Nor'West News: March 18, 2021

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021 

Connecting Your Local Community 

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Genealogy a 

passion and 

an addiction 

Pages 4 & 5 Page 6 

Friends rally 

to help run 

book sale 

Huge effort at volleyball champs 

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The Department of Corrections 

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Thursday March 18 2021 3 

New fire station, training facility to 

benefit community and students 


THE COUNTRY’S first fire 

station and training facility to be 

built alongside a university will 

be ready to serve the community 

next month. 

The Ilam Fire Station and the 

fire engineering 

educational 

training 

facility builds 

are nearing 

completion, 

settling into their 

new home next 

to Canterbury 

University, at the 

Creyke Rd and 

Montana Ave intersection. 

Dave 

Stackhouse 

The project forms part of a 

rebuild programme following 

the Christchurch earthquakes 

involving the redevelopment of 

12 stations to create a modern, 

unified network of stations 

across the city. 

Fire and Emergency New 

Zealand area commander Dave 

Stackhouse said FENZ required 

a new crew station in Ilam to 

support rapid responses in the 

FINISH LINE: The new Ilam Fire Station and fire engineering training facility at Creyke Rd 

and Montana Ave will be officially opened next month. 


community. 

And because the university 

was the only one in the country 

to offer fire engineering qualifications, 

the training facility 

will share resources and work 

hand-in-hand with Canterbury 

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“Fire and Emergency New 

Zealand required a single career 

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station will provide state-of-theart 

facilities to support rapid response 

to the Ilam community,” 

Stackhouse said. 

“The new site will also be 

40 years 

combined 

experience 

home to a fire engineering educational 

training facility, where 

fire engineers can work closely 

with students and experts of the 

University of Canterbury’s fire 

engineering programme. 

“Canterbury is the only university 

in New Zealand offering 

Easter Treats 

qualifications in fire engineering.” 

Having the station alongside 

the university provided an opportunity 

to upskill current and 

future fire engineers. 

It also provided fire safety 

and risk reduction activities to 

a student audience which was 

traditionally “harder to achieve.” 

The new station includes 

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It also includes a kitchen, 

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Thursday March 18 2021 



Genealogy a passion and an addiction 


“IF YOU figure there are 25 

years between a generation, 

then 500 years ago there were 

1,048,576 people involved in 

creating us.” 

For Fiona Lees, getting to the 

bottom of her family roots was 

like an addiction. 

Just like the women who established 

the NZ Society of Genealogists, 

the Canterbury branch 

convener has been hungry to 

learn more about her origins 

since she was a teenager. 

The first generation mainlander 

born to Scottish parents 

started feeding her passion for 

family history after conversations 

with her grandmother led 

to more questions than answers. 

She started to connect the 

dots in her little notebook full 

of important dates to determine 

“whose brother was who,” later 

growing into a passion to help 

others trace their roots. 

“I’ve managed to prove that 

one [family] line was an adopted 

line through records and oldstyle 

sleuthing,” said Lees who 

described her most rewarding 

discoveries. 

“I’ve also managed to prove 

that my family was shipwrecked 

in 1862 off the Isle of Wight in 

the United Kingdom. The Times 

in London gave my ancestors’ 

names. 

“It’s a passion and addiction – 

once you’ve been bitten, that’s it.” 

The society, based in Auckland, 

has promoted the study 

of family history and genealogies 

since 1967, providing the 

necessary tools and expertise 

for others to make their own 

discoveries. 

The late Lucy Marshall and her 

ROOTS: Fiona 

Lees fuels her 

passion for 

family history 

as convener 

of the NZ 

Society of 

Genealogists, 

Canterbury 

branch. 

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friends had a shared curiosity 

about their ancestors and eventually 

started a group. 

More than 50 years later, it 

morphed into a national society 

and has since grown into more 

than 60 regional branches across 

the country. 

Established in 1968, that makes 

the Canterbury regional branch 

the oldest in New Zealand. 

Lees was appointed the Canterbury 

convener in July last year 

and has been on the committee 

for more than 10 years. But her 

involvement spans back to the 

1980s. 

Retiring last year, she worked 

for the city council for 35 years 

as a technical application specialist 

helping internal staff with 

their computers. 

As the convener, she puts 

together monthly newsletters, 

deals with memberships and 

transcribes school records for 

future genealogists as it was an 

“underused” record in NZ. 

“In Britain, there are census 

records with raw data being kept 

where you can track your family 

every 10 years,” she said. 

“But in NZ, governments saw 

fit not to keep that raw data and 

only had summaries on how 

many people lived in suburbs. 

School records tell you where 

you’ve come from, who your 

guardians are, your age, and 

where you’re going to next – 

you can track a family through 

there.” 

Based at the Parklands Community 

Centre, the society had 

many resources on hand including 

a branch library, computers, 

paper records, parish registers 

and monumental inscriptions. 

People can become members 

and connect with other family 

history enthusiasts nationwide to 

share tips and tricks on research 

methods. 

“We encourage people who 

come to the library to have the 

basics about yourself, your parents 

and grandparents, it’s good 

to have a skeleton tree. Otherwise 

by the time they’ve talked 

for five minutes you’ve lost all 

the information,” Lees said. 

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“We have people rock up and 

say: ‘I want to learn more about 

my family, I think they came 

from Denmark.’ So people 

who are interested in searching 

that area have a meeting, share 

ideas and tips on how or where 

to find things.” 

The process was not always 

simple seeing as 80 per cent 

of information could not be 

found online, but having the 

internet nonetheless definitely 

made things easier. 

“We used to have to go and 

write letters, visit places to get 

information but now you’ve 

got lots of information online,” 

she said. 

But most genealogists were 

not interested in just a list of 

facts – the importance of social 

history built a much better picture 

of how that person lived. 

Putting the facts together 

and shaping it into a story 

“makes it far more fun.” 

“It’s always nice to put your 

person in a place with what 

else was happening in the 

world at that time. A list of 

facts is a bit boring,” she said. 

“Most of the real genealogists 

aren’t just interested in 

names and the date of birth, 

marriage and death. They 

actually want to learn more 

about people, what they did, 

where they lived and why they 

shifted countries.” 

Over the years, the branch 

has seen a rise in people wanting 

to know more about where 

they came from through the 

avenue of DNA testing. 

“We’re also finding people 

are related to each other within 

the branch through DNA 

which is fun,” she said. 

But DNA testing did not 

always have the most desirable 

results. 

Although people could trace 

their ethnicity or find birth 

families if they were adopted, 

finding out they were not 

related to someone was “devastating.” 

“There are brick walls that 

will never be solved,” Lees 

said. 

“But for some people, the 

downside with DNA is showing 

that who you thought was 

your father, actually wasn’t. 

That has been really devastating.” 

Lees shares her addiction of 

family history with her husband, 

David, throughout 40 

years of marriage. 

The mutual understanding 

meant date nights were a little 

more interesting in odd places 

like cemeteries and libraries. 

For Lees, that passion was 

wanting to know more about 

where she came from and what 

influences made her the person 

she is today, 

But knowing your roots can 

also be essential to one’s own 

survival. 

“For some, it might even be 

a health component. Heart 

attacks, strokes or Alzheimer’s 

might run in the family. 

Looking at what people died 

of might be a push for some 

people.” 

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Bid to reduce 

re-offending 

• From page 1 

Corrections has plans to use 

the existing property to provide 

residential accommodation for 

men with one or more convictions 

for a violent offence – excluding 

sexual offences. 

It also did not include offenders 

needing specialised intervention 

for drug, alcohol and significant, 

untreated mental health issues. 

The programme is designed to 

enable its residents to return to 

the community with new skills 

they have learned while addressing 

the root causes of their 

offending. 

It would only be open for men 

who showed a desire to be there. 

Submissions are open until 

March 25. 

A reader responds to a 

call to put traffic cameras 

at the Clyde Rd and 

Memorial Ave intersection 

I have used for many years 

the pedestrian crossings at the 

left-turning slip-lanes at all four 

corners of Memorial Ave and 

Clyde Rd. 

Because these are controlled by 

give way signs, red-light cameras 

are of no use. The bumps put in 

several years ago are a help in 

slowing traffic down but perhaps 

more signage might be useful. 

– Alan Tunnicliffe 

Popular book sale a haven for all 

AT NEARLY 90, Elizabeth 

Williams helps oversee the 

volunteers running the Big 

Bargain Book Sale at the Pioneer 

Recreation and Sport Centre this 

month. 

She is a member of the 

160-strong team – covering a 

range of ages and interests – collectively 

known as the Friends of 

Christchurch City Libraries. 

Each year, up to 40 friends 

from “across the generations” 

unpack, display and help sell 

thousands of books and magazines 

that have been withdrawn 

from library collections. 

After 30 years, the oldest 

and newest life member of the 

Friends has opted to leave the 

book sale to the younger volunteers. 

Member Barbara Clarke said 

that the group is involved in 

many areas of library life but is 

always looking for new members. 

“We have such a range of 

people involved, including those 

who help out with our popular 

book sale, which attracts thousands 

of people every year,” said 

Clarke, a former librarian. 

“The first book sale organised 

by the group was held at the 

(now demolished) King Edward 

Barracks in the central city in 

1989. 

“Today, we have about 6000 

TEAMWORK: At nearly 90, Elizabeth Williams (centre) helps oversee volunteers at the Big 

Bargain Book Sale. 

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people browsing the annual 

Big Bargain Book Sale items 

over two days at the Pioneer 

Centre.” 

She pins the ongoing success 

of the sale on “everyone’s love of 

a bargain and the opportunity to 

purchase ex-library stock at very 

reasonable prices.” 

“Bargain hunters can purchase 

for their specialist interest areas; 

gather books and magazines for 

the bach; select children’s picture 

books, easy and longer reads and 

interesting non-fiction; and also 

choose from large print, graphic 

novels and a huge assortment of 

novels and non-fiction.” 

City council head of libraries 

and information Carolyn 

Robertson said that the Friends 

of the Library is an “invaluable 

resource.” 

“The volunteers really drive 

the book sale, ensuring everything 

is well set out and that the 

sale days go amazingly well,” she 

said. 

“They constantly replenish the 

stock throughout both days so 

it does not matter when anyone 

arrives, there are always more 

bargains on the tables.’’ 

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GARY AND KATE ARE LOVING LIFE 

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Gary and Kate say their move into 

Diana Isaac Retirement Village at the end 

of 2020 came after examining quite a few 

other retirement options – none of them 

catching their eye. 

Kate says nothing else was gelling. “Once 

we came here (to Diana Isaac) to view we 

just knew it was the right thing to be doing 

for us”. 

Gary’s health problems including back 

issues began in his early 30’s and with his 

deterioration over the last 10 years, they 

realised the support and ease of living in 

the village was exactly what they needed. 

Kate says “just knowing we have on call help 

means we can both relax and enjoy life”. 

Gary says he’s happy the couple have 

come into the village when they can both 

truly enjoy the wide range of amenities. 

He’s looking forward to taking up 

bowls again. 

Village social amenities include a bowling 

green, swimming pool, hair salon and 

beauty room, a pool table and village shop 

with barista coffee and fresh cabinet food 

available. “This is the time you should 

be enjoying life,” Gary says. 

Both were brought up in Canterbury with 

Gary originally having come from Greta 

Valley and in his younger years was a very 

keen sportsman, playing at the Glenmark 

Rugby Club under coach and former 

All Black Alex Wyllie. Kate, though born in 

Reefton on the West Coast, was brought up 

in the north west of Christchurch in suburbs 

like Burnside and Bishopdale. 

The met at the Russley Hotel in 1980. 

During the 70s and 80s it was considered 

the place to be seen. In fact, Kate says her 

brother and sister both met their respective 

spouses in the same hotel. 

They remember entertainer, Neville Barrie, 

who plays at Ryman villages in the 

South Island, was a member of local band 

The Footsteps, which played hotels including 

the Russley and the Bush Inn. He also played 

at their wedding. 

“We met in March (1980), got engaged in 

June and were married in November.” 

The couple have three children, including 

Scott (a farmer manager at Paturau 

River, at the top of the West Coast) and 

identical twins Anna and Jodi. They have 

four grandchildren, including two that live 

in Christchurch. 

Following a busy working life, they settled 

in Kaiapoi but the Canterbury earthquakes 

and Gary’s resurfacing back problems took 

them to a three-bedroom home in Belfast. In 

the end though there was still the constant 

property work. “The house wasn’t too big 

but it was the maintenance of the house,” 

Kate says. 

Gary adds, “I was a keen veggie gardener, but 

it got to the stage where I couldn’t dig it every 

year. With Kate, there was more and more 

going on her shoulders.” They considered 

smaller houses and over-60s units but found 

them either too old, too untidy, or too small 

prompting them to consider retirement 

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The healthy real estate market helped 

them get the buyer interest and price they 

wanted at a well-attended auction. That 

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They immediately bonded with residents 

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on a strip alongside the home. “We’ve just 

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Kate says she loves attending the village’s 

regular Triple A exercise sessions where 

she’s met many other health enthusiasts. 

Gary says they both enjoy socialising with 

fellow residents at Happy Hour. 

They credit village sales advisor Adrienne 

Todd and all her introductory work to make 

them aware of the benefits of village life. 

The lovely townhouses won them over. 

They were welcomed with flowers and a gift 

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Burnside High School’s A team in action against St Andrew’s College A last week. 

After some good performances, Burnside finished the three-day tournament third 

overall with St Andrew’s coming in fourth at the Canterbury senior secondary school 

indoor volleyball championships held at Pioneer Recreation & Sport Centre and Cowles 

Stadium. Twenty boys and 29 girls teams from secondary schools around Canterbury 

entered the tournament, aimed at year 11-13 players. The event provided a good 

warm-up for the winning teams going on to compete at the national championships in 

Palmerston North later this month. 

PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN 

HEIGHT: Mack Dalzell smashes the ball 

back to score a point. 

REACH: Flynn Holdem tries to get the ball over the net. 

POWER: James Barker- 

McMillan serving. 

EYE ON THE BALL: Lazar Cirkovic watches 

the ball drop down over the net. 

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Pupils get delicious 

reward for reading 


DELICIOUS: Redwood 

Primary School librarian 

Sandra Matai (left) at the 

Cookie Time presentation 

with Christchurch City 

Libraries’ staff. 

A SUMMER reading challenge 

has enabled a primary school to 

win a prize delicious enough that 

even the Cookie Monster would 

be envious. 

Taking part in the Christchurch 

City Libraries’ annual summertime 

reading challenge paid 

off for 279 Redwood Primary 

School pupils, who each received 

a Cookie Time treat for their efforts 

last week. 

The challenge celebrates the joy 

of reading, encouraging people of 

all ages to simply pick up a book 

and read during the summer 

holidays. 

School librarian Sandra Matai 

said: “They’re [the pupils] are 

quite excited, every single student 

got one, including a gift basket 

for staff. It’s great that it was 

school-wide.” 

The challenge ran from the 

beginning of December to the 

end of February. 

Children under 13-years-old 

were encouraged to read at least 

three books and describe what 

they thought about each book 

using three adjectives. 

There was also a competition 

for children older than 13, and 

adults. 

Along with prizes for individual 

readers, Bromley Primary 

School, West Spreydon Primary 

School, and Diamond Harbour 

School were also in the mix of 

winners who received cookies 

and book packs. 

Matai said the challenge made 

sure pupils were on top of their 

reading game during the summer 

holidays. 

“It’s a great promotion for 

reading over the summer, it 

encourages them to keep reading 

and it’s good to keep practising,” 

she said. 

“Sometimes if they have a sixweek 

break, they’ll lose some of 

the things they learned before the 

holidays.” 

Police kiosk keys handed over 

to daughter of volunteer 

THE KEYS to the former police 

kiosk building in Cathedral 

Square may no longer serve 

any purpose but for Trish 

Ludemann, they’re a precious 

link to her late father, Max 

Sword. 

Sword spent most of his 

retirement years working in 

the kiosk, co-ordinating the 

volunteers and was always 

telling his daughter stories about 

things that went on there. 

When Ludemann recently 

learned the kiosk building was 

being demolished, she contacted 

the city council and asked if 

she could have a piece of wood 

from the building as a memento 

of her father, who died six years 

ago at 82. 

The team managing the building’s 

demolition decided that 

Ludemann deserved a better 

memento than a piece of wood 

and gifted her the keys to the 

building. 

Said Ludemann: “I was so 

happy. I bought the keys home 

and said: ‘Right dad, you have 

your own set of keys now.’ 

“I’ve put them in the safe with 

his medals and his community 

service awards and the other 

mementoes I have of him. There 

MEMORIES: Trish Ludemann was given the keys to the 

former police kiosk in Cathedral Square – a memento to 

remember her late father who used to work there. 

PHOTO: NEWSLINE 

are so many memories in that 

safe. 

“Dad loved working in the 

kiosk and co-ordinated the 

volunteers for more than 25-years. 

When they reopened the building 

after the earthquakes, they asked 

dad to cut the ribbon. He was in 

hospital at the time but there was 

nothing that was going to stop 

him from cutting the ribbon. 

“We got him a wheelchair and 

we sneaked him out to the opening 

and then we took him back 

to the hospital – there was no 

way he was going to miss it.’’ 

Ludemann suspected that her 

dad secretly would have liked to 

have been a policeman, which is 

why he enjoyed his time working 

in the kiosk so much. 

“When he died the volunteers 

and the police formed a guard 

of honour at the crematorium. 

He would have been so thrilled 

by that.’’ 

The demolition of the former 

police kiosk is expected to be 

completed by the end of this 

week. 

The kiosk is being demolished 

to make way for the eventual 

relocation of the Citizens’ War 

Memorial into the square. 

 

 

Northern Christchurch 

sawmill businesses McVicar’s 

and Stoneyhurst Timber kindly 

hosted National’s Forestry 

Spokesperson Ian McKelvie and I 

last week for a visit and 

discussions on the value of the 

forestry sector to our economy, 

as well as forestry’s role in 

meeting climate-change targets. 

It’s great to see our local 

businesses doing so well during 

these times. 

The need to protect our 

communities and businesses 

from further impacts of Covid-19 

saw me urgently returning to 

Wellington during the latest 

Covid-19 resurgence threat. I 

joined my fellow MPs in 

Parliament to look at ways we 

can support affected businesses 

when Covid-19 resurgences 

 

affect trading. It’s important we 

 

limit the economic and social 

 

impacts of the pandemic while 

we do everything we can to 

keep our communities safe. The 

Covid-19 Resurgence Support 

Payment bill adds another level 

of support to employers and 

employees in our fight against 

the pandemic. 

I joined my fellow Canterbury 

MPs in meeting our new 

students at the recent 

Canterbury University Club Day. 

This is a great way to help 

students get involved. Thanks 

to vice-chancellor Prof Cheryl de 

la Rey for hosting us. 

MPs across party lines in 

Canterbury will be standing as 

one to pay our respects at the 

National Remembrance Day on 

15 March. As we look back on 

that tragedy, we are 

recommitted to standing 

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HEALTH & AWARENESS 

Joint pain: Do I have arthritis or 

could it be mainly my muscles? 

The team at Physical Sense in Sydenham 

sees clients with a range of symptoms but 

many of their middle-aged and senior clients 

visit complaining of pain in one of their joints. 

Physiotherapist Ietje van Stolk suggests 

that a major part of the pain could be due 

to muscle pain rather than simply arthritis. 

“Even if an x-ray shows arthritis, the reason 

for the pain may be the muscles around 

the joint,” she explains. The images show 

how a muscle knot (the crosses) in a back 

muscle can give hip pain (aches and pain 

are the red areas in the drawings), a knot 

in a muscle on the back of the shoulder 

blade can give a deep pain in the front of 

the shoulder and a muscle knot all the way 

near the groin can give an ache in the knee 

(especially at night in bed). 

Ietje recalls one case where an 89 year 

old client with severe arthritis who walked 

with a stick, told her, “I will end up in 

a wheelchair, I cannot put any weight 

through my right leg due to pain in my hip 

and buttock”. “Within 4 treatments, she 

was walking with her stick but without the 

severe pain,” says Ietje. “The arthritis was 

one of the factors that made her muscles 

spasm but the other was that older people 

move less and the flexed position the hip 

is in when we sit is particularly bad for 

the hip.” Ietje is happy with the fact that 

although the client was 89 and could have 

been “given up on” or told to live with the 

pain, she made a difference to her health 

and wellbeing. 

The same lack of movement can be the 

reason for your knee pain or your shoulder 

pain and the same few treatments could 

make a huge difference for you. 

At Physical Sense, hands-on techniques 

(massage and triggerpoint deactivation 

techniques) are used to release the muscles. 

The client also gets a home exercise 

program designed to mobilize and stretch 

the joint, strengthen the important core 

muscles and increase general strength and 

SHOULDER 

PAIN 

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(the crosses are the areas of the muscle spasms, the red areas is where the pain is felt) 

balance. They teach a movement sequence 

that stretches the joint in all directions 

whilst the client is able to lie safely on their 

bed, perfect for older or less mobile clients. 

In many cases having the muscles 

released and being taught how to maintain 

it, is enough to stay on top of the problem. 

HIP PAIN 

If severe arthritis is the underlying cause, 

some maintenance therapy may be 

necessary, but that is often more affordable 

and, for older patients, better tolerated 

than surgery. After only one treatment you 

should know that it will work for you. Call 

and only pay $50 on that treament. 

Physical Sense Gym and Physio is located at 300 Colombo Street, Sydenham. The Blue Line Bus stops in front of the 

door and there is ample parking. To enquire about joint pain treatment, phone 377-2577 or visit www.triggerpoints.co.nz



HOME & HEATING 

The facts about home ventilation 

Balanced Pressure 

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Under the New Zealand Building Code, 

all buildings, including residential, need 

to be suitably ventilated, either with 

opening windows or forced ventilation. 

Clause G4.1 states: “The objective of this 

provision is to safeguard people from 

illness or loss of amenity due to lack of 

fresh air.” There are many benefits to 

forced, or mechanical, ventilation over 

opening windows, including warmth, 

security, reduction of outside noises and 

reduction of condensation. 

Traditional domestic ventilation systems 

are ‘positive pressure’. They bring air in 

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the stale air out through gaps around 

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Until recently, balanced pressure 

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With new regulations coming in for 

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RESIDENTS MOST affected by 

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Connecting Your Community relieved to hear the Christchurch TUESDAY, starnews.co.nz 

MARCH 24, 2020 



• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding 

the eastern suburbs start to 

Northern Corridor opening has 

see Lianne Dalziel’s campaign 

been delayed by six months. 

THE earthquake-damaged 

aspirations for the area come to 

The CNC was due to open in 

former Sockburn Service Centre 

fruition. 

the middle of this year, but last 

could finally be demolished in 

During October’s local body 

week the New 

July – if the funding needed is 

elections, Ms Dalziel identified 

Zealand Transport 

Agency 

It comes as the 

obtained. 

repairs to the eastern part of the 

city’s footpaths, pipes and roads 

announced more 

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 

as one of her main priorities for 

time was needed 

this term. 

to complete the 

Community 

“We need a fully integrated 

$290m motorwayten 

in its draft 

Board has writ- 

programme of works for the 

east, I have loosely called this 

The original 

submission to 

Readers respond 

Chance to the eastern alliance, which 

scope of the 

Delay in 

Market day the city council’s 

would essentially be an alliance 

project has been Mark Wilson 

Annual Plan 

Mike Mora 

to supermarket 

farewell Holden 

of contractors who can take 

extended to include 

a third southbound lane on 

requesting the city council ad- 

making mall 

goes green at 2019-2020, 

the whole area bit by bit and 

rebranding 

in style 

systematically get the work 

the Waimakariri River bridge and 

exit safer 

Cashmere dresses the HS budget gap so the 

done,” she said during the 

a clip-on cycleway. 

buildings can be removed as soon 

campaign. 

St Albans resident Mark Wilson 

as possible. 

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GIRL Page BOSS: Julia 17 Holmes But chief wants executive to be a Dawn geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said GIRL the BOSS: community Julia Holmes are “somewhat 

her achieve thankful” her for dreams. the delay. 

Page 3 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Page 11 said the final submission is yet to 

wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora 

her achieve her dreams. Baxendale said any request to 



pursue a specific for biology, project in and the from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, •“The By community Bea Gooding will be somewhat 

thankful for a reprieve of the 

for biology, and from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, be completed but it was likely the 

east would have age to has be always agreed been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science, 

technology, engineering 

age has always been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science, 

technology, engineering requested. 

demolition of the site would be 

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD upon Julia by council. 

effects 

South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of 

City councillors are yet to pass 

Gymnastics, which opened its doors to pupils while the school was closed due to fire damage. 

Holmes is on a mission on to 

in how things worked, often country to participate in the 

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD of this motorway for Julia six in how things worked, often country to participate in the 

months, but it’s still there. Until 

taking things apart just to put GirlBoss Advantage programme 

next month, designed She was shocked to hear the 

and maths. 

Holmes is on a mission to taking things apart just to put GirlBoss Advantage programme 

next month, designed She was shocked to hear the Main South Rd, has been a source 

and maths. 

The former service centre, on 

make a difference in the world. any guidance them to back staff together. around 

decisions are made to put our 

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•Story, more photos, page 5 

PHOTO: GEOFF The SLOAN year 11 St Margaret’s this, she said. 

community first, then there is no 

That passion has landed her to mentor the female leaders news from her mother. 

The year 11 St Margaret’s That passion has landed her to mentor the female leaders news from her mother. 

of tension for years with residents 

College student has a passion •Turn to page the 5 

relief,” he said. 

opportunity of her dreams. of tomorrow in industries that • Turn to page 6 

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unhappy with the state of the site. 

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