Bay Harbour: October 03, 2018

Wednesday October 3 2018
News
MT PLEASANT’S Tina
Hutchison-Thomas was one of
four Christchurch designers
to take home awards from
the World of Wearable Arts
competition.
Mrs Hutchison-Thomas won
the New Zealand Design Award
for her garment Eye See you
Fluffy Kōwhai.
She said the design was inspired
by the venezuelan poodle
moth and was made of faux fur
and crystals.
“I was drawn to the poodle
moth with its beautiful fluffy
body, which reminds me of
luxurious opera cloaks from the
1920s,” she said.
More than 3500 crystals were
sown into the design to represent
the eye-like colours often seen
on the wings of moths and butterflies.
WOW founder and head Judge
Dame Suzie Moncrieff said
judges described Eye See you
Fluffy Kōwhai as “surreal and
sensuous.”
“The different mediums
used in the construction of
the garment are balanced
beautifully.”
Christchurch central sisters
Natasha English and Tatyanna
Meharry won the Supreme
Award with WAR sTOrY, as well
as winning the Aotearoa section.
The garment commemorated
the more than 120,000 New
Zealand men and women who
served in World War 1, of which
more than 18,000 never returned
home.
It was created using recycled
objects such as old military and
household blankets, salvaged
rimu from demolished houses,
old collected plastic toy soldiers,
broken crushed red bricks and
traded pieces of pounamu.
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Surreal design wins award
WINNER: Tina
Hutchison-
Thomas won the
New Zealand
Design Award
with her garment
Eye See you
Fluffy Kōwhai.
Dame Suzie said WAR sTOrY
was “an exceptional example of
powerful storytelling realised
through a work of art” and was
“flawless in its execution.”
English and Meharry are the
first ever two-time supreme
WOW award winners, having
taken the top award in 2013 for
The Exchange.
Papanui’s Janice Elliott was
third in the bizarre bra section
with Abreast of Time.
THE NEW Woolston Fire
Station was officially opened on
Saturday, the third of six stations
to be rebuilt and reopened.
More than 150 nearby
residents toured the station on
Saturday afternoon.
Fire and Emergency chairman
Paul Swain, who opened the station,
said the February 22, 2011,
earthquake devastated the city’s
fire stations.
“This modern station is
another step in redeveloping
the metropolitan city’s entire
network of fire stations.”
The new Woolston station was
built on the site of the former
station at a total cost of $6.9 million.
More than 900 piles were
driven in to strengthen the site,
which is 1.2m higher than it was
before.
It features two appliance
bays, six single bedrooms, a
gym, kitchen and lounge and
purpose-built dirty-to-clean
zones.
There, firefighters could bag
smoke-contaminated gear in a
negative pressure environment
before showering to prevent
carcinogen transfer into clean
living and work areas.
The station also has a vehicle
fume management system, a
hose that connects to vehicle
exhausts, so the appliance bay
would not fill with fumes from
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Woolston Fire Station opened
TOUR: Senior station officer
Sas Rose shows Paul Swain
the new facilities at the
station.
appliances coming and going.
The Woolston crew moved
back to the station in mid-June,
before work was completed.
Fire and Emergency Christchurch
metro area manager Dave
Stackhouse said the rebuild programme
“represents a significant
organisational investment.”
“[it] has provided us with a
unique opportunity to build
a future-proofed network of
stations that meet community
needs and addresses ever-changing
call types and demand.”
Last year Woolston responded
to 648 incidents including 73
structure fires, 33 vegetation
fires, 87 other fires, 76 medical
events, 46 motor vehicle accidents
and 238 false alarms.
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