Western News: March 18, 2021

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Plan to turn former Hornby 

hotel site into a retail hub 

NEW CHAPTER: The Equestrian Hotel (below) will be demolished to make way for a new commercial development hub if approved. 

• By Bea Gooding 

A PLAN to turn the site of an iconic 

hotel into a bustling hub of retail 

activity could become a reality in 

Hornby. 

A resource consent application by 

Kirk Roberts Consulting Engineers 

Ltd is currently being considered 

by the city council to turn the 

former Equestrian Hotel site into 

a commercial development called 

“The Railyard.” 

The hotel closed down last week 

and will be demolished after more 

than 50 years of serving the community 

due to costs associated with 

bringing the building up to modern 

standards. 

The application put together 

by Planz Consultants said the 

proposed development will have 

significant positive effects for the 

community as the area’s population 

continues to grow. 

The Tower St development, if approved, 

will comprise six new buildings 

for both retail and hospitality 

purposes with a mezzanine and 

outdoor dining area and will have 

about 151 on-site car parks. 

“Overall, the proposed 

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an area already identified for 

commercial activity of a similar 

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the community,” the application 

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Thursday, Friday, Monday, 

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They take the time to listen and equip 

you with information, options and 

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Wā Kōrero: Storytimes 

Tuesday, 10.30-11am, at Fendalton, 

Wednesday, 10.15-10.45am, at 

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Fendalton and Hornby libraries 

Storytimes is an interactive programme 

including books, songs, 

rhymes and play. Recommended for 

children two-years-old and up. No 

bookings required. 

Family History 

Wednesday, 11am-1pm 

Upper Riccarton Library 

A volunteer from the Riccarton 

branch of the New Zealand Society of 

Genealogists will be available to help 

you with finding your family history 

online. Meet at the Family History 

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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. 

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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 

University. 

“Fire and Emergency New 

Zealand required a single career 

crew station in Ilam and the new 

station will provide state-of-theart 

facilities to support rapid response 

to the Ilam community,” 

Stackhouse said. 

“The new site will also be 

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 

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 

two fire appliance bays, 

decontamination showers and 

areas for operational equipment 

and transitional firefighters, 

six single bedrooms and PPE 

lockers. 

It also includes a kitchen, 

lounge, gym, meeting rooms, 

and a secure yard for parking 

and to wash appliances. 

The training facility comprises 

of an office space for 

six fire engineers and two hot 

desks, two training rooms 

that can cater for 100 people, 

a kitchen, cafeteria and rooms 

for meetings, utility and locker 

amenities and ablutions. 

A FENZ spokeswoman said 

the official opening date will be 

announced closer to the time. 

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WESTERN NEWS 

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. 

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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 

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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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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 

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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. 

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Helen, a serviced apartment resident at 

Ryman’s Margaret Stoddart Retirement 

Village in Riccarton, is a born and bred 

country girl. 

“I was born out in the country in Darfield,” 

says Helen. 

Helen’s father worked in the coal mines, 

while her mother looked after Helen and 

her four younger siblings. 

The Selwyn District native loved 

growing up in the countryside, especially 

picnicking and swimming in the river near 

their house. 

“My mother would pack us some food 

every day during holidays. We would 

head down to the river and spend the 

day until 3 o’clock swimming and eating,” 

Helen fondly recalls. 

“We weren’t allowed in the river straight 

after lunch, we had to wait!” she laughs. 

Helen was inspired to study maternity 

nursing in Christchurch after talking to 

her neighbour, who was a nurse. 

“She gave me my first minute watch,” 

Helen smiles. 

After two years Helen met fellow country 

enthusiast Tom, a greenskeeper. 

“His name was really Royal, he hated 

that. It wasn’t until I saw his name on the 

marriage certificate that I realised his 

name wasn’t Tom but Royal!” 

Tom and Helen have two children, Jane 

and Alistair and lived in the country until 

Tom passed away. 

“After four years I moved to Hornby in 

Christchurch to be closer to my children,” 

Helen says. 

Helen loved living in her house where 

she could potter in her garden, but when 

her health took a downward spiral, she 

needed respite care and received that at 

Margaret Stoddart. 

Helen enjoyed her time at the village 

so much that she decided to make a 

permanent move to a serviced apartment 

in 2019. For Helen an important factor 

in choosing to live at the village was 

transport. As she doesn’t drive, a nearby 

bus stop was a must. 

Margaret Stoddart village is conveniently 

located close to beautiful Hagley Park 

and the city centre. 

The central location of the boutique 

village allows residents to take advantage 

of the many amenities of Riccarton and 

the central city, while also having the 

benefit of being tucked away from the 

hustle and bustle. 

“It has a bus stop close to the village. It’s 

great for those residents who don’t drive 

anymore,” says Margaret Stoddart Sales 

Advisor Lynne Bretherton. 

Lynne says that serviced apartments 

are the perfect combination of 

independence and support. It really is 

the best of both worlds. 

“The place is fit for the Queen!” 

Helen, a Ryman resident 

“Serviced apartments offer you the 

ability to maintain your wellbeing 

without the worries. They also offer you 

independence but just outside your door, 

there is fantastic support if, or when, you 

need it,” Lynne says. 

“You’re never alone. Life is so 

much easier.” 

Helen’s serviced apartment looks out on 

the garden, and with a wink and a twinkle 

in her eye, she says that’s the reason she 

chose it. 

“You get all the help you might need, and 

the staff are just wonderful,” Helen says 

of village life. 

“The place is fit for the Queen!” 

With serviced apartments available now, 

it is a great time to come in and see the 

village. If you would like to arrange a tour 

please call Lynne on 337 6500. 

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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 

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. 

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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 

Riccarton High School’s B team in action against the school’s C team at the Canterbury senior 

secondary school indoor volleyball championships held at Pioneer Recreation & Sport Centre 

and Cowles Stadium last week. Twenty boys and 29 girls teams from secondary schools around 

Canterbury entered the three-day 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. Riccarton HS B team finished 14th in the girls division 2 

category. 

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his medals and his community 

service awards and the other 

mementoes I have of him. There 

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. 

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Riccarton Park Village is selling now and will offer a contemporary village design set in picture perfect 

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Nestled alongside Riccarton Racecourse, the village overlooks the racecourse, a feature pond and 

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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 

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$290m motorwayten 

in its draft 

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east, I have loosely called this 

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submission to 

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scope of the 

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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 

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CALLS HAVE been made to 

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“The Annual Plan is not cha lenges that lie ahead.” she said. 

“Our residents and businesses signed off for three months so City council chief executive The push from city counci lors 

wi l be depending on us to we have time to ge this advice. Dawn Baxendale did not rule a for a freeze on rates rises comes 

make adjustments, and we wi l, A the same time, the council zero rates rise out. 

shortly after Minister of Finance 

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options in light of the extraor- 

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