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TUESDAY, DECEMBER <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

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CITY<br />

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with Les Mills<br />

BUNNY BANDITS have<br />

returned two pet rabbits to a preschool<br />

after outrage on social<br />

media.<br />

The two bunny sisters, Ruby<br />

and Rose, were stolen from<br />

BestStart Hei Hei on November<br />

30.<br />

Two hutches, rabbit food and<br />

Long battle<br />

New twist in stormwater pipe<br />

saga at subdivision<br />

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a wooden baby fence were also<br />

taken. It was the second burglary<br />

in two nights at the pre-school.<br />

During the first one, a Civil<br />

Defence kit and two shade sails<br />

were stolen.<br />

The rabbits and a hutch were<br />

returned on <strong>December</strong> 3 after<br />

CCTV footage of the offenders<br />

was published on Facebook and<br />

on Stuff.<br />

BestStart Hei Hei pre-school<br />

manager Melitta Fielding<br />

narrowly missed the burglars<br />

returning the rabbits.<br />

“A friend has a surveillance<br />

camera and saw the car driving<br />

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hutch.”<br />

She said the children loved<br />

having them back.<br />

“They were so excited when<br />

they saw the cage.”<br />

Miss Fielding believed media<br />

coverage of the thefts may have<br />

pressured the thieves to return<br />

the rabbits.<br />

Nothing else stolen in the<br />

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FRONT LINE police could be<br />

based again in fast-growing<br />

Hornby.<br />

The Hornby station in Tower<br />

St, may be boosted when 121<br />

new police officers earmarked for<br />

Canterbury are<br />

allocated midway<br />

through<br />

next year.<br />

If the officers<br />

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station could be<br />

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the clock.<br />

Canterbury<br />

Metro Area Lane Todd<br />

Commander<br />

Superintendent Lane Todd said<br />

Hornby police station has not<br />

had 24-hour response officers for<br />

many years.<br />

The station is currently crewed<br />

during the day by youth aid and<br />

community officers, he said.<br />

“What we’ve got now is having<br />

stations that are more hubs,” he<br />

said.<br />

“So we are trying to centralise<br />

more rather than having smaller<br />

teams in a few more stations<br />

around the city,” Superintendent<br />

Todd said.<br />

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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />

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

New twist in subdivision battle<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

A SMALL road has become the<br />

latest battleground in a longrunning<br />

saga over the Yaldhurst<br />

Park subdivision.<br />

Resident Colin Stokes is trying<br />

to stop the Halswell-Hornby-<br />

Riccarton Community Board<br />

formally naming the road.<br />

He says if that happens, it<br />

will torpedo his battle over<br />

stormwater issues in the<br />

subdivision.<br />

Mr Stokes has spent eight<br />

years fighting developers over a<br />

number of issues relating to the<br />

subdivision.<br />

As a result of his concerns, the<br />

community board has decided<br />

to defer naming the road until<br />

it meets with affected residents<br />

and city council staff.<br />

The meeting is yet to be arranged.<br />

The proposed road<br />

name was Jack Clarke Rd.<br />

The unnamed road provides<br />

access from Yaldhurst Park to<br />

properties that are west of the<br />

subdivision, known as Lot 22.<br />

The developer behind the<br />

subdivision is Infinity Yaldhurst.<br />

Mr Stokes resides at Lot 22.<br />

He said the road cannot be<br />

named as the developer, previously<br />

known as Noble Investments<br />

Ltd, built stormwater<br />

systems that were too small.<br />

Naming the road would legitimise<br />

the inadequate stormwater<br />

systems, Mr Stokes said.<br />

However, city councillor<br />

Vicki Buck said advice from city<br />

council staff was that naming<br />

the road would not “impact”<br />

Mr Stokes’ concerns about the<br />

stormwater systems.<br />

LONG BATTLE: Yaldhurst<br />

Village subdivision<br />

landowner Colin Stokes<br />

says the unnamed road<br />

is not a proper road as it<br />

doesn’t have the correct<br />

stormwater provisions.<br />

Cr Buck said the road naming<br />

issue was unrelated to the subdivision’s<br />

past issues.<br />

“It’s a very tiny section of<br />

road that needs a name for<br />

emergency services, mail, fairly<br />

basic sort of things, and that<br />

seemed important that they have<br />

that.”<br />

In a 2012 email provided to<br />

<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong>, city council<br />

planning engineer Brian Norton<br />

stated that design of a new<br />

stormwater system at Yaldhurst<br />

Park was “complicated by the<br />

depth of the stream culverts<br />

that Noble has installed without<br />

engineering approval.”<br />

“It went in deeper than we<br />

[city council] wanted and<br />

are round rather than box<br />

culverts, in spite of the council<br />

having provided our preferred<br />

design to the applicants and<br />

their consultants on multiple<br />

occasions,” the email said.<br />

The email also stated: “At<br />

one of our last meetings with<br />

Noble, I believe we (city council)<br />

tentatively agreed that the deep<br />

culverts wouldn’t have to be<br />

ripped out in exchange for them<br />

doing some of the construction<br />

works for the bleed-off system<br />

we are designing.”<br />

Said Mr Stokes: “The<br />

city council retrospectively<br />

consented and approved<br />

non-complying undersized<br />

infrastructure.”<br />

He said as a result of<br />

inadequate stormwater<br />

provisions, the unnamed road<br />

frequently floods.<br />

The latest flooding happened<br />

on Wednesday night after heavy<br />

rain, Mr Stokes said.<br />

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NEW ROAD NAMES<br />

New road names have been touted<br />

for two subdivisions. Eight roads<br />

under consideration are from<br />

the Copper Ridge subdivision<br />

in Halswell. Three roads at<br />

the Buchanans Rd subdivision<br />

in Yaldhurst are also under<br />

consideration. A decision will be<br />

made by the Halswell-Hornby-<br />

Riccarton Community Board<br />

today.<br />

FUNDING REQUEST<br />

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a neurological disorder, causing<br />

learning difficulties. The Halswell-<br />

Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />

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her $500.<br />

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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />

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

Bus lounge behaviour improves<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

AUTHORITIES AND residents<br />

say the controversial Riccarton<br />

bus lounges are now troublefree.<br />

Since opening in <strong>December</strong><br />

2015, the bus lounges on Riccarton<br />

Rd have frequently<br />

attracted anti-social behaviour,<br />

including assaults.<br />

But that is<br />

now in the<br />

past, Riccarton<br />

Community<br />

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said. He is<br />

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Aaron Thorn<br />

optimistic<br />

that the good<br />

behaviour will<br />

TROUBLE SPOT: Since opening in <strong>December</strong> 2015, Riccarton Rd bus lounges attracted<br />

anti-social behaviour. But authorities say that has improved.<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ​<br />

continue.<br />

“It’s been quiet this year and<br />

it’s probably down to the good<br />

work that the security guys<br />

are doing in there,” Constable<br />

Thorn said.<br />

The anti-social behaviour died<br />

down last year, he said. This<br />

year the main concern around<br />

the lounges has been beggars.<br />

But begging outside the bus<br />

lounges has also stopped, Constable<br />

Thorn said.<br />

There have been occasional<br />

incidents of loitering school students<br />

this year, but they weren’t<br />

serious, he said.<br />

“They [students] were hanging<br />

around being a nuisance. They<br />

are just loitering and not really<br />

doing much.”<br />

Riccarton Bush and Kilmarnock<br />

Residents’ Association<br />

chairman Tony Simons said<br />

residents have noticed an improvement.<br />

“It hasn’t been a topic of<br />

conversation for some time, so<br />

that’s a good sign. So I think the<br />

perception is that the behaviour<br />

has improved considerably,” Mr<br />

Simons said.<br />

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />

Community Board member<br />

Catherine Chu said the board<br />

has worked hard to prevent<br />

anti-social behaviour, and sent<br />

youth workers in to ease trouble<br />

last year.<br />

“The stories we were<br />

hearing from locals were just<br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

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Community split over<br />

Kyle Park decision<br />

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•HAVE YOUR SAY: Is Kyle Park the right location for the new south-west leisure centre? Email anan.zaki@starmedia.kiwi<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

KYLE PARK is the new<br />

preferred location for the<br />

Hornby mega centre but the<br />

community remains split over<br />

the decision.<br />

The Halswell-Hornby-<br />

Riccarton Community Board<br />

last week recommended to the<br />

city council<br />

that Kyle Park<br />

should be home<br />

to the $35.7<br />

million customer<br />

services,<br />

library, recreation<br />

and leisure<br />

Vicki Buck<br />

centre.<br />

The community<br />

board was split over the<br />

decision, with the recommendation<br />

narrowly passing by five<br />

votes to four.<br />

Board member and city councillor<br />

Vicki Buck said because<br />

only one vote separated the<br />

decision, it was more open to<br />

challenge.<br />

“Kyle Park was not my first<br />

choice, but it is the next best<br />

choice.”<br />

Cr Buck originally favoured<br />

COMMUNITY SITE: Investigation taking place at Kyle Park<br />

in October. The park is recommended for a new south-west<br />

leisure centre.<br />

Denton Park, which was ruled<br />

out earlier this year.<br />

“If we chose [to investigate<br />

site options], we go back to<br />

council – who . . . asked us to<br />

expedite the work on Kyle Park<br />

– and say I’m really sorry but we<br />

need another month or year’s<br />

consultation . . . I am certainly<br />

not prepared to do that,” Cr<br />

Buck said.<br />

Board member Ross McFarlane<br />

voted to investigate other<br />

possible sites and investigate<br />

possible cost savings.<br />

He said: “Essentially all we are<br />

trying to do is to spend the best<br />

amount of money to get the best<br />

facility possible.”<br />

“$5.8 million goes into the<br />

ground [to remediate the Kyle<br />

Park landfill].”<br />

How board members voted:<br />

For: Mike Mora, Natalie<br />

Bryden, Vicki Buck, Jimmy<br />

Chen and Anne Galloway<br />

Against: Helen Broughton,<br />

Catherine Chu, Ross<br />

McFarlane and Debbie<br />

Mora<br />

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GREATER Hornby Residents’<br />

Association chairman Marc<br />

Duff said choosing Kyle Park<br />

would help move the leisure<br />

centre project forward.<br />

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until we never want to hear<br />

that word again,” Mr Duff<br />

said.<br />

“To hear that people want<br />

to go out for more views absolutely<br />

amazes me,” he said.<br />

But Save Denton Park chairman<br />

Mark Peters believed<br />

more consultation was needed.<br />

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process] has been rushed. It<br />

feels like an agenda to get this<br />

through before Christmas,” he<br />

said.<br />

“Take a breath through the<br />

Christmas break, have the<br />

council staff do more homework<br />

for you,” Mr Peters said.<br />

Templeton Residents’ Association<br />

chairman Garry Kilday<br />

slammed the decision, for<br />

being put on a former landfill<br />

site.<br />

Mr Kilday said Templeton<br />

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designed for the south west.<br />

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absolutely reprehensible. I<br />

can’t understand why anyone<br />

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Mr Kilday was also concerned<br />

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board supporting Templeton<br />

residents’ fear of quarry dust,<br />

while at also opening a former<br />

landfill at Kyle Park.<br />

He also believed the board<br />

should have investigated an<br />

option to build the mega<br />

centre at Waterloo Business<br />

Park.<br />

“We [Templeton residents]<br />

have a vested interest in this,<br />

people kept on calling it the<br />

Hornby leisure centre. Well it<br />

isn’t, it’s the south-west leisure<br />

centre,” Mr Kilday said.<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

THE NEW leisure centre is set to<br />

be built next to the Christchurch<br />

BMX Club at Kyle Park.<br />

Track manager Michael<br />

Stronach says the new facility at<br />

Kyle Park will be a boost for the<br />

BMX Club.<br />

The club recently upgraded<br />

their track, which was designed<br />

with the help of Olympic BMX<br />

rider Trent Jones.<br />

“It’s got potential to [benefit]<br />

for sure. With a bit of car parking,<br />

lighting and security it gives<br />

them [city council] the incentive<br />

to tidy up,” Mr Stronach said.<br />

“It could be a good thing for<br />

everyone,” he said.<br />

Work on upgrading the track<br />

started on November 30 and<br />

finished last Tuesday. The cost<br />

of the upgrade would have been<br />

$35,000 but it was paid for by<br />

businesses across the city.<br />

“The support from local businesses<br />

has been amazing,” Mr<br />

Stronach said.<br />

The track’s upgrades were<br />

designed and built by BMX rider<br />

Jones, who is also a qualified digger<br />

operator.<br />

The track now has new<br />

straights and jumps.<br />

The BMX track at Kyle Park<br />

was a place he often trained at<br />

during his youth.<br />

Jones, 24, competed at the 2016<br />

Olympics.<br />

“I designed and built new additions<br />

to upscale it. The sport of<br />

BMX is growing extremely fast<br />

and the driving force of that is<br />

the Olympics,” he said.<br />

“[The new track] provides<br />

something for the youth of<br />

Christchurch to train on a track<br />

of international stature,” Jones<br />

said.<br />

He said building BMX tracks is<br />

something he would pursue after<br />

his racing career and is one of<br />

the reasons he decided to build<br />

the track at Kyle Park.<br />

Jones, originally from Ohoka,<br />

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2014 to train full time as a BMX<br />

rider.<br />

He is currently based in Las<br />

Vegas, Nevada and is home for<br />

the Christmas and New Year<br />

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Decision on Villa Grove trees<br />

may be made today<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

Mike Mora<br />

A DECISION over the future<br />

of 22 oak trees at an Upper<br />

Riccarton street could me made<br />

today.<br />

<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> reported in<br />

September that residents of Villa<br />

Grove were unhappy about the<br />

trees and wanted to remove<br />

them.<br />

The Halswell-<br />

Hornby-Riccarton<br />

Community<br />

Board deferred<br />

the matter until<br />

after elected officials<br />

met with<br />

residents and<br />

inspected the site.<br />

The board members met with<br />

the residents in October, chairman<br />

Mike Mora said.<br />

The board is due to vote on the<br />

future of the trees today.<br />

City council staff still object<br />

to removing the trees, keeping<br />

in line with their stance in<br />

September. Staff say the trees are<br />

healthy and add amenity to the<br />

area.<br />

NUISANCE: A decision on the future of the Villa Grove oak<br />

trees could be made today.<br />

Residents told the community<br />

board in September that leaves<br />

from the trees were set on fire by<br />

students.<br />

The trees also caused uneven<br />

footpaths and residents said they<br />

feared they would collapse in<br />

high wind.<br />

The residents presented a<br />

24-signature petition to the<br />

community board calling to<br />

remove the trees.<br />

The trees are between 8.1m<br />

and 15.8m high and were<br />

planted between 1992 and 1994,<br />

when the Villa Grove subdivision<br />

was built.<br />

They are on both sides of the<br />

road and on public land.<br />

City council staff say if<br />

the residents want the trees<br />

removed, they would have to<br />

finance it themselves at a cost of<br />

about $27,500.<br />

In a letter to residents in June,<br />

the city council said there was<br />

no budget to remove healthy<br />

trees.<br />

Mr Mora said it was normal<br />

practice for the city council<br />

to charge people who want to<br />

remove healthy trees.<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

TWO VOLUNTEERS<br />

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Hungry have been<br />

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resident Luke Thomas<br />

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recipients. The awards<br />

recognised him for his<br />

contribution to the organisation.<br />

Hornby’s Kanta Patel was also<br />

recognised for her work at 0800<br />

Hungry.<br />

She has volunteered more<br />

Kanta Patel<br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

HARD WORK:<br />

Local hero<br />

Luke Thomas<br />

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Kiwibank head<br />

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Nicole Pervan<br />

and city<br />

councillor Yani<br />

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The Kiwibank Local Heroes<br />

awards were presented on<br />

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Raceway.<br />

•From page 1<br />

The new officers are part of the<br />

nationwide boost of 1800 police<br />

officers over the next three years.<br />

In the meantime, an additional<br />

youth aid worker has been confirmed<br />

for Hornby.<br />

Superintendent<br />

Todd<br />

said a youth<br />

aid worker will<br />

be needed in<br />

Hornby as the<br />

youth offender<br />

age is set to<br />

increase from<br />

Bruce Ward<br />

16 to 17-yearsold<br />

next year.<br />

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BOOST: More police officers could be assigned for Hornby<br />

Police station.<br />

we finalise numbers over the next<br />

three years, we will look at where<br />

we push some of our front line<br />

resourcing. But we won’t be making<br />

that decision until mid next<br />

year,” he said.<br />

Superintendent Todd said the<br />

community policing team at<br />

Hornby is “pretty full at the moment”.<br />

Currently, the Hornby youth<br />

aid worker also covers Selwyn.<br />

Hornby and Selwyn police<br />

youth aid worker Senior Constable<br />

Bruce Ward welcomed the<br />

announcement.<br />

“The big thing is with the increase<br />

in [youth offending] age to<br />

FAST FACTS<br />

Hornby Police station data<br />

•Youth offending from<br />

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Unique offenders – 73<br />

•Adult offending in Hornby<br />

October 2017 to October<br />

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

Number of offences – 1262<br />

Unique offenders – 833<br />

17, their offending will be<br />

dealt with youth aid officers,” he<br />

said.<br />

“At the moment, if you’re 17,<br />

you’re dealt with the district<br />

court,” Senior Constable Ward<br />

said.<br />

That will increase the number<br />

of cases handled by youth aid officers<br />

by about 20 to 30 per cent,<br />

he said.<br />

Including 17-year-olds as youth<br />

offenders is also “positive” Senior<br />

Constable Ward said.<br />

Many teenagers at that age are<br />

enrolled in secondary schools, he<br />

said.<br />

“So you might have a stolen car<br />

before that is stopped that had<br />

three 16-year-olds and a 17-yearold,<br />

all going to the same school,”<br />

Senior Constable Ward said.<br />

“The 16-year-olds will get taken<br />

home and the 17-year-old gets<br />

arrested. So now as soon as you<br />

turn 18, you’re in the district<br />

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WESTERN NEWS<br />

Local<br />

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

Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Readers respond to<br />

an article about the<br />

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trees along the middle<br />

of Riccarton Rd between<br />

Clarence and Matipo Sts<br />

Peter and Doreen<br />

Marshall – We couldn’t imagine<br />

anything so inappropriate as<br />

planting trees in the middle of<br />

Riccarton Rd and we can think of<br />

no good reason to do so.<br />

Alan Tunnicliffe – As a car<br />

driver, bus rider and pedestrian<br />

who uses this busy, narrow part<br />

of Riccarton Rd frequently, I<br />

emphatically say no to the plan to<br />

plant 27 trees in the middle of<br />

the road. There is not enough<br />

room to narrow the road even<br />

further and they will obscure the<br />

view of all users of the road to a<br />

dangerous extent.<br />

Tony Beasley – This<br />

proposal is ridiculous and<br />

typical of the city council’s<br />

‘over green’ planning team.<br />

Only six or seven per cent of<br />

our population is green enough<br />

to vote Green. However, our<br />

planners are bent on treating<br />

the privileged few at the expense<br />

and inconvenience of the vast<br />

majority. Congratulations to<br />

<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> and the Central<br />

Riccarton Residents’ Association<br />

for bringing these issues to the<br />

fore.<br />

CONGESTED: Residents disagree with a proposal to plant 27 trees along the middle of<br />

Riccarton Rd. ​<br />

Another ridiculous proposal<br />

is the peak time bus lane for<br />

Lincoln Rd when buses only pass<br />

every 10-15min. Anyone with<br />

their eyes half shut can see that<br />

what the planners want is a nice<br />

wide cycle lane for a few cyclists<br />

at the expense and inconvenience<br />

of motorists.<br />

The cycle lane down Antigua<br />

St, which is 20 times over<br />

capacity, is another example<br />

of a proposal installed against<br />

the opinion of the majority of<br />

ratepayers. We are all a little<br />

“green”. However, our city<br />

councillors should keep a tighter<br />

rein on their over green planners.<br />

Megan Malone – That<br />

road is a nightmare at the best<br />

of times. How the hell are trees<br />

going to help?<br />

Angela Whiten –<br />

Ridiculous. The public need to<br />

know who the city councillors<br />

are who voted for this and the<br />

ones that did away with the car<br />

parking in town. Vote them out.<br />

Kelly Root – What a bunch of<br />

morons. Our city council needs<br />

to go.<br />

Anna Henderson – I love the<br />

idea of tree-lined streets. Not sure<br />

it would work in this location<br />

though.<br />

Gayle Elizabeth Lord –<br />

I’m not a Riccarton resident<br />

but do travel through the area<br />

at various times. It is already a<br />

nightmare during heavy traffic<br />

so I can’t imagine how this is<br />

expected to improve traffic flow. I<br />

believe it will be a nightmare for<br />

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Marianne McKinney<br />

Zonneveld – It will divert the<br />

traffic into Kauri St to avoid<br />

Riccarton Rd and those suburban<br />

streets can’t take that amount of<br />

traffic. Ridiculous. Heaven help<br />

the fire brigade or the number<br />

of ambulances which go down<br />

Riccarton Rd regularly day and<br />

night. Typical of this council.<br />

Jillian Nuth – Brilliant. How<br />

much money did that cost to<br />

dream up? Worst idea ever.<br />

Holly Bryce – What a<br />

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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<br />

and will now be approved by the<br />

city council.<br />

The 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<br />

be complete by 2022, a report<br />

said.<br />

The 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<br />

policy.<br />

The policy said a lot of people<br />

consider council events and<br />

facilities “special occasions” so<br />

may be more inclined to want<br />

POLICY: A new city council scheme could see unhealthy food phased out from facilities, such<br />

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WESTERN NEWS<br />

Local<br />

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

Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

‘Knocked for six’ with pneumonia<br />

Pneumonia can strike at<br />

any time. Well-known<br />

local body politician Tim<br />

Sintes is recovering from<br />

the potentially deadly<br />

infection. Julia Evans<br />

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 />

“The day before it happened,<br />

I was riding my mountain bike<br />

over Rapaki with my daughter.<br />

The 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<br />

I was admitted to hospital.”<br />

It went downhill from there.<br />

“I just kept getting worse.<br />

At first we thought it was<br />

legionnaires’, 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<br />

nothing about pneumonia before,<br />

but now he is an expert.<br />

“I did not realise the<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 />

There 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 />

They 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 />

•Canterbury District Health Board data shows in 2017 to<br />

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and 124 deaths<br />

•In 2016 to 2017, there were 1585 admissions and 104<br />

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•In 2016 to 2015, there were 1442 admissions and 95<br />

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ON THE<br />

MEND:<br />

Coastal-<br />

Burwood<br />

Community<br />

Board deputy<br />

chairman<br />

Tim Sintes<br />

has been in<br />

bed for five<br />

weeks with a<br />

severe case of<br />

pneumonia.<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 />

“There 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.“The 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 />

Mr Sintes was discharged from<br />

hospital for the second time 10<br />

days ago.<br />

The 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.” Raising the issue has<br />

been a “weight off my shoulders,”<br />

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axendale’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 />

The second-rower has never<br />

won the award before, but was a<br />

finalist in 20<strong>11</strong>. 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. The 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 <strong>News</strong>on<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 />

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•Jamayne Isaako – Kiwis<br />

rookie of the year<br />

•Sui Pauaraisa – Kiwi Ferns<br />

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•Debbie Neylon-Kennedy<br />

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•Michelle Hardon – female<br />

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•Hana Kakoi – female<br />

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•David Field – male<br />

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•Tony Grenfell – male<br />

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•Rolleston Warriors –<br />

grassroots club of the year<br />

•Gary Smallridge – match<br />

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•Owen Harvey – match<br />

official of the year<br />

League prospects get a taste of NRL<br />

TWO BRIGHT rugby league<br />

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week getting a unique taste of the<br />

NRL during a week-long camp at<br />

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The invitation to come to<br />

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Jaedon captained the under-15<br />

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SPORTS<br />

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The young Hornby Panthers<br />

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Whittaker took Jamayne<br />

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the Brisbane Broncos star was<br />

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CHAMPS: The Riccarton High School boys volleyball team won a title at the South Island junior<br />

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Riccarton High brings home<br />

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• By Matt Slaughter<br />

RICCARTON HIGH School<br />

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finishing with seven wins and<br />

one loss and defeating Waimea<br />

College Gold two sets to one in<br />

the final.<br />

Nielsen said the team was<br />

coached by his son Jeremy.<br />

He put the win down to<br />

their ability to “keep playing<br />

aggressively.”<br />

Christchurch players also<br />

cleaned up the tournament’s<br />

individual awards, earning eight<br />

of the 12 slots in the girls alltournament<br />

team and six spots<br />

in the boys all-tournament team.<br />

The most valuable players in<br />

the girls and boys competitions<br />

were Burnside High School’s<br />

Taylah Holdem and Riccarton’s<br />

Joe Baxter.<br />

The Burnside High School girls<br />

A team took out the year 9-10<br />

division one title, finishing ahead<br />

of 16 teams from across the<br />

South Island.<br />

Coach Sam Ryburn said they<br />

only lost one game in pool play to<br />

rivals St Margaret’s College.<br />

Ryburn said although it had<br />

been a “pretty tight competition,”<br />

the team eventually made up for<br />

the loss, defeating St Margaret’s<br />

two games to one in the final.<br />

“We have a pretty wellrounded<br />

team of players and<br />

really played well as a team.”<br />

The win capped off a successful<br />

tournament for Christchurch<br />

school girls, with St Margaret’s<br />

finishing second and St Andrew’s<br />

College A taking third.<br />

Ryburn said the strong<br />

performance from Canterbury<br />

schools was “really positive” and<br />

could create “definite pathways”<br />

for young volleyballers to gain<br />

athletic scholarships overseas in<br />

the future.<br />

Both Burnside and Riccarton<br />

hope to continue their good<br />

form. Burnside’s girls team are<br />

competing at the Australian<br />

Volleyball Schools Cup, which<br />

was set to start on Sunday and<br />

finish on Friday.<br />

THE NEWLY opened athletic<br />

facilities at Nga Puna Wai Sports<br />

Hub in Halswell hosted the<br />

Canterbury primary schools<br />

athletics championships on<br />

Wednesday.<br />

The event brought together<br />

more than 1700 children from<br />

180 primary schools across<br />

Canterbury and<br />

the West Coast.<br />

It is the first<br />

time since the<br />

earthquakes<br />

that the<br />

championships<br />

have been held in<br />

Christchurch.<br />

For the past<br />

eight years,<br />

Christchurch students competing<br />

in the championships have had<br />

to travel to Ashburton because<br />

there has been no suitable facility<br />

in the city.<br />

But the opening in October<br />

of the new world-class athletics<br />

track at Nga Puna Wai has<br />

changed that.<br />

City council recreation and<br />

sports service manager David<br />

Bailey is delighted the city<br />

is again in a position to host<br />

athletics events like the primary<br />

schools championships.<br />

“It’s great to see the years of<br />

hard work and planning that has<br />

gone into creating Nga Puna Wai<br />

paying off and to see the smiles<br />

on these young kids’ faces,” Mr<br />

Bailey said.<br />

Sport Canterbury chief<br />

executive Julyan Falloon is<br />

also pleased the school athletic<br />

SPORTS<br />

Canty school athletics<br />

champs return to<br />

city at Nga Puna Wai<br />

Julyan<br />

Falloon<br />

championships are finally back<br />

in the city. “Today we’re seeing<br />

an entire generation of children<br />

who’ve never run on anything<br />

other than a grass track. It’s<br />

fantastic to see them competing<br />

on a world-class facility on their<br />

home turf,’’ Mr Falloon said.<br />

Nga Puna Wai is being<br />

developed by a collaborative<br />

partnership, which includes the<br />

city council, Sport Canterbury,<br />

Athletics Canterbury,<br />

Canterbury Rugby League,<br />

Canterbury Hockey, and Tennis<br />

Canterbury, and is opening in<br />

stages.<br />

The nine-lane athletics track<br />

and two water-based synthetic<br />

hockey pitches have opened and<br />

the two sand-based rugby league<br />

fields and 12 outdoor acrylic<br />

tennis courts are due to open in<br />

April.<br />

There will also be two multiuse<br />

community playing fields, a<br />

shared sports hub building with<br />

administration facilities, public<br />

toilets, changing facilities, a<br />

children’s play zone, an athletics<br />

control building, and covered<br />

seating for athletics, hockey and<br />

rugby league.<br />

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20 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

WESTERN NEWS<br />

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Christmas gift ideas for the whole family, available at any of<br />

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

21<br />

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

Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

Local<br />

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

Now<br />

Tireless triplets still an online sensation<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

THE THREE bouncing babies<br />

who won hearts in a viral online<br />

video have now grown into<br />

tireless toddlers.<br />

The 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 big<br />

family.<br />

They are fraternal and<br />

were born less than a minute<br />

apart.<br />

Not long after their birth,<br />

a video of the red-headed<br />

trio taken by Hazel&Cass<br />

photographer Cassandra English<br />

went viral online.<br />

It has reached more than nine<br />

million views.<br />

Now, Mrs O’Leary says the<br />

triplets have all gained their<br />

individual personalities and<br />

quirks.<br />

“They 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 for<br />

it.”<br />

“And Macy is the sweet,<br />

patient one. She will wait<br />

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cuddly, quiet and enjoys playing<br />

by herself.”<br />

Along with the triplets, Sarah<br />

and her husband Fionn are kept<br />

busy with two other boys, Olly,<br />

6, and Archy, who is almost<br />

three-years-old.<br />

The Hoon Hay family<br />

often get stopped in public by<br />

people asking questions about<br />

the large family, or just to admire<br />

then.<br />

“I get a lot of comments from<br />

people saying about how busy I<br />

must be. A lot of older ladies are<br />

amazed by the girls with their<br />

bright red hair and blue eyes.<br />

Even older men stop me to tell<br />

me stories about their family<br />

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had triplets.”<br />

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22 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

23<br />

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

Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

Local<br />

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

Now<br />

SPCA farewells gorgeous George<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

GEORGE THE staffordshirecross<br />

who was abused and beaten,<br />

finally has a new home.<br />

He has been adopted after<br />

spending 21 months in the care of<br />

the SPCA, which has been waiting<br />

patiently for a suitable home<br />

for him.<br />

SPCA Christchurch chief<br />

inspector 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. They’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 was<br />

being beaten.<br />

The 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 />

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dogs for five years.<br />

It was alleged George had been<br />

kicked, punched, strangled,<br />

beaten with weapons, shot at with<br />

a BB gun and verbally abused.<br />

The 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 />

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visiting the local park,” George’s<br />

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through the SPCA.<br />

GORGEOUS: George gives SPCA senior inspector Sam Cairns a kiss goodbye<br />

after a 21-month wait for adoption.


24 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONALS<br />

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Gary also recommends a Vehicle Holiday<br />

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over the Christmas break. This will lessen<br />

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Approaching their 20th Anniversary,<br />

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26 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

WESTERN NEWS<br />

WITH MARY IN FAITH<br />

TĀTOU KO MERE E WHAKAPONO ANA<br />

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD<br />

This year has been particularly special in that so many of our past students and staff<br />

have responded to our call to join a new group. Named Rauru, the group has been<br />

formed to strengthen and support our Marian College community. Past students and<br />

staff of Marian College, St Mary’s College (Christchurch) and McKillop College, are<br />

warmly invited to register for Rauru and help us shape the future of Marian.<br />

Collective dialogue and strategic visioning are underway as we prepare for a new<br />

school. Work includes development of a brief to ensure our Special Catholic Character,<br />

values and culture are captured and reflected in our new school.<br />

We appreciate Marian College is part of the bigger picture and we support the Bishop<br />

in taking due care of process and in making informed decisions for the benefit of the<br />

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch as a whole. The old saying is true – good things<br />

take time.<br />

Thank you to our Board of Trustees, our school staff and community, and members of<br />

the Marian Foundation for your support and fantastic work throughout <strong>2018</strong>.<br />

To our Marian girls – relax and enjoy a well-earned holiday. We look forward to<br />

having you back refreshed, inspired and ready for 2019 at Marian College.<br />

And finally, congratulations to our <strong>2018</strong> Marian leavers:<br />

we wish you all the very best and please stay in touch.<br />

Wishing you good health and blessings this Christmas.<br />

Jan Paterson<br />

Marian College Board of Trustees<br />

THE GIFT OF GIVING<br />

Our Young Vinnies Group helps support the important work of the<br />

Society of St Vincent de Paul. Recently the group spent a lunchtime<br />

wrapping Christmas presents for the Vinnie’s Christmas Party for<br />

people in need.<br />

Marian College has a long tradition of service. Both students and staff<br />

members are actively involved and contribute positively to the wider<br />

community. All students complete at least six hours of meaningful<br />

service within the school and community every year.<br />

PRIZE WINNERS<br />

WHIRLWIND<br />

WOW TRIP<br />

Congratulations to Catherine Ryan (right)<br />

and Louise Daly (left) who have been<br />

awarded <strong>2018</strong> Marian College dux and<br />

proxime accessit respectively.<br />

Marian College Principal Mary-Lou<br />

Davidson says major prize winners<br />

demonstrate exceptional performance<br />

and dedication across all aspects of life<br />

at Marian College – in academia, special<br />

character, leadership, music, sport,<br />

environment, culture and service.<br />

The Marian College PTA Grace Awards<br />

are very special awards for senior students<br />

who quietly go about their learning, being<br />

kind and caring, participating in school<br />

life and sometimes managing through<br />

challenges. These students often go ‘under<br />

the radar’ and as the award criteria says<br />

– they just get on with school and are not<br />

always officially recognised. This year<br />

Grace Awards were presented to Mia<br />

Blyth, Renee Rae, Zoe Frame, Molly Ford<br />

and Hannah Manalaysay.<br />

A full list of prize recipients and<br />

photographs are on the College website.<br />

IT’S<br />

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Recently, Year 10 Marian College<br />

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as part of the three-day Young Enterprise<br />

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Described by some as the highlight<br />

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opportunity to travel to Wellington for a<br />

two-day whirlwind WOWtrip. The group<br />

experienced the World of WearableArt<br />

Awards Show, explored two tertiary<br />

institutes offering textile and design<br />

programmes and visited the Beehive.<br />

“The show was incredible with amazing<br />

outfits and dancers. This was a wonderful<br />

way to end the term,” says Year 12 Marian<br />

College student Phoebe O’Regan.<br />

The group also attended the Suffrage 125<br />

exhibition Whakatū Wāhine at Museum of<br />

New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.<br />

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WORKSAFE NEW Zealand<br />

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

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Brighton’s Hawke St car park.<br />

Coastal-Burw od Ward city<br />

counci lor David East wants<br />

WorkSafe to pre sure the car<br />

park’s private owners into<br />

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a “trip and vehicle” hazard.<br />

WorkSafe chief inspector<br />

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Handforth said it may be able to<br />

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person conducting a busine s or<br />

undertaking.”<br />

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responsibility to manage their<br />

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Different parts of the car park<br />

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Community Board recently<br />

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around health and safety.<br />

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

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

touch with the landlords and<br />

owners and ge ting them to<br />

agr e to anything. “The board<br />

a preciates that multi-ownership<br />

of the parking space may present<br />

a difficulty in co-ordinating<br />

repair/resurfacing but felt obliged<br />

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

said the le ter.<br />

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 />

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“I think the WorkSafe<br />

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THE ST Andrew’s Co lege big<br />

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“Tom was a ba s player from<br />

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“We were delighted to win, but<br />

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St Andrew’s won the most<br />

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The ban dedicated it se to<br />

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His death was po sibly related to<br />

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•Turn to page 9<br />

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

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• By Sophie Cornish and Julia Evans<br />

THE PAPANUI-I nes<br />

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Signatures are being co lected<br />

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facility in Shirley.<br />

It comes after the city council<br />

removed funding for the centre<br />

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

intersection with Hi ls Rd. This<br />

was the site of the former community<br />

centre, which was badly<br />

damaged in the February 2,<br />

20 1, earthquake.<br />

The removal o funding<br />

prompted community board<br />

chairwoman Ali Jones to threaten<br />

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

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Ms Jone said the board’s role<br />

is to represen the community,<br />

and by gathering signatures from<br />

residents, it was fulfi ling that<br />

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“One of the roles of a community<br />

board is to represent and act<br />

as advocate for the interests of its<br />

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are doing. The LTP and a nual<br />

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DEAN CALVERT (above)<br />

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Joseph Parker in the build up<br />

to his world heavyweigh title<br />

unification fight with Anthony<br />

Joshua in Cardiff.<br />

The former New Zealand<br />

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father George and brother<br />

Bryce to London ahead of the<br />

fight where they spen time<br />

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

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•Turn to page 6<br />

Former champ hooks<br />

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Cave Rock<br />

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THE OWNERS of Sumner’s Cave<br />

Rock Apartments ar expecting the<br />

Earthquake Commi sion to sign-off<br />

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

Body corporate chairman Mike<br />

White said the group had gone<br />

into mediation with IAG and EQC<br />

on February 20, and signed off<br />

on a deal with IAG on February<br />

2 – coincidenta ly seven years<br />

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

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

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agr ement.<br />

“Given that EQC actua ly drafted<br />

the agr ement, there’ l be no<br />

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The apartment suffere damage<br />

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earthquakes and were demolished in<br />

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

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

corporate.<br />

The mediation agr ement<br />

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

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

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•Turn to page 6<br />

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Bu the Banks Peninsula Community<br />

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A WOOLSTON butcher proved<br />

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New World Fe ry Rd butcher<br />

Jeremy Garth and his team, the<br />

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Butchers’ Cha lenge in Northern<br />

Ireland.<br />

It was the firs time Mr Garth<br />

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Mr Garth, who has b en a<br />

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Mr Garth hopes t own a<br />

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but says for now he wi l focus<br />

on ge ting mor experience<br />

and on the 2020 cha lenge.<br />

“In two years’ time, we’ l be<br />

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U per Ri carton butcher Corey<br />

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A CRACKDOWN on mobile<br />

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be l oming.<br />

However, the public has li tle<br />

interest in having input into the<br />

i sue.<br />

Only eight submi sions were<br />

received for a potential bylaw<br />

aimed at regulating commercial<br />

activities in public places.<br />

The district council wi l be<br />

holding a hearing for the Public<br />

Places Bylaw and Policy on Commercial<br />

Activities and Events in<br />

Public Places.<br />

A hearing i scheduled to be<br />

held on Thursday.<br />

The bylaw comes as an increasing<br />

number of mobile traders<br />

are s eking t operate in Selwyn,<br />

especia ly during the summer<br />

months.<br />

In the past year, the district<br />

council has received five inquiries<br />

about se ting up a mobile busine s<br />

on private or public land.<br />

A report said there are two<br />

str et operators in Darfield, a<br />

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

cart visits Lincoln w ekly betw en<br />

September-May along with a Thai<br />

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•Turn to page 7<br />

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Pupils learn about role of war horses<br />

GR ENDALE SCHOOL pupils<br />

have taken a step back in time,<br />

s eing first hand what men and<br />

horses l oked like during war.<br />

The New Zealand Mounted<br />

Rifles Charitable Trust president<br />

Mark A pleton and member<br />

Mike Donaldson t ok their<br />

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

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

sacrifice their ancestors made in<br />

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

Mr A pleton and Mr Donaldson<br />

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

in World War 1 uniforms while<br />

their horses Tommy and Kruze<br />

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

to the trust.<br />

The presentation is a prelude<br />

to the Gr endale Recreation Reserve<br />

Management Commi t e’s<br />

upcoming Anzac Day service.<br />

As a tribute to those who<br />

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

ride horseback to the service.<br />

Mr A pleton said it was<br />

important children were<br />

educated on what soldiers<br />

wen through during World<br />

War 1 and World War 2.<br />

But he said the presentation<br />

didn’t go into t o much detail<br />

and was more of a “show and<br />

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

the soldiers l oked like.<br />

Children were shown the type<br />

of kits horses were required to<br />

wear in the war.<br />

•Turn to page 7<br />

• By Georgia O’Co nor-Harding<br />

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AN U PER Ri carton butcher<br />

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Elite Meats owner Corey<br />

Winder was named in the a l<br />

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Mr Winder and his team, the<br />

Pure South Sharp Blacks, which<br />

includes W olston butcher<br />

Jeremy Garth, finished second<br />

in the competition.<br />

He said the cha lenge started<br />

as a “transtasman test match”<br />

seven years ago.<br />

The preparation for this<br />

year’s World Butchers’ Challenge<br />

was intense as the team<br />

members met in Auckland<br />

every two months for lengthy<br />

w ekend practices. Mr Winder<br />

said coming second against 1<br />

other countries was a “fantastic”<br />

result.<br />

“To get second behind Ireland<br />

was a huge achievement and to<br />

be ahead of Australia is an<br />

even bi ger thing for us,” he<br />

said.<br />

But Mr Winder admires the<br />

Australian team.<br />

“Those guys over there<br />

[Australia] are on top of their<br />

game, they do a g od job,” he<br />

said.<br />

“And it just showcases that<br />

New Zealand has got some<br />

of the best butchers in the<br />

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Mr Winder has b en a butcher<br />

since the age of 19.<br />

Elite butcher cut above the world<br />

• By Emily O’Co ne l<br />

THE HALSWE L-Hornby-<br />

Ri carton Community Board<br />

has b en given the gr en ligh to<br />

o pose the pla ned qua ry near<br />

Templeton.<br />

Mayor Lia ne Dalziel told the<br />

board on Thursday it had the okay<br />

from the city council to make a<br />

submi sion if Fulton Hogan a plies<br />

for a resource consen to create a<br />

qua ry.<br />

Board chairman Mike Mora<br />

told <strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> the submi sion<br />

would likely o pose Fulton Hogan’s<br />

plan.<br />

“You can just about guarant e<br />

it . because we [the community<br />

board] don’t believe qua ries<br />

should be so close to residential<br />

areas,” he said.<br />

Mr Mora said he wasn’t sure if<br />

the city council would endorse the<br />

board’ submi sion.<br />

“I’d like to think so because the<br />

city council has had their eyes<br />

open as we l ove recent years over<br />

the crysta line silica risk,” he said.<br />

Mr Mora said the community<br />

board wi l be “representing and<br />

advocating” for the Templeton<br />

community.<br />

•Turn to page 5<br />

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