Bay Harbour: June 15, 2022

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home up 

$1.7m in 

two years 

• By Nikki Preston 

A MODERN Mt Pleasant home 

with impressive sea and city views 

has sold for $3.72m – almost 

double what its owners paid for it 

two years ago. 

It is also the second most 

expensive house to sell in 

Christchurch so far this year and 

dwarfs any other sale in the suburb 

by more than $1m. 

This year the sales have been 

slightly lower with a property on 

Leinster Rd in Merivale holding 

the record so far at $4m. 

The luxury five-bedroom, 

three-bathroom home on Marama 

Cres sold under the hammer 

at a Bayleys auction last week 

after strong competition from five 

bidders. 

The property, which has an RV 

of $1.67m, last changed hands in 

March 2020 for $1.95m, meaning 

the vendors walked away with a 

profit of $1.77m, on paper at least. 

New analysis of house-flipping 

in New Zealand, by OneRoof’s 

data partner Valocity, identified 

1584 Canterbury properties that 

were bought and resold in the two 

years to April 2022, up from 1114 

on the two years to the end of 

April 2020. 

• Turn to page 5 

• By Chris Barclay 

WAVE HEIGHT and the 

sea temperature weren’t the 

only noticeable differences 

between Sumner and 

Playa el Sunzal for talented 

teenage surfer Jack Tyro. 

Safety is always a priority 

when the junior world 

championships are staged 

and El Salvador, one of 

Central America and the 

world’s most dangerous 

countries, ensured the 

competitors were also as 

secure as possible when on 

shore. 

A gang violence-inspired 

state of emergency was 

still in force when the year 

11 student from St Bede’s 

College arrived from Los 

Angeles at 2am on May 

23 and transferred to a 

bus escorted by an armed 

convoy. 

And when the sun rose 

over Surf City – about an 

hour south of the crimeinfested 

capital San Salvador 

– Tyro and fellow Sumner 

surfer Ava Henderson got 

acclimatised under the 

watchful gaze of gun-toting 

police. 

“There was security with 

guns on the beach. You 

don’t get that in Sumner,” 

he said. 

“It was reassuring and 

kind of cool.” 


BALANCED APPROACH: 

Sumner’s Jack Tyro 

masters a wave at the 

world junior surfing 

championships in 

El Salvador. 

ON GUARD: New Zealand surfers 

Kora Cooper (left) and Kalani Louis 

flanked by members of the El 

Salvador navy. PHOTO: JACK TYRO

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RESIDENTS near a 2000-cattle 

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Valley by Lake Ellesmere Te 

Waihora will present two 

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The twin petitions, which 

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signatures, call for the feed 

barns to be stopped. ECan 

councillors will be invited to 

receive the petitions on the steps 

of its offices before a deputation 

is made to the council 

meeting. 

The farmer, Wongan Hills, 

proposed in April 2022 four 

large composting barns for the 

banks of the Kaituna Stream 

and three kilometres from the 

lake. The barns would house 

2200 cattle on a floor made of 

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The beef would be destined for 

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FEED BARNS: Opponents say the environment risk to the 

Kaituna Valley is too great. 

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without notification, or to notify 

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animal health from living on a 

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Green MP Eugenie Sage will 

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The residents say the 

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Spokesperson Donald Matheson 

said this kind of industrial 

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farming in the wrong place. 

“This could set back the health 

of Te Waihora by a generation. 

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“The barns are being planned 

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4 

NEWS 


‘Stoked’ to compete against world’s best 

• From page 1 

“We’d never seen guns like 

that before. It was just cool seeing 

stuff like that,” said Tyro. 

“They (security) were really 

nice, they said ‘Hi’. 

“There were a lot of fireworks 

and we thought they were 

gunshots, but there were a few 

parades on. 

“Surf City is a really chill place. 

I might go back when I’m older.” 

Tyro was aware of the country’s 

dubious reputation, not that 

he was ever anxious given the 

team hotel was about 30 seconds 

from the beach and this was not 

a backpacking exercise. 

The 15-year-old was more 

concerned about immersing 

himself in the Pacific coast’s 

renowned right point breaks, 

having arrived four days before 

the competition started. 

“They were absolutely pumping, 

it was way better than here. 

It was pretty solid most of the 

time, around five-foot, head 

height,” he said. 

New Zealand ultimately placed 

13th in the team event, improving 

one place from last time the 

championships were held, at 

Huntington Beach, California, 

in 2019. 

“We were happy with our 

result,” said Tyro, who was 33rd 

equal in the 115-strong boys 

under-16 division. 

“I think I did alright. I had 

a few shockers where I knew I 

definitely could have done better. 

I got through two main round 

heats, I was even happy making 

it through a heat, so to get two 

was pretty cool.” 

Henderson was among 11 

competitors that were 49th equal 

in the girls under-18 class of 91, 

a cluster that included teammate 

Liv Hayson. 

“I’m so stoked I got to compete 

against the world’s best,” said 

Henderson. 

“Definitely had my ups and 

downs, but grateful I had an 

amazing crew by my side the 

whole time.” 

Surfing powerhouse Hawaii 

won the team event comfortably 

from Australia and the USA. 

“Everyone was trying not to 

think too much about it beforehand 

and when we got there it 

felt like a normal comp that we’d 

be doing at home, but we knew it 

would be way bigger than that,” 

said Tyro, a dedicated surfer 

from the age of eight. 

He returned home last Wednesday 

to catch up on school work 

after a three-week absence. 

Normality also returns when 

he resumes competition at 

Logger Heads, the traditional 

longboard contest in chilly seas 

at Northland’s Mangawhai 

Heads next month. 

PUMPED: Jack Tyro 

(above) and Ava 

Henderson prepare 

to compete at the 

world junior surfing 

championships in El 

Salvador, where New 

Zealand placed 13th 

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NEWS 5 

Top-end buyers opting not to build 


The average gain from 

Canterbury resales post-Covid 

was $168,881, up from $87,372 in 

the two years pre-Covid. 

Bayleys agent 

Steve Ellis, who 

marketed the 

Marama Cres 

home, said the 

$3.72m sale 

price was a 

“phenomenal 

Steve Ellis 

result”. 

“It just shows 

what can still 

happen if you’ve got a lovely 

property, well-presented and create 

competition,” he said, adding 

that the owners were only selling 

due to a change in circumstances 

not because they were flipping 

the home. 

They had spent several hundred 

thousand dollars on the 

property since buying it two 

years ago, installing a high-quality 

outdoor area with a gas fire, 

built-in BBQ and electric louvres. 

They had also completely 

re-landscaped and redecorated 

inside. 

“They just enhanced the house 

very cleverly and just made it a 

very, very attractive home,” Ellis 

said. 

Ellis noted that economic 

headwinds had affected the 

higher-end of the market much 

LUXURIOUS: The five-bedroom home on Marama Cres, Mt Pleasant, sold to a local buyer. 

PHOTOS: NZ HERALD 

less than the rest of the market. 

The new owners were local 

buyers who had been looking 

for the perfect property for some 

time and had been competing 

against another group who had 

opted to buy instead of build in 

the current climate. 

Bayleys Christchurch general 

manager Rachel Dovey added: 

“These kind of properties don’t 

come up every day and it took 

the eye of those five groups, 

which was fairly significant.” 

While the people who bid 

on the Mt Pleasant property 

were locals, the agency was still 

seeing a lot of people relocating 

from some of the other bigger 

cities such as Auckland because 

Christchurch was seen as a good 

value place to live. 

Harcourts Grenadier 

managing director Andy 

Freeman said Mt Pleasant was 

a “cool” part of Christchurch 

and there weren’t many houses 

for sale there at any one time. 

Properties there often had 

amazing views too. 

Freeman said the price often 

depended on both the area and 

the specific property as not all 

areas are going up in value at the 

moment. Some people are also 

moving towards buying newish 

homes rather than building 

themselves due to the higher cost 

and delays involved. 

“To go and replace something 

on the hill would cost you a 

fortune if it’s quite new because 

of the way the building costs 

are.” In this market, it would 

likely take four years from 

buying a section to actually 

moving into the house, he said. 

The most expensive property 

to sell in the city last year 

was a five-bedroom home on 

Wairarapa Tce that sold offmarket 

for $8m, followed by an 

award-winning waterfront house 

on Desmond St that sold for 

$6.7m. 

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NEWS 


A mother’s story of loss, grief and 

A mother who has 

experienced tragedy 

still manages to find 

joy in the small things. 

After losing her 13-dayold 

baby and being 

diagnosed with stage 

four ovarian cancer 

with a life expectancy 

prognosis of five to 15 

years, Sarah Luxon uses 

her blog to write about 

the “messy things” in 

life. Emily Moorhouse 

reports 

FOUR YEARS ago Sarah Luxon, 

34, gave birth to what appeared 

to be a perfectly healthy baby girl 

named Mackenzie. 

However, the second week into 

Mackenzie’s life, Sarah noticed 

she was becoming quite grizzly 

but after a check up from the 

LOSS: (Above left) – Sarah Luxon lost her baby Mackenzie to a heart defect when she 

was 13-days-old. Since then Sarah has raised more than $3000 for Kenzie’s Gift, a charity 

that supports families through grief and loss. (Above) – Sarah and husband Greg, along 

with daughters Hazel, 7, Willa, 2, and step-daughter Tayla, 19, travel to Tekapo each year 

on the anniversary of Mackenzie’s death to connect as a family during what can be a 

difficult time. 

midwife, was told everything 

was okay. 

A few days later, feeling like 

something wasn’t right, Sarah 

took Mackenzie to an after hours 

medical centre. 

Within minutes of arriving, 

Mackenzie’s heart stopped 

beating. 

“It was horrible, just watching 

my wee baby being resuscitated 

and having to call my husband 

to tell him that her heart had 

stopped and to come in,” Sarah 

said. 

“She passed away very 

suddenly and I had no idea what 

had happened until the postmortem 

came back, and it took 

months.” 

Mackenzie died from a heart 

defect where a hole in her 

heart, known as a patent ductus 

arteriosus, hadn’t properly closed 

over after being born as well as 

having high blood pressure in 

her lungs. 

Sarah said while the hospital 

staff did an incredible job at 

trying to help Mackenzie, it was 

too much for her little body to 

handle and she died at 13-daysold. 

“She coped with what ended 

up being fatal very well right up 

until her body went: ‘We can’t do 

this anymore’.” 

Afterwards, Sarah felt there 

was a lack of mental health 

support offered with no funded 

clinical psychologists or counsellors 

to talk to. 

She attended a support 

group but said she would have 

benefited much more from 

one-on-one therapy, and feels 

as though her seven-year-old 

daughter, who was two at the 

time would have benefited from 

this as well. 

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NEWS 7 

a devastating cancer diagnosis 

Every August, for Mackenzie’s 

anniversary, Sarah goes to 

Tekapo with her husband Greg, 

their daughters Hazel, 7, and 

Willa, 2, and her step-daughter 

Tayla, 19, to connect as a family 

through what is a very hard time. 

Last year when they 

were checking out of their 

accommodation, Sarah asked to 

book for the same time next year 

and got talking to the woman at 

reception. 

She opened up about the reason 

behind their yearly visit and the 

pain of loosing Mackenzie. 

The woman said to Sarah: 

“That’s given me goosebumps,” 

and told her about Kenzie’s Gift, 

a charity that supports families 

going through grief or loss. 

The charity was doing a winter 

swim challenge to raise money 

for mental health to go towards 

helping families in similar 

situations to Sarah’s. 

So Sarah decided to commit to 

the winter swims, mostly at New 

Brighton Beach to raise money 

for what she described as a very 

worthwhile cause. 

“I’m not a big putting myself 

out there person but I did 13 

dips so one for each day of 

Mackenzie’s life,” Sarah said. 

Sarah, who isn’t a strong 

swimmer started off with a goal 

of raising $300 and was “very 

LOVE: Sarah Luxon is making the most of time she has left with her family and said she’s 

enjoying the small things like picking up the kids from school. 

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touched” by people’s generosity 

when she raised more than 

$3000. 

However, during her dips, 

Sarah noticed a lump on her 

abdomen that she assumed was a 

hernia. 

But after feeling fatigued and 

experiencing bowel issues, she 

went for a check up. 

After multiple visits to doctors, 

a gynaecologic oncologist, 

orthopaedics, an ultrasound, an 

MRI, a biopsy and months of 

waiting, Sarah was diagnosed 

with stage four ovarian cancer 

and given a five to 15-year 

prognosis. 

During this time, Sarah 

continued with her winter dips, 

in spite of it being painful on her 

abdomen. 

Sarah said she felt frustrated 

with how long it took to get a 

diagnosis and said if it was a 

lump on her breast she would 

have got it checked straight 

away. 

“As women we get told to check 

our breasts, but we don’t hear 

that there’s no screening at all 

for ovarian cancer. It was not 

something that I knew about or 

considered,” she said. 

“There’s just not enough 

awareness about all of those 

issues and people feel really 

awkward talking about ovaries.” 

Faced with a prognosis of 

up to 15 years and still grieving 

the loss of baby Mackenzie, 

Sarah realised she felt alone, so 

started a blog in hopes of helping 

others going through something 

similar. 

She called it Joy in the Small 

Things and posts regularly about 

navigating life with her diagnosis 

and sharing her experiences. 


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‘I don’t sweat 

the small stuff’ 


“I started it up just as a way 

to share with people what was 

happening with cancer and 

the treatment and I found that 

writing helped me work through 

quite a few things 

emotionally and 

mentally.” 

“I felt quite isolated 

or separated because 

I didn’t know anybody 

else who had 

been through a similar 

experience with 

having a daughter 

die at 13 days and 

then finding that 

there’s not a huge 

amount of awareness on ovarian 

cancer as well,” Sarah said. 

Sarah has undergone surgery 

to have all the visible tumours removed 

and began chemotherapy 

on Christmas Eve, and is now on 

hormone blockers to prevent any 

further growths. 

“Scientists haven’t done studies 

on people with this cancer [ovarian] 

so they don’t know how best 

to treat it so it’s not that there are 

drugs out there that aren’t funded, 

it’s that they don’t know what 

drugs to actually make available 

for us,” Sarah said. 

“There’s no research so it feels 

quite lonely. They can’t even give 

me a prognosis better than five to 

15 years.” 

Sarah said she’s still trying to 

get her head around her prognosis 

and gets tripped up on a 

daily basis by her seven-year-old 

asking questions 

like will she ever 

be a grandma? 

“How do you 

respond to that? 

Yeah, it’s very 

hard.” 

Sarah has 

stopped working 

to spend as much 

time as she can 

with her family 

and said she tries 

her best to stay in the moment. 

“I can’t bring myself to miss 

out on the potentially short time 

left with the kids. I’m enjoying 

taking the kids to swimming 

lessons and being there at the 

school gates for pick-up.” 

Sarah said she feels incredibly 

lucky for the people she has 

around her and after all she’s 

been through it’s changed her 

perspective on life. 

“It’s made me appreciate what’s 

actually important, I don’t sweat 

the small stuff,” she said. 

“I just want to help people, I 

just want to make a difference in 

someone else’s life.” 


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to the work artist Mike Beer – 

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restoring the miniature model 

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The model was originally 

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as part of the visitor centre 

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trails had worn away on the 

model as you could literally see 

where people had traced their 

pathways,” said city council 

parks programmes and partnerships 

manager Kate Russell. 

“But after more than 20 years, 

the model was at the end of its 

life and it was time for a refresh.” 

The work is being done by 

Beer, who has found his niche in 

miniatures. 

“I usually do more urban work, 

miniature objects, buildings and 

city stuff, so this was a bit out of 

the ordinary for me,” he said. 

“It’s not like these jobs come up 

very often. I’m stoked to be doing 

it. The Port Hills are such an 

iconic part of Christchurch.” 

Over the five days he’s been 

working on it, he’s been focused 

on making it look as realistic as 

possible. 

“The process is all about 

building it up in layers. You start 

with the landscape, the trees and 

REFRESH: 

Artist Mike Beer, 

aka GhostCat, 

restoring the 

miniature model 

of the Port Hills 

at the Victoria 

Park Visitor 

Centre. 

PHOTO: 

NEWSLINE 

Miniature gets makeover 

the scrub before you add detail,” 

Beer said. 

“Then we’ve added the tracks, 

more details to the outer areas 

like the sea of Lyttelton Harbour 

and the roads, even some froth in 

the ocean where it would hit the 

hills.” 

As well as restoring the model, 

it’s also being updated with more 

accurate track locations and 

Māori place names. 

Said Russell: “This project is 

part of a wider refresh of the 

centre, which will also include 

Māori content such as providing 

access to the Ngāi Tahu Atlas 

and sharing the story of the 

Māori relationship with the 

Port Hills.” 

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NEWS 


Motorcycle builder turns fixer upper 

• By John Cosgrove 

AS FAR as 57-year-old UK expat 

Phil Garrett is concerned, his 

family motto should have been 

‘waste not, want not’. 

“I blame my grandmother for 

it back in England,” the owner of 

the Fixit Factory said. 

“She started it all by being diligent 

about not wasting anything. 

“She was, you know, a mother 

during the war, and she knew 

about saving things. 

“That’s how the recycle/reuse 

ethic went through my whole 

family, and I’ve always been 

fixing stuff for people and myself 

since then.” 

Standing at a refuse centre one 

day, Garrett said he saw people 

throwing away some perfectly 

good furniture. 

“I said, you could save that, 

refix it, but they were just going 

to throw it in the skip and in the 

big dump. 

“I came home and said, ‘this 

is wrong’. There’s got to be some 

way, but when I looked online 

there was no one doing it, no 

one doing those silly fiddly little 

jobs.” 

So Garrett took a punt and 

left his job as an engineer for a 

production company in Bromley 

and opened the Fixit Factory 

four years ago, working out of 

his garage, fixing anything from 

much-loved family heirlooms to 

wobbly dining room table legs to 

- well, almost anything else. 

“Right about the time, those 

restore TV programmes appeared 

and the business just took 

off,” he said. 

“I’ve learned a tremendous 

amount. I’ve met some amazing 

people and I’ve taught myself 

all sorts of skills, including 

repairing clocks, I’d never 

worked on a clock until I started 

this and now I’ve worked on 

hundreds.” 

Garrett said the Fixit Factory 

aimed to be a one-stop shop 

where people can take almost 

anything that needs repairing 

and he – or his extensive list of 

like-minded experts, engineers 

or specialists just like him – will 

figure out a way to fix it. 

Already well known for his 

exploits building motorcycles 

for land speed record attempts, 

Garrett said he’s met many 

skilled engineers and backyard 

specialists while sourcing ideas 

and assistance. 

“It’s that can-do attitude many 

people have here, it’s great being 

around them.” 

Garrett said he hit the right 

CAN DO: Phil 

Garrett of the 

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repairs a Singer 

sewing machine. 

Garrett found 

a leather-work 

specialist who 

could make the 

intricate rope 

to power the 

machine by 

treadle. 

PHOTO: JOHN 

COSGROVE 

part of the wave of online enthusiasm 

for people wanting to use 

old stuff again. 

“Recognising the qualities of 

old oak furniture rather than the 

stuff you buy in IKEA, I think 

there’s a big revival of that and 

also the fact that old stuff is often 

actually built better than the new 

stuff. 

“There is a lot of middle-aged 

people here who just want to 

restore something that has wonderful 

childhood memories,” he 

said. 

He’s had 16-year-old kids from 

down the street walk in with a 

bicycle that’s got a flat tire, to 

85-year-olds with a precious 

heirloom they want repaired. 

“It’s been great, but a lot of it 

is furniture. Wobbly chairs – 

people will keep their wobbly 

chairs for 20 years. You can’t sit 

on them, but they match so that 

they’re going to keep them. 

“Up to now there hasn’t been 

any one local or anyone in 

Christchurch doing that, and 

now I’ve repaired hundreds of 

chairs.” 

Garrett said he’s had kids 

toys, kids prams, Tonka toys, 

candelabras, religious artifacts, 

rocking horses and kids trikes, 

dragon boat components, pedal 

cars, lampshades, some really 

old furniture, typewriters and 

sewing machines come into his 

workshop, every owner wanting 

their treasured items put back 

into working order. 

The most unique piece he has 

worked on was a World War 1 

bugle, which the owner said had 

spent three years on the Western 

Front. 

“It had been squashed and 

twisted and the metal was so 

thin it was about to fall apart. 

And I didn’t hold out much 

hope, but I did spend a lot of 

time on it. 

“And I have to say, I surprised 

myself. I really impressed myself 

by being able to do that.” 

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Treasures from the past: 

Last Voyage of S.S. Tyrone 

IT WAS a fine day on September 

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Tyrone left Whakaraupō 

Lyttelton Harbour bound for 

Port Chalmers on what was to be 

her fateful voyage. 

The Tyrone, originally named 

the Drayton Grange, was 

commissioned in 1901 by the 

Houlder Brothers (UK), and 

built at the Workman, Clark 

and Company yards in Belfast. 

A steel hulled, four masted, 

schooner rigged steamer, 

she displaced 6664 tons and 

was 137m long, with two 662 

horsepower steam engines and a 

sustained speed of 11 knots. 

For a decade, she plied the 

Australasian trade routes before 

being purchased in 1912 by the 

Union Steam Ship Company and 

renamed Tyrone. 

On September 24, 1913, 

under the command of Captain 

McLaughlan, the Tyrone arrived 

in Lyttelton port from Liverpool, 

UK, with her hold full of general 

goods, tons of pig iron and 

several thousand bottles of 

whisky. 

After this stop she was 

to discharge the last of her 

cargo in Dunedin and Bluff, 

before starting a new USSCo 

trade route between Sydney, 

Wellington and Vancouver. 

Leaving Whakaraupō heads 

on September 26, the Tyrone 

rounded Horomaka Banks 

Peninsula and was past the 

Akaroa lighthouse by 3:25pm, 

setting course for the 240km, 12- 

hour night run to Otago in clear 

weather. 

At midnight, Robert Leighton 

began his shift as lighthouse 

keeper at Taiaroa Heads, 

overlooking the mouth of the 

Otago harbour. Around 2:40am 

on the 27th, he noted a light 

northerly breeze blowing a thick 

fog in, and so he began to sound 

the explosive fog warning every 

six minutes, as was the standard 

practice of the day. 

It was this fog warning that 

first alerted Captain McLaughlin 

to the danger at around 3:45am 

as the Tyrone neared the heads, 

having made record time at 12 

knots aided by an unusually 

strong current. Slowing the 

engines to half speed, the 

captain made his fateful 

decision. 

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his ship at dead slow towards the 

darkness, guided by only his log 

book. 

After 10 minutes, the ship’s 

lookout Archibald McLean 

could see no lights nor land until 

suddenly breakers loomed large. 

He called the warning down and 

at 4:05am, the ship came to a 

dead stop as the captain ordered 

full astern, hard to port, but to 

no avail, and two minutes later a 

heavy bump was heard. 

At 4:30am, the watchman 

at Taiaroa Heads lighthouse, 

William Carter, heard the first 

distress signal and the tug 

Plucky was dispatched. 

As the fog cleared with the 

dawn, it became apparent that 

the Tyrone had missed the port 

heads by a mile to the south, 

driven by the strong southbound 

current. The tug attempted a 

tow but the Tyrone was stranded 

hard on the rocks just off 

Rerewahine Point, close enough 

for the crew to abandon ship via 

a 20-foot ladder. 

Divers reported two large 

holes in the hull, and the Tyrone 

was declared a total loss. To 

this day she remains the largest 

ship to wreck on the coast of the 

South Island. 

Captain McLaughlin was 

exonerated by a magisterial 

inquiry, which found that “the 

unusual and strong current 

was the primary cause of the 

disaster”. 

While much of the cargo 

was salvaged, it was reported 

that many cases of whisky 

went ‘missing’, coinciding 

with a short-lived epidemic 

of what came to be called the 

“Tyrone flu” amongst the local 

fishermen. 

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Buvi, who is originally from Malaysia, completed 

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law, at university in Kuala Lumpur, before moving 

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Otago University. Buvi instantly felt a connection 

to New Zealand, making it her home ever since. 

Buvi joined Saunders & Co in 2016, initially as a 

legal executive, whilst she completed the required 

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“At the same time, while I was working full time, I was 

studying for cross-qualification to become a lawyer here,” 

Buvi says, “and in 2020 I was admitted to the bar.” 

This was a very happy moment for Buvi, who also 

during that time became a mother of two sons. 

“It was a mission to get through,” she says, “but well 

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CONTENT MARKETING 

Grant to help re-establish valley forest 

LAST MONTH, the Sumner 

Ferrymead Foundation gave a 

grant to Te Awa Kura (Barnett 

Park). 

The grant was to a group the 

organisation has previously 

supported – its vision is to restore 

the Barnett Park Valley, from 

sea to summit, to make a forest 

in the valley floor, and to stretch 

this with native plantings to the 

Summit Rd. 

The result would be a valley 

full of native plants – a wetland 

dominated with Kahikatea on 

the flat land beyond the dog 

walking area, through mature 

trees and plants running past the 

caves and up through the bluffs to 

the top. 

The valley would have 

walking tracks and be the home 

to many species of native birds 

and lizards. 

The final version of the green 

oasis will be magnificent. Final 

completion maybe 30 or 40 years 

hence (it will take time for some 

of the big trees to reach maturity) 

but, well before that time, there 

will be an asset that will be 

enjoyed by many people, both 

local and visitors. 

As a place to walk and recreate, 

as a place for tui, bellbirds, kereru, 

skinks and geckos, and as a place 

to be, on fruition it will be a 

grand addition to the facilities of 

out area. 

To do this, the Te Awa Kura 

DEDICATED: Volunteers gather to remove serious pest 

weeds such as banana passionfruit and bone seed at 

Barnett Park. A feature of the weekly work parties is a 

reward of tea and scones. 

group need to do three main 

things: 

1 Kill and control weeds 

(especially boneseed) 

2 Kill and control predators 

3 Plant 

The group has already made 

a good start on all three of these 

things but, to realise the full 

vision will need more help, both 

financial and people-power. 

The Sumner Ferrymead 

Foundation will certainly help as 

resources allow and at some point 

we will look to raise funds to give 

the project a major boost. 

In the meantime, the 

foundation has most recently 

granted to help with planning. 

In doing so it recognises that 

this is a bold, long-term vision – 

and a most worthy one. 

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We will be using a 50 passenger ATR aircraft, where we will have up to 8 

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9. It is no good: one must not be so extravagant 

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10. It could benefit one to be poorly outside 

Virginia (5) 

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3. It takes an eternity to put woman right (4) 

5. No lights must be shown in sudden loss of 

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6. Banter may have separated wheat from 

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8. Try to produce a piece written by Lamb (5) 

14. First discernible stage for Tim under 

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Mid Century Beach House 

Beauty 

53 Whitfield Street, Sumner 

FINAL WEEK 

Auction: Wed 22 June 5pm (USP) 

Sumner Surf Life Saving Club 

4 bedrooms, 2 living, 2 bathrooms, 

1 car garaging 

www.rwferrymead.co.nz/OPA30265 

Open Homes: Wednesday 2.30pm-3pm, 

Saturday & Sunday 2pm-2.30pm 

Originally built in 1950 and with just two 

owners, this home comes to market fully 

renovated and redesigned in 2019 by The 

Home Maker Interiors and Urban Function 

Architecture. 

Sunny and secluded, the spacious approx. 

855m² section captures all day sun and offers 

modern living ease with the central open plan 

lounge and dining area centred around the 

gorgeous bespoke kitchen. Complete with a 

spacious island, quality oak joinery, aged brass 

tapware and handles and a spectacular 

full-width picture window. 

Chosen for the cover of Homestyle 

Magazine's 100th issue, the true success of 

the renovation is how it perfectly blends its 

mid century character with existing brass 

hardware and rimu flooring and joinery, 

teamed naturally with exposed bricks and 

breezeblocks, while simultaneously bringing 

the home into the 21st century. 

Double glazed and with two heat pumps, log 

burner and excellent insulation, this is a warm 

home that will comfort you no matter the 

outside weather. Prospective purchasers will 

be delighted to note that the home has been 

rebuilt from the framing and has been 

completely re-lined, re-wired, re-roofed and 

has new plumbing throughout. 

The first floor houses three bedrooms, served 

by a spacious bathroom featuring floor to 

ceiling handmade tiles and quality fixtures 

and fittings. Carefully chosen details like the 

aged brass tapware and curved mirror nod to 

the home's mid century origin. 

Situated upstairs, the master bedroom is a 

calm parents retreat, with luxury ensuite and 

peaceful views of the surrounding hills. 

Outdoors the generous back yard features 

mature kauri and rimu, abundant fruit trees 

and a stunning bougainvillea climbing up the 

side of the house. The home's beach location 

inspired the landscaping surrounding the 

multiple decked areas with palms, succulents 

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SMALL CARS are undergoing a 

resurgence, well that’s no surprise, 

new car buyers today are looking 

to get maximum value from their 

costly litre of fuel. 

Cars with small, thrifty engines 

are a popular choice for those 

who are not quite ready to join 

the electric revolution. But the 

question is how small is practical? 

Citroen’s C3 is one car that will 

tempt with its 1.2-litre three-cylinder 

engine returning a combined 

cycle fuel usage average of 

5.8-litres per 100km. But at just 

4m in length it may be a little too 

compact for some buyers. Sure, 

French car designers know how 

to create space from nowhere, 

and the C3 will easily take care of 

its occupants. 

However, if you are looking for 

a small car and something French 

then the C3 offers another alternative 

– the Aircross. 

The C3 Aircross is labelled by 

Citroen as a sport utility vehicle. 

I’m not entirely convinced, I see 

it more as a crossover vehicle, 

something in-between. However, 

it does sit on the C3 platform and 

utilises the same driveline, and as 

a car it is larger in every dimension, 

thereby providing more 

interior room, and it must be said 

the Aircross is spacious considering 

just 16cm is added to length. 

If you think there would be 

AVANT-GARDE: Spacious interior and unusual trim detailing. 

disadvantages, forget that, the 

Aircross is a charmer, it is comfortable, 

affordable at $38,990 and 

has the benefit of a 7.3l/100km 

combined cycle average, and with 

its 45-litre tank it doesn’t seem 

scary when time comes to fill it, 

however, bear in mind you do 

need premium fuel. 

Interestingly, the Aircross 

doesn’t get the benefit of the 

Government’s low carbon 

emission rebate, the C3 does, 

but the Aircross is just over the 

threshold. 

The new C3 Aircross is just 

that, totally new. However, the 

mechanicals, as mentioned, are 

those which are used elsewhere 

throughout the Citroen/Peugeot 

line-ups. And to cope with the 

extra height against the C3 the 

Aircross’ suspension has been 

tightened marginally. 

Elsewhere, the Aircross is a 

cheeky, funky five-door that will 

command solid sales. It is built to 

the Citroen way of manufacture – 

avant-garde, a little unusual, but 

with a whole heap of charm. Take 

the interior trim materials and 

patterns, for example, they are 

complex and have many contrasts 

with their bold elliptical designs. 

The three-pot engine, which 

displaces just 1199cc, has been 

widely-acclaimed, winning many 

awards globally, and deservedly 

so, the turbocharged unit 

punches well above is weight with 

its 81kW and 205Nm power outputs. 

Drive is channelled through 

a six-speed automatic gearbox, 

the only transmission available 

in New Zealand, the distributors 

wouldn’t have it any other way 

either, while manual gearbox cars 

are still trendy in Europe, they 

don’t sell here. 

All that aside, the automatic 

works fine, it is robust and does 

everything like it should, the 

ratios are well structured so that 

economy and performance go 

hand in hand. 

The Aircross will reach 

100km/h from a standstill in 

10.6sec and will complete a 

highway overtake in 7sec (80- 

120km/h). 

However, the best figures are 

those of its economy, it is a mammoth 

fuel miser. At 100km/h 

it sips fuel instantaneously at 

the rate of just 4.8l/100km at 

100km/h in sixth gear, the engine 

turning over quite relaxed at 

2000rpm. 

When I took the car back to 

the dealership the combined average 

was reading just 8l/100km, 

which considering the car was 

brand new and probably a little 

tight in the engine, was a good 

result. 

That doesn’t mean the engine 

isn’t ready to perform, the beauty 

of the modern turbocharger is 

its ability to provide substantial 

power low in the rev band – 

5500rpm and just 1500rpm for 

torque – as a result, it responds 

• Price – Citroen C3 

Aircross, $38,990 

• Dimensions – Length, 

4160mm; width, 1756mm; 

height, 1637mm 

• Configuration – Threecylinder, 

front-wheeldrive, 

1199cc, 81kW, 

205Nm, six-speed 

automatic 

• Performance – 

0-100km/h, 10.6sec 

• Fuel usage – 7.3l/100km 

willingly to throttle pressure. 

On the open road, the Aircross 

cruises with just a hint of the 

harmonics normally associated 

with the three-cylinder design. 

I’ve made no secret of my desire 

for that configuration, and it is 

a real gem with its response and 

characteristics that are part of the 

catalyst promoting tidy handling 

manners. 

Sitting on quiet-riding 

Bridgestone tyres (215/50 x 17in), 

the Aircross has controlled grip 

and purposeful balance. It steers 

delightfully, and even though it 

is tall at over 1.6m, the suspension 

firming I mentioned earlier 

means there is little weight transition, 

body balance stays even and 

occupants are treated to a ride/ 

handling balance that you could 

expect only from Citroen. 

I remember well the air/pneumatic 

designs in cars of previous 

generations, and I can safely say 

that even with far more simplistic 

technology today’s ride from any 

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with its 

economy. 

Citroen model easily replicates 

that fabulous float-on-air feeling. 

I took the test car on a run 

through to Little River, I didn’t 

do as many kilometres as I ordinarily 

would in an evaluation 

car simply because I didn’t want 

to run up unnecessary wear on 

a dealer demonstrator. But given 

it was most likely to be my only 

chance to drive the Aircross I 

wanted to glean as much satisfaction 

from it as I possibly could 

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appeal and with a quiet, subdued 

nature. 

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I mentioned the interior 

layout, while it is complex in the 

way it looks, it is intuitive when it 

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way around the controls doesn’t 

need any special attention. 

One of the things I liked the 

most was the driving position 

and comfort from the driver’s 

seat, under-thigh support and 

softness have been a high priority 

manufacturing ingredient. 

Citroen has always sold well 

in Christchurch. I don’t know 

if that has anything to do with 

some kind of connection to our 

French settlement of Akaroa, but 

I will say that when I was driving 

on State Highway 75 I saw two 

other French cars heading in that 

direction. I’m hoping they were 

buyers who, like me, enjoy the 

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Bay Harbour: June 15, 2022

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