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KILLER: Jeremy Crinis James Powell being led 

into the dock at the High Court at Christchurch 

yesterday. 

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• By Matt Slaughter 

ANGELA BLACKMOORE’S 

killer may have avoided a longer 

jail sentence because of his early 

guilty plea and for “assistance 

provided”. 

Questions yesterday were 

being asked why Jeremy Crinis 

James Powell, 45, who was jailed 

for life with a minimum nonparole 

period of 10 years. 

A 10-week pregnant Ms Blackmoore 

was brutally bludgeoned 

and stabbed to death in her 

Vancouver Cres, Wainoni, house 

in August, 1995, while her twoyear-old 

son Dillion slept in an 

adjacent room. 

Powell used a bowie knife and 

a bat to inflict 39 wounds to her 

head and neck. 

Sensible Sentencing Trust 

spokeswoman 

Jess McVicar 

said Powell’s 

minimum nonparole 

period 

should have 

been “at least 

19 years”. 

Angela “There’s a 

Blackmoore possibility that 

that man (Powell) 

can get out in 10 years time 

and that’s just, it’s horrendous,” 

she said. 

“It was an absolutely horrible, 

horrible, horrible death and 

there’s no remorse because, you 

know, how many years later did 

it take for this to all come out? 

So, that should have been considered, 

like, how long he hid this 

crime for. 

“He should have got at least 19 

years.” 

Crown prosecutor Pip Currie 

told The Star yesterday the minimum 

non-parole period could 

only exceed 10 years if there were 

“exceptional circumstances.” 

“While there could be grounds 

to go above and order a higher 

minimum non-parole period, 

given the guilty plea and assistance 

provided, the end result 

would be 10 years regardless,” 

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Council hot drinks budget on chopping block 

• By Louis Day 

THE CITY council is looking 

to slash its hot beverages budget 

in half as it wrestles with the 

financial fall out from the 

Covid-19 crisis. 

The budget for supplying hot 

beverage machines within the 

council’s civic office currently 

sits at $250,000 a year. It 

provides for city council staff to 

Covid-19: How the numbers 

stacked up in our region 

New Zealand was declared free of Covid-19 on Monday, with no new cases or active cases 

remaining. Canterbury District Health Board has revealed a snapshot of how the virus was 

managed across its area 

»» 

The first case was notified to 

the CDHB medical officers of 

health on March 17 and the last 

one on May 17. 

»» 

Of the total of 164 cases, 

42 were considered to have 

been infected while overseas, 

17 cases were infected in a 

chain of transmission linked to 

someone who was known to be 

infected overseas, 99 cases were 

locally infected from a known 

source and six cases were locally 

infected with the source 

unable to be determined. 

»» 

Nine cases required acute 

hospital care at some stage of 

their illness. 

»» 

No one required treatment 

in the Intensive Care Unit. 

»» 

12 Covid-19 deaths were 

recorded in the CDHB region. 

»» 

There were 368 people assessed 

in CDHB’s dedicated 

Covid-19 ward; seven were 

tested as positive and 361 were 

negative. 

»» 

All cases were managed 

and supported by 

the CDHB’s Public 

Health Unit. 

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enjoy tea, coffee and other hot 

drinks from its 29 machines 

free of charge. 

This equates to costing the 

council about 70c per employee 

per day, with around 1300 staff 

frequenting the civic office. 

However, the city council 

is looking to cut this back 

by about $150,000 after the 

Covid-19 pandemic left it with a 

$99 million shortfall. 

»» 

106 cases (65 per cent) were 

women, 58 (35 per cent) were 

men. 

»» 

The youngest was in the 0-4 

age group and the oldest was 

over 90 years old. The median 

age was 40 years. 

»» 

The regional breakdown 

for cases under territorial local 

authorities was: three cases in 

the Ashburton district, none 

in the Chatham Islands, 124 

in Christchurch city, three in 

the Hurunui district, four in 

the Kaikōura district, 13 in the 

Selwyn district and 17 in the 

Waimakariri district. 

»» 

There were 383 close 

household contacts and other 

complex case contacts directly 

identified and managed by 

community and public health, 

located in the CDHB region. 

»» 

There have been a total 

of 9244 daily follow-ups 

Council head of facilities 

property and planning 

Bruce Rendall said it was in 

discussions with suppliers 

in order to achieve this and 

planning to implement the 

changes from July 1. 

A city council report on the 

proposed changes acknowledges 

the move to reduce the budget 

by more than half could result in 

“some negative staff perceptions.” 

conducted by the Public Health 

Unit. Follow up calls to cases 

and contacts reached a daily 

maximum of 326 people on 

April 11. 

»» 

Approximately 470 

people were looked 

after in isolation and 

quarantine hotels 

in Christchurch. 

CDHB worked 

alongside other 

agencies to meet 

the health and 

wellbeing needs 

of those staying 

in isolation 

facilities by 

providing 

health checks, 

Covid-19 tests 

where indicated, 

and a range 

of other health 

care, medication 

and access to 

hospital 

In spite of this, Mr Rendall said 

no complaints had been made by 

the planned changes to date. 

The changes to how the 

council provides its staff 

with hot beverages are being 

proposed under the draft 

Annual Plan which is set to 

open for public consultation 

tomorrow. 

Submissions on the plan close 

on June 29. 

care when needed. 

The majority of guests were 

people returning to New 

Zealand on repatriation flights 

from India. Most stayed for a 

period of 14 days. 

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Man who approached 

children sought 

An incident where children 

were approached by an 

unknown man in Wainoni 

yesterday is being investigated 

by police. The man is described 

as white, in his 30s with short 

brown hair, wearing a black cap. 

He was driving a silver Subaru 

Forester. He told the children 

he was looking for his dog and 

asked them to help him find 

it. The incident was reported 

to police around 3.30pm on 

Wednesday. Police want to 

hear from anyone who has 

information. 

Peninsula crash victim 

named 

Johnny McDrury, 58, was the 

man who died in a car crash 

in Banks Peninsula at the 

weekend. Mr McDrury, who 

lived in Wainui died in a singlecar 

crash at 12.20am on Sunday 

on State Highway 75, between 

Robinsons Bay and Takamatua 

Bay. He was the sole occupant 

of the car. A Givealittle page 

has been created to support his 

children. 

Netsal lease at reserve 

under consideration 

In today’s city council meeting 

councillors will consider 

approving a lease which would 

allow for reserve land at Nga 

Puna Wai be used as the site 

for a 10-court Netsal centre. 

However, the hearings panel 

which processed the public 

submissions on the lease is 

recommending a number of 

conditions are put on it. It wants 

additional measures taken to 

address the concerns raised 

by local organisations and 

residents around access, traffic 

management and parking. 

Firearm discharged at 

tattoo parlour 

A Christchurch tattoo parlour 

was shot at on Tuesday. A police 

spokeswoman said a report 

of a firearm being discharged 

at a commercial address on 

Lincoln Rd, Addington was 

made about 1140pm. No one 

was inside the property. Police 

are investigating. 

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Motorist bashed in ‘frenzied’ attack 

UNPROVOKED: Deni Smart was admitted to hospital 

on the night of May 30 after an attack while her car 

was stationary at an intersection. 

SITTING IN her car waiting for the 

Buckleys Rd traffic lights to turn 

green, Deni Smart had no idea she 

was about to be bashed repeatedly 

by a stranger. 

“I just noticed a woman approaching 

my car. She entered 

it and just said something like: 

‘F*** you, you...b****. 

“Then it was just a really frenzied 

attack. I couldn’t tell you how long 

it lasted for, maybe minutes, I can’t 

remember.” 

Ms Smart was waiting at an intersection 

on Buckleys Rd, Linwood, 

about 5.30pm on May 30. 

Her alleged attacker took her 

head and smashed it repeatedly into 

the driver’s door window. 

“It got really hazy after that.” 

The Christchurch woman suffered 

a fractured eye socket, a 

bleeding lip, other lacerations and a 

concussion that is still affecting her 

more than week after the incident. 

“Today’s actually my birthday and 

I’ve got a GP appointment later on 

this afternoon.” 

The 29-year-old does not know 

what provoked the woman. 

Afterwards, the woman jumped 

into her own vehicle before gunning 

it down the road. 

Ms Smart, feeling dizzy after the 

assault, managed to pull her car away 

from the intersection and parked on 

the kerb before phoning 111. 

She said police, who are still 

investigating, arrived shortly afterwards 

before paramedics ruled her 

injuries were so severe she needed 

to be taken to the hospital. 

Just over a week after the incident, 

Ms Smart – a customer 

services manager for a social housing 

trust – is unable to work until 

further notice. 

She is due to undergo more tests 

at a local concussion clinic as she is 

still feeling the after-effects of the 

attack. 

“I’m facing about four to six 

weeks of rehabilitation as I’ve got 

symptoms still. 

“My short-term memory’s 

gone, speech, I have pins and 

needles down one side of my body, 

anxiety and the paranoia is the 

biggest thing. 

“I don’t like being in public 

because I think: ‘S***. What if she 

recognises me’?” 

Ms Smart’s family and friends 

have rallied to support her and have 

started a Givealittle fundraising 

page to help her. 

Ms Smart encouraged women out 

driving – no matter what time – to 

lock their doors to prevent similar 

incidents from happening. 

“Just keep your wits about you.” 

• CAN YOU HELP? Anyone 

who witnessed the attack 

or has information is 

urged to phone police on 

105 or anonymously via 

CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 

111. 

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‘A vicious and pointless murder’ 

NEWS 5 

• From page 1 

Powell pleaded guilty to her 

murder in February after he was 

arrested by police. 

Last year police had offered a 

$100,000 reward in a bid to solve 

the case. 

Inquiry head Detective Sergeant 

Todd Hamilton would not 

say yesterday if the reward has 

been claimed. 

Miss McVicar said she did not 

believe the Crown’s reasoning for 

the minimum parole period of 10 

years was justified. 

“I don’t think the guilty plea 

should have come into it all, 

because it should have been taken 

into account that he actually 

didn’t come forward when the 

crime was committed, that he 

had kept it quiet for all this time 

which shows no remorse.” 

Ms Blackmoore’s partner at the 

time Laurie Anderson told media 

after the sentencing at the High 

Court at Christchurch he was 

pleased with the sentence. 

“I can move on. He’s going to 

do his time, do his punishment 

for what he’s done, justice has 

been done for him, so (I’m) very 

happy,” he said. 

Mr Anderson said he felt a 

weight of pressure lifting from 

his shoulders. 

“He’s going to do his time, do 

his punishment for what he’s 

done. I am very pleased.” 

He accepted Powell’s remorse 

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RELIEVED: Laurie Anderson (above), who was Angela Blackmoore’s partner at the time 

when Jeremy Powell murdered her in 1995, outside the High Court yesterday. 

as being genuine and thanked 

him for pleading guilty – even 

after 24 years. 

In a victim impact statement 

read to the court yesterday, Mr 

Anderson described it as a “vicious” 

and “pointless” murder, 

saying that Ms Blackmoore was 

“like a lamb to the slaughter, with 

no defence”. 

“You didn’t care who you killed 

– just for the money,” he said. 

Mr Anderson was working as an 

assistant librarian at Canterbury 

University the night she was killed. 

Powell says he was offered 

$10,000 to carry out the murder. 

It was also revealed yesterday in 

court he went to the house on an 

earlier occasion to kill Ms Blackmoore 

but could not do it. 

Police allege Powell’s then girlfriend, 

Rebecca Wright-Meldrum, 

48, has also been charged 

with murder but denies having 

anything to do with it. She has 

pleaded not guilty and will stand 

trial next year. 

Last month, a third person was 

charged with Ms Blackmoore’s 

murder. The 47-year-old man, 

who has interim name suppression, 

is back in court next month. 

Detective Sergeant Hamilton 

would not say if any other people 

are also being sought in connection 

with Ms Blackmoore’s death. 

In court yesterday, Justice 

Cameron Mander said the 

murder could be described as 

a “dreadful and monstrous 

killing”, saying his victim was 

“vulnerable and defenceless”. 

Powell’s defence counsel Donald 

Matthews described him as a 

man full of remorse. 

“What he did nearly 25 years 

ago has weighed on him very 

heavily. 

“He feels a great sense of relief 

now that his crime is now out in 

the open,” said Mr Matthews. 

• Editorial page 21 

Killer’s parents 

in disbelief 

Jeremy Powell’s parents 

Dennis and Judith Powell, both 

aged 70, who were in court still 

struggle to believe he is a killer, 

even though he pleaded guilty. 

“We still can’t believe it all. 

“You mull it over in your 

head and, you know, you 

think, ‘What if?’ and I sort of 

think, maybe in a fit of anger 

he’d hit somebody with a 

baseball bat? But I can’t even 

really see that,” Dennis said. 

His mother sure can’t. For 

her, it all still seems so surreal. 

Said Dennis: “We all love 

him still. You can’t stop that. 

“But the stabbing? That’s just 

not him at all. It seems to have 

been a frenzy… I just don’t 

think it was him who did that. 

Knowing him, that’s just not 

the sort of thing he would do,” 

he said.


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A CONTROVERSIAL policy 

labelled “socialism for the rich” 

and “cynical corporate welfare” 

will go to the city council table 

today. 

City councillors will consider 

extending the central city residential 

development contributions 

rebate scheme 

which has benefitted 

developers millions of 

dollars since its inception 

in 2014. 

A development 

contribution is a charge 

on new developments 

that place additional 

demand on the city 

council’s infrastructure. 

Revenue from development 

contributions is 

used by the city council to repay 

debt funding which is used to 

provide growth infrastructure. 

However, since 2014 the city 

council has rebated residential 

developments within the four 

avenues of development contributions 

in a bid to encourage 

growth in the city centre. 

A total of $13.5 million has 

been rebated to developers since 

the policy’s inception, resulting 

in 1175 new units being built in 

the central city. 

The rebate is debt-funded and 

comes at a cost of about $756,900 

a year to the council with a 0.15 

per cent impact on rates. 

Keep Our Assets Canterbury 

has previously labelled the policy 

“socialism for the rich.” 

City councillor Jake McLellan 

said he was probably going to 

vote against the policy. 

“I have had a long-standing 

view that it is cynical corporate 

welfare,” he said. 

“I guess people would 

argue that it is about 

getting the cost of buying 

a home in the CBD 

down but there is no 

evidence to suggest it 

does that.” 

While city councillor 

James Gough was not 

prepared to comment on 

the decision itself prior 

to it being considered by 

council, he thought the premise 

of the policy was simple. 

“If you would like to see the 

cost of inner-city housing lower 

or more affordable then you 

would support the rebate. If you 

want to see inner-city housing 

prices increase you would rescind 

it,” he said. 

“Any reduction in a development 

cost doesn’t impact margin 

and go into a developer’s back 

pocket, it just allows for the endproduct 

to be more competitively 

priced and makes the house 

more affordable.” 


Central city rebate policy at council table 

Jake McLellan 

City council staff have recommended 

the policy is extended 

beyond its current expiry date of 

July 1 and continues until a total 

of $20 million is rebated. The 

council would also have the ability 

to end the scheme at any time 

under this agreement. 

Staff have recommended 

against extending a similar 

scheme aimed at commercial 

development within the central 

city which is set to expire at the 

end of this month. 

Williams Corporation 

managing director Matthew 

Horncastle, whose company has 

benefitted $2.9 million from the 

policy, helping build 255 units 

within the heart of the city, 

refuted claims of the residential 

policy being “corporate welfare” 

and “socialism for the rich.” 

“You either want to build the 

city or you don’t. One thing you 

have to do in achieving that is that 

you have to make it attractive for 

developers and reducing as many 

costs as possible will assist in that 

heavily.” 

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development contributions 

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Complaint lodged over 

development advertising 


A COMPLAINT has been made 

to the Commerce Commission 

over Williams Corporation’s 

advertising for some of its 

developments. 

Information packs across the 

company’s developments suggested 

that prospective buyers 

could use the spaces for Airbnbstyle 

rental use, which would be 

in breach of the District Plan. 

“The owner may be subject 

to obtaining resource consents 

although the likelihood of the 

council enforcing this is low at this 

stage,” the information pack reads. 

This was ordered to be removed 

by the city council. 

City councillor Jake McLellan 

and Linwood-Central-Heathcote 

Community Board member 

Michelle Lomax have now sent 

a complaint to the Commerce 

Commission about the information 

packs, claiming some are 

still present. 

A Commerce Commission 

spokeswoman said the complaint 

was still awaiting assessment, 

which could take four to six 

weeks to complete once started. 

Williams Corporation managing 

director Matthew Horncastle 

said the content suggesting 

Airbnb use was a possibility had 

now been removed from information 

packs across developments 

and also ones available online. 

He told The Star this was 

because the information packs 

became “too political.” 

“We removed it from all our 

developments, that statement [that 

the material is still out there] is 

factually inaccurate,” he said. 

The complaint reads: “Although 

we understand this material has 

been removed from their listing 

at Merivale Lane, we also understand 

this has not been the case 

for any other property.” 

“As were are sure you can understand, 

misleading advertisement 

places both potential buyers 

and the council in a very difficult 

situation, where purchasers could 

end up in a situation where they 

have spent a very large sum of 

money in the expectation of using 

it for un-hosted rentals and the 

council has to take enforcement 

action against them. 

“As elected members, we do not 

want to see this kind of problem 

occurring and so we hope you 

will investigate and nip the 

matter in the bud.” 



THE NEW Zealand 

Taxpayers’ Union has 

vowed to mobilise 

ratepayers as the city 

council seeks public 

feedback on proposed 

rates rises. 

A rates increase of 3.5 

per cent has been submitted 

as the most preferred option 

from staff in this year’s draft 

Annual Plan, with rises 

of 5.5 per cent and 4.65 

per cent submitted as others. 

The plan will go out 

for public consultation 

tomorrow. 

Union spokesman 

Louis Houlbrooke saw 

the proposed rates increases 

as a “betrayal to 

ratepayers” and planned 

to mobilise ratepayers into calling 

for a rates freeze in a bid to 

NEWS 7 

Taxpayers’ Union to fight 

proposed rates hike 


THE CITY council is planning 

to borrow more than $100 

million over the coming years 

as it braces itself for a series 

of reduced dividends from its 

investment arm. 

Christchurch City 

Holdings Ltd is wholly owned 

by the city council and holds 

shares in a total of eight 

trading companies, including 

Christchurch International 

Airport and the Lyttelton Port 

Company, overseeing about $4 

Louis 

Houlbrooke 

billion of assets. 

Due to the unprecedented 

circumstances of the Covid-19 

crisis, the dividend returned to 

the city council over the next 

couple of years is expected to 

be less than what was initially 

forecasted. This has been heavily 

influenced by a drop of up to 95 

per cent in transits through the 

airport. 

The city council is proposing 

to borrow $33 million to cover 

the predicted loss of dividend 

and also revenue in the current 

financial year. A further $47 


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can not claim public endorsement 

for their rates hike plan,” 

he said. 

A city council spokeswoman 

said all feedback would be welcomed 

and considered. 

The plan will remain open for 

public consultation until June 29. 

Council plans to borrow $100m 

million for the coming year and 

an additional $22 million in the 

next is also expected to be needed 

due to a predicted decrease in 

dividend and revenue, bringing 

the total amount of borrowing to 

$102 million. 

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of the council’s draft Annual 

Plan which goes out for public 

consultation tomorrow. 

Feedback on the plan will 

close on June 29 and the city 

council will have to formally 

adopt it by the end of next 

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NEWS 

Fewer graffiti 

reports during 

lockdown 


MORE THAN 800 graffiti 

incidents were reported across 

the city over the course of the 

lockdown period. 

The central city was the area to 

attract the most incidents with 

248 reported to the city council 

from between March 25 and April 

30. 

The Coastal Ward, which covers 

New Brighton, Southshore and 

Parklands, had the second highest 

number of graffiti reports with 

150. 

The areas with the least incidents 

were the Waimairi and 

Harewood Wards, both receiving 

nine reports. 

There were a total of 63 reports 

of graffiti being carried out on 

private property and five to heritage 

buildings. 

The number of reports made 

over the course of the alert level 4 

restrictions is actually a decrease 

from the number of reports made 

during the same period last year. 

Between March 25 and April 

30 last year, 1138 reports were 

made. The central city again 

led the way with most incidents 

reported to the council with 515. 

The Waimairi Ward also again 

came in as the suburb to receive 

the least reports with 18. 

BIKING IS booming in 

Christchurch with the number 

of people pedalling around the 

city this year racing well ahead 

of last year’s total. 

City council figures show 

when a morning peak count was 

carried out in March at seven locations 

this year there were 2234 

cycle trips recorded, compared 

to 1869 in 2019. 

This is an increase of nearly 20 

per cent, and follows a pattern 

of yearly increases since the 

city council began building a 

network of major cycle routes 

around the city. 

The gender breakdown shows 

that 59 per cent of cyclists 

counted this year were men and 

41 per cent were women. This is 

a significant increase from the 

32 per cent of women cyclists 

counted in 2016. 

The growing number of female 

cyclists is seen as a positive 

trend because international experience 

shows women particularly 

are unlikely to get on their 

bikes if they feel unsafe. 

The count, which was done 

on a weekday between 7am and 

9am, was carried out manually 

at six locations around the city 

and on Ilam Rd near Canterbury 

University. 

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cent since they began in 2016. 

City council transport planning 

and delivery manager 

Lynette Ellis said the council has 

been working hard to make it 

easy for people to travel safely 

by bike. 

“The figures show a consistent 

upward trend over the past four 

years as our network of major 

cycle routes has grown and I 

think that will continue to rise 

as people get more familiar 

with those routes and choose to 

travel by bike for health, fitness 

and environmental reasons. 

“The counts were carried out 

before the recent lockdown 

which saw a boost for cycling 

as people went on bike rides 

with their families and realised 

how easy and enjoyable it could 

be, especially on our off-road 

cycleways. So I think the 

numbers will climb even higher 

and we’re on track for our 

counts next March to show a 

100 per cent increase from 2016 

figures.” 

Open cycle routes around 

the city include the Papanui 

Parallel, between Northlands 

Mall and the central city, Uni- 

Cycle connecting the university 

with the city, Rapanui – Shag 

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NEWS 9 

Rogue rubbish habits costs thousands 

A CAMPAIGN to stop 

Christchurch households from 

using their recycling bins 

to dump their smelly, nonrecyclable 

waste is so far failing 

to change residents’ behaviour. 

On Monday, close to half of 

all recycling collected in the city 

had to be taken to the landfill, up 

from a third of it on Friday. 

It took just a handful of yellow 

wheelie 

bins where a 

nappy had been 

tossed in with 

the cardboard 

and plastic 

for the whole 

truckload of 

Ross Trotter 

recycling to 

be deemed 

a write-off and be taken to the 

landfill instead of the recycling 

plant. 

City council waste manager 

Ross Trotter said the rogue rubbish 

had so far cost his organisation 

$350,000 in additional 

dumping fees. 

“Unfortunately, we do have 

some people who are continuing 

to contaminate the recycling bin 

and it’s things like food, green 

waste, nappies, clothing, items 

that obviously can’t be recycled.” 

It all started when the council 

came out of lockdown. 

During level 4 when sorting 

recycling was not possible, it had 

allowed households to use their 

yellow bins for general waste. 

Once recycling was possible 

again, this stopped. 

However, thousands of people 

had clearly not got the message 

and were continuing to double 

dip, using both their general 

waste and recycling bins to take 

out the trash. 

“It really impacts on the people 

who are doing it right in doing 

the right thing. So it’s very problematic 

at the moment because 

we haven’t seen that change back 

to what we what we would have 

thought,” said Mr Trotter. 

He said it may have been a 

mistake allowing households to 

use their yellow bins for their 

non-recyclable rubbish during 

lockdown. 

“In hindsight, to have the behaviour 

change back to the way it 

was, we may may take a different 

approach on it, because certainly 

the cost now, certainly outweighs 

the advantage of having that 

convenience at the time.” 

The council remained determined 

to get on top of the 

problem. 

From next week, the number 

of inspectors roaming the worst 

offending streets would increase 

from four to 16. 

“They will actually physically 

go around on the streets and 

open up the bin, have a look at 

the contents of them and see if 

that is correct and the material in 

CONTAMINATION: 

Christchurch is 

continuing to let 

the side down 

by putting nonrecyclable 

items in 

their yellow bins. 

PHOTO: RNZ 

there is correct.” 

Nearly everybody spoken to on 

the streets of the city yesterday 

had an opinion on the wheelie 

bin debacle. 

One resident Sarah admitted 

she was among those who had 

been using the yellow bins incorrectly. 

With five children and a lot of 

nappies to get rid of, she said one 

solution would be to provide a 

bigger bin for general waste. 

“That’s basically a whole red 

bin of fortnight. And then you’ve 

got school lunches and stuff on 

top of that because the kids can’t 

actually throw the rubbish out 

at school. So we dump it at home 

and there’s just no room for it. 

So we do literally dump runs like 

once a month, as well as paying 

the rates and everything for the 

bins.” 

Another resident Rose had also 

been using the bigger recycling 

bins for her smelly waste, but 

said she had no idea her actions 

were costing the council so much 

money. 

“I’ve got a naughty letter on my 

yellow bin so I’ll have to play by 

the rules now, but after the earthquakes 

they didn’t really care so I 

just kept on going.” 

Sheryl Johnston was shocked 

some had not been following the 

rules and were undermining the 

hard work of those who had been 

diligently washing their tins and 

milk bottles ready for them to be 

used again. 

“I was horrified to hear her 

say that. We’ve got to look after 

our planet. I’m a big recycler, 

I recycle and I pick up rubbish 

on the beach and I look after 

our world.” 

Ms Johnston said the council 

should never have allowed 

people to use their yellow bins 

for general waste in the first 

place. 

The city council was taking 

an educational approach so far 

but said repeat offenders who 

breached the rules for a third 

time ran the risk of having their 

bins taken off them. 

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NEWS 

Isaac theatre 

gears up 

for reopening 

THE ISAAC Theatre Royal is 

gradually restarting operations 

after being shut due to the Covid-19 

lockdown. 

The theatre has been facing the 

risk of closure due to the lockdown, 

but it was given a boost by significant 

public donations through a 

fundraiser. 

More than $110,000 has been 

raised so far, exceeding its goal of 

$95,000. 

Chief executive Bob Mangan 

said venue tours had started and 

private film screenings with the 

Canterbury Film Society were also 

booked. 

Public film screenings were returning 

from June 24 and drive-in 

cinema was planned for early next 

month, Mr Mangan said. 

Children’s musical The Cat in the 

Hat was also planned for the July 

school holidays. 

However, Mr Mangan said in 

spite of the Covid-19 alert level 

1 status, there would be ongoing 

challenges for the theatre. 

“With the borders still closed, 

that means that we don’t get the international 

acts coming through,” 

he said. 

Mr Mangan said the theatre 

was grateful for the people of 

Canterbury coming to its aid in 

what had been a difficult time for 

the industry. 

– RNZ 


TRACEY IDOUR is no stranger 

to managing a business during 

trying times. 

She opened her new business 

Botanica Furniture just after 

lockdown finished in May and 

says “thousands” of people have 

come through its doors since. 

The store’s official launch 

where its new signage will be unveiled 

is scheduled for Saturday. 

Said Mrs Idour: “During 

our trading years we have 

experienced snowstorms, 

floods, a global financial crisis, 

earthquakes, major renovation, a 

fire, and now a global pandemic, 

none of which would be possible 

without the support of both our 

past and present customers. 

“We want to extend a warm 

and heartfelt thank you. You 

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years helping not only my 

team and their families but the 


Shaking the lockdown blues 

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Botanica Furniture has replaced 

the old Target Furniture 

at 455 Blenheim Rd, which Mrs 

Idour managed for 19 years. 

She is excited to begin her next 

business venture with support 

from her husband Andrew Idour 

and 4-year-old daughter Lilia. 

Being Christchurch-owned 

means Botanica Furniture will 

be free to stock different items 

than Target did including artwork, 

homewares, plants, lighting 

and linen, said Mrs Idour. 

“We are pleased to be able to 

transform our own business and 

make unique and personal decisions 

without the constraints 

that come with a national 

franchise. 

“The most exciting aspect of 

trading as our own independent 

store is we now get to choose 

what furniture pieces we want to 

buy, and supply to the market we 

live and work in. 

“You will see transparency 

with pricing and everyday low 

prices going forward. 

“This could not be more important 

in the current environment,” 

she said. 

In their downtime, Mrs Idour 

and her family enjoy spending 

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Saturday. 

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She said allowing staff members 

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NEWS 


Daughter’s death sparks calls for track 

• By Jess Gibson 

THE MOTHER of a woman 

who slipped and fell to her 

death on part of the Coastal 

Cliffs Walkway, near Diamond 

Harbour, wants it made safer to 

prevent any more fatalities. 

Fitness fanatic April Morel, 

35, was running with the family 

dog on a rainy day when she 

fell over the Church Bay section 

of the track on March 30 – her 

body was later discovered lying 

on rocks below the cliff. 

And as the damp weather 

continues in the winter months 

the track will get more slippery, 

April’s mother Debbie Morel 

fears another family could 

lose a loved one if safety is not 

improved soon. 

After April’s accident, city 

council rangers visited the 

track and carried out some 

modifications, including the 

installation of steps, to provide a 

more clearly identifiable surface 

and tread for users. 

The only signage is at 

the entrance to the track, 

identifying it as the Coastal 

Cliffs Walkway, but it does not 

warn users about risk. 

City council head of parks 

Andrew Rutledge said staff are 

planning a review of this section 

of the track and the connecting 

linkages along the Head to Head 

Walkway. 

“Any areas identified as 

requiring additional safety 

work will be carried out or 

managed.” 

But the city council did not 

know when the investigations 

would take place. 

Miss Morel said the city 

council has an “obligation to 

keep these tracks safe.” 

“The council is pushing to 

make these tracks accessible for 

the public and to link them up, 

so therefore have a responsibility 

to maintain these.” 

She said it was “not about 

closing the track,” the recent 

modifications were not safe 

enough. She would like to see 

more measures such as railing 

and signage. 

“It’s still very open on that 

side, anyone could trip on the 

steps and go.” 

April was fit, healthy and very 

familiar with the track, as it was 

near her father Don Martin and 

stepmother Caroline Martin’s 

home in Diamond Harbour, 

where she had been staying 

during the Covid-19 lockdown. 

EXPOSED: 

Debbie Morel 

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Cliffs Walkway, 

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NEWS 13 

safety improvements 


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Each week we profile a local Christchurch organisation 

to give them a plug and see how they’re going as the 

country eases into recovery. This week we spoke to 

Arron Perriam, chief executive at children’s charity 

Cholmondeley 

TRAGEDY: April Morel, 35, was fit, healthy and very familiar 

with the Coastal Cliffs Walkway. 

“It’s dangerous. Even in the 

summer, we were walking it and 

we tripped,” Miss Morel said. 

Her family is in the process of 

getting a memorial seat installed 

at the site, but Miss Morel said she 

is too scared to take April’s nieces 

up the track to see where it would 

be installed. 

“I don’t want [them] going anywhere 

near it.” 

Miss Morel plans to meet with 

some of the local community 

groups like the Diamond Harbour 

Community Association and Diamond 

Harbour reserves management 

committee to find out what 

can be done. 

DHCA treasurer Thomas Kulpe 

said the group has petitioned to 

have the maintenance improved 

on the track in the past but has not 

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“highlighted the security issues” 

too much. 

“We would all be fools if we 

didn’t take the accident as an opportunity 

to look at safety issues, 

of course, nobody wants to see 

something like this happen again.” 

But Mr Kulpe said he would 

wait to hear more details on the 

circumstances of the accident 

before looking into options. 

Miss Morel was going to make 

more inquiries into April’s death 

with the coroner. 

Ancient tree stumps 

uncovered in valley 

TREE STUMPS from an ancient 

forest have been uncovered in 

Hoon Hay Valley. 

City council contractors found 

the stumps in the valley while carrying 

out flood prevention work 

to reduce the Heathcote River’s 

flood risk at a new stormwater 

retention basin in Cashmere Rd. 

The standing kahikatea stumps 

will be radiocarbon dated to 

establish their age. Previous 

buried wood uncovered in Hoon 

Hay suggests they may be about 

2500-years-old. 

A Canterbury University study 

now aims to understand what 

caused the demise of the now 

buried forest. 

Led by fossil plant specialist Dr 

Matiu Prebble, university students 

will explore the buried forest site, 

along with another at the Longhurst 

development in Halswell. 

A $15,000 Brian Mason Scientific 

& Technical Trust grant will 

support the research. 

“Radiocarbon dates on stumps 

and buried logs found throughout 

Christchurch indicate that different 

forest types – mainly kahikatea 

or mataī/miro – were dominant at 

different times throughout the last 

10,000 years,” Dr Prebble said. 

“With the recent flood mitigation 

programme, more of these 

buried standing stumps are being 

located. The changing course of 

PROJECT: A tree stump from the ancient forest. 

the Waimakariri River likely led to 

the flooding of many – but not all 

– of the buried standing forests.” 

Dr Prebble will investigate 

whether the new finds have fallen 

victim to floods or early logging. 

“We will need to date seeds, 

not just wood from the extracted 

stumps, which may have been sitting 

in the ground for a long time,” 

he said. 

The team hopes to learn whether 

the ecosystem can be restored. 

“We have identified seeds and 

leaves of several species and this 

data can inform environmental 

restoration projects into the future,” 

he said. 

The project also aims to identify 

areas utilised by Māori prior to 

European arrival, and those for- 

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ests cleared by early settlers. 

“The project is of personal interest 

as both my Māori and Pākeha 

ancestors lived in this area in the 

mid-19th century,” Dr Prebble said. 

“My Prebble ancestors had the 

original pastoral lease of the Halswell/lower 

Hoon Hay area during 

the 1850s and may have been responsible 

for the clearance of any 

surviving standing forests.” 

Research data from the two 

sites will be compared with that 

of the surviving kahikatea forest 

in Pūtaringamotu/Riccarton Bush 

near the university campus. 

The stumps will remain in place 

as council contractors plant thousands 

of native trees and plants to 

help restore the Hoon Hay Valley 

area. 

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14 

NEWS 


Which MP really f-bombed a Zoom meeting? 

Senior National MP 

Judith Collins has been 

blamed for uttering 

the f-bomb in a Zoom 

committee meeting. 

But was it actually 

Christchurch Central 

MP Duncan Webb? NZ 

Herald’s Amelia Wade 

investigates 

SOMEONE MUTTERED “for 

f**k’s sake” during an interrogation 

of police over the new law 

that gives them the power to 

enter homes without a warrant. 

The whispered swearing happened 

just after National MP Judith 

Collins appeared to express 

her distaste for Labour MP Kiri 

Allen thanking the commissioners 

for dropping the armed 

response teams. 

Ms Collins has also been 

blamed for the f-word but when 

she was questioned later, said she 

can’t remember the hushed cuss 

because she dropped her tea. 

The Herald has analysed of the 

video and found the evidence inconclusive 

as there was another 

suspect – Labour MP Duncan 

Webb. 

The evidence 

At the start of the Finance and 

Expenditure select committee’s 

inquiry into the Covid-19 Public 

Health Response Act, Ms Collins 

shuffling papers kept interrupting 

the Zoom. 

Each time, Zoom flicked to Ms 

Collins so committee chairwoman 

Labour MP Deborah Russell 

told her to mute her microphone 

if she wasn’t speaking. 

But for half an hour Ms Collins’ 

heavy breathing and whispered 

remarks were picked up by her mic 

and with each disturbance, Zoom 

flicked to Ms Collins’ black screen 

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name betraying the source of the 

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Webb asked the commissioners 

the first question, his microphone 

clearly off mute as well. 

The hushed cuss 

Labour MP Kiri Allen was in 

line for the second question and 

started by thanking Mr Coster 

for dropping the armed response 

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But the camera this time did 

not betray its speaker. Newshub 

and Stuff blamed Ms Collins for 

the curse. 

The Herald asked Ms Collins if 

the swear was her. 

“I didn’t think so, but I did tip 

some tea,” she replied. 

Is Ms Collins innocent? 

The Herald analysed the video 

and audio in depth and has 

concluded the evidence was 

inconclusive. 

The voice sounds like a man’s 

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Collins like it did with her other 

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Safety videos cost taxpayer $25k 


TAXPAYER FUNDED videos 

featuring Canterbury police 

reminding people to be safe 

when alert level 2 started cost 

$25,000 to make. 

The videos, which are part of 

a series called RESTART and 

BE SMART, have only received 

about 31,900 views on the Canterbury 

police and city council 

Facebook pages combined. These 

pages are followed by about 

171,000 people in total. 

The five videos were funded 

by the New Zealand Transport 

Agency, a Government entity. 

Canterbury police and the city 

council worked together to 

decide the content of the videos 

and actors from The Court Theatre 

stared in them. 

But an NZTA spokesperson 

said the videos were money well 

spent and came at an important 

time to remind motorists and 

pedestrians to be safe. 

“Observations were that during 

the exceptional Covid 19 

alert level 4 lockdown situation, 

a local response was required to 

build awareness of the changing 

travel patterns locally. 

“Even with reduced traffic on 

the network, all users needed 

to remain alert, courteous and 

mindful at all times. 

“Both council and police have 

an existing road safety relationship 

with the Court Theatre and 

were able to respond quickly and 

efficiently with concept options 

to address police and council 

road safety concerns. Social 

media was considered to be the 

most effective and direct media 

channel for distribution,” said 

the spokesperson. 

A police spokesperson said police 

are happy with the response 

the videos have received and feel 

producing them was worthwhile. 

“We know the videos have 

been well received, and any impact 

they have on keeping people 

safe on the roads is worth it. 

“The current total views of 

MONEY WELL SPENT? The NZTA says a series 

of videos promoting safety measures from 

Canterbury police posted to Facebook, which 

cost it $25,000 to make was worth it. 

•HAVE YOUR SAY: Was spending $25,000 

for the road safety videos on Facebook 

money well spent? Email your views to 

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the five RESTART videos on 

the Canterbury Police Facebook 

page is 22,200,” they said. 

Each video includes a comedic 

skit, which highlights things that 

had the potential to 60 % 

cause danger 

to motorists and pedestrians when 

roads became busier at level 2. 

The messages within the videos 

include being vigilant with 

more vehicles, pedestrians and 

bikes on the road, the dangers of 

being distracted or tired while 

driving and the importance of 

having the correct licence when 

riding a motorbike. 

The city council did not 

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NEWS 17 

Historic cemetery headstone 

repairs could be put on hold 


REPAIRS TO historic headstones 

across the city could go on hold 

as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. 

The city council is proposing to 

stop all repairs to historic cemetery 

headstones over the coming 

financial year as it looks to cut 

back services in order to save 

money and ease the burden of the 

pandemic on the organisation. 

Covid-19 resulted in the council 

incurring a $99 million revenue 

shortfall. Stopping all historic 

headstone repairs for 12 months is 

expected to save $156,000. 

City council head of parks 

Andrew Rutledge said there were 

about 5000 damaged cemetery 

headstones known to the council 

in need of repair, with 80 per cent 

of them being classed as historic. 

In spite of this, only 10 historic 

headstones were scheduled for repairs 

in the coming financial year 

before the city council considered 

scrapping repairs altogether. Repairs 

to five historic headstones 

have been completed in the current 

financial year. 

In a council report which 

proposes stopping all repairs, it is 

acknowledged this would likely 

result in a “negative response from 

a small sector of the community.” 

Mr Rutledge said all headstones 

put in place before 1950 

were classed as historic. 

“Council considers all pre-1950 

headstones to be historic, as the 

OVERGROWN: 

There 

have been 

complaints 

about the lack 

of maintenance 

and repairs 

to historic 

headstones 

at Bromley 

Cemetery. 

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period to 1950 includes significant 

events in our history such as 

the flu epidemic of 1918 and both 

world wars,” he said. 

The move to cease all repairs 

to historic cemetery headstones 

•HAVE YOUR SAY: 

Should repairs to historic 

headstones go on hold 

to save money? Email 

your views to louis.day@ 

starmedia.kiwi 

is being proposed under the 

city council’s draft Annual Plan 

which will go out for public consultation 

tomorrow. If approved, 

the city council will then reconsider 

restarting the services again 

in next year’s Annual Plan. 

This year’s plan will be open for 

public feedback until June 29. It 

will then have to be adopted by 

the city council on July 30. 

Other proposed cuts to services 

include a reduced frequency in 

emptying central city bins from 

daily to four times a week and a 

decreased level of maintenance 

to community, recreational and 

sports facilities as well as heritage 

buildings. 

Health should be focus of cannabis vote 

A MORE health-oriented and 

less punitive approach should be 

taken to New Zealand’s policy 

on recreational cannabis use, a 

senior researcher suggests. 

Prof Richie 

Poulton, of the 

University of 

Otago, and several 

other researchers 

have 

drawn from 

world-class 

Prof Richie 

Poulton 

data in the 

Christchurch 

Health and 

Development 

Study to provide an analysis of 

the effects of cannabis before 

New Zealand’s referendum on 

the drug in September. 

The findings were titled “Patterns 

of recreational cannabis 

use in Aotearoa New Zealand 

and their consequences: evidence 

to inform voters in the 2020 

referendum”. 

They have been published in 

The Royal Society of New Zealand 

journal. 

Prof Poulton said the research 

aimed to provide a “cool-headed” 

view on the most reliable and 

robust evidence of the effects of 

cannabis use. 

The researchers were “acutely 

aware” that there were “hotly 

contested views and opinions 

about cannabis use among the 

public”, and differing views 

within the scientific community. 

“I’ve been giving evidence to 

various health select committees 

about cannabis use and harms 

for almost a quarter of a century 

and raise the same point each 

time: harms associated with cannabis 

use should be treated as a 

health issue, not as a legal issue,” 

he said. 

He had a “strong preference for 

evidence-informed preventive 

and early intervention approaches” 

but he said preventive health 

approaches were impeded by the 

legal status of cannabis. 

He encouraged voters to reflect 

on a referendum option that 

removed the legal penalties associated 

with cannabis use. 

This was because such consequences 

could “significantly 

reduce a person’s life opportunities”, 

affect their employability 

and “severely curtail their freedom 

of movement in a global 

21st-century world”. 

A criminal record could also 

lead to “ongoing punishment or 

discrimination and stigma”, he 

said. 

The research shows that by 

adulthood most New Zealanders 

(born in the 1970s and now approaching 

middle age) had tried 

cannabis and did so with relative 

impunity, escaping serious health 

and or social consequences. 

However, for a small portion 

who used cannabis frequently 

or became dependent, the study 

outlines negative outcomes. 

“These range from impairment 

in psychological function, loss 

of cognitive capacity, poorer 

respiratory and gum health, 

and a range of negative psychosocial 

consequences such as 

early school leaving and academic 

underachievement, failure 

in employment and the workplace, 

dependence on social 

benefits, and risk of criminal 

conviction or incarceration,” 

• HAVE YOUR SAY: Should 

there be a more health and 

less punitive approach to 

recreational cannabis use? 

Email barry@starmedia.kiwi 

HEALTH ISSUE: 

Researchers have drawn 

from world-class data 

in a Christchurch study 

and are recommending 

a health-based approach 

rather than punitive in 

the upcoming cannabis 

referendum. 

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he said 

Findings from the Christchurch 

study showed that increasing 

levels of cannabis use from 

ages 14-21 years was related to 

higher levels of unemployment 

and welfare dependence and 

lower income by 25 years of age. 

Those using cannabis more 

than 400 times before age 21 

(about weekly over that period) 

had odds of welfare dependence 

4.9 times higher than those who 

had not used cannabis, and 

unemployment odds 3.3 times 

higher.


18 

OUR PEOPLE 

AROHA RERITI-CROFTS 

From Tuahiwi park kid to 

Aroha Reriti-Crofts 

became a Dame in 

the Queen’s Birthday 

Honours List. She talks 

to Louis Day about her 

childhood, education 

and teaching Scribe 

how to pronounce 

his name 

Where did it all begin for you? 

I was born and bred in 

Tuahiwi, which is amazing, this 

Tuahiwi park kid is now a Dame. 

It’s incredible. 

My mum had 10 of us, and I 

am the fifth one. There are five of 

us left. I went to Tuahiwi Native 

School, we didn’t know we were 

natives of course, someone else 

called us a native school. 

I then went from Tuahiwi 

School to Waipounamu College 

which was equally enjoyable, I 

love learning, I love studying, 

always have done. 

What was it like growing up 

in such a big family? 

Excellent, a lot of fun. We were 

able to mix and mingle the whole 

time and as such we are still very 

close to each other. 

What is one of your 

earliest and most memorable 

memories? 

When we were young we were 

taught our waiata, our tikanga 

and kapa haka from our uncle 

Teari and aunty Wai. They 

took us to Wellington in 1946. 

We were there on the wharf to 

welcome the Maori Batallion 

home from the war. I was seven 

years of age. 

There were hundreds of us on 

the wharf to welcome them home. 

We are still singing those 

waiata Teari and Wai taught us 

when we were kids. 

I have had some wonderful 

experiences in my Maori world. 

Talk me through how you 

came to join the Māori Women’s 

Welfare League in 1968? 

We were able to able to afford 

a telephone so I got a telephone 

installed in our house. 

One day I rung my aunty and 

ADVOCATE: Aroha Reriti-Crofts has been part of the Maori Women’s Welfare League 

since 1968. 

told her I want to do something, I 

wanted something else for me. 

She told me about the Maori 

Women’s Welfare League and 

she told me to come and join the 

Otautahi branch. 

Tell me about your time as 

president of the Māori Women’s 

Welfare League. 

That was a fabulous time, I 

spent three years travelling our 

country, meeting up with our 

membership, and then over to 

Australia and across the world. 

It’s international, we have 

three (overseas) branches, one in 

Australia, one in Hawaii and one 

over in London. 

I have led an amazing and 

wonderful, exciting, gloriously 

happy life. 

How far do you think Maori 

women have come since you 

joined the league? 

How far have we come? Not far 

enough but we are still lobbying 

our way on Maori issues. 

The Maori Women’s Welfare 

League has been lobbying since 

1951, since Whina Cooper 

PHOTO: 

TE RŪNANGA O 

NGĀI TAHU 

became the first president. 

We have got some brilliant 

brains out there and women in 

top positions. 

We have come a long way, we 

are determined, but we have not 

come far enough in my opinion. 

What else are you wanting to 

achieve in your lifetime? 

When I was at Waipounamu 

College I was locked up in the 

sanitorium so I missed out on 

School Certificate because I was 

only fourth form at that time. 

So when my children were at 

Aranui High School, I went there 

as an adult student. I learnt Te 

Reo Maori, English and social 

studies for my School C, I got 

that, I went back and I had to 

do a total of four subjects for 

University Entrance. So I took 

accounting and I was accredited 

my U.E. 

Throughout my life I have 

always thought if there is 

something out there to learn 

about I am there. 

So you are not ruling out 

going to university? 

I am planning to go. It is a 

waste of time sitting U.E. if you 

don’t go to university. I have been 

to polytech, I studied typing and 

Te Reo Maori. But I haven’t been 

to university, so I might just go 

next year and go for a degree. 

Tell me more about being an 

adult student at Aranui High 

School. 

It was in about 1978-79. I was 

there to get School C and U.E. I 

thoroughly enjoyed learning and 

studying when I was younger. 

But because my father died of 

tuberculosis at the end of the war, 

me and my siblings were closely 

monitored in case we got TB. The 

district nurse would regularly 

take us to the clinic. 

When I was at college, I had 

bronchiectasis and they plucked 

me out of college and put me up 

in the sanatorium because they 

thought I was going to contract 

TB. So I missed out on the 

chance to finish my education 

when at college. 

I went in there as a teenager 

and came out as a woman. 

I got married for the first 

time and had my first son, that 

marriage broke up and then I got 

married again and had my three 

other children which I raised as a 

solo mother. 

They were all at high school 

when I decided I wanted to go 

back to school and finish off my 

education as an adult student. 

My kids said no don’t come to 

our school, go to Hagley, we don’t 

want people to think our mum’s 

dumb and has to go back to school. 

I would sit in the class and 

the kids would look at me and 

say why are you here and I would 

say because I want to learn – the 

difference between you and I is 

that I want to learn and I want to 

be here – you have to be here. 

I thoroughly enjoyed those two 

years of learning. 

What came after Aranui High 

School? 

I was at Wainoni Primary 

School by 1980 and taught there 

until 1988 or 1989. I used to teach 

Maori there. 

Then in 1990 I became 

president of the Maori Women’s 

Welfare League. 

I said to my headmaster Jack: “I 

am leaving, Jack, I need to leave,” 

and he said: “What? Have you 

got a new job or something?” I 

said: “No, I am going back to my 

Maori world.” 

I loved being with the kids, 

I miss the kids. At teachers 

college they were adamant that 

in the first week of your new year 

you must know every child’s 

name and you must know how to 

pronounce it the way they want. 

I did that for every child 

except one, he said his name 

was Marlo (Marlow). I said no, 

your people would have called 

you Marlo (Marlaw) and you 

will only get Marlo (Marlaw) 

from me. 

Do you know who that child 

was? Scribe. He would say: “But 

Miss Reriti my name is Marlo 

(Marlow).” I said: “No it is not, 

you are just copying what the 

palagi say. Your people would call 

you Marlo (Marlaw).” And I got 

no more arguments from him.


OUR PEOPLE 19 

Dame: A story of Aroha 

What was it like raising four 

children as a single parent? 

One had to be very aware that 

you don’t waste a thing, I don’t 

even waste a loaf of bread, but I 

love crusts anyway. 

You had to make a meal out of 

nothing sometimes because your 

benefit only went so far. 

My children were taught if you 

want something, make 

sure you actually need it. I just 

had to learn, if there is one egg 

in the house and half a loaf of 

bread and half a bottle of milk, 

how to make that a feed. 

But me and my kids managed, 

we had a great life. 

What message would you 

make to young Maori women 

reading this? 

I am a solo mother, who is a 

Dame of this country. If I can do 

that, others can too. 

I didn’t do all of this work on 

my own I have always been a 

team player. 

There are a lot of teams out 

there and a lot of whanau, hapu 

and iwi that I have been involved 

with in all these years, and have 

loved it. 

Talk me through how you 

are helping to culturally advise 

the rebuild of Christchurch as 

chairwoman of the Matapopore 

Charitable Trust? 

Me and my team culturally 

advise and guide the developers 

over the rebuild of Christchurch. 

Whether you have seen it or 

not, our city is starting to look 

bicultural. 

We as Maori have the 

opportunity now to participate in 

the rebuild of Christchurch. 

My ancestors didn’t have the 

opportunity when the settlers 

came here. The settlers expected 

my ancestors to die out but we 

didn’t. That’s why I am here. 

How would you compare race 

relations in the United States of 

America to New Zealand? 

I think America is a 

hundredfold (worse) but New 

Zealand isn’t too far behind with 

the racism in its society. 

The Covid-19 response bill, 

for example, targets Maori 

because it targets the Marae, 

with police not needing to have 

a warrant to go into a Marae 

Dame Aroha Reriti-Crofts. 

or go into a home, and that is 

obviously targeting Maori. 

How did you find the 

lockdown period? 

I have been having a wonderful 

time thank you very much! 

I miss going to the pool and 

my pool mates are complaining 

‘where are you’ and ‘why are you 

not at the pool?’ 

But I have been here at home 

and have probably read 13 or 14 

books. I have never done so 

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much reading in all my life, it is 

brilliant. I have probably got 20 

more books sitting here waiting 

to be read. 

I have done a bit of baking, 

have been putting on weight 

doing that, but I do a half-hour 

walk around the house barefoot, 

so I keep my exercise up. 

I am just loving it actually, 

I think I might stay here and 

hibernate for the winter. 

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Long Street 

1st Warren Crescent 

2nd Longhurst Terrace 

3rd Ashgrove Terrace 

Short Street 

1st Athelstan Street 

2nd Bewdley Street 

3rd Deloraine Street 

Cul de Sac 

1st Karaka Place 

Coastal-Burwood 

Long Street 

1st Bluestone Drive 

2nd Pohutakawa Crescent 

3rd Anglesea Street 

CITY “GATEWAY” 

GARDEN AWARDS 2020 

Memorial Avenue 

Residential Commodore Airport Hotel Trophy 

1st Jack & Viv O’Dea, 392 Memorial Avenue 

2nd Lee Wilkinson & Sam Wright, 

336 Memorial Avenue 

3rd Mr & Mrs N Drain, 217 Memorial Avenue 

Commercial Paparua Council Trophy 

1st New World Fendalton, 19 – 23 Memorial Avenue 

2nd Christchurch Wellness Centre, 

390 Memorial Avenue 

3rd Russley Golf Course, 428 Memorial Avenue 

Main South Road 

Residential Avon City Cup 

1st Kevin Gore, 441/1 Main South Road 

2nd Linda Bastion, 441/3 Main South Road 

3rd Mr & Mrs K Smith, 109 Denise Crescent 

Commercial Hornby Mall Cup 

1st Greenscapes (SI) Ltd, 756 Main South Road 

2nd Academy Funeral Services, 65 Main South Road 

3rd Alpine View Holiday Park, 650 Main South Road 

Yaldhurst Road 

Residential Dennis Cunningham Cup 

1st Mrs Alma Newsome, 372/1 Yaldhurst Road 

2nd Mrs Anne Stewart, 372/2 Yaldhurst Road 

3rd Xinde Li, 230 Yaldhurst Road 

Commercial 

1st Yaldhurst Courts 372 Yaldhurst Road 

2nd Avonhead Garden Motel, 168 Yaldhurst Road 

Main North Road 

Residential Foodstuffs Cup 

1st Mr Bruce & Mrs Shirley McFadden, 

834 Main North Road 

2nd Mrs P J Honey 148 Main North Road 

3rd Nicky Taylor 844 Main North Road 

Commercial Charlie McIvor 

1st Avon City Motel (Terry Thompson) 

407 Main North Road 

2nd Smiths City Northwood 

3rd Foodstuffs ( SI ) Ltd 167 Main North Road 

Ferry Road 

Residential Portstone Cup 

1st Mrs June Hines 921 Ferry Road 

2nd Mr Peter Frisken 761A Ferry Road 

Commercial Edmonds Cup 

1st Casual & Country Homestore 1027 Ferry Road 

2nd Altered Images Christchurch Upholstery 

654 Ferry Road 

3rd Woolston Fire Station 925 Ferry Road 

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Murder victim’s 

OPINION 21 

The coming week in our history 

mum gets her wish 

THERE WILL be one person 

hopefully smiling from 

somewhere over the jailing 

yesterday of Jeremy Powell for 

the brutal killing of Angela 

Blackmoore – 

Angela’s mum, 

Pauline Keen. 

Pauline died 

back in late 

2010, and her 

one wish was to 

get justice for 

Pauline 

Keen 

Angela 

Blackmoore 

her daughter. 

On or close to 

the anniversary 

in the years that 

followed the 

August 17, 1995, 

killing, Pauline 

would get the 

calls from the 

media, and 

there would 

be the photos 

of her at her 

daughter’s 

grave site. 

It wasn’t because Pauline wanted 

to be on the front page or on 

TV – she desperately wanted to 

keep Angela’s death in the public 

eye in the hope for information 

that would solve it. 

The police had their hunches 

who might have been involved 

From the 

editor’s desk 

Barry Clarke 

and why, but hunches are not 

enough to charge a person and 

put them before a jury. 

So Pauline became the key 

person in the bid to trigger someone’s 

conscience – either the individual 

themselves or someone 

who knew who had killed Angela 

and why. 

Six years after the murder, 

Pauline told The Star: “There’s no 

way in hell I’m going to let this 

lie.” 

By the 13th anniversary, Pauline 

was still out there pushing for 

information. 

“The anniversary just brings 

it all home. I will just remember 

her, like I do every year I 

remember her every day,” she 

told The Press. 

Last year the police offered a 

$100,000 reward to help solve the 

case. Police won’t say if that was 

the catalyst to what led them to 

charge three people in connec- 

GUILTY: Jeremy Powell 

about to be sentenced to life 

imprisonment at the High 

Court yesterday morning. 

PHOTO: KURT BAYER/NZH 

tion with the murder, one Jeremy 

Powell, who killed her. 

But that won’t matter to 

Pauline; she has got her wish. 

barry@starmedia.kiwi 

June 11, 1901 – At a civic 

reception for the Duke and 

Duchess of Cornwall and York, 

John Logan Campbell handed 

over the deed to land around 

One Tree Hill/Maungakiekie. 

The new park was named in 

honour of the royal couple. 

June 12, 1902 – Following 

the news of royal assent to 

the New Zealand Ensign Act 

1901, the New Zealand blue 

ensign that had been adopted 

for use on Government ships 

in 1869 was proclaimed as “the 

recognised flag of the colony 

for general use on shore within 

the colony and on all vessels 

belonging to the Government 

of New Zealand.” 

June 13, 1866 – The murder 

of five men on the Maungatapu 

track, south-east of Nelson, by 

the Burgess gang shocked the 

colony. After killing a prospector 

on June 12, the gang ambushed 

and murdered a party 

of four on their way to the West 

Coast the following day. They 

were arrested in Nelson within 

a week. 

June 14, 1984 – Prime Minister 

Robert Muldoon surprised 

many by announcing a ‘snap’ 

election to be held in exactly 

one month’s time. He hoped 

to catch the opposition Labour 

Party under-prepared, but the 

gamble backfired and National 

suffered a heavy defeat. 

June 15, 1935 – Jack lovelock 

won the ‘Mile of the Century’. 

The Ivy League Princeton 

University hosted the annual 

elite mile race during the 1930s. 

Medical student Lovelock, who 

had set a world record there in 

1933, was invited to return in 

1935 to run. Lovelock’s time of 

4min 11.5sec was his secondfastest 

mile but well outside the 

world record. 

June 16, 1923 – ‘Baby 

farmer’ Daniel Cooper was 

hanged. After watching 

Daniel and Martha Cooper 

for some time, police arrested 

Daniel in December 1922 for 

performing an abortion. The 

discovery of a baby’s body 

days later at their Newlands 

property, near Wellington, 

saw the couple charged with 

illegally detaining children and 

murder. While the jury cleared 

Martha of all charges, Daniel 

was found guilty and sentenced 

to death. 

June 17, 1843 – Four Māori 

and 22 Europeans were killed 

near Nelson in the first violent 

clash between Māori and 

Pākehā since the signing of the 

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22 

OPINION 

Draft Annual Plan reworked to compensate 

Mayor 

Lianne Dalziel 

THE WORLD has changed 

dramatically over the past few 

months and we have all been 

affected in some shape or form 

by the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Many businesses and individuals 

have been forced to rethink 

their plans and finances as the 

impacts of the lockdown, the 

border closures and the worldwide 

recession have hit home. 

City council’s finances have 

been hit as well. We lost a significant 

amount of revenue from the 

closure of our facilities during 

lockdown. And the income we 

were expecting to earn from our 

companies, like Christchurch 

Airport, has dramatically reduced. 

We will probably end this 

year with a $33.3 million deficit. 

Initially we were anticipating a 

small surplus. 

Against this backdrop we’ve 

reworked our draft Annual Plan, 

looking at how we can support 

our city’s recovery, at the same 

time as tightening our belt so 

as not to put too much pressure 

on our residents and businesses. 

Getting that balance right is the 

challenge of this budget. 

When we went out with our 

original draft Annual Plan in 

February, we proposed an average 

residential rate rise of 2.74 

per cent and an overall increase 

of 4.65 per cent. 

The recommended budget option 

trims the average residential 

increase to 1.81 per cent and the 

overall rise to 3.5 per cent. 

If you own an average-valued 

house ($508,000) the amount 

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council services (such as water, 

wastewater, libraries, parks and 

roading) and community facilities 

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We have capped spending on 

capital projects at $400m, plus 

$117m for the Metro Sports 

Facility and the Multi-Use 

Arena. We have also reduced operational 

spending by $23m and 

increased borrowing by $102m 

over two years. 

The operational savings have 

been achieved through efficiencies 

across the organisation and 

new measures such as a recruitment 

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We are proposing a small 

increase that we want feedback 

on, and that is to give a oneoff 

$360,000 boost to the 

Strengthening Communities 

Fund to help community 

organisations cope with the 

impact of the Covid-19 crisis. 

In addition to the 

recommended budget option, 

we are consulting on two other 

budget options with proposed 

rate increases of 5.5 per cent and 

4.65 per cent, respectively. All the 

options include the same savings 

on operational expenditure and 

the same spending on capital. 

Where they differ is on the scale 

of borrowing. 

Some will question why we 

have not put forward a zero per 

cent rate increase option. If it 

were achievable in the context of 

an Annual Plan change it would 

be an option. 

But it isn’t possible. 

It is worth remembering we 

would have got to zero, if we were 

starting from where we were in 

February. 

Then, we would have needed 

savings of about $24m. 

But because of the losses 

I’ve highlighted, we would 

now have to find more than 

$40m in savings, which would 

severely impact on some of the 

core services we provide and 

a significant number of the 

projects we are able to deliver. 

We would need to shut some 

facilities or significantly cut 

back their hours, reduce or stop 

services, and cut many of our 

capital projects. 

Remember, it requires about 

$100m of capital expenditure 

savings to reduce rates by one 

per cent. So, people who say 

just cut the stadium, would not 

even meet the 3.5 per cent. And 

there is nothing on budget for 

the stadium next year either. I 

personally think the multi-use 

arena is essential. Businesses 


for financial losses due to Covid-19 

have invested in the central city 

with the promise that was made 

with the blueprint, and we have 

an obligation to fulfil this. 

If we were to slash more work 

from our capital programme, the 

knock-on effect for our economy 

and our recovery would be huge. 

The city council is a significant 

purchaser of goods and services 

from local businesses and 

provides an important pipeline 

of work for construction and 

contracting companies, including 

sub-contractors. If we literally 

BUDGET: 

A zero per 

cent rates 

increase 

would have 

an impact 

on levels of 

city council 

service. 

turn the tap off, it will have 

a ripple effect that will 

lead to more job losses and 

significant economic hardship 

for the city. 

It would also put us out of 

step with the Government’s 

approach to the post-Covid 

recovery, which is to support 

employment by continuing 

to build infrastructure. Much 

of what we do is co-funded 

by Government agencies, for 

example, maintenance and 

renewal of roads. 


OPINION 23 

Another reason we have not 

included a zero per cent rate 

increase option is that the savings 

required would have a major 

impact on significant levels of 

service. Those levels were set 

in the 2018-28 Long Term Plan 

and cannot be changed without 

triggering an amendment to the 

LTP. 

We are due to adopt a new LTP 

next year. That’s when we can 

review all our levels of service 

and do a lot more belt-tightening 

if that is what our communities 

want us to do. 

We have a short window 

to receive your feedback and 

would welcome your practical 

suggestions for how we can 

support our city’s recovery 

and keep the pressure off rates 

increases, while still delivering 

the required levels of service. 

In the meantime, the 

organisation will continue to 

look for savings and ways of 

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24 

OPINION 

Addressing the state of our waterways 

It’s a year since Environment Canterbury 

declared a climate-change emergency 

Environment 

Canterbury 

has a 

significant 

head-start 

in JENNY working HUGHEY explains what 

with the council the has been doing. 

Government’s The formal declaration new of a 

state of climate emergency across 

freshwater Canterbury was reforms, one of the most as 

councillor serious, and colourful, Claire moments McKay 

writes in the regional council’s more than 

30-year history. 

IN A THE year past, ago if this you’d Saturday, asked 

Cantabrians at 11.49am, what Environment should be done 

to Canterbury improve the became region’s New water Zealand’s 

quality first council many to would proclaim have such said that an 

the emergency, responsibility formally sits with dedicating the 

rural itself community. to consideration of climate 

change I am not at the sure heart as many of all people it does. 

would The say declaration the same highlighted today. There is 

increasing that all the awareness work Environment around the 

role Canterbury that rural does and – urban from alike can 

– freshwater and must – management play in addressing to 

the biodiversity state of Canterbury’s and biosecurity, 

waterways. transport and urban development 

to A air future quality, column and also from regional 

Environment leadership – has Canterbury a climate will change 

outline focus. the sorts of things the 

urban Currently, community under should the Resource be doing 

to Management protect our urban Act, regional waterways. 

In councils this column, are required I am keen only to to share adapt 

some to climate of the change, actions not that mitigate have been 

taken it – that in our responsibility region, and is why the I am 

confident Government’s, that we but are could already change. onestep 

Even ahead in ‘adapt of the mode’ new many freshwater 

reforms of Environment from Government. Canterbury’s 

existing Auditable policies farm and environmental plans already 

plans, contribute enforceable to reduced nutrient emissions. 

limits In declaring and stock the exclusion climate from 

emergency, the Council noted it 

would continue to show leadership 

on climate-change and do so 

without adding new programmes 

at ratepayers’ expense. It also gave 

staff a clear mandate to continue 

and enhance that work. 

That work included setting 

up a climate-change integration 

programme in the Long-term Plan 

2018-28, ensuring climate change 

was actively considered across 

workstreams, increasing visibility 

of the science and what we know 

about the impact of climate 

waterways change on have Canterbury, been features and liaising of 

Canterbury’s on the issue with water iwi management and regional 

landscape partners, other for some local time authorities now. 

Our and communities central government. want cleaner 

waterways As an organisation, and so do the we farmers. have 

Over also made the past significant decade, all progress of those in 

involved addressing the our collaborative own greenhousegas 

emissions, Canterbury with our Water 

and 

successful 

Management Christchurch Strategy building have receiving a 

made “market-leading” significant strides energy towards efficiency 

achieving rating of 5.0 this. out of 6 in the year 

to The February freshwater on the reform National package 

recently Australian announced Built Environment by the 

Government Rating System aligns New strongly Zealand. with 

those The measures building’s we features have already include 

established 

184 solar panels 

and others 

which 

that 

can 

are 

going 

generate 

to be 

more 

implemented. 

than 55,000 

Compared with some councils 

kilowatt hours of electricity per 

elsewhere around the country, 

year. 

There has been a 26% reduction 

per staff member in emissions 

since 30 June 2010. We now have 

access to electric and hybrid 

vehicles and hope to have half our 

Environment 

Canterbury Chair 

Jenny Hughey 

fleet hybrid or long-range electric 

by 2022. Carbon emissions from 

air travel across the organisation 

are offset via our own biodiversity 

programmes. 

According to a Madworld report 

in 2019, our gross emissions were 

2253 tonnes of carbon dioxide 

(CO2) equivalent, compared with 

Environment removals of 7883 Canterbury tonnes of is CO2- 

about equivalent a decade through ahead our in efficiency this 

work, efforts largely and from due forestry to the CWMS planting 

and across the 2700 efforts hectares. of councillors, 

the The community changing and climate members will pose of 

Canterbury’s many risks to zone life and committees. livelihood 

in But Canterbury. while we In have recent the CWMS years 

roadmap, we have seen and how a useful occasional, headstart 

but extreme, on these weather new expectations events have 

in had terms huge of effects having on some residents of the and 

country’s infrastructure toughest around regulations, the South 

the Island. devil will be in the detail that 

is still The to driest be drafted parts of by our central region, 

government. 

along the Marlborough coast and 

across Canterbury much of farmers the Canterbury are already 

required 

Plains, are 

to 

expected 

farm according 

to get even 

to 

Good 

drier. 

Management 

North-westerly 

Practice. 

storms 

The 

are 

more intensive activities require 

predicted to become more intense, 

a land-use consent, an auditable 

with torrential alpine rainstorms 

turning our braided rivers into 

roaring rapids, fuelling landslides 

and causing widespread erosion. 

Canterbury’s coastal 

communities will be threatened 

by sea-level rise this century and 

our productive and protected land 

jeopardised by the CHALLENGE: 

arrival and 

spread of new, exotic Farmers weeds are and 

pests from warmer committed climates. 

All these eventualities to playing have 

to be planned and their prepared part for, and 

and Environment should Canterbury be 

will remain in the acknowledged 

vanguard of 

these climate change for their efforts. hard 

One example is the work $40 so million far 

Waimakariri River in the flood long 

protection project, journey completed to 

late last year. The turn network around of 

floodgates and stopbanks decades will of 

protect half a million degradation. people and 

$8 billion of community and 

Farm business Environment assets from Plan a possible which 

assesses “super flood”. risks to freshwater and 

can The reduce last major the environmental 

flood was in 

impact December of the 1957, farm, when and parts the 

farmers 

of Coutts 

must 

Island 

meet 

in Belfast 

nutrient 

and 

limits 

(for 

Kainga 

example, 

were swamped 

a limit on 

by 

how 

river 

much 

nitrogen 

flow peaking 

can be 

at 3990 

lost from 

cubic 

their 

farm). 

metres per second (cumecs). 

The 

It’s 

protection 

good to see 

scheme 

some 

has been 

pragmatism 

designed to defend 

around 

Christchurch 

the 

‘stock exclusion from waterways’ 

from a flood of as much as 6500 

policy in the freshwater reforms, 

cumecs. 

with a reduction of setback 

Environment Canterbury’s 

distances from 5m to 3m on flat 

leadership of biodiversity and 

land and more sensible criteria 

on 

biosecurity 

hill country 

programmes 

sheep and 

is 

beef 

also 

farms. 

underpinned by climate-change 

concerns. 

The increased stringency of 

the 

Canterbury’s 

nitrogen toxicity 

distinct 

bottom 

braided 

rivers and unique wetlands face 

many challenges. The rivers form 

a vital ecological link and provide 

an abundant food supply and 

nesting grounds for 26 species of 

native birds – most classified as 

line threatened of 2.4 milligrams and facing per increased litre of 

nitrogen pressures in due some to river of our system lowland 

waterways change. will be much more 

challenging Wetlands are to achieve. also ecosystems A great 

deal at-risk of nationally the research and and regionally, science 

needed degraded to by reduce draining, nitrogen damming loss 

to and waterways diversion is affecting still early their 

development ability to sequester and the carbon, nitrogen 

already cleanse freshwater in the system and will mitigate 

unfortunately flooding, as well continue as impacting appearing on 

over biodiversity many decades. and mahinga kai. 

Farmers With biosecurity, are committed we are to 

playing putting greater their part emphasis and should on the be 

acknowledged risks of new pests for establishing 

their hard work 

so in Canterbury. far in the long Warming journey to turn 

around temperatures, decades changing of degradation. soils and 

new At land Environment uses mean Canterbury new weeds we 

view especially, the new will reforms be able as, to gain some a 

ways, better a foothold recognition across of the region. work 

that More has broadly, been done we in have our to region 

already. curb reliance on fossil fuels and 

find We environmentally are the right suitable track. 

The alternatives, challenge such now as is electricity to get all and 

Cantabrians hydrogen, to to power step-up our to public the next 

level 

transport. 

and take further action to 

minimise 

When my 

their 

predecessor 

impacts on 

Steve 

our 

natural 

Lowndes 

environment. 

retired as chair of 

this council late last year, he 

• 

highlighted 

Cr Claire 

some 

McKay 

of the 

is colead 

big 

changes 

of 

on 

the 

the 

Environment 

way. He was 

Canterbury freshwater 

optimistic we would be able to 

portfolio and is also a 

deal with the “pressing issues” of 

member of the Hurunuiclimate 

change and sustainability. 

Waiau Zone Committee 

and 

I share 

the 

his 

CWMS 

confidence. 

Regional 

As a 

Committee. 

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we are taking some bold steps to 

ensure we are in a better place to 

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WINE 


Wealth of pinot noir 

• By Mark Henderson 

KIWIS ARE blessed with easy 

access to a wealth of great pinot 

noir, much of it from Otago. 

It can be easy to overlook the 

raft of pinot noirs that 

are produced north of these 

parts. 

Marlborough and North 

Canterbury have double the 

area of Central Otago devoted 

to pinot noir grapes and, 

while a swag of that goes into 

bubbles production, the volume 

remaining often means that 

pricing is very fair, as seen in 

today’s selection. 

2019 Hunter’s Offshoot 

Marlborough 

Price: $24.99 

Rating: Excellent 

Attractive nose with red fruits, 

raspberry dusty gravel, earthiness, 

a liquorice-like hint, wild 

herbs later. Juicy, bright fruit, 

crunchiness and grainy tannins, 

leading to a long, silky juniper 

and wild herb-accented finish. 

Lovely depth of ripe fruit and, 

while youthful, there is already 

good integration and balance. 

Vibrant and very drinkable at a 

smart price. 

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2018 Main Divide 

Price: $24.99 

Rating: Very good 

Graphite and charry oak lead 

the nose; rich fruit here too yet a 

little bound up. Lead pencil, rubber, 

rich fruit meet up with powerful 

tannins and racy acidity: 

this feels like a lot of effort and 

ingredient have gone into making 

it, yet it still seems to need 

time to fully integrate. Time sees 

this soften and flesh out. 

www.maindivide.com 

2019 Jules Taylor 

Marlborough 

Price: $32.99 

Rating: Excellent 

Vibrant nose, richly fruited 

with raspberry and wild herbs, 

yet freshness and lift too. Red 

and dark fruits frame the powerful 

palate, spices, a little tamarillo 

with time. Develops an appealing 

sappiness and vibrancy, 

which adds coolness to the long, 

richly fruited close. Youthful, but 

already nicely integrated with 

superb drinkability, and potential 

too. 

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2018 Opawa 

Marlborough 

Price: $28 


Subtle but floral with red fruits 

and tilled earth, spices with 

time. There’s a little wildness 

to the palate, raspberry joining 

the mix along with cranberry, a 

stalky nuance and chewy, grainy 

tannins. A lightness and aerial 

quality to this zestiness to the 

palate with red fruits hanging on 

the close. 

www.opawawine.com 

2019 Main Divide 

Te Hau Reserve 

North Canterbury 

Price: $32.99 

Rating: Very good to excellent 

Raspberry, dark and liqueur 

fruits, oak scents and a brownpaper 

nuance. With its youthful 

boldness, this a real impact pinot 

noir driven by powerful raspberry, 

loganberry and spice before 

flowing to an intriguing yet 

beguiling bittersweet note on the 

finish. A powerful style that will 

suit fans of bigger reds; drinking 

really well. 

www.maindivide.com 

2017 Mills Reef 

Reserve 

Marlborough 

Price: $24.95 


Fragrance and florality, 

rose petal, strawberry and 

wild herb, a little funkiness 

with aeration. A lighter-bodied 

palate showing earth/humus, 

mixed berryfruits and a tangy 

quality. Aeration brings the first 

hints of secondary characters 

on that rich, earthy backdrop. A 

svelte style in the slot to enjoy 

now. 

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FOOD 27 

Winter veggies some of the most indulgent 

Seasonal winter 

vegetables are arriving 

in-store and dropping in 

price. So here’s a couple 

of recipes featuring two 

hearty favourites - leeks 

and yams 


Ingredients 

300g kale, woody stems removed 

and leaves chopped 

1 tbsp olive oil 

3 leeks, trimmed (about 400g), 

halved lengthways, washed and 

chopped 

1 clove garlic, crushed 

350g ricotta 

150ml vegetable stock 

4 tbsp fresh pesto 

250g fresh lasagne, about 8 

sheets 

30g parmesan (or veggie alternative), 

finely grated 

Directions 

Heat the oven to 200 deg C 

(180 deg C fan). Drop the kale in 

boiling salted water, bring back 

to a simmer then cook for 5min. 

Drain really well. 

Heat the olive oil in a frying 

pan and add the leeks with a good 

pinch of salt. Cook for 8-10min 

or until really soft. 

Add the garlic to the leeks and 

cook for 2min. Keep 4 tbsp of 

the ricotta aside then stir the rest 

into the leeks with the kale. Mix 

everything well then add enough 

vegetable stock to make it a little 

saucy but not watery. Take off the 

heat. 

Put ¼ of the sauce in the 

bottom of an oiled baking dish 

approximately 18 x 25cm. 

Top with 1 tbsp pesto then two 

sheets of lasagne. Repeat three 

times, ending with lasagne. 

Mix the rest of the ricotta with 

another splash of vegetable stock 

and spread over the top layer. 

Scatter over the parmesan and 

bake for 20min until golden and 

bubbling. 

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200g yams 

2 tbsp butter 

2 cloves garlic finely sliced 

½ tsp fresh thyme leaves 

½ tsp vegetable stock or use 

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Salt & black pepper to taste 

½ cup cream 

¼ cup parmesan cheese to garnish 

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25 

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2. 15. Air Landscape (6) (7) 25. Let loose (7) 

20. Confess (5) 

7. Novice (4) 

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slot, sol, sole, sot, stole, toe, toes. 

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22. Braid (5) 

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From Kaikoura, 

to Christchurch, 

to Ashburton, 

we have it covered


May to make miracle 


SPORT 29 

Black Caps 

Addington return 

• By Jonny Turner 

CHAMPION reinsman Ricky 

May is set to make arguably 

the biggest comeback in New 

Zealand harness racing history 

when he drives at Addington 

tomorrow night. 

Few would have believed it 

possible for the star horseman 

to drive in a race again when he 

lay lifeless on the Omakau race 

track in January, surrounded by 

paramedics and off duty medical 

staff, who worked to revive his 

heart, which stopped after he collapsed 

and fell from the sulky of 

AG’s White Socks. 

May’s return to race day 

driving after suffering from 

hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, 

which must also rate 

as one of New Zealand sporting’s 

biggest ever comeback stories, 

was sealed when his cardiology 

specialist gave the all clear for the 

reinsman to return to the track 

on Monday. 

Naturally, the seven-time 

New Zealand Cup winner was 

delighted to get his ticket back to 

the races. 

Though the timing of his 

return could have come under 

warmer circumstances, May 

joked. 

“It is a pity it’s winter. But, 

other than that, it will be good to 

get back out there.” 

May has one focus ahead of his 

return – getting back driving as 

well as he was before his Omakau 

incident. 

“It probably hasn’t done me 

any harm having a break.” 

“I have been doing it flat out 

for forty odd years.” 

“Hopefully I can come back as 

good as I was – that is the main 

thing.” 

May has been itching to get 

back out on the track since 

returning to trackwork driving 

three months ago. 

“I haven’t been allowed to drive 

at the trials or workouts.” 

“I rang the stipes a month ago 

COMEBACK: Champion reinsman Ricky May will make a 

miraculous return to Addington tomorrow night after ‘dying’ 

in a racing accident in January. 

PHOTO: ODT 

and I have had to get a clearance 

before I could even drive at workouts 

and trials.” 

“I went to the specialist (on 

Monday) and it was all good and 

he said everything is perfect.” 

May admits there could be a 

few nervous moments to be had 

on Friday night. 

“I guess I could be a wee bit 

nervous when I first get out there 

until I get a couple [of drives] out 

of the way.” 

“I just really hope I can drive a 

winner, that would be great.” 

May attended last week’s Friday 

night meeting at Addington 

with good friend, trainer Laurence 

Hanrahan. 

It could prove to be a big help 

in settling back in to race driving 

mode this week. 

“I hadn’t been to Addington or 

any races for months and it was 

actually a bit overwhelming – all 

the people.” 

“It was good to catch up with 

everyone and I think that will 

help when I go back this week.” 

“I will be able to concentrate 

on getting back in to the driving.” 

May will hardly need to 

reacquaint himself with the 

Brendon ‘Benny’ Hill trained 

Skippy’s Delight in race two 

tomorrow. 

The reinsman has been driving 

the horse in trackwork ahead of 

his return to the sulky. 

“Benny has been bringing 

Skippy’s Delight and Ranger 

Bomb to Ashburton for a few 

runs.” 

“They would have to be two 

of my best drives. Even though 

he was disappointing last week, 

I think Skippy’s Delight will be 

hard to beat.” 

- Harness News Desk 

allrounder 

joins Canty 

BLACK CAPS 

allrounder Daryl 

Mitchell will move 

from Northern 

Districts to Canterbury 

to play his cricket this 

domestic season. 

The 29-yearold’s 

wife comes 

from Christchurch, 

where they will base 

themselves to create a family 

support network for their 

toddler daughter. 

“Obviously it was a pretty 

hard decision to make. I’ve 

been lucky to play for Northern 

Districts for a long period of 

time but with a young family 

now and my wife being from 

Daryl 

Mitchell 

Christchurch, it’s all 

fallen into place pretty 

perfectly to allow her to 

be home,” he said. 

“As an international 

and domestic cricketer 

we do spend a lot of 

time away from home so 

for her to have support 

from family and friends 

around her was massive. 

It obviously has some cricket 

positives for me personally and 

as a team as well.” 

Mitchell made his test debut 

last summer and has featured in 

11 T20 internationals. 

He has played 70 first-class, 81 

List A and 94 domestic T20s. 

- NZ Herald 

SOUTH-BOUND: Black Caps allrounder Daryl Mitchell 

during the second test between New Zealand and 

England last year. 

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ONE OF THE benefits of being a 

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rural lifestyle, was getting into farm 

vehicles of all types and sizes. 

One that I remember vividly 

was the neighbour’s Trekka – a 

Land-Rover lookalike built in New 

Zealand during the 1960s. 

Trekka failed to be a commercial 

proposition with production 

numbers of only around 1000 

units, but the tall, roomy station 

wagon-type vehicle embodied a 

concept way ahead of its time. The 

Trekka and other similar vehicles 

paved the way for what we now 

refer to as the SUV (sport utility 

vehicle). 

Interestingly, the Trekka was 

built on mechanicals from the 

Czechoslovak company Skoda, 

the Octavia to be exact, it had a 

1.2-litre engine and, unlike Land- 

Rover, was just rear-wheel-drive. 

My memory of the Trekka was 

that it was incredibly well-built, 

and my neighbour said it was 

good for 60mph (100km/h), it 

served him for many years, the 

mechanicals were robust. 

That doesn’t surprise me, the 

now Czech Republic has long 

been known for its hard-core 

engineering and manufacturing 

expertise. 

If you had told me then that 

almost 60 years from the time I was 

in that Trekka the Czech Republic 

company would have an extensive 

and exceptional line-up of models 

to choose from, I would have put 

it down as being one of those 

unfortunate jokes that dogged the 

brand through the ensuing years. 

In New Zealand the Skoda 

distributors have six state-of-theart 

models in their books including 

the recently released Kamiq and 

Scala, which I hope to catch up 

with soon, but this evaluation 

focuses on the Karoq Style, a car 

which in some way relates to the 

Trekka, it’s a five-door SUV which 

starts with a small petrol engine – 

1-litre to be exact – and built with 

functionality and practicality as key 

manufacturing ingredients. 

That’s no surprise, the 

Volkswagen group has a large 

investment in Skoda, and the 

companies share a lot of product 

between them, along with the 

benefits of joint research and 

development. 

As well as the 1-litre engine, 

there is also a 1.5-litre in the range, 

both drive to the front wheels only. 

The Style’s 1498cc unit is 

rated at 110kW with 250Nm 

of torque, power is channelled 

through a seven-speed direct shift 

transmission. In true turbo fashion 

FUTURISTIC: The New Zealand-built Trekka was an 

advanced concept built on a Skoda Octavia platform. 

SKODA KAROQ STYLE: Extra technology for safety, and comfort and convenience. 

it develops solid power from low 

in the rev band, maximum torque 

is available from 1500rpm, while 

peak power is developed from just 

5000rpm. 

Together, these figures combine 

to produce strong acceleration 

and high top end speed. Skoda 

claims a 9sec standstill to 100km/h 

acceleration time and a flat out 

speed of 203km/h. 

Figures aside, it is the all-round 

flexibility that makes you really 

appreciate this engine, it gets about 

its business with urgency, yet is 

unflustered and quiet. It responds 

with vibrancy and is instant in 

its delivery, a lot of that is to do 

with the quick shifting gearbox 

and perfect matching between the 

engine and transmission ratios. 

There’s also a major surprise 

with this engine, it has a cylinder 

deactivation mode, it will run 

happily on two-cylinders when it 

isn’t under load, and the transition 

is seamless, almost undetectable bar 

the indication on the dash panel. 

That contributes to some healthy 

fuel usage statistics with Skoda 

claiming a 5.6-litre per 100km 

combined cycle average. The fuel 

usage readout was close to that 

during my time in the test car. It 

was constantly showing around 

6.9l/100km with an instantaneous 

figure of 5.4/100km at 100km/h, 

the engine turning over at almost 

• Price – Skoda Karoq Style, 

$44,990 

• Dimensions – Length, 

4382mm; width, 1841mm; 

height, 1603mm 

• Configuration – Fourcylinder, 

front-wheeldrive, 

1498cc, 110kW, 

250Nm, seven-speed 

automatic. 

• Performance – 

0-100km/h, 9sec 

• Fuel usage – 5.6l/100km 

2000rpm. When in two-cylinder 

mode, the latter figure drops to 

just 3.8l/100km, but you do need 

conditions to be favourable for the 

engine to drop out two pots. 

The Karoq is also a solid highway 

cruiser, it is whisper quiet at speed, 

and provides all occupants with a 

comfortable ride. 

The suspension is a fully 

independent front-strut/rear multiple 

link system which has spring and 

damper rates only moderately 

firmed. The result is a well-cushioned 

ride that isn’t affected by body 

movement in a corner. 

I took the test car on a twisty 

challenge through the Malvern 

Hills, and it reacts positively to 

steering input and has solid body 

balance. Grip in the first instance 

is supplied by Bridgestone Turanza 

tyres (215/50 x 18in). While they 

aren’t a performance tyre they 

do have high grip qualities and 

contribute to a high degree of 

handling control. 

Because it has shared 

componentry with other 

Volkswagen group product, the 

Karoq has a healthy specification 

and does justice to its $44,990 price 

tag, bearing in mind if you want 

the manual-only 1-litre model, it 

lists at a budget $34,990. 

Skoda has also upped the ante in 

terms of safety, the Karoq has had 

extra safety features built into it for 

2020. 

The latter is part of a brand 

upgrade as well, new badging 

with a greater emphasis on Skoda 

as a product is telling buyers it’s 

a serious contender in today’s 

market. The brand has gone from 

strength to strength to the point 

where it must be considered an 

equal to any other European car. I 

particularly like the product, and 

I particularly liked the evaluation 

car. It has definite appeal, if I 

had a young family and wanted 

something just that little bit 

different to mainstream SUVS, 

then the small-to-medium Karoq 

would suit. 

I can’t wait to come to grips 

with the two newcomers in the 

Skoda stable, I’ve seen them in the 

dealership and they look amazing. 

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MAKE SMALL FIXES 

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Confident at auctions 

could knock out some of the opposition 

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Immediately your opposition is going to 

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“The more confident you seem the more 

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home, rental property or 

commercial property. Call 

Chris on 027 3888 211


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DECORATORS 

DRIVEWAYS 

Driveways 

New Paint • Repaints 

Wallpapering • Fences 

Feature Walls 

Floor & Roof Painting 

Spray Painting 

Light Commercial 

Restoring Timber 

* Finance available (T’s & C’s apply) 

Selwyn based but service the whole of Canterbury 

www.andertondecorators.co.nz 

www.facebook.com/andertondecorators 

027 724 6846 027 PAINTIN 

Exposed Aggregate 

Stamped Concrete Plain 

Concrete Resurfacing 

Things we offer... 

Competitive/affordable pricing 

Attention to detail 

Professional service 

free quotes/insurance scopes 

Cell 0278 145 848 

www.drivecrete.co.nz 

SWAINS 

KIWI KERB 

(Since 2005) 

Over 22 Years Experience 

Quality 

Workmanship 

• Driveways 

• Kerb & 

Channel 

• Garden Edging 

Freephone: 0800 081 400 

swainskiwikerb@gmail.com 

“I WILL TURN UP 

WHEN I SAY I WILL” 

Need a certified and reliable plumber for filtration 

systems or hot water cylinder replacement? 

Bathroom upgrades or refurbishments? 

FREE CALL 

TEXT 

EMAIL 


0508 H2O BOY 

426 269 

027 245 5100 

NICK@NICKJONESPLUMBING.CO.NZ 


Excavations 

• Driveways 

• Car Parks 

• Site Cleaning 

• Demolition 

• Farm Tracks 

• Drain Cleaning 

• Stump & Hedge 

Removal 

• Ashpalt Concrete 

Wide range 

oF TruckS 

For a Free Quote 

on your next project 

Phone Steve on 021 338 247 

or 325 7922 

Mailer Deliveries 

For a local, reliable 

mailer delivery 

service contact 

Star Media 

• Newspaper inserts 

• Magazine inserts 

• Letterbox deliveries 

• Urban & Rural deliveries 

• Tennis Courts & 

Swimming Pools 

• Chip Seal Driveways 

• Diggers – 2 Ton 

up to 20 Ton 

• Excavators 

• Bobcat & Drilling 

• For Posthole & 

Fence hole 

For a cost effective, targeted delivery 

please call 03 379 7100 or email 

michaela.malloch@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi 

Free 

QuoTe 

LANDSCAPING 

Call Aaron & 

the team today! 

Phone: 03 347 4422 

or 021 542 402 

Email: Aaron@theoutdoorspace.co.nz 

PLUMBER 

NEED A PLUMBER 

Call us now for fast friendly service. 

Get your problems sorted out 

quick smart - on time!! 

Phone for a 

FREE 

quote now. 

For the Outdoor 

Space of your 

Dreams... 

Paving, Irrigation, 

Lawns, Planting, 

Fences, Pergolas, 

Water-features, 

Outdoor fires, 

Raised Vege beds, 

Decks, Artificial 

grass & more... 

www.theoutdoorspace.co.nz 

Phone 03 377 1280 | Mobile 021 898 380 

landscaping 

Landscape 

Construction and 

Garden Maintenance 

You can have your gardens, trees, 

shrubs, plants and lawns maintained to look their best 

all year round, for a great price. 

Residential & Commercial Landscaping 

• Maintenance • Pruning • Reconstruction & Rejuvenation 

• Rental Property and Commercial Maintenance 

• Pre-Sale Tidy-Ups 

New Home Landscaping 

Lawns • Gardens • Decks • Paving • Water Features 

• Quality • Value for money • Experienced • Punctual 

• Professional • Flexible • Knowledgeable • Reliable 

Call Ross Legg - 027 222 0388 

Email ross@revivelandscaping.co.nz 

www.revivelandscaping.co.nz 

ROOF REPAIRS 

Locally owned & operated with 

over 30 years experience. 

• Extensions & repair • Roof coating 

• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol 

• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified 

• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering 

Phone Dave 981 0278 

or 021 223 4200 

E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz 

BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD 

BUILDER QUALIFIED 

Decks, T & G Flooring, 

Villa Restoring, New 

Homes, Weatherboards. 

Free Quotes. Bennet & 

Sons Ltd Sam 027 496- 

9362 or Tony 027 224- 

0374 

CARPET LAYING 

Exp. Repairs, uplifting, 

relaying, restretching. 

Phone John on 0800 

003181, 027 240 7416 

jflattery@xtra.co.nz 

CARPENTER 

BUILDER 

Licensed Building 

Practitioner no. 100981. 

All carpentry & building 

repairs & maintenance. 

Alterations & property 

upgrades.Laundries / 

bathroom / kitchens 

replaced. Specialising in 

replacement of all rotten 

timber, fascia boards, 

window, windowsills etc. 

John Sandford, ph 329 

4616, mob 027 5189 598 

johnsandford2@gmail. 

com 

CLEANING 

Handyman Service, 

maintenance , repairs. 

Ph 027 294 1508. 10% 

discount 

CONCRETE CUTTING 

Affordable Concrete 

Cutting with Quality, and 

removal work. Free quote. 

No job to small. Phone 027 

442-2219, Fax 359-6052 

a/h 359- 4605 

ELECTRICIAN 

Available, 30 years 

experience, immediate 

start, competitive rate, 

ph Brian 027 433 9548 

No Call out fee 

ELECTRICIAN 

All types of domestic 

& commercial work 

undertaken, new housing, 

city -wide. No call out 

fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat 

Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027 

alterations, extensions, 

ranges, security lights, 

quick response, efficient 

service, free quotes, 

7331384. 

ELECTRICIAN 

Prompt & reliable 

registered electrician 

with 24 years experience 

for all residential and 

commercial work, new 

housing and switch board 

replacements. Phone 

Chris 027 516 0669 

ELECTRICIAN 

Prompt & reliable 

registered electrician 

with 24 years experience 

for all residential and 

commercial work, new 

housing and switch board 

replacements. Phone Chris 

027 516 0669 

ELECTRICAL 

ALL ELECTRICIAL & 

HEATPUMPS LTD. GST 

free for June on work up to 

$1000. Ph/Txt James 0274 

067414 

FENCING 

All types of fencing . Free 

quotes. Ph Jim 022 137 

1920 

GARDENER 

30 yrs exp. Tidy up, roses 

& trees pruned. Ph Grant 

027 2761 990 

GLAZIER 

Glass repairs - pet doors 

- conservatory roofs. Exp 

Tradesman. Call Bill on 

022 413 3504 or 981-1903 

SCRAP METAL 

Dominion Trading Co Ltd 

• Scrap metal buyers 

• Canterbury owned & operated 

• Top prices paid $$$ 

• Open Saturday morning 

Open Mon-Fri 8am – 4.30pm Sat. 8.30am-12.30pm 

www.happyscrappy.co.nz 

03 343 9993 333 Blenheim Rd 

TRADES 

Advertise your 

business & services 

in Christchurch’s 

best read & 

largest circulation 

newspaper 

Delivered into over 93,000 

Christchurch homes every week. 

Ask us about our fantastic 

cost affordable packages. 

Phone: 03 379 1100 | www.star.kiwi 

WINDOW TINTING 

tintawindow 

advanced film solutions 

99% uv block 

fade protection 

heat control 

reduce glare 

25 Years Experience 

privacy films 

frosting designs 

non-darkening films 

Workmanship Guaranteed 

Lifetime Warranties on Most Films 

UV 

block 

Free Quotes Canterbury and Districts 

03 365 3653 0800 368 468 

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BE HERE 

Let us help take 

your business to 

new heights 

Advertise your business in our 

Trades and Services column. 

For assistance contact Vicky 

Phone 03 364 7419 or email 

vicky.sayers@starmedia.kiwi

The Star Classifieds 

Trades & Services Trades & Services Wanted To Buy 

Situations Vacant 

HANDY - DAN 

SHEEP SHEARING AAA Buying goods 

General Handyman for MOBILE 

quality furniture, beds, 

all your maintenance Fast friendly professional stoves, washing machines, DRIVETECH LTD 

requirements. I specialise service. 25 yrs exp. fridge freezers. Same day 

“TRAINING TOMORROWS DRIVERS TODAY” 

in fences and decking, also Shearing, drenching, hoof service. Selwyn Dealers. 

do spouting cleans and trimming etc. Call Shaun Phone 980 5812 or 027 

HEAVY TRAFFIC 

repairs and everyday home 021 204 1274 

313 8156 

maintenance. NO JOB TO SPOUTING 

A+ About to move? Books, 

Class 2, 3, 4 & 5 Vehicle Recovery, Wheels, 

Tracks, Rollers & Dangerous Goods. 

BIG OR SMALL I can do Select Spouting china, coins, medals, 

it all, please don’t hesitate The PVC specialist. furniture, furs, jewellery, FORKLIFT enDORseMenT (F & OsH) 

to call me on 022 600 7738 Repairs & replacement. Ph tools, old photos, estate. 

FORKLIFT (aTTaCHMenTs) u/sTD 

for a no obligation free 022 197 2351 

Ph 385-5117 

quote. 

SPOUTING CLEANING ACADEMY ANTIQUES InTeResT FRee TIMe PayMenTs 

(Terms and conditions apply) 

HANDYMAN 

Spouting Unblocked, Buying estates, antiques, 

All handyman services eg: 

Cleaned Out and Flushed old china, crystal, art, 

CAR DRIVING LESSONS 

drippy taps, sticky doors, 

Out. Call Trevor 332 8949 Royal Doulton , Royal 

Beginners/Restricted/Full 

locks, moss spraying etc. 

or 021 043 2034 

Albert etc. Best prices, 

Our dual controlled car or your own car 

Discount for pensioners. 

TREE SERVICES free appraisal. Call Rob 

• Pre employment assessments 

Free quotes 20+ yrs exp. 349-4229 

Ph 390 1565 or 022 5275 

• H&s Driver assessments 

Tree, hedge or shrub 

668 

A+ Household effects, 

• advanced Driver Training 

- reduction, shaped or fridges, freezers, washing 

HANDYMAN 

removed. Ph/text Paul machines, ovens. Good 

For all those odd jobs. 

Courses in Christchurch, Invercargill, Cromwell 

The Branch Manager cash paid. Ph Paul 022 

Ph 027 294 1508 10% 

& Mosgiel daily. Other areas by arrangement. 

0274314720 

0891 671 

discount 

T.V. SERVICE 

ALL whiteware wanted. 8 Jipcho Road, Wigram, Christchurch 

LANDSCAPING 

CENTRE 

Same day service, cash FREEPHONE 0508 2 DRIVE (37483) or 03 348 8481 

Paving, Lawns, Irrigation, Repairs, tvs, microwaves, paid for freezes, fridges, 

Decking, Fencing. 

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

audio amps, soundbars. washing machines, ovens. 

Kanga & small digger .Aerial & satellite Also buying furniture & 

services. Check out Squire installations, kitsets, 480D h/hold effects.Anything Situations Vacant Public Notices 

Landscaping on facebook. Moorhouse Ave, ph 03 379 considered. Ph Dave 960- 

FREE QUOTES. Ph 

CLEANER REQUIRED 

1400 

8440, 027 66 22 116 

Arthur 347-8796, 027 WINDOW CLEANING 

Part time, 2 hrs Fri, Sat, 

Copies of daily 

220-7014 Edwin 027 220- Average 3 brm house 

Sun. Must be able to work 

newspapers 1950’s - 

7154 

inside or out from $45. 

extra hours if required, exp 

1970’s, also horse racing 

LAWN MOWING Both from $80 Phone 

pref. Islington / Templeton 

magazines, photos, 

Garden and rental property Trevor 344-2170 

area. Ph 3497 666 

racebooks, records etc. 

tidy ups, hedge trimming. WINDOW CLEANING 

CLEANER REQUIRED 

Ph 348-1783 

Call Glen at Bottle Lake Brown & White Ltd. MILITARIA Any Part time, 2 hrs Fri, Sat, 

Lawn Mowing. Ph 027 Family owned since 2001. country, firearms, Sun. Must be able to work 

499 7571 

Ph Paul 027 229 3534 uniforms, badges, medals, extra hours if required, exp 

LAWNMOWING 

memoribilia, WW2 or pref. Islington / Templeton 

You Grow I Mow. Free Tuition earlier ph 338-9931 area. Ph 3497 666 

quotes. Ph / text Chris 021 COMPUTER LESSONS TOOLS, Garden garage, MATURE LADY wanted 

252 1801 

avail for computer, IPad, saw benches, Lathes. Cash for escort work, Private 

PAINTING 

or Mobile. Please contact buyer Phone 355-2045 Txt only 027 2919432 

PLASTERING 

Jobee 027 290 9246 www. 

Free quotes. Int/ext & computertutor.nz 

roof painting Family run 

Call us & we’ll help 

business, work guaranteed. Wanted To Buy 

Pensioner discounts. Ph 

you place your 

Kerin or Paul 022 191 

7877 or 379-1281. Website 

www.swedekiwipainting. 

classified advert 

co.nz 

WANTED 

PAINTING 

Indoor / Outdoor, over 30 SLEEPOUTS Nobody knows 

yrs exp, same day quotes, 

ph Steve 021 255 7968 Sleepouts Galore 

Christchurch 

PAINTING 

Buyers and sellers of 

relocatable buildings 

Small - Medium jobsPh 11 Brixton Street, Hornby 

027 294 1508. 10% 

like a local 

Phone: 349 9633 

discount 

PLASTERING (INT) 

We’re local, we’re 

STEVE PURCELL 

Experience and 

in Christchurch, we 

ANTIQUES 

Excellence. Small to 

make placing your 

Medium job specialists 

in all aspects of Interior BUYING ad simple and easy. 

Plastering. Also small 

Phone: 379 1100 

painting jobs. Please call NOW 

Tim 022 5380959 

Gold jewellery, 

PLASTER MASONRY 

watches, coins, 

PAINTING, TILING, 

WALLPAPERING 

medals, scrap Classifieds 

Roofing & Brick 

gold, sterling 

The Star is published every Thursday 

Repairs, Stucco, Fixing, silver, pewter, 

and is home delivered free into 93,000 

Stopping, Cracks & original paintings, households & is available at pick up points 

Holes. Small jobs ok. 

throughout Christchurch 

modern art. 

Property Repairs . 30 yrs 

exp . Gary 3428950 / 021 351 9139 

stevepurcellantiques.com 

529 022 

REMOVALS 

Small furniture removals, 

Vehicles Wanted 

have own van, can fit 

various types of whiteware 

appliances, some furn, 

bedding, boxes etc, honest CAR REMOVALS 

& reliable, any area 

considered, ph Chch 027 

517 7001 

$$CASH PAID$$ 

ROOFING REPAIRS 

CARS, VANS, UTES & 4X4 WANTED 

Fully qualified, over 40 

NZ OWNED AND OPERATED FOR 24 YEARS 

yrs experience. Ph John 

027 432-3822 or 351- 

We use world class vehicle depollution systems 

9147 email johnchmill@ 

outlook.com 

RUBBISH REMOVAL 

Van & Trailer Rubbish 0800 8200 600 

Removal. Free quotes. Ph 

Gary 342-8950, 021 529 www.pickapart.co.nz 

022 


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

PERMITTED TEMPORARY 

DEPOTS AND STORAGE 

FACILITIES 

Under Clause 8(3)(a) of the Canterbury Earthquake 

(Resource Management Act Permitted Activities) Order 

2011 

Despite anything to the contrary in the Christchurch City Plan, 

the activities listed below are permitted activities in the specified 

locations if they comply with the prescribed standards: 

1. ACTIVITY: Temporary site office and storage 

facility for repairs to earthquake 

damaged wastewater services in the 

Spreydon catchment 

LOCATION: 285-301 Selwyn Street, 103-105 

Coronation Street, 

58 Rosewarne Street, Spreydon 

APPLICANT: Downer NZ Ltd 

REFERENCE NO: RMA/2020/544 

STANDARDS: 

1. The proposed activity is outlined in the application form 

submitted on 12 March 2020, the revised site plan and the 

duration and dust control measures are outlined in emails dated 

16 March and 29 April 2020. 

2. The silt fence is to be located between the internal boundary 

fence of the adjacent residential properties and the earth bund. 

The earth bund will be finished and maintained with a surface 

that does not erode. 

3. Provision of vehicle parking is to be supplied on site. 

4. The activity must not create any significant adverse effects 

(relating, but not limited to, noise, dust, mud, light spill, odour, 

traffic generation, refuse disposal, animal control and visual 

amenity) that will, in the opinion of a Council Compliance Officer 

or Environmental Health Officer, cause nuisance for occupiers of 

surrounding sites. 

5. Note: If any significant adverse effects do arise, then the Council 

can impose additional requirements or conditions to avoid, 

remedy or mitigate those adverse effects. 

The general Standards for Permitted Temporary Accommodation 

and Temporary Depots and Storage Facilities can be viewed on the 

Temporary Accommodation page of the Council’s website at 

www.ccc.govt.nz/tempaccomm. 

Any temporary activity established under these provisions shall 

not create or give rise to any existing use right in respect of any 

land, activity, or structure (refer clause 5(3) of the Canterbury 

Earthquake (Resource Management Act Permitted Activities) Order 

2011). 

If you have any questions or would like more information 

about the activities listed above please phone 941 8999 

and ask to speak to the Duty Planner. 

John Higgins 

Resource Consents Manager 

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