Nor'West News: July 01, 2021

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New take on Shakespeare 

It’s Shakespeare, 

but not as you 

know it. Senior 

students from St 

Margaret’s College, 

including Alexandra 

Lehmann, year 13, 

combined with 

Christ’s College 

and the Christ 

Church Cathedral 

Choristers last 

week to perform 

their tailored mix 

of raucous fun, 

comedy, beauty 

and dramatic 

intensity. The 

Shakespearean 

Banquet featured 

soliloquies, 

musical theatre, 

comedy, singing, 

dancing and roving 

performers among 

diners at the Christ 

Church Transitional 

Cathedral. The 

event was curated 

and directed by St 

Margaret’s College’s 

Ali Rossiter and 

Megan Herd. 

•More photos, p7 

Elmwood 

Park’s 

bowling 

club to 

get new 

building 

• By Fiona Ellis 

PLANS FOR a new and 

improved Elmwood Park 

Bowling Club building costing 

about $3 million are rolling 

forwards after receiving the green 

light from the city council. 

The Fendalton-Waimairi- 

Harewood Community Board 

approved the planned demolition 

and rebuild on behalf of the city 

council in a meeting on Monday. 

It received 43 submissions on 

the issue, with 36 in support, 

10 of whom directly identified 

themselves as members of the 

club. 

Club president Pete Smith was 

pleased with the decision. 

“I’m elated, absolutely elated. 

It’s 12 months of hard work 

finally coming to fruition,” Smith 

said. 

Club member Ian Rule said 

in his submission the building 

would replace “broken and 

depressing” clubrooms. 

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Thursday July 1 2021 3 

ELATED: Elmwood Park Bowling Club president Pete Smith is pleased to 

have council approval for the demolition and rebuild of the club building. 

Above – Concept plan of the new building. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

Resource consent granted before submissions heard 

• From page 1 

“The new building will be 

single-storey which will reduce 

impact on the neighbours, and 

also have much better acoustics,” 

Rule said. 

Six people submitted against 

the new building and one 

submission was inconclusive. 

Of these, two were from 

neighbours on the immediate 

boundary with the clubrooms 

and the remainder were from 

residents in the Strowan area. 

Resource consent for the 

building had already been 

granted before submissions were 

heard. 

Submitter Richie Dudding 

criticised this. 

“[It] rather feels like we are a 

tick-box function to be signed 

off with no regard for our 

contribution,” he said. 

Sue Cowper spoke to her 

submission against at the 

meeting. 

She was concerned it may not 

be used for activities related to 

the bowling club. 

“The club has a membership 

of about 140. They’re asking 

permission for a 200-person 

bar. It made me think: ‘Oh my 

goodness, that’s quite a big deal’.” 

Many other submitters 

believed the building would be 

an asset to the community, she 

said. 

“The vision of this is 

outside the right to occupy the 

licence.” 

Waimari Ward city councillor 

Sam MacDonald said under 

the licence agreement, use of 

the clubrooms for non-bowling 

club-related activity would need 

council consent. 

The demolition should start in 

about six weeks, he said. 

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Leaders in Learning 

BHS Winter Sport 

Winter Sport is now well 

underway at Burnside 

High School. As well 

as having a number of 

teams entered in club 

sports and the School 

Sport Canterbury 

Wednesday competition, 

we have also had a 

number of successes 

at recent sporting 

tournaments. 

Over the weekend, 

12 - 13 June, both the 

Boys Premier Badminton team 

Boys and Girls Premier 

Badminton teams 

competed at the South 

Island Secondary Schools 

(SISS) Badminton 

Championships in 

Dunedin, where both 

teams won Silver in their 

respective events. Over 

the same weekend our 

Girls Table Tennis Team 

claimed Gold at the 

Canterbury Secondary 

Schools Championships 

Girls Premier Badminton team 

(CSS), here in 

Christchurch. 

The SISS Swimming Championship took 

place in Timaru, 19 - 20 June, where 

outstanding performances from all our 

swimmers saw Burnside High School being 

awarded the Top Performance by a Co-Ed 

School Award. 

The Burnside High School Cross Country 

team also competed at the New Zealand 

Secondary Schools Cross Country, 18- 

19 June in Hawera. The team competed 

extremely well in some very testing weather 

conditions. Recently, our team of very 

talented gymnasts competed at both the 

New Zealand and Canterbury Secondary 

School Championships with a number of 

our gymnasts medalling in their events at 

both championships. 

Our annual Ashburton College Exchange took place on Tuesday 

15 June in Ashburton. It was a beautiful day out in the winter sun, 

a day that could only be improved by retaining the trophy after 

winning 9 events to Ashburton College’s 4, across 8 different 

codes. 

Outstanding Sporting Achievements 

We are in the process of archiving past/present Burnside High School 

students/staff members who have excelled in their sporting field. 

This may be by either representing their country (age grades or 

elite level), attaining national titles, or an outstanding achievement 

as an athlete or in a management position. Once completed these 

achievements will be displayed on an Honours Board within the 

school. 

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Collection point for bottle tops 

• By Fiona Ellis 

ST ALBANS’ Maria Lamb 

has been gathering rubbish to 

recycle for 10 years, but now she 

hopes the rubbish will come to 

her. 

She established a collection 

station for plastic bottle tops, 

plastic bread bag tags, wine 

bottle tops and can tabs at the St 

Albans Community Centre last 

week. 

“My really high inspiration is 

that everyone locally can think: 

‘Oh yeah, I know where that 

goes, I can take it to the community 

centre.’ 

“Hopefully, it will divert litter 

from the landfill.” 

Rubbish was a huge issue but 

this was a way people could 

make a small difference, she 

said. 

She had been collecting litter 

while out walking for 10 years. 

She also coordinated community 

clean-ups, most recently 

in St Albans on June 20 in collaboration 

with the St Albans 

Residents Association. 

However, this was the first 

community collection point she 

had established. 

“It’s only in the last six 

months I’ve started to coordinate 

with people.” 

Recycling wine caps and can 

tabs was an idea sparked when 

her daughter’s school began 

collecting them to sell as scrap 

metal, with proceeds donated to 

charity Kiwi Kids NZ. 

This year she began collecting 

them from restaurants and 

hoped the community would 

also respond well. 

One wine bottle cap bought 

one second on a dialysis machine, 

and 3600 bought an hour, 

she said. 

Plastic tags commonly used 

on bags of bread, or bags of 

crackers or vegetables were also 

recycled for a cause. 

Money would go to the 

organisation Bread Tags for 

Wheelchairs, which paid for 

wheelchairs in South Africa. 

Plastic bottle tops would be 

GOOD 

START: Maria 

Lamb helps 

to collect 

recyclables at 

the St Albans 

Community 

Centre. 

upcycled into jewellery. 

She arranged for them to go 

to two local businesses, polylabs 

and remix plastics. 

“I reached out to them. They’ll 

make earrings and necklaces.” 

She knew from her walks 

there was no shortage of material 

on the ground. 

“The most common thing you 

can find is a plastic bottle.” 

Board 

grants for 

community 

groups 

GRANTS FOR three different 

community groups were 

approved at the Fendalton- 

Waimairi-Harewood 

Community Board meeting on 

Monday afternoon. 

The board approved a grant 

of $2000 towards garden 

operations at the Bryndwr 

Community Gardens. 

This included equipment, 

training and community events. 

The gardens aimed to promote 

the capacity and health of the 

local Bryndwr community. 

A second grant of $8000 

will go to Canterbury 

Neighbourhood Support for its 

Avonhead/Russley Community 

Safety Initiative. 

The board also approved a 

grant of $5800 to Styx Living 

Laboratory Trust, which has a 

primary role of developing the 

river catchment. 

This would be used towards 

its work programme and talking 

circle. 

The money for these grants 

will come from the board’s 

2020-21 discretionary response 

fund.




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Warriors drop in on Avonhead School 

INJURED NZ Warriors recruit 

Junior Ratuva took time out 

from rehab to promote rugby 

league during a code-boosting 

roadshow at Avonhead School on 

Friday. 

The 22-year-old Fiji-born 

winger’s bid to debut in the NRL 

during 2021 was sabotaged by a 

season-ending pectoral muscle 

following his move from the 

Melbourne Storm but he is 

signed until the end of 2022. 

Ratuva and NZ Warriors NRL 

women’s premiership player 

Kanyon Paul visited schools 

throughout the city on Thursday 

and Friday, as part of a Warriors 

and New Zealand Rugby League 

initiative. 

Former Warriors and Kiwis 

legend Ruben Wiki and Kiwi 

Ferns international Charlotte 

Scanlon also held skill sessions 

at some of the 12 schools on the 

schedule. 

The emphasis was on funbased 

skill activities, while on a 

serious note, the Warriors and 

New Zealand Rugby League 

community teams delivered a 

well-being presentation, focusing 

on the importance of sleep, 

hydration and nutrition. 

Wiki’s former club and 

international teammates, Jerry 

Seuseu and Ali Lauitiiti, also 

spoke to a group of Canterbury 

MATES: Fiji-born Warriors recruit Junior Ratuva signs 

autographs at Avonhead School during a rugby league 

roadshow visit. 

PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN 

Rugby League 18-year-old 

grade players on Friday night, 

highlighting well-being and 

revisiting their journey as 

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grade games at Canterbury A&P 

Park on Saturday morning, 

presenting player of the day 

awards to some of the 96 teams 

featuring players aged under-five 

to 12-years-old. 

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the Warriors and NZRL down 

here working together,” said 

Canterbury Rugby League chief 

executive Duane Fyfe. 

“They can do two schools 

at the same time so twice the 

number of schools can be visited. 

It’s worked out well for us.” 

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CHILLY: The Scarborough Dippers will brave the elements once again next month. 

Dippers ready for July challenge 

SCARBOROUGH Dippers 

is launching its annual Wet 

July challenge and this year, 

the group’s chilly endeavours 

will be raising money for local 

community projects. 

This will be the fifth year the 

group has undertaken Wet July, 

where members pledge to get into 

the sea every day throughout the 

month of July wearing just togs 

and a smile, irrespective of the 

weather – provided conditions 

allow this to be done safely. 

Founding member Kerry 

Newton, said the group has 

grown over the past fifve years, 

having started off with just four 

keen members. 

More than 40 people are 

gathering for the dips and she is 

expecting about 20 to commit 

to Wet July, although typically 

many more join over the weekends. 

“There has been a growing 

interest in wild swimming 

and the health and well-being 

benefifts of cold-water swimming, 

which the regulars can certainly 

attest to,” she said. 

“This is reflected in the 

growing number of people of all 

ages who are now joining us on a 

daily or weekly basis.” 

Last July, the Scarborough 

Dippers raised more than $6000, 

which was split between the 

Sumner and Taylors Mistake surf 

lifesaving clubs. 

This year the group has 

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projects which include upgrading 

the Sumner Kindergarten 

playground and the surfboard 

library based at The Goat Shed. 

Others are yet to be confifrmed. 

Said Newton: “It is important 

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HEALTH & AWARENESS 

Joint pain: Do I have arthritis or 

could it be mainly my muscles? 

The team at Physical Sense in Sydenham 

sees clients with a range of symptoms but 

many of their middle-aged and senior clients 

visit complaining of pain in one of their joints. 

Physiotherapist Ietje van Stolk suggests 

that a major part of the pain could be due 

to muscle pain rather than simply arthritis. 

“Even if an x-ray shows arthritis, the reason 

for the pain may be the muscles around 

the joint,” she explains. The images show 

how a muscle knot (the crosses) in a back 

muscle can give hip pain (aches and pain 

are the red areas in the drawings), a knot 

in a muscle on the back of the shoulder 

blade can give a deep pain in the front of 

the shoulder and a muscle knot all the way 

near the groin can give an ache in the knee 

(especially at night in bed). 

Ietje recalls one case where an 89 year 

old client with severe arthritis who walked 

with a stick, told her, “I will end up in 

a wheelchair, I cannot put any weight 

through my right leg due to pain in my hip 

and buttock”. “Within 4 treatments, she 

was walking with her stick but without the 

severe pain,” says Ietje. “The arthritis was 

one of the factors that made her muscles 

spasm but the other was that older people 

move less and the flexed position the hip 

is in when we sit is particularly bad for 

the hip.” Ietje is happy with the fact that 

although the client was 89 and could have 

been “given up on” or told to live with the 

pain, she made a difference to her health 

and wellbeing. 

The same lack of movement can be the 

reason for your knee pain or your shoulder 

pain and the same few treatments could 

make a huge difference for you. 

At Physical Sense, hands-on techniques 

(massage and triggerpoint deactivation 

techniques) are used to release the muscles. 

The client also gets a home exercise 

program designed to mobilize and stretch 

the joint, strengthen the important core 

muscles and increase general strength and 

SHOULDER 

PAIN 

KNEE PAIN 

(the crosses are the areas of the muscle spasms, the red areas is where the pain is felt) 

balance. They teach a movement sequence 

that stretches the joint in all directions 

whilst the client is able to lie safely on their 

bed, perfect for older or less mobile clients. 

In many cases having the muscles 

released and being taught how to maintain 

it, is enough to stay on top of the problem. 

HIP PAIN 

If severe arthritis is the underlying cause, 

some maintenance therapy may be 

necessary, but that is often more affordable 

and, for older patients, better tolerated 

than surgery. After only one treatment you 

should know that it will work for you. Call 

and only pay $50 on that treament. 

Physical Sense Gym and Physio is located at 300 Colombo Street, Sydenham. The Blue Line Bus stops in front of the 

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HOME & HEATING 


Keep cosy with 

RD Petroleum 

this winter 

If you have the time to prepare pancakes they are always a family favourite. 

Try fried eggs cooked inside capsicum for a change. 

Crack some eggs for a 

quick start to the day 

In a hurry and 

hungry? Turn to 

eggs for a quick 

fix for any meal. If 

you want a really 

quick start to the 

morning prepare 

these pancakes 

the night before 

for a healthy and 

fulfilling breakfast 

Fruity overnight 

pancakes 

RD Petroleum (RDP) is a familiar sight 

for farm and rural residents around the 

Canterbury region, however now days urban 

residents also enjoy the same excellent 

customer service for which RDP is known for 

in rural communities, through their home 

heating diesel. 

RDP began its home heating diesel delivery 

service to the lower South Island’s main urban 

centres of Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin 

and Invercargill a number of years ago. 

Customer demand has continued to increase 

year upon year, and RDP has responded 

with specialised improvements to its delivery 

equipment. 

The trucks that deliver RDP’s home heating 

diesel in each urban centre are drawn from 

the company’s extensive vehicle fleet. This 

means they have the latest communication 

and GPS tracking technology on board, so 

the operations team always know where they 

are and how far away they are from their next 

delivery stop. 

RDP’s home heating diesel trucks come 

equipped with a specially-designed hose, 

through which the diesel is pumped from 

the truck into house tanks. The length of 

the hose allows the trucks to access tanks 

without having to enter the property, avoiding 

damaging the driveway. RDP is the place to 

go if you require diesel conveniently delivered 

to your home and as a loyal RDP customer 

you’re offered discounted pricing and can 

become eligible for value-added benefits. 

For all enquiries please phone 

0800 44 00 14, or visit the RDP website at 

https://www.rdp.co.nz/home-heating or 

signup at apply.rdp.co.nz/home-heating 

Makes about 10 

Ingredients 

1 cup each – plain flour, 

wholemeal flour 

1 tbsp baking powder 

1/2 cup raisins 

dried cranberries 

blueberries 

1 cup milk 

2 eggs 

1 cup warm water 

Butter or canola oil for 

cooking 

1 cup yoghurt 

Directions 

Combine the flours, baking 

powder and raisins in a 

bowl. Beat milk and eggs 

together. Stir into the flour 

mixture. 

Cover and refrigerate 

overnight. In the morning, 

add the warm water, 

stirring well. Melt the 

butter in a small, heavy, 

non-stick frying pan. Add 

about a 1/4 cup of the 

batter and swirl to cover. 

Cook until bubbles appear. 

Flip and cook the other 

side. Keep warm in a 150 

deg C oven. Repeat until all 

the mixture is used. 

Serve with yoghurt and 

the blueberries and cranberries. 

Fifty-second poached 

egg 

Serves 1 

Ingredients 

1/4 cup water 

1 egg at room temperature 

1 split English muffin, 

toasted and buttered 

Directions 

Place the water in a small 

microwave-friendly bowl. 

Break the egg into the 

water. 

Pierce the yolk with a 

toothpick or skewer 

to prevent the yolk 

from exploding in the 

microwave. 

Cover and microwave on 

50 per cent power for 50-60 

seconds, depending on the 

wattage of your microwave. 

The egg will carry on 

cooking while standing. 

If not quite cooked, 

spoon some of the hot 

water over the top. 

Lift out with a slotted 

spoon 

or fish slice on to the 

toasted muffin. 

Capsicum eggs 

Serves 2 

Ingredients 

1 tbsp olive oil 

1/2 large capsicum (cut 

through the middle) 

2 medium eggs 

cherry tomatoes and coriander 

to garnish 

Directions 

Heat the oil in a large, 

non-stick frying pan. Cut 

two 2cm rounds from the 

capsicum and place in the 

pan. Break the eggs into 

the centre of the capsicum 

circles. 

Hold circles firmly in 

place until eggs start to 

cook. Fry on low heat, 

until cooked.



HOME & HEATING 

Ground moisture barrier 

under low sub-floor 

Now with the colder and wetter weather on 

its way, home owners are focusing on ways 

to make their homes comfortable, warm 

and healthy for their families throughout 

winter. Rising damp is an issue that affects 

many of our older properties which suffer 

from poor, or no, ground moisture barrier. 

In Canterbury especially, post-quake, many 

people have relocated to homes that suffer 

from rising damp which can be associated 

with health problems. Independent tests have 

shown that up to 40 litres of water can rise 

from the ground and enter a house every day, 

leading to mildew, mould, condensation and 

musty smells. Moulds can produce various 

allergic reactions and the frail, elderly and 

very young are especially vulnerable. 

Canterbury Foam Concrete Ltd is a 

locally owned and operated firm. The team 

understands the problems caused by rising 

damp and are there to help. They will come 

to your damp home and pump a lightweight, 

flowable foam concrete under your timber 

floored home. 

While insulation is important, it has been 

recognised that it is dampness that is the real 

villain in the house. The new Healthy Homes 

Standards introduced by the government 

effective from the 1st July 2019 now has 

a requirement to install ground moisture 

barriers, a key element in the armory to fight 

moisture in the home. 

Dr Larry Bellamy BE (hons) PhD in a 

report dated 1988: Foam Concrete Under 

Timber Floors: An Energy Analysis assessed 

the effects of placing Foam Concrete over 

damp soil and had this to say: Condensation 

on the underside of a timber floor can occur 

where the floor is suspended over damp 

ground and the inside air temperature falls 

close to the crawl space air temperature. 

Much energy is required to vaporize moisture 

that penetrates the structure. By avoiding 

underfloor condensation, foam concrete can 

reduce floor heat losses by up to 90%. 

• Canterbury Foam Concrete Ltd can in most 

cases, install a Ground Moisture Barrier 

under the suspended wooden floor of your 

home, even when there is no crawl space. 

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• We offer a free measure and quote in the 

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• Assessments can be made in all other 

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Contact Canterbury Foam Concrete Ltd 

now for your free, no obligation quote and 

complimentary appraisal of your underfloor 

ground moisture barrier needs. 

Phone 03 376 4608, 0508FOAMCO or 

www.foamconcrete.nz for more information. 

The facts about home ventilation 

Balanced Pressure 

vs Positive Pressure 

Under the New Zealand Building Code, 

all buildings, including residential, need 

to be suitably ventilated, either with 

opening windows or forced ventilation. 

Clause G4.1 states: “The objective of this 

provision is to safeguard people from 

illness or loss of amenity due to lack of 

fresh air.” There are many benefits to 

forced, or mechanical, ventilation over 

opening windows, including warmth, 

security, reduction of outside noises and 

reduction of condensation. 

Traditional domestic ventilation systems 

are ‘positive pressure’. They bring air in 

from outside via the roof space and force 

the stale air out through gaps around 

windows and doors. The incoming air 

from these systems 

has to be heated 

or cooled to keep 

the house warm in 

winter or cool in 

summer. 

The Smooth- 

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‘balanced pressure’ 

system. It extracts 

air from the house 

and at the same 

time brings in 

fresh air. These 

two streams of air 

pass through a heat 

exchanger, which 

warms incoming air in winter and cools in 

summer if air conditioning is being used. 

This means that up to 80% of the energy 

which would be wasted using a traditional 

positive pressure system is recovered, 

resulting in significant energy savings and 

therefore lower heating or cooling costs. 

Until recently, balanced pressure 

ventilation systems have been considerably 

more expensive than traditional positive 

pressure systems. However, with Smooth- 

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RAY WHITE PAPANUI NEWS 

What happens when an Auction is 

brought forward? 

The real estate industry often advocates 

for selling your home by Auction as the 

most effective sales method because 

they often achieve an above average 

sale price, an unconditional and a timely 

sale for their owners. 

Sometimes Auctions run their full 

campaign (which is usually three and a 

half to four weeks) and other times they 

are brought forward. What does this 

mean? 

A brought forward Auction means that 

the sellers have accepted a pre-Auction 

offer at an acceptable level to warrant 

bringing the Auction forward. 

Commonly asked questions about this 

include: 

Q. Will we know what the brought 

forward offer price is? 

A. No this is kept confidential until 

the opening of the early Auction and 

this figure is then the opening price. 

If there is no further bidding it is 

then sold for this amount. If there 

is bidding then it is sold to the 

highest bidder just like in a normal 

auction situation. 

Q. Can a Pre-Auction offer have 

conditions in it? 

A. No, a pre-Auction offer is on the 

same terms and conditions as going 

to Auction. This means it needs 

to be cash and unconditional. You can 

however arrange for an aside 

agreement for changes to items 

such as settlement dates and deposit 

amounts etc, these need to be 

approved and signed off by the seller 

prior to the start of the Auction. 

Q. We are interested in a property 

going to Auction, how will we know if 

a pre-Auction offer comes in? 

A. We notify all of the open home 

attendees with communication 

via text and email and change the 

website advertising also. However 

it is best practice to formally register 

your interest with the agent 

in writing. An email or returning the 

‘Registration of Interest’ form in 

the Auction pack are the two best 

forms of doing this to ensure that 

you don’t miss out on being told 

that an Auction has been brought 

forward. 

Feature Properties 

40 Mooray Avenue, Bishopdale 

Tracy Thomson & Hasna Ngara 

Vanessa Golightly 

Licensee Agent & 

Business Owner 

027 664 9292 

Claire Morris 

Licensee Agent & 


027 662 4822 

108 Ensors Road, Waltham 

Vanessa Golightly & Maria Paterson 

Stuart Morris 

Licensee Agent 

& Auctioneer 

027 422 6395 

Katrina Green 

Operations Manager 

Property Management 

027 606 0030 

If you have any other questions around the Auction process please get in contact, 

I am happy to assist! 

Sold Properties 

Tracy Thomson 

Licensee Salesperson 

027 440 3035 

Richie Eggelton 


021 089 65594 

Vanessa Golightly, 


and Licensee Agent 

Ray White Papanui 

027 664 9292 

10 Hideaway Gate, Parklands 

Vanessa Golightly & Maria Paterson 

Maria Paterson 


027 543 4689 

Paul Nicholson 


027 921 2160 

Let’s Talk About The Weather 

Although talking about the weather 

could be classed as a bit of a filler when 

having a conversation, I think most of 

us Cantabrians will agree that already 

this winter, which only officially began 

a short while ago, we have already had 

plenty to talk about! 

Although we are all dealing with the 

effects of the very wet and dreary 

conditions in our own homes, when 

you are looking after a portfolio of 400 

properties, you in effect see first-hand 

the effects on steroids! 

Unfortunately once the rain clears we 

are left with not only the visible effects 

of a good downpour, but the hidden 

effects as well. Higher water table 

levels underground can cause rising 

damp and even with the new Healthy 

Homes Standard compliance being met, 

this extreme weather can cause mould 

issues. 

I was speaking to some scientists 

about mould in properties recently 

and picked up a couple of tips on how 

to easily monitor if the property has 

an underlying issue. The simplest is to 

photograph the area after you have 

cleaned it down (white vinegar is a great 

cost-effective solution). Sometimes 

after cleaning there is still a mark and 

this is what you need to measure. Check 

it after about two weeks to see if there 

has been an increase in size. If there’s 

no change, the cleaning worked. If the 

mark has grown, further investigation 

and treatments would need to be 

undertaken. 

To ensure that our tenants are able to 

live in nice warm and dry homes we 

have sent them out some tips and tricks 

to help keep their home dry, which 

ultimately means it will be warmer and 

healthier. 

If you have a tenanted property, or you 

are living in a home which is more prone 

to dampness in this weather, there are 

plenty of resources offering information 

on keeping your home healthy, from not 

drying washing inside, to cleaning heat 

pump filters, or using the ‘dry’ mode on 

your heat pump which I have only just 

discovered! 

Keep warm and dry everyone, I think we 

may be in for a wet winter this year! 

238 Withells Road, Avonhead 

Tracy Thomson 

28 Glencoe Street, Burnside 

Tracy Thomson 

Katrina Green, 

Operations Manager 

Property Management 

027 606 0030 

Hasna Ngara 


021 262 4943 

Olivia Hendry 

Executive Assistant 

Estelle Schuurman 

Property Manager 

Jana Schleehauf 


022 090 1227 

Georgia Tuuta 

Excutive Assistant 

Joy Coughlan 

Mortgage Broker 

027 223 3572 

Level 1, 7 Winston Avenue, Papanui 

Phone (03) 352 0567 | rwpapanui.co.nz | /RayWhitePapanui Morris & Co Limited | Licenced REAA 2008

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