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Ice rink project takes shape 

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Theproject to refrigerate 

Staveley Ice Rink is on track 

but the Staveley Hall Society 

stillneed some help from the 

community. 

Around ayear agothe group 

started fundraising to reach 

the$1.2 million target andthey 

haveraised awhopping 

$882,000 so far. 

With the goal to havethe ice 

rink up and runningthis 

winterthey need to raise 

around$300k more, so the 

society is organisingother 

fundraising events including a 

carrally. 

StaveleyHall Society 

member Clare Harden said 

‘‘We’ve been hugely lucky with 

ourcommunity, there have 

been alot of little donations 

that built us up to where we 

are.’’ 

Thecar rally is on January 

28 starting at the rink and 

participants will be tasked 

with finding differentthings 

aroundStaveley,then finish at 

the hallfor high tea and an 

auction. Society chairman Rob 

Withers said the rink was 

taking shape withcontractors 

digging the hole readyfor the 

next steps. 

‘‘The rink has beensquared 

up to 60 x30metres, thesame 

size as an Olympic hockey 

rink, aconcrete wall will run 

aroundthe side of therink. 

‘‘Plastic sheetswill be laid 

then 90mmofpolystyreneto 

stop heat coming through,then 

mesh and reinforcing rod then 

18 kilometres of pipe is laid 

down and finally 150mmof 

concrete. 

‘‘We’re forming ice in 

reverse so it is built up from 

the bottom up, rather than the 

top down,’’ Robsaid. 

A40ftcontainer next to the 

lakewill housethe 

refrigeration unit which was 

sourced fromAustraliaand is 

being stored in Ashburton. 

Once the refrigeration is up 

and runningthe rink can stay 

openthrough the three months 

of winter. 

‘‘The power bill over the 

three months is expected to be 

around $40k if it is running full 

time,’’ Claresaid. 

If it is cold enoughtofreeze 

they can turn therefrigeration 

off. 

Clare said the rink is a 

popular destination forlocals, 

and some go just for the 

atmosphere and yarns without 

going on the ice. 

‘‘It is areal big mental 

health thing for the 

community, last yearwe 

had it openjust after 

the flooding and 

everyone came. 

‘‘A lot of the guyswho come 

don't skate they will justsit 

around the fire and roast 

marshmallows with thekids, 

chat andcatch up.’’ 

‘‘It’s an affordable family 

activity, and that is one of the 

key values to keep it that way,’’ 

Clare said. 

After the rink is up and 

running there are ongoing 

projects likerefrigerating the 

separate curling rink, 

installing anew swing bridge 

and possibly putting in hydro 

for the power supply. 

For moreinformation or to 

donate contact Rob: 027 3030 

138, or emailrobertjane. 

w@xtra.co.nz 

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There was plenty of colour to welcome customers through the doors of Ashburton’s newest department store. 

Customers queue for Kmart 

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Around 200 people flocked to the River 

Crossing complex last week in abid to 

be one of the first customers through 

the doorsofAshburton’snewest 

department store. 

Kmart Ashburton opened its doors 

last Thursdayat 8am, but there were 

claims somepeople had been queuing 

outside since 3am. 

‘‘I got amessage fromsomeonetosay 

therewas aqueueat6.30am,’’ said one 

shopper.‘‘I thought it would be 

absolutemayhem but Iwas actually 

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at 7.55amand therewere people 

already in the store. 

‘‘Onceyou stepped foot into the store 

it was really niceand calm. So many 

staffwhichwas amazing to see. 

Exceeded my expectationsonhow 

organiseditwas.’’ 

The openingofthe store was 

celebratedwith ablessingat6am, 

followed with speeches by Ashburton 

mayor NeilBrown,generalmanagerof 

properties for Kmart group Ben Smith, 

and Kmart Ashburton storemanager 

Kim Spooner. 

TinwaldSchool and Ashburton 

College kapahaka groups performed 

whileMsSpoonerand Mr Brown 

conductedaribbon cutting ceremony. 

‘‘We’re excited to welcome Kmart to 

Ashburton,’’ saidMrBrown in his 

Cross Table and 

Bench Seat 

speech. 

‘‘Iamconfident that this storewill 

be complementarytoour town. The 

venture is the result of alocal property 

developer Tricoft choosing to invest 

in his patch and showing aretail giant 

that our districtisprosperous and has 

asolid future. 

‘‘The Ashburton District is the 

district of choicefor lifestyle and 

opportunity. 

‘‘This store will attract our 

neighbours from South Canterbury 

into our town too. And, of course,itwill 

createmany jobs which willboost our 

already buoyant economy.’’ 

Ms Spooner battled tearsasshe 

Mayor Neil Brown tookpart in the ribbon cutting ceremony. 

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‘‘It’snot easy,’’ says 

bodybuilder Jessica Kennedy 

about her fitness journey. ‘‘But 

you justdon’t give up.’’ 

Aformer Ashburton College 

student,Jessicacompetedin 

the New Zealand IFBBPro 

League bodybuildingnationals 

in Auckland earlierthis month, 

placing first in her Figure 

height class and second in the 

overall competition. 

Jessicasaid she followed 

‘‘fourmonths of pretty muchthe 

samefoodevery day and an 

increase of training’’ to prepare 

for the competition. 

‘‘I was doing what started off 

as 20 minutes, five days aweek, 

and thenitbuilt up to an hour 

or justover an hour five days a 

weekofcardio towards the 

end.’’ 

That was in addition to the 

daily hourlong strength training 

sessions needed to build and 

shape muscle, she said. 

‘‘I’d usuallytrain six days of 

weights anyway,’’ she said, ‘‘but 

usuallywithabodybuilding 

competition Itaper it down to 

five just to allow myself that 

extra dayoff. 

‘‘It’s more like amental 

recovery daybecause obviously 

you’re dieting as well with your 

food, and doing theextra cardio, 

so just having those twodays off 

duringprep makes a 

difference.’’ 

Jessica competed in the 

Christchurch regionalsinmid 

September,takingfirstplace in 

her height division. She entered 

twocategories in theAuckland 

nationals: Figure, which she 

said sheismostcomfortable 

with,and Wellness. 

‘‘Wellness was anew category 

formethat I’dnever done 

before, that Ijust wanted to give 

agobecause itwas quite new 

andIwanted to see if Iwouldfit 

into it,’’she said. 

Despite havingnever entered 

Wellness before, Jessica took 

third place in her heightclass. 

She tookfirst place in her 

height classfor Figure. 

She admitted she still gets 

nervous when getting upon 

stage. 

‘‘You literally get judged on 

howyou look,’’she said. 

‘‘Obviously it’s on body shapeas 

well but it evencomes down to 

on theday your hair and 

makeup, yourbikini, so all that 

matters... it definitelyis 

intimidating. I’llnever forget my 

first show, Iget nervous now but 

those nerves were 

uncontrollable. 

‘‘Getting out on stage in a 

bikini is not something Iever 

thought Iwould do,’’ she 

laughed. 

But the nervesand training 

have all been worthwhile when 

Jessicaconsiders the 

empowermentshe’s gained from 

being abodybuilder, ‘‘It changed 

my life to be honest.’’ 

‘‘Anyonewho knew me in 

Ashburtongrowingupwould 

probablynever have thought I’d 

be where Iamtoday. 

‘‘I mean Inever even knew 

what Iwantedtodo, but it’s 

turned my lifearound forthe 

better,itmakes me feel really 

good, Ilove the way that you can 

toneand shape your bodybut 

more of what it does foryour 

mental health, Ijust feel so good 

fromit.’’ 

Jessicarevealed it was her 

brother’s fitness journeythat 

inspiredher to getinto the gym, 

‘‘he hadabitofan interesting 

upbringing andturned to fitness 

asabitofachanging point in his 

life. 

‘‘I sawwhat he was doing and 

itjustgot me fascinated in the 

industry andhow youcan 

change your body and your 

mindset, and obviously mental 

health is ahuge part of it. 

‘‘I just saw how muchithelped 

himandthought Iwant to give 

thisagomyself.’’ 

Having run agym in Australia 

for severalyears, she 

understands the struggle some 

people face when addressing 

their health and fitness. 

‘‘Everyone starts somewhere,’’ 

she said. ‘‘You’re not going to be 

the strongest andthefittest in 

the room straight away. 

Everything takes time, just be 

patient.’’ 

Her gym, focusedaround 

group fitness andwellness,was a 

testament to Jessica’s passion 

for fitness. 

She found satisfaction in 

inspiringothers to achievetheir 

Above, Jessica Kennedy centrestage 

at the NZIFBB nationals; 

below, she poses outside postcompetition. 

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fitness goals, and helping them 

to improve notonly their 

physical wellbeing buttheir 

mental wellbeingtoo. 

‘‘It was incredible, actually, 

just seeing everyone come 

togetherforgeneral health, but 

the community and friendships 

built from it wasmassive.’’ 

Since returning to New 

Zealand, Jessica nowworks at 

Snap Fitness as apersonal 

trainer. She continues to help 

others conquer their fitness 

goals,while developing her 

interest in educating people 

around nutritional wellbeing. 

‘‘It’s so important and people 

sort of forget that,’’ she said. 

Jessica’s fitness journey won’t 

endhere. She has many more 

goals to smash, declaring her 

intent to winthe overall titlein 

next year’s NZIFBB nationals. 

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Dame Valerie Adams is one of–probably –18 

siblings. Youngest brother Steven shows up 

to fill in afew details of their young life, as do 

two ofAdams’ sisters. It’s astory oflove, faith 

and material poverty, out ofwhich emerged a 

family of big, confident individuals, all of whom 

excelled at sport. 

As an adult, Valerie has had her own marriages 

–one bad, onefantastic –and ashocking series 

of health challenges. Two ruptured discs that 

plague her lowerbackisone thing, butshe also 

lived through complications after aCaesarian 

birth thatlefther rightatthe edge of death and 

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Valerie carried the photoofher twolittle children 

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Youwillbeveryhappy youtook the time to see 

it. 

The Militaria and Aviation Extravaganza, 

organised by members of the Ashburton 

Aviation Museum as anew hangar 

fundraiser, drew hundreds of people to the 

Ashburton Airport over the weekend to 

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Asurprise name has emerged 

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The tip was given to police 

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case. 

Kirsty, 15, was last seen alive 

on the afternoon of December 

31, 1998, when she left her 

Ashburton home to walk her 

labradorcross, Abby. 

Abby was found the next day 

tied to atree near the 

Ashburton River along with a 

pair of Kirsty’s underwear and 

boxer shorts. 

Her body was found 17 days 

later in the Rakaia Gorge by 

two men, who told police their 

reason for being at the location 

was that they were looking for a 

cannabis plot. 

The Star can reveal the 

person nominated was 

associated with two men who 

were investigated for potential 

involvement in Kirsty’s murder 

but later ruled out. 

The nominated person had 

not featured in the police 

investigation until the reward 

was posted in July. 

The two men initially 

suspected were not Kirsty’s 

father Sid or brother John, who 

police focused on for anumber 

of years. 

Detective Inspector Greg 

Murton, who is investigating 

the cold case, said he would not 

comment about The Star’s 

information. It would be 

unhelpful to the investigation, 

he said. 

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Congratulations and best 

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Deaths 

BOOTH, Ray Ellen – On 

October 22, 2022 peacefully 

passed away at Ashburton 

Hospital. Aged 89 years. 

Loved wife ofthe late Doug. 

Loved mother of John and 

Gaye, Eric and Joanne, and 

Heather Riddle. Loved nana 

of all her grandchildren 

and great-grandchildren. 

Special thanks to the staff 

at Ashburton Hospital for 

the care and kindness given 

to Ray. Messages to the 

Booth family P O Box 472, 

Ashburton7740. Aservice for 

Raywill be held in our chapel, 

corner East and Cox Streets, 

Ashburton on Thursday 

October 27, commencing at 

2.00pm, followed byprivate 

cremation at the Ashburton 

Crematorium. 

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BOOTH, Ray Ellen – On 

October 22, 2022 peacefully 

passed away at Ashburton 

Hospital. Aged 89 years. 

Dearly lovedmum of Heather 

Riddle. Loved nana to Cindy 

and Hayden Wilkins, Fiona 

Kingsbury, and Greg, Jennie 

and Brenton Lee. Great Nana 

to Luke, Nikkita, and Myles 

Wilkins, Caitlyn, Bridget, 

Kimberley, Mathesion, 

Christana, Matthew, and 

EmilyLee.Rest in peace. 

CORBETT, Amelia June: 

on October 21, 2022 at 

Ashburton. Very dearly 

loved wife ofAndrew. Loved 

younger daughter ofCharles 

and Amelia Neal. A loved 

sister of Charles, Owen, and 

Elva. In accordance with 

Amelia’s wishes a private 

servicehas been held. 

Messages to: The Corbett 

family, c/- PO Box 6035, 

Ashburton7742. 

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Deaths 

MacKENZIE Robin Kenneth: 

Sadly passed away in 

Ashburton on October 13, 

2022. Loving husband of 

Isabella. Father and fatherin-law 

of James and Ayla 

Mackenzie and Poppa of 

Airelia, and Matthew. Deeply 

missed. Always remembered, 

never forgotten. Messages 

to the Mackenzie family P O 

Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In 

lieu of flowers donations to 

The Prostate Cancer Society 

would be appreciated and 

may be made on line at bit.ly/ 

rkmackenzie1310. At Robin’s 

request a private funeral has 

been held. 

Paterson’s 


FDANZ 

03 307 7433 

MacKENZIE, Robin Kenneth: 

Sadly passed away October 

13th at Ashburton. Much 

loved son of the late Ken 

and Lyla MacKenzie, loved 

brother and brother-in-lawof 

Shirley and Brian Manson and 

loved brother of Christine 

McKenzie (Picton). 

Loved uncle and great-uncle 

to his nieces and nephews. 

TREASURED MEMORIES 

At Robin’s request aprivate 

farewell has been held. 

McCLIMONT, Rowan Ream 

(Maitland) (formerly of 

Geraldine). 18-07-1944 – 

20-10-2022, in Ashburton 

(due to a heart condition). 

Much loved and loving 

wife of Leonard (Mount 

Somers) for 57years. Loved 

mother and mother-in-law 

of Robin and Lynette, John 

and Anne, Karen and Mike 

and loved Nana of Renee; 

Max, and Jesse. Dearly loved 

daughter ofthe late Jim and 

Win (Geraldine). Loved sister 

and sister-in-law ofthe late 

Alan, and Pam Maitland 

(Christchurch); the late 

Ian and Dorothy Maitland; 

and Sivo (Sydney). Loved 

daughter-in-law of the late 

Jim and Irvine McClimont 

(Ashburton Gorge). Stepdaughter 

of the late Bert 

Lord. Loved Aunt of Lynda, 

Grant, Nicola, and Steven 

and Deanne, Andrew, 

Gina, the late Alexander, 

and Geraldine. In Memory 

of Rowan, donations to 

Ashburton St John may 

be made online at bit.ly/ 

rrmcclimont2010 Messages 

to the McClimont family PO 

Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A 

service tocelebrate Rowan’s 

life will be held in our chapel 

corner East and Cox Streets, 

Ashburton today, Thursday 

October 27, commencing 

at 11.00am followed by 

interment atthe Mt Somers 

Cemetery at 2.00pm. All 

welcome. 

Paterson’s 


FDANZ 

03 307 7433 

Deaths 

McCLIMONT, Leonard 

John Irvine (Len) (formerly 

of Mount Somers). 

31-10-1937 – 23-10-2022, 

in Ashburton. Much loved 

and loving husband of the 

late Rowan for 57 years, 3 

days after Rowan’s passing. 

Loved father and father-inlaw 

of Robin and Lynette, 

John and Anne, Karen and 

Mike and loved Grandad of 

Renee; Max, and Jesse.Dearly 

loved son of the late Jim and 

Irvine. InMemory of Leonard, 

donations to Ashburton St 

John may be made online 

at bit.ly/ljimcclimont2310 

Messages to the McClimont 

family POBox 472, Ashburton 

7740. A combined service 

to celebrate Rowan’s and 

Leonard’s life will be held 

in our Chapel corner East 

and Cox Streets, Ashburton 

on Thursday October 27, 

commencing at 11.00am 

followed by interment at 

the Mt Somers Cemetery at 

2.00pm. Allwelcome. 

Paterson’s 


FDANZ 

03 307 7433 

Acknowledgement 

SARGENT,TimothyJohn: 

28.11.1957–10.08.2022 

Ruth, Gerald,Derek,Janeand 

wider families wish to express 

their thanks for the love and 

support shown to them 

during the loss of Tim. 

Timlived awonderful lifeand 

is greatlymissed. 

Please accept this as a 

personal acknowledgement 

of thanks. 

WHINHAM, Jarred Anthony: 

Lyn, Rachelle, Sarah and 

families sincerely thank 

everyone for the shared 

memories, many visits, cards, 

flowers, food, phone calls. 

For the respect, kindness and 

love shown to us all and to 

those who attended Jarred’s 

service. 

Jarred lived a life of 

adventures and will be 

missed dearly. 

Please accept this as a 

personal acknowledgement. 

Family 

Notices 

Enquiries phone 

Mary,Jann or Karen 

on 

308 7664 

or call into 

199 Burnett Street. 

NEWS 


Sowing support seeds 

Angus is back in the 

sunflower business for the 

thirdyear running, thistime 

with halfhis proceeds going 

to Camp Courage (for 

bereaved children). 

Thesixyearold hasagoal 

of raising $200 for the camp. 

Whenasked why he chose 

this cause, he said “I like to 

help people and somesad 

kids too. They will have fun 

on the camp.” 

Angus hadsavedalot of 

seeds from last year and they 

poppedupwell in the 

glasshouse. 

“Putting them into the 

containers is thehardest bit 

and takes extra dirt and 

peopletohelp too. We grew 

them in thecontainers one 

year and they flopped, so we 

are getting better at growing 

them every time we try,” 

Angus said. 

Thecontainersare all 

recycled,asare the 

sunflower seeds, makingfor 

aclean,green process with a 

happy flower at the end to 

brighten someone’s garden. 

“Some of them have lots of 

huge heads,’’Angus said. 

‘‘Last year Moyra Whiting 

grew amighty fence of them 

–they were giants with stems 

as big as myarm.” 

Withhis latest sunflower 

sales, Angus wasableto 

reward himself for all his 

hard work. “I went to the 

new Kmart and boughttwo 

dinosaurs with my money 

last week… forjust twelve 

bucks each,itwas great!” 

Angus’ mum has made a 

Facebook page called ‘AT 

the GATEonAllison Street’ 

where Angus shares his 

progress, includingthe 

charity or organisation he’s 

Angus is donating half his proceeds to Camp Courage for 

bereaved children. 

PHOTO SUPPLIED 

fundraising for. 

The page welcomes 

anyone who wouldlike to 

send in picturesoftheir 

sunflowers, ask questions or 

find out what’shappening at 

the stand and what’s forsale, 

additional to thesunflowers. 

Angus has pumpkins and 

courgettes abouttosprout, 

as well as lemonsgrowing 

and rhubarb supplied by a 

kind man. 

There are envelopes at the 

gate if anyone justwantsto 

make adonation for the 

camp. 

Last year Angus’ sunflower 

standraised over $330 for St 

John. 

Harold auction fundraiser 

Apintsized Haroldthe giraffetruck and 

classroom is up for auction at asocial 

fundraiser next weekend, helpingtokeep 

the wheels of Life Education Trust turning. 

Comedyduo Etheland BethelBingo Babes 

will also be there to entertain. 

The R18 event willbeheld at the Tinwald 

Memorial Hall on Graham Street on 

November 5, from7.30pm. 

The handmademinireplica truck and 

classroom was made by atalented supporter 

of the trust from the Ashburton Menz Shed. 

The print wrap was donatedbyTimaru 

Signs Graphix. 

Life Education Trust covers the Mid 

South Canterbury area, transporting their 

mobileclassroom to around65schools 

acrossthe two districts and providing life 

lessons to around 8000kids eachyear. 

So far this yearHaroldand his team have 

been to more than 40 schools. 

Life Education Trust Mid and South 

Canterbury trusteeMoyra Whiting said it 

was anongovernment funded service, 

teaching childrenabout the wonders of 

their bodies, and which substances are 

neededand not needed tolive ahealthy 

lifestyle. 

The schools are charged $5 per child but 

the actual cost is $22,with the difference 

covered by grant applications, donations 

and fundraising, she said. 

As part of the fundraising,Haroldhas his 

very own book,and Christmas cards 

designed by Ashburton teen Molly 

McKenna, which are available for purchase 

through the organisation. 

At next month’sfundraiser,along withthe 

pintsized Haroldthe giraffetruck and 

classroom and other auction items, there 

will also be achocolate wheel, mystery 

balloons, spotprizes and bar facilities 

available. 

Entry costs $40 whichincludes one Bingo 

card and supper. 

Doors openfrom 6.45pm. 

Tickets can be purchased throughwww. 

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OUT AND ABOUT 

OCTOBER28&29 

Ashburton A&P Show at the 

showgrounds in Ashburton. Entry 

adults $15,kids free. 

OCTOBER29 

The Pretty in Pink Ball fundraiserat 

Trott’s Gardens marquee, 

Ashburton, from 7.30pm.Ticketsvia 

the Pretty in Pink Facebook page. 

Rakaia Lions annualfireworks 

nightatthe Rakaia Domain from 

6pm.Hot foodavailable through the 

LionsCaravanand glow sticks sold 

by RakaiaScouts.Gold coin 

donation. 

GeraldineVintage Car& 

Machinery Museum annual Crank 

Up! at 178Talbot Street Geraldine 

from 10am. Entrybydonation. 

SouthCanterburyIris Group open 

dayatthe Makikihi Iris garden, 

behind the MakikihiCountry Crafts 

shop. The gardensopen1pm – 

4pm. 

Uplifting afternoon for school 

Safer Mid Canterbury has held it’s first 

Open Wellbeing afternoon at Hampstead 

School. 

It was aschool eventfor children and 

their families. 

FamilyWellbeingService coordinator 

Brenda Kingsford said the purpose of the 

event was to get children thinking about 

their own wellbeingand what wellbeing 

means to them. 

‘‘I also talked about howitisoktonot be 

ok, but who can we talk to or what can we do 

to try and make ourselves feeling ok again.’’ 

Kai for Kids put on asharedlunch for 

parents and their children, then woman’s 

health physio Lesley Coffey took afull 

school yoga session. 

In the afternoon parents participated in 

wellbeing activitieswith their children and 

engaged with services that are availableto 

help, there were several spot prizes up for 

grabs. 

Brenda was grateful for the supportof 

EAT Café, Subway, McDonalds, Regent 

Cinemaand Armadillos. ‘‘Kids loved the 

afternoon with many reports of it beingthe 

best day ever,’’she said. 

Brenda plans to contact other schools to 

see what she can do to help create wellbeing 

within their environments. 

Luxton causes three-car crash 

Rangitata MP Jo Luxton has admitted 

causing athreecar crash on astate 

highway in her electorate. 

MrsLuxton, aLabour Party MP who 

represents Rangitata, confirmed to the 

Herald last week thecrash happened 

near Timaru afortnight ago after she 

failed to stop in time when another car 

slowed in front of her. 

‘‘While travelling througha50km/h zone 

on StateHighway1,Ifailed to notice 

traffic and rearendedacarwhich 

subsequentlyhit acar in front of it,’’ Mrs 

Luxton said in astatement. 

Shesaid she was notusingher 

cellphone at the timeofthe crash. 

The crash happened at 12.30pm on 

October 11 while she was travellingon 

State Highway 1atWinchester, north of 

Timaru. 

Shewas not injuredinthe incident. 

‘‘After checkingthatthe occupantswere 

unharmed Ireturnedtomycar and 

retrieved by phone from my purse to call 

the police,’’ she said. 

‘‘I gave my statementtopolice and to 

date no further action has been taken.’’ 

MrsLuxtonsaid at this stage no further 

action had been taken. 

Apolice spokesperson said the crash 

wasstill underinvestigation. 

MrsLuxtonisasecondtermLabour 

MP. 

She entered Parliamentasalist MP in 

2017 and in 2020 she won the Rangitata 

electorate. The seat spansthe areas of 

Timaru,Temuka andAshburton. 

~NZ Herald 

Rangitata MP Jo Luxton 

OCTOBER30 

Bands in the Park, hostedbythe 

Ashburton Civic Music Council, on at 

Mania-o-Roto Scout Park, Chalmers 

Avenue from 2pm. Featuring the 

SilverBand, MSA Orchestra, Pipe 

Band and Electronic Organ and 

Keyboard Club. 

Bring achair, hat and sunblock. 

Donations welcome. 

Terrace Station at Hororata open 

their gardensfrom 11am -3pm. Final 

chance for the public viewing this 

spring. Bring apicnic. $10 entry fee 

goes to TerraceStation Charitable 

Trust, children free. Cash only. 

Woodlandplants for sale. No dogs. 

For furtherinfo:www.terracestation. 

org.nz 

NOVEMBER 1 

Christmas Chic PopUp Shopopens 

at 114 Hepburns Road, west of 

Ashburton.Quality Christmas 

decorations as well as Wild Brew 

Coffee, TheRollin’ Pedaler Ice 

Cream&That’s WhatCheese Said 

NZ sweet treats. Openfrom noon - 

5pm. 

NOVEMBER 3 

Geraldine Summer Fete at Stover 

Farm,229 MainNorth Road, State 

Highway 79, Geraldine.from9.30am 

to 4pm.Adults $20, kids under 15 

free. 

NOVEMBER 5 

Ashburton RSAcar boot sale, RSA 

car park,Cox Street, Ashburton from 

9.30am to 1pm. 

Four 1bedroom apartments 

now available 

These apartments won’t last long. 

Each serviced apartment has open plan living/kitchenette, ensuite bathroom, 

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One apartment also offers north facing scenic views. 

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District’s 

guild 

turns 50 

NEWS 


13 

Pastand present membersofthe 

Ashburton Embroiderers Guild 

celebrated its 50th anniversary this 

month. 

Theguild began in early 1972after 

severalembroiderersrespondedtoan 

advertisement placed by Mrs RBrand 

(thenpresident of the Christchurch 

Guild)inthe window of Mrs ATaylor’s 

craftshopinthe Ashburtontriangle 

shopping centre. 

Beverley Watkins, the last founding 

member of the Ashburtonguild,was 

among 35 past andpresent members to 

enjoy the celebration at Lake Hood. 

Those presentranged from their late 

40s to their early90s andBeverley said 

they wereall passionate about their 

craft. 

Many of the stitches over the years 

werestillthe same, but there were 

different waysto presenttheminrecent 

times,she said. 

‘‘People have got creative. Youlearn a 

lot of newskills.Embroidery has 

changed over the years, with many 

tutors fromoverseas.’’ 

‘‘There is abig selection (of ways to 

present) now from where they were 

when we started.’’ 

There have also been changes to 

sourcing embroidery patterns with 

many using the internet, rather than 

traditionalbooks. 

‘‘Embroidery booksare not used as 

much as you can look on the computer,’’ 

she said. 

Beverley shows many of her works in 

wall hangingsather home including 

stumpand beadedworks,and an 

elaborate gold thread work piece. 

Shewas one of six Ashburtonguild 

members in 1977 to beganwhat started 

as asix week course of metal thread 

embroidery under the tutorage of Mrs 

HillaryDodd in Christchurch,who had 

knowledge of City and Guildsin 

England. 

They had so much fun andgained so 

much experience they continued the 

fortnightly course for10years, Beverley 

said. 

AlongwithBeverley’s wall hangings 

she also has amix of avenues for her 

craft with embroidery beautifully 

stitchedoncushions,tray cloths,doilies 

and atrinket box. 

In attendance duringthe 50th 

celebrationswere Associate of New 

Zealand Embroiderers Guild president 

Trish Hughes, of Whangareiand 

Beverley Watkins with some of her embroidery pieces, and her 

Ashburton Embroiderers’ Guild 50th celebrations challenge 

brooch. 

PHOTOS TONI WILLIAMS 

Canterburyregional representative 

JaneBell, of Waimate. 

Acelebrationcakewas cutby 

AshburtonpresidentLois Burridge and 

Beverley, who is alsoalifemember. 

Theguild members 50thchallenge was 

to make agold threadbrooch for the 

celebrations andwear them on the day. 

Thechallenge wastaken up by many of 

thosepresent andBeverleymade a 

purple andgoldthread design. 

Shesaidover the yearsmembers of the 

AshburtonEmbroiderers’ Guild have 

done well takingonnational and regional 

roles. 

JoyGreen and Helen Gallagher bothsat 

at thehelm as New Zealand president 

andregional representative, Judith 

Leeming was nationalguild secretary and 

Roylyn Austin was regional 

representative. 

Over the years manyother Ashburton 

membershave also had along lasting 

associationwith the guild. 

Twopastfoundation members Mrs Y 

Salter and Mrs BHenderson remained 

with the guild formore than30years. 

When thegroup firstdecided to form a 

guild in 1978 andjoined theAssociation 

of New ZealandEmbroiderers’ Guild 

(ANZEG) it was the 17th guildtoform; 

thereare now57affiliatedguilds 

nationwideand a 

twiceyearly 

magazine called 

Threads. 

In 1972the newly 

formed group met 

fortnightly in the 

TuarangiHome 

whereprincipal 

nurseMrs MSmith 

offered theuse of 

her sittingroom. 

In 1973they 

movedintothe 

occupational 

therapy room, 

before moving to 

the diningroom in 

the early 1990s. 

Now theguild meet at Ashburton 

Senior Centre weekly during the day and 

evenings, includingaSaturday, to allow 

membersofall agestoattend. 

Members have held many displays and 

exhibitions with othergroups, and have 

exhibitions of their own work every 

alternative yearfrom 1998to2019. 

Exhibitions have been used to 

celebrate anniversaries,highlight guest 

exhibitions by members and guild 

residential schools, away to learn new 

skills and perfect them with arange of 

tutorsfrom New Zealand and overseas. 

Membershave worked onanumber of 

national projects includingthe Galleria 

Art Project in 1994 and alongside The 

Tapestry Trust of New Zealandfrom2013 

to 2016, as well as international works for 

acurtain in the ChintzRoom at Sulgrave 

Manor, near Banbury, England, where 

many members havevisited. 

TheAshburton Embroiderers’ Guild 

started with 15 members, peakedat44 

and nowstandsat29. Anyoneinterested 

in joining can make contact via their 

Facebook page.

Ashburton College 

Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment 

News 

Issue 35 

27 October 2022 

Message From ThePrincipal 

Welcome Back to Term Four 

Welcome back toour final term ofthis year. This 

is atermthat is,for our senior students,certainlya 

sprint ratherthan amarathon. 

Year 13 Students 

OurYear 13 students have only ten school days in 

this term. OnMonday 31October we will farewell 

these students with their Graduation Ceremony in 

the Ashburton EventCentre, starting at 7:30pm. 

As ayear group these students have suffered the biggest impact of 

COVID implications, with their entire three years of NCEA assessment 

being disrupted by COVID. They have also had two years without the 

abilitytopartake in major sportingorcultural events. 

The last three years of secondary schooling are often where memories 

aremade,and life-long friendshipsforged. This year group has certainly 

faced three years of constantdisruptions andchallenges. 

All those who walk across the stage on Monday night have overcome 

some significant hurdles and learnt the importance of being flexible, 

working digitally andaspartofateam. 

Year 11 and 12 Prize-Giving 

Our combined Year 11 and 12 Prize-giving is being held on Thursday 

03 November, again atthe Ashburton Event Centre, and starting at 

7:00pm. 

Last year we raised the threshold for student recognition at these year 

levels.Therefore, if your child is receiving an awardyou can feel proudto 

see them acknowledged. 

Study Nights –Achieving Required Credits 

Studyand revision programmesare availableinthe College Library in the 

evenings,asstudents preparefor external exams. 

There will also be anumber of students who don’t have exams but are 

still finishinginternal assessmentsasthey attempt to gainthe threshold 

needed to achieveLevel 1or2. 

For students who finish the year afew credits short ofthe required 

achievement number, Ireally encourage them tocome back toschool 

the following year to complete that qualification. Weare happy to have 

students return for afew weeks or aterm tocomplete the necessary 

credits. 

Career Support 

We also, at College, have extensive support and information regarding 

various career options. Ifyou are back in College then we can support 

you, but sitting at home you may not have access to the same level of 

support. 

NewBuild 

Our new build is well and truly underway with impressive progress on 

the groundworks. Just at the moment it’s a great opportunity for the 

community and young children to watch “bigger, bigger diggers” in 

action. 

If youare attendingthe Ashburton Aand Pshow, then pleasecall into the 

AshColl tent and wewill have some images of the completed buildings 

and campus. 

National Shakeout Day 

Today, as part of our emergency preparation, the whole schooltookpart 

in the National Shakeout day which involves us in an earthquake drill. I 

can assure you that the space under the Principal’s desk seems to have 

decreasedasIhaveaged. 

Have agreat week. 

Ross Preece 

Principal •Tumuaki 

NetSafe–Whānau Free Webinar 

Netsafe isNewZealand’sindependent,non-profitonline safety 

organisation, which provides onlinesafetysupport, expertiseand 

educationtopeople in New Zealand. 

Netsafe have an unrelenting focus on online safety, with the 

organisation working tokeep people of all ages safe online by 

providingfreesupport. 

Ashburton College is offeringaNetsafeWebinar to 

Parents/Caregivers and Students. 

Tuesday 08 November,7:00pm -8:00pm, 

or alittle longer depending on questionsasked. 

This is afreewebinar forparents and whānau about 

keeping young people safeonline. 

Netsafe's Education Advisor,PaulaWistrand,will be talking digital 

technology and the practical ways we can all help 

young people to be safeonline. 

Thesession will look at howparents/whānau can supportand 

enable children and young people to navigate online opportunities, 

challenges and complexities. 

This canbeundertaken from your home,and 

providesanopportunitytolearnmoreaboutstaying safeonline, 

forall users; andhow to manage online use and behaviours. 

Alink to join this Webinar will be 

emailed to College families by/on Thursday03November. 

Information 

AshburtonCollege BoardofTrustees 

Casual Vacancyfor an ElectedTrustee 

ACasual Vacancyhas occurredonthe BoardofTrustees 

foranElectedParentRepresentative. 

TheBoardhas resolved, 

under Section 105 of the Education Act1989, 

to fill theVacancy by Selection. 

If tenpercent or moreofeligible voters on the College Roll 

ask the Board, within 28 days of this noticebeing published, 

to hold aBy-Election to fillthe vacancy, then aBy-Election will be held. 

Anyeligible voterwho wishes to ask the Board 

to hold aBy-Election should advise this,inwriting to: 

Email: ts@ashcoll.school.nz; 

or writeAshburtonCollege BoardofTrustees, 

POBox 204, Ashburton7740 

On or by:NextThursday,03November. 

AshburtonCollege Year 9 

Academic Scholarships for2023 

Criteria and application forms will be available 

from your child’s schoolearly Term Four. 

TheClosing Date forapplicationsis 

Thursday10November 2022, 3:30pm. 

Theacademicexaminations will beheld atAshburtonCollege 

on Monday21November from 9:00am–11:15am. 

Enquiries and applicationstobemadeto 

SheenaTyrrell,Management Administrator, 

Email: ts@ashcoll.school.nz 

Phone: 308 4193, extension812;027 247 8003. 

PleasenotethattheseScholarshipsare 

AcademicExcellenceScholarships. 

Appreciation 

Successful 2022 College Reading 

MentorProgramme 

The Ashburton College Reading Mentor programme was once again very 

successful,despiteashortened period and significantillness and absences. 

Initiatives to SupportReading Progress 

Hakatere Kāhu Literacy Co-ordinator, English as aSecond Language and 

Reading Teacher Joanne Wakelin advises that, at Ashburton College, we 

have anumberofinitiatives which work together to help students lifttheir 

skills in reading.Two examples arethe start-of-year book challenge and the 

work thatthe reading teachers do with students in groups foraterm. 

Reading Mentors 

The Reading Mentors programme is one of the main initiatives to help 

students lifttheir reading skills. 

This year twenty nine Year 12 students,someofwhom were leaders running 

the programme and most of whom were reading buddies; and thirty five 

Year 9students were involved in the programme. 

The senior students were tasked with reading twice a week to their 

Year 9buddies and,aswell as seeing improved reading skills from the Year 

9students, many gained confidence and inspiration from being mentored 

by aseniorstudent. 

Joanne said it seemed that, during ayear of uncertainty and changes,all the 

students really enjoyedthe opportunitytorelax and read on aregular basis. 

Abig thank youtoongoing sponsors –Advance Ashburtonand Anonymous 

We thank our ongoing sponsors, Advance Ashburton and our 

anonymous donor, for their continued support ofthis programme. 

This support means that the students receive great food each day of 

the programme and the range of books available arewide and varied. 

Thank youtoour Senior Students 

The senior students involved this year were: Gianna Butler, 

Laura Bogdan, Angela Ciora, Oliver Davies, Eddie Galbraith, Janelle Galos, 

Henry Goodes, Amelia Harris, Alice Homer, Jack Jones, Maria Lawn, 

Seth Lucido,Molly McKenna, Sean McQuillan, Jack Middleton, LynMilitante, 

John Montojo, Mao Nishioka, Kaiwhaiki Peetitumango, Princess Pureza, 

Chloe Robinson,TomRosevear,Sophie Smith, Rose Stevens,Jack Templeton, 

Luis Varias,Isabel Wall and LauraWinchester. 

Agroup of the mentors 

(pictured right, lefttoright, 

from the back): 

MariaLawn, 

Jack Middleton, 

Chloe Robinson, 

Sophie Smith, 

MaoNishioka, 

Amelia Harris, Isabel Wall, 

HenryGoodes, 

Angela Ciora, 

KaiwhaikiPeetitumango, 

TomRosevear, 

Luis Varias, 

Princess Pureza, 

Seth Lucido,Lyn Militante. 

Events 

Throughout everyschool year AshburtonCollegestudents have many 

opportunities to learn outside the classroom, and to attend personal 

development courses and workshops in College. Over the next few 

weeks, aswewrap upthe 2022 school year, wewill look at some of 

these events. 

RadioactivityWorkshopfor Year 12 Physics- 

ScienceStudents 

With some of the information provided by Year 12 student SebMcMillan 

Early in Term Two the Year 12 Physics class travelled to the University of 

Canterbury(UC)totake partinanuclear physics field trip. 

During their time there the students delved into the atom and how our 

understanding has changed over time. 

TheRutherford Centre(from the Arts Centre near the Christchurch Museum) 

also helped with the day, using activities to showhow alpha particles were 

used in Rutherford’s Gold Foil experiment. 

Most enjoyed was students seeing what they had learned in class, but in 

real-life situations. This was especially so regarding using Geiger counters 

to pick up all three types of radiation from supplied radioactivesamples. 

University staff were great. Cliff Franklin showed the students how touse 

the Geiger counters, and Graeme Plank showed some equipment that 

demonstrated physics ideas. 

Thetripwas describedbythe students as educational,beneficial and great 

to take partin. 

UC’s purpose in running these workshops is to support Year 12 students 

studying Atomic and Nuclear Physics.Indoing so,UCcollaborateswith Arts 

Centre Education (formerly Rutherford’s Den) to provide acurriculum-linked 

set of activities. 

The day incorporates a1hour 45minute workshop, inthe brand new 

laboratories in the Ernest Rutherford building run by the School of Physical 

and Chemical Sciences at UC. In this workshop they use radioactivesources 

and Geiger counters to investigate the absorption of Beta and Gamma 

radiation bybiological materials, along with asecond activity measuring 

the half-lifeofashort-lived copper isotope. 

Theteam fromArtsCentreEducation facilitatesa1hour30minutesession 

learning about Ernest Rutherford’s goldfoilexperimentand the progression 

of scientific ideas on the structure ofthe atom. In preparation students are 

required to have pre-studied an understanding of the Models of the Atom 

and TheGeiger–Marsden/Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment. 

Atour of the School of Physical andChemical Sciences highlights pathways 

intocareers and the opportunitytoview thecampus. 

Ernest Rutherford determined the structure ofanatom using radioactive 

alpha particles fired at very thin gold foil. Most of the alpha particles went 

straight through the gold atoms, showing the atoms are mostly empty 

space. Some deflected off their course at shallowangles,showing the atoms’ 

centre waspositively charged.Averyfew bounced back,showing the small 

centre,ornucleus had alot of mass. 

The students in the picture below are modelling Rutherford’s gold foil 

experiment. The hi-vis jacketed students at the front are Radium, a 

radioactive element that emits alpha particles. The students throw ‘pingpong’ 

balls over their shoulder to simulate Radium’s random release of 

radioactive particles that travel toward the gold foil (the students inthe 

yellowrobes).The big gaps areshowing the spaces between the nuclei. 

Theidea is,atthe endofthe exercise,thatthe students look at wheremost 

of the ‘ping-pong’ balls end up, noting that the spread of the balls around 

the room is much like the actual spread of alpha particles in the detection 

chamber afterthey went through the gold foil. 

(Pictured right, front 

to back): Modelling 

Rutherford’s gold foil 

experimentare 

Kaimana Acidera, 

Luis Varias, 

Gian Vicente, 

Adam Goudie 

(in yellowrobe), 

Isabel Wall, 

Marcus White (in yellowrobe). (Farleft): SunnyRana. (Far right): Erin Murray. 

(Pictured above): An infra-red pictureofthe students,with whiteshowing 

the cooler areas of the body,and redthe warmer areas. 

Thegraph on the right-hand side shows the colour relatedtothe 

associatedtemperature. Thestudents (lefttoright): Gian Vicente, 

SunnyRana (obscured), Adam Goudie,Kaimana Acidera.

Ashburton College 

Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment 

News 

Issue 35 

27 October 2022 

Events 

(Pictured right): Cliff 

of UC, pouring liquid 

nitrogen on to the 

outside of afully 

inflatedballoon. This 

causes the air in the 

balloon to contractin 

volume.The balloon 

deflatestoabout the 

sizeofacricket ball, 

and when then lefton 

the desk it re-inflates 

to its normal size. 

The purpose of this 

exercise is to see how 

cold items shrink and 

warm expand,when the air is trapped inside. 

Congraulations 

Impressive Successes forJapanese Student 

Yuto Onagi 

With the International Student Market operational again, following the 

opening of international borders, itisvery timely to acknowledge the 

significant successes of student Yuto Onagi who has been at Ashburton 

College sincethe beginning of 2021. 

Yuto is from Tokyo inJapan. He originally arrived inNew Zealand in 2020 

and then movedtoAshburtonCollege in December 2020 to be ready forthe 

January2021academic year start. 

Yuto has taken every opportunity while here, with his academic 

achievements having been exceptional. His organised work ethic and 

dedicatedapproach to his studies has resulted in him achieving NCEA Levels 

1, 2and 3in2021, as well as University Entrance. This is amost impressive 

outcome,all achieved in the same year. 

International Department Director Michelle Hosking said that, due to the 

difficult COVID times,Yuto was unable to go home but he made the most 

of his experiences in New Zealand,travelling to numerous places including, 

Wanaka, Queenstown, the West Coast and Wellington. 

Recently Yuto has returned from sitting university entry examinations for 

differentUniversities,back home in Japan. As aresult of the examinations he 

has been accepted into the International Christian Universitythathas been 

described as having‘one of the most intriguing international environments’. 

Theuniversityalso teaches in both Japanese and English. 

While in AshburtonYutohas made numerous friends,embracedall possible 

opportunities and has truly been amodel student. He is apleasant and 

motivated young man whose command of both written and spoken English 

is excellent. Yuto also involved himself in sharing Japanese language and 

culture with other students and this contribution was greatly valued by 

both staff and students. 

We are very proud of his outstanding 

achievements and feel very honoured to have 

had him as astudent atAshburton College. 

Yuto is wished all the very best for his future 

endeavours. 

(Pictured right): Principal Ross Preece 

presenting Yuto Onagiwith his 2021 

Academic PerformanceAward Certificate. 

Whole College End-of-Year Assembly 

This important whole-College occasion was held on the Chessboard 

last Thursday, 20 October; at which the Head Students presented 

their valedictory speeches, the nine shortlisted 2023 Head Student 

candidatesgavetheir electioneering speeches and thehotly-contested 

House Trophywinning House wasannounced. 

Deputy Principal Jono Hay welcomed all to the assembly and, at the 

conclusion, thanked all fortheir participation. He specifically acknowledged 

all aspiring Head Students who put their names forward for the rigorous 

shortlisting process. Commendation was given to the final shortlisted 

students and tothe quality oftheir speeches, with Jono noting them as 

greatstudentleadership role models. 

The two Head and Deputy Head Students will be announced at the 

Year 11/12 Prize-giving on Thursday 03 November. 

Jono wished senior students all the very best for the upcoming NCEA 

exams; encouraged school leavers to take Ashburton College memories and 

friendships with them; wished Year 9and 10 students avery positive end 

to the school year;and thanked Jorja andJackfor their well-chosen words. 

(Pictured leftand right): 

Head Students 

Jorja Roulston and 

JackBrown presenting 

their valedictory speeches 

to theschool’scommunity 

of students andstaff. 

Both were able to offer 

somesagethoughts 

from their fiveyearsof 

secondaryschooling, 

which offer awisdomwe, 

as adults,can take much 

from also. 

Congraulations 

Jorja Roulston 

Jorja startedbysaying that‘afterwishing all these years away,wanting 

to grow up, finish school and step out into the big wide world, Inow 

realise that Ishouldn’t have wished those years away sosoon and I’m 

surethatmanyofmyfellow2022Leavers arefeelingthe sameway’. 

Bitter-Sweet End of SecondarySchooling 

Jorja noted it as beingabitter-sweet feeling,withafamiliar chapter closing 

and another unknown one opening, and referred to the year having been full 

of inconsistency and change; containing the unexpected, unprecedented, 

unrelenting,unusualand uncertain, but saying thatsuch adversityhas only 

made us stronger. 

She emphasised that all students should be very proud of what they have 

achieved and overcome this year, saying she knows she isproud of each 

and everyone. 

Appreciation 

Athank you toall was given for allowing her to have the honour of being 

the students’ Head Student during 2022, citing it as one of the most 

challenging yet rewarding experiences she has had and that she would 

forever beindebted for the amount ofopportunities that have arisen as a 

result.Jorja hoped thatshe has made all studentsproud,noting the reality 

of 2022 having been full of laughs, tears, stress and more tears, but ayear 

she wouldn’t have had anyotherway. 

HardWorkReminder 

Therewas areminderthough, despite manyexciting new beginningsinthe 

near future, there isstill alot of hard work tobeput in for all of our senior 

students with exams coming up and the end of the school year for our 

Juniors. Jorja said this is atime to focus on putting in the mahi to achieve 

theNCEA credits needed to meet entryrequirements fortertiaryeducation 

or anew job. 

Wise WordstoRemember 

Some wise words spoken to Jorja recently from Head of Senior School 

Abbey Bruce were to‘only stress over the things you can control, put your 

stressing energy into things thatyou can change.’ 

Jorja emphasised the value of these words bysaying NCEA results are 

something students HAVE control over and CAN change, sogive it your 

all rather than having an ‘I can’t be bothered mentality’. She reminded 

students that‘Your futureisinyour ownhands so make the most of it,all the 

hardworkthatyou putinnow will payofflater’. 

HerTime at College 

Jorja said that her time at Ashburton College has been nothing short of 

amazing: the people she has met along the way; the lessons learned andthe 

opportunities givenhavetruly helpedher grow into the person she is today. 

She thanked all of the students and staff for giving her the incredible 

experience thatshe has had,sayingshe will holdontothe memories made 

and relationships built forthe rest of her life. 

Take Opportunities 

Jorja’s hope was that all sitting at the assembly have the courage tostep 

up and take the opportunities Ashburton College has to offer; whether it 

be leadership, cultural or academic involvements,asthese are whatmakes 

time at College worthwhile. 

In final conclusion ofwhat has been ayear to remember, inJorja’s words 

she offered ‘some very hypocritical advice from me. Don’t stress, just do 

your best’. 

Jack Brown 

In noting his fiveyear journeyasAshburtonCollege wascoming to an 

end,Jack wanted to pass on some of the things he had learntfromeach 

of his years at College.These were - 

2018 –Year9–BeYourself! 

Be yourself! Jack said he tried to hide who he was, classing himself as a 

boring studentwho changed his personalitytotry andfitinwith thepeople 

around him. However, he quickly learnt thiat his energetic and bubbly 

personality was something he shouldn’t be afraid of and that heshould 

learntolike himself forhow he wasand,evenifnot all maylike that, it didn’t 

concernhim as he found the peoplewho cared forhim and made him feel 

good. 

2019 –Year10–Make the Most of It. 

Hisadvicetothose in Year 10 wasto‘make the most of it’. In Year 10 he knew 

who he was, had found his people and enjoyedcoming to school. Looking 

back,‘Year 10 was ablast’. In hindsight hesaid, though, that heforgot to 

cherish the fun moments and talked of ‘first-time’ learning experiences 

across subjects, with specific teachers. These now form some of his core 

memories of his AshburtonCollege journey. 

2020 –Year11–Work Hard 

Hislearning forthisyearwas to ‘workhard’,sayingstudents areintroduced 

to NCEA in thisyearbut their NCEALevel 1year in 2020 wascounteracted by 

that factor called COVID, flipping everyone’s lives on their heads. Jack said 

he thoughthecould still get by and passwithout acare, but this wasquickly 

proven wrong. Apositivemindsetwasn’t enough, rather he needed to put 

hiseffortsintogetting the results he wanted. 

2021 –Year12–Be Involved 

This wasayear whichgaveJack the chance of leadership,inhis case being 

aYear 12 Representative onthe Green House Executive which opened his 

eyes to all of the opportunities students have atAshburton College. He 

said thatbeing involved in moreand moreeventshelped him to build new 

connections,meet new people, buildconfidence,and have fun. Importantly, 

he said thattryingeverything he had thechance to,was the reason he was 

standing on stage as aHeadStudent. 

2022 –Year13–KeepGoing 

Jack wisely noted that this year may be the end of his time at College, but 

it is only the start ofthe life heisgoing to live post-College. His advice: 

although times get tough and it can seem there isnothing exciting on the 

horizon, thereare alwaysopportunities to take –so, just keep going. 

Winners of the Highly-Contested House 

Trophyfor 2022: Blue House 

2022 became the year that Blue House wrested this strongly soughtafterand 

highly contestedtrophybackoffGreen House, 2021’s winning 

House. 

Blue House last won the trophy in2020, then breaking Red House’s five 

consecutive years stranglehold. 

Ahealthy House rivalry permeates amongst students and staff during 

the year and acknowledgement isgiven to the Staff House Leaders – 

Stacey Monk (Blue House), Julia Bell (Green House), Pete Lee(Orange House) 

andGeorgiaKeenan(RedHouse) -and to the StudentCo-captains of each 

of the four House Executives –Molly Milmine and Charles Savage (Blue 

House); Mya Johnston and Caleb McNulty (Green House); Anna Gray and 

Matt Pearce (Orange House), Gemma Tapurau and Amy McLachlan (Red 

House). 

In announcing the trophy winners, Head of Sport Ron Carlson noted that 

therehad been somedisruptions also to thisyear’sprogrammes and thatit 

wasinteresting to notethatHouses,this year,had shown differentstrengths 

in different areas of the competition. Some scored highly inthe Mihi Pai/ 

College Values awards over Terms1to3,another across cultural events,and 

sports outcome high scores to differentHouses again. Ronnoted,attimes, 

therewereonly 1-2 points separating three Houses. 

The Final House Points for the year,after sevenevents,were - 

Blue: 63.67 points Red: 51.04 points 

Orange: 48.82 points Green: 46.47 points 

(Pictured right): 

Head of Sport 

RonCarlson 

awarding the 

topHouse spot 

for2022toBlue 

House’s Co-captains 

(leftand right): 

CharlesSavage, 

with Rodney (the 

mascot), and 

Molly Milmine. 

Winning Blue House with their trophy (pictured above, backrow,lefttoright): 

Lachie Jemmett,Devon Flannery, Jed Amos,Molly McKenna. 

(Front row, left toright): Stacey Monk (Teacher House Leader), Ella Shanks, 

Charles Savage (Co-captain) and Molly Milmine (Co-captain), Riley Tindall, 

Kasey Higson. 

(Absent): Charlotte Watson and Molly Jones (former members, now left 

College); and Eddie Galbraith. 

Forthcoming Events 

October 

27 Sporting and Cultural Blues Assembly,Chessboard, 12:30pm 

29-30 South Island Schools’Rugby7s, Timaru 

30 Aoraki Athletics (all age groups), Timaru 

November 

07-02 Dec NZQA Exams 

08 NetSafeWebinar Presentation, 7:00pm 

Te WhareManaaki Students’Lions BigDay out 

09 Year 10 InsideOUT presentation, 12:25pm, Auditorium 

Year 9InsideOUT presentation, 2:05pm, Auditorium 

11 Canterbury AnniversaryDay Public Holiday 

2022 End-of-Year Final Days,Prize-Givings,Events 

Parents, caregivers,family/whānau,friends and interested community 

members aremost welcome at the Awards Ceremonyand Prize-givings. 

October 

31 Year 13 final day. Students finish at 1:20pm. 

Year 13 Graduation Ceremony, AshburtonEvent Centre, 7:30pm. 

November 

03 Year 12 final day. Students finish at 1:20pm. 

Year 11 final day. Students finish at 3:05pm. 

Year 11 and 12 Prize-Giving (Combined), 

AshburtonEvent Centre, 7:00pm. 

December 

04 Leavers’GraduationDinner,Hotel Ashburton, arrive at 6:30pm, 

seatedat7:00pm. 

08 Year 10 final day. Prize-giving,5:30pm, Auditorium 

Year 9final day. Prize-giving,7:30pm, Auditorium

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Richard Wood: In his sportyelement 

EA Networks Centre’s new manager 

Richard Wood loves his job, and 

sometimes ittakes an hour for him 

to makeittohis desk after coming in 

the front door. 

This is important time to personally 

connectwith someofhis 100 staff or with 

regular swimmers, gym-goers and others 

using the four-court stadium. 

Their unfiltered feedback is aconstant 

reminder that the aquatic and recreation 

centreisthe heart of avibrant community 

where people are tending their physical, 

mental and social health. 

Richard has always been passionate about 

sport. He was a sporty kid who went to 

Ashburton Borough School, Ashburton 

Intermediate and Ashburton College, 

then studied coaching, exercise and sport 

management at the New Zealand Institute 

of Sport. 

He was ahigh level competitive water 

skier and pursued the sportinthe United 

Statesbeforereturning to Ashburton and 

becoming a personal trainer, working 

with high performance athletes, those 

wanting to get fit or lose weight and 

people recovering from serious injury 

or accident. He started out as the sports 

facility assistant manager in 2014 when 

the EA NetworksCentre first opened, and 

is now relishing the opportunity to take 

charge of the$35m complex. 

The centrecaters forarangeofswimmers 

andawiderangeofsports,frombasketball 

and badminton to walking netball and 

futsal; it also offers amodern gym and 

special classes forpeople recovering from 

illness or injury, or after having ababy, 

and runs school holidayprogrammesand 

adventuretime fortoddlers. 

Richard said the growing range of 

RichardWood is enjoying being at the helm of the EA Networks Centre. 

programmes aimed to matchcommunity 

interest anddemand,which hadchanged 

becauseofcovid. 

“The pandemic has changed our 

perspective on wellbeing and we know 

that feeling connected and being 

physically as well as socially active is 

so important. Our team here has both 

energy andexperience,and I’mluckythat 

they arealsoinvestedinbuilding on their 

relationshipsinthe community.” 

Community Services Group Manager 

Steve Fabish said it was great to see 

Richard progress inthe organisation to 

become manager of thefacility. 

“We really value his knowledge ofboth 

the centre and the people who visit and 

work in it.Heknows howour community 

ticks and is proud to be apart of it.It’salso 

great forothersinthe sport and recreation 

industrytosee the pathways available to 

management level.” 

An important project that Richard is 

currently working on is a utilisation 

study tolook atthe EA Networks Centre, 

council’s swimming pools and some of 

the district’sgreen sportsfieldstosee how 

theyare used. 

Mr Fabishsaid the study’sfindings would 

inform development at the EANetworks 

Centre in thefuture. 

“There are some interesting recreation 

trends emerging post-covid and we see 

this as an opportunity to refresh whatwe 

do. 

“Thisisacommunityfacilityandoneofour 

strengthsisthatwehavegreat partnersto 

work with,such as Sport Canterbury and 

Mid Canterbury Netball. Working on the 

Play,ActiveRecreation andSport Strategy 

recently reinforced that those strong 

relationships withour user groupsare so 

vital.” 

Thursday,27October2022 | ISSUE 102 

Celebrating 

theworks of 

Ngaio McKee 

Joinusatthe Ashburton Art Gallery 

and Museum thisSunday 30 October 

to celebrate the opening of anew 

solo exhibition by local artist Ngaio 

McKee. 

Thisfreepublic event startsat2pm andall 

arewelcome. 

Ashburton artist Ngaio McKee has 

maintained acreative practice since the 

mid-1970s, and is aversatile artistwith a 

love of locallandscapes and floral studies. 

She works across a variety of media, 

such as pastel, acrylic, oil, and especially 

watercolour, in which she excels. 

This exhibition presents a selection of 

works from throughout Ngaio’s artistic 

career,many of whichare treasured pieces 

on loan from the homes of family and 

friends. 

Together, they demonstrate that she is 

an artist who finds immense satisfaction 

in the act ofcapturing ascene’s beauty 

through colour and light. 

NeilBrown -Mayor 

Businessrollson, with abudget on horizon 

Thisisaweek devoted very much 

to tradition and process. 

Today,the full councilwill be sworn 

in at itsinaugural meeting. All elected 

membersincluding the Methven 

Community Board, Councillorsand 

myself,will be requiredtodeclarethat 

we will do our besttoperform the 

dutiesofoffice. Cr Leen Braam willbe 

absent,but will makehis declaration at 

the 8Decembermeeting. 

Chief Executive Hamish Riachwill 

thenrun through thelegislation we 

needtobeaware of,fromthe Local 

Government Act, to the Crimes Act, 

Public RecordsAct and the Health and 

Safety at WorkAct. 

The LocalGovernment Actspells out 

our purposeand powers,which in a 

nutshell is to enable democratic local 

decision-makingand promote the 

social, economic, environmental and 

cultural wellbeing of our community, 

nowand forthe future. 

TheChief Executive will alsotalk about 

standing ordersand acode of conduct 

forcouncillors. Our standing orders 

arecontainedinarather imposing 

81-pagedocument,but they’re really 

important, as theyensurethe orderly 

conductofour meetings. There’sno 

pop-quizonthe matter,but we’reall 

expected to knowmeeting procedure 

andbehaviour,which ultimately comes 

down to common-sense andshowing 

respectaround the table. 

At the inaugural meeting Iwill also 

appoint adeputy mayorand onceagain 

I’mrecommendingCrLiz McMillan, who 

hassoably filled the role in the past 

threeyears. 

We’ll then appoint councillorstoahost 

of othercommittees, organisations 

and decision-making bodies. Many 

people may be surprisedtolearn 

thatintotal there are65committees, 

groups, organisations and meetings 

thatcouncillorsare required to attend 

in addition to regularcouncilbusiness. 

Examples include the Ashburton Airport 

Authority,the road safety co-ordinating 

committee, the local SeniorsCentre, 

the Mayfield Reserve Boardand the 

LowerHindsriver rating group. 

We’ll also discuss the payfor elected 

members, which has already been 

independently setbythe national 

RemunerationAuthority,and adopta 

schedule formeetings and workshops 

untilthe end of the year. 

Tooearly to be talkingChristmas? 

Definitely not, as it’scrucial to ensure 

all those services youmighttakefor 

granted (turning on the tap, flushingthe 

toiletand driving your caronaroad) 

continue 

overthe 

holidays. 

So,one of 

the first 

reportswe’ll receiveasyour newlyelected 

council will look at howCouncil 

services will be providedoverthe 

Christmas period. 

There is somemeatywork forthe 

councillorsonthe near horizon too, as 

Council staffhavebegun the Annual 

Plan2023-24 process and arelooking 

at budgets and the projects they want 

to accomplish during the next financial 

year. 

Councillors’ first get-together in 2023 

willbeabudgetworkshop andwe’re 

looking forwardtodiscussing these 

topics with our residentsfurtherinthe 

NewYear. 

The business of Council rolls on! 

1 Thursday,27October 2022 |ISSUE 102 

ashburtondc.govt.nz

Domain loses golden elm to winddamage 

Open Spaces staff are planning the 

removal of amature Golden Elm 

from the Ashburton Domain, after 

itstrunk split during highwinds and 

effortstosaveitfailed. 

CommunityServicesGroupManagerSteve 

Fabish said the elmcould bewell over100 

yearsold, and possiblyanoriginal planting 

in the37ha domain. 

“We’re disappointed we couldn’t save 

this tree, but our arborists have carefully 

assessed itand it needs to come out. 

They’vetaken somebranches off already 

tomakeitsafeanditislikelytoberemoved 

towards the end of November, after the 

nearbytulip garden haspassed itsbest.” 

The elm has two trunks that have grown 

together and during high winds earlier 

this month, staff found a 15cm gap 

had developed. The tree was taped off 

and some branches removed so afull 

evaluation of the tree’s structurecouldbe 

safely made. 

Mr Fabish said the split likely developed 

over time and was made worse because 

of the highwinds and extraweight on the 

branches as sap travelled toemerging 

flowers. 

“This tree would have caused alot of 

damage inthe surrounding area ifithad 

comedown, nottomentionitwould have 

beenadangertodomainusers if allowed 

to remain.” 

Earlier this month consultant arborists 

alsobeganaprojecttoassess all treesin 

the domain –each tree is being officially 

identified, itslocation mapped by GPSand 

itsgrowthand condition assessed. 

Agolden elm in the Ashburton Domain needs toberemoved after itstrunksplitin high 

winds. 

“We’re doing everything from the little 

maples to thelarge Wellingtonias andone 

of the comments wehave already had 

back fromthe assessorsisthatwe have a 

number oftrees thatare over mature. 

“That means theyarecoming to the endof 

their natural life and more susceptible to 

the elements. Trees are living things and 

becomefragile in their twilight years, but 

thatispart of thecycle. 

“Wewillcreate alongtermplantoreplace 

these trees, as that keeps with our 

philosophyof continuous planting …one 

tree out,one tree in.” 

The domain celebrated 150 years in2014 

andisbasedonanEnglish/Europeantheme, 

with many of the original trees imported. 

Some havealready been replaced. 

Mr Fabish said the general feel of the 

MeetRobbie and ournew 

councillorsatthe show 

An exercise machine that simulates 

cross-country skiing and a robot 

called Robbie will be among 

attractions in theAshburton District 

Council’smarqueeatthe Ashburton 

A&PShowonFridayand Saturday. 

The‘skierg’isusuallyfoundinsidethegym 

at EA Networks Centre, but facility staff 

arebringing it outdoorsandencouraging 

peopletotesttheir fitness and have ago. 

It’s designed to mimic the movements 

required forcross-countryskiingand there 

will be prizesfor the bestorperhaps, most 

hilarious performances. 

Council’s building team is also bringing 

Robbietherobotalong.Robbieisdeployed 

to undertake underfloor inspections and 

seeintoplaces thathumans justcan’t fit. 

He uses thermal imaging to send back 

important information tohis minder and 

will be showing off in the marquee. 

The team from Eco Educate will beon 

hand both days to discuss recycling and 

sustainable living –with plenty of great 

practical advice and ideas for minimising 

waste. On Saturday, library staff will be 

hosting an area forthe younger attendees 

with lego playand colouringin. 

Afamily pass to the Ōpuke ThermalPools 

and Spawillalso be up forgrabs.Members 

of the Economic Development team and 

the youthcouncilare asking people to take 

part in afive-minute surveyabout living in 

Mid Canterbury. 

Questions willbeabout whatpeople think 

makes our district agreat place tolive, 

work and play andthose who take part will 

go intothe prizedraw. 

Our district’snewly-electedcouncillors will 

also be at the marqueeatvarious times, so 

drop by forachatwiththe people who will 

be representing you over the next three 

years. 

Council staffwill be using tablets to show 

off the free Tūwhana app, which canhelp 

residentslearn moreaboutMaori, Filipino 

and Samoanlanguages and cultures. They 

have also helped ethnic leaders create a 

CulturesofOur Districtdisplay in the show 

president’s tent, sodon’t forget to check 

out thatexhibit too. 

domain would notchangeasover-mature 

trees were replaced overtime, though the 

odd newspecies would be introducedas 

appropriate. 

“Trees are like livestock and sometimes 

youalsogetdeadordiseasedstock.Agood 

example of thatwas on Oak Grove,where 

aline of badly decaying Malus Trilobata 

(Lebanese crabapple) was removed and 

somenewtreesputin.Theartofmanaging 

trees means that your plans don’t often 

see aresult for30or40years so youhave 

to be able to visualise well, and thesetrees 

on Oak Grove will provide great shadeand 

colour in the future. 

“Because our trees grow in such public 

areas, we always try to communicate 

any major work to residents aswidely as 

possible as part of our health and safety 

obligations.” 

TRIENNIAL MEETINGS 

Rakaia Reserve Board -Monday31 

October,7.30pm at Rakaia Bowling 

Club 

RuapunaReserveBoard -Tuesday 

1November, 7pm at RuapunaHall 

Mt Somers Reserve Board - 

Tuesday 8November, 7.30pmatMt 

SomersHall (supper room) 

Tinwald Memorial HallBoard - 

Wednesday9November,7pm at 

Tinwald Hall 

Methven Reserve Board - 

Wednesday 23 November,7pm at 

Methven RugbyClub 

FLUSHYOURTAPS 

Some plumbingfittingshavethe 

potential forsmall traces of metals to 

accumulateinwater thathas beeninthe 

fittingfor severalhours. 

Althoughthe healthrisk is small, the 

MinistryofHealth recommends yourun 

amugfulofwater through your drinking 

watertap each morning beforeuse 

to remove any metals that may have 

dissolved from plumbing fittings. 

We recommendthissimple precaution 

forall households, including those on 

publicand private watersupplies. 

NEILMcCANN 

Group Manager Infrastructure Services 

PUBLIC NOTICES 

ROAD CLOSURE 

Pursuanttothe Transport(Vehicular 

Traffic Road Closure) Regulations1965, 

notice is herebygiven thatfor the 

purpose of MissionMtSomers,the 

following road willbeclosed to ordinary 

vehicular traffic (withthe exception 

of emergencyvehicles)for the period 

indicatedbelow. 

Road to be closed: 

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on SATURDAY, 29 October2022. 

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regulations forany personotherwise 

thanunderauthority of an authorised 

permit to use the roadsfor ordinary 

vehiculartrafficduring the period of 

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Date: Friday 4November 

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Time: 10am 

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and TracyMcIlraith(member). 

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• Adviseiftheyintend tomake 

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hearing 

• Provide four copies of typed 

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submissionstobe tendered. 

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documentsthatwillbeproduced as 

evidencetothe licensingcommittee 

by close of business on Thursday 27 

October.Documents must also be 

provided to allother parties within the 

same timeframe. 

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Mixing sugar, spice, and all food nice 

INDI.ROBERTS 


From cakes to cookies, platter boxes to 

grazing tables, there's aplate for 

everyone'spalate with Ashburton's 

newest novelty catering company,That's 

What CheeseSaid. 

Owner and cookieconnoisseur,Jess 

Moore, started the business earlier this 

year with the hopes of combining her 

creativity with her love of food. 

What started as asmall adventure has 

now grown intoaflavourful fulltime 

business. 

‘‘I justcan'tbelievehow much it’s 

grown,’’ Jess said. ‘‘Ithas just blown up 

completely.’’ 

Formerly from Auckland, Jessmade 

the movetoforgo the hustle and bustle of 

the big smoke in favour of Ashburton’s 

laidback lifestyle, which she said 

reminded her of the communityshe’d 

grown up with. 

She moveddown in November last 

year,and in April shedecided to lay down 

her roots and startupThat'sWhat Cheese 

Said, an antipastoplatter and grazing 

table business. 

With years of hospitality experience 

and certifications in cake decorating and 

chocolate design, it seemedonly natural 

Jess’s path wouldlead her to catering and 

selfemployment. 

‘‘I lovefood,’’ she said simply. ‘‘I've 

always been afoodie, Ilove eating out at 

restaurants and Ilike to feedpeople. 

‘‘I feelcomfortableinthe kitchen. Ijust 

know that that'swhat I'm good at, making 

food.’’ 

That’sWhat Cheese Said started as a 

grazing table and platter business for 

casual social events, but had grown to 

include creating custom cutand iced 

cookies as well as cake making and 

decorating. 

Now Jess caters to birthdays, weddings, 

baby showers, business campaigns, and 

more,creatingsweetand savoury treats 

for every occasion. 

Thoughthe grazing tables and platter 

boxesremain in popular demand,it’s 

Jess’s custom cookiesthat have people 

swaying betweenhunger, laughter,and 

awe. 

‘‘Thecookiesare actuallyalot bigger 

for me now,’’she said. ‘‘Business 

branding, babyshowers,weddings, 

birthdays ... We can do personalised 

cookies with wedding datesorbirthdates 

on them,itcan all be customised.’’ 

Jess alsocreates ‘adults only’ cookies 

using uniquely shaped cookiecutters and 

clever icing techniques. 

They’re delicious and ahuge hit for 

hen'sparties and weddings, though 

whether or not the grandparentswould 

appreciatethem is still up for debate. 

‘‘Nothingembarrasses me,’’ Jess said. 

‘‘I want to bringsome life to Ashburton, 

bring somethingdifferent.’’ 

In additiontoher colourful cookies, 

Jessishosting ‘Cheesethe Day’ cheese 

platter workshops. 

Afterbeing asked time and time again 

what tips and tricks she uses to make 

salami roses and intricate cheese 

displays, Jess decided it was time to teach 

people the ropes. 

The workshops include beingable to 

explore arange of produce and display 

techniques, as wellastaste testnovel 

cheeses from SouthCanterbury’s 

Whitehorse Cheese. 

‘‘We sample(Whitehorse Cheese) in the 

workshop just because her flavours are so 

different,’’ Jess said.‘‘These ones are 

going to be hopefullythings you’ve never 

tried.’’ 

The next ‘Cheese theDay’ workshop 

willbeinNovember, and has already sold 

out. 

With the demandincreasing,Jess has 

some exciting plans in the works, with 

scouting for anew commercial premises 

and potentialemployees under way. 

‘‘I'mgoing to have to go out somewhere 

to eitherbuildanother shop or find 

another kitchen just to grow,’’ she said, 

claiming she’s envisioninganovelty 

bakery thatspecialises in rich, colourful 

Jess Moore, founder of That’sWhat Cheese Said, is combining colourful food 

platters andgrazingtables with customdecorated cookies and cakes. 

cupcakes and extravagant baking . 

‘‘That’s the goal is to have ashop withreal 

boujee, overthetop food.’’ 

With this beingJess’sfirst Christmas 

operating That’sWhat Cheese Said, she’s 

excited about the opportunitytoindulge 

local festive food lovers. 

‘‘I don’t want to give away too many of 

my secrets,’’Jess said, ‘‘but I’m looking at 

doing some kind of Christmas box or 

Christmas desserts that people can buy 

for Christmas Day.’’ 

For anyone interested in whatJess will 

be creatingnext, check out her Facebook 

page:That’s What Cheese Said NZ. 

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Racing this time at 12 noon! 

• TAB Pod and assistance available 

• Spot Prizes 

• Best dressed female competition 

• Best dressed male competition 

• Sweepstake 

• Food available all day 

• Punters vs the Ashburton Club & MSA 

• Courtesy van available for the ride home! 

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Mr Tilby takes off 

Allenton School principal 

Bruce Tilby has tendered his 

resignation. 

Theschoolcommunity were 

notified by theboard of trustees 

last week. 

He will finish with the school 

at theend of this year. 

Allenton Schoolboard 

chairperson Hamish Tait 

wrote,‘‘Brucehas decided that 

the time is right to finish as a 

school principaland in 

education and work in a 

different field for thenextfew 

years before he retires. 

‘‘Heand his wifewillbe 

movingbacktothe north in 

January and will be livingin 

Taupo. 

‘‘I know that he hasvery 

much enjoyed whatwill be 

closetofiveyears at Allenton 

School. He has often saidwe 

haveawonderful schoolwitha 

tremendous groupof children, 

avery highqualitystaff anda 

very supportive Board. 

‘‘While he believesthe move 

for him and for the school is the 

correct one it does come with 

mixed feelings andmore than a 

tinge of sadness andregret.’’ 

Mr Tait said the boardwould 

be looking at appointinganew 

principal shortly in 

preparation for the 2023 school 

year, and were optimistic a 

number of ‘‘highquality’’ 

applicantswouldapply for the 

role. 

Bruce Tilby

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MACHINE PITCH LEAGUE ACTION 


Retail crime 

The First NationalMachinePitchLeague got 

under waylast weekatthe Hampstead Softball 

Club grounds. 

Eight teams from seven MidCanterbury 

schools are taking part in the inaugural 

competitionand having plenty of fun. 

The competition isfreefor children aged nine 

to 13. 

Acoupleofextraplayers would bewelcometo 

fitintoexisting teams,and anyone interestedcan 

make contact with HampsteadSoftball Club via 

their Facebook pageorby emailing 

Hampsteadsoftball@gmail.com 

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Government has allocated $6 

million fromtheProceedsof 

CrimeFund to establish a 

crimeprevention programme. 

It is managed byPolice. 

TheRetailCrime Prevention 

Programmeiswellunder way 

withgoodprogressbeingmade 

by teams working to support the 

retail community, including a 

continuedfocusonarresting 

those responsible forcrimes. 

Policeisidentifyingeligible 

retailers throughan 

accelerated assessment 

process,with extra police staff 

brought in to ensure onsite 

assessments aredoneas 

quickly aspossible. 

This includes acore team of 

12 assessorsand an additional 

five ethnic liaison officerswho 

have strongandestablished 

relationshipswithmanyinthe 

retail sector. 

Sofar,40assessments 

nationwide have been 

completedand 23ofthose 

storeshavealsohad asite 

review completed by a 

contractorfor theprovision 

andinstallofprotective 

equipment. 

These assessmentslookata 

retailer’ssecurity needs and 

identify themostappropriate 

solutions, such as fogcannons, 

sirens, alarms, rollerdoors or 

bollards. Retailers may be 

eligible forone or more of these 

options. 

Five storeshavehad 

installationscompleted,anda 

further five installations under 

way. 

“Alongside this,Police is also 

undertakingCrime Prevention 

Through Environmental 

Design (CPTED) surveys with 

retailers to helpthem better 

understand whattheycandoto 

keepthemselves safe. 

“Thiscanbeanything from 

havingfewer posters in the 

windows and lower shelves in 

the aisles sopeoplecan more 

easilyseeinto,out of,and 

around thestore,through to 

suggestionsoffog cannons or 

other physical security 

measures,” Assistant 

CommissionerChrisDe 

Wattignar says. 

“Wehavealsosetup aweb 

page wherepeoplecan access 

adviceandtools for 

themselves. 

“Thisisjustsomeofthe work 

Police is doingtoaddress and 

preventretail crimeandyouth 

offending. 

“District staffare 

investigating ramraid 

burglaries andarresting 

offenders.Asanexample, 

Police in WaikatoandTamaki 

Makaurauhave arrested 14 

young peopleforsuspected 

involvement in commercial 

aggravatedrobberies overthe 

longweekend.Weare also 

workingalongsideagencyand 

communitypartnerstofind 

solutions to whatisareally a 

social issue. 

“Youth crime especially isa 

complex matterthatneedsacoordinated 

partnership 

approach. Thisisnot forPolice 

tosolve alone. Weare 

committed to working with our 

partnersand communitiesto 

prevent youth offending and 

holdyoung offenders to 

account in ameaningful and 

effective way.” 

Police identify retailers 

through dataanalysisof 

currentoccurrences,pastram 

raidstyleburglaries,and 

makingsureretailers area 

small business. 

Pacific visas reopened to boost workforce 

Work on delivering a 

responsive and streamlined 

immigration system to help 

relieve workforce shortages has 

seen the reopening of 

longstanding visa categories, 

Immigration Minister Michael 

Wood says. 

Registrations for the Samoan 

Quota and the Pacific Access 

Category are currently open; 

applications for the Samoan 

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Fit butcher completes his dream race 

Ashburton butcher and triathlete Mike 

Hanson achieved his ultimate sporting 

goal this month when he competed in 

the Ironman World Championship in 

Kona, Hawaii the birthplace of 

Ironman. 

Mike, 51, qualified for the race in 2020 

but covid restrictions postponed the 

event. 

Around 5000 competitors converged 

on to the little Hawaiian town and Mike, 

who was competing in the 5054 years 

age group, said he knew he was up 

against alot of the world’s best able to 

complete the race in under nine hours, 

‘‘so Iwas just out there to race myself as 

many others were,’’ he said. 

Mike completed the 3.8km swim in one 

hour and 19 minutes in 27 degree water. 

The 180km bike course is legendary in 

the Ironman world because of the heat 

and winds and Mike said the heat was a 

challenging 30 plus degrees on the day. 

‘‘The asphalt of the Queen 

Ka'ahumanu Highway radiates heat, as 

do the lava rock fields surrounding the 

highway on both sides. Add to that 

headwinds that were as high as 25km 

per hour, grabbing as much water and 

food at every aid station helped me 

through,’’ Mike said. 

Although Mike battled extreme 

conditions he achieved one of his 

personal best times of six hours and one 

minute. 

After the bike race Mike put on his 

running gear to take on the 42km course. 

‘‘The temperature was hotter and my 

energy was slowly depleting but Ikept 

going and passed many who were 

completely burnt out and walked their 

run,’’ he said. 

He finished the run in four hours and 

50 minutes. 

Mike was cheered along to the finish 

line holding aNZflag high. 

One of the voices in the crowd was 

champion Ironman Mike Reilly shouting 

“Mike Hanson you are an Ironman!” 

Mike said hearing that was ‘‘an 

exceptional accomplishment that puts 

you on such anatural high, you forget 

that your body is screaming pain.’’ 

Mike completed the whole race 

12:20:18 and was proud to don a 

finishers shirt, the heavy medal and a 

Hawaiian necklace. 

‘‘I’m so proud of my achievement, I 

could not have done it without the 

support of my family and friends 

including my training buddies.’’ 

Mike has one more Ironman race to 

complete in Taupo and then plans on 

competing in the two day Coast to Coast 

as well as getting back to multisport and 

mountain biking. 

Meat the Need’s one million meal milestone 

NZ farmers want noone in New 

Zealandtogohungryand are 

bandingtogether to change the 

responsetofoodpoverty. 

Meat the Need’s partnership 

with SilverFern Farms has 

enabledfarmers from Mid 

Canterbury and across the 

countrytodonate someofwhat 

they produce,when they can. 

Farmers can opt to donate 

livestock whichisturned into 

mince meat and distributed to 

food banks and community 

organisations nationwide. 

Since beginning in early 2020, 

Meatthe Need has reached 

their two yeartargettoprovide 

onemillion mince mealsto 

familiesinneed acrossthe 

country. 

“Allofthis has been possible 

duetothe supportoffarmers 

and our founding partner Silver 

Fern Farms”, sayscofounder 

WayneLangford. “Thesupport 

hasbeen incredibleand is 

makingsuch adifferencetothe 

lives of New Zealanders.” 

“Food insecurity is avery 

real issuefor manypeople. 

Meat the Need provides a 

platformfor farmers to donate 

some of what theyproduce, 

whentheycan,which isthen 

put intothe hands of thosewho 

need it most. It means farmers 

across the nation are playing an 

important roleinhelping our 

communities struggling from 

food insecurity” says Sarah 

Gagliardi, operations manager 

of Meat the Need. 

Mincemealsgive food banks 

and community organisations a 

product hard to come by; 

premium beef mince, donated 

bygenerous farmers across the 

country.“Providing nutritious 

protein in the formof beef 

mince is helping to changethe 

landscapeoffood parcels, 

which has traditionally been 

made up of dried and canned 

food.” 

“Ourmince ishalal, too, 

makingitaccessible for our 

Muslim communities” says 

Gagliardi. 

“It’s really specialwhat Meat 

the Need is doing. It’s ayoung 

charity which has already made 

massive gainsand has big goals 

for thefuture. Ultimately,we 

believe nooneinNew Zealand 

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Meat theNeedlinks farmer 

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Miraka andFonterra,which is 

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THURSDAY, 27OCTOBER, 2022 |16,000+ copies distributed with the Ashburton Courier 

view online atgnews.co.nz 

Geraldine Swim Squad member Hunter Wilson (15) in action at the Geraldine Swimming Pool BELOW: Fellow Swim Squad member Charlotte Taylor (11), in the red cap, inches ahead inarecent 

breaststroke race. We want to see our club empowering everyone to have alove of swimming, says Geraldine Amateur Swimming Club Coach Stu Wilcox. PHOTOS: Supplied 

Love to swim: club finds new focus 

With summer fast approaching, theGeraldine 

Amateur SwimmingClub has anew focus: To 

empower the community to have alifelong 

love of swimming. 

Swimmingcoach Stu Wilcox says, We aim 

to achievethat missionstatementbyengaging 

more of the community in swimming. We also 

want to achieve our vision of love to swim. 

Our mission will be an important and integral 

part of our success, something to constantly 

refer back to and reflect on as aclub. 

We are holding afamily funnightand the 

official opening on Friday, 18 November. 

We encourage anyone from the community 

to come and join us for asession of games, 

relays, asausage sizzle and whanaungatanga 

(kinship/connection). Thiswillbeagreat time 

to ask questions,connectwith others,and for 

our amazing parent and coachingteamtosee 

your tamarikisability [in the water]. 

This year, an integral change within the 

swim squadisfor the team to feelmoreinclusive 

for swimmers, designed to improve all aspects 

of stroke development,stamina, and fun. 

Stu explains, Wewant our tamariki to feel 

asense of pride and accomplishment. The 

squad caters for children ofany age, but we 

would like them to be able to swim 100m, 

whichisfourlengthsofthe pool. However, we 

dont want to restrictthose thatwant to compete; 

we willsupportand prepare themappropriately. 

We will still coach aspects of racing and 

competing but inafriendly, nurturing, and 

holistic manner;weare allaboutthe individual. 

Another newinitiative this year is asquad 

designed for children who have completed 

Learn to Swim and are ready forthe next step. 

Stu says the new team, Bridge the Gap, will 

take place at the same time asSwim Squad, 

allowing the club tohave more flexibility as 

they work towards achieving their mission 

statement. Stusays, This group will be expected 

to swim at least two lengths of the pool and 

be readytotakeontheir next challenge. 

We are lucky to have the most amazing 

swim club at Geraldine; weare agroup of 

passionate parents who areexcitedabout taking 

on this mantle of continuing to grow the club 

and inspire Geraldines past, present, and 

future community ofswimmers. Please remember 

that our swim community is not just reserved 

for whanau and tamariki but for everyone. 

We want to see our club empowering everyone 

to have alove of swimming. Our club is all 

about kotahitanga, meaning the more we can 

all help together, the better our club will be. 

Competent swimmers are invited to the 

Geraldine Swimming Pool on Monday, 

14 November, where the club will introduce 

their coaches and outline their aims. Swimming 

is from5-6pm. Please arrive 15 minutes ahead 

of time to help set up and warm up. For more 

information email secretarygasc@gmail.com. 

DEBBIE OLIVER

WHĀRANGI 2|NGĀ PŪKŌRERO OTEWIKI KI RAUKĀPUKA |TAITE, 27WHIRINGA-Ā-NUKU, 2022 

EDITORIAL 

Wellington carpenter Samuel Duncan Parnell is credited 

with starting the eight-hour working day movement in 

New Zealand in1840. When sailing from London, Parnell 

had met shipping agent George Hunter on board. After 

arriving inWellington on 8February 1840, Hunter asked 

him to build astore on Lambton Quay. Parnell would 

agree only on the condition that the working day was 

amaximum of eight hours and said hed be available 

from 8am. (digitalnz.org) 

This week the GNews team is joined by Becky Talbot- 

Van Beers. Becky is well known tothe Woodbury 

community as ateacher and writer of childrensplays. 

Our town is lucky to have agreat choice ofoptions 

forearly childhood education. In her first story, Becky 

showcases Geraldine Preschool (page 7). 

Despite acolderfew daysjust lately,signs of spring 

areupon us. Everygood wish to the Geraldine Swimming 

Club as it prepares forthe newseason with arenewed 

vision. We areblessed indeed to haveaccesstosuch 

afine facility.Welookforward to thewarmerweather, 

which might encourage us all to go along for adip. 

Speaking of water, youwill see that our waterwill 

be chlorinated from the end of the year.Wevoted not 

to havewater chlorinated, but understand that there 

are arguments onboth sides. Council is now legally 

obligedtochlorinate the water, so theyand we have 

no choice. The information on page 10 suggests 

measures we canadopt if we dont likethe taste. While 

therewill be complaints, Hugh and Iweresayingthat 

comparedtootherparts of theworld,thisisverymuch 

afirst-world problem. Lets spare athought for the 

1.8 billion people in the world who have noaccess to 

clean water. 

The Harcourts Geraldine Festival (previously Arts 

and Plants Festival) has been afeature ofGeraldine 

life for many years. The tough call to cancel it was 

made last year in the light of Covid. It is good to see 

the festival back with arenewed sense ofvigour. 

We look forward tothe end-of-year series of 

happenings, the Light Party, GFest, the Christmas 

parade, late-night shopping and Christmas songs in 

the streets. 

Nga mihi nui. 

FIONA JANE (thats what my nana called me) 

Fightfor the things 

that you careabout, 

but do it in away thatwill 

lead others to joinyou. 

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Woodbury Domain Board members (from left) Mary Burgess, Jo Marama and Gavin Coulter gear upfor the Spring Clean Garage 

and Car Boot Sale fundraiser. PHOTO: Debbie Oliver 

Preloved treasure at Woodbury fundraiser 

Woodbury Hall and the surrounding 

carpark will be full of new and preloved 

items for sale on Saturday, 29 October, 

from 8.30am till 1pm as stallholders 

participate in the the Spring Clean Garage 

and Car Boot Sale, aWoodbury Hall 

fundraiser, 

Organiser Mary Burgess says, Its a 

fantasticopportunity for locals to havea 

spring clean and get alittle extra cash 

before Christmas. Sites are$10 each and 

can be insideoroutside thehall.Wehave 

good numbers already booked in and 

welcome any more who are interesed 

before the day. Some organisations are 

puttingupstalls to make moneyfor their 

group. 

The idea behind the Spring Clean 

Garage andCar Boot sale is to raise money 

for the WoodburyHallrenovations, which 

will enhance the hall for future generations. 

The upgrades includedisabled access,an 

improved entrance area and the 

introduction of more natural light. 

By using architectNigel Gilkison, whois 

passionate aboutheritage buildings, the 

renovations will be achieved without 

losing the character ofour fantastic 

country hall. 

Weare incrediblygratefulfor donated 

items from community members, including 

fromRichard of Richards Second-hand 

Shop in Winchester. The Eleanor Tripp 

Memorial Library will have abook stall; 

other stalls will include garden items, 

pre-lovedclothing, andhousehold items. 

There willeven be the opportunity for a 

bit of Christmas shopping. 

The Woodbury Domain Board, in 

conjunction with the Eleanor Tripp 

Memorial Library,isalsolaunchingdetails 

of theinauguralWoodbury Harvest Gala, 

amajor fundraiser to be heldon18March 

2023. Apotato in abucket competition 

willbejudged at the gala, withentry kits 

available at Saturdays event. 

Mary says,Seed potatoeshavebeen 

donated by Robert Casey, who shows 

continued support for the Woodbury 

Domain, whileIPPlastics have donated 

the plastic buckets. The entry fee for 

abucketand seedpotatois$10 and will 

be afun,family activity. 

If anyone would like to donategoods, 

they can be dropped off at Woodbury 

Hall on Friday, 28 October, between 

3pm and 6pm. To have items collected 

before 27 October, or to book astall,call 

Mary on 0274 807 698. DEBBIE OLIVER 

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOPLEFT: Savannah Watson performs Through the Rainbow by Polly Waterford; FROM LEFT: Lincoln Walker, 

Jackson Snow (obscured), Gracie Snow and Hamish Hydes; Isaac Phimister plays Amazing Grace; FROM LEFT: Abbi Collins, 

Lia Griffin, and Ashleigh James-Corcoran, accompanied by head ofmusic Cameron Love on drums; Riley Craig on guitar 

showcasing the professional standard of the student-led lighting effects. PHOTOS: Hugh McCafferty 

GHS music festival showcases talent 

On Thursdayoflast week, the Geraldine 

High School (GHS) music students put 

on their lastconcert of theyear.TheGHS 

Music Festival, compered by student 

cultural leader Saskia Finlayson-Hood, 

included songs from theshows,bagpipe, 

violin, saxophone and keyboard solos, 

guitarists and drummers showing their 

chops against backing tracks, and bands 

which, to the earofthis audience member, 

could go and get work on the pub circuit 

tomorrow. 

The performances offered at the school 

over the year serve two purposes. They 

showcase students skillstofriends, family 

and the interested public. They are also 

part of theassessment processfor NCEA 

qualification in music. 

At theend of the evening,head music 

teacher Cameron Love commended the 

31 performers who between them made 

up the shows 23 acts. The sound and 

lighting were alsostudent-led by Charlie 

Drysdale, Charlie Reeves and Jackson 

Marriott. Theprogramme wasproduced 

anddirected by Abbi Collinsand Lia Griffin, 

who earn extra NCEA credits for their 

efforts. Mr Love thanked the backstage 

helpers,ElizaWilliams, AndreaHornsby, 

Suzanne Pidduck, Aileen Watson and 

Georgina Rowley. He also thanked the 

Aotearoa Gaming Trust,Timaru Council 

andPerpetual Guardianfor their financial 

backing. Abbi andLia presented Mr Love 

with abouquet in recognition of his efforts. 

As the show ended, one parent was 

heard to remark, People in the town 

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THURSDAY, 27OCTOBER, 2022 |THE GERALDINE NEWS |PAGE 

KUPU OTEWIKI 

If you cant wait for next weeks GNews, hop onto 

YouTube and sing along with Miss Nicky, Māhunga, 

Pakihiwi (youtu.be/zUCnOqrnaoA). 

Māhunga, Pakihiwi 

Māhunga -Head 

Ūpoko -Head 

Pakihiwi -Shoulders 

Tīnana -Body 

Geraldine Community Arts Council chair Elaine Taylor. The arts council is hosting Geraldine Festivals Alpine Energy Art Exhibition. 

PHOTO: Jan Finlayson The exhibition shifted toMundells in2020, but only used part ofthe floorspace. PHOTO: Archives 

Arts council breathes new life 

into Alpine Energy exhibition 

Geraldine Festivals Alpine Energy Art 

Exhibition has anew host,anexpanded 

venue, andarefreshed kaupapa -aswell 

as the commitment of long-time sponsor 

Alpine Energy. Its arecipe for success, 

says Elaine Taylor,chairofthe Geraldine 

Community Arts Council,whichgrabbed 

the chance to adoptthe event. 

We jumped at the opportunity to be 

custodian of the exhibition.Its Alpines 

25th year of sponsoring: their silver 

anniversary. Theyre as excited as weare. 

Its ajoint celebration of the art exhibition. 

Alpine Energy service delivery general 

manager Damien Whiffen will open the 

exhibition,alongwithartscouncil deputy 

chair Hugh McCafferty. 

It will fill Mundells entire floor area 

for the first time. Its an incredibly 

spacious and light venue. Were grateful 

to Mundells owner Damon Odey for the 

use of all the floor space, Elaine says. 

She says artist interest is high. Entries 

were closedearly becausewereachedour 

maximum. 

The majority are from Canterbury. 

We also have entries from the North 

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Island, Wanaka, and wider Otago 

The calibre ofartists who have applied 

this year is outstanding, and many have 

never exhibited in Geraldinebefore.She 

says several localartists arealso exhibiting. 

The host and venue changes offered 

achance forawider review of theexhibition, 

which runs annually aspartofthe Harcourts 

Geraldine Festival. Anotable shift is to 

asingle open category. It includes painting 

in various media, sculpture, ceramics, 

and drawing. There are amateurs, 

professionals, and students among the 

artists. Elaine says, The judging panel 

will include professional and collector 

expertise. 

Long-time Canterbury watercolour 

and oil landscape painter and teacher 

SusieMillichamp is the2022 guest artist. 

Theexhibition will include three stunning 

works from her latest collection. And 

shes giving ameet-the-artist talk on the 

Friday at 11am, says Elaine. 

Looking beyondthe 2022 exhibition, 

Were hoping we can continue to keep 

supporting the Geraldine Festival by being 

involved in the art exhibition. Were a 

community arts council. We try to support 

community initiativeswithtime,expertise, 

and small financial contributions wherever 

we can. Its atwo-waything, she says. 

The Geraldine Floral Art Group will 

hold its annual competition, also in 

Mundells, throughout the weekend, 

presenting its premiere Ruby Divers 

Memorial Trophy for the 32nd time. 

Group president AnnetteWallersaysthat 

anovice trophy and prizes for colour, 

innovation, texture, and public choice 

will also be awarded. 

Geraldine Festivals 2022 Alpine 

Energy Art Exhibition opens, along with 

the festival itself, at Mundells at7pm 

Thursday, 10 November. All welcome. 

Lightrefreshments available. Catalogues 

for sale.The exhibition continues10am- 

4pm Friday, 11 November, to Sunday, 

13 November. Entries are on sale 

throughout. To learn more, goto 

geraldine.nz/geraldine-festival or visit 

Geraldine.nzs Facebook page. For 

information on the Geraldine Floral Art 

Group, call Annette Waller on 

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In the comingweeks, we will buildourvocabularybanks 

by exploring the ingoa Māori for different parts of the 

tīnana, or body. This week, we will start small and begin 

with māhunga, orhead. While māhunga is the most 

commonly used kupu for the head, you might also have 

come across ūpoko or matenga, both of which are 

used in various dialects. 

In te Ao Māori, the māhunga is regarded as one of 

the most tapu (not ordinary; special, sacred) parts of 

the tīnana. Tapu and noa (ordinary) aretwo of the most 

powerful governing forces in the Māori world, and 

balance between the twomust be maintained. Most 

tikanga (protocols) stem from the notion of keeping 

tapu and noa things separate. Because of the tapu 

nature of the mahunga, extra care is taken to preserve 

itssacredness resulting in severaltikangasurrounding 

howwetreat the headinteAoMāori.Wedonot touch 

another person on the head without permission, nor 

do we pass food overapersons head.Kai servesmany 

functionsinteAoMāori,one of whichistoremove tapu 

and restore everything to ordinary status; to pass food 

over another person's head could beperceived as a 

method ofstripping their tapu away. 

Letusthrow in another kupu forthis week. Pakihiwi 

is the ingoa Māori for shoulders. You might have an 

inkling now ofwhere weare headed with our future 

studies of the tīnana. 

Māhunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae. 

Youll have towait for next weeks edition to find out 

what the rest of the kupu mean. 

JORDYN OSBORNE 

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around and about for our visitors to find during 

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Post to Crossword, 65Connolly Street, Geraldine 

ENTRYDEADLINE: 5pm FRIDAY11NOVEMBER 2022 

NAME: 

JW CRYPTIC 

CROSSWORD 

281 

This pastfinancial year has been business as 

usual, pandemic style. Geraldine has been 

very fortunate compared with many other 

communities in New Zealand. Because we 

are situated on theonly directroutebetween 

Christchurchand Queenstown, our tenant in 

the Village Inn has not noticed a significant 

drop in patronage compared with many 

other similar establishments in New Zealand. 

Our tenancies are all secured by fixed 

agreements. 

Maintenance of the Village Inn hasalways 

been apriority for your Trust, and this year 

we have completed apainting program on 

the exterior walls. It is now looking fresh and 

cared for -Idon’t believe the building has 

been painted since it wasbuilt in 2004. 

In 2019 the GLT set up and seed-funded 

the Geraldine District Foundation. During 

the past year, the Foundation partnered with 

the Mid and South Canterbury Community 

Trust in the GeraldineHealth Hub they have 

been developing. It is anticipated that the 

build willcommence later this year. 

At the end of the Trust’s financial year, we 

farewelled our long-time accountant 

secretary, Anne Marett. Anne has provided 

our Trust with her professional services for 

11 years and now deserves a well-earned 

retirement. Iamaware that Anne delivered 

many more hours of work to our Trust than 

she was compensated for, particularly during 

the formation of the Geraldine District 

Foundation, and she did that because she has 

been particularly passionate about the 

initiative. It has been apleasure to work with 

her efficient and pragmatic input to our 

business, and on behalf of all the Trustees, 

Iextendoursincere gratitude. 

With Anne’s retirement, the Trustees 

reached out to Andrew Johnstone and Nicky 

Coleman of Solve Chartered Accountants, 

Geraldine Licensing Trust: President’s Annual Report 

FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022 

Timaru, and engaged them as the GLT’s new 

administrativeservice provider.Andrewwas 

previously an elected member of our Trust 

and had awell-grounded understanding of 

the Geraldine Licensing Trust. Welcome, 

Andrew and Nicky. 

The Trust’s net income for the year ended 

31 March 2022was $96,401 (2021: $62,140). 

Income comprised $264,129 from the 

Trust’s commercial rental properties and 

$55,301 from interest, dividends, and 

other investment revenue. Total expenses 

were back to more consistent levels at 

$215,722 (2021: $524,784) as 2021 included 

a significant donation of $300,000 to the 

Geraldine District Foundation. 

The Craig’s Investment Portfolio gained 

$26,320 in value from 31 March 2021 to 

31 March 2022. 

The audit was again an unsatisfactory 

process for the Licensing Trust for our YE21 

accounts. Our audit plan was quoted at 

around $13k, but we were then presented 

with afinal ‘over run’ account of afurther 

$7,000. This was submitted to us with a 

letter stating that the Auditor General had 

remitted 75% of the actual cost! That 

indicated that our audit incurred atotal cost 

of over $41,000! We are one of the smallest 

licensing trusts and do not handle any cash 

because we are simply a property owner and 

have revenueofaround $260k 

The Geraldine community owns valuable 

assets in the very centre of their village. The 

Westpac bank building, the Gresson Dorman 

officebuilding, and the VillageInn provide a 

healthy annual financial return which has 

then been diligentlyand regularly invested in 

‘blue chip’ equities through its advisor, 

Craig’s Investments. Further to this, the 

Trust has sponsored scholarships for 

Geraldine High School students, assisted 

with the funding of the Geraldine 

Community Resource Centre, the Geraldine 

Community Vehicle Trust, and Geraldine.nz. 

In more recent times, the GLT has made a 

significant contribution towards the 

establishment of the Geraldine District 

Foundation and their project for our 

community, the Geraldine Health Hub. 

As elected trustees and community 

representatives, it can be easytoconcentrate 

on the political aspects of the role, 

particularlyaround the distribution of grants 

and sponsorships.Thatisasatisfyingaspect 

of our trustee role; however, Ibelieve the 

most important role is the maintenance and 

growth of the assets. If the Trust’s buildings 

are not maintained toahigh standard, and 

the tenants are not happy with all aspects of 

their accommodation, then the Trust’s core 

business is likely to be compromised. 

Likewise, the Trust should never consider the 

job isdone and should continually strive to 

enhance the Geraldine facilities that they 

have in their portfolio. Of equal importance, 

the financial health and growth of the Trust 

must be constantly worked on by the future 

Trustees. 

At the local body elections this October, 

Iwill have completed three terms (9years) 

as atrustee of the Geraldine Licensing Trust. 

I do not intend to stand for re-election this 

October and will step down from the Trust. 

Ihave been grateful for the support of the 

trustees during my three years as chairman 

and the excellent secretarial services 

provided by Anne Marettand,more recently, 

by Solve Chartered Accountants. 

ALISTER FRANCE 

PRESIDENT, GERALDINE LICENSING TRUST 

JUNE, 2022 

ADDRESS: 

STATEMENT OFCOMPREHENSIVE INCOME 

Geraldine Licensing Trust Hotel &Property Owners -Geraldine 

PHONE: 

EMAIL: 

ACROSS 

1 Graded arranged notes (6) 

5 Money only for this fibre (8) 

9 Self-satisfied -they hold 

choppers up (4) 

10 Night-fliers confused with odd, 

new reduced pace (6,4) 

11 Are they flexible at length? (4,8) 

13 Holding iron in unorthodox pose 

may be strong and dark (8) 

15 Short chap gets the usual (4) 

17 Such ambition from having 1(4) 

18 Carelessly view -adry,residential 

approach (8) 

20 Accept humiliation -i.e. the pub 

meal is awful (3,6,3) 

23 Labyrinth found within. 

Pinch eastern primate (10) 

24 Called for climbing support (4) 

25 Awildspree! Sonhas the answer(8) 

26 Avoice for the inner circle 

on board (6) 

DOWN 

2 Sympathy for circle-maker. 

No-one returns (10) 

3 He’sdishonest or returns when 

visitor loses the way(5) 

4 Sidesout for each going 

in to spread (8) 

5 Currentdiversion? (9,6) 

6 Directsthe non-reproducers 

on farm (6) 

7 Added upand sees me dancing 

(4,5) 

8 The sound of aflower in lines (4) 

12 No logic shown when awful liar 

accepts allowance (10) 

14 Ample fire required to show 

height on chart (6,3) 

16 Arm or leg broken in the home 

but still most agile (8) 

19 Reach arace of Man. 

Afashionable expression (6) 

21 Airborne hunter base 

sounds weird (5) 

22 Ladyhas nothing to go on foot(4) 

Congratulations to Dulcie Pierre, 

winners of CrypticCrossword No.280 

280 SOLUTIONS: ACROSS: 1. Feasting 6. Catch10. Average11. Insight 12. Oxygen 

13.Allotted15. Spot 16.Chicken out 20. Do awaywith21. Felt 23. Pedestal 25. Create 

27. Inherit 28.Trickle 29. Tanks30. Reassure DOWN: 2. Every now and then 3. Shamed 

4. Item 5. Grill 6.Customer 7. Tightrope walker 8.Hated 9. Caroused 14. Show 

17. Cite 18. Tethered 19. Maestros 22. Orbits 23. Paint 24. Actor 26. Etna 

For the year ended 31 March, 2021 Notes 2022 2021 

$ $ 

Revenue 

Operating Revenue 1 264,129 215,455 

Other Income 1 55,301 337,923 

Total Revenue 319,429 553,378 

Expenses 

Administration Expenses 2 95,626 86,392 

Overhead Expenses 2 51,066 369,137 

Interest and Finance Charges 2 12,316 12,940 

Fixed Costs 2 24,574 23,261 

Non-Cash Expenses 2 32,140 33,054 

Total Expenses 215,722 524,784 

Profit/(Loss) before Income Tax 103,707 28,594 

Income Tax Expense 

Income TaxExpense - - 

Total Income Tax Expense - - 

Net Surplus 103,707 28,594 

Other Comprehensive Income 

Gain in Fair Value of Equity Instruments (7,306) 33,546 

Total Other Comprehensive Income, Net of Tax (7,306) 33, 546 

Total Comprehensive Income for the Year, Net of Tax 96,401 62, 140 

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 

For the year ended 31 March 2021 Notes 2022 2021 

$ $ 

Assets 

Current Assets 

Cash and Bank Balances 5 192,030 89,028 

Accounts Receivable 16,371 1,773 

Income TaxReceivable 2,204 15,577 

Total Current Assets 210,605 106,378 

Non-Current Assets 

Property and Equipment 6 4,449 5,081 

Investment Property 7 618,534 650,042 

Term Investments 8 1,097,197 1,078,183 

Secured Loans 9 270,925 255,086 

Total Non-Current Assets 1,991,105 1,988,392 

Total Assets 2,201,710 2,094,770 

Liabilities 

Geraldine Licensing Trust Hotel &Property Owners -Geraldine 

Current Liabilities 

Goods and Servics Tax 3,821 23,651 

Creditors and Accrued Expenses 10 19,568 1,304 

Borrowings 12 294,944 - 

Other Current Liabilities 11 18,941 18,941 

Total Current Liabilities 337,273 43,895 

Non-Current Liabilities 

Borrowings 12 - 282,839 

Total Non-Current Liabilities - 282,839 

Total Liabilities 337,273 326,734 

Total Assets less Total Liabilities (Net Assets) 1,864,437 1,768,036 

Accumulated Funds 

General Funds 13 1,864,437 1,768,036 

Total Accumulated Funds 1,864,437 1,768,036


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DAYS 

The doors were open wide to welcome 

preschool whānau and other members 

of the community to the Geraldine 

Preschool information night held last 

Thursday evening. 

The preschool was ahive ofactivity 

with arange ofdifferent speakers and 

informationavailable on avarietytopics, 

all relating to the wellbeing of tamariki 

(children) in their early years. 

Centre manager Jolenne Sowdenwas 

happy tosee the evening supported. 

Weare excited to welcome our preschool 

whānau back into the centre after the 

disruption and restrictions Covid-19 

imposed on us. Wevereally missedthat 

family feel and beingable to connectwith 

our community, so thisisagreat chance 

for us to open our centre and let people 

know what we are all about. 

There was awide scope of subjects 

covered during the evening, with many 

guest speakers available tospeak to 

caregivers. 

Haylee Darling,the curriculumleader, 

gave ashortpresentation on Te Whariki, 

Early Childhood Curriculum and how it 

is the core pillar upon which preschool 

build their learning experiences for the 

tamariki. JacquiSwales,anotherkaiako 

(teacher) also spokeabout Educa Learning 

Stories, the online profile system the 

preschool uses to share stories and photos 

of tamariki withtheir whānau. 

Anumber of new entrant teachers 

from local schools provided information 

aboutschoolreadinessandthe transition 

to primary school. 

Four Peaks Health practice nurse 

KatieAckroyd,who currently has acontract 

with the Ministry of Healthtowork with 

theGeraldine community around mental 

health, was on hand to discuss theresources 

and agencies available to parents and 

their whānau. Katie spoke about the 

importance of taking time to help tamariki 

recognise and discuss their emotions 

through conversation. Anna Guerin, also 

apractice nurse at Four Peaks, provided 

useful tips and information for dealing 

with common illnesses seen amongst 

young tamarikiaswell as taking questions. 

Geraldines local podiatrist provided 

awealth of information, and nutritional 

tips, recipes and lunch box ideas from 

WAVE South Canterbury were also 

available. 

At the end of the evening, preschool 

whānau were heard to say that they felt 

well-informed andequippedwitharange 

of knowledge to foster the holistic 

wellbeing of their children. Jolenne is 

already looking forward to hosting the 

event again next year. She says, We would 

love to see more whānau come along to 

take advantage of these opportunities to 

connect with outside agencies. We can 

invite different experts next time, and 

areopen to suggestionsfromthe community 

in regards to who theywould findvaluable 

to be able to engage with. 

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to announce the openingofregistrations for the 

club’s 125thJubilee which will take placeon 

21-23 April, 2023. 

YOUR COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM: 

•can be left at Geraldine Rugby Club Bar 

• HHA Associates Ltd,Four Peaks Plaza - 

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Just one ofthe Geraldine Vintage Carand MachineryMuseums eight buildings, thesmall motors and standing engines shed. 

PHOTO:Jan Finlayson 

Time to crank it all up again 

Crank Up is a chance for our members 

to crank thingsupand show people what 

weve got and that most of the machines 

go, says Geraldine Vintage Car and 

Machinery Museum chairColin Johnstone. 

The museums annual by-donation 

open day, coming up this Saturday is 

something of an eye-opener, he says. A 

lot of people think weve only got two 

buildings. But weve got six others out 

the back.Its awell-cataloguedtreasure 

trove. 

There are tractors, trucks, cars, 

motorcycles, John Brittens campervan 

(built when he was 18 years old), avery 

good models and collectables room, 

agricultural machinery, the Spartan 

aeroplane [a 1929 biplane], plus 

memorabilia. Our mezzanine floor is done 

up like an old shop, and we have projectors 

from the old cinema. 

Plentyofthose machines will be cranked 

into life on Saturday. Colin says, Well 

also be starting up the big ships motor. 

The big ship was the Rangatira, a 

workhorse on the Timaru-Chatham Islands 

run from 2003 to 2018. Its motor has 

been at the museum since the ship was 

dismantled. 

Among other things, the Rangatira 

carried Kiwi motorcycle speed recordsetterBurt 

Munrobetween New Zealand 

and the United States. He went on it 

several times, says Colin. Surprisingly, 

the Rangatiras motor is very, very quiet. 

Its remarkable. It only does about 700 

revs. Itsaslow-runningmotor,hesays. 

Agold-coin sausage sizzle will be 

available, along with bottled water and 

softdrinks, saysthe museums publicity 

officer, Max Millar. He says people who 

wish to bring their ownpicnicsare welcome 

to usethe outdoor space available. 

The Geraldine Vintage Car and 

Machinery MuseumsCrankUpis10am- 

3pm, Saturday,29October, at 178Talbot 

Street. Entrybydonation. The museum 

is open seven days year-round. Usual 

hours are 9.30am-4pm duringdaylight 

saving and 10am-3pm outside daylight 

saving. The normal charge is$15 per 

adult; accompanied children are free. 

For more information, visit the museums 

Facebook page. JAN FINLAYSON 

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Chlorination ofthe 

Geraldine Water Supply 

New water legislation comes into effect 

from mid-November. 

In line with new legal requirements of the Water Services Act 2021, 

chlorine will be introduced tothe Geraldine water supply by the end 

of this year. The addition of asmall amount of chlorine maintains the 

safety oftreated drinking water asittravels through our reticulation 

network from our watertreatment plant to your householdorbusiness. 

This is apart of amulti-barrier approach to addressany unacceptable 

risks of bacterial contamination. 

WHY CHLORINE? 

While Geraldine’swater is currently treated with UV light, this treatment doesn’t persist 

past the treatment plant, so there isasmall but real risk of downstream contamination 

from pipe breakage repairs or water flowing back into the system (backflow). 

Chlorination provides residual disinfection from events that could occur after the water 

has been treated. 

To date, there are no alternatives are available to us that are aseffective and proven as 

chlorine. 

IS CHLORINATION SAFE? 

Chlorine has been used safely around the world for about 120 years tokeep millions of 

people all over the globe –and inNew Zealand –safe from waterborne illness arising 

from undetected contamination. Chlorine is used inall other Timaru District Council 

drinking water supplies. For more detailed information regarding the safety of chlorine, 

please refer to our website: https://www.timaru.govt.nz/geraldine-chlorine 

HOW DOES CHLORINE WORK? 

Chlorine reacts with bacteria to ‘inactivate’ it, so that it canno longer grow.Ifthe bacteria 

can’t grow and replicate, itcan’t cause disease or make consumers ill. 

We will be using low-dose chlorine and allowing contact time for the chlorine to 

inactivate bacteria and viruses. 

Achlorineresidual is left in the waterand it makes its way through our network of pipes 

and reservoirs to the very lasthouseatthe end of the pipework. This ‘residual’ of chlorine 

in the network is important. It protects customers from the risk of re-contamination 

which may occur in the network. 

OUR RESPONSIBILITY 

At the time of adoption of the 2018 Long Term, Council resolvednot to carry out routine 

chlorination of the Geraldine water supply until such time asitbecomes mandatory. 

Under the Water Services Act 2021, we must provide some form of residual disinfection 

in the supply reticulation. 

Thepurpose of residualdisinfection in the pipe network is to protectpublichealthfrom 

minor ingress into the water network. This can occur through pipe leaks or backflow 

events, which have been shown to be associated with waterborne illness. 

The new drinking water regulator (Taumata Arowai) requires new water safety plans 

to be lodged by 15 November 2022. They have also indicated that residual disinfection 

should be implemented as soon as possible. We are legally obligated to meet these 

requirements and there are severe consequences for councils and water suppliers who 

fail to do so including fines and imprisonment. 

WHAT ABOUT EXEMPTIONS? 

Youmay have heard about other towns and cities around the country that are trying 

to get an exemption. According to Taumata Arowai’s Compliance Monitoring and 

Enforcement Strategy 2022-2025: “exemptions will be used sparingly and to solve 

exceptional problems or respond to exceptional circumstances”. Any exemption 

applications would be subject to review by an internationalpanel of experts.Since2017, 

1% of our 700 tests of water from the Geraldine water supply reticulation network have 

detected presence ofabacteria. Based on this factor alone, our assessment is that we 

would be unable to meet the burden of proof required in order to obtain an exemption. 

WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS IF IDON’T WANT CHLORINE? 

Somepeopledonot likethe taste or smell of chlorine,and forashort period following 

the introduction ofthe treatment, you may be more likely to notice it. 

There are some solutions to this. For example, you can fill ajug of water 

and leave it on the bench orinyour fridge overnight. The chlorine will 

dissipate naturally over a few hours. Or you can install a household 

carbon filter. Small units can be purchased locally from hardware stores 

for approximately $100. 

Pet fish and people with skin conditions can also besensitive tochlorine. 

We have moredetailed infoavailable on our websitetohelpyou with this: 

https://www.timaru.govt.nz/geraldine-chlorine 

PUBLIC DROP IN SESSIONS 

We’d like togive you an opportunity to meet with usface toface and ask questions. 

We’ve scheduled some drop-in sessions at the Geraldine Library and Service Centre at 

the following days and times: 

• Monday 31 October 2022: 8.30 am–12 pm 

• Thursday 3November 2022: 1pm–6pm 

WHAT ABOUT CHANGES UNDER THREE WATERS? 

The requirement to chlorinate the Geraldine Water Supply is not impacted byCentral 

Government’sThree Waters Reforms. It is arequirement of thedrinking waterregulator 

Taumata Arowai. 

If the governmentproposalgoesahead, from 1July 2024 the GeraldineTownship Water 

Supply schemewould be run by the South Island WaterServiceEntity(currently known 

as Entity D).Thisnew entitywouldbesubject to the same legal requirements as Timaru 

District Council is. Entity Dwould also have to provide and operate the water supply 

using aWater Safety Plan and be accountable to the drinking water regulator, Taumata 

Arowai, for the safety of all aspects of the water supply including residual disinfection. 

MORE INFORMATION 

We know this isacomplex subject and we’ve provided 

additional resources onour website: 

https://www.timaru.govt.nz/geraldine-chlorine

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The crew from the Lauriston volunteer fire brigade, above, will be among those celebrating the brigade’s 50th anniversary over December 2and 3. 

50 years of serving Mid Canterbury 


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Lauriston volunteer fire brigade 

memberswill celebrate 50 years of 

operation in December. 

Thebrigade, which predominantly 

responds to vegetation fires and car 

accidents, beganoperating in 1972. 

Lauriston volunteer fire brigade 

secretary Carol Wilson said ‘‘It’schanged 

so much from what used to be JR 

Leonard itwas at the garagehere at 

Lauriston and Ithink his wife used to 

just phone aroundpeople andsay 

‘there’s afire’. 

‘‘They’d basically just go in whatever 

clothes they’d got on andgrab someone’s 

tank, and they got the job done, but it was 

nowhere near as professional as what 

we’ve got now ... we’re very lucky now.’’ 

Chief fire officerMark Shears has been 

with the Lauriston crew for12years. 

He’s seenitall in his time, including 

the transition of going from acouncil 

owned station to joining with Fire and 

EmergencyNew Zealand (FENZ). 

‘‘Wegot anew shed and anew truck... 

which has been awesome,’’ he said. 

When he first started with the 

Lauriston crew they would often have 

around 50 call outs ayear. 

In recent years hesaid thecalls have 

dropped to between 1520 calloutsa 

year. 

‘‘We’ve been sitting steady with about 

20 members in the brigade for as long as 

I’ve been there,’’ Mark said. ‘‘And we’ve 

gotarange of experience,from Des 

who’s been there for nearly 60oddyears, 

down to someone who’s done only a 

couple of years. We’ve got ahuge range of 

experience andage and knowledge that 

we all enjoy sharing witheach other and 

passing on.’’ 

Over the years the crews have been 

involved in fighting various largescale 

emergencies across NewZealand and 

assisting other fire stations. 

‘‘We’vebeen to the Port Hills fires,we 

went downtothe Pukaki Downs fire a 

couple of years ago, andthen just local 

fires that we’ve been to as well. We had a 

crew that wentuptothe Nelson flooding 

just not longago. 

‘‘We’renormally lucky enough thatwe 

do end up with enough to make up acrew 

to go and help out,’’ Mark said. To 

celebrate theLauriston station’s 50th 

anniversary the crew will be involved in 

three events over two days. 

On Friday (December 2) they will be 

visiting Lauriston School between 

10.30am and2pm,where they’ll teach 

kids about fire safety, host colouringin 

competitions, have firegear on display, 

and facilitate abunch of games. 

On Saturday (December 3) the crew 

will be hosting acommunityfriendly 

event at theLauriston Fire Station which 

will include afreesausage sizzle, 

FireWise andrisk education, 

demonstrations of fireequipment 

including hoses andpumps,afire truckthemed 

bouncy castle, and real fire 

trucks on display. 

The community day is free to attend 

and will runfrom 11am to 3pm. 

‘‘This event is acelebration for all 

those in our communityand a‘thank 

you’, as many people havehelped with 

fires overthe years and they maynot 

have been membersofour brigade,’’ 

Carol said. 

That evening adinner and annual 

awards ceremonywillbeheld at the 

station for currentand past Lauriston 

fire crew. 

The dinner is an inviteonly event and 

will bring recognition to those who have 

served under the Lauriston Fire Station 

over the past 50 years. 

While they aren’t actively lookingfor 

newmembers to join the crew, Mark said 

if there were anyyoung locals keen on 

getting involved withfirefighting they 

will ‘‘never turn anyone away’’. 

‘‘There areoperational roles and we’re 

just starting to implementnonoperational 

roles which can help the 

brigade without actually turning out,’’ 

Mark said. 

Anyone interested in coming along to 

celebrate thecrew’s milestone on 

December 3iswelcomed. 

Carol says it will be agreat day for the 

whole family. 

‘‘If anyone would like to come to the 

dinner just contact us.’’ 

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Floss protesting along State Highway One, north of Ashburton last week, in support of Mid Canterbury’s rural community. PHOTO TONI WILLIAMS 

Support out for rural community 

Around adozen protesters 

lined StateHighway One, north 

of Ashburton last week in 

supportofGroundswell NZ’s 

‘‘we’re not going to take it’’ 

nationwideprotest. 

The protestwas in response 

to the recent release of 

government’s agricultural 

emissions tax, out for 

consultationnow. 

Amongthose on the highway 

was rural advocate Floss, a 

formerfarmer, who wantedto 

showher support for Mid 

Canterbury’s rural community 

andfarmers in general. 

She saw firsthand some of the 

issues farmers were dealing 

within Mid Canterbury and was 

keentohelp. 

‘‘I want to support them, they 

are the backbone of our 

country,’’ shesaid. 

She, alongwith theother 

protesters, were wavingVoices 

for Freedomplacards with 

sayingsuch as SNAequals land 

grab,toot for farmers, tootfor 

freedom,local assets local 

control, and food crisis where 

does your food come from? 

‘‘Everythingisconnected,’’ 

Floss said. 

‘‘Wealways knew times were 

going to gettough ... it’s getting 

unworkable.’’ 

Floss said shetravelled 

among those working within the 

district’s rural communityand 

many were finding it hard. 

Oneof her concerns washow 

big thesignificant naturalareas 

(SNA) was and its affect on 

farmers. 

‘‘It’s ashocker. Alot of land 

taken,nocompensation, that’s 

not OK.’’ 

Groundswell NZ arehopeful 

government will do aUturn on 

their emissions tax andthe 

nationwideprotest took place 

around around the country. 

Numbers were welldownon 

pastprotest action butafew 

Mid Canterbury protesters 

gathered north of the town 

beforeheading in convoy to join 

othersfrom around Canterbury 

gathering in Christchurch. 

In Christchurch, theNew 

Zealand Herald reported about 

100 protesters stood on the 

corner of LincolnRoad and 

Moorhouse AvenueatHagley 

Park, waving placards and 

receiving toots from passing 

utes and trucks. 

Aline of about five tractors 

and numerousvansand utes 

blocked aonewaysection of 

Lincoln Road. 

And furthersouth, aconvoy of 

about 40 tractors and up to 100 

utes drove onaloop of 

Dunedin’soneway system for 

thedemonstration, causing 

somedelaysfor motorists. It 

appeared to be thebiggest 

showing of protesters 

throughout the country. 

GroundswellNZfounding 

members Bryce McKenzie 

andLaurie Paterson said 

government’s emissions tax 

willcut food production by up 

to 20% in somesectors 

‘‘ripping the heart of out of 

ourrural communitiesbut 

barely touchnet global 

emissions.’’ 

‘‘This is ourchance to show 

theGovernment that the 

public backs ourfarmers and 

rejects this punitive, 

counterproductive, and 

unworkabletax.’’ 

Consultationruns until 

November 18, withadecision 

dueinDecember. 

Industry to meetinMid Canterbury 

Beef+LambNZ and DairyNZ 

are seekingfarmer feedbackon 

the recently released 

agriculturalemissions 

proposal. 

TheGovernment response to 

He WakaEke Noa Primary 

Sector Climate Action 

Partnership proposal is out for 

consultation now. 

Beef+LambNZmembers 

have been invited to attend a 

GovernmentGHG Pricing 

Proposal: Farmer Feedback 

meeting in Methven nextweek. 

It willbeatthe Mt Hutt 

Memorial HallonNovember 3, 

from 9.30am to 11.30am. 

Farmers feedback raised at 

these meetings will alsoinform 

B+LNZ's submission. 

DairyNZisalso hosting an inperson 

farmer event in 

Ashburton to discussemissions 

proposal challenge. It will be 

held at the Ashburton Event 

CentreonNovember 9, from 

10am to noon. 

DairyNZ’s concerns about 

government’s emissions pricing 

proposal,and the next steps, 

will be discussed with dairy 

farmers through online webinar 

andinperson events 

nationwide. 

The Government’sproposal 

differed from He WakaEke Noa 

partnership recommendations 

and DairyNZchair Jim van der 

Poelsaid the changes were 

unacceptable for farmersand 

the primary sector. 

DairyNZ will discussthe 

proposal, shareconcernswith 

farmersand seek feedback. 

“There arefundamental shifts 

from what the sector and its 

farmersproposed, particularly 

around governance, pricesetting 

andsequestration,” Mr 

van der Poel said. 

“The changeshave impacted 

the balance and equity of 

achieving emission reductions 

andpricing, which the whole 

primary sectorworked hard to 

create. 

“Thesectorneedsindustryled 

solutionswecan all 

support. We standbehind the 

He Waka Eke Noa 

recommendations–the 

Government received a 

credibleoption that would 

support emission reductions, 

while enabling farmers to 

maintain profitability.’’ 

DairyNZwill be advocating 

strongly on farmers’ behalf to 

make it clearthe pricing 

proposal as it standsnow must 

change –for the better. 

DAIRYNZ BOARD 

Tracy Brownand Chris Lewis 

havebeenelectedtoDairyNZ’s 

board. 

The pair were appointed at 

the annualgeneralmeetinglast 

weekinInvercargill,during 

which ongoing farm challenges 

suchas inflationdriving up 

costs onfarm, staff shortages, 

regulatory changes and Covid 

19 were acknowledged. 

As wellashighlightsofthe 

sector’s achievements. 

DairyNZ chair Jimvan der 

Poelsaid farmers should all be 

proud of their contribution, 

providing jobs andincome for 

NewZealand. 

‘‘Withstrong milk prices, 

dairy’seconomic contribution 

was $50 billion over the past 

season,” he said. 

“Despite thechallengeswe 

face, dairy continues to be a 

driving forcebehind New 

Zealand’s economy. 

“DairyNZwillalso continue 

to advocate stronglyonbehalf 

of farmers –and we have done 

so on winter grazing,dairy 

cattle welfare consultation, and 

residencyand borderissues 

this year.” 

Mr vander Poel waslooking 

forward to havingTracy and 

Chris on the board, andhelping 

to play akey role in creatinga 

better future forfarmers. 

“Tracy andChriswillplay a 

key part in settingthe future 

direction of DairyNZ and the 

sector. 

‘‘Theybothbring key 

knowledge andexpertise which 

willsupport our farmers as we 

continuetonavigate the 

changing farming 

environment.” 

Tracy and Chris jointhe 

threeotherfarmerelected 

directors and threeboardappointed 

directors on 

DairyNZ’s board anddairy 

farmers. 

Mr vander Poel also 

acknowledged and thanked 

departing boardmember 

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Tamara Grant, AlisonFleming,Jason Bedford and Angharad Wellwood with their medal haul 

from the South Island Masters Games in Timaru. 


Masters in the pool 

Tamara Grant, Alison 

Fleming,Jason Bedford and 

Angharad Wellwood from 

Mid Canterbury Masters 

Swimming each had a 

successfulhaul at the recent 

South IslandMasters Games 

in Timaru. 

The four competed in a 

number of events throughout 

the competition and placed 

in all races. 

The four are in the club 

previously known as 

Ashburton Master 

Swimmers; the new name is 

to reflectthe greater area 

of Mid Canterbury. 

The club is affiliated to 

New Zealand Masters 

SwimmingInc, whichhosts 

events and provides a 

forum for swimmersaged 

25 plus, whether 

competitiveor 

recreational. 

The motto ‘fun, 

fellowship and fitness’ 

reflects thediversity of 

members interests. 

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37 

Hammers narrowly 

miss nailing victory 

AgStaff Mid Canterbury Hammers 

narrowly missed out on bringing 

home the Lochore Cup last 

weekend when they played Ngāti 

Porou East Coast at Whakarua 

Park in Ruatoria. 

The final score in the Bunnings 

Warehouse Heartland rugby final 

was 2520. 

Ahalf time it was still anyone's 

match with a10all scoreline. 

Ngāti Porou East Coast proved 

too strong in the second 40minutes 

with an early try reinvigorating the 

home side in front of their home 

crowd; the start of aflurry of 

scoring action. 

With just eight minutes to go on 

the clock it was 2213. 

Mid Canterbury, not to be 

sidelined in their finals bid, scored 

awelldeserved run away try to 

close the score to 2218. 

It was successfully converted. 

However despite putting up 

some strong defence, mistakes 

were made and it led to apenalty 

kick and the lead stretched to five 

points at the full time whistle. 

Mid Canterbury cocaptain Tyler 

Blackburn was full of praise for the 

East Coast side after the match. 

‘‘It’s avery unique place to come, 

it’s definitely heartland rugby you 

guys had great supporters ... we 

brought the heat and you put the 

pressure on us, and at times it 

probably got the best of us. 

‘‘But you know at the end of the 

day you put us away and it was well 

deserved.’’ 

He also paid his respects and 

condolences, on behalf of the team 

and Mid Canterbury Rugby Union 

to the family and community of a 

player who died of asuspected 

heart attack on field in the curtain 

raiser match between Ruatoria 

City versus Ruatoria Centennial 

XV. 

The player involved in afestival 

match celebrating the club’s 

centenary died after the onfield 

incident. 

The player collapsed during the 

match between Ruatoria City's 

2022 squad and aRuatoria 

Centennial XV. 

The ground was blessed and 

union officials spoke to the man's 

whānau before adecision was 

made to play the Lochore Cup 

final, which started with amoment 

of silence. 

Final points: 

Ngāti Porou East Coast: 25 (Joe 

Royal, Hakarangi Tichborne, Jorian 

Tangaere tries; Carlos Kemp 2con, 2 

pen), Mid Canterbury: 20 (Manasa 

Samoi, Nathan McCloy tries; 

McCloy 2pen, 2con) Half Time: 

1010. 

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RESULTS 

NEWS 


39 

Aorangi Women's Golf 

Champion of Champions winners: 

The Aorangi Champions of Champions 

and the Gross Stableford Rose Bowl was 

held at the Ashburton Golf Club on 

Sunday 16 October. 

Fifty two women competed for 

individual and team trophies over 9, 18 

and 36 holes. 

Geraldine's Ginny Boldeston, Colleen 

Gibbs and Avrill Burrows took out the 36 

Hole Gross Stableford Rose Bowl with 

117 Gross Stablefords. Ashburton’s team 

of Sharon Bradford, Jenny Stoddart and 

Daphne McDonnell won the Prue 

Sanders Rose Bowl with an 18 hole 

combined nett score of 220. 

The Gay Henderson Tray was won by 

the Pleasant Point team of Helena Love, 

Daphne Campbell and Jenny Moynahan 

with anett aggregate score of 173. 

Individual results 18 holes: Silver 

Gross: (AD Reid Trophy) Lynda Brown 

(Timaru) 83 

Nett Button: Judith Webb (Mayfield) 

76 

Bronze AGross: (Peg Lister Trophy) 

Jenny Stoddart (Ashburton) 89 

Nett Buttons: Jenny Bolitho (Temuka) 

and Sandra Quinn (Rakaia) Nett 74 

Bronze ARunner up: (SCWGA Trophy) 

Daphne McDonnell (Ashburton) Nett 67 

50th Anniversary Salver (not already 

in the prize list): Jenny Johnson (Gleniti) 

Nett 72 

Bronze BNett button Kim Kangmi 

(Gleniti) 69 

Bronze CNett button Bernie Carter 

(Gleniti) 76 

9hole Nett button Natasha Brown 

(Timaru) 32. 

Tinwald Cycling Club 

Christchurch visitor and longtime 

supporter John Doherty claimed victory 

in Tinwald Cycling Club’s, Advance 

Ashburton, Spray Marks, 47km handicap 

event around the Grahams Road block 

on Sunday. 

The first warm summer conditions of 

the season added to the challenge. 

Doherty and his comarkers found the 

front of the race midway through the 

final lap and set about ensuring the 

chasing bunches did not catch them. 

In the final charge to the line it was 

Doherty who found abit extra to take the 

win. 

Mark Smitheram produced his best 

ride of the season to storm into second 

place. 

Third place getter Michelle Davidson 

was another who will be happy with her 

efforts finishing of the race strongly. 

Chris Reid was in the thick of the 

finish to claim fourth place. 

Matt Marshall and Roger Stephens 

rounded out the top half dozen. 

Scratch marker Larry Neal secured 

fastest time honours, riding the course 

in 68.49. 

Kyle Gray and Steve Hands claimed 

second and third time respectively. 

The juniors and division 2contested a 

16km handicap event. 

Carter Shepherd in his first season of 

riding produce ahuge effort to take a 

hard fought win. 

Tom Reid was another to battle hard 

and was rewarded with the second place 

spoils. 

Big sister Leah Reid will be rap with 

effort leading the chasing group in to 

step on to the final podium spot. 

Thomas Stevenson, Isabel Wall, and 

Charlotte Neal Neal filled the top six 

spots. 

Scratch rider Zoe Spillane rode the 

distance in 27.42 to secure fastest time 

honours. 

Harriott Sutton took division 2 

honours. 

Next week the Club will contest a 

graded scratch event around the 

Blackbridge clock. 

Aorangi 9Hole 

The Aorangi association 9hole 

tournament was played at the Mayfield 

Golf Club on Monday 10 October in fine 

sunny conditions. 

Results as follows: Women: Best Gross 

over the field Judith Tutton (Gleniti) 44 

Best Nett 70 years and over (Euny Peg 

Tray) Chris Anderson (Ashburton) 34. 

Grade 1Best nett: Jenny Matthews 33 

(Ashburton) and Sharon Smith 33 

(Timaru) 3rd Chris Anderson 34 

Ashburton. 

Grade 2Best nett: Carolynn Harkness 

37 (Pleasant Point), 2nd Gail Gutsell 39 

(Ashburton), 3rd Colleen Splliane 40 

(Temuka). 

Men: Best nett (Lesley Dobbs 

Tankard) John Greenslade 32 

(Mayfield), 2nd Robert Schikker 35 

(Mayfield) 3rd John Milne 36 (Mayfield) 

and 

Andre Van Rooyan 36 (Mayfield) 

Nearest Pin: Judy Moore (Rakaia) 2nd 

Shot No 2Bryan Petrie (Methven). 

Ashburton Golf Women’s 

Tuesday 18th October 2022: Mystery 

Trip –Kaiapoi 

Maryanne Urquhart Brooch –Marilyn 

Walker –40 

Jeanette Montgomery –40, Alison 

MacGregor –38 

Tuesday 25th October 2022: Irish 

Stableford 

Vicki Moore, Sue Simpson and Erin 

Porter 82 

Nearest the Pins: No 4Chevalier 

Farm Ltd –Pauline Bell, No 8Samantha 

Rose Flowers –Wendy Parr, No 12 

Lynn’s small Salon –Not Struck, No 14 

Todd’s of Ashburton –Sue Simpson, No 

18 2nd Shot –Heather Robertson. 

Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers 

19th Oct 2022. 25 riders. 16km. 1st Paul 

Summerfield 26m 52s. 2nd Don Sutton 

26m 53s. 3rd Paul Sinclair 26m 53s. 4th 

Roger Wilson 26m 54s. 5th Mark 

Smitheram 27m 57s. 6th Charlotte Cox 

27m 58s. 7th Matt Marshall 27m 58s. 8th 

Emma Waite 32m 09s. 9th Honor 

Bradford 32m 09s. 10th Isabel Wall 33m 

36s. 11th Sophie Gibson 33m 17s. 12th 

Leah Reid 33m 38s. 13th Sienna Skilling 

33m 39s. 14th Neil Wylie 33m 41s. 15th 

Nina Bradford 33m 42s. 16th. Tony Ward 

25m 42s F/T. 17th Mark Summerfield 

25m 42s 2f/t. 18th Nick Grijns 25m 43s 

3f/t. 19th Nigel Chatterton 32m 09s. 20th 

Chris Reid 27m 10s. 21st Dave Knight 

29m 42s. 22nd Nick Ralston 38m 09s. 

23rd Brent Hudson 39m 38s. 24th 

Michelle Davidson 33m 59s. 25th Paul 

Hands DNF. 

Softball 

Devon Tavern Hampstead SlowPitch: 

Friday 21st October: Marines &Angels 

315 The Misfits, S&Giggles 1616 Laser 

Attack, Hawkies Hawks 1816 Once Were 

Winners, Retyred 277 Hakatere Hitters. 

Debbie Boon First National Real 

Estate U13 Machine Pitch Competition: 

Longbeach Comets 107 Tinwald Super 

Sluggers, Ashburton Intermediate 

Anacondas 121 Borough Berzerkers, 

Allenton Angels 88 Hampstead 

Giants, Netherby Diamonds 145 

Netherby Strikers. 

Mid Canterbury Softball 

Saturday 22nd October: Junior 

U13s: Ashburton Subway 

Hampstead Avengers 119 

Regent Cinema Hampstead 

Braves; SeniorMixed: Fairfield 

All Sorts 118 Devon Tavern 

Hampstead Phoenix, Rakaia 

Dairy Services Rebels 102 

Devon Tavern Hampstead Heat. 

Ashburton Golf Club 

Saturday 22/10/2022 

Competition: Ambrose Men’s and 

Mixed Pairs 

Radius Care Winner over the 

Field: Brian Nuttell &Bev Chinn 

716.564.5 

2nd: Tim Newton &Beaven 

Wilson 66, 3rd: Karen McRae & 

Hamish Niles 66. 

Other good nett scores were: 

Jason Overend &Brendon 

Davidson 66.25, Paul Greer & 

Murray Wackrow 66.75, Ron & 

Sharon Carlson 67 &Rob &Josh 

Coyle 67.25. 

Two’s: Wendy &Eric Parr, 

Brent &Alison MacGregor, Brian 

Nuttell &Bev Chinn x2 &Paul 

May &Brian Fauth. 

Nearest The Pins: Hole 4# 3 

stooges (Brown Bombers) Brian 

Nuttell, Hole 8# South Island 

Seed and Processing Co. Eric 

Parr, Hole 12# Value Plus: Paul 

May, Hole 14#: Ashburton Mitre 

10: Peter Wright, Hole 6#: 

Hamish Niles Shout! Josh Coyle, 

Hole 9#: Ton’s Thai: Aaron Beal. 

Tinwald Tavern Bonus Spot 

Prize: Kevin Smith. 

Sega Golf 9Hole Competition 

Stableford: Harvey Bakehouse 

Winner over the Field: Peter 

Wright 23pts, 2nd Peter Woods 

21pts, 3rd Ray Greer 19pts, 4th 

Jamie Stone 18pts, 2’s Jamie 

Stone and Peter Woods. 

Waireka Croquet Club 

The Flag Match results for 

Waireka Croquet Club vs Waimate A 

Grade (Association Croquet). Singles: 

Tony King 4vsReece McCorkindale 26; 

Trish Dolan 15 vs Carolyn Fordyce 16. 

Reverse Singles: Tony King 18 vs 

Carolyn Fordyce 20; Trish Collan 12 vs 

Reece McCorkindale 26. 

Winner: Waireka 82 vs Waimate 49. 

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CLUB NEWS 

Ashburton Electronic Organ 

Club 

President Michael welcomed 

avery good crowd to our 

October monthly club night. 

Many thanks to Lorrainefor 

playing in forustonight, 

amazingshe can play so much 

withoutany music 

Theprogramme was 

arranged by thekeyboard group 

who unfortunately had to be 

withoutIris so it was Janet, 

Rose and Michaelwho putona 

lovely varied evening for us 

withalittle help from Irene. 

Tunesincluded You light up 

mylife, Broken Doll, Desert 

Song, Hopscotch polka and 

Naughty lady Shady Lane. 

Michael played us some great 

and very different tunes on the 

big organincludingRadetsky 

Marchand 76 Trombones. 

Afun idea was to have us 

guessing what showorTV 

programmethe song came 

from, who would have 

remembered the theme music 

from Dr Kildare. Good on you 

Marg T. Therewas agood 

selection of raffle prizes. To 

finishoff the evening we were 

entertainedwith somelovely 

singingbySylvia McKay with 

help fromLee Muckle. Thank 

you everyone for alovely 

evening. 

Mid Canterbury Ladies 

Friendship Club 

The October meeting was 

presided over by Secretary 

Marg Watson. Members stoodin 

silence as amark of respecton 

the passingofamember. 

Birthdays and anniversaries 

were celebrated. Val Johnson 

gave areport on the trip to 

Oamaru,they learnt the history 

of Waitaki Boys High School, 

and even were welcomedby the 

Mayor. They werepiped into 

the Hall of Memories and 

listened to beautiful music 

from the pipe organ. 

Marion told of atrue story of 

how she reunited aduck with 

her many ducklingsthat had 

fallen down adrain. 

Thereistobe aChristmas 

meal at Hakatere on 14 

December. 

The guest speaker wasDonna 

Collinsfrom St VincentDePaul 

Opportunity Shop. Donna is the 

manager and has been there 

since 2015. The organisation 

was started in Parisin1833, 

came to NewZealand in 1868, 

and has been in Ashburton over 

50 years. Theygive outfood 

parcels and find the community 

to be very generous.Then 

severalofthe memberslooked 

very fashionable when they 

modelled itemsofclothing from 

the shop. 

TheThought for the Month 

was “ThereisnoWiFiinthe 

Forest, butIpromise youthere 

is abetter connection.” 

If youwishtovisit our 

friendly group please phone 

either Julie 3084254 or Rae 

3088927, we would love to meet 

you. Next meetingis 10am on 9 

November 2022at the Hotel 

Ashburton. It is to be a“hat 

day”, members to wear ahat 

and to bring anymemorabilia 

pertaining to Royalty. 

Creative Fibre 

CreativeFibre had a‘double’ 

meeting at the Plains Museum 

recently and membersand a 

visitorwere welcomedbythe 

CoChairperson. Shealso 

congratulated amember on 

winning both asilver anda 

bronze medal at the recent 

Masters Games–for croquet. 

Inthe reports, one member 

commented on the Pleasant 

PointRailway Centennialand 

InternationalSpinning Open 

Day. Someparticipants wore 

period costumeand an elderly 

gentlemancommentedthat he 

was reminded of his 

grandmother –more than once. 

Still to be confirmed is the 

trip to Little River on Monday 

31st October. For further 

information, contact Sue on Ph 

03 3071435 or 022 3071435. 

Acommittee meeting is being 

held on November 7th at 9.00am 

at thePlainsMuseum. This is 

followedbyCraft Cluster at 

10am and the Area AGM in 

Timaru at 1.30pm the sameday. 

Christmas decorations to be 

displayed at the meetingon 

November 21st at thePlains 

Museumand aChristmas lunch 

(finger food–catered) is 

planned on December 5thalso 

at thePlains Museum. Please 

bringalong acup and $15.to 

cover caterers. 

Show and Tell: The Convenor 

displayed articlesfinished in 

the last monthbymembers. 

Crochet was 3sun hats and a 

bag. Knitted wasatriangle 

shawl, 2children’s jerseys and 

acardigan, 3teddies, and the 

highlight was aDartmoor Dyed 

WoolRug, with one square 

‘boil’ felted andanotherrug 

that was made on apeg loom 

with stripscut fromrecycled 

Tshirts. 

Donated items were 5rugs for 

CancerSociety,3beaniesfor 

Westpac Helicoptersand 4 

children’s jerseysfor 

Grandparentsbringing up 

Warren Jeffs 

Grandchildren. 

After ashort break, members 

gathered to hear the Co 

Chairperson’s report which 

reminded us of the busy–if 

somewhatinterrupted year (for 

Covid),and the Treasurer 

presentedthe financial 

statementwhich showed a 

credit balance. 

May Greenslade then filled 

the Chair for theElection of 

Officerswhich remainthe same 

as last year with theadditions 

to manage the evolutions of our 

group. 

Mid Canterbury Central 

Friendship Club 

October 2022 meeting: 

President Merv welcomed 65 

members to the meeting and 

received apologies. Derek 

Prebble then introduceda 

visitor, JohnHumm to the 

meeting. 

It was noted Warren Jeffs, 

pictured above, will no longer 

be standingfor the position as 

Northern South Island District 

Councillor. 

TreasurerBruceWelsh 

mentioned that therewere32 

members on thedayout to Lake 

Ellesmere and Leeston last 

monthwas agreatsuccess, and 

there was a$1profit after 

paying for thebus . 

President Merv then thanked 

Ron Winchester for organizing 

the event. 

Our mini speakerwasDon 

Prouting who spokeabout his 

life so far. He is theoldestof 

eight children of Malcolm and 

Thelma Prouting, nee Gifkins. 

His first schooling wasby 

correspondence as they lived at 

Mesopotamia, thenatPeel 

Forest. He told of his escapades 

withhis shangeye. His 

secondary education was three 

years at St Andrews,then back 

home for ayear as amusterer. 

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Rabbits were aproblem and 

they used to spread poisoned 

carrots which wasvery 

effective. Also shooting them 

was another option. One 

rabbitershot3400 over five 

weeks,averaging nearly 100 per 

day. 

He workedonGreyHills also, 

then was in agroupoffive set 

up the Round Hillski field. In 

1964 he did astintinAustralia 

studying stud sheepbreading 

and harvestingoats. which 

causesanitch, andwhen the 

boss told him to drive the 

header he saidhegot theitch to 

go home. Which he did. 

Themain speaker was David 

Jonesfromthe Nelson Savings 

Bank, who spent his early 

childhoodinRuapunawhen his 

fatherboughtthe school after it 

closedand converted it into a 

house. His working life was 

sevenyears at 

ANZCOinthe pelt house, 

then off to University to 

complete adegree in business 

studies. 

He workedfor theNelson 

Savings Bank and eventually 

become the manager here in 

Ashburton.The bank workslike 

most other banks but includes 

sponsoring many sports clubs. 

e.g. the hockeyturf. 

His main subject was about 

scamsand how some people 

have been hookedin. The old 

one is someone telling you that 

your computer is faulty and 

could you go and start it up. 

Some scams askyou to click 

on an attachment andthat is 

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David answered many 

questionsfromthe floor before 

beingpresented with agiftand 

thanked by President Merv. 

Themeeting closedwiththe 

singing of the National Anthem. 

Ashburton PakekeLions 

Club 

President JimYoung 

welcomed Members and 

Partners to the October 

Meeting and Lion Joe Butchard 

read theapologies and 

welcomed the Ladies Social 

Members. Lion Robert Spencer 

reported on theprogress of the 

ChristmasRaffle as tickets 

have already beensold at the 

FarmersMarket and 

Supervalue. AClipboard was 

circulated to gather names of 

members who canhelp sell 

these tickets and also names 

wererequiredfor parking 

duties at the AviationMuseum 

Extravaganza at Labour 

Weekend.Club visiting, Bus 

Trip to PeelForest, CarTrial, A 

&PShow Setup and Special 

NeedsOuting were also 

discussed. Lion Jim Martin 

read Grace. Lion Trevor 

Andrews introduced Jan 

McClelland from Age Concern 

who was the guest speaker for 

the evening. 

Jangave amost interesting 

and informativetalk on the 

servicesthat the Age Concern 

provideincluding 206 Club, 

Exercises Classes, HipHop for 

Seniors, Steady as youGo 

Classes, Courtesy Drivers, 

Refresher Coursesfor Older 

Drivers, Health Seminars, 

Seniors Social Group, andTotal 

Mobility etc. Thegoal is to 

improvethe wellbeing, 

flexibility,generalfitness, 

reliance and fortitude of their 

clients. The organisation began 

in 1986tomeet theneedsofthe 

older community in Mid 

Canterbury andin1991they 

renamed to Aged ConcernMid 

Canterbury. After questions 

frommembers Jan was 

presented with flowersand a 

certificatebyDiane Young. 

Rafflesweredrawnand 

Tailtwisters Jim &Diane 

Young extracted finesfrom 

members. LionJim thanked 

membersfor their attendance 

and the meeting closed withthe 

singing of the National Anthem. 

The Novembermeetingofthe 

Ladies Craft Group is on 

Monday 14th November. Thisis 

an outing to Leeston to the 

Crate andBarrel Restaurant 

for lunch. Please meet at Hotel 

Ashburtoncar park at 11.am. 

Ashburton Bowling Club 

On Monday the17th 

AshburtonBowling Club began 

the staging of the Ladies 

Chartered Clubs Tournament, 

along with MSA.Itstartedwith 

awarmwelcome from our 

President Diane, who was in 

attendance each dayalways 

helpful and welcoming. 

Play started with the opening 

day beingchilly andgrey, but 

the remainder of the weekwas 

sunny and warm. The 

Championship winning team, 

Ashburtonand MSA, comprised 

Rosemary Bennett, Sandra 

Holdom,Shirley Doig, Leonie 

Spargo. Congratulations, 

ladies, especiallyto 

Ashburton’s Leonie Spargo. 

The Championship runnersup 

were Richmond WMC. The 

Plate Winnerswere Dunedin 

Metro.Congratulations to all 

the winnersand also to allwho 

took part. 

But the overall winners, 

judging by thecompliments 

galore thatfloodedin 

concerning ourhospitality, 

must be Ashburton Bowling 

Club. Notonly for the 

tremendouseffort made by the 

organisers and volunteerswith 

regards to thecatering, but also 

to the greenkeepers, surrounds 

personneland general 

volunteers for their efforts. And 

the setting of the Domain itself 

in Springtimeenhances 

everyone’s effortsand is the 

perfect framefor staging sucha 

Tournament. 

Aquote from ourSecretary, 

Margaret Eder confirms: 

“Thankyou to all the catering 

assistance Ireceivedover the 

pastfew very busy days Gavin, 

Annette, Allison, Anne, 

Christine, andtothe baking 

contributors –Christine, 

Allison, HeatherGray, Lynn 

and Wendy Petrie. 

It has beenapleasureand 

great working with you all. 

It was also veryheartening to 

receive the compliments 

concerning the overall 

experience of playing at 

AshburtonBCinthe Domain.” 

The2bowl tripleswhich was 

to have been staged at 

Ashburtononthe 22nd October, 

wascancelled due to lack of 

entries. 

Therefore our rollover triples 

went aheadinthe sunshine. 

WinnerswereTBlain and M 

Flatmanwith2wins, 10 ends, 20 

points.Runners up wereG 

Taylor, GSparks,LCurd with 2 

wins, 10 ends, 18 points. 

AshburtonLadies 

Championship Fours will 

continue on Tuesday,25th 

October at 1pm and continue on 

to Thursday, and beyond if 

required. 

We have ourInhouse/Ingold 

Tray Competition on the 29th, 

(plate please) and names on the 

white board, thank you. 

Commencing time is yet to be 

decided. 

Good bowlingeveryone!

NEWS 


41 

School sports 

Sports Day action from 

pupils at Ashburton 

BoroughSchool last week. 

The schoolwas one of 

many to get their summer 

athleticssports day 

programme completed 

and top athletes found 

ahead of Mid Canterbury's 

County Sports at 

AshburtonDomain Oval, 

on November4. 

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“I’m interested in knowing what myhome is 

worth.” 

Chrissy Milne 

027 290 6606 chrissy.milne@raywhite.com 

CHRISSYMILNE 

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time to meet soIcan prepare afree no 

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96 Tancred Street 


Ashburton •Tinwald •Methven 

rwashburton.co.nz •03307 8317 

Real Estate Mid Canterbury PropertyLimited Licensed (REAA 2008)

RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL 

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 

NEW LISTING 

RAKAIA 61 Normanby Street 

Opportunity Knocks! 

Very well presented Keith Hay home situatedonthe West 

side of Rakaia. Recently painted throughout, sunny aspect 

with excellent outdoor living area. Three bedrooms, 

updated bathroom, heatpump and HRV. Outdoor utility 

room would make agreat rumpus room/storage area. 

Large 1011 sqm sectionwhich has possibilities worth 

lookinginto. 

pggwre.co.nz/ASH36857 

ENQUIRIES OVER $459,000 

GST Inclusive 

VIEW 

By Appointment Only 

Stephen Watson 


OPEN HOME 

ALLENTON 38 Alford ForestRoad 

Investment!! Or AStep Onto The Property Ladder! 

Don'tmiss this opportunity to growyourinvestment 

portfolio, or to take that first step on the property ladder. 

Affordableand spacious three bedroom home in the very 

soughtafter location of Allenton. Goodsized section, close 

to amenities, it would be great for afamily. Single garage 

and plenty of storage, with an open plan kitchen/dining 

and separate lounge. 

PRICE BY NEGOTIATION 

VIEW 

10.00-10.30am, Saturday 29 October & 5 

November 

Deb Roberts 

M 021 0752180 

NORTH OTAGO 390 Steward Road 

'Simpson Park' -ATier One Dairy Unit -149ha 

-'SimpsonPark' is aspray irrigated, high performing 

dairy unit in the heart of the Waitaki Plains 

-54bale rotary dairy shed, equipped with all modern 

technology 

-Consistently milking between 560-570 cows with 

production around 260,000 -265,000kgMS 

-Irrigated by Lower Waitaki Irrigation schemes. Two 

Valley pivots covering approximately 110ha with the 

remainder by K-Line 

-Three homes and fully environmentally compliant 

-Aconsistent,low cost, farm with ideal location 

DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY 

Plus GST (if any) 

(Unless Sold Prior) 

Closes 12.00pm, Friday 11 November 

Dan van der Salm 

M 021 918 233 

Dave Heffernan 




TEMUKA 219 and 221 John Talbot Road 

'Woodlands' -142 Hectares 

'Woodlands' is an intensive mixed cropping and 

fattening property located only 7km from Temuka in 

the highly regarded area of Waitohi. The rich 

versatile silt loam soils have aproven production 

history and have been farmed by the same family for 

over 150 years. Infrastructure consists of two good 

homes and large quality shedding and workshop 

facilities to support farm operations and other offfarm 

activities. Excellent grain storage facilities with 

drying capabilities. 'Woodlands' provides an 

opportunity for farmers or contractors to purchase a 

quality property with logistical advantages. 



Closes1.00pm, Thursday 17 

November 

Simon Richards 


HAZELBURN 617 Raincliff Road 

'Rockpool' -290 Hectares* 

'Rockpool' is located in the Raincliff area and is 

currently run as adeer unit but would be suitable for 

cattle and sheep. Farming approximately 290ha* 

(freehold and accretion land) and subdivided into 44 

paddocks, including a64hatrophy/game park. 

'Rockpool' has abalance of contours and soils with 

flats, rolling hills and steeper country with 

picturesque limestone outcrops. Good deer handling 

facilities with hydraulic crush and various other 

implement/support buildings. Access throughout 

the property via acentral laneway with arterials. 

*Subject to issue of new titles for accretion claim. 



Closes 1.00pm,Tuesday 22 

November 

Robin Ford 


Simon Richards 


pggwre.co.nz/TIM36724 


PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008 

191 Burnett Street & 

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Phone:03308 6173 

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www.pggwre.co.nz 

Trevor Hurley 

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M027 543 5799 

Robin Ford 

Rural Sales 


Stephen Watson 

Lifestyle &Residential 


TimGallagher 

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Deborah Roberts 

Residential Sales 

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Methven 

4/36 McMillan Street 

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03 303 3032 



Real Estate Mid Canterbury Property Limited Licensed(REAA 2008)

SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER 

71a Oxford Street,Ashburton 10:00-10:30am 2 1 1 AHB30392 

2Maple Lane, Ashburton 10:00-10:30am 2 1 2 AHB30355 

3/85 Aitken Street,Ashburton 10:00-10:30am 2 1 1 AHB30385 

126 Middle Road, Ashburton 10:30-11:00am 4 3 2 AHB30417 

378a Burnett Street, Ashburton 11:00-11:30am 2 1 2 AHB23045 

21 Reighton Drive,Ashburton 11:00-11:30am 3 2 3 AHB30413 

6Mason Place, Ashburton 11:15-11:45am 3 2 2 AHB30249 

44 Line Road, Methven 11:30-12:00pm 4 1 0 MVN30038 

13 Walshs Road, Ashburton 12:00-12:30pm 4 2 2 AHB23043 

1Todd Place, Ashburton 12:00-12:30pm 3 1 1 AHB22751 

8Orchard Grove,Ashburton 12:45-1:15pm 2 1 1 AHB30353 

41 Redhaven Rise,Ashburton 1:00-1:30pm 4 2 2 AHB30362 

83 David Street, Hinds 1:30-2:00pm 3 1 3 AHB30399 

15 Reed Street, Hinds 2:00-2:30pm 4 1 4 AHB30331 

Open Home 

6Mason Place, Ashburton 

3 2 2 

This majestic 3bedroom, 2bathroom split level home 

sits upon 774sqm of stunning, colourful land &gardens. 

All service areas of the home having been updated 

in some form including being re-painted throughout 

recently including the roof. Kitchen offers aspacious 

layout which is beautifully set for the morning sun. 

The dining area leads through from here, which in turn 

opens out onto abeautiful deck &lawn.The lounge is 

off the dining area &isspacious. Double internal garage 

with beautiful separatewooden doors. 

ForSale 

Offers over$779,000 

View 

Saturday11:15 -11:45am 

Armand vander Eik 

021 597 527 

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB30249 

Real Estate Mid Canterbury Property Ltd LICENSED (REAA 2008) 

Open Home 

126 Middle Road, Ashburton 

Set to receive the sun magnificently, this 808sqm family 

sized section is an ideal blend of Spaciousness &Easy 

care. Inside is aGorgeous Entertainers Kitchen with a 

Large Scullery which includes two sinks, two full size 

Dishwashers, two Built in Ovens &agranite bench top. 



SetDate of Sale 

closing 1November 2022, at 

3:00pm (unless sold prior) 

View 

Saturday10:30am -11:00am 

4 3 2 



Open Home 

83 David Street, Hinds 

3 1 3 

43 Glassworks Road, Ashburton 

3 2 6 

On one title you have aspacious three bedroom 

Oamaru Stone home which has been beautifully updated 

throughout with aNew Kitchen, NewBathroom 

&re-painted. Also includes afully lockable Triple garage 

with workshop &extra high stud, Plus aHobbyroom. 



SetDate of Sale 

closing 1November 2022, at 

3:00pm (unless sold prior) 

View 

Saturday1:30 -2:00pm 



*1.0232 hectares five minutes to town centre 

*Two bathrooms, separate showerroom and toilet. 

*Kitchen with abutlers pantry &recently updated 

applicances 

*Separate 12x6 metre Skyline garagewith four, 2.6 m 

doorsSa 



ForSale 

Price onApplication 

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BruceMcPherson 


Denise McPherson 


Kim Miller 

Sales Consultant 

027 236 8627 

Denise Russell 



ChrissyMilne 



Cheryl Fowler 



Margaret Feiss 


021 751 009 

ShirleyFitzgerald 



Carey VonLubke 






Lynne Bridge 



Mike Grant ncre 


021 272 0202 

BruceMcPherson 



Denise McPherson 



Manjit Singh 


020 4079 3871 

Janene McDowell 



96 TancredStreet, Ashburton 03 307 8317 Main Road,Tinwald 03 307 8317 


36 McMillan Street,Methven 03 303 3032


3DAVIS CRESCENT 6 2 1 

LIVE IN ONE RENT THE OTHER 

•Six Bedrooms •Sunny North Facing Lounges 

•Separate Kitchen, Laundry &Toilets •Large 

Double Garage •Rented at $590p/w •1002m2 

Section with potential to subdivide (subject 

to survey). This is an oustanding opportunity 

to secure this unqiue property &benefit from 

it’s rental return. BEO $500K -$550K BIR PBN 

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ljhooker.co.nz/6ZHYK 

Agent 

Julie Srhoy 021 354 885 

45 TANCRED STREET 4 1 6 

HOME W/ GARAGING +SUBDIVISION 

Potential plus exudes here, modern family 

home with 4bdrms, HRV, wood burner, o/p 

kitchen/dining/lounge. Two titles, Section 

offering the ultimate subdivision (subject to 

survey) up to 6sections. Shed with facilities/ 

sleep out, storage shed/garage upto6. BEO 

$689,000 

View 


ljhooker.co.nz/79HYK 

Agent 


1946 ARNOLD VALLEY ROAD 

BUILD OR BANK THE LAND! 

These exceptionally private sections offer the 

ultimate lifestyle with the Moana township 

just astroll away. Situated approx 50 mins 

from Hokitika, Lake Brunner is amagnet for 

tourists &Christchurch residents. Everything 

is right at your doorstep. 2freehold titles left. 

Asking Price $259,000 +GST (if any) 

View 


ljhooker.co.nz/6GHYK 

Agent 

Manu Otene 022 308 6885 

374 WRIGHTS ROAD 5 2 3 

DUNSANDEL -LIFESTYLE DIY DREAM 

O/plan, 4living/lounges, 5bdrms, 2bthrms 

entertainment area, 4bay shed.This lifestyle 

block has huge potential with ample space 

&opportunity to renovate at your leisure. 4ha 

been leased byafarmer, with land in good 

condition. Lots of potential to develop into a 

premium property. Offers Over $729,000 

View 


ljhooker.co.nz/7YHYK 

Agent 


129 MAIN STREET, METHVEN 

PREMIUM LOCATION CAFE/RESTAURANT 

Opportunity here to start your own Cafe 

at an affordable price, on the Main Street 

on Methven! Entry level only cost of plant 

&chattels. Commerical Lease 9years left. 

Approved for 50 chairs. Put your own touch 

on the premises &it’s ready to go! 

Price by Negotiation. 

View 


ljhooker.co.nz/82HYK 

Agent Manu Otene 022 308 6885 | 


MORE LISTINGS NEEDED! 

Talk toustoday about how to prepare your 

residential, rural or lifestyle property 

to sell this spring and get ahead start 

on the rest ofthe market. 

Call us today on 0800 554 274 

Julie Srhoy 

Sales &Listings 

021 354 885 

Manu Otene 

Sales &Listings 

022 308 6885 

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NEW LISTING 

Methven 

4Arrowsmith Drive 

OPEN HOME 

Mt Somers 

59 Pattons Road 

4 2 2 2 

3 1 1 1 

Artist's impression 

DeadlineSale (unlesssoldprior) 2pm, Fri11Nov 2022 

View by appointment 

FeeEnsor 021705 014 

fee.ensor@bayleys.co.nz 

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REAACT 2008 

DeadlineSale (unless sold prior) 2pm, Wed9Nov 2022 

View Sun 11-11.30amorbyappointment 



WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSEDUNDERTHE REAACT 2008 

Smart and new 

Country charm 

Be quicktosnap up this stunning Jennian home Land 

andBuild package. Thehard work hasbeen done,titles 

have been issued andthe plans are approvedbythe 

council. This spacious 203sqm (approx) fourbedroom 

house is ready to be constructed, cleverlydesigned to 

maximise space, sun and privacy. 

With afunctional and family friendly layout, this 

property will be light-filled and offers quality fittings 

andfixturesthroughout. 

Nestled on apeaceful and fully fenced 896sqm 

(approx.) section, this country cottage is the ideal first 

home, investment or holiday home set in the heart of 

Mt Somers. 

The home has original features throughout including 

wood panelling, stainedglass windows and alovely 

front porch to relaxonand enjoy mulled wine, 

watchingthe lights on Mt Hutt in winter, andthe 

peaceful village atmosphere in summer. 

Indication only, display home image 

bayleys.co.nz/5519709 


OPEN HOME 

Methven 

83 BarkersRoad 

FINAL NOTICE 

Methven 

12 BarkersRoad 

3 2 2 2 

3 1 1 

Asking Price $795,000 

View Sun 12.30-1pm or by appointment 



DeadlineSale (unless sold prior) 2pm, Thu27Oct 2022 


Fee Ensor 021 705014 




Premium property, premium location 

In the hubofMethven 

Escapetoyour own private oasis in Camrose, Methven. 

This immaculately presented three bedroom home is 

perfectly positioned on aquiet rearsection withthe 

sun and mountain viewstaken into thoughtful 

consideration. The outdoorareaisalsosituated near a 

protected reserve. 

Convenientlylocatedwithinashort distanceofthe 

town centre, localschools andamenities. 


After something alittle outside the square?The search 

is over! Located in the hub of Methven, sits this two 

level,three bedroom, alpinestyled home.Asecure 

rental opportunity foraninvestor, an attractive first 

home to be proud of, or alow maintenancelock and 

leave forthe holiday maker. Twodouble bedrooms 

andatoilet upstairs, onedouble bedroom, spacious 

bathroom, and separatetoilet downstairs. 


Methven 

86 Spaxton Street 

OPEN HOME 

Methven 

34A Spaxton Street 

2 1 1 

362sqm 2 1 1 2 

DeadlineSale (unlesssoldprior) 2pm, Thu27Oct 2022 


Rosa Dekker 0274 655 387 

rosa.dekker@bayleys.co.nz 


View Sun 1.30-2pm or by appointment 

Fee Ensor 021 705014 




Modern ease 

Aseriouscontender 

Presentedinexcellent condition, on alow 

maintenance section, thissuper propertyhas all the 

ingredients foraneasy life. The home has been well 

maintainedand includes amodernkitchen, bathroom, 

twodouble bedrooms and laundry.You will stay warm 

and cosy in winter with double glazing and aheat 

pump. The easy-care section is mostly fenced, includes 

asmall garden shed andprovides the perfect amount 

of lawnand garden. 

Tucked away from the street forpeace andprivacy, 

this moderntwo-bedroom127sqm brick home is 

presentedonalow maintenance362sqm(more or 

less)fencedsection. Offeringcomfort, practicality and 

convenience, thisproperty is ready andwaiting for 

new owners. The open plan living,dining, andkitchen 

area look out onto aprivate, sun-soaked, patio and 

easy-care sectionwith raised garden beds readytoget 

aveggiegarden flourishing. 



Methven 

Lot90Memorial Crescent 

UNDER CONTRACT 

Methven 

14B MemorialCrescent 

775sqm 

1,020sqm 4 2 2 2 

Boundary lines are indicative only 

For Sale offers invited over $230,000 


Rosa Dekker 0274655 387 

rosa.dekker@bayleys.co.nz 


Price by Negotiation 


Fee Ensor 021 705014 


WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSEDUNDERTHE REA ACT 2008 

Priced to sell 

Bypass the stress of building 

This well sited rear775sqm(more or less) section, 

located in ahigh-qualitysubdivision within Methven, 

offersawonderful platform to design andbuild the 

home of your dreams. Withtitles dueearlynext year, it 

is the perfect time tostart the planning process and 

turn your dreams into reality. Surrounded by 

breathtaking scenery andonthe doorstep to allthat 

Methvenand its surrounds has to offer, who wouldn't 

want to live here? 


Tucked away on arearsection, this modernfour 

bedroom,two bathroom, 218.2sqmhome is less than a 

year oldand ready fornew owners due toour vendors 

relocating.The househas been strategicallyplaced to 

take fulladvantageofthe sun andlarge lawn space on 

the 1,020sqmpartially fencedsection. You will love 

entertainingyour guests in astylish open planned 

kitchen andlivingarea. 


Photo nottaken fromsite 

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NEW LISTING 

Netherby 8BridgeStreet 

Red brick beauty on Bridge 

Well-loved for many years, thisoriginal 1940's two-bedroomhome on Bridge Street is in immaculate condition. Traditional 

red brick homewith awhite picket fence, thespacious kitchen and dining area capture the morningsun, whilethe living 

roomincludes agas firetokeepthe home cosy in winter.The housecontainsmultiple storage options includingfull-length 

kitchencabinets and built-in wardrobes in both bedrooms. New carpethas been installed throughout and built-in shelving in 

thelivingroom providesaplace for all your memories.The 675sqm (more or less) section is easy-care and includes an 

attached single garageand multiplesheds. Located next to the Netherby shops, andclose to the Ashburton township, this 

home is the perfectstart for thosewanting to get on theproperty ladder or those looking to downsize. 

2 1 1 1 

For Saleoffers invitedover $420,000 

View Sun 12-12.30pmorbyappointment 

Emily Smith 027222 4596 

emily.smith@bayleys.co.nz 

WHALAN ANDPARTNERS LTD,BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REAACT 2008 


OPEN HOME 

Hampstead 36 CambridgeStreet 

402sqm 3 1 2 2 

PricebyNegotiation 

View Sun 2-2.30pmorbyappointment 

Emily Smith 027 2224596 emily.smith@bayleys.co.nz 

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS,LICENSED UNDERTHE REA ACT 2008 

Charming on Cambridge 

Situatedonaquietstreet close to town thisimmaculate three-bedroom,two-bathroom home was built in 2008 and 

has been well-maintained over theyears. The modern open plan kitchen andlivingareaensures entertaining is done 

with ease, during thewarmermonths friends and family can enjoy theprivate patio area or deckwith all-day sun. 

Double glazingthroughout with aheat pump andHRV systemallows forcomfortall year round.Multiple storage 

optionsare available in thehallway andall bedrooms have sizeable built-inwardrobes. Aseparate double garageand 

garden shed ensure there's plenty of room fortools and toys. 

Located close to multiplelocal amenities, Hampstead School, Hampstead Kindergarten and Friedlander Park.This 

homeisanideal opportunityfor thosewantinganinvestment property, lock andleave or aplace to call home. 


FINAL NOTICE 

Allenton 16 CountryPlace 

1,167sqm 4 2 2 2 

Deadline Sale (unlesssoldprior) 3pm, Wed 2Nov 2022 

201 West Street,Ashburton 

View Sun 11.30am-12.15pm or by appointment 

Mick Hydes 027 4379696mick.hydes@bayleys.co.nz 

Ray Knight 027 4340139ray.knight@bayleys.co.nz 


Premier position 

We are delighted to presentthisstylish four-bedroomhome seldomly availableinConistonWater. Thisproperty 

reallymakes an impression, with arecently painted exterior and strikingwindowawningsitissited on a1,167sqm 

(moreorless) private section which takesfulladvantage of thesun,offering multiple outdoor entertainingareasthat 

flow seamlessly intothe living area. There is ample room forthe whole familywithalarge kitchen, dining andliving, 

and aseparate lounge. Spacious bedrooms, masterhas awalk-inwardrobeand ensuite, whilst theremaining 

bedroomssharethe generousfamily bathroom. 


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OPEN HOME 

Ashburton 320A HavelockStreet 

Soak up thesun 

This practical, comfortable and sunny 120sqm stand-alone townhouse offerslow maintenance living in aconvenient town 

location. The open plan living,dining and kitchenprovide an idealspace to welcome friends and family.The diningarea 

features alovely bay window, great for plants to soak up the sun. Downthe hallwayyou will find two bedrooms with built-in 

wardrobes andpositioned for afternoon sun, bathroom,separate toilet, separate laundryalong with an oversized single 

garage. This homehas recently had new flooring installedthroughout and will be asolid optionfor first-home buyers or for 

thoselooking to downsize. Set off the road, this rear townhouse hasasimple garden with avarietyofmature rosesofevery 

colour, awelcomingsight to come home to. Aheatpumpensuresyear-roundcomfortwhateverthe weather. Thecentral 

locationcombinedwithits easy-care nature will make this home apopularchoice. 

2 1 1 1 

Deadline Sale (unlesssoldprior) 12pm, Thu10Nov 2022 

201West Street, Ashburton 

View Sun 11.30am-12pm or by appointment 

Rachel Mulcay 0275 443 618 

rachel.mulcay@bayleys.co.nz 

WHALAN ANDPARTNERS LTD,BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REAACT 2008 


OPEN HOME 

Allenton 86 BeltRoad 

665sqm 2 1 2 

ForSale offers invitedover $620,000 

View Sun 1-1.30pmorby appointment 

Emily Smith 027222 4596 emily.smith@bayleys.co.nz 

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDERTHE REAACT 2008 

Aplace to call home 

This is awonderful opportunity forthose looking to downsize, purchase afirsthomeormove closer to Ashburton 

township. Located on Belt Road,this two-bedroom,two-bathroom home hasbeenwell-maintainedand cared for 

over the years.Openplan kitchenanddining captureall day sun, aperfect spot foryourmorning coffee or to host 

friends andfamily. The generousliving areaprovides plenty of space and includes acosylog fire andheatpumpfor 

thecooler months. Recentrenovations in thekitchen andbathrooms include classicdetailssuchasPerrin&Rowe 

tapware,wooden interiorshutters, and LEDlighting,alongwith the added bonusofdoubleglazing in themaster 

bedroom. Seton665sqm (more or less), theprivate outdoorspaceisideal for hosting in thewarmer months.Contact 

me today formore information on this remarkable home. 


OPEN HOME 

Allenton 14 DavidsonStreet 

801sqm 3 2 1 2 


View Sun 10.30-11amorbyappointment 

Mick Hydes 027 4379696mick.hydes@bayleys.co.nz 

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDERTHE REA ACT 2008 

Motivated and realistic, bring me an offer 

Our vendorshavemovedout andmovedon, don’tmissthe opportunity to takeupresidenceinthe sought-after area 

of Allenton, on aquietstreet with Allenton Primary and AshburtonCollege close by.This spacious home comprises 

threedouble bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen/dining,living with an office spaceand aseparatelounge. You willbekept 

warm andcosywith thenewultracleanair logfireover the coolermonths. There arethree shade sailstokeep you 

shadedinsummer as well whilstentertaining yourguests. Featuring established gardenswith aBBQ area. Great offstreet 

parking with adouble garage that also has arear door foraccess to the backyard.This homeisready to move 

intoimmediately, so actquickly, contact the agentfor aviewing or formore information. 


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FINAL NOTICE 

Hatfield 1002 SomertonRoad 

105.7267ha 

Deadline Sale (unlesssoldprior) 12pm, Fri 4Nov 2022 


Mike Preston 027430 7041 mike.preston@bayleys.co.nz 

Adam Whitelock 027408 3424 adam.whitelock@bayleys.co.nz 


Property for lease 

Located within close proximity to Rakaia,this propertyshowstheattributes of qualityTempleton soils and irrigation, 

producing arange of cropsparticularly specialist smallseedsincluding carrots, radishes andbeetroot, peas, grass 

seed,cerealsand potatoes. Winter feed crops are also growninrotation for grazing sheep andlambs. 

BCI Scheme provideswater and is appliedvia three pivot irrigators. 

Available on a3+2yeartenure. 

Boundarylines are indicativeonly 


Tinwald 5Birchside Lane 

938sqm 3 2 1 1 

ForSale offers invitedover $599,000 


Mick Hydes 027437 9696 mick.hydes@bayleys.co.nz 

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS,LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008 

Handy to Town 

Built in 2013byDes MillarConstruction this 156sqm home hasplenty of scope to add value and your own touches, 

without delays and the hassleofanew build. This well-maintained property is situated on a938sqm (moreorless) 

section down aprivate lane, just ashort driveorstrollinto town, cafes, and agarden centre. Comprisingthree 

bedroomswith built-in wardrobes,abathroom andseparate toilet, it is perfect for afamily. Livingareas arekept cosy 

by aclean air approved log fire and heat pump;aseparatekitchen, laundry, and single garagecomplete thepicture of 

thishome. Thereisplentyofspacetoadd another garage or workshop as thesection is mainlylawnwith some 

perimeter plantings, the opportunitieshereare endlessand aquickturnaround is possible. 


AshburtonSurrounds 14 West Bay Place 

1,026sqm 



Simon Sharpin 027631 8087 simon.sharpin@bayleys.co.nz 



Secure your spot 

Those wantingtobuild at thehighlysought-afterLake Hood willbedrawn to this1,026sqm (moreorless) section in 

WestBay Place.Borderingacanaland set at theend of thecul-de-sac, with power, water, andseweravailable at the 

boundary, it's theperfect blank canvastodesignawaterfront home.House planshavebeendesignedand are 

available to viewonrequest.The makings of aprivate jetty have already started, withthe remaining timberavailable 

as an additional purchase. Located in theperfectspotfor all kindsofwater sports and recreational activities, withthe 

addedbonus of thepopular Lake House restaurantashortwalk away,thissection isonly minutes away fromthe 

Ashburton township. 


Tinwald Tinwald WesterfieldMayfield Road 

4,000sqm 




Simon Sharpin 027631 8087 simon.sharpin@bayleys.co.nz 


Westview-new beginnings 

Secure the dream nowand lockinyour slice of Ashburton'sexciting newsubdivisionwith 4,000sqmplussections. 

Situated inTinwald,Westview sections offerthe opportunity to enjoy the benefits of countrylivingwithtown 

amenitiesand entertainmentright on your doorstep. With uninterruptedcountryside andmountainvistas, making 

Westview your home promisesanenviablelifestyle encompassing the bestoftown and country. Section sizes 

4,000sqm plus (moreorless) with prices startingfrom $315,000. 


Boundary lines are indicative only 

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OPEN HOME l 12.00pm -12.30pm 

OPEN HOME l 10.30am -11.00am 

393 West Street,Ashburton – 

•Four tenants 

•Land area 7,960m2 

•Floor area over four buildings 1,869m2 

•100% leased 

•Four buildings 

Deadline Sale 

4pm 28th October2022 

Premium investing opportunity 

•VTNZ, Goodyear AutoCare,Hunting 

and Fishing and Midlands Seeds 

•Ample parking for 

each building 

Mark Williams 


87 Cridland Street, 

Rakaia 

•Four generously sized bedrooms 

•Well-appointedentertainer’s kitchen 

•Large internal garage,plus separate 

single garage and workshop 

•Beautiful,landscaped gardens, on 

944sqm corner section 

Enquiries Over 

$875,000 

Roberta Counsell 


5ElizabethAvenue, 

Rakaia 

•Three bedrooms,low maintenance 

townhouse 

•Double glazingand heatpump 

•411sqm section on afreehold title 

•Single garage with internal access 

Enquiries over 

$520,0000 






OPEN HOME l 11.30am -12.00pm 

18Elizabeth Avenue, 

Rakaia 

•Recently renovatedwith new carpets, 

vinyls and paint 

•Sunny, three bedroom home 

•Heatpump and diesel fireforwarmth 

•Double garage,large backyard on 

1012sqm section 

5Grigg Street, 

Fairton 

•Three double bedrooms 

•994m² section 

•Heatpump foryear round comfort 

•Double garage 

236 Dobson Street, 

Hampstead 

•Three bedroomsplus fourth or office 

•New kitchen and updatedbathroom 

•6car garaging 

•Swimming pool, huge carportfor 

caravan/camper 

133 Middle Road, 

Allenton 

•3bedrooms 

•Master with en suiteand WIR 

•Spacious kitchen with pantry 

•Sunnyliving opening to the outdoors 

Enquiries Over 

$490,000 



Enquiriesover 

$415,000 

Debbie Boon 


Priceby 

Negotiation 

DebbieBoon 


$625,000 

Debbie Boon 



139B Allens Road, 


5Makonui Road, 

Lincoln 

7D Carters Road, 

Allenton 

7E Carters Road, 

Allenton 

•Three bedrooms, master with an 

en suite 

•Open plan kitchen, dining and living 

area 

•Tiled bathroomsand loadsofstorage! 

•Single garage with internal access 

• Smeg appliances 

• TwoMitsubishi heat pumps 

• Stone kitchenbench topfor abit of class! 

• Four bedroomswith twobathrooms one 

beinganensuite 

•Brand new spec house! 

•Three bedroomsand twobathrooms 

•Ensuiteinthe master 

•Double garage with internal access 

•Three bedrooms 

•Two bathrooms,one being an en suite 

off the master 

•Tiled showers 

•Double garage internal access 

$614,000 

Mark Williams 


PriceBy 

Negotiation 

Mark Williams 


$668,000 

Mark Williams 


$650,000 

Mark Williams 


2516887

CLASSIFIEDS 


FIREWOOD 

FIREWOOD 

OFFCUTS 

$140 per cord 

GREEN 

SLABWOOD 

$120 per cord 

SCREENED 

SLABWOOD 

$150 per cord 

3CORD GREEN 

SLABWOOD 

$350 per cord 

C.O.D. in town 

Adams Sawmill 

Malcolm McDowell Rd 

Phone 

308-3595 

FRUIT &PRODUCE 

Letour 

HIGH 

readership 

stats ... 

...work 

for you! 

Call our 

friendly 

sales team at 

199 Burnett Street, 


(03) 308 7664 

2441365 

2508456 

EGGS - locally produced 

from pasture ranging hens. 

Delivered around town or 

pickup option, you choose. 

Please contact Lucy @ 

Dolma Eggs &Layer Hens, 

021 116 0252. 

FRESH Potatoes; Red Rascal 

and Agria $2.per kg, 

10kg bags for $15. Phone 

03 308 3195 or 027 531 

9103; 81 Elizabeth Street, 

Ashburton. 

PHOTOGRAPHS 

FORSALE 

Have youhad your photo 

taken by our reporters? 

Order aPhotoToday! 

¼Page* 

$6 

*approx 6x4 

A5 

$8.50 

A4 

$16 

Ph: 308 7664 

199 Burnett St,Ashburton 

WANTED TO BUY 

ASHBURTON Scrap Metal 

Recyclers buy heavy metal 

etc. Free light-grade metal 

in-yard dumping 9am-5pm 

weekdays. 117 Alford Forest 

Rd, (behind 

PlaceMakers). Phone 03 

308 8033 or 027 249 6625. 

SELL 

BENCH SAW with planer, 

Drop saw, Pull out Makita 

Circular saw 7 1 ⁄4", Makita 

router-model 3620, Makita 

82mm electric planer, Black 

& Decker router, Small 

electric drills, Makita hammer 

100mm, Dyna drill 342, 

100 drill bits, fittings. Fishing 

rods, Reels, Lines, 

Whitebait landing nets/ 

gear. Phone 027 616 0285 

LPG 

REFILLS 

Small LPG cylinders 

Off Street Parking 

Available 

Arthur Cates Ltd 

26 McNally Street 

Ph 308 5397 

Riverside Industrial Estate 

LPG REFILLS 

9kg cylinders 

$28.50 

Anysizecylinder filled 

17 Grey St,Ashburton 

Phone 307 2707 

TRADE &SERVICES 

2517932 

2519059 

MORRISON rotary mower, 

goes well $150. Neoprene 

chest waders, as new, size 

8. Ph 308 3350. 

ACTIVE MAINTENANCE - 

HEATPUMP maintenance, 

installation and repairs. 

HRV filter replacement. 

GUTTER CLEANING for 

single storey homes and 

GENERAL HANDYMAN 

work. Phone Steven on 021 

483 376. 

ALTERATIONS, SEWING, 

mending and trouser hemming, 

curtain alterations 

and curtain making. Call 

Michelle on 027 352 7248. 

BUILD work to do? Contact 

Kiwi Building and Maintenance 

Ltd. Alterations, 

Renovations, New builds 

and repairs. Qualified 

Tradesmen. Phone Cawte 

027 418 7955. 

CARAVAN & CAMPER- 

VAN -Parts and Accessories 

Cleaners and chemicals, 

Compact kitchenware, 

Towing mirrors, Wheel and 

coupling locks, Jockey 

wheels, Reversing 

cameras, Door latches, 

CARPET 2YOU -for all your 

flooring needs. Supplier 

and installer of carpet and 

vinyl, re-stretch and repair, 

carpet cleaning. Phone 

Mike Gill 027 491 4210. 

CARPET Cleaning. Powerful 

equipment and fast drying. 

Upholstery, mats and rugs. 

Experienced owner/operator. 

Find us at www. 

supersucker.co.nz or 

phone John Cameron 027 

435 1042. 

CARR’S Chimney Cleaning, 

servicing Ashburton and 

surrounding districts, $70 

per chimney. Phone 

Rodney on 03 324 2999 

and leave amessage. 


COMPUTER Help - need 

personalised help with 

computer programs, 

backups? Trouble with your 

PC/Mac, iPhone/iPad, 

Internet, printer or internet/ 

electronic stuff. Call Frank 

021 120 9292. 

COMPUTER Problems? For 

prompt reliable computer 

servicing and laser engraving, 

contact Kelvin, KJB 

Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot 

Place, Ashburton. Phone 

308 8989. SuperGold discount 

card accepted. 

COMPUTER ASSISTANCE 

- For all repairs, sales, 

training, setup of wireless - 

networks, spyware 

cleanup. On-site day or 

evening. Low fees. Call 

Robin Johnstone, Networks 

Firewalls and PC’s Ltd. 03 

308 1440 or 027 768 4058. 

CONCRETE Services - 

Driveways, paths, patios, 

mowing edging. Decorative 

Concrete Specialist operating 

locally with 30 years 

experience. No job too big 

or small. Contactless service 

offered. Phone Paul 

021 152 1966. 

DENTURE repairs. Dr Peter 

Rumping, retired dentist, 

repairs dentures. Phone 

027 220 9997. 

ENGINEERING repairs, fabrication, 

farm equipment 

service and maintenance, 

WOF repairs, machining 

and welding. Odd jobs a 

speciality. Mobile workshop. 

Can Collect. Phone 

Malcolm 0274 754 241. 

FIRE Extinguisher sales and 

servicing. On farm/ 

contractors - trucks/tractors/balers/combines/cars/ 

boats/caravans etc. Phone 

Mack at Doors and More on 

027 396 0361. 

FLY control and spider 

proofing. For all your 

domestic and industrial 

pest control needs phone 

AJ Kerr at Ashburton Pest 

Control on 03 308 8147 or 


FURNITURE Removals. For 

all your household removal 

needs - urban, rural, lifestyle, 

office relocations - 

call Nudges Furniture 

Removals, phone 027 224 

0609. 

2521095 

Lights/vents, Batteries, GARDENING, mowing, 

Chargers, Solar equipment, pruning, fertilising, projects 

Satellite setups, Appliances, 

Heaters, Self- 

Andrew at Spruce Gardens 

or general spruce ups? Call 

containment kits, Plumbing, to get the job done right. 

Awnings, Pumps,Toilets 027 765 2899 or 03 307 

and parts. Come and see 1693. 

our retail shop. Lifestyle sprucegardens@xtra.co.nz 

Motorhomes, 199 Dobson 

Street, Ashburton. Ph: 03 

308 6627. 

HEATPUMPS and Ventilation 

Systems: Service, 

clean, repair and install. 

Please call Silvery 

Bauman, Ph 021 544 760. 


HOME-HANDYMAN/ 

Builder, specialising in 

Decking, Carports, Cladding 

restoration and Timber 

window repairs. General 

home-handyman work. 

Phone Lindsay 027 230 

0205. 

KEY Cut? Locksmithing, Key 

sales, Padlocks, Electronic 

car key programming, anything 

and everything about 

keys. You know where to 

find us! TSG The LOCK 

SHOP. 03 307 7199, 519 

East Street, Ashburton. 

LAWNS? We mow them! No 

job too small. Call Les 

Smith, The Ground Up, for 

acompetitive quote. Phone 

027 840 020 or 03 308 

1500 

LOCKSMITH/DOOR repairs. 

Keys/locks, sliding and 

bifold door roller repairs. 

Mobile service. Call Nigel at 

Doors and More on 027 516 

7104. 

FACTORY SPRAY LACQUER 

A NEW LOOK 

that lasts! 

Existing kitchens, doors, 

furniture &appliances 

The Finishing Company 

03 307 8870 2519079 

PAINTER for all your painting 

needs. No job too small, 

inside or outside. Professional, 

friendly service. 

Phone Pete 03 308 1672 or 

027 200 1619. 

PHONE James Nettleton for 

all your Plastering plus 

Painting needs. Wall board 

stopping, skim coating. 

Ashburton based. Phone 

027 486 5283. 

ROOF SERVICE -Moss and 

mold treatments, roof and 

gutter leak repairs, residential 

and commercial. For 

prompt service - call your 

local contractor - Tim on 

021 197 8128. 

SPIDER and Fly treatment. 

Weed spraying and lawn 

treatment, plus insects. Call 

Allan from AA Performance 

Services on 027 209 5026. 

"I’ll take care of them" 

SUN Control Window Tinting: 

Privacy, UV, glare, heat 

control for homes, offices 

and cars. Phone Craig 

Rogers 307 6347, www. 

windowtinter.co.nz Member 

of Master Tinters NZ. 

Security Alarm 

Alarm Monitoring 

CCTV/Security Camera 

Mobile Patrols 24/7 

Locksmith /Key Cut 

Fire Extinguisher 

Sales &Servicing 

Have achat to us now! 

03 307 7199 

519 East Street Ashburton 

TINT-A-WINDOW, fade, UV 

block, glare, heat control, 

safety, security, privacy, 

frosting films, solar protective 

window films. Free 

quotes, 20 years local service. 

Phone 0800 368 468 

now, Bill Breukelaar, www. 

tintawindow.co.nz 

WELDING - Off-site repairs: 

Steel, aluminium, stainless 

steel and cast iron. No job 

too small. Ashburton 

based. Phone Graham 021 

968 494. 

ashburtoncranes2015@gmail.com 

2523345 

2521859 


SITUATIONS VACANT SITUATIONS VACANT SITUATIONS VACANT 

To fund abetterfuture. 

Process Worker 

About the role 

WE’RE 

HIRING! 

ANZCO Foods Canterbury are calling for applications for the 2022 season, 

we have anumber ofprocess worker positions available. Whilst NCEA 

level one, orrelevant experience is useful, it is not essential as full training 

will be provided. 

These positions are day and night shift positions; ANZCO Foods 

Canterbury is located onSeafield Road in Ashburton. Applicants must 

be able towork some Saturdays. These positions are seasonal full-time, 

minimum 30 hours per week, but hours will increase and decrease in line 

with workflows due to the seasonal nature ofthe business. 

Dutiesand responsibilities will include the following: 

• Move carcasses tochillers and freezers 

• Process meat carcasses according to customer specifications 

• Separate organs and glands from carcasses using safe knife handling 

practices 

• Operate machinery toprocess pack and transfer carcases 

or products 

• Pack boned meat and meat products into cartons 

• Load meat products into trucks 

• Clean and sanitise work equipment and work areas 

We would liketohearfromindividuals with the following characteristics: 

• Are enthusiastic, reliable and astrong team player 

• Have awillingness to learn and develop 

• Are committed to safety and quality excellence 

The successful applicants will be offered the opportunity to work with an 

employee-focused and customer driven company who are committed to 

asafe working environment. Apre-employment Medical (including aDrug 

and Alcohol test) needs to be completed prior to offer of employment. 

ANZCO Foods is one of New Zealand’s largest exporters employing a 

team of 3,000 staff worldwide. Together wedeliver taste, nutrition and 

wellbeing to the world with products made from New Zealand’s finest 

beef and lamb. 

To apply please go to our careers site https://careers.anzcofoods.com/ 

and enter the job code 10691ASHCOU or apply directly at our ANZCO 

Foods Canterbury site. 

Compliance 

Administration 

Officer 

Part-time, 20 hoursper week 

Working within our Environmental Monitoring team you will work with our 

Enforcement Officer ensuring the administrative elements ofcouncil bylaws 

andrules aremet by our stakeholders. 

To find out more about this 

vacancy and what the Ashburton 

District Council has to offer you - 

visit our website. 

Applicationsclose on Sunday, 

30 October 2022. 

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers


SITUATIONS VACANT 


Wherelifegets better 

Part Time Receptionist 

Avacancyhas arisen at Lochlea Lifestyle resortfor a 

mature, well organised,motivated person to fill the 

role of part timereceptionist.This positionrequires 

excellent communication and computer skills and 

you should have the ability towork unsupervised. 

Knowledge of Xero would be an advantage 

although not essential. 

Hours of work are 9:00am until 2:30pm Monday to 

Friday, however these hours are flexible and could 

be subjecttochange. 

Applicants should have New Zealand residency, 

goodworkreferees and afull currentdriver’slicence. 

Pleasesendyour CV andcovering letter to 

Tony Sands, ResortManager, 

25A/25 CharlesworthDrive Ashburton 7700 

orbyemail to: 

tony@lochlearesort.co.nz 

by Friday28th October2022. 

DRIVER WANTED 

Want to work forasmall unique 

family transportbusiness? 

Ross Bros Transportare arural based 

bulktransport company. 

We arelooking foraClass 5drivertooperate 

our530hpIsuzu and 5axle trailer. 

Theworkmainlyconsists of carting bulk 

commodities to various placesinthe Canterbury 

region. Extended hours will be 

required during the harvest. 

Option to work a9day fortnight 

during wintermonths. 

Remuneration to be discussed at time of interview. 

Must be eligible to work in New Zealand. 

PleasesendCVto office@rossbros.co.nz or 

ph Jarrod 027 259 4644 

ROSS BROS. TRANSPORT 

GARDEN SUPPLIES 

GARDEN SUPPLIES 


Plains Rotary 

LINSEED STRAW 

$7 per small bale or 

$40 mediumsquare, delivered. 

Harvested this year. 

Fordetails and ordering go to 

https://plainsrotary.org.nz/linseed-straw-order/ 

or phone Philip 0278 247 050 

MUSHROOM 

COMPOST 

Now is the time to dig in 

our topqualitymushroom 

compost to your vegetable 

garden. Ideal to replenish 

nutrients used by previous 

crops and improvethe soil 

structure. 

It also adds beneficial 

micro-organisms to 

thetired soil. 

$60 per cubic metre 

or $10 bag. 

Freedeliverywithin 

town boundary. 

Open 6daysaweek at 

our Tinwald yard, 

208 Maronan Road. 

Phone 021 129 8936 

2517344 

2524316 


2505780 

SHEEP manure $8. bag. 3x3 

linseed straw at $35 abale, 

3x4 linseed at $40 abale. 

Call Ian 027 286 3697 or 

Dave 027 601 1426. A 

Hinds Lion Project. 

GARAGE SALES 

HOARDER Down Sizing. 

Sunday October 30th, 

close to town end of Tinwald, 

Westerfield, Mayfield 

Road. Signs out 9.30am - 

1.30pm. Indoor and outdoor 

furniture, Garden 

tools, Calf-rearer, Yoga 

gear, Camping gear, Tents, 

Womens and baby clothing, 

Xmas decorations, 

Books and other. 

POULTRY 

PULLETS for Sale. Perching 

Brown Shavers, 13 weeks 

old. Phone WT Copland 03 

302 2826. 



Salesperson 

Bathroomdepartment 

Full time 

Mitre 10MEGA Ashburton has avacancy for a 

Salesperson in their Bathroom department. 

This position is full-time (40 hours per week) 

Sunday–Thursday. 

Ideally youwill have the following attributes: 

• Retail experiencewould be an advantage 

• AninterestinDIYorhome renovation/decor 

• Reliability 

• Able to work in ateam environment 

• Physically fit and able to lift 

• Have apassion forcustomer service 

In return we offer solid job security and 

fantastic staff buying privileges. 

Please send your c.v. and covering letter to 

HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz 

MACHINEOPERATOR REQUIRED 

A position is available for a fit and energetic 

mechanically-minded person in the plastic 

industry. 

Some heavy lifting required and afork-lift licence 

would be an advantage. Noexperiencenecessary 

as training willbeprovided. 

Hours of work are 6am to 6pm, Monday toFriday 

with some weekendworkasrequired. 

Own transport essential as we are located inthe 

newbusiness estate. 

Applicants must have NZ residency orvalid work 

permit. 

Immediate start. 

Applicationswith CV and at least two 

work relatedreferees to: 

tony.whyte@replassheet.comordelivered 

to 3Lynn St,Newlands,Ashburton. 

021 147 2952. 

Salesperson 

Flooring Department 

Mitre 10MEGA Ashburton has avacancy for a 

Salesperson in the Flooring department. 

The position is full time (40 hours) with a 

TuesdaytoSaturdayroster. 

This is agreat opportunity towork inone of 

our fastest growing departments. The role 

suits someone with an outgoing personality 

who would enjoyworking closely with clients, 

supporting them through the exciting process 

of upgrading their flooring needs. 

To be successful,applicants will requirethe 

following skills: 

• Must be customer focused 

• Attention to detail essential 

• Good computer skills 

• Excellentcommunication skills 

• Solution focused and self-driven 

• Good team player 

• Physicallyfitasthereissomelifting involved 

• Experienceinfloor coverings an advantage, 

however full training will be provided for 

the successful applicant 

In return we offer: 

• Job securityand growth opportunities 

• Locally owned and national brand 

• Super staff buying privileges 

Please send your covering letter and C.V. 

to:HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz 


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BUILDING STAFF REQUIRED 

Canterbury Based 

As partofour continuedinvestment in the building 

industryBradfords arelooking to employadditional 

building staff to work within our Ashburton or 

Christchurch based teams. Werequire: 

• Leading Hands 

• Tradesmen 

• Apprentices 

Bradfords have adiverse range of projects across 

the construction sector from building maintenance 

and residential construction to large commercial 

and industrial projects. We offer varied work 

throughout Canterbury and an opportunity to 

grow within our team. 

If you are interested and have the required skill 

level contact us by e-mail attaching your CV to 

building@bradfords.co.nz or call in to our office at 

70 Bremners Road, Ashburton for an application 

form. 

STARTING 

FEBRUARY 

2023 

www.bradfords.co.nz 

Do you want a 

CAREER 

not justajob? 

Do you have an interest in 

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING? 

Electronics Networks 

Installations Fabrication 

Servicing Diagnostic Fault Finding 

Apprenticeships available in dairy systems 

engineering, general engineering and 

water pumping engineering. 

All apprenticeships are based in Ashburton 

For more information check out 

morrisonagri.co.nz 

Please apply by: 

Scanning the QR Code below OR 

Emailing kyla.walklin@morrisonagri.co.nz 

with acover letter by 

14th November 2022. 

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PUBLIC NOTICE 

PUBLIC NOTICE 

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE 

PUBLIC NOTICE 

Yesweare at the A&P Show, call in andmeetthe team! 

The AshburtonCivicMusic Council 

proudly hosts 

Sunday30October 

Mania-o-roto Scout Park 

Chalmers Avenue 2pm 

Collection forparticipating bands will be taken. 

Featuring the AshburtonSilverBand,MSA Orchestra, 

AshburtonDistrictPipe Band and the Ashburton 

Electronic Organ &KeyboardClub. 

Bring along your chair,hat and sunblock 

and enjoyanafternoonoflocal music. 

“SupportedbyThe CommunityTrust of Mid-South CanterburyInc” 

HEALTH &BEAUTY 

HEALTH &BEAUTY 

DebraCurtin 

Chiropractor 

03 308 9516 

www.ashburtonchiropractic.co.nz 

AFTER HOURS 

HEALTH CARE 

IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCYPHONE 111 

Forall other medical assistanceoutside of normal 

hours please phone your general practiceteam, 

24/7, to speak with ahealth professional who 

will giveyou free health adviceonwhattodoor 

wheretogoifyou need urgentcare. 

If youdon’t have aregular general practice, 

call any GPteam 24/7 forfree 

telephone health advice. 

All non-residents and visa holders please bring your 

passporttoyour surgeryappointment. 

New Zealanders to bring some form of ID. 

PHARMACIES 

Wises Pharmacy, CountdownComplex, 

East Street will be open on ... 

Saturday from 9am until 1pm 

Sunday from 10am until 1pm 

Closed all public holidays 

At Geraldine: TheGeraldine Pharmacywill be open: 

MondaytoFriday, 9am until 5.30pm 

and Saturday 9.30am -1.30pm 

Forfree24hour Telephone Health Advice 

Phone the Healthline on 0800 611 116 

Brought 

toyouby 

CountdownComplex, East Street, Ashburton 

Phone: 03 308 6733 Fax: 03 308 6755 

PERSONAL 

COUNTRY LADIES 

Kathy —Aslim petite lady 

with blonde hair and 

green eyes. She loves 

swimming, fishing, 

tramping, gardening 

and country drives. 

Robyn —Adown-to-earth 

lady with wavy brown hair 

and hazel eyes. Loves 

the country lifestyle, 

horses, cooking and 

new adventures. 

To meet one of these 

beautiful ladies, please call 

0800-446-332 

PERSONAL 

2524457 

2513880 

2524855 

Peter Blacklow 

PETE’SBONUS 

SURFACE 

CLEANER 

PICK 

Full range of engineering supplies and accessories forall your repairs 

&maintenance. Kerrick hot &cold waterblasters &industrial vacuumcleaners. 

Esseti welders &accessories. Stockists and distributors of Trailer Equipment. 

Locally owned &operated family business for 69 years 

TradeZ one 


South Street, Ashburton PHONE (03) 308-3147 

Email office@blacklows.co.nz FREEPHONE 0800 452 522 

SOUTHERN RUGBY CLUB 

ARE CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS TO FILL THE 

FOLLOWING COACHING POSITION 

FOR THE 2023 SEASON: 

UNDER 18 

COLTSU21 

SENIOR B 

PLAYER ENQUIRIES ALSO WELCOME 

We have agood core group of players in each 

grade and averysupportiveand well-resourced 

Club and Committee behind you. 

Applications to: 

southernrfc@gmail.com 

by Friday 18th November 2022 

Agreat waytomeet newpeople at your local, 

thriving countryclub 

www.southernrugby.co.nz 

ENTERTAINMENT 

AshburtonFriendship 

&EntertainmentClub 

Special Concert& 

Fundraiser 

(Due to CXL bus trip) 

Sunday6th November 

1.30pm start 

62 CoxStreet, 


(formally SavageClub) 

$5 entry 

includes afternoon tea 

Public Welcome 

–––– 

Plus AGM 

Tuesday, 8th Nov 

7.30pm 

PERSONAL 

Well presented, broad minded ladies 40-70 years 

discretely earn/affordthe things youdeserve. 

Commercial companionship 

without emotional ties or expectations. 

Check out privatearrangements.co.nz 

then phone 028 2552 7060 (no texts) 

FARMING NOTICES 

SHEARING small mobs and 

pets. Prompt service. 

Phone Jarrod 027 259 

4644 

HOME SERVICES 

2525769 

ROOF COATINGS: All roof 

types, specializing in 

Decramastic and Long Run 

Iron, Coloursteel etc, steep 

roofs not a problem. — 

Spraymaster 027-433-7780. 

MEETINGS 

2526149 

AGM 

Noticeisherebygiven 

thatthe AGMofthe 

AshburtonCeltic Rugby 

Football Club Inc. 

will be held on 

15th Nov2022at8pm, 

at the Celtic Clubrooms, 

Keenans Rd,Ashburton. 

Allmembers welcome 

AshburtonDistrict 

Family HistoryGroup 

AGM 

8th November 2022, 

7.30 pm 

ADFHG room, Heritage 

Centre,WestStreet 

Welcome 

Apologies 

Founder TrophyRules 

adjustment 

Election of Officers 

Speaker: 

LindsayWatson – 

writing family historyin 

essayorbook form 

Supper 

All welcome 

2525752 


HONDA POWERED 

WATERBLASTER 

2700psi. 11.3 litre. 

6.5HpHonda engine. 

BAR2565C-H 

$1625+GST 

Dr Christopher McGrath 

PhD(Otago), MSc, DO(BCOM, London) 

Consulting Musculoskeletal Healthcare 

Allenton, Ashburton 

Appointments/contact throughweb site 

www.country 

rypractice.nz 

021 02226378 

Covid 19 Support 

SaferMid CanterburyCommunityConnectors Service 

OurfriendlyConnectorsare available to 

supportwhanau and individuals. 

In Self Isolation can assist with carepacks, 

food packages and medication deliveries 

ImpactedbyCovid-19 can supportwith 

anything covid related 

Eg:education engagement, accessing services, 

employment, family harm, aged person isolation, 

long covid,mandates. 

ContactJennyRae 027 247 1094 

ccservice@safer.org.nz 

MEETINGS 

MidCanterburyHockey Association 

Annual General Meeting 

Tuesday22ndNovember 2022, 7pm 

in the Domain Pavilion, Walnut Avenue 

AllWelcome 

MEETINGS 

ASHBURTON 

SOCIETY OF ARTS 

ASHBURTON SOCIETY OF ARTSINC. 

TheAnnualGeneral Meeting of the Society 

will be held in theShortStreetStudio 

onMonday, 14 November 2022 at 7pm 

Come along and view ArtWorks from our 

Heritage Collection as curated 

by Patron BarbaraJaine 

All Welcome –Supper provided 

ExecutiveCommitteenominations,Service 

Awards,LifeMembership nominations, 

Resolutions &Items of General Business 

close 5pmTuesday 8th November 2022 

2521587 

Forfurtherinformation visit www.mchockey.co.nz 

or email admin@mchockey.co.nz 


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TheWoman King 

Bros 

MrsHarrisGoes to Paris 

Black Adam 

Amsterdam 

Don’tWorry Darling 

TheWoman King 


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Sat29th &Sun 30th 

DC League of Superpets 

Paws of Fury 



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Black Adam 

TheWoman King 


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Smile 

Mon31st&Tues 1st 

10.00 More Than Gold 

10.15 TheWoman King 

11.45 Bros 

12.45 MrsHarris Goes to Paris 

1.50 Black Adam 

3.00 Amsterdam 


5.45 Bros 




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11.45 Bros 

1.00 MrsHarrisGoes to Paris 

1.50 BlackAdam 

3.20 Don’tWorry Darling 


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Black Adam,Bros, More Than 

Gold,Mrs HarrisGoes to Paris, 

TheWoman King 

On Monday 

31st of October, 

128 Victoria will 

open again 

forashorttime 

7DAYSONLY - 

Clearancesale with 

50% off everything 

in-store. 

TAKE THIS CHANCE TO 

GETINAND 

CHRISTMAS SHOP. 

HOSPICE Mid-Canterbury. 

Dealing with alife limiting 

illness? Contact us to see 

how we can support you. 

Phone 307 8387 or 027 227 

8387. 

NEED HELP? Call Pete 

Young, experienced mental 

health Life Coach and 

Social Worker. Mobile 027 

280 0889. WEB: 

peteyoung.co.nz 

FOR LEASE 

STORAGE available, Ashburton. 

Self storage, variety 

of sizes. Phone Rainbow 

Storage 03 307 0401 or 

phone/text 021 554 570 

STORAGE: Secure self storage 

units available, long or 

short term. Ashburton Storage 

Facilities. Contact us 

on 0274 362 636 or www. 

ashburtonstoragefacilities. 

co.nz 

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ASHBURTON 

Out now ... 

New Season Camping Flyer 

Getready! 

Summer’s 

coming! 

Grab acopy 

in-storeand 

check out 

the great 

camping 

deals NOW! 

Phone 03 308 5117 l 393 West St,Ashburton 

2450746

QUALITY USED VEHICLES 

WARRANTIESAA APPRAISEDFINANCEBIGGEST YARDBEST SELECTIONTRADE-INS 

2010 FORD 

FALCON 

• 4000cc, petrol 

• Sedan 

• Wheel upgrade 

• ABS 

• Cruisecontrol 

• Chain drive 

• 103,000kms 

2011 NISSAN 

QASHQATi 


• NZnew 

• Auto 

• 2WD 

• ABS 

• Alloys 

• 44,000kms 

2013 TOYOTA 

AQUA 

• 1500cc, alternative 

• Auto 

• 2WD 

• ABS 

• Cam chain 

• 53,581kms 

.5 star 

$15,850 

1½ stars 

$15,850 

Clean 

car 

rebate 

$13,995 

NISSAN 

2008 NISSAN X-TRAIL25X, 2500cc, auto, 4WD,ABS, cam chain, 109,513kms........SOLD 

2012 NISSAN LATIO 1.2G, 1200cc, auto, ABS, cam chain, 57,558kms ........................SOLD 

1995 NISSAN TERRANO, 4X4 diesel,trade-in special.......................................................... POA 

2011 NISSAN QASHQAI Ti, 2WD,red,NZnew,44,000kms ....................................... $15,850 

MAZDA 

2009 MAZDAAXELA, auto, cam chain, 61,495kms ....................................................... $10,995 

2008 MAZDACX7, 2400, auto, 4WD, 131,000kms................................................................SOLD 

2011 MAZDAAXELA, 1500cc, auto, ABS, camchain, 4door,17,000kms ....................SOLD 

2011 MAZDAAXELA 15C, 1500cc, auto, 2WD,cam chain,ABS, 78,000kms ........ $10,995 

SUBARU 

2012 SUBARULEGACY 2.5iS, 2500cc, auto, AWD, wagon, ABS,95,349kms........ $11,995 

SUZUKI 

2012 SUZUKI SWIFT XG, 1200cc, auto, ABS, cam chain, 60,114kms ........................ $9,995 

2009 SUZUKI SWIFT SPORT, 1600cc, 5speed manual,tidyeconomical car......... $8,995 

MITSUBISHI 

2015 MITSUBISHI MIRAGE, 1200cc, auto, ABS,cam chain, 79,152kms ............... $10,995 

2006 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER, V6, AWD, black,145,000kms...................................$9,850 

TOYOTA 

2008 TOYOTA MARK X, 2400cc, 7seater, ABS, air con, S/W,89,065kms....................$9,995 

2008 TOYOTA BLADE MASTERS, 3000cc, auto, 6air bags,bodykit,82,247kms....$9,995 

2010 TOYOTA PRIUS, 1800cc, alternative, hatchback,cam chain, 42,775kms ..... $11,995 

2013 TOYOTA AQUA, 1500cc, auto, hybrid,5door, 53,000kms.................................. $13,995 

2012 TOYOTA YARIS, 1500cc, petrol,cam chain, air con, 131,230kms .......................$7,495 

2006 TOYOTA ESTIMAG,2400cc, AWD, auto, hybrid,7seater, push button 

start......................................................................................................................................... $11,995 

2010 TOYOTA PRIUS S, 1800cc, hybrid,auto, cam chain, ABS, 75,000km.............. $11,995 

2012 TOYOTA AQUA, 1500cc, hybrid,auto, hatchback,87,000kms..........................$9,850 

2012 TOYOTA LANDCRUISER PRADO, 3000cc, turbo, diesel,248,000km.......... $30,850 

1995 TOYOTASURF SSRG, 3000cc, turbo, diesel,199,000kms................................ $15,850 

1996 TOYOTASURF SSRG, turbo,diesel,244,000kms................................................ $15,850 

FORD 

2012 TOYOTA 

YARIS 


• Auto 

• Sedan 

• ABS 

• Cam chain 

• Rear spoiler 

• 130,821kms 

2½ stars 

$7,995 

2010 FORD FALCON XR6, black,wheelupgrade,103,000kms..................................$15,850 

HONDA 

2010 HONDAINSIGHT G,1300cc,hybrid,auto, 5door,cam chain............................ $9,995 

2012 HONDAFIT 13G, 1300cc, auto,2WD,5door, ABS,95,000kms.......................... $9,995 

HYUNDAI 

2018HYUNDAI i30,1600 petrol,wagon, 82,000kms.....................................................$15,850 

HOLDEN 

2009 HOLDENCOMMODORE SV6, auto, silver,167,000kms.....................................$11,850 

 

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www.atob.co.nz 

ENQUIRE NOW 

-about our range of rental vehicles 

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We have 8, 10 &12seaterminivans available.Cars and 3trucks forsmall or big 

loads also available. 

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