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TUESDAY, MARCH <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2019</strong><br />
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End in site for<br />
Colombo St<br />
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Page 3<br />
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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
AN APPLICATION to open an<br />
off-licence bottle store in Halswell<br />
still appears to be on track.<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>View</strong> reported two<br />
weeks ago Bottle-O Halswell<br />
Ltd had cancelled its contract<br />
to purchase a shop at The Oaks<br />
Village Halswell complex,<br />
indicating the bottle store would<br />
not go ahead.<br />
However, it has now been<br />
revealed Bottle-O Halswell Ltd is<br />
negotiating to lease the premises at<br />
29 Ensign St, instead of buying it.<br />
Director and shareholder Wendy<br />
Gibbons would not comment on<br />
whether it would be leasing the<br />
premises.<br />
In December, Bottle-O Halswell<br />
Ltd was granted an application<br />
to open an off-licence liquor<br />
store on Ensign St. The decision<br />
was appealed by the Halswell<br />
Residents’ Association and a<br />
hearing is scheduled in May.<br />
An email from city council<br />
district licensing committee team<br />
leader Allison Houston to the<br />
Halswell Residents’ Association<br />
on February 25 confirmed the<br />
company is now negotiating to<br />
lease the premises.<br />
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too as frustration grows.<br />
Sintes raises a valid point about the motor bikes. The sooner<br />
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Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 3<br />
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• By Julia Evans<br />
THE END is in sight for<br />
businesses on Colombo St which<br />
have been disrupted by major<br />
roadworks over the last year.<br />
The work is on track to be<br />
finished in June, a year after it<br />
started. It involves installing a<br />
new wastewater line along the<br />
middle of Colombo St from<br />
the roundabout at Dyers Pass,<br />
Cashmere and Centaurus Rds to<br />
Fisher Ave.<br />
Cashmere Gallery Florist<br />
owner Jenny Hollands said the<br />
businesses are looking forward to<br />
the completion date.<br />
“They’re just about finished. It’s<br />
been okay, but they’ve been really<br />
good to us,” she said.<br />
“It’s been congested and<br />
incredibly disrupted, but it was<br />
really good of them to let us keep<br />
a bit of parking.”<br />
Spreydon-Cashmere Community<br />
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frustration from businesses and<br />
residents.<br />
Ms Potter said the work is<br />
the “most intensive” in the<br />
city.<br />
City council acting head of<br />
three waters and waste John<br />
Moore said the work will provide<br />
a back-up system for the existing<br />
wastewater main during flood<br />
events, as well as preparing for<br />
more properties linking into the<br />
network.<br />
But Mr Moore couldn’t say<br />
whether the work is the most<br />
intensive in the city because each<br />
project is different. He said work<br />
notices were hand delivered to all<br />
businesses before the construction<br />
began.<br />
“Prior to undertaking this<br />
work, staff worked with a variety<br />
of stakeholders, including local<br />
businesses. As a result decisions<br />
were made for a staged construction,<br />
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Karolin Potter<br />
BUSY: The<br />
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Colombo St<br />
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in June, a year<br />
after the project<br />
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Work in front of Thorrington<br />
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“Two lanes of traffic in<br />
Colombo St has been maintained<br />
throughout the construction<br />
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•From page 1<br />
Said Ms Houston: “We<br />
have been advised, (Bottle-O<br />
Halswell Ltd) are not<br />
withdrawing the application.<br />
They are however in the<br />
process of renegotiating their<br />
tenure from purchasing the<br />
premises in full to a leasing<br />
arrangement.”<br />
Residents’ association secretary<br />
David Hawke said it is working<br />
on its appeal and is in discussions<br />
with a lawyer about presenting its<br />
case in May.<br />
He did not have a view on the<br />
bottle store being leased, saying it<br />
was up to the applicant.<br />
The residents’ association’s<br />
original objection against the<br />
application stated there were<br />
sufficient facilities in Halswell for<br />
alcohol with Craythorne’s Public<br />
House, Super Liquor and New<br />
World Halswell.<br />
Mr Hawke said there is<br />
evidence any new bottle<br />
store going into an area<br />
significantly increases<br />
alcohol-related harm.<br />
But the decision granting the<br />
application said Mrs Gibbons had<br />
the experience necessary to safely<br />
PLANNED: A bottle store may still open at the The Oaks Village<br />
Halswell complex in Ensign St, Halswell.<br />
sell alcohol.<br />
It said alcohol-related<br />
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Farewell events to<br />
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A CELEBRATION is planned<br />
for April 5 and 6 to celebrate<br />
the past 65 years of educational<br />
history of Linwood College.<br />
In mid-<strong>2019</strong>, the school’s<br />
buildings will be demolished in<br />
preparation for a full rebuild on<br />
site.<br />
At $44 million the rebuild<br />
budget is one of the largest of<br />
any of the Ministry of Education’s<br />
rebuild programme since<br />
the February 22, 2011, earthquake.<br />
Students enrolled at the school<br />
will be relocated to old Avonside<br />
Girls’ High site for the full duration<br />
of the rebuild.<br />
When news of the rebuild was<br />
released, approaches were made<br />
to the school for an opportunity<br />
to celebrate its past.<br />
At the time it was built in<br />
1954, Linwood High was the<br />
first post-war co-educational<br />
school to open in the entire<br />
country.<br />
While the school looked more<br />
like a building site than an<br />
educational campus on opening<br />
day, the community soon<br />
proudly rallied around its new<br />
high school and ensured it had<br />
the resources equivalent to any<br />
existing school in the city.<br />
To mark the demolition<br />
of the buildings a ticketed<br />
Conversazione event is being<br />
hosted on April 5 and a free<br />
open day on April 6.<br />
The event will end with a<br />
farewell ceremony at 3pm. This<br />
event is open to anyone in the<br />
community to attend.<br />
Past students from all over<br />
New Zealand and Australia<br />
have bought tickets to attend<br />
the farewell says the chair of the<br />
event’s organising committee<br />
Linda Rutland.<br />
“People have a real attachment<br />
to their old school with the<br />
original 1954s remaining a very<br />
tight-knit group.”<br />
Secondary Schools’ Enrolment<br />
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Greater Christchurch state secondary school principals and<br />
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current secondary network. One of the outcomes of this work<br />
is the proposed implementation of new enrolment schemes<br />
and amendments to existing enrolment schemes for some coeducational<br />
state secondary schools. There are seven secondary<br />
schools proposing to amend or implement a scheme, which are:<br />
• Burnside High School<br />
• Haeata Community Campus<br />
• Hillmorton High School<br />
• Linwood College<br />
• Mairehau High School<br />
• Papanui High School<br />
• Riccarton High School<br />
More information on this process and an online<br />
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www.shapingeducation.govt.nz/secondary<br />
There are also public meetings to gather feedback:<br />
• Wednesday 20th <strong>March</strong>, 7pm – 8pm – Hillmorton High School<br />
• Monday 25th <strong>March</strong>, 7pm – 8pm – Papanui High School<br />
• Tuesday 26th <strong>March</strong>, 7pm – 8pm – Riccarton High School<br />
• Thursday 28th <strong>March</strong>, 7pm – 8pm – Burnside High School<br />
• Tuesday 2nd April, 7pm – 8pm – Linwood College<br />
• Thursday 4th April, 6.30pm – 7.30pm – Mairehau High School<br />
• Wednesday 10th April, 6pm – 7pm – Haeata Community Campus<br />
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Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 5<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
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Bumper stickers shift spat up a gear<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
FREE SPEECH: Halswell resident Greig Russell was removed<br />
from the Halswell Community Group Facebook page when he<br />
posted a mobile number online. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
OUTSPOKEN Halswell resident<br />
Greig Russell has always believed<br />
in the power of free speech.<br />
After being removed from a<br />
community Facebook page in<br />
Halswell of nearly 11,000 members<br />
for posting a mobile number<br />
online, the 40-year-old steel<br />
fabricator has taken a stand on<br />
people having the right to speak<br />
their mind.<br />
Mr Russell set up his own<br />
community Facebook page called<br />
Halswell Community Page Uncensored<br />
after falling out with the<br />
administrators of the Halswell<br />
Community Group page.<br />
Now bumper stickers with<br />
#bringbackgreigrussell and<br />
#LETSMAKEHALSWELL-<br />
GREATAGAIN have begun to<br />
appear around the suburb.<br />
Mr Russell said the idea is to<br />
spread the message of free speech.<br />
The bumper stickers have appeared<br />
on the back of cars, on<br />
children’s school bags and even<br />
on community food shelf the<br />
Sharing Shack in Halswell.<br />
Halswell Community Project<br />
chairwoman and one of the administrators<br />
Chrys Horn said Mr<br />
Russell won’t be added back into<br />
the group until he can prove he<br />
can behave on the page.<br />
“If he has merchandise he<br />
Greig Russell Chrys Horn<br />
obviously doesn’t know when to<br />
stop . . . our Facebook team still<br />
feel fairly harassed, we have now<br />
quietly got rid of him,” she said.<br />
Mr Russell said everyone, part<br />
of a community, has got a different<br />
opinion and it wasn’t right for a<br />
group of administrators to decide<br />
what people should see or read.<br />
“In a roundabout way, you<br />
could say it is an abuse of power<br />
because they are dictating to<br />
others what they can and cannot<br />
read about the community.”<br />
But Dr Horn said the group<br />
could not be seen as dictators.<br />
“We have a responsibility to<br />
manage this page and people are<br />
voting with their feet in terms<br />
of participating on it . . . nearly<br />
10,000 people are active on it.”<br />
Mr Russell was removed from<br />
the Halswell Community Group<br />
when he posted a mobile phone<br />
number online.<br />
He had helped a group of men<br />
stranded in Greta Valley with a flat<br />
tyre by allowing them to borrow<br />
his spare. One of the men gave him<br />
his phone number and promised to<br />
return the spare tyre the next day.<br />
But nothing eventuated and Mr<br />
Russell’s calls were blocked.<br />
To pressure the man, he asked<br />
members of the Halswell Community<br />
Group to phone the<br />
number and ask for the wheel’s<br />
return. It was returned after<br />
several weeks.<br />
Dr Horn said: “It is not legal to<br />
post somebody’s phone number<br />
and to get complete strangers<br />
to ring them up on your behalf<br />
when there is no evidence that<br />
what you said is what went. That<br />
is harassment.”<br />
Mr Russell said it was not<br />
harassment, it was asking for a<br />
favour from the community.<br />
Since starting his own Facebook<br />
page, Mr Russell, who has lived<br />
in Halswell, has been asked by<br />
several residents to run for mayor<br />
for the elections in October.<br />
“I am seriously thinking about<br />
putting my name in the ballot<br />
. . . Tim Shadbolt does it, he is all<br />
right. I like him,” he said.<br />
Dr Horn said while she<br />
wouldn’t vote for Mr Russell,<br />
he would be very good at<br />
campaigning and if the public<br />
wanted a mayor who knew how<br />
to make a “loud noise,” he could<br />
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News<br />
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News<br />
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Historic lodge<br />
Dry ground poses injury risk<br />
to be repaired<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
ONE OF the city’s oldest domestic<br />
buildings, located on Racecourse<br />
Rd, will be able to be lived in again<br />
after being unoccupied for about<br />
four years.<br />
The city council will carry out<br />
earthquake repairs on the historical<br />
Chokebore Lodge.<br />
Built in the 1850s, the lodge was<br />
sold to horse trainer and breeder<br />
Henry Redwood, who was later<br />
dubbed the father of New Zealand<br />
racing.<br />
Though Mr Redwood remained<br />
in Nelson, horses were trained at<br />
Chokebore by jockey and trainer<br />
Edward Cutts.<br />
City council capital delivery<br />
community manager Darren<br />
Moses said while a contractor<br />
needs to be engaged to provide<br />
a programme on the repairs, the<br />
preliminary date for handover is<br />
October next year.<br />
Following the February 22, 2011,<br />
earthquake, the previous tenant<br />
was required to leave as the building<br />
was below 34 per cent New<br />
Building Standard.<br />
There was a severe failing of the<br />
western and northern cob walls<br />
and repair work is required to<br />
the other cob walls but to a lesser<br />
extent.<br />
The project will cost $1.17 million.<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
RELIEF IS under way for the<br />
bone dry McCormacks Bay<br />
sports field.<br />
The city council has fixed the<br />
broken irrigation system which<br />
led to the field deteriorating over<br />
the summer.<br />
But the fix has come too late<br />
for Sumner Rugby Football Club<br />
which wanted to use the ground<br />
for its pre-season training.<br />
Rugby development officer<br />
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Ferrymead Bays FC’s luscious<br />
training pitch at Barnett Park.<br />
“If you were comparing apples<br />
with apples, our one would be a<br />
bit of a rotten one,” he said.<br />
Mr Tahere said the<br />
McCormacks Bay sports field<br />
was dry and solid posing a<br />
potential injury risk.<br />
He suspected the field had<br />
not been watered for six months<br />
before city council completed<br />
repairs of the irrigation system<br />
and watered the fields last week.<br />
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of community parks Al Hardy<br />
said it was difficult to know<br />
how long the issues with the<br />
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Beach access one step further forward<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
THE FIRST set of permanent<br />
access steps between the planned<br />
Coastal Pathway and Sumner<br />
beach have been completed.<br />
Work on the second steps<br />
started at the end of February.<br />
City council transport<br />
planning and delivery manager<br />
Lynette Ellis said work on the<br />
4m-wide Coastal Pathway<br />
would start this month once the<br />
rock revetment wall had been<br />
completed.<br />
One crew is currently<br />
working on the Shag Rock<br />
end of the rock revetment<br />
wall towards Gollans Point,<br />
and another crew is working<br />
from the Sumner Surf<br />
Lifesaving Club towards the<br />
other crew.<br />
The rock revetment wall<br />
has been designed to provide<br />
coastal protection to Main Rd,<br />
as well as to support the Coastal<br />
Pathway which will run along<br />
the top.<br />
“The asphalt path will<br />
run between Shag Rock and<br />
Gollans Point, and will then<br />
transition to a boardwalk along<br />
the front of the car park and<br />
the Sumner Surf Lifesaving<br />
Club where it connects with the<br />
EASY ACCESS: Sumner resident Kate Livingston walks up the new beach steps.<br />
existing memorial walkway,” she<br />
said.<br />
Landscaping, planting and<br />
lighting improvements are also<br />
part of the project which is on<br />
schedule to be completed by mid-<br />
October.<br />
The cost of this section of<br />
the Coastal Pathway project<br />
is approximately $6 million.<br />
Once complete the pathway will<br />
run between Ferrymead Bridge<br />
and Scarborough Beach in<br />
Sumner.<br />
The sections between<br />
Ferrymead Bridge and Redcliffs<br />
have been completed and are<br />
operational.<br />
Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
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Darrell Latham said he<br />
was delighted to see things<br />
progressing.<br />
“I am aware of some<br />
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• By Louis Day<br />
WHOLESALE changes loom for<br />
the Banks Peninsula Community<br />
Board.<br />
Five members of the board<br />
may not stand in October’s local<br />
body elections due to concerns<br />
over the money board members<br />
receive and the time pressures<br />
they face.<br />
Chairwoman Pam Richardson,<br />
and members Jed O’Donoghue,<br />
Janis Haley and John McLister<br />
told <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>View</strong> they are<br />
unlikely to run in the next<br />
election, while Felix Dawson said<br />
he has not made a commitment<br />
to run yet.<br />
Tori Peden said she plans to<br />
run again while newly-appointed<br />
deputy chairman Tyrone Fields<br />
said he would run if he was<br />
selected.<br />
The pay rates for the mayor,<br />
city councillors and community<br />
board members are currently set<br />
by the Remuneration Authority<br />
using a population-based<br />
model, so boards in areas with<br />
bigger populations get better<br />
remuneration.<br />
Banks Peninsula board<br />
members – excluding the chair,<br />
deputy chair and city councillors<br />
– receive $9670 a year.<br />
That is less than half the<br />
$24,098 paid to Halswell-<br />
STAY OR GO: The Banks Peninsula Community Board – which is made up of Andrew Turner,<br />
Felix Dawson, Janis Haley, Jed O’Donoghue, John McLister, Pam Richardson, Tori Peden and<br />
Tyrone Fields – may have some new faces after the local body elections in October.<br />
Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />
Board members.<br />
Ms Richardson is paid<br />
$19,342, while Halswell-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton chairman Mike Mora<br />
is paid $48,196.<br />
City council secretary Jo Daly<br />
said the Remuneration Authority<br />
has indicated it would be taking a<br />
new approach following the local<br />
body elections this year.<br />
However, Remuneration<br />
Authority director Mike Kunz<br />
said no decisions regarding the<br />
remuneration of community board<br />
members had been made yet.<br />
Rev McLister said he will not<br />
be run again due to the lack of<br />
remuneration for members.<br />
“It is simply the wrong<br />
mechanism to judge what a<br />
Banks Peninsula Community<br />
Board member has to do. We<br />
have big problems, we are bigger<br />
than the city and we have to<br />
travel more than anyone else,”<br />
Rev McLister said.<br />
Deputy mayor and<br />
Banks Peninsula councillor<br />
Andrew Turner agreed the<br />
population-based model was<br />
not an appropriate system of<br />
remunerating board members.<br />
“It makes the assumption<br />
that the work of a community<br />
board member is directly<br />
proportionate to the number of<br />
people that they represent and<br />
fails to address the issues for a<br />
place like the Banks Peninsula,”<br />
he said.<br />
Ms Richardson also did not<br />
support the population-basedmodel<br />
for remuneration and<br />
said she is stepping down after<br />
nine years because she wants<br />
to spend more time with her<br />
family.<br />
“My reason for standing<br />
down is that I have done three<br />
terms and I want to spend time<br />
with my family and grandson,<br />
which I have not been able to<br />
do as much as I would like,” she<br />
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Mr O’Donogue, who can<br />
sometimes work 40-50 hours<br />
a week as a train driver for<br />
KiwiRail, said he would be<br />
stepping down due to his<br />
commitments on the community<br />
board costing him 20 days of<br />
annual leave a year.<br />
Mr O’Donoghue also said the<br />
current remuneration rate was a<br />
“barricade to democracy.”<br />
“It is almost a realm exclusively<br />
for the independently wealthy<br />
or semi-retired, which is not<br />
representative of the whole<br />
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Ms Richardson said if board<br />
members were better remunerated<br />
it would open up the role to a<br />
wider range of people.<br />
“We need to look at the<br />
remuneration model so we can<br />
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• By Jess Gibson<br />
AFTER A lifetime of low<br />
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Now the 33-year-old<br />
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Mrs White decided to focus on<br />
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Mrs White is now positive she<br />
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MOTOR-CYCLISTS hooning<br />
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edge and through popular red<br />
zone walking tracks are putting<br />
lives in danger.<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board deputy chairman Tim<br />
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waiting to happen, but there<br />
is currently no signage to say<br />
motor-cycles are banned in the<br />
areas.<br />
Land Information New Zealand,<br />
which is responsible for the<br />
red zone, agreed motor-cycles<br />
should not be ridden in the area.<br />
However, Mr Sintes has been<br />
asking LINZ to install “no motor-cycle”<br />
signage for six years<br />
and nothing has been done.<br />
LINZ’s Christchurch land and<br />
property group manager Jeremy<br />
Barr said a staff member was on<br />
site on Friday looking at options<br />
for installing ‘no motor-cycle’<br />
signage. He said LINZ will continue<br />
its conversation with the<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board.<br />
Mr Sintes hopes these<br />
conversations will lead to action,<br />
but said he is disappointed it has<br />
taken so long for new signage to<br />
be seriously considered.<br />
Mr Sintes said if nothing is<br />
done to stop motor-cyclists<br />
riding through the areas “there’s<br />
going to be fisticuffs.”<br />
“There’s been a bit of an<br />
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increase in it happening and<br />
it’s just a bit of a concern that<br />
residents might take things into<br />
their own hands and it might get<br />
out of control.”<br />
“It’s a very, very popular<br />
walkway and cycleway with<br />
families and, if you get a motor<br />
bike hooning down there,<br />
it’s very dangerous and then<br />
occasionally we get one hooning<br />
down to the estuary.”<br />
Said Mr Barr: “We are aware<br />
of the issue of motor-cyclists<br />
using walking tracks in the<br />
Southshore red zone and estuary<br />
area. We have had complaints<br />
about this in the past.”<br />
Mr Barr said LINZ has put<br />
measures in place to try and stop<br />
the problem, but they had not<br />
been effective.<br />
“There is signage in place that<br />
says no unauthorised access, and<br />
our security guards regularly<br />
patrol that area. They have in<br />
the past asked motor-cyclists to<br />
move on. This, unfortunately,<br />
has only temporarily addressed<br />
the issue.”<br />
Mr Sintes said some motorcyclists<br />
had intimidated walkers<br />
in the past when they had been<br />
asked to get off their bikes.<br />
“Invariably they get pretty<br />
aggressive . . . it’s not pleasant for<br />
anyone. They went down there<br />
for a walk, not an argument.”<br />
He said it shouldn’t have to<br />
come to this and LINZ should<br />
act on the issue now.<br />
HOONS:<br />
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Veteran New Brighton firefighter calls time<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
ALAN HICKMAN was sick of<br />
constantly being woken up by the<br />
alarms going off at the fire station<br />
a couple of doors down from his<br />
house.<br />
So the then 27-year-old decided<br />
he might as well sign up for<br />
volunteer service at the old New<br />
Brighton Fire Station.<br />
Now at age 68, Mr Hickman<br />
will soon retire after more than<br />
41 years of fighting fires.<br />
Starting off as a volunteer in<br />
1977, Mr Hickman remained at<br />
his job as a property officer for<br />
the Education Department (now<br />
the Ministry of Education).<br />
In 1981, he began moving<br />
up the ranks as a volunteer,<br />
becoming a senior firefighter and<br />
then station officer in 1994.<br />
Then in 1999, Mr Hickman<br />
became the volunteer district<br />
support officer for the New<br />
Brighton station, in Hawke St,<br />
which was a paid role, while he<br />
also continued as a volunteer.<br />
He was joined by long-time<br />
friend Dave Chivers in the role.<br />
In 2008, he became deputy<br />
chief at the station.<br />
Then in 20<strong>12</strong>, he moved into<br />
the Christchurch City Fire<br />
Station metro area office, where<br />
he supported four brigades –<br />
New Brighton, Brooklands,<br />
Sumner and Lyttelton.<br />
It wasn’t until 2013 that he<br />
retired from being a volunteer<br />
and continued as a career staff<br />
member.<br />
“I decided that working 24<br />
hours a day was crazy.”<br />
He can still recall the first ever<br />
house fire he entered on New<br />
Brighton Rd and admits it was<br />
“pretty neat.”<br />
“I was fascinated by it,<br />
I didn’t know what to expect,” he<br />
said.<br />
“I managed to get a direct<br />
hit on the home’s power board<br />
with my hose. It exploded and<br />
there was a blinding blue flash. I<br />
thought, wow, this is what it is all<br />
about.”<br />
Ample training had prepared<br />
Mr Hickman for this moment,<br />
particularly the ‘safe person<br />
concept’.<br />
“You risk a little to save a lot.<br />
You don’t risk a lot to save a<br />
little.”<br />
Mr Hickman was buying<br />
lunch on Bower Ave when the<br />
February 22, 2011, earthquake<br />
hit. He raced back to the station<br />
and the crew “self-responded”<br />
HEROES: Alan<br />
Hickman (fourth<br />
from left),<br />
wearing his<br />
Gold Star Award<br />
for 25 years<br />
of service,<br />
with other<br />
volunteers at<br />
the old New<br />
Brighton Fire<br />
Station.<br />
and headed to North Beach Fish<br />
Supply, where the roof had caved<br />
in.<br />
The owner had got out alive,<br />
luckily. Little did Mr Hickman<br />
know, his home on Waitaki Ave,<br />
Bexley, had been destroyed by<br />
liquefaction and was structurally<br />
unsound.<br />
“It was stuffed. So my family<br />
and I moved into the station<br />
. . . it was fun, it was different, but<br />
we had things highly organised.”<br />
Mr Hickman slept on the<br />
floor in the storeroom of the<br />
station, which was running on<br />
a small amount of power from a<br />
generator and no water.<br />
The crew’s main jobs were to<br />
ensure buildings were made safe<br />
and chimneys were knocked<br />
down. The generosity of people<br />
during the time “amazed him.”<br />
“People would stop us<br />
everywhere just to give us food or<br />
baking.”<br />
While fighting fires, Mr<br />
Hickman has rescued numerous<br />
horses, cows, rabbits, cats and<br />
dogs and has seen some “pretty<br />
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providing<br />
operational<br />
support.<br />
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HUNTER<br />
horrific” car accidents.<br />
“You just have to get on with it<br />
and deal with the job,” he said.<br />
During the devastating 2017<br />
Port Hills fires, Mr Hickman<br />
worked behind the scenes,<br />
ensuring all brigades were<br />
supported with the resources<br />
they needed.<br />
Mr Chivers and Mr Hickman<br />
became friends when they met<br />
as volunteers and have fought<br />
“thousands of fires since.”<br />
“At one point, we were<br />
attending more than 500 fires<br />
a year. I’ve made a lifetime of<br />
friends. I don’t want to mention<br />
any more names, I’ll miss<br />
someone out and then I’ll hear<br />
about it,” he said.<br />
A career highlight was in 2002,<br />
when Mr Hickman received a<br />
Gold Star Award for 25 years of<br />
service. Although he will retire<br />
soon, Mr Hickman plans to<br />
continue volunteering for the<br />
New Brighton brigade, now based<br />
at the Anzac Fire Station on<br />
Anzac Drive, doing operational<br />
support.<br />
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Family’s struggle to get ballerina to New York<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
WOOLSTON’S Mileena Allan-<br />
Griffiths wants to become a<br />
professional ballerina and her<br />
parents aren’t letting anything<br />
get in her way – not even their<br />
financial struggle.<br />
Her mother and father,<br />
Marianne Allan and Richard<br />
Griffiths, have maxed out credit<br />
cards and are spending<br />
all their spare time<br />
fundraising in a bid to get<br />
their 11-year-old to New<br />
York, not once but twice.<br />
Mr Griffiths is working<br />
70 hours a week at his<br />
business just to make<br />
ends meet. Mrs Allan has<br />
taken up an extra<br />
Marianne<br />
Allan<br />
cleaning job, which Mileena and<br />
her 10-year-old sister Arawyn help<br />
out with.<br />
“They’re really good at cleaning<br />
toilets,” she said.<br />
But Mrs Allan said the family<br />
would do anything to raise<br />
the $31,000 needed to get their<br />
daughter to New York. Mileena is<br />
one of four girls from Canterbury<br />
Ballet selected to compete at the<br />
Youth America Grand Prix Ballet<br />
competition next month.<br />
Alongside Mileena, Sonia<br />
Woods, Ashley Woods and<br />
Poppie Belle Hollander were<br />
selected from Canterbury Ballet.<br />
Canterbury Ballet director<br />
Taisia Missevich said it was<br />
“phenomenal” to have four dancers<br />
accepted. “Last year only three<br />
were accepted into the finals from<br />
the whole of Australia. We are<br />
feeling very blessed having four<br />
from one school accepted.”<br />
The competition is the most<br />
elite in the world – dubbed the<br />
Olympics of ballet – with about<br />
10,000 dancers entering, but<br />
only three per cent accepted<br />
worldwide.<br />
Another <strong>12</strong> dancers<br />
from the school have been<br />
accepted into programmes,<br />
and Missevich said it was<br />
amazing having girls going to<br />
companies all over the world.<br />
Mileena will head back to<br />
New York to attend the American<br />
Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive<br />
workshop for seven weeks in June.<br />
“We’re sacrificing a lot for her<br />
to get there,” Mrs Allan said. “But<br />
we’re going to make it happen.”<br />
The first $9000 trip for <strong>12</strong><br />
days from April 10-22 has been<br />
put on an interest-free credit<br />
card. They found the cheapest<br />
accommodation available at<br />
$100USD a night.<br />
“It’s a two and a half hour<br />
trip into New York where the<br />
competition is,” Mrs Allan said.<br />
The second trip will be for two<br />
months, from June 24 to July 6,<br />
and will come at a cost of more<br />
than $22,000. A pair of pointe<br />
shoes worn by ballerinas also costs<br />
more than $600.<br />
“We’ve done a couple of<br />
sausage sizzles, sold daffodils<br />
and cupcakes. The girls help out<br />
wherever they can. My husband<br />
is working 70 hour weeks at the<br />
moment. He didn’t get into bed<br />
until 4.30am yesterday,” Mrs Allan<br />
said.<br />
“But with the girls, I always<br />
thought if I could find their<br />
passion then life would be easy for<br />
them . . . it’s worth it.”<br />
Mileena received a $1000 grant<br />
through the Linwood-Central-<br />
Heathcote Community Board<br />
and the family is in the process of<br />
applying for funding through Ngai<br />
Tahu.<br />
She has been doing ballet since<br />
she was seven. She has lessons five<br />
days a week and attends private<br />
classes. However, she does less<br />
than half the classes that her peers<br />
do because the family is unable to<br />
afford extra lessons.<br />
“She does 10 hours a week of<br />
lessons, where most girls her age<br />
do well over 20.”<br />
Mileena said when she found<br />
out she had been accepted to go to<br />
New York, she was “really excited.”<br />
“I think it would be amazing to<br />
be a ballerina and perform for lots<br />
of people.”<br />
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Email georgia.oconnor@starmedia.kiwi<br />
by 5pm each Wednesday<br />
JP Clinic<br />
Today, 10am-1pm<br />
A justice of the peace is available<br />
to witness signatures, certify<br />
documents, take oaths, declarations,<br />
affidavits or affirmations,<br />
applications for citizenship or<br />
rates rebates.<br />
South, Linwood and Halswell<br />
Libraries<br />
Technology Help Drop in<br />
Sessions<br />
Today, 10.30-11.30am<br />
These free drop in sessions are<br />
available to help you with specific<br />
issues such as using email,<br />
searching the internet, using the<br />
library catalogue, using electronic<br />
resources and any other<br />
general computer related queries.<br />
Go along with your laptop, tablet,<br />
smartphone or use one of the library’s<br />
desktop computers if you<br />
need help with anything digital.<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Wa Pepi/Babytimes<br />
Today, 11-11.30am<br />
Encourage learning through<br />
language. Wā Pēpi/Babytimes<br />
is an interactive programme<br />
including music, movement,<br />
rhymes and a story. Recommended<br />
for under twos.<br />
South and Halswell Libraries<br />
Knit ’n’ Yarn<br />
Wednesday, 10.30am-1pm<br />
Head down to Linwood Library<br />
for the craft corner sessions. Take<br />
your knitting, crochet or other<br />
craft project. Free and beginners<br />
are welcome.<br />
Linwood Library<br />
Creative Writing on Wednesdays<br />
Wednesday, 4-5pm<br />
Group leaders work with members<br />
to craft, create and develop<br />
their own work. Take along pens,<br />
laptops, paper and any ideas for<br />
story-telling.<br />
Linwood Library<br />
Rummikub Club<br />
Thursday, 10am-noon<br />
Go along and join in a game of<br />
Rummikub, a tile-based game for<br />
two to four players, which combines<br />
elements of the card game<br />
rummy and Mahjong.<br />
Linwood Library<br />
RoboFun for Adults<br />
Thursday, 10-11.30am<br />
Explore the world of robotics,<br />
electronics and programming<br />
in this introductory course. No<br />
bookings required and its held in<br />
the young adult area.<br />
South Library<br />
Game Zone @ Linwood<br />
Library<br />
Thursday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
Go to Linwood Library for an<br />
READiscover your local park storytimes. As part of Parks Week, the city council is hosting a<br />
special storytimes session in the great outdoors. Take along a picnic rug or cushions and wear<br />
your sunhat with park rangers. Barrington Park, Friday, 10.30-11am.<br />
hour of fun on a Thursday afternoon<br />
to play great favourites like<br />
Minecraft, charades, Connect<br />
Four, Pictionary and more. Learn<br />
and develop strategies in new<br />
games such as Minute to Win It<br />
and build cool stuff with<br />
Makerspace. All children aged<br />
eight to 13 welcome. No booking<br />
or payment required.<br />
Linwood Library<br />
Scrabble Club<br />
Friday, 10.30am-noon<br />
No obligation to go, just head<br />
down to join in friendly games of<br />
Scrabble.<br />
Linwood Library<br />
Spreydon Social Games Club<br />
Saturday, 10am-noon<br />
Go along for a friendly game<br />
or two – there is Upwords,<br />
Scrabble, cards, chess and Mahjong.<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Makerspace<br />
Saturday, 1.30-3pm<br />
Every week there will be a creative<br />
or tech activity to try for kids<br />
of all ages.<br />
Te Hapua: Halswell Centre<br />
Drop-in Chinese Art Club<br />
Sunday, 10.30am-noon<br />
Take along brushes, ink,<br />
paint and paper. Join the club<br />
and work on calligraphy and<br />
brush painting for ages 10 and<br />
up.<br />
Te Hapua: Halswell Centre<br />
Chinese ESOL Club for<br />
Intermediate<br />
Monday, 9.30-10.30am<br />
This club is for Mandarin<br />
speakers who would like to<br />
practice English in a relaxed and<br />
pressure-free environment. Go<br />
along and join the friendly group<br />
any time. Free and no bookings<br />
are required.<br />
Te Hapua: Halswell Centre<br />
Social Games Morning<br />
Monday, 10.30am-noon<br />
Head down to Linwood Library<br />
for a game of Mahjong, draughts,<br />
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friends and meet some new ones.<br />
No bookings required.<br />
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REAL ESTATE<br />
Timeless style, modern delivery<br />
80C Hinau Street, Fendalton<br />
Auction: Thursday, 21 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2019</strong> Unless Sold Prior<br />
4 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | 3 toilets | 3 living rooms | 1 dining room | 1 office/study | 2 car-garage | Listing Number: PI57385<br />
This high-quality home has been crafted<br />
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A natural gathering place for family<br />
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granite and overlooks a light-filled living<br />
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where feature wallpaper and a dado rail<br />
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living room adds further flexibility. The<br />
master bedroom includes a tiled en suite<br />
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double bedrooms plus study share a family<br />
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Don’t miss the opportunity to make it<br />
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Auction date: Thursday 21 <strong>March</strong><br />
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Huggies Bulk Nappies<br />
or Ultimate Nappy<br />
Pants 26-54 Pack<br />
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more delivered to you!<br />
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FreshChoiceYourWay.co.nz<br />
Barrington<br />
Open 7am – 11pm, 7 days a week.<br />
City Market<br />
Open 7am – 9pm, 7 days a week.<br />
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Prices apply from Monday 11th <strong>March</strong> to Sunday 17th <strong>March</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, or while stocks last at FreshChoice City Market & Barrington only. Limits may apply.