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crack nut’<br />
500 at key<br />
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By Toni Williams<br />
‘‘It’s like using asledge hammer to<br />
crack awalnut’’ and it’s not going to<br />
work, says Federated Farmers<br />
general manager policy and advocacy<br />
Gavin Forrest.<br />
It was an analogy Mr Forrest used<br />
at apublic meeting at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Trust Event Centre in <strong>Ashburton</strong> to<br />
describe the Government’s 115page<br />
essential freshwater proposal.<br />
The meeting, led by Federated<br />
Farmers Mid Canterbury provincial<br />
president David Clark, drew almost<br />
500 people: the majority farmers,<br />
including those from Culverden,<br />
Leeston and Waimate but there were<br />
also industry representatives, rural<br />
and urban business owners, new and<br />
outgoing district and regional<br />
councillors and members of the<br />
community.<br />
Mr Forrest was on the information<br />
panel along with Mid Canterbury<br />
farmer, and Federated Farmer board<br />
member, environment and water<br />
spokesman Chris Allen and North<br />
Island regional policy manager Dr<br />
Paul Le Mierre. Federated Farmers<br />
chief executive officer Terry<br />
Copeland also spoke.<br />
‘‘It’s not just adiscussion<br />
document,’’ Mr Forrest said.<br />
It included three critically<br />
important, and advanced, regulatory<br />
documents which has alarmed<br />
Federated Farmers; adraft national<br />
policy statement for Freshwater<br />
Management, aproposed National<br />
Environmental Standard for<br />
Freshwater and Draft Stock<br />
Exclusion Section 360 Regulations.<br />
There is also concern over the lack<br />
of cost benefit analysis, the short sixweek<br />
timeframe calling for<br />
submissions on the proposal<br />
(extended by two weeks after<br />
pushback), four other significant<br />
submissions also happening at the<br />
same time and there will be no<br />
hearings for the proposal, with<br />
cabinet, not Parliament, to make the<br />
final decision.<br />
The panel went through the<br />
proposals and their concerns as well<br />
as answering questions from the<br />
crowd.<br />
The event was also livestreamed.<br />
Provincial president David Clark at the podium at the water meeting in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Mr Clark reiterated Federated<br />
Farmers concerns the proposal, as it<br />
was written, would affect business<br />
owners and employers in<br />
communities such as Mid Canterbury<br />
as much as it will hurt farmers.<br />
He said trusting those in power<br />
was not an option.<br />
This proposal, which closes on<br />
<strong>October</strong> 31 at 5pm, was the one and<br />
only chance for the voice of farmers,<br />
and those in the community, to be<br />
heard. There was no second round or<br />
recourse.<br />
It was in the farmer interest to<br />
look after and care for their land and<br />
most farmers in Canterbury were<br />
already involved with the existing<br />
Canterbury Land and Water Plan,<br />
something they were fully engaged<br />
with to improve water quality, Mr<br />
Clark said.<br />
Ablanket nationwide rule was not<br />
the answer and would see<br />
‘‘unintended consequences’’ occur <br />
loss of jobs, bankruptcy or<br />
production losses.<br />
Mr Copeland said Federated<br />
Farmers represented the longterm<br />
ability of landowners to profitably<br />
and sustainably produce food and<br />
fibre, regardless the type of<br />
productive land use.<br />
‘‘It’s up to you what you do with<br />
your land,’’ he said, but under the<br />
proposal the flexibility for farmers to<br />
choose how to farm their land will no<br />
longer exist, without permissions.<br />
‘‘We want to support communities<br />
so they are vibrant.’’<br />
Mr Copeland said the primary<br />
sector was an important driver for<br />
local and regional economies as well<br />
as the national economy.<br />
It accounts for more than<br />
$46billion of exports; dairy $18.12b,<br />
meat and wool $10.<strong>17</strong>b and arable<br />
$236m which provides adomestic<br />
food source for people and animals,<br />
particularly in Canterbury.<br />
‘‘Farmers and growers rely on<br />
service industries to produce high<br />
quality and high value products and<br />
to transport, process and market<br />
them to discerning customers in<br />
international markets.’’<br />
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Fish and chips for May’s 101st<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
ColdstreamHouse resident<br />
May Parker celebratedher 101st<br />
birthday lastweek with her<br />
favourite fish and chip lunch.<br />
Two of her four daughters<br />
joined her at lunch, alongside<br />
youngermembers of the family.<br />
Dunedinborn, May attended<br />
Otago Girls and then trainedas<br />
anurse.<br />
She was arep netballer,<br />
although the game was referred<br />
to as basketball in those days,<br />
and played at centre for Otago.<br />
She was also one of the first to<br />
be employed as an industrial<br />
nurse at the freezer worksand<br />
enjoyedastint at Oamaru’s<br />
Pukeuriplant.<br />
‘‘I lovedthe job and the men<br />
were all wonderful to me,’’she<br />
said.<br />
Her nursing career also<br />
included astint as adistrict<br />
nurse.<br />
May married Geoffrey at a<br />
registry office just beforehewas<br />
shippedout and joined the<br />
Royal Navy in World War 2.<br />
Key water meeting attracts 500 in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
From Page 1<br />
With acurrent GDP of<br />
11 per cent, itwas more<br />
likely 15per cent when<br />
support industries such<br />
as the diesel mechanic<br />
who relied solely on<br />
farming machinery, and<br />
other support industries,<br />
were taken into account.<br />
‘‘What is going to<br />
replace this income and<br />
how can we keep our<br />
The ceremony was kept secret<br />
from most of the family and was<br />
later followed by asecond<br />
communities vibrant?<br />
‘‘It’s not fully thought<br />
through,’’ he said of the<br />
proposal.<br />
Mr Clark said facilities<br />
such as the event<br />
centre and Lake Hood<br />
exemplified the economical<br />
transformation that<br />
happened in the district<br />
as aresult of thedistricts<br />
farmers flexible land<br />
use, and their ability to<br />
react to markets, post<br />
1990s.<br />
There was a thriving<br />
and diverse economy<br />
with full schools and low<br />
unemployment.<br />
Member of Parliament<br />
for Rangitata<br />
Andrew Falloon, who<br />
was also atthe meeting,<br />
said if farmers had been<br />
involved during the process<br />
‘‘alarm bells<br />
ceremony in achurch after<br />
Geoffreyreturned home from<br />
war.<br />
wouldn’t beringing now,<br />
there are major flaws<br />
and unintended consequences<br />
contained in<br />
(minister David Parker’s)<br />
proposals.’’<br />
‘‘The impact isn’t just<br />
on our rural communities,<br />
it’s every business in<br />
townthat counts farmers<br />
as customers and the<br />
knockon effect<br />
throughout the local<br />
Husband Geoffreytrained as<br />
apharmacist and set up shopin<br />
Oamaruwhere he ran a<br />
successfulbusiness for many<br />
years.Hedied in 2006.<br />
May has always been active<br />
and played golf and badminton<br />
and was amemberofOamaru<br />
Operatic for anumber of years.<br />
‘‘My four daughters are<br />
wonderful girls and Iput my<br />
longevity down to being a‘good<br />
girl’ as well,’’ she said.<br />
She had always liked aregular<br />
glass of white wine and could<br />
honestly say she had ‘‘enjoyed<br />
her life’’.<br />
May Parker,who looksfar<br />
younger than her years, has nine<br />
grandchildren and 12 great<br />
grandchildren and was bornon<br />
<strong>October</strong> 10 1918.<br />
She still attends someFriday<br />
gatherings at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Cavendish Club, aclub she was<br />
also amemberofin Oamaru.<br />
Photo:May Parker is a<br />
sprightly 101.<br />
Globe atmosphere recreated<br />
The atmosphere of the<br />
famous Globe Theatre<br />
will be recreated and Big<br />
Little Theatre Company<br />
(BLTC) performers will<br />
push boundaries when<br />
they perform Shakespeare’s<br />
Twelfth Night<br />
in <strong>Ashburton</strong> next<br />
month.<br />
Three performances<br />
at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Trust<br />
Event Centre will feature<br />
an elaborate set<br />
design and aseating plan<br />
that would have been<br />
used back in the <strong>17</strong>00s <br />
and some top notch acting.<br />
Having recently<br />
returned from an inspiring<br />
three weeks of theatre<br />
training at the<br />
Globe Theatre, London,<br />
and at other locations,<br />
BLTC actors are eager<br />
to bring the Globe<br />
experience to their home<br />
theatre.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Trust<br />
Event Centre manager<br />
Roger Farr said he had<br />
been approached by<br />
BLTC director Jackie<br />
Heffernan with ‘‘the<br />
crazy idea of recreating<br />
the Globe’’ within the<br />
venue.<br />
‘‘Having seen first<br />
hand the fun the audience<br />
had being in the<br />
‘groundling’ (or pit) at<br />
the Globe Theatre, and<br />
after many discussions, it<br />
was decided that we too<br />
could do something<br />
similar here.’’<br />
Back in the day, the<br />
groundlings were generally<br />
made up of poorer<br />
audience members, who<br />
would pay one penny to<br />
stand in front of the<br />
stage.<br />
Richer patrons would<br />
sit in the covered galleries,<br />
paying much<br />
more for their seats, Mr<br />
Farr said.<br />
‘‘Theatre etiquette<br />
was alot more boisterous<br />
back then, with<br />
interjections being common<br />
in the groundlings<br />
area, which made for an<br />
entertaining affair<br />
.’Twelfth Night is a<br />
romantic comedy and<br />
features love triangles,<br />
disguise and cross dressing.<br />
It tells the story of<br />
brother and sister twins,<br />
Viola and Sebastian, who<br />
are shipwrecked off the<br />
coast and separated.<br />
Each presumes the<br />
other dead and Viola<br />
assumes the identity of a<br />
man to earn aliving in the<br />
home of Duke Orsino,<br />
who she quickly falls in<br />
love with.<br />
Twelfth Night is traditionally<br />
performed in the<br />
festive season. BLTC<br />
shows will be performed<br />
on November 22 and 23 at<br />
7pm and on November 24<br />
at 2pm.<br />
economy.’’<br />
‘‘The lack of economic<br />
modelling released by<br />
the Government shows<br />
that they’re not interested<br />
inhaving ameaningful<br />
debate,’’ hesaid.<br />
Farmers putting in<br />
submissions on the<br />
essential freshwater proposal<br />
should use their<br />
own words and speak<br />
about their farm.<br />
2216210
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, Page 3<br />
District has aweapon clean water<br />
By John Keast<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> has apotent<br />
weapon as it, like all<br />
districts, seeks to comply<br />
with proposals for freshwater<br />
reform.<br />
Mayorelect Neil<br />
Brown, who has akeen<br />
interest in watermatters,<br />
said water wastewater,<br />
stormwater, water for<br />
irrigation was going to<br />
loom large for the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
council and all<br />
others.<br />
But in its managed<br />
aquifer recharge programme<br />
aprogramme<br />
praised byEnvironment<br />
Minister David Parker <br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> had the jump<br />
on many.<br />
The programme<br />
involves using clean consented<br />
(but unused)<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> council stockwater.<br />
It is percolated into<br />
the ground at various<br />
sites, diluting nitrate<br />
levels and lifting aquifer<br />
levels.<br />
Early trial results have<br />
been very promising.<br />
The water is also used<br />
to boost streams, such as<br />
behind Mayfield where<br />
consented water from<br />
the Rangitata Diversion<br />
race is run into awetland<br />
and, from there, to<br />
boost the flow to the<br />
Hinds River.<br />
The Hinds Water<br />
Enhancement Group,<br />
which runs the programme,<br />
believes the<br />
water from the RDR is<br />
helping the Mayfield<br />
bore and othersupplies.<br />
The enhancement<br />
group is seeking<br />
$950,000 from the Provincial<br />
Growth Fund to<br />
expand the trials and is<br />
expecting to hear the<br />
outcome of its application<br />
soon.<br />
Mr Brown said the<br />
obvious source ofwater<br />
for the aquifer scheme<br />
was unused council<br />
stockwater.<br />
He said if more of the<br />
district’s stockwater<br />
could be piped, less<br />
water would be needed<br />
(only around 2per cent<br />
of stockwater is drunk by<br />
stock) allowing more for<br />
the aquifer scheme not<br />
irrigation.<br />
He said the managed<br />
aquifer scheme could be<br />
the district’s saviour by<br />
improving underground<br />
water quality across the<br />
district.<br />
‘‘Our three rivers<br />
(Rakaia, <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
Rangitata) meet targets<br />
now. It’s just the shallow<br />
aquifers and streams that<br />
don’t meet targets now,’’<br />
he said.<br />
Mr Brown, a farmer,<br />
said the big rivers were<br />
pure and the district<br />
needed an achievable<br />
level of freshwater<br />
reform that did not destroy<br />
the economic value<br />
of the district.<br />
Stormwater was<br />
another issue, and under<br />
the proposed reforms, it<br />
wouldhave to be treated.<br />
‘‘So the town has some<br />
work to do, too and we<br />
have to do stormwater<br />
better.’’<br />
‘‘One good thing is<br />
that we are way ahead.<br />
We have money in our<br />
Long Term Plan for stormwater.’’<br />
Mr Brown said his<br />
priority in the next few<br />
days would betalking to<br />
all councillors about<br />
their interests as he tried<br />
to work out who would<br />
Newlook council and new mayor at the tiller<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> has anewlook<br />
council and anew mayor,<br />
dairy farmer Neil Brown.<br />
There are four new<br />
councillorschemist CarolynCameron,<br />
realtor RodgerLetham<br />
whose father<br />
served in localgovernment<br />
accountant John Falloon<br />
father of Rangitata MP<br />
Andrew Falloon and<br />
former mayor and regional<br />
councillor Angus McKay.<br />
Mr McKay lost to<br />
Donna Favel who, in turn,<br />
lost to Mr Brown, who<br />
served as her deputy.<br />
Mrs Favel gathered<br />
2384 votes (in preliminary<br />
figures) to Mr Brown’s<br />
4418.<br />
MrsFavel,who runs the<br />
Regent Theatre with husband<br />
David, said it had<br />
been an honour and a<br />
privilege to serve.<br />
She did not stand as a<br />
councillor so has gone<br />
from council which she<br />
served as <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s first<br />
serve asdeputy and head<br />
committees.<br />
He hoped to have that<br />
done by the end of next<br />
week, or by the end of<br />
the month.<br />
Mr Brown was<br />
brought up at Rakaia<br />
and had ‘‘farming in his<br />
veins’’.<br />
He worked on sheep<br />
and dairy farms, went to<br />
Lincoln University, and<br />
bought a farm after<br />
going sharemilking and<br />
‘‘through the ranks to<br />
ownership’’.<br />
He said he owned Salmon<br />
Tales building at<br />
Rakaia and also had<br />
some lowkey business<br />
property interests.<br />
Mr Brown and wife<br />
Judy have three children.<br />
female mayor.<br />
Second inthe mayoral<br />
race was retired retailer<br />
Tony Todd, who was<br />
second toMrBrown with<br />
3731 votes.<br />
Thefourth mayoral candidate,<br />
landscaper Leen<br />
Braam, lost the mayoral<br />
race by a wide margin<br />
(1422 votes) but was the<br />
highest polling candidate<br />
in the hotlycontested <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Ward.<br />
There, Mr Braam gathered4658votes,<br />
just ahead<br />
of firsttimer John Falloon<br />
with 4538 votes, fellow<br />
firsttimer Carolyn Cameron<br />
(3798), incumbent<br />
Diane Rawlinson (3672)<br />
and Mr McKay (3455),<br />
who missed out in the last<br />
election after the controversy<br />
over awater bottling<br />
proposal for the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Business Park.<br />
Missing out were Selwyn<br />
Price, Thelma Bell,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Shah and Rochelle<br />
CastleWilson.<br />
Mr Price can count himself<br />
unlucky after astrong<br />
council term and wasclose<br />
behind Mr McKay.<br />
Lynette Lovett (1315)<br />
and Stuart Wilson (12<strong>17</strong>)<br />
were clear winners in the<br />
Eastern Ward, well ahead<br />
of incumbent Mark<br />
Malcolm (816) who did<br />
not help his cause by first<br />
saying hewould not stand,<br />
then changing his mind <br />
andnewcomer Philip Rushton<br />
(514).<br />
Incumbent Liz McMillan,<br />
who had another<br />
strongterm, ledthe field in<br />
the Western Ward with<br />
1444 votes ahead of Rodger<br />
Letham (1069) and<br />
Evan Chisnall (1055).<br />
There were only two<br />
vacancies in that ward,<br />
with MrChisnall missing<br />
out just.<br />
Oldhand Roger Patersonled<br />
the field forthesix<br />
vacancies onthe <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Licensing Trust.<br />
He garnered 6533 votes<br />
ahead of Chantelle Quinn<br />
(5736), Kieran Breakwell<br />
(5393), Tim Silva (5255),<br />
Robert Harnett (4857) and<br />
Chris Robertson (4621).<br />
Missing out were Kerry<br />
Clough, Mark Malcolm and<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Shah.<br />
The voter return was<br />
55.06 per cent, excluding<br />
special votes.<br />
❑ Regional, Timaru,<br />
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Page 4, <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Hugs for former mayor, and acouncil with new flavour<br />
Donna Favel was everywhere<br />
at community<br />
meetings, at council, and<br />
representing <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
on national bodies.<br />
Hers was an inclusive<br />
style and she was rarely<br />
rattled.<br />
But after six years as a<br />
councillor and three as<br />
mayor, the voting public<br />
sought change.<br />
On Monday, Mrs Favel<br />
was taking time to absorb<br />
the loss, accepting and<br />
giving hugs and thinking<br />
how life will be after a<br />
mayoralty in which she<br />
represented <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
<strong>Courier</strong> comment<br />
locally and nationally.<br />
The job had been allconsuming,<br />
and Mrs<br />
Favel was a stickler for<br />
details, quizzing staff and<br />
visitors to council for<br />
every detail.<br />
The new council has a<br />
different flavour, with a<br />
more business/rural<br />
flavour mayor Neil<br />
brown is adairy farmer/<br />
businessman, Angus<br />
McKay had a farm at<br />
Methven and represented<br />
the district on the<br />
regional council, John<br />
Falloon isanaccountant,<br />
Rodger Letham specialises<br />
in selling rural property,<br />
Stuart Wilson is a<br />
retired farmer, and<br />
Lynette Lovett lives on a<br />
rural property.<br />
Two issues may have<br />
combined to unseat Mrs<br />
Favel: the council<br />
decision to move the<br />
fountain from East Street<br />
to the domain, and the<br />
closure of the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
iSite.<br />
The closure of the<br />
iSite was recommended<br />
by a councilled review<br />
(and closed by the board<br />
of Experience Mid Canterbury)<br />
and raised the<br />
ire of the public.<br />
The fountain issue<br />
came about as aresult of<br />
planning for the upgrade<br />
of the CBD itwas seen,<br />
basically, as being in the<br />
way.<br />
That decision also<br />
upset the community and<br />
it was Mr Brown who<br />
intervened by initiating a<br />
notice of motion to<br />
revoke the decision.<br />
The decision was revoked<br />
and the fountain is<br />
not going anywhere.<br />
Whether those matters<br />
had astrong influence on<br />
voters is moot; Mrs Favel<br />
is out, having decided not<br />
to alsoseek aseataround<br />
the table, as Leen Braam<br />
did.<br />
He missed out (by a<br />
wide margin) on the top<br />
job but topped the polling<br />
in the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Ward.<br />
Had Mrs Favel also<br />
stood, she, too, might<br />
have been back around<br />
the table.<br />
Given her love of the<br />
district and the work she<br />
has done for it she may<br />
be back at alater date.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> now has a<br />
new, smaller council<br />
(nine instead of 12) and<br />
challenges ahead, not<br />
least the ruckus that may<br />
ensue if tough new<br />
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environmental rules, as<br />
they stand down, are<br />
enforced.<br />
They have the potential<br />
to hurt farming, and<br />
anything that does that<br />
will hurt the district.<br />
The previous council<br />
was strong on water<br />
issues retiringcouncillor<br />
Peter Reveley said any<br />
intending councillor had<br />
better bone uponwater <br />
water issues, for good or<br />
ill, willfeature too for this<br />
council.<br />
In that regard, Mr<br />
Brown is in his element.<br />
John Keast<br />
Warm welcome for new principal<br />
Column<br />
Seven<br />
New Mt Hutt College<br />
principal Jack Saxon has<br />
been welcomed with<br />
fanfare and an<br />
assurance that if the<br />
budget had allowed,<br />
every student from<br />
Kaitaia College, his<br />
Hustlers<br />
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This story isatake on true events chronicled in<br />
a 2015 New York Magazine article. A group of<br />
Manhattan strip-club dancers pull out the stops<br />
in settling scores with their Wall Street clients after<br />
the 2008 financial meltdown leavesthe girlsstaring<br />
down the barrel ofuncertainty and despair. The<br />
menripped off the whole worldand got away with<br />
it.Now,itistheir turntobeatthe receiving end.<br />
Hustlers is awild and wacky crime caper that pulls<br />
no punches.Money is precisely whatthe women in<br />
Hustlers want no matter whatittakes.<br />
Exploitationisatthecoreofthedancers’relationship<br />
with the wealthy sleaze balls who turn upatthe<br />
strip club every night and blow uptheir expense<br />
accounts in the smoky champagne rooms. But the<br />
women who serve them are acutely aware ofthe<br />
controlthattheycan exercise over the sozzled men<br />
if they decide to put their heads and hearts to it.<br />
The women go all out to make their point. So<br />
do the actors who play the parts, nobody more<br />
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former school, would<br />
have come to the handover.<br />
Manuhiri speakers<br />
said Mr Saxon was a<br />
leader, much loved in the<br />
community, and that, if<br />
he ever wished to leave<br />
2215609<br />
Methven, Kaitaia would<br />
welcome him back.<br />
Mr Saxon, family,<br />
several senior pupils and<br />
Kaitaia teachers were<br />
greeted with astirring<br />
haka, akaikaranga from<br />
Rana Staples, of<br />
Arowhenua Marae, and<br />
speeches from Darren<br />
Solomon, of Arowhenua,<br />
and Richard Fitzgerald,<br />
of Mt Hutt College board<br />
of trustees, and Colin<br />
Brodie.<br />
Mr Saxon was also<br />
greeted by head boy<br />
Mitchell Baron and head<br />
girl Caitlin Smith and<br />
two Year 7buddies.<br />
Mr Saxon said he<br />
needed to listen to all<br />
voices, and through those<br />
voices the community<br />
would flourish.<br />
‘‘I want to take the<br />
time to listen.’’<br />
He said he would<br />
never forget his five years<br />
in Kaitaia.<br />
‘‘To students, whanau,<br />
teachers, treasure what<br />
you treasure most<br />
dearly.’’<br />
He urged students,<br />
teachers and the<br />
community to have high<br />
expectations of him.<br />
He said he was one for<br />
collaboration, was<br />
excited about the future,<br />
and to continue to build<br />
on ‘‘the amazing<br />
foundation’’ at Mt Hutt<br />
College.<br />
Kaitaia teacher Ray<br />
Subritzky said Mr Saxon<br />
took Kaitaia College and<br />
‘‘shook it upside down’’<br />
and urged Mt Hutt<br />
College to ‘‘look after<br />
him orwewill be back<br />
to get him’’.<br />
The whole school, he<br />
said, turned out to shake<br />
his hand.<br />
THIS WEEK’SSPECIALS<br />
Photo: Mr Saxon is<br />
greeted with ahaka and,<br />
below, Mr Saxon prepares<br />
to greet aKaitaia teacher<br />
during the ceremony.<br />
We wonder if there are<br />
others out there who have<br />
endured the brief adrenaline<br />
spike of being<br />
bombarded by a diving<br />
magpie. For the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
bloke who donned<br />
cycling attire for an offroad<br />
jaunt along Melrose<br />
road onSunday, the multiple<br />
diving magpiewas not<br />
on his radar until it was too<br />
late. Weare please to say<br />
cyclist and magpie<br />
survived the ordeal but it<br />
serves as a warning to<br />
others...it’s that time of<br />
year.<br />
❑❑❑<br />
We mentioned earlier<br />
how we got astart when we<br />
saw a lifesize image of<br />
mayoral aspirant Tony<br />
Todd ‘‘looking’’ at us from<br />
ashop window. We walked<br />
past the other two and<br />
there were two Tony<br />
Todds the man in person,<br />
standing beside his lifesize<br />
image. We, ahem, did<br />
adouble take.<br />
❑❑❑<br />
On the election, we<br />
think it was afairly lowkey<br />
campaign all round, and<br />
note some made wide use<br />
of social media, others had<br />
cars signwritten yes, we<br />
noticed, Mrs Favel and<br />
for others wesaw but one<br />
lonely highway sign. Signs<br />
or no signs, we congratulate<br />
all those who stood. It<br />
is not an easy thing to do,<br />
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Page 6, <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Investor interest in<br />
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Discussions with several potential<br />
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Ongoing talks with investors were<br />
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The project had ‘‘aggressive project<br />
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She said the mission of the project was<br />
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She said the project had also received<br />
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To be held at Dorie<br />
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pets with handson<br />
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sand saucer and<br />
scarecrow making.<br />
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both schools.<br />
There will also be<br />
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juniors such asgumboot<br />
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Dorie School teacher<br />
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Lesley Ottey, who runs Eco Educate<br />
and is contracted by <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council to deliver the<br />
district’s sustainability education<br />
contract, told the youngsters that<br />
there was often confusion about<br />
what could and what couldn’t be<br />
recycled.<br />
Mobile phones,she said,couldbe<br />
recycled, but shouldn’t beput in the<br />
recycling bin, instead they should be<br />
taken backtophoneshopsorposted<br />
away in special envelopes to be<br />
broken down.<br />
Bottle lids were also not allowed<br />
in recycling and had tobethrown<br />
away.<br />
Soft toys couldcertainlybereused<br />
by someone else and should definitely<br />
not be thrown out for landfill.<br />
‘‘Not everything we have inour<br />
lives needs to be brand new,’’ she<br />
Enjoying the waste education session on Monday were Sophie<br />
Urquhart, Georgia Hislop, Jerry Nogtev, Sylvie McLeod, Sierra<br />
McCall and Haidee Preece.<br />
said.<br />
Mrs Ottey said packaging also<br />
neededtoimprove and needed to be<br />
more environmentally friendly.<br />
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were madefrom recycled CocaCola<br />
bottles and bread bags could easily<br />
be reused for dog poo bags.<br />
She said she had a job as an<br />
educator because there was a big<br />
problem with waste.<br />
‘‘I’d love you to put me out ofa<br />
job.’’<br />
Sheurgedthe youngsters to talk to<br />
others about what they had learnt at<br />
the session and tospread the word<br />
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Barker’s of Geraldine,<br />
Geraldine’s biggest<br />
employer, is celebrating<br />
50 years in business.<br />
Barker’s was founded<br />
by Anthony Barker and<br />
wife Gillian in 1969.<br />
Their first product was<br />
elderberry wine ahuge<br />
hit and from there they<br />
diversified into fullscale<br />
fruitwine production.<br />
Mr Barker was a tinkerer<br />
who converted<br />
unlikely home appliances<br />
into winemaking paraphernalia<br />
and one of his<br />
greatest achievements,<br />
outside winemaking, was<br />
to invent what became<br />
the Kent (Barker) log<br />
fire, royalties from which<br />
helped keep the company<br />
afloat in challenging<br />
times.<br />
One of the hardest<br />
decisions the Barkers<br />
made was to stop making<br />
fruit wines in favour of<br />
creating a fruit ingredients<br />
and bakery fillings<br />
business.<br />
After a steep learning<br />
curve and some lean<br />
years they launched Barker’s<br />
blackcurrant and<br />
Barker’s new eatery and boutique<br />
accommodation in central Geraldine.<br />
shifted from being acottage<br />
industry to a New<br />
Zealand food producer<br />
and export business.<br />
The business won the<br />
supreme award at the<br />
South Canterbury ChamberofCommercebusiness<br />
excellence awards in 2009<br />
and 2014 and was winner<br />
of the producer/manufacturer<br />
award atthe Westpac<br />
Canterbury Chamber<br />
of Commerce Business<br />
Champions Awards.<br />
Barkers process alot of<br />
New Zealand produce for<br />
New Zealand provenance<br />
label claims and export<br />
more than 20per cent of<br />
production,mostly to Australia.<br />
It also supplies processed<br />
fruit products in<br />
bulk tolarge bakery and<br />
dairy manufacturers.<br />
It hasgrown11per cent<br />
per annum over the past<br />
25 years and employs<br />
more than 220 staff, making<br />
it a significant<br />
employerinSouthCanterbury.<br />
Anew book, Barkers of<br />
Geraldine: 50Years Preserved,<br />
is MichaelBarker’s<br />
tribute to his father, Anthony<br />
and is the story ofa<br />
heartland New Zealand<br />
business.<br />
Michael Barker has<br />
spent his life atBarkers,<br />
and has been winemaker,<br />
production manager, general<br />
manager, managing<br />
director and isnow chairman<br />
and still has aminority<br />
shareholding.<br />
He is proud the business<br />
is still on the family farm<br />
near Geraldine and has<br />
just finished developing a<br />
central Geraldine site for<br />
the new Barker’s<br />
Foodstore and Eatery.<br />
He also refurbished the<br />
former Anglican vicarage<br />
for boutique accommodation.<br />
Mr Barker is also keen<br />
to further develop ascenic<br />
walkway along the Waihi<br />
River, which runs through<br />
Geraldine.<br />
From the cold, alogfire<br />
Theideafor aclassic Kiwi<br />
invention was born on a<br />
snowy morning on the<br />
shores Lake Heron.<br />
It is aMid Canterbury<br />
twist tothe invention of<br />
the Kent Barker log fire,<br />
royalties from which later<br />
helped major Geraldine<br />
food producer Barker’s<br />
through some lean years.<br />
Michael Barker, inhis<br />
book Barker’s of Geraldine:<br />
50 Years Preserved,<br />
written to mark the company’s<br />
50th birthday, said<br />
his father, Anthony,<br />
invented many utilitarian<br />
things, not least a log<br />
burner.<br />
He said that for years<br />
his father dined out on<br />
how he sold efficient<br />
woodburning technology<br />
to an international company,<br />
Shell Oil.<br />
The company which<br />
made the log fires was<br />
KentHeating,asubsidiary<br />
of Shell Oil.<br />
MichaelBarkersaid the<br />
story began when Anthony<br />
was 16and took his<br />
fatherand twounclesona<br />
fishing trip to Harrison’s<br />
Bight, Lake Heron, in a<br />
Model T.<br />
The campsite was<br />
exposed tothe northwest<br />
and after aday offishing,<br />
the windgot up,making it<br />
difficult tolight afire.<br />
In the morning there<br />
was afoot of snow on the<br />
ground.<br />
‘‘There was an empty<br />
oil drum lying nearby and<br />
asheet of rusty corrugated<br />
iron. Anthony remembered<br />
an image he had<br />
seen of anArctic woman<br />
with ababy onher back<br />
beside an upsidedown<br />
drum that was giving out<br />
unseen heat.<br />
‘‘He cut ahole inthe<br />
drum, rolled the iron into<br />
atube,insertedthe makeshift<br />
chimney, packed wet<br />
sand around it in theleeof<br />
the tent and made afire<br />
with driftwood.<br />
‘‘With some heat, life<br />
became bearableand they<br />
were able tocook ameal<br />
and eventually smoke<br />
their trout,’’ Mr Barker<br />
said.<br />
Mr Barker said his<br />
father became engrossed,<br />
lying down watching the<br />
flames and extracting as<br />
much heat as he could.<br />
‘‘He realised that the<br />
more the fire was locked<br />
in, the hotter it got and the<br />
less unburnt hydrocarbons<br />
escaped up the chimney.’’<br />
Years later, Anthony<br />
resurrected the idea, usinga<br />
12gallon oil drum on its<br />
side with a clay base, a<br />
hinged door and abuiltin<br />
window of firehardened<br />
glass packed tight with<br />
asbestos packing rope.<br />
The model also had a<br />
pushpull damper in the<br />
chimney.<br />
Hiswife,Gillian, calledin<br />
Puffing Billy.<br />
Many models followed,<br />
and Kent began to make<br />
the units in Auckland in<br />
1978 and, soon after, to<br />
cope with demand, started<br />
making them in a Christchurch<br />
factory. Kent continuedpayingroyaltiesuntil<br />
it sold the business.<br />
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Bowen<br />
Timaru<br />
mayor<br />
Restaurateur Nigel Bowen<br />
is Timaru’s new mayor.<br />
He had a commanding<br />
lead (8657) over his nearest<br />
rival, retired businessman<br />
Gordon Handy, who gathered<br />
4943 votes, ahead of<br />
former mayorJanieAnnear<br />
(4049),Shane Wilson(324),<br />
and Kari Mohoao (189).<br />
IncumbentKerry Stevens<br />
(814), aformer principal of<br />
Geraldine High School,<br />
dipped out to newcomer<br />
Gavin Oliver (1288) inthe<br />
Geraldine Ward. Behind<br />
Mr Stevens was former<br />
councillor McGregor Simpson<br />
(274).<br />
Paddy O’Reilly and longtime<br />
councillor Richard<br />
Lyon were successful in the<br />
Pleasant PointTemuka<br />
Ward, and in the hotly<br />
contested Timaru Ward,<br />
Nigel Bowen topped the<br />
poll with 9151 (but withdrew<br />
for the mayoralty)<br />
leaving Steve Wills (who is<br />
recoveringfromastroke)as<br />
the leading councillor with<br />
7443 votes.<br />
Also in are Sally Parker,<br />
Peter Burt, Barbara Gilchrist,<br />
Allan Booth and Stu<br />
Piddington.<br />
Missing out were longtime<br />
councillor Dave Jack,<br />
lawyer Hugh Perry, former<br />
council finance boss<br />
Michael Boorer, Ronald<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, Anthony Brien,<br />
Stu Jackson, Joshua Newlove,<br />
Karl Te Raki, and<br />
Jock Anderson.<br />
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Eiffelton farmer and water<br />
expert Ian Mackenzie topped<br />
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Canterbury constituency<br />
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The challenge formed around of the<br />
South Island Championships and was<br />
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Methven Lions,which coordinated the<br />
marketing and publicity, and took the<br />
gate takings at the event.<br />
The event replaces Methven<br />
motorcycle raceMountain Thunder,<br />
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numberofyears.<br />
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good, consideringitrained for most of<br />
Saturday.<br />
The weather was not always good for<br />
spectators, but competitors loved it, he<br />
said.<br />
‘‘We’re still tallying up what we’ve<br />
made, but it looks as if we’ve achieved<br />
the budget we set.’’<br />
Predictingthe first time event was<br />
alwaysgoing to involveabit of<br />
guesswork,but experience gained<br />
would be taken forward to future<br />
events.<br />
Mr McElwain said despitethe mud<br />
and conditions, therewere plentyof<br />
smiling faces and overallthings had run<br />
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‘‘For us it’s been mission<br />
accomplishedwecan’t waitfor next<br />
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Family Notices<br />
DEATHS DEATHS DEATHS<br />
FRASER, Jennifer: (Jen)<br />
(aka Wilson, aka<br />
Gardiner): On <strong>October</strong> 13,<br />
<strong>2019</strong> at <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Loving<br />
daughter of Doreen and<br />
Robert, beautiful sister<br />
of Christine, Linda, Darryl<br />
and Gavin, amazing Mum<br />
of Linda, and Jamie. Much<br />
loved Grandma Baker of<br />
Vaughn, Cody,Josh, Liana.<br />
“We will miss you each and<br />
everyday”.<br />
Messages to the Gardiner<br />
Family, P O Box 472,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> 7740. Aservice<br />
to celebrateJen’s lifewill be<br />
held at our Chapel,Cnr East<br />
and Cox Streets, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
7740 on Thursday <strong>October</strong><br />
<strong>17</strong>, commencing at 1.30pm.<br />
Followed by interment at<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> New Lawn<br />
Cemetery.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
FDANZ<br />
03 307 7433<br />
JACKSON, Colin John:<br />
Peacefully at McKenzie<br />
Healthcare, Geraldine on<br />
Tuesday, <strong>October</strong> 15, <strong>2019</strong>,<br />
aged 86 years.<br />
Dearly loved husband of<br />
Margaret, much loved and<br />
respected father and father<br />
in law of Lyn and Gerard<br />
Gallagher,Carol and Graham<br />
Boulton, and Graeme and<br />
Tessa. Cherished Grandad of<br />
Morgan, Greta, and Callum;<br />
Laura, and Briony; Georgia,<br />
and Ella; and great Grandad<br />
of Blake; and Lincoln.<br />
Special thanks to the staff<br />
at McKenzie Healthcare,<br />
Geraldine for their loving<br />
care. Donations to Temuka<br />
St John Ambulance would<br />
be appreciated and may<br />
be made at the service.<br />
Messages to the Jackson<br />
family, C/- P O Box 6035,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>7742.<br />
A Service to Celebrate<br />
Colin’s life will be held at<br />
Trinity Presbyterian Church,<br />
Hally Terrace, Temuka on<br />
Saturday, <strong>October</strong> 19th,<br />
at 1.30 p.m. followed by<br />
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LEIGHTON, Mary Eleanor:<br />
(nee Johnston) : It is with<br />
great sadness Mary died<br />
peacefully on <strong>October</strong> 14,<br />
<strong>2019</strong> leaving her devoted<br />
husband of 66 years,Bruce.<br />
Dearly loved mother of<br />
Diane, Jeffrey, Ian and<br />
Joan, and Deborah and<br />
Tony Neil. Cherished Gran<br />
of Paul, Sarah and Dan,<br />
Scott and Tayla; Elizabeth<br />
and Jaeme, Charlotte and<br />
Mitchell, and Matthew and<br />
greatgranddaughterGrace.<br />
Messages to the Leighton<br />
family, 99 Park Street,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> 7700. Afuneral<br />
service for Mary will be<br />
held at our Chapel,cnr East<br />
and Cox Streets, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
on Friday <strong>October</strong> 18,<br />
commencing at 11.00.<br />
Followed by private<br />
cremation at the<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Crematorium.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
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PITNEY, George Dale<br />
Cornelius: On <strong>October</strong> 12,<br />
<strong>2019</strong> at Coldstream Lifecare,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>. Aged 76 years.<br />
Loved Dad of Michelle,<br />
Marie, Robin, Reuben<br />
and Morgan, Regan, and<br />
Rodney. Loved grandad of<br />
Ethan, and Rhys; Callum,<br />
Jessie, Joshua, and Charlie<br />
and greatGrandad of Kyson;<br />
and the lateTayze. Messages<br />
to the Pitney family, P O<br />
Box 472, <strong>Ashburton</strong> 7740.<br />
Special thanks to the staff<br />
at Coldstream for their<br />
love and care ofGeorge. A<br />
celebration of George’s life<br />
has been held..<br />
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Family<br />
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on<br />
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Street.<br />
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SHEA, Marie Catherine:<br />
On Oct 12, <strong>2019</strong> peacefully<br />
at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital.<br />
Dearly loved daughter of<br />
the late Mary and Michael<br />
Shea. Much loved sister<br />
and sister in law ofthe late<br />
Margaret O’Connor, the<br />
late John, and Kathy Shea,<br />
Kathleen and the late James<br />
Hendren. A much loved<br />
and loving Me-Meofall her<br />
nieces and nephews and<br />
their families. Messages to<br />
P O Box 472, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
7740. ARequiem Mass for<br />
Mariehas been held.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT<br />
YOUNG, Elizabeth<br />
Thomson: Betty’s family<br />
would like to express their<br />
heartfelt thanks to those<br />
who supported them by<br />
messages of sympathy,<br />
flowers, baking, visits and<br />
attending her celebration<br />
of life. Special thanks to<br />
Rosebank staff for their<br />
care ofBetty over her time<br />
there and to Paterson’s for<br />
their respect, guidance<br />
and support.<br />
Please accept this as our<br />
personal acknowedgement.<br />
IN MEMORIAM<br />
PEARSON, Thomas Francis<br />
(Tom): In loving memory<br />
of my dearly loved brother<br />
who went to rest 12th<br />
<strong>October</strong> 2013.<br />
Every day in some small<br />
way,<br />
Memories of youcome my<br />
way,<br />
Though absent, youare<br />
always near,<br />
Still sadly missed,loved and<br />
always dear.<br />
From your sister<br />
Mary Renner<br />
SMITH, Beverly Rae (Bev)<br />
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Stranded ducklings saved<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
It’s common to see<br />
mother ducks and their<br />
newborns waddling along<br />
roadsides atthis time of<br />
the year and two recent<br />
duckling rescues have<br />
been recounted to the<br />
paper.<br />
The first involved Mid<br />
Canterbury Animal Welfare<br />
Centre manager Rallou<br />
Keeley who came<br />
across seven baby ducks<br />
stranded in her Allenton<br />
garden.<br />
The animal and bird<br />
lovertook themunder her<br />
‘‘wing’’ because mother<br />
duckling was nowhere to<br />
be seen.<br />
Mrs Keeley said she<br />
heard chirping and went<br />
out with her torch to<br />
investigate.<br />
‘‘I found seven ducklings<br />
huddled together,<br />
but no mum to look after<br />
them.<br />
‘‘I went searching the<br />
nearby streets and spoke<br />
to acouple ofneighbours,<br />
but there was no sign of<br />
her.’’<br />
Mrs Keeley took the<br />
ducklingsinovernight and<br />
fed them, but one was<br />
found dead the next day.<br />
‘‘I had asimilar encounter<br />
five years ago, but that<br />
time we found the mother<br />
quickly.<br />
‘‘Now is the season<br />
when the ducklings are<br />
out and about and motorists,<br />
in particular, need to<br />
watch out for them,’’ she<br />
Children prepare for fete<br />
Children at Mayfield<br />
Playcentre have been<br />
doing their bit to prepare<br />
for the playcentre’s biennial<br />
Homegrown Garden<br />
Tour and Fete.<br />
Afew weeks ago they<br />
could be found pottingup<br />
Mt Peel lilies in<br />
preparation for the sale<br />
on Sunday November 3.<br />
Spades at the ready,<br />
the children transplanted<br />
lilies under the watchful<br />
eye of their parents.<br />
All potted up<br />
and looking<br />
glorious, the lilies<br />
will be available<br />
for sale at<br />
the fete.<br />
But buyers<br />
need to be<br />
quick as fete coordinator<br />
Jane<br />
Harrison says<br />
the lily stall has<br />
been popular in<br />
the past and<br />
they expect to<br />
sell out.<br />
The size of<br />
the fragrant Mt Peel lily<br />
makes them stand out:<br />
the enormous trumpetshaped<br />
flowers bud on<br />
stems 2m 3.5m in height.<br />
The glossy leaves are<br />
large and heart shaped,<br />
providing dramatic foliage<br />
cover.<br />
The Homegrown Garden<br />
Tour will give garden<br />
enthusiasts and those<br />
looking for aday in the<br />
country the opportunity to<br />
see four Mayfield gardens,<br />
each carefully prepped<br />
for spring and each<br />
slightly different in style.<br />
said.<br />
Mrs Keeley took the<br />
ducklings to the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Domain and was<br />
hopeful that mother duck<br />
would either emerge, or a<br />
foster mother would waddle<br />
forward tolook after<br />
the ducklings.<br />
Asecond duckling rescue<br />
told to us involved<br />
nine ducklings and a<br />
drain.<br />
A passing driver<br />
watched as one duckling<br />
and mother duck waddled<br />
along aroad at an <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
industrial estate.<br />
He was surprised when<br />
the baby duck suddenly<br />
disappeared from view.<br />
The duckling had fallen<br />
through agrate.<br />
On lifting the drain<br />
cover, the rescuer found<br />
eight more ducklings and<br />
promptly lifted them out<br />
and reunited them with<br />
the anxious, but patiently<br />
waiting mother duck.<br />
Photos: Rallou Keeley<br />
with some of the ducklings<br />
she took under her<br />
wing before releasing<br />
them inthe domain, and<br />
the six ducklings huddled<br />
together for warmth and<br />
comfort.<br />
Afete will also be set<br />
up, with stalls selling items<br />
including the Mt Peel<br />
lilies.<br />
Victoria Morrow, the<br />
president at the playcentre,<br />
said they were<br />
looking forward to the<br />
day. ‘‘It’s a really nice<br />
community event,’’ she<br />
said.<br />
Event Information and<br />
ticketing information can<br />
be found on Home<br />
Homegrown Garden<br />
Tour’s facebook page.<br />
Photo: Hazel Scott with<br />
one of the lilies.<br />
Complete<br />
Local Care<br />
Since 1982
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, Page 11<br />
Simulators help train<br />
Comedy double acthere<br />
Comedy duo GaryMcCormickand<br />
newlyelected Invercargillmayor Tim<br />
Shadboltwill do astandup comedy<br />
fundraiseratthe Methven Golf Club<br />
on Friday, November 1.<br />
Ticket are $55 (supper andshow)<br />
and available fromthe iSite,Methven<br />
(cash only)orthroughthe Methven<br />
GolfClub.. Contact golf coordinator<br />
Bruce Dickson at 021 02272093.<br />
The show starts at 7.30pm.<br />
If thereisany difficulty getting<br />
tickets, email<br />
methvengolf@xtra.co.nz<br />
Ceramics exhibition<br />
Hakatere Ceramics will hold an exhibition<br />
at <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s Short Street<br />
Gallery from November 1to8.<br />
The gallery will be open from 10am<br />
to 4pm daily and entry is free. Items are<br />
for sale.<br />
The exhibition will include works by<br />
guest potter Renate Galetzka.<br />
Further details at Hakatere Ceramic’s<br />
Facebook page.<br />
Supporters of the RHACA model, from left, Trevor Croy (Advance <strong>Ashburton</strong>), Mary Ross<br />
(RHACA), Dr Lauren Dickson and Dr Neil Chavda (both <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital doctors), Dr John<br />
Lyons (<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital clinical director), Don Church (Mackenie Charitable Foundation),<br />
Prof. David Murdoch (Dean, Otago University Medical School, Christchurch), Bob Johnston and<br />
Alan Johnston.<br />
By John Keast<br />
The patient was critical.<br />
He rode a motorcycle into a<br />
pole.<br />
Staff at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital<br />
checked his vital signs, and they<br />
were not good.<br />
This, fortunately, wasascenario.<br />
It played out, on closed circuit<br />
television, before people who, in<br />
their own way, had created a<br />
training centre like no other.<br />
It is RHACA the Rural Health<br />
Academic Centre <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
It is based in what wasWard6of<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital and has three<br />
silent, yet vital, partners.<br />
They are medical simulations<br />
modelsanadult, achildand, now,<br />
ababy.<br />
The simulation models, called<br />
Sims, allow clinical staff and rural<br />
health medical practitioners to<br />
practise reallife scenarios in asafe<br />
and controlled environment.<br />
By doing this,theylearn what to<br />
do in a variety of different<br />
scenarios before they apply those<br />
skills toreal patients.<br />
RHACA did not just appear.<br />
It was announced in late 2016<br />
when atrustee ofAdvance <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Community Foundation,<br />
Mary Ross, announced that the<br />
foundation would give $315,000,<br />
with $135,000 from the Mackenzie<br />
Charitable Foundation, to set up<br />
the centre.<br />
Buying the expensive models<br />
was possible because of agenerous,<br />
anonymous donation.<br />
It was described, then, as ‘‘an<br />
exciting collaboration between the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Health Services division<br />
of the Canterbury District<br />
Health Board, the Otago University<br />
division of Health Sciences,<br />
Advance <strong>Ashburton</strong> and the Mackenzie<br />
Charitable Foundation’’.<br />
Members of those organisations,<br />
and supporters of Advance <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
gathered at Ward 6 last<br />
weektosee wheretheirmoney had<br />
gone.<br />
They watched from another<br />
room asnurses and young doctors<br />
worked on the ‘‘crash’’ patient;<br />
heard ‘‘groans’’ as the patient’s<br />
blood pressure dropped.<br />
Atube wasput intohis throatto<br />
help him breathe; his pelvis was<br />
secured with aspecial belt: he was<br />
saved.<br />
The other simulation models are<br />
used for similar training.<br />
Year 5 medical students will<br />
come to<strong>Ashburton</strong> for such training.<br />
The journey to the training<br />
centre has been along one.<br />
It began, to alarge degree, with<br />
abequest by aMiss Frampton, of<br />
Wakanui, to<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital.<br />
That money, with support from<br />
others, helped persuade the Canterbury<br />
District Health Board to<br />
redevelop the hospital, ahospital<br />
which now features arural health<br />
training centre.<br />
Mrs Ross said that aswell as<br />
training and promoting optimum<br />
health care,ithad been shown that<br />
students who undertook clinical<br />
placement and training in rural<br />
communities were more likely to<br />
return after they graduated.<br />
RHACA is not just simulation<br />
training, but also research and<br />
teaching.<br />
EighteenRHACA research projects<br />
are under way.<br />
These include aregions stroke<br />
study and audit, an audit of<br />
oncologyservicesin<strong>Ashburton</strong>,an<br />
audit of shoulder reduction methods<br />
in New Zealand hospitals,<br />
challenges facing the rural nursing<br />
workforce, and astudy into trends<br />
in selfharm among schoolaged<br />
youth.<br />
Others projects will be added in<br />
time.<br />
Car seats can be recycled<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> residents can now recycle their expired,<br />
damaged or unwanted child car seats for free through<br />
the SeatSmart programme, with collection sites in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, Rakaia and Methven.<br />
This comes after the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />
partnered with the national child car seat recycling<br />
programme to offer the service. <strong>Ashburton</strong> is the only<br />
district where it is free to recycle aseat, thanks to<br />
support from the council.<br />
Service delivery group manager Neil McCann says<br />
the initiative supports the council’s goal of reducing<br />
waste ending up in landfill, which is agreat outcome<br />
for the community.<br />
‘‘We are proud to be partnering with the SeatSmart<br />
programme to provide this free service. Avariety of<br />
common household goods are already accepted free of<br />
charge for recycling at our Resource Recovery Parks<br />
and dropoff sites, and we are pleased to expand this<br />
list to include child car seats.’’<br />
Seats can be dropped off at the Methven recycling<br />
yard (corner of Methven Chertsey Road and Line<br />
Road), Rakaia Resource Recovery Park (West Town<br />
Belt), and <strong>Ashburton</strong> Resource Recovery Park.<br />
SeatSmart was launched in April 2016 and the three<br />
new sites in the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District bring the number<br />
of collection sites in the South Island to 20, and the<br />
total number nationwide to 37.<br />
Seats collected by the programme are dismantled by<br />
offenders in Department of Correction community<br />
work programmes as well as by social enterprises which<br />
employ people who have adisability or are disadvantaged<br />
or marginalised.<br />
Up to 70% of a seat’s material (by weight) is<br />
recyclable.<br />
Key materials such as plastic, metal and harnesses<br />
can be recycled or reused.<br />
To find out more visit the website seatsmart.co.nz.<br />
Photo: <strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council Waste Recovery<br />
Manager Craig Goodwin with one of the seats brought<br />
to the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Resource Recovery Park to be<br />
recycled through the SeatSmart programme. Credit:<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />
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Greenfingered<br />
volunteers<br />
work their magic<br />
Eight greenfingered<br />
volunteers are keeping<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s treasure,<br />
Trott’s Gardens, in<br />
pristine shape.<br />
The volunteers see<br />
themselves as<br />
caretakers of the<br />
garden created by Alan<br />
Trott on Racecourse<br />
Road.<br />
The garden is now<br />
owned by the Trott’s<br />
Garden Charitable<br />
Trust, and volunteers<br />
make up most of the<br />
workforce,with the<br />
trust employing a<br />
supervisor and an<br />
administrator/<br />
marketing person.<br />
The volunteers love<br />
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and other rural issues.<br />
Wednesday 30th<strong>October</strong><br />
1pm –Grey Way Lounge,Phar Lap<br />
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7pm -Valetta Room, Hotel<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Andrew Falloon<br />
MP forRangitata<br />
getting out among the<br />
birds and the stunning<br />
scenery, love the<br />
camaraderieand<br />
friendships, and count<br />
themselves lucky to be<br />
involved behind the<br />
scenes in such a<br />
community project.<br />
The volunteers are<br />
essential to the<br />
garden’s operation,<br />
working in the formal<br />
garden and herbaceous<br />
borders, keeping edges<br />
and hedges trimmed,<br />
and organising the<br />
catering and greeting<br />
visitors.<br />
Many help out<br />
because they believe<br />
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The charitable trust<br />
is always looking for<br />
more people to become<br />
involved, and anyone<br />
wishing to join should<br />
email<br />
info@trotts.co.nz<br />
Photo: Many hands<br />
make light work some<br />
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
of the many volunteers<br />
who helptokeep Trott’s<br />
Garden pristine.<br />
Children get together to see bigger picture<br />
Make it, then spin it to<br />
see the picture: dozens<br />
of children gathered at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Library as<br />
part of aschool holiday<br />
programme to make<br />
thaumatropes -anoldfashioned<br />
device. The<br />
children drew pictures<br />
on two sides of acard<br />
through which cord was<br />
threaded. When they<br />
were spun, the two<br />
pictures, because of the<br />
speed at which they<br />
spun, appeared as one.<br />
Here, Riley (10) and<br />
Chelsea (7) Sara, and<br />
Gracie Moses (9), all of<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, set about<br />
making thaumatropes.<br />
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The club estimated it<br />
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The amount was<br />
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and took the total from<br />
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He said profits were<br />
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invites all<br />
to games day<br />
The United Filipinos<br />
in Mid Canterbury<br />
(UNIFIL) group is<br />
inviting the wider<br />
community to a fun,<br />
cultural games day at<br />
the Tancred Street<br />
Sports Hall this Saturday.<br />
Called the Unifilympics,<br />
the event will<br />
share traditional and<br />
active Filipino games,<br />
and also Filipino food.<br />
UNIFIL publicrelations<br />
officer Maria<br />
Jimenez said the<br />
fourth annual event<br />
would feature team<br />
and individual activities<br />
and would bring<br />
some of Mid<br />
Canterbury’s 5000<br />
Filipino population<br />
together for the day.<br />
‘‘For us it is about<br />
keeping alive those<br />
traditions from our<br />
homeland and sharing<br />
them with our children,<br />
and also with the wider<br />
community,’’ she said.<br />
She said Filipinos<br />
loved to have fun and<br />
whether it was singing,<br />
dancing, eating, or<br />
playing games, it was<br />
about coming together.<br />
On the games programme<br />
is luksong tinik,<br />
which translates as<br />
‘‘jumping over thorns’’.<br />
It is abit like high jump,<br />
but uses people’s hands<br />
and feet that increasingly<br />
stack up, instead of a<br />
bar.<br />
There are also sack<br />
races and patintero, a<br />
tag style game, to try<br />
out.<br />
There is an entrance<br />
fee of $5 for the Unifilympics<br />
and the action<br />
runs from 9am until<br />
5pm.
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In yellow for walk<br />
There was agood turnout for the first Hakatere<br />
Hope Walk in <strong>Ashburton</strong> on Sunday.<br />
The walk, part of anationwide effort, brought the<br />
community together to raise awareness around<br />
suicide prevention.<br />
Around 200 people of all ages enjoyed ashort<br />
loop walk from the southern end of the West Street<br />
car park to the East Street rail overbridge and then<br />
back down West Street.<br />
Walkers included Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon<br />
and <strong>Ashburton</strong> mayor Donna Favel.<br />
The Hakatere Hope Walk was whanaudriven<br />
and supported by multiple local agencies.<br />
Many of those taking part wore the colour yellow,<br />
representative of suicide prevention awareness, and<br />
some walkers visibly remembered loved one who<br />
had taken their own lives.<br />
Adate for next year’s event has already been set.<br />
Fundraiser for Rakaia Toy Library<br />
There will be ahost of stalls at a<br />
night fundraiser in the Rakaia<br />
Community HallonSaturday<br />
November 30 to raise money for the<br />
Rakaia Toy Library.<br />
The Christmas night market will<br />
run from 6pm to 9pm.<br />
Tickets are $5 and this goes to a<br />
raffle that will be drawn at the end<br />
of the night.<br />
Basketballers on court<br />
EA Networks Centre<br />
hosted the four day U13<br />
Southern Regional<br />
Basketball<br />
Championships last<br />
week.<br />
Running from<br />
Wednesday to Saturday,<br />
the busy tournament<br />
featured teams from<br />
around the Mainland.<br />
Aand Bgrade<br />
competitions for boys<br />
and girls were contested<br />
by 32 teams, including<br />
four from Mid<br />
Canterbury.<br />
There were also teams<br />
from Canterbury Metro,<br />
North Canterbury,<br />
Buller, Otago, Southland<br />
and West Coast.<br />
Games were played<br />
over four, eight minute<br />
quarters and featured<br />
pool play over days one<br />
and two, followed by<br />
playoff games.<br />
The Mid Canterbury<br />
New day for litter group<br />
Volunteers from Litter Free<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> have changed their rubbish<br />
pickupday fromMondayto<br />
Thursday.<br />
Money raised helps the library The rubbish collectors will now<br />
buy new toys.<br />
meetonthe second Thursday of each<br />
Details of stallholders can be monthat1.30pm at the ChessBoard<br />
found on the toy library’s Facebook on EastStreet. They usually collect<br />
page.<br />
until around 3pm.<br />
reps struggled in the<br />
match ups against teams<br />
from bigger centres.<br />
Some also gave game<br />
time and tournament<br />
experience to some<br />
younger players.<br />
North Canterbury won<br />
the Agrade boys event,<br />
while Otago Gold won<br />
the girls Agrade. West<br />
Coast won both the B<br />
grade boys and girls<br />
competitions.<br />
Photo: The Mid<br />
Canterbury U13 boys A<br />
grade team gets ateam<br />
talk from coach Ben<br />
Ditmer ahead of their<br />
8930 defeat to<br />
Canterbury Metro Black<br />
on day two.<br />
The Litter Free <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
volunteers wear bright pinkbibs to<br />
identify themselves and wear gloves<br />
and use litter grabbers when working.<br />
The change of collection day<br />
follows arequest from <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
council, whichprovides rubbish bags<br />
and picks up anddisposes of thelitter<br />
collected by thevolunteers.
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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
ASHBURTON CBD<br />
Shops, Service, Selection<br />
Demolition, building<br />
work cracking on<br />
CBD revitalisation work<br />
to take about two years<br />
Building work around the<br />
CBD is moving along at a<br />
cracking pace with demolition<br />
work continuing on the<br />
foundations of the former<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> County Council<br />
building on Havelock Street<br />
and the remodel to the<br />
frontage of the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Club and MSA along Burnett<br />
Street, as well as new<br />
building work across two<br />
significant sites to help<br />
revitalise the area.<br />
On the large plot at the<br />
corner ofTancred and Cass<br />
streets there will sit the<br />
Eastfield Precinct which will<br />
house two new buildings a<br />
two storey building home to<br />
amedical centre, called Eastfield<br />
Health (which will be<br />
the future home of Sealy<br />
Streetmedical practice),and<br />
next door anew single storey<br />
building, which will be the<br />
new location for the Ministry<br />
of Social Development<br />
(Winz) office.<br />
And on the corner of East<br />
and Burnett streets the construction<br />
of the new four<br />
storey Murney Family Trust<br />
building, pictured, is moving<br />
along at afast pace.<br />
Once completed it will be<br />
one of the CBD’s tallest<br />
buildings.<br />
Turning Burnett and Tancred into oneway<br />
streets, street enhancements, free parking<br />
and alower speed limit are all planned for<br />
the revitalisation of the <strong>Ashburton</strong> CBD.<br />
Burnett Street between Cass and East will<br />
feature oneway westbound traffic, while<br />
Tancred Street between Cass and East will<br />
feature oneway eastbound traffic.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council has worked<br />
through detailed design plans to finalise what<br />
the town centre will look like, following the<br />
development of concept plans, community<br />
consultation and ongoing engagement with<br />
businesses.<br />
The finalised design has been completed<br />
and is now out for tender, with tenders<br />
closing on November 12.<br />
Council would make a decision on the<br />
successful tenderer at its final meeting for<br />
the year on December 12, said <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council group manager environmental<br />
services.<br />
Construction was expected to start in the<br />
third week of January 2020, and would take<br />
around two years to complete.<br />
‘‘An unfortunate reality with big construction<br />
projects of this nature is disruption, and<br />
so arequirement of the construction contract<br />
is liaison with affected businesses to try to<br />
minimise the impact.’’<br />
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ASHBURTON CBD<br />
Shops, Service, Selection<br />
Call for spruce up of<br />
East Street chessboard<br />
There are calls from some in the community to spruce up the East Street chessboard to encourage<br />
more people to play the game. Those keen to see the game played more want the black and white<br />
chess squares repainted and the surrounding area spruced up and made more inviting. The area<br />
has also been mooted as avenue for live music, for jazz weekends, for buskers and more<br />
community events and activities.<br />
Kites used to ward off birds<br />
People using <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s<br />
central business district<br />
are encouraged to dispose<br />
of food waste and<br />
rubbish correctly to help<br />
reduce the temptation for<br />
birds to roost in the<br />
downtown area.<br />
Staff at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council have<br />
received several inquiries<br />
in the past about protected<br />
black billed gulls<br />
congregating around a<br />
number of business areas<br />
and leaving mess around<br />
shopfronts and carparks.<br />
Black billed gulls are an<br />
endangered species that<br />
nest in the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
riverbed each spring.<br />
They are expected to<br />
begin moving into the<br />
river and away from businesses<br />
as the breeding<br />
season starts.<br />
As aprotected species,<br />
traditional methods of<br />
deterring and controlling<br />
the birds are not allowed.<br />
However, an effective and<br />
appropriate way to help<br />
dissuade the birds is to<br />
remove unnecessary food<br />
waste from the area.<br />
Some businesses in the<br />
central business district<br />
have also reverted to<br />
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their buildings to stop<br />
birds from settling on<br />
their roofs.<br />
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ASHBURTON CBD<br />
Shops, Service, Selection<br />
TheCBD water feature, which was close to being relocated to <strong>Ashburton</strong> Domain, will stay<br />
where it is after an outpouring of strong public support.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> council is seeking tenders to sell the information centre building for<br />
removal. Current CBD re-development plans do not include the building remaining on<br />
its current site. The decision sits alongside the earlier decision to include the<br />
provision of information services in the new Library and Civic Centre building on<br />
Baring Square East<br />
Picturesque Baring Square East is set for anew look with the development of the nearby<br />
$51.6million civic building and library project.<br />
Renowned New<br />
Zealand sculptor Llew<br />
Summers whose<br />
impressive cast<br />
concrete sculpture<br />
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pictured, sits in Baring<br />
Square East, died on<br />
August 1. The<br />
Christchurch based<br />
artist had astrong<br />
interest in figurative<br />
works and celebrated<br />
the human form in a<br />
number of his works.<br />
Love Me Tender was<br />
created in 1994 and<br />
purchased by the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Art Gallery<br />
21 years ago. It<br />
received aclean up<br />
and new coat of paint<br />
four years ago.<br />
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ASHBURTON CBD<br />
Shops, Service, Selection<br />
Supporting Pink Ribbon<br />
Station open day this Sunday<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Volunteer Fire<br />
Brigade has an open day this<br />
Sunday between 11am and<br />
2pm.<br />
To be held at the stationon<br />
Burnett Street, the open day<br />
will enable new potential<br />
recruitstolookaround and to<br />
talk with current volunteers.<br />
Helping totakingastand<br />
against breastcancer in<br />
downtown <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
during the PinkRibbon<br />
StreetAppeal last week<br />
were realtors Paddy Strange<br />
and Toby O’Donnell, of<br />
Property Brokers<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
The men, along with some<br />
of their colleagues and other<br />
community volunteers, were<br />
at various points around<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> collecting money<br />
to help fund groundbreakingresearch<br />
into new<br />
targeted treatments,<br />
medical equipment for<br />
hospitals, innovative<br />
education programmes, and<br />
vital supportfor Kiwisgoing<br />
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On average more than<br />
3300 people including<br />
around 25men are<br />
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Drop, cover, hold for ShakeOut<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District residents are being<br />
encouraged to test their preparedness for an<br />
happening.<br />
An announcement will then be made at<br />
earthquake by checking their emergency<br />
plans and assuming the Drop, Cover and<br />
Hold position for the national ShakeOut.<br />
New Zealand’snational earthquake and<br />
1.30pm that the drill has started and will last<br />
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ShakeOut is held all around the world to<br />
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tsunami hikoi, ShakeOut is happening today an earthquake, and to practice atsunami<br />
(<strong>October</strong> <strong>17</strong>) at 1.30pm. The <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council will be participating.<br />
The council’s customer service team will<br />
alert customers visiting the council at<br />
1.00pm and 1.15pm that the drill will be<br />
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ASHBURTON CBD<br />
Shops, Service, Selection<br />
Green spaces important<br />
Futureproofing town’s<br />
wastewater network<br />
The green spaces around <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s CBD are pleasant places to sit and ponder.<br />
Asignificant project to futureproof<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s wastewater network will<br />
begin next month.<br />
The 14 month project, which begins<br />
on November 4,will affect sections of<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong>/Hakatere and <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Lake Hood River Trails.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council service<br />
delivery group manager Neil McCann<br />
said the <strong>Ashburton</strong> River Crossing<br />
and Pump Station project will see a<br />
larger wastewater pipe installed<br />
under the <strong>Ashburton</strong> River, replacing<br />
the current pipeline, and connected<br />
to anew pump station to be built next<br />
to the wastewater treatment plant in<br />
Tinwald.<br />
Mr McCann said the $7 million<br />
project will provide for <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s<br />
continued growth, ensuring the town’s<br />
infrastructure can meet future population<br />
projections.<br />
‘‘We’re very pleased to be delivering<br />
this necessary upgrade. It will benefit<br />
residents both now and into the<br />
future. Understandably, the project’s<br />
proximity to the <strong>Ashburton</strong>/Hakatere<br />
and <strong>Ashburton</strong> Lake Hood River<br />
Trails meansthat thesefacilitieswillbe<br />
affected, however, we have worked<br />
hard to minimise any disruption to<br />
them, and residents will still be able to<br />
access the trails.’’<br />
While the <strong>Ashburton</strong>/Hakatere<br />
RiverTrail (onthenorthernside of the<br />
river) willremain open for themajority<br />
of the project, minor closures are<br />
expected. These closures will be<br />
restricted toamatter of minutes over<br />
one ortwo days astress are felled.<br />
Asection ofthe <strong>Ashburton</strong> Lake<br />
HoodRiverTrail (onthesouthern side<br />
of the river) will be closed near the<br />
construction site at Boundary Road.<br />
People travelling to or from Lake<br />
Hood will be directed to use adetour<br />
via Grahams Road and Grove Farm<br />
Road.<br />
The detour route will be signposted,<br />
along with additional project information<br />
at various access points to the two<br />
river trails.<br />
Qualified ecologists will prepare a<br />
Fish Salvage & Relocation Plan to<br />
ensure passages for fish are maintained,<br />
and inspections will becarried<br />
outaround theworksitetoidentify bird<br />
breeding areas. If breeding sites are<br />
identified, the ecologist will make<br />
recommendations to minimise any<br />
disturbance to them.<br />
The new pipeline will beinstalled<br />
from Milton Road South across the<br />
River towards the wastewater treatment<br />
plant in Tinwaldbetween Boundary<br />
Road and Grove Farm Road.<br />
A small section of Milton Road<br />
South (<strong>Ashburton</strong> River end) will be<br />
closed tothe public, however, this will<br />
not affect residents’ access to their<br />
properties orthe <strong>Ashburton</strong>/Hakatere<br />
River Trail.<br />
Siepp Construction will becarrying<br />
out the work onbehalf of the Council.<br />
It is expected to finish inDecember<br />
2020.<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> College<br />
Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment<br />
News<br />
Issue 34<br />
<strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Message From ThePrincipal<br />
Japan Tour Group<br />
Well it’s been afascinating seventeen days as Iwas<br />
fortunate enoughtobepartofour Japan Tour over<br />
the holidays. Ihave been to several Asian countries<br />
in the last fiveyears,but nothinghad prepared me<br />
forJapan.Itisanamazing countryand the warmth<br />
and hospitality of the people are a significant<br />
feature. It is also very crowded! Our Japan Tour<br />
group consisted of twenty two students who are<br />
studying Japanese at College,and who wished to experiencethe culture<br />
and practise the language.Thisisusually abiennial trip and this time was<br />
accompanied by four adults<br />
The students had all saved well for over ayear and therefore they were<br />
heavily invested in making the trip apositiveexperience. We startedwith<br />
afour-day Homestay experience through our Sister School Tokorozawa<br />
Kita High School in Tokyo. This experience enabled the students to<br />
understand the Japanese lifestyle alittle more. The Japanese students<br />
typically startschool at about 8:30am and lessons continue until 3:30pm,<br />
after which clubs start and continue until about 7:00pm. Students then<br />
go home for ameal with their family and start their homework, which<br />
typically can go to midnight.<br />
Iwas surprised at the lack of technology within the Japanese classrooms.<br />
The students were not using computers and most teachers were still<br />
writing on blackboards. The lessons were text book-based, with every<br />
student inthe class working on the same page. However the Homestay<br />
experience was amazing and we also saw many temples, castles and<br />
shopping malls in the twoweeks.<br />
My thanks to the parents who accompanied the trip but,most importantly,<br />
to Hiromi Horsley who organised the whole event and was atireless<br />
organiser. This wasnosmall feat giventhe crowded rush hour conditions<br />
we oftenfaced on the subway.<br />
Ourstudents did abrilliantjob of being good ambassadors forboth their<br />
school and our country. It wasinterestingthatmost of them expressed a<br />
desire toreturn toJapan at some stage, but Ididn't meet anybody who<br />
waskeen to finish their schooling within the Japanese system!<br />
German and Classics Tours<br />
Congratulations also to TomKitchen for his organisation of the German<br />
Tour, and to Greta Hampton and Michael Clark for their organisation of<br />
the Classics Tour to Greeceand Italy.This wasundertaken by acomposite<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>Collegeand HillmortonHigh School group. Aswith the Japan<br />
Tour, significant fundraising took place bystudents, with the support of<br />
family and the communitygreatly appreciated.<br />
College ANetballTeam<br />
My congratulations to our netball girls on their qualification for,<br />
and participation in, the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ National<br />
Championships, held in Nelson during week two ofthe student holiday<br />
break.<br />
They finished 15th in New Zealand, which is asignificant achievement,<br />
giventhatthereare 380+ secondaryschools in our country. Qualifying for<br />
this eventalone,was agreat outcome and testimonytothe hard work of<br />
the coaching and managementteam, and the players.<br />
Year 13 Graduation Ceremony<br />
Please keep the evening of Thursday 31<strong>October</strong> free for this important<br />
occasion, which starts at 7:30pm at the <strong>Ashburton</strong>Trust EventCentre.<br />
Ross Preece<br />
Principal<br />
Information<br />
Red Carpet Evening<br />
This evening showcases the amazing musical talent of<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
College students. Welookforwardtosharinganevening of wonderful<br />
entertainment with family,friends and the <strong>Ashburton</strong>community.<br />
Tickets arenow available from the College Office.<br />
Information<br />
MAKE YOUR MARK<br />
Calling all Pasifikastudents and parents.<br />
Homework based supportand<br />
English learning opportunities for<br />
Pasifikaparents.<br />
TUESDAYS6:00pm -8:00pm (term time)atthe<br />
Senior Centre,206 Cameron Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Events<br />
Golf Assessments Undertaken<br />
College’s Year 13 Physical Education class has been developing their<br />
golfing skills via many practises at the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Golf Course and the<br />
Par3LakeHoodCourse,throughoutmost of Term Three.<br />
Physical Education teacher Karen McKenzie said thatmanyofthe students,<br />
particularly the girls inthe case, had never played golf at all prior to this<br />
experience. The group was fortunate to have <strong>Ashburton</strong> College Teacher<br />
RonCarlson's experthelp to work on the basics initially.<br />
As partofthe process students arerequired to video themselves and analyse<br />
their golf swing,incomparison with aprofessional player-like Rory McIlroy<br />
or Lydia Ko!<br />
Thegolf assessmentitself took placeatthe <strong>Ashburton</strong>Golf Club on Thursday<br />
19 September, with members of the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Golf Club scoring the<br />
students,over9holes.<br />
Students were graded on Stableford Points, with the aim of achieving<br />
as many points as possible. Karen said that the boys had performed very<br />
strongly in the Duathlon in Term One but the golf results belonged to the<br />
girls. Several students who weren’t able to reach the Duathlon times were<br />
successful in passing the golf assessment.<br />
The TopSix Male andFemale Results were:<br />
Girls<br />
Boys<br />
Aidan Elvines 15points ReeceWatson 14 points<br />
Sophie Bell 15 points Kaleb Finn 11 points<br />
Emily Armstrong 14 points Brynmor Workman 7points<br />
Kate Flanaga 14 points TomMiddleton 7points<br />
Emma Stagg 12 points Liam Pram 7points<br />
Dani McArthur 12 points Connor Allen 7points<br />
(Pictured left, lefttoright):<br />
Andrevan Rooyen,<br />
Sally Lemon, Aidan Elvines,<br />
Emma Stagg.<br />
(Pictured below, clockwise<br />
from left): Displaying their<br />
various styles,inaction, are<br />
Emma Stagg,Tom Middleton<br />
and Liam Pram<br />
Events<br />
Champions of Change: <strong>Ashburton</strong>College<br />
Youth Hui<br />
On Thursday 26September, between 11:30am-2:30pm, aYouth Hui<br />
washeld at the College,todiscuss sustainability.<br />
TheGoals of the Hui were to:<br />
• explorethe concept of change<br />
• discover whysustainabilityisimportant<br />
• focus on MidCanterbury<br />
TheHui wasopen to all students from Years 9-13 and wassupportedbythe<br />
KānukaMid Canterbury Regeneration Trust and the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Trust.<br />
What Are We Most Proud Of<br />
Angela Cushnie from the Kānuka Mid Canterbury Regeneration Trust<br />
facilitated the Hui and participants were first invited toshare what they<br />
were most proud of in our region.<br />
The list was huge -with our mountains, rivers and lakes featuring highly<br />
alongside our community and community events like the Multi-Cultural<br />
Bite, and places such as the ArtGalleryand the <strong>Ashburton</strong>Domain.<br />
(Pictured above): Angela Cushnie working with the students.<br />
What Would We LiketoChange<br />
Shared next were ideas for things the students would like to change, and<br />
these were grouped under four main themes:<br />
• reduce, re-use,recycle<br />
• waterways,ocean and pollution<br />
• biodiversity<br />
• carbon dioxide emissions and carbon footprint<br />
SustainabilityFourPillars<br />
One of the most important things learnt during the Hui was that<br />
sustainability has four pillars - Environmental, Social, Economic and<br />
Cultural. This helped the students to see our environmental issues through<br />
anew lens,and acknowledge other points of view.<br />
This Is Only aBeginning<br />
The Hui was the start ofour conversation about sustainability. We have<br />
started todraft aplan for change which begins with us as individuals<br />
making changes in our ownlives.<br />
ThreeSimpleChanges<br />
We strongly encourage everyone in MidCanterburytomakethree simple<br />
changes to help reduce plastic waste, which inevitably ends up in our<br />
waterways and oceans:<br />
• take your own refillable water bottle to school/work toavoid buying<br />
bottled water<br />
• take your own re-usable cup to cafés to avoid purchasing takeaway<br />
cups (ask your local caféifthey offer adiscountwhen buying coffeeina<br />
takeawaycup -some in MidCanterburyalready do)<br />
• ifyou purchase adrink at acaféorrestaurant, ask if they have reusable<br />
straws. Ifnot,ask foryour drink without aplastic straw<br />
Head of Junior School Carolyn Clough said thatthe Hui will reconvene this<br />
term forthose junior students who wish to continue this conversation and<br />
build on our plan foraction.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College Music Department presents<br />
Red Carpet Evening<br />
7:00pm<br />
Thursday24<strong>October</strong><br />
Tickets -$15<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College Auditorium<br />
(Pictured above, left toright): With ideas showing on the whiteboard and<br />
captured on sheets of paper - Amy Stilgoe, Tarquin Kittelty-Williams,<br />
Chrissie Cheesman, Mao Nishioka, Pauline Cuadrado, Janelle Galos,<br />
Jessalene Eclipse,Mitch Cushnie,Carolyn Clough.<br />
Appreciation<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> College Physical Education Department would like to<br />
thank the following volunteers who helped on the day: BarbaraDavidson,<br />
Bruce Day, Charlie Kelland, Sally Lemon, Vicki Moore, Heather Trott, Andre<br />
and Debbie vanRooyenand Jeff Williamson.
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, Page 21<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College<br />
Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment<br />
News<br />
Issue 34<br />
<strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Congratulations<br />
NZ SecondarySchools’Netball Champs<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College’s ANetball Team had astellar outcome at the South<br />
Island SecondarySchools’NetballTournament, with their fifth placing there,<br />
qualifying them forthe New Zealand SecondarySchools’Championships.<br />
Qualification comes through teams finishing in the top six from the Upper<br />
North Island Secondary Schools’ Championships, five from the Lower<br />
North Island Competition and five from South Island Secondary Schools’<br />
Championships.<br />
Qualifying forthisprestigious pathwaytournament is,initself,asignificant<br />
achievement. Over 240 schools play at secondary schools’ netball<br />
tournaments around New Zealand, and just sixteen teams qualify to go to<br />
Nationals.<br />
This is the second time in seventeen years that <strong>Ashburton</strong> College has<br />
qualified. Manager Sue Dudley said thatitwas an amazing experiencefor<br />
the whole team, and the players showedthattheydeservedtobethere by<br />
matching it with some of the North Island teams.<br />
Bringing in two Year 10 players to the squad exposed them to some<br />
fabulous netball,and it willbeatournamentthatthe players will look back<br />
on in years to come with greatpride.Theyhave playedagainst some of our<br />
futureSilverFerns and thatalone is amassive achievement.<br />
Results from the four dayswere –<br />
The first game against Whanganui High School saw the team have abit<br />
of asluggish start and trailing 3-9 by the end ofthe first quarter. The girls<br />
picked themselves up and foughtback,onlylosing the 2nd and 3rdquarters<br />
by twoand winningthe last one by one goal,but they couldn’t make up the<br />
first quarterdeficit, losing26-35.<br />
Next upwas Saint Kentigern College, winners of the Upper North Island<br />
Secondary Schools’ tournament and probable favourites to take out the<br />
national title.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>College came out of the blocks firing and at the end of the first<br />
quarter itwas all tied upat10-10. This was enough for Saint Kentigern’s<br />
to bring on their big guns and that’swhenthe game went to awholenew<br />
level.The game wasplayedatspeed and thereweresome amazing skills on<br />
display. College never gave up and were able to give all twelveplayers game<br />
time,but eventually went down 22-53.<br />
Day 2began against Epsom Girls’ Grammar School who made it very<br />
difficult for College toget the ball into their shooters, due to the height of<br />
defenders. Sue said that itwas noticeable that many ofthe North Island<br />
teams have very tall players. The final score was 19-44 but itdidn’t reflect<br />
the effort that the girls put in on the court and, infact, College drew the<br />
last quarter6-6.<br />
Villa Maria College: Thegirls took the positives from the Epsom game into<br />
their matchagainst Villa Mariathat afternoon. At half-timethe game wasall<br />
locked up at <strong>17</strong>-all,but adropinintensitybyCollege in the thirdquartersaw<br />
them trailing by 7going into the last quarter. Astrong fight-back from the<br />
girlssaw them get within three of Villa, losing 32-35.<br />
This is the closest the team has come to Villa all season, as College lost to<br />
them at South Island’s by 9, so the girlswerethrilled to getapoint from the<br />
game forfinishingwithin three goals.<br />
Day3startedagainst St Mary’s College, the team thatfinished 4th at the<br />
LowerNorth Island SecondarySchools’Tournament.<br />
Both teams came out fighting and that set the tone for the whole game.<br />
Down at half-time by9-10 College applied lots of defensive pressure,<br />
creating multiple turnovers to see them take the lead 21-19 by half-time.<br />
However, St Mary’s came back at College and turned the score around to<br />
see them leading 29-27 at the end of the third quarter. Acouple of crucial<br />
turnovers in the finalquartersaw the game just slip away from us,eventually<br />
going down 36-40.<br />
Napier Girls’ High School: There was ashort turnaround between games<br />
on this day, berfore the girlswereback out on the courtagainst Napier Girls’<br />
High School. Napier shot out of the blocks and beforeweknew it theteam<br />
wasdown13-30 at half-time.<br />
This was atrue game of two halves, with <strong>Ashburton</strong> College clawing their<br />
wayback into the game and just losing the thirdquarter10-11 to be down<br />
23-41. Allthe players got on the courtand College wonthe last quarter10-7,<br />
with thefinal scorebeing 33-44.<br />
On Day 4the teams were playing-off for final placings. For College this<br />
was against Samuel Marsden Collegiate School. This was the first time<br />
this school had ever qualified forNationals.<br />
Playing for 15/16th place meant both teams wanted tofinish on awin.<br />
This wasatight game,with neither team giving an inch. College led at the<br />
end of the first quarter9-7 and maintained thattwo goal advantage by halftime<br />
to be still ahead 15-13. College then extended that lead to 25-21 by the<br />
end of the thirdquarter.<br />
Alast quarterpush by SamuelMarsden sawthemget back to one goal but<br />
College maintained their composureand took out the win 33-30 and 15th<br />
place.<br />
Thetournament<br />
team (pictured<br />
right, back row,<br />
lefttoright):<br />
Ella Pearson, Billie Surridge,Hayley Tallentire, TaylahBurrowes, Faith Scott,<br />
Emma Stagg. (Front row,lefttoright): MiaPearson, Samantha Holden,<br />
Dani McArthur,Jasmin Strawbridge,PoppyKilworth, GraceAdams.<br />
Wins forJunior ABoys’ Basketball Team<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> College Junior Boys’ Basketball team had a successful<br />
tour to Wellington, from 20-23 September, winning all three of their<br />
scheduled games.<br />
Results<br />
The team’s first game was againstTawa College, which saw the boys finish<br />
strongly to claim a93-75 win.<br />
On the Saturdaythe boys playedStPatrick’s College,showing considerable<br />
strength insideand out,tosecurea93-63win.<br />
Their final outing on Sundaywas againstWellingtonCollege.After astrong<br />
start the boys went on to win 70–55, maintaining a100% win record for<br />
the tour.<br />
AcademyTraining Session<br />
On Monday morning the team attended Kenny McFadden’s New Zealand<br />
Basketball Academyfor atrainingsession. KennyMcFaddenisanAmerican<br />
former professional basketball playerwho currently worksincoaching and<br />
developmentofbasketball in New Zealand.<br />
Afterseeing afew sights it was time for the team and management to head<br />
back to<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Acknowledgement<br />
Coach Mark Douglas said he waswas extremely happywith the team’s effort<br />
on the trip and through the <strong>2019</strong> season, and expresses his thanks to all<br />
those whohavesupportedthe team this season.<br />
(Pictured above, left to right): Marc Calzada, Jack Withell-O’Grady,<br />
Jamie Reid, Charlie Banks, Denzel Banghal, Ethan Reodique, Coach Robinson,<br />
Coach McFadden, Jacob Tallentire, Riley Sa, Caleb McNulty-Burns,<br />
HenryHobbs,Mickele Young,Brad Douglas.<br />
Coach wasMarkDouglas and ManagerTammyReid.<br />
College 1st XI Hockey Draw Against<br />
NewSouth Wales Team<br />
Visiting as part ofalower South Island Tour was aBoys’ Secondary<br />
School Hockey Team, drawnfromplayers from the Catholic Colleges in<br />
NewSouth Wales.<br />
College Team Manager Jason Vannini said that this is avisit which has<br />
developedoverlatteryears to taking placeevery second year,with fixtures<br />
having taken place about four times since Jason has been teaching at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>College.<br />
The visitors’tour itinerary was quite full with eight games played innine<br />
days -inChristchurch, <strong>Ashburton</strong>, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill<br />
and Cromwell,beforereturning to Christchurch.<br />
5-all Draw Result<br />
A2-0 scoretoAshCollafter the firstquarter became 3-2toNew South Wales<br />
at half-time, with afinal 5-all draw. College goals were scored byEthan<br />
Walsh (3 goals), JacobGray and Ryan Maslin (oneeach).<br />
Jason reported that the game was played inafestival spirit, with good<br />
relationships between the two sides. Heobserved that the defence was a<br />
bit‘wanting’byboth teams but attack wasverywilling.<br />
(Pictured below): Play in progress,with <strong>Ashburton</strong> College on attack.<br />
College Team Members were - Cole Aitken, Connor Allan, Cole Beeman,<br />
Jed Cameron, Ryan Geeson, Archie Glanville, Jacob Gray, Ryan Maslin,<br />
Harry Soal, Jonty Small, Dante Vannini, Henry Wallis, Ethan Walsh,<br />
Reece Watson, Todd White, Zac White. Absent for this fixture was<br />
William Wallis.<br />
Tom Walkham is the Coach and,asabove, Jason Vannini Manager.<br />
(Pictured below): Thetwo teams together afterthe match.<br />
TopFemale Shooterand Overall Second<br />
Placing at SmallboreRifle Shooting Nationals<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> College Shooting team of Shania Harrison-Lee,<br />
Emma Smith and Charlotte McKenzie, with Coach Bryan Hunter and<br />
Manager Nina McKenzie, took part inthe Target Shooting New Zealand<br />
Inter-Secondary Schools’event from 27-30 September <strong>2019</strong> at the start of<br />
the recent student holiday break. The event was held in Wellington at the<br />
RoyalTiger Range.<br />
Shania advised that twenty-one schools competed from throughout New<br />
Zealand,with <strong>Ashburton</strong>College placing second, missing out on the title<br />
position by only 2.04 points.<br />
TopFemale TrophytoShania Harrison-Lee<br />
This was Shania’s fourth year<br />
in this tournament and, inher<br />
words, she ‘grabbed the top<br />
shot award’ to bring home the<br />
TopFemale Shooter trophy.<br />
Captaincy<br />
This year, Shania captained the<br />
South Island and New Zealand<br />
Secondary School teams. This<br />
was for the South versus North<br />
Island competition, and the<br />
New Zealand team competing against Great Britain inapostal shoot. The<br />
results of this eventwon’t be knownuntil February/March of next year due<br />
to GreatBritain’swintershooting season just beginning now.<br />
Emma Smith –Teams’Qualification<br />
This wasYear12studentEmmaSmith’s thirdyear at thisevent. Emma also<br />
qualified foraplaceinthe South Island team placing fourth, and in the New<br />
Zealand team.<br />
CharlotteMcKenzie –Team Qualification and Strong Results<br />
Shania said that Charlotte had an<br />
amazing weekend in this,her first year<br />
competing in Rifle Shooting and her<br />
first year at the Secondary Schools’<br />
event, particularly given she is a<br />
Year 9student.<br />
Charlotte (pictured right, in action)<br />
qualified 9th in the South Island<br />
team, which was made up of twelve<br />
shooters.<br />
Coming Events<br />
Photos kindly supplied by Target Shooting New Zealand(TSNZ).<br />
(Pictured left,<br />
lefttoright):<br />
Second-placed team<br />
Emma Smith,<br />
CharlotteMcKenzie,<br />
Shania Harrison-Lee.<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
18 Staff vStudentExecutiveChess Match, lunchtime on Chessboard<br />
19-20 South Island SecondarySchools’ Rugby7s, Timaru<br />
22 Year 12 ChainsawDay 3, Chertsey<br />
23 Special Olympics Swimming,Timaru<br />
24 Whole College Assembly (Blues Awards, Head student speeches),<br />
Period 3<br />
RedCarpet Evening,7:00pm, College Auditorium<br />
28 Labour Day–Public Holiday<br />
30 BOTMeeting, Menorlue<br />
November<br />
1 Aoraki Sports Awards,SouthernTrust Events Centre,<br />
Morgans Road,Timaru; doors open 5:40pm, 6:00pm start.<br />
07- 03 Dec NCEA Exams<br />
<strong>2019</strong> End-of-Year Final Days,Prize-Givings,Events<br />
Parents, caregivers,family/whanau,friends and interested community<br />
members aremost welcome at all prize-givings.<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
31 Year 13 final day. Students finish at 1:20pm.<br />
Year 13 Graduation Ceremony, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Trust EventCentre,<br />
7:30pm.<br />
November<br />
04 Year 12 final day. Students finish at 1:20pm.<br />
Year 12 Prize-Giving,College Auditorium, 7:30pm.<br />
05 Year 11 final day. Students finish at 3:05pm.<br />
Year 11 Prize-Giving,Auditorium, 7:30pm. CollegeAuditorium.<br />
December<br />
08 Leavers’Graduation Dinner,Hotel <strong>Ashburton</strong>, arrive at 6:30pm,<br />
seatedat7:00pm.<br />
12 Year 10 Prize-Giving,1:30pm, College Auditorium, and Final Day<br />
13 Year 9Prize-Giving,11:00am, CollegeAuditorium, and Final Day
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Security, diplomacy to<br />
feature in U3A address<br />
Security and Diplomacy<br />
in the 21st Century is the<br />
subject to be addressed<br />
at an <strong>Ashburton</strong> U3A<br />
gathering on <strong>October</strong><br />
22.<br />
The guest speaker is<br />
Professor Rouben<br />
Azizian, the director of<br />
the Centre For Defence<br />
and Security Studies at<br />
Massey University.<br />
Prof Azizian made<br />
headlines as the Soviet<br />
Union’s acting ambassador<br />
in Wellington at the<br />
time the Soviet Union<br />
dissolved in 1991.<br />
His areas of expertise<br />
are AsiaPacific security,<br />
regional geopolitics<br />
and national security<br />
strategies.<br />
Prior to becoming a<br />
full time academic, Prof<br />
Azizian was in the Soviet<br />
and later Russian foreign<br />
service.<br />
U3A holds its talks at<br />
St David’s Church on<br />
Allens Road. Members<br />
gather from 9.30am, with<br />
speakers starting at<br />
around 10.15am. Non<br />
U3A members are welcome<br />
and will pay $10.<br />
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There were angels<br />
aplenty at the St David’s<br />
Church school holiday<br />
programme last week.<br />
Angels were the theme<br />
for each of the three<br />
morning sessions of the<br />
programme, attended by<br />
around 20 children each<br />
day and manned by volunteers<br />
from the church.<br />
The children, who<br />
came from around <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
were not necessarily<br />
members of the<br />
church. They made angel<br />
craft decorations, a different<br />
one each day, and<br />
heard a biblical story<br />
featuring angels. One of<br />
them was about the angel<br />
Gabriel who foretold of<br />
the birth of Jesus ‘‘your<br />
child will be the holy son<br />
of God’’ (Luke 1:35) and<br />
another of the angels<br />
who visited a group of<br />
shepherds to announce<br />
the birth of Jesus, which<br />
indicated God saw everyone<br />
on par and considered<br />
noone person better<br />
than any other<br />
person.<br />
During the session the<br />
children also got to play<br />
interactive games, sing<br />
and dance in afun setting<br />
and socialise over morning<br />
tea.<br />
Money raised from the<br />
gold coin donation to<br />
attend the programme was<br />
going towards helping with<br />
missionary work in Malawi.<br />
Photo: Vienna Apireru,<br />
5, Asher Van Asperen, 7,<br />
and Ella Mead, 7, with the<br />
three types of angels made<br />
during each day of the St<br />
David’s programme.<br />
Celebrated author to<br />
talk on colonial women<br />
Awardwinning author<br />
DrCatherine Bishop will<br />
be in <strong>Ashburton</strong> next<br />
week to speak about her<br />
latest book Women<br />
MeanBusiness: Colonial<br />
Businesswomen in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
and Beyond.<br />
Her book talk will be<br />
held at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Museum on Friday,<br />
<strong>October</strong> 25at11am.<br />
Dr Bishop has been<br />
travelling New Zealand<br />
to speak about her book<br />
and telling stories about<br />
colonial women from<br />
each place she visits.<br />
She explores the<br />
stories of some ofNew<br />
Zealand’s colonial<br />
entrepreneurs the successful<br />
and the outright<br />
failures, the heartwarming<br />
and the tragic,<br />
the everyday and the<br />
scandalous.<br />
During her visit she<br />
will talk of Mid<br />
Canterbury’s colonial<br />
womensuch as Ann Butler,<br />
to whose funeral<br />
‘‘King Dick’’ Seddon<br />
sent awreath. Ann was<br />
just one of many colonial<br />
businesswomen from the<br />
district who stepped up<br />
to become the family<br />
breadwinner.<br />
As well as boarding<br />
house keeper Susannah<br />
Wall who in 1845 said<br />
‘‘The greatest comefort<br />
to me is to get an honest<br />
living for my familey.’’<br />
They were words which<br />
echoedthe sentimentsof<br />
many colonial women in<br />
New Zealand throughout<br />
the nineteenth century.<br />
Like Susannah, many<br />
of them ran small businesses,<br />
though not all<br />
were as concerned about<br />
the ‘‘honesty’’ of the<br />
living they got.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Museum<br />
director Tanya Robinson<br />
was pleased to have<br />
Dr Bishop stopping in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> on her<br />
national tour and<br />
encouraged people to<br />
attend the book talk to<br />
hear of some fascinating<br />
women.<br />
‘‘We are looking forward<br />
to discovering the<br />
stories ofsome very talented<br />
and clever<br />
businesswomen from<br />
nineteenth century <strong>Ashburton</strong>,’’<br />
she said.<br />
‘‘I’m sure both the talk<br />
and hearing of these<br />
women will be an inspiration.’’<br />
Born and raised in<br />
Whanganui, Dr Bishop is<br />
a postdoctoral fellow at<br />
Macquarie University in<br />
Sydney. Her first book,<br />
Minding Her Own Business:<br />
Colonial Businesswomen<br />
in Sydney (New<br />
South Publishing, 2015)<br />
won the prestigious 2016<br />
Ashurst Business Literature<br />
Prize. This is her<br />
second book.<br />
Anyone interested in<br />
attending the book talk<br />
should register their interest<br />
with the museum on 03<br />
307 7890.<br />
Blake cuts up pool for national title<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College swimmer<br />
Blake Farr has<br />
returned from the New<br />
Zealand Short Course<br />
Swimming Championships<br />
with anational title<br />
to his name and some top<br />
performances.<br />
Farr, swimming in the<br />
boys 15 years category,<br />
won the 100m freestyle,<br />
claimed bronze in the<br />
200m freestyle and swam<br />
personal best times in all<br />
his races.<br />
An impressive few<br />
days of swimming saw the<br />
Year 11 student finish<br />
4th in the 800m freestyle,<br />
6th in 400m freestyle and<br />
8th in the 50m and<br />
1500m freestyle events.<br />
Fellow <strong>Ashburton</strong> College<br />
swimmer Hannah<br />
King also had a great<br />
meet at her first appearance<br />
at national short<br />
course.<br />
She swam personal<br />
best times in all but one<br />
race and was unlucky not<br />
to come away with a<br />
medal, claiming fourth in<br />
two of her events (200m<br />
breaststroke and 400m<br />
IM).<br />
King set anew Canterbury<br />
record in the girls 13<br />
years 1500m freestyle<br />
event, smashing the<br />
previous record by 19<br />
seconds.<br />
Photo: Blake Farr,<br />
centre, flanked by Brayden<br />
Meuli, left, and Louis Fitzjohn,<br />
with the gold medal<br />
he claimed at the New<br />
Zealand Short Course<br />
Swimming Championships.<br />
(Photo: Peter<br />
Jenca)
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, Page 23<br />
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The Mazda3, now that’s for me<br />
By Ross Kiddie<br />
When I recently evaluated<br />
the entrylevel<br />
Mazda3 with its 2litre<br />
engine, Iwrote that it was<br />
the car for me.<br />
For one, Iparticularly<br />
like the hatchback/sedan<br />
concept and, for another,<br />
its affordable price and<br />
build quality make it a<br />
very tempting proposition.<br />
However, I’ve since<br />
changed my mind, after<br />
driving the next level up<br />
in the series I’ve discovered<br />
that it is even more<br />
tempting. The Mazda3<br />
GTX shares much the<br />
same specification as the<br />
entrylevel model, but its<br />
2.5litre engine is an<br />
absolute stunner and I’d<br />
be prepared to pay extra<br />
for it.<br />
To recap, the allnew<br />
Mazda3 lands in six variations,<br />
there are three<br />
hatchbacks and three<br />
sedans, all priced similarly.<br />
There’s achoice of<br />
a 2litre or 2.5litre<br />
engine in both body<br />
styles, with Limited variations<br />
rounding out the<br />
series at $48,795.<br />
The base model GSX<br />
lands at $36,595, while<br />
the midspec model<br />
which has really captured<br />
my attention sits at<br />
$40,795.<br />
When Isay midspec, it<br />
doesn’t miss out on<br />
much. Sure it doesn’t get<br />
leather trim nor electric<br />
seat adjustment, but that<br />
suits me fine. I’ve often<br />
written that some buyers<br />
don’t want all the bells<br />
and whistles and that’s<br />
me, I’m very much drawn<br />
to those models which<br />
provide the best value.<br />
The Mazda3 GTX<br />
benefits from its bigger<br />
engine. It does everything<br />
just so easily and never<br />
feels strained, also fuel<br />
usage isn’t compromised.<br />
Mazda claims 6.6litre<br />
per 100km (43mpg)<br />
combined cycle average<br />
for the 2.5, that’s<br />
opposed to a6.2l/100km<br />
(45mpg) figure for the<br />
2litre engine. That being<br />
the case, the difference is<br />
marginal.<br />
During my time with<br />
the GTX it was constantly<br />
sitting around<br />
7.8l/100km (36mpg),<br />
which was much the same<br />
as those Irecorded in the<br />
GSX. At 100km/h the<br />
instantaneous readout<br />
sits at 5l/100km (56mpg)<br />
with the engine turning<br />
over at a leisurely<br />
1900rpm, reinforcing my<br />
statement that the engine<br />
is largely under stressed,<br />
and that accounts for the<br />
efficiency.<br />
On the subject of<br />
figures, Mazda claims<br />
139kW and 252Nm<br />
power outputs for the 2.5<br />
(2litre, 114kW and<br />
200Nm). While the<br />
2litre punches above its<br />
weight, the extra torque<br />
of the 2.5 really shows,<br />
the GTX is also lightweight<br />
at 1368kg, so the<br />
powertoweight equation<br />
is biased well<br />
towards performance.<br />
The GTX will scamper to<br />
100km/h in 8.8sec, and<br />
will cut out a highway<br />
overtake in 4.9sec<br />
(80120km/h).<br />
Drive is channelled<br />
through asixspeed automatic<br />
transmission. That<br />
is the only gearbox in the<br />
range.<br />
It stands out for its<br />
quick, smooth shifts and<br />
ratios which always seem<br />
to have the engine in the<br />
right zone for response to<br />
throttle request.<br />
The GTX doesn’t get<br />
paddle shifters, but they<br />
are pretty much aluxury<br />
and are included on the<br />
Limited. However, if the<br />
driver wants to be<br />
involved in the gearshift<br />
process sequential shifts<br />
can be manipulated from<br />
the main gearshift lever.<br />
I took the evaluation<br />
car inland to Methven;<br />
it’s good to see the gateway<br />
to Mt Hutt vibrant<br />
on a Sunday afternoon.<br />
The roads were a little<br />
tricky with frost still<br />
showing on the grass<br />
berms, and water on the<br />
road that looked like it<br />
was on the point of freezing<br />
over with ice.<br />
Nevertheless, the<br />
Mazda3 travelled the<br />
tricky sections with<br />
surety. There is alot of<br />
rubber on the road<br />
(215/45 x 18in), consequently,<br />
there is alot of<br />
feedback through the<br />
steering wheel and positive<br />
turnin when corners<br />
arrive.<br />
Imentioned in my last<br />
evaluation that the new<br />
Mazda3 has a torsion<br />
beam rear suspension,<br />
that’s a departure from<br />
the previous generation<br />
model, nevertheless, the<br />
more I’m in the new 3the<br />
more I’m enjoying the<br />
chassis and suspension<br />
dynamics.<br />
The rear doesn’t quite<br />
have the freedom of the<br />
past, but it’s not<br />
disgraced, and occupant<br />
comfort has certainly not<br />
been jeopardised. The<br />
Mazda3’s handling<br />
qualities are certainly up<br />
to par.<br />
Iparticularly liked the<br />
way it steers and drives<br />
out of a corner, it is<br />
sportslike, and I guess<br />
that’s no surprise given<br />
Mazda’s heritage with<br />
performance vehicles.<br />
For its price the GTX<br />
is well specced. It gets<br />
satellite navigation, idle<br />
stopstart, headup display<br />
and radar cruise<br />
control, the latter part of<br />
a huge safety package<br />
Mazda<br />
label<br />
IActivesense that easily<br />
earns it a fivestar<br />
Australasian New Car<br />
Assessment programme<br />
rating.<br />
The new Mazda3<br />
hatchback stands out for<br />
one other reason, its<br />
styling is bold and captures<br />
attention. The rear<br />
quarter is almost chunky,<br />
but such is its flow it<br />
doesn’t look awkward.<br />
If its styling is too bold<br />
for some then the sedan<br />
could well be the way into<br />
the range. I’m due to<br />
drive it soon, and Isimply<br />
can’t wait.<br />
Price –Mazda3 GTX<br />
hatchback, $40,795<br />
Dimensions –Length,<br />
4460mm; width,<br />
<strong>17</strong>95mm; height,<br />
1435mm<br />
Configuration –Fourcylinder,<br />
frontwheeldrive,<br />
2488cc, 139kW,<br />
252Nm, sixspeed<br />
automatic<br />
Performance –<br />
0100km/h, 8.8sec<br />
Fuel usage –<br />
6.6l/100km<br />
Newcomer in Toyota Hiace lineup<br />
By Ross Kiddie<br />
If you are a courier<br />
driver in Canterbury,<br />
the chances are you are<br />
probably driving aToyota<br />
Hiace van.<br />
Sure, there are many<br />
other vans, but Toyota<br />
has captured that market<br />
well and if you take<br />
into account the number<br />
of Hiaces that are used<br />
by tradies and companies,<br />
New Zealand<br />
has been a lucrative<br />
market for Toyota.<br />
For those who like the<br />
square, boxy shape of<br />
Hiace, don’t be disappointed,<br />
there’s no sign<br />
of it ending its lifecycle<br />
anytime soon. However,<br />
there’s also anew Hiace<br />
on the market, and the<br />
two will dovetail in the<br />
light commercial segment.<br />
The new van is quite a<br />
departure from what we<br />
see as the traditional<br />
Hiace, its nose protrudes<br />
from the front,<br />
housing the engine<br />
which sits forward and<br />
under the windscreen<br />
line.<br />
However, don’t be<br />
fooled, the engine still<br />
sits longitudinally and<br />
drives through the rear<br />
wheels, Toyota haven’t<br />
yet been lured into making<br />
the Hiace frontwheeldrive<br />
like some of<br />
its rivals.<br />
The newcomer arrives<br />
here in five variations,<br />
four of those are ZR<br />
specification, panel and<br />
glass vans, and a10seat<br />
mini bus. There’s also a<br />
longwheelbase ZX variant.<br />
This evaluation<br />
encompasses the ZR<br />
glass van and the jumbo<br />
ZX, the latter is simply<br />
enormous at almost 6m,<br />
and although it was a<br />
single side door model<br />
only, those landing from<br />
September will have<br />
twin sliders, one on each<br />
side. The ZX’s cargo<br />
carrying space is massive,<br />
it’s a monster in<br />
terms of presence, it<br />
won’t fit into astandard<br />
car park space, and<br />
every time you are leaving<br />
the vehicle you need<br />
to be conscious ofhow<br />
much ofthe planet you<br />
are claiming. Itook the<br />
ZX into a supermarket<br />
car park and had to use<br />
four parks so that it<br />
wouldn’t block any<br />
access ways.<br />
The ZR on the other<br />
hand, is alot more manageable;<br />
at5.2m it’s not<br />
quite so selfish, but the<br />
benefit of both variants<br />
is that the load space is<br />
cavernous.<br />
Generally I’ve been<br />
pretty lucky having load<br />
bearingvehicles coinciding<br />
with items that have<br />
needed to be transported.<br />
During mytime<br />
with both Hiaces, I<br />
managed to use them<br />
both for carrying duties<br />
– green waste to the<br />
recycling centre and an<br />
unexpected shopping<br />
expedition where my<br />
wife and I bought several<br />
bulky items of furniture,<br />
the latter devoured<br />
easily in the ZX.<br />
Apart from its voluminous<br />
cargo carrying<br />
space –6200litres (ZR)<br />
and 9300litres (ZX) <br />
the new Hiace stands<br />
out for its comparative<br />
high comfort levels,<br />
once you’re in either of<br />
thetwo front seats, bearing<br />
inmind itisabit of<br />
aclimb up, support and<br />
cushioning is in abundance.<br />
One of the benefits<br />
of the engine sitting<br />
forward is the amountof<br />
incabin space and quiet<br />
operating manner, while<br />
cargo containing mesh<br />
sits directly behind the<br />
seats there are plenty of<br />
knickknack trays, drink<br />
holders and pockets for<br />
all those essentials that<br />
the business operator<br />
would need in his/her<br />
daily travels.<br />
Along with a new<br />
look, the new Hiace also<br />
gets a new engine. It’s<br />
the 2.8litre fourcylinder<br />
turbocharged<br />
diesel that first found its<br />
way here in the Hilux<br />
three orfour years ago.<br />
It stands out for its<br />
power, efficiency and<br />
smooth operation. Alot<br />
of the latter is attributed<br />
to its positioning out of<br />
the cabin proper, itmust<br />
be saidrefinement in the<br />
new Hiace is remarkable.<br />
Power is rated at<br />
130kW and 450Nm, it<br />
needs those healthy outputs,<br />
even empty the<br />
Hiace istubby at2235kg<br />
(ZR) and 2305kg (ZX),<br />
but I’m sure that with a<br />
load on there will be<br />
plenty of power for all<br />
applications.<br />
On the subject of<br />
figures, one ofthe most<br />
important toany owner/<br />
operator will bethat of<br />
fuel usage. From my<br />
experience of this power<br />
plant in the Hilux it is a<br />
bit of afuel miser. Toyota<br />
claims a7.5litre per<br />
100km (38mpg)<br />
combined cycle average<br />
for the ZR in manual<br />
form, as tested.<br />
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Ahoy there firsttime sailors take to water<br />
Firsttime sailors, and<br />
many returning yachties,<br />
took to the calm waters of<br />
Lake Hood at the weekend<br />
with members of the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Sailing Club<br />
during their learntosail<br />
open day.<br />
The event, which kicks<br />
off their annual learn to<br />
sail programme, was<br />
attended by around 10<br />
first time sailors aged<br />
from eight through to<br />
adult.<br />
Veteran members<br />
from the club passed on<br />
their sailing knowledge<br />
and skills to the beginners,<br />
using the Optimist<br />
yacht, or returning<br />
sailors, who used the<br />
intermediate level Piccolo<br />
or Firebug yachts.<br />
Club members Chris<br />
Thompson and Geoff<br />
Swan took the beginners<br />
through the basics of<br />
using the flatbottomed<br />
Optimist yacht which<br />
included knowing about<br />
the rigging, steering and<br />
body positioning before<br />
the enthusiastic beginners<br />
took to the calm<br />
waters under the watch of<br />
the men, and other club<br />
members.<br />
Early in the session the<br />
sailors were treated to<br />
calm flat waters and a<br />
gentle breeze creating<br />
ideal conditions for<br />
learning, before the<br />
southerly wind picked up<br />
and made it abit more<br />
choppy on the water.<br />
The weekly programme,<br />
which operates<br />
during the school terms<br />
one and four, runs every<br />
Sunday at Lake Hood<br />
from 11am.<br />
It costs $5, per session.<br />
Model boat enthusiasts,<br />
who are also members<br />
of the sailing club,<br />
Work starts on Inland Scenic Route<br />
Work started last week<br />
to rehabilitate a2.2 km<br />
section of Arundel<br />
Rakaia Gorge Road<br />
(Inland Scenic Route),<br />
outside Mayfield.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Contracting Limited<br />
(ACL) working on<br />
behalf of the council, is<br />
overlayingthe road from<br />
the outskirts south of<br />
Mayfield to Watts Road.<br />
An overlay is atype of<br />
road rehabilitation<br />
where sections of weak<br />
road pavement are dug<br />
out and an overlay of<br />
strong gravel is applied<br />
to the road before being<br />
sealed.<br />
The project is<br />
expected to be<br />
completedinearly<br />
run their session after the<br />
sailing programme.<br />
Photo: First time<br />
sailors Jack Scoon and<br />
Sean Williams take to the<br />
water of Lake Hood during<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Sailing<br />
Club open day.<br />
December.<br />
A30km/h speed<br />
restriction is in place for<br />
the roadworks and<br />
Drivers are advised to<br />
travel with care.<br />
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
Money given<br />
to eight pools<br />
Eight district and community<br />
pools around<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />
have been given funding<br />
to help with their<br />
maintenance costs and<br />
health and safety<br />
initiatives.<br />
Through its pool<br />
funding, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council has<br />
distributed funds to<br />
Hinds Swimming Club,<br />
Mayfield Community<br />
Pool, Mt Somers Community<br />
Pool, Rakaia<br />
Swimming Club, Ruapuna<br />
Reserve Board,<br />
Hampstead School,<br />
Willowby Swimming<br />
Pool and Methven<br />
Swimming Pool.<br />
The funding distributed<br />
to the pools and<br />
clubs for the <strong>2019</strong>20<br />
year totals $50,460.<br />
The funding will be<br />
used for things such as<br />
purchasing pool<br />
chemicals, water testing<br />
and water test kits,<br />
as well as initiatives<br />
that promote good<br />
health and safety outcomes.<br />
The Hinds, Mayfield,<br />
Mt Somers,<br />
Rakaia and Ruapuna<br />
pools are all locatedon<br />
councilowned land<br />
and are managed by<br />
local volunteers.<br />
The council established<br />
the funding to<br />
ensure the pools continue<br />
to be wellmaintained<br />
and safe<br />
for visitors.<br />
It’s hairraising<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> dance<br />
teacher and choreographer<br />
Jessie Thomson<br />
has raised $1550<br />
for Mid Canterbury<br />
Cancer Society through<br />
arecent hair donation.<br />
She donated 40cm<br />
lengths of her long hair<br />
to be used for wigs for<br />
cancer patients and used<br />
the gesture to raise funds<br />
for the cancer cause.<br />
Jessie said she was<br />
loving her new look shorter<br />
hair and was grateful<br />
to the support of the<br />
community.
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, Page 25<br />
Call to clear<br />
out gravel<br />
from stream<br />
Staveley farmer Richard<br />
Bruce knows about rain.<br />
He has seen storms fill<br />
creeks in minutes, sluice<br />
shingle down roads and<br />
lift streams over bridges.<br />
Several streams near<br />
Staveley make their way<br />
into Bowyers Stream <br />
Cave Stream, from near<br />
the Victory limeworks at<br />
Mt Somers, Stevenson<br />
Stream, and Reid Stream.<br />
They join Bowyers<br />
Stream on the Mt Somers<br />
side of Staveley.<br />
As the flood water<br />
cascades down the<br />
streams, it brings gravel <br />
and it is that Mr Bruce<br />
would like cleared.<br />
He reckons acontractor<br />
with a big machine<br />
could clear the shingle <br />
lowering the creek bed <br />
and straighten it in an<br />
hour or more.<br />
Mr Bruce took his case<br />
to the <strong>Ashburton</strong> council<br />
earlier in the year, armed<br />
with photographs of the<br />
area.<br />
Some work had been<br />
done, but Mr Bruce<br />
believes a bulldozer, if<br />
allowed, could ‘‘fix up 40<br />
years of neglect’’.<br />
He said the streams<br />
that fed in to Bowyers<br />
Stream looked innocent<br />
enough, as did Bowyers<br />
Stream, but that could<br />
change in 20 minutes.<br />
He said Mt Somers,<br />
which overlooks Staveley,<br />
was the highest mountain<br />
in the district and a<br />
natural storm centre.<br />
Within a mile and a<br />
half, water could flood<br />
down streams and off<br />
paddocks.<br />
That water made its<br />
way into Bowyers Stream<br />
and aflow meter showed<br />
it, at times, could match<br />
the flow of the <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
though it had room to<br />
move.<br />
Mr Bruce said the shingle<br />
build up, that one of<br />
the streams curved at<br />
right angles, made the<br />
situation worse.<br />
If Cave Stream had<br />
been straightened ‘‘it<br />
wouldn’t be aworry’’.<br />
Mr Bruce, who farms<br />
on hill country above Staveley,<br />
has lived in the area<br />
for more than 60 years.<br />
The streams, he said,<br />
would continue to cause<br />
trouble.<br />
Mr Bruce is full of<br />
praise, however, for road<br />
work in the area, particularly<br />
up Boyds Road,<br />
where the road had been<br />
built up.<br />
The road, he said, had<br />
runnels, and aroad that<br />
did not shed water was, in<br />
effect, aditch.<br />
Photo: The shingle<br />
higher than the water in<br />
Cave Stream, which runs<br />
into Bowyers Stream near<br />
Staveley.<br />
Falloon thinks<br />
line may shift<br />
Rangitata MP Andrew<br />
Falloon believes the<br />
electorate boundary may<br />
change.<br />
He said that although<br />
Census data just out<br />
showed the population<br />
of Mid and South Canterbury<br />
had grown, that<br />
growth had not been as<br />
high as the rest of the<br />
South Island.<br />
‘‘With large growth in<br />
neighbouring Selwyn<br />
and Waitaki electorates<br />
(which includes Geraldine),<br />
it’s likely that we<br />
will see some change in<br />
the Rangitata electorate<br />
boundaries.<br />
‘‘Forthe lasttwo years<br />
my office has operated a<br />
‘‘nowrongdoor’’<br />
approach to the people<br />
of the <strong>Ashburton</strong> district<br />
who live in the Selwyn<br />
electorate, and I’ve<br />
worked closely with Amy<br />
Adams (in Selwyn) to<br />
ensure it’s been seamless.’’<br />
Mr Falloon said that<br />
with growth around Selwyn<br />
‘‘I’m hopeful the<br />
boundary will be shifted to<br />
the Rakaia River. As a<br />
born and bred Mid Cantabrian,<br />
I’d relish the<br />
opportunity to serve communities<br />
like Rakaia,<br />
Chertsey, Lauriston,<br />
Dorie and Pendarves’’.<br />
‘‘I’ll be making clear to<br />
the Representation Commissionthe<br />
logic in having<br />
all of the <strong>Ashburton</strong> district<br />
in one electorate,’’<br />
Mr Falloon said.<br />
Meteoric drop in farmer confidence<br />
Recently Rabobank’s farmer<br />
confidence survey<br />
was released, showing a<br />
meteoric drop in farmer<br />
confidence.<br />
If you were looking for<br />
an illustration of why, the<br />
meeting in <strong>Ashburton</strong> on<br />
Monday night was about<br />
as stark as it gets. Nearly<br />
500 people from the rural<br />
community crammed in<br />
to the Event Centre to<br />
express their frustration<br />
over the Government’s<br />
proposed water reforms.<br />
There was, as there<br />
always is, an appreciation<br />
of the need to continue<br />
work to clean up our<br />
waterways. Despite the<br />
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to fence waterways.<br />
In recent years dairy<br />
farmers, so often the<br />
brunt of anger from<br />
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required to move their<br />
fences. There’s cost in<br />
doing so, and the result<br />
will be financially punishing<br />
those farmers who did<br />
the right thing.<br />
It’s not the most significant<br />
change in the<br />
proposals, but it typifies<br />
Minister David Parker’s<br />
attitude. The major cost<br />
will come from nitrogen<br />
limits which have been<br />
labelled as “unattainable,”<br />
and for which the<br />
Government are refusing<br />
to release economic<br />
modelling of.<br />
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Bill, currently winding<br />
its way through<br />
Parliament, provides for<br />
heavy industry and other<br />
polluters to “offset”<br />
their emissions by planting<br />
trees. Farmers are the<br />
only sector singled out<br />
and not able to offset.<br />
Our farmers produce<br />
enough food to feed 40<br />
million people worldwide,<br />
and they do so with<br />
one of the lowest<br />
environmental footprints<br />
of any country. Requiring<br />
them to produce less food<br />
here simply increases global<br />
emissions by having<br />
less efficient food producers<br />
around the world<br />
pick up the slack.<br />
At present our primary<br />
sector accounts for 60 per<br />
cent of New Zealand’s<br />
goods exports, and<br />
employs many thousands<br />
of Kiwis in small towns<br />
and communities across<br />
the country. Jobs that will<br />
be impacted by these<br />
policies.<br />
Many years ago, back<br />
when Iwas working on a<br />
relative’s farm, the saying<br />
was that farmers had<br />
three things they needed<br />
to worry about: interest<br />
rates, farm gate prices,<br />
and the weather. While<br />
access to capital has tightened<br />
up, interest rates<br />
remain at record lows.<br />
Prices across most of the<br />
primary sector are up,<br />
and even the weather<br />
hasn’t been too bad. The<br />
thing that’s changed is<br />
Government policy.<br />
Ultimately it will cost us<br />
all.<br />
Council water submission ahigh priority<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> council’s<br />
submission on<br />
proposed Government<br />
freshwater reforms<br />
was ‘‘highpriority’’<br />
and would focus on the<br />
possible economic<br />
impact of thepolicies,<br />
chief executive officer<br />
Hamish Riach said.<br />
MrRiach said it was<br />
fairtosay the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>council<br />
could support the<br />
submission being<br />
prepared by the<br />
regional council.<br />
MayorDonna Favel<br />
saidshe heard thatthe<br />
WaimakaririDistrict<br />
Council submission<br />
wasbeing prepared by<br />
thechiefexecutive<br />
officerand the mayor,<br />
andinSelwyn the<br />
submission was<br />
workshopped by the<br />
full council.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>would try<br />
to look at its<br />
submission as well.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> council,<br />
along with other<br />
bodies, wasconcerned<br />
aboutthe sixweek<br />
submission period <br />
since extended by two<br />
weeks by government <br />
butwas working with<br />
urgency.<br />
Mr Riach saidatan<br />
earlier meeting that the<br />
shorttimeframe would<br />
not givetimeto<br />
challenge any of the<br />
science in the proposals<br />
and the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
submission would focus<br />
on the possible<br />
economic impact.<br />
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The popular choice took out the local body<br />
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votes ahead of second placed John Sunckell,<br />
of Leeston, who was seeking reelection and<br />
was the other successful candidate.<br />
Fellow candidates Sarah Walters (10,690<br />
votes) and Allen Lim (10,605 votes) missed<br />
out.<br />
Mr Mackenzie, a water advocate who<br />
farms at Eiffelton, has a long history of<br />
advocacy on behalf of the <strong>Ashburton</strong> district.<br />
He graduated BAgSci from Lincoln College<br />
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And has served some years on the regional<br />
council transport committee but is better<br />
known for his involvement with water and<br />
the environment.<br />
Through his various roles with Federated<br />
Farmers, at aregional and national level, he<br />
has been involved in trying to help develop<br />
environmental policies that underpin a<br />
rational strategy for water and the environment<br />
that does not destroy our social and<br />
economic wellbeing.<br />
He was an inaugural member of the<br />
Canterbury Water Management Strategy<br />
and was part of the process for developing<br />
the concept of sub regional zone committees.<br />
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and Water Forum.<br />
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developed wetlands and aquatic habitat,<br />
including rare Canterbury Mudfish on their<br />
farm Akaunui for 20plus years.<br />
Support for manuka honey welcomed<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Manuka honey exporters have<br />
welcomed the Government’s<br />
plan to help secure the term<br />
‘manuka honey’ for New Zealand,<br />
ensuring its multimillion<br />
dollar industry is protected.<br />
Regional Economic Development<br />
(RED) Ministers have<br />
recently approved, in principle,<br />
$5.7 million which will come<br />
from Provincial Growth Fund<br />
(PGF) funding for New Zealand<br />
manuka honey producers,<br />
including Maori.<br />
Aspokeswoman for Regional<br />
Economic Development minister<br />
Shane Jones said the PGF<br />
funding, once finalised, will go to<br />
the Manuka Honey Appellation<br />
Society (MHAS).<br />
While the majority of the<br />
funding is agrant for scientific<br />
research, stakeholder engagement<br />
and consultation, the<br />
remainder is being negotiated as<br />
‘‘a commercially equivalent loan<br />
to assist with intellectual property<br />
protection for the term<br />
manuka honey for the benefit of<br />
all New Zealand producers’’.<br />
Midlands Apiaries international<br />
brand manager Adam<br />
Boot said it was great news for<br />
the industry.<br />
‘‘The announcement is hugely<br />
positive. The size of the grant<br />
would appear to be sufficient to<br />
get the job done,’’ he said.<br />
A research component will<br />
also form part of the overarching<br />
programme of activity as away of<br />
advancing the understanding<br />
and distinction of manuka<br />
honey.<br />
‘‘A positive outcome for New<br />
Zealand would be a positive<br />
outcome for the consumer,’’ he<br />
said. ‘‘The consumer would<br />
always know that the manuka<br />
they purchase is the real deal.<br />
Exactly the same security you get<br />
when purchasing Champagne.<br />
You know it comes from<br />
France.’’<br />
Midlands, an <strong>Ashburton</strong>based<br />
company, has already<br />
invested heavily into keeping its<br />
own manuka honey brands<br />
protected with stringent testing<br />
and packaging to prevent others<br />
to copy their product.<br />
‘‘Australia Iamsure will sure<br />
will dispute the manuka claim<br />
but Ialso believe several south<br />
American countries and possibly<br />
Canada have also been looking<br />
to capitalise on the manuka<br />
success story.’’<br />
Mr Boot said regardless of<br />
what may be claimed, the Australian<br />
Jelly Bush or Tea Tree (of<br />
which they have over 80 varieties)<br />
neither looks, smells or<br />
taste like genuine Manuka and is<br />
more like Molasses.<br />
‘‘It is important that consumers<br />
are protected and do not<br />
get duped by a substitute product.<br />
‘‘I believe New Zealand will be<br />
successful on the basis of some<br />
applied common sense and good<br />
science.<br />
‘‘I do not think you can<br />
dispute that manuka is aMaori<br />
word and provenance is uniquely<br />
New Zealand.’’<br />
He said success will help protect<br />
the industry and the huge<br />
investment by New Zealand<br />
industry to both explore the<br />
science and develop a global<br />
market.<br />
Apiculture New Zealand chief<br />
executive Karin Kos agreed.<br />
‘‘The funding is critical in<br />
realising the benefits of comprehensive<br />
protection ofNew Zealand<br />
manuka honey primarily for<br />
consumers and producers, and<br />
also inhow it will deliver wider<br />
economic and regional benefits<br />
for communitiesand iwi throughout<br />
New Zealand,’’ she said.<br />
‘‘The Provincial Growth Fund<br />
providesastructuredapproachto<br />
bringing together industry, iwi<br />
and Government and that will<br />
support the implementation of<br />
best available science, as well as<br />
ensuring protection of the term.’’<br />
Ms Kos says thisisabig step in<br />
the right direction and welcome<br />
news for New Zealand<br />
beekeepers asithelps secure a<br />
strong platform to generate longterm<br />
value for our industry and<br />
provide stability for the future.<br />
New Zealand exports $350million<br />
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over time.<br />
‘‘We know the journey to<br />
establish protection of the term in<br />
international markets is a long<br />
one, but this announcement consolidates<br />
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and industry approach that<br />
is needed to ensure we realise the<br />
potential of the manuka honey<br />
industry,’’ she said.<br />
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Vege prices will rise if<br />
new rules curb growers<br />
Vegetableprices couldincrease<br />
up to 58%by 2043 and risk New<br />
Zealanders’ health, if proposed<br />
policies to stop new vegetable<br />
growing in NewZealand go<br />
ahead.<br />
That’s the finding of aDeloitte<br />
report preparedfor Horticulture<br />
NewZealand to balance debate<br />
around land use andfreshwater<br />
quality.<br />
HorticultureNew Zealand<br />
chief executive Mike Chapman<br />
saidDeloitte found if vegetable<br />
growers were prevented, through<br />
central and local government<br />
policy,from expanding to keep<br />
up withdemand,by2043 New<br />
Zealanders could be paying as<br />
much as $5.54 in today’s money<br />
for aPukekohegrown lettuce,<br />
instead of about $3.50.<br />
‘‘Bigincreases in fresh<br />
vegetable priceswillhavea<br />
negative impact on the health of<br />
NewZealand’s most vulnerable<br />
communities,’’ he said.<br />
‘‘Already one in five children<br />
do nothaveenough healthy food<br />
to eatwhilemalnutrition rates in<br />
children and older New<br />
Zealanders arealso increasing.’’<br />
Mr Chapman said vegetable<br />
growingacross the country is<br />
under alot of pressure:<br />
competitionfor highly<br />
productive land,access to<br />
freshwater,climate change<br />
mitigation, theneed to further<br />
protectthe environment, and<br />
increasing government and<br />
councilregulation.<br />
‘‘If all these pressures are not<br />
wellmanaged in acoordinated,<br />
longterm way, New Zealandgrown<br />
fresh vegetableswill<br />
become aluxury thatfew can<br />
afford. This will have anegative<br />
impactonmost New Zealanders’<br />
health, putting even more<br />
pressureonour health system.’’<br />
He said New Zealand needed<br />
to increase,not decrease, the<br />
growing of fresh vegetables and a<br />
foodsecurity policy.<br />
‘‘We must increasevegetable<br />
growing so we can feed New<br />
Zealanders nowand in the<br />
future, andhave ahealthy<br />
population.<br />
‘‘Access to new irrigationto<br />
expand vegetable, fruit, berry<br />
and nut growingneeds to be<br />
maintained, as it is awinwin<br />
situation.’’<br />
‘‘Amove towards increased<br />
foodselfsufficiency and<br />
increased domestic production<br />
willimprove NewZealand’s<br />
ability to feeditself,making us<br />
lessdependentonimports.<br />
‘‘This move would also ensure<br />
thatfresh fruit andvegetables are<br />
more affordable,which would<br />
have apositive impact on the<br />
health of all New Zealanders,<br />
especiallythose who are lesswell<br />
off,’’ he said.<br />
Gene editing could help<br />
with crop production<br />
New Zealand will need to consider gene editing to<br />
improve crop production if it is to meet future<br />
sustainability targets, according to the University of<br />
Canterbury professor emerita, plant biologist Paula<br />
Jameson.<br />
Professor Jameson recently received the honorary<br />
title of Emerita Professor earlier this year.<br />
It is awarded to an outstanding academic on her<br />
retirement.<br />
However, she is still very much contributing to the<br />
field of cytokinins, one of the plant growth<br />
hormones, that has defined her career.<br />
Professor Jameson, speaking from Yantai University<br />
in China, where she is a parttime Distinguished<br />
Professor for the next three years, said<br />
New Zealand’s legislation needed to catch up to<br />
other countries.<br />
‘‘The United States, Canada, Australia, Japan,<br />
Brazil and Argentina are accepting gene editing as<br />
not needing the same level of regulatory oversight as<br />
required for plant genetic engineering. The EU<br />
hasn’t, much to the dismay and surprise of the<br />
scientific community in Europe,’’ she said.<br />
‘‘I was always conservative about overt genetic<br />
engineering, but Iamnow speaking out strongly<br />
about the benefits of gene editing. We can make<br />
single nucleotide changes to agenetic sequence and<br />
basically mimic something that has occurred<br />
naturally. One of the examples Icontrast this with<br />
is mutagenesis breeding, which breeders can use,<br />
where irradiation or chemicals are used to mutate<br />
the DNA of plants, and this causes lots of little<br />
mutations. With gene editing, however, we can<br />
single out one gene and alter that very accurately.<br />
‘‘Researchers have already shown this with rice.<br />
There are natural mutations that enable greater rice<br />
yield. You can go in and use gene editing to mimic<br />
these in different cultivars. In the final product you<br />
can’t tell the difference between the natural<br />
mutation and ageneedited mutation.’’<br />
Professor Jameson believes New Zealanders need<br />
to become more aware of the benefits of gene<br />
editing, and the potential for helping to achieve<br />
sustainability targets through greater yield, and<br />
resistance to environmental stress such as drought<br />
and disease.<br />
Genetic engineering is hardly new or untested,<br />
she said.<br />
‘‘The first genetically engineered plant was made<br />
University of Canterbury’s newest Professor<br />
Emerita, plant biologist Paula Jameson.<br />
in 1983, the first commercial product was released<br />
in 1994. Now it’s <strong>2019</strong> and countries in Africa and<br />
developing countries in Asia are only now beginning<br />
to adopt genetically engineered food crops with<br />
greater disease and insect resistance, partly because<br />
of the fear installed by firstworld antiGE lobbyists.’’<br />
‘‘You and Ihave been eating genetically engineered<br />
products for well over adecade. Anything<br />
with canola or soybean is likely to have come from<br />
agenetically engineered plant. We are not growing<br />
any genetically engineered crop plants commercially<br />
in New Zealand but we should look to growing<br />
geneedited plants, as gene editing is so much more<br />
precise.’’<br />
Earlier this year the Government introduced a<br />
Zero Carbon Bill to Parliament to set greenhouse<br />
gas emissions targets into law, however campaigners<br />
say the timeframe of 2050 is too long.<br />
‘‘We will need to use the best techniques available<br />
to achieve this in our agronomic systems gene<br />
editing is one technique that we should embrace to<br />
help us to achieve our targets,’’ she said.<br />
Ruralco calls for teams<br />
Ruralco is callingfor teams totake<br />
part in their Top Farmcompetition in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>next month.<br />
The Ruralco MeridianTop Farm<br />
competitionisafree, familyday offthefarmevent<br />
with activities to<br />
challenge the mind and the body.<br />
Ruralco energy account manager<br />
Tracey Gordon saidthe event was<br />
one not to be missed as it was ‘‘afree,<br />
fun and competitive day outwith abig<br />
win for charity at the end’’.<br />
Notonly doesthe winning teamof<br />
four getbraggingrights butthey get<br />
to choose acharity or community<br />
group todonate $1,000onbehalf of<br />
Ruralco.<br />
The concept,based on the70s and<br />
80s TV competition Top Town, is a<br />
physicaleventwith physicalactivities<br />
‘‘thinkmud run mixed with egg and<br />
spoonrace’’ or memory games,<br />
geography puzzleswithanagrams,<br />
word finds, and relay races.<br />
The topthreeteams get prizes,plus<br />
there will be spot prizes, snacks anda<br />
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‘‘It’llbeagreatday, withmusic,<br />
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tugofwar!’’<br />
Competitors need to be eight years<br />
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Placesare limited so signupquick<br />
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The competitionwillbeheldatthe<br />
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For afulllist of termsand<br />
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Scholarships for apprentices<br />
Primary ITOisrespondingtothe<br />
urgent need for skilled workers in<br />
agriculture and horticulture by<br />
launching ascholarship programme<br />
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Applicationsfor the scholarships<br />
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and will cover feesfor the whole<br />
duration of the apprenticeship<br />
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to three years.<br />
‘‘Ourindustries are facing<br />
unprecedented challenges right now<br />
and we believescholarships for<br />
apprentices will help businesses gain<br />
the skills they need,’’ said Primary<br />
ITO incoming chief executiveNigel<br />
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‘‘Offeringscholarships for<br />
apprenticeships is one way of<br />
encouraging people to build acareer<br />
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as we know thereishuge demand for<br />
people across all industries.<br />
‘‘Wealso recognise thatittakes<br />
effort to study and learn.Trainingis<br />
valuable and Primary ITO believes<br />
that takingcare of the fees will make<br />
apprenticeshipsvery attractive.’’<br />
The scholarships are available for<br />
apprentices in dairy farming, sheep<br />
and beef,and horticultureproduction.<br />
Mr Philpott said an apprenticeship<br />
set people on apathway to a<br />
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and goalsetting coming from both a<br />
Primary ITO training adviser and the<br />
apprentice’semployer.<br />
More informationonthe<br />
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Club news<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Combined<br />
Friendship Club meeting,<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
In the absence of President<br />
Alister, VP Andrew<br />
welcomed the members<br />
and visitors.<br />
Linda advised that plans<br />
were well in hand for the<br />
Christmas lunch,itisan out<br />
of town bus trip leaving at<br />
10.30am and returning<br />
about 4.30pm.<br />
Tony is working on an<br />
evening Town and Around<br />
trip for Thursday 21<br />
November.<br />
Our mini speaker was<br />
Nicola Walker, Trott’s Garden<br />
Charitable Trust. Alan<br />
and Catherine Trott started<br />
with abare paddock in the<br />
1980s and developed the<br />
gardens we see today. In<br />
20<strong>17</strong> the gardens were<br />
taken over by the Charitable<br />
Trust and are now<br />
managed with the support<br />
of local benefactors and<br />
four groups of volunteers:<br />
Meet and Greet, Lawn<br />
mowing, Gardening, and<br />
Catering. The gardens<br />
open only on weekdays<br />
(summer season) but the<br />
Trust isconsidering weekend<br />
opening to make the<br />
gardens more accessible.<br />
Our main speaker was<br />
Annie Bonifant from the<br />
Cancer Society, anot for<br />
profit organisation which<br />
does not receive any Government<br />
funding but<br />
depends on fundraising. It<br />
promotes health by encouraging<br />
people to eat well, to<br />
exercise, to avoid risk by<br />
being sun safe and to not<br />
smoke. Supportive Care<br />
Services provide emotional<br />
and financial support such<br />
as home visits, respite care,<br />
support for groups catering<br />
for particular cancers, driving<br />
patients to Chch or<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospitals,<br />
accommodation services,<br />
and petrol and grocery<br />
vouchers. Eighty volunteers<br />
including thirty drivers help<br />
in <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Local cancer<br />
patients should advise the<br />
local Cancer Society.<br />
Meetings second Tuesday<br />
of month, Seniors’<br />
Centre 206 Cameron St,<br />
9.30 am. Visitors welcome.<br />
Phone Alister 307 1207.<br />
ashcomboclub@gmail.com<br />
Altrusa International of<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Altrusans have been<br />
busy in many ways, as usual.<br />
Our sixweekly Foot Clinic<br />
in August was attended by<br />
27 clients. Last month we<br />
enjoyed listeningtoCeleste<br />
Bennett, from the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Library. She spoke<br />
about the culture shock<br />
coming to New Zealand.<br />
Celeste chooses the Library<br />
booksthat go in the ‘‘Books<br />
On Wheels’’ monthly packs<br />
which wedeliver topeople<br />
in the community who are<br />
no longer able to visit the<br />
library.<br />
Material that was donated<br />
to our Fabric Bazaar<br />
has been put to gooduse, as<br />
we made 93 curtainstogive<br />
to St Vincent de Paul and<br />
Presbyterian Support<br />
Services. The Burmese<br />
• Johnson’s Panel & Paint • Simply Eco • 128 Victoria • Robbie’s Undercar Specialist<br />
• Carpet Court & Curtain Studio • Crafty Cow • Netherby Four Square • First National<br />
• Annies Country Quilt Store • Samantha Rose Flowers • Plains Power • The Bald Barber<br />
• Robilliards Showcase Jeweller • Lushingtons • Stepping Out • Liquorland Tinwald •Ton’s Thai •F45<br />
• The Mower Shop • Somerset Grocer • Begbie Plumbing &Gasfitting •Fusion Gallery•Laser Electrical<br />
• Hurst Automotive • Unquie Boutique •Pool &Pump World•RoscoAutoDismantlers •AutoSparks<br />
•MyBoutique •Wilson Windscreens •AshfordCraft Shop •The Tool Shed •Stihl Shop<br />
•Tanglez Hair Studio •Rockgas MidCanterbury•Nosh Cafe •HarveyNorman<br />
2216605<br />
Migrant Workers Education<br />
Committee has<br />
received rent for another<br />
year. The Service Committee,<br />
along with the Girls<br />
Guides, have made 57<br />
small sewing bags and 36<br />
pin cushions for the<br />
"Threads Across the Pacific"<br />
project. Donations have<br />
also been made to the<br />
following organisations:<br />
Life Education Trust (The<br />
Harold Club); <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Benevolent Trust; Seabrook<br />
McKenzie Trust;<br />
Dementia Canterbury; Age<br />
Concern; <strong>Ashburton</strong> Fire<br />
Museum.<br />
Our guest speaker at our<br />
September meeting, Alison<br />
McGregor, told us about<br />
her work as the Literacy<br />
Aotearoa Tutor coordinator<br />
for the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
area. Wehold aBusiness<br />
meeting on the first<br />
Wednesday of the month,<br />
while on the third Wednesday<br />
we have ameal meeting<br />
following which we<br />
usually have aGuest Speaker.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hearing<br />
Association Bus Trip<br />
It’s often said ‘‘what happens<br />
on the Bus stays on<br />
the Bus’’.<br />
But members of the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hearing<br />
Association don’t mind<br />
sharingtheir recent Bus trip<br />
experience.<br />
First stop was at Miaflora<br />
the fabulous cafe, gift<br />
shop and garden centre in<br />
Winchester.<br />
While there we enjoyed<br />
morning tea and browsing.<br />
From there we went to<br />
Geraldine.<br />
The plan for Geraldine<br />
was that we didn’t have a<br />
plan, except to spend a<br />
leisurely couple of hours<br />
enjoying the many attractions<br />
the town has to offer.<br />
We travelled home via<br />
Mayfield for the traditional<br />
ice cream stop and<br />
Mount Somers.<br />
Having said there wasn’t<br />
anything which happened<br />
on the bus which needs to<br />
stay on the bus, however,<br />
one member did make an<br />
interesting remark as we<br />
passed the Mount Somers<br />
Holiday Park.<br />
This member, who shall<br />
remain nameless, but who<br />
just happens to be our<br />
president, recalled some<br />
funny antics enjoyed by<br />
another organisation she<br />
belongs to when they stayed<br />
there.<br />
The next event on the<br />
Hearing Association’s<br />
calendar is our Christmas<br />
lunch on Friday 29 November.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> MSA Petanque<br />
Club<br />
On Sunday 6th of <strong>October</strong><br />
we hosted the Piste of<br />
Origin tournament, and for<br />
the first time six clubs were<br />
to be participating. <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
Christchurch, Papanui,<br />
and for the first time Timaru<br />
and Ascot.<br />
Papanui didn’t field a<br />
team so we put in asecond<br />
team to avoid having abye.<br />
Six of our top players were<br />
in the first team and the<br />
second team was made up<br />
of two of our top players,<br />
two who had been playing<br />
for less than ayear, and two<br />
who had been playing for<br />
just afew weeks. Our first<br />
team won the trophy and<br />
this was for the first time.<br />
Our second team didn’t win<br />
as many games but also<br />
gave agood performance.<br />
In fact the two newest ones<br />
were the only ones who<br />
won all their doubles<br />
games. So well done to all<br />
who took part.<br />
Saturday we had four of<br />
our players take part in the<br />
South Island Singles in<br />
Christchurch with Richard<br />
Browne coming second in<br />
the championship consolation<br />
and Neville Bensdorp<br />
was third.<br />
On Sunday, five took<br />
part in the South Island<br />
doubles and all finished in<br />
the top eight. Karen and<br />
Neville Bensdorp came<br />
secondinthe championship<br />
and Richard Browne and<br />
his partner finished third.<br />
Jan Guilford and Marion<br />
Harrison were third in the<br />
championship consolation.<br />
Agood effort where there<br />
were 28 entries in the<br />
singles and 18 in the<br />
doubles.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> High School<br />
Old Pupils Lunch<br />
Sixty five people attended<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> High<br />
School Old Pupils Association<br />
annual lunchlast week<br />
coming from as far afieldas<br />
Auckland and Invercargill.<br />
Among those present<br />
were Jeannie Gluyas (nee<br />
Grattan) aformer teacher<br />
and old pupil; Ruth Simpson<br />
and Rosemary Lange,<br />
daughters of the late W. L.<br />
Jolly, the last Headmaster<br />
of the School.<br />
Those who enjoyed<br />
catching up represented<br />
several decades of the<br />
School’s life and included 6<br />
from the second to last<br />
intake in 1963.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> High School<br />
which was established by an<br />
1878 Act of Parliament<br />
opened on 7February 1881<br />
initially as a boys’ school<br />
until a girls section was<br />
formedinSeptember 1884.<br />
It became coeducational in<br />
1894 when the Boys’ and<br />
Girls’ Schools amalgamated<br />
on the site that is<br />
now the Intermediate<br />
School.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> High School<br />
closed in 1964, atthe time<br />
the fifth oldest secondary<br />
school in the South Island<br />
and amalgamated with<br />
Hakatere College to form<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College.<br />
So it has been fitting that<br />
in recent years the Annual<br />
Lunch has been held in the<br />
College Staffroom and the<br />
catering has been undertaken<br />
as a fund raising<br />
activity by aCollege group.<br />
This year the very tasty<br />
meal was afundraiser for<br />
the Phoenix Rising Choir<br />
and aScience Group.<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> High<br />
School Old Pupils Group<br />
maintain a database of<br />
those former pupils who<br />
wish to be advised of the<br />
Annual Lunch. Ifyou wish<br />
to be included on this list<br />
please contact Margaret<br />
phone 3081996 or Bernard<br />
phone 308 3999.<br />
Mid Canterbury Provincial<br />
Rural Women<br />
An undertaking this<br />
month isbeing part of the<br />
‘Safety Village’ at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
A &P Show<br />
(November 12).<br />
‘‘Keeping ourselves and<br />
our families safe’’.<br />
Rural Women are once<br />
again promoting the very<br />
important message of ‘‘20k<br />
either way past astationary<br />
School Bus’’ when children<br />
are entering orexiting the<br />
bus.<br />
Twelve community agencies<br />
who are accredited to<br />
the Safe Communities <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District will be<br />
there. Heaps of information<br />
andactivities for all the<br />
family. Watch the kitchen<br />
fire demonstrations.<br />
Check out the ‘Escape<br />
my house’ virtual reality<br />
headset. Have your blood<br />
pressure taken. Lots more,<br />
giveaways, activities for the<br />
children. Make sure you<br />
visit the Safety Village site.
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ACROSS<br />
7. Cheap table wine<br />
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10. Everlasting (7)<br />
12. Minimum(5)<br />
15. New (5)<br />
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DOWN<br />
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6. Dance (4)<br />
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<strong>17</strong>. Declare (5)<br />
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CRYPTIC PUZZLE NO. 8539<br />
ACROSS<br />
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DOWN<br />
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6 5 4 3<br />
5 9 4 1<br />
8 4 2 5 6<br />
2 7 3 8<br />
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6 8 9 4<br />
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QUICKPUZZLE NO. 8538 -SOLUTIONS<br />
Across -6,Reverberate. 7, Pair. 8,Navigate. 9,Choose.<br />
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22, E-lla (rev.).<br />
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Monthly Meeting<br />
Monday, <strong>October</strong> 21 st 2pm<br />
at the Senior Centre<br />
Speaker:<br />
Susan Dargue<br />
Arthritis<br />
Canterbury<br />
All welcome<br />
U3A Hakatere-<strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
Tuesday 22nd <strong>October</strong>,<br />
9.30am, coffee/tea, St.<br />
David’s Church, Allens<br />
Road. Speaker Professor<br />
Rouben Azizian, Massey<br />
University. "Security and<br />
Diplomacy in the 21st Century".<br />
All welcome. Visitors<br />
$10.<br />
SELL<br />
LPG REFILLS<br />
9kg cylinders<br />
$27.50<br />
Askabout our<br />
deliveryservice<br />
Anysizecylinder filled<br />
<strong>17</strong> Grey St,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone 307 2707<br />
MY Menswear Bishopdale, in<br />
association with My<br />
Boutique now have Blokes<br />
brand country look shirts.<br />
Discount prices. Triangle<br />
Shopping Centre. Hours<br />
10am -4pm.<br />
LPG<br />
REFILLS<br />
Small LPG cylinders<br />
Off Street Parking<br />
Available<br />
Arthur Cates Ltd<br />
26 McNally Street<br />
Ph 308 5397<br />
Riverside Industrial Estate<br />
22<strong>17</strong>271<br />
2180822<br />
2210093
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SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
Property Officer<br />
Thisisnotanother real estaterole, but arareopportunity.We’relooking foran<br />
experienced property professional or graduatetojoinour Commercial team.<br />
You’ll gain practical experience with adiverse property portfolio worth over<br />
$120m ranging from public reserves to industrial business estates in an<br />
environment which expectsand rewardsresults.<br />
To find out more about these<br />
vacancies and what the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council has to offer you -visit<br />
our website.<br />
Applications close<br />
Wednesday,23<strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers<br />
DELIVERYPEOPLE<br />
wanted<br />
to deliver the <strong>Ashburton</strong><strong>Courier</strong> and Realty<br />
everyThursdayafternoon in the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>urban area.<br />
BAKER WANTED<br />
1amstarts.Experiencepreferred but happyto<br />
train the rightperson. Immediate start.<br />
Please apply in person, with your CV,<br />
by Friday,<strong>October</strong> 25, <strong>2019</strong><br />
123 Main Road,Tinwald,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
GARDEN SUPPLIES<br />
MUSHROOM COMPOST<br />
Available this Saturday, 19 <strong>October</strong><br />
Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Yard<br />
203 Frasers Road<br />
9amto2pm<br />
$30 aloader scoop or $5 per bag.<br />
APlainsRotaryCub fundraiser<br />
Formoreinfoplease contact<br />
ClaytonHoward021 1380 677<br />
GARDENERS: Sheep<br />
manure $5 bag. Medsquare<br />
linseed straw $35<br />
bale. Contact Alan 027 496<br />
7136 with your order. A<br />
Hinds Lions Project.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Plains Rotary<br />
Phone Leonie on<br />
308 7664 or email<br />
leonie.marsden@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
22<strong>17</strong>259<br />
22<strong>17</strong>288<br />
WANTED TO LEASE<br />
YOUNG family looking for a<br />
house and land to lease, up<br />
to 15 hectares. Any area.<br />
Please phone 027 673<br />
3991.<br />
2<strong>17</strong>2548<br />
HOME SERVICES<br />
ROOF COATINGS: All roof<br />
types, specializing in<br />
Decramastic and Long Run<br />
Iron, Coloursteel etc, steep<br />
roofs not a problem. —<br />
Spraymaster 027-433-7780.<br />
SITUATIONS WANTED<br />
MATURE woman seeking<br />
house cleaning position.<br />
Have references. Please<br />
phone 027 396 7864.<br />
HIRE<br />
SCISSORLIFTS for hire.<br />
4WD and slab lifts available<br />
for daily or weekly hire.<br />
Pickup or delivery. Phone<br />
North End Engineering 308<br />
8155 for abooking.<br />
TRADE &SERVICES<br />
FORALL YOUR<br />
•LawnMowing<br />
•Pruning<br />
•Garden Maintenance<br />
•Gutter Cleaning<br />
•Rubbish Removal<br />
Call us TODAY<br />
foraFREE quote<br />
2210075<br />
Ph 0800 4546 546<br />
(0800 4jimjim)<br />
InsuranceWork<br />
JR Engineering<br />
Forall your engineering repairs and<br />
newjobs, nothing toosmall or big<br />
•Agricultural •Transport •General Engineering<br />
We offer Cerfied welding in:<br />
Mig, Stainless steel &Aluminium fabricaon and welding<br />
And aspecial this month on blowpipes<br />
FACTORY SPRAY LACQUER<br />
A NEW LOOK<br />
that lasts!<br />
Existing kitchens, doors,<br />
furniture &appliances<br />
The Finishing Company<br />
03 307 8870 2131557<br />
John 027 313 7100<br />
ALTERATIONS, mending<br />
and trouser hemming, curtain<br />
alterations and curtain<br />
making. Call Michelle on<br />
027 352 7248.<br />
BUILDING and property<br />
solutions. For your complete<br />
alteration or renovation.<br />
We project manage<br />
the whole process. Home<br />
and small commercial.<br />
Qualified tradesmen.<br />
Phone Kiwi Building &<br />
Maintenance Ltd. Gary 308<br />
4798, 027 207 1478 or<br />
Cawte 027 418 7955.<br />
CARPET cleaning -Powerful<br />
equipment & fast drying.<br />
Upholstery, mats and rugs.<br />
Experienced owner/operator.<br />
Phone John Cameron<br />
at Supersucker, 027 435<br />
1042 or 308 1677.<br />
CARR’S Chimney Cleaning,<br />
servicing <strong>Ashburton</strong> and<br />
surrounding districts, $60<br />
per chimney. Phone<br />
Rodney on 03 324 2999<br />
and leave amessage.<br />
CHARLIE’S Blind Cleaning<br />
Service -same day service<br />
and repairs. Charlie can<br />
supply new blinds and<br />
tracks, will hang drapes.<br />
Phone 03 307 1936 or 020<br />
4169 0342.<br />
COMPUTER problems? For<br />
prompt reliable computer<br />
servicing and laser engraving<br />
contact Kelvin, KJB<br />
Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot<br />
Place, <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Phone<br />
308 8989. SuperGold discount<br />
card accepted.<br />
COMPUTER repairs, sales,<br />
training, setup -wireless -<br />
networks, spyware cleanup.<br />
On-site day or evening.<br />
LOW FEES. Call Robin<br />
Johnstone, Networks<br />
Firewalls & PC’s Ltd, 308<br />
1440 or 027 768 4058.<br />
CONCRETE pavers direct to<br />
you - Best prices, many<br />
sizes, textures and colours<br />
- Paveco, 13 Robinson<br />
Street, Industrial Estate.<br />
CONCRETE Services -<br />
Driveways, paths, patios,<br />
mowing edging. Decorative<br />
Concrete specialist 30<br />
years servicing Canterbury.<br />
Free quotes. No job too big<br />
or small. Phone Paul 021<br />
152 1966.<br />
DENTURES; Dr Peter<br />
Rumping repairs existing<br />
dentures and also provides<br />
new dentures. Phone 027<br />
220 9997.<br />
ENGRAVERS - Local <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
business for all your<br />
engraving and new trophy<br />
requirements. Fast, friendly<br />
and professional service.<br />
Call/text Trudy at 311<br />
Engravers, 022 600 7144,<br />
Facebook.<br />
Specialising in<br />
PANEL BEATING<br />
SPRAY PAINTING&<br />
of<br />
Cars,Trucks,Buses,HorseFloats&Motorhomes,<br />
Caravans,Trailers,Farm Machinery, Jet Boats,<br />
LightEngineering and Aluminium Welding<br />
<strong>17</strong> Range Street (Industrial Estate)<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone 307 0378 l 0274 274 007<br />
Email: busandtruckbodywork@xtra.co.nz<br />
22<strong>17</strong>306<br />
FLY control and spider<br />
proofing. For all domestic<br />
and industrial pest control<br />
needs phone AJ Kerr at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Pest Control on<br />
03 308 8147 or 027 432<br />
5447.<br />
FURNITURE removals -For<br />
all your household removal<br />
needs call Nudges Furniture<br />
Removals, phone 027<br />
224 0609.<br />
GUTTER and downpipe<br />
cleaning and repairs. Chimney<br />
sweeping, fly treatment.<br />
Phone 03 394 6166<br />
or 027 209 5026, ask for<br />
Allan. AA Performance<br />
Services.<br />
HYDRAULICS; Martin<br />
Bennett -Onsite hydraulic<br />
hose repair service 24/7.<br />
Stockists of Aero Quip<br />
hoses &fittings, Commercial<br />
hydraulics, Dynacool,<br />
Spool valves etc., MP Filtri,<br />
Walvoil. Call Justin on 308<br />
9778.<br />
LEGAL work -Phone Peter<br />
Ragg (<strong>Ashburton</strong> Law) for<br />
house sales, purchases<br />
and refinances. Will call at<br />
home evenings for wills,<br />
enduring powers of<br />
attorney. Phone 308 0327.<br />
LIFESTYLE farmers need<br />
your sheep shorn for the<br />
summer? Pets and small<br />
mobs. Prompt service.<br />
Phone Jarrod 027 259<br />
4644.<br />
PAINTER for all your painting<br />
needs. No job too small,<br />
inside or outside. Professional<br />
friendly service.<br />
Phone Pete 03 308 1672 or<br />
027 200 1619.<br />
PAINTING wallpapering,<br />
plastering - No job too<br />
small. Interior, exterior.<br />
Professional, prompt, competitive<br />
service. Phone<br />
Tony Sivier at Paint It <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
on 021 878 794 or<br />
307 7289.<br />
PLUMBER: Repair or<br />
replace. Taps, shower<br />
mixers, hot water cylinders,<br />
basins, tubs, toilets, vanity<br />
units, leaking pipes. Call<br />
Pete Young, experienced<br />
plumber 027 280 0889 /<br />
307 7582.<br />
PLUMBING, drainlaying,<br />
blocked drains. Phone<br />
Lindsay at Doaky’s Plumbing<br />
on 027 555 5575 or 308<br />
1248 (Master Plumbers &<br />
Drainlayers).<br />
ROOF Painting - Spring<br />
special - Free quote -<br />
Phone Chris on 0800 677<br />
246 - Registered Master<br />
Painters.<br />
TRADE &SERVICES<br />
2210267<br />
SEWING alterations - anything<br />
considered, reasonable<br />
rates. Smoke and pet<br />
free home. Retired wedding<br />
seamstress. Phone Judith<br />
308 3084, Allenton.<br />
SPIDER and fly treatment.<br />
Weed spraying and lawn<br />
treatment. Plus insects.<br />
Call Allan from AA Performance<br />
Services on 027 209<br />
5026. I’ll take care of them.<br />
ROOF COATINGS All roof<br />
types, specialising in<br />
Decramastic and Long Run<br />
Iron, Coloursteel etc, steep<br />
roofs not aproblem. Member<br />
Master Painters &<br />
Roofing Association NZ<br />
Spraymaster 0274337780<br />
SUN Control Window Tinting:<br />
Privacy, UV, glare, heat<br />
control for homes -offices -<br />
and cars. Phone Craig<br />
Rogers 307 6347, member<br />
of Master Tinters NZ.<br />
TILING - For all your tiling<br />
requirements including kitchen<br />
splash backs, flooring<br />
etc. (full water proofing),<br />
call Kevin on 027 496 8314.<br />
GARAGE SALES<br />
THIS Saturday at 9am<br />
between Farm Rd and<br />
Allens Rd. Variety of<br />
household items. Also<br />
clearance of farm machinery/equipment.<br />
Parking in<br />
paddock signposted.<br />
PETER WALSH &ASSOCIATES LT D<br />
www.peterwalsh.co.nz<br />
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
CARS WANTED<br />
CARS<br />
CARS<br />
WANTED!<br />
WANTED!<br />
LIFESTYLE BLOCK<br />
CLEARING &<br />
GARAGE SALE<br />
Account:<br />
SEMLOH -NC &RDHolmes<br />
218 Racecourse Road<br />
Allenton<br />
ASHBURTON 7700<br />
Saturday 19th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Commencing 10am<br />
We have been favoured with instructions from our<br />
vendor tohold aclearing sale of their general farm<br />
machinery, work shop tools &sundries at the<br />
above time &date.<br />
Entries Include:<br />
2010 John Deere Loader Tractor (5800hrs), Heavy<br />
Roller, Cambridge Roller, Hay Rake, Grubber,<br />
Electric Fence Reels, Garden Furniture, Swing,<br />
Electric Fence Standards, Silo Mesh, Sleepers, Silage<br />
Rake, Chicken Coop, Alkathene, Sheep Ramp, UFO<br />
Mower, PTO Slasher, Honda 4x4 Motorbike, Kodiak<br />
4x4 Motorbike, Drench Guns, Shearing Machine,<br />
Wooden Hurdles, Timber, Pump, Electric Fence<br />
Unit, Horse Harness, Aluminium Ramps, Loader<br />
Forks/Bucket, VintageWheels &Dray, Ladders, Old<br />
Plough, Crate, Concrete Mixer,Welder, Compressor,<br />
Electric Hacksaw, Saw Bench, Water Blaster,<br />
Burnett Trailer with Steel Deck, 10FT Chain<br />
Harrows, 7FT Concrete Roller, 2xTrailer Axle with<br />
Wheels, Gates, 8FT Double Cut Discs, 3Furrow<br />
Vintage Plough,Traction Engine Wagon, Fencing<br />
Gear, Single Axle Farm Trailer, Grain Auger, Double<br />
Ended Work Shop Grinder, 2120 John Deere with<br />
Front End Loader (7530hrs), Kverneland Plough BB<br />
6Furrow with Packer, 6520 John Deere with Self<br />
Levelling Loader (6000hrs), 96 Claas Combine, Full<br />
Array ofWorkshop Tools, Miscellaneous Farm<br />
Equipment &numerous other sundries.<br />
Outside Entries are Invited.<br />
Signposted from SH 1, Hepburns.<br />
Light refreshments will be available.<br />
Please refer to our website for afull list of items &<br />
photos.<br />
Payment by Cash, Cheque, EFTPOS orCharge by<br />
prior arrangement. No Credit Cards. This sale will<br />
be conducted GST exclusive.<br />
For further information:<br />
John Harrison •027 435 6243<br />
TINT-A-WINDOW, fade, UV<br />
block, glare, heat control,<br />
safety, security, privacy,<br />
frosting films, solar protective<br />
window films. Free<br />
quotes, 20 years local service.<br />
Phone 0800 368 468<br />
now, Bill Breukelaar,<br />
www.tintawindow.co.nz<br />
TV Reception Specialists for<br />
all your digital freeview<br />
installations and repairs,<br />
TV wall mounting, Smart<br />
TV set-up, home theatre<br />
installation. Call John at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> TV &Audio Ltd<br />
03 308 7332 or 027 277<br />
1062.<br />
WINDSCREENS and house<br />
glass. Qualified flat glass<br />
glazier now in-house. Anything<br />
glass, give us acall.<br />
Your place or ours. Wilson<br />
Windscreens, 152 Wills<br />
Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Phone<br />
03 308 8485.<br />
DEADOR<br />
ALIVE!<br />
getcashnow!<br />
getcash now!<br />
Damaged, Mechanical, Deregistered,<br />
Crashed, NoWOF – NO PROBLEM<br />
Minimum of $100for most cars,<br />
$500 formostvans,utes, trucks,4WDs*<br />
*Conditionsapply.<br />
Call 0800 225508 or text 027540 9813<br />
CLEARING SALES
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, Page 39<br />
EDUCATIONAL<br />
DRIVETECH LTD<br />
“TRAININGTOMORROW’S DRIVERS TODAY”<br />
FORKLIFT ENDORSEMENT<br />
(F &OSH)<br />
•FORKLIFT (ATTACHMENTS) U/STD<br />
•FORKLIFT MOUNTED SAFETY<br />
PLATFORM U/STD<br />
NEED ALICENCE?<br />
Heavy Traffic Classes 2, 3, 4&5<br />
LICENCE ENDORSEMENTS<br />
For Wheels, Tracks &Rollers,Dangerous Goods,<br />
Vehicle Recovery & Passenger Training<br />
FREEPHONE0508237 483<br />
or 03 348 8481, 027 510 0684<br />
info@drivetech.co.nz |www.drivetech.co.nz<br />
Forkliftand Dangerous GoodsCourses<br />
NZTA Approved CourseProvider,MITO&Competenz Assessor<br />
Classes 2&4,endorsements F&DG<br />
ForkliftF&OSH, Saturdays and other days as requested<br />
Dangerous Goods Course,½day Mondaymornings<br />
CommunityHouse or your worksite<br />
Forfurther information<br />
Phone Christine027 245 2563<br />
WANTED TO BUY<br />
METAL, heavy etc. Free<br />
light-grade metal in-yard<br />
dumping 9am-5pm weekdays<br />
&9.30-11.30am Saturdays.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Scrap<br />
Metal Recyclers, 1<strong>17</strong> Alford<br />
Forest Road (behind<br />
Placemakers). Phone 03<br />
308 8033 or 027 249 6625.<br />
HEALTH &BEAUTY<br />
URGENT CARE CLINIC<br />
WEEKEND DUTYDOCTORS<br />
IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCYPHONE 111<br />
Forall othermedical assistanceoutside of normal<br />
hours pleasephoneyourgeneralpracticeteam, 24/7,<br />
to speak withahealth professional whowill giveyou<br />
free healthadvice on whattodoorwheretogoifyou<br />
need urgentcare.<br />
If youdon’t have aregulargeneral practice, call any<br />
GP team 24/7 forfreetelephone health advice.<br />
All non-residents and visa holders please bring your<br />
passporttoyour surgeryappointment.<br />
New Zealanders’tobring some form of ID.<br />
The<strong>Ashburton</strong>DutyPracticefor<br />
Saturday19th <strong>October</strong> is ThreeRivers Health,<br />
7-11 Allens Road.<br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.Tomake an<br />
appointmentplease phone 308 9139.<br />
Sunday20th <strong>October</strong> is ThreeRivers Health,<br />
7-11 Allens Road.<br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentplease phone 308 9139.<br />
Methven and Rakaia: Formedical attention on the<br />
weekend and public holidays please telephone<br />
MethvenMedical Centre on 03 302 8105<br />
or Rakaia Medical Centre on 03 303 5002.<br />
Details foraccessing the afterhours services will be on<br />
the answer phone.<br />
PHARMACIES<br />
Wises Pharmacy, CountdownComplex,<br />
East Street will be open on<br />
Saturdaymorning from 9.00am until 1.00pm<br />
Sundaymorning from 10.00am until1.00pm<br />
and from 5.00pm until 7.00pm evenings.<br />
At Geraldine: TheGeraldine Pharmacywill be open<br />
normal trading hours during the week and on Saturday<br />
morning from 9.30am to 12.30pm.<br />
Closed Public Holidays<br />
Forfree24hour Telephone Health Advice<br />
Phone the healthline on 0800 611 116<br />
Broughttoyouby<br />
Countdown Complex, EastStreet, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone: 03 308 6733 Fax: 03 308 6755<br />
22<strong>17</strong>880<br />
2204413<br />
FRUIT &PRODUCE<br />
POTATOES; Nadine &Agria<br />
5kg bags $5. This weekend<br />
only, ’special’ 10kg Nadine<br />
& Agria $7.50 per bag.<br />
Nadine seed potatoes<br />
$2.50kg. 81 Elizabeth<br />
Street, phone 027 531<br />
9103 or 03 308 3195.<br />
2209052<br />
Peter Blacklow<br />
Full range of engineering supplies and accessories forall your repairs<br />
&maintenance. Kerrick hot &cold waterblasters &industrial vacuum cleaners.<br />
Esseti welders &accessories. Stockists and distributors of Trailer Equipment.<br />
(formerly SPCA)<br />
RODENT PROBLEM?<br />
Adopt abarncat today!<br />
Please note: We will not accept animals<br />
dropped at door.<br />
Please phone 308 4432<br />
Tues -Sat 9:30am -noon<br />
or 027 332 9286<br />
Food donations welcome<br />
Kindly sponsored by<br />
Ph3084432<br />
187 Burnett Street<br />
Monday-Friday10am -4.30pm<br />
Saturday10am-1pm<br />
180216<br />
2215974<br />
WANTED<br />
Your donations so we<br />
cansell good clean<br />
clothing,shoes<br />
and accessories.<br />
Great cause.<br />
HospiceMid Canterbury<br />
Dealing<br />
with alife<br />
limiting<br />
illness?<br />
Allservices<br />
arefree<br />
We can help with:<br />
•Sitting and companionship<br />
•Counselling and bereavement<br />
support<br />
•Biographywriting<br />
•Massage,reikiand reflexology<br />
Phone 307 8387 or 027 227 8387<br />
email manager@hospicemc.nz www.hospicemc.nz<br />
Call in atalk to the people who know ...<br />
PETE’S PICK<br />
O F T H E W E E K<br />
Blacklows TradeZone <strong>Ashburton</strong> your locally<br />
owned &operated family business for 66 years<br />
Bertie Holmes<br />
ArtExhibition<br />
Methven Heritage EventsCentre<br />
Weekdays: 9:00am -5:00pm &<br />
Weekends: 10:30am -2:30pm<br />
ASHBURTON<br />
South Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong> PHONE (03) 308-3147<br />
Email office@blacklows.co.nz FREEPHONE 0800 452 522<br />
Exhibition runs until November 8th<br />
2208475<br />
FARM APPLIANCES<br />
AUSTIN CAMBRIDGE Roller<br />
with extension draw bar,<br />
total frame width 3760, total<br />
ring width 3360, $5,500<br />
o.n.o.; Vanguard hydraulic<br />
Woolpress, single phase,<br />
with 2caps, $3,500 o.n.o.;<br />
Cambridge Roller, total ring<br />
width 2900, total outside<br />
width 3330, $2,500 o.n.o.<br />
—Please ph. 027-212-1092.<br />
2<strong>17</strong>6849<br />
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES<br />
PANELBEATING and spray<br />
painting of cars, trucks,<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE<br />
BAHCO<br />
SOCKET & SPANNER SET<br />
94 piece.1/4 and 1/2 drives.<br />
With metric sockets &spanners<br />
7-19mm.<br />
S87+7<br />
$225+GST<br />
Community Clinic<br />
with Jo Luxton’s office<br />
Monday21<strong>October</strong><br />
10.30am –12pm<br />
CommunityHouse,CassStreet,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Please feel free to contactmyoffice for<br />
an appointment, or justpop in on theday<br />
Jo Luxton<br />
Labour Party List MP basedinRangitata<br />
03 6889588 | jo.luxton@parliament.govt.nz<br />
AuthorisedbyJoLuxton, ParliamentBuildings, Wellington<br />
Make your next move<br />
your best move with<br />
Helena Ratten<br />
Mobile 0274 577998<br />
helena@fnash.co.nz<br />
We put you first<br />
SBW Developments Ltd<br />
Licensed AgentREAA 2008<br />
2209384<br />
DINING - Got a special<br />
occasion coming up? Let<br />
the Hotel <strong>Ashburton</strong> take<br />
care of you. Phone 03 307<br />
8887 and talk to our experienced<br />
team.<br />
IMMIGRATION consultation,<br />
visa applications. Phone<br />
Maria Jimenez, Licenced<br />
Immigration Advisor 027 532 5575.<br />
Mariajimenez.lia@gmail.com<br />
lammsmariajimenez.wixsite.com/nzlia<br />
ADVERTISING space available<br />
in the next issue of The<br />
<strong>Courier</strong> Newspaper. Call us<br />
today 308 7664.<br />
TRAVEL<br />
buses, horse floats & WHITE Herons, December<br />
motorhomes, caravans, 6-8; Rick Stirling’s Clarence<br />
trailers, farm machinery, jet River, Rainbow Safari,<br />
boats. Light engineering December 15-<strong>17</strong>; D.B.B.<br />
and aluminium welding. accomodation. Two great<br />
Bus &Truck Bodyworks, <strong>17</strong><br />
Range Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Phone 307 0378.<br />
tours. Book now! John &<br />
Kathleen Lawler, Rakaia 03<br />
302 7328.<br />
ACUPRESSURE<br />
CLINIC<br />
Enhances your<br />
body’s own natural<br />
self-healing<br />
Pain relief/Speeds recovery<br />
from illness, injury and surgery.<br />
•Noneedles/safe for all ages<br />
•Good-Health Maintenance<br />
•Affordable/flexible hours<br />
•Home visits on request<br />
Janet Hayes<br />
Ph 308 6951<br />
registered practitioner<br />
2106241<br />
OUR newspaper goes into all<br />
RD’s so why not advertise<br />
with us! The <strong>Courier</strong>, best<br />
read in town.<br />
SPORTING FIXTURES<br />
Thur <strong>17</strong>th &Fri 18th<br />
10.00 PawPatrolReadyRaceRescue<br />
10.00 Maleficent2<br />
11.00 DowntonAbbey<br />
12.00 Danger Close<br />
1.15 Zombieland Doubletap<br />
2.05 Gemini Man<br />
3.15 PawPatrolReadyRaceRescue<br />
4.05 APerfect 10<br />
4.10 Dora andthe Lost City of Gold<br />
5.45 Joker<br />
6.00 Maleficent2<br />
8.00 Hustlers<br />
8.10 Zombieland Doubletap<br />
Mon21st, Tues 22nd<br />
&Wed 23rd<br />
G<br />
M<br />
PG<br />
R13<br />
R16<br />
M<br />
G<br />
PG<br />
PG<br />
R16<br />
M<br />
R16<br />
R16<br />
Sat19th &Sun 20th<br />
10.00 PawPatrolReady Race Rescue G<br />
10.00 Ugly Dolls<br />
G<br />
10.55 AngryBirds 2 PG<br />
11.40 Abominable GG<br />
12.50 PawPatrolReady Race Rescue<br />
1.30 Zombieland DoubletapR16<br />
1.50 Dora andthe Lost City of Gold PG<br />
3.30 Maleficent2 M<br />
3.45 DowntonAbbey PG<br />
5.40<br />
6.00<br />
8.00<br />
Joker<br />
Gemini Man<br />
Hustlers<br />
R16<br />
M<br />
R16<br />
8.15 Zombieland Doubletap R16<br />
10.00 DowntonAbbey PG<br />
10.30 PawPatrolReady Race Rescue G<br />
11.25 Zombieland Doubletap R16<br />
12.10 APerfect 10 PG<br />
1.10 DowntonAbbey PG<br />
1.45 Gemini Man MG<br />
3.20 PawPatrolReady Race Rescue<br />
3.45 Dora and the Lost City of Gold PG<br />
4.15 Abominable G<br />
6.00<br />
6.00<br />
8.00<br />
8.15<br />
Joker<br />
Hustlers<br />
Maleficent2<br />
Zombieland Doubletap<br />
R16<br />
R16<br />
M<br />
R16<br />
NO COMPS<br />
Gemini Man,<br />
Hustlers,<br />
Maleficent2,<br />
PawPatrolReady Race Rescue,<br />
Zombieland Doubletap<br />
BERTIE Holmes Art Exhibition,<br />
Methven Heritage<br />
Events Centre, on now!<br />
Weekdays 9am - 5pm,<br />
weekends 10.30am -<br />
2.30pm. Exhibition closes<br />
8th November.<br />
RAFFLE RESULTS<br />
Bookarama<br />
Raffle Winner<br />
Leithen Gordon<br />
Winner notified<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>Rotary Club<br />
ARE CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS TO FILL THE<br />
FOLLOWING COACHING &<br />
MANAGEMENT POSITIONS<br />
FOR THE 2020 SEASON:<br />
U18<br />
COLTSU21<br />
SENIOR B<br />
SENIOR<br />
PLAYER ENQUIRIES ALSO WELCOME<br />
We have agood core group of players in each grade<br />
and averysupportiveand well-resourcedClub and<br />
Committee behind you.<br />
We can help youwith finding work and/or<br />
accommodation if required.<br />
ContactClub Captain<br />
DarrylOldham027 202 5896<br />
Email southernrfc@gmail.com<br />
Agreat waytomeet newpeople at your local,<br />
thriving countryclub<br />
www.southernrugby.co.nz<br />
2215871<br />
STOCK FOOD<br />
HAY suitable for horses. $7<br />
per bale. Shed stored.<br />
Phone 027 247 4262.<br />
2212851
Page 40, <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>17</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
USED VEHICLES<br />
Finance<br />
2001 HOLDEN COMMODORE<br />
VU SS UTE<br />
Cruise control,twin air bags,<br />
air conditioning<br />
2005 MAZDAROADSTER<br />
MX5<br />
6speed convertible,<br />
47,515kms<br />
$12,995 $12,995<br />
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Warranties AA Appraised<br />
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2012 VOLKSWAGEN CC<br />
3000cc, 4door<br />
auto, 91,000kms,<br />
awd, multiple air<br />
bags,leather<br />
2010 TOYOTA PRIUS HYBRID<br />
70,000kms,1500cc,<br />
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ABS<br />
2013 MAZDAPREMACY<br />
2000cc, auto, 7<br />
seaters,ABS, air<br />
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103,000kms<br />
$10,995 $<strong>17</strong>,995<br />
2009 HONDACRV<br />
wine red, 4X4<br />
auto, alloys,<br />
twin air bags,<br />
86,000kms<br />
2010 MITSUBISHIGALANT<br />
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liftback,silver,<br />
1800cc, auto,<br />
97,000kms,<br />
body<br />
kit<br />
$10,995<br />
2005 TOYOTA VITZ RS<br />
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