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Thursday, <strong>November</strong> 8, <strong>2018</strong><br />

• By Julia Evans and<br />

Gordon Findlater<br />

THE FAMILY of the 37-year-old<br />

who died after a charity boxing<br />

match says the support for them<br />

has been humbling.<br />

Yesterday, Kain Parsons’ life<br />

support was turned off.<br />

Mr Parsons, a project manager<br />

for Versatile Garages, was<br />

knocked unconscious in his bout<br />

at the Fight for Christchurch at<br />

Horncastle Arena. He was not<br />

wearing protective head gear.<br />

He never regained consciousness.<br />

A Givealittle page set up to<br />

support his wife, Alana and their<br />

three children, had raised more<br />

than $30,000 by yesterday.<br />

Mr Parsons’ family said in a<br />

statement yesterday that<br />

he succumbed to his brain<br />

injury.<br />

“We wish to acknowledge and<br />

thank the amazing team in the<br />

ICU ward at Christchurch Hospital,<br />

the paramedics at the event,<br />

along with the many doctors,<br />

nurses and medical professionals<br />

who left their tables to quickly<br />

come to Kain’s aid.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> outpouring of heartfelt<br />

support from family, friends,<br />

colleagues and the public has<br />

been humbling and very much<br />

appreciated.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> family said Mr Parsons<br />

gave his life in the pursuit of<br />

raising money for those less<br />

fortunate. He was fighting to<br />

raise money for Conductive<br />

Education.<br />

“His enormous heart, selfless<br />

attitude and gentle giant nature<br />

will leave a void in the lives of so<br />

many.”<br />

His death will be referred to<br />

the Coroner.<br />

Event operator Callam Mitchell<br />

said everyone is devastated by Mr<br />

Parsons’ death.<br />

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• By Bridget Rutherford<br />

PROMINENT Cantabrians<br />

have given a mixed response to<br />

the possible futuristic l ok of<br />

Cathedral Square.<br />

Plans for wha the Square<br />

could look like were released<br />

by Regenerate Christchurch<br />

yesterday after seven years of<br />

debate and controversy the<br />

slow progre s of the rebuild.<br />

It includes three covered<br />

pavilions, which would have<br />

a “la tice-style” translucent<br />

r of, which could host markets<br />

and other events.<br />

FUTURISTIC: Plans released yesterday sho what Cathedral Square could look like.<br />

<strong>The</strong> long-term vision, which is<br />

estimated to cost betw en $60-<br />

$80 mi lion, aims to bring people<br />

“I’m confident Regenerate<br />

back into the area, through a<br />

Christchurch’s vision wi l a low<br />

series of interconnected public<br />

this to happen.”<br />

spaces.<br />

City counci lor Deon Swi gs<br />

<strong>The</strong> vision for Square also<br />

said it would n ed to work<br />

includes Cathedral Gardens<br />

around other developments<br />

with tr and water features,<br />

such as Turanga, the Spark<br />

Post Office Place with events<br />

building, Aotea Gifts and the<br />

and m eting spaces, and Library<br />

restoration of Christ Church<br />

Plaza with other people-friendly<br />

Cathedral.<br />

areas.<br />

“We’ve go to l ok at what is<br />

Former mayor Ga ry M ore<br />

ha pening, what’s in the vision<br />

said the plan was “bri liant”<br />

and what can we deliver.”<br />

while developer Ernest Duval<br />

City counci lor Jamie Gough<br />

was not fu sed by the pavilions. city council and stakeholders to be n eded.<br />

think of the central city as said it was g od starting<br />

<strong>The</strong> next step is for a delivery determine what could be done, Mayor Lia ne Dalziel said destination and residential point.<br />

strategy to be developed with the when, and what funding would the vision would hel people neighbourh od.<br />

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• By Bridget Rutherford<br />

POLICE HAVE found two bank<br />

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for a con man who falsely said<br />

gangs would hurt their families if<br />

people didn’t pay up.<br />

Senior Constable Wayne<br />

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had been given two bank account<br />

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Police had checked one, and<br />

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A CONVICTED killer is back<br />

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crash while allegedly fl eing<br />

police.<br />

John Oliver Jamieson’s Subaru<br />

Forester crashed through the<br />

Ro leston dog park fence on<br />

Saturday.<br />

A spear-like fence post<br />

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screen na rowly missing a<br />

woman in the pa senger seat.<br />

Miraculously Jamieson and the<br />

He had earlier been recorded<br />

driving at 180km/h on State<br />

Highway 1.<br />

A cut-down rifle was later<br />

found by police in the vehicle.<br />

<strong>Star</strong>tle dog walker said<br />

Jamieson ran a short distance<br />

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to s e if the woman in the vehicle<br />

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the cell phone numbers any-<br />

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connected to the same person, with the bank accounts.”<br />

led police to a suspect who had Police have received 21 complaints<br />

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targeted by the sinister scam.<br />

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FINALLY THE sun is shining<br />

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<strong>The</strong> Canterbury District<br />

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council’s 805-space Lichfield St<br />

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his house down and harm his<br />

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Bu the university’s dean of<br />

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“I can’t comment<br />

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being allowed to go on the trip.<br />

It is understood it is no the<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has been told it is a<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> sent a number of questions<br />

to Canterbury University<br />

yesterday but none would be answered.<br />

Said Canterbury University<br />

spokeswoman Margaret Agnew:<br />

“UC cannot respond to allegations<br />

that are before the police.”<br />

She referred the questions<br />

back to Dr Cheer. Her phone was<br />

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Police would also not comment<br />

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<strong>The</strong> overseas trip involves<br />

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• By Sophie Cornish<br />

THE investigation continues<br />

into the death of 30-year-old<br />

electrician Tuainekore Uri-Ke.<br />

Mr Uri-Ke is believed to have<br />

been electrocuted on Friday<br />

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WHEN RETIRED wool<br />

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he saw a distinct piece of paper.<br />

It was a billboard for <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>,<br />

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Mr Whitfield, 88, asked the<br />

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keep it.<br />

“He was just going to throw it<br />

into the fire and I said ‘hey, I’ll<br />

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“I thought it might be worth<br />

hanging onto, not knowing I<br />

would be here a 100 years from<br />

the date of it.”<br />

Mr Whitfield, who lives in<br />

Fendalton, framed it and loaned<br />

it to the Papanui RSA about 20<br />

years ago, where it is still on<br />

display.<br />

His father Alex and his two<br />

uncles, Harold and Herb, all<br />

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A funeral was held for Mr<br />

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Mr Whitfield never got the<br />

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his father but it served as a<br />

reminder of his contribution to<br />

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“Because my father fought in<br />

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Mr Whitfield said the RSA<br />

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<strong>The</strong> building’s owner<br />

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“I have no comment to make<br />

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A WorkSafe spokeswoman<br />

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It is understood the entire<br />

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News<br />

Lane changes<br />

for Main<br />

South Rd<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

MOTORISTS TRAVELLING on<br />

Main South and Springs Rds will<br />

see some changes this week.<br />

All traffic on Main South Rd<br />

was switched to the newly-laid<br />

northbound lanes between<br />

Hoskyns and Robinsons Rd yesterday.<br />

New Zealand Transport Agency<br />

said the changes were done in<br />

stages, city bound traffic first, followed<br />

by southbound traffic.<br />

Meanwhile, motorists on<br />

Springs Rd, near the Halswell<br />

Junction Rd roundabout will have<br />

to use a temporary diversion road.<br />

A U-turn facility has been built<br />

to maintain access to businesses in<br />

the area.<br />

NZTA previously announced<br />

that a lane switch on Main South<br />

Rd would be done in August but<br />

that was delayed due to additional<br />

work.<br />

Contractors built the final<br />

pavement under bridges, which removed<br />

the need for an additional<br />

traffic switch in the future, NZTA<br />

said.<br />

<strong>The</strong> changes are part of the<br />

ongoing construction of the $195<br />

million Christchurch Southern<br />

Motorway stage two.<br />

Tributes flow for charity boxer<br />

•From page 1<br />

“On behalf of the entire Fight<br />

for Christchurch community, we<br />

extend our sincere condolences<br />

to Kain’s family, friends and<br />

workmates. Our thoughts are<br />

naturally also with Kain’s opponent<br />

during this incredibly<br />

difficult time.”<br />

Mr Mitchell said he has spoken<br />

to Mr Parsons’ opponent,<br />

former Canterbury and Tasman<br />

Makos half-back Steve Alfeld<br />

and his coach.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>y’re completely traumatised.”<br />

New Zealand Professional<br />

Boxing Association president<br />

Pat Leonard said “everyone is in<br />

shock.”<br />

“We are very, very sorry to<br />

hear about it and we send our<br />

utmost condolences to Kain’s<br />

family.”<br />

“This is the first incident in<br />

our national association’s history<br />

where a fighter has suffered a<br />

critical injury in the ring.<br />

But he said the association did<br />

not find fault with the processes<br />

that Fight for Christchurch follows.<br />

Emergency services were<br />

called to the event shortly after<br />

11pm and Mr Parsons was taken<br />

to hospital in a critical condition.<br />

Not wearing headgear was optional<br />

in line with New Zealand<br />

Professional Boxing Association<br />

policy.<br />

<strong>The</strong> incident prompted calls<br />

for changes in the boxing community<br />

and a review is under<br />

way into the fight.<br />

Long-time friend of Mr Parsons,<br />

Darren Jenkinson, who set<br />

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Tuesday friends and family had<br />

been at his bedside throughout.<br />

“He’s a great friend and is always<br />

the first person there when<br />

anyone needs help.”<br />

However, he declined to speak<br />

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for Mr Parsons’ family.<br />

Mr Parsons, played for<br />

the Sumner Sharks social<br />

rugby team. He was nick-named<br />

Dingo.<br />

Tributes to Mr Parsons have<br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Another big Port Hills fire looms<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

ANOTHER MAJOR fire on the<br />

Port Hills will happen.<br />

That’s the stark warning from<br />

an agricultural expert who says<br />

the vegetation on the hills is a<br />

powder keg.<br />

Lincoln University’s Derrick<br />

Moot said active management of<br />

the area was needed to prevent<br />

future events like the Port Hills<br />

fires, which burned for 66 days<br />

last year. Helicopter pilot Steve<br />

Askin crashed and died while<br />

fighting the blaze.<br />

Two separate<br />

fires on Early<br />

Valley Rd and<br />

Marleys Hill<br />

combined to<br />

one, destroying<br />

nine houses and<br />

significantly<br />

Derrick Moot<br />

damaging two.<br />

An investigation<br />

concluded<br />

that both fires were possibly deliberately<br />

lit, though it was listed<br />

as undetermined.<br />

But Dr Moot said in his opinion,<br />

the fire could have easily<br />

spread further and taken out<br />

more homes.<br />

“We’re very fortunate we didn’t<br />

get a southerly. It went from a<br />

nor’west to a nor’east, but could<br />

have quite easily blown down to a<br />

lot more housing,” he said.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>y were devastating enough<br />

as it was for the people involved<br />

and we lost someone. But this<br />

was a warning that we need to<br />

have active management of the<br />

peripheral area.”<br />

Dr Moot said simple things such<br />

as maintaining grass growth and<br />

grazing would significantly reduce<br />

the likelihood of another fire.<br />

“We need someone to take responsibility<br />

of the area, whether<br />

that be the Christchurch City<br />

Council, Selwyn District Council<br />

or Environment Canterbury.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re needs to be guidelines for<br />

land owners.”<br />

Dr Moot said if NIWA’s prediction<br />

for a hot, dry <strong>November</strong><br />

came through the grass and<br />

weather in the wider Port Hills<br />

area would be in an identical<br />

state as they were before the fires.<br />

He said the effects of climate<br />

change also have an impact.<br />

Rural firefighter Richard<br />

McNamara, who led the aerial<br />

assault on the fire said there was<br />

always the potential for another<br />

disaster given the “fuels” that<br />

were up on the Port Hills.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>re’s always been fires up<br />

DANGER: Ken and Denise McKenzie were lucky their home<br />

was spared in the Port Hills fire of 2017.<br />

there but the issue is that our<br />

urban dwellings are pushing further<br />

up and also climate change.<br />

We’re going to start having hotter,<br />

drier summers,” he said.<br />

Mr McNamara said it was up<br />

to those who live in the area to<br />

understand the risk as he said<br />

management would be hard to<br />

enforce.<br />

Fire and Emergency New<br />

Zealand manager rural fire Tim<br />

Mitchell said there was not a one<br />

size fits all solution.<br />

“It’s not an easy problem to<br />

resolve. You’ve got to think of the<br />

context of each landowner,” he<br />

said.<br />

Mr Mitchell said if landowners<br />

needed help the councils, FENZ<br />

and other organisations would<br />

help.<br />

In the wake of the fires, FENZ<br />

went through an operational review.<br />

Urban and rural firefighters<br />

are working together in training,<br />

as well as working with the<br />

community to spread prevention<br />

awareness.<br />

Environment Canterbury<br />

Christchurch West Melton<br />

Banks Peninsula zone manager<br />

Steve Firth said it was working<br />

to offer support and advice to<br />

landowners on the hills.<br />

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Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong><br />

Cars still rule the city commute<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

LESS THAN half of residents<br />

find travelling by car easy in the<br />

city and are happy with the state<br />

of roads and foothpaths.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Life is Christchurch Transport<br />

Survey shows 45 per cent of<br />

people find travelling by car easy<br />

in the city, which is an 11 per<br />

cent improvement on last year.<br />

While 43 per<br />

cent are happy<br />

with the roads<br />

and about 33<br />

per cent are<br />

happy with the<br />

footpaths.<br />

<strong>The</strong> survey –<br />

Karleen<br />

Edwards<br />

commissioned<br />

by city council<br />

– sought 3000<br />

views on the ease of travelling<br />

around the city, safety, and the<br />

modes used.<br />

Seventeen per cent use their<br />

car less than 12 months ago, 14<br />

per cent are more likely to cycle<br />

and 16 per cent are more likely<br />

to walk.<br />

Public transport use is also up,<br />

with 11 per cent saying they use<br />

the bus more often than a year<br />

ago.<br />

Cyclists have reported a significant<br />

improvement, with 63 per<br />

cent saying it is easy to travel by<br />

bike, up nine per cent on 2017.<br />

A third feel safe when cycling, up<br />

11 per cent on the previous year.<br />

More people feel safer on public<br />

transport and while waiting<br />

for a bus. Pedestrians are also<br />

happier, with 74 per cent feeling<br />

safe, up five per cent on 2017.<br />

Walking tops the satisfaction<br />

poll, with 76 per cent finding that<br />

easy in the city and about half<br />

feeling safe.<br />

About a third are satisfied with<br />

the city’s footpaths and pedestrian<br />

areas.<br />

However, about 60 per cent of<br />

respondents are unhappy with<br />

Christchurch’s roads, citing<br />

potholes, surface problems and<br />

ongoing patch repairs.<br />

In general, while cars still rule<br />

the road, people are finding it<br />

easier to use other transport<br />

modes.<br />

City council chief executive<br />

Karleen Edwards said the survey<br />

shows residents’ views on transport<br />

are changing, with more<br />

people open to public transport,<br />

cycling, walking and sharing<br />

urban space.<br />

She said the results are encouraging<br />

because they show<br />

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that have been made.<br />

But there were challenges with<br />

the condition of some of roads,<br />

Dr Edwards added.<br />

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News<br />

Pascoe signs up to get Megan to Paris<br />

Cancer sufferer Megan Hore is getting closer to<br />

ticking off another Disneyland from her bucket list.<br />

Meanwhile, artist Rangi Downes who has helped<br />

Megan raise money, has been reunited with a family<br />

he hasn’t seen in 65 years. Julia Evans reports<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

MEGAN HORE is one step<br />

closer to ticking Disneyland Paris<br />

off her bucket list as the country’s<br />

most successful Paralympian<br />

Sophie Pascoe has supported the<br />

cause.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 18-year-old daughter of<br />

blind organist Richard Hore had<br />

been battling bone cancer for<br />

about a year and set herself the<br />

goal of going to every Disneyland<br />

around the world.<br />

To help her fundraising efforts,<br />

artist Rangi Downes painted four<br />

paintings of Mickey Mouse and<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has organised them to<br />

be signed.<br />

Megan (left) said it was “absolutely<br />

amazing” that Pascoe,<br />

joined All Black great Richie<br />

McCaw and world champion<br />

shot-putter Tom Walsh in signing<br />

the paintings.<br />

<strong>The</strong> paintings will be auctioned<br />

off on Trade Me from next week<br />

and money put towards the<br />

Hore’s trip to Paris.<br />

“I’m not one of those people<br />

who puts myself out there a lot<br />

and yet people like this are coming<br />

out to help me,” Megan said.<br />

But she will be back in hospital<br />

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Disneyland<br />

Megan said people like Walsh,<br />

McCaw and Pascoe inspire her<br />

to keep her own sporting dreams<br />

alive.<br />

“I’m a rock-climber and a dancer.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y remind me that I can still<br />

do those things,” she said.<br />

If she gets the all clear, Megan<br />

will be back climbing by the end<br />

of the year.<br />

<strong>The</strong> family has tentatively set a<br />

plan to go over to Europe in April.<br />

“That’s when mum’s on holiday<br />

and I’m on holiday. We just need<br />

to get clearance from the hospital<br />

to go for that long,” Megan said.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y plan to spend almost a<br />

month in the Northern Hemisphere.<br />

As well as Paris, they will<br />

travel around the United Kingdom.<br />

But what Megan is most looking<br />

forward to is getting the port in<br />

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“<strong>The</strong> best news we got today was<br />

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ATHLETES: Shot-putter Tom<br />

Walsh and All Black great<br />

Richie McCaw also signed<br />

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Artist reunites with ‘family’<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

IT’S BEEN 65 years since artist<br />

Rangi Downes has heard from<br />

the family that took him under<br />

their wing when he was 12.<br />

But after an article about<br />

him creating Mickey Mouse<br />

paintings to help support cancer<br />

sufferer Megan Hore in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>,<br />

the 77-year-old was reunited<br />

with the daughters of Kathleen<br />

Higgs, who helped him when his<br />

adopted family fell ill.<br />

Downes said he got a phone<br />

call out of the blue.<br />

“She said do you still have the<br />

little red bike that you used to<br />

ride to the pictures,” he said.<br />

“I said who is this but she<br />

wouldn’t tell me, she said you<br />

have to guess.”<br />

Downes said he worked out<br />

it could only be one of the<br />

daughters of Mrs Higgs, Gloria<br />

Dawson.<br />

While he had never lived<br />

with Mrs Higgs and her six children,<br />

he said he was there most<br />

days helping her out for three<br />

years.<br />

Downes’ adopted parents and<br />

brother all fell ill when he was<br />

11 and 12. His mother died of<br />

stomach cancer, while his father<br />

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of a medical examination, which<br />

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After that it was Mrs Higgs<br />

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“<strong>The</strong>re were so many time<br />

were Mrs Higgs spoke to me<br />

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good woman. No one ever went<br />

hungry,” he said.<br />

But after three years with the<br />

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himself and was bound to<br />

his bed. <strong>The</strong>y lost touch.<br />

“It’s been about 65 years since<br />

I’ve heard from these people.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y don’t understand how<br />

much I’ve thought of them since<br />

then,” he said.<br />

A friend of Mrs Dawson sent<br />

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Downes said he’d sent her a<br />

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and photos.<br />

“I’ve sent some cuttings up to<br />

the Bay of Islands. We’ve got a<br />

lot to catch up on, it’s been 65<br />

years,” he said.<br />

In the mean time, Downes<br />

will also be heading to Westport<br />

soon to catch up with Mrs<br />

Dawson’s sister Joan.<br />

“It’s so lovely to be back in<br />

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Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong><br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

High density housing not for everyone<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

LONG-TERM residents in the<br />

central city are worried about the<br />

impact the huge influx of high<br />

density apartments is having on<br />

the community.<br />

THeir lack of parking, size<br />

and the short-term renters they<br />

attract are worrying central city<br />

neighbourhood groups.<br />

Moa<br />

Neighbourhood<br />

Group chairman<br />

Barry Brooker<br />

said the number<br />

high density<br />

apartments is<br />

“symptomatic”<br />

Barry<br />

Brooker<br />

of a bigger issue.<br />

“Developers<br />

are getting on<br />

and doing something, it’s just<br />

the working code is pushing a<br />

certain type of housing.”<br />

THose houses lacked parking<br />

and appealed largely to short<br />

term renters or investors who<br />

used them for online listings.<br />

Dr Brooker said it was the mix<br />

of different housing that appealed<br />

for both short and long-term<br />

residents.<br />

Chester Street East<br />

Community member Simone<br />

Rewa Pearson said the main<br />

question was whether the mix<br />

HOUSING: High density developments like those of Williams Corporation are concerning<br />

long-term residents in the central city.<br />

of housing stock was meeting<br />

needs.<br />

“People say they want to have<br />

a mix of housing stock in central<br />

city to bring in a wide variety of<br />

people and living arrangements<br />

including singles, professionals,<br />

families and seniors. But what<br />

seems to be being built is just<br />

one kind housing – high density<br />

apartments,” she said.<br />

“Is this what we want? And<br />

who is buying the apartments<br />

and for what purpose? Owner<br />

occupiers or investors?”<br />

Victoria Neighbourhood<br />

Association co-ordinator<br />

Marjorie Manthei said a lot of<br />

new developments were not being<br />

lived in by the owner at all.<br />

“THere are small sections that<br />

end up without a neighbourhood.<br />

It’s a domino effect. You have<br />

no neighbours and no one is<br />

committed to the area,” she said.<br />

However, Williams<br />

Corporation managing director<br />

Matthew Horncastle, which is<br />

developing houses in the central<br />

city, dismissed the concerns.<br />

“Imagine being in New York<br />

and someone says we don’t want<br />

a high-rise there. We’re trying to<br />

build a city.”<br />

He said it was “silly” and only a<br />

few people had an issue.<br />

“Meanwhile, I’ve got 20 people<br />

a day ringing, trying to buy<br />

houses in the central city.”<br />

Central Ward city councillor<br />

Deon Swiggs said it needed to be<br />

investigated.<br />

“We need to look at what the<br />

wider effects of the developments<br />

are and if there are any<br />

unintended consequences to<br />

that,” he said.<br />

“It’s about problem<br />

identification. If there’s a<br />

problem, we’ll look at solutions.<br />

That could be from a District<br />

Plan angle or it could be<br />

something else.”<br />

But he was happy with the<br />

amount of new builds.<br />

“We are not going to send<br />

the wrong message to developers.<br />

Its about how we do this<br />

together.”<br />

A city council staff report,<br />

which went to the regulatory<br />

performance committee meeting<br />

yesterday said changes to the<br />

District Plan might be used to<br />

manage potential negative effects<br />

from sites like Airbnb.<br />

“THe District Plan rules may<br />

be encouraging the development<br />

of a typology of housing in<br />

the central city that does not<br />

promote positive inner city living<br />

outcomes over the long-term and<br />

could discourage new residents<br />

from moving to the inner city,”<br />

it said.<br />

“We need to find out what the<br />

issues are, what solutions could<br />

be and then we need to work out<br />

how we enforce that,” Cr Swiggs<br />

said.<br />

“THere are things like fire<br />

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out. All commercial properties<br />

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News<br />

Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong><br />

Where fun, food and family<br />

feature high on the menu<br />

<strong>The</strong> Malis Khmer Thai Restaurant at 501<br />

Wairakei Road in Burnside is an exciting addition<br />

to the dining scene in Christchurch. <strong>The</strong>y offer an<br />

authentic Southeast-Asian culinary experience<br />

and the highly-trained staff are happy to share<br />

their in-depth knowledge of Thai and Cambodian<br />

food and culture with customers. A year down the<br />

track since it opened, this vibrant, contemporary<br />

eatery is now well-established as the perfect<br />

fusion of delicious food and modern, relaxed<br />

dining. <strong>The</strong> restaurant takes its name from one of<br />

the national flowers of Cambodia, the highlyfragrant<br />

malis (Jasminium sambac). Owner Pic<br />

Thai named her restaurant<br />

after it in recognition of<br />

its beauty and cultural<br />

significance. <strong>The</strong> malis<br />

is woven into garlands<br />

to decorate homes and<br />

temples and as offerings<br />

to the Buddha.<br />

As you enter, you are<br />

greeted by a manager,<br />

sometimes Pic herself,<br />

who welcomes you and your party and makes you<br />

feel that you are very much part of the extended<br />

family. <strong>The</strong> atmosphere is bright, lively and very<br />

friendly; the décor is cheerful and combines a<br />

sense of Asia with very funky, metal bambooinspired<br />

screens, and a scrupulously-clean,<br />

minimalist feel. Overall, as soon as you take your<br />

seat, whether you are in a large group or with a<br />

small family, you feel relaxed and at home.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a fresh approach to the kitchen with<br />

new chef Eddie having spent the last month<br />

bringing his talent, expertise and his 30 years’<br />

Inside the restaurant<br />

At Malis Thai Khmer Restaurant,<br />

quAliTy is ouR pRioRiTy.<br />

We offer an authentic Asian culinary experience<br />

with our food that is cooked to perfection using<br />

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• Authentic food<br />

• Experienced staff<br />

• Relaxed atmosphere<br />

“You have to try the food<br />

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Thai in equally impressive<br />

surroundings.” R.D.<br />

Authentic<br />

Thai cuisine<br />

• Great location<br />

• Friendly service<br />

• Easy parking<br />

Come and see for yourself what all the fuss is about!<br />

• Karaoke nights<br />

• Value for money<br />

AdVERtoRiAl<br />

experience as a chef and a head chef in Thailand<br />

and New Zealand to the kitchen. Although<br />

currently the focus is exclusively Thai, Pic also<br />

plans to bring in a Cambodian chef to add to the<br />

menu.<br />

Malis Khmer Thai is definitely the venue for<br />

celebrations – the chilled vibe, the efficient<br />

service, and the great food make it perfect for<br />

parties, and the large space is adaptable enough<br />

to accommodate large and small groups. Adding<br />

to the party atmosphere, karaoke will be coming<br />

soon, so diners will have the chance to show off<br />

their singing talents and make their evening out as<br />

much about fun and the<br />

atmosphere as it is about<br />

the meal. <strong>The</strong> yummy<br />

cocktail menu is a great<br />

kick off the celebrations,<br />

and they have a range of<br />

wines, beers, soft drinks<br />

and spirits for all palates.<br />

Of course, the food is<br />

the most important part<br />

of the Malis Khmer Thai<br />

experience. It is delicious, fresh, and as spicy as<br />

you want and has all the traditional staples of Thai<br />

cuisine such as soups, noodle and rice dishes,<br />

curries, satays and salads. <strong>The</strong>y offer gluten- and<br />

dairy-free options too and are proudly MSG-free.<br />

Sounds delicious? <strong>The</strong>n they can bring the taste of<br />

Thailand to your home, business or special event<br />

as they also offer a catering service.<br />

Follow them on Facebook at facebook.com/<br />

maliskhmerthai, visit www.malis.co.nz or just<br />

call in. <strong>The</strong>y are open seven days a week until<br />

9pm.<br />

Malis, Leon, Eddie, Andrew, Srey Chheng (L to R)<br />

RIDING: Lime scooter-related ACC claims in Christchurch have soared since<br />

they were released last month.<br />

Huge jump in number<br />

of e-scooter injuries<br />

• By Ashleigh Monk<br />

LIME scooter-related<br />

injuries have skyrocketed<br />

since their first week on<br />

Christchurch roads, but<br />

that could change as New<br />

Zealand-specific app is set<br />

to be released.<br />

ACC recorded five Lime<br />

scooter-related injuries in<br />

the week after they hit the<br />

streets – that number is<br />

now 32.<br />

Fifty-seven claims have<br />

been recorded in Auckland,<br />

and less than four across<br />

the rest of New Zealand.<br />

At a city council meeting<br />

on Wednesday it was<br />

announced that an app<br />

would be available for<br />

download “in a few days”<br />

which would have clear<br />

rules and regulations for<br />

the e-scooters.<br />

In the first two weeks<br />

since their October 15<br />

launch, the city council<br />

reported more than 65,000<br />

Lime trips between more<br />

than 27,000 riders.<br />

THe average distance<br />

travelled was 1km, with<br />

the trip time at 10min and<br />

speed at 6km/h.<br />

THe number of e-scooter<br />

injuries compared to<br />

manual scooter injuries<br />

was vastly different, with<br />

61 in Christchurch and 171<br />

in Auckland since the Lime<br />

scooters were released.<br />

ACC senior injury<br />

prevention specialist<br />

Kirsten Malpas said that<br />

while the e-scooters offered<br />

a “great way” to get around,<br />

riders had to be careful of<br />

how they used them.<br />

Electric scooters are<br />

an innovative solution<br />

to modern commuting<br />

challenges and can provide<br />

a great way to make your<br />

commute active,” she said.<br />

“Wearing a helmet,<br />

limiting speed, keeping<br />

to road rules are standard<br />

mechanisms for keeping<br />

safe.”<br />

She advised riders who<br />

had accidents to make<br />

sure they sought medical<br />

attention.<br />

“If people take a knock<br />

to the head, it’s important<br />

that they recognise the<br />

symptoms of concussion<br />

and let a medical<br />

professional make an<br />

assessment and diagnosis.<br />

Late onset after an injury is<br />

common.”<br />

Senior Sergeant Ash Tabb<br />

could not be reached for<br />

comment, but previously<br />

said police were monitoring<br />

scooter use.<br />

“We’re just here to be<br />

an adviser in terms of<br />

the safety and use of the<br />

scooters, just to make sure<br />

they’re being used as safely<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

as possible,” he said.<br />

THe ride-sharing<br />

initiative was launched in<br />

California last year and has<br />

since spread to more than<br />

80 cities across the globe.<br />

Two e-scooter-related<br />

deaths have so far been<br />

recorded in the United<br />

States – one in Dallas<br />

where a man fell off a<br />

scooter and died from<br />

blunt force trauma to<br />

the head, and one in<br />

Washington DC where a<br />

man was pulled under a<br />

sport utility vehicle.<br />

In Christchurch and<br />

Auckland, users can ride<br />

on footpaths, roads and<br />

some cycle lanes without<br />

a helmet, travelling up to<br />

30km/h.<br />

Christchurch launched<br />

400 app-controlled<br />

scooters, with another 300<br />

expected to be deployed<br />

within a month.<br />

Lime paid the city<br />

council $136 for a threemonth<br />

mobile trading<br />

permit for the scooters,<br />

which would expire<br />

on January 15 and be<br />

reviewed.<br />

A New Zealand<br />

Transport Agency<br />

spokeswoman said a<br />

transport review to look<br />

into rules for electric<br />

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planned.<br />

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FAST FACTS<br />

•Lime e-scooters<br />

launched in Christchurch<br />

on October 15.<br />

•Lime is a global<br />

initiative which was<br />

launched in California<br />

in 2017.<br />

•<strong>The</strong>re are 400 in the<br />

city, with another 300<br />

to be deployed over<br />

the next month.<br />

•<strong>The</strong> scooters can be<br />

hired using an app.<br />

It costs an initial $1,<br />

then 30c a minute to<br />

ride.<br />

•Riders must be over<br />

18, and helmets are<br />

recommended but<br />

not required.<br />

•<strong>The</strong> scooters can<br />

reach up to 30km/h<br />

and can be used on<br />

footpaths, roads and<br />

some cycle lanes.<br />

•<strong>The</strong> scooters are<br />

electric-powered, and<br />

contracted “juicers”<br />

are paid to find and<br />

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COUNCILS IN Canterbury<br />

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Environment Canterbury<br />

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<strong>The</strong> city councill started<br />

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Ms Chu started learning Te<br />

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“I love it. <strong>The</strong> first session<br />

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“I went in with the<br />

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July last year. It has so far spent<br />

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Currently, 72 staff and elected<br />

officials are taking part in the<br />

programme.<br />

Since classes started last<br />

year, 250 staff and elected<br />

officials have previously<br />

participated.<br />

Lessons are undertaken by a<br />

qualified teacher and overseen<br />

by the council’s Ngai Tahu and<br />

Maori relationships team, a city<br />

council spokeswoman said.<br />

She said she wanted to learn Te<br />

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“I think it will help us gain a<br />

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Ms Chu said.<br />

She can already speak four<br />

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Chinese and Japanese.<br />

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Ms Chu said she intends to keep<br />

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“<strong>The</strong>se courses assist staff<br />

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their obligations under the<br />

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contribution to relationships<br />

and decision making<br />

processes.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> city council has<br />

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said.<br />

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Big jump in number of police pursuits<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

<strong>The</strong> number of police<br />

pursuits in Canterbury<br />

has almost doubled<br />

in the past five years.<br />

Sophie Cornish talks to<br />

road policing manager<br />

Senior Sergeant Ash<br />

Tabb to find out why<br />

IN 2013, there were 167 fleeing<br />

driver incidents in Canterbury.<br />

Last year it jumped to 348.<br />

And for the first six months of<br />

this year there were 171.<br />

Since the beginning of 2015,<br />

28 people have died as a result<br />

of police chases in New Zealand<br />

and 154 people have been seriously<br />

injured.<br />

Since 2013 only one person has<br />

died in Canterbury metro area.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no one reason why<br />

people may flee<br />

from police, as<br />

each incident<br />

is unique, says<br />

Senior Sergeant<br />

Ash Tabb.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>re may be<br />

certain individuals<br />

who always<br />

Ash Tabb<br />

flee every time<br />

police stop them.<br />

If that person is out and about a<br />

lot in the roading network, then<br />

that can increase. <strong>The</strong>re can be<br />

various reasons, each one of<br />

them is unique.”<br />

In 60 per cent of fleeing driver<br />

events the driver is located, he<br />

said and the rest are unknown.<br />

While there is an increase in<br />

the events, Senior Sergeant Tabb<br />

said there is a bigger increase in<br />

police self-abandoning pursuits.<br />

“We actually choose to abandon<br />

more than we used to. <strong>The</strong>re<br />

is an oversight through the communications<br />

centre and other<br />

supervisors but we want staff to<br />

make the decision if they don’t<br />

feel its safe. Basically, if there<br />

is greater risk from continuing<br />

than the actual risk of following<br />

then we want them to stop.”<br />

A risk assessment tool is<br />

END OF THE ROAD: Police stopped this fleeing motorist in Cranford St in July after he had<br />

driven on the wrong side of the road, nearly hitting a cyclist. He continued to flee even<br />

after his tyres had been spiked and eventually when caught, had to be tasered by police.<br />

used, which looks at the threat<br />

including exposure to the public,<br />

threats to the driver and police<br />

staff and necessity.<br />

“We have to ask whether we<br />

have other means of locating the<br />

person,” Senior Sergeant Tabb<br />

said.<br />

“A lot of these are stolen cars<br />

and we don’t know what else is<br />

going on in the vehicle. A lot<br />

of times we will stop the car<br />

and there will be other offences<br />

SERIOUS PURSUITS<br />

•Last year, a car carrying<br />

five people crashed into a<br />

tree during a police pursuit<br />

in Auckland. A 25-year-old<br />

woman and a 29-year-old<br />

were killed.<br />

•In May, a teenager died in<br />

the boot of a car that was<br />

carrying six passengers in<br />

Wellington. <strong>The</strong> 15-year-old<br />

died after the car crashed,<br />

when the driver failed to<br />

stop for police. Also in May,<br />

a Bay of Plenty man died<br />

after trying to flee police<br />

and crashing into a tree.<br />

•In July, a police pursuit<br />

ended in a vehicle pile-up<br />

in St Albans in an attempt<br />

to stop a 37-year-old. A<br />

patrol car was used to block<br />

the vehicle, ending the<br />

pursuit. <strong>The</strong> car’s tyres were<br />

slashed and police had to<br />

taser the driver.<br />

•In August, a stolen vehicle<br />

was spiked in Yaldhurst<br />

after the driver failed to<br />

stop for police. <strong>The</strong> Toyota<br />

Hilux ended up overturning<br />

onto its roof.<br />

•In September, a teenager<br />

reached speeds of up to<br />

160km/h in an attempt to<br />

evade police. <strong>The</strong> pursuit<br />

ended shortly after the<br />

driver spun out of control<br />

and then ran out of petrol<br />

in Ohoka. Two passengers<br />

had been in the car.<br />

•Last month, two men<br />

were arrested after they<br />

crashed a stolen car into a<br />

cellphone tower control box<br />

following a police pursuit in<br />

Mairehau.<br />

BY THE NUMBERS:<br />

Fleeing driver incidents<br />

in the Canterbury<br />

metro area (south of the<br />

Waimakariri River to<br />

Governors Bay and west<br />

to Hornby)<br />

2014 – 198<br />

2015 – 269<br />

2016 – 269<br />

2017 – 348<br />

<strong>2018</strong> (until June) – 171<br />

Pursuits abandoned by<br />

police in the Canterbury<br />

metro area<br />

2014 – 102<br />

2015 190<br />

2016 – 187<br />

2017 – 242<br />

<strong>2018</strong> (until June) – 129<br />

detected. Ultimately, it’s that<br />

balance of protecting the public,<br />

which is obviously the number<br />

one thing.”<br />

How the pursuits start is also<br />

a mixed bag, it could begin from<br />

a routine traffic stop, where a<br />

driver could be suspected of<br />

drink driving or speeding and<br />

they choose not to stop.<br />

Other times a member of<br />

the public or police staff have<br />

reported someone driving erratically<br />

and police will attempt to<br />

stop them.<br />

“If it is a matter where we know<br />

who the driver is, it would be<br />

very rare for us to get involved<br />

in a pursuit event, unless the offending<br />

was very serious, because<br />

ultimately we would prefer to<br />

locate them out of the vehicle,<br />

rather than in a vehicle,” said<br />

Senior Sergeant Tabb.<br />

<strong>The</strong> most serious consequence<br />

for a fleeing driver is death or serious<br />

injury to either themselves,<br />

or others.<br />

Through the courts, charges<br />

can include licence disqualifications,<br />

vehicles being impounded<br />

and even imprisonment.<br />

Road spikes are deployed<br />

regularly in pursuits and can be<br />

an “effective tool” when used<br />

properly and in a controlled environment,<br />

Senior Sergeant Tabb<br />

said.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>re are constraints on<br />

them. You cannot use them<br />

for certain vehicle types and in<br />

certain locations. <strong>The</strong> staff have<br />

to make sure the public is safe if<br />

they are used, as the vehicle can<br />

lose some control. Every incident<br />

is really unique in terms of when<br />

you can deploy them.”<br />

His advice to people when they<br />

are signalled to stop by police is<br />

to pull over.<br />

“It’s not worth putting lives<br />

at risk. Regularly there are<br />

cases where a person fails to<br />

stop because they don’t have a<br />

licence or have demerit points,<br />

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Age Concern now an<br />

agent for mobility scheme<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

PEOPLE WITH mobility issues<br />

will now be able to apply to<br />

Age Concern Canterbury for<br />

financial assistance to get around<br />

the city.<br />

Eligible people will be able to<br />

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Free bus travel cost<br />

more than $65,000<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

FREE TRAVEL on the buses for<br />

one day cost more than $65,000.<br />

<strong>The</strong> event on September<br />

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“<strong>The</strong> operational cost for<br />

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It cost $29,464 to promote<br />

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<strong>The</strong> plan proposes a shake up<br />

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5 th to 11 th <strong>November</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

UPDATED: New turf will be installed at<br />

Christchurch Stadium before next season’s<br />

Super Rugby kicks off.<br />

NEW TURF at<br />

Christchurch Stadium will<br />

cost $1.5 million.<br />

Bulldozers started on the<br />

ground last week. <strong>The</strong> grass<br />

will be laid by January 25,<br />

just over a week before<br />

Phil Collins plays at the<br />

stadium on February 4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> first round of Super<br />

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“<strong>The</strong> current turf included<br />

an artificial turf product<br />

providing root stabilisation<br />

to the natural grass. That<br />

artificial turf product was<br />

not considered suitable to<br />

get the field through a further<br />

five years, which is the<br />

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“<strong>The</strong>refore, with a grass<br />

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summer, the decision was<br />

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the grass, but also the root<br />

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<strong>The</strong> grass itself was last<br />

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However, the root stabilisation<br />

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More power to community boards<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

COMMUNITY BOARDS may<br />

be able to make more decisions<br />

in their areas next year.<br />

City councillor Sara<br />

Templeton filed a notice of<br />

motion at last week’s council<br />

meeting, setting a timeframe of<br />

March to have the delegation to<br />

community boards changed.<br />

She said community boards<br />

need more power to make<br />

• By Julia Evans<br />

THERE SHOULD not be any<br />

more unexpected revelations<br />

from the city council.<br />

It is working<br />

to develop a ‘no<br />

surprises’ policy<br />

for staff and elected<br />

members to make<br />

sure everyone is fully<br />

informed of issues<br />

and events.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> intention of<br />

a ‘no surprises’ approach<br />

is to ensure<br />

elected members and<br />

staff are able to provide<br />

residents with<br />

accurate, timely and relevant<br />

information on key issues or<br />

decisions such as changing the<br />

names of local parks or installing<br />

crossings outside of<br />

schools. <strong>The</strong>y would also<br />

be able to submit independently<br />

on things like<br />

applications to the district<br />

licensing committee and<br />

resource consents.<br />

Head of community<br />

support, governance and<br />

partnerships John Filsell<br />

said the city council made a<br />

significant events,” city council<br />

chief executive Karleen Edwards<br />

said.<br />

“In order to achieve this, staff<br />

and elected members undertake<br />

particular processes,<br />

such as verbal briefings,<br />

discussions and<br />

formal reports.”<br />

Dr Edwards said<br />

many of the processes<br />

were already in place.<br />

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intention of the<br />

work under way is<br />

to make sure all staff<br />

are aware of these<br />

processes and that all<br />

relevant information<br />

is documented.”<br />

A draft version of the policy is<br />

resolution last July. “However,<br />

research and work on this<br />

topic extended back<br />

before this time. Our<br />

community support,<br />

partnerships and<br />

development staff have<br />

been working on this<br />

project since early 2016.”<br />

Cr Templeton said the<br />

project had been put on<br />

the “back burner” but<br />

had now become urgent.<br />

Sara<br />

Templeton<br />

‘No surprises’ plan for council<br />

Karleen Edwards<br />

not yet available, as staff are still<br />

working on it.<br />

Dr Edwards said no date has<br />

been set for its presentation<br />

to the city council or any<br />

committees.<br />

<strong>The</strong> policy’s development is<br />

not related to the chlorination<br />

of the city’s water or loss of its<br />

secure status, she said.<br />

“This is good practice in any<br />

organisation and is not related to<br />

any single event.”<br />

An independent review examining<br />

the events that led to the<br />

city’s water being chlorinated<br />

was released two weeks ago.<br />

It criticised the way city council<br />

staff did not inform top level<br />

management about issues over<br />

well heads.<br />

Get your name on<br />

the Walk of <strong>Star</strong>s<br />

EMULATING the legendary<br />

Hollywood Walk of Fame,<br />

Christchurch City Mission’s<br />

Walk of <strong>Star</strong>s is back again over<br />

the Christmas season along ‘<strong>The</strong><br />

Terrace’.<br />

With a focus on celebrating<br />

people who are making a<br />

difference at<br />

Christmas by<br />

supporting the<br />

mission, anyone<br />

can be part of<br />

the Walk of<br />

<strong>Star</strong>s on Oxford<br />

Tce between<br />

Hereford and<br />

Cashel Sts.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Walk of<br />

<strong>Star</strong>s will be<br />

in place from<br />

<strong>November</strong> 30<br />

to January 31 along what is sure<br />

to be one of the most popular<br />

summer spots in the city.<br />

With the river on one side and<br />

newly-developed restaurants<br />

along the other, it is a prime<br />

location for the Walk of <strong>Star</strong>s,<br />

which will continue to grow over<br />

the Christmas period.<br />

Last year, Grace, 9, and Lily, 7,<br />

were gifted a star by their mum.<br />

When asked why they liked<br />

being part of the Walk of <strong>Star</strong>s,<br />

the pair said “because our star<br />

can buy presents for kids who<br />

don’t have any.”<br />

Cayden, 4, and Mitchell, 6, also<br />

had their names on the walk.<br />

When asked the same question,<br />

they said “because the mission<br />

are Santa’s<br />

special helpers.”<br />

Over the<br />

Christmas<br />

period, the<br />

mission will<br />

see an increase<br />

in demand for<br />

support across<br />

every one of its<br />

services.<br />

<strong>The</strong> foodbank<br />

serves as a<br />

prime example<br />

of the need experienced across<br />

the organisation. <strong>The</strong> number<br />

of people using the foodbank<br />

enters triple figures at this time of<br />

year and help is needed to ensure<br />

everyone can have a happy<br />

Christmas.<br />

•To be part of the Walk<br />

of <strong>Star</strong>s and help others<br />

over Christmas, get your<br />

star now by visiting<br />

www.citymission.org.nz.


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News<br />

• By Georgia O’Connor-<br />

Harding<br />

A CHOIR formed to bring joy<br />

to the city post-earthquakes has<br />

been scouted to perform at one<br />

of the most iconic music venues<br />

in the world.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Christchurch Pops Choir<br />

has been asked to perform at<br />

Carnegie Hall in New York City<br />

next year as<br />

part of the<br />

Distinguished<br />

Concert<br />

International<br />

New York<br />

March 2019<br />

season.<br />

Forty singers<br />

from the<br />

Deke Sharon<br />

choir will be<br />

singing at<br />

Total Vocal with Deke Sharon a<br />

concert which features singers<br />

from all over the world and celebrates<br />

contemporary a cappella.<br />

It will be led by American<br />

singer and arranger Deke Sharon<br />

and features celebrity guests to<br />

be later announced from the film<br />

Pitch Perfect and a cappella television<br />

programme <strong>The</strong> Sing-Off.<br />

Artistic director Matt<br />

Everingham said it is such<br />

a thrill for the choir to be<br />

representing the city and New<br />

Zealand in choral music in a new<br />

and exciting way.<br />

<strong>The</strong> choir will do a 10-day tour<br />

– first stopping at Washington,<br />

DC to perform at the<br />

George Washington Masonic<br />

National Memorial venue with<br />

champion barbershop chorus Alexandria<br />

Harmonizers and pop<br />

chorus <strong>The</strong> Alexandria Singers. ​<br />

It will then travel to New York<br />

for the concert at Carnegie Hall<br />

on March 24.<br />

While overseas, it has prepared<br />

a repertoire of New Zealand<br />

songs to perform including<br />

traditional Maori waiata, Dave<br />

Dobbyn, Lorde and Crowded<br />

House arrangements.<br />

<strong>The</strong> choir<br />

was scouted<br />

online by<br />

concert production<br />

company<br />

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Concert<br />

International<br />

Matt<br />

Everingham<br />

New York.<br />

“It was<br />

amazing they<br />

just approached us which was a<br />

real honour really,” Everingham<br />

said.<br />

Located in the heart of<br />

Manhattan, Carnegie Hall is one<br />

of the most prestigious concert<br />

venues in the world for classical<br />

and modern music.<br />

It first opened its doors<br />

in 1891 with a concert<br />

featuring Russian composer<br />

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.<br />

Some of the world’s most wellknown<br />

artists have performed<br />

at the hall including <strong>The</strong> Beatles,<br />

Billie Holiday, Judy Garland and<br />

Bob Dylan and <strong>The</strong> Band.<br />

<strong>The</strong> pops choir was formed<br />

in 2011 by Luke Di Somma and<br />

performs a wide range of genres<br />

including pop, rock, jazz and<br />

musical theatre.<br />

Local<br />

News<br />

Now<br />

‘Quake’ choir poised to shake up New York<br />

POWERFUL: <strong>The</strong> Christchurch Pops Choir, led by artistic<br />

director Matt Everingham, performing at the Crusaders<br />

match against the French Barbarians earlier this year.<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

PRESTIGIOUS: <strong>The</strong> choir will perform<br />

at New York’s iconic Carnegie Hall.<br />

It has performed at a<br />

Crusaders match and last year<br />

travelled to China to sing at<br />

the 21st Century Maritime Silk<br />

Road Choir Festival. <strong>The</strong> choir is<br />

also rebranding its name to <strong>The</strong><br />

Vocal Collective to head towards<br />

a more modern approach<br />

to singing and attract wider<br />

audiences.<br />

Everingham said the trip<br />

to New York will encourage<br />

the choir to raise the stakes<br />

and perform music at a higher<br />

standard.<br />

•To help the choir get to<br />

New York, go to https://<br />

givealittle.co.nz/cause/ourstory#<br />

Lucky petrel released at Godley Head<br />

• By Matt Salmons<br />

A NORTHERN giant petrel<br />

rescued on Sumner Beach last<br />

week was released at Godley<br />

Head on Sunday.<br />

<strong>The</strong> aggressive scavengers,<br />

also known<br />

as stinkpots,<br />

pāngurunguru<br />

or sea vultures,<br />

spend most of<br />

their lives at sea.<br />

Normally they<br />

come ashore at<br />

Annabel<br />

Black<br />

the Auckland,<br />

Campbell,<br />

Antipodes<br />

and Chatham<br />

islands to breed.<br />

Sumner’s Annabel Black, who<br />

found the “beautiful bird”, said<br />

it was great to hear it had been<br />

PHOTO: ANNABEL BLACK<br />

released.<br />

“First of all, it’s cool it wasn’t<br />

hurt by another animal and that<br />

it’s been released.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> petrel refused to leave<br />

during an earlier attempt to<br />

release it on October 31.<br />

South Island Wildlife Hospital<br />

volunteer Karen Talbot said she<br />

and a vet had tried to release the<br />

bird above Lyttelton Harbour.<br />

“We went to let it go . . . he<br />

ran down the hill and then just<br />

sat.”<br />

Ms Talbot said the vet then<br />

had to climb down and retrieve<br />

the 5kg bird.<br />

Wildlife hospital volunteers<br />

spent the next four days feeding<br />

fish to the bird and allowing it<br />

rest as it had suspected minor<br />

bruising on its leg.<br />

Ms Talbot said high winds<br />

may have blown the young bird<br />

off course, causing it to crash<br />

land in Sumner.<br />

In spite of the wind on Sunday,<br />

she said the release was a success.<br />

“He just sat and smelt the wind.<br />

But when we came back he was<br />

gone.”<br />

Ms Black said she was walking<br />

with a friend when they spotted<br />

the bird near the Sumner Surf<br />

Life Saving Club.<br />

“It looked like it had a sore<br />

leg. I actually thought it was an<br />

albatross at first . . . it was so big.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> two women got a barrier<br />

from a nearby construction site<br />

to shield the distressed bird from<br />

dogs and other predators.<br />

RESCUED: This northern<br />

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Sumner Beach last week<br />

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Lilian’s one of life’s true champs<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Parklands teenager Lilian Exton is one of about 30 people<br />

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would grow 1cm every month,<br />

twice as fast as her peers.<br />

Now between 186-190cm tall<br />

(her actual height is unknown<br />

due to difficulty measuring her),<br />

Lilian has been recognised at<br />

the Zonta Sports Awards for the<br />

most outstanding achievement<br />

by a young sportswoman with a<br />

disability. She competes at paraevents<br />

all over New Zealand in<br />

boccia and athletics. Boccia is an<br />

adaptive sport for para-athletes,<br />

similar to pentaque and bowls.<br />

Earlier this year, Lilian won the<br />

Canterbury secondary schools<br />

boccia championships and South<br />

Island boccia championships.<br />

Previously she was named<br />

‘emerging talent of the year’ at<br />

the Parafed Canterbury 50th<br />

Anniversary Sports Awards. She<br />

was also named most improved<br />

player of the year at the New<br />

Zealand boccia nationals and<br />

top female athlete at the Halberg<br />

Junior Disability Games last year.<br />

Lilian won both the discus<br />

and shotput at the Canterbury<br />

secondary schools competition<br />

and took out the discus at the<br />

South Island competition earlier<br />

this year.<br />

It was when Lilian was about<br />

four-years-old that her parents<br />

noticed some unusual signs.<br />

Said Lilian’s mother Wendy<br />

Exton: “It was a bit of a<br />

rollercoaster ride really. Every<br />

child hits their milestones at<br />

different ages, but there were<br />

just some things with Lilian that<br />

were different to her sister – her<br />

movements were quite different.”<br />

It took several visits to doctors<br />

and specialists to understand<br />

Lilian’s rare condition. <strong>The</strong> family<br />

is not aware of anyone else in<br />

New Zealand with the disorder.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> doctors are along the<br />

journey with us, they are learning<br />

from Lilian . . . really we just<br />

have to take each day as it comes.<br />

Lilian has got very good at<br />

adapting things for herself,” said<br />

Mrs Exton.<br />

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her a Zonta<br />

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Award.<br />

When Lilian was in year 4, she<br />

started using a wheelchair as the<br />

arthritic-like pain in her bones<br />

became too uncomfortable. Now<br />

she uses a power wheelchair,<br />

and in 2013 with help from <strong>The</strong><br />

<strong>Star</strong>, almost $30,000 was raised<br />

for Lilian’s family so they could<br />

purchase a van to transport<br />

the chair. With this came great<br />

freedom, said Mrs Exton.<br />

Lilian has a busy social life,<br />

goes to parties and has a closeknit<br />

group of friends. “Where she<br />

goes, her chair can go,” said Mrs<br />

Exton.<br />

She has just completed year 13<br />

at Avonside Girls’ High School<br />

and has plans to work with<br />

children with disabilities.<br />

On Tuesday night at the<br />

school’s prize-giving, Lilian was<br />

awarded three prizes, one being<br />

the <strong>The</strong> Joan Conder Memorial<br />

Cup, which is given to a student<br />

who epitomises the school’s<br />

values.<br />

In the future, Lilian hopes to<br />

compete at boccia tournaments<br />

in Australia, as well as travel to<br />

other countries.<br />

Throughout her life, Lilian has<br />

experienced people being unkind<br />

because of her disability. “I get<br />

a lot of stares, people pointing,<br />

laughing or whispering. People<br />

come up and ask personal<br />

questions,” she said.<br />

With help from her friends<br />

and family, Lilian has learned<br />

to brush off other people’s<br />

behaviour. “No one is normal,<br />

some just stick out more than<br />

others,” she said.<br />

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Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Philip & Glenys Kennard<br />

Dairy, properties to winning the<br />

Husband and wife<br />

horse ownership<br />

combo Philip and<br />

Glenys Kennard are<br />

going for their third<br />

straight New Zealand<br />

Trotting Cup title at<br />

Addington next week.<br />

Sports reporter Gordon<br />

Findlater caught up<br />

with the couple whose<br />

first exploration into<br />

ownership was in a<br />

syndicate of 10 in 1987<br />

with Idle Bromac<br />

Have you always had an<br />

interest in racing?<br />

(Philip) – Yes, my family went<br />

to the races a lot when we were<br />

kids, you used to queue up for<br />

the old Stevies pies. <strong>The</strong>re were<br />

big crowds at the night trots. We<br />

used to live in a 100 sq m home<br />

in Shirley and on Cup Day we<br />

could have anywhere from 13<br />

to 18 people staying there for<br />

the week. Mum and dad would<br />

turn on a meal for the uncles,<br />

aunties and friends. By Saturday<br />

after the gallops, the week would<br />

be done and everyone would<br />

pack up and leave on Sunday. It<br />

was always a lot of fun and that<br />

probably got me into it.<br />

What does being in<br />

ownership add to racing?<br />

(Philip) – I can remember the<br />

first time our family ever had<br />

a horse racing on Cup Day, the<br />

energy levels went up in our<br />

house tenfold . . . just to be there<br />

and in the race is amazing. We<br />

ran a lot of thirds and seconds<br />

for several years. We got nutted<br />

right on the line a couple of<br />

times. You go through this<br />

apprenticeship of emotions, but<br />

then we’ve been lucky the last<br />

few years to win Sires Stakes and<br />

New Zealand Cups in the same<br />

day.<br />

When you first got into<br />

ownership did you ever think<br />

you’d get a group one win let<br />

alone a New Zealand Cup?<br />

SILVERWARE: Philip and Glenys Kennard hold aloft the Inter Dominion and Breeders Crown trophies.<br />

(Glenys) –Oh no, just to<br />

get a win at the races in a<br />

lowish maiden race was pretty<br />

phenomenal. Even now when we<br />

have a maiden win we get just<br />

about as excited about that as<br />

some of the big wins. It depends<br />

who your syndicate members are<br />

and your involvement and the<br />

story behind the horse. <strong>The</strong>y all<br />

have their own special reasons<br />

for what it means to you.<br />

Is this time of the year like<br />

Christmas for you guys?<br />

(Glenys) – Well, Philip calls it<br />

his Christmas because he’s like<br />

the Christmas Grinch.<br />

(Philip) – I count down the<br />

sleeps to Cup Day from 100. I’ll<br />

often get out my diary at the<br />

start of the year and count back<br />

to mark it up. I’m looking at<br />

races and think about where the<br />

horses are going and how tight<br />

time is getting for some that<br />

have had little niggles and<br />

issues, because they’re like<br />

athletes.<br />

Do you have favourites?<br />

(Glenys) – Yes, you do. Smolda<br />

particularly just because what he<br />

went through. He got to a couple<br />

of weeks out from the cup and<br />

we had to scratch him because he<br />

had an allergy. He used to suffer<br />

from hay fever.<br />

(Philip) – Yes, even though<br />

he ran a really good second in<br />

the cup he was never at his best<br />

then because the pollen in the air<br />

at this time of the year affected<br />

his breathing. When he went<br />

to Australia he was a totally<br />

different horse, it’s like he grew<br />

another leg.<br />

(Glenys) – Lazarus was another<br />

because of his nature. You could<br />

have him in the backyard and<br />

he’d be good as. His friendly<br />

nature was incredible.<br />

What was the sale of Lazarus<br />

like for you?<br />

(Philip) – Pretty gutting but<br />

that’s the reality of syndication.<br />

(Glenys) – It was a very, very<br />

tough time. It’s still a raw thing<br />

for us . . . it was tough for both of<br />

us because we were the reluctant<br />

parties in the process to sell him.<br />

But, if you look at potentially<br />

what he can do and what he’s<br />

already done for harness racing<br />

in New Zealand with the North<br />

American interest, it’s showing<br />

we’re making a mark. We’ve<br />

been saying for years, our breeds<br />

are not that far behind the North<br />

American’s. It’s proven we’re<br />

actually on an equal.<br />

What would you liked to have<br />

seen happen?<br />

(Glenys) – We wanted him to<br />

do that third New Zealand Cup,<br />

not because Terror to Love had<br />

done it but more the fact that he<br />

raced so much in Australia the<br />

public of New Zealand didn’t<br />

really get to have that time with<br />

him. I just thought the timing<br />

would be to do the New Zealand<br />

Cup, maybe go through to the<br />

Miracle Mile, just pick and<br />

choose a couple of key races<br />

before going to America.<br />

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Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

New Zealand Cup<br />

How would you describe your<br />

relationship with other owners?<br />

(Philip) – It’s a great game with<br />

comradeship and friendship.<br />

We stand in the grandstand at<br />

Addington on a big race day and<br />

you’ve got other people you know<br />

really well who you’re racing<br />

against, but we’re sitting up there<br />

and can have nothing to do with<br />

the outcome. If they win we<br />

congratulate them and if we win<br />

we hope they’re as pleased for us<br />

as we would be for them. That’s<br />

the way racing is. It’s like going<br />

out on a rugby paddock and you<br />

watch these guys have a scrap<br />

and the whistle blows and they all<br />

shake hands.<br />

Can you describe the feeling<br />

of winning the New Zealand<br />

Cup?<br />

(Philip) – Absolute euphoria<br />

. . . you just don’t think two<br />

people from very simple working<br />

class backgrounds can actually<br />

achieve that. You think it’s for<br />

other people to do. I said it in the<br />

speech during the first win that<br />

I’ve spent probably 40 to 45 years<br />

looking from the grandstand<br />

to people accepting the trotting<br />

cup, and then to stand there and<br />

look back towards the stand and<br />

accept the cup was amazing.<br />

What interests do you have<br />

outside of racing?<br />

(Philip) – Kids and grandkids.<br />

We’ve got three girls – one in<br />

Brisbane, one in Melbourne and<br />

one in Christchurch. We love our<br />

camping. We have a caravan in<br />

the Mackenzie Country that we<br />

try to get to at least every second<br />

or third week from now on.<br />

What about work?<br />

(Glenys) –My work now<br />

is running the horse racing<br />

syndicates. Philip still does a bit<br />

of developing.<br />

(Philip) – I had a real estate<br />

company for 35 years and sold<br />

out of that five years ago.<br />

(Glenys) – He says he’s retired<br />

but I say semi-retired because he’s<br />

not really.<br />

Did you work in real estate as<br />

well?<br />

(Glenys) – No, I was lucky<br />

BIG WIN: Glenys and Philip Kennard celebrate with Lazarus<br />

trainer and driver Mark Purdon following last year’s NZ<br />

Trotting Cup win.<br />

enough to be a stay at home<br />

mum. Before that time I used to<br />

work at <strong>The</strong> Press, just typing a<br />

bit of news. I first started at the<br />

Oamaru Mail before moving to<br />

Christchurch. <strong>The</strong>n I left to have<br />

our family, but you get involved<br />

with what your kids are doing<br />

so I was heavily involved with<br />

the Wharenui Swim Club. I used<br />

to organise the travel for all the<br />

swimmers for about nine years.<br />

Did you do anything before<br />

real estate Philip?<br />

(Philip) – I did four years as a<br />

farm cadet and then I worked on<br />

a farm in Oamaru. I sort of knew<br />

Glenys a little bit there through<br />

a friend and then we ended up<br />

going out. I wanted to own a<br />

dairy farm, well I still want to<br />

own one, that’s the only thing on<br />

my bucket list I probably haven’t<br />

ticked from a business point of<br />

view but Glenys isn’t too keen on<br />

the gumboots . . . we came back<br />

to Christchurch and bought a<br />

seven-day dairy when I was 20<br />

and Glenys was probably 18.<br />

(Glenys) – Yes, I worked during<br />

the day at <strong>The</strong> Press at night in<br />

the dairy.<br />

Where was the dairy?<br />

(Philip) – Near where I had<br />

the real estate company on the<br />

corner of Hoon Hay and Lincoln<br />

Rd, where Bill’s Bar is . . . we had<br />

little money so we had to buy<br />

something that was run down<br />

to get into it. One day by chance<br />

I listened to somebody talking<br />

to someone else about shifting<br />

yellow lines when I was in at<br />

the city council and I thought<br />

gee, I’m sure I had the shop near<br />

that quoted to me. I thought if<br />

they’re taking those yellow lines<br />

away that will make a massive<br />

difference. So, we went back and<br />

checked it out. It was disgusting,<br />

the filth was unbelievable . . .<br />

because of the amount of grease<br />

in the carpet. It came up like new<br />

when we had it cleaned.<br />

How long where you there?<br />

(Philip) – It was trading about<br />

$1200 a week and we sold it<br />

20 months later doing nearly<br />

$20,000 a week . . . I wanted to<br />

get into real estate then but I<br />

was too young so I looked after a<br />

couple of other dairies. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

a guy I had applied to work<br />

with gave me a ring and said<br />

someone they had taken on<br />

hadn’t worked out and asked if<br />

I wanted to give it a shot. I said<br />

too right I would. It went from<br />

there and eventually worked up a<br />

pretty nice business.<br />

HONOUR: <strong>The</strong> great-grandchildren of war hero Leslie<br />

Averill, Sam and Rosie Averill. PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />

Marking 100 years<br />

since WW1 ended<br />

AT THE 11th hour on the<br />

11th day of the 11th month<br />

this year, we pause in silence<br />

to remember the centenary<br />

of the Armistice – the end of<br />

World War I.<br />

It was not to be the war to<br />

end all wars as it was hoped to<br />

be after a bloody four years that<br />

stole the lives of so many of our<br />

young men who served in far<br />

off lands, many of whom are<br />

still buried there.<br />

About 100,000 served<br />

overseas, more than 18,000<br />

died and about 41,000 were<br />

injured. It is hard to imagine<br />

what this would mean in<br />

today’s terms.<br />

Over the weekend, we<br />

planted a tree and unveiled<br />

a plaque to commemorate<br />

the 100th anniversary of the<br />

liberation of Le Quesnoy<br />

in France at our Park of<br />

Remembrance.<br />

We heard the great<br />

grandchildren of 2nd<br />

Lieutenant Leslie Averill,<br />

who led the New Zealand<br />

Mayor<br />

Lianne Dalziel<br />

battalion over the ramparts to<br />

avoid civilian lives being lost,<br />

speak with pride about their<br />

association with this part of<br />

our shared history with France.<br />

Someone reminded me that<br />

the men who served weren’t<br />

much older than them. And<br />

that’s when I was struck with<br />

the enormity of the sacrifice.<br />

That their liberators had<br />

come from the other side of<br />

the world was a sacrifice that<br />

has never been forgotten in Le<br />

Quesnoy.<br />

We also remembered Sergeant<br />

Henry James Nicholas,<br />

VC, whose statue stands in the<br />

Park of Remembrance.<br />

He was killed in action on<br />

the October 23, 1918, only a few<br />

kilometres from Le Quesnoy,<br />

and less than a month before<br />

the war ended. Sergeant<br />

Nicholas was accorded the<br />

highest honour, the Victoria<br />

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Historical significance for small community<br />

Wayne Stack writes<br />

about a small part<br />

of Canterbury and<br />

its World War 1<br />

involvement<br />

THE COMMEMORATION of<br />

the centenary of Armistice Day<br />

to be held at the new Lakeside<br />

Soldiers’ Memorial Hall on<br />

Sunday has a greater historical<br />

significance for the Selwyn<br />

District than most people realise.<br />

Traditionally in New Zealand<br />

and Australia, Anzac Day has<br />

provided the main focus for<br />

remembrance of sacrifice in war,<br />

with Armistice Day receiving<br />

only limited attention.<br />

However, the building of the<br />

new memorial hall in the centennial<br />

year of the end of World<br />

War 1 is proof of the continued<br />

commitment of the people of<br />

the district in remembering the<br />

sacrifice of the citizen-soldiers<br />

and nurses who went to war to<br />

defend the nation’s interests.<br />

<strong>The</strong> building of a new hall at<br />

Lakeside to replace the old hall<br />

that had been demolished after<br />

suffering significant damage<br />

from the September 4, 2010,<br />

earthquake was contentious.<br />

Some questioned the rationale<br />

of building a new hall in an<br />

area of low population density<br />

when it would be better suited in<br />

Leeston.<br />

However, the heritage significance<br />

of the old hall was<br />

recognised by the district council’s<br />

decision to build a modern<br />

replacement to preserve its commemorative<br />

function.<br />

What made the original hall<br />

so significant was that it was<br />

one of the first, if not the first,<br />

Great War memorials built in<br />

Canterbury.<br />

It had a dual function of not<br />

only being a memorial to those<br />

from the district who served<br />

overseas during World War<br />

1, but also served a practical<br />

purpose in providing a muchneeded<br />

community meeting<br />

place.<br />

According to a report marking<br />

COMMUNITY: <strong>The</strong> original Lakeside Soldiers’ Memorial Hall.<br />

the opening of the memorial<br />

hall published in the Ellesmere<br />

Guardian on August 4, 1917, the<br />

residents of Lakeside had begun<br />

raising funds for a community<br />

hall in 1914, but it was agreed<br />

to put the project on hold at the<br />

outbreak of war later that year.<br />

<strong>The</strong> war went on longer than<br />

expected and the need for a<br />

hall became acute due to the<br />

increased number of community<br />

functions held to support the<br />

war effort.<br />

Raising sufficient funds to<br />

build the hall had been an<br />

obstacle in the past, but like the<br />

funding for the new hall in <strong>2018</strong>,<br />

the project was realised through<br />

community collaboration.<br />

In 1916 ‘a generous and wellknown<br />

local lady,’ who remained<br />

anonymous, had offered to fund<br />

free of interest the amount of<br />

money required over and above<br />

the amount subscribed by residents.<br />

And it was at her suggestion<br />

that a brick building be put up<br />

and dedicated to the memory<br />

of the Lakeside soldiers serving<br />

overseas in the war.<br />

By this time the New Zealand<br />

Expeditionary Force had suffered<br />

heavy casualties fighting at<br />

Gallipoli, on the Western Front,<br />

and in Egypt and Palestine; with<br />

a number of volunteers from<br />

Lakeside among them.<br />

<strong>The</strong> building of the original<br />

hall also came about through<br />

further generosity of John<br />

McLachlan, a local farmer who<br />

had donated land for the hall<br />

to be built on adjacent to Hart’s<br />

Creek near Creamery Corner.<br />

Many residents were also<br />

actively involved in the project<br />

by providing free cartage of<br />

building materials and providing<br />

furnishings, while a Mr K. Patterson<br />

presented a large wooden<br />

roll of honour which hung in the<br />

hall.<br />

<strong>The</strong> new hall was reported as<br />

having ‘an attractive front elevation,<br />

two large folding entrance<br />

doors, with a neat window either<br />

side’ with the words Soldiers Memorial<br />

Hall appearing in large<br />

letters above the entrance.<br />

It was officially opened by the<br />

MP for Ellesmere, Colonel Heaton<br />

Rhodes, on August 3, 1917.<br />

This was a very critical time<br />

for New Zealand during World<br />

War 1.<br />

<strong>The</strong> NZ Division had suffered<br />

several thousand casualties on<br />

the Western Front in gaining<br />

success in the battle of Messines<br />

in June that year, which was followed<br />

by the disaster at<br />

Passchendaele on October 12,<br />

where the division lost 2861<br />

casualties (including 957 killed<br />

in action) in a single day.<br />

Such loss of life in a military<br />

event remains unprecedented<br />

in New Zealand history and the<br />

HONOURED: Lance Corporal Hersey Rapley (left), of<br />

Leeston, was killed in the battle of Messines while serving<br />

in the Canterbury Infantry Regiment. (Right) –Trooper<br />

Gilbert ‘Bertie’ McGill of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles,<br />

taken before transferring to the Canterbury Infantry<br />

Regiment. He died of wounds while serving on the Western<br />

Front in France.<br />

thought of not returning home<br />

weighed heavily on those local<br />

young men who travelled to<br />

Europe and the Middle East as<br />

reinforcements.<br />

An example is that of Trooper<br />

Clement McLachlan of the Canterbury<br />

Mounted Rifles who later<br />

transferred into the NZ Rifle<br />

Brigade, serving on the Western<br />

Front.<br />

After receiving a letter from<br />

his sister, Margaretta Lochhead,<br />

giving him an update on the<br />

progress of the building of the<br />

hall, he replied in a letter home<br />

expressing his hope that there<br />

would not be too many names<br />

on the roll of honour.<br />

Sadly, he was one of those who<br />

did not return, dying of wounds<br />

in France in April 1918.<br />

<strong>The</strong> McLachlan family connection<br />

with the hall remains with<br />

Clement’s great-great nephew,<br />

Hamish McLachlan, being the<br />

project architect of the new memorial<br />

hall, while working for Architecture<br />

Workshop in Wellington.<br />

Other local family connections<br />

to those named on the roll of<br />

honour are still prevalent in the<br />

district, such as the Lambies,<br />

Taiaroas, Thians and Pattersons.<br />

When opening the original<br />

hall, Rhodes commented that<br />

Lakeside was a rich fertile<br />

district, that he was confident<br />

the population would greatly increase<br />

in the future and that the<br />

Creamery Corner would some<br />

day become an important and<br />

busy centre.<br />

While this did not come to<br />

fruition, his prediction that<br />

the hall would prove very useful<br />

to the district in many ways,<br />

while also being a permanent<br />

memorial to those from Lakeside<br />

who served in the war, certainly<br />

did.<br />

<strong>The</strong> original Soldiers Memorial<br />

Hall became the heart of the<br />

Lakeside community, providing<br />

a sense of connection to the<br />

place.<br />

Apart from being a venue for<br />

annual Anzac Day services, for<br />

93 years the hall catered for lifeevent<br />

markers that are central to<br />

small communities – weddings,<br />

funerals, significant birthday<br />

parties, elections, sporting and<br />

cultural group meetings.<br />

<strong>The</strong> new modern facility will<br />

continue to fulfil these functions<br />

for the years ahead.<br />

Following the Armistice Day<br />

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City’s brightest young sparks<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Four Christchurch high<br />

school students are<br />

among the best young<br />

inventors in the country.<br />

Sophie Cornish reports<br />

on their success at<br />

the ASB Bright Sparks<br />

Awards<br />

Thomas James saw that<br />

his elderly neighbour was in a<br />

predicament. <strong>The</strong> 89-year-old<br />

was told by her doctor that tasks<br />

such as taking her wheelie bin<br />

out to the curb were putting her<br />

at risk of falling.<br />

Luckily, her entrepreneurial<br />

neighbour Thomas had an<br />

idea. <strong>The</strong> 15-year-old from<br />

Burnside High School was the<br />

male recipient of the Supreme<br />

Innovator title for his invention,<br />

Wheelie Drive. <strong>The</strong> autonomous<br />

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bin for you.<br />

“It solves a problem, not just<br />

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He also considered his<br />

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of the idea, as they have a bach<br />

on the Coromandel. “It also<br />

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becomes obvious that the people<br />

are away . . . they will now be able<br />

to leave and not worry about the<br />

bin staying out the whole time.”<br />

Thomas said the “brains of<br />

the robot” are controlled by<br />

an Arduino Mega, a micro<br />

controller that connects to<br />

ASB Bright Sparks Awards<br />

•<strong>The</strong> long-running<br />

national competition<br />

for young inventors is<br />

in its 20th year and<br />

aims to showcase<br />

emerging creative and<br />

TALENTED: Thomas James (left) won an ASB Bright Sparks Award for his Wheelie Drive invention, while Bastein Gelin<br />

won an award for his Smart Heat Distributor.<br />

the wheelie bin, mimicking a<br />

human. It pulls the bin out and<br />

takes it to the curb using a preprogrammed<br />

route.<br />

Thomas took home a $1000<br />

cash prize for the project, which<br />

he says he will use to refine the<br />

robot. “It’s not polished enough,<br />

it’s still a prototype at this stage.”<br />

It was the middle of winter and<br />

Bastein Gelin and his family<br />

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in their home only heated the<br />

room it was in.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Cashmere High School<br />

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and control its distribution.<br />

His invention, the Smart Heat<br />

Distributor, won him the home<br />

technologies award category.<br />

Bastien installed sensors all<br />

over his house and created a<br />

server that can do the heating<br />

entrepreneurial talent<br />

in electronic and digital<br />

technologies.<br />

•Out of 22 finalists across<br />

New Zealand, five were<br />

from Canterbury.<br />

calculations based on the heating<br />

needs of each room. It can extract<br />

the heat from one room using a<br />

fan and distribute it to different<br />

rooms around the house based<br />

on the current temperatures and<br />

how hot the user wants the room<br />

to be.<br />

Bastien’s project, which<br />

he believes could be created<br />

at a reasonable cost and be<br />

user-friendly, uses an online<br />

application to display sensor<br />

readings on a plan in a house. On<br />

the plan, the user can view and<br />

modify the settings of each room.<br />

Eric Song believes his<br />

invention can solve all your<br />

courier woes. <strong>The</strong> Burnside High<br />

School student won first place in<br />

the Senior Software Engineering<br />

category.<br />

His BlackBox is a smart<br />

delivery box that keeps your post<br />

safe while you are not at home.<br />

<strong>The</strong> courier is able to scan the<br />

delivery item, using the BlackBox<br />

scanner. <strong>The</strong> lock-box will then<br />

search the vendor’s database in<br />

real time or search the tracking<br />

number. Once it has confirmed<br />

that the delivery is right, the box<br />

will open, providing a safe place<br />

for your delivery to be stored.<br />

A delivery message will also<br />

be sent to the buyers phone.<br />

<strong>The</strong> buyer can then unlock the<br />

box using his phone and scan it<br />

again to provide an electronic<br />

signature.<br />

Eric’s<br />

inspiration<br />

came from<br />

his own issues<br />

with couriers.<br />

He buys online<br />

frequently and<br />

is often not<br />

home when his<br />

Eric Song<br />

packages are<br />

delivered and<br />

usually ends up<br />

having to drive a long distance to<br />

pick up the packages himself.<br />

A passion for music<br />

inspired Hsin Lee to create<br />

ComposerFantasy. <strong>The</strong> invention<br />

won the Burnside High School<br />

student a shared award in the<br />

Best Mobile Application category.<br />

<strong>The</strong> program can combine any<br />

two songs seamlessly. Using his<br />

own music theory algorithm, it<br />

can combine music and automatically<br />

generate a new song.<br />

Hsin believed there should be a<br />

computer program to aid people<br />

in creating songs and that there<br />

must be a potential to simulate<br />

music into a matrix of value and<br />

use a network to combine them.<br />

“Imagine the national anthem<br />

meets a pop<br />

song. Or<br />

Beethoven<br />

performed in<br />

rock? Do we<br />

just directly<br />

mash the<br />

songs? No.<br />

Songs are<br />

composed<br />

using music<br />

theory so their<br />

chords won’t<br />

Hsin Lee<br />

match and not harmonise with<br />

each other,” he said. Hsin has<br />

combined music theory with his<br />

own algorithm to automatically<br />

generate a harmonised song in<br />

a format that is ready to play.<br />

“This is a useful tool for music<br />

composers with their own<br />

melody in mind,” he said.<br />

•Find out more about<br />

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New Zealand at www.<br />

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<strong>The</strong> heat is on – time to grow chilli<br />

• By Henri Ham<br />

CHILLI SEEM to generate a mass<br />

following all over the world.<br />

Did you know right here in<br />

New Zealand, we have our own<br />

chilli-eating competition and hot<br />

sauce festival? Much like coriander,<br />

chilli also really polarises<br />

people. <strong>The</strong>y either love it or<br />

won’t touch it.<br />

When it comes to chilli, I’m<br />

definitely in ‘team heat’ and love a<br />

good chilli in my cooking or even<br />

on its own.<br />

Chilli heat is measured in<br />

Scoville Heat Units. <strong>The</strong> higher<br />

the rating the hotter the chilli.<br />

Trained testers dissolve dried<br />

chilli in alcohol and sugar water<br />

to measure its pungency. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

then sample the mixture and<br />

dilute it until they can’t detect any<br />

more heat.<br />

Now I love chilli, but I’m not<br />

sure if I’d like this job.<br />

<strong>The</strong> current champion to the<br />

‘world’s hottest chilli’ goes to the<br />

carolina reaper. It has a little grim<br />

reaper-shaped tail and clocks in at<br />

1,600,000 SKU. To give some perspective<br />

– the friendly jalapeno<br />

measures around 5000 SKU.<br />

Eating hot chilli is not for the<br />

faint-hearted. People often find<br />

them to taste initially sweet, with<br />

an after burn that can last up to<br />

one hour in unsuspecting victims.<br />

ADVERTORIAL<br />

And as a general rule, the smaller<br />

the pod the hotter the taste.<br />

Chillies are a spring and summer<br />

plant. <strong>The</strong> first varieties are<br />

ready right now such as jalapeno<br />

and red hot chilli. In <strong>November</strong><br />

you’ll see the habanero red, bhut<br />

jolokia (ghost pepper) and the<br />

jalapeno red flame seedlings become<br />

available. You’ll have to wait<br />

until Christmas time to get your<br />

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Competitions will determine the best<br />

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<strong>The</strong>re will also<br />

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Rose Magic <strong>2018</strong> is open to the<br />

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For further information, visit www.<br />

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hands on a carolina reaper plant.<br />

Here’s are some of the chillies<br />

in order of hottest (starting with<br />

the hottest of the hot) – carolina<br />

reaper, bhut jolokia, habanero<br />

red, red hot pepper, jalapeno red<br />

flame and jalapeno.<br />

Planting wise, chilli are fairly<br />

easy to grow. <strong>The</strong>y like a welldrained,<br />

sheltered and sunny spot<br />

in your garden that is very similar<br />

HOT: <strong>The</strong> capsicum jalapeno<br />

(left) is ready for planting<br />

now. Above – the carolina<br />

reaper is considered the<br />

world’s hottest chilli pepper.<br />

to where you’d plant your tomatoes,<br />

capsicums, basil and parsley.<br />

If you’ve got space near any beefriendly<br />

plants like oregano and<br />

lavender, plant your chillies there<br />

to help with pollination.<br />

Increase the quality of your soil<br />

by adding a good general fertiliser<br />

and come compost. Sheep pallets<br />

are also great to mix in with the<br />

compost, and act as a slow release<br />

fertiliser.<br />

Chilli plants can get quite big,<br />

so plant your seedlings around<br />

30-50cm apart. But they don’t<br />

actually need a lot of space, and<br />

grow well in pots as well. Water<br />

straight after planting, but after<br />

that they only need attending to<br />

every few days. Avoid wetting the<br />

leaves to prevent the spread of any<br />

diseases. And, once your chillies<br />

have developed, you might like to<br />

water them sparingly (depending<br />

on your taste buds) as less watering<br />

will make the fruit hotter.<br />

In around two to three months<br />

from planting, you’ll start to see<br />

some spicy life. First flowers appear<br />

then, after being pollinated,<br />

they turn into fruit.<br />

If you’re unsure whether your<br />

plants have been pollinated<br />

simply dab a small paint brush<br />

in each flower to help spread the<br />

pollen around.<br />

Remember as with many fruit<br />

plants, cut your chillies rather<br />

than pulling them off. This encourages<br />

more fruit to grow. And<br />

what many people don’t realise is<br />

that a whole chilli freezes really<br />

well – lasting up to six months in<br />

the freezer. When you’re ready<br />

to cook with them, use an extra<br />

sharp knife and chop up your<br />

chilli while frozen. With fresh<br />

chilli about $2 each in the supermarket<br />

right now, it sure makes<br />

sense to freeze them.<br />

Chillies are perennial plants<br />

meaning they can last a few<br />

seasons. Once your plant has<br />

finished fruiting, simply prune<br />

back by about a third, and remove<br />

any dead branches. <strong>The</strong>y don’t<br />

cope well with frosts. If you did<br />

plant them in pots, move them to<br />

warmer ground for winter. Either<br />

indoors, or higher to the deck or<br />

under the eaves of your house.<br />

Rose Magic<br />

<strong>2018</strong><br />

National Spring Rose Show and Convention<br />

with the Floral Art Society of NZ<br />

<strong>November</strong> 24th & 25th<br />

Show open<br />

12 noon - 5pm Sat 24th and 10am - 4pm Sun 25th<br />

Woodend Community Centre,<br />

School Rd (off SH 1) Woodend, North Canterbury<br />

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For further information, see www.nzroses.org.nz<br />

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ADVICE<br />

This is my first year growing<br />

QUESTION tomatoes. At some hardware<br />

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looking tomato cages. Would it be worth<br />

investing in some cages or will bamboo<br />

stakes and string be sufficient?<br />

Apart from dwarf<br />

ANSWER tomatoes e.g. Scorsby<br />

dwarf and Russian<br />

red, all tomatoes require support when they<br />

are in active growth. Whatever type of stake<br />

you select, it should be placed adjacent to the<br />

tomato plant either prior to planting or immediately<br />

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Mulch with compost to help retain soil moisture and water plants<br />

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DIABETES AWARENESS<br />

A special event:<br />

“a tribute to all people<br />

with diabetes”<br />

This year the Diabetes<br />

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New Brighton Pier. In a tribute to<br />

all people with diabetes, in support<br />

of the International Diabetes<br />

Federation’s <strong>2018</strong> theme “Diabetes<br />

and <strong>The</strong> Family” to honour,<br />

celebrate, memorialise and support<br />

all people diabetes and pre-diabetes<br />

in the Canterbury region we are<br />

having a “LIGHT UP IN BLUE”<br />

event.<br />

Anyone with diabetes, along with<br />

your family and whanau, friends and<br />

relatives can come along and walk<br />

the pier and then light a coloured<br />

tea-candle in a blue, (or your<br />

favourite colours) that can be placed<br />

in a circular pit at the end of the pier.<br />

10 years ago in 20<strong>08</strong> along with our<br />

past patron Emeritus Professor Sir<br />

Don Beaven the pier was “Lit Up In<br />

Blue”.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se candles can be purchased<br />

for a $1.00, $2.00, $3.00 or $5.00<br />

donation to support and help your<br />

local diabetes society raise funds to<br />

continue to provide information,<br />

support, advocacy and funding of<br />

local diabetes research projects,<br />

Candles will also be available at the<br />

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Canterbury Diabetes<br />

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network of those affected.<br />

• Promote the role of the family in the<br />

management, care, prevention and<br />

education of all forms of diabetes.<br />

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Thursday, <strong>November</strong> 15th and<br />

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Barnaby Bees and Raffles. Over the three<br />

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DIABETES AWARENESS<br />

Diabetes and Arthritis aid<br />

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• Since using the Aircycle the swelling<br />

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to heal and all the pain from my toe has<br />

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tips and they are back to a healthy pink<br />

colour. I am now able to walk much<br />

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• “ Within 2 weeks of using the Aircycle<br />

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6 weeks it was completely healed. My<br />

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the power then economy<br />

was always going to suffer.<br />

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served to prove, the<br />

Commodore is no longer<br />

made in Australia, and<br />

gone are those amazing<br />

engines. Nevertheless, there<br />

is still a petrol-fuelled V6<br />

option in today’s Europeansourced<br />

Commodore,<br />

alongside a turbocharged<br />

2-litre four-cylinder petrol.<br />

I’ve evaluated two variants<br />

of the V6 Commodore in<br />

recent months, but the most<br />

exciting model in today’s<br />

Commodore is a 2-litre fourcylinder<br />

turbocharged diesel<br />

option, and I was fortunate<br />

enough to have the car in<br />

my possession for around<br />

two weeks. However, it must<br />

be said, I just couldn’t get<br />

it to use fuel, after almost<br />

300km the fuel gauge was<br />

still looking healthy at almost<br />

three-quarters full.<br />

As an aside, when Holden<br />

New Zealand launched<br />

the diesel option to the<br />

motoring media, it included<br />

an economy challenge on<br />

roads north of Auckland.<br />

A wrong turn, putting me<br />

into dense traffic, ruined my<br />

chances of a winning result,<br />

but I did end the exercise<br />

with a 4.8-litre per 100km<br />

(58mpg) average, well below<br />

the manufacturer’s claims of<br />

5.6l/100km (50mpg).<br />

That was also reinforced<br />

by the display figures on<br />

my home patch. After a<br />

fortnight of much inner-city<br />

driving and a rural burst, a<br />

6.8l/100km (41mpg) figure<br />

was showing, which was<br />

helped by a 4.4l/100km<br />

(63mpg) instantaneous<br />

readout at 100km/h, the<br />

engine turning over slowly<br />

at just 1500rpm.<br />

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are remarkable, and if you<br />

take into account a 61-litre<br />

tank, distances of around<br />

1000km are possible<br />

between refills.<br />

Not only do you get<br />

wonderful economy out<br />

the 2-litre diesel, you<br />

also get the strong surge<br />

of mid-range power that<br />

epitomises turbocharged<br />

diesel engines. Holden<br />

claim power outputs<br />

of 125kW and 400Nm,<br />

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the latter available all of<br />

the way from 1750rpm<br />

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response to any accelerator<br />

pressure and a burst<br />

through the rev band that is<br />

quite enticing.<br />

Bear in mind, too, that<br />

drive is channelled through<br />

a smooth-shifting eightspeed<br />

automatic gearbox,<br />

the ratios change quickly<br />

and because of the number<br />

of gears, there’s never a point<br />

where the engine is caught<br />

out under-performing,<br />

turbo boost is strong and<br />

• Price – Holden<br />

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• Dimensions – Length,<br />

4897mm; width,<br />

1863mm; height,<br />

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• Configuration<br />

– Four-cylinder,<br />

front-wheel-drive,<br />

1956cc, 125kW,<br />

400Nm, eight-speed<br />

automatic.<br />

• Performance –<br />

0-100km/h, 6.9sec<br />

• Fuel usage –<br />

5.6l/100km<br />

acceleration is vivid.<br />

Holden also claims<br />

a 6.9sec time to reach<br />

100km/h from a standstill,<br />

while by my stopwatch<br />

it will lunge through a<br />

highway overtake in 6sec.<br />

My introduction<br />

regarding performance<br />

and economy has much<br />

relevance, all of these<br />

figures add up to walletfriendly<br />

fuel usage and<br />

lively acceleration. That’s<br />

not something we’ve always<br />

been able to say about<br />

diesel-power, but the new<br />

Commodore has stateof-the-art<br />

engineering<br />

which is on a par with the<br />

competition from other<br />

high-profile German<br />

brands, and European cars<br />

in total.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Commodore also<br />

looks the part, it arrives<br />

here in two variants –<br />

liftback and Tourer.<br />

<strong>The</strong> new Commodore<br />

oozes character and style.<br />

All of those who offered<br />

conversation about the ZB<br />

series have mentioned the<br />

design, it has strong lines,<br />

the shape easily replicating<br />

the best we have seen from<br />

the Aussie Commodores,<br />

and it is a shape that befits<br />

the nameplate.<br />

It also gets all of the trick<br />

gear that we have come to<br />

expect from the Holden<br />

badge; it wants for little and<br />

particularly appeals to me<br />

in LT form with its cloth<br />

trim. Incidentally, the diesel<br />

variant comes in a base grade<br />

only at $48,990, I’m fine<br />

with that, I far prefer cloth.<br />

However, you do get that<br />

choice of liftback or wagon.<br />

For the technicallyminded,<br />

the new<br />

Commodore is effectively<br />

front-wheel-drive. <strong>The</strong><br />

V6 models have allwheel-drive<br />

capability,<br />

but in 2-litre form you<br />

have to keep the mindset<br />

that drive is out the front<br />

only. That’s no handicap,<br />

the Commodore steers<br />

beautifully, and enjoys<br />

a quick corner with<br />

strong body balance. At<br />

just 1.45m tall there is<br />

little body movement<br />

over the suspension, and<br />

with softish spring and<br />

damper rates the ride/<br />

handling balance has little<br />

compromise.<br />

By chance, I got talking<br />

to a police officer the other<br />

day, he was driving a newgeneration<br />

petrol-fuelled<br />

2-litre Commodore, and<br />

he was very enthusiastic<br />

about the new series and its<br />

refinement. While he also<br />

said he misses the outright<br />

power of the old model,<br />

the newcomer is a lot more<br />

civilised and quieter.<br />

Given that the police will<br />

be driving Commodore for<br />

many years to come, that’s a<br />

good outcome and a worthy<br />

endorsement. It certainly has<br />

my seal of approval as well.


<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong> 39<br />

Sport<br />

Veterans back on world cricket stage<br />

Kember,<br />

Nuttall part<br />

of over-50s<br />

World Cup<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

THREE DECADES on from<br />

representing New Zealand at<br />

the inaugural under-19 Cricket<br />

World Cup, Hamish Kember will<br />

play for his country in another<br />

first time World Cup.<br />

Kember, 50, will travel to<br />

Sydney later this month as part<br />

of the New Zealand team to<br />

compete at the inaugural over-<br />

50s Cricket World Cup.<br />

Kember represented New<br />

Zealand at the inaugural<br />

under-19 World Cup in 1988 in<br />

Australia.<br />

In that tournament he played<br />

in the same side as Lee Germon,<br />

who captained the side; Chris<br />

Cairns; and Andrew Caddick,<br />

who played for New Zealand at<br />

age group level before going on<br />

to represent England.<br />

“It will be really awesome. I’m<br />

looking forward to book-ending<br />

my career with highlights in<br />

Australia,” said Kember.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 1988 tournament also<br />

featured the likes of Brian Lara,<br />

Inzamam-ul-Haq and Sanath<br />

Jayasuriya.<br />

With his left-arm orthodox<br />

bowling, Kember has taken<br />

about 500 wickets at premier<br />

level for Burnside West and<br />

more than 700 across all grades.<br />

In the one-day format, he had<br />

an economy rate of 2.3 over<br />

his career and could frustrate<br />

bowlers with his lower-order<br />

batting.<br />

He made his first-class debut<br />

in 1991 for New Zealand<br />

Emerging Players against Sri<br />

Lanka. Kember went on to make<br />

13 appearances for Canterbury<br />

in both list A and first class<br />

formats.<br />

BATTLERS: Hamish Kember and Andrew Nuttall will represent New Zealand at the inaugural over-50 Cricket World Cup. ​<br />

“<strong>The</strong> other left-arm spinner in<br />

the Canterbury side at the time<br />

was a fellow by the name of Mark<br />

Preist so I was often a back-up,”<br />

said Kember.<br />

At the over-50s Cricket World<br />

Cup, New Zealand will play a<br />

round-robin match against the<br />

seven other competing nations –<br />

Australia, England, Pakistan, Sri<br />

Lanka, South Africa, Wales and<br />

Canada.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tournament will then have<br />

semi-finals and a final.<br />

“I’m a wiser cricketer and a<br />

much more confident cricketer<br />

now, but I wouldn’t say I’m a<br />

better cricketer than I was 30<br />

years ago.”<br />

Kember has now been playing<br />

presidents grade for the past nine<br />

years. After being selected in the<br />

New Zealand over-50s team in<br />

April, he has also had to return<br />

to spin bowling after making a<br />

brief change in style.<br />

“We’ve had a few veterans in<br />

the club team that aren’t that<br />

great at catching off my spin<br />

bowling. I got frustrated one day<br />

and decided to take a longer run<br />

up and bowl medium pacers and<br />

I’ve been bowling that since, so<br />

this season I’ve had to go back<br />

to spin to re-focus myself for the<br />

tournament.”<br />

Kember believes one of<br />

the keys to success at the<br />

tournament, which runs<br />

from <strong>November</strong> 20 to December<br />

5, will be preserving bodies<br />

over the high volume of<br />

cricket.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y play up to nine games<br />

over the two weeks.<br />

“We’ve got a physiotherapist<br />

sponsoring us, so she’s got a<br />

team of three to make sure our<br />

bodies come through okay . . . I’d<br />

say they’ll be very well used.”<br />

Kember will be joined by<br />

fellow Canterbury players Brent<br />

Fleming, Craig Gibb and the<br />

oldest player in the New Zealand<br />

side, Andrew Nuttall, 61.<br />

“I’ve probably lost four<br />

kilograms in the past few<br />

months getting ready for this<br />

things,” said Nuttall, who<br />

played 19 first class games for<br />

Canterbury.<br />

“I’ve been doing Pilates and<br />

some yoga to help with the<br />

flexibility.”


40 Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong><br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Sport<br />

Halligan takes over<br />

the reins at his old<br />

club – Chch United<br />

FORMER ALL Whites<br />

midfielder and Christchurch<br />

United legend Danny Halligan<br />

has signed on as the new first<br />

team coach to help his old club<br />

return to the top of Canterbury<br />

football.<br />

Halligan completed five<br />

successful seasons coaching<br />

Ferrymead Bays in the Mainland<br />

Premier League, which featured<br />

a league title last year and the<br />

English Cup in 2016.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 53-time New Zealand<br />

international now re-joins<br />

Christchurch United, the club he<br />

previously made a huge impact<br />

on as a player and coach.<br />

Halligan<br />

initially joined<br />

the star-studded,<br />

all-conquering<br />

Christchurch<br />

United team in<br />

1987 and won<br />

three National<br />

League titles and<br />

two Chatham<br />

Cups before<br />

embarking on<br />

a professional<br />

career with<br />

Brisbane United<br />

in the Australian<br />

League.<br />

He returned<br />

to Christchurch<br />

United in 1993<br />

and unexpectedly<br />

found himself in<br />

his first coaching<br />

role, while still<br />

a key player, at<br />

the tender age of<br />

28 when legendary coach Terry<br />

Conley retired. <strong>The</strong> first two<br />

players he recruited were two<br />

school boys called Ryan Nelsen<br />

and Ben Sigmund.<br />

“I was very happy at Bays<br />

and not looking for a change<br />

at all, so when Christchurch<br />

Keegan makes winning impact on sprintcar division<br />

• By Allan Batt<br />

FOR TWO seasons now,<br />

Christchurch speedway driver<br />

Luke Keegan has in racing<br />

terms had to start all over again,<br />

going from being New<br />

Zealand’s top modified<br />

racer to a rookie in the<br />

sprintcar division.<br />

<strong>The</strong> technology<br />

between the two classes<br />

is like night and day,<br />

with the sprintcars<br />

being significantly<br />

lighter, more powerful<br />

and faster than what<br />

Keegan was used to.<br />

But his win in the<br />

first feature race of the season<br />

at Ruapuna over the weekend<br />

NEW CHALLENGE: Danny<br />

Halligan, who was named<br />

Mainland Football coach<br />

of the year in 2017, has<br />

returned to Christchurch<br />

United.<br />

Luke Keegan<br />

United approached me, I was<br />

initially not that interested,” said<br />

Halligan.<br />

“But once I took a closer<br />

look at the intentions and the<br />

ambitions of the club, I got really<br />

excited by the challenge. And of<br />

course, I’ve also got a soft spot<br />

for Christchurch United with my<br />

history at the club.”<br />

After the club’s glory years<br />

in the 1980s and 1990s,<br />

Christchurch United has been<br />

languishing in the second tier of<br />

Mainland Football, and Halligan<br />

admits his knowledge of the<br />

championship and his squad is<br />

limited.<br />

“I’ve got a lot of<br />

work to do and<br />

it will be a big<br />

challenge, but it is<br />

the challenge that<br />

excites me about<br />

this role.”<br />

Christchurch<br />

United has been<br />

rebuilding over<br />

the past few years<br />

and its academy<br />

programme<br />

has delivered<br />

great results at<br />

youth level. But<br />

president Slava<br />

Meyn hopes that<br />

Halligan will be<br />

the missing piece<br />

in the puzzle to<br />

take the first team<br />

back to the MPL.<br />

“We feel<br />

honoured that<br />

Danny Halligan<br />

has agreed to help his old club get<br />

back to where we belong. Getting<br />

a coach with his experience and<br />

pedigree shows that Christchurch<br />

United is serious about its<br />

ambitions to again be the leading<br />

football brand in the region,” said<br />

Meyn.<br />

points to him having turned the<br />

corner.<br />

<strong>The</strong> three-time national<br />

modified champion has<br />

patiently worked his way<br />

through any frustrations that he<br />

had in adapting to the<br />

sprintcars and, while<br />

he has consistently<br />

been in the top five,<br />

the feature win has<br />

given his team huge<br />

confidence.<br />

On Saturday<br />

night, he will go into<br />

Ruapuna’s meeting<br />

– which will feature<br />

the first round of the<br />

$100,000 Hydraulink<br />

War of the Wings series – as<br />

a red hot favourite due to his<br />

CHAMPS: Hawkins Trophy winners Lincoln University will start next year under a new<br />

coaching duo.<br />

New coaches for Lincoln Uni<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

NEW HEAD coach Alex<br />

Robertson and assistant Craig<br />

Dunlea will look to guide<br />

Lincoln University to a fifth<br />

straight metro rugby title next<br />

year.<br />

<strong>The</strong> pair come to Lincoln<br />

with some country rugby<br />

flavour, both having been<br />

involved in Canterbury<br />

Country’s rugby programme in<br />

recent years.<br />

Robertson and<br />

Dunlea take over from<br />

Bevan Sissons and<br />

Ben Blair who guided<br />

the side to victory this<br />

year.<br />

“Ben and Bevan<br />

didn’t want to<br />

continue. <strong>The</strong>y’ve<br />

served Lincoln very<br />

well over the last few years,”<br />

said Lincoln University sport<br />

scholarship manager Peter<br />

Magson.<br />

Sissons has taken up a<br />

coaching role with Burnside,<br />

domination of the 20-lap race on<br />

a wind blown track. He is keen<br />

to improve on his third place in<br />

last season’s series.<br />

Twenty-four sprintcars are<br />

expected to face the starter<br />

on Saturday, including entries<br />

from Cromwell, Invercargill,<br />

Blenheim and Nelson.<br />

Two drivers – Steve Duff and<br />

Daniel Anderson – will face a<br />

huge workload, having both<br />

been involved in spectacular<br />

roll-overs, inflicting considerable<br />

damage to their cars.<br />

Defending series champion<br />

Jamie Duff (Christchurch)<br />

finished third at the weekend’s<br />

feature race, and he will have<br />

noted Keegan’s performance<br />

with considerable interest.<br />

Alex<br />

Robertson<br />

while Blair has done the same at<br />

Marist Albion.<br />

Robertson has spent the<br />

last two years as the co-coach<br />

at Darfield and head coach<br />

of the Ellesmere senior side.<br />

Last year he was also an<br />

assistant coach at Canterbury<br />

Country. He has worked for<br />

the England National Rugby<br />

Union as a coach developer and<br />

community rugby coach while<br />

part of the Harlequins Academy<br />

DPP programme.<br />

“I want to<br />

take my time to<br />

understand why<br />

the club has been<br />

so successful, how<br />

it has gone about<br />

achieving it, and<br />

then set the bar<br />

even higher,” said<br />

Robertson.<br />

“Lincoln University is<br />

a well-respected club in<br />

Canterbury. This new role is<br />

a chance to share my passion<br />

with the players and it’s a<br />

great environment to develop<br />

Craig<br />

Dunlea<br />

the person and help them<br />

to achieve in rugby and in<br />

life,” he said. Dunlea played<br />

professional rugby in New<br />

Zealand and overseas before<br />

becoming involved in coaching<br />

at Mid-Canterbury.<br />

He also coached the New<br />

Zealand Heartland under-19<br />

team for two seasons in the Jock<br />

Hobbs national tournament,<br />

and worked with the<br />

Canterbury Country team.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> bar is already set<br />

very high results-wise,<br />

so there will be a lot of<br />

pressure to keep this<br />

going. But with some<br />

great foundations already<br />

in place, it is important<br />

that we keep the<br />

momentum going and<br />

keep trying to add to that<br />

success in the future,”<br />

said Dunlea.<br />

“I really like the challenge<br />

of developing the players to<br />

become better, which will put<br />

them in contention for higher<br />

achievements.”<br />

POWER: Luke Keegan powering his V8 sprintcar to victory at<br />

Ruapuna on Saturday.<br />

PHOTO: BRIAN HOPPING


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Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong> 41<br />

Concerns over exposure<br />

to wind at Nga Puna Wai<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

CANTERBURY Athletics have<br />

concerns about Nga Puna Wai’s<br />

exposure to wind following<br />

the incompletion of a number<br />

of field events at an athletics<br />

meeting on Saturday.<br />

<strong>The</strong> wind was recorded at<br />

8m per second and caused the<br />

cancellation of the pole vault due<br />

to safety.<br />

While this was caused by<br />

a particularly strong northwesterly<br />

wind, there is an overlying<br />

concern about wind causing<br />

future events to not be able to<br />

recognise records being broken.<br />

For any records to be recognised<br />

at a meeting, the wind<br />

must be under the 2m per<br />

second threshold. At the three<br />

Canterbury Athletics track and<br />

field meetings held at Nga Puna<br />

Wai since its opening, the wind<br />

reading has never been under<br />

the threshold.<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

ST THOMAS of Canterbury<br />

College will make only their<br />

second ever appearance at<br />

the Condor Sevens national<br />

secondary school tournament in<br />

Auckland.<br />

Although St Thomas’ lost<br />

last week’s regional final 0-10<br />

to Timaru Boys’ High School,<br />

it was a win over St Bede’s<br />

College in the semi-final that<br />

booked their spot at the national<br />

tournament with two teams<br />

from Canterbury qualifying.<br />

A crucial 12-7 win over<br />

UC Championship-winners<br />

Christchurch Boys’ High School<br />

in pool play set up the semifinal.<br />

After suffering a defeat to St<br />

Bede’s a week earlier at a warm<br />

up tournament, St Thomas’ rose<br />

to the occasion to win 24-10<br />

after taking an emphatic 19-0<br />

lead after just 3min.<br />

“We were absolutely stoked,<br />

we treated that game like our<br />

grand-final,” said St Thomas’<br />

coach Chris Leader.<br />

St Thomas’ and TBHS will<br />

be joined in Auckland by<br />

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“<strong>The</strong>re’s a two-and-a-half metre<br />

embankment and that’s not<br />

really sufficient to have much<br />

effect on a nor-westerly,” said<br />

Canterbury Athletics committee<br />

member Kerry Lomax.<br />

City council recreation and<br />

sport services manager David<br />

Bailey says the council and<br />

Athletics Canterbury were aware<br />

of weather conditions associated<br />

with the site, including wind<br />

speed data.<br />

This was taken into consideration<br />

by the design team and<br />

and St Margaret’s College,<br />

which have qualified for the girls<br />

tournament.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tournament will feature<br />

more than 100 teams across<br />

great bevvies<br />

GUSTY: Nga<br />

Puna Wai<br />

hosted its<br />

first meeting<br />

last month<br />

but concerns<br />

have been<br />

raised<br />

over wind<br />

affecting<br />

future events.<br />

therefore the athletic embankments<br />

were built to provide<br />

some wind shielding of the<br />

athletics track and field event<br />

activities.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> designs were reviewed<br />

and approved by Athletics<br />

Canterbury’s technical representatives<br />

as part of the design<br />

process,” said Mr Bailey.<br />

Athletics Canterbury will<br />

monitor the situation and<br />

engage with the city council<br />

if further wind protection is<br />

required.<br />

Condor Sevens tournament<br />

beckons for St Thomas<br />

HEAVY-HITTER: New Zealand age group rugby league rep<br />

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It runs from <strong>November</strong> 29 to<br />

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Saturday’s All Blacks test<br />

against Japan was a match that<br />

carried little interest for me.<br />

However, after venturing home<br />

from a long day playing cricket<br />

– yes, that other sport we play<br />

during <strong>November</strong> when the<br />

rugby season is nearing the end<br />

of its 10-month season – I found<br />

myself intrigued enough to cast<br />

an eye over the match.<br />

<strong>The</strong> game threw out few<br />

surprises and provided the<br />

anticipated cringe as at least one<br />

player made their All Blacks debut<br />

(Brett Cameron). I’ve already<br />

written about how the extended<br />

51-man All Blacks squad for the<br />

Japan test diminished the All<br />

Blacks brand, so let’s not harp<br />

on about that again.<br />

By the end of the match that<br />

feeling was only a back-thought<br />

to how blown away I was by<br />

Bridge’s performance, though.<br />

When my flatmate – who is<br />

the first to instigate a trip to the<br />

pub for every All Blacks match –<br />

arrived home near the end of the<br />

match, he threw out a surprised<br />

“Oh, that’s right the All Blacks<br />

are playing,” to which I replied<br />

“it’s worth watching for Bridge<br />

alone, he’s having the match of<br />

his life.”<br />

At the time, it felt like a fair<br />

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In fact, it’s got<br />

me back onto the<br />

subject of why Super<br />

Rugby form seems<br />

to be all but ignored<br />

when the All Blacks team<br />

is named following each season<br />

for the Rugby Championship.<br />

Bridge scored 15 tries this<br />

Super Rugby season and was the<br />

only player from the back-toback<br />

championship Crusaders<br />

side included in Sanzaar’s annual<br />

Super Rugby team of the<br />

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For some context if we were<br />

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However, an eyelid was barely<br />

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called when Steve Hansen<br />

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Championship.<br />

If Bridge has another Super<br />

Rugby campaign next year anything<br />

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How long can we keep ignoring<br />

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week to make the black jersey<br />

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form has been poor but he’s performed<br />

well in the black jersey in<br />

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ph 03 343 4044 or 0274 375 619<br />

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Carpet binding<br />

DI’S CARPET<br />

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cleaning/gardening<br />

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digga hire<br />

gardening<br />

services available<br />

throughout<br />

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• Driveways<br />

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• Site Cleaning<br />

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• Excavators<br />

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Phone Steve on 021 338 247<br />

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OASIS<br />

Senior Citizens Foot Care<br />

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Price $30 Allow 45 mins<br />

Home Visits available by appointment<br />

<strong>The</strong>rapist – Amanda<br />

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HOURS ARE FLEXIBLE<br />

kitchen renovation<br />

Kitchen looking tired?<br />

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• All Joinery & Furniture repair & Spraycoatings<br />

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Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED<br />

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landscaping<br />

Landscape<br />

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call/text 027 245 5100<br />

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RE-ROOFING<br />

need a new roof?<br />

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Memoriam<br />

MEMORIAM<br />

Trevor<br />

McCaughan<br />

12-11-2015<br />

In loving memory.<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

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30 Years<br />

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• Painting & plastering


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Thursday <strong>November</strong> 8 <strong>2018</strong> 47<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Classifieds<br />

Trades & Services<br />

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gmail.com<br />

• No job too big<br />

or small<br />

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PAINTING<br />

OLDER PAINTER<br />

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Contact Jimmy Bell<br />

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PLUMBER<br />

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replacements<br />

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Top quality full<br />

house filtration to<br />

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plumbing and your<br />

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Phone Mike<br />

021 132 8929<br />

30 years + experience<br />

Older house<br />

restorations:<br />

no problem!<br />

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Rates: Reasonable<br />

Paint supplied at<br />

trade price!<br />

NO JOB TOO SMALL<br />

Light industrial also<br />

Roger Brott<br />

Painter & Decorator<br />

021-1966-311<br />

LANDSCAPING<br />

• Paving<br />

• Driveways<br />

• Patios & BBQ Areas<br />

• Retaining Walls<br />

• Fencing & Decking<br />

• Design & Construct<br />

• Free Plans<br />

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experience<br />

338 9349 or<br />

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Trades & Services<br />

electricAl<br />

• Residential, Domestic<br />

and Commercial<br />

• New Housing<br />

• Renovations<br />

• Switchboard upgrades<br />

• LED Lighting upgrades;<br />

Residential, Domestic<br />

and Commercial<br />

• Repairs and Maintenance<br />

• Rewiring<br />

• Emergency Breakdown<br />

and Repairs<br />

• Ventilation Systems<br />

• Competitive Rates<br />

• Free Quotes<br />

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Call: 03 421 5661<br />

Email: elusionelectrical<br />

@ gmail.com<br />

ELECTRICIANS<br />

Professional<br />

Friendly Registered<br />

Tradesmen available<br />

for your Electrical<br />

requirements today.<br />

For immediate<br />

quality service please<br />

contact<br />

services<br />

Ph. 03 322 8454<br />

www.skeltonelectrical.co.nz<br />

ROOF<br />

PAINTING<br />

Rope & harness<br />

a speciality,<br />

no scaffolding<br />

required,<br />

30 years of<br />

breathtaking<br />

experience.<br />

FREE QUOTES<br />

Exterior staining,<br />

exterior painting,<br />

moss and mould<br />

treatment and<br />

waterblasting<br />

Phone Kevin<br />

027 561 4629<br />

A.L.P.S<br />

LAWNMOWING<br />

SERVICE<br />

Free quotes.<br />

Tim 021 1442683<br />

BEST BATHROOMS<br />

full renovations<br />

specialists, LBP builder,<br />

free quote, all building<br />

property maintenace ph 03<br />

383 1927or 027 245 5226<br />

ciey@xtra.co.nz<br />

BRICK & BLOCK<br />

LAYING<br />

all restoration work<br />

and new work plus<br />

foundations, ph 342 9340<br />

or 021 853 033<br />

BUILDER QUALIfIED<br />

50 yrs exp. Bathrooms,<br />

Kitchens, Renovations,<br />

Repairs & Extensions<br />

Free quotes. Discount for<br />

pensioners. Ph Mike 03<br />

980 9771 or 027 2266 930<br />

BUILDER<br />

LICENCED LBP<br />

Alterations, Decking,<br />

Repairs, General<br />

Maintenance. Prompt<br />

Personal Service. Ph Vic<br />

021942964 or 9426963<br />

BUILDER/HANDYMAN<br />

30 yrs exp. All aspects of<br />

renovations & repairs, full<br />

kitchen fit outs, bathrooms,<br />

painting, stopping, new<br />

fences & decking and all<br />

property maintenance &<br />

landscaping. Ph Craig 021<br />

910- 039<br />

Trades & Services<br />

BUILDER<br />

Qualified, licenced<br />

and insured, bathroom<br />

renovations, decks, re<br />

roofing, ph Josh 020 400<br />

96143<br />

www.jmhbuilders.co.nz<br />

CARPET & VINYL<br />

LAYING<br />

Exp. Repairs, uplifting,<br />

relaying, restretching.<br />

Email jflattery@xtra.co.nz<br />

ph John on <strong>08</strong>00 003 181<br />

or 027 2407416<br />

CARPENTER/<br />

BUILDER<br />

Licensed Building<br />

Practitioner no. 100981.<br />

All carpentry & building<br />

repairs & maintenance.<br />

Alterations & property<br />

upgrades.Laundries /<br />

bathroom / kitchens<br />

replaced. Specialising in<br />

replacement of all rotten<br />

timber, fascia boards,<br />

window, windowsills etc.<br />

John Sandford, ph 329<br />

4616, mob 027 5189 598<br />

johnsandford2@gmail.<br />

com<br />

CONCRETE CUTTING<br />

Affordable Concrete<br />

Cutting with Quality, and<br />

removal work. Free quote.<br />

No job to small. Phone 027<br />

442-2219, Fax 359-6052<br />

a/h 359- 4605<br />

ELECTRICIAN<br />

Prompt & reliable<br />

registered electrician<br />

with 24 years experience<br />

for all residential and<br />

commercial work, new<br />

housing and switch board<br />

replacements. Phone Chris<br />

027 516 0669<br />

ELECTRICIAN<br />

Available, 30 years<br />

experience, immediate<br />

start, competitive rate,<br />

ph Brian 027 433 9548<br />

ELECTRICIAN<br />

Registered, electrical<br />

installation and repairs,<br />

Gorbie Electrical, ph 021<br />

026 73375 or 03 322 4209<br />

ELECTRICIAN<br />

All types of domestic<br />

& commercial work<br />

undertaken, new housing,<br />

alterations, extensions,<br />

ranges, security lights,<br />

quick response, efficient<br />

service, free quotes,<br />

city -wide. No call out<br />

fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat<br />

Barrett 03 359 2<strong>08</strong>7/ 027<br />

7331384.<br />

fENCING<br />

25 yrs exp. Fencing, all<br />

styles & gates. Ph Mark<br />

0273 313 223<br />

fENCING<br />

Quality timber fencing -<br />

gates & repairs, ph Ryan<br />

027 951 8892<br />

fENCING , DECKS &<br />

HOME RENO’S<br />

All types of fencing.<br />

decking & reno’s. Free<br />

quotes. Ph Jim 022 137<br />

1920<br />

GARDEN 2 EZICARE?<br />

River stones / bark or<br />

seasonal tidyup. Please<br />

phone Graeme 027 341<br />

8596 or 342-5151<br />

GLAZIER<br />

Glass repairs - pet doors<br />

- conservatory roofs. Exp<br />

Tradesman. Call Bill on<br />

022 413 3504 or 981-1903<br />

HANDY - DAN<br />

General Handyman for<br />

all your maintenance<br />

requirements. I specialise<br />

in fences and decking, also<br />

do spouting cleans and<br />

repairs and everyday home<br />

maintenance. NO JOB TO<br />

BIG OR SMALL I can do<br />

it all, please don’t hesitate<br />

to call me on 022 600 7738<br />

for a no obligation free<br />

quote.<br />

• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />

Trades & Services<br />

HANDYMAN<br />

Painting, tiling, new<br />

shower, fence, deck etc<br />

etc. Gordon 0274 851 897<br />

or 960-1961<br />

HANDYMAN/<br />

REPAIRMAN<br />

20 yrs exp.No job too<br />

small.Prompt service,<br />

reasonable rates.Free<br />

quotes.Ph Wayne 9813873<br />

/0272853<strong>08</strong>3<br />

LANDSCAPING<br />

Paving, Lawns, Irrigation,<br />

Decking, Fencing.<br />

Kanga & small digger<br />

services. Check out Squire<br />

Landscaping on facebook.<br />

FREE QUOTES. Ph<br />

Arthur 347-8796, 027<br />

220-7014 Edwin 027 220-<br />

7154<br />

LANDSCAPING<br />

PROfESSIONAL<br />

We offer high-quality<br />

landscape construction.<br />

Decking, Fencing, Paving,<br />

Concrete, Planter, Stone<br />

work, Lawns & Irrigation,<br />

Earth work etc. For Free<br />

Quotes call or text Kei<br />

(Kay) 022 043 4150<br />

LAWNMOWING<br />

You Grow I Mow. Free<br />

quotes. Ph / text Chris 021<br />

252 1801<br />

LAWNMOWING<br />

You Grow I Mow. Free<br />

quotes. Ph / text Chris 021<br />

252 1801<br />

OVEN CLEANING<br />

Professional cleans<br />

$50.00. Gift Vouchers<br />

avail. Phone <strong>08</strong>00 683-<br />

6253 or 027 228-0025<br />

PAINTING<br />

& PLASTERING<br />

Free quotes. Int/ext &<br />

roof painting Family run<br />

business, work guaranteed.<br />

Pensioner discounts. Ph<br />

Kerin or Paul 022 191<br />

7877 or 379-1281. Website<br />

www.swedekiwipainting.<br />

co.nz<br />

PAINTING<br />

Indoor / Outdoor, over 30<br />

yrs exp, same day quotes,<br />

ph Steve 021 255 7968<br />

PAINTING<br />

PLASTERING<br />

Plaster repairs & stipple<br />

ceilings, repainting. No<br />

job too small. Older<br />

tradesman. Ph Pete 022<br />

6895 933<br />

PLASTERER<br />

Call Finn the plasterer for<br />

alterations, renovations,<br />

skin coating, holes, cracks,<br />

& cove. 25 yrs exp Canty<br />

born. Ph 022 <strong>08</strong>74351<br />

PLASTER MASONRY<br />

& PAINTING<br />

Roofing & Brick<br />

Repairs, Stucco, Fixing,<br />

Stopping, Cracks &<br />

Holes. Small jobs ok.<br />

30 yrs exp . Free quotes.<br />

Gary 3428950 / 021 529<br />

022<br />

PLUMBER<br />

A Top Plumbing job<br />

completed at a fair price,<br />

prompt service, all work<br />

guaranteed, ph Brian 960-<br />

7673 or 021 112-3492<br />

REMOVALS<br />

Small furniture removals,<br />

have own van, can fit<br />

various types of whiteware<br />

appliances, some furn,<br />

bedding, boxes etc, honest<br />

& reliable, any area<br />

considered, ph Chch 027<br />

517 7001<br />

ROOfING 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 />

Trades & Services<br />

RUBBISH REMOVAL<br />

Van & Trailer Rubbish<br />

Removal. Free quotes. Ph<br />

Gary 342-8950, 021 529<br />

022<br />

SCAffOLDING<br />

For all your scaffolding<br />

requirements. Locally<br />

owned & operated. Immed<br />

start avail. Ph 022 322<br />

0670<br />

tRAiLER<br />

SKiP<br />

HiRE<br />

• 2 or 5 cubic metre<br />

• Household Rubbish<br />

• Green Waste<br />

• Yard Clean ups<br />

• Load it yourself or<br />

hire us<br />

• Locally owned and<br />

operated<br />

bin co<br />

Ph: 383-0646<br />

027 2131 733<br />

SPOUTING CLEANING<br />

Spouting Unblocked,<br />

Cleaned Out and Flushed<br />

Out. Call Trevor 332 8949<br />

or 021 043 2034<br />

SPOUTING<br />

Select Spouting<br />

<strong>The</strong> PVC specialist.<br />

Repairs & replacement. Ph<br />

022 197 2351<br />

TREE SERVICES<br />

Free quotes 20+ yrs exp.<br />

Tree, hedge or shrub<br />

- reduction, shaped or<br />

removed. Ph/text Paul<br />

<strong>The</strong> Branch Manager<br />

0274314720<br />

TREE WORK<br />

Hedge trimming, stump<br />

grinding, rubbish removed,<br />

small job specialty Ph<br />

Andrew 03 322-8341 or<br />

027 435-8759<br />

WINDOW CLEANING<br />

Average 3 brm house<br />

inside or out $40. Both $70<br />

Phone Trevor 344-2170<br />

WINDOW CLEANING<br />

Brown & White Ltd.<br />

Family owned since 2001.<br />

Ph Paul 027 229 3534<br />

Tuition<br />

COMPUTER LESSONS<br />

avail for computer, IPad,<br />

or Mobile. Please contact<br />

Jobee 027 290 9246 www.<br />

computertutor.nz<br />

Wanted To Buy<br />

AAA Buying goods<br />

quality furniture, beds,<br />

stoves, washing machines,<br />

fridge freezers. Same day<br />

service. Selwyn Dealers.<br />

Phone 980 5812 or 027<br />

313 8156<br />

A+ About to move? Books,<br />

china, coins, medals,<br />

furniture, furs, jewellery,<br />

tools, old photos, estate.<br />

Ph 385-5117<br />

A+ Household effects,<br />

fridges, freezers, washing<br />

machines, ovens. Good<br />

cash paid. Ph Paul 022<br />

<strong>08</strong>91 671<br />

ALL whiteware wanted.<br />

Same day service, cash<br />

paid for freezes, fridges,<br />

washing machines, ovens.<br />

Also buying furniture &<br />

h/hold effects.Anything<br />

considered. Ph Dave 960-<br />

8440, 027 66 22 116<br />

ALL Old China, Crystal,<br />

Ornaments, Vases, Cutlery<br />

etc. Raewyn Hill Phone<br />

360-0951<br />

Wanted To Buy<br />

A RECORDS Wanted<br />

top cash prices paid for<br />

good records. No easy<br />

listening. Please ph 027<br />

624 1138<br />

BUYING Now, Royal<br />

Albert, Royal Doulton, all<br />

old china, crystal, antiques,<br />

estate lots. For best prices<br />

and free inspection call<br />

Academy Antiques. Phone<br />

349-4229<br />

MILITARIA Any<br />

country, firearms,<br />

uniforms, badges, medals,<br />

memoribilia, WW2 or<br />

earlier ph 338-9931<br />

TOOLS, Garden garage,<br />

saw benches, Lathes. Cash<br />

buyer Phone 355-2045<br />

Public Notices<br />

Nau Mai<br />

Haere Mai<br />

Te Puna Oranga<br />

(AGM)<br />

Monday 19th<br />

<strong>November</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

11am<br />

687 Worcester Street<br />

RSVP 381 8472<br />

info@tepunaoranga.co.nz<br />

Public Notices<br />

Hornby<br />

Rugby<br />

League<br />

AGM<br />

Monday<br />

3rd December<br />

<strong>2018</strong><br />

Juniors 5.45pm<br />

Seniors 6.00pm<br />

Held at the club<br />

All Welcome<br />

Contact<br />

Sally Nutira<br />

Phone<br />

349 5139<br />

Public Notices<br />

PERMITTED TEMPORARY DEPOTS<br />

AND STORAGE FACILITIES<br />

Under Clause 8(3)(a) of the Canterbury Earthquake<br />

(Resource Management Act Permitted Activities) Order 2011<br />

Despite anything to the contrary in the Christchurch City Plan, the activities listed below<br />

are permitted activities in the specified locations if they comply with the prescribed<br />

standards:<br />

1. ACTIVITY: Temporary Depot/Storage Facility<br />

LOCATION: 95 Kilmore Street, Central City<br />

APPLICANT: Christchurch City Council<br />

REFERENCE NO: RMA/<strong>2018</strong>/2237<br />

STANDARDS:<br />

1. <strong>The</strong> activity must proceed in general accordance with the information submitted<br />

to the Council on 13/09/<strong>2018</strong>.<br />

2. <strong>The</strong> Town Hall contractor parking activity will cease on/before the end of day 28<br />

February 2019.<br />

3. <strong>The</strong> Kilmore Street site office and storage facility will cease on/before the end of<br />

day 20 December <strong>2018</strong>.<br />

4. Adequate dust control measures must be in place at all times so as to minimise<br />

any nuisance to neighbouring properties. Appropriate equipment (e.g. water<br />

hose, sprinkler system) shall be available on site at all times and used whenever<br />

required by adverse conditions (windy weather, etc) as well as to reduce dust<br />

emissions from heavy traffic within the site.<br />

5. At the completion of the works:<br />

a. Any public road (s), footpath, landscaped areas or service structures that<br />

have been affected/damaged by contractor(s), consent holder or by vehicles<br />

and machinery used in relation to the works, shall be reinstated to the<br />

relevant Council Construction Standard Specification (CSS) at the expense<br />

of the consent holder.<br />

b. Surplus or unsuitable material from the project works shall be removed from<br />

site and disposed at a facility authorised to receive such material.<br />

6. <strong>The</strong> activity must not create any significant adverse effects (relating, but<br />

not limited to, noise, dust, mud, light spill, odour, traffic generation, refuse<br />

disposal, animal control and visual amenity) that will, in the opinion of a<br />

Council Compliance Officer or Environmental Health Officer, cause nuisance for<br />

occupiers of surrounding sites.<br />

Note: If any significant adverse effects do arise, then the Council can impose<br />

additional requirements or conditions to avoid, remedy or mitigate those<br />

adverse effects.<br />

<strong>The</strong> general Standards for Permitted Temporary Accommodation and Temporary Depots<br />

and Storage Facilities can be viewed on the Temporary Accommodation page of the<br />

Council’s website at www.ccc.govt.nz/tempaccomm.<br />

Any temporary activity established under these provisions shall not create or give rise<br />

to any existing use right in respect of any land, activity, or structure (refer clause 5(3) of<br />

the Canterbury Earthquake (Resource Management Act Permitted Activities) Order 2011).<br />

If you have any questions or would like more information about the activities listed<br />

above please phone 941 8999 and ask to speak to the Duty Planner.<br />

John Higgins<br />

RESOURCE CONSENTS MANAGER<br />

www.ccc.govt.nz<br />

HOUSE & GARAGE<br />

Cleanout. I’ll pick up for<br />

free. Ph 021 <strong>08</strong>439932.<br />

Recycling Man. Charity<br />

for Chch.<br />

SUICIDE<br />

Public Notices<br />

Public Notices<br />

Has suicide impacted on<br />

your life?? If so ,would<br />

you like to share your<br />

story with a view to<br />

publication? We have an<br />

incorrect landline number<br />

for the person who called<br />

in June. Please call again.<br />

Ph Jan 352 1527 or Sheryn<br />

355 4258.Authors of<br />

“Adoption New Zealand”,<br />

Harper Collins 2002.


• By Sophie Cornish<br />

WORKSAFE NEW Zealand<br />

has b en a proached in a bid to<br />

Surf club move<br />

Brighton’s Hawke St car park.<br />

Coastal-Burwod 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 />

New Brighton surf club opts<br />

to rebuild on new site<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 />

High-tech Cleaning<br />

friendly cleaning products.<br />

Temperature Contro led Drying<br />

Re-oiling & Rejuvenating<br />

Same Day Pick Up & Drop O f<br />

service for mos types of blinds. B okings<br />

are required.<br />

Convenient Location<br />

Drop blinds into us by 9am, at<br />

30 Cashel Str et (near the<br />

Fitzgerald end), and co lect<br />

them a th end of the day.<br />

New Blind Sales Priced from $30<br />

agr e to anything. “<strong>The</strong> 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 />

per blind<br />

Ph 3 7 0 70,<br />

30 Cashel St,<br />

Christchurch<br />

• By Georgia O’Co nor-Harding<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 />

<strong>The</strong> 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 />

Li ter library<br />

River working group<br />

Problem areas for li ter<br />

revealed<br />

Rebuilding a healthy<br />

ecosystem in the Selwyn River<br />

Ja z Competition.<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

THE ST Andrew’s Co lege big<br />

band had extra incentive to<br />

win a the National Youth Ja z<br />

Competition – ba s player, Tom<br />

Fastier, co lapsed an died the<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 />

WE ARE OPEN<br />

Mon - Fri<br />

8. 0am to 5. 0pm<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 />

<strong>The</strong> presentation is a prelude<br />

christchurch east<br />

Ca l to make an<br />

a pointment<br />

P: 384 9459<br />

Pool plans for Edgeware<br />

Designs for ind or learner’s<br />

p ol revealed<br />

www.national.org.nz<br />

the car park of people injuring<br />

themselves which 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 />

Loca ly Owned<br />

Authorised by Jo Hayes<br />

Unit 6/950 Fe ry Road, Christchurch<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 />

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 />

Cyclist’s helipad bid<br />

Serious crash gives new<br />

perspective on ride to hospital<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

DEAN CALVERT (above)<br />

returned from the United<br />

Kingdom last w ek after<br />

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facility in Shirley.<br />

It comes after the city council<br />

removed funding for the centre<br />

pla ned for Shirley Rd, near the<br />

intersection with Hi ls Rd. This<br />

was the site of the former community<br />

centre, which was badly<br />

damaged in the February 2,<br />

20 1, earthquake.<br />

<strong>The</strong> removal o funding<br />

prompted community board<br />

chairwoman Ali Jones to threaten<br />

to stand down, citing it as her “die<br />

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Ms Jone said the board’s role<br />

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Body corporate chairman Mike<br />

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on February 20, and signed off<br />

on a deal with IAG on February<br />

2 – coincidenta ly seven years<br />

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christchurch<br />

GIG GUIDE<br />

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Glass Vaults with Ben Woods, ticketed.<br />

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Puamiria Parata-Goodall, Fiona & Jill<br />

Pears, Cathy Irons, St Margaret’s School<br />

Choir, Jessica Tater, Molly’s Remedy,<br />

Helen Webby, Out of the Blue, Daisy<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

H ORNBY<br />

WORKINGMEN’S<br />

CLUB<br />

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DURING REDEVELOPMENT<br />

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UPSTAIRS IN THE HALL<br />

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT A CLUB WITHIN THIS SECTION.<br />

‘Unzipped’ coming<br />

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COUNTRY<br />

SHOWCASE<br />

Enjoy a great night of Country Music!<br />

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OPEN DAILY<br />

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GF & V options available<br />

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SUNDAY 2 & 9 DECEMBER<br />

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Thursday 15 <strong>November</strong>, 8pm.<br />

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