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18 Wednesday February 6 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi SELWYN TIMES Our People Moore takes on next challenge Was it after that you became an immigration adviser? After two years of living and breathing [being a publican] you need a bit of time out and I thought I’d have a few months off. But I got to about six weeks and I was so bored, I saw an ad in the paper for what they used to call an immigration consultant with a big company. I applied for it and the guy from Wellington who interviewed me was an ex-cop, so I got the job. I started off as a consultant for them for about six months and after the six months we got the business running so well that they decided to start a branch, I ran that for a couple of years and went back to becoming a publican again in Hanmer Springs of all places. Where in New Zealand are you originally from? Born and bred in Christchurch. The suburb I was brought up was in Bishopdale, went to Christchurch Boys’ High School. I lived two years in Timaru after I left the police. When I came back from Timaru, I lived in that Bishopdale area again and then Templeton in the early 1990s because I was working in the Hornby police station as detective. I threw my name in the hat for a detective sergeant’s role after just having moved to Templeton and I got that role and it was in New Brighton. I couldn’t turn the job down because I put my name in the hat, so I had to commute backwards and forwards everyday. You own a 2010 Ford Mustang, have you always been into performance cars? Yeah I am, I’ve always been a V8 man really. I’ve always liked those classic V8s and particularly Mustang, out of the lot of them. I was lucky enough to be able to buy one in 2017. I bought it in Auckland when I was up there for a meeting, went and had a look at one, liked it so much I bought it and drove it home. Much to my wife’s – I wouldn’t say disgust – but surprise. Tell me a bit about your family? I’m still married [to Tina], some people would say luckily sometimes, particularly her. Both of my daughters attend Lincoln High School, that’s the connection of the swimming side of things. Both of them [Sophie and Holly] swim competitively. I do OPPOSED: Simon Moore has been campaigning against a proposed Fulton Hogan quarry near Weedons. a lot of officiating at swim meets, I’m a trained official. It’s a very busy life I have to say. How did you meet your wife, Tina? Oh crikey. It was way back in the dairy farm days actually. The farm I used to work on [in Springston South], her father managed the place and we sort of worked together and we knew the family and it just went on from there basically. Did you move to Weedons recently? We bought our place in Weedons just before we moved back to town from Akaroa in 2001. What spurred you onto advocating for something like the proposed quarry? I’ve advocated for things all my life if you look at the police side of it. The thing that got me annoyed and concerned is that when I bought at Weedons, it was surrounded by farms and horse training stables. When we went there we knew we would get planes going overhead. We accepted that. We knew Ruapuna Park was not far away and when the north east wind is blowing and they’ve got events there we can hear them quite clearly. We knew that when we moved in there. We’ve got prisons around us, halfway houses for youth offenders, we knew all that when we moved in and we accepted that. But we never had a quarry. I never in my wildest dreams thought that they would contemplate putting a quarry between Templeton and Weedons. The thing that disturbs me the most is the more I look into this the more I can see that we are so far behind the rest of the world. India and Pakistan, for example, have 1km setback rules. We don’t have anything like that. It’s our 45th Anniversary year! #areyouupforit 45th Anniversary Retro T-shirt available when entries open on 1st December 2018 Sunday 24th March, 2019 www.city2surf.co.nz
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