Nor'West News: March 31, 2022

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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2022
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Ring a ding ding, who
has stolen this thing?
Church
bell taken
from roof
• By Fiona Ellis
THE RING of the 154-yearold
bell was a familiar sound
to Patsy Restieaux, who was
baptised, confirmed and married
at St Mary’s Anglican Church in
Halswell.
However, with a police investigation
yet to yield results six
weeks after the bell was stolen,
the church’s oldest parishioner is
doubtful it will be returned.
“We’re ever-hopeful, but
I doubt it really. We’ll probably
have to get a new one,” the
89-year-old said.
The 100kg bell was cast in
bronze with a wrought iron
clapper.
Patsy had enjoyed its sound
as she walked into the Sunday
service, and said stealing it was
irreverent.
“We’re all devastated.”
Made by J. Warner and Sons,
London, the bell is inscribed
with the words “St Mary’s
Halswell, gift of friends at home
1868.”
A police spokesperson said
the matter remained open, but
there were no immediate lines of
inquiry.
A 50kg cast iron bell was also
stolen from St Mary’s Anglican
Church in Springston in mid-
February.
“Police would keep an open
mind as to any connections
between similar thefts in the
area around the same time,” the
spokesperson said.
Parish administrator Lynda
van Barneveld said the theft of
the bell was very odd.
“Obviously it was very carefully
executed, you don’t just
drop a 100-kilo bell off the roof
without thinking that through.”
At least 10m high, the roof was
undamaged.
“There was just one very sad
looking azalea bush at the bottom
that the bell landed on.”
Although Barneveld was unsure
if the theft was connected to
BEFORE: The
100kg bronze
bell stolen
last month
had been a
feature of St
Mary’s Anglican
Church in
Halswell for
more than
150 years.
the one in Springston, she found
the timing strange.
“Ours had gone missing pretty
much the same week.
“It’s not something you hear
of every day, that church bells go
walkabout.
“We’re just waiting for hopefully
the police to track it down
or tell us that they can’t find it so
that we can acquire another one,
which I’m sure is not going to be
an easy thing to do.”
The ideal outcome would be
for the bell to be returned, and
she encouraged anyone who
could help to solve the mystery
to reach out.
Police can be contacted by
phoning 105 and quoting file
number 220220/9488.
If the bell had not been melted
down, it could suddenly turn up
somewhere, Barneveld said.
“Someone might be trying
to sell it or take it to the scrap
merchant.”
DEVASTATED: Patsy Restieaux, 89, was baptised,
confirmed and married at St Mary’s Anglican Church,
and misses the sound of the bell ringing as she walks into
the Sunday service.
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​A bid to bring the native birds back
• By Fiona Ellis
A PROJECT has been launched
to bring more native birds and
other species to the Riccarton
area.
Predator Free Riccarton’s Jade
Humphrey is behind the push
for more trapping, both in public
reserves private properties.
The Geology PhD student is
waiting to hear back on a $5000
funding application that would
help people to trap rats from
their own back yards.
If its Predator Free New Zeland
funding bid is successful,
it would subsidise traps or the
materials to make them.
“At the moment you can buy a
trap for $40,” Humphrey said.
“It’s quite a diverse area, Riccarton,
and that might not be
affordable for everyone.”
The traps would target rats,
although in future the group
would also like to target possums,
hedgehogs and other pests.
The group is also supplementing
trapping work by doing
clean-ups of rubbish in public
spaces that would attract rats,
and by weeding out invasive
species threatening native plants
that are food sources for native
birds.
While people should nurture
wildlife, she also believed wildlife
nurtured people.
“Especially with Covid, and
lockdown and being overwhelmed
in isolation, going
out into those green spaces and
hearing our native bird sounds,
it’s just incredible.
The project was also about
connecting the community, she
said.
The group was co-ordinating
with Canterbury University
groups including the Student
Volunteer Army, schools, the
Riccarton Community Patrol,
and Riccarton Bush ranger Mike
Steenson.
“With Riccarton Bush we’re
in the process of putting all
their traps that they’ve already
employed onto our project, so we
will manage them.”
“It’s really awesome to have
[Mike] on board.”
Predator Free Riccarton was
also in the process of getting permission
to trap in Corfe Reserve
and hoped this would be the first
of many.
The group had created a trap.
nz site for people to report their
progress, and also had a facebook
site encouraging people to
reach out.
“A lot of the rat trapping is
actually getting people reporting:
When do you rebait your
trap, when do you reset your trap.
“We can’t just go and hand out
TRAPPING:
Predator Free
Riccarton’s Jade
Humphrey and
Riccarton Bush
park ranger
Mike Steenson
are working
to eliminate
predators
threatening
native species
in the Riccarton
area.
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traps to people, we need to make
sure we’ve got systems in place.”
The group was aligned with
Predator Free 2050, a government
drive to eradicate the most
damaging introduced predators.
“It’s a very ambitious goal
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like this.
“By the end of the year, I’d love
to see maybe 500 traps out in the
community,’’ Humphrey said.
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Support worker: Better access to
landing needed for the disabled
• By Emily Moorhouse
A SUPPORT worker is frustrated
with the lack of accessibility for
disabled people at the recently
opened Dallington Landing.
Amanda Ross went to take
her children and a client to the
Dallington Landing to have a
fish-and-chip picnic, but was
disappointed with the lack
of parking close-by to allow
disabled people easy access.
Unable to leave her young
children unattended while she
tried to find a car park, Ross had
to resort to parking partly on the
cycle lane along Gayhurst Rd.
“It just seems ridiculous to have
no parking there at all,” she said.
“It stops the disability
community being able to enjoy
the places that everyone else can
enjoy really.”
Ross said there was parking at
the other end of the bridge, but
this was uphill which wouldn’t be
ideal for one of her clients.
“It’s hard enough sometimes
to get to different places with
disabled people and then you feel
kind of excluded because you
can’t go everywhere,” she said.
“It would be nice to see them
put in some parking and make
them more accessible because it’s
quite a nice place there.”
The city council said after
receiving community feedback
the option for car parking at
Rupert Pl was removed.
“We’ve listened to what the
public has told us and made
some key changes to the design,
usability and amenities of the
Dallington Landing,” said
city council head of parks
Andrew Rutledge.
Coastal-Burwood Community
Board chairman Kelly Barber
said while car parking at the
landing wasn’t something he
had thought much about, it
could possibly be added in the
future.
“The landings have been done
quite early,” he said. “There’s a
lot more development to go in
the red zone and so I guess it’s
something that could be added
down the track. I don’t know
if it’s going to be in the short
term.”
Barber said the footbridges
were the first phases of
development and called it a
“watch-this-space” project.
“These landings and these
bridges are amongst the first
PARKING: Amanda Ross (right) took
her client Kayla Simpson to the
recently opened Dallington Landing,
but was disappointed with the lack of
accessibility for disabled people.
pieces of infrastructure being put
in,” he said. “I’m sure down the
track there will be greater access.”
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New suburban hotspot for street art
SYDENHAM is becoming
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The central city has become
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building owners and others have
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Art Gallery and various city
council funds.
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said city council principal community
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“It’s always had a creative scene
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galleries in the area, including Fiksate
Studio and Gallery, dedicated
to street and contemporary urban
art. It’s becoming a real hub.”
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bounded by Moorhouse Ave,
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CREATIVE: Some of the better-known street art on offer in Sydenham.
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Ingredients
Serves 10-12
4 peaches, cut into 3mm slices
75g cane sugar
1 orange, zest
150gm butter, room temperature
150gm cane sugar
3 eggs
90gm ground almonds
90gm desiccated coconut
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
Directions
Grease and line a 20cm round
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Ingredients
Serves 12
4 eggs, separated
100gm sugar, plus 2 tbsp
1 tsp vanilla extract
275gm flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground ginger
½ cup water
½ cup light olive oil
½ lemon, juice
Pinch of salt
500gm (6) apricots, halved,
stones discarded
Directions
Grease and line a square 20cm
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Preheat oven 180 deg C.
Whisk the egg yolks with the
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The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented
which letters are represented by the other numbers. As you get the
by the other numbers. As you get the letters, enter them into
letters, write them into the main grid and the reference grid. Decoder
the main grid, and the reference grid. To keep track of the
uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.
letters you have found, cross them off the alphabet provided.
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7 8 9 12 20 12 16 18 11 7 1 12
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by the other numbers. As you get the letters, enter them into
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letters you have found, cross them off the alphabet provided.
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