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Ring a ding ding, who<br />
has stolen this thing?<br />
Church<br />
bell taken<br />
from roof<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
THE RING of the 154-yearold<br />
bell was a familiar sound<br />
to Patsy Restieaux, who was<br />
baptised, confirmed and married<br />
at St Mary’s Anglican Church in<br />
Halswell.<br />
However, with a police investigation<br />
yet to yield results six<br />
weeks after the bell was stolen,<br />
the church’s oldest parishioner is<br />
doubtful it will be returned.<br />
“We’re ever-hopeful, but<br />
I doubt it really. We’ll probably<br />
have to get a new one,” the<br />
89-year-old said.<br />
The 100kg bell was cast in<br />
bronze with a wrought iron<br />
clapper.<br />
Patsy had enjoyed its sound<br />
as she walked into the Sunday<br />
service, and said stealing it was<br />
irreverent.<br />
“We’re all devastated.”<br />
Made by J. Warner and Sons,<br />
London, the bell is inscribed<br />
with the words “St Mary’s<br />
Halswell, gift of friends at home<br />
1868.”<br />
A police spokesperson said<br />
the matter remained open, but<br />
there were no immediate lines of<br />
inquiry.<br />
A 50kg cast iron bell was also<br />
stolen from St Mary’s Anglican<br />
Church in Springston in mid-<br />
February.<br />
“Police would keep an open<br />
mind as to any connections<br />
between similar thefts in the<br />
area around the same time,” the<br />
spokesperson said.<br />
Parish administrator Lynda<br />
van Barneveld said the theft of<br />
the bell was very odd.<br />
“Obviously it was very carefully<br />
executed, you don’t just<br />
drop a 100-kilo bell off the roof<br />
without thinking that through.”<br />
At least 10m high, the roof was<br />
undamaged.<br />
“There was just one very sad<br />
looking azalea bush at the bottom<br />
that the bell landed on.”<br />
Although Barneveld was unsure<br />
if the theft was connected to<br />
BEFORE: The<br />
100kg bronze<br />
bell stolen<br />
last month<br />
had been a<br />
feature of St<br />
Mary’s Anglican<br />
Church in<br />
Halswell for<br />
more than<br />
150 years.<br />
the one in Springston, she found<br />
the timing strange.<br />
“Ours had gone missing pretty<br />
much the same week.<br />
“It’s not something you hear<br />
of every day, that church bells go<br />
walkabout.<br />
“We’re just waiting for hopefully<br />
the police to track it down<br />
or tell us that they can’t find it so<br />
that we can acquire another one,<br />
which I’m sure is not going to be<br />
an easy thing to do.”<br />
The ideal outcome would be<br />
for the bell to be returned, and<br />
she encouraged anyone who<br />
could help to solve the mystery<br />
to reach out.<br />
Police can be contacted by<br />
phoning 105 and quoting file<br />
number 2<strong>2022</strong>0/9488.<br />
If the bell had not been melted<br />
down, it could suddenly turn up<br />
somewhere, Barneveld said.<br />
“Someone might be trying<br />
to sell it or take it to the scrap<br />
merchant.”<br />
DEVASTATED: Patsy Restieaux, 89, was baptised,<br />
confirmed and married at St Mary’s Anglican Church,<br />
and misses the sound of the bell ringing as she walks into<br />
the Sunday service.<br />
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A bid to bring the native birds back<br />
• By Fiona Ellis<br />
A PROJECT has been launched<br />
to bring more native birds and<br />
other species to the Riccarton<br />
area.<br />
Predator Free Riccarton’s Jade<br />
Humphrey is behind the push<br />
for more trapping, both in public<br />
reserves private properties.<br />
The Geology PhD student is<br />
waiting to hear back on a $5000<br />
funding application that would<br />
help people to trap rats from<br />
their own back yards.<br />
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funding bid is successful,<br />
it would subsidise traps or the<br />
materials to make them.<br />
“At the moment you can buy a<br />
trap for $40,” Humphrey said.<br />
“It’s quite a diverse area, Riccarton,<br />
and that might not be<br />
affordable for everyone.”<br />
The traps would target rats,<br />
although in future the group<br />
would also like to target possums,<br />
hedgehogs and other pests.<br />
The group is also supplementing<br />
trapping work by doing<br />
clean-ups of rubbish in public<br />
spaces that would attract rats,<br />
and by weeding out invasive<br />
species threatening native plants<br />
that are food sources for native<br />
birds.<br />
While people should nurture<br />
wildlife, she also believed wildlife<br />
nurtured people.<br />
“Especially with Covid, and<br />
lockdown and being overwhelmed<br />
in isolation, going<br />
out into those green spaces and<br />
hearing our native bird sounds,<br />
it’s just incredible.<br />
The project was also about<br />
connecting the community, she<br />
said.<br />
The group was co-ordinating<br />
with Canterbury University<br />
groups including the Student<br />
Volunteer Army, schools, the<br />
Riccarton Community Patrol,<br />
and Riccarton Bush ranger Mike<br />
Steenson.<br />
“With Riccarton Bush we’re<br />
in the process of putting all<br />
their traps that they’ve already<br />
employed onto our project, so we<br />
will manage them.”<br />
“It’s really awesome to have<br />
[Mike] on board.”<br />
Predator Free Riccarton was<br />
also in the process of getting permission<br />
to trap in Corfe Reserve<br />
and hoped this would be the first<br />
of many.<br />
The group had created a trap.<br />
nz site for people to report their<br />
progress, and also had a facebook<br />
site encouraging people to<br />
reach out.<br />
“A lot of the rat trapping is<br />
actually getting people reporting:<br />
When do you rebait your<br />
trap, when do you reset your trap.<br />
“We can’t just go and hand out<br />
TRAPPING:<br />
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Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
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• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
A SUPPORT worker is frustrated<br />
with the lack of accessibility for<br />
disabled people at the recently<br />
opened Dallington Landing.<br />
Amanda Ross went to take<br />
her children and a client to the<br />
Dallington Landing to have a<br />
fish-and-chip picnic, but was<br />
disappointed with the lack<br />
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Unable to leave her young<br />
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cycle lane along Gayhurst Rd.<br />
“It just seems ridiculous to have<br />
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“It stops the disability<br />
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enjoy really.”<br />
Ross said there was parking at<br />
the other end of the bridge, but<br />
this was uphill which wouldn’t be<br />
ideal for one of her clients.<br />
“It’s hard enough sometimes<br />
to get to different places with<br />
disabled people and then you feel<br />
kind of excluded because you<br />
can’t go everywhere,” she said.<br />
“It would be nice to see them<br />
put in some parking and make<br />
them more accessible because it’s<br />
quite a nice place there.”<br />
The city council said after<br />
receiving community feedback<br />
the option for car parking at<br />
Rupert Pl was removed.<br />
“We’ve listened to what the<br />
public has told us and made<br />
some key changes to the design,<br />
usability and amenities of the<br />
Dallington Landing,” said<br />
city council head of parks<br />
Andrew Rutledge.<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board chairman Kelly Barber<br />
said while car parking at the<br />
landing wasn’t something he<br />
had thought much about, it<br />
could possibly be added in the<br />
future.<br />
“The landings have been done<br />
quite early,” he said. “There’s a<br />
lot more development to go in<br />
the red zone and so I guess it’s<br />
something that could be added<br />
down the track. I don’t know<br />
if it’s going to be in the short<br />
term.”<br />
Barber said the footbridges<br />
were the first phases of<br />
development and called it a<br />
“watch-this-space” project.<br />
“These landings and these<br />
bridges are amongst the first<br />
PARKING: Amanda Ross (right) took<br />
her client Kayla Simpson to the<br />
recently opened Dallington Landing,<br />
but was disappointed with the lack of<br />
accessibility for disabled people.<br />
pieces of infrastructure being put<br />
in,” he said. “I’m sure down the<br />
track there will be greater access.”<br />
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New suburban hotspot for street art<br />
SYDENHAM is becoming<br />
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The central city has become<br />
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Some have been privately commissioned<br />
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through the Christchurch<br />
Art Gallery and various city<br />
council funds.<br />
“There’s some amazing street<br />
art tucked away in Sydenham,”<br />
said city council principal community<br />
arts advisor Kiri Jarden.<br />
“It’s always had a creative scene<br />
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Studio and Gallery, dedicated<br />
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Brougham and Durham Sts<br />
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Distinctive urban artist Jacob<br />
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CREATIVE: Some of the better-known street art on offer in Sydenham.<br />
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“There’s this layering effect<br />
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street art evolving and changing<br />
along with the city,” Jarden said.<br />
“I definitely think the explosion<br />
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Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
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1 orange, zest<br />
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150gm cane sugar<br />
3 eggs<br />
90gm ground almonds<br />
90gm desiccated coconut<br />
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Ingredients<br />
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4 eggs, separated<br />
100gm sugar, plus 2 tbsp<br />
1 tsp vanilla extract<br />
275gm flour<br />
1 tsp baking powder<br />
½ tsp ground ginger<br />
½ cup water<br />
½ cup light olive oil<br />
½ lemon, juice<br />
Pinch of salt<br />
500gm (6) apricots, halved,<br />
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Preheat oven 180 deg C.<br />
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Mix the water, olive oil and<br />
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No words beginning with a capital<br />
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Solution 136: den, doe, dole, don, done, eld, end,<br />
eon, led, lend, loo, lode, loden, lone, loon, nod,<br />
six-letter node, NOODLE, word. ode, odeon, old, olden, one.<br />
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10 11<br />
12 13<br />
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19 20 21<br />
22 23 24 25 26<br />
27 28<br />
29<br />
SOLUTION<br />
No.137<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
A J L D U G R B K Y H Q M<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
V T Z O P C I N F X S E W<br />
Across<br />
Down<br />
1. Let-down (14)<br />
2. Assessor (9)<br />
10. As a result (5)<br />
11. Advantageous (9)<br />
12. Al fresco (4-3)<br />
13. Large arm muscle (7)<br />
14. Name (5)<br />
16. Deformed (9)<br />
19. Inexpensive (colloq) (4,5) (7)<br />
20. Lament (5)<br />
9. Exile (6)<br />
22. Stitches used to close a 15. Outing (9)<br />
wound (7)<br />
25. Lie back (7)<br />
27. Vulnerable (9)<br />
28. Skilled (5)<br />
29. Rethink, change of heart<br />
(6,8)<br />
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
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17 24 13 14 21 22 16 18 21 10 25 21<br />
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4. Schedule (9)<br />
5. Type in data (5)<br />
6. Stained (9)<br />
7. Dodge (5)<br />
8. Betrayal against the state<br />
17 22 4 14 2 14 11<br />
15 24 21 6 16 2 17 24 21 5 21<br />
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17. Batman or Spiderman,<br />
e.g. (9)<br />
18. Having relevance (9)<br />
19. Gives up (7)<br />
21. Chooses (6)<br />
23. Smock (5)<br />
24. Move (5)<br />
26. Clank (5)<br />
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
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No.136<br />
24 23 12 16 13 7<br />
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Across: 1. Disappointment,<br />
10. Ensue, 11. Opportune,<br />
12. Open-air, 13. Triceps,<br />
14. Title, 16. Misshapen,<br />
19. Dirt cheap, 20. Dirge,<br />
22. Sutures, 25. Recline,<br />
27. Sensitive, 28. Adept, 29.<br />
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Arena, 4. Programme, 5.<br />
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8. Treason, 9. Deport, 15.<br />
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21. Elects, 23. Tunic, 24.<br />
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