Bay Harbour: March 28, 2018

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PAGE 2 BAY HARBOUR Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Wednesday March 28 2018 get in touch Dyers Road Landscape & Garden Supplies • Barks • Peastraw • Composts - we supply the best available • Aggregates - Chip, Round and Basecourse • Pavers & Schist products • Pungas • Decorative Stones & Landscaping Rocks • Trailer Hire first hour free with purchase • Bag & Bulk - pick up or delivered David, Carol & Mike from the editor’s desk SPORT CANTERBURY put on a great night a couple of Fridays ago to honour the province’s top sports men and women – from youth to the elite seniors like Tom Walsh and Sophie Pascoe. A highlight was the induction of Pat Barwick as a Sporting Legend. Leaguie Frank Endacott was also inducted. Today on pages 8/9 reporter Sarla Donovan profiles Pat, who is one of our very own – she lives in Mt Pleasant. Pat, of course, is a New Zealand hockey icon, a tremendous player, coach, and administrator. She’s one of these people who when she talks, people listen. She has a way of getting the message across. Sincere, unflappable and every word seems to count and mean something. – Barry Clarke GENERAL ENQUIRIES Ph 379 7100 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ph 379 1100 The Christchurch Star Company Ltd PO box 1467, Christchurch starmedia.kiwi NEWS Sarla Donovan Ph: 021 919 917 sarla.donovan@starmedia.kiwi ADVERTISING Javier Balcazar Ph: 982 9308 javier.balcazar@ starmedia.kiwi Rob Davison Ph: 021 225 8584 rob.davison@ starmedia.kiwi We will deliver! SOIL AND HARDFILL DUMPING Phone: 03 384 6540 183 Dyers Rd, Bromley • OPEN 7 DAYS Weekdays 7.30am-5pm. Weekends 8.30am-3pm www.dyersroadandlandscapes.co.nz news RSA dedicates gates A little over seven years since the Sumner/Redcliffs RSA building was destroyed in the earthquakes, a ceremony to dedicate the memorial gates and flagpole has been held. Page 10 gardening awards Diamond Harbour School awarded Diamond Harbour School’s Green Diamonds team received silver in the Oderings School Garden Show at the Woolston Club. Page 15 community events Akaroa Harvest Festival Head to Potter’s Croft, 57 Rue Grehan, on Easter Sunday for your opportunity to sample the finest Banks Peninsula dishes. Page 21 The best-read local newspaper, delivered to 10,056 homes, RDs and farms every Wednesday Brookhaven, Heathcote, Ferrymead, Redcliffs, Mt Pleasant, Sumner, Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Governors Bay, Akaroa. Need a local landscape design & construction team? Call Tom on 328 9965 or 027 420 2466. Now offering a garden maintenance service. www.gunndesign.co.nz Visit our new website: www.min.nz A professional realtor with local expertise and a personal touch COASTAL REAL ESTATE SPECIALISTS We’ll help you live the dream. Min Sarginson Real Estate Ltd. specialises in homes, sections and rental properties in the spectacular Lyttelton Harbour bays, and coastal suburbs of Christchurch, New Zealand. We’ll make it so easy for you. All our sales consultants live in the area – we can give you valuable insights into life in our thriving coastal communities. This is an exciting time; of promise, optimism, and opportunities never anticipated pre-quakes. Beachfront, or hillside with grandstand views, find the property of your dreams: Lyttelton | Diamond Harbour | Governors Bay | Cass Bay Charteris Bay | Church Bay | Purau Bay | Port Levy | Northshore Southshore | New Brighton | Heathcote | Sumner | Redcliffs Scarborough | Mount Pleasant | Clifton Call Min Sarginson Real Estate Ltd. for free, no-obligation advice. Lyttelton: 03 329 4161, lyttelton@min.nz or Church Bay: 03 328 7273, churchbay@min.nz
Wednesday March 28 2018 News Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Sumner fruit tree ‘bank’ mooted • By Sarla Donovan SUMNER MAN Keith Hay wants to establish a ‘bank’ of heritage stone fruit trees in the suburb. Mr Hay is a member of the Sumner Community Gardens, which in the winter of 2014 planted a ‘food forest’ in the grounds of Van Asch Deaf Education Centre, where the old laundry block was. The forest idea involves planting in layers, from larger trees like pear and plum, down to smaller dwarf varieties and bushes such as gooseberry, raspberry and currant. After seven years, the forest should become self-sustaining, said co-ordinator Kathryn Newbery. Mr Hay wasn’t there for the original plantings but has since moved into the suburb from Opawa and is particularly interested in the fruit trees. He and his wife had a small orchard in Opawa Rd and he grew up on his parents Ian and Evelyn’s Horotane Valley orchard during the 1950s and ’60s. Many of the commercial varieties they grew have since disappeared, and he is keen to re-establish them. This involves sourcing bud wood or grafting wood from plum trees and apricot trees – particularly those grown commercially or locally in Horotane Valley and Heathcote Valley in the 1940s through to the late 1970s. They include early Australian import roxburgh red, moorpark from England, Californian variety newcastle, hemkirk, dullins, royal and steven’s favourite. Some of these still be bought in nurseries, he said, but others are more elusive. It was the advent of supermarkets in the 1990s that spelled the end for most boutique growers around Heathcote and Horotane, said Mr Hay. “They didn’t want the auction system so when you took fruit in the auctioneer just said: ‘This is the price.’ And the supermarkets preferred long-keeping varieties like sundrop. If you’ve got a whole lot of dairies and they buy one or two cases and sell them within a day or two then they’re in to get more each day. But it’s a different process with the supermarkets.” Because they bought in larger quantities they wanted fruit that would store well, he said. “So the old varieties have died out. Some of them were 70-80 years old or more. And what didn’t die out they bulldozed. That’s happened all around New BOUNTY: Members of the Sumner Community Gardens (left to right) – Rosie Hay, Suzy and Bryan Kaschula and Kevin Hay. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER Zealand and all those old varieties we knew on (our) orchard are pretty much gone.” Ms Newbery said Mr Hay coming on board at the community garden had provided a perfect opportunity to graft onto the food forest’s existing root stock and start increasing the diversity of what was currently there. “His background has meant he brings a lot of expertise to what we’re doing there; he’s really helped us with pruning and taught us to prune more effectively which has been fantastic.” •If you can help please phone Kevin Hay on 326 7280 or 021 213 3053 BAY HARBOUR Local News Now In Brief PAGE 3 Fire rages, homes at risk SUMMIT RD RESTRICTIONS A proposal to restrict vehicle access to parts of Summit Rd at night has been dropped. It was prompted by concerns about the level of anti-social behaviour and damage in the area. But the city council last week approved a hearings panel recommendation that night-time restrictions do not proceed. FIRE PLAQUE PROPOSED Governors Bay resident Alma Sturgess has proposed a memorial be placed on the Port Hills commemorating last year’s fire. Ms Sturgess raised the idea at a recent Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board meeting. She said given the first anniversary of the fires had recently passed, it would be appropriate to acknowledge those who suffered and those who fought the fires, particularly helicopter pilot Steve Askin who lost his life doing so. COTTAGE RESTORATION Historic Penfold’s Cob Cottage in Scott Park will be stabilised and repaired as soon as possible to prevent further deterioration. The walls on the road frontage and the side facing Ferrymead Bridge will be repaired and restored to the original pre-earthquake form. The remaining two collapsed walls will also be stabilised. 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