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Volunteers need help 

to keep graveyards tidy 

• By Lydia Lewis 

PUBLIC AND community-run 

cemeteries around the country 

are struggling to recruit staff and 

volunteers. 

One Christchurch volunteer 

has been holding the fort alone, 

but he, like many others, needs 

help. 

Plans are in the works by the 

national cemeteries body to prop 

up a recruitment campaign for 

burial places managed by local 

councils, trusts and community 

groups. 

Out the back of a well-manicured 

2ha lot at St Paul’s Anglican 

Church in Papanui is teacher 

and volunteer Julian Dent. 

“I think people seem to be 

too interested in themselves 

[other] than community . . . we 

would love some help. Think of 

a garden, and this is a big one,” 

he said. 

About 15 years ago, the graveyard 

was unkept with overgrown 

gravestones that were covered in 

moss. 

“It was out of control, I thought 

. . . mmm, I can do something to 

help here, the next week, I was 

asked to look after one row and 

one row eventually turned into 

the whole cemetery.” 

Ever since then he has been 

volunteering at the graveyard 

where many notable Cantabrians 

and war heroes are buried. 

• Turn to page 6 

DEDICATED: Julian Dent at work in the St Paul’s Anglican Church graveyard. 

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Thursday June 2 2022 3 

St Margaret’s students find success in 

economic development competition 

ST MARGARET’S College 

has scooped two of the top 

three prizes in the inaugural 

Canterbury Economic 

Development Challenge. 

It was the only school to field 

two of the six teams in the 

national final after two earlier 

rounds of competition. 

Run by Canterbury 

University in conjunction with 

Christchurch NZ, the fledgling 

competition marked 100 years 

of teaching for UC’s Business 

School. It was originally slated 

for 2020 but delayed until this 

year because of Covid-19. 

The challenge was to present 

an idea, in video format, for 

an economic development 

project for ChristchurchNZ that 

could enhance the economy 

of Canterbury and improve its 

living standards. It was open to 

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first prize for their proposal 

of a public private partnership 

between Environment 

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PROBLEM-SOLVERS: (Left to right) – Chloe Taylor, Jordan Silcock, Jessie Peng and Jessica Geng. 

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Year 13’s Chloe Taylor and 

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Food truck venture proves to be a hit 

• By Mick Jensen 

A FOOD truck alley initiative 

run through the Mt Pleasant 

Community Centre has proven 

popular, with plans to expand 

and refine it next season. 

To celebrate the end of a 

successful first round a final food 

truck alley will run on Queen’s 

Birthday (June 6) from 4-7pm, 

and the Pleasant Mountain Boys 

will be playing. 

The food trucks will return 

for a new season on September 

25. 

A collection of up to a dozen 

food stalls have set up on Sunday 

afternoons in the centre car park 

since March 20 and tempted 

visitors with the likes of chicken, 

stacked burgers, waffles, Thai 

food, crepes, vegan burgers and 

real fruit ice cream. 

Community centre market 

manager Derek McCullough 

said the food alley had been 

run as a trial and as a Sunday 

dinner option for people passing 

by. 

‘‘There used to be a pizza bus 

here years ago and with the 

Sunday market only running 

from 9.30am until 12.30pm 

we saw an opportunity to 

provide food in the late 

afternoon.’’ 

McCullough said the food 

venture had been very successful 

and had run from 4pm-8pm 

(more recently until 7pm because 

of the shorter days). 

POPULAR: The food truck alley at the Mt Pleasant Community Centre will celebrate a 

successful first season with one final offering before shutting up shop until September. 

There were plans to expand 

on the site next season, increase 

the range of what was on offer 

and to lay on regular musical 

entertainment, he said. 

Because it had been mostly 

takeaways, there had been a lot 

of used containers and plans 

were now afoot to recycle and 

mulch them, he said. 

The noise from food generators 

is also set to be addressed and an 

electricity hook up for traders is 

being investigated. 

McCullough said the location 

lent itself to family picnicking 

because it was right next to 

the reserve and playground. 

FOOD TRUCK ALLEY: Chris 

Geary’s Smoke n Barrel is 

one of 11 food trucks that 

set up in the Mt Pleasant 

Community Centre carpark 

on Sundays from 4-7pm. 

He said site fees paid by traders 

went back to the community 

centre, which was unique in that 

it was independently owned by 

the community and had to pay 

its own way.


HELPING HAND: About 250 volunteers attended the 

planting day at QE2 on Sunday morning. 

Planting day proves a popular way 

to counter climate change 

• By Emily Moorhouse 

A PLANTING day at the QE2 

grounds has been described as a 

great success with a turnout of 

250 volunteers. 

The event, organised by Eco 

Action Nursery Trust, saw 3000 

plants planted in just under two 

hours with help from 20 schools, 

locals and the New Brighton 

Volunteer Fire Brigade. 

“The general vibe of the place 

was very positive, 

lots of friendly 

chat and smiles as 

people went about 

their planting with 

their families, it 

was great,” said 

trust chair David David 

Newton. 

Newton 

The group planted totara and 

kahikatea, which Newton said 

would eventually become towering 

canopy trees, forming an essential 

part of the New Zealand 

bush ecosystem. 

“I never expect anyone to 

turn up, to be frank, it’s always 

marvellous that so many people 

do turn up, we couldn’t do it 

without them of course. I’m 

incredibly grateful that people 

think its a worthwhile way to 

spend two hours on a Sunday 

morning,” Newton said. 

The planting day was the 

first of four that will see 12,000 

student-grown native plants and 

trees put in the ground. 

Newton said the days gave 

students a “physical outlet in the 

face of global climate change”. 

“It’s one of the few actions they 

can take which is practical and 

obvious, growing a forest that 

will last for generations in a permanent 

position in Christchurch 

that they can point at in their 

dotage to say, well, we tried.” 

The next planting day will 

be at the QE2 grounds on June 

19, with the following two at 

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Repairs to start on Old Waimakariri Bridge 

WORK TO repair the damaged 

Old Waimakariri Bridge is 

scheduled to start today. 

City council road maintenance 

contractors will be on site after 

receiving specialised hardwood 

timber that meets the safety 

standard grade. 

“The new timber is currently 

being cut to size to match the 

existing posts and replace 

the damaged railing on the 

bridge,” city council city streets 

maintenance manager Steve Guy 

said. 

“Contractors will be at the 

bridge removing and disposing 

of the broken posts, then 

installing the 10 new posts and 

rails.” 

The work should take about a 

week to complete. The majority 

‘I respect these people who are buried here’ 

• From page 1 

He has been labelled a “super 

gardener” by the church’s warden 

Jennifer Barry. 

“He comes in, he mows the 

lawns, checks the plants, we’ve 

got about 100 roses that need 

pruning, bark needs to be 

spread,” she said. 

Dent is 78, and his extensive 

knowledge of the grounds is irreplaceable. 

“We have several very sad 

graves where, for example, three 

of the work will take place 

from the riverbed so is 

dependent on weather and 

river conditions. 

“The current detour will 

remain in place while we’re 

repairing the bridge. So 

motorists travelling northbound 

towards Kaiapoi will be able 

to use the bridge,” Guy said. 

If northbound traffic was 

detoured it would require 

motorists to cross four lanes of 

traffic on Main North Rd, so 

detouring southbound traffic 

creates a shorter and safer option 

for road users. 

“We know this work is 

disruptive and we’re working 

with our contractors to ensure 

it is done as quickly as possible,” 

he said. 

sons died in World War 1 and 

one came back and he died, 

so four sons completely wiped 

out.” 

He is keen to start passing on 

his experience so the next generation 

can take over, but that is a 

problem. 

“There is not a next generation 

taking over the locally run 

cemeteries. A lot of these 

cemeteries are staffed by 

volunteers, normally locals,” 

said Hayden Parr, chair of the 

MAINTENANCE: Repair work on the Old Waimakariri Bridge is due to start today. 

PHOTO: NEWSLINE 

Cemeteries and Crematoria 

Collective. 

It is so bad, the collective 

has been looking at starting a 

national awareness campaign. 

“To actually make people 

aware that this is a really rewarding 

career and it exists in the first 

place,” Parr said. 

“A lot of people don’t have a lot 

of things to do with cemeteries 

until the unfortunate time they 

need one.” 

Parr encourages anyone looking 

for work to give their local 

cemetery a call because working 

in a graveyard may just end up 

being the most rewarding career 

of their life. 

“I’ve been doing this over 

a decade now and I can’t 

even begin to count the 

number of families I have 

helped in the hardest time of 

their life.” 

He believes a sense of ‘duty 

of care’ has diminished over 

the years with people no longer 

feeling connected to their communities. 

Barry reminded people that 

everyone has a role to play. 

“We are all sad when we see a 

graveyard that is not looked after, 

but unless we take that sadness 

and convert it into labour it 

doesn’t really mean much,” she 

said. 

“I do it because I love it and 

I respect these people who are 

buried here,” Dent said. 

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Community gardens’ grateful for compost 

• By Emily Moorhouse 

TWENTY-TWO tonnes of 

“gold” in the form of compost 

has been donated to community 

gardens following a shortage. 

Forty-one community gardens 

around the city will benefit from 

1200 bags of compost to help 

grow produce, donated by Tui 

Garden Products. 

Canterbury 

Community 

Gardens Association 

capacity 

builder Rachel 

Vogan said the 

donation was 

Rachel 

Vogan 

“crazy” and 

has been wellreceived 

by all of 

the community 

gardens around the city. 

“It’s literally like gold for the 

gardens because we can’t grow 

good crops without getting 

good nutrition into the ground,” 

Vogan said. 

Vogan was approached by Tui 

after the bags of expired compost, 

and strawberry and vegetable 

mix were discovered. They 

couldn’t be sold so the company 

asked if the community gardens 

could use it. 

Because the compost goes 

straight into the ground and the 

community gardens follow all 

the health and safety procedures 

Vogan said the compost would 

be fine to use. 

“It’s better than getting money, 

it’s what we need to help grow 

our food, so it’s amazing,” she 

said. 

She said there is a huge issue 

with shortage of compost for 

community gardens, especially 

with the uncertain future of the 

organics processing plant in 

Bromley. 

That has a big impact on community 

gardens because we’re 

really short of compost to put in 

the ground and without being 

able to feed the soil it’s really 

hard to keep feeding people,” 

Vogan said. 

Vogan said it was a “juggling 

act” getting the compost to 

each community garden as the 

association didn’t have access 

Left: A Bryndwr Community Garden volunteer 

spreads the compost over produce. Innes Ward 

councillor Pauline Cotter helped move some of the 

bags. 

to delivery trucks or a depot to 

store the compost. 

Luckily, Owens Transport 

donated two delivery trucks 

and drivers for a couple of 

hours to deliver the 26 pallets of 

compost to the Wai-ora Trust, 

which offered its forklift and 

space to store the compost for 

other community gardens to 

collect. 

Each of the 41 community 

gardens can take up to 22 bags 

of compost, seeing garden members 

filling up their cars to the 

brim. 

Vogan said in spring, a garden 

event will be held and the 

leftover compost mix will be 

used for that. 

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Game for a challenge – delicious duck 

With duck shooting 

season under way, wild 

game chef Angelo 

Georgalli shares recipes 

from his latest book, 

The Fish and Game 

cookbook, a project he 

undertook when Covid 

forced him to shut both 

his hunting and fishing 

lodge and then his food 

truck. 

Honey soy roast shoveler 

with blackberry and plum 

sauce and pan-seared 

pears 

Ingredients 

1 whole shoveler 

1 large oven bag 

25g butter 

2 cloves garlic, crushed 

1 Tbsp sweet soy sauce 

1 Tbsp runny honey 

1 red pear, halved 

1 tsp butter 

Blackberry and plum sauce 

To serve: 

2 handfuls of mesclun salad 

½ handful of mint leaves, sliced 

½ Tbsp avocado oil 

1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar 

Salt & pepper 

Directions 

Preheat oven to 160degC. 

In an oven bag, add the 

shoveler, butter, crushed garlic, 

sweet soy sauce and runny 

honey. Pierce and tie the bag and 

carefully shake to coat the bird. 

Place in the oven for 2 hours 30 

minutes. 

In a hot frying pan, add the 

butter and place the pear fleshside 

down and fry for 1-2 minutes 

or until golden brown. Set aside. 

Warm up your blackberry and 

plum sauce using a hot pan or 

microwave. 

Serve with tossed mesclun salad 

and mint leaves. Drizzle avocado 

oil and balsamic vinegar over the 

salad with added salt and pepper 

to taste. 

A beautiful light dish of shoveler 

and pear with a side salad. 

Blackberry and plum 

sauce 

Ingredients 

PHOTO: 

SALLY 

GREER 

1 cup blackberries 

10 plums, halved 

3 Tbsp caster sugar 

1 Tbsp fig balsamic vinegar 

3 tsp port 

2 tsp cointreau 

¼ tsp vanilla paste 

Directions 

Place all the ingredients into a 

saucepan on a medium/high heat 

for about 1-2 minutes and ensure 

all ingredients are mixed in. 

Lower the heat and simmer for 

15 minutes, stirring regularly. 

Take off the heat and let it cool. 

Put the mixture in a blender 

and blitz until smooth. 

Enjoy heated through as a nice 

addition to any waterfowl dish. 

Crispy mallard pancakes 

Ingredients 

2 mallard legs 

2 mallard breasts 

450g duck fat 

½ tsp sesame seed oil 

1 Tbsp sweet soy sauce 

Pancakes: 

1 egg 

1 cup flour 

1 cup milk 

2 pinches salt 

25g butter 

To serve: 

1 Tbsp cranberry and prune 

BBQ sauce 

1 spring onion, sliced 

¼ cucumber, sliced 

1 tsp tamari roasted sunflower 

seeds 

Directions 

In a steamer, place the duck legs 

on to the bottom shelf and the 

breasts on the top shelf. Steam the 

duck for 1 hour. 

Into a deep hot frying pan, 

add your duck fat. Once the fat 

has reached frying temperature 

(180degC), carefully place the 

duck legs and breasts into the 

frying pan using tongs. Deep fry 

for 10 minutes. Remove the duck 

from the hot fat, placing it into 

a bowl. Lightly drizzle sesame 

seed oil and sweet soy sauce over 

the duck. Once cooled, shred the 

meat off the legs and breasts using 

two forks, being mindful to avoid 

sharp leg bones. 

To make the pancakes, whisk 

egg, flour and milk together for 

5-10 minutes to get as much 

air into the mixture as possible. 

If needed, add extra milk one 

tablespoon at a time until a silky, 

runny consistency is achieved. 

Add salt to finish the batter. In 

a warm frying pan, melt a knob 

of butter and add 3 Tbsp of the 

pancake batter to make 1 pancake. 

Use the back of the spoon to 

form a pancake shape. Cook for 3 

minutes on both sides. 

To assemble the pancake: 

spread BBQ sauce over the base, 

place spring onions, cucumber 

and sunflower seeds in the centre. 

Place the deep fried duck on top 

with a drizzle more BBQ sauce. 

Fold pancake and eat. 

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Vegetarian meals 

with meat optional 

Turn plain 

vegetables 

into chunks 

and create a 

flavoursome, 

wholesome meal 

Parmesan-coated 

roast veges 

Serves 6 

Ingredients 

½ cup flour, place in large 

3 tablespoons olive oil, 

place in largest bowl with: 

4 cloves garlic (crushed) 

1 teaspoon Vegetta 

2 heaped soupspoonfuls 

parmesan cheese 

Vegetables, can use anything 

suitable, cut into 

bite-size chunks 

Directions 

Mix olive oil/garlic/Vegetta 

together thoroughly, 

then add the parmesan 

cheese and mix again. 

Add vegetables, put lid 

on bowl and toss to coat, 

put lid back on bowl and 

re-toss. 

Place on baking tray or 

oven dish that has been 

lined with non-stick tin 

foil. Bake at 200 deg C for 

40min. 

Gluten, wheat and 

dairy free roasted 

veges 

Serves 4 

Prepare in advance 

Ingredients 

Marinade: 


place in largest bowl with: 

2 tablespoons balsamic 

vinegar 

2 teaspoons liquid honey 

1 heaped tablespoon dried 

rosemary 

Crushed peppercorns 

Vegetables: 

Peel and chop up any 

suitable, roastable 

vegetable into bite-size 

chunks (or can leave in 

strips or any other size, if 

desired). 

Place in marinade, cover 

bowl and leave for at least 

an hour, the longer the 

better. Best results are if 

made the day before. 

When ready to cook, 

transfer to roasting dish 

or baking tray which can 

be lined with tin foil or 

baking paper, and roast at 

200deg C for 40min. 

Vegetables should 

be tender and slightly 

blackened around the 

edges. Can cook for an 

hour at 180 deg C if 

sharing oven with other 

food(s). 

Self-crusting quiche 

Serves 4-6 

Ingredients 

3 eggs, place in mixing 

bowl and lightly beat, then 

add: 

100gm butter (melted) 

1½ cups blue milk 

1 cup grated cheese 

1 cup self-raising flour 

(sifted) 

1 teaspoon green herb 

stock (optional) 

Pepper or peppercorns 

(optional) 

Extras, whatever you like 

in the way of vegetables, 

ham, bacon etc 

Topping 

Tomato, sliced 

Pumpkin seeds 

Parmesan cheese 

Directions 

Mix eggs/butter/milk/ 

cheese/flour together thoroughly, 

but don’t overmix. 

Add optional ingredients 

and stir through. 

Pour into large, deep 

oven-proof dish that has 

been lined with two thicknesses 

of non-stick tin foil. 

Put Toppings on, and bake 

at 180 deg C for 60min. 

Carrot fritters 

Makes 4-5 

Ingredients 

2 cups carrots, grated, 

place in mixing bowl with: 

½ teaspoon cumin 

½ teaspoon coriander 

2 eggs 

4 cloves garlic, crushed 

3 spring onions, sliced 

½ cup breadcrumbs 

Peppercorns 

Olive oil (for frying) 

Directions 

Mix well, and fry in olive 

oil until browned on both 

sides. 

Roast vegetable and 

pesto pizza 

Serves 2 

Ingredients 


place in large bowl with: 

½ pumpkin, peeled, deseeded 

and cut into pieces 

1 kumara, peeled and cut 

into chunks 

2 carrots, peeled & sliced 

½ cauliflower, cut into 

florets 

1 small red onion, sliced 

1 teaspoon ground cumin 

1 teaspoon ground coriander 

2 pizza bases 

80gm pesto 

1 cup grated cheese 

100 grams feta 

½ cup chopped spinach 

2 tablespoons sweet chilli 

sauce 

Bacon or ham optional 

Directions 

Preheat oven to 180 deg 

C. Line baking tray with 

non-stick tin foil. 

Add cumin and coriander 

to olive oil, pumpkin, 

kumara and carrots and 

toss. Tip onto baking tray 

and bake in oven for 20min, 

then add cauliflower and 

red onion, toss, and continue 

cooking for a further 

15min. 

Remove from oven, leaving 

the oven turned on, but 

keep hot. Place pizza bases 

on baking tray and spread 

evenly with the pesto. 

Sprinkle with the cheese 

(all of it), then add the 

vegetables. 

Crumble over the feta 

and place back in the oven 

for 10min. 

Top with spinach and 

sweet chilli sauce. 

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this winter 

RD Petroleum (RDP) is a familiar sight 

for farm and rural residents around the 

Canterbury region, however now days urban 

residents also enjoy the same excellent 

customer service for which RDP is known for 

in rural communities, through their home 

heating diesel. 

RDP began its home heating diesel delivery 

service to the lower South Island’s main urban 

centres of Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin 

and Invercargill a number of years ago. 

Customer demand has continued to increase 

year upon year, and RDP has responded 

with specialised improvements to its delivery 

equipment. 

The trucks that deliver RDP’s home heating 

diesel in each urban centre are drawn from 

the company’s extensive vehicle fleet. This 

means they have the latest communication 

and GPS tracking technology on board, so 

the operations team always know where they 

are and how far away they are from their next 

delivery stop. 

RDP’s home heating diesel trucks come 

equipped with a specially-designed hose, 

through which the diesel is pumped from 

the truck into house tanks. The length of 

the hose allows the trucks to access tanks 

without having to enter the property, avoiding 

damaging the driveway. RDP is the place to 

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you’re offered discounted pricing and can 

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HOME & HEATING 

Ground moisture barrier 

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Now with the colder and wetter weather on 

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to make their homes comfortable, warm 

and healthy for their families throughout 

winter. Rising damp is an issue that affects 

many of our older properties which suffer 

from poor, or no, ground moisture barrier. 

In Canterbury especially, post-quake, many 

people have relocated to homes that suffer 

from rising damp which can be associated 

with health problems. Independent tests have 

shown that up to 40 litres of water can rise 

from the ground and enter a house every day, 

leading to mildew, mould, condensation and 

musty smells. Moulds can produce various 

allergic reactions and the frail, elderly and 

very young are especially vulnerable. 

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While insulation is important, it has been 

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villain in the house. The new Healthy Homes 

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effective from the 1st July 2019 now has 

a requirement to install ground moisture 

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moisture in the home. 

Dr Larry Bellamy BE (hons) PhD in a 

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on the underside of a timber floor can occur 

where the floor is suspended over damp 

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Much energy is required to vaporize moisture 

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The importance 

of air quality 

The quality of the air 

we breathe affects our 

health and ability to 

perform. We breathe in 

and out approximately 

20,000 litres of air every 

day. It is therefore very 

important to ensure 

good air quality indoors 

through adequate 

ventilation. Ventilation 

is the process of air 

exchange to provide the 

necessary air quality that 

meets the needs of the 

occupants for clean, fresh air. Low oxygen 

with high carbon dioxide causes stuffiness 

in the room and occupants can feel drowsy. 

Invisible harmful substances like a high 

content of dust and tobacco smoke are 

harmful and can cause various diseases. 

Even bad smells can cause discomfort or 

irritate the nervous system. In summer, it’s 

easy to open windows for cross ventilation, 

however as winter approaches, we start to 

shut up out houses to trap in the heat and 

as a result, air quality can decline. 

Ventilation includes both the exchange 

of air to the outside as well as circulation 

of air within the building. It is one of the 

most important factors for maintaining 

acceptable indoor air quality in buildings. 

Filtered air supply for summer and filtered 

and warmed air in winter creates a healthy 

environment in which to live and work. 

In cases with poor or insufficient air 

intake from outside, the oxygen content 

decreases, humidity and dustiness levels 

increase. If exhaust ventilation is not 

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smells, humidity and harmful substances 

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To ensure the quality of your air, contact 

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letters, using each letter only once? No foreign 

words or words beginning with a capital are 

allowed. There's at least one six-letter word. 

once? 

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letters, including plurals, can you make 

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Scared, 10. Perhaps, 11. 

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String, 16. Envious, 17. Data, 

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RAY WHITE PAPANUI NEWS 

Keeping It Real: How To Tend To Indoor Plants 

The purpose of displaying indoor plants 

is to not only add vibrancy and life to 

your interior but equally to improve 

air quality and enhance psychological 

wellbeing — for the viewer and carer. 

However, for your plants to look the 

part and householders to receive their 

visual and health benefits, it’s important 

to maintain natural greenery at its most 

verdant. 

With a little regular effort and ongoing 

TLC, even the most time-poor green 

thumbs can ensure that interior plants 

reflect their natural glory. 

Fast facts 

Plant owners do not need to be expert 

botanists. All that is required of them as 

caretakers is to consider the hardiness of 

the plant, its suitability for variations in 

indoor temperatures (including heating 

and air-conditioning demands), light 

requirements, air circulation, feeding, 

weeding or pruning and repotting. 

Soul food in the giving 

In these post-pandemic times, tending to 

plants can be a balm to the soul. Adopting 

a daily plant care routine requires 

minimal time but offers maximum gain. 

Indoor plants often starved of natural 

light and fresh air, require regular 

watering. Dropping plant food in your 

watering can is also recommended every 

third or fourth watering. 

Making the rounds is an enjoyable 

exercise for your plants and the waterer 

alike. While doing so, you can either 

reduce the supply or forgo entirely if the 

Let’s celebrate - the healthy homes new 

heating calculator has taken effect! 

I mentioned a few weeks back that we 

were all waiting with bated breath for 

the 12th May when the changes to the 

healthy homes standards took effect, and 

I am pleased to report that it was worth 

waiting for, but, like a lot of legislation 

there is certainly some fine print which is 

frustrating, and makes little sense! 

Let’s start with the positive. We have had 

a couple of brand new properties where 

heating reports were previously failed 

due to the heating capacity, and when 

re-calculated they are not only sneaking 

in, but now complying by on average 

2-3 KW, which is an enormous change. 

There is however a timeframe around 

this as the report can only be updated 

to reflect the new heating requirement 

if it is recalculated within 90 days of the 

soil is still damp. 

You should also 

examine the 

leaves, giving 

the pot a turn 

if it needs it, 

recognising 

and celebrating 

new growth 

as you preen, 

fuss and tend to 

your treasured 

greenery 

throughout its 

life cycle. 

For a methodical task with instant visual 

gratification, the trimming process is 

next on your to-do list. This is an ideal 

weekend project, as it is designed to get 

everyone involved and provide your 

plants with a new lease on life. 

Keeping tired foliage in trim condition 

Restoring your indoor plants to their 

trimmest condition is a matter of 

regularly pruning dead or dying leaves. 

This task will not only improve the health 

and livelihood of seasonally weary 

greenery but removing withered leaves 

also helps prevent pests from making 

their home in your plants. 

Wait at least until a leaf is fully yellow 

and it pulls easily away from the plant 

before taking it off. A leaf that’s only 

partially yellow means that the plant is 

still absorbing the leaf’s nutrients. But 

brown leaves and brown leaf tips can be 

trimmed with impunity. 

commencement of the tenancy. 

The Government did this to stop any 

landlords holding off from increasing 

the heating in their rentals until the new 

calculation came into effect on 12th May, 

so essentially if you are a day out you will 

not comply! 

Now, if your brain works logically, you 

will no doubt feel just as I do about this 

bureaucracy, and so try to think outside 

the box a little, but unfortunately the 

law is the law, and failure to comply 

could result in a hefty fine if you don’t 

comply. I have spoken to both of our 

healthy homes inspectors and they both 

agree with me that it makes no sense, 

and will not in any way adversely affect 

the tenants, which after all is what the 

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Compact-sized hand pruners should do 

the trick for indoor plant maintenance. 

In addition, you should sanitise your 

pruners between plants so you don’t 

transfer diseases or pests. A disinfecting 

wipe to clean the blades works great. 

Prudent snipping not only makes your 

plants look better and helps them stay 

healthy but trimming off dead parts 

creates space and energy for new 

growth. Doing so will not only encourage 

your plants to grow but will remind you, 

while you’re doing it, of how true this 

holds for you, too. 

Happy Indoor Gardening! 

Content inspired by Real Estate Voice 

Vanessa Golightly, 

Business Owner 

and Licensee Agent 

Ray White Papanui 


healthy homes standards are all about, 

but as I said the law is the law. 

There will of course be a lot of landlords 

out there who are angry that the heating 

tool was not accurate in the first place 

and they have spent a large amount of 

money replacing heat pumps or installing 

larger than necessary units, and that is 

understandable, however always one 

to look on the bright side, I am at least 

thankful that sense has prevailed and the 

heating calculation for modern homes 

now makes sense! 

Katrina Green, 

Operations Manager 

Property Management 


106 Blenheim Road, Riccarton 

Vanessa Golightly & Maria Paterson 

Vanessa Golightly 

Licensee Agent & 



Stuart Morris 

Licensee Agent 

& Auctioneer 


Tracy Thomson 

Licensee Salesperson 


Ben McNab 


& Auctioneer 


Staci Burnett 

Mortgage Broker 


Rodney King 

Mortgage Broker 


Claire Morris 

Licensee Agent & 



Katrina Green 

Property Management 

Operations Manager 


Maria Paterson 



Olivia Hendry 

Executive Assistant & 



Estelle Schuurman 

Business Development 

Manager 


Georgia Tuuta 

Executive Assistant 

Level 1, 7 Winston Avenue, Papanui 

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