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6 Thursday August 27 2020 Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz PEGASUS POST What do you love about shirley intermediate? “It’s really fun and I have great friends.” “Everyone knows each other, it’s like a family.” - 2020 students No School zone School Swimming Pool In use October - April Te Tahu Rua Reo We are the only Christchurch Intermediate with a Bilingual Māori / English Class. 60 Shirley Road, Shirley 03 385 2229 office@sis.school.nz www.sis.school.nz Shirley-Intermediate-School
PEGASUS POST Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Thursday August 27 2020 7 News Feud over clock tower beginnings The New Brighton Museum has a rich history spanning more than 100 years. Peggy Butterfield writes monthly about the historical display at the heritage museum It is great to see our clock tower back, even if the time is only right twice a day, but there is a lot of history to our New Brighton monument. The New Brighton clock was donated in 1934 by Richard Green in memory of his father, Edmund Green. Edmund Green had arrived in Christchurch from England in 1859 to install the first telegraph system in the South Island. Richard Green had already donated a similar clock tower to Sumner, and with the New Brighton donation, this began a family feud as his family believed he was cutting them out of his estate by spending his wealth on statues and clocks. His family were in poor financial state, including a son who had been wounded in World War 1. The feud went as far as a court case, where the magistrate decided there was sufficient money available for the family as well. There were rumours that the family would disrupt the ceremonies for the laying of the foundation BIRDS OF THE ESTUARY Tanya Jenkins is the manager of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust, a non-profit organisation formed in 2002 to protect one of New Zealand’s most important coastal wetlands. Each week she introduces a new bird found in the estuary. Her column aims to raise the understanding of the values and uniqueness of the area. Don’t let the clever pukeko fool you stones, but on December 14, 1934, Irene Leaver, daughter of the thenmayor of New Brighton, laid the foundation stone of the New Brighton clock tower, accompanied by a “glamorous hunk of a detective.” There is no mention of a name of this hunk, maybe it was your Dad? The architect for the tower was Benjamin Ager who designed the North New Brighton Peace Memorial Hall and St Elmo’s Courts. THE PUKEKO or swamp hen are a well-known, heavyweight native resident – with male birds weighing up to 1.1kg. Some people may call them “dumb birds” for getting on roads to become roadkill, however, pukeko are actually extremely clever and complex birds. Don’t be fooled by the pukeko running around clumsily along the road as they can swim, run and fly extremely well. Pukeko are commonly seen on regularly mown roadsides as they love the fresh new grass shoots and growth there. That, paired with their need to eat grit off the road, (this aids them in their digestion of tough to digest foods like grass) puts them at high risk of being run down by motorists. Pukeko live in small community groups and are very protective of their territory, hence why you can hear their loud shrieking when they defend their patch. Females in the group will lay as many as 19 eggs in one shared nest, which is incubated by the males. When chicks hatch, the entire group, whether they are breeding and non breeding birds, will feed the chicks for about three months. Now that’s clever. How can we help these birds thrive? Keep dogs on the lead when walking near waterways as to not disturb them while they are nesting, feeding or resting. Drive carefully along roads where you see pukeko regularly and slow down. PHOTO: GETTY
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