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Community Fire Awareness<br />
and Prevention Information<br />
Evening<br />
Thursday, 6.30-9pm<br />
Sumner Community Centre, 14<br />
Wakefield Ave<br />
Representatives from Fire and<br />
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A time to gather and discuss<br />
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issues, to share ideas and views. Also<br />
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members and connect with the wider<br />
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representatives will be present. All<br />
welcome.<br />
Riding the Wave Art Group<br />
Saturday, 10am-1pm<br />
Sumner Redcliffs Anglican Church, 87<br />
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Encouraging your creative flow<br />
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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS and long<br />
waiting times.<br />
These have been the daily realities<br />
for Heathcote residents since<br />
<strong>February</strong> 14, while Port Hills Rd<br />
is upgraded nightly from 6pm to<br />
7am.<br />
Although the works are set to<br />
be finished by tomorrow, residents<br />
have been frustrated with<br />
lack of consideration and contact<br />
from the city council.<br />
Everyone is grateful the road<br />
is finally being fixed, however,<br />
residents cannot understand why<br />
the work has been occurring at<br />
night in a primarily residential<br />
area.<br />
Said Heathcote resident Judy<br />
Stack: “The contractors are<br />
doing a great job, the road was<br />
in shocking condition. Our beef<br />
is that when we go to bed, they<br />
begin to start work. The noise is<br />
completely intrusive.”<br />
Heathcote Ward councillor<br />
Sara Templeton understands the<br />
resident’s frustrations.<br />
Although she has been in<br />
touch with the contractors, she<br />
said they only have a few shifts<br />
left.<br />
“It will be a complete and<br />
smooth road by Thursday morning,”<br />
she said.<br />
Stack lives in a new house,<br />
built after the <strong>February</strong> 22, 2011,<br />
earthquake with double glazing,<br />
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the past week.<br />
yet she still hears the construction<br />
and it has been making the<br />
house shudder, echoing up the<br />
valley.<br />
“Why can’t they do the work<br />
during the day, reducing the road<br />
to a single lane?” she said.<br />
“It is absolutely not good<br />
enough that they are doing all<br />
this work in the small hours of<br />
the morning.”<br />
Said another Heathcote resident<br />
Sue Coombe: “The work<br />
shakes the house like an earthquake,<br />
it is too disruptive.”<br />
City council streets maintenance<br />
manager Mark Pinner<br />
said the work was taking place<br />
at night instead of the day as a<br />
permanent single lane in one<br />
direction would have resulted<br />
in a large detour which was not<br />
considered desirable.<br />
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Roadworks wreck residents’ sleep<br />
• By Samantha Mythen<br />
NOISY: Port Hills Rd has been resurfaced at night during<br />
PHOTO: JUDY STACK<br />
traffic flow with lights or controls<br />
during peak times in daylight<br />
would also significantly reduce<br />
the time for the physical work<br />
to proceed which would in turn<br />
result in substantially more time<br />
on site. The use of night shifts<br />
also lessened the impact to use<br />
of access to passengers accessing<br />
bus stops.”<br />
Residents, however, say in spite<br />
of numerous works occurring<br />
along the road after the past few<br />
years, this is the first set of night<br />
works. They still do not understand<br />
the decision.<br />
Last week, Stack rang the city<br />
council to see if the situation<br />
could be remedied.<br />
A noise abatement officer rang<br />
back and said the project manager<br />
for the works would be in<br />
touch. She never heard back.<br />
Said Stack: “The fact that when<br />
you are really impacted by something<br />
and you ring the council<br />
for help and maybe someone will<br />
call you back, does not look good<br />
on the council’s behalf.”<br />
Due to another sleepless night,<br />
Stack’s young grandson had<br />
missed school on Monday.<br />
Ann-Marie Locker is another<br />
concerned resident who wonders<br />
why the work has to be done at<br />
night.<br />
“It’s been absolutely horrendous,”<br />
she said.<br />
Her children have both woken<br />
up with headaches and have also<br />
had two days off school.<br />
Although, every house<br />
along the road was meant to<br />
be informed about the road<br />
works, neither Stack or Locker<br />
received a notice in their<br />
letterbox.<br />
The notice says: “There will<br />
be periods of construction noise<br />
and vibration. The contractor<br />
will ensure noise is kept to a<br />
minimum.”<br />
Stack believes this is ironic<br />
after no action has been taken<br />
to mitigate the negative effects<br />
on residents in spite of her complaint.<br />
She said this shows the<br />
council does not care.<br />
Work to repair Port Hills Rd<br />
began after being deferred since<br />
2017. The wastewater system and<br />
water mains were replaced over<br />
the past two years and the road is<br />
now being resurfaced.<br />
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RECIPES WANTED<br />
Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong> Kitchens<br />
Cookbook is calling for recipe<br />
submissions from the public for<br />
its <strong>2021</strong> edition. The final date<br />
for submissions is March 31.<br />
Started by a group of parents<br />
from Lyttelton Main and<br />
Lyttelton West primary schools<br />
in 2009, this will be<br />
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out.<br />
PENGUIN FUNDRAISER<br />
Akaroa residents have started<br />
a fundraiser to keep the Pop<br />
up Penguin, Mr “One Fish”.<br />
The penguin, designed and<br />
painted by local artist Katrina<br />
Perano, was a part of the Wild<br />
in Art penguin trail, with 120<br />
penguins created by artists<br />
and school children scatted<br />
around Canterbury. Today at<br />
6pm, 53 penguins, including<br />
Mr “One Fish,” will be<br />
auctioned to raise money for<br />
Cholmondeley Children’s<br />
Centre. Residents would like<br />
to see the penguin stay in<br />
Akaroa, as well as raising<br />
money for Cholmondeley.<br />
Donations can be made to<br />
a Givealittle page – https://<br />
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At 91 Bruce’s bungy jump sets<br />
• By Samantha Mythen<br />
SUMNER RESIDENT Bruce<br />
Bunny is a veteran of 16 Coast<br />
to Coasts, including the brutal<br />
Longest Day.<br />
He first started competing<br />
three days before his retirement<br />
at 57.<br />
Now 91, Bruce has<br />
accomplished another heartracing,<br />
adrenaline-fuelled feat –<br />
bungy jumping.<br />
Bruce became the oldest<br />
person to complete the 35m<br />
bungy jump off the Waiau<br />
Ferry Bridge near Hanmer on<br />
<strong>February</strong> 14.<br />
In spite of being legally blind<br />
and having hearing aids, he<br />
decided to take up the challenge<br />
as it seemed like an exciting<br />
thing to do.<br />
Bruce said as he stood on the<br />
bridge’s edge about to jump he<br />
thought: “What the hell am I<br />
doing here.”<br />
He tried not to think any<br />
further, then committed to it and<br />
jumped.<br />
Bruce was always an avid<br />
tramper and deer stalker<br />
growing up, but decided to give<br />
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It was seeing his friend<br />
and neighbour Mike White<br />
competing in the Coast to Coast<br />
in 1985 that inspired Bruce to<br />
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FLYING: Bruce Bunny leaping off the Waiau Ferry Bridge near Hanmer and later recounting the hair-raising experience.<br />
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sign up the following year.<br />
“It’s better than gardening,” he<br />
chuckled.<br />
He has since competed in 17<br />
Coast to Coast events, including<br />
At 66, Bruce was convinced<br />
by another of his daughters –<br />
adventure fiend Debbie – to join<br />
her in the Scottish race. They<br />
arrived in London and then<br />
biked to Glasgow for the start<br />
of the race. Debbie called this<br />
“training.” He said the Scotland<br />
event was “a piece of cake.”<br />
It was three days compared to<br />
the two-day Kiwi event.<br />
Bruce has been an inspiration<br />
to his family.<br />
His son Allan has competed in<br />
the Coast to Coast several times.<br />
When Bruce was 64, he joined<br />
his 16-year-old grandson Jesse in<br />
a team and they completed the<br />
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event together.<br />
Although Bruce said he was<br />
always frightened of water,<br />
kayaking was his favourite part<br />
of the race.<br />
“I’m not a particularly good<br />
swimmer but I was pretty sure if<br />
I came out, I’d be able to make it<br />
to the side,” he said.<br />
“In a kayak, you’re just sitting<br />
there really and are going with<br />
the water. It’s easier.”<br />
Bruce said the best part<br />
of the race was all about the<br />
people. For Bruce and many<br />
other competitors, the race<br />
was all about giving it a go and<br />
finishing.<br />
“The top 10 per cent are<br />
going to give their all and try to<br />
win, but the other 90 per cent<br />
are in the race for the social side<br />
where the aim is to finish,” he<br />
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There was great camaraderie<br />
during the race and Bruce made<br />
many friends.<br />
He finally put down the paddle,<br />
and untied his laces, finishing his<br />
last race at 73-years-old.<br />
He has since survived bowel<br />
cancer, but he is not retiring from<br />
life yet.<br />
His daughter, Annie Horgan,<br />
was there to witness his cavort<br />
into the air.<br />
“He comes up with the ideas<br />
and I organise it,” she said.<br />
“He’s amazing, such an<br />
inspiration. I say, “I’m too old, I<br />
can’t do that,” and then Dad goes<br />
and proves me wrong.”<br />
Earlier in the year, Bruce went<br />
down the zipline at the adventure<br />
park. He is tentatively talking<br />
about skydiving now.<br />
Bruce said: “Just do what you<br />
can while you can.”<br />
Sarah Leishman works at<br />
Hamner Springs Attractions. She<br />
was very impressed with Bruce’s<br />
jump.<br />
“It is such a cool statement<br />
to make at 91. He proved that<br />
you are never too old to do<br />
something,” she said.<br />
“He has gone and proven<br />
everyone wrong who uses age as<br />
an excuse.”<br />
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• By Samantha Mythen<br />
EARLY ACTION from<br />
volunteers ensured tugboat<br />
Lyttelton was back sailing<br />
on Saturday after it became<br />
attached to the wharf.<br />
At around noon the Lyttelton<br />
Volunteer Fire Brigade was<br />
called out because it appeared<br />
Lyttelton was sinking.<br />
Chief fire officer Mark Buckley<br />
said the situation was not as<br />
dramatic as first seemed.<br />
They had arrived expecting to<br />
pump out water, but there was<br />
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Rather, the metal strip protecting<br />
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As the tide had come in, the<br />
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Said president of the Tug<br />
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Roger Ellery: “It did cause a fuss<br />
but was really just a storm in a<br />
teacup.”<br />
The fire brigade working with<br />
society volunteers managed to<br />
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“When Lyttelton was unfastened<br />
it bobbed merrily about<br />
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Ellery said<br />
Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2021</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
NEWS 5<br />
Tug Lyttelton safe after<br />
catching on wharf<br />
ORDEAL: Tug Lyttelton listing to its port side after being<br />
caught under the wharf . PHOTO: DANIEL ODERING<br />
The tug was safe to sail again,<br />
setting out on its harbour tour<br />
on Sunday.<br />
The Sea2Sky Challenge,<br />
an event where there is<br />
something for everyone<br />
The Brad Richards Building Sea2Sky<br />
Challenge offers an end of summer test for<br />
the serious athlete as well as those that<br />
are just wanting to give it a try. Amongst<br />
all the entrants four competitive cousins<br />
are counting down to the upcoming event,<br />
starting at Scarborough Beach on Sunday,<br />
29 March.<br />
Tom Newsom (12), Felicity Newsom (10),<br />
Willow Richards (7) and Max Richards (5)<br />
have started training for the popular local<br />
race, which promises “something for<br />
everyone”. Regular competitors Tom and<br />
Felicity will be competing in the Junior<br />
Triathlon category. Willow and challenge<br />
newcomer Max, are racing in the kids<br />
aquathon.<br />
The fifth edition of the challenge has<br />
partnered with local company, Brad<br />
Richards Building, as this year’s principal<br />
race sponsor. Director Amanda Richards,<br />
who is also Willow and Max’s mother,<br />
co-trainer and support crew, said the<br />
cousins are “very excited” to all be in the<br />
same race together.<br />
“We’re absolutely thrilled to be supporting<br />
Sea2Sky. It’s an amazing local event and<br />
one we can all enjoy and get the kids<br />
involved in,” Richards said.<br />
Traditionally a triathlon/duathlon challenge,<br />
event director John Newsom has added a<br />
scenic 17km run category for 2020 taking<br />
in the Captain Thomas track, the Summit<br />
Road and Godley Head track. “I’ve been<br />
lucky enough to train and race all around<br />
the world. This course, with the trails, hills<br />
and stunning views is still my favourite run<br />
anywhere,” Newsom said.<br />
The full Sea2Sky Challenge offers individual<br />
and team options for both triathlon and<br />
duathlon (run/bike/run). For students, and<br />
those not yet up for the full challenge, there<br />
is the “Try a Tri/Du” and junior races. Finally,<br />
the Kids Aquathon is a great introduction to<br />
the sport for 5-9 year old children.<br />
triathlon duathlon trail run<br />
Stunning and<br />
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sunday<br />
march 29th<br />
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Individuals, teams, kids<br />
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Visit www.sea2skychallenge.com for more<br />
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NEWS 7<br />
Pupils finalise designs<br />
for garden festival<br />
PLANTS, FLOWERS and<br />
vegetables are sprouting at<br />
schools across the region as<br />
they finalise their designs<br />
for the Grow Ōtautahi<br />
garden festival next month.<br />
Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
School and five others<br />
will be taking part in the<br />
Rātā Foundation School<br />
Gardens exhibitions at the<br />
three-day festival.<br />
It comes after the event<br />
was cancelled last year due<br />
to the Covid-19 pandemic.<br />
Pupils have been sharing<br />
unique stories of their<br />
communities by creating<br />
special gardens.<br />
At Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong>,<br />
the pupils have based their<br />
garden on what they’ve<br />
learned about penguins<br />
and the importance of<br />
protecting their habitat.<br />
It will educate others on<br />
how they can protect penguin<br />
habitats, especially for<br />
penguins that live in the<br />
Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong>.<br />
The Rātā Foundation<br />
School Gardens celebrate<br />
the best of the local environment,<br />
with a view to<br />
sustainability and education.<br />
Festival director Sandi<br />
FESTIVAL: Pupils have been sharing stories and<br />
creating special gardens. PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />
MacRae said she was<br />
impressed at the work and<br />
detail in the school gardens.<br />
“What I’m seeing in the<br />
lead-up to the event is really<br />
blowing me away. The<br />
schools are not only creating<br />
wonderful reflections<br />
of their local communities,<br />
they’re also weaving the<br />
work into their learning<br />
with a focus on community,<br />
sustainability, creativity<br />
and celebrating our environment,”<br />
she said.<br />
“The plants are growing well<br />
and I can’t wait to see them<br />
on-site in the Christchurch<br />
Botanic Gardens.<br />
“The commitment of the<br />
teachers, children and local<br />
communities involved is<br />
inspirational, and I know<br />
visitors to the festival will<br />
be delighted with what<br />
they have created.”<br />
Rātā Foundation chief<br />
executive Leighton Evans<br />
said the festival provided<br />
a unique opportunity to<br />
celebrate the Garden City<br />
while increasing environmental<br />
awareness.<br />
It also supported educating<br />
children about sustainable<br />
growing practices.<br />
“The Rātā Foundation<br />
School Gardens provide a<br />
pathway for building the<br />
next generation of gardeners<br />
and eco-warriors,”<br />
Evans said.<br />
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Teaching that<br />
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1. Stand facing the left side of your mat with<br />
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four to four-and-a-half feet.<br />
2. Straighten your legs, without hyperextending<br />
your knees, and contract your<br />
thigh muscles to the bone.<br />
3. Turn your right foot to face straight forward<br />
to the front of your mat. Turn your left foot<br />
inwards to be about 45° to 60° off the line of<br />
your front foot.<br />
4. Allow your hips to turn slightly towards the<br />
front left corner of your mat but turn your<br />
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5. Extend your arms straight out from the<br />
sides of your body at shoulder height.<br />
6. Reach your right arm straight forward over<br />
the line of your front foot. Draw your upper<br />
right thigh in towards the centreline of your<br />
body.<br />
7. Tilt at your hips and lower your right hand<br />
lightly to your right shin or to your fingertips<br />
outside your right ankle.<br />
8. Stretch your torso forward over the line<br />
of your front leg and extend your left arm<br />
straight up to the sky.<br />
9. Do not collapse and crumple into your right<br />
waist. Keep the two sides of your torso long<br />
and firm.<br />
10. Rotate your head towards your left shoulder<br />
and look up to the sky.<br />
11. Breathe deeply through your nose for 5-10<br />
breaths. Firm your waist and stand up.<br />
Repeat on the other side.<br />
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Barnett Park rocks<br />
I also am disappointed the council gave<br />
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were a dramatic feature of our local history.<br />
I run past them every few days and<br />
had become quite fond of them.<br />
– Ian Forne<br />
As a member of a family that has a long<br />
history in the area I feel at least the community<br />
should have been consulted before<br />
the rocks were removed.<br />
What do these people think gives them<br />
the right to remove what has become a<br />
symbol of a time we will all remember in<br />
different ways for what they feel suits<br />
them.<br />
– Alan Truscott<br />
Stinks, if they were of cultural significance<br />
they would have been left. As for<br />
the council . . . they quite often give the<br />
impression that they are ignorant.<br />
– James Quaid<br />
Speed limit<br />
I agree with the proposed plan of the<br />
40km/h speed limit for sections of Banks<br />
Peninsula. Speeding cars are a concern<br />
in Corsair <strong>Bay</strong>, especially at the car park<br />
turn off as it’s a tight bend. We hear them<br />
throughout the night and wonder if they<br />
will make it home.<br />
Speed bumps would solve this happening<br />
and I for one, would feel so much safer<br />
walking my dog.<br />
– L Swan<br />
Lyttelton flags<br />
I notice that the red and black are still<br />
flying this week, despite these being the<br />
Canterbury colours!<br />
Lyttelton colours have always been (to<br />
the best of my knowledge) gold and blue.<br />
In 1994, banners of blue and gold were<br />
introduced by Project Port Lyttelton (a<br />
main street project of the time – the predecessor<br />
for Project Lyttelton).<br />
While I served on the Lyttelton/Mt<br />
Herbert Community Board and Banks<br />
Peninsula Council, various flags were<br />
flown on Norwich Quay and London St,<br />
the most memorable being those designed<br />
to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lyttelton’s<br />
main settlement in the year 2000.<br />
Lyttelton was planned for the arrival<br />
of the Canterbury settlers in 1850. It<br />
remained the largest and most important<br />
town in the district until about 1856 when<br />
it was outstripped by Christchurch. It still<br />
retains its identity and has never been a<br />
suburb of Christchurch despite the amalgamation<br />
of local body governments.<br />
If flags are to be flown, they should<br />
relate to Lyttelton, to local history and our<br />
recognition of our local Maori, who were<br />
here before European settlement.<br />
– Ann Jolliffe<br />
Former Banks Peninsula District<br />
Council member
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NEWS 11<br />
Quake victim may have to repay benefits<br />
• By Anna Leask<br />
A LYTTELTON woman badly<br />
injured in the <strong>February</strong> 22,<br />
2011, earthquake and wrongly<br />
cut off from ACC payments is<br />
owed more than $236,000 in<br />
backdated compensation – but<br />
more than half will be used to<br />
refund another Government<br />
department for benefits she was<br />
forced to seek to survive.<br />
Tattoo artist Bonnie Singh is<br />
now appealing the “debt” and<br />
feels ACC should repay it out<br />
of its own coffers, saying if her<br />
weekly compensation wasn’t<br />
stopped she never would have<br />
needed benefits.<br />
Singh, with her teenage<br />
daughter, was a receptionist at<br />
the Southern Ink tattoo studio in<br />
<strong>February</strong> 2011.<br />
When the quake shook the<br />
city, Singh was crushed by falling<br />
concrete and knocked unconscious<br />
but managed to drag<br />
herself through a tiny hole in the<br />
rubble to safety.<br />
She broke eight vertebrae,<br />
suffered a head injury and concussion<br />
and was diagnosed with<br />
post-traumatic stress disorder.<br />
Unable to work after the quake<br />
and with ongoing medical issues,<br />
Singh was initially covered by<br />
ACC payments.<br />
In early 2013 she was advised<br />
that she had been assessed as being<br />
able to work 30 hours a week<br />
or more in her pre-injury employment<br />
– and that she was no longer<br />
entitled to weekly compensation<br />
and “all other supports”.<br />
She protested at the time but<br />
got nowhere. So, believing she<br />
was no longer entitled to ACC<br />
and still unable to work because<br />
of ongoing pain, she applied<br />
for other Government benefits<br />
through Work and Income New<br />
Zealand under the Ministry of<br />
Social Development.<br />
From 2013 to 2019 Singh, believing<br />
she could not get support,<br />
had no contact with ACC.<br />
But last year, fed up with struggling<br />
to make ends meet, she<br />
asked advocate Fiona Radford to<br />
look at her case.<br />
She hoped to get funding for<br />
pain management acupuncture<br />
but Radford found she was entitled<br />
to much more.<br />
In November the NZ Herald<br />
revealed that ACC agreed Singh<br />
should not have been cut off,<br />
saying its initial decision had<br />
been replaced and she was<br />
now deemed “incapacitated for<br />
pre-injury employment” from<br />
the week compensation was cut<br />
in 2013 until now – seven years.<br />
ACC then calculated a lumpsum<br />
back payment for Singh.<br />
Singh has given the Herald<br />
permission to report that ACC<br />
agreed to pay her $236,165<br />
(before tax) in backdated weekly<br />
compensation.<br />
DISAPPOINTING:<br />
Bonnie Singh has<br />
received $236,000<br />
in backdated ACC<br />
but more than<br />
half of that is<br />
needed to refund<br />
other Government<br />
support she was<br />
forced to seek.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
SARAH IVEY<br />
However, $129,642 must be repaid<br />
to WINZ for benefits Singh<br />
received since 2013 – leaving her<br />
with $106,523.<br />
An additional “debt” of<br />
just over $27,000 is also owed<br />
to WINZ for other support<br />
supplements she received.<br />
Just days before the 10-year<br />
anniversary of the devastating<br />
quake Singh received her portion<br />
of the money.<br />
Although she appreciated the<br />
cash as it would allow her to<br />
work less and finally focus more<br />
on her healing – she was disappointed<br />
the WINZ repayments<br />
were not being paid by ACC.<br />
Radford was appealing ACC’s<br />
decision around the payment<br />
and also the WINZ “debt”.<br />
ACC chief operating officer<br />
Mike Tully said ACC looked into<br />
covering the outstanding debt as<br />
a payment “outside of scope”.<br />
“We found there was no error<br />
on our behalf and declined this<br />
outside of scope payment.<br />
“We do not believe we have<br />
made an error nor did we cut<br />
off her entitlements – we weren’t<br />
paying weekly compensation<br />
to Bonnie for around six years<br />
because there was no contact<br />
from her nor her GP during this<br />
period.<br />
“We agreed that Bonnie hadn’t<br />
recovered from her 2011 injuries<br />
and have confirmed we will reinstate<br />
and backdate her weekly<br />
compensation.”<br />
Tully said he was “satisfied<br />
there is no error” and the MSD<br />
had to be paid back under New<br />
Zealand law.<br />
“When we agree to backdate<br />
weekly compensation, our legislation<br />
requires us to repay the<br />
Ministry of Social Development<br />
for any benefit a client receives for<br />
periods covered by the backdated<br />
weekly compensation,” he said.<br />
“This is to avoid people in<br />
effect being paid twice.”<br />
Tully said ACC was<br />
“committed to working with<br />
Bonnie” to make sure she had<br />
the help and support she needed.<br />
– NZ Herald
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Ghost stories: From a murdered girl<br />
Reporter Samantha<br />
Mythen compiles<br />
scary stories from<br />
the Lyttelton – Ain’t<br />
No Place I’d Rather<br />
Be! Facebook page<br />
The Lyttelton hotel hosted<br />
more than just tourists<br />
“The old Lyttelton Hotel burnt<br />
down with a boarder sleeping.<br />
When the new one was built, the<br />
ghost came with the building. It<br />
used to walk in and out of the<br />
dining room and into the lounge,<br />
even during the day. It would go<br />
into the bar lounge and the owners<br />
of the hotel at the time had a small<br />
poodle and it would run around<br />
and bark at what we thought was<br />
nothing. The bar lady (Gloria) at<br />
the time said it was in the bar all<br />
the time and she would talk to<br />
it. My daughter felt its presence<br />
one day in the dining room and<br />
wouldn’t go back in it.”<br />
Previous owners often heard<br />
someone playing pool and when<br />
they went to look, no one was<br />
there. This always happened prior<br />
to them opening business for the<br />
day.<br />
Other residents speak of<br />
a corner in Lyttelton that<br />
is haunted by a young<br />
girl who was horrifically<br />
murdered, her body was<br />
dumped in the bushes<br />
along Ripon St<br />
The 1875 newspapers called<br />
it, “The most horrible murder<br />
ever perpetrated in Canterbury.”<br />
Isabella Thompson, 13, had<br />
left her home in Dampier <strong>Bay</strong><br />
in the late afternoon to walk to<br />
her school where she bought<br />
tickets to an upcoming picnic<br />
day in Riccarton. Afterwards, she<br />
was spotted crying and walking<br />
alongside an older man. She was<br />
never seen alive again. Just after<br />
6pm, two young boys noticed a<br />
white handkerchief poking from<br />
behind a fence on Rippon St. At<br />
SPOOKY: Cressy House, built in the early 1900s, has seen many inhabitants pass through its rooms. But some may have<br />
never left.<br />
investigating further, they saw the<br />
blood-stained face of the little girl.<br />
Her dress had been torn and her<br />
throat was cut. A man was caught<br />
and the jury took just 12 minutes<br />
to find him guilty of murdering<br />
Isabella. He was hanged.<br />
Helen Peterson used to live in<br />
Dampier <strong>Bay</strong> in a house that was<br />
built as a school called Fergusons<br />
in 1859. She said it was occupied<br />
by a presence, often hearing<br />
footsteps going up and down the<br />
stairs. She wonders if it was Miss<br />
Thompson.<br />
Cressy House<br />
Locals believe Cressy House is<br />
haunted by sinister beings. The<br />
large house was originally built as<br />
the caretaker’s home of the old orphanage<br />
prior to 1906. It was then<br />
renovated in 1933 and opened as<br />
the Lyttelton Maternity Hospital. It<br />
has been a rest home and is now a<br />
boarding house<br />
One local said<br />
“People have hung themselves in<br />
there and I’ve been told by people<br />
who live there that they have<br />
seen dark spirits in the hallways<br />
at night. And there are multiple<br />
writings on the walls saying RIP<br />
this person and RIP that person.”<br />
Monique Silva said<br />
“We heard somethings stomping<br />
up and down the hallway yelling<br />
at each other, it was awful. People<br />
would stay and think Glen and I<br />
were arguing but it was just the<br />
angry hallway ghosts. Also my<br />
eldest daughter stood on a wiggly<br />
tile in the bathroom, it flipped up<br />
and there was a note under it that<br />
said, “Sophie you will die in this<br />
room” . . . Holly had for a long<br />
time begged me to change her<br />
name to Sophie. This gave us all<br />
chills.”<br />
Lyttelton Museum<br />
Bill Edminstin used to live<br />
upstairs of the Lyttelton Museum,<br />
working as the caretaker for many<br />
years. It used to be the old seaman’s<br />
mission, built in 1911. Bill<br />
said he used to hear strange eerie<br />
sounds and the security alarms<br />
went off at all hours for no apparent<br />
reason.<br />
It was always spooky when<br />
he had to pass the ground floor<br />
displays as he headed up to his flat<br />
at night.<br />
The Loons building<br />
Alex Wright works as a duty<br />
manager at the Loons building<br />
and believes it is haunted by a<br />
presence.<br />
“I had finished work and was<br />
sitting at the end of the bar having<br />
my staff drink, I looked up at the<br />
monitor which has the CCTV and<br />
I could see something moving in<br />
the camera. It was a humanoid<br />
shape but moved like smoke and<br />
was translucent.<br />
The temperature felt cold and I<br />
could feel a chill run up my spine<br />
and I felt a strange aura. It wasn’t<br />
sinister but there was a feeling of<br />
sadness, like the presence there<br />
wanted to be left in peace.<br />
I promptly skulled my wine and<br />
left whatever the presence was in<br />
peace. Other strange things have<br />
occurred like doors randomly<br />
opening and something triggering<br />
the upstairs alarm when nobody<br />
is up there. Someone apparently<br />
hung themselves in the upstairs<br />
bar/venue many years ago.”<br />
stone cottage on St Davids St.<br />
My husband was spending the<br />
week working in the south, and<br />
one Tuesday afternoon Jak was<br />
sitting at the kitchen table drawing<br />
while I went into the garden<br />
to collect washing from the line.<br />
As I came back into the house Jak<br />
announced, “dad’s home”. I was<br />
a little surprised and went to the<br />
front of the house to see whether<br />
his car was outside. There was no<br />
sign of him, so I went back to the<br />
kitchen and asked Jak, “what made<br />
you think dad was home?” He<br />
replied, “because I saw him!”<br />
I looked around the house and<br />
found nothing, eventually returning<br />
to the kitchen and asking Jak where<br />
“dad” had gone. Almost without<br />
looking up, Jak said, “he went into<br />
the bathroom”. The door to the bathroom<br />
was next to the kitchen so I<br />
very gingerly opened the bathroom<br />
door. No sign of anyone.<br />
I returned to Jak and asked him<br />
what “dad” had been wearing.<br />
Without hesitation he said, “green<br />
trousers and a brown top”.<br />
That could’ve been the end of<br />
the story, but we later discovered<br />
a previous inhabitant, Albert Fox,<br />
had regularly worn the clothes<br />
described when tending to his<br />
garden. He also went daily from<br />
the garden to the bathroom to<br />
wash his hands. He had lived there<br />
for around 50 years before passing<br />
away in the house.<br />
We ended up moving next door<br />
and built a house on land that<br />
had been Albert’s garden. Over<br />
the years there were a few sightings<br />
of a man digging or walking<br />
in our garden and we would just<br />
shrug and say, “it was probably<br />
just Albie”.<br />
Helen Shrewsbury lived<br />
in the stone cottage on St<br />
David’s St, and tells of a<br />
lovely ghost story<br />
“My son, Jak, was four-yearsold<br />
when we moved into the old<br />
Linda Horan lived next door<br />
to the stone cottage, she<br />
said<br />
“Albie Fox was a lovely man. We<br />
lived next door all our lives and<br />
I would feel so at peace if I was<br />
witness to Albie’s presence.”
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to the spine-chilling note ‘you will die’<br />
London St, Lyttelton in the1900s.<br />
Lyttelton is filled with<br />
quirky historic buildings<br />
over 100 years old that are<br />
still lived in today – with<br />
more than just the living it<br />
seems<br />
Monique Silva said<br />
“When we first moved into Ripon<br />
St two years ago, our youngest<br />
called out crying, her first night<br />
in her room. She said there was a<br />
witch in her room but that she was<br />
nice. We settled her but she kept<br />
sitting up pointing at the corner of<br />
the room saying “daddy can you<br />
see her? See the old lady in my<br />
room.” It was so creepy!<br />
We had a small ceremony the<br />
next day and politely asked the<br />
witch to leave us be and that we<br />
would look after the house and<br />
that our children needed sleep<br />
without her there. We haven’t had<br />
a problem since.”<br />
Suzanne Ormandy said<br />
“My daughter went to Lyttelton<br />
Main and saw a woman from<br />
another time sweeping the lower<br />
school area, they looked at each<br />
other. We lived up in a manor<br />
house up on Cunningham Tce,<br />
built in 1880, the first day we<br />
moved in, I saw a lady move from<br />
one side of the hallway to the next,<br />
she was nice and gentle. There<br />
was also another entity there<br />
which was angry, aggressive and<br />
freaked the bejesus out of us, we<br />
had the house cleansed, however,<br />
the darkness lurked around in the<br />
shadows.”<br />
Another local tells a sweet<br />
tale of a dog connection<br />
between worlds<br />
“Some of my ancestors are buried<br />
in the cemetery in Lyttleton.<br />
We went for a walk there years<br />
ago and had our dog with us. As<br />
we were walking through, the<br />
dog lay down and played dead on<br />
someone’s grave. Turns out that<br />
the grave she had laid on was a<br />
fireman who had been buried with<br />
his dog. She must have picked up<br />
on it as that was the grave she went<br />
straight for out of all of the graves<br />
and she wouldn’t leave. She was<br />
whimpering as well.”<br />
51 Canterbury St has<br />
some chilling tales told by<br />
numerous inhabitants over<br />
the years<br />
One resident said<br />
“I remember when my uncle had<br />
51 Canterbury St. Apparently, a<br />
presence who occupied the house<br />
was an old sea captain. People that<br />
were looking after the house one<br />
time left after they were freaked<br />
out by odd noises. Or was it their<br />
over-inflated imagination.”<br />
Another resident lived there<br />
and her children felt a presence,<br />
As adults today they still chat and<br />
ponder about it.<br />
Linda Horan’s brother had<br />
the minister perform a<br />
ceremony at the house.<br />
She said: “We often felt a<br />
presence in the house. It was not<br />
scary rather it was just letting us<br />
know it was there.”<br />
Above: Lyttelton cemetery. Below: Norwich Quay in 1865.<br />
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ESTUARY MATTERS<br />
Event planned to farewell Godwits<br />
The Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust is a<br />
non-profit organisation formed to protect one of<br />
New Zealand’s most important coastal wetlands.<br />
Each week, board members will discuss matters<br />
regarding the estuary, its rich history and what<br />
makes it unique. This week Tanya Jenkins writes<br />
about an event to commemorate the departure<br />
of the godwits<br />
FAREWELL TO the amazing<br />
godwit birds who will soon be<br />
leaving for Alaska.<br />
In September each year as<br />
many as 2000 godwits birds fly<br />
non-stop from their breeding<br />
grounds in Alaska to spend<br />
summer here with us.<br />
This journey is 12,000km and<br />
takes eight days and nights.<br />
But it is time to say farewell<br />
as they will soon depart again<br />
to return to Alaska for another<br />
breeding season. Right now, they<br />
are feeding as much and fast as<br />
they possibly can to gain enough<br />
weight to survive the long journey<br />
back.<br />
The males will have to make<br />
an extra effort to produce their<br />
stunning golden brown “breeding<br />
plumage” in time for the<br />
departure.<br />
This is a vital time for us to<br />
ensure our dogs are always on<br />
a lead when walking along the<br />
estuary edge as not to disturb<br />
them.<br />
Research has shown that every<br />
time birds are disturbed it takes<br />
approximately 40min of nervous<br />
flying around before they feel<br />
safe enough to settle and continue<br />
to feed.<br />
If this happens several times a<br />
day they are at risk of not being<br />
able to gain enough energy to<br />
complete the 14,000km journey<br />
back. Yes, it’s even longer than<br />
when they return as they fly back<br />
via the Yellow Sea for one stop to<br />
top up on food before the last leg.<br />
The Estuary Trust together<br />
with the city council commemorates<br />
this amazing annual feat<br />
this year on Sunday. You are<br />
warmly invited to join a gathering<br />
at South Shore Spit Reserve<br />
(end of Rockinghorse Rd).<br />
From 5.30pm there will be<br />
a free sausage sizzle and drink<br />
stall, live music and free “paint<br />
a godwit garden ornament ” for<br />
children to take home.<br />
The Estuary Trust will have an<br />
information stall to answer any<br />
questions you have on the godwit<br />
and “everything estuary.”<br />
At 6pm, councillor James<br />
Daniels will provide a karakia<br />
before our Mayor Lianne Dalziel<br />
welcomes us.<br />
City council park ranger<br />
Andrew Crossland will provide<br />
us with facts and figures of the<br />
godwits before we are taken on<br />
a guided walk to view the birds<br />
up close.<br />
Parking will be available or<br />
take the No 60 Bus that leaves<br />
every 30min from the Bus<br />
Exchange.<br />
FAREWELL:<br />
Hundreds of<br />
godwits travel<br />
across the globe<br />
each year to spend<br />
their summer at<br />
South Shore Spit.<br />
They will soon<br />
depart and return<br />
to Alaska.<br />
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NEWS 17<br />
Leveraging Christchurch’s Antarctic connection<br />
• By David Kennedy<br />
ŌTAUTAHI Christchurch has<br />
always been a base camp for<br />
exploration, and we channel<br />
this through our Christchurch<br />
Antarctic Office.<br />
adventurers staged their journeys<br />
from here, in search of kai, pounamu,<br />
and undiscovered lands.<br />
with Antarctica for more than<br />
100 years. From historic missions<br />
to cutting-edge scientific<br />
missions, Ōtautahi Christchurch<br />
is a well-forged gateway to the<br />
immense white continent.<br />
gateway cities in the world. More<br />
than geographic convenience, our<br />
welcoming nature, scientific expertise<br />
and extreme climate business<br />
experience, determine us a<br />
viable partner for international<br />
programmes and expeditions.<br />
confirmed the Antarctic Gateway<br />
Strategy in 2018, and the<br />
Christchurch Antarctic Office is<br />
charged with delivering it. The office<br />
sits within ChristchurchNZ,<br />
the city’s sustainable economic<br />
development and city profile<br />
agency.<br />
PROFILE: Dave Kennedy heads the Christchurch Antarctic<br />
office.<br />
To In partnership ensure work with Christ-<br />
isn’t duplicated,<br />
church’s vast Antarctic sector,<br />
we maximise the benefits of our<br />
gateway status for locals and<br />
businesses, and ensure international<br />
Antarctic programmes that<br />
call Christchurch home are well<br />
looked after.<br />
We build off the historic connection<br />
Christchurch has with<br />
Antarctica. Fame and glory awaited<br />
adventurers of the early 1900s,<br />
chasing the tantalising challenge<br />
to be the first to reach the South<br />
Pole.<br />
Captain Robert Falcon Scott<br />
chose Lyttelton over Melbourne<br />
for his 1901 Discovery Expedition<br />
and both he and Sir Ernest<br />
Shackleton used our city for future<br />
expeditions, with thousands<br />
of locals turning out to farewell<br />
these global superstars.<br />
Scott and Shackleton both<br />
knew the importance of science<br />
in Antarctica, but never foresaw<br />
that it would become the canary<br />
in the coal mine for climate<br />
change.<br />
Christchurch cemented its<br />
Antarctic gateway status when<br />
American polar aviator and<br />
explorer Rear Admiral Richard<br />
E. Byrd based several Antarctic<br />
expeditions here from the<br />
1920s to 1950s, including the<br />
first Operation Deep Freeze that<br />
established McMurdo Station<br />
in 1957. Christchurch remains<br />
the gateway for the United States<br />
Antarctic Program.<br />
Italy, South Korea, France, Germany,<br />
China, and Russia all use<br />
facilities here to supply and access<br />
Antarctic Summer Science<br />
Season, we run Days Of Ice,<br />
a festival of public events,<br />
Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2021</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
high-growth areas. We are<br />
seeking to future-proof<br />
Canterbury’s labour mark<br />
- we know how vital it is to<br />
new jobs to ensure people<br />
employment options now<br />
in the longer term.<br />
We have invested in a cityinnovation<br />
and entrepreu<br />
ecosystem partnership to s<br />
high-growth potential bus<br />
and future job creation in<br />
of regional strength and gl<br />
growth opportunity. These<br />
Supernodes are Aerospace<br />
Future Transport; Food, F<br />
and Agritech; Health Tech<br />
Resilient Communities; an<br />
High-Tech Services.<br />
GATEWAY: Antarctica-bound aircraft on tarmac at<br />
Christchurch Airport this month.<br />
fun and interactive experience<br />
can be found on the Listen Up<br />
Ōtautahi app.<br />
Also launched last year was<br />
Christchurch’s newest and<br />
coolest business network, the<br />
Christchurch Antarctic Network,<br />
rebuild. This project alone is expected<br />
to create around 450 jobs. Christchurch’s Antarctic<br />
with the goal of promoting<br />
and extreme environment<br />
business expertise to Antarctic<br />
programmes around the world.<br />
This network is open to any local<br />
business with an Antarctic angle<br />
to their offering.<br />
Our business attraction te<br />
working to attract addition<br />
businesses and jobs to the<br />
While we expect ongoing<br />
economic disruption, ther<br />
are many green shoots and<br />
opportunities – one of wh<br />
to develop a workforce tha<br />
highly skilled and can sup<br />
thriving and globally com<br />
Antarctica has been woven into<br />
future economy.<br />
the social and economic fabric<br />
of Christchurch since the days of<br />
steam and sail and the city is set<br />
to grow as one of the world’s great<br />
Antarctic gateway cities.<br />
Karen Haigh is a Talent<br />
Specialist for Innovation<br />
Dave and Business Kennedy is Growth the at<br />
head of the Christchurch<br />
ChristchurchNZ<br />
Antarctic office at<br />
ChristchurchNZ.
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