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Circulation 93,000<br />

Thursday, <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2019</strong><br />

Hayfever<br />

season in<br />

full force<br />

– pages 4 & 5<br />

Is this NZ’s<br />

first Asian<br />

prime minister?<br />

– page 3<br />

OUR NEW ZEALANDERS<br />

OF THE<br />

YEAR<br />

• By Barry Clarke,<br />

Editor in Chief<br />

Jim Manning<br />

WHEN IT comes to naming<br />

New Zealand’s most respected<br />

people for <strong>2019</strong>, Jim Manning<br />

and Scott Carmody must surely<br />

be at the top of the list.<br />

It was finally revealed this<br />

week the two senior constables<br />

were the police officers who<br />

put their lives on the line and<br />

stopped the alleged March 15<br />

terrorist.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir actions almost certainly<br />

stopped more carnage.<br />

In <strong>Star</strong> Media’s view, these two<br />

must surely share the accolade of<br />

New Zealander of the Year when<br />

it is announced next year.<br />

<strong>The</strong> semi-finalists are announced<br />

soon.<br />

Senior Constables Manning<br />

and Carmody can not talk<br />

publicly about their actions<br />

until the court case against the<br />

Australian accused of the two<br />

mosque attacks is over. <strong>The</strong> trial<br />

is scheduled for June next year.<br />

But this is how it unfolded.<br />

<strong>The</strong> pair were on armed<br />

training with other police,<br />

including specialist officers<br />

from Australia, in the former<br />

<strong>The</strong> Princess Margaret Hospital<br />

building in Cashmere.<br />

<strong>The</strong> hospital, full of rooms<br />

and rabbit warrens on multiple<br />

floors, is a perfect training location<br />

for police.<br />

When the gunman attacked<br />

at the Al Noor Mosque in<br />

Deans Ave, every available<br />

police officer in Christchurch<br />

was scrambled, including those<br />

training at Princess Margaret.<br />

<strong>The</strong> situation was chaotic.<br />

Police thought the gunman and<br />

accomplices could still be in the<br />

central city and resources were<br />

poured in there. <strong>The</strong>y were unaware<br />

the gunman was already<br />

closing in on his second target,<br />

the Islamic Centre on Linwood<br />

Ave.<br />

Instinct and experience told<br />

Scott Carmody<br />

Senior Constables Manning and<br />

Carmody the gunman would be<br />

on the move so they opted to stay<br />

wide of the central city.<br />

Between them they had more<br />

than 50 years experience in the<br />

police, serving in both rural<br />

communities and cities, and<br />

were no strangers to dealing<br />

with armed offenders. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

were calm and cool.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n reports came in of a<br />

second attack in Linwood.<br />

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• By Louis Day<br />

AS A CHILD, Catherine Chu<br />

dreamed of becoming the<br />

country’s first Asian prime<br />

minister.<br />

Today, that dream remains an<br />

ambition of hers.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 23-year-old was elected as<br />

the youngest city councillor following<br />

the local body elections<br />

in October.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Riccarton Ward councillor<br />

said her parliamentary aspirations<br />

were with National. She is<br />

the party’s regional policy chair.<br />

She went to Canterbury University<br />

at 15, and was a full-time<br />

senior personal banker with<br />

ANZ by 18.<br />

Her parents moved to<br />

Christchurch from Seoul, South<br />

Korea, on March 14, 1995, exactly<br />

one year later Miss Chu and<br />

her twin sister Angela were born.<br />

She said not seeing anyone that<br />

looked like her as prime minister<br />

sparked her desire to one day<br />

lead the country.<br />

“I really wanted to be able to<br />

represent everyone and work for<br />

the country because I was quite<br />

patriotic and I realised there<br />

was nobody who was Asian who<br />

had done that, so that is where I<br />

think it came from,” she said.<br />

Encountering racism growing<br />

up made her realise the need for<br />

representation that reflected the<br />

population.<br />

“When I was little, because I<br />

was born and raised here I did<br />

not know I was Asian, I thought<br />

I was just Kiwi and the same as<br />

everyone else.<br />

“It’s not until you start growing<br />

up and getting racist comments<br />

that you start to wonder, why am<br />

I getting these comments?<br />

“That is when I realised I was<br />

Asian and then there was this<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Cause of student’s death will remain unknown<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

THE FAMILY of a university<br />

student whose body wasn’t<br />

discovered for several weeks<br />

will never know the cause of his<br />

death.<br />

Coroner Sue Johnson revealed<br />

part of her findings in Mason<br />

Pendrous’ death yesterday.<br />

Mr Pendrous, a Canterbury<br />

University student, died<br />

between August 26 and<br />

September 10, but his body<br />

was not found, in his room at<br />

Sonoda Hall of Residence, until<br />

September 23.<br />

A full post-mortem<br />

examination by forensic<br />

pathologist Christopher<br />

Lawrence was unable to<br />

determine the cause of the<br />

19-year-old’s death, due to the<br />

decomposition of his body,<br />

which showed and no injury or<br />

obvious cause of death.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> delay in finding Mason’s<br />

body meant that it the cause of<br />

his death is unable to be determined.<br />

His family will never<br />

Young councillor’s dream<br />

to become first Asian PM<br />

identity crisis where I did not<br />

know where to belong. I really<br />

felt like I belonged as a Kiwi but I<br />

was always being told things like<br />

go back home and I would think,<br />

but this is my home.”<br />

Statistics New Zealand predicts<br />

the Asian population will<br />

increase more than any other<br />

know what he died of,” Ms<br />

Johnson said.<br />

She also said it was<br />

“impossible” to know when<br />

exactly Mr Pendrous died.<br />

<strong>The</strong> delay in finding<br />

Mr Pendrous’ body led to<br />

international media attention<br />

and has prompted a number of<br />

investigations.<br />

ethnic group between 2013<br />

and 2038 with a projected<br />

rise from 540,000 to 1.2–1.4 million.<br />

She was unsure if this would<br />

benefit any parliamentary bid<br />

but hoped people would vote for<br />

her based on her skill set rather<br />

than ethnic background.<br />

Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

NEWS 3<br />

in brief<br />

Aggravated robbery<br />

offenders on run<br />

Four offenders who robbed<br />

a Spreydon bottle store with<br />

a large knife, hammer and<br />

spanner are still on the run.<br />

<strong>The</strong> group, who completely<br />

covered their identities, entered<br />

<strong>The</strong> Bottle-O on Lincoln Rd<br />

about 10.30pm on Saturday,<br />

threatened staff and stole a<br />

range of alcohol. Police believe<br />

they left the scene in a stolen<br />

vehicle, which was later found<br />

abandoned after crashing<br />

nearby. Nobody was injured in<br />

the robbery but employees were<br />

left shaken.<br />

Councillors to vote on<br />

their pay today<br />

City councillors are likely to<br />

be in for an 11 per cent pay<br />

rise today. <strong>The</strong> Remuneration<br />

Authority has allocated $1.8<br />

million towards the salaries<br />

of the deputy mayor and city<br />

councillors. City council staff<br />

have recommended deputy<br />

mayor Andrew Turner be paid<br />

$131,250 and city councillors<br />

$114,130. City councillors will<br />

have the final say on their pay<br />

increases during their council<br />

meeting today. Mayor Lianne<br />

Dalziel’s salary of $195,000 has<br />

already been finalised and has<br />

increased just under one per<br />

cent from $193,099.<br />

City council diversifies<br />

website<br />

<strong>The</strong> city council’s website can<br />

now be accessed using more<br />

than 14 different languages.<br />

Today a new translation service<br />

went live on the website. <strong>The</strong><br />

website can now be translated<br />

into Māori, simplified Chinese,<br />

French, Samoan, German,<br />

Japanese, Korean, Spanish,<br />

HIGH HOPES: City councillor Catherine Chu has the country’s top political job in her sights. Tagalog, Dutch, Hindi,<br />

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Arabic, Farsi, Dari and New<br />

Zealand Sign Language. <strong>The</strong>se<br />

languages were identified as the<br />

city’s most spoken languages in<br />

the city council’s multicultural<br />

strategy. Funding for the<br />

translation of the webpage<br />

came from the department<br />

of internal affair’s public<br />

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4<br />

NEWS<br />

Council’s<br />

credit rating<br />

upgraded<br />

THE CITY council has received<br />

its highest credit rating since the<br />

2011 earthquakes.<br />

International credit rating<br />

agency Standard and Poor’s has<br />

upgraded the city council’s financial<br />

rating to AA-. <strong>The</strong> city council<br />

previously held a rating of A+.<br />

Said city council general manager<br />

of finance and commercial<br />

Carol Bellette: “<strong>The</strong> new AArating<br />

from Standard & Poor’s<br />

shows we are in strong financial<br />

health and well-positioned to<br />

continue building on the momentum<br />

in Christchurch.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> earthquakes took a<br />

significant financial toll on the<br />

organisation and our credit rating<br />

was downgraded by Standard<br />

and Poor’s as a result. <strong>The</strong><br />

work we have done has put us<br />

back on a strong financial footing<br />

and closer to regaining the<br />

credit rating we had prior to the<br />

earthquakes.<br />

“With the Global Settlement<br />

now agreed and new highvalue<br />

assets, like Tūranga, on<br />

our books, we are in a healthy<br />

financial position and that is<br />

reflected in the AA- rating<br />

that Standard & Poor’s have<br />

awarded us.”<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Hayfever season nothing<br />

Hayfever season in<br />

Christchurch is in ‘full<br />

force.’ Louis Day reports<br />

on the allergy that strikes<br />

many<br />

METSERVICE pollen forecaster Dr<br />

David Fountain said the city was<br />

now at the peak of the grass pollen<br />

season following a slow start due to a<br />

cold spring.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> grasses didn’t grow and develop<br />

their flowering structures very<br />

quickly because of the cold temperatures<br />

following winter and suddenly<br />

you get a big high coming over and<br />

you get weeks of warm weather and<br />

away it goes.<br />

“It’s like spring being uncompressed,<br />

the cells in the flowering<br />

stalks expand the grass heads<br />

rise up and the pollen starts being<br />

produced and right now like I<br />

said it is just in full force,” he said.<br />

Mr Fountain said hayfever sufferers<br />

should be particularly wary of<br />

nor’westerly winds.<br />

“For Christchurch, the nor’wester<br />

brings air from the West Coast and<br />

over the ranges and then from the<br />

farmlands and the foothills so I<br />

think that is a danger.<br />

“However, the city is also well<br />

known for its cool sea breezes from<br />

the sea and they<br />

come from the<br />

east and they<br />

won’t bring any<br />

pollen, so in<br />

a way, the sea<br />

breeze is an advantage<br />

for hayfever<br />

sufferers.”<br />

Piki Te Ora GP<br />

Dr Pat McIntosh said they had noticed<br />

an increased number of patients<br />

with hayfever symptoms this year.<br />

“It seems to be a particularly bad<br />

season.<br />

“Another thing<br />

that we have<br />

noticed is that the<br />

nor’wester seems<br />

to enhance allergy<br />

problems and we<br />

have had a lot of<br />

those recently,”<br />

she said.<br />

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Maria McIntyre<br />

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they were experiencing an increased<br />

number of people coming in with<br />

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She said when it came to hayfever,<br />

there was not one simple solution.<br />

“Dependent on what your<br />

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to sneeze at for many<br />

“So for some people that<br />

suffer really severely, they may<br />

find their symptoms are best<br />

controlled with eye drops and a<br />

nasal spray and antihistamine<br />

tablets,” she said.<br />

Ms McIntyre said when it<br />

came to choosing particular<br />

brands there was not a particular<br />

stand out.<br />

“As far as picking the best one,<br />

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Ms McIntyre recommended<br />

keeping bedroom windows<br />

closed during mornings<br />

and driving to work with<br />

car windows shut to avoid<br />

pollen.<br />

“Another thing that I tell<br />

people for hayfever is that<br />

when we are out and about<br />

we often collect pollen in our<br />

hair. As we lie in bed rub it all<br />

across pillowcases and then<br />

breathe it all in throughout the<br />

night.<br />

“So rinse your hair at<br />

nighttime or brush your hair, for<br />

people that struggle a lot then<br />

you can change your pilowcases.<br />

Effectively removing the pollen<br />

the best you can at night time<br />

can sometimes make that little<br />

bit of difference.”<br />

Malaghan institute professor<br />

Franca<br />

Ronchese<br />

said hayfever<br />

sufferers react<br />

to pollen<br />

as if it were<br />

a stinging<br />

insect.<br />

“Hayfever<br />

is a type<br />

of allergic<br />

disease where<br />

Franca<br />

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our immune system reacts to<br />

pollens instead of ignoring them.<br />

Immune cells produce allergic<br />

antibodies called IgE which<br />

react with the pollen, and cause<br />

the symptoms of hayfever,” she<br />

said.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> consequence is that we<br />

start sneezing, our eyes get itchy<br />

and watery, and we get a runny<br />

nose, which are all different ways<br />

for our body to try and push<br />

out or wash away the offending<br />

pollens.<br />

“Our body reacts as if the<br />

pollen was a stinging insect, or<br />

a tick or similar, which has to be<br />

removed.”<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

‘Like my eyes were on fire’<br />

• By Louis Day<br />

CODY LAING was working<br />

away on a retaining wall in<br />

Lyttelton when his eyes began<br />

to water.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Fulton Hogan labourer<br />

thought he was just tired as he<br />

rubbed his eyes.<br />

“I started to sneeze and my<br />

workmates started giving me a<br />

bit of grief because I was slowing<br />

the team down,” he said.<br />

In his first year living in<br />

Christchurch, he had only ever<br />

experienced very mild symptoms<br />

of hayfever before.<br />

“I’ve had the infrequent<br />

sneezing before, I wouldn’t<br />

even need any medication for<br />

that, but never anything to this<br />

level. It felt like my eyes were<br />

on fire.”<br />

Mr Laing said he came home<br />

from playing touch in Hagley<br />

Park last week with welts on<br />

his skin after diving for the try<br />

line and coming into contact<br />

with the grass.<br />

“I was also noticing my<br />

symptoms would get a<br />

NOT HAPPY: Cody Laing<br />

said it felt like his eyes<br />

were on fire when his<br />

hayfever kicked in last<br />

week.<br />

lot worse when an old<br />

nor’westerly would come<br />

around.”<br />

However, he said his<br />

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NEWS 5<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

6<br />

NEWS<br />

Another<br />

suspicious<br />

fire in<br />

Bottle Lake<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

A FIRE started in Bottle Lake<br />

Forest is being treated as<br />

suspicious, the second in less<br />

than three weeks.<br />

Firefighters battling the<br />

blaze called police after they<br />

spotted a group of youths running<br />

away from the area.<br />

A police spokesman said two<br />

youths had been spoken to in relation<br />

to the incident and the fire<br />

is being treated as suspicious.<br />

Emergency services were<br />

called to the blaze near Lima Rd<br />

about 1.30pm yesterday.<br />

Fire and Emergency New<br />

Zealand shift manager Brent<br />

Dunn said ten fire crews had<br />

“surrounded and contained” the<br />

fire by 2.20pm.<br />

A helicopter was called in case<br />

the blaze worsened, but wasn’t<br />

used for fighting the fire.<br />

A Bottle Lake Golf Club staff<br />

member said they could see and<br />

smell smoke about a kilometre<br />

away in the park.<br />

Less than three weeks ago, six<br />

fire crews were called to attend<br />

two 2m by 2m fires at the forest,<br />

which were tagged as suspicious.<br />

•From page 1<br />

<strong>The</strong>y hit the accelerator,<br />

instinct telling them the<br />

gunman would probably use<br />

Brougham St, the main arterial<br />

south, as an escape route.<br />

Within minutes they were<br />

proved correct. A vehicle with<br />

bullet holes drove through the<br />

intersection of Brougham St<br />

and Waltham Rd, close to where<br />

Senior Constables Manning and<br />

Carmody were waiting. Target<br />

identified.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y swung their vehicle<br />

around and roared south along<br />

Brougham St to catch up with<br />

the vehicle. <strong>The</strong>y had already<br />

formed a plan should this situation<br />

eventuate.<br />

Factored into the plan were:<br />

<strong>The</strong> offender would have automatic<br />

weapons and would probably<br />

use them having already<br />

killed dozens; there was a high<br />

chance he had explosives in the<br />

vehicle or strapped to himself;<br />

Brougham St was busy with<br />

traffic and there may also be<br />

pedestrians and cyclists.<br />

Running his vehicle off the<br />

road to a standstill would happen.<br />

Where, was vital to a swift<br />

outcome. <strong>The</strong>y would have to<br />

decide in an instant whether to<br />

shoot him, but that brings risk<br />

with the amount of traffic about<br />

– bullets can ricochet.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n it happens. Contact.<br />

Senior Constables Manning<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Life and death decisions in an instant<br />

Canterbury team wins Young<br />

Enterprise Scheme <strong>2019</strong><br />

From left – Police Commissioner Mike Bush, Senior Constable Jim Manning, Prince<br />

William, Senior Constable Scott Carmody and Canterbury District Commander<br />

Superintendent John Price.<br />

and Carmody smash into the<br />

suspect’s vehicle, forcing it to a<br />

stop. <strong>The</strong>y are out in a second,<br />

firearms drawn.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y see explosives in the<br />

vehicle; they are yelling at the<br />

alleged gunman, all happening<br />

in a matter of seconds.<br />

Senior Constables Manning<br />

and Carmody are making life<br />

and death decisions in a fraction<br />

advertorial<br />

of a second – their own lives,<br />

those of members of the public<br />

driving by and the alleged gunman’s.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are on autopilot, the<br />

years of training is kicking in,<br />

100 per cent correct decisions<br />

need to be made as to whether<br />

they will pull their triggers.<br />

<strong>The</strong> alleged gunman is sitting<br />

in his car; he is not going for his<br />

weapon. He doesn’t want to die.<br />

He is dragged from his vehicle,<br />

flipped over on the footpath and<br />

neutralised.<br />

Senior Constables Manning<br />

and Carmody radio in what<br />

had happened and the prisoner<br />

was taken into the Christchurch<br />

central station.<br />

•Armoured police vehicles,<br />

page 8<br />

Equipped with an idea born on<br />

a sports field sideline, a group of<br />

Cashmere High School students<br />

invented a product which won them<br />

Company of the Year at the Young<br />

Enterprise Scheme (YES) national<br />

competition.<br />

By combining two sporting<br />

necessities: strapping tape and ice<br />

packs, the students have developed<br />

an instant ice-cold sports strapping<br />

tape which they say will enable<br />

athletes to ‘rest, recover and return<br />

faster than ever before’.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir company, Pivot, was<br />

awarded $3000, as well as a<br />

$5000 scholarship for each student<br />

for study through Massey University Business<br />

School.<br />

Last week the five Christchurch secondary<br />

school students attended the national finals at TSB<br />

Arena, Wellington, beating out twenty other regional<br />

champions in a dragon’s den style set-up.<br />

“We wanted to create a strapping tape with a<br />

chemical embedded within that goes cold with the<br />

application of water. We wanted our product to be<br />

something you chose to activate, and water was a no<br />

brainer- every person at a sports event has a water<br />

bottle,” said Wayo White, Pivot Marketing Manager.<br />

“I’m really proud to see my amazing team be<br />

rewarded for their time, effort and perseverance;<br />

and honestly it still hasn’t set in. Goes to show with<br />

a passion for your project and a can-do attitude, you<br />

can make anything happen.”<br />

YES Canterbury Regional Coordinator, Idoia Alday<br />

Gonzalez said the purpose of the competition is all<br />

in the name.<br />

“It’s about the power of saying YES – say YES to<br />

curiosity; say YES to creativity; say YES to innovation;<br />

say YES to big ideas; say YES to adventure.<br />

Cashmere High School’s team, Pivot, has done<br />

exactly that throughout their business journey this<br />

year and I couldn’t be prouder.”<br />

“I have been extremely humbled to see the<br />

Canterbury Community come together to support our<br />

students.”<br />

Ara is a regional partner of the <strong>The</strong> Lion<br />

Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. <strong>The</strong><br />

programme aligns closely with Ara’s approach<br />

of experiential, real-world learning, which helps<br />

to develop problem solving, leadership and<br />

communication skills.<br />

This is the 38th year that YES has been held, and<br />

the third time that Canterbury has won the national<br />

competition. In <strong>2019</strong> more than 4000 students took<br />

part in YES, setting up over 1000 companies.<br />

YES Canterbury is supported by the following<br />

sponsors: Rotary Club of Christchurch Sunrise,<br />

Baldasso Cortese Noordanus, E3 Accountants,<br />

Powell Fenwick, Boma NZ, Chartered Accountants<br />

Australia and New Zealand, and Ara Institute of<br />

Canterbury.


Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 7<br />

ADVERTISEMENT<br />

Merry Xmas, Happy New Year and thank you to all our wonderful customers.<br />

From all of us at Earthquake Services and Claims Resolution Service.<br />

THANK YOU to the more than 1000 Canterbury homeowners who trusted us to help<br />

you get fair treatment from EQC or your insurer. We believe in people helping people and<br />

our practical, down to earth approach over the last nine years has helped more Canterbury<br />

homeowners than all the lawyers put together. We’ve copped our share of publicity over the<br />

last 9 years. A lot of it motivated by EQC and Insurers to try to stop us in our tracks, but we’ve<br />

weathered the storm and never gave up fighting for homeowners.<br />

When I started this business, I envisaged it would go for no more than 3 years and all claims<br />

would be settled. Now we are about to start our 10th year and some people are still battling.<br />

But I can see there is now light at the end of the tunnel and our reason for existing is coming<br />

to an end. I am announcing today that by <strong>December</strong> 2020, we will hopefully close our doors<br />

forever. I’ve set out our next <strong>12</strong> months plan below.<br />

THANK YOU to the Labour Government for your fresh approach to settling Canterbury<br />

earthquake claims, starting to pay realistic costs for proper repairs and setting up the Greater<br />

Christchurch Claims Resolution Service. <strong>The</strong>se have been game changers for Canterbury<br />

homeowners stuck in insurance limbo-land. We are particularly proud that the Government<br />

borrowed our name to use, Claims Resolution Service and have emulated parts of our system.<br />

This should have been the system from the start, then services like ours would not have<br />

been necessary. However, the previous Government prioritised reducing repair costs, but as I<br />

predicted, that was false economy. If they had fixed homes right the first time we would not<br />

see the hundreds of millions being poured into re-repairs. And we would have avoided all the<br />

stress Cantabrians have been suffering over such a long time.<br />

THE JOHN CAMPBELL – GRANT CAMERON PROMOTED<br />

CLASS ACTION AGAINST US.<br />

As most of you know I have declared this disgraceful attempt by one of our competitors,<br />

Grant Cameron of GCA lawyers, to bring us down an UNMITIGATED FAILURE. Not only<br />

does it appears that Grant Cameron lied to the Press that he had 17 clients “ready to go”<br />

in September 2018. It also appears that he may have lied to John Campbell, because he<br />

repeated the same number of our clients to John on his Sunday program in March <strong>2019</strong>. I’m<br />

speculating here, but I believe Grant Cameron still only has 17 ex-clients and only 5 owe us<br />

money, the rest are hoping for a windfall that’s never coming. If Grant Cameron didn’t lie to<br />

John Campbell, that means the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of dollars TV1 spent<br />

on John’s grand investigative expose didn’t attract even one new customer. I suspect Grant<br />

Cameron is going to have great difficulty in future getting any media outlet to believe his<br />

outlandish claims.<br />

I suspect GCA will now be desperately trying to settle with us, they won’t want this farce to<br />

go in front of a Judge. We are standing firm. We are happy to run this case until its ultimate<br />

conclusion. We won’t be negotiating any settlement that allows any of the few class action<br />

clients to get one cent. We will treat them the same as any client that thinks they should not<br />

have to pay for the work we did to get their great settlements, we will sue, no exceptions, no<br />

matter how long it takes or what it costs. I suggest if anyone thinks they shouldn’t have to pay<br />

us, go see Grant Cameron from GCA Lawyers, their allegations against us never change and<br />

I’m sure Grant will happily take your money.<br />

THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT<br />

We have to thank our thousands of loyal families for believing in us and knowing that what<br />

GCA, <strong>The</strong> Press and John Campbell tried to do to us was self-promotion and attack journalism<br />

at its worst. We’ve had so many messages of support it was truly comforting. Like this one<br />

from one of our valued clients:<br />

“Hi Bryan,<br />

Sounds like things have gotten a little crazy over there, keep on top of it as it seems to me it<br />

looks like a stupid and ridiculous witch hunt that is unbacked by any real evidence.<br />

Really disappointed with John Campbell as he has fallen for the rubbish or worse,<br />

simply gone for some ratings boost thinking he has a sensational story. Lets hope he is<br />

good at apologizing!<br />

Anyway, good luck and stay the course with it all”<br />

I do not know of any business that has a customer satisfaction rating of 99.09%, but<br />

according to speculation by Grant Cameron, we do. I thank you all for your support.<br />

OUR JOB IS ALMOST DONE<br />

<strong>The</strong> Government’s Greater Christchurch Claims Resolution Service (GCCRS) and EQC are<br />

making all the right noises that they are going to settle claims based on actual repairs for<br />

homeowners. If they do as they say, it is time for us to bow out gracefully. So, we have<br />

decided we will not take on any new clients for the foreseeable future. But we are not going<br />

anywhere, we’ll stay around as long as it takes to settle our remaining 100 or so clients and<br />

to monitor the performance of the GCCRS, EQC and others remaining in the claim resolution<br />

business and to provide free support for those who need it.<br />

THE NEXT <strong>12</strong> MONTHS UNTIL DECEMBER 2020 FOR<br />

EARTHQUAKE SERVICES AND CLAIMS RESOLUTION SERVICE.<br />

WHAT WE WILL BE DOING<br />

• We will be offering a free referral service. *<br />

• We will be providing free advice or second opinions to anyone that needs it.<br />

• We will be working hard to get great settlements for our remaining few clients.<br />

• We will stay open until at least <strong>December</strong> 2020.<br />

• We will continue to fight the unjust Class Action.<br />

• We will continue to fight in Court any clients that feel they shouldn’t have<br />

to pay for our litigation funding and advocacy service.<br />

WHAT WE WILL NOT BE DOING<br />

• We won’t be taking on any new clients.<br />

• We won’t be funding any new claims.<br />

• We won’t be visiting any new clients’ homes to look at damage.<br />

OUR FREE REFERAL SERVICE<br />

As most people are still unsure if they can trust GCCRS, EQC or their insurer, we<br />

are not going to abandon Canterbury. We are going to work diligently for the<br />

next <strong>12</strong> months for free, just to make sure everyone does what they promise.<br />

Our FREE referral service will work like this:<br />

• You bring us all your paperwork, reports and photos.<br />

• We will put them in order, review and copy them.<br />

• We will store a copy of your paperwork on our hard drive if you wish, at no<br />

charge. Should you have any questions as you go through the journey, if<br />

we have a copy it will make it easier for you.<br />

• After reviewing your claim, we will direct you to the most appropriate service<br />

provider such as GCCRS or directly to a lawyer not working for the Insurer.<br />

• We will also direct you to other services we know you can trust to do what<br />

is right by you, such as engineers, builders and quantity surveyors.<br />

• You will be able to call us anytime for a second opinion or to ask any<br />

questions and if we can help, we will.<br />

• Sorry we won’t be visiting your property, you need to come to us.<br />

NB: We will not accept any fee, commission or kickback of any kind for this<br />

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* Terms and conditions apply<br />

<strong>12</strong> <strong>December</strong> <strong>2019</strong>.<br />

Best wishes from all of us to all of you.<br />

Bryan Staples and our entire team.<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

8<br />

NEWS<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

<strong>The</strong> changing nature of policing<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

THE MARCH 15 terror attack<br />

transformed the operating<br />

environment for police and with<br />

that has come armed response<br />

teams, blast-resistant vehicles<br />

and now potentially, dash and<br />

body cameras.<br />

Three new armoured specialpurpose<br />

vehicles were revealed<br />

this week to deal with major<br />

national security events or highrisk<br />

firearms incidents.<br />

<strong>The</strong> unmarked ballistic bulletproof<br />

and blast-resistant<br />

armoured Toyota Landcruisers<br />

will be deployed in Christchurch,<br />

Auckland and Wellington.<br />

Alongside this, a six-month<br />

trial continues for Armed<br />

Response Teams to complement<br />

normal response by police to<br />

critical and high-risk incidents,<br />

as well as high-risk search warrants<br />

and high-profile public<br />

events.<br />

<strong>The</strong> teams, which have at least<br />

three specialist Armed Offenders<br />

Squad members, are being trialled<br />

for six months in Counties<br />

Manukau, Waikato and Canterbury<br />

districts.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se districts have the highest<br />

number of firearms seized,<br />

located and surrendered, as well<br />

as the largest AOS groups.<br />

Now, the Police Association<br />

READY: Armed Police outside the Law Courts, Justice and<br />

Emergency Services Precinct. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

has revealed it will be investigating<br />

whether front-line staff<br />

should be equipped with body<br />

and/or car cameras.<br />

It comes after police’s own<br />

review into the equipment was<br />

halted, citing the need to divert<br />

resources to other areas.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Waikato Committee<br />

raised the issue at the association’s<br />

recent national conference,<br />

concerned the additional safety<br />

tool was no longer being considered<br />

by police.<br />

“With the amount of information,<br />

both for and against<br />

PROTECTION: Unmarked ballistic bulletproof and<br />

blast-resistant Toyota Landcruisers will be deployed in<br />

Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington.<br />

cameras, this subject needs good<br />

research to see if cameras would<br />

be suitable for our members<br />

in response roles. If they are<br />

considered to be appropriate, the<br />

association should engage with<br />

police, sharing its findings and<br />

promoting a camera roll-out<br />

as soon as possible,” said the<br />

submission.<br />

Currently, Corrections staff,<br />

parking wardens and animal<br />

control and security staff use<br />

cameras, as well as police for<br />

family violence interviews.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are installed in most police<br />

stations and custody areas.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> current thinking seems<br />

to be that the totally overt manner<br />

in which body cameras are<br />

worn – including a ‘selfie’ screen<br />

so the subject knows he or she is<br />

being filmed – seems to enhance<br />

safety. <strong>The</strong>y have been proven to<br />

reduce assaults on police and to<br />

limit use of force on the public,”<br />

said the submission.<br />

During the reveal of the<br />

new armoured vehicles, police<br />

explained previous examples of<br />

where the vehicles would have<br />

been deployed, such as the Napier<br />

siege in 2009, and a shooting<br />

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A number of high-risk firearms<br />

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in the city this year, including<br />

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February shootout in Richmond,<br />

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Previously Dubovskiy had sent<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Taxpayer may fund conman’s surgery<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

TAXPAYERS MAY be required<br />

to fork out about $15,000 in order<br />

for a notorious conman to get<br />

weight-loss surgery.<br />

Brendon Karl Dean Harris<br />

is expected to receive bariatric<br />

weight loss surgery early next<br />

year.<br />

At Harris’ sentencing in the<br />

district court<br />

on Monday,<br />

for his role in a<br />

$250,000 scam,<br />

Judge Jane<br />

Farish said<br />

Harris was not<br />

Karinya Harris<br />

required to pay<br />

reparations,<br />

because he didn’t have the means<br />

to pay it. That means Harris is<br />

likely to have the surgery paid<br />

for by the Canterbury District<br />

Health Board.<br />

<strong>The</strong> scam, led by Harris while<br />

he was on bail for other offending,<br />

targeted Gem Finance,<br />

which allows over the phone and<br />

online applications from potential<br />

customers.<br />

Harris and his co-offenders<br />

tricked online buyers and sellers, using<br />

fake profiles, into handing over<br />

personal details, which he would<br />

then use to take out loans with.<br />

<strong>The</strong> money was then sent to six<br />

different bank accounts of Harris’<br />

family members and friends,<br />

who were charged with receiving.<br />

<strong>The</strong> offending, which dates<br />

back to 2017 and 2018, also saw<br />

Harris deceive IRD staff over the<br />

phone, gaining him illegal access<br />

to the IRD system and people’s<br />

personal details.<br />

Harris’ mother, Karinya Kristian<br />

Harris, 57, was also involved<br />

in the scam and was sentenced to<br />

home detention for nine months<br />

and ordered to do 100 hours of<br />

community work.<br />

She is also required to pay back<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

SCAMMER:<br />

<strong>The</strong><br />

taxpayer<br />

may have to<br />

fork out for<br />

a notorious<br />

con man to<br />

get weight<br />

loss surgery<br />

next year.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

GEOFF<br />

SLOAN<br />

$10,000 to the finance company<br />

over the next five years.<br />

At Monday’s sentencing, Judge<br />

Farish discussed Harris’ weight<br />

issues.<br />

Previously in March, Harris<br />

was sentenced for his role<br />

in a scamming ring that stole<br />

$600,000 from elderly people by<br />

deceiving them.<br />

Again, in front of Judge Farish, he<br />

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his weight and an ongoing heart<br />

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and nine months in prison. On<br />

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suspended because he told her he<br />

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transport.<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

10<br />

NEWS<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

PROMINENT British newspaper,<br />

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My Fathers Barbers founder<br />

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now registered and the couple are<br />

working with their lawyers to get<br />

the fake shirts off the websites.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> main one we want them<br />

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a reputable site.<br />

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and hopefully, people buy them.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are also ethically produced<br />

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said Mrs Brown.<br />

Mr Brown was approached by<br />

<strong>The</strong> Guardian for an interview<br />

late last month.<br />

His wife Sarah says he’s humble<br />

about the international attention.<br />

“Matt is not a person into the<br />

media, so he doesn’t really know<br />

much about these publications.<br />

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FAME: My Fathers<br />

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with his new<br />

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I’m like, ‘omg the guardian is<br />

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Lianne Dalziel Dawn Baxendale Leister Monk<br />

Dalziel heckled by conman<br />

• By Louis Day<br />

MAYOR LIANNE Dalziel<br />

was heckled over the city<br />

council being run like a “secret<br />

society” by a conman with 150<br />

convictions.<br />

Speaking at what was a packed<br />

house at former Mayor Garry<br />

Moore’s weekly Tuesday Club<br />

last week, Ms Dalziel got barely<br />

seven minutes into her speech<br />

when a member of the audience<br />

interjected.<br />

That person was conman Leister<br />

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to his name and has been<br />

jailed five times over the past 50<br />

years.<br />

“Will it [the city council]<br />

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society?” he said.<br />

Ms Dalziel asked him if he<br />

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media asks you a question you<br />

don’t make any comment, you<br />

are run like some sort of byzantine<br />

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you can’t answer them,” he said.<br />

Ms Dalziel responded by saying:<br />

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questions are.”<br />

Mr Monk then took aim at the<br />

city council over its initial decision<br />

to not release details around<br />

how chief executive Dawn Baxendale<br />

spent her $30,000 relocation<br />

fee.<br />

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Mrs Baxendale had spent<br />

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fee. However, it refused to reveal<br />

how it was spent, citing Mrs Baxendale’s<br />

privacy.<br />

“Dawn Baxendale, you won’t<br />

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$30,000 moving out here, we need<br />

to be open about this,” he said.<br />

Ms Dalziel quickly responded<br />

in support of Mrs Baxendale<br />

which was met by a round of applause<br />

by the audience.<br />

“We actually have a fantastic<br />

chief executive and I’m absolutely<br />

thrilled that we have got her over<br />

here.”<br />

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“I can’t say how I would have<br />

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<strong>12</strong><br />

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THE JUDICIAL review for the<br />

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“If the law says you don’t notify<br />

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Merivale resident and former<br />

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Aikmans Bar and Restaurant<br />

owner Frank van Schaijik, said he<br />

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have its say on the matter.<br />

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BUSY DYERS Pass Rd which has<br />

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<strong>The</strong> upgrades come just over<br />

a month after Aaron Sadler, 40,<br />

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“This is about how we, as a<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

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• By Erin Ramsay<br />

MANY PEOPLE use the keto<br />

diet to lose the flab quickly.<br />

But for 11-year-old Jackson<br />

Haig, he has a completely<br />

different use for it – treating his<br />

epilepsy.<br />

He has received ketogenic diet<br />

therapy for nearly three years, a<br />

ground-breaking treatment led<br />

by dietitian Charlene Tan-Smith<br />

at Christchurch Hospital.<br />

<strong>The</strong> therapy<br />

differs from<br />

keto diets for<br />

weight loss,<br />

as it is closely<br />

monitored<br />

by clinical<br />

professionals<br />

for safety. <strong>The</strong><br />

Charlene<br />

NEWS<br />

Jackson benefits from ketogenic diet therapy<br />

therapy works<br />

to induce<br />

constant<br />

Tan-Smith ​<br />

nutritional ketosis, where the<br />

brain uses ketones instead of<br />

carbohydrates as a fuel source.<br />

Some patients will be on a 90 per<br />

cent fat diet, with carbohydrates<br />

restricted to less than 10 grams<br />

per day.<br />

<strong>The</strong> therapy has been successful<br />

for Jackson, who can now<br />

attend school, take swimming<br />

lessons and play touch rugby.<br />

Jackson’s father, Stefan Haig,<br />

says the therapy has been “life<br />

saving.”<br />

“It’s given him a life. He went<br />

from uncountable numbers of<br />

seizures a day to being completely<br />

seizure-free for six months.”<br />

TEN GROUPS and individuals<br />

who have gone above and<br />

beyond to make a difference<br />

in their local community are<br />

being honoured with Civic<br />

Awards.<br />

<strong>The</strong> awards are presented<br />

annually by the city council to<br />

recognise those who are making<br />

a positive contribution to their<br />

community.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>se awards are our way of<br />

acknowledging those who go the<br />

extra mile and generously give<br />

their time and energy to benefit<br />

others,’’ says Civic Awards<br />

committee chair councillor Yani<br />

Johanson.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> groups and individuals<br />

who are receiving awards this<br />

week have all worked tirelessly,<br />

over many years, to make a positive<br />

difference to their communities<br />

and we owe them a debt of<br />

gratitude. <strong>The</strong>se Civic Awards<br />

are one way we can say thank<br />

you for all they have done,’’ Cr<br />

Johanson said.<br />

This year’s recipients are:<br />

<strong>The</strong> therapy was introduced<br />

at Christchurch Hospital in<br />

August 2016. It has since reduced<br />

epilepsy-related overnight stays<br />

in hospital for children with<br />

refractory epilepsy by 85-100<br />

per cent. <strong>The</strong> diet should not be<br />

done for lifestyle, Ms Tan-Smith<br />

said.<br />

“What we do for children<br />

with refractory epilepsy is at a<br />

Kim Blackmore – For more<br />

than 20 years Kim Blackmore<br />

has been the musical director<br />

and conductor of Stedfast Brass.<br />

<strong>The</strong> band has brought pleasure<br />

to thousands of music lovers<br />

around the city through its concerts<br />

and performances at school<br />

fairs, rest homes, church services<br />

and many other venues. Kim<br />

Blackmore not only arranges<br />

the performances, he also gives<br />

tuition to new and less skilled<br />

band members.<br />

Bill Cowen – A passionate<br />

footballer, Bill Cowen has spent<br />

decades working to promote<br />

the sport. He lives and breathes<br />

football and has driven the<br />

post-quake rebuild of his football<br />

club, Cashmere Technical, facilities<br />

and membership.<br />

therapeutic level. Most of our<br />

epilepsy patients are on the<br />

therapy for two to four years and<br />

then weaned off. Eighty per cent<br />

will retain the benefits they have<br />

gained.”<br />

Mr Haig recommends the<br />

treatment to other families with<br />

epileptic children.<br />

“Charlene is so passionate<br />

about the diet and the children<br />

Christchurch <strong>The</strong>atre<br />

Workshop SING Group<br />

– This group has been running<br />

sing-along concerts, primarily<br />

for elderly residents of rest<br />

homes and retirement villages,<br />

for 19 years.<br />

Keep Christchurch<br />

Beautiful – This organisation<br />

is focused on making<br />

Christchurch a cleaner, greener,<br />

more beautiful city. Through its<br />

Schools Environment Enhancement<br />

Programme (SEEP) it<br />

supports almost 40 schools with<br />

that she cares for, she goes above<br />

and beyond.”<br />

Ms Tan-Smith was led to Ketogenic<br />

Diet <strong>The</strong>rapy after Brydie<br />

Lauder died in 20<strong>12</strong> from refractory<br />

epilepsy. <strong>The</strong> Brydie Lauder<br />

Charitable Trust funded training<br />

for Ms Tan-Smith, which led to<br />

the therapy being implemented<br />

at Christchurch hospital.<br />

<strong>The</strong> programme has recently<br />

ideas and resources.<br />

Barry Scott – For nearly 30<br />

years, Barry Scott has been an<br />

active member of the Halswell<br />

Lions Club, where he has helped<br />

with countless community projects.<br />

He looks after the administration<br />

of the Halswell Public<br />

Hall. For many years Barry Scott<br />

has also assisted with Camp<br />

Quality programmes, which aim<br />

to bring fun, hope and happiness<br />

into the lives of children living<br />

with cancer.<br />

Judi Smitheram – For the<br />

last four years Judi Smitheram<br />

has been secretary of the Christchurch<br />

Folk Music Club and<br />

president of the Canterbury Folk<br />

Music Festival. Under her leadership,<br />

the festival has developed<br />

into a national event that attracts<br />

musicians from around New<br />

Zealand and the world.<br />

Anne Stercq – A registered<br />

psychologist with more than<br />

30 experience, Anne Stercq has<br />

been one of the driving forces<br />

behind the development of the<br />

Seabrook McKenzie Centre for<br />

Specific Learning Disabilities.<br />

Phil Tappenden – For the<br />

past 14 years Phil Tappenden<br />

has worked tirelessly to build a<br />

SUCCESS:<br />

Jackson Haig,<br />

pictured with<br />

father Stefan,<br />

has been<br />

using the keto<br />

diet to treat<br />

epilepsy, and it<br />

is working.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

GEOFF SLOAN<br />

been extended to the entire<br />

South Island region through the<br />

use of video conferencing, and a<br />

world-first technology dedicated<br />

to monitoring the patient’s prescription.<br />

“We would love to encourage<br />

and support [other] regions<br />

looking to implement a similar<br />

model to ours,” Ms Tan-Smith<br />

said.<br />

Civic Awards honour Christchurch’s unsung heroes<br />

HONOURED: Keep Christchurch Beautiful has been<br />

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relationship between the communities<br />

of Christchurch and<br />

Songpa Gu, He is Honorary<br />

Consul for the Republic of Korea<br />

in Christchurch and has been instrumental<br />

in organising scholarships<br />

and school and cultural<br />

exchanges.<br />

Jenny Gillies – For more<br />

than 20 years costume designer<br />

Jenny Gillies<br />

has helped<br />

foster Christchurch’s<br />

image<br />

as the Garden<br />

City through<br />

designing and<br />

displaying fabric<br />

floral creations<br />

both here in Christchurch and<br />

overseas.<br />

David Wilkinson – After a<br />

30-year career in law enforcement,<br />

David Wilkinson took on the role<br />

of Canterbury area co-ordinator<br />

for Canterbury Neighbourhood<br />

Support in 2010. Since then he has<br />

worked tirelessly to strengthen the<br />

organisation and extend its reach,<br />

introducing new communication<br />

systems and setting up a satellite<br />

station in Riccarton.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Civic Awards will be<br />

presented at a ceremony in the<br />

town hall on Monday.


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NEWS<br />

Further concerns<br />

for safety<br />

of port dolphins<br />

• By Jess Gibson<br />

THE BANKS Peninsula<br />

Community Board has become<br />

involved in the saga over piledriving<br />

in Lyttelton Harbour and<br />

hector’s dolphins.<br />

Members want to know whether<br />

more can be done to ensure the<br />

endangered species are protected<br />

while Lyttelton Port Company<br />

builds its new cruise berth.<br />

A letter will be sent to Minister<br />

of Conservation Eugenie Sage<br />

and Environment Canterbury<br />

this week to bring concerns to<br />

their attention and to question<br />

the procedures being followed<br />

during operations.<br />

It comes following a presentation<br />

by Genevieve Robinson<br />

of Māui and Hector’s Dolphin<br />

Defenders, who spoke to the<br />

community board on behalf of<br />

concerned residents at its most<br />

recent meeting.<br />

Ms Robinson addressed<br />

increased sightings of dolphins in<br />

the inner harbour and the risk of<br />

them either being trapped for the<br />

duration of the piling or risking<br />

re-exposure to piling noise while<br />

trying to exit.<br />

Said community board chairwoman<br />

Tori Peden: “We are<br />

advocating to the minister and<br />

ECan to make sure things are being<br />

taken care of.”<br />

ALTHOUGH NANS deserve all<br />

the praise the headline alludes to,<br />

to be honest this is more a shout<br />

out to Vittoria’s Nan.<br />

It’s not news having young kids<br />

presenting a hurdle getting to<br />

things you want or need to do.<br />

I mean, your call, but having an<br />

erratic, wilful and tantrum-prone<br />

third wheel or work assistant isn’t<br />

ideal, and it’s worse when they’re<br />

a toddler.<br />

So I’m eternally grateful for my<br />

mum’s help over the last week<br />

with some bubs-watching (and<br />

obviously all the other times before<br />

that she, my step-dad or dad<br />

have helped us out immeasurably<br />

<strong>The</strong> forgotten philanthropist<br />

• By Louis Day<br />

A NEW biography details the life<br />

of one of Christchurch’s greatest<br />

benefactors.<br />

Robert McDougall, the “forgotten<br />

philanthropist” built up<br />

his biscuit and confectionery<br />

company, Aulsebrooks, in the<br />

early 1900s.<br />

He went on to become the city’s<br />

largest private employer and<br />

eventually its greatest benefactor.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Robert McDougall Art<br />

Gallery, which was funded by a<br />

gift of $25,000 from Mr McDougall<br />

remains in the Botanic Gardens<br />

to this day. <strong>The</strong> city councilowned<br />

building is currently run<br />

by the Canterbury Museum.<br />

<strong>The</strong> biography covers Mr<br />

McDougall’s life from his birth in<br />

Melbourne, his parents settling<br />

in Christchurch in 1863, his early<br />

education at Melville House and<br />

Christ’s College, to his initial<br />

business experience with the<br />

Colonial Bank of New Zealand<br />

which led to his purchase of<br />

Aulsebrooks in 1889.<br />

It then delves into how he<br />

developed the business to become<br />

the country’s leading biscuit and<br />

confectionery manufacturer and<br />

the city’s largest private employer.<br />

<strong>The</strong> book explains how his<br />

success in the biscuit business<br />

enabled him to exercise a lifetime<br />

of philanthropy through World<br />

beforehand). I mean it’s not the<br />

first time by any means, but it’s<br />

my first column about it.<br />

Not only did she watch Vittoria<br />

at her place for a full day for<br />

me last week, but she also came<br />

to ours and watched Vittoria yet<br />

again on Monday so Laura and<br />

I could complete the goal of one<br />

date a month over the year.<br />

While we enjoyed the sort of<br />

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HISTORIC: Timothy Seay stands outside the Robert<br />

McDougall Art Gallery which was named after his<br />

grandfather.<br />

War 2 and the Great Depression.<br />

<strong>The</strong> idea to write the book was<br />

first suggested to Mr McDougall’s<br />

grandson Timothy Seay by<br />

the senior curator of the Robert<br />

McDougall Art Gallery Neil<br />

Roberts in 2002. However, it was<br />

not until the pair met a second<br />

time in 2014 that work towards<br />

creating the book began.<br />

Mr Seay said he was surprised<br />

a book had not already been written<br />

about his grandfather.<br />

“He really was a philanthropist, in<br />

the true sense of the word,” he said.<br />

“He was a wonderful employer,<br />

VITTORIA<br />

& Matt<br />

time to ourselves you never really<br />

appreciate in those B.C. (before<br />

children) years, Vittoria was busy<br />

exploring, playing or getting the<br />

sort of treats only a nan will give.<br />

In one day with Nan, Vittoria<br />

had her first homemade<br />

play dough, walked dogs, got ice<br />

cream, ‘helped’ around the house,<br />

read books and burned through<br />

clothes by playing with a bucket<br />

he was great to his staff and he was<br />

way before his time in that sense.”<br />

Mr McDougall built sports<br />

facilities for his employees and<br />

was known for helping them in<br />

times of need.<br />

Christchurch-based historian<br />

Jennifer Haworth was<br />

approached by Mr Seay to delve<br />

into the life of his grandfather.<br />

With very limited information<br />

available through family records,<br />

Haworth spent more than two<br />

years scanning through newspapers<br />

and official records kept<br />

by the many organisations Mr<br />

of water. So thank you very much<br />

mum, you are awesome. I fully<br />

expect I’ll be churning through<br />

my goodwill points and your<br />

patience with plenty more grandbabysitting<br />

in future.<br />

In more tinsel-tinged news,<br />

we’ve got Vittoria’s Christmas<br />

presents ready and wrapped. Well,<br />

Laura’s got them wrapped, I just<br />

provided encouragement from<br />

the sidelines. You’d know why if<br />

I’d ever wrapped a gift for you.<br />

No spoilers here, you’ll have to<br />

wait if you really want to know<br />

what she’s getting. I can’t risk<br />

letting the cat out of the bag in<br />

the insanely slim chance Vittoria<br />

NEW BOOK: Forgotten<br />

Philanthropist: A biography<br />

on Robert McDougall details<br />

the life of one of the city’s<br />

greatest benefactors.<br />

McDougall was a part of.<br />

Haworth’s research revealed<br />

that he was heavily involved in<br />

the early Canterbury Industrial<br />

Association and numerous other<br />

business organisations. He gave<br />

generously to patriotic appeals<br />

during and after World War 2.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> 400-page book<br />

costs $49.95 and can be<br />

purchased at Whitcoulls,<br />

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<strong>The</strong> last thing I need to arrange<br />

is Vittoria’s Christmas stocking<br />

and organise the logistics on how<br />

Father Christmas is going to fill it<br />

on Christmas Eve. He’s not visited<br />

this house yet, so I’d best get a<br />

plan ready for him.<br />

I also better let Vittoria know that<br />

Santa’s old school and would prefer<br />

stout and a pie to a glass of milk<br />

and biscuits when he gets here.<br />

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• By Sophie Cornish<br />

HANDING IN a wallet found on<br />

the side of the road was a simple<br />

act of goodwill that changed<br />

Aaron Williamson’s life forever.<br />

Troubled by his parent’s divorce<br />

when he was a young boy,<br />

the 17-year-old was in and out of<br />

Dunedin’s Youth Court.<br />

“I enjoyed being in trouble, I<br />

saw it as a way to get attention.<br />

I was telling myself that it was<br />

the right thing and that was<br />

acknowledged through being<br />

involved with police and being in<br />

front of a judge.<br />

“It was a hurdle I needed to get<br />

over (the divorce) and I didn’t do<br />

well with it. I didn’t really have<br />

a father figure and I went on my<br />

own pathway. We were in severe<br />

poverty, three kids and only one<br />

income. I made some poor life<br />

decisions and appeared in the<br />

Youth Court a few times. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

one day I found a policeman’s<br />

wallet on the side of the road.<br />

“I picked it up and thought to<br />

myself, well I can either make a<br />

good decision here or not. So I<br />

handed it into police,” he said.<br />

This decision, in 1989, led Mr<br />

Williamson to meet the police<br />

officer who owned it, resulting<br />

in the helping hand he needed to<br />

avoid a potential life of crime and<br />

prison.<br />

A push from the police officer<br />

to a Youth Court judge-led<br />

Mr Williamson to attend the<br />

Limited Service Volunteer course<br />

at Burnham Military Camp in<br />

April 1989.<br />

<strong>The</strong> course dramatically<br />

changed the teenager’s life.<br />

“I didn’t know anything about<br />

it really or what to expect. It<br />

was eye-opening and I learnt<br />

things about myself that I had<br />

never considered. It gave me the<br />

perspective of allowing myself to<br />

realise what potential I had and<br />

that I could do something with<br />

it. It taught me to lead myself,<br />

have self-discipline, learn to cooperate<br />

with other people,” he<br />

said.<br />

During his placement, Mr<br />

Williamson was assigned to the<br />

logistics facility, where he experienced<br />

hands-on learning in<br />

maths, stocktake, accounts, basic<br />

computer work and even got his<br />

learners driver licence.<br />

<strong>The</strong> course also teaches how<br />

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to deal with everyday situations,<br />

learning respect for others,<br />

manners, how to converse with<br />

people, listen to others opinions<br />

and how to take on feedback.<br />

By the time his family turned<br />

up to his graduation ceremony,<br />

they didn’t even recognise him,<br />

something Mr Williamson says<br />

is common for families at graduation.<br />

“It was obvious there had<br />

been quite a significant change.<br />

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‘Thirty years later I’m back,<br />

giving something back’<br />

– Aaron Williamson<br />

It totally changed the family<br />

dynamics once I had finished<br />

the course, we could sit down<br />

and I could relate to my family,<br />

have a conversation, talk things<br />

through, something that hadn’t<br />

been an option earlier on. I had<br />

huge pride in being able to do<br />

that,” he said.<br />

Now, Mr Williamson has<br />

returned back to the course,<br />

arguably only of the country’s<br />

longest-running and most successful<br />

for at-risk youth, but this<br />

time, he’s returning as Major<br />

Williamson.<br />

After graduating from LSV in<br />

1989, Major Williamson returned<br />

to Dunedin as an unemployed<br />

18-year-old and joined New Zealand<br />

Army’s territorial force.<br />

Three years later he joined the<br />

army’s regular force and moved<br />

up the ranks until his current<br />

role, as a major and officer commanding<br />

of the south youth<br />

development unit.<br />

“Thirty years later I’m back,<br />

giving something back. It’s a<br />

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“If I hadn’t of been offered the<br />

opportunity to get on the course,<br />

due to my own decisions, I probably<br />

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prison, that would have been the<br />

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“I didn’t respect myself so I had<br />

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when you are offered something<br />

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I guess the turning point for me<br />

was someone investing that time<br />

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“It’s a great opportunity to<br />

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that the system works, that positive<br />

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way. It gives credibility to the<br />

course and provides them an insight<br />

into what they could get out<br />

of the course,” Major Williamson<br />

said.<br />

Run by the New Zealand<br />

Defence Force and funded by the<br />

Ministry of Social Development,<br />

the course now runs in a six-week<br />

format, five times a year with<br />

each intake accepting <strong>12</strong>0 at-risk<br />

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<strong>The</strong> day starts at 5.30am<br />

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20 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

ClearanCe<br />

Store<br />

now open<br />

northwood Supa Centa*<br />

last chance<br />

Christmas<br />

deals<br />

Rubber<br />

Duck<br />

Usually $9.99<br />

Ye lies<br />

Assortment*<br />

Usua ly up to<br />

$24.99 ea<br />

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Big Brother Bear, Lion<br />

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25cm<br />

Usually $34.99<br />

$<br />

29 99 ea<br />

35cm<br />

Usually $44.99<br />

$<br />

39 99 ea<br />

50cm<br />

Usually $69.99<br />

$<br />

59 99 ea<br />

Flying<br />

Disc or<br />

Foam<br />

Dart<br />

all BlaCK<br />

SUpporterS<br />

Supporters Bear<br />

Usually $34.99<br />

$<br />

9 99 $<br />

29 99 ea<br />

ea<br />

Buzzy Bee<br />

Usually $39.99<br />

$<br />

34 99 ea<br />

Ball & Kicking Tee<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

Mary Lou<br />

Usually $27.99<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

All Blacks<br />

Buzzy Bee<br />

Usually $39.99<br />

$<br />

34 99 ea<br />

20%<br />

oFF<br />

20%<br />

oFF<br />

23%<br />

oFF<br />

Boat, Car or<br />

Radio Set<br />

Usually $<strong>12</strong>.99<br />

$<br />

9 99 ea<br />

Large<br />

Colouring<br />

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Usually $24.99<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

Secret<br />

Diary<br />

Marina<br />

Usually<br />

$29.99<br />

$<br />

23 99 ea<br />

Assorted<br />

Basic Boxes<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

JUSt arrIVeD<br />

Over 80<br />

Experiments<br />

Usually<br />

$34.99<br />

$<br />

29 99 ea<br />

Night<br />

Light Jars<br />

Usually $39.99<br />

$<br />

34 99 ea<br />

Cosmic<br />

Jewellery<br />

Usually $19.99<br />

$<br />

16 99 ea<br />

Assorted<br />

Large Boxes<br />

$<br />

29 99 ea<br />

Usually<br />

$59.99<br />

Maximum<br />

Electronic Kit<br />

$<br />

49 99 ea<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 21<br />

Turbo Blast<br />

Racers Assorted<br />

Usually $19.99<br />

$<br />

17 99 ea<br />

Doll<br />

Series 1, 2 or 3<br />

Assorted<br />

Usually $29.99<br />

Bath Shooters<br />

Usually $6.99<br />

2<br />

FoR<br />

$<br />

10<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

Transforming<br />

Figure Playset<br />

Usually $29.99<br />

Pets Assorted<br />

Usually $14.99<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

$<br />

9 99 ea<br />

Costume Set<br />

Usually $44.99<br />

BFF Pack<br />

Usually $59.99<br />

$<br />

49 99 ea<br />

$<br />

39 99 ea<br />

Shortcuts Doll Assorted<br />

Usually $29.99<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

Seeker<br />

Usually<br />

$139.99<br />

$<br />

119 99 ea<br />

2<br />

FoR<br />

Putty<br />

or<br />

Blind<br />

Bags<br />

Usually<br />

$6.99<br />

$<br />

<strong>12</strong><br />

Assorted<br />

Horses<br />

Usually $19.99<br />

$<br />

14 99 ea<br />

Smashin’<br />

Surprise<br />

Safe<br />

Usually<br />

$34.99<br />

$<br />

29 99 ea<br />

Barbie<br />

Electronic<br />

Fashion Set<br />

Usually $34.99<br />

$<br />

29 99 ea<br />

Ultimate<br />

Red<br />

Titan<br />

Usually<br />

$69.99<br />

$<br />

59 99 ea<br />

Horse<br />

and Stable<br />

Usually $49.99<br />

$<br />

44 99 ea<br />

Walking<br />

Horse<br />

Usually<br />

$<strong>12</strong>9.99<br />

GIFT<br />

IDEA<br />

Elsa<br />

Styling<br />

Head<br />

Usually<br />

$34.99<br />

$<br />

99 99 ea<br />

$<br />

29 99 ea<br />

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22 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

5 in 1<br />

Easel<br />

20%<br />

off<br />

Usually $99.99<br />

$<br />

79 99 ea<br />

20%<br />

off<br />

Cutting Fruit<br />

or Vegetables<br />

Usually $29.99<br />

100pc Wooden<br />

Blocks in Bucket<br />

Usually $49.99<br />

$<br />

39 99 ea<br />

$<br />

24 99 ea<br />

Walker<br />

With Blocks<br />

Usually $79.99<br />

$<br />

59 99 ea<br />

25%<br />

off<br />

Toolbelt<br />

Usually $34.99<br />

$<br />

29 99 ea<br />

Aloka Sleepy<br />

Lights<br />

Usually $59.99<br />

AVAilAblE in<br />

bAmboo, bluE,<br />

REd And pink<br />

Tiny Tot<br />

2 in 1 Trike/Bike $<br />

159 99 ea<br />

Usually $179.99<br />

$<br />

49 99 ea<br />

Xylophone<br />

Usually $29.99<br />

$<br />

24 99 ea<br />

25% off<br />

Chefs<br />

Kitchen Set<br />

Usually $199.99<br />

$<br />

149 99 ea<br />

Piano Mat<br />

Usually $99.99<br />

$<br />

89 99 ea<br />

on A RAiny dAy<br />

in thE gARdEn<br />

Hedge<br />

Trimmer or<br />

Power Clipper<br />

Action Lawn Mower<br />

$<br />

59 99 ea<br />

$<br />

39 99 ea<br />

Megasketcher<br />

or Aquadoodle<br />

Classic or Pink<br />

$<br />

39 99 ea<br />

Foot to Floor<br />

Tractor<br />

in thE SAnd pit<br />

$<br />

69 99 ea<br />

Big Scoop 38cm<br />

Excavator or<br />

Truck<br />

$<br />

39 99 ea<br />

15cm Dozer<br />

& Truck<br />

Usually $16.99<br />

$<br />

14 99 ea<br />

6V Ride On<br />

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sounds, two detachable<br />

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input jack for your<br />

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$<br />

349 99 ea<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 23<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

Baby<br />

Fairground<br />

Rides Assorted<br />

Usually $34.99<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

4 Pack<br />

Families<br />

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$<br />

31 99 ea<br />

20% OFF ALL<br />

SYLVANIAN<br />

FAMILIES<br />

IN cINEMAS<br />

dEcEMbEr <strong>12</strong>th<br />

Robotitron with Drone<br />

Usually $44.99<br />

$<br />

35 99 ea<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

Rex Dasher<br />

with Parachute or<br />

Merla with Horse<br />

Usually $29.99<br />

$<br />

23 99 ea<br />

Del’s Food Truck<br />

Usually $<strong>12</strong>9.99<br />

$<br />

99 99 ea<br />

$<br />

26 99 ea<br />

Sunshine<br />

Nursery<br />

Bus<br />

Usually $59.99<br />

Sewing<br />

Kits<br />

Assorted<br />

Usually $24.99<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

20% OFF<br />

ALL<br />

AVENAIr<br />

$<br />

47 99 ea<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

Baby Castle<br />

Nursery<br />

Usually $79.99<br />

$<br />

63 99 ea<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

Scratch<br />

Art<br />

Assorted<br />

$<br />

5 99 ea<br />

Usually<br />

$7.99<br />

20% OFF ALL<br />

pLAYMObIL<br />

Flamingo Ringo<br />

Usually $54.99<br />

$<br />

39 99 ea<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

Giant<br />

Tiki Toss<br />

Usually $59.99<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

Porsche Mission<br />

with Rex Dasher<br />

Usually $199.99<br />

$<br />

159 99 ea<br />

AwESOME<br />

OutdOOr gAMES<br />

$<br />

49 99 ea<br />

$<br />

19 99 ea<br />

Kubb<br />

Usually<br />

$179.99<br />

20%<br />

OFF<br />

Canvas<br />

Pop Art<br />

Assorted<br />

Usually<br />

$17.99<br />

$<br />

149 99 ea<br />

$<br />

13 99 ea<br />

Molkky<br />

Usually $11999<br />

$<br />

99 99 ea<br />

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24 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

Horse Wash Area<br />

Usually $64.99<br />

$<br />

49 99 ea<br />

Mobile Vet<br />

Usually $119.99<br />

$<br />

89 99 ea<br />

Rider Cafe<br />

Usually<br />

$159.99<br />

$<br />

<strong>12</strong>9 99 ea<br />

Barn with<br />

Accessories<br />

Usually $179.99<br />

$<br />

149 99 ea<br />

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Usually $179.99<br />

$<br />

139 99 ea<br />

Secret Club Caravan<br />

Usually $199.99<br />

$<br />

149 99 ea<br />

Tractor<br />

with Trailer<br />

Usually $179.99<br />

Large Farm<br />

Usually $379.99<br />

$<br />

79 99 ea<br />

$<br />

299 99 ea<br />

Kids Puzzles<br />

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Usually $19.99 to $29.99<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 25<br />

Ultima Trike<br />

Pink or Blue<br />

Folding & retractable<br />

baby footrest. Large<br />

reomvable sun canopy,<br />

adjustable for tilt & angle.<br />

Big rear carry bucket<br />

plus wide, soft, quiet<br />

EVA rubber tyres. Highback,<br />

adjustable padded<br />

seat with safety harness &<br />

removable headrest. Unique<br />

side opening & removable<br />

padded baby safety rails.<br />

Parents parking brakes on both<br />

rear wheels.<br />

Usually $199.99<br />

$<br />

179 99 ea<br />

Highwaykick<br />

2 in 1 Scoot and Ride<br />

Transforming Scooter.<br />

Pink, Blue or Lime<br />

Great for ages 1-4yrs<br />

Usually $249.99<br />

20%<br />

oFF<br />

• Wide grip adjustable<br />

push bar<br />

• Removable<br />

• 6 Height adjustments<br />

• Wide EVA rubber tyres<br />

• Smooth quiet ride<br />

• Dual foot brakes<br />

• Fixed rear cargo bucket<br />

• Grows with child from<br />

<strong>12</strong>-36 months+<br />

• Also available in pink<br />

$<br />

199 99 ea<br />

Only available Tower<br />

Junction and Hornby stores.<br />

Euro<br />

Touring<br />

RC Cars<br />

$<br />

49 99 ea<br />

Rock Crawler<br />

RC Dancing<br />

Buggy<br />

Usually $119.99<br />

Magic<br />

Sketch<br />

Usually<br />

$69.99<br />

Jot 8.5<br />

Usually $79.99<br />

$<br />

59 99 ea<br />

Sketch Petz<br />

Usually $89.99<br />

GIFT IDEAS<br />

$<br />

69 99 ea<br />

buIlD AnD<br />

coDE<br />

5 in 1<br />

Mechanical<br />

Coding<br />

Robot<br />

$<br />

49 99 ea<br />

$<br />

99 99 ea<br />

AS SEEn on<br />

FAcEbook<br />

$<br />

69 99 ea<br />

Play &<br />

Trace<br />

Usually $89.99<br />

$<br />

79 99 ea<br />

Hand<br />

Controlled<br />

Drone<br />

Usually $69.99<br />

$<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

26<br />

NEWS<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Deep shingle snares drivers at<br />

Jan Daffin has towed out at least 100 vehicles from<br />

the shingle at Birdlings Flat since she moved their<br />

eight years ago. Jess Gibson reports<br />

“THE JINGLE of shame.”<br />

This is how Birdlings Flat<br />

residents refer to the familiar<br />

sound of vehicles leaving the<br />

settlement with shingle stuck in<br />

their wheels.<br />

For visitors, warning signs<br />

at the top of the beach often go<br />

ignored, still opting to take the<br />

plunge from a solid car park into<br />

the deep gravel.<br />

And because there is no<br />

cellphone reception, they usually<br />

end up desperately door-knocking<br />

at residents’ homes asking for<br />

their car to be hauled out.<br />

Jan Daffin thinks she has<br />

helped to tow at least 100 vehicles<br />

since she moved to Birdlings Flat<br />

eight years ago.<br />

Mrs Daffin, her husband,<br />

Mike, and her daughter, Bree,<br />

are one of the main families that<br />

rush down to help when they see<br />

a vehicle “belly-deep” in shingle.<br />

On a good weekend, they<br />

would help pull out about four<br />

or five using a shovel, rope and<br />

their old Nissan Terrano, a “rust<br />

bucket with monster tyres.”<br />

She manages to find humour in<br />

every encounter.<br />

“It’s classic. <strong>The</strong> stories you<br />

get from people being stuck in<br />

there is just hilarious,” Mrs Daffin<br />

said.<br />

“Last week, we got a husband<br />

and wife in a beautiful new<br />

Range Rover. She was saying: ‘I<br />

don’t think you should do that’<br />

and he turned around and said:<br />

‘What, are you scared?’ – it was<br />

within about two metres they<br />

were dead stuck in shingle.”<br />

Mrs Daffin said a lot of the<br />

time, vehicles get stuck in the<br />

deep holes made by other people.<br />

“One time we were having a<br />

quiz night at the community<br />

centre and two young people<br />

that were stuck ended up sitting<br />

through the whole thing until we<br />

finished.”<br />

She said one of her more<br />

interesting tows was when she<br />

coincidentally met the grandson<br />

of the man Mr Daffin had bought<br />

their house off.<br />

“If I hadn’t seen them there we<br />

wouldn’t have crossed paths. We<br />

invited them back here and spent<br />

a couple of hours learning about<br />

this guy and his memories in my<br />

house, it was so random.”<br />

SELFLESS ACT: Jan and Bree Daffin pull out vehicles which<br />

get stuck in the shingle at Birdlings Flat using a shovel, some<br />

rope and their old Nissan Terrano, which they call a “rust<br />

bucket.”<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ​<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> stories you get from<br />

people being stuck in<br />

there is just hilarious’<br />

– Jan Daffin<br />

Time isn't on<br />

your side.<br />

From 21 <strong>December</strong>, it will be illegal to own<br />

any prohibited firearms or parts.<br />

Hand yours in to receive payment and avoid prosecution.<br />

Anyone prosecuted will lose their firearms licence.<br />

For a full list of collection events and<br />

other ways to hand in your firearms<br />

or parts, call 0800 311 311<br />

or visit police.govt.nz<br />

Submitting Agency:<br />

Case No.:<br />

Item No.:<br />

Date of Collection:<br />

Time of Collection:<br />

Collected by:<br />

Badge No.:<br />

Description of Enclosed Evidence:<br />

Location Where Collected:<br />

NZP0569_180x263_C


Birdlings Flat<br />

Mrs Daffin said there is no<br />

stereotypical person or vehicle<br />

which gets stuck and even admitted<br />

she can not be hypocritical, as<br />

she and Bree have needed saving<br />

once before.<br />

“After that happened, word got<br />

around pretty quick,” she said.<br />

<strong>The</strong> family doesn’t charge to<br />

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under the Heathcote River next<br />

month as part of the Lyttelton<br />

Harbour wastewater project.<br />

A 535-metre pipeline will<br />

be pulled through the tunnel<br />

under the river and the Ferry Rd<br />

roundabout by a method called<br />

directional drilling.<br />

It will then connect the<br />

Alport Pl pump station to the<br />

Heathcote Valley pipeline, the<br />

final step of a project to connect<br />

Lyttelton Harbour’s wastewater<br />

system to the main Christchurch<br />

system.<br />

Part of Ferry Rd from St Johns<br />

St to the Ferry Rd roundabout<br />

will be closed to install the<br />

pipeline from 8pm January 25 to<br />

10am January 26.<br />

This work is part of the fourth<br />

and final stage of the project,<br />

that once complete, will put an<br />

end to the routine discharge of<br />

treated wastewater into Lyttelton<br />

Harbour.<br />

Up until now wastewater from<br />

Lyttelton, Governors Bay and<br />

Diamond Harbour has been<br />

treated at wastewater treatment<br />

plants in each of the townships<br />

before being discharged through<br />

outfall pipelines into Lyttelton<br />

Harbour.<br />

“This project, when completed,<br />

will end the routine<br />

discharge of treated wastewater<br />

Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

NEWS 27<br />

Pipeline to go under<br />

Heathcote River<br />

into Lyttelton Harbour, a fantastic<br />

environmental milestone for<br />

our city,” said city council head<br />

of three waters and waste Helen<br />

Beaumont.<br />

<strong>The</strong> multimillion-dollar project<br />

is being constructed in four<br />

stages, with stages one and two<br />

now complete and stage four set<br />

for completion in early 2020.<br />

In stage three, the existing<br />

wastewater treatment plants at<br />

Cashin Quay, Governors Bay<br />

and Diamond Harbour are<br />

being converted into pump<br />

stations to pipe all of Lyttelton<br />

Harbour’s wastewater through<br />

the Lyttelton Tunnel.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Cashin Quay treatment<br />

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the pump station is being tested<br />

before commissioning. <strong>The</strong><br />

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station is on track for commissioning<br />

this month.<br />

Work on the new pump station<br />

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is now expected to be complete<br />

by next October, due to a redesign<br />

of the pump station, with<br />

the entire wastewater network<br />

commissioned in late 2020.<br />

This pump station will be<br />

the powerhouse that pumps<br />

all of the harbour’s wastewater<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

28<br />

OPINION<br />

<strong>The</strong> coming week<br />

in our history<br />

<strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong>, 1961: Tickets<br />

went on sale for New Zealand’s<br />

new national Golden Kiwi lottery.<br />

<strong>December</strong> 13, 1642: Towards<br />

noon the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman<br />

sighted ‘a large land, uplifted<br />

high.’ <strong>The</strong> first recorded European<br />

sighting of New Zealand.<br />

<strong>December</strong> 14, 2009 - <strong>The</strong><br />

Government recognised the Māori<br />

(Tino Rangatiratanga) flag as the<br />

preferred national Māori flag.<br />

<strong>December</strong> 15, 1915: In a<br />

well-planned operation which<br />

contrasted sharply with those<br />

mounted earlier in the campaign,<br />

the evacuation of Gallipoli began.<br />

<strong>December</strong> 16, 1905: Rugby<br />

rivalry was born against Wales<br />

when a try by All Black Bob Deans<br />

was disallowed, resulting in the<br />

only loss of the ‘Originals’ tour.<br />

<strong>December</strong> 17, 1773: At Wharehunga<br />

Bay, Queen Charlotte<br />

Sound, 10 men serving on the ship<br />

accompanying Cook’s Resolution<br />

died at the hands of Ngāti Kuia<br />

and Rangitāne.<br />

<strong>December</strong> 18, 1988: Air New<br />

Zealand was found to be in breach<br />

of the Human Rights Act after<br />

over a decade of female cabin<br />

crew campaigning for the same<br />

opportunities as male workers.<br />

SO WHAT kind of a stadium<br />

Christchurch will get has finally<br />

been unveiled.<br />

And to be fair, it doesn’t<br />

look too bad. But there is one<br />

fundamental flaw.<br />

Several weeks ago I was<br />

advocating for a Bankwest-type<br />

stadium in Sydney’s western<br />

suburbs, which cost $A360m,<br />

has a 30,000 capacity and the<br />

seating is angled in such a way<br />

spectators are right on top of the<br />

action.<br />

It doesn’t have a roof but the<br />

way it is designed keeps the<br />

elements relatively at bay. <strong>The</strong><br />

stadium has been a roaring<br />

success.<br />

Christchurch’s stadium will<br />

cost $NZ472.7 million, has a<br />

25,000 seating capacity (36,000<br />

for concerts with standing<br />

room) and a roof.<br />

<strong>The</strong> seating capacity is a major<br />

concern.<br />

Canterbury is the world<br />

rugby powerhouse, but since the<br />

February 22, 2011, earthquake<br />

we have had no significant test<br />

matches, because of the limited<br />

capacity at Orangetheory<br />

(formerly AMI), and the lack of<br />

accommodation to cater for the<br />

influx of fans.<br />

As a result, Dunedin has been<br />

the benefactor.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 25,000 seating capacity<br />

will almost certainly mean<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Are there enough seats?<br />

Christchurch still won’t get topline<br />

rugby test matches. That is<br />

a travesty for such a successful<br />

and heritage-driven rugby<br />

stronghold as Canterbury.<br />

Eden Park seats 54,000,<br />

Westpac Stadium in Wellington<br />

34,000 and Dunedin’s Forsyth<br />

From the<br />

editor’s desk<br />

Barry Clarke<br />

PLAN: This is what the new Christchurch stadium will<br />

look like. But are there too few seats?<br />

PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />

Barr close to 31,000.<br />

So why another 5000-6000<br />

seats were not built into the plan<br />

to allow Christchurch to also get<br />

its share of big test matches is<br />

hard to fathom.<br />

<strong>The</strong> stadium is costing nearly<br />

half a billion dollars and there<br />

will be an $80 million a year<br />

ongoing operating cost to<br />

ratepayers.<br />

Maybe that’s just the price<br />

of a city still in rebuild mode<br />

where supply and demand for<br />

the ongoing big projects dictates<br />

the cost.<br />

So our football diet according<br />

to the stadium’s business plan<br />

will be Super Rugby, provincial<br />

rugby matches, one high profile<br />

football and rugby league match<br />

each year, and second-rate rugby<br />

tests.<br />

For the stadium to be<br />

relatively economic it will need<br />

to be used regularly. <strong>The</strong> rugby,<br />

football and league matches,<br />

plus the concerts, which will<br />

now come too, are unlikely to be<br />

enough.<br />

<strong>The</strong> city’s sports, business<br />

and civic leaders should now be<br />

thinking of dual rugby<br />

code franchises based here<br />

in Christchurch to keep<br />

money turning – the<br />

Crusaders and a rugby<br />

league side which will play<br />

in the NRL, like the<br />

Auckland-based Warriors.<br />

<strong>The</strong> expertise to run such<br />

a franchise, and the up-andcoming<br />

player talent, is here in<br />

Christchurch. <strong>The</strong> money? –<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Readers respond to<br />

the plan to add Maori<br />

names to locations on<br />

Banks Peninsula<br />

Donald Couch, Rāpaki – It<br />

is unfortunate that the original<br />

article on Whakaraupō/Lyttelton<br />

Harbour place names proposal<br />

did not explain the background<br />

or put the suggestion in context.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a detailed and specific<br />

process to make place names in<br />

New Zealand legal. We have<br />

been behind in being aware of<br />

and getting onto this for Māori<br />

place names. If the New Zealand<br />

Geographical Board approves the<br />

proposal regarding formalising<br />

11 of these names, the Pakeha<br />

names currently in use will remain<br />

for continued use by those<br />

who prefer them.<br />

May I respond briefly to the<br />

responders (Bay Harbour News)<br />

of <strong>December</strong> 4.<br />

To Ray O’Rourke, your ancestors’<br />

place names and heritage<br />

will not change – they remain.<br />

We will simply have our heritage<br />

and our ancestors equally<br />

recognised.<br />

To Costa Harris, we had never<br />

looked at our proposal in your<br />

terms of ‘white guilt’ and ‘colonialism’.<br />

It has everything to do<br />

with current and future generations<br />

who will continue to live in,<br />

or associate with, Te Rāpaki o te<br />

Rakiwhakaputa.<br />

known as Pukeatua.<br />

To Ken Duncan, the proposed<br />

Ōmawete is in recognition of a<br />

Ngāti Māmoe rangatira Māwete.<br />

To Hilary Anderson, the<br />

existing names (in English) will<br />

indeed remain as they are.<br />

To Lynne Clark, yes, we belong<br />

to the other party who signed<br />

the Treaty of Waitangi which<br />

recognised us at the time as ‘British<br />

subjects’ (now NZ citizens).<br />

As such, we also have some rights<br />

under NZ law including those<br />

covering place names.<br />

To Murray Stuart, these are not<br />

new names – they are actually<br />

older than those currently in use.<br />

To Wal Remu, we haven’t made<br />

any suggestions regarding the<br />

Sign of the Kiwi.<br />

We would be happy to discuss<br />

the proposal further and seek the<br />

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Feedback divided on Maori names<br />

DIVIDED: Readers have expressed mixed views on a<br />

proposal to add Maori names to 13 existing Banks Peninsula<br />

places including Dyers Pass, which could soon also be<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

support of those who regard this<br />

as a positive development for our<br />

communities.<br />

Norma Powell – I wish to endorse<br />

every letter in the last issue.<br />

<strong>The</strong> trouble with Maori names is<br />

that you have no idea where the<br />

place is.<br />

Maori folk can enjoy speaking<br />

their language amongst<br />

themselves but we are an English<br />

speaking nation so please let us<br />

have names that are relevant to<br />

the majority.<br />

In reply to your correspondent<br />

from Heathcote, a year ago I<br />

had a theft from my garden and<br />

although I knew who the culprit<br />

was the police were not interested.<br />

I was told it has been recorded.<br />

Ron Williams – I agree with all<br />

those writers opposed to changing<br />

current European names to<br />

Maori names. Maori only have<br />

a written language because the<br />

English settlers gave them one.<br />

I am sure when Maori arrived<br />

and slaughtered the Mori Ori,<br />

(driving the survivors to what<br />

is now known as the Chatham<br />

Islands) they didn’t consider their<br />

rights.<br />

Jane Robertson and<br />

Russ Harris – We live in<br />

Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour<br />

and look out across Kaitangata/<br />

Mansons Peninsula to Te Ahu<br />

Pātiki/Mt Herbert. We use both<br />

Māori and European names<br />

interchangeably to refer to the<br />

landscape in which we live.<br />

We are fully supportive of the<br />

recent proposal made by Te Hapū<br />

o Ngāti Wheke to restore the<br />

original Māori names of features<br />

in and around Whakaraupō as<br />

well as to retain existing names<br />

which have been in long-term<br />

use. Personally, we prefer more<br />

melodious and more descriptively<br />

meaningful Māori names.<br />

Exactly how much do most of<br />

us know about Sidney Herbert<br />

or George William Lyttelton,<br />

neither of whom set foot in<br />

Aotearoa/New Zealand. However,<br />

for those who fear the loss<br />

of familiar European names, it is<br />

not a case of either/or but of both,<br />

and we will be culturally and linguistically<br />

richer for the change.<br />

OPINION 29<br />

Full list of the 13 Banks<br />

Peninsula places and their<br />

proposed additions of<br />

traditional Maori names:<br />

King Billy Island<br />

Aua / King Billy Island<br />

Mansons Peninsula<br />

Kaitangata / Mansons<br />

Peninsula<br />

Coopers Knob<br />

Ōmawete / Coopers Knob<br />

Cass Peak<br />

Ōrongomai / Cass Peak<br />

Dyers Pass<br />

Pukeatua / Dyers Pass<br />

Evans Pass<br />

Tapuwaeharuru / Evans<br />

Pass<br />

Rāpaki Rock<br />

Te Ahi-a-Tamatea<br />

Sugarloaf<br />

Te Heru-o-Kahukura / Sugarloaf<br />

<strong>The</strong> Tors<br />

Te Moenga-o-Wheke / <strong>The</strong><br />

Tors<br />

Adderley Head<br />

Te Piaka / Adderley Head<br />

Rapaki<br />

Te Rāpaki-o-Te-<br />

Rakiwhakaputa<br />

Tihiokahukura/Castle<br />

Rock<br />

Te Tihi-o-Kahukura / Castle<br />

Rock<br />

Witch Hill<br />

Te Upoko-o-Kurī / Witch<br />

Hill<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

30<br />

OPINION<br />

Readers respond to a<br />

story about a call for an<br />

alcohol ban at Christmas<br />

in the Park<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Should Christmas in the Park be alcohol-free?<br />

Melanie Koster – Thank you<br />

for your article in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> regarding<br />

the call to make Christmas<br />

in the Park alcohol-free. I<br />

would support a ban on alcohol<br />

for this event.<br />

<strong>The</strong> number of people drinking<br />

to excess, vaping and smoking<br />

at this supposed family-friendly<br />

event was appalling.<br />

It made our group of young<br />

people feel most uncomfortable<br />

and if that sort of behaviour is<br />

allowed to continue, it really<br />

shouldn’t be promoted as an<br />

event for families.<br />

Edwin Whanau – I would<br />

hate that a few could ruin this<br />

event.<br />

I expect better security at all<br />

events, as I’ve been there with a<br />

small group swearing and throwing<br />

stuff, shifted to smell dope<br />

being smoked.<br />

I agree that a change is needed,<br />

but blaming many for the acts of<br />

a few is a little bit of a punish the<br />

many rather than the few.<br />

What I would like to see is a<br />

high presence of police, security<br />

guards and Maori wardens along<br />

with community elders to matching<br />

our community make-up.<br />

Maori and community leaders<br />

who are there as a diffuser presence,<br />

with police and security<br />

having the right to eject bad<br />

behaviour.<br />

Growing up here in the<br />

80s/90s, I remember a Maori<br />

warden had this respect and<br />

mana. No, police cannot be<br />

everywhere but a support base<br />

of community balance could<br />

change things.<br />

If that doesn’t work then we<br />

look at the removal of drinking.<br />

But what if it’s not drinking, but<br />

party drugs.<br />

Probably stopping those who<br />

have loaded up at home then<br />

coming into the city. So better<br />

observation at security checks.<br />

Calling police and security before<br />

flare-ups.<br />

You know where is that line<br />

drawn? Been to rugby games,<br />

league games with similar behaviour,<br />

stood outside a club awaiting<br />

entry when someone walking<br />

past hit someone for just looking<br />

at them.<br />

Youth have no punishment,<br />

can’t smack, cannot lock them up<br />

because you affect them for the<br />

rest of their little lives.<br />

Diversion is a joke, and they go<br />

hard knowing we can’t smack or<br />

lock up, so you get what you reap.<br />

Ken Duncan – Kia Ora, same<br />

every year. I worked security at<br />

these events on and off for many<br />

years and there are always alcohol<br />

issues.<br />

At the sides, it’s the younger<br />

brigade which became more open<br />

when the alcohol age limit was<br />

lowered but it was no different.<br />

BEHAVIOUR: Some<br />

concert-goers had their<br />

Christmas in the Park<br />

experience spoilt by<br />

drunken revellers.<br />

One year I was carrying out an<br />

ongoing security task at Mona<br />

Vale and once Christmas in the<br />

Park finished, it was suddenly<br />

swamped with about 200 drunk<br />

– or getting there – youths aged<br />

from <strong>12</strong> to 17.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n you would also have to<br />

deal with the older brigade who<br />

had drunk only ‘one’ bottle of<br />

wine. Yeah, right. <strong>The</strong>y certainly<br />

couldn’t handle their alcohol.<br />

Both groups ruin it for those<br />

who do only take one bottle and<br />

enjoy the event.<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

OPINION 31<br />

Multi-use arena is a big step forward for city<br />

I’M PLEASED that we are<br />

signing off the investment case<br />

for the multi-use arena so it can<br />

get in front of Cabinet before<br />

Christmas.<br />

It’s a big step forward for the<br />

city as the last of the central city<br />

blueprint anchor projects gets the<br />

green light.<br />

<strong>The</strong> numbers stack up in favour<br />

of what will be a world-class facility<br />

that will deliver as much for<br />

major international events and<br />

festivals as it will for Canterbury<br />

Rugby.<br />

And that means a covered<br />

arena that allows for year-round<br />

events, with a minimum of<br />

Mayor<br />

Lianne Dalziel<br />

25,000 permanent seats, (36,000<br />

capacity for a concert), permanent<br />

turf within the arena and a<br />

high level of acoustic quality.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are so many people that<br />

have invested in the city already,<br />

knowing that this drawcard<br />

would be in place in years to<br />

come.<br />

We owe it to them to have got<br />

this over the line, and we owe<br />

it to the people of our region,<br />

proudly the sporting and cultural<br />

capital of New Zealand.<br />

<strong>The</strong> fact that we will be appointing<br />

a fully independent and<br />

experienced group of people to<br />

lead the delivery will also give<br />

everyone the confidence that the<br />

job will be done well. Four hundred<br />

and seventy three million<br />

dollars is a massive budget and<br />

we need to ensure the expertise<br />

is in place to keep the project on<br />

budget and on time.<br />

I am confident that further<br />

private sector investments will<br />

follow as a result.<br />

<strong>The</strong> key now is to get the ball<br />

rolling and keep the momentum<br />

going without let up.<br />

More readers respond to a story<br />

about a call for an alcohol ban<br />

at Christmas in the Park<br />

Jackie Kerr – No, I don’t think<br />

Christmas in the Park should be alcoholfree.<br />

Perhaps the city council could<br />

contribute to paying for security if people<br />

feel unsafe, after all they don’t pay a cent<br />

towards it. It’s all paid for by Coca Cola<br />

and annoys me when even the MC thanks<br />

the city council when they contribute<br />

nothing.<br />

Smirnoff Vodka<br />

or Gordon’s<br />

Gin 1 Litre or<br />

Gordon’s Pink<br />

Gin 700ml<br />

32 .99<br />

each<br />

Jules Taylor<br />

(excl Pinot Noir)<br />

or Squealing<br />

Pig Pinot Noir<br />

750ml<br />

19 .99<br />

each<br />

Gordon's Gin & Tonic 7%<br />

or Gordon's Pink Gin &<br />

Soda 4% 250ml <strong>12</strong> x Cans<br />

24 .99<br />

pack<br />

Speight's Gold Medal<br />

Ale or Summit Lager<br />

330ml 24 x Bottles<br />

33 .99<br />

pack<br />

Emma Poole – It’s getting disgusting,<br />

family events like this and more people<br />

are making it a place you don’t wanna<br />

take your family too. It’s not so much the<br />

alcohol its the youth causing a lot of the<br />

violence, targeting young ones, jumping<br />

them taking their phones and stuff cos<br />

they know nothing will happen. Easy<br />

enough to say ban the alcohol how about<br />

making an example of the offenders.<br />

Caron O’Connor – Surprised it’s not<br />

already. But the key question is – were<br />

the assaulters drunk or had they been<br />

drinking alcohol? More security?<br />

Selena C O’Brien – It is getting harder<br />

to find family events that this rubbish<br />

doesn’t happen. Where has common<br />

decency gone? And common sense!<br />

Famous<br />

Grouse Scotch<br />

Whisky 1 Litre<br />

or<br />

Jägermeister<br />

700ml<br />

34 .99<br />

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Jack Daniel's<br />

No. 7 Whiskey<br />

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Jim Beam<br />

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Bourbon<br />

1.75 Litre or<br />

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St-Rémy VSOP<br />

Brandy or<br />

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Hendrick’s or<br />

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Gin 700ml<br />

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Bombay Sapphire<br />

Gin 1 Litre or<br />

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Bourbon 700ml<br />

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Woodstock 7%<br />

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Regal <strong>12</strong>YO<br />

Whisky 700ml<br />

47 .99<br />

each<br />

Cody's 7% 250ml <strong>12</strong> x<br />

Cans or KGB 275ml <strong>12</strong> x<br />

Bottles<br />

19 .99<br />

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Rob Foote – Any event that has “family<br />

event“ anywhere in the name etc should<br />

be alcohol-free anyway.<br />

Gary Miller – Only 40-50,000? That’s<br />

half of what it used to be. Maybe it’s time<br />

to rethink the whole event.<br />

Vodka Cruiser 5% 275ml <strong>12</strong><br />

x Bottles or Smirnoff Ice<br />

Red 5% 250ml <strong>12</strong> x Cans<br />

21 .99<br />

pack<br />

Jim Beam Gold 7% or<br />

Canadian Club 7%<br />

250ml <strong>12</strong> x Cans<br />

24 .99<br />

pack<br />

Long White 320ml 10 x<br />

Bottles or Coruba &<br />

Cola 330ml 10 x Bottles<br />

24 .99<br />

pack<br />

Billy Maverick 7%<br />

250ml 18 x Cans<br />

27 .99<br />

pack<br />

Garage Project<br />

Pernicious Weed Double<br />

IPA or DFA 330ml Cans<br />

5 .49<br />

each<br />

Tuatara 330ml 6 x<br />

Bottles<br />

18 .99<br />

pack<br />

Aaron White – Hagley Park is<br />

an alcohol-free zone. I used to work<br />

security there for the events and we were<br />

instructed to inform people of the ban<br />

and remove drinks if we saw them.<br />

Trevor Fabian – If people can’t go<br />

out to a family event without booze,<br />

something is seriously wrong.<br />

DB Export Gold or Tui<br />

330ml 15 x Bottles<br />

22 .99<br />

pack<br />

Steinlager Pure, Stella Artois<br />

or Steinlager Tokyo Dry<br />

330ml <strong>12</strong> x Bottles<br />

22 .99<br />

pack<br />

Monteith's Craft Beer<br />

or Somersby Cider<br />

330ml <strong>12</strong> x Bottles<br />

23 .99<br />

pack<br />

Steinlager Classic<br />

330ml 15 x Bottles<br />

25 .99<br />

pack<br />

Corona 355ml <strong>12</strong> x<br />

Bottles<br />

27 .99<br />

pack<br />

Heineken 330ml 15<br />

x Bottles<br />

27 .99<br />

pack<br />

Eoin Tolster – With all the angry<br />

comments about alcohol, imagine how<br />

peaceful it would be if weed becomes<br />

legal.<br />

Amanda Ringdahl – Not even Santa<br />

wants to attend Christmas in the Park.<br />

Rekorderlig<br />

Cider 500ml<br />

Bottles<br />

4 .99<br />

each<br />

Wither Hills<br />

(excl Pinot Noir)<br />

or Brown<br />

Brothers<br />

Prosecco NV<br />

750ml<br />

13 .99<br />

each<br />

Oyster Bay<br />

(excl Pinot Noir<br />

& Sparkling) or<br />

<strong>The</strong> Ned 750ml<br />

(excl Chardonnay<br />

& Pinot Noir)<br />

14 .99<br />

each<br />

Stone's Green<br />

Ginger Wine<br />

or Church<br />

Road 750ml<br />

(excl McDonald<br />

Series & Reserve)<br />

15 .99<br />

each<br />

Selaks <strong>The</strong><br />

Taste<br />

Collection<br />

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17 .99<br />

each<br />

Mumm Cordon<br />

Rouge<br />

Champagne<br />

750ml<br />

49 .99<br />

each<br />

Send us your views. If<br />

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put ‘Opinion’ in the subject<br />

line. Emails should be kept<br />

to about 150 words<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

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What is trending outdoors for 2020<br />

FASHIONS COME and go, and<br />

changes in climate and lifestyle<br />

influence our gardens just as they<br />

affect other parts of life.<br />

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•Organics will rule. <strong>The</strong> trend<br />

to organics will accelerate and<br />

most gardeners will be looking<br />

for natural-based fertilisers<br />

and low toxic pest controls.<br />

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are popular even for larger<br />

gardens. Yates has found that sales<br />

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dwarf beans, silverbeet and mini<br />

tomatoes are increasing.<br />

•Flowers in the garden will hit<br />

the comeback trail. Strappy-leafed<br />

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•Water (or lack of it) will be<br />

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Indian hawthorn and the native<br />

mirror plants (Coprosma spp) are<br />

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34<br />

WINE<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Reds to enjoy in the warm weather<br />

• By Mark Henderson<br />

FOR RED wine lovers pinot noir<br />

can be the ticket to happiness on<br />

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Drunk cool, not cold, their<br />

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frame can be exhilarating rather<br />

than exhausting.<br />

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smoky notes, tar, lead pencil and<br />

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continue on the stony minerally<br />

palate with juicy, tangy red<br />

berryfruit. A refreshing vein of<br />

coolness runs through this. Time<br />

sees the stony, grainy tannic<br />

backbone become more evident<br />

with a tangy sweet ‘n’ sour note<br />

on the nose.<br />

Better with food for now.<br />

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Single Vineyard Awatere<br />

Valley Pinot Noir<br />

Price: $41.99<br />

Rating: Very good to excellent<br />

Bolder, darker fruits and bonfire<br />

embers: red fruit fragrance<br />

and savoury notes evolve with<br />

time. Powerful in the mouth,<br />

depth and concentration mixing<br />

savoury characters with<br />

a saline hint. <strong>The</strong> fruit sways<br />

across the plum, blueberry and<br />

cherry spectrum with spice and<br />

oak notes in support. Relatively<br />

grippy tannins for now.<br />

A powerfully rendered style<br />

that shows potential.<br />

www.tohuwines.co.nz<br />

2017 Tohu Whenua<br />

Matua Single Vineyard<br />

Upper Moutere Pinot Noir<br />

Price: $34.99<br />

Rating: Excellent<br />

An alluring perfume leads<br />

the nose, followed by dried<br />

strawberry, spice and savoury<br />

elements. Silky entry before the<br />

tannins flood in: the strawberry<br />

and red cherry fruit dancing<br />

on the palate. <strong>The</strong>re’s a playful,<br />

juicy crunchiness, a little hint of<br />

stalk/herbs, while the structure is<br />

there without intruding.<br />

A delightfully long finish, the<br />

flavours hang in the mouth.<br />

www.tohuwines.co.nz<br />

2017 Craggy Range<br />

Aroha Te Muna Pinot Noir<br />

Price: $150<br />

Rating: Excellent to outstanding<br />

Leads with stewed fruit/<br />

rhubarb before a wonderful<br />

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cranberry and currants with<br />

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2 large handfuls spinach<br />

1 small handful kale (large stems<br />

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1½ - 2 cups milk (or your preferred<br />

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1 Tbsp flaxseed meal<br />

2 Tbsp salted creamy almond or<br />

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Granola<br />

Raw or roasted nuts (almonds,<br />

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Shredded unsweetened coconut<br />

Fresh berries<br />

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Summer<br />

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38 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

your<br />

Summer Holiday Attraction guide<br />

Orana Wildlife Park<br />

See the delightful orang-utans at Orana before their<br />

short-term stay in Christchurch ends in mid-January!<br />

Set in 80 hectares, within 15 minutes’<br />

drive of Christchurch airport, Orana<br />

Wildlife Park is New Zealand’s only open<br />

range zoo. Over 400 animals, representing<br />

more than 70 different species, are<br />

displayed at the Park. Regular animal<br />

feed presentations occur daily and are<br />

accompanied by a presentation from a<br />

wildlife guide.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Park specialises in providing<br />

amazing wildlife experiences – see New<br />

Zealand’s only gorillas, hand feed majestic<br />

giraffe, plus see our new female giraffe<br />

Kamili, meet mighty rhino up close,<br />

observe iconic kiwi and stroll through two<br />

walk-through aviaries to meet stunning<br />

native birds including tui, bellbird, blue<br />

duck (whio), kakariki and mischievous<br />

kea.<br />

Park visitors can enjoy the antics of<br />

lions, cheetah, painted dogs, Tasmanian<br />

devils, addax, monkeys (including our new<br />

male, Tostada), meerkats and much more!<br />

<strong>The</strong> Park has an extensive native fauna<br />

section including a range of native geckos<br />

plus the pre-historic tuatara. Orana has a<br />

fantastic collection of friendly domestic<br />

animals in the Farmyard.<br />

Our new Annual Pass means visitors can<br />

enjoy visiting the zoo for a full <strong>12</strong> months<br />

from date of purchase, and it makes a great<br />

gift. Our fabulous wildlife themed Gift<br />

Shop has a range of cracker Christmas<br />

stocking filler ideas and you can visit the<br />

shop without needing to enter the zoo. A<br />

brand new visitor café space has recently<br />

been completed and offers magnificent<br />

views across the Park.<br />

Orana is internationally renowned for<br />

its involvement in zoo-based breeding<br />

programmes for endangered exotic and<br />

native species. <strong>The</strong> Park contributes to<br />

breed for release recovery programmes<br />

for threatened native wildlife – to date,<br />

over 90 pateke (brown teal), 75 whio (blue<br />

duck) and 26 kiwi and 7 orange-fronted<br />

kakariki from Orana have been released to<br />

the wild! When you visit, you are directly<br />

supporting our conservation work.<br />

It’s a full day of fun for everyone at<br />

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Squawkzilla and the Giants<br />

Canterbury Museum’s summer blockbuster<br />

<strong>The</strong> now world-famous giant parrot,<br />

Squawkzilla, and the monster penguins<br />

of Waipara are the stars of Canterbury<br />

Museum’s new exhibition Ancient New<br />

Zealand: Squawkzilla and the Giants.<br />

<strong>The</strong> exhibition is a chance to explore two<br />

of New Zealand’s lost worlds.<br />

Near Waipara, North Canterbury,<br />

palaeontologists have found fossils<br />

from more than 60 million years ago<br />

which show that giant penguins swam<br />

in the warm oceans around the ancient<br />

subcontinent of Zealandia.<br />

Twenty million years ago, Central<br />

Otago was submerged beneath a lake<br />

10 times the size of today’s Lake Taupō.<br />

Fossils from ancient the lake bed include<br />

species of crocodile, turtles, a flamingolike<br />

bird and a burrowing bat, together<br />

with Squawkzilla, at one-metre high, the<br />

world’s largest parrot.<br />

At Squawkzilla and the Giants, visitors<br />

can come face to face with life-sized<br />

models of New Zealand’s lost giants<br />

– including 1.6-metre tall penguin<br />

Crossvallia waiparensis. <strong>The</strong>re’s also<br />

real fossils on display alongside modern<br />

bird specimens from the Museum’s<br />

collection.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Museum has created a set of<br />

collectable cards featuring extinct<br />

animals from the exhibition. Visitors<br />

can collect a pack of these cards after<br />

completing an activity sheet with<br />

questions about the exhibition.<br />

Ancient New Zealand: Squawkzilla<br />

and the Giants opens 13 <strong>December</strong><br />

<strong>2019</strong> at Canterbury Museum.<br />

Quail Island<br />

Adventures<br />

Get the kids into nature and head to<br />

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Research supported by<br />

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your<br />

Summer Holiday Attraction guide<br />

Great racing action at<br />

Woodford Glen<br />

Without doubt the three big meetings not to be missed this<br />

season at the Glen will be our Annual Boxing Day Ramp Race<br />

derby, the New Zealand Stockcar Grand Prix in January and the<br />

2020 New Zealand Super Saloon Champs in February.<br />

At this stage it is expected the entry list to the New Zealand<br />

Stockcar Grand Prix will be well over 100 drivers whilst the New<br />

Zealand Super Saloon title should see at least 60 entrants from the<br />

best drivers all over the country.<br />

Before we head in to these two major championships we can<br />

look forward to one of Canterbury’s iconic speedway events held<br />

every Boxing Day for well over 20 years. <strong>The</strong> Ramp Race Derby<br />

brings out many Canterbury families and holiday makers and<br />

with a full house expected again this year make sure you look at<br />

pre-buying your tickets now from the Woodford Glen Shop in<br />

Richmond.<br />

<strong>The</strong> New Zealand Stockcar Grand Prix is set to offer speedway<br />

and Stockcar fans an action packed two nights of racing as we<br />

attempt to reduce the 100 plus entrants down to a field of just<br />

30 cars to context the finals of the 2020 Stockcar Grand Prix.<br />

Stockcar racing is unique and isn’t for the faint hearted. Unlike<br />

most forms of motorsport Stockcar racing allows the drivers<br />

to crash and bash their opponents as they all attempt to be the<br />

winner. Come the finals night, you will witness club mates from<br />

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If it is high speed thrills you seek over the holiday period<br />

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8. Pick (3)<br />

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25. Poorly (3)<br />

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should contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

DECODER<br />

Down<br />

2. Greed (7) Each number represents a<br />

3. Failure (3) different letter of the alphabet.<br />

4. Glum (6) Write the given letters into<br />

5. Inactive (6) all squares with matching<br />

6. Pernicious numbers. (9) Now work out which<br />

letters are represented by the<br />

7. No longer stylish (Fr) (5)<br />

other numbers. As you get the<br />

<strong>12</strong>. Scorn (9)<br />

letters, write them into the main<br />

16. Delicate grid (7) and the reference grid.<br />

17. Little finger Decoder (6) uses all 26 letters of<br />

18. Acclaim the (6) alphabet.<br />

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WORDBUILDER<br />

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O S H<br />

How many words of three or more letters,<br />

including plurals, can you make from the six<br />

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />

words or words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. <strong>The</strong>re's at least one six-letter word.<br />

TODAY<br />

Good <strong>12</strong> Very Good 15 Excellent 18<br />

Solution 013: for, fort, forts, forty, fro, frost, FROSTY,<br />

fry, oft, rosy, rot, rots, soft, softly, sort, sot, soy,<br />

story, sty, tor, tors, toy, toys, troy, try, tyro, tyros.<br />

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• By Gordon Findlater<br />

ONE THING will be very<br />

different for the Canterbury<br />

United Pride when they compete<br />

in their seventh straight National<br />

Women’s League grand-final at<br />

English Park on Sunday.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Pride will be looking for<br />

their fifth title in seven years<br />

when they play the Northern<br />

Lights in a replay of last year’s<br />

final. However, if they are to lift<br />

the crown this campaign could<br />

arguably be their finest achievement<br />

due to doing it without<br />

White Ferns star Annalie Longo<br />

- who has been at the heart of<br />

every one of the Pride’s title winning<br />

campaigns since moving<br />

south from Auckland.<br />

Longo’s first season for the<br />

Pride was 2013 which saw them<br />

win the grand-final at their first<br />

appearance. A year earlier she<br />

helped Auckland to the final<br />

and then played in every final<br />

through to last year which saw<br />

the Pride defeat Northern.<br />

However, this year the Pride<br />

have been without the star since<br />

their opening round win over<br />

Capital September, after which<br />

she signed with W-League Melbourne<br />

Victory.<br />

Pride coach Alana Gunn says<br />

in recent years there has been<br />

plenty of outsiders who believe<br />

the side’s success has come purely<br />

due to Longo’s involvement.<br />

“Since flea [Longo] moved to<br />

Christchurch we’ve been in the<br />

final every year, so there’s no<br />

doubt she’s been a very big part<br />

of the success that we’ve had, but<br />

it’s quite a nice feeling to know<br />

that we did do it without her,”<br />

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STAR POWER: Annalie Longo started the season as Pride<br />

captain, but is currently playing professionally for the<br />

Melbourne Victory.<br />

said Gunn.<br />

Longo captained the Pride in<br />

their 6-0 win over Capital on<br />

September 15 before departing<br />

for Melbourne. Since then the<br />

Pride have maintained their<br />

position at the top of the league,<br />

losing just one match to Northern<br />

last month.<br />

“I think it’s a great achievement.<br />

It would have been quite<br />

easy to use it as an excuse.”<br />

Longo’s opportunity to play<br />

professionally in Australia also<br />

left the Pride without a captain.<br />

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However, Gunn says after a conversation<br />

between her and Longo<br />

it was an easy decision to hand<br />

the captain’s armband to central<br />

defender Rebecca Lake.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 20-year-old defender made<br />

her Pride debut in 2014 and like<br />

the rest of her team learnt of<br />

Longo’s move not long before she<br />

departed.<br />

“I never doubted the team. Flea<br />

is an amazing player and such<br />

a smart player, but we’ve got a<br />

quality side which we’ve proving<br />

with how well we’ve gone this<br />

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season,” said Lake.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> one thing I was worried<br />

about when she left is because<br />

she’s such a smart player I knew<br />

I had to listen a lot more in<br />

trainings and really get down the<br />

tactical side of the game because<br />

if there were younger ones who<br />

needed to ask questions I had to<br />

have the answers... that’s been<br />

one of the biggest challenges for<br />

me.”<br />

Lake also says her new role<br />

is made easier by the number<br />

of natural leaders amongst the<br />

squad who have kept intensity<br />

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Pride to compete in seventh straight final<br />

at trainings high and<br />

made the younger<br />

players in the squad<br />

feel at home.<br />

“If you ask the girls<br />

the reason why they’re<br />

playing and why they<br />

give up so much time<br />

for this team it’s because<br />

they’re wanting<br />

to play for their family<br />

and the region, and<br />

they take a lot of pride<br />

in that,” said Lake.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>y’re turning up<br />

to every training because<br />

they want to, not<br />

because they have to<br />

and I think that really<br />

differs us from other<br />

teams.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> Pride won 10 of<br />

their <strong>12</strong> league games<br />

this season, drawing<br />

once and losing once.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y have scored 36<br />

times - more than any<br />

other side - and conceded<br />

just eight goals<br />

which is tied for the<br />

best defensive record<br />

with Northern.<br />

<strong>The</strong> two meetings between the<br />

Pride and Northern this year<br />

saw Northern win 2-1 at English<br />

Park, while a nil-all draw was<br />

played out in Auckland earlier<br />

this month. Last year’s final<br />

between the two clubs saw the<br />

Pride win 3-2 in extra-time.<br />

• National Women’s League<br />

final:<br />

Canterbury United Pride<br />

v Northern Lights 2pm<br />

Sunday at English Park.<br />

Get your head out of the gutter, guys<br />

THEY STOOD out in a crowd,<br />

caused a stir when first presented<br />

in public, many traditionalists<br />

even felt violated by them, but<br />

now there will be no purple<br />

helmets on display this summer.<br />

On Sunday the Canterbury<br />

Kings open their Twenty20 Super<br />

Smash campaign with a free<br />

to enter match at Hagley against<br />

Wellington Firebirds. <strong>The</strong> match<br />

will also see them return to a<br />

traditional red and black playing<br />

strip after making the divisive<br />

decision to switch to purple and<br />

gold and ditch the ‘Wizards’<br />

name for the ‘Kings’ for the<br />

2014/15 season. Until this summer<br />

Canterbury have continued<br />

to play in purple and gold.<br />

Given the debate surrounding<br />

the Crusaders recent rebrand,<br />

our T20 cricket side doing one<br />

of their own is topical, but what’s<br />

really changed? Well, other than<br />

no longer being able to refer to<br />

the Kings as flaunting their purple<br />

helmets, not a lot.<br />

<strong>The</strong> marketing move has been<br />

made in the hope of no doubt<br />

increasing attendance numbers<br />

and prevent the few dozen emails<br />

Canterbury Cricket receive every<br />

couple of years from so called<br />

purists who remain adamant in<br />

their refusal to attend a match<br />

played by a Canterbury team<br />

who aren’t coated in red and<br />

black. Although, it’s worth<br />

noting anyone who finds the<br />

motivation to email in their uproar<br />

about a marketing decision<br />

to change colour is unlikely to<br />

attend T20 cricket anyway given<br />

the fact the whole T20 format<br />

of cricket is the sport’s greatest<br />

example of a marketing or commercial<br />

decision.<br />

NEW THREADS: Canterbury Kings players<br />

Ed Nuttall and Henry Shipley<br />

<strong>The</strong> original decision to go to<br />

purple and gold was commercially<br />

driven due to the colours<br />

standing out amongst the traditional<br />

red and black Canterbury<br />

colours, giving Canterbury<br />

Cricket its own identity within<br />

the region.<br />

Yes it wasn’t our traditional<br />

colours, but there’s nothing<br />

traditional about T20 cricket and<br />

in hindsight it’s hard to see why<br />

so many people found the purple<br />

helmet so hard to swallow.<br />

In recent weeks similar noise -<br />

albeit amplified - has been about<br />

the Crusaders new logo. Many,<br />

once again purists, have vowed<br />

to not buy new merchandise or<br />

attend games. Some have even<br />

claimed the new Crusaders logo<br />

looks like two phalluses touching<br />

- get your head out of the gutter,<br />

guys.<br />

Read into rebrandings as much<br />

as you like, at the end of the day<br />

GONE: Cam Fletcher denies Todd Astle a<br />

touch of his purple helmet. ​<br />

it comes down to whether or not<br />

you want to support your team<br />

and the sport in your region by<br />

attending a Kings or Crusaders<br />

game. Whether it’s wearing<br />

a particular colour, or logo,<br />

shouldn’t matter.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> Kings match is part of<br />

a double header at Hagley<br />

Park which begins with the<br />

Canterbury Magicians playing<br />

Wellington Blaze at <strong>12</strong>.40pm.<br />

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Crockett props<br />

up Rams roster<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

CANTERBURY RAMS ramped<br />

up their preparations for next<br />

year’s NBL with the signing of<br />

American import Jaye Crockett.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 28-year-old forward/<br />

guard is currently in Australia<br />

after finishing a short spell as<br />

an injury replacement for the<br />

South East Melbourne Phoenix<br />

in the ANBL. Crockett played<br />

nine games for the Phoenix after<br />

coming into the squad as an<br />

injury replacement for import<br />

Tai Wesley. It’s likely Crockett<br />

will join the Rams early next year<br />

if he is unable to find another<br />

ANBL contract for the remainder<br />

of the season.<br />

Rams coach Mick Downer says<br />

the opportunity to sign Crockett<br />

was a unique situation due to his<br />

desire to remain in this part of<br />

the world and pursue a full-time<br />

ANBL contract for next season.<br />

After being made aware of the<br />

situation by Phoenix coach Simon<br />

Mitchell and general manager<br />

Tommy Greer, Downer made the<br />

made to pursue the American for<br />

the upcoming NBL campaign.<br />

“We did our homework and<br />

he came back as a high character<br />

great guy, he’s shown to be a<br />

really efficient scorer, he’s played<br />

at some really high levels and<br />

been on successful teams,” said<br />

NEW FACE: Jaye Crockett will fill one of three available import<br />

spots for the Canterbury Rams next year. ​<br />

Downer.<br />

After playing four years of<br />

college basketball at Texas Tech<br />

Crockett has gone onto play<br />

professionally in Italy, Japan,<br />

Switzerland, Denmark, France<br />

and Lebanon. In 2017-18 he was<br />

named the finals MVP en route<br />

to helping Bakken Bears win the<br />

Danish league title.<br />

Crockett is the Rams second<br />

player signed for next year’s<br />

NBL. Earlier in the week they<br />

announced the return of young<br />

Christchurch point-guard Taylor<br />

Britt recently tastes his first<br />

ANBL action with the Perth<br />

Wildcats.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Rams open the 2020<br />

NBL season at Cowles Stadium<br />

against Taranaki Mountain Airs<br />

on April 11.<br />

CANTERBURY CONTINGENT: James Meredith and Connor<br />

Heap (both holding trophy) helped Cockle Bay to win their first<br />

Caro Bowl title in Auckland. ​<br />

Mixed results for<br />

city tennis players<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

THE LAST week produced<br />

mixed results for a number of<br />

Christchurch tennis players<br />

competing at two of the<br />

country’s biggest events in<br />

Auckland.<br />

On Friday evening James<br />

Meredith and Connor Heap<br />

played a key role in Cockle Bay<br />

winning their first ever Caro<br />

Bowl title – the country’s premier<br />

interclub competition – by<br />

defeating Next Generation at<br />

Stanley St.<br />

<strong>The</strong> pair combined to win<br />

their doubles match against<br />

Finn Reynolds and Corgan<br />

Crowther 6-3, 6-2. Heap then<br />

had a dominant 6-0, 6-1 win<br />

over Sven Van Touw in the bottom<br />

singles.<br />

With the bottom doubles and<br />

two sets in other singles ties the<br />

way of Cockle Bay they were<br />

crowned champions. Meredith’s<br />

match against Reynolds in the<br />

top singles match was finished<br />

with him down a break in the<br />

final set 6-4, 5-7, 2-3. Earlier he<br />

squandered two match points.<br />

Meanwhile, yesterday in<br />

Auckland promising junior<br />

Reece Falck fell to Crowther<br />

in the final of the 18 and<br />

under New Zealand junior<br />

championships. Falck was<br />

broken at 4-4 in the opening set<br />

before Crowther held to take the<br />

first set 6-4.<br />

In the second set Falck was<br />

broken twice early to find<br />

himself trailing 0-3. However,<br />

he immediately broke back, but<br />

was unable to get the set back on<br />

serve and eventually fell 4-6, 5-7.<br />

Falck also contested the doubles<br />

final with fellow Christchurch<br />

junior Jamie Garbett. <strong>The</strong> pair<br />

lost to Crowther and Caelan Potts<br />

5-7, 1-6.<br />

Co-driver’s WRC dream gets a boost<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

AT JUST 15 Jared Hudson has<br />

scored a ride which will put him<br />

amongst the top contenders<br />

for the New Zealand Rally<br />

Championship.<br />

Next year the young pace<br />

note caller will sit alongside<br />

Phil Campbell in his Ford Fiesta<br />

AP4. After hearing Campbell’s<br />

former co-driver was moving<br />

on Jared approached Campbell<br />

and said he would be keen to be<br />

considered.<br />

Now he’s preparing to help<br />

Campbell get his championship<br />

campaign off to the best possible<br />

start at the Otago Rally in April.<br />

For the past two championships<br />

Jared has learnt his craft<br />

writing and calling notes for<br />

Blenheim driver David Taylor<br />

in a Honda Civic, in 2018, and<br />

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII this<br />

year.<br />

Jared also recently attended<br />

the New Zealand Rally codriver’s<br />

academy. <strong>The</strong> Papanui<br />

High School student admits even<br />

he didn’t expect his pathway in<br />

the sport to accelerate as quickly<br />

as it has.<br />

“It wasn’t necessarily the<br />

plan to be competing in the top<br />

category this early on, but it’s a<br />

NEXT STEP: 15-year-old Jared Hudson will co-drive in one of<br />

the country’s top cars next year on the path to chasing his<br />

WRC dream.<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ​<br />

great opportunity, so I’m grateful<br />

for it,” he said.<br />

This year Campbell finished<br />

fourth at Rally Otago and<br />

Rally Canterbury. He also looked<br />

odds-on to win Rally Waitomo<br />

before being forced to retire<br />

on the final stage of the event.<br />

Jared has already had the chance<br />

to ride with Tauranga-based<br />

Campbell at a recent rally sprint<br />

and says the pace the duo will be<br />

doing next year is a step-up.<br />

“It was the commitment in<br />

the corners that was the biggest<br />

difference, Phil was 100 per<br />

cent absolutely committed to<br />

every single corner. With the<br />

added pace there is some added<br />

G-forces on your body, but it’s<br />

just about getting into a good<br />

rhythm and giving your driver<br />

every piece of information they<br />

need,” Jared said.<br />

Going at even quicker pace is<br />

what Jared will have to become<br />

accustomed to as well in his bid<br />

to accomplish the goal of codriving<br />

professionally.<br />

“I would like to go all the<br />

way. I want to go to the WRC.<br />

Whether that is achievable is<br />

anyone’s guess, but that’s how far<br />

I want to go,” Jared said.<br />

In 2018 Jared was believed to<br />

have become one of the world’s<br />

youngest rally winners when he<br />

co-drove Matt Summerfield to<br />

victory at the Westland Rally.<br />

<strong>The</strong> pair finishing just 4.5sec<br />

ahead of Darren Galbraith’s car<br />

which was being co-driven by<br />

Jared’s father Rocky Hudson.<br />

Jared comes from a family of<br />

co-drivers. His parent’s Rocky<br />

and Lisa met through the sport.<br />

Lisa co-drove for Rocky during<br />

the 1990s before he gave up<br />

driving due to the high costs<br />

NEW RIDE:<br />

Next year<br />

Hudson will<br />

call pace<br />

notes for Phil<br />

Campbell in<br />

his Ford Fiesta<br />

AP4.<br />

associated with rallying and the<br />

pair starting a family. However,<br />

they weren’t done with the sport.<br />

Rocky traded in the driver’s seat<br />

for pace notes and since 2001 he<br />

has ridden shotgun with some of<br />

the country’s top drivers including<br />

Andrew Hawkeswood, Mark<br />

Tapper and Dean Buist.<br />

Jared’s sister Amy also took up<br />

co-driving in 2014 and became<br />

the youngest co-driver to win a<br />

national title at just 16 when she<br />

won the NZ 2WD championship<br />

with Dylan Thompson in 2017.<br />

Last year the pair finished<br />

third in the championship overall,<br />

but next year Jared is aiming<br />

to have the top bragging rights in<br />

the family.<br />

“It is certainly the first time<br />

that I’ve probably been the<br />

favourite in the family battle.”


IRON WOMAN:<br />

Shirley Rolston is the<br />

world No 1 ranked<br />

female Ironman<br />

athlete in the 70-74<br />

age group. PHOTO:<br />

GEOFF SLOAN ​<br />

Age no barrier<br />

for this world No 1<br />

• By Gordon Findlater<br />

COMPLETING an<br />

Ironman at 70-years-old<br />

is impressive in itself.<br />

However, Shirley Rolston<br />

is so accustomed to the<br />

feat she backed up her<br />

latest by competing in a<br />

half ironman the following<br />

weekend.<br />

On <strong>December</strong> 1 Rolston<br />

won the women’s 70-74 age<br />

category at the Ironman<br />

Western Australia. She<br />

also broke the race record<br />

in her category with a time<br />

of 15hr 43min 11sec over<br />

the 3.9km swim, 180km<br />

bike and 42.1km run. She<br />

then flew from Perth to<br />

Auckland before grabbing a<br />

rental to car to drive south<br />

to win the same category<br />

in the 70.3 Taupo half ironman<br />

in 7hr 23min 25sec.<br />

Rolston is currently<br />

ranked No 1 in the world<br />

for her age group over the<br />

ironman distance and<br />

ninth in the half ironman<br />

distance. However, she<br />

admits the commitment to<br />

the endurance racing does<br />

result in a sore body.<br />

“You usually appreciate<br />

a massage and depending<br />

if you run the whole way<br />

7 MARCH<br />

LINCOLN<br />

your legs feel terrible, but<br />

I’ve got to a stage where<br />

I refuse to run the whole<br />

way and being a race<br />

walker I can walk as fast<br />

as I can run almost if I’m<br />

tired,” said Rolston.<br />

in brief<br />

CGHS second in cricket<br />

Christchurch Girls’ High School finished<br />

second in the Gillette Venus Cup at the<br />

weekend. After going undefeated in<br />

the round-robin CGHS were undone<br />

by Auckland’s Epsom Girls’ Grammer<br />

School. At Hagley Oval, Epsom amassed<br />

154/4 in their 20 overs before bowling<br />

CGHS out for for 74. Last week St<br />

Andrew’s College made history by<br />

winning the Gillette Cup for the first time.<br />

‘You usually<br />

appreciate a massage<br />

and depending if you<br />

run the whole way<br />

your legs feel terrible’<br />

– Shirley Rolston<br />

<strong>The</strong> effort in Western<br />

Australia also qualified<br />

her for the Ironman World<br />

Championships in Kona,<br />

Hawaii, in October. It will<br />

be her seventh time competing<br />

at the event. This<br />

year Rolston achieved her<br />

best result at Kona, finishing<br />

fifth in her age group.<br />

Competing in close to 50<br />

ironman events, you would<br />

find it hard to believe she<br />

didn’t do her first until<br />

later in life. In fact she only<br />

began doing short distance<br />

triathlons following the<br />

birth of the youngest of her<br />

five children.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> ironman was basically<br />

a challenge for my<br />

50th birthday. A friend<br />

informed me that him<br />

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and some his mates from<br />

Dunedin, for their 50th<br />

birthday the challenge<br />

was to do an iron and he<br />

said to me: ‘Well you’re<br />

a female, but you can do<br />

the challenge too if you<br />

like.’ Of that group of six<br />

or so, I’m the only one still<br />

regularly doing ironman,”<br />

she said.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Tai Tapu resident<br />

is no stranger to records<br />

outside of ironman either.<br />

In 2016 she broke the<br />

national women’s 65-69<br />

24-hour running record<br />

by completing <strong>12</strong>9.681km.<br />

Rolston also holds a national<br />

5000m track record<br />

in the same age group.<br />

As for when she plans<br />

to call it quits on breaking<br />

age group records Rolston<br />

says: “We’ll wait and see,<br />

as long as I can.”<br />

For now her focus is<br />

on completing Ironman<br />

New Zealand in Taupo in<br />

March. Later that month<br />

she will take on her next<br />

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True Picture of Xinjiang and<br />

its Counter Terrorism Efforts<br />

When the world is condemning<br />

another brutal terrorist attack in<br />

London recently, some Western<br />

media are discrediting the<br />

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the counterterrorism and deradicalization<br />

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ideological bias and<br />

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However, facts speak louder than<br />

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the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous<br />

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HOLDEN’S ACADIA didn’t win<br />

the <strong>2019</strong> New Zealand Motoring<br />

Writers’ Guild car of the year<br />

award. That trophy went to<br />

Jaguar’s fully electric I-Pace.<br />

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sport utility vehicle was a finalist.<br />

It went up against some pretty<br />

tough competition – three electric<br />

cars and other notables.<br />

Collectively, I don’t know<br />

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standings but it certainly scored<br />

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points for the COTY.<br />

<strong>The</strong> big United States built<br />

SUV is doesn’t have a lot of<br />

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Highlander and Jeep Grand<br />

Cherokee are well established but<br />

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<strong>The</strong> Acadia comes out of the<br />

GMC stable, GMC is an off-shoot<br />

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the Acadia distances itself<br />

from the ute market, it is built<br />

on a sophisticated monocoque<br />

floorpan with fully independent<br />

suspension.<br />

HOLDEN ACADIA LTZ-V: Four-wheel-drive provides<br />

substantial cross-country ability.<br />

Under the bonnet sits a 3.6-litre<br />

V6 petrol engine which is rated<br />

at 231kW and 367Nm, these<br />

healthy outputs are realised tall<br />

in the rev band at 6600rpm and<br />

5000rpm respectively. If you<br />

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plant that is fitted to the rangetopping<br />

ZB-series Commodore.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Acadia also gets the same<br />

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ease the load on the engine so<br />

that respectable fuel economy can<br />

be gleaned.<br />

Because of its size, and weight<br />

(2032kg), the Acadia needs as<br />

much benefit in this department<br />

as it can get. Holden rate it with<br />

a 9.3-litre per 100km (30mpg)<br />

combined cycle rating. By my<br />

reckoning that’s achievable, the<br />

test car was constantly listing<br />

around 10.8l/100km (26mpg),<br />

taking into consideration I did<br />

a lot of around the city driving<br />

which is never conducive to good<br />

economy results.<br />

On the highway the engine<br />

lopes over gently at 1500rpm<br />

at 100km/h in top gear, using<br />

fuel at an instantaneous rate of<br />

7.8l/100km (36mpg).<br />

<strong>The</strong> Acadia is also a useful offthe-seal<br />

traveller. It lands in both<br />

two-wheel-drive and four-wheeldrive<br />

variants. <strong>The</strong> test car was the<br />

top spec – LTZ-V, and although<br />

the driveline won’t get to places a<br />

low ratio set-up will take you, the<br />

mechanicals are perfect for low<br />

grip situations such as the skifield<br />

access road, tackling the tracks<br />

leading into those high country<br />

lakes, or taking the boat to the<br />

slipway. For the record, the Acadia<br />

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203mm ground clearance figure.<br />

It also travels with compliant<br />

suspension travel. Unlike US<br />

vehicles of the past which have<br />

been quite soft in the suspension,<br />

the Acadia’s spring and damper<br />

rates are definitely biased towards<br />

moderate firming, yet comfort<br />

isn’t compromised.<br />

Pushed into a corner there is<br />

just enough steering feel thanks<br />

to beautiful Continental sport<br />

tyres, and they are big at 235/55<br />

x 20in. <strong>The</strong>re is a lot of rubber<br />

on the road and that promotes a<br />

secure feeling of attachment.<br />

Power out of a corner is vivid.<br />

<strong>The</strong> quad-camshaft engine is a<br />

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band freely but you don’t have<br />

to have it singing to the red line<br />

to get performance, the torque<br />

curve is just broad enough so that<br />

it utilises the mid-range.<br />

However, if you like to have it<br />

breathing freely for a highway<br />

overtake for example, it hunts to<br />

the red line willingly, there was<br />

never a point where I thought the<br />

wrong gear was selected, the way<br />

it arranges those nine ratios is<br />

very clever. On the subject of performance,<br />

the Acadia buyer can<br />

expect a standstill to 100km/h<br />

time of around 7.8sec.<br />

• Price – Holden Acadia<br />

LTZ-V, $71,990<br />

• Dimensions – Length,<br />

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• Configuration – V6,<br />

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• Performance –<br />

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• Fuel usage – 9.3l/100km<br />

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<strong>The</strong> Acadia makes no pretense<br />

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Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED<br />

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7154<br />

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7154<br />

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91481<br />

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252 1801<br />

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co.nz<br />

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Trades & Services<br />

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5035<br />

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385 4348<br />

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027 476 1603<br />

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0874351<br />

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022<br />

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or 021 043 2034<br />

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Trades & Services<br />

SPOuTING CLEANING<br />

SPECIALIST<br />

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022 197 2351<br />

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Trevor 344-2170<br />

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AAA Buying goods<br />

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stoves, washing machines,<br />

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Phone 980 58<strong>12</strong> or 027<br />

313 8156<br />

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624 1138<br />

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52 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Classifieds<br />

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991<br />

Resource consent application – CRC194459: A discharge consent (s15) to<br />

discharge contaminants to air from a poultry processing plant.<br />

Applicant:<br />

Address for service:<br />

Please contact<br />

Environment Canterbury<br />

with any queries:<br />

0800 324 636<br />

Tegel Foods Limited<br />

Andrea Brabant,<br />

Tonkin & Taylor Ltd<br />

PO Box 5271, Auckland 1141<br />

Email: ABrabant@tonkintaylor.co.nz<br />

<strong>The</strong> application is for a resource consent to discharge contaminants to air<br />

from a poultry processing plant at 1<strong>12</strong> Carmen Road, Christchurch, including:<br />

• Combustion products from the operation of six boilers with a combined<br />

heat output of 7 megawatts, and from the operation of a poultry<br />

smokehouse; and<br />

• Odour from poultry processing, a protein recovery (rendering) plant and<br />

wastewater storage and conveyance.<br />

<strong>The</strong> application is to replace the existing consents for discharges to air from<br />

the plant.<br />

<strong>The</strong> plant currently processes a maximum of approximately 75,000 chickens<br />

and 5,000 turkeys per day, and this application is to continue processing at<br />

those rates.<br />

<strong>The</strong> applicant proposes to make upgrades and modifications to the plant,<br />

including the replacement of some of the site boilers with new appliances<br />

in a new boiler house, and modifications to the protein recovery plant and<br />

waste water holding tank that are intended to better manage and mitigate<br />

offsite odour effects.<br />

A consent duration of 20 years is sought.<br />

SUBMISSIONS<br />

Full details of the application and to make a submission visit the Environment<br />

Canterbury website: www.ecan.govt.nz (search ‘Open notified consents’)<br />

and/or viewed at Environment Canterbury at 200 Tuam Street, Christchurch.<br />

Any person may make a written submission on any of the above applications.<br />

All submissions should be sent to Environment Canterbury, PO Box 345<br />

Christchurch 8140; or emailed to hearings@ecan.govt.nz; or made online at<br />

the above link. A copy of the submission must also be sent to the Applicant at<br />

the address for service stated above.<br />

For advice on the Environment Canterbury applications please phone<br />

03 353 9007 or 0800ECINFO (0800 324 636).<br />

Submissions must be received by Environment Canterbury no later than<br />

5 p.m. on Monday 27 January 2020.<br />

Bill Bayfield<br />

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remuneration.<br />

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If your serious about selling and like to<br />

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We will offer you an excellent base salary as<br />

well as a commission system with no cap.<br />

You will be part of a successful team<br />

selling our free newspapers, magazines<br />

and digital solutions to our clients, which<br />

are all experiencing strong growth in our<br />

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I am keen to hear from you, if you can<br />

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and deliver an intelligent sales solution to<br />

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media team.<br />

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to ensure your success in our team.<br />

Please send your application and CV via<br />

email to Shane Victor<br />

shane@starmedia.kiwi


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christchurch<br />

GIG GUIDE<br />

Thursday <strong>12</strong> - Wednesday 18 Dec <strong>2019</strong><br />

Lunch & Dinner<br />

All you can eat<br />

7 days<br />

To add a listing, contact<br />

Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or<br />

027 458 8590<br />

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />

www.star.kiwi/whatson<br />

Following sell-out shows<br />

in the north, <strong>The</strong> Narcs<br />

are now in the South Island<br />

and play unplugged in their<br />

hometown with a gig at the<br />

Wunderbar Lyttelton<br />

on Saturday night.<br />

A ROLLING STONE, 579<br />

Colombo St: Thursday 7pm -<br />

Quiz. Friday 5pm - Roda De Choro<br />

#18; 7.30pm - 60's & 70's Christmas<br />

Disco. Saturday 9pm - ‘Permanence’<br />

the music of Joy Division, ticketed.<br />

Monday 7pm - Quiz. Tuesday 7pm -<br />

Open Mic. Wednesday 7pm -<br />

Traditional Irish Music Session.<br />

CASHMERE CLUB, 50<br />

Colombo St: Thursday 7pm -<br />

Cashmere Ukulele Group.<br />

CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, 3<br />

Garlands Rd: Thursday 10am -<br />

<strong>The</strong> Tannery Christmas Market feat<br />

11.30am - Pocketchange Duo.; 5pm -<br />

Alexander Ru.<br />

CHRISTCHURCH CASINO,<br />

Victoria St: Thursday 8pm -<br />

Shannon Cooper-Garland. Friday 6pm<br />

- Blackie; 9.15pm - Rockabella.<br />

Saturday 7pm - Stephen James;<br />

10.15pm - Eddie Simon. Sunday<br />

5.30pm - Rusila.<br />

GBC, 110 Marshland Rd,<br />

Shirley: Saturday 5.30pm - Vintage<br />

Blue.<br />

HORNBY WMC, 17 Carmen<br />

Rd, Hornby: Saturday 21 Dec,<br />

7.30pm - Reminisce.<br />

KENSINGTON FUN HOUSE,<br />

185 Manchester St: Friday 8pm<br />

- Free Stand Up Comedy. Saturday<br />

8pm - Stand Up Showcase, $10 entry.<br />

Tuesday 8pm - Free Stand Up.<br />

RACECOURSE HOTEL, 118<br />

Racecourse Rd, Sockburn:<br />

Sunday 6pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke.<br />

RICHMOND CLUB, 75<br />

London St: Friday 7pm -<br />

Generation Baby Boomers. Saturday<br />

7pm - Krakkajack. Sunday 3pm -<br />

Roboot.<br />

SHERPA KAI, <strong>The</strong><br />

Commoners (<strong>The</strong> British<br />

basement), 10 Oxford St,<br />

Lyttelton: Saturday 6pm - Rotten<br />

Radio fundraiser dance party feat.<br />

Razor; Scotty Rotten; El Guerrero;<br />

Mikey B; SloBurn DJ’s; Mikki Pixton;<br />

T Spoon; Mt Pohlenator, $10 entry.<br />

Thursday 19 Dec - Gaelic Music.<br />

TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St,<br />

Hornby: Friday 8.30pm - Misftiz.<br />

Saturday 8.30pm - Nightwatch.<br />

THE CRAIC IRISH BAR, 84<br />

Riccarton Rd: Thursday 9.30pm -<br />

Karaoke. Friday 10pm - Live music.<br />

Saturday 10pm - Lance Kiwi.<br />

Wednesday 9pm- Karaoke.<br />

THE EMBANKMENT, 181<br />

Ferry Rd: Thursday 8pm - Titanic<br />

(Kevin Emmett, Nick Buchanan, and<br />

Peter K Malthus). Tuesday 8pm -<br />

Karaoke. Wednesday 8pm - Titanic<br />

Kevin Emmett, Nick Buchanan, and<br />

Peter K Malthus).<br />

THE MILLER BAR, 308<br />

Lincoln Rd, Addington:<br />

Thursday 7pm - Learn to Rock n Roll.<br />

Friday 9.30pm - X-Files Duo. Saturday<br />

9.30pm - Old Skool. Tuesday 7pm -<br />

Quiz Night. Wednesday 7.30pm -<br />

Karaoke with Lance Kiwi.<br />

THE PAPANUI CLUB, 310<br />

Sawyers Arms Rd: Sunday 3pm<br />

- Ryan Ferris. Sunday 22 Dec - Eddie<br />

Simon.<br />

WOOLSTON CLUB, 43<br />

Hargood St: Friday 7.30pm -<br />

Reckless duo. Saturday <strong>12</strong>pm -<br />

Annual Gala Day feat. DJ & Kids<br />

Disco; 4pm - Canterbury Brass Band.<br />

WUNDERBAR, Lyttelton:<br />

Thursday 8.3pm - Comedy Night.<br />

Friday 8pm - <strong>The</strong> Joint EP Release<br />

Party feat. <strong>The</strong> Joint; Bhozy & Blique;<br />

Lonesome Carboy; Windu & Mighty<br />

Browns. Saturday 8pm - <strong>The</strong> Narcs<br />

Unplugged, ticketed. Tuesday 7pm -<br />

Open Mic.<br />

Get all ‘Christmasy’ with us!<br />

PRE-CHRISTMAS<br />

FUNCTIONS, PARTIES,<br />

WORK BREAK UPS.<br />

CHECK OUT OUR<br />

SET MENUS<br />

AVAILABLE LUNCH & DINNER DAILY<br />

UNTIL 24/<strong>12</strong>/19 FOR PARTIES OF 10 OR MORE<br />

SORRY, WE ARE CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY<br />

<strong>The</strong><br />

RESTAURANT & CAFÉ<br />

0pen daily from 6.30am<br />

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner<br />

RACECOURSE HOTEL<br />

& Motorlodge<br />

118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,<br />

Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150<br />

www.racecoursehotel.co.nz<br />

Bookings Essential PH 386 0088<br />

fb.com/GardenHotelRestaurant www.gardenhotel.co.nz<br />

IN THE BAR<br />

HAPPY HOUR 5PM - 7PM DAILY<br />

LIVE SKY SPORT ON THE<br />

GBC BIG SCREEN<br />

IN THE CAFE<br />

OUR CABINET ITEMS ARE HOMEMADE<br />

CREATED FRESH ON SITE DAILY<br />

Breakfast<br />

AVAILABLE<br />

FROM<br />

9AM<br />

DAILY<br />

LIVE MUSIC<br />

THIS SATURDAY<br />

5.30-7.30PM<br />

Vintage Blue<br />

COFFEE<br />

HAPPY<br />

H O U R<br />

2PM-4PM<br />

DAILY $3.50<br />

Offer available for a<br />

limited time and includes<br />

tea, hot chocolate<br />

Lunch $<strong>12</strong> Specials<br />

MON: ROAST MEAL<br />

TUE: FISH & CHIPS<br />

WED: FISH BURGER<br />

THU: ROAST MEAL<br />

SAT: FISH & CHIPS<br />

AVAILABLE FROM<br />

11.30AM-2PM<br />

FOR A LIMITED TIME<br />

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

THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX<br />

110 MARSHLAND RD<br />

www.gardenhotel.co.nz | phone 385 3132


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This Week at the<br />

Hornby Club<br />

let’s<br />

eat<br />

<strong>The</strong> Club Café<br />

is open daily for<br />

Lunch & Dinner<br />

Bring the whole family!<br />

CLUBS NEW ZEALAND WARMLY WELCOME MEMBERS,<br />

THEIR GUESTS AND AFFILIATE CLUB MEMBERS.<br />

Check Out <strong>The</strong>se Club Café Dining Specials!<br />

Midday to 2pm<br />

Thursday<br />

Mon, Tue, Wed<br />

Roast of the Day with veges<br />

or Fish of the Day with<br />

chips & salad<br />

Add a dessert for<br />

just $5<br />

Friday<br />

New Year’s Eve<br />

DINNER DEAL<br />

Pie,<br />

Peas &<br />

Spud<br />

DINNER DEAL<br />

Braised<br />

Pork Chop<br />

with Apricot<br />

& Veges<br />

BAND<br />

with<br />

Saturday<br />

DINNER DEAL<br />

Souvlaki<br />

& Chips<br />

Sunday<br />

ALLAN BARRON MARIAN BURNS JOSH KEATING<br />

TUESDAY 31ST DEC, 8PM | HORNBY CLUB<br />

Tickets $5 at the Hornby Club office<br />

What’s On @ Woolston<br />

UPCOMING EVENTS<br />

SATURDAY<br />

21 DEC, 7.30pm<br />

REMINISCE<br />

SATURDAY<br />

28 DEC, 7pm<br />

JO’S<br />

KARAOKE<br />

SUNDAY 15TH<br />

www.hornbywmc.co.nz/events<br />

COMING UP<br />

NEW YEARS EVE<br />

TUESDAY 31 DEC, 8PM<br />

REMEDY<br />

& GUESTS<br />

HWMC | ph 03 349 9026 | 17 Carmen Rd, Hornby<br />

www.hornbywmc.co.nz | Members, guests & affiliates welcome<br />

THIS SATURDAY 7.30PM<br />

LIVE MUSIC<br />

Reckless<br />

SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER <strong>12</strong>PM, FREE<br />

Club Gala Day<br />

Petting Zoo<br />

Bouncy Castle<br />

Kids Disco & DJ<br />

Canty Brass Band<br />

TUESDAY 31 DECEMBER 7.30PM, FREE<br />

NEW YEARS EVE WITH<br />

Unhinged<br />

43 Hargood St, Woolston. Ph 03 389 7039<br />

www.woolstonclub.co.nz<br />

Follow us on Facebook<br />

www.facebook.com/WoostonclubInc<br />

RESTAURANT OPEN<br />

Wednesday - Sunday from 5pm<br />

Wednesday 25 <strong>December</strong><br />

Bookings available between<br />

11am - 1.30pm<br />

Adults $65pp<br />

Children $40pp (under <strong>12</strong> yrs)<br />

Lunch menu:<br />

woolstonclub.co.nz/entertainment<br />

HOU S I E<br />

TUESDAY <strong>12</strong>.45PM<br />

THURSDAY 7.30PM<br />

FRIDAY 7.30PM<br />

SATURDAY <strong>12</strong>.30PM


Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 55<br />

What s On<br />

AT THE<br />

CLUBS NEW ZEALAND WARMLY<br />

WELCOME MEMBERS, THEIR GUESTS<br />

AND AFFILIATE CLUB MEMBERS.<br />

Become<br />

a member<br />

TODAY!<br />

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT A<br />

CLUB WITHIN THIS SECTION.<br />

Cashmere Club<br />

50 Colombo Street<br />

cashmereclub.co.nz<br />

THURSDAY & FRIDAY<br />

HAM RAFFLES from 4pm<br />

HAPPY HOUR 5pm-6pm<br />

MEMBERS’<br />

CASH<br />

Ph 03 332 0092<br />

E: cashmere@<br />

cashmereclub.co.nz<br />

DRAW $600<br />

REDRAW 6.15PM FRIDAY<br />

6.15pm THURSDAY<br />

IF NOT WON.<br />

THURSDAY from 7pm<br />

CASHMERE LOUNGE - ALL WELCOME<br />

CASHMERE UKULELE GROUP<br />

FRIDAY from 7pm<br />

FRIDAY<br />

FUN<br />

HOUSIE<br />

$4 per card. 35 games. Cash prizes. Rafes.<br />

All welcome.<br />

WEDNESDAY from 7pm<br />

FREE CHRISTMAS QUIZ<br />

Last QUIZ for <strong>2019</strong>! Register teams 4-6 from 6.45pm.<br />

Christmas theme & additional prizes.<br />

QUIZ NIGHTS reutrn on Wednesday 5th Feb 2020,<br />

NOW ON!<br />

THE CASUAL DINING<br />

CHRISTMAS<br />

SET MENU<br />

2 COURSES<br />

$26<br />

PER PERSON<br />

AVAILABLE TUES-SAT<br />

LUNCH & DINNER<br />

RIVERVIEW RESTAURANT<br />

LIVE<br />

MUSIC<br />

DND<br />

DUO<br />

JOJO & MARK<br />

FROM<br />

6.30PM<br />

WORK<br />

BREAK UP<br />

FRIDAY 20TH DECEMBER<br />

WHAT’S ON<br />

AT THE<br />

RICHMOND<br />

CLUB<br />

GENERATION<br />

BABY BOOMERS<br />

FRIDAY<br />

SATURDAY<br />

SUNDAY<br />

13 14 15<br />

7-11PM 7-11PM 3-6PM<br />

KRAKKAJACK<br />

REBOOT<br />

• Open daily from 11am<br />

• BISTRO Lunch/Dinner<br />

• TAB & Gaming<br />

• Courtesy Van<br />

75 London St<br />

PH 03 389 5778<br />

www.rwmc.co.nz


56 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

FINAL<br />

WEEK!<br />

UNWRAP A<br />

BARGAIN! IN STORE & ONLINE.<br />

DON’T MISS OUT, THESE CHRISTMAS DEALS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL MONDAY 16TH DECEMBER <strong>2019</strong>.<br />

Fox<br />

Outdoor Corner Suite<br />

WAS $2649<br />

NOW<br />

$<br />

1899<br />

Barcelona<br />

Outdoor 3 Seater<br />

WAS $<strong>12</strong>99<br />

NOW<br />

$<br />

899<br />

Paris<br />

2 Drawer Coffee Table<br />

WAS $599<br />

NOW<br />

$<br />

399<br />

SAVE<br />

$750<br />

Enjoy now PAY IN 2021<br />

Memphis Queen Bed<br />

WAS $499<br />

NOW<br />

$<br />

399<br />

Credit criteria, exclusions, fees, terms & conditions apply.<br />

Whitehaven<br />

Dining Table – W180<br />

WAS $849<br />

NOW<br />

$<br />

599<br />

Monaco Black<br />

Bookcase<br />

WAS $899<br />

NOW<br />

$<br />

499<br />

TARGET CHRISTCHURCH<br />

Proudly locally<br />

owned and<br />

operated.<br />

THE BIG CHRISTMAS SALE ON NOW! ENDS 16.<strong>12</strong>.19.<br />

Shop<br />

Online<br />

Nationwide<br />

Delivery<br />

Finance<br />

Options<br />

Cnr Blenheim & Curletts Rds, Christchurch<br />

Ph: 0800 TARGET (0800 827438)<br />

targetfurniture.co.nz<br />

Offers and product prices advertised here expire 16/<strong>12</strong>/19.<br />

Sale excludes Manchester and Accessories.


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