The Star: May 20, 2021

wife to the Northlink shopping
He does this to avoid fearing for
their lives every time the elderly
couple brave yet another attempt to
cross Langdons Rd to go shopping.
The nightmare began when
the centre opened more than a
year ago. As more keen shoppers
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Neighbours drive
to avoid crossing
Langdons Rd
on foot
• By Bea Gooding
IAN WILKIE still has to drive his
centre even though they live across
the road from it.
number of cars they brough there
with them.
Supercar Showcase arrives
– page 4
To mitigate the increased traffic,
the Papanui-Innes Community
Board is now awaiting results on
a safety audit currently under way
to determine how to make the area
safer.
“Nothing’s changed, it’s still
a hard place to cross and traffic
hasn’t diminished in any way,” Ian
said.
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• By Devon Bolger
SID THE long-haired jack
russell had a lucky escape after
becoming trapped inside a tree
while chasing a possum.
His owner, Guy Martin, said
he had to use a chainsaw to cut
a hole in the trunk to rescue Sid
stuck in the bottom of the tree.
The trouble started when the
5-year-old was chasing a possum.
Martin and a Lincoln University
student were working on a
block of land in Greenpark on
Monday, tidying up branches
and preparing a burn pile.
“I went to get my gun and we
carried on picking up sticks.
Then the possum ran down the
tree and Sid found the scent
again.
“He was sniffing around and
obviously we got busy and were
loading up the tractor. He must
have got in there [the tree] somehow,”
Martin said.
He said the pair began to load
up the other dogs that were there
and were preparing to leave.
“That’s when I remembered
Sid and it must have been about
half an hour that he’d been in
there.”
Martin had a suspicion the
dog was in the tree as that was
the last place they had seen him.
“We went and turned the
truck off and listened and we
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TROUBLE: A chainsaw was used to cut a hole in a tree to extract Sid at Greenpark on Monday.
Possum lands inquisitive Sid
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RELIEF: Sid after being cut free from the tree.
PHOTO: GUY MARTIN ​
could hear him down at the bottom
of the tree.
“I went home and got a couple
of chainsaws and cut off a bit at
the top of the tree and I could
see down, about 3m down was
all hollow.”
Using a stick, Martin then
measured the area he would
need to cut into a square shape
to free Sid.
“The reason I cut where I did
was because I knew Sid was
below it so he jumped up and
out. There was a bit of a method
to my madness.
“I was slightly concerned
but I knew he wouldn’t be
silly enough to jump up at the
chainsaw. It was a bit of a leap of
faith but he proved me right.”
Martin managed to shoot the
possum too, which he said Sid
was happy about.
The video was posted on a
friend’s Facebook page and drew
some attention.
“A few people are questioning
online whether it actually
happened and it absolutely
did.”
Sid is also currently on the
look-out for a female companion.
“Before this incident, we had a
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I have a feeling it may grow after
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Briscoes Hornby
Claims an angry shopper
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assistant at Briscoes Hornby
last week have been revealed as
false. Briscoe Group Ltd said
no such or similar incident
had happened. A Briscoes’
spokesperson said after the
report in The Star last week it
had reviewed CCTV footage
from the Hornby store and
spoken to staff members, in
each case confirming that no
incident of this type occurred.
Police have also confirmed
they are not aware of any
incident. The Star reported a
staff member had claimed a
customer pulled a knife on her
after he unsuccessfully tried
to buy electric blankets with
a combination of cash and
counterfeit notes.
Woman charged
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A woman has been charged
over a shooting in Aranui
which left one person seriously
injured. Emergency services
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about 10.20pm on May 1. A
police spokesperson said a
35-year-old woman has been
charged with careless use of a
firearm causing injury. “The
victim remains in hospital.
For privacy reasons we are
unable to provide information
regarding his condition.”
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ITALIAN STALLION: Devon Gilchrist takes a shine to a Lamborghini Huracan EVO, a focal point of a Supercar Showcase Event in Christchurch on
Saturday. RIGHT: This Bentley Continental GT V8 is also in the show.
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$4m of supercars get hands-on treatment
• By Chris Barclay
DEVON GILCHRIST won’t run
his Hilux through a car wash,
he cleans his ride by hand –
although the trusty Toyota isn’t
exactly his pride and joy.
The high-end car groomer
and detailer is in his element
this week, ensuring almost $4
million of luxury vehicles are
gleaming when Christchurch
motoring enthusiasts can marvel
at the latest models to roll off
the Lamborghini, Aston Martin,
Bentley and McLaren production
lines.
There’s a McLaren 720s, specced
up to warrant a price tag of
$600,000; a sequin blue Bentley
Continental GTV8 sports a maximum
speed of 318 km/h, while
workers in Crewe, in north-west
England, used a kitchen fork to
hand stitch the dashboard.
Italy is represented by a Lamborghini
Huracan EVO, yours
for $539,580; and the world’s
fastest SUV, the Urus, which
houses the same horsepower as a
V8 Supercar.
Brought to Christchurch in
containers from Giltrap Group
Holdings in Auckland, the cars
will be on display for three
hours from 9am on Saturday at a
Supercar Showcase Event, hosted
by Avid Group Ltd’s premises in
Harman St, Addington.
“I don’t think there’s a car in
this collection that can’t go over
280km/h,” said Shaun Summerfield,
Giltrap’s general manager
communications and PR.
Summerfield is from Christchurch
and appreciates the
opportunity to bring the dealership’s
star attractions home.
“I saw one Lamborghini growing
up, at the Christchurch car
show in 1985,” he said.
While an Aston Martin,
Bentley or Lamborghini are
rarely sighted on the city’s roads,
Gilchrist has ample business to
employ eight staff.
“This is our target market,”
said Avid Group Ltd’s owner, as
he carefully buffed the Huracan’s
blemish-free bonnet.
“There’s more [luxury cars]
here than you think, and people
have multiples. We have a few
customers with hangars full of
cars. It’s quite an underground
scene here.
“They don’t drive them every
day but there’s a lot tucked away.”
Schooled in the intricacies of
paint protection in Australia and
detailing by a Japanese expert,
Gilchrist wasn’t relaxing as he
surveyed the lot.
Fortunately he only has to
spruce the cars up with a wash,
in his low and high-tech way.
“It’s all hand washing, we don’t
cut any corners,” he said.
“We use touchless air dryers,
we’re not dragging towels over
them,” he said. “For grooming
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softer than a coarse chamois.
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Thursday May 20 2021 The Star
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NEWS 5
Care unit strains with baby surge
• By Susan Sandys
NUMBERS AT Christchurch
Women’s Hospital’s neonatal
intensive care unit (NICU)
are soaring beyond capacity,
climbing to 54 babies at the
weekend.
The figure’s release follows
news of Christchurch Hospital
this week delaying
inpatient
elective surgeries
due to a high
number of acute
admissions.
While the
NICU increased
its resourced
cots from 41 to
44 last year, it
Nicola
Austin
has not been enough to keep up
with demand.
The unit has had to put on
additional nurses to cover the
higher occupancy rate, which
has averaged 50 babies a day
between January and April.
Overnight on May 15, there
were 54 babies in the unit.
In addition, the hospital has
had to delay more than 40 nonurgent
surgeries this week and
last week due to a high number
of acute admissions.
Clinical director and associate
professor Nicola Austin said
maximum cot capacity depended
on the number of nurses
on each shift and the complexity
of needs of the babies. Mothers
were transferred to other centres
when their births could be safely
delayed. Another strategy was to
keep the baby in utero until a cot
became available.
“However, if there is any
imminent safety concern for
the mother or baby, we will
deliver the baby. We make these
decisions based on clinical
indications at the time and with
adequate monitoring to ensure
ongoing well-being of mother
and baby,” Austin said.
She said the Canterbury
District Health Board continued
to work with the Ministry of
Health to identify opportunities
to expand the unit’s capacity.
A Ministry of Health spokesperson
confirmed this, but
declined to say when the unit
might be expanded.
The spokesperson said demand
for neonatal beds was high and
clinical networks were coordinating
beds and resources.
New Zealand College of
Midwives chief executive Alison
Eddy said transferring women
in labour to other centres could
result in whānau separation
and potential breakdown of the
patient’s support network.
The college supported the findings
published last year in the
COSY: Babies in the Christchurch Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. PHOTO: CDHB
Review of Neonatal Care in New
Zealand, commissioned by the
Ministry of Health.
School of Nursing, Midwifery
and Health Practice lecturer Dr
Deborah Harris said there was
“considerable delay” adopting
the findings of the report.
These included addressing
the need for resourcing to bring
occupancy levels down to 85 per
cent (the level considered safe
by international standards). The
authors said this was urgent.
Harris said staff in NICUs
nationwide were stretched.
“Our most fragile babies and
families are at risk of poor outcomes,”
Harris said.
She wrote last month to the
Minister of Health, who had
not responded to her concerns.
She hoped there would be some
funding in the Budget.
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Drivers remain
chatty despite
police push
to curb calls
• By Matt Slaughter
MOTORISTS CONTINUE to
use cellphones while driving
in spite of the fine for this
increasing and regular police
efforts to catch out rule-breakers.
The fine for using a phone
while driving increased from $80
to $150 from April 30. The fine
for not wearing a seat belt is also
$150.
Between 2015 and 2019, there
were 22 road deaths and 73
serious injuries as a result of
incidents involving motorists
distracted by mobile phones.
The Star spoke to acting Sergeant
James McClurg after he
and other officers stopped 14 motorists
on cellphones and seven
not wearing seat belts between
about 8am and 9am on Lincoln
Rd, near the intersection with
Blenheim Rd.
Said McClurg: “It [the increased
cellphone fine] doesn’t
really seem to be making a difference.
“We need to make sure drivers
are paying attention to what’s
ahead of them.
“Seven people not wearing
seat belts down here in an hour is
atrocious.”
McClurg said the number of
people police stopped on Lincoln
Rd on Friday was “disappointingly
stock standard.”
The Star returned to Lincoln
Rd on Monday morning and
witnessed two drivers talking on
their cellphones in the space of
20 minutes.
He said police are setting up
“one or two” traffic stops a day
across Christchurch to catch out
motorists breaking these and
other road rules.
McClurg said not paying
attention to the road can lead to
serious consequences, injuries or
death.
DANGEROUS: A police stop on Lincoln Rd netted 14 drivers on cellphones and seven not
wearing seat belts.
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Thursday May 20 2021 The Star
• By Samantha Mythen
“JUST REALLY stupid.”
That is the response from
police after they caught two
young drivers speeding through
Lyttelton tunnel at 114km/h.
The two drivers, both 19
and on learner licences, were
caught driving
through the
tunnel from
Lyttelton to
Christchurch
about
7.30pm last
Thursday. The
speed limit is
50km/h.
Said Sergeant
Gerard
Peoples: “This was a really
dumb and stupid thing where
they weren’t thinking about the
extra risks involved with driving
through a tunnel.”
They were following closely
behind each other and were
stopped by a patrol car travelling
to Lyttelton.
The police officer clocked the
excessive speed on his radar, did
a U-turn and followed the two
drivers, who pulled over outside
the tunnel.
They have both been suspended
from driving for 28 days
and have received a summons to
appear in court on June 17 for
excessive speed.
Police have the power to
automatically suspend someone’s
licence for 28 days for several
different reasons, including if
you are caught travelling
40km/h or more over the speed
limit.
Peoples said motorists travelling
through the tunnel usually
stick to the speed limit.
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Tunnel speeds hit 114km/h
Gerard
Peoples
CRAZY: Two young drivers were caught travelling at 114km/h through Lyttelton tunnel.
If drivers were caught speeding,
it was usually at about
70km/h.
Peoples called this instance
extreme.
“Some people don’t really
appreciate the hazards in the
tunnel,” he said.
“It is relatively narrow. It
often sees heavy traffic. There
are areas where there can be
water on the road from leakage,
tunnel maintenance and
cleaning and this can make the
road quite greasy, being an extra
hazard.”
Peoples said crashing in the
confines of a tunnel could be a
major problem.
If there was a crash it
magnifies further problems
that can occur such as fire and
accessibility for emergency
services.
NEWS 7
Pioneer pool
complex to
reopen early
next month
THE POOLS at Pioneer
Recreation and Sport Centre
will reopen in time for Queen’s
Birthday weekend following
extensive maintenance work.
The main pool, wave pool, spa
and sauna have been closed since
last November so that the pool
plant, roof and air-conditioning
system can be repaired and to allow
for earthquake strengthening
of the pool hall.
City council head of recreation,
sports and events Nigel Cox said
the Pioneer team is looking forward
to welcoming people back
to the pools when they reopen on
June 4.
“While the closure has
disrupted the routines of our
regular pools users, the repair
and strengthening work had to be
completed,” he said.
“The additional benefits are the
improved energy efficiency and
water and air quality.
“With the work finished, we
can’t wait to see people returning
to make the most of this very
popular facility.”
Plans to strengthen the floor
and roof of Pioneer’s stadium is
expected to take place next year.
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The Star Thursday May 20 2021
8
NEWS
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Campaign mounted to repair war
• By Chris Barclay
KEN WRIGHT, walking cane
in hand, regularly meanders
through Bromley Cemetery,
along the well-maintained rows
of war veterans laid to rest.
“I like to walk up and down to
see which navy boys are there,”
the soon to be 86-year-old
Londoner explains.
Wright’s interest in the sailors
is understandable – he served in
the Royal Navy for a decade, a
time frame including the Korean
War.
Yet it is a Lincoln-born
sergeant from the Canterbury
Regiment, who was killed days
before the end of World War
1, that really resonated after he
found the family plot of Henry
James Nicholas by chance about
20 years ago.
Wright was intrigued when
he first saw the letters VC and
MM etched after the soldier’s
surname. These days he is
appalled when he looks down
on the headstone, one of many
toppled by the Christchurch
earthquakes.
“It looks a bloody mess and
for a chap that’s got the VC he
deserves a lot better than that.
Being an ex-serviceman …
I revere the Victoria Cross,”
Wright said, before swivelling to
scan the uniformed columns of
headstones.
They display fresh replica
poppies added by the ‘New
Zealand Remembrance Army’
before last month’s Anzac Day
commemorations.
“If they can do those, they can
do this. They didn’t touch this
one. Although it’s just a chunk
of concrete, it could be stood
up and displayed a lot better,”
Wright said.
He first noticed the grave
when he visited family living
next to the cemetery, he moved
permanently to Bromley from
Dunedin with wife Bronwyn last
November to be close to their
daughters.
“I thought ‘I’m going to do
something about this’ if I can.
I wish the RSA would do
something about it, even clean
the stone a bit, sit it up, use paint
to highlight the names,” he
said.
“I know there was an
earthquake and God knows what
but that was 11 years ago wasn’t
it?”
Wright may not be fighting
a losing battle, with the Royal
New Zealand Returned and
Services’ Association national
president BJ Clark pledging to
Ken Wright first discovered the
family plot of Henry Nicholas,
seen here being mourned by
fellow soldiers after he was killed
in France, during a regular stroll
through Bromley Cemetery.
investigate.
“You’ve hit a raw nerve here
because I helped put together
the group that put the Henry
Nicholas statue by the Bridge of
Remembrance (in 2007). We will
have a look at it and see what we
can do.”
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hero’s family plot
NEWS 9
Although grave maintenance
is usually the responsibility of
the family, the RSA-affiliated
Remembrance Army has undertaken
repair work throughout the
country, when given permission
by the local council.
One of four sons raised by
Richard and Hannah Nicholas,
Henry was born on June 11, 1891
and after working as a carpenter
he enlisted in February 1916.
Nicholas earned the Victoria
Cross for his part in the attack on
Polderhoek Chateau in Belgium
on December 3, 1917.
He rushed forward, ahead of
his section, to destroy a German
stronghold inflicting heavy casualties
on the advancing troops.
Nicholas used bombs and a
bayonet to overcome the 16-man
enemy garrison.
The 27-year-old was presented
with his VC by King George V at
Buckingham Palace in July 1918,
and then crossed to France where
he was awarded the Military
Medal for actions performed during
operations on the Welsh and
Bon Avis Ridges.
Nicholas was killed in action
near Beaudignies on October 23,
1918 and is buried in the Vertigneul
Churchyard. Hostilities
ended on November 11, 1918.
His VC was presented to
his mother in Christchurch
on Anzac Day, 1919 and she
bequeathed his medals to Canterbury
Museum.
In 2008 a plaque recording the
VC-worthy exploits of Canterbury’s
first recipient was unveiled
in Belgium; Nicholas is also
remembered in Queen’s Garden
in Dunedin.
Wright’s plea unearthed an ally
on Tuesday, when Diana Burgess,
a niece of Nicholas, learned of the
family plot.
“We’ve never seen it,” she said,
before being given directions. “I
don’t like to think it has been in
disrepair for as long as it has. I
would be very, very pleased if it
could be fixed.”
A statue of
Henry Nicholas
looks stoic near
the Bridge of
Remembrance,
his family plot
was damaged
by the
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The Star Thursday May 20 2021
10
NEWS
Robbers
strike
across city
POLICE ARE appealing for the
public’s help to identify those
responsible for three robberies
that have occurred across the city
since Saturday.
A liquor store in Wigram and
another in Sockburn were the
targets of aggravated robberies
last Saturday night.
Detective sergeant Elliot
Western said four offenders are
believed to have been involved in
the robberies, in which alcohol,
cigarettes and cash were stolen.
The stolen vehicle used in the
robberies was located abandoned
that evening near Waikuku.
Police believe the same offenders
are linked to another robbery,
at a dairy in Halswell on the
morning of May 17.
A second vehicle was stolen
to aid the offenders. It was later
recovered by police in Halswell.
Police are concerned about the
possession of weapons and the
use of physical
violence against the employees.
Police are making inquiries to
identify the offenders, including
reviewing CCTV footage.
People with more information
are encouraged to contact police.
• By Matt Slaughter
THE BATTLE for James
Daniels’ city council seat has
heated up.
Coastal-Burwood
Community Board member
Kelly Barber has told The Star
he will face off against former
two-term city councillor David
East to replace Daniels as the
city council’s Coastal Ward
representative.
Daniels, a well-known radio
host, announced earlier this
month he will resign from his
position as the city council’s
Coastal Ward representative to
take up a dream role hosting
Newstalk ZB Afternoons with
Simon Barnett.
This has triggered a $65,000
by-election, a date for which has
yet to be determined.
East will run as an
independent candidate, and
Barber a The People’s Choice
candidate.
The pair went head-to-head
for the Coastal Ward seat in
2019’s local body election. East
received 2456 votes to Barber’s
1199. Daniels won the seat with
2795 votes.
Barber said, if he is elected, his
priority will be seeing partially
finished projects in the Coastal
Ward through to completion.
“I want to see things
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Barber to run for council seat
NEW CONTENDER: Kelly Barber will face off against David
East for James Daniels’ Coastal Ward city council seat.
David East
continue to progress. I want to
see the estuary edge through, I
want to see the Pages Rd bridge
and the Pages Rd approach to the
Kelly Barber
James Daniels
bridge finished off. I want to
see all the rejuvenation projects
that are going on, and have been
funded through shovel ready
[funding], I want to see them all
done.”
East said there is unfinished
business from his previous
years on the city council that
he wants to complete, including
addressing the impacts of
climate change on coastal areas
in the “foreseeable future,” and
adapting if things change.
His other priorities would
be fixing roads and advocating
for the city council to consider
public consultation feedback
more when making decisions.
Barber said people should vote
for him because East “represents
the past and, really, I’m only
interested in the future.”
However, Barber respects East
and recognises his experience.
He said he would be happy to
work with him in his role as
community board chairman if
East is elected back onto the city
council.
East believes his previous
experience as Coastal Ward city
councillor makes him the best
candidate for the job.
“I believe I’ve got a huge
amount of experience in the
way council operates and,
of equal importance, my
involvement with the coastal
community in a number of
community groups goes back a
number of years.”

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12
NEWS
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Petty crime rampant in city: ‘Just
Christchurch residents
continue to be hit with
petty crime. Crimes
such as car break-ins,
thefts, burglaries and
graffiti are reported
almost daily on
community Facebook
groups. Matt Slaughter
investigates the crime
impacting people’s
everyday lives
CONCERNED: Hayley Guglietta thinks police are not doing
enough to address petty crime in Richmond.
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER
HAYLEY GUGLIETTA is fed up
with the amount of petty crime
in Richmond.
Guglietta, who is Richmond
Community Garden chairwoman,
posted on the R.A.D.S –
Richmond Avonside Dallington
Shirley Locals Facebook group
voicing her concerns over a
number of crimes recently which
police have not attended.
“Petty crime, drugs and
vandalism is getting out of hand
and I have had enough. Twice
in two weeks our work car has
had the window smashed and
this time our tools stolen. The
community garden shed [has
been burgled] three times in
two weeks and now the cafe
building has nothing but a fire
extinguisher in it.
“I ring the police at least once
a week sometimes more with
FRUSTRATING: Petty crimes such as these break-ins in
Richmond and Halswell, car thefts, dangerous driving,
graffiti and burglaries are reported regularly on community
Facebook pages across Christchurch.
domestics, blatant drug sales and
[things] going down related to
the beggars and the police just
don’t show up.
“We have resorted to putting
a sign up begging, please don’t
steal from us,” said Guglietta.
Christchurch North Community
Patrol chairman Sam Hall
said crimes such as car break-ins,
burglaries and dangerous driving
have been common recently in
the area.
Last Sunday, about midnight,
Hall said the patrol was first
on the scene of a burglary at a
Bishopdale store. Members did
not confront the alleged burglars,
but alerted police. The alleged
burglars had already left the
scene when police arrived. Police
are investigating.
On Saturday, a car parked
in the Papanui Club car park
was broken into. Items including a
bracelet and earrings were stolen.
Leaders from different
community watch groups across
Canterbury meet every couple
of months and Hall said petty
crime is “just everywhere at the
moment.”
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Thursday May 20 2021 The Star
NEWS 13
everywhere at the moment’
In spite of this, Hall believes
police are doing the best they
can.
“It’s pretty daunting when you
hear what they have to do every
shift and then to not be able to
get someone
out because
someone’s
broken into
your car. Unfortunately,
it’s
the way it is. If
you knew what
they had to do
instead of that,
Sam Hall
you’d just stop
and give them
a slow clap, I think.
“We’ve got a very good relationship
with the police and they
love the fact that we can be their
eyes and ears in areas where
they aren’t going to get to unless
there’s like a priority one or priority
two event happening.”
Richmond and north Christchurch
are not the only areas hit
with petty crime recently, incidents
have been reported all over
Christchurch.
A car beak-in was also reported
on the Halswell Community
Group on Facebook on Saturday
and a photo was posted on
Sunday of a different car dumped
without wheels in an empty section
in the area.
A man posted on Facebook
on May 4 saying his car window
was smashed outside his parents’
house in Cashmere.
Photos of burnout marks on
Waterloo Rd, outside businesses
and on a grass area, were posted
to the Hornby – Greater Hornby
Residents Association Facebook
page on Sunday.
In Hei Hei on May 1, photos
and video of the theft of items
and trashing of the Manurere St
community pantry were posted
to the Hornby Neighbourhood
Watch Facebook group.
Meanwhile, on May 9, a resident
posted about a site map and
sign in Halswell Quarry that was
covered in graffiti.
Between late February and
the end of March, 166 bikes
with a combined value of
$250,000 were stolen across
Christchurch.
The Star reported last month
Facebook group Stolen Bikes
Christchurch and Canterbury,
which has more than 2000
members, has been set up to
attempt to spot stolen bikes being
sold online, reporting them to
police and returning to owners.
Police did not comment on the
issues.
DAMAGE: A car
stolen and dumped
in Halswell, damage
caused by burnouts
in Hornby and
graffiti in Halswell
quarry are just
some of the petty
crimes reported
on community
Facebook pages
recently.
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you think petty crime
has increased in your
area recently and
do you think police
are doing enough
to respond to it?
Email your views
to matt.slaughter@
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The Star Thursday May 20 2021
14
NEWS
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz
Support rolls in for
tenant after vege
garden destroyed
• By Matt Slaughter
NEW GARDEN beds will be
installed on the section of an
Addington social housing resident
whose vegetable garden was dug
up by the Ōtautahi Community
Housing Trust.
Zhang Wang’s garden, which
had 14 kinds of vegetables and 13
kinds of rare Chinese herbs was
removed by the housing trust on
Monday with a digger without
warning.
Neighbours had raised concerns
about the size of her garden.
The trust has apologised. Its
original plan was to turn the area
where Wang’s garden used to be
into grass.
Trust staff members visited
Wang and her daughter Vicky
Hamilton yesterday and it will
now install three raised garden
beds to rectify the situation.
Hamilton, speaking for her
mother, said the garden beds will
not make up for what has been
lost. “It shouldn’t happen in the
first place, but we don’t know
how long it’s going to take for the
planter boxes [to be installed].
They say it’s going to start at the
end of the week.”
Hamilton said Wang is pleased
new planter boxes will be installed,
but she lost hundreds of dollars of
vegetables when her garden was
destroyed.
She said Wang turned down
the housing trust’s offer for a $100
supermarket voucher.
She thinks the planter boxes
should be able to be installed
quickly and hopes they will so
Wang will have a place to garden
again.
Said Ōtautahi Housing Trust
tenancy operations manager
Martin Pearce: “The Ōtautahi
Community Housing Trust does
not always get things right.
“We’re very sorry Mrs Wang was
not told that the change she agreed
to, relating to her garden area, was
taking place this week.
“We have completed a review
as to how this happened and have
found that one of our teams did
not communicate with another,
meaning that Mrs Wang was not
informed.”
Concerned community members
responded in thousands, trying
to get the housing trust to fully
replace Zhang ‘s garden out of its
own pocket.
A petition demanding that this
happen had 2433 signatures yesterday
afternoon, close to the goal
of 2500.
Hamilton said Wang is thankful
for the support she has received
from the community.
“There were a lot of supporters,
people who want to offer to help.
“She [Wang] is very, very thankful
and someone offered to donate
her money and offered to give her
plants and is really, really grateful.
So much help.
“People just say that she’s such a
great gardener and a lot of gardeners
can really feel [her].”
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• By Samantha Mythen
THE SPEED flyer seriously
injured on Monday set a new
world record for the most
forward somersaults in 2019.
Crisstian Grueber
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completed
27 clean flips in
his world record
breaking effort
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Grueber’s crash on Monday is
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Canterbury Hang Gliding and
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“The club and the local pilot
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Grueber also performs as a
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Theatre. The theatre declined
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incident.
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NEWS 15
Injured speed flyer was record-breaker
Crisstian
Grueber
HOSPITALISED: The scene
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16
NEWS
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Parking rules catch out van owner
• By Matt Slaughter
IN UPMARKET Westmorland
sits a large motorhome causing a
headache for its owners.
The motorhome, owned by
Monica Fox and her family, is
parked on the street outside
their Rushden Rise home, and a
mystery person has complained
about it.
There are several motorhomes
and caravans in Westmorland
and the city council has received
six complaints in the last five
years about such vehicles being
parked on the street in the
suburb.
Christchurch-wide, 79 similar
complaints have been made in
the last year.
The city council says Fox’s
motorhome must be moved off
the street. But it is too big to fit
up Fox’s driveway and she is
struggling to find appropriate
storage for it.
On May 9, the family was
visited by a city council parking
compliance officer, who initially
said they had seven days to move
the motorhome or it would be
seized.
After Fox called the city
council several times, this was
extended to a month.
The motorhome has been
parked outside their home since
April 6.
INCONVENIENT: Monica Fox has been given a month to move her family’s motorhome
off the street outside her Westmorland home after a complaint to the city council.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
Said Fox: “It’s not causing any
issues; we can’t park it anywhere
else. We didn’t think there was
any problem.
“I think what is unfair is that
our neighbour [who complained]
didn’t have the courtesy to knock
on our door [and discuss their
concerns in person].”
Fox said she does not know
who made the complaint. She
has spoken to immediate neighbours
and all said it was not
them.
Fox and her family moved
from London to Auckland last
year, and then to Christchurch in
April “for a quiet life”.
City council transport operations
manager Steffan Thomas
said: “No person may park a motorhome,
immobilised vehicle or
trailer, whether or not the trailer
is attached to another vehicle, on
any road for a continuous period
exceeding seven days without the
prior written permission of an
authorised officer.
“[This] includes parking on
any road within 500m of the
original parking place, at any
time during the seven days.”
Thomas said people can
request permission to park
motorhomes on the road for
more than seven days while they
find alternative parking for the
vehicle.
“Parking compliance are
currently working with the
registered owner while they find
alternative parking,” he said.
Fox has contacted “so many
storage businesses” to see if any
have space for the motorhome,
but none have so far.
Many of the storage businesses
she has called are north
of Christchurch, a significant
distance from Westmorland, and
finding a business with CCTV
security cameras has also been
difficult.
Fox posted on the Westmorland
Residents Association to
explain her situation. Some
residents have generously offered
spaces to park the motorhome.
Fox appreciates this, but said
she plans to follow the city council’s
rules and attempt to find
storage for it in the month given,
to avoid inconveniencing others.
She would prefer if the motorhome
was allowed to stay
where it is.
“It’s quite convenient to have it
outside of the door.”
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UNEXPECTED: The installation of safety barriers on Dyers Pass Rd has
been delayed by two months, now scheduled for completion at the end of
August.
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Two-month delay
for Dyers Pass Rd
safety barrier project
SOFT SOIL conditions are
slowing down the project
to install Dyers Pass Rd
safety barriers, delaying
the project by about two
months.
The work to install 3km
of safety barriers is now
expected to be completed
at the end of August.
Since 2008, there have
been more than 270
crashes on Dyers Pass Rd,
causing several deaths.
The safety barriers are
being installed at high-risk
locations to help reduce the
severity of crashes where
vehicles would have left the
road.
City council acting
head of transport Lynette
Ellis said as contractors
have dug up the ground,
they have encountered
unexpectedly soft soil
conditions at a depth that
was not encountered when
ground investigations were
completed during
the design phase of the
project.
“As a result they are
drilling anchors into
the rock under the road
in order to achieve the
required retaining wall
strength to support the
safety barriers.
“Five hundred anchors
are required across the all
of the retaining wall sites.
This additional work is
the reason that construction
is taking longer than
expected,’’ Ellis said.
Work is expected to
continue with similar
road disruption to what is
currently in place – night
works, and around three
work sites where the road
is reduced to one lane during
the day.
Said Ellis “We’re working
to speed up the work where
possible.
“We’ve successfully
trialled an alternative
retaining wall design
using a Magnumstone
concrete block system that
is quicker to construct and
requires less excavation,
but this has been built into
the end of August time
frame.
“We understand that
this work is highly
disruptive to the Banks
Peninsula community and
we are working with the
contractor to complete
construction as fast as
possible.”
Heard of “ACL “disease in
people, well it’s just as
commonly diagnosed
in dogs. Every week we
have a dog admitted
for “Cranial Cruciate
Ligament ( CrCL) ” surgery
and we see lots of lame
dogs that have partially
torn there ACL ligament,
rendering them lame.
I was an enthusiastic
netball player in my youth
and at 16 years old I tore
my Right ACL. Back in
the “olden days” it was
an uncommon injury
and I was undiagnosed
for 18 months, spent 18 months with a
physiotherapist which didn’t help at all
and basically I was constantly limping
and had to give up all sport, even horseriding
which I loved, as my knee couldn’t
withstand the impact and weight bearing
load.
When healthy, the dogs knee joint acts
as a simple hinge like ours, swinging
backwards and forwards. The centre of
the hinge is inside the joint. The cranial
and caudal cruciate ligaments, form a
cross inside the joint and maintain contact
between the femur (thigh bone) and tibia
(shin bone). Lots of scientific research has
been undertaken to ascertain WHY the
ligament fails. It appears to be a complex
interaction of genetics, bodyweight,
breed, exercise patterns, trauma – there is
no one answer unfortunately.
We sometimes see dogs that acutely tear
completely through their ACL ligament
due to trauma (chasing a ball, vigorous
play, jumping), causing sudden non weight
bearing lameness. More commonly the
ligament disease is slowly degenerative
and the CrCL will fail over weeks to
years before rupturing. These patients
often already have moderate amounts
of stifle arthritis. When this happens, the
knee swells up causing pain, resulting in
lameness.
Animals are lucky as they get diagnosed
immediately and surgery can be planned
within the week, often happening on the
same day. In a relaxed dog you can palpate
the stifle and get obvious movement (this
is due to the tibia riding forward and the
femur sliding backwards). Some patients
need to be sedated to feel this “cranial
draw” as the joint is too sore and swollen.
We commonly perform radiography
to check for arthritis, any other joint
pathology and for surgical planning.
All dogs, regardless of size and breed, will
do better with surgical stabilisation of their
joint than without. Dogs need 4 working
legs to have an active, pain-free existence.
The aim of all surgical procedures is to
eliminate the “cranial tibial subluxation” to
prevent pain and achieve stabilisation.
Surgical procedures offered fall into 2
broad categories – surgeries that change
the geometry of the stifle so the ligament
is not relied on ( TPLO procedure) AND
surgeries that attempt to replace the
ligament with a synthetic replacement. At
McMaster & Heap we offer both surgeries.
Your veterinarian will discuss both options.
McMaster & Heap
Veterinary practice
A COMMON ORTHOPEDIC
DISEASE (ACL rupture)
TPLO ( Tibial Plateau Levelling) is gold
standard and the preferred option for
the majority of dogs and performed
by our referral orthopaedic surgeons.
It comes with a higher price tag due to
complexity and skill level required, time
under anaesthetic and because there are
implants in your dogs knee. Outcomes are
predicted to be 90-95% of normal limb
function and rapid return to limb use. It
is strongly advised for large, sporting or
working dogs who get poorer outcomes
with other procedures.
Ligament replacement surgeries to
stabilise the joint, reduce pain and
improve joint function are cost effective
for owners on a tight budget, preferred
on the geriatric patient and offer good
outcomes with less time rehabilitating.
There are other procedures available (
TTA, TTO, MMP, MMT) and these can be
discussed with your surgeon.
Both procedures are day surgeries and
require general anaesthesia, as well
as nerve blocks to numb the knee for
surgery. In theatre the knee joint is
inspected and torn ligament or menisci
removed. This is important to prevent
ongoing pain. Regardless of the surgical
technique, all patients must carry out a
6-8 week confinement period to ensure
surgical outcomes are maximised. There
will be scheduled follow up appointments
and clear instructions on what to do
and what NOT to do. Physiotherapy and
Hydrotherapy is recommended postsurgery
for all patients to help with return
to full function.
This is a common disease (especially in the
dog) that should be diagnosed quickly
and easily, allowing corrective surgery to
be performed to restore limb function
and give your special mate their quality of
life back. Any questions on this complex
disease, please direct to Dr Michele
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18
NEWS
SMASH: A woman was
lucky to escape serious
injury after the car she was
driving crashed into the
back of a truck yesterday.
The crash happened
on Deans Ave, near the
Blenheim Rd overbridge at
about 7.50am. The front of
the car went underneath
the truck’s trailer. Police
attended the scene.
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MCCAUGHAN
Drone review gets support
• By Matt Slaughter
DRONES COULD be buzzing
over Christchurch more if a
proposal from the Ministry of
Transport is adopted.
The city council has supported
the proposal outlined within the
ministry’s Enabling Drone Integration
discussion document,
but has concerns about some
impacts of it.
The Ministry of Transport
and Civil Aviation Authority
are consulting the public on the
proposal to update the rules on
drones to enable greater use of
them in the civil aviation system.
If adopted, drones could be
used more for tasks including
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transporting goods, carrying
people, assisting emergency
and rescue operations and civil
construction.
A 2019 ministry study found
the value of drone use to the New
Zealand economy could be between
$4.6 billion to $7.9 billion
over the next 25 years.
The city council submission
ultimately supports the proposal
but has raised questions over
noise and privacy issues, the
potential to scare off or harm
birdlife, and for drones to create
greenhouse gas emissions.
In her submission, Mayor
Lianne Dalziel said: “A balance
needs to be found between the
benefits to business/individuals
(e.g. cheaper transportation/
delivery cost) with potential increased
public nuisance such as
increased noise over properties
and privacy concerns. We need
to consider the four aspects of
community well-being – social,
economic, environmental and
cultural.”
Ministry of Transport economic
regulation manager Tom
Forster said: “We acknowledge
there are broader privacy and
nuisance issues that have been
triggered by the use of drones.
These issues have been taken
into account through the policy
development process.
“We are required to mitigate
any environmental impact as we
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develop policy, such as any negative
impact on wildlife.
“We are currently in the
process of consulting on these
matters and have engaged with
the Department of Conservation
accordingly.”
The public has until 5pm on
June 4 to give feedback on the
proposal and can do so at www.
transport.govt.nz/consultations/
enabling-drone-integration/
Wait times
grow for
driving test
• By Matt Slaughter
DRIVING TESTS are in hot
demand, with testing centres in
Christchurch and Canterbury
struggling to keep up.
Statistics from the Driving
Chance Network show that in
Christchurch, VTNZ Northwood
has 1178 hours of restricted
and full licence tests booked
for the next three months and
only 439 test hours available. The
wait time there is 44 days for full
tests and 49 for restricted tests.
The situation is similar at the
Lichfield St VTNZ, which has
1274 hours of tests booked and
668 test hours available, meaning
there is a 31-day wait for full
tests and 34 for restricted tests.
At the Jipcho Rd VTNZ in
Sockburn, the wait time is 42
days for full tests and 43 for
restricted tests. It has 1807 hours
of tests booked and it has 822
test hours available.
On average in Canterbury, the
wait time is 38 days for full tests
and 43 for restricted tests.
Wait times are the highest in
Morrinsville, Waikato – 104
days for full and restricted tests.
The national average is 49 days
for full and 53 for restricted.
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Anna and Heidi’s shot at the big time
• By Bea Gooding
TWO Christchurch Girls’ High
School musicians have come
out on top at last weekend’s
Smokefreerockquest regional
heat.
It enables year 12 students
Anna Clinch and Heidi Slade of
Anna and Heidi to be considered
to face the country’s best musical
talent at the national final in
Auckland in September.
Placing second, Christchurch
Rudolf Steiner School student
Isla Sinclair, known as Lunar
Fae, is also being considered to
compete at the finals.
The top two solo or duo acts
of the regional heat will now
need to submit a video showing
why they should be selected to
perform for the national title.
“It was a surprise, we were
both taken aback. When they
announced second place we
thought we were out,” said Heidi.
“I’ve done [rockquest] before,
but you never know how it’s going
to go or what the judges are
into,” said Anna.
Anna and Heidi was brought
to life during music class two
years ago. It all clicked when
they figured out that they “sound
pretty good together.”
They like to consider themselves
as an indie rock band, but
it was the lyrics, not the genre,
that defined the duo’s sound.
Thanks to their families, they
both grew up listening to an
array of iconic artists - from
Mazzy Star and the Boygenius
trio to Fleetwood Mac, Blur, and
Pink Floyd.
Being inspired by their lyrics
rather than the sound is what
influences the duo’s songwriting,
TOP SPOT: Smokefreerockquest solo/duo winners Heidi Slade (left) and Anna Clinch, also
known as Anna and Heidi of Christchurch Girls’ High School. Below, the duo performs at
the regional heats, held last Saturday.
PHOTO (above) – GEOFF SLOAN
and what they want to be known
for.
Said Anna: “We always strive
to do something different and
out of our comfort zone. We
don’t want people to look at a
song title and know what kind of
[sound] it will be.”
Smokefreerockquest is the
country’s only nationwide youth
event with original music.
Of the acts that performed
at The Aurora Centre last Saturday,
a further 24 bands from
Canterbury schools will battle it
out at the regional finals in June
for a chance to perform at the
national finals.
As regional winner of the
Smokefree Tangata Beats award,
“Haeata” of Haeata Community
Campus is also being considered.
Founder and director Pete
Rainey said while Smokefreerockquest
is a competition,
the environment is hugely
supportive, with emphasis on
participation.
“Between now and the regional
final, the work participants
will put in to prepare for the next
stage is a big part of what makes
Smokefreerockquest and Smokefree
Tangata Beats such valuable
learning experiences,” he said.
“The solo-duo acts going into
the video submission round,
and the bands going into their
regional final, will need to practise
hard and make good use of
networking opportunities and
social media to promote themselves
and their achievements.
“For a lot of students, these
steps can be part of their NCEA
assessments.”
At the Canterbury finals there
will be awards for the top three
bands, the Musicianship Award,
ZM Best Song, Best Vocal,
APRA Lyrics Award, and the
People’s Choice.
Smokefreerockquest has
national winners’ prize
packages for bands and
solo/duo winners that includes
$22,000 in Rockshop vouchers,
$16,000 NZ On Air recording,
a video and promo package,
and a photo shoot and branding
package from Imaginary
Friends.
The Canterbury regional will
take place at the Ngaio Marsh
Theatre on June 4 and 5, from
7pm. Both events will take door
sales for tickets.
•Tickets for the June 4
event can be found at:
https://www.eventbrite.
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The top 24 bands to play
off at the Canterbury
Smokefreerockquest
and Smokefree Tangata
Beats regional finals next
month
Performing on June 4:
T3 – Cashmere High
JJ & the Stingers – Christ’s
College
Burning Monk – Cashmere
High School
Unknown – Christ’s
College
Kenring – Middleton
Grange
Bann’d From School –
Christ’s College
The Degenerates – Kaiapoi
High School and Burnside
High School
Dear No One – Rangi Ruru
Girls’ School
Ghosty Joes – Christ’s
College
Portland – Cashmere High
School
Haeata – Haeata
Community Campus
By Tomorrow – Christ’s
College
Performing on June 5:
Loud Division – Shirley
Boys’ High School
Motion Project – Papanui
High School
A Little Soul – St Andrew’s
College and Christchurch
Boys’ High School
High Voltage – St
Andrew’s College
O Negative – Christchurch
Boys’ High School and
Shirley Boys’ High School
The Afterglows – St
Andrew’s College
3D Howls – Burnside High
School
Casper and the Frowny
Face Club – St Andrew’s
College
J15 – Avonside Girls’ High
School
Red Weekend – Papanui
High School
Black Wired – St Andrew’s
College
Single Malt – Shirley Boys’
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Superb candidates
for food pairing in
this year’s Top 30
BEER and food have been tablemates
for thousands of years, so it’s no
surprise modern brewers think about
complimentary food pairings.
Kelly Ryan from Upper Hutt’s Boneface Brewing
says all brewers are big fans of flavour and aroma,
and commonly think about what would go well with
their favourite beers.
With winter rapidly approaching, full bodied beers
like porters, stouts, ales, and IPAs are perfect
matches for heartier food. Plenty of those styles
are featured in the 2021 New World Beer & Cider
Awards Top 30.
“It’s great that New World are working with
brewers to highlight and showcase the diversity
of beer and its relationship with kai,” Ryan says.
“It will hopefully make people think about how
well these pairings work and hopefully get them
experimenting with their own matches.”
Boneface’s Darkness India Stout is included in
this year’s Top 30. With coffee, chocolate, and
citrus flavours, it was one of founder Matt Dainty’s
original beers, marrying his love of roasty stouts
and hoppy IPAs.
As Ryan explains, hoppy dark beers are superb
for food matching, with their trinity of roastiness,
subtle bitterness, and fruity hops.
“Pairing is generally reliant on three components
- cut, complement, and contrast, with Darkness
easily working across all of these,” he says. “I’d
personally look at a good slab of Whitestone
Vintage Windsor blue and some oat crackers. The
stout works as the perfect palate cleanser after
every taste of the rich, creamy goodness. The
Kirsty McKay and Mike Sutherland
from Matakana’s Sawmill Brewery.
bitterness and carbonation act to refresh the taste
buds, making every bite a revelation.”
Mike Sutherland from Matakana’s Sawmill Brewery
says one of the great things about beers is that
it can easily be paired across the food spectrum
- even having an advantage over wine in that
respect. He suggests hard cheddar cheese as an
example, with it pairing perfectly with both a light,
hoppy beer, and darker beers like porter or stout.
Sawmill’s complex, robust Baltic Porter is in this
year’s New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 30.
“The beauty of beer is you don’t have to be too
particular about what food type goes with what,”
Sutherland says. “And people have a slightly
different attitude than in the past; alcohol should
be enjoyed in moderation and the best way is
making an occasion of it, with yummy food as
well.”
Hearty winter fare is an ideal match for the Sawmill
Baltic Porter. Sutherland recommends meaty
dishes with rich sauces, beef cheeks, casseroles,
and of course mashed potatoes. Chocolaty
desserts will also go down a treat with the beer’s
complex flavours and silky texture.
Having opened in Marlborough in 2005,
Renaissance Brewing co-founder Andy Deuchars
has witnessed vast changes in the craft beer
industry. From the brewery’s early days they’ve
thought about food matching - partly thanks to
Blenheim beer writer Geoff Griggs, who urged
Renaissance to tell more of the story of their beer
on the bottle labels.
“We took his advice,” Deuchars says. “We said how
it was made, what the style was, how it should
taste, and gave some ideas for food matching. I
think everybody is catching on to that now. You’re
seeing more restaurants suggesting a beer pairing
with a meal, as well as wine.”
Renaissance Brewing’s powerful, layered
Stonecutter Scotch Ale is in the Top 30 list. One of
the first beers produced when the brewery opened,
it is a take on the ‘Wee Heavy’ style favoured
in Scotland, where hops are scarce but malt is
plentiful.
Stonecutter features nine different malts, resulting
in a stunning beer with flavours including caramel,
The Boneface brew
team from Upper Hutt.
toffee, chocolate, liquorice, and a hint of Scotch
whisky.
“With all our beers we try to be food friendly, and
the Scotch Ale especially is,” Deuchars says. “With
the smoky notes, and almost some blue cheese
notes, it goes really well with red meat, and with
roast or glazed dishes. It also goes really well with
desserts.”
For more ideas about food pairing with this year’s
New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 30, see
newworld.co.nz/Top30
The Awards were judged by an independent panel
of 28 New Zealand beer industry experts. They
assessed over 650 beverages from more than 100
breweries and cidermakers, taking in a range of
beer styles - from hazies to IPA, through pale ales
and stouts, lagers and ciders and beyond. The
Top 30 award winners are available in New World
stores nationwide throughout the month of May.
Renaissance co-founder and
head brewer Andy Deuchars.
Discover the New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 30 in store and at newworld.co.nz/Top30
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NEWS 21
Comedian McPhail farewelled
• By Kurt Bayer
TEARS, HUGS and raucous
laughter marked Tuesday’s
emotional farewell of pioneering
Kiwi comedian and actor David
McPhail who passed away
suddenly last week.
McPhail – one half of the
famed McPhail and Gadsby
satirical comedy show which
dominated New Zealand
television in the 80s – died of a
heart attack in the early hours of
Friday morning, aged 76.
Former colleagues, fellow
actors and TV personalities,
along with a wide group of
friends and tight-knit family,
including wife of 54 years’
Anne, turned out for the
“celebration of David’s life” on
Tuesday at Burnside’s Westpark
Chapel – where McPhail helped
farewell Jon Gadsby who passed
away six years ago.
They paid tribute to not just
a trailblazing satirist, but more
importantly, a devoted father-oftwo
and beloved grandfather-offour.
Former comedy partner Chris
McVeigh QC remembered his
old uni mate and driving force
behind “some of this country’s
greatest comedic art”.
“Above all his towering talents,
he was a good man – good, in
every sense of the word,” said
McVeigh, who further described
McPhail as kind, loyal, compassionate,
“judiciously sceptical”,
and generous.
McVeigh also highlighted his
friend’s “unique and profound”
acting talent, recalling a performance
in Edward Albee’s great
play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?
“His performance was not just
impressive – it was indelible,”
McVeigh told the large gathering,
which spilled into overflow
rooms.
Only once in 50 years of
friendship, does McVeigh recall
McPhail losing his temper – and
that was with their other great
mate and collaborator, Peter
Rowley.
Rowley described McPhail
as “one of the most important
people in my life”, saying he
was humble and forgiving, “especially
with me”.
His “magnetic” personality
attracted a talented team which
created a “fast-paced bullet train
of satirical force.”
A Week of It, launched in 1977,
The funeral for
David McPhail
was held on
Tuesday.
was made before the phrase following, Johnson said, that “even
“political correctness” became the haters kept on watching.”
part of the vernacular, which was His family, including his wife
a good thing according to friend Anne, children and grandchildren,
gave emotional tributes to
and former sound engineer Graham
Johnson.
McPhail.
“Thank goodness, otherwise “Poppa was my hero,” his
it would never have got off the grandson Milo said.
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COBBLE CLUSTERS added to
the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River
are breathing life into the river by
creating new habitats for native
fish.
More than 6000 stones and
boulders have been used to create
the cobble clusters at seven sites
along the river between Barrington
St and Waltham Rd.
They are designed to provide
a mid-channel cover for small
cryptic native fish that like to
hide during the day and come
out to feed at night, and should
help to improve the ecology of
the river.
City council stormwater and
waterways team leader Keith
Davison said the cobble clusters
were added as part of the
riverbank works improvement
programme.
“A lot of work has been done
along the Heathcote to reduce the
flood risk but we also wanted to
take the opportunity to improve
the health of the river and to
breathe life back into it,” he said.
“The cobble clusters are very
obvious at the moment but they
will soon become less visible
as they become colonised by
algae. They will provide natural,
sheltered habitats for fish and
enhance the ecology of the river.”
EOS Ecology principal scientist
Shelley McMurtie said the city’s
urban rivers are typically devoid
of a mid-channel habitat.
“Cobble clusters are especially
great habitat for some of our
more uncommon and ‘at risk’
native fish species such as redfin
bully and bluegill bully, which
are known to prefer larger substrate,’’
said McMurtie, who is
also the project ecologist for the
river bank works programme.
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created in Heathcote River
NEW LIFE: New habitats at the Heathcote River have been
created for native fish species at risk such as the bluegill
bully.
PHOTO: NEWSLINE ​
The first record of a redfin
bully in the Heathcote River was
made last year by the Department
of Conservation at a trial
cobble cluster site near Colombo
St.
“Following a year-long trial
at two sites in the river we have
been able to realise the project’s
vision to create this habitat along
a much wider area,’’ Martin
Densham, project manager for
the river bank works programme
said.
Thursday May 20 2021 The Star
NEWS 23
Garden festival
dates announced
FOLLOWING THIS year’s
Grow Ōtautahi event, organisers
have announced dates for the
2022 Christchurch Garden
Festival.
Grow will return to the
Christchurch Botanic Gardens,
with entry still free to everyone,
over three days from March 18
to 20.
Festival Director Sandi Mac-
Rae said excitement is already
building around next year’s
festival, with sponsors and visitors
of the 2021 event coming up
with new ideas for next year.
Said MacRae: “We were absolutely
thrilled to welcome approximately
25,000 guests to the
festival in March this year. It was
a hugely positive experience and
feedback has been so encouraging.
We’re now in full planning
mode, with the aim of bringing
a bigger and better festival to the
people of Christchurch.
“We really want to build on
the community, education and
sustainability aspects of the
show for 2022. Our visitors were
a real cross-section of the local
community and we want to encourage
more schools and community
groups to get involved.
“The charitable Trust behind
the festival has a long-term vi-
GREEN: Grow Ōtautahi’s
Christchurch Garden
Festival will be held from
March 18 to 20 next year. ​
sion for Grow that aims to see
us expand out into the central
city using other venues and city
restaurants to share what’s great
about growing in Christchurch.
“We are so pleased to have
Lincoln University back onboard
as our presenting partner
and we’re talking with them now
about how we also expand the
science and research aspects of
the festival that were so popular
this year.
“And of course we’ll be
bringing back the packed-out
TerraViva workshops, Garden
Kitchen demonstrations, and
Kids’ Zone.”
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Herald senior
political
correspondent
Audrey Young
talks Serious
Fraud Office and
election donations
JACINDA ARDERN’S kneejerk
response to the news that
a donation to her own Labour
Party has led to Serious Fraud
Office charges against six
individuals was “let’s look at the
law.”
The Prime Minister was right
when she said that New Zealanders
want to have confidence in
the system.
And the fact that 12 individuals
are facing Serious Fraud
Office charges in relation to
donations to three political
parties may have undermined
confidence in something. But not
necessarily “the system”.
“The system” spent several
years investigating the donations
– and “the system” has laid
charges.
Notwithstanding the fact that
the trials have yet to be held,
there is every reason, for the
first time in a long time, for New
Zealanders to have confidence
that the system might actually be
working.
Until the past few years, it was
rare for the police to do anything
other than investigate and then
do nothing.
The Serious Fraud Office
has built up an expertise over
three years of intense work on
donations relating first to the
National Party, then New Zealand
First’s donations vehicle, the
New Zealand First Foundation,
and the Labour Party. It is also
investigating donations to the
Māori Party.
Ardern resisted calling for a
look at the law when charges
were laid in relation to National
and New Zealand First donations.
That suggestion arose only
after charges were laid in relation
to Labour.
The law is clear. The Electoral
Commission does a good job of
explaining who can give what
to whom and what needs to be
disclosed. It produces easy-tounderstand
material directed
to donors, to political party
secretaries, and to candidates, all
on its website.
It explains whether giving
parties a gift or discount is a donation
(yes if it worth more than
$1500), whether charity auctions
are treated as donation (yes) and
whether you can avoid disclosure
rules by breaking up big donations
into smaller amounts (no).
Anything over $15,000 to a
party and over $1500 to a candidate
must be declared within a
specified time. If you give more
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than $30,000, the party must
declare that within 10 days.
If you are wealthy and want to
give a large anonymous donation
to a political party, there
are ways to do that, so long as
it is not a nod and a wink affair
where you give anonymously but
tell someone it was you.
At the very least, any decision
by Ardern to “look at the law”
should be delayed until the three
cases before the courts have been
completed - unless it is to reduce
thresholds.
The first of the current crop to
go to trial will be in September
and around donations to the
National Party.
The case relating to National
Party donations, and including
former National MP Jami-lee
Ross, is due to be heard in
September; the case in relation
to New Zealand First donations
in June next year; and the first
appearance for the defendants
relating to the Labour Party
donations is May 24.
The six people charged last
week are accused of adopting a
“fraudulent device, trick or stratagem”
where the donation was
paid via an intermediary account
before being paid to Labour.
Court papers also allege the
group provided five names
to “create the illusion” of five
donations of sums of less than
$15,000 to conceal the amount
and identity of the actual donor.
The accused six are also further
charged with unlawfully
obtaining a benefit for the
true donor by allowing them
“freedom from any public
scrutiny”.
Major changes were made to
the electoral law by the Labourled
Government between 2005
and 2008 in response to the
mother of all elections in terms
of law breaking; and further
changes were made by National
in 2010.
The 2005 election had four
donations scandals attached to
it: Labour busted its election
OPINION 25
Ardern’s knee-jerk reaction to SFO charges
I ATTENDED David McPhail’s
funeral this week. I had the
privilege of being part of the same
team with him at the Festival
Debate in the Christchurch Town
Hall, I’m guessing in the mid-
1990s.
I have a photo with him, Chris
McVeigh, AK (Alan) Grant and
Jim Hopkins. I’m holding the
cup, as we were the winning
team having beaten off the North
Islanders.
Speakers at the funeral reminded
us all just what an amazing
contribution David made to
our city and country. And they
reminded me what an important
role Christchurch played in our
country’s television history.
I was talking to people
afterwards about how much
we looked forward to watching
each episode of A Week of It
and McPhail & Gadsby – no
on-demand options back then.
And how we talked about it the
Mayor
Lianne Dalziel
next day – at school, at university
or work. He was well ahead of
his time. And I think we are the
poorer without this quality of
satire on our screens.
May he rest in peace.
On another matter, you will
probably remember Ruby Jones,
the artist that captured the compassion
of the response to the 15
March 2019 terrorist attack, with
her drawings of a Muslim and
non-Muslim woman hugging each
other and the words ‘this is your
home and you should have been
safe here’.
Well, Accor Hotels commissioned
Ruby to record her interpretations
of managed isolation.
She created 14 artworks, (representing
the 14 days of managed
isolation), inspired by interviews
with MIQ staff and messages from
grateful returnees.
Thanks from Iso is on display on
the ground floor of Tūranga until
June 11.
Thursday May 20 2021 The Star
expenses because its taxpayerfunded
pledge card was deemed
an election expense; the Auditor-
General undertook a review and
found that virtually all parties
had misused parliamentary
funding for electioneering; the
Exclusive brethren were found to
have been behind an anonymous
leaflet attacking the Greens and
Labour; and National’s failing to
account for GST in its election
broadcasting allowance, giving
it $112,000 more in time than it
was legally allowed.
Most parties repaid the
amount of parliamentary funds
they had misused; the Brethren
debacle resulted in disclosure
rules about third-party advertising
being tightened; Parliament
changed the law defining what a
legitimate expense for MPs was.
Neither Labour nor National was
charged over the pledge card or
GST.
The law was changed again in
2019 to outlaw any foreign donations
above $50 or foreign donations
being funnelled through
New Zealand people.
It was in response to National
lawfully receiving a $150,000
donation during its last term in
office from a Chinese horse racing
mogul, Lang Lin, through his
New Zealand-based company.
The law has been refined many
times. Now it is time for it to be
tested before the courts.
– NZ Herald
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OPINION
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He Puapua report gives pathway
Political
commentator
John Minto
gives his
views on
the much
debated He Puapua
report
PETER WILLIAMS (The Star,
May 6) has expressed serious
concern about what he sees
as threats to our democracy
from the government report
He Puapua.
Peter Williams has said he
is not interested in any “racist
tirades” but wants a “reasoned
discussion”. That’s a good place
to start so here I will explain why
I support the He Puapua report
and other similar initiatives
such as Māori wards on local
councils, the proposed national
Māori health agency and comanagement
proposals for water.
The He Puapua report was
commissioned by the Government
to see what policy changes
would be needed to implement
the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous
People, which was signed by
John Key’s National government
in 2010.
Peter Williams is right to
criticise the Government for not
releasing the report before now.
They have had it for two years
and we only know the content
because someone leaked it to
National Party leader Judith
Collins and she has, quite rightly,
passed it on to the media so all of
us can read it.
However, instead of the report
being a threat to democracy,
the proposed changes would
improve our democracy.
We should all welcome this.
Firstly we have to accept
Māori have always been underrepresented
in decision-making
at national and local level.
Peter Williams has described
how our democracy developed
from the first elections in 1853,
when only landowners could
vote. However, Māori landowners
were excluded because they
were much larger in number
and would have easily outvoted
Pākehā landowners.
To prevent this, Māori were
excluded from voting on the
grounds their land was communally
rather than privately
owned. It was a blatant gerrymander.
It was racism at work.
In the late 1860s, when pressure
was building for everyone
to have the vote, the government
‘He Puapua is not about
apartheid or separatism.
It’s about making our
democracy work better for
Māori and therefore better
for the whole country.’
– John Minto
decided to create four Māori
seats in Parliament, not to give
better Māori representation but
to keep Māori as a permanent
minority who could never
outvote Pākehā. When the seats
were set up, a Māori vote was
worth about one quarter of
a European vote and despite
Māori complaints it took over
100 years before that number
was increased.
We’d all agree that wasn’t
democracy. It was racism.
New Zealand has developed
a much better democracy since
then but Māori interests and
Māori contributions have usually
been overridden by the Pākehā
majority. An 85 per cent Pākehā
vote can always outvote a 15 per
cent Māori vote.
This is sometimes called
“dictatorship by the majority”
because the minority can always
be outvoted, even on issues
of how to provide services for
Māori health and wellbeing.
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OPINION 27
to a better democracy for us all
This is one of the reasons the
social statistics for Māori in
housing, health, education and
employment are so bad. Our
decision-making structures are
not working.
In recent years we have begun
moving towards some co-governorship
arrangements such as in
managing the Urewera National
Park, the Whanganui River and
some parts of the Department of
Conservation estate along with
initiatives such as Kura Kaupapa
Māori schools, Kohanga Reo and
Whanau Ora.
These co-governorship arrangements
of iwi alongside
“tangata tiriti” (those of us whose
ancestors came after the Treaty
was signed) have been successful.
They won’t always go smoothly
but with goodwill and respectful
partnerships I think we are moving
in the right direction.
These co-governance models
improve our democracy – if they
weakened it, I’d be the first to
protest.
The proposal for Māori wards
should be welcomed because it
also improves our democracy.
Rather than being left to chance,
it ensures there will always be
democratically elected Māori
representatives in local decisionmaking.
I was pleased to read recently
an opinion piece from Wellington
councillor Sean Rush, who
initially opposed a Māori ward
on Wellington City Council but
later was persuaded to change
his mind by the strength of
arguments in favour. He came
to see our democracy as “a thin
veneer hiding huge inequality,
and is not working for chunks of
our country. It is clearly not the
‘equality’ envisaged by the chiefs
and Hobson, on behalf of the
Crown, at Waitangi”. He goes on
to ask, “Can we really say we are
governing equally for all Wellingtonians
when one group is
clearly so unequally represented
in negative outcomes?”
He sums up his argument for a
Māori ward like this:
“Some may see this support
as a step towards supporting a
separate state. It is not. Rather,
specific Māori representation as
we have agreed on council is an
elegant, modern interpretation
of kāwanatanga (governorship),
which could be the circuit-breaker
that brings unifying change
for future generations.”
I agree.
Councils are not being forced
to have Māori wards but if a
council establishes a Māori ward
then it won’t be able to be overturned
in a referendum. This puts
it in the same category as other
council decisions. Democracy is
not undermined in any way because
the councillors who make
all council decisions still face
elections as usual.
Last week a large group of people
took to the streets in Feilding
to oppose a council decision
to delay discussion of a Māori
ward for two years. These people
wanted guaranteed Māori representation
in local government.
Good on them. That’s democracy
in action.
Health is an area crying out for
a dedicated Māori health agency
that would not own resources
but could direct resources in the
most efficient and effective way
to address the needs of Māori in
ways our health system doesn’t
do now. At the moment Māori
take less from our health system
than Pākehā simply because
Māori die younger than the rest
of us. We need to fix this and
“by Māori for Māori” will be an
important development to help
put this right.
Similarly for co-governance
models proposed for water management.
Judith Collins claimed
this meant Maori, who make up
15 per cent of the population,
would own 50 per cent of the
SAFEGUARD: Ngai Tahu’s
Dr Te Maire Tau.
water infrastructure, which has
been paid for by ratepayers and
taxpayers.
This was an outrageous thing
to say. It was untrue. It was
scaremongering. Ngai Tahu representatives
have called her out,
saying they have never wanted
to own three waters (drinking
water, wastewater, stormwater)
infrastructure. Instead, Ngai
Tahu representative Dr Te Maire
Tau says they have been discussing
a co-governance model with
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fewer.
the Government as a safeguard
against any attempts by future
governments to privatise water
assets. That’s good news to me.
Despite Labour’s failure to
release the He Puapua report, it is
wrong for National Party leader
Judith Collins to whip up fears
saying the Government has a
secret agenda for segregation or
even apartheid, as some people
have described it. This is nasty,
negative politics.
He Puapua is not about apartheid
or separatism. It’s about
making our democracy work better
for Māori and therefore better
for the whole country.
The overall relationship
between Māori and Pākehā has
come a long way since I was
growing up in Dunedin in the
1950s and 1960s and I’m delighted
to see this important progress
to improve our democracy is
continuing.

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If Christchurch NZ was
a private business with
its own private funds,
withholding the true
cost of this partnership
would be acceptable as it
would be their own private
business (The Star, May
15), but Christchurch NZ
is not a private business
as it gets about 75 per cent
of its funding from the
city council and the city
council get that funding
from the Christchurch
ratepayers.
So someone needs to
know the true cost and
as there is commercial
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while I went visiting in
hospital, there was a dog
on a bed. I have often seen
dogs wandering along
corridors.
I wish to point out that
I no longer go to parks or
along the beaches because
of the dog problem.
I seldom report dog
attacks, because, it seems,
the authorities do nothing.
I was attacked by a
dog in 2015. The owner
laughed at me. – John
Hill
LETTERS 29
Otautahi,
Aotearoa
Personally I look
forward to the day when
the city is called Otautahi
and the country Aotearoa.
For the many who wrote
in suggesting that changes
to our democracy are
being done by stealth, they
need to read up on the
history of this country.
Māori who discovered
this land and named it
Aotearoa many years
before Tasman or Cook
supposedly ‘discovered’ it
should indeed have many
names reversed to what
Māori named them.
Pākehā having stolen,
ownership of the land
from Māori, then became
the dominant culture.
That does not make
it right. – Bronwen
Summers
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Whether you’re after an adventurepacked
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1. Uncrowded Skiing
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the lift queues. The Mackenzie boasts
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of epic ‘bucket list’ ski experiences including
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2. Family-friendly fun
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tubing during the winter months.
There’s a range of easy trails throughout
the region, and accommodation options
cater for all budgets.
4. Discover the night skies
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leaders in astro-tourism experiences, the
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the winter months, when the sky is at its
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3. New Zealand’s largest
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SPORT 35
• By Chris Barclay
ABRAHAM FONMOA and
Jordan Wawatai are the odd men
out when the Celebration Lions
field a unique 13-strong starting
line-up for their Canterbury
Rugby League clash with
Linwood.
Fonmoa, the team captain,
even joked to coach Sione Ah
Kuoi that he would register his
brother before the game in order
to join the club – because the
run-on side will include four sets
of siblings.
Zion Kamana’s premier grade
debut for the Lions was the
motivation for Ah Kuoi naming
a family-centric team for the last
game of the first round of competition
on Saturday.
“Zion is making his debut so I
thought let’s get them all (brothers)
starting,” he explained.
A celebration of league brotherly love
“We’re going to build the team
around the 11 brothers because
we want to make it a special
event for the boys.”
Kamana celebrates the occasion
with Kane in the centres and
hooker Jordan.
The Leka family are represented
by four players – elder
statesman Kasi, 40, starts at fiveeighth,
Nela is the fullback while
Solo starts in the second row and
Kyle props one side of the front
row.
Jarvis Ataera (centre) and prop
Javan Ataera are the third family
BROTHERS IN
ARMS: Kyle Leka was
missing due to work
commitments but 10
of the brothers named
in the Celebration Lions
line-up assembled at
training on Tuesday.
Back row (from left):
Taniela Leka, Kasi Leka,
Solo Leka, Zion Kamana,
Kane Kamana, Jordan
Kamana. Front row: Lagi
Laumata, Ty Laumata,
Jarvis Ataera, Javan
Atarea.
connection while Ty and Lagi
Laumata occupy the wing berths.
Had Junior Laumata not
popped a shoulder against
Hornby there would have been
12 brothers starting at Canterbury
Park Oval.
Ah Kuoi has the luxury of
selecting from a 28-man squad,
so players were used to sitting out
games.
“Everyone’s had game time so
far and everyone’s on board,” he
said.
The coach was not concerned
about making personnel changes
ahead of an encounter with a
team that has won five titles in a
row.
“We always play well against
Linwood, you want to get one
up on them because they’re on
the east side too. There’s always
added intensity knowing we’re
playing the guys next door,” Ah
Kuoi said.
“At the same time, a lot of them
are family as well, we’ve
got family playing at Linwood.
It’ll be a tough game, but there’s
a lot of respect between both
clubs.”
Winter codes settle into rhythm
• By Chris Barclay
LINWOOD’S RETURN to
Christchurch Metro Premier
Cup relevance has continued
with the competition’s significant
improvers pipping both of last
year’s finalists, back-to-back.
A traditional powerhouse on
the Christchurch club rugby
scene, having boasted the likes
of Canterbury stalwarts Fergie
McCormick and Graeme Bachop
among their ranks, Linwood has
emerged from the doldrums in
the early stages of this season.
Drawn against Marist Albion
and champions Lincoln University
in consecutive weeks loomed
as a daunting assignment, but after
closing out two tight victories
Linwood are beginning to shape
as title contenders.
Linwood ended Marist
Albion’s unbeaten start to the
season with a 27-24 cliffhanger
and last Saturday they consigned
Lincoln University to a 3-win
3-loss record thanks to a 32-29
win at Linfield Park.
“We’ve been down in the
bottom four in the last couple
of years I’ve been involved and
we’ve just grown as a team.
We’ve got self-belief. Our composure
and our patience has
been right on point,” coach Sam
Jack said.
Top of the tables
Christchurch Metro Premier Cup Men’s Rugby
P W L D PD Pts
Marist Albion 6 5 1 0 40 27
Linwood 6 5 1 0 50 23
Burnside 6 4 2 0 74 19
Lincoln University 6 3 3 0 6 19
Christchurch 6 2 3 1 34 18
Sumner 6 3 2 1 -1 18
Sydenham 6 3 2 1 -7 18
University 6 3 3 0 16 16
Shirley 6 2 4 0 -24 16
HSOB 6 2 4 0 -7 13
New Brighton 6 2 4 0 -27 10
Belfast 6 0 5 1 -154 5
Canterbury Rugby League Men’s Premiership
P W L D PD Pts
Hornby Panthers 6 6 0 0 108 12
Linwood Keas 6 4 1 1 74 9
TRY-BOUND: Linwood fullback Anthony Tailua skips clear
before scoring against Lincoln University.
PHOTO: BRIDGITT ROBINSON
Since copping a 43-14 beating
by Burnside in round two, another
resurgent club, in round two
Linwood have built an impressive
record for a coaching team that
also includes clubman and former
All Black Nathan Mauger.
“The growth of the team has
been really good. We’ve done
well to keep the majority of the
squad as well as adding some key
personnel to it,” Jack said.
Former league players Danny
Latu (No 8) and centre Erwin
Sauni have made a smooth transition
while former Canterbury
midfield back Inga Finau has
been welcomed back from a stint
in Auckland.
Linwood face Sumner this
weekend, and Jack is taking
nothing for granted.
“We don’t want to get ahead of
ourselves at this early stage. Each
week is like a test match for us.”
Marist Albion still lead the
competition by four points
after beating University 29-24;
Burnside sit third after crushing
Belfast 64-7.
While Linwood’s rugby team
is buoyant, the suburbs league
side is the unusual position of
not celebrating a victory for two
games after a loss to Hornby and
draw with Halswell.
Halswell Hornets 6 3 2 1 58 7
Celebration Lions 6 3 3 0 62 6
Northern Bulldogs 6 3 3 0 10 6
Riccarton Knights 6 3 3 0 -62 6
Eastern Eagles 6 1 5 0 -132 2
Papanui Tigers 6 0 6 0 -142 0
Mainland Football Men’s Premiership
P W D L GD Pts
Cashmere Technical 8 7 1 0 18 22
Coastal Spirit 8 6 1 1 12 19
Christchurch Utd 8 4 2 2 17 14
Nelson Suburbs 8 4 1 3 2 13
Nomads Utd AFC 8 4 0 4 -3 12
Ferrymead Bays 8 3 0 5 -10 9
Selwyn Utd FC 8 1 1 6 -10 4
Halswell Utd AFC 8 0 0 8 -26 0
Linwood’s quest for a sixth
successive Canterbury Rugby
League premiership has lost a little
momentum, though Halswell
coach Walter Wilson still rued a
lost opportunity last Saturday.
“It really felt like someone
had stuck their hand in my back
pocket and taken out my wallet,”
Wilson said.
The Hornets, who were hammered
66-0 in their previous
meeting with Linwood in 2020,
led in the dying stages before
Keas veteran Andrew Auitmatagi
scored a late try in the corner
to level the scores at 16 apiece.
Halswell were anticipating a
kick on the last tackle but Auimatagi
dummied over untouched.
Fortunately for Halswell, who
improved to third but now face
leaders Hornby, none of Linwood’s
four tries were converted.
The Mainland Football premiership
resumes on Saturday
after a round of local Chatham
Cup fixtures.
Cashmere Technical, the
premiership pacesetters, Coastal
Spirit and Christchurch United
all advanced to the second round
last weekend.
Parklands were predictably no
match for Cashmere Technical,
who breezed to an 8-1 victory
sparked by a first half hat-trick to
Garbhan Couglan.
Weekend match-ups
Christchurch Metro
Premier Cup (all Saturday at
2.45pm)
Burnside v HSOB, Burnside
Park; Christchurch v University,
Christchurch Park; Belfast v
Shirley, Sheldon Park; Sydenham
v Marist Albion, Sydenham Park;
Linwood v Sumner, Linfield Park;
New Brighton v Lincoln University,
Rawhiti Domain.
Canterbury Rugby League
Premiership (all Saturday at
2.45pm)
Halswell Hornets v Hornby
Panthers, Halswell Domain;
Coastal Spirit eliminated
second-tier championship leaders
Waimakariri United 3-0
while Christchurch United wore
down a resolute FC Twenty 11
after a goalless opening spell to
prevail 2-0.
Ferrymead Bays came from
behind to beat Nomads 3-1 and
in another all-premiership clash
Selwyn United edged bottomplaced
Halswell United 3-2.
Cashmere Technical are poised
to protect their three-point
advantage in the premiership
against Halswell United, secondplaced
Coastal Spirit travel to
Nelson Suburbs and Christchurch
United are favoured to beat
Selwyn United.
Marist maintained their unbeaten
record in the Canterbury
Hockey men’s premiership with
a 3-1 win over second-placed
Harewood to hold a three-point
lead after three rounds.
Carlton Redcliffs leads the way
in the women’s competition and
is the only unbeaten team after
they beat Harewood 1-0.
Champions Lincoln University
and Kereru A extended their
unbeaten streaks through five
rounds of the Christchurch
Netball Centre premier grade,
beating technical A 76-37 and St
Margaret’s 63-50 respectively on
Tuesday night.
Linwood Keas v Celebration Lions,
Canterbury Park Oval; Northern
Bulldogs v Papanui Tigers, Murphy
Park; Riccarton Knights v Eastern
Eagles, Crosbie Park.
Mainland Football
Premiership
Christchurch Utd v Selwyn
United, Christchurch Football
Centre, Friday 7.30pm; Nelson
Suburbs v Coastal Spirit, Saxton
Field, Saturday 1pm; Ferrymead
Bays v Nomads United, Ferrymead
Park, Saturday 2.45pm; Halswell
United v Cashmere Technical,
Halswell Domain, Saturday 2.45pm

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Jemmett ready to play 100 games
• By Chris Barclay
A WEEK after almost conceding
a hundred points against
champions Southbridge, the
Hornby Rugby Football Club is
embracing the opportunity to
celebrate a century.
Steadfast second five-eighth
Marc Jemmett joins a select few,
well a dozen to be precise, to
make 100 appearances for the
club in the Luisetti Seeds Combined
division 1 competition.
Jemmett, who commutes from
Ashburton for work, play and
one training session a week on
Thursdays, reaches the milestone
on Saturday against Springston,
who are part way through their
own centenary season.
The 32-year-old figured he
was substituted during the 95-5
hammering by Southbridge last
Saturday as a precaution, so he
could reach the landmark at
Denton Oval.
“They wanted to make sure
I got into this week,” laughed
Jemmett, who has already ready
been measured up for his blazer.
Jemmett started playing for
Hornby, he thought, in 2007
at dad’s insistence because the
division 3 side was short handed
for a night game against Lincoln.
He also logged an unknown
number of games for the division
2 side, the blokes that produced a
career highlight when they won
that grade’s title in 2013.
Marc Jemmett
“When we dropped to division
two we had a really good team
that year,” he said.
“I think we won every game,
there might have been a draw in
there, and we beat Springston in
the final.”
But only division 1 matches
count towards the hundred club,
so Jemmett has taken a while
to take pride of place below
Matt Reynolds, an addition to
the clubroom honours board in
2008.
“The coach (Steve Devereux)
was saying it’d be good for the
other guys to see a familiar face
on the board,” Jemmett said.
“Some of them wouldn’t have a
clue who some of the other guys
were.”
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The current squad aren’t
exactly familiar with winning
either – Hornby only have two
bonus points from five games
and a negative points differential
of 205 to prop up pool A.
But the enthusiasm and
durability Jemmett has
sustained for more than a
decade is also evident among the
newcomers.
“The young guys can get
discouraged but they’re also
resilient,” he said.
“I’ve stuck around with
Hornby for so long because I like
the guys I play with.”
Jemmett’s win-loss ratio isn’t
overly healthy, but the father of
two girls has got by relatively
injury-free.
“A few years ago I did a calf
(muscle) that put me out for 4-5
games, there’s a couple of rolled
ankles. I’ve had no breakages, but
there was a spider bite issue that
put me out for a game,” he said.
Jemmett forgot to check his
gear bag thoroughly at the start
of a season and consequently
was bitten on the leg by a fleeing
white-tailed spider.
“I had a chunk taken out of me
because it got infected. They had
to cut it open and drain it out,”
he said.
“I wanted to play that week but
(wife) Alesha wasn’t too keen.
I got back out there the week
after.”
Taxtic win in
last-minute
cliffhanger
IN AN extra-time ANZ
Premiership cliffhanger that
went down to the final seconds,
the Tactix reversed their
one-goal loss to the Northern
Mystics a fortnight ago and
pulled off a 64-63 victory at
Christchurch Arena.
Goal attack Te Paea Selby-
Rickit slotted the winning goal
with 10 seconds remaining.
In a thrilling encounter on
Monday, Mystics goal shoot
Grace Nweke shot an incredible
59 from 64 attempts, while her
Tactix opposite, Ellie Bird, potted
44 from 53, including the buzzer
beater from long range that took
the game into extra time.
From the get-go, Selby-Rickit’s
game was on-song – from the
goal attack’s feeding to Ellie
Bird, to her superb long shots.
She proved she’s returning to
the form she’s renowned for, not
only in her shooting and feeding
game, but also rallying the
Tactix attack.
On defence, Jane Watson and
Karin Burger forced the Mystics
to put bigger passes into their
shooting weapon, Grace Nweke,
and they initially struggled to
get the weight of those lobs right.
And although Mystics goal
attack Bailey Mes put up few
shots, she was active all around
the court.
Led by captain Sulu Fitpatrick’s
defence on Bird, the Mystics
scored five in a row giving
them a 47-43 lead going into the
final quarter.
But the Tactix hadn’t given up,
with Watson and Burger forced
some misplaced passes into
Nweke before the deficit was cut
to two.
It was level pegging in the final
minutes, and a Bird shot from
long range right on the buzzer,
took the game into six minutes
of extra time.
An intercept from Mes made
sure the Mystics led 61-60 after
the first stretch, but the Tactix
broke back when Mes broke on
the Mystic’s centre pass.
And a Selby-Rickit goal with
seconds remaining sealed the
deal for the home side, giving
them back-to-back victories.
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Jordan, Drummond expected to return
WILL JORDAN and Mitchell
Drummond are expected to
return to the Crusaders line-up
for Saturday’s Super Rugby
Trans-Tasman clash with the
Reds in Brisbane.
A decade on from the Crusaders
agonising Super Rugby final
defeat at Suncorp Stadium the
stakes are not as high, although
the clash is vitally important
given the compressed nature of
the five-round competition.
One loss is likely to rule a New
Zealand side out of contention
for the June 19 final, and with
try-scoring bonus points also a
priority there is little margin for
error.
The Reds and Crusaders both
showed signs of a title-winning
hangovers last weekend in
Dunedin and Christchurch respectively
last weekend, so both
sides should be sharper second
time around.
Although the Super Rugby
AU champions lost 40-19 to the
Highlanders, Crusaders coach
Scott Robertson is expecting a
more representative performance
back on home soil.
The Crusaders were fortunate
to avoid a draw against the
Brumbies but the 31-29 victory
did squander a bonus point
with a sloppy final 11 minutes at
Orangetheory Stadium.
“I thought we played some
great footy, and also some pretty
average footy for our standards,”
Robertson admitted.
While Jordan and Drummond
bring experience and class to either
ends of the backline, captain
Scott Barrett should also make
the trip after dropping off last
week’s bench due to illness.
Luckless flanker Tom Sanders
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Mercedes sedan high on luxury
I’LL BE brutally honest, I prefer
cars with big engines.
However, as time goes by any
engine that is honest has charmed
me, and it’s fair to say Mercedes-
Benz builds beautiful engines,
strong, smooth and efficient.
I mention big engines because
the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class
sedan has a V8 engine option,
and from previous experience
with that engine in other models
I can report it is an absolute
cracker in terms of performance.
The E-Class sedan also comes
in two four-cylinder variants
– the E300 e that is also a plugin
hybrid model, and the E200
which this evaluation focuses on.
I’m not complaining, the
E200 is a beautiful car and it’s
turbocharged four-cylinder
engine surely has the goods to
propel the vehicle in a manner
fitting of the Mercedes-Benz
brand.
The E200 sedan lands here at a
touch over $106,000, if you want
hybrid that will add an extra
$40k, while the E63 S V8 comes
in at a substantial $239,900, but
I’d be saving my pennies for that
one.
That aside, the E200 is a worthy
luxury car, and all those who
know me will tell you I like the
sedan concept and I also like rearwheel-drive.
Obviously the engine sits
longitudinally up front and drives
through a nine-speed automatic
gearbox.
Mercedes-Benz claims
power outputs of 145kW and
320Nm, these are up slightly
from previous generations of
this engine, those fitted in other
models from this high profile
German manufacturer.
The E200 is a big car (4.9m)
and it weighs in quite tubby
at around 1700kg, so it needs
as much energy under the
bonnet as it can get, and being
a turbocharged boosted unit it
develops strong torque through
the mid range, maximum spread
is available from just 1650rpm.
If you take into account peak
power registers at just 5500rpm
then there is little boost drop-off
anywhere in the rev range.
There’s also a claimed standstill
to 100km/h time of 7.5sec, which
is pretty smart for that bulk, and
it will also scamper through a
highway overtake in 5sec (80-
120km/h).
More importantly, though,
is the sophistication within the
driveline, the complex array of
gearbox ratios means that gaps
are filled seamlessly, the entire
transfer of power to the wheels is
smooth and controlled.
That’s the way it is in a
premium car, and the E200 is
quite simply built for the luxury
market, it cocoons the occupants
with plush deep dish seats
MERCEDES-BENZ E200: Vast array of specification and fitment, especially for safety.
covered in leather. There are all of
the trimmings you would expect
for $100k and the functions are
sophisticated yet laid out in an
intuitive manner. I particularly
like the steering wheel controls,
they have a non-haptic feel, you
just simply slide your fingers over
them to adjust settings.
There is also a wide touch
screen which extends almost the
entire width of the dash panel,
some of the functions can also
be manipulated by a centre
console mouse-like device. This is
something Mercedes-Benz does
well, the trim quality and fitment
is nothing short of exceptional.
That feel extends all of way to
ride comfort. The E200 doesn’t
get the air suspension of some of
its stablemates, but it does have
adaptive damping that imparts a
soft, supple ride.
SEDAN: The E200
is also available
with coupe or
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styles, and a
choice of engines.
• Price – Mercedes-Benz
E200 sedan, $106,600
• Dimensions – Length,
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• Configuration – Fourcylinder,
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1991cc, 145kW,
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• Performance –
0-100km/h, 7.5sec
• Fuel usage – 8l/100km
Saying that, there is little
handling compromise. The
E200 sits low so there is little
gravitational force working
over the suspension. Add in the
feel you get from rear-wheeldrive
then the E200 could also
be considered a driver’s car, it
feels lithe and nimble, which is
something you don’t ordinarily
experience in a bulky car. The
steering is absolutely delightful,
feedback from the low profile
19in Pirelli tyres is generated fully
to the wheel.
I took the test car west to
Darfield and through the scenic
route to Glenroy, the E200
covers open stretches quickly,
good use of the cruise control is
recommended. When the flowing
corners are presented turn-in
is sharp, while the push from
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handling sensation, and in the
tight stuff any feeling of oversteer
is quickly arrested by a complex
traction control system.
You don’t buy a prestige car
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kit, the E200 is simply loaded
with features way too numerous
to mention. Much of it has been
upgraded from the previous
generation model, notably the
lane keep system which allows
the driver to relax his/her hands
on the wheel.
The E200 is also remarkably
thrifty. Mercedes-Benz claims
an eight-litre per 100km
combined cycle average. The
comprehensive fuel usage
displays were constantly listing
around 9l/100km during my
time in the evaluation car. That
aided by a 5.5l/100km figure
sitting at 100km/h on the
highway, the engine very relaxed
turning over at just 1500rpm in
ninth gear.
Mercedes-Benz doesn’t sit back
and let grass grow. The company
has a strong generational system,
and with such an extensive range
new models are arriving almost
on a constant basis.
The E200 sedan is very
classy and any purchaser will
be delighted with the way it
makes you feel inside the car.
The E-Class also has coupe or
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I certainly I hope the E63 S
heads my way.
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WINTER IS just around
the corner and while some
of us may dread the countdown
to colder, wet days,
there is still plenty to do in
the garden.
Planting winter vege
seedlings
Winter vege plants
should be well established
by now. Keep planting
out cabbage, cauliflower,
broccoli, brussel sprouts,
silverbeet and spinach for a
steady supply over winter.
Sowing ‘green
manure crops’
You can ‘rest’ parts of
your vege garden over
winter by sowing a ‘green
manure crop.’ Sow fastgrowing
annuals like common
lupin and mustard
directly into the soil. These
plants improve soil structure,
add nutrients like
nitrogen naturally into the
soil, and can protect beds
rather than leaving bare soil
exposed to the elements.
Once they have grown
about 20cm and before
they flower, cut the plants
to ground level. After day
or so, chop them into
pieces with a spade and dig
them back into the soil.
Leave them to break
down in the soil for six
to eight weeks before you
plant anything new.
Planting garlic
Garlic needs a longer
growing season to grow
lovely large bulbs, so May
is the preferred month for
planting. Buy garlic seed
bulbs from your local garden
centre as fresh is best –
and the better the seed bulb,
the greater the success.
Always select a healthylooking
specimen, avoiding
any that are too soft or have
mould on them.
Choose a sunny spot
with well-drained soil that
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Regardless of the
weather keep busy
TASKS: Plant out strawberry ‘runner’s or plants
from the garden centre. Lightly trim up hedges
this month
has been prepared with
plenty of compost before
planting.
Gently break off each
clove from the seed bulb
(don’t bother with the very
small cloves) and plant
them individually about
40mm deep and 60mm
apart with the pointy ends
facing up.
Cover with soil and a
fine layer of mulch on top.
New growth will appear
in three to four weeks,
but they won’t be ready to
harvest until summer.
Strawberry planting
time
If you had a lack of
fruit last season or your
strawberries were small in
size, consider removing
any strawberry plants that
are older than two to three
years as fruiting reduces
over time. Replace old
plants with new ones from
your local garden centre
or plant out “runners”
(baby plants also known as
stolons).
Prepare strawberry
beds for planting by adding
in plenty of compost
and mound up the soil
80-100cm above existing
soil into rows that run in
a north/south direction.
When planting into the
rows, place strawberry
plants 15-20cm apart and
make sure the crown of
the plant (just below the
leaves) is sitting slightly
higher than ground level.
Add mulch on top of the
soil around the plants.
Hedge pruning
A good month to do a final
tidy-up trim of hedges.
There won’t be much
growth until spring so
don’t be too heavy-handed.
Fruit tree pruning
Time to get pip and
stone fruit tree pruning
under way. Before you
start, make sure your tools
are sharp and clean to stop
the spread of any disease.
Always make a clean cut
at a 45 deg angle so water
will run off the cut and not
invite fungal diseases. Having
good access to fruit at
harvest time means reducing
the height of your fruit
trees where needed.
Remove any weak, thin
growth and inwards growing
branches. Thin out
areas where branches are
crowded – good airflow
and access to sunlight is
essential to ripen fruit.
Spray trees with copper
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RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991
CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT PLAN
PROPOSED PLAN CHANGE 7
MANAGING SIGNIFICANT INDIGENOUS
VEGETATION
Christchurch City Council has proposed Plan Change 7 – Managing Significant
Indigenous Vegetation to the Christchurch District Plan.
Plan Change 7 proposes to amend:
a) The definition of improved pasture (contained in Chapter 2 (Abbreviations and
Definitions)) to improve its clarity and application within its associated rule
framework;
b) Six policies contained in Chapter 9.1 (Indigenous Biodiversity and Ecosystems)
to provide clearer direction that assessments of significance should be
provided as part of applications for resource consent to undertake clearance,
and how adverse effects should be managed in coastal and non-coastal areas.
The affected policies are listed below:
i. 9.1.2.2.4 - Mechanisms for the management and protection
of other indigenous vegetation and habitats;
ii. 9.1.2.2.6 - Protection and management of significant indigenous
vegetation and habitats of indigenous fauna listed in Schedule A of
Appendix 9.1.6.1;
iii. 9.1.2.2.7 - Protection and management of other indigenous
vegetation and habitats;
iv. 9.1.2.2.8 - Protection of indigenous vegetation and habitats of
indigenous fauna in the coastal environment;
v. 9.1.2.2.11 – Farm biodiversity plans; and
vi. 9.1.2.2.14 – Offsetting.
c) Appendix 9.1.6.6, which lists indigenous vegetation present on Banks
Peninsula and the Port Hills, and includes size and scale limits that indicate a
point at or above which the vegetation is likely to be ecologically significant,
and that the rules rely on for clearance as a permitted activity below those
limits. Five amendments are proposed to provide a greater level of protection
for the listed vegetation:
1. Table 1: Limit Descriptors – Occupying a contiguous area of
(hectares), canopy cover (%) of, and height (metre) of any
individual plants – Replace all “N/A” values with “0”, so that “N/A”
cannot be interpreted in such a way that the listed vegetation can
be cleared as a permitted activity without compliance with any
limits;
2. Table 1(c): Indigenous coastal vegetation – Extend its geographic
extent to the entire Coastal Environment of Banks Peninsula as
it is currently limited to Kaitōrete Spit and the listed species are
present elsewhere in the coastal environment;
3. Table 1(c): Indigenous coastal vegetation – Introduce a limit for
contiguous area occupied of 0.1 hectare (except for Kaitōrete
Spit in recognition of its significant ecological values, where “0”
(previously “N/A”) is proposed). The proposed maximum limit of
0.1 hectares for clearance as a permitted activity is limited to a
five year period;
4. Table 1(a)(i),(ii) and (c): Indigenous trees and forest and
indigenous coastal vegetation – Introduce a definition of
“contiguous” to include individual plants associated with larger
contiguous plant communities that are likely to be significant.
The effect is that plants are not cleared as a permitted activity
where contiguous; and
5. Table 1(d)(ii): Indigenous wetland vegetation – Introduction of
Three-square (Schenoplectus pungens) a key salt-marsh species
present within Canterbury wetland ecosystems that is not listed in
Appendix 9.1.6.6.
d) Introducing a new permitted, restricted discretionary, and non-complying
activity rule framework that applies to the clearance of indigenous vegetation
within areas of improved pasture in the coastal environment. This results in:
i. Rule 9.1.4.1.1 (Permitted Activities):
A. New rule P5; and
B. Consequential amendments to existing rules P1 and P4.
ii. Rule 9.1.4.1.3 (Restricted Discretionary Activities):
A. New rule RD7.
iii. Rule 9.1.4.1.5 (Non-Complying Activities):
A. Consequential amendment to rule NC1.
More information
Proposed Plan Change 7 can be viewed during opening hours at any of our
service centres or libraries. You can also view it on the Council website at:
https://ccc.govt.nz/planchange7
Submissions
We welcome submissions on the proposed plan change. You can make a
submission:
• Online at https://www.ccc.govt.nz/haveyoursay/; or
• By emailing it to: planchange@ccc.govt.nz; or
• By posting it to: City Planning Team, PO Box 73012, Christchurch 8154.
You can also download a hard copy form at https://www.ccc.govt.nz/
haveyoursay/, or collect a hard copy form from Civic Offices, Council service
centres and libraries. For details of your nearest service centre or library, please
visit https://www.ccc.govt.nz/contact-us or phone 03 941 8999.
Submissions must be received before 5pm on Monday 21 June 2021.
Process for public participation
Once all submissions have been received, they will be made publicly available.
Further submissions will then be invited, allowing certain persons and
organisations to support or oppose any of the initial submissions.
A Council hearing will then be held to consider all submissions, and decisions
will be made following this hearing. Anyone who has made a submission has the
right to appeal the decision to the Environment Court.
The rules proposed in this Plan Change have immediate legal effect from
notification in accordance with Section 86B(3)(b) of the RMA as they relate to
areas of significant indigenous vegetation.
Carolyn Gallagher
Acting General Manager
Infrastructure, Planning and Regulatory Services Group
June 2021 Christchurch City
Council Meetings
20 May 2021
The next meetings of the Christchurch City Council, Community
Boards, Council Hearings Panels and Subcommittees with
delegated authority will be held as follows: Where stated, the
Civic Offices are located at 53 Hereford Street.
Council
Date Time Venue
3 9.30am Council Chambers, Civic Offices
10 9:30am
18 1pm
21 9:30am
Committees of the Whole
Date Time Committee and Venue
24 9:30am Finance and Performance Committee,
Council Chambers, Civic Offices
Committees
Date Time Committee and Venue
16 2pm Audit and Risk Management Committee,
Council Chambers, Civic Offices
18 9am Greater Christchurch Partnership
Committee, Council Chamber, Environment
Canterbury, 200 Tuam Street
24 6pm Christchurch West Melton Water
Management Zone Committee, Venue TBC
RMA Hearings Panel
Date Time Venue
9 9am Committee Room 1, Civic Offices
Community Boards
Date Time Committee and Venue
1 5pm Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community
15 Board, Horoeka Room, Rārākau: Riccarton
29 Centre, 199 Clarence Street, Riccarton
1 5pm Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board,
Te Pokai, Cashmere Primary School, 135
Hackthorne Road, Cashmere
16 8am Beckenham Boardroom, Beckenham Service
29 5pm Centre, 66 Colombo Street, Cashmere
2 4:30pm Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community
16 Board, Linwood Boardroom, 180 Smith
30 Street, Woolston
4 9am Papanui-Innes Community Board, Papanui
16 Service Centre, Cnr Langdons Road and
Restell Street
14 10am Banks Peninsula Community Board, Akaroa
28 Boardroom, 78 Rue Lavaud, Akaroa
14 4:30pm Coastal-Burwood Community Board,
28 Boardroom, Cnr Beresford and Union
Streets, New Brighton
14 4:30pm Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood Community
28 Board, Boardroom, Fendalton Service
Centre, Cnr Jeffreys and Clyde Roads,
Fendalton
Community Board Committees
Date Time Committee and Venue
2 7:30pm Cass Bay Reserve Management Committee,
Steadfast Community Hall, Governors Bay
Road, Cass Bay
3 9am Stanley Park Reserve Management
Committee, Akaroa Yacht Club, Beach Road,
Akaroa
8 5:30pm Okains Bay Reserve Management
Committee, Okains Bay Community Hall,
Okains Bay Road, Okains Bay
14 7pm Lyttelton Reserves Management Committee,
Lyttelton Community Boardroom, 25
Canterbury Street, Lyttelton
16 7pm Allandale Reserve Management Committee,
Ōtoromiro Hotel, 52 Main Road, Governors
Bay
23 2:30pm Akaroa Museum Advisory Committee, Akaroa
Boardroom, 78 Rue Lavaud, Akaroa
Copies of the agendas will be available online and to the public
at the meetings.
Members of the public are welcome to attend any of these
meetings.
To make a deputation or presentation to a Community Board,
Committee or Council meeting ring the call centre on
(03) 941 8999 or email info@ccc.govt.nz.
Information about Alcohol Licensing can be found online at
ccc.govt.nz/alcohol
Megan Pearce
Hearings and Council Support

44 The Star Thursday May 20 2021
Your local guide to our
Trusted Tradesmen & Professionals
To advertise: 379 1100 or star.class@starmedia.kiwi
Trades & Services
DECORATORS
ELECTRICIAN
Contact for a free quote
phone 027 331 0400
dave@davesimpsonelectrical.co.nz
davesimpsonelectrical.co.nz
Experienced Domestic Electrician
Quality Workmanship
• New Build
• Renovations
• Fault finding
New Paint • Repaints
Wallpapering • Fences
Feature Walls
Floor & Roof Painting
Spray Painting
Light Commercial
Restoring Timber
* Finance available (T’s & C’s apply)
Selwyn based but service the whole of Canterbury
www.andertondecorators.co.nz
www.facebook.com/andertondecorators
027 724 6846 027 PAINTIN
Specializing in:
• Roof Painting
• Interior/exterior
residential
• Small commercial
painting
PAINTERS
• Power
• Lighting
• Switchboards
Painters and Decorators Ltd
Canterbury Owned and Operated
A husband and wife team
Noel 027-411-3596
kemp.painters@gmail.com
kemp painters and decorators
SCRAP METAL
We offer
free quotes
Quality not
Quantity
Dominion Trading Co Ltd
• Scrap metal buyers
• Canterbury owned & operated
• Top prices paid $$$
• Open Saturday morning
Open Mon-Fri 8am – 4.30pm Sat. 8.30am-12.30pm
www.happyscrappy.co.nz
03 343 9993 333 Blenheim Rd
Driveways
SWAINS
KIWI KERB
(Since 2005)
Over 22 Years Experience
Quality
Workmanship
• Driveways
• Kerb &
Channel
• Garden Edging
Freephone: 0800 081 400
swainskiwikerb@gmail.com
landscaping
You can have your gardens, trees,
shrubs, plants and lawns maintained to look their best
all year round, for a great price.
Residential & Commercial Landscaping
• Maintenance • Pruning • Reconstruction & Rejuvenation
• Rental Property and Commercial Maintenance
• Pre-Sale Tidy-Ups
New Home Landscaping
Lawns • Gardens • Decks • Paving • Water Features
• Quality • Value for money • Experienced • Punctual
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Call Ross Legg - 027 222 0388
Email ross@revivelandscaping.co.nz
www.revivelandscaping.co.nz
PLUMBER
NEED A PLUMBER
Call us now for fast friendly service.
Get your problems sorted out
quick smart - on time!!
Phone for a
FREE
quote now.
Landscape
Construction and
Garden Maintenance
Phone 03 377 1280 | Mobile 021 898 380
TRADES
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business & services
in Christchurch’s
best read &
largest circulation
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Delivered into over 93,000
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Ask us about our fantastic
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Phone: 03 379 1100 | www.star.kiwi
DRIVEWAYS
Exposed Aggregate
Stamped Concrete Plain
Concrete Resurfacing
Things we offer...
Competitive/affordable pricing
Attention to detail
Professional service
free quotes/insurance scopes
Cell 0278 145 848
www.drivecrete.co.nz
Mailer Deliveries
For a local, reliable
mailer delivery
service contact
Star Media
• Newspaper inserts
• Magazine inserts
• Letterbox deliveries
• Urban & Rural deliveries
For a cost effective, targeted
delivery please call 03 379 7100
or email mike@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi
ROOF REPAIRS
Locally owned & operated with
over 30 years experience.
• Extensions & repair • Roof coating
• Concrete & clay tiles • Butynol
• Malthoid • Asbestos Certified
• Coloursteel • Old iron • Guttering
Phone Dave 981 0278
or 021 223 4200
E: dave@beaumontroofing.co.nz
BEAUMONT ROOFING LTD
WINDOW TINTING
tintawindow
advanced film solutions
99% uv block
fade protection
heat control
reduce glare
25 Years Experience
privacy films
frosting designs
non-darkening films
Workmanship Guaranteed
Lifetime Warranties on Most Films
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block
Free Quotes Canterbury and Districts
03 365 3653 0800 368 468
Need it?
Rent it!
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Free Delivery
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Great Student Deals
Canterbury Owned & Operated
Free Call Now:
0800 717 000
DRIVEWAYS
paths, patios, decking,
exposed aggregate,
coloured / plain concrete
Fence staining
FREE QUOTE
LBP BuILDERS
PHONE jOHN:
027 224 2831
AAA HANDYMAN
licensed carpenter
LBP, all property and
building maintenance,
repairs, bathroom/shower
installations, with free
quotes 03 383 1927 or 027
245 5226 ciey@xtra.co.nz
ARBORIST QuAlIfIeD
Copper Beech Tree
Services. Tree removal,
pruning, height reduction,
hedge trimming, shaping,
tree planting, firewood.
Free quote. Contact Angus
Edwards 027 2596741
copperbeechtreeservices@
gmail.com
BRICK & BlOCK
LAYING all restoration
work and new work plus
foundations, ph 342 9340
or 021 853 033
BuIlDeR QuAlIfIeD
50 yrs exp. Bathrooms,
Kitchens, Renovations,
Repairs & Extensions
Free quotes. Discount for
pensioners. Ph Mike 03
980 9771 or 027 2266 930
BuIlDeR QuAlIfIeD
Decks, T & G Flooring,
Villa Restoring, New
Homes, Weatherboards.
Free Quotes. Bennet &
Sons Ltd Sam 027 496-
9362 or Tony 027 224-
0374
BuIlDeR, HANDYMAN
MAINTENANCE Have
peace of mind with a
fully qualified owner
operator LBP. Available
for all jobs around the
home, commercial or
rental property (extremely
experienced in Healthy
Homes Reporting and
all Remedial works) Call
Chris on 027 3888 211
BuIlDeR
New builds, alterations,
decks, fencing. 30 yrs in
the trade has given me
ability to build to a high
standard. Free quotes. Ph
Brent 027 241 7471
CARPeT lAYING
Exp. Repairs, uplifting,
relaying, restretching.
Phone John on 0800
003181, 027 240 7416
jflattery@xtra.co.nz
Or Apply Online:
www.a4r.co.nz
House & Garden
Property services Ltd
Tree and hedge trimming
Stump grinding
Tree removal
Gardening
Landscaping
CALL us 021 405 277
EXPERIENCED
GARDENER
(Kevin Garnett)
30 Years
Christchurch Botanic
Gardens.
ALL landscape
work done.
Maintenance, pruning,
tidy up, lawn work,
landscape planning
and planting etc.
Free Quotes
Phone 348 3482
CARPeNTeR/BuIlDeR
Practitioner no. 100981.
All carpentry & building
repairs & maintenance.
replaced. Specialising in
replacement of all rotten
John Sandford, ph 329
4616, mob 027 5189 598
Licensed Building
Alterations & property
upgrades. Laundries /
bathroom / kitchens
timber, fascia boards,
window, windowsills etc.
johnsandford2@gmail.
com
CARPeT CleANING
Your Local Professional
Carpet Cleaner. No Hidden
Fees / Fully Insured /
100% Guaranteed. Call
Now 0800 672 777 www.
mrcarpet.co.nz
CleANING SeRVICe
Home - Rentals -Home
Help. Competitive rates.
Ph Amanda 0274 761 602
COMPuTeR RePAIRS
now. Christchurch based.
Computer Help 0800 349
FAST Friendly
experienced techs
available to help you
All work guaranteed.
669
CONCReTe CuTTING
Affordable Concrete
Cutting with Quality, and
removal work. Free quote.
No job to small. Phone 027
442-2219, Fax 359-6052
a/h 359- 4605
eleCTRICIAN
Registered, electrical
installation and repairs,
Gorbie Electrical, ph 021
026 73375 or 03 322 4209

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ELECTRICIAN
All types of domestic
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undertaken, new housing,
alterations, extensions,
ranges, security lights,
quick response, efficient
service, free quotes,
city -wide. No call out
fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat
Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027
7331384.
ELECTRICIAN
Prompt & reliable
registered electrician
with 24 years experience
for all residential and
commercial work, new
housing and switch board
replacements. Phone Chris
027 516 0669
FENCING
All types of fencing . Free
quotes. Ph Jim 022 137
1920
GARDENING
Weeding, Lawns, Pruning,
Garden Cleanups. Call
Phil The Gardener 021 661
246 for your free quote.
GASFITTING
N.T. Gas Services.
Domestic gas installations.
Reg Craftsman Gas Fitter.
Ph Nick 021 892 491
GLAZIER
Glass repairs - pet doors
- conservatory roofs. Exp
Tradesman. Call Bill on
022 413 3504 or 981-1903
HANDY - DAN
General Handyman for
all your maintenance
requirements. I specialise
in fences and decking, also
do spouting cleans and
repairs and everyday home
maintenance. NO JOB TO
BIG OR SMALL I can do
it all, please don’t hesitate
to call me on 022 600 7738
for a no obligation free
quote.
HANDYMAN
Small jobs specialists. eg:
drippy taps, sticky doors,
locks, moss spraying etc.
Discount for pensioners.
Ph 390 1565 or 022 5275
668 @oddjobs2018
HANDYMAN
For all those odd jobs. Ph
027 294 1508
LAWNMOWING
Ph 022 633 9794
NICK@NICKJONESPLUMBING.CO.NZ
PAINTING
older painter
for older houses
50 years in trade
“All the skills”
Contact Jimmy Bell
0211221487
GST FREE
30 years + experience
Older house
restorations:
no problem!
Quotes: FREE!
Rates: Reasonable
Paint supplied at
trade price!
NO JOB TOO SMALL
Light industrial also
Roger Brott
Painter & Decorator
021-1966-311
MOBILE CAR
CLEANING SERVICES
We come to you where
ever you are. Ring us
at 03 281 8054 for free
quotation.
PAINTER, QuALIFIED
local professional, Int /
Ext, roofs, wallpaper, call
or text Corban 027 846
5035
PAINTING
Indoor / Outdoor, over 30
yrs exp, same day quotes,
ph Steve 021 255 7968
PAINTING
Indoor / Outdoor, over 30
yrs exp, same day quotes,
ph Steve 021 255 7968
PAINTING
All jobs, none too small.
Free quotes Affordable
rates. Seniors discounts.
James 0220 652 637
PAINTING
& PLASTERING Free
quotes. Int/ext & roof
painting Family run
business, work guaranteed.
Pensioner discounts. Ph
Kerin or Paul 022 191
7877 or 379-1281. Website
www.swedekiwipainting.
co.nz
Trades & Services
Re Roofing
Roof Repairs
Spouting
Approved Age Concern provider
Over 30 years experience
Licensed Building Practitioner
N A BARRELL
ROOFING LTD
Ph: 0275 389 415
Email: nabroofing@xtra.co.nz
ROOF
PAINTING 24/7
Rope & harness
a speciality,
no scaffolding
required,
30 years of
breathtaking
experience.
FREE QUOTES
20% OFF other
roof quotes
Exterior staining,
exterior painting,
water blasting.
Moss and mould
treatment $300.
Phone Kevin
027 561 4629
PLASTERER
Phone Finn for all your
interior plastering needs.
No job too small -
renovations, alterations,
holes & cracks. Free
quotes. I’ll beat any quote
by 10% .25 yrs exp. Canty
born. Ph 022 087 4351
PLASTERING (INT)
and small painting
jobs. Experience and
Excellence. Small to
Medium job specialists
in all aspects of Interior
Plastering. Please call Tim
022 5380959
PLASTERER
Available for Mid to Small
jobs. Ph 022 430 0277.
Free quotes.
REMOVALS
Small furniture removals,
have own van, can fit
various types of whiteware
appliances, some furn,
bedding, boxes etc, honest
& reliable, any area
considered, ph Chch 027
517 7001
ROOFING SERVICES
Metal roofing & spouting.
Butyl rubber and flat
rooves. Repairs, reroof
and new build. 25 yrs
experience. NZ Cert
and LBP qualified. Free
quotes. Call Elliot 332-
9662 / 027 237 9431
RuBBISH REMOVAL
Van & Trailer Rubbish
Removal. Free quotes. Ph
Gary 342-8950, 021 529
022
SPOuTING
Select Spouting The
PVC specialist. Repairs &
replacement. Ph 022 197
2351
SPOuTING CLEANING
SPECIALIST
Entire spouting system
cleared. Single or 2 storey.
Jo 021 164 0365
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WALLPAPER
STRIPPING
8 Years in trade
Competitive rate
Ph: 027 227 3740
SPOuTING CLEANING
Spouting Unblocked,
Cleaned Out and Flushed
Out, Call Trevor 332 8949
or 021 043 2034
STuMP GRINDING
Best price guarantee Tony
0275 588 895
TILER ( MASTER )
Int / Ext. Res / Comm. .
Free quote. 18 yrs exp. Ph
Zac 021 1056 797
TREE SERVICES
Free quotes 20+ yrs exp.
Tree, hedge or shrub
- reduction, shaped or
removed. Ph/text Paul
The Branch Manager
0274314720
TREE SERVICES
Hedges, shrubs, tree
trimming & removal,
rubbish removal, Ph for
free quotes 022 540 4900
TREE SERVICES
Specialist small tree
pruning & shaping.
Roses,fruit trees etc. Ph
Hugh 021 2755445
WINDOW CLEANING
Average 3 brm house
inside or out from $45.
Both from $80 Phone
Trevor 344-2170
WINDOW CLEANING
Brown & White Ltd.
Family owned since 2001.
Ph Paul 027 229 3534
Pets & Supplies
CATS UNLOVED
can help with the cost
of desexing your cat.
Ph 3555-022 or email
catsunloved@xtra.co.nz
Wanted To Buy
STEVE PURCELL
ANTIQUES
BUYING
noW
Gold jewellery,
watches, coins,
medals, scrap
gold, sterling
silver, pewter,
original paintings,
modern art.
351 9139
stevepurcellantiques.com
• Daycare - all breeds
• Boarding
• Long stay/short stay
Vehicles Wanted
CAR REMOVALS
$$CASH PAID$$
CARS, VANS, UTES & 4X4 WANTED
NZ OWNED AND OPERATED FOR 24 YEARS
We use world class vehicle depollution systems
0800 77 80 80
www.pickapart.co.nz
CLEANER
PAPANUI AREA
2 x night cleaners required
for Medical Facility
Mon - Fri, 9pm - 11pm, Saturday if
required, start 5pm
Willing to relieve as well for sickness etc
Full onsite training given
Must be reliable, honest and
undergo a police check
Please text 021 244 2377
Pets and Supplies
Discover Christchurch’s
best priced pet
accommodation
Call now to book
in your cats &
dogs, inspections
welcome anytime!
aLameDa
kenneLs & cattery
271 Dyers Road
Ph 384 1297 or 0274 587 067
www.alameda.nz
Wanted To Buy
WANTED
SLEEPOUTS
Sleepouts Galore
Buyers and sellers of
relocatable buildings
11 Brixton Street, Hornby
Phone: 349 9633
AAA Buying goods
quality furniture, beds,
stoves, washing machines,
fridge freezers. Same day
service. Selwyn Dealers.
Phone 980 5812 or 027
313 8156
A1 Albums, old photo’s,
postcards, coins, gold,
bank notes, badges,
medals, jewellery,
watches, china, crystal,
books, furs, vintage
clothing, paintings,
furniture, estates &
downsizing. Etcetera
Antiques, 194 Edgeware
Rd 385 5117
A records and Hi-Fi
gear wanted. Pennylane
Sydenham. 7 days. Ph
366-3278
Situations Vacant
Wanted To Buy
ACADEMY ANTIQUES
Buying estates, antiques,
old china, crystal, art,
Royal Doulton, Royal
Albert etc. Best prices,
free appraisal. Call Rob
349-4229
A+ Household effects,
fridges, freezers, washing
machines, ovens. Good
cash paid. Ph Paul 022
0891 671
ALL whiteware wanted.
Same day service, cash
paid for freezes, fridges,
washing machines, ovens.
Also buying furniture &
h/hold effects. Anything
considered. Ph Dave 960-
8440, 027 66 22 116
A records and Hi-Fi
gear wanted. Pennylane
Sydenham. 7 days. Ph
366-3278
MILITARIA Any
country, firearms,
uniforms, badges, medals,
memorabilia, WW2 or
earlier ph 338-9931
TOOLS, Garden garage,
saw benches, Lathes. Cash
buyer Phone 355-2045
Job Vacancies
Panel Beater
Job Tasks
Requires
• Remove and Refit / • A minimum of 5 years’
Replacing Panels experience as a panel
• Dent, Rust &
beater
Structural repairs • I-Car Welding Certificate
• Cutting and joining • Copy of C.V. and Cover
replacement sections Letter
using welding • 3 contactable referees
equipment
in NZ
Spray Painter
• Experience with
Waterbourne
• 5+ Years experience
required
• Trade Certificate
necessary
Situations Vacant
• Approved Handlers
Certificate
• Copy of C.V. and
Cover Letter
• 3 contactable referees
in NZ
Please send your application and CV to:
qe2collisionrepairs@outlook.com
CLEANERS
REQUIRED
Christchurch Area
Monday to Friday
3pm-6pm
(Relieving work in schools)
We are looking for cleaners
to join our commercial
cleaning team.
You will need to pass a
Security Check and you
MUST have your
own transport.
Must be eligible to work
in New Zealand.
Please email your
Application to
csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz
or phone 338 9056
Visit our website:
totalcanterbury.co.nz
Please advise which job
when emailing your CV.
FORKLIFT
OPERATORS
Full time work available now,
earn $22+/hr
Do you have?
• Current OSH
• Good fitness
• Good computer skills
• Ability to pass a drug screen
• Your own reliable transport
Telephone Ryan Recruitment on
0800 363 676
Pets & Supplies
CATS UNLOVED
can help with the cost
of desexing your cat.
Ph 3555-022 or email
catsunloved@xtra.co.nz
CLEANERS
REQUIRED
Shirley Area
Monday to Friday
3pm - 6pm
City Area
Monday to Friday
6pm - 9pm
Somerfield Area
Monday to Friday
3pm - 6pm
We are looking for
cleaners to join our
commercial cleaning
team.
You will need to pass a
Security Check and you
MUST have your
own transport.
Must be eligible to work
in New Zealand.
Please email your
Application to
csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz
or phone 338 9056
Visit our website:
totalcanterbury.co.nz
Please advise which job
when emailing your CV.
CIVIL CONSTRUCTION
LABOURERS
Full time work available now,
earn $21+/hr
Do you have?
• Driver licence
• Good fitness
•Ability to pass a drug screen
•Your own reliable transport
Telephone Ryan Recruitment on
0800 363 676

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THE ENTERTAINMENT HUB OF THE NORTH!
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BISTRO
OPEN FROM 12PM
WEDNESDAY
TO SUNDAY
COMING ATTRACTION
MADSEN PROMOTIONS
PRESENTS
To add a listing, contact
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or
027 458 8590
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi/whatson
Risingholme Singers’
Concert
$10
BREAKFAST
SPECIAL
HOUSIE
EVERY THURSDAY
12PM
EYES DOWN 12.30PM
“Greatest Hits
Through The Ages”
Music Director: Henry Nicholson
Accompanist: William Grubb
Guest Artists: Luka Reardon (Oboe)
Gabriel Baird (Piano)
FREE RANGE EGGS
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HOMEMADE TOAST
COFFEE
BAR HOURS
MON 3PM-10PM
TUES & WEDS 11.30AM
THURS 11AM | FRI 11.30AM
SAT & SUN 11AM
Closing times will vary.
SATURDAY
10TH JULY, 7.30PM
Tickets $25 at the club
2.30pm Saturday 29 May, 2021
Risingholme Theatre
99 Hawford Rd or 26 Reeves Rd, Opawa
Door Sales $15. (Children under 13 free)
Contact: Jill Willmott Ph: 03 388 3235
risingholmesingers@gmail.com
85 Hereford Street
Phone 03 374 9461
www.therockpool.co.nz
On our menu since day 1, our mouth watering slow braised Lamb Shank
is served with roasted veggies, garlicky green beans, creamy mash, gravy,
Pig in a Blanket & our house signature homemade Yorkshire Pudding.
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OPEN 8AM-11PM DAILY - BREAKFAST - LUNCH - DINNER
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Bookings Essential
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christchurch
GIG GUIDE
Thursday 20 to Wednesday 26 May 2021
12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Christchurch’s
smoking hot BLUES BAR. Thursday 7.30pm
- Jo & Paolo. Friday 8pm - Isolde Duo.
Saturday 8pm - Marsha, The Gateways &
Etheran.
ARMADILLO'S BECKENHAM, 155
Colombo St: Saturday 9pm - DnD Rock
Covers Band.
A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St:
Thursday 7.30pm - CWB, free; Revolucion
Thursdays Latin Dance with DJ Zee, free.
Friday 5.30pm - Clube Do Choro's Brazilian
Jam Session, free; 9pm - Now & Zen feat Th
'Dudes' Bruce Hambling, free. Saturday 9pm
- Sanctuary Events presents 'Other Voices' tix
$15 +bf at cosmicticketing.co.nz. Sunday
5.30pm - Around A Rainbow presents Drag
Show 'Drag It to Outer Space', tix $20 at
eventfinda.co.nz. Monday 7pm - Quiz.
Tuesday 8pm - Stand-up comedy night, free;
10pm - Open Mic Night (all gear provided),
all welcome, free.
BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday
7pm - Mickey Rat's Karaoke. Friday 7pm -
Mandi Miller. Sunday 7pm - Mickey Rat's
Karaoke.
BOO RADLEYS, Level 1, 98 Victoria St:
Thursday 9pm - Cloud Factory. Friday 8pm
- Libby Barker; 10.30pm - Live music.
Saturday 8pm - Holly Kimber; 10.30pm -
VOXY. Wednesday 7.30pm - South Street
Blues Trio; 9.30pm - Open Mic Night.
CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, Garlands Rd:
Friday 28 May, 7.30pm - Mundi Yurt Party
Farewell to Autumn Shindig with Fiona
Pears & Connor Hartley-Hall, tickets at
undertheradar.co.nz. Saturday 29 May, 8pm -
The butlers & Muroki Aumn Express Tour,
tickets at undertheradar.co.nz.
CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY,
Montreal St: Sunday 12.45pm - The
Salvation Army Christchurch City Band free
variety concert (fine outside, if wet inside).
CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, 30 Victoria
St: Friday 6pm - Peter Cairns; 9.15pm -
Headrush. Saturday 6pm - Lonesome Sue;
9.15pm - Smooth Talk.
HORNBY CLUB, Carmen Rd: Friday
8pm - Madsen Promotions presents Kenny
& Dolly performed by Stevie K & Jo Hill
plus Johnny Cash, SOLD OUT. Saturday
7pm - The Meaniez. Sunday 3pm - Ian Mac.
To add a listing, contact
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or
027 458 8590
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi/whatson
KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay:
Saturday 10th July, 7.30pm - Madsen
Promotions presents Kenny & Dolly
performed by Stevie K & Jo Hill, tickets $25
at the club.
MICKY FINNS, 85a Hereford St: Friday
- In the City. Saturday - Isolde. Friday 28
May - D'Sendantz. Saturday 29 May - Red
Zone.
NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine
Pde: Sunday 2nd June, 2pm - Chur Bro
Duo. Sunday 20th June, 2pm - Nexus.
PIZZA REPUBLIC, 2 Waterman Pl,
Ferrymead: Saturday 8pm - Let's Have It
feat. Steve Hill (Aus); Daniel Ro; Donna-
Marie (Akl); Aragorn; Riksta; Kid Bull; Nick
Collings (Akl); Ryno (Akl); The Captain &
Tin Tin; Matt Adam (Akl); Dilicious (Akl),
tickets at cosmicticketing.co.nz.
RICHMOND CLUB, 75 London St:
Friday 7pm - DnD Band. Saturday 6.30pm -
Danger Baby. Sunday 3pm - Robbie Drew.
RIVERSIDE MARKET, 98 Oxford Tce:
Thursday 6pm - Live jazz with Southern
Jazzmen, $10 entry.
TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, Hornby:
Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 8.30pm - No
Secrets.
THE CUBAN, 236 St Asaph St: Friday
6.30pm - Live music with Brent Love.
THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd:
Thursday 8pm - The Giant Poppies. Friday
7.30pm - Open Mic & Jam. Wednesday 9pm
- Titanic (Kevin Emmett, Nick Buchanan,
and Peter K Malthus). Saturday 5th June -
Black Sabbath Tribute performed by After
Forever with support from Sabotage Theory
performing Soundgarden, tickets $20 at bar
or online at cosmicticketing.co.nz, door sales
$30.
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd,
Addington: Friday 9.30pm - Flat City
Brotherhood. Saturday 9.30pm - Decoy
Duck. Sunday 6pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke.
Tuesday 7pm - Quiz. Wednesday 7.30pm -
Lance Kiwi Karaoke.
WOOLSTON CLUB, 143 Hargood St:
Saturday 7pm - Reboot.
WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19 London
St, Lyttelton: Friday - DJ House Music.
Tuesday 8pm - Open Mic. Wednesday 8pm
- Jam Night.
‘Famous for their roasts!’
SENIORS SPECIAL
Two courses: $
23
Soup/Roast or Roast/Dessert
Special available lunch only
Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm
Conditions apply
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Kid’s Special
Two courses
Great Kids menu plus
designated play area.
$
13
Sold out!
PLUS Johnny Cash
Friday 8pm:
Tickets $20
Saturday 9.45pm
OYSTER
LUNCH
WEDNESDAY 26 MAY
Sold out!
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ
Open daily from 6.30am - Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
The
RACECOURSE HOTEL
& Motorlodge
118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,
Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150
www.racecoursehotel.co.nz
at Hornby Club
Saturday 7pm:
THE MEANIEZ
Sunday 3pm:
IAN MAC
agm
& elections
SUNDAY 6 JUNE, 10AM
Come on down!
17 CARMEN RD. PH. 03 349 9026
WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ
WHAT’S ON AT THE RICHMOND CLUB
FRIDAY 7PM
DnD BAND
SUPER RUGBY
HURRICANES
v REBELS
Friday 7.05pm
CRUSADERS
v REDS
Saturday 9.45pm
SATURDAY 6.30PM
DANGER BABY
SUNDAY 3PM
ROBBIE DREW
75 London St, Richmond
Christchurch 8013
P: 03 389 5778
theborough.nz
richmondclub.nz

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