Bay Harbour: January 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023 

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SUCCESSFUL: Will Simmons of the Sumner Surf Life Saving club being tested alongside IRB driver, 

Grace Westenberg of the Whangamata Surf Club. 

Standout performance 

earns Sumner 

surf lifesaver top honour 

• By Tony Simons 

SUMNER lifeguard Will Simmons 

has been awarded the prestigious 

Top Candidate honour at Surf Life 

Saving New Zealand’s national 

lifeguard school. 

Simmons was one of 15 candidates 

chosen to attend the school 

from all over New Zealand and one 

of only three from the South Island. 

The school is needed as preparation 

towards achieving the advanced 

lifeguard award, the highest surf 

lifesaving qualification in New 

Zealand. 

The Waihi beach event involved 

days that started early and finished 

late. All the candidates were put 

into high-stress situations including 

orchestrated patrol, first aid and 

search scenarios. They were constantly 

tested, observed and evaluated 

by staff and instructors, said 

SLSNZ national education manager 

Belinda Slement. 

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• Multiple rescues, lifeguards 

busy, pages 5 & 6 

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Turner to push for walkway completion 


THE NEW manager of the 

Rod Donald Trust, former city 

councillor Andrew Turner, has 

declared he wants to see the 

Head to Head Walkway between 

Godley Head and Adderley 

Head near to completion within 

the next three years, and he has 

a plan that might just see that 

happen. 

Turner is 

pushing for 

the Te Pātaka 

o Rākaihautū 

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Community 

Board to 

partner with 

the trust to 

Andrew 

Turner 

reinvigorate 

the project. 

The trust 

has experience 

working with landowners and 

community groups creating 

access, and can achieve more 

than what the city council could 

achieve on its own, Turner said. 

“Just look at the experience 

and success the we have had 

securing land and public access 

across DOC and private property 

for the entire Te Ara Pātaka 

track network,” he said. 

The Head to Head Walkway 

has been an aspirational project 

for more than 10 years. 

“It is time to see some real 

progress and a plan for completion 

finalised within the term of 

the current council, and within 

budget,” Turner said. 

The trust can bring a co-ordinated 

and joined up approach 

to the creation, promotion and 

maintenance of the track across 

different land ownerships and 

would work closely with council 

staff and the community board 

if a partnership approach were to 

be adopted, he said. 

The community board has 

voted to re-establish a joint 

community-council working 

party to lead the project but 

wants that group to report back 

before deciding next steps. That 

working party may include the 

Rod Donald Trust as well as 

various peninsula reserves committees, 

residents and business 

associations, Te Whaka Ora, and 

Rāpaki Rūnanga. 

This project could be the 

legacy of the current community 

COMPLEX: 

Some sections 

of the Head to 

Head Walkway 

have been 

completed 

but others are 

missing. 

board, Turner said. 

Asked if he is concerned about 

money for the project being 

pulled by the city council in its 

search for savings Turner said: 

“If we are talking about value for 

money and getting things done 

quickly and more cheaply, the 

project aligns exactly with the 

conversation being held around 

the city council table right now. 

“It is my hope the focus will be 

on the application of funds to get 

value for money, rather than a 

budget reduction.’’ 

The walkway was first mooted 

back in 2010. Turner was on 

the community board and city 

council over the intervening 

period and admits progress has 

at times been slowed, by earthquake 

related disruption, budgetary 

constraints, and resourcing 

constraints. 

“This is a complex project,” he 

said. 

Some sections of the route, 

about 29km, already exist as 

public walking tracks but access 

is needed over other public 

and private land to fill in the 

gaps. Some existing sections of 

the route also need upgrading, 

according to city council head of 

parks, Andrew Rutledge. 

The missing parts are from 

Rapaki to Sandy Bay, and from 

Ohinetahi-Allandale across the 

Teddington Flats and around to 

Charteris Bay. 

A third section is also needed 

from Purau to Adderley Head. 

The track will be about 70km 

long when completed. 

The city council’s current 

capital spending programme 

has $550,000 allocated for the 

walkway over the next three 

years, but there are no estimates 

for the total cost to completion 

because that is dependent on 

route options and design still to 

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caught in a rip near Scarborough. 

The Rescue of the Month drama 

unfolded at about noon on 

November 12 after Sumner club 

president, Wayne Simmons, who 

was off-duty at the time, spotted 

several surfers stuck in a rip near 

the clocktower struggling to get 

back to shore. 

He called the club and three 

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One IRB, with lifeguards Blake 

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• From page 1 

“They also had to complete the 

practical elements in challenging 

conditions with a big swell running 

directly into Waihi beach,” 

she said. 

At the end, Simmons, who lives 

A young child was also rescued at 

Sumner beach after being swept 

into a hole. 

In all, 21 lifeguards were 

involved in rescues, on patrol, 

in IRBs or co-ordinating the response 

on the day. 

Club captain Kate Suter said 

it was a superb example of 

coordination and co-operation 

between clubs. 

TEAMWORK: The Sumner 

lifeguards back at the club 

at the end of the particularly 

hectic November day. 

Left to right back row – Isaak 

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“Everything about the school 

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club’s patrols to help develop our 

lifeguards.” 

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the Sumner Surf Life Saving Club 

for the past five years, he was 14 

and a student at Shirley Boys’ High 

School when he 

started. He comes from a 

surfing and surf lifesaving 

family. His father Wayne is 

president of the club, mother 

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NEWS 5 

Rescuing multiple surfers earns high praise 

‘Everything about the school was challenging’ 

Tracy Blackwood along with brother 

Jack who is also a lifeguard. 

He intends to continue as a 

lifeguard for as long as he can. 

“Once you are in it you are in it 

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6 

NEWS 


BEACH-GOERS at Sumner 

and Taylors Mistake have been 

commended for their behaviour 

in the water over the Christmas- 

New Year break, but that doesn’t 

mean lifeguards haven’t been 

busy. 

December 29 was the busiest 

day at Christchurch beaches 

with the city sweltering with 30 

deg C at times. Taylors Mistake 

Surf Lifesaving Club president 

Vivienne Bickle said it was so 

busy that day the club had to call 

in help from members who knew 

the beach well. 

Patrol manager Ian Rae said 

there were seven incidents at the 

beach that day but most were 

not “hands in the air’’ rescues. 

They involved lifeguards seeing 

dangerous situations developing, 

being pro-active and jumping on 

their boards to move swimmers 

back between the flags, he said. 

“Preventative actions are what 

save lives. We don’t want things 

to get to the point where there is 

a major incident,” he said. 

“Conditions at Taylors have 

been challenging with some big 

swells then a quiet period then 

more big swells,” he said. 

“It means the beach keeps 

changing so we have to reposition 

the flags quite often.” 

One unorthodox rescue on 

Boxing Day saved an old dog 

walking with its owners around 

towards Boulder Bay. When they 

got to Harris Bay the dog simply 

decided it wasn’t going any further, 

said Rae, so we needed to 

send an inflatable rescue boat to 

pick it up from the shore. 

At Sumner, lifeguards were 

patrolling Christmas Eve, 

Christmas Day, New Years Eve, 

New Years Day and all the days 

in between. 

Club captain Kate Suter said 

it was good to see people swimming 

between the flags, knowing 

their limits and listening to the 

advice of the lifeguards. 

As the weather warmed up the 

water got up to about 18 deg C 

and, while there were rescues at 

Sumner and Scarborough, Suter 

said they were mostly people getting 

out of their depth and being 

swept off their feet into holes 


Learn the three Rs to keep 

lifeguards’ workload down 

or rips. Lifeguards were able 

to get out to them quickly and 

assist them back to shore with no 

issues, said Suter. 

For the remainder of the 

summer holidays the advice to 

swimmers is the same. 

Always swim between the flags 

and, if you find yourself stuck in 

a rip, follow the three Rs. 

• Relax and float to conserve 

energy. 

• Raise your hand to signal for 

help. 

• Ride the rip out until help 

arrives or you can swim back to 

shore. 

•To find out which beaches 

are patrolled and when, visit 

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beaches are, the hours lifeguards 

are patrolling, and potential 

hazards. 

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Author takes another deep dive 

BANKS PENINSULA has a 

unique history – and within the 

area itself the small bays and 

communities all have their own 

individual stories to tell. 

Le Bons Bay is one such 

community and, over the past 45 

years, Garry Brittenden has been 

gathering and publishing the 

history of the bay. After being 

out of print for some time, a 

revised and updated Le Bons Bay 

the story of a settlement is now 

available at bookshops. 

The Le Bons Bay history book 

was first published in 1978, 

and has sold more than 2000 

copies as interest in local history 

continues to flourish. The latest 

revision will be the seventh 

printing of the now 200-page 

book. 

Brittenden says there is an 

increasing interest in family 

history and this has led to many 

descendants of pioneer families 

providing of photographs, 

diaries and information to add 

to the depth of the book. 

“The digital age has 

certainly provided wonderful 

opportunities for history to 

be sourced and shared. It has 

enabled families to find their 

personal histories without 

leaving home and this has 

resulted in a growing interest in 

this area,” Brittenden said. 

“I am constantly being 

contacted by folk from all 

over the world regarding their 

historic connection with Le 

Bons, either seeking information 

or sharing their own research.” 

This edition features a 

chapter on the quite extensive 

Scandinavian migration to New 

Zealand that saw around 25 

families settle at Le Bons in the 

1870s. 

“The New Zealand 

Government actively recruited 

immigrants from Scandinavia 

at this time, and much has been 

written about the settlements 

of Dannevirke, Norsewood and 

Ekatahuna in the North Island,” 

said Brittenden. 

“However, significant numbers 

came to Lyttelton and ended 

up in Robinsons Bay and then 

on to Le Bons to work in the 

sawmills, where they bought 

SETTLERS: The Condon family at their Le Bons Bay home 

in the 1870s. Alfred Condon was the bays first mailman, 

walking through the bush to Takamatua and back three 

times a week to collect and deliver mail. Left – Garry 

Brittenden has been gathering and publishing the history 

of the bay for 45 years. 

land and settled. Denmark had 

a disastrous war with Prussia 

in the 1860s, and many Danes 

lost land as a result. In Le Bons, 

four Danes who served together 

in the war came out with their 

families and ended up with 

adjoining farms in the bay.” 

One of the Danish families, 

the Hemmingsens, are holding 

a family reunion at Le Bons 

later this month. While there 

is extensive evidence of Maori 

occupation of the bay for 

hundreds of years prior to 

European settlement, no Maori 

lived in the bay when John Cuff 

brought his sawmill up the Le 

Bons Bay stream in 1857 and 

began the clearance of the dense 

native forest. 

The sawmills did not just bring 

a steady stream of settlers to the 

bay, the clearance of the forest 

enabled dozens of small farms to 

be established, accompanied by 

thriving cocksfoot and cheesemaking 

industries. 

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NEWS 9 

into history of bay 

FRONTIER: A shot of Le Bons Bay beach taken in 1952. 

Unlike the other eastern 

bays, Le Bons never had large 

land holders, so by 1890 the 

bay supported more than 300 

people. It is no surprise then 

that their numerous offspring 

in the generations that followed 

maintained a continued interest 

in their forebears. The book also 

features some wonderful sections 

from diaries and recollections of 

the early settlers. Henry Drury 

was a bushman in the bay in the 

1870s, and his stories of whiskey 

stills, horse racing and bush life 

paint an evocative picture of a 

world we can only imagine. 

The new edition also contains 

many additional historic photos 

that date back to the 1870s and 

reveal an intimate look at a small 

rural community and its changes 

over time. The Elliot family came 

to Le Bons in the 1860s and one 

of their descendants, Garry Elliot, 

has a wonderful collection of early 

photos taken around the bay, 

some of which appear in the book. 

PHOTO: DONALD MCKAY 

•The book is available 

from Smiths Bookshop at 

The Tannery and also from 

various outlets on Banks 

Peninsula. Garry Brittenden 

has lived in Le Bons 

Bay for many years and 

teaches history at Akaroa 

Area School. His great 

grandfather worked on the 

sawmills in the bay for a 

time and his grandfather 

built the first bach in the 

bay in 1932. 

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NEWS 11 

NZ aviation tech company develops 

pilotless planes to fight bushfires 

• By Kurt Bayer 

A CHRISTCHURCH-based 

aviation technology company 

is developing pilotless planes to 

fight bushfires from the skies. 

Skybase is converting aircraft 

to fly remotely in a world-leading 

move designed to revolutionise 

firefighting. 

It involves putting high-tech 

artificial-intelligence computer 

systems inside Kiwi-made 

Fletcher top-dressing planes 

and keeping pilots safely behind 

computer screens on the ground. 

The move will mean when 

conditions – such as poor weather, 

fading light or firefighter 

fatigue – ground planes and 

helicopters, the converted drone 

aircraft can still take to the air 

and drop vast litres of water and 

fire retardant on flames and 

hotspots. 

In a New Zealand-first, the 

Civil Aviation Authority granted 

Skybase certification in May 

2022 to carry out remotely operated 

test flights on the condition 

a pilot was on board. 

“That was a key moment for 

aviation in New Zealand,” said 

Skybase founder Michael Read. 

The company, which was 

founded in Christchurch in 2017, 

has been testing the technology 

out of Rangiora airfield. 

Its long-term vision is for the 

aircraft to be completely autonomous. 

But for now, they are 

reliant on pilots to supervise and 

step in when needed. 

The remote pilot on the 

ground has to be qualified in the 

New Zealand-made Pacific Aerospace 

Fletcher - often described 

as a “workhorse” utility plane 

– but can be based anywhere in 

the world. 

Pilots fly as if they’re inside 

the cockpit, talking to air traffic 

control, and watching several 

monitors. 

“You’re doing everything from 

the ground that you would do 

from the air,” said Read, a former 

TECHNOLOGY: Michael Read, founder of Skybase, says the technology to convert planes to drones could be used across 

many different sectors including fires such as the 2017 outbreak on the Port Hills. 

PHOTO :GEORGE HEARD 

Royal Australian Air Force pilot. 

The ground technology is connected 

to the aircraft through 

several communication modes, 

including tracking antennae, satellite 

and mobile phone network. 

And the development of Elon 

Musk’s Starlink satellite internet 

constellation could prove a “gamechanger” 

in the future. 

Read envisages the flight 

autonomy upgrade system for 

existing aircraft, dubbed SOFI, 

also becoming useful for other 

sectors, including agriculture, 

mapping, surveillance, cargo 

operations, first responders, 

medevac missions and natural 

disaster responses. 

The plane can carry 1500kg 

and could air-drop emergency 

supplies after floods or cyclones 

and in weather deemed too dangerous 

for manned planes. 

“There are a lot of reasons to 

do this technology other than 

aerial firefighting,” Read said. 

“But right now, that is the focus 

because [fires] are extremely 

dangerous and increasingly 

prevalent.” 

He cites key statistics to support 

his arguments, including 

that around 80 per cent of all 

aviation accidents are caused by 

humans and, in 2021, 17 per cent 

of the world’s carbon emissions 

came from uncontained bushfires. 

The ability for pilotless planes 

to be on standby 24/7 could help 

eliminate wildfires “as a catastrophic 

threat”, Read said. 

“Speed is the key to fighting 

uncontrolled fires.” 

But about 75 per cent of the 

time, safety regulations around 

risk factors such as poor visibility 

mean planes are grounded 

while the fire burns on. 

Most blazes start late in the 

day when it’s hot and thunderstorms 

are active. 

And overnight, when manned 

aircraft aren’t able to fly, can be 

the best time to fight fires, with 

lower winds and temperatures. 

“This technology changes 

what is possible, unlocking flight 

at times or in places where it 

wouldn’t otherwise be possible if 

a pilot was on board. It increases 

safety and capability, but also 

commercial returns,” said Read. 

“Not having a human pilot on 

board means the risk benefit is 

very favourable.” 

Skybase expects SOFI units 

to be rolled out commercially in 

2024. – NZ Herald 

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NEWS 


Race track tribute for cancer campaigner 

• By Barry Clarke 

WHEN GREG Manson’s horses 

step out onto the race track 

they carry with them a very 

special memory to a mate who 

is remembered for his fight 

for better cancer care in New 

Zealand. 

That special memory is 

Manson’s colours – the initials 

BV emblazoned on black, red 

and white. 

BV stands for Blair Vining, 

who became a national 

identity as he battled terminal 

bowel cancer, presenting a 

140,000-strong petition to 

Parliament with his wife Melissa, 

three months before he died in 

October 2019. 

The black, red and white are 

the colours of Vining’s beloved 

rugby club Midland in Winton. 

A lock, who played about 400 

senior matches, Vining was 

renowned for his toughness. 

“He was a strong man; my 

horses have to be tough like he 

was,” Manson said. 

On Sunday, the colours were to 

the fore when veteran and tough 

as teak pacer Copperfield Rose 

finished third at the Motukarara 

trots. 

“They are very proud 

moments,” said Manson, who 

trains a small team at Lincoln. 

Each time Manson’s horses 

win, there is a tribute to Vining 

in the winner’s circle. 

“Blair’s mentioned every 

time. I love it . . . the awareness 

of cancer, the hospital,” Manson 

said of the Southland Charity 

Hospital Trust, established in 

2019 following Vining’s highlypublicised 

battle to provide free 

services to those in the southern 

half of New Zealand who are 

unable to access care through 

the public or private health 

systems. While Copperhead 

Rose is probably in the twilight 

of his career, another Manson 

pacer Franco Marek could carry 

the colours to the top. 

“Copperhead Rose has raced 

for six years. He’s such a tough 

animal. A bit of that is rubbing 

off on Frankie,” he said of Franco 

Marek. 

Franco Marek won over 

Christmas New Year at 

REMEMBER: 

Trainer Greg 

Manson 

with up and 

coming pacer 

Franco Marek 

and sons Jay 

(left) and 

Beau. Above 

– Manson 

and Vining 

together in 

January 2019. 

Motukarara, his fifth win from 

just seven starts. 

“He is still just a boy, but he 

is a smart horse. We have been 

patient with him and tried to give 

him time to mature. He has got a 

wee way to go, but he knows what 

it is about,” Manson said. 

“He is getting more 

professional every day. The plan 

is to go all of the way with him.” 

Manson became mates 

with Vining when he lived 

in Southland through their 

respective wives Karla and 

Melissa who were friends. 

The Mansons and Vinings 

and a handful of other families 

would go to Twizel on holiday 

each year. 

“We still do that with Blair’s 

family,” Manson said. 

Vining was not a horse racing 

person as such. But when 

Manson decided to get back 

into training after an absence 

from the game he suggested to 

Vining that he wanted to change 

his original colours to the BV 

on black, red and white. Vining 

agreed. 

Vining’s family now take a 

big interest in the horses which 

carry their colours , keeping 

up with how they are going 

and “putting a dollar each way on 

them.” 

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all be treated very effectively. 

Our team of experienced physiotherapists 

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Enrolment 

Day 

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31 

-4.00pm 

Year 12, 13 and Adult students 

January 

Tuesday 

Contact us for an Appointment 

Our Enrolment Centre re-opens 

on January 18th at 9.00am. 

Please phone us on (03) 364 5156 

to find out what you need to bring or visit 

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2 0 2 3 

30 Jan 

18 Jan 

YEAR 9 

Tuesday 

31 January 

At Home 

Wednesday 

1 February 

10am – Gym 2 

Year 9 & 10HG Mihi 

Whakatau and 

Orientation 

BBQ Lunch provided 

2.00pm – released 

Thursday 

2 February 

Year 9 Orientation 

Programme 

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Friday 

3 February 

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Programme 

8.30am – 3.00pm 

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13, ELL 

& After 3 

Senior Enrolment At Home At Home 

Course 

Confirmation Day 

Catch Up College 

10.00am 

Year 12, 13 & ELL 

Mihi Whakatau & 

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Tuesday 

7 February 

Timetabled classes 

start at 8.30am 

8.30am Year 10 

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Auditorium 



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NEWS 


Treasures from the Past: 

The Sinclair’s Sailing Tradition 

THE SINCLAIR family 

have a long association with 

Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, 

with the Scotsman William 

Sinclair setting up his shipwright 

business in Dampier Bay near the 

dry dock in 1870. 

With his son Jimmy, the Sinclairs 

were famous for their love 

of yacht building and racing, with 

their yachts Little Wonder and 

Mascotte competing with their 

arch rival, the Miller’s Pastime 

through the 1880s and 90s. 

This competitive tradition 

carried on through to the next 

generations with the founding of 

the Canterbury Yacht and Motor 

Boat Club in 1921. Of the Club’s 

40 founding members, seven were 

Sinclairs, with Elliot Sinclair’s 

uncle, Sam Sinclair, sailing the 

“Linnet” under the Club’s flag in 

the 1922 Sanders Memorial Cup 

in Dunedin. 

True to his family’s tradition, 

Elliot Sinclair was also an accomplished 

yachtsman who notably 

won five consecutive Sanders 

Cups for the Club and Canterbury 

from 1932 to 1936. 

In November 1953, this unrivalled 

veteran yachtsman again 

won the privilege to defend the 

Sanders Cup for Canterbury, sailing 

Genie in the trials off Lyttelton, 

and was runner-up in the 

hotly contested Sanders Cup of 

January 1954, won by Otago’s If. 

This week’s post comes from 

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Air, Sea and Land Gallery 

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Yacht Genie, 

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1950-1953. 

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Across 

1. It is fashionable for Monsieur to do his 

version of it (6) 

4. It is an easy walk south with the goblin (6) 

8. It will make one angry seeing it burnt in 

thurible (7) 

10. That on the cake is a desirable addition 

(5) 

11. Is it a mistake to call it lingerie? (4) 

12. A dollar may cheer one up (4) 

13. How to achieve the return of a young 

sheep (3) 

15. He could be akin to a corporal in India (4) 

16. An instruction to take away a smaller 

amount (4) 

19. Wise old bird starts off with lucidity (3) 

21. Company he is forming gives a sound 

return (4) 

22. Fairylike being returns to a thing that 

bites (4) 

24. It’s all right having a tailless pig or other 

animal (5) 

25. If tense, it couldn’t be better (7) 

26. It is not sound to rent it out (6) 

27. Saves trying a part in which parish 

meeting may be held (6) 

Down 

1. Cakes for ladies in royal service (5,2,6) 

2. The way one speaks of it in cod form (7) 

3. The North Sea is on the turn, which is 

rational (4) 

5. Short and stocky, one might sketch it like 

this (8) 

6. Being due to come first, go up and hold 

it (5) 

7. It might be illuminating to see them on the 

march (5,8) 

8. A Muslim lady will be first to stick to it (5) 

14. Is by the hearth, if put up to live there (8) 

17. Is not bankrupted by its abuse, but 

intoxicated (7) 

18. How to form heaps of it (5) 

20. It is said to be the soonest mended 

quantity (5) 

23. One may be given this hand, to draw 

without instruments (4) 


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Across 

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spouse (6) 

4. Land surrounded by 

water (6) 

9. Rotund (5) 

10. To sum up (2,1,4) 

11. Something down to 

chance (7) 

13. Thing (4) 

14. Complex (11) 

17. Avoid (4) 

18. Hyped up (7) 

21. Lie back (7) 

22. Leg joint (5) 

24. Beer maker (6) 

25. Music style (6) 

Down 

1. Combat (6) 

2. Mouth (inf) (3) 

3. Perhaps (5) 

5. Staying power (7) 

6. Reparation for a wrong 

(9) 

7. Man (colloq) (4) 

8. Weak and cowardly 

(4-7) 

12. Mouth problem (9) 

15. Thoughtful (7) 

16. Stick to (6) 

19. Fad (5) 

20. Snatch (4) 

23. Beer barrel (3) 

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Lottery, 13. Item, 14. Complicated, 17. Shun, 18. Excited, 21. 

Recline, 22. Ankle, 24. Brewer, 25. Reggae. 

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7. Dude, 8. Lily-livered, 12. Toothache, 15. Pensive, 16. 

Adhere, 19. Craze, 20. Grab, 23. Keg. 

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Buck 13. Get 15. Naik 16. Less 19. Owl 21. Echo 22. Flea 24. 

Okapi 25. Perfect 26. Rotten 27. Vestry. 

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Owing 7. Light infantry 8. Begum 14. Fireside 17. Solvent 18. 

Shape 20. Least 23. Free. 

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Mini with strong performance pedigree 

WHEN BMW bought into the 

Mini brand in 1996 it embraced 

the history and concept of the 

early Austin and Morris cars. 

So much so, that even the high 

performance name of Cooper has 

been retained over the years. 

Cooper harks back to 1948 

when father and son Charles and 

John Cooper were making open 

wheel cars for motorsport, to 

which they had much success. 

The British Motor Corporation 

(and British Leyland) capitalised 

on that success and badged many 

of the Mini variants Cooper and 

Cooper S, both had significant 

performance enhancements over 

the standard models. Racing and 

rallying success followed, a Mini 

with either badge was sought 

after and desirable. 

As tribute to the Mini Cooper’s 

illustrious past, today’s Mini 

range incorporates several John 

Cooper Works-badged models 

– three-door, Countryman and 

Clubman, all commonly referred 

to as JCW. 

This evaluation focuses on the 

Clubman, although all immediately 

impress with their sporty 

looks and keen performance, the 

latter thanks to a turbocharged, 

2-litre four-cylinder engine that is 

rated at 225kW and 450Nm. 

These figures are up with the 

competition in terms of power 

output placing the JCW quite 

squarely in the hot hatchback 

market, although with its clever 

twin opening rear door arrangement 

it isn’t exactly a hatchback. 

As the badge Clubman suggests, 

it’s a slimmed down versatile 

station wagon. 

If the engine size and figures 

look familiar, it is much the same 

power plant that can be found in 

BMW’s M135i and, as such, the 

JCW has phenomenal performance 

on tap. It is an engine that 

works effectively through the 

entire rev band and doesn’t need 

to be constantly driven towards 

the top end. Drive is channelled 

through an eight-speed automatic 

transmission. It is characterised 

by quick, strong shifts and ratios 

in the early gears that are biased 

towards quick acceleration. 

The JCW Mini is quick, it will 

lunge to 100km/h from a standstill 

in 5.1sec, and will complete 

an 80-120km/h overtaking 

manoeuvre in 4sec, all of the time 

enticing the driver with a wilful 

engine sound and exhaust growl 

which pops and crackles with 

each gearshift. 

BMW also lists a 7.7-litre per 

100km/h combined cycle fuel 

usage rating. That correlates well 

with the 9.6l/100km showing on 

the test car’s trip readout and the 

6l/100km instantaneous figure 

UNIQUE: The Mini Clubman has two rear doors that open 

horizontally, exposing a useful load area. 

MINI JOHN COOPER WORKS: Engine from BMW’s M-Sport division. 

travelling at 100km/h (engine 

speed 1800rpm). 

I took the test car on the 

fabulous roads that make up 

State Highway 72 (Scenic Route), 

through the tight and twisty 

roads out of the river gorges 

the JCW provided accurate and 

stable handling. Grip in the first 

instance is supplied by low profile 

Bridgestone rubber (235/35 x 

19in), and if you add in the benefits 

of drive to all four corners 

through a fully independent 

suspension you end up with a car 

which is delightful and capable in 

a corner. 

Power to the rear is quite strong 

and it gives the false impression 

that it is rear drive only. Just when 

you think oversteer can be initiated 

out of a corner the front bites 

and that force is negated. However, 

it is a wonderful handling feeling 

and certainly draws the driver 

into the feel of the car. That’s what 

buying a sports car represents, 

as a driver you want to feel fully 

involved within the unique characteristics 

of it, the JCW makes 

you feel special, simply because it 

is a very special car. 

The balance of power and 

handling is insightful, the JCW is 

eager, especially in sport mode, 

but there is also normal mode 

which encourages moderate 

accelerator use in order to glean 

those amazing fuel usage figures. 

• Price – BMW Mini John 

Cooper Works, $79,650 

• Dimensions – Length, 

4266mm; width, 1800mm; 

height, 1440mm 

• Configuration – Fourcylinder, 

four-wheel-drive, 

1998cc, 225kW, 450Nm, 

eight-speed automatic 

• Performance – 

0-100km/h, 5.1sec 

• Fuel usage – 7.7l/100km 

One thing any prospective buyer 

would need to consider is that 

the ride is firm, sure BMW have 

done well to build compliance 

into the system, and there’s just 

enough suspension so that road 

ripples and ruts are absorbed, but 

with the low profile tyres there is 

a constant reminder that this is 

a car that is built so that corners 

can be challenged without a handling 

compromise. 

On that subject, I must mention 

as well, the quality of the 

brakes, huge vented discs are 

fitted at each corner providing 

immense braking power. There 

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