Bay Harbour: October 27, 2021

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• By Andy Brew 

BURGLARS WHO ransacked 

three Ferrymead businesses 

have been branded “ratbags”. 

Two men forced their way 

into the T-Sushi and Dubba 

Delux restaurants and the Caci 

Clinic next door, stealing cash 

and thousands of dollars of 

equipment. 

CCTV footage from the 

T-Sushi break-in shows one of 

the offenders at work, 

while his co-offender 

stays outside, potentially 

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Jo Nielsen from Caci, a 

beauty treatment centre, 

said the thieves stole 

more than $13,000 of beauty 

products. 

“It’s just horrible. They are 

ratbags, they just don’t care who 

they hurt,” she said. 

Nielsen said because the 

burglars had taken all of 

their stock, the clinic couldn’t 

Jo Nielsen 

operate the following day and 

had to cancel all of the day’s 

appointments. 

The break-ins happened in 

the early hours of Thursday. 

“We were fully-booked but 

couldn’t open. It doesn’t just 

affect our business, it affects our 

clients too.” 

Tiny Xu of T-Sushi said 

the offenders stole the Eftpos 

machine, an iPad, a laptop and 

about $700. 

He is hoping CCTV 

footage will help identify 

those responsible. 

“One can be seen 

wearing a very expensive 

Zhik sailing jacket, so I’m 

hoping some within the 

yachting community will 

recognise the man,” Xu 

said. 

Lyttelton police Sergeant 

John Moody said that while 

there was no forensic evidence 

left at the scene, inquiries were 

continuing. 

Police were reviewing the 

CCTV footage. 

BREAK-IN: A CCTV image of an offender allegedly stealing items from the T-Sushi 

restaurant in Ferrymead. 

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BURGLARS ARE active again 

– this time in Ferrymead (see 

page 1). 

And understandably those 

businesses hit aren’t very 

happy. 

Three businesses were targeted 

early last Thursday morning. 

The timing of each break-in 

suggests they may have been 

able to sidestep security. But 

one of the offenders was captured 

on CCTV footage and 

hopefully his distinctive jacket 

will give him away. 

One another note, former 

Port Hills list MP Nuk Korako 

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cycling journey to raise money 

for Renee Veal, who needs a jaw 

news 

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$35,000 towards the $90,000 

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NEWS 3 

$35k for Renee and ‘the backside is OK’ 

• By Chris Barclay 

NUK KORAKO has safely 

completed his 720km cycling 

odyssey from Banks Peninsula to 

Bluff, so one day Renee Veal will 

be on the road to recovery. 

The former National list MP 

for Port Hills reached Stirling 

Point from Invercargill on 

October 18, the final leg of a 

journey undertaken to spearhead 

a $90,000 fundraising drive for 

26-year-old Veal, who needs a 

jaw reconstruction. 

Veal, who grew 

up in the small 

community 

of Rapaki, is 

living with 

hypermobile 

Ehlers-Danlos 

Renee Veal 

Syndrome, which 

means her jaw 

often dislocates. 

Struggling to sleep or eat 

properly for a decade due to 

persistent pain, Veal needs lifeenhanching 

surgery which is 

not covered by the public health 

system. 

The replacement jaw and joints 

are titanium and manufactured 

in the United States. 

Her plight prompted Korako 

to cycle to Bluff, a minor 

discomfort in comparison, as 

Karako raised $35,000. 

“The legs are good and the 

backside is okay,” said the proud 

Gold Card holder, who started 

heading south on an e-bike on 

October 9. 

The route took him from 

Christchurch to Ashburton, 

Tekapo, Tarras, Cromwell, 

Queenstown, Lumsden and 

Invercargill before the finish line. 

He aimed to cover 85km a day. 

“The hardest part was 

Geraldine through Burkes Pass 

to Tekapo because most of the 

time it was head winds,” said 

Korako, who activated battery 

power on the steep stretches. 

“It had to be a challenge for 

me as well so on the flat you’re at 

zero power. I only went to level 

two when I was on the hills.” 

SUCCESS: Nuk Korako reached Bluff after cycling from 

Christchurch to raise money for Renee Veal who is living with 

hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. 

Swooping magpies, heavy 

traffic and a puncture were the 

other obstacles for the politician 

who served from 2014-19. 

Korako drove back to 

Christchurch with wife and 

support crew Christine on 

Wednesday to catch up with 

Veal after updating her by 

phone. 

“Renee is over the moon. The 

support from people who didn’t 

even know us or Renee was 

fantastic. 

“We’re a third of the way 

there (to the target), at least 

we’ve created some momentum.” 

More fundraising initiatives 

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Smallest team member suits up for duty 

• By John Cosgrove 

THE SMALLEST member of the 

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He said the police paid for 

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NEWS 7 

Charity fights back on – with new rules 

• By Liam Broderick 

ALMOST A year since the last 

Built for Battle charity boxing 

event, fighters are getting back in 

the ring to raise money for men’s 

mental health. 

Twenty-four fighters have 

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event on Saturday at Cowles 

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The New 

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boxing, introduced 

the new rules at the beginning 

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death of Sumner Sharks rugby 

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for Christchurch charity night. 

Fighters competing in charity 

boxing bouts were previously only 

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risk of head injury high. 

The new rules require all fighters 

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groin guard (for men), 

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Boxer James Bates said the 

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him to decide to compete in the 

October event. 

“Eighteen-ounce gloves . . . and 

using headgear, will cut down the 

chance of injury by a lot,” he said. 

READY: James Bates (left) training ahead of the event, 

which founder Bryan Barry says is more about raising 

awareness of men’s mental health than raising money. 

NZPBA president Kevin Pyne 

said boxing was full of risks, but 

the new safety measures should 

ensure fighter safety. 

“There’s a lot of intricacies and 

you can never be 100 per cent on 

top of safety, but we sure as hell 

like to be 99 per cent,” he said. 

The Christchurch event is one 

of five NZPBA-sanctioned boxing 

events in the South Island 

over the next couple of months. 

It will feature 12 fights (11 

men’s and one women’s) and 

raise money for men’s mental 

health charity I Am Hope. 

I Am Hope founder Mike King 

said he was glad that charity 

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mental health. 

“Charity boxing has been the 

main funder of our charity since 

2014,” he said. 

Last year’s Built for Battle 

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• By Chris Barclay 

THE INFAMOUS easterly was 

the enemy to an enjoyable outing 

yet again, but the rededication 

of the Nicholas family plot will 

always be a heart-warming 

experience for Diana Burgess. 

A niece of Canterbury’s 

first Victoria Cross recipient, 

Burgess got reacquainted with 

other descendants of Sergeant 

Henry Nicholas when they 

assembled in Bromley Cemetery 

on Saturday for the official 

unveiling of a resting place finally 

repaired a decade after the 

earthquakes. 

“There was quite a few of 

the extended family. Graham 

(husband) and I were the olds, 

we were the only ones from that 

generation but there was good 

support from the next generation 

down,” she said. 

“That was lovely to see, very 

heart-warming. We had a nice 

get together afterwards. They’ll 

keep the flag flying for the next 

generation.” 

Burgess as among 50 people 

who braved the breeze to attend 

the ceremony, the culmination 

of a mission undertaken by local 

resident and Korean War veteran 

Ken Wright. 

After walking past the 

damaged plot, the Londoner 

successfully enlisted the 

support of the New Zealand 


HONOUR: Descendants of Canterbury’s first Victoria Cross 

recipient Sergeant Henry Nicholas pay their respects at 

the family plot in Bromley Cemetery, which was repaired a 

decade after the earthquakes. 

Remembrance Army, a graverestoring 

charity, who completed 

the repair work. 

“It was a real tribute to those 

who worked so hard to get 

it under way. They’re done a 

wonderful job,” Burgess said. 

The Canterbury branch of the 

Royal New Zealand Returned 

and Services Association 

coordinated the ceremony which 

included an honour guard, firing 

party and Nicholas’ medals, 

including the VC which was 

bequeathed to Canterbury 

Museum by his mother. 

Lincoln-born Nicholas earned 

the United Kingdom’s highest 

military honour for his part in 

an attack on a German-held 

position in Belgium in December 

17. 

The 27-year-old (right) was 

killed in action in France on October 

23, 1918; hostilities ended 

shortly after on November 11. 

A wreath was also laid at 

Nicholas’ grave in the Vertigneul 

Churchyard near the border with 

Belgium on Sunday to follow the 

Christchurch commemoration. 


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‘Heart-warming’ rededication ceremony 

TRIBUTE: 

Korean war 

veteran 

Ken Wright 

at the 

Nicholas 

family plot 

and the 

repaired 

headstone.


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THE HAPPY sounds of children 

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thinking, decision making, problem 

solving and collaborative 

play. The hexagonal box is an 

open-ended piece of equipment 

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ways within our environment. 

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ways that children are going to 

use this in their play.” 

The children immediately saw 

opportunities as to how to link 

this new piece to existing equipment 

in the playground. 

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third teacher; it sets the scene 

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Morritt said. 

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Hawes saw the new piece of 

equipment in use first hand, and 

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to develop more physically challenging 

skills.” 

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fundraising is of vital 

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Sumner are delighted the 


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card for the Sumner Ferrymead 

Foundation.” 

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HELPING HAND: KidsFirst 

Kindergartens Sumner 

head teacher Liz Morritt 

and Sumner Ferrymead 

Foundation Trustee Martin 

Hawes.


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New test sites set up to improve 

understanding of waterways 

ELEVEN NEW water quality 

monitoring sites are giving 

the city council a better 

understanding of the state of 

rivers and streams. 

The Christchurch Surface 

Water Quality Report 2021 and 

summary brochure have just 

been published. The report is 

an analysis of monthly data 

collected at 51 sites across Banks 

Peninsula the city during 2020. 

The new monitoring sites are 

Aylmers and Balguerie Streams 

in Akaroa, Stream Reserve 

Drain and Zephyr Stream in 

Governors Bay, Avon-Heathcote 

Estuary, Cass Bay, Akaroa 

Harbour, and Lyttelton Harbour. 

Heathcote River at Warren Cres, 

Steamwharf Stream (Heathcote 

River catchment), Halswell River 

at Wroots Rd. 

Results for most monitoring 

sites have remained steady since 

2007, with some sites improving 

and some worsening, said city 

council waterways ecologist Dr 

Belinda Margetts, who leads this 

research. 

The site recording the best water 

quality was the Ōtūkaikino 

TESTING TIMES: City council water ecologist Dr Belinda Margetts leads the research into 

water quality across the peninsula. 

River at the Groynes. The next 

best sites (jointly) were Smacks 

Creek at Gardiners Rd (Styx River 

catchment), Waimairi Stream 

(Avon River catchment), Avon 

River at Carlton Mill, Wilsons 

Stream (Ōtūkaikino River catchment), 

followed by Styx River at 

Gardiners Rd. 

The worst sites were Curletts 

Rd Stream at motorway 

(Heathcote River catchment), 

HEALTH: New water monitoring sites are expected to improve the quality of our rivers 

and streams. 

Nottingham Stream at Candys 

Rd (Halswell River catchment), 

Haytons Stream (Heathcote 

River catchment), and Addington 

Brook (Ōtākaro-Avon River 

catchment). 

“The Huritini-Halswell River 

catchment did not meet many 

of the water quality standards 

and recorded the poorest water 

quality,” Dr Margetts said. 

“One of our new monitoring 

sites, Nottingham Stream, has 

highlighted that this waterway 

has poor water quality. This 

wasn’t on our radar before and 

its poor water quality will be due 

to contaminants entering the 

waterway from both urban and 

rural land use.” 

The city council uses this water 

quality information, along with 

sediment quality and aquatic 

insect data to create waterway 

report cards for each of the city’s 

five main river catchments. The 

catchments are then given a 

score from ‘A’ (very good health) 

to ‘E’ (very poor health). 

As in the past three years, 

no waterway scored an A and 

no waterway scored an E. The 

The 2021 surface 

water quality report 

recommends the city 

council: 

• Prioritises Curletts 

Rd Stream, Nottingham 

Stream and Addington 

Brook for contaminant 

source control and stormwater 

treatment 

• Prioritises sediment 

control, particularly in the 

Heathcote River and Cashmere 

Stream 

• Cements a 

whole-of-community 

approach to addressing 

stormwater contaminants 

through the Community 

Waterway Partnership 

• Investigates faecal 

contamination, particularly 

from waterfowl, to identify 

how best to reduce levels 

• Develops an action plan 

for achieving the Healthy 

Water Bodies Community 

Outcome 

Ōtūkaikino River catchment 

again recorded the highest score 

(B), Styx River catchment scored 

a C and Avon River, Halswell 

River and Heathcote River 

catchments all scored a D. 

Dr Margetts said that like 

most cities, Christchurch waterways 

suffer from a condition 

known as ‘urban stream syndrome’. 

“Our waterways are 

contaminated with runoff 

from hard surfaces such as 

roofs, driveways and roads, and 

with faecal contaminants from 

waterfowl and dog droppings,” 

she said. 

“The council, other 

organisations and landowners 

are working hard to improve 

the health of our waterways, 

especially through improving 

the quality of the water and 

carrying out restoration projects, 

but it may take many years to 

see this work flow through to 

a big improvement in water 

quality.”


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Emil Ascherberg 

piano, with its 

signature ornate 

clawed feet. 

Te Ūaka The 

Lyttelton Museum 

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‘Emil’ absconded and was 

allegedly “trading pots in 

Copenhagen [from] January 

1884” before apparently setting 

up another business as a music 

publisher in London. Not much 

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bombing of Dresden in WW2. 

Eugene, however, continued to 

run various music-related businesses 

while residing peacefully 

in London with his wife and 

children up until his death in 

1908. 

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of our museum’s Emil 

Ascherberg piano, with its 

signature ornate clawed feet, as 

sometime between 1875 – when 

the Australasian import business 

began – and 1883 – when Emil’s 

piano factory went bankrupt and 

was sold, after which the pianos 

were manufactured under the 

name of Ascherberg Perzina. 

We look forward to displaying 

this fine example of Victorian 

piano making and colonial 

commerces once the future Te 

Ūaka Lyttelton Museum is built 

to house the collection.


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Danger in looking after menagerie at 

Willowbank Wildlife 

Reserve’s founder 

Michael Willis has 

survived many an 

encounter with the 

feathered and furry 

creatures in his care, 

including having half 

his thumb bitten off. 

He talks to Susan 

Sandys 

What motivated you to 

establish Willowbank? 

Willowbank was an 

establishment of a dream I 

had since I was a wee boy. I 

come from a large family of six 

children, and we are all back 

country orientated in a big way. 

My father established a bach 

up in the Craigieburn Valley. I 

kept a whole lot of pets. I had 

hares, keas, possums and hawks. 

I always wanted to have a zoo, 

ever since I was big enough to 

read Gerald Durrell and Richard 

Attenborough. When I came 

back to New Zealand in my 20s, 

I looked for a block of land to 

establish a zoo on. I had worked 

in the United Kingdom with 

animals, in a wildlife refuge. 

In Africa I was offered a job in 

Kruger National Park but came 

home instead. 

CARING: Michael Willis at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve with a capybara, a South 

American rodent. 

PHOTO: RNZ 

And you found that block 

of land, where Willowbank is 

today, at Northwood, in your 

home city of Christchurch? 

I was buying some eggs and 

asked the farmer if he knew of 

any land for sale. He pointed me 

in that direction. It was 11 acres, 

covered in gorse and broom and 

rubbish and so on. It’s an old 

riverbed that the Waimak used 

to come through. So I bought it. 

It was 1968. It was ideal for what 

I wanted, near the airport, near 

the main road. 

When did you open it? 

It was 1974 before I could 

open it as a wildlife park. I had 

no money, so it was a very poor 

excuse for a wildlife park. I built 

a house on the property, we 

(myself and former wife Kathy 

and then two children) lived 

there. I couldn’t even afford to 

have an entrance box. I had an 

old Land-Rover and sat in the 

front seat with a shoe box, and 

put the money in that. It opened 

Labour Weekend in 1974 and 

the rest is history I suppose. All 

the money we got, we just kept 

putting back into it. 

Did you envisage it would 

become the facility it is today? 

No, at that stage I wanted 

a zoo. So I kept on getting 

animals. I kept on getting 

monkeys, mountain lions, we 

had camels, we had agoutis, we 

had otters, we had chimpanzees. 

The chimpanzees were the 

tipping point, when I realised 

there was really no future in 

keeping exotic animals in New 

Zealand. We’ve got so much 

exciting and valuable wildlife 

that needs preservation, I 

decided there was no future in 

being a zoo. So my childhood 

dream didn’t shatter, but it 

changed completely. I changed 

the direction of the park 

totally to become New Zealand 

focussed. 

Are there any exotic animals 

at Willowbank today? 

We still have otters, there’s 

talk that New Zealand had 

an otter. We have capybara, 

gibbons, capuchin monkeys, 

lemurs and we have exotic birds 

like macaws. We try and have 

a story of New Zealand when 

people visit here. It starts with 

introduced animals, then it goes 

into the exotic sections. They fit 

into the story of zoos in 

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Willowbank for reserve’s founder 

There is a big focus on New 

Zealand species? 

The story finishes with the New 

Zealand section. This is where we 

breed all our kiwi, and we have 

takahe and tuatara and a wide 

range of native species. When 

I changed the direction of the 

park, by that stage I had been 

to Arapawa Island mustering 

goats, and saw the wild sheep 

up there. That led to a whole 

field of conservation which I 

hadn’t thought about, which was 

conserving rare breeds in New 

Zealand. 

Did otters live in New 

Zealand? 

The Southland Maori had an 

animal called waitoreke. They 

described this four-legged animal 

that lived there. When Cook 

was here, his men saw an otterlike 

animal in Fiordland. Early 

explorers and others reported 

seeing otters. There has really 

been no sightings since about 

1954. One theory is (they came 

from a ship after) Tamil Indians 

wrecked in the area. 

Otters are very cute creatures. 

They are dynamite to handle. 

I have had them in the house, 

we have bred them and reared 

babies. We bred some and the 

mother couldn’t feed them and 

we had a cavalier king charles 

spaniel belonging to my son. She 

just had some pups, so I put the 

two otter cubs on with her, she 

looked after them with her pups. 

So they bounced round with the 

pups. They are dynamite, they 

smell very fishy. They would get 

in the pot cupboard, fly around 

the pot cupboard, they like 

poking into everything. 

When you look back on 

the years that you kept exotic 

animals, do you have any 

regrets at all? 

The chimpanzees were an 

interesting one. It’s not like 

keeping an animal, it’s like 

keeping your grandmother in a 

cage. They are hugely intelligent, 

hugely emotional. The public 

used to jump up and down 

outside their cage, hooting and 

scratching themselves and so 

on. The chimps would sit there 

watching them, wondering what 

the hell they were doing. It used 

to upset the chimps actually, 

they would be quiet after a busy 

weekend. It makes you realise 

you shouldn’t have them. We 

only got them because they were 

in a zoo in Dunedin that closed 

down, and there was no place for 

them to go. I took them on, but 

it took me about 12 years to find 

a home for them. They went to 

Mogo Zoo in Australia. 

Was that a happy ending for 

their story? 

Charlie the male, who was a 

BEST FRIEND: Charlie the chimp 

was among many exotic creatures 

at Willowbank. Above – Michael 

Willis’ daughter Kirsty, with one of 

Willowbank’s former mountain lions. 

Kirsty and brother Mark are now adults 

and help their father run the park. 

real favourite friend of mine, 

he was killed by another 

chimpanzee. It wasn’t entirely 

their (the zoo’s) fault, they were 

trying to integrate him. It was 

good for the female, she later 

went to Rockhampton Zoo. She 

is with a crew there, and she has 

had babies and she is in a good 

breeding programme. They 

were probably as happy as they 

had ever been with us, we spent 

a lot of time with them. I had 

a wonderful relationship with 

them, even if Charlie took half 

my thumb off, he bit it off. 

He wouldn’t have done that on 

purpose? 

It was deliberate. I had some 

sunflower seed and I had my 

hand like that (cupped) against 

the wire, and he was picking the 

seed out of my hand. Somebody 

called to me and I turned my 

head away to answer them, and 

his finger shot out and grabbed 

my hand and pulled it against 

the netting so my thumb went 

through and he went “bang”, got 

it. 

Were you still friends with 

him after that? 

He was strutting around 

the place weeks after that, full 

of himself, top dog. So after a 

while, when I got myself back 

together again, I went down 

there and had a plasterer’s 

trowel in my hand. I put some 

sunflower seed just outside the 

cage. He put his fingers through 

to get the sunflower seed. I 

went “whack” (smacking his 

fingers with the trowel). Then 

we were the best of friends. He 

was lovely, you would go down 

there, I would be able to hold 

his hand. We would kiss each 

other through the netting and 

he would hoot away, we had a 

wonderful relationship. He 

knew all the hierarchy of the 

staff, who had just started, 

who was the boss and who 

wasn’t. He knew who to have on. 

Really incredibly clever, really 

special. 

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‘She was going to kill me’ 

• From page 19 

Have you had other injuries 

from animals? 

I had an emu that knocked 

the hell out of me. I had to be 

stitched up from that. Both 

hands were ripped up by a wild 

boar which just flew at me. I was 

going backwards with my hands 

out, and he just ripped my hands 

to pieces. I was almost killed 

by a highland cow. She was bad 

tempered. She had a sick calf, I 

wanted to give it antibiotics. I 

went out to bring her into the 

yards. She took one look at me 

and she just went straight into 

me, tossed me in the air, got me 

on the ground. I was hanging 

onto her horns, one in each hand. 

She had her head in my chest, 

she was ripping around and 

punching holes in my thighs. She 

threw me over the fence. I was 

really badly bruised and holed. 

She was going to kill me. 

As well as having all the 

animals at Willowbank, do you 

have pets at home? 

I have some exotic parrots, 

macaws, cockatoos, black 

cockatoos, some cochin chooks, 

couple of donkeys, couple of 

horses, african four-horned 

sheep, african pygmy sheep, 

meatmaster sheep. I have 

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park in different roles. They are 

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husband Dale Hedgcock are here 

day to day. She does the internal 

management, and he manages 

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they are all different. Some are 

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personality, some are serious, 

some want to love you and you 

can’t get away from them. They 

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With daylight 

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Cheesecake slice 

Serves 10 

Ingredients 

Base 

2 packets Super Wine or plain 

Digestive Biscuits, place in food 

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2 teaspoons cinnamon 

250gm butter (melted) 

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63 x 180 

1kg cream cheese 

Filling 

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500g sour cream 

2 teaspoons vanilla paste 

6 eggs (beaten) 

Zest of four lemons 

Directions 

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vanilla paste and eggs, mix well 

until smooth and well blended. 

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Serves 6 

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125gm cream cheese, place in 

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1 egg 

¼ cup caster sugar 

30g butter 

1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste 

1/3rd cup blue milk 

1 cup self-raising flour (sifted) 

125gm (1 punnet) blueberries 

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Whipped cream cheese topping 

Ingredients 

125gm cream cheese, place in 

mixing bowl with 

2 tablespoons caster sugar 

2 teaspoons blue milk 

2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste 

Extra blueberries 

Directions 

Beat cream cheese/caster sugar/ 

milk/vanilla bean paste for 1-2 

minutes until fluffy. A little more 

milk may be added to make 

the mixture more spreadable, if 

desired. 

Easy pavlova 

Serves 6 

Ingredients 

8 large egg whites, place in mixer 

with two cups caster sugar, 

1 desert spoon malt vinegar, 1 

desertspoon vanilla essence 

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Beat a full speed for 12-15min 

until very stiff. 

Mould mixture into shape 

on a well greased tray that has 

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thicknesses of baking paper and 

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water. 

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T H I S IS US | OU R LI F E | OU R ST O R Y | O U R H O M E 

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H O M E 

MARKET UPDATE | SUMMER IS COMING 

Do we stay or do we sell? 

This is a question that we get asked daily, as we get closer to summer we are seeing more properties 

coming to the market. The bays have seen "all-time highs" when it comes to property prices, but is now the 

right time to sell? 

When you are selling you are also buying back into the same market, unless you make the choice to wait 

and see what the market is going to do later down the track. This is a very tough one to navigate because 

the majority of properties are going to auction which means you have to be unconditional unless you do 

find a property that is a deadline sale where you can submit an offer subject to sale of your home. If you do 

sell, you run the risk of not securing a property and having that impending move date looming over your 

head. And ultimately you might buy something because you have to, not because you want to or it's the 

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If you want the right honest advice, reach out to your local HOME specialist today and see what their 

thoughts are.



H O M E 

60 MAJOR HORNBROOK ROAD 

#LIST WITH THE LOCALS 

AUCTION | 11AM, 20 NOVEMBER 2021 

ONSITE (UNLESS SOLD PRIOR) 

Luxury family living in sought after location 

Designed by Bespoke Architecture & built by John Ross Architectural 

Builders they have thoughtfully combined high-end sophistication 

alongside family practicality, the exterior showcases artisanal finishes in 

a warm brown with a gray undertone, the coastal palette reflective of 

the pacific ocean which can be seen twinkling from the windows of the 

upper level. 

Set over two levels, the luxurious interiors of the upper floor are 

perfectly designed to maximise natural light. Grand expanses of glass 

are pronounced throughout, and an open-plan living and dining room 

delivers great family flexibility and largescale entertaining potential. 

Outside, generous flat lawns confirm immediate alfresco enjoyment for 

the whole family. Shelter from the easterly wind and all-day sun makes 

this a sought-after indoor-outdoor flow. 

4 BED 3 BATH 2 CAR 

825 M2 

(MORE OR LESS) 

• Architectural design, built in 2020 

• Tightly held hill position 

• Zoned for Mt Pleasant Primary School 

• Sheltered entertainers dream 

• Abundance of off-street parking 

60 MAJOR HORNBROOK ROAD


SOLD PROPERTY 

211 PINE AVENUE 

$629,000 

10 ENGLAND STREET 

$551,000 

4 COTTON STREET 

$690,000 

51 NORTH AVON ROAD 

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2/122 COLOMBO STREET 

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95 MARLOW ROAD 

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YOUR HOME SPECIALISTS 

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021 156 5884 

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KURT POLSON 

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ABEL@HOMECHCH.CO.NZ 

1 8 6 MA I N RO A D , RE D C L I F F S 

03 930 1323 

HOMECHRISTCHURCH.CO.NZ 

HOME CHRISTCHURCH LIMITED, LICENSED REAA 2008

Bay Harbour: October 27, 2021

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