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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
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Cutting it off for cancer<br />
BEFORE AND AFTER: Nathaniel Willis is donating his locks to Hair Collect and also raised $850 for child cancer.<br />
PHOTO: SARAH WILLIS <br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
ALTHOUGH many people may<br />
be seeking a haircut as lockdown<br />
restrictions ease, seven-year-old<br />
Nathaniel Willis went in for a<br />
more dramatic chop than most.<br />
After growing his hair for<br />
three years, he had it cut off on<br />
Friday to donate to Hair Collect,<br />
raising $850 for the Child Cancer<br />
Foundation in the process.<br />
His mother Sarah Willis said<br />
they originally aimed to raise<br />
$100 but quickly surpassed<br />
that goal.<br />
They changed their aim to<br />
$500, and again surpassed the<br />
goal.<br />
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Shipping<br />
delays<br />
hold up<br />
community<br />
centre<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
Nigel Cox<br />
SHIPPING DELAYS have held<br />
up construction of Hornby’s new<br />
$35.7 million community centre.<br />
Previously set to begin this<br />
month, the build is now expected<br />
to start in late October, as 418<br />
tonnes of essential steel earmarked<br />
for the Kyle Park centre<br />
are still on a ship near Taiwan.<br />
This has pushed the expected<br />
opening date back into early 2023.<br />
Also delayed was the confirmation<br />
of a building contractor,<br />
which was announced as Naylor<br />
Love Canterbury last week, in<br />
spite of earlier expectations a<br />
contractor would be named at the<br />
start of August.<br />
City council<br />
head of recreation,<br />
sports and<br />
events Nigel Cox<br />
said this was<br />
because it took<br />
longer than expected<br />
to agree<br />
on the fixed<br />
price of a lump<br />
sum contract.<br />
“We now have an agreement<br />
that mitigates the risk of price<br />
escalation for the Christchurch<br />
City Council,” Cox said.<br />
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Delays with new Hornby<br />
community centre build<br />
• From page 1<br />
The budget for the build<br />
had not changed, the council<br />
confirmed.<br />
Cox said the start of the build<br />
was dependent on the arrival of<br />
the 147 steel piles, which were<br />
18 metres long and weighed 158<br />
kilograms per metre.<br />
The city council ordered them<br />
in early May, but they were held<br />
up by Covid-19 pandemic-related<br />
shipping changes.<br />
“This delay is typical of the<br />
current global supply and<br />
shipping challenges facing the<br />
construction sector,” Cox said.<br />
He understood the piles were<br />
loaded into a ship in Taiwan last<br />
week.<br />
Earthworks were completed<br />
at the site over winter, so Naylor<br />
Love Canterbury would be able<br />
to “hit the ground running,” Cox<br />
said.<br />
Examples of the construction<br />
company’s handiwork included<br />
the EA Networks Centre in<br />
Ashburton and the Selwyn<br />
Aquatic Centre in Rolleston, the<br />
Ballantynes redevelopment and<br />
the Spark Square building.<br />
“I am sure many in the<br />
community will watch progress<br />
on the building with great<br />
interest.”<br />
A range of community and<br />
recreational spaces would be<br />
accommodated within the<br />
3600sqm centre, including a<br />
library, a creative activities room,<br />
a lane pool, a learn-to-swim<br />
pool, a toddlers’ wet play area, a<br />
spa pool and a customer services<br />
zone.<br />
The new Hornby centre would<br />
be a “fantastic asset” for the<br />
community, Mr Cox said.<br />
The city council is currently<br />
seeking<br />
feedback<br />
on what<br />
facilities and<br />
programmes<br />
people would<br />
like the centre<br />
to offer.<br />
Submissions<br />
Marc Duff are open until<br />
COMING SOON:<br />
The Hornby<br />
Centre, with a<br />
pool and library,<br />
is set to open in<br />
2022. <br />
October 1.<br />
Greater Hornby Residents<br />
Association chairman Marc Duff<br />
said the pandemic was a time<br />
when people needed to be patient<br />
about delays.<br />
“It just means we’re going to<br />
enjoy it more,” Duff said of the<br />
upcoming facility.<br />
“I’m appreciative negotiations<br />
take time, if it gets a better<br />
deal [and] leads to savings,<br />
that’s awesome.”<br />
Double<br />
donation<br />
• From page 1<br />
“Every time a donation<br />
or message came through<br />
[Nathaniel’s] face lit up,” she said.<br />
“My brother had cancer when<br />
he was a child, so anything we<br />
can do to help.” Fortunately, her<br />
brother had recovered and the<br />
family remained close.<br />
Two years ago, when<br />
Nathaniel’s hair started getting<br />
long, Sarah and her husband<br />
asked him if he wanted to grow<br />
his hair to 25 centimetres, the<br />
minimum length for a donation<br />
accepted by Hair Collect.<br />
Nathaniel’s hair was about<br />
30cm long when it was cut for free<br />
by Anna Reed of Halswell salon<br />
BYond The Fringe on Friday.<br />
The chop was planned to<br />
take place last week, in time for<br />
the Child Cancer Foundation<br />
fundraiser Wig Wednesday.<br />
Often a school event, Wig<br />
Wednesday encourages<br />
participants to “wear a wig,<br />
shave your head or style a funky<br />
hairdo.” It was not widely held<br />
last week due to the Covid-19<br />
pandemic restrictions.<br />
Nathaniel wanted to make<br />
someone happy with his donation<br />
and was excited to get his hair cut,<br />
he said. He was also pleased to<br />
have short hair again.<br />
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Lockdown sees rise in graffiti in the west<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
THE COVID-19 lockdown<br />
contributed to a rise in graffiti<br />
reports in parts of western<br />
Christchurch, rather than the<br />
decrease seen in other parts of<br />
the city.<br />
Council data also showed a<br />
drop in graffiti reports in the<br />
Halswell ward between July and<br />
August, from 45 to 15.<br />
However, both Riccarton and<br />
Hornby experienced a rise, from<br />
64 to 100 and 21 to 28 respectively.<br />
Hornby Community Patrol<br />
secretary Anne Smith said it did<br />
not seem that graffiti lessened<br />
during the lockdown.<br />
The patrol began operating in<br />
level two but had yet to run its<br />
dedicated graffiti patrol, she said.<br />
However, she said she had<br />
personally observed “a slight<br />
increase” while out and about.<br />
Wycola Park stood out to her<br />
as a place where she had seen<br />
graffiti recently.<br />
“You’d always hope that people<br />
would behave and not do it, but<br />
you are allowed to go out walking,”<br />
she said of the opportunity<br />
for graffiti under lockdown.<br />
In north-west Christchurch,<br />
Harewood also experienced a<br />
rise in graffiti reports last month,<br />
but most areas had a decrease<br />
between July and August.<br />
RISE: Reports of graffiti were up during lockdown in the west, in contrast to other parts of the city.<br />
A graffiti report for the<br />
month of August in Tuesday’s<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
Community Board meeting<br />
agenda showed just 55 incidents<br />
were reported to the city council,<br />
down from 102 in July.<br />
Of these, 24 were reported in<br />
the Fendalton ward, where the<br />
July total was 71, and five were<br />
reported in Waimairi, where the<br />
July tally was 13.<br />
However, Harewood saw a rise<br />
in reported incidents, increasing<br />
from 18 in July to 26 in August.<br />
City council manager of<br />
community partnerships and<br />
planning Gary Watson said the<br />
Covid-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown<br />
was a likely factor behind this,<br />
following last year’s pattern in<br />
the board area.<br />
“We had 32 reports of graffiti<br />
in the March-May 2020 lockdown<br />
compared to 70 reports<br />
over the same period in 2019,”<br />
Watson said.<br />
Considering Harewood’s rise,<br />
he emphasised that “five people<br />
could report the same graffiti at<br />
one site and it would create five<br />
incident reports.”<br />
“We had reports of graffiti that<br />
required removal at the skate<br />
park and along the fence line<br />
at Bishopdale Park. This is a<br />
frequented area, even during<br />
lockdown when people were doing<br />
their regular exercise close to<br />
their homes.”<br />
Although not included in the<br />
report, the city council confirmed<br />
that reports of graffiti in<br />
the Papanui ward also dropped,<br />
albeit slightly, from 57 in July to<br />
55 in August.<br />
In the Innes ward, the drop<br />
was more significant, falling<br />
from 50 in July to 29 in August.<br />
Christchurch North<br />
Community Patrol chairman<br />
Sam Hall said the downturn<br />
was “absolutely” related to the<br />
lockdown.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
However, the community<br />
patrol was back in action in Alert<br />
Level Two, and it seemed that the<br />
taggers were also back.<br />
Across the wider patrol area,<br />
which encompassed both the<br />
Fendalton-Waimari-Harewood<br />
and Papanui-Innes areas, last<br />
week’s three-hour graffiti patrol<br />
found 15 tags.<br />
This was was almost average,<br />
he said,<br />
In July, 47 tags were found in<br />
12 patrol hours.<br />
“We’ve yet to actually nab<br />
someone [doing graffiti]. It<br />
doesn’t take long, they can have<br />
one done in 30 seconds.”<br />
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Water contamination sites highlighted<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
THREE AREAS have been<br />
highlighted as potential<br />
stormwater contamination sites<br />
in a Haswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board submission<br />
to the city council.<br />
The board was among 29<br />
submitters on the draft stormwater<br />
management plans for the<br />
Halswell and Heathcote Rivers.<br />
Adjacent to the Owaka Pit on<br />
Wilmers Rd, a<br />
former stormwater<br />
retention<br />
basin was one<br />
of the three<br />
sites the board<br />
recommended<br />
for early<br />
Mike Mora<br />
investigation<br />
in the board’s<br />
Halswell River submission.<br />
“It has been filled in now but<br />
will likely still be contaminated,”<br />
the submission stated.<br />
Catering to the nearby industrial<br />
area, the stormwater<br />
retention basin by the intersection<br />
of Halswell Junction Rd and<br />
Springs Rd was also listed.<br />
The site of a former timber<br />
treatment plant by the same<br />
intersection was the final area of<br />
concern.<br />
Chairman Mike Mora said<br />
the plans were important to the<br />
board because the headwaters of<br />
both rivers were in its area.<br />
The impact of high levels of<br />
residential development also<br />
made it an important issue.<br />
“We’ve just got to keep the water<br />
quality as high as possible,”<br />
Mora said.<br />
The draft plans are the first of<br />
seven being prepared between<br />
2020 and 2023 for the district’s<br />
different stormwater catchments.<br />
They set out the ways in which<br />
the city council will meet the<br />
requirements of its 25-year Comprehensive<br />
Stormwater Network<br />
Discharge Consent which was<br />
granted by Environment Canterbury<br />
in 2019.<br />
The board’s submissions<br />
supported the goals outlined in<br />
the plans and recognised the<br />
potential for transport changes<br />
and cycleways to result in fewer<br />
vehicles on roads.<br />
This would mean would less<br />
contamination, particularly<br />
FEEDBACK: The city<br />
council asked for<br />
public submissions<br />
on stormwater<br />
management, such<br />
as the Sparks Rd<br />
stormwater flood<br />
collection basin.<br />
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stormwater picked up from<br />
roads.<br />
Although no dates had been<br />
set to progress the plan, the city<br />
council said it was likely to go to<br />
its three waters infrastructure<br />
and environment committee in<br />
October for endorsement.<br />
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Knitters give babies a warm welcome<br />
FOUR WOMEN from<br />
Ferrymead Rotary have knitted<br />
almost 100 garments for babies<br />
born at the Christchurch<br />
Women’s Hospital this year.<br />
Pat Edward, Debbie Woolf,<br />
Kathryn Tovgaard and Barbara<br />
Crooks began the project about<br />
four months ago, although the<br />
Ferrymead Rotary group has<br />
been providing knitted clothing<br />
to the hospital for some time.<br />
Kathryn has personally been<br />
knitting for the hospital for five<br />
years.<br />
Barbara said they intensified<br />
their efforts this year after<br />
receiving a call for help from the<br />
hospital.<br />
All babies born at the hospital<br />
are given a woollen hat at birth,<br />
while woollen singlets, matinee<br />
jackets and booties are available<br />
for mothers to take home.<br />
So far, the group has knitted<br />
more than 60 woolly hats, with<br />
Pat heading the count.<br />
The hats produced are a variety<br />
of different sizes and colours.<br />
Barbara said Ferrymead<br />
Rotary has funded some of the<br />
wool, but all of the knitters’ time<br />
is given voluntarily.<br />
They estimate up to seven<br />
hours goes into making each hat.<br />
Most of the knitting has been<br />
done individually, although the<br />
four have got together from time<br />
to time to share wool and<br />
swap notes.<br />
Acknowledging Rotary clubs<br />
used to be men only, Kathryn<br />
said: “People don’t necessarily<br />
connect Rotarians with knitting<br />
but anything is possible.”<br />
She said being a part of<br />
a Rotary club was a family<br />
tradition.<br />
“One thing I said a long time<br />
ago was that I always wanted<br />
to help out in the community<br />
throughout my life,” she said.<br />
“A group of people can do<br />
so much more than just an<br />
individual.”<br />
CHAMPION KNITTERS:<br />
Ferrymead Rotary’s Kathryn<br />
Tovgaard, Debbie Woolf, Pat<br />
Edward and Barbara Crooks<br />
have knitted almost 100<br />
garments for new babies,<br />
while Pat tries on a hat for<br />
size (above).<br />
Ferrymead Rotary community<br />
director Debbie Woolf said the<br />
club is also working on making<br />
singlets and booties for Plunket<br />
and supplying the Methodist<br />
Mission with bedding, jerseys,<br />
hats, scarves, gloves and shoes.<br />
The Mission gives these items,<br />
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For more information about<br />
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Line dancer, fundraiser remembered<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
WHETHER OR not former<br />
Governor-General Jerry<br />
Mateparae can line dance<br />
remains unclear, but he can not<br />
say he was never asked.<br />
Bromley resident Mary<br />
Stanley-Shepherd, who passed<br />
away last month, offered to show<br />
him the ropes in 20<strong>16</strong> while<br />
receiving her Queen’s Service<br />
Medal for services to dance and<br />
the community.<br />
Daughter Karen Mather said<br />
he was one of many who had<br />
the chance, as the founder of the<br />
Cathedral City Line Dancers was<br />
a brilliant teacher, who led young<br />
and old alike.<br />
She would teach classes to<br />
children with cancer at the<br />
annual Camp Quality camp<br />
each summer, and constantly<br />
fundraiser for the cause for over<br />
20 years.<br />
Denise Wood, to whom Mary<br />
passed leadership of the line<br />
dancing club, estimated Mary,<br />
who she remembered as caring<br />
and encouraging, had raised<br />
about $50,000.<br />
This had been done from<br />
methods ranging from raffles<br />
and craft sales, to donating the<br />
payments the club received to<br />
dance at the yearly Spencer Park<br />
gala.<br />
However, no one was too old<br />
to dance, and Mather recalls<br />
her mother visiting old peoples’<br />
homes to teach them some<br />
moves.<br />
“She’d go and see the older<br />
people, even though she was<br />
AWARD: Mary Stanley-Shepherd receives her Queen’s<br />
Service Medal from former Governor-General Jerry<br />
Mateparae in 20<strong>16</strong>.<br />
probably older than them,”<br />
she said.<br />
“She just loved people, she was<br />
a true extrovert.”<br />
Even as her health started<br />
to fail last year, she would still<br />
attend line dancing classes,<br />
giving instructions and advice.<br />
This was typical of the tenacity<br />
and positivity her mother<br />
embodied, her daughter said.<br />
“She would always find the<br />
good thing, the joy, the positive<br />
aspects.”<br />
She also enjoyed the fact that<br />
line dancing brought joy to<br />
those who might be lonely, and<br />
as it did not require a partner,<br />
it was suitable for single people,<br />
widows, and widowers.<br />
Mary’s life was not always easy.<br />
Born in England in 1933, she<br />
lived through the Blitz.<br />
“I remember her saying the<br />
war years in London were<br />
terrible, bombs night after<br />
night.”<br />
She left England aged 17 to<br />
stay in Kenya with relatives,<br />
and although the country was<br />
unstable, she stayed upbeat,<br />
enjoying the weekend dances.<br />
Shortly after moving to New<br />
Zealand, her first husband left<br />
her and moved back to Kenya.<br />
“She brought me up on<br />
her own. She was a pretty<br />
independent, feisty woman. This<br />
is before feminism was really<br />
defined.”<br />
“She had to argue a few times.”<br />
Mather remembers choosing<br />
a bike for 10th birthday in the<br />
early 1970s.<br />
Her mother was not allowed<br />
to buy it because she needed<br />
her husband’s name for the hire<br />
purchase agreement.<br />
“We had to leave that shop<br />
and leave the bike because they<br />
wouldn’t sign it off. The next day,<br />
mum was on the phone to the<br />
big boss.”<br />
In the end, the bike made it<br />
home.<br />
“She had perseverance . . .<br />
those were the women who really<br />
trail-blazed for us, I think.”<br />
Aged in her 60s, Mary married<br />
“the love of her life”, the late Art<br />
Stanley-Shepherd.<br />
Always a keen dancer, she took<br />
to it quickly after being introduced<br />
to line dancing in the 1970s.<br />
“I always thought she’d die on<br />
the dance floor.”<br />
Even when unwell, Mary<br />
took care to look stylish, and<br />
her beautiful nails even drew<br />
comments from the nurses at<br />
Nazareth House, where she<br />
passed away.<br />
Because it was lockdown<br />
at the time, the family was<br />
unable to hold a funeral, but<br />
memorial festivities were in the<br />
works.<br />
“We will be having a birthday<br />
bash in November.”<br />
“We’ll be having a line dance<br />
and entertaining afternoon,<br />
combined with pictures and<br />
stories and things.”<br />
“That’s really the send-off<br />
mum would have wanted.”<br />
JOY: Mary and her<br />
husband Art Stanley-<br />
Shepherd shared a<br />
love of line dancing.<br />
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OPEN DAY: The new Pleasant Point Yacht Club facilities will host a dinghy race meeting this weekend. Senior boats compete in one of the many races<br />
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New Brighton Park as they host<br />
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“Despite Covid we’ll be out<br />
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On Saturday, the club will<br />
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Add cheese to your accompaniments<br />
Chewy, stringy<br />
mozzarella lends<br />
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Mozzarella-stuffed<br />
portobello mushrooms<br />
Serves 4<br />
Ingredients<br />
28gm butter, place in frypan<br />
and melt, then add:<br />
4 cloves garlic, crushed<br />
4 large portobello mushrooms<br />
8 grape tomatoes, halved<br />
Mozzarella cheese, sliced<br />
¼ cup balsamic vinegar, place<br />
in smallest saucepan with:<br />
1 tablespoon sugar<br />
Directions<br />
Brush butter/garlic mixture<br />
over both sides of the mushrooms<br />
and place them on a<br />
baking tray lined with non-stick<br />
tinfoil.<br />
Place Tomato halves inside the<br />
mushrooms along with slices of<br />
mozzarella.<br />
Bake in oven at 180 deg C for<br />
30min, during which time boil<br />
the vinegar/sugar until liquid is<br />
reduced by half and it thickens.<br />
When mushrooms come out of<br />
oven, drizzle vinegar/sugar over<br />
them.<br />
Grilled mini peppers with<br />
mozzarella<br />
Serves 4 – 6<br />
Ingredients<br />
2 x 2 tablespoons olive oil, place<br />
two tablespoons of it in frypan<br />
1 small onion, chopped<br />
Pinch cayenne pepper<br />
Salt (to taste)<br />
Peppercorns<br />
1 x 390gm can chickpeas,<br />
rinsed and drained<br />
¼ cup parsley, finely chopped<br />
125gm mozzarella, grated<br />
350gm mini peppers<br />
Directions<br />
Saute onion until softened, a<br />
dd cayenne, salt, peppercorns<br />
and chickpeas, heat for a few<br />
seconds then roughly mash, then<br />
stir in the parsley and mozzarella.<br />
Thick, juicy<br />
portobello<br />
mushrooms<br />
are a handy<br />
vegetable to<br />
serve with<br />
dinner, or<br />
as a meal<br />
on their<br />
own. Add<br />
mozzarella<br />
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Cut tops off mini peppers and<br />
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Fill the mini peppers with the<br />
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Spear two mini peppers per<br />
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ends through to the points.<br />
Brush with the second measure<br />
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Grill on medium-high for<br />
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1 x 400gm can tomatoes (can<br />
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½ cup beef stock (can use red<br />
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1 tablespoon brown sugar<br />
½ teaspoon salt<br />
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<strong>16</strong> Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
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WESTERN NEWS<br />
PROBLEMS WITH YOUR EARS?<br />
Come and meet the highest rated hearing care provider in Christchurch<br />
You can buy hearing aids in lots of places these days: on<br />
TradeMe, through mail order, on the internet, even at the<br />
Optometrist! But if you have a problem with your ears or your<br />
hearing, it is very different to buying a pair of reading glasses.<br />
In most cases hearing aids are only a small part of the solution.<br />
Hear Again at the Hub in Hornby are the team who have been<br />
trusted by thousands of local residents to care for all their<br />
hearing needs. From a simple removal of earwax to the highly<br />
specialized fitting of the very latest hearing instruments, the<br />
100% NZ owned team never cease to delight their clients.<br />
Their long list of 5 star Google reviews speak for themselves.<br />
NZAS Audiometrist Neil Hardisty is frequently praised for his<br />
patience and expertise. Neil has a vast knowledge of all makes<br />
of hearing aids and is never satisfied until you are. He will<br />
make sure your new hearing devices are accurately matched to<br />
your needs and providing the very best improvement for you.<br />
• EARWAX REMOVAL by Microsuction<br />
• HEARING TESTS & Independent Advice<br />
• HEARING AIDS fitted and personalized<br />
• ACC & VETERANS’ AFFAIRS approved<br />
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Now you can be at the forefront of a new era: Intelligent Hearing.<br />
HEAR AGAIN are proud to bring a world first to New Zealand.<br />
A leading Danish hearing aid manufacturer has recently<br />
launched the only hearing aid that keeps learning from users<br />
around the world, while improving your listening experiences<br />
in real life and real time. The most natural hearing possible.<br />
Machine learning makes these devices really smart. They<br />
constantly work to perfect every hearing event by combining<br />
your own realtime input with what has already been learned<br />
both from you and from millions of other listening experiences<br />
around the world. A global network of hearing help.<br />
Simply use your smartphone to select the sound level that<br />
best suits your environment: the devices remember this for<br />
the next time you find yourself in a similar place; easy!<br />
Call for your FREE DEMONSTRATION<br />
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