Nor'West News: September 25, 2018

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Burnside High shows golfing
pedigree at national champs
• By Jacob Page
BURNSIDE HIGH School
continues to show why they
are so consistent on the New
Zealand golf scene.
The team of Juliana Hung,
brothers Hiroki and Hayato
Miya, and Amy Weng finished
third at the national secondary
school championships at the
Palmerston North Golf Club.
Burnside won the tournament
in 2016. They looked on track to
do it again this month after the
first round when they were tied
for the lead with Waikato’s St
Peter’s College.
However, they would have to
settle for third after McLeans
College golfer Jimmy Zheng
from Auckland shot a course
record 12 under 60 to power his
school to the title.
Hung was the most consistent
of the Burnside players shooting
a combined one over par for the
two rounds. Hung and the Miya
brothers were part of the championship
winning team in 2016.
Teacher in charge of golf Tracy
Taylor said with the Miya brothers
and Hung playing at Russley,
it helped the team to gel together
faster.
“We’ve had some great depth
here over the past five years or so,
and this year has been no exception,”
she said. “They’re all very
competitive but when another
player shoots 12 under and gets a
course record, there’s not much
you can do.
“Our principal went to watch
the team and he was amazed at
the round of golf (Zheng) was
LEADER: Juliana Hung helped
Burnside High School to third at
the national secondary schools’
tournament.
able to produce.
“We had Amelia Garvey who
finished (at Burnside High) last
year and is now on a scholarship
over in the United States, and I’m
confident that will continue into
the future.”
SPORTS
Big medal haul for
St Andrew’s swimmers
•From page 1
The 18-year-old, who has an
intellectual disability, won the
50m and 100m butterfly, the
50m, 100m and 200m freestyle
and 50m and 100m backstroke.
He also earned silver in
the 400m freestyle.
George (right) said he
enjoyed the 50m freestyle
race because it allowed
him to go as fast as he
could right from the
starting block.
He said winning so
many medals made his
heart beat fast with
adrenaline.
When St Andrew’s
were
presented
with
their
trophies,
George held his medals
them aloft.
George said he started swimming
when he was 14-years-old
and competes regularly for the
North Canterbury Club.
He said he would
like to continue
swimming after
finishing school
at the end of the
year and dreams
of becoming a
top level paraswimmer
in the
future.
There’s never been a more appropriate
time to buy a hybrid or electric vehicle.
Fuel costs are soaring, and global warming,
much of it attributed to fossil fuel emissions, is a
definite reality.
So if you want to do something for
the environment and save yourself some
cash at the weekly fill-up, then visit Trevor
Crowe, at CroweSport, 518 Moorhouse
Ave, for a lifestyle change.
The man who runs the business owns
the business, and Trevor, or any of the
friendly sales staff, can get you into an
electric vehicle or hybrid of your choice.
There are no fewer than 15 vehicles to
choose from, a mixture of fully-electric
plug-in Nissan Leafs to the hybrid petrol/
electric Prius.
Trevor says his stock consists of topgrade
models sourced from auction in
Japan. He chooses only the cars with
good battery life, and the cars on the yard
are displayed with the battery condition
visible. As with all cars on the yard at
CroweSport, the electric vehicles can be
serviced on-site by trained technicians.
Cars on-site vary in age from 2011 to
2017, and those with the latest generation
30kWh batteries can be expected to
provide a range of up to 190km. However,
petrol/electric Prius models are there for
those who experience range anxiety.
Prices for the Leafs start around $13,000
and end at around $30,000.
“The Leaf is the perfect urban commuter
– buyers who work in the city can travel to
work, swing by the supermarket on the
way home, and charge up from the home
supply overnight,’’ Trevor says.
“Charging costs can be measured
in cents, trickle charging overnight is
the kindest on the batteries although
fast charging on a journey won’t do the
batteries any harm.’’
Trevor is fully committed to the electric
revolution, and says there is a point of
difference in the models he chooses,
they are hand-picked and have workshop
backing. The first service is without cost,
as well as the first warrant of fitness.
While there is a heavy emphasis on
electric vehicles, the name CroweSport
is also synonymous with the sales of
Subaru vehicles. There are a wide range of
Subarus on-site, mostly pre-owned from
Japan.
Part of CroweSport’s success as a
business is down to Trevor’s proud
motorsport heritage. Major successes
include several New Zealand saloon
car championships, and the Asia Pacific
touring car championship, with a fourth
at Bathurst and third at the Wellington
Street Race in 1988. On shingle, Trevor
has won more than a dozen rallies, the
Ashley Forest rally sprint, and he is the
current Race to the Sky two-wheel-drive
champion. Trevor still competes, and
his race or rally cars are prepared in the
CroweSport workshop.
“Motorsport is at the cutting edge
of technology. Understanding the
complexity of tuning and setting up a
car for racing or rallying filters down to
day-to-day mechanics at workshop level,’’
Trevor says.
Trevor is an engineer and is still hand’son
in that side of the business. Engine
reconditioning is his speciality, although
he says they will take on anything from
a lube or tune-up right through to full
engine and gearbox overhauls. Nine
technicians are on site, and annually the
company takes on an apprentice, skills
developed through old-school training.
The CroweSport workshop team is highly
skilled and they will service any make or
model.
Trevor says many of his customers are
sport and recreational enthusiasts along
with those who are lifestyle and familyorientated.
And, of course, if you want a
performance enhancement, CroweSport
Subaru Specialists
has built up an enviable reputation in that
field.
Trevor’s philosophy is to get it right first
time, the company has high standards
and that reflects on the quality of the jobs
that go out the door. Although Trevor
leads from the front, he says the company
is like a family. Staff have input in the way
the company runs and operates.
“I want the customer to leave without
being presented with any surprises. We
treat the customer as if they are a family
member.
“Treat them like they are your mother,’’
he says.
Carrying the Trevor Crowe name also
means putting it right.
‘’We don’t expect things to go wrong,
but problems will be sorted out and the
customer is always told what to expect as
the process unfolds, and the cost will be
presented to the customer well before the
car is picked up.’’
For all your motoring needs or to
change your vehicle, the CroweSport
name means quality and reassurance.
“It’s about knowing how to do the right
thing by the customer,’’ Trevor says.
518 Moorhouse Ave (East end) | P: 379 7615 W: crowesport.co.nz | E: service@crowesport.co.nz