The Star: June 14, 2018

Thursday, June 14, 2018 

The Square: Is this the future? 

Mixed 

reaction 

to bold 

new plan 

• By Bridget Rutherford 

PROMINENT Cantabrians 

have given a mixed response to 

the possible futuristic look of 

Cathedral Square. 

Plans for what the Square 

could look like were released 

by Regenerate Christchurch 

yesterday after seven years of 

debate and controversy over the 

slow progress of the rebuild. 

It includes three covered 

pavilions, which would have 

a “lattice-style” translucent 

roof, which could host markets 

and other events. 

The long-term vision, which is 

estimated to cost between $60- 

$80 million, aims to bring people 

back into the area, through a 

series of interconnected public 

spaces. 

The vision for the Square also 

includes Cathedral Gardens 

with trees and water features, 

Post Office Place with events 

and meeting spaces, and Library 

Plaza with other people-friendly 

areas. 

Former mayor Garry Moore 

said the plan was “brilliant” 

while developer Ernest Duval 

was not fussed by the pavilions. 

The next step is for a delivery 

strategy to be developed with the 

FUTURISTIC: Plans released yesterday show what Cathedral Square could look like. 

Lianne Dalziel Garry Moore Jamie Gough Vicki Buck 

city council and stakeholders to 

determine what could be done, 

when, and what funding would 

be needed. 

Mayor Lianne Dalziel said 

the vision would help people 

think of the central city as a 

destination and residential 

neighbourhood. 

“I’m confident Regenerate 

Christchurch’s vision will allow 

this to happen.” 

City councillor Deon Swiggs 

said it would need to work 

around other developments 

such as Turanga, the Spark 

building, Aotea Gifts and the 

restoration of Christ Church 

Cathedral. 

“We’ve got to look at what is 

happening, what’s in the vision 

and what can we deliver.” 

City councillor Jamie Gough 

said it was a good starting 

point. 

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Full 

recovery 

expected 

Sir Richard 

Hadlee 

SIR RICHARD Hadlee is 

expected to make a full recovery 

from bowel cancer. 

Last month the former cricket 

all-rounder had a routine, 

three-year colonoscopy where a 

tumour was discovered. 

He has since 

had a successful 

operation 

to remove it, 

and has recovered 

well. 

As a safeguard, 

further 

treatment in 

the form of 

chemotherapy will commence 

shortly and last a few months. 

His wife, Lady Dianne, said 

yesterday Hadlee’s expected to 

make a full recovery over time. 

“Our reasons for making 

this statement are a desire to 

be transparent, and to prevent 

the inevitable speculation and 

• By Julia Evans 

MAYOR LIANNE Dalziel has 

tweeted Arnold Schwarzenegger 

again. 

This time to make an apparent 

apology to the former Governor 

of California and film star for the 

headline in The Star last week. 

Ms Dalziel first tweeted asking 

whether Schwarzenegger would 

come to New Zealand to talk 

about climate change. 

In her second post, Ms Dalziel 

she was the one that was “back” 

referencing Schwarzenegger’s 

most famous catch phrase: “I’ll 

be back.” 

“Didn’t mean to make you a 

headline this way,” she said and 

HOWZAT! Richard Hadlee in his playing days appealing 

for an LBW against India, in 1988. 

incorrect rumours,” she wrote. 

“I would also request people’s 

understanding and acceptance 

of our request for privacy while 

we go through the next few 

months, both for ourselves and 

for the extended Hadlee family.” 

Hadlee has previously been diagnosed 

with Wolff–Parkinson– 

and see if her plea was had on combating it. 

New Zealand and spread this 

attached 

message!” the tweet said. 

a photo of The Star 

successful. He has not 

“To empower local and 

responded. 

regional governments, cities, 

But when asked a number Schwarzenegger co-founded states and provinces and to let 

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News 

Mayor Dalziel tweets Arnie 

Hollywood 

superstar 

hasn’t 

replied 


MAYOR LIANNE Dalziel is 

trying to woo The Terminator to 

Christchurch. 

Not to take out critics of 

chlorination, or the town hall 

budget blow-out, but to spread 

awareness of the impact of 

climate change. 

“Climate change is not a 

political issue, it’s a health 

issue,” Arnold Schwarzenegger 

said during the R20 Austrian 

World Summit in Vienna. 

Ms 

Dalziel 

tweeted 

asking 

whether 

the former 

governor of 

California 

would 

come 

Arnold to New 

Schwarzenegger Zealand 

and spread that message. 

“I would love to know if @ 

Schwarzenegger would come to 

ACTION: Mayor Lianne Dalziel tweeted The Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger to 

see if he would come to New Zealand. 

surprisingly silent. 

Said a spokeswoman for Ms 

Dalziel: “The mayor has asked 

me to pass on that this was for 

a conference and that he hasn’t 

replied.” 

The Star also approached 

Schwarzenegger for comment 


dedicated to helping local 

governments develop lowcarbon 

projects. 

During the summit he spoke 

for more than 20min about the 

effects of climate change on 

human health and how much of 

an influence local governments 

a strong way and not wait for the 

federal or national government 

or for their capital because most 

of the action always is happening 

on a local and grass roots level,” 

Schwarzenegger said. 

In November, the city council 

set its own net carbon-neutral 

target for 2030 and a citywide 

Lancaster Park starts 

If Ms Dalziel’s bid to get Arnie 

said: “She says she was just 

Work is under way on the 

demolition of the Tui stand at the 

southern end of Lancaster Park. 

“I’ll showing be back.” him she’d made him 

Demolition of the stand will take 

about two months. 

a headline, Need new which was not what 

was curtains intended. or time She wasn’t asking 

for a change? 

him to come on behalf of the 

target for 2050. 

to New Zealand is successful, he 

might even say that one thing 

we all want to hear. 

is easily defined. He secured a 

world record 431 test wickets by 

retirement, had been the lynchpin 

in New Zealand’s golden era 

of the 1980s and brandished a 

knighthood in his final test. 

Few players in the history of 

the game have carried as much 

responsibility within an international 

team. 

Hadlee’s 17-year test career 

saw him become the world test 

wicket record holder against 

India at Bangalore in 1988. 

He overtook Sir Ian Botham’s 

373-wicket mark when Chris 

Kuggeleijn caught India’s Arun 

Lal in the slips. 

Hadlee took a wicket with his 

final ball in a test against England 

at Edgbaston in 1990 where 

he was listed on the scorecard as 

‘Sir Richard.’ 

His bowling average of 22.29 

from 86 tests is among the best 

in the game. That statistic was 

complemented by the all-rounder 

tag, courtesy of 3124 test runs 

and 27.16. 

Hadlee dealt with life in the 

limelight as much as any New 

Zealand sportsperson ever has 

during his playing career. He 

received the supreme Halberg 

award twice and was honoured 

as the sportsperson of the 1980s. 


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Regenerate Christchurch will 

release its final plans for the 

regeneration of Cathedral Square 

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organisation has come under fire 

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staff, excluding Vbase employees, 

which took effect in October. 

The report on the possibility of 

extending the living wage will be 

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NASA aircraft based in 

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NASA’s largest flying 

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exploring the mysteries of outer 

space. SOFIA, a modified Boeing 

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navigates the night skies at around 

1000km/h, capturing images of 

planets, asteroids and space. The 

city has become the temporary 

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take part in 25 overnight flights 

over seven weeks and inject more 

than $5 million into the economy. 

Researchers plan to chase down 

the shadow cast by Saturn’s largest 

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Thousands of lights at the city 

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switched over to LEDs, a move 

that will save about $42,800 a year 

and reduce its carbon footprint by 

35 tonnes a year. Track lighting 

in public spaces has already been 

switched over. Over the next two 

years all of the lighting in the rest 

of the building, including 2693 

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City’s first mayor was an accused wife-beater 


WILLIAM ‘Cabbage’ Wilson 

was a fraudster and an accused 

wife-beater – and 150 years ago, 

he was elected as the city’s first 

mayor. 

Monday marked the anniversary 

of the day the city became a 

full municipality. 

On June 10, 1868, the now city 

council formally acknowledged 

the Governor’s proclamation 

of Christchurch as a borough 

under the provisions of the 1867 

Municipal Corporations Act. 

At that meeting, nurseryman 

and prominent landowner Mr 


THE AVON-Heathcote Estuary 

could become the country’s third 

site to gain an internationallyacclaimed 

status because of its role 

in hosting migratory birds. 

Department of Conservation 

ecology technical adviser Bruce 

McKinlay said, while not yet 

officially confirmed, the estuary 

was in contention to be named 

the next East Asian Australasian 

Flyway site, due to of its 

Wilson, whose nickname was 

Cabbage due to his hat made of 

cabbage leaves, became the first 

mayor. 

Before that, the town council 

only had a chairman since 

1862. 

But Mr Wilson fell from grace 

when he was convicted of fraud. 

His wife Elizabeth Williams then 

sought a protection order from 

him after alleging he beat her. 

After they split, Mr Wilson 

tried to break into her house 

and threatened to murder her 

brother. 

Mr Wilson did manage to get 

re-elected to council 10 years 

connection to the bartail godwits. 

The status would make 

the estuary one of a chain of 

important wetlands around the 

world where migratory birds visit 

to feed and rest on their journeys. 

Only two other sites in New 

Zealand have the status. They are 

the Firth of Thames and Farewell 

Spit. 

Mr McKinlay, who is the New 

Zealand representative to the 

East Asian-Australasian Flyway 

Partnership, said the estuary had 

HISTORY: William ‘Cabbage’ 

Wilson was elected as the 

city’s first mayor on June 10, 

1868. 

later causing uproar among five 

city councillors who resigned in 

protest. 

Last year the Government took 

Godwits make estuary special 

hosted the migratory godwits each 

summer for the last 10,000 years. 

He said the news the estuary 

could gain the status was 

“exciting” for DOC, which had 

been working with the Avon 

Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust 

since 2016 to do so. 

“Each year a maximum of 2000 

bartail godwits (1.8 per cent of 

the world’s population) spend 

the summer at the estuary before 

migrating back to the Arctic to 

breed over winter. 

ownership of a strip of land once 

owned by Mr Wilson that runs 

between 130 and 132 Lichfield 

St, near Smash Palace, because it 

was unable to find a beneficiary. 

Since Mr Wilson, there have 

been 45 other mayors. 

Garry Moore, who was mayor 

from 1998-2007, said a lot had 

changed. 

“Well I’ve found it interesting, 

when you look at Cabbage Wilson, 

he had the nursery that supplied 

quite a lot of the trees that were 

supplied around Christchurch. In 

those days, the whole of society 

had conflicts of interest.” 

Mr Moore said he and son 


Johnny Moore, who owns Smash 

Palace, wanted to call it Cabbage 

Wilson’s instead because of the 

strip of land nearby. 

But when they found out about 

Mr Wilson’s past they decided 

against it. 

Mr Moore said the South 

Island needed to act more as one, 

similar to what it used to be like 

when there were councils were 

regional. 

“If I were to look at the next 

150 years, unless the South Island 

starts thinking as an island, 

we will be completely overshadowed 

by Auckland.” 

•Lianne Dalziel’s column, p26 

TEMPORARY HOME: The Avon-Heathcote Estuary hosts 

the bartail godwits every summer. PHOTO: DON PARISH






‘Aspirational’ vision will cost $60-$80m 

INVITING: 

Library Plaza 

would provide a 

people-friendly 

space, Cathedral 

Gardens would 

have trees and 

water features 

and Post Office 

Place could 

hold events and 

meeting spaces. 

•From page 1 

“I think the design of the pavilions 

is quite ambitious and somewhat 

unorthodox, which I think 

is quite cool. It’s thinking outside 

the square, ironically, inside the 

Square,” he said. 

Mr Moore said the concept was 

“incredible”. 

“I loathed the old Square. So for 

me this gives us a chance to turn 

the Square into something that’s 

an exciting space. It’s the city’s 

lounge. 

“I haven’t been this excited 

about any of the proposals we’ve 

had post-quake.” 

Mr Duval said while he liked 

the greenery, the pavilions structure 

may impede the sight lines of 

the Cathedral. 

“Maybe we don’t need such 

large a structure or even one at all 

which then becomes a permanent 

structure in the Square to compete 

with the Cathedral.” 

City councillor Vicki Buck said 

while she was not a huge fan of 

the pavilions, she liked the green 

space and having high activity. 

Regenerate Christchurch chief 

executive Ivan Iafeta said the “aspirational” 

vision was estimated 

to cost between $60-80million. 

There was about $9 million set 

aside for it. 

He said the pavilions, designed 

in-house with input from Ngāi 

Tūāhuriri were “striking but 

elegant” and would be easy to 

deconstruct. 

Regenerate had spent about $1 

million developing the delayed 

vision. It was meant to be released 

in October. 

The major goal now was working 

out a delivery strategy, Mr 

Iafeta said. 

Jono Dillon: I think it’s 

brilliant. Change is always 

different. People don’t 

like change, we don’t like 

change. But I think it looks 

amazing and I think it will 

perform a really amazing 

function for the city. 

There’s a lot of markets 

that happen there anyway, 

it will just provide a cover 

for it in a modern context 

and I think when it’s done 

we’re going to have a 

modern city so we may as 

well get used to it. With the 

modern you get all these 

kinds of designs, kind of 

like Dubai, which will be 

part of the big attraction to 

Christchurch. 

What people are saying 

Bill Burgess: I think that 

should be good. Something 

a little different. 

Murray Holmes: I reckon 

it’s an eyesore. They want to 

put something like that in 

the Square? There’s nothing 

wrong with the Square as it 

is now. It’s been like that for 

years. The only thing missing 

is the Wizard. 

Katy Hope: It will probably 

cause some interest. I 

don’t know if it’s my cup of 

tea. But it will definitely get 

the crowds in and the tourists 

in having a look. 

Gem Brain: I like it. It 

would bring people into the 

city to come see it. 

Readers are also reacting 

to the plans on Star.kiwi 

Jilly King: Not a fan of the 

collapsed trellis look. My 

four-year-old saw the pic 

on my laptop and asked me 

if the wind blew down the 

fence. Out of the mouths of 

babes . . . 

Ann Mason: You have 

missed the boat people 

have moved to the suburbs 

and parking being charged 

as it is will not encourage 

people to come back into 

the Square. If this is to go 

ahead then pull down the 

Cathedral and start from 

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Strategy to stop the number 

Fifty-three people have 

died in crashes on 

Christchurch roads in 

the past five years. Now 

the Government, city 

council and police have 

revealed a plan to make 

roads safer in a bid to 

save lives. Julia Evans 

reports 

COLLEEN CASE was killed 

when her car was wiped out by 

a truck when she failed to stop 

at the Sawyers Arms Rd and 

Logistics Dr intersection in 

Harewood. 

“She hadn’t driven that road in 

a long time . . . there was a stop 

sign, but the road markings were 

totally gone. They might have 

got her attention,” her eldest son 

David Case said yesterday. 

In January, the 83-year-old was 

cut from the vehicle by firefighters, 

but died at the scene. 

“It happened on Friday morning 

at 10am. My wife and I had 

just got home from our overseas 

travel on Thursday. We were 

jet-lagged, but were going to see 

mum the next day,” Mr Case 

said. 

Before he could visit and give 

her the gift he’d brought her back 

from Ireland, his phone rang. 

“I got a call from my brother, 

he said there had been an accident 

and mum hadn’t made it. 

I just remember everyone was 

pretty shot after that.” 

His mother’s death was the last 

in a string of unfortunate events. 

He’d just been made redundant 

after 32 years and during 

his holiday overseas, paid for 

with his redundancy package, 

he and his wife both contracted 

the deadly Aussie flu, someone 

committed suicide in front of 

their Eurostar train and he was 

robbed in Paris. 

SAFETY: David Case’s 

mother Colleen was 

killed at the Harewood 

intersection of Sawyers 

Arms Rd and Logistics Dr in 

January. PHOTO: MARTIN 

HUNTER 

Mr Case said it had been a 

“long road” to recovery after it 

all. The road markings had worn 

off at the intersection. Mr Case 

said they were painted back on 

the next day. His mother’s death 

is still under investigation by the 

coroner. 

“There are a lot of factors that 

play into it, I guess. We shouldn’t 

rely on people reporting things 

and fix them before these accidents 

happen,” he said. 

The Road Safety Action Plan 

has been unveiled by the city 

council, police, Christchurch 

Transport Operations Centre, 

ACC and New Zealand Transport 

Agency in a bid to reduce 

the number of fatalities and 

serious injuries on Christchurch 

roads. 

It lays out the “key risk” factors 

in the city and actions to address 

them so crashes like Mrs Case’s 

do not happen again. 

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of people killed on roads 

Glen 

Koorey 

The aim of the report is to 

reduce the number of serious 

injury and fatality crashes by at 

least five every year. 

Intersections account for more 

than 50 per cent of crashes that 

have resulted in 

serious injury or 

fatality over the 

last five years. 

Engineering 

improvements 

at “high crashprone 

intersections” 

are being 

investigated by 

the city council. 

“This includes 

the introduction of more turning 

arrows at intersections,” the 

report said. 

ViaStrada senior traffic engineer 

and planner Glen Koorey 

said there were a lot less turning 

arrows at intersections than in 

other major cities. 

“It’s also just the sheer number 

of intersections and cross intersections. 

In Christchurch, we 

have a lot of conflict points,” he 

said. 

Dr Koorey said engineering 

upgrades were an important part 

of any plan to increase safety. 

“We’re human, so the engineering 

almost has to save us 

PREVENTION: The red light camera installed at the 

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from ourselves the best it can,” 

he said. 

Police enforcement will focus 

on red light-runners, as well as 

motorists not stopping at stop 

signs and give way signs, the 

plan said. 

There would be “increased 

enforcement” from police during 

an intersection safety campaign 

run by the city council later this 

year. 

Acting road policing manager 

Senior Sergeant Kelly Larsen told 

The Star red light-running incidents 

were too high and create 

“unnecessary road safety risk.” 

The trial of the city’s new red 

light camera, currently installed 

at the Madras St and Bealey Ave 

intersection, also aims to reduce 

the number of crashes, the plan 

said. 

The camera, which will be 

operational later this year, is set 

to moved around “high-risk” 

•There were 847 crashes 

that resulted in death 

or serious injury on 

Christchurch roads in the 

last five years 

•53 were fatalities 

•427, more than 50 per 

cent, were at intersections 

•104 recorded speed as 

intersections. 

Mr Case said he welcomes the 

release of the road safety plan. 

He said it could play a major role 

in saving people’s lives before accidents 

happen like his mother’s. 

“I guess it should’ve happened 

a lot earlier,” he said. 

“Especially at the very busy 

intersections, like the ones near 

mum, there should be a lot more 

monitoring and upgrading to 

make them safer.” 

Two weeks after Mrs Case 

died, a British couple were killed 

at the intersection at the intersection 

of Blakes and Shands 

Rds, near Mr Case’s home in 

Prebbleton, 

“This kind of thing should 

happen before people get hurt, 

not after,” he said. 

However, he said the plan was 

a “very good thing” and a step 

a contributing factor 

•167 involved cyclists 

and 134 involved 

pedestrians 

•179 involved 

motorcycles or mopeds. 

•208, about 25 per cent, 

had a driver under the 

age of 25 

towards addressing the issues. 

“Anything to make the road 

safer is a good move.” 

The plan was presented to the 

city council’s infrastructure, 

transport and environment committee 

yesterday. 

Other areas of risk highlighted 

are pedestrians and cyclist safety. 

As well as motorcyclists and 

young drivers. 

“Eighty per cent of [police] 

infringement notices should be 

for key areas: Speed, impaired 

driving, restraints, high risk 

drivers and distracted driving,” 

the plan said. 

Education campaigns are 

being organised by NZTA on 

distraction and safe speed. While 

the city council and police will 

target education around young 

drivers and safety for pedestrians 

and cyclists. 

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Liquor store 

fined for 

Immigration 

Act breach 

A LIQUOR store and its owner 

have been ordered to pay $6000 

for employing an unlawful 

Indian migrant for three and a 

half years. 

Satya Enterprises Ltd, which 

operates several liquor stores in 

the city trading as Bottle-O and 

Thirsty Liquor, and its director, 

Inderjit Singh, were each fined 

$3000. 

They were convicted at the 

district court on Tuesday on a 

charge under the Immigration 

Act for allowing the person to 

work illegally. 

Judge Stephen O’Driscoll 

refused to grant the defendants 

a discharge without conviction, 

saying such a step would not 

protect migrants or deter employers 

from using inappropriate 

workers. 

“The defendant’s actions 

have undermined the foundation 

and integrity of New 

Zealand’s immigration system,” 

O’Driscoll wrote in his reserved 

judgement. 

The worker has subsequently 

left New Zealand. 

Quarry appeal gets rich-lister backing 

• By Anan Zaki 

FISHING MAGNATE Kypros 

Kotzikas is digging into his 

pockets to stop the controversial 

quarry in Yaldhurst. 

Mr Kotzikas, who is on the 

rich-list with an estimated 

wealth of $80 million will help 

fund an appeal against Road 

Metals quarry 

expansion in 

the area. 

The United 

Fisheries owner 

lives about 

2km from the 

quarry. 

Kypros 

Kotzikas 

Soraya 

Nicholas 

Yaldhurst 

residents lost 

their battle 

to stop the 

quarry from 

coming 

within 100m 

of houses last 

month. 

The expansion 

was 

granted by an 

Environment 

Canterbury 

and city council 

appointed hearings panel. 

Residents fighting the quarry 

under the banner Yaldhurst 

Environment Group – Hau Ora 

CHALLENGE: The Yaldhurst Environment Group’s appeal of the Road Metals quarry 

expansion has been boosted by rich-lister Kypros Kotzikas. 

Inc say it has filed an appeal in 

the Environment Court. It is 

expected to cost about $100,000. 

The group’s chairwoman 

Soraya Nicholas said the appeal 

was filed on Monday. 

The group originally intended 

to file it last week, but was 

delayed due to administrative 

hold-ups. 

She met with Mr Kotzikas at 

the end of last month. 

“He was a bit shocked at how 

some of the quarries have been 

creeping closer towards everyone. 

“He was really angry and surprised 

at what the city council 

and ECan have allowed to go 

ahead,” Ms Nicholas said. 

Mr Kotzikas is part of 24 

households sharing the cost 

of the appeal. “I think we can 

comfortably cover the costs. 

Obviously we hope some of our 

higher profile supporters will be 

able to help with any shortfall,” 


Ms Nicholas said. 

Mr Kotzikas arrived in 

Christchurch in 1962 from 

Cyprus as an 18-year-old and 

worked at a fish ’n’ chip shop in 

Aranui before going into wholesale 

fisheries. 

Another “high-profile” businessman 

had indicated he would 

support the Yaldhurst residents’ 

appeal, but Ms Nicholas said she 

could not say who he was until 

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Positive image, new signage 


HAVEN’T PAID your rates? 

Got an annoying rooster? Or a 

parking ticket you forgot you 

had? 

Don’t worry, you won’t be getting 

a nasty phone call or letter 

from the city council after it 

rolls out its new “look and feel” 

– which is all 

about being 

positive. 

A new colour 

palette, 

branding, 

signage, tone 

of voice campaign 

and 

training is 

Brendan 

Anstiss 

being developed 

to bring 

together a 

consistent voice from the city 

council. 

“The new brand is an opportunity 

to respond to feedback 

from Christchurch residents 

around being more approachable, 

people focused, collaborative 

and easy to deal with,” chief 

executive Karleen Edwards said. 

General manager strategy 

and transformation Brendan 

Anstiss said it is updating the 

way staff and the city council 

UPDATE: The city council is developing a new colour 

palette and signage as part of its updated brand, which 

was revealed at the Taiora: QE II Recreation and Sport 

Centre. 


body communicates with the 

public. 

“This project also looks at the 

way we write letters to residents 

and the language we use on 

other material – this is our tone 

of voice. We want to be helpful 

and positive,” he said. 

City council staff have been 

working with teams throughout 

the organisation on the tone of 

voice to make sure communications 

and messages are easy to 

understand, and the city council 

is easy to deal with. 

But the makeover also includes 

consistent signage, fonts 

and a colour palette across facilities 

like the recently opened 

Taiora: QE II Recreation and 

Sport Centre. 

New signage has also been 

developed for the central library 

Tūranga and the Ngā Puna Wai 

Sports Hub. 

“This is about us having 

a sharper focus on positive 

language and imagery – across 

all of our ‘touch points’ with 

residents,” he said. 

Mr Anstiss said the goal is to 

become “more citizen-focused.” 

“It is being developed internally, 

with staff providing 

our colour palette, font and 

guidance to project architects to 

ensure consistency,” he said. 

“This is not a re-brand, the 

council’s logo is unchanged,” 

Mr Anstiss said. 

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Brantley will stay on at the 

organisation part-time while 

someone is found to replace him. 

The current chief executive announced 

his resignation from the 

role in April to “focus on other 

national and overseas activities.” 

An Otakaro spokesman said 

Mr Brantley would finish his 

full-time position at the end of 

the month but would stay on in 

a part-time capacity until a new 

chief executive was appointed. 

“Other senior staff members 

provide will assistance in the 

interim.” 

The spokesman said a recruitment 

process to replace Mr Brantley 

began in April. 

“An announcement about his 

replacement will be made in due 

course.” 

Mr Brantley, the former Genesis 

Energy chief executive was appointed 

in 2016, when Otakaro 

was formed. 

In June 2016, The Star revealed 

Otakaro spent $108,000 headhunting 

internationally for its 

chief executive before choosing 

Waimakariri-based Mr Brantley. 

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THE FINAL building to 

complete the northern edge of 

the central city’s retail precinct 

has been given the green light. 

Developer Tim Glasson has received 

resource consent to build 

a retail and office development 

where the Stewart Dawson building 

once stood. 

Plans show the proposed building, 

on the corner of High and 

Cashel Sts, will have retail on the 

ground floor and offices on the 

rest. 

The triangular-shaped site, 

next to the Grand Central building, 

had been used by Leighs 

Construction as a site depot office 

for its central city projects. 

Once the building is finished 

early next year, it will signalise 

the completion of the northern 

edge of the retail precinct, which 

NEW: An 

artist’s 

impression 

of what the 

new building 

will look 

like when 

completed. 

Building gets go-ahead 

runs between Oxford Tce, Lichfield, 

High and Hereford Sts. 

The 1911 four-storey Stewart 

Dawsons building, which used to 

be on the site housed Jean Jones. 

It was damaged in the February 

22, 2011, earthquake and later 

demolished. 

Savills retail leasing agent Ryan 

Geddes said they were currently 

negotiating with tenants to move 

into the development, which 

was expected to open in the first 

quarter of next year. 

He said the site had “huge profile” 

given its close proximity to 

the ANZ Centre, H&M and The 

Crossing. 

The building would be the 

“finishing touch” to the northern 

edge of the retail precinct, Mr 

Geddes said. 

The plans show cycle and car 

parking would be provided in the 

Hereford St car park. 

Land earmarked for hotel 

THE LAND and consented 

building plans for a seven-storey 

hotel, retail and residential 

complex in the central city are 

for sale under instruction from 

the property’s mortgagee. 

The property at 818 Colombo 

St is a flat 1019 sq m site with 

25m frontage onto the street. 

The city council granted 

building consent in February 

2016 for the construction of 

a seven-level hotel, retail and 

apartment development on the 

site. 

The rectangular-shaped location 

is consented for: 

•475 sq m of street-level retail 

space housing shops, cafes, a 

reception area for the serviced 

apartments above, and 19 car 

parking spaces, some of which 

will be provided in a dual 

stacker system. 

•2336 sq m of studio and onebedroom 

serviced apartments 

spread over four levels. 

•Six two-storey apartments on 

the top two floors, totaling 838 

sq m. 

The land and consented 

building plans are being jointly 

marketed for sale by tender by 

Bayleys Auckland and Bayleys 

Canterbury, with tenders closing 

at 4pm today. 

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development plans on Colombo St is on the market. 

Salesmen Mike Adams and 

Justin Haley said the city council 

consent allowed for a 5.8m 

height extension to the central 

city mixed use zone plans allowing 

it to be 28m high. 

The residential units within 

the top two storeys of the tower 

are planned to be set back from 

the edge of the lower levels 

allowing for the creation of balconies 

and decked areas 

and addressing any concerns 

of shadowing onto Colombo 

St. 

The site originally housed 

the New Albion Tavern, which 

was knocked down for a new 

bar Baileys 818. That five-storey 

building was then damaged in 

the February 22, 2011, earthquake 

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back on market The week so far . . . 

The consented plans show 

the new building is shaped 

in a horse-shoe design with a 

controlled one-way vehicular 

laneway running along the middle, 

with retail tenancies on one 

side and hotel reception areas 

and the apartment lift on the 

other. 

Mr Haley said the property 

was designed and configured to 

straddle both the business and 

leisure guest sectors with the new 

Convention Centre being the 

catalyst for attracting a growing 

number of activities, events, 

exhibitions and conferences. 

The plans showed minimal 

food service operations for the 

site because travellers usually 

had business-related dinners, 

and visitors were more likely to 

explore other attractions nearby, 

he said. 

Mr Haley said the development 

would be different to others 

nearby. 

Latest tourism statistics from 

the Ministry of Business Innovation 

and Employment for 

the year ending in March show 

strong performances across the 

matrices measuring Canterbury’s 

commercial accommodation 

sector. 

It showed the total number of 

guest nights in the region rose 

21.2 per cent and the overall 

occupancy rate in Canterbury 

accommodation establishments 

rose from 50.4 per cent to 55.5 

per cent. 

The figures show hotels in 

Christchurch had an average 

occupancy rate of 84.83 per cent 

in March, with guests staying an 

average of 1.62 days. 

Bayleys’ director of hotels and 

tourism Nick Thompson said as 

the business district continued to 

regenerate, more domestic travel 

and visitor business would be 

lured back. 

“Before the quakes there 

were some 3900 three to five 

star branded hotel rooms in 

Christchurch. Post the quake 

that number plummeted to less 

than 1000. 

“Now it’s back up to an 

inventory of 2300 rooms, with an 

additional 800 planned to come 

on line in the next 18 months. 

That’s still at an inventory lower 

than before the quakes so there 

is still plenty of capacity in the 

market.” 

He said there had been a 

hole, and this Colombo St 

development would fill that. 

•A two-day symposium 

on the lessons learned 

from the earthquakes 

will be held in November. 

In 2016, the former 

National Government 

spent $200,000 planning 

the symposium before 

it was cancelled by then 

Minister supporting 

Greater Christchurch Regeneration 

Gerry Brownlee. 

The symposium will 

serve as a forerunner to 

an international event 

which will be held in 

2021 to mark the 10th 

anniversary of the 

quakes. 

•An aggrieved quake 

claimant who felt “ignored 

and stonewalled” 

when he squirted paint 

stripper over Earthquake 

Commission staff cars 

avoided jail after coughing 

up $14,394.28 in 

reparation. Semi-retired 

painter and decorator 

Russell Taylor Carr, 57, 

was found guilty of intentional 

damage at the 

district court earlier this 

year. Carr wrote out two 

cheques in court on Monday. 

He was also ordered 

to 150 hours community 

work. 

•The country’s 

first fully electric 

bus service 

will be plugged 

into Christchurch 

early next 

year. Red Bus 

has purchased 

three electric 

buses as part of 

its commitment 

to gradually 

introducing new innovative 

technology across 

the public transport 

service. The new buses, 

which will be delivered 

by March, will be used 

on the direct service 

route 29 between the 

CBD and Christchurch 

Airport. 

•Professor Cheryl de 

la Rey is the new vicechancellor 

of Canterbury 

University. She will move 

from her role as vicechancellor 

of Pretoria 

University in South Africa 

in mid-February. She 

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is standing down 

after 10 years in 

Canterbury. 

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on State Highway 7 

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More soon-to-be brides are buying their wedding gowns from 

overseas websites to nab a deal. But for many, it doesn’t pay off. 

Bridget Rutherford reports 

SPECIALIST: Brides of Merivale owner Lisa Dermott says there’s 

much more to buying a wedding dress than picking the style 

and colour. 


THESE DAYS many think 

buying their dream wedding 

gown can be as easy as the click 

of a mouse. 

Online websites such as 

CocoMelody, AliExpress and 

JJsHouse are offering dresses, 

which are manufactured in 

China, for the big day for as low 

as $100. 

But while some are successful, 

for others when the dress arrives 

they find it can be poor quality, 

it doesn’t fit, or it simply wasn’t 

what they expected. 

And for many who buy online, 

they are not covered by the Consumer 

Guarantees Act. 

Christchurch bridal stores say 

as it’s buying season currently, 

brides-to-be should think carefully 

about where they purchase 

their dress for the big day. 

Brides of Merivale owner Lisa 

Dermott said there was so much 

more to choosing a gown than 

picking a style, cut and colour. 

She said no dress was the same 

because there were so many possible 

variations, such as the type 

of fabric, the colour or the cut, 

making it difficult to buy without 

seeing it. 

“We have the product for you 

to try on. You can compare the 

different shapes, necklines and 

fabric. We can modify any style 

to see and morph it into what you 

like. You can try it on and see 

what it looks like as opposed to 

guessing and taking a punt.” 

She said overseas-based websites 

were “notorious” for ripping 

off designs of well-known and 

popular wedding brands, and 

using their photos to sell them 

online. 

“In reality what they send you 

may not be that picture.” 

A lot of online dresses were poor 

quality, which made them difficult 

and costly to alter, she said. 

Brides of Merivale dresses 

ranged anywhere from $1500 to 

more than $5000. 

But Ms Dermott said the store 

also offered advice and recommendations. 

“We always try to advise brides 

to set the budget for your wedding. 

If you’re trying to do it 

under a certain price point, look 

at the things you can save money 

on and what you can’t. There’s a 

lot of things you can do yourself 

and save on like decorations. 

Spend that little bit more on 

items like your dress.” 

To Cherish Bridal Boutique 

owner Alison Van Lent when 

buying locally, brides could try 

on the dresses, see the quality, 

and know they had been ethically 

made. 

“I’ve had brides that regularly 

turn up in tears as their wedding 

is only a few weeks away and they 

haven’t got a dress because they 

bought online,” she said. 

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about their price point we have 

a great range of off-the-rack 

dresses. We will help find them 

something.” 

Dresses usually started at about 

$1800 in store, she said. 

Ms Van Lent said many bridal 

stores had started charging for 

consultations to try on dresses, 

because so many tried the dresses 

on in store, before ordering 

what they think is a similar style 

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wedding dress online 

She said To Cherish also sold 

vales, bridesmaid dresses, shoes 

and flower girls dresses. 

Staff gave professional advice, 

fitted the dresses, stored the gown 

and pressed it, made alterations, 

gave advice, and more, she said. 

“We even offer full consultation 

where we teach the bridesmaids 

how to dress the bride, how to 

walk down the isle, how to hold 

the flowers, how to go to the toilet. 

It’s a whole experience, it’s not 

just about buying a dress.” 

Consumer New Zealand consumer 

advisor Maggie Edwards 

said people who bought dresses 

from overseas online websites 

were not covered by the Consumer 

Guarantees Act. 

She said people needed to check 

the terms and conditions of the 

website, and do their research 

beforehand. 

Consumer NZ did get a lot of 

complaints about people having 

problems when buying wedding 

dresses online from overseas, Ms 

Edwards said. 

“But we also get complaints 

about buying wedding dresses in 

New Zealand.” 

She said at the end of the day, 

it was a choice, and the decision 

was up to the individual. 

Davis Bridal owner Carolyn 

I DO: Don’t spoil your happy 

day by having a wedding 

dress which isn’t up to 

expectation. 

Rushton said while she had heard 

of some brides getting lucky, others 

did not. 

“We had one girl who bought 

three online and never got the 

right size so she came in and 

bought one from us. We’ve had 

girls wanting us to alter their 

dresses. Some of them just about 

have to be remade. 

“By the time they have to pay 

for it to fit them it runs up the 

cost.” 

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AN archaeological dig 

in search of the ancient 

Philistines is taking local 

body politician John 

Stringer to the biblical 

home of Goliath. 

The Otago University 

doctoral student and Papanui-Innes 

Community 

Board member will spend 

three weeks in Israel’s Tell 

es-Safi from June 24. 

He’ll be working on site 

of the Bar-Ilan University 

institute of archaeology 

dig, one of the world’s largest 

sites, as part of his PhD 

studies. 

“I’ve always been 

interested in the classical 

world. I did my masters at 

Victoria University in the 

ancient Middle East,” Mr 

Stringer said. 

Tell es-Safi is widely 

accepted as the location 

of Gath, the main city of 

• By Sarla Donovan 

THE SITE of a bloody 

massacre on Banks 

Peninsula is a step closer to 

achieving National Reserve 

status. 

Takapuneke sits 

between Akaroa 

and the settlement 

of Onuku. 

In 1830 Ngati Toa 

chief Te Rauparaha 

and a war party of 

100 went ashore 

from the brig 

Elizabeth – anchored 

on pretext of 

trading flax – and sacked 

Takapuneke, killing many 

of the inhabitants and capturing 

Ngai Tahu leader Te 

Maiharanui. 

The act was considered 

revenge for the killing of 

Ngati Toa chief Te Pehi 

John Stringer 

the now vanished ancient 

Philistines – a race known 

for their barbarism, destruction 

and conflict with 

the Israelites. 

Mr Stringer will be 

working under Philistine 

expert Professor Aren 

Maeir, who recently 

uncovered what could be 

Goliath’s tomb. 

“It’s an exciting site and 

Kupe at Kaiapoi two years 

earlier. 

In 2002 the reserve was 

registered with the New 

Zealand Historic Places 

Trust as wahi tapu (a place 

of outstanding historic or 

cultural heritage 

value) and in 

2006 the Banks 

Peninsula District 

Council resolved 

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denoting the same 

standing as the 

Waitangi Treaty 

Grounds. 

But a reserve management 

plan has to be in 

place before an application 

can be made. 

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of Silence, Park of Reflection 

and Park of Healing. 

RUIN: John 

Stringer is 

going to an 

archaeological 

dig at the site 

of the ancient 

Philistine city 

of Gath. 

Archaeological dig 

lures city politician 

an exciting opportunity,” 

he said. “I’ve been told its 

the year to be going.” 

The gate of Gath, which 

is mentioned in the biblical 

story of David’s escape 

from King Saul to King 

Achish, was also discovered 

at the site in 2015 by 

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between the Philistines 

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four years until he’s Dr 

Stringer. He plans to head 

to the Tell es-Safi dig site 

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three years. 

Te Rauparaha site 

may get new status 

Te Rauparaha 

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Nigel Hampton 

Lawyer’s 53 years at the bar and 

Internationally-acclaimed 

criminal defence lawyer 

Nigel Hampton QC, 

73, has been involved 

in the justice system 

for 53 years. He talks to 

Julia Evans about being 

made a Companion of 

the New Zealand Order 

of Merit for his services to 

the law, his love of rugby 

and some of his most 

fascinating cases 

Congratulations on the 

Queen’s Birthday Honour. How 

did it feel to get that under your 

belt? 

It was a mix of feelings, really. 

I’m sort of ambivalent about the 

public side of it. Inside you’re 

pleased, quietly pleased with 

the recognition of it. It was a 

surprise. Criminal lawyers don’t 

get accolades really. The public 

persona is not seen as one of the 

most honourable parts of the 

profession in a funny way. The 

reality is different, but that’s the 

public perception sometimes, I’m 

afraid. 

How did your family react? 

They’re pretty pleased, delighted 

really. One of my grandsons, 

a youngster, made it the theme of 

his morning talk at school. That 

was quite wonderful in its own 

way. 

Can you tell me a little bit 

about them? 

They’re spread around a bit 

now. My wife and I, we’ve got a 

lot of kids. Three in Canterbury, 

one in Auckland, one in 

Tauranga, one in Sydney and one 

in New York. Ten grandchildren 

as well, from ages five to 21. 

They’re a good bunch. 

Have your children followed 

you into law? 

No, not directly. One of them 

has a law degree, but he’s a 

diplomat in New York. Because 

of the sort of work I’ve done 

most of my life, the criminal 

work, a lot of it was not made for 

dinner-time discussion. Your 

actual cases were not the subject 

of discussion, though law and 

politics was often the subject of 

discussion in the wider sense. 

Have you always lived in 

Christchurch/Canterbury? 

I was born and brought up in 

Leeston so primary school in 

Leeston, secondary school in 

Southbridge and for my last two 

years of secondary school I came 

into Christchurch. Pretty well 

lived in Christchurch ever since 

except for a few years in Tonga 

when I was the chief justice over 

there. 

When you’re not in court, 

what does a day off look like? 

For the last 29 years, we’ve 

owned an old farmhouse in 

Okains Bay. We used to go there 

with the children in the school 

holidays. It’s a lovely spot. The 

opportunity eventually came for 

us to buy the place over there, so 

days off are primarily thought of 

in terms of that house and some 

sailing, land yachting, dragging 

nets of flounder, paua gathering, 

swimming. All of those things 

that are connected with the 

house at the beach. We get there 

as often as we can. The cellphone 

doesn’t work over there, which is 

nice. It’s still one of the charms 

of those sort of places. 

Do you still play rugby? 

I played my last game of 

rugby when I was 60, so I haven’t 

played in a few years now. I’ve 

still retained links to and interest 

in rugby after having become 

part of the rugby judiciary and 

chair of the New Zealand Rugby 

judiciary. I’ve played a part for 

the SANZAAR Super Rugby 

competition for the last eight 

years or so. I chair their foul play 

review committee and also do 

judiciary work for world rugby 

so I was on call for the first Ireland/Australia 

test. If anything 

happens, I fly over and conduct 

a hearing. It combines a bit of 

my passion for rugby and my 

passion for justice. When you get 

to spend time doing those things 

together, it’s a lovely feeling. 

What club did you play for? 

Initially it was Leeston, 

Canterbury Country rugby in 

Leeston. Then I took a break for 

a while when I made a bit of a 

career. When I came back to it, 

I played for Canterbury University. 

Then for Christchurch and 

back to Canterbury University. 

There’s some mixed loyalties 

there. You form friendships out 

of the rugby, as with any sporting 

endeavour you enter into. 

In terms of your career, how 

did you find yourself in law? 

Just by default really, in a 

funny way. Last year of school, I 

knew I didn’t have the necessary 

background, my country 

education wasn’t strong in 

maths and sciences. I’d thought 

about medicine. But I did like 

and was strong in English and 

things literary and I knew that 

teaching wasn’t for me. Some 

of the others at school had gone 

into law and said give it a shot, 

PASSION: 

Nigel 

Hampton 

working at 

his home. 

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HUNTER 

so I did. It developed quite nicely 

really. By the time I qualified, 

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those days, you used to do most 

of your study working as a law 

clerk. You’d do your lectures 

early in the morning before 

the start of the work day, and 

at the end of the day, after the 

work day. Your lectures were 

basically between 8am and 

9am and from 5pm until 8pm. 

By the time you finished your 

degree and qualified, you had 

quite an amount of practical 

hands-on experience. By sitting 

in the back of the court as your 

employers would allow you, 

you’d observe cases being tried, 

you’d observe lawyers in action 

and absorb by osmosis quite a 

lot of information and hopefully 

skill of how to do things. So 

once you got there yourself, 

the expectation was that by 

osmosis you would have learnt 

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still making sure justice prevails 

Have you always specialised in 

criminal law? 

Well you’re talking early to 

mid-60s and specialisation wasn’t 

really around to the degree it is 

now. If you did court work, you 

did all sorts of court work whether 

it was civil or debt collection or 

what would be seen now as family, 

though it was called domestic 

back then or it was criminal. If 

you were going to have a courtbased 

practice you really had to 

do everything. Christchurch is 

still a comparatively small city, so 

if you wanted to make your fulltime 

occupation a court lawyer, 

you had to do everything. 

What are some of your career 

highlights? 

It is difficult to nominate 

individual cases. In a career that 

you’ve done close to somewhere 

near 100 homicides of various 

sorts it really is difficult to 

single out cases. Instrumental in 

making my name as a criminal 

lawyer, which did lead to specialisation 

and at the time a quite sensational 

trial on the West Coast, 

a man called Bailey for killing his 

wife. There were extraordinary 

circumstances involved in it and 

it lead to his acquittal against 

quite a mountain of evidence 

with the Solicitor-General 

himself prosecuting it. About the 

same time I acted for the Island 

Bay Labour MP Gerald O’Brien 

charged with indecencies and 

persuaded the senior magistrate 

in Christchurch at the preliminary 

hearing that the charges 

should be thrown out. Having 

taken a chance and cross-examined 

quite vigorously the two 

complainants against O’Brien I 

persuaded the magistrate that 

their evidence was not worthy of 

any credit and the charges should 

be thrown out, which is what 

he did. So those two cases really 

made my reputation and lead to 

me specialising in the criminal 

field. To nominate cases from 

there on is very difficult. In all 

of them you hope you’re giving 

MEETING: Professor Maan Alkaisi and Nigel Hampton QC outside the CTV site. 


your best and doing your best 

to obtain justice for your client. 

You’d pick out and say some of 

the allegations against police 

officers for kidnapping Rastafarians 

in the Ruatoria area, they 

were some sensational cases in 

the mid to late 80s. During my 

period of time in Tonga in the 

mid-90s there was a significant 

case, which I’m quite proud of 

in a way, three people, one of 

them now the prime minister in 

Tonga. Three people had people 

had been imprisoned by Parliament 

for contempt of Parliament 

and they brought a written 

habeas corpus in to be released. 

I determined that they had not 

been properly summonsed in 

front of the house, they had not 

been given proper particulars 

of the charge or charges, which 

they were to face and that they 

had not been given a proper trial 

so I said that was not withstanding 

the certain conventions that 

relate to courts not interfering in 

Parliamentary processes, that not 

withstanding that this was such 

a breach of constitutional rights, 

rights that were embedded in the 

Tongan constitution, that these 

three men had to be set free. 

You’re glad when you look back 

on that and realise there were 

pressures on you not to interfere 

with Parliament and let Parliament 

go its own way. But on the 

other hand I saw the rule of law, 

fairness and justice required and 

constitutional rights required 

that these men be set free. So you 

look back on those sort of things 

and you’re glad you did hold the 

line. 

How was it working on the 

high profile cases like Pike River 

Mine and CTV Building? 

It bought about quite a change 

and it was quite an opportune 

moment for in a way, given the 

advance of years. It was a chance 

to step away for a bit from some 

of the stresses of doing criminal 

defence work and to look in 

and take up totally different 

aspects of the law in terms of 

public safety and the failures 

both individual and collective 

to protect people at work in the 

case of the Pike River Mine and 

both people and work and the 

public coming into buildings in 

the case of the CTV Building. It 

has been quite a change in my 

practise and has brought me to 

think about some of the issues 

that are involved in some of 

those aspects of public law. Such 

as the protection of peoples, 

both workers and members of 

the public and what protections 

should be afforded to them, what 

sanctions should be thought of 

and should be imposed or at least 

thought of being imposed on 

people and corporations involved 

in not only the running of such 

enterprises, the planning of them 

and managing them like mining 

and other hazardous enterprises, 

but also involved in the designed 

and consenting of the buildings 

where public have rights of access. 

In both instances, in the 

mine and the building, the position 

that the governmental, both 

local and central, governmental 

agencies as regulators should play 

and whether they are sufficiently 

contentious in their performance 

of their obligations. In both cases 

I would say there were failures of 

the regulators in relation both to 

the mine and the building. 

Is the New Zealand legal 

system the best it could be? 

What improvements could be 

made? What do we do well? 

By and large we do have a 

very good and uncorrupt legal 

system. I stress the uncorrupt. 

It’s a trait not to be underemphasised. 

When you look 

around the world, we are very 

fortunate indeed that we have 

never had issues of corruption 

in the New Zealand judicial 

system. That is a very positive 

thing. I think our legal system 

works quite well but it is under 

resourced. It could be better 

managed in its years in terms of 

the different courts that we have. 

They could be better structured 

and better managed than they 

are, but that’s pretty minor in the 

scheme of things. 

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Passion for justice 


What we do lack is a sufficiency 

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woefully under-judged in terms 

of the number of judges and 

both have significant and growing 

back logs. There is much to 

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delayed is justice denied. If I 

look back over my 50-plus years, 

the one thing that I would say 

that has been a degradation of 

the system is the length of time 

between a case being started in 

the court initiating papers and 

it getting through to a decision. 

What has happened, is it has 

grown from a matter of just a few 

months to a matter of years. That 

is of great concern and it is not 

fair to litigants, whether civil, 

criminal or family, not fair to 

witnesses and it only makes particularly 

factual determinations 

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Have you ever considered 

becoming a district or High 

Court judge yourself? 

No. I had an interesting experience 

doing that in Tonga, it 

JUSTICE: Nigel Hampton 

QC was made a 

Companion of the New 

Zealand Order of Merit for 

services to the law. 

was the break from doing things 

that I wanted to have happen. 

I enjoyed it. But being at the 

bar gives you a freedom, which 

includes the freedom to speak 

publicly on important issues, 

which I have done a fair bit of in 

my time. I think its important 

particularly when you get to be 

senior in your profession, senior 

at the bar. That senior voice 

needs to be heard on issues from 

time to time. While you remain 

at the bar and remain a barrister, 

you have that ability still to be 

heard. If you become a judge you 

lose that, you become subject to 

the dictates of where you’ve got 

to be, what you’ve got to do. Having 

been a barrister just about all 

of my life, first in a firm but more 

lately, for the last 30 years as an 

individual practitioner, I value 

that freedom too much. Being 

able to work in your own profession, 

in your own way and in 

your own time is something that 

I would not lightly give away. 

I know you spoke out about 

now liking the design of the 

new Justice Precinct, has it 

grown on you since you’ve been 

working there? 

It’s grown even more adversely 

on me, not more fondly. I retain 

my views about it. It is an important 

constitutional aspect that 

police and courts shouldn’t be in 

the same building complex. That 

is inappropriate and that still is 

my most fundamental criticism 

of that building. 

Any plans to slow down and 

retire? 

No, whilst I retain my physical 

health and I think have a reasonable 

mind still and whilst my 

memory doesn’t get too slippery, 

I have no plans to slow down. 

MPs back Maori 

land plan at Purau 

• By Sarla Donovan 

PORT HILLS MPs Ruth Dyson 

and Nuk Korako are backing a 

city council plan to gift Purau 

Maori Reserve to Rapaki 

Runanga rather than retain 

public ownership. 

A city council report supporting 

the transfer of the 1300 sq m 

site was set aside after residents 

raised objections at a recent 

Banks Peninsula Community 

Board meeting. 

Purau residents Jill Rice, Graham 

Christie and Thomas Kulpe 

criticised the move as an act of 

privatisation and said information 

supporting the recommendation 

was “biased, incorrect 

and has omissions.” 

Rapaki spokeswoman Yvette 

Couch-Lewis declined to comment, 

saying it would not be 

appropriate at this time. 

National List MP Nuk Korako 

and Labour MP for Port Hills 

Ruth Dyson both agreed with the 

city council recommendation. 

Mr Korako said that as a member 

of Te Hapu o Ngati Wheke 

“naturally I support the staff 

recommendation . . . to return the 

land to Te Hapu o Ngati Wheke.” 

Returning an urupa (cemetery) 

to the control of a body that 

represented Te Hapu o Ngati 

Wheke was not privatisation “in 

the absolute sense,” he said. “It is 

being returned to the democratic 

control of a representative body.” 

Ms Dyson said the site was a 

Ngati Wheke urupa and there 

had been “considerable unhappiness” 

from runanga around the 

peninsula about its desecration 

over past decades. 

“I also note that there is a significant 

public reserve just 100m 

from this site,” Ms Dyson said. 

Mr Kulpe – one of the key 

objectors – said he was not 

surprised at the response given 

Mr Kurako’s roots and position 

on various Maori trust boards. 

“And of course we’re talking 

about 1400 sq m which doesn’t 

look like a huge sacrifice. From 

a political perspective the risk 

of being labelled anti-tangata 

whenua is much greater than 

looking at the finer points of this 

whole thing,” Mr Kulpe said. 

He said one of the arguments 

for revoking the land’s reserve 

status – that it was an urupa – 

was incorrect as this can only be 

bestowed by application to the 

Maori Land Court. 

Meet Simon Bridges 

Connecting with 

communities 

Thursday 21 June 4pm 

Public meeting 

Christchurch Bridge Club 

21 Nova Place 

Christchurch Central 

Simon Bridges Leader of the Opposition 

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News 

Monkey flower: City’s lurking problem 

• By Stacey Bryan 

THE MONKEY flower might be 

ornamental in the Christchurch 

Botanic Gardens, but it is 

becoming an ever-increasing 

environmental issue in city rivers 

and the wider region. 

The plant can grow over 1m 

tall and take over the waterways 

in which it grows, smothering 

native species and even changing 

the water current. 

Canterbury University 

student Michelle Williamson 

has received the Roland Stead 

Postgraduate Scholarship to 

study features of the monkey 

flower that could make it more of 

a problem in some habitats than 

others. 

These include variations in 

flower and leaf size, and photosynthetic 

rate. 

The 23-year-old chose to study 

the monkey flower, Mimulus 

guttatus, for her master of science 

because there was “a ridiculous 

amount of research on the 

species in the United States but 

virtually none in New Zealand.” 

The monkey flower is native in 

the US and was brought to New 

Zealand as an ornamental plant. 

Miss Williamson said she had 

not seen anything eat the plant 

SERIOUS: Canterbury University’s Michelle Williamson 

checks growth of a New Zealand invader – Mimulus 

guttatus (below). 


in NZ but had seen bees pollinate 

it. That means there might 

not be anything other than 

humans that can control its 

population. 

She said it was “in its 

early stages” but the weed 

could become a major 

invasive species within the next 

10 years. 

It is already growing in the 

Avon/Ōtākaro and Heathcote/ 

Ōpāwaho rivers, as well as 

Travis Wetland, Halswell 

Quarry and “it’s really bad 

in Rangiora.” 

Environment 

Canterbury’s principle 

resource management 

biosecurity adviser Laurence 

The Roland Stead Postgraduate 

Scholarship in 

Biology was established 

in 2013 by Mr Stead, 96, 

to honour the ties he and 

his family have to the 

Canterbury University. 

Mr Stead grew up in 

the Ilam homestead, now 

the UC staff club, and inherited 

the 21ha block of 

Ilam land when his father 

passed away. 

In spite of constant 

purchase offers for small 

portions of the property, 

Mr Stead was “against the 

sale of Ilam in bits and 

pieces”. 

He said he cared more 

about preserving the land 

and gardens than he did 

about making money. 

Smith said the plant is not 

classed as a pest and so there 

have been no efforts to control it 

in the Canterbury region. 

Mr Smith said there are many 

widespread invasive organisms 

in Canterbury that do not have 

pest status because they are 

difficult to contain or control, 

and the costs of doing so would 

Mr Stead refused to sell 

until the Ministry of Works 

offered to buy the entire 

property so they could 

move UC into the city. 

He sold in 1949 only on 

the condition that the 

university maintained the 

gardens cultivated by his 

father. 

“I got exactly what I 

wanted,” he said, and is 

pleased to see that Ilam 

has turned out how it is 

today. 

Mr Stead has also donated 

funds to support 

dryland research at Lincoln 

University, the Ilam 

gardens, and to dedicate 

the Edgar Stead atrium of 

UC’s Biological Sciences 

to his father. 

outweigh the benefits. 

Miss Williamson said the 

monkey flower is easily spread 

when small fragments break off 

and lodge in the soles of shoes or 

in tyre treads. 

The fragment is then transported 

to another body of water, 

where it is dislodged and begins 

to grow.



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Stand taken 

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for organisation 

• By Sophie Cornish 

THE FENDALTON-Waimairi- 

Harewood Community Board 

should not be funding a project 

which targets issues such as 

mental health, overcrowded 

housing and behavioural 

problems. 

That’s the stand board chairman 

Sam MacDonald took over 

$20,000 of funding granted to Te 

Ora Hou Otautahi last week. 

But Mr MacDonald was the 

only board member at the meeting 

to vote against the plan. 

“I voted against it because it’s 

ratepayer money, we have a lot 

of priorities in the city and I just 

felt that when I talk to my constituents, 

it’s more about fixing 

our roads and infrastructure with 

ratepayers’ money,” he said. 

“Don’t get me wrong it’s a noble 

cause and what they are doing 

is great, but you have to go and 

justify it to ratepayers.” 

The money will fund Te Ora 

Hou’s whanau resiliency project, 

which identifies young people and 

their families most at risk for issues 

such as mental health, overcrowded 

housing, poor school attendance 

and behavioural problems. 

More for less in housing market 


COMMUNITY Housing Trust 

has put its first newly-built 

affordable homes on the market. 

The three architecturally 

designed homes are on a section 

with two titles on Wainoni’s Ottawa 

Rd. 

The back title has one threebedroom 

house and a two-bedroom 

house while the front title 

has a three-bedroom home. 

The homes would likely be available 

to families who had a household 

income of under $80,000, 

although that was flexible. 

Community Housing Trust 

managing director and former 

mayor Garry Moore said the 

houses were the product of feedback 

from families about what 

they wanted in a home. 

He said they were originally 

built to cater for larger families 

who could have multiple generations 

living on site. 

But there was also the option 

of splitting the two titles and 

selling them separately, he said. 

The front title with a threebedroom 

home has an asking 

price of $340,000, while the 

back title with three-bedroom 

and two-bedroom houses had a 

$525,000 asking price for both. 

A single garage was available 

for each three-bedroom home on 

the roadside of the property. 

Mr Moore said the trust was 

set up in 2014 with the aim to 

make housing affordable, and 

to help buyers get into home 

ownership. It originally started 

by shifting homes from the residential 

red zone to other suburbs 

so they could be sold lived in. 

The trust primarily focused on 

the eastern suburbs, which were 

hit hard after the February 22, 

2011, earthquake, Mr Moore said. 

The Ottawa Rd homes were 

the first new builds the trust had 

done and once they were sold, it 

would look at building more, he 

said. 

Trustee Geoff Butcher said 

the north-facing homes were 

high quality and well designed, 

though they were not on large 

sections. 

“I think the idea is really 

good.” 

Mr Butcher said the trust had 

indicated it could provide an 

equity share of perhaps $50,000 

for either of the titles. 

“The idea of equity share is 

AFFORDABLE: 

Community 

Housing Trust 

managing 

director Garry 

Moore outside 

one of the new 

homes the trust 

is selling in 

Wainoni. 

PHOTO: MARTIN 

HUNTER 

that where people can’t get sufficient 

equity to satisfy a bank, we 

may be willing to leave in some 

equity.” 

He said that differed from a 

local in that if house prices went 

up, the trust shares in the gains, 

while if prices go down, the trust 

shares in the losses. 

Mr Butcher said in the future 

the trust could look at pre-selling 

the homes before they were built. 

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Revised plan benefits Woolston 

Council to 

‘revitalise’ 

the village 

MORE CAR parks, mini plazas, 

wider footpaths and a focus on 

the area’s industrial character 

are central to a revised plan for 

Woolston Village. 

Under the city council’s Ferry 

Rd suburban master plan, the 

significant streetscape project 

aims to transform and revitalise 

the area. 

The upgrade extends along 

Ferry Rd from Portman St to St 

Anne’s School. 

“The council has taken the 

time to consider feedback on the 

previous village consultation 

in 2016, and we are pleased to 

bring back a revised plan that 

best balances the needs of the 

community,” planning and 

delivery transport manager 

Lynette Ellis said. 

“The changes complement 

Woolston’s distinctive character, 

while improving the way the 

village looks and feels, attracting 

more people to the area. 

“The new plan retains 

PLANS: An artist’s impression of what Woolston 

Village could look like. Feedback is open on a revised 

regeneration proposal for the village. 

more parking spaces than 

the previous proposal, and 

features safety improvements 

for pedestrians, cyclists and bus 

users.” 

It features wider footpaths and 

cycle lanes, upgraded crossings 

and street lighting, and 55 onstreet 

parking spaces, along with 

time-restricted parking to lift 

turnover. 

Thirty-two off-street car park 

spaces are being provided as 

part of the Woolston Library 

project. 

A laneway linking Ferry Rd 

to the public car park and preschool 

behind the library will be 

upgraded for use by pedestrians 

and cyclists under the library 

development. 

New and upgraded bus 

stops and shelters will also be 

introduced. 

The village “gateway” includes 

trees, paving and kerb buildouts 

at Portman St and St Anne’s 

School to define the entrances to 

the area, with a 30km/h speed 

limit to be trialled for one year. 

About 30 new trees will be 

planted, along with new garden 

beds. 

“We plan to use building 

setback areas to create ‘miniplazas’, 

with outdoor furniture 

that reflects the industrial 

character of Woolston,” Ms Ellis 

said. 

“We also want to celebrate 

Woolston’s heritage and cultural 

connections to the Heathcote 

River with etched paving 

stones depicting the area’s 

history.” 

•Public consultation on 

the revised plan is open 

until July 3 at ccc.govt.nz/ 

the-council/consultationsand-submissions/ 

haveyoursay/show/151 

Shopping 

hub idea 

for garden 

centre 

THE UP for sale Portstone 

Garden Centre in Woolston could 

potentially become a shopping or 

hospitality hub. 

That is one of the possible 

uses for the site on the corner 

of Ferry Rd and Smith St being 

suggested. The land and buildings 

housing Portstone, one of 

Christchurch’s first independently-owned 

garden centres, and 

38-seater café, has been placed on 

the market for sale. 

The 1160 sq m warehouse-style 

building on 4803 sq m of freehold 

land will be sold by a deadline 

process through Bayleys Canterbury, 

with offers closing at 4pm 

on June 28. 

Bayleys Canterbury salesman 

Stewart White said the property 

was being sold as ‘vacant possession’ 

– with both the garden 

centre and café moving out in the 

near future. He said there was 

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Opinion 

•Have your say on the stadium issue, email your views 

to bridget.rutherford@starmedia.kiwi 

Readers respond to Star 

Media chairman Nick 

Smith’s column last week 

about his views on the 

city’s stadium debate, 

its cost, who stands to 

benefit most, and who 

should pay for it. His 

column can be read at 

www.star.kiwi 

Cynthia Johnson – We 

have to have a new stadium and 

one with a roof on it. This is our 

chance to get our rebuild done 

right and a roofed stadium is the 

way to go. 

The insurance has been paid 

out on Lancaster Park and the 

Government has given our city 

council $300 million to do as it 

wishes. So let’s get on with the 

building of our new stadium. We 

are missing too many sporting 

events and concerts, which 

means our hospitality businesses 

CONCEPT: Star Media chairman Nick Smith (inset) gave his views on plans for a new 

stadium in Christchurch. 

are suffering. It’s insulting that 

Christchurch, which is the third 

biggest city in New Zealand (just 

behind Wellington), is dithering 

over this. No doubt there will 

be whiners twittering on about 

the ratepayers having to pay for 

this so called white elephant. 

Well, I am a ratepayer and I 

don’t use the library, swimming 

pools and cycleways, but I am 

not complaining about my rates 

being spent on these things. 

Everyone has their own interests 

and passions; Christchurch 

is a big city and should have 

the infrastructure to cater to 

everyone. And it’s also the 

right of the sporting and music 

fraternity to have their interests 

catered to. Nick Smith seems 

to be biased towards Dunedin. 

Trouble is Dunedin hasn’t the 

accommodation to cater to a 

lot of out of town visitors and 

Christchurch is three times the 

size of Dunedin, so not having 

a top notch stadium would be a 

disgrace and insult to our city. 

Tim Smith – I have just read 

the article in The Star by Nick 

Smith, chairman of Star Media, 

regarding the stadium debate. 

There are certain aspects 

of his views I find curious. 

While the rationale behind the 

rugby options and concerts 

was interesting, the clearer 

conclusion was that, somehow, 

he thinks Dunedin should have 

the monopoly on sporting events 

due to its covered stadium and 

that Christchurch could settle for 

the concerts as the other venue. 

I note with interest that he 

was chairman of CTV and that 

February 22, 2011, still haunts 

him (unsurprisingly). However, 

to seriously consider that his 

suggestion of venue sharing 

is an option beggars belief. 

Firstly, the capital spend and 

project identification process for 

Christchurch is exclusively about 

Christchurch. This is not about 

Dunedin. I for one am getting 

somewhat irked by references to 

some South Island sharing entity. 

Secondly, with more than 

three times the population and 

an international airport, does 

Mr Smith honestly think that 

ratepayers are satisfied with the 

status quo? 

I can inform him that the 

populace up here would not 

tolerate not having a sporting 

stadium for premier sporting 

events. Has he been to AMI 

Stadium in Addington lately? 


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The Christchurch Art Show is back for a fifth year on the 22nd – 24th 

of June, at the Events Centre, The Wigram Air Force Museum of NZ! 

This is a great 

chance to get out 

in the middle of 

winter to view 

and purchase a 

wonderful variety 

of artwork. 

Opening Night 

is Thursday 21st 

June, 7pm. This 

is the exclusive 

opportunity to preview the exhibition. Ten 

signature artworks have been created for The 

Lawson’s Dry Hills People’s Choice Award 

2018. These artists are, Marie Kjestrup Evans, 

Joel Hart, Yana Meech, Deborah Fuller, 

Susan Hurrell Fieldes, Odelle Morshuis, 

Liz Turnbull, Esther Dexter, Lisa Grennell, 

Janyne Fletcher. Their works are available to 

see on the award wall, where you can vote for 

your favourite. 

Show days are 22nd June to 24 June. 

Cantabrians can visit the South Island’s 

largest art show and buy original quality 

artworks from established and emergent 

artists. All works are for sale, once purchased 

you can take your art home with you to enjoy. 

There is a wide range of styles and mediums. 

Artists from all over New Zealand are present 

to talk directly with the public about their 

arts practices. 

Saturday 23rd June 

from 5pm – 8pm, 

night market 

food trucks will 

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The Christchurch 

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available online 

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days, 10yrs and under free, gold card holders 

$8.00. Car parking is free, café onsite and 

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Opinion 

Labour’s ‘broken promises’ 

THE BITE of winter is nipping 

away at us and the shorter days 

are setting in. 

With the delivery of Labour’s 

much anticipated Budget last 

month, we saw many broken 

promises by the Ardern-Peters’ 

Government. And as Parliament 

returns, we will continue to 

see the detailed reality of these 

broken promises as ministers appear 

before select committees to 

outline the specific funding for 

their departments and explain 

their decisions. 

Some committees have already 

met. At those meetings, we 

heard from Andrew Little that 

the Pike River re-entry is being 

delayed further, we learnt that 

Shane Jones gave $61 million to 

Northland from his slush fund 

and only $42 million to the rest 

of the country, and we saw Kelvin 

Davis incapable of answering 

basic questions on this Government’s 

tourism policy. 

The Budget debate you saw 

last month was about the overall 

direction of the Government. 

Policies were briefly outlined and 

MPs debated whether or not the 

Budget was the right or wrong 

direction. Spoiler alert, I thought 

it heads in the wrong direction. 

This select committee process 

POLICY: Nicky Wagner says 

the Budget showed the 

“overall direction of the 

Government”. 

Politics 

Nicky Wagner 

is where we will see the actual 

dollars and cents revealed, discussed 

and questioned. This is 

the real debate about the specific 

policies of this Government and 

where we will see what promises 

they have kept and broken. 

But we already know of the 

many promises they have broken. 

And we are now seeing a 

winter of strikes roll ever closer. 

Labour gave Jones $3 billion 

and a blank cheque book, and 

Winston Peters’ mates got a tax 

break for their race horses – only 

the pretty ones, mind you – so 

there is little left to fulfil the 

many promises they made to 

New Zealanders. The promises 

people voted for. But in spite of 

the broken promises, they still 

borrowed an additional $10 billion 

to prop up their spending. 

When in Government, National 

had to borrow money for 

crises such as the global financial 

crisis and the Canterbury earthquakes. 

Labour has borrowed money 

to pay off Peters. And as winter 

rolls on, there are more strikes 

planned and people are still 

waiting for the winter energy 

payments promised for May 1. 

These are the cold and painful 

consequences of this budget of 

broken promises, the details of 

which will be on display over the 

coming fortnight. 

•Wagner is a National 

list MP for Christchurch 

Central and spokeswoman 

for Greater Christchurch 

Regeneration 

CONCERTS: Horncastle Arena is in a bidding war for 

events. 


After seven years, I can tell 

you that I no longer make 

the trip there due to the substandard 

facilities 

for a sportingproud 

province. 

Thirdly, Mr 

Smith deludes 

himself if he 

thinks people will 

accept inconvenient 

travel schedules 

(sometimes 

lasting two/three 

days just to get to Dunedin) to a 

city where the dearth of accommodation 

is, at best, hopeless 

and, at worst, appalling. 

Fourthly, the stadium in 

Christchurch ought to have been 

near completion by now but various 

central/local government 

entities reshuffled the priority 

list for facilities. The 

stadium is an anchor 

project and should 

have been in the top 

five desired facilities 

accordingly. I think 

it is fair to say that 

the city has an abundance 

of creative/ 

arts areas and with 

the pool and athletics 

venues just recently coming 

on line. It is the stark absence of 

the new stadium that highlights 

the flaw in priorities. 


City’s first mayor elected 150 years ago 

IT WAS on June 10, 1868, 150 

years ago that the first mayor of 

Christchurch was elected. 

Christchurch city had 

been formed into a borough 

council under the Municipal 

Corporations Act. Up until that 

time, the town council had had a 

chairman (since 1862). 

THe Lyttelton Times, which 

reported the election of Mr 

William Wilson as mayor, 

quoted him as saying that the 

feeling of pride and gratitude he 

had felt as chairman was greatly 

enhanced by their electing him 

as the first mayor of the city of 

Christchurch. 

He said he was gratified 

that he was surrounded by 

a ‘very excellent, intelligent, 

hardworking and industrious 

Mayor 

Lianne Dalziel 

council’ and that he would have 

been unable to effect much 

good without their counsel and 

assistance. 

THe first meeting of the 

Christchurch Borough Council 

followed his election, and I note 

that at the time the council’s 

bank balance was £211, 9s and 

5p. 

One hundred and fifty years 

is a significant anniversary and 

I thank the Canterbury History 

Foundation for marking this 

event by presenting a series of 

four Friday lunchtime lectures to 

be held at noon in the Function 

Room, level 1, Te Hononga Civic 

Offices, Hereford St, as follows: 

June 15: John Cookson – 

Independent Christchurch: The 

Era of Local Self-Government- 

1868-1940. 

June 22: Geoff Rice – Healthy 

Christchurch: The Quiet 

Revolution in Public Health, 

1870-1910 

June 29: Lyndon Fraser – 

Destination Christchurch: 150 

Years of Migration. 

July 6: Te Maire Tau – Ngai 

Tahu in the City. 

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deserves an upper cut for 

spending money on the repair 

of the town hall. As someone 

who likes the town hall, I was 

still surprised that the council 

decided to proceed with it – the 

money could have been diverted 

to the stadium (there is a giant 

monolith being constructed in 

the central city that will cater for 

inside events – although to be fair 

the town hall is being built with 

the acoustic experience at the 

forefront). 

Finally, I note Mr Smith lives 

in Dunedin and the conclusion 

he makes is hardly startling for 

a Dunedinite. This is a city that 

declined a modern hotel and 

an extension to its runway at 

the airport – decisions which, 

if approved, would’ve cost the 

ratepayers nothing. 

By the way, I am an unashamed 

supporter of the East Lake project 

and I have yet to encounter 

anyone who is vehemently 

opposed to it. 

I fear Regenerate Christchurch 

is obsessed with ‘back to nature’ 

themes and there seems to be a 

feeling that it thinks we all want 

to wander in joyous bliss around 

neverending wetlands. Nature 

has been tough on us if you 

hadn’t noticed, and so I move 

we reclaim some human 

activities that require man-made 

facilities. 

Graham Woolstencroft – 

A great article and you said it 

well, user pays. 

Lindsay Sole – Why aren’t 

the insurance companies paying 

for a new stadium, or was the old 

one not insured? The city council 

could take a pay cut and fund it 

as it will make the most money 

out of it. 

Jaed During – Well written. 

Someone who has thought things 

through is like a breath of fresh 

air. 

Claudia Oxford-Gonzalez 

– Great article and some fantastic 

ideas. I love rugby and remember 

COMPETITION: Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium competes 

with venues in Christchurch for major events. 

when afternoon games were the 

thing. AMI Stadium is packed 

with families when afternoon 

games are on. It irks me when 

I see South Africa still having 

their afternoon games. Rugby 

and broadcasting needs to have 

a rethink on this one. Love the 

idea of making Horncastle Arena 

bigger. 

Nicholas Smeaton – 

Thank-you. Finally an article 

that asks the important questions 

and runs through some of the 

possible scenarios, something 

that the ‘newspaper of the year’ 

has proven unwilling to do. 

Andrew Johnson – To 

hell with the rugby. I’m just 

sick to death of having to travel 

to Dunedin, Auckland or 

Wellington for concerts. 

Readers respond to an 

article about a lack of 

students cycling to school 

Hanna Krause – I enjoyed 

your article about student cyclists 

in The Star. But couldn’t resist 

mailing in because I think Dr 

(Jillian) Frater is overlooking 

something glaringly obvious. 

Hello, school uniforms? 

With skirts, you either need 

a step-through frame and 

spoke protectors for long skirts 

(seriously dorky, if the girl even 

has access to one) or with a short 

skirt you risk flashing your bits. 

Come on New Zealand, it’s 2018, 

not 1918, where are the pants? 

M Houghton – Regarding 

the story ‘Number of Young 

Cyclists Dwindling’, page 

6, Thursday, June 7. Isn’t it 

unfortunate that the study 

quoted in your story was not used 

prior to the costly installation of 

all the cycle lanes as the study 

seems to show that cycling is not 

a growing means of transport for 

the future. 

You would like to think our 

city council staff and elected 

representatives would use all the 

info out there before making 

their decisions on our behalf, 

especially when they prove to 

be so costly. I don’t think the 

consultants would be so onesided 

with their plans if they were 

paying for their decisions, rather 

than ratepayers. 

The cycle lanes benefit a 

“dwindling” mode of transport. 

However, they disadvantage 

ratepayers, road side parking 

and cause congested traffic flows. 

I believe some of these poor 

decision-makers need to “fall on 

their sword” and rapidly move 

on. 

DECREASING: Henry Harrison bikes to Christchurch Boys’ 

High School from his home in the central city every day. He 

is one of the dwindling number of students who cycle to 

school, according to new research. 

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MY 1910s villa is a bit of a 

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my new best friend Sarita. To be 

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Sarita Scarlett is Agility 

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I call them the house 

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great laugh about her – I imagine 

she’d be a gas out on the town. 

Let me rewind for you to see 

how she came into my life. 

I popped around to my parents 

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I know the council and a builder 

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Superhomes open 

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Eleven of the city’s most innovative 

and sustainable homes have opened 

their doors to the public to highlight 

smart technologies and modern 

building methods. 

The homes, which are scattered 

across the city, will showcase 

sustainable and affordable designs 

that benefit the homeowner and 

the environment. 

People can take a self-drive tour of 

the superhomes this weekend and 

next from 11am-4pm. 

Builders and designers will be on 

hand to explain the features of each 

and answer questions, so people 

can more easily create their own 

superhome. 

These super-insulated homes use 

the sun to stay warm and dry in 

winter and utilise shade and thermal 

mass to keep cool in summer. 

They feature efficient lighting and 

appliances to keep running costs 

low year round. Some homes use 

strong natural timbers, rainwater 

collection and solar systems to boost 

their earthquake resilience. 

“By experiencing these homes and 

seeing the technologies in action, 

people can better understand the 

benefits of having a warm, dry home 

with low running costs,” city council 

sustainability principal adviser Tony 

Moore said. 

“It’s exciting to have these homes 

open to our residents. One is a newly 

completed 10 Star home – one of the 

greenest homes in New Zealand. All 

of the homes will provide inspiration 

and demonstrate practical ways to 

have a healthy and more sustainable 

home.” 

The tours have been organised 

by the non-profit Superhome 

Movement in partnership with the 

city council and Homestar. 

The Superhome Movement 

focuses on positive change in the 

building industry. 

Superhome Movement founder 

Bob Burnett said the tour provided 

a rare opportunity for residents to 

experience high-performing homes 

not normally available to view. 

“These homes target ratings of 6 to 

10 Homestar. 

“In contrast, almost all new homes 

in New Zealand are 3 Homestar 

and built to code minimum 

standards that are about 20 years 

out of date compared to other 

OECD (Organisation for Economic 

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countries.” 

Information about each home 

and a tour map is available on the 

Superhome website. 

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Matariki in the red zone on Sunday? 

Richard Till will be helping prepare a 

feast for about 500 people at Avebury 

House and Richmond Community 

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The free feed will include a 

traditionally prepared hangi along 

with nourishing cuisine using locally 

grown produce cooked in the Avebury 

House kitchen. 

“Richard has been challenged to 

create something wonderful from 

produce supplied by those turning up 

on the day and from the community 

garden,” Avebury House Community 

Trust’s Michelle Whitaker said. 

Matariki in the Zone is a collaboration 

of Avebury House Community Trust, 

Richmond Community Garden and 

Avon-Ōtākaro Network. 

Matariki, which is known as the Māori 

New Year, will celebrate the Richmond 

Community Garden’s last harvest. 

Two new gardens will be opened 

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raingarden. 

There would also be Maori crafts such 

as wood carving and flax weaving, live 

music and other activities. 

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you tried finding any car parks near the Pegasus 

Arms lately? You won’t find any. Well not any that 

aren’t a money grab set up on a shingle turned mud 

pit anyway. In search of a Sunday afternoon beverage 

we headed to the Peg and after finding a park just on 

the other side of the Avon River on Montreal St we took 

on the newly former pub adventure maze. You see we 

thought it would be a short walk across the bridge and 

down Oxford Tce. However, due to road works you get 

to take on one of the city’s most challenging new mazes 

to get there. Thankfully the smart folk at the Peg have 

made life easier for some who can’t crack the maze with 

an ingenuous sign to guide you. 

As we approached the door we located an even more 

inviting sign stating there was mulled wine. Fantastic, 

what better way to blow off the dust accumulated from 

a big weekend. 

As we made our way to the warm comfort of the 

bar we inquired about the mull. “It’s almost ready,” we 

were told, before being invited to give a small taste 

test. Temperature wise she was almost there. I was 

then asked if it needed a bit more sugar. Being a fine 

maker of mulled wine myself, I agreed. “Just a wee bit 

more,” I said. But, when I then spotted a couple of sugar 

sachets you normally use for sweetening your coffee 

being opened, I became sceptical about how much 

sweetening would occur. 

While the mull heated up a bit more and digested the 

50-odd sugar granules that had been added we tucked 

into a glass of Devil’s Staircase pinot noir and Matawhero 

Malbec. No complaints here and a good way to ease 

into the mull. 

It was time to taste the mull which was already acting 

as a great hand warmer on the way back to the table. 

As expected it hadn’t sweetened at all 

since the previous test, I would have also 

gone a bit heavier on the cinnamon 

sticks. But, we were warm and content, 

certainly not the worst mulled wine I’ve 

had at a pub. 

While working our way through the 

mull we looked over the bar snacks 

menu. However, we couldn’t go past the 

idea of the beef or lamb Sunday roast. 

We weren’t disappointed. The lamb fell 

apart and went a treat with the healthy 

sized Yorkshire pudding and gravy. I 

must admit the roast vegetables were a 

bit of a let-down but there was enough 

happening elsewhere to make up for it. 

By the time we departed what had been 

a quiet atmosphere was starting to pick up 

as others found their way to the end of the 

maze. I do feel for those impacted by serious 

road works. Let’s hope the new look Oxford 

Tce is worth the wait. 

All up, while it may be a hassle getting 

into the Peg these days, it’s worth venturing 

to if you’re looking for a Sunday fix. 

- Gordon Findlater 

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opens in Sydenham 

New Indian 

for Edgeware 

Edgeware residents have a new Indian restaurant to try. 

Coriander’s Edgeware has been sold, and has reopened as 

Saket Indian Restaurant. The Edgeware Rd restaurant is open 

for lunch from noon to 2pm, and again from 5pm-10pm for 

dinner, with all the classic dishes to chose from. Coriander’s 

still has restaurants on St Asaph St and Bush Inn, as well as 

Rolleston and Hanmer Springs. 

The city’s newest brewery will 

celebrate its opening this weekend 

with live music, fermented food, 

tours and beverages. The Fermentist, 

a micro-brewery, cafe and tap room, 

will officially open on Colombo St in 

Sydenham tomorrow with a three-day 

celebration party. The product of Lion 

Breweries, The Fermentist aims to be a 

brewery with a difference by making 

what it does more transparent. 

Tomorrow’s party will begin at 4pm. 

There will be music from Adam 

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name a few, along with tours of the 

brewery, craft beers and locally curated 

food tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. 

Italian evening at The Colombo 

Celebrate all things Italian next week at The 

Colombo. Ciao Italia 2018 will take place from 6pm- 

9pm on Wednesday for an evening of Italian food, 

fashion and music. Hosted by the Italian Chamber 

of Commerce in New Zealand, Ciao Italia will have 

Italian imports for sale, institutions, along with New 

Zealand-based Italian producers and activities. 

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THURSDAY, 10AM-3PM 

RED ZONE FUTURES 

Our Red Zone Futures exhibition 

is now open. The exhibition will 

show how an 11km green spine 

from the city to New Brighton, 

which features walkways, biking 

tracks and wetland developments, 

will be complemented by other 

potential public and private 

uses. Regenerate Christchurch 

is responsible for developing the 

regeneration plan for the Otakaro 

Avon River Corridor and has 

considered more than 5000 ideas 

submitted by the community, as 

well as surveys, technical reports 

and studies. Free admission. 

Red Zone Futures, 99 

Cashel St 


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CHINA 

Join in the laughter and fun 

over a decent cup of tea/coffee 

with Royal Albert fine china, 

yummy scones, all served on 

lace cloths. Also, fresh posies, 

art cards and paintings, with 

teddy bear settings to uplift your 

spirits. Friendship is what most 

gain from attending, so come 

alone or bring a friend. Keyboard 

music playing live with requests. 

All Welcome. Donation of $3 

appreciated. Call 332 4631 for 

more information. 

Cashmere New Life, 

corner of Colombo St and 

Malcolm Ave. 

THURSDAY, 6.30PM 

ST ALBANS EVE SUPPER 

Join the St Albans Residents 

Association, the Wizard and 

the former town crier to mark 

St Albans Day with a historicalthemed 

dinner. Diners are 

promised interesting tidbits 

about British history by our 

guest speakers and the menu 

will feature such delicacies as 

mussels, roasted vegetables and 

fresh fruit, served shared platter 


WE DO THIS 

As Aotearoa New Zealand marks 125 years of women’s suffrage, we’ve recharged our contemporary collection spaces with a high-voltage new 

hang. Some works resonate with challenge, like Allie Eagle’s defiant 1974 self-portrait – made after spending a long day hanging paintings by her 

male peers – or Robyn Kahukiwa’s foot-stomping women’s haka, Tena I Ruia (1988). Others claim space more obliquely, with ambition, insight 

and self-deprecating humour. Spanning four decades, the new line-up highlights major pieces by such celebrated artists as Vivian Lynn, Julia 

Morison and Louise Henderson, and also introduces several recent Christchurch Art Gallery acquisitions, including works by Areta Wilkinson, 

Francis Upritchard and Saskia Leek. Free admission. 

Christchurch Art Gallery, Montreal St 

style. Pre-paid tickets from 

Bailies. 

Bailies Bar and 

Restaurant, Edgeware 

Village, St Albans 

SUNDAY, 11AM-2PM 

MATARIKI IN THE ZONE 

Matariki is the Maori New Year 

to farewell the old and welcome 

in the new season. The highlight 

of the harvest festivities will 

be a shared feast, including a 

traditional hangi prepared by 

mana whenua and nourishing 

hot soups led by Richard Till. 

Guests are encouraged to 

contribute produce from their 

own garden or pantry, dropping 

off at Avebury House at 11am 

to contribute to the shared meal 

from noon to 2pm. There will 

also be the blessing and opening 

of the native edible garden in the 

Richmond Community Garden, 

as well as the completion of the 

stormwater exemplar by the 

Avon-Otakaro Network. An 

event by Avebury House, Avon- 

Otakaro Network and Richmond 

Community Garden, which have 

active regeneration projects in the 

red zone. Free event but bookings 

required. For more information, 

email admin@aveburyhouse. 

co.nz or call 381 6615 

Avebury House, 9 Eveleyn 

Couzins Ave, Richmond 

EVERY TUESDAY, 12.10– 

12.50PM 

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Door donation of $10 for adults, 

and $5 for Concert Foundation 

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To make a booking, email 

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to change. 

The Piano, 156 Armagh St 

WEDNESDAY, 1.10PM 

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A popular weekly lunchtime 

recital series. A wide range of 

performers are featured, in a 

superb acoustic area often using 

the Steinway concert grand piano, 

SATURDAY, 7.30PM 

FEAR AND COURAGE 

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recent works as endangering the 

Soviet people. Under tremendous 

pressure, Shostakovich responded 

with his Fifth Symphony. Twentyfive 

year-old Russian pianist 

Khozyainov was the youngest 

finalist in the International 

Chopin Piano Competition and 

has delighted audiences around 

the world with sold out recitals 

and concerto engagements. He 

joins the Christchurch Symphony 

Orchestra to perform Prokofiev’s 

Piano Concerto No. 3, and 

Bernard Herrmann’s film score 

for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 

movie, Psycho. 

Air Force Museum of New 

Zealand, 45 Harvard Ave, 

Wigram 

or the four manual Rodgers 

Infinity Platinum hybrid pipe/ 

digital organ. Groups range 

in size from small chamber 

ensembles to full symphonic 

orchestras, with a particular 

focus on encouraging young 

performers, and inviting citizens 

into the central city Catholic 

church. A light lunch is available 

before each concert. Entry is $10 – 

door sales. 

St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, 

373 Manchester St 

WEDNESDAY, 7.15-9PM 

LATE NIGHT TOURS AT 

THE GALLERY 

These night tours happen every 

Wednesday and last 45 to 60min. 

No bookings required, meet at 

the front desk on the ground 

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COLOUR: Brighten your garden during the winter months by planting primulas or sweet pea. 

BEWARE: Be careful what you plant in 

winter, plants need to be hardy to survive 

the cold. 

Warm up in winter by digging plants 

AS THE first official month of winter, June 

brings wet, cold weather, making the garden 

a less than desirable place to visit. 

However, don’t be discouraged; rug up 

and carry on, it’s time for tackling those 

winter gardening tasks (plus it’s a great way 

to keep warm). 

Vege patch 

Add compost around growing winter 

vegetables to help absorb excess water 

from typical winter downpours. Harvest 

any vegetables that are ready and continue 

sowing seeds (directly) or plant seedlings 

of broad beans, onions, peas and spinach 

into well prepared soil. Old crowns of 

rhubarb can be divided and replanted into 

permanent positions around 60cm apart. 

Rhubarb thrives on ‘rich soil’ so incorporate 

generous amounts of compost into the 

existing soil when planting. 

Flowering Annuals 

Winter flowering annuals should now 

start coming into full bloom. They are 

great for adding colour to dreary parts of 

the garden or in containers to brighten up 

decks. Try alyssum, calendulas, cineraria, 

lobelia, nemesias, pansies, poppies, primulas, 

snapdragons, stock and sweet pea. 

Fruit trees 

The best of the new season’s fruit trees 

are now available in garden centres. 

SKILL: When you are planting your 

new tree, make the hole twice as big 

as the container the plant came in. 

Choose wisely and avoid any older specimens 

that look root bound or have been in 

planter bags/containers for a long time. Instead, 

select vigorous looking trees. Choose 

fruit tree varieties that will grow and fruit 

the best in your climate. For instance, some 

varieties such as citrus are frost sensitive, 

and others like stone fruit need winter 

chilling for fruit to set. 

June is the main month for pruning 

your existing deciduous pip and stone fruit 

trees. Give your secateurs a good clean 

before you start. For young fruit trees, you 

want them to develop a strong structure 

that will carry fruiting wood in successive 

years. Older trees may require more 

detailed pruning especially if they have 

been neglected for a few years. Remove 

old wood that is no longer producing fruit 

and any overlapping branches or diseased 

wood. Reduce the height of older trees to 

make harvesting easier. 

Planting trees 

Planting during early winter ensures the 

tree has enough time to establish a good 

root system before hot summer months. 

Think about where you want your trees to 

go in the garden and what you want them 

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provide fruit or be purely ornamental. 

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the hole and mix in well. Make a mound 

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then backfill with a mixture of compost 

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support if it’s tall or prone to rocking 

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Roundhill Ski Field 

Roundhill is a fantastic family ski 

field with breath-taking views of Aoraki 

Mt Cook, the Southern Alps and Lake 

Tekapo. There is terrain for all ages 

and stages, from a huge beginner’s area 

to the big mountain terrain accessed 

by the Heritage Express tow. With a 

sunny aspect, easy 8km access road 

and a fully licensed café, Roundhill is 

the perfect place to enjoy a day on 

the slopes. Open 30th June to mid 

September 2018. 

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accommodation? Separate, 

self-contained and secluded 

cottages await you, all 

conveniently located near 

the lake, church and shops. 

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Glide Omarama 

Soar like an Eagle over the 

Mackenzie Country this winter. 

For the adventure of a lifetime 

take a Glider Flight from 

Omarama; thirty minutes, to 

two hours long. When the 

skiing’s off the gliding’s good! 

glideomarama.com 

Big Sky Stargazing 

The darkness of the night sky around Aoraki Mt 

Cook is unbeatable – and that’s official! Let the 

team at Big Sky Stargazing introduce you to the 

celestial wonders within the Aoraki Mackenzie 

International Dark Sky Reserve. Begin the night at 

the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre planetarium 

and then take a short drive to the outdoor 

stargazing area to view the southern night sky 

through telescopes and astro-binoculars. 

hermitage.co.nz 

Ohau Snow Fields & 

Lake Ohau Lodge 

SNOW, natural and made! Enjoy 

high-country hospitality and fare 

at the Lake Ohau Lodge – dinner, 

bed and breakfast, and special lift 

rates for guests. 

ohau.co.nz



Earth & Sky Stargazing 

Uncover the science and stories of our Southern Skies at the 

ultimate stargazing experience. Earth & Sky operate tours 

from the world-renowned Mt John Observatory and other 

picturesque locations in the heart of the Aoraki Mackenzie 

International Dark Sky Reserve. Beautiful surrounds, pristine 

night skies, world class observatories and knowledgeable 

astro-guides make Earth & Sky tours an interactive, hands-on 

experience you’ll never forget. 

earthandsky.co.nz 

Mackenzies Café & Bar 

Enjoy great food and spectacular views in a beautiful 

environment. Casual café meals for brunch and lunch and 

a relaxed atmosphere for evening a la carte dining. For 

something a little different try the stone grill menu. Proud 

purveyors of great food, Allpress coffee, New Zealand 

wines and Monteith’s craft beer. Open 10am every day. 

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The Cairns 

The Cairns – Lake Tekapo offers a ‘getaway’ 

to fantastic accommodation in the heart of the 

Mackenzie. The flexible venue can also host your 

next function. Mt John Homestead was built some 

100 years ago as was the Red Hut that housed 

the farm shepherd! Lexi’s Lodge is a more modern 

version of both retaining the rich history and 

Isolation Bay boasts contemporary exclusivity and 

solitude on the lake’s western shores. Right on site 

you can also play a round of golf, feed farm animals 

or check out the sections for sale. 

thecairns.co.nz 

Alpine Guides 

Ski the legendary Tasman Glacier 

with Alpine Guides and explore New 

Zealand’s largest glacier and its azure 

ice caves. Make turns down 8-10km ski 

runs, with professional guides that enable 

extraordinary skiing for ordinary skiers! 

Packages include three spectacular scenic 

flights with snow landings, and a picnic 

lunch in the snow. Flying every fine day 

from 1 June to 30 September. 

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The Hermitage 

Nestled in the stunning Aoraki/Mt Cook 

National Park, the iconic Hermitage Hotel 

is the perfect base for your next winter 

escape. Experience the Sir Edmund Hillary 

Alpine Centre, a Big Sky Stargazing tour or 

the Tasman Valley Tour, then dine in one of 

the hotel’s many restaurants, surrounded by 

the wonders of Aoraki/Mt Cook. 

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Mt Dobson 

Natural dry powder snow, all day sun and wide 

open trails to suit all abilities mean Mt Dobson has 

it all. Conveniently located between Fairlie and 

Lake Tekapo, 2.5 hours from Christchurch and 3 

hours from Queenstown, Mt Dobson is a perfect 

winter holiday destination. The Ski Area has a cosy 

café, ski and snowboard rental as well as a snow 

school with a crew of passionate international 

instructors. Everything you need for fun on the 

slopes! 

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Tekapo Springs 

This complex is exhilaration central! Soak in the lake and 

mountain views from one of the three hot pools while a 

massaging jet eases away your everyday stress. Book some 

pampering in the luxurious spa or detox in the steam, sauna 

and cold plunge pool. Find your quadriceps (and funny 

bone) again as you glide around the stunning outdoor ice 

skating rink. Or ride the thrilling 150-metre snow tube. 

Refuel and reheat in the fully licensed café or sip a hot 

toddy by the roaring open fire. By night, Tekapo Springs is 

the location for New Zealand’s only guided stargazing and 

hot pools tour where guides share insights into the universe 

with high-powered telescopes. Then lie back on a floating 

hammock, your digits dipping in the 38°C water, and thank 

your lucky stars. Stellar stuff all round. 

03 680 6550 

tekaposprings.co.nz 

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Peppers Bluewater Resort 

You know your accommodation is going to have a bit of spice 

when you check-in to a Peppers property. Near the shores 

of Lake Tekapo, Peppers Bluewater Resort offers high-end 

rooms, suites and villas all featuring large windows or balconies 

to optimise the alpine outlook. Rakinui Restaurant & Bar opens 

for breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks and brings the best of 

the region’s fine fare from farm-to-table to serve with a side 

of lake and mountain views. The resort is perfectly located 

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NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS WEEK 17-23 JUNE 

Coastguard volunteers are ordinary 

people doing extraordinary things 

Stop by any Coastguard unit in the South 

Island and you will encounter New Zealanders 

calmly and professionally going about the 

intense business of saving lives at sea. 

National Volunteer Week provides an 

opportunity for us to stop and appreciate the 

invaluable contribution made by Coastguard 

volunteers to our communities. 

Our volunteers come from many different 

walks of life but all have a desire to give back 

and provide help to those who need it most. 

For some Coastguard volunteers this may see 

them going from being in a suit in the office 

to performing a rescue in a single afternoon. 

Over 300 Coastguard volunteers gave their 

time and skills to help keep communities in 

the South Island safe on the water last year, 

Shane Torrance doesn’t fit the stereotype 

of a volunteer at an older person’s day 

programme. But his tattoos, shaved head, 

and heavy-metal t-shirts belie a big soft 

heart. Now, the older ladies who wouldn’t 

let him hold their handbags while they 

climbed into the Enliven van call him their 

friend. 

Enliven day programmes give vulnerable 

older people a place to connect with 

others—something that helps them live 

healthier, happier, longer lives. Shane assists 

on minivan runs, then serves morning 

tea, chats with members, and helps with 

activities (Housie, anyone?). Because 

Shane knows what it feels like to almost 

bringing more than 260 Kiwi’s home safely, 

Many people don’t realise that each crew 

member on a Coastguard rescue vessels 

and every support person back at the 16 

Coastguard units around the South Island are 

volunteers. All Coastguard crew members 

are trained to the highest standards, training 

that they dedicate hours to in addition to 

working and family life. 

Volunteers – the heart of our 

community at Presbyterian Support 

lose independence due to health issues, he 

enjoys helping others struggling with theirs. 

The theme of this year’s volunteer 

week is “Volunteers - The Heart of Our 

Community”. Certainly, as a social services 

non-profit, Presbyterian Support couldn’t 

achieve what we do without people like 

Shane. Bringing his young daughter into 

Enliven during school holidays, Shane is 

raising another big-hearted, giving person. 

Presbyterian Support offers many 

opportunities to volunteer through our 

Enliven and Family Works groups. To 

learn more, call Megan or Hillary on 03 

366 542. Or visit www.psuppersouthorg. 

nz/volunteer. 

Volunteering Canterbury 

We wish to thank all the volunteers 

who have donated time during the past 

year to provide service to our community. 

Volunteering Canterbury exists to help 

volunteers, community organisations 

and businesses make a difference, so 

together we can eliminate poverty, save 

the environment and make Canterbury the 

best place to live in the world. 

They would like to extend an invitation 

to everyone to support their community by 

signing up for free at their website www. 

volcan.org.nz and join the 13,000 other 

volunteers already helping their favourite 

causes. 

Every year, Volunteering Canterbury’s 

286 member community organisations 

help 36,000 people across Canterbury, a 

staggering 6% of the population. You too 

can be part of this team making such a 

difference to the way we live. 

Some of the services Volunteering 

Canterbury offers: 

• Recruiting and supporting volunteers to 

assist community organisations and people 

in need 

• Free registration on our website 

• Huge choice of volunteer roles available 

• Regular workshops and network 

meetings 

• Group volunteering opportunities for 

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Why become a volunteer? 

• Connect with people, keep active 

• Help the community and environment 

• Learn new skills, boost your confidence 

and CV 

How to volunteer? 

1. As an Individual – create your free 

account at www.volcan.org.nz You can 

search for suitable roles by category, area 

and time commitment. 

2. Group Volunteering via the contact page 

of the website. 

3. Other Services call 03 366 2442 or 0800 

865 268. 

We sincerely thank our 

wonderful volunteers for 

their valuable contribution 

to Orana Wildlife Park. 

We are currently seeking 

passionate people 

to join our 

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for a variety 

of roles 

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(particularly 

on weekends). 

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Thank you! 

Thank you! 

It’s Volunteer Awareness Week and New Zealand Red Cross wants to thank 

all the amazing people who volunteer for us. The programmes we deliver to 

vulnerable people in New Zealand communities are diverse and far-reaching 

– and we simply couldn’t do it without you! 

Want to join us? Volunteering in your community is fun and rewarding. 

There are many ways you can help: 

• Youth Programmes 

• Meals on Wheels 

• Community Transport 

• Disaster Response 

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THANK YOU! 

To all our wonderful, amazing, 

fabulous and truly brilliant volunteers. 

We Can’t Do This Work Without YOU! 

Last year our volunteers donated 32,409 

hours of driving, visiting, talking, listening, 

laughing, and playing. They positively 

impacted the lives of hundreds of people, 

young and old, in the upper South Island. 

This year, why not join them?! 

To learn more about volunteering with our 

service groups Family Works and Enliven, 

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Christchurch Ashburton Rangiora 

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Sport 

Legs 11 for flying Fijian 

Water bottle, 

Dan Carter 

work oracle 

for leading 

try-scorer 

• By Gordon Findlater 

SUMNER WINGER Filimoni 

Waiqainabete is enjoying a 

breakout season in premier 

club rugby which has seen 

him become the leading try 

scorer with 11 after the opening 

Hawkins Cup round. 

Waiqainabete, 21, didn’t always 

picture himself as a speedy 

tackle-breaking outside back or 

centre though. 

Growing up in Suva the 

Fijian player’s first experiences 

in rugby were spent playing at 

first-five. 

“We would play with a water 

bottle and call out the name of 

our favourite player when we 

got the bottle, mine was Dan 

Carter,” said Waiqainabete. 

“That’s always been the goal, 

to be like him and play for the 

Crusaders.” 

Earlier this year he got a rare 

chance to show off his playmaking 

skills. Sumner came 

into their 36-27 win over Marist 

Albion on April 14 already down 

a first-five due to illness, then, 

when starting first-five Josh Toy 

suffered a concussion, they found 

themselves in a pickle. 

Waiqainabete immediately put 

up his hand to fill in the spot and 

even put in a smart chip kick to 

set up a try during the game. 

“You should have seen the 

CAN ANYONE knock Lincoln 

University off their perch? 

After going unbeaten in their 

Hawkins Cup campaign, Lincoln 

University go into the top-six 

trophy competition as heavy 

favourites to claim their fourth 

straight Hawkins Trophy title. 

Christchurch finished the cup 

in second and look the most 

likely to mount a campaign to 

rival Lincoln. They finished second 

to Lincoln on both offensive 

and defensive ratings and will be 

boosted by the return on NZ under-20 

players Tom Christie and 

Will Tucker later in the season. 

They get a chance to show if 

they’re up to the task on Saturday 

when the top two clubs meet at 

Lincoln University. 

“It’s never an easy task,” said 

Christchurch coach Simon Kneebone. 

TRY MACHINE: Filimoni Waqainabete leads the Metro Premier Cup competition with 11 tries. PHOTO: TONY BRUNT 

opposition 10, he looked up and 

went: ‘What the f***’,” said Sumner 

coach Martin Dodgson. 

The Fijian’s form has also been 

rewarded by being named in Joe 

Maddock’s winter training squad 

ahead of Canterbury’s NPC 

season. 

After growing up in Suva he 

moved to Christchurch with his 

family to Christchurch in 2012 

when his father took up a new 

job. Waiqainabete played for the 

“Lincoln are a complete side 

from one to 22, you’ve just got to 

try and stick with them because 

they will punish any kind of 

mistake.” 

In the cup round Lincoln took 

the honours at Christchurch Park 

23-12. 

The surprise package of the 

top six could be Sumner, who 

finished third in the cup to 

qualify for the top six for the first 

Burnside High School first XV 

in the UC Championship during 

2013 and 2014, where he played 

under then coach Kevin Harding. 

“My family moved back to 

Fiji in 2013 . . . he told me to 

move in with him for 2014 

to keep playing rugby,” said 

Waiqainabete. 

“He’s been my mentor not just 

with my game but with life as 

well . . . I was a Fijian boy so it 

time since gaining promotion 

to the premier competition in 

2011. When at their best Sumner 

have shown they have the skill 

with ball in hand to mix it with 

anyone which was evident in 50 

plus point performances in the 

cup round against University and 

New Brighton. 

“Our goals at the start of the 

year were to make the top six and 

make sure we come into it hissing 

was a real eye-opener adjusting 

to life here. There was no 

more lazing around island 

time.” 

After spells with Burnside 

(club) and New Brighton he is 

now enjoying life at Sumner and 

believes the team has the goods 

this year. 

“I think we can go all the way. 

We’ve got a good young squad 

and everyone has the belief,” said 

Waiqainabete. 

rather than crawling,” said Sumner 

coach Martin Dodgson. 

“This week is the first week in 

over a month that we’ll be able to 

select our best 22.” 

They face University on Saturday. 

When the two met at Ilam 

Fields in May Sumner ran home 

51-26. A far different match can 

be expected at what will be a 

heavy St Leonards Park track on 

Saturday. 

Top try scorers: 

Filimoni Waqainabete, 11; 

Jack Griffiths 

(Christchurch), 10; Dallas 

McLeod (Christchurch), 9; 

Dylan Nel (Sumner), 8; Brad 

Tucker (Christchurch), 7; 

Dan Fransen (Sydenham), 7; 

Henry Scott (Christchurch), 

6; Jone Macilai (University), 

6; Paul Garner (New 

Brighton), 6; Hayden 

O’Donnell (Sumner), 6. 

Chasing teams plot how to stop Lincoln Uni 


TEAM TO 

BEAT: Lincoln 

University 

wrapped up 

the Hawkins 

Cup on 

Saturday 

by going 

undefeated in 

the opening 

round-robin. 

New Brighton will face the 

toughest task to book a semi-final 

spot. Coach Scott Pawson’s crop 

is one of the youngest in the competition 

after losing a number 

of key players to other clubs and 

super rugby. 

“It’s going to be tough for us,” 

said Pawson. 

Saturday’s game against Sydenham 

will be one of them. Sydenham 

finished the cup round in 

fourth position, 10 points ahead 

of New Brighton. However, New 

Brighton will take confidence 

from the last time the two met 

in May where Sydenham snuck 

home 28-26. 

Round one fixtures: 

Section A: Christchurch v 

Lincoln University, Sumner 

v University, New Brighton v 

Sydenham. 

Section B: Shirley v Belfast, 

Linwood v Burnside, Marist 

Albion v HSOB.



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Eight horse race in UC champs 

CBHS and 

Christ’s lead 

the charge 


TWO hard-fought wins from 

front-runners Christchurch 

Boys’ High and Christ’s College 

has left eight teams in a tight 

chasing bunch as the midway 

point of the UC Championship 

approaches. 

CBHS were given a reminder 

on Saturday that the chasing 

pack won’t go down without a 

fight when they were pushed 

right to the final whistle in their 

19-17 win over Shirley Boys’ 

High. 

With the scores locked at 

14-14 and 2min to play on a 

heavy track, SBHS half-back 

Mitchell Barry slotted a penalty 

conversion to put his side within 

a grasp of victory. 

At the restart, CBHS successfully 

contested their own kickoff 

and found themselves within 

striking distance of the try-line, 

courtesy of a line break from 

Louie Chapman. With time all 

but up, CBHS strung together a 

number of fazes before full-back 

Lax Hughes scored in the left 

corner to seal victory 19-17. 

They then backed up the win 

with a 17-5 victory over Wellington 

College in their traditional 

match. 

They’re expected to face another 

difficult task on Saturday 

when they travel to St Bede’s 

College, which narrowly lost out 

to Christ’s 17-23 at the weekend. 

“It’s going to be a big game 

with both teams in the top four. 

They will have a lot of support 

there; it’s a traditional fixture,” 

said CBHS rugby co-ordinator 

Rob Smith. 

In recent years, CBHS have 

UC Championship table 

P W L D BP Pts 

CBHS 6 6 0 0 5 29 

Christ’s 6 5 1 0 4 24 

St Bede’s College 6 4 2 0 5 21 

Lincoln Combined 6 4 2 0 4 20 

Rangiora High 6 4 2 0 3 18 

St Thomas 6 3 3 0 6 18 

Nelson College 6 3 3 0 5 17 

St Andrew’s 6 3 3 0 5 17 

Marlborough Boys 6 3 3 0 4 16 

SBHS 6 3 3 0 4 16 

Waimea 6 2 4 0 3 11 

TBHS 6 1 5 0 4 8 

Aoraki Combined 6 1 5 0 0 4 

Mid-Canterbury 6 1 5 0 2 2 

been the team to beat. However, 

it was St Bede’s which previously 

held that honour. In a nine-year 

span from 2007-2015, St Bede’s 

made seven finals and won 

five titles. They have been in a 

ATMOSPHERE: 

The bumper 

crowd that 

cheered on St 

Bede’s against 

Christ’s is 

expected to 

grow for their 

traditional 

match with 

CBHS. PHOTO: 

MARGARET 

DODS 

rebuilding phase for the past two 

years, but now look to be on the 

bounce. 

St Bede’s find themselves in 

third spot after six rounds and 

look to be an improved unit 

under the new coaching duo of 

Murray Henderson and Kyle 

Byers. “We needed a change on 

direction we were heading,” said 

St Bede’s master in charge of 

rugby Gerry Davidson. 

“They’ve shown belief in the 

players and after a strong preseason 

we’re starting to see some 

good results.” 

Christ’s also face a tough 

challenge on Saturday when 

they host Nelson College. Nelson 

will be eager to kick-start 

their push for the top four after 

recent losses to Rangiora High, 

Marlborough Boys’ College and 

St Bede’s. 

Round 7 fixtures: 

Lincoln Combined v 

TBHS, Christ’s v Nelson 

College, Mid-Canterbury v 

SBHS, Waimea Combined 

v Marlborough Boys, 

St Bede’s v CBHS, STAC 

v Rangiora, Aoraki 

Combined v St Thomas. 

in brief 

Thompson gets back 

on court with the Stars 

Local netball fans were given 

a surprise on Sunday when 

netballing icon Anna Thompson 

turned out for the Northern Stars 

as a late substitute during their 

game against the Steel on Super 

Sunday at Horncastle Arena. The 

31-year-old made her debut for 

the team in the 50-53 loss after 

receiving a surprise phone call 

from Stars coach Kiri Wills a 

week earlier. She was asked if she 

would be interested in joining the 

team on a short two-week term 

basis. Until this year, Thompson 

was a regular crowd favourite for 

the Mainland Tactix for a decade. 

The match on Sunday was her 

149th at the domestic top flight 

level. 

Dunn stable fines 

reduced on appeal 

The appeal of a $14,000 fine 

handed down to leading horse 

trainer Robert Dunn and his 

son John by the Judicial Control 

Authority has been reduced to 

$7800. They were fined after 

three of their horses and another 

horse under their care returned 

positive drug tests for caffeine 

in Nelson last June. Since the 

return of the positive tests, 

Robert Dunn has maintained 

his horses were nobbled by an 

outside party. The Robert Dunn 

Racing Stable is second on wins 

in this year’s trainers premiership 

behind Mark Purdon and Natalie 

Rasmussen’s All Stars Stable. 

Red devils feel the 

heat in the ice rink 

The Canterbury Red Devils found 

themselves on the receiving end 

of two hidings from defending 

New Zealand ice hockey league 

champions the Southern 

Stampede. On Saturday, the Red 

Devils were routed 2-14 and, on 

Sunday, they were beaten again 

3-10. 

Best choice to steady the Black Caps ship 

GARY STEAD makes sense as 

Mike Hesson’s successor if New 

Zealand Cricket don’t want to 

rock the boat and continue the 

resurgence of competitiveness in 

the long form of the game. 

The Canterbury head coach 

has been in his current role since 

2012 and has established himself 

as one of domestic cricket’s finest 

coaches by winning three 

Plunket Shield titles in four years 

with Canterbury from 2014-2017. 

He also oversaw Canterbury’s 

first one-day title success in 11 

years in 2017. 

Black Caps batting coach Craig 

McMillan is pipped as one of 

the early favourites to succeed 

Hesson. But is he ready to take 

on the role before holding a head 

coaching role at a domestic team 

or smaller international side first? 

If New Zealand Cricket doesn’t 

want to rock the boat and keep 

McMillan in his current role, 

Stead makes sense. The two already 

have a working relationship 

together. 

Stead was the man that hired 

McMillan as Canterbury’s specialist 

batting coach in 2013, a 

role which proved to be a launching 

pad to his current role with 

the Black Caps. 

One-eyed Cantab 

Gordon Findlater 

gordon.findlater@starmedia.kiwi 

Stead isn’t new to the Black 

Caps environment. He has joined 

the team camp on more than 

one occasion during the recent 

home series. He also coached the 

White Ferns to a World Cup. 

His approach towards the game 

should also gel well with the current 

mentality which has reaped 

rewards during the Hesson era. 

Canterbury’s approach, particularly 

to the long-format, has 

been aggressive under Stead – far 

Gary Stead 

different to his batting style as a 

player (sorry Gary) 

– with the team regularly 

opting to take 

the risk of defeat to 

go for the win, rather 

than settle for a draw. 

As any Black Caps 

fan will know, this 

approach swings 

both ways, and was 

responsible for Canterbury’s 

three titles 

between 2014-2017, 

but also their runnerup 

campaign to 

Auckland in 2016. 

Stead should 

also be open to the 

concept of separate coaches for 

the New Zealand test and limited 

overs teams, should New Zealand 

Cricket look to go down the 

path which has had 

mixed success for 

other international 

sides that have tried 

the concept. 

In recent Canterbury 

campaigns, 

Stead has taken 

a back seat in the 

short formats for 

Canterbury, allowing 

assistant coach 

Brendon Donkers to 

take the reins. 

In theory, this 

same model could 

work should McMillan 

want to take 

more responsibility without 

jumping straight into the head 

coaching role.




Sport 

in brief 

Spirit, Tech battle 

for top spot in WPL 

The front-runners for the 

Women’s Premier League will 

be decided on Saturday when 

Coastal Spirit and Cashmere 

Technical meet in a top-of-thetable 

clash at Cuthberts Green. 

The two teams have already 

met twice in this year’s WPL. 

They played out a 2-2 draw 

on March 24 and a 1-1 draw 

on May 19. Tech currently 

hold a two-point lead in the 

competition. The winner of 

Saturday’s match will hold the 

fate of their title hopes going 

into the final four rounds 

Five country players 

make Canty NPC side 

Waihora have been rewarded 

for their run to a fourth 

consecutive combined country 

final by having three players 

named in the Canterbury 

NPC wider training group. 

Mark Maintland, Tyler Koning 

and Harry Kirk are three of 

just five country players 

named in the wider training 

group, along with Tim 

Murgatroyd (Prebbleton) and 

Sam Cottam (Lincoln). The 

selection of the five players is a 

high number from Ellesmere 

compared to recent years 

and is an indication of the 

increased level of competition 

in the country competition. 

Waihora host Rakaia in the 

combined country final on 

Saturday. 

Clarke takes off to Houston 

• By Jacob Page 

COASTAL SPIRIT defender 

Emma Clarke will test her skills 

in the top-flight of American 

college football when she 

takes up a scholarship at the 

University of Houston next 

month. 

The talented defender and 

former New Zealand under-19 

and under-20 player represented 

her country at the Oceania 

championships last year and has 

created a compelling case for a 

scholarship with dedication to 

both her sport and studies. 

The former St Margaret’s 

College player started playing 

the game at the age of nine and 

has made Canterbury age-group 

teams every year since the age 

of 12. 

From next month, she will 

play for the Houston Cougars. 

“I’ve always enjoyed the team 

aspect of football and playing 

alongside friends. That’s what’s 

kept me in it,” she said. 

A normal week last year 

saw Clarke training with her 

club team, her school team, 

the Canterbury men’s football 

team, at the gym, at pre-season 

training with the Canterbury 

women’s team, a game on 

Saturday and then a social game 

of futsal on Sunday – not to 

mention homework. 

The 18-year-old said the 

prospect of playing in the United 

States, one of the powerhouse 

countries in the women’s 

game, is what drew her to the 

opportunity. “The scholarship 

wasn’t something that has been 

a long-term dream, but I’ve had 

teammates earn one and I know 

the quality will be a big step up 

there,” she said. Her new coach 

at Houston, Diego Bocanegra, 

praised Clarke’s football IQ 

when he announced her signing. 

“Emma is an accomplished 

defender with youth 

international experience,” 

said Bocanegra. “She has the 

rare combination of total 

athleticism, deft touch and great 

understanding of the game,” he 

said. 

“Her presence on the back 

line will give us multiple 

options of how we can line up 

tactically. She will help to 

anchor the back line defensively, 

as well as allowing us to attack 

more through our defenders,” 

he said. 

Clarke’s rise through the ranks 

has been mirrored alongside 

friend and Coastal Spirit 

defender, Rebecca Lake. The duo 

both made the New Zealand 

IN DEMAND: 

Canterbury 

football 

defender 

Emma Clarke 

has accepted a 

scholarship to 

the University 

of Houston. 

PHOTO: 

COASTAL SPIRIT 

under-19 squad together last 

year. “We are good friends, and 

having played so much together 

over the years, I think that’s 

helped to push us toward our 

goals.” 

Clarke will study engineering 

at the University of Houston. 

She has been able to maintain 

her fitness by playing with 

Coastal Spirit in the women’s 

Mainland Premier League but 

will be going straight into the 

US season when she lands in 

Houston. 

Guide to the weekend sporting action 

Rugby league 

With all Massetti Cup 

games washed out due to the 

persistent wet weather last 

weekend, the club competition 

returns with round nine on 

Saturday. The most intriguing 

match-up will see the thirdplaced 

Northern Bulldogs host 

fourth-placed Halswell Hornets 

at Murphy Park. The top-ofthe-table 

Linwood Keas will 

Top of the tables 

Massetti Cup (rugby league) 

P W D L PD Pts 

Linwood Keas 7 7 0 0 142 14 

Hornby Panthers 7 6 1 0 60 12 

Northern Bulldogs 7 5 2 0 62 10 

Halswell Hornets 7 3 4 0 -18 6 

Aranui Eagles 5 2 5 0 -40 4 

Celebration Lions 7 2 5 0 -58 4 

Papanui Tigers 7 2 5 0 -70 4 

Riccarton Knights 7 1 6 0 -72 2 

Metro Premier Cup 

P W L D Pts 

Lincoln University 11 11 0 0 52 

Christchurch 11 8 2 1 43 

Sumner 11 8 3 0 41 

welcome Celebration Lions to 

LInwood Park. 

The Aranui Eagles look to 

keep their play-off hopes alive 

when they travel to face the 

Papanui Tigers at Papanui 

Domain. 

The Riccarton Knights will 

look to get off the bottom of 

the ladder when they play the 

second-placed Hornby Panthers 

at Crosbie Park. 

Men’s hockey 

It’s a battle of second v third 

in the premier men’s hockey 

competition as Carlton Redcliffs 

get ready to battle Fendalton 

Avon. 

Harewood will look to 

maintain top spot when they 

face cellar-dwellers Hornby. 

University will play HSOB/Avon 

and Marist will play Southern 

United. 

Sydenham 11 8 3 0 40 

University 11 7 4 0 36 

New Brighton 11 6 4 1 32 

Burnside 11 5 6 0 26 

HSOB 11 4 7 0 21 

Marist Albion 11 3 8 0 17 

Shirley 11 3 8 0 17 

Linwood 11 2 9 0 12 

Belfast 11 0 11 0 7 

Mainland Premier League 

P W D L GD Pts 

Cashmere Tech 14 11 3 0 35 36 

Coastal Spirit 14 10 1 3 25 31 

Ferrymead Bays 14 8 2 4 13 26 

Nelson Suburts 14 7 3 4 5 24 

Nomads 14 7 1 6 2 22 

FC Twenty 14 4 1 9 -19 13 

Selwyn United 14 1 3 10 -20 6 

Universities 14 1 0 13 -41 3 

Women’s hockey 

Top team HSOB/Burnside 

have the weekend off, so the rest 

of the teams have a chance to 

catch up. Carlton Redcliffs 

could leap to the top of the 

standings if they beat fifthplaced 

H and B Avon. Harewood 

will stay in touch with 

the top two if they can knock 

over Hornby, while Marist and 

Southern will battle it out. 

Men’s football 

Last weekend, Cashmere 

Technical became only the 

second team to go through 

the Mainland Premier League 

undefeated after the 2008 

Nelson Suburbs team did the 

same. There is no men’s football 

this weekend as the teams 

prepare for the start of the 

Southern Football League next 

weekend. 

Men’s premier hockey league 

P W L D GD Pts 

Harewood 7 7 0 0 11 21 

Carlton Redcliffs 7 4 2 1 7 13 

Fendalton Avon 6 3 2 1 -2 10 

Marist 6 2 2 2 3 8 

Southern United 6 2 3 1 2 7 

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JUST WHEN we were 

entertaining the idea that the 

Cowboys had turned the corner 

with the previous week’s road 

win over Manly, they go and get 

towelled up by the last-placed 

Eels. 

It was a huge missed opportunity, 

given that a victory could’ve 

lifted them from 14th to 12th and 

left them just two wins shy of the 

top eight. After the loss, coach 

Paul Green told nrl.com it wasn’t 

down to his team’s ability but 

questioned where players were at 

mentally. 

There aren’t many playing 

rosters in the NRL that look capable 

on paper of going on a long 

winning spree. The Cowboys are 

one such team, but the magic just 

isn’t there on the field this year. 

The Warriors might boast a 

very tidy record (9-4) but with all 

due respects to Stephen Kearney 

and his players, of all the teams 

in the top eight, New Zealand 

and Brisbane still seem the most 




Green questions Cowboys attitude ahead of Warriors 

likely to slip out. Hampered by 

injuries over the past month or 

so, the Warriors showed their 

fighting spirit with a dominant 

come-from-behind victory over 

Manly last week in Christchurch. 

They don’t have the greatest 

record in Townsville against the 

Cowboys but records are there to 

be broken if the Warriors want it 

badly enough tomorrow night. 

•Key match-up: It wasn’t long 

ago that Jake Granville was being 

mentioned as a possible replacement 

for retired Queensland 

Origin legend Cameron Smith. 

That isn’t going to happen with 

the Cowboys travelling so poorly, 

but he better bring his A-game or 

he will be taught a lesson by Issac 

Luke, who is in career-best form 

at the age of 31. 

•For the Cowboys to win: For 

a team that is performing far 

below expectations, the Cowboys 

seem to be avoiding in-fighting 

and finger-pointing (at least 

publicly), but they are lacking onfield 

chemistry. They need to get 

back to basics and try to dominate 

through their forward pack 

to allow Johnathan Thurston to 

do his thing. 

•For the Warriors to win: If 

the Warriors forwards can do 

some damage against a hot-andcold 

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Toyota Camry now 

sourced from Japan 

NOT ALL is lost with 

the demise of the 

Australian motor vehicle 

manufacturing industry, 

Toyota has simply 

reorganised its resources 

and has Aussie-type product 

landing on our shores. 

The car I’m talking about 

mostly is the Camry, for 

30 years it arrived here 

from the Altona factory in 

Melbourne. A new Camry 

has just landed, and it is 

now sourced fresh from 

Japan. 

It is also a classy vehicle, 

almost bordering on the 

luxury car market, yet it 

has all the values of its 

predecessor, the big sedan 

is here with a 2.5-litre, fourcylinder 

engine as well as 

a 2.5-litre hybrid, much 

the same configurations as 

previously. However, there 

is one major change, today’s 

Camry also gets the choice 

of a V6 engine, gone is the 

old Aurion, Toyota’s big 

V6 sedan is now badged 

Camry. 

The latter is here in one 

specification only, and 

tops the range at $47,990, 

it is the subject of this 

evaluation and I’m hooked. 

I’ve always liked Camry, and 

Aurion, and the newcomer 

epitomises all the things I’ve 

liked about it in the past. 

While the engine’s basic 

design could be deemed 

a carryover from Aurion, 

Prado and a lot of Lexus 

models, it has been used for 

in the past, there have been 

a lot of improvements 

in terms of power and 

efficiency. It now produces 

224kW and 362Nm (up 

24kW and 26Nm) and 

is now rated with a 8.9- 

litre per 100km (32mpg) 

combined cycle fuel usage 

rating – a four per cent 

improvement. 

I expect the latter to be 

quite achievable, my time 

with the test car produced 

combined figures of around 

10l/100km (28mpg) with 

an instantaneous figure of 

7l/100km (40mpg) available 

at a steady 100km/h cruise, 

the engine spinning leisurely 

at just 1400rpm. 

As its power and torque 

figures suggest, it is also a 

strong engine, it is capable 

of propelling the Camry 

to 100km/h in 6.8sec, and 

that’s pretty quick for a 

1595kg car, and one which 

isn’t deemed to be a sports 

sedan. In my opinion it 

is a sporty car, and that’s 

probably why I’m drawn to 

it, the engine is delightful, it 

Motoring 

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TOYOTA CAMRY: Hybrid option as well as fourcylinder 

and V6 variants. 

is smooth, silent and willing. 

There are also driverselectable 

drive modes 

to enhance or subdue its 

behaviour through sport or 

economy settings. 

Drive is channelled to 

the front wheels through 

an eight-speed automatic 

gearbox. It, too, is the 

epitome of smoothness, 

the changes are almost 

undetectable and the 

ratios are structured for all 

purposes. 

• Price – Toyota 

Camry, $47,990 

• Dimensions – 

Length, 4905mm; 

width, 1840mm; 

height, 1445mm 

• Configuration – V6, 

front-wheel-drive, 

3456cc, 224kW, 

362Nm, eight-speed 

automatic. 

• Performance – 

0-100km/h, 6.8sec 

• Fuel usage – 

8.9l/100km 

I took the test west to 

Hororata utilising the tricky 

corners heading out the 

Waimakariri Gorge. The 

Camry handles flat and 

balanced, there is a strong 

feel of grip through sport 

specification Dunlop tyres 

(235/40 x 19in), accuracy 

and steering feedback are 

assured. 

The spring and damper 

rates are set for fluid 

in-cabin comfort, along 

with the delicate firming 

you need to arrest 

body movement and 

gravitational force. Of 

course, the suspension is a 

quality fully independent 

front-strut/rear-double 

wishbone system and if 

you combine all of these 

elements you have an 

amazing chassis capable in 

all driving situations. 

The Camry also looks 

spectacular, it has edgy 

styling and looks which 

ooze character. That’s no 

surprise, if you take a look 

at any of the Toyota/Lexus 

designs these days you will 

find a vehicle which has 

strong focal points. The 

Camry V6 with it is big 

wheels, discreet rear spoiler 

and quad exhausts looks 

desirable. 

It is also specced well. 

I’m hoping to have drives 

soon of the four-cylinder 

models which start at 

$35,990, but in the case of 

the V6 it arrives with most 

of the trim and features 

you’d expect in a $48k 

car. However, I searched 

everywhere for seat heaters, 

it was cold in Christchurch 

over the five days I had the 

evaluation car, and there’s 

nothing more off-putting 

that jumping into that cold 

leather. I can only imagine 

that their omission is simply 

an ordering oversight. 

Of course, the new Camry 

gets a five-star Australasian 

New Car Assessment 

Program safety rating. 

Not only has Toyota 

shifted production of its 

many vehicles destined for 

New Zealand, at a local 

level they are changing 

the way they sell cars, 

there’s a lot more emphasis 

on making decisions, 

especially on price, easier. 

That being the case, the 

journey to the Toyota 

dealership should be in 

their terminology a ‘happy’ 

experience. 

I’d certainly be happy 

to drive home in a new 

Camry V6, in the age 

when electric/hybrid 

power is at the forefront of 

a lot of buying decisions 

it’s great to get behind 

the traditional V6 petrol 

engine. The Camry is a 

smart piece of kit, and it 

looks spectacular. Just as 

well it has the performance 

to match its looks. 

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What you need to know 

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As Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 

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Welcoming visitors is one thing, 

opening it up to complete strangers is 

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When you’re selling a property you 

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If there is anything you are uncertain 

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“Bear in mind though that in order 

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see it,” says Kevin Lampen-Smith, chief 

executive of the Real Estate Authority 

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when viewings are held, even if they are 

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If you are selling privately, you have 

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you’re not braced to hear other people’s 

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When it comes to the marketing 

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a good idea to look at things from the 

perspective of the real estate agent and 

any prospective purchaser, Lampen- 

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“Open homes often attract people 

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record of visitors it will give you an 

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In an ideal world, people will treat 

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“If you suspect they will need 

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Selling a property can be a stressful 

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“Present your home well and it’s more 

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Show 

home 

Guide 

Homes by Parklane 

“Standout Homes for an Outstanding Price” 

Flemington, Lincoln 

6 Craig Thompson Drive 

Wed to Sun 12pm - 4pm 

Wigram 

2 Harvard Avenue 

Mon to Fri 9am - 5pm 

Master Builders House of the Year 2017 

Gold Reserve Award Winning Showhome 

(03) 341 3000 or 029 201 2453 

www.homesbyparklane.co.nz 

Jennian Homes - Canterbury North 

Rolleston 

7 Lemonwood Drive, Faringdon 

Wed to Sun 12pm-4pm 

Rangiora 

9 Westpark Boulevard 

Wed to Sun 12pm - 4pm 

www.jennian.co.nz 

David Reid Homes 

Casebrook 

New Showhome coming soon! 

2 Glenturret Drive 

Prebbleton 

80 Farthing Drive - opening soon 

Ph Shane 021 392 995 

or Krystal 021 335 707 

www.davidreidhomes.co.nz 

Hybrid Homes-Architectural 

Eco Homes 

Sumner 

162 Richmond Hill Rd, Sumner 

Open home first Saturday of each 

month, 11-2pm. 

www.hybridhomes.co.nz 

thE 

showhomE 

guidE 

Contact Elaine: (03) 364 7436 

elaine.moon@starmedia.kiwi 

The Star Classifieds 

New and Used 

WINDOWS 

& DOORS 

• Extensive 

range 

• Aluminium & 

timber 

• French doors 

Phone 

379 6159 

215 Waltham Rd 

Building Supplies 

www.windowmarket.co.nz 

Birds – Caged 

BUDGIES 

Multi coloured $15 each. 

Brown quails & silver 

Quails $10 each. Ph 

3428111 

Caravans, Motorhomes 

& Traliers 

CARAVAN Wanted to 

buy. Up to $5000 cash 

today 027 488-5284. 

Cars 

$1,501 - $4,000 

HONDA CIVIC 

1997, 4 dr, auto, $2295. 

Doug Drake Motors, 281 

Ferry Rd. Ph 389 1121 

SUZUKI LIANNA 

2002, 5 speed, 5dr hatch, 

$2495. Doug Drake 

Motors, 281 Ferry Rd. Ph 

389 1121 

TOYOTA Hatch 1989 1.3 

auto,120,000 km, $1395. 



TOYOTA RAV 

1995 3 dr, 2L auto$2495. 



Cars 

$4,001 - $8,000 

MITSUBISHI 380 SX, 

2007. Red, $8,000 paint, 

3.8 V6, 40mpg, spoiler, 

17” alloys. Was $18,000 

now $7995 , ph 352 5963 

Church Notices 

The Spiritualist 

Church of NZ 

41 Glenroy Street 

Woolston 

SUNDAY SERVICE 

7pm 

Address 

Sandra 

Mediumship 

Sandy 

Ph 021-081-43700 

Christian 

sPiritUaList 

ChUrCh 

182 Edgeware Road 

Sunday Service 7pm 

Sharon and 

Rosemary 

Visiting Mediums 

from Timaru 

All Welcome 

• Exterior 

sliding doors 

• Single & 

double glazed 

• Buy and sell 

Church Notices 

SYDENHAM CHRISTIAN 

SPIRITUAL CHURCH 

Sydenham Community 

Centre 

23/25 Hutcheson St 

Address 

Carol 

Clairvoyance 

Davida 

Sunday 7pm 

All Welcome 

Phone 349-9749 

NEW AGE CHRISTIAN 

SPIRITUAL CENTRE 

Grafton Street 

Sunday 7pm 

Address: 

Shirley 

Clairvoyance: 

Tina 

Tuesday 1pm - 3pm 

Healing & 

Clairvoyance 

All Welcome 

Classic Cars & 

Motorcycles 

MITSUBISHI CORDIA 

turbo GSR, 1985, low 

kms, 1 previous family 

owned, red, suit collector, 

ph 352 5963 

Computer 

Services 

COMPUTER REPAIRS. 

MOBILE SERVICE. 

New computer set up, 

Malware & virus removal, 

PC & Laptop tune ups. 

Residential, small business 

& trade. 

Ph Nic Gibbs - 

Computer Geek Services 

Ph 980-3846 

Community Events 

ADDICTIVE EATERS 

ANONYMOUS Had 

enough of battling 

food? Tired of under or 

overeating or obsessing 

constantly about food? We 

have found freedom from 

food addiction through the 

Twelve Steps. We have 

three meetings each week 

in Christchurch. For more 

information phone 03 

662-9128 or visit www. 

AEAnz.org 

Community Events 

ALCOHOLICS 

ANONYMOUS, If you 

want to have a drink thats 

your business. If you want 

to stop, we can help. Phone 

0800 229-6757 

ANGEL FUND WAHINE 

PUTEA A Women’s 

Savings and Loans 

Fund. Don’t let money 

hold you back. Save and 

build your own nest egg. 

Wanting to step ahead in 

small business, education 

or training? No interest 

loans to $500 available to 

women on low incomes. 

Text or phone 022 412 

6435. angelfund@gmail. 

com 

APPLE MAC, iPAD, 

iPHONE, iWATCH 

SeniorNet Mac offers 

people over 50yrs of age, 

courses, workshop tuition 

by arrangement. Open 

day every Friday morning 

9.30-11.45am at 41 Essex 

St. For information phone 

Allan 352-4950 or email 

mac.seniornet@gmail.com 

Engagements 

Te Arahi Kutpai Ngaria 

Mahanga and Daniel 

Leonard Graham wish to 

announce our engagement 

to all our family and 

friends 

Finance 

Need Cash? FAST, Easy, 

Loans. $1k to $100k. 

Low Rates + Fees. Quick 

Payout. Apply online at 

maxloans.co.nz, or call 

0508 MAX LOANS. 

Finance 

For Sale 

PAPER END 

ROLLS 

For Sale 

Open to Offers. 3 person 

outside seat, 2 seater sofa, 

large bar, roll top writing 

desk, kauri & rimu front 

doors, large plant pot, rimu 

office table. 300 teaspoons. 

Ph 022 465 2152 or Flat 

35 - 16 Dundee Place, 

Spreydon 

PIANO Oak frame, tidy 

cond. $300. Ph 386 2600, 

0274 345 671 

TREADMILL. 

Sole F60, near new, cost 

$2500, sell $1600 ono. Ph 

3425792 or 0276 425792 

Funeral Directors 

Direct 

Cremation 

No frills, No Service, 

No fuss, simply 

straight to the crem. 

Other options available 

Ph: 379 0178 

for our brochure 

or email 

office@undertaker.co.nz 

Finance 

Need Cash? FAST, Easy, 

Loans. $1k to $100k. 

Low Rates + Fees. Quick 

Payout. Apply online at 

maxloans.co.nz, or call 

0508 MAX LOANS. 

Newsprint, White Gloss 

& White Matte available 

Great for Packing, Pattern Making, 

Drawing Paper 

NOW AVAILABLE FROM 

29A Coleridge Street, Sydenham 

or Phone Martin 0276 942 007 

for delivery options 


Non-Service Cremation $2,050 

Just Funerals, a family owned and 

operated company with qualified, 

registered and experienced staff. 

Other services also 

available, please 

call to enquire. 

Phone 0800 804 663 - 24 Hour Availability 

Email: info@justfunerals.co.nz 

christchurch.justfunerals.co.nz 


Direct 

Cremations 

Incorporated with Integrity Cremations 

Covering from 

Waimate to 

Kaikoura 

0800 000 121 

24 Hour Service 

www.integritycremations.kiwi 

info@integritycremations.kiwi 

Garage Sales 

HALSWELL 74 Wales 

St, Sat & Sun 8am - 1pm, 

Bikes & house items, 

OPAWA Tabart St. If wet 

cancelled, it fine signs out 

Sat @ 8.30 

PAPANUI 34 Vagues Rd, 

Saturday 8am - 10.30am. 

In aide of Christchurch 

North Elim Church. 

RUSSLEY 

Begining of Springhill St. 

Sat 8am -2pm. 

3 Households 

Gardening 

& Supplies 

TREE & HEDGE 

SERVICES 

• Trees removed 

• Trees pruned 

• Storm damage 

• Hedges trimmed 

• Free quotes 

Ph Justin 

021 221 4344 

Gardening 

& Supplies 

LANDSCAPE GARDEN 

PROFESSIONAL 

Qualified Horticulturist, 

offering expert, garden 

makeovers, design and 

landscaping, for free 

quotes call Bryce 027 688- 

8196 or 0508 242-733 

Handy Person 

Services 

Tired of that dripping 

tap?Brassed off with 

those sticking doors and 

windows?Sick of looking 

at that broken gate & 

fence?Help is at hand!Ph 

John on 021 149 0986 for 

an obligation free quote to 

ease your mind. 

Massage 

MALE Masseur, relax 

massage, waxing for men, 

8am-8pm ph 027 723 5756 

Motorcycles 

SCOOTER YAHAMA 

2008 Jog $700. Phone 386 

2600 , 0274 345 671 

Tools & Machinery 

TOOLS, Garden garage, 

saw benches, Lathes. Cash 

buyer Phone 355-2045 

Wanted To Buy 

WANTED 

SLEEP 

OUTS 

ANYTHING 

CONSIDERED 

Building Removals 

349 9633 

CASH FOR 

STAMPS 

Do you have an 

Old Stamp or Coin 

collection tucked away 

somewhere? It could 

be worth a fortune! 

We are currently Buying 

old collections in the 

Christchurch area to stock 

our retail shop in Riccarton. 

Free Appraisal and Cash 

Offers on most items. 

Call Matt Power 

0800 39 24 26 

The Stamp Exchange 

134a Riccarton Road. Opposite 

the Mall carpark. 

Dealers. Phone 980 5812 

furniture, furs, jewellery, 

tools, old photos, estate. 

fridges, freezers, washing 

cash paid. Ph Paul 022 

ALL whiteware wanted. 

Same day service, cash 

paid for . freezes, fridges, 

washing machines, ovens. 

Also buying furniture & 

AAA Buying goods 

quality furniture, 

Beds, Stoves, Washing 

machines, Fridge Freezers. 

Same day service. Selwyn 

or 027 313 8156 

A+ About to move? Books, 

china, coins, medals, 

Ph 385-5117 

A+ Household effects, 

machines, ovens. Good 

0891 671 

h/hold effects.Anything 

considered. Ph Dave 960- 

8440, 027 66 22 116 

ALL Old China, Crystal, 

Ornaments, Vases, Cutlery 

etc. Raewyn Hill Phone 

360-0951




Your local guide to our 

Trusted Tradesmen & Professionals 

To advertise: 

Phone 379 1100 or email 

star.class@starmedia.kiwi 

accountant 

ARCHGOLA 

Builder 

BUILDER 

Accounting 

services 

Enjoy outdoor living all year round 

BUILDers 

“A local looking after locals” 

quotes 

given 

• Bookkeeping 

• GST 

• PAYE 

• Tax Returns 

• Management 

Advice available 

PHone PAul 

355-2636 

• House, deck, carport & window canopy etc 

• Warm & dry in winter 

• UV protection for summer 

• Customised & Tailored 

• Café curtains fitted 

• 5 year warranty 

15 months 

INTEREST FREE 

Normal lending criteria apply 

Travlon 

Chris Thorndycroft 

Coachlines 

Grant Stewart 

Ph 0508 272 446 | www.archgola.co.nz 

• Licenced builder with 20 years 

experience in renovations, 

alterations and extensions 

• A creative craftsman who is 

attentive to detail 

• Quotes the job, does the job 

• Works with all budgets 

Andrew Drewitt 

Ph: 021 395 324 

Email: ad_designs@hotmail.com 

From new builds to small home alterations, we 

specialise in turning your dream home ideas into reality. 

Call the name you can trust! 

Ph 377 0034 

www.dimocks.net.nz 

Builder 

Building & roofing 

log fire inSTAllATionS 

• Bricklaying & Blocklaying 

(30 yrs experience) 

logfires 

• log fire installation & maintenance 

• chimney cleaning 

• standard logfire installations $600 + gsT + 

permit + parts if applicable 

• My scaffolding no charge 

fencing 

• Brick, block, timber or any combination 

roofing repairs 

• concrete tile, metal chip tile, corrugated iron 

landscape Builds 

• retaining walls, decks, BBQs, planter boxes 

Jim gardner Trade services 

Member NZ Home Heating Association 

ph 03 343 4044 or 0274 375 619 

email teamgardner@xtra.co.nz 

DECORATORS 

CHARTER & TOUR 

Travlon 

Coachlines 

Travlon Coachlines 

School Run to some 

private schools 

ex Selwyn/Halswell area 

“Wide range of coaches 

“Wide 

and buses for 

School range of Run coaches to some and buses 

for Charter 

private schools 

& Tour” 

ex Selwyn/Halswell area 

www.travlon.co.nz | Phone: 03 325 2959 

“Wide 

Email: 

Phone: range 

info@travlon.co.nz 

03 325 of coaches 2959 

Email: and info@travlon.co.nz 

buses for 

Charter DRIVEWAYS & Tour” 

WINDOW & CARPET 

CLEANING SPECIAL 

Prices range from 

$60 to $90 for 

outside window 

cleaning 

cleaning 

Prices from $80 

for 2 rooms steam 

cleaning carpets 

Call for a FREE Quote NOW! 

021 0235 7774 

or 0800 90 1223 

www.3plestar.nz 

Driveways 

CONCRETE 

Concrete Removal 

& Trucking 

Driveways, paths, sheds, garages, site clearances. 

We also deliver and spread landscaping supplies – 

topsoil, bark chip, shingle etc. 

3 Tonne Digger and operator available for hire. 

For fast friendly service phone 

Nick on 0274 324 124 

keacontracting@yahoo.com 

EARTHWORKS 

New Paint • Repaints 

Wallpapering • Fences 

Repairs • Feature Walls 

Floor & Roof Painting 

Spray Painting 

Light Commercial 

Restoring Timber 

Selwyn based but service the whole of Canterbury 

www.andertondecorators.co.nz 

www.facebook.com/andertondecorators 

027 724 6846 027 PAINTIN 

www.travlon.co.nz 

Exposed Aggregate 

Phone: 03 325 2959 

Stamped Concrete Plain 

Email: info@travlon.co.nz 

Concrete Resurfacing 

Things we offer... 

Competitive/affordable pricing 

Attention to detail 

Professional service 

free quotes/insurance scopes 

Cell 0278 145 848 

www.drivecrete.co.nz 

SWAINS KIWI KERB 

DRIVEWAY 

CONSTRUCTION 

Free Measure & Quote 

• Asphalt 

• Driveways 

• Kerb 

Quality Workmanship - 

Over 10 Years Experience 

• Chipseal 

• Chip 

PH 0800 081- 400 • 980-1123 

Mob 0274 325 457 

Quality 

• Driveways 

• Car parks 

• Demolition 

Locally owned & operated 

with over 10 years 

experience 

• Shingle Deliveries 

• Truck hire 

• Digger hire 

027 240 7030 

JACOB BROWNLEES 

Excavations 

• Driveways 

• Car Parks 

• Site Cleaning 

• Demolition 

• Farm Tracks 

• Drain Cleaning 

• Stump & Hedge 

Removal 

• Ashpalt Concrete 

Wide range 

oF TruckS 

• Tennis Courts & 

Swimming Pools 

• Chip Seal Driveways 

• Diggers – 2 Ton 

up to 20 Ton 

• Excavators 

• Bobcat & Drilling 

• For Posthole & 

Fence hole 

For a Free Quote 

on your next project 

Phone Steve on 021 338 247 

or 325 7922 

Free 

QuoTe 

EXTERIOR PLASTERING 

Quality 

Workmanship 

at Competitive Pricing 

Free Quotes 

Aynsley Frewer 

M: 027 201 1296 

E: aynsleyfrewer@xtra.co.nz 

PO Box 20534 Bishopdale 

Gutter Guard 

STOP LEAVES 

birds, snow, hail & vermin 

from blocking up your spouting 

Quality materials: BHP Colorbond steel mesh with 

unique patented louvre will even keep out pine needles. 

Will not rust or sag with age or load. 10 year warranty, 

range of colours. 

Proven in Australia & New Zealand over the last 15 years. 

FOR SAFE, PURE DRINKING 

WATER FROM YOUR ROOF. 

NOW AVAILABLE: STAINLESS STEEL 

MICO MESH 

Call Rohan anytime Mon-Sat for a noobligation 

assessment & quote 

0800 486532 www.gumleaf.co.nz 

hunting 

WE BUY ALL UNWANTED 

GUNS & ACCESSORIES 

FOR CASH 

Now at 64 Carmen Rd, Hornby 

027 265 4659 

You can now shop online with us 

www.shooterssupplies.co.nz



Your local guide to our 

Trusted Tradesmen & Professionals 

To advertise: 

Phone 379 1100 or email 

star.class@starmedia.kiwi 

junk 

Why go to the Dump? Junkman comes to you! 

Items too big for the rubbish bin? 

Or too heavy for you to move? 

Junkman comes to FROM 

you & takes it away $ 

65 * 

*Prices vary depending on items and volume – minimum charge $65 

0800 586 5626 

www.junkman.co.nz office@junkman.co.nz 

landscaping 

Landscape 

Construction and 

Garden Maintenance 

You can have your gardens, trees, 

shrubs, plants and lawns maintained to look their best 

all year round, for a great price. 

Residential & Commercial Landscaping 

• Maintenance • Pruning • Reconstruction & Rejuvenation 

• Rental Property and Commercial Maintenance 

• Pre-Sale Tidy-Ups 

New Home Landscaping 

Lawns • Gardens • Decks • Paving • Water Features 

• Quality • Value for money • Experienced • Punctual 

• Professional • Flexible • Knowledgeable • Reliable 

Call Ross Legg - 027 222 0388 

Email ross@revivelandscaping.co.nz 

www.revivelandscaping.co.nz 

Mailer Deliveries 

For a local, reliable 

mailer delivery 

service contact 

Star Media 

• Newspaper inserts 

• Magazine inserts 

• Letterbox deliveries 

• Urban & Rural deliveries 

For a cost effective, targeted delivery 

please call 03 379 7100 or email 

michaela.malloch@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi 

PAINTER 

PAINTING & TILING 

pc & phone repairs 

PLUMBER 

Michael Kelly Painters 

Locally owned and 

operated family 

business. 

25+ years Experience 

• Painting • Wallpapering 

• Interior • Exterior 

Free Quotes 

Phone 

Michael 0212 649 492 

michaelkellypainter@hotmail.co.nz 

• PAINTING • TILING 

• PLASTERING 

• WALLPAPERING 

Phone Kevin Steel 

• Interior/Exterior 

• New Homes & Repaints 

• Quality workmanship assured 

• Correct preparation always undertaken 

• 20+ years experience 

• Earthquake repairs 

(Painting/Plastering/Wallpapering/Tiling) 

Ph 381 7417 or 027 216 8946 

www.facebook.com/kevinsteelpainters&decorators 

• iPhones • Smart Phones 

• iPads • Tablets • Computers • Laptop 

Repairs, Parts and Accessories 

• Glass Screen Protectors 

• Phone Cases • Cables etc 

109 Matipo St | 0800 222 691 

12 years 

experience 

Serving Christchurch and wider 

Canterbury Region with quality 

workmanship and service. 

24/7 caLLOUT serVice 

plumber 

PLUMBER 

ROOF REPAIRS 

terrace downs 

The go to guys for 

plumbing services 

✓ Plumbing and Gas 

✓ No job too big or small 

✓ All areas covered 

P: 03 595 5610 

E: info.ccp@gofox.nz 

W: gofox.nz 

PLUMBING & GASFITTING 

• Hot water cylinder repair/replacement 

• Leaky taps, blocked toilets 

• New housing 

• All plumbing alterations 

• Mains pressure hot water 

• Fire and wetback installation 

• Digger/tipper excavation and hire 

• Watermain replacement/repair 


• Certified craftsman plumber 

10% prompt payment discount* 

same day service* 

*conditions apply 

call/text 027 245 5100 

Freephone: 0508 426 269 

Locally owned & operated with 

over 30 years experience. 

• Extensions & repair • Roof coating 

• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol 

• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified 

• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering 

Phone Dave 981 0278 

or 021 223 4200 

E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz 

BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD 

Make your Sunday extra 

special with our popular 

Sunday Buffet 

Come and enjoy a delicious menu of classic 

and International flavours, accompanied by 

live music. 

Every Sunday 

12:30pm 

Adults $45pp, 

Kids u12 only $20 

Phone 03 318 6943 

Terrace Downs Resort, 623 Coleridge Rd 

Windwhistle, Canterbury 

Email: info@terracedowns.co.nz 

www.terracedowns.co.nz 

towing 

TRADES 

VIDEO PRODUCTION 

WINDOW TINTING 

fOr SAfE, dAmAgE frEE 

cAr TrAnSpOrTATIOn 

ASHLEY’S TOW TAXI 

“SpEcIAL cArE fOr SpEcIAL cArS” 

0800 TOWTAXI 

0800 8698294 

Advertise your 

business & services 

in Christchurch’s 

best read & 

largest circulation 

newspaper 

Delivered into over 92,000 

Christchurch homes every week. 

Ask us about our fantastic 

cost affordable packages. 

Phone: 03 379 1100 | www.star.kiwi 

business video 

PRoduCTion 

A video will bring your business alive & into your 

customers mind. 

Promote your services or business with a 

professionally created video with us 

• Corporate and Business 

video a speciality 

• Competitive rates 

• 25 years experience 

• Start to finished product 

• Professional quality 

guaranteed 

PHone KeRRY 021 635 083 

tintawindow 

advanced film solutions 

99% uv block 

fade protection 

heat control 

reduce glare 

25 Years Experience 

privacy films 

frosting designs 

non-darkening films 

Workmanship Guaranteed 

Lifetime Warranties on Most Films 

UV 

block 

Free Quotes Canterbury and Districts 

03 365 3653 0800 368 468



The Star Classifieds 

Wanted To Buy 

MILITARIA Any 

country, firearms, 

uniforms, badges, medals, 

memoribilia, WW2 or 

earlier ph 338-9931 

TOOLS, Garden garage, 

saw benches, Lathes. Cash 

buyer Phone 355-2045 

To Let 

RENT ME! 

Ideal as an extra 

bedroom or office. 

no bond required 

Fully insulated and double glazed for warmth. 

Three convenient sizes from $70 a week: 

Standard 3.6m x 2.4m 

Large 4.2m x 2.4m | Xtra-large 4.8m x 2.4m 

To Let 

CARAVAN RENTAL. 

Long term CHCH. Rent 

ot own option avail. Ph 

9421900 or 021 02779849. 

www.habitatcaravans. 

co.nz 

HOMESITTERS reqd. 

Pref retired / part time. 

Lovely home / pets. Ph 

Lisa 359-2323 www. 

townandcountryhomesit. 

co.nz 

HORNBY NEW 

HOUSING PROJECT - 29 

Lesley Keast Place. The 

Housing Plus Charitable 

Foundation is building 

8, two bedroom units for 

people with emotional or 

social need who would 

benefit from a safe, 

secure environment with 

low level support. The 

Trust will be tenanting 

with 2 people per unit for 

July occupancy. Contact 

Margaret Willis Ph 021 

024 32182 or Email 

margaret@hpcf.co.nz 

ADD SOME 

COLOUR 

TO YOUR ADVERT! 

Visit our website 

www.justcabins.co.nz 

for display cabin locations 

www.justcabins.co.nz 

Tours 

Trades & Services 

ROOF REPAIRS 

MOSS SPRAYING 

366 4141 allroofs.co.nz 


ROOF 

PAINTING 

Affordable rope and 

harness speciality. 

No scaffolding required. 

30 years experience. 

Call Craig 021 060 2392 

EXPERIENCED 

GARDENER 

(Kevin Garnett) 

30 Years 

Christchurch Botanic 

Gardens. 

ALL landscape 

work done. 

Maintenance, pruning, 

tidy up, lawn work, 

landscape planning 

and planting etc. 

Free Quotes 

Phone 348 3482 

PAINTER 

Houses Interior/Exterior 

27 years exp. 

Tidy workmanship 

On the spot written 

quotes 

Ph: 0274 360-298 

Adelaide and Murray River 

Departs 25th July 2018 

12 days including 5 nights on the Murray 

$5250pp twin share 

Hokianga and Far North 

Departs 21st September 2018 

8 days - $2250.00 pp twin share 

Tasmania 

Departs 30th October 2018 

12 days - $4900.00 pp twin share 

Call Reid Tours 0800 446 886 

www.reidtours.com 

House & Garden 

Property Services Ltd 

Gutter & down pipe cleaning 

Water blasting 

• Tree trimming & removal 

• Hedge & shrub trimming 

• Garden maintenance 

• Lawn mowing & care 

DIRTY 

TILES & 

GROUT? 

Our unique restoration processes will make your 

tiled areas look BRAND NEW again! 

We provide cost effective makeovers for showers, 

bathrooms, kitchens or any other tiled areas. 

Tiled Shower Makeovers 

Professional Tile & Grout Cleaning 

Re-Colouring of existing Grout 

Tile/Grout Sealing 

Tile/Grout Repairs 

Silicone Replacement 

Garage Carpet Installation 

For your FREE no obligation quote contact 

DARRYL 



0800 882 772 

darryl.p@groutpro.co.nz 

• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi 

• General property 

maintenance 

• Landscaping 

• Painting & plastering 

• 25 years experience 

Call us today on 021 405 277 

for a free no obligation quote. 


• Commercial Carpet Cleaning 

• Residential Carpet Cleaning 

• Upholstery Cleaning 

• Stain & Odor Removal 

• Tile & Grout Cleaning 

NEED HELP 

WITH YOUR 

CARPET CLEAN? 

Simply give us a call 

on 021 035 8989 

We will get the job done 

in a professional way. 

30 years + experience 

Older house 

restorations: 

no problem! 

Quotes: FREE! 

Rates: Reasonable 

Paint supplied at 

trade price! 

NO JOB TOO SMALL 

Light industrial also 

Roger Brott 

Painter & Decorator 

021-1966-311 

BUILDER QUaLIfIED 

50 yrs exp. Bathrooms, 

Kitchens, Renovations, 

Repairs & Extensions 

Free quotes. Discount for 

pensioners. Ph Mike 03 

980 9771 or 027 2266 930 

BUILDER 

Exp in all aspects of 

building works, home 

renovations & extensions, 

property repairs. Free 

quote. Ph Stuart 0274 

661058 


BUILDER 

For all building work 

but specialist in bathroom 

renovations, 30 yrs 

experience, with service 

and integrity. Free Quotes. 

Ph Lachlan 383-1723 or 

0274 367-067. 

CaRPET & VInyL 

LayIng 

50 Yrs exp Repairs, 

uplifting, relaying, 

restretching, E mail 

jflattery@xtra.co.nz 

ph John on 0800 003 181 

or 027 2407416 

CaRPEnTER 

Painting, repairs. Free 

quotes. Ph Joe 022 

0916671 or 338 3803 

CaRPEnTER 

Painting, repairs. Free 

quotes. Ph Joe 022 

0916671 or 338 3803 

COnCRETE CUTTIng 

Affordable Concrete 

Cutting with Quality, and 

removal work. Free quote. 

No job to small. Phone 027 

442-2219, Fax 359-6052 

a/h 359- 4605 

COnCRETE CUTTIng 

anD gRInDIng . 

Repair cracks & uneven 

surfaces. New concrete 

slabs. Small jobs ok. Gary 

342-8950 021 529 022 

ELECTRICIan 

Prompt & reliable 

registered electrician with 

24 years experience for all 

residential and commercial Decking, 

work, new housing and 

switch board replacements 

Phone Chris 027 516 0669 

ELECTRICIan 

aVaILaBLE 

30 years experience, 

immediate start, 

competitive rate, 

ph Brian 027 433 9548 


ELECTRICIan 

Registered, electrical 

installation and repairs, 

Gorbie Electrical, ph 021 

026 73375 or 03 322 4209 

ELECTRICIan 

All types of domestic 

& commercial work 

undertaken, new housing, 

alterations,extensions, 

ranges, security lights, 

quick response, efficient 

service,free quotes, 

city -wide. No call out 

fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat 

Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027 

7331384. 

ELECTRICIan 

REgIsTERED 

Domestic & Commercial. 

installations. All areas 

covered. Ph 021 058 1 644 

Looking for an 

electrician? 

• Residential, Domestic 

& Commercial 

• Repairs, Maintenance 

• Fault finding 

• New housing 

• Competitive rates 


• Full & Partial Rewiring 

• Test & Tagging 

• Security Cameras 

• LED Lighting Upgrades 

Call 022 643 6450 

Email admin@totalelectric.co.nz 

After Hours 347 3313 

fEnCIng 

25 yrs exp. Fencing, all 

styles & gates. Ph Mark 

0273 313 223 

fEnCIng 

Quality timber fencing - 

gates & repairs, ph Ryan 

027 951 8892 

HanDyMan 

Painting, tiling, new 

shower, fence, deck etc 

etc. Gordon 0274 851 897 

or 960-1961 

HanDy - Dan 

General Handyman for 

all your maintenance 

requirements. I specialise 

in fences and decking, also 

do spouting cleans and 

repairs and everyday home 

maintenance. NO JOB TO 

BIG OR SMALL I can do 

it all, please don’t hesitate 

to call me on 022 600 7738 

for a no obligation free 

quote. 

LanDsCaPIng 

Paving, Lawns, Irrigation, 

Fencing. 

Kanga & small digger 

services. Check out Squire 

Landscaping on facebook. 

FREE QUOTES. Ph 

Arthur 347-8796, 027 

220-7014 Edwin 027 220- 

7154 

LInEs 

Factory, Car Park, No 

Entry, and more. Free 

Quotes. Ph 027 823 7979 

OVEn CLEanIng 

Professional cleans 

$50.00. Gift Vouchers 

avail. Phone 0800 683- 

6253 or 027 228-0025 

Situations Vacant 

HVAC 

Service 

Technician 

Wanted 

Must have minimum 

3 years experience, 

clean full driver’s 

licence, no criminal 

convictions. 

Must be Fujitsu 

accredited. 

Email your CV to 

andrew.pshc@gmail.com 


PLasTER MasOnRy 

Small jobs ok. 30 yrs 

exp. Brick Repairs, 

Stucco, Painting, Fixing, 

Stopping, Cracks & 

Holes, Free quotes. Gary 

342-8450 / 021 529 022 

PLasTERER 

PaInTIng 

Exp reliable quality finish. 

CompetitIve prices, free 

quotes. Ph Gavin 352 2313 

or 027 204 3835 

PLUMBER 

A Top Plumbing job 

completed at a fair price, 

prompt service, all work 

guaranteed, Ph Brian 960- 

7673 or 021 112-3492 

REMOVaLs 

Small furniture removals, 

have own van, can fit 

various types of whiteware 

appliances, some furn, 

bedding, boxes etc, honest 

& reliable, any area 

considered, ph Chch 027 

517 7001 

ROOfIng REPaIRs 

Fully Qualified, Over 

40 Yrs experience 

Ph John 027 432-3822 

or 351-9147 email 

johnchmill@outlook.com 

RUBBIsH REMOVaL 

Van & Trailer Rubbish 

Removal. Free quotes. Ph 

Gary 342-8950, 021 529 

022 

sPOUTIng CLEanIng 

Spouting Unblocked, 

Cleaned Out and Flushed 

Out. Also Full Handyman 

Services Available. Call 

Trevor 332 8949 or 021 

043 2034 

sPOUTIng 

Select Spouting 

The PVC specialist. 

Repairs & replacement. Ph 

022 197 2351 

TILER 

Available now, excellent 

rates, quality work, call 

John for a free quote 021 

144 0844 

TREE sERVICEs 

Free quotes 20+ yrs exp. 

Tree, hedge or shrub 

- reduction, shaped or 

removed. Ph/text Paul 

The Branch Manager 

0274314720 

WInDOW CLEanIng 

Average 3 brm house 

inside or out $40. Both $70 

Phone Trevor 344-2170 


SALES PERSON Full 

Time. Must have people 

skills. Monthly bonus. 

Phone during business 

hours 388-0786 

Do you enjoy 

eating GOLD 

kiwifruit 

including the skin? 


Notice of AGM 

The Annual General Meeting of Abbeyfield ChCh Inc. 

will be held on Thursday 28 June 2018, 4.00pm in the 

Hornby Community Centre (in the Library complex), 

Goulding Ave, Hornby. 

Plant & Food Research require volunteers for a 

clinical study looking at the effects of SunGold 

kiwifruit on inflammation and gut health. This is 

a 16 week study which involves eating GOLD 

kiwifruit along with your normal diet. 

We need volunteers that are either healthy or 

suffering from Irritable bowel syndrome which 

is associated with constipation. Aged 18 to 65 

years old. 

You will be required to visit 40 Stewart Street, 

Central Christchurch for periods of up to 45 

minutes on 7 occasions between 7.00am 

and 12.00pm. You will be reimbursed $320 in 

vouchers for your participation in this study. 

To find out more about the study contact: 

Sarah Eady on (03) 325 9671 or 027 476 6137 

or Alison Wallace on 027 482 2018. 

Email: sarah.eady@plantandfood.co.nz 

or alison.wallace@plantandfood.co.nz 

STAMP AND 

POSTCARD FAIR 

The Philatelic Centre 

67 Mandeville Street, 

Riccarton 

Saturday 16th June 

9am-12pm 

Sellers tables available 

Phone 323 7132 

Public Notices 

HOUSE & GARAGE 

Cleanout. I’ll pick up for 

free.. Ph 021 08439932. 

Recycling Man. Charity 

for Chch. 

Public Notices 


Springs 

Community Early 

Learning Centre 

Inc 

AGM 

Tuesday 

19th June, 6.30pm 

10a Weaver Place, 

Sockburn. 

New members required. 

ALL WELCOME 

03 343-5501 

Casual On Course Totalisator Staff 

New sell/pay operators required 

for training. Interested persons 

please phone Lisa, Addington Raceway, 

338 9094, ext 891 

Monday-Friday 

Crossword Solutions



christchurch 

GIG GUIDE 

To add a listing, contact 

Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or 

027 458 8590 

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi/whatson 

A ROLLING STONE, 579 

Colombo St: Thursday 7pm - 

Open Mic. Friday 8pm - Karaoke. 

Saturday 8pm - Heather & the 

Teddies. Monday 6pm - Quiz. 

Tuesday 7pm - Open Mic. 

Wednesday 7pm - Trad Session & 

Irish Language Lessons. 

ARMADILLOS, Colombo St: 

Friday 8pm - Karaoke. Saturday 

9.15pm - Level 6. 

BARETTA, St Asaph St: 

Friday 7pm - Live music; 10.30pm 

- DJ. Saturday 9pm - DJ Double 

Header. 

BLUE SMOKE, Woolston 

Tannery, Garlands Rd: 

Thursday 6pm - Radio Hauraki 

Brewery Tour with DJ set from Jon 

Toodgood. Friday 8pm - Why Does 

Love Jordan Luck SOLD OUT. 

Sunday 4pm - The Backyard Skiffle 

Band Family Show, tix $10 at 

Eventfinda. 

CARLTON, Papanui Rd: 

Thursday 9pm - SansTribe. Friday 

10pm - D’Sendantz. Saturday 

10.30pm - Flat City Brotherhood. 

Sunday 5pm - Daniel Pfeifer. 

Monday 6.30pm - Quiz with Regan 

& Susie. Tuesday 8pm - Comedy. 

Wednesday 8.30pm - Assembly 

Required. 

CASA PUBLICA, Armagh St: 

Friday 5pm - Nick Lee; 8.30pm - El 

Guitaro. Saturday 9pm - Ash-S. 

CASHMERE CLUB, 50 

Colombo St: Thursday 7pm - 

Cashmere Ukulele Players. Friday 

6.30pm - Krakkajack Dance 

Factory feat. Kaiapoi RnR Club 

teaching Cha Cha followed by 

music for all dance styles by live 

band Krakkajack. Sunday Sessions 

4pm - Southern Jazz Men. 

CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, 

Victoria St: Friday 6pm - Lino; 

9.15pm - Absolut. Saturday 9.15pm 

- Blackie. Sunday 5.30pm - Katrina 

Keenan. 

CHRISTCHURCH 

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 

Air Force Museum of NZ, 

Wigram: Saturday 7.30pm - 

Lamb & Hayward Masterworks: 

‘Fear & Courage’. Performing 

Herrmann’s Psycho, A Suite for 

Strings; Shostakovich’s Symphony 

No. 5; with pianist Nikolay 

Khozyainov as soloist in Prokofiev’s 

Piano Concerto No. 3: conducted by 

CSO Chief Conductor Benjamin 

Northey.Tickets @ Eventfinda. 

COASTERS TAVERN, 

Daniels Rd: Saturday 9.15pm - 

Fat Stallion. 

DARKROOM, St Asaph St: 

Thursday 7pm - Nervous Jerk & 

Mental Fatal with guests Model 

Home. $5 entry. Friday 9pm - A 

Gig for Anna feat. Opawa 45s; 

Palace of Wisdom; Pavlov’s Puss; 

plus more. Entry $5+ SPCA 

donation. Saturday 7.15pm - 

McLeod’s Son Comedy Show, tix 

$15-20 @ Eventfinda. 

DUX CENTRAL, Poplar 

Lane: Friday 5pm - 

Unconfirmed. Saturday 2pm - KP. 

Sunday 2pm - Matty Smith. 

EMPIRE, St Asaph St: 

Thursday 9pm - DJ. Friday 10pm - 

DJ. Saturday 10pm - DJ. 

FAT EDDIES, cnr Hereford 

St & Oxford Tce: Thursday 

7.30pm - Phoebe & Tom; 10pm - 

The In Crowd. Friday 6pm - 

Hamish Smith Quartet; 8.30pm - 

The Mighty Mightys; Midnight - 

The Jalapeno Peppers. Sunday 4pm 

- Brad Kang Duo. 

FINNEGANS IRISH PUB, 

PREBBLETON: Friday 8pm - 

Traditional Session. 

GARDEN BAR CAFE, 110 

Marshland Rd: Saturday 6pm - 

Vintage Blue. 

HELL FIRE CLUB, cnr 

Oxford St & Norwich Quay, 

Lyttelton: Thursday 8pm - 

Open Mic/jam night. 

HORNBY WMC, Carmen 

Rd: Saturday 4.30pm - Marion’s 

Outlaws; 8pm - The A&P Duo. 

ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL, 

Gloucester St: Saturday 

7.30pm - I Am Unbreakable. 

Tickets @ticketek. 

LYTTELTON RECORDS, 650 

Ferry Rd: Thursday 8pm - This 

Way North with Fraser Ross, tix @ 

UTR. 

MACKENZIES BAR, Pages 

Rd: Friday - Flat City Brotherhood. 

Saturday - The Elevators. 

Wednesday - Karaoke. 

MAINSTREET SPORTS 

BAR, Rangiora: Sunday 3pm - 

The DnD DUO (aka Dateless n 

Desperate). 

PIERSIDE CAFE & BAR, 

Marine Pde: Friday 9pm - DJ 

Chick. Saturday 9pm - Rough Cut. 

RICHMOND WMC, London 

St: Friday 7.30pm - DnD PopRock 

Band. Sunday 3pm - I Alone. 

STOCKXCHANGE, 

Marshland Rd: Friday 7pm - 

Set in Stone. 

SULLIVANS IRISH PUB, 

Lincoln Rd: Friday 9pm - Live 

music. Saturday 9pm - Live music. 

Wed 7pm - Willie’s Open Mic. 

Satin Rose (Australia) at 

Embers in the Papanui Club 

on Friday night. 

TEMPS HORNBY, Goulding 

St: Friday 8.30pm- Misfitz. 

Saturday 8.30pm - Mojo Rising. 

Wednesday 7pm - Mickey Rat 

Karaoke. 

THAI CHEFS, Riccarton Rd: 

Thursday to Wednesday 9pm - 

Resident DJ & Karaoke. 

THE BOG IRISH BAR, 

Victoria St: Thursday 10pm - 

Shadow Puppets. Friday 8pm - 

Susie & Regan; 11.30pm - 

Assembly Required. Saturday 

9.30pm - Stout & Stone; Midnight - 

Flat City Brotherhood. Sunday 

5.30pm - Black Velvet Acoustic. 

Tuesday 7pm - The Jameson 

Session. Wednesday 8pm - Karaoke 

Night. 

THE CRAIC IRISH BAR, 

Riccarton Rd: Thursday - 

Division Street. Friday - Al Park. 

Saturday - Eddie Simon. Tuesday - 

Quiz Night. Wednesday - Karaoke 

with DJ Chick. 

THE MILLER BAR, Lincoln 

Rd: Thursday 7pm - Learn to 

Rock n Roll. Friday 9.30pm - X- 

Files Duo. Saturday 9pm - Little 

Kitchen. Wednesday 8pm - 

Karaoke with Lance Kiwi. 

THE PAPANUI CdLUB, 

EMBERS BAR, Sawyers 

Arms Rd: Friday 7.30pm - Satin 

Rose. Saturday 7pm - HeadRush 

Duo. 

THE WAVE BAR, Marine 

Pde: Thursday 8.30pm - Karaoke. 

Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 

8.30pm - DJ Dan. 

TRENCHES, CHCH RSA, 

Armagh St: Friday 6.30pm - 

Janine Bailey. Sunday 5.30pm - 

Janice Gray with Bob Heinz & 

Mike Kime. 

TREVINOS BAR, Riccarton 

Rd: Friday 9pm - Hannah & Sam. 

WOOLSTON CLUB, 

Hargood St: Saturday 7.30pm - 

Vague-As Brothers. 

WUNDERBAR, Lyttelton: 

Friday 8pm - Merlinco, $5 entry. 

Saturday 9pm - Lurk presents 

Deep in Cider (for Dale), $5 entry.




THIS WEEK... 

THURSDAY: LUCKY TREASURE CHEST 

FRIDAY: LUCKY MEMBER DRAW 

TEST RUGBY - SATURDAY, 7.30PM 

ALL BLACKS v FRANCE 

AGM 

11am SUNDAY 24th JUNE 

• SKY Sport• Pool Tables 

• Gaming Room • TAB • 

• Shuttle runs Thurs, Fri, Sat night • 

JUNE ENTERTAINMENT 

RAFFLES 

Thurs, Fri, Sat 

Great Prizes 

• Large TV's • 

• TAB pod • 

• Gaming Room • 

richmond 

club 

www.rwmc.co.nz 

pride of the east 

since 1888 

WEDNESDAYS 7PM 

LIVE MUSIC 

VAGUE AS BROTHERS 

7.30PM THIS SATURDAY 

FREE ENTRY / PRIZES 

43 Hargood St, Woolston. Ph 03 389 7039 

www.woolstonclub.co.nz 

Follow us on Facebook 

www.facebook.com/WoostonclubInc 

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 

FRI 7.30PM 

DnD SHOWBAND 

SAVE THE DATE! 

SATURDAY 

23rd JUNE: 

ACOUSTIC 

SOLUTION 

SATURDAY 

30th JUNE: 

FRANCHISE 

SATURDAY 

7.30PM 

ON THE SUPER 

SIZED SCREEN 

TEST 

RUGBY 

ALL BLACKS 

v FRANCE 

Club BISTRO 

BISTRO 

new winter 

menu OUT NOw 

OPEN 5pm-8pm Thurs, Fri, Sat. 

BAR MENU available all day 

WEDNESDAY 

RETRO ROAST LUNCH 

$12 MEMBERS / $15 NON 

EXCITING NEW 

WINTER 

MENU 

COMING SOON 

Whitford’s Hours: 

CAFE OPEN 7 DAYS from 11am 

RESTAURANT OPEN 

Wednesday - Sunday from 5pm 

SUN 3PM 

Open Wednesday to Sunday 

Lunch & Dinner 

• Open daily from 11am • Courtesy Van 

75 London St | Ph 389 5778 | www.rwmc.co.nz 

CLUBS NEW ZEALAND WARMLY WELCOME MEMBERS, 

THEIR GUESTS AND AFFILIATE CLUB MEMBERS. 

BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT A CLUB 

WITHIN THIS SECTION. 

H ORNBY 

WORKINGMEN’S 

CLUB 

LIVE MUSIC 

THIS WEEKEND 

SATURDAY 

4.30PM: 

MARION’S 

OUTLAWS 

8PM: 

A & P DUO 

CLUB 

ELECTIONS 

THIS SATURDAY, 9AM 

COMING UP 

SATURDAY 23 JUNE 

STARS 

IN THEIR EYES 

Featuring 

TONY WELLINGTON as 

ROY ORBISON & 

BUDDY HOLLY 

and 

EDDIE SIMON as 

LEO SAYER & 

JOHN FOGERTY CCR 

7.30PM. PRE-SALE TIX $20. 

DOOR SALES $25. 


AVONHEAD ROTARY 

FUNDRAISER 

FOR POLIO PLUS 

ANOTHER GREAT 

VARIETY 

TRIBUTE SHOW 

WINTER DANCE & CONCERT 

FEATURING THE MUSIC OF 

JOHN ROWLES 

(Kevin Kearns) 

ROY ORBISON 

(Tony Gregory-Hunt) 

ELVIS PRESLEY 

(Brian Skinner) 

NEIL DIAMOND 

(Barry Croft) 

BARRY GIBB (BEEGEES) 

(George Tanner) 

PATSY CLINE 

(Chrissi Williams) 

THE SHADOWS 

(Ray Harris) 

with 

NEVILLE WILKINS 

& THE VISCOUNTS 

TICKETS $15 

FUNCTIONS 

WE HAVE ROOMS 

& CATERING 

ENQUIRE TODAY 

03 349 9026 

FAMILY FRIENDLY DINING 

Club CAFÉ 

OPEN EVERY DAY LUNCH & DINNER 

JOIN US FOR OUR EXCITING 

SERIES OF CLUB CAFÉ 

Chalmers Restaurant 

FRIDAY & SATURDAY 

CARVERY DINNER 

$22.50 

OPEN FROM 5.30PM 

Early Bird Special 

5.30pm - 6.30PM 

FREE 

DESSERT 

SUNDAY BUFFET 

$27 

EVERY SUNDAY FROM 5PM-8PM 

COMING UP 

BOOK NOW! 

LUNCH & DINNER 

$17 

The Hornby Club | ph 03 349 9026 |17 Carmen Rd | Hornby 

www.hornbywmc.co.nz | Members, guests & affiliates welcome



As seen on TV 

‘Stars in their Eyes’ 

Anniversary Show 

NZ Stars in their Eyes contestants Eddie 

Simon and Tony Wellington present a 

special anniversary show at the Hornby 

WMC next Saturday night. 

It’s been 10 years since the 

two appeared in the rst NZ 

season of Stars in their Eyes. 

Eddie performed as Leo 

Sayers and Tony performed as 

Roy Orbison. 

Canadian born Eddie 

Simon has been living in 

Christchurch for 13 years. 

Prior to this he spent many 

years playing in bands, starred 

on his own Music TV Series 

and Radio Show, and shared 

the stage with music greats 

such as John Denver. Eddie 

continues to engage in a 

highly successful music 

business as a solo artist and 

music producer along with 

running Acoustic Wave 

Recording Studio and Sweet 

As Media Video Production 

Company. 

Hailing from Matamata, 

Tony Wellington made his 

name as New Zealand’s Roy 

Orbison aer winning his 

What’s on at the Cashmere Club 

Wednesday 

Thursday 

Happy Hour from 4pm-6pm 

Meat Raffles from 4pm 

Free live entertainment 4pm-7pm 

in the Sydenham Lounge. Free. 

$15 Special - Steak Sammi + 

tap beer/house wine special 

Members Cash Draw this week... $1200 cash 

Friday 

Meat Raffles from 4pm 

Members Cash Raffle 

guarantees 4 prizes of $50 cash. 

Only $2 to enter the draw 

Happy Hour from 6pm-7pm 

LIVE ON SCREENS 

7.30pm NRL Warriors v Cowboys 

Saturday 

Sunday 

Southern Jazz Men 

Eddie Simon 

Tony Wellington 

Free Entry, teams 4-6, register from 7pm 

LIVE ON 

SCREENS 

episode of Stars in their Eyes. Over the 

last 5 years he has become a full time 

entertainer, performing shows across the 

country. His extensive 

repertoire of 50's to 90's has 

expanded to include 

specialist tributes to Roy 

Orbison, Engelbert 

Humperdinck and the late 

great Buddy Holly. 

Eddie and Tony celebrate 

10 years on from Stars in 

their Eyes with a one-off 

show at the Hornby WMC 

on Saturday 23rd June. As 

well as Leo Sayers, Eddie 

will be performing songs 

from CCR’s John Fogerty 

while Tony will be 

performing Roy Orbison 

and Buddy Holly. 

Presale tickets are $20 

available at the club office, 

Carmen Rd, ph 349 9026. 

Door sales $25. Show starts 

at 7.30pm. 

Cashmere Ukulele 

Players 

entertaining in 

the Heathcote Lounge from 7pm 

DANCE FACTORY $10 cc 

Learn the Cha Cha with the 

Kaiapoi RnR CLub from 6.30pm 

followed by music for all dance 

styles by live band Krakkajack 

from 7.30pm 

7.30pm All Blacks v France 

Free half time BBQ 

Kids Eat Free* 

Riverview Restaurant 

*under 12. T’s & C’s apply. 

Cashmere Club, 50 Colombo St, Cashmere 

Ph: 03 332 0092 - Fax: 03 337 3772 

www.cashmereclub.co.nz 

Christchurch’s only beach side club 

What’s On by the beach 

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS 

MEMBERS LUCKY CARD DRAW 

LIVE MUSIC 


UPSTAIRS 

Dine by the Beach 

PIERVIEW 

RESTAURANT 

Open from 5.30pm Fri, Sat, 

Sun, and Sunday Brunch 

from 10.30am to 2pm. 

CLUBBISTRO 

DOWNSTAIRS 

Open Tuesday to Saturday 

12pm - 2pm & from 5pm. 

MONTH-END 

SUNDAY NIGHT 

BUFFET $25pp 

Sunday 24th June 

from 5.30pm 

BOOK NOW! 

FUNCTION ROOMS | GAMING ROOM | TAB POD 

SHUTTLE SERVICE Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat 

New Brighton Club 

202 Marine Parade - Phone 388-9416 

www.newbrightonclub.co.nz 

Members, guests and affiliates welcome 

Clubs New Zealand welcome 

members, their guests 

and affiliate club members. 

Entertainment Advertising & News 

Jo-Anne Fuller phone 027 458 8590 

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi




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