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THURSDAY, JANUARY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />
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EntriEs now opEn!<br />
Paying it forward with<br />
free school uniforms<br />
No decision<br />
yet to<br />
appeal<br />
declining of<br />
rehabilitation<br />
facility<br />
PASS IT ON: Charnae Pyke and her son Jahlyn, 7, with the uniforms they are giving away.<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
MOTHER-OF-FOUR Charnae<br />
Pyke knows all about the<br />
struggle to equip children for<br />
the new school year.<br />
This has motivated her to<br />
establish ‘Heading back to<br />
school pass it forward CHCH’,<br />
a Facebook page where<br />
uniforms are passed on for free.<br />
“I know how hard it is,<br />
especially around this time<br />
of year, to be able to afford<br />
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PHOTO: STARMEDIA <br />
Her children had outgrown<br />
their uniforms from last year,<br />
but they were still in good<br />
condition.<br />
• Turn to page 8<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
THE DEPARTMENT of<br />
Corrections has until February 9<br />
to appeal after permission to build<br />
a contentious rehabilitation centre<br />
for violent offenders in St Albans<br />
was declined.<br />
However, it is remaining tightlipped<br />
on whether or not it is likely<br />
to do so.<br />
Last week the Bristol Street<br />
Resource Consent Hearing panel<br />
declined to grant resource consent<br />
for the Bristol St facility, following<br />
a hearing in November.<br />
The proposal would have seen<br />
up to 12 men serving sentences<br />
of home detention at 14 Bristol St<br />
while participating in a violenceprevention<br />
programme. Men<br />
with significant untreated mental<br />
health issues would not be eligible<br />
to participate in the programme.<br />
In their decision, city council<br />
appointed commissioners Anthony<br />
Hughes-Johnson QC and Ken<br />
Lawn said they were not satisfied<br />
the site was appropriate for such a<br />
facility.<br />
Corrections acting regional<br />
commissioner Chris O’Brien-<br />
Smith did not answer Nor’West<br />
New’s question on whether an<br />
appeal would be made, but said<br />
corrections would spend the<br />
next few weeks reflecting on the<br />
commissioners’ findings.<br />
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what’s on<br />
this week<br />
How does your garden grow?<br />
Thursday-Wednesday, all day<br />
Bishopdale Library<br />
Go along and collect a sunflower<br />
seed from a librarian as part of a<br />
sustainable living series for kids.<br />
Take it home and plant it in a<br />
sunny spot. Give your plant a name<br />
and look after it over the summer<br />
holidays. Take a photo of your flower<br />
or take your stem into the library<br />
from February 28 to March 4. Go<br />
into the draw to win a gardening<br />
surprise.<br />
Elmwood Business<br />
Networking<br />
Thurday, 9.30-10.30am<br />
Elmwood Trading Co, 1 Norman Rd<br />
This meeting has a strong, professional<br />
business focus within a<br />
supportive, fun environment. A<br />
key component of this group is the<br />
interest that members have in each<br />
other’s business journeys, challenges<br />
and success, the sharing of relevant<br />
knowledge and on-going education.<br />
If this sounds like you, then complete<br />
the website form.<br />
Housie<br />
Thursday, 12.30– 2.15pm<br />
Mary Potter Community Centre, 442<br />
Durham St North<br />
To participate, take $2 per housie<br />
card or take a prize to the value of<br />
the card. Afternoon tea to follow. Go<br />
along, meet new people, have some<br />
fun. Gold coin donation for nonresidents<br />
attending the centre please.<br />
Inquiries phone 372 9224.<br />
Summer Fun Day<br />
Friday, 11am-2pm<br />
Elephant Park, Bishopdale<br />
Go along with your family and<br />
enjoy some games in the sun. We’ll<br />
have a backyard version of all you’re<br />
favourite sports as well as the classics<br />
of tug-of-war and family relays-<br />
Maybe even a water fight. Take a<br />
picnic down and enjoy the day.<br />
Nature Journals<br />
Friday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
Papanui Library<br />
Go along and create a journal to<br />
take on your outdoor adventures in<br />
this free school holiday programme.<br />
Free, no bookings required.<br />
JP Clinic<br />
Saturday, 10am-noon, at<br />
Fendalton, Tuesday, 10am-1pm, at<br />
Papanui and Shirley, Wednesday,<br />
Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Stories in the Sun: Parks and Park Rangers, Friday, 10.30-<br />
11.30am at Redwood Library. Do you like parks? Would you like to find out<br />
more about what a park ranger does? Go along to this outdoor session<br />
aimed at kids up to 10 years. You will listen to stories and rhymes, learn<br />
about what their job is, and learn about the bugs, birds, and trees in parks.<br />
Stay around for a craft and a meet and greet with special guests. In the<br />
event of bad weather, this session will be inside the library.<br />
10am-1pm, at Bishopdale<br />
Fendalton, Papanui, Shirley and<br />
Bishopdale Libraries<br />
A justice of the peace will be available<br />
to witness signatures and documents,<br />
certify document copies, hear<br />
oaths, declarations, affidavits or affirmations,<br />
as well as sign citizenship<br />
or rates rebates applications. There is<br />
no charge for this service.<br />
Citizens Advice Bureau<br />
Wednesday, 11am-5pm<br />
Fendalton Library<br />
Citizens Advice Bureau provides<br />
free and confidential advice to<br />
everyone. The will take the time to<br />
listen to you and equip you with the<br />
information, options and support<br />
that fit your needs. We are in our office<br />
inside the building entrance.<br />
Not-for-profit organisations can<br />
send their What’s On listings to<br />
norwest@starmedia.kiwi
Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 3<br />
Gulls nesting in construction site<br />
A BIRD species in serious<br />
decline has found a temporary<br />
home in a partially constructed<br />
stormwater retention basin in<br />
Belfast.<br />
However, the black billed<br />
gulls’ choice of accommodation<br />
has pushed the completion of<br />
work at the Blakes Rd site back<br />
by several months.<br />
Earthworks<br />
at the site were<br />
scheduled to<br />
be completed<br />
in December<br />
last year, but<br />
are now set to<br />
Keith<br />
Davison<br />
finish in May,<br />
with planting<br />
to follow in<br />
September.<br />
The gulls took up residence<br />
last August when work on the<br />
site had to stop because of the<br />
Covid-19 lockdown.<br />
It seems the native wetland<br />
birds mistook the partially constructed<br />
stormwater basin for a<br />
braided river and began nesting<br />
in the area.<br />
At its height, there were about<br />
750 black-billed gulls in the<br />
colony, and up to 30 pied stilts<br />
have also been nesting there.<br />
City council stormwater and<br />
waterways team leader Keith<br />
Davison said the gulls were<br />
classed as critically endangered<br />
at the time of their discovery.<br />
City council contractor Fulton<br />
Hogan stopped all work and<br />
PROTECTED: Up to 750 black billed gulls have delayed construction of a partially<br />
completed stormwater retention basin in Belfast.<br />
PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />
site access was prohibited while<br />
the legally-protected birds were<br />
nesting and new chicks were<br />
hatching.<br />
The status of the species was<br />
re-classed to ‘At Risk – Declining’<br />
in a December review of the<br />
New Zealand Threat Classification<br />
System.<br />
“We’ve had to monitor water<br />
levels in the stormwater basin<br />
very carefully while the birds<br />
have been nesting there,’’ Davison<br />
said.<br />
“We could not let the water<br />
levels drop too low because<br />
the shallow muddy water was<br />
a habitat for insects, which the<br />
birds fed on.<br />
“The water also acted as a<br />
moat, stopping other predators<br />
from attacking the nests. At the<br />
same time, we couldn’t let the<br />
water level rise too high because<br />
we did not want to flood the<br />
nests and drown the chicks.’’<br />
City council regional park<br />
rangers assisted with setting<br />
up a protective trapline around<br />
the site to stop rats and other<br />
predators threatening the young<br />
chicks’ chances of survival.<br />
A city council ornithologist<br />
has advised that it is unlikely<br />
that the gulls will return to nest<br />
at the site, he said.<br />
By the time the next breeding<br />
season starts, the environment<br />
will have changed.<br />
In Brief<br />
RESERVE INPUT SOUGHT<br />
THe city council is asking for<br />
public input on the future<br />
of Harewood’s Roto Kohatu<br />
reserve. Submissions are open<br />
until March 28 for people to<br />
have their say on the draft<br />
management plan to develop<br />
and manage the reserve as a<br />
place for organised and informal<br />
water-based activities. Plans<br />
can be viewed on the council<br />
website, and a drop-in session<br />
will be held onsite at the head of<br />
Lake Rua on February 15 from 4<br />
to 7pm.<br />
SPORTS CLUBS’ GRANTS<br />
THree sports clubs based within<br />
the Nor’West <strong>News</strong> area are set<br />
to benefit from New Zealand<br />
Community Trust funding as<br />
part of trust grants totalling<br />
$226,106 in the Canterbury<br />
region. The Marist Albion<br />
Rugby Club and to Christchurch<br />
Football Club have been granted<br />
$30,000 each. Bishopdale Tennis<br />
Club has also been granted<br />
$15,000.<br />
LIQUOR STORE BID<br />
THe city council is set to<br />
consider an application for a<br />
new off-licence in Burnside, with<br />
Monday set as the deadline for<br />
any objections to be made by<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 5<br />
Youth soon able to connect with whare<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
AFTER SEVEN years of<br />
planning, the wait is almost over<br />
as Papanui’s $1 million project<br />
prepares to open.<br />
Youth organisation Te Ora<br />
Hou has reached the decoration<br />
phase of its urban youth whare<br />
on Windmere Rd.<br />
General manager Jono Campbell<br />
said young people would<br />
feel a connection to the whare, a<br />
community building unlike any<br />
other in the area.<br />
“That’s the bit we kind of love<br />
about it,” Campbell said.<br />
A grand opening is set to take<br />
place in March, celebrating both<br />
the new whare and the site as a<br />
whole.<br />
Many of the young people<br />
involved with Te Ora Hou did<br />
not initially have a strong sense<br />
of identity, Campbell said.<br />
“A lot of our kids come in and<br />
they’re not particularly connected<br />
. . . most of them have<br />
never been on a marae, they’ve<br />
never been in a whare”<br />
The building was a modern,<br />
youth-oriented take on a traditional<br />
whare.<br />
For example, back-lit steel<br />
panels with carved cut-outs<br />
rather than wood carvings<br />
would decorate the outside.<br />
Inside, the ceiling would be<br />
decorated with six panels of<br />
about 15 sq m each, designed<br />
by Wellington artist Sheyne<br />
Tuffery.<br />
UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Te Ora Hou General manager<br />
Jono Campbell says the almost-complete urban youth<br />
whare is the youth organisation’s legacy project.<br />
PHOTO: FIONA ELLIS<br />
“He sat with young people and<br />
staff and just heard a whole lot of<br />
stories.”<br />
The result was artwork featuring<br />
images from chips and<br />
teapots to maps and protest<br />
marches.<br />
“Kids can see images they<br />
directly connect to, but also it<br />
keeps the story and the history<br />
of this neighbourhood alive.”<br />
Images of waka were especially<br />
meaningful, he said.<br />
“Part of our whole story is how<br />
do you navigate through life,<br />
from childhood to adulthood.”<br />
Those sleeping at the where<br />
would be able to look up and<br />
“ponder and reflect,” he said.<br />
Planning for the building<br />
began in 2015, and work began<br />
towards the end of 2018.<br />
Years of hard work had taken<br />
place for the build to reach its<br />
current stage, and the Covid-19<br />
pandemic had caused construction<br />
obstacles.<br />
“We’ve just got some final<br />
decking timber that’s come in,<br />
four-and-a-half weeks late.”<br />
About 350 people from in the<br />
north-west aged from 11 years<br />
through to their early 20s regularly<br />
engaged in programmes,<br />
activities and mentoring with Te<br />
Ora Hou.<br />
Citywide, Campbell estimated<br />
they engaged with 2500 young<br />
CONNECTED: The whare ceiling will be decorated with<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 7<br />
Volunteers establish<br />
fungi farm, play site<br />
Volunteers from Richmond Community Garden and Conservation<br />
Volunteers New Zealand teamed up to establish a fungi farm in<br />
Richmond, opposite the Avebury House, last week.<br />
The volunteers planted the fungi farm with native plants to extend an<br />
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8<br />
Transforming reserves<br />
best part of ranger’s job<br />
THERE IS no such thing as<br />
a normal day at work for city<br />
council ranger Yvette Williams.<br />
From dealing with blocked<br />
public toilets to finding a lost<br />
horse and protecting the city’s<br />
healthiest waterway, her days are<br />
anything but predictable.<br />
Williams,<br />
who lives in<br />
New Brighton,<br />
is part of a<br />
regional parks<br />
ranger team,<br />
mostly based<br />
Yvette<br />
Williams<br />
at the Groynes<br />
and Styx Mill<br />
conservation<br />
reserves.<br />
“No two days are ever the<br />
same. But early in the week, I<br />
do the rounds making sure the<br />
areas are rubbish free and tidy<br />
for people to visit, then I get<br />
stuck into the biodiversity work,”<br />
Williams said.<br />
The Ōtūkaikino River, which<br />
has the best overall water quality<br />
in Christchurch, is one of the<br />
highlights of her patch.<br />
“It’s definitely something I<br />
would boast about, but it is also a<br />
big responsibility to keep it that<br />
way,” she said.<br />
And for that, there is a twopronged<br />
attack.<br />
Step one is making sure pest<br />
plants like old man’s beard and<br />
FIELD WORK: The transformation her work makes is the<br />
best part of the job for city council ranger Yvette Williams<br />
PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />
grey or crack willow do not take<br />
hold around the edge of the<br />
waterway.<br />
“In the summer, it’s a lot easier<br />
to see the willow and old man’s<br />
beard as you can see the leaves.<br />
“It’s a great time to get on<br />
top of it, but it is a bit of a race<br />
against time to make sure it<br />
doesn’t seed and spread.”<br />
She also does a lot of native<br />
planting, to protect the water’s<br />
edge.<br />
“It’s called riparian planting,<br />
it’s a special type of planting to<br />
stabilise the edge of the water as<br />
well as improve the water quality<br />
and increase the habitat for native<br />
wildlife,” she said.<br />
Her favourite part of the job is<br />
being able to completely transform<br />
an area.<br />
“When you take a step back and<br />
see spaces have gone from being<br />
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area people want to spend time in,<br />
it’s really satisfying.<br />
“Because we’re out in the field,<br />
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in person from residents which<br />
is also lovely to hear. It makes it<br />
really worth the hard work.”<br />
‘My ideal outcome is to help<br />
as many families as I can’<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
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“That’s just basics, that’s just<br />
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She hoped using social media<br />
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“I want to be able to give people<br />
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The page also listed other<br />
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City Mission and Salvation<br />
Army.<br />
“My ideal outcome is to help as<br />
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Still time to lodge appeal<br />
O’Brien-Smith.<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Sparks performance a night to remember<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
VIOLINIST ARNA Morton<br />
has grown up with the Sparks<br />
concert – only this time around<br />
things looked a little different.<br />
Morton traded the view of<br />
the stage for the view of the<br />
audience as she performed with<br />
the Christchurch Symphony<br />
Orchestra at Saturday night’s<br />
Sparks in North Hagley Park.<br />
Although performing at Sparks<br />
was a first time experience for<br />
Morton, she said the concert<br />
went really well and had a great<br />
atmosphere.<br />
“I was just so excited to be back<br />
performing together with the<br />
band,” she said.<br />
“Obviously last year we had a<br />
lot of disruptions so it was nice to<br />
have everyone get back into it.”<br />
Even after playing the violin<br />
since she was five, Morton said<br />
it was normal to still get nervous<br />
before a performance, especially<br />
for a large crowd.<br />
“There’s this heightened sense<br />
of adrenaline before you go<br />
on stage. I definitely still get<br />
nervous, which is important,”<br />
she said. “It’s about channelling<br />
the energy required for a<br />
performance.”<br />
Morton said it was a bit windy<br />
on stage during Saturday night’s<br />
performance so the musicians<br />
used pegs to hold their music<br />
sheets onto the stands.<br />
“That’s something that you<br />
kind of can’t really do a lot<br />
about,” she said. “You have to pin<br />
down your music as best you can<br />
and go with it.”<br />
Morton’s favourite part of the<br />
concert was playing the Jupiter<br />
and Star Wars pieces while the<br />
fireworks went off.<br />
“The audience was very excited,”<br />
she said. “I was looking<br />
out at everyone holding their<br />
phones up recording it and having<br />
a good time.”<br />
After more than six years<br />
in Melbourne, where she<br />
completed her PhD in music<br />
performance, Morton and her<br />
husband returned to her Coastal<br />
hometown early last year seeking<br />
refuge from the uncertainties of<br />
Covid-19.<br />
She has been playing the violin<br />
PASSION:<br />
Arna Morton<br />
has been<br />
playing the<br />
violin for<br />
26 years<br />
and took<br />
on the role<br />
of principal<br />
second<br />
violinist<br />
for the<br />
Christchurch<br />
Symphony<br />
Orchestra last<br />
year.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
MORTON<br />
MUSIC <br />
for 26 years now and working<br />
with the CSO on a casual basis,<br />
auditioning for principal second<br />
violinist in March and winning<br />
the role in August.<br />
“I love watching the faces of<br />
people in the audience when I’m<br />
not playing,” she said. “It was<br />
really cool to see people’s real<br />
genuine enjoyment of live music.”<br />
While Morton was grateful to<br />
be able to get at least one concert<br />
in before the country moved to<br />
the red traffic light setting, she<br />
said it was still unfortunate she<br />
couldn’t have performed<br />
more.<br />
“Red level is basically normal<br />
life with restrictions for most<br />
people but for the arts it affects<br />
us, we’re always affected at any<br />
level change really,” she said. “I<br />
think we all knew that this could<br />
be our last big crowd concert we<br />
do for a wee while.”<br />
The violinist had a festival<br />
next week as well as concerts in<br />
February and March, but is now<br />
waiting to hear what happens<br />
with these events.<br />
Morton said she’s always aspired<br />
and worked towards being<br />
able to perform at large concerts<br />
on a professional scale.<br />
“I think I always knew that<br />
I would get to this stage in my<br />
career,” she said. “It’s always what<br />
I wanted to do.”<br />
After the concert Morton<br />
picked up her dog, who was being<br />
looked after while she performed,<br />
and had celebratory cuddles.<br />
While the red traffic light<br />
setting may put a halt on future<br />
performances, Morton thinks the<br />
band will still be relishing in the<br />
experience of the Spark concert.<br />
“We hope we can do it again<br />
next year,” she said.<br />
“We’ll ride out this wave<br />
and hope we can present to<br />
large-scale audiences again.”<br />
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½ teaspoon salt<br />
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herbs to taste<br />
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Good 15 Very Good 19 Excellent 23<br />
No words beginning with a capital<br />
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are emit, allowed. gem, get, git, There’s idem, item, at met, least mid, midge, one<br />
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ted, teg, tide, tie, tied, tig, time,<br />
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11 12<br />
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18 19 20<br />
21 22 23 24<br />
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No.128<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
N F H A W I D T R C K M G<br />
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E B S O U X V P L Q Y J Z<br />
Decoder<br />
N<br />
Across<br />
1. Totally disorganised (7)<br />
5. Solemn (7)<br />
9. Dangers (5)<br />
10. Spry (9)<br />
11. Transfix (9)<br />
12. Incendiarism (5)<br />
I T<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
26 8 12 15 1 16 19 13 25 25<br />
5 11 11 6 7 7 1 11 14<br />
16 16 13 19 13 12 8 15 16 4 25<br />
13. Gulf (5)<br />
15. Similar (9)<br />
18. Burial (9)<br />
19. Relish (5)<br />
21. Seemingly (5)<br />
23. Onlooker (9)<br />
25. Peripatetic (9)<br />
26. Australian marsupial (5)<br />
<strong>27</strong>. Precisely (7)<br />
28. Chuckle (7)<br />
Down<br />
1. Pottery (7)<br />
2. Helper (9)<br />
3. Flavour (5)<br />
4. Reprimand severely (9)<br />
5. Loose hillside stones (5)<br />
6. Palaver (9)<br />
7. Solemn promises (5)<br />
8. Adages (7)<br />
14. Fun (9)<br />
16. Genuine (9)<br />
17. Trinket (5,4)<br />
18. Ask (7)<br />
20. Distance, on a golf<br />
course (7)<br />
22. Japanese dog breed (5)<br />
23. Of dubious legality (5)<br />
24. Asian capital (5)<br />
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6 19 6 23 24 15 7 6 16 1 4<br />
N I T<br />
All puzzles copyright<br />
3 1 11 16 1<br />
13 15 7 4 8 9 10 5 9 21 6 19<br />
13 2 9 1 1<br />
T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y<br />
14 16 1 4 11 15 11 4 6 25 25<br />
16 18 25 2 11 12 13 16<br />
DECODER<br />
Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different<br />
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />
Each Enter number the given represents letters into a different all squares letter with of the matching alphabet. numbers. Write the<br />
given The challenge letters into now all squares is to work with out matching which letters numbers. are Now represented work out<br />
which by the letters other are numbers. represented As you by the get other numbers. letters, enter As you them get into the<br />
letters, the main write grid, them and into the reference main grid and grid. the To reference keep track grid. Decoder of the<br />
uses letters all you 26 letters have of found, the alphabet. cross them off the alphabet provided.<br />
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17 19 6 19 23 17<br />
22 5 3 1 16 11 8 14 4 21 19 23<br />
U S E<br />
25 21 21 26 1 3 10<br />
3 21 22 17 18 2 1 22 22 11 5<br />
1 16 15 6 20 1 24 19 13 23 13<br />
4 19 5 6 25 8 5 6 4<br />
5 1 14 23 1<br />
25 1 17 16 12 5 25 4 7 6<br />
Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different<br />
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.<br />
The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented<br />
by the other numbers. As you get the letters, enter them into<br />
the main grid, and the reference grid. To keep track of the<br />
letters you have found, cross them off the alphabet provided.<br />
3 11 3 21 1 25 12 17 26 5 17 22<br />
21 21 19 7 22<br />
128<br />
5 8 3 11 23 16 19 17 21 22 11<br />
20 16 4 19 20 17 17<br />
20 22 17 18 2 17 23 24 13 19 14 23<br />
1 9 1 9 14 16<br />
20 1 15 1 22 1 9 25 3 4 21<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
E S U<br />
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129<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Chaotic, 5.<br />
Serious, 9. Risks, 10.<br />
Sprightly, 11. Mesmerise,<br />
12. Arson, 13. Chasm, 15.<br />
Analogous, 18. Interment,<br />
19. Enjoy, 21. Quasi, 23.<br />
Spectator, 25. Itinerant,<br />
26. Koala, <strong>27</strong>. Exactly, 28.<br />
Chortle.<br />
Down: 1. Ceramic,<br />
2. Assistant, 3. Taste,<br />
4. Castigate, 5. Scree,<br />
6. Rigmarole, 7. Oaths,<br />
8. Sayings, 14. Merriment,<br />
16. Authentic, 17. Objet<br />
d’art, 18. Inquire, 20.<br />
Yardage, 22. Akita, 23.<br />
Shady, 24. Tokyo.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
input, nip, nit, nut, pin, pint,<br />
pit, print, pun, punt, put, rip,<br />
ruin, run, runt, rut, tin, tip,<br />
trip, tun, tup, turn, TURNIP,<br />
unit, urn.<br />
Sudoku<br />
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SOLUTION<br />
No.1<strong>27</strong><br />
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V Z A H U C B Q T J Y F I<br />
N R G S O W M X K P L E D<br />
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DECODER<br />
129<br />
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Buying or Selling in <strong>2022</strong>?<br />
Here are three things to take into account<br />
when deciding whether to buy or sell a<br />
house in <strong>2022</strong>:<br />
1. No one can accurately predict the housing<br />
market peaks and troughs. During the first<br />
NZ lockdown remember the predictions<br />
were all weighted towards a market crash,<br />
then the opposite happened.<br />
2. What happens in the Christchurch<br />
market can be very different to the<br />
Auckland market, the Invercargill market,<br />
the New Plymouth market, the Greymouth<br />
market and so on. Sweeping statements<br />
about the ‘New Zealand’ housing market<br />
can often just mean ‘Auckland’ Keep locally<br />
focused and ask for statistics related<br />
specifically to our region.<br />
3. ‘Waiting’ isn’t a strategy that has paid off<br />
for too many buyers or sellers in the past. It<br />
can often backfire and at the end of the day<br />
what are you really waiting for? For prices<br />
to temper, while interest rates then go up?<br />
For more houses to come on to the market<br />
while in the meantime bank policy changes<br />
and therefore your lending ability?<br />
Changes to Healthy Homes Standards<br />
So what is on the cards for landlords this<br />
year? Well your guess is probably as good<br />
as mine as based on the many changes and<br />
challenges we experienced last year you<br />
could be forgiven for thinking we may be left<br />
alone but then again I thought that last year!<br />
The first changes are likely to be in relation<br />
to the Healthy Homes Standards as late<br />
last year the Government advised that they<br />
are re-looking at some of the standards, in<br />
particular the heating component.<br />
Below is an outline of their proposal:<br />
The Government has announced they are<br />
reviewing the Healthy Homes Standards and<br />
are looking at making some changes which,<br />
if they go through, will be implemented<br />
in April <strong>2022</strong>. However it is important to<br />
note this has not been passed yet so the<br />
status quo does remain and it will only<br />
apply to properties which were built (or had<br />
renovations completed) under the 2009<br />
Building Code.<br />
The heating standard (and calculation) is the<br />
area where the changes, if introduced, will<br />
make the most difference.<br />
Understandably this will cause great<br />
frustration for many landlords who<br />
have either already had extra heating or<br />
alternative heating installed in their rentals,<br />
or who are working within a 90-day deadline<br />
to meet the minimum requirement.<br />
The potential changes would mean that<br />
a property built to the 2009 NZ building<br />
code would have a different calculation<br />
used, incorporating the insulation and<br />
glazing in the property so where previously<br />
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the heat source calculation did not meet<br />
the minimum temperature it possibly now<br />
would.<br />
The other changes are that a heat source<br />
installed prior to 1st July 2019 would now<br />
reach the standard if it was within 80% of<br />
the capacity (currently this is set at 90%).<br />
Lastly, they would up the capacity for a<br />
second heater to be installed from 1.5KW<br />
to 2.4KW in order to meet the required<br />
minimum heat.<br />
They will also look at a report from a<br />
specialist in heating which may advise that<br />
the heat source does infact heat the living<br />
room to a minimum of 18% celcius, despite<br />
the calculation saying it does not.<br />
We have been strongly advised by<br />
legislation experts that it is important for<br />
landlords to keep working to the current<br />
standards and not to jump the gun and start<br />
using the proposed new standards as there<br />
is a risk that a landlord who does not comply<br />
with the current Healthy Homes Heating<br />
Standard could incur a fine of up to $7000<br />
for non-compliance.<br />
In the end, landlords will likely make their<br />
own decisions on how they wish to proceed,<br />
however, I do recommend that you ask for<br />
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