Western News: May 12, 2022

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1 – 3 July 

2022 

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022 

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Avonhead, was one of 60 soldiers who took part in a training 

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Kalami in dense forest near Maruia. Their task was to follow a 

defined path through the bush while under attack. But the 

decaying undergrowth and limited visibility challenged them all 

as they patrolled the area with their weapons and packs while the 

enemy confronted them at every turn. PHOTOS: JOHN COSGROVE 

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briefing 

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• By Emily Moorhouse 

FRUSTRATION from residents 

about vape stores opening in 

Addington has prompted the 

area’s community board to 

investigate vaping restrictions. 

The Waihoro Spreydon-Cashmere 

Community Board has 

requested a briefing on vaping 

restrictions through smokefree 

legislation. 

Board member Callum Ward 

was approached by resident Jo 

Robertson, who is concerned 

about the concentration of vape 

stores in a small area like Addington. 

Ward said the board hasn’t 

formed a position on the issue yet 

and is awaiting a briefing. 

“We know that vaping does 

have negative health consequences 

and is no longer just a replacement 

for smokers,” he said. 

Ward also mentioned the risk 

of vaping undoing a lot of work 

that’s being done in society to 

prevent people from getting 

addicted to nicotine, particularly 

young people who go straight to 

vaping. 

Robertson, who is school community 

liaison at Addington 

School, said vaping is being 

discussed among residents due to 

an increase in vaping shops set to 

open in the area. 

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Call to curb increase in vape stores 

• From page 1 

She said there was already 

two vape shops in Addington 

and another one was going to be 

opening soon, as well as dairys 

selling vapes. 

“It’s probably to do with the 

proportion of kinds of shops 

that are in the community,” 

Robertson said. 

“If you end up with a lot of 

liquor stores, vape stores, it 

just tips the balance of stores 

that are bringing positive 

health-promoting things into 

the community to stores that 

are bringing kind of healthconstraining 

things.” 

Robertson said she wants the 

city council to talk about putting 

regulations in place rather than 

“just letting the market 

decide”. 

“I think the community 

would like to see things that are 

bringing health and well-being 

into our community,” she said. 

The manager of Hoopers 

Vapour in Addington, who 

declined to be named, said he 

had noticed a few different vape 

shops in the area, something his 

customers said wasn’t necessary. 

The business has been 

operating for roughly five 

years and hasn’t received any 

complaints from residents. 

“I believe we are serving people 

who want to quit smoking,” he 

said. “What most non-smokers 

or non-vapers don’t realise is 

that people addicted to nicotine 

become aggravated when they 

can’t have it. It’s like having a 

morning coffee.” 

He said the business has 

helped people quit smoking and 

as the price of tobacco increases, 

it was important to provide 

an alternative. 

GROWTH: Vape Crew on 

Lincoln Rd (top right) has 

opened, while Vape Planet, 

also on Lincoln Rd, is 

opening soon. 

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resident Jo 

Robertson 

said she 

wants 

the city 

council to 

have more 

regulations 

around 

what kinds 

of shops can 

open in the 

community. 

New signs 

to target 

unlawful 

motorbike 

riding 


CONCERNS FOR safety and 

complaints about noise from 

unauthorised motorbikes have 

prompted 20 “no motorbikes” 

signs to be put up around the 

red zone. 

Ashley Campbell regularly 

walks her two little dogs around 

the Avonside area and said some 

people were using the area as 

an off-road dirt track for their 

motorbikes. 

“It’s an accident waiting to 

happen,” she said. “It’s becoming 

more of a problem.” 

Campbell reached out to the 

city council’s red zone team to 

see what could be done and was 

pleased to hear signs will be 

installed. 

Red zone manager Dave Little 

said riding motorbikes within 

parks is prohibited under a 

bylaw. 

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an uptick in this behaviour and so 

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‘You can change things for the better 


HELPING stranded whales and 

preserving endangered plants 

might seem pretty out there for 

some, but for park ranger Dave 

Rate-Smith this is just another 

day in the office. 

The 43-year-old is trained in 

horticulture, construction and 

fine arts, and said being a park 

ranger lets him use all these 

skills. 

“You could be answering 

emails, then fixing a broken 

waterline or making park furniture,” 

he said. “I’m prone to 

getting bored easily and being a 

ranger I don’t get bored.” 

Before Rate-Smith became a 

ranger four years ago, he owned 

a construction business, after 

seeing the need for it following 

the earthquakes. 

After seven years he closed the 

business and joined ecological 

firm Wai-ora, working his way 

up to team leader in two years 

before jumping at the opportunity 

to become a ranger for 

Bottle Lake Forest Park. 

Now Rate-Smith looks after 

multiple parks including Styx 

Mill, The Groynes, McLeans 

Island and Roto Kohatu. 

He said the job changes everyday 

and you have to be prepared 

to “throw your plans out the 

window at any given second.” 

Rate-Smith especially likes 

Sundays because that’s when he 

can talk to the public the most. 

DREAM JOB: Dave Rate-Smith has been a park ranger for four years and said he gets 

excited about going to work. 

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“It’s when you actually do that 

you become aware of problems 

you might have missed,” he 

said. “I really like seeing their 

reactions when we change and 

improve an area.” 

The responsibilities of a ranger 

seem endless. The job requires 

problem-solving skills, having 

to be a trained firefighter, and 

handling animals such as whales 

and sea lions. 

“We end up with a good range 

of skills but not being specialists 

in any of them, which suits me to 

a tee,” Rate-Smith said. 

Describing himself as an outdoors 

person, Rate-Smith said 

being out in nature is definitely 

one of the highlights of the job. 

“It’s what calms me as a person, 

that’s my happy place in life, 

hearing the fantails twittering 

away,” he said. “That really sort 

NATURE: Rate-Smith said 

being outdoors is one of 

the highlights of being a 

park ranger. 

of puts a smile on my face. 

“There’s times I think I’d love 

to go off and work for DOC in 

the middle of nowhere but aside 

from my wife not appreciating it, 

I would actually miss the social 

side of it.” 

“It’s not a day in parks 

until you pick up a pair of 

undies” 

– Dave Rate-Smith 

When asked what the strangest 

thing he’s come across at one of 

the parks he laughed and said 

“those would not be appropriate 

for paper”. 

“We see some shocking things 

aye, we see the best and the worst 

of human nature,” he said. 

“People go to parks to do weird 

things, they really do. It’s not a 

day in parks until you pick up a 

pair of undies.” 

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CREATIVE: : Rate-Smith built this seat in collaboration with a local carver and weaver for 

one of the parks, and made a fairy house in his spare time for the children’s fairy forest in 

Bottle Lake Forest Park. 

When he was tasked with 

replacing picnic tables at The 

Groynes, Rate-Smith said he 

“wasn’t impressed” with the 

cost so took it upon himself to 

design his own tables and get 

an engineer to build and install 

them. This roughly halved the 

cost of ordering tables in. 

It’s things like this that 

make Rate-Smith get up in 

the morning feeling excited 

to go to work, something he 

feels incredibly fortunate to 

experience. 

While Rate-Smith loves his 

job, he said there are some 

aspects that he really struggles 

with, particularly seeing people 

damage the parks. 

“We do all of this work and 

there’s always an element to 

society that seem to congregate 

in parks that want to destroy 

stuff,” he said. 

“You put everything you can 

into it and you do believe in what 

you’re doing, and it might only 

last a week before somebody’s 

destroyed it.” 

He said the rangers had seen 

an increase in people doing 

burn-outs at The Groynes, 

ripping the paddocks to pieces, 

and wondered if this was due to 

frustrations with Covid. 

This time of year tends to 

be the quietest for the rangers 

and they spend it planning and 

planting as well as taking in new 

volunteers to help out around 

the parks. 

Outside of work, Rate-Smith 

enjoys pottering in his garage, 

gardening and painting, and 

is even learning how to tattoo, 

using his legs as a drawing board 

for his “doodles”. 

One of his favourite parts of 

the job is seeing changes such 

as rare birds coming back to 

an area or catching glimpses of 

waterways improving through 

the work the rangers do. 

“We could well be leaving 

something for people hundreds 

of years from now,” he said. 

“You can change things for 

the better so easily; you get to do 

something good everyday.” 

• By Mick Jensen 

BURNSIDE HIGH School 

student Grady Kenix has been 

selected as a member of the New 

Zealand Mathematics Olympiad 

team. 

The 17-year-old is in his final 

year at school and is one of just 

six students selected, and the only 

one outside of Auckland. 

He will compete at the 63rd 

International Mathematical Olympiad 

in Norway in July, which 

is expected to draw teams from 

more than 100 countries. 

Ironically, Grady elected to 

drop maths after Year 11, but 

has continued to have a strong 

interest in the subject outside of 

the formal classroom setting. 

His interest in maths started at 

primary school in Lyttelton, he 

said. 

“We had a really good teacher 

called Jeremy and he was the one 

who stirred up my interest and fascination 

for the subject and started 

the maths journey for me.’’ 

Grady’s quest to be part of 

the New Zealand Mathematics 

Olympiad team started over 10 

months ago, alongside hundreds 

of other hopefuls. 

Over those months and after 

many hours of tuition, training 

camps and competitions, entry 

numbers were steadily whittled 

down to the final elite students. 

Grady was given his selection 

news recently and is modest 

about his achievements. 

“I’m happy to have been chosen 

after a long selection process and 

a lot of work, and I am looking 

forward to testing my maths 

skills against other students 

from around the world,” he 

said. 

He receives $2000 towards the 

costs of attending the olympiad 

and will use earnings from his 

waiter job at Lyttelton’s Nomnom 

Kitchen to help fund the trip. 

His travels will include a 

stopover in his birth-land of 

the USA, which he left at ninemonths-old 

to come to New 

Zealand.

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Matiu Taitoko decided he 

had reached the age where he 

needed to give up the energy 

drinks and take better care of 

himself. 

The 55-year-old took part 

in Pegasus Health’s new 

healthy lifestyle and cooking 

programme, Puāwai-Kai. 

Since completing the course, 

he has felt healthier and is 

sleeping better. He has also 

gone back to working in the 

garden and growing greens for 

him and his whānau. 

“I’m at that stage in my life 

where we have to think about 

what we eat and how we eat 

it to last a little bit longer and 

feel healthy about ourselves,” 

Taitoko said. 

“We (Puāwai-Kai course 

participants) had no idea 

what we were in for, but it was 

good learning, you know, and 

learning about sleeping as well 

and the right food and when to 

eat that and drinking. Oh, it’s 

been fabulous.” 

Taitoko was referred to the 

free, eight-session Puāwai-Kai 

course by his GP. It gives 

participants information 

on developing a healthier 

relationship with food, 

cooking and trying meals 

with cost-effective seasonal 

ingredients. It also covers the 

importance of sleep, exercise 

and stress management skills. 

GOOD CHOICE: Matiu Taitoko is now growing greens 

for him and his whānau after participating in the 

Puāwai-Kai course. 

He says he has continued 

with the good habits he learnt 

on the course. 

“I’ve actually been patting 

myself on the back for some of 

the things I’ve been taught and 

carried on with it. Drinking 

the old soft drinks, you know, 

not much of that these days 

and been drinking a lot of 

water. It’s unreal. I’ve never 

slept like I have done since 

[doing Puāwai-Kai]. It’s been 

well worth it for me and my 

family.” 

Taitoko was a participant in 

the pilot Puāwai-Kai courses, 

which Pegasus Health ran 

with a range of Cantabrians 

to ensure it provided the right 

mix of skills and information. 

University of Otago, 

Christchurch, researcher Dr 

Allamanda Faatoese studied 

the course’s impact on Pasifika 

participants. She recorded 

changes in blood pressure, 

cholesterol profile, blood 

sugar, weight and body 

fat. 

Faatoese said early analysis 

of data showed all participants 

dropped body fat and had 

lower triglyceride levels. 

High triglycerides are often 

a sign of other conditions 

that increase the risk of heart 

disease and stroke. 

Pegasus Health chief 

executive Mark Liddle said 

Puāwai-Kai helps people learn 

how small changes in the way 

they live can add up to big 

changes in their health and 

well-being. 

A big change for Taitoko has 

been growing his own food. 

“Being Māori, it’s been 

getting back to the garden 

and learning about that again. 

Because we have been distant. 

We come into the city and 

found the easy food, the fast 

food to get by. But is it the 

healthiest food? I don’t think 

so. 

“So it’s going back to the 

garden again and growing 

those veges. I’m quite lucky 

because my whole family is 

starting to get into well-being. 

We bring different foods to the 

table now.” 

Saving those 

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A passion for properly preserving precious 

family photos has been a business for Gail 

Ruddle since 2004. She became a distributor 

for Creative Memories in 2015, and based 

in Christchurch she is one of only three 

distributors in New Zealand. An avid 

scrapbooker, Gail loves helping people to 

preserve their photos and memories. 

Founded in the United States in 1987, 

Creative Memories is widely known for 

leading the scrapbooking industry with 

world-class products. Today’s Creative 

Memories was re-launched in 2014 

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So, where are your precious photos? 

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Facebook. And today, people are taking more 

photos than ever before. It’s been estimated 

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DVDs will likely be obsolete as will USB drives. 

So, to preserve those precious photos, they 

need to be printed out and kept safe. 

Avid scrapbooker Gail Ruddle looks 

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During these unexpected COVID times, 

Gail says, more people have been turning to 

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Gail’s vision for this year is to get the 

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assistance. She can also provide one-onone 

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If you would like to know more about 

Creative Memories, or re-connect with the 

hobby, Gail is having an Open Home on 

Saturday, May 21, 10am to 2pm. 

Products will be available for purchase 

and to order. Check out the website 

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You’re invited to a 

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T M A N V J X Y S U R O Z 

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SOLUTION 

No.143 

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R T A 

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All puzzles copyright 

T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y 

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www.thepuzzlecompany.co.nz 

Down 

1. Segment (7) 

2. Lacking general approval (9) 

3. The defeated (5) 

4. Discussion (9) 

5. Requirements (5) 

6. Drinker’s toast (7,2) 

7. Lawful (5) 

8. Spending spree (7) 

14. Close shave (4,5) 

16. Meddle (9) 

17. Receiving favourably (9) 

18. Trailer, sample (7) 

20. Have (7) 

22. Lies wide open (5) 

23. Of dubious legality (5) 

24. Recess (5) 

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Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different 

letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet. 

DECODER 

Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers. 

The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented 

Each by the number other represents numbers. a As different you get letter the of letters, the alphabet. enter them Write into the 

given the main letters grid, into all and squares the reference with matching grid. numbers. To keep Now track work of out the 

which letters letters you are have represented found, cross by them other off numbers. the alphabet provided. 

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17 23 3 13 24 12 15 23 26 16 10 24 

24 8 23 21 20 10 4 

4 24 21 15 12 11 4 22 12 26 9 1 

19 3 21 24 15 11 

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19 11 3 2 9 25 10 23 9 3 1 24 

17 8 4 10 24 4 4 

24 2 12 1 26 12 4 25 3 4 26 20 

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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 

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SOLUTION 

No.142 

143 

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B F U C H T P G S I W V D 

E M L K R X Q N O J Y Z A 

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16 26 24 20 13 

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5 5 11 10 4 12 5 

6 12 4 12 20 17 15 5 10 23 5 6 

12 19 5 26 5 12 

Crossword 

Across: 1. Squalid, 5. 

Nibbles, 9. Copes, 10. 

Sceptical, 11. Imperious, 

12. Outer, 13. Nylon, 15. 

Reinstate, 18. Permanent, 

19. Pop up, 21. Eight, 23. 

Strenuous, 25. Implicate, 

26. Chide, 27. Wise guy, 28. 

Emerges. 

Down: 1. Section, 2. 

Unpopular, 3. Loser, 4. 

Discourse, 5. Needs, 6. 

Bottoms up, 7. Licit, 8. 

Splurge, 14. Near thing, 16. 

Interfere, 17. Approving, 18. 

Preview, 20. Possess, 22. 

Gapes, 23. Shady, 24. Niche. 

WordBuilder 

gin, girn, giro, gown, grin, 

groin, grow, grown, ion, 

iron, nog, noir, nor, now, 

owing, own, rig, ring, row, 

ROWING, wig, win, wing, 

wino, won, worn, wring, 

wrong. 

Sudoku 

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12 3 26 17 17 21 19 

7 26 17 6 21 10 2 5 21 7 15 

12 20 10 22 5 

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New safer speed limits coming: SH73/75 Christchurch to 

Akaroa, SH74 Lyttelton and Banks Peninsula local roads 

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and Christchurch City Council advise new permanent 

speed limits are coming for State Highways 73/75 and State Highway 74 (Lyttelton) in the 

Canterbury region, and for selected Banks Peninsula local roads. 

Four weeks of advertising will give people advance notice of the date the new speed limits apply, which will be approximately late July or 

early August 2022 (subject to supply and winter construction conditions). 

Local police will be in the area when the new speeds come into effect in the weeks following and there will be electronic signs to help 

remind drivers. Until then, the existing speed limits will apply. 

The new state highway speed limits will be (locations approximate): 

SH73: 105m south of Blenheim Road to 85m southeast of Lunns Road – 60km/h 

SH73/75: 85m southeast of Lunns Road to 130m northwest of Halswell Road – 60km/h 

SH75: 130m northwest of Halswell Road to 90m southwest of Augustine Drive – 50km/h 

SH75: 90m southwest of Augustine Drive to 230m northeast of Dunbars Road – 60km/h 

SH75: 230m northeast of Dunbars Road to 260m south of Candys Road (Halswell Township) – 50km/h 

SH75: 370m south of Sparks Road to 90m southwest of O’Halloran Drive (Halswell School) – 30km/h Variable Speed Limit (VSL) 

SH75: 260m south of Candys Road to 210m northeast of Lincoln Tai Tapu Road (Halswell to Tai Tapu) – 80km/h 

SH75: 210m northeast of Lincoln Tai Tapu Road to 360m south of Michaels Road (Tai Tapu Township) – 50km/h 

SH75: 70m south of Lincoln Tai Tapu Road to 80m northwest of Michaels Road (Tai Tapu School) – 30km/h VSL 

SH75: 360m south of Michaels Road to 200m southwest of Morrisons Road (Tai Tapu to Little River) – 80km/h 

SH75: 200m southwest of Morrisons Road to 260m northeast of Western Valley Road (Little River Township) – 50km/h 

SH75: 260m northeast of Western Valley Road to 440m west of Church Road (Little River to Wairewa Marae, including marae) – 50km/h 

SH75: 440m west of Church Road to 680m northeast of Church Road (Wairewa Marae to Cooptown) – 80km/h 

SH75: 680m northeast of Church Road to 180m northeast of Mersey Street (Cooptown Township) – 60km/h 

SH75: 180m northeast of Mersey Street to 650m west of Pawsons Valley Road (Cooptown to Duvauchelle) – 60km/h 

SH75: 650m west of Pawsons Valley Road to 180m southeast of Pipers Valley Road (Duvauchelle Township) – 60km/h 

SH75: 180m southeast of Pipers Valley Road to 980m north of Takamatua Bay Road (Duvauchelle to Takamatua Straight) – 60km/h 

SH75: 980m north of Takamatua Bay Road to 570m north of Long Bay Road (Takamatua Straight) – 60km/h 

SH75: 570m north of Long Bay Road to 310m west of Rue Jolie (Takamatua Straight to Akaroa Threshold) – 60km/h 

SH75: 310m west of Rue Jolie to the end of State Highway 75 (Akaroa Threshold to end of SH75) – 40km/h 

SH74: 40m west of Dublin Street to the end of State Highway 74 (Norwich Quay/Gladstone Quay, Lyttelton) – 40km/h 

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