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BEAR HUNT: Eddie and Ashlynn McKinnel are ready for other children to spot their teddy bears from afar.<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
TEDDY BEARS are lining<br />
the windows of Christchurch<br />
households as they take part in<br />
a global movement to brighten<br />
children’s days during the<br />
Covid-19 lockdown.<br />
<strong>The</strong> “We’re Going On a<br />
Bear Hunt” inspired event<br />
originated from London, and<br />
thousands of New Zealanders<br />
have already taken part. While<br />
families take walks in their<br />
neighbourhoods, children are<br />
able to spot the teddy bears on<br />
windowsills from afar; as long<br />
as people maintain physical<br />
distancing rules.<br />
Edgeware resident Jennifer<br />
McKinnel has joined the<br />
movement because she wanted<br />
to show her children that<br />
“we’re all in this together.”<br />
“We’re all in this together<br />
and we all care about each<br />
other. Other kids have to stay<br />
in their houses too but they’ve<br />
done this to make our hearts<br />
happy. In turn, we’ve done this<br />
to make them happy,” she said.<br />
“Sometimes as parents we<br />
don’t stop and smell the roses;<br />
we race about our lives. This<br />
lockdown, myself and my<br />
husband are going to take the<br />
time to reconnect as a family.”<br />
A map of teddy bear<br />
locations can be found on the<br />
“We’re Not Scared - NZ Bear<br />
Hunt” Facebook page.<br />
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phone. However, most branches<br />
will be closed during the level 4<br />
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New Zealand Bankers’<br />
Association chief executive<br />
Roger Beaumont said during the<br />
lockdown banks will keep some<br />
branches open for limited<br />
hours one day a week to meet<br />
the needs of customers who<br />
cannot use ATMs, phone or<br />
online banking.<br />
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Mortgage repayments:<br />
On Tuesday, the Government<br />
announced a six-month mortgage<br />
holiday for those whose incomes<br />
have been affected by Covid-19.<br />
Rent payments:<br />
Landlords will be unable<br />
to raise rents on residential<br />
properties during the lockdown<br />
period. Finance Minister Grant<br />
Robertson said landlords will<br />
temporarily be unable to raise<br />
rents in a bid to provide relief to<br />
renters facing reduced working<br />
hours or job losses as a result of<br />
the Covid-19 outbreak.<br />
Vets:<br />
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Government and will remain<br />
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Recycling:<br />
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We can get through this together<br />
I KNOW many of you will be<br />
feeling frightened right now.<br />
<strong>The</strong> enormity of the lockdown<br />
will be hitting home –<br />
literally.<br />
It is reassuring to hear the<br />
Prime Minister has said they<br />
Mayor<br />
Lianne Dalziel<br />
Crusader Jack Goodhue marries<br />
with mullet on Waiheke Island<br />
ALL BLACK and Crusader Jack<br />
Goodhue has married girlfriend<br />
Sophia Eblett on Waiheke Island.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rugby player took to social<br />
media to share the happy news.<br />
“Last month I married the most<br />
amazing woman,” he wrote on<br />
Instagram.<br />
“She makes me laugh and<br />
brings out the best in me. Now<br />
we get to spend the rest of lives<br />
together.”<br />
Last year Goodhue grew a<br />
mullet, along with fellow All<br />
Blacks including Brodie Retallick,<br />
Sam Cane, and Beauden and<br />
Jordie Barrett.<br />
While Beauden Barrett’s was<br />
gone well before his 2019 January<br />
wedding, Goodhue kept his for<br />
his big day.<br />
“Brodie Retallick was my<br />
inspiration for it [the mullet].<br />
And then he left me in the dark<br />
I tell you what,” he joked during<br />
an interview with Radio Sport<br />
Breakfast.<br />
He announced his engagement<br />
from Kawakawa during a break<br />
from playing for the Crusaders<br />
in April last year, posting to<br />
Instagram: “Kept the training<br />
up over the bye week with a few<br />
lunges #shesaidyes.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> young Christchurch-based couple,<br />
who reconnected in 2018 after both<br />
will do everything they can<br />
to protect us. With so much<br />
uncertainty this is all we can<br />
ask right now.<br />
Although no one started this<br />
year thinking we would see our<br />
country in lockdown before the<br />
I DO: Jack Goodhue has tied the knot with<br />
girlfriend Sophia Eblett on Waiheke Island.<br />
PHOTOS: INSTAGRAM<br />
having attended Auckland’s Mount<br />
Albert Grammar School, have a love of<br />
the outdoors, walking, and share a firm<br />
religious faith.<br />
end of <strong>March</strong>, the truth is that<br />
a pandemic is a risk we have<br />
planned for.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Government has the<br />
capability to respond to such<br />
a crisis, with the Ministry of<br />
Health fully prepared to take<br />
the lead role in implementing<br />
the pandemic plan. District<br />
health boards are prepared for<br />
this too.<br />
Your council has also prepared<br />
for emergencies, and has<br />
been treating this seriously. We<br />
have had an incident management<br />
team in place since the<br />
end of January, and like many<br />
other agencies and businesses,<br />
we have been preparing to<br />
maintain essential services,<br />
while enabling certain services<br />
to operate remotely where they<br />
can.<br />
This is unlike any one of the<br />
many crisis situations we have<br />
had to face.<br />
We can get through this<br />
together, this time in spirit.<br />
Everyone is going to have to dig<br />
deep. We know we can do it.<br />
NEWS 3<br />
in brief<br />
Five new Canterbury<br />
Covid-19 cases<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are five new cases of<br />
Covid-19 in Canterbury, the<br />
Ministry of Health announced<br />
yesterday. One of them is a<br />
20-year-old woman who flew<br />
from San Francisco to Auckland<br />
on <strong>March</strong> 21 on flight NZ7 and<br />
then Auckland to Christchurch<br />
on <strong>March</strong> 21 on flight NZ527.<br />
Another woman in her 20s who<br />
flew from London via Dubai<br />
and Sydney to Christchurch on<br />
<strong>March</strong> 13 on flight EK006 also<br />
tested positive for Covid-19. <strong>The</strong><br />
infection of a man in his 50s is<br />
linked to an already confirmed<br />
case in Canterbury, said the<br />
Ministry of Health. Meanwhile,<br />
another man in his 50s tested<br />
positive after flying from Sydney<br />
to Christchurch on <strong>March</strong> 13<br />
on flight EK412. Details around<br />
the new case of a 50-year-old<br />
woman who has also tested<br />
positive are yet to be released.<br />
A female teen from Canterbury<br />
is also listed as a probable<br />
Covid-19 case.<br />
EQC will continue to<br />
process claims<br />
<strong>The</strong> Earthquake Commission<br />
will continue to process claims<br />
for damage caused by natural<br />
disasters, including reopened<br />
Canterbury claims, despite its<br />
offices having to shut down. All<br />
claim lodgement channels remain<br />
open and claims will continue to<br />
be managed and settled, however,<br />
all face-to-face interactions will<br />
cease. This will cause delays<br />
to managed repairs currently<br />
under construction, as well as<br />
onsite assessments and scoping.<br />
Customers can contact the person<br />
managing their claim if they<br />
have their details or contact EQC<br />
directly on 0800 3<strong>26</strong> 243.<br />
Community board<br />
meetings cancelled<br />
All community board and city<br />
council committee meetings<br />
have been cancelled in response<br />
to the Covid-19 outbreak. A new<br />
emergency committee, chaired<br />
by Mayor Lianne Dalziel, has<br />
been formed to enable decision<br />
making throughout the<br />
lockdown period to continue.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> real estate industry<br />
is confident the property<br />
market will weather the<br />
Covid-19 storm, after it has<br />
ravaged markets overseas.<br />
Louis Day reports<br />
BEFORE COVID-19 ran<br />
rampant across Italy, the Wall<br />
Street Journal published an<br />
article titled “Why Is Milan’s<br />
Real-Estate Market So in Fashion<br />
Right Now?”<br />
At this point, only one case of<br />
Covid-19 had been confirmed<br />
in Italy. Since then, more than<br />
69,000 cases have been confirmed<br />
and Italian real estate research<br />
institute Scenari Immobiliari has<br />
reported a 12 per cent decrease<br />
in house sales<br />
for the first two<br />
months of this<br />
year.<br />
Already in<br />
Canterbury,<br />
more than 800<br />
house sales have<br />
Justin Haley<br />
been derailed<br />
by the Covid-19<br />
lockdown. In most deals, the<br />
seller of one house is the buyer<br />
of another, and that vendor is<br />
looking to buy another, so a lastminute<br />
failure of just one sale can<br />
trigger a chain reaction which<br />
affects large numbers of people.<br />
South Korea, which now has<br />
more than 9000 confirmed cases<br />
of the virus, has seen its property<br />
market ravished.<br />
Local business outlet Chosun-<br />
Biz reported the country’s apartment<br />
market saw an average of<br />
just 458 sales per day nationwide<br />
in the first nine days of <strong>March</strong>,<br />
compared to 2272 per day in<br />
December. That is an 80 per cent<br />
decline in sales.<br />
<strong>The</strong> decline has been even<br />
starker in the densely populated<br />
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capital of Seoul, where daily sales<br />
volumes fell by 90 per cent from<br />
309 sales per day to just 31.<br />
“Business is frozen as more<br />
people are postponing moving<br />
plans because of the coronavirus,<br />
or are hesitant to show their<br />
homes to strangers out of fear of<br />
contagion,” a real estate broker in<br />
Seoul told ChosunBiz.<br />
In spite of the doom and gloom<br />
overseas, Bayleys residential<br />
and projects divisional manager<br />
Justin Haley remained optimistic<br />
the property landscape would<br />
return to normality after the<br />
lockdown.<br />
“Through adversity, there is<br />
always opportunity,” he said.<br />
“In times of uncertainty you<br />
definitely find people gravitate<br />
towards tangible assets, we have<br />
seen that not only through the<br />
GFC but also after the earthquakes<br />
sequence.”<br />
Mike Pero real estate agent<br />
Hayden Jones shared Mr Haley’s<br />
optimism.<br />
“I guess the lockdown is a real<br />
chance for people to have a bit of<br />
reflection and hopefully they will<br />
come out of it ready to purchase,”<br />
he said.<br />
CoreLogic senior research<br />
analyst Kelvin Davidson said<br />
New Zealand’s property market<br />
has historically been resilient to<br />
most “shocks.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s only been three<br />
material falls in property values<br />
in the past 30-35 years. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
occurred in the early 1990s with<br />
a five per cent fall, late 1990s<br />
with a three per cent fall, and late<br />
2000s with a ten per cent fall,” he<br />
said.<br />
“From the troughs in the first<br />
two episodes, it took around one<br />
year for the previous falls to be<br />
fully reversed, but the rebound<br />
from the global financial crisisrelated<br />
downturn took more than<br />
three years.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> market also shrugged off<br />
the SARS epidemic, for example,<br />
without any falls in prices.”<br />
Statistics from the Real Estate<br />
Institute of New Zealand show<br />
the national median house<br />
price increased by 14.3 per cent<br />
last month, a new record of<br />
$640,000, up from $560,000 in<br />
February 2019.<br />
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Canterbury also recorded an<br />
all-time high median house price<br />
with a 4.2 per cent increase to<br />
$474,000 up from $455,000. <strong>The</strong><br />
average for asking price for a<br />
house in Canterbury also reached<br />
record heights<br />
last month,<br />
with the<br />
average of<br />
$520,789 a<br />
4.1 per cent<br />
increase from<br />
last year.<br />
Dominick<br />
Stephens<br />
Said REINZ<br />
chief executive<br />
Bindi<br />
Norwell: “For<br />
two months in a row now we’ve<br />
seen every region in the country<br />
experience annual median price<br />
increases, showing a continuation<br />
of the price<br />
growth we<br />
started to see<br />
just before<br />
Christmas.<br />
With strong<br />
demand<br />
across the<br />
country it’s<br />
Tom Coupe<br />
highly likely<br />
we’ll see these<br />
price rises continue in <strong>March</strong> unless<br />
the economy takes a sudden<br />
hit from Covid-19.”<br />
However, earlier this month,<br />
Westpac chief economist<br />
Dominick Stephens said the main<br />
impact of the pandemic would be<br />
felt in the second quarter of this<br />
year.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> currently rampant<br />
housing market is likely to skid to<br />
a halt, with price growth slowing<br />
sharply in the June quarter,” he<br />
said.<br />
Canterbury University<br />
associate professor Tom Coupe<br />
also believed the uncertainty<br />
around the virus in New Zealand<br />
would slow down spending.<br />
“Such uncertainty is likely<br />
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RISE AND FALL?: Last month, Canterbury recorded an<br />
all-time high median house price with a 4.2 per cent<br />
increase to $474,000 up from $455,000.<br />
to reduce the amount of<br />
transactions as buyers will<br />
delay their purchase if they<br />
can, and sellers, expecting less<br />
demand, will do the same. So<br />
real estate agencies who rely on<br />
commissions are likely to see a<br />
substantial drop in revenues,” he<br />
said.<br />
“While the number of<br />
transactions is likely to decline<br />
fast, price declines are usually<br />
much slower to appear and if they<br />
happen, more limited.”<br />
• By Jess Gibson<br />
GUINEA PIGS Ghost, Wolf<br />
and Fang were among 109<br />
lucky animals to find homes in<br />
Christchurch yesterday before the<br />
lockdown was introduced.<br />
Laura Dibben took in her<br />
three new furry friends on Monday,<br />
after the SPCA put out an “urgent<br />
call” for adoption last week in<br />
response to the Covid-19 outbreak.<br />
SPCA’s Christchurch Centre in<br />
Hornby was cleared out by yesterday<br />
morning, and a number of<br />
people missed out after queuing<br />
up for about two hours.<br />
Ms Dibben said she and her partner<br />
had room in their hearts and<br />
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Queues at SPCA<br />
home for another three buddies.<br />
SPCA general manager of<br />
marketing and fundraising<br />
Dominique Leeming said it was<br />
“heartwarming” to have all animals<br />
including birds, cats, dogs<br />
and horses adopted out.<br />
She was confident staff had<br />
done their best to ensure owners<br />
would take care of their new pets<br />
appropriately both during and<br />
after the lockdown period.<br />
For those who missed out, the<br />
SPCA is working on a plan to<br />
safely foster out animals over the<br />
next four weeks and will keep<br />
people informed through its<br />
Facebook page.<br />
Rest homes stay active<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
CHRISTCHURCH retirement<br />
villages and rest homes are doing<br />
their bit to keep residents positive<br />
through the lockdown period.<br />
People aged more than 70 are<br />
most at risk of Covid-19 but efforts<br />
are being made to lift residents’<br />
spirits and keep them occupied.<br />
Windsorcare Shirley diversional<br />
therapist Angela Drummond<br />
said efforts are being made<br />
to make life as normal as possible<br />
for its residents under the circumstances.<br />
“We’re just trying to go on as<br />
normal, like, try and keep it completely<br />
as normal as we can and<br />
still continue to do the in-house<br />
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activities that we have available.<br />
“We’re continuing with our<br />
exercises and our housie and our<br />
floor games and just everything<br />
really as normal. We can still<br />
take them out in the van but we<br />
can’t go out, of course.<br />
Jeremy Nicoll, the chief<br />
financial officer of Arvida<br />
Group, which runs 10 retirement<br />
facilities in Christchurch said:<br />
“What we’re trying to do is to<br />
give innovative ways to obviously<br />
keep peoples’ minds occupied,<br />
keep them active, keeping them<br />
fed well.”<br />
Residents are being helped to<br />
make Skype calls and encouraged<br />
to write letters, he said.<br />
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6<br />
NEWS<br />
THE FIVE-WEEK police Eagle<br />
helicopter trial in Christchurch<br />
comes to an end – but has it<br />
made us safer?<br />
With the completion of the<br />
trial on Friday, police say the Eagle<br />
and the staff who work with<br />
it will return to Auckland. As for<br />
its future in Christchurch – that<br />
is still undecided.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re<br />
will be a full<br />
evaluation,<br />
which will be<br />
considered<br />
by police on<br />
the potential<br />
for any future<br />
expanded<br />
deployment,”<br />
said Superintendent John<br />
Price, District Commander<br />
Canterbury.<br />
<strong>The</strong> evaluation is still underway<br />
and there are no immediate<br />
plans for the Eagle helicopter to<br />
return. However, a police spokeswoman<br />
said the public will notice<br />
an increased police presence<br />
during the lockdown period.<br />
An online survey, conducted<br />
by Christchurch Central MP<br />
Duncan Webb and completed by<br />
more than 1400 people, showed<br />
a high level of support for the<br />
Eagle helicopter. It found 53 per<br />
cent of respondents thought it<br />
was reassuring and 21 per cent<br />
were glad it was patrolling the<br />
city. Fifty-two per cent said the<br />
helicopter was “an essential<br />
part of policing strategy” and<br />
a further 24 per cent thought it<br />
should stay and they “trusted<br />
police to make decisions about<br />
how to deploy resources”. However,<br />
12 per cent of respondents<br />
said the helicopter was really<br />
distressing and a further 12 per<br />
cent viewed it as irritating.<br />
Superintendent Price says it<br />
has been a very busy trial period<br />
for the Eagle.<br />
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“At the end of week four, Sunday,<br />
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found due to the help of the eye<br />
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“This translates to 69 per cent<br />
of offenders being caught or<br />
people being found using Eagle<br />
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and expert guidance, the<br />
staff identified a route where the<br />
stolen bike and car would be<br />
blocked in and stopped by staff.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re was success for the<br />
teams involved when three arrests<br />
were made, one stolen motorbike<br />
recovered, one stolen car<br />
recovered and two men arrested<br />
and charged with possession for<br />
supply of methamphetamine.<br />
Superintendent Price said it<br />
only got busier from there.<br />
“Within the first week, a traffic<br />
incident unfolded where a car<br />
was spotted weaving all over<br />
and driving on the wrong side<br />
of the road.<br />
“It was followed by an informant,<br />
then police, for a considerable<br />
distance at Pigeon Bay,<br />
which later lead to a successful<br />
apprehension.<br />
“Eagle monitored the vehicle<br />
and the manner of driving<br />
made it clear that a serious crash<br />
would occur if the car was not<br />
stopped.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> crew located an<br />
appropriate place to safely land<br />
the helicopter and conduct a<br />
vehicle stop. <strong>The</strong> car was stopped<br />
without incident, but the driver,<br />
after refusing breath and bloodalcohol<br />
tests, was arrested.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> 33-year-old woman will<br />
appear on traffic charges in April.”<br />
At the end of the second<br />
week of the trial the Eagle<br />
helped a police patrol unit in<br />
pursuit of a vehicle that had left<br />
a bar in Darfield travelling at<br />
high speed.<br />
“As Eagle was close, the<br />
crew obtained long-range<br />
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Has it made us any safer?<br />
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<strong>The</strong> vehicle was travelling<br />
at high speed, in places, over<br />
130km/h on gravel roads.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> vehicle went into a large<br />
rural property on a road nearby.<br />
An occupant climbed out of the<br />
driver’s window and opened a<br />
gate, at which point five other<br />
occupants exited the vehicle also<br />
via the windows.<br />
“Eagle crew located one man<br />
attempting to run away, who<br />
quickly realised he was not getting<br />
away. <strong>The</strong> spotlight from<br />
Eagle helped direct ground staff<br />
to him. All six occupants were<br />
taken into custody initially.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> driver claimed he had failed<br />
to stop because he thought he was<br />
too drunk to drive. <strong>The</strong> vehicle was<br />
not stolen or otherwise wanted,<br />
however the male driver will appear<br />
for failing to stop and other<br />
traffic charges in April.”<br />
By week three, the Eagle had<br />
been used to track several vehicle<br />
pursuits, taking away some of the<br />
risk and danger these chases pose<br />
to police and the public.<br />
“In Timaru on 4 <strong>March</strong> just after<br />
10am, a vehicle failed to stop<br />
for police, but it was lost after the<br />
patrol car abandoned the pursuit.<br />
It was successfully located in the<br />
car park of a tavern in town,”<br />
said Superintendent Price.<br />
“Two men were seen running<br />
north from the tavern. A dog unit<br />
tracked to the corner of Lough<br />
and Wilson Sts.<br />
“Once on scene, Eagle began a<br />
search of a park which was the last<br />
known location of the offenders.<br />
“During the search a suspicious<br />
vehicle was sighted on Meremere<br />
St, with two occupants inside.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> people inside the vehicle<br />
at the park were not related to the<br />
failing-to-stop job, however the<br />
passenger was found to not only<br />
be in possession of drugs but also<br />
a pistol, which police thought was<br />
linked to a rural burglary where<br />
firearms were taken.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> man was arrested and<br />
charged with seven offences - two<br />
charges of possession of a weapon<br />
and ammunition, four charges of<br />
possession of methamphetamine<br />
for supply, and one charge of receives<br />
property (believed to be a<br />
firearm from the rural burglary).<br />
“Eagle continued surveillance<br />
for the offenders who had failed<br />
to stop in the previous job, and<br />
the suspected driver was eventually<br />
located inside his home<br />
address several kilometres away<br />
by ground staff making inquiries<br />
there. <strong>The</strong> driver was arrested for<br />
failing to stop and also a historic<br />
fingerprint burglary match.”<br />
On <strong>March</strong> 4, a Subaru was seen<br />
swerving all over the roads with<br />
no headlights on near Darfield.<br />
EAGLE EYE: <strong>The</strong><br />
Eagle helicopter<br />
allowed police<br />
pursuits to be<br />
conducted in<br />
a safer manner<br />
by tracking<br />
vehicles and<br />
communicating<br />
with ground<br />
units.<br />
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“<strong>The</strong> driver was located,<br />
monitored and stopped with the<br />
assistance of Eagle, and after<br />
breath testing, was found to have<br />
1012 micrograms of alcohol per<br />
litre of breath. <strong>The</strong> passenger, a<br />
known offender, was found to be<br />
in possession of drugs.”<br />
Just days after on <strong>March</strong> 6, a<br />
stolen vehicle was spotted near<br />
Marshland going 160km/h.<br />
During this incident the Eagle<br />
teamed up with a police dog to<br />
track a suspect.<br />
“Eagle arrived on scene soon<br />
after and identified the target<br />
vehicle driving southbound at a<br />
reduced speed on Main North<br />
Rd,” said Superintendent Price.<br />
“No units were in pursuit or<br />
close to the vehicle due to the<br />
speed, so Eagle provided commentary<br />
and suggested suitable<br />
locations for ground units to set up<br />
spikes on Pound and Ryan Rds.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> spiking impacted all of<br />
the vehicles tyres and the vehicle<br />
slowed to a stop on Pound Rd.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> driver got out and ran to a<br />
bush line whereby Eagle provided<br />
support to a police dog unit who<br />
located the offender. <strong>The</strong> offender<br />
is charged with driving while<br />
disqualified and failing to stop.<br />
“Eagle’s involvement helped<br />
reduce the possibility of major<br />
damage or injury.”<br />
Superintendent Price said other<br />
notable incidents involving the<br />
Eagle included dangerous driving<br />
incidents in central Christchurch<br />
on <strong>March</strong> 9, New Brighton on<br />
<strong>March</strong> 10 and Wainoni on <strong>March</strong><br />
13 – all of which led to arrests.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> way these offenders were<br />
prepared to flee from ground units<br />
showed a distinct lack of regard for<br />
other road users, pedestrians and<br />
the safety of all the public,” Superintendent<br />
Price said.<br />
“Eagle has helped our groundbased<br />
staff by attending a range<br />
of events including a number<br />
of road policing jobs. It’s been<br />
a good tool to assist with our<br />
front line teams working to halt<br />
offenders in their tracks.”<br />
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NEWS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
How to homeschool your children<br />
• By Nikki Preston<br />
PARENTS PREPARING to home<br />
school their children need to relax<br />
and steer away from replicating a<br />
school day, experts say.<br />
Since Prime Minister Jacinda<br />
Ardern announced schools would<br />
close almost immediately for most a<br />
number of home schooling groups<br />
have popped up on Facebook as<br />
parents get their heads around home<br />
schooling their children.<br />
But New Zealand Principals’ Federation<br />
president Perry Rush had<br />
some strong advice for parents and<br />
said it was crucial learning at home<br />
was not made to be stressful.<br />
“It’s not a time of pressure and<br />
expectation and confrontation<br />
around the need to get your work<br />
done because if there is, there’s going<br />
to be no pleasure, no enjoyment<br />
and real no learning taking place.<br />
“Our kids are worried and it’s our<br />
job to make sure we can support<br />
them, we can love them as parents<br />
and we can create an environment<br />
where they can get on and full their<br />
day with languages, words, numbers<br />
and colour and paint and construction,<br />
activity and play and questions<br />
and debate. <strong>The</strong>se are the core ideas<br />
at the heart of powerful learning.”<br />
He warned parents against replicating<br />
what they thought happened<br />
at school and instead work with<br />
the advice of the schools who were<br />
quickly working to but together<br />
online resources for when term two<br />
started on April 14.<br />
In the meantime they could enjoy<br />
the newly brought forward holidays.<br />
“Once we’ve spent a bit of time<br />
doing that we will start to see the<br />
pace pick up as the holidays start<br />
to conclude and we start those<br />
first two weeks of next term which<br />
traditionally would have been the<br />
school holiday period.”<br />
Cynthia Hancox, who is a government<br />
liaison for the National<br />
Council of Home Educators and<br />
home schooled for more than 20<br />
years, said the most important<br />
thing was parents focusing on children<br />
feeling loved and safe.<br />
Hancox said home schooling<br />
implied a choice with preparation,<br />
resources and process and as this<br />
was not the case parents should<br />
instead focus on doing fun things<br />
with their children and not put<br />
pressure on themselves.<br />
“I would focus on reading stories,<br />
playing games, exploring the backyard,<br />
letting them ask questions and<br />
helping them find answers,” she said.<br />
“You kids aren’t going to get behind<br />
- it just doesn’t work that way.<br />
And if they talk to their children,<br />
read with their children, if they explore<br />
stuff together they are going<br />
to be learning anyway. <strong>The</strong>y may<br />
look back on this actually as a fun<br />
ONLINE: Ellie Sparks,<br />
8, is using educational<br />
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Monday.<br />
Tips for home schooling<br />
your children during<br />
isolation:<br />
1. Emotional wellbeing of child<br />
is far more important than<br />
their education right now<br />
2. Let your children lead the<br />
learning<br />
3. Participate in focused learning<br />
for one to two hours a day<br />
4. Remember learning can be<br />
done through play<br />
5. Don’t put pressure on yourself<br />
time when they actually got more<br />
of mum and dad’s attention than<br />
they would normally get.”<br />
Hancox said compiling a list of<br />
activities such as puzzles, reading,<br />
games and chores for kids was a<br />
good way of addressing their boredom<br />
claims and quickly made them<br />
realise how many things there were<br />
for them to do.<br />
Twinkl country manager Claire<br />
Sparks, whose company provides<br />
educational resources primarily<br />
to teachers, said instead parents<br />
should first put the wellbeing of<br />
their child before any education.<br />
Sparks said parents taking on the<br />
teacher role should let their children<br />
take the lead and talk about<br />
what they want to learn.<br />
Parents shouldn’t expect to be<br />
teaching non-stop between 9am to<br />
3pm and any focused learning carried<br />
out at home could be achieved<br />
within one to two hours, she said.<br />
“Everything else should be learning<br />
through play, learning through<br />
helping with baking, helping with<br />
some chores. Snuggling together<br />
and reading.”<br />
Parents also did not need to be doing<br />
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and could set up children with online<br />
resources to do independently.<br />
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HEALTH UPDATE<br />
Restricted visiting<br />
At COVID-19 Alert Level 4 all Canterbury<br />
DHB hospitals and health centres<br />
have restricted visiting. Visitors will<br />
only be admitted under exceptional<br />
circumstances and only one visitor or<br />
support person per patient for most<br />
areas. No children under 16 will be<br />
permitted. This applies to the Emergency<br />
Department and all wards and services.<br />
All visitors will be assessed on entry and<br />
you will need to provide your name and<br />
contact details. If you are unwell, you will<br />
not be able to visit. Thank you for helping<br />
us keep our patients and staff safe.<br />
Outpatients and<br />
elective (planned)<br />
surgery<br />
All elective surgery and non-urgent faceto-face<br />
outpatient appointments have<br />
been postponed for at least the next four<br />
weeks. Alternative appointments, such<br />
as phone or video consultations are being<br />
made on a case by case basis.<br />
If you’re unsure about your situation,<br />
please call the number on your<br />
appointment letter.<br />
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Look after your<br />
wellbeing<br />
If you or someone you know needs<br />
wellbeing support or advice, call or text<br />
1737 to speak with a trained counsellor.<br />
This confidential service is free of charge<br />
and is available 24 hours a day, seven<br />
days a week. <strong>The</strong>re’s useful and practical<br />
information available for those at home<br />
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COVID19.govt.nz<br />
Be kind<br />
Canterbury has been through a lot, and<br />
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stronger together. Remember to check<br />
in on the elderly or vulnerable. Make a<br />
difference by dropping off supplies to<br />
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check in with whānau, friends and<br />
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Stay home<br />
You must stay home unless you work in<br />
an essential service. We all need to do<br />
everything in our power to break the chain<br />
of possible transmission of COVID-19 (and<br />
other viruses) in our communities.<br />
While in isolation at home you can still go<br />
out for a walk, but please keep at least<br />
two metres away from others.<br />
Together we can slow the spread.<br />
See cdhb.health.nz/COVID19 for further<br />
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Sandy message<br />
at a time of need<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Pen pal initiative for<br />
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• By Bea Gooding<br />
SPREAD LOVE IT’S THE<br />
BRIGHTON WAY: Artist<br />
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to remind people to be<br />
kind, empathetic and<br />
compassionate during<br />
the Covid-19 outbreak.<br />
His artwork, inspired<br />
by the famous slogan<br />
“Spread love it’s the<br />
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also aims to encourage<br />
people to spread love<br />
and not Covid-19 by<br />
self-isolating.<br />
Jeremy Lillico<br />
A NEW pen pal initiative has<br />
been set up in Christchurch for<br />
the elderly in rest homes in a bid<br />
to combat loneliness during the<br />
lockdown.<br />
As of this week, due to the<br />
country-wide Covid-19 lockdown,<br />
rest homes are unable to<br />
accept visitors – including family<br />
members.<br />
Papanui resident Vicki-Anne<br />
Parker, who helps run the “NZ<br />
Gifts of Love and Strength” Facebook<br />
page, organised the pen pal<br />
system to help bring a smile to<br />
the faces of those feeling lonely in<br />
rest homes.<br />
“I saw a post on Facebook and<br />
realised how much joy kids get<br />
out of doing art, and how lonely<br />
a lot of people are in rest homes<br />
especially since the earthquakes,”<br />
she said.<br />
“To be able to match someone in<br />
a rest home with someone in the<br />
community who might not have<br />
grandparents is very special.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> NZ Gifts of Love Facebook<br />
page was created in response<br />
to the <strong>March</strong> 15, 2019 mosque<br />
attacks, and primarily assist<br />
those who are most in need. <strong>The</strong><br />
LOVE: <strong>The</strong> NZ Gifts of Love and Strength charity started a<br />
pen pal initiative for elderly in rest homes to help combat<br />
loneliness during the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown.<br />
charity, based in New Brighton,<br />
has helped people who have had<br />
house fires, illnesses and car<br />
crashes. In the last two weeks,<br />
they helped feed 100 children per<br />
day from South New Brighton<br />
School while the site was closed<br />
due to a fire.<br />
Poems, stories, pictures and<br />
letters can be dropped off in<br />
the letterboxes of 75 Proctor<br />
St, Papanui and 14a Sinclair St,<br />
New Brighton, where they will<br />
be taken to rest homes around<br />
Christchurch.<br />
NZ Gifts of Love and strength<br />
remind those who want to<br />
donate must not lick envelopes<br />
and to wash hands before<br />
undertaking activities.
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Akira Hirasawa is passionate about the trombone<br />
and has played the instrument since he was 13. In<br />
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he initially started out playing the tuba and the<br />
following year migrated to the trombone.<br />
Akira has never looked back from his teen years as<br />
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Meet Akira<br />
Your professional life has been split between two<br />
very different industries. Tell us about them.<br />
Actually, my profession as an electronics engineer is<br />
much more robust than music.<br />
After obtaining my Master’s Degree of Engineering,<br />
I joined Panasonic as a development engineer<br />
and became the technological liaison between<br />
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After quitting Panasonic in Japan, I immigrated to<br />
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Music has always been<br />
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I love playing the trombone and have played many<br />
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I have been a trombone tutor at the Christchurch<br />
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I have recorded several CDs as a member of<br />
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE<br />
A WEEK MAKES IN THE<br />
PANDEMIC WORLD<br />
AM I MAKING<br />
MYSELF GO DEAF<br />
UNKNOWINGLY?<br />
NZ Health IT chief executive Scott Arrol<br />
says, “What a difference a week makes in<br />
the current coronavirus world, as we move<br />
into a country wide lockdown.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> key boost for tech health was<br />
contained in the government’s economic<br />
package last week with a $20 million<br />
for telehealth to support the scaling<br />
up of the capacity for general practice<br />
and community health providers to use<br />
technology to conduct consultations<br />
online, he says.<br />
“This triggered a week of immense activity<br />
across the sector with, among a number of<br />
initiatives, was the news that GPs across<br />
the country are rapidly moving to conduct<br />
most of their consultations online using<br />
virtual technology including phone, email<br />
and video consults.<br />
“This is signalling one of the biggest shifts<br />
we’ve seen in New Zealand’s primary<br />
healthcare sector in the way services are<br />
provided. I really applaud the way in<br />
which everyone in the sector has taken up<br />
this challenge.<br />
“This is almost a zero to hundred mile<br />
an hour shift within the week following a<br />
number of years of advocating for the use<br />
of virtual healthcare.<br />
“While the very fight against COVID-19<br />
has created the burning platform needed<br />
to bring virtual healthcare to the fore, this<br />
move will bring about a whole new way<br />
of care delivery for New Zealanders that<br />
will last long past the current pandemic<br />
emergency situation.<br />
“By its very nature, virtual healthcare<br />
intrinsically links healthcare, technology<br />
and people. It can’t be done without all<br />
three gelling together and these have to be<br />
supported by the appropriate funding and<br />
business models.<br />
“So, then we have a situation that will take<br />
pressure away from the general practice’s<br />
waiting rooms and safely provide online<br />
triaging and face-to-face consultations<br />
albeit via a mobile device, laptop or<br />
computer monitor.”<br />
“We’re very fortunate to have a strong<br />
digital health sector in New Zealand with<br />
highly capable and innovative providers<br />
of software solutions that will enable<br />
the delivery of virtual healthcare in the<br />
coming days and weeks.<br />
“It’s going to be fascinating to see how this<br />
all rolls out and NZHIT will be offering<br />
all it can do to help and support the public<br />
health service system.”<br />
<strong>March</strong> was Hearing Awareness Month and Hearing New<br />
Zealand hosted their first annual silent tea party. <strong>The</strong><br />
organisation shared information highlighting everyday<br />
circumstances people might not be aware of which could<br />
affect their hearing and irreversible hearing loss or damage.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y did a demonstration with 3 volunteers lining up behind<br />
each other with a blender in front of the first volunteer and<br />
turned it on. <strong>The</strong> decibel reading was over the amount of safe<br />
listening and could potentially affect hearing after a short<br />
time. <strong>The</strong> other volunteers noise level lessened with distance,<br />
but the introduction of noise levels of kitchen appliances such<br />
as juicers and coffee makers was eye opening.<br />
We discussed the noise levels of concerts, construction sites,<br />
patrons who work in cafés and listening to loud music and the<br />
impact on the ear drum when wearing ear buds.<br />
How does hearing work?<br />
Sound waves enter the ear, move down the ear canal, and hit<br />
the eardrum, which creates vibration. <strong>The</strong> vibrations from<br />
the eardrum pass to three bones known as the ossicles in the<br />
middle ear. <strong>The</strong>se ossicles amplify the vibrations, which are<br />
then picked up by small hair-like cells in the cochlea.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se cells move as the vibrations hit them. <strong>The</strong>n the<br />
movement data is sent through the auditory nerve to the<br />
brain and the brain processes the data, which a person with<br />
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It’s no surprise then that the majority of New Zealanders<br />
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5 Dollars, slangily (5)<br />
8 Furious (5)<br />
9 Bewilder (7)<br />
10 Weave together (7)<br />
11 Convenient (5)<br />
12 Vigour (6)<br />
14 Stableman at an inn (6)<br />
18 Young person (5)<br />
20 Superficial (7)<br />
22 Vast (7)<br />
ACROSS<br />
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5 Dollars, slangily (5)<br />
8 Furious (5)<br />
9 Bewilder (7)<br />
10 Weave together (7)<br />
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3 Immortal (7)<br />
4 Cured herring (6)<br />
5 Nativity (5)<br />
6 Military rank (7)<br />
7 Three score (5)<br />
14 Stableman at an inn (6)<br />
18 Young person (5)<br />
20 Superficial (7)<br />
22 Vast (7)<br />
23 Prize money (5)<br />
24 Military fur hat (5)<br />
25 Correspondence (7)<br />
13 Puzzles (7)<br />
15 Remain in the same place (4,3)<br />
16 Answers (anag.) (7)<br />
17 Also (2,4)<br />
18 Ascend (5)<br />
19 Fop (5)<br />
21 Big (5)
HOW THE CORONAVIRUS<br />
COULD IMPACT NZ’S<br />
FINANCIAL SECTOR<br />
A leading New Zealand fintech experts says the<br />
coronavirus is significantly affecting the Kiwi<br />
financial sector and the economy.<br />
FintechNZ general manager James Brown says<br />
the impact has begun, but he is not sure for how<br />
long.<br />
“It could grow demand for certain insurance<br />
types. <strong>The</strong> virus has resulted in more awareness<br />
of insurance and could increase demand for<br />
health and life coverage, as well as business<br />
interruption and sport, music, conference event<br />
cancellation coverage,” Brown says.<br />
“Insurances companies are often cautious in<br />
what they cover and most don’t include things<br />
like a pandemic, certain infectious diseases so<br />
the virus should not harm these companies.<br />
“For some insurance companies, the virus could<br />
be a good thing. Health and life insurance could<br />
grow with more people looking to get cover.<br />
Insurance for event cancellation will be on the<br />
rise.<br />
“We are an island nation, so we have some<br />
advantages. Technology will keep us connected,<br />
secure and sensitive conversations will continue<br />
to take place.<br />
“Companies with digital products will do really<br />
well during this time. Are banks prepared to<br />
support their customers that don’t use digital<br />
products or have smartphones?<br />
“Stock markets have been fidgety in the past<br />
few weeks, with some New Zealand analysts<br />
suggesting or talking about a recession. In the<br />
US, the Federal Reserve has already applied an<br />
emergency rate cut, which is the biggest since in<br />
the US since the global financial crisis (GFC).<br />
“A leading global investor Goldman Sachs<br />
will from today divide its 38,000-plus global<br />
workforce between offices, back-up sites and<br />
home in response to deal with the virus.<br />
“This comes hard on the heels of rival<br />
JPMorgan announcing similar measures to<br />
protect staff from Covid-19.<br />
“In New Zealand we’re seeing the virtual world<br />
of business growing rather than the in person<br />
handshake protocols. COVID-19 could easily<br />
lead to re-thinking work and business.<br />
“Many of the big fintech companies, such as<br />
Xero, Montoux, Vend and TSG will be making<br />
smart decisions. Today, we could say the Future<br />
of Work is here and COVID-19 is accelerating<br />
and forcing the coming together of digital and<br />
physical assets,” Brown says.<br />
FintechNZ is part of the NZTech Alliance<br />
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<strong>The</strong> AI Forum of New Zealand today published a set<br />
of guiding principles to help build public trust in the<br />
development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) across New<br />
Zealand.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AI Forum)<br />
is a purpose-driven, not-for-profit, non-governmental<br />
organisation (NGO) that is funded by members and was<br />
founded in 2017.<br />
<strong>The</strong> AI Forum brings together New Zealand’s community<br />
of artificial intelligence technology innovators, end<br />
users, investor groups, regulators, researchers, educators,<br />
entrepreneurs and interested public to work together to find<br />
ways to use AI to help enable a prosperous, inclusive and<br />
thriving future for our nation.<br />
Forum executive director Emma Naji says, “the guiding<br />
principles provide overarching high-level guidance for anyone<br />
involved in designing or developing AI and are a first step in<br />
helping New Zealanders have access to trustworthy AI.<br />
“We hope these principles will prompt AI stakeholders to start<br />
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“We want to raise awareness that ethical and legal issues need<br />
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“Our government has a comprehensive role to play in<br />
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1 Misfortune (3,4)<br />
5 Dollars, slangily (5)<br />
8 Furious (5)<br />
9 Bewilder (7)<br />
10 Weave together (7)<br />
11 Convenient (5)<br />
12 Vigour (6)<br />
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14 Stableman<br />
home<br />
at an inn (6)<br />
18 Young person (5)<br />
20 Superficial (7)<br />
22 Vast (7)<br />
23 Prize money (5)<br />
24 Military fur hat (5)<br />
25 Correspondence (7)<br />
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6 Military rank (7)<br />
7 Three score (5)<br />
13 Puzzles (7)<br />
15 Remain in the same place (4,3)<br />
16 Answers (anag.) (7)<br />
17 Also (2,4)<br />
18 Ascend (5)<br />
19 Fop (5)<br />
21 Big (5)<br />
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How to<br />
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if you’re 70+<br />
If you’re over 70 years of age, you should stay at<br />
home (self-isolate) as a precaution. It’s a good idea<br />
to organise a plan of action by reaching out to family,<br />
friends and neighbours.<br />
For more advice go to Covid19.govt.nz<br />
Continue enjoying physical exercise – like gardening<br />
– and ensure you have a good supply of food and<br />
medication. As a helping hand, the Government has<br />
doubled the Winter Energy Payment.<br />
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support<br />
anyone 70+<br />
It’s really important that we all support people aged 70+ in our<br />
communities during this challenging time. Here are a few suggestions:<br />
1. Stay at least 1 metre away.<br />
2. Wave or nod instead of shaking hands.<br />
3. Keep visits short (under 15 minutes).<br />
4. Talk to neighbours over the fence.<br />
5. Offer to pick up supplies and medicine.<br />
6. Offer to help them connect in ways other<br />
than in person, like video chat.<br />
7. Send videos or pictures of children<br />
rather than taking them to visit in person.<br />
For more suggestions go to Covid19.govt.nz
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Bulking up mince helps it go further<br />
• By Ian Knott<br />
LOCKDOWN RECIPES<br />
In these trying times, there<br />
are many ways you can<br />
make your grocery spend<br />
last a bit longer. Mince is<br />
a family staple that can<br />
be used in a myriad of<br />
ways – but bulking it up<br />
with other ingredients<br />
can make smaller trays of<br />
mince feed more people<br />
and larger ones spread<br />
over a couple of meals<br />
THESE ADDITIONS will bulk<br />
out your mince while adding<br />
flavour and nutrients to the dish.<br />
Not every addition will suit every<br />
meal – so use your discretion.<br />
Bread/cracker crumbs:<br />
Dry or fresh breadcrumbs and<br />
cracker crumbs can add body<br />
and binder to minced meals that<br />
need to keep their shape, like<br />
meatballs, burgers and rissoles.<br />
Cooked Rice:<br />
If you’re gluten intolerant, don’t<br />
have bread or crackers on hand or<br />
just don’t want to use them, then<br />
mixing cooked rice of any variety<br />
into shaped mince meals can bulk<br />
it out too.<br />
It helps if the rice was cooked<br />
the previous day and has dried<br />
out overnight in the fridge so it<br />
can adequately soak up flavours<br />
and juices while not causing the<br />
mixture to become soggy.<br />
Hard vegetables:<br />
Things like carrots, turnips,<br />
celery etc. Basically any vegetables<br />
that need a decent bit of cooking<br />
to get them softened up. Pumpkin<br />
and kumera could be used also,<br />
though if diced small enough<br />
they cook very quickly.<br />
Grate, finely dice or blitz hard<br />
veg in a food processor and sweat<br />
out excess liquid in a pan before<br />
you add your meat. This works<br />
great for meat sauces, lasagnes and<br />
pie fillings. Thick and saucy things<br />
benefit from aromatic vegetables<br />
that add flavour and nutrition while<br />
bulking out the meat.<br />
Soft vegetables:<br />
Zucchini, eggplant, capsicum,<br />
squash, mushrooms, cabbage,<br />
broccoli and other soft vegetables<br />
can be finely diced, shredded<br />
or sliced to add bulk and<br />
flavour. Zucchini, eggplant and<br />
mushrooms are great at soaking<br />
up flavours.<br />
If you need to hide their<br />
existence from little ones who<br />
don’t like veg, try chopping or<br />
processing them as finely as<br />
possible and adding them early in<br />
the cooking process so that they<br />
get a chance to caramelise and<br />
develop colour and flavour.<br />
Mashed potato:<br />
Mix through some mashed<br />
potato in shaped mince dishes<br />
or layer it in baked dishes like<br />
moussaka, lasagne and pies. Make<br />
the potato layer of a shepherd’s<br />
pie extra thick, or if you are<br />
making a pastry topped pie,<br />
BULKING UP:<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are many<br />
ingredients you<br />
can add to mince<br />
to make it go<br />
further and also<br />
add nutritional<br />
value.<br />
you could put a layer of mashed<br />
potato under the pastry to bulk<br />
out the meat filling.<br />
Cheese:<br />
While cheese is at the pricier<br />
end of ingredients for bulking,<br />
some crumbled feta, ricotta,<br />
cream cheese, diced halloumi or<br />
mozzarella could extend shaped<br />
mince meals like burgers and<br />
meatballs.<br />
Lentils:<br />
Already soaked and cooked<br />
lentils can be added to any kind<br />
of mince dish as an extender.<br />
If you’re combing lentils into<br />
meatballs, burgers or rissoles,<br />
consider adding additional<br />
ingredients like eggs or<br />
breadcrumbs as binding. Lentils<br />
During the lockdown<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> will bring<br />
readers recipes and tips<br />
to make economical<br />
but very tasty meals.<br />
If you have any tips<br />
or recipes to make<br />
economical meals and<br />
help groceries go further<br />
during lockdown, share<br />
them with <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> and<br />
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necessary. Please include<br />
your name and suburb.<br />
are great for extending a meat<br />
sauce and a chilli too.<br />
Beans or chickpeas:<br />
Cooked or canned beans or<br />
chickpeas are particularly good<br />
for bulking out shepherd’s pie<br />
fillings, chilli, meat sauce for<br />
lasagna or spaghetti bolognese.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y can also bulk out burgers<br />
or meatballs but may need some<br />
additional ingredients to keep the<br />
mixture together when shaping.<br />
Whole grains:<br />
Things like buckwheat, quinoa<br />
and barley as well as other grains<br />
can bulk out mince dishes.<br />
Whether you add the uncooked<br />
grains with the mince when<br />
you make sauces and stews<br />
or add already cooked grains<br />
to meatballs, grains add nutty<br />
flavour, texture and bulk.<br />
To all our customers,<br />
We’re open for business as usual and will remain open as an<br />
essential service identified by the Government.<br />
Please be assured that we’ll remain 100% committed to ensuring that<br />
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• By Gordon Findlater<br />
Canterbury’s longestserving<br />
cricketer called<br />
stumps on an 18-yearcareer<br />
last week. Sports<br />
reporter Gordon Findlater<br />
caught up with all-rounder<br />
Andrew Ellis to reflect<br />
on his career and how<br />
he hopes to help more<br />
athletes succeed in his<br />
next journey.<br />
ANDREW ELLIS’ career in<br />
red and black started with him<br />
breaking a Canterbury record.<br />
<strong>The</strong> record for the side’s largest<br />
first-class 9th wicket partnership<br />
of 115 with Gareth Hopkins was<br />
just scratching the surface.<br />
<strong>The</strong> all-rounder has gone<br />
on to entrench his name in<br />
Canterbury’s cricket history<br />
while becoming just the second<br />
player in New Zealand domestic<br />
cricket to play more than 100<br />
games in each format – including<br />
117 T20 matches, 109 List A<br />
matches, and 105 first-class<br />
matches.<br />
Growing up in Dallington,<br />
Ellis played his youth cricket<br />
for East Shirley and was one of<br />
many players to come through<br />
under the guidance of coach Bill<br />
Duncan. Sport was a constant<br />
in his life from an early age.<br />
His father Malcolm Ellis hosted<br />
an afternoon sports show on<br />
Newstalk ZB for two decades.<br />
“I used to get around with him<br />
on a Saturday afternoon. At that<br />
time, before he did it from the<br />
studio, he would be around all<br />
the grounds reporting all the<br />
club sport,” said Ellis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> right-arm paceman played<br />
first XI cricket at Shirley Boys’<br />
High School and made a natural<br />
transition to senior cricket with<br />
Easts. However, at the time<br />
cricket wasn’t the only sport he<br />
was playing at a premier club<br />
level. During the winter Ellis<br />
played football for Rangers.<br />
Before dedicating himself purely<br />
to cricket Ellis made three<br />
national league appearances for<br />
Canterbury United in 2003. <strong>The</strong><br />
team at the time featured Danny<br />
Halligan as a player-coach and<br />
Ben Sigmund.<br />
His debut for Canterbury<br />
United came just months after<br />
his first-class cricket debut<br />
against Auckland at Colin<br />
Maiden Oval in February 2003.<br />
Ellis remembers claiming his<br />
first wicket by dismissing Tim<br />
McIntosh LBW. However, he says<br />
his first scalp should have been<br />
one of the big names in cricket –<br />
Mark Richardson.<br />
“He [Richardson] was stone<br />
dead in front, but was given not<br />
out. <strong>The</strong>n I think Tim McIntosh<br />
wore the brunt of an umpiring<br />
make-up call. He was probably<br />
wearing his black helmet at the<br />
time, so the umpires were a bit<br />
STALWART: Andrew Ellis represented Canterbury 331 times<br />
across all three formats during his 18-year professional<br />
career. <br />
reluctant to stick their finger up.”<br />
Later in the match, Ellis and<br />
wicket-keeper Gareth Hopkins<br />
combined for a record ninthwicket<br />
partnership of 115.<br />
Batting at No 10 at the time,<br />
Ellis was a far different batsman<br />
to the explosive middle-order<br />
threat he became later in his<br />
career.<br />
“I was pretty cautious back<br />
then. I had a good defence, but<br />
lacked the audacity to go outside<br />
of that.”<br />
His rise to become a genuine<br />
all-rounder involved switching<br />
club and changing his mindset<br />
to become more aggressive. Ellis<br />
also says a successful surgery<br />
in 2010 after a long battle with<br />
stress fractures in his back played<br />
a major role in the development<br />
of his game.<br />
“At East Shirley I was batting<br />
five or six, but would hardly<br />
get a bat because we were so<br />
dominant. We had the Papps<br />
brothers opening the batting,<br />
Neil Broom and the Pawson<br />
brothers. Because we were so<br />
dominant as a team I’d come<br />
in with 10 overs to go, so I<br />
made the tough call to move<br />
clubs and open the batting,”<br />
said Ellis.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re was a lot of work I had<br />
to do on the mental side of it.<br />
That probably culminated in<br />
having surgery, which got my<br />
back sorted and gave me a real<br />
security in myself<br />
“I always thought I needed to<br />
have this mental restriction on<br />
myself to score runs. Things just<br />
grew from there. Bob Carter<br />
played a big part in that by<br />
basically forcing me to take risks<br />
and push me out of my comfort<br />
zone mentally.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> technical stuff was there<br />
because I had done so much<br />
work, but it was those coaches<br />
and Bob’s words around ‘if you<br />
don’t those risks and take this<br />
approach then you won’t make<br />
it, there’s no chance of success’.<br />
When it was laid down black<br />
and white like that for me I knew<br />
what I had to do and it sort of<br />
snowballed.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> new approach saw Ellis<br />
go onto score nine first-class<br />
centuries. Impressive displays<br />
at provincial level also saw him<br />
represent New Zealand in 15<br />
one-day-internationals and<br />
five T20 internationals in 2012<br />
and 2013. However, Ellis says<br />
the biggest highlights of his<br />
career came in his five Plunket<br />
Shield four-day title-winning<br />
campaigns with Canterbury<br />
in 2007/08, 2010/11, 2013/14,<br />
2014/15 and 2016/17.<br />
THE NUMBERS:<br />
First-class: 5221 runs at an average of of 35.17<br />
and 249 wickets at an average of 29.78.<br />
List A: 2708 runs at an average of 31.85<br />
and 154 wickets at an average of 29.84.<br />
T20: 1258 runs at an average of 17.00<br />
and 131 wickets at an average of 22.93.<br />
BIG STAGE: Ellis represented New Zealand in 15 one-dayinternationals<br />
and five T20 internationals in 2012 and 2013.<br />
“Nothing can replace the<br />
feeling of working over a six<br />
month season. Getting to the end<br />
and winning that Plunket Shield<br />
was the pinnacle. That was the<br />
vindication of all that work. <strong>The</strong><br />
four-day game was always the<br />
true test of cricket – mentally,<br />
technically and the whole piece<br />
as a person. To come out with<br />
five of those titles in a career is a<br />
huge highlight.”<br />
Arguably the most impressive<br />
of the lot came in 2010/11.<br />
Following the February 22<br />
earthquake, the side still had<br />
six Plunket Shield matches<br />
remaining in their season. <strong>The</strong><br />
side made the decision to soldier<br />
on and went undefeated for the<br />
remainder of the campaign.<br />
“I don’t know how we did it.<br />
Like everyone at that time we<br />
were in a daze just trying to work<br />
out what was happening in our<br />
own personal world and trying<br />
to play cricket. We were out there<br />
like everyone else shovelling<br />
liquefaction,” said Ellis<br />
“I’m immensely proud of what<br />
that team achieved during that<br />
time. I know everyone that was<br />
a part of that probably changed<br />
forever, in how they saw their<br />
cricket and the team, probably in<br />
a positive way.<br />
“We realised what resilience<br />
was. We had that successful<br />
period in four-day cricket after<br />
that. It was the start and who<br />
knows, it may have been a huge<br />
part of that. We knew that we<br />
could withstand any challenge<br />
that was thrown at us as a team<br />
after that. <strong>The</strong>re were guys like<br />
Toddy [Todd Astle] and Fults<br />
[Peter Fulton] who were the<br />
spine of the team and each had<br />
different earthquake experiences,<br />
but we were able to take that<br />
resilience for guys that came<br />
in and out of the team and let<br />
them know this is the way we do<br />
things in Canterbury and this is<br />
the way we play our cricket. That<br />
culminated in a pretty successful<br />
four-day team.”<br />
After making the decision<br />
to pull stumps on his playing<br />
career, Ellis will remain<br />
heavily involved with sport<br />
in his new role as the regional<br />
manager for Christchurch at<br />
High Performance Sport New<br />
Zealand. After previously trying<br />
his hand at sales he admits the<br />
transition to life after cricket has<br />
come with its challenges.<br />
“It was challenging to be<br />
honest and harder than I<br />
thought it was going to be from<br />
a logistical point of view as<br />
well as a mental point of view,<br />
but it was an inevitable time,”<br />
he said.<br />
“You’ve got to find a job that<br />
gives you that same sense of<br />
fulfillment and that same sense<br />
of pushing yourself, and that’s<br />
pretty tough to do. It’s not just<br />
the food on the table, but how do<br />
I find a job I loved as much as my<br />
previous job.”<br />
With cricket now on the back<br />
burner, Ellis also confirmed a<br />
return to the football pitch is a<br />
very high possibility sometime<br />
in the future.
22 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
Family-friendly SUV at a bargain price<br />
THERE’S NO doubt sport utility<br />
vehicles are beneficial to families.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir practicality and often the<br />
option of seven seats make them<br />
particularly appealing for those<br />
with children in tow.<br />
However, as is often the case,<br />
those who would benefit most<br />
from an SUV aren’t in a position<br />
financially to own one, especially<br />
those that are new off the<br />
showroom floor.<br />
Enter, Kia’s completely new<br />
compact, five-seat SUV, the Seltos.<br />
It has just launched here and in<br />
entry-level LX form lists with a<br />
very special price – $25,990. To my<br />
way of thinking, that is amazing<br />
value for a quality, state-of-the-art<br />
vehicle that will suit a young family.<br />
Of course the Seltos is available<br />
in four other specifications, there’s<br />
even a four-wheel-drive model<br />
which tops the range at $46,990.<br />
In-between, the other variants list<br />
at $35,990, $37,990 and $42,990.<br />
Before you think the base<br />
model car lacks on kit, it doesn’t.<br />
Sure there aren’t all the high-tech<br />
features of its stablemates, but there<br />
is enough specification to provide<br />
years of fulfilling motoring.<br />
Even though Kia calls the Seltos<br />
compact, it’s not really. Sure at<br />
4.4m it isn’t large, but it does make<br />
good use of its proportions with<br />
high comfort levels, it has plenty<br />
of leg and head room in the rear<br />
passenger compartment. That area<br />
is not compromised by a healthy<br />
load space – 468-litres, expanding<br />
to 1428-litres with the rear seats<br />
folded flat. I rate the load space on<br />
any vehicle as to how well it houses<br />
the rather large cricket gear bag I<br />
use to coach a year 8 Sydenham<br />
team. In the case of the Seltos there<br />
was ample room to spare, and it has<br />
an easy load height.<br />
<strong>The</strong> LX variant gets cloth<br />
trim and that would far be my<br />
preference, there are no design<br />
surprises, the trim is fairly<br />
conservative but you get just<br />
enough goodies that go with the<br />
pleasure of buying a new car,<br />
some of the functions are operable<br />
through a central screen display.<br />
Even though the Seltos has yet<br />
to be crash tested, it would be<br />
expected to meet the five-star<br />
Australasian New Car Assessment<br />
Program safety rating.<br />
In LX form the Seltos is powered<br />
by a 2-litre, naturally-aspirated<br />
four-cylinder petrol engine, that’s<br />
opposed to a 1.6-litre turbocharged<br />
unit fitted to the range-topping<br />
four-wheel-drive Limited.<br />
I’d also opt for the base engine,<br />
it is a very sweet unit, quiet and<br />
smooth. Drive is channelled<br />
through the latest generation<br />
continuously variable transmission<br />
which is described by Kia as<br />
behaving like a traditional<br />
automatic transmission, acting as<br />
if it has regular gear changes. I’m<br />
VERSATILE: Generous load area doesn’t compromise rear<br />
seat space.<br />
KIA SELTOS: Base model kick-starts extensive range, including a four-wheel-drive variant.<br />
quite excited about this driveline,<br />
you would hardly pick a CVT<br />
is transmitting power, while the<br />
seamless way it operates enhances<br />
driveline smoothness.<br />
Power is channelled through<br />
the front wheels only, yet the<br />
entire drive and chassis setup<br />
has benefited from a lot of<br />
development catering for the<br />
special needs of Australasian<br />
roads. <strong>The</strong> suspension is a good<br />
compromise of what is needed<br />
for occupant comfort, but there is<br />
balance and control when highcountry<br />
corners are presented.<br />
Interestingly, the LX grade model<br />
gets just 16in wheels against 17in<br />
and 18in rims of higher grade<br />
variants. However, the benefit in<br />
LX grade is super quiet motion and<br />
a hugely smooth ride. <strong>The</strong> highprofile<br />
Kumho tyres (205/60)have<br />
a lot of sidewall flex, consequently,<br />
they just soak up the big bumps<br />
that are still a problem on<br />
Christchurch roads.<br />
I took the test car up and down<br />
the twists and turns out of the<br />
Waimakariri River gorge. Steerage<br />
is relatively precise; there would<br />
probably be greater accuracy in<br />
its stablemates, but there is good<br />
feedback as to what the tyres are<br />
doing, and gravitational movement<br />
was minimised even though it is<br />
1.6m tall, there is a bit height in<br />
the Seltos. I enjoyed the way the<br />
test car behaved in a corner, and<br />
to my way of thinking the wheel/<br />
• Price – Kia Seltos LX,<br />
$25,990<br />
• Dimensions – Length,<br />
4370mm; width, 1800mm;<br />
height, 1615mm<br />
• Configuration – Fourcylinder,<br />
front-wheeldrive,<br />
1999cc, 110kW,<br />
180Nm, continuously<br />
variable automatic.<br />
• Performance –<br />
0-100km/h, 9.3sec<br />
• Fuel usage – 6.8l/100km<br />
tyre set-up in the LX is far from<br />
compromised. I like entry-level kit<br />
and the Seltos in this form presents<br />
no surprises.<br />
Kia rates the engine with 110kW<br />
and 180Nm, if these figures look<br />
familiar that’s because it is much<br />
the same engine that powers<br />
Cerato and Sportage from the Kia<br />
stable.<br />
Maximum torque is available<br />
from 4500rpm and peak power<br />
is reached at 6200rpm. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />
quite high in the rev band and you<br />
could be forgiven for thinking it’s<br />
an engine which likes to have the<br />
revs up. However, one of the other<br />
benefits of CVT is that there are no<br />
gaps to fill between gearing. That<br />
being the case, the engine works<br />
the mid-range, it isn’t flighty and<br />
feels strong beneath the throttle<br />
pedal.<br />
Of course, there is a sport mode<br />
if you wish to have the engine<br />
working harder but I used normal<br />
mode most of the time I was in<br />
the evaluation car and it is most<br />
suitable in all situations. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
also an eco mode if you want to<br />
make maximum use of your tank<br />
of fuel. To me it’s a bit numbing but<br />
if you drive casually then eco will<br />
earn you fuel-saving benefits.<br />
On that subject, Kia claims a<br />
6.8l/100km combined cycle fuel<br />
usage average. That’s a healthy<br />
figure for an SUV which has a kerb<br />
weight extending to 1700kg. That<br />
being the case, I couldn’t replicate<br />
Kia’s figures, however, when I took<br />
the test car back to the dealership<br />
it was showing a respectable<br />
8.8l/100km average, helped by<br />
a 5l/100km figure showing at a<br />
steady 100km/h, the engine turning<br />
over at 1800rpm in the tallest part<br />
of the gearing.<br />
I always like it when new cars<br />
land. Kia is capitalising on the<br />
worldwide demand for SUVs, its<br />
range is extensive and my only<br />
concern would be if the Seltos<br />
cannibalises sales from Kia’s own<br />
Niro and Sportage.<br />
At its price the Seltos is a very<br />
desirable proposition, I just hope<br />
that those who would benefit<br />
from owning an SUV recognise its<br />
value.<br />
If that is not tempting in itself,<br />
bear in mind the Seltos is sold with<br />
a five-year/100,000km warranty.<br />
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Remembering the games we<br />
wish we could forget<br />
Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2020</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
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One-eyed Cantab<br />
Gordon Findlater<br />
gordon.findlater@starmedia.kiwi<br />
WITH A lack of any live sport<br />
to watch during the coronavirus<br />
outbreak, those of us with a<br />
Sky Sport subscription have<br />
been given a back catalogue of<br />
famous sporting moments from<br />
yesteryear to enjoy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> past week has seen us<br />
sport nuts relive the likes of<br />
2000s cricket battler Jamie How<br />
scoring his only international<br />
hundred during a famous draw<br />
with the Poms in a pre-super<br />
over era, and the All Blacks<br />
domination of the 2005 Lions<br />
Tour.<br />
While many of you have likely<br />
enjoyed reliving famous victories<br />
and sporting drama that went<br />
down to the wire, I can’t help but<br />
feel this only adds to the frustration<br />
of not being able to watch<br />
live sport.<br />
What we need is a channel<br />
dedicated to those games we<br />
wished we’d never attended<br />
or watched for one reason or<br />
another. Here’s my list of famous<br />
matches that will have you not<br />
missing sport as much as you<br />
currently do.<br />
1999 Netball World Cup<br />
final: As a nation our biggest<br />
sporting grudge is arguably<br />
English referee Wayne Barnes.<br />
However, when it comes to a<br />
grudge against one of our own<br />
it’s hard to argue against Donna<br />
Loffhagen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> final against Australia is<br />
best remembered in Canterbury<br />
for one of our own blowing it<br />
right at the end. Many netball<br />
supporters in New Zealand still<br />
refuse to forgive the goal shooter<br />
for the miss which cost the Silver<br />
Ferns their first world title.<br />
As the saying goes, the further<br />
south you go in New Zealand the<br />
nicer the people get. Hopefully<br />
that rings true for Loffhagen who<br />
now lives in the deep south and<br />
goes by her married name.<br />
David Tua v Shane Cameron:<br />
Duco Events have become professionals<br />
at making punters feel<br />
like they haven’t got value for<br />
money. Many will reference the<br />
2019 Black Clash T20 cricket<br />
match between former cricketers<br />
and current rugby players at<br />
Hagley Oval which set you back<br />
$60 to get in the gate. However,<br />
their ‘finest’ moment came 10<br />
years earlier when they billed<br />
a fight between David Tua and<br />
Shane Cameron as ‘<strong>The</strong> Fight of<br />
the Century’.<br />
For those that booked the<br />
fight, the cost to fight ratio is still<br />
a sore subject, as Cameron was<br />
rocked early and never looked<br />
a chance of recovering before<br />
being knocked out by Tua 20<br />
seconds into the second round.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fog final: In 2006 the<br />
Hurricanes must have felt like<br />
many of us feel in <strong>2020</strong>. If they<br />
were beginning to feel like it<br />
was their year they were about<br />
to be bought back to reality by a<br />
killer that couldn’t be seen by the<br />
naked eye – the Crusaders.<br />
Although the final adds to<br />
the great Crusaders legacy of 10<br />
Super Rugby titles, they may as<br />
well reduce the number to nine<br />
as to this day nobody managed<br />
to watch the whole game.<br />
UC Championship stalemate:<br />
What should have been the<br />
greatest first XV schoolboy rugby<br />
final ever witnessed quickly became<br />
a fizzer of a final due to an<br />
absurd World Rugby rule. With<br />
the scores locked at 18-18 in the<br />
INFAMOUS: Donna Loffhagen is<br />
distraught after the 1999 Netball World<br />
Cup, and the historic ‘fog final’ of the<br />
2006 Super Rugby competition.<br />
2018 UC Championship final<br />
between traditional rivals Christ’s<br />
College and Christchurch Boys’<br />
High School, at full-time everybody<br />
watching was getting excited<br />
about the prospect of extra time.<br />
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and disappointed as CBHS<br />
celebrated. It was announced<br />
that they had won the match on<br />
an under-19 IRB rule that states<br />
no under-19 game will have<br />
extra-time and the winner will<br />
be decided by who scored the<br />
most tries.<br />
Honourable mentions: Any<br />
Crusaders match from 1996,<br />
Formula E, 1992 Cricket World<br />
Cup semi-final, All Whites v<br />
Mexico 2013.<br />
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0800 Bible Truth (0800 242 538<br />
E: info@keytothebible.org<br />
Church Notices<br />
NEW AGE<br />
CHRISTIAN<br />
SPIRITUAL CENTRE<br />
Grafton Street<br />
Church closed<br />
until further<br />
notice.<br />
Reopening will<br />
be advertised<br />
in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>!<br />
Classic Cars &<br />
Motorcycles<br />
MITSUBISHI CORDIA<br />
turbo GSR, 1985, low<br />
kms, 1 previous family<br />
owned, red, suit collector,<br />
ph 352 5963<br />
Boating Accessories<br />
& Equipment<br />
WINDSCREENS<br />
Perspex cut to size and<br />
shape, Fab Plastics ph<br />
366 3634<br />
Building Supplies<br />
SHOWER/BATH Liner,<br />
custom made to suit, Fab<br />
Plastics ph 366-3634<br />
Church Notices<br />
SYDENHAM CHRISTIAN<br />
SPIRITUAL CHURCH<br />
Sydenham<br />
Community Centre<br />
23/25 Hutcheson St<br />
All our services<br />
are suspended<br />
until further<br />
notice.<br />
Stay safe<br />
everyone.<br />
Phone 349-9749<br />
Curtains<br />
A1 CURTAINS &<br />
DRAPES.<br />
Roman blinds,tie<br />
backs,cushions,nets &<br />
voiles plus alterations.<br />
Free quotes.Ph Kay 980<br />
1501 or 021 2571823. kay.<br />
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Finance<br />
CASH LOANS<br />
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GET CASH<br />
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power & internet. Ph 027<br />
551 4118<br />
For Sale<br />
LADIES CLOTHING<br />
Size 16. Brand new, as<br />
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Fruit & Produce<br />
APPLES & PEARS.<br />
Freshly picked from our<br />
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Road. All at $2.20 per<br />
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Ph 03 3858975<br />
Funeral Directors<br />
Non-Service Cremation $1,745<br />
Commital service with cremation $3,950<br />
Chapel service with cremation $6,500<br />
Family burial service from $3,400<br />
Just Funerals, a family owned and<br />
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Phone 0800 804 663 - 24 Hour Availability<br />
Email: info@justfunerals.co.nz<br />
christchurch.justfunerals.co.nz<br />
OPEN HOMES<br />
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Ph: 379 0178<br />
for our brochure<br />
or email<br />
office@undertaker.co.nz<br />
• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Gardening<br />
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GARDENING<br />
Mature female. $18<br />
per hour, Northcote<br />
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MONDO GRASS<br />
Black. Large pots<br />
full. $5. Ph 352-2590<br />
PETE’S GARDENING<br />
SERVICE<br />
Gardening, rubbish<br />
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pruning, hedge trimming,<br />
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small, half the price of<br />
a franchise. Compost &<br />
wood chips for sale. Ph<br />
027 551 4118<br />
Massage<br />
Indian Ayurvedic herbal<br />
massage. Male & female<br />
therapists. Ph 022 135<br />
0177<br />
Indian Ayurvedic herbal<br />
massage. Male & female<br />
therapists. Ph 022 135<br />
0177<br />
Memoriam<br />
FULLER Alva Shirley<br />
<strong>26</strong> <strong>March</strong> 2011<br />
Loving memories of a<br />
Dear Wife, Mum, Mum in<br />
law, Gorgeous,<br />
Nana and Great Nan Nan.<br />
Remembering your<br />
never ending love, faith,<br />
wisdom, beautiful smile<br />
and gentle words of<br />
encouragement.<br />
Love always lives on.<br />
God Bless.<br />
Lorraine, Ray and Gina,<br />
Jenny and Peter, Chris and<br />
Wendy, loving<br />
Grandchildren and Great<br />
Grandchildren.<br />
Playground Equipment<br />
PLAYHOUSE / FORT FOR SALE<br />
Needs ladder and<br />
small repair. Will<br />
need to remove,<br />
very heavy and<br />
solid. Lots of fun.<br />
$300ono<br />
Phone 027 535 6583<br />
Your<br />
Earthquake<br />
damaged<br />
home!<br />
Talk to us if you are serious about<br />
selling your “As is Where is” home.<br />
We have sold over<br />
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a huge database of<br />
qualified buyers.<br />
Phil & Holly Jones<br />
Ph 03-382-2230<br />
Phil 027 435 7711<br />
Holly 027 222 0220<br />
holly.jones@raywhite.com<br />
Licensed (REAA 2008) Results Realty Ltd<br />
Get the TLC<br />
experience.<br />
SALES PENDING<br />
HOON HAY: 63 Greenpark Street<br />
Ref tlcrealty.co.nz/tlc10023<br />
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Ref tlcrealty.co.nz/tlc10022<br />
FOR SALE<br />
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AVONHEAD: 73A Merrin Street<br />
Auction: Date TBA.<br />
Brimming with potential.<br />
<strong>The</strong> perfect project = potential and<br />
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KAIAPOI: 99A Otaki Street<br />
Enquiry over $420,000<br />
Let the sun shine in.<br />
Ref tlcrealty.co.nz/tlc10025<br />
STROWAN: 1/164 Blighs Road<br />
Auction: Date TBA<br />
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2/3 double bdrms<br />
Ref tlcrealty.co.nz/tlc100<strong>26</strong><br />
We have achieved<br />
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prices recently!<br />
Please email me to register<br />
your interest.<br />
Once we recommence viewings I will contact<br />
you to arrange a time. In the meantime, we are<br />
Kiwi’s – we will get through this; stay at home<br />
and keep everyone healthy.<br />
trishlawrence@tlcrealty.co.nz<br />
Phone 0800 874 745<br />
MAKING YOUR MOVE EASIER<br />
tlc realty limited<br />
Licensed Agent REAA 2008<br />
Pets & Supplies<br />
CATS UNLOVED<br />
CATS UNLOVED<br />
can help with the cost<br />
of desexing your cat.<br />
Ph 3555-022 or email<br />
catsunloved@xtra.co.nz<br />
To Let<br />
RENT ME!<br />
Ideal as an extra<br />
bedroom or office.<br />
no bond required<br />
Personals<br />
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of city,well placed.happy<br />
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Fully insulated and double glazed for warmth.<br />
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Large 4.2m x 2.4m | Xtra-large 4.8m x 2.4m<br />
Visit our website<br />
www.justcabins.co.nz<br />
for display cabin locations<br />
www.justcabins.co.nz<br />
Trades & Services<br />
•Re Roofing<br />
•Roof Repairs<br />
•Spouting<br />
Approved Age Concern provider<br />
Over 30 years experience<br />
Licensed Building Practitioner<br />
N A BARRELL<br />
ROOFING LTD<br />
Ph: 349 9778 or 0275 389 415<br />
Email: nabroofing@xtra.co.nz<br />
Qualified<br />
Builder<br />
Available<br />
Repairs<br />
New Houses<br />
Renovations<br />
Phone John: 027 224 2831<br />
www.dohertybuilders.co.nz<br />
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Call Sam now: 027 315 7980<br />
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Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2020</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 25<br />
Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED<br />
Trades & Professional Services<br />
To advertise: Phone 379 1100 or email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
concrete & paving<br />
DECORATORS<br />
DRIVEWAYS<br />
Driveways<br />
• Driveways<br />
• Earthquake repairs<br />
• New Home Specialists<br />
• Patios & Paths<br />
tel: 0508 873 7483<br />
email: sales@affordableconcrete.co.nz<br />
www.affordableconcrete.co.nz<br />
New Paint • Repaints<br />
Wallpapering • Fences<br />
Feature Walls<br />
Floor & Roof Painting<br />
Spray Painting<br />
Light Commercial<br />
Restoring Timber<br />
* Finance available (T’s & C’s apply)<br />
Selwyn based but service the whole of Canterbury<br />
www.andertondecorators.co.nz<br />
www.facebook.com/andertondecorators<br />
027 724 6846 027 PAINTIN<br />
Exposed Aggregate<br />
Stamped Concrete Plain<br />
Concrete Resurfacing<br />
Things we offer...<br />
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Attention to detail<br />
Professional service<br />
free quotes/insurance scopes<br />
Cell 0278 145 848<br />
www.drivecrete.co.nz<br />
Over 22 Years Experience<br />
Quality<br />
Workmanship<br />
• Driveways<br />
• Kerb &<br />
Channel<br />
• Garden Edging<br />
SWAINS<br />
KIWI KERB<br />
(Since 2005)<br />
Freephone: 0800 081 400<br />
swainskiwikerb@gmail.com<br />
Excavations<br />
• Driveways<br />
• Car Parks<br />
• Site Cleaning<br />
• Demolition<br />
• Farm Tracks<br />
• Drain Cleaning<br />
• Stump & Hedge<br />
Removal<br />
• Ashpalt Concrete<br />
Wide range<br />
oF TruckS<br />
• Tennis Courts &<br />
Swimming Pools<br />
• Chip Seal Driveways<br />
• Diggers – 2 Ton<br />
up to 20 Ton<br />
• Excavators<br />
• Bobcat & Drilling<br />
• For Posthole &<br />
Fence hole<br />
For a Free Quote<br />
on your next project<br />
Phone Steve on 021 338 247<br />
or 325 7922<br />
Free<br />
QuoTe<br />
house and garden<br />
home<br />
cleaning<br />
gardening<br />
services available<br />
throughout<br />
christchurch<br />
your one stop shop for home services<br />
www.anextrapairofhands.co.nz<br />
info@anextrapairofhands.co.nz<br />
0800 535 355<br />
landscaping<br />
Landscape<br />
Construction and<br />
Garden Maintenance<br />
You can have your gardens, trees,<br />
shrubs, plants and lawns maintained to look their best<br />
all year round, for a great price.<br />
Residential & Commercial Landscaping<br />
• Maintenance • Pruning • Reconstruction & Rejuvenation<br />
• Rental Property and Commercial Maintenance<br />
• Pre-Sale Tidy-Ups<br />
New Home Landscaping<br />
Lawns • Gardens • Decks • Paving • Water Features<br />
• Quality • Value for money • Experienced • Punctual<br />
• Professional • Flexible • Knowledgeable • Reliable<br />
Call Ross Legg - 027 222 0388<br />
Email ross@revivelandscaping.co.nz<br />
www.revivelandscaping.co.nz<br />
LOCKSMITH<br />
KEYSTONE LOCKS<br />
Mobile Locksmith<br />
• Residential/Commercial<br />
• Keys Cut, Locks Rekeys<br />
• Lock Installs & Repairs<br />
• Digital Locks & Padlocks<br />
• Ranch Slider Deadlock & Bolts<br />
• Window Catches & Locks<br />
• Garage Door Locks<br />
• House Alarms & Monitoring<br />
• Rental Property Specialists<br />
• Winz & Insurance Quotes<br />
GOLD CARD OR CASH DISCOUNT<br />
Further discount for Pensioners, no GST charged<br />
10% OFF with mention of this ad<br />
Phone: Marc 03 382 2501<br />
Mob: 027 222 2220<br />
Mailer Deliveries<br />
PAINTING & TILING<br />
PLUMBER<br />
ROOF REPAIRS<br />
For a local, reliable<br />
mailer delivery<br />
service contact<br />
<strong>Star</strong> Media<br />
• Newspaper inserts<br />
• Magazine inserts<br />
• Letterbox deliveries<br />
• Urban & Rural deliveries<br />
For a cost effective, targeted delivery<br />
please call 03 379 7100 or email<br />
michaela.malloch@starmedia.kiwi<br />
www.star.kiwi<br />
• PAINTING • TILING<br />
• PLASTERING<br />
• WALLPAPERING<br />
Phone Kevin Steel<br />
• Interior/Exterior<br />
• New Homes & Repaints<br />
• Quality workmanship assured<br />
• Correct preparation always undertaken<br />
• 20+ years experience<br />
• Earthquake repairs<br />
(Painting/Plastering/Wallpapering/Tiling)<br />
Ph 027 216 8946<br />
www.facebook.com/kevinsteelpainters&decorators<br />
NEED A PLUMBER<br />
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Phone 03 377 1280 | Mobile 021 898 380<br />
Locally owned & operated with<br />
over 30 years experience.<br />
• Extensions & repair • Roof coating<br />
• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol<br />
• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified<br />
• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering<br />
Phone Dave 981 0278<br />
or 021 223 4200<br />
E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz<br />
BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD<br />
Towing<br />
tree services<br />
VIDEO PRODUCTION<br />
WINDOW TINTING<br />
For safe, damage free<br />
car transportation<br />
call Ashley’s Tow Taxi<br />
Special care for special cars<br />
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Breakdown & Relocation<br />
0800 TOW TAXI • 0800 869 8294<br />
TREE STUMP<br />
GRINDING<br />
TREE REMOVALS<br />
Qualified Arborist<br />
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Phone Mark 022 085 0300<br />
E info@superiorstumps.co.nz<br />
www.superiorstumps.co.nz<br />
business video<br />
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<strong>26</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Classifieds<br />
Property services Ltd<br />
Tree & hedge<br />
trimming<br />
& removal<br />
Stump Grinding<br />
CALL us 021 405 277<br />
Trades & Services<br />
Trades & Services<br />
CARPET LAYING HANDYMAN<br />
SPOUTING<br />
Exp. Repairs, uplifting, All handyman services eg: Select Spouting<br />
relaying, restretching. drippy taps, sticky doors, <strong>The</strong> PVC specialist.<br />
Phone John on 0800 locks, moss spraying etc. Repairs & replacement. Ph<br />
003181, 027 240 7416 Discount for pensioners. 022 197 2351<br />
jflattery@xtra.co.nz Ph 390 1565 or 022 5275<br />
TREE SERVICES<br />
CARPENTER<br />
668<br />
Free quotes 20+ yrs exp.<br />
BUILDER<br />
HANDYMAN<br />
Licensed Building<br />
Tree, hedge or shrub<br />
REPAIRMAN<br />
“I WILL TURN UP<br />
Practitioner no. 100981.<br />
- reduction, shaped or<br />
20 yrs exp.No job too<br />
All carpentry & building<br />
removed. Ph/text Paul<br />
WHEN I SAY I WILL” <br />
small.Prompt service.<br />
repairs & maintenance. On site engineering &<br />
<strong>The</strong> Branch Manager<br />
Alterations & property welding a speciality.<br />
0274314720<br />
Need a certified and reliable plumber for filtration<br />
upgrades.Laundries / Reasonable rates.Free WINDOW CLEANING<br />
systems or hot water cylinder replacement?<br />
bathroom / kitchens quotes.Ph Wayne 9813873 Average 3 brm house<br />
Bathroom upgrades or refurbishments? replaced. Specialising in /0272853083<br />
inside or out from $45.<br />
replacement of all rotten LANDSCAPING Both from $80 Phone<br />
timber, fascia boards, Paving, Lawns, Irrigation, Trevor 344-2170<br />
window, windowsills etc. Decking, Fencing. WINDOW CLEANING<br />
FREE CALL 0508 H2O BOY<br />
John Sandford, ph 329 Kanga & small digger Brown & White Ltd.<br />
4<strong>26</strong> <strong>26</strong>9<br />
4616, mob 027 5189 598 services. Check out Squire Family owned since 2001.<br />
TEXT 027 245 5100<br />
johnsandford2@gmail. Landscaping on facebook. Ph Paul 027 229 3534<br />
com<br />
FREE QUOTES. Ph<br />
EMAIL NICK@NICKJONESPLUMBING.CO.NZ CHIMNEY SWEEP Arthur 347-8796, 027 Tuition<br />
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storey.. 0800 SWEEP You Grow I Mow. Free Jobee 027 290 9246 www.<br />
Trades & Services<br />
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ME or 0210 2771 927 quotes. Ph / text Chris 021 computertutor.nz<br />
CHIMNEY SWEEP 252 1801<br />
WINTERS COMING! LAWN MOWING Wanted To Buy<br />
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rooF fire. From $80 + gst sigle tidy ups, hedge trimming.<br />
storey.. 0800 SWEEP ME Call Glen at Bottle Lake<br />
WANTED<br />
painting or 0210 2771 927 Lawn Mowing. Ph 027<br />
by Certified Tradesman<br />
CONCRETE CUTTING 499 7571<br />
Affordable Concrete OVEN CLEANING<br />
Book now Cutting with Quality, and Professional cleans Removeable<br />
EXPERIENCED<br />
removal work. Free quote.<br />
and receive<br />
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GARDENER<br />
No job to small. Phone 027 6253 or 027 228-0025<br />
20% discount. 442-2219, Fax 359-6052<br />
(Kevin Garnett)<br />
PAINTING<br />
Sleepouts galore<br />
a/h 359- 4605<br />
PLASTERING<br />
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11 Brixton Street, Hornby<br />
30 Years<br />
ELECTRICIAN<br />
Free quotes. Int/ext &<br />
a speciality.<br />
349 9633<br />
Christchurch Botanic<br />
Available, 30 years roof painting Family run<br />
Gardens. No scaffolding<br />
experience, immediate business, work guaranteed. A+ About to move? Books,<br />
start, competitive rate,<br />
required.<br />
Pensioner discounts. Ph china, coins, medals,<br />
ALL landscape<br />
ph Brian 027 433 9548 Kerin or Paul 022 191 furniture, furs, jewellery,<br />
work done.<br />
30 years No Call out fee<br />
7877 or 379-1281. Website tools, old photos, estate.<br />
experience. ELECTRICIAN<br />
www.swedekiwipainting. Ph 385-5117<br />
Maintenance, pruning,<br />
All types of domestic co.nz<br />
A+ Household effects,<br />
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tidy up, lawn work,<br />
& commercial work PAINTER QUALIFIED fridges, freezers, washing<br />
call Craig undertaken, new housing,<br />
landscape planning<br />
local professional, Int / machines, ovens. Good<br />
and planting etc. 021 060 2392 alterations, extensions, Ext,roofs,wallpaller, call cash paid. Ph Paul 022<br />
ranges, security lights, or text Corban 027 846 0891 671<br />
Free Quotes<br />
quick response, efficient 5035<br />
ALL whiteware wanted.<br />
Trades & Services<br />
service, free quotes, PAINTER<br />
Same day service, cash<br />
Phone 348 3482<br />
AAA HANDYMAN city -wide. No call out 50 yrs combined exp. paid for freezes, fridges,<br />
licensed carpenter fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat New, older homes, int ,ext. washing machines, ovens.<br />
LBP, all property and Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027 Locals working for locals. Also buying furniture &<br />
building maintenance, 7331384.<br />
We stand by Canterbury. h/hold effects.Anything<br />
repairs, bathroom/shower ELECTRICIAN<br />
Ph Wayne 027 274 3541 / considered. Ph Dave 960-<br />
installations, with free Prompt & reliable 385 4348<br />
8440, 027 66 22 116<br />
30 years + experience<br />
quotes 03 383 1927 or 027 registered electrician PAINTING<br />
MILITARIA Any<br />
Older house 245 52<strong>26</strong> ciey@xtra.co.nz with 24 years experience PLASTERING<br />
country, firearms,<br />
restorations: ANTIQUE CLOCK<br />
for all residential and Free quotes. Int/ext & uniforms, badges, medals,<br />
no problem!<br />
commercial work, new<br />
REPAIRS<br />
roof painting Family run memoribilia, WW2 or<br />
housing and switch board<br />
Quotes: FREE!<br />
business, work guaranteed.<br />
New in Chch. Experienced,<br />
earlier ph 338-9931<br />
replacements. Phone Chris Pensioner discounts. Ph<br />
Rates: Reasonable competent, reasonable.<br />
STAMPS New Zealand<br />
027 516 0669<br />
Kerin or Paul 022 191<br />
David 021 057 5064 or 09<br />
+ Australian + UK mint<br />
Paint supplied at<br />
ELECTRICIAN<br />
7877 or 379-1281. Website<br />
trade price!<br />
836 4086<br />
collections + Year Books<br />
Free quotes & no call out. www.swedekiwipainting.<br />
BRICK & BLOCK<br />
and loose stamps. Call<br />
Licensed,residential & co.nz<br />
NO JOB TOO SMALL LAYING<br />
Tony anytime on 0274 321<br />
commercial, switchboards, PLASTERING (INT)<br />
Light industrial also all restoration work<br />
297<br />
LED Lights. Canterbury Experience and<br />
and new work plus<br />
TOOLS, Garden garage,<br />
Roger Brott<br />
wide. Reasonable rates. Excellence. Small to<br />
foundations, ph 342 9340<br />
saw benches, Lathes. Cash<br />
Jason 021 <strong>26</strong>034<strong>26</strong><br />
Painter & Decorator<br />
Medium job specialists<br />
or 021 853 033<br />
buyer Phone 355-2045<br />
FENCING<br />
in all aspects of Interior<br />
021-1966-311 BUILDER QUALIFIED All types of fencing Plastering. Also small<br />
Wanted to buy copies<br />
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