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20 Thursday January 24 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi The Star Our People ECan chair not frightened by time •From page 19 So the role for me has been one of managing the council back to full democracy, which will take place in October. A thing I have been keen to do is see that climate change becomes front and central of ECan’s thinking. That has come about with the newly-elected people who arrived on council in 2016, they have made a huge difference. What did you learn from your travelling experiences? I feel sometimes that all the roads I have travelled have led to this point. So I have a huge amount of experience of the world at large and of different kinds of people and how to deal with them. I find all the skills I learnt while travelling fit me very well for the role of managing a great number of people who have very different and distinct interests. It is really about people. A Maori proverb that helps to describe me politically is – He aha te mea nui o te ao He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people. People are the same everywhere all around the world, it doesn’t matter if you meet an Indian on the banks of the Amazon River or an TALENT: Steve Lowndes has a love of art, especially painting. American senator, we all laugh, we all cry, we all smile. It’s the universality of people. We are all the same species. How does living in England compare to living in New Zealand? I have been here for 40 years, my immediate family in England has died, I have a few cousins left, I write to them. England is about the same size, but the population of New Zealand is what the population of England was at the time of Henry VIII. Now you have to imagine the same land mass, with nearly 60 million people. It is nothing like New Zealand. Last week, Sue and I went to Jackson’s Bay, down south. We stayed in a bach which had no power, no connectivity. When you walked to the beach, there are no other houses, and there is an absolutely stunning empty landscape of mountains, oceans, beaches. You would have to go a long way in Britain to find that, maybe in the north of Scotland. It’s a completely different experience living here. It is one where we relate very much to the land. At the moment with Brexit, the English have got themselves into a cleft stick. They have this incredibly binary situation to deal with, half of them think they should stay in the common market and fight and the other half thinks they should flee. Human beings always have that decision, when confronted with a situation, fight or flight. It’s such a basic division in our minds, I think that is basically what is happening with Brexit. So, I don’t envy the English at all. I can’t even begin to contemplate how I feel about England anymore, because it seems to belong to another era. In the future when climate change really begins to kick in, New Zealand is wonderfully placed to survive the worst effects. We are surrounded by ocean which takes away the worst effects of heat, we can feed ourselves, Australia can’t, Europe can’t, 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere. Tell me about your family? Julian, my son, works for Skope, a Christchurch company that makes refrigerators. He manages their operations in Australia. He has a son, who is 6-months-old. Alicia works for an advertising agency called The Monkeys, living in Melbourne but she is going to come back to New Zealand. She managed to buy a third of a house in Auckland in Pt Chevalier she’s going to come back next month. I am looking forward to her coming back. My partner Sue’s daughter Evie also lives in Pt Chevalier, so those two are very close. SPRING HEAT PUMP One Bedroom Solution Two Bedroom Multi System Solution Three to Four Bedroom Ducted Solution Heating and Cooling Heating and Cooling Unobtrusive Ceiling Installation Energy Efficient Energy Efficient Year-round Heating and Cooling i-Save Mode Minimal Outdoor Footprint Whisper Quiet Washable Anti-Allergy Enzyme Filter Individual Control Energy Efficient Optional Wi-Fi Control Optional Wi-Fi Control Optional Wi-Fi Control from from from $2,149 * EcoCore GL25 Heat Pump 3.2kW Heating | 2.5kW Cooling $4,799 * Two Port Multi with two Classic GE25 Heat Pumps 3.0kW Heating | 2.5kW Cooling $7,499 * PEAD71 Ducted Heat Pump System 8.0kW Heating | 7.1kW Cooling *All prices include basic installation. Conditions apply. 0800 324 678 www.dcis.co.nz HEAT PUMPS • AIR CONDITIONING • ELECTRICAL
The Star 21 News Local News Now Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Thursday January 24 2019 The women of Lyttelton Gaol Fire rages, homes at risk Lyttelton Museum has unearthed the stories of more than 800 women who served sentences between 1868 and 1913 at the old Oxford St gaol LYTTELTON GAOL was once the biggest prison in New Zealand. Its Oxford St site is now a reserve, home to a children’s play area, rose garden and a clock tower dedicated to the memory of Captain Charles Upham VC and Bar. The gaol’s first buildings were constructed in 1851, less than a year after the arrival of Canterbury’s European settlers. It was fully operational by 1868. There were 149 cells for men and 29 for women. In 19th century New Zealand, prison was about punishment, not reform, and this was the case at Lyttelton. Hard labour and frequent short sentences were normal for many women. While the men worked on roads and buildings, female prisoners toiled in the kitchens and laundries. They baked for the orphanage on Cressy Tce and produced uniforms for all the prisons HISTORY: The site of the old Lyttelton Gaol, which was once the biggest prison in New Zealand. (Right) – The gaol from the corner of Winchester and Oxford Sts in about 1900. around New Zealand. Lyttelton Gaol was overcrowded and cold, with repeat offenders crammed in alongside young girls. After 1913, women were no longer imprisoned at Lyttelton. The gaol closed in 1918, and all prisoners were moved to Christchurch. It was demolished by 1923 and the land came under the control of the Ministry of Education. The block of five cells along the northern wall of the rose garden, parts of the outer walls and the steps through the reserve remain as a reminder of the decades when this piece of land had a far less happy purpose. Lyttelton Museum is just beginning to understand the stories of the women who served time in the port town prison. What is known so far is that more than 800 women served about 2000 sentences at Lyttelton Gaol between 1868 and 1913 – an average of about 45 sentences a year. But the sentences weren’t evenly spread out. It appears no women were imprisoned in Lyttelton during most of the 1880s. It is not yet known why. Sentences were usually short, a few days or weeks, but some women were in and out of Lyttelton Gaol frequently. Sisters Bella and Mary McKegney, for example, were put there about 80 times between them over a 20-year period. Kate Moore was imprisoned 80 times in 17 years. During these years, there was little in the way of jobs for women outside the home. •Turn to page 22 massive sale Leading Fashion Labels .............................................................................................................. FROM 50-80% OFF Sizes 8-22 1 DAY ONLY! Sunday 3rd February Cashmere Club, 50 Colombo St 9.30am-3.30pm eftpos & credit card facilities on site
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