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ISSUE 98 ISSUE 99 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 $10.50 ALLAN McCALL: JIM CLARK’S KIWI MECHANIC | FIAT COLLECTOR | DOUG DRAKE: MINI MAESTRO QUEENSTOWN’S CAPTAIN CLASSIC | UK CLASSIC RACING: SILVERSTONE & CADWELL PARK JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2022 $10.50 2 The Star Thursday July 7 2022 inside Tagger hints at infidelity.....................................3 Templeton won’t run for mayor..................5 Last man standing after 234km..................6 Homes sought for 22 puppies............... 8-9 Have you seen Bertie?.......................................... 10 ACC to pay bullied ex-employee.............14 Used car rebates unclear.......................18-19 Cantabrians star in adventure series....23 Readers’ letters.......................................................26 Mayor’s column .....................................................26 ECan column............................................................29 Sport......................................................................... 38-39 DriveSouth................................................................... 41 Classified..............................................................42-47 Gig guide.......................................................................47 newsroom Chris Barclay Reporter 021 914 169 chris.barclay@starmedia.kiwi Mike Hansen Online editor mike.hansen@starmedia.kiwi Barry Clarke Editor in Chief 021 359 426 barry@starmedia.kiwi advertising Shane Victor Advertising Manager 021 381 765 shane@starmedia.kiwi Classified advertising: 379 1100 General inquiries: 379 7100 readership up 9% 207,000 * readers every week! *Source: Nielsen CMI Q2 20 - Q1 21 vs CMI Q2 21- Q1 22 DELIVERERS WANTED! 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Various locations letters We want to hear your views on the issues affecting life in Canterbury. Send emails to: barry@starmedia.kiwi Letters may be edited or rejected at The Star's discretion. Letters should be about 150 words. A name, postal address and phone number should be provided. Please use your real name, not a nickname, alias, pen name or abbreviation. Rotary Bookarama Friday & Saturday, 10-6pm, Sunday, 10am-2pm Bishopdale Burnside Rotary is holding its 16th annual book sale, with over 50,000 books, including paperbacks, hardcover, fiction and non-fiction. Categories include New Zealand, cooking, sport, military and biography – plus there’s jigsaws, games, CDs, DVDs and records for sale. Fresh stock daily, plenty of car parking, all proceeds to supporting community projects. 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• By Chris Marriner IT WAS hard to miss, a warning painted directly onto the road telling anyone who passed by that dirty deeds had been done. But it was not just a public warning, it was a question directed at one person who had inflicted a particular injury – that of infidelity. “Whose husband next?” it asked, in vibrant spray paint on the streets of Wigram. The words, fittingly written in scarlet, were spraypainted by the wronged party with a clear hand, the neat font betraying a determination born of fury. The message was written on The Runway, one of the main streets in the Wigram Skies development – and it was not the only one. The area directly around the message is industrial, home to Skellerup and the Original Foods Bakery factory – which was quickly fingered online as being the workplace targeted, with multiple similar messages reportedly appearing around the site. The community Facebook page rushed to fill this information vacuum with shock, speculation and praise for the “pretty tidy tagging”. “Cougar on the loose,” said one excitable Wigramite, while another made the wild leap that the author was “probably a teacher” because the spelling was correct. Others called the punctuation into question, debating whether Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz House prices double every decade • By Catherine Masters HOUSE PRICES double roughly every 10 years, analysis from property data company Valocity confirms. The research was done back to 1990 to see what the median house price was on the last day of each year. The results were “astounding”, OneRoof property columnist Ashley Church said. Dirty deeds spice up the streets of Wigram Pie 'n' Pint “They show, for example, that from 2002 to 2011 house prices each year were almost exactly double what they were 10 years earlier.” The numbers are not always exactly 100 per cent up every 10 years, with the percentage falling from 2012 to 2021, for example. The average annual increase for those years dropped to 85.5 per cent, probably POSED: The question put to the good people of Wigram. PHOTO: NZ HERALD $18 The Home of Live Rock Music Peer Steak Pie with mash n gravy plus a pint of Murphy's Available daily from 5pm for a limited time Function Rooms Pool Tables reflecting house prices were getting more expensive and therefore growth slower, Church said, although last year – 2021 – still showed a 112 per cent increase over prices in 2011. Church said themes emerge from the data including that house prices have increased consistently over each of the past three decades in spite of domestic and international it should have been written as “who’s” rather than “whose”. For the record, it should not have, but the discussion nearly derailed the comment thread. “Sounds like someone has been sleeping around,” said another local, stating the obvious 85a Hereford St economic shocks such as the GFC. Also, the rate of house price growth is slowing, probably as a reflection of what the average Kiwi can afford to pay, he said. While past performance isn’t a guarantee of future performance, Church says it would be foolish to ignore the likely implications of these trends. —NZ Herald but steering the comments back on track. “Hope she spray-painted her husband’s car,” a local woman offered, while another unhelpfully wrote: “Haha shame!!!”. The furore even drew Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-Riccartom Community Board member Andrei Moore, who responded with “crikey” and “yikes” and vowed to chase up with the city council. The original poster then returned to the thread to summarise. “Ok, so after a lot of comments I think we have established the following: • 1 – No one knows anything. • 2 – The spelling and grammar is correct. • 3 – It is very neat writing for spray paint. • 4 – Someone needs to contact the council to have it removed.” A city council spokesman said “the graffiti was removed by our contractors using a water blaster”. They did note that “remnants may still be visible,” a fitting end to an incident likely to linger for a lifetime, in at least one marriage. —NZ Herald We Make Funerals Simple and Affordable We pride ourselves on the very highest level of service. If you are thinking about the future, we can help you explore pre-payment and pre-planning options. Contact us for a Free Information Pack. We offer funeral information talks to groups. Please call us for a speaker to come to you. christchurch.simplicity.co.nz Thursday July 7 2022 The Star NEWS 3 Chapel secures home on foreshore A SHELL-SHAPED chapel that won people’s hearts has been restored and moved to a prominent spot next to He Puna Taimoana Hot Pools on the New Brighton foreshore. The chapel won the people’s choice award in the 2016 Tiny Huts design competition, but has been tucked away under the pier for several years while the playground and hot pools were being developed. The New Brighton Residents Association requested the move to better showcase the popular artwork. Designer Ting Lin, who was studying for a Bachelor of Architectural Studies at Ara Institute of Canterbury at the time, said it was very exciting to see the chapel refreshed and moved to its new location. “This just shows what small architecture can mean to the community. I designed the chapel when I was a student and though I have been working in the industry for four years now and designed many buildings since, the Shell Chapel still holds a special place in my heart.” Her design was inspired by a story told to her by a New Brighton resident about how the community had banded together to donate a wedding to a local couple in need. The other tiny hut remaining in city council ownership has been gifted to the New Brighton Community Gardens. The Art-omat was repaired and repainted and will be used for shelter, seed collecting and drying. NINA ANDREWS Funeral Director Christchurch | Corner of Coleridge St & Gasson St, Sydenham | Ph 03 379 0196
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