The Star: February 17, 2022

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• By Emily Moorhouse
THE NEW Brighton Museum’s
landlords have assured volunteers
they will not be selling the
The museum has a fundraiser
under way, but is $85,000 short of
the $175,000 it needs. Butterfield
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The landlords said the museum
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Museum secretary Peggy
Butterfield told Pegasus Post two
weeks ago she was concerned
the museum may have to move
to a digital platform if it couldn’t
raise the funds to purchase the
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‘I’ve never protested
in my life until now’
CONCERNED: Cranmer Square protester Frances Wilkie said people should be allowed to choose.
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• By Kristie Boland
FRANCES WILKIE has
never protested in her life,
now after losing her job as a
primary school teacher when
the mandate came in, she is
protesting at Cranmer Square.
The anti-mandate protest at
Cranmer Square has grown in
numbers with groups setting
up tents and gazebos looking
set to stay the long-haul in
support of their Wellington
counterparts.
“I’ve never protested in my
life, until now. I’ve always
abided by the law, I’m a
working class citizen who
pays taxes, I do not rip the
system off. I just don’t think it’s
right what is going on,” Wilkie
said.
But the protests are
causing disruption and
concern for Cranmer Square
residents said city councillor
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• By Emily Moorhouse
WHEN Jo Zervos isn’t
attending community board
meetings, she’s developing an
app to promote Māori learning.
The Coastal-Burwood Community
Board member recently
started hew own business Jojahawa
Ltd, launching a mobile
app ‘Māori Word Find & Learn’.
Zervos began creating Māori
word finds about 30 years ago
for her younger cousin who
liked doing puzzles.
Zervos has always had an
interest in the Māori language
and remembers travelling
around the country with her
parents when she was younger.
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was worried if the money wasn’t
raised the owners might sell the
building or increase the rent.
But the owners – who are
local and are associated with the
museum – have told Butterfield
they have no intention of selling the
building or increasing the rent.
Butterfield said she and the
other volunteers were relieved to
know that.
“Our future seems a little bit
more secure,” she said.
She also said donations have
started “pouring in again” after
the article was published.
The building’s owners said:
“The current four-month deadline
to raise the money is over 18
months from when the museum
most recently contacted the
owners regarding purchasing
the building, with a formal offer
presented one month later.”
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wasn’t fair on residents who
have had to deal with protests
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indecently assaulted a teenage
passenger as a sex offender.
Judge Jane Farish said the
man’s offending was “an error
of judgement” after six years in
the taxi industry and believed
the level of the offending – an
unwanted kiss and touching
the woman’s breast – would not
lead to him being admitted to a
programme for sex offenders.
Farish said the offending had
been “sexually driven, but his
one act doesn’t make him a sex
offender.”
The man, who is no longer a
taxi driver, was appearing for
sentence in the district court
yesterday.
The Crown had described the
indecent assault as “an issue of
public safety.”
Farish accepted the general
safety issue, saying at the sentencing:
“It is a very tragic thing in
our society that women are still
vulnerable at night, on their
own.”
She said the taxi driver had
taken advantage of a 17-year-old
woman who was “somewhat naive
and affected by alcohol.”
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Farish released him on
five months’ community
detention with a nightly
curfew at home, and 12
months of supervision
with a recommendation
that he be accepted into
a Safety Planning Group,
which deals with cases
where treatment at a STOP
programme for violent
offenders is not warranted.
She also suppressed his
name because of mental
health concerns, mainly
for his wife. The couple are
immigrants who have been
in New Zealand for 14 years.
The man had worked
as a taxi driver and they
had owned a business, but
the offending has put an
end to both ventures. The
wife is worried about likely
shame and ostracism by
their community if his
name is published, and has
attempted suicide.
Farish said the wife
had also been following
the man around because
she was so worried that
he would commit suicide
because of the shame and
embarrassment.
The man was charged
with two indecent assaults
after the incident on June
28, 2019, which began when
he came across the woman
walking home and offered
her a ride. After she got in
his taxi, he turned off the
meter. Crown prosecutor
Penny Brown referred to
him turning off the GPS.
He drove to the
Barrington shopping centre
car park and followed the
woman when she got out
and walked into a park.
There he kissed her and
touched her breast over and
under her clothing.
He later brought her home
and denied that any contact
occurred when interviewed
by the police, and again
in court, even though his
DNA had been found on the
woman’s face and breast.
Farish said he had lied in his
evidence at a judge-alone
trial where she had found
the charges proved.
Brown described it as
predatory and premeditated
behaviour, and said the
Crown saw it as a public
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Offender released on community
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District court Judge Jane Farish.
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safety issue. She said the
victim had struggled to deal
with it and had not been able
to provide a victim impact
statement for the sentencing.
Defence counsel April
Kelland said difficulty with
culture “winds around
what’s happened here”.
The couple felt the loss of
reputation and dignity
would make it feel as though
they had lost their lives.
Penalties would go “on
and on” because of social
media. She urged that name
suppression be granted.
Farish accepted that final
name suppression should
be granted, mainly because
of the wife’s mental health
issues.
She told the man: “I
don’t see you as being a
public risk at the moment. I
think you have already been
quite significantly punished
over the last two and a half
years.
“Your judgement failed
you and you have made a
very bad decision which
has had catastrophic
consequences,” she said.
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Truck gutted by fire; driver escapes
• By Fiona Ellis
ROSE KERR wants bananas
kids can eat for free in
supermarkets banned.
The 66-year-old believes
the fruit is “horrendously
dangerous” when given to
children who may drop
them.
She has bruises to prove it
after slipping on a smashed
banana at Countdown in The
Palms last Thursday.
However, Countdown
does not plan to alter its
popular Free Fruit for Kids
programme.
Kerr was pushing her
shopping cart along when she
took a sudden tumble that left
her on the floor calling for
help.
“My cart went one way and
I went another, falling hard on
the ground,” Kerr said.
“I think I hit my head as
I can’t remember anything
much after my fall.”
Two staff members helped
her to her feet.
Kerr declined offers of
medical assistance but
had a sore leg for two
days afterwards.
She believed the smashed
banana had been discarded
by a child based on what staff
told her, she said.
An older person could break
their hip in a similar situation,
she said.
“I just want the bananas
out of the kids’ free fruit as
it’s dangerous [for] health and
safety.”
A Countdown spokesperson
told The Star yesterday the
duty managers would be doing
floor checks every 30 minutes
in the produce area to check
for fruit litter in addition to
standard hazard and cleaning
protocols.
“We do provide bins in the
store for fruit peel and would
remind parents to keep an eye
on their littlies when they are
enjoying the free fruit.”
DANGEROUS: Rose Kerr
is against giving out free
bananas in supermarkets
after she slipped and fell
on a banana in The Palms’
Countdown supermarket.
PHOTO: STAR MEDIA ​
THE DRIVER of a truck that
caught fire on busy Brougham
St on Tuesday was able to escape
without injury.
The cab of the heavy vehicle was
badly damaged by the blaze.
The incident happened at
the intersection of Brougham
St and Waltham Rd about
10am, causing major traffic
congestion. Brougham St was
closed to eastbound traffic at
the intersection but was fully
reopened about 2pm.
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New owner for
British Hotel
The iconic British Hotel in
Lyttelton has been sold. Ray
White real estate agent Mike
Shine said the buyer, who he
declined to identify, has plans
to restore the building on
the corner of Oxford St and
Norwich Quay. Shine said
there had been strong interest
in the building both here and
overseas. Previous owners
Rebecca Lovell-Smith and
Christian Carruthers bought
the building post-quakes and
restored the first two floors.
No street lights trial
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Birdlings Flat street lights will
be turned off for a six-month
trial period starting this week.
A total of 68 responses for last
year’s survey resulted in over
half of all responses requesting
no lights. Approximately
three months into the trial,
three lights will be installed
on Clifton St where there was
support for the use of LED
lighting. Towards the end of
the trial a survey will be sent
out to all residents to provide
feedback on the permanent
solution.
Motorcyclist injured
in motorway crash
A crash involving a car
and motorcycle on the
Northern Corridor yesterday
morning caused heavy traffic
congestion. Emergency
services were called to the
crash on the southbound lanes
between Belfast and Prestons
Rds, about 6.45am. The crash
was cleared about 8.30am.
A St John spokesperson said
one person suffered moderate
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Mum makes peace with son’s job
Former Burnside High
School student Tom
Mutch headed overseas
to study modern
history at Oxford
University. Now the
self-taught freelance
photojournalist
finds himself on the
frontlines of evolving
conflicts, such as in the
Ukraine. His proud, and
sometimes anxious,
mum talks to reporter
Chris Barclay
CAROL MUTCH scans her only
child’s images of a bombed-out
police station in Mariupol, then
a skull and crossbones signifying
the edge of a minefield, also in
eastern Ukraine, and rationalises
Tom’s passion.
“I understand this is the life
he’s chosen, he absolutely loves
it, he does amazing work and
I’m so proud of him but I also do
sometimes think about the
‘what ifs?’. It goes through my
mind . . . what if something goes
wrong?”
Mutch, a professor of critical
studies in education in the
University of Auckland’s faculty
of education and social work,
believes she has settled on the
FAMILY HOLIDAY: Tom Mutch and his mum Carol at Niagara Falls in 2019.
right mindset to deal with the
Christchurch-born 30-year-old
freelancer’s career choice.
He is currently in the Ukraine
documenting the conflict with
neighbouring Russia. Prior to
that assignment he was working
in Afghanistan, before and after
the Taliban took control of the
country last year. Iraq was the
last stop before Ukraine.
“If he’s in a dangerous place
I think ‘what’s the worst could
happen?’ And then I sort of put it
in a cupboard and shut the door
because I’ve got to get on with
my life. I can’t let it interfere with
my day, if that makes sense,”
Mutch explained, aware her boy
had withdrawn from a potential
firing line to the capital Kyiv.
“He’s really good in a sense
that when he is going somewhere
dangerous he will call me and
he’ll say: ‘This is what I’ve got in
place, this is the team I’m going
in with, this is what the
precautions are’.”
That policy is reassuring
given Mutch, who has been in
the Ukraine previously as a UK
parliamentary researcher on
defence and security issues, has
not yet heeded a warning from
the Foreign Minister Nanaia
Mahutu, who urged New Zealanders
in the Ukraine to leave
immediately.
Carol Mutch had an inkling
Nick – she still calls her son
by his christian name, not the
middle name he publishes
under – was bound for further
afield when he secured a place
at Oxford University in 2011
following a year at Canterbury
University.
“When he was a teenager I
knew he was going to be an
adventurer. He was interested
in world history, particularly
military history,” she said.
“I said jokingly to somebody:
‘One day I’ll look on the TV and
there will be Nick wearing a hard
hat’. I have now seen that.”
Mutch, no relation to television
journalist Jessica Mutch-McKay,
did an undergraduate degree
in history at Oxford, where he
developed an interest in writing
and photography.
He has subsequently written
for The Times and The Telegraph
in the UK, open Democracy and
Foreign Policy magazine.
“What I’m most proud of is
not that he goes into war zones
and all of that sort of thing. It’s
that he goes to tell the human
stories,” Mutch said.
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as war journo
PROTEST: A bombed-out police station from fighting in
Mariupol, eastern Ukraine.
PHOTO: TOM MUTCH/NZ HERALD
“I really appreciate he’s a voice
for the ordinary citizen, he’s not
interested in the generals and the
number of tanks they’ve got, he’s
interested in real people.”
Mother and son most recently
reunited in New Zealand in early
2020, before Covid-19 took hold.
They also met in Argentina and
Canada the year earlier, though
unsurprisingly Tom prefers
edgier destinations.
‘When he’s got time to spare
he’ll say ‘I’m going for a break
now, I might just go to Beirut.’ He
goes to Lebanon, for all the crises
they’ve had, for a holiday,” Mutch
said.
Fortunately, when Tom is in
potentially perilous reporting
scenarios he keeps in regular
touch back home.
“He’s very conscious I’m on
the other side of the world most
of the time so he likes to make
sure I’m not going to sit at home
and worry, we talk about once a
week,” Mutch said.
Her son acknowledged the
importance of maintaining a
connection to home, even when
work takes precedence, telling
the New Zealand Herald: “The
risks I’ve taken, I have chosen
those risks. My family hasn’t
chosen them, so that’s what I
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“Unlike in Wellington where
you would expect protests, to do
it here in a residential area I think
is really hard on locals.”
McLellan said that the protests
were in breach of the bylaw and
that police were in a tricky situation.
Police continue to monitor the
protest and said there were no
reported issues overnight.
A police spokesperson said that
police “respect the lawful right
to protest and will monitor the
situation to ensure that there is
minimal disruption to the wider
public.”
Wilkie said she will continue
to protest until the mandates are
lifted.
“Get rid of the mandates, talk
to us, talk to Wellington, why is
that so difficult. Talk, that’s what
we’re all asking for,” Wilkie said.
Megan Seil, who is standing in
protest but not camping out, lost
her job as a personal trainer at a
women’s gym in Christchurch
when the mandates came in.
“I’m here because based on who
I am. From the angle of a mother,
a business woman and somebody
who has been negatively effected
by these mandates.”
Seil said that certain signs
people hold up do not represent
everybody.
“Wellington is full of individuals,
I hope and pray everybody
Thursday February 17 2022 The Star
NEWS 5
‘Get rid of the mandates’
‘BE KIND’:
Megan Seil said
that because
it was illegal to
camp, she would
be returning
daily to Cranmer
Square to
protest.
PHOTO: GEOFF
SLOAN
there and here have the same
message of unity and of stopping
the mandates,” she said.
While standing in protest
against the mandates Seil said her
key message was to be kind.
“Don’t disregard friends or
family because they have different
beliefs. It’s almost impossible
to hate someone up close, so
move closer to them, listen to
their story,” she said.
Rouk Cruickshanks is spending
his third night in Cranmer
Square with his parrot, Buddy.
He said he is protesting for the
rights of every New Zealander
and would continue do so until
the mandates were lifted.
A petition has been set up on
Change.org calling for the Wellington
protesters to go home
stating “they are not the majority.”
By mid afternoon yesterday
there had been more than 18,000
signatures.
Meanwhile, the Freedoms and
Rights Coalition are still to pay
an invoice for $14,117.47 lodged
by the city council in January
for costs incurred during three
protests in Cranmer Square and
elsewhere in the city during November
and December.
It was due to be paid on
January 20 and will soon be
followed by another invoice for
two protest marches in January
and another gathering last
weekend.
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Shooting at pre-school sign with
outline of children leads to fine
• By David Clarkson
PERE MATAITI’S target
practice on pre-school signs that
included the outline of children
has cost him $521.
The sign, across busy Papanui
Rd from Mataiti’s house in
Merivale, was so peppered with
pellet shots from the militarystyle
semi-automatic air rifle it
had to be replaced.
The 35-year-old has avoided
a prison term because he has
now spent seven months in
custody and nine months on
electronically monitored bail.
District court Judge Stephen
O’Driscoll released him on
intensive supervision for 15
months with special conditions
that he undergo interventions
for family harm, alcohol and
drug use, undergo psychological
treatment and counselling, and
not use alcohol or drugs.
He will also be monitored with
three-monthly reports to the
judge on his progress.
O’Driscoll ordered him to
pay $521 reparation to the preschool,
$460 for the damage to
a car’s tyres, and forfeit the air
rifle.
Mataiti had pleaded guilty to
recklessly discharging a firearm,
MONITORED: Pere Mataiti’s target practice has seen him
avoid prison. PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD/NZ HERALD
and he had been found guilty at
a judge-alone trial on a charge
of possession of an objectionable
publication – a 30sec clip of the
Christchurch mosque shooter
preparing to go into the mosque.
He also admitted breaching a
protection order by having the
air rifle, and by slashing the tyres
on a car.
Some of the charges arose
on September 13, 2020, after
the shooting on Papanui Rd
when the police wanted to
gather evidence from Mataiti’s
cellphone.
Mataiti shot a battery-powered
military-style fully automatic airgun
from his bedroom window
in Papanui Rd, hitting fences and
advertising signs of a pre-school.
Police found the air rifle
hidden near his bedroom.
When officers searched the
street, they found about 80
pellets. They found several
videos on his phone of him
shooting the rifle across the road
at night on September 8 and 10,
2020. It showed him targeting
the pre-school sign and firing
pellets at full-automatic setting
several times.
On one video, a cyclist travels
beneath the arc of fire, and in
another a car travels past while
Mataiti is firing.
Mataiti had claimed he had
accidentally downloaded the
mosque video but at the end
of the trial O’Driscoll ruled
that it could only have been
downloaded through his
intentional actions and he had
not deleted it during the three
months the footage was saved to
his device.
O’Driscoll said a rehabilitative
sentence was recommended.
He noted Mataiti’s efforts at
rehabilitation.
Mataiti thanked the judge
after the sentencing. He said: “I
believe it is a fair judgment. I am
dedicated to getting it done, and
getting on with my life.”
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Judge
• By David Clarkson
A JUDGE has pressed on with
a pre-arranged 30-month jail
sentence in spite of a man’s
outburst in court threatening the
victims of his offending.
Damien Hart had been given
the sentencing indication in
December on a series of violence
and damage charges, and four
breaches of a protection order.
He had accepted the indication
of the jail term and was brought
from the cells into the district
court on Tuesday to have the
sentence imposed by Judge
Quentin Hix.
The session immediately turned
ugly when he spotted a man and a
women in the public seating and
began mouthing obscenities and
making throat-cutting gestures.
“Two-and-a-half years won’t last
long, mate,” he called out.
Judge Hix asked him to
“conduct yourself in a respectful
way”.
Hart carried on anyway, telling
the couple: “Wait till I get out. I
know where you live. I’ll get out in
two-and-a-half years and I’ll see
you then.”
He started calling out racial slurs
before Judge Hix had court escort
staff remove him from the court
and back to the holding cells where
the shouting continued.
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pushes through slur
Victims had spoken of physical
injuries and post-traumatic stress
in their victim impact statements,
which were not read out in court.
Judge Hix suppressed their
names but declined an application
by defence counsel Carol
Morgan to suppress Hart’s name.
He had admitted charges of
intentionally damaging two vehicles,
intentionally injuring one
person, two of assault with intent
to injure, assaults with a rock and
a chair as a weapon, and the four
protection order breaches.
The pair remained calm and
stayed in court while Hart made
his threats and after he was
taken out, they watched the
sentencing go ahead.
Judge Hix noted Hart’s behaviour
and threats and described
it in his sentencing remarks so
that it would be before the Parole
Board when Hart is eventually
considered for parole.
“I am concerned about his
behaviour in court today,” he
said. “It is my view that it is not
appropriate to depart from the
sentencing indication. The matter
of how he conducted himself
in court today can be dealt
with through other vehicles or
through the Parole Board when
the time comes.”
That comment appeared to be a
suggestion that the police might
OUTBURST: A
judge continued
sentencing a
man, in spite of
his threats and
racial slurs to
people seated in
the court.
PHOTO: GETTY
consider charging Hart with
threatening behaviour.
He also ordered Hart
eventually to pay $800 – the
insurance excesses on the two
cars he damaged.
The two people in court
will be placed on the victims’
notification register so that
they are informed when Hart is
released.
Hart had accepted a sentencing
indication – a hearing that
lets offenders know what their
sentence would be if they pleaded
guilty. The hearings are not
allowed to be reported until the
sentencing takes place.
—NZ Herald
• By David Clarkson
A GOVERNMENT
communications adviser has
admitted a Christmas Eve assault
at a Merivale bar in which it is
understood a man’s ear
was injured.
Joel Ineson pleaded
guilty in the district
court to a charge of
injuring the man with
reckless disregard for
his safety, after the
police agreed to reduce
it from a charge of
wounding. The injuring charge
carries a lesser penalty.
The assault took place in
Aikmans Bar.
Ineson has been barred from
going to licensed premises as
part of his bail conditions since
his arrest, but the police have
now agreed to amend that so he
is only blocked from going to the
bar where the assault took place.
Judge John Brandts-Giesen
remanded Ineson on bail for
sentencing on April 13.
He asked for a pre-sentence
report to be prepared, and for the
case to be referred to restorative
Thursday February 17 2022 The Star
NEWS 7
Communications
adviser pleads
guilty to assault
justice for a possible meeting
between Ineson and the victim
of the assault.
Ineson has been employed
as a communications adviser
for Kainga Ora, formerly
Housing New Zealand.
Before that role Ineson
worked as a journalist for
The Press and its parent
company Stuff.
Kainga Ora would not
confirm if Ineson was
still on staff or had faced
Joel Ineson internal disciplinary
procedures.
“For privacy reasons we are
unable to answer questions about
employment matters,” a spokesperson
said.
However, Ineson still appears
to be on Kainga Ora’s internal
phone and email list.
When The Star rang its contact
centre yesterday, and asked to be
put through to Ineson, the operator
said there was no reply.
“There’s no answer from Joel at
his end but I’ll send him a message
and I’ve left him a voicemail
asking him to return your call,”
the operator said.
—NZ Herald
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NEWS 9
Mystery of hero’s missing grave solved
• By Chris Barclay
A DECORATED World
War 1 veteran who committed
suicide after returning home to
recover from wounds suffered at
Passchendaele was buried without
recognition, but not forgotten by
a brother in arms.
After being unable to locate
Sergeant Thomas Wilson’s resting
place in Linwood Cemetery last
week, the New Zealand Remembrance
Army, a trust devoted to
restoring war graves, has pieced
together two lives shattered by the
Great War.
“There’s two soldiers in the
grave now, not just one,” said Remembrance
Army chief executive
Simon Strombom.
Wilson and his brother-in-law,
Private Robert Moore, enlisted
on the same October day in 1917,
trained in unison at Trentham
and took the same troopship to
war, where they served in C company
of the New Zealand Rifle
Brigade.
The pair separated when Wilson
was seriously wounded at Passchendaele
on October 12, 1917,
where the death toll for New Zealand
soldiers is estimated at 957.
He had an arm amputated
and returned home before the
Armistice in November 1918;
Moore sailed for Christchurch
the following year after a lengthy
REST IN PIECES: Sergeant Thomas Wilson lies buried in
this family plot, although there is no record of his name on
the earthquake-toppled headstone. PHOTO: STAR MEDIA
convalescence in the UK to treat
shell shock, the Western Front’s
equivalent of post traumatic stress
disorder.
As revealed in The Star last
week, Wilson, a Military Medal
recipient for gallantry in June
1917, was also blighted by mental
health issues before he hung himself
in a Moorhouse Ave property
on his birthday, on May 9, 1919.
An inquest determined Wilson
was of “unsound mind” when he
chose to end his torment.
Strombom discovered Wilson
was placed in the same plot as his
wife Minnie’s mother, Sarah Morish
Moore, who died in 1913.
Robert Moore was interred after
he died on October 1, 1960, aged
74. His name is also not recorded
on a headstone.
Strombom believes Moore, who
was discharged from the army
the day his brother-in-law died,
decided Wilson should be buried
in the family plot.
“He’s done that because of the
DISCOVERY: Linwood Cemetery records reveal Sergeant
Thomas Wilson and his brother-in-law Private Robert
Moore in the plot where Moore’s mother Sarah is buried.
bond forged in combat and said
‘put me on top’,” he said.
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they would have been through
the Somme and Passchendaele
together.”
Plans are now underway to
right Sarah Moore’s earthquaketoppled
headstone and place a
granite memorial for Wilson and
Moore to mark their service and
sacrifice.
Ideally, it will be in place in time
for this year’s Anzac Day commemoration.
Moore is included
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Wilson is not and the National
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NEWS 11
Harness racing corruption allegations:
Legal argument may go to High Court
• By Chris Barclay
A LEGAL argument governing
the Racing Integrity Board’s
ability to seek prosecutions
related to the police investigation
into alleged corruption and
drug use in the harness racing
industry appears destined for the
High Court.
Some Canterbury-based
defendants charged during the
Operation Inca probe led by
the National Organised Crime
Group have sought to prevent
the transfer of evidence from
investigators to the RIB, the
industry watchdog.
Operation Inca, a covert
surveillance and undercover
operation, initially charged
13 harness racing figures in
2018 following an 18-month
investigation into race-fixing and
the supply of recreational drugs.
Judge Raoul Neave indicated
the legal argument may be
ruled on by the High Court
when updating prosecutors and
defence counsel in the district
court last Friday.
Neave acknowledged he
“parked” the argument when
revealing some charges had been
discharged.
HIGH STAKES: The Racing Integrity Board’s bid to access police information with a view
to prosecuting harness racing figures already involved in the Operation Inca investigation
appears headed to the High Court.
PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD/NZ HERALD
The dropped counts and
those still pending are subject
to suppression orders so cannot
be detailed but on Friday three
drivers, a trio of owners and
two trainers had charges either
discharged or bids to have
charges dismissed declined.
Applications for charges to
be dismissed – some on the
grounds of insufficient evidence
– were lodged under section 147
of the Criminal Procedure Act
on May 25, 2020 so the decisionmaking
process has been
Mike
Clement
time consuming.
RIB chief
executive
Mike Clement,
a former
deputy police
commissioner,
was
philosophical
about the
prospect of the then Racing
Integrity Unit’s application to
access police files being handled
in the High Court.
“We might be in a holding
pattern waiting for those matters
to be dealt with. It’s a police
prosecution, it’s in a criminal
jurisdiction which the RIB has
no role in,” he said.
The RIU application was made
in 2018 and inherited by the
RIB when the RIU and Judicial
Control Authority for Racing
were superseded by the new
body in July last year.
The RIU did succeed in
sanctioning a then-rising
Canterbury harness racing star
in July 2020 after being able to
access police evidence.
Matt Anderson was banned for
six months by the JCA for supplying
the drug ecstasy to other
drivers and refusing to supply
information to racing investigators
about the drug deal.
Anderson had previously been
arrested by police in 2018 during
Operation Inca and subsequently
pleaded guilty to three charges
related to the possession and
supply of ecstasy.
Judge Neave discharged Anderson
without conviction before
the RIU laid its charges.
Meanwhile, Canterbury harness
racing trainer and
junior driver Cam Jones has
been charged with administering
a substance to a horse on race
day after RIB investigators completed
a stable inspection at his
training base on December 10.
Following the visit, the Jonestrained
Johnny Nevits was
scratched from that night’s
New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting
Club meeting at Addington.
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horses are not allowed to be
administered any substance on
race day.
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for Jones to enter a plea.
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NEWS
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A 31-year-old’s tale of epic weight
loss: ‘I was eating myself to death’
• By Morgan Reardon
WHEN KATIE Jones uploaded
photos of her 30th birthday
to Facebook, she captioned
the images “thirty, flirty and
thriving”, yet behind her big
smile, she was hiding a secret
from those she loved most.
Back in August 2020, the
Christchurch mum was in the
battle of her life with an eating
disorder and no one, not even
her husband Gary, knew the
dark depths her illness was taking
her to.
Jones’ struggle with food
started when she was just
five-years-old, but it was in her
late teens that she began yo-yo
dieting, bouncing from hardcore
exercise and starvation, to binge
eating and back again.
After the birth of her two sons,
Weston, now five, and Theo,
four, she ballooned to 126kg –
her heaviest weight ever. “I was
so ashamed of myself,” Jones, 31,
told Woman’s Day.
Her binge-eating disorder –
only formally recognised as a
mental disorder in 2013 – saw
her making multiple daily trips
to McDonald’s, hiding food
wrappers in her baby’s dirty
nappies and eating her kids’
lunchbox snacks.
“When I’d host a mother’s
group at my house, everyone
would bring a dish and I’d finish
off the scraps on people’s plates
when they left,” said Jones, who
realised she had to reach out for
help just weeks after emerging
from her 30th birthday sugar
coma.
“Clothes didn’t fit, I was scared
to sit in a chair in case I broke it,
I developed severe sleep apnoea
and I couldn’t run around after
my kids. I knew this illness was
going to kill me. I was eating
myself to death.”
Finally admitting what was
going on, Jones told her husband
she needed gastric sleeve surgery,
where a portion of the stomach is
removed to help a person feel full
after eating just a small amount.
“I said to him, ‘If I was dying
from anorexia, you wouldn’t
hesitate to put me in the hospital
– what I’m going through right
now is the same, just at the
opposite end of the spectrum,”
recalled Jones, who had her lifechanging
operation in November
2020.
“Some people have the view
that surgery is the easy way out,
but it’s not. The surgery doesn’t
stop me from putting anything
in my mouth – I had to make
that choice every day. I had to
prioritise exercising and eating
well.”
Instead of cutting out food
groups, Jones has learnt to fall
back in love with eating, finding
joy in cooking and recreating
recipes from TikTok. She’s also
RECOVERY: Katie Jones lost over half her body weight
and documented her journey on Instagram.
embraced exercise, regularly
lifting weights, going for power
walks and “dancing around the
house like nobody’s watching”.
Now, just over a year on, Jones
is 62kg – half of her original
weight – and while she’s incredibly
proud of her achievements,
there has been a downside.
“I try to tell myself every day,
‘My body is healthy. My body is
strong. I have two working arms
and two working legs,’ but being
so overweight and losing so many
kilos, you end up with loose skin –
and I have a lot of that.
“It’s not the end of the world
and it’s not all about looks, but
I want to love my body. I’m so
close, but I’m hidden in this
sack of skin. I can fit into a
bathing suit, but I don’t want to
wear it because I feel really selfconscious.”
Jones hopes to have one final
operation to remove the loose
skin from her arms, thighs and
stomach, but with the procedure
costing upwards of $20,000,
money is a hurdle. However, one
of her many Instagram followers
– she’s documented her weightloss
journey on @Katie.Gets.
Sleeeved – came up with the idea
of crowd-funding the surgery
via Givealittle.
“I wasn’t sure about it at first,
but then I thought, ‘Why not?’
I was always raised to believe
that if you don’t ask for what you
want, you don’t get it,” said Jones,
adding that she and her family
are doing their best to save the
money themselves.
In the meantime, she’ll continue
to share her recovery and
wants people to know that her
DMs are always open.
“As cheesy as it sounds, I want
to make a difference in the world
by using my experiences to bring
awareness to mental health and
eating disorders.
“I want people to remember
there’s more than what you
see on the surface. People are
battling things that go far deeper
than what they appear as on the
outside, so reach out if you need
help.”
—NZ Herald
• A HELPING HAND:
If you want to help Katie
continue her journey,
search for “Katie Jones” at
Givealittle.co.nz. For help
with an eating disorder,
visit ED.org.nz or phone
0800 EDANZ.
ASHAMED: Jones kept her eating disorder secret for years.
COMMITTED: Jones’ first progress picture before her 60kg
weight loss, and afterwards. She is saving for an operation
to remove loose skin from her body.
TOGETHER: Jones with her husband Gary.

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Whānau Ora
Commissioning
Agency
chairwoman
Merepeka
Raukawa-Tait
on where the
protesters have gone
wrong
IF YOU’RE going to protest,
then for goodness’ sake know
what you’re doing.
The mess in Wellington can
hardly be called a protest.
New Zealand has a proud
history of protests, strikes and
demonstrations.
Whether it’s the 1951
waterfront strike, Raglan golf
course occupation led by Eva
Rickard in 1978, the 1981
South African rugby tour that
polarised opinions and New
Zealanders, the 2004 foreshore
and seabed protest or as recently
as the Ihumātao occupation.
These protests brought
thousands of New Zealanders
out onto the streets. Each time
rallying behind a single, just
cause.
I was living in Auckland at the
time of the foreshore and seabed
demonstration in Wellington.
Early in the morning Theo
and I were watching TV. Even
at that early hour, it seemed
that thousands of people were
converging on Wellington.
Responding to the call to protest,
inspired by Māori leader Tariana
Turia who insisted Maori must
have the same rights as other
New Zealanders. In this case, to
go to court to dispute ownership
of the seabed and foreshore.
I said to Theo: “This protest is
history in the making, I wish I
was there.”
“Then go,” he said. And by 12
o’clock I was in Wellington.
It is the most significant
protest I have ever taken part in.
I will never forget it. I was proud
to be there on the day.
The taxi could only take me
halfway along The Terrace.
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“Bloody protesters,” the driver
complained, “causing chaos.”
Well, they would, because there
were thousands of people.
Traffic was nearly at a
standstill, Wellingtonians were
advised to avoid that part of
town.
As protesters, we were all there
for one reason, and one reason
only. To repeal the Foreshore
and Seabed Act. Nothing else.
There was no confusion. That
was the single, rallying cause.
We knew who the leaders of
the demonstration were. They
were visible. They spoke and we
listened.
All the signs and banners
proclaimed Māori wanted the
foreshore and seabed protected.
We listened attentively to the
speakers, cheered and clapped
after each one and then, just like
that, by three o’clock it was all
over. We headed home. We had
made our point.
Compare that with the current
protest in Wellington, if that’s
what you want to call it.
It seems there are multiple
issues, although stopping the
vaccination mandate does appear
to be the main concern. But
even that’s not clear, with various
groups represented.
Is there a protest leader? I’ve
watched and waited to see who’s
OPINION 15
Mess in Wellington hardly called a protest
LEADERLESS: Anti-mandate protesters at Parliament in Wellington.
PHOTO: NZME
Thursday February 17 2022 The Star
speaking for the protesters. Who
has the credibility and mana to
speak on their behalf?
No one, it seems, as far as I can
make out. A protest always has
articulate leaders to make sure
everyone, not only those attending
the protest but the thousands
watching and listening at home,
get the message too and understand
why the protest is taking
place; why the protesters believe
in the rightness of their cause.
I haven’t seen or heard anyone
clearly putting the case for the
protesters.
I don’t even know if they have
a leader or spokesperson.
Without one a protest lacks
credibility.
How can the public support
a protest when we don’t know
what the protest is all about?
We’re just guessing, making
assumptions and getting impatient
as the protest struggles on.
Protesting is more than a big
get-together, more than a party.
More than banners and slogans.
A protest must be meaningful.
Clearly articulated so that we can
share the struggle and feel part
of it too. It’s a call to action.
In Wellington, without a
credible leader, the protesters
appear bogged down. Just like
the quagmire they have created
in front of the Parliament
building.
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Judge’s views fallen foul
After being told that a drinkdriver
was unable to pay much
weekly as reparations, Judge
David Ruth made a comment
about the driver’s “nutcase views’’.
His comment has fallen foul
of the Judicial Conduct Commissioner
and so it should. One
complainant wrote: “. . . the use
of pejorative and demeaning
language are a breach of a judges
duty.’’
This driver happened to be
part of a minority, someone who
chose not to take this particular
vaccine. I am not sure why his
health status was brought up in
relation to his bad driving decision,
unless it’s because he lost
his job due to the mandates and
thus wasn’t able “to pay much
towards his reparations.’’
I wonder if the judge would
have made the same type of
comment in relation to another
minority who also couldn’t
make large weekly payments?
Whether we are vaccinated
or unvaccinated, like wearing
masks or not, we are all human
beings and deserve to be treated
equally under the law. – D
Downward, Bryndwr
The outburst of frustration
expressed by Judge Dave Ruth
at an unvaccinated drink driver,
aligns well with the views of
New Zealand’s vaccinated, if
silent vast majority.
Commissioner Alan Ritchie
compounds a string of judgements
by castigating Judge Ruth
on the basis of only 10 complainants
who were, after all,
supporting a convicted drunk
driver? Some issues are more
important than the sanctity of
the judiciary.
Does Commissioner Ritchie
support the anti-vaxers ‘freedom’
to contract an illness with
probable long-term consequences,
or their ‘freedom’ to infect all
and sundry with same?
Does the commissioner not
understand that professional
agitators control the narrative,
and that millions of Kiwis have
no voice against the deluge of
dangerous disinformation?
I thank Judge Ruth for
expressing the majority view
so appropriately? – Harry L
Gilmore, Halswell
Gateway Bridge
As an 83-year-old who lived
through the Blitz in London,
I was extremely grateful to Sir
Keith Rodney Park and Group
11 RAF for saving us during the
Battle of Britain.
Later, having moved here, I
found out that Sir Keith was a
Kiwi.
Anyone who can survive Gallipoli
and The Blitz is a war hero
in the first order.
Naming the Gateway Bridge
after him would be an honour
worthy of this great city. – Dr
Peter Tillman
I HAVE been frustrated by the
debate on the Three Waters
Reforms focused as it has been
on the ownership of physical
infrastructure – the pipes, pump
stations and treatment plants –
instead of what needs to be done
if we are to restore “Te Mana o Te
Wai”.
If we wanted to find a starting
point that we could all agree
on, it is to restore mana to our
rivers, lakes, streams, estuaries,
harbours, and aquifers.
Unfortunately, we are debating
infrastructure without consideration
of the broader resource
management issues, including
land-use and resource consents
for taking water from and
discharging treated wastewater
and stormwater to different waterbodies.
If our focus is on restoring
mana to these waterbodies, then
they are an integral part of addressing
historic degradation as
well as improving quality.
We have seen our own headlines
about how $350 million
is not enough to improve our
rivers. But that number pales
Mayor
Lianne Dalziel
Breach of the Treaty
is a huge issue
into insignificance against the
range of historic decisions that
have ignored mātauranga Māori
and disrespected wahi tapu and
mahinga kai locations across the
country.
Since the city council amalgamated
with Banks Peninsula
District, we have started to address
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specifically reserved for them to
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The restoration of the reserve was
to remedy a breach of the Treaty
and taking it away was another
breach.
This is a huge issue,
which cannot be addressed
immediately, but addressed it
must be.
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OPINION
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since Environment Canterbury
climate-change emergency
Youth shape future thinking around water
Environment
Canterbury Chair
Jenny Hughey
by sea-level rise this century and
our productive and protected land
jeopardised by the arrival and
spread of new, exotic weeds and
pests from warmer climates.
All these eventualities have
to be planned and prepared for,
and Environment Canterbury
will remain in the vanguard of
these climate change efforts.
One example is the $40 million
Waimakariri River flood
protection project, completed
late last year. The network of
floodgates and stopbanks will
protect half a million people and
$8 billion of community and
business assets from a possible
“super flood”.
The last major flood was in
December 1957, when parts
threatened and facing increased
pressures due to river system
change.
Wetlands are also ecosystems
at-risk nationally and regionally,
degraded by draining, damming
and diversion affecting their
ability to sequester carbon,
cleanse freshwater and mitigate
flooding, as well as impacting on
biodiversity and mahinga kai.
With biosecurity, we are
putting greater emphasis on the
risks of new pests establishing
in Canterbury. Warming
temperatures, changing soils and
new land uses mean new weeds
especially, will be able to gain a
better foothold across the region.
More broadly, we have to
curb reliance on fossil fuels and
and enhance that work.
fleet hybrid or long-range electric
WATCHING That work included young people setting measures by 2022. including Carbon emissions farm visits from
become up a climate-change inspired to help integration shape (often air travel involving across some the organisation
hands-on
our programme region’s future in the is Long-term one of the Plan mahi), are offset and discussions via our own with biodiversity a
most 2018-28, satisfying ensuring aspects climate of my change wide programmes. range of players with an
role was as actively chair. considered across interest According freshwater to a Madworld issues. report
workstreams,
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increasing
reconnect with
visibility
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in 2019,
rangatahi
our gross
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the land, they must first engage
about the impact of climate (CO2) equivalent, compared with
A prime example of the way with the natural world – only
nature-based
change on Canterbury,
education
and
can steer
liaising
then
removals
can they
of
become
7883 tonnes
kaitiaki
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thinking
on the issue
and
with
actions
iwi
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and
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regional
(custodians).
equivalent through our efficiency
the partners, environment other local is the authorities Waterwise
and central Canterbury government. programme hands’ across approach 2700 hectares. at the centre of
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many with risks students to life and presenting livelihood
will pose of Coutts Island in Belfast and find environmentally suitable
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Charitable “market-leading” Trust, Ngāi energy Tahu, efficiency general had huge conversation. effects residents and Stakeholder designed to groups, defend including Christchurch Meanwhile, Lowndes our retired Youth as Rōpū chair of is economy in our decision-making
Canterbury rating of 5.0 Regional out of 6 in Council the year For infrastructure some, the programme around the South is former from graduates, a flood of will as much instead as 6500 starting this 2022 council with late 11 brand last year, new he – and it’s our youth who’ll be
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include future across decisions much of around the Canterbury educa-
be widened biosecurity beyond programmes the Selwyn is also people deal and with decision-makers
the “pressing issues” of As always, if you have any
of generate sustainable more water than management,
kilowatt with hours a focus of electricity on the Selwyn per around Covid-19 have meant the programme will continue to be important to youth. It ensures
55,000 Unfortunately, drier. North-westerly uncertainties storms are Whatever concerns. the outcome, the to work I together share his on confidence. issues As a
Waihora It’s zone. a year since Environment Canterbury
programme’s predicted to April become intake more will intense,
year.
an example of our commitment They explore the four key be pushed back a few months,
Canterbury’s distinct braided community, and as a council,
rivers and unique wetlands face we are taking some bold steps to
There has been a 26% reduction turning our braided rivers into to nature-based
many challenges.
youth
The
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water use,
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availability, but this has created a window of and of fostering engagement in make a difference.
quality and declared economics – through opportunity. a climate-change participatory democracy. emergency
cope with the changing climate
since 30 June 2010. We now have and causing widespread erosion. an abundant food supply and
Nature
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access to JENNY electric HUGHEY and hybrid explains what Canterbury’s coastal
nesting grounds for 26 species of by sea-level there will rise always this century be a need and to do threatened and facing increased
vehicles the and council hope has to have been half doing. our communities will be threatened native birds – most classified as our more. productive and protected land pressures due to river system
Environment
The formal declaration of a
jeopardised by the arrival and change.
state of climate emergency across
spread of new, exotic weeds and Wetlands are also ecosystems
Canterbury Chair
Canterbury was one of the most
pests from warmer climates. at-risk nationally and regionally,
serious, and colourful, moments
Jenny Hughey
All these eventualities have degraded by draining, damming
in the regional council’s more than
to be planned and prepared for, and diversion affecting their
30-year history.
and enhance that work.
fleet hybrid or long-range electric
and Environment Canterbury ability to sequester carbon,
A year ago this Saturday,
That work included setting by 2022. Carbon emissions from
will remain in the vanguard of cleanse freshwater and mitigate
at 11.49am, Environment
up a climate-change integration air travel across the organisation
these climate change efforts. flooding, as well as impacting on
Canterbury became New Zealand’s
One example is the $40 million biodiversity and mahinga kai.
programme in the Long-term Plan are offset via our own biodiversity
first council to proclaim such an
Waimakariri River flood
With biosecurity, we are
2018-28, ensuring climate change programmes.
emergency, formally dedicating
protection project, completed putting greater emphasis on the
was actively considered across According to a Madworld report
itself to consideration of climate
late last year. The network of risks of new pests establishing
workstreams, increasing visibility in 2019, our gross emissions were
change at the heart of all it does.
floodgates and stopbanks will in Canterbury. Warming
of the science and what we know 2253 tonnes of carbon dioxide
The declaration highlighted
protect half a million people and temperatures, changing soils and
about the impact of climate (CO2) equivalent, compared with
that all the work Environment
$8 billion of community and new land uses mean new weeds
change on Canterbury, and liaising removals of 7883 tonnes of CO2-
Canterbury does – from
business assets from a possible especially, will be able to gain a
on the issue with iwi and regional equivalent through our efficiency
freshwater management to
“super flood”.
better foothold across the region.
partners, other local authorities efforts and from forestry planting
biodiversity and biosecurity,
The last major flood was in More broadly, we have to
and central government.
across 2700 hectares.
transport and urban development
December 1957, when parts curb reliance on fossil fuels and
to air quality, and also regional
As an organisation, we have The changing climate will pose of Coutts Island in Belfast and find environmentally suitable
leadership – has a climate change
also made significant progress in many risks to life and livelihood Kainga were swamped by river alternatives, such as electricity and
focus.
addressing our own greenhousegas
emissions, with our
we have seen how occasional, metres per second (cumecs). transport.
in Canterbury. In recent years flow peaking at 3990 cubic hydrogen, to power our public
Currently, under the Resource
Management Act, regional Christchurch building receiving a but extreme, weather events have The protection scheme has been When my predecessor Steve
councils are required only to adapt “market-leading” energy efficiency had huge effects on residents and designed to defend Christchurch Lowndes retired as chair of
to climate change, not mitigate rating of 5.0 out of 6 in the year infrastructure around the South from a flood of as much as 6500 this council late last year, he
it – that responsibility is the to February on the National Island.
cumecs.
highlighted some of the big
Government’s, but could change. Australian Built Environment The driest parts of our region, Environment Canterbury’s changes on the way. He was
Even in ‘adapt mode’ many Rating System New Zealand. along the Marlborough coast and leadership of biodiversity and optimistic we would be able to
of Environment Canterbury’s The building’s features include across much of the Canterbury biosecurity programmes is also deal with the “pressing issues” of
existing policies and plans already 184 solar panels which can Plains, are expected to get even underpinned by climate-change climate change and sustainability.
contribute to reduced emissions. generate more than 55,000 drier. North-westerly storms are concerns.
I share his confidence. As a
In declaring the climate
kilowatt hours of electricity per predicted to become more intense, Canterbury’s distinct braided community, and as a council,
emergency, the Council noted it year.
with torrential alpine rainstorms rivers and unique wetlands face we are taking some bold steps to
would continue to show leadership There has been a 26% reduction turning our braided rivers into many challenges. The rivers form ensure we are in a better place to
on climate-change and do so per staff member in emissions roaring rapids, fuelling landslides a vital ecological link and provide cope with the changing climate
without adding new programmes
at ratepayers’ expense. It also gave
staff a clear mandate to continue
since 30 June 2010. We now have
access to electric and hybrid
vehicles and hope to have half our
and causing widespread erosion.
Canterbury’s coastal
communities will be threatened
an abundant food supply and
nesting grounds for 26 species of
native birds – most classified as
and the tests it will set us. But
there will always be a need to do
more.

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Take care with
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SPORT
All Blacks role still
on Robertson’s radar
SCOTT Robertson says
he is more ready than ever
to take the All Black reins
while sounding a warning
to rival Super Rugby
teams.
In an interview with
Newstalk ZB Robertson
said he remains hell-bent
on improving his allpowerful
Crusaders unit.
The Crusaders open
their latest campaign
against the Hurricanes
in Dunedin on Saturday
night as the Covid
pandemic threatens to
rip through the rejigged
competition.
But if ever a coach is
built to deal with an evolving
crisis, it is Robertson.
The inside word on
Robertson’s Crusaders
suggests a camp which
does not involve obsessive
over-coaching and is built
around a great spirit.
And the coach himself
has given some credence to
that on the eve of the new
season.
He also revealed the
overseas club contacts
who keep him on top of
his game, and they include
two NRL rugby league
heavyweights.
The zany former All
Black loose forward has
inspired an unprecedented
title haul while creating a
cult following and an army
of fans who want him to
take over the All Blacks.
His five successive titles
followed years of disappointment
for a juggernaut
which could no longer
turn its rugby excellence
into titles.
Robertson told Newstalk
ZB’s Jason Pine that the
build-up to the 2022 season
has involved making
sure his champion squad
is “clear on how we want
to play” and getting the
returning All Blacks up to
speed on that.
“Then just go and have
some fun,” said Robertson,
a statement which is probably
a significant part of
his philosophy.
When asked how he
keeps the side at the top of
their game, Robertson said
while he was confident
about his technical ability,
it wasn’t the area where he
really thrived.
“People need to have a
clear reason why you are
there and why you love
playing,” he said.
“That’s where I back
myself as a coach.
“I get the (technical
coaching side of) game, I
played it for so long, I was
coaching through schools
and clubs.
“(But) the leadership,
ZANY: Crusaders head coach Scott Robertson
looks on during training. PHOTO: GETTY
cultural … the actual inspiring
part, to do it every
year, to make the boys as
hungry, you get caught out
if you’re not hungry.
“That’s the part I love.
You have little themes,
boys get to challenge
themselves and enjoy their
days, and want to make
history.”
Great rugby coaches can
appear as stern characters.
Robertson, in keeping
with his image, said he
was not one to bawl out
players.
“It’s not my style (although)
now and again I’ll
give them a real clear understanding
that our work
ethic isn’t there,” he said.
‘You get caught out if
you’re not hungry’
– Scott Robertson
“I’ve got really good
mentors, I do a lot of personal
development stuff off
the field during the season.
“I’ve got enough time to
do it – all our coaches coach
other teams except me.
“I do the leadership
courses, do a lot of work
on tūrangawaewae stuff,
belonging, our standing,
where we come from. You
refresh that every year so it
becomes new.”
Robertson said he
closely follows rugby in
the northern hemisphere
and has great relationships
with the coaches at Saracens
and Leinster.
He has a similar link
with two NRL heavyweights,
the Melbourne
Storm who are led by Craig
Bellamy, and the Sydney
Roosters who are coached
by Trent Robertson.
“I talk to other coaches,
see what they do,” he said.
Keeping fit and pursuing
interests such as paddle
boarding and surfing were
a big part of his coaching
shtick.
“I keep myself fit and
healthy, get the exercise I
need every day, and have
family time,” he said.
“(Surfing etc) is where I
get my energy from. I still
do swimming and yoga.
“I’ve got an incredible
coaching group and they
are always finding ways to
step up and grow themselves,
which allows me to
trust them.
“They know I’m at my
best when I’ve got a clear
head, observing the group,
seeing how I can add value
to them.”
Robertson said a lot of
things needed to line up to
win titles, from luck with
injures to refereeing calls.
“But doing it five years
in a row, you get confident,
and you also want to keep
improving,” he said.
“Improvement gets me as
excited as winning. They go
besides each other.”
Meanwhile, Robertson,
overlooked following the
2019 World Cup crash,
still covets the All Blacks
coaching job.
He is contracted until
the end of 2024 but various
clauses reportedly include
an option to leave at the
end of next year.
“I’d love to lead my
country – look I’m probably
even more ready than
I was … you’d hope so
after missing out three
years ago,” he said.
But Robertson added:
“I’m coaching the best club
in the world and to coach a
club you played for is even
more inspiring.
“Do I coach another
club, or do I coach a
country? I want to keep
progressing.”
– NZ Herald

Thursday February 17 2022 The Star
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SPORT 21
TEAM TALK: Mainland Football community development officer Adam Keizer outlines the rules to a group of players while Darren Booth does some
pre-game stretches in the stand at English Park.
You’ll Never Walk Alone – ageing
footballers in tune with new game plan
• By Chris Barclay
BALL CONTROL: Jeff Waghorn plays the ball to deny Sharon Marshall possession while Stan Woolliscroft has a similar
goal when under pressure from Graham Woolstencroft.
PHOTOS: STAR MEDIA
THE traditional pre-game walkthrough
plays out differently
at English Park on Saturday
mornings, where a new initiative
is encouraging football players
past their prime to still target
goals.
Aiming at the over-50s age
group, Mainland Football
launched Walking Football last
weekend, where drizzle did not
deter 20 pedestrian players from
making a tentative debut.
While the code’s game plan is
to attract and retain juniors plus
broaden its appeal to females
and ethnic groups, there is still
a position on the field for the
dodgy-kneed striker to relive
past glories over an hour.
Stan Woolliscroft, 71, cycled
from St Martins to the city’s
football headquarters in St
Albans before going through
warm-up drills and a five, six or
seven-a-side game.
A former national league
player for New Brighton and
Christchurch United in the
1970s, the mid-fielder happily
added a walkabout with his fitness
regime after discovering the
format online.
“It’s good to be back at English
Park, I haven’t been on it for a
long time” Woolliscroft said,
before venturing onto the pitch
for the first time since 1981.
Back then his game time could
be limited.
“United had (1982 World Cup
All Whites) Bobby Almond,
Steve Sumner, they had a hell
of a team. I spent most of the
season here,” he smiled, while
sitting in the stand which now
bears Sumner’s name.
Team numbers are fluid, there
is no restriction on substitutions,
no extra time or penalty
shootouts.
The offside rule is waived but
rules are enforced for games
played on a sector of a regulation-sized
field.
There’s no breaking into a run,
no headers, no studs-up twofooted
lunges, in fact no tackling
at all, with interceptions or a
poor touch the only means of
gaining possession.
And there is another twist,
though hopefully not an ankle.
“We’re aiming towards the
over-50s age group but it’s open
to anyone,” said Mainland Football
community development
officer Adam Keizer, an Englishman
from Burnley who supports
West Ham.
“In England we had people
in their 30s that played because
they’d had surgery on their
knees or something and they
couldn’t play competitive, contact
sport.”
The inaugural group’s age
range was 50 to 77, and included
three women. Just the line-up
Mainland Football hoped to start.
“The health benefits are obviously
the cardio side of things
but if you’re going for a walk,
you’re walking in a straight line
at the same time,” Keizer said.
“This is raising up the
heart rate and dropping it
up and down and there’s
agility movement, it’s balance,
coordination and flexibility as
well as your core strengths, all
key things for this age group.
“The health benefits are massive
but bigger than that in the
well-being part of it, being part
of a team, having a laugh and a
bit of banter.
“The beauty of it is you can
turn up wearing whatever you
like,” he said, pointing out a
player in jeans and hiking boots.
Jeff Waghorn was among players
wearing traditional playing
strips as he and 10 mates from
Halswell limbered up.
The sweeper started playing
football at age seven, with the
game a constant until he was
sidelined by a hip injury.
He was unable to play for two
years before a hip replacement
last March and he was relishing
the chance to make a comeback
at 65.
“I’ve been playing my whole
life, this is a great opportunity
to socialise with mates you’ve
played with for years,” he said.
“I thought I’d give this a go
now I can walk again.”
•Players keen to walk
instead of run can turn
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Saturday around 10am
and register to play

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talk but you can still form sentences without having to
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Zone 3, moderately hard: this is the pace where you
need that extra breath to finish your sentence. You can
still talk and jog at the same time but it becomes more
laborious so you tend to shut up and concentrate more
on your rhythm and holding your pace.
Zone 4 and 5 are for the competitive athletes only and
do not apply to the beginners or intermediate group.
In these zones the oxygen supply does not keep up
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40 min
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45 min
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14km 75 min
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45min
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14km 100min
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Many of you will be stretching vigorously
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conventional stretching routine prevents
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real need for stretching unless you have
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and hard-nosed blindside
flanker is poised to make his
debut – against the Hurricanes
in Dunedin on Saturday night
– after Ethan Blackadder’s
lingering hamstring injury has
him sidelined until at least week
four of the rebranded Super
Rugby Pacific format.
The Crusaders season-opener
was originally slated for
Orangetheory Stadium until
Covid-19 restrictions forced
New Zealand’s team south
to play before sparse or nonexistent
crowds.
Matera is expected to form
an imposing loose trio with
openside Tom Christie and
No 8 Cullen Grace when the
23-strong team is revealed by
head coach Scott Robertson
today.
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pack boasting many past rivals
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Thursday February 17 2022 The Star 25
Popular Tiguan spearheads VW range
TO LEARN the Tiguan was
Volkswagen’s biggest selling
model in New Zealand took me
quite by surprise.
You see, I would have thought
that mantle belonged to Golf or
even the new T-Cross, but I guess
with the sport utility market
buoyant with mid-size wagons
the Tiguan would slot into the
realm of a desirable purchase.
Of course, there’s no doubt
the Golf over time would still
be Volkswagen’s biggest selling
model in New Zealand, but just
at present the Tiguan is selling in
large numbers.
Volkswagen has just released
a facelifted Tiguan and it can
only increase the affection Kiwis
have for it. Up front there is a
new grille, lights and bumper,
with similar treatment at the rear.
There’s a raft of new kit inside,
more so items unseen with extra
safety additions and the inclusion
of a new MIB-3 infotainment
system, it features app-connect
(wireless Android Auto and
wireless Apple CarPlay) allowing
you to seamlessly connect
compatible apps from your
smartphone.
In terms of mechanical difference,
not a lot has changed, there
are four models in the Tiguan
line-up, two front-wheel-drive
models with a 1.4-litre engine
and two four-wheel-drive models
with a 2-litre engine, both petrolfed
and turbocharged.
The range starts at $46,990 and
ends at $68,990. The evaluation
car was the range-topping TSi
R-Line 4WD with the 1984cc
engine. As a matter of interest, I
have had a few kilometres in the
1.4-litre model and I can report
that that engine is far from underwhelming,
it’s much the same
engine that is in the Golf and it is
a feisty little brute that punches
well above its weight. In fact,
it would be the engine I would
choose.
However, the 2-litre engine is
also rather intriguing, it comes
in a choice of two power outputs
– 132kW or 162kW. The R-Line
model gets the higher power
output, and if you add in grunty
350Nm of torque (available from
1500 to 4400rpm) it is strong and
extremely capable.
Mention must also be made
of the area where power is
developed, its peak arrives at
just 4500rpm and spreads to
6200rpm, that being the case
there is no drop off of performance,
the engine simply pulls
from nowhere and doesn’t lag
across the entire rev band.
In terms of acceleration the
Tiguan in this form will reach
100km/h from a standstill in
8.2sec, and if you are making a
highway overtake it will scamper
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VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN TSI: Four models with two or four-wheel-drive options.
from 80 to 120km/h in 5.5sec.
Drive is sent through a sevenspeed
direct shift transmission,
this is my preferred gearbox, it’s
sort of a cross between a traditional
torque converter type and
continuously variable transmission.
The best way I can describe
it is that’s like a manual gearbox
with a robotised clutch, there are
only two pedals so you treat it exactly
as you would any automatic.
However, there is a Tiptronic
function (gearshift paddles) and
sport mode if you want the engine
to hold higher revolutions.
Volkswagen also rates the
high power engine with an
8.3-litre per 100km combined
cycle average. At 100km/h on the
highway the engine is turning
over at just 1800rpm registering a
healthy 5.8l/100km figure. After
a long drive and some use on
suburban streets the Tiguan’s trip
computer was showing 9l/100km.
By my reckoning these are good
results.
The Tiguan is a purposeful
family wagon. It has large car
comfort packaged into a midsize
that drives and rides with
comfort, along with presenting
the driver with an informative
driving sensation.
I took the evaluation car on
my usual mid-Canterbury run
through to Glenroy, returning
to the city via Dunsandel and
• Price – Volkswagen
Tiguan TSi R-Line 4WD,
$68,990
• Dimensions – Length,
4511mm; width, 1850mm;
height, 1635mm
• Configuration – Fourcylinder,
four-wheel-drive,
1984cc, 162kW, 350Nm,
seven-speed automatic
• Performance –
0-100km/h, 8.2sec
• Fuel usage – 8.3/100km
Lincoln, the Tiguan provides a
relaxing driving experience and
all those on board would find it
that way.
On the seal it glides through
the air with quiet ease and is
capable when presented with a
quick corner or two. The Tiguan
is very car-like, there is no presence
of height nor bulk, it feels
lithe and spirited.
The Tiguan in R-Line
specification rides on high quality
19in Michelin tyres and they
are certainly up for a cornering
challenge. They don’t moan under
pressure and combine to give the
driver positive information as to
what is happening in relation to
the road surface.
I took the evaluation car off the
seal and onto a clay-based track
just to get a feel for the 4Motion
four-wheel-drive network. There
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In terms of what you get for
your outlay, the Tiguan comes
very well equipped, and the controls
and functions are intuitive.
Major features include leather
trim with heated and electrically
adjustable seats, satellite navigation,
keyless entry and ignition,
radar cruise control and head-up
display.
The new infotainment system
responds quickly to input, and
pairing of devices is something
that even the old generation can
relate to. My old iPhone was
readily accepted and functionality
within the system is deep.
One of my wife’s relatives is in
the market for a new SUV. She
wouldn’t buy anything other than
a German car and was looking
at premium brands. I suggested
to her that Volkswagen has a
solid range of SUVs, small to
big – T-Cross to Touareg. It’s
something she hadn’t considered,
but she is now looking at them
closely, and certainly the price
compared to the competition is
hugely attractive.
I hope she goes with my
recommendation and buys into a
Tiguan.
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repairs & maintenance.
Alterations & property
upgrades.Laundries /
bathroom / kitchens
replaced. Specialising in
replacement of all rotten
timber, fascia boards,
window, windowsills etc.
John Sandford, ph 329
4616, mob 027 5189 598
johnsandford2@gmail.
com
COMPUTER REPAIRS
fAST
AAA HANDYMAN
licensed carpenter
LBP, all property and
building maintenance,
repairs, bathroom/shower
installations, with free
quotes 03 383 1927 or 027
245 5226 ciey@xtra.co.nz
ARBORIST
Qualified.Copper
Beech Tree Services.
Tree removal, pruning,
height reduction, hedge
trimming, shaping, tree
planting, firewood. Free Friendly experienced
Quote. Contact Angus techs available to help you
Edwaards 027 259 6741. now. Christchurch based.
copperbeechtreeservices@ All work guaranteed.
gmail.com
BRICK & BLOCK
LAYING
Computer Help 0800 349
669
ELECTRICIAN
all restoration work All types of domestic
and new work plus & commercial work
foundations, ph 342 9340 undertaken, new housing,
or 021 853 033
alterations, extensions,
BUILDER QUALIfIED ranges, security lights,
50 yrs exp. Bathrooms, quick response, efficient
Kitchens, Renovations, service, free quotes,
Repairs & Extensions city -wide. No call out
Free quotes. Discount for fee. M/S, 8-5. Call Pat
pensioners. Ph Mike 03 Barrett 03 359 2087/ 027
980 9771 or 027 2266 930
7331384.
BUILDER,
ELECTRICIAN
HANDYMAN,
Prompt & reliable
MAINTENANCE
registered electrician
Have peace of mind with
with 24 years experience
a fully qualified owner
for all residential and
operater LBP. Available
commercial work, new
for all jobs around the
housing and switch board
home, commercial or
replacements. Phone Chris
rental property (extremely
experienced in Healthy
027 516 0669
Homes Reporting and ELECTRICIAN
all Remedial works) Call Available, 30 years
Chris on 027 3888 211 experience, immediate
BUILDER
start, competitive rate,
New builds, alterations, ph Brian 027 433 9548
decks, fencing. 30 yrs in No Call out fee
the trade has given me GARDENING
ability to build to a high Lawns, pruning, hedge
standard. Free quotes. Ph cuts. Call Phil The
Brent 027 241 7471 Gardener 021 661 246
Trades & Services
GASfITTING
N.T. Gas Services.
Domestic gas installations.
Reg Craftsman Gas Fitter.
Ph Nick 021 892 491
HANDY - DAN
General Handyman for
all your maintenance
requirements. I specialise
in fences and decking, also
do spouting cleans and
repairs and everyday home
maintenance. NO JOB TO
BIG OR SMALL I can do
it all, please don’t hesitate
to call me on 022 600 7738
for a no obligation free
quote.
LANDSCAPING
Paving, Lawns, Irrigation,
Decking, Fencing.
Kanga & small digger
services. Check out Squire
Landscaping on facebook.
FREE QUOTES. Ph
Arthur 347-8796, 027
220-7014 Edwin 027 220-
7154
MOBILE CAR
CLEANING SERvICES
We come to you where
ever you are. Ring us
at 03 281 8054 for free
quotation.
PAINTING
Indoor / Outdoor, over 30
yrs exp, same day quotes,
ph Steve 021 255 7968
PAINTING
PLASTERING
Free quotes. Int/ext &
roof painting Family run
business, work guaranteed.
Pensioner discounts. Ph
Kerin or Paul 022 191
7877 or 379-1281. Website
www.swedekiwipainting.
co.nz
PAINTER,QUALIfIED
local professional, Int /
Ext,roofs,wallpaper, call
or text Corban 027 846
5035
PAINTING
Interior & Exterior,
Fences, airless spraying.
Ph 027 224 2831
PAINTER
Is your property looking
Tired, Dull & Dated?
LICK OF PAINT. 40 years
exp. Ph 022 314 0429
PLASTERER
Phone Finn for all your
interior plastering needs.
No job too small -
renovations, alterations,
holes & cracks. Free
quotes. I’ll beat any quote
by 10% .25 yrs exp. Canty
born. Ph 022 087 4351
PLASTERING
Gary 4 Fixing, stopping,
solid plastering, brick
repairs & painting. 021
529 022 / 342 8950

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Trades & Services
PLUMBER
Do you need a reliable
plumber? Quality and
timely services. No job
too big or small. Phone
V Plumbing Ltd. 022 351
4125
PLUMBER
Wanted To Buy
STEVE PURCELL
ANTIQUES
BUYING
NOW
Wanted To Buy
ANTIQUES and modern
Jewellery, pay up to the
following prices: $3,000
for Gold Nuggets, Silver
Bars: $700, Sovereigns,
Sovereign Cases: $3,000,
Gold Chains, Pocket
Watches, Bracelets: $200
for 9ct - 18 ct Gold Bands,
also wanting Diamond,
Sapphire, Amethyst,
Garnet Rings, Gold and
Silver Lodge and War
Medals, Old Bank Notes,
any Silver/Gold Damaged
or Broken Jewellery:
$2,000, Silver Tea
Service, Canteen Cultery,
Spirit Kettles, also Silver
Thimbles, Pin Cushions,
Mirror Photo Frames: pay
cash on inspection, will
call anywhere. - Phone
Murray 021-441-400
CASH PAID; Antiques
and Collectables, Estate
Lots, collections of old
Tools, pay up o $200 for
Brass and Metal Planes,
Wood Braces, Levels,
Rulers, Scribes, Drills,
Saws, pay $3,000 for
Gold Nuggets, Gold Bars,
Pocket Watches, Chains,
Gold Jewellery, Diamond
Rings, Brooches, damaged
Jewellery, old Jewellers
Tools, pay up to $10,000
for Petrol Pumps, Enamel
Signs, Juke Boxes, up to
$500 for Money Boxes, up
to $1,000 for Mechanical
Poker Machines, Arcade
Penny Slot Machines,
also wanting old Windup
Toys, Fun-Ho, Triang,
Tonka and Minic, Hornby
Train Sets, Matchbox,
Motorbikes, to collections
of Toys, Display Cabinets.
Ph 021 441 400
Thursday February 17 2022 The Star 29
• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi
Situations Vacant
CLEANERS
REQUIRED
Orchard Road, Russley
Monday to Friday
6am to 1pm
Sumner Area
Monday to Friday
3.15pm to 6.15pm
Hoon Hay Area
Monday to Friday
3.15pm to 6.15pm
Sydenham Area
Monday to Friday
3pm to 5pm
Mairehau/St Albans
Monday to Friday
3pm to 5pm
Colombo Street Area
Monday to Friday
5pm to 7pm
We are looking for cleaners
to join our commercial
cleaning team.
You will need to pass a
Security Check and you
MUST have your
own transport.
Must be eligible to work
in New Zealand.
Please email your
Application to
csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz
or phone 338 9056
Visit our website:
totalcanterbury.co.nz
Highly experienced
Plumber.Exceptional Gold jewellery,
Please advise which job
service.Ready to help with watches, coins,
when emailing your CV.
all your plumbing needs.
medals, scrap
Call today! MJ Plumbing
Ltd 021 109 2397
gold, sterling
REMOVALS
silver, pewter,
Small furniture removals, original paintings,
have own van, can fit
various types of whiteware
modern art.
Public Notices
appliances, some furn, 351 9139
STAMP AND
bedding, boxes etc, honest stevepurcellantiques.com
POSTCARD FAIR
& reliable, any area
The Philatelic Centre
considered, also rubbish Wanted To Buy
67 Mandeville Street,
removals, scrap & old
Riccarton
cars in going order & AAA Buying goods
Saturday 19th February
motorbikes. ph Chch 022 quality furniture, beds,
9am-12pm
Sellers tables available
434 6047 or 027 380 4934 stoves, washing machines, MILITARIA Any Phone 027 6354 957
ROOFING
fridge freezers. Same day country, firearms,
All Roof repairs, Roof service. Selwyn Dealers. uniforms, badges, medals, Take Notice that
painting, moss treatments, Phone 980 5812 or 027 memoribilia, WW2 or Revolution Automotive
Gutter cleaning 10 + yrs 313 8156
earlier ph 338-9931 Services Ltd intend to sell
exp, free quotes 24 / 7, Ph A+ ALL whiteware TOOLS, Garden garage, a 2006 Holden Viva, Rego
027 516 6609
wanted. Same day saw benches, Lathes. Cash NEB821 by auction on
RUBBISH REMOVAL service, cash paid for buyer Phone 355-2045 (Date to be arranged) at
Van, Trailer Rubbish freezes, fridges, washing
Turners Cars Christchurch
Removal. Ph Gary 342- machines, ovens. Also
as auctioneer. This is being
8950, 021 529 022 buying furniture & h/
conducted under Section
SPOUTING CLEANING hold effects.Anything
3 of the Wages Protection
SPECIALIST
considered. Ph Dave 960-
and Contractors Liens Act
Entire spouting system 8440, 027 66 22 116
Repeal Act 1987.
cleared. Single or 2 storey. A1 Albums, old photo’s,
Jo 021 164 0365
postcards, coins, gold,
SPOUTING
bank notes, badges,
Public Notices
CLEANING
medals, jewellery,
Spouting Unblocked, watches, china, crystal,
Cleaned Out and Flushed books, furs, vintage Senior Citizens
Out, Call Trevor 332 8949 clothing, paintings,
or 021 043 2034
furniture, estates & Holiday Outings
SPOUTING
downsizing. Etcetera
Select Spouting Antiques, 194 Edgeware
The PVC specialist. Rd 385 5117
Repairs & replacement. Ph ACADEMY ANTIQUES
with Companion Driving Service Ltd
WEST COAST OVERNIGHTER
022 197 2351
STUMP GRINDING
Buying estates, antiques,
old china, crystal, art,
Departs Feb 24 - Free home pick up/drop off.
Coach to Hokitika & Greymouth then onto
Best price guarantee Royal Doulton , Royal Punakaiki & overnight at The Oceanview Luxury
Resort Hotel at Punkaiki.
Tony 0275 588 895 Albert etc. Best prices,
STUMP GRINDING free appraisal. Call Rob D.B. & B included - next day visit Greymouth &
then return to Christchurch on The Trans Alpine
Best price guarantee Tony 349-4229
train included in our price of $625.00. Coach &
0275 588 895
A+ Household effects, train hostess to look after you if needed.
TREE SERVICES fridges, freezers,
Free quotes 20+ yrs exp. washing machines,
Tree, hedge or shrub ovens. Good cash paid. SOUTHERN ADVENTURE TOUR
Departs ChCh Mon 1 March
removed. Ph/text Paul A+ Household effects,
- overnight at Omarama.
The Branch Manager fridges, freezers, washing Day 2: Omarama to Gore & overnight.
- reduction, shaped or Ph Paul 022 0891 671
0274314720
machines, ovens. Good Day 3: Gore to Riverton - Invercargill - Bluff
TREE SERVICES cash paid. Ph Paul 022
then return to Gore & overnight.
Specialist tree pruning 0891 671
Day 4: Gore to Catlins & onto Oamaru &
& shaping. Also hedge
overnight.
Wanted To Rent
trimming, tidy-ups &
Day 5: Return home to ChCh. Our price
mulching. Ph Hugh The Retired prof couple want
$1845.00
Little Green Groomer
021 275 5445
TREE SERVICES
2 bdrm unfurn over 60’s
style home. Shower no
bath, gge. Non smokers,
Free home pickup/drop off - D.B.B. included.
Coach hostess to assist where needed.
Hedges, shrubs, tree no pets. Wanting long PHONE PETER ON 0800 453 873 fOR bOOkiNgs
trimming & rubbish term private lease . Please COMPANiON DRiViNg sERViCE LTD
removal. Phone for free contact Elizabeth 021 223 (ALL OuR sTAff HAVE bEEN VACCiNATED)
quotes 022 540 4900 2232
Situations Vacant
Landscape
Maintenance
Manager
We are looking for an experienced Landscape
Maintenance worker to be part of our team!
We require someone who can offer experience
in this Landscape role, including teaching/
motivating junior staff.
What is required for the role:
• General maintenance skills e.g. mowing
lawns, pruning of plants and trees
• Growsafe Certificate - Hand and chemical
weeding
• A full, class 2 current driver license is
required.
• A good level of health and fitness
Can you tick the following boxes? If so we
want to hear from you
• Have at least 3 years experience in the
industry
• Are competent in landscape maintenance
To apply please email Geoff White
geoff.evergreen@gmail.com
Landfill - Operator/Driver
Canterbury Waste Services provides resource
recovery, waste transport and waste disposal
services in Canterbury.
Canterbury Waste Services is seeking a fit, versatile
team player, preferably with heavy plant operating
experience, willing to learn all aspects of waste
disposal and civil construction works at the Kate
Valley Landfill in North Canterbury. The position is
part of a dedicated team involved in the operational
aspects of earthworks construction and waste
disposal, in a safe and environmentally secure
manner.
If you are an experienced multi-skilled operator,
driver or relatively new to the construction industry,
then we would like to hear from you. Alternatively,
if you have any machine operating experience, or a
mechanical aptitude, and are keen to advance in this
industry, we’d also be keen to hear from you.
You will need the following attributes:
• Possess appropriate licences to operate heavy
machinery – Classes 1 & 4.
• Ideally have experience in the operation of
heavy earth moving machinery.
• Be physically fit.
• Be reliable and trustworthy.
• Have a willingness to learn.
• Enjoy working as part of a productive team.
• The ability and willingness to work within
the variable timeframes required by the CWS
operation.
• A positive, friendly attitude and outlook.
The closing date for applications is 5.00pm on
Monday 28 February 2022.
Apply online www.wastemanagement.co.nz or to
obtain an application form and job description,
please contact:
Canterbury Waste Services
PO Box 142, Amberley 7441
Attention: Linda Chandler
or email: lindac@cws.co.nz or telephone
03 359 1800
At Waste Management, the health and safety of our people is
our highest priority. For this reason, we have introduced a policy
requiring all employees and visitors to be fully vaccinated for
COVID-19 within our offices and sites, unless an official medical
exemption applies. We have chosen to share this information
early in our hiring process, so that candidates can make an
informed choice. On this basis, as part of the application
process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status
with us.
Canterbury Waste Services has a Zero Tolerance to drugs and
alcohol in the workplace and undertakes pre employment and
random testing.
2457466
Situations Vacant
MachiniSt
/ Sewer
We are looking for an
experienced Sewer in
furniture re-upholstery
Somerfield
Upholstery Ltd
Wigram | Ph 021 251 6200 | 349 0456
Situations Vacant
Driver - Truck and Trailer
Canterbury Waste Services provides resource
recovery, waste transport and waste disposal
services in Canterbury.
We currently have an opportunity for an experienced
class 5 driver to join our friendly team based in
Christchurch. In this role, you will ensure the safe
and efficient operation of a hook-lift truck and trailer
unit (hook-lift training will be provided). We haul
waste from a number of Refuse Transfer Stations
from around the region, to the Kate Valley Landfill,
in North Canterbury.
We operate a fleet of late model trucks, fully equipped
with modern technology, and take great pride in
delivering an essential service to the residents and
businesses of Canterbury.
We are offering a position on our dedicated team
of professional drivers, where safety and full
compliance with road transport standards and
driving rules, are paramount.
We offer ongoing training and development, with
opportunities to grow and expand your driving
career.
If you are an experienced multi-skilled driver, then
we would like to hear from you.
You will need the following attributes:
• A valid class 5 licence with relevant driving
experience.
• Relevant transport industry knowledge and
experience.
• You will need to be physically fit .
• Have the ability to work both autonomously
and as part of a team.
• Be reliable and trustworthy.
• Have a willingness to learn.
• A positive, friendly attitude and outlook.
The closing date for applications is Saturday 26
February 2022.
Apply online www.wastemanagement.co.nz or to
obtain an application form and job description,
please contact:
Canterbury Waste Services
PO Box 142, Amberley 7441
Attention: Linda Chandler
or email: lindac@cws.co.nz or telephone
03 359 1800
At Waste Management, the health and safety of our people
is our highest priority. For this reason, we have introduced
a policy requiring all employees and visitors to be fully
vaccinated for COVID-19 within our offices and sites, unless
an official medical exemption applies. We have chosen to
share this information early in our hiring process, so that
candidates can make an informed choice. On this basis, as
part of the application process you will be asked to confirm
your vaccination status with us.
Canterbury Waste Services has a Zero Tolerance to drugs and
alcohol in the workplace and undertakes pre employment and
random testing.
2457577

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To add a listing, contact
Jo Fuller 03 364 7425 or
027 458 8590
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi
www.star.kiwi/whatson
CLUB OPEN DAILY FROM 9AM
RED
MASKS REQUIRED AT ALL TIMES,
UNLESS EATING OR DRINKING
COVID VACCINE CERTIFICATES,
(MY VACCINE PASS) REQUIRED
SECTION ACTIVITY, POOL,
SNOOKER, DARTS, & RAFFLES
ARE NOT PERMITTED
FACILITY OPERATIONS
UNDER RED
CELEBRATED virtuosos violinist &
composer Fiona Pears is amongst the
stellar line-up at the ITR's Sunset Sounds
this weekend.
Taking place across two separate rooms
in the Isaac eatre Royal, (e Stagehouse
and e Grand Bar), Sunset Sounds
incorporates fabulous food & beverage
with sensational local acts.
Starring in this weekend's lineup are:
Brendan Gregg (e Grand Bar) and
Reuben Derrick & Keith Petch (e
Stagehouse) from 6pm on Friday night -
and- Tumehe Rongonui (e Grand Bar)
and Dan Robertson & Fiona Pears (e
Stagehouse) from 6pm on Saturday night.
Go to premier.ticketek.co.nz for tickets
and more information.
PAVILION CAFE
OPEN DAILY 9AM-5PM | GREAT MENU
BREAKFAST MENU UNTIL 2PM
SHUTTLE VAN OPERATING
Monday 4-pm-9pm
Tuesday 3pm-9pm
Wednesday & Thursday 3pm-10pm
Friday & Saturday 2pm-12am
Sunday 3pm-9pm
SEPARATE FUNCTION & MEETING
SPACES for up to 100 people
available. call now to book.
We have 5x $100 Club vouchers
to give away on Friday 12 March.
To be in the draw - all you have
to do is renew your Hornby Club
membership before 11 March.
Senior Gold Card *Discounts
*Excludes Friday to Sunday Dinner
Bookings Essential PH 386 0088
@GardenRestaurantBuffet
9AM - 4PM 7 DAYS
TUESDAY:
CHICKEN NIBBLES
& CHIPS
WEDNESDAY:
ROAST MEAL
THURSDAY & FRIDAY:
FISH & CHIPS
SATURDAY:
CHICKEN NIBBLES & CHIPS
SUNDAY:
ROAST MEAL
Available 11.30am-2pm
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COFFEE
CLICK &
COLLECT
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*Membership is $34 per annum. Join now and
membership will run until 31 March 2022.
You do not have to attend the draw to win.
Come on down!
17 CARMEN RD. PH. 03 349 9026
WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ
RED = WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The Garden Hotel complex is complying with the Covid Protection Framework or
'Traffic Light System' as a Vaccine Pass Required Business.
Covid Vaccine Certificate (My Vaccine Pass) required for entry from everyone
aged 12 years and over. Masks are required.

Thursday February 17 2022 The Star 31
christchurch
GIG GUIDE
Thursday 17 to Wednesday 23 February 2022
12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Thursday
7.30pm - Kate Anastasiou. Friday
8.30pm - Traficante + Outcomes +
Layaround, free. Friday 25th Feb, 9pm -
Capgun Corp presents 4 Tha Cause,
tickets at eventbrite.com.
A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo
St: Thursday 7pm - NZ Songwriters in
the Round presents Songwriters' Open
Mic Night, all original material, free.
Friday 9pm - Gecho, Senica, &
Supercub (three moody, groovy,
sonically spectacular student bands),
free. Saturday - Closed for private event.
Sunday 4pm - Two hues of blues with
The Fabulous Blue Beats, & Instinct,
free. Monday 7pm - Quiz, free.
BLACK PEARL TAVERN, 9
Humphreys Dr, Ferrymead: Friday
7.30pm - Karaoke.
BRIDIE'S BAR, 401 Worcester St:
Saturday 6.30pm - Karaoke.
CHRISTCHURCH CASINO, 30
Victoria St: Friday 6pm - Rusila;
9.15pm - Rockabella. Saturday 6pm -
Natalie Elms; 9pm - Acoustic Solution.
CHRISTCHURCH FOLK MUSIC
CLUB, Irish Society Hall, 29
Domain Tce: Sunday 7.30pm - Ronél
Hunter with support Malarkey Irish
Band, cash door sales members $15/non
$20.
DARKROOM, 336 St Asaph St:
Thursday 7.30pm - Lads On Tour
Cabaret (award winning drag,
burlesque, comedy, dance, circus, &
music performers), tickets at eventfinda.
Friday 8pm - 'Heaven Knows I'm
Miserable Now', The Smiths music
night, free. Sunday 4pm - Rennie
Pearson
FAT EDDIES, 76 Hereford St:
Thursday 6pm - Ed's Jazz Club feat. Eat
My Shorts, tickets $10/$15; 8pm - Black
& Gold. Friday 7pm - Holly Kimber;
10pm - Castaway. Saturday 7pm - Mac
& TJ; 10pm - House of Groove. Tuesday
7pm - Live music. Wednesday 7pm -
Quiz.
ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL, 145
Gloucester St: Friday 6pm - Sunset
Sounds feat. Brendan Gregg (The
Stagehouse); Reuben Derrick & Keith
Petch (The Grand Bar), tickets at
ticketek. Saturday 6pm - Sunset Sounds
feat. Tumehe Rongonui (The
Stagehouse); Dan Robertson & Fiona
Pears (The Grand Bar), tickets at
ticketek.
KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay:
Friday 4th March, 7pm - Live music.
MAK TAVERN, 1276 Main North
Rd: Sunday 3pm - Level 6.
MICKY FINN'S, 85a Hereford St:
Friday 10.30pm - Isolde. Saturday
10.30pm - D'Sendantz.
SHARKEY'S BAR, 96 Hoon Hay
Rd: Thursday 7pm - Stand Up Comedy.
Friday - Free juke box. Saturday 7pm -
Karaoke. Sunday 3.30pm - Open Mic.
THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Thursday
7pm - Quiz. Friday 10pm - Shameless
Two. Saturday 10pm - Mama Rock.
Sunday 4pm - Elly Rydge.
THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd:
Saturday 5th Mar 8pm - Blowout
Comedy.
THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Thursday
7pm - Quiz.
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd:
Vaccine Pass required. Friday 9.30pm -
The Meaniez buskers style. Saturday
9.30pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke. Tuesday
7pm - Quiz. Wednesday 7.30pm -
Lance Kiwi Karaoke.
WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19
London St: Saturday 19th Feb, 9pm -
Casper with Lunar Intrudar, tickets at
eventfinda.co.nz. Thursday 24th Feb,
8pm - Blowout Comedy feat. Camille
Solari, tickets at eventfinda.co.nz
BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO
BOOK YOUR
TABLE NOW!
BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO
‘Famous for their roasts!’
SENIORS SPECIAL
Two courses: $
24
Soup/Roast or Roast/Dessert
Special available lunch only
Monday - Friday 12pm - 2.30pm
Conditions apply
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Kid’s Special
Two courses
Great Kids menu plus
designated play area.
$
13
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ
Open Monday to Friday from 6.30am and Saturday & Sunday from 8.30am - Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
THE ENTERTAINMENT HUB OF THE NORTH!
OPEN FROM 11AM
RENEW YOUR
MEMBERSHIP BY
31ST MARCH 2022
GO INTO THE
DRAW TO WIN
ONE OF TWO
58" TVs
DRAWN FRIDAY 1st APRIL
BETWEEN 6PM & 7PM
YOU MUST BE HERE TO WIN
LIVE MUSIC
Coming up
FRIDAY 4th MARCH
NEW BISTRO HOURS
Wednesday, Thursday
& Sunday
12pm-2pm &
4.30pm-7.30pm
Friday & Saturday
12pm-2pm & 4pm-8pm
CLOSED Monday & Tuesday
The
RACECOURSE HOTEL
& Motorlodge
118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,
Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150
www.racecoursehotel.co.nz
WE ARE NOW
OPERATING AS A
VACCINE PASS
REQUIRED BUSINESS
AS OUTLINED IN THE
'TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM'
(COVID PROTECTION
FRAMEWORK).
COVID VACCINE
CERTIFICATE
(MY VACCINE PASS)
REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
FROM EVERYONE AGED
12 YEARS AND OVER.
MASKS REQUIRED
WHEN NOT SEATED.
MAIN DOOR
ENTRANCE ONLY
TAB DOOR CLOSED
LIMITED 100 PEOPLE
IN MAIN/SPORTS BAR
POOL TABLES CLOSED
HOUSIE & QUIZ
STILL ON
POSTPONED EVENTS
DND TRIO
70s/80s PARTY
NEW DATE TBA
METHVEN RACES
NEW DATE 10 APRIL
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$10
BREAKFAST
SPECIAL
FREE RANGE EGGS
STREAKY BACON
HOMEMADE TOAST
COFFEE
85 Hereford St | Ph 03 374 9461
www.therockpool.co.nz

32 The Star Thursday February 17 2022
STYLE & QUALITY
FOR LESS
SUMMER SELL OUT
Palm Beach
Outdoor
SUMMER
SELL OUT
Piha Extension
Outdoor Table
WAS $2999
$ WAS $1899
2499
$
1699
Three Seater, two Single Seaters & Coffee
Marley Outdoor Dining Chair
Avalible in Black or White
WAS $179
$
129
SUMMER
SELL OUT
Raglan Egg Chair
Available in:
Chocolate,
Black, White
Summer
SELLOUT
— NOW ON —
SUMMER
SELL OUT
Tekapo Outdoor Dining
11 Piece Extension
WAS $699
$
599
WAS $2399
$
2199
When sold separately
Tekapo Table $1099 $999
Tekapo Chair $169 $129
SUMMER
SELL OUT
Elm
Collection
Royal Queen Bed
Mattress not included
WAS $949
$
779
Table Large $1249 $1159
Table Small $759 $699
Buffet $1559 $1439
SUMMER
WAS $849
$
749
SELL OUT
SUMMER
Astana
Chair
SELL OUT SUMMER
SELL OUT
Isla
Chair
Norway Chair
WAS $879
$
769
Dublin Chair
Lending criteria, $50 Annual Account Fee, fees,
Lending criteria, $50 Annual Account Fee, fees, Ts&Cs apply. Standard Interest Rate
(currently 25.99%p.a.) applies to any outstanding balance at end of interest free period.
Ts&Cs apply. Standard Interest Rate
Offer ends 1st March 2022.
(currently 25.99%p.a.) applies to any outstanding
balance at end of interest free period.
Offer ends 1st March 2022.
WAS $799
$
699
Available in
Green, Grey,
Red and Royal.
WAS $799
$
699
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