The Star: September 19, 2019

Circulation 93,000 Thursday, September 19, 2019 

Bowyn’s big bout – Page 37 

Nina’s secret to turning 108 

CELEBRATIONS: Nina 

Brown enjoyed cake and tea 

with diversional therapist 

Lisa McLean and friends at 

her 108th birthday party. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

Youths 

arrested 

over 

robberies 

on at-risk 

course 

• By Sophie Cornish 

• By Claire Booker 

NINA BROWN has never 

smoked or drank and loves her 

greens. 

And yesterday, she celebrated 

her 108th birthday. 

Nina, who is understood to 

be the oldest person in New 

Zealand, had a beaming smile 

as she cut her birthday cake at 

Windsorcare Retirement Village 

in Shirley. 

She has been a passionate 

“greenie” all her life, her 

nephew Murray Brown said. 

“Nina was way green before 

green was cool. When she 

washed her dishes, she would 

use a tub of water and Sunlight 

soap. Once the dishes were 

clean, she would use the soapy 

water to keep the aphids off her 

roses,” he said. 

Nina has never had any health 

issues, other than a couple of 

sprained ankles from Scottish 

Country Dancing which she did 

until she was 90, and a double 

hip replacement four years ago. 

She also never married. 

She would tell the staff at the 

retirement village: “I’m going 

to be the oldest New Zealander 

one day.” 

Nina studied to be a teacher 

when she was 16 and received a 

Master of Arts in English from 

Canterbury University. 

•Turn to page 4 

TEENAGERS allegedly involved 

in a spate of aggravated robberies 

were part of a programme 

designed to get at-risk youth back 

on track. 

Seven youths aged between 

15 and 18 have been remanded 

in custody after being arrested 

for two robberies in 

Christchurch. 

They have also been bragging 

on social media about their 

alleged offending. 

Youth & Cultural Development 

general manager Anni Watkin 

confirmed yesterday some of 

those arrested were part of its 

programme. 

YCD provides services to 

young people who are at risk of or 

getting involved in an offending 

circle. It partners 

with Child Youth and Family, 

Police Youth Aid, the Ministry of 

Youth Development and Youth 

Court. 

There have been about 10 

aggravated robberies at businesses 

across the city since the start of 

August. 

Detective Sergeant Daniel 

Isherwood said the seven arrested 

teenagers have only been charged 

in relation to two. 


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• By Louis Day 

CANCER SUFFERER Megan 

Hore has been dealt a devastating 

blow. 

She has been diagnosed with 

leukaemia and given months to 

live. 

The 19-year-old was declared 

cancer-free in October after 

battling bone cancer for more 

than a year. 

However, last month she had 

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left lung removed due to the 

cancerous nodules found on it. 

She fell ill after that, and was 

diagnosed with leukaemia and 

told it is terminal. 

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Driver almost six times over the limit 


A NORTH New Brighton 

woman has recorded one of 

the highest ever drink driving 

readings in New Zealand. 

The woman, aged in her mid- 

50s, was arrested last week after 

Terrible news for Megan 

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recording 1669mcg/L. 

The reading was almost six 

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She was charged with having 

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She was caught on Innes Rd 

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higher end of the scale.” 

In September 2015, a Kawerau 

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that’s the hard thing.” 

‘Now we don’t know 

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are taken away really’ 

– Marilyn Hore 

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news. 

She said she has been blown 

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shown for her daughter. 

“The staff at the hospital, our 

really close friends, the school 

I work at, all those people are 

really supporting us and it can 

be just a phone call to see how I 

am doing or Megan’s best friend 

coming around and sleeping 

2000mcg/L. In April 2016, a 

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that year in October, a 

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In January, a Blenheim man 

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on her floor. Those things are 

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The Star has been following 

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with the fundraising efforts to get 

her to Disneyland Paris in April, 

which was part of her bucket list 

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Megan described her trip as 

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every year on her birthday we 

would adopt another penguin.” 

NEWS 3 

in brief 

Russley School fire 

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classrooms at Russley School 

was caused by a faulty electrical 

multi-box. Four fire crews were 

called to the school on Cutts 

Rd at about 7.10am on Tuesday. 

It was extinguished by about 

10.15am. Fire investigator 

Wayne Hamilton said the team, 

which included an electrical 

engineer, has deemed the fire to 

be accidental. 

Man pleads guilty 

to crime spree 

A man who went on an 

11-month crime spree pleaded 

guilty to 35 charges in the 

district court yesterday. Jon- 

Paul Devereux, 35, will be 

sentenced in December on 

charges including burglary 

and theft, reckless driving, 

failing to stop, assaulting police, 

escaping custody, using stolen 

credit cards and breaching 

community work. His offending 

dated back from February last 

year to January. 

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Teaching and travelling 

were Nina’s passions 

‘A spike in this type of offending’ 

•From page 1 

On August 29, The Star reported 

an organised group of youths 

were allegedly carrying out the 

similar robberies as part of an 

initiation to be in the group. 

CCTV footage shows the offenders 

disguising themselves 

completely using clothing, armed 

with hammers and stealing cash, 

cigarettes, alcohol, and food. 

Two of the teenagers arrested, 

both with a history of aggravated 

robbery offending, moved from 

Auckland to Christchurch and 

were not under any parental 

supervision. 

Detective Sergeant Isherwood 

is concerned about the increase 

of teenagers getting involved 

in this type of crime to obtain 

money, by selling the stolen 

items. 

“This has the potential to create 

a culture where this type of 

offending is normalised amongst 

their peers and as a result we 

have seen a spike in this type of 

offending,” he said. 

“Those who are pressured 

about getting involved in this 

type of crime need to think 

very carefully about the harm it 

causes to victims and the impact 

a conviction for aggravated 

robbery will have on their 

future,” he said. 

Mrs Watkin said the teenagers 

could not have planned the robberies 

they have been charged 

with at YCD, as they were not on 

the course together. 

Services available to at-risk offenders 

are one-on-one and each 

young person is assigned a youth 

worker. 

“Yes, these young people are 

being influenced by each other, 

but regardless of where they 

are, it’s going to happen because 

young people are attracted to 

each other because of their 

behaviour and interests,” she 

said. 

•From page 1 

She worked as a teacher 

in England in the 1930s, 

until she was sent home when 

World War 2 broke out. 

“Her passions were teaching 

and travelling,” Mr Brown 

said. 

When she arrived back in 

New Zealand, she taught students 

throughout the war, and 

although her speciality was 

English the shortage of teachers 

saw her teaching a range 

of different subjects, including 

woodwork. 

Nina never drank alcohol, 

but Mr Brown said she always 

raved about his custard which 

had a healthy dash of brandy 

in it. 

At her party yesterday, 

Nina enjoyed a cup of tea 

and birthday cake with some 

friends and received a handwritten 

card from Prime 

Minister Jacinda Arden, and 

cards from Lianne Dalziel, 

the Queen and Government 

House – which she read 

without any assistance. 

Meanwhile, New 

Zealand’s oldest man, Ron 

Hermanns, who also lives in 

Christchurch, will celebrate 

his 108th birthday next 

week. 

‘I’m going to be the oldest 

New Zealander one day.’ 

– Nina Brown 

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(pictured in 1962) was a 

passionate Scottish Country 

Dancer, and danced until she 

was 90. 

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FORMER MAYOR Garry 

Moore has been accused of 

attempting to derail Darryll 

Park’s campaign for the 

mayoralty. 

Mr Moore wrote an article 

in his weekly Tuesday Club 

e-newsletter claiming a group 

of business people looking for a 

challenger to incumbent Mayor 

Lianne Dalziel were turned 

down a number of times before 

approaching Darryll Park. 

Mr Moore described Mr Park 

in the e-newsletter as “welldown-the-list 

Darryll” and 

criticised his campaign promise 

of zero rates. 

Mr Park would not discuss the 


COMMUNITY BOARDS have 

taken little notice of Darryll 

Park’s idea to cut funding to 

neighbourhood barbecues in 

order to decrease rates. 

At a major mayoral debate last 

week, Mr Park said he would 

need to cut $100 million over 

three years from the city council 

budget in order to achieve his 

fundamental campaign promise 

of zero rates. 

When asked how he would 

matter with The Star yesterday, 

leaving that to his campaign 

manager David Lynch. 

Mr Lynch said there was “a 

lot of misrepresentation in the 

article.” 

do this he said he would look 

at cutting community funding, 

such as neighbourhood 

barbecues. This sparked a public 

backlash and was ridiculed 

by incumbent mayor Lianne 

Dalziel during the debate. 

Since Mr Park made his 

comments, 79 barbecues have 

been approved by community 

boards. 

The Papanui-Innes Community 

Board approved $4000 for 

barbecues. 

John Stringer was the only 


Park fires back over e-newsletter 

Garry Moore Darryll Park David Lynch 

“I think it is an attempt to 

dissuade people from voting for 

Darryll, end of story. Whether 

there was a list or not the fact is 

at least Darryll is brave enough 

to put his life on hold and put 

member of the board to vote 

against the applications. 

Mr Stringer said he favoured 

Mr Park’s proposal. 

“Providing people with a piece 

of bread and a cold sausage is 

not core council knitting,” he 

said. 

The Coastal Burwood Community 

Board approved $2500 

of barbecues. 

City councillor and board 

member Glenn Livingstone 

dismissed Mr Park’s comments 

as “panicked’’ and said the 

up with this nonsense,” said Mr 

Lynch. 

“Garry can go and play in his 

electoral campaign sandpit for as 

long as he likes, we are not going 

to go there,” he said. 

Asked if the he thought the article 

was aimed at benefiting Ms 

Dalziel’s campaign, Mr Lynch 

said: “We know they are both 

very good friends.” 

Mr Moore said he stood by the 

article. 

He refuted suggestions that 

he was attempting to derail Mr 

Park’s campaign to benefit Ms 

Dalziel. 

“My issue is policy and if 

Lianne had a policy wrong I 

would tell her.” 

Neighbourhood barbecues on the menu 

barbecues were good value for 

money and a great way of bringing 

communities together. 

The Banks Peninsula 

Community Board also 

approved $1250 funding towards 

barbecues. 

Community Board deputy 

chairman Tyrone Fields 

labelled Mr Park’s comments as 

“moronic.” 

“The barbecues cost very little 

and the social outcomes from 

them massively outweigh the 

costs,” he said. 

NEWS 5 

City voters 

slower 

to enrol 


SO FAR, a lower percentage of 

Christchurch residents have 

enrolled for October’s local body 

elections than in 2016. 

Latest figures released 

yesterday show by the end of last 

month, 83.2 per cent of residents 

had enrolled, a slight decrease 

from the 84.4 per cent that 

enrolled by the end of August, 

2016, and down from 85.9 per 

cent who enrolled at the same 

time in 2013. 

Voting for the local body elections 

opens tomorrow. 

Lincoln University senior 

lecturer Dr Jean Drage did not 

think this was a trend restricted 

to Christchurch. 

“I think this is a case of what we 

are seeing worldwide, with voter 

turnout and interest falling and 

we see this in local government 

elections and national government 

elections,” she said. 

“This is part of a bigger thing 

that is happening here with the 

value of democracy falling, I 

think people really don’t understand 

how valuable democracy is 

any more.” 

Dr Drage thought lowering 

the voter age to 16 would help 

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KATE SHEPPARD’S former Ilam 

home has been purchased by the 

Government for $4.5 million. 

The category one listed home 

will join 43 other properties cared 

for by Heritage New Zealand on 

behalf of the public. 

The house was where Sheppard 

and suffragist supporters spent 

time working towards New 

Zealand becoming the first selfgoverning 

country in the world to 

grant women the vote. 

It was there that the 270m 

petition was pasted together 

before being presented to 

Parliament. 

Heritage New Zealand will 

partner with Canterbury 

University to open the home for 

a range of future use options, 

particularly highlighting 

Sheppard, the suffrage movement 

and their relevance today. 

The property, which borders 

Canterbury University’s Ilam 

campus, was purchased for $4.5 

million, which was within 10 

per cent of the property’s full 

independent valuation of $4.1 

million in 2018. 


MAYOR LIANNE Dalziel is 

fully behind the installation of 

permanent lights at Hagley Oval. 

It comes as the Canterbury 

Cricket Trust finalises its application 

to secure permanent 

lighting through earthquake 

recovery laws in a bid to secure 

high profile matches at the 2021 

Women’s 

Cricket World 

Cup. 

Said Ms 

Dalziel: “The 

international 

games will attract 

visitors to 

Christchurch. 

There is significant 

economic benefit to the 

city through visitor nights and the 

flow-on effect that has to everyone 

working in the service sectors that 

support our visitor economy.” 

The cricket trust wants to install 

six 48.9m permanent lights around 

the oval and increase the number 

of days the oval can be used for 

cricket from 13 to 25 a year. 

It is seeking to fast track the 

changes under section 71 of the 

Greater Christchurch Regeneration 

Act. It is working on the 

application alongside Crown 

agency Regenerate Christchurch. 

The Act gives Greater 

Christchurch Regeneration Associate 

Minister Poto Williams 


Dalziel backs Hagley Oval lights 

Lee Robinson 

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the power to approve changes 

without the same level of public 

input and scrutiny needed to 

amend the District Plan. 

Ms Williams will have 30 

days to decide whether she will 

proceed with it after receiving 

the proposal. If she does, she 

must invite written comments 

from the public before making a 

decision on the proposal within 

30 working days. 

Ms Dalziel’s main mayoral 

rivals are either not in support or 

would not comment. 

John Minto thought there 

was a “poor business case” for 

permanent lighting. 

He labelled using the Regeneration 

act to secure the lights 

as “bypassing the democratic 

process.” 

Darryll Park said it would 

be “inappropriate” for him to 

comment on a matter which is 

subject to ministerial decision. 

Cricket trust chairman Lee 

Robinson said it has received 

a “very favourable indication” 

from the International Cricket 

Council that Hagley Oval would 

receive at least one semi-final 

and possibly a final if it secures 

new lights. 

He said it would be highly 

unlikely the oval would host any 

high ranking teams such as India 

and England without the lights 

due to broadcasting agreements. 

Women’s Cricket World Cup 

2021 chief executive Andrea Nelson 

said the oval had every chance 

to secure a final or semi-final, but 

would need lights to do so. 

Current consent conditions 

allow four lights to be installed if 

the supports can be retracted and 

the light heads removed during 

the off-season. These were priced 

at $9 million to install in 2015. 

Mr Robinson said the permanent 

lights were likely to cost between 

$6 million and $9 million. 

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SCAMMERS HAVE been 

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buyers on unregulated online 

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Police in Christchurch are 

getting between 10 and 15 complaints 

a week. 

A 22-year-old is facing 

multiple fraud charges involving 

more than $40,000 of goods he 

allegedly scammed from sellers. 

Police allege the arrested 

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goods advertised on Facebook 

Marketplace and when he arrived 

to pick up the items would show 

the seller a screenshot of a bank 

transfer. 

But police say the screenshots 

were fraudulent and the money 

had not been transferred, leaving 

the seller out of pocket. Items 

included several laptops, a computer 

and a bike. 

Another 22-year-old man is also 

before the courts in relation to an 

alleged scam on Facebook Marketplace. 

He is facing four fraud 

charges after allegedly selling new 

power tools on marketplace. 

Police allege he opened a 

business account with a bank, 

obtained a credit limit and then 

went to a retail store to purchase 

about $10,000 of power tools, 

which he then sold online. 

Christchurch fraud squad head 

Detective Sergeant Don Fisher 

said anyone could fall victim to 


the often “faceless crimes” on the 

unregulated buying and selling 

platforms. 

He wants online buyers to be 

more aware, setting their own 

safeguards in place to avoid being 

scammed and to remember 

that police aren’t debt collectors. 

Far fewer complaints are 

received about websites like 

TradeMe, which have systems in 

place to catch fraudsters, he said. 

“People have to take due diligence 

for their own actions. They 

see a good deal on Facebook 

and are prepared to go with it, 

are they going to come to police 

when they realise the item is stolen 

and hand the property over? 

Or are they only going to complain 

when they get ripped off?” 

said Detective Sergeant Fisher. 

“You can’t expect to get ripped 

off and then come to police 

expecting them to be debt collectors. 

“It’s the old story, isn’t it? If it 

looks too good or sounds too 

good, it is too good. If it looks like 

and smells like a pig, it is a pig.” 

Safeguards buyers can put in 

place themselves include asking 

for payment in cash, doing the 

transaction in person and taking 

a photo of the person, their 

driver licence and their vehicle 

‘It’s the old story, 

isn’t it? If it looks 

too good or 

sounds too good, 

it is too good.’ 

– Detective Sergeant 

Don Fisher 

when you meet. 

Said detective Sergeant Fisher: 

“Say: ‘Look, I don’t want to 

offend you but this is just to 

safeguard me, I have heard of so 

many stories.’ And if they aren’t 

happy with that, walk away and 

don’t do the deal. 

“If you believe you have been 

scammed, get onto your bank 

immediately. They may be able 

to put a freeze on the account 

the money is going to. Talk to 

someone about it, don’t sit on 

it, confide in someone who is 

independent of the incident, 

they may be able to put a clearer 

picture on it.” 


NEWS 7 

Scam warning for online selling platforms 

Scammers have even 

unwittingly tried to con Don 

Fisher. 

Detective Sergeant Fisher 

got a call from an overseas 

number, attempting to trick 

him into handing over his 

personal details and trying 

to hack into his computer 

system. 

“I got a phone call on my 

work cellphone. It was an 

actual person, I was sitting at 

work. He was speaking away 

saying ‘good afternoon’ and 

talking about my computer 

and that they were working in 

the area, it went on and on. 

“Then he said: ‘Now I will 

put you on to my supervisor’ 

and put me onto another man. 

“He said: ‘Do you understand 

what my colleague is 

saying?’ I said: ‘No I don’t 

could you just explain it all 

again.’ 

“Then I said to him: ‘Just 

for your information, you are 

talking to a detective sergeant 

from the Christchurch fraud 

squad, and while you have 

been talking to me, we have 

been tracing your call and the 

police are outside your building 

now.’ Well, his language 

was very colourful. He just 

lost it. Then he hung up.” 

Detective Sergeant Fisher 

said it was a timely reminder 

that we can all be caught out. 

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NEWS 

Gang member 

jailed after 

fatal stabbing 

A PATCHED Nomads gangster 

who drove an associate to a house 

where he was later stabbed to 

death has been jailed for more 

than two years. 

Shayne George Heappey, 25, an 

associate of the gang, was murdered 

on December 8 after being 

stabbed 14 times. 

Richard John Sim, 51, had been 

tasked with tracking Mr Heappey 

down after he was accused of 

owing a person connected to the 

gang a small debt. 

Heappey had allegedly ignored 

repeated requests to settle the debt 

and various gang members were 

out to find him. 

Sim picked Heappey up and 

brought him back to his home in 

Russley, where he was attacked. 

Sim previously pleaded guilty at 

the High Court in Christchurch 

to a charge of causing grievous 

bodily harm with intent to injure. 

At the sentencing, Heappey’s 

family said their lives have been 

torn apart by the murder of their 

son, brother, father and friend. 

Sim, who has more than 100 

criminal convictions, was jailed 

for two years, three months. 

Four other people have been 

charged over Heappey’s death, 

including two men charged with 

his murder who are due to stand 

trial in March. 


EMOTIONS RAN high during 

the reunification of two families 

brought together almost 

80-years-ago by World War 2. 

It was a happy ending for 

Brian Wright and his daughter, 

Emma Ebrahim, who tracked 

down the Cretan family who 

helped hide and feed Mr 

Wright’s father, Arthur Wright, 

from the Nazis during the Battle 

of Crete in 1941. 

The Star, along with other local 

and international media, shared 

the story of the discovery in 

June, when Mrs Ebrahim managed 

to track the family down 

within 48-hours, using only 

Facebook, first names and one 

photo. 

Now, the pair are in Crete and 

met with 90-year-old Nikos Kalogeris, 

the only surviving child 

of the original family. 

He was 16-years-old when he 

met Arthur. 

His late-brother, Tasos and 

late-mother, Irene, also helped to 

hide Arthur and another solider, 

Stanley Hughes. 

Their family’s descendants 

welcomed Mr Wright and Mrs 

Ebrahim and they have been 

travelling around Crete together. 

They visited the village, 

Kambi, and house that Arthur 

and another solider, Stanley 


Emotional meeting in Crete 

MIRACLE: Brian Wright (left), Emma Ebrahim, Ana 

Dimotakis and the late Irene Kalogeris’ son Takis, when 

they travelled to the well where Arthur and Stanley hid 

from the Germans. Ana lives in the home where the 

soldiers sought refuge and were fed. 

Hughes, came to for help. 

They also found a water well 

that they had hidden by. 

“We cleared the debris from 

around the well for photos, it felt 

so surreal. I’m sure Grandad was 

right there with us that day,” Mrs 

Ebrahim said. 

Mrs Ebrahim said it was a 

unique moment meeting Nikos, 

UNEARTHED: The well 

close to where Arthur 

Wright and another soldier 

hid during World War 2. 

who is currently battling health 

issues, but still remembers helping 

Arthur. 

“Nikos was overcome with 

emotion as Regina (his wife) was 

translating our words to him, 

at this point tears were flowing 

with everyone. Miracles do happen,’’ 

she said. 

“He (Arthur) was very 

fortunate to find this house and 

family, to visit the well he stayed 

by was very emotional, I can’t 

believe we found it after all this 

time,” said Mr Wright. 

bad girls - the musical 

director - tom hart | musical director - cheryllynn callander 

Bad Girls – The Musical takes as its starting point the original core 

characters from the first three series of Bad Girls on TV. Set in the fictional 

HMP Larkhall. 

Bad Girls introduces us to an anarchic bunch of women on the edge 

and up against the odds - prostitutes, addicts, shop-lifters, murderers - 

each with a story to tell of lives left behind and dreams of a better future 

ahead, and an entrenched old guard of prison officers out to dash their 

every hope. 

Idealistic new Wing Governor Helen Stewart arrives at HMP Larkhall 

on a mission to reform the ‘us and them’ regime - and finds a surprising 

ally and soulmate in charismatic cop-killer Nikki Wade. But both face a 

ruthless adversary in corrupt Officer Jim Fenner, who wants Helen’s job 

and will do everything he can to undermine her... 

Then a tragic set of circumstances - in which Jim Fenner is implicated - 

“an exhilarating 

mix of gritty reality, 

rebellious spirit, 

emotional honesty 

and irreverent 

humour” 

unleashes an angry protest on the wing and forces the guards and 

the prisoners to their opposite sides of the bars. When it’s clear that 

everything is about to change over Fenner’s misdeeds, the race is on for 

all the women to overcome their differences and join forces against their 

common enemy... 

Full of big songs and characters, Bad Girls is an exhilarating mix of 

gritty reality, rebellious spirit, emotional honesty and irreverent humour, 

that touches hearts and kicks up a riot. 

Riccarton Players are proud to present this South Island Premiere of 

this gritty yet funny, confronting yet warm musical. Director Tom Hart is not 

new to the Riccarton Players stage having performed lead roles in both 

Blood Brothers, Oliver and Whistle Down the Wind for the society. In fact 

many will also recognise his name having performed (and directed) both 

for North Canterbury Musical Society and Showbiz Christchurch - most 

recently as Brit in We Will Rock You. Tom is combining his talents and 

passion for theatre with ability to whip an eclectic group of people into 

shape (as owner instructor of Huddle Fitness) to bring this show to life. 

The talented cast of Bad Girls, with a few bad men added to the mix, 

are well supported by an on stage band under the baton of Cheryllynn 

Callander. The energy of a live band, combined with industrial staging 

and clever lighting ensures this musical production, although perhaps 

unfamiliar to you now, will leave its audiences with memorable tunes, 

characters and perhaps the temptation to be a little bit ‘bad’ themselves. 

Book by 

MAUREEN CHADWICK 

& ANN MCMANUS 

THE 

MUSICAL 

Music and Lyrics 

by 

KATH GOTTS 

Originally directed by MAGGIE NORRIS. Orchestrations by MARTIN KOCH. 

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Council chief 

to start 

next month 


NEW CITY council chief 

executive Dawn Baxendale is set 

to start next month. 

A city council spokeswoman 

said Mrs Baxendale would start in 

mid-October after securing a visa. 

Mrs Baxendale was named as 

the new chief executive in July but 

was unable to start straight away 

due to not having a visa. 

The former Birmingham City 

Council chief executive will earn 

$495,000, an $80,000 increase 

from her predecessor Karleen 

Edwards’ salary. 

She will also receive an 

additional $30,000 towards 

relocation costs from the United 

Kingdom. 

Her appointment attracted 

criticism from inside and outside 

the council. 

City councillor Aaron Keown 

told The Star he did not think Mrs 

Baxendale, who was one of 38 

applicants, was the right person 

for the job. 

“She is one of a number of 

people who would be right for 

the job but we could not afford 

her. You have got 38 people and 

many of them were willing to do 

it for $400,000 or less, which is an 

amount that would be a lot more 

acceptable,” he said. 


Noise at new sports 

hub upsets neighbours 

• By Matt Slaughter 

NOISE LEVELS around Nga 

Puna Wai Sports Hub are 

concerning some surrounding 

residents. 

Others say this is only an 

issue sometimes and the 

sports hub is an asset for the 

community. 

Said city 

council 

manager of 

recreation and 

sport services 

David Bailey: 

“A resident 

who lives close 

David 

Bailey 

to the venue 

has contacted 

us on two 

occasions. On one occasion, the 

resident alerted us to the noise 

of hockey balls reverberating 

off the back of the goal during 

hockey practice. 

“On the second occasion, 

the resident contacted us after 

the Christchurch Car Show 

to inquire if this event was 

appropriate for the venue. 

We also received a complaint 

during the official opening 

of the rugby league fields 

relating to the light and noise 

created during the testing and 

commissioning of the speaker/ 

NOISY: City council staff are taking measures to manage 

noise levels at Nga Puna Wai after complaints. 

PA system and during the 

game.” 

However, Graham Purkis 

who lives about 300m away 

from Nga Panu Wai said noise 

has not been an issue for him. 

“Sure, on match day you 

can hear it but it’s not affecting 

us.” 

Mr Purkis said in spite of the 

occasional noise Nga Puna Wai 

is “nothing but a benefit.” 

Euphrasie Drive resident 

Lorraine Sellers said noise 

was much more of an issue 

when the facility was being 

constructed than it is now. 

“We don’t hear anything 

at all. I think it’s a wonderful 

set-up.” 

Mr Bailey said city council 

staff are taking measures in 

response to noise complaints 

near Nga Puna Wai. 

“We understand the noise 

and reach of the PA system 

during the rugby league 

opening was disturbing to 

some residents and have now 

reprogrammed this system. 

NEWS 9 

Counterfeit 

notes linked 

to gangs 


GANG MEMBERS and associates 

have been linked to a wave of 

counterfeit notes in Canterbury. 

Several people arrested and 

charged with possessing or using 

counterfeit notes have been linked 

to a motor-cycle gang. 

Nearly $50,000 in counterfeit 

notes have been circulating 

since March when police were 

alerted to a jump in transactions 

involving fake money. 

But Detective Senior Sergeant 

Joel Syme said there was no 

evidence the gang was manufacturing 

the counterfeit notes. 

“Certainly some of the people 

charged may have associations to 

different gangs but it’s not a 

gang-based investigation,” he said. 

More charges were “definitely 

likely” but he would not elaborate. 

The Star has learned gang 

members have been linked to the 

offending. 

About 15 people have been 

arrested in relation to using or 

possessing counterfeit notes. 

By the end of August, the 

Reserve Bank had recorded 543 

counterfeit notes passed with a 

combined dollar value of $31,160 

in Canterbury, while police had 

recorded 270, with a combined 

dollar value of $16,920.


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NEWS 

Council childcare vote next week 


CITY councillors will decide next 

week whether to adopt a policy 

which would see their childcare 

expenses paid for by ratepayers. 

If adopted by the council, city 

councillors and community board 

members would be eligible to an 

allowance only if their child is 

under 14 and the childcare is not 


BUS LANES may be prioritised 

to alleviate congestion from a 

motorway extension being built 

through St Albans. 

The Northern Motorway is 

being extended through to QEII 

Drive and Cranford St and when 

completed will effectively slice St 

Albans in half. It will also add an 

extra 48,000 vehicles a day. 

Residents have 

tried to fight 

the extension, 

but all that can 

be done now 

is to find ways 

to alleviate the 

amount of traffic 

coming through 

the suburb. 

The Linwood- 

Central-Heathcote and Papanui- 

Innes community boards listened 

to emotional and angry residents 

over the proposal at a special 

meeting last week. Then four days 

later they made their recommendations 

and said prioritising bus 

use will help. They said this should 

take precedence over installing a 

clearway. A clearway is a no stopping 

area that allows traffic to flow 

more freely. 

Cranford St was planned to be 

used as a clearway once the extension 

opens next year. But with the 

Linwood-Central-Heathcote and 

Papanui-Innes community boards 

recommendation, this means the 

bus lane could take priority. 

The boards also asked city council 

staff to look at park and ride 

options near QEII Drive. 

The decision will now go to the 

city council on Tuesday. 

Papanui-Innes board member 

and city councillor Mike Davidson 

said the boards were never going 

to be able to create a perfect outcome 

for the community 

“So what we’re trying to achieve 

is the best outcome with the 

limited ability we do have. No one 

PASSION: Former St Albans 

Residents Association 

chairwoman Emma Twaddell 

was frustrated to be 

submitting to the community 

boards again. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

wants the motorway, if we had 

made a decision today on whether 

we should have done a motorway, 

it would have never happened,” he 

said. 

provided by a family member. 

Childcare allowances are 

also limited to $6000 a year per 

child. 

City councillors are paid 

$102,400 whereas the pay of community 

board members varies between 

$9864 and $24, 580, chairs 

of community boards are paid up 

to $49,160. 

The new policy from the Remuneration 

Authority was released at 

the start of July and has been left 

to individual councils across New 

Zealand to decide whether to adopt 

it or not. 

The policy was prompted by 

Hurunui District councillor 

Julia McLean after she asked 

the Remuneration Authority to 

subsidise childcare for parents in 

elected local government roles. 

Bus lanes mooted to alleviate 

congestion from new motorway 

Mark Wilson 

FUNDRAISING EFFORTS of a 

New Brighton group will enable extra 

elements to be added to the planned 

He Puna Taimoana hot pools. 

The Pier and Foreshore Society 

raised $15,000 to support the hot 

pools’ development through fundraising 

activities at the annual New 

Brighton Duke Festival of Surfing. 

It has now donated the money to 

Development Christchurch Ltd. 

CONGESTION: The proposed clearways on Cranford St may 

be used for public transport to help mitigate the effects of 

the Christchurch Northern Corridor through St Albans. 

DCL chief executive Rob Hall 

said the donation will be used 

to add elements to He Puna Taimoana, 

which are not included in 

the existing budget. 

“DCL will work with the society 

to decide exactly what that will be. 

Initial ideas include the possibility 

of extra accessibility features or 

seating, but decisions will be made 

collaboratively.” 

All board members apart from 

Linwood-Central board member 

and city councillor Yani Johanson 

voted in favour of the recommendations. 

“I’m really concerned that the 

plan is actually going to create a lot 

of problems on other streets,” Cr 

Johanson said. 

Cr Johanson thinks the improvements 

are not the right 

approach and wasn’t convinced 

Environment Canterbury would 

fund the proposed public transport 

lanes on Cranford St. 

“I can’t see any likelihood that 

Ecan would have the money to be 

able to fund more public transport,” 

he said. 

St Albans resident Mark Wilson 

said overall he is feeling good 

about the recommendations. 

“They will prepare the road for 

more traffic, but they won’t allow 

that traffic to have two or four 

lanes flow on. That’s the minimum 

really that we’ve been going on 

about. I think it’s a good decision,” 

he said. 

Hot pools get $15k funding boost 

“From the beginning, the 

development of hot pools in New 

Brighton has been a community 

project. The Pier and Foreshore 

Society has been a champion of the 

development right from the start 

and its support has helped make 

He Puna Taimoana happen. The 

donation of $15,000 represents a 

massive fundraising effort by a 

community group,” Mr Hall said.

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NEWS 


SUICIDES AND life-threatening 

events are having a major 

impact on the mental health of 

firefighters who are called out to 

assist. 

Their union says it has got to a 

crisis point. 

Problems have increased since 

2014, when the former New 

Zealand Fire Service signed an 

agreement 

with St John 

to respond to 

life-threatening 

emergencies, 

including 

suicides, cotdeaths, 

heart 

attacks, strokes, 

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arrests – known 

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Now known as, Fire and Emergency 

New Zealand, the organisation 

attended more than 6500 

medical emergencies nationwide, 

in 2013, prior to signing the 

agreement. 

By 2017, this figure had almost 

doubled to 11,500 annually. 

By 2018, about 10 firefighters 

in New Zealand had committed 

suicide. 

Christchurch firefighter Gary 

Duncan is a father-of-two and 

said seeing death of young people 

in his job, “really knocks him.” 

New Zealand Professional 

Firefighters Union general secretary 

Wattie Watson says better 

mental and emotional training is 

needed. 

Ms Watson and Mr Duncan 

say when the memorandum 

was signed with St John in 2014 

training for emotional trauma 

wasn’t provided, 

Said Mr Duncan: “We got an 

email about the memorandum of 

understanding, but we called it 

the memorandum of misunderstanding. 

Next minute we were 

getting all these calls to medicals 

and we were going: ‘Hang on, we 

haven’t had any extra training, 

we want extra training’.” 

Said Ms Watson: “There is 

an issue around the training of 

medical response, it’s not good 

enough. It should have always 


Firefighters’ mental health at ‘crisis point’ 

Wattie 

Watson 

been coupled with mental health 

resilience and it wasn’t, and that’s 

a learning curve for everyone.” 

But Ms Watson said FENZ 

“genuinely wants to address the 

problem” and has carried out a 

series of actions. 

Te Ihu region manager Paul 

Henderson said “an awful lot” is 

being done by FENZ to address 

mental health concerns. 

“We offer a range of psychological 

and well-being support 

to people, that is available to the 

immediate family as well, not 

just firefighters. There is access to 

counselling, psychologists, peer 

support and a health monitoring 

service,” said Mr Henderson. 

The Te Ihu area covers north 

of Waitaki River to the top of the 

South Island and across to the West 

WELL-BEING: 

An increase 

in medical 

calls being 

responded to 

by firefighters 

is having a 

toll on their 

mental health. 

Coast, including Christchurch. 

The region is the only one in 

the country to have its own ‘wellbeing 

officer’ who is a uniformed 

member of staff – Jim Ryburn. 

“It is different here. We have 

probably more resources here 

than you would find in the rest 

of the country, primarily on the 

back of things like earthquakes 

and everything else that has gone 

on in this city. 

“He has got a range of clinical 

psychologists that he can refer 

people to,” said Mr Henderson. 

Ms Watson is pushing for 

psychologists to have further 

training to deal with firefighters. 

“Their situation is unique in 

that they face mortality every 

time they go out, they know they 

could die every call. Like police 

and ambos, they will also face 

trauma every time they go out. 

So they have that combination 

as well as the fact that no one is 

trained to walk into fire like they 

are. Their mental gymnastics 

is extraordinarily unique and 

therefore their treatment has to 

be targeted at them,’’ she said. 

Christchurch firefighters are 

now dealing with more suicide 

callouts that ever before. Figures 

released recently by the Office of 

the Chief Coroner show suicides 

have risen by 42 per cent in the 

region, since 2007-2008. 

If trauma at incident is 

measured by death, then the 

city, Wigram and Spreydon 

stations are the busiest, Mr 

Ryburn said. 

Aside from specialised training 

for psychologists, Ms Watson 

said the union is pushing for 

fully covered or subsidised health 

insurance for firefighters and a 

more comprehensive peer support 

programme. Subsided or 

fully covered health insurance 

will mean firefighters may be less 

apprehensive about seeking help 

when needed. 

“One of the things that make 

people nervous about saying ‘I’m 

not coping’ is that they don’t 

know how the employers are 

going to react. They are scared 

their employer is going to say: 

‘Well you are too unsafe to be on 

a fire truck’,’’ she said. 

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GARY DUNCAN has seen a 

lot in his 35-year career as a 

firefighter. 

But attending a job where a 

talented and promising young 

man took his life is something 

that “really knocked” the fatherof-two. 

“Suicide 

seems to be 

growing exponentially 

and 

I’ve seen lots of 

that . . . from 

the outside 

Gary Duncan 

their lives seem 

perfect and 

that’s one of the 

hardest parts is when we experience 

death or injury in young 

people because they haven’t lived 

. . . especially when you have a 

young family, it really knocks 

you. It’s happened a lot with the 

extra ambulance work we have 

been doing over the last three or 

four years,” he said. 

An increase in attending 

‘purple calls’ which are lifethreatening 

situations, has taken 

a mental toll on firefighters, Mr 

Duncan says and he is no stranger 

to the issue. 

Two years ago, his former 

colleague committed suicide. He 

was in his late 50s with a wife 

and two children, about to move 

into a new home. 

“I started in the fire service 

with him. He was an exceptional 

man . . . no one knows why; he 

never asked for help. That’s the 

hardest thing, men don’t ask for 

help, they don’t know how to ask. 

Previously, Mr Duncan said he 

would try and protect my family 

and not tell them the things he 

saw on the job. 

“I would just bottle it up. But 

the cup overflows and you see 

that with a lot of the guys. They 

might drink too much, or it will 

manifest in other ways. 

Attending suicides has become 

the norm for firefighters in 

Christchurch, but “it doesn’t get 

any easier,” Mr Duncan said. 

The trauma of dealing with 

family members during lifethreatening 

situations is also 


difficult. 

“To put it simply, a fireman 

rolls up, puts out a fire or breaks 

open a car. Whereas with purple 

calls, you show up, the family is 

screaming, their family member 

may have had a heart attack and 

they’ve seen it happen . . . they 

will be asking why we are there 

. . . they might say: ‘What the 

f**k are you guys doing here? I 

called for an ambulance’.” 

Mr Duncan says he didn’t feel 

like he had adequate training to 

mentally manage the increasing 

medical calls FENZ staff now 

attend. 

“We weren’t trained enough to 

deal with it . . . we could go to cot 

deaths or chokings and as you 

can understand, the mothers are 

just screaming. Guys with small 

TRAGEDY: The 

events of the 

Canterbury 

earthquakes 

and increased 

medical calls 

such as suicides, 

have led longtime 

firefighter 

Gary Duncan to 

seek help to deal 

with the trauma 

experienced in the 

job. He says more 

needs to be done 

to aid firefighters 

with this. PHOTO: 

GEOFF SLOAN 

children and older guys with 

grandchildren, it can be quite 

traumatic . . . I think in some 

guys’ minds, that gives them a 

really hard time.” 

While there are debriefs to talk 

about what was experienced, Mr 

Duncan said a lot of men still 

don’t know how to channel the 

emotional nature of the job. 

The veteran who started in 

the industry at age 24 admits 

he didn’t seek out FENZ’s 

well-being services available 

until after the February 22, 2011, 

earthquakes. 

On the day of the earthquake, 

his wife was away and the fatherof-two 

had to drop his five and 

seven-year-old children off at a 

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He called the tragedy “the 

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“With the earthquakes, with 

the things we saw, you would see 

those things sporadically, but 

not on a huge scale as we did and 

having to leave our own families 

at the time . . . afterwards, the 

amount of guys that were getting 

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they had been through, it was 

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the entire staff. 

“Ultimately, loss of life doesn’t 

really come into it, you don’t 

really think about your own 

mortality, but in that situation, 

you thought about it a lot,” he 

said. 

Firefighters in Christchurch 

are now able to get help from the 

country’s only welfare support 

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in the region. 

But, Mr Duncan says a “clone” 

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“He got so many guys the 

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OPINION 

•HAVE YOUR SAY: Send your views on the stadium to barry@starmedia.kiwi. Keep emails to 150 words. 

Look west for a great stadium 

Latest Canterbury news at 

starnews.co.nz 

Readers respond to 

last weeks’ The Star 

article about more 

serious criminals being 

housed in a Merivale 

rehabilitation centre 

Jaed During – The 

good news is that they have 

somewhere to go. Many 

inmates have been put in 

Christchurch from all around 

the country and have to have 

an address in Christchurch to 

be released, and their family 

and friends are obviously 

where they are from. Set up 

for failure right there because 

of lack of support and illogical 

rules. 

A-j Montgomery – Bet 

they wished they settled for the 

funeral home now. 

Ivan Dane – How is this 

possible? Don’t they have any 

policy makers on inflated 

salaries living there? 

IF CANTABRIANS want a great 

sports stadium, look to what has 

been built in Sydney. 

The Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta 

is a superb example of 

what a sports stadium should be. 

It has a capacity of 30,000 

for sports matches and can be 

boosted by another 10,000 for 

concerts. 

That’s just about right for a city 

the size of Christchurch. 

Bankwest isn’t enclosed; but 

the seating is undercover and 

designed in such a way that you 

don’t get soaked when it rains. 

So we don’t need a costly roof 

– and in my view the elements 

should be a factor in a football 

match, no matter what the code 

is. 

Bankwest also has a $A1 

million underground drainage 

system which can suck water out 

of the field, so matches can be 

played even after heavy deluges. 

It is modelled on those used 

From the 

editor’s desk 

Barry Clarke 

at a number of European golf 

courses in order to dry fairways 

and greens for play to continue 

after severe downpours. 

That might be needed for 

Christchurch too. 

The seating is steep so that you 

are close to, and on top of the 

action on the field, whether it be 

SUPERB: Paramatta’s Bankwest Stadium can cater for 30,000 people for sports matches 

extending to 40,000 for concerts – perfect for Christchurch. 

rugby league, union or football. 

And that is what fans want. 

You are so close you can hear 

what the players are saying 

and you can feel the force of 

tackles. 

Bankwest is the home to the 

Parramatta Eels, a once powerful 

league club, now getting back to 

what they once were. 

They have made the NRL’s 

elimination semi-finals this 

weekend on the back of a recordbreaking 

win over the Brisbane 

Broncos at Bankwest, where 

the support from the parochial 

crowd is said to have helped fuel 

that result. 

At Bankwest’s peak of construction 

about 400 people were 

on site each day to deliver the 

project and more than $A60 million 

was spent in construction 

goods and services sourced from 

Western Sydney businesses. 

That’s a tip for what should 

happen here in terms of Canterbury 

businesses. A money-goaround 

so to speak. 

There’s been far too much 

mucking around since the 

earthquakes over a stadium for 

Christchurch. The sooner we get 

one the better. 

And the cost of Bankwest – 

$A360 million. In New Zealand 

dollars – $380 million. 

Totally doable. Get cracking. 

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OPINION 

The coming week in our history 

September 19, 1983 

– When the governor Lord 

Glasgow signed a new Electoral 

Act into law, New Zealand 

became the first self-governing 

country in the world in which 

women had the right to vote in 

Parliamentary elections. 

September 20, 1954 – 

The Mazengarb inquiry into 

‘juvenile delinquency’ blamed 

the perceived promiscuity of 

New Zealand’s youth on working 

mothers, the ready availability 

of contraceptives, and young 

women enticing men to have sex. 

September 21, 1834 – 

Whaler Jacky Guard and his 

family were among a group of 

Pākehā captured by Māori in 

May after the barque Harriet ran 

aground on the Taranaki coast. 

Guard and other men were 

released when they promised 

to return with gunpowder as a 

ransom for the captives. Instead, 

he secured the support of the 

New South Wales’ governor for 

a rescue mission. Meanwhile, 

Betty Guard lived under the 

protection of the chief Oaoiti. 

Oaoiti was bayoneted and 

captured during the rescue 

mission. Four days later, Betty 

and her baby daughter were 

located at Te Namu pā, which 

was attacked and burnt. In 1835 

a committee of Britain’s House 

of Commons condemned the 

level of force used during the 

rescue. 


At a meeting in Wellington, 

Marianne Tasker and her 

supporters established a 

domestic workers’ union, 

which hoped to use the Liberal 

government’s Industrial 

Conciliation and Arbitration Act 

to force employers to improve 

pay and conditions. Central to 

their demands was a 68-hour 

working week. 

September 23, 1887 – In 

February, newspapers reported 

Ngāti Tūwharetoa’s proposal 

to ‘gift’ the mountaintops of 

Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and 

Ruapehu to the British Crown to 

form the basis of a national park. 

September 24, 1905 – The 

murder of Joe Kum Yung on Wellington’s 

Haining St highlighted 

the hatred some felt towards New 

Zealand’s Chinese community. 

His killer Lionel Terry committed 

the brutal act to promote his 

crusade to rid New Zealand of the 

so-called ‘yellow peril’. 


Eighty-seven delegates attended 

the first day of the inaugural 

Māori Women’s Welfare League 

conference in Wellington. Dame 

Whina Cooper was appointed 

president of the league. 


From cheers to tears 

PEOPLE MUST think I’m an 

alcoholic or something. 

Vittoria loves to make little 

toasts, she’ll do it as soon as she 

has anything like a cup or bottle 

in hand. It’s all perfectly innocent 

I swear, but she even says “cheers”. 

However, when I took her for 

storytimes at Tūranga on Tuesday 

(well, I heard a line of the story 

before Vittoria rushed off to the 

slide, so I guess that counts), she 

started doing it with little plastic 

cups in the Imagination Station. 

There were plenty of parents 

around, yet not one said 

anything like “that’s cute”. A 

clear indication that they think 

I’m home all day setting a bad 

example and slurring my way 

through cheers after cheers. At 

least in my mind. 

It’s been a quiet and thankfully 

normal first week back to postholiday 

normality, and Vittoria’s 

antics would have almost 

been the highlight if I hadn’t 

experienced my first serious 

temper tantrum. 

Through some miracle it was at 

home rather than a supermarket 

or sombre family event, but it was 

the kind that would get talked 

about for years if it happened in 

the aforementioned places. 

The wee darling was already 

in an out-of-sorts kind of way, 

having gotten grumpy at me after 

I didn’t let her throw food on the 

floor at the library. But when I 

served up her lunch after we got 

home it just elevated the slight 

whinging to full blown tears and 

heavy sobbing. 

For an entire hour Vittoria was 

completely lost to the tantrum, 

wandering the house utterly 

distraught. Occasionally writhing 

about on the floor or crying in a 

corner. 

Nothing I could do would calm 

her – singing, cuddles, talking 

calmly, changing the food or 

bringing out some normally 

popular fruit. No joy. 

In desperation, I turned to 

VITTORIA 

& Matt 

showing her videos of herself on 

my phone. 

Which, weirdly, worked almost 

straight away. She stopped crying 

and screaming, picked herself up 

and started laughing at a video of 

her dancing. 

Whether any old video would 

have worked is still out for debate, 

but even if she is the world’s 

smallest narcissist, it’s all good. 

It got her eating her lunch and 

back on the good behaviour train. 

I like the really good behaviour 

train. 

I just asked her if she wanted 

a nap after lunch and she just 

waved goodbye to her toys, 

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asleep within 15min. 

She then slept for an hour and a 

half and then was a total angel all 

afternoon and evening. 

It’s like she’d got all the day’s 

upset out of the way in one hit. 

Still, not something I’d 

recommend. 

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Filipino Culture Celebrated at our Inaugural Napaka Arts Festival 

This year Catholic Cathedral College hosted our inaugural Napaka Arts Cultural 

night, a celebration of Filipino Culture. It was a night of riotous colour and joyful 

celebration from the opening song to the big finale with a variety of performances 

ranging from skits, poems, a ‘Speech Choir’, well-known television ads from 

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Sports News 

Our Senior A Boys Basketball Team have once again qualified for the Secondary 

School Basketball National Competition. 

Our Year 7/8 Basketball team have become the Cowles Junior Club Champions by 

winning the Tuesday Basketball League Finals at Cowles Stadium! 

Our Year 7/8 Netball Team who have had a great season coming 5th overall. 

Kapa Haka Regionals 

Earlier this term, our Kapa haka group once again competed in the Kapa Haka 

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always, gave it their all and competed with passion. Well done to Whaea Makayla, 

Matua Jarrod, and the tutor, Matua Te Huaki. 

Building a Better Future 

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Career Paths Taking Off 

Spirits were soaring this month when a Royal New Zealand Navy Seasprite 

landed right in our school grounds. The visit organised by our Careers Team, gave 

students and staff the opportunity to chat with pilot Louis and his aircrew about 

life in the Navy. Students enjoyed taking photos and being able to gain a greater 

understanding of the range of roles available within the armed forces. Thank you 

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A budding oil painter in our midst 


LEONARDO da Vinci, Pablo 

Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh 

are considered to be some of the 

best oil painters in the world. 

Now Georgina Jolly, 18, is 

making her mark in Canterbury. 

Rangi Ruru Girls’ 

School year 13 student 

Georgina Jolly took out 

the Canterbury high 

school art competition’s 

top prize with an oil 

painting of her mother 

and aunt. 

She beat students from 

14 schools across the 

region to win the competition 

and received $850 

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This was the third year the 

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develop new skills as upcoming 

New Zealand artists,” said Mrs 

Wynands. 

Students were selected by their 

art teachers to take part. 

The competition was judged by 

Christchurch Art Gallery director 

Blair Jackson and Canterbury 

University head of fine 

arts Aaron Kreisler. 

Each finalist was given 

a $50 framing voucher 

to use towards the cost 

of having an art piece 

of their choosing 

framed. 

Rangi Ruru head of 

visual arts Kate Rivers 

said Georgina is a wonderful 

colourist who has 

a love of expressive style. 

“Georgina’s work shows a gestural 

approach with her oil paint 

applied confidently through the 

use of expressive mark and rich 

colour,” she said. 

Mrs Wynands said she hopes 

the competition will continue to 

grow and reach more students in 

the years to come. 

“It is such a thrill to see the 

students excited about their 

work, their parents proud to 

see their son or daughter’s work 

in a gallery and the teachers’ 

enthusiasm and support of their 

students,” she said. 

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until tomorrow. 

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THEATRE/ARTS 

• By Georgia O’Connor- 

Harding 

AN UNUSUAL dance show 

intertwining two dancers with 

larger than life-sized puppets 

will debut next month. 

Lyttelton’s 

Fleur de Thier 

and Little River’s 

Simon Van 

Der Sluijs have 

teamed up to 

explore the 

pure essence 

of life – living, 

loving and 

dying by intertwining 

dance with puppets. 

Mantra will premiere at the 

Lyttelton Arts Factory next 

month before it is showcased as 

part of the Little Andromeda 

pop-up festival in November. 

The unique concept behind the 

show is two large puppets which 

will be controlled by professional 

dancers Aleasha Seaward and 

Mariafelix Fuenzalida in the 

original production on the circle 

of life. 

“The dancers are the only ones 

that will control them, there are 

no strings. They represent a man 

and woman...we are trying to 

form a love affair,” de Their said. 

The concept of the show was 

formed by Van Der Sluijs, a multifaceted 

artist while de Their, a 

dance artist is driving the movement 

in the show. 

The make-up of the show will 

have repetitive sentences with 

the concept of a mantra coming 

through. 

“The dancers are the only ones 

that will control them. There are 

no strings. They represent a man 

and a woman . . . we are trying to 

form a love affair,” de Their said. 

But the show strictly is not for 

children. 

“I think it will be hauntingly 

beautiful, but I think for young 


Percussion quartet to team up with CSO 

BEING commissioned to 

compose a new work for a 

Grammy Awards-nominated 

quartet and the city’s most 

established orchestra has been 

described as a “huge honour” for 

James Gardner. 

The 

composer, 

broadcaster, 

musician, 

Canterbury 

University 

lecturer and 

James 

Adjunct 

Senior Fellow 

was offered 

Gardner 

a commission to write for the 

visiting Los Angeles Percussion 

Quartet and Christchurch 

Symphony Orchestra. 

Described by The New York 

Times as “mesmerising”, the Los 

Angeles Percussion Quartet 

will make their debut with the 

CSO premiering the concerto 

commissioned to mark the occasion 

by Gardner. 

The world premiere of his 

work, Gardner’s Gyre (Ghosts 

with Accents) is on September 21 

at the Christchurch Town Hall. 

“I feel doubly lucky to have 

been offered this commission. 

“For one thing, being asked to 

write for the LAPQ is an honour, 

as well as a technical challenge. I 

was keen to draw on the players’ 

expertise and finesse on many 

instruments, as well as their 

enthusiasm and, here and there, 

their improvisational skills,” 

Gardner said. 

He said the second aspect 

is to write for the CSO, whose 

programmes over the last few 

years have been consistently innovative 

and have featured New 

Zealand composers. 

Gardner made the “slightly 

unusual decision” to focus on 

“unpitched” percussion in his 

writing for solo quartet. 

He said this was: “Partly 

because I didn’t want to rely on 

pitch or harmony for the quartet 

writing, as the orchestra is large 

enough to provide harmony, and 

partly because I wanted to showcase 

the subtleties and richness 

that can be drawn from such a 

children it will be scary,” de 

Their said. 

She described the puppets as 

having a real presence and could 

understand how people could 

become “weirded out” by them. 

De Their said when she first 

went out to Van Der Sluijs’ studio 

earlier this year to see the puppets 

she felt like she had walked 

into a room with two people. 

She said the best part of 

working on Mantra has been 

collaborating with an artist from 

a different genre. 

“Normally as a choreographer 

I am driving things myself so it is 

lovely to be feeding off someone 

else’s ideas”. 

Following completing her 

training with the Auckland 

Performing Arts (now UNITEC) 

in the early 1990s, de Their 

freelanced as a professional 

dancer before establishing 

herself in Christchurch as a 

choreographer. 

RENOWNED: 

Described by The 

New York Times as 

“mesmerising,” the 

Grammy Awardnominated 

Los 

Angeles Percussion 

Quartet will make 

their debut with 

the Christchurch 

Symphony 

Orchestra later this 

month. 

variety of objects in the hands of 

such fabulous performers”. 

Gyre (Ghosts with Accents) is 

Gardener’s latest composition 

in a long career that began 

in England in the 1980s with 

playing keyboards for groups 

including Pete Shelley’s band and 

Howard Devoto’s band Luxuria, 

followed by work with the group 

Apollo 440 remixing tracks by 

artists such as U2 and Scritti 

Politti. 

Moving to New Zealand in 

1994, Gardner continued to create 

In spite of being based at 

Hagley Theatre Company for 

about 20 years, de Their has no 

desire to leave. 

“I am working with postsecondary 

students who have 

all chosen to do dance and 

drama as part of their career 

pathway so they want to be there 

and are really hungry to learn,” 

she said. 

De Their said she loves being 

able to employ dancers for her 

work after they have studied 

at Hagley before going on to 

tertiary study and becoming 

professional dancers. 

Both Seaward and 

Fuenzalida are Hagley graduates. 

•Mantra will be performed 

at LAF on October 25 

and 26 and at Little 

Andromeda on November 

13. To book tickets go to 

www.laf.co.nz and https:// 

littleandromeda.co.nz/# 

music, setting up contemporary 

music ensemble 175 East, which 

gained an international reputation 

by performing many acclaimed 

world premiere performances by 

local and overseas composers. 

While consistently composing 

music, Gardner also wrote and 

presented a series for Radio New 

Zealand Concert on Electronic 

Music, Frank Zappa, Morton 

Feldman, Iannis Xenakis, the 

Moog Synthesizer and the James 

Bond soundtracks of John Barry. 

Gardner’s Gyre (Ghosts with 

Accents) world premiere shares 

the CSO programme with Frank 

Zappa’s Night School and The 

Planets by Gustav Holst. 

•The Planets by the CSO 

will be held on September 

21, 7.30pm at the Douglas 

Lilburn Auditorium, 

Christchurch Town Hall. 

Tickets from $33.83 ($18.45 

students) are available at 

https://www.eventfinda. 

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Puppets explore life – living, loving and dying 

Fleur de Thier 

UNIQUE: A dance show 

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OUR PEOPLE – SAMANTHA MYTHEN 

Paving the way for editorial independence 

FREEDOM: Canta magazine editor Samantha Mythen 

is on a mission to gain editorial independence from the 

University of Canterbury Students’ Association. 

Student magazine Canta 

is on a mission to gain 

editorial independence. 

Editor Samantha 

Mythen said the 

University of Canterbury 

Students’ Association 

having the final say 

on the publication 

was censoring the 

student voice. She has 

started a petition for 

independence from 

the student association. 

Louis Day talks with the 

student magazine editor 

Why do you think it is 

important for Canta to have full 

independence? 

If Canta had full editorial 

independence from the UCSA 

it means students would see 

Canta as a publication where 

they can share their views and 

come to us with issues that we 

can investigate, look in to and 

try to address. At this current 

point in time, there seems to 

be a bit of a push back from the 

UCSA if any students want to 

write about any issues to do with 

them or UC. The process seems 

to take a lot longer and issues 

seem to be pushed aside or they 

aren’t addressed as properly as 

they should be. The other student 

magazines are for the majority 

independent or editorially 

independent and that is why you 

see them hitting the hard issues 

affecting students today. 

How has this censorship and 

proofing been impacting on the 

magazine? 

In general there is a good 

relationship between Canta and 

the UCSA but because we have to 

get our copy proofed it means we 

lose time because we have to get 

it into the UCSA by a certain date 

so it puts a lot of pressure on our 

students and I feel like that impacts 

on the quality of our magazine. It 

is just this whole extra push back 

with certain issues and I have to 

organise meetings, it is just a whole 

lot more of a process and it takes a 

lot longer. 

‘It should be a place where 

they can share their views 

and gather some support.’ 

What do you see as the 

fundamental role of a student 

magazine? 

I hope to make Canta a student 

magazine where any student can 

pick it up and find something 

they can relate to. Coming from 

that, I see student magazines as 

a place where students can share 

their passion and tell all the other 

students about it. It should be a 

place where they can share their 

views and gather some support and 

figure out issues and problems. 

What are some of the stories 

that need telling at Canterbury 

University? 

Ever since I started at UC I 

have had a lot of complaints 

about the USCA, a lot of people 

asking where is the S in the 

UCSA? Where are the students? 

I believe because of the way it has 

been set up after some legislative 

changes in 2011 it became quite 

business-orientated and so there 

is just a whole lot of complaints 

from unhappy students around 

this. Otherwise we have had 

students writing in and criticising 

and comparing the new Haereroa 

building with the old students 

association building. We have 

had students writing about this 

expensive parking on campus 

and whether what we are paying 

is going back into the students 

and just stuff to do with student 

support services and the way 

people have been treated and how 

the exec runs. There are a whole 

lot of people complaining and I’m 

trying to figure out if there is any 

evidence to this. 

What kind of editor are you? 

I really like creating a team 

environment because we rely so 

much on our volunteers and our 

amazing contributors. I really 

love feedback and criticism 

flying around the newsroom 

and I would love to call myself a 

mentoring editor. I really want to 

help people improve with their 

writing. 

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in student magazine 

What is the most controversial 

story that has been published 

with you as editor? 

I have only taken on this role 

since the start of semester two 

so currently, there hasn’t been 

anything that gripping, we did 

have some things but we had to 

delay them because we needed 

the UCSA response and sign 

off. For example, we had a postgraduate 

student who criticised 

and compared the old student 

association building with the new 

one. I went in to get it proofed 

and I was actually told by word 

of mouth it wasn’t going to go 

in and I wasn’t given any reason 

or anything and I was just left 

wondering why has this piece 

been cut out and I had to go and 

ask directly why and they said 

they wanted more time to respond 

but it was really just an opinion 

piece and I didn’t think there was 

really anything to respond to. 

What are some of the biggest 

problems with student culture 

at the moment? 

Personally, I think some of 

the issues with mental health on 

campus are really a bad thing 

right now but that is universitywide, 

young people wide, it is 

an issue the whole nation needs 

to address. There is the whole 

issue of drug testing on campus, 

currently, the UCSA is talking to 

the university about that to see if 

we could get that in place. 

Do you have any hobbies 

outside of the newsroom? 

I love skiing and the outdoors 

and hiking and going on 

adventures, I love photography, 

would love to get into 

photojournalism some day. But I 

guess I have lots of side hobbies 

and side projects but I am very 

limited for time these days. I do 

love skiing and I recently got 

my level one skiing instructing 

qualification which is really cool, 

so I hope to ski instruct at some 

time in the future as well. 

‘I just want to write about 

these people living out 

their dreams.’ 

What made you want to get 

involved? 

Basically I am a law student but 

I really want to be a journalist 

because I love telling peoples 

stories, obviously, I’m a student 

so I relate to student stories the 

most, I reckon there are some 

amazing people at university and 

I would love for them to be able 

to share their voices on things 

their passionate about. I also 

thought the previous Canta had 

been a bit of a let down in terms 

of journalistic integrity. 

Lawyers make a lot more 

money than journalists, so why 

the decision to pursue a career 

in journalism? 

I originally signed up to law 

school because I am really 

passionate about human and 

environmental rights. But as 

law school progressed and I did 

a few internships at law firms I 

found out it wasn’t really for me. 

I maybe want to be a lawyer some 

day, that’s why I haven’t dropped 

out. I love telling stories and it 

was just from that I developed a 

passion for journalism. 

What would be your dream 

journalism job? 

I would love to be able to go 

on an assignment with National 

Geographic and do some 

investigative journalism things 

like that, I love photography as 

well. At the end of the day what I 

really want to do is travel around 

the world and find people who 

are living out their dreams, that 

could just be someone who lives 

on the coast and owns a surf shop 

and teaches people how to surf. 

I just want to write about these 

people living out their dreams 

and hopefully get other people to 

follow their dreams as well, pretty 

cheesy but that’s it. 

Where did you grow up? 

A little bit of everywhere. I 

was born in Rotorua and then 

I lived in Blenheim a little bit, I 

finished my high school years 

at Cashmere and then I was up 

studying at Wellington and I got 

a bit tired of the busy Wellington 

life and I wanted to try out UC 

and here I am. 

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Call for action over 

boarding house 

• By Georgia O’Connor- 

Harding 

THE FIRST boarding house 

in the city to be approved in a 

suburban density area in Ilam 

has prompted action to be 

taken. 

The Ilam and Upper Riccarton 

Residents’ Association 

will make a presentation to the 

city council on its concerns over 

a non-notified boarding house 

being approved in a low-density 

zone. It will present to the city 

council next month and be 

supported by Halswell-Hornby- 

Riccarton deputy chairwoman 

Helen Broughton and board 

member Catherine Chu. 

Until now, boarding houses 

have only been approved for 

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WINE 27 

Bang for your buck chardonnays 

• By Mark Henderson 

AS WE (hopefully) banish the 

cool days of winter and transition 

into the longer daylight hours of 

spring, there is definitely a place 

for full-bodied white wines that 

can complement a meal, yet also 

offer generosity of flavour when 

sharing a glass with friends. 

It wasn’t all that long ago that 

many were mindful of their ABCs 

(anything but chardonnay) as the 

grape was distinctly low on the 

popularity polls, while mention of 

the words “oaky” or “buttery” could 

see you cast as a social pariah. 

However, the wheels of fashion 

have turned, and chardonnay is 

well and truly in favour again as 

people rediscover its food-friendliness 

– it equally complements 

vegetarian dishes or white meats, 

and is heaven-sent with a variety 

of fish dishes. 

Chardonnay is far from a “one 

size fits all” wine with a raft of 

offerings from unoaked, fruitdriven 

variants through to decidedly 

fat and rich styles. “Oaky” 

and “buttery” are no longer 

mentioned in hushed whispers as 

fans of these styles eagerly hunt 

them out. 

A significant driver of this trend 

is the range of Californian chardonnays 

flooding the country. 

The United States is the fourthlargest 

wine producer in the 

world, with California producing 

nearly 90 per cent of that total, 

meaning California itself comfortably 

sits in fourth spot. In the 

US domestic market, chardonnay 

is king, accounting for roughly 

20 per cent of all wine sales, with 

cabernet sauvignon second at 

around 13 per cent. 

When thinking of California’s 

climate, words such as hot, sunny 

and dry spring to mind, but with 

nearly 1350km of coastline from 

its northern border with Oregon 

to Mexico in the south, there is 

plenty of diversity. It is typically 

wetter and cooler in the north and 

drier and sunnier in the south, 

moderated by the coastal sea fogs 

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Overall though, the climate is 

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That warm Mediterranean 

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showcasing ripe, tropical fruit 

flavours, supple, low-acid palates, 

backed by vanillan, toasty oak 

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The exchange rate against the 

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never going to be dirt cheap, but 

sitting in a range from the high 

teens into the mid-20s and up 

means that many are certainly 

affordable, while their typical 

power and richness offers reliable 

bang for buck. 

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Sweetly fruited entry, fruit 

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Richly viscous and oily, nutty 

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Generously flavoured, open and 

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Price: $20-$23 

Rating: Excellent 

Attractive nose, balancing 

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butterscotch with fresh citrussy 

notes; developing lovely florality. 

That balance is evident on the 

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Real zing and brightness, a 

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Lots of flavour and huge appeal. 

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Rating: Very good to excellent 

Sweetly fruited nose of 

tropical fruits, dried pineapple, 

confectionery, ripe banana and 

smoky oak. 

Lush, rich, almost syrupy with 

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A little lactic note grows as the 

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This exudes the warmth of the 

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FOOD 29 

EASY APPLE AND BANANA CAKE 

Ingredients 

2 cups flour 

3/4 teaspoon baking soda 

1/8 teaspoon salt 

2 teaspoons cinnamon 

2 bananas, mashed 

1/2 cup sugar 

1/4 cup brown sugar 

1/3 cup sour cream 

1/4 cup vegetable oil 

2 eggs 

2 teaspoons vanilla 

1/2 cup diced braeburn apple, 

skins removed 

1/2 banana, sliced thin for 

garnish 

Directions 

Preheat oven to 180 deg C and 

prepare a loaf pan, cake pan, or 

tarte pan with parchment paper 

or grease it generously. 

In one large bowl mix flour, 

baking soda, salt and cinnamon. 

In another large bowl mix 

together banana, sugar, brown 

sugar, sour cream, oil, eggs and 

vanilla. 

Add wet mixture to the flour 

mixture and stir well till all is 

incorporated. 

Stir in apples and mix to 

evenly distribute. 

Pour into pan. 

Lay thin sliced bananas on top 

to caramelise as bread bakes. 

Bake for 1hr 10min, until 

golden brown and a stick 

inserted in the middle comes 

out clean. 

Cool before removing from 

pan. 

Cut and enjoy. 

Ingredients 

800g orange kumara, chopped 

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1 tablespoon butter, melted 

1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly 

packed 

1/4 cup dark rum 

1/2 teaspoon salt 

1/4 cup pure orange juice 

200g mandarin segments 

1/4 cup chopped pecans 

Directions 

Set mixer at low speed or in 

food processor, whip together 

kumara, two tablespoons butter, 

four tablespoons brown sugar, 

rum and salt. 

Add juice to kumara and mix 

until smooth. 

Fold mandarin segments into 

mixture, reserving several for 

top. 

Turn into greased two-litre 

casserole dish. 

Arrange reserved mandarin 

sections attractively on top of 

kumara. 

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loose orange kumara ..................... 3 

spring onions .................................................. 1 

beef ribeye ........................................................ 26 

lamb shoulder chops ..................... 14 

chicken thigh cutlets ..................... 9 

havoc pork sirloin steak ........ 18 

4 cups butter 

1⁄4 cups soya sauce 

1 bunch spring onion, chopped 

2 garlic cloves, minced 

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GARDENING 


No time to dawdle, there’s plenty to do 

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very unsettled, but by the end of 

the month, temperatures have 

usually risen and the growth in 

the garden abounds. 

There are a million tasks to do 

in the garden; all enjoyable, especially 

the planting of the summer 

vegetable garden. 

It’s probably the most active 

time of the year in the vegetable 

garden. Prepare the area well by 

adding in new compost in significant 

quantities. 

All summer vegetables can now 

be safely planted, including courgettes/zucchini, 

cucumbers, beans, 

beetroot, carrots, celery, corn, 

leeks, lettuce, melons, onions, radish, 

pumpkin and tomato. 

To avoid vegetables all maturing 

at one time, stagger your 

plantings as continuous cropping 

and supply is much preferable. As 

plants become established, apply 

light side dressings of vegetable 

fertiliser to help develop strong 

healthy plants. Water young 

plants regularly and deeply to 

encourage a strong root system. 

The last of winter flowing annuals 

can now be removed and the 

soil prepared for new plantings. 

As with the vegetable plot, add 

plenty of compost to the soil and 

dig it over well to create a fine 

tilth (breadcrumb like texture) 

ready for planting. Summer flowering 

annuals can include alyssum, 

asters, cornflowers, californian 

poppy, cosmos, livingstone 

daisy, lobelia, marigolds, nemesia, 

petunias, portulaca, phlox, salvias, 

sweet peas and zinnias. 

Early varieties of strawberries 

will begin to ripen towards 

the end of next month. Check 

plants for any signs of grey mould 

(botrytis). Remove any infected 

leaves and ensure there is enough 

pea straw, mulch or hay around 

plants to keep developing berries 

clean and healthy 

It’s a busy time for lawn lovers. 

The first application of lawn fertiliser 

can now be made; hopefully 

at the same time as spring rain, 

otherwise water it thoroughly 

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plants into 

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Sow seed where there are bare 

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Mow your lawn regularly to 

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Classical winter flowering 

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camellias and azaleas are now 

coming to the end of flowering. 

They may require some minor 

pruning before they break into 

spring growth. Apply fertiliser to 

these plants in late next month 

and apply mulch all around your 

shrubs. 

Now is a great time to plant 

containers and pots with summer 

flowering annuals such as petunias 

which are a favourite to provide 

colour throughout summer 

months. Start your new season’s 

display by removing existing 

potting mix, thoroughly cleaning 

the container before refilling with 

new mix and planting. 

In the herb garden, remove 

any old plants from the previous 

season herb garden. Plant out 

new seasons herbs, including 

those that are frost tender such 

as basil. Clip your herb plants 

frequently for culinary use and to 

encourage fresh young growth. 

Backyard art – something to marvel at 

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art as a gift? 

The idea that you can make art 

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sculpture exhibition, or one of 

the many garden festivals and 

fetes that have sprung up, and 

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to what appears to be a concrete 

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in purple paint, for goodness sake 

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same yourself. Just buy it and get 

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dull stretch of griselinia. 

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are going to put it; what it will 

look like when it is in place; and if 

you know when to say ‘‘stop’’. 

Art, they tell you, is very 

personal. Not so in the garden, 

where everyone invited around 

must suffer or marvel at your 

personal taste on show. 

It pays to buy not what your gut 

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9. Smell (5) 

10. Give (5) 

11. Relating to weddings (7) 

12. Logical and persuasive (6) 

14. Whirlpool (6) 

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24. Depart (5) 

25. Raise (7) 

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3. Widen (7) 

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7. Confuse (7) 

12. Sceptical (7) 

13. Great ape (7) 

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in brief 

St Margaret’s tennis 

star wins Otago titles 

Young tennis star Abby Mason 

battled a chest cold and her 

doubles partner to claim the 

Otago Indoor Open women’s 

singles title in Dunedin at the 

weekend. The St Margaret’s 

College 15-year-old coughed 

her way through the match but 

slammed her backhand and 

forehand to power her way to 

a 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 win against rival 

and the tournament’s No 1 

seed Kelly Southwood. The pair 

teamed up to win the women’s 

doubles title earlier in the day. 

Bulls play for spot 

in league final 

The Canterbury Bulls have 

a chance on Sunday to book 

a spot in the national rugby 

league premiership final. The 

Bulls will be firm favourites 

when they take on Waikato 

in Hamilton. If they win and 

Counties Manukau defeat 

Akarana in their match later in 

the day, the Bulls will book a 

spot in the final next month. 

Young kart driver in 

Italy for final round 

Teen kart driver Jacob Douglas 

will compete at the final round 

of the FIA Academy Trophy 

Series in Italy this weekend. The 

14-year-old from Christchurch 

heads into the round currently 

ranked 15 th out of 51 drivers. 

Topping the points list heading 

into the final round is Robert 

De Haan, of the Netherlands, 

from Italian Paolo Ferrari, 

and Joshua Coertze, of South 

Africa. 

Pride look to 

dominate Central 

Canterbury United Pride host 

Central in what could be a 

cricket score in the second 

round of the national women’s 

football league at English Park 

on Sunday. The Pride, which 

are defending their title, opened 

the campaign with a 6-0 

demolition of Capital over the 

weekend. Meanwhile Central 

are coming off a 0-6 hiding 

from Southern. The match 

kicks off at 2pm. 

• By Gordon Findlater 

FOR THE FIRST time in more 

than a decade, Christchurch 

Boys’ High School have three 

students in the New Zealand 

Schools team. 

Prop Ben Lopas, halfback Max 

Hughes and first-five Ollie Lewis 

were all named in the squad last 

week. 

The last time three students 

from CBHS made the squad was 

in 2006, when Nasi Manu, Ash 

Dixon and Hugh Reed were all 

selected. 

Meanwhile, CBHS year 12 lock 

Jamie Hannah has been named 

in the NZ Schools’ Barbarians 

squad. 

In 2005, a record five players 

from CBHS made the NZ 

Schools squad, with Manu, 

Tim Bateman, Mason Pomare, 

Owen Franks and Colin Slade. 

However, between 2007 and 

2018, just two players from the 

proud rugby school have made 

the team, with Josh McKay in 

2015 and Louie Chapman last 

year. 

The phone calls from NZ 

Schools coach Mark Hammett 

went out while Lewis, Hughes 

and Lopas were all playing a 

round at the Coringa Golf Club 

in McLeans Island as part of 

their year 13 physical education 

programme. 

“About four holes in I got my 

call . . . I had Ollie in my group 

of four so he was congratulating 

me but then kind of shied away 

and spent a few holes on his 

phone waiting for his call,” said 

Hughes. 

“[When his phone rang] we 

started celebrating and were 

quite loud, but then he had to 

answer his phone so we had to 

stop for a second,” said Hughes. 

Lopas could not receive his 

call from Hammett because his 

phone was broken, so he didn’t 

find out until he returned home 

later in the day. 

However, he still had reason 

to celebrate out on the course, 

shooting a group best two-under 

par. 

Hughes and Lewis have built 

on their halfback and first-five 

combination since their first year 


NZ call-up for CBHS stars 

CALL UP: Max Hughes, Ben Lopas, Ollie Lewis and Jamie 

Hannah have been selected in the NZ Schools and 

Schools’ Barbarians sides. 

at CBHS and are now looking 

forward to the rare opportunity 

of continuing their partnership 

in a national team. 

“It’s been a big goal. It’s going 

to be pretty exciting to stand 

beside him and do the dream 

we’ve aspired for during our 

whole school career,” said 

Hughes. CBHS has produced 46 

All Blacks over the years. And 

it is something the boys are well 

aware of as they look to continue 

the legacy of players’ reaching 

their full potential. 

“You always want to be better 

because you know so many All 

Blacks have been before you. You 

want to do the school proud – 

that means you train hard,” said 

Lewis. 

The CBHS contingent will be 

joined in the NZ Schools squad 

by four other students from 

Canterbury schools. 

St Andrew’s College prop 

Jack Sexton – son of former 

Crusaders hooker Matt Sexton 

– will be joined by lock 

Zach Gallagher and loose 

forward Dom Gardiner – 

son of former Crusaders flanker 

Angus Gardiner – in 

the forwards. Meanwhile, 

utility back Wil Gualter has 

become the first student from 

Lincoln High School to make the 

squad. 

The NZ Schools and Schools’ 

Barbarians squads will assemble 

this weekend before a game 

of three halves in Palmerston 

North on September 26. Both 

teams will then play games 

against the Australia Under-18s 

and Fiji Schools. 

NZ Schools squad: 

Cam Church, St Kentigern 

College; Allan Craig, 

St Kentigern College; 

Vaiolini Ekuasi, St 

Peter’s Cambridge; 

Zach Gallagher, Christ’s 

College; Dom Gardiner, St 

Bede’s College; Vincent 

Green, Hamilton Boys’ 

High School; Meihana 

Grindlay, Kings College; 

Wil Gualter, Lincoln High 

School; Finau Halafihi, 

Auckland Grammar 

School; Max Hughes, 

Christchurch Boys’ High 

School; Corey Kellow, 

Sacred Heart College; 

Jacob Kneepkens, 

Francis Douglas 

Memorial College; Jacob 

Kneepkens, Christchurch 

Boys’ High School; Ben 

Lopas, Christchurch Boys’ 

High School; Ruben Love, 

Palmerston Boys’ High 

School; Aidan Morgan, 

Kings College; Blair 

Murray, New Plymouth 

Boys’ High School; Manu 

Paea, Rotorua Boys’ 

High School; Te Rama 

Reuben, St Kentigern 

College; Anton Segner, 

Nelson College; Jack 

Sexton, St Andrew’s 

College; Roderick Solo, 

Scots College; Ben Strang, 

Whanganui Collegiate; 

Tiaan Tauakipulu, St 

Kentigern College; Gideon 

Wrampling, St Paul’s 

Collegiate. 

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standout players for Christchurch Boys’ High School. 

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A FAMILIAR face will return 

for the Canterbury United 

Dragons when they kick off 

their ISPS Handa Premiership 

campaign in November. 

Aaron Clapham has 

signed with the Dragon for 

the upcoming season after 

spending last season with Team 

Wellington. The 32-year-old 

midfielder last played for the 

Dragons in their 1-3 loss to 

Auckland City on November 

5. Days later he ended his time 

with the club, citing personal 

reasons after the arrival of his 

first child. 

“At the time, it was really hard 

because it’s not my character 

either. I don’t want to walk 

away from something that 

doesn’t feel right to me, but it 

was a really challenging time 

in my life. We had a new born 

son and a lot of pressure on my 

time and I wasn’t enjoying the 

environment,” said Clapham. 

The former All White made 

his Dragons debut in 2009 and 

since then has gone on to be 

widely regarded as one of the 

best players in the league. In 117 

appearances for the Dragons, 

Clapham scored a club record 61 

goals. Then last season he helped 

Team Wellington advance 

to the league final and also 

scored a goal at the FIFA Club 

World Cup in the United Arab 

Emirates. 

A major factor in his decision 

to return to Canterbury is 

having his two-year-old son at 

home games. 

“I want him to remember it 

when he’s older, so I might need 

to stick around for a few more 

years. I’d love for him to be able 

to have those memories of his 

dad playing at a high level,” said 

Clapham. 

The Dragons will begin a 

new era this season under the 

guidance of Lee Padmore, 

who was recently appointed 

as coach after the departure 

of Willy Gerdsen. Clapham 

knows Padmore well. The pair 

interacted regularly when 

Padmore was the director of 

football at Selwyn United, while 

Clapham holds the same role at 

Cashmere Technical. 

“I like a lot of his philosophy 

on football and I like that he’s 

really interested in driving 

the club to have more local 

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Clapham back home 

to play for Dragons 

HOMECOMING: The return of former All Whites midfielder 

Aaron Clapham will boost the Canterbury Dragons hopes 

in the upcoming ISPS Handa Premiership season. 

PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER 

representation. I think it’s 

important that the club are 

providing pathways to local 

players,” he said. 

Clapham is also looking 

forward to reuniting – rather 

than competing against – a 

number of his Cashmere 

Technical teammates who are 

part of the Dragons squad. 

“Tom Schwarz and Dan Terris 

are guys I’ve spent years playing 

football against, so it was very 

strange to play against them 

last year. I’m looking forward to 

getting into training and playing 

with guys that I’ve known for a 

long time and spent a lot of time 

going into battle with,” he said. 

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match at Orangetheory Stadium 

is likely to be one to remember 

for former St Andrew’s College 

captain Shilo Klein. 

The 20-year-old hooker, who 

was part of High School Old 

Boys’ premier title-winning side 

this year, looks set to make his 

Canterbury debut from the bench 

against Manawatu. 

Surprisingly, just four years ago 

Klein was playing at second-five 

for the St Andrew’s under-16 side. 

However, he was convinced to 

make the move to hooker and the 

decision appears to be reaping 

rewards. 

“He had a great work ethic 

and passion to do well – it’s no 

surprise he’s got this far,” said 

his former coach at St Andrew’s 

Mike Johnston. 

Senior Canterbury lock Luke 

Romano has only seen Klein play 

for a limited amount of time, but 

backs the hooker’s passion and 

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Klein, who was born in 

Sacramento, California, before 

moving to New Zealand with his 

parents at the age of three, takes 

his place in the team from Brodie 

McAlister who is being rested. 

Meanwhile, utility back Braydon 

Ennor will miss the match 

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back Sam Gilbert and loose 

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Hands off our plan to put lights at Hagley Oval 

THE HAGLEY Oval lights saga 

feels too much like déjà vu. 

Once again, Hands Off Hagley 

is playing its preferred role as the 

‘rebuild fun police’ – just as it did 

in 2013 before the redevelopment 

of the oval to host international 

cricket was given the go ahead. 

Anyone – particularly sports 

fans – who stuck it out in postquake 

Christchurch would find it 

hard to argue the development of 

Hagley Oval was one of the best 

things to come out of the early 

rebuild. 

After missing out on the 

2011 Rugby World Cup, we got 

back on our feet and kicked 

off the 2015 Cricket World 

Cup by showing off our new 

international standard, boutique 

ground when we hosted New 

Zealand and Sri Lanka in 

the opening match of the 

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tournament. It was magical. The 

flow-on effect of people heading 

into the city and the half dozen 

drinking establishments we had 

at the time showed what some 

quick action could produce. 

However, it wouldn’t have been 

the case if Hands Off Hagley got 

its way. Now, more than six years 

down the track, the group is back 

to say “no don’t build lights to 

open the door for future highprofile 

matches” and “no don’t 

let there be more international 

cricket played.” 

It’s also worth noting this is 

the same group which wants the 

city council to shift large 

commercial events, such 

as the wine and food and 

major craft beer festivals, 

to red-zoned land in the 

east. 

I don’t know about 

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you, but a day on the razz in the 

red zone doesn’t have the same 

ring to it as the centrally-located 

Hagley Park. 

So let’s get with the 

programme and wake up to 

that fact that if we want to be a 

major city, we need to be able to 

hold major events. 

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The Ashley Forest Rally Sprint celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend. One driver who 

was part of the inaugural running will still be amongst the contenders for the title. This week 

sports reporter Gordon Findlater continues The Star’s look at Canterbury sporting icons by 

talking with Trevor Crowe 

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VERSATILE: Trevor Crowe rounds the hairpin at the top of the Ashley Forest Rally Sprint in his V8 Starlet en route to victory and a course record in 

1985. (Centre) – The Datsun 1200 SSS in the 1975 NZ Rally Championship, he finished third overall. In 1988 Crowe shared a drive in the Nissan Mobil 500 

Wellington street race with Mark Thatcher in a BMW M3, the pair were third and Crowe picked up the Asia Pacific Championship. 

Fuelled by dreams – rallying and racing 

AGELESS IS perhaps the best 

way to describe Trevor Crowe. 

More than 50 years ago he 

could be found in his workshop 

designing and building his own 

unique race car or on the track 

racing it. The same stands true to 

this day. 

“A lot of my motor racing has 

been to do with dreaming up 

some weird and wonderful car 

and making it,” said Crowe. 

This weekend Crowe will run 

his Subaru WRX coupe at the 

Ashley Forest Rally Sprint – an 

event he won in 1985. He has 

hopes of a top-eight finish and 

will likely post times similar to 

those he set 34 years ago. 

Believe it or not Crowe admits 

to not being so interested in 

cars during his childhood, but 

began helping his father in his 

workshop in Templeton from the 

age of seven. 

“I’d get paid to do things like 

decarbonise old cylinder heads 

and he taught me to drive at an 

early age, but the real influence 

came when I became an apprentice 

mechanic . . . another 

apprentice was a guy called Dave 

Silcock and he showed me how 

to slide the workshop trucks 

around the block on wet days,” 

said Crowe. 

His early days of motorsport 

in the 1960s involved grass track 

and beach racing in an MGJ2 

which later ended up with a V8 

engine as Crowe’s racing became 

more serious. 

His earliest rally successes 

came in a Datsun 1200 which he 

drove to a 0-1300cc class victory 

in the New Zealand Rally Championship 

in 1975. On the track 

he raced a Datsun 1200 coupe to 

many victories. However, a craving 

for more power would lead to 

one of Crowe’s most well-known 

builds – his V8-powered Toyota 

Starlet. 

“It [Datsun 1200] was really 

quick around the corners. 

I could hassle the Camaros and 

the big V8s through the corners. 

I thought if I had something that 

was like this, but had a lot more 

boogie, this would be a good car. 

So, that was sort of where the 

Starlet came from. I thought I’ll 

start with something really light 

and I’ll make everything aluminium 

. . . so it was able to beat 

all the big heavy cars,” he said. 

“That car, particularly the first 

Starlet with the V8, was incredibly 

successful. It held lap records 

and did the business all over the 

place.” 

Crowe would power the Starlet 

to four OSCA championships 

between 1981 and 1985. He also 

won his one and only Ashley 

Forest Rally Sprint in the Starlet 

in 1985. His winning time of 

1.04.69 to defeat Neil Allport in 

the top two shootout was also a 

new track record at the time. 

“It was a track car and we just 

put some shingle wheels on it 

basically, took it to the hill climb 

and won it.” 

In 1988 Crowe stamped his 

mark on touring cars. He won 

the NZ championship in a 

BMW M3. However, the most 

memorable moment of the year 

came when he and Peter Janson 

won their class and finished 

fourth outright at Bathurst in an 

M3. The same year a third place 

finish at the Wellington street 

with Mark Thatcher – the son of 

former United Kingdom Prime 

Minister Margaret Thatcher - 

also saw Crowe crowned the Asia 

Pacific touring car champion. 

Over the last three decades 

Crowe has won many South 

Island rallies and had class victories 

at the Ashley Forest sprint 

and Race to the Sky at Cardrona. 

Other memorable Crowe 

builds over time have included a 

V8 Skoda, a mid-engined Subaru 

Justy running a 2.5-litre turbocharged 

WRX engine making 

over 400hp, and his own take on 

a Subaru ute. 

“On the shingle is probably 

more my heart. It’s far more 

challenging. Circuit racing is 

relatively easy if you know what 

you’re doing and you’ve got a half 

good car . . . on shingle it’s the 

ultimate challenge, every corner 

is something different and a new 

adventure,” he said. 

‘So, we put him in the back 

of the rally car which is 

incredibly illegal and for 

the next 20km he guided 

us screaming at the top of 

his voice all of the way.’ 

One of Crowe’s more interesting 

adventures came at an event 

many years ago in New Caledonia 

while rallying a Ford Escort. 

Crowe remembers the event 

being very dusty and the road 

maps being in French which 

meant he and his co-driver had 

little idea where they were going. 

“We had to follow the locals 

on the navigational stages to get 

to the special stages and on the 

special stages you’re meant to 

be able to work it out from the 

instructions . . . they took us into 

this mine and after all the cars 

had driven around and got lost 

several times all you could see 

was red dust and nobody could 

work out where to go,” he said. 

“There was a guy standing 

on the side of the road in his 

full native gear, so we pulled up 

beside him and asked him. We 

couldn’t understand him and he 

couldn’t understand us, but we 

sort of made out to him that we 

don’t know where to go and he 

pointed with his spear where to 

go. So, we put him in the back of 

the rally car which is incredibly 

illegal and for the next 20km 

he guided us screaming at the 

top of his voice all of the way 

. . . we were one of only three 

cars which got through and in 

the end they cancelled the rally 

because everybody got lost,” said 

Crowe. 

Outside of motorsport Crowe 

is also somewhat of a fitness 

guru – perhaps one of the keys 

to his agelessness. He regularly 

competed in triathlons and has 

run the London and Paris Marathons. 

His best time came on the 

West Coast in a time of 3hr 3sec. 

However, he will claim it as a sub 

three-hour marathon due to not 

passing the start line for several 

seconds. 

“[Being fit] I had this 

ENGINEER: 

Trevor Crowe at 

his workshop 

in front of the 

Subaru WRX 

he will race at 

Ashley Forest 

this weekend 

and the BMW 

635 he won the 

NZ Group A 

series in during 

the 1980s. 

PHOTO: GEOFF 

SLOAN 

advantage in things like Bathurst 

because I could get out of the 

car and go and do another stint 

if I had to, whereas a lot of the 

drivers in those days weren’t that 

fit,” he said. 

He has also completed the individual 

two-day Coast to Coast, 

but hasn’t been back for a second 

crack. 

“I remember laying on the 

beach at the finish line in Sumner 

and my partner was there. I 

said: ‘I don’t think I’m ever going 

to do that again because it hurts 

too much’.” 

These days Crowe is an avid 

walker, spends time on the bike 

and lifting weights. However, he 

no longer competes seriously due 

to suffering from arrhythmia for 

the past 20 years. 

Crowe says that “sometimes 

he thinks he will and sometimes 

he thinks he wont” stop building 

and racing cars. With the build 

of a six-cylinder Justy currently 

a project in his workshop, the 

legacy doesn’t look like ending 

anytime soon. 

“Every decade or era that I’ve 

been in has been fantastic. I’ve 

been lucky that I haven’t been 

seriously injured. I’ve probably 

done more miles on shingle and 

seal than anybody else and probably 

built more cars than most 

guys, so it’s been fantastic really.”


ONE MONTH out from his 

first world title defence, Bowyn 

Morgan’s preparations are a 

lot different to any other bout 

before. Monday is the due date 

of his third child. 

The recently crowned WBU 

welterweight world champion 

will put his belt on the 

line for the first time 

in Christchurch on 

October 19 when he 

fights Nelson Tinampay, 

of the Philippines. 

When Morgan 

defeated Jack Asis here 

in May, it was the first 

time a world title fight 

had been contested in 

Christchurch. Now he 

is hoping a successful 

defence will be cause for double 

celebrations over the next 

month. 

“It’s a new experience for 

me going through camp and 

expecting a child at the same 

time,” said Morgan. 

“The phone is always pretty 

close as I’ve got clients or I’m 

taking a class, it’s always beside 

me in case I get that call.” 

Morgan will become as 

accustomed to girls running 

around the house as he has to 

sweeping aside any opponent 

who has stepped in his way 

over a five-year professional 

career. The 30-year-old has two 

daughters and is expecting a 

third. 

Morgan – who works as a 

personal trainer at 1 More 

Round Boxing Fitness Centre 

on St Asaph St – has a current 

record of 20 wins and one 

defeat. He should hold an edge 

over his upcoming opponent, 

Tinampay, who has 

a record of 14 wins 

seven losses and a 

draw. The 26-year-old 

Filipino will also step 

up a weight class, 

previously boxing as a 

super lightweight. 

“I know he’s going 

to be quite fast and 

have a good work rate 

on him . . . I just need 

to come to the game 

with my fitness extremely high, 

which it always is, and blow him 

out of the water,” said Morgan. 

While Morgan’s preparations 

have been altered with the 

expected new arrival, his trainer 

Phil Shatford – who has been 

with Morgan since his amateur 

days – is still expecting his 

boxer to be in tip-top shape. 

“We haven’t been able to travel 

and get Bowyn sparring, so 

we’ve just had to make do with 

what’s in Christchurch basically. 

It’s not the greatest preparation 

he’s ever had, that’s for sure, but 

in saying that, Bowyn’s always 


in fantastic nick.” Bowyn, who 

also holds the Asia Pacific IBO 

belt, says the plan going forward 

is to win another regional title, 

likely in Australia, which will 

open the door for fights in the 

United Kingdom. 

“I would love to get to 

Australia and then the UK. 

That’s where it is, especially the 

UK, they’re overtaking America 

right now and really taking over 

the show,” said Morgan. 

For now though, his sights 

are fully set on a successful title 

defence on October 19. The 

fight will be held at the same 

venue he captured the belt – the 

Christchurch Boys’ High School 

auditorium. 

Morgan has been on the big 

stage at the Commonwealth 

Games and on Joseph Parker’s 

undercards. However, he says 

the atmosphere created at his 

WBU title-winning fight at the 

auditorium was “something 

completely different.” 

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World title defence . . . and baby on way 

Phil Shatford 

HOLDER: Bowyn Morgan 

will put his WBU 

welterweight world 

championship belt on the 

line in Christchurch next 

month. 

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Feisty Kia Cerato 

deserves GT badge 

HISTORICALLY, hot 

hatchbacks had three 

doors – take Peugeot’s 205 

GTi, Volkwagen’s GTi and 

Toyota’s Corolla GT, for 

Motoring 

example. 

Ross Kiddie 

That’s all changed, most 

of the affordable fun cars 

which fit into that category 

now have four doors – or 

five – as is the case of Kia’s 

Cerato GT. 

The Cerato range entered 

a new generation early 

this year. It consists of six 

models, two sedans and 

four hatchbacks. Amidst 

the line-up is what Kia label 

GT-Line, and I drove that 

2-litre car in June. 

Not to be confused with 

GT-Line is another sporty KIA CERATO GT: Turbocharged engine supplies 

variant within the range, true hot hatchback performance. 

and it is badged simply GT. 

ence these days. There are highway, the evaluation car 

Although specification 

only two pedals, so you was recording a 5.5l/100km 

within the two nameplates 

treat it as an automatic. (51mpg) instantaneous figure 

with the engine turning 

is similar, the GT differs 

The ratios extract well the 

markedly from GT-Line in 

power outputs, and shifts over at a lively 2100rpm. 

terms of driveline mechanicals; 

instead of the natural- 

are lightning fast. Paddleshifters 

allow the driver to back to the dealership, the 

When I took the car 

ly-aspirated 2-litre engine, 

be involved in the gearchange 

process if he/she feels at 8l/100km (35mpg). By 

average readout was sitting 

the GT gets a turbocharged 

unit of 1.6-litre. Although 

the desire to do that. There my reckoning, these are 

the Cerato GT is all-new, 

are also adjustable drive good figures given I used 

the engine is pretty much a 

modes which the driver can the turbo boost often just to 

carryover, it was first seen 

choose to set the engine feel the surge. 

a few years ago in some 

management protocols for I took the test car west to 

Hyundai product and in 

each type of journey. the Malvern Hills, the roads 

Kia’s own Soul, Koup and 

Pro_cee’d GT. 

• Price – Kia Cerato 

were drenched through 

This engine has all of the GT, $41,990 

rain so there wasn’t much 

of a chance to test chassis 

control, but the fully 

ingredients which make • Dimensions – 

the Cerato GT a true hot Length, 4510mm; 

independent set-up in the 

hatch. It is rated by Kia at width, 1800mm; 

Cerato is true GT material. 

150kW (6000rpm), and height, 1440mm 

Bear in mind it is the only 

with 265Nm available all of • Configuration – 

model in the range that has 

the way between 1500rpm Four-cylinder, frontwheel-drive, 

1591cc, have a more simplistic rear 

the advanced set-up, others 

and 4500rpm it has a broad 

spread of power through 150kW, 265Nm, torsion beam suspension. 

the rev range. If you take seven-speed dual The spring and damper 

into account that the 

clutch automatic. rates are a little firm, but 

entire car weighs in at just • Performance – you’d want nothing less. 

1385kg, then there is a solid 0-100km/h, 7.7sec There is just enough 

power-to-weight advantage. • Fuel usage – 

compliance to absorb road 

What’s more, the engine 

6.8l/100km 

bumps, but the benefit is 

is one of the sweetest you 

the way the suspension 

could find in a car of this 

The Cerato GT wouldn’t controls body movement 

type, it is an absolute honey 

really deserve the GT label and gives the tyres the best 

in terms of delivery, there 

if it didn’t have the figures possible chance of maintaining 

grip. Incidentally, 

is no raucous sound, just 

to back it up. Kia claims 

a tantalising throb out of 

a 7.7sec time to reach the 225/40 x 18in Michelin 

the exhaust pipes, it sings 

100km/h from a standstill, Pilot Sport rubber is perfect 

delightfully as it heads 

while by my stopwatch for this car, the ride is quiet 

towards the red line which, 

it will lunge through a and steerage wonderfully 

incidentally, is a lively 

highway overtake (80- direct. 

6500rpm. It works the top 

120km/h) in 4.8sec. These Kia has things pretty 

end willingly, yet, as I’ve 

compare well to its competition, 

when I evaluated the fordable mid-size GT mar- 

much its own way in the af- 

mentioned, the torque 

spread is its greatest asset, 

Peugeot 308 GT recently, its ket. Sure, there are a couple 

it works the bottom end 

power and performance figures 

were almost identical. in that segment – Peugeot’s 

of other models which sit 

forcefully and without lag. 

I’d really like to drive this 

In recent years motor GT, as mentioned, VW’s 

car with manual gearbox, 

a six-speed manual 

vehicle manufacturers have Polo GT and Suzuki’s Swift, 

also used turbocharging and at $41,990 the Cerato 

has been hooked to this 

as a technique to enhance GT is keenly priced against 

engine before, but I’m 

fuel efficiency. I’m not the Euros. 

picking that’s never going 

saying the high-boost It’s also a car that is 

to be an option in today’s 

set-up in the Cerato GT far from selfish, it will 

automatic-focussed market. 

is structured for that, but easily cater as a serious 

Instead, drive is transferred 

as a car it still has satisfactory 

fuel use stats. Kia also of its practicality it’s easy 

five-seater, and because 

through a seven-speed dual 

clutch transmission which 

claims a 6.8-litre per 100km to see why the five-door 

is as close to a manual 

(41mpg) combined cycle layout makes it a tempting 

as you’ll get to experi- 

average. At 100km/h on the proposition. 

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MALE Masseur, relax 

massage, waxing for men, 

8am-8pm ph 027 723 5756 

Personals 

INDIAN LADY. 

47 years, looking for 

Kiwi man, age 50 plus for 

friendship, relationship NS 

welcome Genuine TXT 

022 1751606 

WIDOWER 81 active 

& healthy, Timaru area, 

freehold comfortable 

home, seeks active lady to 

walk, laugh, talk, socialise 

and travel together. Lets 

make two lives happy 

again. Reply SC Widower, 

c/o Courier Newspaper, 12 

- 14 George St, Timaru 

Pets & Supplies 

CATS UNLOVED 

can help with the cost 

of desexing your cat. 

Ph 3555-022 or email 

catsunloved@xtra.co.nz 

Select Services 

lawns & gardens 

LoCaLLy 

oWned & 

operated 

Hydroseeding and Lawn Specialists 

Hydroseeding • Lawn Preparation • Landscaping 

• Site clearing 

• Erosion and dust control 

• Irrigation 

• Posthole boring 

• Landscaping 

• No job too small 

We offer free quotes for the Canterbury 

region, so feel free to call us today! 

Phone: 347 4000 Mobile: 027 456 7777 

Email: zac@canterburylawns.co.nz 

Website: www.canterburylawns.co.nz 

Trades & Services 

House & Garden 

Property services Ltd 

Tree and hedge 

trimming 

Tree removal 

Gardening 

Landscaping 

CALL us 021 405 277 

PAINTING 

• New Homes 

• Plastering 

• Wallpapering 

• Int/Ext 

• All aspects of decoration 

Small, friendly, local 

painting team 

Ph: Inline Painting Ltd 

Paul 027 254 2499 

• Commercial Carpet Cleaning 

• Residential Carpet Cleaning 

• Upholstery Cleaning 

• Stain & Odor Removal 

• Tile & Grout Cleaning 

NEED HELP 

WITH YOUR 

CARPET CLEAN? 

Simply give us a call 

on 021 035 8989 

We will get the job done 

in a professional way. 


EXPERIENCED 

GARDENER 

(Kevin Garnett) 

30 Years 

Christchurch Botanic 

Gardens. 

ALL landscape 

work done. 

Maintenance, pruning, 

tidy up, lawn work, 

landscape planning 

and planting etc. 

Free Quotes 

Phone 348 3482 

House & Garden 

Property services Ltd 

Tree and hedge 

trimming 

Tree removal 

Gardening 

Landscaping 

CALL us 021 405 277 


30 years + experience 

Older house 

restorations: 

no problem! 

Quotes: FREE! 

Rates: Reasonable 

Paint supplied at 

trade price! 

NO JOB TOO SMALL 

Light industrial also 

Roger Brott 

Painter & Decorator 

021-1966-311 

ROOF 

PAINTING 

Rope & harness 

a speciality, 

no scaffolding 

required, 

30 years of 

breathtaking 

experience. 

FREE QUOTES 

Exterior staining, 

exterior painting, 

moss and mould 

treatment and 

waterblasting 

Phone Kevin 

027 561 4629



•Re Roofing 

•Roof Repairs 

•Spouting 

Approved Age Concern provider 

Over 30 years experience 

Licensed Building Practitioner 

Builder 

Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED 

Trades & Professional Services 

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

concrete & paving 

DECORATORS 

N A BARRELL 

ROOFING LTD 

Ph: 349 9778 or 0275 389 415 

Email: nabroofing@xtra.co.nz 


rooF 

painting 

Book now for 

Summer and 

receive 20% 

discount. 

Rope and harness 

a speciality. 

No scaffolding 

required. 

30 years 

experience. 

Free quotes, 

call Craig 

021 060 2392 



BUILDING 

MaINteNaNce 

& Repair, timber, brick, 

concrete, tree care, 

welding, painting, gutters, 

fences & anything else. 

20 yrs exp. free quotes, ph 

Mark 027 4370 048 

caRPet LaYING 

Exp. Repairs, uplifting, 

relaying, restretching. 

Phone John on 0800 

003181, 027 240 7416 

jflattery@xtra.co.nz 6 

caRPeNteR 

BUILDeR 

Licensed Building 

Practitioner no. 100981. 

All carpentry & building 

repairs & maintenance. 

Alterations & property 

upgrades.Laundries / 

bathroom / kitchens 

replaced. Specialising in 


aaa HaNDYMaN 

replacement of all rotten 

timber, fascia boards, 

window, windowsills etc. 

licensed carpenter John Sandford, ph 329 

LBP, all property and 4616, mob 027 5189 598 

building maintenance, johnsandford2@gmail. 

repairs, bathroom/shower com 

installations, with free caRPetLaYeR 

quotes 03 383 1927 or 027 

245 5226 ciey@xtra.co.nz 

BRIcK & BLOcK 

35yrs experience. Special 

rates for seniors. Prompt 

service. Ph 021 046 0231 

LaYING 

cHIMNeY SWeeP 

all restoration work *Rotary 

brush 

and new work plus 

technology*. From $80 

foundations, ph 342 9340 

single story. 0800 SWEEP 

or 021 853 033 

ME or 021 0277 1927 

BUILDeR QUaLIfIeD 

cLeaNING 

50 yrs exp. Bathrooms, 

Northwood & surrounding 

Kitchens, Renovations, 

areas. $23 p/hr. Ph 323- 

Repairs & Extensions 

5533 

Free quotes. Discount for 

pensioners. Ph Mike 03 

cONcRete cUttING 

980 9771 or 027 2266 930 Affordable Concrete 

BUILDeR QUaLIfIeD Cutting with Quality, and 

Decks, T & G Flooring, 

removal work. Free quote. 

Villa Restoring, New No job to small. Phone 027 

Homes, Weatherboards. 442-2219, Fax 359-6052 

Free Quotes. Bennet & a/h 359- 4605 

Sons Ltd Sam 027 496- eLectRIcIaN 

9362 or Tony 027 224- Prompt & reliable 

0374 

registered electrician 

BUILDeR - LBP with 24 years experience 

Very experienced and for all residential and 

reliable. For all your commercial work, new 

building requirements. housing and switch board 

Call Russell 027 439 2781 

or 323 5452 

replacements. Phone Chris 

027 516 0669 

• New homes 

• Extensions 

• Renovations 

Brandon Taw 

Phone 027 370 2572 

enquiries@tawbuilders.co.nz 

www.tawbuilders.co.nz 

Excavations 

• Driveways 

• Car Parks 

• Site Cleaning 

• Demolition 

• Farm Tracks 

• Drain Cleaning 

• Stump & Hedge 

Removal 

• Ashpalt Concrete 

Wide range 

oF TruckS 

For a Free Quote 

on your next project 

Phone Steve on 021 338 247 

or 325 7922 

PAINTER 

Michael Kelly Painters 

Locally owned and 

operated family 

business. 

25+ years Experience 

• Painting • Wallpapering 

• Interior • Exterior 

Free Quotes 

• Light Commercial 

• Repairs and 

Maintenance 

• Tennis Courts & 

Swimming Pools 

• Chip Seal Driveways 

• Diggers – 2 Ton 

up to 20 Ton 

• Excavators 

• Bobcat & Drilling 

• For Posthole & 

Fence hole 

Free 

QuoTe 

Phone 

Michael 0212 649 492 

michaelkellypainter@hotmail.co.nz 

• Driveways 

• Earthquake repairs 

• New Home Specialists 

• Patios & Paths 

tel: 0508 873 7483 

email: sales@affordableconcrete.co.nz 

www.affordableconcrete.co.nz 

house and garden 

home 

cleaning 

gardening 

services available 

throughout 

christchurch 

your one stop shop for home services 

www.anextrapairofhands.co.nz 

info@anextrapairofhands.co.nz 

0800 535 355 

PAINTING & TILING 

• PAINTING • TILING 

• PLASTERING 

• WALLPAPERING 

Phone Kevin Steel 

• Interior/Exterior 

• New Homes & Repaints 

• Quality workmanship assured 

• Correct preparation always undertaken 

• 20+ years experience 

• Earthquake repairs 

(Painting/Plastering/Wallpapering/Tiling) 

Ph 381 7417 or 027 216 8946 

www.facebook.com/kevinsteelpainters&decorators 

PLUMBING & 

DRAINAGE 

SERVING 

CHRISTCHURCH 

AND WIDER 

CANTERBURY REGION 

WITH QUALITY 

WORKMANSHIP 

AND SERVICE. 

New Paint • Repaints 

Wallpapering • Fences 

Repairs • Feature Walls 

Floor & Roof Painting 

Spray Painting 

Light Commercial 

Restoring Timber 

Selwyn based but service the whole of Canterbury 

www.andertondecorators.co.nz 

www.facebook.com/andertondecorators 

027 724 6846 027 PAINTIN 

kitchen renovation 

Kitchen looking tired? 

Revitalize with new colour at a 

fraction of replacement cost 

• Alterations & Hardware available 

• Laminated Kitchens no problem 

• ‘On Site’ finishing available 

• Over 20 years experience 

• Free Quotes with no obligation 

• All Joinery & Furniture repair & Spraycoatings 

PABLO’S PAINTWORKS 

27 Birmingham Drive, Middleton 

03 338 6280 | 021 541 323 

pablospaints@xtra.co.nz 

www.pablospaintworks.co.nz 

PHONE HAMISH BALDWIN 

027 636 3499 

YOU COULD 

PLUMBER 

PLUMBING & DRAINAGE 

plumbING AND GAS 

BE HERE 

Let us help take 

your business to 

new heights 

Advertise your business in our 

Trades and Services column. 

For assistance contact Vicky 

Phone 03 364 7419 or email 

vicky.sayers@starmedia.kiwi 

New housing 

Renovations 

General maintenance 

Hot water cylinders 

Gas hot water conversions 

Competitive rates 

Free quotes 

Phone: 021 403 470 

Email: scott@scottsplumbing.nz 

Gas FittinG & GuttEr CLEaninG 

New Skyvac Machine. 

Revolutionary gutter cleaning system. 

Local business for all plumbing, 

drainage & gas work. 

Free Quotes 

Call Morgan 0223 758 506 

Visit our website - www.mtpd.co.nz 

Email - morgan@mtpd.co.nz 

• Gas fitting – servicing, new, renovations 

• Gas hot water installs 

• Gas cookers and gas fires 

• Kitchen / Bathroom renovations 

• Backflow testing and installs 

• Filtration – whole house, kitchen tap 

• Domestic maintenance 

Email: james@plumbingandgashq.co.nz 

Text: 021 174 9265 

0800 H20 LPG 

4 2 6 5 7 4 

DISCOUNT FOR 

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FREE QUOTES


Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED 

Trades & Professional Services 

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

DRIVEWAYS 

Exposed Aggregate 

Stamped Concrete Plain 

Concrete Resurfacing 

Things we offer... 

Competitive/affordable pricing 

Attention to detail 

Professional service 

free quotes/insurance scopes 

Cell 0278 145 848 

www.drivecrete.co.nz 

landscape supplies 

Our Compost Range... 

Garden Box Plus “Landscaper’s Choice” 

Garden Booster “Energy for your garden” 

Garden Grow “Exceptional Value” 

Mushroom Compost “Economical Powershot” 

Mulch & Feed “Two Jobs One Product” 

Lawn Topdressing “DIY Hydroseed” 

No added green waste or soil 

03 348 2915 www.gardenbox.co.nz 

57 Lunns Road, Middleton (off Curletts Road) 

PLUMBER 

NEED A PLUMBER 

Call us now for fast friendly service. 

Get your problems sorted out 

quick smart - on time!! 

Phone for a 

FREE 

quote now. 

Phone 03 377 1280 | Mobile 021 898 380 

ROOF REPAIRS 

Locally owned & operated with 

over 30 years experience. 

• Extensions & repair • Roof coating 

• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol 

• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified 

• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering 

Phone Dave 981 0278 

or 021 223 4200 

E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz 

BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD 

WINDOW TINTING 

tintawindow 

advanced film solutions 

99% uv block 

fade protection 

heat control 

reduce glare 

25 Years Experience 

Driveways 

Over 22 Years Experience 

Quality 

Workmanship 

• Driveways 

• Kerb & 

Channel 

• Garden Edging 

Freephone: 0800 081 400 

swainskiwikerb@gmail.com 

Specializing in: 

• Roof Painting 

• Interior/exterior 

residential 

• Small commercial 

painting 

PLUMBER 

PLUMBING LTD 

• Hot water cylinder repair/replacement 

• Leaky taps, blocked toilets 

• New housing 

• All plumbing alterations 

• Mains pressure hot water 

• Fire and wetback installation 

• Digger/tipper excavation and hire 

• Watermain replacement/repair 

• Certified craftsman plumber 

SWAINS 

KIWI KERB 

(Since 2005) 

PAINTERS 

Painters and Decorators Ltd 

Canterbury Owned and Operated 

A husband and wife team 

Noel 027-411-3596 

kemp.painters@gmail.com 

kemp painters and decorators 

“I will turn up when I say I will” 

Call/Text 027 245 5100 

Freephone: 0508 426 269 

privacy films 

frosting designs 

non-darkening films 

Workmanship Guaranteed 

Lifetime Warranties on Most Films 

UV 

block 

We offer 

free quotes 

Quality not 

Quantity 

Free Quotes Canterbury and Districts 

03 365 3653 0800 368 468 

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 


0800 882 772 

darryl.p@groutpro.co.nz 



ELECTRICIAN 

LAWNMOWING 

Available, 30 years 

You Grow I Mow. Free 

experience, immediate 

quotes. Ph / text Chris 021 

start, competitive rate, 

252 1801 

ph Brian 027 433 9548 

No Call out fee 

OVEN CLEANING 

ELECTRICIAN 

Professional cleans 

All types of domestic $50.00. Gift Vouchers 

& commercial work avail. Phone 0800 683- 

undertaken, new housing, 6253 or 027 228-0025 

alterations, extensions, 

PAINTING 

ranges, security lights, 

quick response, efficient PLASTERING 

service, free quotes, Free quotes. Int/ext & 

city -wide. No call out roof painting Family run 

fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat business, work guaranteed. 

Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027 Pensioner discounts. Ph 

7331384. 

Kerin or Paul 022 191 

FENCING 

7877 or 379-1281. Website 

25 yrs exp. Fencing, all 

www.swedekiwipainting. 

styles & gates. Ph Mark 

co.nz 

0273 313 223 

PAINTING 

FENCING , DECKS & 

All jobs, none too small. 

HOME RENO’S 

Free quotes Affordable 

All types of fencing. rates. Seniors discounts. 

decking & reno’s. Free James 0220 652 637 

quotes. Ph Jim 022 137 

1920 

PAINTER 

FENCING 

Quality timber fencing - 

gates & repairs, ph Ryan 

Qualified Tradesman. Free 

quotes. Inside / Outside. 

Kieran 0212 175 488 

027 951 8892 

PAINTING 

GARDENING 

Lawnmowing, weeding, Indoor / Outdoor, over 30 

hedge trimming.,garden yrs exp, same day quotes, 

cleanups, Call Phil the ph Steve 021 255 7968 

Gardener 021 661 246 for PAINTING 

your free quote. 

30 years experience, 

GLAZIER 

workmanship 

Glass repairs - pet doors 

guaranteed, pensioners 

- conservatory roofs. Exp 

discounts, free quotes, ph 

Tradesman. Call Bill on 

Robert 021 026-30757 

022 413 3504 or 981-1903 PAINTING 

HANDYMAN 

30 years experience, 

All handyman services eg: workmanship 

drippy taps, sticky doors, 

locks, moss spraying etc. 

guaranteed, pensioners 

Discount for pensioners. 

discounts, free quotes, ph 

Ph 390 1565 or 022 5275 

Robert 021 026-30757 

668 

PLASTER MASONRY 

HANDY - DAN 

PAINTING, TILING 

General Handyman for WALLPAPERING 

all your maintenance 

requirements. I specialise Roofing & Brick 

in fences and decking, also Repairs, Stucco, Fixing, 

do spouting cleans and Stopping, Cracks & 

repairs and everyday home 

maintenance. NO JOB TO 

BIG OR SMALL I can do 

it all, please don’t hesitate 

Holes. Small jobs ok. 

35 yrs exp . Free quotes. 

Gary 3428950 / 021 529 

022 

to call me on 022 600 7738 

PLASTERER 

for a no obligation free 

quote. 

Phone Finn the interior 

HANDYMAN 

plasterer small job 

REPAIRMAN 

specialist, holes, cracks, 

20 yrs exp.No job too 

renovatons, alterations. 

small.Prompt service. 

Canty born. Ph 022 

On site engineering & 

0874351 

welding a speciality. PLASTERING (INT) 

Reasonable rates.Free 

Experience and 

quotes.Ph Wayne 9813873 

Excellence. Small to 

/0272853083 

Medium job specialists 

LANDSCAPING 

in all aspects of Interior 

Paving, Lawns, Irrigation, Plastering. Please call Tim 

Decking, Fencing. 020 4183 8909 

Kanga & small digger 

services. Check out Squire PLUMBER 

Landscaping on facebook. A Top Plumbing job 

FREE QUOTES. Ph completed at a fair price, 

Arthur 347-8796, 027 prompt service, all work 

220-7014 Edwin 027 220- 

7154 

guaranteed, ph Brian 960- 

7673 or 021 112-3492 


REMOVALS 

Small furniture removals, 

have own van, can fit 

various types of whiteware 

appliances, some furn, 

bedding, boxes etc, honest 

& reliable, any area 

considered, ph Chch 027 

517 7001 

RUBBISH REMOVAL 

Van & Trailer Rubbish 

Removal. Free quotes. Ph 

Gary 342-8950, 021 529 

022 

SPOUTING CLEANING 

SPECIALIST 

15 years experience. 

Hundreds of happy 

customers. Ring or text Jo 

021 164 0365 

SPOUTING 

Select Spouting 

The PVC specialist. 

Repairs & replacement. Ph 

022 197 2351 

TREE SERVICES 

Free quotes 20+ yrs 

exp. Tree, hedge or 

shrub - reduction, 

shaped or removed. Ph/ 

text Paul The Branch 

Manager 0274314720 

TREE TRIMMING 

AND REMOVAL 

Hedges cut, pruning. 20 

yrs exp. Ph Alister 359 

3090 ABT Tree Services 

WATERBLASTING 

Spring special.House 

wash $180 with free 

gutter clean.General 

waterblasting. Ph 020 

41067205 

WINDOW CLEANING 

Brown & White Ltd. 

Family owned since 2001. 

Ph Paul 027 229 3534 

WINDOW CLEANING 

Average 3 brm house 

inside or out from $40. 

Both from $70 Phone 

Trevor 344-2170 

Tuition 

COMPUTER LESSONS 

avail for computer, IPad, 

or Mobile. Please contact 

Jobee 027 290 9246 www. 

computertutor.nz 

Wanted To Buy 

ViNTAGE 

LEiCA CAMERA 

WANTED 

~ 

Will pay up to $600 

~ 

Phone 351 5353 

or 021 128 5498 

CASH FOR 

STAMPS, 

COINS & 

GOLD 

Free Appraisals 

Call Matt at 

The Stamp and 

Coin Exchange 

134a Riccarton Rd 

0800 39 24 26 

We can come to you. 

Call today. 

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 

Wanted To Buy 

ACADEMY ANTIQUES 

Buying estates, antiques, 

old china, crystal, art, 

Royal Doulton , Royal 

Albert etc. Best prices, 

free appraisal. Call Rob 

027 299 7232 or 349-4229 

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 

CASH PAID TODAY for 

quality furniture, tools, 

estate lots. Call Simon 021 

154 8281 

DOWNSIZING? 

GARAGE SALE? 

Cash paid for estate china. 

Ph 313 1878 or 027 350 

3963 

TOOLS, Garden garage, 

MILITARIA Any 

country, firearms, 

uniforms, badges, medals, 

memoribilia, WW2 or 

earlier ph 338-9931 

saw benches, Lathes. Cash 

buyer Phone 355-2045 

Situations Vacant 

CLEANERS 

REQUIRED 

Belfast/ 

Northwood Area 

Saturday and Sunday 

7am - 10am 

Redwood Area 

Cranford Street 

Monday to Friday 

6pm - 8.30pm 

We are looking for cleaners 

to join our commercial 

cleaning team. 

You will need to pass a 

Security Check and you 

MUST have your own 

transport. 

Must be eligible to work 

in New Zealand. 

Please email your 

Application to 

csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz 

or phone 338 9056 

Visit our website: 

totalcanterbury.co.nz 

Please advise which job 

when emailing your CV. 


MATURE LADY wanted 

for escort work. Discreet. 

10am - 2 pm 3 days per 

week. Txt 022 1300 848 

TAXI DRIVERS 

WANTED Full time, part 

time shifts available at 

Taxi Tech Transport. Only 

need P endorsement, full 

training provided. Ph Taxi 

Technology 027 220 4335 

R-F. Any type of work 

Situations Wanted - 

Jobs Wanted 

DRIVER Exp Full or part 

time. Licences 1-2-4-P-Wconsidered. 

Phone 027 

333 6684


The Star Classifieds 


DRIVETECH LTD 

“TRAINING TOMORROWS DRIVERS TODAY” 

HEAVY TRAFFIC CLASSES 2, 3, 4 & 5 

FROM FULL CAR (Class 1) 

TO FULL TRUCK (Class 2) in 2 days 

(Road code & pre-assessment driving training provided) 

FORKLIFT ENDORSEMENT (F & OSH) 

CAR DRIVING LESSONS 

Train with a knowledgable, experienced assessor that will work with you 

through your theory and practical steps. 

Driving Related Health & Safety Training 

Passenger, Logbook & Load Security Training 

OTHER COURSES/LICENCES & ENDORSEMENTS AVAILABLE ARE: 

Vehicle Recovery, Wheels, Tracks, Rollers & Dangerous Goods 

Courses in Christchurch, Invercargill, 

Cromwell & Mosgiel daily. 

Other areas by arrangement 

INTEREST FREE TIME PAYMENTS 

(Terms & Conditions apply) 

FREEPHONE 0508 2 37483 

or 03 348 8481, 027 510 0684 

info@drivetech.co.nz / www.drivetech.co.nz 

• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi 

St John Friends of the 

Emergency Department 

Do you have time to help your community? 

St John volunteers provide non-clinical care 

and support to patients and their families in the 

Emergency Department of Christchurch Hospital. 

Shifts are available from: 

• 10:00am - 2:00pm 

• 2:00pm - 6:00pm 

• 6:00pm - 10:00pm 

Public Notices 

For more information contact Pam Hall on 

0800 785 646 ext 3645. 

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CASUAL COOK/CLEANER 

Abbeyfield Christchurch Inc. seek to employ 

a Casual cook/cleaner (separate or combined 

position) for 12 – 14 seniors in our 2 Abbeyfield 

Christchurch residences. Applicants for the 

cooking position will be experienced cooks 

and preferably conversant with food safety 

legislation. Interested people are invited to 

contact Julian on 3517406 or 0272232678 

for further information. Application forms 

are available from Margaret on 3515177 or 

randmyorke@actrix.co.nz . Please indicate 

whether the application is for the cook, the 

cleaner or the combined post. Closing date: 

5pm, Monday September 23, 2019. 

See www.abbeyfield.co.nz to find out more 

about Abbeyfield. 


New Zealand National Party 

Nominations for the selection of the 

National Party Candidate for the 

Ilam Electorate at the 

2020 General Election will open 

from Thursday 19th September 2019 

and will be received from 

National Party members by 

National Party Headquarters up to 

midday, Friday 4th October 2019 

when nominations close. 

Nomination forms and details 

regarding procedures may be 

obtained from: 

Sharon Nightingale 

NZ National Party, 

41 Pipitea Street, Thorndon, Wellington 

P: 0800 628 727 

E: sharon.nightingale@national.org.nz 

Authorised by G Hamilton, 

41 Pipitea Street, Wellington 

Vehicles Wanted 


OCTOBER 2019 CHRISTCHURCH 

CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS 

The next meetings of the Christchurch City Council, 

Committees, Subcommittees, Council Hearings Panels, 

and Community Boards will be held as follows: 

COMMITTEES 

Date Time Committee and Venue 

24 6pm Christchurch West Melton Water 

Management Zone Committee, Te 

Hapua: Halswell Centre - Piharau Room 

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT HEARINGS PANELS 

Date Time Venue 

7 9.30am Civic Offices, 53 Hereford Street 

10 9.30am Civic Offices, 53 Hereford Street 

COMMUNITY BOARD COMMITTEES 

Date Time Committee and Venue 

21 5.30pm Duvauchelle Reserve Management 

Committee, Duvauchelle Community 

Centre, 6039 Christchurch Akaroa 

Road, Duvauchelle 

Copies of the agendas will be available online and to 

the public at the meetings. Members of the public are 

welcome to attend any of these meetings. 

To make a deputation or presentation to a Council, 

Committee or Community Board meeting ring the call 

centre on 03 941 8999 or email info@ccc.govt.nz. 

Information about Alcohol Licensing can be found 

online at ccc.govt.nz/alcohol 

Megan Pearce 

MANAGER HEARINGS AND COUNCIL SUPPORT 

www.ccc.govt.nz 

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 


STAMP AND 

POSTCARD FAIR 

The Philatelic Centre 

67 Mandeville Street, 

Riccarton 

Saturday 21st Sept 

9am-12pm 

Sellers tables available 

Phone 027 6354 957 

Experienced tutors, beginners 

welcome & equipment supplied 

Open to the public Sundays 21 

and 28 September from 

10:00am - 11:30am at Victoria 

Lake jetty, North Hagley Park 

Christchurch Fishing & 

Casting Club Inc. 


HOUSE & GARAGE 

Cleanout. I’ll pick up for 

free. Ph 022 510 5420. 

Recycling Man. Charity 

for Chch. 

HOUSE & GARAGE 

Cleanout. I’ll pick up for 

free. Ph 022 510 5420. 

Recycling Man. Charity 

for Chch. 

SCHOOLS. SPORTS CLUBS OR CULTURAL EVENTS 

OUTSTANDING 

Fundraising opportunity 

The Star has a fantastic opportunity that is an ideal way 

to fundraise while at the same time helps to profile and 

promote your team and their goals and ambitions. 

Call now to find out more about how you can fundraise 

those hard to get dollars, while at the same time 

promoting some of the great positive work being done 

in the community. It also offers exceptional value for 

your supporters and sponsors. 

Contact: 

Mike Fulham 

379 7100 

mike@starmedia.kiwi


christchurch 

GIG GUIDE 

To add a listing, contact 

Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or 

027 458 8590 

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi/whatson 

Thursday 19 - Wednesday 25 Sept 2019 

‘Famous for their roasts!’ 

Zed celebrate 

20 Years of Silencer 

at Cassels Blue Smoke 

this weekend. 

DV8 play Temp’s Bar 

in Hornby on 

Saturday night. 

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 

$19 

Kid’s 2 course 

special 

School 

Holidays 

We are family 

friendly. 

Great Kids menu 

plus designated 

play area. 

TREAT THE 

FAMILY! 

$13 

The 

RACECOURSE HOTEL 

& Motorlodge 

118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn, 

Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150 

www.racecoursehotel.co.nz 

A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo 

St: Thursday 7pm - Quiz. Monday 7pm - 

Quiz. Wednesday 7pm - Traditional Irish 

Music Session. 

CASHMERE CLUB, 50 Colombo St: 

Thursday 7pm - Cashmere Ukulele Group. 

CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, 3 

Gardlands Rd: Saturday 7.30pm & Sunday 

6.30pm - Zed: 20 Years of Silencer, ticketed. 

CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, Victoria 

St: Thursday 8pm - Marcel. Friday 6pm - 

Absolut; 9.15pm - Reckless. Saturday 6.30pm - 

Rockabella (Valley Bar); 7pm - Des Newton 

(Main Gaming Room). Sunday 5.30pm - 

Lonsome Sue. 

CHRISTCHURCH TOWN HALL, 86 

Kilmore St: Wednesday 8pm - Joe 

Bonamassa. Event tickets at Ticketek. 

GBC, Garden Buffet Cafe, 110 

Marshland Rd: Saturday 5.30pm - Sima & 

Jenny duo. 

HORNBY WMC, 17 Carmen Rd, 

Hornby: Sunday 1.30pm - Annette’s Heart of 

Country, $6 entry. 

HORNCASTLE ARENA, Jack Hinton 

Drive: Event tickets at Ticketek. 

ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL, 145 

Gloucester St: Friday, Saturday 7.30pm; 

Sunday 4pm; Tuesday, Wednesday 7.30pm - 

Showbiz Christchurch presents Miss Saigon, 

ticketed. 

MISS SAIGON, Showbiz 

Christchurch, Isaac Theatre Royal, 

145 Gloucester St: Friday, Saturday 

7.30pm; Sunday 4pm; Tuesday, Wednesday 

7.30pm - Showbiz Christchurch presents Miss 

Saigon, ticketed. 

RACECOURSE HOTEL, 118 

Racecourse Rd, Sockburn: Sunday 

6pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke. 

SHOWBIZ CHRISTCHURCH, Isaac 

Theatre Royal, 145 Gloucester St: 

Friday, Saturday 7.30pm; Sunday 4pm; Tuesday, 

Wednesday 7.30pm - Showbiz Christchurch 

presents Miss Saigon, ticketed. 

TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, 

Hornby: Friday 8.30pm - Misfitz. Saturday 

8.30pm - DV8. Wednesday - Mickey Rat 

Karaoke. 

THE CRAIC IRISH BAR, 84 Riccarton 

Rd: Thursday 9.30pm - Karaoke. Friday - 

Rocky Road. Saturday - Bobby Brown. 

Wednesday 9pm- Karaoke. 

THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: 

Thursday 8pm - Titanic (Kevin Emmett, Nick 

Buchanan, and Peter K Malthus). Friday 

8.30pm - Open Mic. Tuesday 8pm - Karaoke. 

Wednesday 8pm - Titanic (Kevin Emmett, 

Nick Buchanan, and Peter K Malthus). 

THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd, 

Addington: Thursday 7pm - Learn to Rock 

n Roll. Friday 9.30pm - The Meaniez. Saturday 

9.30pm - Absolut Duo. Tuesday 7.30pm - Quiz. 

Wednesday 8pm - Karaoke with Lance Kiwi. 

THE PAPANUI CLUB, 310 Sawyers 

Arms Rd: Friday 7.30pm - Kayla G. Friday 

27 September - Ryan Ferris. Sunday 29 

September, 3pm - Porter Duo. 

WOOLSTON CLUB, 43 Hargood St: 

Saturday 7.30pm - The Bottlejacks. 

WUNDERBAR, Lyttelton: Friday 8.30pm 

- Tali with The Settlers, ticketed. Saturday 9pm 

- Saint Satori presents Belladonna debut album 

release with support Richard Dada and the 

Opawa 45's, ticketed. Tuesday 7pm - Open Mic. 

Wednesday 8pm - Bronte Eve (Australia) with 

support Bexy, and There’s A Tuesday, $5 entry. 

Buffet at its best! 

Unbeatable selection 

You’ll be spoiled for choice! 

Lunch & Dinner 

All you can eat, 7 days 

Senior’s 

Lunch Special 

$23 50 ALL YOU CAN EAT 

Monday to Friday 

Conditions apply 

Bookings Essential PH 386 0088 

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

IN THE BAR 

HAPPY HOUR 5PM - 7PM DAILY 

LIVE SKY SPORT 

ON THE GBC BIG SCREEN 

IN THE CAFE 

OUR CABINET ITEMS ARE HOMEMADE 

CREATED FRESH ON SITE DAILY 

COFFEE 

HAPPY 

H O U R 

2PM-4PM 

DAILY $3.50 

Offer available for a 

limited time and includes 

tea, hot chocolate 

PHONE 385 888 

FIND US ON FACEBOOK fb.com/GBCCHCH 

THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX 

110 MARSHLAND RD 

www.gardenhotel.co.nz | phone 385 3132 

LIVE MUSIC 

THIS SATURDAY 

5.30-7.30PM 

Sima & Jenny 

Breakfast 

AVAILABLE 

FROM 

9AM 

DAILY 

Lunch $12 Specials 

MON: ROAST MEAL 

TUE: FISH & CHIPS 

WED: FISH BURGER 

THU: ROAST MEAL 

SAT: FISH & CHIPS 

AVAILABLE FROM 

11.30AM-2PM 

FOR A LIMITED TIME


This Week at the 

Hornby Club 

Friday 

let’s 

eat 

The Club Café 

is open daily for 

Lunch & Dinner 

Bring the whole family! 

Check Out These Club Café Dining Specials! 

Midday to 2pm 

Tue, Wed, Thu 

Roast of the Day with veges 

or Fish of the Day with 

chips & salad 

Add a dessert for 

just $5 

Saturday 

CLUBS NEW ZEALAND WARMLY WELCOME MEMBERS, 

THEIR GUESTS AND AFFILIATE CLUB MEMBERS. 

FOR MORE INFO, CONTACT A CLUB WITHIN THIS SECTION. 

Woolston Club is thrilled to 

introduce some exciting 

new additions to their 

Bar & Restaurant offering! 

1/2 Chook & Chips with 

slaw & gravy for $28 

Tonight’s 

Dinner Deal 

Tuesday 

Wednesday 

MANY of Woolston's favourite fares still 

feature on the bar and restaurant menu, 

however to start your dining experience, 

Woolston now offer Salt & Pepper 

crumbed Calamari, and the popular fried 

chicken in two size options. 

One standout addition is the selection 

of Rotisserie meals, an enhancement of 

the standard Roast. Now the decision is 

yours; between traditional Beef with 

Yorkshire pud', chicken with lemonthyme 

stuffing, and pork with apple & 

sultana relish, you certainly are not short 

on options. Choose a potato side and two 

vegetable dishes to accompany. 

Another dish set to delight is the NZ 

Greenshell Mussels, baked in beer, white 

wine and cream, an absolute Kiwi 

favourite, and meat-lovers will not be 

disappointed in some changes to the 

famous Woolston burger. Now featuring 

double meat, double cheese, bacon, a fried 

egg, beetroot and topped off with sour 

cream, this monstrous meal is not for the 

tame! 

Providing excellent value for money, 

the “Woolston Weeklies” are the new daily 

rituals you will want to pop in your diary. 

Promising the retention of the everpopular 

'Half price ribs', '2 4 1 Pizza', 'Kids 

dine free,' and of course the 'Sunday 

Roast' Woolston also present the addition 

of both a Steak and a Chook night. 

Tuesday 'Steak Night' includes steak, 

egg, chips & a pint of house beer for just 

$20, while 'Chook Night' on Saturdays is 

the perfect opportunity to bring your 

better half or a mate down for a shared 

meal. $28 gets you half a massive size 18 

chicken, plus chips, slaw and gravy to 

devour. Good luck attempting this on 

your own! 

Woolston Weeklies are available daily 

from 5pm until late. 

Come down and give our new options 

a try! Cal 03 389 7039 to book a table. 

THIS SUNDAY 1.30pm 

ANNETTE’S HEART 

OF COUNTRY 

SHOWCASE 

$6 ENTRY 

DINNER DEAL 

NEXT SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER, 1.30PM 

NEVILLE WILKINS 

& THE VISCOUNTS 

www.hornbywmc.co.nz/events 

$7 ENTRY 

HWMC | ph 03 349 9026 | 17 Carmen Rd, Hornby 

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

What’s On @ Woolston 

THIS SATURDAY 7.30PM 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

LIVE MUSIC 

The Bottlejacks 

RUGBY 2019 LIVE & LOUD 

COME DOWN TO THE WOOLSTON 

TO SUPPORT THE BOYS IN BLACK 

SPECIAL EXTENDED HAPPY HOURS 

FREE TAB BETTING VOUCHERS 

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 

Woolston Weeklies 

TUE: STEAK, EGG, CHIPS 

& PINT FOR $20 

WED: HALF PRICE RIBS $10 

THU: 2-4-1 PIZZA 

FRI: KIDS DINE FREE 

SAT: 1/2 CHOOK & CHIPS, 

SLAW & GRAVY for $28 

SAT: BUFFET ROAST 

TWO COURSE $20 

HOU S I E 

TUESDAY 12.45PM 

THURSDAY 7.30PM 

FRIDAY 7.30PM 

SATURDAY 12.30PM


What s On 

Cashmere Club 

50 Colombo Street 

AT THE 

THURSDAY & FRIDAY 

MEAT RAFFLES from 4pm 

HAPPY HOUR 5pm-6pm 

MEMBERS’ 

CASH 

Ph 03 332 0092 

E: cashmere@ 

cashmereclub.co.nz 

DRAW $1600 

REDRAW 6.15PM FRIDAY 

6.15pm THURSDAY 

IF NOT WON. 

THURSDAY from 7pm CASHMERE LOUNGE 

CASHMERE UKULELE GROUP 

NEW PLAYERS & SINGERS WELCOME 

FRIDAY from 7pm HEATHCOTE ROOM 

HOUSIE $4 PER CARD FOR 35 GAMES 

RAFFLES & GREAT FUN FOR ALL! 

THURSDAY 7.30PM MITRE 10 CUP 

CANTERBURY v MANAWATU 

SATURDAY 

9AM WORKING BEE - ALL WELCOME 

6.30PM BOXING TOURNAMENT 

POOL FOR SCHOOLS TOURNAMENT 

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY LIVE 

SEE THE AD ON THIS PAGE 

RIVERVIEW RESTAURANT 

$10 

LUNCH 

SPECIAL 

TUES - SAT 11.30AM - 3PM 

CHECK OUT THE BLACKBOARD 

FOR TODAY’S CHEF SPECIAL! 

WE'RE READY FOR 

THE RUGBY! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TWO SHOWS IN ONE 

DND SHOWBAND RETURN TO THE HORNBY CLUB WITH TWO OF THEIR MOST POPULAR TRIBUTE SHOWS 

ABBA & FLEETWOOD MAC 

GREAT SONGS, COSTUMES, PROFESSIONAL SOUND & LIGHTS. 

THIS LIVE BAND IS RENOWNED FOR ITS TRIBUTE SHOWS. 

THIS IS AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED! TICKETS ARE LIMITED. 

SAT. 2 NOV. 2019 | HORNBY CLUB 

17 CARMEN ROAD, HORNBY. PHONE 03 349 9026 

PRE SALE TICKETS $25 AT THE CLUB OFFICE. DOOR SALES $30. SHOW STARTS AT 7.30PM. DOORS OPEN AT 6.30PM 

PRESENTED BY DND SHOWBAND WWW.DNDSHOWBAND.COM


SPRING 

CLEAN 

SALE 

NOW ON. ENDS 30.09.19. 

ON SALE 

REGAN SOFA BED 

NOW $ 

849 

Woodwall 

ON SALE 

Unleash your inner designer and customise a 

storage solution guaranteed to fit your lifestyle. 

2 x 2 Cube NOW $ 149 

Hall Table NOW $ 279 

Drawers with Legs 

NOW $129 

Carnival 

new colours! 

Wine Rack NOW $ 249 

Jamie Single/Single 

Bunk Bed 

$599 

CHIA 

BEDROOM RANGE 

ON SALE 

4 Drawer –W80 $ 449 

Bedside $ 249 

6 Drawer Lowboy $ 569 

CARSON 

DINING RANGE 

Shop 

Online 

Nationwide 

Delivery 

Finance 

Options 

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Cnr Blenheim & Curletts Rds, Christchurch 

Ph: 0800 TARGET (0800 827438) 

Offers and product prices advertised here expire 30/09/19. 

Sale excludes Manchester and Accessories. 

Dining Table – W120 $ 299 

Dining Chair $ 95 

SPRING CLEAN SALE ENDS 30.09.19.


Re-elect 

Lianne Dalziel 

Christchurch Mayor 

“I love Christchurch and am confident about 

our future. 

With my experience and inclusive style of 

leadership, we can tackle any challenges that 

lie ahead, while seizing every opportunity that 

comes our way. 

Together, we will build a legacy for 

generations to come.” 

Best for Christchurch 

lianne.co.nz

Let’s keep the momen 


I’m proud of Christchurch and it is an enormous privilege to 

represent you as Mayor. 

Our city is emerging from unprecedented challenges to become 

one of the most dynamic in New Zealand. 

Much has been accomplished but the job is not yet done. 

Disaster brought tragedy but at the same time has created a unique 

opportunity to reimagine Christchurch. 

We have laid the foundation for a modern, sustainable and resilient 

21st Century city – together we can build a legacy for generations 

to come. 

We need to get the chlorine out of the water and keep it out. We 

need to keep investing in the central city and the east, and we also 

need to get rates increases down. 

We need to keep the momentum going; progress must continue. 

I want Christchurch to be known for its fantastic lifestyle, as well as 

being the innovation and creativity capital of New Zealand. 

I have the experience, I have the commitment and I have the 

teambuilding skills to deliver on what I promise. 

I’m looking forward to serving Christchurch again and using my 

experience to drive this vision across the line – I believe that’s 

what’s best for Christchurch. 

Lianne 

lianne.co.nz 

lianne.co.nz 

Lianne at Tūranga, the new award-winning central library, one of the city’s great assets


ntum going 

My immediate priorities: 

Water 

Investment in our infrastructure will deliver pure water safely to your home. 

I will fight Government-imposed mandatory chlorination. 

Rates 

I will bring rates rises down while ensuring continued infrastructure 

investment and balancing council debt and inflation. 

Central City 

A vibrant city centre is essential. Having secured $300m for Christchurch, 

the stadium will be a multi-use facility. 

I will continue to back the developers leading the way. 

Sustainability 

I am committed to reducing our city’s carbon footprint, and helping 

communities to prepare for the impacts of climate change. 

Eastern Alliance 

An alliance of contractors will deliver a fully integrated programme of works 

across the east, fixing roads, footpaths and pipes, and building stopbanks. 

Do it once, do it right. 

Best for Christchurch 

lianne.co.nz


Rachael Fonotia and Philip Burdon, Lianne’s nominators for re-election as Christchurch Mayor 

“Lianne has been a huge supporter and advocate for Aranui 

and the east. She has represented our community for a long 

time and has a strong and valued connection with us all”. 

Rachael Fonotia 

General Manager, Aranui Community Trust 

Let’s keep the momentum going . . . 

Re-elect Lianne Dalziel Christchurch Mayor 

lianne.co.nz 

“For the last six years Lianne has provided Christchurch with stable 

and enlightened leadership. She has a genuine love for the city and is 

uniquely qualified to lead Christchurch for another term”. 

Philip Burdon 

Former cabinet minister, business leader and lawyer 

Authorised by A. Campbell, c/- Lvl 1/394 Riccarton Rd, Christchurch

The Star: September 19, 2019

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