Bay Harbour: April 14, 2021

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021 

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Call for 

public 

consultation 

over disposal 

of Diamond 

Harbour land 

• By Samantha Mythen 

THE CITY council is calling for 

submissions on the disposal of 

Diamond Harbour land included 

in its Long Term Plan. 

However, Diamond Harbour 

resident Richard Suggate believes 

disposal of the land requires 

public consultation not just submissions, 

due to the many issues 

of concern to the 

community that 

would arise from 

sale of the land. 

The land runs 

between village 

housing and 

Bay View Rd, 

described as 27 Richard 

Hunters Rd and Suggate 

42 Where Ave. 

This area was originally purchased 

by the Banks Peninsula 

council for future zoning and it 

currently sits as city council freehold 

with district plan zoning. 

Suggate is calling for the 

community to submit to the LTP, 

asking the land be removed from 

the plan. 

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historic Stoddart Cottage Gallery in 

Diamond Harbour. Canvas & Clay 

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Disappointment at supermarket closure 


END OF AN ERA: The Redcliffs Four Square supermarket 

will close its doors on April 24. 

SHOPPERS ARE disappointed 

but not surprised about the 

impending closure of the Four 

Square supermarket in Redcliffs. 

Foodstuffs has announced the 

supermarket will close its doors 

on April 24. 

Imre Speizer lives in Sumner 

and often shopped at Four 

Square. 

“I am displeased at the closing, 

however, I am not surprised 

as the number of shoppers was 

always dwindling,” he said. 

When the Four Square reopened 

as New World in 2015 

after being rebuilt as a result 

of earthquake damage, Speizer 

thought it would slowly take off. 

In a normal, non-Covid world, 

it would have grown in use, he 

said. 

However, the shop re-branded 

as Four Square in June 2020, a 

move Speizer said, was too hasty. 

“If the goal was to increase the 

numbers of shoppers, the brand 

change did not make sense,’’ 

Speizer said. 

“Four Square typically being 

more expensive than other 

supermarkets.’’ 

Nancy Meherne is 92-years-old 

and also lives in Sumner. She said 

she will be sad to see the shop 

close because of its convenience, 

however, she usually shops at 

Countdown in Ferrymead anyway 

because it is much cheaper. 

Said Meherne: “It is understandable 

it is closing. There 

weren’t ever many people there, 

sometimes I was the only one.” 

Margaret McKie, agreed with 

Meherne on her sentiments of 

shopping somewhere cheaper – 

she usually does her larger shops 

at Pak’n Save. 

Said Tim Donaldson, general 

manager retail, Foodstuffs South 

Island: “We would like to thank 

our loyal Redcliffs customers for 

supporting the store over the last 

20 years – it’s always a sad day to 

close a store and we very much 

wish things had turned out differently.” 

Foodstuffs South Island is 

looking at alternative options for 

the use of the building following 

closure, which may include 

selling or leasing the site. 

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DISPLEASED: Sumner 

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disappointed Four Square 

will close. 

UPSET: Sumner resident 

Nancy Meherne says the 

closure is understandable 

because of the lack of 

customers. 

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The city council together with 

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garden. The Botanic Gardens 

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involved long term in helping out 

in the garden. Any local persons 

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can phone Jude Turner 384 9320. 

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4 NEWS 

Mountain bike club now has 

voice in reserves committee 


MOUNTAIN BIKERS now have a voice 

in the contentious Lyttelton Reserves 

Management Committee. 

At a committee meeting on March 22, 

Joshua Merriam, treasurer for the Lyttelton 

Mountain Bike Club, was nominated 

and voted to join the group, which 

manages the upkeep of Lyttelton 

reserves. 

He was appointed to the 

committee after the resignation 

of members Sarah Amazzinia 

and Omar Seycehll in March had 

Joshua 

Merriam 

opened up two new places. Rewi 

Couch was also voted on to the 

committee. 

The day after Merriam was 

appointed, the Banks Peninsula 

Community Board met with the committee 

to address complaints received over 

alleged mismanagement and inaction. 

Banks Peninsula Community Board 

chairwoman Tori Peden said: “We had 

heard complaints but hadn’t heard the 

committee’s side.” 

Merriam said the main concern raised 

was that not all users of the reserve were 

being heard and their perspectives taken 

into account. 

“The good work the committee was 

doing was also acknowledged but this 

didn’t negate the fact that some groups 

are being shut out and not listened to.” 

Peden explained the outcome from the 

meeting was the realisation better communication 

was needed. 

“We have to clear up the miscommunication 

and frustration and be on the 

same page.” 

Peden believes it is important the 

reserves committee has representation 

from all of the user groups. 

“With Josh now on the committee, it is 

a move in the right direction. The committee 

can really hear from the mountain 

bike community.” 

Merriam has been campaigning 

for the approval of track upgrades 

at the entrance of Urumau Reserve 

since 2018. 

The track in question is a component 

of the 2018 Urumau Development 

Plan. After the Urumau 

Development Plan was passed last 

term, city council staff had put aside 

money and resources for the track 

to become official. 

However, no progress had been made 

since then to actually approve the access 

track into the reserve. Instead the track 

is still classified as a “proposed track,” in 

spite of being used by both mountain bikers 

and walkers alike to access the track. 

Peden explained this issue was cleared 

up at the meeting. 

Said Peden: “The staff are there to help 

with funding and resources. We are not 

asking the reserves committee to do the 

work themselves.” 

Peden is hoping to receive a report on the 

next steps for the track by early May and 

then for the track to be in place by July. 

Merriam officially presented a petition 

asking for the track to be approved to 

the latest community board meeting on 

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“Forward and back discussions 

are needed, as there are complex 

issues involved,” he said. 

“If the land was sold, there is 

no public consultation requirement 

for the developer.” 

Without public consultation, 

Suggate believes the action would 

contravene section 82 of the 

Local Government Act. 

Said Diamond Harbour Community 

Association chairman 

Nathan Graham: “We think the 

LTP is not the appropriate vehicle 

for land disposal. There needs to 

be more consultation with the 

community before the property 

is sold.” 

Suggate explained the area is 

about one-third of the current 

Diamond Harbour area in size, 

running across the back of the 

village, adjacent to many houses. 

Sale of the land could result in 

200-300 more houses being built. 

“Diamond Harbour is a stand 

alone community and the area 

concerned is a large chunk of 

land, right next to where people 

live,” Suggate said. 

“It is not just a random subdivision, 

rather it would be adding 

on to an existing settlement 

which has developed and grown 

slowly over time. People are 

interested in what will happen if 

the land is sold.” 

Graham agreed that the land 

sale would affect the wider community 

and thus they need a say 

in how it is developed. 

“The community needs a say 

in how they want Diamond 

Harbour to be in the next 20-30 

years.” 

However, city council head of 

facilities, property and planning 

Bruce Rendall said there has not 

been any attempt to fast track 

disposal of the land. 

Rendall explained recent 

changes have increased community 

input alongside allowing for 

consideration of the financial 

implications of decisions. 

“The LTP process requires 

extensive consultation, ensuring 


that there is a wide variety of 

input into decisions. Local interests 

can be considered, through 

individual submissions and community 

board input, as well as 

broader ratepayer considerations. 

Within the land is Morgan’s 

and Sam’s gullies. Volunteers 

have been working for a number 

of years to restore these areas 

with native vegetation. It is hoped 

the gullies will eventually become 

reserves but they are yet to 

be protected by covenants. 

Suggate said if the land was 

sold before the gullies were covenanted, 

the reserves committee 

volunteers would have to deal 

with the new developers who 

own the land. 

“The council would wash their 

hands of the responsibility. 

Rendall said actions to protect 

these gullies are well advanced. 

Suggate said another issue is 

that the land boundaries are 

currently infused with residents’ 

daily activities. Some people 

have built private gardens over 

the years. There is a track to 

Diamond Harbour School, which 

is used daily by students. 

Other factors regarding 

infrastructure also need to be 

considered such as, if more 

houses are built, the school 

NEWS 5 

More than 200 houses could be built in subdivision 

BIGGER ISSUES: Whero Ave is deemed 

too narrow to provide access to a new 

subdivision. 


Nathan 

Graham 

Bruce Rendall 

would need to increase in size, 

Suggate said. 

“Maybe some of the land could 

be set aside for the school’s expansion 

as it backs on to the area. 

This would need to be decided 

before the land’s disposal.” 

Furthermore, Suggate said 

the roads leading to the area are 

narrow and are not suitable for 

increased traffic and the village’s 

wastewater system is failing. 

“The council should think 

about other ways to use the land, 

like whether it should be sold in 

one go or sold in bits.” 

Said Suggate: “Public 

consultation will change the 

way any future subdivision is 

undertaken and will better reflect 

what the community want to 

have.” 

Suggate shared these views at 

the Banks Peninsula Community 

Board meeting on Monday, supported 

by the Diamond Harbour 

Community Association. 

Board chairwoman Tori Peden 

agreed with Suggate, saying the 

LTP was the wrong process for 

the land sale. 

“We are asking the city council 

that this be taken out of the LTP 

and be put through a public 

consultation process.” 

Rendall acknowledged the 

city council will consider the 

feedback received from the public 

submissions before deciding the 

next steps relating to the land. 

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6 

NEWS 

AKAROA AREA School 

students have once again crossed 

the harbour in home-made rafts, 

replicating a journey explorer 

Frank Worsley once made when 

he was a young boy. 

A group of 

17 year 9 and 

year 10 students 

constructed 

their own rafts, 

paddles and sails 

and attempted 

to cross the 4km 

distance from 

the Akaroa Boat 

shed to Tikao Bay. 

Students Tai Bristowe, Tilly 

Davies, Lily Roberston and 

Mason Rogal were first across in 

a record time of 2hr and 7min, 

beating the previous record of 

2hr and 10min. 

Said Tilly: “It was an event that 

really brought our team together 

and gave us memories we will 

never forget.” 

The challenge reflects the 

adventurous feat of Worsley and 

his brother, Henry. 

Worsley was born in 

Akaroa in 1872. At 10-years-old, 

he delivered a horse to Wainui 

with Henry. Instead of walking 

the long journey back home, 

the two boys made a raft and 

paddled back across the 

harbour. 

Worsley later served as 

Ernest Shackleton’s captain 


Harbour crossing for young sailors replicates 

Frank 

Worsley 

LAND AHOY: First to Tikao Bay in a record time of 2hr and 7min were, from left, Tai Bristowe, 

Tilly Davies, Lily Roberston and Mason Rogal. Above right: The group sets out across the 

harbour. 

on the Endurance during the 

Imperial Trans-Antarctic 

expedition in 1914. The ship got 

stuck in ice for 10 months before 

it sank, but not a single 

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died. 

Worsley sailed one of the 

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Worsley journey 

Said Social studies teacher 

Gary Brittenden: “The event 

really pushes the students 

physically and emotionally. They 

know the task will not be easy 

and that most rafts don’t make 

it. They have to work as a team 

and as individuals but there 

is a great feeling of pride and 

accomplishment when they do 

make it. “ 

Brittenden explained, for the 

past 12 years, Akaroa School 

students have been attempting 

to replicate Worsley’s feat. It is 

now a multi-curricular project 

involving social science, mathematics, 

science, technology, PE 

and health. 

Only about one third of the 

teams complete the journey unaided 

each year. 

“It really is a challenge for the 

students and a feat to feel proud 

of when they make it,” Brittenden 

said. 

“This year two teams made it 

across.” 

Lily said: “I enjoyed the team 

experience . . . we had some great 

conversations in the middle of 

the harbour. It took a lot of effort 

to get across but I felt proud of 

our achievement.” 

CHALLENGE: A crew paddles towards Tikao Bay. 

Right: Shackleton’s Endurance in Antarctic ice. 


THE END of the 20/21 financial 

year has drawn to a close and 

it has been a big year for the 

Sumner Ferrymead Foundation 

in so many ways. 

THe trustees 

wanted to 

raise the 

profile of the 

foundation to 

increase the 

number of 

requests for 

funding and 

the number of 

donations, so 

they worked 

with local creative Stephen 

McCarthy to revamp the look of 

the brand. 

THe new brand was used to 

launch a range of scholarships 

and awards, and to develop new 

collateral to promote the work of 

the foundation. 

“As a result, there has been 

a significant increase in the 

number of grants we have given 

out this year which is gratifying 

on so many levels,” treasurer 

Barry Geddes said. 

“It’s been a tough year so it’s 

pleasing to see that the Sumner 

Ferrymead Foundation helping 

more locals, and it also means 

more people are becoming aware 

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Sykes has received support 

this year from The Sumner 

Ferrymead Foundation. 

of the work of the foundation.” 

However, one thing hasn’t 

changed … it’s still locals helping 

locals. 

The foundation’s grants all 

go to locals, the trustees are all 

locals, and this year all donations 

came from locals or former 

locals too. 

“And that is our project for 

this coming year, asking locals 

to donate to their local charity so 


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Locals helping locals . . . 

it’s been a big year! 

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they can help us to help others, 

Geddes said. 

People can give a donation for 

a nominated project (eg sponsoring 

a specific scholarship) or it 

can be a discretionary donation 

which is where the trustees use 

the donation to fund grants, 

scholarships and awards for residents 

in the catchment area. 

There is also the option to 

leave a bequest which is where 

you leave instructions in your 

will about your donation. 

“I’d be happy to chat to 

anyone if they have any queries, 

as would any trustee,” Geddes 

said. 

Meanwhile, there are a number 

of locals – individuals, clubs, 

schools and the community 

- who are benefiting from the 

work of the Sumner Ferrymead 

Foundation. 

Support this year has gone 

to competitive cyclist Amelia 

Sykes for her new wheels, Taylors 

Mistake Surf Life Saving Club 

for their community engagement 

project, Redcliffs School for new 

books for their multisensory 

structured language programme 

and Sumner Community 

Residents Association for the 

HERO awards, to name just a 

few. 

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8 

NEWS 

Council to 

stop accepting 

cheques 

for payment 

THE CITY council will no longer 

accept cheques as a payment 

method from the end of this 

month. 

Acting general manager 

resources Diane Brandish said 

the council will not be accepting 

cheque payments from April 30, 

2021, because the ANZ, BNZ and 

Westpac are phasing out cheques 

in May and June. 

Brandish said there are other 

payment options available to residents 

including internet banking, 

telephone banking, automatic 

payment, credit card or in person 

with cash and Eftpos at any council 

service centre. 

“Rates can also be paid by 

monthly or quarterly direct debit,” 

she said. 

“The advantage of a direct 

debit compared to an automatic 

payment is that the amount being 

paid doesn’t need to be adjusted 

every new rating year. 

“Direct debits always take the 

exact amount being asked for on 

the rates demand, meaning residents 

never get behind on their 

rates.” 

To be sent a direct debit 

form phone 941 8999 or 0800 800 

169. 


HECTOR’S dolphins advocate 

Genevieve Robinson is 

demanding better marine 

protection of the dolphins. 

Robinson delivered a legal 

opinion to Environmental Canterbury 

on Monday, challenging 

its lack of action in protecting 

hector’s dolphins. 

She is asking 

for stronger protections 

of the 

dolphins from 

trawl fishing and 

gillnetting. Under 

the Fisheries 

Act, trawlors can 

operate within 

two nautical miles 

from shore. 

Robinson hopes ECan will act 

urgently, either banning gillnetting 

and trawling in the Hector’s 

dolphins habitat or banning 

both fishing activities within 12 

nautical miles from shore. 

Robinson engaged prominent 

Resource Management Act 

lawyer James Gardner-Hopkins, 

after becoming increasingly 

frustrated by ECan’s failure to 

uphold its duties in protecting 

the dolphins. 


Call for better protection for 

hector’s dolphins from ECan 

Genevieve 

Robinson 

ENDEMIC SPECIES: Hector’s dolphins are the smallest 

oceanic dolphin species and call the Banks Peninsula 

waters their home. PHOTO: GENEVIEVE ROBINSON 

During last year’s lockdown, 

Robinson routinely monitored 

fisheries activities in the Banks 

Peninsula through online apps. 

“While we were locked up in 

our homes, fisheries carried on 

as usual, working as an essential 

service,” she said. 

Robinson then discovered, 

through an Official Information 

Act request, a hector’s dolphin 

had been caught by a fishing 

vessel in March. 

The fishermen at the time had 

reported this to the Department 

of Conservation, which then 

notified Conservation Minister 

Eugenie Sage. 

However, the public were only 

told of the dolphin by-catch five 

months later. 

Said Robinson: “Hector’s are 

still being caught. It goes on. We 

know it goes on.” 

Robinson believes change 

needs to occur around the way 

fishing is allowed in areas where 

there are also large populations 

of hector’s dolphins. 

“The problem is the marine 

sanctuary in the Banks Peninsula 

is not doing its job,” Robinson 

said. 

“It is only a sanctuary in terms 

of protecting the dolphins from 

seismic surveys and mining. 

Sanctuary is a word that looks 

good on paper but it doesn’t play 

out its proper role based on the 

public’s conservation expectations.” 

In the letter, Gardner-Hopkins 

acknowledges ECan has the 

power to impose controls of fishing 

through its regional coastal 

environmental plan in order to 

protect hector’s dolphins. 

“ECan can make protective 

changes overnight. If they go by 

the books, it will take too long. 

We need urgent action on this,” 

said Robinson. 

Robinson has previously called 

out the Lyttelton Port Company 

on its cruise berth construction 

plans. 

Prior to her first sighting of 

hector’s dolphins in 2013, she did 

not know New Zealand had an 

endemic dolphin species. 

Since then, she has been working 

“non-stop,” to advocate for 

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GOVERNORS Bay School 

pupils want a sign in memory of 

Hilda Frame to be put up in the 

reserve opposite the school. 

Six pupils, along with deputy 

principal Liza Rossie, spoke 

about the idea at the Banks 

Peninsula Community Board 

meeting on Monday. 

The children want a sign to be 

put in place, naming the reserve 

as Hilda Frame Reserve, with a 

QR code that can be scanned to 

show photos of Frame and some 

information on her story. 

The reserve, on the corner of 

Main Rd and Cresswell Ave is 

the site of the Governors Bay 

community centre and swimming 

pool. 

Hilda Frame bequeathed this 

area of land to the community 

after her death in 1981. 

Born in 1900, Frame lived 

there in a small cottage, where 

for more than 50 years she took 

care of more than 300 orphan 

children, standing in as their 

foster mother. She was awarded 

the British Empire Medal for her 

service. 

Last year, the junior school 

did an inquiry into “Our Place, 

community and reserves,” and 

learned about how they could be 

guardians of their reserves. 

During this study, they discovered 

Frame’s story shared in 

the 1868 Governors Bay School 

building. 

Rossie explained they all felt 

surprised there was no signage 

about Frame in the park and 

decided to work towards putting 

one in place. 

“The reserve is currently called 

4673, we think Hilda Frame is 

a much better name for it,” said 


Pupils want reserve to be 

named after good Samaritan 

THE TEAM: From left, Xavier, 8, Maxwell, 8, Kate, 8, Heidi, 6, 

Hunter, 8, and Niall, 7, with teacher Liza Rossie at the Banks 

Peninsula Community Board meeting. 

Rossie. 

At the board meeting, the 

pupils said they wanted people 

to remember Frame and what 

she did. 

Pupil Xavier said: “This is 

about helping with the history of 

Governors Bay.” 

Rossie and the parents who 

attended the meeting felt very 

proud of the children for speaking 

about this idea. 

Banks Peninsula Community 

Board chairwoman Tori 

FOSTER MUM: Hilda Frame 

looked after more than 300 

orphaned children during 

her lifetime. 

Peden said they supported the 

children’s idea and would speak 

to city council staff about how 

they can help make this idea a 

reality. 

City council heritage conservation 

project planner Victoria 

Bliss called the children: “true 

kaitiaki.” 

“This is everything protecting 

heritage should be about. We 

are passing stories from one 

generation to the next. It is about 

encouraging tamariki to know 

where they’ve come from.” 

Bliss is helping the pupils 

with their application for an 

intangible heritage grant to help 

fund the signage. 

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sponsor for 

conservation 

trust 

THIS YEAR, Lyttelton Port 

Company has increased its level 

of support of the Banks Peninsula 

Conservation Trust to that of 

principal partner. 

BPCT is a not-for-profit organisation 

that works with the community, 

government agencies, 

iwi, and businesses to protect the 

peninsula’s natural environment. 

The principal partner role sees a 

doubling of funds provided to the 

trust, which general manager Maree 

Burnett said would make a real 

difference for the organisation. 

LPC has been a significant 

supporter of BPCT since 2014 

when the organisations partnered 

to implement the Port Saddle restoration 

project on 17ha of port 

land in Lyttelton. The partnership 

represents working towards realising 

LPC’s sustainability goal of 

being positive biodiversity. 

Head of environment and 

sustainability, Kim Kelleher, 

said continuing to develop LPC’s 

relationship with the trust is 

fundamental to playing the port’s 

part for nature. 

Burnett said protecting the 

peninsula’s biodiversity is a long 

term journey. She said aligning 

with like-minded organisations, 

such as LPC, along the way is key. 

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OUR PEOPLE – NIC GRAHAM 13 

Hospo a way to keep community together 

Nic Graham calls 

Governors Bay both 

her home and her 

workplace, having 

established cafe 

Harbour House in what 

was once named She. 

Samantha Mythen 

talks to her about the 

business and her role in 

the community 

How did you find yourself in 

Governors Bay? 

I have a really vast 

background. I was in hospitality, 

banking, account management, 

sales and recruitment – all 

sorts of things. Then I had my 

children and we moved to the 

bay about seven years ago. I’ve 

lived in a lot of different places 

and have never settled anywhere 

before. One of the things I’ve 

always wanted to do is live by the 

water and I love it here. 

When we were first exploring 

to buy in Christchurch, we came 

up out to the bay a few times. I 

didn’t know Christchurch well 

and we were told: ‘Oh you never 

get any sun over there.’ 

We eventually bought a villa 

in Spreydon, which we renovated 

fully, finishing after two years. 

Then the quakes wrote it off, the 

house market went nuts, and we 

randomly thought: ‘Let’s go look 

at this place in the bay.’ We saw 

the house on the weekend and 

it went to auction on Thursday 

so we didn’t have time to think 

much about it, but we got it at 

auction. 

What do you love about 

Governors Bay? 

The environment here and the 

views. It’s beautiful, especially 

this time of year with all of the 

autumn colours. It felt like a nice 

environment to raise our kids, 

to get out of the city commercial 

life. I love the people, I love the 

community. 

Where are you from 

originally? 

I was born in Matamata and 

I grew up in Hamilton. From 

about 21, I left and did all sorts 

of things. I lived in Westport 

with my Dad. That’s where I got 

into hospitality. I went down for 

a holiday and ended up staying 

thinking: ‘Oh my god, these 

people are so relaxed, I want to 

be like this.’ 

Dad at the time owned the 

country pub, which was really 

cool. Going from there, I ended 

up working in the township at 

Bailey’s Pub, function centre, 

bar, bottle store, and restaurant. 

What was your first stint in 

hospitality like? 

It was a real local wee pub 

out of town and the banter was 

great. When I started working at 

Bailey’s, they had just renovated 

this big function room, which I 

got up and running. It was the 

marketing side I really loved – 

knowing there was no ceiling to 

what you can do, so you can be 

really creative. 

COMMUNITY HUB: Nic Graham wants her cafe Harbour House to be a place where 

people can take a relaxing break. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

How did you find yourself in 

charge of Harbour House? 

Things changed for me a few 

years ago when I separated from 

my girls’ father and I thought: 

‘What am I going to do? I really 

want to stay here in the bay. 

Okay, I’m going to start up a 

food truck, the community 

needs something like that.’ 

However, I ended coming 

up against walls, and then this 

place came up on the market. 

I inquired, and then long story 

short, I ended up buying it. 

January 31 last year was my 

opening day. I shut down for 

about three and a half days 

before. We were doing so much 

to get things ready. With help of 

tradie friends, we painted it all, 

put in new tiles, I had shelves 

made, we moved doors and put 

a storeroom in. We did loads in 

such a short amount of time. 

The night before the opening 

the place was just a tip with 

tools everywhere. Then probably 

about 10-15 people walked in 

and helped me clear up and do 

the final touches, they weren’t 

even asked, they just turned up. 

So it was like the community 

helped me to get this together. It 

was really cool. 

Then we had a massive 

opening. 

We had Carmel Courtney 

and two of the local kids sing. 

She teaches singing and actually 

teaches my girls. We had three 

food stations around the place, a 

complementary drink on entry 

and the place by 6.20pm was 

chocker. My daughter, who was 

12 at the time, was doing the till 

for me as I had no time to train 

on it. 

How did the evening make 

you feel? 

It was so cool, a real blessing 

to the place. Then it was also 

overwhelming because I was 

thinking: ‘Oh, tomorrow, we 

are actually going to be in 

operation.” 

‘It’s about enjoying being 

in here and receiving really 

good service.’ 

– Nic Graham 

What made you commit to 

something as big as running a 

cafe? 

I wanted my girls to see me be 

able to achieve my dream. I have 

always wanted to do this and 

now it has come to fruition. 

I was terrified at first. Then I 

ran around town for a month 

trying to get everything together. 

It was honestly the scariest 

thing I’ve ever done. 

Where did the name Harbour 

House come from? 

When I started hospo, Dad’s 

FAMILY: 

Graham 

with her 

daughters 

Alexandra 

(left) and 

Zoe. 

pub was in Cape Foulwind 

and just past there is gorgeous 

Tauranga Bay, so the pub was 

named Bay House. 

Ten days after the earthquake, 

he passed away suddenly and the 

pub went to new owners. 

I’d been pondering what to call 

this place for awhile. I wanted 

to call it something “house,” 

because I wanted it to feel like 

home for people. I rang the Bay 

House and asked if I could use 

the name and they unfortunately 

said no. I was stuck on Bay 

House and was feeling so 

disappointed, because we call it 

the Bay here, so the Bay House 

would have been perfect. 

Then, a friend of mine texted 

me saying: ‘What about Harbour 

House?’ and I said: ‘Yes that’s it.’ 

You’ve mentioned quite a 

lot that this is a cafe for the 

community – what does that 

mean to you? How do you 

visualise it being a place for the 

community? 

I am wanting this to be the 

hub of the community, where 

people come to meet and bump 

into their friends and relax and 

just hang. It should be a place 

where people can approach 

me for anything they want. It’s 

about enjoying being in here and 

receiving really good service. 

You have hosted several 

community fundraisers at 

Harbour House, tell me about 

this. 

We do all sorts of community 

events. We have raised money for 

the Kidney Society with a clothes 

swap. We’ve done a function 

for the Fire Service and had a 

massive quiz and auction night 

to raise money for the Governors 

Bay year 8 school camp to 

Wellington. We raised $4000 I 

think. It was really cool and fun, 

a good feel. It’s all about raising 

money for the community. 

I’ve also got local art in here 

and it all often sells which is 

really exciting and rewarding to 

see for the artist. 

We also came up with the idea 

of takeaway meals, like cottage 

pies during Covid, so people 

could put them in their freezer. I 

felt like the elderly wouldn’t want 

to go into the supermarkets, 

afraid of their higher risk of 

contracting covid. The meals 

went flying out the door. 

As the business owner you 

have many roles, but what’s 

your favourite? 

I would have liked to have 

said marketing but right now, I 

don’t do much of that because 

I get tied up in everything else. 

But really just being with all the 

people who come in here is my 

favourite part. 

Any funny stories of people 

here so far? 

We were getting ready for 

our first birthday celebration 

earlier this year and just the 

week before, we were about to 

close and this girl came in and 

I gasped pointing her out to an 

employee, saying: ‘That’s the 

singer.’ It was Hayley Westenra. 

And I asked her and she yes. I 

asked her to take photos with me 

and I asked her to please come 

to the birthday. She said she 

would try. But she never showed 

(laughs). I was so excited. 

What has been the most 

challenging side of running 

your own business? 

I was in business for seven 

weeks and then Covid hit. 

Then we went to level three 

and had to change everything, 

doing takeaways and losing 

all of that tourism – this is a 

tourism destination on top of 

the local business. It has been 

really tough, I feel like I’ve been 

chasing my tail. Right now, I 

don’t have a life or time out. But 

I said to myself at the start: ‘I 

know it is going to be a hard and 

long two years.’ I am surviving 

now and just have to keep going. 

What are your happy things 

outside of Harbour House? 

Spending time with my girls 

– one is 13 and one is almost 

10. The other day we had fish 

and chips at the beach and they 

went for a swim. It was so nice. 

I’m also very social, so catching 

up with friends. Travelling is 

massive for me, I love it. I’ve 

been to Asia, Samoa, Raratonga 

and Australia, and of course 

throughout New Zealand. I 

love camping, it is my big thing. 

Tenting with my family. Okains 

Bay is my favourite spot, it is 

so great for children as well. 

I’m really looking forward to 

eventually having more time to 

do that. 

What does being a mother 

mean to you? 

It’s everything. 

What’s your favourite meal to 

eat here? 

I am the most annoying owner 

in the world, because I go into 

the kitchen and say: ‘I’m really 

hungry but I don’t know what 

I want.’ But probably, our eggs 

bennedict with salmon.

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The art piece 

‘Forest Flight’ 

will be sold 

for $2800 

and proceeds 

will go to the 

Diamond 

Harbour 

Volunteer Fire 

Brigade and 

Artists Against 

Slavery’s 

cause. 

Right: The 

designated 

track for the 

fun run. 

Art group to help raise funds for 

victims of abuse through fun run 


KEEN PARTICIPANTS: John Simkiss (left) will be running 

to raise money for Hagar International. Dereck Porter 

suggested the idea of the fun run fundraiser. 

SMALL ACTIONS plus many 

people results in huge change. 

This is the belief of Artists 

Against Slavery, a Diamond 

Harbour based charitable organisation, 

which uses creativity to 

fundraise for the rescue and rehabilitation 

of trafficked people 

worldwide. 

The Diamond Harbour 

challenge fun run event is its 

upcoming fundraiser. The event 

is on April 24, starting 9am participants 

can either run or walk 

from Godley House site to the 

wharf and back as many times as 

they like. The distance is about 

910m per lap. 

In the lead-up to and during 

the event, participants can find 

sponsors to donate. All money 

raised will be donated to Hagar 

International which works with 

trafficked women and children 

in Cambodia, Vietnam and 

Afghanistan. 

Artist Janie Porter established 

the organisation in 2009. 

Said Porter: “I want to use the 

gift I’ve got to make a difference. 

For all the artists involved, whether 

they paint or sculpt, whatever 

they do, they want to both create 

and make their life count.” 

Porter’s husband Dereck is a 

runner and suggested the fun 

run event. Porter set the date 

and is making it happen behind 

the scenes. 

Resident John Simkiss, will 

be starting the run at 9pm on 

Friday, 12 hours before the official 

beginning. He is planning 

to run all night around the 

playing fields before joining in 

the official event laps at 9am on 

Saturday. 

“I like to run, so thought, why 

not run longer,” he said. 

“I have known Janie for a few 

years and seeing her fundraising 

efforts has inspired me. As a 

runner I thought, why don’t I do 

my part with running.” 

Simkiss has already done numerous 

running events to raise 

money for Hagar International. 

He does not have any fundraising 

goals but encourages 

people to donate or even just 

participate. 

“Getting to know about the 

cause is just as important.” 

Porter is donating a painting 

to be sold at the event too, where 

half of the proceeds from the 

sale will be donated to the Diamond 

Harbour Volunteer Fire 

Brigade and the other half will 

be donated to Artists Against 

Slavery’s cause. 

Porter explained six laps of the 

course is the equivalent of up 

and down the Bridle Path and 18 

laps is the equivalent of going up 

and down Mt Herbert but even 

one lap counts. 

“You can do one lap. You can 

just stroll it. Anyone can join 

and if you are frightened of 

finding sponsors, you can just 

sponsor yourself,” Porter said. 

“It is a fun thing to do with 

friends and for a really good 

cause.” 

The organisation also runs 

other fundraising events. 

Artists donate work to the 

organisation to fundraise. They 

also participate in exhibitions 

where a portion of money from 

the artwork sold goes to Hagar. 

The next exhibition will be held 

in Diamond Harbour in October. 

In July, five local high school 

students will exhibit their work. 

In October each year, people 

are asked to donate $10 – the 

10th month. 

Porter explained if 100 people 

donate that is $1000, which can 

make a world of difference to 

trafficked people’s rehabilitation. 

The group also runs coffee 

morning fundraisers, where for a 

small fee, which will be donated 

to Hagar, people can listen to an 

artist guest speaker. The most 

recent guest speaker was printer 

maker and oil artist, Gaby Reade. 

To register for the Diamond 

Harbour fun run email 

janieporter.art@gmail.com 

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Young yachtie cruises to national title 

• By Chris Barclay 

ALTHOUGH COVID-19 twice 

scuttled his plans to represent 

New Zealand overseas, talented 

Optimist sailor Will Leech is 

staying upbeat. 

After all, the 12-year-old 

Cobham Intermediate School 

student and member of the 

Charteris Bay Yacht Club member 

does have time on his side. 

By becoming the South 

Island’s first winner of the Optimist 

National Championships 

since fellow Cantabrian Jayvee 

Buchanan in 2010, Leech should 

have been setting sail for Lake 

Garda in Italy, venue of the 

world optimist championships 

in June-July. 

However, the global pandemic 

means he will stay closer to 

home in Charteris Bay on the 

southern coast of Lyttelton harbour 

to continue training while 

playing rugby over the winter 

months. 

“It’s disappointing not to be 

able to go to Italy, the world 

championships will be a goal for 

next season,” he said. 

Leech expertly improved on 

last year’s second placing in the 

Open fleet with a canny display 

of consistent sailing on the E 

course used by the America’s 

Cup and Prada Cup teams in 

Auckland. 

He only won one of the 12 

races he contested off the Maraetai 

Sailing Club headquarters 

last week, but he also only had a 

solitary double-digit placing, a 

10th he was able to discard from 

his points score. 

Otherwise he never finished 

outside the top-six among the 

76-strong fleet throughout five 

days of racing. 

He finished 15 points clear of 

Auckland’s Joe Leith from the 

Murrays Bay Boating Club. 

“What I was focusing on was 

keeping consistent because 

one of Dad’s mates was the OK 

PLAIN SAILING: 

Talented 

Christchurch 

sailor Will 

Leech won his 

first Optimist 

national 

championships 

by a comfortable 

margin in 

Auckland. 

PHOTO: 

YACHTING NEW 

ZEALAND 

Dinghy world champion and he 

only won one race,” Leech said, 

referencing Christchurch sailor 

Matt Stechmann’s triumph at 

Melbourne in 2014. 

“I’m been working really 

hard over the last few seasons, 

it’s always been a dream to win 

it. I’m so stoked to beat all the 

Aucklanders,” he said. 

Leech, who claimed the boys 

title and the overall honours, 

sails a raft of different boats, 

including a P Class and an F8 

Foiler, which he built with his 

father Dan. 

“It’s super competitive at that 

top level so to go up there and 

actually win it is a huge achievement,” 

Leech’s father said. 

“It’s pretty full on, race days 

up in Auckland, sometimes 

you’re on the water for six hours 

a day.” 

Each competing country 

can send their top-five ranked 

optimist to the global showpiece, 

so Covid-19 also ruined Leech’s 

plans to go to Europe last year, 

where Italy withdrew their bid 

before the world championships 

were cancelled. 

Fortunately Leech, who started 

sailing at age six, is eligible to 

compete in the Optimist class 

for another two years. 

Leech has already represented 

New Zealand abroad as a part of 

a development team to Noumea 

in 2019 and has sizeable goals on 

the horizon. 

“I want to be involved in the 

Sail GP and the America’s Cup,” 

he said. 

ESTUARY MATTERS 

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 Tanya Jenkins 

writes about a former salt marsh that is now 

Charlesworth Reserve 

FROM WETLAND to industrial 

area to farmland and now 

returned to a spectacular 

wetland. 

A brain-child by city council 

ecologist and park ranger 

Andrew Crossland, this was 

a restoration plan to return a 

20ha of drained salt marsh to its 

former glory. 

Once initial design of wet 

and dry areas were scraped out 

and walking paths had been 

constructed, the estuary trust 

offered, with enthusiasm, to 

provide the elbow grease to replant 

and co-ordinate volunteer 

restoration sessions. September 

2004 saw our first involvement 

in this long road to restore this 

area divided from the estuary by 

Humphreys Drive. 

With soil spoiled after 

industry and cattle presence 

for some 150 years, the land 

required mulching and ‘resting’ 

to recover before the first hardy 

plants like flax, cabbage trees, 

Ngaio, oi oi and saltmarsh 

ribbonwoods could be planted. 

Followed by several years of 

constant weeding of the young 

plants to prevent being crowded 

out by grasses, being gutted at 

times observing plant losses due 

to either drought, heavy frost, 

flooding and the occasional 

plant theft issue, perseverance 

was rewarded when we started 

to see some real green growth in 

2012. It was only then, we could 

plant a wider variety of plants 

incl Kahikatea, Totara, Manuka 

and Mahoe. 

In 2015, it was city councillor 

Sarah Templeton who was given 

the honour to plant tree seedling 

number 100,000 in the reserve. 

Charlesworth Wetland today? 

A coastal wetland with a large 

variety of trees and shrubs 

sheltering and protecting the 

large numbers of lizards and 

insects now present again. Small 

islands provide safe roosting 

and nesting sanctuaries for a 

variety of birds. A little gem in 

Christchurch and proof that 

with a little bit of assistance, 

nature is quite capable of healing 

from damage done by people. 

The estuary trust would 

Charlesworth 

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that yes, the annual 1500–1800 

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College Business Student 

“Who we are” helping inform “what we do” 

Linwood College at Ōtākaro has been motivating 

students to find and forge their own unique and 

exciting pathways through the senior Business 

Studies course. The rich cultural diversity of the 

school is embraced and students are also using this 

to inform their new product and marketing ideas. 

Partnering with the Young Enterprise Scheme, the 

school has picked up a number of awards in the 

competition and also helped usher several students 

along paths to setting up their own businesses and 

studying in universities. 

Students from many different countries and 

backgrounds has been a real source of strength 

for the school and this has 

been reflected in the successful 

business teams. Abdullah Wahidi 

is one such student whose 

business team created a children’s 

book that advocates for diversity. 

The book garnered national media 

attention and can now be enjoyed 

by children in local libraries 

throughout Christchurch. 

Abdullah was born in Afghanistan 

and later moved with his family to 

Pakistan before settling in New 

Zealand in 2018 and becoming an 

LCŌ student. In his senior year, 

his Business Studies class had to 

come up with ideas for a project to 

enter in the Lion Foundation Young 

Abdullah and his brother Abbas Wahidi 

at Linwood’s Festival of Nations. 

Enterprise Scheme. It was Abdullah’s hope that he 

could to do something to address intolerance towards 

other cultures. His community had been severely 

traumatised by the recent 2019 Mosque attacks, and 

he wanted to find a way forward towards healing and 

coming together. “The staff, the students and all the 

people at Linwood College have always respected 

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college. Though there were only few students from 

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up on our Festival of Nations day and by encouraging 

us to wear our traditional clothes.” 

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Stiles and Luka Russell. They 

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the world in the hope of inspiring 

families to take a more openminded 

view of different cultures. A 

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Items such as leather trim 

(heated seats front and rear), 

head-up display, dual-zone climate 

control, active cruise control with 

speed limiter, keyless entry and ignition, 

electric sunroof (dual) and 

paddle-shift eight-step automatic 

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the capacity and outputs are very 

similar. 

The Eclipse Cross’ unit is stateof-the-art 

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the latter realised flat across the 

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• Performance – 

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• Fuel usage – 7.7l/100km 

100km/h, the engine loping over 

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pressure. Body movement is low 

and suspension control is high. 

It must also be said the Eclipse 

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generating a level of comfort not 

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Mitsubishi are well pleased 

with their performance over the 

last year or two. They have a vast 

product range that hasn’t been 

overly affected by supply issues 

due to Covid-19. 

What’s more, another high-profile, 

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soon – the Outlander. It and the 

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in the marketplace, while sales of 

the evergreen ASX continue to 

tick over. 

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RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 

CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT PLAN 

PROPOSED PLAN CHANGE 8 

PAPAKAINGA/KAINGA NOHOANGA 

ZONE – RULE AMENDMENTS 

Christchurch City Council has proposed Plan Change 8 to the District Plan to 

better enable use and development of Māori land in the Papakāinga/Kāinga 

Nohoanga zone. 

The changes proposed seek to: 

a. Significantly reduce the current 15m road setback for buildings on Māori 

land to 3m, or 5m where the garage directly faces the road (so cars parked in 

front of the garage door will not extend onto the road). 

b. Reduce the current 10m internal boundary setback for buildings on Māori 

land to 2m. A recession plane is proposed to be introduced to offset the 

possible visual and privacy effects on neighbours of an internal boundary 

setback reduction of this extent. 

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land from 35 percent to 50 percent, to allow for the possibility of multiple 

buildings on communally owned land. 

d. Provide a more generous earthworks allowance – the same as for residential 

zones – for Māori land in the Papakāinga/Kāinga Nohoanga zone, where 

sites are below 2000m2. 

e. Extend the definition of Māori land (for the purposes of the Papakāinga/ 

Kāinga Nohoanga zone only) so that general land in the following categories 

can also benefit from the zone’s Māori land rules: 

i. Land where a status declaration was made under the Māori 

Affairs Amendment Act 1967 converting Māori freehold 

land to general title, and there have been no changes of 

ownership since the conversion other than to an owner’s 

bloodline successor; or 

ii. Land where one or more owners are able to provide written 

evidence of Whakapapa to the original grantees of the land 

as confirmed by the Te Runanga o Ngāi Tahu Whakapapa 

Unit or the Māori Land Court; 

iii. Land which is vested in a Trust constituted pursuant to 

Part 12 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 or a Māori 

incorporation constituted pursuant to Part 13 of the Te Ture 

Whenua Māori Act 1993; 

iv. Land which is owned by a Rūnanga with authority/mana 

over the area in which the original Māori reserve is located. 

More information 

The proposed Plan Change 8 and assessments required under section 32 of 

the RMA, together with any supporting documents, can be viewed at any of the 

Council’s service centres or libraries or at ccc.govt.nz/planchange8 

We are holding public drop-in sessions to provide more information and answer 

questions about the proposed Plan Change, which you are welcome to attend. 

The sessions will be held: 

• 28 April 2021 5:30pm-7pm, at Little River Rugby Clubroom, Little River. 

• 4 May 2021 5:30pm-7pm, at Mt Herbert Community Facility, Lyttelton. 

Submissions 

Anyone can make a submission on this plan change via our online form at 

ccc.govt.nz/planchange8 or collect a hard copy form from our Civic Offices at 

53 Hereford Street, or any of our service centres or libraries. For details of your 

nearest service centre or library please visit ccc.govt.nz/contact-us or phone 

03 941 8999. 

Submissions must be received before 5pm on Thursday 13 May 2021. 

Process for public participation 

Once all submissions have been received, they will be made publicly available. 

Further submissions will then be invited, allowing certain persons and 

organisations to support or oppose any of the initial submissions. 

A Council hearing will then be held to consider all submissions, and decisions will 

be made following this hearing. Anyone who has made a submission has the right 

to appeal the decision to the Environment Court. 

The objectives, policies and rules proposed in this Plan Change will have no legal 

effect until the Council gives public notice of its decision on the Plan Change and 

matters raised in submissions or the Environment Court makes an order which 

grants any rule immediate effect (RMA s86B). 

If you’d like more information, please contact the City Planning Team on 

941-8999 and ask to speak to, Glenda Dixon, Senior Policy Planner, about 

proposed Plan Change 8 or email us at PlanChange@ccc.govt.nz. 

Carolyn Gallagher 

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