North Canterbury News: March 31, 2022

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Aclassic day out in the country 

Mini magic ... Dillon 

Houghton, of Belfast, in his 

1998 Mini Cooper, which 

has been in his family for 15 

years, during the North 

Canterbury Classic Cars 

gathering at Ashworths 

Corner, near Leithfield, on 

Sunday. Story page 2. 

PHOTO:SHELLEY TOPP 

Abeautiful fairy tale cut short by loggers 

By ADAM BURNS 

Atreasured ‘‘Fairy Forest’’ in North 

Canterbury has been brutally axed by a 

council contractor. 

This is despite assurances by the 

Waimakariri District Council the site at 

Pines Beach would be preserved for the 

community, who have been left 

devastated. 

Pines Beach residents are furious by 

the destruction with some demanding 

an apology by those responsible. 

The episode has also sent 

Waimakariri’s Mayor Dan Gordon into a 

flap, and seeking answers from council's 

logging contractor, who has been 

pinpointed as the culprit. 

The communitybuilt haven, also 

referred to by locals as ‘‘The 

Shack’’, was reportedly 

established several years ago, 

among an area of pine forest 

at Pines Beach, near Kaiapoi. 

Renowned for its arty and 

‘‘quirky’’ atmosphere, the 

secluded spot featured a 

badminton court, amini golf course, 

swings, and adecorated bar leaner 

made from atree stump. 

Pines Beach resident Jacinta 

Sutherland says the spot was highly 

cherished by the locals. 

‘‘We're angry...we were told it was 

going to be kept and now it's been 

destroyed. 

‘‘I just feel someone needs 

to be held responsible.’’ 

Other community members 

have described it as a 

blessing for families during 

Covid19. 

Waimakariri councillor Al 

Blackie says he was ‘‘horrified’’ when he 

learnt of the destruction. 

Ms Sutherland says the area was 

enhanced over the years by visitors who 

would build and add elements. 

‘‘It evolved over time...you didn't know 

what was going to be new. 

‘‘It was looked after, and cared for.’’ 

Her mum Monique Moir, who 

celebrated her 60th birthday at the site 

during alockdown, is calling for an 

apology to the community. 

‘‘I can't believe someone would go in 

there and just destroy aunique place.’’ 

Ascrub fire in January 2021, which 

forced the evacuations of several Pines 

Beach homes, destroyed dozens of 

hectares of surrounding forest area, 

however the Fairy Forest was 

unscathed. 

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Bumper crowd at classic meet 

BY SHELLEY TOPP 

From Page 1 

The easing of Covid19 restrictions 

helped attract abumper crowd to a 

classic vehicle gathering in Leithfield. 

About 450 vehicles gathered near the 

Better Half Kitchen and Bar at 

Ashworths Corner for Sunday’s event. 

Organiser Trevor StanleyJoblin said 

it was ahuge success with about 1500 

people attending. Under the new 

restrictions, announced on March 23, 

capacity limits are no longer required at 

outdoor events. 

The vehicles on display were amix of 

all ages, large and small, with 

Christchurch’s Kevin Jellyman’s ‘‘M&M 

truck’’, a1931 Ford Model AA modified 

in New York by its former owner, at the 

larger end of the scale. 

The haulage truck won every show it 

went to in the United States, and at one 

stage its owner turned down $US2 

million for it. 

But when he died, his family 

advertised it for sale on eBay, and Kevin 

bought it for alot less. 

In the smallersized range of vehicles, 

the 1998 Mini Cooper, owned by Belfast’s 

Dillon Houghton, stood out. 

The car has been in Dillon’s family for 

15 years. 

‘‘My parents bought it as afamily car 

when Iwas growing up,’’ Dillon said. 

‘‘I love this car. My dad Mark, who is 

also here today, has had 25 of them. 

‘‘He used to race Minis as well,’’ Dillon 

said. 

Of the largersized cars, Annie 

Jellys M&M haulage jalopy. .. Kevin Jellyman, of Christchurch, with his modified 1931 

Model Ford AA truck at agathering of Classic Cars at Ashworths Corner on Sunday. 

PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP 

Wright’s 1977 Ford Thunderbird's 

bonnet alone looked longer than aMini. 

Annie, who is from Rangiora, began a 

love affair with American cars after 

learning to drive in afriend’s Pontiac 

when she was 16. 

‘‘After that Iwas hooked,’’ she said. 

Lady Marigold, Helen Proctor’s 2018 

Boom Trike also attracted alot of 

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trike with aPeugeot 1600cc motor, 

for five years. 

‘‘I have lots of fun on it and you only 

need acar licence to ride it,’’ she said. 

Kerry Walsh's black 1946 Ford V8 

coupe won the Classic Car of the Month 

award. His prize was meal voucher 

donated by the Better Half Kitchen And 

Bar owner Hamish Moir. 

People encouraged to have asay 

By DAVID HILL 

Residents are encouraged to have their 

say on theWaimakariri District Council’s 

draft annual plan,withsubmissions 

closing on Monday. 

The council isproposing an average 

rates riseacross thedistrictof4.3 percent, 

whichis0.1%higherthanforecastinlast 

year’s 2021/31LongTermPlan. 

Therates rise will allowthe councilto 

continue to deliverservices at ahigh level, 

despitelowerthanexpectedcentral 

funding contributions. 

Mayor Dan Gordon says the focus of the 

planison ensuring thecouncilcompletes 

keycommunity andinfrastructure 

projects while updating residents about 

regulatory and central government 

changes thatwillaffectthecouncil. 

‘‘There are three topics we’re asking for 

feedback on that require further funding. 

‘‘The councilisalsousingthis 

opportunityto letresidentsknowabout 

newregulations andexternalchanges 

whichwillaffectthe council, such as 

ThreeWaters Reform and new urban 

development rules.’’ 

MattDoocey 

MP for Waimakariri 

Kaiapoi Office 

03 327 0514•kaiapoi@parliament.govt.nz 

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RangioraOffice 

03 310 7468•waimakariri@parliament.govt.nz 

Level 1Conway Lane,188 High Street 

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clinics inOxfordand in 

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please ring my officeifyou 

would liketomeetwith me. 

Authorised by Matt 

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Buildings, Wgtn. 

Key issues which require further 

funding include the completion of the 

Kaiapoi CommunityHub,theKaiapoi 

stormwater andflooding improvements 

and roading funding. 

❛The council is also using this 

opportunity to let residents 

know about new regulations 

and external changes which 

will affect the council, such as 

Three Waters Reform and new 

urban development rules.❜ 

—MayorDan Gordon 

The councilisalsokeento receive 

feedback on proposed upgrades to the 

Rangiora Airfield,theAshleyGorge Water 

Supply,and rulesaround protecting 

significant natural areas. 

Changes to regulations affecting the 

council include the Three Waters Reform, 

possible chlorination of water supplies 

and the National PolicyStatement on 

Urban Development. 

Keeping up with the capital programme 

delivery, reviewing the rating policy for 

Maori land and changes to development 

contributions and fees and charges are 

alsoissuesfor thecouncil going forward. 

‘‘The district continues to experience 

significant growth whichmeansthe 

councilisinastrongpositionto meet 

these challenges whilecontinuing to 

provideand develop high quality 

community facilities and infrastructure,’’ 

Mr Gordon says. 

‘‘Keeping rates affordable is apriority 

forthe council. When making budget 

decisions this is always frontofmindwhen 

determining that we have thebalance 

right and Ithinkthis plandoes just that. 

‘‘Waimakariri is your placeintheworld 

andIencourage youtotakethe timeto 

read thedraft annualplanandhaveyour 

sayonthe directionofthedistrict.’’ 

To makeasubmission go to 

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email annualplan@wmk.govt.nz. 

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Challenging journey for centre 

By SHELLEY TOPP 

The development of the new urgentcare 

Rangiora Medical Centre (RMC) is 

expected to be achallenging journey. 

But Mark Darvill, the Rangiora 

Medical Centre 2013 Limited 

Partnerships general manager, says 

‘‘the destination will be worth it’’. 

The vision for the new medical centre 

was formed in partnership with 

longstanding Rangiora GP Dr Lorna 

Martin, and South Link Health Services. 

South Link has been working in a 

supporting role with primary health 

care providers for many years, mostly in 

Southland, but increasingly in 

Canterbury, Tasman and the North 

Island. The new Rangiora facility will be 

commissioned by South Link on the old 

Rangiora Hospital site, part of the 

Canterbury District Health Board’s 

Rangiora Health Hub, in Ashley Street. 

The health board owns the land where 

the new facility will be built, but the 

building will be owned by South Link 

with the main tenant being Rangiora 

Medical Centre 2013 Limited 

Partnership, which owns Rangiora 

Family Doctors, Good Street Medical 

Centre and Woodend Medical Centre. 

There will be other private tenants, 

such as apharmacy and an imaging 

(Xray) facility, but those tenants have 

not been selected yet. 

‘‘The CDHB have been very 

supportive, but will not be involved with 

the operation nor management of the 

new facility, Mark says. 

‘‘RMC is aprivate entity like the 

general practices that form it, and like 

the urgentcare centres in Christchurch. 

‘‘Primary health care delivery is one 

of the oldest forms of public/private 

partnership. Unlike ED (Emergency 

Department), we are not fully funded, 

and we need to be aviable business.’’ 

The project is still in the early stages 

with aresource consent yet to be 

granted for the building, which has not 

gone to tender, and there has been no 

date set for construction to begin. ‘‘It 

will happen, but at this stage it is 

impossible to give an indication when 

the building may be complete,’’ Mark 

says. 

‘‘Even when the building is complete 

there is then the process of fitting it out 

for the tenants, and installing all the 

medical systems and equipment 

necessary. 

‘‘Many people will recall the 

commissioning issues that the new 

hospital in Christchurch experienced, 

so it takes avery brave person to 

forecast an opening day.’’ 

To begin with the new facility is likely 

to resemble avery large modern general 

practice. 

‘‘It is only once staff and systems are 

bedded in, that extending the hours can 

be contemplated,’’ Mark says. 

‘‘For this reason it may be afew 

months between opening the facility, 

and the availability of extended hours 

access, but having easy access to an 

urgentcare facility in North Canterbury 

is long overdue, and what the people of 

the region deserve.’’ 

Mark was previously general manager 

of Riccarton Clinic in Christchurch, a 

combined general practice and urgent 

care centre operating 8am to 8pm, every 

day of the year. 

Fairy Forest at Pines Beach to be restored 

From Page 1 

Acouncil informationnotice issued 

lastmonth confirmedefforts to protect 

the area as part of ongoing salvage 

workfollowing the blaze. 

‘‘While some damageis 

unavoidable, every effort is being 

madetopreserve the area with trees 

felled and extractedaway fromit 

wherever possible.’’ 

Mayor DanGordon sayscouncil 

instructedcontractors to avoid 

damage to the area. 

‘‘[Council is] meeting withthem 

shortly to learn more aboutwhat 

happened and why,’’ he says. 

‘‘Our intention is to work with the 

communitytoensure this community 

treasure is restored.’’ 

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Demanding answers ... Adevastated Pines Beach community wants answers after their 

beloved Fairy Forest site was destroyed. 

PHOTO:LDR /ADAM BURNS 

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Anzac Day services back on in Nth Canty 

By ROBYN BRISTOW 

Anzac Day services are back on in 

North Canterbury. 

The main centres of Kaiapoi, 

Rangiora and Amberley cancelled 

services earlierthis month due to 

Covid19 restrictions on numbers 

makingittoo difficult to hold 

rememberanceservices. 

But, after lastweek’s easing of 

restrictions by Prime Minister Jacinda 

Ardern, planning is full on to try and 

rescuethe services. 

However, goneisthe traditional 

Dawn Service at the Kaiapoi 

Monument,the parade in Rangiora, and 

Amberley’s public service in the 

Domain. 

In Amberley people are invited to a 

DawnService at the Monument on 

Carters Road, Amberley, beside the 

Hurunui Library instead. 

RSA President James Drewery says 

there is not enoughtime to organisea 

march, or afull service in the Domain. 

But what had initially started out as a 

small Dawn Service,couldnow become 

apublic service,starting at 6am. 

‘‘With the stroke of apen, everything 

has changed,’’says Mr Drewery. 

Asimple servicewith somespeeches, 

awreath laying and flag raising 

ceremony, is now envisaged. 

Outlying areasareas in the Hurunui 

District are expected to hold similar 

services later in the morning, withthe 

opportunity now for morepeople to 

attend. 

Rangiora RSA president Ian 

Thompson says while the traditional 

parade will not go ahead, therewill be 

afull serviceat11.30am at the 

Monument in Rangiora's main street. 

There willbeaddresses by invited 

guests,and young people,and awreath 

laying ceremony. 

Mr Thompson says its is great that 

such an important day can be 

remembered by all those who want to 

turn out. 

In Kaiapoi RSA members will begin 

their day with abreakfast at the 

KaiapoiClub at 8am,which willbe 

followed by apublic serviceat10am at 

the Cenotaph on Raven Quay. 

Mr Pricesays it is sad to havetofor go 

the traditional Dawnservice, but it was 

too difficulttoorganise at suchshort 

notice, although he hopes it willmake 

its return next year. 

Being able to hold one public service, 

however, gave everyone an opportunity 

to attend arememberance service. 

Services at Ohoka, which is 

traditionallyheld on April 24, and at 

Seftononthe eveningofApril24, are 

expected to go ahead. 

ARangiora High School Anzac Day 

service is also expected to go ahead at 

the school’s Court of Memories at 

9.30am. 

Generator to heat Amberley pool 

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Vehicles must have current 

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By ADAM BURNS 

Heating systems at the soontobeopened 

Amberley Poolwill havetorely on a 

backup generator until upgrades to the 

electricity 

network 

are 

completed. 

Project 

managers 

for the long 

awaited $2 millionpool development have 

foundthe existingsupplytobeinsufficient 

for the pool’sheatingrequirements after 

the original scope was given the all clear. 

It means the Hurunui District Council 

may have to fork out tensofthousandsof 

dollarsover the course of the year to run 

adieselgenerator until improvements are 

made to the network. 

‘‘When the systems arrived on site for 

installation it was notedthat they were 

differenttothe original understanding, 

and at operational loading the power 

supply would be close to full capacity,’’ 

council chief executive Hamish Dobbie 

says. 

‘‘Thepower supply to the poolwas 

sufficient based on the original 

understanding of the specifications for 

pumping/heating systems, and other 

operational requirements.’’ 

It eventually became clear to those 

helming the project, the existing supply 

wouldnot be able to handlethe heating 

demands for the pooluntil upgrades had 

been done. 

Amberley Poolproject managerPaul 

Thornton says the generator runsthrough 

160 litresofdiesel every two days and was 

expectedtocostcouncil $5000 every four 

weeks. 

The pool was scheduled to open earlier 

this month, however it was pushed back to 

Amberley Pool ... The town’s new pool will need to be heated by abackup generator after 

the power supply to the site was deemed insufficient. 

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this Saturday, due to supplychainrelated 

holdups. 

‘‘With the provisions we have, we are 

able to open the Amberley Pool withwhat 

we have. 

‘‘We have the required capability to 

operate,’’ Mr Thornton says. 

Councilconfirmed upgrades to 

MainPower’sexistingnetworkwere in the 

planning stages, but further details were 

unknown. 

‘‘We haveoffered our own designwhich 

hopefully will speed thingsup,’’ Mr 

Thornton says. 

AMainPower spokeswoman saysitwas 

working closely with the contractor and 

council to scope new requirementsand 

design for the upgrades. 

‘‘Once confirmed, MainPowerwill begin 

work to deliver the requestedconnection.’’ 

Construction on the pool began last year.

Bowling seamlessly at 90 


Everygame of bowlsThelma 

Smithplays is ajoy. 

‘‘I enjoyit(playingbowls),and if 

Iwin, it is abonus,’’ she says. 

‘‘If Ilose,Ihavemadesomeone 

else happy. Imove on and look 

forward to thenextgame,’’says 

the Woodend90yearold. 

‘‘Bowls is aterrific sport and you 

get to meetalot of neatpeople, 

and makereally great friends. 

Thelma is celebratingnearly six 

decadesofplaying bowls thisyear, 

and lives by the motto: Yesterday 

is history; Todayisagift; 

Tomorrow is amystery. 

In those 60odd years she has 

clocked up an impressive number 

of wins,and continues on her 

winningway today playingout of 

the WoodendClub in North 

Canterbury, where shehas struck 

up awinningpartnership with 

Gillian Small. 

Thelma beganplaying bowlsat 

22, whenher father bought her 

firstset of bowls for 12 pound. 

She joined theKaukapakapa 

(KKK)Bowling Clubin1954, the 

clubher father Morrie Webster 

playedfor,and of which she was 

secretary for three years. 

It wasalsothe yearshe married 

Pat,the local teacher. 

Bowls wentonholdfor about 12 

years while thecouple raised 

their three children. 

TheymovedtoGlorit,asmall 

rural settlement on theKaipara 

HarbourwherePat was solechargeteacher 

for atime before 

moving backtoKaukapakapa to 

takeover thelocal store and mail 

run. 

Thelmatookupwhere sheleft 

Winning pair ... Gillian Small and Thelma Smith have struck up awinning 

combination. 

PHOTO: SUPPLIED 

off when thefamily moved to 

Helensville. 

She joinedthe localbowling 

clubwhere shewent on to win 48 

championships,and seven 

WaitemataCentre titles, being 

runner up 15 times. She was also 

the clubsecretaryfor nine years, 

and presidentfor three,along 

withdutiesonmatch and 

tournament committees formany 

years. 

She was instrumentalinstarting 

the WaitemataCentre,and later 

Bowls North Harbour,and spent 

manyyearsonthe centre 

committee andwas also its 

president. 

Thelma has played at thetop 

level, representing New Zealand, 

and beingavaluedmember in 

manyrepresentative teams. 

She was aselector forBowls 

North Harbour forover five years, 

and aNew Zealand umpire for 

over30years. 

Thelma and husband Patshared 

apassionfor bowls,which saw 

themtravel to Australia everyyear 

to takepartinthe GoldCoast 

bowls scene. Pat died in 2009, and 

in 2014Thelma metBrian, moved 

to Woodend in 2019, and married 

Brian in 2021. 

Thelma saysthe timeshe 

spendsonthe bowling green,and 

in the company of club members, 

gives her alot of joyand 

happiness. 

‘‘I lovebowls,’’ says Thelma. 

‘‘Itisagreatplacetomeet 

peopleand make friends.’’ 

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Kaikoura hunt 

starts Friday 

By DAVID HILL 

Agroup of Kaikoura locals 

have overcome Covid19 to 

organise apig and stag 

hunt. 

Covid restrictions had 

forced the cancellation of 

the original Kaikoura Pig 

and Stag Hunt, but five 

local enthusiasts have 

come together to resurrect 

the event as afundraiser 

for Kaikoura St John. 

It will now be held on 

April 1to3. 

‘‘We only took it on a 

month ago, so we’ve tried to 

organise alot in ashort 

amount of time,’’ David 

Boyd says. 

‘‘It’s been alot better 

than what we thought.’’ 

Mr Boyd and his wife 

Lydia got together with 

fellow farmers Bin and 

Geoff Kennedy, and 

Kaikoura Mayor Craig 

Mackle to form the 

committee. 

Since they took it on, the 

committee has been 

overwhelmed by the 

generosity of sponsors, with 

all of the more than 340 

entrants able to win aspot 

prize. 

Weighin will be held at 

Surrey Downs, 2791 Inland 

Road, Kaikoura, between 

1pm and 3pm on Sunday, 

April 3, when the prizes 

will be presented. 

Major spot prize winners 

do not need to be present 

on the day, which has 

opened the competition up 

to entries from as far afield 

as Northland, Mr Boyd says. 

‘‘It doesn’t matter where 

they shoot, as long as they 

can get here to weighin. 

‘‘It’s always been a 

popular competition, but 

we’ve made it abit different 

this time, so even if people 

can’t be present they can 

still win aprize.’’ 

There are also prizes for 

the five heaviest red stags, 

the average weight stag, 

best antlers, heaviest 

fallow, the five heaviest 

boar, the best tusks and the 

average weight boar. 

In the junior section 

(under16), prizes are for 

the mystery weight deer, 

average weight pig, 

heaviest goat and heaviest 

rat. 

Children under 8years 

can also enter, with prizes 

for the heaviest hare, 

possum and rabbit. All the 

proceeds go towards the 

Kaikoura St John new 

building fund. More 

information can be found 

on the Kaikoura Pig and 

Stag Hunt page on 

Facebook. 

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Authorised by Matt Doocey MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington. 

Around the regions 

Ihave been enjoying spending time 

in my new roleasNational’s 

associatetransport spokesperson, 

focusing on the regions, in particular 

my recentvisits to Timaruand 

AshburtonDistrict Councils,where I 

learned more about theimportance 

of roads, railand coastal shippingto 

movepeopleand productsaround 

our regions. 

My localworkinadvocatingfor the 

Woodend Bypass has given me a 

unique experienceofintimately 

understanding how regional 

transport is differentthan in our 

cities. 

Ilook forward to being astrong 

voicefor regional transport across 

the country. 

In my otherroleasNational’s first 

spokesperson for mentalhealth and 

suicide prevention, Iamconstantly 

reminded of the state ofour mental 

health system. 

For months, Kiwis, mental health 

groups,and serviceshave been 

tellingmethat they’renot seeing any 

benefits from the governments 

significant$1.9 billioninvestmentin 

mental health. 

The Mental Healthand Wellbeing 

Commissionsrecently released 

mental healthmonitoring report 

backs thisup. 

It foundwait times for mental 

health services havenot decreased 

Environment Canterbury is proposing a 

24.1 percent increase in total rates 

collected to fund spending for the year 

ahead. 

It is proposedthat $264.02moftotal 

expenditure in 2022/23 is fundedby 

$160.4m directlyfrom ratepayers, with 

the balance coming predominantly 

from centralgovernment grants and 

userpays. 

Decisions made in June2021 on the 

longterm plan, for work and activities 

in 2022/23, account for 18.8 %ofthe 

proposed increase. 

Since then, events and the context we 

all live and operate in has changed 

greatly, with challenges not only 

environmentally but economically and 

socially as well. 

The proposedincrease across North 

Canterbury is in the order of 1820% for 

rural and 2325% for urban ratepayers. 

overthe past five years, and wait 

times for addictionserviceshave 

actually becomeeven longer. 

In short,improvements in services 

have not materialiseddespite 

Labour's $1.9 billionannouncement 

as partofBudget 2019. 

Sadlythis will not comeasmuch of 

asurprise to the vastmajorityof 

those whohave soughtmentalhealth 

supportover the pastcouple of years. 

We needtokeep up pressure on the 

governmenttoshow actual outcomes 

for itsspending. 

Locally Ihavebeen advocatingfor 

actiononWaimakariri'safterhours 

health facility, construction on 

which was due to begin in January. 

After residents approached me 

concernedaboutthe lackofprogress, 

Iwroteto CDHBCEO Peter Bramley 

for an update,and look forwardto 

updatingthe community going 

forward. 

Finally, it was great to be able to 

bring National’s local government 

spokesperson Simon Watts to the 

districtearlierthis month to talkto 

the council about theThreeWaters 

reform, aspart of atour of 

Canterbury councils.Iapplaud the 

councilfor itsstrong stanceon 

wantingtoretain Waimakariri’s 

quality water assets for its 

ratepayers. I’ll continue to support 

them until thegovernmentscraps it. 

Claire McKay 

Environment Canterbury Councillor 

EnvironmentCanterbury is seeking 

yourfeedbackonthreekey topics. 

The first two, whichboth contribute 

to the balance of the proposed increase 

in rates, are changes to bus fares, and 

supporting floodrecovery and 

protection. 

The third topic is seeking to 

understandifyou wouldsupporta 

future levy to fundaction in response to 

climate changeand, if so, the type of 

activities or projectsthat could be 

funded that way. 

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Feedback on Waimakariri’s 

draft annual plan wanted 

We wanttohear your thoughts on our 

council’s plans for the coming year 

through the DraftAnnualPlan. 

The focus is on ensuring the council 

completes key community and 

infrastructure projects whileupdating 

residents about regulatory and central 

government changes.The deadline for 

feedbackisMonday 4April. To find out 

more and make asubmission please visit 

waimakariri.govt.nz/letstalk. 

The Governments ThreeWaters Reform 

continues to be an important focus for the 

council. 

As part of our membershipof 

Communities 4LocalDemocracy, we have 

ameetingnext week withLocal 

GovernmentMinister NanaiaMahuta in 

Wellington. 

We willbepresenting alternative 

models we have been working on with the 

32 partner councils. 

Together we represent 1.5 million New 

Zealanders and, with Auckland Council 

who alsostrongly oppose the proposed 

reforms,that's apopulation of 3million 

that we hope theGovernment willtake 

notice of, and listento. 

We wantthe Governmenttopress the 

pausebuttonand work withuson 

alternative models that will gain the 

support of Kiwis throughout New Zealand. 

Importantly, thesemodels will ensure 

that ownership and effectivecontrol will 

remain withthe communities thathave 

paid for these assets over generations. 

The consultationdocument outlines 

the issuesand suggestsoptionsfor 

these key topics. To inform the council 

decisions, it is vitally important that 

you provide somefeedback, shareyour 

views or preferences or even provide 

alternative options for funding or 

delivering the outcome. 

Other resources available to you 

includethe draft annualplan with 

detail on the activities and budget, a 

property rates calculator, and arates 

tool that shows costs of programs of 

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From nextMonday at 11.59pm (April4) 

all council venuesand facilitieswill no 

longer requirecustomers to provide a 

vaccine pass. 

We always said we would review the 

situation and the latesthealthadvice from 

the Ministry of Healthand respond quickly 

as the situation improves. 

Ifully support the restrictions being 

lowered, but urge us allnot to become 

complacent with Covid19. 

Putting in place restrictionswas never 

an easy decision for the council to make, 

but one based on the informationand 

health adviceatthe time. 

That said, Omicron is still in the 

community and Iacknowledgethere are 

mixedfeelingsaboutthe removal of 

passes. 

Increasingly we are all aware of friends 

and familywho haveCovidand the 

challenges this brings. 

Iurgeeveryone to continue to practice 

good hygiene, wear masks when needed, 

following the guidance on selfisolation 

and to showrespect and tolerance to one 

another. 

For further detail on the red setting and 

general limitations, please checkthe 

officialCovid19 website (Covid19.govt.nz). 

Iwelcome contact from anyonewho 

needsassistanceorhas an issuethatyou 

may want to discuss. 

Emailmeatdan.gordon@wmk.govt.nz 

or phone 021906437. 

I’m here to help. 

work. The constraints of Covid 

restrictions means most of the 

information is available in digital form 

via www.ecan.govt.nz, but you can view 

hard copy documents in yourlocal 

library. 

Consultation closes on Sunday, April 

3and feedbackcan be delivered in 

person, by post, email or online, with 

the details found in the consultation 

document. 

Iknow it is an oftenheld view that 

council “won’t listen and will do what 

they wantanyway”,but Ireally do need 

to knowthat Iamrepresenting your 

views at the tablewhen Iconsider a 

decision that impacts all of Canterbury. 

If you have difficultyfinding the 

information you require or would like 

some help,contactmeatcouncillor. 

mckay@ecan.govt.nz or call 

0274864023. 

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Community support ... Tammi Martin (left), of Surfwise, Shani Clark (middle), of Sport 

Canterbury, and Cushla Waghorn (right), of Community Wellbeing North Canterbury, work 

with some excited children at Waikuku Beach. 

PHOTO: LOUISE LEITCH 

Funding shortfall 

By DAVID HILL 

NorthCanterbury’s social service agency 

is facing afunding shortfall as it looks to 

meet agrowing demand in the wakeof 

Covid19. 

Navigatingfundingchallenges is nothing 

new for the Community Wellbeing North 

Canterbury Trust, but the Covid19 

environmentismaking it even more 

difficult, manager Deirdre Ryan says. 

At the same the trust is facing greater 

demands on its services,due to Covid19. 

She was speaking at the Waimakariri 

District Council’scommunityand 

recreationcommittee meetingearlier this 

month, 

‘‘It’s an ongoing struggle as there’salack 

of certainty, but to keep our good people 

we needtobeabletooffer long term 

employment contracts. 

‘‘Duringthe lasttwo yearsfundraising 

has been seriouslycurtailed due to Covid. 

Both our fundraising effortsand those 

generous clubsand businesses who 

fundraise on our behalf,’’MsRyan says. 

At same timedemand for Community 

Wellbeing’sservices are growing, with 

staffing levels recently risingto34fulltime 

equivalents, which saw the Rangiora office 

move to abigger premisesinKing Street. 

‘‘I don’t think we willbegetting any 

smaller as there’smore need. We are being 

askedtodomoreand we do our best to 

meet that need,’’ Ms Ryan said. ‘‘Wejust 

make sure that ourteam are takingbreaks 

and are managing theirown wellbeing.’’ 

Community Wellbeing receivesfunding 

from governmentcontracts to provide 

services to the North Canterbury 

community. But thisfundingdoes not 

cover vehicles, facilities, laptops or the 

manager’s salary, which are metby 

community fundraising. Unlike other 

private healthcareproviders, Community 

Wellbeing does not expect its staff to clock 

up the mileage in theirown private 

vehicles. 

Community Wellbeing works 

collaborativelywith anumberof 

organisations such as Connect Hurunui, 

SocialServices Waimakariri, local 

businesses and Lions, Rotary and Leo 

clubs. 

Arecent collaboration with Waikukubased 

Surfwise is an exampleof 

respondingtoaneed. Supported by Sport 

Canterbury and donations from local 

individualsand businesses, Community 

Wellbeing and SurfWise developed and 

ran apilot programme to support the 

mentalhealth and wellbeingofyoung 

peopleinthe community. 

‘‘We need ongoing resources to turn this 

pilot intoanongoing programme, so that 

we can helpmany more young peoplein 

Waimakariri and theHurunui,’’ Ms Ryan 

says. 

She says the best way people can 

support CommunityWellbeing’swork is to 

make adonation. ‘‘With cashdonations we 

can respondquickly and flexibly to put in 

place services where and when there’s 

need. We can’t run the fundraising events 

that we had hoped to this year, but we will 

carryonasbest we can.’’ 

Council flooded with 

drainage queries 

By ADAM BURNS 

Majorflooding in the Waimakariri 

District over the past yearhas resulted 

in asurge of drainagecheck requests, 

leaving council contractors under the 

pump. 

Nearly 1500requestsfor drain works 

have been received by the Waimakariri 

District Council overthe 

past 12 months,600 of 

whichrelate to rain 

events between May 2021 

and February 2022. 

The numberisabout 

double whatthe council 

typically receives. 

About60areas have 

been earmarked for 

inspections with council 

indicatingitwas going to take ‘‘a number 

of months’’ to work through the 

schedule. 

Atotal of 25 drainage assessments 

were under way. 

The eastern part of the district 

experienced aboutathird of the average 

annual rainfall during an unusually wet 

monthinFebruary. 

Theseareas copped 200mmofrainfall 

over atwo week period, including 

floodingwhichoccurred on February 

12. 

It was the third floodingevent to occur 

in the districtinless thanayear. 

‘‘Thecriticalduration of 24 hours 

meantthatour larger drainsand storage 

system were tested,’’adrainageservice 

update reportsays. 

‘‘Howeverthere weresome more 

intense periods of rainfall thattested 

our pipedsystems and cause blockages 

at some locations.’’ 

Woodend Rugby Club presidentPhil 

Kennett says the recent flood eventhad 

leftasignificantportion of turf at 

Gladstone Park damaged. 

‘‘It's munted half arugby field to the 

extent where it'sbasically killedall the 

grass off,’’ he says. ‘‘Council can'twork 

out how it's happenedorwhy it's 

happened.’’ 

He says the turf damage has impacted 

the recentcricket season and workarounds 

will be required 

for theupcoming rugby 

season. 

‘‘We've basically lost 

one full rugby field.’’ 

Kaiapoi Golf Club 

boardchairmanJack 

Oldridge says adrainage 

pipe which runsacross a 

fairway was enduring 

regular blockages, 

leaving surfacewater oftenonthe 

course. 

‘‘We've workedwith councilfor some 

timeonthe issue, but it has not been 

rectified to the level we want it so we'll 

keeponpersevering.’’ 

The club was consideringdeveloping 

somepondswith plantingonthe course 

to act as acatchment for rainfall. The 

buildup was not justlimitedtodrainage 

withoutstandingdrainmaintenance 

worksapping up council’s resource. 

Council waterteams say the district's 

catchmentsare saturated and 

groundwater levels in coastalregions, 

including Waikuku Beach,Pegasus, 

Woodend Beachand The PinesBeach 

werevery highatpresent. 

‘‘[This] is impacting drainage systems, 

particularly soakagetype systems.’’ 

Council have established aflood team 

who weretriaging the service requests 

on aprioritybasis. 

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Upsizing to your next home: How to be smart about it 

THEHOUSING boomof2021 

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The success of theupsizing 

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Good,well-considered 

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Choosing to renovate 

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If foryou,upsizing means 

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Thiscould mean alivingroom 

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Your furniturechoices candoa 

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Forexample,soft furnishings 

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mirrors canmakeasmall house 

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It has become so popular more space is 

needed to meetdemandinthe rapidly 

growing township. 

It is also lookingtomove on from the 

homeHelen Newton has generously 

provided in ashed on her property for the 

pastfive or six years, so she can make 

someimportant life decisions. 

Chair John Black saystime is ticking. 

Along termsolution is needed, andone 

thatisnot goingtocost thousands of 

dollars,equalling many more yearsof 

fundraising. 

While there have beenplans afoot for a 

new homefor sometime, the groupisnow 

castingits net alittle wider than discussing 

possibilities of building on Hurunui 

District Council land, suchasareserve. 

‘‘Weare in limbowith the council,’’ says 

John. 

The group is now wondering if someone 

may haveanold woolshedorfarm building 

theyare no longerusing, or if there are 

options of movinginto an existing building 

in the township. 

Johnsays aspaceinanew subdivision in 

the rapidly growing towncould even be a 

possibility. 

Thiscould provideahomefor aMenz 

Shed, and at the same time aplace for new 

residents to meet people, and enjoy 

camaraderie, while contributingto 

community projects. 

The Menz Shed sessions are for people 

to go and crafteverything fromcoffins and 

toys, to community assets such as Sharing 

Sheds and brightyellowwoodendaffodils 

to highlight the CancerSociety’s 

fundraising efforts.Its community baseof 

talented peoplealso spruces up town 

signs, repairs communityproperty, and 

morerecentlyrebuilt the aviary in 

Chamberlain Park,Amberley. 

Amberley hasabout 25 members, seven 

of whom arewomen. Members enjoy a 

friendly atmosphere,where they can 

socialise, and pursueprojectsacoupleof 

times aweek. 

Theycut kindling to fundraise for 

materials and anew home, run their own 

‘‘Repair Shop’’, though not on agrand 

scale like the one on telly, and bring old 

items to life. 

Scrumptious morning teas prove to be a 

Tile time ... John opens tiles to use in a 

community notice board. 

greattime to sit, relaxand chat. 

Two membersChris Constable and 

PaulaLeCompte,say the group is ahuge 

assettothe community, and if anew home 

couldbefound, the years of fundraising 

needed to buildanew onemight be able to 

be avoided. 

‘‘It is about $300,000 for anew building, 

whichisalot of fundraising. We can’t 

afford adebt,’’they say. 

‘‘We are fulfilling apretty important role 

in the community,’’ says Chris. ‘‘Itgives 

people asense of purpose.’’ 

Chrisjoinedthe MenzShed afterbeing 

diagnosed with terminal cancer. He 

wanted to buildhis own coffin, adeed he 

has finished.His wife thenwantedone, 

and now Chris is enjoying life at the Menz 

Shed wherecoffin makingisall in adays 

work for the group, along everythingfrom 

wooden toys, animals and coathangers to 

furniture, and many othercadgets. 

John says people can preorder coffins, 

take them home, and use them for ashelf 

unit,orany other furniture feature until 

they are needed. The wooden coffins offer 

an economically,simplealternative for 

people and can be lined or decorated by 

the family. Funds raised help with the next 

project, toolsoradds to their building 

fund. 

Membership is $25 ayear, which 

includes alot of tools of the trade. 

For information on the Amberley Menz 

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Education leaders laud history changes 

By ADAM BURNS 

Local Democracy Reporter 

ANorthCanterbury school principalsays 

pupils may be apprehensivewhen the 

revamped historycurriculum is 

introduced into classrooms. 

Kaiapoi High School prinicpal Bruce 

Kearney, alongside other education 

leaders, have lauded the changes 

following yearsofwhat he believedwas 

substandardeducation on New Zealand’s 

foundational history. 

The Aotearoa New Zealand history 

curriculum willbeintroduced into 

classroomsnext yearafterJacinda Ardern 

firstfloatedthe programme back in 2019. 

It willfocusonhistoricaltopics, 

including Te Tiriti oWaitangi,the arrival 

of JamesCook, land wars and colonisation. 

‘‘Ithink it’s one of the bestthings we’ve 

ever doneand I’msopleasedthatwe’re 

doing it,’’ Mr Kearneysays. 

Education Minister Chris Hipkins has 

described the feedback received by the 

Ministry of Educationaswideranging, 

clear, and at times confronting aftera 

draft curriculum was road tested lastyear. 

Mr Kearney says somepupils may 

initially feel uneasy. 

‘‘I thinkthey’llbeapprehensive to begin 

with but as we progress they’ll become 

more and more excited. Traditionally over 

anumber of years,we’ve taught the Treaty 

Health appointment 


of Waitangi verypoorly.’’ 

ExBelfast School principal andchairof 

the NewZealand Educational Institute 

Principals Council, Peter Simpsonsays 

the revamped historiescurriculum is long 

overdue. 

‘‘NewZealand kidsprobably know more 

aboutthe colonialhistory and Great 

Britain’s history,more than theirown 

history,’’ he says. 

Mr Simpson says he is unsure why it had 

takensolong to be introduced into 

schools. 

‘‘Whyhas it taken the rest of our history 

for [the Treaty of Waitangi]tobe 

acknowledged...I don’t know,’’ he says. 

‘‘If you go back, the New Zealand 

11 

education system is founded on the 

English one. Why do kids still learn Latin, 

German and French, how many are going 

to end up speaking it. 

‘‘TeReo is part of the curriculum and I 

believethey’re goingtouse it more, 20 

years from now.’’ 

He says there was apotential seachange 

on the horizon for the South Island 

when it came to greater awareness of 

Kaupapa Maori. 

‘‘You only have to lookatthe cultural 

andkapa hakafestivals and go intoschools 

today to see the kids doing waiata and 

karakia to knowthere is achange 

happening. 

|‘‘Ithinkit’s fabulous.’’ 

Hanmer Springs resident, and 

chartered accountant, TsarinaDellow, 

has been appointed to Waitaha 

Primary Health. 

Tsarina, who has workedin 

administrationatthe Hanmer Springs 

Health centres,and alocal St John 

volunteer will be the Hurunui District 

Council’s Territorial Local Authority 

Communityrepresentative. 

She saysthere are different health 

challenges and needs for rural and 

urbanpeople, alongwith different 

expectations. 

This includesthe waiting time in a 

ruralpractice, which can be longer 

when an emergency casecomes in, due 

to rural clinicsacting as emergency 

centres as well. 

“Withthe trend of urban and city 

people moving outtoquieter areas 

like Hanmer Springs, dealing with 

differences like this comes down to 

education,and managing people’s 

expectations.” 

Tsarina is adirector at Shore 

Accounting Solutions in Amberley,a 

Trustee of CommunityWellbeing 

NorthCanterbury and the North 

Canterbury Radio Trust (Compass 

FM). 

She believesthat in arural area, like 

Hanmer Springs, community 

connections and letting people know 

thereissupport out there across all 

health areas, is important. 

“We need to worktogether on issues 

that come up, whetherthat be access to 

health facilities, or helping people 

with Covid19 concernsorqueries.” 

Waitaha Primary Health’s focus 

‘Yourhealth,your whānau, our 

community’ is to provide and support 

health services in Canterbury’s rural 

and urban communities, and Tsarina 

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and part of this. 

Tsarina Dellow 

“I carealot aboutPrimaryhealth 

care, particularlyinNorth 

Canterbury’s ruralsector.” 

As aboardmember,Tsarina willbe 

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and othercommunity basedhealth 

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exceptional healthoutcomesfor 

Canterbury’s people, including those 

withthe greatest need. 

“It’sall about connection, because 

thisiswhat makes communities and 

allows people to enjoytheirbest life 

with goodhealth and wellbeing. It’s 

aboutusall getting out and doing our 

bit.” 

Hurunui MayorMarie Black is 

thrilled to have Tsarina represent the 

district on the Waitaha Board, with 

her many transferable skillsthat will 

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“She will be astrong healthadvocate 

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The high road ... The realigned Lake Sumner Road. 

Lakes access open 


Lake SumnerRoad has reopened after 

midFebruary’sdownpour scoured out 

part of the road. 

About500 metres of the road has been 

realigned and moved about25metres 

away from the river, up the hill. 

The damagewas caused afterasection 

of the road was undermined by the south 

branch of the Hurunui River, after ex 

Cyclone Dovidumped ahuge amountof 

rain in the area causing the river to flood. 

Work duringthe past six weeks has 

included bulldozingatrackintothe 

hillside, carting stonesfrom the river to 

form anew roadbase, crushing,shaping, 

and spreading crushed material,installing 

new culvertstwo to three metres below the 

new road surface,concretecapping them, 

and carrying out concrete ford repairs. 

Hurunui District Councilroading 

manager KushlaTapper sayswith the new 


alignment being further up the hilland 

away from the river, in addition to river realignment, 

the road should be much better 

protected from rivererosion in the future. 

“Theseworks have been asignificant 

team effort,”she said. 

Partnering agencies Waka Kotahi, 

Environment Canterbury,Department of 

Conservation, Land Information New 

Zealand and thepastoral leaseholdersall 

came togetherquickly, to agree on aplan 

of action to reestablish accessfor the 

isolated people and properties. 

‘‘The location of the new roadalignment 

was agreedtoquickly,’’she says. Aknown 

lizardhabitat and matagouriwere 

avoided. 

Ms Tapper said the road has been a 

sourceoffrustration for recreational users 

of LakeSumner, Lake Taylor and Loch 

Katrine. Major roadand reconstruction 

work was done in early summer, to mop 

after last winter’s major rain events. 

Events are back on 

track in Nth Canty 

By DAVID HILL 

Big eventsare set to return to North 

Canterbury. 

With the government’s 

announcement lastweek of the easing 

of Covid19restrictions, localevent 

organisers are getting on with event 

planning. 

Indoorevents now havea200 

person limit, withnorestrictionon 

numbers for outdoor events and 

vaccine passes will no longerbe 

required from Monday, April 4. 

Rangiora Promotions chairperson 

Ross Ditmer says the announcement 

has given local businesses more 

certainty. 

He says the Rangiora Big Splash is 

set to return in June,while an Easter 

egg hunt is being planned and a 

springeventfor Rangiora is also in 

the pipeline. 

‘‘We were always intending to go 

ahead with the Big Splash, unless we 

couldn’t do it, so now we can. 

‘‘Lastyear we raised $16,000(for 

the Rangiora Stroke Club),sowe’re 

putting that together again,and it 

shouldbeagreat event. 

‘‘Weare trying everythingtokeep 

activity going in the community. 

‘‘You can tell by the lack of people 

down the streethow tough it is. 

‘‘For businesses to survive we need 

people.’’ 

The Easter egg huntwill involve 

eggs being hiddeninshop windows 

for children to find. 

Rangiora Promotions is also 

running a‘‘Good in the Hood’’ 

promotion, where shoppers receive 

stickers for making apurchasewith a 

localretailer. 

Acompleted sheet of 40 stickerscan 

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Rangiora business ownerKarl 

Horwarth, who has organised several 

majorfestivals in recent years,says 

some big events are in the pipeline 

and he hopestomake an 

announcement soon. 

All Together Kaiapoi coordinator 

LindaDunbar says her organisation 

is getting back to event planningnow 

that there is some more certainty 

thanks to the easing of restrictions. 

Meanwhile the Kaikoura 

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500 people. 

KaikouraDistrict Council events 

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ice rink is coming to towninAugust, 

and is exploring optionsfor awinter 

festival to be held around it. 

‘‘It’s goodnews. 

‘‘It means Ican start planning for 

laterinthe year,’’ Ms York says. 

‘‘As we all know, the danger is you 

couldplan this and thenwehave to 

cancel, but hopefully with the border 

reopeningthe townwill be busy 

again.’’ 

Laterinthe yearthe Kaikoura Hop 

and the KaikouraRaces are expected 

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Kaikoura artists on show 


Abreadth of media and styleswill 

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annualexhibition. 

The exhibition runsfrom April 15 to 

May 20, and is open dailyinthe Mayfair 

Arts and CultureCentre 10am to 7pm. 

Entry is free. 

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Club hopes for large turnout 


Rangiora Harness Racing Club president 

Greg Wright is hoping for alargeturnout at 

the club’s race meeting this Sunday 

afternoon. 

The club’s BetavetRaceday meetingat 

Rangiora Raceway willbeone of the first 

majorsporting eventsinNorth Canterbury 

sincethe Prime Minister’s announcement, 

on March23, that Covid19 pandemic 

restrictions wouldbereduced. 

It was welcome news for the cluband 

thereisanexciting programme of harness 

racing on the allweathertrack planned for 

Sunday, includingthe $20,000Kotare 

DownsClassic, sponsored by Gay and Tony 

Abell, of Fernside, for threeyearold 

pacers up to ratinggradeR65. 

‘‘Gayand Tony Abell continue their 

longstanding support of the club and this 

race is expected to onceagain be well 

supported,’’ Greg says. 

The programme has agoodmix of 

trotting and pacing races including the 

$9000feature for twoyearold pacers which 

will provide agood lead into the Group3, 

$30,000 LeonardMemorial for twoyearold 

fillies at Addington Raceway on Friday, 

April8. 

Covidpassports are still required for 

admission to the course, as those 

requirementsare not removeduntil the 

next day. 

‘‘Butasapredominantlyopenair event 

attendance numbers are not controlled,’’ 

Greg says. 

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NEWS 


Recognition for Tony 


Tony Abell’s outstanding contribution to 

harness racing has been recognised at the 

recent 20202021 season Harness Racing 

New Zealand annualawards. 

The Fernside octogenariansaid he was 

blindsided by the award,whichwas 

presentedatAddingtonRaceway, earlier 

this month. 

‘‘I hadnoidea whatwas coming. It came 

rightout of the blue and Iwas caught flat 

footed, but it was very pleasing,’’ Tony, 

aged 87, said. 

The award was in recognition of Tony’s 

role as aleading harness racing owner, 

breeder and administrator. His 

involvementinestablishing the Sires’ 

Stakes Board and morerecently for his 

work reshaping the harnessracing 

calendar were alsorecognised. 

Starting from this year, the calendar now 

begins on January 1and endson 

December 31, instead of beginning on 

August 1and ending on July 31. 

‘‘Thenew season brings the actualage of 

our horses closer in line withthe racing 

season,’’ Tony said. ‘‘The idea was 

controversialtobegin with,but when it 

was votedonatthe annual conference, 

everyclub supported it.’' 

Tony has also been involved in 

establishing anew CountryCups series of 

racing to highlight popular grasstrack 

racing, with a$100,000GroupOne Final 

planned. 

He has received manyawardsand 

accolades duringmore than 50 years 

involvementinharness racing,and in 2005 

he received the New Zealand Order of 

Meritfor services to the harness racing 

industry.Hehas alsobeeninducted into 

the Inter Dominion Hall of Fame,and has 

bred many top horses includingKotare 

Legend, the top threeyearold of his year. 

More recently Kotare Mach was another 

top performer bred and raced by Tony and 

Tony Abell 

his wife Gay. 

The awards, scheduled for last year, but 

postponeddue to Covid19, wereatriumph 

for the North Canterburyharnessracing 

industry. Kaiapoi’sColin and Nancy Hair, 

whose champion trotter Sundees Son won 

Trotter of the Year and Horse of the Year. 

Sundees Son’sdam, Stardon, also bred and 

owned by the couple,won Trotting 

Broodmareofthe Year. 

RobertDunn, who has two stables, one 

at Pukekohe and one at Woodend Beach, 

and now trainsinpartnership with his 

daughterinlaw, Jenna Dunn, won the 

leading trainer award for 2020/2021. The 

Dunns also train Sundees Son and 

Highgrove,winner of the TwoYearOld 

Trotting Colt or Gelding of the Year award. 

Jenna's father Craig Edmonds and her 

sisterAimee, in partnership at Woodend 

Beach,train Five WiseMen, which won 

the ThreeYearOld Trotting Coltor 

Gelding of the Year award. 

Big night out in Balcairn Hall 

Last Saturday night the Balcairn Hall 

buzzed with the sounds of music and 

entertainment. 

The Alpaca Social Club brought a 

marvellous show, mostly of their own 

written material to Balcairn. 

Craig Denham, Jon Sanders and 

special guest Cousin Alice showed their 

musical skill, and unique humour, by 

playing several different instruments 

with great singing. 

Cousin Alice gripped the audience 

with her gritty, sweet and smoky voice 

and mastery of different song genres. 

Their international experience, gained 

over the years, in places like Prague, 

London, Amsterdam and Dingle. 

They have also performed at several 

spots along the Mosel River in Germany 

was very noticeable and very much 

appreciated by the audience of some 70 

hardy souls. 

Jon said it was their largest audience 

on their current New Zealand tour which 

is sponsored and delivered by the Arts on 

Tour NZ Trust. 

From an absolute classical Irish 

musical piece written in the 1600s, 

performed by John and Alice on their 

ukuleles, to asong written by Craig about 

an unhelpful parking warden in 

Auckland, mixed with their great sense of 

humour, had the audience sitting on the 

edge of their seats. 

In times like we are in at the moment, 

it was so good, for many, to have such an 

enjoyable and relaxed evening. 

And as always in the Balcairn Hall, the 

half time supper reminded us of good old 

rural Kiwi hospitality. 

New litter bins for Cheviot 

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Seven new bins, which replace 

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outside 4Square, Harris Meats, Cheviot 

Area School by the Museum,Number 8 

Cafe, Cheviot TeaRooms and by the 

Easter at the Museum 

The Rangiora Early Records Society is 

busy preparing abig display case in the 

Dickhoff room for an exhibition on 

Easter Brides, with dresses from the 

museum’s collection dating from the 

1860s to the 1940s. 

phone box in the main centre, and at the 

Cheviot Central Garage. 

Afurther bin will be installed at Lions 

Park next week. 

The new bins were allowed for in the 

HurunuiDistrict Council’s long term 

plan. 

Visit to see it on Easter Sunday, April, 

17, from 1.30pm to 4pm. These 

beautiful dresses are well worth 

seeing. Also, for the children, on 

Wednesdays in the school holidays, 

1.30pm to 4pm, there will be an Easter 

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Poultry club embraces technology 

By DAVID HILL 

North Canterbury’s poultry club is 

embracing technology to overcome 

Covid19. 

The North Canterbury Poultry and 

Pigeon Club is cohosting New Zealand’s 

first virtual young bird show during 

Easter with the Christchurch Poultry, 

Bantam and Pigeon Club. 

The club is also adopting the latest 

technology as it prepares to host the 

national poultry show in Rangiora next 

year as part of its 125th jubilee. 

Assistant secretary Sarah Wyllie says 

with the uncertainty of Covid19, moving 

the young bird show online made sense. 

‘‘There was just so much uncertainty of 

whether we were going to be able to hold 

the young bird show and then hold our 

winter shows, so we thought we would try 

avirtual show. 

‘‘It gives us aplatform in case we need 

to move our winter show online at short 

notice. 

‘‘You’ve got far more flexibility and it’s 

far easier for people outside the area to 

enter.’’ 

The two clubs introduced the young 

bird show in 2019 as away of educating 

people new to breeding chooks and 

encouraging new exhibitors. 

The 2019 and 2021 young bird shows 

were held at the Rangiora Showgrounds 

and attracted between 200 and 300 

entries, around half the entries at the 

club’s annual North Canterbury Winter 

Show. 

Ms Wyllie says there has been lots of 

interest already from North Island 

exhibitors and from breeders throughout 

the South Island. 

But she admits it is not the same as a 

real show. 

The club hopes to be back at the 

Rangiora Showgrounds for the North 

Canterbury Winter Show from May 27 to 

28. 

For that show the club will be using the 

showday.online platform for the first 

time as atrial run before next year’s 

national show. 

Acellphone app is also being 

developed that will enable stewards to 

enter results instantly as soon as judges 

make their decisions. 

As the Christchurch club’s secretary, 

Sarah Wyllie 

Ms Wyllie already has experience 

organising the 2017 national poultry 

show. 

‘‘I was new on the committee then, but 

we did astella job.’’ 

Christchurch club president Mark 

Lilley and his wife Jenny have joined Ms 

Wyllie on a2023 national show 

committee to help the North Canterbury 

club prepare. 

Ms Wyllie also hopes to create an 

online platform with resources to help 

new poultry breeders. 

‘‘There’s so many people out there with 

chooks and we get so many questions on 

Facebook, so there’s aneed for educating 

them on the care of chooks and problem 

solving.’’ 

Entries for the virtual poultry show 

close on April 10 with judging over 

Easter. Some of the classes will be 

judged by public vote on Facebook. 

Entry is free, with exhibitors 

submitting photos of their birds. Details 

are available on the North Canterbury 

Poultry and Pigeon Club’s page on 

Facebook. 

Arable season of two halves 

By TIM CRONSHAW 

Canterbury’s soggy harvest is shaping up to 

be agame of twohalves for arable farmers. 

Unrelentingrain lastmonth interrupted 

harvesting, causing major headachesinthe 

shape of sprouting, flattenedcrops, boggy 

paddocks,increaseddemand for drying 

facilitiesand qualityissues. 

One estimate is that the whiteclover seed 

crop is down by about athird as aresultof 

seeds germinating,while the worst of the 

milling wheat and othercrops have been 

abandoned. 

In contrast, grainand seedcrops brought 

in before late January haveperformed well 

and even aboveaverageinsome cases. 

The Foundationfor ArableResearch has 

come across the same gap in its trial crops. 

Cereals senior researcher Jo Drummond 

said this harvest had challenged growers 

on many levelsand cultivar performance 

trialswere no exception. 

She said therewas abig difference 

between crop yields, depending on when 

they wereharvested. 

This was shownwith acoded cultivar 

calledKWW83Byielding 15.3 tonnes of 

feed wheat ahectare at an irrigated site in 

Wakanui whichwouldbehard to beat, she 

said. 

‘‘Thatwas an outstanding result 

considering the season we have had. The 

crops look OK for farmers who wereable to 

harvest in the windowfrom early to late 

January. 

‘‘If things were harvested late January 

onwards then that is where they have 

started to struggle. 

‘‘Whenthe school holidays finished the 

harvest became more challenging.’’ 

The top cultivar was followedbyLG 

Tapestry on 14.9t/haand Graham on 

14.6t/ha at atrial sowninearly April on a 

Jo Drummond 

paddock previouslygrowingChinese 

cabbage and harvestedonFebruary 18. 

Average yields were 14.3t/ha, the same as 

last season, and similar to the fouryear 

mean of 14.7 t/ha. 

Ms Drummond said some farmers were 

still getting theirlate crops in so all the 

results had yet to come through. 

‘‘The cream had alreadybeen takenoff in 

Novemberand December when we had 

reduced sunshine for the grain fill period. 

‘‘Anything that matured from late 

January onwards is strugglinginthe 

harvest conditions.’’ 

She said farmerswho were having to 

harvest grain with ahigher moisture 

content were still dealing with adrying 

backlog and weremaking decisions about 

which crops should get the priority. 

This was made moredifficult for those 

who did nothave accesstodrying facilities. 

Milling wheat cropsweren’tmeeting 

targets as aresult of low falling numbers 

because of high moisture and weren’t 

hitting protein levels or testweights, she 

said.

RURAL LIFE 


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Pay rise looming for sheep, beef farmers 

By TIM CRONSHAW 

Sheep and beef farmers can expect anice 

pay rise this season, but off alow base. 

Beef +Lamb New Zealand forecasts 

the average farm profit before tax will lift 

29 percent in 202122 to $116,200, which 

takes into account rising inflation. 

Chief economist Andrew Burtt said the 

increase would be welcomed, even if it 

arrived from alow figure in 202021 and 

was less than farmers got in 201718, 

201819 and 201920. 

‘‘Strong farmgate sheep prices 

underpin an 11% increase in gross farm 

revenue. 

‘‘Inflationary pressure is causing onfarm 

costs to lift sharply with farm 

expenditure forecast to increase 4.5%.’’ 

Gross farm revenue for the farming 

year should average $667,300 per farm 

with increased revenue driven mainly 

from sheep, and increased revenue 

coming from cattle, wool, deer, cash 

crops and other revenue. 

The flipside is farm spending is 

estimated to increase 5% to average just 

over $500,000 per farm. 

Farm bills will increase in all 

categories except for interest and rent. 

Fertiliser, lime, and seed spending will 

rise 16% to average $96,300. 

The organisation’s positive midseason 

outlook for global sheep meat and beef 

trade, was backed by good signs in key 

markets and demand projected to 

continue to exceed supply. 

Mr Burtt said alarger share of strong 

prices in New Zealand’s export markets 

was expected to flow into farmgate 

returns. 

‘‘Strong demand from the United 

States and China has underpinned 

record highs in the first quarter of the 

season for both sheep meat and beef 

returns, and atightening of global beef 

supply has added fuel to the global beef 

Andrew Burtt 

market.’’ 

The 11% hike will lift sheep meat and 

beef export receipts from last season to 

$9.6 billion and be 21% higher than the 

fiveyear average. 

The dollar remains favourable for 

exporters. 

Forecasts for the value of sheep meat 

exports are at arecord high and 18% up 

on the fiveyear average. 

Lamb export receipts are expected to 

rise by 13% with volumes down 1% from 

fewer lambs born last spring. 

Beef and veal export revenue is 

expected to be $4.9 billion, up 11%, even 

though export volumes appear to decline 

2% to 493,000 tonnes. 

Imported beef demand in the US is 

expected to be strong as aresult of its 

declining beef production. 

There are warning signs for red meat 

trading, including Covid19 uncertainty, 

high freight costs and geopolitical 

Upbeat ... Beef +Lamb New Zealand chief economist Andrew Burtt’s upbeat that fortunes 

are looking up for sheep and beef farmers. 

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Mr Burtt said farmers were wary about 

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possibility of holding livestock for longer 

and needing additional feed. 

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There are plenty of distinctive features which contribute to this charming home’s timeless appeal, and interest is sure to come from 

awide range of prospective purchasers as aconsequence. With their thoughts already turning to the next chapter in their lives our 

vendors are highly motivated, and are determined to achieve aresult by deadline sale. Urgent action is recommended -contact me 

now to learn more. 

Deadline Sale 

Closes Thursday 7 th April, 2022 at 

2.00pm (unless sold prior) 

3+2 3 3 

View Sunday 3April 12.00 -12.45 

Sally Davies 

M027 359 5509 

Esally.davies@pb.co.nz 

Property Brokers Ltd 

Website ID #RU98492 

2462605

North Canterbury 

Fernside 559 Mairaki Road 

Architecturally designed home with sheds galore 

This architecturally designedhome wouldbeideal homefor alarger family or someone whowanted to establish aB&B. 

In total there are 7bedrooms plusoffice, with3bathrooms, multiple livingareas and set on 3levels. The north facing 

balconiesare perfect for enjoying the beautifulestablished gardens. Thefarm issubdivided into 12 main paddocks on fertile 

Claremont Loam soil and comprises 21.5 hectares, of which 16 hectares approximately is deer fenced, with the remainder 

beingattractive woodlandwhich would be ideal for horsesorany other stock.Support buildingsincludeasoundwoolshed, a 

five bay concrete blockshedwhichhas three open bays for hayand the deer yards. Thereisasleepout with ashower and 

toilet, alargelockable workshopand implement shed, alockable concreteblock shedmeasuring approximately 22mx12m,as 

well as two historic sheds.Other features include an all weather tenniscourt, aproductiveorchard, with araised bed vegetable 

garden and achook house. 

7 4 2 

Deadline Sale closes Tuesday 19th April, 2022 at 2.00pm,(unless 

sold prior) 

View Sun 3Apr 2.30 -3.30pm 

Web pb.co.nz/RL100621 

Hamish Anderson 

M 027 678 8888 E hamisha@pb.co.nz 

Maurice Newell 

M 027 240 1718 E mauricen@pb.co.nz 

Bev Wright AREINZ 

M 027 434 2486 E bev@pb.co.nz 

Clarkville 215 Tram Road 

HanmerSprings 19A William JonesPlace 

Location location location 

Don'tmiss thisopportunity to secureahigh profile site, just 2.5km 

from the Christchurch motorway and within 16 km of both the central 

city and Christchurch International Airport. Ideal for atradesman's 

base,orfor asmall business withhigh traffic volumesduring daylight 

hours and highly populated areas withinaneasy commute. Our 

vendor has been using the landfor vegetable growing fordecades as 

the soil is very fertile and is described as Waimakariri DeepLoam over 

sand and Kaiapoi Silt Loam oversand.Continuingmarket gardening 

on asmall scale or grazingcattle are good options. 

Deadline Sale closes Thursday 14th 

April, 2022 at 2.00pm, (unless sold 

prior) 

View Sun 3Apr 11.30 -12.15pm 

Web pb.co.nz/RL93852 

Maurice Newell 

M 027 240 1718 

Hamish Anderson 

M 027 678 8888 

First in first served 

Brand new 3brm 2bathroom home withdouble garage. All ready to 

move in, only drapes required for finishing. This stylish open plan 

home is in the Chatterton River Estates development. Surrounded by 

classy new homes,all single levelsofar, with all day sun and lovely 

mountain views. AdjacentisChattertonRiver walking/cyclingtrail, and 

only 20 minutes stroll to the villagecentre. The perfect location for 

people who enjoy the peace of living justout of the central village hub. 

Lots of specialfeatures in this well finishedhome. Stylishkitchen with 

plentyofstoragespace, and generous dining and livingareas. 

3 2 1 2 

For Sale $895,000 

View By appointment 

Web pb.co.nz/HSU11701 

Janice Clyma 

M 027 434 7090 

Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 |pb.co.nz 

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NC club rugby returns on Saturday 

Proudly supportingsport 

in North Canterbury 

SPORTS RESULTS 

RUGBY 

By PETER WILLIAMS 

TheNorth CanterburySeniorRugby 

competition for 2022 gets under waythis 

Saturday,April 2, withthe first roundofthe 

NorthCanterbury onlycompetition. 

Last season’s winner, Kaiapoi,hosts 

Hurunui,AshleyplaysSaracens at Loburn, 

Woodend plays GlenmarkCheviotat 

GladstoneParkand Oxford hosts Ohoka. 

Allmatches are setfor a2.45 start. 

BecauseCovid has already affected most 

of the teams, to some extent, it hasbeen 

decided theDivision 2competitionwillnot 

start untilApril30. 

This will allow Division 2players to be 

available to fillany gaps that may arise if 

Covid doesstrike any Division 1teams 

duringthe first fourweeks of the season. 

Last season’s finalists, Kaiapoiand 

Saracens, are again expected to be among 

thetop teams. 

Kaiapoi hassomesignificant gains in the 

forwards, notablyatprop. Former captain, 

flanker Matt Etheredge,has returned to his 

home club afterplayingmany seasonswith 

the Christchurch Club. 

Saracens hasalsomadeacouple of gains 

in the front row, including welcomingback 

Kirk Freeman to theside. 

Oxfordthisseasonisunderthe direction 

of clubstalwart StuDalzell, whowill be 

operatinginaplayercoachrole. 

It has lost the services of two keybacks in 

Jesse Bowring andAngus Mitchell. 

GlenmarkCheviot welcomes back 

George Fox, while midfielderMatt Holmes 

andlockTom Blytheare gains from 

Methven andRakaiarespectively. 

Hurunui will be missing theservices of 

energetic lockThomasWilliams and will be 

introducing some Colts and Division2 

players to Division1rugby. 

It’s all on!!! 

Saturday 

APRIL 2 nd 

Rugby is Back on in North Canterbury 

Ashley vs Saracens, Loburn 2:45 pm 

Woodend vs Glenmark-Cheviot, Gladstone Park 2:45 pm 

Kaiapoi vs Hurunui, Kaiapoi Oval 2:45 pm 

Oxford vs Ohoka, Oxford Oval 2.45pm 

Defending champions ... Kaiapoi won last year’s North Canterbury title. 

Themood at Ashleyisbuoyant as ithas 

attractedanumber of newplayers. Loose 

forward Elijah Coulstonandfiveeighth 

Nathan Emeryare gainsfromNew 

Brighton,while JackReganjoins Ashley 

from Belfast. 

Ashley willalso be promoting some 

players fromlastseason’s successfulColts 

side,soapathway through to senior Rugby 

is clearly being established at Ashley. 

This seasonOhokaisbeing coached by 

Dayle Sutherland, Terry O’Loughlin and 

Oscar Pammet. The playing roster is 

expected to be similar to lastseason. 

Woodend hasalsoretained most of last 

season’steam and hasgained ahooker and 

amidfielder from Rotorua. 

TheCombinedCountry LuisettiSeeds 

competition kicks offonSaturday,April9, 

and will finishwiththe Combined Finalfor 

the Luisetti Cup on June18. TheNorth 

Canterbury only competition resumes, and 

willfinishwith finalsonJuly30 

Winning smile ... Last year’s Kaiapoi 

captain Jacob Hurring. 

Darfield claims country cricket one day competition title 

CRICKET 

Darfield has beencrowned countrycricket 

champions after comprehensivelybeating 

LeestonSouthbridgeinSaturday’s final. 

TheDarfieldXIcappedoff afine 2021/22 

CRVAmbreedCountryPremier OneDay 

competition campaign by lifting the 

Fulton/WrightCup at Canterbury 

Country’s showpiece ground, Mainpower 

Oval in Rangiora. 

Last year’sbeaten finalist, Darfield, won 

thetossandelected to bowl firstand make 

useoftheirstrike bowlingunit,led by 

newlycapped Canterbury firstclass 

playerZak Foulkes. 

LeestonSouthbridgeopeners Toby 

Doyleand Brayden Hill triedtoseethe 

shineoff thenewball,beforeFoulkes 

skittled Doyle in the fifth over. 

Foulkes thenclaimed thebig scalp of 

Harry Chamberlainfor aduck,while Will 

Greensladetrapped Canterburystalwart 

William Williams cheaply. 

Reelingat 63/7, experienced pair Chris 

Beaton(18runs off57balls)and Dougald 

Munro(33 off37)made aspirited fightback 

before LeestonSouthbridge crumbled to 

be alloutfor 113inthe 39thover. 

Greensladefinished with thefine 

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figures of 3/18off hismaximum nine overs, 

while Foulkesclaimed 2/17off hisnine. 

Will Williams tookthenew ball to try to 

make early inroadsindefendingthe 

underpar total. 

While he got the bigwicket ofZak 

Foulkes, caughtbehind forjust 13, 

LeestonSouthbridgecould do littleto 

denyDarfield. 

Opener Nick Gilbert batted supremely 

for an unbeatenhalfcentury, wellsupportedbyafreeflowing 

32 off 37 balls 

fromRyan Hughes, who took outMVP 

honours. 

Thepairguided Darfieldtoaneightwicket 

win,with16.3 overs to spare. 

Your local paper, 

keeping you 

in touch 

with your 

community 

and its people 

RangioraBridge Club 

Daylight Saving Pairs:North/South: 

VeronicaHall/Robyn Dawson 1, Judith 

Calder/BeverleyBrain 2, Michael 

D'Oliviera/SueMcIlroy3.East/West:Fern 

McRae/Joyce Gray 1, NormShipley/ 

Janice Pickering2,PaulineMiller/ 

Gaynor Hurford 3. 

Rangiora 5A: MaxMorrison/Jane Lemon 

1, Peter Story/JennyStory 2, Liz 

Fitzgerald/JohnKruiniger 3. 

Rimu Pairs:N/S Irene Carson/Helen 

Thornburgh1,Shona Keating/Helen 

Phillipsand Judy Bruerton/Joyce Gray 

equal2.E/W ColleenAdam/Jan Thayer 1, 

BuntyMarshall/Kevin Kuch2,PatGreen/ 

Denise Lang 3. 

Individual: N/S: Judy Bruerton/Linda 

Hanham 1, Ann Blackie/Alana Blackie 2, 

Sue McIlroy/Marion Lomax 3. E/W: 

VeronicaHall/Richard Luisetti 1, David 

Rainey/David McRae 2, LyndaGrierson/ 

Gaynor Hurford 3. 

Waimakariri Gorge Women's Golf 

1st Rosebowl Stableford 18 Holes: L 

Smith39, MTeAwa 33, KBush 31, T 

Craig29, KRedwood 29, SKing28, L 

Steele 27, CWillson27, MRobertson27. 

Nine holes:JJenkins17, JStewart 12. 

Rangiora Golf Club 

Stableford:Men: Richard Luisetti22, 

Clifford Boddy 18 c/b,BrucePugh 18. 

Women: Carol VanHout 19, PGlassey 18 

c/b. 

Amberley Golf Club 

March26: BYates +2, SManson +1, H 

Murchison 0, RClifdon0,JRobertson 0. 

Excel Design Longest Putt: MNeale. 

Women:JBrown +2, KPepper +2, J 

Southern 0, JMorgan–1, AWilshire–1. 

Mid WeekMen: JWigley 42, GBlackler 

40, BFitzgerald38, GD’Avergne 37. 

Women:JMorgan +7, JInkson +7, V 

Wormald +6. Longest Putt: JMorgan. 

Nine Holers: GReid 15 Putts,JEvans16, 

DPercy 16, RKemp 16. 

In theplate final, Lincolnendedthe 

season on ahigh note. 

Facing the challenge fromOxford 

Rangiora,Lincolnsuccessfully chased 

down 155withfour wickets inhandina 

wellfought contest. 

Short scorecard: 

LeestonSouthbridge 113 (D Munro 33, B 

Hill 20; WGreenslade 3/18, ZFoulkes2/17, 

RHughes 2/18)losttoDarfield116/2(N 

Gilbert53no, RHughes 32no). 

OxfordRangiora 155 (D Fulton 68,L 

Waghorn 23,ASingh20; THolland 4/33, B 

Moore2/21,EPaterson 2/46)losttoLincoln 

156/6 (H Drummond 63,APaterson 29no; H 

Sail 3/2,ASingh 2/37). 

Locals 

Supporting 

Locals 

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What’s happening in your 

community… 

All Redinfo traffic onchanges light restrictions to Council are services in placeand -visit facilities waimakariri.govt.nz can be found atfor waimakariri.govt.nz/covid19 

further informantion. 

Have Your Say on the Dra Annual Plan 

Before 4April 

Share your thoughts on the Council’s plan for the 

coming year. 

The Dra Annual Plan 2022/23 includes aproposed 

4.3%ratesrise–only 0.1%higher thanpredicted– 

and allows theCouncil to continue to deliverservices 

at ahighleveldespite lowerthan expectedcentral 

funding contributions. 

Mayor Dan Gordon says the focus of this plan is on 

ensuring the Council completes key community and 

infrastructure projects while updating residents 

about regulatory and central government changes 

that will affect the Council. 

Public Facilities to Drop Vaccine Passes 

from 5April 

From 5April Council venues and facilities will no 

longer require customers to provide avaccine pass 

as well as removing some other restrictions. 

Chief Executive Jim Harland says the removal of 

restrictions takes into account the latest health 

advice and reflects the change in risk profile due to 

the high levels of vaccination and natural immunity 

to Covid-19. 

“We always maintained that we would review the 

situation, including advice from the Ministry of 

Health, and watch the announcements closely so 

that we can respond quickly when the situation 

improves. That’s exactly what we’re doing now.” 

Mayor Dan Gordon says he supports restrictions 

lowering but still urges the community to not 

become complacent with Covid-19. 

“Putting in place restrictions was never an easy 

decision for the Council to make but one based on 

the information and health advice at the time. 

“I urge everyone to continue to practice good 

hygiene, wear masks when needed, follow the 

guidance on self-isolation and show respect and 

tolerance to one another.” 

Full details on how Council services will be running 

will be available at waimakariri.govt.nz in early April. 

North Kaiapoi Water Supply 

The Council have continued to carry out testing of 

the water supply in north Kaiapoi since chlorine 

was turned off earlier in the week. 

The results so far have been good and means 

the chlorination and flushing has been successful 

at clearing out the material that we suspect has 

slowly built up on the pipework. 

We will continue to monitor the supply and keep the 

community up to date. Thank you for your patience. 

Stay home 

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Wash &dry or 

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s 

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Monday 4April • 10am-12pm 

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Thursday 7April • 10am-12pm 

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eze 

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COASTAL WARNING 

SIREN TEST 

MONDAY 4APRIL 1PM 

Civil Defence will be testing the coastal warning 

system at 1pm on Monday 4April. 

Sirens are located at The Pines Beach/Kairaki, 

Woodend and Waikuku beaches, however depending 

on wind conditions, the sound may travel further. 

The testmessagewill last approximately oneminute 

and,depending on howclose youare, maybequiteloud. 

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Recycling and organics 

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Peer support ... The reintroduction of peer support for Year 9s has been asuccess 

at Oxford Area School. 


Peer support back at Oxford 

By DAVID HILL 

OxfordArea School has reintroduced 

peer support for Year 9s with positive 

results to date. 

Year 9/10 dean ReeseKean says the 

peer support programme was 

reinstatedthis year after achange to 

schoolstructures. 

‘‘We’ve had it in the past, but for the 

last few years we’ve had verticalform 

classes with amix of year 9to13s,’’he 

says. 

‘‘But we found it wasn’t working 

because the school is getting bigger.’’ 

This year the school returned to 

havingseparateyear 9/10and year 11 

to 13 formclasses and introduced a 

peer support programme as ‘‘a 

positive way of welcoming new 

students at year 9tothe school’’, Mr 

Kean says. 

‘‘It seems to be goingreally well and 

the year9sare respondingwell. 

‘‘You can feel the energy they’re 

bringing each week.’’ 

This year there are 55 year 9s, more 

than in previous years, with at least20 

who are new to the school. 

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Around 20 year 12 and 13 pupils 

signed up to be peersupportleaders 

at the end of last year. 

Theywere provided withtwo days of 

training, followed by abriefing before 

school returned this year. 

EachThursday morning the year 9s 

meetwith their peer support leaders 

to discuss differenttopics,including 

peerpressure and selfconfidence. 

‘‘It’s anotherperson for the year 9s 

to connect with and oftenthey will 

connectdifferently to people closerin 

age rather than adults,’’ Mr Keansays. 

Year12pupils Elise Whitwell and 

Thomas Pearce (both16) are enjoying 

being peer support leaders. 

Elise says it is different from what 

she imagined, but she saysitisagood 

experience as she aimstobecomea 

teacherone day. 

Thomas says being involvedhas 

opened up his thinking as he develops 

an interest in psychology. 

Mr Kean hopesEliseand Thomas 

willbeable to help develop the 

programme further as anew group of 

peersupport leaders is brought in for 

nextyear. 

Public Notices 

Kate Valley Landfill Community 

Trust 2022 

15 applications requesting over $147,000 were 

received with grants totaling $51,178.05 being 

made to the following groups: 

• Waipara Volunteer Fire Brigade –equipment 

for supportvehicle 

• Scouting Glenmark -insurance, uniforms & 

equipment 

• Friends ofGlenmark Church –wheelchair 

access 

• Waipara Adventure Centre –maintenance of 

swimming hole 

• Waipara Fireworks –annual fireworks display 

• North Canterbury Boxing Club –gym 

equipment 

• Waipara School PTA –iPads 

• Glenmark Reserves Committee –rangehood 

• Amberley Playcentre –equipment &resources 

• Waipara School –tables &storage lockers 

• Amberley Golf Club –concrete repairs 

• Amberley Squash Rackets Club -security 

upgrade 

• Amberley Community Preschool –sand &bark 

Entertainment 

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Country Music 

Club Night 

6 th April, 7pm, 

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machineryand farm clean 

ups, old vehicles etc. 

100% locally owned. 

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2312759 

RATEC MotorsportInc.Limeworks Rd 

2022Time Trials Event 

Council has approved the temporary closure of 

Limeworks Road, Sunday 3April 2022, 9am to 

6pm. 

This closure is made under paragraph 11(e) ofthe Tenth 

Schedule ofthe Local Government Act 1974. This applies 

to all vehicular traffic with the exception of emergency 

services vehicles. 

2470131 

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY 

MEETING 

An Extraordinary meeting of the Waimakariri 

District Council has been scheduled on 

Friday 1April 2022 at 9am to be held virtually 

while simultaneously being audio streamed on 

YouTube. The YouTube link for themeeting will be 

available on the Council’s Website. 

Sarah Nichols 

GOVERNANCE MANAGER 

ANNUAL 

GENERAL 

MEETING 

4 TH APRIL, 2022 

7.00 PM 

4B Millton 

Avenue 

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Please call and 

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ANY old cars, anything pre 

1990, unfinished Hot Rods, 

Classic Cars. Please call 

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CARS, vans, 4WD’s 

wanted for dismantling or 

repair. Phone 027 258 

8366. 

FALCONS & 

COMMODORES 

WANTED 

Suitable for 

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Ph 313 7216 

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2470218 

PUBLIC NOTICE OF 

APPLICATION FOR 

ON-LICENCE 

SECTION 101, SALE 

AND SUPPLY OF 

ALCOHOL ACT 2012 

Summit Hospitality Ltd, Five 

Stags Rangiora has made 

application to the District 

Licensing Committee at 

Rangiora for the renewal of 

a On-Licence in respect of 

the premises situated at 3/29 

Huntingdon Drive, Arlington, 

Rangiora or the Restaurant/ 

Bar known as Five Stags 

Rangiora. 

The general nature of the 

business conducted (or to be 

conducted) under the licence 

is Tavern. 

The days on which and the 

hours during which alcohol 

is (or is intended to be) sold 

under the licence remain 

Sunday to Thursday: 8am 

- 11pm. Friday & Saturday: 

8am -1am (the followingday). 

The application may be 

inspected during ordinary 

office hours at the office of the 

Waimakariri District Licensing 

Committee at 215 High 

Street, Rangiora. 

Any person who is entitled 

to object and who wishes 

to object to the issue of the 

licence may, not later than 15 

working days after the date of 

the publication of this notice, 

file anoticein 

writing of the objection 

with the Secretary of the 

Waimakariri District Licensing 

Committee at Private Bag 

1005, Rangiora 7440 or email 

to records@wmk.govt.nz. 

No objection to the renewal 

of alicence may be made in 

relation to amatterother than 

amatter specified in section 

131 of the Sale and Supply of 

Alcohol Act 2012. 

This is the first publication of 

this notice. 

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WE are looking for Poultry 

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We have work available 

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7am-3.30pm. These are 

very physical roles which 

include squatting, lifting 

and bending. We are looking 

for someone who can 

start asap, 7am with a 

3.30pm finish. You will 

need to comply with strict 

biosecurity measures 

including not having any 

chickens, pigs or birds 

residing at your residence. 

You will need reliable 

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bus routes. Call Superior 

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LOOKING for Sawmill 

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You will need ahigh level 

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initiative and reliability. 

You will be required to 

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roles for the right people. 

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Pets 

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for smaller dogs. We look 

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"No kennels". Phone today 

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Gardening 

A+ GARDEN hedges cut 

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work. For a quote, phone 

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LAWN MOWING, Waimakariri 

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Firewood 

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Automotive Services 

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CASUAL, switched on, 

reliable Traffic Controllers 

wanted. These roles will 

include early starts and late 

finishes, day and night 

shifts. You do not have to 

be available every day to 

apply. Having TC1 and a 

full licence is an advantage. 

You will need to be able to 

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drug test. You will need to 

be able to stand on your feet 

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right people. Call Superior 

Personnel on 03 313 6180 

or 0508 787 374 for more 

roles check out 


HOMESITTERS REQUIRED 

Ad# 39108 

Homesitters required in 

Canterbury! We are 

looking for mature, 

animal loving 

homesitters from mid 

April/ Easter onwards 

in Christchurch. 

All lovely homes and pets. 

Search postanote.co.nz 

for more details. 

HANDYMAN required to 

assist with the maintenance 

of alifestyle block in the 

Ashley area. Flexible hours 

to suit. Phone 021 377 093. 

Wanted To Rent 

TWO ADULTS, 1retired 

midwife pensioner & her 

professional IT employed 

son, working in Christchurch 

or from home. We 

are looking for ahouse in 

the country within 30 -60 

minutes commute to Chch 

Airport. Must allow 

kenneled dogs and prefer 

lifestyle property without 

city type close houses. Rent 

$400 to $650 weekly 

depending on condition of 

property. Willing to accept 

older share milkers house 

or cottage not up to tenancy 

standards regarding insulation 

&heating as long as 

there is ongrid power & 

water. Financially stable 

with good references. 

Looking to move within the 

next month or so April 1st 

or May 1st. Please call 

Luke 021 915 795 or 

Marilyn 021 919 861 if you 

would be able to house our 

family with dogs.

CLASSIFIED 


UtilitiesOfficer 

–Storm and Wastewater 

At Hurunui District Council we’re looking for someone 

who is keen to be part ofour busy team, maintaining 

stormand wastewater schemes and delivering safe and 

compliantservices. 

The work you will bedoing involves maintaining the 

water and waste water electrical and communications 

assets. 

Youwill mainly be working onensuring that storm and 

wastewater systems are maintained effectively and 

efficiently so that ratepayers have acontinuous safe 

serviceacross the District. 

However,work in thedrinking water reticulation systems 

will happenfrom time to time. 

What you need 

Youwill bea“common-sense” type person, skilled in 

this industry. 

If you have transferable skills, we’re willing to invest in 

training and upskilling you to achieve the appropriate 

qualifications. 

Maybe you have aplumbing, drainlaying or mechanical 

background that are good transferrable skills. 

Either way, ifyou’re hard working and want todeliver 

aservice directly to customers then you’re what we’re 

looking for. 

Youmust have digger experience. AnNZQA Certificate 

in Water and Wastewater Reticulation or its equivalent 

will be highlyregarded. 

This role isphysically demanding and work will be 

across the entire District. Part of the position involves 

being rostered for on-call and stand-by duties 

during weekends and public holidays. In return we 

offer competitive remuneration, access to learning, 

development opportunities and a supportive, team 

environment. 

Where you will work 

The Hurunuiisalarge, rural district comprising of small 

townships and settlements and awidespread network of 

roadsutility infrastructure, property and reserves. 

The position is based in our Amberley office, 35 

minutes north of Christchurch and the entrance tothe 

Waipara wine growing region and our award winning 

Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools and Spa. No parking 

or traffic hassles, scenic vistas in abundance, flexible 

employment conditions and friendly, family oriented 

stafftoshare your worklife with. 

For more information about the position description 

and to apply,goonline to 

http://hurunui.currentjobs.co.nz. 

Enquiries to michael.prisk@hurunui.govt.nz 

phone027 528 6967 

Applicationsclose Tuesday 26 April 2022. 

Situations Wanted 

HOUSE CLEANER 

available. Ph 021 117 7546. 

Livestock 

HOME KILL 

MEAT PROCESSING 

MEAT2U.NZ 

313 0022 

2466978 

SUFFOLK and Cheviot 1 

shear rams, some suitable 

for hogget mating. Ph 0204 

001 7452 or after hours 03 

314 7511. 

Trade&Services 

A PAINTER WITH 

PASSION! Local painter 

with 30 years of quality and 

integrity in all aspects of 

painting. Phone Mike on 

021 0903 8546. 

ABEL &Prestige Chimney 

Cleaning. Nth Cant owned 

& operated. Covering all 

areas from Waimak to Hanmer. 

Professional, guaranteed, 

service. Firebox 

repairs, carry most parts. Ph 

0800 661 244. 

Personal 

Trade&Services 

Log Fires 

Pellet Fires 

Heat Pumps 

2470210 

PEGASUS man, single and 

indep seeks a nice well 

presented and outgoing 

local lady (or nearby) to 

enjoy company and dining 

out with. Please Ph/Txt 

0276 594 425. 

Sales 

Service 

Installations 

Free Quotes 

03 343 1651 

472 Blenheim Rd 

www.heatstore.co.nz 

2469322 

Situations Vacant 

We are building anew Trade Team! 

This is your chance to be apart of something special in North Canterbury. 

We want only the very best, as the potential here is unlimited. 

If you think you’re good enough, and can prove it please apply. 

Trade Sales Rep Building Quotes &Estimator Trade Sales Support 

This is an opportunity to really shine! 

Do you like people? 

Are you part of the building industry? 

Can you fix problems? 

Are you professional in your endeavours? 

If you have experience in any of these roles please forward your written 

application including your CV to: 

McAlpines Mitre 10 MEGA, Private Bag 1003, Rangiora 7440 

or email: applications@mcalpines.co.nz 

Please specify which position you are applying for. 

We need you ! 

We are seeking applications from outgoing, friendly and enthusiastic people to join our team and have the following 

Fixed Term positions available: 

Inwards Goods /StorePerson 

• Mon –Fri up to 40 hours 

• Mustbephysically fit and strong 

• Will be required to lift and carry heavy products 

all day 

• Work as part of ateam 

• Beable to think proactively 

• Work hard and smart 

• Mustbecustomer focused 

• Forklift licencewould help 

• Musthavea“Can Do” attitude 

Retail Assistants 

• Weekend work required, up to 40 hours 

• Working inside and outside 

• Mustbephysically fit and strong 

• Required to climb ladders and use lifting equipment 

• Required to pick, carry,assemble products 




• Customer focused 

• Familiarity ineither Power tools, Power garden or 

Bathroom products preferred 

Inwards Goods Forklift Driver 

• Monday–Friday 

• Forklift licenceand OSH cert 

• Experience in abusyenvironment 

• Musthavea“Can Do” attitude 

• Ability to get the job done 

• Reliable, flexible and disciplined 

• Able to think and act on the go 

• Beagoodteamplayer 

• Show an eye for detail and proactive planning 

• Have great communication skills 

Garden Products Team Member 

• Garden plant and product knowledge critical 

• Weekend work required 

• Upto40hours 

• Mustbecustomer focused 

• Working inside and outside 

• Mustbephysicallyfitand strong 

• Will be required to climb ladders and use lifting 

equipment 




• Must be customer focused 

McAlpines have an active drug &alcoholpolicy in place, apre-employment drug test and medical will be required. 

If any of these positions sound like you, send your application and CV to: 

Fixed Term Roles 

McAlpines Mitre 10 Mega 

PO Box 1003 

Rangiora 7440 

Or email applications@mcalpines.co.nz 

PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH POSITION YOU ARE APPLYINGFOR 

ALL TREE SERVICES, 

arbour work, pruning, tree 

removal. Affordable & 

friendly service. Telephone 

021 111 4322. 

ARBORIST qualified. 

Copper Beech Tree 

Services. Tree removal, 

pruning, height reduction, 

hedge trimming, shaping, 

tree planting, firewood. 

Free quotes. Contact Angus 

Edwards 027 259 6741 

copperbeechtreeservices@gmail.com 

BRIAN’S Tree Services. 

Tree felling, topping, 

shaping, firewood cut, rubbish 

removed, stump grinding, 

branch chipping. 

Affordable rates. Phone 03 

327 5505 or 021 124 4894. 

Trade &Services 

DIESEL HEATERS 

Infrared radiant & fan 

forced workshop heaters. 

027 262 2266 

www.BLAX.nz. 

CHIMNEY SWEEPS. 

Time to service your fire. 

Accumulation of soot seriously 

affects performance. 

Latest rotary brush technology. 

Free moisture check 

on wood. Safety inspection. 

All work insured and guaranteed. 

From $80 single 

story. 0800 SWEEPME or 

www.sweepnz.co.nz. 

2464774 

DIRTY TILES &Grout? 

Professional tile cleaning, 

tiled shower restoration, 

mouldy silcone, shower 

glass & we can even 

recolour your old grout! 

For all your tile and grout 

issues call Grout Pro for a 

free, no obligation quote. 

Ph Darryl 0800 882 772. 

DRESSMAKING Bev’s 

Sew Good Services. For all 

your alterations, repairs, 

dressmaking, curtains. 

Phone 327 5535. 

HOMEKILL & Wild 

Game meat processing. Ph 

313 0022. www.meat2u.nz. 

LOGSPLITTERS Honda 

or Rato powered, plus parts 

& accessories. Telephone 

027 262 2266 www.BLAX.nz. 

PAINT & wallpaper 

services. Wayne Bryant, 

exterior, interior. Qualified 

tradesman. Free quotes. Ph 


PAINTER & Decorator. 

25 + years experience. 

Interior /exterior, roofs & 

waterblasting. For a free 

quote, please ph Steve 03 


PAINTER. Qualified local 

professional, Int / Ext, 

roofs, wallpaper. Call or 

text Corban 027 846 5035. 

Pride &Quality Painting 

&Decorating Services 

20 yrs exp, fast and friendly 

service. For all your painting 

needs, phone: Martin 310 

6187 or 021 128 9867 

ANTHONY SYMONDS 

Forall your painting & 

plastering requirements 

Local with 30 years 

experience 

All workmanship 

Guaranteed. 

Phone 021 344 023 

2220615 

POWER TOOLS repairs, 

parts &sales for over 40 

years. All main brands serviced. 

Grossman Trade 

Tools, 23 Watts Road, 

Christchurch. Ph 389 9230. 

REMOVALISTS 

Movemen Ltd 

2Men &agood sized truck. 

From $150 plus GST per hour. 

Kaiapoi based. 

Call Gerard 

027 668 3636 

movemen.co.nz 

2401953 

WINDOW TINTING 

tintawindow 

advanced film solutions 

99% uv block 

fade protection 

heat control 

reduce glare 

25 Years Experience 

Trade &Services 

KITCHEN, 

renovations, 

pergolas, fencing. Honest 

reliable licenced builders. 

Ph Don 027 727 9162. 

METAL WORX. Flashing, 

Sheetmetal Fabrication, 

Wrought Iron, 

Welding, Custom Trailers, 

General Metalwork. No job 

too big or too small. Ph 021 

265 5428 or 03 314 6908. 

Find us on facebook/ 

Glenmark Metal Worx. 

glenmarkmetalworx.ltd@gmail.com. 

RANGIORA Rubbish 

Removal and RRR skips. 

Wheelie bins any frequency 

and skips from 1.5 cube to 

9cube. Skips and wheelie 

bins for any use, rubbish, 

greenwaste, building sites 

or just cleanups. Give us a 

phone call 313 6957 or for 

skips 021 313 255. 

privacy films 

frosting designs 

non-darkening films 

Workmanship Guaranteed 

Lifetime Warranties on Most Films 

UV 

block 

ROOFER. All roof repairs, 

roof painting, water blasting, 

moss treatment, 

repointing, gutter cleans & 

snow straps,and more. Free 

quotes. Please ph Nathan 

027 516 6609. 

SCREEN PRINTING. 

For all your printing 

bathroom, requirements. T-shirts, 

decking, Hoodies, Hi-Vis vests and 

polos, Overalls, Caps etc. 

Please phone Heather 03 

313 0261 or email heather. 

norstar@gmail.com. 

SEPTIC TANK 

CLEANING 

Bill’s Liquid 

Waste 

You dump it... 

Blair pumps it... 

Blair Tavendale 


0275 379-694 

TRUCK WASH. Mobile 

touchless on-farm foam 

wash solutions. Telephone 

027 262 2266 

www.CLEANFLEET.nz. 

VALUATION - 

Specialising in North Canterbury. 

Contact Geoff at 

Maxwell Valuation. Phone 

03 310 8541 or email 

geoff@maxval.co.nz. 

WATERBLASTERS Hot 

or cold electric, 3phase or 

petrol. Tel 027 262 2266. 

wwwBLAX.nz. 

Free Quotes Canterbury and Districts 

03 365 3653 0800 368 468 

2225862 

SHEARER. Hap’s Farm & 

Lifestyle Services. Shearing, 

crutching, drenching, 

tailing, feet trimming & 

health check. — Ph. 03- 

423-3713 or 021-267-4025. 

SHEEP SHEARING, 

drenching, feet trimming. 

For Lifestyle blocks. Call 

Stu 027 315 6916. 

STUMP GRINDING: 

Stumpclear is here for 

stump grinding at your 

home or lifestyle block in the 

Waimakariri District. —Ph. 

027-242-3522. 

2362002 

027 216 0000 

CRAIGS Trees 

(03) 327-4190 

TREE REMOVALS 

THINNING &PRUNING 

STUMPGRINDING 

FELLING &TOPPING 

FULLYINSURED 

QUALIFIED ARBORIST 

Free Quotes 

027 2299 454 

craigstrees@xtra.co.nz 

2434390

Trusted Trades & 

Professional Services 

Guide 

To book your spaceinthis guide,phoneAmanda Keys 313 2840 or email amanda.keys@ncnews.co.nz 

2434425 

2269236 

Air Conditioning 

Stay cool this summer 

Call us now for your free quote 


18 Albert Street, Rangiora 

Design |Installation |Servicing 

Computer Repairs 

Bruce Evans 

131 Ohoka Road 

Kaiapoi 

Phone 03 313 7144 

027 432 1534 

Fax 03 313 2144 

rgrantelectrical@gmail.com 

PO Box 69, Rangiora 

Electrician 

Engineering 

03 327 3111 

021 293 6331 

compucare@xtra.co.nz 

www.compucare.co.nz 

Computer Repairs &upgrades 

Prompt professional services 

Allan Pethig 

For all your electrical needs. Residential &Commercial 

For your Engineering needs 

187d Ohoka Road, Kaiapoi 

Phone 03 327 5246 |027 495 2821 

toppeng@xtra.co.nz 

2276525v2 

Virus &malware removal 

New &UsedPC’s4Sale 

Appliance Repairs 

•REGISTERED TECHNICIAN 

•AUTHORISED LOCAL SERVICE 

F&P,Bosch, Smeg, 

Ariston, LG, Classique,Haier, 

Samsung andmore.... 

“Forbestresults be sure to useauthorised service” 

NORTHCANTERBURY APPLIANCE SERVICES 

Rangiora: 03 313 4420 Kaiapoi: 03 327 3810 

2397712v5 

Construction &Concrete 

All Construction & Concrete Work 

•Driveways, patios &paths 

•Bridges and Culverts 

•Floors, foundations 

•Sheds and buildings 

•Dairy Sheds, Herd homes 

•Silage pits, effluent ponds 

•Excavation and cartage 

•Precast concrete 

•Insulated panels 

Glass &Windscreens 

pet doors installed 

from only $165 

2332343v2 

Daryl Power 

027 230 9401 

concretepower@scorch.co.nz 

www.concretepower.co.nz 

2273277 

Butchery 

OxfordButchery 

Shane and Leanne Frahm 

We cankill&process yourstock 

FourGenerations of Frahms 

since 1957 

Ph 312 4205 

Oxford 

Number one 

old-fashioned bacon 

&ham curing. 

A/H 312 4709 

WE ARE OPEN, WEARE AESSENTIAL SERVICE 

2420841 

▪ Painting ▪ Gardening 

▪ Fencing ▪ Lawn mowing 

▪ All General Maintenance 

Performed to the highest 

standard by a straight up, 

honest, Handy Guy 

No job too small! 

Flat hourly rate, no hidden surprises! 

THE 

HANDY 

GUY! 

Handyman 

Call Guy “The Handy Guy” Now 

0275 040 658 

2227889v2 

Electrician 

AARON HARRIS 

ELECTRICAL LTD 

• NEW HOUSES • ALTERATIONS 

• ELECTRICAL INSPECTIONS 

• SMART WIRING 

• SOLAR PV INSTALLATIONS 

FROM $6000 PLUS GST 

M: 0275 543 958 

E: aaron@ahel.co.nz 

Landscaping 

YOU 

COULD 

BE 

HERE 

Advertise 

your business 

in our Trades 

and Services 

Phone 

Amanda Keys 

on 


For all your landscaping needs 

All Landscaping, Retaining Walls (Engineered and 

Non-Engineered), Timber Fences, Landscape Structures 

and more...Lifestyle Block, Rural and Residential. 

Phone Jeremy 021 169 9394 

www.blackhill.co.nz 

www.facebook.com/blackhillltd 

2372616v2 

Chimney Sweeping 

$70 Chimney Sweeping 

Waimakariri and Hurunui wide! 

Chimney fires are extremely dange 

erous 

and can spread to other areas of your 

home. Make sure your home is safe 

this winter and get your chimney 

swept today! 

Book now! Call/Text 020 4121 0967 or 

message us on Facebook at Hurunuiui Chimney Sweeping 

2470290 

Landscaping 

STEWART CONTRACTING 

Landscaping -Fencing 

& Earthworks 

ENJOYABLE STRESS FREE LANDSCAPING 

03 313 9375 •027 369 3974 

www.stewartcontracting.co.nz 

contact@stewartcontracting.co.nz 

Scrap Metal 

CASH PAID FOR SCRAP 

•Car Bodies •Scrap Steel•Specialists in Farm 

Machinery•All non Ferrous 

MAINLAND 

METALS LTD 

Ph (03)338 7000 

Mike0274 818544 •Robbie 0274 818 027 

Locally owned and operated 

1902273 

2136148 

2470224 

Tools &Equipment 

SALES 

PARTS 

SERVICE 

ACCESSORIES 

ON-FARM VISITS 

Water Blasters, Log Splitters, Generators, 

Air Compressors, Water Pumps, Air Tools, Spray 

Equipment, Replacement Ag Seats, Small Motors. 

Free local machinerydelivery. 

Richard Black www.BLAX.nz 

North Canterburyowned &operated 

2435547v2 

Physio &Pilates 

NEW PHYSIO AND PILATES STUDIO 

OPEN NOW IN FERNSIDE. 

Offering ACC, private and group sessions. 

Contact Mel 022 320 7256 

www.facebook.com/fernsidephysiopilates/ 

Fernsidephysiopilates@gmail.com 

CAP 65 

CAP 40 

CAP 20 

Shingle 

SHINGLE SUPPLIES 

Quarry Prices 

DRAINAGE CHIP 

from $40 per cube 




all +gst 

Plus all excavation and truck hire 

house excavations, driveways, subdivisions 

CONTRACTING 

Ph: KEN 027 201 3302 

Email: stress@xtra.co.nz 

2009594 

Quarry Supplies 

QUARRY SUPPLIES 

2426159 

●CAP 65 ● CAP 40 

●CAP 20 ● Pit Run 

●Large Soakpit Boulders 

●Crusher Dust 

●Screened Sand 

●Horse Arena Sand 

Dean Hurley0274 336 993 

hurleyexcavation@xtra.co.nz 

2064 Tram Road 

Windows & Doors 

WINDOW MARKET PLACE 

• New & Used 

• Timber & Aluminium 

• Windows & Doors 

8am-5pm Weekdays 

8am-2pm Saturday 

215 Waltham Rd, Sydenham 

Ph (03) 379 6159 info@windowmarket.co.nz 

Fax (03) 962 1012 www.windowmarket.co.nz 

ncn1242200aa 

To book your spaceinthis guide,phone Amanda Keys 313 2840 or email amanda.keys@ncnews.co.nz

Gary Rangiora Cockram 

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North Canterbury News: March 31, 2022

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