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Dairne Hayles has won the
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Said HVS electric sales manager
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but didn’t know much about them
and entered on a whim.”
• From page 1
They had travelled from their
home in Burwood to Rolleston
on Saturday, for reasons still
unknown to the family.
Hosman said it was hard to
say why they had gone.
“Unless nan had thought of
someone she used to know who
lived there and so they then
headed that way,” she said.
Wally, also in his 80s, had
been driving.
The couple were stopped by
police on Main South Rd in
Rolleston about 7.30pm after a
patrol noticed the vehicle’s lights
were on high beam. They were
also driving slow.
The Warrington’s then drove
to Ferrymead. CCTV footage
captured their car about 8.30pm
with Shirley and Wally inside.
“They hadn’t been to Rolleston
in a long time, which is how we
think they had gotten lost on
their way home and ended up in
Ferrymead,” said Hosman.
At 10.20pm, footage of the car
showed just one person inside.
The family thinks when they
got to Ferrymead, Shirley had
gone for a walk and wandered
off.
“Recently, she had more
frequently been showing signs of
dementia,” said Hosman.
“We were trying to figure this
Maxwell was delighted to hand
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out prior to her disappearance
but nan is very independent and
stubborn.”
Detective Senior Sergeant
Damon Wells said it was
believed Wally drove around
trying to find Shirley with no
luck.
He thought they had possibly
been to Ferrymead Historic
Park.
“It’s been quite traumatic for
him. His recollection has helped
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us locate an area she could be,”
Wells said.
“He’s really concerned about
her.”
Now the police search has
been called off, Hosman said
they were hoping the public
would help to bring Shirley
home.
“We have been going out every
day to look for her but now are
truly relying on the public to
check around their homes and
properties, even out in paddocks.”
She said even if people think
they have seen someone that
looks like Shirley to not hesitate
and get in touch with the police.
“The public is our best
shot now, it’s such a big
region and she could be
Searchers look for missing
85-year-old Shirley
Warrington on Tuesday.
Police are seeking sightings
of the white 2006 Toyota
Wish she and husband
Wally were in. It has the
number plate NEP981.
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anywhere,” said Hosman.
“It’s like finding a needle in a
haystack.”
Hosman also expressed how
grateful she and her family,
including her mum and Shirley’s
daughter Karen Colville, were
for the public’s support in the
search for Shirley.
“It is overwhelming how the
city has bonded together to try
and bring her home,” she said.
“They are helping us push
forward each day.”
If you have information that
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Police will continue to identify
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collection in the city, with a
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People visiting Christchurch or
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illness in the community. It has
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The changes are in place until
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‘Meeting of minds’ on the airwaves
• By Bea Gooding
FORMER CITY councillor
James Daniels has waltzed into
his new role at Newstalk ZB this
week with no regrets.
The veteran broadcaster made
his debut on Tuesday, co-hosting
the afternoon show with Simon
Barnett, after representing the
Coastal Ward since 2019.
Following the job offer, Daniels
announced his resignation
in May, triggering a $65,000
by-election set for October to
replace his spot in the Coastal-
Burwood Community Board.
He said working with Barnett
recently has been a meeting of
minds.
“It’s been fantastic, I’ve really
enjoyed it [so far]. I’ve known Si
since he was young and we’ve
always worked in the same city,
but never together,” Daniels said.
“My trade is talking and I’ve
done it for 42 years, so when
something like that comes along
at my stage in life, you’ve got to
take that opportunity.”
Daniels is no stranger to the mic
– for the last four decades he has
worked on and off in the industry,
including The Breeze from 2014 to
2018 with Hillary Muir.
“It’s a form of communication
I enjoy,” he said. He liked having
“the power to make a positive
difference.”
Many grew up listening to
Daniels on-air with fellow
co-host Ken Ellis on 3ZM, now
known as ZM, between 1984 and
1992, and More FM later on.
More recently, while juggling
city council responsibilities, he
joined the Coast FM team to
host the Nine-to-Noon show
after being offered a part-time
role last year.
Daniels intends to carry on
with the venture while he is at
Newstalk ZB.
LEGENDARY: James Daniels in the
studio with new co-cost Simon Barnett,
(left) and with former 3ZM co-host Ken
Ellis and late Jim Anderton,
Being on Christchurch’s
airwaves with Barnett presents
an opportunity to achieve something
fresh.
Said Daniels: “What we want
to do is give people a platform to
have a mature, adult conversation
about something topical,
something interesting – sometimes
both.”
For someone who thrives in
leadership roles, there was plenty
to miss about working for the
city council, especially representing
the community he grew up
in.
However, Daniels does not
have future plans to return to
local government.
“I think I’ll be too old.”
The experience was not what
he expected, and “it’s not as bad
as everyone paints it.”
“I didn’t want to step away
from that at all, but I couldn’t
combine both roles,” he said.
“I miss having that responsibility
to the city and to the community,
I revel in responsibility.”
What he learned as a councillor
will also come in handy
on-air, especially having been
well-entrenched in community
matters for the past two years.
But what he most definitely
will not miss is the expectation
of being available 24/7.
Daniels was looking forward
to having a more structured
work-life balance.
“When you’re a councillor,
your work is your life.”
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Region’s most stolen vehicles revealed
TARGETS: The
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• By Courtney Winter
THE TOYOTA Hilux and
Landcruiser, and Nissan Pulsar
and Terrano, top the list of the
most common vehicles to be
reported stolen in Canterbury.
The Mazda Demio also made
the cut, with the vehicle most
likely to be targeted by younger
people.
Vehicles with a less chance
of being stolen are most Ford
models, Audis and high-end cars
like Teslas.
Canterbury currently has the
highest number of car thefts in
New Zealand.
More than 366 cars have been
stolen in the region over the past
five years, an average of 73 a year.
Detective Senior Sergeant
Damon Wells said the reason
brands like Toyota and Nissan
are the most common vehicles
to be stolen is because there are
thousands of them around, so
selling them is a lot easier.
“If someone steals a rare car
and attempts to sell it or its parts,
the market is a lot smaller, and
it’s more likely to be noticed as
stolen,” he said.
Wells said the number of
vehicle thefts have been consistent
over the past four years, with
the only exception in 2020 when
Covid-19 hit.
About 30 vehicles have been
stolen so far this year. Over the
past four months, Canterbury
police have arrested and charged
three groups of people who were
targeting and stealing Toyotas,
Nissans and other 4WD vehicles.
One person arrested is being
charged with 15 separate thefts.
The spate of thefts come as
catalytic converters, or cat
converters, are in hot demand
for their valuable metal components,
with thieves removing the
emission-cleaning devices from
beneath vehicles.
The craze is prominent overseas,
but has now spread to New
Zealand, with police confirming
at least 50 thefts in Canterbury
alone.
Wells said police are looking
at what they can do to reduce the
demand for parts, because if the
people stealing the vehicles can’t
make a profit, they will likely
stop.
He said there is a big focus
on prevention, as there is only a
50 per cent chance a car will be
found once it has been stolen.
Police recommend using a
steering lock, which is visible
from the outside of the car, having
it in a garage off the street, or
having an operating car alarm.
“People can also purchase GPS
locators for their car, making it
easier for police to locate a stolen
car.”
Vehicles can remain in the
police system as stolen for years
until they are found.
The longest period for a stolen
vehicle to be returned to its
original owner in Canterbury
was 12 years. - NZ Herald
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Quake-damaged houses in demand
• By Chris Barclay
PROPERTY REPAIR companies
targeting earthquake-damaged
properties are cashing in as the
city’s housing market remains
buoyant.
A decade on from the earthquakes,
homeowners disillusioned
by prolonged negotiations
with EQC and insurance companies
are reverting to selling their
properties on an ‘as is where is’
basis.
The recent
sale of a Fendalton
property
at auction on
for $2.4 million
– more
than $600,000
above its rateable
value –
Steve Ellis
illustrated the
niche market
within a burgeoning industry.
Bidding by six prospective
buyers had opened at $1.8 million.
The previous owners purchased
the 2100 sq m property
in 1994 for $542,000 to build
a contemporary architectural
house.
Bayleys Fendalton owner Steve
Ellis said the four-bedroom
property on Clyde Rd was sold
to a buyer who specialised in
repairing “as is where is” properties.
“There’s a huge amount of
people who hadn’t settled (with
EQC/insurers) but there’s also
a lot of people who had repairs
done of some nature but significant
damage wasn’t picked up
– that’s one of the biggest drivers
(to sell as is where is),” Ellis said.
“This particular one … they’d
done all the repairs, they’d taken
the cash settlement and done
significant cosmetic repairs but
the levels of the house were never
taken, which is pretty staggering.
“Levels were (subsequently)
taken by a building inspector
and they were out by a mile.
They had to go back, reopen the
claim and renegotiate.
“A lot of people are just so over
the process. The mathematics
often works out that you’re going
to get as much money or sometimes
more by taking the cash
settlement and selling on an ‘as
is here is’ basis,” Ellis said.
“It’s still happening in significant
numbers. There are still
AS IS WHERE IS:
This fourbedroom
house
in Fendalton has
been purchased
by a buyer
experienced
in repairing
earthquakedamaged
properties.
easily 10 a month for sale, at
price points anywhere between
$500,000 and $3 million.
“There’s a lot of people out
there with a lot of expertise who
have done a lot of repairs, a lot
of builders and developers who
look at those properties and see
an upside for them to buy ‘as is’.
Ellis cited the example of a
“run down”property in Waiwetu
St, Fendalton, which sold recently
for $2.8 million.
“They were going to bowl the
house and build a brand new
home. It’ll be a six or seven million
dollar home by the time they
This house at 14 Waiwetu St, Fendalton, is destined to be
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PHOTO: BAYLEYS
finish it,” he said.
Other buyers on-sell, or hold
the property as an investment.
Simon Hunter, from the
aptly named asiswhereis.co.nz
estimates the company has completed
100 transactions over the
last five years.
“Unfortunately you’ve got a
lot of people still fighting over
their payouts with insurance
companies.
“You get some people at the
end of their tether. For some
people it’s really affected their
lives, which is quite sad really.”
Hunter said the company
did not bid at auctions, instead
relying on referrals for new
business before dealing with
each property on a case-by-case
basis.
“I’m only just starting my first
new development. We’ve always
been a firm believer that if we
can save the house we’ll do that.
We hold a lot of our stuff and
turn it into affordable rentals,”
he said.
Real Estate Institute of New
Zealand chief executive Jen Baird
was relaxed about the involvement
of repair companies in the
market.
“At face value this seems
positive, as it gives homeowners
who are unable or unwilling to
get their homes up to standard,
an opportunity to sell up and
find something that they can get
insurance for and hopefully feel a
bit safer,” she said.
“Because there are a number
of repair companies doing this
and sales are being made on the
open market, sellers are likely to
receive offers that reflect market
value.
“More than 10 years on from
the Christchurch earthquakes, it
is a shame to see so many property
owners still struggling to get
their properties EQC compliant,”
she added.
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Confirmed RSV cases continue to rise
• By Susan Sandys
RESPIRATORY illnesses are
continuing to keep preschoolers
off sick, as health authorities
forecast respiratory syncytial
virus numbers will keep rising.
Christchurch Hospital
emergency department
respiratory illness presentations
dropped yesterday to 45, from
61 on Monday, as the surge
stretches capacity and pushes out
wait times.
Kimihia Early Learning
Centre manager Radhika
Chakrabarti said there were only
about 10 children attending from
the expected roll of 43 yesterday
as low attendance continued
from the week before last. One
of the one-year-olds at the
Woolston preschool had been
hospitalised with RSV, however
she had since recovered and
returned this week.
“It’s just taken a toll on the
families, it’s scary for the
parents,” Chakrabarti said.
“We have sent children home
when they were unwell, because
we have to keep other children
safe, because it just spreads,”
Chakrabarti said.
While some of the absences
this week could be attributed to
parents keeping children home
to spend time with their siblings
in the school holidays, it seemed
the illness was prevalent
and three of Kimihia
Early Learning Centre’s
teachers had also had
symptoms and had to
take time off work.
New Beginnings
Preschool centre
manager Mandi
Hemopo said the
Linwood preschool hit
a record low attendance number
of just two from a daily roll of
Mandi
Hemopo
36 last week as children
were hit with respiratory
symptoms and some
were diagnosed with
RSV. Attendance had
climbed by yesterday
to 14.
“It was pretty rough,
but they are stating to
come back and getting
better,” Hemopo said.
Canterbury District Health
Board medical officer of health
Dr Cheryl Brunton said there
had been a steep rise in the
number of confirmed RSV cases
in the past two weeks, with 114
confirmed cases between July 5
to 11.
“This likely reflects the rise
seen in other parts of the
country, and we are expecting
case numbers to continue to
rise,” Brunton said.
Chief medical officer Dr
Helen Skinner said 388 people
SICK BABIES: The
respiratory syncytial virus is
continuing to affect babies
and pre-schoolers.
presented to Christchurch
Hospital ED with respiratory
illness July 5 to 11, with 118
this past weekend alone. This
compared with 243 for the same
week in 2019. Five children had
been admitted to ICU with
respiratory illness.
The ED provided care to 391
people on Monday. Of these, 61
had presented with respiratory
illness. On Tuesday it provided
care to 313. Of these, 45 people
had presented with respiratory
illness.
“We’re unable to confirm
whether these are all due to RSV
specifically as viral testing is
not conducted on all patients.
Anecdotally, we are still seeing
an increased number of people
presenting to our facilities with
RSV.”
While capacity had been
stretched due to a surge in
respiratory viral infections, the
only surgical deferrals to date
were four cases reported last
Tuesday.
However, average wait times in
ED had increased.
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Deadlines set for submissions to coroner
• By Anna Leask
A DEADLINE has now been
set for submissions to the chief
coroner about the Christchurch
terror attacks as she nears a
decision about whether to hold
an inquest.
Families of those murdered
in the March 15, 2019, massacre
have today been advised they
have until August 18 to make
submissions to chief coroner
Judge Deborah Marshall around
a possible inquest process.
In January Marshall said she
was yet to decide whether an
inquest would be held.
She said that each victim’s
family would be supplied with a
package of information relating
to the event and the cause and
circumstances of death.
The families could then make a
submission to her to request any
further details they wanted or to
set out issues that come within
the coronial jurisdiction and
which they consider were not
resolved by either the criminal
prosecution process or the Royal
Commission of Inquiry report.
Each family received a 53-page
police evidential overview alongside
the individual information
about their lost loved ones.
The police document details
what the police investigation
showed regarding the gunman’s
movements on March 15, 2019,
and the evidential basis confirming
timings, location, and the
response of the police and ambulance
service.
Marshall said she was nearing
a decision on whether or not to
hold an inquest.
“While I am continuing to
listen to and respond to the
families affected by this tragedy,
the next step in this informationsharing
process is for unanswered
questions to be identified
and a decision made about opening
an inquiry,” she said.
“I am asking families of the
Shaheed, victims of gunshot
wounds and other interested
parties to contact me about issues
or concerns they consider
have not been resolved by the
prosecution process or the Royal
Commission of Inquiry report
by Wednesday 18 August 2021.”
“The preference for submissions
is a brief outline of one or
two paragraphs, in order to offer
as many people as possible the
chance to submit within the time
frame.
“These submissions will help
inform my decision on whether
to hold a coronial inquiry and or
inquest.”
Marshall said families could
SUPPORT: (Left) – A tribute
to mosque attack victims.
Police arrest the gunman.
pass information to her through
their lawyers, or by contacting
the office of the chief coroner
directly.
Fifty one people died and 40
were wounded in the 2019 terror
attack at two Christchurch
mosques.
The gunman pleaded guilty
to charges of murder, attempted
murder and terrorism and
was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole
after a four-day hearing at the
High Court at Christchurch in
August.
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In December a report from a
Royal Commission of Inquiry
into the terrorist attacks was
released, making 44 recommendations
on a number of topics
and focused on whether there
had been an ability to prevent the
massacre.
Earlier this year Marshall explained
the purpose of providing
the families of the death with the
information package.
“The purpose of providing
these key events and timings is to
identify any outstanding issues
the interested parties may have
that fall within the jurisdiction
of the coroner,” she said.
“The issues identified will
inform the coroner’s decision on
the holding of an inquiry into
the deaths of those killed in the
terrorist attacks.”
The overview reveals intricate
details of the gunman’s trip
from his home in Dunedin to
Christchurch – including photographs
of his vehicle sourced
from cameras across the South
Island.
Police have been able to pinpoint
exactly the route he took
and where he stopped – including
a petrol station in Oamaru
where he purchased coffee and
food – before he got to the first
mosque.
– NZ Herald
Alongside the overview families have
been offered they can also request further
details including:
• Summary of known circumstances relating
to each victim.
• CCTV image of the victim entering the
mosque, if available.
• Overview map depicting the approximate
location that the victim was located.
• Verification of death.
• Coroner’s certificate and telease of body
documentation.
• Post mortem report.
• Disaster victim identification report.
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HORROR: (Above left) – Police attempt to move people away from
outside the Al Noor Mosque in the wake of the shooting.
CCTV images of the police pursuit.
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No charges laid in sex tape case – the
• By Anna Leask
POLICE WILL not charge a man
who uploaded a sex tape and
graphic images of a Christchurch
woman to multiple pornography
sites without her consent because
they cannot prove he intended to
cause her any harm.
Almost a year after the woman
learned her sex tape had been
shared without her knowledge –
and viewed by tens of thousands
of people around the world – police
have confirmed the man responsible
will not be prosecuted.
Under the current legislation,
even though Jacques De Koker
admitted uploading the footage
without consent and “apologised”
after being lambasted by
a civil court judge, police say
he has committed no criminal
offence.
His victim is gutted by the
decision – but more angry at the
legislation that enabled De Koker
to post the intimate content without
any consequence.
She hopes a push to change the
law by Labour MP Louisa Wall
will go through and save other
women from the same fate.
The woman, who has been
granted permanent name
suppression, met De Koker in
October 2019 and had a brief
relationship with him.
De Koker is originally from
South Africa but living and
working in New Zealand.
One night he asked if he could
film them having sex and after he
promised he would not share the
footage she agreed.
In August 2020 a friend alerted
her that her sex tape was on adult
website Pornhub.
A further search revealed the
tape was on other similar sites.
The woman has no shame
around her sexual choices or the
fact she made the tape – but said
she never would have agreed if
she thought it would be shared.
She said De Koker never asked
her if he could post it online, and
she would never have agreed.
When he published the footage
– video and still shots – he had
betrayed her trust, violated, humiliated
and disempowered her.
The woman complained to
police in August last year and in
October – hearing nothing back
from them and desperate to ensure
the man would not re-post
the footage – filed a civil case.
At the civil hearing De Koker
admitted his actions and consented
to an order to take down
or disable the material and to
never post it again.
He was ordered to pay her
$1700 in costs and reparation,
but to date has not. He failed to
appear at an debt enforcement
hearing on Friday and a warrant
was issued for his arrest.
DEVASTATED: The Christchurch woman
in the sex tape was appalled Jacques de
Koker (above) shared her image online
without her knowledge or consent.
PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD/NZ HERALD
After winning her civil case the
woman then went back to police.
After an 11-week silence, the
woman’s file was finally assigned
to an officer in November and
last month it was formally confirmed
De Koker would not be
charged.
Canterbury district criminal
investigations manager Detective
Inspector Greg Murton
confirmed the decision and
explained why.
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intent to harm ‘not there’, say police
He said the Police Prosecution
Service and Crown Law Office
provided legal opinions that
under the Harmful Digital
Communications Act 2015, De
Koker’s actions did not meet
the “evidential test” under the
Solicitor General’s Prosecution
Guidelines.
To prosecute under the act
police must be satisfied that the
person who posts the material
does so “with the intention that it
causes harm to a victim” and that
it actually “causes harm to the
victim”.
“The law in its present state
is that we have to prove that
the person posting the [video]
intended to cause harm to a victim,”
Murton said.
“Proof of the intent to cause
harm is not there. Therefore
based on my assessment of the
evidence, and the legal opinions
provided by the Crown as well
as police prosecutions, and the
further inquiries [completed] we
are unable to lay a charge against
Mr De Koker.”
Murton said De Koker’s actions
and explanation had been thoroughly
investigated.
De Koker told police he posted
the footage “simply to make
money” and that the video did
not show her identity, despite several
of the woman’s identifiable
features being clearly visible.
Although De Koker would not
ASSESSMENT: Under current legislation, proof of intent to
harm is not there, said Detective Inspector Greg Murton.
PHOTO: JASON OXENHAM/NZ HERALD
face criminal charges, police had
spoken to him at length about his
actions.
“Mr De Koker is now fully
aware of the perils and consequences
of uploading such content
to the internet without the
permission of the other party,”
Murton assured.
“He has undertaken not to do
so again.
“His intent, as he stated was not
to cause [the woman] any harm,
and he thought neither he or she
would be able to be recognised. It
turns out that was not the case.”
Murton confirmed there was
an “unfortunate” 11-week delay
between the woman’s initial
complaint and an officer being
assigned to investigate.
The delay was due to “a large
caseload of files awaiting investigation
and other serious crime
matters which occurred over that
period.”
“I have apologised to [the woman]
for the delay in an email and
intend to meet with her in person
in the next couple of weeks,” said
Murton.
“Since [the officer in charge]
took over the case it has progressed
in a timely manner.
“Much of the delay is in obtaining
the legal opinions, answering
questions – especially in a case
where the legal picture is not
clear and whether a charge can
be preferred under the existing
legislation.”
Murton assured the case was
taken extremely seriously and
the victim was at the forefront of
their investigation.
“This case was somewhat
unique in respect of the legislation
available to prosecute the
case, or not – this was the main
issue,” he said.
“Where there are learnings to
be taken from this case they will
be passed on to investigators.
“This case has identified a gap
in the legislation [around] the
posting of intimate visual recordings
without all parties’ consent.”
The victim was “disappointed”
by the decision.
“I feel like I have been failed by
the New Zealand justice system
and I am extremely hurt, upset,
humiliated, and disappointed by
every aspect of my ordeal,” she
told the Herald on Sunday, and
also reiterated to police in an
email.
“While I understand the
decision, I feel there has been
no justice for what I have had to
endure throughout the last nine
months of investigation and my
exploited body and genitals will
forever be on the internet without
so much as a genuine sorry from
the offender.”
De Koker told police and
Netsafe he was sorry but has said
little to the victim.
He initially maintained he did
not have to remove the footage.
“I can do whatever I want
with them. Nobody knows our
identity,” he told the woman via a
Facebook message.
In the civil court hearing Judge
Tony Gilbert said De Koker had
“obviously caused a lot of distress”
to the woman.
“You need to be careful because
there’s the possibility of this being
a criminal offence as well . . .
make sure you don’t do it again,”
he said.
“I can well understand [the
woman’s] upset at what has
occurred because while she
consented to the intimate visual
recordings being made, she very
certainly did not consent to
them being splashed about the
internet.”
De Koker spoke briefly at the
hearing.
“I do apologise,” he said, promising
to pay the ordered costs
“within a couple of weeks.”
Judge Gilbert said the woman
would be “surprised” at how
many similar cases came before
the courts.
• Turn to page 12
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Case highlights how
deficient act is – MP
• From page 11
“I’m sorry for what’s happened
to you,” he said.
The woman spoke about her
case to highlight the issue and
encourage other women to report
their experiences to police.
“Let us hope the HDCA
Amendment Bill passes, and
then the police can begin to
press charges against offenders
of image-based sexual abuse –
regardless of the intent,” she said.
“I would not wish this ordeal
on my worst enemy.”
MP Louisa Wall introduced
the Harmful Digital Communications
(Unauthorised Posting
of Intimate Visual Recording)
Amendment Bill this year, which
seeks to explicitly make posting
of such content without consent
illegal and punishable by up to
three years in prison.
Wall’s amendment would state
anyone who posts an intimate
recording “knowing that the
individual who is the subject of
the recording (the victim) has
not expressly consented to it being
so posted; or being reckless
as to whether the victim has so
consented” has committed a
criminal offence.
She said the Christchurch case
highlighted exactly why the bill
was needed.
“This
case and
unfortunately
so many others
– including
many shared
by victims
during public
submissions
Louisa Wall
on this bill
– really does
highlight how
deficient the current act is and
how victims’ rights and therefore
women’s rights to access justice
have not been adequately
prioritised,” she said.
“Imaged-based sexual abuse
does lead to public humiliation,
shame and mental distress that
causes some victims to contemplate
and to attempt suicide.
“And, the evidence is clear
that image-based sexual abuse
can also expose victims to the
threat of being stalked, attacked,
bullied and stigmatised and so
we must do everything we can
to hold the perpetrators of this
abuse and violence to account for
the harm caused by
their actions.”
Wall encouraged victims
to keep coming forward and
speaking up – loudly.
“I salute the many women who
have shared their stories,” she said.
“They are the reason we as a
parliament have been able to
demonstrate why this law reform
is needed.
“It is their bravery and
resilience that will ensure that
what happened to them will be
punished in the future because
we as a society will no longer
tolerate image-based sexual
abuse.”
—NZ Herald
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New international
airport at Tarras?
• By Mark Price
JUST HOW well Tarras
stacks up as the site for a new
international airport should be
a lot clearer by the end of next
month.
Christchurch International
Airport Ltd (CIAL) is proposing
the airport, and is putting the
district under the microscope
as it checks out topography and
weather.
In a recent newsletter to
residents, project director
Michael Singleton said the
project team had been ‘‘deep in
analysis” modelling options.
‘‘Even at this early stage it is
highly technical work and is
necessary so we can explore
different alignments, runway
lengths and approach paths
and the performance of various
aircraft on each, under a range of
conditions,’’ the newsletter said.
‘‘The overall goal is to validate
the site’s suitability for aviation
and to identify which options
are best in terms of safety
and sustainability.’’
Singleton said the options
would be put to residents by the
end of next month.
Residents closest to any
potential alignment would have
the chance to meet and talk to
the project team, he said.
The weather modelling
incorporated temperature, wind,
rain and visibility data gathered
over the past eight years.
‘‘We’ve learnt the site has
a very low frequency of high
wind speeds [of greater than
20 knots], there are between
30 and 35 mornings per year
where temperatures are at or
below freezing and average
temperatures range from 22 deg
C in January to 6 deg C in July.’’
Upper Clutha residents had
previously raised fog as an issue,
but Singleton said that was not
likely to be an issue.
The project team is also
creating a 3-D image of the
Tarras district using a scanning
camera.
—Otago Daily Times
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Trainee pilot back in the air after crash
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• By Chris Barclay
A 73-YEAR-OLD would-be pilot
has brushed off a potentially fatal
training flight to return to the air over
Canterbury.
Retiree Alan Macdonald has got airborne
– in the passenger seat – since the
light plane he was learning to fly in nosedived
into a farm paddock near Glentui,
north-west of Rangiora on May 28.
“I’ve been up again to have a look
around,” said Macdonald, who is recovering
from a smashed wrist, cuts, bruises
and whiplash.
“I still have a bit of physio from time to
time but I’m coming right.”
Macdonald sought an aerial view of
the family farm at Sheffield following
floods and storm damage early last
month and was pleased to report the
property was unscathed.
“We also flew over High Peak Station
into the Rakaia Gorge, that general
area,” he said.
A MOTORIST was fortunate
to escape serious injury when
the car he was driving veered
off Summit Rd on the Port Hills
and rolled before coming to rest
before a steep bluff.
“Fortunately it went off
the road in one of the few
places where the slope is relatively
gentle, around 30 degrees,”
Woolston Fire and Emergency
New Zealand station officer
Doug Platt said.
“It appears to have rolled at
least once, it stopped short of
going over the bluffs.
“He’s had a very lucky escape.
If the car had stayed on its wheels
and headed downhill he was going
for the bluffs,” Platt said.
“If he’d gone over the bluff he
would have been in trouble, the
car would have rolled several
times from there and who knows
how far down it would have gone.”
The Subaru Legacy left the
road about halfway between
the Christchurch Gondola and
Broadmeadow Lane around
3.45am last Friday and careened
about 200m before stopping
KEEN: Alan Macdonald with the
wrecked aircraft.
Rangiora-based Macdonald had no
qualms about getting into the Italiandesigned
Tecnam aircraft, piloted by a
friend.
about 30m short of the bluffs.
There were no barriers on
that stretch of the Summit Rd,
though the car did go through a
fence line under the verge.
“Who knows whether it’s inattention
or speed,” Platt said.
Fire and ambulance staff
guided the driver, who was
shaken but uninjured, back to
the road. The driver had dialled
“I felt good, I was happy enough. We
obviously weren’t doing simulations, it
was a scenic flight.”
Macdonald crashed when flying with
the Canterbury Recreational Aircraft
Club’s chief instructor Stewart Bufton,
who also avoided serious injury.
They were practising engine failure
protocols when the plane clipped power
lines and nose-dived, at low speed into
the paddock.
The Civil Aviation Authority of
New Zealand is investigating the incident.
Macdonald, who considered learning
to fly as a ‘bucket list’ item, is keen to
resume taking flying lessons.
“You have to get back on the horse
again. I am not going to let it (the crash)
beat me,” he said.
“It is a lovely view up there. On a
fine day, it is serene. You get a view of
the countryside from another
perspective.”
Car leaves road but stops short of Summit Rd bluff
• By Chris Barclay
111 after the crash.
Police are still investigating.
Platt said the incident was the
latest the station had dealt with
in that area, overnight.
“It’s not unusual, we’ve had
a number of rescues that we’ve
had to do on hills with people in
cars. We’ve also had a number of
deliberate push-offs and burns
(torched vehicles) too,” he said.
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Cycling 50,000km home from London by
Kylie Phaup-Stephens is
known as Camp Mum
at Papanui High School
in her role as support
administrator for the
school’s seven counsellors.
Twelve years ago she
was in a very different
world – biking 50,000km
alone from London to
Christchurch through
some of the world’s most
dangerous places. She
talks to reporter Samantha
Mythen
In 2009, Phaup-Stephens’
found herself lying back in a
crimson-coloured poppy field
in Macedonia, looking up at a
cerulean sky. She had nowhere
else to be.
Now Phaup-Stephens’ judges
her days by how many milos
she makes and how many panic
attacks there are – the number of
which she says is unreal.
“My role is very cool and
very rewarding. It is very hard
to leave at the school gate;
dealing with suicide, overdoses
and dysfunctional families, it’s
heartbreaking.”
Phaup-Stephens’ travels taught
her how to stay resilient, advice
she now passes on to students
who are amazed when they hear
about her daring, intrepid past.
“I resonate with some of the
students who struggle with
school. I was never the brainy
one,” she said.
When she left school, Phaup-
Stephens panicked. She had no
idea what to do, so she studied
hospitality management.
After ending up with a huge
student loan, she started work in
a printing factory.
It was there she met Alex
(Sandy) McLeod.
So grew, “a bit of a crush,” but
seeing as they were colleagues
nothing came of it.
Phaup-Stephens was 27 years
old when a workmate said to her:
“If you don’t go on your OE now,
you’ll never get the chance to do
it. You’ve got to go to London
now.”
So she quit her job, packed her
bags and flew to London.
“I thought I would be there for
two years, but I ended up staying
for nine,” she said.
Her overseas adventures are for
the storybooks.
Through joining the New
Zealand Society in London,
she had lunch with the Queen,
abseiled down Big Ben, and
attended a movie premiere on
Leicester Square with Peter
Jackson strolling down the
red carpet.
NOWADAYS: Alexander
McLeod, Paige McLeod and
Kylie Phaup-Stephens; with
‘Tankini’, the trusty bike
Phaup-Stephens rode from
London to New Zealand.
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A job with Apple opened up
doors to festivals, meeting bands
and even a private show with the
Foo Fighters.
Each Thursday, Phaup-
Stephens would ask her
colleagues to choose a letter.
Then she would search Ryanair
for cities starting with that letter
and spend her weekend overseas.
In between working, she
bought a round-the-world ticket,
worked as a lifeguard in Russia
at the Black Sea, taught outdoor
education in Croatia, and
backpacked through Africa by
herself.
When she was younger, Phaup-
Stephens said surprisingly,
travelling had never really
captured her imagination.
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INTREPID: Phaup-Stephens
en route in Europe, Turkey
and Iran.
“But then, the more I travelled,
the more I learned about
different cultures, people and
religions and I’ve been made a
richer person,” she said.
Overland travel became her
passion.
Eleven days on the Trans-
Siberian train was an amazing
experience she said, but watching
places and people pass her
by out of the window made
Phaup-Stephens long for the
opportunity to slow her travels
down.
One day, in an English pub
with her mates, Phaup-Stephens
“shot her mouth,” and said when
it was time to go home she would
bike.
“And I’m not one to go back
on my word.”
Desperately missing New
Zealand’s sunshine, in 2009, at
37-years-old, she set off pedalling
home.
Phaup-Stephens had never
biked more than 20km in one go,
but was aiming to bike 100km a
day. She had only £4000 for the
whole journey.
Her route was planned simply;
she carted around a metre-long
laminated world map. She
wanted to bike through new
countries she had never visited.
She had a Macpac tent and
‘Tankini,’ her 20-gear bike.
Tankini was “exceptionally
heavy, cheap and cheerful, and
definitely not carbon-fibre,” said
Phaup-Stephens.
From London to France,
through Italy and Albania, with
side trips to Kosovo, Serbia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Phaup-
Stephens biked.
“I would get up at sunrise,
cycle and be at my destination
by lunchtime. Then I’d explore
the village and find where I was
going to pitch my tent,” she said.
“I met so many cool people
because I’d take a wrong turn.”
After cycling through Greece,
Phaup-Stephens spent seven
weeks in Turkey, exploring
Anzac Cove in Gallipoli.
Iran was where things got
“raw,” Phaup-Stephens said.
The language changed and she
“stood out like a sore thumb.”
“I had died my hair, I had rings
on my fingers, I wore a cycle
helmet. There were men stopping
me every kilometre wanting to
touch me.”
At Phaup-Stephens’ first camp,
three men tried to get into her
tent.
“I screamed and yelled and put
up a fight.”
On the second night, she set up
camp by a police station, but at
3am, a local policeman tried to
get into her tent.
She spent her final nights at a
cheap backpackers but had men
banging on her door all night
and the manager locked himself
with her inside of her bathroom.
“I had a can of impulse but not
pepper spray,” she said.
“In hindsight, I wish I took a
self-defence course.”
Phaup-Stephens was not
deterred, however, and continued
onwards with her bike as her
only company and her own wits,
intuition, and physical strength,
built up from hundreds of
kilometres of biking, as her only
protection.
Most of the people she
met were friendly and
accommodating.
“I had the mindset that I had
more chance of being killed in
London by being hit by a bus
than something happening to me
overseas,” she said.
“I thought, if I die, I die. I’ve
had a good life and I’ve made the
most of it.”
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‘It was my favourite country of my entire journey’
INTO ASIA: Phaup-Stephens educating the village children
in Laos about her journey, and with the NZ Army troops in
Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
• From page 17
A police escort took her the
last 200km out of Iran. She had
reached an international kidnap
zone and drug area.
She shared Pakistan with the
Black Caps.
In a small village, Phaup-Stephens,
wearing a New Zealand
cap, was pushed to the front of a
room filled with people in front
of a tiny TV screen to watch the
match between her home team
and Pakistan. Everyone believed
Phaup-Stephens when she joked
Daniel Vittori was her cousin.
The easiest visa for Phaup-
Stephens to get was for Afghanistan.
She looked up the
NZ Army website, found their
location in Bamiyan and sent an
email asking if she could call in
to say hello to the troops.
She rocked up at the base with
Tankini.
“The look on the guards faces’
were priceless.”
Taken under the lieutenantcolonel’s
wing – who had a
daughter Phaup-Stephens’ age
– she got to meet Afghanistan’s
Governor-General and Fawzia
Koofi, Afghanistan’s first female
member of parliament.
She met a mother with 30
children and visited a national
park modelled on a Department
of Conservation park.
“It was my favourite country
of my whole entire journey,” she
said.
“It was nothing like I had ever
thought it would be. It was nothing
like the media portrayed. The
people were so welcoming.”
From India, she travelled
through Nepal.
“I got really fit but struggled
with hills, but if it got too hard,
I just got off and pushed, I was
ripped,” she said.
Her staple diet during the
journey consisted of rice and
bananas, and Coke if she could
afford it.
Unable to cycle through Tibet,
she considered taking a plane.
“But at that point, someone
said to me, “Kiwi birds don’t fly.”’
That cemented her determination
to continue her journey
overland, and she booked a place
on a train going on the Tibet-
Qinghai railway, which took her
into China, 10 months into her
journey.
The line passed through Tanggula
Pass, which is 5072m above
sea level and is the world’s highest
point on a railway.
From Laos, she went to
Thailand, Singapore and then to
Indonesia where she was stuck
for a year.
She spent months emailing
yacht clubs, harbour masters and
boat owners trying to hitch a
ride to Australia, while working
in a dive shop and as an au pair.
Phaup-Stephens travelled to
East Timor for Anzac Day on a
ferry “like one of those ones you
see on TV sinking all the time.”
Crewing a superyacht, owned
by an Australian billionaire
eventually took her to Australia.
“It should have taken 12 days
to get there but it took 24,” said
Phaup-Stephens.
“It was horrific. We were so
close to running out of food and
fuel.”
Most of the trip was pirate
watch.
Phaup-Stephens arrived in
Australia with $84 to her name.
She got a waitressing job in
Yeppoon for three months, then
cycled and sailed down the coast.
The final jump was another
mission. Luckily, Marmite NZ
was running a competition at the
time. They were turning 100 and
were going to bring 100 Kiwis
home.
Phaup-Stephens was one of the
winners, but refused the plane
ticket home so they swapped it
for some money, which she spent
on a cargo ship, hopping off in
Tauranga on December 15, 2010.
She made it back home to
Christchurch, via train, just in
time for Christmas – 20 months
after she started.
Her old boss saw her on the
news during her “30 seconds of
fame,” and she had her old printing
job back within 24 hours.
Phaup-Stephens also joined the
Army Reserves after the February
22, 2011 earthquake.
Back at work, her colleagues
helped her track down McLeod
whom she had lost touch with
after leaving New Zealand.
“I was a wee bit surprised
when I got Kylie’s call but I
thought it would be good to
catch up,” said McLeod.
He had seen Phaup-Stephens’
adventures on TV.
“I thought it was a pretty out
there and daring thing to do,
and it was interesting to hear all
her stories,” he said.
Over Easter this year, they got
engaged.
“The Highlanders unexpectedly
thrashed the Crusaders, and
it’s been a long-standing bet that
if that happens, we would get
married,” Phaup-Stephens said.
McLeod was born in Oamaru
and is a “staunch Highlanders
supporter” said Phaup-Stephens,
while she is loyal to the Crusaders.
“We were sitting on the couch
when they won and Sandy said,
well, will you marry me?
“I thought, well here we go, I
finally did it,” said McLeod.
Phaup-Stephens said she was
so shocked she ignored him and
McLeod had to ask again.
“I was mostly just shocked
the Crusaders had actually lost,
but of course I said yes,” Phaup-
Stephens said.
Their daughter, Paige, turned
seven last Tuesday.
When the proposal happened,
Phaup-Stephens said Paige was
so excited, she was running
around the lounge saying,
“Mum’s going to have the same
last name as me!”
Paige has been “a life-changer,”
said Phaup-Stephens.
And even though she would be
terrified, she hopes one day Paige
will venture out on her own big
adventures just like her mum.
Tankini is now retired in the
garden shed.
Her family go camping around
the South Island for holidays.
Although Phaup-Stephens still
prefers freedom camping, she
compromises with McLeod who
prefers caravanning and the luxuries
of power and running water.
“When we go road tripping,
my man still laughs at me
because I am so bad with directions,”
Phaup-Stephens said.
“But I’m always the sort of
person that prefers left over right
or to flip a coin for which way
I’ll go.”
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At the launch this week,
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It tells of how they survived
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CARS PARKING illegally and
in positions making Lyttelton’s
narrow streets even narrower
are preventing fire appliances
from reaching call-outs, delaying
firefighting efforts.
The Lyttelton
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Brigade want
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where and
how they park
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hydrant near a
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house fire they
attended.
“Cars are parking around
Lyttelton and it’s hindering our
access,” chief fire officer Mark
Buckley said.
“And it’s only getting worse,
not better.”
Last Thursday, the brigade attended
a house fire on Cressy St
at 1.40pm.
The sole male occupant escaped
from the house and was
treated for smoke inhalation at
the scene.
“It was as good of an outcome
as could possibly be,” Buckley
said.
However, a car parked over the
nearest fire hydrant to the house
hampered firefighting efforts.
It is a theme Buckley said is
happening more often in Lyttelton,
with cars either parking
over fire hydrants or parking in
obtrusive positions.
The appliances are much bigger
than cars and already struggle
to navigate Lyttelton’s narrow
streets without cars making it
more difficult.
“We are dealing with life or
death situations and if we can’t
get our appliances close enough
to the fire, it is taking our tanks
longer to get to the house and
taking longer to rescue people,”
he said.
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Taking a chilly plunge for charities
It’s the polar opposite
of Dry July. A group
of hardy souls have
committed to taking a
daily dip off Scarborough
Beach every day this
month before dawn.
Chris Barclay goes
in-depth with Sumnerbased
ocean swimmer
Kerry Newton who
dreamt up Wet July
in 2017, a fundraising
concept with
complementary health
benefits
Wet July. Talk us through
why you tipped your toes into
fund-raising cold, hard cash in
the middle of winter.
I’ve always been a keen ocean
swimmer. It was a beautiful
winter’s day in July, 2017 and I
thought: ‘Look at that water out
there’. Wouldn’t it be good to
be actually enjoying the water
during the winter when it’s a
southerly? It’s calm and it looks
so inviting. (Alcohol-free) Dry
July, the fundraising was going
on for that and I thought: ‘Why
don’t I set the challenge of Wet
July?’ I’ll see who else wants to
join me going into the water
DOUBLE DIPPING: Devoted ocean swimmer and fundraiser Kerry Newton returns to the
water off Scarborough hours after another pre-dawn immersion. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
every day in July and we’ll find
a charity to raise money for …
that’s how it all began. I got three
other people to sign up with me
(Sandra Taylor, Bee Rueder and
Cathe Grater). We raised money
for (marine rescue organisation)
Project Jonah New Zealand. As
time’s gone on more and more
people have embraced it. We’ve
got about 40 committed to
dipping this year. We’ve got a few
in their 20s and a couple close to
80 years-old. It’s predominantly
female.
We’re a fortnight into Wet
July. What happens when the
mercury reads 0, there’s a wind
chill factor, it’s sleeting and
it’s dark for another hour or
so? The perfect storm. Ever
considered staying in the car or
jumping ship after 20 seconds?
Not really, because it gets
addictive. Sometimes it’s actually
warmer in the water, especially if
there’s a frost or you’ve got that
southerly. Admittedly it’s not
much fun when the tide is out
and you’ve got to walk across the
sand with the southerly howling
at us.
So how long do you ‘dip’ for?
It was all kind of trial and
error at the start. We used to
get in the water, chat and laugh
and bob about. Then we decided
maybe we should try and stay in
for the number of minutes that
corresponds to the temperature.
We have a thermometer. If it’s 10
degrees, we stay in 10 minutes.
We have no rules that we must
stay in for 10 minutes and things
like that, that just became a
bit more of a challenge. Some
people have found if they stay in
for 10 minutes they’re cold for
the rest of the day. Some people
might stay in for five and get out.
Sometimes we’re busy chatting
or whatever and we end up
staying in for longer.
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‘Seagulls sometimes dive bomb us’
• From page 25
What do you talk about? Are
the teeth chattering?
We have all sorts of
conversations out there. You
tend to find that while you’re in
the water it’s not too bad. Maybe
about 10 minutes after you get
out your body temperature
actually cools down, that’s the
danger of staying in too long.
That’s why you’ve got to know
your own body and not stay out
there too long.
What’s the temperature
variance during July?
‘Hypothermic’ to ‘penguins
wouldn’t swim in this?’
In the past it has been as low as
8 deg C, at the moment it’s about
10.
Has anyone ever got out of
their depth with the likes of
hypothermia?
So far we’ve been lucky. You
will notice your fingertips are
white and things like that. So far
we haven’t had anything extreme
happen but now we’re more
numbers we have to be a little bit
careful getting in if it’s rough.
The benefit of Scarborough is it’s
normally pretty okay. When it’s
high tide and if there’s a wind
blowing and you’re getting down
the steps … sometimes we might
say it’s a bit rough here, let’s go
down the beach a bit. We have to
be careful with the age range and
the people that we’ve got.
How far do you venture from
shore?
We go out until we’re waistdeep.
Our loose rules are we’ve
got to get our head under. By the
end of it we’ve kind of had to dive
under, be fully immersed, then
we get out.
Do you encounter much
marine life?
We often get bitten by crabs.
We’ve seen hector’s dolphins a
few times, at the moment there
are quite a few seals about. It’s
dark when we get in so often we
won’t see things . . . then a shag
will pop its head up amongst the
group. If we wake the seagulls up
sometimes they dive bomb us.
Is there a frantic dash for
the towels and puffer jackets
when time is up? How do you
HARDY SOULS: Members of the Scarborough Dippers brace themselves for another chilly Wet July exercise.
ward off the cold?
We have hot water bottles,
buckets of hot water to put our
feet in for a couple of minutes.
The beauty of it now is the cafe at
Scarborough Fare opens at seven
o’clock. It didn’t use to open until
eight. We don’t go in there every
day but they put the heat pump
on for us and we’re all in there
with the buckets (of hot water).
What happens if a committed
dipper can’t make it to
Scarborough for a day or two?
Is there a degree of flexibility
built in?
I’m a prime example, I’ve just
been up in the North Island for
a few days. I had to go dipping
up there. There was a swim race
at Waiheke Island, a few of us
were competing in that so we
had the luxury of dipping in
about 15 degrees. We’ve got this
facebook page and every day we
have a group photo of what day
number we’re up to and anybody
that’s not there, they have to do
dipping somewhere else and
provide a photo. You might have
to find a lake or a river. It’s quite
interesting where people end up.
The other day a couple had an
early yoga class so they had to
dip in an ice bath. Basically it’s
7am every morning, but on the
weekend we dip (or float) a bit
later.
Do dippers try to bend the
rules. Do the hot pools at
Hanmer Springs or Waiwera
count?
WEEKEND WARRIORS: The dippers often take the plunge
when the sun is up during the weekend.
No, we can’t have cheating.
What about wetsuits? Do they
fit the Wet July image or are
they a bad look?
We haven’t had anyone one yet
that’s gone to that extreme. We
wouldn’t not let them wear one.
We’re just happy to wear togs.
What organisations have
benefited from the dippers’
fortitude?
Project Jonah was the first,
they basically rescue whales.
The second year we raised funds
for the Sumner Lifeboat Club,
they bought a defibrillator. In
2019 we raised money for solar
lights to be put up at Cave Rock,
unfortunately that project hasn’t
really happened. The money’s
still sitting there. Last year the
funds were split between the
Sumner Surf Club (binoculars
and equipment) and Taylors
Mistake Surf Club (landscaping
at new headquarters). This
year we’re spreading the
donations around: The Sumner
Kindergarten needs some new
equipment, there’s a surfboard
library starting up – they’re
making surfboards for people to
use. We’re also contributing to
life vests for disabled surfers. The
first year we raised $1000 – there
were only four of us – last year we
raised $6000.
How is the money raised? Are
the dippers sponsored like the
whiskered men of Movember?
When I set this challenge I
decided I’m going to donate $10
a day for every day I dip, so its
$310 at the end of the month. If
I miss a day I’m going to have
to put $50 in. To date I’ve never
had to put $50 in. Other people
donate whatever or they might
get friends to donate to the
challenge. We haven’t actively
asked for sponsorship, it’s just
amongst ourselves. We don’t
force anyone to put money in.
Money is not the only bottom
line is it? Dipping can be
enriching in other ways can’t it?
The other good thing I’ve
enjoyed about it is a lot of
people haven’t been confident
in the water before and after
they’ve mucked around with us,
they’re now taking swimming
lessons. Some of them have done
swimming races. It’s been really
great to see their love of the water
and being able to then continue
to improve themselves and really
be able to swim.
There are also perceived
health benefits from cold water
dipping aren’t there?
It’s meant to help your immune
system. The shock of the cold
water is meant to do good things.
Plus, it’s meant to be good for
mental health. There’s been
quite a few stories of people
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things like that, they immerse
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OPINION
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz
One year on for Judith Collins and
New Zealand
Herald senior
writer Simon
Wilson
laments at
the lack of
ideas National has
AT THE National Party’s
Northern Region Conference on
May 1 this year, frontbencher
Andrew Bayly was running a
session on infrastructure when
he decided to say the name of the
Minister of Local Government,
Nanaia Mahuta.
“Nanna, manna, nan, um,
nanny, manny, man, oh dear,
whatever,” said the party’s
shadow treasurer, grinning
sheepishly. “There’s no media
here, is there?”
I was standing at the back of
the room, in plain sight, writing
it down as he said it.
It was the same conference in
which Bayly’s boss, Judith Collins,
introduced the world to He
Puapua, a discussion paper on
ways New Zealand might reset
its relationship between the state
and tangata whenua.
On the one hand, there was
Collins, shocked about the paper
and wanting to have a serious
conversation about race relations.
On the other, there was
Bayly, happy to indulge himself
in a bit of – what do we call it?
I’d say everyday racism.
It was also the conference
in which Bayly, who always
presents as an affable fellow,
explained why South Auckland
needs the Papakura-to-Drury
route known as Mill Rd to be
upgraded to a highway.
“The main reason for Mill Rd,”
said Bayly, “is that State Highway
1 is the only motorway there. If
someone blows up the bridge at
Takanini, then what?”
Resilience planning, you see.
The value of an alternative route.
But not because of the usual
things – earthquakes, floods,
major crashes. Turns out the real
risk is bombs.
I should say I admire Bayly:
he’s an Ironman who has singlehandedly
pulled sledges to both
the South Pole and the North
Pole, for heaven’s sake. He could
eat me for breakfast.
And yet, perhaps because he
used to be a Territorial Army
officer, he does seem to think
differently from the rest of us.
Andrew Bayly is ranked number
three in the caucus.
National
Party
leader
Judith
Collins.
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HERALD
Spare a thought for Judith
Collins. Her leadership turned
one-year-old yesterday and she
must sometimes wonder what
she’s done to deserve the party
that got thrust on her.
But the answer’s easy enough:
she wanted it.
What’s not so easy is to work
out what she wants to do with
it. Take the new “demand the debate”
campaign, which feels like
every retrograde thing we know
about the National Party today,
all wrapped up in one terribly
tangled knot.
To start, demanding a debate
is weaker than taking a position.
Also, what debate are we
not having? The issues Collins
has identified, along with He
Puapua, are the feebate scheme
for electric vehicles, changes
to infrastructure projects, the
proposed new harbour bridge
for cycling and walking, the new
law to establish Māori wards and
2018’s ban on new exploration
for oil and gas.
All of them are being furiously
debated, in Parliament and all
over the country.
As are other big issues of
the day, including our Covid
response and vaccine rollout,
unemployment and wage rate
issues, health and education failings
and that gnarly bundle of
crime, gangs and corrections.
“Every week, I’m contacted
by thousands of Kiwis who are
worried they just don’t have a
say in the future of their country
anymore,” says Collins.
But what about when they
vote? Or when they post on
Facebook, write to the paper or
ring their favourite radio host?
Debate is free and often furious
in this country.
And if Collins thinks people
aren’t getting a say in their
future, how does she square that
with her support for a longer
parliamentary term?
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it’s time for her party to grow up
National’s shadow treasurer Andrew Bayly.
PHOTO: MARK MITCHELL/NZ HERALD
There’s something else: “Demand
the Debate” reveals how
far National has drifted from
some really big debates we actually
are having now.
Take He Puapua. The reality is,
all over the country people are
engaging anew with the relationship
between Māori and the rest
of society. And in that engagement,
they’re trying to work out
what “partnership” means.
There are corporates with vigorous
programmes to address the
issue, and many smaller companies
too. Government ministries
and council agencies are doing it.
Same for health bodies, schools
and other learning institutions.
Also for some sports codes and
all sorts of cultural organisations.
And media companies.
Te reo Māori classes are full to
bursting. Civic leaders and other
public speakers learn to mihi and
say their pepeha and it’s widely
expected they will know how to
do it well.
Few would say we’ve got
everything sorted. There’s a very
long way to go. But the challenge
is being accepted. The mahi is
under way.
He Puapua proposes that all of
this work shouldn’t be tokenism.
We can’t just do the korero and
leave the power structures the
same.
That’s a challenging proposition
and we certainly need to be
debating what that means. But
aren’t we?
It’s very hard to see how scaremongering
about it is much help,
to anyone.
Of the six issues Collins picked
to highlight in her “Demand
the Debate” announcement,
two relate directly to Māori and
four are measures to address the
climate crisis.
It seems National is now focusing
its appeal on the disaffection
and resentment that debates on
these issues have caused. How is
that a winning strategy?
The thing about opposing
effective measures to confront a
crisis is that you make the crisis
worse. People see that. And when
you say yes to confronting the
crisis but no to every practical
way to do it, you also make matters
worse.
Also, when you know the crisis
is real and your views are trusted
by those who deny it, you have a
special responsibility to help lead
those people.
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National, however, displays no
greater ambition than to duke
it out with Act and NZ First for
a share of the disaffected. It’s
politics as a juvenile sport and
the electorate knows it. We’ve
moved on.
New Zealanders – Kiwis, as
Collins likes to say – voted decisively
in 2020: Labour won the
party vote in every single electorate,
except Epsom.
Yes, it was a personal vote for
Ardern and a vote of thanks for
her handling of the pandemic.
Beyond that, though, most
people voted for a Government of
change.
At the regional conference in
May, a woman got up and announced,
“I’m sick of this. I’m
sick of National being seen as the
party ‘for roads’. We can’t keep
building roads. We can’t keep
ignoring the fact that we have big
transport challenges to face and
we’re pretending that’s not true.”
Many people applauded. Andrew
Bayly grinned and said she
was proof that “we like diversity
in the National Party”.
There were climate-change
deniers in that room, and people
who just want to be free to drive
without fretting about the consequences.
But others had moved
past all that.
Why hasn’t Judith Collins?
Why hasn’t her party? Does National
want to become a credible
centre-right party in the third
decade of the 21st century?
It’ll need a big emissions reduction
plan, linked to an urban
development plan for housing
and transport that doesn’t throw
environmental goals to the
wolves. And something sensible
to say about race.
And about poverty and
economic progress. Where’s
the pathway to a value-added,
export-oriented, higher-wage and
more productive economy that
benefits everyone? And whatever
happened to the social investment
approach to welfare created
by Bill English?
Now Collins’ leadership is one
year old, her party needs to grow
up. Give us some proper ideas,
proper plans, some indication of
nuanced thinking. Who knows,
if they put up some plans, we
could even debate them.
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LETTERS
Hate speech – a real conversation needed
THANK YOU for publishing
Graham Adams’ piece on hate
speech laws. Our PM has said
the proposals are a “discussion
document’’ and the Ministry of
Justice’s Andrew Kibblewhite
said their aim was to “have a
conversation and avoid protests.’’
Personally, I find their idea
of a conversation is for them to
tell us what we should think,
not to actually listen to different
opinions.
How many people were
aware that they were allowing
submissions to be made on this
most important topic? It’s not
as though they aren’t capable of
advertising, one cannot escape
ads for the jab. Have they even put
out one ad for submissions to be
made?
A real conversation would be
to start with live, open public
debates with experts, for and
against, giving their opinion and
facts on all kinds of important
topics – hate speech laws, Covid
shots, climate change, CRT, to
name a few.
J L McKenzie suggested this
idea in last week’s letters and
I think we need to put it into
action so that people can have
informed views and opinions,
having heard all sides of the
issue.
If Labour is truly interested in
having a conversation about
this “discussion document”
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they would welcome this
approach.
– D Downward
Graham Adams’ opinion piece
defending freedom of speech is
the right approach. Hate speech
is a weapon used by communist
governments like China. We
cannot let Ardern take away
our right to freedom of speech,
including the ability to critique
the government. It is ironic that
this left-leaning government can
simply implement its
definition of hate speech
and impose [this] on New
Zealanders. This goes beyond the
pale. We have had enough.
– Peter Coleman
I am a very chatty friendly
immigrant who has numerous
Kiwi friends.
In recent past, when I strike up
a conversation with [someone]
in a park or mall, etc, and if
conversation drifts towards
differences in culture, I have
noticed that people stop midsentence
with fear of reaction to
their opinion.
Only when I point out that
I am not going to take their
opinion as racism and would
love to hear their perspective, do
they relax again.
It is true that there are vast
cultural differences in the world
and if we stop sharing/talking
about those differences, we are
basically not celebrating the
differences anymore, which
would be so sad.
I definitely don’t want my local
friends to feel scared of voicing
their opinion for fear of their
point being considered
“hate speech.”
In the past I have experienced
racism – we were standing for a
large group photo (of Sikhs) at
Victoria Park and a lady came
very close to us with her toddler.
She focused a football towards
our group and before any of us
could react, the ball came with
high speed towards our group
and hit my six-year-old on the
chest.
I went to their group with my
daughter who was asking why
the lady had deliberately focused
ball towards us. I told the lady
I wanted her to give the answer
to my child and her partner
apologised and that was the end
of it.
– Stuti Matta
Fire victim tribute
On Sunday my tiny cul-de
-sac community came together
briefly for a ceremony to pay
tribute to our neighbour, Mary,
who perished along with her cat
in a house fire here.
We had a karakia and sung
waiata for her and even the
local girls from Mary’s favourite
supermarket, Woolston New
World, attended. People in turn
shared tasty food and fond
memories of her and her brazen,
irreverent wit and her fierce,
independent nature. She will be
missed. What a character.
It seems awfully ironic that
this tragedy brought us together
whereas prior to this we had all
kept to ourselves; a modern
affliction.
Bless our elderly folk and I can
only reiterate how we must look
out for one another in today’s
world. Ka kite ano.
– Andy Thompson, Woolston
Vaccine
Has the Government been
lying to us? We were told that
vaccination was not mandatory.
Yet on July 7 Chris Hipkins was
saying that they will be “chasing
up all those who have not
come forward for vaccination.”
Extraordinary turn-around!
I agree with your
correspondent J L McKenzie that
there needs to be a public forum
on this issue, with professionals
from both sides of the debate
explaining the truth about the
vaccines.
There is much reference
to “misinformation” and
conspiracy theories on the news
lately. But misinformation is
created through lack of actual
information.
– Chris Watkins
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Electricity supply
There are many areas of
concerns of where this current
government is going, but there
seems to be no future planning
for power supply. Power prices are
rising and look to perhaps go up
by 30 per cent.
There is a big push on EVs, new
housing, removal of coal boilers
and all commercial business to
heat pumps. The Huntley coal
power station is now up to 23
per cent of power generation and
raising.
Worse, the coal comes from
Indonesia by oil-powered boats,
railed to Huntly from Auckland
by diesel-powered train, in spite
of the Government saying the
lakes are low – they are not.
What’s the plan for our future
– should it be atomic power
stations? We need some answers.
– A J Roberts
Rubbish bins
Over recent years, I have
experienced irresponsible
behaviour by tenants not
following council instructions
over bin contents.
Despite verbal and written
communication, and despite
kerbside collection being rejected
for various reasons, some tenants
consider that paying the rent
exempts them from compliance,
and consequently spoil the
situation for all tenants and
landlords. Their attitude is often
reflected in anti-social behaviour
in the tenancy, but recent
legislation denies landlords
options to correct behaviour or
noncompliance.
On some occasions, when
changing the contents to
comply, I have been accused of
harassment or spying.
The problem is compounded
by failure to put the bins out,
resulting in four weeks between
emptying. Consequently, excess
rubbish for these bins is placed
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in the wrong bins [or] left lying
on the ground, creating a health
hazard.
In my experience, you can
rarely change the behaviour of
those who consider that the rules
never apply to them.
Perhaps an instant fine
programme could operate
through Tenancy Services to
register these spoilers.
– Bruce Ellis
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Lianne Dalziel
I AM attending the Local
Government NZ conference
with a number of councillors
this week. There is a lot on the
agenda that is relevant to all of
us. The Three Waters Reform
Programme sits at the top of
the list, with the Government’s
proposal for four water entities
to take over the important
drinking water, wastewater
and stormwater services that
are currently carried out by 67
councils across the country.
I am expecting the Government
will make further announcements
at the conference.
We have been told that
councils will be able to make the
call to opt out of this process later
in the year after consulting with
our communities. We still don’t
have all the information we need
to weigh up that choice.
It’s a big call, that’s for sure.
We have, as a community, built
up an asset base in three waters
infrastructure that is valued
at around $6 billion, and hold
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associated debt of around $1
billion. So, the proposal relieves
us of the debt, but also of our
control over these assets.
Councillors are really clear that
protecting against privatisation
of this core infrastructure is vital.
Another point we have been
clear about from the start is that,
if our city joined forces with a
new water services entity, we
should be able to be exempt from
residual disinfection (i.e. a chlorinated
water supply) once we
meet the new water safety plan
standards. Again, this is a critical
factor for all of us.
We have also raised concerns
about the inclusion of stormwater,
given that this includes
so much “green and blue”
infrastructure, such as wetlands,
streams and stormwater basins
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Don’t let pain
keep you down
Book a physio and get back to
the things you love this winter.
Winter is a time of year that invites us to slow down
to rest and renew. For some, it means getting out to
our favourite winter sports such as snowboarding or
skiing! However you choose to spend these shorter,
cooler days, it’s essential to keep your body moving.
For those who experience physical pain, that is easier
said than done.
Heat plays a crucial part in helping muscles and joints relax,
so it’s no surprise that the cold weather can make pain feel
worse, making it harder to stay active. Depending on what
causes your pain, there are some things you can do to help
manage it during winter. Aaron Searle, clinical lead at Habit
Health recommends the following:
• Spend a little extra time warming up before exercise.
• Get seven to eight hours of restful sleep each night.
• Eat plenty of nutrient-rich foods.
• Drink plenty of water, so you stay hydrated to help
protect your joints and muscles.
If the pain you’re experiencing is a little more complicated
than just cold weather, a physiotherapist could help. Physiotherapists
are trained health professionals who help address
and treat the pain that negatively impacts your daily life. They
provide you with the tools to help manage your pain so you
can get back to the things you love doing.
Habit Health has highly skilled physiotherapists trained in
musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries and other problems causing
pain. As no two patients are the same, the Habit Health team
will assess your injury, your body, and your experience holistically
to ensure the treatment plan they provide is right for
your unique needs. The physio may also recommend and refer
you to another specialist who can support you on your pain
management journey.
Ultimately, your body is meant to move, so don’t let pain
get you down this winter. Book a physio and get back to the
things you love.
From the very bottom to the tippy-top, there’s a Habit Health
clinic near you. Look out for our local names, like Habit Rehab
and Southern Rehab.
Locations near you
Habit Health Forté
Level 1, Forté 2
132 Peterborough Street
Habit Health Byron Street
29 Byron Street Sydenham
Habit Health Travis Road
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Travis Medical Centre
225 Travis Rd North New Brighton
Habit Health Rolleston
Rolleston Central Health
9 Masefield Drive, Rolleston
0800 800 288
Government to repay
elderly in long-term
residential care
• By Anne Gibson
ELDERLY PEOPLE in
long-term aged residential
care can claim $20 million
in state money over
the next two years for
wrongful assessment and
deprivation of financial
support.
Budget 2021 allocated
the money after the state
admitted it wrongfully
interpreted the law following
accountant Stephen
Broadbent’s 2019 Court
of Appeal victory for his
mother in long-term care.
The money has now been
allocated to cover back
payments to aged people
who should have received
that residential care subsidy
– but did not because
of ministry mistakes, only
clarified by the court ruling.
On its website, the
Ministry of Social
Development says it “will
repay those who paid too
much for their residential
care. Government has
provided $20m over
two years to enable
the Ministry of Social
Development to correct
clients’ financial means
assessments for residential
care”.
Financial means assessments
are conducted on
people applying for a state
subsidy to work out who
pays for their long-term
residential care: Rich pay
the whole fee, the poor get
the full state subsidy.
The fees can start at
about $1200 a week, but go
higher.
The Ministry of Health
pays those fees to health
providers via district
health boards. People are
needs-assessed based on
their assets: If you have
$236,336 or more you
might need to pay the full
care yourself.
That $236,336 threshold
is all assets, including the
family home, cars, cash,
KiwiSaver, baches, boats
and other assets. But if
your partner still lives in
the family home, that is
excluded from the asset
test threshold.
The Ministry of Health
says: “The effect is that if a
resident owns assets above
the threshold and is in rest
home care, they pay the
full cost.”
Care or health providers
are mainly the big
retirement village owner/
operators which have
hospitals for geriatric care,
religious orders, charities
or other entities, which run
rest home or dementia care
facilities.
In May 2019, the
Court of Appeal found
that MSD’s approach to
undertaking financial
means assessment for the
residential care subsidy
were not consistent with
the legislation.
“This related to the
process for identifying and
assessing deprivation of
assets and income. MSD
has updated the financial
means assessment process
and has been using it since
December 2019 for new
clients and current clients
to ensure that they are paying
the right amount now,”
it says now.
The ministry allocated
$5 million for the
2020/2021 period and $15
million for 2021/2022.
“Funding covers repayments
to clients and/or
their estates for residential
care subsidy underpayments
following a 2019
Court of Appeal decision.
“This funding will be
used to refund clients or
their estates if they paid
too much for their care in
the past.
“MSD will monitor the
levels of uptake by clients
or their estates requesting
a review of their financial
means assessment, the
number of reviews that are
completed, the amount of
money that has been paid
out in refunds and whether
any debts have been created,”
it said.
Broadbent reacted to the
ministry’s latest announcement
on the $20 million.
“The ministry admits
that my contentions were
absolutely correct and its
argument was absolute
rubbish right from the
start,” he said.
“They asked the Government
to allocate $20m
in this year’s Budget to
cover the back payments,
proposed to be in the
health budget labelled
‘other expenses’ which
people probably assumed
were something to do with
the Covid billions being
spent.”
Broadbent complained
the ministry had never
sent him the latest document
admitting the errors,
saying the $20 million was
up for grabs.
“I have never received
the attached document
directly from MSD nor
have I ever received any
acknowledgment that I was
right and they were wrong
– obviously no thanks for
achieving the just legal
outcome. In fact no communication
whatsoever.”
The document claims
that they will reach out to
lawyers, accountants and
financial writers to ensure
everyone who may be entitled
to back-payment has
the opportunity to apply,
he said.
“As a chartered
accountant, I have seen no
such communication. No
lawyer has advised me of
any such communication
and no financial writer has
written anything about it
as far as I know.”
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by sea-level rise this century and threatened and facing increased
our productive and protected land pressures due to river system
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jeopardised by the arrival and change.
spread of new, exotic weeds and Wetlands are also ecosystems
Canterbury Chair
pests from warmer climates. at-risk nationally and regionally,
Jenny Hughey
All these eventualities have degraded by draining, damming
to be planned and prepared for, and diversion affecting their
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nesting grounds for 26 species of by sea-level there will rise always this century be a need and to do threatened and facing increased
vehicles the and council hope has to have been half doing. our communities will be threatened native birds – most classified as our more. productive and protected land
The formal declaration of a
state of climate emergency across
Canterbury was one of the most
serious, and colourful, moments
in the regional council’s more than
30-year history.
A year ago this Saturday,
at 11.49am, Environment
Canterbury became New Zealand’s
first council to proclaim such an
emergency, formally dedicating
itself to consideration of climate
change at the heart of all it does.
The declaration highlighted
that all the work Environment
Canterbury does – from
freshwater management to
biodiversity and biosecurity,
transport and urban development
to air quality, and also regional
leadership – has a climate change
focus.
Currently, under the Resource
Management Act, regional
councils are required only to adapt
to climate change, not mitigate
it – that responsibility is the
Government’s, but could change.
Even in ‘adapt mode’ many
of Environment Canterbury’s
existing policies and plans already
contribute to reduced emissions.
In declaring the climate
emergency, the Council noted it
would continue to show leadership
on climate-change and do so
without adding new programmes
at ratepayers’ expense. It also gave
staff a clear mandate to continue
and enhance that work.
That work included setting
up a climate-change integration
programme in the Long-term Plan
2018-28, ensuring climate change
was actively considered across
workstreams, increasing visibility
of the science and what we know
about the impact of climate
change on Canterbury, and liaising
on the issue with iwi and regional
partners, other local authorities
and central government.
As an organisation, we have
also made significant progress in
addressing our own greenhousegas
emissions, with our
Christchurch building receiving a
“market-leading” energy efficiency
rating of 5.0 out of 6 in the year
to February on the National
Australian Built Environment
Rating System New Zealand.
The building’s features include
184 solar panels which can
generate more than 55,000
kilowatt hours of electricity per
year.
There has been a 26% reduction
per staff member in emissions
since 30 June 2010. We now have
access to electric and hybrid
vehicles and hope to have half our
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Environment
Canterbury Chair
Jenny Hughey
fleet hybrid or long-range electric
by 2022. Carbon emissions from
air travel across the organisation
are offset via our own biodiversity
programmes.
According to a Madworld report
in 2019, our gross emissions were
2253 tonnes of carbon dioxide
(CO2) equivalent, compared with
removals of 7883 tonnes of CO2-
equivalent through our efficiency
efforts and from forestry planting
across 2700 hectares.
The changing climate will pose
many risks to life and livelihood
in Canterbury. In recent years
we have seen how occasional,
but extreme, weather events have
had huge effects on residents and
infrastructure around the South
Island.
The driest parts of our region,
along the Marlborough coast and
across much of the Canterbury
Plains, are expected to get even
drier. North-westerly storms are
predicted to become more intense,
with torrential alpine rainstorms
turning our braided rivers into
roaring rapids, fuelling landslides
and causing widespread erosion.
Canterbury’s coastal
communities will be threatened
jeopardised by the arrival and
spread of new, exotic weeds and
pests from warmer climates.
All these eventualities have
to be planned and prepared for,
and Environment Canterbury
will remain in the vanguard of
these climate change efforts.
One example is the $40 million
Waimakariri River flood
protection project, completed
late last year. The network of
floodgates and stopbanks will
protect half a million people and
$8 billion of community and
business assets from a possible
“super flood”.
The last major flood was in
December 1957, when parts
of Coutts Island in Belfast and
Kainga were swamped by river
flow peaking at 3990 cubic
metres per second (cumecs).
The protection scheme has been
designed to defend Christchurch
from a flood of as much as 6500
cumecs.
Environment Canterbury’s
leadership of biodiversity and
biosecurity programmes is also
underpinned by climate-change
concerns.
Canterbury’s distinct braided
rivers and unique wetlands face
many challenges. The rivers form
a vital ecological link and provide
an abundant food supply and
nesting grounds for 26 species of
native birds – most classified as
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pressures due to river system
change.
Wetlands are also ecosystems
at-risk nationally and regionally,
degraded by draining, damming
and diversion affecting their
ability to sequester carbon,
cleanse freshwater and mitigate
flooding, as well as impacting on
biodiversity and mahinga kai.
With biosecurity, we are
putting greater emphasis on the
risks of new pests establishing
in Canterbury. Warming
temperatures, changing soils and
new land uses mean new weeds
especially, will be able to gain a
better foothold across the region.
More broadly, we have to
curb reliance on fossil fuels and
find environmentally suitable
alternatives, such as electricity and
hydrogen, to power our public
transport.
When my predecessor Steve
Lowndes retired as chair of
this council late last year, he
highlighted some of the big
changes on the way. He was
optimistic we would be able to
deal with the “pressing issues” of
climate change and sustainability.
I share his confidence. As a
community, and as a council,
we are taking some bold steps to
ensure we are in a better place to
cope with the changing climate
and the tests it will set us. But
there will always be a need to do
more.
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Ghoul, 13. Stiff, 15. Ingenuity,
18. Tolerance, 19. Erase,
21. Staff, 23. Hindsight, 25.
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Scented, 28. Droplet.
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Mercurial, 3. Eyrie, 4.
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SPORT 37
Hornet’s roar into title contention
• By Chris Barclay
RESURGENT Halswell take
on another Canterbury Rugby
League premiership powerhouse
fresh from a dominant win over
four-time defending champions
Linwood as the title race looks
to be reduced to three genuine
contenders.
The Hornets have been a
revelation under new coach
Walter Wilson, continuing
their impressive season with a
24-16 victory over the Keas, who
needed a late converted try to
narrow the margin.
With one round remaining
Saturday’s clash between playoff-bound
Hornby and Halswell
will also influence who claims
the regular season’s Massetti
Cup before the Pat Smith Trophy
takes precedence.
Celebration Lions currently
occupy the fourth play-off berth,
though they face a tough assignment
against a Keas side keen
to make amends for a sub-par
effort at Halswell.
The Northern Bulldogs are
blessed with a final round encounter
with winless Papanui,
leaving them to rely on Linwood
not to suffer rare back-to-back
defeats.
Halswell drew 16-16 in their
first round clash with the Panthers
and head to Leslie Park
secure in the knowledge they
cannot finish worse than third
after several lean seasons.
“Neither of them (Hornby or
Linwood) have beaten us yet so
you’d have to take some positives
out of that,” said coach Walter
Wilson, who relished the win
over Linwood.
“The boys just backed themselves,
it’s been a while … 2014
was the last time our premier
side had beaten Linwood. It’s
TRIPLE CENTURY: Rugby league veteran Sean Spooner celebrated his 300th premier
grade appearance with a try for Riccarton against Papanui.
PHOTO: MATTY LOUIS PHOTOGRAPHY
more a belief thing than anything
else. We’ve slowly been
building week by week.”
Hornby effectively ended the
Eastern Eagles title aspirations
with a 38-26 victory, the Bulldogs
climbed back into play-off
contention with a 32-18 win over
the Celebration Lions while Sean
Spooner celebrated his 300th
premier grade game in style as
Riccarton beat Papanui 46-12.
Spooner, who debuted for
Papanui in 2002, won five grand
finals with Hornby before the
halfback joined the Knights last
season.
“I wanted to be a leader and
try my hand at something different,”
the 37-year-old said of his
move to Riccarton.
“It was a new challenge to really
test myself at the back-end of
my career.”
Marist Albion needed a lastminute
try to eliminate HSOB
from the title race and they
endured another nail-biter with
Christchurch before progressing
to a semi-final with champions
Lincoln University, a rematch of
last year’s final.
They protected a 18-15 lead for
the final half hour of a defenceorientated
clash.
Sydenham will play Burnside
for a place in the July 25 final
after they beat Linwood 24-20 in
another tense match-up.
Cashmere Technical bounced
back from their last round loss in
the Mainland Football premiership
by claiming their fourth
round tie with Christchurch
United 3-0 to book a quarterfinal
berth when the next phase
of the Cup is held on July 31 to
August 1.
The premiership champions
now switch focus to the eightteam
Southern League, which
gets underway this weekend.
Cashmere Technical, Coastal
Spirit, Christchurch United, Nelson
Suburbs and Selwyn United
are joined by Football South
winner South City Royals, Green
Island and University of Otago.
In the women’s equivalent of
the Chatham Cup, Coastal Spirit
crushed Dunedin Technical 8-0
in the quarter-finals of the Kate
Sheppard Cup, Britney-lee Nicholson
led the rout with four goals.
Harewood climbed to the
top of both Canterbury Hockey
premier league competitions
with wins over previous leaders
Marist seeing the leading clubs
ACCURATE: Former
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Rugby title-winning first
five-eighth Marty Banks
nailed four penalties for
Sydenham in their suddendeath
victory over Linwood.
PHOTO: BILL KING
switch positions.
In the women’s competition
Marist suffered their first loss of
the campaign when they were
beaten 2-1 to slip to third on the
standings.
Harewood’s men were even
more impressive, triumphing
3-0 to now also lead the regular
season table by a point after 10
rounds.
Carlton Redcliffs are six points
adrift in third; the women’s
competition is together with
two points covering Harewood,
second-ranked Carlton Redcliffs
and Marist.
Marist have a bye this weekend,
with Harewood and Carlton
Redcliffs drawn against each
other in the game of the round.
Harewood and Carlton Redclifs
also meet in the pick of the
men’s fixtures.
Christchurch’s premier
netball competition has a break
this weekend and resumes on
Tuesday.
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Canterbury Rugby League men’s premiership
P W L D PD Pts
Hornby Panthers 13 11 1 1 224 23
Linwood Keas 13 10 2 1 254 21
Halswell Hornets 13 8 3 2 144 18
Celebration Lions 13 6 7 0 92 12
Northern Bulldogs 13 6 7 0 10 12
Eastern Eagles 13 5 8 0 -106 10
Riccarton Knights 13 4 9 0 -124 8
Papanui Tigers 13 0 13 0 -494 0
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Christchurch Hockey men’s premier league
P W D L GD Pts
Harewood 10 7 2 1 18 23
Marist 10 7 1 2 5 22
Carlton Redcliffs 10 4 4 2 2 16
HSOB/Burnside 10 3 5 2 12 14
Avon 9 2 5 2 6 11
Southern United 9 2 5 2 1 11
Hornby Vipers 9 0 3 6 -14 3
University 9 1 1 8 -30 1
Christchurch Hockey women’s premier league
P W D L GD Pts
Harewood 8 6 2 0 23 20
Carlton Redcliffs 9 6 1 2 22 19
Marist 9 5 3 1 15 18
Avon 8 3 1 4 -4 10
HSOB/Burnside 8 2 2 4 6 8
Hornby 8 2 1 5 -12 7
Southern United 8 0 0 8 -50 0
Weekend match-ups
•Christchurch Metro Premier
Cup rugby (all Saturday at
3pm)
Preliminary Trophy finals – winners
contest final on July 25:
Lincoln University v Marist Albion,
Lincoln University; Burnside v Sydenham,
Burnside Park.
Premier Plate final –Sumner v
Shirley, St Leonard’s Square.
•Canterbury Rugby League
Premiership (all Saturday at
2.45pm)
Hornby Panthers v Halswell Hornets,
Leslie Park; Celebration Lions
v Linwood Keas, Cuthberts Green;
Papanui Tigers v Northern Bulldogs,
Papanui Domain; Eastern Eagles v
Riccarton Knights, Wainoni Park.
•Canterbury Hockey men’s
premiership (all Saturday)
Marist v University, Nga Puna Wai
1; Hornby v Southern United, Marist
Park @ St Bede’s College; Avon v
HSOB/Burnside, Waimakariri Turf;
Harewood v Carlton Redcliffs, Nga
Puna Wai 2.
•Canterbury Hockey women’s
premiership (all Saturday)
Hornby v Southern United, Marist
Park @ St Bede’s College; Harewood
v Carlton Redcliffs, Nga Puna Wai 2;
Avon v HSOB/Burnside, Waimakariri
Turf; Marist bye.
The Star Thursday July 15 2021
38
SPORT
• By Michael Guerin
CHAMPION DRIVER Blair
Orange’s New Zealand season is
all but over.
And as he sits in the Queensland
sun on a much-deserved
busman’s holiday Orange says
he is satisfied with what he has
been able to achieve in his fourth
premiership victory.
Orange travelled to the
sunshine state last Saturday to
partner Krug into fourth in the
Rising Sun at Albion Park, won
by Amazing Dream.
With the travel uncertainties
he has decided to stay there until
after the Queensland Derby on
July 24 in which will be partner
Krug again, even though the star
three-year-old isn’t racing this
weekend.
“I could have come back but
to be honest I need a break and
• By Chris Barclay
VETERAN horseman Kevin
Townley’s recovery from a
serious race day crash is not
quite on track yet, but he is
close to making a comeback to
training.
The 70 year-old needed a hip
replacement after he was thrown
from the sulky while driving
I don’t want to get locked out
of driving Krug in the Derby
in case things change,” said the
his horse Murano after it was
checked by another runner at
Rangiora on April 18.
Replays indicate the West Melton-based
was propelled about
2m into the air before landing
and being run over by a trailing
horse. Murano avoided injury.
Townley said the worst accident
of his career had not guided
him into retirement.
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Time for reflection after premiership victory
FRESHENING UP: Blair Orange is relaxing in Queensland.
43-year-old.
“It will do me some good to
freshen up over here although I
Kevin
Townley
“If I was older
I’d consider
chucking it in,”
he laughed.
Townley, who
also copped
fractured
ribs, expected
to be holding
the reins at track work in
about a fortnight to prepare his
am available for drives at Albion
Park this week if anybody needs
me.
“But I won’t go chasing them,
the main reason I am staying on
is for Krug the week after.”
Covid restrictions allowing,
Orange will fly home on Sunday
July 25 and that will mean one
more meeting in New Zealand
for the season, at Addington on
July 29.
It is understandable Orange is
slightly tired as not only has he
driven 176 winners on the way to
his fourth straight premiership
but he has also driven in 1133
races, his second busiest season
after the 1321 drives he had in
the 2017-18 season.
“I am actually still really
enjoying it, the driving and I
even don’t mind the travelling.
“And those numbers were even
after I got a six week holiday for
12-strong team for a return to
racing in September.
“It’s all good, I’m very close to
being back to normal.”
Townley was unsure when he
would return to driving during
an annual meeting, noting he
had scale back those commitments
over the years.
“The main thing for me is
the training. I gave up seriously
my drinking indiscretion, which
I have learned from.”
Orange says those sort of
numbers wouldn’t be possible
without the huge support of
owners and trainers and or
course his family.
He rates Krug’s New Zealand
Derby as his highlight of the
season.
“That was very, very satisfying
and he has been a really good
horse to me which is another
reason I am happy to be here to
drive him in their derby.”
Orange says one of his other
favourite victories for the season
was Mystic Max’s win in the
Lone Star Sires’ Stakes Trotting
Champs on May 21.
“I was thrilled to win that not
so much for me but for Michael
Purdon so I got a real buzz of
that.”
Harness Racing Desk
Townley close to comeback after being thrown from sulky
being a driver 20 years ago and I
just do the odd one now. I don’t
see anything changing from
what it was before.
“I’ll do the odd one if I think
it’s helpful for the trainer for me
to drive it, see what it’s doing and
things like that,” he said.
“It doesn’t worry me whether
I’m (driving regularly) at the
races any longer, I’ve had my go.”
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Christchurch International
Cup. The sixth edition of the
tournament for under-10 to
under-15 grades continues
until Monday. Already more
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than 500 players from 48 teams
throughout New Zealand have
competed in the under-10,11 and
12 age group games, scoring at
least 700 goals in 144 matches
Thursday July 15 2021 The Star
SPORT 39
at the Christchurch Football
Centre. The under-14 grade takes
precedence until tomorrow and
then the under-13s take centre
stage. PHOTOS: JIM WATTS
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Mazda BT-50 an SUV in disguise
I READ recently that Mazda’s
new BT-50 pick-up could well be
marketed as an alternative sport
utility vehicle.
Compelled to test that theory,
I asked Mazda New Zealand if I
could take the double cab utility
on a long South Island road trip,
leaving the vehicle in secured
parking at Bluff while my wife
and I took in a couple of days
on Stewart Island, one of our
favourite holiday destinations.
It was an unusual choice of
vehicle to travel such a distance
in but it was a good choice, it was
comfortable on that journey and
easily met our needs.
The evaluation ute was the
base model variant, although it
must be said GSX specification is
not bare, there are high comfort
levels, plenty of specification and
enough kit to satisfy. Certainly,
during our road trip there was
nothing we felt it needed.
Sure, there’s just cloth trim, no
keyless entry or ignition and no
satellite navigation; however, I
could easily live without those
items, and elsewhere there are all
of the ingredients a modern ute
owner would be satisfied with.
Safety hasn’t been
compromised either, all BT-50s
get a five-star Australasian New
Car Assessment Program rating,
and for the those who would
use the ute as a daily driver it
is manageable and enjoyable to
drive, I certainly felt at home
in it during the 1200km return
journey.
Regular readers will recall
my previous evaluations of the
new BT-50, and it is all-new.
The Mazda Motor Corporation
joined forces with the giant Isuzu
conglomerate to develop the
latest generation model. It shares
many components with the Isuzu
D-Max, notably the driveline.
The BT-50 here is available in
both two and four-wheel-drive,
and all have six-speed automatic
transmissions. There are six BT-
50 variants starting at $47,490
for the base model (2WD) and
ending at $60,990 for Limited
specification. The base model
four-wheel-drive I took south
lists at $54,490, if you do want a
few extra goodies but don’t want
Limited specification, a mid-spec
GTX lists at $58,490 ($51,490,
2WD).
Under the bonnet sits Isuzu’s
four-cylinder turbocharged diesel
engine. It’s a 3-litre unit and is
rated with 140kW and 450Nm.
There are no surprises here, this
engine has been around for a few
years but it has been the subject
of a long and steady refinement
process.
Today, it is smooth and
sophisticated, and the areas where
power and torque are developed
are low in the rev band so it’s a
happy low down hauler. During
my journey the rev counter was
constantly sitting at 1400rpm in
CRUISER: High levels of comfort on a highway haul.
MAZDA BT-50 GSX: According to the signwriting – five-year fixed price servicing, five-year
warranty and five-year roadside assistance .
at 100km/h, it is relaxed at that
speed and is quiet. It also returns
an 8l/100km instantaneous rating
(converted from a km/l readout).
I took the evaluation car back
to the dealership with a 9l/100km
combined average usage that
fits well with Mazda’s claim of
8l/100km, proving relaxed long
distance cruising is beneficial to
economy.
Our long trip wasn’t the only
use I put the evaluation car to,
it arrived at a very opportune
time. The recent weather bomb
that hit Canterbury took its toll
on the Kiddie-home. It exposed
three sheets of leaky corrugated
roofing iron that necessitated a
quick repair. Thankfully, a young
builder who is familiar with
the renovation process on our
home came at short notice and
he immediately replaced some
rusty sections. I used the BT-
50 to dispose of the waste, also
taking the opportunity to buy a
new locally-manufactured ladder
to replace an old one I had been
using at home that had become
dangerous.
It’s these kinds of tasks that
make today’s double-cab so
versatile, you can throw anything
on the deck and yet it still has the
family-friendly in-cabin structure
that works in the everyday role.
While most of our road trip
was on the fabulous undulating
• Price – Mazda BT-50 GSX,
$54,490
• Dimensions – Length,
5280mm; width, 1870mm;
height, 1790mm
• Configuration – Fourcylinder,
four-wheel-drive,
2999cc, 140kW, 450Nm,
six-speed automatic
• Performance – 0-100km/h,
10.5sec
• Fuel usage – 8l/100km
roads the South Island has to
offer, the few handling challenges
were met with dignity and
aplomb. The BT-50 has definite
steering feel and composure in a
corner.
It’s fair to say the ladder chassis
and rear live axle set-up aren’t
conducive to handling prowess,
but the BT-50 isn’t awkward, it
feels balanced and controlled,
which just serves to prove if you
have a live rear axle and leaf
springs located well then the ride
and control in a corner is well
organised.
That is something the tyre
manufactures have also kept in
mind over the years, Dunlop
has developed its Grandtrek
compound to the extent where
grip is high and travel is quiet,
the big 255/65 x 17in tyres are
informative and contribute to the
balance and feel of the ute in all
conditions.
Our road trip was on a mix
of wet and dry roads, and never
at any point did I feel the BT-50
lacked ability, it feels well attached
to the road.
Route closures due to the big
South Canterbury flooding events
meant short distances on broken
and unsealed roads, the spring
and damper rates of the BT-50
have been chosen so that comfort
levels aren’t jeopardised, yet
they don’t compromise the load
bearing ability of the ute. On that
subject, the BT-50 is a genuine
one-tonner and has a 3500kg tow
rating.
My time in the evaluation car
was as far from its design role
as you could get, however, I was
exploring the claim that utes are
manufactured for all purposes,
and the BT-50 certainly ticked
one of the boxes – it’s a genuine
open-road traveller that will
whisk the family to holiday
destinations with ease. If you
want a working ute that doubles
as family transport for the
weekend, don’t be put off with the
base model BT-50, it still has the
goods.
Signwriting on the evaluation
car pointed to the after-sale
MazdaCare programme – fiveyear
fixed price servicing,
five-year warranty and five-year
roadside assistance. All in all, that
makes for a worry-free purchase.
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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
ELECTRICIAN
Available, 30 years
experience,
start, competitive rate,
ph Brian 027 433 9548
No Call out fee
ELECTRICIAN
immediate
Registered, electrical
installation and repairs,
Gorbie Electrical, ph 021
026 73375 or 03 322 4209
fENCING
All types of fencing . Free
quotes. Ph Jim 022 137
1920
GASfITTING
N.T. Gas Services.
Domestic gas installations.
Reg Craftsman Gas Fitter.
Ph Nick 021 892 491
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
SERVICES
Builder / Joiner with
30 yrs exp. Small
renovations, maintenance
& odd jobs. Decks, fences
& landscaping. General
handyman for everyday
house repairs. Ph Robert
021 044 2272
HOME CLEANING
SERVICES
Regular Weekly or
Fortnightly. Ring Vivien
at 03 365 8422 for free
quotation
LANDSCAPING
Paving, Lawns, Irrigation,
Licensed Building
Practitioner no. 100981.
All carpentry & building
repairs & maintenance.
Alterations & property
upgrades.Laundries / Decking, Fencing.
bathroom / kitchens Kanga & small digger
replaced. Specialising in services. Check out Squire
replacement of all rotten Landscaping on facebook.
timber, fascia boards, FREE QUOTES. Ph
window, windowsills etc. Arthur 347-8796, 027
John Sandford, ph 329
4616, mob 027 5189 598
220-7014 Edwin 027 220-
7154
johnsandford2@gmail. MOBILE CAR
com
CLEANING SERVICES
COMPUTER REPAIRS We come to you where
fAST
ever you are. Ring us
Friendly experienced at 03 281 8054 for free
techs available to help you quotation.
now. Christchurch based. ODD JOB SPECIALIST
All work guaranteed. Small jobs specialists.
Computer Help 0800 349 eg: drippy taps, sticky
669
doors, locks, spouting/
CONCRETE CUTTING
fence repairs Discount for
Affordable Concrete pensioners.
Cutting with Quality, and
Ph 390 1565 or 022 5275
removal work. Free quote.
668. Avail now.
No job to small. Phone 027
PAINTER,QUALIfIED
442-2219, Fax 359-6052
local professional, Int /
a/h 359- 4605
Ext,roofs,wallpaper, call
ELECTRICIAN
or text Corban 027 846
All types of domestic
5035
& commercial work
PAINTING
undertaken, new housing,
Indoor / Outdoor, over 30
alterations, extensions,
yrs exp, same day quotes, Spouting
ranges, security lights,
ph Steve 021 255 7968
quick response, efficient
service, free quotes,
PAINTING
city -wide. No call out
PLASTERING
fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat
Free quotes. Int/ext &
Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027
roof painting Family run
7331384.
business, work guaranteed.
ELECTRICIAN
Pensioner discounts. Ph
Registered, electrical Kerin or Paul 022 191
installation and repairs, 7877 or 379-1281. Website
Gorbie Electrical, ph 021 www.swedekiwipainting.
026 73375 or 03 322 4209 co.nz
Trades & Services
PAINTING
DECORATING
All types of int/ext
painting undertaken. 30 +
yrs exp. Ph Michael 022
496 3322
PAINTING
Int painting, new & used.
2 men crew. 30 yrs exp. Ph
027 388 6125
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
Interior Plasterer. Quality
Paintable Finish, Gib
Cove, Cornice. New
- Renos - Repairs. Ph
Matt 0274 361 112
mattsmithplastering.co.nz
PLASTERER
Phone Finn for all your
interior plastering needs.
No job too small -
renovations, alterations,
holes & cracks. Free
quotes. I’ll beat any quote
by 10% .25 yrs exp. Canty
born. Ph 022 087 4351
PLASTERER
Availabkle for mid to
small jobs. Free quote..Ph
022 430 0277
PLUMBER
A Top Plumbing job
completed at a fair price,
all work guaranteed, ph
Brian 960-7673 or 021
112-3492
QEII COLLISION
REPAIRS
Free Courtesy Cars
(conditions apply),All
Insurance work, Rust
Repairs & Private work.
Spray-painting.
Free pickup & delivery.
Ph. 03 388 5187
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 roofs.
Repairs, reroof and new
build. 25 yrs experience.
NZ Cert and LBP
qualified. Free quotes. Call
Elliot 332-9662 / 027 237
9431
ROOfING
All Roof repairs, Roof
painting, moss treatments,
Gutter cleaning 10 + yrs
exp, free quotes 24 / 7, Ph
027 516 6609
RUBBISH REMOVAL
Van, Trailer Rubbish
Removal. Ph Gary 342-
8950, 021 529 022
SPOUTING
Select Spouting
The PVC specialist.
Repairs & replacement. Ph
022 197 2351
SPOUTING CLEANING
SPECIALIST
Entire spouting system
cleared. Single or 2 storey.
Jo 021 164 0365
SPOUTING CLEANING
Unblocked,
Cleaned Out and Flushed
Out, Call Trevor 332 8949
or 021 043 2034
STUMP GRINDING
Best price guarantee Tony
0275 588 895
TEST & TAG
NZ3760 complient (class
1 and class 2 tools). Can
travel to your work site.
Phone Jamie 022 313 9567
Situations Vacant
Make a
difference
IN YOUR
COMMUNITY
Volunteers Wanted
Papanui St John Store
As well as helping to fund our essential, lifesaving
services and community initiatives, our awesome
Op Shop team have created a friendly, supportive
community hub, offering a much-needed local
service. They even help New Zealand to be more
environmentally sustainable – more recycling
means less landfill!
If you want to be part of this great team, contact
the Store Manager, Tracey on 027 239 6963 or pop
into the store at 43 Main North Road,
Papanui.
Or you can apply online at
join.stjohn.org.nz and search
for job # 47316.
Alternatively, scan the QR Code
to take you straight there on
your mobile device.
Trades & Services
TREE SERVICES
Free quotes 20+ yrs exp.
Tree, hedge or shrub
- reduction, shaped or
removed. Ph/text Paul
The Branch Manager
0274314720
TREE SERVICES.
Specialist small tree
pruning & shaping.
Roses,fruit trees etc.
Ph Hugh 021 2755445
TREE SERVICES
Hedges, shrubs, tree
trimming & removal.
Phone for free quotes 022
540 4900
WINDOW CLEANING
Average 3 brm house
inside or out from $45.
Both from $80 Phone
Trevor 344-2170
WINDOW CLEANING
Brown & White Ltd.
Family owned since 2001.
Ph Paul 027 229 3534
Entertainment
STAMP AND
POSTCARD FAIR
The Philatelic Centre
67 Mandeville Street,
Riccarton
Saturday 17th July
9am-12pm
Sellers tables available
Phone 027 6354 957
Situations Vacant
CLEANERS
REQUIRED
Hornby Area
Monday – Friday
Early evening
for 2.5 hours
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.
Tuition
COMPUTER LESSONS
avail for computer, IPad,
or Mobile. Please contact
Jobee 027 290 9246 www.
computertutor.nz
APPLY ONLINE
HERE
SCAN ME
Wanted To Buy
WANTED
SLEEPOUTS
Sleepouts Galore
Buyers and sellers of
relocatable buildings
11 Brixton Street, Hornby
Phone: 349 9633
STEVE PURCELL
ANTIQUES
BUYING
NOW
Gold jewellery,
watches, coins,
medals, scrap
gold, sterling
silver, pewter,
original paintings,
modern art.
351 9139
stevepurcellantiques.com
service. Selwyn Dealers.
Phone 980 5812 or 027
AAA Buying goods
quality furniture, beds,
stoves, washing machines,
fridge freezers. Same day
313 8156
Thursday July 15 2021 The Star 45
CHRISTCHURCH
ADVENTIST SCHOOL
Call for Applications
Applications for the 2022 school year at Christchurch Adventist
School are now open. If you desire quality Adventist Education for
your child or know of someone who may benefit from this, please
ensure that the school receives your application before 30 August
2021 at 3pm. As there is significant demand for positions we are
required to use our enrolment scheme which can be found on our
schools website.
All Applications for Admission currently on file are automatically
included in the enrolment process. Applications for the 2022 school
year close on 30 August, 2021 at 3pm. Enrolment will be accepted
according to the priorities in our Enrolment Scheme.
Visit cas.school.nz to find out about our school, view the complete
enrolment scheme or to download an application form.
Alternatively you can contact the school:
Christchurch Adventist School
Phone: 033529173 Email: nicholamcdonald@cas.school.nz
Wanted To Buy
A+ 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
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
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
Wanted to buy
Public Notices
Wanted To Buy
A+ Household effects,
fridges, freezers, washing
machines, ovens. Good
cash paid. Ph Paul 022
0891 671
A records and Hi-Fi
gear wanted. Pennylane
Sydenham. 7 days. Ph
366-3278
BOOKS.
Old wanted.
Anything considered incl
hunting,
mountineering,
fishing,childrens.
Ph 354 1621
CARS WANTED We buy
small Japanese vehicles,
must be tidy, cash paid
Ph Doug Drake Motors,
ChCh 03 389-1121 or 027
432 9947
MILITARIA Any
country, firearms,
uniforms, badges, medals,
memoribilia, WW2 or
earlier ph 338-9931
TOOLS, Garden garage,
saw benches, Lathes. Cash
buyer Phone 355-2045
Public Notices
Senior Citizens
Outings
with Companion Driving Service Ltd
Fri 23 July, HANMER FOR LUNCH $79.00
(pools optional)
Thur 29 July, 3 COURSE BUFFET LUNCH
at Garden Resturant $56.00
All pick ups & drop offs included with lunch.
Our popular Hokitika - Greymouth & overnight
at Punakaiki Resort Hotel is happening again.
Coach to Punakaiki & overnight then return to
Christchurch by train. Evening meal & breakfast
included also your own Tour Leader on both the
coach and train journey. Your own room (no sharing),
pick up & drop off included $494.00.
Walking sticks & walkers welcome!
Depart Christchurch Thurs 5th August
- home Fri 6th August.
Expressions of interest for next year’s
Bluff Oyster Festival via The Catlins in May 2022,
also our Autumn Leaves tour of Central Otago
in April 2022.
Phone Peter on 0800 453 873
NOTICE OF BY-ELECTION FOR
THE COASTAL WARD
A by-election is required to fill an extraordinary vacancy for the
Coastal Ward of the Christchurch City Council. The vacancy has
arisen from the recent resignation of Councillor James Daniels.
Nominations
Nominations for the above position open on Thursday 15 July
2021 and must be made on the official nomination form. Copies
of the nomination form and a candidate information booklet can
be requested from the Christchurch City Council Civic Offices,
downloaded from ccc.govt.nz/elections, or from the electoral
officer (see contact details below).
Completed nomination documents must be received by the
electoral officer no later than midday on Thursday 12 August 2021.
Each nomination must be accompanied by a deposit of $200 incl
GST, payable by EFTPOS, cash or online banking (see nomination
form for requirements).
Candidates are encouraged to also submit a candidate profile
statement and recent colour photograph. The requirements for
the profile statement and photo are set out in the candidate
information booklet. All nomination documents must be lodged
together. Candidates should refer to the candidate information
booklet for further details.
Electoral rolls
A preliminary electoral roll for the by-election can be inspected
during normal office hours at the Christchurch City Council Civic
Offices, 53 Hereford Street, Christchurch, the Parklands Library,
46 Queenspark Drive, Parklands, or the New Brighton Library,
213 Marine Parade, New Brighton from Thursday 15 July to
Thursday 12 August 2021.
Electors may enrol or amend their enrolment details on the
residential electoral roll by:
• Visiting the Electoral Commission website (vote.nz)
• Calling 0800 ENROL NOW (0800 36 76 56)
• Freetext 3673
Updates to the preliminary electoral roll close at 4pm on Thursday
12 August 2021.
Applications for registration as a ratepayer elector are to be made
on the non-resident ratepayer elector enrolment form available
from the Christchurch City Council Civic Offices or from the
Council’s website and must be returned to the electoral officer
before 4pm on Thursday 12 August 2021.
Election Details
If an election is required to fill this vacancy, the election will be
conducted by postal voting under the First Past the Post (FPP)
electoral system. Candidate names will be listed in random order
on the voting papers. The voting papers will be mailed out to
electors on Thursday 16 September and voting will close at
midday on Friday 8 October 2021.
Jo Daly
Electoral Officer
PO Box 73016, Christchurch 8154
jo.daly@ccc.govt.nz
03 941 8581 ccc.govt.nz
Situations Vacant
rural reporter
Central Rural Life
Canterbury (flexible location)
Do you know your Herefords from your Holsteins?
Are you a journalist with a passion for rural news?
Central Rural Life has an exciting opportunity for a
professional and enthusiastic reporter to join its team
in Canterbury. The ideal applicant will have sound rural
knowledge and journalism skills.
Central Rural Life is an Allied Press Ltd community
newspaper delivered fortnightly to more than
17,500 rural addresses between North Otago, North
Canterbury and the West Coast.
The role will require you to cover local rural issues,
events and human interest stories. Some advertising
feature work may also be required.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter, able to
juggle tasks and meet deadlines, and have a passion
for the rural sector.
Strong photography skills are required and video and
website skills are desirable. A full driver’s licence is
required.
If you think this is for you, please send your CV
with a covering letter to recruitment@alliedpress.co.nz
or apply via Seek. Informal inquiries about the role are
welcome and should be directed to Sally Rae,
Allied Press Rural Editor (sally.rae@alliedpress.co.nz,
or phone 027 529 6040).
Applications for the role close on Friday 16 July 2021.
Please note you must have the right to work in
New Zealand to apply for this role.
Disclaimer: Allied Press does not accept unsolicited
agency resumes. Allied Press is not responsible for
any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Public Notices
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991
CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT PLAN
PROPOSED PLAN CHANGE 7
MANAGING SIGNIFICANT INDIGENOUS VEGETATION
SUMMARY OF SUBMISSIONS FOR FURTHER
SUBMISSIONS
A summary of submissions on Proposed Plan Change 7 to the
Christchurch District Plan and a copy of the submissions, are now
available for public viewing online at ccc.govt.nz/planchange7
or during normal opening hours at any of our service centres or
libraries. For details of your nearest service centre or library,
please telephone 03 941 8999.
Further submissions in support of, or in opposition to, the
submissions received may be lodged at the Civic Offices or at any
of our service centres or libraries before 5pm on 28 July 2021.
A further submission may be made only by a person representing
a relevant aspect of the public interest or by a person who has an
interest in the plan change that is greater than the interest of the
general public and must be limited to a matter in support of, or in
opposition to, any submission made to the Council.
All further submissions must be in writing on the appropriate form
(Form 6 in the Resource Management (Forms, Fees and Procedure)
Regulations 2003). This form is available from all Council offices and
online at https://www.ccc.govt.nz/the-council/consultations-andsubmissions/haveyoursay/.
Forms not completed online should be
addressed to: Christchurch City Council, City Planning Team,
PO Box 73012, Christchurch or emailed to: PlanChange@ccc.govt.nz.
Any person making a further submission in support or opposition
is required to serve a copy of his or her further submission on the
person whose original submission is supported or opposed no
later than five working days after the day on which the further
submission is provided to the Council.
At a later date all those who have made submissions and those
who have made further submissions in support or opposition to the
proposed plan change will be advised of the hearing date and will
be sent information regarding that process.
Jane Davis
General Manager
Infrastructure, Planning & Regulatory Group
2398062
46 The Star Thursday July 15 2021
‘Famous for their roasts!’
To add a listing, contact
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or
027 458 8590
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi/whatson
BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO
BRIDIE'S BAR &
BISTRO
SATURDAY 7.45PM
QU I Z
EVERY WEDNESDAY
FROM 7PM
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ
Cooked Breakfasts
Check out our extensive breakfast
menu from Continental to Cooked
We are open from 6.30am
Seniors SPECIAL
Two courses $23
Soup/Roast or
Roast/Dessert
Special available lunch only
Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm
P OK E R
EVERY
THURSDAY 7PM
& SUNDAY 3PM
$19
FRIDAY
MEMBER DRAW
$900
LIVE RUGBY
SATURDAY 7.05PM
ALL BLACKS
v FIJI
the meaniez
SATURDAY
31st JULY, 7.30pm
TICKETS $25
Available at the club or
online cosmicticketing.co.nz
HOU S I E
EVERY SATURDAY
FROM 12.30PM
Kid’s 2 course
special
School
Holidays
We are family
friendly.
Great Kids menu
plus designated
play area.
TREAT THE
FAMILY!
$13
The
RACECOURSE HOTEL
& Motorlodge
118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,
Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150
www.racecoursehotel.co.nz
D I N I N G
BAR/BISTRO
OPEN
MONDAY-SUNDAY
12 NOON - 8.30PM
NEW MENU
OUT NOW!
SUNDAY CARVERY
LUNCH & DINNER
BUFFET
12pm-2pm & 5pm-7.30pm
Woolston Club|43 Hargood St|Ph 03 389 7039|www.woolstonclub.co.nz|fb.com/WoostonclubInc
SENIOR'S GOLD CARD
SPECIALS!
From $24.50
THE ENTERTAINMENT HUB OF THE NORTH!
113 RAVEN QUAY | PHONE: 03 327 7884
AFTER THE MEMBER'S DRAW
THIS FRIDAY, 7PM
Save the date!
SUNDAY 25th JULY: AGM
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
ARE HERE!
Treat the
Grandchildren!
Bookings Essential
PH 386 0088
fb.com/GardenRestaurantBuffet
www.gardenhotel.co.nz
THUR: FISH & CHIPS
FRI: FISH & CHIPS
SAT: CHICKEN NIB/CHIPS
SUN: ROAST MEAL
TUE: CHICKEN NIB/CHIPS
WED: ROAST MEAL
Available 11.30am-2pm
CAFE OPEN 7 DAYS 9AM - 4PM
BAR OPEN THU - SUN EVENINGS
PH 385 8880
FIND US ON FACEBOOK
fb.com/GBCCHCH
THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX, 110 MARSHLAND RD
www.gardenhotel.co.nz . Phone 385 3132
facebook.com/gardenrestaurantbuffet instagram.com/gardenrestaurantbuffet
The DnD DUO
(JOJO & MARK)
BISTRO
OPEN FROM 12PM
WEDNESDAY
TO SUNDAY
SATURDAY 31st JULY, 7PM
The DnD TRIO
Nostalgia Night vol.2
PRIZES FOR BEST COSTUMES.
DOWNSTAIRS - FREE
HOUSIE
EVERY THURSDAY
12PM
EYES DOWN 12.30PM
BAR HOURS
MON 3PM-10PM
TUES & WEDS 11.30AM
THURS 11AM | FRI 11.30AM
SAT & SUN 11AM
Closing times will vary.
Thursday July 15 2021 The Star 47
christchurch
GIG GUIDE
Thursday 15 to Wednesday 21 July 2021
12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Christchurch’s
smoking hot BLUES BAR. Thursday 7.30pm
- Eddie Simon. Friday 8pm - Good Habits.
Saturday 8pm - Ink & Bone Tribute feat.
Lanthanum. Wednesday 7pm - Ara Jazz &
Blues Jam.
ARMADILLO'S PREBBELTON, 587
Springs Rd: Saturday 31st July, 8.30pm -
Vague As Brothers.
A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St:
Thursday 7.30pm - Laidback grooves, roots &
blues with CWB (Cathcart, Walsh & Blaikie),
free. Friday 5.30pm - Clube do Choro
Christchurch's Brazilian Jam Session, all
welcome, free; 9pm - Classic rock covers with
Plan B feat. Kevin Emmett, free. Saturday
9pm - UK79: A Post-Punk Celebration,
preformed live by Permanence, & Other
Voices, pre-sales SOLD OUT, sorry NO door
sales available. Sunday 4pm - Sunday Session
feat. Ruby Fusion; T3; & I See Tomorrow,
free. Monday 7pm - Quiz. Tuesday 8pm -
Stand-up comedy night presented by Thy
Kingdom Comedy, free; 9.30pm - Open Mic,
all gear provided, all welcome, free.
BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday
7pm - Mickey Rat's Karaoke. Friday 7pm -
Mandi Miller. Saturday 7pm - AMPT. Sunday
7pm - Mickey Rat's Karaoke.
BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO, 401
Worcester St: Saturday 6.30pm - Karaoke.
Sunday 4pm - Quiz.
BOO RADLEYS, Level 1, 98 Victoria St:
Thursday 9pm - Supercat. Friday 8pm - Libby
Barker; 10.30pm - The Fillets duo. Saturday
8pm - Neil Alexander; 10.30pm - Live music.
Wednesday 7.30pm - South Street Blues Trio;
9.30pm - Open Mic Night.
CASSELS BLUE SMOKE, 3 Garlands
Rd: Thursday & Friday 7pm - Courtney
Barnett SOLD OUT.
CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, 30 Victoria
St: Friday 6pm - Stephen James; 9.15pm -
D'Sendantz. Saturday 6pm - Nyree; 9.15pm -
Cantora.
HORNBY CLUB, Carmen Rd: Saturday
7pm - Sha-low. Sunday 3pm - Marcel.
Saturday 23rd July, 7.30pm - Madsen
Promotions presents Jersey Boys & Grease
SOLD OUT. Saturday 14th August, 8pm -
Local rock covers band
Red Zone play the Miller Bar on
Lincoln Rd this Saturday night.
To add a listing, contact
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or
027 458 8590
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi/whatson
Hornby Club cont...
DnD Showband presents Two Tribute Shows
in One feat. ELVIS & ABBA, tickets $25 at
the club office.
KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay: Friday
7pm - DnD Duo (Jojo & Mark). Saturday
31st July 7pm - DnD Trio Nostalgia Night
vol.2: Hits of the 70's feat. Jojo, Gigi & Mark,
prizes for best costumes, free entry.
MICKY FINNS, 85a Hereford St: Friday
10.30pm - Realignment. Saturday 10.30pm -
Smoke & Mirrors.
RICHMOND CLUB, 75 London St: Friday
7pm - Absout. Saturday 7pm - Mezzanine.
Sunday 3pm - Lissel.
RIVERSIDE MARKET, 98 Oxford Tce:
Thursday 6pm - Live jazz feat. Mitch
Thomas, $15 entry.
TEMPS BAR, 21 Goulding St, Hornby:
Friday 8.30pm - DJ. Saturday 8.30pm -
Nightwatch.
THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd:
Thursday 8pm - The Giant Poppies. Saturday
8.30pm - The Johnnies (Chch) '1981' album
launch with support Bernicia (Dunedin)
'Magic Pill' release; Your Face (Dunedin); 71
Drift (Chch), $10 entry. Wednesday 9pm -
Titanic (Kevin Emmett, Nick Buchanan, and
Peter K Malthus). Saturday 24th July, 9pm -
Southern Slaughter 2021 feat. Plague of the
Fallen & Stepped Out, tix $10 via Cosmic
Ticketing, $20 door sales.
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd,
Addington: Friday 9.30pm - In the City.
Saturday 9.30pm - Red Zone. Sunday 6pm -
Lance Kiwi Karaoke. Tuesday 7pm - Quiz.
Wednesday 7.30pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke.
WOOLSTON CLUB, 143 Hargood St:
Saturday 7.45pm - The Meaniez. Saturday
31st July 7.30pm - Totally 80's Show, tickets
$25 at the club or online at
cosmicticketing.co.nz.
WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19 London
St, Lyttelton: Thursday - StellaVision;
Hamish Kilgour; Fleur De Lis. Friday 9pm -
Friday House. Saturday 7.30pm - HMN &
The Ellice Road Boyz 'The Vengeful
Millennial Tour' with Bad Llamas, tickets at
undertheradar.co.nz. Tuesday - Open Mic.
Wednesday - Jam Night.
LIVE MUSIC - PAVILION
Saturday 7pm:
SHA-LOW
Sunday 3pm:
MARCEL
ALL BLACKS RUGBY
SATURDAY 7.05PM: AB's v FIJI
- COMING UP -
Upstairs on the
Mezzanine
Tickets limited
Pre-sale tickets $25
available at the office.
Door sales $30
(if available).
Doors open at 7pm.
Come on down!
17 CARMEN RD. PH. 03 349 9026
WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ
WHAT’S ON AT THE RICHMOND CLUB
FRIDAY 7PM
ABSOLUT
LIVE
RUGBY
BIG SCREEN
THE JUNCTION
SATURDAY
7.05PM
ALL BLACKS
v
FIJI
SATURDAY 7PM
MEZZANINE
SUNDAY 3PM
LISSEL
75 London St, Richmond
Christchurch 8013
P: 03 389 5778
theborough.nz
richmondclub.nz
48 The Star Thursday July 15 2021
STYLE & QUALITY
FOR LESS
WWW.AFFORDABLEFURNITURE.NZ
Elm
Collection
Table Large $979 $899
Table Small $629 $579
Buffet $1189 $1099
WAS $1999
$
1849 Bramwell
3+2 Suite
3 Seater $1199 $1099
2 Seater $839 $779
SUPER
SPECIAL SUPER
SPECIAL SUPER
SPECIAL SUPER
SPECIAL
SUPER
SPECIAL
Willow
Bar Stool
Cove
Barstool
Coronet
Bar stool
Rustic Chair
Vintage
Cognac
Linden
Bar Stool
WAS $89
$
79
WAS $139
$
129
WAS $189
$
179
WAS $189
$
169
WAS $89
$
69
Nova Bedroom
Collection
Sylvie Bedroom
Collection
Tallboy 5 Drawers $689 $639
Tallboy 6 Drawers $799 $739
Lowboy 6 Drawers $729 $679
Bedside $219 $199
Headboard From $379
Bedside $279 $249
Bedframe $1099 $999
Under Bed Drawer $189 $169
6 Drawer Tallboy $799 $779
6 Drawer Lowboy $749 $719
SUPER
SPECIAL
Lift Up Base
Single $489 $459
King Single $509 $479
Double $569 $529
Queen $599 $559
King $669 $619
FROM
$
459
SUPER
SPECIAL
5 Year Warranty
Riviera
Mattress
FROM
$
349
Single $369 $349
King Single $419 $389
Double $499 $469
Queen $549 $509
King $599 $549
California King $709 $659
SUPER
SPECIAL
5 Year Warranty
Pocket Spring,
Euro Top, Quilt Fibre,
Wave Foam & Comfort Foam
FROM
$
499
King Single $539 $499
Double $679 $629
Queen $759 $709
Cloud Rest Mattress
King $839 $779
Super King $899 $839
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