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Circulation 92,573 Thursday, <strong>December</strong> 6, <strong>2018</strong><br />
GORGEOUS<br />
GEORGE FINDS<br />
NEW HOME<br />
SPCA bids farewell<br />
Triple treats grow older<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
THE THREE bouncing babies<br />
who won hearts in a viral<br />
online video have now grown<br />
into tireless toddlers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> triplets, Macy, Sadie<br />
and Toby O’Leary will be<br />
17-months-old on Monday<br />
and their mother Sarah says<br />
they are adjusting to life as a<br />
big family.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are fraternal and were<br />
born less than a minute apart.<br />
Not long after their birth,<br />
a video of the red-headed<br />
trio taken by Hazel&Cass<br />
photographer Cassandra<br />
English went viral online.<br />
It has reached more than<br />
nine million views.<br />
Now, Mrs O’Leary says the<br />
triplets have all gained their<br />
individual personalities and<br />
quirks.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y are three very different<br />
toddlers.”<br />
Toby now has beach<br />
blonde hair, growing out of his<br />
ginger locks, unlike his two<br />
sisters.<br />
“He is very boisterous and<br />
loud. He’s more advanced than<br />
the other two in that he can<br />
walk. Now he can run around,<br />
he wants to play with the big<br />
boys. He’s definitely his father’s<br />
son,” said Mrs O’Leary.<br />
“Sadie is always wanting to<br />
dress up and wear goofy things<br />
on her head, she doesn’t mind<br />
putting on a show in front of<br />
everybody. But out of all three,<br />
she is the more clingy one, that<br />
needs the most attention. She’s<br />
the little one, but if she wants<br />
something, she will fight you<br />
for it.”<br />
•Turn to page 4<br />
PAGE 2 PAGE 3<br />
Beirne<br />
back in<br />
court on<br />
harness<br />
race fixing<br />
charges<br />
HIGH PROFILE Christchurch<br />
businessman Graham Beirne was<br />
back in court again yesterday over<br />
the harness race fixing scandal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 71-year-old, who has<br />
previously denied two race fixing<br />
charges, yesterday faced a third<br />
charge in the district court.<br />
Defence counsel Richard Raymond<br />
QC asked for no plea to be<br />
entered on the<br />
new charge.<br />
Beirne<br />
declined to<br />
talk to <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Star</strong> yesterday<br />
about the latest<br />
charge: “I’ve got<br />
no comment.”<br />
When he was Graham Beirne<br />
first charged<br />
several weeks ago he said publicly<br />
the “charges were nonsense” and<br />
“race fixing doesn’t happen.”<br />
A suppression order prohibiting<br />
publication of his name lapsed in<br />
October.<br />
Eleven other charges alleging<br />
race fixing – including the drugging<br />
of a horse – were laid in the<br />
district court yesterday as part of<br />
the ongoing police investigation<br />
into corruption in the harness<br />
racing industry.<br />
<strong>The</strong> investigation has been<br />
led by the National Organised<br />
Crime Organisation, codenamed<br />
Operation Inca. •Turn to page 4<br />
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Maddie back in hospital after kidney scare<br />
• By Emily O’Connell<br />
KIDNEY transplant recipient<br />
Maddie Collins is expecting<br />
to fly to <strong>Star</strong>ship Children’s<br />
Health in Auckland today.<br />
Tests results on Tuesday<br />
showed her kidney function<br />
“wasn’t great” and she had to<br />
SPCA farewells George<br />
Abused and<br />
beaten dog<br />
finally finds a<br />
happy home<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
GEORGE THE staffordshirecross<br />
who was abused and<br />
beaten, finally has a new<br />
home.<br />
He has been adopted after<br />
spending 21 months in the care<br />
of the SPCA, which has been<br />
waiting patiently for a suitable<br />
home for him.<br />
SPCA Christchurch chief inspector<br />
Jamie Hancock said her<br />
team is thrilled for George.<br />
“His new family adore him<br />
and its really sweet to hear how<br />
quickly he has bonded with<br />
them. <strong>The</strong>y’ve already been<br />
following our advice about his<br />
favourite healthy choices, such<br />
as broccoli. It seems the perfect<br />
home was worth the wait,” she<br />
said.<br />
In February 2017, the SPCA<br />
received a complaint that a dog<br />
was being beaten.<br />
<strong>The</strong> SPCA visited the property<br />
the next day and took possession<br />
of George.<br />
In June, George’s owner<br />
Jade Noanoa, pleaded guilty to<br />
ill-treating an animal. He was<br />
sentenced to three months’ community<br />
detention, ordered to pay<br />
reparations of about $3100 and<br />
was disqualified from owning<br />
dogs for five years.<br />
It was alleged George had been<br />
be admitted to Christchurch<br />
Hospital.<br />
Maddie, 14, of West Melton<br />
was on route to Nelson with her<br />
grandmother Elaine Manson<br />
when her mother Sarah Manson-<br />
Collins received the results.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair drove back immediately<br />
and Maddie has since<br />
GORGEOUS: George gives<br />
SPCA senior inspector<br />
Sam Cairns a kiss goodbye<br />
after a 21-month wait for<br />
adoption.<br />
kicked, punched, strangled,<br />
beaten with weapons, shot at<br />
with a BB gun and verbally<br />
abused.<br />
<strong>The</strong> SPCA said it won’t be<br />
revealing who is George’s new<br />
owner. He is doing “really well<br />
and is very relaxed.”<br />
“He’s met the entire extended<br />
family, he even went to a rest<br />
home for a visit and was a star,<br />
been under observation.<br />
Maddie, who suffers from the<br />
kidney disease nephrotic syndrome,<br />
underwent a successful<br />
kidney transplant in January.<br />
Mrs Manson-Collins said<br />
they are unsure what is going<br />
on with her kidney and they<br />
hope they will be able to “get to<br />
loved all the attention and even<br />
had a nap on the couch. He’s<br />
loving his car rides and has been<br />
the bottom of it” at <strong>Star</strong>ship.<br />
“She’s great, she’s a wee bit<br />
scared if I was honest,” she said.<br />
Mrs Manson-Collins is<br />
unsure of how long they will<br />
be in Auckland for but says<br />
Maddie will need to undergo<br />
further testing and maybe a<br />
biopsy.<br />
visiting the local park,” George’s<br />
new owner told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>,<br />
through the SPCA.<br />
in brief<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Man in court after<br />
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court on Wednesday over the<br />
theft of tickets to Show Biz<br />
Christchurch’s Les Miserables<br />
show. Joseph Burt, 28, has been<br />
charged with receiving 30 Les<br />
Miserables tickets and 180 Hoyts<br />
movie tickets, which were stolen<br />
from <strong>Star</strong> Media in Addington<br />
in a hole-in-the-roof burglary<br />
in August. <strong>The</strong> tickets were later<br />
sold online.<br />
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Triple treats<br />
grow older<br />
•From page 1<br />
“And Macy is the sweet,<br />
patient one. She will wait patiently<br />
for things and is cuddly,<br />
quiet and enjoys playing by<br />
herself.”<br />
Along with<br />
the triplets,<br />
Sarah and<br />
her husband<br />
Fionn are<br />
kept busy<br />
with two<br />
other boys,<br />
Olly, 6, and<br />
Archy, who is<br />
almost three-years-old.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Hoon Hay family often<br />
get stopped in public by people<br />
asking questions about the<br />
large family, or just to admire<br />
then.<br />
“I get a lot of comments from<br />
people saying about how busy<br />
I must be. A lot of older ladies<br />
are amazed by the girls with<br />
their bright red hair and blue<br />
eyes. Even older men stop me<br />
to tell me stories about their<br />
family trees or a friend of a<br />
friend who had triplets.”<br />
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More charges laid in Operation Inca<br />
•From page 1<br />
Widespread suppression orders<br />
remain in place for many of the<br />
people charged.<br />
A North Canterbury man in<br />
his 50s, a driver, appeared yesterday,<br />
facing one race fixing charge,<br />
alleging that a substance was<br />
administered to a horse to gain<br />
an advantage at a race meeting<br />
earlier this year. He is charged<br />
with conspiring with one of the<br />
other defendants to fix the race.<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest charges are against<br />
nine people. Four charges allege<br />
drug transactions and eight allege<br />
race fixing. At least one of<br />
the new charges of race fixing<br />
was laid as an alternative to an<br />
earlier charge, defence counsel<br />
James Rapley told the court, Stuff<br />
reported.<br />
Some cases are remanded without<br />
plea but many now have pleas<br />
of not guilty and elections of trial<br />
by jury. <strong>The</strong> cases going to trial<br />
are remanded to March 25 for a<br />
case review hearing.<br />
Andrew Stuart has pleaded not<br />
guilty to five race fixing charges.<br />
Suppression orders covers eight<br />
of the names of those involved,<br />
the nature of some charges, and<br />
the summaries of facts relating to<br />
the race fixing charges.<br />
For four of those involved,<br />
SCANDAL: A major police investigation into race fixing is<br />
continuing.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
name suppression was refused in<br />
the district court, but it has been<br />
appealed to the High Court. That<br />
appeal hearing was due to be<br />
heard next week, but it has now<br />
been delayed to February 7, Stuff<br />
reported.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cases were called yesterday<br />
to progress some of them<br />
through to a hearing on January<br />
29, and then most are also arranged<br />
to carry on to the case<br />
review hearing – the next step in<br />
the trial process.<br />
•Horse trainer Nigel Raymond<br />
McGrath faces one race fixing<br />
charge. He is remanded to the<br />
case review.<br />
•<strong>The</strong> man who has been<br />
newly charged was remanded<br />
to March 25 on one race-fixing<br />
charge and granted interim suppression<br />
until that date, when the<br />
issue will be argued if it is to be<br />
continued.<br />
•Brent Stephen Wall, 47, who<br />
was charged in the North Island,<br />
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March 25 date when the case<br />
was transferred and he did not<br />
appear at court in Christchurch<br />
for yesterday’s session. He faces a<br />
race fixing charge.<br />
•Defence counsel Phil Shamy,<br />
appearing for Elie Georges Sawma,<br />
42, a Papanui hairdresser,<br />
said his client was not actually<br />
part of the Operation Inca investigation,<br />
but pre-trial arguments<br />
would cover the same issues as<br />
other defendants. His case on<br />
charges of supplying ecstasy and<br />
cocaine has been dealt with at<br />
the Operation Inca hearings so<br />
far, and he is again remanded to<br />
the same case review session in<br />
March.<br />
•Nigel Raymond McGrath,<br />
a 44-year-old horse trainer, of<br />
Rolleston, appears on one race<br />
fixing charge. He is remanded to<br />
the case review.<br />
•Andrew Douglas Stuart, 42, or<br />
Loburn, now appears on five race<br />
fixing charges after two more<br />
charges were laid on Wednesday.<br />
He has pleaded not guilty, elected<br />
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Road carnage continues<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
A HORRIFIC crash which killed<br />
two people is the second fatality<br />
following a police pursuit in less<br />
than three weeks.<br />
Two passengers, a man and<br />
a woman, were killed when the<br />
car they were in smashed into<br />
a power pole near the corner<br />
of Breezes and Cuthberts Rds,<br />
around 2.30am yesterday.<br />
Another<br />
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Hospital with<br />
moderate<br />
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less than a minute before selfabandoning<br />
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driving.<br />
Shortly after the vehicle was<br />
found crashed.<br />
Stuff reported yesterday that<br />
a man who survived the crash<br />
WRECK: Two people died following a single car crash in<br />
Aranui yesterday morning.<br />
was yelling to police to get his<br />
pregnant partner out of the<br />
wreckage.<br />
A nearby resident who heard<br />
the crash said the man was yelling<br />
“get her out, my partner’s in<br />
the car I think she’s knocked out<br />
and she’s pregnant.”<br />
Police would not confirm<br />
yesterday whether the deceased<br />
woman was pregnant.<br />
On November 16, 18-year-old<br />
Alexia Noble-Hazelwood was<br />
killed when the car she was in<br />
crashed, after it attempted to<br />
evade police. <strong>The</strong> car crashed<br />
through a fence and into a tree<br />
and building near the entrance<br />
to Christchurch East School in<br />
the central city.<br />
Darrin Stewart, 18, has been<br />
charged with causing Miss<br />
Noble-Hazelwood’s death by<br />
the unlawful act of dangerous<br />
driving.<br />
He is also charged that having<br />
been involved in an accident<br />
where a person was killed, he<br />
failed without reasonable excuse<br />
to stop and ascertain whether<br />
anyone had been injured.<br />
He is also charged with reckless<br />
driving causing injury to<br />
three other people.<br />
He will appear again in the<br />
High Court in February.<br />
Superintendent Todd encourages<br />
anyone signalled to stop by<br />
police to do just that.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> crash was a tragic<br />
outcome that nobody wants . . .<br />
it is not worth putting your life,<br />
your passenger’s life, or anyone<br />
else’s life at risk,” he said.<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
POLICE BELIEVE a man who<br />
was brutally stabbed outside a<br />
dairy was known to his attacker.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 45-year-old, who was taken<br />
to Christchurch Hospital with<br />
critical wounds on Tuesday, is<br />
now in a stable condition.<br />
Detective Sergeant James<br />
Simpson said yesterday that police<br />
were yet to formally interview the<br />
victim, but they believed the pair<br />
knew each other.<br />
He said there was “more than<br />
one” stab wound.<br />
Owner of the Keyes Rd dairy<br />
in North New Brighton, Sammie<br />
Zhu, told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> the victim is a<br />
regular customer, who had been<br />
at the dairy prior to the stabbing.<br />
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ATTACK: A<br />
45-year-old<br />
was stabbed<br />
near this dairy<br />
on Tuesday.<br />
Stabbing victim<br />
likely knew attacker<br />
He came back into the dairy<br />
asking for help after he had been<br />
stabbed.<br />
It took at least two hours to<br />
clean up the blood around the<br />
shop on Tuesday night, Mr Zhu<br />
said.<br />
Blood stains were still visible on<br />
the footpath yesterday morning.<br />
Mr Zhu said a teacher from<br />
nearby Rawhiti School was in the<br />
dairy at the time and provided<br />
first-aid assistance.<br />
Rawhiti School principal Liz<br />
Weir said a number of staff ended<br />
up helping.<br />
“I’m proud of them. Our<br />
staff have first-aid training and<br />
we assume they would use it<br />
in the school, not out in the<br />
community,” she said.<br />
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News<br />
Stonewood Homes court<br />
action still months away<br />
• By Daisy Hudson<br />
IT WILL be at least another few<br />
months before any progress is<br />
made in the court battle over the<br />
collapse of Christchurchbased<br />
Stonewood Homes.<br />
Queenstown Mayor Jim<br />
Boult, a former director<br />
of the failed construction<br />
company, is facing<br />
claims of more than $28<br />
million over allegations<br />
of reckless trading. He<br />
denies the claims.<br />
A High Court<br />
spokeswoman confirmed<br />
a teleconference was held<br />
last Thursday. Another<br />
was scheduled for<br />
February 21 next year.<br />
Mr Boult, a former<br />
chief executive of<br />
Christchurch Airport, is<br />
yet to confirm if he would take<br />
another tilt at the mayoralty, with<br />
local government elections set<br />
to be held in October. Mr Boult<br />
and former Stonewood managing<br />
director Brent Mettrick are being<br />
pursued by liquidators Rhys Cain<br />
and Rees Logan.<br />
High Court records show<br />
Mr Boult and Mr Mettrick<br />
are accused of three counts<br />
of breaching their duties as<br />
Jim Boult<br />
Brent<br />
Mettrick<br />
directors under the Companies<br />
Act 1993.<br />
<strong>The</strong> claim also alleges Mr<br />
Boult is liable to repay hundreds<br />
of thousands of dollars in<br />
directors’ fees because<br />
his remuneration for<br />
two companies was not<br />
properly authorised, fair,<br />
or added to the interests<br />
register.<br />
<strong>The</strong> breaches of<br />
directorship duties relate<br />
to claims the pair allowed<br />
companies to continue<br />
trading while insolvent,<br />
that Mr Boult “actively<br />
dissuaded” Mr Mettrick<br />
from accepting another<br />
offer to buy the company<br />
while he was making offers<br />
at the same time, and that<br />
the men put their personal<br />
interests above the best<br />
interests of the companies.<br />
Mr Boult and Mr Mettrick<br />
both deny the claims, with Mr<br />
Boult saying he acted in “good<br />
faith” as a director.<br />
Stonewood went into<br />
receivership on February 22,<br />
2016, owing unsecured creditors<br />
$15 million. About 110 home<br />
buyers were affected. It was later<br />
placed into liquidation.<br />
- Mountain Scene<br />
Anglican same-sex marriage<br />
opponents open new church<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
A NEW church has opened<br />
for people who split from the<br />
Christchurch Anglican Diocese<br />
after its decision to allow<br />
same-sex marriages.<br />
<strong>The</strong> newly re-branded All<br />
Saints Church had its first<br />
service on Sunday at the Palmer<br />
Funeral Chapel on Harewood<br />
Rd.<br />
<strong>The</strong> service was led by former<br />
St Stephen’s Anglican Church<br />
vicar Jay Behan,<br />
who was a guest<br />
preacher. He said<br />
the service was attended<br />
by almost<br />
50 people and was<br />
“a good, positive<br />
Andy<br />
Carley<br />
get-together.”<br />
Rev Behan<br />
stepped down<br />
from St Stephen’s<br />
in May, telling <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> he<br />
was saddened by the synod’s<br />
decision to embrace same-sex<br />
marriage, as his congregation<br />
had not “been able to come to<br />
an arrangement where, in good<br />
conscience, we can move forward<br />
together.”<br />
Former St Paul’s Anglican<br />
Church vicar Andy Carley gave<br />
BREAK AWAY: <strong>The</strong> new All Saints Church held its first<br />
service at the Palmer Funeral Chapel on Sunday.<br />
his last service at the church on<br />
Sunday and will now step in as<br />
the leader of All Saints Church.<br />
<strong>The</strong> St Paul’s congregation<br />
voted in May to stay with the<br />
Anglican Diocese, in spite of its<br />
new stance on same-sex marriage,<br />
with 70 per cent voting in<br />
favour of the status quo.<br />
<strong>The</strong> decision to allow samesex<br />
marriages was criticised<br />
by Rev Carley, who previously<br />
called the move “a step in the<br />
wrong direction.”<br />
Armed with a new logo and<br />
name, All Saints is calling its<br />
church “a new expression of<br />
Anglicanism.”<br />
Rev Carley refused to<br />
talk to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> about the new<br />
church.<br />
Said Christchurch Anglican<br />
Diocesan manager Edwin<br />
Boyce: “We recognise their<br />
desire to begin a new ministry<br />
and we wish them well.”
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Thursday <strong>December</strong> 6 <strong>2018</strong> 7<br />
Committee overhaul at council<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
David East<br />
THE WAY city councillors do<br />
their jobs is being overhauled to<br />
give them more time to spend in<br />
their communities.<br />
A report will be considered by<br />
the city council today that proposes<br />
a streamlining of its committees<br />
– including removing the<br />
strategic capability committee<br />
altogether.<br />
<strong>The</strong> finance<br />
and performance<br />
committee<br />
could<br />
also become a<br />
whole council<br />
committee and<br />
a new chief<br />
executive performance<br />
and<br />
employment<br />
committee may be established.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are currently 17 different<br />
city council committees as well<br />
as regional and joint committees.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> mayor and council have<br />
identified several issues associated<br />
with the current committee structure,<br />
which impact on the effectiveness<br />
of the decision-making<br />
processes,” the report said.<br />
More than 80 per cent of<br />
reports that go to the finance and<br />
performance committee, also go<br />
to the city council.<br />
“This repetition is perceived to<br />
ORGANISATION: <strong>The</strong> city council is overhauling its<br />
committee structure to reduce the number of reports<br />
councillors have to read.<br />
be a misuse of valuable time,” the<br />
report said.<br />
Mayor Lianne Dalziel called<br />
for a restructure in the Long<br />
Term Plan.<br />
Ms Dalziel said it was to ensure<br />
that the $500 million capital<br />
programme got a high level of<br />
oversight.<br />
“By adding new terms of<br />
reference to the finance and performance<br />
committee, making it<br />
a committee of the whole council<br />
and giving it power to act, it<br />
will replace one of the monthly<br />
council meetings and ensure<br />
in-depth oversight of the core<br />
critical projects, while providing<br />
discipline around the rest of the<br />
programmes.”<br />
Ms Dalziel said a benefit would<br />
be that all city councillors will<br />
be involved and decisions will be<br />
made only once.<br />
“Rather than referred as recommendations<br />
to the council as<br />
is the current arrangement.”<br />
Issues include subject overlap<br />
between committee agendas and<br />
confusion about which committee<br />
should deal with issues, a<br />
high volume of reading, finding<br />
enough time for meetings and<br />
providing enough city council<br />
staff to support each committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re has been a 54 per cent<br />
increase in reports over the last<br />
four years and a “significant<br />
increase” in resolutions.<br />
“Committee commitments<br />
contribute to a lack of time for<br />
elected members to fulfil their<br />
community representation and<br />
liaison roles,” it said.<br />
Residents’ associations canvassed<br />
by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> yesterday,<br />
including in Northshore, the<br />
central city and Linwood, said<br />
they were happy with the presence<br />
of their elected members.<br />
But Somerfield Residents’<br />
Association chairwoman Julie<br />
Tobbell said it was “great idea” if<br />
it meant they could be out more.<br />
“It would be lovely if they had<br />
more time and were more prevalent<br />
in the community,” she said.<br />
City councillor David East,<br />
who is on the strategic capability<br />
committee, supported the move.<br />
He said “at times” the amount<br />
of reading and commitments to<br />
committee meetings had been an<br />
issue.<br />
Cr East also said streamlining<br />
the finance committee was<br />
important, as all councillors<br />
should be involved in spending<br />
decisions.<br />
It comes at a time when the<br />
strategic capability committee<br />
approved the new city council<br />
“no surprises” protocol for<br />
elected members.<br />
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St John spokeswoman Ngaire<br />
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park about 4.15pm on Tuesday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man was taken to<br />
Christchurch Hospital in a serious<br />
condition.<br />
A Christchurch Adventure<br />
Park spokeswoman said yesterday<br />
the accident happened on<br />
Lord of the Possums trail.<br />
<strong>The</strong> trail is an intermediate<br />
level trail for competent mountain<br />
bike riders.<br />
It was the second time this<br />
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It was closed for 10 months after<br />
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ews<br />
Pneumonia: It strikes when<br />
Pneumonia can strike<br />
anywhere, anytime, and<br />
can kill the young, old,<br />
weak and strong alike.<br />
Julia Evans reports<br />
TIM SINTES has been in<br />
bed living off a diet of english<br />
breakfast tea and Kurols cough<br />
drops for the past five weeks.<br />
It’s a big change for the 67-yearold<br />
former fisherman, who can<br />
normally be found surfing,<br />
gardening or tinkering in his<br />
shed.<br />
But Mr Sintes, who is deputy<br />
chairman of the Coastal-<br />
Burwood Community Board,<br />
has been “knocked for six” by a<br />
severe case of pneumonia.<br />
It’s landed him in hospital<br />
twice.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> day before it happened,<br />
I was riding my mountain bike<br />
over Rapaki with my daughter.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next day, I woke up and I<br />
thought I just had hay fever, I<br />
had a blocked nose and that was<br />
about it,” Mr Sintes said.<br />
He started to shake and shiver<br />
– the next morning he went to<br />
the doctor.<br />
“One listen to the croak in<br />
my chest and he said ‘you’ve got<br />
quite severe pneumonia’. I went<br />
straight to get an x-ray and then I<br />
was admitted to hospital.”<br />
It went downhill from there.<br />
“I just kept getting worse.<br />
At first we thought it was<br />
legionnaries, I’d just redone the<br />
lawns.”<br />
Every year Mr Sintes’ hosts<br />
a community Christmas<br />
celebration at his Southshore<br />
home and was relaying the lawn<br />
for the occasion.<br />
“But I’d been wearing a mask<br />
when I was doing the lawn . . .<br />
they worked out it was a bacterial<br />
infection that caused the<br />
pneumonia, but nobody knows<br />
how I got it.”<br />
Mr Sintes said he knew nothing<br />
about pneumonia before, but now<br />
he is an expert.<br />
“I did not realise the<br />
ON THE MEND: Coastal-Burwood Community Board deputy chairman Tim Sintes has<br />
been in bed for five weeks with a severe case of pneumonia.<br />
seriousness of it. When people<br />
would say to me they’ve got<br />
pneumonia, I would think it was<br />
just a bit like having the flu,” he<br />
said.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were moments he<br />
thought he would never breathe<br />
again when his lungs felt like<br />
they were compressing in on<br />
themselves.<br />
“I was on oxygen in a severe<br />
state for three days. I couldn’t<br />
breathe and the bed was<br />
wringing wet from me sweating<br />
so much. One night I had the<br />
most intense hallucinations.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were in 3D colour. It was<br />
horrible,” he said.<br />
“You feel very vulnerable.<br />
Usually I’m too busy to be sick.”<br />
He was discharged from<br />
hospital and felt like he was on<br />
the mend.<br />
“I felt better and I thought,<br />
wow, I can do all these things.<br />
Since I didn’t feel too bad, I<br />
thought good, it was all over,” he<br />
said.<br />
Soon he was back in the surf,<br />
mowing the lawns and just about<br />
at the end of his first course of<br />
antibiotics.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re were about three or<br />
four days where I couldn’t quite<br />
believe it, I felt alive again.<br />
One day I mowed the lawns, the<br />
next day I was out for a coffee in<br />
Sumner and I started feeling not<br />
too good again,” Mr Sintes said.<br />
His wife Jan suggested he go to<br />
hospital.“<strong>The</strong> aches and shakes<br />
were back and I thought, ‘no, I<br />
don’t want to go to hospital’. But<br />
I had to tell my wife to ring the<br />
ambulance.”<br />
He ended up spending another<br />
six days in hospital.<br />
‘I was on oxygen in a severe state for three days.<br />
I couldn’t breathe and the bed was wringing<br />
wet from me sweating so much. One night I had<br />
the most intense hallucinations. <strong>The</strong>y were in 3D<br />
colour. It was horrible’ – Tim Sintes<br />
Mr Sintes was discharged from<br />
hospital for the second time 10<br />
days ago.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pneumonia had spread to<br />
his other lung. “That taught me<br />
a lesson. Listen to your doctor<br />
when they say you need to rest. I<br />
didn’t think it was much, I didn’t<br />
think of the consequences and<br />
now I’ve been sick for five weeks.”<br />
After losing 8kg, Mr Sintes<br />
believes he may be on the road to<br />
recovery and has been getting his<br />
appetite back.<br />
“I’m so cautious now. I don’t<br />
want to go backwards again.”<br />
Although most people are<br />
lamenting the cold start to<br />
summer, Mr Sintes said it has<br />
been great.<br />
“It would be torture if I had<br />
to lie here and it was sunny. I<br />
enjoy life so much. Believe me,<br />
this weather has been bad for<br />
everyone except me.”<br />
Six weeks ago, Mr Sintes<br />
had an accident with a<br />
chainsaw and cut his leg. Two<br />
weeks later he was back out<br />
surfing. “It’s hard to believe you<br />
can be right two weeks after<br />
being cut by a chainsaw, but<br />
you can be knocked for six by<br />
something like this.”<br />
But the cause of his pneumonia<br />
remains a mystery.<br />
“It’s the strangest feeling.<br />
I’m the kind of person that<br />
needs explanations and needs a<br />
reason, but this time it could be<br />
anything,” he said.<br />
Mr Sintes said people had<br />
asked if it was related to stress<br />
from his city council work and<br />
the code of conduct investigation<br />
he and Coastal Ward city<br />
councillor David East, Coastal-<br />
Burwood Community Board<br />
chairwoman Kim Money and<br />
Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
Community Board member<br />
Darrell Latham are facing over<br />
their comments alleging city<br />
council staff tampered with the<br />
District Plan, which affected<br />
property owners in flood prone<br />
areas.<br />
“I can easily say it’s not. I’m not<br />
a stress kind of person. My way<br />
of relaxing is being busy, that’s<br />
different.”<br />
Raising the issue has been a<br />
“weight off my shoulders,” he<br />
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you least expect it<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
PNEUMONIA IS an infection<br />
of the lungs, usually caused by<br />
bacteria or a virus, and is often<br />
triggered by a cold or flu.<br />
It causes inflammation of the<br />
air sacs in one or both lungs<br />
when your immune system is<br />
overwhelmed and you can’t fight<br />
off the bug causing the infection.<br />
When infection sets in, the air<br />
sacs in one or both lungs fill with<br />
pus and fluids, making breathing<br />
difficult.<br />
Anyone can develop<br />
pneumonia but the risk is greater<br />
in babies and children aged four<br />
and under and in adults over 65.<br />
Adults who have a chronic lung<br />
condition, weakened immune<br />
system, drink excessively, smoke<br />
or are in hospital are also prone.<br />
In children, the risk of<br />
pneumonia is increased by<br />
premature birth, poor nutrition,<br />
low birth weight, not being<br />
breast-fed, exposure to tobacco<br />
smoke, lack of insulation and<br />
heating at home or living in<br />
damp, mouldy or overcrowded<br />
conditions.<br />
Symptoms include coughing<br />
(often with yellow or green<br />
ILLNESS: Last year there were 124 deaths in Canterbury<br />
caused by pneumonia.<br />
coloured phlegm), mild or<br />
high fever, shaking and chills,<br />
shortness of breath, increased<br />
effort to take a breath, low energy<br />
and fatigue, loss of appetite,<br />
headache, and chest pain that<br />
gets worse when you breathe<br />
deeply or cough.<br />
But most mild cases of<br />
pneumonia can be treated at<br />
home with rest, plenty of fluids<br />
and antibiotics.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ministry of Health advises<br />
resting as much as possible in an<br />
upright position, drinking plenty<br />
of fluids, antibiotics as prescribed<br />
and avoiding smoking or passive<br />
smoking. Taking medications,<br />
such as paracetamol or ibuprofen,<br />
if required can help relieve pain<br />
and fever.<br />
However, hospital admission<br />
is recommended for babies,<br />
young children and older adults,<br />
and for people who have severe<br />
pneumonia.<br />
•Canterbury District Health Board data shows in 2017<br />
to <strong>2018</strong>, there were 1736 patients admitted with<br />
pneumonia and 124 deaths<br />
•In 2016 to 2017, there were 1585 admissions and 104<br />
deaths<br />
•In 2016 to 2015, there were 1442 admissions and 95<br />
deaths<br />
•In 2015 to 2014, there were 1416 admissions and 109<br />
deaths<br />
•In 2013 to 2014, there were 1353 admissions and 115<br />
deaths<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canterbury District Health<br />
Board recorded 1736 admissions<br />
and 124 deaths from pneumonia<br />
in 2017-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
CDHB executive director<br />
planning, funding and decision<br />
support Carolyn Gullery said<br />
there has been an “increased<br />
number” of people being<br />
diagnosed with pneumonia.<br />
“This may reflect both greater<br />
prevalence and improved<br />
recording of data about the<br />
condition. Pneumonia is affected<br />
by a wide range of factors,<br />
including respiratory diseases<br />
which are prevalent.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> mortality rate varies a<br />
little, but remains in line with<br />
population growth, she said.<br />
It can take about six months to<br />
fully recover. In a week<br />
the fever should be gone;<br />
within four weeks chest<br />
pain and mucus should have<br />
reduced; and in six weeks the<br />
cough or breathlessness should<br />
have also reduced.<br />
But it will take about three<br />
months for most symptoms to<br />
disappear, although there may<br />
be continued signs of fatigue. In<br />
six months most people will feel<br />
back to normal.<br />
Prevention methods include<br />
the flu vaccination, regularly<br />
washing hands, not smoking as it<br />
damages the lung’s ability to fight<br />
infection, staying rested and fit,<br />
staying home when you’re sick<br />
and avoiding people who have a<br />
cold or the flu.<br />
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9 th <strong>December</strong><br />
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16 th <strong>December</strong><br />
- Kids face painting for<br />
Christmas parade<br />
23 rd <strong>December</strong><br />
- Gala Christmas<br />
Market<br />
Maan Alkaisi<br />
for community service and public<br />
advocacy<br />
Ken Clearwater<br />
for services to male survivors of<br />
sexual abuse<br />
Pat Duggan and Paul O’Connor<br />
for services to ANZAC Day<br />
Ruth Gardner<br />
for community service<br />
Coleen Dunlop<br />
for community service<br />
Jillian Lord<br />
for services to social history<br />
Bob Shearing<br />
for community service<br />
Pauline Mohi<br />
for services to public health<br />
Katherine Peet<br />
for services to public education<br />
Stephen Phillips<br />
for community service<br />
Maurice White Native Forest<br />
Conservation Trust<br />
for services to conservation<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
Christmas With<br />
the Cathedral<br />
Singers and<br />
Brass<br />
<strong>The</strong> Transitional Cathedral,<br />
Latimer Square, 2-4pm,<br />
free<br />
Enjoy an afternoon of Christmas<br />
music with the Cathedral Singers<br />
and Cathedral Brass. All the old<br />
favourites and some new ones,<br />
plus the chance to sing along.<br />
Take an afternoon off from the<br />
stresses of the season.<br />
FRIDAY<br />
SummerTimes<br />
Launch<br />
124 Oxford Tce, 4.30-7.30pm, free<br />
event<br />
Celebrate summer in the city with free live<br />
music and a sausage sizzle. <strong>The</strong> bands will<br />
start at 5.15pm, so let the sounds of Hawaiian<br />
Maiden and the Dusty Hustle take you into<br />
the weekend.<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
Carols at<br />
Riccarton Bush<br />
Riccarton Bush, Fendalton,<br />
6.30-8pm, free<br />
A fun-filled night of singing Christmas<br />
Carols with the Addington Brass. This will<br />
be an event for the whole family.<br />
SATURDAY<br />
New Brighton Seaside Christmas<br />
Parade<br />
40 Brighton Mall, New Brighton, 10am-2pm<br />
Meet Santa on the beach and watch a fun community parade, shop<br />
around at the Seaside Market for your Christmas gifts and catch<br />
some great entertainment. Santa will meets the kids in his grotto.<br />
<strong>The</strong> big man is expected to arrive by boat at 10.15am.<br />
FRIDAY<br />
<strong>The</strong> Twilight<br />
Fete<br />
Rangiora A&P Showgrounds,<br />
156 Ashley St, Rangiora,<br />
5-9pm. Adults $5, children $1<br />
(aged 5-15), pre-schoolers free<br />
A fun night out for all, with stalls,<br />
entertainment and food. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
will be some old favourites as well<br />
as some new and exciting stalls.<br />
<strong>The</strong> entertainment has also been<br />
expanded to include some rides,<br />
and a Fun HQ which will be filling<br />
the pavilion with inflatables galore.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be an ATM onsite. This<br />
event is alcohol free.<br />
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Thursday and Friday<br />
Leighs Construction<br />
Outdoor Cinema<br />
<strong>The</strong> Arts Centre, 2 Worcester Boulevard,<br />
5-10.30pm, free<br />
<strong>The</strong> Arts Centre is celebrating summer with another<br />
series of outdoor cinema events for the whole family.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be two sessions, with a family-friendly film<br />
at 5.30pm and a film for general audiences at 8pm.<br />
A gold coin donation would be appreciated and all<br />
proceeds will be put towards the restoration of the<br />
Arts Centre.<br />
Christchurch West Melton Water Zone Committee<br />
Storminators and jellyfish latest tools in stormwater sting<br />
Arapata Reuben, Chair of the<br />
Christchurch West Melton Water<br />
Zone Committee<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest Christchurch<br />
West Melton Zone Committee<br />
meeting was held on an<br />
appropriately drizzly October night<br />
at the of University of Canterbury<br />
(UC), and we were pleased to have<br />
members of<br />
the public join us.<br />
This was our chance to experience<br />
first hand some of the UC stormwater<br />
treatment systems in place on campus<br />
and to grapple with the range of<br />
potential solutions on offer to help<br />
manage water quality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Christchurch West Melton Water Zone Committee<br />
is a community led committee supported by councils.<br />
UC has identified that their on-campus<br />
waterways are increasingly degraded<br />
by stormwater events. Students are<br />
currently undertaking projects to<br />
address the issue of dissolved metal<br />
pollutants flowing directly from roof<br />
run off into campus waterways.<br />
UC’s experimental modules are<br />
helping students understand how<br />
living roofs can reduce contaminants<br />
from stormwater and reduce<br />
stormwater volumes.<br />
A second key project being<br />
investigated by UC students is the<br />
Storminator, a simple retrofittable<br />
fb.com/canterburywater<br />
solution that removes over 90% of<br />
dissolved metals directly from roof run<br />
off as it passes through the downpipes.<br />
We also learned about the state<br />
of the art Jellyfish underground<br />
stormwater treatment system which<br />
uses ‘tentacles’ to catch and remove<br />
pollutants.<br />
After the onsite visit the group<br />
returned to the lecture theatre to<br />
hear from Christchurch International<br />
Airport Company (CIAL) about the<br />
comprehensive stormwater design and<br />
maintenance programme CIAL operate<br />
under and the ongoing stormwater<br />
protection education program they<br />
take all tenants and operators through.<br />
Be a stormwater superhero<br />
Stormwater is water that runs off the<br />
land into our gutters. It flows untreated<br />
into our waterways and out to sea. On<br />
its journey it picks up a whole heap of<br />
nasty bits and pieces that end up in<br />
our rivers and streams. So, put on your<br />
Superhero cape and do your bit to help<br />
clean up our waterways – visit<br />
ecan.govt.nz/stormwater for some<br />
handy tips.
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News<br />
Fizzy drink out,<br />
fruit and veges in<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
IT COULD be a lot harder to find<br />
ice cream, lollies, hot chips and<br />
fizzy drinks at city council events<br />
and facilities.<br />
A new healthy food and drink<br />
policy could begin being phased<br />
in across city council events and<br />
facilities, such as pools and cafes,<br />
from April.<br />
It was approved by the social,<br />
community development and<br />
housing committee yesterday and<br />
will now be approved by the city<br />
council.<br />
<strong>The</strong> policy could affect recreation,<br />
sport facilities and library,<br />
events, city council leases and<br />
sponsorships.<br />
However, it will be a “transitionary”<br />
process rather than a<br />
“prescriptive” one and would be<br />
complete by 2022, a report said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> proportion of healthy<br />
options including fruit and<br />
vegetables, milk and nuts, will be<br />
increased. While unhealthy food<br />
and drink will be either removed<br />
entirely or reduced.<br />
Sugary drinks will be “ultimately<br />
eliminated” as part of the policy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> policy said a lot of people<br />
consider council events and facilities<br />
“special occasions” so may<br />
POLICY: A new city<br />
council scheme could see<br />
unhealthy food phased out<br />
from facilities, such as the<br />
QE II Sport and Recreation<br />
Centre.<br />
be more inclined to want less<br />
healthy foods – so most would<br />
not be removed entirely.<br />
Contracts at city council facilities<br />
will have to be renegotiated to<br />
take the policy into consideration.<br />
“However, it is not considered<br />
realistic to unduly constrain any<br />
potential food and beverage provider<br />
to completely exclude certain<br />
food or beverage types (such<br />
as white bread or ice-creams),”<br />
the report said.<br />
It would not apply to non-council<br />
run events and would have a<br />
“minor” impact on revenue.<br />
It will affect vending machines<br />
most, which currently have 90 per<br />
cent unhealthy food and 80 per<br />
cent drinks.<br />
OF ALL the things I expected to<br />
deal with as a stay-at-home-dad,<br />
Vittoria being mean to another<br />
baby was not one of them.<br />
Maybe that was a foolish assumption,<br />
I don’t know, I’ve only<br />
got the one kid remember.<br />
What are you supposed to do<br />
in that situation? And what is the<br />
other parent supposed to do?<br />
Is there a book on this?<br />
On Tuesday I took Vittoria to a<br />
Plunket playgroup in Papanui on<br />
the advice of a fellow full-time<br />
dad.<br />
It was an enjoyable morning,<br />
the sun was out and there was<br />
plenty of toys and other kids for<br />
Vittoria to play with.<br />
During the course of her rambling<br />
about exploring, she went<br />
inside and sat next to another<br />
wee lass, only a couple of months<br />
younger than her who was playing<br />
with a book.<br />
So, naturally, she steals said<br />
book off the poor kid.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other baby’s mum was<br />
really good about it, even told her<br />
daughter to share.<br />
However, Vittoria was not satisfied<br />
with just taking her book.<br />
Oh no, she started grabbing<br />
anything this kid was holding,<br />
ignoring my vain pleas for her to<br />
desist or share.<br />
Eventually the other baby got<br />
VITTORIA<br />
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sick of Vittoria’s shtick and went<br />
to grab her book back.<br />
Vittoria promptly hit her in the<br />
head with it.<br />
I was mortified, I’d never seen<br />
her hit anyone else before (she’s<br />
hit me heaps, but not in anger).<br />
<strong>The</strong> wee lass started crying<br />
and I profusely apologised to the<br />
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mum and told Vittoria off – but I<br />
don’t know if I did enough?<br />
Vittoria’s had bigger kids do<br />
similar to her and I didn’t know<br />
what I should have done then<br />
either. Other people’s kids seem<br />
like a minefield topic.<br />
Either way, I took Vittoria back<br />
outside to where there were older<br />
kids than her so she couldn’t<br />
course anymore grief.<br />
I suppose I’ll get better at this,<br />
I really don’t think I want a bully<br />
for a daughter, regardless of how<br />
dang cute she is.<br />
In a much nicer update, we<br />
took Vittoria to the Santa Parade<br />
over the weekend.<br />
I’m stoked the old floats like<br />
Mother Goose and the Haunted<br />
House are still about. I haven’t<br />
been to a parade in quite a few<br />
years so it was cool to see the<br />
old classics and share them with<br />
Vittoria.<br />
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A glimpse of<br />
Xinjiang<br />
News<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chinese people often say: “One does<br />
not know how vast and beautiful China<br />
is until one visits Xinjiang.” Where is<br />
Xinjiang and what makes it different<br />
from other parts of China? Here are<br />
some outstanding facts of the Xinjiang<br />
Uygur Autonomous Region (also called<br />
Xinjiang for short) which may help<br />
people have some basic idea about this<br />
mysterious land of China.<br />
First, it has vast land. Situated in the<br />
border area of northwest China and the<br />
hinterland of the Eurasian Continent,<br />
it occupies an area of 1.6649 million<br />
sq km and is the largest Chinese<br />
administrative division (altogether<br />
China has 23 Provinces, 5 Autonomous<br />
Regions, 4 Municipalities and 2 Special<br />
Administrative Regions). It has a land<br />
border of 5,600 km bounded by eight<br />
countries. Considering the size of the<br />
region – it makes up 1/6 of all of China’s<br />
land area, there is no doubt that Xinjiang<br />
offers not only the most beautiful<br />
scenery in all of China, but also the<br />
most diverse landscapes: from one of<br />
the world’s largest deserts to one of the<br />
world’s largest mountain ranges.<br />
Second, it is home to all of China’s 56<br />
ethnic groups. <strong>The</strong> Uyghur, Han, Kazakh<br />
and Hui living in Xinjiang each has a<br />
population of over 1m, with the Uyghurs<br />
accounting for about 48 per cent and<br />
the Hans accounting for about 37 per<br />
cent of the entire population. Xinjiang<br />
highlights the beauty of China with its<br />
ethnic harmony.<br />
In 1955, the system of regional ethnic<br />
autonomy was implemented, providing<br />
a strong institutional guarantee for the<br />
ethnic groups of Xinjiang to exercise<br />
their right of autonomy, administer<br />
their own local affairs, and participate<br />
as equals in administering state affairs.<br />
Chairperson of the autonomous region,<br />
governors of autonomous prefectures,<br />
and heads of autonomous counties<br />
are all citizens from the ethnic groups<br />
exercising regional autonomy. In 1950,<br />
there were only about 3,000 ethnic<br />
minority officials in Xinjiang. In 2016,<br />
this number reached 91,076, accounting<br />
for 40 percent of the region’s total.<br />
Third, traditional ethnic cultures are<br />
well protected in Xinjiang. Xinjiang is<br />
a multilingual region with around 20<br />
different spoken and written languages.<br />
Schools use the standard Chinese<br />
language and the languages of their<br />
respective ethnicities to implement<br />
bilingual education. Newspapers, books,<br />
and e-publications are published in six<br />
languages. Xinjiang is rich in cultural<br />
heritage. By the end of 2017 Xinjiang<br />
had 9,542 cultural heritage sites, of<br />
which six were World Heritage sites, 113<br />
were key national sites. Uygur Muqam<br />
of Xinjiang and the Kirgiz epic Manas<br />
were registered on the “UNESCO<br />
Representative List of the Intangible<br />
Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.<br />
Fourth, different religions coexist in<br />
Xinjiang. <strong>The</strong> major religions are Islam,<br />
Buddhism, Protestant and Catholic<br />
Christianity, and Taoism. Xinjiang has<br />
112 religious organizations. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
24,400 mosques, i.e. more mosques per<br />
person than in many other parts of the<br />
world. It has published translations of<br />
the religious classics of Islam, Buddhism,<br />
and Christianity in multiple languages.<br />
People enjoy freedom of religious belief.<br />
Unfortunately, under the influence of<br />
international terrorism and religious<br />
extremism the number of violent<br />
terrorist attacks had been on the rise in<br />
parts of the region over a period of time.<br />
In 2009, the July 5 riot in Urumqi killed<br />
197, injured more than 1,700. To ensure<br />
citizens’ right to freedom of religious<br />
belief, Xinjiang has worked hard to<br />
combat terrorism and extremism. Now<br />
Xinjiang is generally stable, with the<br />
situation under control and improving.<br />
In the past 22 months, no violent<br />
terrorist attacks have occurred and the<br />
number of criminal cases has dropped<br />
significantly.<br />
Fifth, committed to the progress of<br />
Xinjiang and its people, the Chinese<br />
Central Government has pooled the<br />
strength of the nation to develop the<br />
region. Over the past 60 years, the<br />
state’s financial grants to Xinjiang<br />
totaled almost RMB 1.7 trillion.<strong>The</strong><br />
state had encouraged intellectuals and<br />
technical professionals to go to work<br />
in Xinjiang, fostering a generation of<br />
builders who have been hard-working<br />
and pioneering and took roots in the<br />
border areas. With hefty state funds,<br />
many major infrastructure and other<br />
industrial projects in the region have<br />
been completed, including the Lanzhou-<br />
Urumqi Railway and the Karamay and<br />
Tarim oilfields. Last year, Xinjiang’s<br />
economy grew by 7.6 percent, markedly<br />
higher than the national average of 6.8<br />
percent, and tourists from home and<br />
abroad paid 132 million trips to the<br />
region, up 40 percent year-on-year.<br />
Today’s Xinjiang is not only beautiful<br />
but also safe and stable. As an important<br />
section of the ancient silk Road and<br />
a key region on today’s Silk Road<br />
Economic Belt, it is standing at a new<br />
starting point for development and will<br />
surely have a brighter future.<br />
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CHANGE: Police are working with skating representatives, city council<br />
staff, nearby landowners and KiwiRail to prevent anti-social behaviour at<br />
Washington Reserve skate park.<br />
Police get ‘proactive’<br />
over skate park issues<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
POLICE ARE taking<br />
a “proactive” approach<br />
to minimise ongoing<br />
problems with anti-social<br />
behaviour at Washington<br />
Reserve.<br />
Issues at the skate<br />
park include vandalism,<br />
drinking, throwing bottles<br />
and unauthorised access<br />
to the nearby railway<br />
corridor.<br />
A meeting organised<br />
by police was held in<br />
October with KiwiRail,<br />
skating representatives,<br />
city council staff and<br />
nearby landowners after a<br />
frustrated business owner<br />
wanted to be part of the<br />
solution.<br />
One of the issues raised<br />
was the amount of bottles<br />
and broken glass left in and<br />
around the skate park area,<br />
said Senior Sergeant Toni<br />
Carroll.<br />
A large portion were<br />
• By Anan Zaki<br />
AUTHORITIES and<br />
residents say the<br />
controversial Riccarton<br />
bus lounges are now<br />
trouble-free.<br />
Since opening in<br />
<strong>December</strong> 2015, the bus<br />
lounges on Riccarton Rd<br />
have frequently attracted<br />
anti-social behaviour,<br />
including assaults.<br />
But that is now in<br />
the past, Riccarton<br />
Community Constable<br />
Aaron Thorn said. He is<br />
cautiously optimistic that<br />
the good behaviour will<br />
continue.<br />
“It’s been quiet this year<br />
and it’s probably down to the<br />
good work that the security<br />
alcohol bottles, so the<br />
city council is improving<br />
signage to emphasise the<br />
reserve is under a liquor<br />
ban.<br />
“Some of the bottles have<br />
been used as missiles and<br />
are thrown at the nearby<br />
businesses. City council<br />
are also considering<br />
more regular rubbish<br />
collections,” said Senior<br />
Sergeant Carroll.<br />
Young people are also<br />
accessing the railway<br />
tracks through a hole in<br />
the fence, she said.<br />
“This is not only<br />
dangerous, but this area<br />
also contains large stones<br />
that were thrown through<br />
the windows of nearby<br />
businesses. KiwiRail and<br />
the business landlords<br />
are in discussions around<br />
improved fencing.”<br />
KiwiRail South Island<br />
operations manager<br />
Jeanine Benson said the<br />
access has also led to<br />
guys are doing in there,”<br />
Constable Thorn said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> anti-social<br />
behaviour died down last<br />
year, he said. This year the<br />
main concern around the<br />
lounges has been beggars.<br />
But begging outside<br />
the bus lounges has also<br />
stopped, Constable Thorn<br />
said.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been<br />
occasional incidents of<br />
loitering school students<br />
this year, but they weren’t<br />
serious, he said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y [students] were<br />
hanging around being a<br />
nuisance. <strong>The</strong>y are just<br />
loitering and not really<br />
doing much.”<br />
Riccarton Bush and<br />
Kilmarnock Residents’<br />
graffiti and objects being<br />
thrown at trains.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> issue is complex<br />
and it is likely that a<br />
range of measures will be<br />
required,” she said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> police presence<br />
will increase as a result.<br />
Officers will be patrolling<br />
the area during the school<br />
holidays and engaging with<br />
the skating community.<br />
City council acting head<br />
of parks Kate Russell said<br />
a number of issues were<br />
noted. <strong>The</strong>y included<br />
how to stop bark getting<br />
on the skate surface,<br />
more planting in the<br />
area and fencing near the<br />
railway line, increased<br />
maintenance and the<br />
installation of liquor ban<br />
signs.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> police have stepped<br />
up a presence in the area,<br />
as they have told us they<br />
are moving into a proactive<br />
realm, rather than<br />
reactive,” said Ms Russell.<br />
Few problems at bus lounges<br />
Association chairman<br />
Tony Simons said<br />
residents have noticed an<br />
improvement.<br />
“It hasn’t been a topic<br />
of conversation for some<br />
time, so that’s a good sign.<br />
So I think the perception<br />
is that the behaviour has<br />
improved considerably,”<br />
Mr Simons said.<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board<br />
member Catherine Chu<br />
said the board has worked<br />
hard to prevent anti-social<br />
behaviour, and sent youth<br />
workers in to ease trouble<br />
last year.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> stories we were<br />
hearing from locals were<br />
just horrendous,” Ms Chu<br />
said.
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Jan Bone<br />
Camaraderie key in dealing with<br />
Jan Bone has been<br />
a doctor for more<br />
than 30 years in<br />
Christchurch Hospital’s<br />
busy emergency<br />
department, which<br />
sees on average about<br />
300 patients a day. In<br />
a new book, Rising<br />
from the Rubble by<br />
Michael Ardagh and<br />
Joanne Deely, Dr Bone<br />
is recognised for being<br />
instrumental in ED<br />
following the February<br />
22, 2011, earthquake.<br />
Sophie Cornish spoke<br />
to her<br />
You feature in the new book<br />
Rising from the Rubble about<br />
the Canterbury health system’s<br />
response following the quake.<br />
Can you tell me a little about<br />
that time, what it was like and<br />
what your role was?<br />
I was in charge of coordinating<br />
the patients, the<br />
resuscitation controller, I<br />
suppose you could call it.<br />
You needed someone with an<br />
overview to try and co-ordinate<br />
the patients coming in so you<br />
could appropriately designate<br />
them to a team and then help<br />
the patients move from there<br />
and work out who needed what,<br />
imaging, theatre, ICU etc. We<br />
used the loudspeaker system to<br />
co-ordinate all that. We had set<br />
up a trauma team in each of our<br />
bays, so we had 20 of those going<br />
all at the same time and that<br />
worked really well because then<br />
each team could be in charge of<br />
a patient until that patient was<br />
sorted and then as soon as they<br />
were ready they could signal<br />
another one. We kept it cycling<br />
really well. We used in-patient<br />
specialities, and as we needed<br />
them, we would call for them<br />
over the loudspeaker, so you<br />
would get a runner from each<br />
room coming with requests and<br />
that way you could help send<br />
someone to that room to help<br />
and people were able to work in<br />
their area of expertise. We are<br />
all quicker at our own area of<br />
expertise.<br />
That sounds like a great<br />
system, was that something you<br />
guys had planned for?<br />
We certainly had a structure.<br />
ED people are trained well<br />
in disaster management and<br />
how that works, so we did<br />
have a structure and then we<br />
did a whole lot on the fly as<br />
well. Anytime we got stuck or<br />
something wasn’t working, a<br />
group of us would get together<br />
for a pow wow and then make<br />
a new plan. <strong>The</strong>n you could<br />
announce the plan over the<br />
loudspeaker. That was really<br />
good for all of us.<br />
Have you ever been in a<br />
situation like that before?<br />
No, not on a scale like that,<br />
none of us had. It was crazy<br />
and chaotic and amazing at<br />
the same time, just to see how<br />
people could work and just get it<br />
done under a terrible situation.<br />
We would get a big shake and<br />
we would lose all power and it<br />
would go all black and honestly<br />
people just kept doing what they<br />
needed to do to make it work. It’s<br />
a crazy thing, when the bad stuff<br />
really hits the fan; you really see<br />
the best in people, and human<br />
nature, people that are just really<br />
good to each other. But man,<br />
people worked. No one knew if<br />
their families were alright, it’s a<br />
terrible situation to be in, when<br />
you are part of the disaster. With<br />
all the after shakes, you didn’t<br />
DEDICATED: Dr Jan<br />
Bone has worked in<br />
Christchurch Hospital’s<br />
Emergency Department<br />
for more than 30 years.<br />
A book outlines her role<br />
during the February 22,<br />
2011, earthquake.<br />
know if the place was going to<br />
come down or not. We had lost<br />
ceiling tiles, sometimes you<br />
would get thrown off your feet.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no doubt it was scary,<br />
anyone who says it wasn’t, is<br />
lying.<br />
How did that experience<br />
change you as a doctor?<br />
I think it’s that belief in the<br />
goodness of human nature and<br />
how much people matter. I think<br />
you always know that but it<br />
becomes really apparent. It’s never<br />
about the materialistic stuff, it’s<br />
always about the people. People<br />
can do really amazing things<br />
under those situations and just<br />
the overwhelming support from<br />
everybody, it made such a difference.<br />
So many patients survived<br />
because of the care that was given.<br />
Did you always want to be a<br />
doctor? What lead you down<br />
this path?<br />
I always tossed up between<br />
medicine and teaching and<br />
in the end I am in medicine,<br />
but I do a whole lot of clinical<br />
teaching. I have combined<br />
the two loves. My mum was<br />
a paediatric charge nurse, she<br />
was really inspirational, she was<br />
actually a QSM. She got that for<br />
her services to children in the<br />
Hawkes Bay. She was pretty cool,<br />
a hard case, she loved life.<br />
What does an average week<br />
look like for you, how many<br />
hours do you work?<br />
Mine varies a lot, I do quite<br />
a lot here and bits and pieces<br />
elsewhere, mostly here in<br />
Christchurch. It’s a pretty busy<br />
job – emergency. It’s sort of about<br />
the work you do, we often don’t<br />
do masses of hours compared to<br />
others. It’s such a busy, in-yourface<br />
job all the time. It can be<br />
tiring and nothing is planned, it<br />
just is what it is.<br />
You helped start a 100-day<br />
exercise challenge last year for<br />
ED staff – what was this and<br />
how did it go?<br />
A group of us put that together,<br />
and it’s been really successful in<br />
terms of getting people moving<br />
a bit better, so they are a bit<br />
healthier. <strong>The</strong> biggest thing<br />
though is its really improved the<br />
camaraderie here. It’s a tough<br />
old place to work and if you<br />
can make your work place a<br />
happier place, then that makes<br />
a huge difference. We work<br />
very much as a team here in<br />
ED, it’s very multi- disciplinary.<br />
For the exercise challenge, all<br />
the departments in ED were<br />
randomly put into teams. You got<br />
points for exercising and it didn’t<br />
matter what exercise you did, so<br />
for 30 minutes you got 30 points<br />
and for five minutes you got five<br />
points. But if you and I went and<br />
did exercise together, we would<br />
get double the amount of points<br />
each. So if you did it with three,<br />
triple points.<br />
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quake trauma in hospital’s ED<br />
What it did is encourage people<br />
to exercise with others. If you<br />
had three or more disciplines,<br />
such as medical, reception and<br />
cleaning staff, you would get<br />
added double points. It was fun<br />
but also hugely successful and<br />
entertaining, we started with a<br />
team morale survey that said 70<br />
per cent thought it was below<br />
average or very poor before the<br />
challenge and after, 80 per cent<br />
thought it was excellent or very<br />
good, so a massive swing-around.<br />
We decreased sick leave by about<br />
20 per cent. We did it when we<br />
realised seven years after the<br />
quakes, people were stuffed, tired<br />
and had s****y stuff to deal with<br />
in the background, so the morale<br />
in the place really suffered and<br />
that was the driving force behind<br />
that.<br />
Can you ever imagine yourself<br />
in another line of work not to do<br />
with health?<br />
I love people and I’ve got a<br />
swimming background, I have<br />
taught a lot of people to swim. I<br />
always envisaged after work I will<br />
teach people how to swim, who<br />
want to swim, kids or adults. It’s<br />
a gift if you can teach people to<br />
swim.<br />
What do you like to do when<br />
you are not at work? Are you<br />
married, kids?<br />
I love walking on the Port<br />
Hills, and do a bit of 1 More<br />
Round boxing. I love being<br />
with family and mates. I’m not<br />
married, I have a lot of nieces and<br />
nephews, I’ve got a lot of brothers<br />
and sisters, I’ve got a big family<br />
from Hawkes Bay. My mum<br />
died two years ago, she was fun,<br />
seriously fun, she loved people<br />
and people loved her.<br />
If you ever left ED, what<br />
would be the thing you missed<br />
the most?<br />
<strong>The</strong> camaraderie, easy. For<br />
such a tough place to work it’s<br />
such a cool place, you see so<br />
many people and families under<br />
stress and at really tough times<br />
and it’s a real privilege to work in<br />
that arena. People are lovely the<br />
way they treat patients in here,<br />
they are really respectful.<br />
What does it take to work in<br />
an ED, what qualities would a<br />
person need?<br />
You want to have good<br />
work ethic, a relatively calm<br />
personality, and a nice caring<br />
one, you want to be kind.<br />
I understand you have quite<br />
IN ACTION: Dr<br />
Jan Bone took<br />
control of the<br />
emergency<br />
department<br />
during the<br />
February<br />
22, 2011,<br />
earthquake,<br />
swiftly<br />
organised<br />
people using<br />
a loudspeaker<br />
system. PHOTO:<br />
PAUL GEE<br />
an interesting relationship with<br />
Paralympian Sophie Pascoe,<br />
can you tell me how that came<br />
about?<br />
I was working when Sophie<br />
was originally injured and that’s<br />
something you never forget. I<br />
didn’t make the connection for a<br />
long time. It’s bizarre because my<br />
background is swimming and my<br />
brother has been a New Zealand<br />
coach for a long time, so I have<br />
always followed Sophie’s career.<br />
I never really said anything, my<br />
mum knew that I had looked<br />
after her and a couple others but<br />
it was always cool to watch her<br />
swim. I’m unclear how Sophie<br />
found out who I was, I think it<br />
was one of my radiology mates<br />
and set up a meeting. I thought<br />
the film crew was coming in to<br />
chat about our 100-day exercise<br />
challenge and snuck Sophie in.<br />
I got completely poleaxed on<br />
that one and bizarrely, I know<br />
Sophie’s coach Roly, I use to<br />
swim train with him.<br />
Why do you think this book,<br />
Rising from the Rubble, is<br />
important?<br />
When you read the book, it will<br />
amaze you, the things that people<br />
and groups did to maintain a<br />
health system that was absolutely<br />
smashed, I feel really proud of<br />
the whole system, and it really<br />
was impressive. I hope the<br />
public can take some pride in<br />
the health system that is here;<br />
a lot of people have gone above<br />
and beyond in so many aspects.<br />
Things like the maintenance and<br />
engineering guys, people went<br />
to extraordinary lengths to keep<br />
the system functioning. Most of<br />
us would never have that in our<br />
whole careers; it’s a cool thing<br />
to be part of. I never want to do<br />
it again though, never want to<br />
see that amount of trauma, you<br />
wouldn’t wish that on anyway.<br />
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Diamond<br />
Harbour in midst<br />
of crime wave<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
DIAMOND HARBOUR is caught<br />
in a crime wave – the worst in at<br />
least 20 years.<br />
A house has been broken into,<br />
a $1500 boat trailer has been taken<br />
and mail continues to be stolen<br />
from letterboxes.<br />
Chief fire officer and former<br />
policeman of 34 years, Bob Palmer,<br />
said he has not seen this much<br />
crime in Diamond Harbour since<br />
the late 1990s.<br />
“We had a major burglary crime<br />
wave maybe 20 years ago, something<br />
like 26 or 30 burglaries over<br />
three or four days.”<br />
Jeremy Smith said the last few<br />
months had been the worst he had<br />
seen in his three years as Diamond<br />
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co-ordinator.<br />
Mr Smith said four or five<br />
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couple of weeks.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re was one occasion where<br />
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and it had been taken.”<br />
Mr Smith said it would be ideal to<br />
have a permanent police presence in<br />
the area.<br />
But he said that would require<br />
a “significant monetary commitment.”<br />
Moore calls for ministerial back-up<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
MEGAN WOODS and Lianne<br />
Dalziel say they don’t need<br />
appointed associates to help<br />
manage their workloads.<br />
It comes following a call from<br />
former Mayor Garry Moore who<br />
said the Greater Christchurch<br />
Regeneration<br />
Minister and<br />
mayor need<br />
people on<br />
the ground<br />
to represent<br />
them at<br />
community<br />
meetings.<br />
Garry Moore<br />
Megan Woods<br />
“<strong>The</strong> issue<br />
is that the<br />
minister has<br />
such a huge<br />
portfolio,<br />
she needs an<br />
associate,” Mr<br />
Moore said.<br />
“It is impossible<br />
for a<br />
minister to<br />
have the level<br />
of participation<br />
in activities necessary to<br />
really have their finger on the<br />
pulse of what really us happening<br />
within the various bureaucracies<br />
in this city.”<br />
It is time for Dr Woods to<br />
appoint an associate, such as<br />
former Canterbury Rebuild<br />
Minister Gerry Brownlee had in<br />
Nicky Wagner.<br />
Mr Moore said Ms Wagner,<br />
now a National list MP, was Mr<br />
Brownlee’s eyes and ears in the<br />
community.<br />
“I well remember Nicky, as<br />
Gerry’s associate, attending<br />
a meeting in Victoria Square<br />
where an irate group of residents<br />
gave very clear feedback to her<br />
that they did not approve of<br />
what CERA had proposed for<br />
the Square. She listened and the<br />
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“<strong>The</strong> minister is comfortable<br />
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Lyttelton’s British Hotel: Bikies,<br />
<strong>The</strong> bar that occupied<br />
the basement in the old<br />
British Hotel building<br />
has lost its liquor<br />
licence and closed.<br />
Julia Evans looks back<br />
on the colourful history<br />
of the iconic Lyttelton<br />
landmark<br />
FOR THE last 71 years, the<br />
British Hotel has been a watering<br />
hole for sailors, Lyttelton locals,<br />
cross-dressers, punk rockers,<br />
Epitaph Riders motorcycle gang<br />
members and even Iggy Pop.<br />
But, while the bar in the hotel<br />
on the corner of Norwich Quay<br />
and Oxford St – most recently<br />
known as the Hell Fire Club –<br />
has closed its doors for now, it is<br />
remembered for its history.<br />
<strong>The</strong> British Hotel first opened<br />
in 1874, and was named after its<br />
predominantly United Kingdombased<br />
clientele.<br />
It reopened in 1947 after a<br />
fire and, ever since, the hotel<br />
has been home to a number of<br />
infamous bars – most notably<br />
<strong>The</strong> Dive.<br />
Other incarnations have<br />
included El Santo Porteno before<br />
the quakes, the Back Bar and the<br />
British Basement.<br />
HISTORY: <strong>The</strong> British Hotel has had a long and colourful history since it opened in 1947<br />
on the corner of Lyttelton’s Norwich Quay and Oxford St.<br />
Former sailor Jack Mahoney<br />
lived and drank at the hotel every<br />
day for 17 years from 1960 when<br />
he wasn’t at sea.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> best part was the great<br />
people who lived there. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
aren’t many of them left, but they<br />
were good people.”<br />
But there was a flip side, in<br />
which the bar earned a notorious<br />
reputation for fights.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re were quite a few fights,<br />
but no one really got hurt. A<br />
punch on the chin never hurt<br />
anyone.”<br />
He said boxers like Joesph<br />
Parker would not have held their<br />
own at the British.<br />
“Someone was saying to me<br />
the other day after the world title<br />
fight, I’ve seen a better fight in the<br />
British and they’re not wrong.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> bar was notorious for after<br />
hours parties with black out curtains<br />
pulled so the police couldn’t<br />
see what was going on inside.<br />
“On Sundays, when the ferry<br />
was in, all the boys would come<br />
up from the ferry and start<br />
drinking, which was a big no, no<br />
on Sundays, but we covered for<br />
them,” Mr Mahoney said.<br />
“I was playing pool and the<br />
next thing I get a tap on the<br />
shoulder by the senior sergeant. I<br />
told him they were my guests . . .<br />
and gave him phoney names.”<br />
Mr Mahoney said the next<br />
minute the police were back and<br />
asking for the names – which he<br />
couldn’t remember.<br />
“But he left it. <strong>The</strong>y knew it was<br />
better off them drinking there<br />
than on the streets.”<br />
Canada native Guy Daigneault<br />
owned the hotel from 1961-1974,<br />
he opened the Back Bar in 1967,<br />
when 6pm drinking restrictions<br />
were lifted.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> place was so well-known<br />
around the world. I was in<br />
Montreal once and someone said<br />
there’s Guy over there from the<br />
British. I couldn’t believe it.”<br />
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booze, brawls . . . and Iggy Pop<br />
But Mr Daigneault said he<br />
had “to sleep with one eye open”<br />
as the place was renowned for<br />
fighting.<br />
To this day, blood remains<br />
on the roof from a knife fight<br />
between Russian seamen.<br />
“Most of the violence was<br />
locals, not even<br />
the seamen<br />
like everyone<br />
thought,” he<br />
said.<br />
Mr<br />
Daigneault said<br />
some of the<br />
Rebecca<br />
Lovell-Smith<br />
best days of his<br />
life were spent<br />
there.<br />
“I chose to<br />
raise my four kids there. But it<br />
was hard work, I devoted my life<br />
to that pub . . . I spent a lot of<br />
money doing it up.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> lease was taken over by<br />
late Lyttelton legends, Hilary and<br />
Jack McKenna, throughout the<br />
1970s and 80s.<br />
Mr Mahoney said the McKennas<br />
and Mr Daigneault took him in<br />
and treated him like family.<br />
During their stint, the hotel<br />
became home to the first gay bar<br />
in the city.<br />
<strong>The</strong> British was divided into<br />
three separate bars. <strong>The</strong> Back Bar<br />
COLOURFUL: Everyone from Lyttelton locals to seamen<br />
and motor-cycle gang members have visited the British<br />
Hotel.<br />
– the gay bar out the back, <strong>The</strong><br />
Dive – which was down in the<br />
basement and upstairs a bar for<br />
Lyttelton locals.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hotel made its mark<br />
throughout the 80s by hosting<br />
early gigs of <strong>The</strong> Androidss and<br />
Louie and the Hotsticks.<br />
Famously, United States punk<br />
icon Iggy Pop watched <strong>The</strong><br />
Androidss play there in 1979.<br />
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“<strong>The</strong>y’re tough as bitches, but<br />
they’re beautiful,” Iggy Pop was<br />
quoted by <strong>The</strong> Press.<br />
In the same decade, it was<br />
often filled with members of the<br />
Epitaph Riders motor-cycle gang.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gang was formed in<br />
Christchurch in 1969 and was involved<br />
in the country’s first gang<br />
war with the Devils Henchmen<br />
in 1974.<br />
But the building was closed after<br />
the February 22, 2011, earthquake,<br />
before it was saved from<br />
the bulldozer in 2015 by Rebecca<br />
Lovell-Smith and her husband,<br />
Christian Carruthers.<br />
Almost daily, former patrons<br />
stopped by the hotel to tell tales<br />
of its history.<br />
Ms Lovell-Smith said it was<br />
moments like that which made<br />
the building’s ongoing restoration<br />
worth while.<br />
“I get a lot of people who come<br />
out just to talk to you about their<br />
experiences. I had a sailor or a<br />
fisherman just yesterday tell me<br />
stories about how he used to stay<br />
there when he was in port. He<br />
said he remembers the publican<br />
falling down the stairs,” she said.<br />
And she promises pints will be<br />
pulled in the basement again.<br />
“We just need to do a bit more<br />
work. But even next year something<br />
will be there,” she said.<br />
“We want to honour all the<br />
different stages of the bar from<br />
way back, to more recently. It’s<br />
a good place that has good<br />
bands.”<br />
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Thursday <strong>December</strong> 6 <strong>2018</strong><br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Safe haven a boost for rare gulls<br />
A GRAVEL island built in a<br />
wetland reserve near the estuary<br />
is proving a lifeline for up to 300<br />
endangered black-billed gulls.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gulls are nesting on the<br />
island in the Charlesworth<br />
Wetland Reserve in Ferrymead,<br />
which is protected from the<br />
heavy rain and flooding that has<br />
destroyed other river nesting<br />
sites.<br />
It was reported last week that<br />
the nests and eggs of about 2500<br />
black-billed gulls were washed<br />
away by flooding on the Ashley/<br />
Rakahuri River in North Canterbury.<br />
<strong>The</strong> island in the reserve,<br />
which is about 25m long and 1m<br />
above the tide line, was built by<br />
city council staff in 2003 in the<br />
hope of creating a safe nesting<br />
habitat for the black-billed gull,<br />
which is critically endangered in<br />
New Zealand.<br />
City council ranger and ornithologist<br />
Andrew Crossland<br />
said this is the biggest breeding<br />
colony of black-billed gulls and<br />
their coastal cousins red-billed<br />
gulls seen at the site since before<br />
the Canterbury earthquakes<br />
and provides a “glimmer of<br />
hope.”<br />
“We have up to 300 birds nesting<br />
there at the moment. This location<br />
SANCTUARY: Up to 300 black-billed gulls are nesting on an island in the Charlesworth<br />
Reserve built by city council staff.<br />
is safe from river flooding and we<br />
think the chicks have got a really<br />
good chance of surviving. It’s a<br />
signal to other councils and organisations<br />
that if we create these<br />
islands on tidal or freshwater wetlands<br />
then the black-billed gulls<br />
will come, and we can help boost<br />
the population which has been in<br />
rapid decline. It’s a great result for<br />
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Predators such as black-backed<br />
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Le Quesnoy liberator’s eventful life<br />
YOUNG: Second Lieutenant<br />
Leslie Averill in 1917, before<br />
departing for the war.<br />
When the New<br />
Zealand Division<br />
captured the French<br />
town of Le Quesnoy<br />
in World War 1,<br />
Christchurch man<br />
Leslie Averill was the<br />
first to scale the town’s<br />
walls. Now, his son,<br />
Colin Averill has written<br />
a biography about his<br />
father’s life titled <strong>The</strong><br />
Life of Leslie Averill MD<br />
First into Le Quesnoy<br />
Battles, Babies and<br />
Boardrooms<br />
IN 1979, my father himself set<br />
out to write a memoir.<br />
He described his early life, his<br />
World War 1 experiences, his<br />
subsequent visits to Le Quesnoy<br />
in France and wrote about<br />
the emergence of his warm<br />
association with that town. He<br />
died in 1981, failing health over<br />
the preceding year had sadly<br />
prevented him from completing<br />
the task he had set himself.<br />
However, as the 100 th<br />
anniversary of the liberation of Le<br />
Quesnoy approached, a successful<br />
SHARING STORIES: Colin Averill, son of Leslie Averill, has<br />
written a book about his father’s eventful life.<br />
military action undertaken by<br />
the New Zealand Rifle Brigade,<br />
in which Leslie was a Second<br />
Lieutenant, it became clear to me,<br />
as his son, that his war experience<br />
in 1918 when he was 21 years<br />
old, was really what he was now<br />
chiefly remembered for. However,<br />
there had been so many more and<br />
significant aspects to his life than<br />
that.<br />
While Geoffrey Rice had<br />
written an accurate account<br />
of his full life and career for<br />
the Dictionary of New Zealand<br />
Biography, I felt that a full<br />
account of his life should be<br />
written and I was best placed to<br />
do it – for his descendants and<br />
others who knew him.<br />
I approached Dr Rice who<br />
persuaded me that Leslie’s life<br />
and accomplishments warranted<br />
a full book and he volunteered<br />
to co-author the book with<br />
me. Leslie’s own early memoir<br />
required some re-writing.<br />
Research was undertaken by<br />
Dr Rice into aspects of both his<br />
medical career as a practising<br />
obstetrician and gynaecologist<br />
in Christchurch and his very<br />
lengthy involvement in hospital<br />
and health administration in<br />
various roles.<br />
<strong>The</strong> title to the book Battles,<br />
Babies and Boardrooms, covers<br />
the three aspects of Leslie’s life.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first part of his life was as<br />
he described it, but the narrative<br />
which I have covered commences<br />
at Edinburgh University<br />
immediately after World War 1.<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
after serving in World War 1<br />
This was where he met my<br />
mother Isabel, a fellow New<br />
Zealander and medical student.<br />
Following his graduation he<br />
returned to Christchurch in 1925<br />
to set up in practice, initially as<br />
a general practitioner, and then<br />
as a specialist obstetrician and<br />
gynaecologist.<br />
He was also medical superintendent<br />
of St Helen’s Hospital for<br />
more than 30 years, chairman<br />
of the executive of St Georges<br />
Hospital for a similar time, and<br />
he also served nine terms as a<br />
member of the North Canterbury<br />
Hospital Board. He was chairman<br />
for 18 years. That period<br />
coincided with the building and<br />
commissioning of <strong>The</strong> Princess<br />
Margaret Hospital, and the establishment<br />
of the Christchurch<br />
Clinical School of Medicine, of<br />
which he was the first chairman.<br />
Geoffrey Rice’s thorough research<br />
of NCHB minutes of those<br />
years produced some very interesting<br />
and amusing anecdotes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> writing of the book has<br />
also provided an opportunity to<br />
include a description of Leslie’s<br />
childhood in Christchurch in the<br />
early 1900s. His early years of his<br />
medical practice in Christchurch<br />
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<strong>The</strong> last 20 years of his life saw<br />
the establishment of the close<br />
New Zealand relationship with<br />
the town of Le Quesnoy, which he<br />
visited several times.<br />
His link with that historic<br />
town has recently been in the<br />
news, with the commemoration<br />
on November 4 of the 100th<br />
anniversary of the liberation of<br />
the town by the New Zealand<br />
Rifle Brigade, in which Leslie<br />
played a significant part, and<br />
which commemoration was<br />
attended last month by more<br />
than 40 of his direct descendants.<br />
HISTORY: Leslie Averill at Le Quesnoy in 1923, pointing to the<br />
place on the wall where he made the ascent on a ladder.<br />
Left: Leslie hosts the Queen Mother at <strong>The</strong> Princess Margaret<br />
Hospital in April 1966 with principal nurse M Darby and medical<br />
superintendent Dr R C S Dick.<br />
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Bid to reroute<br />
heavy trucks<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding<br />
CITY COUNCILLOR Glenn<br />
Livingstone may have a fight on<br />
his hands to stop heavy trucks on<br />
Breezes Rd.<br />
Cr Livingstone has gone to the<br />
city council asking to have heavy<br />
vehicles rerouted to Anzac Drive,<br />
as well as a section of Breezes Rd<br />
between Wainoni Rd and Pages<br />
Rd repaired.<br />
<strong>The</strong> matter will now be discussed<br />
at a seminar between the<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board and a city council road<br />
traffic engineer.<br />
But Cr Livingstone may not get<br />
the support he needs.<br />
Fellow community board member<br />
Tim Baker said he did not agree<br />
with Cr Livingstone and it wasn’t<br />
practical to reroute the trucks.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> answer is long-term resealing<br />
that road and making it a<br />
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Cr Livingstone acknowledged<br />
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community and need to continue<br />
travelling on the road.<br />
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A SUMNER motel owner’s bid<br />
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constructed across the road has<br />
failed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
Community Board approved<br />
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the Bays Area skate park.<br />
Sumner Bay Motel owner<br />
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“I’m not against a skate park<br />
but I think the Nayland St site<br />
is going to affect my business<br />
because of the acoustics.”<br />
Mr Evans also thought the<br />
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value for money for ratepayers.”<br />
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Bid to save Redcliffs Park fails<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
A BID TO stop Redcliffs<br />
School moving to the area’s<br />
neighbourhood park looks like it<br />
has come to an end.<br />
A petition from the Friends<br />
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Construction of the new<br />
school is set to start next year<br />
and be completed by 2020.<br />
Friends of Redcliffs Park<br />
spokesman Chris Doudney said<br />
he was not surprised but was still<br />
disappointed by the committee’s<br />
decision.<br />
“It’s a higher tsunami risk<br />
than the other site and it’s also a<br />
higher flood risk than the other<br />
site,” he said.<br />
SLOWLY BUT SURELY: Trenches have been dug on the new school site to accommodate<br />
underground electrical wiring.<br />
Mr Doudney said the school’s<br />
move to the new site would be a<br />
burden to ratepayers.<br />
“Ratepayers will have to<br />
pay $100,00 worth of roading<br />
alterations to which we feel<br />
should have been the Ministry<br />
of Education’s responsibility. <strong>The</strong><br />
alterations are entirely down to<br />
the school being moved.”<br />
Mr Doudney said it was likely<br />
to be the end of the road for<br />
Redcliffs Park.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s nothing more we can<br />
really do about the current plans,<br />
if we could we would.”<br />
Redcliffs School board of trustees<br />
chairman Darren Fidler said<br />
it was now time to move on and<br />
push forward with the school<br />
rebuild on Redcliffs Park.<br />
“I think this [the petition being<br />
rejected] shows that the only<br />
feasible option to get the school<br />
back to Redcliffs by 2020 was to<br />
move to Redcliffs Park.”<br />
Mr Fidler was also<br />
confident flood risk could be<br />
mitigated.<br />
“Due diligence was done<br />
as part of the site selection in<br />
regards to a whole range of<br />
hazards, flooding was included<br />
in that, we are getting improved<br />
drainage in that lower field as<br />
part of the school build.”<br />
Improvements<br />
planned for<br />
Dyers Pass Rd<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
NO STOPPING and no passing<br />
restrictions could be put on sections<br />
of Dyers Pass Rd after crashes<br />
resulting in two serious injuries.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spreydon-Cashmere<br />
Community Board will consider<br />
staff recommendations to install<br />
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intersection with Overdale Drive,<br />
as well as installing a stop control<br />
and no passing lines along Dyers<br />
Pass Rd.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> NZTA crash data base<br />
reports two crashes within 50m<br />
from the intersection of Dyers<br />
Pass Rd and Overdale Drive, from<br />
2014-<strong>2018</strong>,” a staff report said.<br />
“Two serious injuries were<br />
recorded for one crash and the<br />
second crash recorded one minor<br />
injury. <strong>The</strong> serious injury crash<br />
was a head-on collision and the<br />
other crash was a loss of control<br />
motorcycle crash.”<br />
It said the restrictions and<br />
stop control would “reduce the<br />
risk” of a crash at the Cashmere<br />
intersection.<br />
More than 7500 vehicles use<br />
Dyers Pass Rd a day, while up to<br />
500 use Overdale Drive.<br />
If approved by the community<br />
board, the changes will have to be<br />
finalised by city councillors.
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Canty Museum buys Sir Ed’s bag<br />
KIWI LEGEND: A kit bag used by Sir Edmund Hillary when<br />
he climbed Mt Everest has been acquired by Canterbury<br />
Museum.<br />
A CANVAS kit bag used by<br />
Sir Edmund Hillary when he<br />
climbed Mt Everest has been<br />
purchased by Canterbury<br />
Museum for $16,000.<br />
<strong>The</strong> large, duffle-style bag<br />
carried equipment used by Sir<br />
Edmund when he and Tenzing<br />
Norgay became the first people to<br />
climb to the summit on the 1953<br />
British Mount Everest expedition.<br />
Written on the outside of<br />
the bag was a list of the gear it<br />
carried.<br />
“Assault March, not to<br />
be issued personally, 10 air<br />
mattresses, four sleeping bags 20<br />
below, one sleeping bag Mummy,<br />
two pairs down gloves, six pairs<br />
leather fingered gloves, six pairs<br />
silk gloves, Hillary, Auckland<br />
New Zealand, clothing, Air<br />
Mail,” it reads.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bag was found in a caravan<br />
once owned by Sir Edmund,<br />
and was then sold to the vendor<br />
who put it up for auction in July<br />
this year. In 2003, Sir Edmund<br />
verified that he had used the bag<br />
on the 1953 expedition.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bag is one of a number<br />
SPECIAL: Canterbury Museum curator of human history<br />
Corban Te Aika with the kit bag.<br />
of objects in the museum’s<br />
collection connected to Sir<br />
Edmund’s historic ascent.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y include a Fairydown 20<br />
Below sleeping bag and a pair of<br />
silk gloves Sir Edmund used on<br />
the expedition. <strong>The</strong>y may also be<br />
some of the items listed on the<br />
outside of the bag. <strong>The</strong> kit bag is<br />
not yet on display but will be at<br />
some point in the future, said a<br />
museum spokesman.<br />
Cannon Ball cyclists conquer eight floors<br />
THE MUSIC and legs were<br />
pumping as cyclists raced<br />
head-to-head up eight floors of a<br />
central city car park on Saturday<br />
to a party on the roof in an effort<br />
to raise awareness and funds for<br />
men’s health and Movember.<br />
<strong>The</strong> party atmosphere<br />
prevailed at the Urology<br />
Associates Movember Car Park<br />
Cannon Ball with the fastest<br />
rider taking just over 1min to<br />
reach the top of the recently<br />
renamed SALT District Carpark.<br />
“It was another great event,”<br />
organiser John McKenzie, of<br />
enthuse media and events, said.<br />
“It’s such a unique and exciting<br />
combination of riders, a party,<br />
expo, great food and beverages,<br />
and this year we had a popular<br />
kids zone as well. <strong>The</strong>re were so<br />
many people having a great time<br />
enjoying the atmosphere and the<br />
ON YOUR<br />
BIKE: Peter<br />
McLeod<br />
tackled<br />
the eight<br />
stories on<br />
his penny<br />
farthing.<br />
racing, while we were trying to<br />
raise awareness and funds for<br />
Movember and men’s health.”<br />
Held for the first time last<br />
year, the event featured cyclists<br />
competing in a series of rapid fire<br />
head-to-head races for men and<br />
women in both fixed and geared<br />
categories with a new over 45<br />
men’s master grade.<br />
Keen local cyclist Peter<br />
McLeod even tackled the eight<br />
stories on a penny farthing<br />
bike, impressively managing to<br />
make it to the top of the car park<br />
building in good time.<br />
“I built the bike about five<br />
years ago,” he said.<br />
“I didn’t build it to sit in the<br />
shed and not get used. You got<br />
to have fun, do the best you can<br />
and make a few people smile.”<br />
Donna Head and Josie Shum<br />
successfully defended their<br />
women’s geared and fixed titles,<br />
which they won last year, while<br />
16-year-old mountain biker<br />
Jacob Turner won the men’s<br />
geared grade that included road<br />
professional Ollie Jones.<br />
Aaron Hooper, who was<br />
runner up in the men’s geared<br />
grade last year, won the masters<br />
competition, and the men’s fixed<br />
category was won by James<br />
Knudsen who competed in a<br />
leather jacket and jeans.<br />
“It was another good event,”<br />
Mr Knudsen said.<br />
“I was here last year and<br />
it’s just such a fantastic time<br />
and great cause. I’ve had a<br />
whole year to prepare for this<br />
one so it’s great. <strong>The</strong>re was<br />
plenty of stiff competition so I’m<br />
stoked.”
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
If you want to win<br />
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Mini<br />
Ogosport<br />
$<br />
34 99 ea<br />
Deluxe<br />
Wooden<br />
Cooktop<br />
Usually<br />
$99.99<br />
$<br />
69 99 ea<br />
Glove a Bubble<br />
Usually $5.99<br />
$<br />
4 99 ea<br />
20% off<br />
Sling Ball<br />
Freestyle<br />
Usually $24.99<br />
Skygliderz<br />
Deluxe Road<br />
Rug Playset<br />
Usually $169.99<br />
$<br />
129 99 ea<br />
$<br />
19 99 ea<br />
$<br />
19 99 ea<br />
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Bundle<br />
Deal<br />
NZ<br />
Emergency<br />
3 Piece Set<br />
Usually $29.99<br />
20% off<br />
John Deer<br />
with Baler<br />
Separately<br />
$129.98<br />
Massey<br />
Ferguson<br />
Tractor with<br />
Trailer<br />
Separately<br />
$99.98<br />
$<br />
79 99 ea<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Bundle<br />
Deal<br />
$<br />
24 99 ea<br />
Dumper<br />
and<br />
Excavator<br />
Separately<br />
$119.98<br />
Bundle<br />
Deal<br />
Rubik’s<br />
Cube 3x3<br />
Usually $24.99<br />
Plus with every<br />
Rubik’s purchase<br />
you can get a<br />
3x3 keyring<br />
(usually $14.99)<br />
for only $5<br />
$<br />
19 99 ea<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Usually $99.99<br />
$<br />
69 99 ea<br />
30% off<br />
Carpark<br />
Building Set<br />
or City Set<br />
Rubik’s<br />
Race<br />
2 Player<br />
Race Game<br />
Usually $39.99<br />
$<br />
29 99 ea<br />
Rubik’s Tower<br />
Cubes that rotate around a central<br />
axis, allowing this puzzle to shapeshift<br />
- it makes it very difficult to solve!<br />
Usually<br />
$29.99<br />
$<br />
24 99 ea<br />
Race buggy, Bulldozer<br />
or 2 in 1 Plane<br />
Usually<br />
$29.99<br />
$<br />
24 99 ea<br />
25%<br />
off<br />
$<br />
29 99 ea<br />
POP!<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
Pig<br />
Usually<br />
$39.99<br />
Let’s<br />
Go<br />
Fishin’<br />
Usually<br />
$19.99<br />
$<br />
16 99 ea<br />
Excavator or<br />
10 in 1 Trophy<br />
Truck<br />
Usually $49.99<br />
$<br />
39 99 ea<br />
Great<br />
Gift Idea<br />
25 Model<br />
Sets<br />
Off Road<br />
Racer or<br />
Rally Car<br />
Usually $119.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Banana<br />
Joe<br />
Usually<br />
$39.99<br />
$<br />
29 99 ea<br />
25% off<br />
25%<br />
off<br />
Operation<br />
Escape<br />
Usually $59.99<br />
Guiness World<br />
Records Game<br />
Usually $49.99<br />
$<br />
49 99 ea<br />
Micronoids<br />
Connect to your computer and program<br />
Micronoid Code’s movements and sounds<br />
through an easy-to-use drag-and-drop<br />
programming screen. Collect the set of three<br />
different characters and watch them interact.<br />
Usually<br />
$119.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Sequence<br />
Usually $39.99<br />
$<br />
29 99 ea<br />
$<br />
39 99 ea<br />
20% off<br />
STuCk FOR a GiFT iDEa? GivE a TOyWORLD GiFT CaRD!<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Regular<br />
18” Doll<br />
Usually $79.99<br />
$<br />
69 99 ea<br />
Biggest selection of<br />
Our Generation Dolls in<br />
Christchurch<br />
Horse Trailer<br />
Usually $219.99<br />
BUY ANY<br />
REGULAR OG DOLL<br />
AND GO IN THE<br />
DRAW TO WIN AN<br />
OG HORSE<br />
(1 PER STORE)<br />
23%<br />
off<br />
$<br />
199 99 ea<br />
RV Camper With Glitter<br />
Usually<br />
$219.99<br />
$<br />
199 99 ea<br />
Bunk beds<br />
Usually $129.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Dolls not included<br />
Scooter<br />
$<br />
59 99 ea<br />
FREE OG<br />
DOG WITH<br />
EVERY HORSE<br />
TRAILER<br />
Fire Engine<br />
Usually $129.99<br />
$<br />
79 99 ea<br />
38% off<br />
Truck<br />
with<br />
Excavator<br />
Usually<br />
$109.99<br />
Class Nectis<br />
Tractor With<br />
Front Loader<br />
and Trailer<br />
Usually $79.99<br />
$<br />
69 99 ea<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Mercedes<br />
Benz Sprinter<br />
Ambulance<br />
Usually $149.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
33%<br />
off<br />
Truck with<br />
Loader<br />
Usually $119.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
3<br />
Shop now, pay later<br />
Receive your purchase now, spread the total cost<br />
over 6 weekly automatic payments. Interest free!
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Family Transport<br />
Combo Set<br />
Usually $139.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Figure<br />
Plus<br />
Packs<br />
Usually<br />
$9.99<br />
30% off<br />
$<br />
6 99 ea<br />
Breeze Hillcrest<br />
Gift Set<br />
Usually $159.99<br />
$<br />
139 99 ea<br />
29%<br />
off<br />
22% off<br />
25%<br />
off<br />
Artic<br />
Explorer<br />
or Ice<br />
Pirates<br />
Usually<br />
$59.99<br />
$<br />
44 99 ea<br />
Boutique<br />
Gift Set<br />
Usually<br />
$179.99<br />
Artic Sled<br />
or Snowmobile<br />
Usually $44.99<br />
$<br />
149 99 ea<br />
25% off<br />
Savings on<br />
gift sets!<br />
Brick Oven<br />
Bakery Gift Set<br />
Usually $199.99<br />
29% off<br />
Arctic<br />
Expedition<br />
Headquarters<br />
Usually $139.99<br />
$<br />
34 99 ea<br />
$<br />
149 99 ea<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
50 Model Sets<br />
Creation<br />
Zone or<br />
Imagination<br />
Zone<br />
$<br />
59 99 ea<br />
Charades for<br />
Kids or Kids<br />
Scavanger Hunt<br />
Usually $24.99<br />
$<br />
19 99 ea<br />
100 Model<br />
Imagine<br />
Motorized Set<br />
Usually $149.99<br />
Host Your<br />
Own Pub Quiz<br />
Usually $49.99<br />
$<br />
39 99 ea<br />
20% off<br />
$<br />
119 99 ea<br />
Tour of<br />
New Zealand<br />
Usually $24.99<br />
$<br />
19 99 ea<br />
3 in 1<br />
Amusement<br />
Park<br />
Usually $179.99<br />
Shuffle Games<br />
$<br />
14 99 ea<br />
$<br />
149 99 ea<br />
STuCK FOr A GIFT IdEA? GIvE A TOYwOrld GIFT CArd!<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
RC Rock Crawler 3XL<br />
This oversized remote controlled car<br />
is made for off-road rock crawling<br />
action. Approx 38cm long, front<br />
and rear articulated spring<br />
suspension and four wheel drive<br />
you’ll have so much fun racing<br />
around the house or backyard.<br />
2.4 GhZ for top performance.<br />
Usually<br />
$159.99<br />
$<br />
139 99 ea<br />
Recon Watch<br />
Usually $29.99<br />
$<br />
24 99 ea<br />
Unicorn<br />
Garden<br />
Usually<br />
$39.99<br />
Lazer<br />
Trap<br />
Alarm<br />
Usually $49.99<br />
$<br />
39 99 ea<br />
$<br />
29 99 ea<br />
Power Movers<br />
Motion Drive Technology<br />
$<br />
49 99 ea<br />
Night Ranger Set:<br />
Night Mission<br />
See in the dark, listen and<br />
record conversations.<br />
Set includes:<br />
Night Mission Goggles<br />
Invisible Ink Pen<br />
Motion Alarm<br />
Voice Disguiser<br />
Usually $99.99<br />
$<br />
79 99 ea<br />
Goggles<br />
Little Super <strong>Star</strong><br />
Bondi<br />
Bondi Junior<br />
$<br />
12 99 ea<br />
Batman or<br />
Wonder<br />
Woman<br />
Goggles<br />
Batman or<br />
Superman<br />
Swimbands<br />
Mio <strong>The</strong><br />
Robot<br />
$<br />
79 99 ea<br />
$<br />
19 99 ea<br />
$<br />
14 99 ea<br />
Water Wing Swim Vest<br />
Pink or Blue, 1-2 yrs,<br />
2-3 yrs or 4-5 yrs.<br />
$<br />
49 99 ea<br />
Clementoni<br />
Avanced<br />
Science Kits<br />
$<br />
79 99 ea<br />
5 Late<br />
Nights<br />
THURSDAY<br />
DEC 6 TH<br />
FRIDAY<br />
DEC 7 TH<br />
SATURDAY<br />
DEC 8 TH<br />
SUNDAY<br />
DEC 9 TH<br />
MONDAY<br />
DEC 10 TH<br />
TUESDAY<br />
DEC 11 TH<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
DEC 12 TH<br />
THURSDAY<br />
DEC 13 TH<br />
FRIDAY<br />
DEC 14 TH<br />
SATURDAY<br />
DEC 15 TH<br />
SUNDAY<br />
DEC 16 TH<br />
MONDAY<br />
DEC 17 TH<br />
TUESDAY<br />
DEC 18 TH<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
DEC 19 TH<br />
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Aragogs Lair<br />
Usually $24.99<br />
Mias Tree House<br />
Usually $59.99<br />
$<br />
49 99 ea<br />
$<br />
21 99 ea<br />
Artic Air<br />
Transport<br />
Usually<br />
$59.99<br />
$<br />
49 99 ea<br />
Quidditch<br />
Match<br />
Usually $59.99<br />
$<br />
54 99 ea<br />
Scout Truck<br />
Usually $79.99<br />
$<br />
69 99 ea<br />
Whomping Willow<br />
Usually $119.99<br />
$<br />
109 99 ea<br />
Artic Mobile<br />
Exploration Base<br />
Usually $179.99<br />
$ 149 99 ea<br />
Heartlake Summer $<br />
Pool<br />
79 99 ea<br />
Usually $89.99<br />
Stephanies House<br />
Usually $109.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Hogwarts Great Hall<br />
Usually $199.99<br />
$<br />
179 99 ea<br />
Anakins Jedi <strong>Star</strong>fighter<br />
Usually $49.99<br />
$<br />
39 99 ea<br />
Throne Room Showdown<br />
Usually $39.99<br />
First Responder<br />
Usually $69.99<br />
Train<br />
Bridge<br />
and<br />
Tracks<br />
Usually<br />
$49.99<br />
$<br />
34 99 ea<br />
$<br />
59 99 ea<br />
$<br />
39 99 ea<br />
Train<br />
Tracks<br />
Usually<br />
$59.99<br />
Porg<br />
Usually<br />
$119.99<br />
Rally Car<br />
Usually $179.99<br />
$<br />
149 99 ea<br />
$<br />
34 99 ea<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Xwing<br />
<strong>Star</strong>fighter<br />
Usually<br />
$169.99<br />
$<br />
149 99 ea<br />
Stormbringer<br />
Usually $79.99<br />
$<br />
69 99 ea<br />
Forest Machine<br />
Usually $249.99<br />
$<br />
199 99 ea<br />
Steam Train<br />
Usually $109.99<br />
$<br />
99 99 ea<br />
Firstbourne<br />
Usually $129.99<br />
$<br />
109 99 ea<br />
Valid from Wednesday 28th November to Monday 24th <strong>December</strong><br />
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Ph 03 281 8127
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Gardening<br />
Kaleidoscope of colourful capsicums<br />
SWEET:<br />
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similar growing<br />
conditions to<br />
tomatoes. In<br />
two to three<br />
months you can<br />
start harvesting<br />
them.<br />
Jim Beam Gold 7%<br />
or Canadian Club 7%<br />
250ml 12 Pack Cans<br />
22 .99<br />
pack<br />
Steinlager Pure or<br />
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330ml 12 Pack Bottles<br />
23 .99<br />
pack<br />
Jim Beam White<br />
Bourbon 1.75 Litre<br />
or Glenfiddich<br />
12YO Whisky<br />
700ml<br />
59 .99<br />
each<br />
Smirnoff Vodka<br />
or Gordon's<br />
Gin 1 Litre<br />
32 .99<br />
each<br />
Jameson Irish<br />
Whiskey 1 Litre<br />
or Chivas Regal<br />
12YO 700ml<br />
46 .99<br />
each<br />
Ngatarawa Stables<br />
(excl Reserve) or<br />
Selaks Premium<br />
Selection 750ml<br />
9 .99<br />
each<br />
Grant's Scotch<br />
Whisky 1 Litre<br />
34 .99<br />
each<br />
Coruba & Cola 330ml<br />
10 Pack Bottles or Jack<br />
Daniel's 375ml 10 Pack Cans<br />
24 .99<br />
pack<br />
DB Export Gold,<br />
Draught or Tui<br />
330ml 15 Pack Bottles<br />
23 .99<br />
pack<br />
Jack Daniel's<br />
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49 .99<br />
each<br />
Stoneleigh 750ml<br />
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12 .99<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Ned (excl<br />
Chardonnay & Pinot<br />
Noir) or Oyster Bay<br />
750ml (excl Pinot<br />
Noir & Sparkling)<br />
14 .99<br />
each<br />
Billy Maverick 7%<br />
250ml 18 Pack Cans<br />
27 .99<br />
pack<br />
Steinlager Classic<br />
330ml 15 Pack Bottles<br />
24 .99<br />
pack<br />
St-Rémy VSOP<br />
Brandy or<br />
Canadian Club<br />
Whisky 1 Litre<br />
37 .99<br />
each<br />
Johnnie Walker<br />
Black 1 Litre or<br />
Grey Goose<br />
Vodka 700ml<br />
64 .99<br />
each<br />
Deutz<br />
Marlborough<br />
Cuvée Brut or<br />
Jules Taylor 750ml<br />
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19 .99<br />
each<br />
Cody's 7%<br />
250ml 12 Pack Cans<br />
19 .99<br />
pack<br />
Deep Creek<br />
Lupulin<br />
Double IPA or<br />
Coromandel<br />
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440ml Can<br />
7 .99<br />
each<br />
• By Henri Ham<br />
Corona 355ml<br />
12 Pack Bottles<br />
26 .99<br />
pack 33 .99<br />
pack<br />
SUMMER IS knocking on the door (well<br />
it should be), which means it’s now the<br />
perfect time to start planting capsicums in<br />
your garden.<br />
Capsicums, known in other countries as<br />
sweet bell peppers, are surprisingly easy<br />
to grow.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir main need is for a warm sunny<br />
environment. Once you’ve ticked off that,<br />
Coruba Rum<br />
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Cream 1 Litre<br />
37 .99<br />
each<br />
Woodstock 7%<br />
330ml 6 Pack Cans<br />
12 .99<br />
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Panhead (excl Rat Rod),<br />
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19 .99<br />
pack<br />
Speight's Gold Medal<br />
Ale or Summit Lager<br />
330ml 24 Pack Bottles<br />
Akarua Rua or<br />
Madam Sass<br />
Central Otago<br />
Pinot Noir 750ml<br />
21 .99<br />
each<br />
Heineken or<br />
Monteith's Beer<br />
330ml 12 Pack Bottles<br />
22 .99<br />
pack<br />
Bombay Sapphire<br />
Gin 1 Litre or<br />
Maker's Mark<br />
Bourbon 700ml<br />
44 .99<br />
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Green, yellow, orange, red and purple<br />
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It differs from<br />
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From here, keep them watered (more so<br />
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Young stars return for big match<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
SIX MEMBERS of the headlinegrabbing<br />
New Zealand under-17<br />
World Cup team will return for<br />
Canterbury United Pride’s door-die<br />
match against Auckland<br />
on Saturday.<br />
Blair Currie, Marissa van der<br />
Meer, Macey Fraser, Gabrielle<br />
Rennie, Jayda Stewart and<br />
Amelia Abbott, flew into<br />
Christchurch on Tuesday<br />
after finishing third at the<br />
tournament.<br />
Still riding the adrenaline rush<br />
of their accomplishments, they<br />
are now tasked with recovering<br />
from jet-lag and taking on<br />
Auckland to reach their sixth<br />
straight national league final.<br />
“It’s still pretty surreal with<br />
people congratulating you all the<br />
time,” said Rennie.<br />
“We completely blew our<br />
expectations out the window.<br />
We wanted to go there and win<br />
at least one game to give us a<br />
chance of making it out of our<br />
group.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir run to the bronze medal<br />
meant the Pride were without<br />
six key players for longer than<br />
anticipated.<br />
After sitting pretty at the top of<br />
the league early last month, two<br />
straight losses means the Pride<br />
need a draw or win to qualify for<br />
next weekend’s final.<br />
“Auckland will be a tough<br />
game, it’s pretty hard switching<br />
back on after travelling, but for<br />
me personally, I just love playing<br />
football so it won’t be an issue,”<br />
said Rennie.<br />
At the weekend, the Pride had<br />
a chance to secure a final berth<br />
and looked odds-on when Cody<br />
Taylor scored her second in the<br />
73rd-minute to go ahead 3-2<br />
against Capital. However, Capital<br />
scored twice in the final 10min<br />
to hand the Pride a 3-4 loss.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y actually played really<br />
well. We obviously lost in the last<br />
BUSY: Gabrielle Rennie<br />
arrived home on Tuesday<br />
from the FIFA under-17<br />
women’s World Cup. On<br />
Saturday she will look to<br />
help Canterbury United<br />
to a finals berth against<br />
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10min, which is gut-wrenching,<br />
and I kind of can’t get that one<br />
out of my brain. But in terms<br />
of the performance and the<br />
turnaround . . . it was pleasing,”<br />
said Pride coach Alana Gunn.<br />
She acknowledges she will<br />
need some of her under-17 stars<br />
at her disposal if the Pride are to<br />
secure a result. However, she will<br />
be leaving it up to the girls to<br />
make a call on their availability.<br />
“I’ve had word from a sports<br />
psychologist that their state of<br />
mind is probably going to be<br />
quite difficult . . . I think if they<br />
turn up to training on their own<br />
accord it will be a good thing,<br />
but I’m not going to ask them to.<br />
I imagine they’ll probably sleep<br />
for a couple of days,” said Gunn.<br />
“What’s great about the<br />
Canterbury region is that the<br />
girls love playing for the Pride<br />
. . . they’ll definitely want to<br />
contribute.”<br />
•Saturday’s match against<br />
Auckland kicks off at English<br />
Park at 1pm.<br />
Baxendale’s chance to cap off big year<br />
Ten Cantabrians nominated for NZ Rugby League Awards<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
HORNBY PANTHERS and<br />
Canterbury Bulls captain James<br />
Baxendale is one of three finalists<br />
vying for the country’s top<br />
domestic rugby league award.<br />
Ten Cantabrians have been<br />
nominated in several categories<br />
of the New Zealand Rugby<br />
League Awards.<br />
Baxendale, 32, is up for premier<br />
player of the year following a<br />
standout season that saw him<br />
almost guide the Panthers to the<br />
Pat Smith Trophy.<br />
“It was a huge surprise to be<br />
honest. It’s a pretty big award, so<br />
to be nominated is a nice reward<br />
for a pretty good season,” said<br />
Baxendale.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second-rower has never<br />
won the award before, but was a<br />
finalist in 2011. However, he feels<br />
like a different player compared<br />
to when he last got the nomination.<br />
“I’m probably more of a<br />
leader within those teams now.<br />
I’ve got a few more words in the<br />
changing sheds and I just try and<br />
lead with my actions on the field<br />
now,” said Baxendale.<br />
He was recently named Canterbury<br />
Bulls sportsman of the<br />
year at the Canterbury Rugby<br />
League Awards. <strong>The</strong> Bulls narrowly<br />
missed out on a spot in the<br />
national premiership grand-final<br />
this year, due to points differential.<br />
Baxendale has now turned his<br />
focus to the Hornby Panthers<br />
campaign next year, in which he’s<br />
hoping to win his first title with<br />
the club since 2013.<br />
“What happened this year was<br />
pretty disappointing. But everyone’s<br />
coming back next year and<br />
there’s a real belief that we can<br />
get over the line,” said Baxendale.<br />
At international level, Brisbane<br />
Broncos winger Jamayne Isaako<br />
has been short-listed for Kiwis<br />
rookie of the year, while Sui<br />
Pauaraisa – who is also a rugby<br />
union international for Samoa –<br />
is up for Kiwi Ferns rookie of the<br />
year.<br />
Referees Gary<br />
Smallridge and Owen<br />
Harvey have been recognised<br />
with nominations in a<br />
four-strong field for match<br />
official of the year. Debbie<br />
Neylon-Kennedy, Michelle<br />
Harding and Hana Kakoi are in<br />
the running for female volunteer<br />
of the year. David Field and Tony<br />
Grenfell have been nominated for<br />
male volunteer of the year, which<br />
Hornby legend Jack Newson<br />
won last year. Meanwhile, the<br />
Rolleston Warriors are one of<br />
seven finalists for grassroots club<br />
of the year.<br />
FINALIST: James Baxendale is up for New Zealand Rugby<br />
League’s biggest domestic award. <br />
Canterbury finalists<br />
•James Baxendale –<br />
premier player of the year<br />
•Jamayne Isaako – Kiwis<br />
rookie of the year<br />
•Sui Pauaraisa – Kiwi Ferns<br />
rookie of the year<br />
•Debbie Neylon-Kennedy<br />
– female volunteer of the<br />
year<br />
•Michelle Hardon – female<br />
volunteer of the year<br />
•Hana Kakoi – female<br />
volunteer of the year<br />
•David Field – male<br />
volunteer of the year<br />
•Tony Grenfell – male<br />
volunteer of the year<br />
•Rolleston Warriors –<br />
grassroots club of the year<br />
•Gary Smallridge – match<br />
official of the year<br />
•Owen Harvey – match<br />
official of the year
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Defending champs favourites to make one-day finals<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
THE FINALISTS for the Metro<br />
Cricket premiership one-day<br />
final will be found this weekend.<br />
On Saturday, defending<br />
champions Burnside West<br />
University will host St Albans<br />
at Burnside Park, while top<br />
qualifiers Lancaster Park will<br />
play East Christchurch Shirley at<br />
Garrick Park in the other semifinal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> defending champions<br />
come into the semi-finals on the<br />
back of a four-wicket win over<br />
previously undefeated Lancaster<br />
Park. Burnside West have been<br />
led by the competition’s top two<br />
wicket-takers, Matt Hay and<br />
Sam Carwell, who combined<br />
for five wickets at the weekend<br />
when bowling Lancaster Park<br />
out for 149.<br />
Burnside West will come<br />
up against a classy St Albans<br />
bowling line-up on Saturday,<br />
which will feature James Tapper,<br />
Bailen Thatcher, Matt Holstein,<br />
Ben Langrope and Jack Harper.<br />
Meanwhile, East<br />
Christchurch will face a tough<br />
task against Lancaster Park,<br />
and will be without Leo Carter,<br />
who has been selected for<br />
Canterbury’s Plunket Shield<br />
match against Auckland.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir opposition, Lancaster<br />
Park, look well rounded with<br />
the competition’s top two<br />
run-scorers, Fynn Hudson-<br />
Prentice and Scott Duggan, both<br />
averaging more than 50.<br />
Both semi-finals begin at<br />
10.30am.<br />
in brief<br />
Red Sox take another<br />
Jefferies Cup<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canterbury Red Sox softball<br />
team racked up their 24th<br />
consecutive Jefferies Cup at the<br />
weekend, in what was a clean<br />
sweep for Canterbury at the<br />
South Island tournament. <strong>The</strong><br />
Canterbury Red Hawks were<br />
also crowned the women’s South<br />
Island champions when they<br />
won the Jubilee Cup. Canterbury<br />
also won the boys and girls<br />
under-15 titles.<br />
Keplar Challenge<br />
record broken<br />
Trail runner Andy Good<br />
broke a 10-year record held<br />
by Christchurch runner Phil<br />
Costley at the Kepler Challenge<br />
over the weekend. Good, won<br />
the 27km Luxmore Grunt race<br />
at the event in a time of 1hr<br />
50min 55sec. His time was 2min<br />
quicker than the time set by the<br />
former Commonwealth Games<br />
marathon runner in 2008. <strong>The</strong><br />
27km women’s race was won by<br />
former Rangi Ruru student Ruth<br />
Croft. Vajin Armstrong, third,<br />
was the best of the Christchurch<br />
runners in the 60km Keplar<br />
Challenge.<br />
Hamilton takes fourth<br />
at world kart event<br />
Matt Hamilton blitzed his<br />
way through the field at the<br />
Rotax World Finals to finish<br />
fourth after starting 10th in the<br />
final race of the DD2 Masters<br />
category. <strong>The</strong> kart driver<br />
recorded two wins, a second and<br />
a 24th-place finish in the four<br />
races before the final to start<br />
10th on the grid.<br />
Canterbury rugby stars<br />
nominated for player<br />
of the year award<br />
CANTERBURY IS well<br />
represented in nominations for<br />
the ASB Rugby Awards, with<br />
three players a chance of being<br />
named player of the year.<br />
Black Ferns’ Kendra<br />
Cocksedge, and All Blacks’<br />
Codie Taylor and Richie<br />
Mo’unga (right), are nominees<br />
for the Kelvin R Tremain<br />
Memorial Player of the Year<br />
award, along with Brodie<br />
Retallick, who has roots in<br />
League prospects get a taste of NRL<br />
TWO BRIGHT rugby league<br />
prospects, Jaedon Wellington<br />
and Callum Donaldson, are this<br />
week getting a unique taste of the<br />
NRL during a week-long camp at<br />
the Manly Sea Eagles.<br />
<strong>The</strong> invitation to come to<br />
Manly’s training base on<br />
Sydney’s northern beaches is<br />
the direct result of the club’s<br />
commitment to play an annual<br />
home match in Christchurch<br />
and to build a strong relationship<br />
with the local rugby league<br />
community.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sea Eagles will play their<br />
second annual home match at<br />
Christchurch Stadium on March<br />
30.<br />
Jaedon captained the under-15<br />
Canterbury. Mo’unga is also a<br />
nominee for try of the year and<br />
Super Rugby player of the year,<br />
along with Crusaders’ loosie<br />
Matt Todd.<br />
Cocksedge has been<br />
nominated for New Zealand<br />
women’s player of the year and<br />
women’s provincial player of<br />
the year, while Taylor is up for<br />
Maori player of the year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Crusaders have been<br />
nominated for national team of<br />
South Island team at the national<br />
championships last month and<br />
was named in the New Zealand<br />
Merit team.<br />
the year, while Scott Robertson<br />
is up for national coach of the<br />
year, along with Canterbury<br />
women’s coach Kieran Kite.<br />
Luke Romano is up for<br />
Mitre 10 Cup player of the<br />
year after a standout season<br />
for Canterbury. <strong>The</strong> age grade<br />
player of the year award has two<br />
Canterbury nominees in New<br />
Zealand under-20 captain Tom<br />
Christie and Christ’s College<br />
captain Sam Darry.<br />
TALENT:<br />
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Donaldson<br />
and Jaedon<br />
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Jeff Whittaker says that the two<br />
players are among the best<br />
young talents to come out of<br />
the South Island and says the<br />
NRL is taking notice of the<br />
South Island as a talent breeding<br />
ground.<br />
Whittaker took Jamayne<br />
Isaako from the Aranui Eagles<br />
to the Cronulla youth team<br />
five years ago and last season<br />
the Brisbane Broncos star was<br />
named NRL rookie of the year.<br />
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Whittaker said.<br />
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TIMBER:<br />
Kyle<br />
Jamieson is<br />
set to play his<br />
first match<br />
for Canterbury<br />
this season<br />
when they take<br />
on Auckland<br />
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• By Allan Batt<br />
LINCOLN speedway<br />
racer Jeremy Webb had<br />
no intention of racing<br />
both his TQ midget and<br />
his midget on the same<br />
night this summer at<br />
Ruapuna.<br />
But he has a burning<br />
desire to pay tribute to the<br />
late Ryan Stone, an early mentor<br />
of his on Saturday.<br />
Webb, the current New<br />
Jamieson adds pace<br />
to Canterbury attack<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
CANTERBURY’S PACE bowling<br />
stocks have been reinforced by the<br />
return of Kyle Jamieson for today’s<br />
four-day Plunket Shield match<br />
against Auckland.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2.03m paceman will<br />
play for Canterbury for<br />
the first time this summer<br />
after being released from his<br />
New Zealand A duties.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 24-year-old was part<br />
of New Zealand A’s tour<br />
of the United Arab Emirates<br />
last month, and has<br />
just finished a spell with<br />
the team in their three<br />
four-day matches against<br />
India.<br />
“He’s learnt a lot over<br />
the last few months,”<br />
said Canterbury coach<br />
Brendon Donkers.<br />
“We’re expecting him<br />
to play a big role for us.”<br />
Canterbury will still<br />
be without left-arm quick<br />
Ed Nuttall, who recently<br />
returned to club cricket<br />
following a lengthy recovery<br />
from a back injury.<br />
However, they will be<br />
boosted by the return<br />
of wicketkeeper Cam<br />
Fletcher, who scored<br />
103 for New Zealand A<br />
against India A in a fourday<br />
match which finished<br />
Webb to wheel out the TQ in memory of mentor<br />
Jeremy<br />
Webb<br />
Zealand TQ champion<br />
has decided to enter the<br />
Ryan Stone Tribute race<br />
in his 750cc Suzukipowered<br />
TQ, as well as<br />
contesting a round of<br />
the Southern Midget<br />
Series on the same night<br />
in his 2700cc Esslingerengined<br />
midget.<br />
“I guess it’s as good<br />
a time as any to start my<br />
preparation for February’s New<br />
Zealand TQ championship at<br />
on Monday. Left-arm spinner <strong>The</strong>o<br />
van Woerkom is also set to make<br />
his return to the team.<br />
Meanwhile, Canterbury captain<br />
Cole McConchie has been selected<br />
for New Zealand A’s three one-day<br />
matches against India A after a<br />
strong one-day campaign with<br />
Canterbury which saw him finish<br />
the Ford Trophy as the team’s top<br />
wicket-taker. New Zealand A will<br />
play India A at the Bay Oval in<br />
Tauranga tomorrow.<br />
Top order batsman Steve<br />
Murdoch will captain Canterbury<br />
in McConchie’s absence. Openers<br />
Jack Boyle and Chad Bowes will<br />
look to take their form from the<br />
Ford Trophy campaign into the<br />
Plunket Shield, while Jeff Case – the<br />
only non-contracted player in the<br />
team – has a chance to stake his<br />
claim batting at No 4.<br />
Canterbury played the opening<br />
two rounds of the Plunket Shield<br />
in October and are yet to register a<br />
win in the competition this season.<br />
Canterbury’s 12-strong squad will<br />
be reduced to 11 for today’s match<br />
at the Eden Park Outer Oval in<br />
Auckland.<br />
•Canterbury squad: Jack<br />
Boyle, Chad Bowes, Steve<br />
Murdoch (c), Jeff Case, Leo<br />
Carter, Cam Fletcher, Henry<br />
Shipley, Kyle Jamieson, Fraser<br />
Sheat, Will Williams, Andrew<br />
Hazeldine, <strong>The</strong>o van<br />
Woerkom.<br />
Ruapuna this Saturday. If it<br />
wasn’t the Stoney race, I’d leave<br />
the TQ in the shed and focus on<br />
the midget, but Ryan means a<br />
heck of a lot to many of the<br />
TQ racers and his race is one<br />
of those got-to-win deals,” said<br />
Webb.<br />
Stone passed away in 2012<br />
after a battle with cancer and,<br />
although Webb is a two-time<br />
winner of the race held in<br />
memory of his good friend, he<br />
says that it goes deeper than that.<br />
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First XV rugby a<br />
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have had a number of 1st XV<br />
players in recent years who have<br />
come in on scholarships after<br />
previously attending other secondary<br />
schools.<br />
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opportunities for talented<br />
rugby players who are at schools<br />
without a UC Championship<br />
there are too many examples<br />
of talent moving from one UC<br />
Championship school to another<br />
on scholarships, causing an imbalance<br />
in power.<br />
It’s understood that St Thomas’<br />
are the latest victim with two<br />
young talents heading to Christ’s<br />
and another two set move to St<br />
Andrew’s on scholarships.<br />
It’s nothing new either. One<br />
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the late John Fox involved him<br />
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poaching a Shirley Boys’ High<br />
School rising star several years<br />
ago called Jamayne Isaako – now<br />
the NRL’s rookie of the year.<br />
Are we happy to watch our<br />
schoolboy comp become a<br />
poaching battle or it is time to<br />
speak up?<br />
Not only is Webb having to<br />
crank-up his preparation to<br />
defend his national TQ crown,<br />
but he is again returning<br />
to Auckland to contest the<br />
international midget car series<br />
at Western Springs over the<br />
Christmas break.<br />
Last season, Webb’s efforts<br />
saw him win the Presidents Cup<br />
at the New Zealand Speedway<br />
Awards in recognition of his<br />
prowess in the two classes at a<br />
national level.
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Mike Fulham<br />
P 364 74<strong>06</strong><br />
E mike@christchurchstar.co.nz<br />
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ph 0800 874 745<br />
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ADDINGTON Flat 1 - 55<br />
Ruskin St, Sat 9am - 12<br />
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BISHOPDALE 6<br />
Ruddenklau Lane (off<br />
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items and cheap quality<br />
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Finance<br />
Funeral Directors<br />
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Garage Sales<br />
HEI HEI<br />
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& Supplies<br />
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• Storm damage<br />
• Hedges trimmed<br />
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021 221 4344<br />
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Free Quote. Ph. 942-4440<br />
& 022 264 7452<br />
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SPREYDON<br />
PETE’S<br />
SERVICE<br />
GARDENING<br />
Gardening,<br />
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pictures, Briarwood bag.<br />
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17 Dellow Place.<br />
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4118<br />
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Handy Person<br />
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ST<br />
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those sticking doors and<br />
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an obligation free quote to<br />
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8am-8pm ph 027 723 5756<br />
To Let<br />
HOMESITTERS<br />
reqd Xmas / New Year.<br />
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Lisa 03 359-2323 www.<br />
townandcountryhomesit.<br />
co.nz<br />
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Power & Broadband incl.<br />
$330 pw..Ph 03 3266260<br />
or 0272 369779<br />
Tools & Machinery<br />
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saw benches, Lathes. Cash<br />
buyer Phone 355-2045<br />
Trades & Services<br />
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• Free quotes<br />
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Church Notices<br />
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182 Edgeware Road<br />
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Tawera<br />
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PH 0800 225 483<br />
325 Brougham Street<br />
CHRISTCHURCH<br />
Church Notices<br />
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23/25 Hutcheson St<br />
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Thursday <strong>December</strong> 6 <strong>2018</strong><br />
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0273 313 223<br />
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1920<br />
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/0272853083<br />
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252 1801<br />
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OVEN CLEANING<br />
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cleans<br />
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avail. Phone 0800 683-<br />
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PAINTING<br />
&<br />
PLASTERING|<br />
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roof painting Family run<br />
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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 />
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6895 933<br />
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0874351<br />
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022<br />
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027 432-3822 or 351-<br />
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022<br />
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022 197 2351<br />
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0274314720<br />
TREE<br />
WORK<br />
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ENDORSEMENTS AVAILABLE ARE:<br />
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What you’ll need to succeed:<br />
In order to be successful in this role it is essential that you have:<br />
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• Want to be part of a top<br />
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Li ter library<br />
Problem areas for li ter<br />
revealed<br />
Surf club move<br />
New Brighton surf club opts<br />
to rebuild on new site<br />
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, <strong>2018</strong> www.star.kiwi<br />
Loca ly Owned<br />
jo<br />
hayes<br />
christchurch east<br />
Ca l to make an<br />
a pointment<br />
P: 384 9459<br />
www.national.org.nz<br />
Authorised by Jo Hayes<br />
Unit 6/950 Fe ry Road, Christchurch<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
WORKSAFE NEW Zealand<br />
has b en a proached in a bid to<br />
fina ly repair the potholes in New<br />
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. “<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 />
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 />
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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on Hawke St<br />
car park<br />
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THE ST Andrew’s Co lege big<br />
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•Turn to page 9<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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to his world heavyweigh title<br />
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<strong>The</strong> former New Zealand<br />
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Bryce to London ahead of the<br />
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Mr Calvert, 47, comes from a<br />
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•Turn to page 6<br />
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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 />
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into mediation with IAG and EQC<br />
on February 20, and signed off<br />
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2 – coincidenta ly seven years<br />
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earlier.”<br />
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