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.

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN

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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).

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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

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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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‘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

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the picturesque and sheltered

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Bringing together a group

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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

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The early 1900s saw the

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The club’s name was changed to

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age and earthquake damage have

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clubhouse being developed.

One of the oldest yacht clubs

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It has also proved to be a

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success. Club members

Peter Mander and Jack Cropp

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Olympic Games in Melbourne,

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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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it’s certainly not an elite sport.

“People can buy second-hand

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a selection of yachts of different

classes that are available for

members to use,” Martin said.

For young people starting

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and decision-making skills

as they move through a range of

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“The juniors start off in the

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Sailors putting their skills into practice.

greater skills and understanding

of wind direction, after which

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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.”

The club’s range of programmes

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“The Ferrymead Mitre 10

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CYC also promotes and hosts

the Yachting New Zealand ‘have

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School students to learn to sail.

The club offers adult learn-tosail

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CYC has a strong fleet of the

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class of yachts, which the senior

members sail and are the preferred

choices for competitive sailing.

“The club is particularly strong

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CYC holds regular sailing

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and local children took part.

“It was about kids having fun

and getting on the water we had

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“The club’s learn-to-sail programme

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which is a testament to their

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community,” Andrews said.

Said Martin: “We are very

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