt in second.<br />
Talbot’s time would also have<br />
been good enough for seventh<br />
place in the elite men’s grade<br />
which was won by double Olympic<br />
gold medallist rower-turnedcyclist<br />
Hamish Bond.<br />
“It was a goal I set 12 months<br />
ago, but to turn up and do it<br />
on the day was amazing,” said<br />
Talbot.<br />
Other than his first national<br />
title in Napier, Talbot’s other<br />
highlight of his brief competitive<br />
career came in Tasmania in November.<br />
He finished fifth overall<br />
in the five-day Spirit of Tasmania<br />
Cycling Tour. Past winners of<br />
the tour include Cadel Evans and<br />
Richie Porte.<br />
Talbot left for France yesterday.<br />
Ironically, he partly funded his<br />
trip to Europe by selling his<br />
car. If he progresses as far over<br />
the next year as he did in 2017,<br />
cycling may prove a faster mode<br />
of transport for him.<br />
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Armstrong eyes Wigram trophy<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
MARCUS Armstrong is a young<br />
man well and truly entrenched<br />
in the pursuit of his dream to<br />
race in formula one. To date he’s<br />
on track to make it a reality.<br />
This weekend the Europebased<br />
Christchurch driver will<br />
get a rare chance to show off<br />
his talent in front of his home<br />
crowd at the opening<br />
round of the<br />
Toyota Racing<br />
Series at Ruapuna.<br />
He starts his second<br />
campaign in<br />
Marcus<br />
Armstrong<br />
the series as a title<br />
favourite.<br />
After finishing<br />
fourth in last year’s TRS, Armstrong<br />
won the Italian formula<br />
four championship, finished<br />
runner-up in the German F4 series,<br />
and was part of the Ferrari<br />
Young Driver Academy.<br />
His stellar season in Europe<br />
has seen the Christchurch driver<br />
picked by Prema Racing to compete<br />
in the formula three European<br />
championship this year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> racing category is one of<br />
the most highly-regarded feeder<br />
categories into formula one.<br />
“Last year I won F4, this year<br />
I need to win F3 and then win<br />
F2. It’s a continuous cycle,” said<br />
Armstrong.<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
SHIRLEY BOYS’ High School rowers will<br />
have to juggle their boats ahead of the<br />
Canterbury championships on Sunday<br />
after their best craft was destroyed on<br />
Monday.<br />
A 30m poplar tree fell into the Avon<br />
River just as the under-15 crew of Reuben<br />
Bannon, Finley Ocheduszko Brown,<br />
Cameron Maughan, Liam Whitaker and<br />
David Brown rowed underneath.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys suffered minor injuries but<br />
were all okay, although the boat was no<br />
longer usable, Shirley Boys’ High head of<br />
RISING STAR: Marcus Armstrong aims to win New Zealand’s<br />
premier single seater racing series before starting his first<br />
season in the European formula 3.<br />
<strong>The</strong> European formula three<br />
championship starts in May and<br />
has 10 rounds, running until<br />
October. Armstrong will get to<br />
compete on some iconic tracks,<br />
including Spa, Nürburgring and<br />
Silverstone.<br />
On Sunday, Armstrong has a<br />
chance to add his name to the<br />
Lady Wigram Trophy. Famous<br />
names on the trophy include<br />
Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss,<br />
Bruce McLaren, Jackie Stewart,<br />
Jim Clark and Jochen Rindt.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s certainly an extra<br />
pressure that comes with racing<br />
in front of a home crowd,” said<br />
Armstrong.<br />
Shirley BHS goes into<br />
champs a boat down<br />
rowing Rob Wilson-Pyne said.<br />
He said there has been plenty of help<br />
offered from various schools and rowing<br />
clubs in the city, including a loan boat to<br />
keep them competing right up until the<br />
Maadi Cup in March, the biggest high<br />
school rowing regatta of the year.<br />
“This incident has taken away our<br />
best boat, but we have been fortunate<br />
enough to be offered another so we can<br />
keep working towards future races and<br />
Maadi,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team has now turned their<br />
attention to the Canterbury<br />
championships in Twizel.<br />
Young athletes set to<br />
sparkle at Colgate Games<br />
CHRISTCHURCH’S junior athletes<br />
are set to take their marks in the 40th<br />
Colgate Games this weekend.<br />
<strong>The</strong> games at Aorangi Park, Timaru,<br />
have attracted 64 clubs from across the<br />
South Island with 944 competitors.<br />
South Island Colgate Games<br />
chairwoman Diane Smith said the games<br />
have a proud history.<br />
“Some of the competitors in this<br />
year’s games are second or third<br />
generation participants, with parents<br />
and grandparents who’ve competed in<br />
previous South Island events over the<br />
years.”<br />
Colgate New Zealand general manager<br />
John Garside said the game’s anniversary<br />
was about encouraging New Zealand’s<br />
up-and-coming athletes to stay in<br />
athletics. “<strong>The</strong> 40th anniversary is an<br />
opportunity to celebrate the past, as well<br />
as the future generation of athletes.<br />
“Many kids have been training hard<br />
all summer to beat the benchmarks their<br />
parents, and even grandparents set when<br />
they competed in the Colgate Games in<br />
years gone by – it’s great to watch,” he<br />
said.<br />
Colgate and the New Zealand<br />
Children’s Athletics Association have<br />
provided four scholarships worth $700<br />
each for South Island athletes who give<br />
outstanding performances.<br />
<strong>The</strong> South Island Colgate Games run<br />
from tomorrow until Sunday at Aorangi<br />
Park, Timaru.<br />
“Maybe that’s a mistake I<br />
made last year. I really wanted<br />
to win that race. At the moment,<br />
I’m not even thinking about the<br />
names on the trophy. If I can<br />
win it, then I’ll get a chance to<br />
take it in.”<br />
Round one of the TRS at<br />
Ruapuna starts with a practice<br />
session tomorrow. Saturday will<br />
feature qualifying and race one,<br />
with races two and three (Lady<br />
Wigram Trophy) on Sunday.<br />
Christchurch’s other entrant is<br />
19-year-old Ryan Yardley, who is<br />
making his TRS debut after winning<br />
the Toyota 86 sports coupe<br />
series last summer.<br />
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• By Allan Batt<br />
A HORROR start to the<br />
speedway season has been<br />
turned around by Christchurch<br />
driver Jeremy Webb<br />
who returned from<br />
Auckland where he took<br />
out several top 10 spots<br />
in the international<br />
world series.<br />
Now Webb is keen to<br />
carry his form into the<br />
K&T Drainage Midget<br />
Derby at Ruapuna this<br />
weekend.<br />
“We had a major<br />
engine blow up very<br />
early in our season. We were<br />
lucky to source another engine<br />
which got us back onto the track.<br />
An opportunity came up to race<br />
up at Western Springs so we<br />
made a decision to give it a go,”<br />
said Webb.<br />
“With a heap of American<br />
and Australians racing up there,<br />
you get to compete against the<br />
best in the world. <strong>The</strong> biggest<br />
names from midget car racing<br />
in the (United States) were there,<br />
including Nascar star Kyle<br />
Larson, and there’s no doubt that<br />
<strong>The</strong> biggest range of vehicles in one location<br />
you learn so much from them,<br />
just watching their lines and<br />
then racing wheel-to-wheel with<br />
them.”<br />
Webb emerged from the series<br />
with top 10 finishes in<br />
each of the four feature<br />
races he contested. His<br />
fourth place in the round<br />
at Bay Park, Tauranga,<br />
was his best effort. Webb<br />
eventually finished<br />
eighth in the overall<br />
standings, the fourth<br />
highest New Zealander<br />
Jeremy Webb behind Brock Maskovich,<br />
Michael Pickens and<br />
former national champion<br />
Shayne Alach.<br />
Last Saturday Webb finished<br />
eighth in the 39-lap feature race,<br />
right behind multi-time national<br />
champion, Pickens. He said it<br />
puts him in a “good place” for the<br />
rest of the season.<br />
“We will be pretty busy<br />
over the next three weeks. I<br />
really want to win the race at<br />
Ruapuna on Saturday, as its being<br />
backed by Gordon Kenning who<br />
has been a long-time supporter of<br />
my racing,” said Webb.
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1997<br />
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Cars<br />
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Church Notices<br />
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Church of NZ<br />
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Woolston<br />
SUNDAY SERVICE<br />
7pm<br />
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Janet<br />
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Sunday 7pm<br />
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Tuesday’s in<br />
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6th February<br />
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ADD SOME<br />
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Community Events<br />
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for our brochure<br />
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office@undertaker.co.nz<br />
Funeral Directors<br />
<br />
<br />
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0800 000 121<br />
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enquiries@cremorials.co.nz<br />
Garage Sales<br />
ARANUI<br />
107 Marlow Road<br />
Saturday from 8am<br />
BELFAST<br />
762 Main North Road.<br />
Sat 8am -1pm. Storage<br />
frame,wall unit,garden<br />
tools & more<br />
BISHOPDALE<br />
17 Bainton Street.<br />
Sat 8am - 2pm Something<br />
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Gardening<br />
& Supplies<br />
LANDSCAPE GARDEN<br />
PROFESSIONAL<br />
Qualified Horticulturist,<br />
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landscaping, for free<br />
quotes call Bryce 027 688-<br />
8196 or 0508 242-733<br />
Groceries<br />
Handy Person<br />
Services<br />
Tired of that dripping<br />
tap?Brassed off with<br />
those sticking doors and<br />
windows?Sick of looking<br />
at that broken gate &<br />
fence?Help is at hand!Ph<br />
John on 021 149 0986 for<br />
an obligation free quote to<br />
ease your mind.
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Massage<br />
MALE Masseur, relax<br />
massage, waxing for men,<br />
8am-8pm ph 027 723 5756<br />
Motoring<br />
JAGUAR S TYPE.<br />
3 litre, V6, 2002, faultless<br />
car, silver metallic.Ph Paul<br />
027 221 0755<br />
Pets & Supplies<br />
KITTEN wanted to buy.<br />
Male exotic, Tonkinese or<br />
Burmese. Ph Rose 03 455-<br />
8048 (Dunedin).<br />
Trades & Services<br />
To Let<br />
CARAVAN RENTAL.<br />
Long term CHCH. Rent<br />
ot own option avail. Ph<br />
9421900 or 021 02779849.<br />
www.habitatcaravans.<br />
co.nz<br />
RICHMOND.<br />
2 bed 2 storey unit, car<br />
port, freshly painted, no<br />
pets. $290 p/w.<br />
Ph 027 7345408<br />
Tools & Machinery<br />
TOOLS, Garden garage,<br />
saw benches, Lathes. Cash<br />
buyer Phone 355-2045<br />
Building & roofing<br />
log fire inSTAllATionS<br />
• Bricklaying & Blocklaying<br />
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logfires<br />
• log fire installation & maintenance<br />
• chimney cleaning<br />
• standard logfire installations $600 + gsT +<br />
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• My scaffolding no charge<br />
fencing<br />
• Brick, block, timber or any combination<br />
roofing repairs<br />
• concrete tile, metal chip tile, corrugated iron<br />
landscape Builds<br />
• retaining walls, decks, BBQs, planter boxes<br />
Jim Gardner Trade Services<br />
Member NZ Home Heating Association<br />
Ph 03 343 4044 or 0274 375 619<br />
Email teamgardner@xtra.co.nz<br />
CONCRETE<br />
Concrete Removal<br />
& Trucking<br />
Driveways, paths, sheds, garages, site clearances.<br />
We also deliver and spread landscaping supplies –<br />
topsoil, bark chip, shingle etc.<br />
3 Tonne Digger and operator available for hire.<br />
For fast friendly service phone<br />
Nick on 0274 324 124<br />
keacontracting@yahoo.com<br />
Need a<br />
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022 159 4820<br />
DRIVEWAYS<br />
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Cell 0278 145 848<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Travlon<br />
Your local guide to our<br />
Trusted Tradesmen & Professionals Coachlines<br />
To advertise: 379 <strong>11</strong>00 or star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
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CHARTER & TOUR<br />
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www.travlon.co.nz | Phone: 03 325 2959<br />
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buses for<br />
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Phone: 03 325 2959<br />
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DRIVEWAY<br />
CONSTRUCTION<br />
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• Asphalt<br />
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EARTHWORKS<br />
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• Driveways<br />
• Car parks<br />
• Demolition<br />
Locally owned & operated<br />
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• Shingle Deliveries<br />
• Truck hire<br />
• Digger hire<br />
027 240 7030<br />
JACOB BROWNLEES<br />
• Water heater repairs<br />
• Alterations • New Housing<br />
• Heatpump Installations<br />
• Maintenance & Installations<br />
• Commercial & Industrial<br />
Ph: (03) 359 4523<br />
Mob: 0274 333 458<br />
dke@xtra.co.nz<br />
• Driveways<br />
• Car Parks<br />
• Site Cleaning<br />
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• Drain Cleaning<br />
• Stump & Hedge<br />
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• Ashpalt Concrete<br />
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oF TruckS<br />
• Tennis Courts &<br />
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• Chip Seal Driveways<br />
• Diggers – 2 Ton<br />
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For a Free Quote<br />
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Phone Steve on 021 338 247<br />
or 325 7922<br />
Free<br />
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• Hot water cylinder repair/replacement<br />
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Price $30 Allow 45 mins<br />
Home Visits available by appointment<br />
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HOURS ARE FLEXIBLE<br />
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Your local guide to our<br />
Trusted Tradesmen & Professionals<br />
To advertise: 379 <strong>11</strong>00 or star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
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HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT MAXIMISING<br />
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landscaping<br />
PAINTER<br />
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Michael 0212 649 492<br />
michaelkellypainter@hotmail.co.nz<br />
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Phone Dave 981 0278<br />
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E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz<br />
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LAWNMOWING<br />
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021 084 52952<br />
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GARDEN CITY<br />
MOVERS (LTD)<br />
Christchurch Fragile Freight<br />
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ELECTRICIAN<br />
quotes 03 383 1927 or 027<br />
245 5226 ciey@xtra.co.nz<br />
Available, 30 years<br />
experience, immediate<br />
start, competitive rate,<br />
ph Brian 027 433 9548<br />
accOuNtiNg<br />
sErvicEs<br />
• Bookkeeping<br />
• GST<br />
• PAYE<br />
• Tax Returns<br />
• Management<br />
Advice<br />
available<br />
quOtEs givEN<br />
PHONE Paul<br />
355-2636<br />
BRICK & BLOCK<br />
LAYING<br />
all restoration work<br />
and new work plus<br />
foundations, ph 342 9340<br />
or 021 853 033<br />
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licenced and insured,<br />
bathroom renovations,<br />
decks and fences, all<br />
building work, ph Josh 020<br />
400 96143<br />
www.jmhbuilders.co.nz<br />
BUILDER<br />
For all building work<br />
but specialist in bathroom<br />
renovations, 30 yrs<br />
experience, with service<br />
and integrity. Free Quotes.<br />
Ph Lachlan 383-1723 or<br />
0274 367-067.<br />
CARPET & VINYL<br />
LAYING<br />
Repairs, uplifting,<br />
relaying, restretching,<br />
E mail jflattery@xtra.<br />
co.nz<br />
ph 0800 003 181<br />
or 027 2407416<br />
• Commercial Carpet Cleaning<br />
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• Upholstery Cleaning<br />
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• Tile & Grout Cleaning<br />
NEED HELP<br />
WITH YOUR<br />
CARPET CLEAN?<br />
Simply give us a call<br />
on 021 035 8989<br />
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Trades & Services<br />
CLEANING<br />
HOUSEKEEPING<br />
LANDSCAPING<br />
Paving, Lawns, Irrigation,<br />
mature, honest, Decking, Fencing.<br />
professional woman Kanga & small digger<br />
available for your home,<br />
office or small business.<br />
services. Check out Squire<br />
Landscaping on facebook.<br />
Cleaning experience &<br />
references available. Ph<br />
FREE<br />
Arthur<br />
QUOTES.<br />
347-8796,<br />
Ph<br />
027<br />
366 1274, 0274 339 596 220-7014 Edwin 027 220-<br />
CLEANING<br />
7154<br />
Mature female 25 yrs exp, OVEN CLEANING<br />
$23 per hour, ph 03 323 Professional cleans<br />
5533<br />
$50.00. Gift Vouchers<br />
avail. Phone 0800 683-<br />
CONCRETE CUTTING<br />
6253 or 027 228-0025<br />
Affordable Concrete PAINTING<br />
Cutting with Quality, and<br />
removal work. Free quote.<br />
No job to small. Phone 027<br />
PLASTERING<br />
Free quotes. Int/ext &<br />
roof painting Family run<br />
442-2219, Fax 359-6052 business, work guaranteed.<br />
a/h 359- 4605<br />
ELECTRICIAN<br />
Pensioner discounts. Ph<br />
Kerin or Paul 022 191<br />
Prompt & reliable 7877 or 379-1281. Website<br />
registered electrician with<br />
24 years experience for all<br />
residential and commercial<br />
www.swedekiwipainting.<br />
co.nz<br />
PAINTER<br />
work, new housing and Plasterer, decorator. Free<br />
switch board replacements<br />
Phone Chris 027 516 0669<br />
quotes, honest.<br />
Ph 03 384 4452 or 021<br />
08<strong>11</strong>5299<br />
Looking for an<br />
electrician?<br />
• Residential, Domestic<br />
& Commercial<br />
• Repairs, Maintenance<br />
• Fault finding<br />
• New housing<br />
• Competitive rates<br />
• Free quotes<br />
• Full & Partial Rewiring<br />
• Test & Tagging<br />
• Security Cameras<br />
• LED Lighting Upgrades<br />
Call 022 643 6450<br />
Email admin@totalelectric.co.nz<br />
After Hours 347 3313<br />
Trades & Services<br />
fINNS INTERIOR<br />
PLASTERING<br />
smallll job specialists,<br />
holes,cracks,skin<br />
coating.27 yrs exp.<br />
Ph 022 0874351<br />
GARDENER<br />
Lawnmowing &<br />
Gardening, section<br />
tidying, friendly efficient<br />
service, please<br />
ph Paul 021 029 21049<br />
GARDENING<br />
Lawns mowed, weeding,<br />
shrubs pruned, general<br />
garden tidy ups, green<br />
waste removed at cost.Call<br />
or Txt Phil the Gardener<br />
021 661 246 for yuor free<br />
quote<br />
GARDENING<br />
Mature female. $18<br />
per hour, Northcote &<br />
surrounding areas only, ph<br />
03 352 2590<br />
HANDYMAN<br />
You name it, I’ll probably<br />
do it. Competitive rate. Ph<br />
Gordon 0274 851 897 or<br />
960-1961<br />
HANDYDAN<br />
One call does it all.<br />
General Handyman<br />
Decking Fencing Spouting<br />
Cleans, Concrete Paths,<br />
Patios & Driveways,<br />
Repairs and Replacements<br />
Renovations Painting<br />
Gardening Full Cleaning<br />
Services Project Managing<br />
Ph Dan Today<br />
O22 600 7738<br />
• Phone our local team 03 379 <strong>11</strong>00 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Trades & Services<br />
PLUMBER<br />
A Top Plumbing<br />
job complete at a<br />
fair price, prompt<br />
service, all work<br />
guaranteed<br />
Phone Brian<br />
960-7673 or<br />
021-<strong>11</strong>2-3492<br />
MFC4510<br />
ROOfING REPAIRS<br />
Fully Qualified, Over<br />
40 Yrs experience<br />
Ph John 027 432-3822<br />
or 351-9147 email<br />
johnchmill@outlook.com<br />
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SKiP<br />
HiRE<br />
• 2 or 5 cubic metre<br />
• Household Rubbish<br />
• Green Waste<br />
• Yard Clean ups<br />
• Load it yourself or<br />
hire us<br />
• Locally owned and<br />
operated<br />
bin co<br />
Ph: 383-0646<br />
027 2131 733<br />
Trades & Services<br />
WINDOW CLEANING<br />
Average 3 brm house<br />
inside or out $40. Both $70<br />
Phone Trevor 344-2170<br />
Tuition<br />
UPHOLSTERY<br />
CLASSES If you have<br />
an old chair or footstool<br />
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I have some in stock or I<br />
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classes are 7pm until 9pm<br />
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February and finish on 5th<br />
April <strong>2018</strong>. Please phone<br />
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Paul at jpriellis@gmail.<br />
com<br />
Wanted To Buy<br />
GOOD PRICES PAID<br />
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Give Rick a call<br />
021 376 883 or<br />
347 4493<br />
AAA Buying goods<br />
quality furniture,<br />
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machines, Fridge Freezers.<br />
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Dealers. Phone 980 5812<br />
or 027 313 8156<br />
ACCORDIONS Piano<br />
or button wanted. Good<br />
prices. Ph Andrew 966-<br />
0277<br />
ALL Old China, Crystal,<br />
Ornaments, Vases, Cutlery<br />
etc. Raewyn Hill Phone<br />
360-0951<br />
A RECYCLE your old<br />
records, and Hi Fi gear,<br />
Excellent Cash prices<br />
paid, Pennylane 430<br />
Colombo St, Sydenham<br />
366 3278 or 021 222 6144<br />
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BEATLES Wanted<br />
autographs, records,<br />
programmes, wigs,<br />
scrapbooks, tickets,<br />
memorabilia anything<br />
old. Excellent prices paid<br />
please phone Dave at<br />
Pennylane 021 222 6144<br />
anytime 7 days<br />
GOOD stuff wanted.<br />
Whiteware, freezers etc,<br />
good quality furniture,<br />
antiques, curios,<br />
collectables. Anything<br />
considered. Cash paid. Ph<br />
Dave 960-8440, 027 66<br />
22 <strong>11</strong>6<br />
MILITARIA Any<br />
country, firearms,<br />
uniforms, badges, medals,<br />
memoribilia, WW2 or<br />
earlier ph 338-9931<br />
PLAYSTATION 3<br />
Games wanted suitable for<br />
children of all ages ph 03<br />
352 2590<br />
TOOLS, Garden garage,<br />
saw benches, Lathes. Cash<br />
buyer Phone 355-2045<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Classifieds<br />
Public Notices<br />
Public Notices<br />
Public Notices<br />
• Phone our local team 03 379 <strong>11</strong>00 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Public Notices<br />
Entertainment<br />
Situations Vacant<br />
TAXI DRIVERS<br />
Full time/part time<br />
Van/car, day/night<br />
shifts available<br />
Assistance with<br />
P endorsement if<br />
required<br />
Gold Band Taxis<br />
Phone 0210 245 0339<br />
CLEANERS<br />
REQUIRED<br />
Cashmere Area<br />
Mon – Fri<br />
3pm - 6pm<br />
Beckenham Area<br />
Mon – Fri<br />
3pm - 5pm<br />
We are looking for<br />
cleaners to join our<br />
commercial<br />
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You will need to pass a<br />
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MUST have your own<br />
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<strong>The</strong>se are permanent<br />
long term positions and<br />
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or phone 338 9056<br />
Visit our website:<br />
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SALE AND SUPPLY OF<br />
ALCOHOL ACT 2012<br />
SECTION 101<br />
GANG NAM LIMITED, (THE<br />
LICENSEE, 20/182 Clarence<br />
Street, Christchurch 80<strong>11</strong>),<br />
has made application to the<br />
District Licensing Committee<br />
at Christchurch for the issue of<br />
ON-LICENCE NEW in respect of<br />
the premises situated at 20/182<br />
Clarence Street known as GANG<br />
NAM.<br />
<strong>The</strong> general nature of the<br />
business conducted under<br />
the licence is: ON-LICENCE<br />
RESTAURANT CLASS 3.<br />
<strong>The</strong> days on which and the<br />
hours during which alcohol<br />
is intended to be sold under<br />
the licence are: MONDAY TO<br />
SUNDAY 8.00AM TO 1.00AM<br />
THE FOLLOWING DAY.<br />
<strong>The</strong> application may be<br />
inspected during ordinary<br />
office hours at the office of the<br />
Christchurch District Licensing<br />
Committee, 53 Hereford Street,<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Any person who is entitled<br />
to object and who wishes to<br />
object to the issue of the licence<br />
may, not later than 15 working<br />
days after the date of the first<br />
publication of this notice, file a<br />
notice in writing of the objection<br />
with the Secretary of the District<br />
Licensing Committee, PO Box<br />
73049, Christchurch 8154.<br />
No objection to the issue of a<br />
licence may be made in relation<br />
to a matter other than a matter<br />
specified in section 105(1) of<br />
the Sale and Supply of Alcohol<br />
Act 2012.<br />
This is the first publication of<br />
this notice.<br />
SALE AND SUPPLY OF<br />
ALCOHOL ACT 2012<br />
SECTION 127 & 101<br />
GAMBRINUS LIMITED, (THE<br />
LICENSEE, Mr Mark McGuinness<br />
Gambrinus Limited, PO BOX<br />
130035, Christchurch 8141),<br />
has made application to the<br />
District Licensing Committee<br />
at Christchurch for the renewal<br />
of ON-LICENCE RENEWAL<br />
in respect of the premises<br />
situated at 13 Stanley Street<br />
known as BELGIAN BEER CAFE<br />
TORENHOF.<br />
<strong>The</strong> general nature of the<br />
business conducted under the<br />
licence is: ON-LICENCE TAVERN<br />
<strong>The</strong> days on which and the<br />
hours during which alcohol<br />
is sold under the licence are:<br />
MONDAY TO SUNDAY 8.00AM<br />
TO 2.00AM THE FOLLOWING<br />
DAY<br />
<strong>The</strong> application may be<br />
inspected during ordinary<br />
office hours at the office of the<br />
Christchurch District Licensing<br />
Committee, Civic Offices, 77<br />
Hereford Street, Christchurch.<br />
Any person who is entitled to<br />
object and who wishes to object<br />
to the grant of the application<br />
may, not later than 15 working<br />
days after the date of the first<br />
publication of this notice, file a<br />
notice in writing of the objection<br />
with the Secretary of the District<br />
Licensing Committee, PO Box<br />
73049, Christchurch 8154.<br />
No objection to the renewal of a<br />
licence may be made in relation<br />
to a matter other than a matter<br />
specified in section 131 of the<br />
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act<br />
2012.<br />
This is the first publication of<br />
this notice.<br />
NOTICES<br />
ADVERTISING<br />
Sports, Clubs, Schools, Organisations, AGMs, Legal Notices, Public<br />
Notices, Family Notices, Births, Deaths, Memoriams, Birthdays,<br />
Weddings, Anniversaries, Engagements...<br />
For all your important notices, advertise in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>,<br />
where it will be seen by 179,000 people every Thursday.<br />
For professional, helpful<br />
service, Phone 379-7100<br />
HAREWOOD<br />
SCHOOL PTA<br />
AGM<br />
7pm on Thursday 8th<br />
February <strong>2018</strong><br />
Followed by the first PTA<br />
meeting for <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Harewood, Chch<br />
RSVP to 352 5864<br />
SALE AND SUPPLY OF<br />
ALCOHOL ACT 2012<br />
SECTION 127 & 101<br />
SATYA ENTERPRISES LIMITED,<br />
(THE LICENSEE, Mr Inderjit Singh<br />
Satya Enterprises Limited, 291<br />
Lincoln Road, Christchurch),<br />
has made application to the<br />
District Licensing Committee<br />
at Christchurch for the renewal<br />
of OFF-LICENCE RENEWAL in<br />
respect of the premises situated<br />
at 291 Lincoln Road Addington<br />
known as MERCHANTS LIQUOR<br />
LINCOLN RD.<br />
<strong>The</strong> general nature of the<br />
business conducted under the<br />
licence is: OFF-LICENCE LIQUOR<br />
STORE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> days on which and the<br />
hours during which alcohol<br />
is sold under the licence are:<br />
MONDAY TO SUNDAY 7.00AM<br />
TO 10.00PM.<br />
<strong>The</strong> application may be<br />
inspected during ordinary<br />
office hours at the office of the<br />
Christchurch District Licensing<br />
Committee, Civic Offices, 53<br />
Hereford Street, Christchurch.<br />
Any person who is entitled to<br />
object and who wishes to object<br />
to the granting of the application<br />
may, not later than 15 working<br />
days after the first publication<br />
of notice of the application,<br />
in the newspaper (being <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Star</strong>), file a notice in writing of<br />
the objection with the Secretary<br />
of the Christchurch District<br />
Licensing Committee, PO Box<br />
73049, Christchurch 8154.<br />
No objection to the issue of a<br />
licence may be made in relation<br />
to a matter other than a matter<br />
specified in section 105(1) of<br />
the Sale and Supply of Alcohol<br />
Act 2012.<br />
This is the first publication of<br />
this notice.<br />
WE ARE OPEN<br />
THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!<br />
Come on in and check out<br />
the latest new releases at<br />
HOYTS Riccarton and Northlands<br />
Visit our website for<br />
session times and to book<br />
HOYTS.CO.NZ<br />
Riccarton 0508 446 987 | Northlands 0508 446 987<br />
Situations Vacant<br />
St John Caring Caller<br />
Volunteer Team Leader<br />
Crossword Solutions<br />
St John Caring Callers provide friendship and regular contact<br />
over the phone to people in the community. We have an<br />
exciting volunteer opportunity for a Team Leader to manage<br />
our Caring Callers in Christchurch.<br />
We are looking for someone who:<br />
• Can commit 3 - 5 hours each week<br />
• Is computer literate<br />
• Has experience and ability to lead a team and be a teamplayer<br />
• Has excellent communication skills<br />
For more information contact Sandra Young on 0800 785 646<br />
Apply online before 27 <strong>January</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
www.join.stjohn.org.nz - job code 34925
40 Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
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CLUBS NEW ZEALAND WARMLY WELCOME MEMBERS,<br />
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EASY COME<br />
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STEAK Sandwich is just one of the tasty<br />
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Situated downstairs, the Club Cafe offers<br />
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week for lunch and dinner.<br />
Other newly introduced items include<br />
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From a selection of cabinet food<br />
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daily specials, dreamy desserts and a great<br />
atmosphere will ensure you return again<br />
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or colleagues - there is something for<br />
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WHAT’S<br />
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• Shuttle operates Thurs, Fri, Sat night<br />
• SKY Sport • Pool Tables<br />
• Gaming Room • TAB<br />
THURSDAY NIGHT<br />
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NEW<br />
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SAT.20.JAN, 4.30PM<br />
UNBEATABLE FAMILY DINING<br />
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Steak Sandwich<br />
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EARLY BIRD SPECIAL - FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 41<br />
Whitford’s tempting<br />
summer menu<br />
WHITFORD'S Restaurant in the<br />
Woolston Club embraces the warmer<br />
weather with a tempting summer<br />
menu.<br />
Highlighting the best in fresh, new<br />
season produce, the summer menu<br />
offers a collection of family<br />
favourites as well as tried and true<br />
classics.<br />
Stand out dishes include...<br />
FROM STARTERS ... Crispy<br />
Calamari served with coriander and<br />
chilli salsa, $10.50 (pictured).<br />
FROM MAINS ... Succulent<br />
homestyle Pork Ribs based in BBQ<br />
sauce, served with slaw and choice of<br />
fries, mash or wedges, $20; Reef &<br />
Beef, a 200g Rump Steak<br />
accompanied by two mussels and<br />
two queen prawns and served with a<br />
choice of fries, mash or wedges and a<br />
sauce, $25; and Teriyaki Vegetable<br />
Stir Fry served with rice, $18.<br />
FROM PIZZAS .... Additional to<br />
Whitford’s set pizza choices is <strong>The</strong><br />
DIY. Create your own pizza from the<br />
ingredient list, from $16.<br />
FROM DESSERTS ... Banofee Pie,<br />
a luscious caramel and banana pie<br />
served with whipped cream, $10.<br />
Cafe<br />
OPEN<br />
from <strong>11</strong>am<br />
LIVE MUSIC<br />
LINO<br />
7.30PM WHITFORD’S BAR<br />
HOUSIE:<br />
Tuesday &<br />
Saturday<br />
Next Thursday<br />
(18th Jan)<br />
RAFFLES<br />
ARE<br />
BACK!<br />
Great Prizes<br />
• Large TV's •<br />
• TAB pod •<br />
• Gaming Room •<br />
richmond<br />
club<br />
www.rwmc.co.nz<br />
pride of the east<br />
since 1888<br />
DINNER HAS NEVER BEEN THIS GOOD<br />
NEW MENU | NEW TEAM<br />
CHECK OUT OUR<br />
SENSATIONAL<br />
SUMMER<br />
SIZZLERS $15<br />
Club<br />
BISTRO<br />
Whitford’s Hours:<br />
Open Monday to Sunday<br />
LUNCH from <strong>11</strong>am<br />
DINNER from 5pm<br />
KID’S EAT FOR FREE!<br />
SHUTTLE<br />
Tuesday - Saturday<br />
PH 0508 966 5786<br />
Open from 5pm daily, the<br />
restaurant is child-friendly and also<br />
offers an impressive selection of<br />
gluten-free dining options.<br />
During the day, the Club cafe is<br />
open from <strong>11</strong>am-4.30pm offering a<br />
large selection of freshly made inhouse<br />
cabinet food complimented by<br />
extensive cafe, pizza, and snacks<br />
menus, along with Barista crafted<br />
coffee and hot chocolate available till<br />
late!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Woolston Club, 54 Hargood<br />
St, phone 389 7039.<br />
MONDAYS &<br />
TUESDAYS<br />
LIVE MUSIC IS BACK NEXT WEEK!<br />
ROBBIE DREW’S<br />
BIRTHDAY PARTY<br />
SATURDAY<br />
20th <strong>January</strong><br />
I ALONE<br />
SUNDAY<br />
21st <strong>January</strong><br />
Open Wednesday to Sunday | Lunch & Dinner<br />
• Open daily from <strong>11</strong>am • Courtesy Van<br />
75 London St | Ph 389 5778 | www.rwmc.co.nz<br />
Christchurch’s only beach side club<br />
What’s On by the beach<br />
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS<br />
MEMBERS LUCKY<br />
CARD DRAW<br />
Dine by the Beach<br />
UPSTAIRS<br />
PIERVIEW A LA CARTE<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
<strong>The</strong> restaurant is open from 5.30pm Friday, Saturday<br />
and Sunday, and for Sunday Brunch from 10.30am to 2pm.<br />
SUNDAY NIGHT BUFFET<br />
LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH<br />
SUNDAY BUFFET : $25pp<br />
Sunday 28th Jan, from 5.30pm<br />
NEXT BUFFET : BOOK NOW!<br />
DOWNSTAIRS<br />
CLUB BISTRO<br />
Open Tuesday to Saturday 12pm - 2pm & from 5pm.<br />
FUNCTION ROOMS | GAMING ROOM<br />
SHUTTLE SERVICE Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat<br />
New Brighton Club<br />
202 Marine Parade - Phone 388-9416<br />
www.newbrightonclub.co.nz<br />
Members, guests and affiliates welcome<br />
Clubs New Zealand<br />
warmly welcome<br />
members, their guests and<br />
affiliate club members.
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Coming to Blue Smoke in the Woolston Tannery next Thursday night...<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bad Company/Foreigner/RockSteady SUPERGROUP!<br />
BARETTA: Friday 7pm - Nick<br />
Lee; 10.30pm - DJ. Saturday<br />
9pm - DJ Double Header.<br />
BILL'S BAR: Thursday &<br />
Sunday 6pm - Mickey Rat<br />
Karaoke.<br />
BRIDGE OF<br />
REMEMBRANCE: Friday<br />
12pm - Jas Josland ‘See What<br />
You Did <strong>The</strong>re’ album release.<br />
CARLTON: Thursday 9pm -<br />
HeadRush. Friday 10pm - Ctrl<br />
Alt Rock. Saturday 10.30pm -<br />
Flat City Brotherhood. Monday<br />
7pm - Shannelee Ray & James<br />
Sligo. Tuesday 8pm - Comedy.<br />
Wednesday 8.30pm - Assembly<br />
Required.<br />
CASA PUBLICA: Friday 5pm<br />
- DJ Daniel Pfeifer; 8.30pm -<br />
DJ Paul McKessar. Saturday<br />
9pm - DJ Ash-S.<br />
CHRISTCHURCH CASINO:<br />
Friday 6pm -Marcel; 9.15pm -<br />
Natalie Elms. Saturday 7pm -<br />
Rockabella; 10.15pm -<br />
Smoothtalk. Sunday 5.30pm -<br />
Sly Manhattan.<br />
CLADDAGH IRISH PUB:<br />
Thursday - Open mic.<br />
Saturday - Live music.<br />
COASTERS TAVERN:<br />
Thursday 8pm - Mel & Dave.<br />
Saturday - Live music.<br />
Wednesday - Open Mic Night.<br />
DUX CENTRAL: Friday 5pm<br />
- Zak Cooper; 9.30pm - Willy<br />
Styles. Saturday 2pm - Jack &<br />
Zara; 9.30pm - Churp. Sunday<br />
2pm - Jazz Sessions.<br />
EMPIRE: Thursday 9pm - DJ.<br />
Friday 10pm - DJ. Saturday<br />
10pm - DJ.<br />
FAT EDDIES: Thursday<br />
7.30pm - Cam Finlay Quartet;<br />
10pm - All-Girl Mini Band.<br />
Friday 7.30pm - Georgie & the<br />
Vajazzlers; <strong>11</strong>pm - Mantra of<br />
Groove. Saturday 7.30pm -<br />
Eldridge, Rainey, Williams<br />
Organ Trio; <strong>11</strong>pm - Tina & the<br />
Turners. Sunday 3pm - Dom<br />
Spiteri Duo; 6.30pm - Heather<br />
Webb Trio.<br />
Salmonella Dub with the return of Tiki Taane<br />
play North Hagley Park this Saturday night.<br />
FINNEGANS IRISH PUB,<br />
PREBBLETON:<br />
Friday 8pm - Trad Session.<br />
HAGLEY PARK NORTH:<br />
Saturday 9pm - Salmonella<br />
Dub feat. Tiki Taane, GA $89.<br />
HORNBY WMC: Saturday<br />
4.30pm - Barross Country;<br />
8pm - Big Daddy.<br />
HORNCASTLE ARENA:<br />
Tickets @ticketek.<br />
INGHAM’S LAZY<br />
SUNDAYS,<br />
CHRISTCHURCH BOTANIC<br />
GARDENS: Sunday 3.30pm -<br />
Izzy Miller Bell & guests, free.<br />
MACKENZIES HOTEL:<br />
Friday - Sign of the Firebird.<br />
Saturday - Red Zone.<br />
MAK BAR, KAINGA: Friday -<br />
Stoutfellows. Saturday - <strong>The</strong><br />
Elevators. Sunday - Misfitz.<br />
MICKY FINNS:<br />
Thursday 8pm - Flat City<br />
Brotherhood. Friday 10pm -<br />
Unhinged.<br />
PIERSIDE CAFE & BAR,<br />
NEW BRIGHTON:<br />
Friday 9pm - Jukebox.<br />
Saturday 9pm - Girl from<br />
Mars.<br />
ROSE & THISTLE,<br />
PAPANUI:<br />
Saturday 8.30pm - Fab 3.<br />
STOCK XCHANGE<br />
SHIRLEY:<br />
Friday 7pm - Elevators.<br />
Saturday 7pm - Unhinged.<br />
THAI CHEFS, SUKHU<br />
TIGER, RICCARTON:<br />
Thursday to Wednesday 9pm -<br />
Resident DJ & Karaoke.<br />
THE BOG IRISH BAR:<br />
Thursday 10pm - Assembly<br />
Required. Friday 7pm - Bobby<br />
Lee; <strong>11</strong>pm - Flat City<br />
Brotherhood. Saturday <strong>11</strong>pm -<br />
Black Velvet acoustic. Sunday<br />
5.30pm - Black Velvet acoustic.<br />
Tuesday 7pm - <strong>The</strong> Jamesons<br />
Session.<br />
THE CRAIC IRISH BAR,<br />
RICCARTON:<br />
Friday - Live music. Saturday -<br />
Eddie Simon.<br />
THE CUBAN:<br />
Thursday 6.30pm - Live music.<br />
Friday - Live music. Saturday<br />
10pm - DJ.<br />
THE MILLER BAR,<br />
ADDINGTON:<br />
Thursday 7pm - Rock n Roll.<br />
Friday 9.30pm - X-Files duo.<br />
Saturday 9.30pm - Don’t tell<br />
Mama.<br />
THE WAVE BAR, NEW<br />
BRIGHTON:<br />
Thursday 8.30pm - Karaoke.<br />
Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday<br />
8.30pm - Live music.<br />
WOOLSTON CLUB:<br />
Saturday 7pm - Lino.<br />
WUNDERBAR<br />
LYTTELTON:<br />
Friday 8.30pm - <strong>The</strong> Overdogs<br />
with Stomping Nick.<br />
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NEW BRIGHTON MARKET<br />
Saturday, 10am-2pm, New Brighton<br />
pedestrian mall<br />
MT PLEASANT FARMERS’<br />
MARKET<br />
Saturday, 9.30am-12.30pm,<br />
McCormacks Bay Rd<br />
LYTTELTON FARMERS’ MARKET<br />
Saturdays, 10am-1pm, London St<br />
OPAWA FARMERS’ MARKET<br />
Sunday, 9am-noon, 275 Fifield Tce<br />
THE RICCARTON MARKET<br />
Sunday, 9am-2pm Riccarton Racecourse<br />
THURSDAY TO SUNDAY,<br />
9AM-5PM<br />
WILD ABOUT READING<br />
Five classic books have been<br />
hidden in wild places throughout<br />
the Botanic Gardens. All you<br />
need to do is follow the map to<br />
find each secret location, use the<br />
code to unlock the treasure box,<br />
read the book and then fill in<br />
the log to be in to win copies of<br />
the books. Make the most of the<br />
quiet corners of the gardens and<br />
be transported to another world<br />
through the pages of these books.<br />
Botanic Gardens Visitor<br />
Centre, Rolleston Ave<br />
THURSDAY TO FRIDAY, 6PM<br />
AND 8PM<br />
LEIGHS CONSTRUCTION<br />
OUTDOOR CINEMA<br />
Come on down to the Arts<br />
Centre of Christchurch to enjoy<br />
the beautifully restored spaces.<br />
Films will be screened in the<br />
picturesque North Quad. Bring<br />
a gold coin donation, something<br />
to sit on, plus cash for food and<br />
drinks. Picnics are welcome but<br />
no BYO – drinks will be available<br />
for purchase. Thursday, 6pm:<br />
Aladdin, and 8pm: Grease (PG).<br />
Friday, 6pm: Moana (PG), and<br />
8pm: Hunt for the Wilderpeople<br />
(PG).<br />
<strong>The</strong> Arts Centre of<br />
Christchurch, Worcester<br />
Boulevard<br />
THURSDAY TO SUNDAY,<br />
RANGE OF TIMES<br />
CIRQUE GRANDE<br />
This weekend is your last chance<br />
to see this innovative new circus.<br />
Twelve girls performing tricks<br />
on a single bicycle; teeterboard,<br />
hoop-diving, human pyramids<br />
and amazing acrobatics. Prepare<br />
to be dazzled by international<br />
clowns, acrobats and magicians.<br />
Suitable for the whole family.<br />
Phone 0800 289 849 for tickets.<br />
Opposite Latimer Square,<br />
cnr of Madras and<br />
Gloucester Sts<br />
FRIDAY, <strong>11</strong>AM-9PM<br />
STREET FOOD MARKET<br />
<strong>The</strong> Friday Street Food Market<br />
brings together more than<br />
20 stalls selling food from<br />
around the world, live<br />
entertainment, buskers and more.<br />
Cathedral Square<br />
SATURDAY, 8-9AM<br />
PARK RUN<br />
Get the year off to a healthy start<br />
at this fun 5km run which takes<br />
place each week. <strong>Star</strong>t from the<br />
Botanic Gardens car park. Walk,<br />
run, or jog – you can even bring<br />
the dog. No need to register, but<br />
you can at https://parkrun.co.nz/<br />
register/form. International<br />
visitors welcome.<br />
Botanic Gardens, Rolleston<br />
Ave<br />
SATURDAY, 7PM<br />
ANXIETY AND EQUANIMITY:<br />
A ZEN PERSPECTIVE<br />
United States-based Zen<br />
practitioner Hogen Sensei<br />
discusses the possibility of a fresh<br />
perspective on anxiety through<br />
the willingness to experience<br />
all mental states with an open<br />
heart. This talk will be suitable<br />
for beginners and experienced<br />
practitioners, and includes time<br />
for questions and discussion.<br />
Entry by donation.<br />
4 Kennedy Pl, Hillsborough<br />
SATURDAY, 7-9PM<br />
ECSTATIC DANCE WITH DJ<br />
TRILLION<br />
Forget your worries at this freeform<br />
dance space. This drug and<br />
alcohol-free event encourages<br />
movement, connection and fun.<br />
Bring a friend, a date, or a family<br />
member. Entry costs $10 and free<br />
for under-14s.<br />
Opawa Church Community<br />
hall, cnr of Opawa Rd and<br />
Aynsley Tce<br />
SUNDAY, NOON-2PM<br />
SUMMER POOL PARTY<br />
Break out your bathing suit out,<br />
the city council and More FM<br />
will host a party at the Lyttelton<br />
pool, with face-painting and pool<br />
games.<br />
54 Oxford St, Lyttelton<br />
SUNDAY, 10AM-NOON<br />
PETANQUE IN THE PARK<br />
<strong>The</strong> Christchurch Petanque Club<br />
invites residents and visitors to<br />
give the game a go at this fun<br />
Sunday morning session on<br />
the club’s grounds at North<br />
Hagley Park. All equipment<br />
will be provided along with<br />
friendly hints and tips to help<br />
enjoy this simple and easy-tofollow<br />
game.<br />
North Hagley Park,<br />
Rolleston Ave<br />
SUNDAY, 2.30-4.30PM<br />
LIVE AT THE POINT<br />
Every Sunday, Diamond Harbour<br />
will host a series of free, outdoor<br />
gigs on the old Godley House<br />
grounds. Catch the ferry over<br />
from Lyttelton or drive around<br />
the bays, then sit back and relax.<br />
Lindon Puffin will play this<br />
weekend.<br />
Godley House grounds,<br />
2 Waipapa Ave, Diamond<br />
Harbour<br />
SUNDAY, <strong>11</strong>AM AND 2PM<br />
THE WIZARD OF OZ<br />
Follow Dorothy and Toto as they<br />
are transported to Oz in this fun<br />
musical classic. Entry will be $9.<br />
Rangi Ruru Girls’ School<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, 59 Hewitts Rd<br />
Topline Entertainment presents<br />
ROCK<br />
STEADY<br />
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