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• By Bea Gooding
COASTAL WARD city councillor James Daniels is
trying to find out what went wrong with the Anzac Day
commemorations in New Brighton.
There has been criticism over the way the city council
organised the day, which involved perspex remaining
around the cenotaph, public toilet closures, a flag that
was not replaced, and no clarity on a traffic management
plan.
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A GRATEFUL pet lover has detailed the
desperate efforts to revive her animals
after they were trapped in a house fire that
claimed a cat, kitten and budgie.
Although distraught to lose Clover, one
of her first litter Chungus and Buddy –
from smoke inhalation in his cage – the
mother of two revealed the collateral
damage could have been much greater
when an accidental fire spread from the
kitchen of a Kaiapoi house last week.
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about a traffic management plan on Marine Pde, and
the cenotaph was still covered in the anti-graffiti plastic
on Anzac Day itself, he said.
He also said the fraying New Zealand flag was not
replaced, which was the city council’s responsibility.
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in time for the Coas to Coast earlier this year and that
if the perspex was removed any earlier, the cenotaph
would ge tagged.
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• By Matt Slaughter
YOUNG HOSPITAL patients
had their day brightened by
some of the Crusaders’ star
players last week.
Players, including All Blacks
Richie Mo’unga, George Bridge
and Codie Taylor, visited the
Canterbury District Health
Board’s Children’s Haematology
and Oncology Centre last
Tuesday.
The players took time out of
their busy schedule preparing
for the Super Rugby Aotearoa
final against the Chiefs on May
8 at Orangetheory Stadium.
They spent some time chatting
to families on the ward and
handed out gifts, including
signed Crusaders flags and caps.
Said Crusaders chief executive
Colin Mansbridge: “We’re
proud to be able to connect with
those in our community who
are going through a tough time.
The strength and resilience of
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Thousands punted on meth greyhound
• By Chris Barclay
TENS OF thousands of dollars
were won off a greyhound
which later tested positive to
methamphetamine, it can be
revealed.
The TAB has confirmed two
four-figure bets were placed on
Zipping Sarah which won at the
Canterbury Greyhound Racing
Club meeting at Addington
during Cup Week in November.
Foxton-based trainer Angela
Turnwald has been banned for
four months. The disqualification
starts tomorrow.
Zipping Sarah was tested
following her victory as a $4.50
second favourite.
Traces of amphetamine were
also detected, with the Judicial
Control Authority For Racing
believing the substances were
administered on the journey
from Foxton to Christchurch
via an exercise stop in Kaiapoi.
Turnwald pleaded guilty
to failing to produce Zipping
Sarah free of a prohibited substance
for the race. The stake
money of $4011 was not paid
and Turnwald was also fined
$3500.
A TAB spokesman said
two bets of an unspecified
amount of up to $10,000 had
been placed on Zipping Sarah,
with 481 bets totalling $23,083
placed on the winner.
The betting organisation
was unable to say yesterday
when or where the bets were
placed but the subsequent investigation
and disqualification
Crusaders brighten up day
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these young people is inspiring,
and we’re really grateful to
have the opportunity to put a
smile on the faces of some of
our most passionate Crusaders
supporters.”
CHOC acting charge nurse
manager Jo Kirrane said: “It
was wonderful the Crusaders
took time out of their busy
schedule to visit our young
patients in CHOC. They showed
a genuine interest in the kids
and their whānau, chatting and
did not impact on the dividends
paid to punters.
Turnwald initially claimed
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have come from unidentified
syndicate members who
smoked the drug hours before
patting the dog post-race,
although that defence was
ultimately abandoned.
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said deliberate wrongdoing had
not been established but methamphetamine-related
breaches
could not be tolerated.
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Matariki celebrations
Christchurch’s inaugural Tīrama
Mai lighting event will celebrate
Matariki in the heart of the city
and in New Brighton. Zones
within the central city and the
seaside suburb will be lit up
from June 25 until July 10, with
a series of lighting installations,
projections and illuminated
artworks created by Canterbury
lighting artists. Crowds will
be able to explore the lighting
trails from 6pm to 11pm every
night. Installations will be
located around the Arts Centre,
Christchurch Art Gallery,
Worcester Boulevard, Victoria
Square, Otakaro Avon River
Precinct, New Regent St and
New Brighton.
Cuningham House to
be repaired
Cuningham House, the historic
greenhouse in the Botanic
Gardens, will be closed for
two weeks for repairs from
today. The repairs to the glass,
which is ageing and cracked
in places, are set to take two
weeks. Instead of scaffolding,
the contractors will be working
from a platform suspended
from a crane – a quicker
and more economical way
of replacing the glass. The
greenhouse is due to reopen on
May 14. The work is just one
stage in the city council’s plan
to restore the treasured heritage
building.
Heathcote residents
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Heathcote residents have
successfully campaigned for
train speed limits through their
valley to remain the same.
KiwiRail will be keeping the
speed limit for trains travelling
through Heathcote at 40km/h.
It was decided after KiwiRail
representatives Steve Pye and
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police cars
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POLICE CAR crashes have been
more common in Canterbury
than several other parts of New
Zealand.
About 9000 police cars have
been damaged across the country
since 2015 – with a repair bill of
more than $24.3 million.
The most crashes were notched
up in the Waitemata and Counties
Manukau Districts – closely
followed by Auckland City and
Canterbury.
In August last year, a 42-yearold
Christchurch woman stole a
police car before crashing, after
refusing a breath test.
In 2019, when police
apprehended the man responsible
for the March 15 mosque attack,
they rammed his car off the road,
damaging the police vehicle in the
process.
In December 2018, a Christchurch
man fleeing police rammed
the officer’s vehicle twice.
In the first two months of this
year alone, 10 police cars were
damaged in Canterbury, costing
$4274.94.
In this time period, repairs
to damaged police cars New
Zealand-wide cost $113,739.
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Tabitha, another kitten, was
initially blinded by the blaze at a
Cridland St property on Thursday
afternoon.
The five-week-old suffered four
seizures, a grim development
that had homeowner Denise
fearing she would also have to be
put down.
“The vet was concerned about
neurological damage but wanted
to give her 24 hours to rally. I’m
glad we gave her the time. We
got her home, she had a sleep, an
eat, then ‘bing’. She perked up
and she could see,” Denise said.
Tabitha, Olive, Clover plus
dogs Molly and Sophie were
given mouth-to-mouth by
Denise – and then oxygen –
after firefighters carried them to
safety.
“They were amazing, absolute
respect to them,” she said.
Unfortunately Chungus
perished inside and one-year-old
Clover had to be euthanised two
days later.
“The kids (her son and daughter)
were really upset about
Clover. They’d bought her with
their pocket money just after
lockdown last year. It was their
kind of treat, they’d saved up
and they were the two mummies
of the cat,” said Denise.
Although Clover, the last
animal to be evacuated, was
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All belongings and some cats lost
resuscitated, there was no hope
of recovery at the Rangiora Vet
Centre.
“She wouldn’t have any quality
of life. She was paralysed. She
was twitching with neurological
damage. She couldn’t walk but
she heard the kids voices when
they brought her in,” Denise
said.
“She started trying to drag
herself to the kids. She could
hear them. She went to them and
gave them cuddles.”
Molly, a seven-year-old boxerlabrador
cross, and Sophie – a
one-year-old rescue dog with
staffy in her genes – spent two
days in the vet centre and are
still recovering.
They were on IV fluids to remedy
dehydration and charcoal
tablets to settle their stomachs.
“They’ve got smoker’s cough
A DOG’S LIFE: Denise, a
devout dog owner, uses
an asthma inhaler to ease
the recovery of Molly and
Sophie (background) after
they were carried from
this Kaiapoi house after it
caught fire.
and they’re coughing up ash.
We’ve been given an asthma
inhaler to aid their breathing,”
Denise added.
The family, who were on an
outing when the fire broke out,
are now in temporary accommodation.
“We lost everything to fire,
water and smoke damage, or all
three,” Denise said.
But they still have their canines,
kittens and 10-year-old
cat Muppet, who Denise said escaped
through a window before
the flames took hold.
“He was like ‘bye’, but mum
wouldn’t go without her babies.”
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In a letter sent at 3am he
outlined “threatening, violent,
anti social behaviour” by social
housing tenants at multiple
complexes.
He accused social housing providers
across the board of a “lack
of duty of care” – to their tenants
and the community.
He sent the letter to the New
Zealand Herald an hour later,
and followed up again yesterday
after he heard of Hawkins’ death.
The 50-year-old was allegedly
murdered at his unit at the
Otautahi Community Housing
Trust Development on Brougham
St.
A 28-year-old man has been
charged with murder and is
accused of fatally stabbing Hawkins,
who was on electronically
monitored bail and facing family
violence charges relating to his
partner.
“I told you someone would get
hurt or killed,” the concerned
resident said yesterday.
“Nobody listened to me.”
Woods was on leave this
week but a spokeswoman from
her office confirmed the man’s
letter had been “received and a
response is being processed”.
In the letter the man – who
asked that his name was not
published for “fear of retaliation”
– said he was writing “out
of desperation” as his “last resort
for help”.
“I am a rental tenant, with
glowing rental and character
references, living next to a very
anti-social bunch of social housing
tenants,” he wrote.
“I wish to raise your awareness.
Social housing providers do not seem
to be helping in any way at all.”
He said he had been complaining
about issues with his
neighbours including “the gangs,
the drug dealings, the antisocial,
violent and threatening
behaviour which now seems to be
escalating.”
“Yet nobody, not even police,
seem to do anything about it,” he
said.
“In just the past week alone, I
have had my front door kicked in
twice with threats of having my
home burned down.
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“I have had people intruding
on my property; last night my
property was attacked with an
axe to which police responded
with rifles drawn.
“I have had motor-cycle gang
members terrorising myself and
the neighbourhood. My complaints
to social housing providers
fall on complete deaf ears.”
He turned to Woods for help,
hopeful that she would step in.
He questioned why people on
electronic bail for violent offending
– like Hawkins – convicted
criminals, gang members and
people with addiction or mental
health issues were simply “shoved
in a cage of apartments, left to
terrorise the neighbourhood”.
He felt there was not
enough support or supervision
of the tenants.
“I have been left in constant
fear of my life and my property,”
he said.
“I am now about to cancel my
agreement with this property to
live in my car until I can find a
more suitable property to live.”
In the letter he quoted six police
callouts from the week with
file reference numbers.
He felt authorities were “turning
a blind eye” and implored
Woods to act.
Woods’ spokeswoman acknowledged
Hawkins’ death.
“Our sympathies go out to
the victim’s friends and family, and
the local community,” she said.
“The Ministry of Housing and
Urban Development, Kāinga
Ora and community housing
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‘I have been left in constant fear of my life’
ISSUES: A police
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the Otahtahi
Community
Housing Trust
complex where
Kenneth Daniel
Hawkins (above)
was allegedly
murdered.
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providers are committed to
ensuring that public housing
tenants have a safe, warm and
dry place to call home.”
She said the Community
Housing Regulatory Authority
monitored all community
housing provider policies and
processes and expected to see
“consistent compliance with the
required performance standards
– which required systems that
“ensure outcomes for tenants are
appropriate, measurable, and
monitored”.
Those systems included a complaints
service.
“If a tenant is unsatisfied with
the way their complaint has
been handled, they can contact
Tenancy Services in the first
instance,” she said.
The man felt his complaints
had been effectively ignored -
and he urged Woods to do more,
urgently.
“Providers have been using
Sydenham as a dumping ground
for problematic people for over
three years now, which has
turned this area into an area on
edge,” he said.
“Now we have social issues
growing and growing, tearing
our neighbourhoods to shreds.
“More needs to be done.
My complaint is not about the
tenants themselves, but more
about the social agencies who put
them in these situations.”
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The quick wit of David McPhail
Kiwi comedy pioneer
David McPhail, one half
of the legendary duo
McPhail and Gadsby,
is frustrated to be
living in a Christchurch
retirement village.
But he hasn’t lost his
sparkling sense of
humour, or enjoyment
in poking fun at
politicians, writes Kurt
Bayer
DAVID MCPHAIL is still a
funny bugger.
Even with the oxygen machine
whirring and wheezing, in a
place he wakes every morning
and thinks he’s living inside
a nightmare, he can create
laughter.
A natural comedy alchemist,
the man who knew, who
just bloody well knew, that
conservative 1970s New Zealand
was ready for satirical comedy
on television.
When the tall, blonde woman
delivers his fish and chip lunch,
complete with cling-filmed glass
of chardonnay, he can’t resist a
quip.
“Catch the fish yourself?”
“Of course,” she smiles. “That’s
what I was doing this morning:
stomping on the grapes and
RELAXED: David McPhail at his retirement home in Merivale.
catching the fish.”
The interplay makes his eyes
twinkle.
When the Weekend Herald
phoned him at the Merivale
Retirement Village, and inquired
whether he’d be willing to chat
about his remarkable life and
career, the 75-year-old actor,
writer and satirist responded
quick as a whip: “Sounds like an
obituary.!”
His legs have failed him.
Living at home with Anne, his
wife of 54 years, the father of two
was continually falling over. It
was dangerous.
So for now, the infamously
dry wit is marooned in his
room, hooked up to the oxygen
machine.
Visits perk him up.
His wife pops by. Their
granddaughter will visit after
PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD
school. There are crackers in the
drawer. Anne’s off to play bridge.
“All right darling, you have a
lovely afternoon,” he tells her,
leaning in for a kiss.
On Friday afternoons, his old
school mates drop by for a beer.
Ken Ellis and Chris McVeigh
are among them – mates from
school and uni days, and who
starred alongside McPhail in the
pioneering show, A Week of It.
Ellis calls their lifelong
friendship one of the treasures of
his life.
“We’re still mates after 60
years . . . God knows one of us
will be kicked off soon enough,”
McPhail says, propping himself
up in an oversized armchair.
McPhail was born in April
1945, around the time Adolf
Hitler “blew out what remained
of his brains.”
His father, Alexander Edward
McPhail, a “devout atheist” with
Scottish roots, was chairman of
the New Zealand Rugby Union,
and successful businessman.
He owned a tannery, imported
goods, and was a landlord.
McPhail, a podgy sweettoothed
child with a stammer,
enjoyed a privileged upbringing
in a large brick house on
Manchester St in Christchurch.
He attended Cathedral
Grammar School, where he
was an enthusiastic choir boy,
which helped his stammer,
rehearsing almost every day in
Christ Church Cathedral “in an
almost vertical room under the
cathedral’s spire.”
McPhail then went on to
Christchurch Boys’ High School,
where Ellis was among a tightknit
bunch of mates, who would
stay close for decades, discussing
the poetry of Dylan Thomas and
T S Eliot.
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shows no sign of slowing down
A schoolmaster, “Chops” Sinclair,
introduced McPhail to the
“marvels of Shakespeare”, while
another to his future wife, Anne
McLeod, at choir practice.
A brief stint at Canterbury
University studying English was
overshadowed by a rising interest
in the theatre.
After “embarrassing results”
during his first year, he landed
a cadet reporter job at The Press
newspaper.
He started at the bottom of
a newsroom “large, noisy and
filled with smoke” and was assigned
to the court round, where
he hoped to cover sensation
murder trials but ended up with
minor stories on shoplifters,
burglars and “the curious case
of a man who tried to assault his
wife with an empty hot water
bottle,” according to his 2010
autobiography, The Years Before
My Death – Memories of a Comic
Life.
After several jobs on the paper,
and an unhappy posting to
Ashburton, McPhail resigned to
become a radio reporter and then
a television journalist on a show
named Town and Around. There,
he enjoyed the more quirky, offbeat
stories, while later making
skits for a show called As I See It.
Meanwhile, he watched
from afar as the British satire
boom of the 60s take off, with
groundbreaking shows like the
BBC’s That Was The Week That
Was adamant that funny local
TV was possible in spite of many
executives being wary, even terrified
by it.
“At the time, TVNZ was made
up of the biggest collection of
comedy experts in the Southern
Hemisphere . . . bulls***,” he says,
collapsing into a coughing fit.
“They didn’t have the faintest
idea what they were doing.
“The heads of television were
more inclined to follow the
wonderful trends of such comedy
as On the Buses – that’s what they
thought we should be making.
“All I did was that I just kept
pushing.”
Finally, in 1977 his persistence
paid off, and was granted a pilot
show, A Week of It, on a tiny
budget.
Without any money for travel
or pay actors, he turned to his
close circle of Christchurch
SUCCESS:
McPhail and
Gadsby ran for
eight years.
friends – Chris McVeigh, A K
Grant, Ken Ellis, Bruce Ansley,
and Peter Hawes.
And then there was Jon
Gadsby, whom he had met at
a Dunedin student party a few
months previously, after friends
had insisted he meet a man who
was “bloody funny.”
“That evening would define
the next 20 years of my life,” he
would later reflect.
A Week of It was the first
comedy show to contain
impersonations of real Kiwis
and the first to “blatantly
describe politicians,” McPhail
says. They were well aware of the
libel laws.
In the opening programme,
they asked: “What is Bill Rowling
(the leader of the Labour Party at
the time) like in bed?”
Later, they announced they
had discovered Prime Minister
Robert Muldoon’s family tree
and showed a picture of a silver
birch.
“This proves Robert Muldoon
is the son of a birch.”
The first A Week of It also
featured what would become the
famous Three Jokers sketch of
George, Gary and Wayne standing
around a pub leaner in the
Glue Pot Tavern.
A repeated cry of “Jeez,
Wayne,” became a runaway
catchphrase and ingrained part
of the Kiwi vernacular.
The brazen sketches were often
written close to the show’s transmission,
making them current
and edgy. But it also made for
some nervous times.
“I can pick those that
were written very close to
transmission because they just
have a different feeling about
them,” McPhail says. “You can
feel the tension and see the wild
horror in the eyes.”
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‘He was this garrulous, argumentative
VERSATILE: McPhail was convinced that TV satire comedy
would work in New Zealand. He played former Prime
Minister Robert Muldoon in many productions.
• From page 7
After first airing during the
“cemetery hour” time of 10.25pm,
it attracted an audience and the
show took off. It won best light
entertainment programme at the
1978 Feltex television awards.
Nobody had ever taken such
direct pops at political characters
in New Zealand.
McPhail says it took the public
by surprise, especially when they
took on Muldoon, who was a
feared character across the country.
It’s still what McPhail is most
remembered for.
“He was this garrulous, argumentative,
and also dangerous,
prime minister, who was not
afraid of being insulting to anyone,”
he says.
“A lot of the country was afraid
of Muldoon and when you’ve got
a guy like that, you’ve got a very
potent target [for satire].”
David McPhail played Prime
Minister Robert Muldoon for
years – much to the politician’s
ire.
While the public lapped up
the lampooning of Muldoon,
it became clear to McPhail
that the man himself was not
amused.
The most ire came after a This
Is Your Life sketch, where the
host, played by Gadsby, asked
McPhail playing the prime
minister: “Do you recognise this
voice?”
A female voiceover said, “Congratulations
Rob, dear.”
After some thought, Muldoon
replied, “Is it Barry Crump?”
He then didn’t recognise her
when she walked on stage. Told
it’s his wife, Thea, the Muldoon
character barks: “Sit down over
there and be quiet.”
The next day, Muldoon’s irate
press secretary was on the phone,
telling McPhail: “Don’t ever mention
his wife again”.
McPhail listened and hung up,
thinking, “f*** off.”
“Once we reached that stage,
then you could do anything,”
McPhail smiles, looking back.
On another occasion, he was
doing a live show in Auckland
with Gadsby when Muldoon
turned up in the audience.
It created backstage panic
and McPhail wondered whether
he should change his material,
which included Muldoon and
was “much rougher than what
you saw on television”.
He considered backing out but
was encouraged to go “full noise.”
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and also dangerous, prime minister’
Walking on stage, under the
glare of spotlights, he couldn’t see
any faces in the audience.
“But he was right at the back,
surrounded by his parliamentary
assistant boys, and the spotlight
cut right across his head, so I
could see this dome and when I
knew where he was, I thought,
‘Let’s go’. And off we went.”
“I didn’t change the material
because I’d get lost, and it was
pretty on-the-nose stuff – justifiably
satirical to anyone – but
really rude.”
After the show, the dressing
room flew open and in stormed
Muldoon.
He paused for a photograph
with McPhail and the following
day, it appeared in the newspaper.
“Of course, what he’d done was
to diffuse everything. ‘They’re
mates’, is what people would
think.”
He bumped into him at another
function, where Muldoon quipped:
“You’ll never be as good as the
original,” before walking off.
Although the sketches often cut
close to the bone, the Kiwi public
lapped it up.
McPhail says it proved that
New Zealand had become a “mature”
nation, able to finally laugh
at itself.
“If we can’t do that, then we’re
in big trouble,” he says.
McPhail, second from left, carries Jon Gadsby’s casket in
2015.
After three seasons of A
Week of It, there were seven
series of skit show McPhail
and Gadsby, which dominated
Kiwi TV in the 80s.
McPhail also went on to star
in backwoods comedy Letter
to Blanchy and one-man play
Muldoon, which toured the
country.
Although Muldoon was ripe
for mickey-taking, McPhail says
it would’ve been tough for him
to satirise current prime minister
Jacinda Ardern.
“Up until now, she hasn’t made
any mistakes and you don’t do a
whole sketch show about Mother
Teresa, it just doesn’t work,” he
says.
“So you have to wait until,
rather unfortunately, the Prime
Minister starts tripping up as she
is starting to do now and doing
things that are silly, or funny in
itself.”
McPhail revelled in the creative
process, especially the writing
sessions with himself, Gadsby
and close mate A K Grant.
It was often done around a hotel
room table after Grant came
“clinking in” after clearing the
mini-bar fridge.
“They were interesting times,”
McPhail says, chuckling.
“If you spent too much time
trying to get a sketch right, it was
wasted time. Invariably, some of
the funniest stuff came in times
of desperation.”
It wasn’t often that things fell
flat – or missed the mark.
McPhail looks back fondly on
those times. And those lifelong
friendships – although he buried
‘My mind is not in any way
odd. The problem I have,
and it’s a straightforward
one, is walking . . . otherwise
I’m fine.’
– David McPhail
his comedy partner Gadsby in
2015 and Grant in 2000.
But he still looks forward to
catching up with his other mates
on a Friday afternoon.
And he hopes that over the
next few months he can move
back home.
“The problem is, you can see
it, I’m rational,” he says, peering
over his glasses.
“My mind is not in any way
odd. The problem I have, and it’s
a straightforward one, is walking
. . . otherwise I’m fine.”
He’s reminded of one old skit.
A close shot shows two men carrying
a coffin on their shoulders,
walking towards the camera.
When it cuts to a side-shot, it
shows just the two men on one side
– no pallbearers on the other side.
“Now, it doesn’t sound funny, I
know,” he says, those eyes twinkling
again.
“But it makes you stop and go,
‘what the … ?’”
He laughs, infectiously, and the
oxygen machine whirrs.
– NZ Herald
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Miraculous survival from plane crash
IMPACT: The aircraft that crashed yesterday at Glentui.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
• By Samantha Mythen
TWO MEN miraculously
survived after a light plane
crashed in a North Canterbury
paddock yesterday.
Canterbury Recreational
Aircraft Club president Doug
Anderson said: “I’m blown away
that no one died. If I saw the plane
without knowing the people had
survived, I would have thought all
would have died.
“The front of the wings stopped
any more crushing of the plane,
showing the integrity of the
aircraft.”
The club’s chief flying
instructor, Stewart Bufton, was
in the aircraft with a trainee pilot
when it crashed.
“Stewart is a very experienced
pilot, having worked for over
15 years, teaching hundreds of
people,” Anderson said.
He said he understood Bufton
had a broken leg and arm.
Senior Constable Kieran Young
said it appeared the aircraft’s
landing gear had hit powerlines
before the plane crashed in a
farmer’s paddock.
“They are lucky to be alive
with relatively minor injuries in
the grand scheme of things,’’ he
said.
Emergency services were called
Stewart Bufton is the chief flying instructor at the
Canterbury Recreational Aircraft Club. He was in the plane
with a student when it crashed.
Canterbury Recreational
Aero Club president Doug
Anderson with one of the
Club’s other Tecnam P92
planes.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
after the plane crashed at a farm
off Rakahuri Rd, near Glentui, at
11.35am. The aircraft landed nose
first and the cabin was crushed on
impact.
Anderson said the aircraft was
a Tecnam p92 Eco Classic. The
club owns two other planes like it,
which had flown over 6000hrs.
A St John spokesman said
both patients were initially
treated for serious injuries, and
one was flown by helicopter to
Christchurch Hospital.
The crash caused a power
outage on Hayland Rd.
MainPower were at the scene
re-connecting the power lines on
Wednesday afternoon.
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second Hororata Glow Festival
HORORATA DOMAIN is ready
to glow on May 8 with a crowd of
10,000 expected for the Hororata
Glow Festival.
Cindy Driscoll of the Hororata
Community Trust said tickets
were selling fast. To control
numbers, there would be no
gate sales after a huge turnout of
14,000 people at the last festival
in 2019.
“(This) was an overwhelming
response for just our second
event,” Driscoll said.
This year, to manage crowd
size and Covid-19 requirements,
numbers will be limited to
10,000.
“Our community is looking
forward to this magical festival.
We have heaps of new activities
this year, including the UV Art
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Cube and a fairy tree, just to
name a few,” Driscoll said.
“We also have the popular
activities from past years returning,
like the hot air balloon
walk through, the University of
Canterbury interactive science
activities and the glow circus.”
Live music from the Selwyn
Community Choir, Sam
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Chilton House would entertain
the crowd until the sun went
down and things began to glow.
The festival’s trademark night
glow would happen any time
from 5.30pm.
Michael Oakley from Ballooning
Canterbury is looking
forward to the event, as are the
attending balloonists who will
be travelling from all over New
Zealand.
“They are so excited to be
coming back to our community.
We will be flying for the four
days leading up to the festival
so keep an eye on the skies,”
Oakley said.
Getting the balloons inflated
and ready to glow required a
huge team effort. Weather conditions
had to be perfect, he said.
The balloons would be on
the ground and lit up like giant
lanterns, glowing in a choreographed
performance to music.
Following the night glow
will be a special lighting effects
display that promises to be a real
show stopper, Driscoll said. DJ
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going as he cranked the tunes,
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up and dancing.
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With large numbers expected,
people are advised to allow extra
travel time and arrive early. The
gates open at 3pm.
The event is weather dependent
and if postponed will be held
on the next day (May 9). A call
on postponement will be made
by 7pm on Friday, and
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Gustafoham Harris is due to be
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“Marlo” a 6.5 year old Border
Terrier was bought into see
me Easter Sunday for acute
hindleg paralysis. Marlo was
out on a usual daily walk 4
days previously, rolling on
his back for an itch in the
grass. Suddenly he stood
up and yelped, rolled again
and yelped again and
then walked slowly home.
That night he was restless,
seeking odd places to hide
and was not himself. He
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vet the next morning as
he was stiff and stilted,
shaking and looked painful.
He was instructed
to be rested, given
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and pain medications
but returned the next
day completely off his
hindlegs and dragging
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and he’d never had a
history of spinal issues
before.
When I saw Marlo he
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and could withdraw
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He could still wag his
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incontinent. He had
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cranially. He found it
difficult to lie down
comfortably but he
was still eating well and
looked relatively happy.
I strongly suspected
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extradural spinal cord compression
coming from the left side and ventrally.
Other differentials were fibrocartilgenous
embolism, cord neoplasia or cord
abscessation/foreign bodies.
Marlo was booked in within 12 hours after
the MRI for spinal surgery with Dr Helen
Milner at McMaster & Heap Vet Practice. Dr
Milner performed a HEMILAMINECTOMY,
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prolapsed Disc that
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compression. Spinal
surgery isn’t a walk in
the park and requires
a huge amount of
skill and experience
from the surgeon, very
expensive surgical
equipment and a team
of very experienced
surgical anaesthetic
nurses to monitor Marlo
and scrub in and help
the surgeon. Marlo
was under anaesthetic
for 3.5 hours and then
transferred to the After
Hours clinic for over
night 12 hour care.
An indwelling urinary
catheter was placed to
make urinating easy for
Marlo.
Marlo has gone from
strength to strength
and is improving daily
with the help of a huge
team of professionals.
His owners have been
dedicated and capable
in making sure he gets
everything he needs in
the way of medications
and strict confinement. He has been fitted
with a special harness to help him mobilise
and be moved about carefully, avoiding
undue pressure on his surgical site. We
saw him daily to catheterise his bladder.
He is also seeing a physiotherapist. Fingers
crossed he makes a complete return to full
function
The most important take-home point is
don’t muck around with a dog that has
acutely gone off its hindlegs. You need
to organise an urgent MRI (McMaster
& Heap can organise these) and spinal
surgery needs to happen quickly if IVD
compression is diagnosed. The longer
you delay surgery, the least favourable
the prognosis. Time is of the essence and
very few vet practices can offer spinal
surgery in NZL. It is specialist surgery and
the success also lies in the hands of a
competent surgeon.
Dr Michele McMaster
McMaster & Heap
14
NEWS
Residents express views
on Long Term Plan
The consultation
period for written
submissions on
the city council’s
draft Long Term
Plan has closed.
Matt Slaughter
took to the streets
to ask people
if they gave
feedback on it
Annabel Jones, 42: “I
do remember that there
was an opportunity to give
feedback, but I never got
around to it.”
Jones put this down to
“just forgetting to look into
it.”
“I’m just not up to date at
the moment with the news,
unless it’s something that
arrives in the letter box.”
John Gallacher, 53: “No,
I haven’t heard of it.
“I think I might have
heard the rates were
creeping up.
“To think of how
many people live in
Christchurch, and only
2300 people have got a
voice. [It] doesn’t seem
right.”
John Fletcher, 68:
Fletcher did not make a
submission because, “It
[the draft plan] wasn’t
specific enough to get all
hot under the collar.
“I think it’s still early
days yet.
“I have heard sketches
[about the plan], like
probably in The Star. I
know they’re talking
something about rates
increases.”
Diane Timbobolan,
18: Timbobolan did not
know what the plan is and
would have liked more
information on it “so that
we will be aware of what it
is and we know what it’s all
about.
“I think 2300 people
[making submissions] is
too small.”
Tim Jefferson, 49:
Jefferson has heard of
the plan, but said: “I
didn’t go to the trouble
[of [completing a
submission].”
“My assumption was that
it was too long.”
Another reason he
chose not to give feedback
was he”didn’t have many
objections to it [the draft
plan].”
Jacinda Gilliand:
Gilliand had not heard of
the LTP.
She said 2300
submissions does not seem
like many, but she does
not think this was the city
council’s fault. Instead,
she believes this is because
people are “not engaged
enough” with local politics.
However, Gilliand trusts
the city council’s plan will
be beneficial to residents.
Raphael Rim, 17: Rim
did not know what the
LTP is.
He said 2300
submissions is “a very
meagre amount.
“I think that’s really
lacklustre.”
He would have liked
to see “a wider survey”
and more face to face
engagement with the
community, particularly
younger people,
encouraging them to make
submissions.
John McKenzie, 79: “I
don’t know anything.
“I don’t care [about the
plan]. I do my own thing.”
Metala Asomua-Green,
42: Asomua-Green did not
make an LTP submission
or know what the LTP is.
“I suppose I didn’t really
know that anything like
that was happening.”
Regina Shin, 54: Shin
had not heard of the LTP.
She said the number
of submissions giving
feedback on it was “not
good enough.”
Had Shin known what
the LTP was she would
have made a submission.
She thinks at the
moment “they [the city
council] spend so much
money on roads.”
She thinks this money
would be better spent on
services and took issue
with the LTP’s proposal
to cut the hours of some
libraries that are used less
by residents.
“Canterbury is so wide.
Even those small places
need service.”
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OUR PEOPLE - DON RAPLEY
Meet the volunteer who ferries
Getting cut off by
motorists who don’t
indicate is put into
perspective for the
Cancer Society’s
volunteer drivers. After
all, their passengers
have deeper issues to
contend with. There
are 158 drivers - from
university students
to pensioners - in
Christchurch. Chris
Barclay takes a trip
down memory lane
with 77-year-old Don
Rapley.
How long have you been a
volunteer driver?
It must be about three years.
Originally I made inquiries to
a few places to try and do some
outdoor work after I retired:
Willowbank Wildlife Reserve,
Orana Park and the Department
of Conservation. Basically I
drew a blank, so I contacted
the Cancer Society. I thought it
would be a good cause. I thought
people might need their lawns
mowed or gardens trimmed up.
They suggested being a driver
and it went from there really.
DRIVER ASSIST: Don Rapley is one of 158 volunteer drivers who ferry cancer patients to
Christchurch Hospital for treatment.
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN
What steps do you have to
take to obtain your (volunteer)
driver licence?
You have to do the police check
and a driving test every five
years to make sure you’re still a
competent driver. It was quite
a good refresher to be honest.
You had to constantly remind
yourself of things you took for
granted from 50 or 60 years
ago. There’s also an orientation
programme, which covers topics
including listening skills and
making conversation.
Why did you get involved?
What was the motivation?
After working for 58 years I
still wanted to be active. I just
can’t sit on the couch and watch
telly all day or read a book. I was
looking for something to do that
wasn’t in a routine like delivering
Meals on Wheels at noon every
day. Some people like routine,
I prefer to have variation. (The
Cancer Society) is so organised,
they send you an email and ask
‘Can you do this on Tuesday at
three o’clock?’ It fits around your
own programme. If you want to
go away for a few days you can.
You don’t have to feel obligated,
you’re not tied down. If you’ve
got something on you don’t feel
like you’re letting them down.
They’re a joy to work for.
So you weren’t inspired to
volunteer because you had a
family history of cancer?
My wife’s twin sister had
breast cancer 12 years ago and
my brother died of cancer but
(volunteering) wasn’t me feeling
I wanted to give something back.
Six months after I started
driving Frances (Don’s wife)
got cancer, that was a bit ironic.
I was her driver for a while.
Fortunately she’s back good as
gold.
Did your wife’s circumstances
underline how important the
volunteer driver service is?
Exactly. The number one
problem is the parking at
the hospital. That really puts
pressure on people but if you
drive them, they know they
can be dropped off at a time
and not worry about having to
find a park down the road or
use the hospital shuttle (from
Deans Ave). That adds time.
People are tense and stressed,
some of them are terminal.
It’s a stressful time so if they can
get that one worry taken off
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cancer patients to hospital
It is a return service so what
do you do after the client heads
for their appointment? And how
do you find a park?
I go and park by the croquet
courts and tennis courts in North
Hagley Park. There’s a three-hour
car park there. Sometimes I have
to wait for someone to pull out.
It’s quite busy. Then I go for a
walk. It’s a good opportunity to
spend an hour or two walking
around the gardens before the
hospital, (Cancer Society) coordinator
or the client calls to
arrange the pick up.
Steer us through a standard
week . . .
I only do one trip a week,
sometimes two. In school
holidays maybe the grandparents
(volunteer drivers) go away
or look after the kids so it
might be busier. Generally the
commitment is one (trip) a week.
The clients are only adults. I don’t
look at their age but 40 or over I
suppose.
By usually doing a trip a
week, is it difficult to establish
a rapport with clients or is that
not part of the job description?
It’s not an emotional job, it’s
thoughtful I suppose. You don’t
get to know people on a personal
basis. Recently I’ve taken one
client for radiation treatment
DRIVING ON: Don with his wife Frances and (right) the
hospital shuttles.
once a week for five weeks but he
was quite disorientated because
of his condition. It’s different
for Frances. For 27 years she’s
visited a 94-year-old lady once a
week through Age Concern. She’s
become a friend and knows the
family. Driving is not impersonal,
but it’s less frequent. You could
do three or four trips maximum
with the same person and then
you move onto the next one.
How are jobs distributed?
Most of the time we get clients
fairly closely to where we live. The
co-ordinator allocates people and
does a really good job. I might
pick up in Redwood, Bishopdale
or Papanui. Occasionally you get
a request to do one out of your
area.
Does the co-ordinator brief
you on who you’re picking up
for the first time?
Yes, you’re emailed a bit of
a profile. You get the person’s
contact details and if there’s any
conditions, like if they need a
wheelchair.
How do you approach the
initial meeting and journey? Is
it quite confronting knowing
the passenger might not have
long to live?
It’s not really confronting, and
that’s not being hard-nosed about
it. It’s just really satisfying to me
that you’re providing a service
and helping someone. You get
a feel or a vibe when you meet
them at the door or when they
come to the car. I always turn
the car radio off so people feel
they can talk if they want to talk.
Some will pour it all out, others
might be quite quiet about it.
You go with the flow according
to how you read the situation.
We don’t get told the finite
details. You don’t really know
when they’re having palliative
care whether they have three
months, six months . . . two years.
Everyone’s different. They might
want to talk about their career or
their family.
Do you ever hear the good
news, like when a client is in
remission?
Not really, because once the
treatment is over we don’t have
any contact again and we might
only meet once.
You use your private car, can
you get reimbursed for mileage?
Yes, you can get reimbursed.
I opt, as a donation, not to
take it. In my mind, if you’re
volunteering, you’re volunteering
but there are people that can’t
afford not to be reimbursed.
That’s fair and reasonable.
The original plan was to
help cancer patients with their
gardening, and that’s still
eventuated hasn’t it?
The Cancer Society put me
in touch with a woman who is
terminal. She’s house proud and
I’ve done the lawns six or seven
times. She was happy, ecstatic
almost, when I cut back the vines
coming through her fence. It was
satisfying when she doesn’t have
to see weeds when she’s looking
out the window. It’s like the
driving, you’re doing something
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OPINION
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Lifting the lid on the Parliamentary
The Parliamentary
Press Gallery is
marking its 150th
anniversary this
week – a year
late because
of Covid-19.
The New Zealand Herald’s
Audrey Young hasn’t been
there quite that long but as
one of the most experienced
members of the Press
Gallery, she explains the
work of the gallery, whether
anything is really “off the
record” and how close
journalists get to politicians
What’s it like working at
Parliament?
Like the ad for the police
said a few years ago, political
journalists have great work
stories. And like them, the best
days for us are often the worst
days for someone else. It may
be a blunder by a minister, an
embarrassing leak, a national
emergency, a pratfall by a
backbencher, conferences,
campaigns, or on a really big
day, a scandal, a resignation or a
leadership coup.
What has been the most
exciting leadership coup?
I’ve missed a lot of them
through sheer coincidence.
It used to be said that leaders
would get nervous when I went
overseas on holiday. Paula
Bennett drafted a mock bill,
the Holidays (Audrey Young
Prohibition) Amendment Bill.
The result of the Don Brash vote
against Bill English was probably
the biggest surprise. Resignations
are more stunning. Nothing
has matched the day John Key
stepped down as Prime Minister
for shock value. Jim Anderton’s
decision to resign as Alliance
leader after one of his daughters
took her life was big event at the
time, although he later returned
to the leadership.
Where does the gallery get its
stories from?
A myriad of places. The best
ones are from confidential
sources that the competition
can’t get to but is forced to match
the story. But stories can be from
numerous other places – tip-offs
from MPs, press secretaries or
readers, a hunch that you’ve
followed up, Official Information
Act releases, a leaked document,
the House, select committee
evidence, press releases, press
conferences, interviews, reports,
social media, a new angle on a
running story or a request from
the editor. A source once left
a confidential Cabinet paper
for me in an agreed place at an
agreed time in the old Bennett’s
Bookshop in Bowen House.
Several decades ago, a gallery
journalist was caught during a
Press Gallery party, the worse
for wear, in another office rifling
through a rival’s desk. But
mostly it is above board.
Do journalists go through
rubbish bins to get stories?
No, not deliberately anyway.
One former Press Gallery
member, Roger Foley, left an
important file of papers of his
near a rubbish tin. When he
realised the cleaners had put the
file into the rubbish, he got a
security guard to take him to the
rubbish collection point to start
combing through the big bin.
He says he recognised the Press
Gallery’s rubbish because of the
chicken bones and champagne
bottles. He never found his own
file but he did find something
from a Labour MP which later
formed the basis of a story. The
same reporter was accused of
crawling through a ceiling at
Parliament to hear a Muldoon
National caucus meeting, which
is not true. But he did climb on a
coat stand to poke his head into a
ceiling manhole and could hear a
row upstairs about NZ investing
in a cool-store in Bahrain, which
gave him a front-page lead.
How has the Press Gallery
changed?
It depends what the starting
point is. Former parliamentary
historian John Martin relays the
disturbing story of former Prime
Minister Gordon Coates (1925–
28) holding press conferences
in his office with a whisky and
water in hand. Worse, when he
needed to relieve himself, the
press conference continued in
the nearby lavatories. Women
were not allowed to become
proper members of the Press
Gallery until 1965. Most media
offices today are run by women.
There is a creche nearby.
Do journalists need
MPs more than MPs need
journalists?
Some politicians go through
their careers ignoring the media
but not many successful ones.
New MPs are sometimes warned
during their induction that
nothing is “off the record” when
it comes to journalists, which is
quite untrue. But it might take
time for MPs to work out who
they can trust. But a trusting
relationship can be mutually
beneficial. Talking to an MP with
extensive knowledge of an area
but who doesn’t want to be quoted
can add depth to a journalist’s
and the public’s understanding
of the story. But everything an
MP says cannot necessarily be
taken at face value, either. If
the public had to rely solely on
press statements, it would be
an ignorant world. That said,
many politicians pay a great deal
of attention to their own social
media images and messaging,
including Jacinda Ardern.
NEWS
GATHERERS:
The 2020 Press
Gallery photo
with Speaker
Trevor Mallard.
PHOTO: MARK
COOTE
Is there much social
fraternisation?
There is no point denying it,
considering RNZ journo Clare
de Lore married Don McKinnon,
and Ruia Mai journo Ngahuia
Wade married Richard Prebble.
There are many opportunities to
socialise between journalists and
MPs, with various social events
hosted regularly at Parliament
and the parliamentary bar,
Pickwicks, still being a popular
haunt for younger reporters who
miss the company of Winston
Peters. But the culture is not
what it was. There are no longer
all-night sittings of Parliament
with well-lubricated card schools
playing into the night that could
end up anywhere. The “work
hard, play hard” culture has
changed over the years and
more markedly under Speaker
Trevor Mallard who, by the way,
is married to Listener columnist
Jane Clifton.
Does the Press Gallery
operate like a pack?
Occasionally, such as last week
when we got together before the
press conference for Australian
Foreign Minister Marise Payne
because the people running her
visit set a limit of five questions
only for New Zealand media.
We had to agree on what the five
issues would be and who would
ask the questions.
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LETTERS 19
Press Gallery
It is a collegial but competitive
work environment. If someone
gets a big scoop, they will be
congratulated by competitors.
But we are arch rivals. You can’t
just ask any question in a standup
without giving away a story
you’re working on. Sometimes it
is better to work by phone than
be seen in the café with a source.
Rivals such as the Dominion and
the Herald used to share offices.
We now work in neighbouring
offices to our rivals. People get
nervous when someone else’s
door is shut in the gallery because
it usually means they are working
on a sensitive story.
Are overseas trips a perk of
the job?
They never feel like it at the
time. Covering a Prime Minister
abroad can be extremely
demanding with different time
zones, a packed schedule and
sometimes the need to file print
stories and commentary, audio,
photos and video. They are almost
character-building in hindsight.
What are the more memorable
ones?
My first trip in the gallery was
with Jim Bolger to the Pacific
Islands Forum in the Marshall
Islands. It was an ethical torment.
Literally outside our hotel
window the locals were roasting
giant turtles alive in honour of
the special guests. The United
Nations and White House
visits are a thrill. But in Helen
Clark’s last visit, George W Bush
complimented Duncan Garner
on his smart suit instead of
answering his question. You can
get to see places you’d otherwise
never visit – Mururoa, East
Timor, Port of Spain, Naypyidaw
and Baghdad, flying low across
the city with Gerry Brownlee in
an open-door chopper with a
machine gunner at the ready. My
colleague Claire Trevett covered
John Key’s visit to Balmoral
Castle in Scotland in 2011 and
got the best picture of the Queen’s
cluttered room.
Why is it called the Press
Gallery?
It was literally only the “press”
as in newspapers and there is
still literally a gallery above
the Speaker’s chair set aside for
accredited members of the Press
Gallery to watch the debating
chamber. There is a lovely old
wooden bench to write on. It
was an historic and treasured
bench, inscribed with dozens
of signatures carved out it from
generations of journalists. But
during the 1990s when the Old
Parliament Buildings was vacated
for an upgrade, Parliamentary
Service had the bench sanded
smooth without any consultation.
The media offices used to be in
a corridor behind the gallery.
MPs took those offices when the
refurbishment was over and they
have never been returned.
How do you become accredited?
It is on the recommendation
of the Press Gallery using a set
of rules, but it is ultimately up
to the Speaker, who controls
virtually everything to do with
Parliament including where you
can and can’t take photos or
film people in the building. MPs
need to be able to carry out their
jobs unimpeded. The Speaker
sometimes punishes journalists
for breaches, such as taking away
swipe card access as happened
to the entire Herald office for
10 days when it ran a photo of
people in the public gallery trying
to stop a man from jumping over
into the chamber.
Has filing changed?
When I first started in 1994, we
were using electric typewriters
with golf balls and we would
fax our stories up to the office
in Auckland. You could file a
story as late as 10.20pm if it was
for the front page. These days,
with websites running 24 hours
a day, there is no such thing as a
PACE:
Former
Prime
Minister
John Key
faces
questions
on his
way
to the
House in
February
2015.
PHOTO:
MARK
MITCHELL
single deadline. The competition
to be first is stronger than ever.
The number of press conferences
has increased hugely especially
under Covid-19. Most are livestreamed.
Reporters listen and
file to the website at the same
time. Photographers have become
video operators. Reporters have
to know how to take photos and
video. The pace has quickened.
Is it all about click bait?
No, but we all want our stories
to be well read and these days you
know how well an online story
has been read. But for the Herald,
at least, Premium content means
you are encouraged to cover
issues more deeply.
What’s a standup?
Until Covid, it used to be a
quick press conference at which
the subject and the reporters
stood up, often in an office foyer
or in the foyer at Parliament.
Now it seems to be the name
given to when the subjects are
standing up, such as Ashley
Bloomfield at the Ministry of
Health, and the reporters are
sitting down.
What are some of the other
terms political reporters use?
The bridge run is when we
pull politicians aside on their
way to the debating chamber
on the black and white tiles
in Parliament’s foyer. It is
called the bridge run because,
inexplicably, it used to take place
on the narrow bridge between
Parliament and the Beehive until
some safety conscious Speaker
changed it.
Do you take it easy when
Parliament is in recess?
No.
Proud to be
right wing
I am proud to be one of those
ageing right wing bigots as David
Marra puts it, but what intrigues
me is that according to the supporters
of the left it is only people
from the right who can be bigots.
You only have to look at Facebook
to see how bigoted the left
wing people can be.
They ignore what is happening
as a result of actions by the
present Government and I guess
that the borrowing that Grant
Robertson is doing at present and
looks to continue with is okay.
The young are very concerned
by climate change but if I was
young I would be more worried
as to how in the future we are going
to pay this back and I wonder
if the lack of action on many of
the Government promises are as
a result of dare I say it we are out
of money.
Perhaps the PM has answers
but if asked she will say I don’t
know but I will get back to you. –
R Lucas
Health board
changes
As far as the planned redesign
of health boards are concerned,
one hopes that the determined
opposition in your pages from
(CDHB members) James Gough
and Aaron Keown is based on
something more than the loss of
income which they will
suffer. For they are full-time
councillors of Christchurch as
well. – John Burn
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us down the path of separate
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University cat
Campus
I’m not sure exactly when
Campus arrived at University
Halls but he certainly came to
stay.
I used to go and feed him in
the holidays.
A few years
ago one of
the managers
thought she
might take
him home
with her but
Campus had
other ideas
and within
a few days
escaped from her home and was
found weeks later in Burnside
Park and was brought back to the
uni halls, and we decided that at
night time he should be in the
cleaner’s shed and garage.
The maintenance man then
made a door for him in the wall of
the supervisor’s office but had to
redo the opening because Campus
was too fat to fit through.
He loved to sit on the wooden
bench and allow you to pet him.
He was never a great mouser but
he didn’t tolerate other cats on his
patch.
He will be missed and he
lived a charmed life, he did love
his music on in the shed and of
course, the heater had to be on as
well. We will miss Campus.
– Veronica Weeks (retired
cleaner)
I HAVE started reading the
more than 2000 submissions
on the draft Long Term Plan.
I am incredibly impressed
with the amount of work
that has gone into some of
the submissions.
Several residents’ associations
and groups have
undertaken an in-depth
analysis of the LTP, and
highlighted specific items in
the capital programme they
want advanced, with clear
rationale for the proposed
changes.
Some have commented
on how much they have
had to rely on community
knowledge to identify
projects that have been
omitted from the Capital
Programme.
This isn’t good enough
from my perspective and I
know other councillors feel
the same way.
We will feed this back into
the organisation so we can
resolve it for the future.
There is also a theme
emerging about setting
priorities for relatively
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FOOD 21
Family favourites for those cold evenings
Slice beef and arrange with the
salad.
Smoked fish and kumara
hash cakes
Serves 8
Ingredients
Ingredients
1 tbsp butter
2kg chicken
1 garlic bulb
2 leeks
20 shiitake mushrooms
2 carrots
2 tbsp olive oil
375ml dry white wine
500ml chicken stock
1 bunch tarragon
Directions
Preheat the oven to 220 deg C.
Turn the wings under the chicken
and truss for roasting. Rub the
chicken with the butter and garlic
bulb, halved, then season.
Place leeks (chopped into 3cm
pieces), carrots (chopped into
3cm pieces), mushrooms (or
another kind of mushroom if
you prefer) and more garlic in
a casserole dish. Place chicken
on top of vegetables, drizzle
with olive oil and pour the wine
around the chicken.
Roast for 30min, then pour
the hot chicken stock around the
chicken. Reduce the oven to 180
deg C, cover with a lid and roast
for another 30 to 45min.
Lift out the chicken and
vegetables (keep covered and
warm) and strain the pan juices
into a saucepan. Simmer over
medium heat until thick. Add
tarragon leaves before serving
with the chicken and vegetables.
Seared beef and couscous
salad
Serves 4
Ingredients
500gm beef fillet
1 tsp ginger
2 cloves crushed garlic
2 tsp brown sugar
1 tbsp oil
200gm couscous
500ml chicken stock
1 red onion, sliced
½ red pepper, sliced
200gm pumpkin, sliced
½tsp turmeric
1 tsp coriander
½ tsp cumin
2 tbsp olive oil
100gm beans, blanched
1 cup fresh herbs, chopped
roughly
Dressing
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
2 tbsp olive oil
Directions
Place the beef in a small bowl.
Tarragon gravy
makes a tasty
change for
roast chicken.
Add ginger, garlic, brown sugar
and one tablespoon oil. Combine
well and set aside for 20min or
until ready to cook.
Cook couscous in the
chicken stock following packet
instructions.
Heat oven to 180 deg C. Place
red onion, pepper, pumpkin,
turmeric, coriander, cumin and
paprika on an oven tray.
Toss in the two tablespoons
of oil and bake for 20min until
slightly brown and cooked
through.
Heat a pan to a high heat and
sear beef on all sides and place in
the middle of the vegetables. This
will also take 20min. Remove
and rest for 10min.
In a large bowl, mix couscous
with dressing and gently add
vegetables. Place on a platter.
2 tbsp butter
700gm kumara
2 lemons
400gm smoked fish
4 spring onions
¼ cup fresh parsley
1 to dust flour
2cm oil
Directions
Peel and cut kumara into chunks
and cook in boiling salted water
until tender. Drain well and
coarsely mash with melted butter
and the juice of one lemon. Set
aside to cool.
Combine flaked fish with
kumara, finely chopped spring
onions and parsley. Season well
with salt and pepper. Form
mixture into eight patties. Dust
patties with flour.
Heat a nonstick frying pan
with a little oil and gently fry fish
cakes over a medium heat for
3-4min on each side until
golden brown. Serve with lemon
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Mixed fortunes for teams in
early season match-ups
• By Chris Barclay
OLIVER COLLOTY has plans
to qualify as an electrician, while
in another potential profession
the teenager is clearly plugged in
already.
Christchurch United’s
17-year-old striker scored a
remarkable seven goals over the
Anzac weeekend, to justify to
club bringing him north from
Dunedin.
Colloty netted four times
in the record 9-0 drubbing of
Halswell in the latest round of
the Mainland Football premiership
on Friday after joining the
contest as a substitute late in the
opening half.
He then tormented the
Nomads United defence in
Monday’s opening phase of the
English Cup with a hat-trick
amid the 5-1 victory.
Colloty, who is embarking on
the pre-trade component of an
electrical apprenticeship, downplayed
his scoring exploits, although
he is more than halfway
toward fulfilling a pre-season
goal.
“I wanted to hit double figures
in the Mainland premiership,
I’ve got six now so the move (to
Christchurch) is going pretty
good,” he said.
The margin was the biggest
recorded by United in the premiership;
Halswell copped their
heaviest loss in the competition.
Colloty, who trialed at UK club
Reading while a student at Otago
Boys’ High School in 2019, then
added a treble in his English Cup
debut.
Naturally right footed, Colloty
also scored with his left and a
header for a boxed set of goals.
In spite of his glut of goals,
Colloty wasn’t about to rest
on his laurels with head coach
Danny Halligan able to call on
Max Chretien, Seth Simpson,
Eddie Wilkinson plus Michael
and Luke White as options up
front.
“There’s a lot of competition,
the quality is a bit better here
than down south,” Colloty said.
Other first round winners
included holders Cashmere
Technical, Ferrymead Bays and
Selwyn United, who thrashed
Mid Canterbury United 8-1.
Cashmere Technical lead the
premiership with 16 points, one
clear of Coastal Spirit while
Christchurch United sit third on
13.
Marist Albion are the only
unbeaten side heading into the
fourth round of the Christchurch
Metre Premier Cup, with a 41-26
victory over Shirley providing
the maximum 15 competition
points.
Last season’s beaten finalists
are five points clear of Linwood
– who jumped six spots up
the standings thanks to a 51-5
thrashing of Belfast – as they
prepare for Saturday’s assignment
with fourth-ranked New
Brighton at Rawhiti Domain.
Although they languish at the
foot of the table, Belfast’s clash
with fellow strugglers University
at Sheldon Park will be closely
monitored by Crusaders coach
Scott Robertson given midfield
back Brayden Ennor will turn
out for the students in a bid to
prove his fitness for next Saturday’s
Super Rugby Aotearoa final
with the Chiefs.
The All Black made his
comeback from a knee injury for
University during the first half of
their 34-14 win over Sumner.
The Northern Bulldogs faithful
turned out in force to farewell
club stalwart Glenn Scott, who
lost his battle with cancer last
week, but the Riccarton Knights
were not entirely sympathetic at
Murphy Park.
The Knights upset last year’s
runners-up with a 16-14 victory,
their first of the campaign, after
Josh Endacott could not land a
late sideline conversion to tie up
the contest.
Defending champions Linwood
lead Hornby on points
differential after the perennial
powerhouses banked contrasting
victories last Saturday.
The Keas pulled clear of Papanui
after the break to triumph
34-16 on Saturday while the
Panthers saw their 16-0 halftime
advantage whittled away
until Sincere Harraway slotted
the decisive penalty in a 22-20
cliffhanger.
Linwood seek to continue setting
the pace against the winless
MAGNIFICENT
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Christchurch
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for the club –
this strike was
against Halswell
– during
two outings
over Anzac
Weekend.
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Eastern Eagles while Hornby
head to Kaiapoi to take on the
Bulldogs.
Meanwhile, the Canterbury
hockey’s premier league starts on
Saturday, with Southern United
and Carlton Redcliffs approaching
the competition on a positive
note after claiming the men’s and
women’s Porritt Cup title respectively
last weekend.
Southern United were
comprehensive 3-0 winners over
Avon while Carlton Redcliffs also
held their opponent scoreless
before beating HSOB/Burnside
2-0.
Reigning champion Lincoln
University have made the perfect
start to their defence of the
Christchurch Netball Centre
premier grade crown by leading
the table after two commanding
victories.
Lincoln boasts a positive goal
differential of 102 compared
to the other unbeaten teams
Technical A (+33) and University
of Canterbury (+32).
The title holders thrashed
Villa Maria 86-12 in the
opening round of the 12-team
competition and then beat Kia
Toa 61-33 in Tuesday night’s
second round action.
Rams
ready to
tip-off
after delay
• By Chris Barclay
AFTER AN elongated pre-season
stretching back to New Year, the
Canterbury Rams have endured
another wait before opening
their National Basketball League
campaign.
Although the competition
started last Saturday, the Rams
tip-off for the first time tomorrow
night due to the vagaries of the
draw.
The Hawkes Bay Hawks are
the last of the 10 teams to hit the
court when they host the Rams in
Napier on Sunday.
Rams head coach Mick Downer
admitted the squad were anxious
to get under way, even if they face
an ominous trip to the capital.
The Wellington Saints sat out
last year’s Covid-19 inspired
showdown, but the traditional
powerhouse look as strong as ever,
having beaten the Otago Nuggets
95-73 on opening night.
“They’re the benchmark of the
league, they’ve been the most successful
franchise and they go into
every season with the expectation
of winning it,” Downer said.
Downer’s squad started assembling
in early January, American
imports EJ Singler and Deshon
Taylor only recently emerged
from quarantine while Zach
Hannen and Australia-based
Max Darling completed the roster
today.
Darling and Taylor Britt
head to Christchurch after
completing ANBL commitments
with Wollongong and Perth
respectively.
“We’ve had to get a bit
creative to break up the
monotony because it’s been such
a long time,” Downer said of the
lead-up.
“We’ve essentially had guys in
town from early new year and we
had some high school kids help us
with numbers at training.’’
Top of the tables
Christchurch Metro Premier Cup men’s rugby
P W L D PD Pts
Marist Albion 3 3 0 0 28 15
Linwood 3 2 1 0 42 10
Burnside 3 2 1 0 19 9
New Brighton 3 2 1 0 11 9
Sydenham 3 2 1 0 -7 9
Christchurch 3 1 2 0 7 8
Shirley 3 1 2 0 -8 8
Lincoln University 3 1 2 0 0 7
Sumner 3 1 1 1 -12 6
HSOB 3 1 2 0 -9 5
University 3 1 2 0 -20 5
Belfast 3 0 2 1 -51 4
Canterbury Rugby League Men’s Premiership
P W L D PD Pts
Linwood Keas 3 3 0 0 58 6
Hornby Panthers 3 3 0 0 56 6
Halswell Hornets 3 2 1 0 44 4
Celebration Lions 3 2 1 0 32 4
Northern Bulldogs 3 1 2 0 28 2
Riccarton Knights 3 1 2 0 -62 2
Papanui Tigers 3 0 3 0 -58 0
Eastern Eagles 3 0 3 0 -96 0
Mainland Football Men’s Premiership
P W D L GD Pts
Cashmere Technical 6 5 1 0 12 16
Coastal Spirit 6 5 0 1 8 15
Christchurch Utd 6 4 1 1 18 13
Nelson Suburbs 6 3 1 2 5 10
Nomads Utd AFC 6 2 0 4 -5 6
Ferrymeads Bays 6 2 0 4 -7 6
Selwyn Utd FC 6 1 1 4 -7 4
Halswell Utd AFC 6 0 0 6 -24 0
Weekend match-ups
Christchurch Metro
Premier Cup (all Saturday
at 2.45pm)
Burnside v Shirley, Burnside
Park; New Brighton v Marist
Albion, Rawhiti Domain;
Sumner v Lincoln University,
McCormacks Bay Field;
Sydenham v Christchurch,
Sydenham Park; HSOB v
Linwood, Bob Deans Field;
Belfast v University, Sheldon
Park.
Canterbury Rugby
League Premiership (all
Saturday at 2.45pm)
Halswell Hornets v
Riccarton Knights, Halswell
Domain; Northern Bulldogs
v Hornby Panthers, Murphy
Park; Eastern Eagles v
Linwood Keas, Wainoni Park;
Celebration Lions v Papanui
Tigers, Macfarlane Park.
Mainland Football
Premiership
Nelson Suburbs FC v
Cashmere Technical, Saxton
Field, 12pm Saturday; Halswell
United v Ferrymead Bays FC,
Halswell Domain, 2.45pm
Saturday; Nomads United v
Selwyn United, Tulett Park,
2.45pm Saturday; Coastal
Spirit v Christchurch Utd,
Linfield Park, 12.30pm Sunday.
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Fitting farewell to passionate
trainer and league stalwart
HORSE TRAINER and rugby
league stalwart Glenn Scott
was farewelled on Tuesday,
a day after his best horse
Take After Me produced an
emotionally-charged win at
Methven.
Scott, a 50-year-old father
of two who was also a life
member of the Kaiapoi-based
Northern Bulldogs, died last
week following a battle with
cancer.
The day before his funeral
at Kaiapoi High School, the
country’s top harness racing
driver Blair Orange punched
the air as Take After Me
emerged from the trail to
run down the pace-making
Call This Fun to win the
Bayleys Ashburton Handicap
Trot.
“It was great to get that
result. They are a champion
family . . . and Glenn was
an easy-going lovely guy,”
Orange said.
It was the third win in 16
starts for Scott’s father Fred,
who took over his son’s team
this season.
“It is quite unbelievable, we
have had lots of lows but this
brought a lot of happiness,”
said Scott’s mother Jan.
“About 15 of us watched
replays of the race on TV and
it was very emotional.”
Scott’s brother Shannon was
able to watch the race track
side with Fred after flying in
from Australia.
“The timing was perfect
for him, if the bubble hadn’t
opened up he wouldn’t have
been able to get here,” Jan
Scott said.
The win was Take After
Me’s 12th in 227 starts. The
dual-gaited Holmes Hanover
10-year-old has now won eight
times as a trotter, and four as
a pacer.
Scott was also remembered
at the Bulldogs headquarters
on Saturday, where the premier
grade team were pipped
16-14 by Riccarton at Murphy
Park.
“Racing and rugby league
really were his passions,” Jan
Scott said.
“He will be missed.”
– Harness Racing News
EMOTIONAL: Trotter Take After Me
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Having to choose one winter sports code
over another due to traditional weekend
fixture clashes has been mitigated by
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18, 16 and 14 year olds grades mid-week at
the new Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub. With
purpose built changing rooms, sand based
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covered stands for parents and spectators
and plenty of parking, Nga Puna Wai has
added to the appeal of playing in the midweek
competitions.
‘Deconflicting having to choose one
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young players to enjoy a variety of sport at
a time of life when it’s easiest for them to
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an investment in their future and that our
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Starting in May, the 14 year old grade plays
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Ennor makes late bid for Super Rugby glory
IT’S A BOTTOM of the table
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on Saturday could have
significant ramifications for the
Super Rugby Aotearoa decider.
Crusaders coach Scott Robertson
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recovery from a serious knee
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The All Black midfield back
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The 23-year-old set up a try
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in an encouraging hit out for
University in their win against
Sumner, Robertson’s home club.
David Havili and Leicester
Fainga’anuku are the established
midfield combination, following
centre Jack Goodhue’s seasonending
injury, though Ennor
could add impact and experience
off the bench.
The second phase of Ennor’s
competitive recovery dovetails
with the Crusaders regrouping
ahead of the final - and the
under-strength Chiefs dead
rubber with the out-ofcontention
Blues at Eden Park.
A resurgent Chiefs will rest
several key players ahead of their
first Super Rugby final since
they won their second and most
recent title in 2013.
All Blacks Damian McKenzie,
Anton Lienert-Brown and Brad
Weber may have only limited - if
any - involvement after racking
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start to string together five successive
victories.
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25 cliffhanger over the Crusaders
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Mazda BT-50 helps complete project
I HAVE THE city council
to thank for completion of a
landscaping project on my front
lawn.
Even though I still can’t work
out why, our footpaths were replaced
and I was left with a bit of
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and berm.
I needed top soil and grass seed
to finish the job. Fortunately, I
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and on a trip to the garden centre
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this old body of mine wasn’t too
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the soil, but it is now a case
of job done.
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today’s ute has become so popular,
it’s the versatile carryall for
when jobs crop up or something
needs to be transported on a
whim.
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configuration means five occupants
can be transported at will
and, as in the BT-50’s case, comfort
levels are high right across
the range.
Regular readers will recall I
drove the range-topping BT-50
Limited in February, this evaluation
focuses on the mid-spec
GTX four-wheel-drive model,
it lists at $58,490, which is a
$2500 saving, bearing in mind
the seven-model range starts at
$47,490 (2WD). All are double
cabs with wellside decks.
The Mazda BT-50 is all new,
gone is the old Ford Rangerbased
variant. The BT-50’s release
coincides with a new Isuzu
D-Max, I mention that because
underneath, the platform of the
BT-50 is all Isuzu, although I
know that the Mazda Motor Co
in Japan has done a lot of refinement
work on the driveline and,
of course, the body shell is far
from similar.
Even in mid-spec form the
BT-50 is well appointed. Sure,
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suits me fine, but elsewhere there
are plenty of items that will keep
buyers happy and for those who
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family vehicle then the BT-50 easily
fits the bill.
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navigation, keyless entry
and ignition and dual zone climate
control. More importantly,
Mazda’s high-spec suite of safety
kit is included, easily keeping
up with the safety functions of
all of its competition. You could
happily say Mazda are leading the
charge in terms of ute safety.
Powering the BT-50 is a fourcylinder,
3-litre turbocharged
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MAZDA BT-50: Three grades from $47,490.
diesel. The outputs are rated at
140kW and 450Nm, if these look
familiar, yes, it’s pretty much
the same engine as in the D-
Max. In contrast to the manual
gearbox option that Isuzu offers,
all BT-50s here in New Zealand
are six-speed automatics. I guess
that’s the trend, but it would be
good for those who still prefer a
manual to have a choice.
That aside, the driveline in the
BT-50 is smooth and sophisticated.
I guess Mazda has done
the business in terms of soundproofing,
for the engine just
seems to tick over quietly and it is
a smooth operating unit.
The power outputs are up to
par and would meet the demands
and load carrying claims. The BT-
50 is rated for a 3500kg braked
trailer and will take just about
one-tonne on the deck. My load
didn’t stretch that parameter but
I can report that with something
on the deck the ride is calm and
controlled.
It’s hard to get a leaf spring/
live rear axle set-up working well
under empty and load-carrying
conditions but the BT-50 excels
in both areas, the ride is smooth
and other than a jiggle through
the tyres over road ripples you’d
find it hard to complain.
Up front a traditional double
wishbone system is fitted and
it, too, has good compliance
• Price – Mazda BT-50 GTX
Limited, $58,490
• Dimensions – Length,
5280mm; width, 1870mm;
height, 1790mm
• Configuration – Fourcylinder,
four-wheel-drive,
2999cc, 140kW, 450Nm,
six-speed automatic.
• Performance – 0-100km/h,
10.5sec
• Fuel usage – 8l/100km
along with the geometry to
provide relative steering feel
and satisfactory handling
characteristics.
A ladder chassis vehicle isn‘t
expected to be the high-country
corner challenger but the BT-50
does steer directly on its 265/60
x 18in Bridgestone Dueller tyres
and rear-end stability is settled.
Dry ground conditions in
Canterbury during the time I
had the evaluation vehicle meant
I was a little wary of driving
off-road, but there is a short
clay track with no foliage near
Burnham which I tackled in low
ratio, the ground was flat so I was
unable to utilise the downhill
descent function, but I can report
that from my previous experience
in the Limited model and D-Max
both are useful off-road chargers.
One area you can guarantee
Mazda has been pro-active in the
production of BT-50 is in terms
of fuel consumption. Mazda’s
manufacturing philosophy is
that of minimising our carbon
footprint. The BT-50 is rated
with an eight-litre per 100km
combined cycle average. The
fuel usage readout was sitting at
9.8l/100km when it was returned
to the dealership, that aided by a
8.2l/100km instantaneous readout
at 100km/h (engine speed
1400rpm).
Mazda could easily be excused
for abandoning their ute/pick-up
development. The fact they build
amazing cars and sports utility
vehicles for the mainstream
market fits with their company
philosophy.
Nevertheless, given the number
of utes sold globally it’s a productive
market to be in and Mazda
has been served well with steady
sales of all generations of its
Bounty and BT-50.
Mazda should also be well
pleased with its new partnership
with Isuzu. The BT-50 is all
that you could expect from a
state-of-the-art ute, it’s practical,
comfortable and will have
reliability on its side. That’s why
it gets a five-year/150,000km
warranty.
I can’t wait to get into the base
model variant a little later this
year.
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Getting what you paid
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In the movies, the day someone gets
the keys to their newly bought home
is portrayed as a golden, stress-free
time. The reality can be rather different,
especially if you find your dream home
has turned into something akin to
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“The trick to a stress-free settlement
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starting with when you’re signing the sale
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“The sale and purchase agreement
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between you and the seller that details
the property, the conditions of sale and
the price. Make sure that there is an
agreed list of chattels, with notes as to
their condition, in this agreement. If
the property is full of rubbish, and you
want it gone before you take possession,
make that a condition of the sale. If there
are holes in the fence that the seller
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assurances that something will be done
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these niggly details sorted out before you
sign the agreement than face protracted
battles down the track.”
As a buyer, you are generally entitled to
one opportunity to inspect the property
before settlement day. If the property has
sitting tenants, ask your lawyer to ensure
there is a ‘final inspection’ clause inserted
in the sale and purchase agreement
before you sign it.
“A seller does not have to accommodate
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any extra requests to visit the property
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“Remember that the seller may have a
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available so your interior decorator can
measure up for new curtains is unlikely
to be a high priority.”
Your real estate agent will usually
arrange the inspection with the seller,
and accompany you to the property. Most
experts recommend that this inspection
takes place around 24 hours before
settlement day so there are no hold-ups
to the transfer of funds and ownership.
When you come to inspect the
property, everything should be as it
was when you decided to purchase it
(as reflected by the sale and purchase
agreement). You can expect chattels to
be in a reasonable working order unless
it has been agreed and documented
otherwise. You cannot complain to the
seller that the oven isn’t clean enough, but
you can raise a complaint if it is missing,
or it is a different model to the one cited
in the agreement.
If there is a problem, you should speak
to the real estate agent and your lawyer
in the first instance. Your lawyer should
work with the seller’s lawyer to reach a
satisfactory solution, such as getting the
seller to make any necessary repairs, or
to deduct any costs from the eventual
settlement.
Making the final inspection 24 hours
before settlement is due gives you and the
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Garage Sales
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Gardening
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Professional
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027 4918 234
03 349 4022
Landscaping
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patios, decking,
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Fence staining
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Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED
Trades & Professional Services
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EXPERIENCED
GARDENER
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30 Years
Christchurch Botanic
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ALL landscape
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Maintenance, pruning,
tidy up, lawn work,
landscape planning
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Free Quotes
Phone 348 3482
PAINTING
older painter
for older houses
50 years in trade
“All the skills”
0508 H2O BOY
426 269
027 245 5100
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0211221487
30 years + experience
Older house
restorations:
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NO JOB TOO SMALL
Light industrial also
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Painter & Decorator
021-1966-311
Building
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Specialists
10% Discount
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condtions apply
Ph Wayne
021 136 3045
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Trades & Services
ROOF
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FREE QUOTES
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027 561 4629
rooF
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Trades & Services
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installations, with free
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245 5226 ciey@xtra.co.nz
AA SHOWER
CLEANING
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water stains, mineral
deposits . Comp prices.
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824 85
BRICK & BLOCK
LAYING
all restoration work
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foundations, ph 342 9340
or 021 853 033
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Kitchens, Renovations,
Repairs & Extensions
Free quotes. Discount for
pensioners. Ph Mike 03
980 9771 or 027 2266 930
DRIVEWAYS
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Driveways
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over 30 years experience.
• Extensions & repair • Roof coating
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• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified
• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering
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or 021 223 4200
E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz
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CRAIGS
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P: 027 2299 454
E: craigstrees@xtra.co.nz
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ELECTRICIAN
Contact for a free quote
phone 027 331 0400
davewsimpson@windowslive.com
Experienced Domestic Electrician
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• New Build
• Renovations
• Fault finding
Painters and Decorators Ltd
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A husband and wife team
Specializing in:
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• Interior/exterior
residential
• Small commercial
painting
PAINTERS
Noel 027-411-3596
kemp.painters@gmail.com
kemp painters and decorators
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• Power
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• Scrap metal buyers
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• Top prices paid $$$
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03 343 9993 333 Blenheim Rd
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GLAZING
TWISTY GLASS &
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• Mirrors • Pet Door Specialists
• Splashbacks • All Broken Windows
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027 352 6225
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Call today for a FREE quote on 0800 882 772
www.theprogroup.co.nz/dpc9385
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
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
CARPET LAYING
Exp. Repairs, uplifting,
relaying, restretching.
Phone John on 0800
003181, 027 240 7416
jflattery@xtra.co.nz
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
Trades & Services
ELECTRICIAN
Available, 30 years
experience, immediate
start, competitive rate,
ph Brian 027 433 9548
No Call out fee
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
GARDENING
Weeding, Lawns, Pruning,
Garden Cleanups. Call
Phil The Gardener 021 661
246 for your free quote.
GARDENER
AVAILABLE
Have your gardens tidied
up ready for winter.
Weeding, planting,
mulching & light pruning.
$25 per hour.Ph Wendy
027 282 8515
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
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
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Paving, Lawns, Irrigation,
Decking, Fencing.
Kanga & small digger
services. Check out Squire
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FREE QUOTES. Ph
Arthur 347-8796, 027
220-7014 Edwin 027 220-
7154
MOBILE CAR
CLEANING SERVICES
We come to you where
ever you are. Ring us
at 03 281 8054 for free
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Trades & Services
PAINTER,QUALIFIED
local professional, Int /
Ext,roofs,wallpaper, call
or text Corban 027 846
5035
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
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roof painting Family run
business, work guaranteed.
Pensioner discounts. Ph
Kerin or Paul 022 191
7877 or 379-1281. Website
www.swedekiwipainting.
co.nz
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
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in all aspects of Interior
Plastering. Please call Tim
022 5380959
PLUMBING
DRAINAGE & GAS
No job to big or too small.
Discount rates!!. Free
quotes - call Morgan today
022 375 8506
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
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
STYLETILE BY
DUMAWALL
Suitable for DIY or
installation available.This
new waterproof tile, no
grouting required, suitable
for bathroom, laundry and
kitchen. Various colours
and patterns available.
FAB Plastics. Ph 366
3634. www.styletile.nz
Trades & Services
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
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ANTIQUES
BUYING
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watches, coins,
medals, scrap
gold, sterling
silver, pewter,
original paintings,
modern art.
351 9139
stevepurcellantiques.com
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quality furniture, beds,
stoves, washing machines,
fridge freezers. Same day
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Phone 980 5812 or 027
313 8156
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medals, jewellery,
watches, china, crystal,
books, furs, vintage
clothing, paintings,
furniture, estates &
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Antiques, 194 Edgeware
Rd 385 5117
ACADEMY ANTIQUES
Buying estates, antiques,
old china, crystal, art,
Royal Doulton , Royal
Albert etc. Best prices,
free appraisal. Call Rob
349-4229
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
Wanted To Buy
AAA Buying goods
quality furniture, beds,
stoves, washing machines,
fridge freezers. Same day
service. Selwyn Dealers.
Phone 980 5812 or 027
313 8156
A+ Household effects,
fridges, freezers, washing
machines, ovens. Good
cash paid. Ph Paul 022
0891 671
ALL whiteware wanted.
Same day service, cash
paid for freezes, fridges,
washing machines, ovens.
Also buying furniture &
h/hold effects.Anything
considered. Ph Dave 960-
8440, 027 66 22 116
MILITARIA Any
country, firearms,
uniforms, badges, medals,
memoribilia, WW2 or
earlier ph 338-9931
TOOLS, Garden garage,
saw benches, Lathes. Cash
buyer Phone 355-2045
Vehicles Wanted
Tours
Reid TouRs
Waipapa station Sat 29th May $45 pp
Mt Cook Sat 14th August
Two Passes Sat 4th September $45pp
Call Reid Tours 0800 446 886
Email: reidtours@xtra.co.nz www.reidtours.com
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
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.
CAR REMOVALS
$$CASH PAID$$
CARS, VANS, UTES & 4X4 WANTED
NZ OWNED AND OPERATED FOR 24 YEARS
We use world class vehicle depollution systems
0800 77 80 80
www.pickapart.co.nz
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
csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz
or phone 338 9056
Visit our website:
totalcanterbury.co.nz
Please advise which job
when emailing your CV.
The Star Classifieds
Situations Vacant
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.
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:
• A great work ethic
• 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.
Thursday April 29 2021 The Star 33
• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi
16,065 copies delivered every week
Situations Vacant Situations Vacant Situations Vacant
EDITOR – Ashburton Courier
Allied Press Ltd is seeking an experienced journalist ready
to take the next step in their career, as
Editor for the 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
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
ATTENTION BUSINESS OWNERS
Do you sell products or services that enhance outdoor spaces?
You could feature in the Innovative Outdoor Living Area
at the 2021 Star Media Home and Leisure Show this July
and reach over 10,000 attendees across 3 days!
Louvre System • Bbqs • Heating • Hammocks • Trampolines • Spas • Pools • Decking
Pizza Ovens • Shade Systems • Water Features • Outdoor Furniture • Fencing
If this sounds
like you,
Contact Lisa now on
021 800 809 or email
lisa.lynch@starmedia.kiwi
for a no obligation quote.
Payment options available.
Terms & Conditions apply.
34 The Star Thursday April 29 2021
The Star Classifieds
Entertainments
STAMP AND
POSTCARD FAIR
The Philatelic Centre
67 Mandeville Street,
Riccarton
Saturday 1st May
9am-12pm
Sellers tables available
Phone 027 6354 957
Public Notice
Call us and we’ll
help you place your
classified advert
(with no hassles!)
Nobody knows
Christchurch
like a local
We’re local, we’re in
Christchurch and we
speak your language!
Phone: 379 1100
Classifieds
The Star is published every Thursday, is home delivered free into
92,000 households and is available at over 500 pick up points
throughout Christchurch
www.starkiwi
SCHOOLS. SPORTS CLUBS OR CULTURAL EVENTS
OUTSTANDING
Fundraising opportunity
The Star has a fantastic opportunity that is an ideal way
to fundraise while at the same time helps to profile and
promote your team and their goals and ambitions.
THE ENTERTAINMENT HUB OF THE NORTH!
113 RAVEN QUAY | PHONE: 03 327 7884
BISTRO
OPEN FROM 12PM
WEDNESDAY
TO SUNDAY
HOUSIE
EVERY THURSDAY
12PM
EYES DOWN 12.30PM
BAR HOURS
MON 3PM-10PM
TUES & WEDS 11.30AM
THURS 11AM | FRI 11.30AM
SAT & SUN 11AM
Closing times will vary.
Coming up...FRI 14 MAY, 7PM
Like,totally awesome
80night
FEATURING THE
DnD TRIO
(JOJO, GIGI & MARK)
's
DnD's
Essential 80's Mix
S h o w b a n d
DOWNSTAIRS BAR
FREE!
Hammering out
the kitsch n cool
hits of the 80's
PRIZES FOR BEST
80'S OUTFITS!
Totally Rad!
Sunday, 9th May 2021
Mother's Day Special
A flower on arrival for every mother followed by a
special dessert with every main meal ordered.
Bookings essential 03 260 0325.
*Limited number of flowers & desserts. Offer valid until 3pm.
Bridie's Bar & Bistro | 401 Worcester St, Linwood | Ph: 03 260 0325
Call now to find out more about how you can fundraise
those hard to get dollars, while at the same time
promoting some of the great positive work being done
in the community. It also offers exceptional value for
your supporters and sponsors.
Contact:
Mike Fulham
379 7100
mike@starmedia.kiwi
LIVE RUGBY
FRIDAY 7.05PM
HURRICANES
v HIGHLANDERS
SATURDAY 7.05PM
BLUES v CHIEFS
FRIDAY
MEMBER DRAW 3x $500
LIVE MUSIC THIS SATURDAY 7PM
PETER CAIRNS DUO
MOTHER'S DAY - SUNDAY 9th MAY
COMPLIMENTARY BUBBLES FOR
DINING MUMS IN WHITFORD'S
N E W
ME NU
NEW BAR/BISTRO MENU
AVAILABLE
MONDAY-SUNDAY
12 NOON - 8.30PM
QU I Z
EVERY WEDNESDAY
FROM 7PM
HOU S I E
EVERY SATURDAY
FROM 12.30PM
Woolston Club|43 Hargood St|Ph 03 389 7039|www.woolstonclub.co.nz|fb.com/WoostonclubInc
Thursday April 29 2021 The Star 35
at Hornby Club
LIVE!
SUPER RUGBY
LIVE MUSIC
IN THE PAVILION
Saturday 7pm:
JOHN McCABE
Sunday 3pm:
REMINISCE WITH
ANTHONY
Mother's Day
BUFFETS
LUNCH & DINNER
SUNDAY 9th MAY
$35 PER PERSON
CHILDREN $1
PER YEAR
OF AGE
(UP TO 12 YEARS)
BOOKINGS
ESSENTIAL
17 CARMEN RD. PH. 03 349 9026
WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ
christchurch
GIG GUIDE
Thursday 29 April to Wednesday 5 May 2021
12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Christchurch’s
smoking hot BLUES BAR. Thursday 7.30pm
- Stephen McDaid. Friday 8pm - Tell Mama.
Saturday 8pm - Dee May & the Saints.
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 Thursdays Latin dancing, free.
Friday 8pm - Korn/audioslave tribute show,
tickets at ticketfairy ($25 door sales if
available). Saturday 8pm - Odyssey Live feat.
Layna Hunt with special guest Kelly Fletcher-
Jones. tickets at eventfinda.co.nz or $10 door.
Sunday 1pm - Live music, free; Sunday 8pm -
Ceroc dancing, free. Monday 7pm - Quiz.
Tuesday 8pm - Stand-up comedy night, free.
Wednesday 6pm - Dig The Gig UC band
competition, free.
BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday
7pm - Mickey Rat's Karaoke. Friday 7pm -
Chur Bro. Saturday 7pm - AMPT. Sunday
7pm - Mickey Rat's Karaoke.
BOO RADLEYS, Level 1, 98 Victoria St:
Thursday 9pm - Marcel. Friday 8pm - Amber
Carly Williams. Saturday 8pm - Lee Martin;
10.30pm - VOXY. Wednesday 7.30pm -
South Street Blues Trio; 9.30pm - Open Mic
Night.
BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO, 401
Worcester St: Friday 7pm - Huakina.
Saturday 6.30pm - Karaoke. Sunday 4pm -
Bingo.
CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, Garlands Rd:
Friday 8.30pm - The Chills 'Scatterbrain'
album release tour, tickets at
bit.ly/TheChillsNZ. Saturday 8pm - Team
Dynaite 'Respect the Process' album tour,
tickets at undertheradar.co.nz. Sunday 8pm -
Monty Bevin's 'Catalina' single release, tickets
at undertheradar.co.nz.
CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, 30 Victoria
St: Friday 6pm - Rusila. 9.15pm - Smooth
Talk.
Renowned rock band, Odyssey feat.
Layna Hunt returns to A Rolling Stone
this Saturday night with another big
night of great rock music.
To add a listing, contact
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or
027 458 8590
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi/whatson
HORNBY CLUB, Carmen Rd: Saturday
7pm - John McCabe. Sunday 3pm -
Reminisce with Anthony.
JAZZ AFTER WORK, Ara Auditorium,
130 High St: Friday 6.10pm - Garden City
Big Band, $10 entry.
KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay: Friday
14th May, 7pm - 80's Theme Night feat. the
DnD Trio (Jojo, Gigi & Mark), free.
NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine
Pde: Friday 14 May 7pm - Mama Rock.
RICHMOND CLUB, 75 London St: Friday
7pm - Sign of the Firebird. Saturday 7pm -
Everlong. Sunday 3pm - Stephen McDaid.
RIVERSIDE MARKET, 98 Oxford Tce:
Thursday 6pm - Live jazz, $10 entry.
TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, Hornby:
Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 8.30pm -
Misfitz.
THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd:
Thursday 9.30pm - The Giant Poppies. Friday
7.30pm - Open Mic & Jam. Wednesday 9pm
- Titanic (Kevin Emmett, Nick Buchanan, and
Peter K Malthus).
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd,
Addington: Friday 9.30pm - Krakkajack.
Saturday 9.30pm - In the City. Sunday 6pm -
Lance Kiwi Karaoke. Tuesday 7pm - Quiz.
Wednesday 7.30pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke.
WOOLSTON CLUB, 143 Hargood St:
Saturday 7pm - Peter Cairns Duo.
WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19 London
St, Lyttelton: Thursday - Comedy Night.
Friday 9pm - 12XU presents The Weekend
90s Party, tickets at undertheradar.co.nz.
Saturday 8pm - The Rockabilly & Blues
Session feat. The Convincers with special
guests Ma Bell & the Blue Tones, tickets at
undertheradar.co.nz. Tuesday 8pm - Open
Mic. Wednesday 8pm - Jam Night.
‘Famous for their roasts!’
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ
Cooked Breakfasts
Check out our extensive breakfast
menu from Continental to Cooked
We are open from 6.30am
Seniors SPECIAL
Two courses $23
Soup/Roast or
Roast/Dessert
Special available lunch only
Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm
Bookings Essential
PH 386 0088
fb.com/GardenRestaurantBuffet
www.gardenhotel.co.nz
$19
TREAT THE
FAMILY!
Kid’s 2 course
special
School
Holidays
We are family
friendly.
Great Kids menu
plus designated
play area.
$13
The
RACECOURSE HOTEL
& Motorlodge
118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,
Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150
www.racecoursehotel.co.nz
Mother's Day High Tea
$28pp (minimum 2 people)
MORNING & AFTERNOON
TIMES AVAILABLE
SUNDAY 9th MAY
WED: ROAST MEAL
THUR: FISH & CHIPS
FRI: FISH & CHIPS
SUN: ROAST MEAL
Available 11.30am-2pm
CHECK
OUT
OUR
AMAZING
WEEK DAY
COFFEE-
COMBO
SPECIALS
FROM $7.50
CAFE OPEN 7 DAYS 9AM - 4PM
BAR OPEN THU - SUN EVENINGS
PH 385 8880
FACEBOOK fb.com/GBCCHCH
COLOURING COMPETITION CLOSES 8PM SUNDAY.
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THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX, 110 MARSHLAND RD
www.gardenhotel.co.nz . Phone 385 3132
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WHAT’S ON AT THE RICHMOND CLUB
FRIDAY 7PM
SIGN OF THE
FIREBIRD
SATURDAY 7PM
EVERLONG
SUNDAY 3PM
STEPHEN
McDAID
SUPER
RUGBY
LIVE
COME ON
DOWN AND
WATCH THE
GAMES ON THE
BIG SCREEN!
75 London St, Richmond
Christchurch 8013
P: 03 389 5778
theborough.nz
richmondclub.nz
36 The Star Thursday April 29 2021
Allessa Chaise Sofa
WAS $
2199
NOW
$
1799
SELECTED ITEMS IN STORE & ONLINE + SUPER DEALS. ENDS 31.5.21.
MAISON
Buffet NOW $ 899
Entertainment Unit NOW $ 599
Coffee Table NOW $ 499
Ramsey Single/Single Bunk
WAS $
1299
NOW
$
999
Includes underbunk
storage drawer
Kate Sofabed
WAS $
499
NOW
$
399
Atlantic 3 Piece
Dining Set
WAS $
1379
NOW
$
1099
Medium Feel
boxed
for easy
transport!
Sloane Queen/King Headboard
WAS $
449
NOW
$
299
Sono Queen Mattress
WAS $
599
NOW
$
399
Atlantic
4 Drawer Tallboy
NOW $
799
Tipaz Bedside
NOW $
295
Tipaz 4 Drawer
Tallboy NOW $ 799
ON SALE!
Atlantic
Bedside
NOW $
275
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Online
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PLUS HEAPS more super deals online & in store!
AUTUMN SALE ENDS 31.05.21.
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Ph: 0800 TARGET (0800 827438)
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Offers and product prices advertised here expire 31/05/21.
Sale Excludes Accessories.
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