Nor'West News: July 08, 2021

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Community centre may be 

rebuilt under new plan 

• By Fiona Ellis 

CURRENTLY HOME to a 

playground and a pump track, 10 

Shirley Rd may once again be the 

site of a community centre after 

the city council’s latest funding 

allocations. 

An upcoming feasibility study 

could set the ball rolling on a $3 

million community facility. 

The old community centre at 

10 Shirley Rd was demolished 

following the February 22, 2011 

earthquake. 

The city council’s Long Term 

Plan, approved on June 23, 

budgets $3 million towards a 

rebuild in the 2031-2032 financial 

year. 

It also budgets 

$35,000 for a 

feasibility study to 

take place in the 

2021-2022 financial 

year. 

Pauline 

Cotter 

Innes Ward city 

councillor Pauline 

Cotter said the 

future of the project was in the 

hands of the community. 

“It’s now with the community, 

they’re going to have to drive 

that,” Cotter said. 

• Turn to page 5 

CHANGES: The site at 10 Shirley Rd, now a playground and a pump track, may once again be a community centre. 

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JEAN BELL is among those 

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Neighbournet, which is back 

in action over a decade after 

becoming a casualty of the 

September 4, 2010, earthquake. 

The St Albans Residents Association 

programme helps people 

who do not have access to a 

computer at home or who needed 

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The a 75-year-old faced a learning 

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“I’m pretty new to a lot of internet 

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“I’d sort of kept away from it 

thinking it was a scary thing, but 

it hasn’t been a scary thing. It 

opens up the world.” 

A query about internet banking 

on her tablet brought her to a 

Neighbournet session. 

It was a helpful and welcoming 

environment, she said. 

Volunteer Belinda Carter 

said the programme came to an 

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Council responds to community call for centre 

• From page 1 

It was possible that the $3 

million funding could be 

brought foward if a building 

plan was ready and viable, she 

said. 

Funding for a community 

facility was not included in 

the 2018 Long Term Plan and 

Cotter was pleased that it was 

included this 

time. 

“The fact 

that it is 

in there is 

great,” she 

said. 

“We had to 

Joanne Byrne 

work really 

hard and the 

community 

had to work really hard to get 

it back.” 

She thought it unlikely the 

issue could fall off the council’s 

to-do list again. 

“The community will keep it 

above the radar.” 

Joanne Byrne, spokeswoman 

for the 10 Shirley Road group, 

helped organise a petition of 

over 1200 signatures, which 

was presented to the council 

in May. 

The community was 

devastated when funding was 

dropped from the last Long 

Term Plan and wanted to avoid 

a repeat of that scenario, she 

said. 

She was pleased with the 

council’s response. 

“It’s been a lot of work, we’re 

really relieved,” Byrne said. 

She hoped the project 

would be brought forward as 

planning progressed. 

“It’s still a long way out but 

I’m hoping that we’ll have a 

new community centre before 

2030.” 

Shirley Recreational Walkers 

leader Sue Lang said she hoped 

a new community centre 

would be built. 

The site was currently 

home to a pump track and 

playground. 

“That’s great, but it won’t 

meet the needs of the whole 

community,” Lang said. 

However, she did not trust 

the council to pull through on 

the project. 

“A decade is a long time to 

wait for when you’ve already 

waited a decade.” 

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Civic Award last year was a big 

deal for the young founders of The 

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They run events promoting an 

ethical sustainable lifestyle. 

Founding member Selina 

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because it came from the community. 

“It was quite overwhelming for all 

of us to get that recognition from 

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Keeping the old post office lines 

• By Bea Gooding 

“SOME PEOPLE preserve family 

heirlooms, some people preserve 

cakes, but why? If we stop doing 

these things then I think we’ve 

lost the plot.” 

Those are the words of George 

Wealleans, who has mastered the 

art of preservation as founder 

and inaugural president of the 

Ferrymead Post and Telegraph 

Historical Society. 

It is why the 75-year-old is in 

charge of the group responsible 

for conserving the country’s 

communications’ history in 

a 1920s post office building, 

nestled within Ferrymead 

Heritage Park. 

“If I don’t, then who’s going 

to?” said Wealleans. 

“It’s partly ego, partly a desire 

to preserve our history. You 

might as well preserve something 

you’re keen on.” 

The society collects and 

restores vintage telegraphy, 

telephone and switching systems 

mainly from the New Zealand 

Post Office and formerly Telecom 

New Zealand. 

The items, sourced from all 

over the country, are in working 

order, allowing visitors to get a 

feel for what life was like before 

the digital age. 

The exhibition may look like a 

CALLING: George Wealleans with one of the old telephones in the Ferrymead Post and 

Telegraph Historical Society building. 

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museum, but it has not 

strayed too far from its original 

purpose – the building still 

provides postal agency services 

and philatelic (postage stamp) 

sales. 

Wealleans and a few others 

established the society in 1977 

during a time when the country’s 

morse system and telegraph 

service were closing down in 

1963 and 1988, respectively. 

One of the members already 

worked at the Ferrymead 

tramways, so the heritage park 

was seen as the perfect location 

to keep the practice alive. 

Otherwise, it would have 

“ended up on shelves in a shed.” 

“When some of the equipment 

out there was ready to be 

taken out, we wanted to see it 

preserved. So I called a meeting 

with post officers in town and 

established a group,” he said. 

“[Now] we have been tasked, or 

dumped, with the idea of looking 

after this stuff on behalf of the 

people of New Zealand. 

“But there’s no benefit of 

looking after this stuff other than 

our hobby.” 

Born in Oamaru, Wealleans 

was raised in Timaru by his 

uncle and aunt when his father 

left the picture. 

In the 23 years that followed, 

he completed school certificate 

and locked in his first job at the 

Timaru Post Office at 16-yearsold 

as a trainee telephone 

mechanician. 

In search of love, he 

relocated to Christchurch in 

1971 to get hitched, eventually 

building a house, raising three 

children of his own, and starting 

a new role at the telephone 

exchange.



of communication open 

“We’re still at the same address 

with the same phone number.” 

Wealleans loved the idea 

of being able to help facilitate 

communication between others. 

The biggest change he 

witnessed over time was cell 

phones. But as someone who 

championed communication, 

they were “abhorrent,” as they 

created too many distractions. 

He also prided himself on accuracy 

– his boss once said his 

wire tying and lacing skills were 

always neat. “It’s the technology 

too that got me hooked, and 

the data from one computer to 

another. The theory of how a cell 

phone works is just as important 

as the piece of equipment,” he 

said. 

“Each component leads to a 

core computer, then it goes out 

through a cellular network and 

up to a satellite, passing bits of 

messages, then back down to say, 

the phone of your mate who just 

happens to be having lunch in 

San Francisco.” 

But after 31 years in the 

OPERATOR: One of the society’s oldest telephones, a Bell/Blake transmitter, used 

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industry, it all changed when he 

was made redundant in 1992 – 

two years after deciding to take 

a decade-long hiatus as president 

of the historical society. 

He spent the next 17 years after 

that working in a factory making 

plastic bags before he “weaseled” 

his way back into the society’s 

presidential role about 10 years 

ago. 

“In every job I’ve had, there’s 

been an element of being your 

own master,” said Wealleans. 

“Obviously you’re following 

the instructions. Like at the 

plastic bag machine, you’re given 

instructions on how long to 

make the bag, but they didn’t tell 

you how fast to make it. 

“So I fine-tuned the machine a 

bit to get it going at say, 65 bags a 

minute, instead of 50.” 

Wealleans is at the 

heritage park nearly every day, 

and he would not have it any 

other way. 

But a major regret was not 

becoming an architect after 

nearly failing a technical exam in 

high school – a dream that 

grew momentum the second 

he received his first Meccano 

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Said Wealleans: “I wouldn’t 

go as far as saying I’m an artist 

but I can visualise things from a 

technical perspective, put it on 

paper and draw it, like a circuit 

diagram. I’ve always treated my 

job as a hobby because I love my 

work. I’m able to share all my 

experiences with a whole lot of 

people, even those who aren’t 

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Creative hub set for two-year trial in Roy Stokes Hall 

• By Bea Gooding 

A NEW creative community hub 

will make a permanent home in 

New Brighton if a two-year trial 

is met with success. 

Economic development agency 

ChristchurchNZ, which own 

Roy Stokes Hall, has agreed to 

back the pilot project run by the 

Life in Vacant Spaces trust. 

This follows 

calls last year to 

make the 

hall available for 

more 

community 

groups, artists 

and events 

Rachael 

Shiels 

which is currently 

only being 

leased to the 

Christchurch Circus Trust. 

“It’s great to have 

[ChristchurchNZ] on board, 

it gives it the best chances of 

success,” LiVS director Rachael 

Shiels said. 

“The hall space is one of the 

biggest spaces we have in New 

Brighton, so as a community asset, 

it’s really valuable.” 

LiVS partners with landowners 

and the community to activate 

vacant property across the city, 

developing short-term uses for 

the space while a permanent 

solution was sought. 

If projects like the creative 

PILOT: If a two-year trial to transform Roy Stokes Hall into a creative community hub goes 

well, it will become a permanent fixture. 

community hub were successful 

over a period of time, they could 

be made permanent. 

ChristchurchNZ urban 

development general 

manager Cath Carter said 

the organisation will have a 

supporting role in the next two 

years and will co-ordinate the 

initial set-up. 

This includes helping to secure 

funding for any hall upgrades, 

outlining a financial model for 

the project to be self-sufficient, 

and determining the ownership, 

governance and operation 

structure. 

The trial will also determine if 

the hall needs upgrading and the 

best uses for it. 

“The intention is to make the 

hall a permanent creative hub,” 

said Shiels. 

The hall can host between 500 

to 600 people and sits on the old 

Central New Brighton School 

site on Seaview Rd. The land was 

purchased off the Ministry of 

Education in 2018. 

Since the school closed in 2015 

as a result of the Canterbury 

earthquakes, the hall’s future has 

been in limbo. 

The site itself, however, was 

recently purchased by property 

developer DGM Group, which 

plans to start building 65 new 

homes there in spring. 

Shiels said if the circus trust 

and residents did not advocate 

for the hall to stay in the community, 

it would have been 

purchased by the developer, 

slimming the chances of a hub 

coming to fruition. 

“The hall was originally 

founded and supported by 

the community, so it was 

really important that it was saved 

and given back to [them],” she 

said. 

The hub could be up and running 

in five weeks’ time if all 

goes to plan. 

So far, “a real mix” of local 

arts groups and social needs 

organisations have reached out 

to the trust. 

Said Shiels: “We’re reviewing 

the expressions of interest in the 

next two weeks, then we’ll be 

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operations manager John Reid to announce his appointment as coach. 

Stepping out of the game after 50 years 


FORMER BLACK Caps coach 

Denis Aberhart is stepping down 

from an educational career 

spanning nearly 50 years. 

Pupils and staff at Our Lady 

of Victories School in Upper 

Riccarton will farewell their 

principal at an assembly today. 

From classroom to cricket 

pitch, his process for success has 

been the same. 

“You want your school to run, 

so you put your team together 

accordingly, and then you put a 

team together to deliver on that,” 

Aberhart said. 

“Coaching is about providing 

the environment, culture and 

resources so that people can be 

the best that they can be. 

“I actually think that we’re 

coaches rather than teachers.” 

Aberhart, 68, began teaching 

in 1975, but took a three-year 

break from his educational 

career between 2001 and 2003 to 

coach the Black Caps. 

He enjoyed both careers 

but thought he made the 

bigger impact in the classroom, 

he said. 

As a principal, he said he was 

helping shape the future of his 

pupils and society. 

“The role that a principal does 

is far more important than the 

role a sports coach does.” 

Pupils played cricket and other 

sports at Our Lady of Victories, 

Aberhart said. 

LEAVING: Denis Aberhart will step down as principal at 

Lady of Victories School today. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

“Sports is a good healthy 

activity for kids to be involved 

in. It teaches great life skills.” 

He highlighted teamwork and 

sportsmanship as valuable skills 

the pupils learned. 

Aged 21, he first began 

teaching because he felt it was a 

career suited to his personality. 

“I enjoyed the people side of 

things, I felt that it was a skill 

that I had. “I enjoyed school. 

I had good teachers, so it’s 

something I thought I’d like to 

do.” 

In 1983, he began his first job 

WISE HAND: Back Caps captain Stephen Fleming gets some advice from 

his coach Denis Aberhart during a practice session. 

as principal at St Joseph’s School 

in Lyttelton. 

It was a small school and he 

was still a teacher as well as 

principal. 

From there, he became 

principal at the old St Paul’s 

School in Dallington, then 

Our Lady of Fatima School in 

Mairehau, before taking on his 

current role in 2015. 

A Catholic himself, he felt 

Catholic schools focused on an 

element which state schools did 

not. 

“That is that spiritual 

dimension, which I think is 

really important.” 

The best part of his role was 

seeing pupils trying their best 

with help from teachers. 

“The highlights are really the 

staff you work with and the kids. 

“Those are the things I’ll 

always look back on and hold 

dear.” 

Uncertainty was the biggest 

challenge of being a principal, 

he said. 

“You come to school and 

you don’t know what you’ll be 

dealing with.” 

He has faced events such as the 

February 22, 2011, earthquake, 

the 2019 terrorist attack and the 

Covid-19 pandemic. 

“They’re not necessarily school 

issues but you have to deal with 

them at school. School really 

reflects your community and the 

things that are happening in it.” 

Technological changes aside, 

the biggest change he saw over 

the course of his career was how 

it became common for both 

parents to work outside the 

home. 

“There’s sometimes not that 

same engagement with the 

families as there was in the past. 

“Teachers are probably 

expected to do a lot more in loco 

parentis but in the end, the kids 

are the same.” 

Starting out in his career, his 

mission statement was “to get 

more and more out of kids rather 

than put more and more into 

kids,” he said. 

“That’s still the same. You 

want kids to learn rather than be 

taught.” 

Seeing former students grow 

up and contribute to society 

with good jobs and children was 

always rewarding, he said. 

“It’s great, especially if they 

remember you fondly.” 

He felt now was the right time 

to leave. 

“I think the school’s in good 

heart, we’ve got an increased roll 

and quality staff and we’ve just 

had some building work done. 

“We were in the mid-120s and 

now we have 236 (pupils). 

“We’ve got a really good 

cultural mix, passionate hard 

working staff and a school 

community that supports what’s 

going on. It’s ready for a new 

person to come in and take 

over.” 

The next principal, Collette 

Sandilands, who is currently 

acting principal at Sumner 

School, will step into the role at 

the start of term three. 

Top of Aberhart’s to do list in 

his retirement is spending time 

with his two grandchildren. 

He is also interested in taking 

up a new role in education 

or cricket, and could also see 

himself leading tour groups 

around wineries. 

“I’d like to keep doing 

something else on a part time 

basis, something to keep me out 

of trouble.” 

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“Good stories surprise us; they make 

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minds and help us remember ideas and 

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- Jo Lazauskes and Shane Snow, The 

Storytelling Edge. 

Through May and June, the Real Estate 

fraternity (Harcourts gold included) usually 

share their stories of success. Full pages in 

our daily papers and magazines, billboard 

advertisements and various social media 

posts to highlight the accomplishments 

of numerous top performers. These often 

include (at my last count) at least six 

different top twenties, each very deserving 

of their recognition! 

Harcourts gold Papanui have recently been 

acknowledged as the number one office 

for Harcourts internationally out of over 

900 others, for the fourth year running. It’s 

an achievement worth celebrating and one 

that’s grown from very humble origins. 

At our recent in-house awards, I shared our 

origin story to the team, and it reminded 

me of the years of work that preceded the 

minutes of glory. 

Harcourts gold began as a franchise 

of four offices (the same four we have 

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today - although it once included the West 

Coast and Wanaka) and was first formed 

in 1998. We purchased the Papanui office 

less than six months prior to the franchise 

being formed and the leap to take on three 

more was an act of blind faith and trust. This 

was helped enormously by the support of 

our long term mentor Stephen Collins. He 

believed strongly in playing life forward and 

backing the underdogs (which is what we 

definitely were). His belief in us and what 

we could accomplish sustained us in the 

darkest of moments, and we can never 

thank him enough. 

Our initial start saw us take on a company 

with only five consultants (the majority 

having walked out the door when we 

walked in), and only 17 listings between us. 

With more debt than we could imagine but 

a deeply held desire to succeed, we worked 

to build the business and our profiles. 

There were four partners then (as there is 

again now) and although two have since 

moved on to other ventures, I am grateful 

to both of them for their commitment over 

those early years. To be brutally honest with 

you – what I do remember from those years 

is a bit of a blur. 

Work and people, people and work, more 

people and more work. Debts paid off, larger 

Cameron Bailey 

Licensed Sales Consultant REAA 2008 

Harcourts Papanui 

027 555 7079 

03 352 6166 or 03 352 1322 

cameron.bailey@harcourts.co.nz 

debts gained, sleepless nights, and the birth 

of my first child. Success followed, albeit 

quietly at first but it soon became loudly 

acknowledged within the Harcourts brand 

nationally as well as internationally. 

Over the last financial year (April 1, 2020 – 

March 31, 2021) the Harcourts gold team 

wrote $1,016,266,237 worth of property 

sales and listed 1,422 properties. We are 

a company of 140 and have an incredible 

business comprised of four offices, an 

outstanding international team, a property 

management division, and a bespoke home 

staging company. 

We grow people, we give back and we’re 

still writing our own individual story. It’s a 

story that no bar graph or set of statistics 

could convey. It’s deep, personal and the 

essence of who our ownership team of 

John, Chris, Cameron and I are. 

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Harcourts gold Business Owner 

027 432 0447 

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4 handfuls rocket leaves 

1 serving parmigiano cheese, for 

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3 spring onions, sliced 

1 cup grated tasty cheese 

4 eggs 

1 cup milk 

½ cup self raising flour 

1 serving salt and freshly ground 

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1 tbsp fresh oregano, chopped 

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PASSION FUELS 

Success 

Congratulations to our Top 20 

Consultants for June 2021 

It’s an unquestionable truth – the success of our 

clients is directly tied to the success of our people. 

We are inspired every day by our clients’ stories 

and it’s why we love doing what we do. 

Congratulations to our top performers for their 

passion and dedication, their unique expertise and 

exemplary service. 

TOP 

2 

3 

4 

PAUL NICHOLS 

Fendalton 

TIM HARRIS 

Merivale 

ZANI POLSON 

Ilam 2 

MICKY LIMMER 

St Albans 

5 

6 

7 

8 

JENNI ROLTON 

St Albans 

EMMA LUXTON 

Ilam 2 

PETER FITZHARDINGE 

Ilam 2 

JAN MORLEY 

Fendalton 

9 

10 

11 

12 

RICHARD DAWSON 

Ilam 2 

KATHRYN PICTON-WARLOW 

Fendalton 

CORINA GREY 

Ilam 

CINDY-LEE SINCLAIR 

Merivale 

13 

14 

15 

16 

DEAN CATIONS 

St Albans 

ALAN SKEHILL 

Ilam 

LUCY ZHOU 

Ilam 2 

CHRIS CAMPBELL 

Merivale 

17 

18 

19 

20 

LIMO SONG 

Ilam 2 

MATT DAWSON 

Merivale 

SIMON WATSON 

Ilam 2 

MICHAEL FISHER 

Ilam 2 

Contact one of our top performers today: 

FENDALTON 

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ILAM 

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ILAM 2 

03 351 3002 

MERIVALE 

03 355 6677 

ST ALBANS 

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holmwood.co.nz

Nor'West News: July 08, 2021

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