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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, <strong>2021</strong><br />

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Thursday <strong>October</strong> 7 <strong>2021</strong> 3<br />

Musical siblings in composer awards<br />

THOMAS AND Eva Bedggood<br />

have been playing music<br />

together since they were young<br />

children.<br />

And now they are sharing the<br />

experience of taking part in an<br />

award for young composers.<br />

The Canterbury University<br />

music students have been chosen<br />

for the NZSO Todd Corporation<br />

Young Composer Awards.<br />

The award gives them<br />

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Wellington next month and hear<br />

their compositions workshopped<br />

and performed by the New<br />

Zealand Symphony Orchestra.<br />

The works will also be recorded<br />

by RNZ Concert.<br />

They are two of the eight<br />

young composers from around<br />

New Zealand chosen to<br />

participate in the award this<br />

year.<br />

Thomas, 20, plays the violin<br />

and Eva, 18, plays the trumpet<br />

and piano.<br />

Thomas, who is in his<br />

fourth year of an honours degree<br />

in music, was selected for the<br />

same NZSO award last year,<br />

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student, to enter for the first<br />

time.<br />

“I never imagined that I<br />

would get in because I’m pretty<br />

young and I don’t think they<br />

often have first years. It was<br />

awesome to hear we’d both got<br />

EXPERIENCE: Thomas and Eva Bedggood have been<br />

playing music together since they were children and they’re<br />

excited to share the experience of taking part in an award<br />

for young composers. ​<br />

in because now we get to have<br />

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Her selected composition,<br />

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work for an orchestra but she<br />

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year,” he said.<br />

The pair have different<br />

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Eva is interested in film<br />

scoring and finds inspiration<br />

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Thomas says his ideas come<br />

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His successful piece for the<br />

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As part of the award they<br />

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process and their piece of music<br />

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and led by conductor Hamish<br />

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Thursday <strong>October</strong> 7 <strong>2021</strong> 5<br />

League player heading to school of hard knocks<br />

BULLDOGS PUP: Promising rugby league player Bronson<br />

Reuben heads to Sydney next year after securing a<br />

development contract with the Canterbury Bulldogs<br />

NRL club.<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

• By Chris Barclay<br />

ST BEDE’S College student<br />

Bronson Reuben faces a steep<br />

learning curve on, and off, the<br />

field next year when the talented<br />

rugby league player relocates to<br />

Sydney to pursue his NRL dream.<br />

Not only will the 15-year-old<br />

have to adapt to an Australian<br />

education curriculum near the<br />

end of secondary school, Reuben<br />

is also joining one of the code’s<br />

ultimate school of hard knocks<br />

after securing a three-year<br />

contract with the Canterbury<br />

Bulldogs.<br />

Fortunately, his mother and<br />

father are in a similar boat after<br />

they make the flight in December<br />

or January.<br />

“It’s a bit of an upheaval really.<br />

We’re selling the house, we don’t<br />

have jobs (to go to) and all that<br />

sort of thing,” Kirsten Reuben<br />

said.<br />

However, crossing the Tasman<br />

after her son finishes year 11 is a<br />

calculated risk the Prestons-based<br />

family are willing to take.<br />

“He’s one of these kids that<br />

doesn’t have a problem with<br />

change. If we didn’t go we’d just<br />

sit here forever thinking what<br />

might have been,” said Kirsten,<br />

who will lean on club staff and old<br />

high school friends when making<br />

the transition.<br />

Bronson, who captained the<br />

Southern Zone Scorpions to a<br />

FAVOURITE<br />

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Bronson Reuben’s<br />

favourite NRL stars,<br />

retired playmaker<br />

Johnathan<br />

Thurston, also<br />

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league career<br />

at the Bulldogs.<br />

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42-6 victory over the Wellington<br />

Orcas at the national under-16<br />

tournament at Nga Puna Wai on<br />

Saturday, impressed at an Elite<br />

Sport Performance Trust two-day<br />

talent identification camp for 20<br />

players in Auckland last year.<br />

Ideally, the halfback would have<br />

attended training sessions at the<br />

Bulldogs’ Belmore headquarters<br />

during the July school holidays<br />

but MIQ requirements ruled out<br />

the trip.<br />

“He could get there, but there<br />

was no guarantee he could get<br />

home,” Kirsten said.<br />

Bronson started playing rugby<br />

league as a six-year-old at the<br />

Kaiapoi-based Northern Bulldogs,<br />

following in father Kyle’s<br />

sprigmarks – a former New Zealand<br />

age group and Canterbury<br />

representative.<br />

“It’ll be a big learning curve<br />

but like anything, if you want to<br />

excel at a sport you should probably<br />

fish where the fish are,” said<br />

Kirsten, the Northern Bulldogs<br />

club secretary.<br />

“You go where they’ve got good<br />

programmes, they just do it properly<br />

over there. We couldn’t really<br />

not do it.”<br />

The Northern Bulldogs under-<br />

16s player of the year for <strong>2021</strong>,<br />

Bronson, who has represented<br />

Canterbury since he was nine,<br />

will play in the same grade next<br />

year.<br />

His favourite player is retired<br />

Kangaroos, Queensland and<br />

North Queensland halfback<br />

Johnathan Thurston, who started<br />

his illustrious career at the Bulldogs<br />

in 2002.<br />

Bronson is the second player<br />

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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

Art classes gives cancer patient<br />

ROAR: Ruth Caukwell’s artworks often feature<br />

animals, such as lions or ducks.<br />

• By Fiona Ellis<br />

FOR RUTH Caukwell, art has<br />

provided a new lease on life, in<br />

spite of her ongoing fight against<br />

cancer.<br />

The 58-year-old Edgeware<br />

resident started attending<br />

therapeutic art classes run by<br />

the Cancer Society after she was<br />

diagnosed with pancreatic cancer<br />

in June last year. An operation and<br />

chemotherapy quickly followed.<br />

A long-time art enthusiast, it<br />

had been several years since she<br />

attempted any artwork, but she<br />

found a new perspective on life had<br />

ushered in a new style.<br />

“I’m finding things are freer and<br />

richer. I did some lovely work prior<br />

to [cancer] but I think there’s more<br />

passion in it now,” Caukwell said.<br />

“Since having cancer I thought:<br />

‘Oh, what the heck, I’m just going<br />

to do it’.”<br />

Her chemotherapy stopped in<br />

February but restarted again this<br />

month after her illness returned.<br />

“It is what it is and I’m going to<br />

keep on fighting.<br />

“The art is a great outlet. You can<br />

express yourself and lose yourself.”<br />

Even when she felt unwell, she<br />

was still able to plan and outline<br />

her artworks.<br />

From ducks to lions, animals are<br />

a recurring theme in her work, and<br />

pastel is her preferred medium,<br />

making French artist Edgar Degas<br />

a firm favourite.<br />

“He was a forerunner of pastels,<br />

and some of the stuff he did with<br />

pastel is just amazing.”<br />

The classes include art history<br />

segments and technical lessons as<br />

well as plenty of time to work on<br />

her projects. It is also a place to<br />

make friends and meet people to<br />

discuss art and life with.<br />

“It doesn’t matter where you’re at,<br />

we just go there and have fun. We<br />

learn and we help one another and<br />

encourage one another. That’s what<br />

I love about it.”<br />

An image of a galloping horse<br />

was her contribution towards<br />

an exhibition by the class at the<br />

Eastside Gallery late last year.<br />

“It was quite a success, lots of<br />

people came and saw it, it was quite<br />

a lift really.”<br />

Artist Karen Greenslade was one<br />

of three volunteers who lead the<br />

Monday morning art classes at the<br />

Cancer Society’s Fitzgerald Ave<br />

location, along with Viv Kepes and<br />

Giselle Fortune.<br />

All three are qualified artists<br />

with teaching backgrounds.<br />

Greenslade, a 70-year-old from<br />

Burnside, followed a long-held<br />

dream of attending art school<br />

and graduating from Canterbury<br />

University with a fine art degree in<br />

2016.<br />

She then wanted to give back<br />

to the community so became<br />

involved in the classes in 2017<br />

at the suggestion of her friend<br />

Sandy Gottermeyer, who now runs<br />

sessions in Rangiora.<br />

The morning and afternoon<br />

sessions meet different needs,<br />

and the two groups share lunch<br />

together.<br />

“Some people come along and it’s<br />

all brand new but generally people<br />

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a new lease on life<br />

A Cancer Society care worker regularly<br />

drops in to touch base with class attendees,<br />

and the group also take monthly trips to<br />

the Christchurch Art Gallery.<br />

People came from throughout Christchurch<br />

to attend classes, and participants<br />

ranged from those in their 20s to those in<br />

their 70s.<br />

Art classes are on hold until Covid-19<br />

alert level 1, although she was communicating<br />

with her pupils online, she said.<br />

This was among the challenges of her<br />

role, as was the reality of working with the<br />

society.<br />

“Sometimes people are pretty unwell,<br />

and very locationally we lose someone and<br />

that’s very sad.”<br />

However, the positive aspects of the role<br />

far outweighed any drawbacks.<br />

“Its a team. It’s not to do with me, it’s to<br />

do with everyone. As tutors, sometimes I<br />

think we get more out of it than they do,<br />

they’re so kind and appreciative.”<br />

“For some reason, I think adversity<br />

makes some very lovely, kind people.”<br />

•Therapeutic art classes are held at 97<br />

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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

‘Skiing will be a lifelong passion for me’<br />

•From page 1<br />

“Just to get there in this<br />

Covid world will be amazing,”<br />

she said.<br />

While competing in Europe,<br />

her aim was simply to make the<br />

most of the experience.<br />

Although she was not looking<br />

further into the future than this,<br />

she had no plan to hang up her<br />

skis.<br />

“Skiing will be a lifelong passion<br />

for me. I would love to juggle<br />

competing and a career.”<br />

She was drawn to compete in<br />

the sport because of the friendly<br />

atmosphere of the competitions,<br />

she said.<br />

“There is a really great group of<br />

girls who are all super supportive<br />

and fun.”<br />

The skiers she looked up to<br />

included New Zealanders Janina<br />

Kuzma, Jess Hotter, and Craig<br />

Murray, and Italian Arianna<br />

Tricomi.<br />

In spite of injuries and<br />

near misses, she believes a day<br />

on the snow is better than a day<br />

off it.<br />

However, love of skiing was not<br />

instantaneous for Ruby. When<br />

Bottle Lake Forest Park’s notoriously hard and fast trails lived up to<br />

their reputation on Sunday delivering fast times in the final round of<br />

the Canterbury Mountain Bike series.<br />

The winning time by former international world cup mountain<br />

bike racer Craig Oliver for the 30km feature race was 1hr 4min.<br />

she was first introduced to it, she<br />

“hated” the sport.<br />

She changed her mind after<br />

picking up on the enthusiasm<br />

of those around her at the<br />

skifield near her family’s holiday<br />

home.<br />

“Skiing is one of our family<br />

sports but skiing with friends<br />

made it more fun and we had<br />

a great group of kids at Mt<br />

Olympus to push each other and<br />

improve,” Ruby said.<br />

Freeride skiing was her<br />

preferred style because of the<br />

creativity it allowed.<br />

“It’s not like in ski racing where<br />

you have a set path and turn<br />

between the gates. You have to<br />

choose your path and what you’re<br />

going to jump off and decide<br />

what trick you’re going to do in<br />

the air — it’s really fun.”<br />

Picking her route to follow was<br />

the most challenging part of the<br />

sport, because of the uncertainty<br />

of how it would work out, but was<br />

also the most rewarding when it<br />

went well.<br />

While in action, she had three<br />

key words on her mind – “focus,<br />

fluid and fast.”<br />

CREATIVITY: Ruby Hewitt<br />

carves a path at the New<br />

Zealand junior freeride<br />

nationals. PHOTO: MARK<br />

BRIDGWATER<br />

Walter Lettink of Mairehau, leads his daughter Victoria,<br />

10, as they prepare for the start the final round of the<br />

Canterbury mountain bike series at Bottle Lake Forest Park<br />

last weekend. Walter rode in the 30km race while Victoria<br />

faced the 15km race.<br />

David Ralston, of Burnside, completes<br />

the first lap of the 30km race on<br />

Sunday. Ralston’s second place finish<br />

in his age group earned him enough<br />

points to come second overall in the<br />

60-plus age group for the three-round<br />

series.<br />

Rob Turner of Redwood competes in the 15km<br />

short course race.<br />

Simon Kristiansen, of Merivale, carries his race number as he heads<br />

towards winning the 15km race. His spirited ride saw him earn enough<br />

points to win the overall 40-49 age group title.<br />

With the end in sight four competitors in the 30km race draw on all<br />

their reserves as they sprint towards a possible top-10 placing. They are<br />

(from left) No 4 Warwick Tuffnell, of Leeston, Sebastiano Broadhead, of<br />

Harewood, (obscured), No 24 Ryan Kuggeleijn and No 199 Aaron Hooper,<br />

of Bishopdale. Hooper beat them all to the line gaining ninth overall.<br />

PHOTOS: JOHN COSGROVE


NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Thursday <strong>October</strong> 7 <strong>2021</strong> 9<br />

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We have hidden 3 Kiwi’s on our website. Each Kiwi has a special word.<br />

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Find all 3 Kiwi’s and write the special words you find in the yellow boxes.<br />

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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

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RAY WHITE PAPANUI NEWS<br />

A ‘selling your home’ checklist<br />

Selling a home can be a full-on<br />

experience. We grow attached to our<br />

homes and it can be hard to move<br />

on from them, especially if it’s our<br />

first home. We sell for any number of<br />

reasons but, no matter, the same things<br />

need to be considered before you start<br />

the process.<br />

Preparing your home:<br />

You will need to get the property up<br />

to scratch and looking as attractive<br />

as possible to prospective buyers. For<br />

some, this will mean finally finishing<br />

that project, working on repairs,<br />

decluttering and cleaning. Speak to a<br />

property expert if you are considering<br />

any expensive alterations to make sure<br />

it’s worth the cost.<br />

Repair History:<br />

If your property has had insurance or<br />

EQC repairs then this documentation<br />

including evidence of completion of<br />

works needs to be complied for the<br />

sale, if you can’t find this information<br />

then you can call EQC 0800 326 243<br />

and ask for them to send the file for<br />

your property out, note this can take<br />

up to 20 working days to arrive.<br />

Find a salesperson (agent):<br />

Contact a few experienced local real<br />

estate salespeople (agents) and set up<br />

interviews. Potential salespeople will<br />

evaluate your property and give you a<br />

comparative market analysis. Once you<br />

Tax changes are here!<br />

find your salesperson, you will sign a<br />

contract stating any commissions due,<br />

length of the agreement, marketing<br />

costs and the estimated sale cost.<br />

Making more important decisions:<br />

Next work with your salesperson to<br />

decide how you want to sell (auction,<br />

deadline sale, price etc), types and<br />

costs of listings and advertising, open<br />

home schedules and if you will issue a<br />

price guide or ask for offers.<br />

Contracts:<br />

Your salesperson will draw up<br />

the contract of sale, which should<br />

include all details of the owners,<br />

title, conditions of the sale, what is<br />

included in the chattels (for example,<br />

oven) as well as settlement date, legal<br />

description and any tenancy details if<br />

relevant.<br />

Going to market:<br />

The length of time your home will be<br />

on the market depends on how you<br />

choose to sell. For an auction, it’s about<br />

four weeks, a price or by negotiation<br />

method is often longer. This is the time<br />

your home will be open for inspections.<br />

It will take some effort to keep the<br />

house tidy for that time.<br />

Your salesperson will be responsible<br />

for negotiating with potential buyers<br />

to get the best price for you. Once it<br />

has been sold, the buyer usually pays a<br />

deposit at this point.<br />

The last step is settlement day. This<br />

is when you give the keys over to the<br />

new owners and vacate the property<br />

in exchange for the full agreed-upon<br />

amount. Congratulations on your sale!<br />

To discuss your map to a successful<br />

sale, get in contact with one of the<br />

team here at Ray White Papanui. We<br />

look forward to working with you.<br />

Vanessa Golightly,<br />

Business Owner<br />

and Licensee Agent<br />

Ray White Papanui<br />

027 664 9292<br />

Vanessa Golightly<br />

Licensee Agent &<br />

Business Owner<br />

027 664 9292<br />

Stuart Morris<br />

Licensee Agent<br />

& Auctioneer<br />

027 422 6395<br />

Katrina Green<br />

Operations Manager<br />

Property Management<br />

027 606 0030<br />

Claire Morris<br />

Licensee Agent &<br />

Business Owner<br />

027 662 4822<br />

Ben McNab<br />

Licensee Salesperson<br />

& Auctioneer<br />

027 427 7232<br />

Tracy Thomson<br />

Licensee Salesperson<br />

027 440 3035<br />

New tax laws for landlords came into<br />

effect from 1st <strong>October</strong> and while the<br />

Government first announced these<br />

changes in March, we have had to wait<br />

until just days prior to the changes<br />

taking effect to find out more details.<br />

One of the big questions a lot of<br />

investors had was “What defines a<br />

new build?” and “How long would it be<br />

classified as a new build?” This concern<br />

was generated as new builds have<br />

been made exempt from one of the big<br />

changes, where you are no longer able<br />

to claim interest on your mortgage as<br />

a cost to off-set against the income,<br />

which will likely result, for most<br />

landlords in a higher cost to run their<br />

rental property.<br />

We now know that the Government<br />

has said that a new build will come<br />

under this exemption for 20 years from<br />

the change. This will apply for any new<br />

build which had its Code of Compliance<br />

issued on or after 27th March 2020.<br />

Feature Properties<br />

The other good news is that this<br />

exemption will be transferable from<br />

one owner to the next during the 20<br />

year period, which also answers a lot of<br />

questions landlords had.<br />

Tax specialists are however advising<br />

that the rules are very complex and<br />

they recommend that independent<br />

expert advice is sought to ensure<br />

landlords understand the tax<br />

implications according to their own<br />

personal circumstances.<br />

The Government has also said that<br />

more generous exemptions could apply<br />

to purpose-built rentals, commonly<br />

known as build-to-rent rentals, so I<br />

guess we need to wait and see what<br />

this looks like.<br />

So where does this leave the landlord<br />

who owns an older rental property, and<br />

ultimately how is this going to affect<br />

the rental stock in New Zealand? Most<br />

of us working closely with landlords<br />

who own, and tenants who live in, these<br />

properties are nervous that we will see<br />

a shortage of mid-priced rental stock,<br />

with investors either changing over to<br />

new builds or selling up and getting out<br />

of the game completely.<br />

As each part of the tax changes take<br />

effect the costs to landlords will<br />

increase, making it impossible not to<br />

increase rents to continue making<br />

the ownership viable. In my opinion,<br />

and from what I am already seeing<br />

in the market, these tax changes<br />

will not assist most of our tenants<br />

unfortunately and could ultimately<br />

backfire on assisting tenants to be in<br />

homes for life. But – we will have to<br />

wait and see!<br />

Just Sold<br />

Katrina Green,<br />

Operations Manager<br />

Property Management<br />

027 606 0030<br />

Richie Eggelton<br />

Licensee Salesperson<br />

021 089 65594<br />

Hasna Ngara<br />

Licensee Salesperson<br />

021 262 4943<br />

Olivia Hendry<br />

Executive Assistant<br />

Maria Paterson<br />

Licensee Salesperson<br />

027 543 4689<br />

Jana Schleehauf<br />

Licensee Salesperson<br />

022 090 1227<br />

Georgia Tuuta<br />

Executive Assistant<br />

Estelle Schuurman<br />

Property Manager<br />

Joy Coughlan<br />

Mortgage Broker<br />

027 223 3572<br />

22 Kendal Avenue, Burnside<br />

Vanessa Golightly & Maria Paterson<br />

25 Gleneagles Terrace, Fendalton<br />

Tracy Thomson & Hansa Ngara<br />

160 Richardson Terrace, Woolston<br />

Vanessa Golightly & Maria Paterson<br />

Level 1, 7 Winston Avenue, Papanui<br />

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

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