The Star: April 25, 2019

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ANZAC DAY | Thursday, April 25, 2019 

Lest we forget 

He was only 16 

adventure beckoned 

He never came home 

Geoffrey Bargrove always wanted to go to 

sea. The boy from New Brighton got his 

chance in World War 1. But in the early 

hours of November 19, 1917, his ship the 

S.S. Aparima was sunk by a German 

U-boat. He was one of 56 on the vessel 

who perished. Story pages 4, 5 & 6

Mixed 

reaction 

to bold 

new plan 

Female 

pa senger 

in lucky 

escape 

• By Ba ry Clarke and Emily 

O’Co ne l 

woman were unhurt. 

found guilty of the manslaughter on bail for other charges a the stomped on in a Timaru str et. betw en one of the men found 

of Timaru Wayne Ke ry time of the a tack on Mr Bray. Mr Bray walked past guilty and Mr Bray which led to 

Bray 2 09. Jamieson received Mr Bray, 26, died four days property where there had b en a the a tack. 

a nine-year jail sentence. He was after he was punched, kicked and party. There had b en bad bl od •Turn to page 6 

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• By Bridget Rutherford 

PROMINENT Cantabrians 

have given a mixed response to 

the po sible futuristic l ok of 

Cathedral Square. 

Plans for wha the Square 

could ok like were released 

by Regenerate Christchurch 

yesterday after seven years of 

debate and controversy the 

slow progre s of the rebuild. 

It includes thr e covered 

pavilions, which would have 

a “la tice-style” translucent 

r of, which could host markets 

and other events. 

FUTURISTIC: Plans released yesterday sho what Cathedral Square could ok like. 

The long-term vision, which is 

estimated to cost betw en $60- 

$80 mi lion, aims to bring people 

“I’m confident Regenerate 

back into the area, through a 

Christchurch’s vision wi l a low 

series of interco nected public 

this to ha pen.” 

spaces. 

City counci lor Deon Swi gs 

The vision for Square also 

said it would n ed to work 

includes Cathedral Gardens 

around other developments 

with tr and water features, 

such as Turanga, the Spark 

Post Office Place with events 

building, Aotea Gifts and the 

and m eting spaces, and Library 

restoration of Christ Church 

Plaza with other people-friendly 

Cathedral. 

areas. 

“We’ve go to l ok at what is 

Former mayor Ga ry M ore 

ha pening, what’s in the vision 

said the plan was “bri liant” 

and what can we deliver.” 

while developer Ernest Duval 

City counci lor Jamie Gough 

was not fu sed by the pavilions. city council and stakeholders to be n eded. 

think of the central city as said it was g od starting 

The next step is for a delivery determine what could be done, Mayor Lia ne Dalziel said destination and residential point. 

strategy to be developed with the when, and what funding would the vision would hel people neighbourh od. 

•Turn to page 5 

Lia ne Dalziel Ga ry M ore Jamie Gough Vicki Buck 

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POLICE HAVE found two bank 

account numbers in their hunt 

for a con man who falsely said 

gangs would hur their families if 

people didn’t pay up. 

Senior Constable Wayne 

Stapley said two of the victims 

had been given two bank account 

numbers to put money into. 

Police had checked one, and 

The Square: Is this the future? 

A CONVICTED ki ler is back 

behind bars after a spectacular 

crash while a legedly fl eing 

police. 

John Oliver Jamieson’s Subaru 

Forester crashed through the 

Ro leston dog park fence on 

Saturday. 

A spear-like fence post 

smashed through the window 

scr e na rowly mi sing a 

woman in the pa senger seat. 

Miraculously Jamieson and the 

He had earlier b en recorded 

driving at 180km/h on State 

Highway 1. 

A cut-down rifle was later 

found by police in the vehicle. 

Startle dog walker said 

Jamieson ran a short distance 

from the vehicle before sto ping 

to s e if the woman in the vehicle 

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Police a rived s on after and 

he was a prehended. 

Jamieson was one of six men 

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“He swears black and blue it 

Senior Constable Stapley would wasn’t him and he doesn’t have 

not comment on wha the investigation 

into the first account more,” he said. 

the cell phone numbers any- 

number revealed. 

“We have to find out where 

He said two phone numbers, these phones are and tie them up 

connected to the same person, with the bank accounts.” 

led police to a suspect who had Police have received 21 complaints 

from Christchurch people 

been interviewed and denied any 

involvement. 

targeted by the sinister scam. 

The Star understands a teen- 

It involved phone calls and 

FINALLY THE sun is shining 

on Christchurch Hospital 

patients and visitors after a 

year-long campaign by 

The Star. 

The Canterbury District 

Health Board has agreed to 

move its park and ride service 

from the appalling flood prone 

Deans Ave site to the city 

council’s 805-space Lichfield St 

car park on July 2. 

Since last winter, The Star has 

ben hammering the Ministry 

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his house down and harm his 

family. The con man says they Senior Constable Stapley said 

are watching the victims’ families none of the people who had gone 

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Said The Star editor in chief 

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It had nearly reached $2.34 for 

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NEWS 3 

in brief 

Annual plan under 

council consideration 

City councillors will consider 

this year’s draft Annual Plan 

next week. Public submissions 

on the plan, which lays out the 

council’s funding and projects 

for the next year, are being held 

on Tuesday and Wednesday 

before the plan is finalised. There 

are a number of submitters 

including the city’s community 

boards, the Canterbury 

Museum, the Central City 

Business Association and 

Selwyn District Council. 

ECan bid for water opponent 

• By Jess Gibson 

A KEY FIGURE in contesting 

Environment Canterbury’s 

decision to grant resource 

consents to commercial water 

bottling companies will run for a 

seat on its council. 

Fendalton- Waimairi- 

Harewood Community Board 

member Aaron Campbell will 

stand for ECan’s West-Ōpuna 

seat in October, which covers the 

Halswell, Hornby, Waimairi and 

Harewood wards. 

Mr Campbell is a founding 

member of Aotearoa Water 

Action, which is taking High 

Court action against ECan 

and its decisions over consents 

issued to Cloud Ocean Water 

and Rapaki Natural Resources to 

take Christchurch water. 

The city council is giving AWA 

$50,000 to go towards the legal 

proceedings. 

But Mr Campbell said if he is 

elected he will “step back” from 

the table if any conflicts of interest 

were to arise and would not 

vote if a decision came across 

AWA and ECan. 

“I don’t see my position on 

AWA inhibiting my ability to 

run for ECan. In fact, I think 

it’s more favourable because 

people know where I stand,” he 

said. 

“Politicians can be members 

of a number of groups as long as 

they declare that interest. 

“I’m not making money or losing 

money for [AWA], it’s purely 

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But he said the problems ECan is 

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“[ECan] is where I can 

contribute the most,” Mr 

Campbell said. 

Mr Campbell will campaign as 

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He said he will continue to 

focus on water as it is “this election’s 

hot-button issue.” 

“From water bottling to 

degradation of rivers, 

Cantabrians are saying 

enough,” he said. 

In addition to advocating increased 

protection for water and 

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change, Mr Campbell plans to 

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Mr Campbell said if he is 

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NEWS 


The tragic sinking of the Aparima: 


“TORPEDO SIR! The stern’s 

blown off, sir! Oh Lord – the poor 

boys!” 

It was 12.52am, November 19, 

1917. 

A torpedo from the German 

submarine UB-40 had just struck 

the stern of the S.S Aparima near 

the Isle of Wright, off the south 

English coast. 

In command was Captain 

Gerald F Doorly, who was 

thrown into the door of the chart 

room, listening to the shout from 

his second that they’d been hit. 

Below deck in the stern, young 

cadets, many of them just out of 

high school, had been sleeping. 

Of the 30 cadets on board, 

17 were killed, including three 

from Christchurch – Geoffrey 

Bargrove, 16, Donovan O’Bryen 

Hoare, 18, John Frederick 

Proudfoot, 16, and Ernest 

Sutherland (age unknown). 

There was a roar of rushing 

water and the stern sunk, sending 

the bow of the ship upwards. 

In a matter of minutes, the 

Aparima slipped below the 

surface. 

Bargrove had been on the 

vessel for less than three months. 

The Aparima was a New Zealand 

slow steamer used by the English 

admiralty to ferry cargo around 

the British coast. 

A year earlier, the Germans 

had started targeting merchant 

vessels, and parents of cadets 

were told they could take their 

sons off the ships. Many families 

didn’t; they did not want to be 

seen as letting their country 

down. 

The cadets were unpaid, 

instead gaining seagoing 

experience on the cargo steamer, 

as part of training for their threeyear 

cadetship. 

Captain Doorly had set the 

Aparima on a zig-zag course, as 

close to the coast as he dared, 

after being warned there had 

been a sighting of an enemy 

submarine near the French coast 

– and within striking distance. 

IN MEMORY: 

Jan Bargrove 

holding 

Geoffrey 

Bargrove’s 

memorial 

plaque, which 

was gifted 

to the family 

after he died 

when the 

S.S. Aparima 

was sunk by 

a German 

torpedo in 

1917. It was 

put inside a 

small ship’s 

wheel and 

made into an 

ornament. 

Submarine warfare was 

relatively new and the UB-40 was 

one of the best in the business. 

After the war, it would be 

revealed the submarine had sunk 

100 ships. 

The slow Aparima was easy 

pickings. Steaming at 12 knots, 

she had moved slowly from 

London to Barry in South Wales 

for coaling. She had no chance. 

Fifty-five were killed in 

the attack, including 24 New 

Zealanders. The crew also 

included men from Britain, India 

and Australia. 

Fifty-four – including Captain 

Doorly – survived, clinging to 

row boats and wreckage in the 

icy waters. There were 26 on one 

lifeboat and 17 on a gig boat. 

They rowed looking for other 

survivors, a bright blue flare went 

up and soon they found a raft. 

Clinging to it was Thomas 

Ewart Bevan, 15, of Wellington, 

the youngest cadet on the 

Aparima. 

Later he would describe being 

flung off this bunk when the 

torpedo hit. 

“Something hurled me out of 

my bunk into the sea, I thought. 

But in a moment I knew I was 

still in what was left of our cabin, 

because as I swirled round and 

round in water, I bumped against 

bunks.” 

Bevan survived by being 

sucked up a 3m ventilator in the 

centre of the cabin deckhead. He 

was shot up out of a cowl and 

landed on top of a life raft in the 

ocean. “It seems a wonderful 

thing, but it was on that raft; it 

must have slid off the boat deck 

and hit against the ventilator just 

as the stern began to sink.” 

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NEWS 5 

Torpedoed by a German U-boat 

Bevan later went on to become 

the Hawkes Bay harbourmaster. 

Bargrove’s death was a 

“devastating blow” for his New 

Brighton family. He was the 

youngest of four children. 

His parents lived in Seaview 

Rd, running the Bargroves 

Drapery and Clothing 

Emporium. 

He was survived by his brother 

Stanley, who was a radio operator 

during the war, 

and two sisters, 

Violet and Grace. 

Bargrove 

attended New 

Brighton District 

School, where he 

received prizes 

David East 

for attendance in 

1912 and 1913, 

and Christchurch Boys’ High 

School for one year. 

Coastal Ward city councillor 

David East is also a descendant of 

the Bargrove family. 

His grandfather was Stanley 

Bargrove, Geoffrey’s brother. 

“My great-grandparents were 

still alive (when Geoffrey passed). 

I think it was quite a devastating 

blow to the family. He was never 

really spoken of . . . for my greatgrandparents, 

it was a bitter 

blow.” 

“We never really found out a 

huge amount about the family 

. . . it was probably just how death 

TRAGIC LOSS: The S.S. Aparima (above) was hit by a 

torpedo from the UB-40, a German submarine similar to 

the UB-45 (below). The tragedy, which killed 56, happened 

on November 19, 1917. 

was treated in those days. You 

had a period of grieving and 

mourning for someone who was 

lost, but you didn’t commemorate 

it eternally afterwards,” East said. 

Due to the cadets being unpaid, 

their parents were unable to 

claim ‘Seaman’s Compensation’ 

from the Government. 

Hoare’s mother, Florence, 

How it impacted New Zealand 

•World War 1 (1914–1918) 

was one of the most 

significant events of the 

20th-century and had a 

seismic impact on New 

Zealand society. 

•The population of New 

Zealand in 1914 was 

1.1 million. 

•More than 120,000 New 

Zealanders enlisted and 

about 100,000 served 

overseas. 

•More than 18,000 died. 

There were also about 

40,000 hospitalisations due 

to injury or illness. 

•More than 2700 died at 

Gallipoli and almost 12,500 

on the Western Front. 

•Nearly every New Zealand 

family was affected by the 

impact of the war. 

said of the loss: “Although not 

actually a dependent, I was 

looking forward to the expiry of 

his three years’ cadetship when 

my son and only child would 

make such progress in life as to 

enable him to make some money 

spent on his education and later 

on help to keep me from poverty 

in old age.” 

Proudfoot’s mother, Mary 

Proudfoot, who was also a 

widow, said following his 

•More than 2200 Maori and 

about 460 Pacific Islanders 

served overseas with the 

New Zealand forces. 

•Eleven Victoria Crosses 

were won by soldiers 

serving with New Zealand 

forces. 

•At least 3370 New 

Zealanders served in 

the Australian or British 

Imperial forces, winning a 

further five Victoria Crosses. 

•In all, 500 nurses served 

with the New Zealand 

Expeditionary Force, and 

many others enlisted in the 

United Kingdom. 

•The names of those 

who died are recorded 

on about 500 civic war 

memorials throughout New 

Zealand. 

death “the awfulness of it is too 

dreadful.” 

“I wish to state that I am a 

widow without any means. This 

boy whom I have lost was an only 

child and I was expecting his 

assistance to help me in my old 

age.” 

Bargrove was posthumously 

awarded the British War Medal 

and the Mercantile Marine 

Medal. 


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Bargrove is commemorated at 

London’s Tower Hill Memorial 

for Merchant Marine casualties, 

along with Hoare and Proudfoot. 

There is no detail about 

Sutherland. 

The memorial is for those 

whose bodies were never 

recovered. 

Due to a lack of information 

available, it is unclear whether 

some of 

the other 

cadets were 

also from 

Christchurch. 

The next of 

kin of every 

person who 

died at sea 

during the 

war was given 

Geoffrey 

Bargrove 

a memorial 

plaque, also 

known as a 

‘dead man’s penny.’ 

Bargrove’s penny is now with 

one of his descendants in their 

Redcliffs home, overlooking the 

sea. 

Jan Bargrove’s late husband 

Robert, was a joiner and 

woodwork teacher and made an 

ornament out of it, by placing 

it inside a small wooden ship’s 

wheel. 

As for the Aparima, she lies 

on the seafloor, 42m deep off 

the south coast of England. It is 

possible to dive down to see the 

wreck. 

The UB-40, which had 

been under the command of 

Oberleutnant Hans Howaldt 

during the attack, was 

commissioned in August 1916. It 

was scuttled in the Belgian city of 


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Convicted killer 

to stay in prison 

after racist tirade 


AN ABUSIVE and racist 

tirade from a convicted killer 

caused his parole decision to be 

revoked. 

Mathew Albert Walsh was 

due to be released from prison 

last month for the fatal stabbing 

of Donald Linwood, 41, with 

a skinning knife at a family 

dinner party in Methven in 

January 2004. 

Walsh, who was 35 

at the time, stabbed Mr 

Linwood twice in the back, then 

kicked him in the head and 

dragged him into the gutter. 

Mr Linwood’s son Liam, 

who was 11-years-old at the 

time, witnessed the incident 

which unfolded following an 

argument between the two 

men. 

Walsh was granted parole 

in February and was due to be 

released on March 25. 

The facility he was to be 

paroled to then withdrew its 

consent after reports Walsh was 

“loud and abusive” to fellow 

prisoners. 

“Driving from the gatehouse 

to out the wire today, (Walsh) 

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made abusive, racial and 

derogatory comments 

about a fellow prisoner. 

When challenged by staff, 

he continued and escalated 

the nature of his comments, 

swearing at the prison staff,” the 

Parole Board heard 

Describing the behaviour as 

“intimidating and negative” 

concerns were raised about the 

safety of staff other residents at 

the facility. 

He will appear in front of the 

Parole Board again in May. 

In November 2017, he was 

caught smoking synthetic 

cannabis at Christchurch 

Men’s Prison with another 

convicted killer who had white 

supremacist gang links. 

Sensible Sentencing Trust 

spokeswoman Jess McVicar 

said Walsh should never have 

been granted parole. 

“He committed another 

crime while in prison and 

surely this should warrant 

losing a privilege such as a 

parole hearing six months after 

he was caught.” 

Miss McVicar said Walsh’s 

behaviour “shows no signs of 

being rehabilitated.” 

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Stoush over $5000 ‘ping-pong’ table 

• By Julia Evans and Jess 

Gibson 

HIGH PROFILE local body 

politician and public relations 

consultant Ali Jones has taken 

to Facebook to defend spending 

almost $5000 on a table. 

The Papanui- 

Innes Community 

Board 

chairwoman 

slammed 

Shirley resident 

Don Gould labelling 

his post 

Ali Jones 

Don Gould 

“social media 

trolling.” 

“I look 

forward to Mr 

Gould running 

for public office 

so he can put 

his immense 

experience 

and talents to 

use in real life 

rather than 

just as a keyboard warrior,” Ms 

Jones wrote on Facebook. 

The post was in response to 

Mr Gould lashing out at the cost 

of the table for the site of the former 

Shirley Community Centre 

in an article in Star Media’s 

community newspaper Nor’West 

News. 

Mr Gould said $5000 was 

too expensive for a “ping pong 

table”, but Ms Jones said it was 

WAR OF WORDS: Ali Jones has hit out online at criticism 

from Shirley resident Don Gould after the Papanui-Innes 

Community Board approved a $5000 table. 


more than that – it could also be 

used as a normal table. 

The board considered four 

options and opted for a $3175 

concrete table and $1500 for 

installation. The move came 

after Richmond resident Jennifer 

Dalziel raised concerns over 

a lack of seating at the Shirley 

Rd site – the board is now 

investigating getting seating for 

the table. 

But Mr Gould said it “isn’t 

what the community asked for.” 

“We have broken core basic 

infrastructure and its like you 

guys are having a party spending 

money on other things. 

It’s taken out of the rates from 

somewhere.” 

Mr Gould admitted he was 

a keyboard warrior and it was 

“appropriate and reasonable” for 

him to be called out. 

“My little soapbox is my 

Facebook page. I am a keyboard 

warrior. I type fast and I think 

you can tell I also think very fast 

. . . I post all the time ranting 

and raving,” he said. 

“Ali is possibly quite right, I 

didn’t attend the meeting so I 

could be ill-informed.” 

Ms Jones told The Star she had 

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Byrne, Pauline Cotter 

•Against – John Stringer, 

Mike Davidson 

•Absent – Emma 

Norrish 

“no problem with people posting 

disapproval” of board decisions. 

“But they need to be informed 

. . . I blocked him from my 

social media about a year ago 

because I found his uninformed 

attacks tiring.” 

Ms Jones also disputed the 

cost, as another $104 option did 

not include $1500 for installation. 

“The reason I voted for it 

because its more resilient, multiuse 

and relocatable and it can 

be used by a number of different 

groups,” she said. 

Board member Jo Byrne said 

she did not pay attention to the 

Facebook post. 

“He is a tricky customer 

though . . . I think in local government, 

you have to be careful 

not to just listen to the squeaky 

wheel.” 

But said she thought the 

table was a “great” use of 

money and would help improve 

the site. 

Board member John Stringer, 

who felt the table was too 

expensive, said he did not 

support Ms Jones’ reaction. 

NEWS 7 

Lancaster Park’s 

future takes 

another step 

• By Julia Evans and 

Sophie Cornish 

SPORTS CLUBS and community 

groups have met with the city 

council to discuss the future use 

of Lancaster Park. 

The earthquake-damaged stadium 

is being pulled down, with 

demolition work scheduled to be 

completed later this year. 

City council staff have been 

discussing the future of the park 

with Ngāi Tahu, the Crown, the 

Linwood-Central-Heathcote 

Community Board and other key 

stakeholders such as the Charleston 

Neighbourhood Association, 

Woolston Community Association, 

XCHC, Phillipstown Community 

Hub and the Christchurch 

Youth Council. 

The plan is for the park to be 

used for sport as there is a shortage 

of parks in the communities 

neighbouring Lancaster Park. 

However, the city council is 

asking the community what 

attributes it wants to see in the 

park. 

Sports clubs which have been 

involved are the Lancaster Park 

Cricket Club, Cashmere Technical 

Football Club and Sydenham and 

Otautahi rugby clubs. 

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Female police officers in short supply 


HOW MANY women feature in 

our police specialist squads? 

The answer is not many – and 

police admit they could do 

better. 

Female police officers make 

up less than 10 per cent of 

Canterbury Police specialist 

squads. 

Out of six specialised teams, 

female officers are only part of 

the police negotiation team, 

search and rescue and the 

specialist search group. 

The armed offenders, dogs 

and personal protection officer 

squads have no females. 

In total, there are 123 positions 

in the six squads and currently 

female officers take up 10 of them. 

Police deputy chief executive 

people and capability Kaye Ryan 

said the number of women 

currently in specialist roles is 

lower than police would like. 

“Work is currently being 

undertaken to identify, 

understand and address any 

barriers there may be to women 

applying to these roles,” she said. 

Ms Ryan said there are several 

reasons for the low numbers. 

“One possible explanation 

is that with the growth in the 

number of female officers in 

recent years, those officers have 

(on average) less experience. A 

number of the specialised groups 

tend to need more experienced 

officers.” 

In 2017 and 2018, no female 

officers applied for roles in the 

armed offenders squad, but this 

year so far five have applied. 

The dog squad has had no 

female applicants in the past two 

years. 

Only one person was appointed 

to a role in the police negotiation 

team in 2017 and 2018. 

In the personal protection 

officer squad for 2017, there 

were three applications from 

female officers, but no roles were 

appointed and only one applicant 

progressed through the selection 

process. In 2018, two female 

officers applied to be on the squad 

and they are currently going 

through the selection process. 

This squad provides personal 

security for both national and 

visiting diplomats and VIPs. 

Four female officers applied 

for the search and rescue squad, 

but none were appointed in 

2018, following no applicants or 

vacancies in 2017. 

Ms Ryan said she would expect 

more women to move into these 

squads over time. 

“Increasing the numbers of 

women serving in those groups 

is certainly a focus for us,” she 

said. 

She said the number of women 

in police is on the rise. 

At the end of the 2017/18 

financial year, there were more 

than 4000 full-time equivalent 

women in the police across New 

Zealand, almost a third of the 

total workforce. However, more 

than half of these woman weren’t 

sworn officers. One thousand eight 

hundred and seventy nine were. 

Over the past 10 years, there 

BY THE NUMBERS: 

•Armed offenders squad – 

35 members, all male. 

•Police negotiation team 

– 14 members, nine male, 

five female 

•Search and rescue – 26 

members, 23 male, three 

female 

•Specialist search group – 

19 members, 17 male, two 

female 

•Dogs – 16 members, all 

male 

•Personal protection 

officer – 13 members, all 

male 

has been a 37 per cent growth in 

the number of full-time female 

police officers. 

“It’s the goal of police for 

50 per cent of recruits to be 

women,” said Ms Ryan. 

The police aim to achieve this 

by 2021. 

During the 2017/2018 

graduation, 231 women 

graduated from the Royal New 

Zealand Police College. 

“This is 36 per cent of all 

graduates. This represents the 

best year of recruitment of 

women, in both numbers and 

proportion, that police has ever 

achieved.” 

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NEWS 9 

‘I want to know how to help people’ 


CONSTABLE VICTORIA Russell 

had been on the job for less than 

two years when she was faced with 

the difficult situation of trying to 

help a person in mental crisis. 

But she wasn’t able to. 

She attended an incident where 

an intoxicated person was threatening 

suicide. She was with that 

person’s family. 

Constable Russell spent time 

on the phone to the person, 

trying to develop a rapport with 

them, so they would reveal where 

they were, so she could get them 

help. 

“The call ended and I contacted 

police communications to get the 

police negotiation team involved. 

I felt that this was a genuine situation 

and that it needed someone 

who really knew what they were 

doing, to get them out of that crisis 

situation.” 

As Constable Russell returned 

to the station, she got a phone call 

to say the person had committed 

suicide. 

“It just broke me. I had seen that 

person’s family, I knew I had been 

the last person to speak with them. 

I remember leaving work that day 

and just feeling devastated.” 

So when Constable Russell was 

approached by a colleague about 

joining PNT, she leapt at the opportunity. 

“I remember thinking this 

is something I need to do, for 

myself. I want to get better at it 

and I want to know how to help 

people.” 

“I wanted to be more in-tune 

with being empathetic and try and 

give them some peace of mind 

that they can trust me and have 

confidence that we can help them 

through that crisis.” 

Now, Constable Russell 

has been a member of Canterbury’s 

PNT for more than four 

years. 

The team, works alongside the 

armed offenders squad, dealing 

with hostile and unpredictable 

situations. 

It could be called out at any 

time, 24 hours a day, seven days a 

week, working a week-on, weekoff 

roster. 

Constable Russell works in the 

squad alongside her normal policing 

duties. 

The negotiation work ranges 

from speaking with a person in 

mental crisis, hostage or barricade 

situations, kidnappings, high-risk 

search warrants, protests and some 

terrorism situations. 

Constable Russell’s first experience 

with the specialist squad was 

when she was advised to go along 

to a training day with the group 

prior to being on the team. 

“It was a role-play training and 

I was playing the part of a suicidal 

woman who was high up in a 

tower, wanting to jump.” 

Two members of the PNT were 

put in a cherry picker and moved 

up to where Constable Russell was 

standing, with the task of talking 

her through the crisis she was 

experiencing. 

“I remember thinking wow this 

is pretty cool. You could see how 

hard they were working to engage 

with me. I was pretending to be 

the person in crisis. I remember 

thinking they have such a tough 

task but it comes across so natural.” 

From there, Constable Russell 

decided to apply to be in the 

PNT. 

“I thought this was somewhere 

where I can make a change and 

help people.” 

“I applied and went through 

the training, you have to do a 

qualification course for two weeks. 

I love every minute of it, I was 

really thrown out of my comfort 

zone and learnt new skills. What 

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I realised what works for one 

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Balancing sugar intake 

I HOPE you’ve all had an 

awesome Easter break and 

ate more chocolate than I 

did. 

Not that I didn’t have 

heaps, I’m just generous 

with my hopes. 

Maybe it’s because she’s 

our first child but Laura 

and I are pretty strict on 

how much sugar we let 

Vittoria have. If we’re 

having something sweet to 

eat in front of her, she’ll get 

a wee bit to taste, but we 

don’t normally give her one 

of her own. 

Secretly, I think we 

limit it so that she might 

continue being a healthier 

eater than us for her 

lifetime. 

Long story short, Vittoria 

did not get an Easter egg. 

However, she did eat 

a lot of good food at 

multiple family meals and 

even scoffed a few pieces 

of Laura’s mum’s famous 

italian prune cake (once 

erroneously translated 

as “mum’s sweet affair of 

prunes” by Facebook). 

Her other little Easter 

treat was getting to take 

one of mum’s new dogs 

for a walk to work off the 

meals. She was super cute 

leading the wee pooch 

about with the lead. 

WALKIES: Petal on the lead with Vittoria. 

Didn’t last a whole walk, 

she eventually just got over 

it and dropped the lead. 

Recently, we’ve begun 

noticing a new behaviour 

in Vittoria; jealousy – 

especially of Laura. 

If I’m holding Vittoria 

and Laura comes up for a 

hug too, Vittoria pushes her 

hand into her face to shove 

her away. 

On Tuesday, Laura and 

I were sitting and chatting, 

Laura leaning into me. All 

VITTORIA 

& Matt 

of a sudden, Vittoria gets 

all whingy, runs over, 

jumps onto me and starts 

shoving Laura away all over 

again. 

It’s pretty cute and funny 

for me, but I can only 

imagine that it must hurt 

Laura a little. 

Hopefully, Vittoria start 

realising that her mum isn’t 

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BRI: Poisoned 

Apple or Panadol 

Prime Minister Jacinda Arden paid 

her first successful visit to China early 

this month. Both sides reiterated shared 

commitment to the Comprehensive 

Strategic Partnership, and Prime 

Minister Arden discussed the Belt and 

Road Initiative (BRI) with Chinese 

counterparts during bilateral meetings, 

pointing out the initiative will help 

identify opportunities for mutually 

beneficial and transparent cooperation. 

BRI has drawn world-wide attention 

and it is only natural to provoke 

different reactions. I remember 

a cartoon depicting a panda (not 

necessarily capable of Kong Fu) 

walking a kiwi bird with a “belt” tied 

to the bird’s neck along the “road”. If 

we have the patience to read through 

political pages occasionally, it is easy 

to come across articles on BRI entitled 

as “debt traps for developing world” or 

“China’s geopolitical conspiracy”, and 

you will find out political articles are 

not always tedious. 

To some, BRI seems like the poisoned 

apple offered to Snow White by the 

Evil Queen, nice and sweet but fatal. 

However, some equalize BRI as the 

panacea to all their problems just like 

panadols prescribed by GPs for most 

of our symptoms. I would deny either 

description. 

Firstly, BRI is by no means poison or 

trap. It seeks to remove development 

bottlenecks through enhanced 

connectivity. Since the concept was 

proposed in 2013, China has directly 

invested more than 60 billion US 

dollars in countries along the Belt and 

Road, creating nearly 300 thousand 

new jobs and more than 2 billion 

US dollars of tax revenue for these 

countries. Debt sustainability has 

been highlighted in project financing. 

According to some media reports, 

China infringed upon sovereignty 

of Sri Lanka through debt traps, but 

actually most Chinese loans are longterm 

favorable ones. Sri Lanka’s debt 

to China only accounts for 10% of its 

total debts, lower than that to Asia 

Develop Bank, World Bank or other 

Western creditors. China has also 

waivered debts of the least developed 

African countries. There is no proof 

that sovereignty has been surrendered 

or heavy burden suffered by BRI 

participants. 

Actually more than 150 countries and 

international organizations have signed 

cooperation deals on BRI so far. And 

BRI propositions have been endorsed 

in documents of UN, G20 and APEC. 

I do not know if any country has ever 

succeeded in trapping so many in 

history even through using coercive 

forces. 

Second, BRI is not panacea. Though 

BRI is public goods provided by China, 

it is up to all participating countries to 

make full use by identifying their own 

interests and comparative advantages. 

Cooperation under BRI follows the 

principles of wide consultation, joint 

contribution and shared benefits. It 

reflects an approach featuring mutual 

respect, equity, inclusiveness and 

win-win. Though common goals like 

policy coordination, infrastructure 

connectivity, unimpeded trade, 

financial integration and closer peopleto-people 

ties have been proposed, 

there is no fixed formula for BRI 

cooperation and each participating 

country could devise their own 

templates to maximize benefits. 

New Zealand takes the lead in 

BRI cooperation among developed 

countries. It signed memorandum of 

arrangement on strengthening BRI 

cooperation in 2017. A report issued by 

New Zealand China Council last year 

has identified trade facilitation, supply 

chain connectivity, linking China 

with South America, innovation and 

creative sectors as four prioritized areas 

where New Zealand could contribute to 

BRI. The role of New Zealand as both 

geographic and creative hubs could 

thus be strengthened. Participation in 

BRI would better connect the country 

to the world. 

After Minister of Science and 

Innovation, Paul Goldsmith, attended 

the First international Forum on 

Belt and Road Cooperation in 2017, 

Minister for Trade and Export Growth, 

David Parker, would lead a business 

delegation to the second one to be held 

soon in Beijing. The forum will send a 

positive message of promoting growth 

and building an open global economy. 

As both countries are working to 

accelerate the process of negotiation on 

FTA upgrade and strengthen common 

grounds on supporting multilateral 

trade regimes like WTO against 

backdrop of rising protectionism, BRI 

cooperation could provide impetus for 

our joint efforts. 

It is also worth mentioning the 

celebration of 2019 China-New 

Zealand Tourism Year. It is a good 

opportunity to promote people-topeople 

exchanges and enhance mutual 

understanding of respective cultures as 

another priority of BRI. Connectivity 

among hearts and minds is more 

important than infrastructure. 

Much could be envisaged from BRI 

cooperation. It requires innovative new 

thinking, open minds and ingenuity 

to chart the course. We need to take 

sensible and realistic attitudes toward 

BRI and get ourselves better prepared 

for the roles to play. 

(Author: Wang Zhijian, Consul 

General of People’s Republic of China 

in Christchurch)


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in Lyttelton. 

Concerns over seaplane plan 

• By Louis Day 

A PLAN to bring seaplanes 

into Lyttelton Harbour has 

residents concerned. 

Peninsula Air Ltd 

has applied to the Civil 

Aviation 

Authority to 

construct a 

waterdrome 

at the 

harbour, 

which would 

Ken 

Maynard 

provide 

seaplanes 

with an area 

to take off and land. 

Lyttelton Community 

Association chairman Ken 

Maynard is concerned 

noise from the seaplanes 

would disturb residents. 

“We live in a port town 

so a certain amount of 

noise is expected but it does 

not need to be noisier than 

it already is,” he said. 

However, one of 

Peninsula Air Ltd’s 

Restaurant must pay 

former employees $41k 

AN INDIAN restaurant 

business has been found 

to owe seven former 

employees more than 

$41,000 in unpaid wages. 

The Employment 

Relations Authority 

has found Indian 

Heaven breached 

employment standards 

for not paying staff for 

the hours they worked, or 

holiday pay. 

The restaurants, one in 

Opawa and the other in 

Woodham Rd, Avonside, 

have now been sold by 

Indian Heaven. 

The employees said they 

worked about 50 hours per 

week over six days and one 

former employee said he 

worked seven days a week. 

However, they were paid 

for 30 or 45 hours per 

week, regardless of how 

directors Mark Christensen 

is confident the impact 

on residents would be 

minimal. 

“We intend to use a 

Cessna Caravan – its 

turbine engine is quiet. 

There are also 

noise rules within 

both the Regional 

Coastal Plan and 

the City Plan, which 

the activity will 

need to meet.” 

Mr Christensen 

said the seaplanes 

would be used to 

take people on scenic tours 

of the peninsula. 

“It is still very early days, 

but we are thinking about 

providing a service that 

would complement all the 

other tourist operations in 

the peninsula.” 

He hopes the project 

can emulate the Sydney 

seaplanes experience. 

“In concept, it is a similar 

operation to the Sydney 

many additional hours 

they worked. In addition, 

they claimed they were not 

given holiday pay during, 

or upon termination, of 

their employment or any 

public holiday pay. 

When asked by the 

labour inspector as to 

why employees were not 

paid correctly under the 

Holidays Act, Indian 

Heaven appeared unaware 

of the requirement to do 

so. 

The labour inspector said 

the wage and time records 

provided by Indian Heaven 

were inaccurate and said 

they appeared to have 

also been created after his 

request. 

When an employment 

notice was issued, the 

labour inspector said 

no attempt was made to 

Mark 

Christensen 

one involving a seaplane 

that takes people on scenic 

flights. If you look at the 

Sydney operation, they also 

deliver people to tourist 

destinations as well.” 

THe Civil Aviation 

Authority is 

currently conducting 

an aeronautical 

study, where relevant 

stakeholders will be 

consulted and the 

impact on the public 

will be assessed. 

Public submissions 

for the proposal 

are also open but close on 

Tuesday. 

A CAA spokeswoman 

said even if the proposal is 

approved by the authority, 

it could still require 

resource consent, which 

may delay or prevent it 

from happening. 

•Public submissions 

can be sent to 

aerodromes@caa. 

govt.nz 

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within 28 days of the date 

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employee was owed nearly 

$18,000. 

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Noori, were all found to be 

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Tiny houses up for sale 

• By Louis Day 

TINY HOUSES made by carpentry 

students will be auctioned off at 

Ray White Ferrymead next month. 

The auction will take place on 

May 18 at noon. 

The two double-glazed, fully 

insulated buildings were made by 

Ara carpentry students between 

the ages of 16 and 18. 

The proceeds made from the 

auction will be put towards 

funding a trip to Fiji where 

students will build homes for those 

affected by the tropical cyclones. 

Ara carpentry tutor Mick 

Cooke said he was blown away 

by the effort shown from his 20 

students. 

“The students have done a great 

job and I take my hat off to them. 

They have done everything a 

qualified tradesman would do,” he 

said. 

The homes come with a 

bathroom, shower, kitchen, living 

area and sleeping quarters. 

Ray White Ferrymead sales 

consultant Eddie Spry thought the 

student-made homes were better 

than some he had come across 

made by professionals. 

“Compared to the commercial 

ones that are made I would say that 

these ones are better, they have got 

a nice feel to it they flow and it has 

been made with a lot of pride,” he 

said. 

GOOD CAUSE: Profits made from the tiny houses will 

go towards funding a trip to Fiji where Ara students will 

build homes for those affected by the tropical cyclones. 

Mayor 

Lianne Dalziel 

Time to reflect on 

wartime sacrifice 

ANZAC DAY is a day that we 

come together and reflect on the 

enormity of the sacrifice that 

was made 104 years ago. 

When we think of that war 

to end all wars as it was 

hoped to be, and think of 

the numbers killed, we 

are reminded again of the 

senselessness of war. 

I have been re-reading the 

history of the Gallipoli landings 

and the battle that waged 

for eight months claiming so 

many lives. 

By the time the campaign 

ended, 44,000 

Allied soldiers had 

died, including 2779 New Zealanders 

and over 8700 Australians. 

However, we often forget 

that more than 87,000 Ottoman 

soldiers died defending their 

homeland. 

It is extraordinary that modern 

day Turkey has found a way 

to allow us to acknowledge the 

emergence of our own sense of 

nationhood in Anzac ceremonies 

every year on this former 

battleground now dedicated as a 

place of peace. 

The scale of the loss in World 

War 1 was enormous. Just 

under 10 per cent of our then 

population of 1.1 million served 

overseas, of which more 

than 18,000 died, with 

more than 40,000 hospitalisations. 

Nearly 

every New Zealand 

family was affected by 

the impact of the war. 

Today that would be 

around 80,000 dead and 

175,000 hospitalised. 

The Gallipoli campaign 

may have 

seen a terrible defeat, 

but it was here 

that the Anzac tradition 

of courage, sacrifice and comradeship 

was formed. 

And it is on Anzac Day that 

we remember those whose lives 

were lost, and we honour their 

memory by recommitting ourselves 

to the peaceful resolution 

of conflict as a nation. 

•If you want to ask Ms 

Dalziel a question, email 

mayor@ccc.govt.nz. Put 

Reader’s Question in the 

subject line. 

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THEATRE/ARTS 17 

Harper back on stage to help St John 

• By Georgia O’Connor- 

Harding 

ST JOHN paramedics who 

responded to the March 15 terror 

attacks will be honoured in a 

show starring one of the city’s 

most well-known entertainers. 

Ali Harper is bringing her 

highly-acclaimed one woman 

show Legendary Divas back to 

The Court Theatre in a bid to 

raise money for St John New 

Zealand. 

Following the events of March 

15, she did not know how to 

use her musical experience 

to contribute and help the 

community. 

“I thought to myself, gosh, 

it is hard – I am not a nurse, 

not a doctor. What can I do? 

But I suppose the one thing 

about being a creative, is we 

can collaborate and we can 

help people feel good about 

things and it is all part of the 

healing process of what we do as 

performers.” 

Harper, 47, has so much 

admiration for the men and 

women of St John, and other 

emergency services, who acted 

with so much bravery and heart 

after the attacks. 

She wants to thank them 

and raise some “much-needed” 

money by putting on a show 

which celebrates inspiring 

women. Legendary Divas was 

PHOTO: NICK KING 

last performed in the city about 

four years ago. 

“I sometimes feel perhaps they 

don’t feel as appreciated as they 

should. This is my way of saying 

thank you so much,” Harper 

said. 

Legendary Divas is a 

celebration of major pop stars, 

including Shirley Bassey, Billie 

Holiday, Dusty Springfield, Judy 

Garland, Doris Day and Barbra 

Streisand. 

“These days you are popular 

for how many Twitter and 

Instagram followers you have. 

In those days, those singers 

were famous for being brave, 

incredibly talented and for 

having a story to tell,” Harper 

said. 

Part of the profits made from 

the show will go to St John. 

Harper said she felt a “calling” 

almost immediately after the 

attacks, which prompted her to 

write a song to express her love 

for the victims, survivors and 

HONOUR: Ali 

Harper will 

perform her 

show Legendary 

Divas to raise 

money for 

St John staff. 

their families. “I went home and, 

like everybody, poured through 

my social media feed and just 

cried and thought what can I do 

. . . I had to write a song,” she 

said. 

She recorded Release Our Love 

which has raised about $900 

for those affected. The song 

features pupils from Cobham 

Intermediate School. 

“It has been quite wonderful 

because lots of schools around 

New Zealand have been 

contacting me for the music so 

that it can become part of their 

school assembly song. Isn’t that 

lovely,” Harper said. 

She said it is important for 

New Zealanders to continue 

conversations around coming 

together and welcoming different 

cultures. 

•Release Our Love can 

be downloaded at www. 

bandcamp.com with the 

proceeds going to Victim 

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•Legendary Divas will be 

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Theatre as part of the 

Open House Festival on 

Saturday at 7.30pm. To 

book tickets, go to www. 

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5 sprigs thyme 

600g new potato, ideally jersey 

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2 sprigs mint 

2 Tbsp caper 

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3 Tbsp olive oil 

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500g potatoes 

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challenge. Games can be an important form of cognitive 

training. Card games or board games like chess or checkers 

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Playing games with others provides valuable social interaction 

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puzzles, including picture puzzles, crosswords, and word puzzles, 

can boost brain power and combat memory loss. 

2BOOST BRAIN POWER BY SOCIAL 

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5BOOST BRAIN POWER WITH EXERCISE. Physical exercise and 

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is a greater need for robust procedures 

to be in place to protect us as we age. A 

common concern is what happens when 

we are no longer able to make our own 

decisions. Loss of capacity brought on 

by illness, especially in old age, is not at 

all uncommon and Enduring Powers of 

Attorney are a key safeguard to protect 

our wishes in relation to our care and 

property. The Enduring Power of Attorney 

differs from a general power of attorney 

in that it continues or “endures” after a 

person loses mental capacity. 

There are two types of Enduring Powers 

of Attorney: one in relation to personal 

care and welfare, and one in relation to 

property. 

An Enduring Power of Attorney in 

relation to Personal Care and Welfare 

appoints one person as your attorney to 

make decisions about your care - such as 

where you are to live and whether you are 

properly cared for. This Enduring Power 

of Attorney is only activated when you are 

certified as having lost mental capacity by 

a qualified health provider. 

An Enduring Power of Attorney in 

relation to Property allows you to appoint 

one or more attorneys to manage and 

make decisions about your property. 

Property doesn’t just cover your house but 

includes your finances and investments. 

You decide whether the attorney/s may act 

while you have mental capacity or only if 

you lose mental capacity and you can add 

other conditions. 

Choosing your attorney is one of the most 

important steps you take in setting up an 

Enduring Power of Attorney. 

For a Personal Care and Welfare Attorney 

you may want to select someone who 

knows you well and who you can rely on 

to respond to your preferences. They are 

required to encourage you to act on your 

behalf and participate in the community 

as much as possible, so having your 

attorney living close by is helpful. 

For your Property Attorney you should 

choose someone able to handle money 

matters easily and responsibly. There is a 

statutory requirement that your attorney 

maintain financial records and make these 

records available to any person you have 

stipulated should receive them. 

The role of attorney is one of great 

responsibility and it carries with it legal 

obligations. It is something you should 

review periodically to ensure you have 

the people you continue to have trust in, 

and, are able to act for you. While you 

have mental capacity, you can revoke the 

appointment of an attorney by providing 

them with notice in writing. 

At Harmans we have a specialist seniors 

team to help with any queries and to assist 

you to set up deeds that best meet your 

needs. Give Phillipa Shaw a call on 352- 

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HANDYMAN SUPERSTAR 

Have you stepped back from the building 

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of mornings spare and an inkling to keep 

your hand in? Join a central city community 

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buildings so they can continue to provide 

safety, shelter and support in the community. 

This role is listed under the categories 

‘building maintenance’ and ‘carpentry’ on 

the Volunteering Canterbury database, www. 

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SUPERVISOR 

This community organisation is making 

a difference in the lives of people with 

intellectual and/or physical disabilities by 

providing a morning of crafts and activities. 

Could you help put together the programme, 

organise the roster of helpers, and all those 

other behind the scenes things that make this 

programme a success? You will be busy at 

the centre on Thursday mornings for three 

hours and probably spend an additional three 

hours each week on the ‘behind the scenes’ 

admin. This role is listed under the categories 

‘management’ and ‘special needs’ on the 

Volunteering Canterbury database, www. 

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MENTOR 

A programme to provide a role model 

for some of our vulnerable young people 

needs you! Live Life is seeking older 

community-minded people to be part of an 

intergenerational mentoring human-centred 

model to be positive role models. This role 

is listed under the categories of ‘support’ and 

‘mentoring’ on the Volunteering Canterbury 

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Astronomers have captured the first image 

of a black hole, heralding a revolution 

in our understanding of the universe’s 

most enigmatic objects, and proving the 

University of Canterbury’s Canterbury 

Distinguished Professor Roy Kerr’s 

56-year-old theory correct. 

The picture shows a halo of dust and gas, 

tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, 

at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55m 

light years from Earth. 

It is an incredible event for New Zealand 

science, especially, because it proves UC 

Canterbury Distinguished Professor 

Roy Kerr’s theory of rotating black 

holes, which he created more than 50 

years ago. The Royal Society of London 

has described his work as of particular 

importance to general relativistic 

astrophysics, and all subsequent detailed 

work on black holes has depended 

fundamentally on it. 

Canterbury Distinguished Professor Kerr 

says he set his alarm for 1am to see this 

very exciting event. 

“The EHT photo is just the beginning of 

a new phase in the understanding of our 

universe. The visual evidence will continue 

to get more and more sophisticated,” he 

says. 

“I was surprised that the best image was 

not Sagittarius A* but was a super massive 

black hole 2,000 times further away, and 

2,000 times larger.” 

Back in 1963, before advanced computers 

existed, with pen and paper Professor 

Kerr achieved what had eluded others 

for nearly half a century, solving some 

of the most difficult equations of physics 

by hand. He found the exact solution of 

Albert Einstein’s equations that describe 

rotating black holes. 

Professor Kerr’s discovery sparked a 

revolution in physics. At that time there 

was no consensus that such objects even 

existed; the term ‘black hole’ was only 

coined in 1967. 

The 2016 discovery of gravitational waves 

(caused by colliding black holes) by 

researchers with the Laser Interferometer 

Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) 

was made possible by Kerr’s solution. 

ROY KERR BIOGRAPHY 

Professor Roy Patrick Kerr is an eminent 

mathematician, known internationally for 

discovering the Kerr Vacuum, an exact 

solution to the Einstein field equation of 

general relativity. 

Professor Kerr began his long association 

with the University of Canterbury in 1951, 

earning a Bachelor of Science in 1954 and 

a Master of Science in 1955. He then went 

to Cambridge to research his PhD and was 

awarded his doctorate in 1959. 

From England, Dr Kerr moved to the 

United States, where as a postdoctoral 

student in Syracuse, New York, he worked 

with Professor Peter Bergmann, Albert 

Einstein’s collaborator. 

In 1963, while working at the University 

of Austin in Texas, Dr Kerr did something

that had eluded scientists for 47 years – he 

discovered the solution to Einstein’s equations 

that define the space outside a rotating star or 

black hole. This was something many in the field 

doubted could be done. 

Professor Kerr’s discovery triggered a revolution 

in the field of astrophysics and is now known as 

the ‘Kerr Vacuum’. 

Dr Kerr returned to New Zealand and the 

University of Canterbury in 1971, where he 

became a Professor of Mathematics for 22 years 

until his retirement in 1993. Professor Kerr 

developed strong links with the department of 

physics and astronomy, where his seminal work 

on the Kerr Vacuum provided the basis of much 

research and teaching. 

Professor Kerr was awarded the British Royal 

Society’s Hughes Medal in 1984 and the 

Rutherford Medal from the New Zealand Royal 

Society in 1993. He was made a Companion of 

the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2011, and was 

awarded the 2013 Albert Einstein medal by the 

Albert Einstein Society in Switzerland. 

The University of Canterbury awarded the rare 

honour of the title Canterbury Distinguished 

Professor to Emeritus Professor Roy Kerr who 

also received the prestigious Crafoord Prize 

in Sweden in 2016. Canterbury Distinguished 

Professor is the highest academic title that can be 

awarded by the University and has been conferred 

only twice before in the University’s history. Title 

recipients are Nobel Prize winners or equivalent, 

such as the Crafoord Prize, which is worth over 

$NZ1 million. 

STEPHEN HAWKING ON 

ROY KERR: 

One of the world’s foremost theoretical physicists 

famous for his work on black holes, Stephen 

Hawking, described Kerr’s discovery in his 

celebrated book, A Brief History of Time. 

Hawking wrote: “In 1963, Roy Kerr, a New 

Zealander, found a set of solutions of the 

equations of general relativity that described 

rotating black holes. These ‘Kerr’ black holes 

rotate at a constant rate, their size and shape 

depending only on their mass and rate of 

rotation. If the rotation is zero, the black hole 

is perfectly round, and the solution is identical 

to the Schwarzschild solution. If the rotation is 

non-zero, the black hole bulges outward near 

its equator (just as the Earth or the Sun bulge 

due to their rotation), and the faster it rotates, 

the more it bulges. So ... it was conjectured that 

any rotating body that collapsed to form a black 

hole would eventually settle down to a stationary 

state described by the Kerr solution. In 1970 a 

colleague and fellow research student of mine at 

Cambridge, Brandon Carter, took the first step 

toward proving this conjecture. He showed that, 

provided a stationary rotating black hole had 

an axis of symmetry, like a spinning top, its size 

and shape would depend only on its mass and 

rate of rotation. Then, in 1971, I proved that any 

stationary rotating black hole would indeed have 

such an axis of symmetry. Finally, in 1973, David 

Robinson at Kings College, London, used Carter’s 

and my results to show that the conjecture had 

been correct: such a black hole had indeed to be 

the Kerr solution.” 

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Regular eye health 

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sight Known as the “silent” 

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number one preventable cause 

of blindness in New Zealand 

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blindness in the world. 

It’s estimated 115,000 New 

Zealander’s over the age of 40 

have glaucoma, but only half 

of them know it. That leaves 

57,000 people who could 

potentially lose their eyesight. 

What is glaucoma? 

Glaucoma is the collective 

name given to a group of 

related diseases that damage 

the eye’s optic nerve. The nerve 

fibres progressively die, taking 

away the peripheral or side 

vision first. Therefore, visual 

loss goes undetected until it 

is quite advanced. You can be 

legally blind before you notice 

symptoms. 

Glaucoma has a profound effect 

of people’s quality of life, as they 

are at higher risk of falls with an 

increased loss of independence 

and confidence. The most 

common form of glaucoma is 

open-angle glaucoma, which 

is hereditary. A family history 

of glaucoma can increase your 

risk of the disease tenfold. Page 

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of 9 How do I know if I’m 

affected? 

As there are no symptoms 

in the early stages, having a 

regular full eye health test with 

your optometrist is the only way 

to detect glaucoma. Glaucoma 

New Zealand recommends 

people have an eye examination 

by the age of 45 then every 

five years after that until age 

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recommended every two to 

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However, if you notice a change 

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STRETCH ROUTINE 

Waking up and stretching well is so important for 

our bodies and our minds. This 5 minute routine is 

easy enough to do every morning, you could even do 

it in bed! These poses done regularly help to open 

up your spine, hips, hamstrings and ease open your 

entire body. 

REACH + STRETCH 

As you wake, take a breath in and reach your arms 

up and over your head, at the same time point your 

toes in the opposite direction. On your breath out, 

bring your arms up to the ceiling and then down 

to the sides of your body, whilst flexing your feet. 

Imagine you’re lying flat trying to reach your hands 

to your toes. Breathe in to reach up and point, 

breathe out to reach down and flex! Repeat this 3-6 

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SPINAL TWIST 

Whilst lying on your back, hug your knees into your 

chest and give them a little squeeze. Reach your 

arms out, shoulder height with your palms face 

upwards and take a nice breath in. As you exhale, 

lower your knees to the left and allow your feet 

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Inhale to come back to the centre and repeat on the 

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Gently sit yourself up and bend your knees up to 

your body, draw your feet together and allow your 

knees to relax out to either side. Inhale to sit up tall, 

and as you breathe out, relax forward so you can feel 

a nice stretch through your inner thighs. Breathe in 

to sit back up and repeat 3-6 times. 

FORWARD FOLD 

From seated, stretch your legs out straight in front 

of you. As before breathe in to sit up, breathe out to 

lean forward and feel the lovely stretch through your 

hamstrings. Repeat 3-6 times! 

CAT/COW 

Get onto all fours, hands under your shoulders and 

knees under your thighs. Take a breath in as you 

gaze forward and bring your tailbone up into a little 

backbend with your shoulders away from your ears. 

As you breathe out, arch your back upwards and 

tuck your chin into your chest. Feel that nice stretch 

through your shoulders. Repeat this 3-6 times! 

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from early childhood through to later years. 

While there are natural parts of the ageing 

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more research indicating that many areas of 

ageing can be reduced or delayed with regular 

physical activity. 

As adults continue to live longer and remain 

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health and activity becomes more important, 

with people, quite rightly, not willing to give up 

the freedom that goes along with an active life. 

Exercising in older age is not just a matter of 

reversing the ageing process but more about 

maintaining a level of fitness and health that 

is not seen population wide. The effects of 

inactivity are well known, the reduction in 

everyday function and likelihood of lifestyle 

diseases accelerates over time- while the ageing 

process accounts for some of this decline, much 

of it can be attributed to long term inactivity. 

You can’t out exercise old age but through 

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years and older adults. 

Bladder weakness and continence issues are not 

the most common health topics talked about, 

and cause embarrassment for sufferers, despite 

being common in ageing. 

The good news is that with the right advice and 

education pelvic floor weakness can be managed 

or even better, prevented. 

While you can’t out-wit ageing, you can certainly 

manage some of the symptoms through exercise. 

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When Citroen’s Cactus first made its way onto the global 

market it raised eyebrows everywhere with its styling. 

The cheeky five-door hatchback was unorthodox, to say 

the least, with its heavy frontal styling and controversial 

bubble wrap-type Airbumps on the doors which 

protected the bodywork from damage. Nevertheless, 

buyers warmed to the Cactus, and it has been pretty 

much a success in all of the markets it’s been sold in. 

In New Zealand Citroen isn’t a big player, but if you 

study the product line-up you’ll find practical, affordable 

vehicles which are thoroughly appealing through design 

flair. I guess, you’d expect nothing less from this French 

car maker which has had a reputation for bold styling 

cues as they are a considerable part of the appeal. 

A new Cactus has just been released, and while it 

incorporates the styling elements of its predecessor, it is 

a little more orthodox and gone are the Airbumps which 

were a major talking point on the original. 

That’s a bit of a disappointment to me, I liked the 

concept, and anything practical on a car that keeps it 

looking fresh and dent-free certainly finds favour with 

me. 

Gone, too, is the predecessor’s diesel engine, the Cactus 

arrives here in just one specification and it gets a 1.2-litre 

turbocharged three-cylinder engine which is also used 

in Citroen’s C3 and Peugeot’s 2008. I’ve experienced this 

engine before in both those cars and can safely say it is 

one of my favourite engines of this design, it is quiet, 

smooth, and doesn’t overly let the occupants know of its 

design through the harmonics often associated with its 

three-pot layout. 

The twin-camshaft petrol engine is listed with a 81kW 

and 205Nm rating, these are healthy outputs, and if 

you take into account the light weight of the Cactus 

at just 1090kg, it is a lively model under acceleration. 

Citroen claim a standstill to 100km/h time of 10.9sec 

which is all the acceleration you need in today’s 

motoring environment. Drive is channelled through 

a conventional six-speed automatic transmission, 

together there is reasonable harmony and gearing which 

manufactures that lively performance along with healthy 

fuel economy. 

The latter is listed by Citroen at 5.3-litres usage per 

100km (53mpg) on a combined cycle average. The 

evaluation car’s dash display was constantly sitting 

around 6.7l/100km (42mpg). 

If you also take into consideration the Cactus’ weight, 

then it has benefits in all areas, the engine isn’t working 

hard to maintain momentum, hence the light fuel load, 

and there is a feel through the chassis and suspension 

that promotes a sporty sensation. 

The suspension deserves a worthy mention. Anyone 

familiar with Citroen product will relate to the 

hydropneumatic and air suspensions systems of eras 

gone by. 

The Cactus doesn’t get anything quite to sophisticated; 

however, it does get what Citroen describe as magic 

carpet ride engineering. Put simply, what appear to 

be conventional shock absorbers actually incorporate 

two hydraulic stops, one for compression and one for 

decompression, they dissipate energy from road bumps, 

helping to create a smooth ride. In effect, the ride is well 

cushioned, I had an errand to run over the far east side 

of the city, and broken roads on that journey were a 

good test for the suspension, the Cactus has a controlled, 

comfortable ride. 

And that doesn’t affect tidy handling manners. The 

Cactus is nimble and well balanced. Riding on grippy 

Good Year tyres (205/50 x 17in) there is a lot of natural 

grip in the first instance. The Cactus can attack corners, 

there is strong steering feel, turn-in is also direct and 

precise. 

In my introduction I mentioned the Cactus’ styling. 

It isn’t radical as it could be, but it is a departure from 

the norm. The interior is modernistic and minimalist 

in its detailing, however, it all works cosmetically. You 

can also mix and match with interior trim colours and 

materials. 

I particularly like the permanently exposed panoramic 

roof which is out-of-the-ordinary but also adds to 

the character of the car, it was a $1500 option, but it 

represents the ideology of Cactus. 

In terms of specification, the Cactus is also well 

appointed. You get all of the kit you’d expect on a $35k 

car with many of the functions operated by voice 

recognition technology. I guess one omission is the lack 

of tachometer. 

That aside, the Cactus incorporates all things practical 

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but also a funky purchase for anyone who dares to be 

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IT’S THAT time of year 

again – when everyone 

starts talking about spring 

bulbs. Do I need to chill 

my bulbs? Do I put them in 

the freezer? Should I plant 

them in patterns? And the 

list goes on. 

Fortunately, I have some 

experience with this. Here 

are the answers to the 

spring bulb questions I get 

asked the most. 

Do I need to chill my 

bulbs? 

Yes – but only tulips and 

hyacinths. And it’s only 

essential if you experience 

fewer than five frosts a winter. 

But even if you do get 

enough natural chilling in 

winter, fridge chilling can 

still give benefits – taller 

stems and earlier flowering. 

Tulips and hyacinths 

are native to areas which 

experience quite cold 

winters and they need this 

cold period for the bulb to 

complete the development 

of the flower bud deep inside. 

Sure signs you should 

have chilled your bulbs are 

if they produced unusually 

short stems or the bulbs 

failed to flower at all. 

Done correctly, chilling 

your tulips and hyacinths 

will result in perfect spring 

flowers. 

I haven’t got my 

spring bulbs yet, is 

there still time? 

There’s still plenty of 

time, mid-April to mid- 

May are ideal planting 

times as the soil cools and 

we get some rain. 

What about my tulip 

and hyacinth bulbs 

that I chilled and then 

planted last year? Do I 

need to re-chill those 

ones? 

If you live in a warmer 

area and chilled them before 

planting the first time, 

it is probably a good idea to 

lift them and repeat that for 

subsequent years. 

Ideally, you will have 

harvested them during 

December/January and left 

them in an airy place for 

some weeks until you start 

chilling them now. 

However, if you didn’t 

lift your bulbs and they’re 

still in the ground, it’s best 

to leave them there now. 

Areas that have had rain 

may have caused roots to 

start already and we don’t 

want to disturb that. In 

December/January you can 

lift them and follow the 

above instructions. 

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And can I put 

them in the freezer? 

1. Early to mid-April is 

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because the bulb is not 

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may develop. 

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side of the fridge, not at the 

back where the cooler plate 

may ice up and damage 

them, or where condensation 

may cause mould to 

develop. 

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• By Gordon Findlater 

CON BARRELL was the first 

Super Rugby player to find 

himself on the wrong side of the 

‘law’ – now he’s enforcing it on 

the Gold Coast. 

Barrell, 52, played 45 games 

as a prop for the Crusaders 

between 1996 and 2001. But 

in the Crusaders second Super 

Rugby match against the Blues at 

Lancaster Park in March 1996, 

he became the first player in the 

competition to be cited for foul 

play and was handed a two-week 

suspension. 

“I took the law into my own 

hands,” said Barrell. “I saw 

Charles Riechelmann, the 

Auckland lock, hit Mark Weedon 

. . . I chased him and we ended 

up in a scrap in front of the 

crowd by the old embankment.” 

Barrell went on to also become 

the first player cited in the 1997 

season. However, he has now 

found himself on the right side 

of the law as a sergeant and 

fire arms instructor with the 

Queensland Police Service. 

“It’s a hard job, there’s a lot 

on you. There’s things you see 

and do that a normal person 

shouldn’t. You deal with a lot of 

rubbish and drug-related stuff, 

but it’s a good job,” said Barrell. 

Growing up in Northland, 

he started playing rugby at 

age four in Hikurangi and 

Maungakaramea. 

“I was a typical farm boy. I was 

into motorbikes, shearing, bushcutting 

and everything on the 

farm,” Barrell said. 

He left school at 15 and 

became a full-time bush-cutter. 

He then held a number of jobs, 

which included fencing and 

the meat works, while playing 

for Northland in the first and 

second divisions of the NPC 

between 1990 and 1995. 

“It was in them days when 

you’d work in the morning 

before you played a game in the 

afternoon,” he said. 

Barrell moved to Christchurch 

for the inaugural Super 12 

season in 1996 for a starting 

opportunity as Craig Dowd and 

Olo Brown were the first choice 

options in Auckland. 

In 1996, the Crusaders finished 

dead last and won just one game. 

However, Barrell believes it laid 

the blueprint for the Crusaders 

success going forward. 

“I remember after that first 

season they were talking about 

sacking us and Otago to try and 

make one South Island team that 

could compete,” he said. 

“I think that’s when the 

Crusaders were actually born 

. . . that’s when we dug in and 

we knew we had to do extra 

training. That’s what created that 

Crusader culture.” 

Barrell was part of four Super 


Rugby title-winning Crusaders 

sides. But the successful 1998 

campaign has the fondest 

memories after the side went 

from last in the standings after 

five rounds to champions. 

“That builds a real team 

culture and character when you 

can come from last, knowing 

you have to win every game 

and get bonus points to even 

think about making the semis 

and final. They’re pretty special 

memories,” he said. 

Barrell said a major difference 

between his time in red and 

black and today’s game is the 

importance put on scrums and 

specialist scrum coaches. 

“Most of them seem to be a lot 

more skilled and drilled up now 

. . . I remember in the early days 

for Northland we would put the 

scrum machine against a power 

pole and do 100 scrums against 

the power pole,” he said. 

Later in his career, Barrell had 

issues with his ACL. He signed a 

deal to play in France before reinjuring 

his knee, which meant 

he stayed in New Zealand. He 

went on to play for Northland 

in 2002. However, a third ACL 

injury during that season ended 

his career. 

“At 35, it was time to hang 

the boots up. I ended up back 

in Christchurch working for 

Stonewood Homes working in 

the sales and design team for 

eight years,” he said. 

In 2010, Barrell and his wife 

Kate moved to the Gold Coast 

and soon found themselves 

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Front row enforcer’s new beat 


THREE YEARS ago Ngane 

Punivai was preparing for the 

start of the secondary school 

rugby season with Christ’s 

College. Now he looks set to 

make his Crusaders debut 

tomorrow night. 

Punivai, 20, was yesterday 

named in the Crusaders 23- 

man squad to play the Lions 

at Christchurch Stadium. It is 

the first time the outside back 

has been named in a match day 

squad since signing with the 

franchise this season. 

“Ngane was pretty excited. A 

big cheer went up around the 

room once he was named. It’s a 

really proud moment for him and 

his family. He’s a good Cantab so 

it’s going to be a special night for 

him,” said Crusaders coach Scott 

Robertson. Punivai’s path to his 

Crusaders debut has included 

captaining Christ’s College 

and making the NZ Secondary 

Schools side in 2016. 

Since then Punivai (right) 

has won back-to-back premier 

metro club titles with Lincoln 

University and last year he made 

the NZ under-20 World Cup 

squad and his Mitre 10 Cup 

debut for Canterbury. 

“To be honest I was just lost 

for words. I was in a bit of 

shock, but the boys came up and 

gave me a pat on the back and 

congratulated me so that gave me 

a big warm and fuzzy feeling,” 

said Punivai. 

His elevation into the 23 comes 

at the expense of Will Jordan, 

who has scored eight tries in 

seven appearances this season. 

“That’s a tough conversation 

to have, but he’ll get his other 

opportunity. Somewhere during 

the season you’ve got to take 

the opportunity to use your 

whole squad and we have that 

opportunity this week with 

Ngane,” said Robertson. 

Other regulars not in the 

squad include Jack Goodhue, 

Matt Todd and Scott Barrett, 

who are all on All Blacks resting 

duties. Meanwhile, Owen Franks 

was ruled out due to a shoulder 

injury. 

Todd’s unavailability means 

Billy Harmon will get his second 

start of the season after playing a 

full 80min for New Brighton in 

their 41-20 win over Burnside at 

the weekend. 

“Billy’s tough and that’s why 

we’ve selected him. Every time 

•Over the Super Rugby season, The Star will look back each week 

at some of the identities who graced the Crusaders jersey in the 

past and discover where they are now 

IN BLUE: Con 

Barrell and his 

wife Kate are 

now police 

officers on the 

Gold Coast. 

HARDMAN: 

Barrell was a 

key member of 

the Crusaders 

after he moved 

to Christchurch 

from Northland 

in 1996 to get 

more game 

time. 

he’s played for the Crusaders, 

he’s performed. He played a great 

game against the Chiefs earlier,” 

said Robertson. 

Crusaders squad 

to play the Lions: Joe 

Moody 1, Codie Taylor 

2, Michael Alaalatoa 3, 

Quinten Strange 4, Sam 

Whitelock (C) 5, Whetu 

Douglas 6, Billy Harmon 

7, Kieran Read 8, Mitchell 

Drummond 9, Ritchie 

Mo’unga 10, George Bridge 

11, Ryan Crotty 12, Braydon 

Ennor 13, Sevu Reece 14, 

David Havili 15. 

Reserves: Ben Funnell 16, 

Harry Allan 17, Oliver Jager 

18, Mitchell Dunshea 19, 

Jordan Taufua 20, Ereatara 

Enari 21, Mitchell Hunt 22, 

Ngane Punivai 23. 


recruited into the police. “We 

were having some drinks with 

friends at a bar and ended up 

having a barbeque back at our 

place and one of them was a 

Queensland police officer. The 

wife ended up joining first . . . I 

thought I was too old and broken 

down, but I went up to the 

academy one day to have a look 

around and figured I was more 

athletic than most going through 

so I decided bugger it, I’ll give it 

a go.” 

“You can’t beat the lifestyle 

here [Gold Coast] – I absolutely 

love it. It gets a bit too hot over 

summer, which I knew it would 

because we always came over for 

a pre-season game in January 

and it was blimming hard work,” 

said Barrell. 

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Stellar ride for Hungerford 

TAYLORS Mistake 

surfer Estella Hungerford 

won her first open 

women’s South Island 

championships title 

in Dunedin over the 

weekend. 

Hungerford, 17, posted 

an 11.6 point total in the 

open division final to take 

a comfortable victory over 

the all-South Island cast of 

surfers at St Clair Beach. 

On Sunday, she competed 

in the under-18 final. 

However, a score of 5.9 

was only good enough for 

third. “In 18s it didn’t go 

my way earlier in the day. 

I had one good ride in that 

final but couldn’t find a 

back-up and lost,” she said. 

“I wanted to win the 18s 

more but had a bad heat 

so that fired me up for the 

open women’s . . . I surfed 

a good heat, which I was 

most happy about. The 

sets were inconsistent but I 

waited for them and got a 

couple.” 

In the open men’s 

division, Piha surfer Zen 

Top of the tables 

Massetti Cup 

P W D L PD Pts 

Hornby Panthers 3 3 0 0 44 6 

Linwood Keas 3 2 0 1 32 4 

Northern Bulldogs 3 2 0 1 24 4 

Eastern Eagles 3 2 0 1 20 4 

Papanui Tigers 2 1 0 1 -10 2 

Riccarton Knights 3 1 0 2 -16 2 

Celebration Lions 2 0 0 2 -28 0 

Halswell Hornets 3 0 0 3 -56 0 

Metro Premier Cup 

P W L D BP Pts 

Lincoln University 4 4 0 0 4 20 

HSOB 4 3 1 0 5 17 

Linwood 4 3 1 0 4 16 

Sydenham 4 3 1 0 4 16 

Christchurch 4 3 1 0 3 15 

Shirley 4 3 1 0 1 13 

Marist Albion 4 2 2 0 4 12 

New Brighton 4 2 2 0 3 11 

Burnside 4 1 3 0 1 5 

Sumner 4 0 4 0 3 3 

Belfast 4 0 4 0 0 0 

University 4 0 4 0 0 0 

Mainland Premier League 

P W D L GD Pts 

Cashmere Tech 6 5 0 1 17 15 

Weekend match-ups 

•Massetti Cup 

(Saturday): Riccarton 

Knights v Northern 

Bulldogs 2.45pm, Crosbie 

Park; Celebration Lions v 

Halswell Hornets 2.45pm, 

Cuthberts Green; Hornby 

Panthers v Papanui Tigers 

2.45pm, Leslie Park; 

Eastern Eagles v Linwood 

Keas 2.45pm, Wainoni 

Park. 

•Metro Premier Cup 

(Saturday): Sydenham 

v Christchurch 2.45pm, 

Sydenham Park; University 

v Shirley 2.45pm, Ilam 

Fields; Lincoln University 

v Marist Albion 2.45pm, 

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BIG WIN: Estella Hungerford performed well 

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South Island championships in Dunedin. 

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Wallis successfully 

defended his title and 

recorded his second career 

win on the New Zealand 

Surf Series. In the men’s 

longboard division, 

Wallis was forced to settle 

for second after being 

outclassed by defending 

champion Hugh Ritchie, 

who finished with 11.6. 

Meanwhile, the women’s 

longboard division was 

taken out by Donna 

Lincoln University; Belfast 

v Sumner 2.45pm, Sheldon 

Park; Burnside v HSOB 

2.45pm, Burnside Park; 

New Brighton v Linwood 

2.45pm, Rawhiti Domain. 

•Mainland Premier 

League (Sunday): 

Coastal Spirit v Nelson 

Suburbs noon, English 

Park; Selwyn United v 

Ferrymead Bays 2.45pm, 

Foster Park; FC Twenty 11 

v Nomads United 2.45pm, 

Avonhead Park; Cashmere 

Technical v Western AFC 

2.45pm, Garrick Park. 

•Men’s premier 

hockey league 

(Saturday): Southern 

Tower JuncTion 

Henderson with an 

11.7. Her daughter Ava 

Henderson finished 

second in the under-20 

girls division final. There 

was also success for Blair 

Cooke, who won the stand 

up paddleboard with a 

score of 9.9 in the final. 

Surfers now turn their 

attention to the Exit 

Surf men’s Canterbury 

championships at Gore Bay 

this weekend. 

Nelson Suburbs 6 4 1 1 8 13 

Western AFC 6 4 1 1 7 13 

Coastal Spirit 6 3 0 3 7 9 

Selwyn United 6 2 1 3 -3 7 

Ferrymead Bays 6 2 0 4 -8 6 

Nomads United 6 2 0 4 -12 6 

FC Twenty 11 6 0 1 5 -16 1 

Men’s premier hockey league 

P W L D GD Pts 

Southern United 3 3 0 0 3 9 

Harewood 3 2 0 1 2 7 

HSOB/Burnside 3 1 1 1 4 4 

Fendalton Avon 3 1 1 1 0 4 

Marist 3 1 2 0 -1 3 

Hornby Vipers 2 0 1 1 -1 1 

Carlton Redcliffs 3 0 2 1 -1 1 

University 2 0 1 1 -5 1 

Women’s premier hockey league 

P W L D GD Pts 

Carlton Redcliffs 3 3 0 0 16 9 

Marist 3 3 0 0 8 9 

Avon Eels 3 2 1 0 1 6 

Hornby Tigers 2 0 1 1 -2 1 

Harewood 2 0 1 1 -4 1 

Southern United 3 0 3 0 -9 0 

HSOB/Burnside 2 0 2 0 -10 0 

United v Hornby Vipers 

1.30pm, Waimakariri 

Hockey Turf; HSOB/ 

Burnside v Fendalton 

Avon 1.30pm, Nga Puna 

Wai; Carlton Redcliffs v 

Harewood 2.45pm, Nga 

Puna Wai; University v 

Marist 3pm, Marist Park. 

•Women’s premier 

hockey league 

(Saturday): Harewood v 

Carlton Redcliffs 1.15pm, 

Nga Puna Wai; HSOB/ 

Burnside v Avon Eels 3pm, 

Nga Puna Wai; Southern 

United v Hornby Tigers 

4.30pm, Waimakariri 

Hockey Turf; Marist 

(bye).


SPORT 35 

New Rams coach to get a taste of long-term rivalry 


CANTERBURY RAMS’ 

new Australian coach Mick 

Downer will get his 

first taste of one of the 

country’s longest running 

basketball rivalries 

when his side host the 

Wellington Saints on 

Saturday. 

While he has little 

knowledge of the years 

of rivalry, after arriving 

in Christchurch recently 

from Brisbane, he’s aware that 

bragging rights will be at stake 

as well as two competition 

points at Horncastle Arena. 

“The stalwarts have let me 

know that they take this game 

against the Saints quite seriously 

and they’re quite proud 

on the outcome of that 

game,” he said. 

After a tight opening 

round 92-95 loss to the 

defending champion 

Southland Sharks the 

Rams bounced back 

with back-to-back 

road trip wins over the 

Supercity Rangers 91-68 and 

Taranaki Mountainairs 107-78 

at the weekend. 

“We definitely played good 

Mick Downer 

basketball and improved defensively 

from round one. That’s all 

you can ask for as a coach,” said 

Downer. 

While the Saints will go 

into Saturday as favourites 

for, not only the match, 

but this year’s NBL title, 

Downer says his side have 

aspirations of creating 

their own history this 

year. 

“I love our team. I think 

we’ve got a really good 

group. We won’t be playing our 

best basketball yet three games 

into a season, but I feel like 

we’ve got the right ingredients 

through the course of a season 

to end up being a really good 

team as the season goes on,” 

said Downer. 

One of the biggest 

highlights of the recent 

road trip was the 

play of 2.08m big man 

Mike Karena who 

posted 36 points on 85 

per cent shooting from 

the field and nine 

rebounds in the win 

over the Rangers. 

“He’s worked really hard in 

the offseason to get his body 

into good shape. He manages 

a bit of a sore knee, but every 

Mike Karena 


professional players has things 

they have to manage . . . he’s had 

really good support off the court 

with our strength coach and his 

teammates,” said Downer. 

“He’s put the work in and is 

starting to get the rewards. The 

other bit is that we’ve got really 

good guards that make good 

reads and share the ball, so if 

he keeps posting up and setting 

really good screens then our 

guards will find him and feed 

him the ball. He’s a big body 

and hard to handle.” 

•Saturday’s match 

against the Saints tips off 

at 7pm. 

TRIO: Canterbury golfers Hiroki Miya, Kazuma Kobori and Tom Parker are hoping to take 

their game to the elite level. 

Who’s the next Tiger? 

Tiger Woods’ win at the Masters has put golf back on the map. Gordon Findlater 

takes a look at a trio of promising young Canterbury golfers and why they could 

have what it takes to play on the world’s biggest stage 

RUSSLEY GOLFER Hiroki 

Miya, 18, romped to a five-shot 

victory at the South Island 

under-19 championship at 

Harewood. 

The result, which included 

a seven under par 65 in the 

second round, comes on the 

back of a stellar start to the year 

for 16-year-old Rangiora golfer 

Kazuma Kobori, who made 

national headlines when he won 

the NZ PGA championship in 

March. Kobori also finished 

runner-up at the NZ stroke play 

and Australian boys’ amateur 

championships. 

Meanwhile, 19-year-old Tom 

Parker has spent the last nine 

months at the University of 

Oregon in the United States on a 

golf scholarship. 

Prior to college, the former 

Christchurch Boys’ High School 

student dominated his age group 

and finished runner-up at the 

New Zealand amateur golf 

championship in 2017. 

“It’s pretty cool what Kazuma 

has been doing and everybody is 

looking up to him,” said Miya. 

“I’m just trying to not lose to 

him . . . I used to always beat him 

and now he’s playing really well, 

so it makes me work hard.” 

Miya will become the latest 

player from Christchurch to head 

to the US when he begins a golf 

scholarship at the University of 

North Texas in August. 

With Tiger Woods’ return to 

prominence and interest in the 

sport returning to what it was 

during his years of dominance, it 

begs the question when will New 

Zealand golf fans have a regular 

contender to root for and who 

will it be? 

Ryan Fox and Danny Lee have 

been in and out of the world’s 

top 100 ranking in recent years. 

However, not since Michael 

Campbell’s efforts in the 1990s 

and 2000s – which included the 

2005 US Open title – have we 

had a genuine major contender. 

Canterbury Golf general 

manager Grand Lewis says 

another major contender would 

be huge for golf in New Zealand 

and he believes the chances of 

Canterbury producing our next 

great hope is higher than it has 

been in years due to the current 

crop. 

“We always hope that may 

be the case that maybe in the 

next 10 years, or even sooner, 

these guys will come through 

and work their way up there. 

The biggest thing with the likes 

of what Kazuma has achieved 

already – and Lydia Ko had the 

same thing at the same age – is 

that maturity to be able to play 

and compete at the next level,” 

said Lewis. 

“These boys can all play golf, 

but it’s the top two inches that 

will be the difference of how fast 

they can go through the levels. 

Through their high school years 

they get a lot of time to play golf 

and practice golf living at home 

and being looked after. But when 

they leave school is the time 

they have to stand on their own 

two feet and make their own 

decisions. That will tell whether 

they make it or break it.” 

THE HYPE or lack thereof 

surrounding tomorrow’s match 

between the Crusaders and 

Lions is perhaps the biggest 

indication yet of Super Rugby 

and its conference system being 

broken. 

Take most other major 

competitions around the world 

– when the finalists from the 

last two years running play 

their one and only roundrobin 

meeting of the year, you 

likely have the most highly 

anticipated match of the roundrobin. 

However, that’s anything 

but the case for the Crusaders 

and Lions, which met in the 

previous two Super Rugby 

finals. 

Unfortunately SANZAAR’s 

implementation of a Super 

Rugby conference system in 

2011 meant, outside of the 

Crusaders playing another 

New Zealand conference team, 

it’s been hard to see interconference 

games having the 

same level of importance. 

This wasn’t always the case 

with teams from other nations. 

In Super 12 and Super 14, the 

Crusaders v Brumbies roundrobin 

match would always be 

one to circle on the calendar 

during the period when the 

two sides clashed in three finals 

between 2000 and 2004. 

A similar level of hype also 

surrounded the Crusaders and 

Waratahs fixtures in the 2000s 

when the teams met in two 

finals in the space of four years. 

But this week you’d be hardpressed 

to hear the Crusaders 

and Lions clash referred to as 

a titanic battle between the 

two biggest powers in Super 

Rugby in recent years – mainly 

because it’s not. 

One-eyed Cantab 

Gordon Findlater 

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‘Broken’ conference 

system spoils 

Super Rugby rivalry 

MATCH-UP: The Crusaders 

defeated the Lions 37-18 

in last year’s Super Rugby 

final. 

At this rate, we look set for 

another season in which the 

Hurricanes (the second best 

Super Rugby side) will at best 

meet the Crusaders (the best 

Super Rugby side) in a semifinal. 

Or the Crusaders will be 

forced to travel to Australia or 

South Africa for a semi-final, 

in spite of likely having a better 

regular season record than 

the top Australian and South 

African sides. 

If back-to-back Super 

Rugby finals between a South 

African and New Zealand 

conference team can’t create an 

anticipated rivalry, there’s no 

hope of maintaining interest 

in the current format of the 

competition. 

Let’s pray tomorrow night’s 

match is an epic, which 

goes down to the wire and 

even creates some bad blood 

between the franchises. 

Because if the two meet in a 

third straight Super Rugby final 

later in the year, you would 

like to think by that stage some 

form of lasting rivalry should 

be on the cards.


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well as a sister company in Sydney. 

Split into divisions to met the needs of 

both trade and individual customers, Taha 

Auto will both pay cash-for-cars and supply 

a huge variety of parts. 

The Cash-for-Cars division has four 

trucks on the road six days a week collecting 

vehicles from right across the Canterbury 

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or ute is no longer driveable, the Taha 

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Whether your vehicle has simply failed its 

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However, the manufacturers 

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cars must be happy, when 

fuel prices surge new car 

buyers see efficiency as a 

key buying ingredient. 

The latest fuel miser to 

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engine that has been 

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often and when there is a 

need to top-up there are 

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it is translated into dollar 

amounts. 

Everything about the 

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efficiency, Kia claims a 

5.8l/100km(49mpg) combined 

cycle average. My 

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The engine is a twincamshaft 

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The hybrid system is just 

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manual is available on 

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the driveline in the Picanto 

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Jennian Homes Canterbury North 

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Open Saturday & Sunday 

12 pm to 4 pm 

Promote your 

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to over 

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elaine.moon@starmedia.kiwi 

Kaiapoi Showhome 

54 Footbridge Terrace, Silverstream 

Open Wednesday to Sunday 

12 pm to 4 pm 

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Home 

& Property 

the tlc experience 

We truly believe in 

a customer first 

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EvEry Thursday 

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Anyone intending to build a new home 

should have the builder’s contract 

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A payment schedule can also 

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If you want to compare building 

companies, it’s important to get down 

to finer details such as how many 

power points there are per room, the 

type of windows you are having or 

which paint finishes are included. 

Questions to ask 

builders include: 

• Do you have a completion guarantee 

and how does it work? 

• Is there a loss of deposit 

guarantee? 

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Registered Master Builder 

and does it use thirdparty 

written guarantees? 

• What is the schedule for 

payments? 

• How are the deposit and 

progress payments 

administered? 

Oamaru 

NEW LISTINGS 

Priced at only $305,000 

View anytime 

Call Murray Wigley 

021 480 250 / 371 5005 

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• Are they held in a solicitor’s trust 

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the build if the franchisee goes out 

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• What are the exact specs? 

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• Are there any restrictions on 

driveways or any other connections? 

• Can you speak with clients who 

have just completed a build? 

Do your homework before you decide 

on a building company and you will 

have a less stressful time once the 

building process starts. 


Home 

& Property 

EvEry Thursday 

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Phil 027 435 7711 

Holly 027 222 0220 

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Licensed (REAA 2008) Results Realty Ltd 

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Price: $45,000+GST (if any) 

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Builder 

BUILDING 

CABS / TAXI 

Carpet binding 

Creed Building 

Contractors 

New homes 

• New homes 

• Extensions 

• Renovations 

Brandon Taw 

• Light Commercial 

• Repairs and 

Maintenance 

Travlon 

Coachlines 

Phone 027 370 2572 

enquiries@tawbuilders.co.nz 

www.tawbuilders.co.nz 

Additions and Alterations 

Repairs and Maintenance 

0274395520 033228541 

Trusted in Canterbury 

for over 40 years 

DI’S CARPET 

BINDING 

Have your carpet off-cuts bound 

124 Halswell Junction Rd, Halswell 

Ph 322 1103 M 027 586 4830 

Hours Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5.00pm 

CHARTER & TOUR 

Travlon 

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School Run to some 

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concrete & paving 

• Driveways 

• Earthquake repairs 

• New Home Specialists 

• Patios & Paths 

tel: 0508 873 7483 

email: sales@affordableconcrete.co.nz 

www.affordableconcrete.co.nz 

DRIVEWAYS 

CONCRETE & PAVING 

Excavations 

DECORATORS 

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Wallpapering • Fences 

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Floor & Roof Painting 

Spray Painting 

Light Commercial 

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Selwyn based but service the whole of Canterbury 

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027 724 6846 027 PAINTIN 

FIREWOOD 

www.travlon.co.nz 

SWAINS 

Phone: 03 325 2959 

Email: info@travlon.co.nz 

(Since 2005) 

Over 22 Years Experience 

Quality 

Workmanship 

• Driveways 

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Channel 

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Concrete Resurfacing 

Things we offer... 

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free quotes/insurance scopes 

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• Driveways 

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oF TruckS 

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• Excavators 

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Fill your Boot, Trailer or Truck 

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See our website for 

more information 

Shop Now | Take Now | Pay Later 

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Formerly Parkhouse Garden Supplies 

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www.junkman.co.nz office@junkman.co.nz 

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Call Aaron & 

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For the Outdoor 

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or 021 542 402 

Email: Aaron@theoutdoorspace.co.nz 

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Mailer Deliveries 

For a local, reliable 

mailer delivery 

service contact 

Star Media 

• Newspaper inserts 

• Magazine inserts 

• Letterbox deliveries 

• Urban & Rural deliveries 

For a cost effective, targeted delivery 

please call 03 379 7100 or email 

michaela.malloch@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi


Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED 

Trades & Professional Services 

To advertise: Phone 379 1100 or email star.class@starmedia.kiwi 

mobility scooters 

PAINTER 

PAINTERS 

PLUMBER 

Get on to 

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database 

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when you 

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modifications 

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Visit us: 

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Open Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5pm 

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Michael Kelly Painters 

Locally owned and 

operated family 

business. 

25+ years Experience 

• Painting • Wallpapering 

• Interior • Exterior 

Free Quotes 

Phone 

Michael 0212 649 492 

michaelkellypainter@hotmail.co.nz 

Painters and Decorators Ltd 

Canterbury Owned and Operated 

A husband and wife team 

Specializing in: 

• Roof Painting 

• Interior/exterior 

residential 

• Small commercial 

painting 

Noel 027-411-3596 

kemp.painters@gmail.com 

kemp painters and decorators 

We offer 

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Quality not 

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Whether you’re 

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SERVING 

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• Hot water cylinder repair/replacement 

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“I will turn up when I say I will” 

Call/Text 027 245 5100 

Freephone: 0508 426 269 

NOT JUST 

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WE ARE ALSO EXPERTS IN 

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Accepted here. 

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plumber 

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Call for an instant quote 

03 348 8537 

5/33 Nga Mahi Road, Sockburn 

office@universalplumbing.co.nz 

www.universalplumbing.co.nz 

UNIVERSAL 

PLUMBING 

plumbING AND GAS 

• Gas fitting – servicing, new, renovations 

• Gas hot water installs 

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• Kitchen / Bathroom renovations 

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Email: james@plumbingandgashq.co.nz 

Text: 021 174 9265 

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DISCOUNT FOR 

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need a new roof? 

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Free measure and quote. 

For a quality job contact us. 

163 ShandS road, hornby | Ph: 03 349 8439 

www.roofline.co.nz 

ROOF REPAIRS 

Locally owned & operated with 

over 30 years experience. 

• Extensions & repair • Roof coating 

• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol 

• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified 

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Phone Dave 981 0278 

or 021 223 4200 

E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz 

BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD 

Towing 

TRADES 

VIDEO PRODUCTION 

WINDOW TINTING 

For safe, damage free 

car transportation 

call Ashley’s Tow Taxi 

Special care for special cars 

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business & services 

in Christchurch’s 

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Delivered into over 92,000 

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business video 

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A video will bring your business alive & into your 

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The Star Classifieds 

Trades & Services 

•Re Roofing 

•Roof Repairs 

•Spouting 

Approved Age Concern provider 

Over 30 years experience 

Licensed Building Practitioner 

N A BARRELL 

ROOFING LTD 

Ph: 349 9778 or 0275 389 415 

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House & Garden 

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trimming 

Tree removal 

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CALL us 021 405 277 

rooF 

painting 

Book now and 

receive 20% 

discount. 

Rope and harness a 

speciality. 

No scaffolding required. 

30 years experience. 

Free quotes, call 

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• Commercial Carpet Cleaning 

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021-1966-311 


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housing and switch board 20 yrs exp.No job too 

sPiritUaList 

PLASTERING (INT) 

replacements. Phone Chris small.Prompt service, Experience and ChUrCh 

027 516 0669 

reasonable rates.Free Excellence. Small to 

ELECTRICIAN 

quotes.Ph Wayne 9813873 Medium job specialists 182 Edgeware Road 

Available, 30 years /0272853083 

in all aspects of Interior Sunday Service 7pm 

experience, immediate HANDYMAN/BUILDER Plastering. Please call Tim 

start, competitive rate, All repairs & maintenance. 021 052 8276 

Address 

ph Brian 027 433 9548 Carpentary, tiling, PLUMBER 

Andy Douglas 

ELECTRICIAN 

painting, windows, A Top Plumbing job 

Clairvoyant 

Registered, electrical doors, spouting, roofing, completed at a fair price, 

Andy Douglas 

installation and repairs, kitchens, bathrooms,. Free prompt service, all work 

Gorbie Electrical, ph 021 

026 73375 or 03 322 4209 

quotes. Ph Ian 021 684- 

885 

guaranteed, ph Brian 960- 

7673 or 021 112-3492 

All Welcome 

Church Notices 

SYDENHAM CHRISTIAN 

SPIRITUAL CHURCH 

Sydenham Community 

Centre 

23/25 Hutcheson St 

Address 

Sandy 

Clairvoyance 

Sandy 

Sunday 7pm 

All Welcome 

Phone 349-9749 

NEW AGE CHRISTIAN 

SPIRITUAL CENTRE 

Grafton Street 

Sunday 7pm 

Address: 

Shirley 

Clairvoyance: 

Tina 

Tuesday 1pm - 3pm 

Healing & 

Clairvoyance 

All Welcome 

Christian Science 

Church 

Sunday Service 

10am - 11am 

Sunday School 

10am - 11am 

Testimony Meeting 

Weds 7.30pm 

Reading Room 

Tues & Sat 10am - 1pm 

Fri 12pm - 3pm 

ALL WELCOME 

66 Carlton Mill Rd, Merivale 

TEL. 03 366 2544 

www.christiansciencenz.org 

Finance 

Classic Cars & 

Motorcycles 

MITSUBISHI CORDIA 

turbo GSR, 1985, low 

kms, 1 previous family 

owned, red, suit collector, 

ph 352 5963 

Computer 

Services 

SeniorNet 

Mac 

Apple tuition & help 

for any age group. 

Apple computers, iPad, 

iPhone and watch. 

41 Essex Street 

Mon, Wed and Fri 

10am-12 Noon 

Further details phone 

365 1979 

Curtains 

A1 CURTAINS/ 

DRAPES. Roman blinds, 

tie backs, cushions, nets 

& voiles, plus alterations. 

Free quotes. Ph Kay 980 

1501 or 021 257 1823. kay. 

tainui88@gmail.com 

A1 CURTAINS/ 

DRAPES. Roman blinds, 

tie backs, cushions, nets 

& voiles, plus alterations. 

Free quotes. Ph Kay 980 

1501 or 021 257 1823. kay. 

tainui88@gmail.com 

Flatmates 

FLATMATE 

WANTED.$130 p/w, incl 

power.Ph 021 08748205 

NEED A 

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LOAN NOW? 

We offer a range of personal Loans 

and can provide cash quickly. 

Loans from $500 to $20,000 

Contact Karyn or Kris 

0800 695 626 

or 03 379 7798 

www.alternatefinance.co.nz


Funeral Directors 



Situations Select Services Vacant 

Situations Vacant 

Non-Service Cremation $2,050 

Just Funerals, a family owned and 

operated company with qualified, 

registered and experienced staff. 

Other services also 

available, please 

call to enquire. 

Phone 0800 804 663 - 24 Hour Availability 

Email: info@justfunerals.co.nz 

christchurch.justfunerals.co.nz 

For Sale 

ELECTRIC BEDS. 

x2 ,King single,8 months 

old with remotes. $2000 

each. Ph 021 0750049 

FRIDGE FREEZER 

with ice maker,8 months 

old. 10 yr warrenty. $1500 

Ph 021 0750049 

STEP LADDER dble 

sided $75. Electric 

reclining lounge chair 

$100 ono. Ryobi Wet 

& Dry vaccum & long 

extension lead $70. Half 

barrell water feature $100 

ono.All items in very good 

cond. Ph 383-0045 

TV. 55 INCH. 

Brand new incl cabinet 

$1,500 Ph 021 075 0049 

Garage Sales 

ADDINGTON 9 Braddon 

St, Sat 10am. Toys, 

clothing, books, DVD’s, 

furniture etc 

ADDINGTON 9 Braddon 

St, Sat 10am. Toys, 

clothing, books, DVD’s, 

furniture etc.. 

CASHMERE 

18 Molesworth Place. 

Saturday 8am - 2pm. 

Household Items, golf 

gear, tools, clothing, 

bedding, Linen & Drapes. 

(If wet Cancelled) 

MASSIVE BOOK FAIR 

St Martins Scout Group 

297 Centaurus Road. 

Sat 27 & Sun 28 April 9am 

- 3pm. Book fair to raise 

money for scouts going to 

Jamboree 

Gardening 

& Supplies 

Save your 

watering 

by using 

Magic Mulch 

“This Product Sucks” 

at all leading 

garden centres 

Instructions at 

www.magicmoss.co.nz 

Gardening 

& Supplies 

A GARDEN OR 

LANDSCAPING TIDY 

UP? Shrub, hedge & 

tree pruning, Lawns, 

Gardening, consistently 

reliable general property 

upkeep, Dip. Hort. 10 

yrs experience, One off 

tidy ups or on-going 

service. Nick’s Garden 

Maintenance. Keeping 

your garden beautiful. 

Free Quote. Ph. 942-4440 

& 022 264 7452 

Funeral Directors 

Direct 

Cremation 

No frills, No Service, 

No fuss, simply 

straight to the crem. 

Other options 

available. 

Ph: 379 0178 

for our brochure 

or email 

office@undertaker.co.nz 

Gardening 

& Supplies 

LANDSCAPE GARDEN 

PROFESSIONAL 

Qualified Horticulturist, 

offering expert, garden 

makeovers, design and 

landscaping, for free 

quotes call Bryce 027 688- 

8196 or 0508 242-733 

MONDO GRASS Black. 

Large pots full. $5. Ph 

352-2590 

PETE’S GARDENING 

SERVICE Gardening, 

rubbish removal, cleanups, 

expert pruning, hedge 

trimming, tree cutting, 

good rates, no job too 

big or too small, half the 

price of a franchise. WINZ 

Quotes. Ph 027 551 4118 

Handy Person 

Services 

Tired of that dripping 

tap?Brassed off with 

those sticking doors and 

windows?Sick of looking 

at that broken gate & 

fence?Help is at hand!Ph 

John on 021 149 0986 for 

an obligation free quote to 

ease your mind. 

Massage 

MALE Masseur, relax 

massage, waxing for men, 

8am-8pm ph 027 723 5756 

Personals 

MARRIED COUPLES 

Wanted for swingers club. 

Ph no txt 027 2230948 

MARRIED COUPLES 

Wanted for swingers club. 

Ph no txt 027 2230948 

Pets & Supplies 

CATS UNLOVED 

can help with the cost 

of desexing your cat. 

Ph 3555-022 or email 

catsunloved@xtra.co.nz 

Heat Pump Specialist 

(Registered Electrician) 

Installation • Sales • Maintenance 

LOMO 4Kw 

Heat Pump 

$1,790 installed 

* 

Conditions apply, 

other models also 

available 

Contact Stu Masters: 027 472 7955 or 03 338 0295 

www.greeonline.com | airconmasters@xtra.co.nz 

Tuition 

COMPUTER LESSONS 

avail for computer, IPad, 

or Mobile. Please contact 

Jobee 027 290 9246 www. 

computertutor.nz 

Wanted To Buy 

AAA Buying goods 

quality furniture, beds, 

stoves, washing machines, 

fridge freezers. Same day 

service. Selwyn Dealers. 

Phone 980 5812 or 027 

313 8156 

A+ About to move? Books, 

china, coins, medals, 

furniture, furs, jewellery, 

tools, old photos, estate. 

Ph 385-5117 

A+ Household effects, 

fridges, freezers, washing 

machines, ovens. Good 

cash paid. Ph Paul 022 

0891 671 

ALL whiteware wanted. 

Same day service, cash 

paid for freezes, fridges, 

washing machines, ovens. 

Also buying furniture & 

h/hold effects.Anything 

considered. Ph Dave 960- 

8440, 027 66 22 116 

ALL whiteware wanted. 

Same day service, cash 

paid for freezes, fridges, 

washing machines, ovens. 

Also buying furniture & 

h/hold effects.Anything 

considered. Ph Dave 960- 

8440, 027 66 22 116 

A RECORDS Wanted 

top cash prices paid for 

good records. No easy 

listening. Please ph 027 

624 1138 

BUYING Now, Royal 

Albert, Royal Doulton, all 

old china, crystal, antiques, 

estate lots. For best prices 

and free inspection call 

Academy Antiques. Phone 

349-4229 

MILITARIA Any 

country, firearms, 

uniforms, badges, medals, 

memoribilia, WW2 or 

earlier ph 338-9931 

TOOLS, Garden garage, 

saw benches, Lathes. Cash 

buyer Phone 355-2045 

DIRTY 

TILES & 

GROUT? 

Our unique restoration processes will make your 

tiled areas look BRAND NEW again! 

We provide cost effective makeovers for showers, 

bathrooms, kitchens or any other tiled areas. 

Tiled Shower Makeovers 

Professional Tile & Grout Cleaning 

Re-Colouring of existing Grout 

Tile/Grout Sealing 

Tile/Grout Repairs 

Silicone Replacement 

Garage Carpet Installation 

For your FREE no obligation quote contact 

DARRYL 

Select Services 

0800 882 772 

darryl.p@groutpro.co.nz 

STOP leaveS 

birds, snow, hail & vermin from 

blocking up your spouting 

Quality materials: BHP Colorbond steel mesh with 

unique patented louvre will even keep out pine needles. 

Will not rust or sag with age or load. 10 year warranty, 

range of colours. 

Proven in Australia & New Zealand over the last 15 years. 

FOR SaFe, PURe DRINKING 

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Call Rohan anytime Mon-Sat for a 

no-obligation assessment & quote 

0800 486532 

www.gumleaf.co.nz 

ADD SOME 

COLOUR 

TO YOUR ADVERT! 

St John Caring Caller 

Volunteer Team Leader 

St John Caring Callers provide friendship and regular 

contact over the phone to people in the community. 

We have an exciting volunteer opportunity for a 

Team Leader to manage our Caring Callers in the 

Christchurch area. 

We are looking for someone who: 

• Can commit 3 - 5 hours each week 

• Is computer literate 

• Has experience and ability to lead a team and be a 

team-player 

• Has excellent communication skills 

For more information contact Sandra Young on 

0800 785 646. 

Apply online before 10 May 2019 

www.join.stjohn.org.nz - job code 39876 

Situations Vacant 

Engineer 

Allied Press Dunedin 

Allied Press Limited employs more than 450 people 

across our 15 sites in the South Island. We operate 

across multiple media platforms (print, on-line, digital) delivering 

news, information and entertainment through our various regional 

and city publications. Our industry is one that is undergoing rapid 

change with the ever evolving digital age. 

Allied Press is currently looking for a qualified engineer to join our 

team in Dunedin. 

The purpose of this role is to ensure that production equipment 

availability is maximised by the efficient and effective scheduling, 

prioritising and implementation of maintenance activities across all 

production areas. 

To succeed you will have: 

• An engineering qualification 

• The ability to demonstrate sound judgement, be able to react 

quickly, fault find, and be familiar with engineering diagrams. 

• An industrial background with fitting/turning and tooling 

experience is preferable 

• Common knowledge of single and double width newspaper 

presses, specifically of Goss Manufacture and mailroom 

equipment of Ferag manufacture. 

Experience in pneumatic and hydraulic controls, including 

mechanical motor drive systems would be an advantage along with 

operating lathes, milling machines and welders. 

This is a fulltime position working the day shift from Monday to Friday, 

with rostered ‘on call’. Some night-shift work will also be required. 

In return we offer a great team environment where no one day will 

be same, a competitive salary and subsidised medical insurance. 

If you are flexible, have a positive attitude, and work well in a small 

team, please connect with us today! 

A copy of the job description can be requested from HR at 

recruitment@alliedpress.co.nz. Informal enquiries are welcome and 

should be directed to Raja Chakrabarti, Operations Manager (raja. 

chakrabarti@alliedpress.co.nz). 

Applications are by way of CV and covering letter to recruitment@ 

alliedpress.co.nz and close on Tuesday 30 April 2019. 

Please note that you must have the right to live and work in New 

Zealand to apply for this role. 

Disclaimer: Allied Press does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. 

Allied Press is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited 

resumes.



Vehicles Wanted 

CAR REMOVALS 

$$CASH PAID$$ 

CARS, VANS, UTES & 4X4 WANTED 

NZ OWNED AND OPERATED FOR 24 YEARS 

We use world class vehicle depollution systems 

0800 8200 600 

www.pickapart.co.nz 


Crossword Situations Vacant Solutions 

Vehicles Wanted 

CASH/CASH for any 

unwanted vehicles, ph 

347 9354 or 027 476 2404 

Public Notices 

Direct cremations 

$2,995 

• Committal 

service 

• Tangihanga 

• Simple cremation 

service 

• Burial services 

• Eco urns 

available 

0800 000 121 

www.integrity 

cremations.kiwi 

Simple, affordable 

and dignified 

Lest we 

forget 


HOUSE & GARAGE 

Cleanout. I’ll pick up for 

free. Ph 022 510 5420. 

Recycling Man. Charity 

for Chch. 

Entertainment 

Advertising 

Clubs, Pubs, Restaurants, 

Shows, Movies, Family 

Attractions, Holiday 

Activities, Housie, Musicals, 

Concerts and a whole lot 

more, every Thursday in 

The Star. 

For all your important 

notices, advertise in 

The Star, where it will be 

seen by 179,000 people 

every Thursday. 

For professional, helpful 

service, Phone 379-7100 


Public Notice 

Public Notice 

Public Notice 

Exhibitors 

Book now 

Don’t miss your opportunity to 

showcase your business in front of 

10,000+ qualified attendees 

lisa.lynch@starmedia.kiwi or 021 800 809


christchurch 

GIG GUIDE 

Thursday 25 April - Wednesday 1 May 2019 

To add a listing, contact 

Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or 

027 458 8590 

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi/whatson 

A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St: 

Thursday 7.30pm - Open Mic. Saturday 8pm - 

Town & About Returns feat. Neville Wilkins & 

the Viscounts plus guests, $5 entry. Monday 

7pm - Quiz. Wednesday 7.30pm - Traditional 

Irish Music Session. 

BILL’S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday 

6pm - Mickey Rat’s Karaoke. Sunday 6pm - 

Mickey Rat’s Karaoke. 

BLUE SMOKE, 3 Garlands Rd, 

Woolston: Saturday 7.30pm - Larkin Poe 

SOLD OUT. 

CASHMERE CLUB, 50 Colombo St: 

Thursday 6.30pm - DnD Duo (Jojo & Mark) in 

Pool Hall; 7pm - Cashmere Ukulele Group in 

Cashmere Lounge. Friday 7.30pm - Club 44th 

Anniversary Celebrations presents Party Like 

It’s 1975 feat. DnD Showband, $10 entry 

(Cashmere Club members FREE). 

CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, Victoria 

St: Thursday 5.30pm - Des Newton; 8.45pm - 

Peter Cairns. Friday 6pm - Acoustic Solution; 

9.15pm - Shannon Cooper-Garland. Saturday 

7pm - Marcel; 10.15pm - X-Files. Sunday 

5.30pm - Stephen James. 

CHRISTCHURCH TOWN HALL, 86 

Kilmore St: Sunday 8pm - Danny Bhoy ‘Age 

of Fools’. Monday 7.30pm - Norah Jones. 

Tickets at Ticketek. 

GBC, Garden Buffet Cafe, 110 

Marshland Rd: Saturday 5.30pm - DnD 

Duo (Jojo & Mark). 

HORNBY WMC, 17 Carmen Rd, 

Hornby: Saturday 7.30pm - Krakkajack. 

Sunday 1.30pm - Annette’s Heart of the 

Country, $6 entry. 

HORNCASTLE ARENA, Jack Hinton 

Drive: Tickets at Ticketek. 

ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL, 145 

Gloucester St: Tickets at Ticketek. 

JAZZ AFTER WORK, Ara Music Arts 

Auditorium, 130 High St: Friday 6.10pm 

- Jennine Bailey, Tom Rainery and Michael 

Story,.$10 entry. 

MAINSTREET SPORTS BAR, 37 High 

St, Rangiora: Sunday 4pm - Assembly 

Required. 

MORNING MELODIES, Papanui RSA, 

55 Belvue Ave: Wednesday 10.30am to 

1pm - Morning Melodies ‘Country Style’ with 

Smokey & Lorraine, and their group of 

entertainers. $2 entry. 

NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine 

Pde: Sunday 2pm - End Game. 

PIERSIDE CAFE & BAR, 3 Brighton 

Mall, New Brighton: Thursday - Poker 

Night. Friday 9pm - Free play pool. Saturday 

8pm - Live music. 

RACECOURSE HOTEL, 118 

Racecourse Rd, Sockburn: Sunday 

6pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke. 

RICHMOND WMC, 75 London St, 

Richmond: Friday 7.35pm - Crusaders v 

Lions. Saturday 7pm - AMPT. Sunday 3pm - 

Anthony. 

STOCKXCHANGE, 110 Marshland 

Rd: Friday 7pm - Misfitz. Saturday 7pm - 

Usual Suspects. 

TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, Hornby: 

Friday 8.30pm - DV8. Saturday 8.30pm - 

Misfitz. Wednesday - Mickey Rat Karaoke. 

THE CRAIC IRISH BAR, 84 Riccarton 

Rd: Thursday 9.30pm - Karaoke. Friday - 

Rocky Road. Saturday - Stout. Duo Wednesday 

9pm- Karaoke. 

THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: 

Thursday 8pm - Titanic (Kevin Emmett, Nick 

Buchanan, and Peter K Malthus). Friday 8pm - 

Open Mic. Tuesday 8pm - Karaoke. 

THE LITTLE FIDDLE, 132 Oxford Tce: 

Friday 10pm - DJ TKO. Saturday - Rocky 

Road. Sunday 2pm - Keenan’s Duo. 

THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd, 

Addington: Thursday 7pm - Learn to Rock 

n Roll. Friday 9.30pm - Flat City Brotherhood. 

Saturday 9.30pm - Old Skool. Tuesday 7.30pm 

- Quiz with Chris. Wednesday 8pm - Karaoke 

with Lance Kiwi. 

THE PAPANUI CLUB, 310 Sawyers 

Arms Rd: Friday 7.30pm - Mandi Miller. 

Next Friday 3rd May - Vibe. 

THE WAVE BAR, Marine Pde, New 

Brighton: Thursday 8.30pm - Karaoke. 

Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 8.30pm - Live 

music. 

WOOLSTON CLUB, 43 Hargood St: 

Saturday 7.30pm - Dangerbaby. 

WUNDERBAR, Lyttelton: Tuesday 

7.30pm - Musician Showcase feat. Courtney 

Allison. 

‘Famous for their roasts!’ 

RESTAURANT & CAFÉ 

Cooked Breakfasts 

Check out our extensive breakfast 

menu from Continental to Cooked 

We are open from 6.30am 

Seniors SPECIAL 

Two courses $22 

Soup/Roast or 

Roast/Dessert 

Special available lunch only 

Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm 

Buffet at 

its best! 

Lunch & Dinner 

All you can eat, 7 days 

NO SUR CHARGE 

ANZAC DAY 

CLOSED FOR LUNCH 

OPEN FOR DINNER 

SERVING 

HAPPY HOUR 

5PM - 7PM DAILY 

$19 

TREAT THE 

FAMILY! 

Kid’s 2 course 

special 

School 

Holidays 

We are family 

friendly. 

Great Kids menu 

plus designated 

play area. 

$13 

The 

RACECOURSE HOTEL 

& Motorlodge 

118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn, 

Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150 

www.racecoursehotel.co.nz 

Bookings Essential PH 386 0088 

fb.com/GardenHotelRestaurant www.gardenhotel.co.nz 

OUR CABINET ITEMS 

ARE HOMEMADE 

CREATED FRESH ON SITE DAILY 

$12 

LUNCH 

SPECIALS 

COFFEE 

HAPPY 

H O U R 

2PM-4PM 

DAILY 

THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX | 110 MARSHLAND RD 

www.gardenhotel.co.nz | phone 385 3132 

$3.50 

Offer available for a limited time 

and includes tea, hot chocolate 

MON: ROAST MEAL 

TUE: FISH & CHIPS 

WED: FISH BURGER 

THU: ROAST MEAL 

SAT: FISH & CHIPS 

AVAILABLE 

FROM 

11.30AM-2PM 

FOR A 

LIMITED TIME 

LIVE MUSIC 

THIS SATURDAY 

5.30-7.30PM 

DnD Duo 

PHONE 385 8880 FIND US ON FACEBOOK fb.com/GBCCHCH 

Proudly presented by 

DIRECT FROM 

LONDON 

THE WORLD’S PREMIER 

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Over 4000 performances 

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FRIDAY 15.NOV.19 

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“A terrific show” 

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“...fastidiously authentic” 

The Daily Telegraph 

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H 

ORNBY 

WORKINGMEN’S 

CLUB 

LIVE MUSIC THIS WEEKEND 

SATURDAY 7.30PM: 

SUNDAY 1.30PM: 

ANNETTE’S HEART 

OF THE COUNTRY 

$6 ENTRY 

FAMILY FRIENDLY DINING 

CLUBS NEW ZEALAND WARMLY 

WELCOME MEMBERS, THEIR GUESTS 

AND AFFILIATE CLUB MEMBERS. 

PARTY LIKE 

IT’S 1975! 

OUR 

FAMOUS 

ROAST 

DINNER 

IS BACK! 

THIS SATURDAY 

DINNER FROM 5.30PM 

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL 

MUSIC AT 7.30pm 

KRAKKAJACK 

SAVE THE DATE 

COMING UP... 

FRIDAY 10 MAY 

INDIAN NIGHT 

NEXT SUNDAY 

5-8PM IN THE SPORTS HALL 

SUNDAY 

12TH MAY 

● 

● 

● 

ADULTS $27 

CHILDREN 5-12: 

$1 PER YEAR OF AGE 

BOOKING ESSENTIAL 

BUFFET’S COMING UP: 

SUNDAY 5TH MAY 

SUNDAY 9TH JUNE 

BOOK NOW! 

03 349 9026 

ENJOY A DELICIOUS 

STEAK DINNER, 

SERVED WITH EGGS, 

CHIPS AND A SIDE 

SALAD FOR ONLY $20. 

AVAILABLE 

5PM-7.40PM 

ON MONDAYS 

& TUESDAYS. 

GO IN THE 

DRAW TO 

WIN A 

PAMPER 

PACK 

FOR MUM! 

*Conditions apply 

BUFFET LUNCH 12-2PM 

BUFFET DINNER 5-8PM 

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. 

ADULTS $30. KIDS 12 & UNDER 

JUST $1 PER YEAR OF AGE 

MID WEEK 

MEAL DEALS! 

CLUB CAFÉ 

LUNCH SPECIAL 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY 

THURSDAY 

MIDDAY TO 2PM 

ONLY 

$12 

ROAST OF THE DAY 

WITH VEGES 

-OR- 

FISH OF THE DAY 

WITH CHIPS & SALAD 

ADD A DESSERT FOR JUST $5 

BRING A GUEST! 

The Hornby Club | ph 03 349 9026 | 17 Carmen Rd | Hornby 

www.hornbywmc.co.nz Members, guests & affiliates welcome 

THIS FRIDAY 

What’s On @ Woolston 

SATURDAY 4 MAY 7.30PM 

TICKETS $35 pre 

$40 door 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

SATURDAY 27 APRIL 7.30PM 

THE 

SINGS 

ADELE & AMY 

Songbook 

LIVE MUSIC 

Dangerbaby 

43 Hargood St, Woolston. Ph 03 389 7039 

www.woolstonclub.co.nz 

Follow us on Facebook 

www.facebook.com/WoostonclubInc 

RESTAURANT OPEN 

Wednesday - Sunday from 5pm 

Sunday Roast 

BUFFET 

INCLUDES A 

ROAST & DESSERT 

5PM - 7PM 

$20 ADULTS 

$12.50 KIDS 

$10 

Lunch Menu 

●Chef’s Choice of 

3 Sliders with Fries 

●Roast Roll with Gravy & Fries 

●Roast Vege & Feta Calzone 

●Spaghetti & Meatballs 

●Pot Pie with Mash 

●Buffalo Chicken Nibbles 

●Curry of the Day with Rice 

●Fish Cakes with 

Slaw & Chilli Sauce


What s On 

AT THE 

CLUBS NEW ZEALAND WARMLY 

WELCOME MEMBERS, THEIR GUESTS 

AND AFFILIATE CLUB MEMBERS. 

Become 

a member 

TODAY! 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT A 

CLUB WITHIN THIS SECTION. 

WHAT’S ON 

AT THE 

RICHMOND 

CLUB 

BOOK NOW 03 389 5778 

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL *Conditions apply 

Entertainment News & Advertising 

Jo Fuller 

Phone 03 364 7425 or 027 458 8590 

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi/whatson 

THIS WEEKEND 

FRIDAY LIVE RUGBY 

7.35PM CRUSADERS v LIONS 

SATURDAY 7PM 

richmond 

club 

www.rwmc.co.nz 

pride of the east 

since 1888 

SUNDAY 3PM 

ANTHONY 

• Open daily from 11am 

• BISTRO Lunch/Dinner 

• Courtesy Van 

• TAB & Gaming 

75 London St 

Ph 03 389 5778 

www.rwmc.co.nz 

Cashmere Club 

50 Colombo Street 

ANNIVERSARY 

THURSDAY ANZAC DAY 

OPEN FROM 1PM 

Donations to the Poppy 

appeal available now 

at the Bar or Restaurant 

HAPPY HOUR 4pm-6pm 

MEAT RAFFLES from 4pm 

MEMBERS 

CASH DRAW 

Ph 03 332 0092 

Fax 03 337 3772 

www.cashmereclub.co.nz 

44th 

WE TURN 44 

$1800 

*T’s & C’s apply. 

ANZAC DAY 

LIVE MUSIC 

IN THE POOL HALL 

6.30-9.30PM 

DnD Duo 

THURSDAY from 7pm 

IN THE CASHMERE LOUNGE 

Cashmere Ukulele Group 

NEW PLAYERS & SINGERS WELCOME 

LIVE FOOTY 

ON THE SCREENS IN THE 

POOL HALL 

NRL RUGBY 9.50pm: 

STORM v WARRIORS 

FRIDAY 

HAPPY HOUR 4pm-6pm 

MEAT RAFFLES from 4pm 

FRIDAY BINGO 

6.30PM IN THE HEATHCOTE ROOM. 

REGISTER FROM 6PM 

THIS FRIDAY! 

WE’RE CELEBRATING! 

FRIDAY cont... 

LIVE FOOTY 

ON THE SCREENS IN THE 

SPORTS BAR AND POOL HALL 

SUPER RUGBY 7.35pm: 

CRUSADERS v LIONS 

PARTY LIKE 

IT’S 1975! 

●Beverage Specials 

●$15 one plate 

CARVERY 

in the Riverview Restaurant 

from 5.30pm 

LIVE MUSIC 

in the Sports Hall from 7.30pm 

featuring 

DnD SHOWBAND 

playing classic hits of the decade 

PRIZES FOR BEST COSTUMES 

DRINK SPECIALS 

ENTRY $10. 

FREE FOR CASHMERE CLUB 

MEMBERS. 

Riverview 

SUNDAY 

KIDS EAT 

RESTAURANT 

BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED*FREE 

*under 12 when accompanied by an adult dining 

WEDNESDAY 

QUIZ NIGHT 

7PM SPORTS BAR. TEAMS OF 4-6. 

Christchurch’s only beach side club 

What’s On by the beach 

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS 

MEMBERS LUCKY CARD DRAW 

FRIDAYS 

between 6-7pm 

JOKER JACKPOT 

THIS FRIDAY’S 

JACKPOT 

$1500 

FRIDAY 7.35pm - ON THE BIG SCREEN 

CRUSADERS v LIONS 

LIVE MUSIC THIS SUNDAY 2-6PM 

Dine by the Beach 

PIERVIEW 

RESTAURANT 

UPSTAIRS 

Open from 5.30pm 

Fri, Sat, Sun, 

Sunday Brunch from 

10.30am to 2pm. 

MONTH END 

SUNDAY NIGHT 

BUFFET $25 

Sunday 28 April 

CLUB 

BISTRO 

DOWNSTAIRS 

Open Tues to Sat 

12pm - 2pm & 

from 5pm 

BISTRO ROAST 

SPECIAL 

Tuesday - Thursday 

Dine in only 

$13 

FUNCTION ROOMS - GAMING ROOM - TAB POD - SHUTTLE SERVICE Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat. 

202 Marine Pde - Ph 388-9416 - www.newbrightonclub.co.nz - Members, guests & affiliates welcome


ALL LOUNGE 

ALL BEDROOM 

ALL DINING 

ON SALE ON SALE ON SALE 

INTRODUCING THE 

Calvin 

Cute, compact 

& only $ 499 

Looks great with 

our Woodwall range! 

Available as a 2 Seater or 3 Seater in Grey or Emerald Green. 

Shop 

Online 

Nationwide 

Delivery 

Finance 

Options 

targetfurniture.co.nz 

Storewide sale on now. Ends 06.05.19. Excludes Manchester & Accessories. 

Cnr Blenheim & Curletts Rds, Christchurch 

Ph: 0800 TARGET (0800 827438) 

Offers and product prices advertised here expire 06/05/19. 

Sale excludes Manchester and Accessories.


Mother’s Day 

gift 

guiDe 

win 

a Weekend in 

hanMer springs 

Just spend $25 or more in one 

transaction to go in the draw 

*Conditions apply 

pLus 

2x $100 

vouchers to 

Be won! 

Sponsored by: 

Bigger Better Bush inn 

Monday - Friday 9:00am - 6:00pm | Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm | Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm 

Public Holidays 10:00am - 5:00pm | Food Outlets 11:30am - until late 

Corner of Riccarton Road and Waimairi Road | www.bushinncentre.co.nz


spoil mum 

this mother’s day 

paper plus 

Mindfood cook book $19.99 

Buy 2, get 1 free on “Be in a good mood” products 

elite Meats 

Show your love for 

Mum with a beautiful 

home cooked meal 

for under $25 

hoMestead health 

15% discount on Skincare for Mothers day. 

Promotion ends 19th May. 

Fascino shoes 

Gift vouchers available 

European footwear at Bush Inn 

the Main skein 

Beautiful Velvet Bags by 

Essence, available in a 

variety of shades and also 

as a Carpet Bag. 

Tote $53.90 

Carpet Bag $79.90 

haircare Market 

Buy a earth gold limited edition ghd styler for $245 and 

receive a free Wella thermal image heat protection 

spray (worth $27). Over Mothers day weekend to get 

25% off Wella, Schwarzkopf and Nioxin. 

While stocks last. Not including items already on special. 

tuk tuk 

Traditional Thai Street Food that will transport your 

mum to the warmth of a Thailand treat. Open for 

Lunch and Dinner. 

MuFFin break 

Buy 2 coffees & a muffin and get a FREE muffin! 

all about a girl 

Ankle Grazer Pant $159.90 

Merino Ruffle Trim 

Poncho $169.95 

ok Mart 

$2.50 for wool and $3.00 for the Mothers Day cards. 

plus many more great specials at our other sto


the nail shop 

Manicure and spa pedicure combo $75 

petersen’s jeWellers 

Karen Walker STG acorn and leaf and in 9ct Rose 

gold and STG 

Karen Walker forest acorn earrings in STG 

Karen Walker forest acorn ring in STG 

unicheM 

25% off Trilogy 

From 29th April - 26th May 

lincraFt 

Highly scented glass jar candles 

170g - 35hrs burn time $12 $9.60 

300g - 50hrs burn time $17 $13.60 

700g - 45hrs burn time $30 $24.00 

hachi hachi 

Hachi Hachi new 

Rewards app! 

Download it and 

treat Mum to a 

free sushi pack on 

sign up! 

haircuts For 

haircuts 

Treat Mum for 

a haircut – no 

appointment needed 

Ladies dry cut $27 or 

restyle $35 

Frontrunner 

Treat Mum to the new Adidas lux light weight 

gym/walking shoe. 

WAS $149 NOW $120 

la Wheat 

Breads for Mum! 

Mister Minit 

20% off engraving with any giftware purchase* 

Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, cannot be redeemed for cash. 

Giftware must be purchased from Mister Minit, valid till 12/05/19 

leather direct 

High Quality Fashion Leather 

giFts4u 

Cards, Jewellery, hats 

and much more… 

konnichiWa 

The Lucky Cat and lots of great gifts and giftware. 

res - offers exclusive to bush inn stores only


FIND MUM 

THE PERFECT 

BOUQUET 

A large range of 

beautiful bouquets 

available. Victoria 

Florists at Bush Inn on 

the 10th, 11th and until 

2pm on the 12th May. 

AvONheAD ROAD 

IlAM ROAD 

CReyke ROAD 

Bigger Better Bush Inn 

WAIMAIRI ROAD WAIMAIRI ROAD 

DIY MOTHERS 

DAY CARD 

Make a Mother’s day card 

for Mum at Bush Inn from 

Thursday 9th May until 

Saturday the 11th 

May. 3pm –6pm and 

all day Saturday. 

FREE FOR CHIlDREN 

MATERIAlS SUPPlIED BY 

PAPER PlUS. 

MAIN sOuTh ROAD 

yAlDhuRsT ROAD 

SPOIl MUM THIS 

MOTHER’S DAY 

hANsONs lANe 

IlAM ROAD 

ClyDe ROAD 

RICCARTON ROAD RICCARTON 

BleNheIM ROAD Ble 

ANNex ROAD 

Monday – Friday 9:00am – 6:00pm 

Saturday 9:00am – 5:00pm 

Sunday 

10:00am -5:00pm 

Public Holidays 10:00am – 5:00pm 

MIDDleTON ROAD 

Our stores... 

All About a Girl | Be A Beauty | Black & White Coffee Cartel | BNZ | Burgerfuel | Carls Jr | Caroline Eve | Coffee Culture | Copy Print | Corianders 

Dubba Dubba | Elite Meats | Fascino Shoes | Flight Centre | Gifts for You | Hachi Hachi | Hair Care Market | Haircuts for Haircuts | Homestead Health 

Jinabob | Kebab Inn | Konnichiwa | La Wheat | Leather Direct | Lincraft | Lone Star | Moko Cafe | Mr Minit | Muffin Break | New York Deli 

Noodle Canteen | NZ Post | OK Mart | Paper Plus | Petersen’s Jewellers | Phonefix | Pizza Hut | Roast Ease | Shake Shed | Shanghai Dumpling 

Sports Bar/TAB | Sunshine Travel | Sushi Company | The Frontrunner | The Main Skein | The Nail Shop | Tuk Tuk | Unichem Pharmacy | Zambero

The Star: April 25, 2019

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