Western News: June 30, 2022

connecting you with your neighbourhood 

1 – 3 July 

2022 

THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2022 

Learning 

through 

bottle 

top 

lids 

• By Emily Moorhouse 

WHILE MOST people throw 

away bottle top lids when they’re 

finished with them, one man 

sees the value they hold, and 

collects every lid he can get 

his hands on. 

In Chris Koch’s garage 

lies around one million 

bottle cap lids, waiting 

to be repurposed into 

art, jewellery or his latest 

creation, Liddy Boards which 

are being trialled at Riccarton 

Primary School. 

Koch collects bottle lids from 

the community at the New 

Brighton Seaside Market and uses 

them to reduce plastic waste and 

raise awareness on how things 

can be recycled. 

He 

moved to 

New Zealand 

from Germany eight 

years ago with his wife 

Vicky and they started their 

business Poly Lab NZ just before 

Covid hit. 

• Turn to page 4 

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CREATIVE: Chris Koch is 

trialling his latest creation 

Liddy Boards at a primary 

school and said it could 

help children who find it 

difficult to concentrate or 

sit still. 

Christchurch Arena 

Rugby 

league 

mainstays 

open new 

clubrooms 

• By Chris Barclay 

MERV Whittaker helped 

fundraise to build Halswell rugby 

league’s now earthquake-doomed 

clubrooms back in the 1970s, so 

appropriately he was given the 

honour of opening its successor. 

The 84-year-old and fellow club 

life member Peter Lewis, an original 

player when the club formed 

in 1960, were centre stage when 

the new community facility was 

opened on Saturday, to coincide 

with legends day at Halswell 

Domain. 

Whittaker cut the ribbon with 

Lewis – the club’s longest serving 

life member – in support. 

Although Whittaker never 

played for the club he was a longterm 

coach of junior grades and 

a committee member when the 

previous clubrooms were opened 

in 1978. 

“Dad was one of the mainstays 

behind building the clubrooms 

that will be knocked down. They 

came up with ‘buy a brick, buy a 

chair or buy a table’, that’s how 

the club was formed really,” said 

Whittaker’s son, fellow Hornets 

stalwart Jeff. 

“It was a proud moment to cut 

the ribbon. It was great to see so 

many old players, old coaches, 

managers and trainers. It was a 

very special day for the club.” 


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JP Clinic at Hornby 

Thursday, 9.30-11am 

Hornby Library 

A justice of the peace is on site to take 

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documents and to certify document 

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English Conversation Club 

Thursday, 11am-noon 

Upper Riccarton Library 

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 

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GenConnect 

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Questions about your smartphone 

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to use? Riccarton High School students 

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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. 

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, 

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Thursday June 30 2022 

Beats Lab 

Friday, 3-4.30pm 

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre 

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Wā Kōrero-Storytimes 

Monday, 10-10.30am 


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songs and rhymes which foster 

children’s literacy. All whānau and 

caregivers welcome. 

Family History Help 

Wednesday, 11am-1pm 


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family history. A member of the 

Canterbury Branch of the New 

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Commonwealth Games 

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• 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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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2022 

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 will 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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dangerous 

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A VOLUNTEER community 

patrol has been tasked with 

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. 

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secretary Ann 

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been tasked 

by police with 

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three locations, 

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intersection of 

Shands and Halswell 

Junction Rds, where cyclist 

Russe l Ramsden was ki led last 

May. 

The Buchanans and Carmen 

Rds intersection was also being 

monitored, along with the 

Main South and Springs Rds 

intersection. 

This is part of a steady but 

quiet summer for the 45-member 

volunteer team, who patrol 

between five and six times per 

week. 

Simply being seen made a 

difference, Smith said. 


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Thursday June 30 2022 3 

Symbolic gate finds fitting new home 

• By John Cosgrove 

A SYMBOLIC red torii gate once 

located in the gardens by the main 

stand at Riccarton Racecourse 

has began its move to a new life at 

Halswell Quarry Park. 

Originally constructed in 2012 

as part of the annual Japan Day 

festivities, the three-metre-high 

gate was placed in open air storage 

when the buildings around it 

were demolished. 

Members of the Christchurch- 

Kurashiki Sister City Committee 

began the process of relocating the 

gate from its racecourse storage 

site to the park, where it will be restored 

and put up in the Kurashiki 

garden. 

It will become the gateway to 

one of the city council’s six sister 

city gardens located in the park 

area. 

Former committee chairman 

David Bolam-Smith said they 

were first moving the gate to a 

more secure site, inside away 

from the elements. 

“There, over the next few years, 

it will be cleaned and restored 

before we reinstall it into the 

garden,” he said. 

Bolam-Smith said since 

Covid-19 the annual Japan Day 

parade and festival celebrating 

the relationship between 

Christchurch and Kurashiki had 

faded into history, and it would 

be nice to see the red torii gate 

back in the public eye. 

ON THE MOVE: Christchurch-Kurashiki Sister City Committee 

members Gus Fahy, Andrew McGeorge and David Bolam- 

Smith relocating the torii gate from Riccarton Racecourse to 

its new home at Halswell Quarry Park (top right). 

PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE 

A torii gate is a traditional 

Japanese gate that symbolically 

marks the transition from the 

mundane to the sacred. 

In October and November 

2023, the Christchurch- 

Kurashiki Sister City Committee 

will be celebrating the 50th 

anniversary of the charter 

signing, with a range of activities 

including a three-month-long 

yachting rally from New Zealand 

to Japan, various cultural 

exchanges, and mayoral visits 

between both Kurashiki and 

Christchurch. 

PHOTO: CCC 

SYMBOLIC: A torii gate is typically found at the entrance 

to a Shinto shrine and marks the transition from the 

mundane to the sacred. 

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Frustration leads to project 

• From page 1 

“It’s almost like a Covid lockdown 

project . . . we started with 

zero money so basically just in 

our free time,” he said. 

Koch was inspired to start 

making things out of recycled 

bottle top lids from a group in 

Holland who started a precious 

plastic movement, recycling 

plastic in small quantities. 

He was also frustrated with the 

amount of waste being produced 

after participating in beach clean 

ups around New Brighton. 

Koch made his first Liddy 

Board for his five-year-old twins 

Mateo and Rosalie who had just 

started school as a way for them 

to practice counting. 

However, they used it more for 

making patterns and pictures, 

leaving Koch to believe that it 

could be good for fine motor DESIGN: Chris Koch’s son 

difficult to do by hand. 

Koch, an air conditioning technician 

works four days a week, 

dedicating Fridays and Saturdays 

to Poly Lab NZ. 

He started off with a small 

sandwich press, melting down 

the bottle top lids to shape into 

jewellery and art pieces but now 

has four large sandwich presses 

and always has two on the go. 

“I don’t ever use any new materials 

when I make something, it’s 

recycled, reused, repurposed. It’s 

all about the circular economy – 

right.” he said. 

“I believe we can do so much 

with all these amazing materials, 

it’s very high quality stuff they 

put out there, even the bottle lids, 

they’re food grade plastic and 

they’re only used once so there’s 

nothing wrong with it.” 

Koch washes the bottle lids by 

skills. 

Mateo uses the board to putting them through a double 

This gave him the idea to implement 

make patterns and pictures. cycle in the washing machine 

the boards into primary 

and uses about 150 for a board, 

schools and donated one to the them and being creative and the depending on its size. 

school to act as a test run. kids start talking about recycling He said the feedback he’s received 

about the Liddy Boards so 

Koch received a text from the and bottle caps, it’s pretty cool,” 

librarian that said the pupils he said. 

far has been “really encouraging” 

use it every single day, mostly Koch makes the boards from and he hopes to make more to 

playing imaginary games but wooden off-cuts he collects from start selling eventually. 

also a lot of pattern making and joineries, putting it through a “It gets me motivated to carry 

conversations about throwing machine called a table top CNC on and make more. At the 

away bottle lids. 

router that shaves the board moment we’ve all been a bit 

Koch said the feedback is down, leaving small cylinders for ick and inflation is rising and 

encouraging and he thinks the the bottle lids to slip onto. the Ukraine war and everything 

boards could be beneficial for He makes the design of the so it’s a bit of a weird time,” he 

kids 

263 

with special needs who may boards using 

x 

a computer 

180 

program 

which then gets cut by a “Sometimes I’m a bit 

said. 

have a hard time concentrating 

and sitting still. 

router in the machine, allowing demotivated but then this kind 

“It’s a calming activity for for precise shapes that would be of gets me going again.” 


OFFICIAL: Jeff Whittaker, Merv Whittaker, Peter Lewis and 

current club president Devon Harding at the opening of the 

new Halswell clubrooms. 

League club’s new 

venue opened 

• From page 1 

The $2 million 

project – financed by 

an insurance payout, 

plus support from the 

Lottery Grants Board, 

Canterbury West 

Coast Air Rescue Trust 

and Kiwi Gaming 

Foundation – was more 

than a decade in the 

making. 

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TALENT: The combined Christ’s College/Rangi Ruru Girls’ School production of Light at the End of the Tunnel features hit songs from Broadway 

productions including Grease, Mamma Mia! and Starlight Express. 

Student sports stars turn to acting 

CHRIST’S COLLEGE sports 

stars are swapping their singlets 

and jerseys for glittering gowns 

and heavy make-up to step 

into the spotlight as drag queens 

for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. 

They are among the leading 

lights more known for their 

sporting prowess now starring 

in the new Christ’s College/ 

Rangi Ruru Girls’ School 

co-production of Light at the 

End of the Tunnel featuring the 

biggest hit songs from Broadway 

musicals. 

Senior A and reigning champion 

basketball players Jacob 

Clements, Ed Davidson, Will 

Jones and Bruno Vaughan, who 

is also a top rower, and rugby 

talent Albie Roberts and Zinzan 

Bondarenko-Leatua are at 

their glamourous best for their 

Priscilla song, I Will Survive. 

Several of these boys also feature 

in a popular song from Mamma 

Mia! 

Both leading footballer Harry 

Sharr and promising rugby 

player Max Topham share their 

superb roller-skating skills for 

one of the musical highlights 

from Starlight Express. 

Formidable rugby talent and 

standout singer Josh Ratulomai 

commands the stage in his solos 

from Sweeney Todd: The Demon 

Barber of Fleet Street and Rent, 

while top volleyball player Matty 

Brett rocks out in Grease. 

From Rangi Ruru Girls’ 

School, Canterbury representative 

basketball and water polo 

player Georgia Dan stars in 

Starlight Express, along with top 

volleyball player Lucy Aitken 

featuring in Chess and The 

Rocky Horror Picture Show. 

Three talented young sportswomen 

also shine in Legally 

Blonde, including water polo 

and football star Natalya Flood, 

dragon-boat specialist Saamya 

Gulati and para-athlete Una 

Kinajil-Reding. 

Light at the End of the Tunnel 

was born out of the pandemic 

after Covid-19 stymied plans to 

produce Starlight Express at College 

this year. 

College director of drama 

Hannah Clarkson and director 

of theatre arts Peter Rutherford 

say all the disruption of the 

past year has prompted a quick 

change of plans that has resulted 

in a wonderful new production. 

“The students have been racing 

from sports practices and highpressure 

games back to the stage 

for rehearsals, costume fittings 

and make-up tutorials. They have 

brought fresh bounce and deft 

steps, along with magnificent 

voices and fine acting skills.” 

Light at the End of the Tunnel 

will be held from July 5 to 7 at 

the Christ’s College assembly 

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christchurch 

A word from Ilam MP 

Sarah 

Pallett 

I’m really proud that we’ve delivered 

on Labour’s election commitment to 

establish a public holiday to celebrate 

Matariki. For the first time this 

year, people here in Canterbury and 

across the country have the chance 

to enjoy a mid-winter holiday that is 

uniquely our own. 

Matariki heralds the start of the 

Māori New Year and has increasingly 

become a time of celebration not 

just for Māori, but for many people 

in Ōtautahi Christchurch and across 

New Zealand. By making Matariki 

a public holiday, we’re ensuring that 

everyone can spend this special time 

with friends and family. 

We know that there are lots of 

benefits to public holidays, and we’ve 

seen business leaders around the 

country noting that Matariki will 

provide a real boost to the tourism 

and hospitality sectors, with lots 

of families planning mid-winter 

holidays. 

Alongside New Zealand’s reputation 

for manaakitanga and being a 

beautiful place to visit, te ao Māori is 

another drawcard for international 

guests, as it’s unique to Aotearoa. 

Matariki is another great opportunity 

for us to share our country’s history 

and culture with the world. 

This Matariki, there were a range of 

events on across the country to help 

us celebrate and it was pleasing to 

see many in our community come 

together to mark the start of the 

Māori New Year. 

Whether your family already had 

Matariki traditions, or you took the 

opportunity to start new ones – I 

hope you and your loved ones got a 

chance to come together and enjoy 

New Zealand’s first Matariki public 

holiday. Mānawatia a Matariki. 

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Sports stars shine at St Margaret’s 

WITH THE resumption 

of international sports, St 

Margaret’s College has a strong 

contingent of students wearing 

the silver fern when they head 

overseas to compete in their 

respective sports. 

Director of sport Helen 

Belcher said while SMC girls 

have regularly represented New 

Zealand in rowing and tennis, 

there has been growing interest 

in basketball and kayaking, and 

orienteering and fencing have 

been introduced as new codes at 

the school. 

“International competition is 

hugely important for the girls 

– it exposes them to a higher 

level of play and develops their 

skills. It gives our athletes 

the opportunity to combine 

overseas travel and play the 

sport they love while having a 

strong support system around 

them. For those of our girls 

looking at applying for overseas 

universities, it will enhance 

their applications.” 

Belcher said that competing 

internationally helps the girls 

to develop confidence, gives 

athletes the opportunity to 

experience other cultures and 

perspectives, and to develop 

independence and adaptability. 

“These athletes are particularly 

humble about their achievements 

and grateful for the opportunities 

that are available to them 

this year.” 

The girls heading or already 

offshore are: 

• Ivy Brown is in the under-17 

national basketball team vying 

for honours in the under-16 

women’s FIBA Asia Cup in 

Jordan. Finishing in the top 

four will earn them a spot in the 

under-17 women’s FIBA World 

Cup, which is held next month in 

Hungary. 

• Katherine Babington is in the 

NZ Junior World Orienteering 

Championship team of six young 

women and six young men competing 

at the upcoming Junior 

World Orienteering Champs in 

Portugal. 

• Grace Farrell and Jemma 

Burrowes are part of the under-19 

New Zealand women’s 

eight competing at the 2022 

World Rowing under-19 championships 

in Varese, Italy, from 

July 27 to 31. 

• Lucia Gale made the under-15 

tennis team that will 

compete in Queensland at the 

Australian teams event. 

• Milo Neil has been on guard 

in Sydney at the Oceania and 

Australian cadet (under-17) 

fencing championship. She’s 

also has been selected for 

the New Zealand team in 

the Commonwealth fencing 

championship (under-17/cadet 

grade) to be held in London, 

August 9-20. 

• Brie Cox has won selection 

for the New Zealand under-18 

sprint kayaking team and will 

compete in the Asia Pacific Cup 

in Japan, September 29-October 

2. She is also in the Canoe Racing 

New Zealand talent ID training 

squad. 

• Sisters Katherine and Anna 

(Left to right): Ivy 

Brown, Katherine 

Babington, Anna 

Babington, Brie 

Cox, Lucia Gale 

(kneeling), Milo 

Neil, Grace Farrell, 

Jemma Burrowes. 

Babington are in the New 

Zealand schools orienteering 

team travelling to the Australian 

schools championships in 

September. Both girls are also 

competing at the European 

youth orienteering champs in 

Budapest in early July although 

not representing New Zealand. 

• Ruby Young is shortly heading 

to Australia and Fiji to compete 

in under-18 International 

Tennis Federation tournaments, 

although isn’t part of a New 

Zealand team as players enter 

themselves. 

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Budget 2022 is 

DELIVERING 

for Wigram 

We know that the last few years 

have been challenging for 

everyone and many of those 

challenges are still with us. 

Everything in Budget 2022 

is about putting Kiwis at the 

forefront and supporting people 

now while securing their future. 

Hon Megan Woods MP for Wigram 

With Budget 2022, we’re delivering: 

• More support for families with our cost of living 

package. 

• Extra support for first home buyers, by lifting the price 

caps on First Home Grants. 

• Lifesaving healthcare with more paramedics and 

ambulances. 

• New classrooms and extra funding for schools. 

• An extension to the fuel tax cut, reduced road user 

charges and half price public transport. 

• Dental grants for low-income Kiwis tripled from $300 

to $1000.

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Thursday June 30 2022


Budget 2022 

At its core, Budget 2022 is about people’s 

wellbeing and strikes a careful balance to build 

on our successful response to COVID-19, but 

also looking forward to support Kiwis to seize the 

opportunities of a more secure future. 

Despite the impacts of COVID-19, our 

unemployment rate is at record low 3.2%, we are 

keeping debt low, and New Zealand’s economy has 

grown faster than other countries with the GDP up 

3% in the last quarter. 

This Budget creates economic security for all. We 

are investing to secure our future, making sure 

Kiwis can access world class healthcare, growing a 

skilled workforce and accelerating our transition to 

a low emissions economy. 

I’m proud to be part of Government that is putting 

Kiwis at the forefront and is supporting people now 

while securing their future.

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Youth MP 

2022! 

I’m delighted to say that the 

Wigram electorate will be 

represented again by one 

of our fantastic rangatahi 

at Youth Parliament 2022, 

Josh Craig. 

Josh is a year 11 student at 

Hillmorton High School and 

is passionate about reducing 

New Zealand emissions and 

climate change. 

For over a year now he has 

been involved in the School 

Strike for Climate advocating 

to many local companies. 

Where to find me 

Megan Woods MP for Wigram 

(03) 338 6347 

E | Imēra: megan.woodsmp@parliament.govt.nz 

W | Pae Tukutuku: www.labour.org.nz/meganwoods 

Wigram Electorate Office 

McCarthy Street Shops, 12 McCarthy Street, Hoon Hay, Christchurch 8025 

PO Box 33164, Barrington, Christchurch 8244 

/MeganWoodsWigram | 

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Authorised by Hon Megan Woods MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

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