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PAGE 16 Wednesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

BAY HARBOUR<br />

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

News<br />

Dredge<br />

leaves<br />

port after<br />

finishing<br />

work<br />

THE SHIP Fairway, which has<br />

been involved in Lyttelton’s<br />

channel deepening project, left<br />

for Singapore at the weekend.<br />

One of the world’s largest<br />

dredges, she has been working<br />

in the harbour for the past 12<br />

weeks. Her dredging has been<br />

completed.<br />

Fairway has lengthened<br />

the channel by about 2.5km,<br />

widened it by 20m and deepened<br />

it by up to 2m.<br />

The project has already paid<br />

dividends with the Rio de<br />

Janeiro, the largest container<br />

ship to ever call at Lyttelton<br />

Port, arriving last month, said<br />

Lyttelton Port Company chief<br />

executive Peter Davie.<br />

“We know Canterbury freight<br />

volumes are forecast to double in<br />

the next 15 years, and container<br />

ships have doubled in size in<br />

the last 10. We are thrilled the<br />

project is nearly complete and<br />

we are now able to accommodate<br />

larger vessels,” he said.<br />

“The project secures the future<br />

for importers and exporters<br />

in the Canterbury region, as<br />

it means the port remains<br />

competitive for international<br />

shipping lines. The region’s<br />

exporters and importers will<br />

continue to have direct access<br />

to global markets and goods,<br />

competitive freight networks<br />

and cost-effective access.”<br />

“The dredging project,<br />

alongside our current<br />

reclamation of Te Awaparahi<br />

<strong>Bay</strong>, which is part of our longterm<br />

plan to move container<br />

terminal operations to the east<br />

away from the community, gives<br />

our customers confidence their<br />

growing cargo requirements will<br />

be met.”<br />

bay harbour<br />

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Now<br />

New film on Hinewai Reserve<br />

• By Matt Salmons<br />

AKAROA’S HINEWAI Reserve<br />

will feature in an upcoming<br />

documentary by transtasman<br />

film company Happen Films.<br />

The 30-40min film will focus<br />

on the regeneration of native<br />

bush in the reserve.<br />

There is still no set release<br />

date, but Happen Films hopes to<br />

have its premiere in the Banks<br />

Peninsula area by the end of<br />

March.<br />

The two-person film company<br />

is made up of Little River’s<br />

Antoinette Wilson and Jordan<br />

Osmand who is based in<br />

Australia.<br />

Wilson said the pair started<br />

making films in 2015. Their first<br />

project, A Simpler Way: Crisis<br />

as Opportunity, was a crowdfunded<br />

look at how people could<br />

live within the means of earth’s<br />

resources.<br />

“The film was made free-toview<br />

on YouTube, where it’s now<br />

had over one million views,” she<br />

said.<br />

Wilson said she and Osmond<br />

made films to tell stories “about<br />

BUSH: The Happen Films crew set up Hinewai Reserve<br />

caretaker Hugh Wilson with a microphone in the bush.<br />

inspiring people and projects”,<br />

doing their bit to address “the<br />

environmental, social and economic<br />

crises the world is facing.”<br />

Their most recent film, Living<br />

the Change, was released in<br />

March. Ms Wilson said she<br />

hoped to organise screenings on<br />

Banks Peninsula soon.<br />

While filming Living the<br />

Change, the filmmakers<br />

discovered Hinewai Reserve.<br />

They wanted to tell the reserve’s<br />

story as it and 73-year-old<br />

caretaker Hugh Wilson were<br />

“entirely in line with our ethos<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

and approach to life.”<br />

Mr Wilson and his team spent<br />

more than 30 years regenerating<br />

farmland back to native bush<br />

with minimal interference. Only<br />

introduced species that cause<br />

the most damage were actively<br />

removed and controlled.<br />

The filmmakers said Mr Wilson<br />

put them “to shame” with<br />

his fitness, but he and his team<br />

had “generously accommodated”<br />

them for the shoot, which finished<br />

on <strong>November</strong> 12.<br />

“We came away incredibly<br />

inspired by Hugh’s reserve<br />

management philosophies, his<br />

lifestyle and his deeply held<br />

principles.”<br />

Wilson said the Hinewai film<br />

was fully funded by a friend, “a<br />

huge luxury” for the filmmakers<br />

who normally relied on donations<br />

and crowd-funding.<br />

Wilson and Osmond will work<br />

with an editor and composer for<br />

the next two months to finish<br />

the Hinewai film while also<br />

starting work on their next short<br />

film series, a look at urban sustainability.<br />

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