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Celebrating famous women
Plan to
increase
train
speed to
50km/h
• By Samantha Mythen
HEATHCOTE residents will get
the chance to have their say on
a plan to increase the speed of
trains through the valley.
KiwiRail is proposing to increase
train speed limits to 50km/h, an
action they say, which should reduce
the amount of noise and wear
and tear on the locomotives.
KiwiRail representatives are
meeting with community members
at 12.30pm on Monday at the
Heathcote Community Centre to
discuss the proposal.
Heathcote Valley Community
Association chairman Lewis Low
said he is open-minded with the
new proposal.
“It could be good to have a trial
of the new speed and then see
how it goes.”
Said KiwiRail general manager
of South Island operations, Mark
Heissenbuttel: “This increase
in speed limit should reduce
the amount of noise from the
locomotives as they will no longer
need to increase power as they
approach the tunnel.”
• Turn to page 5
• By Samantha Mythen
REDCLIFFS artist Marie-
Claude Hébert has used
colourful acrylic paints to
capture Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern in her joyful youth;
a portrait of a leader in the
making.
The artwork is part of Hébert’s
new exhibition at The Rock,
featuring portraits of females
in celebration of women for
International Women’s Day.
Part of her exhibition is a
series called Girls will Amaze.
This series features portraits of
famous women in their youth,
FEMALE
EMPOWERMENT:
Marie-Claude Hébert
has captured famous
women in her
artworks, including
Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern when
she was aged 7.
PHOTO:
GEOFF SLOAN
in celebration of the endless
potential of young girls.
The paintings include Ardern,
American poet and civil-rights
activist Maya Angelou and
Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan,
an activist for female education
and the youngest Novel Prize
laureate. • Turn to page 10
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Chaplain among first to get vaccine
NEWS 3
In Brief
• By Samantha Mythen
REVEREND JOHN McLister
has become one of the first
frontline border workers in
Lyttelton to get a Covid-19 jab.
McLister, who is the the
Lyttelton Seafarers’ Centre
chaplain, provides pastoral care
to sailors on boats docked in
Lyttelton.
“It was no worse than a flu
jab,” he said.
McLister was one of many port
workers who received the Pfizer
vaccine on Friday. More than
160 frontline workers at Lyttelton
Port Company also received
their first dose of the vaccine.
These workers included cargo
handlers, marine pilots, security
and any LPC staff who board a
vessel.
The vaccine is being rolled out
for frontline workers throughout
New Zealand.
McLister said, as a seafarers
chaplain, he is one of the people
having most contact with sailors.
“From my perspective, it is
not just about protecting the onshore
community but I decided
to take the vaccine to ensure that
the seafarers also feel safe and
comfortable about me coming
on board,” he said.
Many sailors are also worried
about McLister bringing
IMMUNISED: Reverend John McLister is one of the first
frontline border workers to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
PHOTO: JOHN MCLISTER
Covid-19 onto their ships.
“I want to be able to assure the
seafarers when I visit, that I’m
taking all measures to keep them
safe.”
McLister quickly took up the
offer for the vaccine in order to
protect the sailors he helps.
Alongside wearing personal
protection equipment and
following social distancing
guidelines, getting the vaccine
is another step of protecting the
seafarers, McLister said.
After the Government announced
sailors were only able
to come onshore if they had been
at sea for 14 days and returned a
negative Covid-19 test last year,
the seafarer’s centre began working
to deliver its welfare services
on board.
It provides personal shopping
services, bring Wi-Fi units
onboard, and provide emotional,
social and spiritual care for sailors
in the port.
Since March last year, it has
bought more than $125,000 of
personal shopping for sailors
unable to disembark.
The Lyttelton Seafarers’ Centre
was the first to employ this
onboard pastoral care model,
which has since been picked
up by other ports around the
country.
McLister said: “Seafarers
are being demonised and they
shouldn’t be.
“I personally feel safe and have
more contacts with seafarers
than with anyone else in New
Zealand.”
McLister is tested for Covid-19
on a fortnightly basis and has
had more than 12 tests so far –
all have come back negative.
LPC general manager of people
and safety, Kirstie Gardener
said: “The vaccine provides
another layer of protection for
our border workers, who still use
PPE, social distance, undertake
increased hygiene measures and
complete regular testing.”
McLister and the other port
workers will receive a second
dose of the vaccine in three
weeks.
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The Sumner skate ramp is closed
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undergoes re-skinning, repair
and maintenance work to ensure
continued safe use. A permanent
skate park is set to be built in
2022, and this temporary but
well-loved structure has been
in use for six years. The repair
work was able to go ahead after
the Sumner Green and Skate
Group received funding from
the Waikura/Linwood-Central-
Heathcote Community Board
and from the group’s own
fundraising efforts. A Givealittle
page is still open for donations
to help with continuing
maintenance.
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school end of McCormacks Bay
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The majority of funds raised
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straw sale goes back into the
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• By Samantha Mythen
MYSTERY surrounds why
hundreds of thousands of honey
bees have been dying in Lyttelton.
Seven Lyttelton beekeepers met
last week to investigate what was
happening to the bees that have
perished in huge numbers
for the past three years in
February.
Local beekeepers Paul
Maguire and Hannah
Ewing joined forces creating
the group for other
beekeepers to discuss their
concerns.
Maguire said the hives
seem to be affected at the
same time with a massive die out.
But the bee numbers then bounce
back.
“We want to find out what is happening
so we can stop it happening
again next year,” he said.
Maguire said it was likely
almost half a million bees died in
Lyttelton.
The beekeepers have several
theories about what is killing the
bees but have not yet found any
conclusive evidence.
A local resident or the city council
could be spraying for weeds or
baiting for wasps using substances
toxic to bees. It could be an accumulative
or one-off type event. Or
something else could be happening.
The group has decided to
investigate the costs involved to
send some of the dead bees and
collected pollen to a laboratory
to hopefully come to some
conclusions.
However, lab sampling can
cost thousands of dollars, so the
‘Lyttelton Beeks’ group, now made
up of 19 beekeepers, is considering
starting a community fundraiser in
the future.
Maguire, who owns 30 hives,
including four in Lyttelton, said
they think the issue is specific to
the port town.
He explained the problem
was not seen in Cass Bay nor
Governors Bay, although they
had talked with a beekeeper
in Moncks Spur. They had
seen their bees die-off at the
same time for the past five
years.
Maguire said: “Bees are like
canaries in a coal mine. We
need to realise if bees are dying,
other things will be dying too.”
The group is hoping to raise further
awareness about taking care
of bees.
“There are weed and insect sprays
out there that appear to be okay,
but they contain surfactants which
suffocate bees.
“Some chemicals are okay for
bees individually but when you mix
them together they become toxic to
bees,” he said.
He also explained it is important
to be aware of the times of the day
for spraying.
For example, if you are spraying
roses for aphids, spray in the
evening once bees have retired.
The group wondered about the
potential of an environmental science
student focusing their thesis
on this mysterious issue.
“It will be a detective job to figure
out what is going wrong,” Maguire
said.
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Beekeepers’ bid to investigate
reason for mysterious deaths
Paul
Maguire
MYSTERY:
Dead
honey bees
scattered
over the
ground
from one of
Maguire’s
hives.
PHOTOS:
PAUL
MAGUIRE
THRIVING HIVE: A helper inspects Maguire’s healthy
hives prior to them being decimated in February.
NEWS 5
Current
limits
negatively
impact
service
•From page 1
The current limit of
40km/h was set following the
earthquakes after the community
had requested the speed
limit be lowered from 70km/h.
The noise and vibration
caused by the trains was
emotionally affecting residents
as they could not tell whether
the sound was caused by an
approaching
train or an
earthquake.
The request
was granted
after Low
organised a
community
meeting to discuss
the noise
Lewis Low
concerns, which more than 100
residents attended.
Heissenbuttel said the current
40km/h was negatively impacting
the train service.
“The current limit means
more wear and tear on the locomotives’
engines and increased
fuel consumption because of the
need to power up, along with
greater difficulty in maintaining
traction in adverse weather conditions
and an increased chance
of stalling.”
The trains travelling through
the valley are a mixture of
loaded and empty freight trains,
including coal trains.
Twenty trains go through
Heathcote to Lyttelton Port
there and back each day.
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From keeping the peace in Bosnia to
• By Samantha Mythen
FIFTEEN YEARS ago, Lyttelton
police Sergeant Gerard Peoples
was roaming the streets of Banja
Luka, watching life continue in
the absence of war.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina’s
second largest city, the public
were no longer running down
its streets cowering in fear from
sniper attacks, but peace still
remained a distant dream in a
country still very much divided.
Peoples was serving under the
European Union force as second-in-command
of an observation
and liaison team, helping
with the government transition
and holding authorities to
account, including locating persons
indited for war crimes.
During the civil war that
followed Bosnia’s secession from
Yugoslavia in 1992, Banja Luka
was the main stronghold for
Bosnian Serbs in the country’s
north. Persecution and violence
drove thousands of Bosniaks
(Bosnian Muslims), Croats,
Roma and others out of the city.
Two immense mosques, built
in the city during the Ottoman
period – the Ferhadija and the
Arnaudija – were also destroyed
in the three-year conflict, which
devastated the country and took
over 100,000 lives.
Today Banja Luka, still Serb
dominated, is the capital of a
state within a state, known as
Republika Srpska. This is one
of two entities that make up the
country.
When Peoples was in Banja
Luka, there were six observer
teams spread throughout the local
province, including one team
from New Zealand.
Peoples said tensions were still
quite high in the area and there
were numerous incidents of
violence, especially as they were
working in a Serbian dominated
area. During his time there,
more mass grave sites were
unearthed and weapon deposits
uncovered.
Most of his work was spent,
“out and about, feeling the pulse
of the community.”
Said Peoples: “This was to
understand levels of tension so
we could then report back to
the task force headquarters if we
required an infantry battle group
to intervene.”
“We were the finders and
gatherers of community information.”
After 10 years of peacekeepers
being present in the country,
the population were quite ambivalent
to the visitors, yet the
watchful eye of the international
force stopped any tension from
escalating.
Peoples was fascinated by the
country’s history and diverse
culture, it being the crossroads
of the east and west with strong
Muslim influences.
Upon visiting Sarajevo, he
reflected on how much had
changed since it had hosted the
Winter Olympics in 1984.
“It hosted an international
event and then just 10 years later,
the city was under siege and
thousands of people were killed,”
he said.
Sarajevo is the capital and
largest city in the country. During
the civil war, it’s population
faced daily bombing and sniper
attacks from Serb nationalist
forces for over three years. Over
13,000 people were killed during
the siege. Bullet holes still riddle
many of the buildings, an echo
from the past making sure the
war is not forgotten.
For his time observing in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Peoples
was awarded the Task Group
Commander’s Commendation
for exceptional performance in
stepping up to this role.
People’s next placement was in
Timor Leste in 2007-2008, where
he was deployed as second in
command of 120 New Zealand
soldiers of the Infantry Rifle
Company.
Stationed in the capital of Dili,
they were responsible for the
security and stability of the area.
The previous year had seen the
unravelling of Timor Leste’s new
journey to statehood. A military
dispute resulted in mass protests,
violence and about 200 lives lost.
After an assassination attempt
of then President Jose
Ramos-Horta by rebel East
Timorese troops, which seriously
wounded him, Peoples and
his company worked to secure
the area and assist with initial
inquiries into the shooting.
New Zealand troops had
already been present in the
country for the past two years,
and Peoples joined the fourth
rotation.
“The population just wanted
stability and they had a very
positive relationship with the
New Zealand forces. We spent a
lot of time playing football with
the local kids,” Peoples said.
His most recent overseas
mission was as a United National
Military Observer under its
Truce Supervisory Organisation
for 12 months in 2015 at Golan
Heights.
WAR TORN: Peoples peace-keeping in Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Peoples said it was a great
working environment. There
were several observation
posts spread out along the
demilitarised zone separating
Syria and Israel and as a captain
in the army, he worked as an
observation post leader of about
13 other staff.
Peoples’ role was to observe
compliance of the agreement of
disengagement and separation
between Israel and Syria, an
agreement in place since 1974,
which had ended the Yom Kippur
War.
In the two years prior to Peoples
being stationed there, several
observers, including a New
Zealander, had been taken hostage
by extremist Islamic groups,
so security was tight. The New
Zealander was taken hostage in
May 2013, and was returned five
hours later unharmed. In 2014,
a large group from Fiji and the
Philippines were kidnapped.
Peoples worked at the observation
post on weeks rotations and
he was also able to stay with his
wife and young family who spent
the year in Tiberias, Israel, supported
by the United Nations.
At the time it was a difficult
situation as the Syrian civil
war was in full strife. Peoples
said most of the conflict they
observed was between Syrians,
including air strikes and machine
gun battles which ravaged
the country. The war has since
displaced 5.6 million people
from Syria, including 2.5 million
children.
“There was lots of activity in
the area but we were observing
from a distance,” said Peoples.
Peoples received a letter of
appreciation from the General
Commander of UNTSO for
exceptional service for his time
at Golan Heights.
What struck Peoples most,
MEET AND
GREET:
Sergeant
Gerard
Peoples
catches up
with Lyttelton
Primary
School
principal
Brendan
Wright while
on patrol.
PHOTO:
GEOFF SLOAN
while working overseas in these
diverse and often strained communities,
was recognising the
clear similarities that bonded all
as humans.
“Having worked in diverse
places with both locals and international
staff, I saw that people,
as individuals, are all the same,
sharing the same aspirations
for themselves, their family and
their community,” he said.
A key lesson he learned overseas,
which he applies in New
Zealand, is how important it is
to take a neutral stance.
Comparing feuding ethnicities
with conflicting neighbours,
Peoples explained, so long
as either side thinks you are
supporting the other, you are
neutral and each side recognises
they need to change their ways.
On New Zealand shores but
prior to taking up his role in
Lyttelton, Peoples had spent
18 months working as a police
prosecutor.
Now, 15 years later from
his first overseas mission,
Peoples is strolling the streets
of Lyttelton, set to investigate
community concerns and work
on preventative action plans for
these issues.
Some of these concerns include
boy racers, theft, and compliance
with new speed limits.
Boy racers are a notorious
issue in the Banks Peninsula.
Peoples recently took part
in an operation looking for
boy racers around Rapaki and
Governors Bay. The mission was
successful and several drivers
were caught travelling over the
speed limit by up to 30km/h.
They were issued infringement
offence notices.
One driver caught was found
to be breaching his bail conditions
of not driving and the
court has been informed.
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NEWS 7
battling peninsula’s boy racers
Peoples’ intention is to re-roster
his station staff with more late
night shifts to continue the boy
racer operation.
He explained it is important to
remember boy racers are not just
a local issue but a societal one.
“Boy racers are a community of
their own, driven by many social
factors,” Peoples said.
“If we want to solve this issue,
we need to address it as a whole
community, policing is just an
aspect.”
Police are further working with
the city council to discuss a long
term plan for boy racers.
Action has already been taken,
including barrier fences installed
along Gebbies Pass to stop park
ups.
Theft is another issue presented
by the community which Peoples
is hoping to address.
Lyttelton and Sumner are
seeing a continued amount of
cars being stolen and broken into.
Tradies cars have been especially
targeted.
Peoples said with more night
shifts, they will be able to see who
is out and about in the middle of
the night.
He recommended the
community be mindful and have
extra security. If things do get
stolen, he said, it is important to
provide as much information and
detail as possible to the police.
This means there is a better
chance of the items being
found.
At the beginning of February, a
Lyttelton man was arrested with
dishonesty offences and has been
remanded in custody.
“This success story should have
an effect on crime in Lyttelton,”
Peoples said.
In terms of enforcing new
speed limits, Peoples explained
locals need to be mindful of the
new limits.
“They have been changed to be
more appropriate for road conditions,”
he said.
Of particular importance to
Peoples is working with the community’s
young people.
Peoples has spent time working
with the Limited Service Volunteer
programme, a free six-week
motivational training course run
by the NZDF in conjunction with
Work and Income.
Aimed at those aged between
18-24, the course builds self-esteem
with a view to provide a
platform for those involved to
ADAPTING:
Peoples on
patrol in
Southern
Lebanon in
2016 while
he was
working as a
UN observer
in the Golan
Heights.
proceed to further education or
employment.
This course is something he
would like to promote among
Banks Peninsula youth.
Peoples is stationed in Lyttelton
on a six month rotation, covering
for the previous sergeant while
he is away on leave. He is hoping
to stay in the Port for longer
though.
Peoples was born in
Christchurch, lived in Westport
until he was 10 and then he came
back to the garden city.
After finishing a Bachelor
of Commerce in 1996, Peoples
signed up for officer cadet school
with the NZ Defence Force.
“I saw it as an opportunity to
be involved in something exciting
and different,” he said.
The 12 months of rigorous
mental and physical training was
a challenge. Of the 50 people who
signed up, only 14 graduated.
At the end of 1997, Peoples
went to police college. It was
always his intention to join the
police. His father, Pat Peoples,
was also an officer.
He never officially left the army
however, transferring to the
territorials.
Since then, he said, he’s been
wearing these “double hats.”
The Lyttelton-based police also
serve the communities of Redcliffs,
Sumner and the harbour
bays.
Currently, the team includes
Peoples, and Senior Constables
Gary Prescott and Heijo Bouma.
Two more constables will join the
station later on in the year.
“There are not many staff for
such a big area, however, the staff
we have are very dedicated to
these communities,” said Peoples.
He has thoroughly enjoyed his
first few months here.
“It’s great to walk down the
street, to chat to people and get
friendly waves. It’s refreshing.”
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Diamond Harbour wharf design approved
• By Samantha Mythen
DIAMOND Harbour residents
are happy with a shorter gangway
plan for the area’s wharf.
City council staff have decided
to continue with the original plan
of a shorter gangway after they
received approval from the Banks
Peninsula Community Board
meeting at the beginning of this
month.
Diamond Harbour
Community Association
chairman Nathan Graham
said: “We are happy this project
is moving
forward.”
Board
chairwoman
Tori Peden
said they had
approved
this plan as
the longer
Tori Peden
gangway
would create
more engineering difficulties.
“We are ensuring the wharf will
be made as accessible as it can be
without having to engineer a solution
to every problem,” she said.
The longer gangway would also
have limited other boat access to
the wharf, something Peden said
they wanted to avoid.
Peden said the only issue with
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the shorter gangway was that it
had a steeper pitch.
“This is only an issue for low
tides however, not during normal
conditions.”
Peden believes when the necessary
arises, the community and
other wharf users will be able to
assist those who may struggle
with the steeper access.
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GANGWAY: The proposed
pontoon location and
concept design of the
Diamond Harbour wharf
upgrade.
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Graham said: “This is a
solution that balances the
issues. We can only have a
floating platform up to a certain
length due to the harbour
conditions.”
An update on the wharf will be
provided to Diamond Harbour
residents at their community
association’s annual meeting on
March 29.
Peden said the next step for
the wharf development is the
final council sign-off and then
construction will hopefully
begin.
Roll increases at Our Lady Star of the Sea School
• By Samantha Mythen
OUR LADY Star of the Sea
School in Sumner is seeing a
steady growth in enrolments.
When principal Nathan Burford
started in October last year,
there were 45 students enrolled.
Now they have 54 students and
are set to reach 60 by the end of
term 1.
Burford said the school is
attracting families from Lyttelton
as one of the reasons behind the
roll’s boom.
The Catholic school in Lyttelton
closed several years ago, and
with Evans Pass open again, it is a
quick 10min drive to Sumner.
“Catholic families from Lyttelton
are seeing our school as a
viable option,” said Burford.
The school’s education is based
on Catholic values and as a small
community school, they only have
about 20 students in each class.
Said Burford: “We are like a
country school by the sea.”
He explained the significant
connection they have with the
“Aupaki cluster;” the other
schools in the area including Mt
Pleasant, Sumner and Redcliffs.
The schools come together for
sporting events such as triathalon
and cross-country.
Burford said there had been
the previous decline in the roll
for various reasons including
the impact of the earthquakes
on the Sumner community and
changing leaderships and staff.
ACTIVE: Our
Lady Star
of the Sea
School pupils
take part in
the school’s
cross-country.
PHOTO:
NATHAN
BURFORD
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Celebrating women from
different walks of life
• From page 1
Another series featured is a
celebration of women in music.
The paintings include portraits
of Benee, Elizabeth Stokes from
The Beths, and Dame Kiri Te
Kanawa.
The final series is called
‘Roles That Struck,’ featuring
portraits of female movie and
television characters who
have inspired Hébert for their
strong-will, intelligence, wit,
bravery and passion.
Hébert said: “This series
is meant to highlight the
importance of representation in
entertainment.
“The characters I’ve painted
are not just successful but are
silly and kind too, showing
the diverse and complicated
full range of a woman’s personality.”
She hopes her paintings will
start conversation around the
rocky road women often face
in life.
Hébert is also encouraging
the public to bring their
children to the exhibition to
show how young girls can grow
up to achieve amazing things.
Each of her series celebrates
women through a different
style of painting, something
which challenged Hébert’s
practice.
The paintings are for sale and
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$700.
Portraiture is Hébert’s
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hint of realism she captures in
her subject’s expression.
Hébert works full time as a
geologist and is mother to two
children. She is originally from
the south of Montreal, Canada,
but has called Redcliffs home
for 10 years.
She has been creating art for
as long as she can remember,
motivated by the satisfaction of
completing a painting.
“Painting fills my bucket, it
makes me feel happy.”
The exhibition is open for
public viewing at The Rock
until the end of April.
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Call for temporary paua fishing ban
MANA WHENUA and local
stakeholders are calling upon the
Minister of Fisheries to approve
an open-ended, but temporary,
prohibition on recreational and
commercial fishing of pāua from
reefs adjacent to Ōnuku Marae in
Akaroa.
The Akaroa Taiāpure management
committee is recommending
closure to prohibit the taking
of pāua from the Ōnuku area
by recreational and commercial
fishers.
Said Ōnuku Rūnanga chairman
Rik Tainui: “The pāua and
other kaimoana on the reefs
next to Ōnuku Marae were once
abundant and were a significant
resource for people who were
fishing for a feed and to sustain
the functions of the marae.
“We know from local knowledge
that the fish stocks are
nowhere near as plentiful and
accessible as they once were.”
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“We regularly see families
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not sustainable in the long-run,”
Tainui said.
The closure will allow this
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The committee will work with
research providers to monitor the
recovery.
“It’s critical our hapū have
kaimoana to sustain the many
cultural functions of the marae,
as well as supply hapū members
with a food source.
“We are suggesting this measure
for the good of the whole
community. We need to ensure
the Akaroa fishery’s formerly
abundant levels are restored so
people can once again come and
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Tainui said the committee has
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rate, so we are requesting that the
proposed closure be open-ended
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a sufficient recovery has been
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The closure will protect juvenile
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powhiri to welcome new Akaroa
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Dunn and his family,
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LETTERS
Readers respond
to last week’s Bay
Harbour News’ article
on the proposed site
for the new medical
centre at Redcliffs
I’m all for the medical centre
moving and seeing the back of
those old buildings. It’s a great
idea.
It’s my understanding that if
the association had done their
job in the first place the coastal
pathway would actually go
around the estuary, so it’s broken
up anyway.
Patients not having a medical
centre for over a year while
it’s being rebuilt is more of a
priority than some equally ratty
flowerbeds and some vague
idea of economic viability? No,
this is a good thing. – Gareth
Davies, Redcliffs
I am a long-standing resident
of the Sumner/Redcliffs district,
where I grew up in the 1950s.
I am certain most responsible
residents would agree that the
availability and proximity of
medical services, has always
been essential, a prerequisite
and accordingly is of clear
priority over ancillary features
in the neighbourhood such as
expanded foot paths and/or
cycleways.
There is simply no justification
or rationale to compromise or
reduce the ability to provide
essential medical care whenever
it may be needed, emergency or
otherwise.
I understand that the present
building and facilities have
been outgrown and are long past
their use by date, exacerbated
by the earthquakes, but the
suggestion that it should be
rebuilt where it presently stands
is somewhat farcical, given
that the centre would have no
temporary premises available to
allow this and in all probability
the present land area is anyway
too small.
I for one, would vote for the
availability of a modern and
close by medical centre over
any cycle lane or pathway
requirements and I am certain
I am not alone in that. – Tony
Edwards, Clifton Hill
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I’m really surprised that the
city council would even consider
compromising the efficacy and
safety of the Coastal Pathway to
benefit a private business.
The pathway was built at
huge expense (millions of dollars)
for all of Christchurch, not
just for Redcliffs, and has been
promoted as a safe way for local
children to walk, cycle or scoot
to the newly completed Redcliffs
School.
Giving priority to traffic across
it, and forcing schoolchildren,
pedestrians and cyclists to give
way on it surely defeats the
purpose it was built for. K S
Bovett, Redcliffs
Having been in business in
the Redcliffs shopping centre for
46 years, I am amazed that the
DEVELOPMENT:
The new medical
centre at Redcliffs
is planned
for this site.
PHOTO: GEOFF
SLOAN
rebuild of the Redcliffs Medical
Centre is proposed to take place at
95 Main Rd, especially when one
considers the unsuitability of the
site compared with the current
medical site, which, with its
very close neighbours, a dentist,
physio, optometrist and Plunket,
offers a compact health facility.
The creating of a fourth arm
to the current intersection
creates increased traffic
complications and thereby
increased danger.
The proposal also significantly
undermines the integrity of the
multi-million dollar Coastal
Pathway, touted as a safe passage
for pedestrians and cyclists of all
ages.
Further, according to the plans
there will be a loss of on-street
landscaping of approximately
70 per cent with no apparent
requirement for the developers
to reinstate the lost plantings.
This is unacceptable, as is any
decrease in freely available on
street parking.
The proposed development by
a private developer offers very
little and takes a lot. – Peter
Croft
With regard to the proposed
change of site for the Redcliffs
Medical Centre the following
matters are of concern.
Creating a busy driveway to
intersect the Coastal Pathway is
not a safe option.
It goes against the intent of
a clear access from the city to
Sumner and negates the many
millions of ratepayers dollars
that were needed to create it.
The danger to children using
the proposed bisected pathway
is of no small consequence – so
dangerously different from their
currently unimpeded access
when using the pathway.
If there is a suggestion to create
lights to mitigate this problem,
think of the speed that cyclists
travel at as well as children on
scooters.
Access between the medical
centre and local chemist is currently
straightforward with the
use of traffic lights.
Yet more parking spaces will
be lost which will affect the
viability of the village surviving
as a hub for the local residents. –
LR Peek and MA Blyth
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LETTERS
THe Banks Peninsula
Community Board was
informed on December 7 that
the Akaroa Service Centre,
refurbished to meet the needs
of the community at a cost of
nearly $1 million in 2015, was
closing to the public on January
5, 2021.
Customer Services was
moving into the Akaroa Area
School and community library
to form a citizens hub where
the council has installed a new
security system, TV camera
and safe at considerable cost to
ratepayers.
However, the draft Long Term
Plan, page 43, states that service
centre desks in Lyttelton and
Akaroa will close.
The city council provided
misleading and inaccurate
information to ratepayers and
the Akaroa Area School.
It installed unnecessary, costly
security equipment in the school
and community library.
In my view chief executive
Dawn Baxendale’s Long Term
Plan poses a serious threat to the
resilience and well-being
of remote and isolated
communities such as Akaroa
and the Bays at a critical
time when they need support
and assistance. – Victoria
Andrews
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•City council head of
customer services Sarah
Numan responds
Most people now choose to use
our online and phone services
to make payments to the city
council.
With that number growing,
we’ve reviewed the demand
across the city for face-to-face
financial transactions at our
service desks.
While 10 of our service desks
have high demand, Akaroa
and Lyttelton have minimal
transactions, with a continuing
decline since 2015. Accordingly,
in our Draft Long Term Plan
we are proposing to close these
service desks. We encourage the
community to submit feedback
on the proposed change.
Over the next six months,
we a trialling the offer of faceto-face
financial transactions
at Akaroa Library. The decision
on the proposed move of
customer service functions for
a trial period was introduced
due to a staff change. An
evaluation of the trial will help
inform the decision making on
the proposed change in the Long
Term Plan.
City council staff and Te Pātaka
o Rākaihautū/Banks Peninsula
Community Board will continue
to use the building. All of
the usual meetings will continue
to be held in the boardroom in
Akaroa such as the community
board, Akaroa Urban Design
Panel. Independently of the Long
Term Plan decision for face-toface
financial transactions at
Akaroa, the property strategy
for the old Post Office building is
“retention.”
While the city councillors and
community work through the
Long Term Plan consultation
process, all services will be continue
to offered, and delivered
either directly at the Akaroa
library or in conjunction with
our customer services team.
The Avon-
Heathcote
Estuary Ihutai
Trust is a
non-profit
organisation
formed
to protect
one of New
Zealand’s most important
coastal wetlands. Each
week, board members will
discuss matters regarding
the estuary, its rich history
and what makes it unique.
This week Bill Simpson
writes about a failed
proposal to establish salt
works
IF YOU live on the hill overlooking
the estuary you will be
pleased to know the following
idea is dead and gone and will
not be spoiling your view.
In 1917 Leslie Macarthur asked
New Brighton Borough Council
if he could use 300 acres (121ha)
of estuary alongside the South
Brighton Spit for salt works.
That would have been 15 per
cent of the estuary surface.
ESTUARY MATTERS
Plan for a salt works terminated in 1923
At stake was a £100 bonus offered
by the government for the
first 500 tons of salt produced in
this country.
Macarthur quickly gained the
backing of the borough council
and the Marine Department.
He proposed a pipeline bring
seawater from the coast to the
salt works.
His company had the grandiose
title “Dominion Marine
Electro-Solar Salt Works” but
he evoked the ire of the district
health officer who insisted
that the probable by-products
including alkali acid would be an
“offensive trade.”
Macarthur persisted and further
support came from the city
council and Lyttelton Harbour
Board. In 1921 he was offered a
temporary lease of 20ha.
A company was formed with
a capital of £10,000. Macarthur
asked the government to increase
the bonus to £2000 for the first
2000 tons of salt and also asked for
protection from cheap imports.
The government refused and
in April 1923 the proposal was
terminated. We can only wonder
whether a house on the hill
would have been so desirable if
the salt-works had gone ahead.
There’s a twist to this. One of
the early residents of Southshore,
George Skellerup, was obviously
inspired by the story and started
work on a salt works at Lake
Grassmere near Blenheim.
The government bought a
share of his company and renamed
it Dominion Salt Ltd.
Salt was first harvested in 1949
and to-date Lake Grassmere
has been the main supplier of
kitchen salt for New Zealand.
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Christchurch Garden Festival Programme
Christchurch Botanic Gardens 12-14 March
We can’t wait to see you at Grow Ōtautahi – a FREE garden festival like you’ve never seen before designed for the people of Aotearoa.
The festival is free for all and there’s something that will entertain and inspire everyone. You’ll find exciting garden exhibits, celebrity chefs
in action, fun for the kids, a focus on the environment and sustainability, workshops, expert tips, food, retail and much more!
Take a look at our programme and plan your visit – you can come back every day to get across all the great events!
Horticultural Futures Hub Presentations
How to be a Space Sustainonaut - Dr Trevor Stuthridge, AgResearch
& Sarah Kessans, UC Fri 9.30am
Behind the stink: The corpse plant at Lincoln University -
Dr Meike Rombach, Lincoln University Fri 10.30am
To plant or not to plant - Don Royds, Lincoln University
Fri 11.30am, Sun 1.30pm
Grow mahinga kai - Mananui Ramsden, Environment Canterbury
Fri 12.30pm, Sat 9.30am, Sun 3.30pm
Geeks go gourmet: how science is transforming our food -
Dr Trevor Stuthridge, AgResearch Fri 1.30pm, Sat, Sun 12.30pm
Garden Design and Construction Tips and Tricks -
Dan Rutherford Fri, Sat, Sun 2.30pm
Green Gardeners of the Future - Ruud Kleinpaste Fri 3.30pm
You can grow your own way - Jill Reader, Lincoln University
Sat, Sun 10.30am
Soil; the answer to almost everything! - Roger McLenaghen,
Lincoln University Sat, Sun 11.30am
Biodiversity in the garden and how to enhance it -
Prof. Steve Wratten, Lincoln University Sat 1.30pm
Growing Communities - Citycare Property, SVA, LIVS & The Green Lab
Sat 3.30pm
New Solutions to Old Problems - Citycare Property, Weedingtech
& Husqvarna Sun 9.30am
Friends of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Guided Walks
Gondwana Collection Fri 10.30am, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 11.30am
Notable Trees Fri 11.00am, Sat 2.00pm, Sun 12.00pm
Walk among the Palms Fri 11.30am, Sat 1.30pm, Sun 2.00pm
Going nuts over bark & cones Fri 12.00pm, Sun 11.00am
A hidden gem - the Leonard Cockayne Garden
Fri 1.00pm, Sat 11.00am, Sun 2.30pm
Trooping the colour - our Herbaceous Border Fri 1.30pm, Sat 10.30am
Biggest, smallest, quirkiest, tallest! Fri 2.00pm, Sat 11.30am, Sun 1.30pm
ICON Garden - our NZ natives Fri 2.30pm, Sat, Sun 1.00pm
Conservatories Sat 12.00pm, Sun 10.30am
Terra Viva Workshops
All About Roses - Peter Worsp, Terra Viva Fri, Sat 9.30am
Grow Your Own Veges - Juliet Worsp, Terra Viva Fri, Sat 10.30am
Studio Home Panel: Ask An Expert Fri, Sat, Sun 11.30am
How to make your houseplants love you back - Liz Carlson &
Jördis Renz, NODE Fri 12.30pm
Passion for Bonsai - Avon Bonsai Society Fri 1.30pm, Sun 12.30pm
Fruit Tree Care - Pagan Hayes, Terra Viva Fri, Sun 2.30pm
Lawn Care - Roger Morgan, Readylawn
Fri 3.30pm, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 1.30pm
Interactive Monarch Butterfly Talk - Maria Romero
Sat 12.30pm, Sun 3.30pm
Bulbs and Banter - David Adams & Michael Coulter
Sat 1.30pm, Sun 10.30am
Truffle Gold grown in Canterbury - Lisa Williams, Tresillian Truffles
Sat 3.30pm
Fermenting the Harvest - Geraldine Pene Sun 9.30am
MacRae Landscape Design Garden Kitchen
Cooking Demonstrations
Daniel Jenkins, Kaikoura Cheese Fri 11.00am
Alex Davies, Gatherings/Alfred Fri 12.00pm
Simon Levy, Inati Fri 1.00pm
Flip Grater, Grater Goods Fri 2.00pm
Davinia Sutton: Lets Talk Outdoor Kitchens Fri, Sat, Sun 3.00pm
Max Perry & Samson Stewart, Fifth Street Sat 11.00am
Fleur Sullivan, Fleurs Place Sat 12.00pm
Andy Bardsley, Hospo Co Sat 1.00pm
Lou & Ant, Akaroa Cooking School Sat 2.00pm
Jonny Schwass, Ilex Café & Events Sat 4.00pm
Jax Hamilton, Meadow Mushrooms Sun 11.00am
Eeva Torvinen, The Monday Room Sun 12.00pm
Yanina & Pablo Tacchini, La Cucina Sun 1.00pm
Giulio Sturla, Mapu Sun 2.00pm
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Wednesday March 10 2021 Bay Harbour News
Trust fundraiser building up for land purchase
“ROD DONALD Banks
Peninsula Trust is delighted with
how crowd funding for the Te
Ahu Pātiki purchase is going,”
trust manager Suky Thompson
said.
The trust launched a public
campaign to fundraise $600,000
toward the purchase of Te Ahu
Pātiki last October and has an
agreement with the current
owner to bring the land into
public ownership on July 1, 2021
– giving it another four months to
fundraise.
“We’ve raised
over half the
Suky
Thompson
75
amount already,
so are confident
that with further
public support
we will get
there,” Thompson
said.
Te Ahu Pātiki
is 500ha of iconic land in the
Lyttelton/Whakaraupō basin
including the two highest peaks
on Banks Peninsula, Mt Herbert/
Te Ahu Pātiki and Mt Bradley.
“The land is highly visible from
nearly everywhere in the basin,”
trust chairwoman Maureen Mc-
Cloy said.
“And from the whole Port Hills
crater rim. Bay Harbour News
readers will see it transform from
golden gorse and pasture into
green native forest over the next 30
years, as it goes through a similar
transition to the more remote
Hinewai Reserve near Akaroa”.
Otautahi/Christchurch ¯
City
Orton Bradley Park
Mt. Bradley
Packhorse Hut
Many readers will be familiar
with the walking tracks up Mt
Herbert from Orton Bradley Park
and Diamond Harbour, but aren’t
necessarily aware that these cross
private land.
“Current access is through the
goodwill of the existing owner –
for which we are most grateful,”
Rod Donald trustee Bob Webster
Lyttelton
Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour
Diamond
Harbour
Te Ahu Pātiki block
Mt. Herbert/Te Ahu Pātiki
Little River
Rod Donald Hut
said.
“However on a change of ownership
that could cease.”
The purchase of Te Ahu Pātiki
will secure public access on these
tracks in perpetuity and create
many new recreational opportunities.
Orton Bradley Park is a
key partner in the purchase,
75
Te Ahu Pātiki block
Orton Bradley Park
DOC reserves and private
protected land
Te Ara Patakā Walkway
and feeder tracks
Akaroa
Harbour
Akaroa
Su mmit Road
providing a substantial financial
contribution and offering to
manage and own the block long
term.
“It’s for everyone forever,” chairman
of the Orton Bradley Park
board Matt Cameron said.
Orton Bradley is ideally placed
and equipped to manage the new
Te Ahu Pātiki conservation park,
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and its location immediately below
the new block enables ki uta
ki tai – summit to sea protection
– for the entire Te Wharau stream
catchment.
Said Te Hapū Ngāti Wheke
project leader Paul Horgan: “Te
Wharau stream is the largest
contributor to Whakaraupō, and
helps achieve goals of Whaka-
Ora – the Whakaraupō/Lyttelton
Harbour Catchment management
plan.”
Rod Donald Trust, Orton
Bradley Park and Te Hapū o Ngāti
Wheke (Rāpaki) are working
together closely to ensure goals
for the environment, public
access and mātauranga Māori
are enshrined in a protective
covenant and the governance
structure going forward, and that
the block can become financially
self-sustaining over time –
principally as a carbon sink.
“Donations qualify for a
33 per cent tax rebate, and with
the end of the tax year rapidly
approaching, we urge the Bay
Harbour community to donate
generously now,” Thompson
said.
The trust is accepting donations
via the Christchurch Foundation
or GiveaLittle platforms.
Said Thompson: “If you are
thinking of making a kātote level
donation ($1000) or more and
wish to do so directly, or you
have questions about the project,
then get in touch with me via
manager@roddonaldtrust.co.nz.”
Te Ahu Pātiki conservation park project
Mt Herbert/
Te Ahu Pātiki
Mt Bradley
Create a recreational gem for
walking, biking and climbing
Lyttelton Harbour/Whakaraupō
Help create a legacy for Christchurch/Ōtautahi.
With your support the Rod Donald Trust will purchase
and set up this new 500ha public conservation park.
Transform this
landscape into
a native forest
carbon sink
BECOME A
TOTARA
TI
KŌUKA
KĀTOTE
PEKEPEKE
Fundraising target is $600,000
S P O N S O R
donation of
$50,000+
S P O N S O R
donation of
$10,000 - $49,999
S P O N S O R S P O N S O R
donation of
$1,000 - $9,999
S P O N S O R
donations
under $1000
All donations qualify for 33% tax relief.
Please contact Suky Thompson,
Rod Donald Trust Manager, if you are
interested in becoming a major sponsor
via manager@roddonaldtrust.co.nz
This is your opportunity to become a major sponsor of the
Te Ahu Pātiki conservation park project
Protect the highest peaks in
Christchurch/Ōtautahi.
To find out more, view our short film and donate visit roddonaldtrust.co.nz
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Every business should have a mentor
• By Ellen Pender
OUR CANTERBURY Mentor
Team has a pool of over 260
business mentors who gift their
time, skills and expertise to
support local businesses.
Operating a business is no easy
task, let alone doing it through a
pandemic. Having an experienced
mentor available to listen and
guide you through some of the
challenges can make all the
difference.
Business Mentors New Zealand
is a nationwide organisation
dedicated to delivering mentoring
services across Aotearoa.
In Waitaha Canterbury
Business Mentors New Zealand
operates out of ChristchurchNZ,
the city’s sustainable economic
development agency and is an
ChristchurchNZ is helping identify opportunities for people to reskill and move into other sectors
integral part of the Regional
Business Partners Programme,
connecting businesses with
the right advice, people and
resources.
Higher unemployment impacts
more significantly on those in
lower skilled roles and our
vulnerable populations – Māori;
Pasifika; young people not in
Independent
employment,
mentors
education
listen and
or
training; and our long-term
Mentors provide confidential,
unemployed.
What is the role of a
business mentor?
guide people on their business
journey.
one-on-one assistance for
small business owners, who are
trading, want to grow or need
And what are we doing?
We are supporting the journey
Mentors can also help to reduce
for labour market priority groups
– school leavers, tertiary
The graduates, strength of NEET our service (young people
not in employment, education or
training), impacted workers,
Māori and industry.
help to solve a specific business
challenge.
the stress and loneliness that is
often faced by many business
people.
comes from these wonderful
mentors, who are the real
heroes. They spend many hours
guiding, supporting their mentees
and willingly sharing their
expertise.
To ensure work isn’t duplicated,
and to identify gaps, we are
mapping the support available
from iwi, central and local
government agencies, our
education providers, charitable
trusts, and other support groups.
Impact projects can then be
delivered to provide support
where needed.
It is critical we ensure our
community has access to the
information they need, and is
aware of the help available.
ChristchurchNZ is developing
regional information resources
and working to ensure this gets
into the hands of business. those who
need it.
Ellen Pender, ChristchurchNZ business mentor manager
This creates positive impact
for the businesses and often
results in strong relationships and
mutual respect for each other. It
is common to have clients reregistering
for a second or third
time to continue developing their
Register to be a mentor or find a mentor at
businessmentors.org.nz
Who are the mentors?
The business mentors are
diverse as the business people
they support, with both generalist
and specialist business skills.
Canterbury’s team of volunteer
We are also
mentors
developing
offer their tremendous
a
skills, experience, and generosity
Regional to Workforce support a wide Plan range that of
businesses including start-ups,
identifies
small
the
to
skills
medium
available
businesses
and
with
needed now less than and 20 in staff, the not future. for profits
and social enterprises.
This plan will
We receive
inform
ongoing
central
interest
government to join investment our mentor team and from
a diverse range of business
policy in professionals, education, some immigration
retired,
and community some still actively interventions;
involved business.
and will enable It is humbling us to to better meet these
understand generous what people skills and hear their
stories; some had a mentor
Christchurch’s themselves future when economy
they were
will require. starting That out and in turn now want will to
pay it forward and share their
allow us skills. to work with education
providers
Others
to ensure
find they have
right
some
spare time and want to support
courses are others offered. to succeed, understanding
the enormous value that small
businesses add to our economy
In times and of recession the essential we contribution generally of
the not-for-profit sector to the
see an increase
wider community.
in people
choosing to study.
This is an opportunity to upskill
Canterbury’s relatively
poorly-educated workforce for
our future economy, to generate
more and better jobs, to increase
productivity, and to raise living
standards and wellbeing.
We are supporting Ngāi Tahu’s
development of an iwi skills hub
that will create stronger pathways
for young Māori into tertiary
education and skilled jobs.
How can I register for a
business mentor?
When clients register on our
website for a mentor, they pay a
one-off registration fee of $295
plus GST. This gives them up to
12 high-growth months access to areas. a mentor We are
who will help develop them as a
business seeking owner to future-proof
focussing on the
areas Canterbury’s where they lack labour the skills mark or
confidence.
- we know how vital it is to
How new jobs do you to ensure match people
a business with a
employment options now
mentor?
in Every the client longer has term. a unique
perspective, the challenge is to
understand what can be done to
help We and have what invested mentor will in best a cityinnovation
suit their needs. This is why we
contact each client
and
to fully
entrepreu
discuss
their ecosystem application partnership and talk through to
the mentoring process prior to
finding high-growth a mentor. potential bus
and We regularly future job ask for creation feedback in to
see what progress is being made
and of regional frequently receive strength comments and gl
about growth how opportunity. helpful and valuable These
the service has been.
Supernodes are Aerospace
We Future can Transport; help Food, F
We are passionate about
helping and Agritech; the business Health and not-forprofit
Resilient community Communities; to survive and an
Tech
thrive and are very aware of the
High-Tech Services.
delicate balance that is required to
achieve that.
A mentor might be just what
you Our need, business one of our attraction clients said te
recently,
working
“everyone
to attract
in business
addition
should have a mentor.’’
businesses Whether you’d and like jobs to work to the
with a mentor or become a
mentor, please register at:
While www.businessmentors.org.nz
we expect ongoing
economic disruption, ther
are many green shoots and
opportunities – one of wh
to develop a workforce tha
A highly business skilled mentor and can can sup
help you
thriving and globally com
future economy.
Among other projects, we are
working with education partners
and mana whenua to increase
aspiration and participation of
students in low-decile schools in
future-focused tertiary study that
Karen Haigh is a Talent
Specialist for Innovation
Ellen Pender is business
mentor
and Business
manager
Growth
at
at
ChristchurchNZ
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1. It could be solo with first single (5)
4. Study a class that will adapt to the
pattern (7)
8. Different notes may be issued at the
start (5)
9. How could early bit seem so
confused? (7)
10. Start to form when part of the
contest is put back (3)
11. Retain a quarter, one is told, to
speak in public (4,5)
12. Weight allowance that may be made
for a weed (4)
13. It may give one an idea part of the
ulcer is returning (4)
18. Could expand on tale a bore is
rendering (9)
20. Hero with team finishes with a
measure of resistance (3)
21. Go where not wanted in order to get
under it (7)
22. Sort of athletic event that’s on record
(5)
23. Could grant me an item of apparel (7)
24. A man who’s up to being a mosstrooper
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bee, say (4-9)
2. Is prejudiced about rail being affected
by sun (7)
3. Irritable as the City can get at losing
one (6)
4. Make a rough repair to the stone in
the street (6)
5. Tell authority of tiny changes to be
made (6)
6. Poor merchant who can offer one an
ear-shell (5)
7. A troublesome person marks mice, if
he is put to it (8-5)
14. It is spotted as being unchangeable,
one is told (7)
15. A component part of program is
endlessly moulded around it (6)
16. A progenitor needs the right to be a
sort of partner (6)
17. Communication from a character (6)
19. Communion table one will soundly
change (5)
SUDOKU
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box contains the digits 1 to 9.
QUICK CROSSWORD
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8
9 10
11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18
19 20 21
22 23 24
25
26 27
Across
1. Notable (6)
5. Understated, lowkey
(6)
8. Biblical vessel (3)
9. Sign, token (6)
10. In its original place
(L) (2,4)
11. Leave out (4)
13. Nail treatment (8)
14. Frank (5)
15. Streaked cat (5)
19. Daring adventure (8)
21. Diminutive (4)
22. Gentle, easily
managed (6)
23. Parrot (6)
25. Take legal action (3)
26. Grief-stricken (6)
27. Christmas
decoration (6)
Down
2. Very poor, awful (7)
3. Globe (3)
4. Seasoned sausage (6)
5. Thin (6)
6. Skills for surviving
in the wilderness (9)
7. Subsequently (5)
12. Hesitant (9)
16. Wound covering (7)
17. Most recent (6)
18. Confidential (6)
20. Coastline (5)
24. Cooking utensil (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Famous, 5. Subtle, 8. Ark, 9. Symbol, 10. In situ, 11.
Omit, 13. Manicure, 14. Blunt, 15. Tabby, 19. Escapade, 21. Tiny,
22. Docile, 23. Repeat, 25. Sue, 26. Bereft, 27. Tinsel.
Down: 2. Abysmal, 3. Orb, 4. Salami, 5. Skinny, 6. Bushcraft,
7. Later, 12. Tentative, 16. Bandage, 17. Latest, 18. Secret, 20.
Shore, 24. Pan.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. Whist 4. Conform 8. Onset 9. Betimes 10. Gel 11.
Hold forth 12. Tare 13. Clue 18. Elaborate 20. Ohm 21. Intrude 22.
Track 23. Garment 24. Rider
DOWN 1. Wool-gathering 2. Insular 3. Tetchy 4. Cobble 5. Notify
6. Ormer 7. Mischief-maker 14. Leopard 15. Module 16. Parent
17. Letter 19. Altar
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Very Good 33
Excellent 38+
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24/7 AEDs on the Esplanade
By Jane Paterson, trustee
of the Sumner Ferrymead
Foundation
AUTO external defibrillators –
or AEDs – are found on many
premises, but what happens
when premises are closed? After
all, heart attacks happen at any
time of the day.
Sumner resident Dave Passmore,
of Passmore First Aid,
was concerned about the lack
of AEDs that could be readily
accessed at any time of the day
along the Esplanade.
As an experienced ER nurse
and first aid trainer he has seen
the difference an AED can make
to patients when suffering a
heart attack. So, in Passmore’s
typical energetic style, he decided
he had to do something about
it.
Passmore had heard about the
Sumner Ferrymead Foundation
so decided to approach them to
see if they could fund an AED
to be placed at the Sumner Surf
Lifesaving Club to complement
another one outside the Scarborough
Café.
“I felt we needed to have one
at each end of the Esplanade as
time is critical when someone
is having a heart attack. Even if
someone is midway along the
Esplanade it wouldn’t take long
for a bystander to sprint to the
REAL ESTATE
closest end to access the AED.
The AED is in a locked box; you
just dial 111 and clearly state the
address to get the code to unlock
the box.”
Said chairman of the Sumner
Ferrymead Foundation John
Taylor said: “When Dave approached
us to fund the AED, it
was a logical decision to support
the application. If it saves just
one life it’s were worth every
cent. How can you place a value
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application we readily supported.”
Foundation trustee Jane
Paterson attended one of Dave
Passmore’s mini-courses on
CPR/AED once the AEDs had
been installed.
“Whilst many of us have done
a CPR course, it is really important
we all familiarise ourselves
with how to access and use the
AEDs. Those placed on the
ACCESSIBLE:
Dave
Passmore
(left) and John
Taylor with
the AED at
Sumner Surf
Lifesaving
Club. PHOTO:
JANE
PATERSON
Esplanade talk you through what
to do, so as long as you keep a
calm head, the process is quite
straight forward. I would encourage
anyone to update their
CPR training so they know what
to do in the unfortunate case of
someone having a heart attack.
You always hope you will never
have to perform CPR but I have
a couple of friends who have had
to, so it is important to keep your
skills current,’’ Paterson said.
Cardio Pulmonary
Resuscitation or CPR
D Danger Stop! Check
the scene is safe eg. no
live wires
R Response – Tap the
patient. Are they alert,
can they talk, or are the
unresponsive?
S Send for help – Phone
111, retrieve the AED
A Airways – Clear the
airways. Check the
mouth is clear; tilt the
head, lift the chin
B Breathing – Are they
breathing? If not . . .
C CPR – Start CPR, 30
compressions, two
breaths
D Defibrillator – Attach
AED as soon as available
and follow prompts
Source: Passmore First
Aid www.firstaidcourses.
co.nz
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