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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

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CITY<br />

2SURF<br />

with Les Mills<br />

$140m village opening<br />

Redwood retirement home<br />

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Pensioners last chance to save bus route<br />

• By Ashleigh Monk<br />

FRUSTRATED residents of a<br />

Mairehau retirement village will<br />

have one last chance to get a bus<br />

to stop on their doorstep.<br />

Diana Isaac Retirement<br />

Village residents have been<br />

fighting since March to get the<br />

No 44 bus to stop at their village<br />

after Environment Canterbury<br />

decided to re-route the Orbiter<br />

which previously ran past it.<br />

ECan said last month it would<br />

not re-route the No 44 through<br />

some residential streets, leaving<br />

residents of the retirement village<br />

having to travel 1km to the<br />

nearest bus stop.<br />

But ECan will meet again with<br />

the residents tomorrow to hear<br />

their concerns.<br />

The re-route would have<br />

included travelling to and from<br />

Innes Rd via Philpotts Rd,<br />

Glenfield Cres, Roslyn Ave,<br />

Croziers Rd, Ranger St and<br />

MEETING: Diana Isaac Retirement<br />

Village residents will meet with ECan<br />

tomorrow to voice their concerns about<br />

the proposed bus route changes.<br />

Nancy Ave.<br />

Retirement village resident<br />

Graham Tate said he was<br />

surprised when ECan announced<br />

the route would not change, as it<br />

had given a “strong indication”<br />

that it would.<br />

•Turn to page 7<br />

CITY<br />

2<br />

2SURF<br />

Sunday 24 March 2019<br />

city2surf.co.nz<br />

with Les Mills<br />

Congestion<br />

concerns<br />

over<br />

removal of<br />

Langdons<br />

Rd parking<br />

• By Ashleigh Monk<br />

A PROPOSAL to remove<br />

on-street car parking along<br />

Langdons Rd could cause<br />

congestion on residential side<br />

streets.<br />

The Papanui-Innes<br />

Community Board will vote on<br />

whether to approve the proposal<br />

to remove the parking from part<br />

of Langdons Rd in front of a new<br />

retail development.<br />

Community board member<br />

John Stringer said he would vote<br />

against the change.<br />

“No parking road restrictions<br />

in front of the second stage<br />

of Langdons Rd retail<br />

development will push street<br />

parking onto residential side<br />

streets.”<br />

Mr Stringer said he thought<br />

residents in the area would be<br />

firmly against the proposal.<br />

“It only repeats the issues<br />

confronting Marble Wood<br />

Drive residents on Harewood<br />

Rd, where time limits are now<br />

proposed because of heavy<br />

parking in that cul-de-sac.”<br />

He recently voiced his concerns<br />

over the changes and upgrades<br />

happening in the Papanui area.<br />

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2 Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

get in touch<br />

from the editor’s desk<br />

JOHN STRINGER continues to go into bat<br />

for Papanui.<br />

The community board member speaks<br />

out in our weekly Soapbox column on<br />

page 8 today over what he says are “intrusive<br />

city council processes.” Stringer says there’s<br />

far too much bureaucracy and reports from city council HQ in<br />

Hereford St, which is strangling Papanui.<br />

He goes as far as to say the city council “must be careful it does<br />

not become a bureaucratic staff-driven ‘earthquake’ in one of<br />

Christchurch’s oldest residential suburbs.”<br />

Stringer doesn’t always endear himself to his fellow Papanui-<br />

Innes Community Board members.<br />

That’s because he speaks out publicly and what he says doesn’t<br />

always agree with the thinking of others.<br />

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Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Residents want truck ban<br />

• By Ashleigh Monk<br />

TRUCKS COULD be banned<br />

from some Belfast streets if<br />

residents get their way.<br />

It comes after a Sefton<br />

St resident approached the<br />

Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />

Community Board to voice<br />

concerns over trucks driving<br />

through and parking on her<br />

street.<br />

Community<br />

board<br />

chairman Sam<br />

MacDonald<br />

said staff<br />

would look<br />

into options<br />

for heavy vehicle<br />

restrictions<br />

Sam<br />

MacDonald<br />

on Sefton St,<br />

Englefield Rd<br />

and Lagan St.<br />

“Ali has<br />

been working with Harewood<br />

councillor Aaron Keown on<br />

her concerns over the impacts<br />

of heavy vehicles in Sefton and<br />

neighbouring streets,” he<br />

said.<br />

“As is normal practice we have<br />

asked our roading engineers to<br />

look into the issue and consider<br />

any options that may be available.<br />

Staff will report back to the<br />

board on this.”<br />

OPTIONS: Residents in Belfast want to impose heavy vehicle restriction to prevent trucks from<br />

driving through their residential streets.<br />

Belfast Area Residents’ Association<br />

member Gavin Stanbury<br />

said trucks in residential streets<br />

had been an issue for “many<br />

years”.<br />

“There are a number of small<br />

side streets that are being used<br />

by the trucks . . . the trucks often<br />

take short-cuts, especially if the<br />

main roads had heavy traffic<br />

and they want to get somewhere<br />

quickly,” he said.<br />

“If they park on one side of a<br />

street, it makes it very difficult<br />

for cars to get past as the streets<br />

are quite narrow.”<br />

He said he and other<br />

residents had approached the<br />

council about the issue in the<br />

past.<br />

“We’ve had members of our<br />

association phone up and complain,<br />

it happens every now and<br />

again, and it goes away<br />

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Mr Stanbury said he didn’t<br />

think the use of side streets by<br />

trucks would continue for much<br />

longer.<br />

“Because we’ve got the new<br />

Western Belfast Bypass, there<br />

are more trucks using that now.<br />

There aren’t quite as many using<br />

Belfast if they’re going into town<br />

or to Lyttelton.”<br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

FIRST BUSINESS MEETING<br />

The first informal meeting<br />

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SCHOOL PARKING LIMIT<br />

Northcote School has<br />

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4 Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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<strong>News</strong><br />

Langdons Rd parking woes<br />

•From page 1<br />

Mr Stringer was particularly<br />

concerned about the Main North<br />

Rd bus priority project.<br />

He said the on-street parking<br />

changes would “wreck” Papanui<br />

village and turn it into a<br />

thoroughfare.<br />

Papanui Business Community<br />

member and Super<br />

Liquor owner Carolyn<br />

Moffat said<br />

businesses in the<br />

area had already<br />

experienced issues<br />

with staff parking<br />

Pauline<br />

Cotter<br />

on side streets.<br />

“Further up<br />

Langdons Rd, that’s<br />

where a lot of staff would be<br />

parking and so if you’re removing<br />

that parking, you’re forcing<br />

people into those side streets,” she<br />

said.<br />

“Staff at businesses around here<br />

are not allowed to park in the<br />

customer car parks . . . you’ll end<br />

up getting residents wanting time<br />

restrictions in those side streets.”<br />

Innes Ward city councillor<br />

Pauline Cotter said she hoped the<br />

new retail development would<br />

provide sufficient car parking for<br />

the area.<br />

“The new development will<br />

provide 754 car parks, including<br />

18 disability parks, which is<br />

massive. Currently, I think a lot<br />

of the car parking on the street<br />

is being used by contractors<br />

working on the site, so I don’t<br />

know if it will be an issue once<br />

construction finishes.”<br />

Papanui Ward city councillor<br />

Mike Davidson said the proposal<br />

will go out for consultation before<br />

a decision is made.<br />

“Any decisions on this stretch<br />

of Langdons Rd needs to follow<br />

correct process, which includes<br />

engaging and consulting with the<br />

community before any decision is<br />

made by the community board.<br />

Naturally, I want the road to be<br />

safe and accessible for everyone<br />

in the community,” he said.<br />

“As shown with the Main<br />

North Rd bus priority project,<br />

this community board values<br />

consultation and the input from<br />

NO SPACE:<br />

On-street<br />

car parking<br />

could be<br />

removed<br />

from part of<br />

Langdons<br />

Rd if the<br />

Papanui-<br />

Innes<br />

Community<br />

Board<br />

approves<br />

a new<br />

proposal.<br />

community.”<br />

Langdons Rd Barnardos<br />

Christchurch spokeswoman<br />

said the loss of on-street parking<br />

would greatly affect people who<br />

use their services.<br />

“With a staff of around 30-40<br />

per day and four meeting rooms<br />

we continuously have clients<br />

rolling through for meetings.<br />

We also hold supervised sessions<br />

where one party needs a secure<br />

close point for drop off and often<br />

because of the high security<br />

risk we need to visually note the<br />

visiting party is not on site at the<br />

same time,” she said.<br />

“We also hold group<br />

programmes, large<br />

multidisciplinary huis, and<br />

trainings. So parking is already<br />

an issue for our staff and clients.”<br />

NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

Rangi’s Movember breakfast<br />

Rangi Ruru Girls’ School students had a “fantastic”<br />

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Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />

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Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

$140m retirement home for Redwood<br />

Burlington<br />

set to open<br />

in March<br />

LIFESTYLE: The $140 million<br />

Burlington retirement<br />

village will open in March at<br />

Redwood.<br />

A NEW $140 million retirement<br />

village, led by well-known<br />

businessman and Ryman<br />

Healthcare founder John Ryder,<br />

will open in March in Redwood.<br />

Burlington is a high-end<br />

lifestyle village – the second<br />

to be opened in Christchurch<br />

by Qestral Corporation – led<br />

by Mr Ryder<br />

as executive<br />

chairman and<br />

managing<br />

director Simon<br />

O’Dowd,<br />

a national<br />

chairman of the<br />

NZ Aged Care<br />

Association.<br />

John Ryder<br />

Set on 14ha,<br />

Burlington<br />

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man-made lakes.<br />

The company is incorporating<br />

innovative architecture and<br />

new technical and recreational<br />

concepts – with large footprints<br />

for independent, stand alone,<br />

two and three-bedroom houses.<br />

Qestral also owns the popular<br />

Alpine View Lifestyle Village in<br />

Waitikiri, where development is<br />

drawing to a close.<br />

Mr Ryder says the Burlington<br />

site is close to Main North<br />

Rd with easy access to retail<br />

facilities. “It is probably the<br />

most exciting retirement village<br />

development that I have been<br />

involved in – and I have been<br />

involved in a few.”<br />

Designed by architects Kerry<br />

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apartments.<br />

It will also include a lodge and<br />

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restaurant, bakery, church, movie<br />

theatre, gymnasium and indoor<br />

swimming pool. Burlington will<br />

be offering apartments in the<br />

care and dementia units.<br />

Construction is well under<br />

way. Mr O’Dowd says the<br />

retirement village market is<br />

changing rapidly.<br />

“People want something<br />

individual and different – they<br />

want on-site facilities, and design<br />

they can be personally proud<br />

of, with plenty of space but the<br />

very best in integrated care. We<br />

are not cramping the site and<br />

will have no buildings over two<br />

storeys high.”<br />

Mr Ryder has experience as the<br />

joint chief executive of Ryman<br />

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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

MacFarlane<br />

Park damaged<br />

by fireworks<br />

• By Ashleigh Monk<br />

THE NEW MacFarlane Park<br />

Centre has been the target of<br />

irresponsible firework use.<br />

In a Facebook post, the<br />

Shirley Community Trust said<br />

scorch marks had been found<br />

on the centre’s new car parking<br />

area after Guy Fawkes night on<br />

December 5.<br />

It also said used fireworks had<br />

been littered all over MacFarlane<br />

Park.<br />

“Today, three lovely ladies<br />

went and removed seven bags<br />

of firework rubbish off the park<br />

area. This area of the park is<br />

used on Wednesday afternoons<br />

for lots of primary school children<br />

playing touch,” the post<br />

said.<br />

“All I am asking is that people<br />

be responsible with fireworks.<br />

That includes safety-wise and<br />

getting rid of your rubbish . . .<br />

having fun is cool as long as you<br />

tidy up after your fun activity.”<br />

The new MacFarlane Park<br />

Centre opened Acheson Ave site<br />

in early September.<br />

The MacFarlane Park Centre<br />

was used as the temporary St<br />

Albans Community Centre on<br />

Colombo St before moving to<br />

Shirley.<br />

Totara award for Burnside High head boy<br />

• By Ashleigh Monk<br />

BURNSIDE HIGH School’s head<br />

boy has been recognised for his<br />

work in the community.<br />

Eighteen-year-old Gray Ryburn<br />

was presented with a Rotary<br />

young totara award.<br />

The award, which was presented<br />

by Richie McCaw, came<br />

with a totara tree which would<br />

be planted on Burnside High<br />

School’s grounds.<br />

Gray said he felt “humbled” to<br />

receive the award.<br />

“It was a bit of a surprise. Mr<br />

Robertson, who is the principal<br />

of the senior division at school,<br />

the email came through to him<br />

and then he nominated me for<br />

an award and sent them a wee<br />

write up about me, and then I got<br />

invited to the awards night which<br />

was awesome,” he said.<br />

“I feel very privileged to have<br />

that award. It’s very, very cool,<br />

but I’m not the sort of person to<br />

gloat about it. Seeing the work<br />

that Rotary do, and being able<br />

to meet all sorts of people in the<br />

community who are making a<br />

positive difference was great.”<br />

As head boy, Gray was involved<br />

in several community events and<br />

initiatives.<br />

He said the head prefect team<br />

at Burnside High School organised<br />

a Shave for a Cure event<br />

WINNER: Burnside High School student and head boy Gray<br />

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McCaw.<br />

which saw 27 students chop their<br />

locks off, held a concert to raise<br />

awareness for mental health, and<br />

networked with other school<br />

leaders around the city.<br />

“Being head boy has been a<br />

really humbling experience. It’s<br />

been quite a busy year but really<br />

rewarding.”<br />

He said he was inspired by the<br />

work that Rotary did in the community.<br />

“There was a dinner, so I had a<br />

chance to talk to some of the people<br />

who have been with Rotary<br />

for 30 years or so, and the service<br />

they’ve put in is awesome,” he<br />

said.<br />

“I’m aspiring to hopefully<br />

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positive influence for people.”<br />

Next year, Gray plans on<br />

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Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 7<br />

FUN: A<br />

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Accolade for St Andrew’s<br />

College playground<br />

ST ANDREW’S College has<br />

received an excellence award for<br />

its playground.<br />

The Learning Environment<br />

NZ accolade for excellence in<br />

educational facilities –<br />

landscape/outdoor learning<br />

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ceremony.<br />

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Dyer, to design the playground<br />

which is a fun play space and<br />

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emphasis on sustainability.<br />

Said Jasmax lead landscape<br />

architect Adrian Taylor: “We<br />

want students to engage with<br />

the environment through a<br />

variety of ways. There are student<br />

gardens to educate on nature and<br />

growing food, and surface water<br />

is collected and flows through<br />

boulders providing a play element<br />

in rainy weather.”<br />

Catering for ages two to seven,<br />

Mr Taylor said the playground<br />

was designed to help transition<br />

students from pre-school into the<br />

junior environment. This helps<br />

them gain confidence and test<br />

their surroundings.<br />

Preparatory school principal<br />

and deputy rector Jonathan<br />

Bierwirth said the finished<br />

product was “pure excitement for<br />

the children”.<br />

“We are delighted with<br />

how they interact with all<br />

aspects of the playground.<br />

We particularly like how the<br />

environment encourages the<br />

children to just play and have<br />

fun.”<br />

•From page 1<br />

Said Mr Tate: “To our shock,<br />

we were informed by ECan that<br />

the agreement we thought had<br />

been reached was now no longer<br />

possible. This means the 600<br />

residents and nearly 300 staff of<br />

this village will not have access<br />

to a bus service within acceptable<br />

walking distance.”<br />

He said residents planned<br />

on discussing possible<br />

solutions with ECan,<br />

including having a<br />

turning bay on Philpotts<br />

Rd so the bus can<br />

travel back towards the<br />

village.<br />

“We’re determined to<br />

do something about it,”<br />

he said.<br />

“The average age here<br />

is around 79-80, and<br />

while some can drive,<br />

most residents are past<br />

the point of driving safely . . .<br />

we believe that access to public<br />

transport for such a large group<br />

of elderly and disabled should<br />

be a prime consideration of<br />

an effective bus transport coordinator.”<br />

Ryman Healthcare corporate<br />

affairs manager David King said<br />

the company was “behind the<br />

residents all the way” in their bid<br />

Local<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Retirement village’s<br />

bid to save bus route<br />

to keep a bus in the area.<br />

“We were really disappointed<br />

with ECan’s decision and we’re<br />

going to try and work with them<br />

to try and find a solution,” he<br />

said.<br />

“The bus is really important<br />

to residents and to our staff, so<br />

it would be a huge loss for the<br />

area.”<br />

Environment Canterbury<br />

senior manager public<br />

transport Stewart<br />

Gibbon said he understood<br />

retirement home<br />

residents relied on the<br />

bus.<br />

“We understand<br />

that the decision to<br />

not proceed with the<br />

change to route 44<br />

leaves the residents<br />

and staff of Diana<br />

Isaac Retirement Village<br />

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access to a bus service, at least in<br />

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“But operating an accessible<br />

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priority, and ECan will continue<br />

to work together with the village<br />

residents, Ryman Healthcare,<br />

the Mairehau community and<br />

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best way to ensure appropriate<br />

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Your Local Views<br />

NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you believe Papanui is being<br />

‘strangled’ by reports and bureaucracy? Email your<br />

views to ashleigh.monk@starmedia.kiwi<br />

Readers respond to<br />

the news a signalised<br />

pedestrian crossing will<br />

be installed outside St<br />

Andrew’s College on<br />

Papanui Rd<br />

Helen Cox – There’s no crossing<br />

outside my daughter’s school<br />

but they still use a road patrol.<br />

I’m all for the signalised crossing<br />

but I wonder why they couldn’t<br />

do road patrol?<br />

Nicholas Smeaton – Oh<br />

great, a private school asks for a<br />

signalised pedestrian crossing<br />

and gets it straight away, while at<br />

the same time, the city council<br />

refuses to install traffic lights at<br />

the Harewood/Breens/Gardiners<br />

Rds intersection.<br />

Alexia Chisholm – It’s not<br />

just private school kids who<br />

cross. There are lots of schools in<br />

that area. With the bus lane and<br />

many bikes going along the side,<br />

it’s not safe at all for kids to cross<br />

here, even when cars let them in,<br />

so I think this is a great idea.<br />

Readers respond to the<br />

revelation that more than<br />

$49,000 was spent on catering<br />

at community board<br />

meetings<br />

Paula Rose – Hunger pains<br />

during a two-three hour meeting?<br />

Eat before you go. And if<br />

you’re going to waste our rates on<br />

food at your meetings, please try<br />

and make some healthier choices.<br />

Seriously cakes, biscuits, lollies . .<br />

. it’s a meeting not a kids party.<br />

Elaine Cairns-Newton<br />

– Disgusting. Take your own<br />

lunch/do a pot luck meal. Stop<br />

wasting ratepayer money and put<br />

it towards something important<br />

for our city/communities.<br />

Democracy ‘strangled’ in Papanui<br />

Papanui-<br />

Innes<br />

Community<br />

Board<br />

member<br />

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writes about how he<br />

believes Papanui is being<br />

strangled by reports and<br />

bureaucracy<br />

IS PAPANUI being strangled by<br />

intrusive city council processes of<br />

change and a wave of reports? I<br />

think it is.<br />

City councillor Aaron<br />

Keown of Harewood said<br />

recently: “Democracy is being<br />

strangled by process.” As<br />

reported in last week’s Nor’West<br />

<strong>News</strong>, I asked “we are supposedly<br />

a city in recovery, why so much<br />

change to a largely unaffected<br />

area of Christchurch?”<br />

The city council must be<br />

careful it does not become<br />

a bureaucratic, staff-driven<br />

‘earthquake’ in one of<br />

Christchurch’s oldest residential<br />

suburbs.<br />

There is now a city council<br />

plan suggesting major changes<br />

to Harewood Rd (Harewood<br />

Rd corridor study findings and<br />

recommendations – June 20,<br />

2017), which is defined as a<br />

strategic west-east cycle route and<br />

a “north-west city corridor.”<br />

There are proposals for more<br />

lights, pedestrian crossings,<br />

possible cycle-lanes and the<br />

removal of on street car parking<br />

– all initiatives yet to be go<br />

out for public consultation.<br />

It must be noted, that<br />

the “endorsement” of the staff<br />

study by the board last week was<br />

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Several of us have detailed<br />

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There have been bus route<br />

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FOCUS: A crash, which blocked Harewood Rd last week, brings<br />

into focus the traffic debates and issues confronting Papanui,<br />

says John Stringer.<br />

There was the recent<br />

controversial city council vote<br />

to insert dedicated bus and bike<br />

lanes through Papanui village<br />

(bus priority proposal – 25 July),<br />

affecting local residents and<br />

businesses and changing our<br />

retail village forever.<br />

I fought this proposal, as I<br />

felt the narrow needs of bus<br />

commuters and cyclists saving<br />

40-plus seconds on commuter<br />

travel times did not outweigh<br />

local parking needs, especially<br />

for the large demographic<br />

population of mobile elderly in<br />

Papanui.<br />

Then there was last week’s city<br />

council decision to ignore the<br />

vote of the combined Papanui-<br />

Innes and Burwood-Coastal<br />

community boards not to change<br />

speed limits at the new Prestons<br />

sub-division to 40km/h.<br />

The city council has now<br />

imposed five different speed<br />

limits on those locals within a<br />

1-2km radius. Ridiculous and<br />

intrusive.<br />

For more than a year now,<br />

the board has been seeking a<br />

traffic audit of Papanui (CCC<br />

city services team planning and<br />

delivery [transport] – October 9).<br />

An interim report has been<br />

received behind closed doors. It<br />

discusses a number of changes to<br />

roading and traffic issues in our<br />

community, but these cannot be<br />

discussed here until the report is<br />

tabled publicly. That process has<br />

been far too long in coming –<br />

democracy strangled by process?<br />

The Cranford St off-ramp<br />

and the Northern Corridor and<br />

Waimakariri bridge changes are<br />

clearly huge changes to our area,<br />

especially for Edgeware and St<br />

Albans, as traffic funnels into<br />

those communities.<br />

Issues like this propelled Garry<br />

Moore into local politics.<br />

There is a plan for changes<br />

to Langdons Rd (Langdons Rd<br />

proposed roading improvements<br />

consultation plan – October 25)<br />

due to the light industrial growth<br />

there, much of it transferred<br />

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In the meantime, most of the<br />

side-streets around Langdons Rd<br />

are already filled to capacity with<br />

tight car parking.<br />

There are discussions over<br />

changes to the Harewood/<br />

Breens/Gardiners intersection,<br />

which took several hours of time<br />

at a recent city council meeting.<br />

The Harewood board<br />

advocates strongly for lights, a<br />

proposal I oppose in favour of<br />

a roundabout, as per the much<br />

busier Harewood/Russley Rds<br />

intersection 1km up the road.<br />

The Harewood/Greers Rds<br />

intersection – a stone’s throw<br />

from my residence – is a key<br />

discussion point in many of the<br />

traffic reports.<br />

An accident there that blocked<br />

Harewood Rd last Tuesday<br />

morning brings in to focus<br />

the traffic debates and issues<br />

confronting Papanui as a result<br />

of car parking and traffic changes<br />

pushed westward into our<br />

community in response to city<br />

council changes to Main North<br />

Rd, and the Papanui High School<br />

and Northlands mall expansions,<br />

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Obviously there is a lot of<br />

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But that must be balanced with<br />

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locals.<br />

City council initiatives that are<br />

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Harewood Rd or removing<br />

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we are already experiencing a lot<br />

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Spelling success for Bernadette<br />

• By Ashleigh Monk<br />

A PASSION for books has earned<br />

a St Albans home-schooled<br />

student a runner up spot at the<br />

New Zealand Spelling Bee.<br />

Fifteen-year-old Bernadette<br />

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“I’ve been reading books since I<br />

was little. I’ve read a lot of books.<br />

It’s one of my favourite things to<br />

do. Because I’ve read so much,<br />

I’ve been exposed to a lot of<br />

different words, so spelling came<br />

naturally.”<br />

Bernadette battled it out with<br />

19 of New Zealand’s top spellers<br />

at the spelling bee national<br />

final at the City Art Gallery in<br />

Wellington.<br />

The competition started with a<br />

written classroom test, followed<br />

by six regional semi-finals held<br />

around the country in which the<br />

top 200 spellers competed for a<br />

place in the finals.<br />

Bernadette said she spent<br />

a lot of time in the lead-up to<br />

the competition practicing her<br />

spelling.<br />

She said she was provided with<br />

a list of hundreds of words that<br />

could appear in the finals, but<br />

her final word was one she didn’t<br />

recognise.<br />

“It was just in the last part of<br />

the finals where I got a word<br />

that I didn’t know. The word was<br />

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I was a lot more relaxed about it,<br />

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POLICE WERE called to Bottle<br />

Lake Forest after walkers raised<br />

concerns about rabbits being<br />

hunted with guns.<br />

They found two men in possession<br />

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on October 28.<br />

No charges were laid, but advice<br />

was given to the men about using<br />

air guns in public places. A police<br />

spokesman said rabbit hunting<br />

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Queenspark resident Jan<br />

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It’s<br />

happening<br />

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[Edition NOR’WEST datE] NEWS 27<br />

Bishopdale Village Mall<br />

A healthier diet<br />

for your pets<br />

The Feedshack grew almost 10 years ago<br />

from a family tragedy we hear about too<br />

often. Our family dog (Samantha a golden<br />

lab) died early, riddled with cancer and<br />

arthritis.<br />

It wasn’t until this happened that we<br />

decided to question the diet we had fed her<br />

with and whether this had contributed to<br />

her health problems.<br />

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They say that if you want to know the<br />

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Their yummy food options in-store can<br />

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is baked daily by their team of bakers, from<br />

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is also used in their sandwiches and rolls,<br />

to their delicious and so-moreish cream<br />

cakes, scones and slices. It’s a perfect spot<br />

to call in for lunch or afternoon tea with<br />

friends, to share a cuppa and a cake with<br />

someone special, or for tradies to fill up<br />

on their large selection of pies, stuffed<br />

sausages, toasties, buns and donuts, and<br />

they can be comfortable knowing they are a<br />

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is also a popular spot for business people to<br />

hold casual weekly meetings.<br />

When cooking a meal is too much after<br />

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from their large deli-bars and take home<br />

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who opened their first bakery in 1995 and<br />

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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> <strong>13</strong><br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Burnside student in<br />

lead role as opera<br />

returns to the city<br />

A BURNSIDE High School<br />

student is set to star in the first<br />

opera put on by Christchurch<br />

residents since the earthquakes.<br />

Grant Weihs will play the title<br />

role in the nativity story Amahl<br />

and the Night Visitors<br />

on Saturday.<br />

The production<br />

marks the first time<br />

in almost 10 years<br />

– when The Magic<br />

Flute was on stage in<br />

2009 – that a locallyproduced<br />

opera<br />

has been offered<br />

to Christchurch<br />

audiences.<br />

United States<br />

composer Gian Carlo Menotti<br />

wrote Amahl and the Night<br />

Visitors in the early 1950s. It is<br />

centred around a young disabled<br />

boy called Amahl, who is played<br />

by Grant.<br />

The show is a one-act opera<br />

about Amahl, who has a<br />

fondness for tall tales.<br />

His mother has to live with his<br />

active imagination, but is also at<br />

her wit’s end trying to put food<br />

on the table and secure a future<br />

Grant Weihs<br />

for her son. After Amahl tells<br />

his mother about a star “bigger<br />

than a window” over their roof,<br />

she retires to bed, but then three<br />

kings turn up on the doorstep<br />

looking for somewhere to stay<br />

for the night. They are<br />

fed and entertained, and<br />

offer Amahl a chance for a<br />

better life.<br />

The play will have a<br />

family-oriented matinee<br />

performance at 2pm on<br />

Saturday.<br />

It will then be on stage<br />

again during an evening<br />

programme of handpicked<br />

seasonal choral<br />

music starting at 7.30pm at<br />

the The Piano: Centre for Music<br />

and the Arts.<br />

Produced and directed by<br />

Broadway veteran Ravil Atlas,<br />

and featuring the Atlas Voices<br />

Ensemble, the evening will end<br />

with the New Zealand premier of<br />

Hodie by US composer Z Randall<br />

Stroope, complete with brass<br />

octet, organ and percussion.<br />

•Tickets for both<br />

performances are available<br />

at http://atlasvoices.nz.<br />

Local<br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

More than of $1000<br />

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Star Jam charity at the<br />

Kiwanis Club of North<br />

West Christchurch<br />

‘Accessories Garage<br />

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thanked supporters<br />

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Their new venture is based on firm roots and a heap of<br />

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Cathy and Ian’s friendliness, kindness, and desire to help<br />

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Mystery revealed behind Walnut Ave<br />

Papanui Heritage group<br />

chairman Murray Williams<br />

tries to get to the bottom<br />

of how Walnut Ave got its<br />

name<br />

FOR THOSE interested in<br />

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resource of this complexity that<br />

there will be occasional errors.<br />

For example, looking up<br />

‘Walnut Ave’ in the CCL site<br />

we read that this south Papanui<br />

street came into existence in 1926<br />

as the new name for St Andrew’s<br />

Tce, a change prompted because<br />

of the confusion with nearby St<br />

Andrew’s Square.<br />

But under ‘Hartley Ave’ we<br />

find a statement that St Andrew’s<br />

Tce was renamed Hartley Ave in<br />

1938. The primary evidence cited<br />

certainly verifies the latter claim.<br />

The answer to the confusion<br />

lies in an ambiguous newspaper<br />

article in The Press on June 22,<br />

1926, which obviously misled the<br />

compiler of the CCL resource.<br />

MYSTERY: Murray Wiliams investigates how Walnut Ave got its name.<br />

The article, titled ‘Alterations<br />

Approved’, listed a number of<br />

streets subject to possible name<br />

changes, one of which was ‘St<br />

Andrews Tce to be renamed<br />

Walnut Ave.’<br />

However, the article also noted<br />

that in a petition, 11 ratepayers<br />

and property-holders objected on<br />

the grounds that the suggested<br />

new name was not acceptable to<br />

them.<br />

The introduction to the article<br />

had explained that any projected<br />

changes that generated objections<br />

were not proceeded with, in other<br />

words the name change did not<br />

go ahead in 1926.<br />

So when and where was<br />

Walnut Ave established?<br />

The Post Office Directory<br />

of 1939 has no record of its<br />

existence. Although by 1947,<br />

Stone’s Directory mentions it as<br />

running off Hawthorne Ave and<br />

having 12 developed lots, nine of<br />

which were houses on the eastern<br />

side of the street.<br />

An analysis of these houses<br />

reveals that the majority are<br />

examples of designs common in<br />

the 1940s, although some have<br />

since been modified.<br />

Based on this evidence, the best<br />

answer appears to be that the<br />

street was developed sometime<br />

in the mid-1940s, an example of<br />

the post-World War 2 building<br />

boom.<br />

Anecdotally, Walnut Ave was<br />

named after a large walnut tree<br />

somewhere in this area of south<br />

Papanui, but there is another<br />

interesting point about this<br />

street’s name. The term ‘avenue’<br />

usually indicates some form<br />

of tree planting adjacent to the<br />

street. Whether such a feature<br />

ever existed in Walnut Ave is<br />

not clear but there is no current<br />

evidence that it ever did.<br />

Perhaps a reader with a long<br />

memory could enlighten us<br />

by emailing ashleigh.monk@<br />

starmedia.kiwi.<br />

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Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

Sami caps top year on the bike<br />

NEED FOR<br />

SPEED: Leona<br />

Jones won the<br />

under-12 age<br />

group at the<br />

Australian ice<br />

speed skating<br />

champs in<br />

Melbourne.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

LAURA<br />

JONES<br />

Emmanuel school pupil<br />

takes speed skating title<br />

• By Jacob Page<br />

WHEN Emmanuel Christian<br />

School pupil Leona Jones first<br />

went ice skating, she spent most<br />

of her time falling down – but<br />

now she’s winning trophies.<br />

She trains hard and competes<br />

at Opawa’s Canterbury Alpine<br />

Ice Speed Skating Club, which<br />

has paid off with her taking out<br />

the under-12 age group at the<br />

Australian ice speed skating<br />

championships in Melbourne.<br />

Leona, 11, prefers the shorter<br />

distance races, such as the<br />

111m, 222m, and 333m, thanks<br />

to her fast starts.<br />

Her mum Laura took Leona<br />

ice skating for the first time<br />

when she was four, expecting it<br />

to be a one-time experience.<br />

“She spent most of the first<br />

time falling over and getting her<br />

clothes absolutely soaked and I<br />

thought she’d come off the ice<br />

and hate it, but afterwards she<br />

told me she absolutely loved it.”<br />

Leona trains twice a week<br />

on the ice, where she works on<br />

making her legs stronger and<br />

her technique sharper.<br />

She also does some training at<br />

Hagley Park away from the ice.<br />

She said when she had her<br />

first race as a six-year-old, she<br />

knew the sport was for her after<br />

she fell over but still won.<br />

Leona said she wants to<br />

go as far as her talent can take<br />

her.<br />

“I’d like to compete at the<br />

junior world championships<br />

when I am old enough (15) and<br />

then the Winter Olympics is a<br />

definite dream of mine.”<br />

SPORTS<br />

• By Jacob Page<br />

PAPANUI TRACK cyclist<br />

Sami Donnelly is still pinching<br />

herself over the stellar 12 months<br />

she’s had.<br />

The 16-year-old was the supreme<br />

winner at the Burnside<br />

High School<br />

sports awards<br />

and also won a<br />

Zonta award.<br />

Sami was<br />

the youngest<br />

member of the<br />

New Zealand<br />

team at the<br />

Sami<br />

Donnelly<br />

junior world<br />

championships<br />

in Switzerland.<br />

Having won gold at the<br />

Oceania under-19 women’s team<br />

pursuit last year, Sami said she is<br />

eager to push her claim to ride in<br />

endurance races next season.<br />

“I’m definitely more interested<br />

in doing endurance races and<br />

pushing myself that way.’<br />

Sami is the daughter of former<br />

Olympic team pursuit cyclist,<br />

Nigel Donnelly, who competed<br />

in 1988 and 1992 at Seoul and<br />

Barcelona respectively. He won<br />

a Commonwealth Games gold<br />

medal at the same event in<br />

Auckland in 1990.<br />

Sami said she was motivated by<br />

ACTION: Sami Donnelly preparing to ride for New Zealand.<br />

PHOTO: LYNDAL DONNELLY<br />

her dad’s achievements but also<br />

wanted to follow her own path.<br />

“I’ve always wanted to follow in<br />

dad’s steps,” she said. “In year 6, I<br />

remember having to do a project<br />

on someone I admired and I<br />

picked him.”<br />

Sami said she played multiple<br />

sports when she was younger<br />

until she was in year 8 when she<br />

decided she needed to prioritise.<br />

“I played every sport<br />

imaginable – basketball, netball,<br />

water polo, hockey – until a<br />

physio said my body was not<br />

handling it so I decided to cut<br />

back to hockey and cycling.”<br />

Later that year, she watched her<br />

brother Felix training and she<br />

decided to give it a go,<br />

“I’m aware of what dad<br />

achieved and it does drive me to<br />

be my best,” Sami said. “Having<br />

said that, I want to do my own<br />

thing and I have my own coach.<br />

“Dad’s great at letting me do<br />

my own thing but also knowing<br />

when he can drop in some<br />

knowledge.”<br />

Sami said she wanted another<br />

shot at the under-19 world<br />

championships next year and<br />

was keen to do more endurance<br />

rides.<br />

“Even when that pain hits,<br />

you have to find the reasons<br />

why you ride and certainly<br />

enjoy it.”


NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 17<br />

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18 Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 19<br />

AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONALS<br />

Timely advice from<br />

McGirr Motors<br />

As the warmer weather and Christmas<br />

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Gary Lake suggests now is a great time<br />

to get your air-conditioning and cooling<br />

system checked.<br />

Gary also recommends a Vehicle Holiday<br />

Check for those planning a long road trip<br />

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“If you have any concerns about<br />

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20 Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

JP Clinic<br />

Tuesday, 10am-1pm<br />

A justice of the peace will<br />

be available to members of<br />

the community to witness<br />

signatures and documents,<br />

certify document copies, hear<br />

oaths, declarations, affidavits<br />

or affirmations, as well as sign<br />

citizenship, sponsorship or rates<br />

rebates applications. There is no<br />

charge for this service.<br />

Fendalton and Papanui<br />

libraries<br />

Scrabble Club<br />

Wednesday, 1-3pm<br />

Enjoy a friendly game of<br />

scrabble in the library. Boards<br />

will be provided but you are<br />

welcome to take your own. No<br />

need to book, just turn up and<br />

play.<br />

Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library<br />

and Community Centre, <strong>13</strong><br />

Bishopdale Court<br />

Technology Help Drop-in<br />

Sessions<br />

Thursday, 10-11am<br />

These free drop-in sessions<br />

will help with specific issues,<br />

such as using email, searching<br />

the internet, using the library<br />

catalogue, electronic resources<br />

and any other general computerrelated<br />

queries. Go along<br />

Email ashleigh.monk@starmedia.kiwi by<br />

5pm each Wednesday<br />

with your laptop, tablet, or<br />

smartphone or use one of the<br />

desktop computers if you need<br />

help with anything digital. This<br />

session is free and no bookings<br />

are required.<br />

Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library<br />

and Community Centre, <strong>13</strong><br />

Bishopdale Court<br />

Beginners Quilting and<br />

Patchwork<br />

Thursday, 10am<br />

Tote bags, fabric teddy bears<br />

and other items to be made.<br />

Gold coin donation, morning tea<br />

supplied. Phone Linda for more<br />

information on 354 5901.<br />

Emmett St Community Church,<br />

106 Emmett St<br />

Knit ’n’ Yarn<br />

Thursday 2-3.30pm<br />

Go along and enjoy a chat with<br />

others as you knit. For anyone<br />

who loves to knit or learn.<br />

Fendalton Library, 4 Jeffreys<br />

Rd<br />

Building Kiwi Boys into Kiwi<br />

ICONZ<br />

Thursday 6-7.30pm<br />

ICONZ Adventure is a<br />

fun programme for boys aged<br />

eight to 10 years. It’s about doing<br />

activities together where men<br />

mentor the boys and teach life<br />

Get free barista training at the MacFarlane Park Centre every Monday and Tuesday,<br />

10am-1pm. Just bring a two-litre bottle of milk to each session. Phone Sharyn on 022<br />

621 8269 for more information.<br />

skills along the way. There is a $4<br />

charge, but you are welcome to<br />

go along and check them out for<br />

free for the first night.<br />

The McFaddens Centre, St<br />

Albans Baptist Church, 64<br />

McFaddens Rd<br />

Celebrate Bishopdale<br />

<strong>November</strong> 25, 11-2pm<br />

A great day for the kids with<br />

heaps of free stuff to do – bouncy<br />

castle, climbing tower, snag<br />

inflatable golf, face-painting,<br />

stone-carving, henna tattoos,<br />

archery, police radar gun to test<br />

your speed, and the ever popular<br />

Pedalmania is back for another<br />

year.<br />

Elephant Park, Harewood Rd<br />

Cornwall Fair<br />

<strong>November</strong> 24, 10am-4pm<br />

The Heartfelt New Zealand<br />

Trust is running a fundraising<br />

fair for community-based<br />

projects. The fair will<br />

include a clothes and small<br />

items sale, Moroccan and<br />

Mediterranean meals and<br />

desserts, kids entertainment<br />

and more. Entry to this event is<br />

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Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 21<br />

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Viewing by appointment only.<br />

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WORKSAFE NEW Zealand<br />

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Brighton’s Hawke St car park.<br />

Coastal-Burw od Ward city<br />

counci lor David East wants<br />

WorkSafe to pre sure the car<br />

park’s private owners into<br />

repairing the potholes which are<br />

a “trip and vehicle” hazard.<br />

WorkSafe chief inspector<br />

a se sment southern Da ren<br />

Handforth said it may be able to<br />

take action under the Health and<br />

Safety at Work Act 2015, “as a<br />

person conducting a busine s or<br />

undertaking.”<br />

Mr Handforth said WorkSafe<br />

is aware of the concerns raised by<br />

Cr East abou the car park.<br />

“WorkSafe has completed<br />

an a se sment visi to the site<br />

and is engaging with the owner<br />

to advise them that it is their<br />

responsibility to manage their<br />

risks a propriately.”<br />

Different parts of the car park<br />

are owned by various people<br />

and the Coastal-Burw od<br />

Community Board recently<br />

wrote to them about its concerns<br />

around health and safety.<br />

Cr East said the bi gest i sue<br />

in the past has b en ge ting in<br />

touch with the landlords and<br />

owners and ge ting them to<br />

agr e to anything. “The board<br />

a preciates that multi-ownership<br />

of the parking space may present<br />

a difficulty in co-ordinating<br />

repair/resurfacing but felt obliged<br />

to pa s these concerns onto you,”<br />

said the le ter.<br />

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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 />

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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 />

tri ping in those potholes and<br />

doing themselve some damage.”<br />

He is confiden the new<br />

a proach wi l bring results.<br />

“I think the WorkSafe<br />

involvement may prove to be the<br />

lever that we are l oking for.”<br />

New bid to fix potholes<br />

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“Tom was a ba s player from<br />

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St Andrew’s won the most<br />

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The ban dedicated it se to<br />

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His death was po sibly related to<br />

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•Turn to page 9<br />

SW ET SOUNDS: St Andrew’s Co lege year 12 students Lewis Edmond and Je na We ls performing a the 41st National Youth<br />

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• By Sophie Cornish and Julia Evans<br />

THE PAPANUI-I nes<br />

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DEAN CALVERT (above)<br />

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Joseph Parker in the build up<br />

to his world heavyweigh title<br />

unification fight with Anthony<br />

Joshua in Cardiff.<br />

The former New Zealand<br />

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father George and brother<br />

Bryce to London ahead of the<br />

fight where they spen time<br />

with Parker in the build up.<br />

Mr Calvert, 47, comes from a<br />

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•Turn to page 6<br />

Former champ hooks<br />

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Cave Rock<br />

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this week<br />

• By Sarla Donovan<br />

THE OWNERS of Sumner’s Cave<br />

Rock Apartments ar expecting the<br />

Earthquake Commi sion to sign-off<br />

on a se tlement agr emen this w ek.<br />

Body corporate chairman Mike<br />

White said the group had gone<br />

into mediation with IAG and EQC<br />

on February 20, and signed off<br />

on a deal with IAG on February<br />

2 – coincidenta ly seven years<br />

to the day after the February 2,<br />

20 1, earthquake. However, they<br />

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agr ement.<br />

“Given that EQC actua ly drafted<br />

the agr ement, there’ l be no<br />

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The apartment suffere damage<br />

in the February and June, 20 1,<br />

earthquakes and were demolished in<br />

late 2012. In 2016, IAG’s offer of the<br />

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$10 mi lion, and the sum insured,<br />

$16 mi lion, was rejected by the body<br />

corporate.<br />

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the se tlement amount, but he said it<br />

involved the two parties paying “a bit<br />

more money than they’d wanted to<br />

earlier.”<br />

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Bu the Banks Peninsula Community<br />

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A WOOLSTON butcher proved<br />

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New World Fe ry Rd butcher<br />

Jeremy Garth and his team, the<br />

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Butchers’ Cha lenge in Northern<br />

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A CRACKDOWN on mobile<br />

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However, the public has li tle<br />

interest in having input into the<br />

i sue.<br />

Only eight submi sions were<br />

received for a potential bylaw<br />

aimed at regulating commercial<br />

activities in public places.<br />

The district council wi l be<br />

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Places Bylaw and Policy on Commercial<br />

Activities and Events in<br />

Public Places.<br />

A hearing i scheduled to be<br />

held on Thursday.<br />

The bylaw comes as an increasing<br />

number of mobile traders<br />

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especia ly during the summer<br />

months.<br />

In the past year, the district<br />

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railway in Ro leston, and a pi za<br />

cart visits Lincoln w ekly betw en<br />

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•Turn to page 7<br />

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Pupils learn about role of war horses<br />

GR ENDALE SCHOOL pupils<br />

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s eing first hand what men and<br />

horses l oked like during war.<br />

The New Zealand Mounted<br />

Rifles Charitable Trust president<br />

Mark A pleton and member<br />

Mike Donaldson t ok their<br />

horses to the sch ol on Monday,<br />

in a bid to educate pupils on the<br />

sacrifice their ancestors made in<br />

World War 1 and World War 2.<br />

Mr A pleton and Mr Donaldson<br />

a rived a the sch ol dre sed<br />

in World War 1 uniforms while<br />

their horses Tommy and Kruze<br />

wore 1 0-year-old sa dles donated<br />

to the trust.<br />

The presentation is a prelude<br />

to the Gr endale Recreation Reserve<br />

Management Commi t e’s<br />

upcoming Anzac Day service.<br />

As a tribute to those who<br />

served, members of the trust wi l<br />

ride horseback to the service.<br />

Mr A pleton said it was<br />

important children were<br />

educated on what soldiers<br />

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War 1 and World War 2.<br />

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te l” to make them aware of what<br />

the soldiers l oked like.<br />

Children were shown the type<br />

of kits horses were required to<br />

wear in the war.<br />

•Turn to page 7<br />

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Winder was named in the a l<br />

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Mr Winder and his team, the<br />

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said.<br />

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Elite butcher cut above the world<br />

• By Emily O’Co ne l<br />

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24 Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

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Corina Grey<br />

ILAM<br />

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FENDALTON<br />

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Jenni Rolton<br />

ST ALBANS<br />

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FENDALTON<br />

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Vicki Downes<br />

ILAM<br />

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Congratulations to our Top 20 Consultants for October <strong>2018</strong><br />

It’s an unquestionable truth – the success of our clients is directly tied to the<br />

success of our people. That’s why it’s their triumphs we celebrate as much as<br />

those of the individuals you see here.<br />

We want to thank our clients for their trust in us. We wish to congratulate our high<br />

achievers for their passion and dedication, their unique expertise and exemplary<br />

service. We look forward to further success with you in the years to come.<br />

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performers today:<br />

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Ilam 2 03 351 3002<br />

Merivale 03 355 6677<br />

St Albans 03 377 0377<br />

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