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SCOTT BASE’S oldest<br />
building, a hut built by a Sir<br />
Edmund Hillary-led team, hit<br />
the road this week and visited<br />
Merrin School in virtual<br />
reality form.<br />
Antarctic Heritage Trust’s<br />
roadshow visited 10 classes at<br />
Merrin School for four days,<br />
where 270 year 5 to 8 students<br />
got a chance to experience the<br />
VR.<br />
Developed in partnership<br />
with Auckland University of<br />
Technology, the virtual reality<br />
experience allows users<br />
to explore Hillary’s hut in<br />
Antarctica.<br />
<strong>The</strong> experience provides<br />
insight into how the 23 men<br />
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extreme environment more<br />
than 60 years ago.<br />
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‘You have to get back on the<br />
horse’ – plane crash survivor<br />
• By Robyn Bristow<br />
NOSE-DIVING into a<br />
paddock in a light aircraft has<br />
not put 73-year-old Alan<br />
Macdonald off flying.<br />
THe Rangiora retiree had<br />
just started taking lessons, in a<br />
bid to tick off one of the items<br />
on his bucket list — learning<br />
to fly.<br />
He smashed his wrist,<br />
suffered cuts, bruising, a<br />
couple of black toenails, and<br />
whiplash when the plane<br />
crashed into a paddock on a<br />
farm near Glentui last week.<br />
Both he and the Canterbury<br />
Recreational Aircraft Club’s<br />
chief instructor, Stewart<br />
Bufton, were taken to<br />
Christchurch Hospital, but<br />
have since been discharged.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> trust’s general<br />
manager operations and<br />
communications Francesca<br />
Eathorne, who oversaw<br />
the project development,<br />
hoped the VR tour inspired<br />
people to learn more about<br />
Antarctica and the nation’s<br />
most famous son.<br />
“Sir Ed’s hut is part<br />
of the rich history of<br />
Antarctic exploration and<br />
we are excited to bring<br />
this experience to as many<br />
students around New Zealand<br />
as we can,” she said.<br />
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EXPERIENCE: Magnus<br />
Dobson, year 5,<br />
virtually navigates<br />
Sir Edmund Hillary’s<br />
Antarctic hut with<br />
helper Matthew<br />
Heath Williams<br />
looking on.<br />
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busier than ever last year with<br />
a substantial increase in mission<br />
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continuing in<br />
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Across a<br />
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the helicopter<br />
crews were<br />
tasked to 869<br />
missions, an<br />
eight per cent<br />
increase in<br />
mission numbers compared to<br />
2019.<br />
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to help ge through the predictably<br />
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THOUSANDS OF relieved<br />
rest home residents are ready<br />
to join Christchurch’s Covid-19<br />
vaccination programme, with<br />
the first doses expected to be<br />
administered today.<br />
A mobile clinic is the focal<br />
point of the latest phase of the<br />
Canterbury District Health Board<br />
plan to safeguard Cantabrians, a<br />
highly-scrutinised objective that<br />
has drawn criticism from sectors<br />
of the medical community.<br />
<strong>The</strong> clinic will visit aged-care<br />
facilities citywide, pleasing Age<br />
Care Canterbury.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> rollout seems to be going<br />
well,” said chief executive Simon<br />
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any resistance.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s none that I’m aware<br />
of, most (residents) are looking<br />
forward to being protected.”<br />
Templeton urged patience from<br />
anxious elderly and their loved<br />
ones as the two-dose programme<br />
gathers momentum.<br />
“This is a huge undertaking –<br />
the biggest we have seen – and<br />
everyone will get vaccinated<br />
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SHAY HORAY’S weekend<br />
started with a morning stroll<br />
around Godley Head and ended<br />
with a truck full of other people’s<br />
rubbish.<br />
Horay, a comedian and actor<br />
from Lyttelton – also known<br />
as the Rubberband Boy – was<br />
walking his dog in the historic<br />
scenic reserve when Riley got<br />
some broken glass stuck in his<br />
paw.<br />
Said Horay: “I looked around,<br />
saw heaps and heaps of rubbish<br />
and thought: ‘This is gross’.”<br />
Rather than taking to social<br />
media to complain about those<br />
who had littered, Horay decided<br />
to do something about it.<br />
After getting back from his<br />
walk, Horay posted an idea<br />
on the Lyttelton Facebook<br />
group.<br />
He asked that any interested<br />
members of the community<br />
meet at the top of Evans Pass at<br />
10am the next morning to “lend<br />
a hand on the ‘pick the s**t up<br />
day’.”<br />
Horay said he just wanted to<br />
“get into it and go for it.”<br />
About 20 people from<br />
Lyttelton, varying in ages, met<br />
up on the Sunday and they spent<br />
the next two hours clearing up<br />
rubbish dumped on the Godley<br />
Head grounds.<br />
“Everyone had a smile on their<br />
face,” Horay said.<br />
“It was such a good vibe, just<br />
‘let’s get this done’.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> spontaneous event proved<br />
to be extremely successful.<br />
After two hours the group<br />
collected seven car tyres, a stereo<br />
system with sub and speakers,<br />
more than 2000 bottles and<br />
much more general rubbish.<br />
It cost about $200 to dump the<br />
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• By Chris Barclay<br />
AN UNIDENTIFIED<br />
punter placed a $10,000 bet<br />
on a winning greyhound<br />
that later tested positive to<br />
methamphetamine - a breach<br />
that led to the disqualification<br />
of the dog’s trainer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> wager on Zipping Sarah,<br />
which won a Canterbury<br />
Greyhound Racing Club race at<br />
Addington during Cup Week in<br />
November, was the most significant<br />
among a pool of $23,083<br />
covering 481 bets placed on the<br />
dog.<br />
Zipping Sarah opened at fixed<br />
odds of $4 and shortened to<br />
$3.40. She was tested following<br />
Comedian’s work stretches<br />
to cleaning up Godley Head<br />
SPONTANEOUS: Shay Horay, aka the<br />
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paw wasn’t serious. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
disposal was donated by one of<br />
the volunteers.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been some discussions<br />
on another clean-up<br />
occurring. Many more people<br />
had commented on Horay’s Facebook<br />
post that they were eager<br />
her victory as the $4.50 second<br />
favourite.<br />
Foxton-based trainer<br />
Angela Turnwald was banned<br />
for four months by the Judicial<br />
Control Authority for Racing,<br />
with the suspension starting last<br />
Friday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> authority said deliberate<br />
wrongdoing had not been established<br />
but methamphetaminerelated<br />
breaches could not be<br />
tolerated.<br />
Meanwhile, the Ministry for<br />
Primary Industries – which<br />
monitors reported animal welfare<br />
offences – has decided not<br />
to investigate Turnwald, saying<br />
the JCA had already dealt with<br />
the case.<br />
to help out another time.<br />
“With more little groups doing<br />
this regularly the better,” said<br />
Horay.<br />
“Sunday proved how much of<br />
a positive affect small action can<br />
have.”<br />
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Mobility scooter rider<br />
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A woman on a mobility scooter<br />
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more serious injuries when she<br />
was hit by a van on Lincoln Rd,<br />
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Death of man not<br />
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not been ruled as suspicious.<br />
Dale Crosby Cunard was found<br />
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Ora on Saturday.<br />
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in June next year.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong><br />
4<br />
NEWS<br />
• From page 1<br />
‘‘I was really lucky. I won’t be<br />
playing golf anytime soon,’’<br />
Macdonald said.<br />
But he has every intention of<br />
carrying on with his lessons as<br />
soon as his body is willing.<br />
‘‘You have to get back on the<br />
horse again. I am not going to let<br />
it (the crash) beat me.<br />
‘‘It is a lovely view up there. On<br />
a fine day, it is serene. You get<br />
a view of the countryside from<br />
another perspective.<br />
‘‘I also want to see my farm in<br />
Sheffield, which my son has now,<br />
every now and<br />
then from the<br />
air.’’<br />
Macdonald<br />
and Bufton<br />
were<br />
practising<br />
engine failure<br />
protocols<br />
when the plane<br />
clipped power<br />
wires and nosedived,<br />
at low speed.<br />
‘‘I was under instruction when<br />
we caught some wires on the<br />
opposite side of the hedge we<br />
were climbing over,’’ Macdonald<br />
said.<br />
‘‘It was a slow speed, low<br />
altitude accident. It happened<br />
in micro-seconds, so I didn’t get<br />
time to have any thoughts as we<br />
nose-dived into the paddock,’’<br />
Macdonald said.<br />
He did not want to comment<br />
further about the crash until the<br />
Civil Aviation inquiry was held to<br />
establish what went wrong.<br />
On Tuesday, Macdonald went<br />
to the Rangiora Airfield to<br />
have a look at the plane, and<br />
search for his log book, and one<br />
of his shoes, which was found<br />
stuck under the rudder pedal.<br />
His family had been<br />
belatedly told that Macdonald<br />
was intending to take flying<br />
lessons.<br />
His daughter, Bridget,<br />
told him he was mad: ‘‘I said<br />
I hoped he didn’t fly away too<br />
soon. He nearly did,’’ she said.<br />
‘‘<strong>The</strong>y were incredibly<br />
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Crash inquiry to be held<br />
Stewart<br />
Bufton<br />
SLOW-SPEED: <strong>The</strong> plane Macdonald and Bufton were in<br />
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lucky.’’<br />
His wife, Christine, said it<br />
was traumatising to get a<br />
call from a policeman to tell<br />
her about her husband being<br />
involved in a plane crash.<br />
She continues to have<br />
nightmares about what<br />
might have been.<br />
‘‘That’s what has been<br />
waking me in the night. <strong>The</strong><br />
thought of them burning to<br />
death,’’ she said.<br />
‘‘But we will be all right. It<br />
could have been worse.’’<br />
She reminded her<br />
husband yesterday of their<br />
wedding vows — in sickness<br />
and in health — as she helped to<br />
shower and dress him.<br />
Teething problems<br />
during vaccine rollout<br />
• From page 1<br />
<strong>The</strong> Association of Salaried<br />
Medical Specialists – the union<br />
which covers salaried doctors<br />
and dentists – acknowledged<br />
there had been teething problems<br />
with the programme in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
“We’ve heard anecdotally<br />
the vaccine rollout has gone a<br />
bit slower than expected and<br />
there has been trouble with<br />
the electronic messaging and<br />
appointment-making but that<br />
is slowly being ironed out,” a<br />
spokesperson said.<br />
“At times there have been<br />
queues of people waiting two<br />
hours for their vaccination.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> programme initially targeted<br />
border and MIQ workers<br />
plus the people they live with<br />
(group 1) followed by high-risk<br />
frontline workers and people<br />
living in high-risk places –<br />
including aged-care residents<br />
(group 2).<br />
Christchurch GP and deputy<br />
chair of the New Zealand<br />
Medical Association, Vanessa<br />
Weenink, said the vaccine rollout<br />
had been patchy and issues<br />
loom when locals over the age<br />
of 65 with underlying medical<br />
conditions (group 3) join the<br />
process from the end of the<br />
month.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> plan is for rapid growth<br />
in numbers of vaccines, so the<br />
challenges so far will hopefully<br />
have been learning events,” she<br />
said.<br />
“If the problems with bookings<br />
and no-shows are not<br />
ironed-out for the wider population<br />
rollout, then there will be<br />
proportional wastage, frustration<br />
and annoyance.”<br />
CDHB executive lead for the<br />
Covid-19 response, Ralph La<br />
Salle, said groups 1 and 2 would<br />
continue to be vaccinated for<br />
the next couple of months while<br />
plans were in place to cater for<br />
group 3.<br />
“We’re ensuring community<br />
clinics, pharmacies, general<br />
practitioners and primary care<br />
providers are trained, fully<br />
staffed and ready to administer<br />
vaccinations (to those people),”<br />
he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> final phase inoculates the<br />
remainder of the Christchurch<br />
population aged 16 and over<br />
from July.<br />
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Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
THE CITY council will soon<br />
start paying its staff money owed<br />
to them, after it miscalculated<br />
leave entitlements and pay.<br />
<strong>The</strong> money is owed to them<br />
under the Holidays Act 2003.<br />
An investigation into the payroll<br />
system at the city council found<br />
the series of faults. As a result, the<br />
city council set aside $8.5 million<br />
to review the way<br />
it pays staff and<br />
address potential<br />
back payments that<br />
needed to be made.<br />
City council<br />
head of financial<br />
management Diane<br />
Brandish said the<br />
first payments<br />
would be to current<br />
employees.<br />
“We have reviewed<br />
leave entitlements<br />
and payments<br />
for current and former<br />
employees from April 1,<br />
2011, to December 2019,” she<br />
said.<br />
“It’s been a technically challenging<br />
project, but we now<br />
know what mistakes were made,<br />
how they were made and who<br />
they affected, so we can start<br />
putting things right for people<br />
who were underpaid.”<br />
Brandish said EY was contracted<br />
to help with the work,<br />
as it has the technical expertise<br />
and experience needed, having<br />
worked with other large organisations<br />
that had made similar<br />
payment errors.<br />
Leave entitlements and payments<br />
for 6309 current and former<br />
employees employed during<br />
the 2011 to 2019 period<br />
were reviewed.<br />
Brandish said this<br />
phase of the project will make<br />
back payments to 5779 current<br />
and former employees. <strong>The</strong> city<br />
council expects to review and<br />
pay staff for this phase of the<br />
project within budget.<br />
She said current employees<br />
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Council to start back paying staff<br />
will receive any money owed to<br />
them in a lump sum payment in<br />
a normal pay in June.<br />
Back payments to former employees<br />
will be managed separately,<br />
through an online claims<br />
service portal.<br />
“We’ll be contacting<br />
former employees who<br />
are owed a back payment in July,<br />
using the last contact details we<br />
have for them,” Brandish said.<br />
“If people don’t hear from<br />
us, it will be because we either<br />
haven’t been able to contact<br />
them or their pay was correct<br />
and no back payment is owed –<br />
but they will be able to register<br />
online to check.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> former employee claims<br />
service will be available online<br />
from July 19.<br />
Brandish said the errors were<br />
due to misinterpretations of the<br />
Holidays Act 2003. In 2018 the<br />
Government launched a review<br />
of the Act and has since<br />
accepted 22 recommendations<br />
from<br />
the taskforce<br />
set up to carry<br />
out the review.<br />
“We regularly<br />
review<br />
our systems<br />
and processes under<br />
our continuous improvement<br />
programme,”<br />
Brandish said.<br />
“In 2016, we reviewed our<br />
compliance with the Holidays<br />
Act 2003 and in 2017 we identified<br />
that, in some situations,<br />
we had underpaid leave entitlements<br />
and payments for some<br />
current and former staff.”<br />
After this was discovered, the<br />
city council had a legal obligation<br />
to check entitlements and<br />
payments over the previous six<br />
years.<br />
Phase two of the project is<br />
now under way and includes<br />
updating council systems and<br />
processes to enable compliance<br />
with the Act and a second<br />
remediation calculation to cover<br />
the period since January 2020.<br />
NEWS 5<br />
Little rain<br />
in forecast<br />
SUMMER MAY have ended –<br />
but April was still much warmer<br />
and much drier than normal<br />
throughout New Zealand.<br />
Thirty-four locations had nearrecord<br />
or record high maximum<br />
temperatures in April, NIWA<br />
meteorologist Chris Brandolino<br />
told Morning Report.<br />
“Christchurch ... what’s impressive<br />
had their second warmest<br />
April mean maximum temperature<br />
on record,” he said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>ir records go back into the<br />
1800s, that’s an extensive history.”<br />
Timaru also saw a maximum<br />
temperature of 30.8 deg C in<br />
Timaru on April 4, NIWA figures<br />
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<strong>The</strong> outlook for winter weather<br />
and much-needed rain over the<br />
next three months to the end of<br />
July remained on the dry and<br />
warmer side, Brandolino said.<br />
“If there’s kind of a warm lean<br />
for temperatures and kind of a<br />
dry lean for rainfall, it certainly<br />
doesn’t bode well, that’s for sure,”<br />
he said.<br />
“Unfortunately, the next several<br />
days we’re not going to get much.”<br />
Six of the past eight years have<br />
been among New Zealand’s<br />
warmest on record, according to<br />
previous NIWA reports.<br />
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6<br />
NEWS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Student<br />
scammed<br />
of $30,000<br />
• By Katie Harris<br />
A CHRISTCHURCH<br />
international student has been<br />
scammed out of more than<br />
$30,000 after a man tricked her<br />
into believing they were dating<br />
and encouraged her to hand<br />
over cash for him to “invest” in<br />
cryptocurrency.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman, 28-year-old<br />
Christine, thought she had found<br />
her match when a handsome<br />
man began speaking to her on<br />
Facebook in February.<br />
Christine said he also claimed<br />
to be Chinese, and told her he<br />
was a busy, hard-working finance<br />
worker that didn’t have time for<br />
a “real” girlfriend and was scared<br />
he’d end up alone.<br />
Throughout their exchanges,<br />
she said the man would pretend<br />
that she was the only girl he was<br />
speaking to and that he cared<br />
about her.<br />
“So I think, it’s a good thing.<br />
Here’s someone, a companion<br />
with me, because I am alone<br />
studying in New Zealand, I<br />
sometimes I feel lonely.”<br />
Over their few months together,<br />
the man said he liked<br />
her and told her he wanted to be<br />
with her.<br />
As well as showing her attention,<br />
Christine said he would<br />
message her about the significant<br />
growth and returns of his Bitcoin<br />
investments.<br />
“I didn’t see anyone in the real<br />
life that could do that, so I asked<br />
how and I wanted to learn that.”<br />
Although she felt a little<br />
uneasy about him, she ended up<br />
giving him $2000 and about a<br />
week later he sent her a screenshot<br />
that appeared to show her<br />
money increasing.<br />
Part of her doubts stemmed<br />
from his refusal to send her<br />
videos of himself, and when she<br />
questioned him about it she said<br />
he would get angry and told<br />
CON ARTIST: One of the photos the man used to trick the student.<br />
her “If I want to give it to you [a<br />
video] I will, don’t force me.”<br />
Soon after her initial “investment”,<br />
he convinced her to give<br />
him even more money – a total<br />
of around US$22,000, which is<br />
about NZ$31,000.<br />
<strong>The</strong> red flags surrounding<br />
the romance increased when he<br />
began creating multiple WeChat<br />
profiles and pop-ups started appearing<br />
on the site warning her<br />
against sharing her bank details.<br />
After discovering the truth,<br />
Christine said she felt depressed<br />
and said she cried every day.<br />
In a note seen by the NZ<br />
Herald, the woman’s doctor<br />
asked for her to be allowed an<br />
extension on an assignment as in<br />
his opinion Christine was “medically<br />
unfit”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> student said she also<br />
reported the incident to police in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
When she realised the deception,<br />
Christine found that even<br />
the image he’d gone by had been<br />
stolen, and he’d assumed the<br />
identity of a person on the Chinese<br />
TV show Little Pop <strong>Star</strong>.<br />
Internet safety organisation<br />
Netsafe has recorded a 39 per<br />
cent increase in romance scams<br />
involving a financial loss between<br />
2019 and 2020.<br />
Chief executive Martin Cocker<br />
warned that these type of scams<br />
were becoming more frequent.<br />
He said there were no “100 per<br />
cent” telltale signs for identifying<br />
scammers, but that reluctance to<br />
provide more open communication,<br />
like not going on video, can<br />
indicate it’s a scammer.<br />
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Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
• By Chris Marriner<br />
POLICE HAVE spoken out<br />
after video of a violent arrest<br />
circulated on social media, with<br />
some comparing police actions<br />
to cases of brutality overseas.<br />
An edited version of an incident<br />
that occurred on Madras<br />
St in the central city last month<br />
has been shared widely on social<br />
media, showing two officers arresting<br />
a man.<br />
<strong>The</strong> edited clip shows him<br />
kicking out at two standing<br />
officers while he lies on the<br />
ground, before a male officer<br />
brings his foot down hard on<br />
the man’s face, with the impact<br />
audible on the video.<br />
Officers then sit the man up<br />
to arrest him as his head hangs<br />
limply; he doesn’t resist any<br />
further.<br />
Critics online said the video<br />
was proof the police were not<br />
adequately trained and used<br />
hashtags such as #policebrutality<br />
and #GeorgeFloyd.<br />
In response to inquiries from<br />
the New Zealand Herald, police<br />
said incidents like this that were<br />
shared without context often did<br />
not tell the full story.<br />
Canterbury Metro Area Commander<br />
Superintendent Lane<br />
Todd, said police were called on<br />
two separate occasions within a<br />
short period of time to a Madras<br />
St address on March 2, following<br />
reports of an aggressive and<br />
intoxicated man.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> man was arrested by<br />
police and placed in handcuffs.<br />
He began to actively resist the<br />
attending officers and was taken<br />
to the ground in an attempt to<br />
keep everyone involved safe,”<br />
Todd said.<br />
“Police then tried to assist<br />
the man to his feet, and he has<br />
allegedly kicked an officer in<br />
the head. <strong>The</strong> second officer attempted<br />
to control the man but<br />
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Police respond to ‘brutality’ claims<br />
RESISTING: Video footage of police officers during a city arrest circulated on social<br />
media.<br />
was also allegedly kicked in the<br />
head by him. Both police officers<br />
were later assessed by a doctor<br />
for minor head injuries and are<br />
being supported by police.<br />
“Following this, one officer<br />
attempted to place the sole of<br />
his foot on the man’s shoulder,<br />
however, the man has moved,<br />
causing the officer’s foot to connect<br />
with his head once.”<br />
“It is important to note that<br />
short videos of police incidents<br />
often exclude relevant context.<br />
This particular video is a small<br />
excerpt from a fast-moving and<br />
dynamic situation.”<br />
Police said they have the full<br />
video footage of this incident,<br />
including audio, and had investigated<br />
the circumstances.<br />
A 44-year-old man appeared<br />
in the district court facing two<br />
charges of assaulting police and<br />
one charge each of resisting police<br />
and disorderly behaviour.<br />
He is due to reappear on <strong>May</strong><br />
31 for sentencing. – NZ Herald<br />
NEWS 7<br />
Five cars<br />
stolen<br />
from<br />
workshop<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
FIVE VEHICLES, including a<br />
valuable Ford Falcon, were allegedly<br />
stolen from a Sydenham<br />
workshop in an Anzac Weekend<br />
heist.<br />
A post on Facebook is offering<br />
a $10,000 reward for the return of<br />
the black 2007 Ford Falcon GT BF<br />
MKII.<br />
<strong>The</strong> car has not been found.<br />
It has a special John Bowe sports<br />
pack engine.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has learned the other<br />
cars stolen were a Nissan Homy<br />
van, a Honda CR-V, a Mazda3 and<br />
a Mitsubishi RVR.<br />
Police are investigating. <strong>The</strong><br />
Mitsubishi has been recovered and<br />
one person has been charged with<br />
receiving stolen goods. Police did<br />
not respond to questions from <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Star</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> alleged burglary happened<br />
overnight Sunday on Anzac Weekend.<br />
<strong>The</strong> vehicles were stored outdoors<br />
but surrounded by a 3m<br />
fence with barbed wire at the top,<br />
protected by a combination lock<br />
and solid chain.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lock and chain were snapped<br />
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NEWS 9<br />
Cone-happy culprits get reminder<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
ROAD CONES and traffic<br />
signs are disappearing at an<br />
alarming rate at Christchurch’s<br />
seventh most dangerous<br />
intersection, and the<br />
finger has been pointed<br />
at Canterbury University<br />
students.<br />
Since construction<br />
began two months ago to<br />
improve the Middleton,<br />
Ilam and Riccarton Rd<br />
intersection, more than<br />
100 road cones, 35 traffic signs<br />
and 14 bases have either been<br />
removed or stolen.<br />
Fulton Hogan issued a<br />
reminder to Canterbury University,<br />
which was relayed to<br />
the University of Canterbury<br />
Students’ Association, that traffic<br />
management measures are there<br />
for the safety of others.<br />
<strong>The</strong> contractor has now<br />
installed cameras on site in an<br />
effort to catch the culprits.<br />
“Fulton Hogan has asked us to<br />
remind people that traffic management<br />
is in place to protect<br />
everyone’s safety,” the university<br />
told UCSA members.<br />
UCSA president Kim Fowler<br />
sympathised with Fulton Hogan<br />
but encouraged the contractor to<br />
contact the association directly<br />
to resolve the issue, not just the<br />
university.<br />
“I can absolutely see how this<br />
Kim Fowler<br />
is a concerning issue,” she said.<br />
“I’d encourage Fulton Hogan<br />
to get in contact with the UCSA<br />
directly and am more than<br />
happy to work on initiatives to<br />
address the issue.”<br />
Fulton Hogan’s warning<br />
was also extended<br />
to the wider public this<br />
week, with the contractor<br />
updating the project to<br />
nearby households and<br />
businesses.<br />
It also made it clear<br />
what could happen to<br />
them if they decided to take a<br />
construction site souvenir home<br />
with them, including up to three<br />
months’ imprisonment or a fine<br />
of up to $2000.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re have been a number<br />
of incidents involving our site<br />
traffic management being moved<br />
and/or stolen. Doing this can put<br />
yourself and others at serious<br />
risk of harm and is a criminal<br />
offence under the Summary of<br />
Offences Act,” the update read.<br />
“We ask the community to<br />
please leave the traffic management<br />
as is, and [we] have<br />
installed cameras on-site for<br />
monitoring.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> project aims to improve<br />
safety at the dangerous intersection<br />
for all road users. Changes<br />
include accommodating bus<br />
lanes and left-turn only traffic.<br />
It is also in tandem with construction<br />
of the Nor’West Arc<br />
CONSEQUENCES: Students<br />
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10<br />
NEWS<br />
Police issue 52 tickets in a day to drivers ignoring stop signs<br />
POLICE HAVE clamped<br />
down on motorists running<br />
intersections, issuing 52 tickets in<br />
a single day.<br />
<strong>The</strong> campaign in Lyttelton<br />
came after residents complained<br />
about driving behaviour.<br />
Said Sergeant Gerard Peoples:<br />
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concerns about drivers not stopping<br />
at the Lyttelton stop signs<br />
including some occasions where<br />
pedestrians have almost been hit.<br />
As a result of these concerns we<br />
conducted an operation to target<br />
stop sign runners. An incredible<br />
52 tickets were issued in the<br />
course of one day, often while<br />
police staff and vehicles were in<br />
plain view.’’<br />
Motorists were fined $150.<br />
“Surprisingly, many people<br />
thought they were give way signs,<br />
and out of the 52 only two were<br />
not locals.<br />
“I understand that giving<br />
out tickets is not popular but<br />
people running stop signs and<br />
putting others at risk is even less<br />
popular.”<br />
Police have also been targeting<br />
speeding drivers and riders along<br />
the main roads through the bays.<br />
A significant number of speeding<br />
tickets have been issued in<br />
recent weeks, Peoples said.<br />
“However, it astounds me that<br />
motorcyclists continue to ride<br />
through the area in the manner<br />
in which they do, especially after<br />
the tragic death of one of their<br />
own only a few weeks ago,”<br />
he said.<br />
“Anybody can drive or ride<br />
through these roads at speed<br />
but the speed limits are in place<br />
as you not only need to stick to<br />
the road, you also need to be<br />
able to stop in time when<br />
something unexpected appears<br />
in front of you such as coming<br />
across a broken-down car, a kid<br />
running out in front of you or<br />
a car turning in your path,”<br />
Peoples said.<br />
Reserve status granted<br />
for historic Red House<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
AN AKAROA house and section<br />
for which ratepayers paid more<br />
than double the valuation will<br />
become a<br />
historic reserve.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Banks<br />
Peninsula<br />
Community<br />
Board approved<br />
at a meeting<br />
Jamie<br />
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on Monday a<br />
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historic reserve.<br />
Last year the city council purchased<br />
the house for $2.55 million,<br />
more than twice its rating<br />
valuation of $1.2 million.<br />
Community board member<br />
Jamie Stewart said: “<strong>The</strong> history<br />
of that site is right up there with<br />
Waitangi [and] the Treaty of<br />
Waitangi. It plays such a huge<br />
part in the history of New<br />
Zealand – a lot of people don’t<br />
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“<strong>The</strong> house itself, it won’t be<br />
able to run any businesses or<br />
anything like that. It just means<br />
that the whole lot’s now part of<br />
the Takapūneke [reserve].”<br />
Takapūneke is a site of significant<br />
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Takapūneke was once a thriving<br />
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Tahu under the authority of Ngāi<br />
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first cattle station in the South Island.<br />
That house, named because<br />
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SIGNIFICANT: <strong>The</strong> Red House in Akaroa will be formally<br />
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Museum under pressure<br />
to return Nigerian taonga<br />
GERMANY HAS agreed to<br />
return priceless stolen artefacts<br />
to Africa and Canterbury<br />
Museum is now facing pressure<br />
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At the turn of the 19th century,<br />
British soldiers<br />
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Benin Bronzes from the Kingdom<br />
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Most were purchased at auction,<br />
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NEWS 13<br />
Woods to raise<br />
insurance concerns<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
MEGAN WOODS will write<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Minister for Greater<br />
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engaged in determinations, but<br />
private insurers are continuing<br />
to refuse to be involved in the<br />
determination process offered by<br />
the Greater Christchurch Claims<br />
Resolution Service.<br />
<strong>The</strong> advisory group works with<br />
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the GCCRS, a service set up by<br />
the government in October 2018,<br />
to help settle claims.<br />
Said McBrearty: “For some<br />
people it’s been, probably, the<br />
most demanding period of their<br />
lives. So, from a mental and social<br />
well being point of view, surely<br />
there’s a need for a process that is<br />
less demanding on the claimant.<br />
“For all intents and purposes,<br />
many of the insurance<br />
companies are not participating<br />
in [determination processes].<br />
“It [insurance companies<br />
participating in determination<br />
processes] removes long and<br />
costly case law argument using<br />
lawyers and so on, which is very<br />
expensive line to go down.<br />
Woods met with the group<br />
about two weeks ago to hear their<br />
concerns and said she will outline<br />
them in a letter to private insurers<br />
“in the next couple of weeks.”<br />
“It’s in response to concerns<br />
raised through the Homeowners<br />
Advisory Group of the Greater<br />
Christchurch Claims Resolution<br />
Service. <strong>The</strong>y’re not seeing the<br />
same level of participation [from<br />
private insurers] that we’re<br />
seeing with EQC and Southern<br />
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Film shot on peninsula screening in New York<br />
A SHORT FILM shot on Banks<br />
Peninsula, edited and produced<br />
by Governors Bay resident<br />
Scott Flyger is premiering at the<br />
Tribeca Film Festival in New<br />
York.<br />
This year is the festival’s 20th<br />
anniversary and Flyger is excited<br />
beyond belief that Peninsula is<br />
screening there.<br />
“It is a privilege to be selected<br />
for a pretty competitive and<br />
top-tier film festival. Our film<br />
was chosen by people who don’t<br />
know us,” Flyger said.<br />
“This shows that it appeals to a<br />
global audience.”<br />
Flyger is a long-time friend<br />
of the film’s writer and director<br />
Fiona McKenzie. After catching<br />
up several years ago, they both<br />
lamented over the lack of narrative<br />
projects made on Banks<br />
Peninsula.<br />
An idea began to brew. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
discussed making a television<br />
web-series focused on real and<br />
heart-warming content.<br />
However, in order to source<br />
the funds to start the series,<br />
Flyger said, they “needed to<br />
put themselves back on the<br />
map.”<br />
Peninsula was born.<br />
It was then shot over three<br />
days in Port Levy.<br />
Flyger said Banks Peninsula is<br />
the fourth character in the triage<br />
character film.<br />
ON SET: Peninsula’s producer Scott Flyger oversees the start of the shoot. <strong>The</strong> film is now<br />
set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. <br />
“It has so many extremes, big<br />
clouds or blue skies, you never<br />
know what you’ll get but it’s a<br />
beautiful place each way,” said<br />
Flyger.<br />
<strong>The</strong> film follows actors Tom<br />
Trevella, McKenzie’s son Jasper<br />
Sutcliffe and Amber Ranson<br />
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actor Tom Trevella is one of<br />
three stars in the film.<br />
as they navigate nurturing old<br />
relationships and making new<br />
connections.<br />
As an independent film, Flyger<br />
said it was immensely fun to<br />
make as they only had to answer<br />
to themselves.<br />
<strong>The</strong> film was largely crowdfunded<br />
– with almost $18,000<br />
raised on Boosted.<br />
After completing the film,<br />
they sent it away to independent<br />
film festivals but Covid-19 led<br />
to further delays for its<br />
premiere.<br />
Said Flyger: “It was quite wonderful<br />
to get this news so long<br />
after we started.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> filmmakers are hoping<br />
Peninsula will move the audience.<br />
“Our measure of the film’s success<br />
is connecting people,” said<br />
Flyger.<br />
“When people watch the film,<br />
we want them to leave feeling<br />
changed and uplifted; seeing<br />
the world a bit differently than<br />
before.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> film festival was founded<br />
by film producer Jane Rosenthal<br />
and actor Robert de Niro in<br />
2001.<br />
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John McCombe: Legendary snapper<br />
Former Christchurch<br />
<strong>Star</strong> photographer John<br />
McCombe, regarded<br />
as an ‘’institution’’<br />
among this country’s<br />
news snappers, died<br />
at his home last week,<br />
aged 75. Former<br />
colleague Dave Cannan,<br />
assisted by several past<br />
workmates, compiled<br />
this tribute to their old<br />
friend . . .<br />
JOHN McCOMBE was a superb,<br />
award-winning photographer.<br />
But he wasn’t one to attend<br />
ceremonies to receive the<br />
trophies. And nor did he hang<br />
his best photos on the walls of<br />
his home. Those spaces were<br />
reserved for pictures he admired<br />
– but taken by others.<br />
It was just his typical, self-effacing<br />
way, his family explained.<br />
‘’Dad said he was a professional;<br />
by taking good photographs<br />
he was just doing his job,’’ said<br />
son Kevin.<br />
That’s not to say John wasn’t<br />
proud of his work. But his modesty<br />
overshadowed even a hint of<br />
ego; any praise was brushed off<br />
deftly and politely, the focus of<br />
conversation quickly changed or<br />
diverted.<br />
McCombe’s death at his<br />
Whangamata home on April 29,<br />
surrounded by family, greatly<br />
saddened and shocked his numerous<br />
friends and former workmates.<br />
Only diagnosed a couple<br />
of weeks earlier with pancreatic<br />
cancer, his rapid deterioration<br />
defied optimistic opinions that<br />
he might have a month or so<br />
longer to deal with his illness.<br />
But, typically, he did not<br />
complain about his fate. Business<br />
partner David Alexander said in<br />
his last conversation with Mc-<br />
Combe, he was “resolute’’ about<br />
the prognosis and adamant he<br />
had had a good life.<br />
‘’It’s still not sinking in that he<br />
has gone.’’<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair were partners in a<br />
commercial photography company<br />
Photosouth Photographers,<br />
a business started by McCombe<br />
and his wife Cheryl in 1990 after<br />
John left the Christchurch <strong>Star</strong><br />
around the time the North Island<br />
owners were carrying out a series<br />
of redundancies.<br />
And how that partnership with<br />
Alexander evolved says much<br />
about McCombe’s trademark<br />
generosity of spirit.<br />
Alexander recalled his last day<br />
as a photographer at <strong>The</strong> Press, in<br />
2009, and feeling a “bit tearful,’’<br />
then he got a phone call from<br />
McCombe.<br />
“He said: ‘Hey David, welcome<br />
to the real world mate, but don’t<br />
worry, you’re a good photographer<br />
and I’m going to help you<br />
out in any way possible’ – and he<br />
did.’’<br />
McCombe generously offered<br />
him a partnership in the business<br />
and the pair maintained this successful<br />
arrangement from then<br />
on, even after the McCombes<br />
made the huge decision to shift<br />
from Christchurch to the Coromandel<br />
in 2011, a few months<br />
after the devastating February<br />
22, 2011, earthquake.<br />
Another former photographer<br />
colleague who experienced Mc-<br />
Combe’s generosity was Don<br />
Scott, who recalled: “I joined <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Star</strong> in 1982 and six years later,<br />
without being asked, John and<br />
Dave<br />
Cannan<br />
(left) and<br />
McCombe<br />
John McCombe<br />
relaxes at home in<br />
Whangamata in<br />
2015. McCombe<br />
left Chrischurch<br />
after the 2011<br />
earthquakes.<br />
(Right) McCombe<br />
in 1990 with clay<br />
target shooting<br />
medals.<br />
Cheryl mortgaged their home to<br />
give my wife and I a start. How<br />
does one ever repay that?’’<br />
John Quenton McCombe was<br />
born in Wellington on August<br />
2, 1945 to Bob and Cherie. A<br />
brother Bryan would arrive later.<br />
<strong>The</strong> family later moved, first to<br />
Hawkes Bay and then to Thames<br />
as Bob was transferred through<br />
his job with New Zealand Post.<br />
One of Bob’s hobbies was photography,<br />
which was to influence<br />
his son’s decision when it came<br />
to choosing a career after leaving<br />
Thames High School. Initially<br />
McCombe thought of becoming<br />
a teacher and duly enrolled at<br />
Ardmore Training College near<br />
Auckland.<br />
But when a job for a cadet<br />
photographer at the Thames <strong>Star</strong><br />
newspaper was advertised, Mc-<br />
Combe abandoned his teaching<br />
aspirations and began his media<br />
career on April 24, 1964.<br />
It was to prove a life-changing<br />
decision and McCombe would<br />
go on to work as a highlyregarded<br />
news photographer<br />
for the Sunday News (1965), the<br />
Waikato Times (1967), <strong>The</strong> Press<br />
in Christchurch (1972) and then<br />
the rival Christchurch <strong>Star</strong> (1975)<br />
for the next 15 years.<br />
Later, as a freelancer, he was<br />
the Christchurch-based photographer<br />
for both the Sunday<br />
<strong>Star</strong> Times and the NZ Women’s<br />
Weekly while he was the foundation<br />
photographer for the Avenues<br />
magazine from 2009, the<br />
same year he published a glossy<br />
photographic book Images of a<br />
Nation – Canterbury; A Journey<br />
from the Heart.<br />
In 1966, when he worked for<br />
the Sunday News, McCombe<br />
married Cheryl Cullen, whose<br />
father Clarry also worked for NZ<br />
Post in Thames.<br />
Shifting his family to the South<br />
Island in 1972 to work at <strong>The</strong><br />
Press was a massive career move<br />
by McCombe. He was a member<br />
of the morning newspaper’s first<br />
illustrations department, headed<br />
by Les Bloxham, and worked<br />
alongside Des Woods, Barry<br />
Sharpe and Nev Marriner.<br />
But across town McCombe<br />
soon got to know his Christchurch<br />
<strong>Star</strong> rival cameramen well,<br />
often enjoying their company socially,<br />
usually at the now defunct<br />
New Albion Tavern in Colombo<br />
St, and thriving on the competitive<br />
nature that existed between<br />
them, especially with Stuart<br />
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and a tremendous all-round guy<br />
And therein lies a classic tale<br />
about two mates, which Menzies<br />
describes as “the best gotcha<br />
ever’’.<br />
“Drinking at our watering hole,<br />
the Albion, one afternoon, stupid<br />
me told John about our little dog<br />
going missing and our daughter<br />
Kristy being really upset. Shortly<br />
after John said he had to go, he<br />
had some work to do.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> next morning, when I<br />
turned up at work, the editor<br />
Michael Forbes called me into his<br />
office [for a please explain]. On<br />
his desk lay a copy of <strong>The</strong> Press<br />
and on the front page there was<br />
a photo of my daughter sitting in<br />
the little dog’s box.<br />
“John had even conned my<br />
wife into keeping it quiet from<br />
me. My best mate had got me a<br />
beauty.’’<br />
It’s possible, of course, that<br />
McCombe’s “scoop’’ may have<br />
been in retaliation for an earlier<br />
“gotcha’’ when he and Menzies<br />
were covering a cricket test at<br />
Lancaster Park.<br />
“By early afternoon nothing<br />
was happening, it was so boring,’’<br />
Menzies says, “and John said: ‘I’m<br />
going to get a pie’.<br />
“He stood up, turned around<br />
and ‘bang’, there was a wicket.<br />
Smiling, I said ‘that was a great<br />
shot’. <strong>The</strong>re were no more wickets<br />
and my old mate was very quiet<br />
for the rest of the day!’’.<br />
And so, in 1975, McCombe<br />
jumped ship and joined his<br />
Kilmore St-based evening paper<br />
contemporaries, the illustrations<br />
department being run by Max<br />
Wederell, who commanded a<br />
star-studded team that included<br />
Menzies, Neville Hawke, Derrick<br />
Tonkin, and in later years Simon<br />
Baker, Don Scott and several<br />
others.<br />
Working alongside these<br />
“guns’’ brought out the best in<br />
(Above and<br />
below) – A<br />
selection<br />
McCombe’s<br />
images from<br />
the past<br />
including<br />
this couple<br />
(left) at<br />
Christchurch<br />
Airport<br />
awaiting<br />
news of<br />
the ill-fated<br />
Air New<br />
Zealand<br />
flight to<br />
Antarctica.<br />
McCombe as both a photographer<br />
and a journalist, honing<br />
his skills alongside his talented<br />
colleagues. Former <strong>Star</strong> chief reporter<br />
John Crowley recalls Mc-<br />
Combe becoming “the complete<br />
newsman’’.<br />
“John’s skills were not confined<br />
to those of a photographer when<br />
we went on some of those more<br />
challenging jobs. His extra sharp<br />
news sense was underpinned by<br />
multi-layers of care and compassion.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>se were traits which helped<br />
reporters – young and old. In the<br />
most stressful times he was a cool<br />
head and a guiding hand at arm’s<br />
length. <strong>The</strong>se qualities were so<br />
apparent too when it came to his<br />
own profession – one in which he<br />
had few peers.’’<br />
McCombe would eventually<br />
become <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>’s chief photographer<br />
and continue to have<br />
a major influence on his team,<br />
including Baker, who joined the<br />
camera crew in 1986 as a “young,<br />
naive lad from the Waikato.’’<br />
“Right from the first day John<br />
made me feel welcome. He was<br />
always there for advice and guidance<br />
as I tried to justify my place<br />
amongst the team of talented<br />
photographers.’’<br />
Baker stayed at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> for<br />
five years and came to regard his<br />
boss as a “top bloke’, perhaps illustrated<br />
best when he decided to<br />
become a freelance photographer<br />
in 1991.<br />
“John had left to do the same<br />
thing a year earlier, so we were<br />
to be direct competitors in<br />
Christchurch, but this didn’t faze<br />
him. He generously offered his<br />
darkroom and other equipment<br />
to me as I started to get my business<br />
up and running. And we<br />
continued to work alongside each<br />
other for the next 25 years.’’<br />
But it wasn’t just photographers<br />
at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> who benefitted from<br />
McCombe’s professionalism and<br />
warm-hearted attitude to his<br />
newsroom contemporaries.<br />
Reporter Debbie Hannan describes<br />
him as “the glue that held<br />
us all together’.’<br />
“He was one of those people<br />
in life that made everyone feel<br />
special, which is what I think<br />
made him such an exceptional<br />
photographer and workmate.’’<br />
Hannan also recalls during the<br />
often violent 1981 Springbok tour<br />
when McCombe acted quickly to<br />
save her from possible injury after<br />
getting caught as the “meat in the<br />
sandwich’’ between protestors and<br />
the infamous police Red Squad.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair were assigned to cover<br />
the pre-match clash outside the<br />
gates of Lancaster Park, knowing<br />
<strong>Star</strong> management had secured a<br />
“safe house’’ across the road, just<br />
in case things turned nasty.<br />
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“Things started to heat up, but<br />
I naively didn’t see just what danger<br />
I was in as a big line of protestors<br />
came towards me one way<br />
and the Red Squad was coming<br />
the other and I was in the middle.<br />
“Out of nowhere John came<br />
racing towards me and pushed<br />
me into the safe house. For a moment<br />
the photographer was off<br />
duty on the biggest story of the<br />
day to make sure his workmate<br />
was safe.’’<br />
Being good at his job was only<br />
one facet of McCombe’s endearing<br />
personality. He was an incurable<br />
practical joker, who loved<br />
playing pranks on his colleagues,<br />
but he was also quick-witted<br />
and resourceful, as recalled by<br />
reporter Brian Cowley.<br />
“On the one hand, he was<br />
the consummate professional,<br />
charming and calming his<br />
nervous subjects with soothing<br />
banter and achieving the desired<br />
photograph by means of mutual<br />
co-operation.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>n there was the devil-maycare<br />
character who would startle<br />
the reporter accompanying him<br />
with an impromptu cameo from<br />
the McCombe playbook of crazy<br />
tricks.’’<br />
Cowley remembers running<br />
late for a job and being amazed<br />
when McCombe drove across a<br />
busy Christchurch, avoiding all<br />
streets and traffic lights, zipping<br />
instead down alleyways and business<br />
access lanes.<br />
When they arrived, he apologised<br />
for their tardiness, saying<br />
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Consummate professional with a devil-may-care character<br />
McCombe’s infamous picture of an eight-year-old<br />
Canterbury rugby fan prompted calls for the boy to be<br />
banned from Lancaster Park.<br />
the “traffic wasn’t with us’’,<br />
which, Cowley says, was no lie!<br />
Away from his work, Mc-<br />
Combe was a man of many<br />
interests, chief of those being his<br />
family. But he was also an avid<br />
hunter, fisherman, boatee, golfer<br />
(later in life) and a crack clay<br />
target shooter.<br />
How many colleagues knew he<br />
was the 1992 New Zealand clay<br />
sparrow champion shooter and<br />
a national clay target shooting<br />
representative while a member<br />
(and former vice president) of the<br />
Belfast Gun Club?<br />
Indeed, daughter Melody<br />
recalls a quote from North Canterbury<br />
artist Sam Mahon, in his<br />
book <strong>The</strong> Year of the Horse, about<br />
her father – “he went hunting<br />
with dad and wrote that dad was<br />
as artful with a gun as he was<br />
with a camera.’’<br />
What they are more likely to<br />
remember are the many great<br />
times enjoyed at the McCombe’s<br />
homes in Tancred St – where<br />
plans for the infamous Media<br />
Club in Chancery Lane were first<br />
hatched – and later at Rockinghorse<br />
Rd, South New Brighton.<br />
After a series of earthquakes<br />
in 2010 and 2011 left their<br />
two-storey South Shore villa<br />
unrepairable, the McCombe’s<br />
thought about buying land and<br />
starting afresh on the West<br />
Coast. Instead, through family<br />
circumstances, they ended up<br />
visiting Thames.<br />
As McCombe told the New<br />
Zealand Herald in February 2015,<br />
the four-year anniversary of the<br />
big quake, he and Cheryl spent<br />
the night in Whangamata and,<br />
on a whim, called a real estate<br />
agent and found themselves inspecting<br />
a lovely home overlooking<br />
the harbour.<br />
Impulsively – or was it instinctively?<br />
– they made an offer<br />
and a few months later began a<br />
new chapter in their lives in the<br />
Coromandel.<br />
McCombe said the speed of<br />
the decision stunned family and<br />
friends – “I think they must have<br />
thought we’d gone off our rocker<br />
a little bit’’ – but it proved to be<br />
“the best decision of our lives.’’<br />
He joined the local golf and<br />
boating clubs and took a keen<br />
interest in environmental issues,<br />
eventually becoming an outspoken<br />
chairman of the Whangamata<br />
Harbour Care group,<br />
leading the charge on mangrove<br />
eradication.<br />
In a Facebook exchange (he<br />
ended up with three different<br />
pages) in June last year, Mc-<br />
Combe agreed it was a case of<br />
“paradise lost’’ in Christchurch<br />
but “paradise regained’’ in<br />
Whangamata.<br />
And it’s in that beautiful town,<br />
at the golf club today that friends<br />
and family will farewell the genial<br />
McCombe, a big man with a<br />
heart and a personality to match.<br />
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wife Cheryl, children Melody and<br />
Kevin, three grandchildren and<br />
one great granddaughter.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong><br />
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OPINION<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Is democracy under threat?<br />
Former TV<br />
sports and<br />
news reader<br />
Peter<br />
Williams<br />
writes<br />
about plans<br />
for a<br />
co-governed New<br />
Zealand democracy<br />
I WANT TO talk about a very<br />
important issue. It’s called<br />
democracy.<br />
As Winston Churchill once<br />
said, apparently, “no-one pretends<br />
democracy is perfect. In<br />
fact, it has been said that democracy<br />
is the worst form of government<br />
except for all those other<br />
forms that have been tried from<br />
time to time.” But the question<br />
I think we should be asking in<br />
this country is this: Is democracy<br />
under threat?<br />
Now, on the surface, that<br />
sounds like an absolutely preposterous<br />
proposition. After all, we<br />
are a long-standing democracy<br />
based on the Westminster or<br />
British system of letting the<br />
people decide who should govern<br />
them.<br />
We had our first elections in<br />
this country in 1853. <strong>The</strong>y were<br />
not perfect though because only<br />
property owners could vote.<br />
Over the next 40 years that<br />
changed and evolved and by<br />
1893, when women were granted<br />
the vote, every New Zealand person<br />
aged 21 or older could vote<br />
for one nationwide parliament<br />
and for local councils. And so,<br />
for 128 years, that is the way New<br />
Zealand has been governed.<br />
We get to vote, and every vote<br />
has been of equal value. And<br />
theoretically, the majority decides<br />
the direction of travel.<br />
But are we seeing that system<br />
under threat? I ask that in the<br />
light – not just of the city where<br />
I live and broadcast from, Tauranga,<br />
now being governed by<br />
appointed commissioners and<br />
them making decisions which<br />
the majority are likely to disagree<br />
with (like the creation of a<br />
Maori Ward, and a rates rise for<br />
residential property owners that<br />
could be as high as 20 per cent) –<br />
but in the very slow and almost<br />
secretive release of a paper called<br />
He Puapua during the election<br />
campaign last year, and the fact<br />
that the full paper has still not<br />
been released officially.<br />
But if you read what is available<br />
on the Te Puni Kokiri website<br />
you should be very worried<br />
about the future of democracy<br />
as we know it in this country.<br />
In short, this paper called He<br />
Puapua is a report of a working<br />
group on a plan to realise the<br />
United Nations Declaration on<br />
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,<br />
or if you want for short, UN-<br />
DRIP – or the DRIP.<br />
He Puapua has what it calls a<br />
Vision 2040, just 19 years from<br />
now, the 200th anniversary<br />
of the signing of the Treaty of<br />
Waitangi. <strong>The</strong> vision says that by<br />
2040, the Government will have<br />
implemented the relevant instruments<br />
to share power more fairly<br />
with Maori in our constitutional<br />
arrangements.<br />
Now let that sink in. To share<br />
power more fairly with Maori in<br />
our constitutional arrangements.<br />
<strong>The</strong> problem can be sheeted<br />
back to the first John Key-led<br />
National Government which<br />
started in 2008. Prior to that, the<br />
United Nations had produced its<br />
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous<br />
Peoples in 2007, which<br />
said that indigenous peoples had<br />
a right to self-determination.<br />
<strong>The</strong> prime minister at the time<br />
Helen Clark said we’re not signing<br />
that, and New Zealand abstained.<br />
But three years later, John Key –<br />
as part of his deal with the Maori<br />
Party – sent Pita Sharples off to<br />
New York to sign it.<br />
<strong>The</strong> UN itself said the declaration<br />
was non-binding and<br />
aspirational. But, for whatever<br />
reason best known to them, the<br />
Labour Party has now decided<br />
that the DRIP will be enacted<br />
in this country over the next 20<br />
years and He Puapua sets out<br />
a way that will, in the words of<br />
conservative political commentator<br />
Muriel Newman, lead to<br />
tribal control of New Zealand by<br />
2040 and the end of democracy<br />
as we know it.<br />
<strong>The</strong> move for Maori wards<br />
on local councils all around the<br />
country is the start of it, and the<br />
suggestion that appointed and<br />
unelected iwi representatives<br />
get full voting rights and full<br />
stipends on the Wellington City<br />
Council is another example.<br />
Muriel Newman writes about<br />
the slow boiling frog effect. If<br />
this happens, and there is every<br />
indication it will, it will happen<br />
slowly, incrementally and by the<br />
time we realise what has happened,<br />
it will be too late.<br />
So how do you feel about<br />
this? Are you happy that a fraction<br />
of the population, that is<br />
those who claim some Maori<br />
ancestry, which is around 15 per<br />
cent of the population, may be<br />
able to share 50 per cent of the<br />
Government’s decision-making<br />
and control vast amounts of the<br />
country’s economic resources,<br />
including the most valuable of<br />
all – water?<br />
On the surface this seems preposterous<br />
does it not? In Vision<br />
2040 it says the following: “If<br />
Maori are to exercise governance<br />
power, there needs to be support<br />
for this. <strong>The</strong> Crown’s main<br />
contribution will be resourcing.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are multiple streams from<br />
which financial contributions<br />
might be sourced, including, for<br />
example, levies on resource use<br />
where Maori have a strong claim<br />
to ownership, such as water.”<br />
Can you believe the arrogance<br />
of that statement? Can you ever<br />
disagree with what John Key once<br />
said: “Nobody owns the water.”<br />
And he was absolutely right. It<br />
is swept up from the oceans and<br />
falls from the sky. It is one of the<br />
wonders of nature. It belongs to<br />
all of us and the resource must<br />
never be put in “ownership.”<br />
To have a paper presented to<br />
the Associate Minister of Maori<br />
Development, and Minister<br />
for Local Government, Nania<br />
Mahuta with such a suggestion<br />
in it, and not have it dismissed, is<br />
frankly a very worrying thought.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a gradual realisation<br />
among some people of what is<br />
happening. Not only Muriel<br />
Newman but also the left-wing<br />
writer Chris Trotter, has written<br />
about this paper and suggests<br />
that Jacinda Ardern move very<br />
swiftly now to shut down any<br />
talk of a change to New Zealand’s<br />
governance arrangements<br />
over the next 20 years.<br />
But is there any sign of that?<br />
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your opinion on Williams’<br />
column. Email barry@<br />
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should be 200 words or<br />
fewer<br />
Of course not.<br />
What is also worrying is the<br />
silence of the National Party on<br />
this. But then, maybe they’re<br />
embarrassed.<br />
It was them who started it with<br />
John Key sending Pita Sharples<br />
off to sign up to something that<br />
Helen Clark would not have a<br />
bar of because she realised the<br />
long-term implications of it.<br />
And now it has come to pass.<br />
I don’t want any racist tirades<br />
about this issue, I want some<br />
reasoned discussion. And for me,<br />
it comes back to this. I believe in<br />
the concept that all people are<br />
equal, that in this country everybody’s<br />
vote is as important as<br />
everybody else’s. We are all New<br />
Zealanders.<br />
Yes, we may have descended<br />
from Maori or Chinese or Scottish<br />
or English, but we all live<br />
together in this country as New<br />
Zealanders. My antecedents<br />
came here 173 years ago. Am I<br />
any less of a person, any less of<br />
a New Zealander because my<br />
forefathers and foremothers arrived<br />
here 500 years after other<br />
settlers?<br />
Is somebody born in England<br />
or India or China who came here<br />
in the last 10 years and now has<br />
a New Zealand passport any less<br />
of a New Zealander than me? I<br />
would hope not. But if we have<br />
some sort of devolved co-governance<br />
arrangement whereby<br />
50 per cent of the power is in the<br />
hands of the small proportion of<br />
the electorate, is that acceptable<br />
in a nation which has known<br />
the concept of parliamentary<br />
democracy in some form or<br />
another since 1853?<br />
Isn’t this one of the most<br />
important questions facing New<br />
Zealand’s future? Yet no one in<br />
the Government wants to talk<br />
about it in the open.<br />
• This first appeared on<br />
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OPINION<br />
Hospital board<br />
CDHB MEMBERS Gough and<br />
Keown are rightly concerned<br />
over the centralisation of our<br />
medical system, and among other<br />
things how it will impact smaller<br />
towns and the rural sector, as<br />
outlined in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> (April 22).<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have also been plans<br />
to centralise school boards and<br />
polytechs, including those that<br />
are very successful, like SIT.<br />
Even farming regulations are<br />
becoming ‘one size fits all’, which<br />
will only fit a few as we live<br />
in a very complex and diverse<br />
landscape.<br />
– D Downward<br />
David McPhail<br />
<strong>May</strong> I thank Kurt Bayer for his<br />
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to David McPhail. Easy to read,<br />
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Many skits of Kiwi life, especially<br />
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Trust in Govt<br />
I wonder why people still trust<br />
this Government? <strong>The</strong> minister<br />
told us this evening that the biggest<br />
number of people had gone<br />
off the jobseekers benefit since I<br />
think it was 1996.<br />
I also wonder why it is telling<br />
us they are ramping up vaccines<br />
when last week we were told<br />
that there were only approximately<br />
400,000 doses left in the<br />
country.<br />
As usual it is spending large<br />
sums of money setting up vaccine<br />
centres when in the US chemists<br />
can do the same job and I know<br />
our local chemist is qualified to<br />
do it and for a lot less money.<br />
Imagine how much taxpayers<br />
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it’s not their money so easy come<br />
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THIS WEEK I had the<br />
opportunity to welcome more<br />
than 750 delegates to our city<br />
for TRENZ Hui <strong>2021</strong>, the largest<br />
business event in New Zealand<br />
for over a year.<br />
THis year it will be a different<br />
format from the normal TRENZ<br />
event. Each year, TRENZ brings<br />
hundreds of international travel<br />
buyers together to meet with<br />
New Zealand’s leading tourism<br />
operators, to build or renew<br />
relationships and negotiate<br />
business deals for the coming<br />
seasons.<br />
We were due to host<br />
TRENZ 2020, which was<br />
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Given that these borders<br />
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<strong>The</strong> three themes were: Revive<br />
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After everything our city<br />
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Hui <strong>2021</strong> than Ōtautahi,<br />
Christchurch.<br />
We describe ourselves as a city<br />
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people and new ways of doing<br />
things – a place where anything<br />
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<strong>The</strong> genesis for this thinking<br />
has been the belief that times of<br />
crisis always offer opportunities.<br />
I expressed hope that the<br />
industry would explore the<br />
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the future of tourism in a<br />
post-Covid world in partnership<br />
with mana whenua and the<br />
destinations that together<br />
create a unique offering in the<br />
world.<br />
I invited them to seize that<br />
opportunity with real optimism<br />
based on the unique experience<br />
of a city that has been given the<br />
chance to reimagine its future<br />
and respond to new challenges<br />
in a way we would never have<br />
thought possible.<br />
<strong>May</strong>or<br />
Lianne Dalziel
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2 Harvest remaining summer<br />
crops as they come to an end and<br />
start sowing and planting winter<br />
veges. This will allow the roots<br />
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3 It is important to ensure<br />
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to withstand cooler and wetter<br />
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areas apply fertiliser to fruit trees,<br />
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4 Summer flowering annuals<br />
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season. It’s time to remove<br />
old plants and prepare beds<br />
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Time running out to plant winter veges<br />
MAINTENANCE: Sprinkle bare lawn with grass seed to encourage growth over the winter. Plant cornflowers now for a<br />
display in early spring.<br />
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Prepare soil by adding in plenty<br />
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SCHOOL OPEN DAYS<br />
Fostering a love of learning<br />
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Selwyn House School’s nurturing<br />
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We provide a supportive, all-girl<br />
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From Year 1 we teach the girls to express<br />
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At Selwyn House we believe leaders<br />
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Teachers at Selwyn House ensure girls<br />
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Our small class sizes allow our teachers to<br />
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SENIORS’ LIVING LIFE<br />
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• By Chris Barclay<br />
WHEN LINWOOD and Hornby<br />
meet for the first time in a new<br />
Canterbury Rugby League<br />
premiership season it’s typically a<br />
rematch of the previous battle for<br />
the Pat Smith Trophy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Northern Bulldogs bucked<br />
that trend in 2020, but for Keas<br />
veteran Alex Todd the rivalry<br />
with the Panthers endures ahead<br />
of a clash between the competition’s<br />
two unbeaten teams on<br />
Saturday.<br />
Before the Kaiapoi-based Bulldogs<br />
could not prevent Linwood<br />
claiming their fifth successive<br />
title, Hornby were the runners-up<br />
the previous four seasons.<br />
A no-nonsense prop, Todd<br />
brings up the disappointment<br />
of the 2009 final, rather than<br />
the victories, when revisiting an<br />
encounter he relishes.<br />
“For me personally it always has<br />
been the rivalry,” he explained.<br />
“When I first started playing<br />
prems [in 2008] we had a good<br />
couple of battles. We lost in 2009.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’re always a quality opposition.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’re well-coached and<br />
well-drilled. It’s always a tough<br />
game.”<br />
Uncompromising in the<br />
middle, the hard heads from both<br />
clubs have formed friendships off<br />
the field.<br />
“A lot of the older boys get on<br />
well – I went to Corey’s 40th last<br />
year, it was a pretty good do,”<br />
Todd said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 31-year-old said celebrations<br />
at Leslie Park hinge on<br />
keeping Panthers second rower<br />
Corey Lawrie quiet.<br />
“He’s always floating around<br />
the middle there. We have to keep<br />
him busy on defence,” Todd said.<br />
At the other end of the experience<br />
spectrum, Todd was wary<br />
of the threat posed by Panthers<br />
fullback Sincere Harraway, who<br />
opened the campaign with backto-back<br />
hat-tricks.<br />
“I watched him in the under-<br />
20s. He’s a player you’ve got to<br />
keep your eye on, he’s got good<br />
footwork,” he said.<br />
Both teams head into the fifth<br />
round in impressive form, with<br />
the Panthers on top via points<br />
differential.<br />
Hornby thrashed the Northern<br />
Bulldogs 44-10 last weekend<br />
while the Keas rolled the Eastern<br />
Eagles 42-22 after trailing 10-0<br />
early at Wainoni Park.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Celebration Lions’ resurgent<br />
campaign also regathered<br />
momentum by crushing the<br />
cellar-dwelling Papanui Tigers<br />
62-20, the highest score of the<br />
season so far.<br />
Lions stalwart Kasi Leka racked<br />
up four tries from five-eighth<br />
while his brother Taniela contributed<br />
a try and nine goals as<br />
the siblings thrived in an 11-try<br />
rout that enabled the club to<br />
bounce back from a narrow loss<br />
to Hornby.<br />
Celebration were in Papanui’s<br />
predicament in 2020, propping<br />
up the table, but are now third<br />
behind the pacesetters leading<br />
into their encounter with the<br />
Riccarton Knights.<br />
Halswell round out the top<br />
four with a three-win (including<br />
a default by Papanui), one-loss<br />
record after a 20-point victory<br />
over Riccarton. <strong>The</strong>y now head to<br />
Kaiapoi and attempt to extend the<br />
fifth-placed Northern Bulldogs’<br />
slump under Frank Endacott.<br />
Marist Albion are the only unbeaten<br />
team heading into round<br />
five of the Christchurch Metro<br />
Cup club rugby competition, with<br />
last year’s runners-up boasting<br />
the maximum 20 points.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y feature in the fixture of<br />
the weekend when they host<br />
second-placed Linwood at Edgar<br />
McIntosh Field on Saturday.<br />
Even if they suffer their first<br />
loss, they will still remain on top<br />
of the ladder.<br />
<strong>The</strong> status quo remained in the<br />
Mainland Football premiership<br />
with champions Cashmere Technical<br />
maintaining top spot with a<br />
5-1 thumping of Nelson Suburbs<br />
while second-placed Coastal<br />
Spirit drew 1-1 with third-ranked<br />
Christchurch United.<br />
Eighth round fixtures indicate<br />
the top three should solidify their<br />
places with Cashmere Technical<br />
facing Selwyn United, Coastal<br />
Spirit in a local derby with Ferrymead<br />
Bays FC and Nomads<br />
United hosting Christchurch<br />
United.<br />
Lincoln University maintained<br />
their lead in the Christchurch<br />
Netball Centre’s premier grade<br />
RIVALRY ROUND: Linwood Keas stalwart Alex Todd is looking forward to another tussle<br />
with Canterbury Rugby League premiership rivals Hornby at Leslie Park on Saturday.<br />
when they defeated Technical<br />
B 81-21 on Tuesday night while<br />
Technical A and Kereru A are<br />
also undefeated.<br />
Saints recorded the biggest<br />
score of the third round, a 103-23<br />
romp over Villa Maria.<br />
In the opening round of<br />
Canterbury Hockey’s men’s and<br />
women’s premiership grade<br />
competition, reigning champions<br />
Marist and Harewood recorded<br />
3-1 scorelines against new Porritt<br />
Cup holders Southern United and<br />
Hornby respectively.<br />
Marist take on HSOB/Burnside<br />
on Saturday. In the women’s<br />
schedule Harewood has an early<br />
bye, giving unbeaten Marist and<br />
Carlton Redcliffs to build on their<br />
round one victories.<br />
Top of the tables<br />
Christchurch Metro Premier Cup men’s rugby<br />
P W L D PD Pts<br />
Marist Albion 4 4 0 0 38 20<br />
Linwood 4 3 1 0 44 14<br />
Burnside 4 3 1 0 25 14<br />
Lincoln University 4 2 2 0 5 12<br />
Sydenham 4 2 1 1 -7 12<br />
Christchurch 4 1 2 1 7 11<br />
University 4 2 2 0 -3 10<br />
Shirley 4 1 3 0 -14 10<br />
New Brighton 4 2 2 1 1 9<br />
Sumner 4 1 2 1 -17 8<br />
HSOB 4 1 3 0 -11 6<br />
Belfast 4 0 3 1 -68 5<br />
Canterbury Rugby League Men’s Premiership<br />
P W L D PD Pts<br />
Hornby Panthers 4 4 0 0 90 8<br />
Linwood Keas 4 4 0 0 78 8<br />
Celebration Lions 4 3 1 0 74 6<br />
Halswell Hornets 4 3 1 0 64 6<br />
Northern Bulldogs 4 1 3 0 -6 2<br />
Riccarton Knights 4 1 3 0 -82 2<br />
Papanui Tigers 4 0 4 0 -100 0<br />
Eastern Eagles 4 0 4 0 -136 0<br />
Mainland Football Men’s Premiership<br />
P W D L GD Pts<br />
Cashmere Technical 7 6 1 0 16 19<br />
Coastal Spirit 7 5 1 1 8 16<br />
Christchurch Utd 7 4 2 1 18 14<br />
Nelson Suburbs 7 3 1 3 1 10<br />
Nomads Utd AFC 7 3 0 4 -4 9<br />
Ferrymead Bays 7 3 0 4 -6 9<br />
Selwyn Utd FC 7 1 1 5 -8 4<br />
Halswell Utd AFC 7 0 0 7 -25 0<br />
Weekend match-ups<br />
•Christchurch Metro<br />
Premier Cup (all Saturday at<br />
2.45pm)<br />
Christchurch v Belfast,<br />
Christchurch Park; Sydenham<br />
v Burnside, Sydenham Park;<br />
University v New Brighton, Ilam<br />
Fields; Lincoln University v HSOB,<br />
Lincoln Uni; Marist Albion v<br />
Linwood, Edgar McIntosh Field;<br />
Shirley v Sumner, Burwood Park.<br />
•Canterbury Rugby League<br />
Premiership (all Saturday at<br />
2.45pm)<br />
Northern Bulldogs v Halswell<br />
Hornets, Murphy Park; Hornby<br />
Panthers v Linwood Keas,<br />
Leslie Park; Riccarton Knights v<br />
Celebration Lions, Wainoni Park;<br />
Papanui Tigers v Eastern Eagles,<br />
Papanui Domain.<br />
•Mainland Football<br />
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Halswell United v Nelson Suburbs<br />
FC, Halswell Domain, 11.30am<br />
Saturday; Cashmere Technical<br />
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• By Chris Barclay<br />
IT’S CUSTOMARY to get<br />
straight back in the saddle after<br />
a setback, although veteran<br />
harness driver-trainer Kevin<br />
Townley will take time to<br />
consider if and when it is wise to<br />
climb into a sulky after his latest<br />
accident.<br />
A 70-year-old requiring a hip<br />
replacement is not unusual, but<br />
the background to Townley’s<br />
procedure in Christchurch Hospital<br />
sets the West Melton-based<br />
horseman apart.<br />
“I was going up in the air and<br />
the next thing I remember was<br />
all these faces staring down at<br />
me,” Townley recalled when<br />
revisiting his crash with Murano<br />
at Rangiora on April 18.<br />
“I’ve seen the replay, I suppose<br />
I was two or three metres in the<br />
air, then I got run over. It [the<br />
footage] doesn’t show that.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> stewards’ report states Gift<br />
Card fell and checked Murano<br />
plus Tom Brady. Townley was<br />
one of three drivers dislodged<br />
by the incident. Murano, which<br />
avoided injury, galloped on<br />
before being corralled.<br />
“[Murano] fell in a split second<br />
– apparently it stood on a shoe.<br />
You think very fast on the track<br />
and in a split second I thought:<br />
‘<strong>The</strong>re’s no way out of this one’,”<br />
Townley said.<br />
He was treated at the track<br />
and transported to Christchurch<br />
Hospital with hip, rib and lung<br />
damage. He was released last<br />
Friday to continue his rehabilitation<br />
with wife Margaret.<br />
“My left hip was smashed up<br />
pretty bad so I got a total hip<br />
replacement but there’s still a<br />
fracture or two to heal. Hopefully<br />
they’re healing all right<br />
with the new apparatus on<br />
board,” he said.<br />
Townley already has a plate<br />
and several screws in his shoulder<br />
following an accident during<br />
track work. After a crash during<br />
a trial at Motukarara, a horse<br />
trod on his hand, breaking all<br />
the bones.<br />
He was also kicked in the<br />
head by a horse before a race in<br />
Westport in 2017, with a helmet<br />
fortunately bearing the brunt of<br />
the blow.<br />
Townley shrugged off those<br />
incidents – and several others<br />
through the years – reasoning:<br />
“It can be a bit of a rough industry,<br />
you expect things like that.<br />
I’ve bounced back pretty good<br />
but there must be an age where<br />
you don’t.”<br />
That might be approaching,<br />
with Townley conceding the<br />
Rangiora spill was the worst he<br />
has experienced.<br />
“It’s not great timing to be fair<br />
– at 70 you don’t bounce back<br />
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quite as well either. I don’t know<br />
how much I’ll be able to do in<br />
the future. That will work itself<br />
out I guess.”<br />
Townley returned to his stable<br />
on Tuesday to check on his small<br />
team.<br />
“We’ll see how the next couple<br />
of months go and how I get<br />
around. I’ve got to lift my leg<br />
into the sulky don’t I,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> surgical advice was to release<br />
the reins but he would not<br />
be pushed into retirement.<br />
“I just have to judge it myself<br />
really. <strong>The</strong>re’s no rush, I’ve got<br />
another month before the bones<br />
are healed anyway.”<br />
Townley started training in<br />
with his father Doody in 1987<br />
before training in his own right<br />
from 1995. He has 263 winners<br />
and another 230 with his dad.<br />
Most of his horses are spelling<br />
now although Harbour Queen<br />
placed third at Methven on April<br />
26, just the tonic as he followed<br />
the race from his ward.<br />
Townley has also been boosted<br />
by the harness racing fraternity.<br />
“I’ve been inundated by offers<br />
of help,” he said.<br />
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REINED IN: Veteran harness racing trainer-driver Kevin Townley is making a patient<br />
recovery from surgery following a serious crash during a race at Rangiora (below).<br />
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN & TRACKSIDE (below)<br />
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to build<br />
on season’s<br />
success<br />
• By Dave Di Somma<br />
GRASSTRACK RACING has<br />
been a massive success this<br />
season, and there will be even<br />
more meetings in <strong>2021</strong>/22.<br />
<strong>The</strong> dates calendar has 38<br />
grasstrack meetings next season,<br />
including three dual code. That’s<br />
four more than this season, and<br />
includes the return to Hawera in<br />
Taranaki. <strong>The</strong>ir two meetings will<br />
be held over Waitangi weekend<br />
(February 4 and 6, 2022).<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be two other North<br />
Island meetings, at Wairarapa<br />
and Kapiti, and 34 in the south.<br />
Mt Harding at Methven and<br />
Motukarara will be the busiest<br />
grasstracks, with seven meetings<br />
each next season, while Westport<br />
gets three and Geraldine doubles<br />
its quota to two.<br />
Gore will also race on the grass<br />
twice, as will Oamaru and the<br />
Forbury Park Trotting Club at<br />
Wingatui.<br />
Methven hosted the last<br />
grasstrack meeting of the season<br />
on April 26.<br />
Methven Trotting Club president<br />
Mark Lemon is reasonably<br />
happy with next season’s allocation,<br />
saying the club can handle<br />
one meeting a month, although<br />
he thinks nationwide there is still<br />
potential to have even more meetings<br />
over the warmer months.<br />
“We should be having a meeting<br />
on every Sunday, and we are<br />
not doing that.”<br />
Grasstrack racing’s popularity<br />
with punters is well known. This<br />
season Methven turned over<br />
more than $1 million at five of<br />
its seven meetings, with a best of<br />
$1,565,647 on October 11. <strong>The</strong><br />
Hororata Club’s meeting there<br />
also did $1,132,720.<br />
Said Lemon: “When you add<br />
it all up it was over $9.5 million<br />
at Methven . . . the only two<br />
we didn’t do a million on were<br />
the two when we only had nine<br />
races.”<br />
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<strong>The</strong> versatile All Black<br />
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“When you’re in those situations,<br />
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Maintaining their discipline,<br />
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Both teams are named today,<br />
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Although the Chiefs celebrated<br />
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<strong>The</strong>y have never lost a Super<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Chiefs are fifth, and last,<br />
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No.93<br />
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I J G A C W B Q V N E X S<br />
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1. Clap (7)<br />
5. Strongly dislikes (7)<br />
9. Freight (5)<br />
10. Scent (9)<br />
11. Consciousness (9)<br />
12. Throw out (5)<br />
13. Damp (5)<br />
15. Clear of blame (9)<br />
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19. Subject (5)<br />
21. Jewish teacher (5)<br />
23. Caretaker (9)<br />
25. Bordering (9)<br />
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28. News (7)<br />
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2. For each person (L) (3,6)<br />
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4. Unlike (9)<br />
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8. Ghost (7)<br />
14. Custom (9)<br />
16. Omission (9)<br />
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18. Wreath (7)<br />
20. Own up (7)<br />
22. Small and elegant (Fr)<br />
(5)<br />
23. Cool (5)<br />
24. Egg-shaped (5)<br />
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Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different<br />
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> challenge now is to work out which letters are represented<br />
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Fragrance, 11. Awareness,<br />
12. Eject, 13. Moist, 15.<br />
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Tidings.<br />
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Agreement, 7. Hence, 8.<br />
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Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 37<br />
Rally-bred Yaris provides the thrills<br />
TOYOTA IS no stranger to rally<br />
success. I remember well the<br />
heady days during the early 90s<br />
when the amazing Celica GT-<br />
Four dominated the World Rally<br />
Championship.<br />
Toyota distanced itself from<br />
rallying for many years, it dabbled<br />
in formula one and sports<br />
endurance racing, however, it<br />
came back to rallying in 2017<br />
and the company has had success<br />
with the Yaris, winning the WRC<br />
in 2019 and 2020.<br />
While the Yaris is a world apart<br />
from the Celica as I know it – the<br />
latter was part of the Kiddiefamily<br />
line-up for many years<br />
– the Yaris with its hatchback<br />
design lends itself to the WRC,<br />
competing against other small<br />
hatchbacks such as Ford’s Fiesta,<br />
Volkswagen Polo and Citroen<br />
DS3.<br />
Toyota has just introduced a<br />
new Yaris on the New Zealand<br />
market. It comes in many guises –<br />
petrol-only models, hybrids and<br />
the funky Yaris Cross. I’ve driven<br />
all in recent months and can<br />
report that they uphold the values<br />
Toyota has in a small car.<br />
However, there is one major<br />
surprise within the Yaris line-up<br />
and that is the GR model, a car<br />
inspired by the WRC-winning<br />
model. GR is an abbreviation for<br />
Gazoo Racing which is Toyota’s<br />
performance arm that helped<br />
develop the WRC car.<br />
<strong>The</strong> GR Yaris in road-going<br />
form is no rally car, but it doesn’t<br />
miss out by much. Firstly, it is<br />
powered by a 1.6-litre threecylinder<br />
heavily turbocharged<br />
engine, it has a six-speed manual<br />
transmission and drives out all<br />
four wheels and, what’s more, you<br />
can direct drive to give you that<br />
rally feel, power can be proportioned<br />
heavily to the rear, or to<br />
the front, or have a 50:50 split<br />
should you desire that.<br />
Personally, I like the push you<br />
get from the rear, so during my<br />
time with the test car I drove it<br />
in sport mode which sends 70<br />
per cent in that direction. Under<br />
power you can almost force oversteer,<br />
which is immense fun, and<br />
there is more than enough power<br />
on tap to do that.<br />
Putting that into context, the<br />
engine is rated with 200kW<br />
and 370Nm, outputs realised at<br />
6500rpm and 3000-4600rpm<br />
respectively, all those figures considered,<br />
the Yaris is quick, strong<br />
and willing under all driving conditions.<br />
It is also eager, you know<br />
as a driver it wants to get hunting,<br />
the turbo boost is strong and the<br />
engine will fly to high revolutions<br />
if the accelerator is given any<br />
minor provocation.<br />
According to Toyota, the GR<br />
Yaris will make 100km/h from a<br />
standstill in 5.2sec, and it will also<br />
lunge to 120km/h from 80km/h<br />
in 4.5sec. It will also make<br />
230km/h if laws allowed.<br />
I had some items to pick up<br />
from Rangiora, so the obvious<br />
choice of roads to get home to my<br />
city suburb was through Loburn,<br />
Oxford and State Highway 72.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y weren’t perfect roads for<br />
the GR Yaris simply because there<br />
THRILLING:<br />
<strong>The</strong> GR Yaris<br />
has the<br />
performance<br />
to match its<br />
sporty looks.<br />
TOYOTA YARIS GR: Based on World Rally Championship-winning car.<br />
aren’t enough corners, but I did<br />
backtrack into an area where<br />
there were some challenges and<br />
enjoyed the feel of knowing the<br />
driver is in command.<br />
Just when you think it will drift<br />
nicely out of a corner, grip comes<br />
in from the front to pull the car<br />
straight and it powers off until<br />
the next corner arrives. When<br />
that happens, huge stopping force<br />
through a premium brake system<br />
comes into play.<br />
Grip is supplied by high quality<br />
Michelin tyres (225/40 x 18in),<br />
and with a comparatively heavy<br />
steering feel all the ingredients<br />
are in place for spirited motoring.<br />
Shifts through the six-speeder<br />
are short and direct, there’s no<br />
chance of wrong-slotting, and<br />
clutch action, while firmish under<br />
foot, is progressive.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s also an intelligent<br />
manual transmission mode that<br />
will blip the engine on downshift,<br />
matching the revs to the gearing,<br />
much like we used to do with the<br />
double de-clutch method.<br />
<strong>The</strong> GR Yaris is an absolute<br />
blast to drive, it feels twitchy with<br />
its short wheelbase, but such<br />
is the grip and control it has it<br />
inspires confidence. It is playful,<br />
yet safe at the same time with<br />
traction control systems intervening<br />
when forces are outweighing<br />
the law of physics.<br />
Even though the GR Yaris is<br />
• Price – Toyota Yaris GR,<br />
$54,990<br />
• Dimensions – Length,<br />
3995mm; width, 1805mm;<br />
height, 1445mm<br />
• Configuration – Threecylinder,<br />
four-wheel-drive,<br />
1618cc, 200kW, 370Nm,<br />
six-speed manual<br />
• Performance –<br />
0-100km/h, 5.2sec<br />
• Fuel usage – 7.6l/100km<br />
based on the WRC car, I didn’t<br />
take it off the seal as such, it had<br />
been presented beautifully and<br />
I didn’t want to risk stone chips<br />
and be presented with a massive<br />
clean-up job. But I did find a<br />
couple of corners that had loose<br />
surface seal and I was able to feel<br />
electronics working in order to<br />
maintain grip and acceleration.<br />
<strong>The</strong> GR Yaris builds on the fun<br />
angle that Toyota has pitched for<br />
the new Yaris series and you can<br />
glean immense pleasure from it,<br />
it most certainly is an exhilarating<br />
car that tugs at all the senses.<br />
<strong>The</strong> engine has a characteristic<br />
throb, it sounds chunky but<br />
sings sweetly from 4000rpm<br />
onwards letting the driver know<br />
it is enjoying its work. <strong>The</strong>re’s no<br />
point in the rev band where it<br />
doesn’t want to work freely, it will<br />
also dawdle the city streets in tall<br />
gears, the turbo producing huge<br />
torque that allows the car to pull<br />
from very low revolutions.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a little trade-off in<br />
terms fuel usage. Normally, you’d<br />
expect a 1.6-litre engine to garner<br />
an average better than 7.6-litres<br />
per 100km, but if you want performance<br />
that is the price to pay.<br />
When I took the test car back<br />
to the dealership it was showing<br />
9.8l/100km on the readout, perhaps<br />
an indication of how much<br />
I enjoyed hearing and feeling that<br />
engine work. At 100km/h an instantaneous<br />
reading of 5l/10kmn<br />
can be expected (engine speed<br />
2500rpm). All that aside, a<br />
generous 50-litre fuel tank means<br />
frequent top-ups can be avoided.<br />
In terms of fitment, the GR<br />
Yaris has all the goods. It has<br />
an in-cabin environment that<br />
matches the sporty exterior<br />
design, and has specification<br />
that justifies a very respectable<br />
$54,990 price tag.<br />
My wife recently suggested we<br />
buy a Yaris for our retirement. I’d<br />
certainly be interested in the GR,<br />
the only thing is she’s not thrilled<br />
with cars that have manual transmission,<br />
I’ve obviously got a bit of<br />
work ahead if I’m to convince her<br />
the GR is the car for us.<br />
In the interim anyone who does<br />
get to have one in their garage on<br />
a permanent basis will certainly<br />
be rewarded, it is one stroppy hot<br />
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chemical<br />
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in<br />
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them<br />
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Community Events<br />
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PSYCHIC CAFE NEW!<br />
Commencing Friday 21st<br />
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Nursery Rd. 021 0272<br />
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Funeral Directors<br />
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HANDCRAFT SALE<br />
8 Athelston St, Friday<br />
7th <strong>May</strong> 10am - 4pm,<br />
Saturday <strong>May</strong> 8th 10am<br />
- 4pm. Items suitable for<br />
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goods, brooches, pendants,<br />
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Gardening<br />
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Pets & Supplies<br />
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027 561 4629<br />
Trades & Services<br />
repairs, bathroom/shower<br />
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50 yrs exp. Bathrooms,<br />
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AAA HANDYMAN<br />
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AA SHOWER<br />
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or 021 853 033<br />
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40 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong><br />
Trades & Services<br />
Your local guide to our<br />
Trusted Tradesmen & Professionals<br />
To advertise: 379 1100 or star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
DECORATORS<br />
ELECTRICIAN<br />
Contact for a free quote<br />
phone 027 331 0400<br />
davewsimpson@windowslive.com<br />
Experienced Domestic Electrician<br />
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• New Build<br />
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• Fault finding<br />
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• Power<br />
• Lighting<br />
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Phone 03 377 1280 | Mobile 021 898 380<br />
SCRAP METAL<br />
Dominion Trading Co Ltd<br />
• Scrap metal buyers<br />
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• Top prices paid $$$<br />
• Open Saturday morning<br />
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Things we offer...<br />
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landscaping<br />
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PLUMBING & DRAINAGE<br />
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Free Quotes<br />
Call Morgan 0223 758 5<strong>06</strong><br />
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Towing<br />
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• Garden Edging<br />
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• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol<br />
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• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering<br />
Phone Dave 981 0278<br />
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E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz<br />
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Phone John on 0800<br />
003181, 027 240 7416<br />
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ELECTRICIAN<br />
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7331384.<br />
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1920<br />
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246 for your free quote.<br />
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repairs & maintenance. 027 282 8515<br />
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0891 671<br />
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Also buying furniture &<br />
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8440, 027 66 22 116<br />
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Monday to Friday<br />
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We are looking for cleaners<br />
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MUST have your<br />
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Must be eligible to work<br />
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Please email your<br />
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csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz<br />
or phone 338 9056<br />
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Situations Vacant<br />
EDITOR – Ashburton Courier<br />
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Applications will close on Friday 21st <strong>May</strong> <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
please email admin@thorrington.ac.nz<br />
All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.<br />
<strong>The</strong> deadline for receipt of applications<br />
Please note you must have the right to work in<br />
for out-of-zone places is<br />
3pm Tuesday 8 June <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
New Zealand to apply for this role.<br />
If a ballot for out-of-zone places is required,<br />
it will be held on Wednesday 9 June <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Parents will be informed of the outcome of<br />
the ballot within three school days of the<br />
ballot being held.<br />
Situations Wanted -<br />
Jobs Wanted<br />
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2940<br />
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Monday to Friday<br />
3pm - 6pm<br />
City Area<br />
Monday to Friday<br />
6pm - 9pm<br />
We are looking for<br />
cleaners to join our<br />
commercial cleaning<br />
team.<br />
You will need to pass a<br />
Security Check and you<br />
MUST have your<br />
own transport.<br />
Must be eligible to work<br />
in New Zealand.<br />
Situations Vacant<br />
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people on a permanent basis across our 15 sites in the South Island.<br />
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We are currently seeking an Advertising Account Executive to take<br />
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42 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong><br />
THE ENTERTAINMENT HUB OF THE NORTH!<br />
113 RAVEN QUAY | PHONE: 03 327 7884<br />
BISTRO<br />
OPEN FROM 12PM<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
TO SUNDAY<br />
HOUSIE<br />
EVERY THURSDAY<br />
12PM<br />
EYES DOWN 12.30PM<br />
Coming up...FRI 14 MAY, 7PM<br />
Like,totally awesome<br />
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FEATURING THE<br />
DnD TRIO<br />
(JOJO, GIGI & MARK)<br />
's<br />
DnD's<br />
Essential 80's Mix<br />
S h o w b a n d<br />
DOWNSTAIRS BAR<br />
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Hammering out<br />
the kitsch n cool<br />
hits of the 80's<br />
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To add a listing, contact<br />
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or<br />
027 458 8590<br />
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />
www.star.kiwi/whatson<br />
Treat Mum<br />
& be in to win!<br />
$45pp<br />
Children<br />
Normal Price<br />
This Sunday - Lunch or Dinner<br />
BAR HOURS<br />
MON 3PM-10PM<br />
TUES & WEDS 11.30AM<br />
THURS 11AM | FRI 11.30AM<br />
SAT & SUN 11AM<br />
Closing times will vary.<br />
Complimentary drinks<br />
for Mum & chocolates<br />
for the table.<br />
LUCKY<br />
DRAW<br />
GRAND PRIZE:<br />
2 Nights at Saxton Lodge<br />
in Nelson.<br />
OTHER PRIZES:<br />
La Mode Hair Salon<br />
Voucher<br />
& Meal Vouchers<br />
T&C's apply<br />
THIS SUNDAY<br />
Mother's Day Special<br />
A flower on arrival for every<br />
mother followed by a<br />
special dessert with every<br />
main meal ordered.<br />
Bookings essential 03 260 0325<br />
*Limited number of flowers & desserts.<br />
Offer valid until 3pm.<br />
Bridie's Bar & Bistro | 401 Worcester St, Linwood | Ph: 03 260 0325<br />
<br />
<br />
Bookings Essential PH 386 0088<br />
fb.com/GardenRestaurantBuffet<br />
www.gardenhotel.co.nz<br />
Mother's Day High Tea<br />
THIS SUNDAY IN GBC<br />
$28pp (minimum 2 people)<br />
MORNING & AFTERNOON TEA<br />
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL<br />
FRIDAY<br />
MEMBER DRAW<br />
3x $500<br />
LIVE RUGBY<br />
THE AOTEAROA<br />
SUPER RUGBY<br />
GRAND FINAL!<br />
SATURDAY 7.05PM<br />
CRUSADERS v CHIEFS<br />
MOTHER'S DAY - THIS SUNDAY<br />
COMPLIMENTARY BUBBLES FOR<br />
DINING MUMS IN WHITFORD'S<br />
LIVE MUSIC NEXT SATURDAY<br />
ROBBIE DREWAutumn Dance<br />
N E W<br />
ME NU<br />
NEW BAR/BISTRO MENU<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
MONDAY-SUNDAY<br />
12 NOON - 8.30PM<br />
QU I Z<br />
EVERY WEDNESDAY<br />
FROM 7PM<br />
HOU S I E<br />
EVERY SATURDAY<br />
FROM 12.30PM<br />
Woolston Club|43 Hargood St|Ph 03 389 7039|www.woolstonclub.co.nz|fb.com/WoostonclubInc<br />
CAFE OPEN 7 DAYS 9AM - 4PM<br />
BAR OPEN THU - SUN EVENINGS<br />
PH 385 8880<br />
FACEBOOK fb.com/GBCCHCH<br />
THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX, 110 MARSHLAND RD<br />
www.gardenhotel.co.nz . Phone 385 3132<br />
facebook.com/gardenrestaurantbuffet instagram.com/gardenrestaurantbuffet<br />
COME DANCING<br />
with Lynne Chaney & friends<br />
This Sunday 9th <strong>May</strong>, from 1.30pm<br />
Papanui RSA, 55 Bellvue Rd. $2 Entry.
Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 43<br />
christchurch<br />
GIG GUIDE<br />
Thursday 6 to Wednesday 12 <strong>May</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Christchurch’s<br />
smoking hot BLUES BAR. Friday 8pm - A<br />
Night of Funk with Eat My Shorts. Saturday<br />
8pm - Sign of the Firebird.<br />
A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St:<br />
Thursday 7.30pm - CWB (Cathcart Walsh<br />
Blaikie), free; 9.30pm - Revolucion Thursdays<br />
Latin dancing with DJ Zee, free. Friday<br />
5.30pm - Clube do Choro's Brazilian Jam,<br />
free; 9pm - Bite the Bullet (covers), free.<br />
Saturday 9pm - <strong>The</strong> Dadz, free. Sunday 4pm<br />
-Sunday Sesh with <strong>The</strong> Cha5ers & <strong>The</strong> High<br />
Kats, free. Monday 7pm - Quiz. Tuesday 8pm<br />
- Stand-up comedy night, free.<br />
BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday<br />
7pm - Mickey Rat's Karaoke. Friday 7pm -<br />
Accent duo. Sunday 7pm - Mickey Rat's<br />
Karaoke.<br />
BOO RADLEYS, Level 1, 98 Victoria St:<br />
Thursday 9pm - Topia. Friday 8pm - Kate<br />
Owen; 10.30pm - <strong>The</strong> Fillet duo. Saturday<br />
8pm - Caitlin Joy; 10.30pm - Mirrors.<br />
Wednesday 7.30pm - South Street Blues Trio;<br />
9.30pm - Open Mic Night.<br />
CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, Garlands Rd:<br />
Saturday 15 <strong>May</strong> 8.30pm - Beastwars 10 year<br />
anniversary tour with special guests Earth<br />
Tongue, tickets at undertheradar.co.nz<br />
CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, 30 Victoria<br />
St: Friday 6pm - Lissel; 9.15pm - Rockabella.<br />
Saturday 6pm - Natalie Elms; 9.15pm -<br />
D'Sendantz.<br />
HORNBY CLUB, Carmen Rd: Friday 7pm<br />
- Jo's Karaoke. Saturday 7pm - Sweet Azz.<br />
Sunday 5pm - Mother's Day with Norm<br />
Bland.<br />
KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay: Friday<br />
14th <strong>May</strong>, 7pm - 80's <strong>The</strong>me Night feat. the<br />
DnD Trio (Jojo, Gigi & Mark), free.<br />
MICKY FINNS, 85a Hereford St: Friday -<br />
Uncovered. Saturday - Smoke & Mirrors.<br />
To add a listing, contact<br />
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or<br />
027 458 8590<br />
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />
www.star.kiwi/whatson<br />
Dan Sharp is currently on tour with<br />
his new EP, 'Water Went Away'.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Taupo-based singer/songwriter<br />
is renown for his honest, gritty and<br />
soulful songs. Don't miss this chance<br />
to see him at the Wunderbar in Lyttelton<br />
tomorrow night with Leighton Fairlie<br />
and Chris Lake.<br />
NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine<br />
Pde: Friday 14 <strong>May</strong> 7pm - Mama Rock.<br />
RICHMOND CLUB, 75 London St: Friday<br />
7pm - Cantora. Saturday 7pm - Mockingbird.<br />
Sunday 3pm - Andy Genge.<br />
RIVERSIDE MARKET, 98 Oxford Tce:<br />
Thursday 6pm - Live jazz feat. Brad Kang,<br />
$10 entry.<br />
TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, Hornby:<br />
Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 8.30pm -<br />
Misfitz.<br />
THE CUBAN, 236 St Asaph St: Friday<br />
6.30pm - Live music with Brent Love.<br />
THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd:<br />
Friday 7.30pm - Open Mic & Jam. Saturday<br />
8pm - Sins of Eve & guests. Wednesday 9pm<br />
- Titanic (Kevin Emmett, Nick Buchanan, and<br />
Peter K Malthus). Saturday 5th June - Black<br />
Sabbath Tribute performed by After Forever<br />
with support from Sabotage <strong>The</strong>ory<br />
performing Soundgarden, tickets $20 at bar or<br />
online at cosmicticketing.co.nz, door sales<br />
$30.<br />
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd,<br />
Addington: Friday 9.30pm - X-Files Duo.<br />
Saturday 9.30pm - Red Zone. Sunday 6pm -<br />
Lance Kiwi Karaoke. Tuesday 7pm - Quiz.<br />
Wednesday 7.30pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke.<br />
WOOLSTON CLUB, 143 Hargood St:<br />
Next Saturday 7pm - Robbie Drew Autumn<br />
Dance.<br />
WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19 London<br />
St, Lyttelton: Thursday 8.30pm - Estère,<br />
tickets at undertheradar.co.nz. Friday 7.30pm<br />
- Dan sharp with Leighton Fairlie & Chris<br />
Lake, tickets at dansharpmusic.com. Saturday<br />
8pm - Sid Wanderer (psychedelic loops) &<br />
Subatomic (northen monkey noise), $10<br />
entry. Tuesday 8pm - Open Mic. Wednesday<br />
8pm - Jam Night.<br />
‘Famous for their roasts!’<br />
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ<br />
Cooked Breakfasts<br />
Check out our extensive breakfast<br />
menu from Continental to Cooked<br />
We are open from 6.30am<br />
Seniors SPECIAL<br />
Two courses $23<br />
Soup/Roast or<br />
Roast/Dessert<br />
Special available lunch only<br />
Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm<br />
$19<br />
at Hornby Club<br />
MOTHER’S DAY<br />
Kid’s 2 course<br />
special<br />
Treat<br />
Mum!<br />
We are family<br />
friendly.<br />
Great Kids menu<br />
plus designated<br />
play area.<br />
THIS SUNDAY<br />
$13<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
RACECOURSE HOTEL<br />
& Motorlodge<br />
118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,<br />
Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150<br />
www.racecoursehotel.co.nz<br />
LIVE MUSIC IN THE PAVILION<br />
Friday 7pm: JO'S KARAOKE<br />
Saturday 7pm: SWEET AZZ<br />
Sunday 5pm: NORM BLAND<br />
AOTEAROA SUPER RUGBY LIVE<br />
grand final Saturday 7.05pm<br />
CRUSADERS v CHIEFS<br />
Mother's Day<br />
Buffets<br />
BOOKINGS<br />
ESSENTIAL<br />
OYSTER<br />
LUNCH<br />
WEDNESDAY 26 MAY<br />
Battered oysters<br />
served with chips & salad<br />
1 DOZEN $30 • 1/2 DOZEN $20<br />
Complimentary glass of house wine,<br />
tap beer or soft drink included.<br />
PRE-PAID TICKETS ONLY<br />
AVAILABLE AT RECEPTION<br />
LUNCH & DINNER<br />
THIS SUNDAY<br />
$35 PER PERSON<br />
CHILDREN $1 PER YEAR OF AGE<br />
(UP TO 12 YEARS)<br />
Coming Attraction<br />
PLUS Johnny Cash<br />
FRIDAY 21 MAY, 8PM<br />
Tickets $20 available from the Club<br />
Come on down!<br />
17 CARMEN RD. PH. 03 349 9026<br />
WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ<br />
WHAT’S ON AT THE RICHMOND CLUB<br />
FRIDAY 7PM<br />
CANTORA<br />
SATURDAY 7PM<br />
MOCKINGBIRD<br />
in the Junction<br />
SUPER<br />
RUGBY<br />
AOTEAROA<br />
FINAL<br />
CRUSADERS<br />
v CHIEFS<br />
Saturday 7.05pm<br />
in the Taproom<br />
SUNDAY 3PM<br />
ANDY GENGE<br />
75 London St, Richmond<br />
Christchurch 8013<br />
P: 03 389 5778<br />
theborough.nz<br />
richmondclub.nz
44 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong><br />
Allessa Chaise Sofa<br />
WAS $<br />
2199<br />
NOW<br />
$<br />
1799<br />
SELECTED ITEMS IN STORE & ONLINE + SUPER DEALS. ENDS 31.5.21.<br />
MAISON<br />
Buffet NOW $ 899<br />
Entertainment Unit NOW $ 599<br />
Coffee Table NOW $ 499<br />
Ramsey Single/Single Bunk<br />
WAS $<br />
1299<br />
NOW<br />
$<br />
999<br />
Includes underbunk<br />
storage drawer<br />
Kate Sofabed<br />
WAS $<br />
499<br />
NOW<br />
$<br />
399<br />
Atlantic 3 Piece<br />
Dining Set<br />
WAS $<br />
1379<br />
NOW<br />
$<br />
1099<br />
Medium Feel<br />
boxed<br />
for easy<br />
transport!<br />
Sloane Queen/King Headboard<br />
WAS $<br />
449<br />
NOW<br />
$<br />
299<br />
Sono Queen Mattress<br />
WAS $<br />
599<br />
NOW<br />
$<br />
399<br />
Atlantic<br />
4 Drawer Tallboy<br />
NOW $<br />
799<br />
Tipaz Bedside<br />
NOW $<br />
295<br />
Tipaz 4 Drawer<br />
Tallboy NOW $ 799<br />
ON SALE!<br />
Atlantic<br />
Bedside<br />
NOW $<br />
275<br />
Shop<br />
Online<br />
Nationwide<br />
Delivery<br />
Finance<br />
Options<br />
Buy NZ MAde!<br />
PLUS HEAPS more super deals online & in store!<br />
AUTUMN SALE ENDS 31.05.21.<br />
250 Moorhouse Ave, Christchurch<br />
Ph: 0800 TARGET (0800 827438)<br />
targetfurniture.co.nz<br />
Offers and product prices advertised here expire 31/05/21.<br />
Sale Excludes Accessories.
Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 45<br />
Bigger Better Bush Inn!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Provedore, Briscoes,<br />
unbelievable food and hospitality<br />
outlets and over 65 great stores!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Provedore<br />
Grocery Market<br />
Corey Winder Master Butcher and<br />
Euro Deli now open!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Source Bulk Foods now open!<br />
Tank Juice now open!<br />
Salmon Heaven now open!<br />
V Mart Supermarket now open!<br />
Aroma Bakery now open!<br />
Super Bazaar - House of Spices now open!
46 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong><br />
Have you visited <strong>The</strong> Provedore yet?<br />
<strong>The</strong> Provedore – our speciality grocery and<br />
provisions market is gaining in popularity<br />
as even more stores are opening with Super<br />
Bazaar House of Spices now open also!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Provedore has all you will find in a<br />
supermarket plus so much more with our line<br />
up of speciality provisions retailers!<br />
With nothing else like this in the city make us<br />
your weekly grocery shopping destination –<br />
come in and have a look.<br />
Unbelievable Food Line up!<br />
When you’ve done your<br />
shopping whether you want<br />
fast food, breakfast or dinner<br />
we reckon we have the best<br />
line up of food outlets in the<br />
city! From Burger Fuel and<br />
Lone <strong>Star</strong> to Smokeshack<br />
BBQ, Tuk Tuk Thai, Kebab Inn<br />
we have over 30 eateries – you<br />
wont go hungry at Bush Inn !<br />
We also have over 60 local and national stores to choose from<br />
From services like BNZ, NZ Post, Phonefix, Copyprint and Mr Minit , to<br />
boutique fashion, Fascino Shoes, Leather Direct, All About a Girl and of<br />
course the wonderful Caroline Eve.<br />
Petersens Jewellers, Frontrunner, health and beauty stores including<br />
Unichem, OK Gift Mart, Haircare Market, Haircuts For Haircuts and Be a<br />
Beauty.<br />
Our new Waberi Bakery is also now open as well as Jinabob Korean Foods<br />
and so much more – come on in now!
Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 47<br />
If you’re still not ready to come over to<br />
Bush Inn, here are some offers from our<br />
team to make your visit worthwhile!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Source<br />
Bulk Foods<br />
Buy a jar of our new<br />
toothpaste tabs<br />
and receive a free<br />
toothbrush<br />
(valid until 23rd <strong>May</strong>)<br />
Haircuts for<br />
Haircuts<br />
Haircuts for the entire<br />
family. No appointment<br />
necessary. Don’t forget<br />
our loyalty card, every<br />
8th haircut is FREE.<br />
Corey Winder<br />
Master<br />
Butcher and<br />
Euro Deli<br />
Huge range of gluten-free<br />
products now available<br />
including pies, sausage rolls<br />
and savouries with much<br />
more to come!<br />
Salmon Heaven<br />
15% off our gourmet pizzas and<br />
pies, also with gluten free and<br />
vegan options. Exciting new<br />
flavours in our deep dish pies –<br />
pork belly, butter chicken, steak<br />
and field mushroom, salmon,<br />
silverside and mash…. And so<br />
much more!<br />
Valid until Sunday 23rd <strong>May</strong><br />
Super Bazaar House of Spices<br />
Amul/Verka Ghee 1 Litre - $15.99ea<br />
Onions 5kg Red - $5.99, Yellow - $4.99<br />
Bikano Suji Rusk 600gm - $5.99<br />
Bikano Fruit Cake Rusk 400gm - $5.99<br />
Maggi Masala Noodles 4pk - 3 for $5
48 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> 6 <strong>2021</strong><br />
Our gift<br />
to you!<br />
ENJOY A FREE*<br />
AMBER FIG HAND<br />
CREAM 100ML<br />
WHEN YOU SPEND $50<br />
OR MORE ON LINDEN LEAVES.<br />
*Limit one gift per customer, while stocks last. Qualifying purchase must be made in a single transaction and<br />
excludes clearance items. Excludes already reduced items. Not available in conjunction with any other offer.<br />
Gift with purchase is a Amber Fig 100ml valued at $27.99 by Linden Leaves.<br />
Leather<br />
Direct<br />
Over 1000 formal<br />
dresses in stock<br />
SALE ON NOW!<br />
This one only<br />
$149.90 while<br />
stocks last!<br />
front Runner<br />
20% off all rugby/<br />
football boots<br />
(while stocks last)<br />
bUSH INN SHOPPING CENTRE<br />
All About a Girl<br />
Haircare Market<br />
Be a Beauty<br />
Hair Cuts for Haircuts<br />
BNZ<br />
Leather Direct<br />
Briscoes<br />
Lincraft<br />
Caroline Eve<br />
Mister Minit<br />
Copy That<br />
OK Mart<br />
Elite Meats<br />
Petersens Jewellers<br />
Fascino Shoes<br />
PhoneFix NZ<br />
Sunshine Travel<br />
TAB Sports Bar<br />
<strong>The</strong> Front Runner<br />
<strong>The</strong> Main Skein<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nail Shop<br />
Unichem Pharmacy<br />
Waberi Bakers<br />
THE PROvEDORE<br />
Corey Winder Master<br />
Butcher and European Deli<br />
<strong>The</strong> Source Bulk Foods<br />
Tank Juice<br />
Salmon Heaven<br />
V-Mart Boutique<br />
Supermarket<br />
Super Bazaar House of<br />
Spices<br />
Aroma Bakery<br />
bUSH INN CENTRE TRADING HOURS<br />
9am – 5pm Weekdays<br />
10am -4pm Sundays<br />
fOOD OUTLETS<br />
Black & White Coffee<br />
Cartel<br />
Burger Fuel<br />
Carl’s Jr<br />
Coffee Culture<br />
Corianders<br />
Dubba Dubba<br />
Hachi Hachi<br />
Jinabob Korean Food<br />
Kebab Inn<br />
Lone <strong>Star</strong><br />
Moko Sublime Cafe<br />
Muffin Break<br />
New York Deli<br />
Noodle Station<br />
Pizza Hut<br />
Roast Ease<br />
Shake Shed & Co<br />
Shanghai Street<br />
Dumplings<br />
Smokeshack BBQ<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sushi Company<br />
Tuk Tuk Thai Street<br />
PUbLIC HOLIDAyS<br />
10:00am – 5:00pm<br />
fOOD OUTLETS<br />
11:30am – Until Late<br />
LOCATION<br />
Cnr Riccarton and Waimairi Roads,<br />
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041