Western News: June 23, 2022

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THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022 

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World champs: Students 

win mathematics award 

FOUR YEAR 13 students at 

St Andrew’s College have won 

the outstanding team award at 

the International Mathematical 

Modelling Challenge, the highest 

honour in the competition. 

They were one of three teams 

in the world to receive the award, 

with the others from Thailand 

and the US. 

The teams had to solve 

the most time-effective way 

for passengers to board and 

disembark from a narrow-body 

and wide-body aircraft. 

St Andrew’s College was one 

of two New Zealand schools to 

compete against 56 other teams 

in the international round of 

judging. 

Team members Toby Harvie, 

Luke Zhu, Corin Simcock and 

Tom Edwards spent five days 

simulating different boarding 

and disembarking methods, 

generating a randomised queue 

of passengers to determine the 

most optimal method. 

St Andrew’s College teacher 

in charge of digital technologies 

and mathematics Phil Adams 

said the students had to 

comprehensively research and 

learn about aircraft boarding 

algorithms, before identifying 

all the complicating variables 

like luggage and groups of 

passengers. 

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JP Clinic at Hornby 

Thursday, 9.30-11am 

Hornby Library 

A justice of the peace is on site to 

take oaths, declarations, affidavits 

and affirmations; to witness 

signatures on documents and to 

certify document copies. The JP can 

also witness citizenship applications, 

sponsorship applications and rates 

rebate applications. There is no 

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Knit ‘n’ Yarn 

Thursday, 10.30am-1.45pm 

Upper Riccarton Library 

Go along and enjoy a chat with 

others as you knit. For anyone who 

loves to knit or wants to learn. 

English Conversation Club 

Thursday, 11am-noon 


The Conversation Club is a relaxed 

drop-in group where anyone is welcome 

to come and practice conversations 

in English. This is not a class, 

but an opportunity to talk with others 

in English and meet new people. 

Great for ESOL learners. Formerly 

known as the Culture Exchange. 

GenConnect 

Thursday, 1-1.45pm 


Questions about your smartphone 

or tablet? Want to know how to 

use Skype, Facebook, or share your 

Wā Kōrero-Storytimes, Monday, 10-10.30am, Upper Riccarton 

Library. Meet others in our community when you and your preschooler go 

along for a fun variety of stories, songs and rhymes which foster children’s 

literacy. All whānau and caregivers welcome. Guardians and children 12 

and over will need to wear a face mask. 

photos with family or friends? What 

is an app and which ones are the 

best ones to use? Riccarton High 

School students will be available 

every Thursday during term time 

to help you find answers to all your 

questions. 

Thursday Takeover 

Thursday, 3.30-4.30pm 

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre 

A chance for teens to takeover the 

computer lab and creative space. 

Get creative and relax with bad art, 

play some board games, play some 

Minecraft, try mixing music with 

DJ Decks or jamming on Logic Pro 

and Garage Band, have a go with 

3D printing or cutting vinyl sticker 

slaps, or just chill and chat and use 

the PCs. Different activities are 

provided every week. Suitable for 

teens 12 years and above. Please 

note, some sessions this term will be 

unsupervised drop-in. 

Free Legal Advice 

Thursday, 6.15-8.15pm 

Hornby Library 

Needing advice with legal questions? 

A lawyer is available online to 

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Friday, 3-4.30pm 

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre 

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Have a go at finger drumming 

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friendly. Free, drop-in. Most gear is 

suitable for ages 12+, some activities 

can be provided for those that are 

younger on request. 

Mahjong Tournament 

Saturday, 9.30am 

Aldersgate Centre, corner of Durham 

and Chester Sts 

The Lions Club is putting on a 

mahjong tournament to support 

Christchurch Charity Hospital. 

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10am. There will be free parking. For 

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Commonwealth Games 

logo back on grandstand 

• By Fiona E lis 

THE NAVY and red logo was a staple of Christchurch’s 1974 

Commonwealth Games. 

Forty-eight years later, it can once again be seen at 

Hornby’s Denton Park, where the games’ cycling events took 

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Garden, 

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CURRENTLY thriving in 

peak season, this summer will 

be the last in Peverel St for the 

Riccarton Community Garden 

and Pātaka. 

However, Nick Te Paa (right) 

is staying positive abou the 

move that wi l be required 

when the lease on the 151 

Peverel St site expires in September. 

Te Paa and his wife Loretta 

helped set up the community 

garden in 2013, later expanding 

the projec to include a community 

pantry, or pātaka. 

At not quite 4 sq m, the 

pātaka was too sma l for the 

weekly average of about 40 

people it helped to feed, Te Paa 

said. 

“We don’t have the capacity 

to store here, so a lot of the stuff 

is stored at my place, in the 

garage.” 

He hoped to rebuild it at 

twice the current size when a 

new location was settled on. 

“A l that extra wi l be just 

storage space, and that’ l 

free up my garage. One side’s 

completely taken up with food.” 

The end of the Kāinga Ora 

lease was likely to mean the 

separation of the garden and 

the pantry. 


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policing dangerous intersections 

in a bid to improve driver 

behaviour. 

The Hornby Community 

Patrol has been monitoring three 

intersections, including one where 

a cyclist died after co liding with a 

truck. 

Patrol 

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Hornets’ new clubrooms set to open 

• By Chris Barclay 

THE END game is in sight 

for the Halswell Hornets as 

new clubrooms are set to 

open at noon on Saturday, the 

culmination of a long-term postearthquake 

construction goal. 

A $2 million project at 

Halswell Domain is on track to 

be showcased when the Hornets 

host Riccarton in the latest 

round of the Canterbury Rugby 

League premiership on Saturday. 

While rugby league is the focal 

point of the clubrooms, karate, 

softball and netball are among 

other sports expected to utilise 

the facility. 

“It’s been a 10-year exercise. It 

goes right back to when we had 

the first earthquakes in 2010,” 

said senior committee member 

Colin Fenwick. 

“We went through the process 

with the insurance company and 

the sad part about it was every 

time we had another shake, the 

clubrooms were damaged even 

further. 

“It got to the stage where we 

decided to build new clubrooms 

provided we get the insurance 

money.” 

The construction started in 

April last year after a $1.9 million 

payout was secured, so fortunately 

the project was not compromised 

by increased costs of 

material and supply chain issues. 

PROCESS: Halswell Hornets Rugby League Football Club 

committee member Colin Fenwick in front of the new 

clubrooms that will be opened on Saturday. 

Funding was also secured from 

the Lottery Grants Board, Rata 

Foundation and Canterbury 

West Coast Air Rescue Trust so 

there is no debt associated with 

the venture. 

“Without them coming on 

board in the last 12 months 

we wouldn’t have got it across 

the line,” said club stalwart Jeff 

Whittaker. 

The Hornets earthquake-damaged 

clubrooms will be demolished 

in the next 4-6 months and 

some club memorabilia 

will be transferred to the 

new headquarters. 

However, Fenwick 

cautioned against overpopulating 

the main 

room with Hornets 

history. 

“We don’t want to 

clutter the building, 

there’s a huge amount 

of memorabilia, there’s cups for 

miles. Some of them are probably 

obsolete now,” he said, adding 

special wallpaper has been commissioned 

to depict highlights of 

the club’s history. 

“It’s got to be a little bit neutral 

to some degree I suppose. 

“We’ll be going to the outside 

market and having functions 

there, 21st’s, weddings . . . you 

name it,” he said. 

“We’re hoping to cater for 

those people and partially 

have it as a business moving 

forward. It’ll cost 

$70-80,000 a year to run 

the place.” 

From a rugby league 

perspective, the new 

headquarters include two 

Jeff changing facilities for visiting 

teams and the match 

Whittaker 

officials, as the home side 

will continue to use refurbished 

sheds nearby. 

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to stick to their old changing 

area, they’re quite happy to 

keep that one behind the new 

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Mathematicians world’s best 

• From page 1 

“They took the approach of 

mathematically modelling the 

variables and the boarding 

process, then wrote a complex 

computer program in Python 

to run simulations of the 

boarding process over and 

over again. 

“This enabled them to try 

different boarding strategies 

and see how they reacted to 

changing variables like the 

disobedience coefficient, passengers 

with carry-on luggage, 

or groups,” said Adams. 

After running thousands 

of trials and analysing the 

results, the students were able 

to settle on a strategy. 

“This took them five full 

days, including the time taken 

to produce a professional and 

polished report summarising 

their process and findings. 

“They did an incredible job.” 

The students found three 

factors contributed to the time 

taken to board an aircraft, 

including the walking speed 

of passengers, the time taken 

to stow overhead luggage with 

passengers blocking the aisle 

while doing so, and passengers 

getting out of their seats to 

allow other passengers in the 

same row. 

After running 10,000 trials, 

they found that the most 

optimal order of boarding was 

aft, middle, and front. Using 

TEST: The students ran simulations for boarding and 

disembarking a narrow-body aircraft like this one. 

PHOTO: DEAN PURCELL/NZ HERALD 

this method the mean time 

taken to fill up a narrow-body 

airplane was 

12 minutes and 48 seconds. 

In comparison, it took on 

average 14 minutes and 30 seconds 

to board using the front, 

middle, and aft method. 

They also tested boarding 

by seat type, seating all passengers 

with a window seat 

first, the middle next, and aisle 

seats last. The mean boarding 

time was 9 minutes and 49 

seconds. However, this was 

found to be unworkable in 

practice due to the separation 

of groups, particularly in 

the case of children and the 

elderly. 

The random boarding 

method, while seemly crude 

and inefficient, was found to 

be reasonably effective. It took 

passengers on average 11 minutes 

and 30 seconds to finish 

boarding the plane. 

When it came to exiting the 

aircraft the optimal method 

for a narrow-body aircraft 

was found to be disembarking 

from back to the front by row. 

It was found to be the quickest 

due to having the greatest aisle 

flow. 

This is opposite to the 

“front to back” boarding 

method, which is employed 

by most airlines and was 

found to be the slowest 

disembarking method. 

The best method of choice 

to immediately speed up 

passengers boarding and 

disembarking in a standard 

narrow-body aircraft was 

for passengers to be boarded 

using the WMA method – 

window seats board first, 

followed by middle seats 

and then aisle seats, but 

that groups board together, 

minimising aisle blockages 

and allowing optimal aisle 

flow, and should disembark 

giving the right of way to 

passengers coming from the 

back. Both methods minimise 

aisle blockages, and allow 

optimal aisle flow. 

In a wide-body aircraft, 

they found the optimal 

boarding method was by 

section – from back to front, 

while disembarking using 

the “across” method, similar 

to the method for a narrow 

aircraft, where passengers 

furthest from the door get 

right of way. 

Adams said: “The team’s 

creativity, teamwork and 

mathematical skill make them 

a standout and it will be exciting 

to see where they go to 

from here”. 

The results of the study have 

been collated in a 20-page 

report and made available for 

airline executives. 

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Basil, 80, and working 40 hours a week 

• By Susan Martin 

AT AN AGE when most of us 

have hung up the gloves – Basil 

Plato is out the door to full-time 

employment in Christchurch. 

A statistical anomaly, Basil 

turns 81 this year and says he has 

no plans to retire. He supports 

six men with disabilities in a 

house in Halswell – and has been 

with four of them for 22 years. 

Their average age is 65. 

So why is this veteran working 

40 hours a week? 

“For one thing, I like these 

guys,” he said. 

“We’ve seen a bit of life together. 

People need assistance 

out there. 

“Work keeps you plugged into 

life, feeling younger and ‘with 

it’ – but I know the truth when 

I look in the mirror. I’ve got 

my mates, mostly retired now. 

Oldies tend to talk about their 

aches and pains – and they’re 

legitimate concerns. 

“But I just think, while I’ve got 

my health, there’s more for me 

yet. If I slow down, I might start 

noticing all the bad stuff about 

being old. When it’s time, I think 

I’ll know,” he says. 

Basil says money’s not the 

driver as he’s “all set up.” 

For over 40 years, Basil worked 

as an independent contractor 

in forestry around Canterbury, 

as well as on dairy farms and 

building sites in the region. He 

CARER: Basil Plato supports men with disabilities. 

crossed paths with disability 

when he took time out to care for 

his wife during a long illness. 

“People commented on my 

carer skills, and about 2000, 

a friend saw jobs in disability 

homes and said: “Hey you’d be 

good at that,” he said. 

This was a period in New 

Zealand when policy on disability 

was changing. The state 

was winding up a historic 

programme to segregate babies, 

children and adults with intellectual 

disability in institutions. 

People were being released to 

join the community. 

Basil landed a job with NZ- 

Care (now NZCommunity Living) 

– a Government-funded inhome 

support provider. NZCare 

was responsible for resettling 

residents from the Templeton 

Centre between the mid-1990s 

and 2000. 

Templeton was New Zealand’s 

first and largest psychopaedic 

institution. Built in 1928, and 

originally called the ‘Templeton 

Farm Colony’, its purpose was to 

PHOTO: STAR MEDIA 

‘detain mental defectives.’ 

Basil says he knew little about 

disability at first. 

“We’d all heard the spooky 

rumours about places like Templeton. 

But you didn’t know. You 

didn’t see the people,” he said. 

“I remember my first day, I 

was put on for a nightshift. At 

the end of it I thought – well, 

this won’t be my cup of tea. But 

I turned up the next day and my 

manager said: ‘You’ve come back 

– you’ll be okay’.” 

Basil says the clincher for him 

was NZCare’s proviso that staff 

obtain formal qualifications. 

“I had to do a level 4 certificate, 

which was hard for me, but disability 

is a skilled support area. 

I wouldn’t have known how to 

understand and support the people. 

I mean, I didn’t know there 

were people who didn’t speak,” 

he says. 

Basil says with time, training 

and experience, he learnt there 

were other ways to converse, 

grasp and relate to people. 

“It takes years though to really 

‘get’ a different communication,” 

he said. 

Five of the six residents are 

non-verbal, with autism a common 

theme. 

“We’re always trying to read 

and understand what’s going 

on for them. We’re all pretty 

predictable, and these guys are 

no different. 

“But we just wish we knew 

more sometimes – that they 

could tell us – look, I’ve got a 

bloody headache, a toothache, 

my arthritic knee’s getting 

bitten into, I’m craving cheese, 

oranges, coffee – or I’m just extra 

hungry today and this time it’s 

serious, not my usual haggle,” he 

says. 

Basil says he’s a person who is 

always observing, thinking and 

trying to figure out what makes 

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Kia ora koutou. Talofa. Kia Orana. Malo e lelei. Bula 

Vinaka. Fakaalofa atu. Namaste. Kumusta. Haere 

mai haere mai ki Te Kura Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka. 

Warm greetings to the Hornby High School 

community. 

At Te Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka Hornby High school 

we pride ourselves on working hard to try to meet 

the individual needs of our students. No kura gets 

that right all the time, it’s a work in progress, but as 

an educator I am always excited as we evolve and get 

better and better at this. 

The appearance of debating in the mix of activities 

that students can pursue at Hornby High School is a 

delightful case in point. To see the Filipino community 

within our kura embracing their cultural celebrations 

last week, Pasifika students having possible university 

pathways explained to them, and students working 

with cutting edge technologies to try new things, to 

experiment, all provide that evidence of opportunity. 

The taro growing, and virtual reality projects are 

two particularly exciting examples of teachers and 

students pushing the boundaries of what is possible. 

Our aspiration to be “a centre of creative excellence” 

is “front and centre” for us at all times, as we take 

risks and try new things, that’s how our young people 

learn and grow. 

Robin Sutton 

Tumuaki 

Community 

helps Nadia 

to get to UK 

Filipino culture celebrated 

Second place a first for Hornby 

Our senior Japanese 

students had the 

opportunity to attend 

the 2022 NCEA Japanese 

Workshop Day held at the 

University of Canterbury on 

June 9. 

They took part in three 

workshops run by Japanese 

teachers from across 

Canterbury, with the aim 

of boosting their Japanese 

language skills. They 

attended these together with other 

Japanese language students from 

many different schools in the region. 

A guest speaker spoke of how her 

Japanese language studies and 

experience living in Japan had helped 

her in many ways, including in her 

career. 

They were also able to see an 

amazing Japanese Taiko Drum group 

perform, before participating in a 

group dance with the other students 

Lauren Arthur 

A wonderful wealth of Hornby talent was 

on display at our recent fundraising Concert 

for Nadia to help her attend an international 

Shakespeare workshop in London. 

There was a generous outpouring of support 

from our community, with lots of raffle 

donations from local businesses, staff, and 

workplaces. 

Performers included current students, 

former students and staff presenting an 

abundance of creative talent. 

There were songs and Shakespeare, dances 

and drumming, bands and the bard, poems 

which we had been 

practicing for over the last 

month. 

Also held during the 

day was the Canterbury 

Japanese Secondary 

Schools’ Speech 

Competition in which 

Hornby High School Year 

12 Lauren won second 

place, a remarkable 

achievement as it was 

the first time a Hornby 

student has competed. 

This is especially impressive as the 

competition’s standard is very high, 

and includes a Q&A session entirely 

in Japanese. The event is attended by 

the Japanese Consul General, and is 

usually only entered by exceptional 

Year 13 students. 

Lauren is currently sitting NCEA 

Level 3 Japanese after achieving an 

Excellence Endorsement in Level 2 

Japanese last year. 

The Filipino Youth Group (FYG) at Hornby 

High School hosted an early celebration of 

the Philippines Independence Day as “Filipino 

Language Week”, June 7 to 10. 

Throughout the week, FYG organised events 

for interval and lunch time, including: Filipino 

traditional games; Tagalog Tongue Twister, 

Filipino music, and band presentation. 

A Filipino Fiesta was held on the last day, and 

was filled with performances from Filipino 

students and staff showcasing their different 

talents, especially singing and dancing. The 

audience applauded the performers on their 

colourful traditional dances of Polka sa Nayon, 

Tinikling and Sinulog. Yummy Filipino delicacies 

were also displayed and shared among the 

school community. 

It was a great week to share the Filipino culture 

that we are proud of – Thank you, Mabuhay! 

Programme 

introduces 

students to VR 

A group of Hornby High School 

students is coming to grips with 

virtual reality. 

Under the guidance of Dr Claire 

Hughes, the students will learn 

how to create virtual reality worlds, 

and an experience that relates our 

cultural narrative, to viewers. 

Claire is a part of the ‘Creatives in 

Schools’ programme, funded by the 

Ministry of Education, aiming to 

allow students to work with experts, 

pushing the boundaries of creativity 

as a tool to improve learning. 

“These students are deeply engaged 

in this work, which had them creating 

3D objects within their virtual world 

within two hours of beginning,” 

Tumuaki Robin Sutton said. 

The programme runs for the year. 

June 2022 

Performers 

taking part in 

the fundraising 

Concert for 

Nadia held 

recently. 

and plenty of applause. 

Thank you for supporting her to reach her 

goal. In 2021 as part of the Shakespeare 

Global Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) 

University of Otago Sheilah Winn 

Shakespeare Festival, Nadia was chosen 

to be a member of the SGCNZ Young 

Shakespeare Company 2022, and next 

month will represent New Zealand in London 

for two weeks training and performing at 

the Globe Theatre. 

We are proud to have Nadia represent our 

community, as the whakatauki says: 

The ‘Taro Project’ is a 

collaborative undertaking 

that uses science and 

technology to provide an 

opportunity for Pasifika 

youth to grow tropical 

vegetables in Ōtautahi 

Christchurch. 

Students have engaged in 

building hi-tech cupboards 

that use sophisticated 

technology to monitor 

growing conditions, and 

have a fully automated 

watering system, lighting, 

and a cooling fan, to 

control the environment. 

Students have been 

involved in the design 

and construction of the 

environments to grow the taro, 

designing and creating component 

parts using 3D printing and lasercutting 

technology. They have used 

electronics to build the monitoring 

and control systems that will 

regulate air flow, and automatically 

water the plants. 

Commitment, 

Achievement, 

Resilience, 

Respect 

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari kē he 

toa takitini 

(My success should not be bestowed onto 

me alone, it was not individual success but 

the success of a collective). 

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Tech boosts taro growing 

The project provides a unique 

opportunity to connect traditional 

knowledge from elders with modern 

technology from our students to 

enhance cultural capability. 

The Taro Project is a collaboration 

between Clark Williams of the YMCA 

Makerspace and the Hornby High 

School Technology Faculty. 

A small number of Hornby High School students attended the National 

Young Leaders Day on June 2 at the Christchurch Town Hall. The 

main theme was resilience and how we can demonstrate that in our 

community. The students came away inspired with the knowledge that 

everyone can make a difference, not only within the school but also in 

the wider community.

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Madi is one step closer to netball goal 

• By Jaime Cunningham 

FOR MADI Smith, being 

selected in the Aotearoa Māori 

Netball secondary schools’ 

team was once a long-term goal, 

but after being named in the 

team’s squad of 20 this month, 

she is now a step closer to the 

achievement. 

The 16-year-old is the only 

Canterbury representative in the 

squad and one of just two South 

Island players named. 

“I’m so 

honoured and 

really happy 

about it,” 

Madi said. 

The year 12 

Christchurch 

Girls’ 

Madi Smith 

High School 

student is 

also the only player in the squad 

representing her iwi, Ngāi Tahu, 

and says being able to represent 

a Māori team is important to her 

because of the connections the 

athletes share. 

“I think it’s cool because we’re all 

kind of bonded, like we’re all somehow 

connected to each other.” 

Madi, a shooter, says her family 

were equally as happy as her 

and “really proud”. 

“I’m happy that I get to represent 

my dad’s side of the family 

… I just love my culture.” 

Madi has had her fair share of 

achievements in her short netball 

career so far. 

At just 14, she made Kereru 

Club’s premier A team. Last year, 

Madi finished third in Christchurch 

Netball Centre’s most 

valuable player standings at the 

end of the season. She’s also been 

invited to the New Zealand Secondary 

Schools’ national netball 

camps for the last two years. 

This year, Madi has made 

the under-18 Canterbury Red 

representative team and is in her 

second year of playing for the 

CGHS senior A team. 

But right now, nothing is 

more significant to Madi than 

being named in the final Māori 

Secondary School team in 

August. 

“I would love to; I really hope 

I do.” 

The team of 12, along with 

three travelling reserves, will 

play in pending tournaments in 

October and be coached by Jess 

Huia with Renee Matoe as an 

assistant coach. 

Current ANZ Premiership 

players such as Aliyah Dunn, 

Tayla Earle and Paris Lokotui 

have all played for the Māori 

team in the past and have since 

made the Silver Ferns’ development 

squad. 

Madi has played netball for 

about seven years, only trying 

ON TARGET: 

Goal shoot Madi 

Smith lines up 

the net. 

out volleyball previously to “try 

something new”. 

She hopes to be selected for the 

New Zealand Secondary Schools 

Netball team next year, and in 

the future, she says it would “be 

amazing” to make the Mainland 

Tactix squad. 

“Netball is my passion … I 

just want to see how far I go. I’m 

really going to work my ass off 

this year.” 

‘You build relationships in this job’ 

•From page 6 

“One of our guys here sits in 

his favourite chair. At face value, 

you’d think he’s in his own world. 

But I see what he’s up to. He’s 

watching us all in the reflection of 

the telly, taking in what everyone’s 

doing behind him – who’s talking 

to who, who’s saying what. I catch 

him grinning and nodding when 

something resonates or tickles his 

fancy. 

“It’s easy to overlook some 

people, especially when they 

don’t use words. But you have no 

idea how clued up they might be. 

Don’t think you’ve got someone’s 

number or know what they’re 

grinning about – they know 

things you don’t.” 

Basil says the residents are 

experts at watching and reading 

human nature. 

“They’ve had hundreds of staff 

come and go. They’ve spent a 

lifetime scanning the faces of 

those ‘in charge’ and sizing up 

what they’re in for. 

“They also know if you think 

they are ‘stupid’ in all kinds 

of subtle ways. They hear and 

understand everything you say. 

They know what you think of 

them,” he said. 

Basil believes the bad old days of 

bigotry have largely gone. 

“People are a lot less scary close 

up, and once they’ve got a name 

and identity, and you break bread 

with them,” he said. 

Like everyone in Christchurch, 

Basil and the men have their 

stories on the earthquakes of 2010 

and 2011. 

“Their house was destroyed. My 

manager said: ‘Throw what you 

can in a van, drive the guys up 

to Picton, I’ve booked a ferry to 

Wellington. We found emergency 

accommodation in Hawera,” he 

says. 

The men flew back to 

Christchurch six months later 

when a house became available. 

Asked what makes a good 

support worker Basil says: 

“Oh training is key. Then you 

need a good team of people – 

quality, mix, numbers wise. You 

need the right attitude – you have 

to be there for the guys. 

“As staff, we have to stay vigilant 

against any attitude of ‘control’ 

creeping into the house. We’re 

here to support the people – not to 

dominant them or suit ourselves. 

Our blokes are fully-fledged 

adults, sensitive and aware, with 

every right to be here, to feel 

respected and valued, safe and 

relaxed, and to have good and bad 

days,” he says. 

And does Basil regard the men 

as friends? “Yes and no,” he said. 

“People matter. You build 

relationships in this job. But I 

also realise, I can only do my bit. 

I’ve got another life – a partner, 

friends, kids, grandkids. The 

switch does goes off. But I think 

you need that boundary.” 

A colleague who works closely 

with Basil says: “The residents 

all love Basil. Maybe it’s his 

communication style, tone of 

voice, mannerisms, humour or 

longevity. But some breathe a 

sigh of relief when comes in or 

gets back from holidays, a sort of 

‘thank God you’re here.’ Maybe 

they’ve had enough of us mostly 

females.” 

With staff turnover notoriously 

high in disability work, and 

women composing most of 

its workforce – this group of 

residents in a Halswell house 

could be doing a lot worse than 

having this enduring man in their 

lives. 

Finally, when asked the 

obligatory career question of, so, 

where do you see yourself in 10 

years? Basil laughs and says: “Las 

Vegas. That was the plan before 

Covid. I’d really like to see Las 

Vegas.” 

There is a Royal Commission 

of Inquiry in New Zealand into 

historic abuse in care between 

1950 and 1999. A public hearing, 

which will include the experiences 

of people with disabilities in 

institutions, will be held in July. 

This is a chance to make disability 

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