Bay Harbour: December 19, 2018

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2018 

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FAMILY CONNECTION: Annette Sowman will claim a cross from the Sumner Redcliffs RSA honouring her great uncle, Private 

Richard Stevens. 

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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding 

RICHARD STEVENS was in 

his mid-30s and working for 

Sumner Quarries Christchurch 

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A LYTTELTON man had a lucky 

escape after a fire started in the 

ceiling of his home early yesterday 

morning. 

Lyttelton chief fire officer Mark 

Buckley said working smoke 

alarms saved the man’s life. 

St John spokeswoman Chrissy 

Hamilton said the man was 

taken to hospital with minor 

injuries and was treated for smoke 

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Fire and Emergency New 

Zealand attended the Ticehurst 

Rd fire around 2.45am. 

It took an hour and a half to put 

the fire out, which started when 

a ceiling cavity caught fire in the 

roof. 

Mr Buckley said the kitchen 

and lounge area had “quite a bit 

of damage” and the ceiling cavity 

was 80 to 90 per cent burnt. 

He said it would be “hard to 

say” what the outcome might 

have been if the man didn’t have 

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Wednesday December 19 2018 

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from the editor’s desk 

RICHARD STEVENS was probably a 

fairly ordinary sort of bloke, living a fairly 

routine sort of life. 

But just over a 100 years ago, he was 

thrust into an overseas adventure he 

wouldn’t return from: World War 1. 

Today we revisit Richard’s life in a small sort of way. The cross 

which bears his name on display at the Sumner Redcliffs RSA 

on Armistice Day has been claimed by his great niece, Annette 

Sowman. 

Richard’s war started and ended in that hell hole for Kiwis 

and Australians alike – Gallipoli. 

He was wounded at Chunuk Bair in August 1915 and shipped 

to Egypt where he died the following month. 

This Christmas spare a moment for Richard and the others 

like him who never came home. 

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THE APPROVAL of a sought 

after change to allow coastal 

residents to rebuild or extend 

their properties has been 

described as a “momentous 

occasion.” 

Minister for Greater 

Christchurch Regeneration 

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Woods has 

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Darrell 

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a change to 

the District 

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the High Flood 

Woods 

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Linwood-Central-Heathcote 

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CHRISTMAS PRESENT: A District Plan change will now make 

it possible for coastal residents living in the High Flood 

Hazard Management Area to rebuild or renovate their homes. 

Darrell Latham said it was a 

“momentous occasion”. 

He said it was vindication for 

the stand he took along with 

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tampered with the plan. He has 

since apologised. However, an 

investigation into why the clause 

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Latham said. 

“I am absolutely over the 

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Christchurch Coastal 

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welcomed the decision. 

“It was getting so close to 

Christmas and everyone was 

getting nervous . . . I think you 

probably heard a collective woohoo 

from the beach suburbs,” 

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Bur Dr Latham said it is now 

“critically important” the city 

council provide information on 

how it plans to investigate the 

omission. 

He said it is important to 

have this information so he can 

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and ensure they have confidence 

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McIntosh said Dr Wood’s 

decision will be “extremely 

popular”. 

“It is an acknowledgement 

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difficulties that have been 

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British Hotel punters share their 

PASSENGER: Godfather of punk 

Iggy Pop watched The Androidss 

play at the British in 1979. 

Bay Harbour News’ article on the history of the British Hotel sparked fond memories for The Androidss’ band member 

Mark Wilson and event organiser-turned-Central Otago district councillor Martin McPherson. Julia Evans talks to 

them about the time they met the godfather of punk 

THE ANDROIDSS’ Mark 

Wilson and former promoter 

Martin McPherson recall the 

night United States punk icon 

Iggy Pop turned up at the 

British for The Mad Hatter’s 

Tea Party gig. 

A leather jacket with an 

embroidered tiger on the back 

and a denim Greek fisherman’s 

hat was the perfect disguise for 

Iggy Pop. 

It was July 13, 1979, and 

Iggy Pop was in Christchurch 

promoting his I’m Bored album. 

McPherson had organised 

a gig, and Christchurch punk 

band The Androidss were 

the headline act. You weren’t 

allowed in without a hat. 

McPherson had received a 

phone call from Iggy Pop’s arrived and they were charged 

publicity agent, who needed $5 to get in like everyone else. 

some local knowledge. 

“I went outside and I was 

“I suggested that I might be sitting on the fence and had a 

able to help but they would have smoke. He came over and we 

to come to Lyttelton because had a smoke together, we even 

I was on my way (to the Mad swapped T-shirts,” he said. 

Hatter’s Tea Party) and nothing Inside the hotel, The 

was going to prevent me from Androidss had started playing. 

going to that,” he recalls. McPherson and Iggy Pop 

McPherson was working the chatted. 

door. He didn’t recognise Iggy “All I can remember is that 

Pop and his publicist when they distinctive New York accent, 

STAR STRUCK: Mark Wilson and Martin McPherson shared a 

whisky with Iggy Pop at the British Hotel in 1979. 

it really stood out. We were 

talking about the music scene. 

He was really interested in what 

Lyttelton and Christchurch 

were doing, what we did and 

what we were doing.” 

The Androidss started 

playing Iggy Pop’s The 

Passenger. “He went inside and 

stood in front of the band,” 

McPherson said. 

Lead guitarist and vocalist 

Mark Wilson said the band 

played about five Iggy Pop 

covers a set, by coincidence. 

“I saw this guy and I thought, 

what, that guy looks a lot like 

Iggy Pop,” he said. 

They soon realised it was the 

real deal. “He was sitting to the 

side of the stage, and we offered 

him the mic. He said ‘no man, 

it’s your song’.” 

When the set was finished, 

the band went over to meet 

Iggy Pop, who was sitting at 

a table, keeping a low profile. 

They shared a whisky and 

chatted. 

“He didn’t say much, kept his 

head down and quickly left. He 

walked out the door and put 

his fingers up in a V for victory 

sign, then left,” Wilson said. 

But as low profile as it was, 

Iggy Pop’s foray into Lyttelton 

soon became public. 

“They’re tough as bitches, 

but they’re beautiful,” he was 

quoted as saying about The 

Androidss in The Press. 

“It certainly helped out 

because we soon up and left to 

Auckland.” 

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Fire rages, homes at risk 

fond memories of the old pub 

The article on the British 

Hotel also struck a chord 

with readers, who share 

their stories of the iconic 

haunt 

HISTORY: The British Hotel on 

the corner of Oxford St and 

Norwich Quay has a long and 

colourful history. 

Peter Thompson – I read 

your interesting article in Bay 

Harbour News about the British 

Hotel. I would like to point out 

a few points that might be of 

interest to you. 

I was property manager for 

Dominion Breweries from 

1982 to 1992. In this role I was 

responsible for some 148 hotels 

and taverns throughout the 

South Island. The British Hotel 

was one of my responsibilities. 

The land and buildings were 

owned at the time by the then 

Lyttelton Borough Council, 

which in turn was leased 

to various operators – Guy 

Daigneault being one such party. 

At the time of starting my role 

with DB, the British was under 

DB control and sub-leased to 

Margaret and Fred Archibald. 

I believe they had been 

operating the hotel for several 

years before starting my role 

in DB. Mr and Mrs Archibald 

operated the hotel until about 

1985 or 1986, not too sure. 

At the time of their departure 

to take up the lease of the 

European Hotel in Dunedin, 

DB sold its interest in the British 

Hotel. 

On one occasion, the United 

States commander of an ice 

breaker wanted to use the 

Basement Bar for his crew 

and sort out a price with Mr 

Archibald. He stated a price 

(can’t recall the amount), say 

$1000, the commander peeled off 

US$1000. 

Mr Archibald of course was 

referring to New Zealand dollars. 

I believe it was a great night. 

Another instance was the 

upgrade of the tank room, 

which needed the floor to be replastered. 

To do this with minimal 

disruption to trade, the work was 

undertaken over the Easter break 

closing the bar late Thursday, 

plastering the floor on Good 

Friday. 

For Saturday while the 

plasterer was setting, DB parked 

a tanker on the street with hose 

feed to the bars – one brand only. 

On the Sunday, I had two 

carpenters attend to various 

repair work. 

During a tea break a phone 

conversation was heard between 

Mr Archibald and what appeared 

to be a female with Mr Archibald 

laying down the law as to an 

outstanding debt. 


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News 

Stories of the British 

•From page 5 

The safe was open at the time, 

with Mr Archibald asking me if I 

noticed anything different about 

the safe. To me the safe was like 

any other similar safe, common 

to pubs. 

However, Mr Archibald asked 

me to follow the line of the 

wallpaper above the safe to the 

back of the safe. 

Low and behold, the safe had 

no back to it and apparently this 

had been the case for many years. 

I’m sure if the customers of 

the British were aware of this, a 

quick forward manoeuvre and 

its contents could readily be 

accessed. 

Mr and Mrs Archibald were a 

great couple and the British Hotel 

continued in safe operational 

guidance during their watch. 

Jackie Crawford – The 

British Hotel was an exciting 

place to go and felt slightly risky 

when I arrived in Lyttelton 44 

years ago. 

You never knew who you would 

meet or run into. Even a certain 

Christchurch lawyer and friends 

could be seen there among the 

crews from visiting ships from all 

around the world, in the bottom 

bar of course. 

There was a group of working 

girls who often travelled with 

some crews and the place was 

thumping with people. They were 

known as ship girls and they used 

to travel around New Zealand on 

the ships as a lifestyle choice. 

Yes, the British was known 

globally with the shipping 

industry workers. This was precontainer 

ships and had a lot 

more workers on board. 

Visiting seamen were not really 

troublesome but Christchurch 

locals were and they sometimes 

came over and caused fights. 

There was never a dull moment 

downstairs in the Dive bar and 

the girls used to spill up the stairs 

alongside local fisherman and a 

few hard drinking and singing 

locals upstairs. 

It was not dull and I used to 

make a part time income for a 

few years selling instant polaroid 

photos to the ship girls and their 

chosen partner. 

I missed Iggy Pop 

unfortunately, but those in 

the know used to check out 

the shipping arrivals in the 

newspaper to see what the action 

was like. 

All this changed when container 

ships became the norm. 

However now all that is history. 

I still live in Lyttelton. I 

t has been gentrified and 

cleaned up. 

It was nice to see the article. 

Cross will find a home 


Now more than 100 years 

later, a cross honouring his 

bravery will be claimed by his 

great niece. Annette Sowman 

has been the first descendant 

to contact the Sumner Redcliffs 

RSA to claim one of 21 crosses 

remembering the men from 

Sumner who died in World War 

1. The crosses were on display as 

part of the RSA’s Armistice Day 

commemorations last month. 

Mrs Sowman, 79, said it is 

special for her to be able to claim 

her great uncle’s cross. 

“I am thrilled because it is 

the only link I have to him,” she 

said. 

Mrs Sowman said Pvt Stevens 

received several medals after the 

war that was passed onto her 

grandfather Herbert Webb and 

then onto her uncle, but she does 

not know what has happened to 

them since. 

She said she will likely place 

the cross in her garden or by 

a framed photo she has of her 

great uncle. Mrs Sowman said 

it would have been a “shock” 

for the family to not have Pvt 

Stevens return home. 

“But don’t forget I wasn’t born 

until 1939 . . . I don’t remember 

my grandparents saying anything. 

They didn’t talk about 

those things,” she said. 

NEVER FORGOTTEN: World War 2 veteran William Joker and 

RSA president Pat Boland stand in front of the 21 crosses on 

Wakefield Ave. 

The Battle of Chunuk Bair 

was a major World War 1 battle 

fought between the Ottoman defenders 

and troops of the British 

Empire over control of the peak 

in August 1915. 

During the battle New 

Zealand suffered nearly 2500 

casualties including more than 

800 dead. 

Pvt Stevens is buried at the 

Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial 

Cemetery. 

He was the seventh child of 

Maria Ann (nee Webb) Stevens 

and Captain James Finch Stevens. 

His father died tragically 

on the wreck of sailing ship 

Lizzy Guy in 1888. 

The RSA is calling for other 

descendants to step forward to 

take their cross. 

President Pat Boland said 

anyone else who may have a 

family claim, they should get in 

touch with them. 

•To claim a cross, call 

Sumner Redcliffs RSA 

president Pat Boland on 027 

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Consultation for 

health hub funding 

Gifts 

THAT KEEP ON 

Growing 

A PROPOSAL to increase 

Akaroa’s rates to pay for 

the new health hub will 

have to get seal of approval 

from the community. 

The Banks Peninsula 

Community Board recommended 

at its meeting on 

Monday to consult on giving 

a one-off grant of up to 

$1.3 million to the Akaroa 

Community Trust. 

The trust is fundraising 

for the new 12-bed health 

hub, which is being built to 

replace Akaroa Hospital. 

The hospital was damaged 

beyond repair during the 

February 22, 2011, earthquake. 

The Canterbury District 

Health Board is partly 

funding the $5.9 million 

building, but the trust has 

promised to contribute 

$2.5 million to the project. 

It has raised more than 

$1.27 million. 

The board is recommending 

the city council 

consult the community on 

different options for raising 

the money, including a 

OUTSIDE: An artist’s impression of the final design for 

the Akaroa health centre. 

targeted rate over either a 

four or 10 year period. 

“The Akaroa Health 

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facility and we support 

in principle the council 

providing some funding 

towards this project, but we 

need to have a conversation 

with our community 

to gauge whether there is 

widespread support for a 

targeted rate,’’ said board 

deputy chairman Jed 

O’Donoghue. 

“We want to know if the 

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It is important their voice 

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Concerns have been raised 

for a number of years about the 

“inappropriate speed” of vehicles 

on Onuku Rd, near Akaroa, particularly 

when there are events at 

the marae. 

However, at its meeting on 

Monday, the Banks Peninsula 

Community Board approved 

plans to install two speed bumps. 

The road currently has a 

100km/h speed limit, but it’s 

planned to drop to 40km/h as 

part of the Banks Peninsula speed 

limit review. 

“Whilst the recorded mean 

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appropriate speed for the area 

is considered to be 40km/h, the 

recorded 85 per cent speed is 

43.6km/h, and the maximum 

57.1 km/h. Higher vehicle speeds 

are inappropriate, in particular 

when events or activity are taking 

place,” a city council report said. 

The installation of the speed 

bumps and warning signage will 

cost $13,500. 

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Dalziel questions Gaiety Hall work 


AKAROA’S GAIETY Hall is 

closed for more upgrades. 

However, questions are being 

raised over why $215,000 in 

maintenance work was not 

done at the same time as its 

earthquake repairs. 

The 139-year-old Italianate 

theatre has been closed since the 

start of the month and will open 

in February. It 

was reopened 

in 2016 after its 

initial quake 

repairs. 

Mayor Lianne 

Dalziel said it 

felt like “deja vu” 

Lianne 

Dalziel 

and requested 

staff investigate 

why the work 

was not done together. 

“’I think we should follow up 

on that because it sounds like 

deja vu all over again, we’ve 

already learned that lesson from 

the SCIRT mechanism,” she said. 

Ms Dalziel said there should 

have been an attempt to 

amalgamate the two projects. 

City council programme 

manager heritage Richie 

Moyle said during 2015 and 

2016, earthquake repairs and 

strengthening was carried out. 

This included a significant 

amount of maintenance to the 

building. 

“At completion of the 

earthquake work, the heritage 

team prepared a future 

maintenance report, as we do on 

most buildings,” he said. 

“This highlighted maintenance 

that would be needed over the 

next five years. This included 

a roof replacement and 

weatherboard repairs.” 

City council community 

facilities specialist Paul 

McKeefry said the work was 

“routine maintenance” that 

was necessary for all heritage 

buildings. 

“Like all great heritage 

buildings, the Gaiety needs a 

little extra attention when it 

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was not 

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same time as 

earthquake 

repairs. 

he said. “Over the next few 

months, we’re replacing the roof 

to the main hall and applying 

borer treatment throughout the 

building. We’re also replacing a 

number of boards throughout 

the building, including the 

weatherboards on the south 

external wall, the deck boards, 

and some boards on the floor of 

the main hall.” 

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Funding injection 

for Coastal Pathway 

THE LONG awaited 

Coastal Pathway is one 

step closer to being 

completed with a $200,000 

grant from the Rātā 

Foundation. 

The 6.5km walking and 

cycling track, launched 

in 2012, will stretch from 

Ferrymead to Scarborough 

Beach via Redcliffs and 

Sumner. 

The city council recently 

approved the final stages 

of the project, which will 

connect Shag Rock to the 

Sumner Surf Club. 

The pathway is expected 

to be finished by August. 

The grant will go 

towards enhancing the 

pathway with signage, 

seating, picnic tables, 

memorial areas and places 

for bird-watching. 

Coastal Pathway Group 

treasurer and Linwood- 

Central-Heathcote 

community board 

member Tim Lindley said 

support for the project had 

been “outstanding.” 

“We’ve had lots of great 

feedback from people 

MORE FUNDING: The Rata Foundation has 

donated $200,000 to the Coastal Pathway. 

using the pathway. We 

see cyclists, families walking 

along it, and parents 

teaching their kids how to 

ride their bikes on it,” he 

said. 

“Often, people want 

to go out and do things 

and they go ‘let’s head to 

Hanmer or Castle Hill’ but 

they just can’t get there. 

This pathway is right on 

our doorstep . . . It’s an 

amazing asset.” 

He said the pathway 

would coincide perfectly 

with the relocation of 

Redcliffs School from its 

original site on Main Rd to 

Redcliffs Park. 

“The road that connects 

Sumner to Redcliffs is 

a minor arterial, which 

means it’s a heavy traffic 

route. Having this pathway 

means that children can 

walk or bike to and from 

school safely.” 

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Sustainability key 

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There’s something for 

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organic farming but as far 

as Bill Martin is concerned, 

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The Training College 

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a surge in enthusiasm for 

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As far as conventional agricultural 

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“We need to change our agricultural 

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Mr Martin says those interested in a 

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Our People 

Filling gaps 

Gap Filler has led more than 80 projects to make the most of vacant sites 

in the central city, including the Dance-O-Mat, Super Street Arcade and 

book exchange. Co-founder Ryan Reynolds talks to Julia Evans about his 

earthquake refugee cat Mario and how the initiative was created 

Tell me a little bit about yourself? 

My partner Coralie and I live in 

Lyttelton. She was nine months pregnant 

the week before we moved. She’s one 

of the Gap Filler founders and ran the 

organisation for the first few years. We 

lived in Addington after we lost our house 

in the February 22, 2011, earthquake. We 

have always been central city people, but 

when we lost that place, we ended up in 

Addington for a number of years. Then we 

had a baby on the way and we decided to 

move to Lyttelton. I grew up in the United 

States so all of my family are overseas and 

Coralie grew up in Australia, so all her 

family is overseas, and Lyttelton is just 

the sort of place with a reputation that 

preceded it where people look out for one 

another. Now we have a three-year-old 

daughter and a 14-month-old son. 

I hear you’ve adopted an earthquake 

refugee? How did your cat Mario come 

into the family? 

When the house we were living in on 

Worcester St, a couple of blocks from 

the Cathedral, fell over it was inside the 

cordon. A couple of weeks later, we tried to 

salvage some of our stuff out of the house, 

possibly illegally. He’d been hanging 

around in our backyard for a couple 

of months before the earthquake. We 

wondered if he was one of the neighbours’ 

cats. When we went back to the wrecked 

house, he was there hanging around the 

rubble, all covered in dust and it looked 

like he hadn’t eaten in a couple of weeks. 

We were staying with some friends who 

had a small townhouse in Spreydon, so we 

turned up with this cat. We said: “Sorry, I 

know we don’t have much room, but hope 

you don’t mind we’ve got a cat?” 

How did you go from electrical 

engineering to theatre and film? 

Electrical engineering, as it was taught 

at my university in the US, was actually 

a very creative discipline. It wasn’t a 

word that they ever used at all, but it 

was a lot of small group work in the lab, 

dreaming up things you might be able 

to design and build and testing things 

out on paper, then test circuits and when 

you hit something that seems workable, 

you take it out into the real world. So I 

got a lot of opportunities as a student to 

dream of crazy things and work with a few 

friends from start to finish on a project. 

I loved that. Then towards the end of 

the degree, myself and all of my friends 

were being recruited by giant multinational 

corporations, which have really 

strong recruitment programmes. I was 

going to be an aerospace manufacturer, 

which made military planes, and I had 

other friends ending up with really 

huge companies. I moved to Texas for 

an internship experience and was at a 

facility where they built military planes. 

There were more than 30,000 people that 

worked there. That kind of romantic thing 

of working in small groups, thinking 

up projects and seeing them through 

from start to finish is just not the truth 

of working in a company like that. I was 

young and stupid and freaked out, so I 

decided to run about as far away as you 

could and that was to New Zealand. 

So you came to Canterbury University? 

I ended up doing an exchange in the 

final year of my engineering degree. 

I picked New Zealand because it was 

far away and no one else was coming 

here. So Canterbury University was also 

an engineering university. In the US 

tertiary system, everyone needs to get 

some arts points, even if you’re getting 

an engineering degree. When I got to 

Canterbury, I didn’t need any more 

engineering credits, so I got involved in 

various arts and humanities. The theatre 

and film studies programme was where I 

landed, they offered me a post-graduate 

position and I never looked back. 

What’s your favourite film? 

Probably Fellini’s 8½ still, although I 

haven’t seen it in a long while. 

I bet you get really sick of people 

mentioning a certain Hollywood movie 

star you share a name with? 

Burt Reynolds! Yeah, it’s a shame about 

him dying and all, that’s who you mean, 

right? Okay, he’s the bane of my existence. 

How did Gap Filler come about? 

It was started up after the September 4, 

2010, earthquake. Coralie was working 

at the Arts Centre, running the artistin-residence 

programme, and the Arts 

Centre made a really quick decision when 

the buildings were badly-damaged to halt 

all of their public programmes, so she 

was made redundant almost immediately. 

I was employed at the university at that 

time, so we were in a really fortunate 

position to say, don’t rush into anything, 

take a bit of time and see what happens. I 

think it was really Coralie wandering the 

city and seeing gap sites where buildings 

had been demolished and who knows 

how long they would be empty for. They 

were all of our social gathering spaces, 

the cheap and cheerful restaurants, the 

amateur dance studios in the upper 

floors, the cultural life of the city had 

really been damaged more than the 

infrastructure in that September quake. 

So all credit to Coralie for hatching the 

idea for what became Gap Filler. We lost 

our house in the February quake and just 

about everything we owned. The scale of 

the disaster was so big. We put out the 

message on Facebook – that’s the end of 

our Gap Filler experiment. But a bunch of 

people got in touch saying, no, all of the 

cinemas in the central city are closed, so 

you need to do an outdoor cinema project, 

the libraries are closed, so let’s do some 

sort of book project. For the next year 

and a half, everything we did was pretty 

much someone else’s idea that we helped 

facilitate. 

What’s your favourite Gap Filler 

project so far? 

They’re all so different. I really love the 

Super Street Arcade project, the giant 

arcade game on Tuam St. That’s been there 

for two years, it still gets 300 games played 

every day. Hopefully we might have one 

going in in Melbourne early-mid next 

year and I think that would get a lot of 

attention. So that’s definitely a favourite. 

Every time I cycle past and see the look on 

people’s faces discovering it for the first 

time it is pretty priceless.


Ryan Reynolds 

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DESIGNER: Ryan Reynolds helped to set up the Gap Filler project after the 

earthquakes. 

Tell me a little bit about yourself? 

My partner Coralie and I live in 

Lyttelton. She was nine months pregnant 

the week before we moved. She’s one 

of the Gap Filler founders and ran the 

organisation for the first few years. We 

lived in Addington after we lost our house 

in the February 22, 2011, earthquake. 

We have always been central city people, 

but when we lost that place, we ended up 

in Addington for a number of years. Then 

we had a baby on the way and we decided 

to move to Lyttelton. 

I grew up in the United States so all 

of my family are overseas and Coralie 

grew up in Australia, so all her family is 

overseas, and Lyttelton is just the sort of 

place with a reputation that preceded it 

where people look out for one another. 

Now we have a three-year-old daughter 

and a 14-month-old son. 

I hear you’ve adopted an earthquake 

refugee? How did your cat Mario come 

into the family? 

When the house we were living in on 

Worcester St, a couple of blocks from 

the Cathedral, fell over it was inside the 

cordon. A couple of weeks later, we tried to 

salvage some of our stuff out of the house, 

possibly illegally. He’d been hanging 

around in our backyard for a couple of 

months before the earthquake. 

We wondered if he was one of the 

neighbours’ cats. When we went back to 

the wrecked house, he was there hanging 

around the rubble, all covered in dust and 

it looked like he hadn’t eaten in a couple of 

weeks. 

We were staying with some friends who 

had a small townhouse in Spreydon, so we 

turned up with this cat. We said: “Sorry, I 

know we don’t have much room, but hope 

you don’t mind we’ve got a cat?” 


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Our People 

Bringing Chch back to life post-quake 

WE ARE ON THE 

MOVE AGAIN... 


How did you go from 

electrical engineering to theatre 

and film? 

Electrical engineering, as it was 

taught at my university in the 

US, was actually a very creative 

discipline. It wasn’t a word that 

they ever used at all, but it was a 

lot of small group work in the lab, 

dreaming up things you might 

be able to design and build and 

testing things out on paper, then 

test circuits and when you hit 

something that seems workable, 

you take it out into the real world. 

So I got a lot of opportunities 

as a student to dream of crazy 

things and work with a few 

friends from start to finish on 

a project. I loved that. Then 

towards the end of the degree, 

myself and all of my friends were 

being recruited by giant multinational 

corporations, which 

have really strong recruitment 

programmes. I was going to 

be an aerospace manufacturer, 

which made military planes, and 

I had other friends ending up 

with really huge companies. I 

moved to Texas for an internship 

experience and was at a facility 

where they built military planes. 

There were more than 30,000 

people that worked there. 

That kind of romantic thing 

TO A NEW LOCATION IN 

FERRYMEAD, DUE TO 

EARTHQUAKE REPAIRS 

GAMERS: Ryan Reynolds helped create the giant arcade game 

on Tuam St, which he says was one his favourite projects. 

of working in small groups, 

thinking up projects and seeing 

them through from start to finish 

is just not the truth of working in 

a company like that. I was young 

and stupid and freaked out, so I 

decided to run about as far away 

as you could and that was to New 

Zealand. 

So you came to Canterbury 

University? 

I ended up doing an 

exchange in the final year of my 

engineering degree. I picked New 

Zealand because it was far away 

So Canterbury University was 

also an engineering university. 

In the US tertiary system, 

everyone needs to get some arts 

points, even if you’re getting an 

engineering degree. When I got 

to Canterbury, I didn’t need any 

more engineering credits, so I 

got involved in various arts and 

humanities. The theatre and film 

studies programme was where I 

landed, they offered me a postgraduate 

position and I never 

looked back. 

What’s your favourite film? 

Probably Fellini’s 8½ still, 

although I haven’t seen it in a 

long while. 

I bet you get really sick of 

people mentioning a certain 

Hollywood movie star you share 

a name with? 

Burt Reynolds! Yeah, it’s a 

shame about him dying and 

all, that’s who you mean, right? 

Okay, he’s the bane of my 

existence. 

How did Gap Filler come 

about? 

It was started up after the 

September 4, 2010, earthquake. 

Coralie was working at the Arts 

Centre, running the artist-inresidence 

programme, and the 

Arts Centre made a really quick 

decision when the buildings 

were badly-damaged to halt all 

of their public programmes, so 

she was made redundant almost 

immediately. I was employed at 

the university at that time, so we 

were in a really fortunate position 

to say, don’t rush into anything, 

take a bit of time and see what 

happens. I think it was really 

Coralie wandering the city and 

seeing gap sites where buildings 

had been demolished and who 

knows how long they would 

be empty for. They were all of 

our social gathering spaces, the 

cheap and cheerful restaurants, 

the amateur dance studios in the 

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and no one else was coming here. 

upper floors, the cultural life of 

the city had really been damaged 

more than the infrastructure 

in that September quake. So all 

credit to Coralie for hatching 

the idea for what became Gap 

Filler. We lost our house in the 

February quake and just about 

everything we owned. The scale 

of the disaster was so big. We put 

out the message on Facebook – 

that’s the end of our Gap Filler 

experiment. But a bunch of 

people got in touch saying, no, 

all of the cinemas in the central 

city are closed, so you need to do 

an outdoor cinema project, the 

libraries are closed, so let’s do 

some sort of book project. For the 

next year and a half, everything 

we did was pretty much someone 

else’s idea that we helped 

facilitate. 

What’s your favourite Gap 

Filler project so far? 

They’re all so different. I really 

love the Super Street Arcade 

project, the giant arcade game 

on Tuam St. That’s been there for 

two years, it still gets 300 games 

played every day. Hopefully 

we might have one going in in 

Melbourne early-mid next year 

and I think that would get a lot 

of attention. So that’s definitely a 

favourite. Every time I cycle past 

and see the look on people’s faces 

discovering it for the first time it 

is pretty priceless. 

Dr Brendan Smith 

from the doctors and staff at Ferrymead Medical Centre 

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News 

February 

start for 

goods shed 

restoration 


THE $250,000 restoration of 

the Little River Goods Shed is 

expected to start in February. 

City council capital delivery 

community manager Darren 

Moses said work on the heritage 

building, dating back to 1886, 

would take seven months to 

complete. 

It includes replacing the foundations, 

as well as earthquake 

strengthening and painting. 

However, before work begins 

there would be an archaeological 

investigation held at the site. 

“Archaeological monitoring 

with take place at the beginning 

of the site’s redevelopment and 

continue until excavation is 

complete. A date for this has not 

been set,” Mr Moses said. 

Mr Moses said a building consent 

exemption was applied for 

and granted, which had saved on 

the cost. 

The Little River Railway Station 

and Goods Shed is one of 

the oldest surviving stations 

around the country. 

It was part of the Lincoln- 

Little River railway. 

Showcasing rare marine life 

THIRTY MINUTES of 

highlights from 75 hours of 

undersea footage showcasing 

some rarely recorded fish 

species is now playing in Akaroa 

Museum. 

The footage was recorded by 

the Department of Conservation 

in February last year, using 

baited underwater video 

cameras while monitoring fish 

populations in and around 

Banks Peninsula’s two marine 

reserves – Akaroa and Pohatu. 

It was the first time the baited 

underwater video camera 

method had been used on the 

east coast of the South Island. 

Museum director Lynda 

Wallace said the museum is 

excited to share some of Banks 

Peninsula’s marine life with 

locals and tourists. 

“The footage will play 

continuously on a big screen in 

a dedicated space, the museum’s 

green room, allowing visitors an 

immersive and quiet experience,” 

she said. 

“The history of Akaroa’s 

harbour-based industries is 

told in the neighbouring gallery 

and the underwater footage is 

a perfect complement to those 

stories.” 

DOC marine ranger Tom 

MacTavish said the research 

team were originally hoping to 

develop a better understanding 

as to how the two marine 

reserves were influencing fin-fish 

populations. 

“Starting purely as a science 

project, we soon saw the diversity 

of marine species visiting our 

baited cameras and realised 

this footage offered a unique 

opportunity to peek into Banks 

Peninsula’s undersea life and 

connect Canterbury people with 

this rarely-frequented world 

right on their doorstep,” Mr 

Local 

News 

Now 


MARINE 

LIFE: The 

Department of 

Conservation 

used baited 

underwater 

cameras to 

record the 

footage. 

MacTavish said. 

Due to the success of the 

first years research, further 

monitoring work is taking 

place over the summer with 

researchers starting work this 

week.



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Relief following mail theft arrest 

• By Anan Zaki 

DIAMOND Harbour residents 

are relieved after an arrest over a 

string of mail thefts. 

A 36-year-old woman was 

arrested by police for the thefts 

on Monday. 

Diamond Harbour chief fire 

officer and former policeman 

of 34 years, 

Bob Palmer 

welcomed the 

news of the 

arrest. 

“It’s certainly 

taught people 

to keep an eye 

Franco Lovrich 

out for things, 

which is always 

a good thing,” 

Mr Palmer said. 

Diamond Harbour 

Neighbourhood Support deputy 

coordinator Emma Gallagher 

said residents should remain 

vigilant in spite of the arrest. 

“It has put everybody on 

edge, it’s a bit of a close knit 

community so it makes you feel 

a bit vulnerable when you hear 

stuff like that going on,” Ms 

Gallagher said. 

Police said the woman allegedly 

stole mail over several months 

and used stolen credit cards from 

the mail to purchase groceries, 

cigarettes, alcohol and petrol. 

She was brought into custody 

after a search warrant was 

carried out in Diamond Harbour 

on Monday morning, Lyttelton 

Police Sergeant Lovrich said. 

More than 70 pieces of stolen 

mail were recovered from the 

search warrant. 

The woman is facing charges 

relating to fraud, receiving stolen 

property and drugs and will 

appear at district court on Friday. 

Bay Harbour News reported 

earlier this month that Diamond 

Harbour was experiencing its 

worst crime wave in the last 20 

years. 

Sergeant Lovrich said most of 

the woman’s alleged offending is 

believed to have taken place in 

Diamond Harbour. 

However, he said there was 

some mail from Allandale, 

Charteris Bay and Governors 

Bay. 

He said there was a lot of 

publicity in the lead up to the 

arrest and police received more 

reports recently. 

It was unclear if the woman had 

CRIME WAVE: 

Diamond 

Harbour 

residents are 

relieved after 

a woman 

was arrested 

following a string 

of mail thefts. 

an accomplice and it is too early 

to determine a motive, he said. 

“It should be a relief to the 

community this time of year . . . 

knowing that someone has been 

charged with the offending,” 

Sergeant Lovrich said. 

Police will be returning the 

recovered mail to its owners over 

the coming weeks. 

The arrest was unrelated to the 

theft of a $1500 boat trailer and 

it was too early to determine a 

motive for the alleged mail thefts, 

Sergeant Lovrich said. 

BAY HARBOUR 

Local 

News 

Now 

PAGE 17 


Trial to 

stop drain 

flooding 


A NEW flood prevention 

measure may be trialled in 

Sumner to stop a drain from 

filling up when it rains. 

The city council is looking at 

placing a temporary groyne at 

a Burgess St outlet to prevent 

flooding on the street during 

heavy rain. The temporary 

groyne would aim to artificially 

lower sand levels on one side 

which, if placed next to an 

outlet, may help clear it. 

But city council land drainage 

manager Keith Davison said 

while staff are looking at the 

trial on Burgess St, there is no 

firm plan at this stage. 

If the trial is successful, 

the city council may look at 

expanding it to the Southshore 

estuary. 

Questions have been raised 

over if the trial was successful in 

Sumner, whether it would have 

the same outcome at the estuary. 

The report said while natural 

tidal effects are expected at 

Sumner, there is no certainty it 

will work at drain outlets in the 

estuary. 

Thank you for your support over the year! 

Wishing you a very merry christmas 

and a happy new year 

from your friendly team at Harcourts Ferrymead and Sumner 

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A ‘gold mine’ 

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The Footwear Factory in Garlands 

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Over that time thousands of people have 

flocked to the store to find bargains and 

good deals in quality footwear, ranging from 

children’s shoes, sandals and school shoes 

to men’s and women’s fashion and causal 

shoes, outdoor and sports shoes, bowls 

shoes, slippers, and safety footwear for the 

workplace. 

Launched in a small shop in Papanui, the 

business later operated in Riccarton for 12 

years before moving to Garlands Rd 15 years 

ago. 

Owned by Russ and Jude Day, there you 

will find shelves lined with footwear in a 

huge variety of styles and colours for men, 

women and children – a ‘gold mine’ for shoeseeking 

shoppers. 

The footwear is brought in from all over 

the world, as well as coming from New 

Zealand manufacturers, and includes ends of 

lines and other well-priced items. 

Four main brands are carried – the New 

Zealand made McKinlays range of children’s 

school shoes, as well as men’s and women’s 

styles. The well-known Hi-Tec range of 

outdoor footwear and tramping, New 

Balance sports shoes and a range of Keens 

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New styles arrive almost every day, so 

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and his second-in-charge Karen are happy to 

advise on styles and sizing. 

Located on a high-profile site at 47C 

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Godley House 

site could 

be reclassified 


THE SITE of Diamond 

Harbour’s Godley House may 

need reclassification 

The city council’s parks 

team is looking at the legal 

classification of the site, which 

is currently under the recreation 

reserve classification. 

“The Reserves Act 

classification allows for public 

recreation activity and, where 

they support the main activity, 

commercial facilities such as 

cafes,” city council head of 

parks Andrew Rutledge said. 

However, it does not allow for 

many of the developments the 

community wants to see. 

The community has been 

proposing uses for the site 

since 2012. They have included 

a permanent cafe building 

along with an indoor/outdoor 

performance space and shifting 

the library to the site from its 

current location beneath the 

community hall. 

City council staff will brief the 

Banks Peninsula Community 

Board on February 4 about 

options for the site. 

Staff will also propose how to 

engage with the community to 

determine if a reclassification is 

supported. 

Plenty of value in a power nap 

JUST UNDER a month in to my 

stay-at-home-dad career and I 

have a new appreciation for two 

things – parenting full-time is way 

more tiring than I thought and I 

need more hands. 

Mostly for Vittoria’s Saturday 

swimming lessons. 

She’s amazingly confident in the 

water and it’s awesome watching 

her confidence grow. 

Before I became a full-time 

parent it was our main daddy/ 

daughter time, so it’s special for 

us. However, as she’s got more 

mobile, showering and changing 

has become a challenge. 

Hence the need for more hands. 

If my wife Laura is free, she’ll 

tag along to watch the wee mermaid 

in action. 

Having her there is a big help 

as she can dress Vittoria while I 

shower and change. 

On Saturday morning, I decided 

to let Laura sleep in after a 

busy work week. But, boy, did I 

miss her at change time. 

Wee one was already yawning 

mid-way through so by the time 

we got to the shower she was 

grumpy-as and letting everyone 

know about it. 

The poor lass was just ready for 

her bottle and a nap and here’s me 

washing her, drying her, dressing 

her and then trying to do the 

same for myself? What a monster. 

To save extending the meltdown, 

and bring her back to her 

smiling self, I just went home in 

my wet togs, wrapped in a towel. 

It might not seem like 

an embarrassing situation, 

but try it out while you’re 

half-naked, soaking wet and 

VITTORIA 

& Matt 

in front of much fitter looking 

strangers. 

As for my fatigue levels, I was 

never one for a sneaky workplace 

nap and after work I used to stay 

up to make the most of my home 

time. Now I’ll often nap during 

the day and still be yawning for 

Local 

News 

Now 


FESTIVE 

SPIRIT: 

Vittoria 

getting ready 

for Santa’s 

visit. 

bed by 8pm. I used to wonder 

why Laura complained about being 

tired. I mean, looking after a 

baby on the cusp of toddlerhood 

can’t be more draining than writing 

news. Right? After Saturday’s 

swimming lesson, we went to one 

of Vittoria’s friend’s first birthday 

party. 

By the end of that, I actually 

took a power nap on the floor of 

the lounge. 

•Former Bay Harbour News 

journalist Matt Salmons has 

become a stay-at-home dad. 

We follow his journey weekly. 

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Horror of discovering Scott’s body 


MORE HAS been revealed about 

an Antarctic expedition which 

ended in Lyttelton in February 

1913. 

Canterbury Museum has 

acquired two diaries written by 

Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 

Norwegian skiing expert, 

Tryggve Gran. 

One diary, written in Norwegian, 

is an account of the 

expedition from November 7, 

1911 to February 25, 1912. 

The other, in Gran’s imperfect 

English, covers the period until 

the expedition returned to 

Lyttelton, in February 1913. 

In the second diary, Gran describes 

his horror at finding the 

frozen bodies of Scott, Edward 

Wilson and Henry “Birdie” Bowers 

on November 12, 1912, more 

than seven months after they 

died returning from the South 

Pole. 

“I will never forget it so long I 

live, a horrible nightmare could 

not have shown more horror than 

this,” Gran wrote. 

“The frost had made the skin 

yellow and transparent and I’ve 

never seen anything worse in my 

life. The Owner (the men’s name 

for Scott) seems to have struggled 

hard in the moment of death, 

while the two others seem to have 

gone off in a kind of sleep,” he 

wrote. 

HISTORY: Canterbury Museum has acquired two diaries written by Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Norwegian skiing expert 

Tryggve Gran which reveal his horror at finding Scott’s body. 

Scott’s group had set out in 

October 1911 to become the first 

people to reach the South Pole. 

They made it to the pole on 

January 17, 1912, but discovered 

the Norwegian explorer Roald 

Amundsen had beaten them 

there by 34 days. 

On their return journey they 

were plagued by severe weather, 

which slowed their progress and 

caused their food and fuel to run 

out. 

Gran, who Scott had employed 

to teach the other expedition 

members to ski, was one of a 

group of 11 who set out to find 

the party including Scott, after 

they failed to return from their 

journey to the pole. 

The last entry in Scott’s own 

journal, which Gran read after 

discovering the bodies, is dated 

March 29, 1912. 

The museum plans to scan and 

digitise the English-language 

diary early next year, when the 

diaries arrive from London 

where they were purchased. 

The digital version will be 

available on the museum’s 

website. 

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Sprinkler torpedoes one-day final 

Match 

now in 

January 

• By Gordon Findlater 

HEATHCOTE’S one-day 

championship final against 

Merivale Papanui was rained off 

on Sunday. 

But no rain fell at Heathcote 

Domain. 

A mistake with the ground’s 

sprinkler system meant the 

irrigation came on in the early 

hours of Sunday morning, leaving 

the ground drenched and 

unplayable when the game was 

due to begin at 10.30am. 

“The council went in and did 

some work on Friday. They went 

into our toby box and changed 

the settings on our sprinklers, so 

on Sunday morning they went 

on when everyone was tucked up 

in bed,” said club captain David 

Stack. 

When both teams arrived at 

Heathcote Domain it quickly 

became apparent that no cricket 

was going to be played on the 

drenched field. 

“We tried for a few hours to get 

the pitch up to scratch but it was 

just way too wet, there were still 

SATURDAY SESSION: While the one-day match was called off, Heathcote completed a win in 

the two-day competition on Saturday thanks to an 11 wicket haul from Marek Bungard. 

puddles out there,” said Stack. 

With Heathcote wanting 

to play the final at home and 

Merivale Papanui wanting to 

move the match to their ground, 

a decision was finally made to replay 

the match at Heathcote at a 

date to be confirmed in January. 

After being understandably 

sombre with the situation the 

mood of both sides was lifted 

when they headed to the Valley 

Inn Tavern for some very premature 

post-match drinks at noon. 

“We wanted to do a boat race 

at the pub to decide the title 

but the Papanui Merivale guys 

weren’t so keen,” said Heathcote 

bowler Ben Cochrane. 

The Heathcote team then spent 

their afternoon playing backyard 

cricket before returning to the 

Valley Inn for dinner. 

Surprisingly it’s the first time 

the sprinklers at Heathcote have 

gone off the morning of a major 

game. Five years ago a second 

grade twenty20 final at Heathcote 

was postponed due to an 

ill-timed overnight sprinkling. 

Sunday’s sprinkler event 

capped a weekend where not 

a lot of cricket was played for 

SPORTS 

the premier team. On Saturday 

Heathcote bowled East Christchurch 

Shirley out for just 30 to 

complete an innings and 106 

runs victory after Heathcote 

scored 245 and bowled East 

Shirley out for 106 in the first innings 

the previous weekend. 

Pace bowler Marek Bungard 

added to his 7-22 picked up in 

the first innings with 4-10 on 

Saturday to complete a 10 wicket 

bag and finish with figures of 

11-32. 

There was also a win in the 

two-day championship for 

Sumner. They returned to Edgar 

MacIntosh Park for the second 

day in their match against 

Merivale Papanui. 

Starting the day with a six run 

lead Sumner’s opening bowling 

duo of Nawid Mohamady and 

Dean Smith picked up three 

early wickets to have Merivale 

Papanui under pressure early at 

42/3. Skipper Dan Vann turned 

the game in Sumner’s favour by 

taking six wickets for just six 

runs. 

Merivale lost seven wickets for 

just 18 runs to reach a total of 61. 

Sumner chased down the 

target of 55 but did wobble at 

times losing four wickets in the 

process. 

Brothers top Scarborough Xmas triathlon 

THE ANNUAL Christmas 

Cracker triathlon and duathlon 

took place at in Sumner at the 

weekend with 184 athletes of 

all ages lining up at the start on 

Scarborough Beach. 

The sprint triathlon featured 

two brothers at the top of the 

podium. 

The men’s event was won by 

Zach Taylor (left) in 57mins 

45secs. 

He finished just over two 

minutes ahead of his younger 

brother Will. 

The women’s sprint was won by 

pro triathlete Gina Crawford in 

1hr 8mins 28secs. 

She finished ahead of Helen 

Wright in second and Marie Hill 

in third. 

The duathlon title went to Isla 

Smith who won both the overall 

and women’s race in 1hr 3mins 

35secs. 

More than three minutes ahead 

of male winner Jonny Limmer. 

The boys youth triathlon 

title was won by Art Aiken 

while the girls title went to Lily 

Greenwood. 

The event also hoisted a 

children’s aquathon which was 

won by Benjamin Crawford in 

the boys and Emily Scales in the 

girls race. 

UNDERWAY: Competitors braved an 8.30am start when they 

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Motoring 

Volvo’s XC40 receives many accolades 

• By Ross Kiddie • Price – Volvo XC40 T4, 

THE NEW Zealand Motoring 

$59,990 

Writers’ Guild Car of the Year 

• Dimensions – Length, 

award is taken very seriously by 

4425mm; width, 1863mm; 

the members, and the motoring 

height, 1652mm 

industry in general. 

• Configuration – Fourcylinder, 

front-wheel- 

I’ve been involved in the voting 

process since 1988, and have yet 

drive, 1969cc, 140kW, 

to see a winner that I didn’t think 

300Nm, eight-speed 

was worthy of the title. 

automatic 

For 2018, Volvo’s XC40 was 

• Performance – 

a worthy finalist, and as recent 

0-100km/h, 8.4sec 

history has served to prove, it 

• Fuel usage – 6.8l/100km 

didn’t win the title, that went to 

Subaru’s Forester, but the XC40 

when asked to accelerate, but the 

has many other accolades to its 

VOLVO XC40: Three-model range. 

Momentum keeps pace easily and 

credit, including European Car of 

is an absolute joy to drive with 

the Year for 2018. 

model (Inscription) at $67,900, type side panels with a soft cloth relatively quick movement. 

It doesn’t surprise me that the while the R-Design (4WD) sits at insert, they feel good to be in It will reach 100km/h from 

XC40 was nominated for our $72,900. 

and don’t store the cold on those a standstill in 8.4sec and will 

award, it is all that you could Putting these figures into frosty Canterbury mornings. make 120km/h from 80km/h in 

want from a sport utility vehicle, context, you can save a lot of cash There is perhaps one other 5.5sec. For the record, Volvo lists 

and represents all of the values if you don’t need four-wheeldrive 

and don’t need all of the to be addressed in terms of variants. 

important feature that needs a 230km/h top speed for all XC40 

Volvo incorporates during the 

manufacturing process. 

bells and whistles that Volvo does description, the Momentum On the subject of figures, Volvo 

Regular readers will remember so well as a luxury car maker. model has engine power outputs claims a 6.8-litre per 100km 

my evaluation of the top-of-theline 

R-Design model in these model doesn’t miss out on much, same turbocharged 2-litre, four- 

usage average for the Momentum. 

Saying that, the entry-level lower than the R-Design. It’s the (42mpg) combined cycle fuel 

columns in July, I’ve now been it still gets all of the safety gear cylinder power plant, but instead That sits well with the readout on 

fortunate enough to drive a that you’d expect form Volvo, of having 182kW and 350Nm, the evaluation car. It was sitting 

model from the other end of the along with a good level of it gets figures of 140kW and constantly at around 8l/100km 

scale, the $59,900 two-wheeldrive 

Momentum variant, and convenience. 

Don’t be put off by that, I drove (45mpg) instantaneous usage 

features that favour comfort and 300Nm. 

(35mpg) with a 6.2l/100km 

for my money it is the pick of the If you are like me and don’t the Momentum for a week and figure at 100km/h, the engine well 

bunch. 

rate leather trim as a priority, the there was never a point when I in the leisure zone turning over at 

Bear in mind, too, that there is textile seats in the Momentum felt it needed more power. Sure just 1600rpm. 

also a four-wheel-drive mid-spec are glorious. They have vinyl- 

the R-Design is angry and feisty If you take note of the points 

at where the power figures are 

developed – 1400rpm for torque 

almost meeting the point of 

peak power (4700rpm) – then 

you can genuinely believe there 

is a perfectly acceptable power 

delivery. 

The feel of turbo boost is 

strong and drive through 

an eight-speed automatic 

transmission is smooth and 

controlled. There are also four 

drive modes, from sport to 

economy, which you can utilise 

depending on each journey. 

The XC40 drives quietly and 

smoothly, and that is a prerequisite 

of all cars from the 

Volvo stable. I took the test car 

on a loop from Motukarara 

to Hororata, there are several 

tricky corners on that route yet 

the XC40 is comfortable in a 

corner and handles with all of the 

characteristics of the modern-day 

SUV. 

The XC40 is relatively new to 

the New Zealand market and 

joins a high-profile SUV line-up 

from the Volvo stable. 

I can easily see why it has been 

seen favourably by the critics, 

and that exposure trickles down 

to the choices buyers make when 

they are looking for a purchase. 

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Coastal-Burw od Ward city 

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park’s private owners into 

repairing the potholes which are 

a “trip and vehicle” hazard. 

WorkSafe chief inspector 

a se sment southern Da ren 

Handforth said it may be able to 

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person conducting a busine s or 

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Mr Handforth said WorkSafe 

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Cr East abou the car park. 

“WorkSafe has completed 

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responsibility to manage their 

risks a propriately.” 

Different parts of the car park 

are owned by various people 

and the Coastal-Burw od 

Community Board recently 

wrote to them about its concerns 

around health and safety. 

Cr East said the bi gest i sue 

in the past has b en ge ting in 

touch with the landlords and 

owners and ge ting them to 

agr e to anything. “The board 

a preciates that multi-ownership 

of the parking space may present 

a difficulty in co-ordinating 

repair/resurfacing but felt obliged 

to pa s these concerns onto you,” 

said the le ter. 

One reply has b en received so 

far from an owner who is wi ling 

to discu s the i sue. However, a l 

the owners would have to agree 

to undertake work. 

Cr East said there had b en 

a “number of incidences” in 

the car park of people injuring 

themselves which had gone 

unreported. 

“I’ve always though that it 

has b en quite amazing that we 

haven’t had any serious a cidents 

or senior citizens perhaps 

tri ping in those potholes and 

doing themselve some damage.” 

He is confiden the new 

a proach wi l bring results. 

“I think the WorkSafe 

involvement may prove to be the 

lever that we are l oking for.” 

New bid to fix potholes 

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on Hawke St 

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festival as he was a very a complished 

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“We were delighted to win, but 

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St Andrew’s won the most 

outstanding big band title a the 

competition in Tauranga. 

The ban dedicated it se to 

Tom, who died while on his way 

to Cashmere High on March 27. 

His death was po sibly related to 

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THE PAPANUI-I nes 

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Signatures are being co lected 

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intersection with Hi ls Rd. This 

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THE OWNERS of Sumner’s Cave 

Rock Apartments ar expecting the 

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Body corporate chairman Mike 

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“Given that EQC actua ly drafted 

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The mediation agr ement 

prevented Mr White from disclosing 

the se tlement amount, but he said it 

involved the two parties paying “a bit 

more money than they’d wanted to 

earlier.” 


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• By Emily O’Co ne l 

A WOOLSTON butcher proved 

to be a cut above the rest in an 

international competition. 

New World Fe ry Rd butcher 

Jeremy Garth and his team, the 

Pure South Sharp Blacks, recently 

came second a the World 

Butchers’ Cha lenge in Northern 

Ireland. 

It was the firs time Mr Garth 

had competed in the cha lenge 

and he was “rea ly proud” of 

how the team performed. 

“We produced some top quality 

products and came away 

with a g od result so we’re very 

ha py,” he said. 

The preparation for this year’s 

World Butchers’ Cha lenge was 

intense as the team members 

met in Auckland every two 

months for lengthy w ekend 

practices. 

Mr Garth, who has b en a 

butcher for 14 years, said the 

competition brought back his 

pa sion for the job. 

“Doing a l thi stuff and 

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ideas, it just brings that flair 

back for you,” he said. 

Mr Garth hopes t own a 

butcher shop of his own someday 

but says for now he wi l focus 

on ge ting mor experience 

and on the 2020 cha lenge. 

“In two years’ time, we’ l be 

going back to try and win the 

title,” he said. 

U per Ri carton butcher Corey 

Winder was part of the Pure 

South Sharp Blacks team. 

GLOBAL STAGE: W olston butcher Jeremy Garth back home after his team came second in the World Butchers’ Cha lenge. 

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A CRACKDOWN on mobile 

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However, the public has li tle 

interest in having input into the 

issue. 

Only eight submi sions were 

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Pupils learn about role of war horses 

GR ENDALE SCHOOL pupils 

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horses l oked like during war. 

The New Zealand Mounted 

Rifles Charitable Trust president 

Mark A pleton and member 

Mike Donaldson t ok their 

horses to the sch ol on Monday, 

in a bid to educate pupils on the 

sacrifice their ancestors made in 

World War 1 and World War 2. 

Mr A pleton and Mr Donaldson 

a rived a the sch ol dre sed 

in World War 1 uniforms while 

their horses Tommy and Kruze 

wore 1 0-year-old sa dles donated 

to the trust. 

The presentation is a prelude 

to the Gr endale Recreation Reserve 

Management Commi t e’s 

upcoming Anzac Day service. 

As a tribute to those who 

served, members of the trust wi l 

ride horseback to the service. 

Mr A pleton said it was 

important children were 

educated on what soldiers 

wen through during World 

War 1 and World War 2. 

But he said the presentation 

didn’t go into t o much detail 

and was more of a “show and 

te l” to make them aware of what 

the soldiers l oked like. 

Children were shown the type 

of kits horses were required to 

wear in the war. 


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HISTORY: Pupils have taken a step back in time learning about what 

New Zealand soldiers and horses l oked like in World War 1. Abi P oler, 

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international competition. 

Elite Meats owner Corey 

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star team a the World Butchers’ 

Cha lenge in Northern Ireland. 

Mr Winder and his team, the 

Pure South Sharp Blacks, which 

includes W olston butcher 

Jeremy Garth, finished second 

in the competition. 

He said the cha lenge started 

as a “transtasman test match” 

seven years ago. 

The preparation for this 

year’s World Butchers’ Challenge 

was intense as the team 

members met in Auckland 

every two months for lengthy 

w ekend practices. Mr Winder 

said coming second against 1 

other countries was a “fantastic” 

result. 

“To get second behind Ireland 

was a huge achievement and to 

be ahead of Australia is an 

even bi ger thing for us,” he 

said. 

But Mr Winder admires the 

Australian team. 

“Those guys over there 

[Australia] are on top of their 

game, they do a g od job,” he 

said. 

“And it just showcases that 

New Zealand has got some 

of the best butchers in the 

world,” he said. 

Mr Winder has b en a butcher 

since the age of 19. 

Elite butcher cut above the world 


THE HALSWE L-Hornby- 

Ri carton Community Board 

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o pose the pla ned qua ry near 

Templeton. 

Mayor Lia ne Dalziel told the 

board on Thursday it had the okay 

from the city council to make a 

submi sion if Fulton Hogan a plies 

for a resource consen to create a 

qua ry. 

Board chairman Mike Mora 

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would likely o pose Fulton Hogan’s 

plan. 

“You can just about guarant e 

it . because we [the community 

board] don’t believe qua ries 

should be so close to residential 

areas,” he said. 

Mr Mora said he wasn’t sure if 

the city council would endorse the 

board’ submi sion. 

“I’d like to think so because the 

city council has had their eyes 

open as we l ove recent years over 

the crysta line silica risk,” he said. 

Mr Mora said the community 

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AWARD-WI NING: Corey Winder is back home after his team came second in the World Butchers’ Cha lenge . 

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BONUS! 

$400 Smiths City 

Giftcard with 

this TV 

Peace of Mind with 

3 Year Manufacturer’s Warranty 

32" 

40" 

32" 

$ 

399 

HD SMART TV 

S6500 

40" 

$ 

544 

65" 4K SMART QLED TV 65Q7F 

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insurance. Booking fee $45.00, Annual fees $45.00 p.a., Security registration fee $8.05. Current interest rate of 23.95% applies to any unpaid balance after expiry of (any) interest free period. See in-store or visit smithscity.co.nz for details. ^Deliveries to some rural areas and the O



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$ 

749 

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150 

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$ 

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99 

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Available in Lime Green, 

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Colours may vary across stores. 

INSTAX FILM MINI 

20 AND 50 PACKS 

20 

50 

$ 

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40 

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e items and some promotional items are not available in conjunction with INTEREST FREE offers. Exclusions, fees, terms, conditions and credit criteria apply. Equal instalment amounts are indicative and exclude 

Outer Islands (Chatham Island, Stewart Island, Kawau Island, Kawau Island, Waiheke Island, Matakana Island, Great Barrier Island and d'Urville Island) are excluded from free delivery offers.


BAY HARBOUR 


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CANCELLING HEADPHONES 

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$ 

128 

SAVE $ 

41 

ATMOSPHERIC 

TURBO RACER 

Great ideas for 

stocking fillers! 

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SCIENCE KIT SET 

CODA WIRELESS BLUETOOTH 

HEADPHONE WITH MIC 


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38 

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GREAT 

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IDEA! 

$ 

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65 

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Spend $100 and over to be in to 

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^Applies to purchases between 

19 - 24th December 2018. T&C's apply, 

see smithscity.co.nz/win 

for details. 

NUTRIOVEN 

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OVEN 

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109 

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130 

BIG FILL TOASTIE MAKER FOR 4 

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Limited stock, designs may vary across stores. 

$ 

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each 

SAVE $ 20 

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79 

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59 

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79 

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59 

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70 

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$ 

59 

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70 

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AND KETTLE PACKAGE 

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smithscity.co.nz 

0800 SMITHS 

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