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Cartwright resigns as 

board chief – again 

• By Bea Gooding 

chairman David Cartwright is 

calling it quits. 

In a resignation letter 

step down from the role effective 

March 14. 

report for the election of a new 

chairperson. 

Cartwright said the move was 

planned to give other members 

an opportunity to lead while 

bringing their own experiences 

and skills to the table. 

“Part of the responsibility of 

chairperson is about succession 

planning that allows other 

members to lead the board by 

doing the first half of the term,” 

he said. 

Cartwright will remain as a 

board member while supporting 

the new chairperson leading to MacDonald became chairman 

the next elections in 2022. for the same reason. 

It was not the firs time he Cartwright stepped back into 

stepped down. In 2018, Sam the role in 2019 for just over 

a year while newer members 

settled in. 

“I used this opportunity 

to help others for a while and 

help them get up to speed,” he 

said. 

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TIM NICHOLSON now 

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came home after two years 

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Flufty disappeared from 

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“He looks pretty healthy, 

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The family’s oldest cat 

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REUNITED: Flufty returned to the Beckenham home 

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OYSTERS HAVE arrived 

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expected, they are selling fast. 

Oysters arrived at Theo’s 

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Police investigate fraud 

claims against horse trainer 

• By Barry Clarke 

POLICE ARE now investigating 

complaints of fraud against 

race horse trainer Mitchell Kerr 

allegedly involving hundreds of 

thousand of dollars. 

The matter has been referred to 

the fraud squad in Christchurch 

by the Racing Integrity Unit. 

“I can confirm the matter has 

been referred to the police, but 

I have no further comment to 

make,” RIU manager integrity 

assurance Neil Grimstone told 

The Star yesterday. 

Police would not comment 

yesterday. 

Kerr was regarded as a promising 

young harness trainer until 

allegations began to surface 

late last year. He relinquished 

his training and driver’s licence 

in November amidst the RIU 

investigation. 

The allegations included selling 

a non-existent horse, charging 

owners for insurance not 

taken out and over-selling shares 

in horses. 

The Press reported last month 

Black Cap Matt Henry, All Black 

Anton Lienert-Brown and a 

number of businessmen were 

among those allegedly cheated 

out of money. 

A big part of the police and 

RIU investigations will involve 

examining betting records where 

it is believed almost $1 million 

was lost through an Australian 

betting agency. 

Kerr did not respond to questions 

from The Star yesterday. 

He is also facing a Judicial 

Control Authority hearing, the 

racing industry’s independent 

court, where numerous charges 

of breaching harness racing rules 

and frauds connected with the 

industry. 

A date has yet to be set. 

The police investigation is the 

latest incident to beset the harness 

racing industry. 

A number of harness racing 

individuals are also still before 

the courts after being charged 

during the police undercover 

corruption operation codenamed 

Inca. 

Last week, trainer and driver 

Jesse Alford’s Woodend stables 

in Woodend were raided by RIU 

Mitchell Kerr 

investigators. 

It is alleged a horse was in the 

process of being tubed. Syringes 

and equipment were taken. The 

Star understands the chemical 

formaline was detected in the 

syringes. 

Allford has been stood down 

from driving and training while 

the RIU investigates. 

Allford’s three horses which 

were due to race at Addington 

several hours later were 

scratched. 

In July, prominent trainer 

Nigel McGrath was banned for 

eight years after horses were 

doped. 

Trainer Matt Anderson was 

also banned for six months over 

an ecstasy drug deal involving 

other drivers. 

Matt Henry 

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NEWS 

• From page 1 

The Hurricanes, Chiefs, Highlanders 

and Blues have all had 

private investors as part of their 

business model, while the Crusaders 

are run by six provincial 

unions, led by Canterbury and 

Tasman. 

While those unions still form 

the shareholding bedrock, 

Crusaders chief executive Colin 

Mansbridge is confident of securing 

a significant cash injection to 

protect the club’s 

future through 

investment and 

innovation. 

“Most Super 

clubs have 

made virtually 

no money for 

a decade. It’s 

been a marginal 

financial model 

and there’s been quite a bit of 

tension around where certain 

commercial rights reside,” Mansbridge 

said. 

“Certain commercial rights 

are now ours for perpetuity and 

in the event that new rights are 

invented they default to us. In the 

past if there was a new right it 

defaulted New Zealand Rugby.” 

Licencing agreements between 

NZR and the Super Rugby club 

also ran for the duration of the 

competition’s broadcasting agreement, 

a possible impediment to 

investors making a longer-term 

commitment. 

“We were almost limited to 

what we could do so this is a 

fundamental break from almost 

a survival mentality where every 

broadcast deal you sort of limp 

your way through to the end,” 

Mansbridge said. 

“We now have the potential 

for shareholders to invest in 

perpetuity and we’ve got the right 

to innovate and create new (commercial) 

rights.” 

Mansbridge would not specify 

how much monetary investment 

was targeted, but with NZR footing 

the bill for the player salaries 

and two coaches, financial 

resources are stretched covering 


‘It’s about adding value to both organisations’ 

Colin 

Mansbridge 

SUPER DEVELOPMENT: The Crusaders can fast-track 

plans to secure private investors at home and abroad to 

strengthen their financial position after signing a new 

licensing agreement with New Zealand Rugby. 

the likes of high performance 

staff, the academy programme 

and hosting games. 

Once new investors stump up – 

the first band should be revealed 

around August – Mansbridge 

said boosting the membership 

programme was among the 

priorities. 

“Infrastructure around the way 

we deal with our fans is probably 

not where it should be,” he said. 

“But when you’ve got very 

little capital in your business 

and you’re basically looking to 

survive, you don’t invest in those 

things.” 

Mansbridge added equity 

partners armed with deep pockets 

were not the only investors 

sought. 

“It’s not about the price and the 

cash, it’s about adding value to 

both organisations,” he said. 

“Some potential investors 

have said ‘I bring sports science 

capability that you guys don’t 

have’. 

“We had potential partners say 

look: ‘We’d like to understand 

why you’re successful, we want 

to come in and study you and 

take that back to our sport or our 

institution and at the same time 

we realise we can’t just come in 

and take it off you’. 

“I’ve spoken to clubs and codes 

in the northern hemisphere 

about partnering and it’s feasible 

to see a top sports club or 

institution actually turn around 

and say: ‘We think we can learn 

something from this place’. And 

they’d be prepared to pay for that 

right.” 

Mansbridge conceded the 

Crusaders were unlikely to team 

up with a Saracens or a Toulon, 

given the end game is to be the 

most successful rugby club in the 

world. 

“We’re hoping we’re going to 

beat them in a world club challenge,” 

he said. 

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Could Vbase be an investor? 


RATEPAYER-funded city 

council venue and events 

management company Vbase 

has been touted as a potential 

player in the Crusaders 

ambitious plan to attract local 

and overseas investors. 

While Pricewaterhouse Coopers 

have been empowered to cast 

their net globally on behalf of 

the 11-time Super Rugby champions, 

Vbase, which will run 

the proposed 

Christchurch 

Multi Use 

Arena, are 

understood to 

be an option 

closer to home. 

Crusaders 

Caroline 

Harvie-Teare 

chief executive 

Colin Mansbridge 

would 

be surprised if 

PwC had not spoken to Vbase. 

“I know they’ve got a bunch of 

local and international investors 

that they’ve been talking to,” he 

said. 

“I can’t unequivocally say 

Vbase is on the list but it would 

not surprise me if they are.” 

Vbase chief executive Caroline 

Harvie-Teare said the organisation, 

which downsized significantly 

when Covid-19 decimated 

the city’s events industry, had not 

RUGBY PARK: The city council-owned venues and event management company Vbase is 

a potential investor as the Crusaders seek private equity from domestic and international 

sources. 

received an investment proposal 

from the Crusaders. 

She would not answer a subsequent 

question from The Star if 

there had been any contact with 

PwC. 

Vbase yesterday announced it 

is set to change its name to Venues 

Ōtautahi later this month. 

Mayor Lianne Dalziel would 

not comment on whether the 

council would be interested 

in investing in the Crusaders 

because there was no proposal at 

this stage. 

City councillor Yani Johanson 

was lukewarm on the prospect of 

ratepayers investing, by proxy, in 

a professional sporting organisation. 

“I’m a bit cynical of how much 

subsidy we’ve given to rugby as 

a professional sport, there were 

huge subsidies for the temporary 

stadium,” he said. 

“I find it quite ironic that there 

are huge subsidies for professional 

sports and there’s no ratepayer 

funding for social housing.” 

Deputy chair of the council’s 

finance and performance committee 

Sam MacDonald, doubted 

an investment partnership would 

eventuate. 

After being contacted by 

The Star, city council staff told 

him: ‘No, no definitely not,’ in 

response to the council buying 

shares in the Crusaders. 

MacDonald said a financial 

contribution to the Crusaders 

would be “that contentious” it 

would have to be signed off by 

council. 

But Johanson was wary given 

Christchurch International 

Airport – a business run under 

the council-owned Christchurch 

City Holdings Ltd – had already 

spent $45 million on a new airport 

in Tarras, Central Otago. 

“The airport decided to consider 

building a new airport and 

that never came to us,” he said. 

“My personal view is there 

has to be greater transparency 

around where the costs fall. 

You’d expect to understand 

what the financial risks were and 

you’d expect to know why it was 

a sensible thing to do. 

“It’s something we’d have to 

consult the community about.” 

A city council spokesperson 

confirmed council staff would 

need to bring a formal report to 

elected members if a proposal 

was put forward. 

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CHRISTCHURCH’S housing 

market boom has lifted property 

values in many suburbs by 

hundreds of thousands of dollars 

– though one neighbourhood 

appears to be missing out on the 

bonanza. 

According to OneRoof 

research, house prices in eight 

suburbs nationwide grew less 

than $50,000 since 2016 – with 

Shirley, Christchurch’s unwanted 

representative. 

Southbridge in Selwyn also 

featured alongside Greymouth, 

Blaketown and Cobden in the 

Grey district, Ashburton plus 

Papamoa and Welcome Bay in 

Tauranga. 

The median property value in 

Shirley was $480,000 last week, 

compared to $440,000 five years 

ago. 

Canterbury-wide the median 

property value on February 25 

was $535,000, an increase of 

$110,000 over the last five years, 

with the average price rising 13.7 

per cent since Covid-19 took 

hold in March, 2020. 

OneRoof calculated the current 

median property value in 

New Zealand as $765,000, a 

$140,000 increase over the past 

12 months, and $290,000 escalation 

over the last five years. 

While Shirley appeared to lag, 

James Wilson, valuation director 

at OneRoof’s data partner Valocity, 

offered a mitigating factor. 

He noted Shirley had not 

enjoyed the same high levels of 

new build developments other 

Christchurch suburbs had experienced 

and suffered as a result. 

“Places like this have had the 

limelight taken off them a bit but 

it doesn’t mean you wouldn’t get 


Shirley misses out on property bonanza 

OPPORTUNITY: This three-bedroom house on Joy St is among a handful of properties 

currently for sale in Shirley. 

a good sale price,” he said. 

“It just means that what’s selling, 

what’s being built is not in 

Shirley, it’s other locations, therefore 

on paper it looks as if it’s had 

pretty modest growth.” 

Real estate agents also 

launched a spirited defence of the 

suburb, where there were 73 sales 

in the 12 months to February 

25, compared to 273 in nearby St 

Albans. 

Brendan Hart from Harcourts 

agreed a lack of new builds and 

rebuilds post-earthquake had 

impacted on the Shirley market. 

“Rebuilds and the value of 

those once they’re done . . . they 

can bring the average up,” he 

said. 

A lack of volume was another 

contributing factor, with only 

73 sales recorded 

in the 12 months 

to February 25, 

compared to 

273 in nearby St 

Albans. 

Harcourts only 

Brendan 

Hart 

had four residential 

properties 

listed in Shirley 

yesterday, one more than Ray 

White. 

“Some areas are quite tightly 

held. There’s quite a few people 

who have been in their houses 

for many years,” Hart said. 

Mitchell Roberts, another 

Harcourts agent with a listing in 

Shirley, offered another theory. 

“The disposal of a lot of rental 

properties, as-is where-is, probably 

skewed the data a little bit,” 

he said, pointing to an upside. 

“Shirley is still very affordable 

probably in comparison to Mairehau 

(median price $505,000) and 

St Albans ($605,000).” 

Hart said first home buyers 

should be targeting the area and 

benefit from “the fact you get a 

lot of house for your money’. 

“It’s a bit of a land of 

opportunity there. We have 

plenty of buyers, just not enough 

homes to sell them.”



NEWS 7 

Council promises water supply 

to be back by Easter for Akaroa 

• By Kurt Bayer 

CITY COUNCIL officials who 

have been scrambling to fix 

Akaroa’s water issues have vowed 

that the town’s water will be back 

on tap by Easter holidays. 

Four dead animals – two 

possums and two birds – were 

found during a routine check 

inside the Canterbury beauty spot’s 

reservoir supply last month. 

Testing confirmed there was 

enough chlorine in the water to 

kill bacteria, but there was still 

a possible protozoa risk which 

chlorine will not kill. 

It meant the Canterbury 

medical officer of health said to 

boil water used for drinking, food 

preparation, utensil washing, 

brushing teeth or ice. 

Residents in Akaroa and 

Takamatua have had to boil 

their drinking water since 

February 12. 

But the city council head of three 

waters and waste Helen Beaumont 

yesterday said she hopes that the 

boil water notice could be lifted by 

the middle of the month. 

It will come as a relief to Banks 

Peninsula residents, as well as 

businesses, who have already 

REMEDY: Fourteen 30,000-litre plastic tanks and 

associated piping are being installed near Akaroa’s 

reservoir. 

been hit by the Covid-19 global 

pandemic, and a sudden dearth of 

cruise ships coming to the area. 

The council has been rushing to 

set up a temporary bypass for the 

contaminated water reservoir at 

L’Aube Hill Reserve. 

Fourteen 30,000-litres plastic 

tanks and associated piping will be 

installed near the reservoir. 

A construction team is welding 

and laying about 200m of new 

piping needed to connect the 

local water treatment plant to 

the temporary tanks, and then to 

connect the tanks to the Akaroa/ 

Takamātua water supply network. 

The cause of the compromised 

water supply – the possums and 

birds – were able to get into the 

reservoir through a previously 

unsecure overflow pipe. 

The council says they have since 

secured the overflow pipe with a 

mesh seal. 

“Once the tanks and piping 

are in service, we will isolate, 

drain and inspect the reservoir,” 

Beaumont says. 

“The inspection will determine 

whether we proceed to clean, 

upgrade and reinstate the reservoir 

within the water supply network, 

or whether we demolish it and 

construct a new one while the 

bypass remains in place. 

“We expect to be in a position to 

complete the bypass and lift the boil 

water notice by the middle of March.” 

Yesterday, Beaumont also 

revealed that a new reservoir 

would cost in the order of 

$1.3m-$1.5m. 

However, given the nature of 

the Akaroa network, the council 

says it would prefer to build two 

reservoirs to “provide some much 

needed resilience”. 

Beaumont says a “very high level 

estimate” is $2m-$3m for a new 

pair of reservoirs – and would take 

between two to five years. 

A full report into the incident 

will be released once the ongoing 

investigation is complete. 

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NEWS 

• By Anna Leask 

A CHRISTCHURCH woman 

spent thousands of dollars on 

civil court action to get a sex 

tape removed from the internet 

after it was posted without her 

permission. 

In spite of winning the case, 

police – who have been investigating 

for six months – are yet to 

decide whether the man will face 

criminal charges for publishing 

footage and photos on multiple 

porn websites behind the 

woman’s back. 

The devastated woman spoke 

out about her ordeal in a bid to 

dissuade others from posting 

intimate recordings without 

consent – and to encourage 

women subjected to similar 

“horrific” betrayals to take 

action. 

She says she has no shame 

around her sexual choices, but 

the man had humiliated and disempowered 

her and she would 

not stand for it. 

The pair met in September 

2019 and soon after he asked 

to film them while they were 

having sex. 

The woman was initially 

hesitant and said no – but agreed 

after he assured her no one else 

would ever see it. 

She said they never discussed 

posting it anywhere and she 

never would have agreed to that. 

The pair had a casual relationship, 

which ended amicably in 

October 2019. 

“I forgot about the video, and I 

forgot about him,” she said. 

In early August 2020 a friend 

messaged the woman and alerted 

her to a video on Porn Hub – 

posted under a username that 

the man often used on social 

media with his photo. 

Multiple versions of the video 

were published with explicit and 

lewd descriptions of the content, 


Revenge porn victim’s fight to remove sex tape; 

DEVASTATED: The woman was alerted to her sex tape being online by a friend. 

including that the woman was 

from Christchurch. 

“I recognised myself immediately,” 

she said. 

“I felt sick. My heart was racing, 

my chest felt tight.” 

She messaged the man immediately, 

saying she’d never 

consented to him sharing the 

footage and asking him to take 

it down. 

“I can do whatever I want 

with them. Nobody knows our 

identity,” he replied. 

PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD 

The woman contacted Netsafe 

but ultimately had to contact 

each website carrying her image 

herself and apply for the content 

to be removed. 

It has been live for almost a 

year and had more than 35,000 

views. 

In August last year, she complained 

to police, filing a formal 

statement that same month. 

She followed up “several times” 

but there was no movement and 

in October, desperate to ensure 

the man would not re-post the 

footage, filed a civil case. 

In court, the man admitted 

his actions and consented to an 

order to take down or disable 

the material and to never post it 

again. 

“The ordeal has caused me 

extreme distress, anxiety, guilt, 

shame and distrust,” the woman 

told Judge Tony Gilbert. 

“I have no words to describe 

the hurt and upset.” 

The woman provided Judge 

Gilbert’s decision to the Herald 

on Sunday. 

“I can well understand [the 

woman’s] upset at what has 

occurred because while she 

consented to the intimate visual 

recordings being made, she very 

certainly did not consent to 

them being splashed about the 

internet,” the judge said. 

He also ordered the man to 

pay the woman $1700 towards 

her legal costs – but to date not a 

cent has been paid. 

The day the civil case was 

resolved the woman went back 

to police. 

“I was p****d off by then. I just 

wanted someone to do something,” 

she said. 

Weeks later a detective called 

the woman and asked her to 

provide documentation that she 

had already given to police via 

email and on a USB drive.


anger at long police probe 


NEWS 9 

This month the detective called 

back and confirmed the man had 

been formally interviewed about 

his alleged offending. 

The case had been passed to the 

police prosecutor to “assist with a 

charging option”. 

When questioned by the 

Herald on Sunday about the 

handling of the case Detective 

Inspector Greg Murton assured 

the complaint – and all others 

like it – was being taken “very 

seriously”. 

He said it had been under 

investigation from the outset and 

police had done an initial file assessment 

before making specific 

inquiries and gathering relevant 

information. 

“When civil proceedings are 

under way it is common, depending 

on the case, to wait for the 

outcome before proceeding with 

or considering criminal prosecution,” 

he said. 

“The evidence produced and 

the eventual result of a civil proceeding 

can have a considerable 

bearing on a criminal investigation.” 

He could not comment further 

on the case as it was “still under 

investigation and may result in a 

prosecution”. 

The woman said the delay felt 

like “an injustice”. 

“When the HDCA [Harmful 

Digital Communications Act] 

What is revenge porn? 

Also known as imagebased 

abuse or 

sextortion, revenge porn 

is non-consensual sharing 

of intimate images. 

It is a type of online 

sexual harassment and 

can be an offence under 

the Harmful Digital Communications 

Act. 

Intimate images 

and videos can be of 

someone nude or seminude. 

Often the images 

are produced and 

shared with someone 

consensually – but this 

doesn’t mean this person 

has consent to share 

them with others under 

the law. 

Image-based abuse 

can also include altered 

images or videos to make 

it appear that a person 

was introduced in 2015 it made 

revenge porn a criminal offence 

and this is a blatant example of 

that,” she said. 

“I feel hurt and humiliated. I 

feel so disempowered.” 

Victim advocate Ruth Money 

said the situation was appalling 

is in an intimate image 

or video they didn’t produce. 

Sharing or threatening 

to share nude or nearly 

nude images and videos 

of someone else without 

their consent can be an 

offence under the HDCA 

and a potential offence 

under other acts. 

Penalties can be a fine 

of up to $50,000 or up 

to two years’ jail for an 

individual, according to 

Netsafe. 

Do you need help? 

If someone has shared 

an intimate image or 

video of you, report it to 

the police. 

Netsafe can also give 

information about how 

to get the online content 

removed and explain the 

options available under 

the law. 

and unacceptable. 

“These delays are not the 

intention of the law and there are 

endless issues with the operation 

of the HDCA that need urgent 

attention – as the agencies and 

law itself is harming not helping,” 

she said. 

– NZ Herald 

DISMANTLING: The city council will relocate the Citizens’ 

War Memorial to the old police kiosk site in Cathedral 

Square. It is now being demolished. 

PHOTO: HAMISH CLARK 

Old police kiosk in 

process of demolition 

A SMALL kiosk that 

maintained a police presence 

in Christchurch’s Cathedral 

Square for decades is going to the 

wrecking ball. 

Demolition of the well-known 

landmark began on Monday as it 

has been five years since the police 

last used the 1970s building. 

The city council has decided it 

will eventually use the site to relocate 

the Citizens’ War Memorial 

in the square. 

Urban design head Carolyn 

Ingles said police decided not 

to renew the kiosk’s lease when 

the central police station was 

opened. 

“The building actually started 

out in the 1970s as the Christchurch 

Transport Board bus 

kiosk. 

“But in 1989, when the 

transport board wound up due to 

local government amalgamation, 

it was occupied by police and 

community volunteers and 

became the police kiosk.” 

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CHRISTCHURCH high schools 

are grappling with the issue of 

students vaping. 

The Star reported last week 22 

per cent of Canterbury primary 

and intermediate school staff 

have reported pupils vaping 

is an issue. The legal age for 

purchasing a vape is 18. 

Linwood College principal 

Richard Edmundson said vaping 

has become an issue at the school 

since vapes came on the market 

about two years ago, particularly 

in the last year. 

He said staff deal with about 

one student a week caught vaping, 

mostly year 10s and 11s. 

Said Edmundson: “Of course, 

we [Linwood] reflect exactly the 

wider population . . . there wasn’t 

vaping and now there is vaping. 

“Judging on the standard bell 

curve of teenage behaviour, teenagers 

will try it.” 

None of those caught have said 


Students vaping a growing issue in high schools 

where they got their vapes from 

and their reasoning for doing 

it is usually “because it’s cool,” 

Edmundson said. 

Shirley Boys’ High School 

principal Tim Grocott said vaping 

is proving a challenge for 

his school to deal with because 

the legislation around it is not as 

clear as that banning cigarette 

smoking from schools. 

“The legislation around it is 

very grey and I would say probably 

inadequate. Whereas, it’s 

very, very clear where we stand 

with cigarette smoking, and 

schools under law are actually 

smoke free. 

“There’s no similar legislation 

around vaping, and that’s probably 

one of the biggest challenges 

because it’s very hard to actually 

enforce some of the things that 

we do because we’re not actually 

bound by the law,” said Grocott. 

Grocott said because of the 

health and safety impacts vaping 

has, the school treats it the same 

as smoking. 

He did not say how many 

students a week were being 

caught vaping, but those who 

have been are mostly 14 and 

15-year-olds. 

Cashmere High School 

principal Joe Eccleton said it has 

had “four or five interactions 

with students this year 

regarding vaping.” 

However, he said “for the vast 

majority of students this [vaping] 

is not an issue.” 

History recreated through 3D mural 


CHRISTCHURCH’S historic 

buildings and the women’s 

suffrage movement are honoured 

in a new 3D mural behind 

Riverside Market. 

The mural includes realistic 

depictions of old Christchurch 

buildings, including High St’s 

Empire Hotel, 1800s surveying 

business Edward Jollie & Co and 

J D Clarke Optician. 

It also gives recognition to 

Christchurch women’s suffrage 

advocate Kate Sheppard and 

includes the words “vote yes on 

women suffrage.” 

The DTR Crew, made up 

of Christchurch artists Jacob 

Yikes, Wongi “Freak” Wilson, 

Nick “Ikarus” Tam and Guy 

“Dcypher” Ellis, competed the 

artwork. It was designed by Josh 

Thompson. 

Production company Oi 

YOU! managed the project, 

which was jointly funded by the 

Riverside Market and the city 

council’s tourism, marketing 

and economic development arm, 

Christchurch NZ. 

Christchurch NZ acting general 

manager of marketing brand 

and communication Sam Taylor 

said it contributed $35,000 

towards the cost of the mural, 

about a third of the total project 

cost. 

Said Oi YOU! director George 

Shaw: “What we decided to do 

as a group with Christchurch 

NZ was to reflect in there old 

Christchurch buildings and 

Christchurch history. People like 

Kate Sheppard and the whole 

movement of women’s 

rights gets a good shout 

out on the wall.” 

The mural took about 

five weeks to complete 

and Shaw said the artists 

worked about 10 hours 

a day, six days a week to 

complete it. 

It was created using 

Resene bucket paint, 

and spray paint to complete the 

intricate details. 

George Shaw 

The artwork was painted 

on a flat wall, but appears 3D 

to the naked eye, much to the 

surprise of people 

who have viewed it so 

far. 

“The number of 

people who come up 

to the wall saying 

their brain won’t allow 

them to believe that 

the wall’s actually flat. 

Even though you know 

it’s flat, your brain still 

won’t let you believe that it’s flat,” 

Shaw said. 

IMPRESSIVE: A new 

3D mural celebrating 

Christchurch’s history, 

including businesses such 

as the Empire Hotel (above) 

has been completed 

behind Riverside Market. 

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Mousey big cheese in music scene 

Music constantly changes over the 

decades. Reporter Matt Slaughter looks at 

what is happening in Christchurch in 2021 

AS MOUSEY takes the stage 

at St Asaph St venue Space 

Academy on a Saturday night, 

she holds the crowd in the palm 

of her hand. 

She captivates the audience 

with every note she sings, showcasing 

heartfelt, folk songwriting 

with a danceable, indie-pop 

twist. 

Mousey’s stage name was 

inspired by the words of David 

Bowie’s song Life On Mars. 

The 25-year-old who lives 

in New Brighton has wowed 

Christchurch and New Zealand 

crowds since the release of her 

debut album Lemon Law in 2019. 

The single from the album, the 

first song Mousey ever released, 

Extreme Highs, was nominated 

for the APRA Silver Scroll 

Award, New Zealand’s most 

prestigious songwriting award, 

in 2019. 

The award was ultimately 

won by fellow Christchurch 

songwriter Aldous Harding, 

but Mousey told The Star the 

nomination was the confidence 

boost she needed. 

She tried recording Lemon 

Law three times, with three 

different backing bands, 

before settling on a finished 

product, produced by 

Christchurch-based Ryan 

Fisherman. 

“It [the Silver Scroll nomination] 

was a huge confidence 

boost because I was really 

thinking of quitting before we 

recorded with Ryan. I was just 

so over it, you know.” 

Fisherman made her 

vision come to life 

and she has 

become 

one of 

the 

Mousey 

city’s most celebrated upcoming 

artists since Lemon Law’s release. 

She is now recording her 

second album with her backing 

band, consisting of some of 

her favourite local musicians, 

including Emily Browning. 

She is inspired by many other 

musicians, including her close 

friend, Pickle Darling (Lukas 

Mayo), a critically acclaimed 

songwriter in his own right. 

Head just across the road from 

Space Academy to the Darkroom 

and you might find Brian 

Feary keeping Christchurch’s 

proud history of bands and 

labels producing music on small 

budgets alive. 

Feary’s mother had no idea 

who British pop star Bryan Ferry 

was when she named her son. 

But, coincidentally, he grew up 

to be musical, and is one of the 

main drivers of Christchurch’s 

alternative band scene. 

As well as playing in a long 

list of Christchurch indie rock 

bands, including Wurld Series, 

Salad Boys, Kool Aid and The 

Dance Asthmatics, Feary is a 

co-founder and producer for 

Woolston music label Melted Ice 

Cream. He is also involved with 

Christchurch punk label Dust 

Up. 

Feary said one thing that sets 

Melted Ice Cream apart from 

other music labels, is it has 

brought back cassettes as a platform 

to release music on. 

“I ended up buying a cassette 

duplicator from a church studio 

that was closing down. It cost me 

$27, and from there, I realised 

that I could make cassettes and 

I found a supplier and away we 

went,” he said. 

About 30 bands from 

Christchurch and other parts of 

New Zealand are on Melted Ice 

Cream’s label. Feary said it embodies 

the do it yourself mentality 

of older Christchurch labels 

like Flying Nun Records. 

Said Feary: “The lack 

of the big New Zealand 

music industry [in 

Christchurch] means 

that the ambitions 

aren’t commercial, 

really. The sort of 

bands that we get here 

are DIY bands who are 

in it for having a good 

time and making the best 

music that they can. 

“I think there’s 

also quite a 

big history in 

Christchurch 

of this sort of 

band. I would 

categorise The 

Bats as having 

the same sort 

of attitude, 

a DIY, 

unpretentious 

attitude.” 

It’s not 

just bands 

Brian Feary 

shaping Christchurch’s musical 

landscape. 

Scribe brought Christchurch 

hip hop to the world in the early 

2000s, and And$um could 

be the next rapper to bring it to 

international audiences. 

The 24-year-old Lyttelton resident 

openly admits when he first 

started rapping, the art did not 

come naturally to him. 

He describes his sound as 

“alternative hip hop,” and only 

started making music about four 

years ago while he was a student 

at Canterbury University. 

Since then, he has found his 

voice and his music has been 

listened to about 450,000 times 

online by listeners all over the 

world. 

This is a long way from when 

he first started and would be 

“stoked to get 100 plays on a 

track.” 

He has a mix of albums and 

EPs under his belt and said he 

has played “most of the spots” in 

Christchurch. 

The album he released last 

year, And$um, Vol. 1, included 

his most listened to song to 

date, Dreaming, which is fast 

approaching 85,000 listens on 

Spotify. 

And$um said what separates 

Christchurch’s music scene from 

others is its supportive nature. 

Groups like The Caffeinated 

Collective, who he went to 

Shirley Boys’ High School with, 

inspired him to start rapping, 

and now he is offering advice to 

others starting out. 

“I’ve had people message me 

and say, hey, this is my first ever 

track, what do you think?” 

Corban Tupou is involved in 

another growing Christchurch 

musical movement. 

He is part of DJ collectives and 

party curators Sounds of the 

Local and Two Minds, whose 

main focus is making people 

dance. 

You might find Tupou DJing 

himself, or filming sets at night 

clubs like Flux Bar or Hide. 

He wants to spread his love for 

a diverse range of electronic music 

genres, including drum and 

bass and house, and get people 

dancing. 

Both Sounds of the Local 

and Two Minds, include DJs 

who developed their skills at 

Christchurch’s student flat 

parties. 

Tupou felt the energy of the 

music being played at these 

parties was too good not to show 

off to wider audiences. He and 

his friends started throwing 

parties at nightclubs and posting 

some of their live DJ sets online 

to reach even more listeners. 

“We’re just big fans of thumping, 

high energy, electronic 

music,” he said. 

Tupou said DJing has taken off 

in Christchurch in the last few 

years because of how accessible 

and affordable basic equipment 

has become. 

“It [DJing] is easy to pick up 

now more than ever. The barrier 

to entry is quite low, but the 

ceiling is quite high,” said 

Tupou. 

Both Sounds of the Local and 

Two Minds are now followed by 

thousands of people across social 

media, after forming in 2019 and 

2020 respectively. 

Both projects are getting 

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14 

NEWS 


Far-right activist Chapman has 

been selling Nazi toy figures 

• By Kurt Bayer 

A PROMINENT far-right 

activist is selling plastic Nazi 

toy figures, including miniature 

models of Adolf Hitler. 

Kyle Chapman, the former 

skinhead and leader of the farright 

National Front white nationalist 

group and Christchurch 

mayoral candidate, is selling the 

plastic figures online. 

The New Zealand Jewish 

Council and the Holocaust Centre 

of New Zealand have branded 

the figures “disgusting” and 

called for them to be removed 

from sale. 

Operating on Facebook Marketplace, 

Chapman has been 

advertising a range of World 

War 2 figures, alongside Star 

Wars, Lord of the Rings and other 

children’s characters. 

Included in his offerings are a 

range of Nazi figures. 

A “big WW2 German set” 

which shows the “High Command 

and the Elite Guards 

defending the last position in 

Berlin” comes complete with 

red-and-black German flags and 

other insignia, including blackclad 

troops with SS insignia 

armbands, behind sandbags and 

fortifications. 

There is also Hitler holding a 

pistol, making his last stand. 

The toy set was posted on 

October 15, 2019 – exactly seven 

months after the March 15, 2019, 

mosque shootings in Christchurch, 

where a lone gunman 

murdered 51 Muslims during 

Friday prayer. 

After the attacks, 49-year-old 

Chapman claimed he’d turned 

his back on neo-Nazi affiliations. 

He told the New Zealand 

Herald in July 2019 that he was 

keeping a low profile: “I don’t really 

get out and about, I just hang 

out with my family and that’s 

about it.” 

When approached by the 

Herald this week, Chapman 

defended his products. 

“It’s just business, mate,” he said. 

DEFENSIVE: Christchurch’s Kyle Chapman co-founded 

the Right Wing Resistance group. Below – Chapman in 

Cathedral Square in 2009. 

PHOTOS: FILE 

“It’s not Nazi-themed, it’s just 

World War 2 stuff. There’s British 

stuff, German stuff, Russian 

stuff. Just like in World War 2, 

there’s different sides. 

“I just sell stuff that is already 

produced – I just pass it on.” 

Asked where he imports the 

items from, he replied: “Mainly 

from different companies in 

China and America.” 

“If somebody gets offended by 

history, I really can’t do anything 

about that,” Chapman said. 

“[People] take offence from 

absolutely anything – you can’t 

even call a woman a woman 

anymore, it’s pretty pathetic.” 

Chapman, who has stood 

unsuccessfully for the mayoralty 

of Christchurch three times, said 

children would like the figures 

“because they want to play good 

guys versus bad guys, that’s the 

way it works.” 

“There’s no point having a whole 

army of British guys if they’ve got 

nobody to fight,” he said. 

“I’m not a Nazi – I’m against 

Nazis. I actually believe that freedom 

and people’s right to choose 

is always acceptable, no matter 

what politically-correct leftwingers 

say. I think that people 

are just turning into a bunch of 

pussies really, and they’ve got to 

accept that life is life and history 

is history. You can’t change history 

– that’s what the Nazis did, 

they tried changing history. 

“I find the left-wing way of 

trying to control people and tell 

them what to do very offensive… 

as far as I’m concerned, it’s on 

par with Nazi Germany, Chapman 

said. 

THEMES: German 

World War 2 

figures, including 

one of Adolf 

Hitler, have been 

advertised for sale 

online. 

PHOTO: 

SUPPLIED 

After speaking to the Herald, 

the site was disabled. 

Chief executive of the Holocaust 

Centre of New Zealand 

Chris Harris, said Facebook 

needed to step in to remove the 

items. 

“It has no place in our communities 

whatsoever,” he said. 

He was disgusted that anyone 

could comment it was “cool” and 

that people would even inquire 

about purchasing it. 

“This is the sort of thing we’ve 

seen more and more of since 

March 15 – glorification of 

Nazism, people selling replicas 

or recreating swastika flags – it’s 

really seen an increase in this 

type of material being sold. 

“We just need to keep on 

removing this sort of thing from 

the street,’’ Harris said 

Juliet Moses, spokeswoman 

for the New Zealand Jewish 

Council, said while it’s not illegal 

to trade in such figures in New 

Zealand, they have been outlawed 

in other countries. 

“You would just have to hope 

that people who see this understand 

the context and that it’s 

glorifying Nazis,” she said. 

“The issue will be people who 

don’t understand that, especially 

if kids see it and think it just 

looks normal . . . and that is a 

concern.” 

“It’s frightening that this type 

of glorification continues to happen,’’ 

Moses said. 

A spokesman for Facebook in 

New Zealand said everything on 

Facebook Marketplace must follow 

its “community standards.” 

“These standards include a 

section on dangerous individuals 

and organisations, which includes 

organised hate,” he said. 

Facebook’s prohibited content 

policy states that listings may not 

contain “misleading, violent, or 

hateful products and offers.” 

A Lego spokeswoman said the 

items have “absolutely nothing” 

to do with the popular global toy 

brand. 

“The bricks aren’t Lego bricks, 

the set isn’t designed by us, and 

the business is not affiliated with 

us in any way,” she said. 

Nazi-themed characters have 

surfaced several times over the 

years around the world. 

In 2014, internet auction 

site eBay removed characters 

depicting Hitler and Nazi figures 

– even a concentration camp 

officer. 

And in 2017, a German father 

campaigned to stop similar figures 

being sold on Amazon. 

Two years ago, online 

shopping platform giant Ali 

Express followed suit, removing 

a toy set featuring figures 

wearing Nazi SS uniforms and a 

miniature Hitler after receiving 

complaints. – NZ Herald 

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BANKS PENINSULA residents 

want better communication 

from the city council about 

Dyers Pass Rd safety upgrades. 

The road has been reduced to 

a single lane during the day and 

is closed between 7pm and 6am 

as roadworks occur, estimated to 

finish in June. 

Those who live and work in 

Governors Bay are frustrated 

with irregular communication 

from the council about what is 

happening. 

Resident, John Bannock said: 

“The council engagement with 

the community has been woeful 

and almost non-existent.” 

Reuben Miller, who also lives 

in Governors Bay, said the roadworks 

have added an extra 20 

minutes to his journey to work 

in Christchurch. 

Sue Carter has lived in 

Governors Bay for more than 

10 years. She works near the 

airport, starting at 5am and has 

to leave much earlier, detouring 

through Lyttelton Tunnel with 

Dyers Pass Rd closed in the early 

morning hours. 

Said Governors Bay Harbour 

House owner Nic Graham: 

“Covid and now these roadworks 

are wreaking havoc on the 

community-focused cafe.’’ 

SLOW PACE: Motorists negotiate roadworks and heavy trucks on Dyers Pass Rd during 

an upgrade on the hill link to Governors Bay. 


People say in spite of the 

impact the works are having 

on the community, businesses 

were not consulted, there was no 

community meeting to discuss 

the works and people were only 

informed of the roadworks via 

road signage and city council 

updates on their website. 

Said Carter: “We didn’t get 

any communication in the letter 


box. Usually when roadworks 

occur, we’d see physical 

communication on what is 

happening with a number to call 

if you need advice.” 

Said Miller: “There has been 

a lack of clarity about what they 

are actually doing.” 

There is now an email newsletter 

providing updates, but there 

have still been issues where it 

has appeared the road has closed 

earlier than usual. 

City council transport planning 

and delivery manager Lynette 

Ellis, said they are working 

with the contractors to resolve 

those issues. 

The city council has received 

numerous feedback on the 

roadworks and they are trying 

to make adjustments to improve 

NEWS 17 

Roadworks frustrate peninsula residents 

safety and traffic flow where 

possible. 

One positive change, Bannock 

said, were the staffing of traffic 

lights during the morning and 

evenings for week drivers. 

Yet residents remain puzzled 

on whether the roadworks will 

solve usage problems on the 

road, such as competition for 

space between cars and cyclists, 

and boy racers. 

Said Ellis: “We acknowledge 

the work will not fix all issues 

on the road as there will still be 

limited road space for cyclists 

and drivers to share. 

“The work will widen the road 

slightly and the drainage channel 

has been designed so that 

a cyclist or driver could drop a 

wheel into the channel safely.” 

However, drains now in place 

are already filling up with rocks 

and debris. 

Said Miller: “I would like to 

see the council riding in the 

rock-filled drainage gutters.” 

In 2018, Christchurch 

communities were asked to 

provide feedback on issues with 

the road. 

A majority of submissions 

mentioned concerns about 

boy racers. However, residents 

do not understand how the new 

guard rails will solve this issue. 

Progress under way on track upgrade after three years 

• By Samantha Mythen 

WORK IS happening behind the 

scenes on mountain bike track 

upgrades in Urumau Reserve. 

Lyttelton Mountain Bike 

Club member Joshua Merriam 

asked the Banks Peninsula 

Community Board at its 

meeting on Monday to approve 

the track upgrades at the 

reserve’s entrance. The track is a 

component of the 2018 Urumau 

Development Plan. 

He presented a petition to 

the board with more than 100 

signatures during the meeting. 

Community board 

chairwoman Tori Peden said the 

board is waiting for a final report 

from city council regional parks 

manager Paul Devlin, as there 

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improvements on the track. 

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18 The Star Thursday March 4 2021

Mark Jackson bought his first pair of heels 

seven years ago, and has never looked back. 

Having been inspired to become a drag 

queen by the musical Priscilla Queen of the 

Desert, today the 32-year-old supermarket 

worker talks to reporter Susan Sandys 

about his life as Lady Bubbles 


OUR PEOPLE – MARK JACKSON 19 

Life as a drag queen is all about being 

feminine, very loud and super campy 

Tell me all about yourself 

I was born and raised in 

Lincoln. I’m quite a creative 

person, like a big kid at heart. 

As well as doing the whole drag 

thing, I work full-time and I 

run the largest bouncy castle 

hire company in Christchurch. 

I think it was maybe 2007 when 

I came across Priscilla Queen of 

the Desert, went to the musical 

up in Auckland, with friends, 

and we loved it so much we flew 

to Sydney to see it again the next 

year. 

I started drag in 2014 when 

I bought my first pair of heels. 

I’ve always been able to walk in 

a pair of heels without 

any kind of practice, 

just like an absolute 

natural. I sort of 

started off from there, 

collecting 

a few things, trying it out 

and everything, and then 

professionally doing it from 

about three years ago. I started 

really getting out there and 

putting the money into it, 

because it costs so much money. 

It’s like a transformation 

for me in the art form, it’s 

something that I look at now 

and I regret not doing drama 

and stuff like that when I was at 

school, like it could have helped 

me a lot now. 

When you put on the wig 

and the eyelashes and stuff like 

that, it’s like you become just 

a completely different person. 

When you are so far through 

your makeup, something all of a 

sudden just clicks, for me it is the 

art form and the performance, 

you are just making people 

happy. 

Like on a Friday or Saturday 

night I can not walk anywhere 

near the Strip, you know Oxford 

Tce, or anything like that, unless 

I have a spare like hour . . . just 

the amount of people that come 

running up to you, somebody 

gets a photo then somebody 

else wants a photo. It just takes 

up so much time. 

What do you spend the 

money on? 

A decent wig will cost you 

anywhere between $300 to $900, 

and that’s cheap. Otherwise you 

can go right up to like $2500. 

Just a simple pair of shoes and 

everything like that, because I 

buy my shoes locally, and I buy 

a special brand of shoes called 

Pleaser. They are a lot stronger, 

they are performing shoes. I buy 

those locally from a lady in West 

Melton. She brings them in, they 

can be anything from $100 to 

$300 a pair. 

Basically 

by the time 

I’m completely 

ready, when I’ve 

got everything 

on, I could be 

wearing an 

outfit that’s 

$1000-plus 

dollars. 

Is there lots 

of sequins and 

feathers involved? 

Definitely lots of 

sequins and feathers. 

Ninety per cent of what I 

wear is made by myself or 

my mother, because I am a 

little bit bigger it is easier to 

make it, than it is to buy it. 

Is it solely a performance 

identity, or are you transgender 

yourself? 

No, I identify as gay male, I 

go with the pronouns “his, him, 

he.” As Lady Bubbles I am “her, 

she” and I can’t remember what 

the other one is, I go by the 

female pronouns. 

There’s a difference between 

transgender and drag. Drag is 

performance, it’s male dressing 

up as female, which is cross 

dressing and stuff like that, but 

it is performance. Like I don’t go 

home and dress up or anything 

like that for fun, because it takes 

three hours to get ready, so I 

don’t have anything that I want 

to be female or anything like 

that. It is purely the art of drag 

and the art of performance. 

What do you like about it so 

much? 

It’s like an escape from reality, 

as I say, I put on the wig, put on 

the eyelashes and the lipstick. I 

generally have my nails done all 

the time, I always have acrylic 

nails. You put on an outfit, it’s 

the wow 

factor for 

me, you 

go out and 

people say: 

‘Oh my god, 

it’s a drag 

queen.’ 

It’s an 

escape for 

you, and 

for them 

as well? 

Yes, 

that’s what I 

like, is being able 

to make people happy. 

Christchurch is 

not like Wellington 

and Auckland, we 

don’t have a drag scene, there is 

no drag scene in Christchurch. 

So I work with another friend 

of mine, he’s just recently come 

back from Sydney, and I own 

a business called Drag It Out 

Entertainment. So between him 

and I, we are actually trying to 

bring drag to the mainstream 

here in Christchurch. So we run 

a lot of bingo nights and stuff 

like that, where people can come 

along and win cash prizes and 

things like that, we call it Balls N 

Bingo. And we also have a show 

coming up, like a massive big 

show that we are actually pulling 

queens down from Auckland 

for, on the second of April called 

Retro Glam, and we expect to 

run drag competitions here. 

You have an event on March 

11 at the Lincoln Library, Drag 

Queen Storytime, to celebrate 

Pride Week (for children 

pre-school age and older, 

featuring books about diversity, 

acceptance, inclusion and 

kindness). 

(Selwyn Libraries) put a post 

out on the local (Facebook) 

community page, looking for 

TRANSFORMATION: Mark Jackson is a supermarket worker 

and business operator by day, and a drag queen by night. 

artistic people for some Pride 

events and stuff like, I just put a 

picture of me up there and said: 

‘If you ever need a drag queen 

for anything, let me know,’ and 

that’s how I got that. You’ve got 

to put yourself out there, the 

harder you work the more work 

you will get. 

Rainbow storytime comes 

with its 

pros and 

cons, 

you are 

always 

going to get that 

one person who doesn’t 

agree with it and doesn’t see that 

it’s okay. 

Do you think acceptance 

and diversity is an important 

message to get across to 

children? 

I think it is, like – you be who 

you want to be. You know, like 

it is not up to somebody else to 

mould that for you. I feel like 

in this day and age if somebody 

is trans or something like that, 

people should be accepting of 

everyone whoever and 

however they want to express 

themselves, it is super important. 

Reading to children will be a 

lot different to your adult drag 

events? 

So basically the bingo, yes it is 

very, very . . . not filthy, but it’s 

pretty out there. It is for an adult 

audience, they are not general 

everyday calls, they are raunchy 

. . . really it’s like smut, but that’s 

what people want when they come 

and see a drag queen. But for a kid 

(at children’s events) it’s completely 

visual for them, because they don’t 

understand. And that’s where you 

can teach them acceptance and 

everything like that, because you 

can’t judge from what I look like 

on the outside as to who I am on 

the inside. 

When I do rainbow storytime, 

I’m going to have a humongous 

wig on, a massive big pink dress, 

like not polygraphic, but the 

shiny latex pink dress, with the 

big organza frill all around it, 

and everything like that, it’s 

going to be a great day. 

Was it specifically seeing 

Priscilla Queen of the Desert 

that motivated you to dress in 

drag? 

Yes, because when I saw it 

on stage it was the art of the 

queen coming on and wearing 

all the different outfits, and the 

glam and the glitter. And Lady 

Bubbles loves to be glamorous, 

and you know, also loves to be 

fun and out there and really 

bubbly, but very loud. 

So that show completely 

changed your life? 

Yes, how I describe myself as 

a drag queen, is very feminine, 

very loud and super campy. 

Camp is basically really 

colourful. I like the old style of 

drag, you know the big eyes, 

the glitter, I’m not into the 

mainstream drag that you see 

now coming off RuPaul’s Drag 

Race. 

Does Lady Bubbles have a 

whole persona and life, do you 

have to create some sort of 

depth to the character? 

No, I know that my friend 

Tony Chestnut does, so he’s 

divorced and he has a whole 

storyline. I haven’t with Lady 

Bubbles. 

Your name in real life and 

your day job is? 

Mark Jackson, I’m 32, I work 

in retail, at Prebbleton Fresh 

Choice. I got made redundant 

because of the Covid thing 

(last year, from my former 

job, at) Craddocks Car Storage 

at the airport. I also operate 

Around a Bounce bouncy 

castle hire, Inflated Balloon 

Decorating and Drag It Out 

entertainment. 

In being a drag queen, 

do you have to be a bit of a 

stand-up comic, you must be 

a naturally funny person are 

you? 

I am to a point, but you know, 

you have to be quick off the 

cuff, like real quick. One of my 

favourite sayings right now and 

when I’m out in town is “All 

noodles are straight until they 

get wet.” 

You have that natural 

performance ability, where 

do you think that comes 

from? 

I don’t really know, because 

everyone in my family, no-one’s 

really creative. My main interest 

at high school was horticulture. 

Nothing that I did at school 

relates to anything that I do 

now.


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OPINION 21 

What we should learn 

from Jake Millar’s failure 

Andrew Barnes, founder of Perpetual 

Guardian and a major proponent of the 

four-day week, comments on the collapse 

of Unfiltered, the international company 

set up by former Christchurch Boys’ High 

School head boy Jake Millar 

SUCCESS HAS many fathers, 

while failure is an orphan, 

the saying goes. But if you 

watched or listened to the media 

commentary surrounding the 

recent collapse of Unfiltered, the 

business founded by Jake Millar, 

whose backers included some 

notable figures with triumphs 

and disasters of their own, you’d 

be forgiven for thinking that 

failure was a prime source of 

entertainment among those who 

should know better. 

Most everyone who has had 

any success in any sphere of 

public life, if they are honest and 

possess even an iota of humility, 

will tell you that failure has been 

their greatest teacher; a necessary 

ingredient in their ultimate 

success. 

What if Richie McCaw had 

come off that Cardiff pitch 

in 2007, the graveyard of his 

dreams and a nation’s expectations, 

and taken all the criticism 

– which was relentless for weeks, 

if not four entire years – to heart? 

What if he’d quit? To his credit, 

he had enough faith in himself 

SCRUTINISED: Unfiltered founder Jake Millar was under heavy scrutiny after the collapse 

of his company. Below: Millar interviewed some of the most famous people in global 

to lead his team to back-to-back 

World Cup victories, confirm his 

place as the GOAT, and shut his 

detractors up forever – but our 

young entrepreneurs, facing the 

same kind of opprobrium and 

vitriol, may not be able to summon 

the same resilience, and we 

will all be poorer for it. 

The business world is no different. 

Take Y Combinator, one of 

the most prestigious incubators 

in the United States. Thousands 

of entrepreneurs compete to get 

into the programme, which has a 

staggeringly low acceptance rate 

of about 1.5 per cent (even Harvard’s 

rate is three times higher). 

You could be forgiven for thinking 

that having been subject 

to such intensive evaluation, 

accepted businesses would have 

a strong chance of success, but 

evidence shows the failure rate of 

businesses in the programme is 

above 90 per cent. Think about 

that: Of 10,000 start-ups applying, 

only 150 get accepted, and of 

those just 10 become successful. 

Creating a business from scratch 

is harder than it looks. Even con- 

business. 

ventional businesses have failure 

rates of over 90 per cent. 

Business itself has changed to 

a remarkable degree since the 

pre-digital age. Historically, a 

successful business was judged 

by its profitability and balance 

sheet, yet today many businesses 

are not profitable (Uber) or even 

tangible (Bitcoin), yet are still 

viewed as successful enterprises 

or sound prospects for investment. 

A mere tweet by Elon 

Musk about cryptocurrency 

Dogecoin sent the share price up 

by nearly 25 per cent – but what 

true value was added? In terms 

of how we evaluate a given business, 

often hope and expectation 

are now equal to whatever “real” 

value the business may possess. 

All of this illustrates a couple 

of things: Our culture and 

economy is often placing the 

wrong value on businesses – 

ranking noise, hype, brand 

presentation and influencer 

status above measurable output, 

productivity and profit – and 

we are too quick to blame and 

punish entrepreneurs for this 

larger cultural failing. If a 

business like Tesla (sometimes 

valued higher than all the other 

major car companies combined) 

ultimately doesn’t work because 

it can’t justify a share price that 

was heavily influenced by Elon 

Musk (himself one of the most 

confounding figures of the digital 

era), is that the fault of Tesla’s 

founder, or of all the people who 

rushed to invest based on tweets 

or FOMO? 

What are we doing to our 

young entrepreneurs by compounding 

their setbacks with 

ridicule and cruel hot takes? 

Why would any up-and-coming 

business person or founder have 

a go if the price of failure is this 

high? What does it do to their 

mental health? And if they do 

come up short, why would they 

ever get out of bed and try again? 

Evidence suggests that entrepreneurs 

with at least one failure 

behind them are more likely to 

build a successful business in 

the future. Certainly, founder 

worship of the kind we’ve seen 

in Silicon Valley may be going 

too far in one direction, but if 

every bright, ambitious Kiwi is 

intimidated into playing followthe-leader 

in their career, we’ve 

relinquished the particular advantage 

we have in our market. 

If our attitude in New Zealand 

business and media culture is 

that failure is unacceptable and 

will be mocked and punished 

brutally, we will make Kiwi entrepreneurship 

extinct, and fast. 

We will not have innovation in 

New Zealand, we will not grow, 

the new brain drain will accelerate, 

and you can forget opportunities 

for start-up investment, 

new industry development and 

any kind of pace in economic 

recovery. 

As Churchill said, success is 

not final; failure is not fatal. It 

is the courage to continue that 

counts. 

– NZ Herald 

Making a special Children’s Day of our own 

I WAS really sad to see that 

the hugely popular annual 

Children’s Day event had to be 

cancelled due to the uncertainty 

of the Covid alert level we will be 

under on Sunday. 

This is one of those events 

where the city comes together in 

a celebration of children. Over recent 

years it has brought a piece of 

the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor 

alive – a place that used to be full 

of homes filled with children. 

It got me thinking though. We 

don’t actually need a Children’s 

Day to do some things that are 

amazing with our children or 

grandchildren. 

About three years ago, 

Canterbury and Lincoln universities 

signed up to provide Te 

Mayor 

Lianne Dalziel 

Mātāpuna Mātātahi | Children’s 

University, which is the first of 

its kind in New Zealand. For the 

younger students they earn their 

Passport to Learning and the 

older ones earn their Passport to 

Volunteering. This came off the 

back of our relationship with our 

sister city of Adelaide which will 

be officially 50-years-old next 

year. 

I met with members of the 

amazing Children’s University 

team the other day, and we got 

talking about the incredible 

opportunities the programme 

offers to young people who essentially 

explore the city as part 

of their learning experience. 

There are 121 learning destinations, 

but some of them you may 

not even have heard about. 

Did you know the Teece 

Museum of Classical Antiquities 

featuring The Logie Collection 

– a teaching and research 

collection of artefacts from 

Greek, Roman, Egyptian and 

Near Eastern cultures – was in 

the heart of the city? It’s in the 

old Chemistry building in the 

Arts Centre (south quadrangle) 

and is open from 11am-3pm 

Wednesday to Sunday. 

So let’s make Sunday a special 

Children’s Day of our own.


22 

LETTERS 


Readers respond to former newspaper editor Karl du Fresne’s column on New Zealand and 

responses last week to the column 

It looks like this ageing white 

Marxist, PC, vociferous 

socialist/communist, left wing 

looney “cancel culture”, hate 

speech opposing, woke leftist, 

Maoriisationist (if that is even 

a word), “Comrade Ardern” 

supporting hard-left Marxist 

who clearly lacks common 

sense (sorry I may have missed 

a few) is clearly outnumbered by 

eminently sensible enthusiasts 

for Karl du Fresne’s lament. 

My liberal bleeding-heart 

gushes volumes at the thought 

of those poor souls who are terrified 

of speaking their minds 

for fear of being labelled a racist, 

which of course they clearly are 

not. 

Not even a little bit! 

Some will even have best 

friends who are Maori and or 

Pacifica or maybe even Chinese, 

Somali, Indian or Eritrean. 

I am proud of the labels you 

bestow on me for they are the 

only titles I am likely to achieve. 

They give me the courage to 

contemplate me and my male descendants’ 

losing our automatic 

entitlement to a life of heterosexual 

white male privilege and 

being forced to stand upon our 

own feet. – David Marra 

How refreshing was it to read a 

brilliantly written article regarding 

the Labour Government. 

We are all expected to jump 

on the bandwagon regarding 

climate change, without looking 

at both sides of this argument. 

Most of what is written in our 

daily newspapers and TV1 and 

TV3 news items are only one 

part of what is actually happening. 

No wonder people are agreeing 

that we need to pay billions to 

the Paris Agreement for climate 

change. They only see one side. 

We believe we need to look 

after our planet and have always 

believed in recycling and growing 

fruit and vegetables as much 

as we can. 

It was not the plastic supermarket 

bags , that are now 

banned, they didn’t throw 

themselves in the rivers and seas. 

It was humans. 

We feel left out by this Labour 

Government. 

And why pick on the farmers. 

They have been the backbone of 

our country and are now being 

encouraged to grow trees instead 

of raising animals. –Joanne 

and Roger Nicolson 

Karl du Fresne does seem to 

have struck a chord with many 

of The Star’s readers although I 

don’t see many of the changes as 

being derived from communist 

traditions, more historical revision 

which may or may not be 

valid. 

What does disturb me is the 

random spread of Te Reo. Suddenly 

dual names are appearing 

everywhere, whether or not they 

are relevant. 

Otautahi, superglued to 

Christchurch, is particularly 

irksome. 

I gather Otautahi was the 

name of a small locality, presumably 

a Ngai Tahu eeling encampment 

near where Kilmore St 

meets the Avon River. It’s a 

stretch to transfer that name to 

everything from the sea to Sockburn 

and from the Port Hills to 

the Waimakariri River. 

Which begs the next logical 

question. If, like the Welsh, we 

are to dual name every locality 

and service, how are we to manage 

all the current Maori/Te Reo 

names? Will the Waimakariri 

River, road, district and electorate 

revert to the Courtney River 

etc? 

What suggestions are going 

to be forthcoming for Tai Tapu, 

Aranui, Mairehau, Wairakei, 

Papanui, Wairarapa, Turanga, 

Wharenui, Opawa, Wainoni 

or He Puna Taimoana? – Ian 

Orchard 

I could have done myself 

real damage when I fell off my 

chair laughing at the ridiculous 

comments in the letters over the 

current Labour Government. 

Socialist, Marxist’, I wish! 

What a joke, I would vote for 

them if I had any inkling they 

might actually do something 

about child poverty and numerous 

other things that make 

inequality such a deal. 

As for our history, sure include 

the Onawe massacre and all 

the other massacres that were 

carried out most of them in the 

name of colonisation and the 

subjugation of Maori. 

I am looking forward to the 

day when this city is called Otautahi 

and our country Aotearoa, 

why on earth would we keep a 

Dutch name conferred on this 

country in 1642. – Bronwen 

Summers 

The tsunami of support for 

Karl du Fresne’s article demonstrates 

the dearth of conservative 

opinion pieces in our main 

stream media which is dominated 

by journalists who are left 

leaning and sycophantly support 

an increasingly incompetent 

government which has run out 

of excuses and diversions, for 

their obvious failures. 

Trivial, nebulous matters, such 

as inclusiveness, diversity, wellness, 

gender studies, colonisation 

(move on; it has happened) 

dominate the narrative and 

distract from things that matter, 

like housing. 

Endless inquiries and new 

drones that destroy value and 

add none. Maori Health Authority, 

more bureaucrats, do Maori 

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Maori have different issues at 

local government level? 

The woke wallies of the left, 

supported by a complicit mainstream 

media. who, instead of 

ridiculing these cancel culture 

warriors, say so and this is some 

of the things Karl is trying to 

highlight. – Paul Grainger 

Karl du Frense did an excellent 

job in uncovering the real intentions 

of our Government and 

specifically our prime minister – 

comrade Jacinda Ardern. 

It is quite obvious that the 

Government is doing everything 

that it can to erode the freedom 

of speech under the guise of 

“hate speech” law. We can 

rephrase this new law as the “restrictions 

of freedom of speech” 

law. 

This is the first classic step 

of any totalitarian regime and 

you just need to read the history 

books. 

Independent media has long 

gone – the news became alternate 

reality that doesn’t reflect 

the real intentions of the government. 

This is not a surprise considering 

that the Government gave 

$50 million dollars to “support” 

the media just a few months ago. 

You need to be blind not to see 

that the Government literally 

bought the media. 

The media became a state 

sponsored propaganda machine 

– Pravda in disguise. – Micheal 

Edwards 

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Fresne’s column is now 

closed 

Covid leadership 

The prime minister when 

asked what repercussions be 

applied to the individual who 

has caused such chaos within the 

whole country calmly passed the 

buck to the New Zealand Police. 

Over the 12 or so months since 

the outbreak of Covid-19 world 

wide every country has been 

caught off guard about how to 

handle the situation. We are in 

most cases in uncharted waters 

with new variant strains cropping 

up periodically and how we 

deal with this problem. 

Being New Zealand’s prime 

minister in these uncertain 

times she should be showing 

some extreme leadership and 

state quite forcefully that charges 

should be laid against this individual 

as a lesson, so we do not 

have copycat further events. – 

Cyril Smith 

Stalker sentence 

Yes, the police should appeal 

the lax sentence given to stalker 

Jason Knowles (The Star, February 

25), and his lawyer Simon 

Shamy should be censured, and 

blacklisted by all fair-minded 

people. 

“Lower level offending” 

he says? Short of rape and 

murder this offending is the 

nastiest, scariest most menacing 

behaviour a woman could 

experience. 

My heart goes out to her. 

I say put Knowles away 

for a long time and move his 

unfortunate wife and children 

to a place of safety before he’s 

released. – June Peka 

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since Environment Canterbury 

climate-change emergency 

Long Term Plan – good things take time 

by sea-level rise this century and threatened and facing increased restore regional biodiversity. 

our productive and protected land pressures due to river system I hope you can find time to at 

Environment 

jeopardised by the arrival and change. 

least skim through each section 

spread of new, exotic weeds and Wetlands are also ecosystems 

Canterbury Chair 

of the draft plan. Consultation 

pests from warmer climates. at-risk nationally and regionally, starts on March 8 and runs until 

Jenny Hughey 

All these eventualities have degraded by draining, damming April 11, with hearings scheduled 

at the end of April. 

to be planned and prepared for, and diversion affecting their 

TEN and YEARS enhance may that sound work. like a diversity fleet hybrid and biosecurity or long-range during electric 

and Environment Canterbury ability to sequester carbon, In the consultation material 

long That time work but, included environmental setting the by next 2022. decade. Carbon emissions from 

will remain in the vanguard of cleanse freshwater and mitigate we have put forward two options 

terms, up a climate-change it is the blink of integration an eye. air We travel have across some really the organisation 

these climate change efforts. flooding, as well as impacting on – they come with different levels 

exciting, One example is the $40 million biodiversity and mahinga kai. 

programme Some of our in most the Long-term important Plan and are crucial, offset via programmes our own biodiversity 

of rates needed and different 

in this Waimakariri River flood 

With biosecurity, we are 

work 2018-28, takes ensuring a good deal climate of time. change area, programmes. 

activity. It is now over to the 

ones that will help bolster protection project, completed putting greater emphasis on the 

There was actively are very considered few quick fixes across a natural According environment to a Madworld which report 

community to have your say, and 

late last year. The network of risks of new pests establishing 

that workstreams, can be achieved increasing just visibility a few supports in 2019, cultural, our gross physical emissions and were 

I am looking forward to your 

floodgates and stopbanks will in Canterbury. Warming 

weeks of the or science months. and what we know economic 2253 tonnes well-being of carbon for dioxide all. CRUCIAL: Pest management is one of the important input. The easiest way to find out 

about Canterbury the impact regional of climate councillors 

change have on taken Canterbury, exciting and liaising critical removals work of is 7883 in pest tonnes manage- 

of CO2- 

online at haveyoursay.ecan.govt. 

(CO2) Some of equivalent, the council’s compared most with programmes 

protect half a million 

in the 

people 

proposed 

and 

Long 

temperatures, 

Term Plan. 

changing soils and more and give your feedback is 

$8 billion of community and new land uses mean new weeds 

gramme business and assets the South from a Island possible We especially, need to will make be sure able to agencies, 

better organisations foothold across and individu- 

the region. 

gain a 

well-being on the issue approach with iwi to and our regional ment, equivalent to ensure through we protect our efficiency 

nz/LTP 

our Councils’ “super flood”. Biosecurity Alliance. 

Long-Term partners, other Plan local Te Pae authorities Tawhiti biodiversity, efforts and mahinga from forestry kai and planting 

It’s vital we have a robust and 

These The enable last major us to share flood knowledge 

December and resources, 1957, when and deliver parts implement curb reliance revival on strategies fossil fuels and and 

was in als work More closely broadly, to develop we have and to 

2021-31. and central We have government. just approved economic across 2700 production. hectares. 

widely accepted Long-Term Plan 

the As Deciding an organisation, What the we Future have of When The changing it comes to climate pests, will we pose 

that charts our aspirations into 

more of Coutts efficient Island programmes in Belfast for and do find our environmentally best, at Environment suitable the years ahead and explains 

Canterbury also made significant Looks Like progress consultation 

addressing document our for own the greenhouse- 

Long- to in work Canterbury. hard to prevent In recent new years Long-Term flow peaking Plan at there 3990 is cubic provi- 

in a hydrogen, way that to protects power braided- 

our public be funded. If you have any 

in need many to empower risks to life all and Cantabrians livelihood communities. Kainga were In swamped our proposed by river Canterbury, alternatives, to such manage as electricity our land and clearly how our activities will 

Term gas emissions, Plan 2021-31, with which our will and we emerging have seen pests how occasional, and invasive sion metres for work per second using a (cumecs). mix of river transport. values. 

questions, feel free to contact 

be Christchurch available from building March receiving 8. The a organisms but extreme, gaining weather any events kind of have central The protection government scheme funds has and been We When also want my predecessor to manage and Steve your local regional councillor. 

draft “market-leading” Long-Term Plan energy sets efficiency out foothold had huge here. effects on residents and some designed ratepayer to defend support Christchurch – to maintain Lowndes regional retired parks as chair and of Their contact details are on 

what rating we of want 5.0 out to achieve of 6 in the for year the infrastructure We want to support around large-scale the South enable from the a flood creation of as of much jobs as and 6500 propose this council sponsoring late last or year, supporting 

highlighted at least three some events of the each big year 

he the Environment Canterbury 

region to February during on the the next National decade. biosecurity Island. partnerships, such the cumecs. fast tracking of wilding pine 

Australian 

website. 

We are now Built seeking Environment your as Pest-Free The driest Banks parts Peninsula of our region, to clearance Environment in the region. Canterbury’s which changes connect the the way. community He was 

views Rating about System the New programmes Zealand. protect along and the Marlborough enhance biodiversity coast and Work leadership to protect of biodiversity and revive and our with optimistic the rivers, we including would be finishing 

deal The with Willows the “pressing development issues” in of 

able to 

• Cr Jenny Hughey is chair 

and The priorities building’s we are features proposing. include 

across Te much Pātaka of o the Rākaihautū, Canterbury incredible biosecurity braided programmes rivers is is also also a 

of the Canterbury Regional 

These 184 solar plans panels take an which intergenerational 

generate more approach than 55,000 to keep drier. It’s vital North-westerly also continue storms are section concerns. of the draft Long-Term Park. I share his confidence. As a 

can Kaitorete Plains, are and expected the Port to Hills. get even consideration underpinned in by the climate-change 

biodiversity the climate Waimakariri change River and sustainability. 

Regional 

Council (Environment 

Canterbury) 

us kilowatt moving hours and ensure of electricity a resilient per strengthening predicted to become collaborative more biosecurity 

with torrential partnerships alpine at rainstorms the local, Braided rivers are defining stream I’d like to mention is Me 

intense, Plan. Canterbury’s distinct braided One community, other really and worthy as a council, work- 

future year. for Waitaha, our Canterbury 

There region. has been 26% reduction regional turning and our national braided rivers levels, into 

rivers and unique wetlands face we are taking some bold steps to 

features many challenges. of our region The and rivers are form Uru ensure Rākau, we in are which in a better we propose place to 

per I’d staff like 

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landslides crucial a vital ecological corridors link and provide from 

Canterbury 

to work cope with at grassroots the changing level climate with 

one since of my 30 June special 2010. interests We now and have Conifer and causing Control widespread Programme, erosion. the an Southern abundant Alps food to supply the Pacific and landowners the tests and it community will set us. But 

outline access what declared to electric is proposed and hybrid for bio- 

Wallaby a climate-change Canterbury’s Management coastal Pro- 

Ocean. emergency 

nesting grounds for 26 species of groups there to will protect, always plant be a need and to do 

vehicles and hope to have half our communities will be threatened native birds – most classified as more. 

JENNY HUGHEY explains what 

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The formal declaration of a 

state of climate emergency across 

Canterbury was one of the most 

serious, and colourful, moments 

in the regional council’s more than 

30-year history. 

A year ago this Saturday, 

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Canterbury became New Zealand’s 

first council to proclaim such an 

emergency, formally dedicating 

itself to consideration of climate 

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The declaration highlighted 

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In declaring the climate 

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That work included setting 

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was actively considered across 

workstreams, increasing visibility 

of the science and what we know 

about the impact of climate 

change on Canterbury, and liaising 

on the issue with iwi and regional 

partners, other local authorities 

and central government. 

As an organisation, we have 

also made significant progress in 

addressing our own greenhousegas 

emissions, with our 

Christchurch building receiving a 

“market-leading” energy efficiency 

rating of 5.0 out of 6 in the year 

to February on the National 

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by 2022. Carbon emissions from 

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are offset via our own biodiversity 

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According to a Madworld report 

in 2019, our gross emissions were 

2253 tonnes of carbon dioxide 

(CO2) equivalent, compared with 

removals of 7883 tonnes of CO2- 

equivalent through our efficiency 

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efforts and from forestry planting 

across 2700 hectares. 

The changing climate will pose 

many risks to life and livelihood 

in Canterbury. In recent years 

we have seen how occasional, 

but extreme, weather events have 

had huge effects on residents and 

infrastructure around the South 

Island. 

The driest parts of our region, 

along the Marlborough coast and 

across much of the Canterbury 

Plains, are expected to get even 

drier. North-westerly storms are 

predicted to become more intense, 

with torrential alpine rainstorms 

turning our braided rivers into 

roaring rapids, fuelling landslides 

and causing widespread erosion. 

Canterbury’s coastal 

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protect half a million people and 

$8 billion of community and 

business assets from a possible 

“super flood”. 

The last major flood was in 

December 1957, when parts 

of Coutts Island in Belfast and 

Kainga were swamped by river 

flow peaking at 3990 cubic 

metres per second (cumecs). 

The protection scheme has been 

designed to defend Christchurch 

from a flood of as much as 6500 

cumecs. 

Environment Canterbury’s 

leadership of biodiversity and 

biosecurity programmes is also 

underpinned by climate-change 

concerns. 

Canterbury’s distinct braided 

rivers and unique wetlands face 

many challenges. The rivers form 

a vital ecological link and provide 

an abundant food supply and 

nesting grounds for 26 species of 

native birds – most classified as 

threatened and facing increased 

pressures due to river system 

change. 

Wetlands are also ecosystems 

at-risk nationally and regionally, 

degraded by draining, damming 

and diversion affecting their 

ability to sequester carbon, 

cleanse freshwater and mitigate 

flooding, as well as impacting on 

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highlighted some of the big 

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optimistic we would be able to 

deal with the “pressing issues” of 

climate change and sustainability. 

I share his confidence. As a 

community, and as a council, 

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cope with the changing climate 

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You are now nearing the peak of your preparation. 

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SPORT 


Sorry darling no tennis: You have a wedding 


ELMWOOD NO.1 Elliot 

Darling understandably has 

another match as his priority 

when the club strives to make 

the Tennis Canterbury men’s 

premier interclub final. 

Darling’s prior commitment, 

his marriage to Holly Silk on 

Saturday afternoon, means both 

line-ups at Wilding Park have 

been jilted, in a way. 

Elmwood lose Darling and his 

best man, and brother, Lawrence, 

while Country Ashburton must 

also contend without their top 

player, Jack Tiller. 

Covid-19 restrictions means 

the wedding is limited to 100 

people, with Darling admitting 

there was no way Tiller, a former 

clubmate at Elmwood, was missing 

the cut. 

“He’s still there. If I cut him 

he’d be playing tennis this weekend,” 

Darling laughed. 

“I had to make a few awkward 

phone calls but everyone has been 

pretty understanding about it.” 

Tennis Canterbury schedule 

was not available when the 

date for the nuptials was set 18 

months ago, though Elmwood 

and Country Ashburton at least 

had plenty of notice that personnel 

changes were necessary in 

Holly Silk & 

Elliot Darling 

the playoffs. 

The other semifinal 

between 

defending champion 

Waimairi 

and Cashmere 

has also been 

impacted with 

Matt Meredith’s 

invite weakening last season’s 

runner-ups. 

The semi-finals were confirmed 

last weekend when Te 

Kura Hagley’s hopes were dashed 

in spite of a 5-1 over bottomplaced 

Shirley. 

Waimairi nabbed the final spot 

in spite of a 4-2 loss to Country 

Ashburton; Elmwood achieved 

the same margin over tabletopping 

Cashmere. 

Tiller’s absence harms the 

squad’s hopes of capping their 

return to the competition this 

season with a spot in the decider, 

but regardless of the outcome he 

was rapt with their campaign. 

“Going we could have been 

seen as a team to make up the 

numbers but we had a goal from 

the start of the season to really 

push for a semi-final spot so 

(qualifying) third is awesome,” 

he said. 

“Our players have really 

stepped up to the task. Sam 

(Bubb) and Ben (Smith) have won 

a lot of matches that on paper 

they probably shouldn’t have.” 

Meanwhile, Waimairi captain 

Matt Woolman was delighted 

with his team’s strong finish to 

the regular season ahead of a 

semi-final against a keen rival 

they beat in the previous two 

finals. 

“It’s been an interesting season 

for us. We’ve had a slow start 

with a few players leaving or 

unavailable but it’s been amazing 

to have some of the younger guys 

step up. They’ve been crucial in 

the second half of the season,” 

he said. 

England should consider Robertson 

New Zealand Herald 

sports writer Gregor 

Paul ponders over 

what could be Scott 

Robertson’s next 

move 

ONE JUGGERNAUT rolled on 

this week, while another rolled 

over. We also had the draw for 

the 2023 world cup confirmed 

and three seemingly disparate 

events are potentially all connected 

and potentially destined 

to converge in a dramatic outcome. 

The juggernaut that rolled on 

was the Crusaders. The one that 

rolled over was England and the 

draw reminded everyone that 

more than ever, the game needs 

a landmark occasion and the 

world cup in 2023 is destined to 

carry extra significance given 

the disruption which has been 

experienced since last year. 

Where these three points possibly 

converge is Scott Robertson 

being head-hunted to shift from 

Christchurch to London to grab 

hold of an under-performing and 

unimaginative England team 

later this year and reposition 

them as unpredictable and creative 

by the time they go to France 

in 2023. 

That thought must be starting 

to form in the minds of a few key 

English executives. 

The Rugby Football Union 

has made a long-term 

commitment to Eddie 

Jones but the irascible 

Australian is 

taking 

England 

backwards. 

Three games into their Six 

Nations campaign and England 

have lost to Scotland and Wales. 

That’s enough by itself to put 

Jones’ neck in the metaphoric 

noose. 

But the results are only half 

the problem. England have the 

habits of the schoolyard bully, 

but none of the mentality. 

They have played with a stunningly 

narrow vision that makes 

everyone wonder whether Jones, 

a brilliant and innovative thinker, 

is suffering from the coaching 

equivalent of writer’s block. 

England at the moment can’t 

win big games and they certainly 

can’t win the hearts of the casual 

rugby fan, meekly asking for 

lunch money and then lacking 

the conviction or ability to 

actually forcefully take 

it when the opposition 

say no. 

At the moment, 

observing paint dry 

comes first, looking 

at grass grow second 

and watching 

England play 

rugby a distant 

third. This at a 

time when coffers 

are empty and 

rugby is in desperate 

fight for the 

entertainment 

dollar. 

Jones survived a similar 

episode of under-performance 

before – when there was discontent 

at England HQ after a 

catastrophically bad Six Nations 

in 2018 where they finished fifth 

and then lost a series to South 

Africa. 

Jones survived that as he had 

pre-empted that there may be a 

slump in his third-year – warned 

his employer it was inevitable 

after such an initially strong two 

years – and did indeed bounce 

England back into top form later 

that year. 

But Jones is in year six with 

England and that makes it 

imperative to ask whether he’s 

simply hit the wall this time – 

lost his ability to poke about inside 

his players’ heads and 

bring them towards 

his vision. 

It might be that 

he no longer has 

a vision and 

his employer 

has 

a massive 

decision to 

make whether 

they back him 

through another 

two years 

or decide it’s 

time for a fresh 

start. 

England coach Eddie Jones 

Former All Blacks coach 

Steve Hansen long argued that 

international teams should make 

coaching changes in the middle 

of world cup cycles. He reckoned 

that the impact would be greater 

doing that – and England surely 

must be wondering what would 

happen if they ousted Jones after 

the Six Nations and brought in 

Robertson? 

If nothing else, England would 

at least have a more defined 

sense of purpose and a gameplan 

that made sense as well 

as exciting the players 

and fans. 

Razor, on the basis 

of the Crusaders’ 

first performance 

in Super Rugby 

Aotearoa 2021, 

has a magical 

means of invigorating players, 

reimagining gameplans and hitting 

on a higher purpose vision 

that keeps everyone chasing the 

impossible. 

The Crusaders didn’t flow 

quite how they wanted against 

the Highlanders but the unmissable 

key to their victory was the 

commitment of their defence. 

They threw themselves about in 

such a way that it was impossible 

not to be impressed and 

while there was some forgettable 

execution on attack, so too were 

there deadly clinical strikes in 

the first half. 

The speed and skill at the 

heart of their first two tries was 

extraordinary – the second one 

in particular coming directly 

off a scrum was testament to the 

belief, confidence and skill-sets 

of a team that has a depth of 

understanding about what their 

coach wants them to do. 

And on that basis, imagine 

what Razor could do with England. 

He could leave one juggernaut, 

get behind the wheel of another 

and drive them to France 2023 as 

a nearly unstoppable force. 

– NZ Herald


SPORT 31 

Crusaders prop on notice after Moody blue 

ABRASIVE CRUSADERS prop 

Joe Moody has been told to keep 

his head after being fortunate 

to avoid sanctions for a flurry 

of admittedly innocuous blows 

to the face of a Highlanders 

opponent. 

The All Black landed the openhanded 

slaps on Irish lock Jack 

Regan on the opening minutes 

of the Super Rugby Aotearoa 

champions tournament-opening 

win in Dunedin, with referee Ben 

O’Keeffe subsequently admitting 

Moody should have been sinbinned 

rather than penalised. 

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Crusaders forward coach Jason 

Ryan said Moody, who had 

been held off the ball by Ryan, 

was reminded to keep his emotions 

in check ahead of Sunday’s 

clash with the Hurricanes at 

Orangetheory Stadium. 

“Joe and I had a really honest 

conversation, and it was pretty 

clear he got that wrong,” Ryan 

told media yesterday. 

“Even though he was completely 

taken out of the maul and 

held back, there’s ways he can 

swipe off and get back. 

“He’s taken it on the chin, and 

we’ve talked about it as forward 

pack as well.” 

A review of the 26-13 victory 

at Forsyth Barr focused on discipline 

after the Crusaders were 

penalised 15 times, prompting a 

rebuke from Highlanders head 

coach Tony Brown. 

He blasted the 11-time Super 

Rugby champions cynical 

play after Ethan Blackadder 

and captain Scott Barrett were 

yellow-carded. 

“I think it’s a theme for all 

teams,” Ryan said. 

“Assistant referees are wired 

up, they’re trying to get everyone 

onside and it’s consistent. That’s 

all you can ask for.” 

Meanwhile, key backs Will 

Jordan (ribs) and David Havili 

(concussion) are available to 

strengthen an already All 

Black-laden backline to face a 

Hurricanes side that dropped 

their opener 31-16 to the Blues 

in Wellington on Saturday night. 

The Blues have the bye this 

weekend while the Chiefs make 

their season debut against 

the Highlanders in Hamilton 

tomorrow night. 

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FROM STARLET to Echo to 

Yaris, Toyota’s small car range 

has been widely accepted in New 

Zealand through the years. 

I’d have expected nothing less, 

each of those models represented 

efficiency, practicality and longevity. 

Yaris is still around, just recently 

a new-generation model 

landed in New Zealand and it 

also gets a new three-cylinder 

engine that is a bit of a departure 

for Toyota. 

Nevertheless, in the three drives 

I had in that model last year it 

quickly charmed me with its 

honesty and overall performance. 

What’s more, there are also 

hybrid options in Yaris, Toyota’s 

formidable electric drive system 

hooked to the three-potter. 

Toyota has now gone one step 

further, the Yaris is also available 

as Yaris Cross, a funkier car that 

is also a little larger all round. Notably, 

it is also taller, 30mm added 

to the ride height. That might not 

seem like much, but it does make 

a significant difference to those 

who aren’t quite so agile, entry 

and egress is much easier, and 

ground clearance is just that little 

bit more user-friendly. With the 

extra length there is more space 

inside in which to be comfortable. 

Interestingly, Toyota claims 

the Yaris Cross sits in the sport 

utility vehicle category, I’m a little 

ambivalent on that, I’m suggesting 

it’s more of a crossover model, 

that is also represented in the 

name. 

The Yaris Cross shares much the 

same driveline componentry as its 

stablemates, there are three models 

and, as you would have guessed, 

there are two hybrid options. This 

is some indication of where Toyota 

sees the use of fossil fuel and its 

environmental impacts. Never 

before have New Zealand buyers 

seen such a prolific array of hybrid 

options, and full credit to Toyota, 

the drivelines fit the concept of 

Yaris, in all forms, well. 

Prices for the Yaris Cross start 

at a tempting $29,990 for the 

GX-specification petrol-only 

model, an extra $4000 will get 

you into a GX hybrid, while the 

range-topping Limited hybrid sits 

at $38,990. 

This evaluation focuses on the 

two hybrids, and just like the car 

it is based on the hybrid system 

is something rather special. 

Firstly, I’m sold on three-cylinder 

engines, and the torquey characteristics 

of it hooked to the 

surge you get from electric power 

makes the Yaris Cross feel rather 

feisty. Acceleration from all areas 

is surprisingly swift, it will make 

100km/h from a standstill in 

11.4sec and will power through a 

highway overtake in around 7sec 

(80-120km/h). 

Toyota claims outputs of 67kW 

and 120Nm from the 1490cc 

petrol engine, add in an extra 

TRENDY: The Yaris Cross sits on the outer periphery of the 

sport utility vehicle market. 

TOYOTA YARIS CROSS: Hybrid or petrol-only drivelines. 

18kW of electric energy and it 

all equates to very respectable 

figures. 

Of course, we all relate to fuel 

efficiency when the term hybrid 

is used, and Toyota lists the Yaris 

Cross hybrid with a 3.8-litre per 

100km/h combined cycle average. 

That’s pretty much the same as 

the standard Yaris at 3.4l/100km 

and sits well with the 5l/100km 

figure during my time in both 

evaluation cars. At 100km/h there 

is a 4l/100km return instantaneously. 

When I picked up both 

vehicles they were full of fuel, 

each registering a 500km distance 

before refuelling, that’s quite impressive 

and I have no doubt that 

would be achievable. 

Bear in mind that the hybrid 

system is working constantly to 

prevent the internal combustion 

engine firing. Depending on 

throttle application and how you 

drive, considerable fuel savings 

can be made. It’s the best of both 

worlds really, fuel saving and 

solid boost when acceleration is 

required. That’s something that 

Toyota has done well with its 

hybrid system, and as further 

development comes through that 

equation will only be increased 

in time. 

As it is now I find the system 

quite remarkable even to the 

point where I’ve said many times 

before that I’d be tempted into a 

• Price – Toyota Yaris Cross 

hybrid GX, $33,990; 

Limited, $38,990 

• Dimensions – Length, 

4180mm; width, 1765mm; 

height, 1590mm 

• Configuration – Threecylinder, 

front-wheeldrive, 

1490cc, 67kW, 

120Nm, continuously 

variable automatic. 

• Performance – 

0-100km/h, 11.4sec 

• Fuel usage – 3.8l/100km 

hybrid, it’s doing just that little 

bit for the environment as well as 

getting a purposeful drive. 

Of course, the energy from 

both drive elements is channelled 

through a continuously variable 

transmission, it offers a seamless 

flow of energy and ratio change. 

The Yaris Cross is also a decent 

type of handler. Sure, with its 

extra height there are gravitational 

compromises, but the steering and 

overall balance is biased towards 

dynamic, there is solid steering 

feedback and precise corner turnin 

even in the base model which 

has tyres significantly smaller in 

diameter than the Limited. 

My testing time in the Limited 

was perfect. A blustery nor’west 

wind was belting the Canterbury 

Plains, it was a good test of 

Toyota’s crosswind assist safety 

program. It was quite noticeable 

in the way it corrected and 

adjusted steering to compensate. 

That’s just one part of Toyota’s 

extensive suite of safety technologies 

finding their way across the 

whole product range. 

Not only are safety features 

extensive in the Yaris Cross, well, 

the entire Yaris range actually, 

there are high levels of specification 

for comfort and convenience. 

Even in base model form 

there is still plenty to satisfy long 

after a purchase. What’s more, 

the trim materials and cosmetic 

detailing is high quality, adding to 

the comfort levels. 

I’d be happy with the GX model 

at $34k, but for those who do step 

up to Limited specification it’s nice 

to know you get a few extra goodies 

such as satellite navigation, 

head-up display, cloth and leather 

trim with heated front seats. 

Toyota hasn’t stopped there 

with Yaris and development of 

the three-cylinder concept. I’m 

due to drive the GR Yaris soon, as 

its nomenclature suggests it gets 

treatment from Toyota’s performance 

arm Gazoo Racing. The 

GR gets hefty turbocharged boost 

and a whole host of go-faster 

goodies. I can’t wait for that drive. 

In the interim, I’m also scheduled 

into the petrol-only Cross, 

I’m sure the entire range is going 

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or email darryl.p@theprogroup.co.nz 

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Approved Age Concern provider 

Over 30 years experience 

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N A BARRELL 

ROOFING LTD 

Ph: 0275 389 415 

Email: nabroofing@xtra.co.nz 


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trimming 

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Stump Grinding 

CALL us 021 405 277 

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(Kevin Garnett) 

30 Years 

Christchurch Botanic 

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ALL landscape 

work done. 

Maintenance, pruning, 

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and planting etc. 

Free Quotes 

Phone 348 3482 

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older painter 

for older houses 

50 years in trade 

“All the skills” 

GST FREE 

Contact Jimmy Bell 

0211221487 

30 years + experience 

Older house 

restorations: 

no problem! 

Quotes: FREE! 

Rates: Reasonable 

Paint supplied at 

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NO JOB TOO SMALL 

Light industrial also 

Roger Brott 

Painter & Decorator 

021-1966-311 

Building 

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& small job 

Specialists 

10% Discount 

with this voucher 

condtions apply 

Ph Wayne 

021 136 3045 

Qualified Builder 

go repairs 

ROOF 

PAINTING 24/7 

Rope & harness 

a speciality, 

no scaffolding 

required, 

30 years of 

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experience. 

FREE QUOTES 

20% OFF other 

roof quotes 

Exterior staining, 

exterior painting, 

water blasting. 

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treatment $300. 

Phone Kevin 

027 561 4629 

• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi 

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COMPUTER REPAIRS MOBILE CAR SPOUTING 

MILITARIA Any 

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country, firearms, 

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or 021 043 2034 

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Best price guarantee Tony buyer Phone 355-2045 

Book now CONCRETE CUTTING Free quotes. Int/ext & 0275 588 895 

Affordable Concrete roof painting Family run 

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and receive Cutting with Quality, and business, work guaranteed. 

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No job to small. Phone 027 

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Zac 021 1056 797 CLEANERS 

Rope and harness 442-2219, Fax 359-6052 

TREE SERVICES 

7877 or 379-1281. Website 

a/h 359- 4605 

Free quotes 20+ yrs exp. REQUIRED 

a speciality. 

www.swedekiwipainting. 

ELECTRICIAN 

Tree, hedge or shrub 

co.nz 

No scaffolding Registered, electrical 

- reduction, shaped or Christchurch Area 

PAINTER,QUALIFIED 

required. 

installation and repairs, 

removed. Ph/text Paul Monday to Friday 

local professional, Int / 

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The Branch Manager 3pm-6pm 

30 years 026 73375 or 03 322 4209 

Ext,roofs,wallpaper, call 

0274314720 

(Relieving work in schools) 

experience. ELECTRICIAN 

or text Corban 027 846 

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Available, 30 years 

5035 

We are looking for cleaners 

Hedges, shrubs, tree to join our commercial 

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trimming & removal, cleaning team. 

call Craig start, competitive rate, Indoor / Outdoor, over 30 rubbish removal, Ph for You will need to pass a 

ph Brian 027 433 9548 yrs exp, same day quotes, free quotes 022 540 4900 Security Check and you 

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ph Steve 021 255 7968 WINDOW CLEANING 

MUST have your 

own transport. 

ELECTRICIAN 

PAINTER 

Average 3 brm house 

AAA HANDYMAN 

Must be eligible to work 

All types of domestic New, older homes, inside or out from $45. 

licensed carpenter 

in New Zealand. 

& commercial work interior, exterior. We stand Both from $80 Phone 

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undertaken, new housing, by Canterbury. Ph Wayne Trevor 344-2170 

Please email your 

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Application to 

alterations, extensions, 0272 743 541, 385-4348 WINDOW CLEANING 

repairs, bathroom/shower 

csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz 

ranges, security lights, PAINTING 

Brown & White Ltd. 

installations, with free 

or phone 338 9056 

quick response, efficient All jobs, none too small. Family owned since 2001. 

quotes 03 383 1927 or 027 

Visit our website: 

service, free quotes, 

245 5226 ciey@xtra.co.nz 

Free quotes Affordable Ph Paul 027 229 3534 

totalcanterbury.co.nz 

city -wide. No call out 

ARBORIST 

rates. Seniors discounts. 

fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat 

Wanted To Buy Please advise which job 

Qualified. Copper 

James 0220 652 637 

Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027 

when emailing your CV. 

Beech Tree Services. 

PLASTERER 

7331384. 

STEVE PURCELL 

Tree removal, pruning, 

Phone Finn for all your 

ELECTRICIAN 

ANTIQUES 

height reduction, hedge 

interior plastering needs. 

Prompt & reliable 

trimming, shaping, tree 

No job too small - 

registered electrician 

planting, firewood. Free 

renovations, alterations, 

BUYING 

with 24 years experience 

quote. Contact Angus 

Situations Wanted - 

holes & cracks. Free 

for all residential and 

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Edwards 027 259 6741 

quotes. 25 yrs exp. Canty 

copperbeechtreeservices@ 

commercial work, new 

born. Ph 022 087 4351 

housing and switch board 

Gold jewellery, 

gmail.com 

replacements. Phone Chris 

PLASTERING (INT) watches, coins, PROOF 

BRICK & BLOCK 

027 516 0669 

and small painting jobs medals, scrap 

LAYING 

FENCING 

Experience and 

READING 

gold, sterling 

all restoration work 

All types of fencing . Free Excellence. Small to 

and new work plus 

silver, pewter, & editing 

quotes. Ph Jim 022 137 Medium job specialists 

foundations, ph 342 9340 

original paintings, 

1920 

in all aspects of Interior 

Business, Science, 

or 021 853 033 

GARDENING 

Plastering. Please call Tim modern art. Technical, General 

BUILDER QUALIFIED 

Weeding, Lawns, Hedges, 022 5380959 

351 9139 

$60 per hour 

50 yrs exp. Bathrooms, Pruning, Garden Cleanups. PLASTERER 

stevepurcellantiques.com 

carlaheslop@slingshot.co.nz 

Kitchens, Renovations, Call Phil The Gardener Available for Mid to Small AAA Buying goods See Linkedin for articles 

Repairs & Extensions 021 661 246 for your free jobs. Ph 022 430 0277 quality furniture, beds, 

Free quotes. Discount for quote. 

.Free quotes. 

stoves, washing machines, 

pensioners. Ph Mike 03 

GASFITTING 

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fridge freezers. Same day 

980 9771 or 027 2266 930 

N.T. Gas Services. DRAINAGE & GAS service. Selwyn Dealers. 

BUILDER QUALIFIED Domestic gas installations. No job to big or too small. Phone 980 5812 or 027 

Decks, T & G Flooring, Reg Craftsman Gas Fitter. Discount rates!!. Free 313 8156 

Villa Restoring, New Ph Nick 021 892 491 quotes - call Morgan today 

Homes, Weatherboards. GLAZIER 

022 375 8506 

Free Quotes. Bennet & Glass repairs - pet doors 

REMOVALS 

ALWAYS 

Sons Ltd Sam 027 496- - conservatory roofs. Exp 

9362 or Tony 027 224- 

Small furniture removals, 

Tradesman. Call Bill on 

BUYING 

0374 

have own van, can fit 

022 413 3504 or 981-1903 

various types of whiteware 

Estates, China, 

BUILDER, 

HANDY - DAN 

Antiques, Art, Royal 

HANDYMAN 

appliances, some furn, 

General Handyman for 

Albert, Royal Doulton 

MAINTENANCE 

bedding, boxes etc, honest 

all your maintenance 

etc. Best Prices, 

Have peace of mind with 

& reliable, any area 

requirements. I specialise 

considered, ph Chch 027 

Free Appraisal. Call 

a fully qualified owner in fences and decking, also 

Rob at 349-4229 or 

operater LBP. Available do spouting cleans and 

517 7001 

027 299 7232 

for all jobs around the repairs and everyday home ROOFING SERVICES 

academyantiques.co.nz 

home, commercial or maintenance. NO JOB TO Metal roofing & spouting. 

rental property (extremely BIG OR SMALL I can do Butyl rubber and flat A1 Albums, old photo’s, 

experienced in Healthy it all, please don’t hesitate rooves. Repairs, reroof postcards, coins, gold, 

Homes Reporting and to call me on 022 600 7738 and new build. 25 yrs bank notes, badges, 

all Remedial works) Call for a no obligation free experience.NZ Cert medals, jewellery, 

Chris on 027 3888 211 quote. 

and LBP qualified. Free watches, china, crystal, 

CARPET LAYING HANDYMAN 

quotes. Call Elliot 332- books, furs, vintage 

Exp. Repairs, uplifting, Some jobs don’t need a 9662 / 027 237 9431 clothing, paintings, 

relaying, restretching. tradie, so why pay more? RUBBISH REMOVAL furniture. Etcetera 

Phone John on 0800 Gardening, building, Van & Trailer Rubbish Antiques, 194 Edgeware 

003181, 027 240 7416 electrical, plumbing. No Removal. Free quotes. Ph Rd 385 5117 

jflattery@xtra.co.nz charge for quotes. Ph Dave Gary 342-8950, 021 529 

A flat wanted to buy North 

CARPENTER 

022 451 7314 

022 

Canterbury area, anything 

BUILDER 

HOME CLEANING 

considered. Cash buyer. 

RUBBISH REMOVAL 

Licensed Building SERVICES 

Please phone Yvonne 021 

Van & Trailer Rubbish 

Practitioner no. 100981. Regular Weekly or 

055 3751 

Removal. Free quotes. Ph 

All carpentry & building Fortnightly. Ring Vivien 

A+ Household effects, 

Gary 342-8950, 021 529 

repairs & maintenance. at 03 365 8422 for free 

fridges, freezers, washing 

022 

Alterations & property quotation 

machines, ovens. Good 

SPOUTING 

upgrades.Laundries / LANDSCAPING 

cash paid. Ph Paul 022 

Select Spouting 

bathroom / kitchens Paving, Lawns, Irrigation, 

0891 671 

replaced. Specialising in Decking, Fencing. 

The PVC specialist. ALL whiteware wanted. 

replacement of all rotten Kanga & small digger 

Repairs & replacement. Ph Same day service, cash 

timber, fascia boards, services. Check out Squire 022 197 2351 

paid for freezes, fridges, 

window, windowsills etc. Landscaping on facebook. SPOUTING CLEANING washing machines, ovens. 

John Sandford, ph 329 FREE QUOTES. Ph SPECIALIST 

Also buying furniture & 

4616, mob 027 5189 598 Arthur 347-8796, 027 Entire spouting system h/hold effects.Anything 

johnsandford2@gmail. 

com 

220-7014 Edwin 027 220- 

7154 

cleared. Single or 2 storey. 

Jo 021 164 0365 

considered. Ph Dave 960- 

8440, 027 66 22 116


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Trades & Professional Services 

To advertise: Phone 379 1100 or email star.class@starmedia.kiwi 

Builder 

DECORATORS 

DRIVEWAYS 

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BUILDers 

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• Licenced builder with 20 years 

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• A creative craftsman who is 

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• Quotes the job, does the job 

• Works with all budgets 

Andrew Drewitt 

Ph: 021 395 324 

Email: ad_designs@hotmail.com 

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Things we offer... 

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(Since 2005) 

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Painters and Decorators Ltd 

Canterbury Owned and Operated 

A husband and wife team 

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• Interior/exterior 

residential 

• Small commercial 

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Noel 027-411-3596 

kemp.painters@gmail.com 

kemp painters and decorators 

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Phone 03 377 1280 | Mobile 021 898 380 

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ROOF REPAIRS 

SCRAP METAL 

SHUTTLE SERVICE 

Gas FittinG & GuttER CLEaninG 

High reach gutter cleaning machine. 

No job too big or small. 

Local family run Christchurch/ 

Redcliffs business for all plumbing, 

drainage & gas work. 

Free Quotes 

Call Morgan 0223 758 506 

Visit our website - www.mtpd.co.nz 

Email - morgan@mtpd.co.nz 

Locally owned & operated with 

over 30 years experience. 

• Extensions & repair • Roof coating 

• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol 

• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified 

• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering 

Phone Dave 981 0278 

or 021 223 4200 

E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz 

BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD 

Dominion Trading Co Ltd 

• Scrap metal buyers 

• Canterbury owned & operated 

• Top prices paid $$$ 

• Open Saturday morning 

Open Mon-Fri 8am – 4.30pm Sat. 8.30am-12.30pm 

www.happyscrappy.co.nz 

03 343 9993 333 Blenheim Rd 

 

24 hour 

 

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Discount available with this advert 

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J & L Shuttles Ltd 

Ph 389-9879 or 389-9873 

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Towing 

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TREE SERVICES 

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call Ashley’s Tow Taxi 

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Breakdown & Relocation 

0800 TOW TAXI • 0800 869 8294 

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Branch chipping 

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P: 027 2299 454 

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401 Worcester St, Linwood 

Ph: 03 260 0325 

THE ENTERTAINMENT HUB OF THE NORTH! 

SUPER RUGBY LIVE ON OUR SCREENS 

SATURDAY 27 MARCH, 7.30PM 

MADSEN PROMOTIONS PRESENTS 

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TICKETS $30 AT THE CLUB 

BISTRO 

FEATURING 

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OPEN FROM 12PM 

WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY 

BAR HOURS 

MON 3PM-10PM 

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PRE-SALE TICKETS $25 | DOOR SALES $30


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SOME ENTERTAINMENT MAY BE 

AFFECTED BY COVID LEVEL RESTRICTIONS. 

LIVE MUSIC 

(PAVILION) 

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T20 CRICKET 

8PM FRIDAY 

26 MARCH 

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WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ 

christchurch 

GIG GUIDE 

Thursday 4 to Wednesday 10 March 2021 

The River City Jazzmen 

strut their stuff at the 

Riverside Jazz Club in 

Riverside Market tonight 

from 6-8pm. 

To add a listing, contact 

Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or 

027 458 8590 

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi 

www.star.kiwi/whatson 

‘Famous for their roasts!’ 

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Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm 

$23 

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& Motorlodge 

118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn, 

Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150 

www.racecoursehotel.co.nz 

12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Christchurch’s 

smoking hot BLUES BAR. Friday 7pm - Eat 

My Shorts. Saturday 8pm - Penny Blues. 

Sunday 4pm - Quiz. Wednesday 7pm - "Nova 

with Toes Dangling in Super Launching" 

poetry shindig feat. Melanie McKerchar; Isla 

Martin; Ciaran Fox; Erik Kennedy. 

A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St: 

Thursday 7.30pm - Cathcart Walsh & Blaikie, 

(L2 restrictions, must be seated), free; 9.30pm - 

Revolution Latin dancing, (L2 restrictions, 

private event), free. Friday 5.30pm - Brazilian 

Jam with Clube do Choro (L2 restrictions, 

must be seated); 9pm - Th' Goonz, (L2 

restrictions, must be seated), free. Saturday 9pm 

- Christchurch Pride Week presents Leather & 

Lace Party (ticketed private event). Monday 

7pm - Quiz Night, free. 

BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday 7pm 

- Mickey Rat's Karaoke. Friday 7pm - 

Krakkajack. Sunday 6pm - Mickey Rat's 

Karaoke. 

BOO RADLEYS, Level 1, 98 Victoria St: 

Thursday 9pm - Dan Pfeifer. Friday 8pm - 

Libby Baker; 10.30pm - VOXY Duo. Saturday 

8pm - Amber Carly Williams; 10.30pm - 

Chilton House. Wednesday 7.30pm - South 

Street Blues Trio; 9.30pm - Open Mic Night. 

BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO, 401 Worcester 

St: Saturday 6.30pm - Karaoke. Sunday 4pm - 

Bingo. 

CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, 3 Garlands Rd: 

Thursday 9pm - POSTPONED Raw Collective 

'The Good Things' LP Release Tour. 

HORNBY CLUB, Carmen Rd: Saturday 

7pm - Reminisce with Anthony (Pavilion). 

Sunday 3pm - Ian Mac (Pavilion). 

KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay: 

Saturday 27 March, 7.30pm - Madsen 

Promotions presents A Tribute to the Eagles + 

Kaiapoi Club cont... 

The Superstars! Show feat. Paul Madsen & 

band. Tickets $30 at the club. Saturday 24 

April, 8pm - DnD Showband presents ABBA 

& Fleetwood Mac, pre-sale tickets $25, doorsales 

$30. 

KENSINGTON FUN HOUSE, 185 

Manchester St: Tuesday 8pm - Stand-Up 

Comedy Open Mic. 

RACECOURSE HOTEL, 118 Racecourse 

Rd, Sockburn: Sunday 6pm - Lance Kiwi 

Karaoke. 

RICHMOND CLUB, 75 London St: Friday 

7pm - Cantora. Saturday 7pm - Krakkajack. 

Sunday 3pm - Steve McDaid. 

RIVERSIDE MARKET, 98 Oxford Tce: 

Thursday 6pm - River City Jazzmen, $10 entry. 

TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, Hornby: 

Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 8.30pm - Misfitz. 

THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: 

Thursday 9pm - Nexus. Friday 8pm - Open 

Mic. Wednesday 9pm - Titanic (Kevin 

Emmett, Nick Buchanan, and Peter K 

Malthus). 

THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd, 

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Next Saturday 13 March 7pm - Chur Bro. 

Coming up in April - Vague As Brothers. 

WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19 London 

St, Lyttelton: Thursday 8pm - Extra Jam 

Night. Friday 10pm - Seated House Music. 

Saturday 8pm - CyberManic; The High Kats; 

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ON SALE! 

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Offers and product prices advertised here expire 29/03/21. 

Sale excludes Manchester and Accessories.


TOWNHOUSES 

SELLING NOW 

At Riccarton Park


THE SCENE IS SET 

AT RICCARTON PARK 

Riccarton Park Village is selling now and will offer a contemporary 

village design set in picture perfect surroundings. The village will be 

unique to anything Ryman have built in Canterbury before. 

Nestled alongside Riccarton Racecourse, the village overlooks the 

racecourse, a feature pond and lush manicured gardens. So, even if 

racing isn’t your thing, the tranquil setting surely will be. Situated to 

the west of Christchurch city, the village also enjoys views to the iconic 

Port Hills, and with Yaldhurst Road running parallel to the village, 

you’ll have a direct route to the heart of the city. 

Townhouses feature a contemporary design aesthetic with 

asymmetrical exterior roofs. The village itself offers a newly designed 

café, a viewing lounge and bar that overlook the pond, and scenic 

pathways and gardens that weave their way around the village. 

Everywhere you turn there’s something to see. 

The village will provide independent living in apartments and 

townhouses, assisted living in serviced apartments, as well as a stateof-the-art 

care centre that includes resthome, hospital and specialist 

dementia care. So, if down the track your needs change, we can 

continue to look after you. 

Townhouses selling now, priced from $555,000 

2 & 3 1.5 1 

Call Wendy or Sharon on 342 4755 for more details. 

RICCARTON PARK 

RETIREMENT VILLAGE 

Sales office open 7 days 

25 Steadman Road, Riccarton Park 

rymanhealthcare.co.nz


PETER AND CATHARINE EXCITED 

TO BE RICCARTON PARK BOUND 

Peter and Catharine Craig are on the 

countdown to moving in to Riccarton Park 

Retirement Village, and are very excited 

by how close they’ll be to the track and 

horses. They have both followed gallops and 

harness racing around the world and love the 

atmosphere around a big day. 

They say they will enjoy both the village 

community and being able to easily fit their 

possessions into their new home. 

When Peter and Catharine noticed that 

Ryman had bought land to develop near the 

Riccarton racecourse, they started thinking 

afresh about a move from their home in 

Hoon Hay Road. 

Then Riccarton Park Sales Advisor Wendy 

Kappler showed them the three-bedroom 

townhouse floor plan. It included space and 

importantly a large garage to meet their 

storage and vehicle access needs. Plus, there 

are the ‘horses’. 

Peter is originally from Auckland and says 

he is ‘dual coded’. He has been going to 

harness racing and the gallops since the days 

of Alexandra Park and Ellerslie racecourse 

events in the 1960s. Both his parents and 

grandparents were keen on the sport in those 

days. His father’s cousin Thayne Green was a 

part owner of Sunline, a horse that went on 

to earn nearly $14 million in a race career that 

included two Cox Plates. 

The interest in racing and horse breeding took 

place during a long career as an accountant 

including seven years with The Treasury and 

twenty five with IRD. 

In the world of harness racing Peter’s had 

ownership interests in several successful 

harness horses that he either raced or bred. 

He’s also researched and written about 

the industry. 

Catharine is a gardener, and was brought 

up in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, a county also 

known as ‘the garden of England’. She says 

the couple met while both working for Inland 

Revenue in Wellington and she has enjoyed 

travelling to meet other horse racing fans. 

That has included regular catchups for the 

Inter Dominion Pacing Championship that 

has been contested since 1936 in locations 

including Perth, Adelaide, Christchurch, 

Launceston, Melbourne, Auckland and 

Sydney. It is fair to say they like travel 

and adventure. 

Ryman Healthcare’s work on a new 

retirement village at the stunning 

Riccarton Park location has been 

progressing quickly and residents who have 

signed up, including Peter and Catharine, 

have been excited to see roofs in place and 

cladding on the homes. 

Peter reckons theirs is the fifth roof on. 

“We’ve seen the floor plate go down, we’ve 

seen the framing go up, we’ve seen the roof 

framing go up... from the racecourse actually.” 

As New Zealand’s largest retirement village 

operator, Ryman purchased a 5-hectare site 

at Riccarton Park, off Steadman Road, and is 

working on the first stage of townhouses for 

occupation in 2021. 

The facilities include an indoor swimming 

pool, a movie theatre, café, hair and beauty 

salons, a woodland forest walk as well as 

special spectator decks looking out over 

Riccarton Racecourse. 

The village will provide multiple living 

options. The plans includes one, two and 

three bedroom apartments and two and 

three bedroom townhouses. There will also 

be assisted living in serviced apartments and 

resthome, hospital and dementia care. 

The village will create significant construction 

jobs, as well as long-term sustainable jobs 

for more than 160 staff. 

TOWNHOUSES 

Selling Now 

For more information, phone Wendy or Sharon on 342 4755 

RICCARTON PARK 

RETIREMENT VILLAGE 

Sales office open 7 days 


rymanhealthcare.co.nz


Our pioneering approach to retirement living 

includes our Peace of Mind Guarantees designed 

to give our residents greater confidence to live 

the way they want. They provide freedom and 

flexibility that lets you choose when, where, 

and how you want to live your life. 

DEFERRED 

MANAGEMENT FEE 

CAPPED AT 20% 

The deferred management fee (DMF) is your contribution to the 

refurbishment of the village. It is charged on an ‘enjoy now, pay later’ 

basis, and is deducted when your occupancy advance is repaid, which is 

the amount you’ve paid to occupy the unit. Your DMF will be no more 

than 20 percent – one of the lowest in the retirement sector. 

For example: 

RYMAN HEALTHCARE 

OTHER PROVIDERS 

$595,000 

$595,000 

%DMF 

$DMF 

= 

20% $119,000 

25 - 30% 

= 

$148,750 - $178,500 

FIXED BASE 

WEEKLY FEE 

CARE OPTIONS TO 

SUIT YOUR NEEDS 

FEES STOP 

IMMEDIATELY 

NO HIDDEN 

COSTS 

REPAYMENT 

PROTECTION 

NO CAPITAL 

LOSS 

CHANGING 

YOUR MIND 

90-DAY MONEY 

BACK GUARANTEE 

For full details on our Peace of Mind Guarantees, 

or our Riccarton Park Village, call 342 4755. 


rymanhealthcare.co.nz 

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