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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

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Song hits charts with<br />

students on backup<br />

PERFORMERS: Teacher Henare Kaa with Rangi Ruru Girls’ School students Lucy Aitken, Victoria Anderson and Meg<br />

Crump. The students sang alongside Kaa at last month’s Sparks in the Park.<br />

PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN​<br />

• By Fiona Ellis<br />

HENARE KAA has achieved a<br />

career milestone with backup<br />

from musically-minded Rangi<br />

Ruru Girls’ School students.<br />

For the first time, the<br />

musician’s band, Dillastrate,<br />

has made it into the official New<br />

Zealand music charts, with<br />

Tāwara Ana coming in at No.<br />

10 on the Te Reo Māori singles<br />

chart and No. 12 on the Hot NZ<br />

singles chart.<br />

Kaa, who teaches contemporary<br />

music at the school,<br />

said his year 13 students did<br />

group vocal work for the single,<br />

produced by Black Comet and<br />

featuring Laughton Kora.<br />

• Turn to page 4<br />

EntriEs now opEn!<br />

Police in<br />

dark over<br />

how often<br />

busy roads<br />

patrolled<br />

• By Fiona Ellis<br />

POLICE DO not know how often<br />

they patrolled on Cranford St<br />

and the Christchurch Northern<br />

Corridor last year.<br />

Police presence was raised<br />

as a concern by Papanui-Innes<br />

Community Board member Ali<br />

Jones, who last year observed<br />

she never saw police on these<br />

roads.<br />

Police data obtained under the<br />

Official Information Act shows<br />

five checkpoints were held on<br />

Cranford St in 2021, one in May,<br />

July and October and two in<br />

August, while a directed patrol<br />

took place in October.<br />

However, this does not<br />

account for all police presence<br />

on Cranford St last year, a police<br />

spokesperson told Nor’West <strong>News</strong>.<br />

Police recorded their activities<br />

using codes, but many road<br />

patrol codes were also used for<br />

other activities, while different<br />

codes were sometimes used when<br />

patrolling.<br />

“Directed patrols may also be<br />

for a certain area that includes the<br />

specified roads, but the location<br />

may be recorded as another road<br />

within the area.<br />

“A unit that is travelling along<br />

the road to an enquiry or other<br />

event is technically patrolling<br />

along the road as well, however,<br />

this is not recorded.”<br />

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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 3<br />

View board meetings online<br />

• By Fiona Ellis<br />

COMMUNITY board meetings<br />

will now be viewable on YouTube<br />

as the city council reverses<br />

its earlier refusal to record<br />

meetings.<br />

Community board meetings<br />

will be held via Zoom in red<br />

alert level, with live stream recordings<br />

posted to the site.<br />

The city<br />

council<br />

declined<br />

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />

Community<br />

Board member<br />

Andrei Moore’s<br />

Andrei<br />

Moore<br />

request to<br />

have meeting<br />

recordings<br />

made available<br />

online last October, citing a lack<br />

of resources.<br />

Pandemic restrictions prevented<br />

the public from attending<br />

in-person meetings last year,<br />

yet the board also encountered<br />

capacity problems as members<br />

of the public attempted to attend<br />

meetings Zoom.<br />

This was the “ideal outcome”,<br />

Moore said.<br />

“I was ready to ask permission<br />

to record again, but by the time I<br />

could do that I got this news that<br />

we got this news that we were going<br />

to do live stream recording.”<br />

Streaming meetings to<br />

YouTube would make them<br />

accessible to people who could<br />

not watch them live, and would<br />

enable the public to see<br />

how decisions were made,<br />

he said.<br />

“It’s a reasonably simple<br />

thing to offer and facilitate,<br />

and an important<br />

one as well.<br />

“To be honest, I was<br />

more surprised that we<br />

were struggling to get it in<br />

the first place.”<br />

Papanui-Innes Community<br />

Board chairwoman Emma<br />

Emma<br />

Norrish<br />

Norrish said live streaming,<br />

something the Papanui-Innes<br />

board already undertook<br />

independently, was<br />

an easy way to make<br />

decision making more<br />

transparent.<br />

“I hope it is something<br />

which will continue to be<br />

done by all boards when<br />

we go back to meeting in<br />

person,” she said.<br />

Fendalton-Waimairi-<br />

Harewood Community<br />

Board chairwoman Bridget Williams<br />

hoped the ease of watching<br />

a live stream would lead to an<br />

increase in the number of people<br />

actively engaged in community<br />

issues.<br />

“It’s a wonderful thing to give<br />

more accessibility,” she said.<br />

City council head of community<br />

support and partnerships<br />

John Filsell said the council was<br />

in the process of setting up a<br />

YouTube channel for each community<br />

board.<br />

“It is our intention to live<br />

stream all community board<br />

meetings to YouTube in the<br />

current red traffic light setting,”<br />

Filsell said.<br />

Not all the rooms used to host<br />

community board meetings had<br />

the technology to stream a good<br />

quality video, he said.<br />

However, it was not only members<br />

of the public who would be<br />

relegated to online attendance.<br />

Board members would not be<br />

meeting physically in red alert<br />

level.<br />

“With members of meetings<br />

attending via a device, we believe<br />

the obstacle of a poor quality<br />

stream will be overcome.”<br />

It was possible community<br />

board meetings would continue<br />

to be live-streamed in lower alert<br />

levels in spite of the technical issues<br />

with some meeting rooms.<br />

“Staff will be investigating<br />

options to enable this in the<br />

future when community boards<br />

physically meet in the same space.”<br />

In Brief<br />

NO APPEAL AFTER<br />

FACILITY DECLINED<br />

THe Department of Corrections<br />

has confirmed it will not appeal<br />

the decision to decline consent<br />

for the planned accommodation<br />

facility at Bristol St. The proposal<br />

would have seen up to 12 men<br />

serving sentences of home<br />

detention while participating in a<br />

violence-prevention programme.<br />

In January, the Bristol Street<br />

Resource Consent Hearing panel<br />

declined to grant resource consent<br />

for the Bristol St facility, following<br />

a hearing in November. Acting<br />

southern regional commissioner<br />

Chris O’Brien-Smith said Kāinga<br />

Ora remains the property owner<br />

and will now take the time to<br />

consider options for the site.<br />

Corrections remained committed<br />

to pursuing the delivery of<br />

supported accommodation<br />

services, O’Brien-Smith said.<br />

FUNDING FOR CLUB<br />

THe Burnside Park Tennis Club<br />

is set to benefit from a $15,000<br />

grant towards the replacement of<br />

its clubhouse roof. The Fendalton-<br />

Waimairi-Harewood Community<br />

Board approved the grant<br />

from its 2021-22 discretionary<br />

response fund during a meeting<br />

on Monday. The board also<br />

approved a grant of $500 from<br />

its 2021-<strong>2022</strong> youth development<br />

fund to support judo competitor<br />

Hayley Mackey to take part in<br />

tournaments in Europe and<br />

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We are thrilled to announce that we will be able<br />

to add “MRI” to our list of patient services from<br />

the middle of this year. McMaster & Heap have<br />

teamed up with Gareth and Pacific Radiology<br />

to bring this cutting edge technology to our<br />

patients and make it more easily available to<br />

other NZL veterinarians and their patients.<br />

We have always offered MRI through Pacific<br />

Radiology at Forte Health for a number of years<br />

now. The process has involved getting a slot for<br />

a pet patient at the end of the night (only some<br />

nights per week) when the radiographers have<br />

finished with their human clients. The owner<br />

meets me at Forte Health and we sedate the<br />

patient, perform the MRI, the whole process<br />

taking about 90 minutes. Once we have the<br />

MRI up and running, owners can drop their pets<br />

off at the clinic for the day until the procedure<br />

is performed and the animal is awake. Any<br />

veterinarians can bring their patients as well and<br />

utilise this service.<br />

Bringing this leading edge diagnostic<br />

technology into a clinic setting means that MRI<br />

is more accessible to pet patients 5 days a week.<br />

Basically any animal that can fit into the scanner<br />

(less than 180cm in circumference), can undergo<br />

an MRI as long as sedated, as they need to be<br />

very still. Monitoring equipment allows us to<br />

make sure they are okay once inside the scanner.<br />

As well as using this piece of equipment for cats<br />

and dogs, large animals, wildlife, exotic animals<br />

and zoo animals may take advantage of MRI at<br />

McMaster & Heap. It also may have benefits in<br />

research.<br />

MRI is very safe for the animal and is the best<br />

imaging modality available to investigate an<br />

animals brain, spine and joints. MRI can be<br />

crucial in surgical planning (Spinal surgery,<br />

Brain surgery). We anticipate urgent cases<br />

McMaster & Heap<br />

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McMaster & Heap Vets<br />

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plans. We use specialist radiographers to<br />

interpret the hundreds of MRI images taken and<br />

send us a report on their findings.<br />

Being the first private practice in the country<br />

offering MRI services is very exciting for us. Steve<br />

and I have strived over the past 30 years to give<br />

companion animals the very best veterinary<br />

healthcare has to offer - in deliverance of care,<br />

cutting edge diagnostics and carefully thought<br />

out, managed treatment plans. Not to mention<br />

the skill set and decades of experience amassed<br />

in the veterinary team, and not forgetting the<br />

tremendous support and care given by our<br />

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Dr Michele McMaster<br />

Singles charts surprise<br />

with song Tāwara Ana<br />

• From page 1<br />

“There was a little bit of guidance, but<br />

there was some improvising,” Kaa said.<br />

To be notified that Tāwara Ana had<br />

made the national music charts was a<br />

great surprise, he said.<br />

“You don’t know until it happens. You<br />

never can guess what song is going to do<br />

it.<br />

“The feeling was awesome because to be<br />

on the charts is one thing, but to be on the<br />

charts for a song in te reo Māori, that was<br />

exciting.”<br />

Kaa’s music class was an elective course,<br />

and pupils had a passion that reminded<br />

him of himself at a similar age.<br />

However, his students were getting an<br />

early taste of performing that he never<br />

had, starting music at the relatively late<br />

age of 18.<br />

Some joined Dillastrate onstage at<br />

Sparks in the Park last month, performing<br />

Tāwara Ana.<br />

It was a translation of a song Kaa – an<br />

ambassador for ADHD – wrote called<br />

‘Party In My Head’.<br />

“[Its] about the quirkiness and some<br />

of the positivity of having the party in<br />

my head, and other people that have that<br />

similar party in their head can understand,<br />

but when we released it the reaction<br />

was on a more broad sense.”<br />

The translated version of the song was<br />

added to the Waiata Anthems playlist,<br />

celebrating bilingual New Zealand music.<br />

“From there, it’s just gone from strength<br />

to strength.<br />

“That’s led us to find our way, which<br />

Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

RECORDING: Students from Rangi<br />

Ruru Girls’ School sang backup on<br />

the single Tāwara Ana by Dillastrate.<br />

is composing Māori music.”<br />

Eight weeks ago, Kaa’s daughter Harriet<br />

was born, and the experience of becoming<br />

a father was the subject of his new song,<br />

Taku Aroha.<br />

Once again his students would be<br />

involved in the recording, he said.<br />

“It is written and it’s two weeks from<br />

going into the studio.”<br />

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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 5<br />

Cyclist unhappy with process<br />

• By Fiona Ellis<br />

A BRYNDWR resident says his<br />

objections to the Nor’West Arc<br />

cycleway have “fallen on deaf<br />

ears” as the city council says it<br />

will not reopen consultation on<br />

the third and final section of the<br />

cycleway.<br />

A keen cyclist Alister<br />

Metherell believes alternative<br />

plans for the intersection of<br />

Aorangi Rd and Wairakei Rd<br />

junction, where through traffic<br />

is set to be blocked, were not<br />

presented properly.<br />

Alternative designs for the<br />

intersection were not circulated<br />

to local houses, he said.<br />

“The most galling aspect<br />

was that the three options for<br />

the intersection were never<br />

presented to the public as part of<br />

the consultation documents.”<br />

However, city council<br />

head of transport and waste<br />

management Lynette Ellis<br />

said a standard and detailed<br />

consultation process was<br />

followed.<br />

All alternative designs were<br />

discussed with the hearings panel<br />

and staff provided commentary<br />

on the merits and relative safety of<br />

the options, she said.<br />

Metherell is concerned the<br />

current plan would incentivise<br />

u-turns on Wairakei Rd and<br />

create problems on other roads<br />

and intersections.<br />

“A fully signalised intersection<br />

would be a considerably better<br />

solution and dramatically<br />

improve safety for all users,” he<br />

said.<br />

Metherell made submissions<br />

to the city council, including his<br />

own design for the intersection,<br />

but felt his arguments were not<br />

given consideration.<br />

Ellis said all submissions<br />

were considered by staff and<br />

modifications were made to the<br />

designs for inclusion in the staff<br />

report to the hearings panel.<br />

“The hearings panel<br />

considered all of these modified<br />

designs and all submissions<br />

made by the public,” she said.<br />

“The findings of the hearings<br />

panel were presented to the<br />

urban development and<br />

transport committee for a<br />

decision on the preferred<br />

option recommended<br />

by staff.<br />

“This preferred option<br />

was approved by the urban<br />

development and transport<br />

committee to proceed to detailed<br />

design.<br />

“As a result of this process<br />

council will not consider<br />

re-opening consultation.”<br />

HAVE YOUR SAY: Should<br />

the final section of the<br />

Nor’West Arc cycleway<br />

be reopened for public<br />

consultation? Email fiona.<br />

ellis@starmedia<br />

CONCERNED: Cyclist Alister Metherell feels the city council<br />

has not engaged sufficiently with the public over the<br />

design of the third and final section of the Nor’West<br />

Arc cycleway.<br />

PHOTO: STARMEDIA<br />

‘Let’s get<br />

on with it’<br />

says Jones<br />

• From page 1<br />

Police issued 341 speeding<br />

tickets on Cranford St last year.<br />

In an area with a speed limit of<br />

50km/h, one car allegedly reached<br />

speeds of between 91-100km/h.<br />

In the same speed zone, six<br />

drivers were allegedly travelling<br />

between 81-90km/h, 37 between<br />

71-80km/h, 252 between<br />

61-70km/h and 40 between 51-<br />

60km/h.<br />

In an area with a speed limit<br />

of 30km/h, four drivers allegedly<br />

reached speeds between 41-<br />

50km/h, and one between 51 and<br />

60km/h.<br />

So far this year police have<br />

records of two checkpoints and<br />

one directed patrol occurring in<br />

Cranford St last month.<br />

Records for the CNC were<br />

unavailable.<br />

The board had raised patrolling<br />

issues both at meetings with<br />

police and in correspondence,<br />

Jones said.<br />

“I think what’s important is<br />

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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

Your rare chance to have a pew<br />

• By Fiona Ellis<br />

THOSE SEEKING some unusual decor<br />

may have their prayers answered at<br />

a garage sale in Upper Riccarton on<br />

Saturday.<br />

More than half the pews from St Peter’s<br />

Anglican Church are being sold off as part<br />

of a much-needed fundraising sale taking<br />

place at the Church Corner site.<br />

Parishioners’ warden Jo Winfield said<br />

the pews were no longer needed following<br />

changes to the church, which was badly<br />

damaged in the <strong>February</strong> 22, 2011,<br />

earthquake.<br />

It reopened last <strong>February</strong> following a<br />

restoration project costing about $4 million.<br />

“We have put back some [pews], but<br />

we’ve got some leftover. We can’t put them<br />

back because we’ve got chairs in there as<br />

well,” Winfield said.<br />

“Chairs are more flexible, we can change<br />

things around and move things around<br />

better.”<br />

The first church at the site was opened<br />

in 1858, and although Winfield was uncertain<br />

when the pews were installed, she<br />

estimated them to be at least 100-yearsold.<br />

“They were certainly there for a very,<br />

very long time.”<br />

The restored church was “absolutely<br />

incredible”, she said.<br />

“We’re loving the space and really utilising<br />

it thoroughly. We’ve opened up again<br />

now and we’re very, very happy.<br />

Up to 20 pews would be for sale in a<br />

range of sizes.<br />

The largest seated about 10 people, while<br />

the smaller ones seated four or five, she<br />

said.<br />

A wide range of second-hand furniture<br />

and other items in good condition would<br />

also be for sale, including other furniture<br />

the church accumulated in the three years<br />

since the sale was last held.<br />

Once a twice-yearly staple, the garage<br />

sale had not been held since the outbreak<br />

of the Covid-19 pandemic.<br />

Previous sales raised up to $7000, an essential<br />

contribution to parish finances.<br />

“We have noticed the decrease in funds<br />

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something.”<br />

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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

Apt outcome for Māori word find<br />

• By Emily Moorhouse<br />

WHEN Jo Zervos isn’t attending<br />

community board meetings, she’s<br />

developing an app to promote<br />

Māori learning.<br />

The Coastal-Burwood<br />

Community Board member<br />

recently started hew own<br />

business Jojahawa Ltd, launching<br />

a mobile app ‘Māori Word Find<br />

& Learn’.<br />

Zervos began creating Māori<br />

word finds about 30 years ago<br />

for her younger cousin who liked<br />

doing puzzles.<br />

Zervos has always had an<br />

interest in the Māori language<br />

and remembers travelling around<br />

the country with her parents<br />

when she was younger.<br />

“I remember my parents saying<br />

maunga is mountain and nui is<br />

big and that’s why it’s called Mt<br />

Maunganui,” Zervos said.<br />

“I thought that was cool. I’ve<br />

always liked how place names<br />

are made up with words that<br />

describe them.”<br />

Zervos admitted she got a bit<br />

“carried away” with the word<br />

finds and started creating pages<br />

and pages before taking a break<br />

to have kids.<br />

Soon after, she noticed te reo<br />

Māori being encouraged in her<br />

children’s kindergarten and<br />

decided to continue with her<br />

word finds, only this time typing<br />

them out on the computer.<br />

This was difficult as in the early<br />

2000s there weren’t many layouts<br />

to follow, meaning she had to<br />

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space.<br />

“It was quite a long process<br />

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each other,” she said. “[Once]<br />

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thought, oh I could get them<br />

made into books.”<br />

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time, Zervos ended up with<br />

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companies.<br />

One of the companies told<br />

her they would trial books of<br />

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need to be edited by someone<br />

fluent in te reo Māori.<br />

“There was no way to look for<br />

people on the internet,” Zervos<br />

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can do now.”<br />

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They sat in the cupboard for 20<br />

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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

Milestone celebrated<br />

• By Fiona Ellis<br />

WHEN NGAIRIE Van<br />

Grondelle joined the Halswell<br />

Pottery Group as a foundation<br />

member, she never imagined the<br />

the group would still be running<br />

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exhibition, she said.<br />

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the clubrooms, and visitors were<br />

also able to see the group’s range<br />

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which required stoking every<br />

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stood out for Ngairie as a highlight.<br />

“People just came out, it was<br />

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until we closed, there were<br />

people in large groups viewing<br />

the pots.”<br />

ANNIVERSARY: Katrina Wilke with one of her bowls at the<br />

Halswell Pottery Group’s 50th-anniversary exhibition, beside<br />

unique works by sculptor Jane Whales.<br />

Visitors were also interested in<br />

learning pottery with the group,<br />

to the point where the waitlist<br />

sometimes had to be closed, she<br />

said.<br />

“We get people coming<br />

back, and coming back, and<br />

CRAFT:<br />

Some of<br />

the earliest<br />

group members.<br />

(From<br />

left) – Ngairie<br />

Van Grondelle,<br />

Gaye<br />

Morton and<br />

Averil Cave.<br />

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coming back.”<br />

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•For the tomato rice<br />

½ red pepper<br />

1 Tbsp vegetable oil<br />

150g long-grain white rice<br />

250ml water<br />

Generous pinch of salt<br />

1 Tbsp tomato puree<br />

•For the chorizo<br />

½ red onion<br />

½ red pepper<br />

1 x 400g tin kidney beans<br />

100g plain flour<br />

50g stale bread<br />

30g sultanas<br />

2 tsp smoked paprika<br />

1 tsp garlic powder<br />

1 tsp ground cinnamon<br />

1 tsp ground coriander<br />

1 tsp ground cumin<br />

2 tsp soy sauce<br />

Handful of fresh coriander<br />

Salt and black pepper<br />

2 Tbsp vegetable oil<br />

•For the green beans<br />

120g green beans<br />

12 Tbsp wine or beer<br />

Salt<br />

•For the tomato and apple salsa<br />

3 large ripe tomatoes<br />

1 apple<br />

½ red onion<br />

Pinch of salt<br />

Pinch of dried chilli flakes<br />

Dash apple cider vinegar<br />

½ lime<br />

Handful of fresh coriander leaves<br />

•To serve<br />

½ lime<br />

16 small soft corn tortillas<br />

•Before you start<br />

Medium saucepan with a lid on a<br />

medium heat<br />

2 clean tea towels<br />

Food processor<br />

Frying pan with a lid<br />

Small saucepan with a lid<br />

Directions<br />

Make the tomato rice: Trim<br />

and finely dice the red pepper.<br />

Heat the oil in the saucepan and<br />

add half of the diced pepper. Stir<br />

and turn the heat down to low.<br />

Rinse the rice until the water<br />

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with the water, salt and tomato<br />

puree. Stir to combine. Increase<br />

the heat, cover and bring to the<br />

boil. Once the water is boiling,<br />

reduce the heat again and cook<br />

on low for another 10min. Take<br />

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rice with a fork.<br />

Make the chorizo: Peel and<br />

roughly chop the onion. Roughly<br />

chop the pepper. Drain and<br />

rinse the kidney beans. Add all<br />

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the vegetable oil to the food<br />

processor with a pinch of salt<br />

and pepper. Blitz to a thick,<br />

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