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TUESDAY, MARCH <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2019</strong><br />

Connecting Your Community<br />

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End in site for<br />

Colombo St<br />

road works<br />

Page 3<br />

Relief for bone<br />

dry McCormacks<br />

Bay sports field<br />

Page 6<br />

Crusaders tackle snarlers at Linwood Coupland’s<br />

PHOTO: SOPHIE CORNISH<br />

Crusaders Oliver Jager, Quinten Strange and Tim Perry showed off their barbecue skills on Friday. They helped out<br />

at the opening of the relocated Coupland’s Bakeries store on the corner of Ferry and Aldwins Rds in Linwood. The<br />

store is running a competition to win bread for a year. To enter, pick up an entry form from the store.<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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2 Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

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IT’S ONLY taken six years, but finally<br />

the Government organisation which<br />

looks after the red zone has woken up to<br />

the need for “no motor-cycle” signs in<br />

Southshore.<br />

Local community board member Tim<br />

Sintes (see page 10) says people using the walking tracks and<br />

beach are in danger. He is worried there will be the odd punchup<br />

too as frustration grows.<br />

Sintes raises a valid point about the motor bikes. The sooner<br />

the signs are put up the better.<br />

And bad news for seagulls on page 3. The city council is looking<br />

at seagull-proof rubbish bins on the north and south ramps.<br />

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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 3<br />

News<br />

Colombo St roadworks almost finished<br />

Welcome<br />

relief for<br />

businesses<br />

• 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 />

Board chairwoman Karolin<br />

Potter said there has been a lot of<br />

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 />

so that work would not<br />

Karolin Potter<br />

BUSY: The<br />

roadworks on<br />

Colombo St<br />

will be finished<br />

in June, a year<br />

after the project<br />

was started.<br />

disrupt businesses over the busy<br />

summer period.”<br />

Work in front of Thorrington<br />

Primary School was also prioritised<br />

to have a pedestrian crossing<br />

installed by the start of the<br />

school term.<br />

“Two lanes of traffic in<br />

Colombo St has been maintained<br />

throughout the construction<br />

stage,” Mr Moore said.<br />

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Pleasant Point Yacht club has<br />

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its site in South New Brighton<br />

Domain. Two buildings<br />

previously used as makeshift<br />

lecture theatres at Canterbury<br />

University were shifted by crane<br />

on Tuesday and Thursday. The<br />

buildings are expected to be<br />

fully operational by July, with<br />

the club hoping to host an<br />

opening in September.<br />

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The habitat, biodiversity and<br />

amenity values in Halswell<br />

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council landscape plan is given<br />

the green light. The Halswell-<br />

Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />

Board will look to approve<br />

the West Broken Run Reserve<br />

Landscape Plan today.<br />

BIRD-PROOF BINS<br />

City council staff will be asked<br />

to consider installing seagullproof<br />

bins on New Brighton’s<br />

north and south ramps and<br />

south of the pier. The Coastal-<br />

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4 Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

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SOUTHERN VIEW<br />

News<br />

Bottle store on track to open<br />

at The Oaks Village Halswell<br />

•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 />

harm would be minimised<br />

by good amenity in the<br />

area and the position of the<br />

store within the development.<br />

•HAVE YOUR SAY: Are you<br />

concerned about another<br />

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Halswell? Email your views to<br />

georgia.oconnor@starmedia.<br />

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Farewell events to<br />

mark demolition<br />

of Linwood College<br />

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 />

Scheme Consultation<br />

Greater Christchurch state secondary school principals and<br />

boards of trustees have undertaken a joint effort to strengthen the<br />

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 />

survey to gather feedback can be found at:<br />

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 />

Similar content will be covered in all sessions, so feel free to<br />

attend whichever best suits your schedule.


SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 5<br />

Local<br />

News<br />

Now<br />

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 />

do it.<br />

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Worsleys Road<br />

Mount Pleasant Road<br />

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6 Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

SOUTHERN VIEW<br />

News<br />

Local<br />

News<br />

Now<br />

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 />

Riki Tahere was envious of<br />

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 />

However, city council manager<br />

of community parks Al Hardy<br />

said it was difficult to know<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 />

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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 />

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Sumner.<br />

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Ferrymead Bridge and Redcliffs<br />

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Local<br />

News<br />

Now<br />

Community board changes on horizon<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

• 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 />

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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 />

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KiwiRail, said he would be<br />

stepping down due to his<br />

commitments on the community<br />

board costing him 20 days of<br />

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Mr O’Donoghue also said the<br />

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“It is almost a realm exclusively<br />

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Ms Richardson said if board<br />

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• By Jess Gibson<br />

AFTER A lifetime of low<br />

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Mrs White decided to focus on<br />

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MOTOR-CYCLISTS hooning<br />

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Coastal-Burwood Community<br />

Board deputy chairman Tim<br />

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areas.<br />

Land Information New Zealand,<br />

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asking LINZ to install “no motor-cycle”<br />

signage for six years<br />

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LINZ’s Christchurch land and<br />

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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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Bid to stop motor<br />

bikes hooning<br />

along estuary edge<br />

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 />

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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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HUNTER<br />

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“You just have to get on with it<br />

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During the devastating 2017<br />

Port Hills fires, Mr Hickman<br />

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they needed.<br />

Mr Chivers and Mr Hickman<br />

became friends when they met<br />

as volunteers and have fought<br />

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a year. I’ve made a lifetime of<br />

friends. I don’t want to mention<br />

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someone out and then I’ll hear<br />

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A career highlight was in 2002,<br />

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Gold Star Award for 25 years of<br />

service. Although he will retire<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 />

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worldwide.<br />

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amazing having girls going to<br />

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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 />

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“It’s a two and a half hour<br />

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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 />

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and cupcakes. The girls help out<br />

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is working 70 hour weeks at the<br />

moment. He didn’t get into bed<br />

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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 />

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Today, 10am-1pm<br />

A justice of the peace is available<br />

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Libraries<br />

Technology Help Drop in<br />

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Today, 10.30-11.30am<br />

These free drop in sessions are<br />

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Go along with your laptop, tablet,<br />

smartphone or use one of the library’s<br />

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Spreydon Library<br />

Wa Pepi/Babytimes<br />

Today, 11-11.30am<br />

Encourage learning through<br />

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for under twos.<br />

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Wednesday, 10.30am-1pm<br />

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Wednesday, 4-5pm<br />

Group leaders work with members<br />

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laptops, paper and any ideas for<br />

story-telling.<br />

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Rummikub Club<br />

Thursday, 10am-noon<br />

Go along and join in a game of<br />

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two to four players, which combines<br />

elements of the card game<br />

rummy and Mahjong.<br />

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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 />

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Game Zone @ Linwood<br />

Library<br />

Thursday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />

Go to Linwood Library for an<br />

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and build cool stuff with<br />

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Friday, 10.30am-noon<br />

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$<br />

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Huggies Bulk Nappies<br />

or Ultimate Nappy<br />

Pants 26-54 Pack<br />

Get these deals and<br />

more delivered to you!<br />

Shop online now at<br />

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 />

FreshChoiceNZ<br />

OWNED &<br />

OPERATED BY<br />

LOCALS<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.

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