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91-year-old delivery driver<br />
says it’s time for a break<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
AFTER NINE years of<br />
voluntary delivery driving, Roy<br />
Labrum has decided it’s finally<br />
time for a break.<br />
“I turn 92 this June so I<br />
thought hey, maybe it’s time to<br />
sit back and have a rest.”<br />
After completing hundreds of<br />
rounds for food service Meals<br />
on Wheels, tomorrow marks<br />
Roy’s last shift.<br />
“It doesn’t seem like nine<br />
years,” Roy said. “It’s just<br />
something I like doing and it’s a<br />
pattern for my particular week,<br />
different weeks I do different<br />
rounds.”<br />
Roy alternates his schedule<br />
from Tuesdays and Wednesdays<br />
one week, to Tuesdays and<br />
Fridays the next – and said<br />
he’s only had about six days off<br />
over the nine years, except for<br />
the lockdown when deliveries<br />
stopped.<br />
Roy signed up to be a Meals<br />
on Wheels driver in 2013, a<br />
few years after his wife Shirley<br />
passed away.<br />
Shirley had cancer, as did his<br />
sister-in-law, so he spent most<br />
of his time as a caregiver, which<br />
left little time for cooking.<br />
So Roy signed them up to<br />
get Meals on Wheels delivered,<br />
and when Shirley and his sisterin-law<br />
both passed away, he<br />
decided to volunteer.<br />
Roy has a health problem<br />
DELIVERY: Roy Labrum is finally having a well-deserved rest after nine years of volunteering for Meals on Wheels.<br />
• Watch the video at starnews.co.nz<br />
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
that’s left scarring on his<br />
lungs, which means he can’t<br />
do much physical work, such<br />
as gardening or housework, so<br />
delivering meals has proved a<br />
nice alternative, as long as he<br />
doesn’t overdo it.<br />
“I just like doing it, meeting<br />
different people because I’m a<br />
very solitary person,” Roy said.<br />
“It makes you conform to<br />
getting out and about instead of<br />
just sitting around and sort of<br />
vegetating.”<br />
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Familiar faces a welcome part<br />
of the job for volunteer driver<br />
• From page 1<br />
A Meals on Wheels volunteer<br />
who has known Roy for three<br />
years said she would often get<br />
chatting to him while they were<br />
waiting for the meals to arrive at<br />
the start of their round.<br />
“He’s a very special person who<br />
worked very hard all his life and<br />
cared for others all his life,” she<br />
said.<br />
She said Meals on Wheels was<br />
always looking for drivers and<br />
volunteers as good as Roy, with<br />
his friendly and helpful nature.<br />
What made him such a great<br />
delivery driver was “just being<br />
Roy” and giving the time each<br />
week.<br />
Roy said while he can’t stop to<br />
chat for long, he enjoys seeing<br />
the people he delivers to, and<br />
soon becomes familiar with<br />
certain faces.<br />
“Sometimes you’ll be delivering<br />
to a person for a couple of<br />
months,” he said. “There’s some<br />
now I’ve been delivering to for<br />
the last five or six years.”<br />
Roy said the secret to a good<br />
delivery service is having a reliable<br />
car, something he can boast<br />
about with his red Toyota Fitz.<br />
“People look out the window<br />
and see the little red car and<br />
know it’s me sometimes,” he<br />
said. “It does the job, I call it my<br />
WHEELS: Roy Labrum uses his own car to deliver Meals on Wheels, calling it his “little<br />
shopping basket.”<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
little shopping basket.”<br />
Each delivery varies depending<br />
on the needs of the person<br />
receiving the meal. Sometimes<br />
Roy will drop it at the door;<br />
sometimes he takes it inside to<br />
the kitchen.<br />
“Each time you go you don’t<br />
know who’s on your list really,<br />
you know who your regulars<br />
are but then again you can’t<br />
guarantee because your regular<br />
might be in hospital or might be<br />
away on holiday.”<br />
Before Roy became a volunteer<br />
deliverer, he and Shirley were<br />
caretakers for Cobham Intermediate<br />
School in Burnside for 10<br />
years. Before that, they owned<br />
two dairies in Marshland for six<br />
years.<br />
Roy does three separate rounds<br />
of deliveries, mostly in the<br />
eastern suburbs, and said he’ll<br />
definitely miss going around<br />
the town.<br />
“I’m delivering meals to places<br />
that I normally don’t go as part<br />
of my other life,” he said. “I’ve<br />
been doing it for so long, it’s become<br />
a sort of pattern of my life<br />
if you know what I mean.”<br />
Roy still hasn’t decided what<br />
he’ll do in place of his delivery<br />
rounds, but said he’s looking<br />
forward to some rest and<br />
relaxation – and will even order<br />
the meals for himself during<br />
the winter.<br />
Vandalism<br />
prompts<br />
patrols to be<br />
reinstated<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
AN INCREASE in vandalism<br />
and theft around the Ōtākaro<br />
Avon River Corridor has finally<br />
prompted patrols to be reinstated.<br />
Avon River network manager<br />
Hayley Guglietta brought the issue<br />
to the Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board at its latest meeting<br />
and said she has been raising<br />
concerns over vandalism in the<br />
area for 10 months.<br />
Board member for the<br />
Burwood Ward Bebe Frayle said<br />
the concern about vandalism<br />
in the area was also raised at a<br />
Dallington Residents Association<br />
meeting.<br />
“This prompted me to request<br />
that staff follow up the possibility<br />
of reinstating the patrols,<br />
which the RRZ [residential red<br />
zone] team actioned almost<br />
immediately,” she said. “They will<br />
be reinstating in early May.”<br />
Frayle said the patrollers will be<br />
organised and funded by the city<br />
council.<br />
When Land Information New<br />
Zealand managed the OARC area<br />
of the red zone it contracted a<br />
group to patrol the area, but when<br />
the city council took over from<br />
LINZ in mid 2020, patrolling<br />
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A word from Ilam MP<br />
Sarah<br />
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The school holidays are nearly over<br />
and I do hope everyone was able to<br />
find some time to relax over Easter<br />
and Anzac weekends.<br />
Ilam is such a diverse electorate<br />
and I really enjoy engaging with<br />
businesses, schools, and community<br />
organisations that service our<br />
community.<br />
Papanui Youth Development Trust is<br />
one such organisation. It was really<br />
interesting to hear about the amazing<br />
work they do to support young<br />
people and their families in north<br />
west Christchurch.<br />
Another recent highlight was my visit<br />
to the Christchurch Engine Centre.<br />
This is such a great facility to have<br />
here in Ilam, employing a large local<br />
workforce to service aircraft engines<br />
from all over the world.<br />
At my constituent clinics a range of<br />
issues have been raised, from traffic<br />
concerns to immigration issues. One<br />
issue raised was concern over the lack<br />
of Spark coverage in the McLeans<br />
Island area and the possible impact<br />
on emergency calls. I met with<br />
Spark regarding this as it is essential<br />
that calls are able to be made in an<br />
emergency.<br />
Spark confirmed that the Vodafone<br />
site with 2degrees co-locating on it<br />
provides coverage in the McLeans<br />
Island area. This is good news as it<br />
ensures that calls to 111 can be made<br />
by anyone with a mobile phone,<br />
including Spark customers. Spark<br />
is aware of their coverage issues in<br />
the McLeans Island area and have<br />
advised me that this area is being<br />
considered as part of the evaluation<br />
for their national build programme.<br />
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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
YOUNG SPORTS STARS SET THE PACE ON NATIONAL STAGE<br />
Papanui HS riders<br />
shine on the road<br />
SHAYLAH SAYERS’ stunning<br />
introduction to cycling has<br />
continued with the Papanui<br />
High School student completing<br />
another clean sweep in her first<br />
competitive outings on the road.<br />
Fresh, remarkably, from her five<br />
gold medal haul at the national<br />
track cycling championships<br />
in Cambridge last month, the<br />
13-year-old claimed the age group<br />
road race national championships<br />
under-15 time trial and road race<br />
double over Anzac weekend. FAMILIAR TERRITORY:<br />
Fellow Papanui High School Shaylah Sayers dominance<br />
student Kirsty Watts also had of under-15 grade cycling in GOLDEN DOUBLE: Kirsty<br />
plenty to celebrate in Hokitika New Zealand has continued Watts won the under-17<br />
with golds in the under-17 time with road success in Hokitika time trial and road race at<br />
trial and road race.<br />
following a dominant<br />
the age group road race<br />
Sayers, who only joined Canterbury<br />
Track Cycling’s develop-<br />
cycling championships.<br />
display at the national track<br />
nationals in Hokitika.<br />
ment programme last November “I actually quite like those was longer than I thought it was,<br />
now has an unprecedented eight conditions, it didn’t freak me out I just had to keep going.”<br />
national titles in her age group, too much,” she said.<br />
Watts recorded two comfortable<br />
triumphs in her events,<br />
an indication she has a promising<br />
career ahead of her.<br />
tussle in the road race, with she won the time trial in 26min<br />
However, the duo had a tighter<br />
The keen mountain biker Sayers, McIvor and Canterbury’s <strong>28</strong>.62sec, almost a minute clear<br />
cruised to victory in Friday’s Jesse Thomson separated by of Counties Manukau’s Ava<br />
15km time trial, clocking 29min a photo finish after they each Maddison (27min <strong>28</strong>.40sec).<br />
36.95sec, well clear of Southland’s<br />
Poppy McIvor (30min “That was really close. It was to the line in the road race<br />
timed 1hr 3min 25sec.<br />
She had the luxury of coasting<br />
17.92sec).<br />
263<br />
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x<br />
there were quite<br />
180<br />
a after powering clear to win by<br />
Sayers made light of the blustery<br />
conditions that impacted on on form,” Sayers said.<br />
Wellington’s Millie Donald was<br />
few attacks. Everyone was really 47sec in a time of 1hr 57.01sec;<br />
the race against the clock.<br />
“The sprint from the corner her closest challenger.<br />
Oceania Championships<br />
beckon after national title<br />
• By Mick Jensen<br />
KIERA HALL has made<br />
big strides since she started<br />
competitive running just two<br />
years ago.<br />
The 17-year-old Rangi Ruru<br />
student is the newly-crowned<br />
national U18 800m champion<br />
and has been selected for the<br />
Athletics New Zealand team that<br />
will travel to the Oceania Championships<br />
in Mackay in June.<br />
Kiera is also one of 12 athletes<br />
selected to travel to Colombia for<br />
the World U20 Championships<br />
in August.<br />
She trains under former New<br />
Zealand middle distance rep<br />
runner Angie Petty and races for<br />
the Port Hills Athletics Club.<br />
Kiera said she was excited to be<br />
travelling overseas to compete.<br />
She was very happy with her<br />
progress on the athletics track<br />
over the last two seasons and<br />
wanted to continue to improve.<br />
‘‘The 800m race for me is a tactical<br />
race where you have to get<br />
yourself in the position to win,<br />
whereas 400m is just too quick a<br />
race.’’<br />
She said the Oceanias will act<br />
as her warm-up ahead of the U20<br />
Worlds, which were a big deal.<br />
Her goal was to beat her personal<br />
best time of 2min 8.46sec<br />
and to gain more valuable competition<br />
experience.<br />
MIDDLE DISTANCE: Kiera<br />
Hall has been selected<br />
for the world U20<br />
championships.<br />
PHOTO: ATHLETICS NEW<br />
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Kiera juggles her NCEA studies<br />
with a busy athletics training<br />
programme.<br />
Six days a week of training<br />
and fitness include swimming,<br />
track work, jogging and races on<br />
Saturdays.<br />
With two big overseas trips<br />
locked in, the Hall family<br />
is looking at fundraising<br />
opportunities to support Kiera’s<br />
running ambitions.<br />
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Rangi Ruru student set for world champs<br />
• By Morgan Tait<br />
GABY SMITH will swim against<br />
the world’s best para athletes in<br />
Portugal after winning bronze at<br />
the para world swimming series<br />
in the United States earlier this<br />
month.<br />
The 15-year-old Rangi Ruru<br />
student took bronze in the<br />
women’s 100m breaststroke<br />
event at the competition, held<br />
in Indianapolis. The impressive<br />
feat means she will be heading<br />
to the world champs in Maderia,<br />
Portugal, in June.<br />
Gaby, a long-time member of<br />
the Wharenui Swim Club and a<br />
ParaFed Canterbury athlete, said<br />
she was not expecting to take<br />
home a medal from her first-ever<br />
international competition.<br />
“It was quite surprising for<br />
everyone,” said Gaby, who was<br />
born with no fingers and a partial<br />
palm on her left arm.<br />
“I started doing my warm<br />
down and my manager came<br />
over and told me to get out of the<br />
pool and get dressed. I thought<br />
something must have happened<br />
or someone was hurt, but it was<br />
for the medal ceremony.<br />
“Standing next to the women<br />
who got first and second, I was<br />
just in awe, they have Paralympic<br />
medals. It was pretty cool.”<br />
While humble about her<br />
success, the Fendalton teen<br />
holds four New Zealand records,<br />
was ParaFed Canterbury’s<br />
junior sportsperson and club<br />
swimmer of the year for 2021,<br />
and emerging talent of the year<br />
in 2020.<br />
She swims eight times and has<br />
two gym sessions as part of her<br />
weekly training regime and said<br />
swimming has always been a big<br />
part of her life.<br />
“My mum took me to swimming<br />
lessons when I was threemonths-old<br />
and I just never<br />
stopped. I love the atmosphere<br />
and the people involved – all the<br />
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breaststroke, Gaby also<br />
competed in the 100m freestyle,<br />
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freestyle, 200m individual<br />
medley and 50m freestyle.<br />
BRONZE: Gaby Smith came third in the women’s 100m breaststroke at the para world<br />
swimming series and is set to compete at the world championships.<br />
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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Richness of rural childhood revisited<br />
Le Bons Bay resident<br />
John Stuart has<br />
published a book about<br />
his childhood in Little<br />
River in the 1950s and<br />
1960s. Gary Brittenden<br />
casts his eye over it<br />
IF YOU grew up in 1950s and<br />
1960s rural New Zealand, you<br />
don’t have to be told what a<br />
different world it was back then.<br />
John Stuart, one of Banks<br />
Peninsula’s most well-known<br />
and respected characters, grew<br />
up in Little River and now lives<br />
in Le Bons Bay. Having recently<br />
retired at 75, John has put<br />
together a collection of stories<br />
that begin with his 1950s Little<br />
River childhood and wind their<br />
way through a rich and varied<br />
life.<br />
Stuart is not just a great<br />
storyteller – he is also a very<br />
good writer. The appeal of this<br />
book does not just lie in the<br />
wonderful adventures he had<br />
as a young lad, but also in his<br />
writing, which has a touch of<br />
magic about it. There is a softness<br />
and simplicity of style and<br />
a pervading gentle humour that<br />
echoes Roald Dahl’s Boy and Bill<br />
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The Thunderbolt Kid.<br />
The first section of the book<br />
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Stuart and his ‘cobbers’ (such a<br />
went to university, was conscripted<br />
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“During the 1972 season I<br />
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1950s word) it was a time of innocence<br />
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x<br />
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180<br />
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After his school days Stuart team.<br />
John Stuart’s<br />
book My<br />
life and<br />
other stories<br />
recounts<br />
growing<br />
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and gentle<br />
humour’.<br />
“At the first lineout, I found<br />
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I thought. But as I attempted<br />
to impose myself on him, he<br />
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solid clout to the head.<br />
“My enthusiasm waned for<br />
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Stuart was also a very able<br />
rower, gaining a couple of thirds<br />
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His interests were not just<br />
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tears of the sports field. He also<br />
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drama club, which led to being<br />
offered a part in a movie that was<br />
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“I was offered a speaking<br />
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“Unfortunately, Actors Equity<br />
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Stuart was a teacher in<br />
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renowned for his storytelling<br />
ability.<br />
This was followed by a stint<br />
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Trust, running predator<br />
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side’ of the peninsula.<br />
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• My life and other stories<br />
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Sweet, simple and delicious pear treats<br />
Alison Lambert makes<br />
the most of in-season<br />
pears and creates a<br />
moreish slice<br />
Pear slice<br />
I like slices like this as the base<br />
also doubles for the topping.<br />
2 cinnamon sticks<br />
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg<br />
2 cups firmly packed brown<br />
sugar<br />
4 Packham pears or similar,<br />
peeled (see tip)<br />
Double cream or ice-cream, to<br />
serve<br />
Directions<br />
Allow pears to cool in syrup,<br />
turning occasionally.<br />
Using a slotted spoon, transfer<br />
pears to a plate.<br />
Return syrup to medium-high<br />
heat. Bring to the boil. Boil for<br />
10 minutes or until liquid is<br />
reduced by one-third.<br />
Serve pears with sugar syrup<br />
and cream or ice-cream.<br />
I used pears this time; I<br />
have used apples, or even a<br />
combination works a treat. This<br />
slice is delicious any time of the<br />
day or night and it can be served<br />
warm for a special dessert.<br />
Makes 12 slices<br />
Ingredients<br />
Filling<br />
6 (750g) pears, peeled and thinly<br />
sliced<br />
50g butter<br />
30g white sugar<br />
30g brown sugar<br />
1 Tbsp lemon juice<br />
1 tsp ground cinnamon<br />
1 tsp ground ginger<br />
Dough<br />
600g flour<br />
300g sugar<br />
400g butter<br />
2 medium eggs<br />
Directions<br />
Preheat the oven to 170degC.<br />
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For the filling: place the<br />
prepared pears, butter, sugar<br />
and spices into a medium size<br />
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until the pears are tender and the<br />
sugar has dissolved and the glossy<br />
sauce has formed. Set aside.<br />
Place all the ingredients (except<br />
the eggs) for the dough into a<br />
bowl and rub together with your<br />
fingertips until coarse bread<br />
crumb texture.<br />
Add the eggs and mix together,<br />
it will form a dough.<br />
Line a 20cm by 20cm (approx)<br />
tin with baking paper.<br />
Spread 2/3 of the dough into<br />
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with the back of a spoon.<br />
Pour over the pear mixture and<br />
1/4 cup of the buttery, sugary<br />
syrup to coat the pears.<br />
Sprinkle over the remaining<br />
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Bake for 45 minutes<br />
Cool in tin before cutting.<br />
Poached pears make a<br />
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Makes 4<br />
Ingredients<br />
1 vanilla bean, halved<br />
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cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar in a<br />
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WORDBUILDER<br />
141<br />
6<br />
R Y F<br />
A L I<br />
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16<br />
17 18<br />
19<br />
many words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
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once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 15 Very Good 19 Excellent 23<br />
Solution 140: eight, eth, get, git, hew, hie, hit, teg,<br />
the, thew, tie, tig, twig, weigh, WEIGHT, wet, whet,<br />
whit, white, wig, wight, wit, with, withe.<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
from the six letters, using each only<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />
word.<br />
20 21 22 23 24<br />
Good 15 Very Good 19 Excellent 23<br />
25 26<br />
27 <strong>28</strong><br />
29 30<br />
31 32<br />
33 34<br />
Across<br />
1. Standing (6)<br />
5. Contusion (6)<br />
10. Momentum (7)<br />
11. Exist (7)<br />
12. Herdsman (6)<br />
15. Heat (6)<br />
16. Recuperate (7)<br />
17. Lots (4)<br />
18. Ferment (4)<br />
19. Wordlessly (7)<br />
20. Block (4)<br />
22. Chooses (4)<br />
25. Joy (7)<br />
27. Spoiled (6)<br />
<strong>28</strong>. Annual (6)<br />
31. Feeling (7)<br />
32. Bad guy (7)<br />
33. Items of value (6)<br />
34. Coercion (6)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
2. Tropical storm (7)<br />
3. Giggle (6)<br />
4. Waistband (4)<br />
5. Most excellent (4)<br />
6. Commotion (6)<br />
7. Glisten (7)<br />
8. Jewelled headdress (6)<br />
9. Male relative (6)<br />
13. Unstressed (7)<br />
14. Request (7)<br />
15. Affluent (7)<br />
20. Damned (6)<br />
21. Threatening (7)<br />
23. Maybe (7)<br />
24. Adage (6)<br />
25. Long for (6)<br />
26. Bank clerk (6)<br />
29. Responsibility (4)<br />
30. Fervent (4)<br />
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
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B T<br />
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Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Status, 5. Bruise, 10.<br />
Impetus, 11. Survive, 12. Drover,<br />
15. Warmth, 16. Recover, 17.<br />
Many, 18. Brew, 19. Tacitly, 20.<br />
Clog, 22. Opts, 25. Delight, 27.<br />
Ruined, <strong>28</strong>. Yearly, 31. Emotion,<br />
32. Villain, 33. Assets, 34.<br />
Duress.<br />
Down: 2. Typhoon, 3. Titter,<br />
4. Sash, 5. Best, 6. Uproar,<br />
7. Shimmer, 8. Diadem, 9.<br />
Nephew, 13. Relaxed, 14.<br />
Solicit, 15. Wealthy, 20. Cursed,<br />
21. Ominous, 23. Perhaps, 24.<br />
Saying, 25. Desire, 26. Teller, 29.<br />
Onus, 30. Avid.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
ail, air, airy, aril, aryl, fail, fair,<br />
FAIRLY, fairy, far, fay, fir, flair, flay,<br />
fly, frail, fray, fry, lair, lay, liar, lira,<br />
rail, ray, rial, riyal.<br />
Sudoku<br />
Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different<br />
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />
DECODER<br />
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.<br />
The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented<br />
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9 11 15 22 18 4<br />
2 8 16 20 13 10 15 24 4 8 3 21<br />
3 24 9 13 6 3 3<br />
12 9 4 3 7 5 8 17 20 7 8<br />
9 6 10 21 3 17<br />
3 8 16 11 22 12 4 21 14 21 17 5<br />
21 5 12 15 6 26<br />
13 21 1 9 11 11 21 4 9 5 21<br />
8 13 8 10 4 10 25<br />
17 10 21 18 9 5 8 7 23 15 10 15<br />
E<br />
8 21 5 21 21 9<br />
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
L<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
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SOLUTION<br />
No.140<br />
141<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
V L O U C I Z D A Y K M R<br />
N W F H E S G X Q J T P B<br />
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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
Can We Still Sell our House for the Best Price in Winter?<br />
I often get asked by clients if they should hold off and wait until Spring rather than sell over Winter. I don’t disagree that<br />
there is nothing like marketing a property in the beautiful months of Spring and Summer, the gardens are blooming, the<br />
weather is warm and the daylight saving hours are kind for inspection times. On the flip side, there are certainly some<br />
advantages to a winter sale that could work out to your competitive advantage.<br />
Advantage 1. There is less competition in Winter<br />
I hear time after time ‘we will wait until Spring to go to the market’. This is also the time of the year most other sellers wait<br />
for which results in an influx of properties for sale and therefore more homes competing for your buyer's attention.<br />
Advantage 2. Buyers still want to buy in Winter.<br />
Just because it's winter doesn’t mean buyers aren’t looking! Regardless of the time of year, there is still a strong buyer pool<br />
motivated to purchase. People look to purchase for a multitude of reasons, job transfers, new babies, kids leaving home,<br />
separations, health requirements, promotions/income increases, retirement, inheritance, school zoning requirements and<br />
many other motivating events including what lies ahead this year with the number of returning kiwis to Christchurch and<br />
those moving here from other regions. Buyers don’t want to wait for Spring, this is a seller's mindset.<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
Ray White Papanui<br />
Ray White Morris & Co Limited Licenced (REAA 2008)<br />
M 027 664 9292 | B 03 352 0567<br />
vanessa.golightly@raywhite.com