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Tony loses<br />
bid to<br />
rule roost<br />
– page 3<br />
Fiordland shipwreck mystery<br />
Galleon drawing, names<br />
found in remote cave<br />
Earthquake<br />
injury<br />
claims<br />
continue<br />
– page 9<br />
Suspected<br />
suicide<br />
victim’s<br />
father<br />
demands<br />
inquest<br />
• By Susan Sandys<br />
A SCIENTIFIC expedition<br />
from Christchurch has found<br />
a cave in a remote part of<br />
Fiordland where survivors of a<br />
shipwreck may have sheltered.<br />
A team from Willowbank<br />
Wildlife Reserve was looking<br />
for the elusive South Island<br />
kōkako when they chanced<br />
upon the cave in Chalky Inlet<br />
last month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cave had a drawing of<br />
a galleon vessel and what is<br />
UNEARTHED: Dale<br />
Hedgcock and<br />
Mark Willis with<br />
the cannon they<br />
discovered on a<br />
beach in Chalky<br />
Inlet, near a cave<br />
with a drawing of<br />
a galleon. PHOTO:<br />
WILLOWBANK<br />
WILDLIFE RESERVE<br />
believed to be the names of its<br />
mariners etched underneath.<br />
<strong>The</strong> remains of an old cannon<br />
were discovered nearby.<br />
• Turn to page 4<br />
• By Susan Sandys<br />
A MAN who lost his son to<br />
suspected suicide is demanding<br />
there be an inquest.<br />
Geoff Booth fears he will not<br />
get the answers he needs as the<br />
coronial inquiry into his son’s<br />
death drags on.<br />
It is coming up to four years<br />
since his son Liam, 21, died from<br />
suspected suicide.<br />
Christchurch Hospital staff<br />
discharged Liam about three<br />
weeks prior to his death,<br />
wrongly believing he was not<br />
going to harm himself. Booth<br />
received a formal apology<br />
from the Canterbury District<br />
Health Board. <strong>The</strong> report also<br />
acknowledged there was no clear<br />
evidence family members<br />
were involved in a discharge<br />
plan. It also said family could<br />
have benefited from more<br />
information about support.<br />
Booth said the approach<br />
to the October 2 anniversary<br />
was all the more difficult as he<br />
considered this could be marked<br />
without the inquiry having been<br />
completed.<br />
“To me, it’s almost<br />
disrespectful to Liam’s life,”<br />
Booth said.<br />
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TONY THE rooster’s bid<br />
to rule the roost in a quiet<br />
neighbourhood has come to an<br />
end.<br />
Tony, described as “pretty<br />
vicious looking”, appeared in<br />
Jeremy McTear’s backyard in<br />
Heathcote last week.<br />
“He was rather<br />
large and confident,<br />
and very<br />
quickly made<br />
himself at home,<br />
digging up the<br />
lawn and hiding<br />
in the bushes,”<br />
McTear said.<br />
“He was all<br />
feather, talons<br />
and large beak with a bright red<br />
comb.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> McTear family’s “guard<br />
dog”, Ziggy, who likes to<br />
patrol the garden, was out<br />
of action recovering from<br />
surgery, allowing Tony took full<br />
advantage of the situation.<br />
Over the next few days, Mc-<br />
Tear and his sons, Oliver, Jamie<br />
and Leon, attempted to catch<br />
Tony.<br />
But he was quite the escape<br />
artist, managing to evade their<br />
clutches and fly over a fence to<br />
terrorise their neighbour.<br />
“He was incredibly quick and<br />
able to escape through gaps that<br />
seemed impossibly small,” said<br />
McTear.<br />
“An hour or two later, he’d appear<br />
at the door or window and<br />
taunt us or the dog. Sometimes<br />
he’d just sit in the neighbour’s<br />
gutter and glare.”<br />
Ziggy eventually took an interest,<br />
wandering over to see what<br />
all the fuss was about. When he<br />
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Less than half the average rainfall this month<br />
CHRISTCHURCH has so<br />
far had less than half its usual<br />
rainfall for <strong>July</strong> with 25mm.<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest MetService data<br />
also shows the city has had<br />
145 hours of sunshine, slightly<br />
above its average of 1<strong>29</strong> hours,<br />
this month.<br />
Westport was more than<br />
likely the wettest place in the<br />
Family crowing after<br />
finally bagging Tony<br />
Jeremy<br />
McTear<br />
country this month. But forecasters<br />
can’t say for sure because<br />
the rain gauge broke during the<br />
recent flooding event.<br />
Hokitika has had a whopping<br />
315.6mm of rain so far in <strong>July</strong>,<br />
up from the month’s average of<br />
233.2mm.<br />
Wellington has had 79 per<br />
cent more rain than average so<br />
far this month, with 175.3mm,<br />
while Auckland had 87mm,<br />
compared to an average of<br />
117mm.<br />
New Plymouth continues to<br />
be the sunniest spot in New<br />
Zealand with 1479 sunshine<br />
hours so far this year, 149 of<br />
which were this month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> place with the least<br />
sunshine this month was<br />
Taumarunui, which had 98<br />
hours.<br />
<strong>The</strong> least sunniest place so<br />
far this year was Gisborne.<br />
While its sunshine hours have<br />
been about average for <strong>July</strong>, it<br />
has been much cloudier than<br />
normal, with only 993 total<br />
sunshine hours recorded.<br />
saw Tony, Ziggy would chicken<br />
out from his guard duties.<br />
A post on the community<br />
Facebook page failed to trace<br />
Tony’s owner. <strong>The</strong> McTear back-<br />
TEAM EFFORT: Ziggy the<br />
“guard dog” was out of<br />
action after surgery when<br />
Tony arrived. Above – Oliver,<br />
Jamie and Leon captured<br />
the rooster.<br />
yard had become his new home.<br />
Each morning last week, Tony<br />
woke up the family and neighbours<br />
at 5.20am.<br />
Finally, Tony was captured<br />
on Thursday, after McTear, his<br />
wife Tina and three sons, armed<br />
themselves with blankets, fishing<br />
nets, bread and a cat carry<br />
cage.<br />
“It was a team effort,” McTear<br />
said.<br />
Tony was despatched to the<br />
SPCA, where he is being put up<br />
for adoption.<br />
“Staff said he was quite<br />
grumpy on arrival,” said McTear.<br />
He said his sons asked for KFC<br />
on the way home.<br />
“We didn’t have a problem<br />
with that,” he said.<br />
“On Friday we all had a great<br />
sleep in.”<br />
Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NEWS 3<br />
in brief<br />
New classrooms for<br />
Hillmorton High<br />
An upgrade to Hillmorton<br />
High School will make it one of<br />
the fastest growing schools in<br />
Christchurch. Wigram MP and<br />
Housing Minister Megan Woods<br />
yesterday announced four<br />
shovel ready projects will be fast<br />
tracked and 17 new classrooms<br />
will be created at six schools<br />
and kura across the Canterbury,<br />
West Coast and Tasman regions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> projects include five shortterm<br />
roll growth classrooms<br />
at Hillmorton High School<br />
to meet the growing demand<br />
for schooling in the area.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school’s roll will grow by<br />
more than 100 when the new<br />
classrooms have been completed.<br />
More houses<br />
being built in city<br />
An analysis of building<br />
consents in Christchurch<br />
shows the city gained 2792<br />
new dwellings over the past 12<br />
months. That was a 12 per cent<br />
increase on the previous year<br />
and the highest annual housing<br />
gain in the city since 2000. <strong>The</strong><br />
housing gain is calculated by<br />
taking into account the number<br />
of new houses built and the<br />
number of houses removed or<br />
demolished. Most of the new<br />
homes were built in the southwest<br />
of the city, particularly<br />
Halswell. Prestons and Yaldhurst<br />
also experienced large increases.<br />
Museum gets consent<br />
for redevelopment<br />
Canterbury Museum has<br />
resource consent to proceed with<br />
a proposed multi-million dollar<br />
redevelopment of its Rolleston<br />
Ave premises. <strong>The</strong> consent was<br />
granted by the city council<br />
on Monday after a hearing in<br />
June. <strong>The</strong> museum’s proposed<br />
redevelopment is estimated to<br />
cost about $195 million, but<br />
it is still $70 million short.<br />
Museum representatives are<br />
talking to possible funders and<br />
have developed a business case<br />
to seek Government funding.<br />
Director Anthony Wright said<br />
the proposed redevelopment is<br />
critical to the museum’s ability<br />
to remain open at its current site.<br />
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Exciting discovery hints at unknown shipwreck<br />
UNCOVERED: Writings in the cave at Chalky Inlet, discovered while searching for the elusive South Island kōkako.<br />
PHOTOS: WILLOWBANK, DOC, GETTY<br />
• From page 1<br />
“You can’t help but wonder the<br />
history behind those names, why<br />
those men were there and what<br />
happened to them,” Willowbank<br />
managing director Michael<br />
Willis said yesterday.<br />
He said the exciting discovery<br />
hinted of an unknown<br />
shipwreck, perhaps dating back<br />
to the age of exploration when<br />
Dutch, French, English, Spanish<br />
and Russian ships sailed New<br />
Zealand waters.<br />
“If it had been in the later<br />
stages of exploration, people<br />
would have been more likely<br />
to know about it. <strong>The</strong> fact that<br />
people don’t know about it would<br />
suggest it is in the early days,”<br />
Willis said.<br />
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He believed it could be from as<br />
long ago as the very early 1800s<br />
or even the 1700s.<br />
Willis and fellow expedition<br />
members Mark Willis and Dale<br />
Hedgcock unearthed the cannon<br />
late last month. <strong>The</strong>y were at a<br />
Chalky Inlet beach when they<br />
spotted a small, deep orange<br />
patch among the stones.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y moved the surrounding<br />
rocks with their bare hands.<br />
“It was sheer luck that they saw<br />
it, it was a patch of rust and they<br />
knew that there was something<br />
underneath,” Willis said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> discovery followed Willis<br />
exploring a cave he happened<br />
to see the previous month while<br />
walking along the same beach,<br />
and finding the scrawlings of<br />
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names underneath the drawing<br />
of an old ship.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cave and the cannon are<br />
only about 100 metres apart,<br />
pointing to the possibility the<br />
cannon is from the ship that is<br />
drawn on its wall. <strong>The</strong> drawing<br />
of the ship is not detailed<br />
enough, however, to see if it has<br />
cannons or not.<br />
Willis said there are at least<br />
four names. <strong>The</strong>y are hard to<br />
read, but one appears to say<br />
“Jamie Rasmussen.” Rock<br />
underneath had fallen off, and<br />
it appeared that originally there<br />
may have been more names.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is also a date, which may<br />
be a year. It says 18 then a line<br />
then a zero, which could signify<br />
1810, 1870 or 1890.<br />
Willis said the mariners could<br />
have perished in the area of the<br />
beach. It was also possible they<br />
were seen by local Māori or<br />
sealers. However, these potential<br />
rescuers would not be in the area<br />
very often due to its extreme<br />
remoteness.<br />
Willis and his fellow team<br />
members, which also included<br />
Taranaki farmers Terry<br />
and Heather Nelly who are<br />
Willowbank supporters, were<br />
at Chalky Bay to install and<br />
then retrieve birdsong and<br />
trail camera equipment used to<br />
try and find the South Island<br />
kōkako.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cannon find has followed a<br />
tradition for the team of making<br />
great discoveries while searching<br />
for something completely<br />
different.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nellys sighted a kōkako<br />
about four years ago as the team<br />
searched the area for evidence of<br />
an obscure pig population.<br />
“Fiordland is just full of<br />
mysteries, there is so much going<br />
on there that no-one knows<br />
about,” Willis said.<br />
Willis said team members<br />
were now waiting for the<br />
Ministry of Culture and Heritage<br />
to get back to them about how to<br />
go about retrieving the cannon.<br />
It had been too heavy to lift into<br />
their helicopter when they found<br />
it.<br />
He said Willowbank hoped<br />
to obtain custodianship of the<br />
cannon and display it.<br />
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More motorists nabbed using bus lanes<br />
• By Chris Barclay<br />
Bus drivers on routes<br />
through Riccarton don’t just<br />
have to deal with of one the city’s<br />
busiest roads, they are often<br />
required to make unscheduled<br />
stops behind errant motorists.<br />
Riccarton Rd features prominently<br />
as a target area for enforcement<br />
of bus lane infractions<br />
by the city council.<br />
Stretches of the road occupy<br />
three of the top five locations for<br />
vehicles either driving or caught<br />
parking in a designated special<br />
vehicle lane.<br />
Figures obtained by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
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4731 in 2020.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are fined $150.<br />
Ticket revenue generated<br />
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<strong>The</strong> number of cars found<br />
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issued worth $69,860.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were 1941 tickets issued<br />
in 2019 ($1<strong>29</strong>,260). Numbers<br />
were down in 2020 (1475 –<br />
$104,018), with roads not as busy<br />
due to Covid-19 restrictions<br />
enabling more people to work<br />
from home.<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest figures for <strong>2021</strong> –<br />
to the end of March – reveal<br />
1062 motorists being ticketed<br />
($159,300) for driving in bus<br />
lanes, while there were 375 cars<br />
parked in bus lanes, raising<br />
$25,873.<br />
Revenue collected from infringement<br />
notices is diverted to<br />
the parking compliance budget.<br />
Riccarton Rd featuring prominently<br />
is not surprising given<br />
the bus lanes are operational 24<br />
hours a day, seven days a week,<br />
and are monitored by two enforcement<br />
cameras.<br />
A camera has also been<br />
installed to monitor the lanes<br />
on Main North Rd between<br />
Langdons Rd and Sawyers Arms<br />
Rd outside Northlands Shopping<br />
Centre.<br />
Other lanes are monitored by<br />
parking compliance officers.<br />
“Our enforcement activity is<br />
not about revenue gathering; it’s<br />
about ensuring the transport<br />
network is operating as it is<br />
designed to. I would be thrilled<br />
if we weren’t giving out any<br />
fines because that would mean<br />
that nobody is misusing the<br />
bus lanes,’’ said city council<br />
transport operations manager<br />
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MANOEUVRE:<br />
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for driving in<br />
a bus lane on<br />
Riccarton Rd.<br />
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you can only drive in the lane<br />
for less than 50 metres – that’s<br />
the length of an Olympic-sized<br />
swimming pool or half a rugby<br />
field,’’ Thomas said.<br />
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• By Ben Leahy<br />
IN AUCKLAND, $2 million can<br />
get you a rundown villa with no<br />
toilet.<br />
In Christchurch, a few million<br />
dollars might just net you an elegant<br />
11-bedroom mansion with<br />
sweeping city views.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 1928-built Hackthorne<br />
Gardens home in the suburb of<br />
Cashmere has just been listed for<br />
sale and sits on a huge 4034sqm<br />
hilltop site in the lower Port<br />
Hills.<br />
Yet despite being an historically<br />
important, three-storey timber<br />
home with views over Christchurch,<br />
the ocean and Southern<br />
Alps, the city council valued it at<br />
only $2.6m in 2019.<br />
<strong>The</strong> home’s marketing site<br />
doesn’t have a sale price listed,<br />
but some property websites estimate<br />
its current value at around<br />
$3.6m.<br />
Boasting a “colourful” history,<br />
the mansion has served as home<br />
base for a famous city businessman<br />
and philanthropist, residence<br />
for intellectually disabled<br />
children, and a boutique hotel.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> brief from its original<br />
owner, Archibald Henry Anthony,<br />
to renowned architect<br />
William Trengrove was for a<br />
family home in the style of an<br />
‘Englishman’s stately residence’,”<br />
the home’s advertisement by<br />
agents Harcourts said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> resulting home, built in<br />
1928, certainly delivers on that<br />
brief, incorporating elements of<br />
the Art Deco style of the day to<br />
create an unforgettable blend of<br />
romance and grandeur.”<br />
That has led the city council to<br />
declare the home as socially and<br />
culturally important.<br />
A council district plan said the<br />
mansion sits among a “precinct”<br />
of posh timber bungalows straddling<br />
the lower Port Hills that<br />
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ELEGANT: Hackthorne Gardens has gone on sale in Cashmere with sweeping views, 11<br />
bedrooms and bathrooms and a rich history. <br />
chart “the evolution of domestic<br />
architecture in the city during<br />
the first three decades of the 20th<br />
century.”<br />
And – as the flashy home of<br />
prominent 1920s businessman<br />
Anthony, who worked first as a<br />
car salesman before becoming<br />
a lawyer – its architecture also<br />
helps illustrate “the habits, tastes<br />
and lifestyle of the time.”<br />
Its other important role came<br />
when Anthony sold it in 1964 for<br />
a “modest gratuity.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> mansion then became<br />
“the Grace and Shirley Hohepa<br />
Home, (named after his late wife<br />
and daughter), a boarding school<br />
for disabled children based on<br />
Steiner principles” emphasising<br />
creative learning.<br />
<strong>The</strong> property was sold to<br />
private owners in 1987 before<br />
opening in 1994 as a luxury bedand-breakfast,<br />
the council report<br />
said.<br />
Recently, the mansion has been<br />
running as a luxury hotel after<br />
a China-based owner bought it<br />
in 2015 to serve as a private residence<br />
but later decided to open<br />
it up and “share it with others”,<br />
according to the hotel website.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mansion comes with 11<br />
bedrooms and bathrooms, a<br />
commercial kitchen, bar, grand<br />
entrance hall with “beautifully<br />
crafted staircase” and a wide terrace<br />
that runs the length of the<br />
home, giving city vistas and opening<br />
onto a “sprawling” garden.<br />
Investment in the property<br />
“is underpinned by 4034sqm of<br />
blue-chip real estate that remains<br />
as desirable today as it was when<br />
Archibald Henry Anthony first<br />
commissioned his magnificent<br />
new home”, Harcourts marketing<br />
material states.<br />
“This is a one-of-a-kind<br />
opportunity to secure a slice<br />
of history – and an exciting<br />
commercial or residential<br />
property.”<br />
—NZ Herald<br />
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VALUE: <strong>The</strong> flat in St Albans last sold in 1981 for $30,000. <br />
$30,000 buy in 1981<br />
could sell for 500k<br />
A TINY St Albans flat could<br />
fetch about 16 times what it was<br />
last sold for.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tidy two-bedroom property<br />
in Radnor St has just gone<br />
on the market, with a real estate<br />
agent headlining its listing as:<br />
“Last Sold for $30,000 in 1981.”<br />
“Incredibly 40 years on, the<br />
time has arrived for the family to<br />
sell 1/24 Radnor St,” it says.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 1970s-built 90sqm flat goes<br />
under the hammer at auction on<br />
August 12.<br />
With a 2019 rating value of<br />
$365,000, and property information<br />
site homes.co.nz estimating<br />
its worth around $505,000, the<br />
“front north-facing townhouse”<br />
is expected to be popular with<br />
first-time buyers.<br />
“This is a nice home with great<br />
neighbours, and a real community<br />
feel,” the listing says.<br />
“Yes; you could do some<br />
upgrading but alternatively, live<br />
in it and consider these options<br />
later.”<br />
But the listing has attracted<br />
widespread comment online,<br />
with a Reddit thread titled “Real<br />
estate agents rubbing it in”<br />
getting more than 120 comments.<br />
“Taking into account inflation,<br />
that $30,000 in 1981 is equivalent<br />
to $142,000 now,” one poster says.<br />
Another says: “I’m trying to<br />
think of all the things I could<br />
possibly do with the spare cash<br />
I’d have if my mortgage was a<br />
mere $142,000. I keep coming<br />
back to “Scrooge McDuck pool of<br />
money.”<br />
—NZ Herald<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
• By Samantha Mythen<br />
NEW APARTMENTS in<br />
Sumner may be one step closer to<br />
being built.<br />
Marriner Developments Ltd<br />
part owner Shane Kennedy, who<br />
is developing the Marriner St<br />
site, has met with the city council<br />
in recent weeks over more information<br />
needed for a resource<br />
consent application.<br />
Eight units, including a top<br />
floor penthouse, and a ground<br />
floor wine bar are planned.<br />
A resource consent was submitted<br />
in December last year,<br />
and further information was<br />
requested by the city council in<br />
February.<br />
<strong>The</strong> maximum height of buildings<br />
under the Sumner Master<br />
Plan is 13m. <strong>The</strong> proposed new<br />
apartment is about 16.45m in<br />
height.<br />
<strong>The</strong> apartments will be built on<br />
what was formerly known as the<br />
Cave Rock apartment complex,<br />
which was badly damaged in the<br />
earthquakes.<br />
A long battle followed between<br />
the owners of the 49 apartments<br />
and an onsite tavern with their<br />
insurer. <strong>The</strong>n there was more<br />
conflict over how to divide<br />
the $21 million payout among<br />
apartment owners.<br />
That dispute was eventually<br />
settled in the High Court in<br />
2019.<br />
Kennedy would not say how<br />
long his company had owned the<br />
site.<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council requested<br />
numerous information for the<br />
resource consent application,<br />
including issues related to flood<br />
hazards, zone-specific noise<br />
rules, sensitive activities near<br />
roads and railways, outdoor<br />
lighting, signs, minimum number<br />
of car park and cycle parking<br />
rules, manoeuvring for parking<br />
Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NEWS 7<br />
Developer and city council<br />
in talks over Sumner plan<br />
ARTIST’S IMPRESSION: <strong>The</strong> proposed development,<br />
viewed from the intersection of Marriner and Nayland Sts.<br />
and loading areas, access design,<br />
earthworks, Ngāi Tahu values<br />
and the natural environment,<br />
and building height.<br />
Kennedy said is currently<br />
working on finalising a response<br />
to the city council. A date to hear<br />
the resource consent has not<br />
been set.<br />
He was hopeful building would<br />
start this year.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> whole area was previously<br />
downgraded and old, it will<br />
be nice to give Sumner what it<br />
deserves with this new build,”<br />
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• By Chris Barclay<br />
A DECADE on from the<br />
earthquakes, 103 people<br />
who received physical and<br />
psychological injuries – or<br />
both – still have active claims<br />
with ACC, with financial<br />
commitments still significant<br />
despite numbers gradually<br />
decreasing.<br />
Figures obtained by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
reveal there were 20 fewer claims<br />
on the ACC’s books for the 2020-<br />
<strong>2021</strong> financial year, compared to<br />
2019-2020.<br />
From the existing claims,<br />
82 were classified as physical<br />
injuries and nine as mental<br />
injuries, while a dozen claims<br />
were a combination of both.<br />
ACC paid out $3,050,959<br />
for those claims, compared to<br />
$2,636, 894 during 2019-2020.<br />
<strong>The</strong> amount needed for<br />
physical injuries dropped from<br />
$1,926,237 to $1,808 – 805 with<br />
17 claims resolved.<br />
But that reduction was offset<br />
by mental injuries ($350,653 to<br />
$571,008) and physical/mental<br />
injuries ($360,004 to $671,146)<br />
requiring a greater financial<br />
commitment.<br />
Unsurprisingly, the 2011/2012<br />
financial year produced the<br />
highest expenditure on claims<br />
from the February 22, 2011<br />
earthquake: $12,140,380, with<br />
the bulk devoted to physical<br />
injury treatment ($10,618,068).<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were 5996 claims in<br />
2011-2012. Minor physical injury<br />
claims appear to have been<br />
resolved swiftly – 7879 physical<br />
injury claims were made in 2010-<br />
2011, while 12 months later the<br />
number had reduced to 5904.<br />
<strong>The</strong> greatest number of<br />
physical injury claims became<br />
inactive in 2012-2013, when 4715<br />
dropped off the books.<br />
Meanwhile, the number of<br />
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ACC earthquake claims continue<br />
ONGOING: <strong>The</strong> Latimer Square triage centre after the February 22, 2011 earthquake.<br />
Today many people still receive financial assistance to live with physical and mental<br />
injuries caused by the disaster.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
claimants receiving weekly<br />
compensation relating to the<br />
earthquake peaked in 2010/2011<br />
at 327 (306 physical, 13 mental,<br />
eight physical/mental),<br />
although the bill amounted<br />
to $1,337,393.<br />
In the following financial year<br />
the claimants had reduced to 240<br />
– the only category to increase<br />
was mental injury from 13 to 30<br />
– but the expenditure surged to<br />
$2,796,151.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are currently 20<br />
claimants across all three<br />
categories, absorbing $1,337,658.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bulk of the money is<br />
required for death benefits –<br />
weekly compensation ($830,487)<br />
followed by support for<br />
independence care ($357,664).<br />
Conveyance for medical<br />
treatment was the smallest cost<br />
for the 2020-<strong>2021</strong> financial year:<br />
$1227.<br />
• Quake research page 18<br />
Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NEWS 9<br />
Exploring<br />
trauma<br />
A NEW exhibition at<br />
Christchurch Art Gallery will<br />
reflect on how we cope with<br />
trauma and the ways it can<br />
transform a community.<br />
All of the featured artists have<br />
documented the aftermath of<br />
traumatic events using photography,<br />
moving image and graphic<br />
design. Several explore the years<br />
following the 2010 and 2011<br />
earthquakes.<br />
Said art gallery director Blair<br />
Jackson: “From a starting point<br />
of examining what the people of<br />
Ōtautahi Christchurch have been<br />
through in the last decade, Things<br />
That Shape Us spreads its focus<br />
to look at the trauma caused by<br />
racism, inequality, climate change<br />
and indigenous politics, from the<br />
colonisation of Aotearoa to the<br />
bombing of Nagasaki.”<br />
Christchurch photographer Tim<br />
J. Veling documents the structures<br />
that were installed to support damaged<br />
buildings, “echoing the care<br />
and empathy people had for each<br />
other,” said Jackson.<br />
Miranda Parkes captures the<br />
anxiety caused by the earthquakes,<br />
Ella Sutherland considers<br />
the future of the art gallery<br />
building itself, and John Miller<br />
has been photographing protests<br />
across New Zealand for 50 years.<br />
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Council snubs own venue for expo<br />
• By Chris Barclay<br />
THE CITY council’s decision<br />
to stage a technology and<br />
innovation expo at the new<br />
government-owned Te Pae<br />
convention centre ahead of<br />
its own Venues Otautahi-run<br />
facilities is under scrutiny.<br />
City<br />
councillor<br />
Yani Johanson<br />
hoped the Smart<br />
Christchurch<br />
Innovation<br />
Expo <strong>2021</strong><br />
would not create<br />
a dangerous<br />
Yani<br />
Johanson<br />
precedent<br />
as Venues<br />
Otautahi faces<br />
intense competition from Te Pae<br />
when it opens in late October.<br />
Venues Otautahi chief executive<br />
Caroline Harvie-Teare said<br />
it was not aware of a bidding or<br />
lobbying process for the expo<br />
and admitted Te Pae had the<br />
potential to adversely impact on<br />
the operation.<br />
“Venues Otautahi is acutely<br />
aware of the shift in focus of Te<br />
Pae to the local and national<br />
market as a result of Covid-19<br />
border restrictions,” she said.<br />
“Heightened awareness of<br />
environmental issues associated<br />
with business travel and<br />
increased venue supply in<br />
Christchurch at a time when<br />
event demand is contracting<br />
means the opening of Te Pae has<br />
the potential to result in a loss of<br />
revenue for Venues Otautahi.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> two-day Expo, run by the<br />
council’s Smart Cities Christchurch<br />
initiative, will showcase the<br />
convention centre when it is held<br />
from October 31 to November 1.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> concern is this will be an<br />
ongoing thing and, in a few years<br />
time, we’re just funding event<br />
after event at the convention<br />
centre while our own facilities<br />
are suffering from a lack of use,”<br />
Johanson said.<br />
He believed the city already<br />
had ample conference space,<br />
given the emergence and longterm<br />
effects of Covid-19.<br />
“You’ve got the (Christ<br />
Church) Cathedral building, a<br />
new function space, you’ve got<br />
the town hall, the library was<br />
bookable function space, the<br />
convention centre . . . I can’t<br />
personally see where the demand<br />
where these conferences is going<br />
to come from, That (view) was<br />
even 10 years ago, before Covid,”<br />
he said.<br />
Like Harvie-Teare, Johanson<br />
said Te Pae, which is run by<br />
United States-based events and<br />
management heavyweight ASM<br />
Global, would now target smaller<br />
events that impact on the town<br />
hall and Christchurch Arena,<br />
key components of Venues<br />
Otautahi’s portfolio and revenue<br />
stream.<br />
“Since Covid, it’s not actually<br />
about the big events, there will<br />
be a few of those, but probably<br />
the greater opportunity is to<br />
poach the events off the council<br />
facilities,” he said.<br />
“It’s going to be a huge challenge<br />
and the worst outcome is<br />
ratepayers and taxpayers pay<br />
to compete against each other’s<br />
venues – the council-owned<br />
facilities against the governmentowned<br />
convention centre.”<br />
Mayor Lianne Dalziel would<br />
not comment, directing <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
to Smart Cities manager Michael<br />
Healy.<br />
“We’re open to hearing any<br />
feedback and thoughts on where<br />
future expos might be held,” he<br />
said.<br />
“In this instance, being one<br />
of the first public-facing events<br />
at this exciting new venue was a<br />
great fit for the expo, which is all<br />
about showcasing Christchurch<br />
to residents, industry and the<br />
rest of the country as New Zealand’s<br />
innovation hub.<br />
“We considered a range of<br />
venues, as we did in 2019 when<br />
the expo was held in the newly<br />
reopened Christchurch Town<br />
Hall.”<br />
Healy would not reveal the<br />
venue fee for the expo but said it<br />
would not be a cost to ratepayers<br />
as the event was covered by<br />
sponsorship and exhibitor fees.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are no other councilproduced<br />
events scheduled at Te<br />
Pae.<br />
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NEWS<br />
Call for support<br />
• From page 1<br />
Booth is among bereaved<br />
family members calling for<br />
a reduction to the years-long<br />
delays. <strong>The</strong>y want more coroners,<br />
access to free legal representation<br />
and medical experts during the<br />
inquest process, as well as more<br />
support.<br />
His friend and fellow parent<br />
Corinda Taylor is still waiting<br />
after more than eight years since<br />
she lost her son Ross to suspected<br />
suicide.<br />
Said Booth: “It’s like<br />
waiting on a birthday<br />
but you don’t know<br />
what the date is. You<br />
don’t know how long<br />
you have to wait, you<br />
don’t know whether it’s<br />
next week, next month<br />
or next year.”<br />
Booth fears that<br />
the there is so much<br />
backlog in inquiries,<br />
that the coroner will make their<br />
finding on Liam’s death following<br />
a hearing “on the papers.” <strong>The</strong>se<br />
are not public hearings, and<br />
family members, witnesses and<br />
other parties do not attend.<br />
Booth wanted the hearing,<br />
which happens towards the end<br />
of the inquiry, to be an inquest.<br />
Inquests are generally held in<br />
court and the coroner can hear<br />
from witnesses in person.<br />
He said this would give him the<br />
opportunity to question health<br />
authorities and personnel about<br />
what he believed was a failure in<br />
their duty of care.<br />
“I want to look them in the eye,<br />
so they can see the end result of<br />
not doing their job correctly,”<br />
Booth said.<br />
Coroner Bruce Hesketh told<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> every death reported to<br />
the coroner was different, and<br />
coroners must consider evidence<br />
from a range of sources.<br />
“While a coroner will also<br />
typically seek medical<br />
information, they<br />
may put their inquiry<br />
on hold pending the<br />
outcome of another<br />
agency’s investigation,”<br />
Hesketh said.<br />
This was the case<br />
for Liam’s death,<br />
where the Health and<br />
Geoff Disability Commission<br />
Booth is conducting an<br />
investigation.<br />
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complete (in these sorts of cases),<br />
a decision can be made about<br />
whether an inquest will be held,”<br />
Hesketh said.<br />
Chief coroner Judge Deborah<br />
Marshall said a programme of<br />
work was underway to address<br />
average time frames for the<br />
completion of coroners’<br />
inquiries.<br />
Booth welcomed the work<br />
underway and initiatives<br />
being planned.<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Successful campaign to<br />
clean up VC family’s plot<br />
MEMORIALS to Charles<br />
Upham, New Zealand’s<br />
most decorated soldier, and<br />
Sergeant Henry Nicholas,<br />
Canterbury’s first Victoria Cross<br />
recipient, have been restored<br />
in Christchurch – thanks to<br />
an English-born Korean War<br />
veteran and a war-graverestoring<br />
charity.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has followed Ken<br />
Wright’s plea in recent weeks to<br />
repair Sergeant Henry Nicholas’<br />
earthquake-damaged family<br />
plot in Bromley cemetery, before<br />
Upham’s resting place was also<br />
spruced up in Papanui.<br />
Masons conscripted by the<br />
New Zealand Remembrance<br />
Army righted the toppled Nicholas<br />
headstone; volunteers repainted<br />
the lettering and affixed<br />
ceramic poppies recognising the<br />
service of Nicholas and his two<br />
brothers in World War 1.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lincoln-born 27-year-old<br />
was awarded the VC for an attack<br />
on a German stronghold in<br />
Belgium in December, 1917.<br />
He was killed in France on<br />
October 23, 1918, shortly before<br />
the armistice.<br />
Frederick Charles and Ernest<br />
Nicholas, who also served in the<br />
conflict before returning home.<br />
Upham, who was born in<br />
Christchurch in 1908, is one of<br />
only three people to be awarded<br />
the VC twice – for actions in<br />
Crete in 1941 and Egypt a year<br />
later. He died in 1994 and is<br />
buried with wife Molly.<br />
New Zealand Remembrance<br />
Army chief executive Simon<br />
Strombom was proud to have<br />
answered Wright’s call for assistance.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s hundreds of these<br />
graves in New Zealand to repair<br />
like this. With $2 million we<br />
could do all the graves across the<br />
country,” he said.<br />
“We think two out of three<br />
New Zealanders – more, potentially<br />
more – who were killed in<br />
REPAIRED: Ken Wright<br />
waged a successful<br />
campaign to clean up the<br />
graves of VC recipients<br />
Captain Charles Upham<br />
(above) and Sergeant Henry<br />
Nicholas.<br />
action have a memorial grave<br />
from World War One.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y’re a real problem because<br />
sometimes the families<br />
have ceased to exist, no one looks<br />
after them. We’ve put about 2500<br />
poppies on memorial graves.”<br />
A re-dedication ceremony for<br />
the Nicholas plot is expected to<br />
be held by the end of August.<br />
Army volunteers also spruced<br />
up the Upham grave at St Paul’s<br />
Anglican church after being<br />
alerted by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> lettering on the plaque<br />
was faded so we gave it a refresh,”<br />
Strombom said.<br />
• Read more about Ken<br />
Wright on pages 16-17
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STOLEN: Building materials and an outboard motor were taken during an overnight theft from a building site in West Melton.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
Building cost increase sees rise in theft<br />
• By Susan Sandys<br />
THE THREAT of building<br />
materials being stolen from<br />
building sites is increasing as<br />
costs rise, says Master Builders.<br />
Construction costs have<br />
skyrocketed: Reports in recent<br />
days have revealed the price of<br />
steel and timber is up 15 per<br />
cent, brickwork is up 20 per cent<br />
in two months, cedar cladding is<br />
up 50 per cent in three months,<br />
while steel is up 60 per cent in<br />
eight months.<br />
Last week about $8500 of<br />
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neighbouring homes under<br />
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Builders New Zealand president<br />
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market for building materials<br />
affected by rising costs and<br />
supply issues.<br />
“It’s always been around, but<br />
now the materials are becoming<br />
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white ware and tools, but now<br />
everything is on the table,”<br />
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He urged builders to make<br />
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thieves. <strong>The</strong>y could invest in<br />
a portable security camera<br />
system, tie up or bolt down<br />
packs of timber on site, or pick<br />
up building materials in smaller<br />
portions from merchants and<br />
use them as they went.<br />
For the West Melton theft,<br />
the thieves struck overnight<br />
on Tuesday at the Wilfield<br />
subdivision, stealing an outboard<br />
motor from a boat, and building<br />
materials.<br />
Builder Jessie de Wys said<br />
about $5000 of materials<br />
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six sheets of six-metre roofing<br />
iron, about 30 metres of 6x2<br />
timber framing, and fixing<br />
componentry was stolen from<br />
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Homes was building a house.<br />
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think you can put that in the<br />
paper,” de Wys said.<br />
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a boat, and an entire delivery of<br />
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cavity batons, surfeit sheets,<br />
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16<br />
our people – ken wright<br />
From <strong>The</strong> Blitz to Bromley – armed<br />
Able Seaman<br />
Ken Wright put<br />
interservice rivalries<br />
aside when he found<br />
the damaged family<br />
plot of Canterbury’s<br />
first Victoria Cross<br />
recipient, Sergeant<br />
Henry Nicholas, on<br />
a wander through<br />
Bromley cemetery.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Korea War veteran<br />
then launched a<br />
successful campaign to<br />
repair the earthquakedamaged<br />
resting place.<br />
Chris Barclay revisits<br />
Wright’s wartime<br />
experiences and his<br />
peaceful transition<br />
to Christchurch via<br />
Dunedin<br />
SERVICE: Ken Wright today and at 15, three weeks into<br />
Royal Navy training, which saw him spend 2 1/2 years on<br />
the HMS Ceylon (below). As a child in London he was sent<br />
north during <strong>The</strong> Blitz (top right). Later, he was part of the<br />
barrack guard that lined Fleet Street for Princess Margaret’s<br />
wedding.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
You’re from London, innit?<br />
So there must be a football team<br />
you follow?<br />
Queens Park Rangers. I was<br />
born round Kingsbury but I lived<br />
in Willesden, northwest London.<br />
I had a trial for their nursery<br />
team. It was a lovely day and I<br />
played a blinder. I got the call<br />
to go to another one and it was<br />
piddling with rain. I played like a<br />
clown and needless to say I didn’t<br />
get another call.<br />
But you took to another<br />
profession like the proverbial<br />
duck to water at age 15 when you<br />
managed to join the Royal Navy<br />
in 1950?<br />
Dad didn’t like the idea, I had<br />
to fill in some of the papers and<br />
sign for him. <strong>The</strong>y accepted me.<br />
I put 17 down, but they crossed it<br />
out. <strong>The</strong>y knew I was lying. I had<br />
13 months at HMS St Vincent, a<br />
training establishment for boys<br />
and juniors in Portsmouth. I<br />
always wanted to join the navy.<br />
Backtracking, you were born<br />
in 1935. Do you still have vivid<br />
memories of World War 2?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s things you never forget,<br />
especially the bombing. <strong>The</strong> V2s<br />
(flying bombs) and all that stuff.<br />
Having to go down to a shelter in<br />
the courtyard of our estate that<br />
was covered in piss. <strong>The</strong>y didn’t<br />
care, some of the people. <strong>The</strong>y’d<br />
use it as a toilet and bugger off.<br />
Sometimes mum would stick us<br />
in a cupboard under the stairs.<br />
We had a little bed there. I was<br />
four when it started, you grew up<br />
very quick. We were bombed out<br />
(with incendiaries) three times,<br />
twice in 1941 and also 1943.<br />
Were you evacuated to safer<br />
ground during <strong>The</strong> Blitz?<br />
After the second (family<br />
home was destroyed) dad said:<br />
‘You’re going up north’. I went to<br />
Birmingham when I was seven<br />
with my brother (Stan was 10)<br />
for about two months. Although<br />
the people were nice who put<br />
us up, we thought we belonged<br />
at home. We went to school one<br />
morning and went straight to<br />
the A5 and down to London. A<br />
truck driver dropped us all the<br />
way home. I won’t tell you what<br />
mum (Dorothy) said, the old<br />
man (Frank) was dead cross. He<br />
was a fireman; mum worked in a<br />
munitions factory.<br />
Despite the death and<br />
destruction, to some extent<br />
did you feel bulletproof at that<br />
age? You used to pursue the<br />
Doddlebugs when they were<br />
whistling by and dropping from<br />
June 1944.<br />
We were the second site for<br />
the V1 and 2s (unguided jetpropelled<br />
missiles) to come in,<br />
north-west London. <strong>The</strong> East<br />
End had a hell of a battering. You<br />
heard them first, they made a hell<br />
of a noise, then they’d go silent.<br />
We got on our bikes and we’d<br />
chase after them. <strong>The</strong>n we just<br />
stood back and watched or they’d<br />
go off before we got there. To see<br />
someone’s house blown up wasn’t<br />
very nice really.<br />
You were obviously too young<br />
to enlist in World War 2, but<br />
by 16 you were experiencing<br />
another conflict, thousands of<br />
nautical miles from home.<br />
I’d never even heard of the<br />
Korean War and it had been<br />
going eight months. We were<br />
only kids, you didn’t even read<br />
a newspaper. One day we were<br />
told we were going to Liverpool<br />
by train and we’re going to<br />
catch a troopship out towards<br />
the Mediterreanan. We got out<br />
to the Med and they put us in<br />
the picture, we weren’t here<br />
for a holiday. We were to join<br />
(the crew) of two cruisers. I<br />
started on the Belfast, we did<br />
bombardments, mainly at night,<br />
off the west coast. We actually<br />
hit a train. <strong>The</strong> captain was well<br />
pleased. We were hit once, a<br />
shell from a shore battery went<br />
through and killed one of the<br />
cooks.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were confronting sights<br />
too, weren’t there, involving<br />
downed enemy pilots or sailors?<br />
Some bodies swelled up, they<br />
were bloated. <strong>The</strong> Royal Marines<br />
used to go up to the fo’c’sle end,<br />
the sharp end, and shoot holes in<br />
them so they’d go down. It was<br />
just the same as giving them a<br />
burial at sea.<br />
Speaking of imagery, there’s<br />
some tattoos on your arms,<br />
when did you embark on that<br />
seafaring rite of passage?<br />
<strong>The</strong> first one ever in Singapore<br />
– 1951. That’s when they were<br />
using a needle, not electric or<br />
nothing, just a plain needle in a<br />
holder. <strong>The</strong>y’d dip it in ink. This<br />
was in a village in Singapore, a<br />
right out of the way place. What<br />
does it signify? ‘Mum and Dad’,<br />
because we were all mum and<br />
dad boys.<br />
How long was your tour of<br />
duty in Korea?<br />
We were there for 15 months,<br />
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TOGETHER: Ken and Bronwyn have been married for 31 years; Ken next to the repaired<br />
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You also steamed into other<br />
troubled waters north of the<br />
38th parallel during your decade<br />
on the high seas.<br />
We did the Suez Crisis (second<br />
Arab-Israeli war). That only<br />
took six days (October <strong>29</strong> –<br />
November 7, 1956). <strong>The</strong>n we had<br />
the Cyprus Emergency, we used<br />
to do the patrol round the island<br />
trying to catch (Greek Cypriot)<br />
gunrunners.<br />
Before those confrontations<br />
the Ceylon was engaged in escort<br />
duty, which brought you to New<br />
Zealand just before Christmas<br />
1953.<br />
After Korea we went down<br />
to Hong Kong. We were told to<br />
clean up the ship because we were<br />
going to escort Queen Elizabeth<br />
II (the first reigning monarch to<br />
visit New Zealand). We got to<br />
Auckland on December 23. When<br />
he got to Dunedin we anchored<br />
outside Port Chalmers because<br />
the harbour was too small. We<br />
got shore leave and took the train<br />
to Dunedin, that made my day.<br />
It was beautiful, I just fell in love<br />
with the place. It was a great<br />
difference for people like me who<br />
lived in a bombed-out bloody<br />
London to a place so peaceful like<br />
that. I always said I’d come back<br />
to Dunedin.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen boarded the Ceylon<br />
during that tour to show her<br />
appreciation. Tell us about your<br />
dealings with her sister, Princess<br />
Margaret.<br />
I was drafted into the barrack<br />
guard at St Vincent, it was all<br />
ceremonial stuff. We lined Fleet St<br />
for Princess Margaret’s wedding<br />
(to Anthony Armstrong-Jones<br />
in May 1960). It was part of the<br />
parade route. If anyone came<br />
forward we pushed them back. A<br />
few years later I was working in<br />
a timber yard; Princess Margaret<br />
and Armstrong-Jones were<br />
building a pagoda on the little<br />
lake at their place in Reigate. We<br />
had tea and buns with them. Tony<br />
was a nice bloke, very sociable.<br />
He’d be be working alongside us,<br />
banging nails in.<br />
What other employment<br />
occupied your time as a<br />
landlubber?<br />
I learnt to drive an electric milk<br />
float, then I was a conductor and<br />
driver on the London buses. I had<br />
the 52 out of Victoria up to Mill<br />
Hill and the 6 to Brixton. I did<br />
that for two years then I got a bit<br />
fed up arguing with people who<br />
didn’t want to pay the fare. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
I took on window cleaning and<br />
decorating.<br />
British sex comedy movie<br />
Julie Walters<br />
Confessions of a Window Cleaner<br />
was released in 1974. Anything<br />
you’d be willing to divulge?<br />
I was cleaning the windows<br />
in Chelsea/Fulham one day, just<br />
casual, and there’s (actress) Julie<br />
Walters in the nuddy, standing<br />
there like a goddess. She was quite<br />
a star in them days. I cleaned that<br />
window twice over.<br />
You fulfilled the pledge to<br />
come back to Dunedin, because<br />
an Otago lass on her OE in<br />
1988 started pulling pints<br />
at your local in Surrey, <strong>The</strong><br />
Blackamoor’s Head.<br />
I met Bronwyn in Chessington.<br />
She was only there by chance. She<br />
was staying with a friend and one<br />
day decided she’d walk one way to<br />
Chessington instead of the other<br />
way to Tolworth. She went into<br />
the pub and got a job.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s a 30-year age gap, that<br />
must have been a talking point<br />
in the boozer?<br />
We got a bit of ridicule in the<br />
beginning in England, not sure so<br />
much here. It was more: ‘Good on<br />
you’. We’ve been married 31 years.<br />
We had Hayley and Samantha<br />
when I was 56 and 58. Being an<br />
older father didn’t hold me back<br />
much, I was fit and healthy back<br />
then. Window cleaning and the<br />
decorating kept you in pretty<br />
good nick. <strong>The</strong> age difference<br />
means a bit more now, I’m getting<br />
lazy, which is a shame really.<br />
After flitting between the<br />
UK and Dunedin since 1990,<br />
you settled in Mosgiel in 2001.<br />
During a visit to Christchurch<br />
soon after you found Henry<br />
Nicholas’ family plot in Bromley<br />
cemetery. <strong>The</strong> headstone was<br />
upright then, but not when you<br />
moved to Christchurch last<br />
November to be closer to your<br />
daughters.<br />
It was a bloody mess and for<br />
a chap that’s got the VC, he<br />
deserves a lot better than that.<br />
Being an ex-serviceman I revere<br />
the Victoria Cross. Fortunately<br />
the (New Zealand) Remembrance<br />
Army stepped up to repair it.<br />
We’ve donated to (the army)<br />
and we encourage other<br />
people to do the same for things<br />
like this.<br />
Does the UK do a better job<br />
commemorating their war dead?<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have war graves (<strong>The</strong><br />
Commonwealth War Graves<br />
Commission), they cover all of<br />
that. <strong>The</strong>y go into Europe and<br />
cover France, Belgium . . . it’s<br />
quite a big outfit. On one of our<br />
trips over there we went to the<br />
cemetery (Kensall Green All<br />
Souls’) to see my parents’ and<br />
there’s a site (immaculate) there<br />
with New Zealanders.<br />
You’ve got a fresh<br />
commemoration inked on your<br />
right forearm two months ago to<br />
illustrate your time at sea, don’t<br />
you?<br />
It’s a bottle of Pusser’s British<br />
Navy Rum, you had a tot every<br />
day at lunchtime. Sailor’s grave?<br />
I hope to be buried at sea. Ashes,<br />
over the top. I’m happy to be off<br />
the coast of New Zealand.<br />
A little bit will be saved and<br />
taken back to England. <strong>The</strong>y’ll tip<br />
them off the Belfast, into<br />
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NEWS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Understanding how earthquakes work<br />
Scientists have<br />
reconstructed 2016’s 7.8<br />
Kaikōura Earthquake in<br />
unprecedented detail<br />
to reveal fascinating<br />
new insights about one<br />
of the most complex<br />
shakes observed<br />
anywhere in the world.<br />
Jamie Morton reports<br />
KICKING OFF near Culverden<br />
just after midnight on November<br />
14, the two minute-long quake<br />
shook the country with the<br />
equivalent energy release of 400<br />
atomic bombs and triggered a<br />
seismic ripple that set off more<br />
than 20 faults.<br />
Nowhere was this domino<br />
effect more dramatic than along<br />
Marlborough’s Kekerengu Fault,<br />
which, in some places, appeared<br />
at the surface as raised-up folds<br />
of earth stretching across farmland.<br />
Several years, tens of thousands<br />
of aftershocks and nearly<br />
$2b of insurance claims later, scientists<br />
have been left with many<br />
lingering questions to answer.<br />
Among them: Precisely how<br />
the quake started, why it was<br />
that so many faults were involved<br />
and why the quake ended at<br />
Cape Campbell, 216km away<br />
from its epicentre in the heart of<br />
north Canterbury.<br />
A yet more intriguing question<br />
was its potential link to our largest<br />
geological hazard – the huge<br />
tectonic plate boundary that is<br />
the Hikurangi Subduction Zone<br />
– and its interface deep beneath<br />
the northern South Island.<br />
“All of these questions have<br />
received attention prior to our<br />
work, but they have not yet been<br />
conclusively solved,” said Dr<br />
Calum Chamberlain, a seismologist<br />
at Victoria University in<br />
Wellington and lead author of<br />
the study, just published in the<br />
journal JGR: Solid Earth.<br />
It was the sheer complexity<br />
of faulting, he explained, that<br />
made the earthquake so difficult<br />
to understand, nearly five years<br />
later.<br />
“Although we have an excellent<br />
understanding of what the faults<br />
look like at the surface, thanks<br />
to an incredible effort by New<br />
Zealand geologists, this mapping<br />
doesn’t directly tell us what is<br />
happening at depth – which is<br />
where most of the slip happens<br />
in earthquakes.”<br />
After building a decade-long<br />
dataset of precise earthquake<br />
locations and magnitudes, the<br />
study team drew on a technique<br />
allowing them to link known<br />
quakes with others that were so<br />
small they hadn’t been included<br />
in GeoNet’s catalogue.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y then computed accurate<br />
locations of each of the 33,328<br />
quakes in their database between<br />
2009 and 2020, and modelled the<br />
faulting style of 1,750 of these<br />
events.<br />
“This provided the most detailed<br />
and complete view of faulting<br />
at depth beneath the faults<br />
that ruptured in the Kaikōura<br />
earthquake to date.”<br />
As had earlier been suspected,<br />
they were able to confirm the<br />
event began as a simple slip<br />
of the Humps Fault, before<br />
propagating northward across<br />
the South Island, as well as out<br />
onto offshore thrust faults, which<br />
were likely the main source of an<br />
associated tsumani.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Papatea Fault, unmapped<br />
before the quake and running<br />
along a similar path to the lower<br />
Clarence River in Marlborough,<br />
produced a 19km-long surface<br />
rupture and shunted a large area<br />
of mountainous country up by<br />
SHUNTED: <strong>The</strong> Papatea<br />
Fault, unmapped before<br />
the quake, produced a<br />
19km-long surface rupture.<br />
PHOTO: MARK MITCHELL<br />
8m in a matter of seconds.<br />
“We suggest that fault-linkages<br />
between the offshore thrust<br />
faults and the Papatea Fault help<br />
to explain the unusually high<br />
slip on the Papatea Fault, by<br />
providing it with more area to<br />
accommodate this slip,” Chamberlain<br />
said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> study team, including scientists<br />
from GNS Science, Victoria<br />
University, the Massachusetts<br />
Institute of Technology (MIT) in<br />
the US and the Swiss Seismological<br />
Service, also added a further<br />
fault to the tally of more than 20<br />
already identified.<br />
That was a previously unknown<br />
one that linked the<br />
Papatea Fault to the Clarence<br />
Fault, which was another major<br />
component of the wider Marlborough<br />
Fault System.<br />
“All of these structures play an<br />
important role in explaining the<br />
strongly variable deformation<br />
and slip around this fault junction,”<br />
Chamberlain said.<br />
“Our earthquake catalogue<br />
also shows that the Kaikōura<br />
aftershock sequence reactivated<br />
the faults that ruptured in the<br />
2013 Cook Strait and Lake<br />
Grassmere earthquakes.<br />
“This suggests that the rupture<br />
could have continued past those<br />
faults, but they likely slowed<br />
it down as they had recently<br />
slipped a few years earlier.”<br />
But when they analysed related<br />
activity along the underlying<br />
Hikurangi subduction interface,<br />
they found almost no<br />
aftershocks.<br />
“By learning how<br />
faults in the Kaikōura<br />
earthquake linked<br />
together, we will<br />
develop a better<br />
understanding of<br />
the range of possible<br />
earthquakes here.”<br />
—Dr Calum Chamberlain<br />
UPHEAVAL: A stretch of earth raised up<br />
when the Leader Fault ruptured became<br />
know as the “Wall of Waiau” (left), while<br />
State Highway 1 was left out of action<br />
for months after the Kaikōura earthquale.<br />
PHOTOS: KATE PEDLEY/NELSON<br />
MARLBOROUGH HELICOPTER RESCUE/NZ<br />
HERALD<br />
“We have shown that the<br />
Hikurangi subduction zone<br />
here hasn’t generated significant<br />
aftershocks, despite slipping after<br />
the earthquake,” he said.<br />
“This suggests that the interface<br />
here may be less likely to<br />
be a direct source of earthquake<br />
shaking.<br />
“However, this is now the subject<br />
of ongoing research to look<br />
at more data and try and identify<br />
whether there are any other<br />
earthquakes on the interface.”<br />
Interestingly, they also confirmed<br />
that there’d been few<br />
aftershocks on the Papatea and<br />
Kekerengu Faults, despite their<br />
dramatic parts in the event.<br />
“We infer that these faults<br />
released close to all of the stress<br />
accumulated on them, resulting<br />
in very little or no slip happening<br />
on them after the earthquake.”<br />
Ultimately, Chamberlain said<br />
the study highlighted the scrambled<br />
nature of faulting in the top<br />
half of the South Island.<br />
“Kaikōura remains a very<br />
complicated earthquake, but<br />
by resolving fault structures at<br />
depth through mapping of aftershocks,<br />
we can understand how<br />
these complicated earthquakes<br />
work,” he said.<br />
“New Zealand has a lot of<br />
faults, and the potential for linking<br />
of these faults in rupturechains<br />
during single earthquakes<br />
is currently poorly understood.<br />
“By learning how faults in the<br />
Kaikōura earthquake linked<br />
together, we will develop a better<br />
understanding of the range of<br />
DESTROYED: This building<br />
at Banks Peninsula’s Little<br />
Pigeon Bay was knocked off<br />
its foundations.<br />
PHOTO: NZ HERALD<br />
possible earthquakes here.”<br />
Meanwhile, another team of<br />
researchers who took a sharper<br />
look at the earthquake’s accompanying<br />
tsunami say that event<br />
left plenty of its own questions to<br />
explore.<br />
While the quake might be best<br />
remembered for the destruction<br />
it wrought to highways – not to<br />
mention the thousands of landslides<br />
and kilometres of coastal<br />
uplift it caused – the tsunami<br />
that it triggered was also a major<br />
feature of the late-night event.<br />
Over 25 minutes after the<br />
quake, the tide level at the<br />
Kaikōura tide gauge dropped<br />
about 2.5m, before the water<br />
level rose by about 4m and a<br />
series of waves began rushing in<br />
over several hours.<br />
It was later found to have<br />
reached a height of about 7m at<br />
Goose Bay, about 17km south of<br />
Kaikōura, and at nearby Oaro,<br />
left marine debris scattered<br />
across the river floodplain.<br />
Further south in Banks<br />
Peninsula, the only building at<br />
Little Pigeon Bay, an unoccupied<br />
holiday home, was knocked off<br />
its foundations by a tsunami estimated<br />
at 5m high.<br />
In a studypublished in the New<br />
Zealand Journal of Geology and<br />
Geophysics, Niwa hydrodynamic<br />
scientist Dr Emily Lane and her<br />
colleagues analysed five years<br />
of research carried out in the<br />
tsunami’s wake.<br />
While much had been learned,<br />
they found many open questions<br />
remained.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y included what the best<br />
rapid modelling approach was in<br />
a tsunami – on the night, simpler<br />
models were found to perform<br />
as well or better than more complete<br />
ones – and how the lessons<br />
of that local event might be used<br />
to better understand the characteristics<br />
of ancient ones.<br />
“Learning as much as we can<br />
from modern events is crucial<br />
to progressing these areas of<br />
tsunami research; such efforts<br />
might even lead to questioning<br />
previous scientific deductions.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>y said a key challenge<br />
ahead was finding more effective<br />
ways of increasing local community<br />
capability to respond to<br />
local tsunamis.<br />
During the Kaikōura tsunami<br />
itself, they found there was<br />
confusion in some areas, due to<br />
“a combination of the complex<br />
and evolving nature of the event<br />
and inconsistent messages from<br />
different levels of the responding<br />
agencies and the media.”<br />
“This led to multiple evacuation<br />
phases as people were unsure<br />
if, when or where to evacuate.”<br />
Particularly, they suggested<br />
more could be learned through<br />
mutually-driven relationships<br />
and co-designed research<br />
with iwi, hapū, whanau and<br />
communities.<br />
“This is especially pertinent to<br />
remote, exposed, and vulnerable<br />
communities.”<br />
—NZ Herald
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
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NEWS 19<br />
Shopping for stranded seafarers<br />
DELIVERY<br />
DRIVERS: Sailors<br />
stuck on ships<br />
are giving the<br />
Lyttelton Seafarers’<br />
Centre about<br />
$10,000 each<br />
month to shop for<br />
them.<br />
PHOTO: NZ<br />
HERALD<br />
• By Samantha Mythen<br />
THE NEW Uber Eats.<br />
That’s how Lyttelton Seafarers’<br />
Centre chaplain Reverend John<br />
McLister describes the centre,<br />
which is delivering up to $10,000<br />
of groceries and personal items<br />
to sailors stuck on ships in the<br />
port each<br />
month.<br />
All fully<br />
vaccinated<br />
and wearing<br />
personal<br />
protective<br />
equipment,<br />
McLister<br />
and his<br />
John McLister<br />
helpers<br />
provide the<br />
ships with<br />
Wi-Fi and SIM cards, assisting<br />
the seafarers to contact friends<br />
and family back home.<br />
Last month, they visited 45<br />
stores to meet the shopping<br />
requests.<br />
Common personal items they<br />
buy include toothpaste, vitamins<br />
and supplements, and souvenirs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most popular items<br />
are Whitakers and Cadbury<br />
chocolate bars.<br />
Another regular request is for<br />
PlayStations and video games.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most oddball request was<br />
for a portable swimming pool,<br />
because the seafarers were bored,<br />
said McLister.<br />
<strong>The</strong> seafarers’ centre does<br />
not buy alcohol or cigarettes.<br />
However, it does stop off for<br />
takeaway orders such as pizza.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y just want a treat,” said<br />
McLister.<br />
Before Covid-19, seafarers<br />
would come ashore for rest and<br />
recuperation.<br />
However, border controls now<br />
restrict entry for most sailors.<br />
Those who are exempt from<br />
the border restriction are those<br />
who have been on a boat that<br />
has taken 14 days to get to New<br />
Zealand. Once here, they are<br />
given a Covid-19 test and if that<br />
comes back all clear, they can<br />
disembark.<br />
Due to border closures around<br />
the world, McLister said many<br />
seafarers have been stuck on<br />
ships for up to 12 months.<br />
“Most seafarers are unable<br />
to come off their boats and all<br />
the things they used to do, they<br />
are no longer able too,” said<br />
McLister.<br />
That is where the seafarers’<br />
centre comes in.<br />
In June, there were 61 foreign<br />
ships that docked at port, and<br />
the seafarers’ centre visited those<br />
ships 84 different times.<br />
From June 2020 to April this<br />
year, more than $100,000 was<br />
received for shopping requests,<br />
and the 638 ships in port during<br />
that period were visited 888<br />
times by the seafarers’ centre.<br />
McLister also offers pastoral<br />
care for the seafarers, chatting<br />
about problems and concerns.<br />
In May 2020, the Government<br />
determined seafarers’ welfare<br />
supporters, such as chaplains,<br />
were essential workers.<br />
Lyttelton was the first port<br />
where a seafarers’ centre was able<br />
to visit ships.<br />
“Lyttelton became a model for<br />
other New Zealand ports,” said<br />
McLister.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Government realised we<br />
needed funding, which was a<br />
big win.”<br />
McLister is proud of the<br />
work the Lyttelton Seafarers’<br />
Centre does.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>se people keep New<br />
Zealand alive. Giving [the<br />
seafarers] a warm welcome can<br />
help to alleviate some of the<br />
immense mental pressure they<br />
face.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> efforts are greatly<br />
appreciated by those on the<br />
ships.<br />
M.V Erisort captain C.M.<br />
Ranaweera wrote to the New<br />
Zealand seafarers’ centres<br />
to express his and his crews’<br />
gratitude for them “going that<br />
extra mile.”<br />
“Lyttelton is a port town,<br />
founded on people who live<br />
and work at sea. Most Lyttelton<br />
people know someone in the<br />
past or present who has done<br />
so. Helping is part of Lyttelton’s<br />
DNA,” said McLister.<br />
“This is a natural response of<br />
being in a port town.<br />
“It would be a shame if it<br />
was forgotten.”<br />
153 years trusted...<br />
That’s almost as long as we’ve spent listening to Dave<br />
Dobbyn & Crowded House while on hold with the IRD.
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<strong>The</strong> new multi-use arena: It’s not just for rugby<br />
LAST WEEK the council<br />
decided to proceed with the<br />
preliminary design of our<br />
city’s purpose-built, multi-use<br />
arena.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re has been a lot of<br />
commentary on the decision.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a point that seems to<br />
have been missed by some of the<br />
commentators. We are building<br />
a purpose-designed, multi-use<br />
arena – not a rugby stadium.<br />
This means it will be covered,<br />
which will enable it to be used<br />
for a range of events, including<br />
concerts, with a capacity for just<br />
over 36,000 people.<br />
This will be the best place to<br />
go for an amazing experience,<br />
regardless of the weather.<br />
Remember the rugby final<br />
in the fog at Lancaster Park?<br />
And Auckland seeing Adele<br />
bedraggled<br />
in the rain?<br />
Mayor<br />
Lianne Dalziel<br />
Ours will offer a premium<br />
arena experience all year around.<br />
<strong>The</strong> world is changing.<br />
Attendances at rugby matches<br />
were falling prior to COVID-19.<br />
Do we build the seating capacity<br />
to 30,000 by increasing the<br />
budget by $88 million, so we can<br />
fill those seats once a year?<br />
That is if our bid for an All<br />
Blacks match is successful in<br />
any year. Our national team is<br />
a professional corporate entity<br />
that is debating selling shares to<br />
overseas investors.<br />
And do we really want to delay<br />
progress while we find<br />
the budget?<br />
I find it gut wrenching each<br />
evening on the TV news to see<br />
the picture of Constable Matthew<br />
Hunt who was shot in cold<br />
blood. <strong>The</strong> incidents are ramping<br />
up week by week. Being in the<br />
South Island doesn’t make us<br />
immune.<br />
–Dini Ariaans<br />
Government’s $55m<br />
media fund<br />
Thank you very much for<br />
publishing that excellent and<br />
important article by Graham<br />
Adams.<br />
At present, there seems to be<br />
something of a groundswell of<br />
reaction against the Government’s<br />
shameful, arrogant, and<br />
deluded abuse of power.<br />
At some point, Jacinda Adern<br />
will need to wake up to the fact<br />
that, even though she is (unfortunately)<br />
temporarily the Prime<br />
Minister, she is not an emperor.<br />
It is clear that the money given<br />
to the media has strings attached<br />
– whether directly or by implication<br />
– and this is corruption of a<br />
very dangerous kind.<br />
I hope Graham Adams’ prediction<br />
about Winston Peters making<br />
hay comes to fruition.<br />
–Steve Schapel<br />
Adams’ column was excellent.<br />
How refreshing to have an analytical<br />
and differing viewpoint<br />
to what has increasingly become<br />
dull, predictable psychophantic<br />
burble.<br />
–Rob Davies<br />
Congratulations to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> for<br />
remaining true to the people of<br />
Christchurch, by printing readers’<br />
letters, and for writing articles<br />
on sensitive issues deemed<br />
inappropriate by other papers.<br />
Graham Adams opinions on<br />
media manipulation and hate<br />
speech were extremely well written.<br />
Mr Adams opinion on the<br />
vast funds the media received<br />
from the Government can’t be<br />
ignored, nor the $50 million<br />
package received a year ago ‘for<br />
Covid support’. Result, unbiased<br />
reporting? Never.<br />
–J.L. McKenzie<br />
<strong>The</strong> recent opinion piece by<br />
Graham Adams exposes yet<br />
again the continuing duplicity<br />
Things have changed. And<br />
Covid-19 has reminded us of the<br />
fragility of our planet and the<br />
risks we face.<br />
Our decision, based on<br />
the advice we received,<br />
including from what is an<br />
incredibly experienced<br />
contractor team, was that<br />
we needed to focus on the<br />
experience, not what is a<br />
marginal difference in the<br />
number of seats which might be<br />
used one night a year.<br />
That’s why this multi-use arena<br />
will be the ‘go to’ experience for<br />
the future.<br />
And that is why we should get<br />
on with it.<br />
with our so-called transparent<br />
Labour Government.<br />
This is what happens in China,<br />
they infiltrate and control the<br />
media messages and content to<br />
support the party line. Failure to<br />
do so and they are excluded or<br />
closed down (Hong Kong is finding<br />
that out now).<br />
–Ian McInnes<br />
I read with interest the article<br />
in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> re the the questions<br />
addressed to the PM and her<br />
deputy about the money being<br />
supposedly given to the media.<br />
Have any media outlets dipped<br />
into the fund yet? It is blatantly<br />
obvious TV1 and RNZ either<br />
have or are about to, because it is<br />
difficult to [hear] any criticism<br />
of the Government’s actions or<br />
non-actions on either.<br />
We have, after many years of<br />
watching or listening to them,<br />
made a change to TV3 as we get<br />
a much more balanced version<br />
of what is actually happening in<br />
the political world and not what<br />
the Government wants us to see<br />
or hear. Others should do the<br />
same and we are sure you will be<br />
pleasantly surprised.<br />
–R Lucas<br />
Covid-19 jab<br />
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weeks ago that I was booked in<br />
for my Covid-19 vaccination on<br />
the evening of <strong>July</strong> 20 at the vaccination<br />
centre in Orchard Rd.<br />
I went half an hour early in case<br />
there were problems with delays<br />
etc caused by all the people coming<br />
and going, arriving about<br />
7pm.<br />
I was met at the door by a<br />
smiling, happy, young man in a<br />
yellow vest and politely asked to<br />
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Poto Williams: Arming the police and who she represents<br />
Poto<br />
Williams.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
GETTY <br />
ISN’T THE arming of police an<br />
operational matter and not the<br />
political matter Minister of Police<br />
Poto Williams surmises it is?<br />
I am of the belief that the<br />
police should be given the tools<br />
they need to do the job and not<br />
be dictated to by policies or by<br />
the public. After all, it is only<br />
the police that fully understand<br />
what is happening out there<br />
and what tools they need for the<br />
job. Supporting them on their<br />
decisions would seem to be the<br />
role of their minister.<br />
–Lindsay James<br />
As the Police Minister, I<br />
thought Poto Williams was to<br />
represent the police, not Maori<br />
and Pacific Island people as they<br />
have their own ministers. My<br />
mistake.<br />
As Poto is concerned about<br />
those she represents – Maori and<br />
Pacific Islanders – and they do<br />
not want armed police, I think<br />
she should take it a step further<br />
and have no police in areas<br />
with large populations of her<br />
people. That way the people she<br />
represents will be kept safe from<br />
police shootings.<br />
For the greater part of New<br />
Zealand, I think the police need<br />
extra training with the ability to<br />
carry a handgun, as there is no<br />
time to go back to the car when<br />
a situation suddenly goes sour.<br />
Having a handgun wouldn’t have<br />
protected Constable Hunt as the<br />
attack was totally unexpected, but<br />
it would have enabled his partner<br />
to respond more quickly.<br />
–D Downward<br />
Poto Williams needs to<br />
remember her job as a politician<br />
is to represent the people of New<br />
Zealand, not just a small segment<br />
of the community – unless that<br />
is her job. This should be done<br />
without bias; if she’s unable to<br />
do that, then perhaps she’s the<br />
wrong person for the job.<br />
New Zealand in not the Wild<br />
West, but police officers still need<br />
to protect themselves and the<br />
public from a steady increase in<br />
violent crime – some of which is<br />
fuelled by alcohol and/or drugs,<br />
and is not likely to decrease any<br />
time soon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> police need tools to do<br />
their job safely and return home<br />
after their shift. I strongly believe<br />
the police should be carrying a<br />
sidearm on patrol.<br />
–Victor Brown<br />
Fully arm the police.<br />
If you go to a mechanic, surgeon,<br />
an electrician you expect them to<br />
have the tools to do the job<br />
<strong>The</strong> police take their oath of<br />
allegiance to the Crown and<br />
its laws seriously.<br />
Do the villians?<br />
–Len Harris<br />
I am frankly appalled at the<br />
comments by Poto Williams.<br />
I believe if that is Poto Williams’<br />
opinion then she should resign as<br />
Minister of Police.<br />
Each day we are reminded<br />
of ethnic diversity and racism<br />
in New Zealand. <strong>The</strong> mere fact<br />
that Ms Williams makes her<br />
decision on the Maori and Pacific<br />
communities she represents do<br />
not want it (the arming of police)<br />
is outright despicable.<br />
Does Ms Williams, as an<br />
MP, not represent all her<br />
constituents and New Zealand<br />
as a whole?<br />
–David Gale<br />
sign in then go on in and join a<br />
small queue.<br />
Within a couple of minutes,<br />
I was giving my particulars to<br />
a friendly lady then forwarded<br />
to a line of chairs. After playing<br />
musical chairs for 10 minutes<br />
I was sitting outside one of the<br />
many ‘jab’ cubicles for a couple<br />
of minutes then called in for<br />
my vaccination. Another very<br />
friendly lady asked a few questions<br />
about any meds that I was<br />
on then did the deed, which was<br />
painless.<br />
I asked about a certificate<br />
proving that I had been vaccinated<br />
as it may be required<br />
for future travel plans and was<br />
given all the details in writing.<br />
I was then escorted down to<br />
the final part of the procedure<br />
where my details were noted<br />
and a Covid-19 vaccine record<br />
was filled out and given to me by<br />
another very friendly and helpful<br />
person.<br />
All this was completed within<br />
less than half an hour as I was<br />
sitting in the post-jab waiting<br />
area before the time of my scheduled<br />
appointment.<br />
Such a smooth, efficient and<br />
friendly procedure. Many thanks<br />
to all the staff involved at Orchard<br />
Rd centre.<br />
–Brian Sowman<br />
I wonder if the CDHB have<br />
though of giving staff a paid<br />
break to get their flu shot and<br />
Covid vaccine.<br />
Having spent time in hospital,<br />
I know from experience how<br />
hard the staff work and there<br />
seems to be little real care from<br />
those highly paid officials that<br />
rule their lives in their welfare.<br />
–Trevor Sennitt<br />
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Tobogganing on real snow captivated the youngsters at last year’s festival.<br />
Winter-themed festival offers family fun in the city<br />
WHILE WE may be experiencing<br />
a very chilly winter this year, that’s<br />
all the more reason to get the<br />
family together and head into the<br />
city for this year’s Winter Festival<br />
‘Chill in the City’.<br />
Run by the Central City<br />
Business Association with support<br />
from the city council and many<br />
of the city’s businesses, it follows<br />
last year’s very successful event,<br />
which attracted thousands to<br />
the central city with a range of<br />
exciting winter-themed events and<br />
activities.<br />
This year there will be even<br />
more to enjoy, from ice skating,<br />
hug a husky and Hagglund rides,<br />
to Disney’s frozen bouncy castle,<br />
tobogganing on real snow, and<br />
Hillary’s Hutt VR Experience, all<br />
taking place in and around the<br />
City Mall area. Real-life winter<br />
fairies will be there for the kids,<br />
along with activities for everyone<br />
to enjoy.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se include ice skating<br />
starting tomorrow and running<br />
right through the weekend, with<br />
all other winter activities running<br />
on Saturday and Sunday from<br />
10am to 5pm daily.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a small donation cost<br />
Hagglund rides should again prove a popular attraction at this year’s event.<br />
for some of the activities and all<br />
money raised is being donated to<br />
the Christchurch City Mission.<br />
Last year’s festival raised just<br />
over $12,000 and the business<br />
association hopes with the<br />
community coming in to support<br />
the festival, it can do more this year.<br />
While most of ‘Chill in the<br />
City’ activities are aimed at<br />
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letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.<br />
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Y V M O N C S W D U F X A<br />
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Across: 7. Ravenous,<br />
9. Social, 10. Dirt, 11.<br />
Marionette, 12. Pander, 14.<br />
Citation, 15. Casket, 16.<br />
Trials, 19. Assemble, 21.<br />
Steady, 23. Down-at-heel,<br />
24. Swag, 25. Lean-to, 26.<br />
Deserted.<br />
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3. Commerce, 4. Escort, 5.<br />
Accentuate, 6. Cautious, 8.<br />
Strict, 13. Discerning, 15.<br />
Customer, 17. Restless, 18.<br />
Legend, 20. Bottom, 22.<br />
Deaden, 24. Sire.<br />
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weal, well, welt, wet.<br />
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BIG CLUB MATCH-UPS THIS WEEKEND<br />
SPORT 25<br />
Bulldogs rise above ‘horrendous year’<br />
Frank Endacott has<br />
dealt with an extensive<br />
injury toll this year, but<br />
the loss of a non-playing<br />
member of the Northern<br />
Bulldogs has hurt this<br />
Canterbury Rugby league<br />
premiership campaign<br />
the most. Chris Barclay<br />
reports<br />
THE DEATH of club stalwart<br />
Glenn Scott in April, following<br />
a battle with bowel cancer,<br />
continues to cast a shadow over<br />
this season, though the 50 yearold<br />
is also a motivating factor<br />
as the Kaiapoi-based side strive<br />
to improve on last year’s grandfinal<br />
defeat to Linwood.<br />
Snaring the final play-off<br />
spot by beating Papanui in the<br />
final round of the<br />
regular season,<br />
the Bulldogs, like<br />
Hornby, Linwood<br />
and Halswell,<br />
rested up last<br />
weekend before<br />
the race to the<br />
Frank<br />
Endacott<br />
August 15 tussle<br />
for the Pat Smith<br />
Trophy.<br />
Halswell host Hornby on Saturday,<br />
with the loser dropping<br />
out. <strong>The</strong> winner then plays either<br />
Hornby or Linwood, who meet<br />
at Leslie Park.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> death of our No 1 man<br />
at the Bulldogs, Scotty . . . we’ve<br />
really had a horrendous year.<br />
It’s a real achievement for these<br />
guys to finish in the top four,”<br />
said Endacott, the Bulldogs head<br />
coach.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bulldogs fashioned a<br />
seven-win, seven-loss regular<br />
season record, with Endacott believing<br />
two of those defeats could<br />
have been avoided in normal<br />
‘NO 1 MAN’: <strong>The</strong> loss of club stalwart Glenn Scott (centre)<br />
has been a motivating factor for the Bulldogs. Right –<br />
Marist Albion claimed their first Christchurch Metro Cup<br />
title since 2003.<br />
circumstances.<br />
“That week of the funeral and<br />
the week after we lost two games<br />
we believe we should have, and<br />
could have, won (against Riccarton<br />
and Hornby),” he said.<br />
“It took a while to get them<br />
(the players) back because they<br />
thought so much of him as a<br />
person. To be honest, we’d love<br />
to do it for him this year. That’s<br />
always at the back of our minds.”<br />
Injuries have also been a constant,<br />
with Endacott estimating<br />
he was down six to seven firstchoice<br />
players most weeks.<br />
“We’ve been riddled with<br />
injuries from day one, there’s too<br />
many to really mention. <strong>The</strong>y’re<br />
experienced players, too, good<br />
players that weren’t short-term<br />
injuries,” he said.<br />
On a positive note, Endacott<br />
was pleased to enter sudden<br />
death on the back of two wins,<br />
while a depleted Halswell were<br />
thrashed 64-12 by top seeds<br />
Hornby in their latest outing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bulldogs beat Halswell<br />
28-18 in May while the Hornets<br />
turned the tables with a 30-16<br />
victory earlier this month.<br />
“It’s a 50/50 game, right up the<br />
middle. Halswell are definitely<br />
a better side than that (loss to<br />
Hornby),” Endacott said.<br />
While league approaches the<br />
business end, it was job finally<br />
done for Marist Albion when<br />
they edged Burnside 20-13 after<br />
extra time to claim their first<br />
Metro Cup premier title since<br />
2003 at Rugby Park on Sunday.<br />
Marist Albion made amends<br />
for their narrow loss to Lincoln<br />
University in last year’s final by<br />
chipping away at a 13-5 half-time<br />
deficit having played into the<br />
wind.<br />
James Hawkey levelled the<br />
scores with a 74th-minute penalty<br />
and then Dom Gardiner,<br />
who missed the preliminary final<br />
win over Lincoln University due<br />
to New Zealand under-20s duty,<br />
powered over under the posts<br />
in the final minute of the first<br />
10-minute period of extra time.<br />
Burnside, who were on a fivematch<br />
winning streak, pressed<br />
late, but Marist Albion managed<br />
to clear from a defensive scrum<br />
feed hard on their line, with Jack<br />
Esenbach’s gleeful kick dead<br />
sparking wild scenes for the<br />
squad that qualified sixth for the<br />
play-offs.<br />
Replacement hooker Rowan<br />
O’Gorman, the only active<br />
player remaining from the 2003<br />
triumph, poked his head up just<br />
in time to see the ball spiralling<br />
to safety.<br />
O’Gorman reckoned the road<br />
to glory actually started when<br />
they stared down a 21-0 deficit<br />
after 35 minutes against HSOB<br />
in week one of the finals series.<br />
“James Hawkey scored and<br />
one of the boys on the bench<br />
said: ‘We’re starting our run for<br />
the final’. Trent (Lawn) made<br />
the call and he’s come right,”<br />
said O’Gorman, who scored<br />
the match-winning try against<br />
HSOB to keep the season alive.<br />
“It’s been a long-time coming.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys put in a 100-minute<br />
shift. Credit to Burnside as well<br />
for where they’ve come from<br />
over the last 12 months.”<br />
PHOTO: BRIDGITT ROBINSON<br />
Meanwhile, Coastal Spirit<br />
made a belated – and successful<br />
– start to the Southern League,<br />
upsetting Mainland Football<br />
premiership champions Cashmere<br />
Technical 1-0. Michael<br />
Hogan scored the only goal from<br />
the penalty spot in the 73rdminute<br />
following a hand ball.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y now play their postponed<br />
week one clash with Nelson<br />
Suburbs on Saturday.<br />
Coastal Spirit’s women’s team<br />
capped an outstanding weekend<br />
for the club when they claimed<br />
their premiership for a fifth successive<br />
season.<br />
Cashmere Technical will seek<br />
to bounce back in the Chatham<br />
Cup quarter-finals away at Hamilton<br />
Wanderers.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re has been no change at<br />
the top of Canterbury Hockey’s<br />
men’s premier grade. Harewood’s<br />
6-1 win over Southern<br />
United maintained their onepoint<br />
lead over Marist.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Harewood women have a<br />
handier four-point buffer in their<br />
competition over Carlton Redcliffs,<br />
thanks to a 10-0 drubbing<br />
of Southern United.<br />
Lincoln University and University<br />
of Canterbury are the<br />
only unbeaten teams in section<br />
A of Christchurch premier<br />
netball after wins over Kia Toa<br />
and Technical A respectively on<br />
Tuesday night.<br />
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P W D L GD Pts<br />
Otago University 2 2 0 0 3 6<br />
Cashmere Technical 2 1 1 0 3 3<br />
South City Royals 2 1 1 0 2 3<br />
Coastal Spirit 1 1 0 0 1 3<br />
Selwyn Utd 2 1 1 0 -1 3<br />
Nelson Suburbs 1 0 0 1 0 1<br />
Christchurch Utd 2 0 1 1 -1 1<br />
Green Island 2 0 2 0 -7 0<br />
Christchurch Hockey men’s premier league<br />
P W D L GD Pts<br />
Harewood 12 8 3 1 23 27<br />
Marist 12 8 2 2 10 26<br />
HSOB/Burnside 12 4 6 2 13 18<br />
Carlton Redcliffs 12 4 6 2 2 18<br />
Avon 12 4 5 3 15 17<br />
Southern United 12 2 5 5 -7 11<br />
Hornby Vipers 12 2 4 6 -8 10<br />
University 12 0 1 11 -48 1<br />
Christchurch Hockey women’s premier league<br />
P W D L GD Pts<br />
Harewood 10 8 2 0 34 26<br />
Carlton Redcliffs 10 7 1 3 25 22<br />
Marist 10 5 3 2 11 18<br />
Avon 10 5 1 4 0 16<br />
Hornby 10 3 2 5 -11 11<br />
HSOB/Burnside 10 2 2 6 4 8<br />
Southern United 11 0 1 10 -63 1<br />
GEOFF SOPER PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Weekend match-ups<br />
•Canterbury Rugby League<br />
Premiership play-offs<br />
(2.45pm Saturday)<br />
Hornby Panthers v Linwood<br />
Keas, Leslie Park: winner advances<br />
to August 15 grand final; Halswell<br />
Hornets v Northern Bulldogs, Halswell<br />
Domain: loser eliminated, winner<br />
to play either Hornby Panthers<br />
or Linwood Keas on August 7 for a<br />
place in grand final.<br />
Southern League football<br />
Coastal Spirit v Nelson Suburbs,<br />
Linfield Park, Sunday 12pm (catchup<br />
game after weather-related<br />
postponement).<br />
Chatham Cup quarter-final<br />
Hamilton Wanderers v Cashmere<br />
Technical, Porritt Stadium, Saturday<br />
2pm.<br />
•Canterbury Hockey men’s<br />
premiership (all Saturday)<br />
Avon v Marist, Marist Park @ St<br />
Bede’s College, 1.15pm; Carlton<br />
Redcliffs v Hornby, Waimakariri<br />
Turf, 1.15pm; Southern United<br />
v University of Canterbury, Nga<br />
Puna Wai, 2.45pm; HSOB/Burnside<br />
v Harewood, Nga Puna Wai 1,<br />
4.15pm.<br />
•Canterbury Hockey<br />
women’s premiership (all<br />
Saturday)<br />
Avon v Marist, Marist Park @ St<br />
Bede’s College, 11.45am; Carlton<br />
Redcliffs v Hornby, Waimakariri<br />
Turf, 11.45am; HSOB/Burnside<br />
v Harewood, Nga Puna Wai 1,<br />
2.45pm. Southern United bye
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On an inland run through to<br />
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I can see many other<br />
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Ark’s fragments seen on Mt Ararat, Armenia.<br />
Genesis 19. Gross sexual licence. Immoral<br />
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Disposal by Christchurch<br />
City Council of material<br />
salvaged from heritage<br />
buildings demolished after the<br />
Christchurch earthquakes<br />
This Notice is to advise previous owners of the Christchurch<br />
heritage buildings listed below, that the Council will be disposing<br />
of material salvaged from these buildings after 31 August <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, Council staff negotiated<br />
with building owners, the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery<br />
Authority and demolition contractors to recover materials from a<br />
number of significant heritage buildings about to be demolished.<br />
Ownership of the building material was transferred to the Council<br />
and it has been stored in a Council facility since that time. This<br />
storage space will soon be unavailable.<br />
<strong>The</strong> material includes stone, timber joinery and other building<br />
components.<br />
<strong>The</strong> buildings from which material was salvaged include (but is not<br />
limited to) the following:<br />
124-126 Cashel, Guthrey Centre/Bells Arcade; 50 Cathedral Square,<br />
Warner’s Hotel; 134-140 Gloucester, <strong>Star</strong>/Lyttelton Times; 209 High,<br />
Kennett’s Jewellers; 280-282 High, Fisher’s; 32 Cathedral Square,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Press; 118 Hereford; 148-154 Gloucester, Old <strong>The</strong>atre Royal;<br />
181 Barbadoes, Community of the Sacred Name; 107 Cambridge,<br />
former Public Library; 154-158 Cashel, former DIC/Cashfields; 144<br />
Gloucester, former Coachman Hotel r; 56 Cathedral Sq, former<br />
Lyttelton Times; 109 Cashel, former Weekly Press; 281 High,<br />
Triangle Chambers; 127-139 Manchester, Smith’s Bookshop Block;<br />
211 Oxford, former Fire Station/Plunket; 42 Phillips, Church of the<br />
Good Shepherd; 122 Avonside/Lychgate Pl, Holy Trinity Church;<br />
190-192 Hereford, Kenton Chambers; 173 Cashel, Highlight House;<br />
100 Bealey; 236 Cashel, former St Paul’s Presbyterian Church; 151<br />
Cashmere, Cracroft House; 90 Hereford, Gough House; 24 Norwich<br />
Quay; 30 Norwich Quay, Royal Hotel; 31-33 Kilmore/350 Montreal,<br />
former Cranmer Courts/Normal School; 78 Worcester/158 Oxford,<br />
former Clarendon Hotel façade; 2 Sumner Road, former Lyttelton<br />
Borough Council Library & Fire Station; 31 Cathedral Square, former<br />
Chief Post Office; McCormack’s Bay Causeway (tram rail parts); 120<br />
Manchester, Excelsior Hotel; 392 Moorhouse, Christchurch Railway<br />
Station.<br />
During demolition, materials were recovered for re-use on the<br />
original site, or for use in the repair and conservation of other<br />
heritage buildings. Some salvaged material has been successfully<br />
reused. <strong>The</strong> Council is now seeking to dispose of the remaining<br />
items, and before this is inviting previous owners who may wish to<br />
reclaim some of the material to come forward.<br />
Any materials that are not reclaimed by former owners by<br />
31 August <strong>2021</strong> will be disposed of at the discretion of the Council.<br />
Please contact the Council Heritage Team at<br />
heritage@ccc.govt.nz or phone Gareth Wright on<br />
03 941 8026 if you would like to discuss the reuse of this<br />
material further.
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BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday<br />
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BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO, 401<br />
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City council transport<br />
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St Albans teacher Niamh<br />
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Moriarty strikes at Willowbank<br />
NOSEY: Nor West News reporter Fiona Ellis<br />
went to Willowbank to interview Nick Ackroyd,<br />
who has been looking after kea and other<br />
native species for 12 years. Moriarty decided to<br />
stick his beak in. To read about Ackroyd’s<br />
work, go to page 7. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
School pupils<br />
targeting<br />
motorists<br />
with sticker<br />
campaign<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
PRIMARY SCHOOL pupils<br />
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intersection plagued by red<br />
light-runners.<br />
Big stickers<br />
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light poles along<br />
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English Park and<br />
Westminster St.<br />
Steffan<br />
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being printed and will be put up<br />
in August.<br />
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Westminster Sts crossing a<br />
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maximise the area. Space here for the children to play,<br />
plant some vegetables and grow flowers for your vase.<br />
an opportunity for you to secure a holding in this highly<br />
sought after area. Literally a minute from Somerfield<br />
School and a few minutes walk from Cashmere high you<br />
wouldn’t need to move again. Perhaps you may even<br />
stay for sixty five years too.<br />
Your agent, Your home, Your future<br />
Classic kiwi<br />
cuisine at an<br />
affordable<br />
price is our<br />
formula for<br />
success<br />
P 027 777 0411<br />
135 Farrington Ave, Bishopdale<br />
KEVIN HICKMAN RETIREMENT VILLAGE<br />
SHOWHOME<br />
Open Weekend<br />
SATURDAY 31 JULY & SUNDAY 1 AUGUST, 10AM - 3PM
A new way of living<br />
SHOWHOME<br />
Open Weekend<br />
SATURDAY 31 JULY & SUNDAY 1 AUGUST, 10AM - 3PM<br />
We’re delighted to invite you to view<br />
our brand-new townhouse showhome,<br />
at our newly named Kevin Hickman<br />
Retirement Village.<br />
Our architecturally designed townhouses<br />
offer stylish interiors, including kitchens<br />
that feature stone benchtops with<br />
waterfall edges and bathrooms with<br />
Italian-designed floor and wall tiles.<br />
Natural light filters through a<br />
picturesque window in the living area,<br />
and the master-bedroom offers plenty<br />
of storage in the walk-in-wardrobe.<br />
Call Wendy or Anthea to find out more<br />
KEVIN HICKMAN RETIREMENT VILLAGE<br />
25 Steadman Road, Riccarton Park, 342 4755<br />
rymanhealthcare.co.nz