Southern View: May 12, 2022

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1 – 3 July
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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022
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War games prepare soldier for battle
Army Reserve Force Private Ryan Joseph from Cashmere was one
of 60 soldiers who took part in a training exercise on the West
Coast. The section machine gunner was involved in Exercise Kalami
held 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
Christchurch Arena
Panel will
be formed
to counter
increasing
burglaries
• By Emily Moorhouse
A COMMUNITY panel will
be set up to put the brakes on
burglaries in the Woolston area.
The panel was one of the initiatives
raised at a community meeting
set up by Banks Peninsula MP
Tracey McLellan and Woolston
residents with growing concerns
about burglaries.
McLellan hosted
the meeting at her
office and said it was
handy to sit down
with residents and
compare notes on
what was happening
in Woolston.
Tracey
She said people
McLellan
volunteered to sign
up for the community patrol to
increase its presence in the area.
The meeting ran for roughly 90
minutes and eight residents attended,
reporting back on their
experiences in different streets.
McLellan said it would have
been nice to see more people
there. However, some were unable
to make the allocated time but
dropped into her office during the
day instead.
“The most important thing is
we get people together,” she said.
McLellan said the community
panel will aim to get business
owners on board, as well as senior
students from Te Aratia, formerly
Linwood College.
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Somerfield
Community Clinic
with Tracey McLellan MP for Banks Peninsula
South Library, Meeting Room 1
66 Colombo Street
Sunday 15 May 2022 | 10:00–11:00am
Please wear a mask when visiting.
Phone and online appointments are also available.
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JP Clinic
Every Thursday, 10.30am-1.30pm
Spreydon Library
A justice of the peace will be
available to members of the
community, to witness signatures
and documents, certify document
copies, hear oaths, declarations,
affidavits or affirmations as well as
sign citizenship, sponsorship or rates
rebates applications. There is no
charge for this service.
Wā Kōrero-Storytimes
Thursday, 11-11.30am
South Library
Meet others in the community
when you and your pre-schooler go
along for a fun variety of stories,
songs and rhymes which foster
children’s literacy. All whānau and
caregivers welcome. Free, no bookings
required. Guardians and children
over 12 will need to wear a face
mask and show their vaccine pass
on arrival. Room capacity is limited
and the number of attendees possible
at sessions will be influenced by the
number of users already in the space.
Wā Pēpi-Babytimes, Wednesday, 10.30-11am, Spreydon Library.
Encourage learning through language. Wā Pēpi-Babytimes is an
interactive programme including music, movement, rhymes and a
story. Recommended for under 2-year-olds. Free, no bookings required.
Guardians and children 12 and over will need to wear a face mask.
Knit ‘n’ Yarn
Thursday, 1.30-3.30pm
South Library
Go along with your knitting,
crochet or anything you like that’s
portable and crafty and enjoy time
with other crafters. Share skills and
be inspired in a friendly, relaxing
environment. Have a look at the library’s
fabulous range of craft books
and magazines to get ideas for your
next project.
Afterschool Activity Zone
Every Thursday, 3.30-4.30pm
South Library
Go along for a variety of activities
including technology, crafts and
games in a fun learning environment.
All whanau welcome. Free,no
bookings required. Under 12-yearolds
must be accompanied by an
adult. Guardians and children over
12 will need to wear a face mask and
show their vaccine pass on arrival.
Room capacity is limited and the
number of attendees possible at
sessions will be influenced by the
number of users already in the
space.
Rāhoroi Mākete
Saturday, 10.30am-12.30pm
Roimata Food Commons, Radley Park
off Cumnor Tce
A local organic produce market
for Woolston and surrounding areas.
There will be Bonjour Coffee selling
hot drinks and baking too. Cash or
direct transfer.
South Christchurch Farmers’
Market
Every Sunday 9am-noon
66 Colombo St, next to South Library
The South Christchurch Farmers’
Market prides itself on having the
best selection of fresh local produce
in Christchurch, including a large
organic range from well-known and
trusted local growers. Top up your
vege shop with fresh artisan bread,
French-style pastries, free-range
eggs, locally made Italian cheeses,
seasonal fruits and much more. Soak
up the relaxed and friendly atmosphere
at this popular down to earth
market. This is a real-deal growers’
market. Free.
Social Games Club
Monday, 2-4pm
South Library
Go along to South Library and join
the group to play Scrabble, Upwords,
Chess and cards. Free, no bookings
required.
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• By Emily Moorhouse
WHEN STEVEN Muir isn’ testing X-ray
machines and printing 3D models for surgery
a the hospital he’s busy fixing up bikes for the
community.
Muir is the founder of the Aranui Bike Fixup
Project, a group that meets every Thursday
afternoon to restore old bikes and teach youth
how to be handy with bike tools.
You’ l rarely see Muir driving his car. Instead
he zips across town on his ebike, towing
six bikes ready to be restored on his trailer.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2022
• By Emily Moorhouse
EILEEN KERR received a
fake vaccination booster form
in her mailbox and while she
recognised it was fake, she didn’t
think everyone would.
Now the 70-year-old Spreydon
resident is warning others to be
wary of similar hoaxes.
When Eileen went to co lect
the mail, she noticed what
appeared to be a form to
book your Covid-19 booster
vaccinations in advance.
She sat down a the dinner
table with pen in hand, abou to
start fi ling ou the form, when
she noticed something strange.
“I started reading and that’s
when the bomb went off,” she said.
The form read: “Jabbing our
way to a “safer” New Zealand?”
That was enough to make Eileen
question its authenticity, in spite
of how official it looked.
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Eileen said the paper was good “I’m 70, my husband’s
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Bromley wastewater treatment
plant have been “coping with the
stench” for weeks now and want
something done to fix it.
The wastewater treatment plant
caught fire in November and has
been emitting an unpleasant sme l
ever since, causing frustration
among residents.
Katinka Visser has lived in
Bromley for 35 years, and said
while the stench hasn’t been as
bad during the new year for her,
she sometimes felt as though she
couldn’t breathe.
“I’ve had three nights that I
virtualy couldn’t breathe, it was
that bad, there’s like a fog and it’s
just sitting. ’
She said even after putting her
head under the blankets, she
could sti l sme l the stench.
Visser said because the wind
has been coming from a southerly
direction lately, she hasn’t been
experiencing the sme l as strongly,
but knows that residents close by
do.
“I’m so thankful that I’m not
affected as much as most people,”
she said.
“There are people way, way
worse off than me.”
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• By Fiona E lis
THE DEPARTMENT of
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to appeal after permission to build
a contentious rehabilitation centre
for violent offenders in St Albans
was declined.
However, it is remaining tightlipped
on whether or not it is likely
to do so.
Last week the Bristol Street
Resource Consent Hearing panel
declined to grant resource consent
for the Bristol St facility, fo lowing
a hearing in November.
The proposal would have seen
up to 12 men serving sentences
of home detention at 14 Bristol St
while participating in a violenceprevention
programme. Men
with significant untreated mental
health issues would not be eligible
to participate in the programme.
In their decision, city council
appointed commissioners Anthony
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Lawn said they were not satisfied
the site was appropriate for such a
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Board requests briefing over vape store rise
• 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.
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
health-constraining 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
CONCERN:
Addington
resident Jo
Robertson
said she
wants
the city
council to
have more
regulations
around
what kinds
of shops can
open in the
community.
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.
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New signs
to target
unlawful
motorbike
riding
Energy drinks out, vege garden in
• Kim Thomas
PEER SUPPORT worker 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
• By Emily Moorhouse
CONCERNS FOR safety and
complaints about noise from
unauthorised motorbikes have
prompted 20 “no motorbikes”
signs to be put up around the
red zone.
Linwood resident 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.
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 costeffective
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
seasonal ingredients. the old soft drinks, you know,
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an uptick
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not much of that these days and
are increasing signage to remind of sleep, exercise and stress been drinking a lot of water. It’s
people that this activity is not management skills.
unreal. I’ve never slept like I have
permitted,” he said.
He said he has continued with 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
Thursday May 12 2022
GOOD CHOICE: Matiu
Taitoko is now growing
greens for him and his
whānau after participating
in the Puāwai-Kai course.
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.”
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Thursday May 12 2022 5
Stolen table sees the loss of a
much-used community asset
• By Emily Moorhouse
A STOLEN community table
at Mt Vernon Park has left
Port Hills Park Trust members
disappointed and frustrated.
A handmade macrocarpa
table that sat at the Hillsborough
Tce car park was stolen, in spite
of being cemented into the
ground.
Trust chair Alan McDonald
described the table as a “wellused
community asset” and said
the removal of it would have to
have been pre-planned.
“The table is about two metres
long, it’s not something somebody
could just lift,” McDonald
said.
He said trust members first
noticed someone had attempted
to remove the table on Anzac
Day, however the attempted
theft could have happened a few
days earlier as members aren’t
patrolling every day.
The following Thursday,
members cemented the table
back into the ground, but the
next day it was gone completely.
“The disappointing thing
is that it was an asset for the
community and has been taken
away for someone’s personal
gain,” McDonald said.
He said it was even more
frustrating because the trust is a
DAMAGED: A picture taken on Anzac Day, after trust members noticed someone had
attempted to steal the table. It was later stolen.
charitable organisation and
all the members are volunteers.
McDonald has informed
the police of the theft and
encourages anyone who saw
anything to come forward or
contact the police.
“Somebody out there must
know someone’s got a huge
table,” he said.
“We’re at a loss, why would
somebody want to take
something away from the
community?”
McDonald also said there
has been a wider issue of
negative behaviour in the
Port Hills car parks with car
break-ins, but he wasn’t sure
if this was related to the table
theft.
Meeting
to combat
burglaries
a success
• From page 1
The overall intention was to get
residents’ involved in what was happening
in the area.
Woolston resident and community
board candidate for Linwood
Paul McMahon helped organise
the meeting and said it was very
constructive and proactive.
McMahon said it was important
to remember to report all crime and
suspicious activity to the police on
the 105 number.
He said residents’ shared their
experiences with burglaries and
the group agreed that setting up a
neighbourhood policing team was a
good idea.
McMahon also said there had
been antisocial behaviour around
Woolston Village from a particular
group, which had made other residents
feel unsafe.
“It’s a bit frustrating,” he said. “I’ve
lived in Woolston for 13 years and
this is the first time my wife has felt
unsafe going to the shops.”
Following on from the meeting,
McMahon contacted Housing First
to report this and was told they
would be visiting Woolston Village
to talk with the group.
McLellan said overall the meeting
was successful and another
one would be set up in a couple of
months to assess any progress made.

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Thursday May 12 2022
‘You can change things for the better
• By Emily Moorhouse
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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so easily’ ranger says
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.”
History of the city’s
east celebrated
AN EXHIBITION at Linwood
Library focuses on boosting a
sense of community through a
celebration of history.
Reflections of the East photography
exhibition has been
curated by local librarians and
highlights images of the suburb
from the early 1900s through to
the 1990s.
“After the last two years the
team really wanted to bring
back a sense of community and
place that the library has always
worked hard to create,” said head
of libraries and information
Carolyn Robertson.
“We hope that people will
recognise places and events and
maybe see themselves, their
whānau or friends in some of the
images and that there will be discussions
and reminiscing among
customers or staff.”
There will be 30 feature images
reflecting life and events from
Linwood, such as the 1982 Davis
Cup at Wilding Park, the Aranui
speedway which ran from 1949 to
1959 and attracted crowds of up
to 14,000, as well as many others.
“People can see some wonderful
images of their area, their
community, their history. They
can see what the Discovery Wall
and Canterbury Stories offers and
how they can contribute and be
part of an expanding local digital
heritage collection,” Robertson
said.
The exhibition will be on display
until June 30.
There will also be a ‘cup of tea’
morning on July 1 from 10am
to noon with a talk from Canterbury
Stories staff to finish the
exhibition.
“We’re really looking forward
to the cup of tea morning, which
should be a great and interactive
session, showing customers how
they can become part of the
story,” Robertson said.
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We know the stench has been awful for those
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• Wednesday 1 June 7–8.30pm
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cat, imp, IMPACT, mac, map, mat, mica, pact, pat,
pic, pica, pit, pita, tam, tamp, tap, tic, tip.
letters, including plurals, can you make
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18 19 20
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5. Hors d’oeuvre (inf) (7)
9. Manages (5)
10. Disbelieving (9)
11. Overbearing (9)
12. External (5)
13. Manmade fabric (5)
15. Restore (9)
18. Enduring (9)
19. Temporary retail outlet (3,2)
21. Rowing crew (5)
23. Gruelling (9)
25. Embroil (9)
26. Scold (5)
27. Smart alec (4,3)
28. Appears (7)
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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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12. Outer, 13. Nylon, 15.
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19. Pop up, 21. Eight, 23.
Strenuous, 25. Implicate,
26. Chide, 27. Wise guy, 28.
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Unpopular, 3. Loser, 4.
Discourse, 5. Needs, 6.
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