The Star: April 22, 2021

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Hector
returns
home after
30 months
– page 3
Heritage awards finalists
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Gonzalo gets his bike back pronto
REUNITED: Gonzalo Rodriguez had his stolen bike returned thanks to Facebook group Stolen Bikes Christchurch
and Canterbury and police efforts.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
• By Matt Slaughter
GONZALO Rodriguez uses his
bike to get everywhere.
So, when the 23-year-old
student, originally from Chile,
found the $850 Trek mountain
bike had been stolen from
outside his Salisbury St home
between Friday night and Saturday
morning, he was very upset.
Rodriguez reported
the crime to police on
Saturday and posted it to
Facebook group Stolen Bikes
Christchurch and Canterbury,
which was set up by cycling
enthusiast Noel Andrew. It
has been joined by about 2000
members since being created
last year.
Social media worked.
Just hours after Rodriguez
posted about the theft, the
group’s eagle-eyed members
spotted the bike being sold
on sales platform Facebook
Marketplace. • Turn to page 7
Desperate
bid to save
cricketer’s
life recalled
by club
president
• By Chris Barclay
A RELIEVED cricket club
administrator has spoken for
the first time of the desperate
effort made by teammates and
paramedics to save the life of one
of his players.
Old Boys Collegians’ senior
team captain David Wakefield is
recovering in hospital after the
near death experience last month.
Club president Paul Knight told
The Star of the harrowing minutes
spent bringing Wakefield
back from the brink at Elmwood
Park after he suffered a major
cardiac arrest during fitness
drills.
“When I turned up it was just
so stark. It was the true fight or
flight. Guys couldn’t watch it, it
was just a weird sort of time, everyone
was so spaced out,” he said.
“There were 25 to 40 people just
sort of sitting there watching him
die. He was shirtless in front of us
and they were just pumping away
on him.”
Wakefield, 26, was doing
shuttle runs when he collapsed
on a damp March 11 evening.
The team thought he was taking
the mick, until they reached his
side.
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• By Susan Sandys
ASHLEIGH ROSS can hardly
believe she has finally been
reunited with her beloved
moggy, Hector, after he went
missing two-and-a-half years
ago.
“He’s just so cuddly, it’s
almost like he’s been trying to
find us, he’s so glad to be home,”
Ross said.
Hector, the large green-eyed,
long-haired, steel-grey cat, was
returned to Ross and her family
after a resident living about 6km
away caught him in a cage last
week.
He had been missing since
November 2018 when he took
off from his home in Flemington,
Lincoln, on Guy
Fawkes night.
Ross said she and her
partner Sam had moved
into their house five weeks
earlier. They had planned to
keep Hector inside for another
three weeks before letting him
outside, but he escaped when
their young daughter opened a
door.
“And I think he may have got
spooked with all the fireworks,”
Ross said.
Much anguished searching
followed, as Ross walked surrounding
streets as early as
5.30am and as late as midnight,
shaking cat biscuits and calling
his name.
“Because I just couldn’t sleep,
he was my baby.”
Ross never gave up hope,
thinking if Hector was living
in the wild he would be able to
sustain himself as he had always
been a good hunter. She thought
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University Hall cat uses last of his nine lives
• By Bea Gooding
EVER SINCE Campus the cat
meandered onto Canterbury
University Hall grounds nearly
20 years ago, he has since spent
his days soaking up the sun,
demanding the affection of
students and staff alike.
But he has now used up all of
his nine lives.
Campus was euthanised this
week after a bout of ill health.
All those years of stolen cuddles,
free food and providing comfort
to students during tough times
have finally caught up to him.
“Today, the tough decision
was made to put Campus the cat
down due to ill health,” residents
were told.
“Nearing 20-years-old, he had
a great life and was loved by staff
and thousands of residents over
the years.
“Campus will be put to rest
between the office and the
dining hall, where he loved to
lounge in the sun and await the
affection from residents as they
walk past.”
Over the years he was fed by
Hector home 30 months
after fireworks fright
HOME AT LAST: Hector
has been reunited with his
owner, Ashleigh Ross, after
two-and-a-half years.
the cleaners, and when he was
not sunbathing in his favourite
spot, he was making friends
in the dining hall, or he was in
the garage listening to the radio
from his makeshift bed.
His presence was so valued
that at one stage, the hall registered
him as a staff member.
A plaque is currently being
made and will be installed at his
final resting place.
•Do you have memories
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PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
maybe he was trying to make
his way back to the family’s
former home in Christchurch.
Ross continued to post on
Facebook pages intermittently
to remind people Hector was
missing, and had listed him on
lostpet.co.nz.
It was through the latter that
the woman who caught Hector
got in touch with Ross. She had
trapped Hector after noticing
him on her property eating cat
food.
Ross and her mother went
with their cat cage to the
woman’s house, near paddocks
in the Ellesmere Rd area.
Ross could not help but be
sceptical that it would be her
cat, but as she and her mother
walked towards the covered
cage, they heard Hector’s
distinctive meow. The woman
then removed the cover from
the cage.
“And there he was, I
couldn’t quite believe it,”
Ross said.
Now that Hector is
back home it’s like
he never left. He was
smooching up to his
old canine buddy Bear
and feline buddies
Jasper, Moses and Max,
as well as getting to
know his home’s new resident,
Ross and Sam’s nine-month-old
son.
Hector, now aged five, has
a case of matted fur and cat
conjunctivitis following his
adventures, Ross said. But other
than that, he was in top shape
and it seemed he had not lost
any weight.
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Charges after alleged
playground assault
A woman has been charged
after an alleged assault on
another woman while families
looked on at the Margaret
Mahy Playground last month.
The victim suffered serious
injuries when she reportedly
hit her head on the concrete at
the popular Armagh St venue
during the incident on March
21. A 35-year-old woman,
believed to be known to the
victim, is scheduled to appear in
the district court on May 4 after
being charged with injuring
with intent to injure.
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next summer after plans for the
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the Waikura/Linwood-Central-
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a 1m to 1.2m flow bowl with a
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The city council is considering
closing down more than 30
temporary car parks in central
Christchurch following a
clampdown. The owners of 95
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last December they have until
April 30 to cease operations or
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The Star Thursday April 22 2021
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Aussie rocker
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Chch in May
AUSTRALIA’S HIGHEST selling
independent artist of all time,
John Butler, will perform in
Christchurch next month.
The Isaac
Theatre Royal gig
on Saturday, May
15, will be one of
two shows in New
Zealand. Butler
will be one of the
first international
performers to
John Butler
cross the border in 12 months
without needing to quarantine.
The tour announcement caps
an extraordinary few years for the
award-winning artist who was due
to headline the Bluesfest at Byron
Bay, Australia, last month before it
was ultimately cancelled due to a
Covid lockdown.
The John Butler Trio’s seventh
studio album Home debuted at No
1 on the ARIA Charts.
Asked how Home compares to
his previous work, Butler said: “It’s
just evolution; something I’ve been
thinking about and trying to create
for years.
“Have I mastered that moment?
Probably not, but that’s the journey
– you never quite master it. You’re
always headed towards the horizon,
but you never make it there.”
Tickets will go on sale on Friday
at www.johnbutlertrio.com.
• From page 1
“When they got to him they
realised something was amiss
and they jumped into it,” said
Knight.
A coach and two players
rendered initial assistance before
the first paramedic arrived six
minutes after the emergency call
was made.
“Thankfully two of them are
school teachers so they had the
recent training. They had the
peace of mind to go through the
correct procedure.”
‘He’s a tenacious little
bugger, he never backs
away from a fight, you
can sort of see that in
his recovery.’
– Paul Knight
The trio, said Knight, prefer to
keep a low public profile.
“They’re a little bit over being
called heroes and stuff. They’re
starting to get more grumpy
with it,” he explained.
Wakefield’s parents, Steve and
Helen, have also paid tribute to
the exemplary medical care their
son received.
Once admitted to Christchurch
Hospital, Wakefield spent
21 days in the intensive care unit,
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Family hopeful of full recovery
followed by a fortnight in the
cardiology ward for surgery to
implant a defibrillator.
“We have been superimpressed
with the wonderful
care that he has received, which
has enabled him to make a
miraculous recovery,” they
wrote in a letter published in The
Press.
“David has more hard work to
achieve a full recovery, but we
are confident with excellent care
from CDHB staff that is achievable.”
Their gratitude extended to the
club, through the purchase of a
defibrillator to be close at hand
in the pavilion.
American-born Wakefield,
who represented the United
States at Twenty20 level in 2018,
is continuing his recovery in the
brain injury rehabilitation unit
at Burwood Hospital.
“He’s a tenacious little
bugger, he never backs away
from a fight, you can sort of see
that in his recovery,” Knight
said.
TENACIOUS: OBC
senior captain and
opening batsman
David Wakefield
(left) is recovering
from a major
heart attack. Club
president Paul
Knight (above)
described the
situation as ‘a true
fight.’
“Since he’s come out of the
coma, everything has been incremental
in terms of improvement.
He’s on the slow build back to a
hundred (per cent).”
There is no indication when
the opening batsman will return
to the middle, though he has
been out and about.
“He gets allowed out maybe
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“His girlfriend (Mollie Barrell)
graduated university last
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Thursday April 22 2021 The Star
A TALENTED rugby player
who suffered head injuries
when knocked unconscious by
a Mongrel Mob member in the
central city is making a tentative
return to training.
Leni Taufateau is back jogging
at the Prebbleton Rugby Club, a
positive sign after he cracked his
head against a pavement on The
Terrace after being struck in an
unprovoked attack in the early
hours of January 31.
Taufateau moved from Tonga
to Christchurch in 2018 to take
up a rugby scholarship at St
Thomas of Canterbury College.
He subsequently represented
the Canterbury under-19 team
last year.
“He’s coming along not
too bad. It’s been a pretty
tough road for him,” said
Prebbleton division one coach
Dave Kettles.
“He’s coming down to training
now. He’s not participating
but he’s able to walk around and
jog around.
“The way the prognosis was
a while back, he was never
going to be able to play sport
again. He’s worked bloody hard
with his therapy and he’s doing
well.”
Kettles said it was too soon
to say if Taufateau, who is still
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Return to training after savage blow
• By Chris Barclay
undergoing physical therapy,
would be able to play this season.
“I’ll leave that to the professionals.
When they say and if
they say we’ll look at it then.
Otherwise we’re just pleased to
have him in our group,” he said.
“He’s a character, it’s always
good to have him around.”
Taufateau came to Christchurch
alone and has had to
undertake his rehabilitation
without the support of family
members.
Fortunately fellow Tongan Etu
Sunia had taken him under his
wing.
“He does a lot for Rocky (Taufateau).
The club are good too.
They’ll pick him up and drop
him off for training.”
RECOVERY:
Leni
Taufateau
(left) has been
supported by
fellow Tongan
Etu Sunia as
he recovers
from being
attacked by
an unknown
member of
the Mongrel
Mob (above).
Taufateau had attended a 21st
birthday celebration before the
incident with a lone member of
the Mongrel Mob.
Gang members were in the
city as part of a South Island
excursion that weekend before
heading to Queenstown.
Security camera footage
captured the altercation, the
police investigation continues.
NEWS 5
Gang fight in
roadside park
stuns onlookers
RIVAL GANG members fought
out a mid-afternoon battle in a
roadside park at the weekend.
Shocked onlookers witnessed
the altercation between several
gang members when it broke out
in Rakaia about 3pm on Sunday.
Police have CCTV footage of
the fight taken from a security
camera in the township.
More details of the incident
would be released today, police
said yesterday.
A motorist told The Star he
was driving through Rakaia when
he saw a patched gang member
walk into the reserve. Soon after
others arrived and a fight broke
out.
“It was all on,” he said.
He did not stop because he had
his wife and young son in the car.
“Other people were pulling over
and watching. We decided to get
out of there,” he said.
Ashburton District Mayor
Neil Brown was unaware of the
incident but acknowledged gangs
had a presence in the area.
“There’s gang activity in the
Ashburton District but it’s not
very strong. I’ve heard there’s
four to five different types
(organisations). It may only be one
member [of each gang] keeping
an eye on things.”
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Neighbours not impressed with
• By Kurt Bayer
A ROWDY urban rooster,
ruffling feathers with its daytime
crowing, has been told to pull its
neck in.
Babs has fallen foul of his
residential neighbours in North
Beach – and earned a visit from
council inspectors who have
warned his owner that “crowing
roosters are considered a noise
nuisance.”
Olivia Cook, a 24-year-old
part-time dispatcher who fosters
all sorts of animals, rescued
Babs and his sister Ginger –
named from the animated movie
Chicken Run – from across the
other side of the city last year as
tiny chicks.
Just a few centimetres tall, she
took them back to her North
Beach home and tried to keep
them warm and fed.
They lived in her bed,
snuggling on body heat.
An enclosure was also in
the bedroom but the baby
roosters preferred to cosy into
Cook.
Often she’d wake with them
sprawled across her face, on top
of her head, or nestled in the
crook of her neck.
Albie, a hulking ginger rescue
cat, also looked over them, and
could be left alone with the
chicks with no fears they would
be eaten.
But after about three months,
they were big enough to move
outside.
Cook says they hated the
transition and would run inside,
back to her bedroom, at every
given opportunity.
Slowly, they got used to it.
Their wings are not clipped but
they stay close. They have never
tried to escape.
They enjoy a large run down
the side of the house, shared
with two other rescue chooks
– Audrey and former battery
hen Chickalita, who rules the
roost – eating chick feed (wheat,
pellet and mash) and fruit and
vegetable scraps.
Some time after 7am, when
Cook lets Babs out of the hen
house, he crows to announce the
dawning of a new day.
He then crows sporadically
BOND:
Oliva Cook with
her pet rooster
Babs.
throughout the day. Parents and
children passing on the school
run spark him into action, along
with any visitors coming or
going.
“He’s like a guard dog,” says
Cook, a vegan who gives away
the chicken’s eggs.

owdy rooster
Otherwise, she describes
Babs as “pretty chill” and an
animal who has a gentle nature,
but a “huge personality”, and
often follows her around the
property.
“He’s pretty quiet except when
he crows,” she says.
“I can’t even hear him when
I’m inside. He’s a great guy to
have around.”
Her landlord lives next door
and doesn’t hear Babs. He’s also
a big fan.
“He thinks it’s true Kiwi living,”
says Cook, whose family
has lived there for 15 years.
The neighbourhood loves
Babs, Cook says, and people
often comment how they enjoy
hearing him crow.
“They all love him and think
it’s hilarious to hear him crowing
in the day and not just
at dawn – it’s just his way of
communicating. They find it
comforting.”
But last month, the city council
received a noise complaint
over Babs’ crowing.
The complaint came as a shock
to Cook, who thought visiting
council inspectors were Jehovah’s
Witnesses.
They asked if she had a rooster
and said that they had received a
complaint.
“I was like, what the hell?
What’s going on?” Cook says.
“I really panicked, worried
they would take him away. We
have a huge bond since I’ve
raised him since he was a chick,
and when you put in that much
effort, you develop a very close
bond.”
Cook had earlier worried that
neighbours might get upset at
Babs’ crowing but hadn’t realised
there were any issues.
She has bought him a velcro
collar for his neck, which helped
stifle his crows.
“As a result of our investigation
we spoke to the owners of
the rooster and advised them to
take measures to stop the rooster
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FRIENDLY: A complaint has been laid over the rooster’s
crowing at a residential North Beach property.
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crowing,” city council head of
regulatory compliance, Tracey
Weston said.
“In urban residential areas,
crowing roosters are considered
a noise nuisance.”
Cook now keeps Babs inside
his enclosure a bit longer and
makes sure he’s not let out before
7am.
And he doesn’t crow late at
night – or make a racket between
10pm and 6am.
“I think we’re in the clear
now,” Cook says.
“I don’t want him to go anywhere
else. Babs is a very special
guy.”
– NZ Herald
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He is thankful for the help he
got from the stolen bike group’s
members and happy to be reunited
with his bike.
Said Rodriguez: “It was a nice
big help because I’m from Latin
America and that kind of thing
does not happen in my country.”
Between late February and the
end of March, 166 bikes with
a combined value of $250,000
were stolen across Christchurch,
according to police.
Andrew said Rodriguez’s bike
is just one of nine he knows
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Canterbury has helped to find
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an effective tool and has been
joined by some undercover
police officers, who also keep
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City’s most deprived areas revealed
• By Matt Slaughter
BURWOOD, Riccarton and
Spreydon have more people
living at the highest level of
socio-economic deprivation than
any other wards in Christchurch.
The data comes from profiles
completed by the city council’s
community support, governance
and partnerships unit for all of
the city’s wards, excluding the
Linwood, Central and Heathcote
wards. Profiles for the these areas
will be released next month.
But community leaders in the
most deprived wards say it is important
people look beyond the
statistics on paper and focus on
the great initiatives and groups
in the areas.
The deprivation scale ranges
from one to 10. One represents
those areas with the least deprivation
and 10 those with the
most. In the Burwood Ward,
which includes Aranui, Wainoni,
Bexley, Burwood, Avondale, Dallington,
Shirley East, Prestons,
Waitikiri and Travis Wetlands,
27 per cent of people live between
levels nine and 10 on the
scale of deprivation.
Aranui’s A-Town Boxing Gym
manager Jamie Roberts said
he understands there are some
people in the Burwood Ward
doing it tough and others whose
behaviour can damage people’s
perception of it.
The Burwood Ward, which includes Hampshire St in Aranui, has one of the highest levels of socioeconomic deprivation in
the city. (Right) - Initiatives like Jamie Roberts’ A-Town Boxing Gym in Aranui help alleviate deprivation in the ward.
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN
However, he said great work
is being done through his gym,
which teaches people from sometimes
challenging backgrounds
to box and heads up other initiatives
in the ward.
“I think there are a lot of opportunities
out there for people
that want them – a lot of different
support groups, a lot of different
help groups,” Roberts said.
“Whether it’s through sport or
church, you know, I think there
are a lot of places to go, a lot of
things to do if you want to get off
your butt and do something.”
Dallington Residents Association
chairwoman and
Coastal -Burwood Community
Board member
Bebe Frayle agrees there
are challenges caused
by deprivation in the
Burwood Ward, but she
praised how the community
responds to these
challenges.
“Our [community
board] governance team
informs us that we have the
highest level of community
activity in terms of [residential
assistance] and other
community groups
across all the boards
in Christchurch. So I
think the response to
high deprivation is to
form groups and provide
support for each
other, and that’s what
our communities have
done.”
Frayle said the earthquakes
and loss of houses and
Bebe Frayle
schools in the Burwood Ward
have had a significant effect on
its demographics and landscape,
but this has presented rebuild
opportunities.
“I would honestly say that our
ward really has spent the last 10
years reeling from the impacts
of that [the earthquakes], which
has culminated in the removal of
all of those houses and all of the
people that go with it, and all of
the diversity of people that goes
with that, and I think, we are just
starting to recover from that.
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in new socio-economic data
NEWS 9
“The former residential
red zone, which is now the
green spine, represents a huge
opportunity for suburbs to
rebuild in a
different way.”
Riccarton
has the second
highest
number of
people living at
the worst level
of deprivation
– 21.3 per cent.
Geoff
Ngataierua
Spreydon is
third with 19.5
per cent.
Riccarton Baptist Church
manager Geoff Ngataierua said
there are a number of younger
residents in the Riccarton Ward
on low incomes, including
migrant workers and university
students.
However,
Ngataierua
said the ward
has a great
community
with plenty of
groups like the
church that
support people
in need.
Cherylan
Davies
Cherylan
Davies,
manager of
Addington’s Manuka Cottage, a
community development agency
in the Spreydon Ward, said
the area has traditionally had
a number of residents on lower
incomes living in social housing
complexes.
She challenged the narrative
that it is deprived, saying the
recent growth of new housing
developments in the ward and
organisations like the cottage
help the diverse population.
By contrast, the percentage of
people living at the highest end
of deprivation in Halswell and
Banks Peninsula is zero, closely
Percentage of residents on
different levels of the scale
of deprivation by ward and
their median weekly rent
prices (1 represents areas
with the lowest deprivation
levels, 10 represents areas
with the highest)
•Spreydon Ward
9-10- 19.5 per cent
7-8- 21.2 per cent
5-6- 31.3 per cent
3-4- 21.5 per cent
1-2- 6.4 per cent
Median weekly rent – $330
•Burwood Ward
9-10- 27 per cent
7-8- 22.9 per cent
5-6- 12 per cent
3-4- 15 per cent
1-2- 23.1 per cent
Median weekly rent – $340
•Coastal Ward
9-10- 9.8 per cent
followed by Cashmere on 0.5
per cent. The factors used to
determine the wards’ deprivation
scores included the number
of people aged 18-64 receiving a
means tested benefit, those living
in households with incomes
below an income threshold, and
people with no access to the
internet at home.
Other factors were the number
of people aged 18-64 without
any qualifications, people aged
under 65 living in a single parent
7-8- 38.4 per cent
5-6- 24.5 per cent
3-4- 20.2 per cent
1-2- 7.1 per cent
Median weekly rent – $350
•Papanui Ward
9-10- 14.9 per cent
7-8- 20.3 per cent
5-6- 24.6 per cent
3-4- 24.7 per cent
1-2- 15.4 per cent
Median weekly rent – $350
•Cashmere Ward
9-10- 0.5 per cent
7-8- 5.8 per cent
5-6- 9.5 per cent
3-4- 32.1 per cent
1-2- 52 per cent
Median weekly rent – $380
•Fendalton Ward
9-10- 9.5 per cent
7-8- 6.5 per cent
5-6- 14.3 per cent
3-4- 26 per cent
1-2- 43.7 per cent
family, people not living in
their own home, those living in
households below a bedroom
occupancy threshold, people
aged 18-64 unemployed, and
those living in dwellings that
are always damp or always have
areas of mould bigger than an A4
sheet of paper.
The profiles released so far also
include information on median
rent prices across the wards.
The median rent is most
expensive in the Halswell Ward,
Median weekly rent – $370
•Hornby Ward
9-10- 13.6 per cent
7-8- 39.8 per cent
5-6- 27.1 per cent
3-4- 10.4 per cent
1-2- 9.1 per cent
Median weekly rent – $370
•Halswell Ward
9-10- 0 per cent
7-8- 3.7 per cent
5-6- 15.9 per cent
3-4- 22.8 per cent
1-2- 57.6 per cent
Median weekly rent – $450
•Riccarton Ward
9-10- 21.3 per cent
7-8- 43.4 per cent
5-6- 20.3 per cent
3-4- 10 per cent
1-2- 5.1 per cent
Median weekly rent – $380
•Harewood Ward
9-10- 3.5 per cent
7-8- 11.8 per cent
$450 a week. Waimairi is second
at $420 a week, Harewood is
third at $390 and Cashmere and
Riccarton are forth equal at $380
a week.
The median rent price across
all of Christchurch’s wards is
$350 a week.
The median weekly rent in
Spreydon is the cheapest of all
wards at $330. Burwood, Innes
and Banks Peninsula are close
runners up, all with median rent
costing $340 a week.
5-6- 23.2 per cent
3-4- 23.6 per cent
1-2- 37.9 per cent
Median weekly rent – $390
•Banks Peninsula Ward
9-10- 0 per cent
7-8- 2.2 per cent
5-6- 18.5 per cent
3-4- 45 .1 per cent
1-2- 34.2 per cent
Median weekly rent – $340
•Innes Ward
9-10- 13.6 per cent
7-8- 24.6 per cent
5-6- 29.3 per cent
3-4- 21.5 per cent
1-2- 11 per cent
Median weekly rent – $340
•Waimairi Ward
9-10- 1.2 per cent
7-8- 14.1 per cent
5-6- 31.2 per cent
3-4- 34.5 per cent
1-2- 19 per cent
Median weekly rent – $420
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10
NEWS
THERE IS a dire need for rain in
parts of Canterbury.
A farmer says Government
support for the sector may soon
be essential.
The National Institute
of Water and Atmospheric
Research
said North
Canterbury
could be headed
for an official
drought and
farmers in Banks
Peninsula say it
hasn’t been this
dry in 30 years.
North Canterbury Rural Support
Trust chair Gayle Litchfield
told Newstalk ZB farmers are
now in their second year of dryness.
“It is very dry. Historically
Canterbury is quite dry during
the summer but last year was a
drought as well and there was
not enough recovery rain in the
winter so everyone’s gone into
this summer on the back foot,”
she said.
“Of course now we’re into
another dry and it’s just accumulating.”
It is also very dry in place
across most of the eastern North
Island, northeastern South
Island, as well as Otago and
eastern Southland.
It also shows extremely dry
conditions in North Canterbury
and eastern Otago.
Litchfield said the fate of winter
is sealed.
“It’s almost too late now, any
rain there is, there will be no
benefit seen until October which
is still six months away.
“It’s a long time to get through
on a daily basis.”
A need for Government support
is almost inevitable to help
farmers get through the winter,
she said.
“Farmers need help. They are
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Farmers look for support
as drought looms
Gayle
Litchfield
PARCHED: Farms throughout Canterbury are in desperate
need of rain.
able to destock parts of herds
and stock but need to maintain
their core animal group so they
have something to continue
with.
“They just need assistance
around feed budgeting and access
to feed from other parts of
the country.”
Litchfield said she hopes a
drought is declared soon.
“That decision will come
from the minister, I believe
the procedures are in place.
Hopefully, it will be declared,
we just haven’t had confirmation
yet, it is definitely needed.”
– NZ Herald
CDHB members slam
health sector shake-up
• By Hugh Collins and Tim
Cronshaw
TWO CANTERBURY District
Health Board members have
criticised the Government’s
announcement yesterday that
all of the 20 DHBs will
be replaced by one, single
national health body.
It will be called Health
New Zealand and is part
of the biggest changes to
the country’s health care
system in history.
A new Māori Health
Authority will also be
set up, with the power to
commission health services
and monitor Māori
health, as well as developing
policy.
CDHB member James
Gough slammed the
changes, saying he is concerned
for how this will
look for the rural health
sector.
“Ranfurly isn’t Rolleston
and Auckland isn’t
Christchurch so having
that local understanding of the
needs of the community, I think,
is really important,” he said.
“It’s a one-size-fits-all approach
and they generally don’t
work.”
James
Gough
Aaron
Keown
Gough said he does not believe
this is the way forward for the
public system.
“The changes we are seeing or
what has been proposed seems
incredibly costly, radical, and
not founded on good advice but
potentially damaging to
the communities we are
trying to protect.”
CDHB member
Aaron Keown said
he is surprised by the
announcement.
“I’m surprised they
went this far with the
changes. There were
definitely changes that
were needed, are they the
ones they’ve gone for?
Probably not.
“Canterbury will
always have a strong
voice but it’s the smaller
districts in the smaller
areas who will be told
what will happen to their
services, they won’t have
a say.”
Keown said he
remembers when
National did something similar
and it didn’t stack up financially.
“It didn’t work. I don’t know if
this will get us the gains they are
after.”
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Possible serial
flasher seen
lurking in park
• By Devon Bolger
POLICE ARE investigating
a possible serial flasher near
Spencer Park.
Nik Croxson said she was on a
walk when she was approached
by a woman in a car.
“She stopped next to me to
warn me she had seen a naked
man and that I might want to
walk a different track,” Croxson
said.
“She was calling the police
while we spoke.
“She said she had been
walking a forest track near the
beach when she saw a man who
was naked and masturbating up
near the sand dunes.”
A police spokeswoman said
they received a report after the
man was spotted near Spencer
Park on Sunday.
“We spoke about there being
quite a few families and people
at the beach, given it was such
a warm day. That was quite
concerning. There was no phone
service where she saw him so she
had to head back to her car and
call the police,” Croxson said.
Police are asking anyone who
may have information about the
incident to call 105, quoting file
number 210418/5795.
-NZ Herald
• By Matt Slaughter
IT IS HOPED Canterbury
Museum’s redevelopment will
remove an elephant in the room
which has been held captive since
the 1960s.
In a cramped corner of one of
the museum’s storerooms is a
taxidermied elephant, weighing
in at about 540kg. But it is so big,
it has become stuck.
Canterbury Museum senior
curator of natural history Dr
Paul Scofield said the elephant
was first displayed in 1878 and
put in storage in the early 1960s.
Modifications to the storeroom
some years ago mean it can not
be moved without removing the
roof or the floor of the attic it is
in.
Said Scofield: “The museum’s
elephant has suffered greatly
from the ravages of time. It has
been in storage since the early
1960s. In the late 1960s, a family
of possums got into its storeroom
through a hole in the roof and
tore a hole in the elephant’s
straw-filled stomach to make
their nest.”
The February 22, 2011,
earthquake nearly destroyed the
elephant, but its frame has been
reinforced and it is awaiting
restoration.
It is hoped it will be once again
put on display if the museum’s
redevelopment proposal receives
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Tough tusk to move elephant
HUGE: Paul Scofield with the elephant which has been stuck in a Canterbury Museum
storage room since the 1960s.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
resource consent. The elephant
was brought to Christchurch by
museum founder Julius Haast,
who purchased its treated skin
with funds he made by selling
moa bones.
In 1877, Haast employed the
famed Austrian taxidermist
Andreas Reischek to mount the
elephant skin on a frame of iron,
wood and clay.
The museum is proposing a
$195 million redevelopment of
its Rolleston Ave site, needed to
protect its heritage buildings,
the 2.3 million objects in its
collection and upgrade its visitor
facilities.
The museum building is also
in dire need of repair.
Cracks in the structure mean
pests can get in, there is no air
conditioning or insulation and
the temperature and humidity
can not be controlled. The
building also leaks in places
when it rains.
The consultation period for
the redevelopment proposal has
closed. The city council will now
decide whether to grant resource
consent for the redevelopment
based on feedback from the
public. Additional funding also
needs to be secured before the
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NEWS
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz
Canterbury Heritage Awards
FINALISTS FOR the biennial
Canterbury Heritage Awards
have been whittled down after
the quality of the contenders
prompted protracted debate for
the judging panel.
After weighing up more than
60 entries the four-strong panel
has selected 30 finalists to progress.
“The judging this year was
extremely
difficult. The
standard of
entries was
higher than
ever before and
the variety,
too, was indicative
of just
Anna
Crighton
how heritage is
so important
to so many
people in so
many ways,” said Christchurch
Heritage Awards Charitable
Trust chairwoman Dame Anna
Crighton.
“Now that almost half of
our built heritage has been
demolished, appreciation of
what remains is evident. The
jurors agreed, without exception,
that every entry was worthy in
contributing to the character
and streetscapes of our city and
province.”
Entries for the six categories
encompassed a wide variety of
The Riverside mural.
projects from walking tours and
domestic dwellings to mansions,
cottages and bridges.
“The entries afford the opportunity
to recognise heritage in all
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
its forms and to tell the stories
that are so important to us as
a community and a culture,”
Crighton said.
Category winners and the supreme
overall winner will be announced
at the awards ceremony
at Christ’s College on June 11.
The judging panel comprises
Heritage New Zealand chief
executive Andrew Coleman,
urban and regional planner
Ivan Thomson, Clare Kelly – an
architect specialising in heritage
conservation plus structural and
civil engineer Andrew Marriott.
•Canterbury
Heritage Awards 2021
finalists:
Domestic Saved and
Restored: Islay Cottage
(Tony & Brenda Good)
Montrose Station
Homestead (Wilson
& Hill Architects), The
Britten Stables (The
Britten Stables Ltd),
The Vicarage, Geraldine
(Michael & Brigitte Barker),
Thornton Earl Manor (AO
Architecture Ltd).
Public Realm Saved
and Restored: Balmoral
Fire Lookout (Hawarden
Waikari Lions Club), Corner
Kilmore and Barbadoes
Streets (Tim & Anna
Chesney), Majestic on
Durham (Sheppard &
Rout), The Pumphouse
(Paddy & Jackie Snowdon),
Rose Chapel (Christchurch
City Council), School
of Art, The Arts Centre
(The Arts Centre), The
Nurses’ Memorial Chapel
(Christchurch City Council).
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standard higher than ever
Outstanding Contribution
to Heritage: Head of the
Harbour book (Governors
Bay Heritage Trust), Te
Whare Waiutuutu Kate
Sheppard House (Heritage
New Zealand Pouhere
Taonga), Ng King Chinese
Market Garden Settlement
(Ng King descendants &
Ashburton District Council),
Structural Performance
book (Dmytro Dizhur).
Seismic: Christchurch
Town Hall (Warren and
Mahoney), Muse Art Hotel,
Rakaia Gorge No. 1 Bridge
(WSP & Downer), Sacred
Heart Basilica, Timaru
(WSP NZ Ltd), St Peter’s
Church, Upper Riccarton
(Church Property Trustees),
The Public Trust Office
Building.
Heritage Tourism: Amiki
Tours Urban Exploring
(Amiki NZ Ltd), Awaroa/
Godley Head Coastal
Defence Site (Department
of Conservation).
Riverside Market Mural
(Riverside Limited), Waka
on Avon (Ko Tane).
Future Heritage:
Aldersgate Centre (Wilkie
+ Bruce), Memorial Bridge
(Warren and Mahoney),
St Bede’s College Chapel
(Wilkie + Bruce Architects),
Tūranga Christchurch
Central Library
(Architectus).
Clockwise – Islay Cottage, Lyttelton, Nurses’
Memorial Chapel, Christchurch Hospital and
Memorial Bridge, Christchurch Airport.
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NEWS
CALL TO ACTION: Sasha Harwood (left) and Kate Rayner
in their Fix It Up music video. PHOTO: NEWSLINE
Pupils on song for climate
A PAIR OF Bank Peninsula
school pupils have created and
starred in a music video calling
for more action to combat
climate change.
Te Kura o Ōhinetahi Governors
Bay School pupil Sasha
Harwood wrote the lyrics for the
song Fix It Up, with help from
classmate Kate Rayner. They
play their ukuleles in the video.
“We hope to inspire as many
others as we can that we can
fix it up. We can fix up climate
change,” Sasha said.
“We can have our voices
heard. We would love to give
others the idea to spread the
message and write their own
song. It would be amazing if we
could have a whole album of
climate change songs made.”
Kate said the song aims to
inspire others to take action.
“I think that this song is a
call to action and a reminder to
everyone that there is hope –
everyone has a voice and
it’s never too late to make a
difference,’’ Kate said.
They created the song after
their year 6 to 8 class was
challenged to think about ways
they could share their messages
about climate action with a
wider audience. Other pupils
set up walking school buses
to reduce carbon emissions,
made movies and video games,
and met with local MPs at
Parliament when the class was
at a school camp in Wellington.
Teacher Angie Rayner said
it was an amazing learning
experience for the pupils.
•Watch Sasha and
Kate’s music video at
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PLANT BASED: Meals like this jackfruit souvlaki will be
delivered to people in need by The Christchurch Vegan
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PHOTO: GREEN DINNER TABLE ​
PEOPLE GOING through tough
times may be visited by a vegan
angel in the near future.
The Christchurch Vegan
Society is launching Vegan
Angels, which will offer free,
one-off meals or baking for
vegans and vegetarians in need,
such as those experiencing
illness, trauma or grief and after
giving birth.
The service has been running
informally in Christchurch for
some time, but the society has
recognised the need for a more
organised, formal arrangement.
There are several places where
people can get non-vegan food
parcels and support, but the society
wants to ensure the vegan
and vegetarian community is
looked after.
Organiser Lisa Phelan said:
“Our aim is for you to know that
someone cares about you, whilst
also giving you nourishment
while you are healing.” ​
To ensure meals are of high
quality, it is partnering with
food box service, Green Dinner
Table, which will curate and
deliver the meal boxes on the
society’s behalf.
Each box contains food and
recipes for three meals that the
recipient can cook at home.
The society is seeking volunteers
to provide and deliver
home baking. It says Vegan
Angels must be vegan-friendly,
trustworthy and keep all communicated
matters confidential.
Anyone who wants help from
the Vegan Angels, or who wishes
to nominate someone who
would benefit from the service,
can do so online.
The service will be offered
to one person a week, and the
society will assess and prioritise
applications as they come in.
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com/veganchristchurch
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Our people – Mark Shaw
Turf expert takes the green grass of home
Volunteering to look
after his club’s cricket
pitch led to Mark
Shaw venturing onto
runways at some of
the world’s busiest
airports. Chris Barclay
discovers the turf
expert certainly doesn’t
have a job that is like
watching grass grow
You’re the Turf Business
manager of PGG Wrightson
Turf. How did you get
involved with this growth
industry?
My father and four of his
brothers worked at Pyne Gould
Guinness in the seeds business.
I came straight from school
and worked there for two years
before I went to Australia for 18
months and cleaned windows
on high-rises. I came back for a
job at Mt Hutt, my goal was to
travel around the world skiing
but I fell off my skateboard on
the Port Hills, cut my hand,
missed the (ski) season and went
back to PGG and now I work for
PGG Wrightson Seeds. I’ve never
left. I head up the turf business
for Oceania. That’s golf courses,
sports fields, council’s amenity
spaces. In a nutshell, anywhere
they mow grass.
How did you end up focusing
on the turf aspect of the
business?
Sport. I didn’t really have an
affiliation with farming. I was
looking after a cricket wicket
for the Addington Cricket Club.
We moved into the senior A
comp and we basically had to
rebuild our pitch. Someone had
to look after the wicket and the
practice pitch. The previous turf
manager (at PGW Seeds) was
actually the head groundsman
at (Hamilton’s) Seddon Park, Ian
McKendry. He helped me out.
Macca cut his teeth at Lancaster
Park under Russell Wyllie back
in the day. When Ian came into
the business as a turf agronomist
and started the evaluation
process you can see out here
now … that’s what sparked my
interest.
WELL GROUNDED: Turf expert Mark Shaw gets down to earth with a grid pattern of
grasses at PGG Wrightson Seeds research centre in Lincoln. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
How do you become an
authority on turf?
It’s an apprenticeship scheme,
similar to any trade. Three-years
on the job with a number of
block courses you go through, as
a builder would do. I completed
my level 3 qualification while I
was working at Barrington
Park.
At first glance this looks like
a pretty laid back place to work.
There’s a mini rugby field with
posts and bucket seats from
Lancaster Park, a putting green
with a bunker full of golf balls.
They’re there for demonstration
purposes. This is the plant
breeding and research centre. It
covers grain, through to forage,
through to brassicas, through to
turf. It takes up to 10 years and
about a million dollars to bring
a cultivar to market. In any one
year we’ll probably throw out a
thousand potential cultivars.
No disrespect to leafy
Barrington Park and its
playground, but you get to go to
a higher class of sporting venue
these days don’t you?
We’re very lucky that we get to
visit some pretty amazing places
on a daily basis. Eden Park to
Kauri Cliffs to Forsyth Barr
Stadium to Jack’s Point
Golf club. You kind of take it for
granted.
EXPORT
QUALITY: Grass
developed
in Lincoln
has been
sown at the
headquarters
of Argentine
football giant
Boca Juniors in
Buenos Aires.
And even further afield?
I’ve been to Thomond Park
in Limerick and been reminded
Munster beat the All Blacks (in
1978). Ascot (home of racing’s
Gold Cup) utilise our grass.
I’ve also been to a number of
stadiums in South America in
recent years. Boca Juniors (La
Bombonera) and River Plate
(Estadio Monumental) and the
San Isidro rugby club where the
All Blacks train (in Argentina’s
capital Buenos Aires), they all
use our grass seed. A number
of years ago on a trip back from
Europe I visited The Royal Golf
Club in Bahrain. Now we analyse
their soil tests and provide them
with a fertiliser and agrichemical
programme.
Golf is another major driver
for the international market
isn’t it?
It certainly is, if you go to
any of the top clubs in the UK,
they will be using our (cultivars
of) browntops on their greens.
Our plant breeders do a lot of
work drawing material out of
older New Zealand golf courses
that are managed with very
low level inputs. These grasses
basically evolve by themselves.
We put them through a breeding
process that can take 10 years
before trialing them in the UK.
We export between 60 and
100 tonnes of browntop to that
market every year.
So what you’re saying is
a sample taken from the
nine-hole up the road at
Lincoln could eventually undo
the favourite at The Open
Championship?
Yes. Very, very easily. Our
latest browntop is named
after Sir Bob Charles. The
genetics of that cultivar come
from Balmacewen, Fairlie and
Methven golf clubs.
This sounds ridiculous, but
explain the distinction between
the 18th green at Royal Troon
and a rugby field?
There’s different growth habits.
Forsyth Barr (in Dunedin) is
a ryegrass, a bunch type plant
that grows very actively in
cooler conditions. As a species it
requires high levels of nitrogen
to keep the plant stimulated and
growing actively. Browntop is a
low nutrient requirement plant,
it doesn’t require a lot of nitrogen
to keep it healthy. Browntops can
tolerate mowing heights down
to 2-½ to 3mm. If you mow a
ryegrass down to 2-½ to 3mm
you will lose ground cover pretty
quickly. Your stadium turf …
that’s predominately a turf-type
perennial that’s tighter and finer
in the leaf than a forage type
that’s grazed by cows.
Heading back abroad,
the company established a
foothold in Uruguay about 15
years ago and it’s not all about
grass is it?
When I first went over there
they were marking soccer fields
with a paint roller and 20 litre
buckets of house paint. It was
taking them three hours and
you could imagine the quality of
it. There were drips of paint all
over the ground, footprints going
through it. We took a battery
powered machine over there and
showed them how to mark a field
in 20 minutes with a paint that’s
safe for use on turf.
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to the world’s stadium’s and airports
Covid-19 has put trips to
South America on hold, but
you’re keen to get back there
aren’t you?
I have an affiliation with that
market, when I first started going
there it was very much like going
back to turf management 30-40
years ago in New Zealand. To be
able to introduce something just
as simple as a line marker and see
how the market accepts that
. . . each time I go they want
more knowledge.
Racking up air miles had
been part and parcel of your
role since a grass to deter birds
fluttering onto flight paths was
developed wasn’t it?
Avanex grass seed has
endophytes developed by
AgResearch that can produce
high levels of alkaloids. The
alkaloids create an aversion to
eating it for the grazing animal.
It’s no different from having a big
night on gin, and never drinking
gin again. You learn ‘that’s bad
food.’ Birds are pretty quick
learners. The idea was to plant
it in an airfield to create a safer
environment for aircraft to land.
The Miracle on the Hudson
in 2009 – which spawned the
movie Sully starring Tom
Hanks – saw interest in Avanex
take off didn’t it?
Canada geese going through
the engines of that flight brought
the multi-billion dollar (bird
control) industry to light. I
travelled to a number of bird
strike conferences around the
world – not a great thing to do
when all you’re seeing is horrific
photos of bird damage on
planes. I’ve met wildlife officers
at La Guardia (where the Sully
flight originated), JFK and San
Francisco International. You’re
right beside the planes when
they’re taking off and landing. It’s
a pretty weird feeling.
Back to rugby. Loathe as
we are to give Dunedin any
credit, Forsyth Barr Stadium
looks an absolute picture
doesn’t it?
It’s the first permanent roofed
stadium with a living turf surface
in the world, and it’s a success
story. The scrums are stable,
you’ll never see a divot on that
ground. They plant the real grass
in a sand profile and then stitch
artificial fibres into that to give
stability. The roots of the ryegrass
lock around the fibres creating a
very stable surface.
The Christchurch Multi-
Use Arena is on the drawing
board, how should the turf be
incorporated to that enclosed
venue?
A number of companies
have looked at robotic
removable turf systems,
similar to what’s used at
(English football club)
Tottenham Hotspur. You can
push a button there and within
six hours that turf goes into a
racking system like a vertical car
park. Then you have a grey floor
you could put an ice skating rink
on.
BIRD STRIKE: The downing of US Airways Flight 1549
in New York’s Hudson River in 2009 benefited a turf
innovation developed in New Zealand.
GROWTH
INDUSTRY:
Mark Shaw in
the seedling
growth room,
part of a
process that
can take a
decade before
a sample is
marketed.
PHOTO: GEOFF
SLOAN
This sounds pricey and
unrealistic for a 30,000-capacity
(max) stadium?
There would be a massive cost
with a robotic turf system, and
the turf is always the last thing
they’ll think about. If it was me
you’d build your stadium so the
turf system could be pushed out
into the car park and rotated to
follow the apex of the sun. That
way every bit of the ground gets
the same amount of sunlight
on it throughout the day. I don’t
believe we have got enough land
on the site for that.
You’re a one-eyed Cantabrian
but is the grass really greener
outside the four avenues or New
Zealand as a whole?
I might be a bit biased but I
believe our stadium managers
do a better job than anywhere in
the world. I challenge anybody
to find a better looking ground
than Eden Park or FMG Stadium
(Hamilton), that’s just an
immaculate ground. You go to
Forsyth Barr and you look at
the turf quality any day of the
week, it looks amazing. I know
they may have more matches
on grounds in Australia but the
turf just doesn’t have that same
x-factor. Marvel in Melbourne
(the retractable roof stadium in
Docklands) is probably one of the
worst grounds in the world for
getting actual sunlight onto the
ground. I believe they have the
most grow lights of any stadium
in the world. They joke when they
turn them on Melbourne’s CBD
does a bit of a flicker because of
the draw on the power.
Winter is coming. You’re not
a fan of artificial grass in the
backyard but is there a place for
it on Canterbury’s frost-bitten
sporting landscape?
I believe every school in New
Zealand should have an artificial
field that is World Rugby and
FIFA approved. They could then
lease that ground at night to local
clubs for training and then both
the club and school main fields
are in much better condition for
the players on a Saturday.
Condition-wise, how does
your lawn rate? Surely it
resembles a carpet?
We have a bit of a competition
across the New Zealand (PGW
Turf) team. I present the award
so I’m not allowed to give it to
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20
OPINION
The New
Zealand
Initiative
chairman
Roger
Partridge
talks Covid-19
testing
DURING THE Covid pandemic,
the public has heard a lot about
the precautionary principle.
The Prime Minister referred
to it when announcing every
lockdown.
Most recently, Auckland was
placed at alert level 3 in February
because of the Government’s
precautionary approach. The uncertainty
created by three community
cases in Papatoetoe was
enough to lock up the country’s
largest city for a third time. The
fears that prompted Auckland’s
move to alert level 3 proved
unfounded. Yet few questioned
the Government’s approach. The
public has become conditioned
to the precautionary principle’s
safety-first procedures.
The public has heard less about
the closely related and broader
cautionary principle. Judging
by last week’s revelations about
“case B”, a Grand Millennium
MIQ security guard infected
with Covid-19 who had evaded
testing for Covid-19 for more
than six months, nor have
health officials or the Minister of
Health.
The precautionary principle
applies in cases of scientific
uncertainties. By contrast, the
cautionary principle applies to
known risks and dangers. The
principle holds that if the consequences
of an activity could
be catastrophic, then cautionary
measures should be taken to
minimise the risk. Most readers
subconsciously follow the
cautionary principle in their everyday
lives. Modern wiring and
electric lighting mean the risk of
a house catching fire nowadays
is small. Yet, because the consequences
of a fire are so severe,
homeowners and communities
adopt a series of fail-safes.
Smoke alarms and household
extinguishers, on-call emergency
services, building codes, and fire
insurance all guard against the
risk of everything going up in
smoke.
Regulatory regimes also
routinely adopt the cautionary
approach. Food safety standards
policed by the Ministry for
Primary Industries make sure
food is safe to consume. Aircraft
safety regulations policed by the
Civil Aviation Authority make
sure air travel is safe and reliable.
To make sure roads are as safe as
they can be, the police enforce
the road code. And the New
Zealand Transport Authority
ensures vehicles are regularly
warranted for fitness.
Each of these regimes has
detailed checks and balances.
The goal is to reduce the risk of
human error, human oversight,
or even willful non-compliance.
The approach is justified under
the cautionary principle. The risk
of mistakes is judged too important
to leave to the vagaries of
individual conduct.
New Zealand’s biggest risk is
not an outbreak of salmonella
or a car with faulty brakes. It is
another Covid-incursion – especially
with new, more virulent
coronavirus strains now circulating
around the world. Covid can
only enter the country through
our border. And all Kiwis know
the cost of a Covid-incursion is
high. The price is measured not
simply in the loss of personal
freedom from lockdowns, but
in lives and livelihoods. Yet, according
to the Prime Minister,
the Grand Millennium security
guard was able to evade the border
security system simply by
“lying.” If that is so, the Ministry
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz
Testing bungles fail cautionary principle
INFECTION: The Grand Millennium MIQ facility in Auckland.
PHOTO: WILLIAM TERITE
of Health’s regulatory regime
has unforgivable flaws. A system
that can be undone by a border
worker not telling the truth is no
system at all.
When the costs of failure are
so calamitous, the cautionary
principle required the Ministry
to have designed, implemented,
and enforced the most fail-safe
system possible to ensure that
workers at risk of coming in
to contact with Covid-19 are
regularly tested for the virus. If
the Ministry did not have the
necessary resources, Covid-19
Response Minister Chris Hipkins
should have ensured they
were made available.
And if the ministry was unable
to implement a robust system
in the nine months since the
minister promised that all border
workers would be routinely
tested, organisations supplying
border workers should at least
be subjected to regular process
audits and spot checks. After
all, it is another well-known
principle of regulatory design
that when detection of breaches
is difficult, enforcement action
must be strict.
On Television New Zealand’s
Q&A on Sunday, Hipkins
acknowledged the Government
“could have moved earlier when
it came to making the border
worker testing register mandatory.”
But he suggested this conclusion
was easy to reach with
the benefit of “hindsight.”
Yet it did not require hindsight
to work out that mandatory
systems were needed to reduce
the risk of the biggest danger
the country faces. Just as confounding
was Hipkins apparent
acceptance that the register “will
only tell us when someone has
been tested – it won’t necessarily
tell us when they needed to be
tested.”
“We do have to rely on employers
determining who of those
people on the register need to be
tested and when they need to be
tested,” he said.
No New Zealander should find
these comments satisfactory.
If the register is so ineffective
that it cannot even do the job
that NZTA routinely does with
Warrants of Fitness (by telling
owners when their vehicles are
due their next check-up), then
the minister needs to ensure that
other steps are taken to make
sure workers are being tested.
Spot checks by enforcement
officers – followed by hefty fines
for non-compliance – are an
obvious approach.
To excuse the ministry’s failings,
Hipkins attempted to draw
an analogy between Covid-19
and a speeding driver. He said,
“If somebody drives their car too
fast and causes an accident that
injures, or even kills someone; to
say that that’s the Government’s
fault because we didn’t have a
speed camera on every street
would be somewhat of a high
threshold to set.”
Hipkins is right to infer that
frontline companies and their
workers need to take personal responsibility.
But the Government
has a critical role to play too.
Unlike New Zealand’s extensive
road network, the country’s border
risks arise at a comparatively
small number of locations. All
those locations can be policed.
More importantly, unlike the
speeding driver, the careless
or wilfully disobedient border
worker risks not just harming
themselves and others on the
road but harming all of us. The
revelations about the Grand
Millennium security guard’s
testing record were bad enough.
But they came on top of revelations
a week earlier that neither
the security guard nor Case
C – also a border worker, and
a close contact of the security
guard – had been vaccinated.
In response to these revelations,
director-general of health Dr
Ashley Bloomfield was reported
as stating “he would have hoped”
the workers had been vaccinated
by now. Yet none of this should
be left to “hope”. The ministry
has had the luxury of following
other nations when designing
its vaccination programme.
Countries like the United States,
the United Kingdom, Singapore
and Israel started vaccinating
their citizens in December last
year. This gave New Zealand two
months of lead time.
In February, the Ministry of
Health announced it expected
to have vaccinated all “frontline
staff” within two or three weeks.
A chart released a few weeks later
by the Ministry set that date as
the end of March. The Herald’s
investigations have since revealed
the chart was nothing more
than a graphic designer imagining
what a robust vaccination
programme might achieve. Just
like New Zealand’s Covid testing
regime, the chart had a semblance
of rigour but in reality was just
thin air.
In response to “chartgate,” late
last week the Ministry of Health
released target vaccination data.
The targets are ambitious. After
a slow start in the first half of
the year, the Ministry expects
more than half a million doses to
be administered weekly during
September and October. The
targets suggest 90 per cent of New
Zealand’s adult population will be
vaccinated in the second half of
the year. Yet few countries in the
world have managed to vaccinate
10 per cent of their populations
in a week – and none of them
have populations as large as New
Zealand’s. More troublingly, the
targets were released without
detailed plans explaining how
they are to be met. Based on the
evidence to date, the targets may
be little more concrete than the
projections from the Ministry’s
graphic designer. When the risk
of omission is catastrophic, the
cautionary principle requires
more from the Ministry of Health
than hope and imaginary plans.
So do all New Zealanders.
-NZ Herald
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LETTERS 21
Hosking v Ardern
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on the issues affecting life
in Canterbury
Send emails to:
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Letters may be edited or rejected at Star Media’s
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Readers continue
to react to the spat
between Newstalk
ZB host Mike Hosking
and Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern.
Correspondence
on this issue is now
closed.
According to various
letter writers Hosking is a
rude, arrogant, obnoxious,
disrespectful argumentative,
toxic, biased, narcissistic, selfserving,
excessively vain Trumplike
individual with a right wing
ideology, who lacks backbone.
Oh, and a creep to boot.
After those glowing and
colourful epithets I will make
it my business to tune in to his
show at every opportunity. –
Warren Elston
Reading the letters shows
the political leanings of the
correspondents, I am a National
supporter and can’t stand
Ardern’s refusal to answer a
question and constantly goes
off on another tangent or says I
refute the question even thought
the facts are in the public
domain.
The people who say she is
doing a good job obviously are
not worried about the increase
in the number of people living
in motels at the taxpayers’
expense, the increase in food
parcels being handed out, the
problems in mental health
which the Government was
going to fix, the lack of the
shovel-ready projects the fact
that the road transport authority
has said there won’t be any
money for upgrades for at least
three years and all the other
promises the Government has
announced which have failed to
materialise. KiwiBuild springs
to mind.
I could go on. – R Lucas
Mr Hosking is an arrogant,
know-all with no respect for
some people namely our Prime
Minister.
He never calls Jacinda by
name or Prime Minister but
only she or her.
Prior to the election he was
always running the Labour
Party down and saying that
there was no way that she/her
would ever be elected. I think
the Prime Minister should stay
away from people like him. –
Myra Barry
I am not surprised that the
Prime Minister has decided to
limit the interviews that she has
with Mike Hosking.
Why should she, week after
week, put herself in a position
to be put down by him not just
in the interview but throughout
his three hour programme. He
takes every opportunity he can
to belittle her.
His attitude towards Jacinda
and her Government is always
disparaging. Even when the
interview is over he continues
to disrespect her with both his
comments and those of others
who agree with him.
I do not think that Jacinda
comes onto his show in order to
have “a battle”.
However, Mike inevitably
turns it into one with his
derogatory comments following
the interview and throughout
his programme.
Not once have I ever heard
him acknowledge the many
positive qualities of her
leadership. When speaking
with regular international
broadcasters they will often
acknowledge how well New
Zealand has managed the
pandemic and Mike always
remains silent, never agreeing
with them.
Whenever Mike has been on
holiday and other broadcasters
have fronted his show they haven’t
made the interview into a “winner
and loser” issue as he does.
He is not the only interviewer
who asks, so-called, “hard
questions” but he is the only one
who makes it into a contest, one
in which he has to be the winner.
– Jan Gray
I have stopped listening to
Mike Hosking’s programme
after his rude interview with
Jacinda Ardern.
I liked his programme before
and never missed it. I think
he should either change
his attitude or forget about
interviewing her. – Bhola
Pradhan
There is no battle between our
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
and wannabe shock-jock Mike
Hosking.
Ardern has said she won’t
appear on Hosking’s show
weekly, the Newstalk ZB
producers and management
want her to reappear on a
periodic basis when there is
big news, big headlines, but
Hosking is throwing a tantrum
because he is denied the
opportunity to masquerade as a
serious investigative journalist
asking what he thinks the hard
questions are.
Contrary to Hosking’s
monstrous ego, most people
seriously don’t care what he
thinks and or says.
His incessant references
to common sense are only
references to what makes
sense to Hosking and his
gaggle of aging right-wing,
“me first” bigots. – David
Marra
I heard the last exchange
on the radio between Jacinda
Ardern and Mike Hosking,
I felt it was cringe-worthy,
embarrassing and totally
unprofessional.
Mike was nothing more than
a bully, was impatient, wouldn’t
give the Prime Minister a chance
to reply before actively treating
her with disrespect.
I don’t necessarily agree with
everything the Government
is doing, but feel that as the
Prime Minister of this country
she deserves respect from an
interviewer.
Mike Hosking places himself
with the National Party and
in particular has a strong
alliance with John Key. In my
opinion, both totally irrelevant
at the present time. – Trish
Carmody
Why would the Prime
Minister want to go on his show
anyway. He is rude, arrogant,
disrespectful, opinionated.
How he still has a show
amazes me.
Paint him orange, colour his
hair yellow, put white circles
around his eyes and we have a
miniature Trump. – Christine
O’Malley
I am sympathetic towards the
PM, after all she is the elected
choice.
While Hosking runs a good
programme there is a tendency
for disc jockeys to become self
opinionated and disrespectful
towards others. – Ronald
Stuart
I definitely don’t think Arden
should appear on the Mike
Hosking show and would prefer
not to see her on TV either. –
Gail Hallams
I agree with Mike. Dump
her. She does not enhance the
morning show. – Bill Noster
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The Star Thursday April 22 2021
Xinjiang “Forced Labor”
Allegations Are Just
Another Lie
Recently some western countries
and media outlets alleged that
there are signs of forced labor in
Xinjiang’s cotton industry. Some
countries sanctioned Chinese
companies and certain foreign
enterprises cut business ties with
Xinjiang’s cotton producers,
which naturally provoked an
ongoing backlash by the Chinese
government and the Chinese
people.
Xinjiang region, located in
western China, just like New
Zealand, has vast lands and sparse
population. Cotton industry is
one of the pivotal industries in
Xinjiang. In the harvest season,
well-paid cotton-picking jobs used
to attract many workers, mainly
from neighbouring provinces to
Xinjiang, just like Pacifikas being
recruited to work as fruit pickers in
NZ for harvest each year.
In recent years, technological
innovations have made cotton
production highly mechanized
and much less labor-intensive in
Xinjiang where more than 70%
of the cotton is picked by use of
machines. This has significantly
reduced the demand for cottonpicking
workers, even at busiest
harvest time. In addition, the
workers all sign contracts out of
their own accord with planters
through consultation on an equal
footing. Despite the earlier move
of the Better Cotton Initiative of
Switzerland to suspend activities
in Xinjiang as well as licensing
of Xinjiang’s cotton based on
the unfounded accusation of
“forced labor”, the BCI Shanghai
representative office recently issued
a statement pointing out that “since
2012, the Xinjiang project site has
performed second-party credibility
audits and third-party verifications
over the years, and has never found
a single case related to incidents of
forced labor.” Obviously there is
no convincing evidence in support
of the Xinjiang “forced labor”
accusations. As indicated by China
Cotton Association recently, China
firmly and undoubtedly reject these
baseless accusations.
Behind the unsubstantiated
Xinjiang human rights abuse
accusations from some
individuals, so-called independent
organizations or think tanks, we
can see state actors involved. Many
of the research reports are funded
by the US and used fabricated data.
We couldn’t help questioning the
geographical considerations and
political motives behind these
narratives. Lawrence Wilkerson,
chief of staff to former United
States Secretary of State Colin
Powell, gave a speech in August
2018, saying that: “if the CIA
would want to destabilize China,
they could form an unrest and join
with Uygurs in pushing the Han
Chinese in Beijing from internal
places rather than external.” This
has left behind some traces of why
such Xinjiang-related issues have
become so heated these years.
Xinjiang is open to visitors from
all over the world. In year 2020,
Xinjiang has received 158 million
tourists. Since the end of year
2018, over 1,000 people from more
than 70 international delegations,
including senior UN officials,
foreign diplomats, international
organizations officials, overseas
media reporters and religious
figures from 91 countries, have
visited Xinjiang. China has 1
billion Internet users. However,
there has not been a single available
online video clip validating the
Xinjiang-related allegations. It’s
particularly worth noting that not a
single Muslim country has accused
China of abusing human rights in
Xinjiang. On the contrary, many
of them have been consistently
supporting China’s position
concerning Xinjiang in United
Nations Human Rights Council.
China has invited many western
countries’ diplomats to visit
Xinjiang over the years. However,
some of the countries have
constantly been postponing the
visit, raising unreasonable requests
including asking to see criminals
sentenced for engagement in
terrorism and separatist activities.
Seeing is believing. We continue
to welcome foreign entrepreneurs
and people with an interest in the
so-called “forced labor”issue to
visit Xinjiang. Keeping in mind
the “Great Intelligence Failure”
Colin Powell mentioned relating
to the nonexistent Iraq’s weapons
program in his 2003 United
Nations speech and former
Secretary of State Pompeo’s
assertion about America’s glory
in Texas A&M University, I am
fully confident that sensible people
will distinguish truth from lying,
cheating, dirty play and false
stories about Xinjiang and make
judgements independently and
impartially.
Author: Wang Zhijan,
Chinese Consul General in
Christchurch
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OPINION
Remembering sacrifices
made during war
SUNDAY IS Anzac Day,
a day when we gather to
commemorate the sacrifice
that was made over a
century ago by the young
men who were sent from
Australia and New Zealand
to fight a war ‘for King and
country’ in battlefields far
away.
The bonds that were
forged in blood back then
have come to define the essence
of the Anzac spirit.
This year we will gather
once again in Cranmer
Square for the Dawn
Service.
Last year we commemorated
Anzac Day during
lockdown in our bubbles,
which meant staying at
home and keeping our
distance when outside.
This has made the
transtasman travel bubble
particularly poignant, as
evidenced by the moving
scenes of families being
reunited that filled our
screens on Monday.
The fact that we can
travel freely between our
countries is testament to
the decisions taken by our
respective governments,
as well as the Aussies and
Kiwis, who followed the
requirements that were put
in place.
In this respect we have
Maori place
names
It appears The Star is
being subject to vociferous
opposition the inclusion
of Māori language and
particularly Māori place
names in the media and
public discourse.
I wonder what drives
their concern. As the
son of a ten pound Pom
and a second-generation
Kiwi of Irish and English
descent. I am proudly
pākehā.
Born in Waipukurau, Te
Matau-a-Māu,i and spent
my childhood in Makaretu
on the banks of the Tukituki
river in the foothills of
the Ruahine Range and
was educated in Whakaoriori
and later Opaki on the
banks of the Ruamahanga
River before starting work
in Heretaunga.
I now live near by the
Ōtākaro River in Ōtautahi.
These names tell the
story of the whenua where
I was born, grew up, was
educated and now live.
The place names the vociferous
minority seem hell
bent on protecting have
little significance to me.
My ancestors came here
to escape the horrors of
their homeland to make a
collectively shown what we
can achieve when we act
as one.
And that was what the
Anzac spirit imbued in our
soldiers all those years ago.
life for themselves on the
other side of the world. –
David Marra
Clean water
The ECan column by
Jenny Hughey, talks about
the importance of clean
water for us all. We all
want clean water, no argument
there. It’s good there
will be a ‘cross community
and cross agency approach’
to tackle this issue.
However, I learned
recently that two major
weeds, gorse and broom,
are very adept at extracting
nitrogen from the air and
putting it in the soil which
then leaches into our water.
Why hasn’t ECan ever
mentioned this as they
only seem to demonise
cows as the sole source of
nitrates in our water? – D
Downward
Pigeons
My sympathies to Dorothy
Gosser (The Star, April
15). It sounds extreme.
While not familiar with
the Burnside problem, I
can say if Christchurch
does not have a pigeon
problem now it is not far
away judging by the huge
flocks of pigeons regularly
commuting from the city
Mayor
Lianne Dalziel
Each year on Anzac Day,
I reflect on how wrong the
description of the ‘war to
end all wars’ truly was in
the wake of the conflicts
where our armed forces
have served over the decades
since.
At the same time as
we honour the sacrifices
that have been made by
those who have served, we
must commit to learning
the lessons of war and to
the peaceful resolution of
conflict.
Lest we forget.
POIGNANT: Travelling freely across the Tasman
is testament to what can be achieved when we
act as one.
PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD
to northern regions and
back to town.
Some people think they
are going to food sources
in the Waimakariri River
and neighbouring rural
areas.
I am surprised so few
people have noticed this
phenomenon as it is a daily
ritual. – Winton Royds
Bottle Lake
horses
I am concerned about
horses using the walking
tracks at Bottle Lake
Forest.
The riders have
designated areas to exercise
their animals on.
I have mentioned this to
the park rangers but this
has made no difference to
the problem.
It is quite confronting
for families with young
children to come up
against a group
of horses using the walking
tracks.
Also another concern is
that these animals defecate
on the tracks leaving quite
a mess.
My message to the riders
is: Keep off the walking
tracks and don’t spoil
people’s leisure. – Kevin
Jackson

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since Environment Canterbury
climate-change emergency
Cracking down on ‘dumpers’
by sea-level rise this century and threatened and facing increased
our productive and protected land pressures due to river system
Environment
jeopardised by the arrival and change.
spread of new, exotic weeds and Wetlands are also ecosystems
Canterbury Chair
pests from warmer climates. at-risk nationally and regionally,
Jenny Hughey
All these eventualities have degraded by draining, damming
to be planned and prepared for, and diversion affecting their
and enhance that work.
fleet hybrid or long-range electric
and Environment Canterbury ability to sequester carbon,
WHY SOME people choose to to issue fines of this magnitude,
That work included setting by 2022. Carbon emissions from
will remain in the vanguard of cleanse freshwater and mitigate
dump rubbish our regional which are well in excess of the
up a climate-change integration air travel across the organisation
these climate change efforts. flooding, as well as impacting on UNSIGHTLY:
parks, when the same effort cost of a visit to the transfer station.
are offset via our own biodiversity
One example is the $40 million biodiversity and mahinga kai.
Anyone caught
taking programme it to an in appropriate the Long-term Plan
Waimakariri River flood
With biosecurity, we are
dumping rubbish
facility 2018-28, would ensuring see that climate waste change Until programmes. now, the park rangers protection project, completed putting greater emphasis on the in any of our
responsibly was actively and considered sustainably across could According only invoice to a offenders Madworld report
late last year. The network of risks of new pests establishing three regional
taken workstreams, care of, staggers increasing me. visibility for in costs 2019, after our carrying gross emissions out were
floodgates and stopbanks will in Canterbury. Warming
parks may now
of Last the year, science Environment and what we know investigations. 2253 tonnes These of carbon were dioxide often
find themselves
protect half a million people and temperatures, changing soils and
Canterbury about the impact spent more of climate than not (CO2) paid and equivalent, the investigation compared with
slapped with an
$8 billion of community and new land uses mean new weeds
$190,000 change on of Canterbury, ratepayer money and liaising to resource removals also of costs 7883 money. tonnes of CO2-
instant $750 fine.
business assets from a possible especially, will be able to gain a
remove on the issue rubbish, with clapped-out iwi and regional Under equivalent the new through rules, our an alleged
efforts offender and from has 28 forestry days to planting pay
efficiency
whiteware partners, other and old local cars, authorities from
“super flood”.
better foothold across the region.
Canterbury’s most important 2019-20 financial year, Environment
Canterbury had to pick up send us a photo from your cell-
who is dumping rubbish, please
our and three central regional government. parks – the across fine. If 2700 that hectares. is ignored, a reminder
The is changing issued with climate another will 28 pose natural
The last major flood was in More broadly, we have to
assets, with diverse, stunning
money As an which organisation, could have we been have
December
landscapes
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to
when
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better also made spent significant elsewhere. progress Some in days many to pay risks up. to Failing life and to livelihood stump along
of
with
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provision
Island in
for
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and
in the
find
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environmentally
and Ashleysuitable
app or call the regional council
abandoned addressing vehicles our own were greenhousegas
emissions,
set on up in after Canterbury. that will lead In recent to court years of recreational
Kainga were
activities.
swamped by river
Rakahuri
alternatives,
parks.
such as electricity
on
and
0800 765 588.
fire, creating and
with
even
our
greater action
we have
to recover
seen how
the fine.
occasional, These flow parks peaking are at located 3990 on cubic the As well hydrogen, as the $152,000 to power it our cost public (Note that the number above
environmental impact.
Christchurch building receiving a
Offenders’
but extreme,
names
weather
and
events
details
have
shores metres of Lake per Tekapo second and (cumecs). along to dispose transport. of it properly, 98 vehicles
were When also discarded, my predecessor costing Steve discharges to air, land or water,
is the 24/7 number to report
Whether it is simple laziness will also appear on the regional
“market-leading” energy efficiency had huge effects on residents and
the banks The protection of the Waimakariri scheme has been
or a blindspot in the desire to council’s website for 12 months. River designed and the to Ashley/Rakahuri
defend Christchurch another Lowndes $40,000 retired to get rid as chair of. of not the 9-5 customer services
take
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time
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behalf to February of these on ‘dumpers’, the National Environment
Australian Canterbury Built Environment is cracking rubbish The and driest litter parts there of can our ruin region,
overseas,
Island.
you will have seen how everyone, cumecs. including walking, by an insurance highlighted company some of or the the big
swimming, Environment fishing, boating, Canterbury’s vehicle changes owner. on the way. He was • Cr Jenny Hughey is chair
down. Rating System New Zealand. the along landscape. the Marlborough Until recently, coast and mountain leadership biking, of biodiversity bird watching, and On behalf optimistic of our we ratepayers, would be able to of the Canterbury Regional
Anyone The building’s caught features dumping include rubbish
184 in solar any panels of our which three regional can this Plains, blight, are but expected bad habits to get seem even bird underpinned hunting, or simply by climate-change
enjoying get much climate tougher change with and those sustainability. Canterbury)
New across Zealand much was of largely the Canterbury free of horse biosecurity riding, motocross, programmes game-
is also we’ve had deal enough. with the It “pressing is time to issues” Council of (Environment
parks generate may more now than find themselves 55,000 to drier. be creeping North-westerly and storms need to are the view concerns. of some of New Zealand’s
iconic landscapes.
who choose I share to wreck his confidence. our regional
As a
slapped kilowatt with hours an of instant electricity $750 per do predicted our utmost to to become educate more transgressors
with since torrential and stop alpine littering Environment rainstorms before
intense, Canterbury’s distinct braided community, and as a council,
fine. year. Our It’s regional park a rangers year rivers and unique wetlands face Canterbury
we parks.
As we have found out, unfortunately,
some people see them ensuring the parks remain clean
landslides as a dumping a vital ecological ground link too. In and the provide and tidy cope for with all. If the you changing see anyone climate
We all have are taking a part some to play bold in steps to
have There been has given been a warrant a 26% reduction under it is turning too late. our braided rivers into many challenges. The rivers form ensure we are a better place to
the per Resource staff
declared
member Management in emissions Act
a climate-change emergency
Our roaring regional rapids, parks fuelling are among
since 30 June 2010. We now have and causing widespread erosion. an abundant food supply and and the tests it will set us. But
access to JENNY electric HUGHEY and hybrid explains what Canterbury’s coastal
nesting grounds for 26 species of by sea-level there will rise always this century be a need and to do threatened and facing increased
CONTENT MARKETING
vehicles the and council hope has to have been half doing. our communities will be threatened native birds – most classified as our more. productive and protected land pressures due to river system
Environment
Prostate
The formal declaration of a
jeopardised by the arrival and change.
of climate emergency across
cancer: Life beyond a diagnosis
spread of new, exotic weeds and Wetlands are also ecosystems
Canterbury Chair
Canterbury was one of the most
pests from warmer climates. at-risk nationally and regionally,
serious, and colourful, moments
Jenny Hughey
All these eventualities have degraded by draining, damming
in the regional council’s more than
A DIAGNOSIS of prostate cancer to men with to prostate be planned cancer and prepared and the for, now well and diversion established affecting Canterbury. their
30-year history.
and enhance that work. can be devastating fleet news hybrid for or the long-range men electric people who and support Environment them. We Canterbury are Chris ability Ward to sequester and his wife carbon, Dianne
A year ago this Saturday,
That work included involved setting and their by 2022. families. Carbon emissions holding from the will conference remain in in the Christchurch
this these year climate as a commitment change efforts. the fourth flooding, Wednesday as well as of impacting the month
Canterbury became New Zealand’s programme in the Long-term cancer in Plan their lifetimes are offset and via our more own biodiversity to our South One Island example supporters, is the $40 after million that is biodiversity well attended and with mahinga over kai. 60
vanguard of run a cleanse support freshwater group in and Lincoln mitigate on
at 11.49am, Environment
up a climate-change integration One eight men air travel will get across prostate the organisation
first council to proclaim such an 2018-28, ensuring climate than change 3500 men are programmes. diagnosed each having to cancel
Waimakariri
the event
River
last
flood
year people
With
on their
biosecurity,
books.
we are
emergency, formally dedicating
protection project, completed putting greater emphasis on the
was actively considered year across in New Zealand. According When to caught a Madworld due report to Covid-19.”
Said Chris: “I am really looking
itself to consideration of climate
late last year. The network of risks of new pests establishing
workstreams, increasing early, visibility the chances in increase 2019, our for gross more emissions were There is great line-up of expert forward to the conference this year
change at the heart of all it does.
floodgates and stopbanks will in Canterbury. Warming
of the science and what positive we know outcomes, 2253 and tonnes there of certainly
is a life beyond (CO2) a diagnosis. equivalent, compared ing with issues from $8 billion the latest of community news in and to learn new more land about uses mean the latest new weeds
carbon dioxide speakers at this conference cover-
as it gives me a fantastic opportunity
The declaration highlighted
protect half a million people and temperatures, changing soils and
about the impact of climate
that all the work Environment
change on Canterbury,
Canterbury does – from
Survivorship and liaising and removals maintaining of 7883 tonnes a of diagnosis CO2- and business treatment, assets from to ways a possible for development especially, in will prostate be able cancer, to gain so a I
on the issue with iwi and
freshwater management to
good regional quality of life equivalent is the theme through for our efficiency men and their “super families flood”. can live better can share better this foothold with our across group.” the region.
partners, other local authorities
biodiversity and biosecurity,
this year’s Prostate efforts Cancer and from Foundation’s
National Conference across 2700 being hectares. held ongoing medications.
December 1957, when parts with curb an reliance interest on in fossil prostate fuels and
forestry planting with the outcomes The last of major treatments flood was and in •PCFNZ More invites broadly, anyone we have to
and central government.
transport and urban development
to air quality, and also regional
As an organisation, in we Christchurch have on The May changing 2. climate will pose Another of way Coutts PCFNZ Island helps in Belfast men, and cancer find to environmentally attend. For suitable more
leadership – has a climate change
also made significant progress
Said Paul
in
Hayes
many
of PCFNZ:
risks to life
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and livelihood
and their families Kainga were is through swamped a network
of 40 flow Support peaking Groups at 3990 across cubic please hydrogen, go to to https://prostate.
power our public
by river information alternatives, and such to as register, electricity and
Dianne focus. and Chris Ward of the Prostate
addressing
Cancer
our own greenhousegas
emissions, with our
we have seen how occasional,
in Canterbury. In recent years
national conference is one of the ways
Support Currently, Group in under Selwyn. the Resource
we provide education and support the country, metres with per four second of these (cumecs). groups org.nz/ transport.
Management Act, regional
councils are required only to adapt
to climate change, not mitigate
it – that responsibility is the
Government’s, but could change.
Even in ‘adapt mode’ many
of Environment Canterbury’s
existing policies and plans already
contribute to reduced emissions.
In declaring the climate
emergency, the Council noted it
would continue to show leadership
on climate-change and do so
without adding new programmes
at ratepayers’ expense. It also gave
staff a clear mandate to continue
Christchurch building receiving a
“market-leading” energy efficiency
rating of 5.0 out of 6 in the year
to February on the National
Australian Built Environment
Rating System New Zealand.
The building’s features include
184 solar panels which can
generate more than 55,000
kilowatt hours of electricity per
year.
There has been a 26% reduction
per staff member in emissions
since 30 June 2010. We now have
access to electric and hybrid
vehicles and hope to have half our
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but extreme, weather events have
had huge effects on residents and
infrastructure around the South
Island.
The driest parts of our region,
along the Marlborough coast and
across much of the Canterbury
Plains, are expected to get even
drier. North-westerly storms are
predicted to become more intense,
with torrential alpine rainstorms
turning our braided rivers into
roaring rapids, fuelling landslides
and causing widespread erosion.
Canterbury’s coastal
communities will be threatened
The protection scheme has been
designed to defend Christchurch
from a flood of as much as 6500
cumecs.
Environment Canterbury’s
leadership of biodiversity and
biosecurity programmes is also
underpinned by climate-change
concerns.
Canterbury’s distinct braided
rivers and unique wetlands face
many challenges. The rivers form
a vital ecological link and provide
an abundant food supply and
nesting grounds for 26 species of
native birds – most classified as
Thursday April 22 2021 The Star
OPINION 25
When my predecessor Steve
Lowndes retired as chair of
this council late last year, he
highlighted some of the big
changes on the way. He was
optimistic we would be able to
deal with the “pressing issues” of
climate change and sustainability.
I share his confidence. As a
community, and as a council,
we are taking some bold steps to
ensure we are in a better place to
cope with the changing climate
and the tests it will set us. But
there will always be a need to do
more.

The Star Thursday April 22 2021
26
FOOD
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Tasty meat dishes for the slow cooker
Haul out the crockpot and
try this delicious Greekstyle
lamb dinner. It can
be cooked on low in a slow
cooker for 6-7 hours
Lamb Stifado
Serves 4-6
Ingredients
slider buns topped with a tangy
coleslaw. Or serve on rice and
top with fresh herbs.
Chicken and Cranberry
Casserole
This casserole could also be
cooked at 180 deg C for 1 hour,
however slow-cooking improves
the flavours. Serves 4-6
Stifado:
400gm can chopped
Italian tomatoes
1kg boneless lamb shoulder
2 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1 each: cinnamon stick, fresh
bay leaf
¾ cup each: red wine, beef stock
eight small shallots, peeled but
left whole
Gremolata:
¼cup coarsely chopped mint
Finely grated rind 1 lemon
2 tbsp each: lemon juice, olive
oil
1 clove garlic crushed
Directions
Preheat oven to 160 deg C. Place
tomatoes in a saucepan and simmer
until reduced by about half.
Cut lamb into 4cm pieces.
Heat oil in a frying pan. Saute
lamb in batches, until lightly
browned. Place in a casserole.
Saute onion, until softened.
Add to casserole with remaining
ingredients for stifado. Pour
tomatoes over the top. Cover and
cook for 2 hours or until tender.
Meanwhile, combine ingredients
for gremolata. Serve on top
of stifado.
Slow cooked pulled pork
Serves 6
Ingredients
1.25kg boned, lean pork shoulder
½ cup firmly packed brown
sugar
¼ cup hoisin sauce
½ cup each: vegetable stock,
balsamic vinegar
3 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tsp finely grated root ginger
1 large shallot, diced
1 tbsp cornflour
2 tbsp water
Directions
You could
also add
toast and
use the
stifado as
a dinner
starter, such
as soup.
Place pork in a slow cooker or
crockpot.
Combine brown sugar, hoisin
sauce, stock and balsamic vinegar.
Mix well. Add garlic, root
ginger and shallot. Pour over
pork.
Cover and cook on low for
eight hours. Remove pork to a
chopping board, reserving the
liquid. Using two forks, shred
pork into small pieces. Place
in a bowl. Pour liquid into a
saucepan. Combine cornflour
and water to make a paste. Stir
into liquid.
Simmer, until thickened. Pour
enough over pulled pork to
moisten well.
Serve between hamburger or
Ingredients
1kg skinned and boned chicken
thighs
1-2 tbsp olive oil
2 rashers rindless bacon,
chopped
1 onion, diced
1 tsp dried thyme
1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tbsp maple syrup
Directions
Preheat oven to 160 deg C.
Saute chicken thighs in batches
in olive oil in a frying pan until
lightly browned all over.
Place in a casserole. Saute
bacon until browned, then saute
onion until softened.
Add both to casserole. Add
remaining ingredients.
Cover and cook in oven for
two hours. Potatoes can be
baked at the same time.
A CROWDFUNDING
campaign is under way to
purchase the highest peaks in the
Christchurch
area Mt
Herbert and
Mt Bradley
and form the
Te Ahu Pātiki
conservation
park.
Led by the
Rod Donald
Banks Peninsula
Trust and supported by Te
Hapū o Ngāti Wheke and Orton
Bradley Park, the campaign is
just $170,000 short of the total
needed to create the new park.
“Many Christchurch residents
are familiar with Mt Herbert,”
Rod Donald trust manager Suky
Thompson said.
“You can see its big round
summit and rugged Mt Bradley
to the west popping above the
Port Hills from many parts of
the city. Climbing Mt Herbert is
one of the most popular tramps
in the area, taking about three
hours from Diamond Harbour
or Orton Bradley Park.”
“To date, public walking access
has relied solely on the goodwill
of the private landowner,”
Thompson said.
“The new park will secure
public access to both summits in
SCENIC: Te
Ahu Patiki
seen from
the Port
Hills.
PHOTO:
RICHARD
SUGGATE
perpetuity, and the 500ha of land
between will regenerate back
into native forest.”
To support the campaign the
CONTENT MARKETING
Te Ahu Patiki Spot the Tops competition
Suky
Thompson
Trust is running a “Spot the
Tops” photography competition
and also encouraging tramping
and other clubs to get involved.
“We’re appealing to people
who love these hills to donate
generously now,” Thompson said.
“Imagine walking up there
in the future and seeing a vast
forest, and being able to tell
your grandchildren you were
one of the people who made this
happen. Don’t miss this opportunity.”
For more information
and to donate visit www.
rodddonaldtrust.co.nz
Te Ahu Pātiki conservation park project
Mt Herbert/
Te Ahu Pātiki
Mt Bradley
Create a
recreational
gem for
walking, biking
and climbing
Lyttelton Harbour/Whakaraupō
Transform this
landscape into
a native forest
carbon sink
Help create a legacy for Christchurch/Ōtautahi.
Please donate generously to help Rod Donald Trust purchase
and set up this new 500ha public conservation park.
Protect the
highest
peaks in
Christchurch/
Ōtautahi.
To find out more, view our short film and donate visit roddonaldtrust.co.nz

Thursday April 22 2021 The Star
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GARDENING 27
Plant fruit trees now
for healthy food later
NOW IS a good time to get those
fruit trees planted.
Here are some tips:
• Dig a hole that is slightly deeper
than the root depth and which
allows for 20cm clearance around
the roots.
• Mix some compost with the soil
in the base of the hole, then place
the tree and slow release fertiliser
in the hole so that the graft is
above soil level.
• Create a small mound at the
base of the hole and spread the
roots out carefully.
• Before back filling, position tree
stakes. Partly back fill and firmly
compact.
• Continue back filling and compact
once or twice more.
• Water well.
• Stake securely to ensure root
zone can’t move on windy days.
Bare rooted trees bought must
not be left for roots to dry.
• Plunge in water prior to planting
to ensure the roots are moist
prior to planting.
CLEARANCE: It takes a bit of skill to plant a fruit tree,
make sure it is well supported when you put it in the soil.
Time for maintenance
THE GARDEN has gone quiet
with the onset of autumn, but
now is the time to prepare for
winter and spring.
Things to do in the next few
weeks.
Tree and hedge trimming
Check around the house for
trees or hedges that are getting
close to walls, gutters or the roof.
Look for old branches that
may be vulnerable to the first big
storms: book an arborist to trim
and shape big trees. It is too early
to start pruning but dead head
flowering shrubs, pick fruit that is
past ripening, start raking leaves.
Trim back plants that are
overhanging pathways, doors
or entrances as there is nothing
worse than wet leaves in your face
on a dark winter’s night.
Get scrubbing
This has hardly been the summer
for moss and mould, but
check and scrub potential damp
GROWTH:
Get out the Wet
and Forget or
scrub the mould
off garden
furniture before
winter sets in.
spots that may get slippery in the
first rains.
Scrub or bleach the garden
furniture while there is still good
sunshine to dry it so it won’t go
mouldy in winter.
A time to plant
It is far too early to plant fruit
trees or roses, even shrubs prefer
planting in winter.
But if you are itching to get
started, some citrus trees suit autumn
planting and you can always
start modifying your soil (or clay)
with composts and loams ready
for the new inhabitants.
Bulbs
If you kick yourself every
August or September when the
spring flowers come out and you
haven’t got any, get planting.
Daffodils, freesias, jonquils,
anemones and ranunculas can all
go in now. Start a few in pots to
delight friends whose birthdays
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The Star Thursday April 22 2021
28
SPORT
Sports reporter Chris
Barclay looks at the
weekend’s club sport
match-ups
CASHMERE Technical find
themselves in familiar territory
as the only unbeaten side in the
Mainland Football premiership
after Christchurch United
surrendered the competition
lead with a fifth round loss to
Nelson Suburbs.
The three-time defending
champions were not at their
best last weekend either, but
after racing to a two-goal lead
after nine minutes against
Ferrymead Bays – including
the fastest strike of the season
by Yuya Taguchi after 95sec –
Cashmere Technical survived
the concession of a late goal to
claim top spot.
Cashmere-Technical are now
unbeaten in 39 league games
stretching back to a 2-1 loss to
Ferrymead Bays in the opening
round of the 2019 season.
They strive to preserve that
impressive record against
Nomads United on Saturday
while Christchurch United
should bounce back from a 3-1
loss to Nelson Suburbs when
they take on winless Halswell
United.
Coastal Spirit and Nelson
Suburbs have a busy weekend
with a second game on
Monday after that clash was
postponed earlier the season
when the visitors had a flight to
Christchurch cancelled.
In Christchurch Metro
Premier Cup rugby, last year’s
beaten finalists Marist Albion
are seeking a third successive
win against Shirley, while New
Brighton’s centenary season is
panning out to plan as the only
other unbeaten club after two
rounds.
New Brighton, who edged
Christchurch 16-15 last weekend,
host Burnside at Rawhiti
Domain while Marist Albion
claimed a tight encounter with
Belfast, 31-26.
Champions Lincoln University
were under strength when they
lost in the opening round to
Marist Albion but bounced
back against bottom-placed
University. They host Sydenham
on Saturday.
Hornby captain Sincere
Harraway maintained his
impressive strike rate with a
second successive hat-trick as
the Panthers maintained their
lead in the Canterbury Rugby
League premiership on points
differential.
Harraway notched a treble in
week one against Riccarton and
repeated the feat in the 34-14
win over a Papanui side making
their season debut after having
to default their opening round
clash to Halswell due to lack of
numbers.
While it was no surprise
to see Hornby and five-time
defending champions Linwood
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Busy weekend looms
for top club fixtures
SIX PACK: Hornby Panthers captain Sincere Harraway has scored a hat-trick in the opening
round rounds on the Canterbury Rugby League premiership, including this effort against
Papanui last weekend.
PHOTO: BRENT TOMLINSON
Top of the tables
Christchurch Metro Premier Cup rugby
P W L D PD Pts
Marist Albion 2 2 0 0 13 10
New Brighton 2 2 0 0 16 8
Shirley 2 1 1 0 7 7
Christchurch 2 1 1 0 14 6
Sumner 2 1 0 1 8 6
Burnside 2 1 1 0 14 5
Lincoln University 2 1 1 0 7 5
Linwood 2 1 1 0 -4 5
Belfast 2 0 1 1 -5 4
Sydenham 2 1 1 0 -14 4
HSOB 2 0 2 0 -16 1
University 2 0 2 0 -40 0
Canterbury Rugby League Premiership
P W L D PD Pts
Hornby Panthers 2 2 0 0 54 4
Linwood Keas 2 2 0 0 40 4
at the forefront of the standings,
last season’s wooden spooners
Celebration Lions are also
among the pacesetters after
pipping Halswell 24-22.
Weekend match-ups
•Christchurch Metro
Premier Cup (all Saturday
at 2.45pm)
Marist Albion v Shirley,
Edgar McIntosh Park;
University v Sumner, Ilam
Fields; Linwood v Belfast,
Linfield Park; New Brighton
v Burnside, Rawhiti Domain;
Lincoln University v
Sydenham, Lincoln Uni;
Christchurch v HSOB,
Christchurch Park.
•Canterbury Rugby
League Premiership (all
Saturday at 2.45pm)
Halswell Hornets v
Eastern Eagles, Halswell
Domain; Hornby Panthers
v Celebrations Lions, Leslie
Park; Linwood Keas v Papanui
Tigers, Canterbury Park Oval;
Northern Bulldogs v Riccarton
Knights, Murphy Park.
•Mainland Football
Premiership
They now face an acid test
against Hornby on Saturday
while Linwood should have a
straightforward outing against
Papanui.
Celebration Lions 2 2 0 0 34 4
Northern Bulldogs 2 1 1 0 30 2
Halswell Hornets 2 1 1 0 18 2
Papanui Tigers 2 0 2 0 -40 0
Riccarton Knights 2 0 2 0 -64 0
Eastern Eagles 2 0 2 0 -70 0
Mainland Football Premiership
P W D L GD Pts
Cashmere Technical 5 4 1 0 8 13
Christchurch Utd 5 3 1 1 9 10
Coastal Spirit 4 3 0 1 5 9
Nelson Suburbs 4 2 1 1 4 7
Nomads Utd AFC 5 2 0 3 -1 6
Ferrymeads Bays 5 2 0 3 -5 6
Selwyn Utd FC 5 1 1 3 -5 4
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Bulldogs
mourn
loss of
club
stalwart
• By Chris Barclay
THE NORTHERN Bulldogs
are mourning the loss of club
stalwart Glenn Scott, prompting
Saturday’s rugby league
premiership clash with Riccarton
to be relocated to Kaiapoi.
Scott lost a prolonged battle
with cancer on Monday, ending
a near life-long association with
the club.
After rising through the
playing ranks to the premier
grade, Scott then took up a range
of administrative roles.
He played a pivotal role when
the club had to rebuild at Murphy
Park after
the February
22, 2011,
earthquake.
“He was
the man
behind
the main
drive of the
rebuild of the
clubrooms. Glenn Scott
He put a
lot of time into making that
succeed,” said Hayden Jones,
who succeeded Scott as club
president.
During his tenure, Scott
oversaw a period of growth and
success at the club, including a
Canterbury Cup title and a return
to the premiership semi-finals in
2018. He stood down from the
role in late 2019.
“He never stopped working for
the club, even with his illness he
supported them in everything,”
said Bulldogs head coach Frank
Endacott.
“When we played Linwood
in our first game of the year (on
April 10) he came down in his
motorised wheelchair. That was
the last game he saw. His interest
was there right to the end.”
As a mark of respect the third
round match with the Knights
has been switched to a Bulldogs
home game. The fixture might
eventually serve as an annual
memorial game.
“I can remember Glenn playing
as a 10-year-old for Kaiapoi.
He was always one of those
good, honest, consistent players
that every team needs,” added
Endacott.
“But he’ll be remembered for
more than being a player. His
contribution to the Kaiapoi, and
now Northern Bulldogs, club was
unbelievable. Marking fields . . .
there wasn’t anything he didn’t
do.
“He gave his time and plenty
of it.”
Scott is survived by his wife
Jenny, son Blake, a junior
player at the club, and daughter
Hannah.

A DAMNING statistic from
the Crusaders’ last three games
offers an insight into the reasons
behind the team’s drop in form
during Super Rugby Aotearoa.
The Crusaders began the
competition where they left off,
dominating the rest of the teams
and were looking well on their
way towards a fifth straight title.
But in their last three games
against the Highlanders, Hurricanes
and Chiefs – where they
lost two and narrowly won one,
only thanks to a golden point
win – Scott Robertson’s side has
shown vulnerabilities.
According to former Crusaders
back and assistant coach Tabai
Matson, the Crusaders’ decline
can be explained through the
“metres differential” statistic.
“If my team makes 400m,
and your team makes 200m,
my team has an 82 per cent
chance of winning. So one of the
things you’ll see is the Blues and
the Crusaders around metres
made and the differential were
outstanding (at the start of the
competition).”
According to Matson, the
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Crusaders’ metres differential in
rounds 1-4 was +898m.
However, in the last three
games, the Crusaders have seen
a significant drop down to -64m
in metres differential, a stunning
turnaround that showcases the
extent of the team’s fall.
“They’ve had a significant drop
in their kicking metres, they’ve
had a significant drop in their
ability to carry the ball up the
field . . . when teams make a little
line break, they’re scoring points
now,” Matson said.
“Their defence has definitely
dropped, and on the back of
that, their metres differential has
squeezed right up.”
In contrast, the Highlanders
converted a -440m differential in
rounds 1-4 to a +179m differential
in rounds 5-8.
“That’s on the back of some
really smart kicking and consistency
in winning all the kicking
battles,” Matson said.
“They’ve nearly doubled the
amount of kicking metres that
they did in the first four games
in these last three games, with a
game in hand.”
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Stats explain reason behind Crusaders form drop
The Crusaders, who still lead
the table in spite of a one-point
loss to the Chiefs in Hamilton,
have a chance to redress their
statistical imbalance when they
host the Blues at Orangetheory
Stadium at 3.35pm on Anzac Day.
Victory will ensure the
defending champions host
the May 8 final. In the other
round nine clash, the Chiefs
can strengthen their claim on a
finals berth when they play the
out of contention Hurricanes in
Hamilton at 7.05pm tomorrow.
– NZ Herald
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SPORT
Football tournament to honour
Steve Sumner under way
A NEW football
tournament named to
honour former All Whites
captain Steve Sumner,
who died of cancer in
2017, launches at the
Christchurch Football
Centre today.
The Steve Sumner
Youth Cup runs until
Tuesday and is expected
to feature seven-a-side
teams from age groups
ranging from under-9 to
under-18s.
England-born Sumner
captained New Zealand
at the 1982 World Cup
in Spain and during a
long domestic career he
claimed four national titles
and won the Chatham
Cup four times with
Christchurch United from
1973-1989. An attacking
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He was diagnosed with
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• By Joshua Smith
MULTIPLE GROUP One
winner Self Assured ended
his season on a high with
a hard fought victory in
the Group Three Rangiora
Classic on Sunday.
The Rolleston-based
Hayden Cullen-trained
five-year-old found an
early position in the oneone
behind stablemate
Spankem, before the pair
pushed forward and driver
Jonny Cox secured the lead
with 1800m to go.
Self Assured was left
untouched up front until
driver Tim Williams extricated
Spankem out of the
trail to apply pressure on
his stablemate turning for
home. Spankem steadily
eked into Self Assured’s
lead, but the latter was able
to hold on to record a head
victory, with a further
five lengths back to Cranbourne
in third.
Cullen was pleased with
the efforts of both of his
runners and said Spankem
showed a lot of heart down
the home straight.
“Spankem tried his
absolute heart out but just
fell short once again. You
can’t take anything away
from the other guy (Self
Assured), he is a very good
horse.
“I think if it was a
2000m race it might have
been a different story, but
over that distance Self Assured
just loves it and he is
very hard to get past.”
His victory on Sunday
brings the curtain down
on what can only be described
as a stellar season
for Self Assured.
The son of Bettor’s
Delight won six of his 12
starts this term, highlighted
by his win in the
Gr.1 New Zealand Trotting
Cup last November.
He came into Cullen’s
care in January and placed
in his first three starts
before winning his next
THUMBS UP: Trainer Hayden Cullen and driver
Jonny Cox after Self Assured’s win in the
Rangiora Classic on Sunday. Above: Self Assured
holds on to beat stablemate Spankem.
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three on-end, including
the Easter Cup earlier this
month.
While Self Assured
is heading for a welldeserved
break, Cullen is
looking at pressing on with
Spankem, with Australia
a possible option now the
two-way travel bubble has
opened up across the Tasman.
“I’m not 100 per cent
sure with Spankem yet.
We might have the
Queensland carnival on
the cards, but we are just
playing it by ear at the moment.
Over the next few
weeks we will make plans
on where we are going to
go with him.”
Spankem will likely be
Cullen’s only runner heading
across the Tasman, but
he said he could be joined
by Amazing Dream after
the Harness Jewels in June.
“Amazing Dream is
racing here until the Jewels
and then the owners are
pretty keen to take her
over there as well, but it
won’t be under my name,”
Cullen said.
Meanwhile, Cullen
celebrated a treble at
Rangiora on Sunday after
also recording victories
with Franco Indie and
Pace N Pride.
Franco Indie won the
Canterbury Print Services
Mobile Pace (2000m) by
two lengths. It was the
two-year-old gelding’s first
raceday run and Cullen
said he will now head to
the spelling paddock to
strengthen for his threeyear-old
season.
“Franco Indie is a lovely
horse,” Cullen said. “He
is going to go out for a
break now, he has done a
great job. He is a big horse
and he is still quite weak.
I think a three-year-old is
his future.
“He will go out now and
hopefully get ready for the
Sires’ Stakes in November.”
Cullen was also pleased
with the winning efforts
of Pace N Pride in the
Kotare Downs Rangiora
3YO Stakes (2000m) after
his unplaced run in the
Gr.1 New Zealand Pacing
Derby (2600m) a week
prior.
“Pace N Pride didn’t
get much of a run in the
Derby,” Cullen said. “He
did look the class horse in
the field (on Sunday).
“He is a nice horse
and he will keep ticking
away until the Jewels,
that’s about all there is for
him.”
– Harness News Desk
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25. Abandons (7)
27. Athlete (6)
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32. Minor illness (7)
33. Harsh (6)
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Suzuki’s cult car also one of the
THERE HAVE been plenty of
cars over the years that have
developed a cult following – some
that are simply alluring through
their design or shape.
Suzuki’s Jimny is one of those
cars, I’ve seen a lot on our roads
and, judging by the tidy look
of most of them, they’ve never
utilised the functions that make it
one of the best off-road vehicles
in the market.
The popular Jimny has
been around for years and the
technology underneath hasn’t
changed, but it now has a new
body shell, it is upright, squareedged
and somewhat blunt. That
may sound like a design disaster,
but it’s not, the shape works well
and, as I’ve alluded to, it is finding
favour with a wide cross-section
of the market.
My son likens the new Jimny
to a small Mercedes-Benz
G-Wagon; and it is small, the
Jimny is under 3.5m and is
extremely compact, it is short and
narrow and has just three doors.
It’s just a four-seater only, if you
want to carry luggage you’d need
to treat the Jimny as a two-seater
because the rear seats would need
to be folded forward to carry a
suitcase or two.
That aside, the mini-SUV
Jimny has style and purpose,
and its function is to take you
places that normal sport utility
vehicles wouldn’t be able to go. To
make this possible it has a ladder
chassis and driver-selectable fourwheel-drive
with genuine low
ratio gearing.
A short wheelbase and high
ground clearance (195mm)
means it is the perfect off-roader
if you are prepared to sacrifice a
few luxuries that make the SUVs
of today the vehicle of choice for
many.
However, if you add in the
positives such as economy and
off-road performance, it doesn’t
surprise me that it has been
capturing a wide cross-section
of buyers since it was first
marketed in 1968, the concept
and mechanical design is pretty
much unchanged.
The Jimny is also a value-formoney
model. It lists at $26,990
for a JX manual. The evaluation
car was what Suzuki label Sierra,
SUZUKI JIMNY SIERRA: Two seats lurk behind the rear door, if you want cargo space they
need to be folded forward.
it gets a few extra goodies such as
touch screen, satellite navigation
and Apple Car Play and Android
Auto connectivity. The Sierra
sits at $29,990, with automatic
transmission adding $1000, twotone
paints also adds an extra
$510.
Other features across the
range include central locking,
single-zone air conditioning,
power windows, comprehensive
air bag system, traction control,
hill descent control and cruise
control. Many of these are
described as safety systems
that also include other
electronic functions to keep
you out of trouble in the first
instance.
The four-wheel-drive system
is manipulated by a floormounted
lever, 4WD high range
can be initiated at speeds of up
to 100km/h, for low range the
vehicle has to be stationary.
I took the evaluation car
off-road for a lengthy jaunt on
some uneven shingle tracks near
the Waimakariri River. I can
report that it is in its element in
low range, undulations can be
tackled with much confidence,
the ratios are so low that inertia
is held and kept easily to a crawl
speed.
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alloy wheels and Swift badged
body side mouldings.
Building on a much-admired
body styling the SR3 is likely to
create more attention while still
offering fuel economy benefits
and low emissions.
A wraparound windscreen,
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have been endorsed by car buyers.
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a balance between performance
and economy.
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$22,600 and the CVT is $24,990.
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The suspension incorporates
live beam axles front and rear,
one of the few cars in today’s
market that has such a
driveline.
Live axles promote high
articulation and the ability to put
power-to-ground, especially in
low ratio where gearing provides
the opportunity for slow speed
rough ground travel.
Even in manual form the Jimny
is easy to drive, clutch action
is light and progressive, while
the gearshift (five-speed) slots
easily from cog to cog. It’s always
refreshing to get back into a
manual and the Jimny is rather
delightful with its informative
driving feel.
Under the bonnet is a
naturally-aspirated 1.5-litre, twincamshaft,
16-valve engine that
sits longitudinally. It is both lively
and torquey, easily filling the gaps
between gears and hauling from
almost stall speeds, short shifting
is something I do regularly and
the Jimny has strong engine
response.
In terms of economy Suzuki
claims a 7.1-litre per 100km
combined cycle average
(7.4l/100m automatic). During
my time with the Jimny the
average readout was constantly
listing around 8l/100km with
an instantaneous reading of
5l/100km sitting at 100km/h, the
engine working over quite busy at
3000rpm.
COMPACT: The Jimny looks aggressive with its chunky styling. Bull bar is an optional
extra.
It also rated with 75kW and
130Nm power outputs, while
they are not overly spectacular,
they are more than capable of
shifting the lightweight of the
vehicle at just over 1100kg. Even
though acceleration is not part of
the Jimny’s design concept, it will
reach 100km/h in 12.5sec.
On the open road the Jimny
imparts a respectable ride,
road ripples are dealt to almost
without notice, while the spring
and dampers do a respectable job
given they are locating those live
axles.
On-road handling is
characterised by a gentle push
up front, there’s also a feel that
oversteer could be initiated if
the engine is asked to work hard
in a corner, however, one of the
benefits of modern electronics is
the inclusion of traction control,
any wayward behaviour would be
quickly arrested.
I must make special mention of
• Price – Suzuki Jimny
Sierra, $29,990
• Dimensions – Length,
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• Configuration – Fourcylinder,
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manual
• Performance –
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• Fuel usage – 6.4l/100km
the Bridgestone Dueler
tyres (255/55 x 17in), they are
much the same type fitted across
many of the SUVs in today’s
market and they have grippy
properties on all surfaces, plus
they are extremely quiet on
coarse chip seal.
Tough, rugged, yet civilised
are descriptions not often found
all in one vehicle, yet the Jimny
offers all of these ingredients and,
for that reason, it is one rather
remarkable vehicle.
It also adds that element
of surprise, its cheeky, funky
looks hide a formidable off-road
challenger. I hope those who
do buy it for its trend-setting
design will also get to experience
its prowess. It would seem just a
waste of technology otherwise.
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Literacy, Language and Numeracy – reading, writing,
maths, English language
Learner Licence – help to learn the road code for your
learner licence (no driving lessons)
Computer – introduction to using computers
Work Readiness – writing a cover letter,
CV, interviewing
Reid TouRS
Waipapa Station
Sat 24th April, $45
Call Reid Tours 0800 446 886
Email: reidtours@xtra.co.nz www.reidtours.com
Learners need to be over 16, and
a citizen or permanent resident
Call us to enquire: 337 5555
or 022 111 0206, or drop in
at 22 Cholmondeley Ave
(Risingholme), Opawa
Tours
ReId TouRs
Hokianga Cape Reinga
Bay of Islands
9 days - Departs 15th May
$2250 pp including flights
Chatham Island
2nd to 9th November
Call Reid Tours 0800 446 886
Email: reidtours@xtra.co.nz www.reidtours.com
Trades & Services
Professional
Garden Services
• Regular garden
maintenance
• Pruning, spraying,
weeding, mowing
• Planting solutions
• Garden makeovers
Qualified with 40 years
experience
Phone Richard
027 4918 234
03 349 4022
Trades & Services
House & Garden
Property services Ltd
Tree and hedge trimming
Stump grinding
Tree removal
Gardening
Landscaping
CALL us 021 405 277
Landscaping
driveways, paths,
patios, decking,
irrigation & lawns
Fence staining
FREE QUOTES
LBp BuiLdErs
pHOnE jOHn:
027 224 2831
Trades & Services
EXPERIENCED
GARDENER
(Kevin Garnett)
30 Years
Christchurch Botanic
Gardens.
ALL landscape
work done.
Maintenance, pruning,
tidy up, lawn work,
landscape planning
and planting etc.
Free Quotes
Phone 348 3482
“I WILL TURN UP
WHEN I SAY I WILL”
Need a certified and reliable plumber for filtration
systems or hot water cylinder replacement?
Bathroom upgrades or refurbishments?
FREE CALL
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• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi
DIRTY TILES
& GROUT?
Our unique restoration
processes will make your
tiled areas look NEW again!
We specialise in professional
cost effective solutions for
all your tile & grout issues.
• Tiled shower makeovers
• Re-colouring old grout
• Mouldy silicone replacement
• Professional tile/grout
cleaning, sealing & repairs
NICK@NICKJONESPLUMBING.CO.NZ
Trades & Services
Call today for a FREE quote on 0800 882 772
www.theprogroup.co.nz/dpc9385
Trades & Services
PAINTING
older painter
for older houses
50 years in trade
“All the skills”
GST FREE
Contact Jimmy Bell
0211221487
30 years + experience
Older house
restorations:
no problem!
Quotes: FREE!
Rates: Reasonable
Paint supplied at
trade price!
NO JOB TOO SMALL
Light industrial also
Roger Brott
Painter & Decorator
021-1966-311
House & Garden
Property services Ltd
Tree and hedge trimming
Stump grinding
Tree removal
Gardening
Landscaping
CALL us 021 405 277
Trades & Services
ROOF
PAINTING 24/7
Rope & harness
a speciality,
no scaffolding
required,
30 years of
breathtaking
experience.
FREE QUOTES
20% OFF other
roof quotes
Exterior staining,
exterior painting,
water blasting.
Moss and mould
treatment $300.
Phone Kevin
027 561 4629
rooF
painting
by Certified Tradesman
Book now
and receive
20% discount.
Rope and harness
a speciality.
No scaffolding
required.
30 years
experience.
Free quotes,
call Craig
021 060 2392
Trades & Services
AAA HANDYMAN
licensed carpenter
LBP, all property and
building maintenance,
repairs, bathroom/shower
installations, with free
quotes 03 383 1927 or 027
245 5226 ciey@xtra.co.nz
AA SHOWER
CLEANING
Deep clean, soap scum,
water stains, mineral
deposits . Comp prices.
Gold card disc. Ph 021 022
824 85
ARBORIST
Qualified. Copper
Beech Tree Services.
Tree removal, pruning,
height reduction, hedge
trimming, shaping, tree
planting, firewood. Free
quote. Contact Angus
Edwards 027 259 6741
copperbeechtreeservices@
gmail.com
Trades & Services
BRICK & BLOCK
LAYING
all restoration work
and new work plus
foundations, ph 342 9340
or 021 853 033
BUILDER QUALIfIED
50 yrs exp. Bathrooms,
Kitchens, Renovations,
Repairs & Extensions
Free quotes. Discount for
pensioners. Ph Mike 03
980 9771 or 027 2266 930
BUILDER QUALIfIED
Decks, T & G Flooring,
Villa Restoring, New
Homes, Weatherboards.
Free Quotes. Bennet &
Sons Ltd Sam 027 496-
9362 or Tony 027 224-
0374
BUILDER,
HANDYMAN,
MAINTENANCE
Have peace of mind with
a fully qualified owner
operater LBP. Available
for all jobs around the
home, commercial or
rental property (extremely
experienced in Healthy
Homes Reporting and
all Remedial works) Call
Chris on 027 3888 211
BUILDER
New builds, alterations,
decks, fencing. 30 yrs in
the trade has given me
ability to build to a high
standard. Free quotes.
Ph Brent 027 241 7471
BUILDER
New builds, alterations,
decks, fencing. 30 yrs in
the trade has given me
ability to build to a high
standard. Free quotes. Ph
Brent 027 241 7471
CARPET LAYING
Exp. Repairs, uplifting,
relaying, restretching.
Phone John on 0800
003181, 027 240 7416
jflattery@xtra.co.nz
CARPENTER
BUILDER
Licensed Building
Practitioner no. 100981.
All carpentry & building
repairs & maintenance.
Alterations & property
upgrades.Laundries /
bathroom / kitchens
replaced. Specialising in
replacement of all rotten
timber, fascia boards,
window, windowsills etc.
John Sandford, ph 329
4616, mob 027 5189 598
johnsandford2@gmail.
com
CLEANING SERVICE
Home - Rentals -Home
Help. Competitive rates.
Ph Amanda 0274 761 602
COMPUTER REPAIRS
fAST
Friendly experienced
techs available to help you
now. Christchurch based.
All work guaranteed.
Computer Help 0800 349
669
CONCRETE CUTTING
Affordable Concrete
Cutting with Quality, and
removal work. Free quote.
No job to small. Phone 027
442-2219, Fax 359-6052
a/h 359- 4605
ELECTRICIAN
Registered, electrical
installation and repairs,
Gorbie Electrical, ph 021
026 73375 or 03 322 4209
ELECTRICIAN
Available, 30 years
experience,
start, competitive rate,
ph Brian 027 433 9548
No Call out fee
immediate
Trades & Services
ELECTRICIAN
All types of domestic
& commercial work
undertaken, new housing,
alterations, extensions,
ranges, security lights,
quick response, efficient
service, free quotes,
city -wide. No call out
fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat
Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027
7331384.
ELECTRICIAN
Prompt & reliable
registered electrician
with 24 years experience
for all residential and
commercial work, new
housing and switch board
replacements. Phone Chris
027 516 0669
fENCING
All types of fencing . Free
quotes. Ph Jim 022 137
1920
GASfITTING
N.T. Gas Services.
Domestic gas installations.
Reg Craftsman Gas Fitter.
Ph Nick 021 892 491
GLAZIER
Glass repairs - pet doors
- conservatory roofs. Exp
Tradesman. Call Bill on
022 413 3504 or 981-1903
HANDY - DAN
General Handyman for
all your maintenance
requirements. I specialise
in fences and decking, also
do spouting cleans and
repairs and everyday home
maintenance. NO JOB TO
BIG OR SMALL I can do
it all, please don’t hesitate
to call me on 022 600 7738
for a no obligation free
quote.
HANDYMAN
Small jobs specialists. eg:
drippy taps, sticky doors,
locks, moss spraying etc.
Discount for pensioners.
Ph 390 1565 or 022 5275
668 @oddjobs2018
HANDYMAN
For all those odd jobs. Ph
027 294 1508
HOME CLEANING
SERVICES
Regular Weekly or
Fortnightly. Ring Vivien
at 03 365 8422 for free
quotation
MOBILE CAR
CLEANING SERVICES
We come to you where
ever you are. Ring us
at 03 281 8054 for free
quotation.
PAINTER,QUALIfIED
local professional, Int /
Ext,roofs,wallpaper, call
or text Corban 027 846
5035
Trades & Services
Trades & Services
PAINTING
Indoor / Outdoor, over 30
yrs exp, same day quotes,
ph Steve 021 255 7968
PAINTING
All jobs, none too small.
Free quotes Affordable
rates. Seniors discounts.
James 0220 652 637
PAINTING
PLASTERING
Free quotes. Int/ext &
roof painting Family run
business, work guaranteed.
Pensioner discounts. Ph
Kerin or Paul 022 191
7877 or 379-1281. Website
www.swedekiwipainting.
co.nz
PLASTER MASONRY
PAINTING, TILING,
WALLPAPERING
Roofing & Brick Repairs,
Stucco, Fixing, Stopping,
Cracks & Holes. Small
jobs ok. Property Repairs
.30 yrs exp. Gary 3428950
/ 021 529 022
PLASTERER
Phone Finn for all your
interior plastering needs.
No job too small -
renovations, alterations,
holes & cracks. Free
quotes. I’ll beat any quote
by 10% .25 yrs exp. Canty
born. Ph 022 087 4351
PLASTERING (INT)
and small painting jobs
Experience and
Excellence. Small to
Medium job specialists
in all aspects of Interior
Plastering. Please call Tim
022 5380959
PLASTERER
Available for Mid to Small
jobs. Ph 022 430 0277
.Free quotes.
REMOVALS
Small furniture removals,
have own van, can fit
various types of whiteware
appliances, some furn,
bedding, boxes etc, honest
& reliable, any area
considered, ph Chch 027
517 7001
ROOfING SERVICES
Metal roofing & spouting.
Butyl rubber and flat
rooves. Repairs, reroof
and new build. 25 yrs
experience.NZ Cert
and LBP qualified. Free
quotes. Call Elliot 332-
9662 / 027 237 9431
RUBBISH REMOVAL
Van & Trailer Rubbish
Removal. Free quotes. Ph
Gary 342-8950, 021 529
022
RUBBISH REMOVAL
Van & Trailer Rubbish
Removal. Free quotes. Ph
Gary 342-8950, 021 529
022
Re Roofing
Roof Repairs
Spouting
Approved Age Concern provider
Over 30 years experience
Licensed Building Practitioner
N A BARRELL
ROOFING LTD
Ph: 0275 389 415
Email: nabroofing@xtra.co.nz

38 The Star Thursday April 22 2021
Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED
Trades & Professional Services
To advertise: Phone 379 1100 or email star.class@starmedia.kiwi
Trades & Services
DECORATORS
PLUMBER
NEED A PLUMBER
Call us now for fast friendly service.
Get your problems sorted out
quick smart - on time!!
Phone for a
FREE
quote now.
New Paint • Repaints
Wallpapering • Fences
Feature Walls
Floor & Roof Painting
Spray Painting
Light Commercial
Restoring Timber
* Finance available (T’s & C’s apply)
Selwyn based but service the whole of Canterbury
www.andertondecorators.co.nz
www.facebook.com/andertondecorators
027 724 6846 027 PAINTIN
ELECTRICIAN
Contact for a free quote
phone 027 331 0400
davewsimpson@windowslive.com
Experienced Domestic Electrician
Quality Workmanship
• New Build
• Renovations
• Fault finding
• Power
• Lighting
• Switchboards
Phone 03 377 1280 | Mobile 021 898 380
TREE SERVICES
CRAIGS
TREES
Our services include:
Tree felling
Branch chipping
Trimming and pruning
Crown reduction
Stump grinding
P: 027 2299 454
E: craigstrees@xtra.co.nz
www.craigstrees.co.nz
Fully insured
DRIVEWAYS
Exposed Aggregate
Stamped Concrete Plain
Concrete Resurfacing
Things we offer...
Competitive/affordable pricing
Attention to detail
Professional service
free quotes/insurance scopes
Cell 0278 145 848
www.drivecrete.co.nz
landscaping
Landscape
Construction and
Garden Maintenance
You can have your gardens, trees,
shrubs, plants and lawns maintained to look their best
all year round, for a great price.
Residential & Commercial Landscaping
• Maintenance • Pruning • Reconstruction & Rejuvenation
• Rental Property and Commercial Maintenance
• Pre-Sale Tidy-Ups
New Home Landscaping
Lawns • Gardens • Decks • Paving • Water Features
• Quality • Value for money • Experienced • Punctual
• Professional • Flexible • Knowledgeable • Reliable
Call Ross Legg - 027 222 0388
Email ross@revivelandscaping.co.nz
www.revivelandscaping.co.nz
ROOF REPAIRS
Locally owned & operated with
over 30 years experience.
• Extensions & repair • Roof coating
• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol
• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified
• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering
Phone Dave 981 0278
or 021 223 4200
E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz
BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD
Towing
For safe, damage free
car transportation
call Ashley’s Tow Taxi
Special care for special cars
ASHLEY’S TOW TAXI
Breakdown & Relocation
0800 TOW TAXI • 0800 869 8294
Driveways
SWAINS
KIWI KERB
(Since 2005)
Over 22 Years Experience
Quality
Workmanship
• Driveways
• Kerb &
Channel
• Garden Edging
Freephone: 0800 081 400
swainskiwikerb@gmail.com
Mailer Deliveries
For a local, reliable
mailer delivery
service contact
Star Media
• Newspaper inserts
• Magazine inserts
• Letterbox deliveries
• Urban & Rural deliveries
For a cost effective, targeted
delivery please call 03 379 7100
or email mike@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi
SCRAP METAL
Dominion Trading Co Ltd
• Scrap metal buyers
• Canterbury owned & operated
• Top prices paid $$$
• Open Saturday morning
Open Mon-Fri 8am – 4.30pm Sat. 8.30am-12.30pm
www.happyscrappy.co.nz
03 343 9993 333 Blenheim Rd
WINDOW TINTING
tintawindow
advanced film solutions
99% uv block
fade protection
heat control
reduce glare
25 Years Experience
privacy films
frosting designs
non-darkening films
Workmanship Guaranteed
Lifetime Warranties on Most Films
UV
block
Free Quotes Canterbury and Districts
03 365 3653 0800 368 468
Need it?
Rent it!
No Bond
Free Delivery
Free Repair
Great Student Deals
Canterbury Owned & Operated
Free Call Now:
0800 717 000
Trades & Services
SPOUTING
Select Spouting
The PVC specialist.
Repairs & replacement. Ph
022 197 2351
SPOUTING CLEANING
SPECIALIST
Entire spouting system
cleared. Single or 2 storey.
Jo 021 164 0365
SPOUTING
CLEANING
Spouting Unblocked,
Cleaned Out and Flushed
Out, Call Trevor 332 8949
or 021 043 2034
STUMP GRINDING
Best price guarantee Tony
0275 588 895
TREE SERVICES
Free quotes 20+ yrs exp.
Tree, hedge or shrub
- reduction, shaped or
removed. Ph/text Paul
The Branch Manager
0274314720
TREE SERVICES
Hedges, shrubs, tree
trimming & removal,
rubbish removal, Ph for
free quotes 022 540 4900
WINDOW CLEANING
Average 3 brm house
inside or out from $45.
Both from $80 Phone
Trevor 344-2170
WINDOW CLEANING
Brown & White Ltd.
Family owned since 2001.
Ph Paul 027 229 3534
Tuition
COMPUTER LESSONS
avail for computer, IPad,
or Mobile. Please contact
Jobee 027 290 9246 www.
computertutor.nz
ADD SOME
COLOUR
TO YOUR ADVERT!
Wanted To Buy
WANTED
SLEEPOUTS
Sleepouts Galore
Buyers and sellers of
relocatable buildings
11 Brixton Street, Hornby
Phone: 349 9633
Or Apply Online:
www.a4r.co.nz
Wanted To Buy
STEVE PURCELL
ANTIQUES
BUYING
NOW
Gold jewellery,
watches, coins,
medals, scrap
gold, sterling
silver, pewter,
original paintings,
modern art.
351 9139
stevepurcellantiques.com
Wanted To Buy
fridge freezers. Same day
service. Selwyn Dealers.
Phone 980 5812 or 027
A1 Albums, old photo’s,
AAA Buying goods
quality furniture, beds,
stoves, washing machines,
313 8156
postcards, coins, gold,
bank notes, badges,
Antiques, 194 Edgeware
Buying estates, antiques,
free appraisal. Call Rob
fridges, freezers, washing
cash paid. Ph Paul 022
ALL whiteware wanted.
Same day service, cash
paid for freezes, fridges,
washing machines, ovens.
Also buying furniture &
medals, jewellery,
watches, china, crystal,
books, furs, vintage
clothing, paintings,
furniture, estates &
downsizing. Etcetera
Rd 385 5117
ACADEMY ANTIQUES
old china, crystal, art,
Royal Doulton , Royal
Albert etc. Best prices,
349-4229
A+ Household effects,
machines, ovens. Good
0891 671
h/hold effects.Anything
considered. Ph Dave 960-
8440, 027 66 22 116
A records and Hi-
Fi gear wanted.
Pennylane Sydenham.
7 days. Ph 366-3278
A records and Hi-Fi
gear wanted. Pennylane
Sydenham. 7 days. Ph
366-3278
TOOLS, Garden garage,
MILITARIA Any
country, firearms,
uniforms, badges, medals,
memoribilia, WW2 or
earlier ph 338-9931
saw benches, Lathes. Cash
buyer Phone 355-2045

The Star Classifieds
Situations Vacant
CLEANERS
REQUIRED
Christchurch Area
Monday to Friday
3pm-6pm
(Relieving work in schools)
We are looking for cleaners
to join our commercial
cleaning team.
You will need to pass a
Security Check and you
MUST have your
own transport.
Must be eligible to work
in New Zealand.
Please email your
Application to
csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz
or phone 338 9056
Visit our website:
totalcanterbury.co.nz
Please advise which job
when emailing your CV.
Situations Vacant
CLEANERS
REQUIRED
Northwood /
Belfast Area
Saturday & Sunday
7.30am - 10.30am
Shirley Area
Monday to Friday
3pm - 6pm
City Area
Monday to Friday
6pm - 9pm
We are looking for cleaners
to join our commercial
cleaning team.
You will need to pass a
Security Check and you
MUST have your
own transport.
Must be eligible to work
in New Zealand.
Please email your
Application to
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or phone 338 9056
Visit our website:
totalcanterbury.co.nz
Please advise which job
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Casual Sub Editor
Star Media, a division of Allied Press Limited, based in
Christchurch, is seeking a casual sub editor.
The successful applicant will need to be competent with
InDesign and ideally have worked in a newsroom or
subbed for newspaper publications.
The role encompasses copy subbing and layout.
Please email your CV to Editor in Chief, Barry Clarke at
barry@starmedia.kiwi or contact him on 021 359-426 to
discuss. The position will be filled when the successful
candidate is found.
Please note you must have the right to work in
New Zealand to apply for this role.
Allied Press is unable to provide sponsorship or visa support at
this time. We are not accepting agency resumes at this time.
Allied Press does not accept unsolicited agency resumes.
Vehicles Wanted
Situations Vacant
Reporter - Christchurch
• Great media opportunity
• Be part of an award winning team
• A media company which is growing its reach
Who we are
Allied Press Limited employs over 450 people on a permanent basis
across our 15 sites in the South Island. We operate across multiple
media platforms (print, on-line, digital) delivering news, information and
entertainment through our various regional and city publications, including
Christchurch-based Star Media.
The role
We are seeking a newcomer to journalism or someone who is looking to
take the next step in their career.
Reporting to the editor, the main purpose of the position is to file
community-based news, sport and people articles for both print
publications and online platforms.
Your skills and experience
We are looking for a journalist who has already displayed the qualities
and drive to become a topline journalist. In addition to your interest in
equity and diversity you will demonstrate:
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• A competitive nature
• An eye for detail
• Accuracy
Further details
This is a full time, permanent position.
We can offer you a great team environment, professional development
opportunities and an opportunity to grow.
If you think this role is for you, please apply by way of CV and a
covering letter to barry@starmedia.kiwi. Informal inquiries about the
role are welcome and should be directed to Editor in Chief Barry
Clarke 021 359-426.
All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Please note you must have the right to work in New Zealand to
apply for this role.
Disclaimer: Allied Press does not accept unsolicited agency resumes.
Allied Press is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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We use world class vehicle depollution systems
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Situations Vacant
ONLINE SALES
PART TIME
Looking for online sales
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Public Notices
Christchurch
Bridge Club
Public Notices
TAI CHI QIGONG...
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exercise in ways that
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do less, let go of tension
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new term begins after
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Rose 027 438 8364
Do you enjoy cards, like challenges
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….then discover Bridge with the
Christchurch Bridge Club.
11 FREE Beginner
Bridge Lessons
Wed 5 th May at 7.30pm
Phone: 366-1516
21 Nova Place, Christchurch
Email: office@chchbridge.co.nz
www.chchbridge.co.nz
Situations Vacant
EDITOR – Ashburton Courier
The Ashburton Courier is a weekly
community newspaper delivered to more
than 16,000 homes across Mid Canterbury
and the surrounding rural areas.
The Ashburton Courier is the largest
circulating and best read newspaper within
the Mid Canterbury area.
This is an exciting opportunity and provides
the successful applicant the ability to help
shape and connect the community we
serve.
You will be responsible for our newspaper
layout, leading the news team, writing
stories and co-ordinating news gathering for
the Ashburton Courier.
The successful applicant will be selfmotivated,
tenacious and have a passion for
news and building relationships within our
local community.
Ability to find local stories, juggle tasks, meet
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Public Notices
NOTICE OF
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
THE CHRISTCHURCH
HIGH SCHOOL OLD BOYS’
ASSOCIATION (INC.)
Registered Office: C/- C.B.H.S., Straven Road, Christchurch
Notice is hereby given the 109th Annual General
meeting of the Association will be held in the
Big Room at School on
Monday 3rd May 2021 at 7.30pm.
Authorised by the HSOB Secretary C J Carthy
Email secretary@oldboys.cbhs.school.nz
enquires@altiorapeto.org
All past pupils are automatically now full
members of the association.
Senior Citizens
Outings
with Companion Driving Service Ltd
Thu 20 May - TRANZ ALPINE EXPERIENCE
Free pickup from your home - deliver you to the
Rail Station - travel to Greymouth on Tranz Alpine
Express where we will meet you then travel to
Punakaiki - return to Greymouth - dinner and
overnight in Greymouth.
Next morning visit Hokitika then return to
Christchurch with home drop off.
Our price of $489.00 includes train fare
- evening meal - full breakfast
- your own room (no sharing)
- your own tour guide will accompany you.
Walking sticks & walkers welcome.
Phone Peter on 0800 453 873
Allied Press Ltd is seeking an experienced journalist ready
to take the next step in their career, as
Editor for the Ashburton Courier.
deadlines and write engaging, accurate
copy is essential. You will have an eye for
photography. Video and website skills are
desirable.
It is essential that you have a full driver’s
licence. Given the nature of the role,
occasional evenings and weekend work may
be required.
All applications will be treated in the strictest
confidence.
Our well respected local title is owned
by Allied Press, the largest independent
publisher in New Zealand.
Please note that you must have the right to
live and work in New Zealand to apply for
this role.
If this sounds like an exciting opportunity
for you, please send your CV with a
covering letter to steve@starmedia.kiwi
or feel free to call me on 021 372 479

40 The Star Thursday April 22 2021
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May 2021 Christchurch City
Council Meetings
22 Apr 2021
The next meetings of the Christchurch City Council, Community
Boards, Council Hearings Panels and Subcommittees with
delegated authority will be held as follows:
Where stated, the Civic Offices are located at 53 Hereford Street.
Council
Date Time Venue
13 9.30am Council Chambers, Civic Offices
Committees of the Whole
Date Time Committee and Venue
27 9:30am Finance and Performance Committee,
Council Chambers, Civic Offices
Committees
Date Time Committee and Venue
4 2pm Selwyn-Waihora Water Management Zone
Committee, Tai Tapu Community Centre,
722 Old Tai Tapu Road (located within
Rhodes Park)
14 9am Greater Christchurch Partnership
Committee, Council Chambers, Environment
Canterbury, 200 Tuam Street
18 4pm Banks Peninsula Water Management Zone
Committee, Lyttelton Mt Herbert Community
Facility, 25 Canterbury Street, Lyttelton
27 6pm Christchurch West Melton Water
Management Zone Committee, TBC
Long Term Plan Hearings Panel
Date Time Venue
5 2pm Council Chambers, Civic Offices
Community Boards
Date Time Board and Venue
3 10am Banks Peninsula Community Board, Little
River Board Room, 4238 Christchurch-Akaroa
Road, Little River
17 Lyttelton Community Boardroom,
25 Canterbury St, Lyttelton
3 4.30pm Coastal-Burwood Community Board,
17 Boardroom, Cnr Beresford and Union
31 Streets, New Brighton
3 4:30pm Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood Community
17 Board, Boardroom, Fendalton Service
31 Centre, Cnr Jeffreys and Clyde Roads,
Fendalton
4 5pm Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community
18 Board, Horoeka Room, Rārākau: Riccarton
Centre, 199 Clarence Street, Riccarton
4 5pm Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board,
19 8am Boardroom, Beckenham Service Centre,
66 Colombo Street, Beckenham
7 9am Papanui-Innes Community Board,
21 Boardroom, Papanui Service Centre, Cnr
Langdons Road and Restell Street, Papanui
12 4:30pm Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community
Board, Linwood Boardroom, 180 Smith
Street, Woolston
Community Board Committees
Date Time Committee and Venue
3 7pm Lyttelton Reserves Management Committee,
Lyttelton Community Boardroom,
25 Canterbury Street, Lyttelton
11 5:30pm Garden of Tane Reserve Management
Committee, Coronation Library, 103 Rue
Jolie, Akaroa
17 5:30pm Duvauchelle Reserve Management
Committee, Duvauchelle Community Centre,
6039 Christchurch-Akaroa Road, Duvauchelle
17 6pm Lyttelton Recreation Ground Reserve
Management Committee, Lyttelton
Community Boardroom, 25 Canterbury
Street, Lyttelton
17 7:30pm Diamond Harbour Reserve Management
Committee, Committee Room, Diamond
Harbour Community Centre, Waipapa
Avenue, Diamond Harbour
19 7pm Allandale Reserve Management Committee,
Ōtoromiro Hotel, 52 Main Road, Governors
Bay
Copies of the agendas will be available online and to the public
at the meetings.
Members of the public are welcome to attend any of these
meetings.
To make a deputation or presentation to a Community Board,
Committee or Council meeting ring the call centre on
(03) 941 8999 or email info@ccc.govt.nz.
Information about Alcohol Licensing can be found online
at ccc.govt.nz/alcohol
Megan Pearce
Hearings and Council Support
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Contact Lisa on 021 800 809
The Anzac Fronds, originally
installed on Anzac Bridge, will sit
in the reserve on a corner of the
The four, freestanding frond
stands, featuring the fronds which
were originally on the bridge light
poles, are expected to be installed
In a precautionary step, workers
removed the origina long art
pieces from the bridge following
the 2010-11 earthquakes.
Coastal-Burwood Community
Board chairman Kelly Barber said
the artwork marks an important
“To many, the fronds symbolise
Aotearoa New Zealand and subtly
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Kicking off a big league career
New-look
fronds to
return to
Anzac Drive
THE POPPIES a the Anzac
Drive/New Brighton Rd
intersection will soon be joined by
some familiar fronds.
Repurposed to honour the
Anzac story, the new-look fronds
a the intersection will align with
the Poppies over Gallipoli sculpture
on the corner of Anzac Drive
and Travis Rd.
roundabout after being organised
into new forms.
in their concrete bases by the end
of June.
The fronds, made of pre-weathered
steel, have been in storage for
several years.
ON THE CHARGE: There was no stopping Te Waka Unua captain Eru Tito during his side’s 3-0
win over Rolleston Primary in the final of the annual year 5 and 6 Canterbury primary schools
rugby league tournament at South Hagley Park last week. •More photos, page 7
period for residents.
Our long weekend deals
Eastern Eagles rugby league club has their home
ground at Wainoni Park, Hampshire, street.
We have Nursery to Premier & Womens teams.
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Thursday April 22 2021 The Star 41
at Hornby Club
LIVE!
SUPER RUGBY &
BLACK CAPS CRICKET
LIVE MUSIC
IN THE PAVILION
Saturday 7pm:
CHUR BRO
Sunday 3pm:
PETER CAIRNS
17 CARMEN RD. PH. 03 349 9026
WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ
christchurch
GIG GUIDE
Thursday 22 to Wednesday 28 April 2021
12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Christchurch’s
smoking hot BLUES BAR. Thursday 7.30pm - Kate
Anastasiou. Friday 8pm - Nexus Unplugged.
Saturday 8pm - Pagan Pub Night feat. Coven of the
Sacred Stars. Sunday 4pm - Quiz. Wednesday 7pm
- Musos' Jam Night.
A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St:
Thursday 7.30pm - CWB (Cathcart Walsh Blaikie),
free; 9.30pm - Latin Dance Revolucion with DJ Zee,
free. Friday 5.30pm - Clube do Chor's Brazilian
Session; 8.30pm - Eat My Shorts (10 piece
funksters). Saturday 3pm - Would Session retro
music, free; 8.30pm - Now & Zen (covers) feat.
Th'Dudes drummer Bruce Hambling, free. Sunday
5pm - Malarkey (Irish), free. Monday 7pm - Quiz.
Tuesday 8pm - Thy Kingdom Comedy weekly
stand-up comedy night, free. Wednesday 7pm -
Open Mic free.
BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday 7pm -
Mickey Rat's Karaoke. Saturday 7pm - Fire & Ice.
Sunday 7pm - Mickey Rat's Karaoke.
BOO RADLEYS, Level 1, 98 Victoria St:
Thursday 9pm - Live music. Friday 8pm - Holly
Kimber; 10.30pm - VOXY Duo. Saturday 8pm -
Neil Alexander; 10.30pm - In the City. Wednesday
7.30pm - South Street Blues Trio; 9.30pm - Open
Mic Night.
BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO, 401 Worcester St:
Saturday 6.30pm - Karaoke. Sunday 4pm - Bingo.
CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, Garlands Rd:
Saturday 6.30pm - Wahine Toa, tickets at
undertheradar.co.nz
CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, 30 Victoria St:
Friday 6pm - Lonesome Sue. 9.15pm - Acoustic
Solution. Saturday 6pm - Natalie Elms; 9.15pm -
Reckless; 10pm - DJ Steve. Sunday 7pm - Absolut.
HORNBY CLUB, Carmen Rd: Saturday 7pm -
Chur Bro. Sunday 3pm - Peter Cairns.
To add a listing, contact
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or
027 458 8590
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi/whatson
KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay: SOLD OUT
Saturday 8pm - DnD Showband presents Two
Tribute Shows in One feat. Fleetwood Mac &
ABBA. SOLD OUT.
NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine Pde:
Friday 7pm - The Atarmies. Sunday 2.30pm - X-
Files Duo.
RICHMOND CLUB, 75 London St: Friday 7pm
- Lance Kiwi. Saturday 7pm - Unhinged. Sunday
10.30am - X.Files Duo.
RIVERSIDE MARKET, 98 Oxford Tce:
Thursday 6pm - Live jazz, $10 entry.
TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, Hornby: Friday
8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 8.30pm - Nightwatch.
THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: Thursday
9pm - Nexus. Friday 7.30pm - Open Mic & Jam.
Wednesday 9pm - Titanic (Kevin Emmett, Nick
Buchanan, and Peter K Malthus).
THE LOST SOCK, Good Times Comedy
Club, 224 St Asaph St: Thursday 11am, Friday
11am & 8pm (R18), Saturday 11am - The Tusk
Puppets present 'The Lost Sock' children's show.
Tickets at humanitix.com.
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd,
Addington: Friday 9.30pm - Awesome Source.
Saturday 9.30pm - Bite the Bullet. Sunday 6pm -
Lance Kiwi Karaoke. Tuesday 7pm - Quiz.
Wednesday 7.30pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke.
WOOLSTON CLUB, 143 Hargood St: Saturday
7pm - PAGE28.
WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19 London St,
Lyttelton: Thursday - Comedy with Guy
Montgomery. Friday - House with Josh & Tim.
Tuesday 8pm - Open Mic. Wednesday 8pm - Jam
Night.
Bridie's Bar & Bistro
401 Worcester St, Linwood
Ph: 03 260 0325
‘Famous for their roasts!’
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ
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Check out our extensive breakfast
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We are open from 6.30am
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Bookings Essential
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Kid’s 2 course
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The
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118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,
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WED: ROAST MEAL
THUR: FISH & CHIPS
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SUN: ROAST MEAL
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WHAT’S ON AT THE RICHMOND CLUB
FRIDAY 7PM
LANCE KIWI
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42 The Star Thursday April 22 2021
+ SUPER DEALS! NOW ON – ENDS 26.4.21.
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