Bay Harbour: February 10, 2021

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Connecting Your Local Community
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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
Wednesday February 10 2021 Bay Harbour News
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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
out of touch with what really
happens in the community,”
Stronach said.
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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.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
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.
When answering why they
attended the gym, Onekawa
promptly stood up from her
chair. “This is why,” she said.
Mundy agreed: “To keep my
core strong!”
Clark said: “As you get older,
the physical stuff becomes
terribly important and you
become more aware of your body
and how it works.”
“Coming to the gym is a
positive step to being a strong
and complete person.”
For Clark, getting to the gym
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
someone who has significantly
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
Federation.
Onekawa said she gets coffee
twice a week with her new found
gym friends.
“It’s a sisterhood here,” said
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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I am a resident of Diamond Harbour
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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Full steam ahead in Bill’s backyard
• By Susan Sandys
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.
They concluded the cost would
be $310m or more, and that other
options such as strengthening
stop banks would be cheaper.
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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
entered a yachting team, then
at the Barcelona Games in 1992
club members Leslie Egnot and
Jan Shearer won silver medals in
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the 470 class. Numerous other
national and world titles have
been won by club members over
the years.
However, you don’t have to be
world-class to enjoy the sport of
sailing – anyone, of any age, can
participate, and as the current
Commodore Layton Martin says,
it’s certainly not an elite sport.
“People can buy second-hand
yachts, and the club also has
a selection of yachts of different
classes that are available for
members to use,” Martin said.
For young people starting
out, the club runs learn-to-sail
programmes, which are designed
to get them out on the water to
learn the various facets of sailing,
at the same time gaining confidence
and decision-making skills
as they move through a range of
classes.
“The juniors start off in the
Optimist, then they move on to
the P-Class yachts, which require
Sailors putting their skills into practice.
greater skills and understanding
of wind direction, after which
they move on to the 12ft Starlings,”
Martin said.
“Our experienced and youngminded
coaches are out on the
water with the youngsters to support
and guide them, and teach
them skills such as getting back
on the boat if it capsizes.”
The club’s range of programmes
for junior members
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“The Ferrymead Mitre 10
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club and has been supplying it
with Mitre 10 branded sails for
CYC Optimists since 2017.”
CYC also promotes and hosts
the Yachting New Zealand ‘have
a go’ programme through which
schools can book students in for
lessons, as well as running its
own ‘elective days’ for Redcliffs
School students to learn to sail.
The club offers adult learn-tosail
programmes, too, mostly attracting
the 30-50 age group and
giving people the opportunity to
try a new activity, build confidence
and learn new skills.
CYC has a strong fleet of the
one-manned Zephyr and Laser
class of yachts, which the senior
members sail and are the preferred
choices for competitive sailing.
“The club is particularly strong
in these,” Martin said.
CYC holds regular sailing
events and on January 31, it put
on a very successful family fun
day, in which other club sailors
and local children took part.
“It was about kids having fun
and getting on the water we had
great feedback from parents,”
Martin said.
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The billion-dollar screen opportunity
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• By Bree Loverich
FILM AND television
production is one of New
Zealand’s largest export
industries.
How big? It’s worth $3.5 billion
to the New Zealand economy
every year.
Huge right? And it’s only
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
day to fulfil this potential.
To date, Screen CanterburyNZ
has serviced inquiries from
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,
most recently Netflix’s Letter
to the King, Only Cloud Knows,
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
employment, education or
training; and our long-term
And what are we doing?
We are supporting the journey
for labour market priority groups
graduates, NEET (young people
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training), impacted workers,
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
will support the growth of
the national industry, and put
Christchurch and Canterbury in
the perfect position to provide
capacity for the national industry
to grow and meet unprecedented
global content demand.
One of our big wins from the
last 12 months is the creation of
the Screen Protocols, a guidelines
document making it easier
for productions to film here, and
we’ve changed local policy to
We are also developing a
Regional Workforce Plan that
identifies the skills available and
needed now and in the future.
This plan will inform central
government investment and
policy in education, immigration
and community interventions;
and will enable us to better
understand what skills
Christchurch’s future economy
will require. That in turn will
allow us to work with education
providers to ensure the right
courses are offered.
In times of recession we generally
see an increase in people
choosing to study.
This is an opportunity to upskill
Canterbury’s relatively
poorly-educated workforce for
our future economy, to generate
more and better jobs, to increase
productivity, and to raise living
standards and wellbeing.
make it easier to build production
studios in our city.
Home to rugged mountains
and wide-open plains, endless
coastlines, and a pool of talented
filmmakers, we are an ideal base
for productions to shoot whatever
they are looking for. We’re
also serviced by an international
airport and the South Island’s
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Zealand’s newest and secondlargest
commercial centre.
There is a huge opportunity for
Christchurch to increase its market
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that. Screen includes high-value
jobs in AR, VR, VFX, animation
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exist not only for filmmakers, but
for our tech and gaming sector,
as well as traditional industries
like manufacturing, engineering
and construction.
These industries provide the
technicians and experts needed
behind the scenes.
The screen industry also uses
We are supporting Ngāi Tahu’s
development of an iwi skills hub
that will create stronger pathways
for young Māori into tertiary
education and skilled jobs.
Among other projects, we are
working with education partners
and mana whenua to increase
aspiration and participation of
students in low-decile schools in
future-focused tertiary study that
will lead to careers in
high-growth areas. We are
seeking to future-proof
Canterbury’s labour marke
- we know how vital it is to
new jobs to ensure people
employment options now
in the longer term.
We have invested in a cityinnovation
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of regional strength and glo
growth opportunity. These
Supernodes are Aerospace
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working to attract addition
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the services of tourism and
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impacted by Covid-19 and can
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streams.
While Most importantly, we expect a ongoing thriving
screen sector is the backbone
of a strong creative economy. A
city that prioritises its creative
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Heart attack survivor returns
to ocean for Akaroa swim
MARK BONE should be dead.
He should have died in
Melbourne two years ago from
a cardiac arrest that left him
without oxygen for 20 minutes as
emergency workers scrambled to
bring him back to life.
“Normally they stop after six
minutes but for some reason
they kept working on me – I’m
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
Series on February 20 when he
again tackles the Generation
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.”
Event director Scott Rice
said it is people like Bone who
make the Banana Boat New
Zealand Ocean Swim Series so
special.
“Watching how people
overcome adversity in their lives
and how our series plays a small
role in that is humbling and
inspiring,” Rice said.
Bone knows he is lucky to be
alive, let alone up to swimming
5km, and admits it is only now
that he realises how big an
impact his cardiac arrest has had
on his life.
“I did suffer a significant brain
injury from the amount of time I
was without oxygen. I’d thought
I was 100 per cent (soon after he
was allowed to return home) but
now I know I was nowhere near
it,” he said.
He knows now he had trouble
processing information, that his
memory was poor and that “I
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years ago, plans to
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New Zealand Ocean
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didn’t know what I was doing to
be honest”.
His employer, Hynds, kept
him on the books for as long
as they could but he was made
redundant during the Covid
crisis last year and now works for
himself designing rural domestic
wastewater systems.
Last year’s Generation Homes
La Grande Swim was Bone’s
first at such a long distance.
“I’d swum 3km in training and
thought I would be okay adding
the extra 2km on, on the day, but
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time I’m a lot more confident.”
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Enjoying an elevated position to take in
unrivalled coastal views and set on a substantial
parcel of land, this large family home tucked
away at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac on
Clifton Hill is offered to the market on "as is,
where is" basis. With both the interior and
exterior remaining true to its origins, the
property represents a unique opportunity for
a savvy buyer with vision and flair to repair,
rejuvenate and reap the benefits.
With double garaging on the ground floor, and
living and accommodation arranged over two
light-filled upper levels, the cleverly-configured
floorplan has been designed to take full
advantage of the spectacular outlook with
sweeping views across the Avon-Heathcote
Estuary to the Southern Alps from almost
every room. Incorporating five bedrooms,
three bathrooms plus a guest toilet, and a
generously proportioned interconnected
kitchen, dining and living space with adjoining
study, the home will accommodate modern
living with ease and with a multitude of flexible
spaces, will appeal to those seeking to work
from home.
Rich with bird life and featuring easy-care
plantings, the magnificent 1.8-hectare
section's sloping gradient ensures you'll never
be built out and imparts a sense of space and
seclusion while being just a few minutes' drive
from Sumner Beach and 20 minutes from the
central city.
Designed and built to our vendors' specifications,
this property has served as a very special family
home for many years but with the decision to
sell firmly made, this property is a must-see
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CRV still a force to be reckoned with
HONDA ISN’T going to be left
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The mid-size sport utility
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mainstream manufacturers.
But Honda keeps ticking away
with its CRV, and sales of it are
healthy, which has a lot to do
with the upgrades that have
kept it fresh through the years
and for 2021 there are further
enhancements and refinements,
along with a greater emphasis on
safety across the range.
This evaluation focuses on
the five-seater, range-topping
Sport Premium that also has
four-wheel-drive mechanicals.
Interestingly, all CRV models now
get the 1.5-litre turbocharged
engine that was only available
previously in a few select models.
The naturally-aspirated 2-litre
engine has been dropped, but
that’s not a bad thing the 1498cc
turbo is a beauty in terms of
refinement and economy, and it
has power outputs that match the
concept of CRV.
Honda has also made some
engineering alterations to make
the CRV more driveable, notably
steering response and stability,
the latter contributing to a solid,
secure feel on the road, the
CRV feels well-attached and
communicative.
More importantly, the majority
of buyers will be interested
in the user-friendly elements
that have been built into the
newcomer. There’s a increased
focus on family travel and
what we carry with us, the
air conditioning system has
been improved, the USB ports
up-front are illuminated and
relocated for convenience and
are fast charging, while a wireless
charging pad is now included.
You’d expect nothing less from
Honda, it is a people-friendly
car builder and the CRV’s
reputation has made it a class
leader for many years, today it is
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
a Sport 7 (seven seats) at $47,990
and AWD Touring at $43,990.
The Sport Premium wants
for nothing, it has full leather with
electric front seats (also heated),
satellite navigation, keyless entry
and ignition, electric sunroof,
electric tailgate, and 19in wheels,
just to name some of the features
that give you an indication of
where it sits in the market.
Drive is through a sevenstep
continuously variable
transmission, the engine and
gearbox work seamlessly
together, there is little to hinder
engine power, and response to
accelerator request is instant
and fluid. There’s no suggestion
of turbo lag anywhere, and
movement is lively and
unyielding.
In terms of performance the
CRV is rated at 140kW and
240Nm, the latter figure available
all of the way from 2000rpm to
5000rpm almost meeting the point
of peak power at 5500rpm, they are
the key ingredients when it comes
to the constant supply of energy.
In Sport Premium form there
are paddle-shifters which will
offer the driver some input into
how the CRV gains momentum,
or for when speed needs to be
chiselled off, they are a great way
to enhance engine braking when
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
largely unstressed working over at
just 1900rpm.
Not only has Honda kept the
CRV fresh mechanically, it has
specification levels that will
constantly tempt, there’s also
a refresh cosmetically just to
keep up with modern design
trends. The latter aren’t quite so
noticeable but they do enhance
appeal.
That’s something Honda has
been doing for 23 years with CRV,
and it’s a formula that has been
very successful and serves to
prove that ideas and technology
just keep advancing. Today’s CRV
is state-of the art, and represents
all that a family car buyer would
want.

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