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We shall remember them. These words echoed across the Bay Harbour News area as hundreds of people joined in
on Anzac Day commemoration services on Sunday. They came together to remember those who gave their lives in
service to New Zealand and to also reflect on the brave work of those who still serve today. The well-attended service
in Lyttelton (above) featured a parade of bagpipe players marching along London St. More than 800 people attended
the dawn service in Heathcote Valley. About 500 people then paraded to the Valley Inn Tavern where keen cooks
had been up since 4.30am preparing breakfast. Members of the Sumner Lifeboat and surf life saving clubs took part
in the services in Sumner. After Covid-19 meant last year’s services usual gatherings could not take place, the large
turn-outs this year showed the power of community spirit. • More photos, pages 4 & 5
Train speeds
to remain
at 40km/h
through
Heathcote
• By Samantha Mythen
HEATHCOTE residents have
successfully campaigned for train
speed limits through their valley
to remain the same.
A KiwiRail spokesperson told
Bay Harbour News the company
would be keeping the speed limit
for trains travelling through
Heathcote at 40km/h.
Said Heathcote Valley Community
Association chairman
Lewis Low: “This was the correct
decision and the right thing to do.
Everyone is really happy about this
decision.”
It was decided after KiwiRail
representatives Steve Pye and John
Gousmett met with the community
on March 15 to discuss a
proposed change of increasing the
speeds to 50km/h.
More than 60 people turned up
the meeting to share their
perspective on the issue.
Gousmett explained to the
group the increased speed would
actually reduce the amount of
noise as trains would no longer
have to increase power as they
approached Lyttelton tunnel.
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Storm hits Sumner businesses
• By Samantha Mythen
A PIZZERIA and a florist were
flooded after Saturday’s heavy
rain saw an overflow of water on
the streets of Sumner.
Fire & Slice manager Pal Singh
said as the water rose on the
streets outside the pizzeria on
Wakefield Ave, it also flowed
over the curb
and in through
the front door.
The water
covered the
entire floor of
the building,
Pal Singh
including the
dining area,
kitchen, pantry and stock chiller,
flowing all the way to the back
door.
It took seven hours to clean
up the water and sanitise the
restaurant once the flooding had
stopped.
Singh said the flooding was
disappointing as just two weeks
prior the road works through
Sumner Village had been completed.
Said Singh: “The building
had flooded in 2019 and after
the roadworks had finished we
thought this problem should be
fixed.”
A previous business in the
building – Stoked – had also
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these concerns with the city
council when the new street
design came out but their
concerns were not addressed.
The floor of Harakeke florist
and giftshop on Marriner St was
also flooded.
The Sumner Volunteer Fire
Brigade was called out at 9pm
to the village to provide help to
those affected by the flooding.
Deputy Chief Fire Officer,
Darren Wright, said city council
contractors also worked alongside
the fire brigade, digging
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Airbags prevented what
could have been a fatal
injury after a car crashed
into a power pole on
Scarborough Hill on
Saturday morning. The
power pole was knocked
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Vibrations of trains
concerning
•From page 1
He also said the trains were
currently burning more diesel
and this was counter-productive
to KiwiRail’s commitment to be
carbon neutral by 2050.
However, residents explained
their main concerns were about
the vibration caused by the trains,
not the speed. The faster a train
goes, the higher the vibrations.
Said Low: “This shows what
a community can achieve when
they work together.”
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sitting position with
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was still eating well and
looked relatively happy.
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Marlo has gone from
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and is improving daily
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KINDNESS: Webb spends hours creating unique murals in the sand; his
purpose - just to make people smile.
ANZAC DAY: Webb created this mural on Sunday to commemorate our
service people.
Sand mandalas at Sumner celebrate life
• By Samantha Mythen
SUMNER BEACH is being used
as a unique canvas.
Artist Wayne Webb has been
creating sand mandalas on the
beach, which has been attracting
a lot of interest.
On Anzac Day, people walking
along the promenade could see
a sand memorial for service
people.
Webb has made Sumner his
canvas before.
He has created sand sunflowers
and has shared inspiring
quotes, such as “Love life, you
only get 1,” and “Aspire to inspire
everyone.”
Webb’s why behind his artwork
is simple.
“It makes people smile,” he
said. “It costs nothing to be
kind.”
Making the artwork also helps
him to unwind and feel relaxed.
“I feel freedom and I can be
spontaneous. I get to go down
to the beach and just see what
happens.”
Webb started the sand
creations about a year ago
after he had noticed another
man creating sand art in New
Brighton.
As a long time supporter of
mental health organisation Hey
Bro - The Kiwi Brotherhood,
Webb approached the man and
asked if he would create a sand
mural for the group.
Webb said the man gave him
the confidence to try sand art out
himself, seeing it was possible
through helping out with the
Hey Bro mural.
He has now lost count of how
many sand murals he has made.
Webb often works at Sumner,
but he has also created art at
New Brighton, Taylors Mistake,
Akaroa and Okains Bay.
His favourite art work is in
MEMORIAL ART:
Webb’s favourite
creation he’s
made so far - a
memorial in
Okains Bay.
Okains Bay. It was a memorial
art work and featured a love
heart and a large eagle soaring
across the shore. He was approached
to do the art work by a
woman whose father had died.
Said Webb: “The ocean always
takes the art work back, it’s like a
cleansing.”
LOVE LIFE: Webb share’s
snippets of wisdom
through his creative sand
work.
Webb is currently working
towards a career in mental
health.
“The guys at Hey Bro helped
me save my life. I was depressed
and suicidal,” he said. “Suicide
prevention is what I’m chasing.”
Although the sand art takes
several hours to create, Webb
said if it makes just one person
smile, the effort is worth that
alone.
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Lower speed
limits likely for
Humphreys Drive
• By Samantha Mythen
THE SPEED limit along
Humphreys Drive in Ferrymead
could be reduced from 70km/h to
60km/h.
Linwood-Central-Heathcote
Community Board member
Darrell Latham said the city
council met with the board last
week and informed them of the
potential speed reduction pending
public consultation.
The city council told Bay
Harbour News the public will
be consulted on any proposed
changes to the speed limit next
month.
Latham has concerns about a
potential speed reduction.
“This route for many commuters
is an alternative and faster route
to town and other points. With
the redevelopment of the Central
Woolston area and the new speed
limit reductions along Ferry
Rd the alternative route along
Humphreys Drive provided a
quicker option.”
Latham believes it is vitally
important the public are consulted
about the proposed speed as
this will guide the city council’s
decision.
He has suggested drop-in
sessions for the consultation
process.
Ferrymead
• By Samantha Mythen
LOGGING OF Moepuku
Peninsula, between Governors
Bay and Charteris Bay, is
a permitted activity under
national forestry standards.
THis is what Environment
Canterbury has told concerned
Banks Peninsula residents
in response to their letters of
concern and legal opinion sent
to the organisation in March.
The Charteris Bay Residents’
Association, Diamond Harbour
Community Association,
Govenors Bay Residents’ Association,
and Church Bay Neighbourhood
Association have all
written to ECan on this issue.
ECan holds the logging is a
permitted activity both under
the National
Environmental
Standards for
Plantation
Forestry
Regulations
and the less
restrictive Land
and Water
Regional Plan.
Although, the residents’
lawyer, Hans der Wal, held in his
opinion that the logging should
not commence prior to resource
consents being obtained, ECan
zone delivery lead Gillian
Jenkins said: “We have assessed
our rules and consider that this
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ENGAGEMENT: ECan has advised it will meet with
community members to discuss their concerns on the
logging of Moepuku Peninsula.
activity is a permitted activity
under the NES-PF and therefore
does not require a resource
consent.”
ECan general counsel
Catherine Schache said the
organisation will be ensuring the
regulations are complied with.
However, Charteris Bay
Residents’ Association chairman
Mike Pearson said: “ECan
keep saying everything will
be fine and they will just keep
monitoring the situation.”
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ignoring our legal opinion.”
Pearson is meeting with the
other southern bays’ residents
associations in the coming week
to figure out their next plan.
Green Party MP Eugenie Sage
has also spoken out in support
of Banks Peninsula residents’
concerns about the upcoming
logging of Moepuku Peninsula.
In a letter sent to chairwoman
Jenny Hughey, Sage asked for
ECan’s active engagement to
ensure the potential negative
effects of the logging are
avoided.
She believes logging on that
scale could have huge negative
impacts on the harbour due to
the sedimentation that could
enter the waters. The block falls
under the high soil erosion zone
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Rather than taking a
monitoring approach to the
logging, Sage believes ECan
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there are proper controls on the
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“ECan has a responsibility
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quality,” Sage said.
ECan responded to her letter,
advising a meeting about the
logging would be held with
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Now in her thirties, Cat has turned her back on her past. But when she receives
news that one sunny morning, El left harbour in her sailboat and never came
back, she is forced to return to Westeryk Road; to re-enter a forgotten world of
lies, betrayal and danger. Because El had a plan. She’s left behind a treasure
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JOE’S GARAGE has raised $573
for the Sumner Volunteer Fire
Brigade on Anzac Day.
They donated $2 from every
coffee sold.
The cafe in Sumner have been
running this fundraiser for the
past four years.
They usually pick a random
day during the year to hold the
fundraiser but they decided on
ANZAC day this year as it was
fitting with people in service.
Callum Brownlee has owned
and operated Joe’s Garage for
five years. He said the low-key
fundraiser was inspired by the
volunteer fire brigade’s service
to the community.
“The fire brigade are not just
our customers but they look
after our community,” Brownlee
said.
“This is our no thrills way to
say thanks.”
Previously, they have only
donated $1 from each coffee
sold, but Brownlee said, with the
increase in coffee prices along
with everything else, they hoped
the $2 donated would have a
greater impact.
As well as the coffee donations,
they also replaced their tip
jar with a donation jar.
In 2020, they raised $437 for
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Fundraiser nets $573 for brigade
FUNDRAISER: Members of the Sumner Volunteer Fire
Brigade enjoy a coffee on Anzac. (From left) – Mark Dooley,
Kevin Rowlands, Craig Henderson and Sean Yeates.
the brigade.
“This year the fundraiser
is doubly important as the
volunteer fire brigade are in a
temporary station and although,
most of the new build is covered
by Fire and Emergency New
Zealand, there are a lot of extras
which are unfunded.”
Organisation to benefit from fun run
• By Samantha Mythen
MORE THAN $5300 was raised
on Saturday during the Artists
against Slavery fun run event in
Diamond Harbour.
A total of 341km was walked
and ran by more than 60 participants
aged from two to 76 years
old.
Members of the Diamond
Harbour Volunteer Fire Brigade
ran laps in full firefighting gear.
Two members ran 18 laps under
the heat of the noon sun.
The money will be donated
to Hagar International,
which helps rescue and
rehabilitate trafficked people in
Afghanistan, Cambodia and
Vietnam.
Wednesday April 28 2021 Bay Harbour News
NEWS 11
Pupils bring port
narratives to life
• By Samantha Mythen
OUR STORIES, a community
project involving pupils from
Lyttelton Primary School, has
joined with a mapping app
bringing people’s narratives to
life.
The project is now available
as a layer on the city council’s
SmartView website app, which
displays real time information
about Christchurch.
Year 7 and 8 pupils in Lyttelton
have been interviewing people
about their experiences and
memories of growing up in the
port.
These stories are then curated
by project director Kris Herbert,
and shared on the Our Stories
app, linking the tales to specific
areas in the community.
Herbert started the project in
2018 and at the beginning of this
year, approached the school to
ask if they would be interested in
helping.
Teacher Rachel Cummins said
the project sat well within their
curriculum which focuses on
“our place.”
When Herbert has an interview
subject, she emails Cummins,
who then picks out the
interviewing pupils from a hat.
Those chosen then go through
the questions they will ask and
plan out their interview.
Said Cummins: “They always
come back after the interview
buzzing with stories.”
Cummins explained the pupils
are always fascinated by the
stories they hear.
One particular story that stood
out was told by a man from
Rapaki.
He informed the pupils about
the rivalry between Lyttelton
West and Lyttelton Primary.
When he was growing up, brawls
were often organised.
This pre-meditated violence
shocked the pupils.
Cummins said the pupils involvement
with the project helps
them to connect to the Lyttelton
community.
Herbert explained the collaboration
with Smartview is
helping to expand the reach of
the project.
“As Our Stories project expands,
we hope to fill the whole
city with beautiful memories of
places.”
Our Stories is currently
seeking funding to expand
into more communities. Other
schools are welcome to contact
Herbert to find out more
information on how they can get
involved with the project.
Our Representation
Review is underway
We’re proposing some tweaks to your
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We’re also thinking about how we define Banks
Peninsula – a big ward full of unique communities,
all of them represented by one community board
and one councillor.
Is this the right approach?
Or should Banks Peninsula be combined
with other areas of the city?
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Christine Maynard’s roots are in the deep South, gateway to
Fiordland, the dramatic beauty undoubtedly having an influence on
her. Self taught, she has taken her creativity to painting semi abstract
landscapes. Layering paint and working into the paint with various
tools allows suggestion of strata, erosion, flora and fauna.
Maynard says of her work “The paintings aim to reveal the essential
nature – or soul – of the landscape. There are many hidden layers
beneath the surface. These are depicted by multiple layers of texture
and colour, often revealed by scraping back the top surfaces.
Each painting shows that the landscape is inherently transient. There
may be solid rock in one area of the painting transformed to shifting
sand in another area. Or there may be a snow-capped mountain in
one area transformed to a flowing river in the other.
The paintings show this evolution in a “deconstructed” way. All
the elements of the landscape exist together in a “patchwork” of
mountain, glacier, river, field and sky. The paintings are another way
of seeing the natural environment, but with a familiarity that appeals
to our emotions . . . hidden essence . . . “
Hidden Essence is Maynard’s second solo show at Little River Gallery,
her first was very successful and served to propel her well into the art
world, her paintings have come to rest in art collections throughout
New Zealand and beyond.
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12 Bay Harbour News Wednesday April 28 2021
ESTUARY MATTERS
Bid to turn Mugford Drain waste area into habitat
The Avon-Heathcote Estuary
Ihutai Trust is a non-profit
organisation formed to protect
one of New Zealand’s most
important coastal wetlands.
Each week, board members
will discuss matters regarding
the estuary, its rich history and what makes it
unique. This week Tanya Jenkins writes about
Mugford Drain’s industrial legacy
IF YOU are driving along Anzac
Drive between the Bridge St
roundabout and Pages Rd, you
may notice some work being
done on the city side of the road
and in front of the new Bexley
dog park.
A small drain parallel to the
main road is called Mugford
Drain. Trevor and Shirley Mugford
lived there for many years
after Shirley’s parents ran a dairy
farm running between Bexley Rd
(now Anzac Drive) and Breezes
Rd.
When most of the 40ha farm
was taken in 1964 for landfill,
the family was able to retain a
piece of land near Bexley Rd for
housing.
When European settlers first
came to this part of Christchurch
they described it in 1856 as being
mostly swamp, with flax, toe toe
grass and rushes.
Eels, whitebait, frogs and more
than 100 species of birds were
noted.
The soil and water in this area
are quite salty and ideal for recreating
this coastal marshland.
In preparing the area for
planting in 2019, estuary trust
volunteers supervised and
guided by city council park
ranger Jason Roberts have
uncovered a legacy of the area’s
industrial past.
Leather off-cuts, in surprisingly
good condition from a footwear
maker, had been dumped
there.
The origin is not clear, but a
likely candidate is the Arctic
Shoe Company. This was a
boot-making business that operated
from 1926 to 1939.
Skins were bought from the
LEGACY: The Mugford Drain in Bexley, which is currently a focus for the Avon-Heathcote
Estuary Ihutai Trust as part of its restoration projects.
Bowron Tanneries in Woolston
and made into sheepskin boots
for sale all over New Zealand.
Haeata Community Campus
students enjoyed the opportunity
to help us design and create a
“lizard island” last year which is
already occupied.
Having completed the
landscape layout and mulching
to prepare the soil the land is
now ready for some serious
planting, mulching and weeding
tasks.
The Estuary Trust will be hosting
several, three-hour Saturday
morning working sessions.
We invite you to contact the
trust on info@estuary.org.nz
to be listed on the “Mugford
restoration team” mail-out list to
receive dates and times of these
restoration days.
Let us turn this waste area
back to an ecological standard
where birds, lizards, plants and
insects can thrive again.
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PRODUCTIONS: The Matuku Community Theatre on stage. Right – Sarah Mankelow, Sandy Wilson and Jesse Hobbs performing in the Sumner Carnivale.
It’s showtime in Sumner – do
you want to be part of it?
AFTER COVID-19 forced
Sumner’s community theatre
group to take a break from the
stage last year, it is getting ready
for its first show of the year.
Now known as Matuku
Community Theatre, the
Sumner Theatre Group changed
its name to reflect its new
structure and new home in
the Matuku Takotako Sumner
centre.
THe group will be holding
auditions at 7.30pm on May 2
in the centre’s Puro-nuku
Hall.
Group president Sarah
Mankelow said sign-up night
is a place to learn more about
the group, and to show your
moves.
“We took a break from the
stage last year due to Covid so
we are raring to return. It takes
a whole community to put
on a show, so there is always
room for your contribution, on
stage or off, helping out with
make-up, wardrobe or staging,”
Mankelow said.
“If you think you’ve got what it
Allan Brown, Karen Hallswort and Jesse Johnson in the production of Love on the
Caribbean Queen.
takes, we’d love to meet you.”
THe audition night will include
a movement session, readings
and singing auditions for those
who want to be considered for a
lead singing role.
THe group’s first of the year will
be a variety-style show called
Sing - Dance, Laugh - Love, Surf -
Dream and will be performed on
August 13.
THe group has been going for
more than 50 years in the heart
of this beach-side community,
putting on an annual cabaret
show to raise funds for local
community groups. But historic
records reveal that Sumner has
been home to local dramatics for
nearly 100 years.
THat long history is also being
celebrated this year with an
exhibition of photos, stories
and costumes in the foyer of the
Centre.
THe exhibition will be opened
by Heathcote Ward city
councillor Sara Templeton at
7pm on the same night.
Said Mankelow: “By joining
our group you are becoming
Part of a legacy of community
theatre in Sumner. We are so
excited to pull back the curtain
on our history and present this
to you.”
THe Matuku Community
Theatre prides itself on being
a close-knit group, open to all
talent, as reflected in the eclectic
style of cabaret it puts on each
year. It will be performing eight
shows in 2021.
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NEWS 15
High standard in 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
Anna
Crighton
of just 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
projects from walking tours and
domestic dwellings to mansions,
cottages and bridges.
“The entries afford the
opportunity to recognise
heritage in all 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.
Islay Cottage, Lyttelton.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
•Canterbury
Heritage Awards 2021
finalists:
Domestic Saved
and Restored: Islay
Cottage (Tony and
Brenda Good) Montrose
Station Homestead
(Wilson & Hill Architects),
The Britten Stables (The
Britten Stables Ltd),
The Vicarage, Geraldine
(Michael and Brigitte
Barker), Thornton Earl
Manor (AO Architecture
Ltd).
Public Realm Saved
and Restored: Balmoral
Fire Lookout (Hawarden
Waikari Lions Club), cnr
Kilmore and Barbadoes Sts
(Tim and Anna Chesney),
Clockwise – The Riverside mural, Nurses’ Memorial Chapel, Christchurch Hospital, and Memorial Bridge, Christchurch
Airport.
Majestic on Durham
(Sheppard & Rout), The
Pumphouse (Paddy and
Jackie Snowdon), Rose
Chapel (city council),
School of Art, The Arts
Centre (The Arts Centre),
The Nurses’ Memorial
Chapel (city council).
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 and
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 Ltd), 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).
Bay Harbour News Wednesday April 28 2021
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NEWS
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 Lincoln-based turf
expert certainly doesn’t
have a job that is like
watching grass grow
You’re the Turf Business
manager at PGG Wrightson
Turf. How did you get involved
with this growth industry?
My father and four of his
brothers worked at Pyne Gould
and 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. 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 PGGW) 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.
How do you become an
authority on turf?
It’s an apprenticeship scheme,
similar to any trade. A three-year
on 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. In New Zealand there’s
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Turf expert takes the green grass of home
WELL GROUNDED: Turf expert Mark Shaw gets down to earth with a grid pattern of
grasses at PGG Wrightson research centre in Lincoln.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
no genetic modification done
in plant breeding so it’s a long
process. 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 candivars.
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
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 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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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 that can produce
high levels of alkaloids. The
alkaloids create an illness 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,
that makes me sick.’ 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?
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to the world’s stadium’s and airports
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 Lincoln.
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
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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 (PGGW)
team. I present the award so I’m
not allowed to give it to myself.
I’m actually doing a bit of work
on my lawn at the moment. Mine
is pure fine-fescue, it’ll be the
same as the grass that you’ll see at
(Queenstown’s) Jack’s Point Golf
Course on their fairways. Pure
fine-fescue is the finest leafed grass
you can get. It is the lowest nutrient
requirement grass and probably
the slowest growing out of all the
lawn options you have. The beauty
of it is you can spray one chemical
over it and selectively removes any
other species of grass. It’s very easy
to keep it pure but if you’ve got kids
and dogs, you’ll probably want a
perennial ryegrass that can handle
the wear.
When you’re at a mate’s
place for a barbecue, do you
automatically judge the lawn
ahead of the chops?
I do, and I can guarantee in the
spring or the autumn a mate, or
a mate of a mate, or someone at
work will say ‘I’ve got a problem
with the lawn, what do I do
about this? And then you end
up getting dragged into a whole
lawn renovation and you’re
round there with a rake in your
hand.
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Mazda3 boosted by mild hybrid driveline
IT WAS ONLY a matter of time
before Mazda developed hybrid
technology.
I’m not surprised it has taken
some time for that to happen,
because as a company it has
been concentrating on building
fuel-efficient and low emission
internal combustion engines,
almost matching the benefits that
hybrids represent.
What Mazda has done now is
combine the gains it has made
through their Skyactiv range of
four-cylinder engines with mild
hybrid technology.
So, forget the pioneering designs
that Toyota and Honda have
developed along with the systems
of other mainstream manufacturers,
Mazda’s hybrid isn’t quite so
deep, instead it utilises similar elements
to that of Mercedes-Benz
and BMW, using regenerative
energy to store power in a 24v
lithium-ion battery bank.
The alternator and starter motor
have both been replaced with
an integrated starter/generator, it
captures energy that would normally
be wasted during braking.
This energy is then used to power
electrical systems and assist the
engine under acceleration.
The power it develops is quite
noticeable, but unlike other hybridsthe
petrol engine is operating
all of the time.
That isn’t a bad thing, without
being too technical Mazda has
worked out-of-the-square with
their internal combustion engine
development, the Skactiv-X
engine has a high compression
design similar to what you get
with diesel power, the result is
even greater fuel usage benefits,
more power and more torque.
Add in the hybrid boost and you
have a feisty, fuel efficient engine
that is also amazingly smooth and
quiet.
How Mazda has done it is
beyond my technical understanding,
but I can report that it works
brilliantly and it would be the hybrid
system that I would choose.
The Skyactiv-X engine is available
in both the new CX-30 and
Mazda3 hatchback as evaluated.
Bear in mind that Skyactiv-X is
an option, the standard engines
are still available through both
line-ups.
Therein lies a bit of conundrum,
you do have to pay a bit
extra for Skyactiv-X, in CX-30
form it adds $4000 at the top
end landing at $54,990, while the
Mazda3 lists at $51,995, that’s
$3200 more than Limited specification.
However, in Mazda3 form it
does come loaded with fitment.
Mazda have branded it Takami
and that means high grade, it is
fully loaded with kit, so in many
ways not only are you getting
a premium car, you are doing
just that little bit extra for the
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MAZDA3 SKYACTIV-X: Fuel usage savings along with boost in performance.
environment as well as being
rewarded with a fabulous driving
experience.
In terms of figures, Mazda
claims power outputs of 132kW
and 224Nm from the 2-litre
driveline (up 18kW and 24Nm),
it also lists a 5.5-litre per 100km
combined cycle fuel usage average,
which are all pretty remarkable
figures; and if you take into
account that the torque figure
represents a 12 per cent increase
over the standard 2-litre unit, the
development work is superbly
beneficial.
During my time in the evaluation
car, I couldn’t get near
Mazda’s fuel usage claims, taking
the car back to the dealership
with it showing 7.6l/100km on
the readout. However, that’s more
to do with my driving style and
inner-city commuting, both of
which are never conducive to
good economy. I can report,
though, that at 100km/h on the
highway the readout displays a
4l/100km instantaneous figure
with the engine turning over at
2200rpm.
It’s those latter figures which
are the most significant. If you are
on a long journey, fill-ups will be
infrequent, and a long-range between
fill-ups is guaranteed. When
I picked up the evaluation car it
was showing a distance-to-empty
figure of 550km. That would
stretch on a highway trip.
• Price – Mazda3 Skyactiv-X
Takami, $51,995
• Dimensions – Length,
4460mm; width, 1795mm;
height, 1435mm
• Configuration – Fourcylinder,
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• Performance –
0-100km/h, 8.8sec
• Fuel usage – 5.5l/100km
That journey would be desirable,
the Mazda3 is a beautiful car
in which to drive, it shares all the
characteristic attributes that Mazda
has worked hard to develop,
it’s an occupant-friendly interior
that has a perfect driving position
and ergonomic purity.
Bear in mind, though, that at
just 1.4m it sits low, and for those
on the tall side you do need to
duck your head under the roof
line on entry.
As mentioned, in Takami
specification the Mazda3 wants
for little, there are nice touches
such as heated seats and steering
wheel, keyless entry and ignition,
satellite navigation, head-up display,
and paddle shifters.
The latter work on a traditional
six-speed automatictransmission.
Between the engine and gearbox
there is solid surge of power and
fluid delivery. The mid-range
electric boost is noticeable and it
contributes to that feel of energy.
For the performance-minded,
the Mazda3 Skyactiv-X will reach
100km/h from a standstill in
8.8sec, and will lunge through a
highway overtake (80-120km/h)
in 5.9sec.
I took the evaluation car on a
loop encompassing Hororata and
Dunsandel, there aren’t many
corners on those roads but my
reasoning was that it was more
of a test of highway fuel usage
efficiencies. Nevertheless, when
pointed at a quick corner the
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