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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2<strong>02</strong>0<br />
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Self portraits<br />
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Tough terrain ambulance in service<br />
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Sumner & Redcliffs<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
A COMMUNITY hub for the<br />
elderly is needed in order to<br />
combat feelings of isolation and<br />
loneliness, a Lyttelton resident<br />
says.<br />
Alison Ross said the absence of<br />
a community hub where the elderly<br />
can congregate and socialise<br />
was contributing to poor wellbeing<br />
outcomes for Lyttelton’s<br />
older generation.<br />
“Why does Lyttelton not have<br />
a community centre when every<br />
other community from Sumner<br />
to Akaroa have a community<br />
centre?” she said.<br />
“With the elderly, there are a<br />
lot of people who don’t have anywhere<br />
to go to talk to their friends<br />
and peers and stuff like that.”<br />
Banks Peninsula Community<br />
Board chairwoman Tori Peden<br />
said the Lyttelton Recreation<br />
Centre could possibly operate as a<br />
hub in the future as it undergoes a<br />
reactivation process.<br />
“They [Lyttelton Recreation<br />
Centre] are looking at having<br />
a range of activities for the<br />
community and that includes the<br />
elderly,” she said.<br />
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Council must clear beach rocks Loneliness<br />
THE CITY council must<br />
now clear Clifton Beach of a<br />
rocky eyesore exposed after<br />
construction of the coastal<br />
pathway.<br />
Environment Canterbury<br />
has told the council to remove<br />
all rock spoil on the beach to<br />
return it to its once virtually<br />
uninterrupted, sandy state.<br />
The move<br />
has been<br />
lauded as<br />
vindication for<br />
the Redcliffs<br />
Residents<br />
Association,<br />
which first<br />
Pat<br />
McIntosh<br />
raised the issue<br />
with the council<br />
a year ago.<br />
“This is a<br />
significant step forward, and not<br />
something the council can argue<br />
with,” association secretary Pat<br />
McIntosh said.<br />
“Now, we would like to see a<br />
timely plan from the council,<br />
in order to fix the problem once<br />
and for all.”<br />
In a compliance monitoring<br />
report obtained by <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
News, ECan says the beach was<br />
more affected by the rocks than<br />
previously.<br />
Their effect was deemed minor<br />
in March, but worsened as<br />
rocks were exposed ahead of an<br />
August site assessment.<br />
“It is now time to require<br />
[the city council] to remove the<br />
rock spoil on the beach between<br />
the car park and Shag Rock/<br />
Rapanui to return this part of<br />
the beach to its previously sandy<br />
surface to a point where amenity<br />
values are less effected.”<br />
ECan notes spoil from the<br />
excavation and works associated<br />
with the coastal pathway were<br />
left on the beach in the inter<br />
tidal zone.<br />
Natural processes were expected<br />
to redistribute the rocks<br />
and maintain the beach. This<br />
was consistent with a condition<br />
to the works’ consent, ECan’s<br />
report says.<br />
However, the excavation<br />
pulled up rocks from several<br />
metres under the sand. They<br />
changed the “character” of the<br />
sandy beach.<br />
“Periods of coastal degradation”<br />
were revealing the material.<br />
Rocks were concentrated<br />
around the high tide mark,<br />
where the beach degraded in a<br />
line roughly 15m to 20m from<br />
the revetment.<br />
“The beach has changed and<br />
ROUGH:<br />
Exposed<br />
rocks on<br />
Clifton<br />
Beach will<br />
be cleared<br />
by the city<br />
council.<br />
the amenity value of the sandy<br />
beach that people enjoyed, has<br />
been reduced by the rocks that<br />
have been exposed.<br />
“The sandy beach from the<br />
sea wall to 20m down the beach<br />
has been replaced with a rocky<br />
beach with varying concentrations<br />
and sizes of material.”<br />
ECan produced its report on<br />
August 7.<br />
A council spokeswoman<br />
confirmed the council was<br />
“working through the options<br />
and the implications that<br />
those options may have on the<br />
environment.”<br />
a problem<br />
• From page 1<br />
Lyttelton Recreation Centre<br />
facility manager Nathan Mauger<br />
confirmed the centre was moving<br />
towards becoming more of a<br />
community hub.<br />
“We are looking<br />
to enhance<br />
the area to<br />
cater for the<br />
elderly as well as<br />
everybody else,<br />
Nathan<br />
it is just about<br />
ensuring we are<br />
providing suit-<br />
Mauger<br />
able opportunities,” he said.<br />
Age Concern Canterbury chief<br />
executive Simon Templeton said<br />
loneliness was a particular problem<br />
for those over 65.<br />
“We definitely know that the<br />
over-65 population are more<br />
negatively affected by loneliness<br />
compared to other groups. There<br />
was an Otago University study<br />
that indicated 21 per cent of over<br />
65-year-olds, which is a huge<br />
number, are affected by loneliness,”<br />
he said.<br />
He believed it was important<br />
for options at alleviating the situation<br />
in Lyttelton to be at least<br />
considered, especially under a<br />
Covid-19 climate.<br />
“If the residents are identifying<br />
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Self portraits rescued<br />
from demolition<br />
Akaroa wastewater<br />
draws more than<br />
300 submissions<br />
GOVERNORS BAY School will rating them into individual tiles.<br />
return self-portraits painted on Only a few tiles were shattered<br />
tiles in its old library to some of the beyond repair.<br />
MORE THAN 300 submissions<br />
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The school’s library has recently these tiles will be available for the<br />
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“We knew there would be<br />
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Dyson signs off after 27 years<br />
AT THE beginning of August,<br />
I was privileged to have the<br />
opportunity to give my final<br />
speech in Parliament – my<br />
valedictory.<br />
It’s a fine tradition in New<br />
Zealand, where Members who<br />
have chosen to not seek re-election<br />
have the chance to reflect<br />
on their time as representatives,<br />
usually noting the highlights<br />
of their time and perhaps challenges<br />
for the future.<br />
I opened my address in Te<br />
Reo, then spoke in New Zealand<br />
Sign Language, then Samoan<br />
and then English. My Samoan<br />
contribution was a reflection that<br />
in my maiden speech I spoke in<br />
Samoan as a tribute to the fact<br />
that our first ever Pacifica Member<br />
of Parliament was elected at<br />
the same time as I was elected.<br />
Speaking in NZSL was a celebration<br />
of the fact that NZSL is an<br />
official language, a law change I<br />
was particularly proud to introduce.<br />
I recall when we were sworn<br />
in after the last election and Mr<br />
Speaker ruled that MPs could<br />
swear the oath in the own first<br />
language if they chose and we<br />
saw seven different languages<br />
used. I was very proud of the<br />
fact that our Parliament is much<br />
more representative of our communities<br />
than when I<br />
first entered.<br />
In my valedictory, I acknowledged<br />
the huge support I have received<br />
from the Labour team in<br />
my electorate (variously named<br />
Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula and<br />
Port Hills), the fantastic work<br />
of my staff both in and outside<br />
Parliament and the confidence<br />
that my constituents have placed<br />
in me. It is very humbling.<br />
I was elected in November<br />
1993 in the last first past the<br />
post election and have served<br />
since then for 27 years. I have<br />
been privileged to not just be a<br />
Member of Parliament but have<br />
also held a wide range of Ministerial<br />
Portfolios, Chief Whip for<br />
Labour and am ending my time<br />
as Assistant Speaker.<br />
Although I have a number of<br />
key favourites amongst my portfolios<br />
and laws and policies I was<br />
able to introduce, being the first<br />
Minister for Disability Issues is<br />
probably the highlight.<br />
But the part of my role that I<br />
Ruth Dyson<br />
Member of Parliament Port Hills<br />
Valedictory Column<br />
have enjoyed most (and I will<br />
definitely miss the most), is<br />
working with our communities<br />
to support (or on occasions oppose)<br />
initiatives and also to help<br />
and support individuals.<br />
The range of issues that<br />
constituents ask for help in<br />
resolving is very diverse – from<br />
neighbours’ noise or trees, to immigration<br />
or ACC challenges, to<br />
even more serious issues of lack<br />
of money to pay the power bill or<br />
homelessness.<br />
Every day is different. And often<br />
people contact me when they<br />
have tried many avenues and so<br />
are frustrated and exhausted.<br />
It is just so satisfying to be able<br />
to find the right people to get<br />
stuff sorted for them.<br />
Our lives in Canterbury have<br />
been very different since <strong>September</strong><br />
2010, when our series of<br />
earthquakes started.<br />
In our electorate, the worst<br />
started on February 22, 2011,<br />
when we lost so many lives,<br />
STEPPING DOWN: Port Hills MP Ruth Dyson reflects on<br />
her various roles and responsibilities over her 27 year<br />
career.<br />
homes jobs and so many worlds<br />
were turned upside down. Our<br />
communities reached out to<br />
each other and offered so much<br />
practical and emotional support<br />
– hope to people who were left in<br />
deeply distressing situations.<br />
Our two volunteer fire<br />
brigades, Lyttelton and Sumner,<br />
alongside the Woolston crews,<br />
did extraordinary things and<br />
earned our respect forever.<br />
They left their own wrecked<br />
homes and not knowing where<br />
their families were, to help<br />
others. • Turn to page 8<br />
AdvERTORIAL<br />
THE RACE IS STILL<br />
ON – WE HOPE!<br />
What a year of disruption it has been!<br />
For all of us - sport, business, health,<br />
family and just in general LIFE<br />
The running of the 59 th Governors <strong>Bay</strong><br />
to Lyttleton Road race is still dependant on<br />
what level of Covid we are operating under<br />
at the time of the race but we’ve made a<br />
commitment to go ahead if at all possible.<br />
Consequently our organisation and publicity is<br />
still all go and should we have to cancel at the<br />
last minute we will refund any race fees paid.<br />
A feature of the race are the spot and<br />
perfomance prizes of flowers plus a<br />
flower to take away for each finisher. The<br />
handicaped nature of the event means there<br />
is a staggered start from the Governors <strong>Bay</strong><br />
School with slower runners starting earlier to<br />
ensure everyone finishes at a similar time at<br />
Charlotte Jane Quay in Lyttleton<br />
As with other businesses, the race<br />
sposer AROMAUNGA FLOWERS has had<br />
to adapt to keep operating. Straight after<br />
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very sucessful drive through flower shop.<br />
Business boomed with clients calling in<br />
to get their flowers after 5 weeks of being<br />
shut at home and deprived of some of<br />
the pleasures of life. One early car full of<br />
customers called in with their first takeaway<br />
coffees in hand to also purchase flowers.<br />
Another was a surfer still in wetsuit calling in<br />
after his first surf to buy flowers for home.<br />
Regular customers appreciated being able<br />
to brighten the homes with flowers again.<br />
So hopefully we will see as many of you<br />
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Working with communities a huge highlight<br />
• From page 6<br />
In the Parliamentary debate<br />
about the Earthquake Recovery<br />
Bill, I asked for three things.<br />
I asked that the voice of our<br />
communities be heard and<br />
that local people should be the<br />
drivers of our recovery, I asked<br />
for the process to be open and<br />
transparent, and I asked for the<br />
recovery to be at a good pace.<br />
None of these things happened<br />
and we have disempowerment<br />
and frustration as a result.<br />
We still have inadequately or<br />
unrepaired homes. But the worst<br />
inaction from my perspective<br />
was the refusal by the then Minister<br />
to support rock fall protection<br />
for homes.<br />
Because of a political decision,<br />
perfectly good homes (which<br />
could easily and comparatively<br />
cheaply have been made safe)<br />
were demolished. My thanks to<br />
the Christchurch City Council<br />
for stepping in and making it<br />
possible.<br />
We have had flooding from<br />
the Heathcote River and the<br />
devastation of the Port Hills<br />
fires. And just last year, the<br />
unbelievable terrorist attack<br />
that stunned our city and our<br />
country. Our response to all<br />
these tragedies has been so telling<br />
and so powerful.<br />
Our local campaign to get<br />
SAILING AWAY: Dyson speaks at the opening of the Mt<br />
Pleasant Yacht Club boat shed, 2017.<br />
the then Minister of Education<br />
to reverse her proposal to close<br />
Redcliffs School saw a generation<br />
of a strong call to action, a sense<br />
of unity and pride and a flurry of<br />
prolonged and relentless activity<br />
from a community which knew<br />
that our school was at the heart<br />
of our community and it was<br />
going to stay there (albeit it on<br />
a new site). The opening was a<br />
magnificent celebration of the<br />
strength of the broader school<br />
community.<br />
I have enjoyed watching the<br />
growing movement of understanding<br />
and support for cleaning<br />
up our rivers and estuary as<br />
well as planting and pest eradication<br />
on the Port Hills.<br />
There is a growing appreciation<br />
of the beauty of what we have and<br />
the need to work hard to ensure<br />
its future protection.<br />
Now, as I move on to the next<br />
phase of my life (and no, I don’t<br />
have anything planned yet), we<br />
sit in a world being challenged by<br />
the Covid-19 pandemic.<br />
Once again, New Zealanders<br />
have given up so much for the<br />
wellbeing of our nation.<br />
We need to continue to “Back<br />
our Backyard” as we continue on<br />
the next phase of the challenge –<br />
keeping our businesses going and<br />
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with her<br />
husband Martin<br />
Ward.<br />
people in work.<br />
We live in a nation where,<br />
overwhelmingly, people are<br />
respectful and inclusive. We<br />
look out for each other and help<br />
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Principal for Our Lady Star<br />
of the Sea School appointed<br />
OUR LADY Star of the<br />
Sea School in Sumner has<br />
appointed Nathan<br />
Burford as its new<br />
principal.<br />
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Burford is currently<br />
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ONE OF New<br />
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ability to lead the school<br />
into the next phase of<br />
development.”<br />
A father of three<br />
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their numerous sporting<br />
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Hagley Park regularly<br />
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The board of trustees<br />
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Burford to identify<br />
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World War 2 pilot dies<br />
Sumner.<br />
Mr Iggo was<br />
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school teacher at Aranui<br />
Primary, North New<br />
Brighton and South New<br />
Brighton schools.<br />
He is survived by his<br />
daughters, Jill and Sue, and<br />
was great-grandfather to<br />
nine grandchildren.<br />
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BIRDS OF THE ESTUARY<br />
Tanya Jenkins is the manager of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai<br />
Trust, a non-profit organisation formed in 20<strong>02</strong> to protect one of<br />
New Zealand’s most important coastal wetlands. Each week she<br />
introduces a new bird found in the estuary. Her column aims to raise<br />
the understanding of the values and uniqueness of the area.<br />
Drunk kereru<br />
not uncommon<br />
ONLY FOUND in NZ in<br />
native forest, urban and<br />
rural areas, the kereru<br />
with its distinctive heavy<br />
wingbeat when in flight<br />
can weigh as much as<br />
650gm.<br />
Once they find a mate<br />
they pair up for life and<br />
live like couples. We are<br />
lucky to have a few kereru<br />
pairs settled and nesting<br />
around the estuary. Nesting<br />
begins in <strong>September</strong><br />
when only one single egg<br />
is laid on a roughly constructed<br />
nest or ‘platform’<br />
made up of twigs.<br />
The female will incubate<br />
the egg from late afternoon<br />
until the next morning<br />
when the male takes over<br />
to take his shift.<br />
When the chick is old<br />
enough to be left alone,<br />
and only needing a feed<br />
once a day, the parents will<br />
start building another platform<br />
closeby to start incubating<br />
the next egg, and so<br />
on. They can do this up to<br />
four times until April.<br />
The wood pigeon is a vital<br />
component in the wellbeing<br />
of our native trees<br />
Dave Bryce<br />
of the<br />
Redcliffs/<br />
Te Rae<br />
Kura Eco<br />
Village<br />
group says<br />
it is focusing on soils<br />
during <strong>September</strong><br />
THE WORLD beneath our<br />
feet.<br />
Soils are not just<br />
something to hold up<br />
plants – they are alive with<br />
organisms, making them<br />
the “engine room” of the<br />
land environment.<br />
A single teaspoon of soil<br />
can contain billions of organisms,<br />
including insects,<br />
worms, algae, fungi and<br />
thousands of bacteria species<br />
(only about 10 per cent<br />
of which have been identified<br />
by scientists). All these<br />
organisms can be working<br />
for you – if you look after<br />
your soil.<br />
Threats to soils are:<br />
• Artificial fertilisers and<br />
pesticides, both of which<br />
can kill a wide range of<br />
organisms and should not<br />
be needed in a healthy soil<br />
• Removal of vegetation,<br />
earthworks, compaction<br />
and cultivation, all of which<br />
HEAVY: Kereru can<br />
weigh up to 650gm<br />
and it has a heavy<br />
wingbeat in flight.<br />
PHOTO: CLIVE COLLINS<br />
as it is able to eat the fruits<br />
and seeds of over 100 different<br />
native trees (with the<br />
kowhai being a favourite)<br />
and shrubs making it an<br />
important seed disperser.<br />
Kereru will also eat<br />
leaves, twigs, buds, clover<br />
and the flowers of some<br />
native trees.<br />
I just have to mention<br />
here that when it comes to<br />
eating, the kereru tend to<br />
get a little greedy by filling<br />
their crops with a large<br />
amount of overripe fruit<br />
which ferments quickly,<br />
turning it to alcohol.<br />
dry the surface; disrupt air<br />
channels, air supply and<br />
organism habitats; increase<br />
carbon loss; and reduce<br />
the soil through wind and<br />
water erosion.<br />
New Zealand has one<br />
of the highest rates of<br />
soil erosion in the world,<br />
losing about 190 million<br />
tonnes into waterways and<br />
the ocean every year (Environment<br />
Aotearoa 2015),<br />
mainly from farming and<br />
forestry activities.<br />
On the Port Hills there<br />
are extensive areas of the<br />
yellowish loess soils. If<br />
vegetation is removed, or<br />
in extreme rainfall, or if<br />
water drainage is changed,<br />
these soils and land can<br />
become unstable, resulting<br />
in property damage<br />
South Westland saw 60<br />
pigeons collected by concerned<br />
locals in 2010 delivering<br />
them to a local bird<br />
rescue centre. Fallen from<br />
trees and unable to walk or<br />
fly it was thought they had<br />
some terrible disease.<br />
All of the birds were<br />
absolutely drunk and after<br />
three days in captivity to<br />
sober up were safely returned<br />
again to the forests.<br />
A similar incident made<br />
the news in June 2019 near<br />
Whangarei where locals<br />
collected 14 intoxicated<br />
kereru over one week to<br />
be taken to a bird rescue<br />
centre for a few detox days<br />
before being released.<br />
The rescue centre receives<br />
on average 80 drunk kereru<br />
each year. Unfortunately,<br />
some are injured after<br />
falling or having flown into<br />
windows.<br />
Drunk kereru also<br />
become easy prey for cats,<br />
dogs and rats. So if you see<br />
a kereru on the ground it<br />
is bound to be both drunk<br />
and injured and take it the<br />
Animal and Bird Hospital<br />
in Ferry Rd to be treated.<br />
Best to look after your soil<br />
RICH: Soil contains<br />
billions of organisms.<br />
and damage to ecology<br />
from silt in waterways and<br />
coastal waters.<br />
Healthy soils will be<br />
damp and spongy, with a<br />
network of plant roots, a<br />
diverse cover of plants, leaf<br />
litter, compost or mulch,<br />
and many visible organisms<br />
living in it.<br />
They will produce healthy<br />
(nutrient rich) plants which<br />
obtain both water soluble<br />
minerals, as well as many<br />
other nutrients and minerals<br />
from micro-organisms,<br />
as those break down dead<br />
plant matter, feed on sugars<br />
from the plant roots and<br />
protect the plant roots from<br />
pathogens.<br />
Healthy soils also contain<br />
a lot of carbon (almost<br />
as much as mature native<br />
forests, per land area), so<br />
improving degraded soils<br />
to hold more carbon would<br />
help to reduce atmospheric<br />
CO2.<br />
Our pledge for 2<strong>02</strong>0<br />
– Always mulch soil . . .<br />
reduces weeds, temperature<br />
extremes, soil erosion<br />
and bird diggings, retains<br />
soil moisture, adds carbon<br />
to feed micro-organisms<br />
which release minerals and<br />
nutrients for plants.
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No later than 5:00pm on 18 <strong>September</strong> 2<strong>02</strong>0<br />
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