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Cashmere is hot right now<br />

• By Nikki Preston<br />

PROPERTIES IN sought-after<br />

Cashmere are being snapped up<br />

as buyers compete against each<br />

other to try and get a foot hold<br />

into the area.<br />

A high-end home on Crichton<br />

Tce was on the market for just<br />

two days when the auction was<br />

brought forward after receiving<br />

an acceptable pre-auction offer.<br />

But that acceptable<br />

offer was kicked<br />

to touch as two buyers<br />

fought it out and the<br />

modern four-bedroom,<br />

two-bathroom home<br />

finally sold for $2.050m -<br />

$150,000 more than the<br />

pre-auction offer and<br />

almost double its RV.<br />

The average property<br />

value in Cashmere is<br />

$1.09m – above the city-wide<br />

average of $755,000 but also<br />

well behind the most expensive<br />

suburb of Fendalton where the<br />

average is $1.665m, according to<br />

OneRoof-Valocity data.<br />

Bayleys salesperson Adam<br />

Heazlewood, who sold the<br />

Crichton Tce home, said Cashmere<br />

was the one suburb that<br />

seemed to be bucking the trend<br />

and had had a resurgence.<br />

“The demand was immense<br />

for that property, but we are<br />

finding Cashmere in general<br />

has amazing buyer demand at<br />

present,” he said.<br />

While not the most expensive<br />

or exclusive suburb in Christchurch,<br />

he said it seems to appeal<br />

to people due to the good<br />

schooling and often impressive<br />

views it offered over the city.<br />

“Cashmere was equally elite<br />

to Fendalton in the 1990s and<br />

early 2000s and I just feel like<br />

the earthquakes set it back a<br />

lot more than Fendalton, but<br />

now it’s making a real charge<br />

and the desirability and market<br />

demand is just unbelievable,”<br />

said Hazelwood.<br />

“I’m like genuinely surprised<br />

– if somewhere is bucking the<br />

trend at the moment, it<br />

is Cashmere.”<br />

He’s marketing<br />

an architecturally<br />

designed “as is, where<br />

is” 1960s property<br />

at 51 Dyers Pass Rd,<br />

complete with covered<br />

in-ground pool, which<br />

Adam<br />

is to be auctioned next<br />

Heazlewood month after being held<br />

by the same owners for<br />

52 years.<br />

Harcourts salesperson<br />

Cameron Bailey agrees the area<br />

is quite “hot” at the moment<br />

and said it is because it offers<br />

good value for money.<br />

“It’s a great location – it offers<br />

a lot, but the difference in prices<br />

from say Fendalton to Merivale<br />

to Cashmere is quite a lot.”<br />

A modern townhouse in<br />

Merivale on a 400 sq m site<br />

recently sold for about $2.225m,<br />

whereas a large home on<br />

Heaton Rhodes Pl on a 1326 sq<br />

m section with a pool sold at<br />

auction earlier this month for<br />

$2.35m. He has also just sold a<br />

five-bedroom, two-bathroom<br />

home on Stambridge Pl for<br />

$1.205m after multiple bids<br />

were put forward.<br />

• Turn to page 3<br />

DEMAND: A “must sell” five-bedroom home at 5 Dyers Pass Rd goes to auction tomorrow.<br />

Below – A stately home on Heaton Rhodes Pl recently sold for $2.35m (left), while a modern<br />

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A hands-on engineering<br />

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Schools, kicked off for the first<br />

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The workshop was created<br />

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Engineers, in collaboration with<br />

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a career in civil engineering.<br />

The pupils were supervised<br />

and worked together to build<br />

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version of a real suspension<br />

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ICE member Ruth Bullen said<br />

the exercise gave the pupils an<br />

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“We help give these kids<br />

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she said.<br />

Two groups of about 20 pupils<br />

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“There’s definitely a few that<br />

have put their hands up. We like<br />

to start them young and excite<br />

them to see where they can go<br />

in the future,” Bullen said.<br />

Ruth Bullen<br />

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Doyle said there are plans to<br />

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can be extended into more<br />

schools more often.<br />

“The real joy and our measure<br />

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“We’re not just doing it<br />

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A roughly even number of<br />

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exercise.<br />

They all asked great questions,<br />

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And, for the record the second<br />

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about five minutes, Doyle said.<br />

Both came in in under an<br />

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Cashmere<br />

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• From page 1<br />

“For me it represents great value<br />

compared to what you can get in<br />

some other suburbs for the same<br />

amount,” Bailey said.<br />

After the earthquake<br />

the hills<br />

areas such as Cashmere,<br />

Sumner and<br />

Scarborough were<br />

slower to bounce<br />

back than suburbs<br />

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and Avonhead,<br />

which created<br />

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Cameron<br />

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Most people wanted to live on<br />

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including a large renovated house<br />

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Rd, which is being sold by auction<br />

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Pleasant and St Martins is high<br />

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areas. The first week of open<br />

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A retired chemist, McDonald<br />

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Rd and he’s been doing this<br />

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“The scouts assembled those<br />

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in the reserve.<br />

It’s the winter months that see<br />

the biggest spike in catch numbers<br />

as there’s less natural food<br />

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to where humans live.<br />

Perhaps due to his scientific<br />

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“They love the trees, it’s like a<br />

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‘feel ratty.’<br />

“I do move the traps but not<br />

very far because they don’t have<br />

a big range, it’s generally only<br />

around 50m.”<br />

Because rats are known to be<br />

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their foot prints on the un-inked<br />

part of the card.<br />

“It’s another way of monitoring<br />

the population.”<br />

For bait McDonald has traditionally<br />

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“It feels like you’re part of a<br />

REDUCING PREDATORS:<br />

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in knowing we’re going in the<br />

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Athletes bound for summer games<br />

• By Diane Keenan<br />

CANTERBURY’S Special<br />

Olympics athletics coach Bryan<br />

Lowson took up both coaching<br />

and running to support his son<br />

Jacob, in a sport all the family<br />

now embraces.<br />

Jacob, who is autistic, is<br />

competing at the Freemasons<br />

New Zealand Special Olympics<br />

National Summer Games in<br />

Hamilton starting today. About<br />

1300 athletes and coaches from<br />

throughout the country are competing<br />

in 10 sporting disciplines<br />

held at eight Hamilton venues.<br />

Along with her father, Jacob’s<br />

younger sister Taylor is also now<br />

a runner and for the past four<br />

years has been an assistant coach<br />

for the Canterbury athletics<br />

team. She is in her second year<br />

at Canterbury University and<br />

works at Ignition Health as a<br />

group instructor. Long term she<br />

wants to continue to work with<br />

athletes with disabilities.<br />

Running is now very much a<br />

family affair with Bryan, Taylor<br />

and Jacob recently completing<br />

the 22kms Port Hills Crater Rim<br />

Ultra trail event.<br />

Jacob, 21, has gone from<br />

strength to strength since first<br />

competing in athletics as a<br />

student at Papanui High School.<br />

He started by competing against<br />

other juniors, followed by Special<br />

Olympics, and now runs whenever<br />

he can.<br />

“Jacob needs someone to run<br />

with so as a family we are all<br />

very involved. I’m not the sort<br />

of coach who stands on the<br />

sidelines and yells. I like to get in<br />

there and run with the athletes,”<br />

Bryan Lowson said.<br />

The team trains every week at<br />

Burnside High School. While<br />

Bryan and Taylor are confident<br />

about many aspects of coaching,<br />

they enlisted the help of George<br />

Edwards – the long-time coach<br />

of William Stedman, who won a<br />

silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympics<br />

– to help with some of<br />

the technical aspects of the sport,<br />

such as starting from the blocks.<br />

The five-person Canterbury<br />

athletic team includes Jacob,<br />

Sam Goddard, Kevin Horne,<br />

April Gardner and Christian<br />

Murphy.<br />

Special Olympics New Zealand<br />

chief executive Carolyn Young<br />

said the National Summer<br />

Games, held every four years,<br />

are the pinnacle sports event for<br />

people with intellectual disabilities.<br />

The games has evolved to<br />

NATIONALS: Jacob Lowson (far left) and fellow runner<br />

Christian Murphy are part of a five-person Canterbury<br />

athletics team, which also includes Sam Goddard (above).<br />

become one of the biggest sporting<br />

competitions in the country<br />

since the first national games<br />

were held in 1985.<br />

“The national games are our<br />

flagship event and while it was<br />

disappointing for our athletes,<br />

coaches and volunteers that we<br />

had to postpone the event last<br />

year because of the pandemic,<br />

the additional year has given<br />

everyone the opportunity to<br />

catch up on training, undertake<br />

more fundraising and planning,<br />

so we expect the games to be<br />

spectacular,” she said.<br />

“For many of the athletes, the<br />

National Summer Games is one<br />

of the highlights of their life, so<br />

we want to make sure they are<br />

well looked after and have a great<br />

experience.”<br />

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Monday night with a closing<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> 8 <strong>2022</strong><br />

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas<br />

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• ¾ cup sugar<br />

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the table is so easy at our city’s malls and<br />

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Every woman likes to receive body<br />

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• By Natalie Pham<br />

Te Kura o Ōpāwaho / Opawa School has<br />

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festival.<br />

The school came first overall in the<br />

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Haka Festival, which saw 35 primary<br />

schools from across the city performing<br />

a choral, an action song and a haka at the<br />

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It was also awarded best female<br />

whakamihi, best soloist/small group<br />

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choral) and best waiata-ā-ringa (whole<br />

group action song).<br />

Festival founder Steve Reid said Opawa<br />

WINNER:<br />

Te Kura o<br />

Ōpāwaho<br />

Opawa School<br />

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overall in the<br />

Tūhono Kapa<br />

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Kapa haka<br />

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Ben Tahere<br />

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Kapa haka success for<br />

Opawa School pupils<br />

pupils understood the meaning behind<br />

the kapa haka.<br />

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were very connected to what they were<br />

singing.”<br />

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NATIONAL RECOGNITION: Te Pou Toetoe: Linwood Pool has won the<br />

Outstanding Pool category at the <strong>2022</strong> New Zealand Recreation Awards.<br />

Pool makes big splash<br />

TE POU Toetoe: Linwood Pool has been<br />

recognised for its focus on minimising<br />

barriers and encouraging diversity after a<br />

year of operations.<br />

Innovative design and a community-led<br />

approach were key factors to the city’s<br />

newest pool winning the Outstanding<br />

Pool category at the <strong>2022</strong> New Zealand<br />

Recreation Awards.<br />

The awards are presented across 11<br />

categories and acknowledge the value<br />

recreation brings to communities.<br />

City council head of recreation, sport<br />

and events Nigel Cox said the pool was<br />

community-led from the start and the city<br />

council had worked hard to reflect that in<br />

the design.<br />

“The community-led approach at Te<br />

Pou Toetoe: Linwood Pool has been very<br />

successful. It’s an example of working<br />

closely with the community through the<br />

planning and design phase to deliver great<br />

outcomes.<br />

“A majority of participants are from the<br />

local area and it has a real community<br />

feel and that’s what we want to achieve<br />

with each community pool. Receiving<br />

the Outstanding Pool Award for Te<br />

Pou Toetoe: Linwood Pool is great<br />

recognition.”<br />

The pool features New Zealand’s first<br />

purpose-built, all-season indoor manu<br />

(dive) pool, which has proven a major<br />

drawcard, especially for children and<br />

young people.<br />

It also has accessible design to cater<br />

for a wide variety of users and offers a<br />

popular weekly women’s session, as well as<br />

monthly youth nights with a focus on fun<br />

and socialisation through recreation.


10<br />

Thursday <strong>December</strong> 8 <strong>2022</strong><br />

CHRISTCHURCH<br />

CREMATORIUM<br />

FUNERALS<br />

CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />

9 10<br />

273<br />

SUDOKU<br />

Every row, column and box should<br />

contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

WORDBUILDER<br />

173<br />

6<br />

B L O<br />

E G T<br />

11 12<br />

13 14 15 16 17<br />

words of three or more letters,<br />

How many words of three or more<br />

including plurals, can you make from the six<br />

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />

words or words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />

once?<br />

TODAY<br />

Good 20 Very Good 25 Excellent 29<br />

letters, including plurals, can you make<br />

from the six letters, using each only<br />

No words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />

Solution 172: issue, its, set, sets, sis, sit, site, sites,<br />

sits, sties, sue, sues, suet, suit, suite, SUITES, suits,<br />

word. sus, tie, ties, TISSUE, use, uses.<br />

Good 20 Very Good 25 Excellent 29<br />

18 19 20<br />

21 22 23 24<br />

25 26<br />

27 28<br />

Across<br />

1. Indecent (7)<br />

5. Collusion (7)<br />

9. Customs and conventions (5)<br />

10. Reproduce (9)<br />

11. Foolish (9)<br />

12. Overweight (5)<br />

13. Unemotional (5)<br />

15. To begin with (9)<br />

18. Sanitise (9)<br />

19. Fabled author (5)<br />

21. Japanese dish (5)<br />

23. Cede (9)<br />

25. Say again (9)<br />

26. Giant (5)<br />

27. Genuine (7)<br />

28. Instructor (7)<br />

Decoder<br />

Down<br />

1. Absorption of ideas, knowledge<br />

(7)<br />

2. Gruelling (9)<br />

3. Result from (5)<br />

4. Curse (9)<br />

5. Annoyed (5)<br />

6. Mouth organ (9)<br />

7. Talk pompously (5)<br />

8. Landscape (7)<br />

14. Insect (9)<br />

16. Impede (9)<br />

17. Final desperate attempt (4-5)<br />

18. Abandons (7)<br />

20. Associate (7)<br />

22. Descendant (5)<br />

23. Garden tool (5)<br />

24. Additional (5)<br />

B L U N P E Q T Y V X F A<br />

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />

G H Z C O W I D S K M J R<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />

E L<br />

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />

I<br />

All puzzles copyright<br />

T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y<br />

www.thepuzzlecompany.co.nz<br />

SOLUTION<br />

No.173<br />

1 18 18 20 18 19 16 4 18 20 1<br />

Crossword<br />

Across: 1. Obscene, 5.<br />

Cahoots, 9. Mores, 10.<br />

Procreate, 11. Senseless,<br />

12. Obese, 13. Stoic, 15.<br />

Initially, 18. Disinfect, 19.<br />

Aesop, 21. Sushi, 23.<br />

Surrender, 25. Reiterate,<br />

26. Titan, 27. Sincere, 28.<br />

Teacher.<br />

Down: 1. Osmosis, 2.<br />

Strenuous, 3. Ensue, 4.<br />

Expletive, 5. Cross, 6.<br />

Harmonica, 7. Orate, 8.<br />

Scenery, 14. Centipede, 16.<br />

Intercept, 17. Last-ditch, 18.<br />

Deserts, 20. Partner, 22.<br />

Scion, 23. Spade, 24. Extra.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

beg, begot, bel, belt, bet,<br />

blog, blot, bog, bogle, bole,<br />

bolt, bot, ego, gel, gelt, get,<br />

glob, globe, gob, GOBLET,<br />

got, leg, let, lob, lobe, log,<br />

loge, lot, ogle, teg, toe, tog.<br />

Sudoku<br />

Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different<br />

letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />

DECODER<br />

Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.<br />

The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented<br />

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

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

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

11 14 14 8 2 25<br />

7 17 15 26 22 26 6 19 9 5 11 19<br />

17 26 6 21 11 26 21<br />

17 7 13 23 26 17 26 15 22 11 18 2<br />

5 17 22 5 22 7<br />

6 2 19 21 19 12 19 4 21 4<br />

22 25 19 10 20<br />

26 3 15 5 21 22 14 16 13 18<br />

15 26 19 8 7 26<br />

7 17 8 19 24 26 18 13 7 4 5 21<br />

14 16 7 15 7 10 4<br />

7 9 15 26 17 8 9 25 15 19 9 2<br />

A N D<br />

21 1 5 21 17 22<br />

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />

D<br />

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />

N<br />

A<br />

SOLUTION<br />

No.172<br />

173<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />

X H T O Z V J P Y W E N A<br />

D M K L U G B C F Q R I S<br />

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />

17 1 26 10 11<br />

18 20 20 22 1 24 12 14 1 26 21 4<br />

1 26 24 11 17<br />

11 19 21 8 20 11 12 19 22 17 21<br />

L<br />

17 2 8 15 24 25 20<br />

I<br />

1 24 6 21 12 22 1 24 8 1 23 16<br />

25 12 22 1 18 25 20 18 10 19 10<br />

E<br />

13 18 17 26 12 19<br />

CHRISTCHURCH<br />

20 12 22 21 21 22 26<br />

CREMATORIUM<br />

FUNERALS<br />

11 4 26 7 8 12 21 17 1 26 24 12<br />

14 20 1 6 6 18


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