Western News: August 25, 2022

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2022 

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Police station to reopen 

after concerns raised 

• By Tina Grumball 

THE HORNBY police station 

could reopen in eight weeks 

after ongoing concerns from 

residents over its closure. 

The Greater Hornby Residents 

Association asked police why it 

was closed, with chairman Marc 

Duff saying the community 

was concerned that with crime 

increasing, they were not able to 

go to their local police station. 

The association was told by 

police the station had been 

temporarily closed 

because a previous 

front desk staff member 

had been transferred 

to Rollestion and the 

replacement, who 

had been trained, had 

decided to leave. 

However, a second 

recruitment drive to find 

a new person for the front desk 

has just closed, so police are 

aiming to reopen the station to 

the public in about eight weeks. 

The station has been closed 

Marc Duff 

since February. A closed 

“until further notice” 

sign is hanging on the 

station door. But on the 

police website its says 

the station is open from 

Monday to Friday, 9am 

to 4pm. 

However, there is a 

note to call ahead in case 

of “unforeseen closures”. 

On the sign, people 

are directed to go to the 

Christchurch Central station 

or call 111. 

After a recent meeting, 

the association agreed to 

compile a letter expressing the 

community’s concerns. It was 

then directed to take the letter 

to the central station, which it 

did last week. 

Crime reporting unit Sergeant 

Straton Logan replied, thanking 

the association for raising its 

concerns and acknowledged the 

community’s frustration. 

“It is our purpose to ensure 

that the community is safe and 

feels safe and I understand that, 

within the Hornby 

community, having access to a 

staff member through the front 

counter plays a pivotal part in 

this,” he said. 

“The factors that 

have contributed to the 

prolonged closure of the 

Hornby police station 

front counter is due to staff 

shortages in our department 

and the out of the ordinary 

demands that Covid-19 has 

placed on the NZ police 

service.” 

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Amazing Grace in shock after win 

ST ANDREW’S College head 

prefect Grace Lawrence has won 

the Play It Strange songwriting 

competition. 

The year 13 student received 

an $8000 New Zealand On Air 

‘special tracks’ grant to record 

her song and make a music 

video, and $1000 from the Rockshop. 

The announcement was made 

at a special school assembly and 

came as a complete surprise for 

the top music student. 

Grace said she was “in shock”. 

“I never expected to win or 

even become a finalist, after 

already making the finals of this 

year’s Play It Strange peace song 

competition. 

“I’m so happy and very grateful.” 

Mike Chunn, former bass 

player for Split Enz and chief 

executive of Play It Strange, said 

Grace was no stranger to the 

music awards. She was twice 

a finalist in the organisation’s 

peace song competition, and 

a finalist in the 2021 Lion 

Foundation songwriting 

competition. 

“With her winning song 

this year Grace has reached 

an engaging and varied lyric 

and musical standard. She is a 

natural and her future is bright.” 

The Lion Foundation 

songwriting competition is the 

trust’s flagship songwriting 

competition. It attracted 352 

entries this year from year 9-13 

students across New Zealand. 

Following the school 

presentation, Grace performed 

the coming-of-age song, 

Differently Now, to the 

assembled students and teachers. 

“I couldn’t have asked for 

more support from my teachers 

and St Andrew’s College over 

the last five years,” she said. 

“They are incredible and I 

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Grace has been a prolific 

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“We are incredibly proud of 

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She was also concertmaster 

of the New Zealand Secondary 

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St Andrew’s College rector 

Christine Leighton said Grace’s 

creativity is an inspiration for 

many students. 

“As a head prefect this 

year, she has balanced 

many responsibilities and 

commitments. It was fantastic to 

surprise her with this award in 

our cultural assembly, which I 

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her.” 

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Crashes, near misses common at intersection 

Readers react to last 

week’s article on the issue 

of safety at the junction of 

Ellesmere and Trices Rds 

We have lived 700m from the 

intersection for 30 years. We 

travel through it on a regular 

basis by car and by bicycle. My 

wife and I have had numerous 

near misses over the years with 

vehicles from the south on Trices 

Rd not giving way to us when 

we are travelling east towards 

Halswell on Ellesmere Rds. 

At our instigation two years 

ago, the “straight ahead traffic 

give way sign” was installed. 

Whilst we think that this sign 

has helped clarify right of way, 

clearly it has not worked given 

the recent crash. 

In our opinion, the speed limit 

through this intersection should 

be reduced to 60km/h. We travel 

down Ellesmere Rd through this 

intersection at 20km/h given the 

uncertainty of vehicles giving 

way to us. 

A stop sign on Ellesmere Rd 

with a flashing warning sign 

would also be a significant safety 

improvement, along with a 

raised concrete median barrier. 

– Jan and Rob Dally 

I live on Ellesmere Rd and have 

almost had two accidents on that 

corner with people failing to 

give way. I’m not quite sure why 

people don’t give way but I’m 

certain I’ll end up writing off a 

SLOW DOWN: The give way sign at the intersection with 

Ellesmere and Trices Rds. 

car on that corner. 

I suggest you sit back from 

that corner one day and you’ll 

see plenty of people fly straight 

through. 

– Daniel Sisson 

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on the issues affecting life 

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Send emails to: 

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name or abbreviation. 

I travel Ellesmere Rd 

most days. I know Trices 

Rd intersection well. Just on 

Thursday, a woman in a small 

car drove straight though on 

Trices Rd heading towards 

Halswell as I was approaching 

the intersection also heading 

towards Halswell. 

She never looked to her right, 

just drove straight though. 

Luckily I saw her and braked 

hard. That makes three times 

in two years I have nearly been 

taken out. 

– Grant Fowler 

I drive this way everyday and 

had a near miss when I had right 

of way. The other driver did 

not give way and only stopped 

himself driving into my door 

by extreme measures. A split 

second longer and I’d have been 

badly injured. I could see the 

whites of his eyes. Lesser issues 

happen often as people struggle 

to comprehend this intersection. 

Traffic is increasing rapidly as 

Lincoln grows. 

– Jules McAra 

No, I do not think it is 

dangerous. It’s solely driver 

error. Prosecute them hard. 

We are much too lenient on 

wayward drivers. 

– Mike Hancock 

I agree diver error is the 

cause of accidents at this 

intersection. I have travelled 

through this intersection 

over the past 18 years from 

Prebbleton through to Hallswell 

and back again. I am always 

aware of this intersection and 

have had to give way on a 

number of occasions. 

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Four friends go head-to-head 

• By Ana Olykan 

FOUR CLOSE pals put their 

friendship to the test this week 

by competing against each 

other on a quiz show. 

Hillmorton High School 

middle students Cosette Major 

and Josie Jamieson, both 13, 

and Christchurch South Karamata 

Intermediate students 

Tessa Lloyd-Mann, 12, and 

Molly Harrison, 13, tried out 

for the children’s quiz show 

Brain Busters a few months 

ago. 

“Molly applied first,” Josie 

said. 

“Then we all got interested 

and, after the video-call auditions, 

one of our mums put 

in a request for us to be in the 

same show!” 

Each episode features four 

contestants playing quiz 

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take on an in-studio obstacle 

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answer more questions to turn 

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Molly said: “We’re very competitive. 

But we were also very 

excited to see how we would 

all do.” 

After careful deliberation 

the group decided Josie would 

do Sequencer (history and 

pop culture), Tess Identifier 

(science), Cosette Blueprinter 

(memory), and Molly Spellbinder 

(spelling). 

“We decided that Molly 

should get first choice to do 

Spellbinder because she was 

the one who got the ball rolling,” 

Cosette said. 

“Even though we all wanted 

to do spelling!” 

The girls admitted to doing 

plenty of homework before 

recording day. 

However, they shared the 

spoils of the first round. 

“We all had a few laughs 

when we made mistakes,” she 

said. 

Cosette and Molly went 

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As well as their cash prizes, 

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Kids learn better with a full stomach. 

That’s why our Government 

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Chester, an adorable 1 year old ginger cat 

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“The club has been 

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258 

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6 

A Y K 

C E R 

How many words of three or more letters, 

How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six 

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign 

words or words beginning with a capital are 

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

once? 

TODAY 

Good 19 Very Good 23 Excellent 28 

Solution 157: ale, alee, amen, anele, eel, elan, elm, 

ENAMEL, enema, lam, lame, lane, lea, lean, lee, 

leman, male, man, mane, meal, mean, men, name, 

word. 

neem. 

letters, including plurals, can you make 

from the six letters, using each only 

No words beginning with a capital are 

allowed. There’s at least one six-letter 

Good 19 Very Good 23 Excellent 28 

21 22 23 24 

25 26 

27 28 

Across 

1. Outdo (7) 

5. Theoretically (2,5) 

9. Dangers (5) 

10. Chemical element (9) 

11. Triple (9) 

12. Correct (5) 

13. Admonish (5) 

15. Custom (9) 

18. Pyrotechnics (9) 

19. Horse straps (5) 

21. Informal language (5) 

23. Substitute, proxy (9) 

25. Medical procedure (9) 

26. Blight (5) 

27. Budding (7) 

28. Cost (7) 

Decoder 

Down 

1. Type of cloud (7) 

2. Cistern (9) 

3. Passageway (5) 

4. Advocate (9) 

5. Exposed (colloq) (5) 

6. Rear (9) 

7. Elegant bearing (5) 

8. Islamic month of fasting (7) 

14. Demote (9) 

16. Self-confidence (9) 

17. Fake (9) 

18. Decorate (7) 

20. Ghost (7) 

22. Assists in crime (5) 

23. Fast-moving (5) 

24. Readily available (2,3) 

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I J F O Z S P D C L W A N 

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A F Shuker 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 

T R A 

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 

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SOLUTION 

No.158 

15 24 8 9 3 21 10 23 17 8 21 

Crossword 

Across: 1. Surpass, 5. 

On paper, 9. Risks, 10. 

Potassium, 11. Threefold, 

12. Emend, 13. Scold, 15. 

Tradition, 18. Fireworks, 

19. Reins, 21. Slang, 23. 

Surrogate, 25. Operation, 

26. Taint, 27. Nascent, 28. 

Expense. 

Down: 1. Stratus, 2. 

Reservoir, 3. Aisle, 4. 

Supporter, 5. Outed, 6. 

Posterior, 7. Poise, 8. 

Ramadan, 14. Downgrade, 

16. Assurance, 17. Imitation, 

18. Festoon, 20. Spectre, 

22. Abets, 23. Swift, 24. On 

tap. 

WordBuilder 

ace, acre, arc, are, ark, aye, 

cake, car, care, cay, crake, 

creak, CREAKY, cry, ear, 

era, kea, key, race, rack, 

racy, rake, ray, rye, yack, 

YACKER, yak, yare, yea, 

year. 

Sudoku 

Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different 

letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet. 

DECODER 

Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers. 

The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented 

Each by the number other represents numbers. a As different you get letter the of letters, the alphabet. enter them Write into the 

given the main letters grid, into all and squares the reference with matching grid. numbers. To keep Now track work of out the 

which letters letters you are have represented found, cross by them other off numbers. the alphabet provided. 

2 20 15 22 24 6 7 1 7 20 26 

20 26 7 4 1 12 

12 18 20 6 10 4 10 10 1 7 4 7 

13 12 22 24 1 6 7 

6 24 6 7 20 13 6 1 4 13 4 

24 20 20 8 26 

14 20 26 1 3 19 12 26 8 20 13 15 

20 20 14 12 12 

17 12 16 22 12 6 6 12 8 4 26 

1 21 12 10 17 20 24 

9 26 1 15 1 25 24 20 6 13 24 18 

10 11 5 20 20 22 

20 23 1 10 20 8 24 4 8 12 19 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 

D 

N 

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 

E 

SOLUTION 

No.157 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 

N U V M J T Y R Z I X L W 

D Q G B E F S H K A P O C 

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 

D 

E 

N 

158 

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5 11 7 15 10 

13 10 14 2 5 12 10 1 9 14 26 

10 3 15 1 2 

14 7 25 19 2 11 9 

10 3 15 2 9 1 9 16 18 9 13 20 

6 13 7 16 13 1 

A F Shuker 

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A 

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3 10 14 15 11 10 12 5 8 2 15 2 

10 23 4 1 2 19 1 

15 5 4 11 10 10 

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