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TUESDAY, JULY <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Keeping warm<br />
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Petition grows over bus stop plan<br />
Cafe, seven<br />
shops<br />
will lose<br />
car parks<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
A PROPOSAL to relocate two<br />
bus stops less than 150m down<br />
Innes Rd has angered Mairehau<br />
shop owners, who say it will<br />
mean a loss of parking for up to<br />
eight businesses.<br />
A petition against the changes<br />
started by Flower Bazaar owners<br />
Des Banks and Ian Harvey collected<br />
more than 700 signatures<br />
in seven days.<br />
The city council is proposing<br />
the relocation of several bus stops<br />
in the area to align with Environment<br />
Canterbury’s changes to<br />
the Orbiter and Shirley 44 bus<br />
routes, to accommodate for the<br />
opening of the Christchurch<br />
Northern Corridor. QE II Drive<br />
will become four-laned and a<br />
right turn in and out of Philpotts<br />
Rd will not be possible, meaning<br />
a change to the Orbiter’s route.<br />
The proposal includes moving<br />
two bus stops on each side of<br />
Innes Rd between Mahars Rd<br />
and Philpotts Rd west.<br />
This will mean the bus stop<br />
will be right in front of a line<br />
of shops, removing seven car<br />
parks, leaving four immediate<br />
businesses without carparks and<br />
“probably another four” businesses<br />
OPTION also, said ONEMr<br />
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FIGHTING BACK: Innes Rd business owners (from left) Ian Harvey, Charmaine Fright, Trang Dinh and Des Banks are upset a<br />
proposal to relocate two bus stops many eliminate their parking.<br />
“People are just so angry about<br />
it . . . . it will eliminate our foot<br />
traffic. You know yourself, if you<br />
grab a coffee and you can’t park<br />
close you keep on driving to the<br />
next place.”<br />
Mairehau Community Pharmacy<br />
manager Andrew Brown<br />
said the shops rely on the parking<br />
and is confused by the proposal,<br />
when the original stops are closeby.<br />
“I could walk to the bus stop<br />
already in less than a minute. It’s<br />
not even a big move, it’s not like<br />
it’s going to enable things happening<br />
that weren’t happening.”<br />
City council acting manager<br />
operations transport Ryan<br />
Rolston said the proposal aims<br />
to place the bus stops closer to<br />
Philpotts Rd and the pedestrian<br />
crossing on Innes Rd. He said<br />
city council was aware the proposed<br />
changes would mean a loss<br />
of parking for businesses.<br />
“No decisions have been made<br />
at this stage. This is a proposal<br />
and staff will be looking closely<br />
at concerns raised in submissions<br />
and what improvements may<br />
address those. This could include<br />
considering other bus stop locations,”<br />
he said.<br />
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COMMUNITY GROUPS and<br />
others deserve a pat on the back for an<br />
initiative to keep people warm this winter<br />
(see page 5).<br />
The price of electricity and wood is tough<br />
on many. So tough that a Salvation Army survey reveals nearly<br />
half of New Zealanders have gone without heating because of<br />
the cost.<br />
So it’s great to see needy families getting firewood deliveries.<br />
For Rachel Curry it comes as a huge relief. Her last power bill<br />
was $700.<br />
Now that is a staggering bill, brought about because she had<br />
an oil heater on continuously to keep her family warm.<br />
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Campbell in bid to extend booze ban<br />
Bylaw review<br />
chance to<br />
make change<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
ALCOHOL restrictions could<br />
be put in place in Elmwood<br />
Park, Roto Kohatu Reserve and<br />
McLeans Island if a community<br />
board member gets his way.<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
Community Board deputy<br />
chairman Aaron Campbell<br />
wants more areas to be considered<br />
in the<br />
upcoming<br />
10-year<br />
review of the<br />
Alcohol Restrictions<br />
in<br />
Public Places<br />
Bylaw.<br />
Mr<br />
Campbell<br />
Aaron Campbell<br />
recently<br />
spent a<br />
NO MORE BOOZE: Aaron Campbell wants alcohol bans extended to cover areas like Elmwood<br />
Park in Strowan.<br />
night with Crime Watch Papanui<br />
and found that part of its work<br />
involved cleaning up litter in<br />
places where it appeared people<br />
had been drinking, such as<br />
Elmwood Park in Merivale.<br />
“It’s not their job to pick up the<br />
litter but they do it,” he said.<br />
“It wouldn’t affect the onlicences.<br />
The bowling and tennis<br />
clubs have on-licenses for their<br />
clubrooms and that wouldn’t affect<br />
that at all.”<br />
“It just gives the police additional<br />
powers if need be,” he said.<br />
Mr Campbell wants popular<br />
lake spot Roto Kohatu Reserve<br />
included in the alcohol ban area,<br />
as well as McLeans Island.<br />
“It’s one 10th of the one per<br />
cent of idiots who get drunk and<br />
drive fast down that gravel road<br />
. . . it’s also a swimming area and<br />
a water sports and recreation<br />
area. How well does alcohol mix<br />
with swimming?”<br />
Mr Campbell said the type of<br />
ban would depend on talks between<br />
city council staff and the<br />
groups that use the areas.<br />
The community board will<br />
make a submission early next<br />
month on the bylaw, in which<br />
it will put forward its recommendation.<br />
Mr Campbell said<br />
he may also make an individual<br />
submission, asking city council<br />
to consider a night ban in the<br />
Summit Rd area too.<br />
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ANNOYING OAK TREES<br />
Trees in a reserve on Pasadena<br />
Pl, Harewood, are causing<br />
trouble for residents. Graeme<br />
and Diane Barber addressed the<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
Community Board regarding the<br />
ongoing-issues related to the oak<br />
trees. The size and number of<br />
trees and their impacts of shading<br />
and litter on neighbouring<br />
properties are causing issues. The<br />
board requested city council staff<br />
investigate and inform residents<br />
about the status of the reserve.<br />
$2K FOR MAIREHAU<br />
Mairehau Primary School has won<br />
$2000 in a shop and win campaign<br />
at The Palms Mall. The My School<br />
Rules competition let shoppers<br />
register their receipts, with one<br />
point accrued for every dollar<br />
spent in June. The school finished<br />
second, with Shirley Primary<br />
School recieving $3000 for first<br />
place and Waitakiri Primary<br />
School, $1000 for third place.<br />
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<strong>News</strong><br />
Papanui<br />
fashion on<br />
world stage<br />
PAPANUI DESIGNER Janice<br />
Elliott is a finalist in this year’s<br />
World of Wearable Art awards.<br />
About 60,000 people are<br />
expected to attend the WOW’s<br />
30th season in Wellington from<br />
September 27 to October 14.<br />
Ms Elliott is one of eight designers<br />
from Canterbury chosen<br />
and received two entries.<br />
She has been named at a finalist<br />
more than 14 times.<br />
Finalists have been selected<br />
from 17 countries, up from 13<br />
last year.<br />
WOW competition director<br />
Heather Palmer said this year’s<br />
finalist designers were not afraid<br />
to take risks with their concepts<br />
and the execution of their garments<br />
to create something new<br />
and unique.<br />
This year’s finalist garments<br />
show just how talented WOW<br />
designers are. Construction<br />
techniques like laser cutting, 3D<br />
design sculpting and melding<br />
art and science into the garments<br />
are on show.”<br />
The awards evening will be<br />
held on September 28.<br />
Massacre survivors dig in at planting<br />
MASSACRE SURVIVORS from<br />
Parkland, Florida, have helped<br />
plant 3300 trees in a Marshland<br />
reserve, to recognise New<br />
Zealand Defence Force members<br />
– past and present.<br />
The planting event, Matariki Tu<br />
Rākau held at Ouruhia Reserve,<br />
is part of the One Billion Trees<br />
programme, helping to mark nationwide<br />
commemorations of the<br />
end of World War I 100 years ago.<br />
Members of the Student Volunteer<br />
Army, Citycare staff, Styx<br />
Living Laboratory Trust volunteers<br />
and Ouruhia School pupils<br />
also took part.<br />
It is part of an initiative to plant<br />
350,000 trees to commemorate<br />
soldiers who served overseas.<br />
SVA president Josh Blackmore<br />
said the event was part of the<br />
Christchurch and Parkland<br />
Youth Leadership summit involving<br />
visiting American students.<br />
During the visit from the<br />
students, the two groups were<br />
able to share their experiences of<br />
mobilising after tragedies.<br />
Seventeen totara trees were also<br />
planted in Halswell Quarry Park<br />
last week, to honour the 17 killed<br />
in the third deadliest school<br />
shooting in United States history.<br />
City council head of parks<br />
Andrew Rutledge said the planting<br />
in Marshland, which was<br />
dominated by totara, will provide<br />
a buffer between planned sports<br />
fields and the Northern Arterial<br />
Motorway.<br />
“It will contribute to a series of<br />
native forest patches across the<br />
city that aims to support current<br />
and future bush bird populations<br />
and will be a key node on the Ka<br />
Putahi Creek leg of the proposed<br />
Styx Source to Sea Reserve Network,”<br />
he said.<br />
The planting is part of ongoing<br />
work across the Styx River catchment<br />
that aims to support the<br />
city council’s Styx Vision 2000<br />
– 2040, focusing on a spring-fed<br />
river ecosystem and a source to<br />
sea experience, including a living<br />
laboratory.<br />
DIGGING IN: Student Volunteer<br />
Army member Chloe Fraser,<br />
and Marjory Stoneman<br />
Douglas High School students<br />
Elee Siev and Madison Leal<br />
(left) at a planting in Halswell<br />
Quarry Park. The students also<br />
helped plant 3300 trees in<br />
Ouruhia Reserve, Marshland.<br />
Papanui-Innes Community<br />
Board member John Stringer<br />
and SVA founder Sam Johnson<br />
(below) at the reserve.<br />
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10k for Camp Twitch<br />
KIND DONATION: Blackwells City Mazda dealer principal Seth<br />
Ovens with Robyn and Analise Twemlow. <br />
CHRISTCHURCH mum<br />
Robyn Twemlow is out to make<br />
a difference in the lives of<br />
those diagnosed with Tourette<br />
Syndrome - and last week<br />
received $10,000 from the Mazda<br />
Foundation to aid her cause.<br />
Tourette’s is a condition characterised<br />
by tics, repetitive and<br />
involuntary movements.<br />
Five years ago, Ms Twemlow’s<br />
then-nine-year-old daughter<br />
Analise was diagnosed with the<br />
syndrome.<br />
But the pair found there was<br />
little support for them in the<br />
community.<br />
Ms Twemlow founded the<br />
Tourette’s Association of New<br />
Zealand as a way for her family<br />
to connect with other affected<br />
Kiwis.<br />
As well as running a support<br />
system for families and an information<br />
hub for those who have<br />
been recently diagnosed, the<br />
Tourette’s Association also began<br />
running a yearly camp called<br />
Camp Twitch.<br />
It brings together young people<br />
with Tourette’s and their families<br />
for a weekend of fun where their<br />
tics are welcomed.<br />
At Blackwells City Mazda<br />
last week Ms Twemlow was<br />
presented with $10,000 from the<br />
Mazda Foundation to help run<br />
Camp Twitch, enabling more<br />
than 50 young people and their<br />
families to attend the camp.<br />
Ms Twemlow said the funding<br />
would reduce the financial stress<br />
of families living with Tourette’s<br />
and allows young people from<br />
any financial background to attend<br />
the camp.<br />
She said Camp Twitch is an<br />
environment where children can<br />
“tic loud and proud.”<br />
“It’s amazing to see them build<br />
their self-esteem and take ownership<br />
over their disorder. It also<br />
provides opportunity for parents<br />
to share their experiences of<br />
raising a child with Tourette<br />
Syndrome – so it’s an empowering<br />
experience for all involved.”<br />
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Free firewood warms Shirley families<br />
Community<br />
helps mum<br />
through winter<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
BEING THE sole bread-winner<br />
in a household with three<br />
children hasn’t been an easy road<br />
for Shirley mother Rachel Curry.<br />
The oil heater she uses<br />
to warm her home burns<br />
through a “staggering” amount<br />
of electricity and recently<br />
contributed to a $700 power bill<br />
for one month. “I had the oil<br />
heater on 24/7 for a month and<br />
had no firewood and had to keep<br />
the family warm,” Miss Curry<br />
said. The previous month was<br />
between $400 and $500.<br />
But paying the bills has been<br />
made a little easier for the<br />
commercial cleaner. Her family<br />
is one of 18 in the Shirley area to<br />
receive free firewood.<br />
The firewood deliveries were<br />
part of a large community effort<br />
to help families struggling to<br />
keep their homes warm.<br />
As well as having the stress<br />
of heating her home taken<br />
away, Fire and Emergency New<br />
Zealand has undertaken a safety<br />
check of Miss Curry’s home and<br />
installed fire alarms.<br />
Said Miss Curry: “I am just<br />
grateful there are these community<br />
groups that do go out of<br />
their way and support each other<br />
. . . we have had some cold days<br />
with cold morning frosts so it<br />
has been really helpful for us,”<br />
she said.<br />
It comes as a Salvation Army<br />
survey showed almost half of its<br />
respondents said they had gone<br />
without heating because of the<br />
cost over the past year.<br />
More than 50 people and various<br />
organisations were involved<br />
in the firewood initiative, including<br />
the Department of Corrections,<br />
Te Puna Oraka, the Shirley<br />
Community Trust, city council<br />
and Fire and Emergency New<br />
Zealand.<br />
Mairehau’s Neighbourhood<br />
Trust, the Delta Community<br />
HAPPY HOME: Malachy Curry, 6, helps his mum Rachel light a fire with the free firewood<br />
delivered to Shirley families. <br />
Support Trust, Shirley Rugby<br />
Football Club, Shirley Intermediate<br />
School, C3 Church, Housing<br />
New Zealand, the Helen Anderson<br />
Trust, New Brighton Volunteer<br />
Fire Brigade, New Zealand<br />
Army and St Johns Church<br />
also contributed to helping the<br />
families.<br />
The wood was sourced by the<br />
Department of Corrections,<br />
which had old pallets to get rid<br />
of.<br />
Community activator Steve<br />
Jones-Poole, who orchestrated<br />
the firewood project, said it was a<br />
community project.<br />
He said some of the people<br />
who received firewood also<br />
helped deliver firewood to<br />
others. The community organisations<br />
selected families to<br />
donate the firewood to based on<br />
information from social service<br />
providers in the area.<br />
Mr Jones-Poole said he had<br />
heard of some families heating<br />
their homes using an oven, while<br />
others were using small heaters<br />
which could cost up to $600 a<br />
month to operate.<br />
“Of course, the bigger picture<br />
around it is you have got the<br />
heating for the homes which is<br />
good for them but the bigger<br />
thing was the people coming<br />
together,” he said.<br />
Mr Jones-Poole met with<br />
families and Te Puna Oraka<br />
yesterday to work on a long-term<br />
solution to help families in need<br />
to collect firewood over the year.<br />
CHARITY: More than<br />
50 people and several<br />
organisations helped to<br />
deliver firewood to families<br />
in Shirley.<br />
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High Court<br />
date set<br />
in bid<br />
to stop<br />
Belfast water<br />
consents<br />
A PRELIMINARY hearing in<br />
the High Court on October<br />
2 is set to address a water<br />
action group’s bid to stop two<br />
companies taking water from<br />
sites in Belfast then selling it<br />
overseas.<br />
Aotearoa Water Action is<br />
contesting Environment Canterbury’s<br />
decision to grant resource<br />
consents to bottling companies<br />
Cloud Ocean Water and Rapaki<br />
Natural Resources.<br />
AWA opposes an argument<br />
from the bottling companies<br />
that they did not need new consents<br />
to take the water, which<br />
could see up to 24 million litres<br />
a day removed.<br />
The consents are based on<br />
historical permits for the Silver<br />
Fern Farms works and the Kaputone<br />
Wool Scour.<br />
Said AWA spokesman Peter<br />
Richardson: “The companies<br />
say they are entitled to rely on<br />
the previous plant owners’ use<br />
consents, but those consents<br />
were for entirely different purposes<br />
– wool scouring and meat<br />
processing. We don’t think that’s<br />
right.”<br />
“ECan correctly required<br />
these companies to apply for<br />
new consents, although in our<br />
view it then processed the consents<br />
unlawfully,” he said.<br />
If AWA is successful, there<br />
will be a further hearing at a later<br />
date on whether the consents<br />
were granted legally by ECan.<br />
The Bottle Off! campaign has<br />
been created to support the legal<br />
action and an online PledgeMe<br />
campaign has raised more than<br />
$40,000.<br />
A petition with about 115,000<br />
signatures calling for the end<br />
of foreign companies selling<br />
bottled Christchurch water was<br />
handed to ECan in April.<br />
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CHANGE: Burnside High School student E Wen Wong wants young people to<br />
take action to reduce plastic pollution.<br />
Youths fight against<br />
plastic waste<br />
Burnside<br />
High<br />
School<br />
student E<br />
Wen Wong<br />
writes<br />
about<br />
young<br />
people and plastic<br />
pollution<br />
IN MID-JULY, I returned<br />
home from my third New<br />
Zealand Model United<br />
Nations conference.<br />
Over four days in Wellington,<br />
the heart of New<br />
Zealand’s political sphere,<br />
I was surrounded by a<br />
rich atmosphere of young<br />
people dedicated to fostering<br />
positive change in their<br />
communities.<br />
Much like many UN<br />
youth events, NZMUN<br />
<strong>2018</strong> was met with a host of<br />
change-makers, leaders and<br />
aspiring diplomats who,<br />
just like me, recognise the<br />
important role of young<br />
people in local, national<br />
and global decision-making.<br />
However, as an environmental<br />
advocate, I also<br />
recognise that Christchurch’s<br />
youth lack a range of<br />
NEW Brighton businesses<br />
and residents are pleading<br />
for its iconic fireworks<br />
event to stay in the suburb.<br />
The annual Guy Fawkes<br />
event has come under<br />
scrutiny from the city<br />
council as part of a citywide<br />
review of all councilrun<br />
events.<br />
City council head of<br />
community support,<br />
governance and<br />
partnerships John Filsell<br />
said for a number of years<br />
it has received feedback on<br />
equally accessible platforms<br />
to express their environmental<br />
views, especially<br />
around the growing issue of<br />
plastic pollution.<br />
After identifying a space<br />
for growth in this area, in<br />
2016 I founded P.S. Our<br />
Beaches, an organisation<br />
dedicated to raising awareness<br />
of the plastic pollution<br />
issue. This organisation has<br />
grown since and now has<br />
exciting plans for a conference<br />
called EnviroPAST<br />
(Plastic And Sustainability<br />
Talks) set for next year.<br />
From this project, I want<br />
youth not only to be aware<br />
of the plastic pollution<br />
issue, but motivated to<br />
make real change. I hope<br />
that, through EnviroPAST,<br />
we can provide not just<br />
a conference that comes<br />
and goes, but a space for<br />
all youth to network with<br />
those passionate about the<br />
same issues as them.<br />
As a young person, I<br />
believe we are inheriting an<br />
earth that is increasingly<br />
damaged and, as such,<br />
we are in a better place to<br />
understand and proceed<br />
with decisions on how we<br />
can preserve the land and<br />
traffic management and<br />
congestion. He said it is a<br />
health and safety issue due<br />
to New Brighton having<br />
limitations on its entry and<br />
exit points.<br />
“The roadworks in<br />
this area over the years<br />
have also added to the<br />
congestion difficulties.<br />
With a mass egress at<br />
the conclusion of the<br />
event contributing to the<br />
disruption,” Mr Filsell said.<br />
But the city council<br />
confirmed the Guy Fawkes<br />
seas in a sustainable light.<br />
The Zero Carbon Bill,<br />
plastic-free movement,<br />
ECan youth engagement<br />
schemes and the Burnside<br />
High School environment<br />
group’s amazing tree<br />
planting work are all<br />
examples of beacons<br />
of change for our local<br />
communities.<br />
However, these are<br />
schemes all youth – not just<br />
those perceived as leaders<br />
or future politicians –<br />
should be part of. I believe<br />
young people have a calling<br />
to break the stereotypes of a<br />
teenage culture and actively<br />
engage in issues like<br />
plastic pollution, be it by<br />
partaking in conversations,<br />
staying in campaign<br />
loops or minimising<br />
their individual plastic<br />
footprints.<br />
To do this, the<br />
facilitation of accessible<br />
events, platforms and<br />
conversations with a range<br />
of Christchurch youth<br />
is key. I believe that it is<br />
initiatives like these, led<br />
by youth, for youth, that<br />
give our city the best<br />
hope of achieving a truly<br />
sustainable future.<br />
Fireworks event under review<br />
event will go ahead as<br />
previous years and, if there<br />
are any changes, they will<br />
not be implemented this<br />
year. The city council’s<br />
Sparks, New Year’s Eve<br />
and KidsFest events are<br />
also under review as part<br />
of the Community Events<br />
Implementation Plan<br />
process.<br />
About 500 residents will<br />
be surveyed city-wide on<br />
the events. The fireworks<br />
have been running at the<br />
pier since 1997.
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Your Local Views<br />
Readers respond to an<br />
article about Northwood<br />
residents continuing their<br />
battle to upgrade the<br />
intersection of Main North<br />
Rd, Northwood Blvd and<br />
Radcliffe Rd, which they<br />
believe is dangerous<br />
Caleb Ward – The council<br />
asked a few years ago for the public<br />
to make informal submissions<br />
via the comments section on The<br />
Press website on intersections<br />
needing improving. Many people<br />
suggested a right turn arrow for<br />
cars turning out of Radcliffe Rd.<br />
So what did they do? Put in a left<br />
turning arrow.<br />
Brian Tones – Teach drivers<br />
to be more considerate.<br />
Megan Malone – I use this<br />
intersection nearly every day. It<br />
works as long as people know<br />
the road rules. It’s not just this<br />
intersection, the problem is<br />
nationwide. There needs to be a<br />
campaign to promote the rule<br />
about turning.<br />
Nicola Joy Fidler – We were<br />
driving past there one day and<br />
there was a man lying on the<br />
road. Don’t know whether he was<br />
hit or fell over. Hope he was okay.<br />
Jill van der Plas – It’s a terrible<br />
intersection. It needs right<br />
turning arrows that actually turn<br />
green so that people know they<br />
are going to be able to turn right<br />
eventually and therefore don’t<br />
have to take risks.<br />
CHANGES COMING: Residents want safety improvements at<br />
the intersection of Harewood, Breens and Gardiners Rds.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
Sarah Elizabeth – If you<br />
know this intersection then it’s<br />
not an issue if you follow the<br />
rules. I go there every week and<br />
have no issue. I wait till I know.<br />
Rushing isn’t worth it.<br />
Mark Odgers – It’s pretty<br />
simple, just put in right turning<br />
arrows from Radcliffe to Main<br />
North Rd. Put signs on both<br />
sides telling them to turn into the<br />
inside lane. The pedestrian crossing<br />
needs to be moved as that is<br />
causing massive build-ups making<br />
people impatient and forcing<br />
them to make stupid decisions<br />
and run red lights.<br />
Barry Clarke – If they had<br />
green right turning arrows it<br />
would be a lot safer. The clowns<br />
who say no to the green arrows<br />
don’t live in the area.<br />
Readers respond to<br />
an article about Ilam MP<br />
Gerry Brownlee joining the<br />
battle to get the Breens/<br />
Harewood/Gardiners Rds<br />
intersection upgraded to<br />
lights. He also wants the<br />
New Zealand Transport<br />
Agency to pay for<br />
part of the upgrade<br />
Jacque Skinner<br />
– As a mum who has<br />
driven through there<br />
continuously for the<br />
last six years with my<br />
child at Harewood<br />
Primary and now at<br />
Breens Intermediate, this<br />
is a scary intersection<br />
to negotiate at busy times of the<br />
day. I have had many near misses<br />
(and as a home educator with<br />
other people’s children in the car<br />
Redwood butcher goes mobile<br />
A MOBILE butcher from<br />
Redwood has taken off in<br />
Rolleston.<br />
Elite Meats owner Corey<br />
Winder has expanded his business<br />
by setting up a moveable<br />
butchery from a small truck.<br />
Mr Winder, who has been a<br />
butcher since he was 19-yearsold,<br />
said the reaction has been<br />
“amazing.”<br />
“People have just been blown<br />
away by it,” he said.<br />
The idea for the mobile butchery<br />
came from residents’ requests<br />
to have a shop in other places,<br />
such as Rolleston and West<br />
Melton.<br />
“I thought, well, it’s not that<br />
easy to open a butcher shop, so<br />
I’ll see if I can get a mobile one<br />
going,” Mr Winder said.<br />
He is selling the same products<br />
found in the Elite Meats store in<br />
Bush Inn.<br />
“If we haven’t got it on the<br />
truck, then we take orders and<br />
we take the order out of whatever<br />
they want the following week,”<br />
Mr Winder said.<br />
In March, Mr Winder was<br />
named in the all star team at the<br />
Gerry<br />
Brownlee<br />
World Butchers’ Challenge in<br />
Northern Ireland. His team, the<br />
Pure South Sharp Blacks, finished<br />
second in the competition.<br />
The mobile butcher will be<br />
open outside the South Point<br />
complex in Faringdon, Rolleston,<br />
on Thursdays, from 2-6.30pm,<br />
and 9am-5.30pm outside<br />
Vegeland on Marshland Rd on<br />
weekends.<br />
“It’s one of those things, we’re<br />
trying to take small steps to get<br />
it right rather than rushing out<br />
to all these different places,” Mr<br />
Winder said.<br />
this is extra scary) as people take<br />
unnecessary risks to cross or turn<br />
without checking to see where<br />
other traffic may be turning too.<br />
Constantly there<br />
are piles of debris<br />
from crashes at the<br />
corners and fences<br />
of homes busted.<br />
Maybe no one has<br />
died there yet but<br />
are we willing to<br />
wait? The person<br />
that dies may be<br />
one of the many<br />
Breens, Harewood or Cotswold<br />
pupils who have to get across that<br />
busy intersection.<br />
What I haven’t read much<br />
about in all this is the fact that<br />
Harewood Rd has become so<br />
much busier since there is no<br />
longer a right turn off Russley Rd<br />
on to Wairakei Rd, so more people<br />
need to use Harewood Rd.<br />
So, to answer the question, yes,<br />
I think NZTA should help fund<br />
lights at this intersection and<br />
the council should stop mucking<br />
around saying there are other options.<br />
No, there aren’t, and<br />
the fact they are putting unnecessary<br />
lights in at places<br />
such as outside the Papanui<br />
Club on Sawyers Arms Rd<br />
and the Sawyers Arms Rd<br />
entrance to Northlands<br />
Mall shows they have no<br />
idea what they are doing,<br />
nor have they consulted<br />
with the people that actually<br />
drive those roads.<br />
John Williams – I pick up<br />
my grandchildren from the<br />
nearby school most days. I can<br />
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tell you there are many problems<br />
there without lights. I have seen<br />
many near misses there, it is<br />
only a question of time. If we<br />
can waste millions of<br />
dollars on a roof for a<br />
rugby stadium, why<br />
can’t we have a set of<br />
lights on that intersection?<br />
It is downright<br />
dangerous, but<br />
as usual it seems that<br />
we have to wait until<br />
something happens<br />
there. As usual the<br />
head is in the sand.<br />
Yimei Lu – I am a resident<br />
living in the Bishopdale area<br />
and I used to travel through<br />
that intersection every morning.<br />
I found it is really difficult to<br />
turn right from Gardiners Rd to<br />
Harewood Rd. I could sometime<br />
be stuck there for 5–7min and I<br />
could see there was a huge queue<br />
behind me. I also have a fiveyear-old<br />
boy at Cotswold School<br />
at the moment. In a few years<br />
he will need to walk to Breens<br />
Intermediate everyday. I will be<br />
extremely concerned about his<br />
safety as he needs to get across<br />
the busy Harewood Rd at the<br />
busiest times. I don’t understand<br />
why installing lights will make<br />
the intersection more unsafe. I<br />
believe the traffic lights can at<br />
least make sure people who need<br />
to cross the road do so safely.<br />
If council and NZTA take into<br />
account the kids nearby from<br />
Breens Intermediate, this should<br />
definitely be done. I will be voting<br />
to have lights installed at this<br />
intersection.<br />
UNIQUE: Elite Meats owner Corey Winder has built his own<br />
mobile butcher shop which now parks up every Thursday in<br />
Rolleston. <br />
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Papanui High old boy earns<br />
basketball scholarship in US<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
FORMER PAPANUI High<br />
School basketballer Carl Isitt<br />
has had to be patient to earn<br />
his United States scholarship<br />
opportunity.<br />
The 20-year-old, who lives in<br />
Casebrook, has not been able<br />
to play a competitive game this<br />
year so he can remain eligible for<br />
a scholarship.<br />
His patience has paid off after<br />
he signed on to play college basketball<br />
for the Central Methodist<br />
College in Fayette, Missouri.<br />
Isitt is the son of former Rams<br />
player Paul Isitt who was a hardworker<br />
on the court during the<br />
1990s.<br />
“With dad being so involved,<br />
we always had basketball being<br />
around us and, while I played<br />
cricket and rugby, basketball was<br />
always a top priority,” he said.<br />
Isitt said this year had been<br />
challenging to maintain form<br />
and fitness while staying focused<br />
on his core goal of landing a<br />
scholarship. “To remain eligible<br />
I haven’t been able to play a competitive<br />
game at all in <strong>2018</strong> and,<br />
while I’ve been able to train with<br />
my Wolverines club team, it’s<br />
not quite the same,” he said.<br />
The power forward/centre will<br />
leave for the US next month and<br />
have his first game against Park<br />
University on November 1.<br />
CMU Eagles head coach Jeff<br />
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“Mark has a resume which<br />
BACK IN<br />
ACTION:<br />
Former Papanui<br />
High School<br />
basketballer<br />
Carl Isitt has<br />
earned a<br />
scholarship<br />
to Central<br />
Methodist<br />
College in<br />
Fayette,<br />
Missouri.<br />
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standard of play I’ll get over<br />
there,” he said.<br />
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Christchurch after four years<br />
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• By Jacob Page<br />
ST ANDREW’S College striker<br />
Declan Hickford’s right boot is<br />
showing no signs of failing him.<br />
The 17-year-old has scored<br />
29 goals in eight games in the<br />
Connetics first XI secondary<br />
school competition, including<br />
seven last week in a 9-2 win over<br />
Lincoln High School that lifted<br />
his team to third.<br />
He has scored 90 goals for<br />
the first XI since debuting four<br />
years ago. The tally is believed<br />
to be a school record and, with<br />
four games to go in the competition,<br />
plus a national secondary<br />
schools campaign still to come,<br />
Hickford is likely to hit triple<br />
figures at some point.<br />
“There are times when I think<br />
to myself that the great run I’ve<br />
had must come to an end at<br />
some point, but that’s my job –<br />
to score goals,” he said.<br />
SPORTS<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
GOAL SCORER:<br />
Declan Hickford<br />
has scored 29<br />
goals in eight<br />
games so far<br />
this season and<br />
is 10 goals away<br />
from 100 goals<br />
for the first<br />
XI. PHOTO;ST<br />
ANDREW’S<br />
COLLEGE<br />
Striker nets 29 goals in eight<br />
games for St Andrew’s<br />
Hickford, who has been a<br />
regular in Canterbury age-group<br />
teams, is in his first season with<br />
the Selwyn United Mainland<br />
Premier League team.<br />
The Westmorland resident<br />
said he is loving the challenge of<br />
matching up against the men.<br />
“The physicality is clearly<br />
something that takes time to<br />
adjust to, but also matching that<br />
with the speed of play,” he said.<br />
“Sometimes the secondary<br />
school games can be played at<br />
a friendly-type pace and that’s<br />
certainly not the case with the<br />
MPL teams.”<br />
Hickford said his next individual<br />
focus would be on trying to<br />
earn a United States scholarship.<br />
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Tuesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 11<br />
CHBS boxer extends<br />
winning record to 16-1<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
CHRISTCHURCH Boys’ High<br />
School boxer Daniel Meehan<br />
has taken another step towards<br />
the New Zealand Golden<br />
Gloves in Christchurch with<br />
an impressive win at an Anzac<br />
boxing tournament in Auckland<br />
on Sunday.<br />
The 15-yearold<br />
from<br />
Burwwod won<br />
his bout against<br />
Hamilton’s<br />
Navahn Guilmore<br />
by unanimous<br />
decision, which<br />
included a<br />
standing eight<br />
count in the<br />
second round.<br />
The current<br />
under-57kg<br />
cadet grade<br />
New Zealand<br />
and Australian<br />
national<br />
champion improved his record<br />
to 16-1.<br />
He is following in the<br />
footsteps of his father Danny,<br />
who had more than 120 fights<br />
when he was based in the<br />
Manawatu district.<br />
Daniel has been training<br />
for the past five years under<br />
Wainoni-based Smiling Tigers<br />
Boxing Club coach Mark Fuller.<br />
“I started with dad five years<br />
ago just hitting the pads in<br />
the garage,” he said. “Initially,<br />
I wasn’t very good but after a<br />
while I really grew to love it.”<br />
He was a gold medallist in the<br />
under-57kg cadet grade at the<br />
New Zealand and Australian<br />
nationals and will be looking to<br />
defend both titles this year.<br />
Daniel’s only loss came two<br />
years ago and,<br />
since then, he has<br />
learnt the value<br />
of nutrition and<br />
fitness and the<br />
impact it can<br />
have over three<br />
2min boxing<br />
rounds. Fuller<br />
said Daniel has<br />
plenty of potential<br />
and the biggest<br />
issue is finding<br />
him bouts. Daniel<br />
said he likes to<br />
stay busy inside<br />
Daniel Meehan the ring and<br />
likes to use his<br />
overhand right. He said his dad<br />
is supportive of his sport and<br />
strikes the right balance with his<br />
involvement.<br />
“He’s always there for a word<br />
of encouragement or advice, but<br />
he lets me be my own boxer,” he<br />
said. Daniel said after being in<br />
the Canterbury set-up for the<br />
past few years, he is keen to gain<br />
more chances to represent New<br />
Zealand.<br />
Archery club’s plan for new<br />
Rawhiti facility hits a snag<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
A “PRESSING need” to build<br />
a year- round weather facility<br />
to support archery at Rawhiti<br />
Domain continues to be put on<br />
hold.<br />
The Christchurch Archery<br />
Club has been battling for more<br />
than three years to have its lease<br />
at Rawhiti Domain renewed by<br />
the city council.<br />
While the lease is not up for<br />
renewal until 2021, the club is<br />
planning a $350,000 extension<br />
to its current facility and “desperately”<br />
needs to secure a lease<br />
for the next 20 years.<br />
A letter was presented to the<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board last week on the issue. The<br />
club’s past president and facilities<br />
convener Bill Skews said it<br />
has been trying to get the lease<br />
secured for the past three years.<br />
Mr Skews said it has been<br />
based at the domain for more<br />
than 25 years and has been a<br />
good tenant.<br />
But city council head of parks<br />
Andrew Rutledge said initial information<br />
provided by the club<br />
was “incomplete” and it required<br />
further information to approve<br />
the new lease.<br />
As a result, the lease has been<br />
placed on hold.<br />
The club’s land is located next<br />
CONCERN: The Christchurch Archery Club has been battling<br />
for more than three years to have its lease at Rawhiti Domain<br />
renewed by the city council. <br />
to the Athletics Canterbury clubrooms<br />
and track. It is planning<br />
to extend its current building by<br />
580 sq m to allow for shooting<br />
distances of 18-25m.<br />
The club has been fundraising<br />
for the project for about 10 years<br />
and currently has $135,000 saved<br />
to go towards the building.<br />
Mr Skews said the extension<br />
will be a training centre for its<br />
youth and senior archers.<br />
The club has about 90 members<br />
and another 60 who do<br />
courses throughout the year.<br />
The extension is expected to<br />
be co -funded by organisations<br />
including the Lotteries<br />
Commission and the<br />
community board, as well as<br />
fundraising and fees from the<br />
use of the facility.<br />
Mr Skews said the club won’t<br />
be doing further fundraising<br />
until it knows it has the lease.<br />
The club has hosted major<br />
events like the Stoke Mandeville<br />
Games, International Fire<br />
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WINNERS: Trudi Browne<br />
and Nic Rickard were<br />
recognised in The Education<br />
Hub’s inaugural Bright Spots<br />
Awards.<br />
Language<br />
skills training<br />
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for Burnside<br />
teachers<br />
TWO BURNSIDE Primary<br />
School teachers have been<br />
recognised for designing an<br />
innovative oral language<br />
programme to help new entrant<br />
pupils struggling with language<br />
skills.<br />
Trudi Browne and Nic<br />
Rickard were one of five<br />
winners of The Education Hub’s<br />
inaugural Bright Spots Awards.<br />
The awards recognise innovative<br />
education initiatives<br />
to address challenges facing<br />
New Zealand schools. After<br />
realising that up to 70 per cent<br />
of children starting at their<br />
school lacked the necessary<br />
language skills to be confident<br />
learners, the pair teamed up<br />
with speech language therapist<br />
Sharne Quickenden to develop<br />
a bespoke oracy framework.<br />
It comprises specific tools to<br />
support pupils to build oral language<br />
skills and an accompanying<br />
professional development<br />
programme for teachers.<br />
The Education Hub chairwoman<br />
Maury Leyland said the<br />
importance of oral language<br />
skills as a foundation for early<br />
literacy is well established in<br />
educational research.<br />
The winners receive funding<br />
and a two-year professional development<br />
programme funded<br />
by NEXT Foundation.<br />
Samoan experience for Christ’s students<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
A GROUP of Christ’s College<br />
students experienced traditional<br />
Samoan culture and family life<br />
during a working trip which they<br />
funded themselves.<br />
Twelve year 13 students<br />
worked during the school holidays<br />
to raise $1200 to travel to<br />
Satitoa village, located on the<br />
eastern end of the main island of<br />
Upolu.<br />
Assistant principal Neil Porter<br />
said parents were not allowed to<br />
pay for the eight-day trip which<br />
saw the students volunteering at<br />
a pre-school.<br />
“We also undertake fundraising<br />
to cover our internal costs<br />
and the costs of paint and materials<br />
as well as equipment for the<br />
pre-school,” he said.<br />
The biennial trip has been running<br />
for three years, beginning<br />
in Apia and then the region of<br />
Lalomanu for the past two years.<br />
They were required to paint<br />
SIX RANGI Ruru Girls’ School<br />
students are experiencing<br />
“confronting moments” on<br />
a three-week trip through<br />
Northern India.<br />
The group of year 12 and<br />
11 students arrived in the sub<br />
continent on <strong>July</strong> 17 and are<br />
taking part in an exchange with<br />
Unison World School at the base<br />
of the Himalayas, where they<br />
are learning about the culture of<br />
India.<br />
Rangi Ruru exchange<br />
programme co-ordinator Tania<br />
Morgan said the relationship<br />
with Unison is in its fifth year<br />
and the exchange can be lifechanging.<br />
“It’s very different culturally<br />
and as a learning environment.<br />
The school is far more<br />
regimented then they are used<br />
to,” she said.<br />
Ms Morgan said the students<br />
are going on trips up the<br />
Himalayas and will also get to<br />
see the Taj Mahal and further<br />
afield around the golden triangle.<br />
“They will also see the<br />
extreme depths of poverty,”<br />
the pre-school’s interior, as well<br />
as sand back and paint the playground<br />
equipment.<br />
“A new part of the trip this<br />
said Ms Morgan. Rangi Ruru<br />
teacher Rebecca Meachen said<br />
the students are having some<br />
confronting, yet wonderful,<br />
moments.<br />
“As one student said to me,<br />
this is so different seeing it all,<br />
as opposed to hearing about it –<br />
SCHOOLS<br />
time around was that the boys<br />
went and stayed with families<br />
from the pre-school community<br />
for a night. This gave the boys a<br />
nothing prepares you.”<br />
Students go through a<br />
challenging application process<br />
to be part of the exchange,<br />
writing an application, getting<br />
feedback from teachers and then<br />
final interviews.<br />
“Spending three weeks in<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
MAKING FRIENDS: Christ’s<br />
College student George<br />
Lacey-Metcalfe plays with<br />
a child from the Satitoa<br />
village pre-school in Samoa,<br />
where he and his classmates<br />
worked.<br />
great opportunity to be part of<br />
Samoan family life and traditional<br />
culture. It proved to be a<br />
real highlight of the trip,” said<br />
Mr Porter.<br />
The group received good<br />
hospitality from the Lalomanu<br />
community and experienced a<br />
traditional farewell ceremony.<br />
“The little kids came to play on<br />
their newly-painted equipment<br />
on our last day there, and our<br />
boys had great fun interacting<br />
with them and their parents,”<br />
said Mr Porter.<br />
‘Confronting moments’ on India trip<br />
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Tuesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 15<br />
JP Clinic<br />
Tuesday, 10am-1pm<br />
A justice of the peace will<br />
be available to members of the<br />
community to witness signatures<br />
and documents, certify document<br />
copies, hear oaths, declarations,<br />
affidavits or affirmations as well<br />
as sign citizenship, sponsorship<br />
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There is no charge for this<br />
service.<br />
Fendalton and Papanui libraries<br />
Harry Potter Fun Day<br />
Tuesday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
Celebrate the works of J.K<br />
Rowling and the literary life of<br />
Harry Potter and friends. Listen<br />
to readings from the series and<br />
park part in a wand making craft<br />
activity. Suitable for ages 6-12.<br />
Fendalton Library, 4 Jeffreys<br />
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A Laugh with Carlton –<br />
Comedy Night<br />
Tuesday, 7.30-10pm<br />
Go along to the Carlton for a<br />
laugh today for a celebration of<br />
Christchurch’s rapidly growing<br />
comedy scene. There will be a<br />
mix of new talent and seasoned<br />
professionals. Admission is free.<br />
Event runs every Tuesday night.<br />
Carlton Bar and Eatery, 1<br />
Papanui Rd.<br />
Email julia.evans@starmedia.kiwi<br />
by 5pm each Wednesday<br />
Scrabble Club<br />
Wednesday, 1-3pm<br />
Go along and enjoy a friendly<br />
game of Scrabble in the library.<br />
Boards will be provided but you<br />
are welcome to take your own.<br />
No need to book, just turn up<br />
and play.<br />
Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library<br />
and Community Centre, 13<br />
Bishopdale Court<br />
CSO Presents: Music Trails<br />
through the Library<br />
Wednesday, 10.30-11.15am<br />
Join the musicians of the<br />
Christchurch Symphony<br />
Orchestra as they travel<br />
around Christchurch’s libraries<br />
in this series of fun, 45min<br />
performances filled with song,<br />
dance and storytelling. Catered<br />
especially for two to six-yearolds,<br />
all performances start at<br />
10.30am. This event is free, no<br />
bookings required.<br />
Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library<br />
and Community Centre, 13<br />
Bishopdale Court<br />
Technology help drop-in<br />
sessions<br />
Thursday, 10-11am<br />
These free drop-in sessions are<br />
available to help you with specific<br />
issues, such as using email,<br />
searching the internet, using the<br />
library catalogue, using electronic<br />
resources and any other general<br />
computer-related queries. Go<br />
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desktop computers if you need<br />
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Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library<br />
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Reading to Dogs<br />
Thursday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
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and non-threatening atmosphere<br />
to encourage children to<br />
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Thursday 2-3pm<br />
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Yoga Class<br />
Thursday, 6.15-7.15pm<br />
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Go along to St<br />
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to be inspired by a<br />
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a collection of 11 short<br />
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This event is all ages and runs<br />
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Friday, 2-3pm<br />
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The backstory of<br />
T he A natomy of M elancholy • P art i: I dentity<br />
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Simon van der Sluijs<br />
*Melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.<br />
**Identity: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.<br />
I have always been fascinated by trying to visualise human nature, who are we, what<br />
drives us, what moves us, and my personal experiences were more than enough to<br />
explore. A trilogy to allow myself to create a deeper narrative to be more universal<br />
and existential rather than being just about me. I chose ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’<br />
because I feel that it best represents my work and the person I am. Part 1 is about<br />
identity because to me it is the source of melancholy and so that is where the trilogy<br />
needs to start. It shows drawings, paintings and small objects.<br />
Generally the work on show deals with the desire to belong, to be allowed to be, through<br />
confirmation of our fellow beings, and of getting damaged in the process.<br />
There are two separate sections within the exhibition: ‘Little Sorrows’ and ‘Intimacies’<br />
Little Sorrows<br />
Our pets contribute to our identity. Inevitably having a pet also means that the day will<br />
come we have to farewell it ‘Little Sorrows’ is what can happen when we can’t let go<br />
and try to either recreate the friend we were so fond of or make an effort in taxidermy<br />
to preserve through small paintings of mice, hamsters and goldfish and faux taxidermy<br />
objects, mainly in ‘museum boxes’ and under bell jars.<br />
Intimacies (Explicit content)<br />
Sexual identity is the way we think of ourselves in relationship to whom we are<br />
romantically or sexually attracted to. Growing up in a Catholic environment sexuality was<br />
definitely not a topic of discussion or acknowledged as an important part of being. This is<br />
the reason I have made these paintings so small, they fit in a locket and can therefore be<br />
‘locked away’ only to be enjoyed in a private atmosphere.<br />
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Shoddy repairs<br />
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When I say “shoddy repairs” to<br />
people in the North Island or the West<br />
Island where I come from, they have<br />
absolutely no idea what I’m talking<br />
about. They have no understanding<br />
what shoddy repairs really means.<br />
That’s because anywhere else in the<br />
world where a natural disaster has<br />
occurred the Insurance company will<br />
either do the repairs themselves and<br />
stand behind those repairs or pay<br />
cash out to you to take the risk and<br />
do the repairs yourself.<br />
Not in Christchurch, Christchurch is another reality,<br />
we have EQC. After I left EQC and before I started<br />
my business whenever I told anyone about my idea to<br />
challenge EQC reports I lost count of the people that<br />
told me,” You’re crazy”. I was told, “Your business<br />
will never work here, don’t you know, we are the only<br />
country in the world that has EQC, they will look after<br />
us and we will never need to challenge their reports”.<br />
After 7 years the truth is out there, and you must<br />
challenge the EQC assessments and repairs carried out to<br />
your homes.<br />
“Who’s to blame”<br />
The previous government want you to believe it was the<br />
fault of the builders trying to cut corners. Of course, the<br />
builders involved are not blameless, but, they are not<br />
solely responsible. To many people this was just a series<br />
of unfortunate events and gross incompetence. I do<br />
not believe that, I believe this was a well-orchestrated<br />
takeover of the entire process by the Government and<br />
those beholden to it or benefiting from it. We all know<br />
that all governments lie, some more than others. But<br />
what happened here was a well thought-out, wellorchestrated<br />
hoodwinking of an entire city and nation.<br />
The tools the then government used included EQC,<br />
The Red Zone, The Residential Advisory Service (RAS),<br />
The Christchurch Home Repair Program (CHRP),<br />
the media, the legal system, MBIE and professional<br />
experts. The result is billions of dollars being denied to<br />
homeowners with damaged homes and a damaged<br />
Christchurch housing stock that will take generations to<br />
recover.<br />
Perhaps the most insidious program of all was the<br />
Christchurch Home Repair Program (CHRP), with about<br />
90,000 homes repaired under this program. I’m not going<br />
to say all the repairs carried out were failures. What I will<br />
say is that a significant amount of the more difficult repairs<br />
had work done<br />
on them that<br />
did not meet<br />
building standards let alone the much<br />
higher standard of the insurance<br />
policies. Significant damage has<br />
been ignored and when challenged<br />
explained away as pre-existing. After<br />
seven years of re-assessing EQC<br />
work we’ve seen it all. From a jandal<br />
being used to pack a pile to a pile<br />
being cut through so there was no<br />
need to get a plumber to move a<br />
pipe and EQC refusing to lift carpets<br />
to see if the slabs were cracked.<br />
THERE IS<br />
NO TIME<br />
TO DELAY,<br />
YOU NEED<br />
TO TAKE<br />
ACTION<br />
NOW<br />
CHRP, but many, many more are<br />
completely unaware of the damage<br />
caused and damage ignored under<br />
CHRP. We know EQC give estimates<br />
of as low as 600 and as high as<br />
3,000 homes that have suffered<br />
shoddy repairs. I believe the actual<br />
number is much higher, in the tens<br />
of thousands, but only time will<br />
tell. The fact is, no one knows the<br />
actual number because there are no<br />
records that could be relied upon.<br />
Proper assessments were never done by EQC.<br />
What we do know from fighting for so many homeowners<br />
with shoddy repairs, is that many of the repairs have<br />
covered up the actual damage. Foundation damage<br />
hidden behind epoxy glue, plaster and paint, piles packed<br />
on poor ground and doors and windows shaved to fit.<br />
What you must do<br />
To get justice you have to fight for your rights,<br />
however getting justice is very expensive. You will<br />
need to have very deep pockets and some or all of<br />
the following: Builders, Engineers, Quantity Surveyors,<br />
Geotech Engineers, Lawyers and a lot of your own<br />
personal time. Or you can pass all of that on to us to<br />
fund and manage.<br />
If you can afford it<br />
• you must get your repairs checked, by independent<br />
experts.<br />
• If there is unaddressed damage, get a lawyer. Find<br />
one that doesn’t work for Insurance companies.<br />
If you can’t afford it<br />
• Call us, we are New Zealand’s largest earthquake<br />
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• We pay for an independent expert to assess the repairs<br />
and damage.<br />
• If there is no damage and the repairs have been carried<br />
out correctly, you pay nothing, and our contract is<br />
terminated.<br />
• However, if damage is found or the repairs are substandard,<br />
we fund everything it takes to prove your<br />
claim until settlement.<br />
• We operate a “No win, No fee” system of funding.<br />
• At settlement we take back the costs outlaid and a<br />
percentage of the settlement.<br />
Call us on 03 377 88 55 to get us working for you,<br />
or email us at info@earthquakeservices.co.nz<br />
Bryan Staples, CEO, Earthquake Services.<br />
Many homeowners are now seeing<br />
the result of their failed repairs under<br />
Contact us today - call 03 377 8855 or visit earthquakeservices.co.nz. We’re located at 130 Ferry Road, Christchurch.
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• By Sophie Cornish<br />
WORKSAFE NEW Zealand<br />
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fina ly repair the potholes in New<br />
Brighton’s Hawke St car park.<br />
Coastal-Burw od Ward city<br />
counci lor David East wants<br />
WorkSafe to pre sure the car<br />
park’s private owners into<br />
repairing the potholes which are<br />
a “trip and vehicle” hazard.<br />
WorkSafe chief inspector<br />
a se sment southern Da ren<br />
Handforth said it may be able to<br />
take action under the Health and<br />
Safety at Work Act 2015, “as a<br />
person conducting a busine s or<br />
undertaking.”<br />
Mr Handforth said WorkSafe<br />
is aware of the concerns raised by<br />
Cr East abou the car park.<br />
“WorkSafe has completed<br />
an a se sment visi to the site<br />
and is engaging with the owner<br />
to advise them that it is their<br />
responsibility to manage their<br />
risks a propriately.”<br />
Different parts of the car park<br />
are owned by various people<br />
and the Coastal-Burw od<br />
Community Board recently<br />
wrote to them about its concerns<br />
around health and safety.<br />
Cr East said the bi gest i sue<br />
in the past has b en ge ting in<br />
touch with the landlords and<br />
owners and ge ting them to<br />
agr e to anything. “The board<br />
a preciates that multi-ownership<br />
of the parking space may present<br />
a difficulty in co-ordinating<br />
repair/resurfacing but felt obliged<br />
to pa s these concerns onto you,”<br />
said the le ter.<br />
One reply has b en received so<br />
far from an owner who is wi ling<br />
to discu s the i sue. However, a l<br />
the owners would have to agr e<br />
to undertake work.<br />
Cr East said there had b en<br />
a “number of incidences” in<br />
the car park of people injuring<br />
themselves whic had gone<br />
unreported.<br />
“I’ve always though that it<br />
has b en quite amazing that we<br />
haven’t had any serious a cidents<br />
or senior citizens perhaps<br />
tri ping in those potholes and<br />
doing themselve some damage.”<br />
He is confiden the new<br />
a proach wi l bring results.<br />
“I think the WorkSafe<br />
involvement may prove to be the<br />
lever that we are l oking for.”<br />
New bid to fix potholes<br />
Action looms<br />
on Hawke St<br />
car park<br />
HAZARD: Coastal-Burw od Ward city counci lor David East wants WorkSafe New Zealand to put pre sure on the Hawke St car<br />
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THE ST Andrew’s Co lege big<br />
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Competition – ba s player, Tom<br />
Fastier, co lapsed an died the<br />
day before the competition<br />
began.<br />
“Tom was a ba s player from<br />
Cashmere High Sch ol who was<br />
playing with our big band this<br />
year. He had a strong chance of<br />
wi ning best ba s player a the<br />
festival as he was a very a complished<br />
musician,” head of music<br />
Duncan Ferguson said.<br />
“We were delighted to win, but<br />
it was bi tersw et,” he said.<br />
St Andrew’s won the most<br />
outstanding big band title a the<br />
competition in Tauranga.<br />
The ban dedicated it se to<br />
Tom, who died while on his way<br />
to Cashmere High on March 27.<br />
His death was po sibly related to<br />
a medical event.<br />
•Turn to page 9<br />
SW ET SOUNDS: St Andrew’s Co lege year 12 students Lewis Edmond and Je na We ls performing a the 41st National Youth<br />
Ja z Competition.<br />
Bittersweet win for St Andrew’s big band<br />
• By Sophie Cornish and Julia Evans<br />
THE PAPANUI-I nes<br />
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rare step of starting a petition<br />
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Signatures are being co lected<br />
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facility in Shirley.<br />
It comes after the city council<br />
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pla ned for Shirley Rd, near the<br />
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“One of the roles of a community<br />
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Bryce to London ahead of the<br />
fight where they spen time<br />
with Parker in the build up.<br />
Mr Calvert, 47, comes from a<br />
boxing mad family.<br />
•Turn to page 6<br />
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Cave Rock<br />
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owners<br />
expect EQC<br />
sign-off<br />
this week<br />
• By Sarla Donovan<br />
THE OWNERS of Sumner’s Cave<br />
Rock Apartments ar expecting the<br />
Earthquake Commi sion to sign-off<br />
on a se tlement agr emen this w ek.<br />
Body corporate chairman Mike<br />
White said the group had gone<br />
into mediation with IAG and EQC<br />
on February 20, and signed off<br />
on a deal with IAG on February<br />
2 – coincidenta ly seven years<br />
to the day after the February 2,<br />
20 1, earthquake. However, they<br />
are waiting for EQC to sign the<br />
agr ement.<br />
“Given that EQC actua ly drafted<br />
the agr ement, there’ l be no<br />
problem with them doing that.”<br />
The apartment suffere damage<br />
in the February and June, 20 1,<br />
earthquakes and were demolished in<br />
late 2012. In 2016, IAG’s offer of the<br />
difference betw en indemnity value,<br />
$10 mi lion, and the sum insured,<br />
$16 mi lion, was rejected by the body<br />
corporate.<br />
The mediation agr ement<br />
prevented Mr White from disclosing<br />
the se tlement amount, but he said it<br />
involved the two parties paying “a bit<br />
more money than they’d wanted to<br />
earlier.”<br />
•Turn to page 6<br />
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A W OLSTON butcher proved<br />
to be a cut above the rest in an<br />
international competition.<br />
New World Fe ry Rd butcher<br />
Jeremy Garth and his team, the<br />
Pure South Sharp Blacks, recently<br />
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Mr Garth, who has b en a<br />
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m eting new people, s eing new<br />
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Mr Gart hopes t own a<br />
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but says for now he wi l focus<br />
on ge ting mor experience<br />
and on the 2020 cha lenge.<br />
“In two years’ time, we’ l be<br />
going back to try and win the<br />
title,” he said.<br />
U per Ri carton butcher Corey<br />
Winder was part of the Pure<br />
South Sharp Blacks team.<br />
GLOBAL STAGE: W olston butcher Jeremy Garth back home after his team came second in the World Butchers’ Cha lenge.<br />
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A CRACKDOWN on mobile<br />
traders acro s the districts could<br />
be l oming.<br />
However, the public has li tle<br />
interest in having input into the<br />
i sue.<br />
Only eight submi sions were<br />
received for a potential bylaw<br />
aimed at regulating commercial<br />
activities in public places.<br />
The district council wi l be<br />
holding a hearing for the Public<br />
Places Bylaw and Policy on Commercial<br />
Activities and Events in<br />
Public Places.<br />
A hearing i scheduled to be<br />
held on Thursday.<br />
The bylaw comes as an increasing<br />
number of mobile traders<br />
are s eking t operate in Selwyn,<br />
especia ly during the summer<br />
months.<br />
In the past year, the district<br />
council has received five inquiries<br />
about se ting up a mobile busine s<br />
on private or public land.<br />
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str et operators in Darfield, a<br />
coff e cart is parked beside the<br />
railway in Ro leston, and a pi za<br />
cart visits Lincoln w ekly betw en<br />
September-May along with a Thai<br />
f od truck.<br />
•Turn to page 7<br />
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Pupils learn about role of war horses<br />
GR ENDALE SCHOOL pupils<br />
have taken a step back in time,<br />
s eing first hand what men and<br />
horses l oked like during war.<br />
The New Zealand Mounted<br />
Rifles Charitable Trust president<br />
Mark A pleton and member<br />
Mike Donaldson t ok their<br />
horses to the sch ol on Monday,<br />
in a bid to educate pupils on the<br />
sacrifice their ancestors made in<br />
World War 1 and World War 2.<br />
Mr A pleton and Mr Donaldson<br />
a rived a the sch ol dre sed<br />
in World War 1 uniforms while<br />
their horses Tommy and Kruze<br />
wore 1 0-year-old sa dles donated<br />
to the trust.<br />
The presentation is a prelude<br />
to the Gr endale Recreation Reserve<br />
Management Commi t e’s<br />
upcoming Anzac Day service.<br />
As a tribute to those who<br />
served, members of the trust wi l<br />
ride horseback to the service.<br />
Mr A pleton said it was<br />
important children were<br />
educated on what soldiers<br />
wen through during World<br />
War 1 and World War 2.<br />
But he said the presentation<br />
didn’t go into t o much detail<br />
and was more of a “show and<br />
te l” to make them aware of what<br />
the soldiers l oked like.<br />
Children were shown the type<br />
of kits horses were required to<br />
wear in the war.<br />
•Turn to page 7<br />
• By Georgia O’Co nor-Harding<br />
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AN U PER Ri carton butcher<br />
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Mr Winder and his team, the<br />
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He said the cha lenge started<br />
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The preparation for this<br />
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result.<br />
“To get second behind Ireland<br />
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even bi ger thing for us,” he<br />
said.<br />
But Mr Winder admires the<br />
Australian team.<br />
“Those guys over there<br />
[Australia] are on top of their<br />
game, they do a g od job,” he<br />
said.<br />
“And it just showcases that<br />
New Zealand has got some<br />
of the best butchers in the<br />
world,” he said.<br />
Mr Winder has b en a butcher<br />
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• By Emily O’Co ne l<br />
THE HALSWE L-Hornby-<br />
Ri carton Community Board<br />
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o pose the pla ned qua ry near<br />
Templeton.<br />
Mayor Lia ne Dalziel told the<br />
board on Thursday it had the okay<br />
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for a resource consen to create a<br />
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“You can just about guarant e<br />
it . because we [the community<br />
board] don’t believe qua ries<br />
should be so close to residential<br />
areas,” he said.<br />
Mr Mora said he wasn’t sure if<br />
the city council would endorse the<br />
board’ submi sion.<br />
“I’d like to think so because the<br />
city council has had their eyes<br />
open as we l ove recent years over<br />
the crysta line silica risk,” he said.<br />
Mr Mora said the community<br />
board wi l be “representing and<br />
advocating” for the Templeton<br />
community.<br />
•Turn to page 5<br />
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He said there was still a lot of<br />
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and finish police inquiries<br />
before any charges would be laid.<br />
“They can take some time,” he<br />
said.<br />
“We’ve got six months to lay<br />
charges in relation to traffic offending<br />
– it certainly won’t take<br />
that long.”<br />
Steffan Pearce-<br />
Loe (right), 30, was<br />
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He died in hospital<br />
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His funeral was held on Tuesday.<br />
Police found the vehicle<br />
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The vehicle’s owner, who was<br />
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Detective Senior Sergeant Cottam<br />
remained tight-lipped about<br />
the driver. •Turn to page 6<br />
Decision on<br />
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Thursday, <strong>July</strong> 12, <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Ph Lachlan 383-1723 or<br />
0274 367-067.<br />
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uplifting,<br />
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CARPET & VINYL<br />
Laying. Exp. Repairs,<br />
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Email<br />
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027 2407416<br />
ELECTRICIAN<br />
Registered,<br />
electrical<br />
installation and repairs,<br />
Gorbie Electrical, ph 021<br />
026 73375 or 03 322 4209<br />
ELECTRICIAN<br />
For electrical work, no job<br />
to small, affordable, tidy &<br />
experienced, HEATPUMP<br />
servicing, & performance<br />
test $70 + gst, ph or txt 027<br />
432 9755 or 03 326 49922<br />
PAINTER AVAILABLE<br />
All aspects in painting.<br />
Very competitive in roofs<br />
and fences. Please call 027<br />
241-7471 or 335-0265<br />
PAINTING<br />
& Decorating Wingfields<br />
Contracting, all interior<br />
& exterior painting & all<br />
forms of interior plastering<br />
& jib fixing, ph Mark 021<br />
171-1586 or 355-5994<br />
PLASTERER<br />
Gib Stopping, Small<br />
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experience. Ring 0800<br />
387-369<br />
PLUMBER<br />
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Phone 352-7402 or 0274-<br />
350-2<strong>31</strong><br />
PLUMBER<br />
A Top Plumbing job<br />
completed at a fair price,<br />
prompt service, all work<br />
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7673 or 021 112-3492<br />
ROOFING<br />
REPAIRS<br />
Fully qualified, over 40<br />
yrs experience. Ph John<br />
027 432-3822 or 351-<br />
9147 email johnchmill@<br />
outlook.com<br />
ROSE<br />
PRUNING<br />
& Climbers. Great ideas<br />
for your garden. Ph<br />
Graeme 027 341 8596 /<br />
342-5151<br />
SHOE<br />
REPAIRS<br />
Belfast engraving. Shoe<br />
repairs, key cutting &<br />
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<strong>31</strong>13423<br />
SPOUTING CLEANING<br />
Spouting<br />
Unblocked,<br />
Cleaned Out and Flushed<br />
Out. Also Full Handyman<br />
Services Available. Call<br />
Trevor 332 8949 or 021<br />
043 2034<br />
TILER/CARPENTER<br />
35 years exp, no job<br />
too small. Ph Ross 027<br />
4<strong>31</strong>1440.<br />
TILING<br />
Flooring - Splashbacks -<br />
Wall incl tile removal, reg<br />
master tiler, ph Dave 027<br />
334 4125<br />
T.V. SERVICE CENTRE<br />
Repairs, tvs, microwaves,<br />
stereos, DVD. Aerial<br />
installations and kitsets,<br />
480 Moorhouse Ave, ph 03<br />
379 1400<br />
VHS VIDEO TAPES<br />
& all camera tapes<br />
converted to DVD, video<br />
taping special occasions,<br />
www.grahamsvideo.co.nz<br />
ph 03 338-1655<br />
WINDOW<br />
CLEANING<br />
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$70. Phone Trevor 344-<br />
2170<br />
Trades & Services<br />
AAA Buying goods<br />
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Beds, Stoves, Washing<br />
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TOOLS<br />
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CLEARING<br />
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Trades & Services<br />
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What’s On<br />
Entertainment<br />
To advertise, contact<br />
Jo Fuller 027 458 8590<br />
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Italy’s Ensemble Zefiro<br />
Light, elegant and<br />
unapologetically<br />
entertaining<br />
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IT STARTS THIS SATURDAY!<br />
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4, 8, 11 August | Riccarton Park Racecourse<br />
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144th NZ Grand National Steeplechase<br />
Start your day with us<br />
Race Day<br />
Breakfasts<br />
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BREAKFAST - LUNCH - DINNER<br />
Party on with us<br />
LIVE MUSIC |SPORTS BAR<br />
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Wednesday 8th: DnD DUO<br />
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FOUNDED in1989 by oboists Alfredo<br />
Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi, and the<br />
bassoonist Alberto Grazzi, the ensemble<br />
is said to be named aer Zero, the<br />
Greek god of winds. Fitting as wind<br />
instruments play a leading role within<br />
the group.<br />
Specialising in 17th and 18th century<br />
woodwind Chamber Music, Ensemble<br />
Zero has developed a cult following<br />
worldwide and has won numerous<br />
awards including the Grand Prix du<br />
Disque and Gramophone’s Editor’s<br />
Choice award.<br />
Alfredo Bernardini (Oboe); Paolo<br />
Grazzi (Oboe); Dileno Baldin (Horn);<br />
Francesco Meucci (Horn); Alberto<br />
Grazzi (Bassoon); and Giorgio<br />
Mandolesi (Bassoon) make up the<br />
lineup for the Christchurch<br />
performance.<br />
Zero will play two programmes; the<br />
rst a banquet of Handel, Fasc,<br />
Telemann, Haydn and Mozart; the<br />
second dedicated exclusively to Mozart’s<br />
divertimenti.<br />
“Light, elegant and unapologetically<br />
entertaining, these compositions dazzled<br />
18th century nobility with their easy<br />
charms. Zero’s unique timbres and<br />
brilliant virtuosity is no less beguiling<br />
today.”<br />
www.chambermusic.co.nz. Tickets at<br />
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What’s On<br />
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS<br />
MEMBERS LUCKY CARD DRAW<br />
LIVE MUSIC 2PM<br />
THIS SUNDAY 5TH AUG<br />
UNFINISHED BUSINESS<br />
Dine by the Beach<br />
PIERVIEW<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
UPSTAIRS<br />
Open from 5.30pm Fri, Sat,<br />
Sun, and Sunday Brunch<br />
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MONTH-END<br />
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BUFFET $25pp<br />
Sunday 26th Aug<br />
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Lunch & Dinner<br />
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7 days<br />
Bookings Essential<br />
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SERVING<br />
HAPPY HOUR<br />
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OUR CABINET ITEMS<br />
ARE HOMEMADE<br />
CREATED FRESH ON SITE DAILY<br />
$12<br />
LUNCH<br />
SPECIALS<br />
Live Music:<br />
6PM.SAT 4 AUG<br />
COFFEE<br />
HAPPY<br />
H O U R<br />
2PM-4PM<br />
DAILY<br />
$3.50<br />
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MON: ROAST MEAL<br />
TUE: FISH & CHIPS<br />
WED: FISH BURGER<br />
THU: ROAST MEAL<br />
SAT: FISH & CHIPS<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
FROM<br />
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FOR A<br />
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SATURDAY 11 AUGUST<br />
Pre-sale tix $20. Door sales $25<br />
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The Hornby Club | ph 03 349 9026 | 17 Carmen Rd | Hornby<br />
www.hornbywmc.co.nz | Members, guests & affiliates welcome
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