Nor'West News: February 19, 2019

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2019 

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St Albans 

couple’s 

misfortune 

• By Jess Gibson 

AFTER LOSING a mother and 

two grandfathers to cancer, a 

St Albans couple thought their 

misfortune was over. 

But when Georgia Whipps, 

26, and her husband Shayden, 

28, returned home from work 

on February 4 to find several 

household items missing, it was a 

different story. 

Rummaged drawers and piles of 

clothing on the floor were also a 

dead giveaway that their home had 

been broken into. 

A camera, two speakers and a 

laptop were among the items taken 

– but the most sentimental was 

Mrs Whipps’ jewellery box. 

Inside it she held everything her 

mother Carol had left to her before 

she died of pancreatic cancer in her 

50s in 2017. 

It included a necklace with her 

mother’s fingerprint that was made 

at the funeral home. 

It also contained vintage gold 

and pearl items which her mother 

gave her to wear at her wedding in 

November 2017 – three weeks after 

she died. 

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GEORGIA AND Shayden Whipps have 

had a tough year, losing three family 

members to cancer (see page 1). 

And now a low-life burglar has made it 

even worse. 

Among the items stolen from their home 

was something that can’t be replaced – her late mother Carol’s 

jewellery. 

The haul included a necklace with her mother’s fingerprint on 

it. 

There were other vintage gold and pearl items that Carol 

gave Georgia to wear at her wedding in November 2017 – three 

weeks after she died. 

Says Georgia: “I don’t care about all the other stuff, just the 

things that money can’t replace. That’s stuff we will never be 

able to get back.” 

If you know where the jewellery is, do the decent thing. 

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Petition launched over QE II school zone 

• By Julia Evans 

RESIDENTS ARE rallying to get 

excluded suburbs back into the 

Shirley Boys and Avonside Girls’ 

High School zone. 

In April, the Ministry of 

Education came up with a 

compromise for a 13-year 

transitional zone which would 

allow students living in the 

current zones around Richmond, 

Shirley, Avonside, Dallington, St 

Albans and Edgeware to enrol at 

the new multimillion 

dollar QE 

II Park campus. 

The zone will be 

reviewed in May, 

a month after 

students start at 

the new school. 

Bebe Frayle 

But residents 

from the 

excluded suburbs have launched 

a petition, which will be sent 

to the ministry, calling for the 

transitional zone to be made 

permanent. So far it has 100 

signatures. 

Dallington Residents 

Association chairwoman Bebe 

Frayle said the group always 

planned to lobby for the zone to 

be made permanent. 

“But what kicked off our 

regrouping was the info that 

Shirley Boys has closed their outof-zone 

roll as soon as it opened,” 

CAMPAIGN: A petition has been started to make the transitional zone for the new Shirley Boys 

and Avonside Girls’ High School campus permanent. 

she said. SBHS closed enrolments 

for out-of-zone students last 

month – two months before it is 

due to move to the new campus. 

“For us, it’s all about gathering 

support, and the plan would 

be to talk to communities and 

the school, mostly the people 

affected,” she said. 

Being permanently excluded 

from the zone would impact on 

house prices, divide communities 

and disrupt families, she said. 

“We’re placed in a very weird 

position and as residents, we can’t 

say that this is our local school. 

We don’t have one,” she said. 

“It’s a weird and unfair position 

for families to be in.” 

But Ministry of Education 

deputy secretary sector 

enablement and support Katrina 

Casey said the changes were 

made to the enrolment schemes 

to reflect the new location. 

“The enrolment schemes will 

help Avonside Girls’ High School, 

and Shirley Boys’ High School 

make effective and efficient use 

of their new schools and will 

give them the ability to manage 

future rolls and reduce the risk of 

overcrowding,” she said. 

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to www.change.org/p/ 

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What an exciting year 2019 is going to be for 

the McMaster & Heap Family. A new veterinary 

building, a specialist veterinarian joining the 

ranks, more skilled nurses required and our 

family size is fast shrinking with sons off to 

pursue their dreams. 

On the home front we have gone from a 

family of 5 to a family of 3. Our eldest son 

Connor will go into his 

second year of Veterinary 

training at Massey 

University in Palmerston 

North. Most of Connors 

summer holidays have 

been spent doing 

practical work for his 

vet degree. He spent 5 

weeks on a Sheep and 

Beef farm in Methven. 

Connor really enjoyed all 

aspects of farm life from 

ploughing fields, to 

vaccinating and drenching stock 

to driving all the farm machinery. He gained 

valuable skills in reading animal behaviours 

and how to handle them and learning about 

management practices. He is now spending 

time at a racing stable in Templeton and 

seeing some equine veterinary work. It would 

be fair to say his horse handling skills are 

sketchy but nothing 2 weeks in a busy racing 

stables can’t fix. 

Dylan our tennis man 

Connor Heap - 2nd year Vet 

student doing Beef and sheep 

farm practical work 

Our 18 year old son Dylan left in January to 

pursue his tennis dream in the US, gaining 

a scholarship to the university of Minnesota 

in Minneapolis. Within 2 days of touching 

down he was back on a plane with the 

team to a training camp in Florida. He will 

study business and finance while over there. 

At present he’s trying to acclimatize to 

temperatures that have reached -45 degrees!! 

Luckily for us, our youngest 14 year old son 

Isaac ,is still living with Ma and Pa. Not for 

long though something tells me ,as this son 

can’t wait to travel the world, meet new 

people and study overseas. 

On the vet front we are very excited 

to welcome Richard Lucy into the 

McMaster and Heap family. Richard 

went through Massey with Steve a wee 

while ago now (graduated in 1992) 

and fairly early on pursued Radiology 

and Ultrasonography as his areas of 

interest. Richard passed his Veterinary 

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Cardiology exams at the Royal Vet College in 

London. On returning to NZL, Richard worked 

in Auckland and Hamilton for several years 

before retraining in human echocardiology 

(ultrasound of the heart). He even did a stint 

in human ultrasound working at Waikato 

and Christchurch Public Hospitals. Richard 

has since returned to his original vocation 

and works solely performing 

ultrasounds on the heart , 

musculoskeletal system and 

abdomen of referral patients. He 

will now see his South Island and 

Christchurch referrals through 

our practice, working Monday 

through to Thursdays. Richard is 

married to Linda and in his spare 

time entertains his twin 3 year olds, 

slaves away on his lifestyle block 

and enjoys the rivers, mountains 

and coasts that Canterbury and the 

South Island has to offer. We are 

thrilled to be able to offer Richards expert 

skills and knowledge to our patients and 

those that are referred to us. 

So with the addition of Richard and our skilled 

ultrasonographer Catherine, we will be able 

to offer ultrasounds to patients Monday to 

Friday. 

We have just accepted a building tender to 

get our exciting new build underway as soon 

as possible. We are expanding quickly and 

need more consulting rooms and a bigger 

kenneling area as well as a state of the art 

surgical suite. Works should start before the 

end of the month and all going well, by the 

end of August we will be enjoying loads 

more space, a separate “cat only” waiting and 

treatment space and loads more exciting 

extras. 

I apologize now for any disruptions and extra 

building site noise but promise this that 

the end result will be a great thing for our 

patients. 

We employed 4 fantastic new nurses last 

year due to continued practice growth. 

Olivia, Rachael, Danielle and Marysha have 

all brought something new and special 

into the team mix and its refreshing to have 

enthusiastic, inspired and fun young nurses to 

help us with the important work we do. 

Visit our website for more 

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Watch this space for more 

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Dr Michele McMaster 

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Residents question 

Sawyers Arms Rd repairs 

• By Jess Gibson 

PAPANUI residents are 

unsure why more repairs 

are being made on Sawyers 

Arms Rd. 

Contractors have been 

re-laying a stretch of the 

road between Cotswold 

Ave and Gardiners Rd due 

to a problem with underlying 

layers. 

It will be the third time 

the road has been repaired 

within the stretch of road 

between Highsted Rd and 

Gardiners Rd since 2017. 

Due to heavy traffic flow, 

a reseal was made between 

Highsted and Gardiners 

Rds in November 2017, 

which was then repaired in 

June 2018 after the surface 

started breaking up. 

Harewood Ward city 

councillor Aaron Keown 

Keown said that decisions 

need to start coming back 

to community boards so 

that they can let residents 

know about any road 

repairs in the area. 

“The neighbours that 

I spoke to weren’t happy. 

They didn’t know why it 

was being pulled up,” said 

Cr Keown. 

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REPAIRS: Re-laying seal on Sawyers Arms Rd. 

Sawyers Arms Rd resident 

Barbara Purvis said 

she was uncertain what the 

reason was behind the new 

repairs or who would be 

paying for the mistakes. 

City council road 

maintenance manager 

Mark Pinner said that 

costs will be paid by the 

contractor. 

But Cr Keown said it was 

still an “incredible waste of 

resources” when there are 

so many other roads that 

need fixing. 

“There are lots of other 

roads where you can clearly 

see there’s been a degrading 

of the work that’s 

been done, yet this one, as 

far as anyone can see there 

easy living 

was nothing wrong with 

it,” said Cr Keown. 

He said that the recent 

relay would likely be ruined 

because the road had 

“trucks going over it all 

day during the prep work.” 

Fendalton-Waimairi- 

Harewood Community 

Board member Aaron 

Campbell raised similar 

concerns last year over the 

“shoddy” reseal between 

Highsted Rd and Gardiners 

Rd. 

In August, Mr Campbell 

told the Nor’West News 

that the repairs in June 

took place because 

“contractors didn’t do the 

job up-to-scratch” in the 

previous reseal. 

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Safety upgrade for dangerous intersection 

• By Julia Evans and Georgia 

O’Connor-Harding 

THE CITY’S fourth most 

dangerous junction could 

become a T intersection in a bid 

to reduce the number of crashes. 

Plans for the $1 million safety 

upgrade at the Middleton, Ilam 

and Riccarton Rd intersection 

were revealed last week by the 

city council. 

Restricting 

Riccarton Rd 

from Middleton 

Rd to left turns 

in and out 

only, as well as 

Sue 

Chamberlain 

narrowing the 

road to allow 

more footpath 

space for pedestrians has been 

proposed. 

It was ranked the city’s fourth 

most dangerous, raking up 40 

crashes with varying degree of 

injury since 2011. 

The intersection is known as 

being difficult to navigate because 

of the off-set alignment of 

the three roads. 

The left turn slip lanes from 

Ilam Rd into Riccarton Rd 

would also be removed. 

The proposed changes have 

received mixed views. 

Ilam and Upper Riccarton 

Residents’ Association Sue 

SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS: Safety improvements are planned for the intersection of Ilam, 

Middleton and Riccarton Rds. 


Chamberlain said it is “crazy” 

vehicles will not be able to travel 

from Middleton Rd to Ilam Rd 

or turn right. 

She said there should be 

green arrows for vehicles 

looking to turn right onto 

Riccarton Rd. 

“They should have a green 

arrow on those corners which 

will fix the problem just nicely 

without having to do anything 

else”. 

But Elite Physiotherapy, which 

is located near the intersection, 

owner Michelle North said it is 

an “extremely dangerous” intersection 

and while the changes 

will be inconvenient for the business, 

it will be better in the end. 

Receptionist Rita Noetzel said 

she will “cross her fingers” when 

she turns right from Ilam Rd 

onto Riccarton Rd. 

“At first I thought: ‘Oh my 

gosh am I doing something illegal 

but it is a right turn lane . . .’ it 

is just a really tricky one because 

there is no kind of turning lane,” 

she said. 

Her views were backed by 

Central Riccarton Residents’ Association 

chairwoman Joscelyne 

Silcock, who said she dreads 

driving out of Middleton Rd to 

turn right onto Riccarton Rd. 

But Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 

Community Board deputy 

chairwoman Helen Broughton 

said she was concerned there 

might be an “overload” of projects 

on Riccarton Rd. 

She said there is an argument 

the project would need to be 

done in conjunction with the 

NorWest Arc Major Cycle Route. 

The major Riccarton Rd 

roadworks are due to begin this 

month and the city council is 

currently out for public consultation 

on the South Express Major 

Cycle Route – which will run 

through Riccarton. 

The intersection upgrades will 

enable it to have facilities for 

the cycleway including crossing 

signals. 

Public consultation will 

run until March 11. For more 

information on the changes 

and to make a submission go to 

www.ccc.govt.nz and click on 

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High achievements for two 

Christ’s College students 

TWO CHRIST’S College 

students from the north-west 

have earned top scholarship 

marks in New Zealand for their 

respective subjects. 

Wills Wynn Thomas of Fendalton 

received the top english and 

chemistry marks in the country 

together with another four scholarships, 

including an outstanding 

in statistics. 

He is hoping his hard work will 

earn him a spot at Cambridge 

University in the United Kingdom 

in October. 

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WITH FEBRUARY traditionally 

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the city council is reminding 

residents to keep doing their bit 

to save water so it can work to 

remove chlorine from the city’s 

water supply as soon as possible. 

The council is aiming for 

the city’s drinking water to be 

un-chlorinated by May, which 

will mark 12 months since it 

rolled out chlorine treatment 

in response to advice from the 

Canterbury medical officer of 

health. 

City council water supply 

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manager Helen Beaumont said 

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use less water so wells can be 

taken offline and upgraded as 

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“We’re definitely not out of the 

woods yet, and we really need 

people to keep watching their 

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“We’re experiencing much 

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avoids any waste, and only water 

on alternate days between 9pm 

and 7am, when it’s cooler.” 

Sprinklers and garden 

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household water, but there are 

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Burglary caps off couple’s misfortune 

•From page 1 

Both Mr and Mrs Whipps’ 

grandfathers also died over 

the last year. They said the 

personal items that were taken 

in the burglary were the most 

valuable. 

“I don’t care about all the 

other stuff, just the things that 

money can’t replace. That’s 

stuff we will never be able to 

get back,” said Mrs Whipps. 

“It’s stuff that no one else is 

going to appreciate,” she said. 

Mr Whipps works as an 

events and marketing coordinator 

at PGG Wrightson 

and Mrs Whipps is the head 

teacher at BestStart pre-school. 

The “house proud” couple 

used their entire savings to 

purchase and renovate their 

villa two years ago. 

They write a lifestyle blog 

called Mooch Style, which 

gives tips and advice to other 

homeowners. 

“We work so hard to provide 

content which inspires others 

to do the same thing and then 

we get burgled. You just feel 

attacked and invaded,” said Mr 

Whipps. 

“For someone to just 

completely come in and violate 

it really takes away the love you 

have for your home because 

someone uninvited has been 

BURGLED: Georgia and Shayden Whipps’ St Albans home 

was broken into last week, while their dog Frankie may 

have been sleeping. 

in it.” 

Mr Whipps said the burglars 

came in through a window 

that had been pried open. 

He said their boxer dog 

Frankie must have been 

asleep during the burglary 

as their neighbours did not 

hear barking. The couple later 

learned two other properties 

and two cars in the area had 

been burgled about noon. 

Police investigated the 

property the following day 

and all that was found was the 

print of an arm on a box which 

GONE: A necklace made to 

remember Georgia Whipps’ 

mother, who died in 2017, 

was taken in the burglary. 

determined the burglar was 

male. To make matters worse 

for the couple, they are battling 

to get insurance for the stolen 

items. 

“It just sucks,” said Mr 

Whipps. 

For now, they have installed 

a security alarm and cameras. 

“If you have those things 

you’re not only protecting your 

own property you’re protecting 

people in your area, it’s all 

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Albans Community Centre if a 

storyboard at its temporary site 

goes ahead. 

While the Papanui-Innes 

Community Board waits for 

resource consent to build a 

new community centre on 

Colombo St, it is looking at an 

effective way to show how it is 

progressing. 

Board chairwoman Ali 

Jones said a storyboard at the 

St Albans Tennis Club would 

improve communication with 

the community. 

“Because of the time it’s taken 

and the significance of the 

project to the community, we 

suggested that a storyboard is 

put up at the current temporary 

site to give the community 

an idea of the visuals and the 

timeframe, maybe with a little 

bit of history,” said Ms Jones. 

She said the storyboard would 

be like the one used during 

the recent redevelopment of St 

Albans Park. 

The board has contacted 

council staff who are looking at 

the cost of the proposal. 

CHRISTCHURCH will 

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refugees via the quota since the 

earthquakes – and the New 

Zealand Red Cross is getting 

ready to help them settle. 

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refugees from Afghanistan and 

Eritrea will arrive in the city 

every eight weeks from March 1. 

Christchurch’s Farahnaz 

Khosravi, 47, is training to 

become a refugee support 

volunteer with the New Zealand 

Red Cross and will work in a 

small team to support a new 

family transition into New 

Zealand life. Ms Khosravi came 

to Christchurch from Iran on 

a skilled migrant visa with her 

husband and children almost 

five years ago. 

She knows what it’s like to be 

new to the country and felt it 

was her duty to help other new 

Kiwis feel at home. 

“When I moved from Iran, 

I had done all I could to 

prepare from overseas – I 

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children in schools, rented 

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haven’t planned to be here, don’t 


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• By Gordon Findlater 

A ST Andrew’s College trio 

finished seventh overall and first 

in the school’s division of the 

three-person team section of the 

Coast to Coast. 

Henry Spark, Benjamin Leech 

and Fiona Murray finished the 

two-day teams event in a time of 

13hr 32min and 42sec. 

They were the first overall 

school, fourth overall mixed 

team and seventh overall open 

team to cross the finish line at 

New Brighton beach. It was the 

first time a team of students 

from St Andrew’s had entered 

the event. 

“They exceeded everyone’s 

wildest expectations, to do that 

well against some top adults,” 

said St Andrew’s multisport coordinator 

Greg Thompson. 

Spark lives in Oxford and 

spent plenty of time running 

dry river beds in preparation for 

the mountain run section of the 

event. The year 12 student also 

did two practice runs over the 

course earlier in the summer. 

Leech, who is year 12 at St Andrew’s, 

is a mountain biker who 

turned his focus to road cycling 

after being loaned a bike for the 

summer. 

Murray – who completed the 

67km kayak leg – comes from 

strong Coast to Coast genes. Her 

father Keith holds both the oneday 

and two-day course records. 

Her mother Andrea holds the 

women’s one-day record. 

The year 13 student began proceedings 

on Saturday morning 

at Kumara beach with a short 

2.2km run before transitioning 

to Leech for a 55km cycle. The 

first day was then finished by 

Spark when he completed the 

33km mountain run. 

“We looked at the results after 

the first day and we were in seventh, 

we couldn’t believe it,” said 

Thompson. 

The team then consolidated 

their position on day two 

which featured a 15km bike for 

Leech, Murray’s 67km kayak 

and Leech’s final 70km cycle to 

the finish. A St Andrew’s trio 

finished seventh overall and first 

in the schools division at the 

Coast to Coast. 

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CHAMPIONS: Henry Spark, Fiona Murray and Benjamin Leech 

won the school’s title at the Coast to Coast. 


PADDLE: Fiona Murray 

completed the 67km kayak 

leg of the race. 

EFFORT: Henry Spark 

tackles the 33km mountain 

run.

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Young guns come out firing at tennis champs 


NOR’WEST schools dominated 

proceedings at the Canterbury 

senior secondary school tennis 

championship at Wilding Park 

last week. 

Singles titles went to St 

Margaret’s College student Abby 

Mason in the year 11 girls, Rangi 

Ruru’s Tessa McCann in the 

year 12-13 girls, St Bede’s Charlie 

Morrison in the year 11 boys, 

while Christ’s College’s Will 

Schneideman won the year 12-13 

title. 

Abby, 15, didn’t drop a 

game on the way to her final, 

continuing her recent run of 

form which saw her collect 

two wins at the recent Tennis 

Canterbury ITF. In the final, she 

met Rangi Ruru’s Jade Feneon. 

Abby won the first set 6-2 before 

Jade retired hurt. 

The year 12-13 girls title was 

won with just as much ease by 

17-year-old Tessa. She dropped 

just two games en route to the 

final where she defeated fellow 

Rangi Ruru student Stella 

Hoeper 6-1, 6-1. 

Tessa and Stella then teamed 

up to win the year 12-13 girls 

doubles title by defeating Sophie 

Lancaster and Olivia Wrathall 

4-0, 4-1. The year 11 girls 

doubles was won by Burnside 

High School pairing Alana Liu 

and Juliette Ma. 

In the boys year 11 singles, 

Charlie, 15, was tested en route 

DOMINANT: Tessa McCann dropped just four games in three 

matches at the Canterbury senior secondary school tennis 

championship. 

SPORTS 

to his title when he met Christ’s 

Nathan McKenzie in the semifinal. 

Charlie prevailed 6-2, 

2-6, 10-6 in a third set super 

tie-breaker. He then cruised past 

Jordan Edwards 6-0, 6-1 to claim 

the silverware. 

Meanwhile, in the year 12-13 

boys singles, Will, 17, dropped 

just one game through his 

opening two matches. 

He then accounted for 

his younger brother Nick 

in the semi-final 6-1, 6-3. 

In the final, he defeated 

St Andrew’s College’s Jamie 

Garbett 6-2, 6-4. 

Both boys doubles titles were 

won by Christ’s players. The year 

11 title wen to twin brothers 

Nont and Nant Prachuabmoh, 

while Will Schneideman and 

Tom Downs won the year 12-13 

title. 

POWER: Abby 

Mason continued 

her run of form by 

winning the year 11 

girls title. 

SILVERWARE: Will 

Schneideman and 

Charlie Morrison 

won singles titles 

at the Canterbury 

senior secondary 

school tennis 

championship. 

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Young technology graduates are being snapped 

up by employers, with the rapidly growing New 

Zealand ICT (information communications and 

technology) industry hungry for skilled staff. 

“There are lots of IT jobs, but not enough graduates 

joining the marketplace,” says Gary Taylor, campus 

manager of Vision College in Christchurch. 

Vision College, a private training establishment with 

campuses in Christchurch, Auckland, Pukekohe and 

Hamilton, has seen huge demand from employers 

for its graduating information technology students. 

“In the future, there will be an even bigger shortfall,” 

warns Taylor, who notes that IT industry occupations 

are on Immigration New Zealand’s long-term skill 

shortage list, reflecting the growth of the industry 

and the rise in job vacancies. “The IT industry is 

growing rapidly. We need to get more skilled 

graduates ready to ride the wave.” 

According to the latest annual TIN Report, the 

revenue of the top 200 New Zealand technology 

companies grew by 11 per cent to $11.1 billion in 

2018. The New Zealand tech sector employs more 

than 25,000 people locally and 50,000 globally, and 

offers a significantly higher pay than the national 

average. 

Christchurch woman Jessica Costello, 20, recently 

graduated from Vision College with a Level 5 NZ 

Diploma in Web Development and Design and 

a Level 6 NZ Diploma in Software Development. 

The two-year programme covered a range of 

subjects, including web design, coding languages, 

programming skills and software engineering – as 

well as an eight-week internship with local company 

CORE Education – which led to a job offer. 

Late last year Costello started as a junior web 

designer with the company. “It’s a great industry 

to be working in, and I can’t wait to see what the 

future holds,” says Costello. 

She attributes Vision College as being a huge part 

of her success in gaining employment in the IT 

industry. The small class sizes and supportive tutors 

were both nurturing and engaging. “Our tutors built 

a great rapport and connection with the students, 

so they knew where we were at to ensure we were 

all keeping up with the programme,” says Costello. 

There was also a focus on practical learning and 

writing code. “We were on the computers from the 

first day, learning by doing, and really drilling down 

into specialty areas,” says Costello. “I could see my 

skillset progressing and developing every day.” 

As well as learning technical skills, she had the 

opportunity to do professional practice papers to 

build up “soft skills” too – something employers are 

increasingly looking for, notes Taylor. 

“They’re wanting peopale that are technical skilled 

but who can also be innovative, creative and solve 

problems and can communicate well,” says Taylor. 

He says that industry internships are a key part 

of the course programme, giving students the 

opportunity to apply their learnings to real world 

situations – and these opportunities often lead to 

employment. 

Aaron Kitto, national IT manager at CORE 

Education, and Costello’s new boss, agrees that the 

industry is desperate for more skilled IT graduates, 

particularly in areas such as software development. 

He encourages students to find out more about 

IT courses, as it is a career that offers flexibility and 

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“For me, IT is a skill that can exist in any industry like 

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needed” roles, IT people are perfectly placed to take 

advantage of this. We have contractors who set up 

company servers in Taiwan while writing code for a 

Canadian firm, all from a beach in Bali.” 

For more information on getting started in IT, see 

visioncollege.ac.nz or phone 0800 834 834. The 

programme allows for flexible study and University 

Entrance (UE) is not required to begin studying. 

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Welcome to the 2019 football season. Burwood AFC is a 

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players are most welcome. 

Burwood supports the Whole of Football framework initiated 

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that a major part of the pain could be due 

to muscle pain rather than simply arthritis. 

“Even if an x-ray shows arthritis, the reason 

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blade can give a deep pain in the front of 

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and buttock”. “Within 4 treatments, she 

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severe pain,” says Ietje. “The arthritis was 

one of the factors that made her muscles 

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move less and the flexed position the hip 

is in when we sit is particularly bad for 

the hip.” Ietje is happy with the fact that 

although the client was 89 and could have 

been “given up on” or told to live with the 

pain, she made a difference to her health 

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The same lack of movement can be the 

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SHOULDER 

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KNEE PAIN 

balance. They teach a movement sequence 

that stretches the joint in all directions 

whilst the client is able to lie safely on their 

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it, is enough to stay on top of the problem. 

HIP PAIN 

(the crosses are the areas of the muscle spasms, the red areas is where the pain is felt) 

If severe arthritis is the underlying cause, 

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surgery. In very few treatments the client 

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WORKSAFE NEW Zealand 

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Coastal-Burw od Ward city 

counci lor David East wants 

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WorkSafe chief inspector 

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Handforth said it may be able to 

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“WorkSafe has completed 

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to advise them that it is their 

responsibility to manage their 

risks a propriately.” 

Different parts of the car park 

are owned by various people 

and the Coastal-Burw od 

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around health and safety. 

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doing themselve some damage.” 

He is confiden the new 

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“I think the WorkSafe 

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lever that we are l oking for.” 

New bid to fix potholes 

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St Andrew’s won the most 

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THE PAPANUI-I nes 

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DEAN CALVERT (above) 

returned from the United 

Kingdom last w ek after 

ge ting closer than mos to 

Joseph Parker in the build up 

to his world heavyweigh title 

unification fight with Anthony 

Joshua in Cardiff. 

The former New Zealand 

title-holder trave led with his 

father George and brother 

Bryce to London ahead of the 

fight where they spen time 

with Parker in the build up. 

Mr Calvert, 47, comes from a 

boxing mad family. 


Former champ hooks 

up with Parker in UK 

Cave Rock 

Apartments’ 

owners 

expect EQC 

sign-off 

this week 

• By Sarla Donovan 

THE OWNERS of Sumner’s Cave 

Rock Apartments ar expecting the 

Earthquake Commi sion to sign-off 

on a se tlement agr ement this w ek. 

Body corporate chairman Mike 

White said the group had gone 

into mediation with IAG and EQC 

on February 20, and signed off 

on a deal with IAG on February 

2 – coincidenta ly seven years 

to the day after the February 2, 

20 1, earthquake. However, they 

are waiting for EQC to sign the 

agr ement. 

“Given that EQC actua ly drafted 

the agr ement, there’ l be no 

problem with them doing that.” 

The apartment suffered damage 

in the February and June, 20 1, 

earthquakes and were demolished in 

late 2012. In 2016, IAG’s offer of the 

difference betw en indemnity value, 

$10 mi lion, and the sum insured, 

$16 mi lion, was rejected by the body 

corporate. 

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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The sp ed limit change was 

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w ek. 

A decision to paint double yellow 

lines on the stretch betw en 

Summit Rd and the Sign of the 

Takahe was earlier made by the 

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Bu the Banks Peninsula Community 

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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 

m eting new people, s eing new 

ideas, it just brings that flair 

back for you,” he said. 

Mr Garth hopes to 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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• By Georgia O’Co nor-Harding 

A CRACKDOWN on mobile 

traders acro s the districts could 

be l oming. 

However, the public has li tle 

interest in having input into the 

i sue. 

Only eight submi sions were 

received for a potential bylaw 

aimed at regulating commercial 

activities in public places. 

The district council wi l be 

holding a hearing for the Public 

Places Bylaw and Policy on Commercial 

Activities and Events in 

Public Places. 

A hearing i scheduled to be 

held on Thursday. 

The bylaw comes as an increasing 

number of mobile traders 

are s eking to operate in Selwyn, 

especia ly during the summer 

months. 

In the past year, the district 

council has received five inquiries 

about se ting up a mobile busine s 

on private or public land. 

A report said there are two 

str et operators in Darfield, a 

coff e cart is parked beside the 

railway in Ro leston, and a pi za 

cart visits Lincoln w ekly betw en 

September-May along with a Thai 

f od truck. 


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Pupils learn about role of war horses 

GR ENDALE SCHOOL pupils 

have taken a step back in time, 

s eing first hand what men and 

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. 


• By Georgia O’Co nor-Harding 

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, 

5, sits on Kruze, alongside Mounted Rifles Charitable Trust president 

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Community board member 

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Mega centre f edback 

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AN U PER Ri carton butcher 

has proven himself to be a cut 

above his Au sie rivals at an 

international competition. 

Elite Meats owner Corey 

Winder was named in the a l 

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 

has b en given the gr en ligh to 

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 

told Western News the submi sion 

would likely o pose Fulton Hogan’s 

plan. 

“You can just about guarant e 

it . because we [the community 

board] don’t believe quarries 

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 

board wi l be “representing and 

advocating” for the Templeton 

community. 


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