Bay Harbour: February 10, 2021

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021 

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Proving age is no barrier 

to keeping fit and mobile 

• By Samantha Mythen 

LIN CLARK, an 81-year-old 

energetic gym-goer believes 

age is no excuse for not making 

your fitness and mobility a 

priority. 

Clark makes up a trio of inspiring 

active women attending 

the Female Federation gym in 

Ferrymead who all share their 

birthdays this month. 

Isabel Mundy and Ngaire 

Onekawa are both set to turn 

80-years-old this month, on 

February 7 and 18 respectively. 

Clark’s 82nd birthday is on February 

15. 

All three powerhouse ladies 

regularly attend the gym, taking 

part in Pilates and balance 

classes, as well as working on 

their own cardio and weights 

routines. 

They are choosing to stay 

fit and healthy, defying the 

stereotype that aging holds you 

back from achieving an active 

lifestyle. 

Decked out with a Crusaders 

tattoo and a Rugby World Cup 

tattoo on each wrist, Onekawa is 

a keen sportswoman. 

She has always been active. 

• Turn to page 5 

STRENGTH: Ngaire Onekawa, Lin Clark and Isabel Mundy show off their strength. Onekawa can do multiple press-ups 

and planks. 

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• By Samantha Mythen 

AKAROA residents believe 

there has been a reduction in 

city council support due to the 

village’s service centre being 

moved to a different building. 

The service centre was 

previously housed in the historic 

1914 post office building. 

However, what remains of 

city council support is now 

conducted out of the Akaroa 

area school and community 

library. 

Akaroa Ratepayers and 

Residents Association president, 

Harry Stronach 

believes this action 

is detrimental to 

the community. 

He spoke at the 

Banks Peninsula 

Community Board 

meeting last Monday. 

“We don’t have 

a citizen hub like 

they do in Halswell. 

Instead, the Akaroa 

Library cannot 

provide the full 

council service,” 

Stronach said. He 

wants the full service 

centre back in the old post office 

building. 

The post office building was 

previously damaged in the 

February 22, 2011 earthquake. 

In 2015, the city council 

conducted a consultation 

process with local residents on 

whether to repair the building 

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BUSY: The Akaroa area 

school and community 

library now hosts the 

service centre that used 

to be in the historic post 

office building (left). 

PHOTOS: 

VICTORIA ANDREWS 

or construct a completely new 

service centre. 

According to community 

support officer Lee Harper, at 

the time, a majority of 93 per 

cent wanted the old post office 

building to be reinstated. 

At a cost of more than 

$900,000, the building was repaired 

and the service centre was 

reinstated until now. 

Stronach believes the subsequent 

transition is inconsistent 

and contrary to the 2015 public 

consultation. 

“It is as if the council have 

deliberately gone out of their way 

to prove that the consultation 

process is a complete waste of 

time, by not listening to what the 

public have to say.” 

Although the city council 

informed the Banks Peninsula 

Community Board in December 

that it was no longer cost 

effective to continue the service 

centre, the public were never 

asked for their views. 

“The council should have gone 

through the proper process of 

consultation and then actually 

listen to the people,” said Stronach. 

“There is a widening gulf 

between the community and the 

council.” 

Akaroa resident Victoria 

Andrews shared her concerns 

in a letter to the Sustainability 

and Community Resilience 

Committee in December last 

year. 

The city council responded 

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Moving service centre concerns residents 

to Andrews’ concerns in a 

memorandum written by Alicia 

Wright, manager of operational 

process and insights. 

Said Wright: “As there has 

been a seamless transition to the 

library with no interruption to 

the service offering, an approach 

of informing rather than consulting 

was taken.” 

She said the move of customer 

service functions was due to the 

challenges of the remote location 

and was being conducted under 

a trial period completed by June 

30. 

Stronach disagrees that the 

transition has been anything 

but smooth and argues the true 

challenge is “getting the council 

to understand that the ‘one size 

fits all’ approach will not work in 

Akaroa.” 

Andrews believes the new 

space is too small to accommodate 

the service centre facilities 

as well as the library it already 

houses. 

“City council staff are simply 

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happens in the community,” 

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‘It’s a relief to find you’re still strong’ 

• From page 1 

The mother of three children, 

seven grandchildren and 12 

great-grandchildren, played 

netball until she was 42. She 

even competed against her own 

daughters. 

Clark has always found her 

energy outdoors in nature; a keen 

hiker, horse rider and gardener. 

She owns a remote cabin in 

Lewis Pass, and although is not 

climbing the nearby mountain 

heights, she still loves to wander 

through the beech trees. 

Mundy, who lives in Horotane 

Valley, used to work in her 

family’s fruit and tomato 

business which kept her strong 

and fit. When she finished up 

working, she decided to head to 

the gym. She’s been attending 

three times a week for the past 

four years. 

Onekawa has kept up consistent 

gym practice for more than 12 

years. She now attends Female 

Federation five times a week. 

Onekawa can do multiple 

push-ups, straight-backed 

with her knees up. She also said 

she can do side plank rotations 

and dips, and has completed 

200m within 15 minutes on the 

ski erg. 

Clark knows the importance of 

rest days. She has been attending 

the gym on and off since 1998, 

and in spite of a hip replacement 

CAMARADERIE: Lin Clark, Isabel Mundy and Ngaire Onekawa all attend the gym multiple 

times a week, incorporating cardio, strength training, Pilates and balance exercises into 

their practice. 

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taking her out of the game for 

a while, she is building up her 

practice one again. Clark enjoys 

chin-ups, the chest press and leg 

press. 

“It’s a relief to find you’re still 

strong,” she said. 

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attended the gym, Onekawa 

promptly stood up from her 

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Mundy agreed: “To keep my 

core strong!” 

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the physical stuff becomes 

terribly important and you 

become more aware of your body 

and how it works.” 

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positive step to being a strong 

and complete person.” 

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is also important for the mental 

benefits. Her life passions have 

been education and theatre; 

in 2019, she was awarded the 

prestigious Drama New Zealand 

President’s Award, given to 

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contributed to the drama space 

over their lifetime. 

They all share the same goal: 

To keep going. 

There is strong camaraderie 

between the three women, 

and they love being part of 

the community at Female 

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Onekawa said she gets coffee 

twice a week with her new found 

gym friends. 

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Clark. 

Jill Kennedy, their personal 

trainer is 64-years-old. She 

only has glowing reviews of 

the fitness levels of the three 

women. 

“I cannot wait til I retire to 

be able to work out with them 

all.” 

Clark said: “We are lucky 

enough to be able to work out, 

and so we choose to make the 

most of this and continue to stay 

fit.” 

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and I totally agree with 

the proposals for all the 

areas outlined in your 

article. 

I use most of those 

roads weekly and vehicles 

are just travelling too fast, 

unsuited to the challenging 

and complex driving 

conditions. 

Driving behaviour has 

already improved on the 

open road sections that 

have had speeds reduced such as the 

Teddington Straight and the surrounding 

hillside roads between Diamond 

Harbour and Lyttelton, 

However, traffic is still too fast through 

built up population areas such as 

Diamond Harbour, Little River and the 

I fully support the changes. However, 

recent changes between 

Cass Bay and 

Rapaki are completely 

ignored. 

Boy racers scream 

through at night, tyres 

squealing and loud 

exhausts. 

Sunday sees the 

motor-cyclists using 

the road as a race 

track. 

There is 

absolutely no point in changing the speed 

limits if there is no monitoring of the 

speed. 

The police seem totally disinterested in 

these flagrant law breakers. 

Until the police act strongly the excess 

speed will continue. – H Fraser 

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BILL STANLEY, 67, has created a 

model train lovers’ fantasy land in 

his backyard. 

When he and wife Maggie 

moved to their new home in Canterbury 

five years ago, Stanley saw 

“a blank canvas, just waiting for a 

garden railway layout.” 

He set to work, and today has 

eight model trains which run 

on more than 200m of track, set 

amongst a 27m diorama of buildings, 

settlements, fields and bridges. 

The trains pass through all sorts 

of activity amongst the Playmobil 

people, vehicles and buildings, 

including a wedding outside 

Lincoln Union Church, fields being 

harvested, and a quarry being 

mined. 

Some of the buildings, including 

the church, Stanley has made 

himself, learning first through 

the Canterbury Garden Railway 

Group of which he is a committee 

member, and then teaching himself 

along the way. 

The track and its impressive 

setting, at the couple’s home in Lincoln, 

is complete with a pond and 

real goldfish. It has been a labour of 

love, and one that has its origins in 

Stanley’s childhood. 

“Trains just fascinated me as a 

child and they still do, we have 

been from LA to New York by 

train,” he said. 

His grandfather William Stanley 

gave him a Hornby double O 

railway set when he was about 

five. 

William had worked on the 

railways, and Stanley has inherited 

the whistle that William used 

in his job, believed to be as an engineer, 

and keeps it on his garden 

railway key ring. 

Stanley kept the passion for 

trains and railways moving 

down the generations; he and 

Maggie bought their 29-year-old 

son Richard his first engine when 

he was a baby. 

They continued to add to the 

collection, and always incorporated 

train travel in their overseas 

trips. These were for professional 

purposes in earlier years 

as Stanley travelled as part of his 

job as a pharmaceutical company 

director. 

The trip through the United 

States was in the 1990s, while 

they also lived in Thailand for 

five years to 1998 and travelled 

extensively through Europe. 

“You can set your clock by the 

trains in Switzerland,” he said. 

While trains in Thailand at 

the time were substandard in 

comparison, they had been just as 

enjoyable to travel on as the country’s 

elephants and longboats. 

Stanley sometimes has groups 

come and view his backyard 

garden railway creation, and it is 

a hobby he enjoys with others in 

the garden railway group, which 

will be hosting the National 

Garden Railway Convention 

in Christchurch on Waitangi 

Weekend. 

He said setting up the train 

track, which runs from a purpose-built, 

life-size shed, takes 90 

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minutes each time. 

“It’s quite a lot of work to have 

them running to precision, it’s 

quite common to have derailments,” 

Stanley said. 

Obstacles such as stones or 

grit on the track, or interception 

by creatures such as the Stanley 

household’s pet cats or dogs, were 

the cause of such frustrations. 

One of the biggest challenges 

had been securing the track in 

ballast that wouldn’t move when 

a blower is used to remove pine 

needles which have fallen down 

from nearby trees. 

The Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust 

is a non-profit organisation formed to 

protect one of New Zealand’s most 

important coastal wetlands. Each week, 

board members will discuss matters 

regarding the estuary, its rich history and 

what makes it unique. This week Bill 

Simpson writes about previous proposals 

to mitigate flooding at the estuary 

AMONG THE weird and 

wonderful ideas for the estuary is 

the concept of a dam or barrage. 

Such a barrier would give us 

control of tidal flows and cut the 

risk of flooding of the city and 

suburbs. Essentially, a “barrage” 

is a dam with gates. 

But each time the idea has 

cropped up it has been turned 

down because of the cost, financially 

and environmentally. 

ESTUARY MATTERS 

Dam idea to help prevent flooding quashed 

The chief engineer of the 

drainage board suggested in 

1963, that a barrage be built from 

Moncks Bay to the Southshore 

Spit. 

This would stabilise the flow 

of tidal water in and out of the 

estuary and allow dredging of 

the estuary channels. 

It would stop tidal water 

flowing in if there had been 

high rainfall and the Avon and 

Heathcote Rivers were running 

high, thus stopping flooding of 

housing areas when there high 

tides and high river flows. The 

estimated cost was £700,000. 

In true Christchurch fashion, 

the proposal caused much debate. 

Committees were formed, 

reports commissioned. Other 

ideas popped up; a Commonwealth 

Games rowing venue, a 

Sumner-to-Spit bridge, an aquatic 

playground. 

In the end, science prevailed. 

Canterbury University produced 

a 358 report The Ecology of the 

Avon-Heathcote Estuary in 1973. 

It concluded that a barrier and 

dredging would have detrimental 

effects on the biology of the 

estuary; in short, the estuary 

would be destroyed. 

But the idea did not die. 

Following the earthquakes of 10 

years ago, the city council and 

Canterbury Earthquake Recovery 

Authority staff were directed 

to reinvestigate the barrage 

concept for the same reason, to 

control flooding. 

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be $310m or more, and that other 

options such as strengthening 

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The first club building completed in 1892. Scows and 30 footers sailing in Moncks Bay, circa 1913. 

Yacht club’s century-plus of sailing 

PROTECTED BY the rugged 

hills, known today as Balmoral 

Hill, to Englishman J L Monck 

the picturesque and sheltered 

bay that now bears his name 

must have appeared the perfect 

spot for establishing a sailing 

club. And in 1891, that’s just 

what he did. 

Bringing together a group 

of like-minded people, Monck 

set up the Christchurch Sailing 

Club, becoming the club’s first 

Commodore. In the early days 

the fleet was comprised of large 

vessels, up to 24ft, with crews 

of two to five keen sailors, who 

competed against each other in 

regular yacht races. 

The early 1900s saw the 

introduction of power boats to 

the fleet, and in 1906, the first 

two-level clubhouse was built. 

The club’s name was changed to 

the Christchurch Yacht Club in 

1935, then in 1938 the present 

clubhouse was built; however, 

age and earthquake damage have 

now seen plans to rebuild the 

clubhouse being developed. 

One of the oldest yacht clubs 

in New Zealand, the Christchurch 

Yacht Club has operated 

continuously since its establishment, 

even during the two world 

wars. 

It has also proved to be a 

breeding ground for international 

success. Club members 

Peter Mander and Jack Cropp 

won gold medals at the 1956 

Olympic Games in Melbourne, 

the first time New Zealand had 

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at the Barcelona Games in 1992 

club members Leslie Egnot and 

Jan Shearer won silver medals in 

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Peter Mander and Jack 

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the 470 class. Numerous other 

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“People can buy second-hand 

yachts, and the club also has 

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classes that are available for 

members to use,” Martin said. 

For young people starting 

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greater skills and understanding 

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Martin said. 

“Our experienced and youngminded 

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and guide them, and teach 

them skills such as getting back 

on the boat if it capsizes.” 

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“The Ferrymead Mitre 10 

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club and has been supplying it 

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CYC Optimists since 2017.” 

CYC also promotes and hosts 

the Yachting New Zealand ‘have 

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lessons, as well as running its 

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School students to learn to sail. 

The club offers adult learn-tosail 

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the 30-50 age group and 

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CYC has a strong fleet of the 

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members sail and are the preferred 

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“The club is particularly strong 

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CYC holds regular sailing 

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“It was about kids having fun 

and getting on the water we had 

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FILM AND television 

production is one of New 

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industries. 

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to the New Zealand economy 

every year. 

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getting bigger as people consume 

more and more content 

on streaming platforms, with 

growth fuelled by the global 

pandemic unemployed. and more time spent 

in the living room. 

ChristchurchNZ is committed 

to securing a larger share of this 

industry and is home to Screen 

CanterburyNZ, the regional film 

office, whose goal is to attract 

more – school productions, leavers, and tertiary support 

screen business development and 

local content creation. 

We work with content creators, 

service providers, infrastructure 

investors and the education sector 

to plan for growth, and collaborate 

widely to fill gaps, de- 

Māori and industry. 

velop capabilities and attract new 

business to the city. There is huge 

potential here for screen production, 

and we come to work every 

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To date, Screen CanterburyNZ 

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small to large productions of all 

formats, as well as supported 

business inquiries and studio 

infrastructure projects. 

Canterbury has been the backdrop 

to numerous productions, 

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Disney’s Wrinkle in Time and 

Mulan. 

However, only a small percentage 

of market share in feature 

film and television currently 

comes to the region. Disney’s 

Higher unemployment impacts 

more significantly on those in 

lower skilled roles and our 

vulnerable populations – Māori; 

Pasifika; young people not in 

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And what are we doing? 

We are supporting the journey 

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To ensure work isn’t duplicated, 

tor in Canterbury 

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education providers, charitable 

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Impact projects can then be 

delivered to provide support 

where needed. 

It is critical we ensure our 

community has access to the 

information they need, and is 

aware of the help available. 

ChristchurchNZ is developing 

regional information resources 

and working to ensure this gets 

into the hands of those who 

need it. 

Battle scene from Disney’s Mulan, filmed in Canterbury. 

Mulan, directed by Kiwi Niki 

Caro, was partly filmed in Canterbury. 

The $200 million film 

brought an estimated $7 million 

to the Canterbury economy, but 

with stronger services and studio 

infrastructure the region could 

have benefited from a larger percentage 

of this production. 

James Cameron and Amazon 

are currently filming some of the 

largest productions in motion 

picture history on our shores, 

and there has never been more 

attention on the country as a 

Covid-free location. 

These multi-year productions 

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the national industry, and put 

Christchurch and Canterbury in 

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capacity for the national industry 

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global content demand. 

One of our big wins from the 

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We are also developing a 

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Canterbury’s relatively 

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make it easier to build production 

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The screen industry also uses 

We are supporting Ngāi Tahu’s 

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While Most importantly, we expect a ongoing thriving 

screen sector is the backbone 

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MARK BONE should be dead. 

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“Normally they stop after six 

minutes but for some reason 

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not sure why,” Bone said in a 

disarmingly calm way. 

“I was pretty fit. I used to run 

ultramarathons so I guess they 

realised I was pretty fit and there 

were a lot of ambulance and 

fire crew there and once they’ve 

made the effort to turn up, they 

want you to survive.” 

He did, but it has been a slow 

return to normality for the 

52-year-old wastewater engineer 

who spent a week in a coma 

before eventually returning 

home to Christchurch. 

He doesn’t run these days, 

unsure if his heart will cope 

with the pressure and confident 

his wife, Jane, doesn’t want him 

disappearing into the bush for a 

five hour run. But he does swim 

and will return to the Banana 

Boat New Zealand Ocean Swim 

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Homes La Grande Swim, a 5km 

cross harbour swim from Wainui 

to Akaroa. 

“I want to do it in under two 

hours,” Bone said. “Last year the 

bay was like a washing machine 

and it was a really tough swim 

and I finished in over two hours. 

This time I want to be well 

under.” 

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“Watching how people 

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Bone knows he is lucky to be 

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HONDA ISN’T going to be left 

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The mid-size sport utility 

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RAV4 is ever present and there’s 

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Interestingly, all CRV models now 

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The naturally-aspirated 2-litre 

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concept of CRV. 

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charging pad is now included. 

You’d expect nothing less from 

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car builder and the CRV’s 

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still commanding sales, keeping 

it near the top end of the leader 

board. 

The Sport Premium model has 

all the kit you’d ever need, and 

at $51,000 it is extending to the 

price of premium models but 

it is part of a value range that 

HONDA CRV: Upgrades and enhancements for 2021. 

starts at $39,990 and includes 

four choices. In-between there’s 

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and AWD Touring at $43,990. 

The Sport Premium wants 

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electric front seats (also heated), 

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CRV is rated at 140kW and 

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In Sport Premium form there 

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slowing for a corner or a long 

descent through the hills. 

The CRV is also a well-handling 

SUV, it feels encouraging from 

behind the wheel. That’s the 

benefit of what all-wheel-drive is 

all about, even though the CRV 

is effectively a front-driver, power 

is directed rearwards if grip is 

threatened or sensors dictate that 

power rearwards is demanded. 

Nothing has been compromised 

in the area where Honda excels as 

• Price – Honda CRV Sport 

Premium, $51,000 

• Dimensions – Length, 

4635mm; width, 1855mm; 

height, 1689mm 

• Configuration – Fourcylinder, 

four-wheel-drive, 

1498cc, 140kW, 240Nm, 

seven-step automatic. 

• Performance – 

0-100km/h, 8.5sec 

• Fuel usage – 7.4l/100km 

a car maker – fuel usage. 

The CRV is rated with a 

7.4l/100km combined cycle 

average. During my time with 

the test car it was constantly 

listing an 8.1/100km average with 

5l/100km showing on the readout 

at a steady 100km/h, the engine 

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just 1900rpm. 

Not only has Honda kept the 

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specification levels that will 

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a refresh cosmetically just to 

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noticeable but they do enhance 

appeal. 

That’s something Honda has 

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