The Star: March 02, 2023

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Murder trial: 

Benbow case 

rolls on 

– pages 6-7 

Property market 

Auctions 

holding 

up 

• By Catherine Masters 

AUCTIONS IN Christchurch 

are still going strong as the 

housing market continues to 

tremble. 

Harcourts Gold managing 

director Chris Kennedy said 

his office sold 11 properties 

under the hammer out of 

16 called last Thursday. The 

bidding was “fierce”. 

“That is a good day. The 

doom and gloom that’s being 

portrayed across the media 

is not what we’re seeing in 

Christchurch – the country’s 

bigger than Auckland,” he 

said. 

Bidders “scrapped it out” 

over a home on Mt Pleasant Rd 

(above). Set on 1436sq m and 

with garaging for five cars, the 

bidding opened at $750,000 

with the property selling for 

$1.11 million. 

The four-bedroom home 

with views of the sea and to 

the distant Kaikoura Ranges 

was marketed as “renovate, 

demolish or sub-divide”. 

Another home that saw 

“phenomenal” action was on 

Hackthorne Rd in Cashmere. 

Bids opened at $900,000, 

the property was called on 

the market at $1.551 million 

and sold for $1.575 million 

with two bidders in “an all-out 

scrap.” •Turn to page 4 

City2Surf 

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weeks to go 

CHRISTCHURCH’S most 

iconic fun run is just under three 

weeks away from returning to its 

original course for the first time 

in more than 10 years. 

The Les Mills City2Surf 

will celebrate 50 years when 

Cantabrians take part in the 

event on Sunday, March 19. 

Because of damage caused 

to the original route by the 

February 22, 2011, earthquake, 

the event was switched to start 

at Pioneer Stadium and finish 

at Ferrymead Historic Park for 

several years. 

But this year participants will 

start in the central city and follow 

the Avon River to New Brighton’s 

Rawhiti Domain – a similar route 

to the first years of the event. 

Star Media regional manager 

Steve McCaughan said returning 

to the old course and distances 

has created a lot on interest 

among traditional and new 

supporters of the event this year. 

•Turn to page 3

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Crystal-balling our future...................................3 

Councillor’s apparent U-turn.......................... 5 

$1 mansion with a catch.................................10 

Protecting precious wildlife....................14-15 

Captain’s great knock..........................................22 

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Gig guide........................................................................31 

City2Surf training ....................................................35 

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15,000 expected for iconic event 

•From page 1 

Said McCaughan: “It’s a 

special year being our 50 th and I 

am aware that we have runners 

participating this year who were 

on our start line 50 years ago.” 

About 15,000 participants 

are likely to take part. The full 

12km route starts at Latimer 

Square at 9am, and finishes at 

the City2Surf village at Rawhiti 

Domain. For those that want 

to take part but find the 12km 

distance too long, the 6km route 

starts at 9.45am at Avon Park 

and also finishes at Rawhiti 

Domain. 

“The beauty of our event is 

that it is designed to cater for 

everyone, competitive runners 

to recreational joggers and 

walkers, everyone can do the 

6km course and it’s the perfect 

goal to get you motivated and 

moving,” McCaughan said. 

“One of our more colourful 

entrants this year is Camilla 

the Gorilla from the What Now 

team. She will be on the 12km 

start line with her supporters 

and I understand is very excited 

about doing the event,” he said. 

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Crystal-balling the future: 

What will shape the region 

MORE THAN 2000 residents 

have so far taken part in an 

online survey on how Greater 

Christchurch should develop as 

its population grows rapidly. 

Greater Christchurch’s 

population is growing rapidly 

and forecast to double to a 

million people over the next 60 

years or even earlier. 

Mayor Phil Mauger is 

urging people who live in 

Christchurch, Selwyn and 

Waimakariri to take part in the 

engagement which continues 

until March 26. 

“The discussion to shape 

where and how the area will 

grow in the future, how our 

transport infrastructure can 

be future-proofed and how we 

protect the environment now 

and for future generations is an 

important one. We have got to 

look ahead.” he said. 

This work also includes a 

potential ‘turn up and go’ mass 

rapid transit system, that both 

responds to and encourages 

growth along its route. 

“Our residents’ feedback will 

underpin the draft Spatial Plan 

for Christchurch The draft plan 

will be an ambitious blueprint 

for the future. It goes out for 

formal consultation later this 

year,” said Mauger. 

Minister of Transport 

Michael Wood said the Greater 

Christchurch’s public transport 

network requires significant 

changes to make it a viable 

option for its residents, who have 

some of the highest dependency 

on private motor vehicles in the 

country, 

“Residents views are 

being sought on a turn up 

and go public transport 

service that is more reliable, 

sustainable and high frequency 

so residents want to make the 

switch from using private cars 

and can do so with confidence,” 

Wood says. 

“The service would run along 

a dedicated corridor from the 

central city north to Belfast and 

south-west to Hornby. This turn 

up and go service would create a 

strong connected spine through 

the city, helping reduce travel 

time and making it easier for 

people to get to where they want 

to go. 

“We’re also exploring what 

type of mode will be best suited 

for the proposed route, either 

Bus Rapid Transit or light 

rail, but it would be frequent, 

convenient, zero emission and 

be able to move large numbers 

of people.” 

•The online survey is at 

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org.nz 

Bus routes 

changing 

to solve 

cruise ship 

problem 

• By Tony Simons 

BUS ROUTES through Lyttelton 

are changing to try to solve the 

congestion problem caused by cruise 

ship passengers. 

It’s one of a number of immediate 

changes being made after the Te Pataka 

o Rakaihautu Banks Peninsula 

Community Board faced angry protests 

from locals at its meeting two 

weeks ago, complaining about cruise 

ship passengers hogging the buses, 

creating congestion 

and preventing them 

from from getting to 

and from the city on 

time. 

Board chair Reuben 

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measures are now 

being taken to alter the cruise ship 

transport operation. The most 

significant change is buses returning 

from Christchurch to the terminal 

will go directly to Norwich Quay 

without stopping, and not through 

the town, he said. 

Said Davidson: “This will reduce 

the volume of buses on the township 

loop route, and also reduce 

the demands on the temporary bus 

stop space outside the information 

centre. One cruise ship company operator, 

Carnival, has also agreed to 

hold off sending out passenger to the 

Lyttelton shuttles until after 9am.” 

Winchester St resident Steve 

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worry. “At one stage there was a bus 

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Davidson said the changes are 

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HAMMER TIME: 

Properties sold at 

auction include 

Leacroft St, Bishopdale 

(left), a lifestyle 

property on Quaifes 

Rd, in Halswell (right), 

and Knowles St, in 

Merivale, which sold 

for $3.05m. 

Buyers battle at 

house auctions 

•From page 1 

The five-bedroom, twobathroom 

renovated home is on 

934sqm and in a “magical hill 

setting”. 

Other homes sold included 

Leacroft St, a fully-fenced threebedroom 

house in Bishopdale, 

which opened at $500,000 and 

sold for $656,000. 

A big five-bedroom semi-rural 

property with a swimming pool 

on George Noble Rd, Yaldhurst, 

sold for $1.62m, and a threebedroom 

home on Highsted 

Rd, in Casebrook, opened at 

$450,000 and sold at $627,500. 

Kennedy said auctions 

prioritises people who are cash 

and unconditional buyers. 

He said about half of Harcourts 

Gold listings go to auction with a 

50-55 per cent clearance rate on 

the day and in what they call the 

“mop up” another 25-30 per cent 

are under offer or sold, making 

the auction arena success rate 

around 75-80 per cent. 

“Last year, our calendar year, 

our clearance rate across auctions 

was 82 per cent so when you look 

at it from that perspective you’re 

giving yourself a pretty good 

chance of selling and getting a 

result.” 

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was in 2020 and 2021 but 

it’s still a good market, he said, 

with a mix of first, second and 

third-home buyers as well as 

investors. 

There may always be some 

owners who would have liked 

more for their property, they 

know at auction they get a cash, 

unconditional buyer so have the 

certainty to be able to move on 

with their plans. 

Connor Patton, Bayleys 

head auctioneer, said the 

company also last week was also 

good in with seven out of 14 

properties selling. 

“That was the same as the 

week before, we’ve been running 

at about 50 per cent for the last 

couple of weeks and auctions 

have been performing relatively 

well there.” 

There were several auctions 

with multiple bidders across price 

points, including a property on 

Knowles St, in Merivale, where 

two bidders took the price up to 

$3.05m. 

That kind of price is 

becoming more common for 

Christchurch but not as common 

as in Auckland and the money 

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southern city, Patton said. 

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lovely home.” 

Another property in Halswell 

had five or six bidders fighting for 

the four hectare lifestyle property 

with two dwellings on Quaifes 

Rd, which sold for $1.76m. 

“It was a four-hectare block and 

it was next to an area that’s been 

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Henstock defends cycleway vote 


A CITY councillor whose 

election campaign centred 

around stopping a controversial 

cycleway has defended her 

apparent U-turn on the issue just 

months after being elected. 

Victoria Henstock vehemently 

opposed the planned Wheels to 

Wings cycleway 

in Harewood 

during the lead 

up to the October 

local body 

elections. 

It was one of 

Victoria 

Henstock 

the of, if not the 

key battle in the 

Papanui Ward, 

which saw sitting 

councillor Mike Davidson – a 

cycleway advocate – ousted and 

Henstock elected. 

Many 

businesses along 

Harewood 

Rd oppose 

the cycleway, 

saying it is over 

engineered, will 

Mike 

Davidson 

be dangerous 

for cyclists and 

motorists, and 

take away car parking which will 

affect business. 

City councillors, including 

Henstock, last week voted 

overwhelmingly not to delay 

the project. Councillors were 

asked to decide how to progress 

spending of the Government’s 

use-it-or-lose-it Climate 

Emergency Response Fund – 

Transport Choices. 

Henstock defended her 

decision. 

“We were being asked to 

decide which Government 

funded projects should be part 

of that programme of works 

and which should be deferred to 

mitigate the impact of additional 

work,” she told The Star. 

“A no vote would also have 

placed us at risk of losing out 

on that Crown funding and 

placed additional pressure on 

our already over-loaded work 

programme, 

“Council officers informed us 

repeatedly that we have serious 

deliverability issues and that 

we are under extreme financial 

pressure,” she said. 

Davidson told The Star the 

decision from councillors shows 

clear support for the Wheels to 

Wings. 

“I am really pleased the council 

has decided to proceed with this 

really important road safety and 

climate project but disappointed 

that attempts to cancel or delay it 

appear to be ongoing.” 

It was local school 

children who first asked the 

city council to improve 

Harewood Rd so they can 

bike to school, he said. 

Staff deemed the cycleway 

project was too risky to defer 

and has previously been given a 

very clear directive to prioritise 

CERF-funded projects for 

obvious reasons, said Henstock 

Copenhagen Bakery on 

CONTROVERSIAL: 

The city council’s 

preferred design for 

the Wheels to Wings 

cycleway between 

Nunweek Blvd and 

the Bishopdale 

roundabout. 

Right – Donna 

Thomsen says the 

loss of car parks 

outside her bakery 

will hurt the business. 

Harewood Rd will lose on-street 

parking if the cycleway is built. 

Owner Donna Thomsen said 

she is more confused than ever 

following the vote last week 

but is confident Henstock will 

continue to oppose the multimillion 

dollar project. 

“What upsets me most is other 

more deserving projects around 

the city are now being deferred 

while this one is allowed to 

proceed,” Thomsen said. 

Said Henstock: “I struggled in 

good conscience to support the 

revised programme or works. In 

the end, I simply had to accept 

the executive officer’s advice, 

but I did request it be recorded 

I wanted the Wheels to Wings 

cycleway on the deferment 

list and I will still be pursuing 

that through the Annual Plan 

process.” 

Asked by The Star why she 

did not abstain from voting on 

the issue, like Cr Yani Johanson 

did, Henstock said: “I prefer 

to be pragmatic. I want to be a 

facilitator and get stuff done. 

Fundamentally, I want to 

progress spending the CERF.” 

At the city council meeting, 

Banks Peninsula city councillor 

Tyrone Fields had a crack at 

Merivale residents. 

In response to a remark from 

Cr Aaron Keown, Fields said for 

every person that says “bloody 

cyclist” there are 10 people 

saying “effing Merivale tractors”. 

Fields told The Star it was a 

throwaway remark. 

“I am sure no one was offended 

by it but, if they were, they have 

probably got some bigger things 

in their lives to worry about,” he 

said. 

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Witness testimony under spotlight 

• By Kurt Bayer 

A KEY witness in the bodiless 

murder case has today been 

reminded by a defence lawyer 

that his job is not to give 

evidence to “fit in with the police 

theory”. 

A port worker claims he saw 

two men outside a semi-rural 

property on May 22, 2017, 

which fits the time and place 

former Corrections officer David 

Benbow is accused of murdering 

Michael McGrath. 

Benbow, 54, had asked 

McGrath to visit his Candys 

Rd, Halswell property at 9am 

that day to help him shift some 

railway sleepers. 

But Benbow claims he 

never showed up and denies 

having anything to do with his 

disappearance. 

The Crown claims Benbow 

shot him dead and got rid of his 

body, just weeks after telling a 

counsellor that he wanted to 

“annihilate” McGrath who was 

seeing his ex-partner Joanna 

Green. 

Lyttelton Port worker Stephen 

Robinson yesterday gave 

evidence on day 13 of the High 

Court trial in Christchurch. 

Port records showed that 

the line supervisor had been 

working early on Monday, 

DEFENCE: David 

Benbow denies 

murdering 

Michael McGrath 

(above) and is 

standing trial at 

the High Court in 

Christchurch. 

PHOTO: GEORGE 

HEARD 

May 22, 2017. His first job was 

about 1.30am tying up a large 

container ship. After shifting the 

big, heavy ropes, he had slept in 

a bunk onsite, rising again about 

7am when a cutter headed out 

to bring in a fishing boat from 

Nelson. 

Records say it was tied up at 

8.31am and after returning to his 

office, and spending about five 

minutes putting his gear away, 

Robinson drove home in his 

white Toyota Corolla. 

Roadworks diversions took 

him by “Halswell Quarry way” 

and he ended up travelling down 

Candys Rd. 

Asked by Crown prosecutor 

Barnaby Hawes what time it was, 

Robinson replied: “It would’ve 

been round about 9am.” 

Builder Michael Craig 

McGrath, 49, was last seen at his 

home in Halswell, in May 2017. 

Benbow allegedly arrived 

slightly late for a counsellor’s 

appointment in Riccarton just 

after 10am that day, the court 

has earlier heard. 

Robinson says as he slowed for 

the Candys Rd junction, he saw 

two men talking at the roadside 

and a dark blue Subaru parked 

on the side of the road. 

McGrath owned a blue Subaru 

which was later found parked in 

his driveway at his Checketts Rd, 

Halswell, home when his brother 

and new partner Green went to 

check on him after he failed to 

show up for a family dinner on 

Tuesday, May 23, 2017. 

The witness described one man 

wearing a red t-shirt over a longsleeved 

top and the Englishman 

remembered thinking it was 

a very Kiwi thing to wear. 

Robinson further described the 

man as being white, slim, and 

fair haired. 

Robinson recalls another man 

who had his back to him, heavier 

set, with a dark woollen top. 

He passed by doing probably 

20km/h as he slowed for the 

junction and had seen them for 

about 20 seconds, he said. 

“Never gave it a second 

thought,” Robinson said. 

Later, he saw a TV news item 

about a missing Christchurch 

man but it didn’t ring any bells. 

It was only two weeks later, 

on June 6 while seeing publicity 

on TV, which featured another 

photograph of McGrath, that a 

“light come on”. 

The next day he was driving 

his wife when they passed 

Candys Rd and saw a lot of 

police activity and “it all 

connected” for him, the court 

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HIGH COURT: The Crown argues there is a strong circumstantial case to show David Benbow is guilty of Michael 

McGrath’s murder. 

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On the way home, he 

stopped at a petrol station 

when a police car pulled up. 

He spoke to the officer and his 

information was passed on to 

the investigation team. 

But Robinson’s evidence 

came under heavy scrutiny 

from defence counsel Marc 

Corlett KC yesterday. 

“Mr Robinson, are you 

confident about what you 

saw?” Corlett opened by 

asking. 

“I hope so, yes. I would 

think so yes. I saw two men 

talking on the roadside,” 

Robinson replied. 

Corlett would go on to 

stress to Robinson that he 

understood the “importance 

of being accurate and what’s at 

stake in this trial”. 

When Robinson first spoke 

to the police officer at the 

petrol station, he couldn’t 

remember the date or time 

that he saw the men. 

And during his first official 

statement to police on 

November 12, 2017, he said 

he saw the two men at about 

12.30pm - and wasn’t sure 

whether it was May 21 or May 

22. 

A second statement to 

police on December 28, 2017, 

Robinson said his second job 

had been at 9am that morning 

and he would’ve seen the men 

about 10am. 

Asked if it was possible 

that he had seen the men on 

Saturday, rather than the 

Monday when it’s alleged that 

McGrath went missing, he 

disagreed. 

Corlett also highlighted that 

yesterday was the first time 

Robinson has said that he was 

at Candys Rd around 9am, 

and that he hadn’t done so 

in either of his statements to 

police. The defence lawyer was 

critical of Robinson’s evidence, 

telling him he was not there 

“to give evidence to fit in with 

police theory”. 

Benbow’s defence team 

earlier warned the jury of 

“investigative bias” and 

“tunnel vision” from police 

early in their investigations. 

While the Crown accepts 

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there is a strong circumstantial 

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threads that, when taken 

together, show Benbow is 

guilty of McGrath’s murder 

beyond reasonable doubt. 

The trial, before Justice 

Jonathan Eaton, continues. 

– NZ Herald 

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NEWS 9 

Crime spree offender in court 

• By Emily Moorhouse 

A 21-YEAR-OLD made three 

false calls to emergency services 

within a week and even started 

lighting his own fires, rushing 

back to his crime scene to film 

the firefighters in action after he 

raised the alarm. 

Caleb Pope was sentenced on a 

lengthy list of charges relating to 

arson and burglary last week. 

Pope called Fire and 

Emergency NZ four times 

between March and June 

last year, falsely claiming he 

could see smoke coming from 

Hammer Hardware and The 

Famous Grouse Hotel in Lincoln, 

he could see a vehicle in the 

Waimakariri River, and he could 

also see smoke coming from a 

petrol station in Christchurch. 

Fire fighters attended each call 

but could not find any smoke or 

vehicle in the river and classified 

them as false calls. 

On March 28 last year Pope 

started a small vegetation fire 

on the side of Rolleston Rd then 

called Fenz, which attended and 

put it out. He did this again on 

May 27 on Days Rd. 

A week later Pope drove, while 

forbidden from driving, to a 

Repco store in Hornby at 8.30pm. 

He approached a mediumsized 

rubbish skip and using a 

lighter, set several bits of paper 

on fire before throwing them in 

the skip. 

The fire engulfed the rubbish 

inside the skip, causing severe 

damage to the bin. 

Pope fled the scene, called 

Fenz and then returned when the 

firefighters arrived to film them 

in action. 

When questioned by police 

Pope said he was burning his 

court paperwork. 

Assistant District Commander 

Steve Kennedy said Fenz worked 

with police in relation to several 

incidents involving Pope. 

“False or malicious 111 calls 

go through the same process as 

all 111 calls, which means that 

they end up taking up valuable 

time of not only our 111 Fire 

Communication Centre staff but 

also the crews that respond to the 

calls,” he said. 

Kennedy said if crews were 

responding to false calls that 

would mean they are generally 

unavailable for any genuine calls 

that may come in. 

Pope also faced burglary 

charges involving stealing from 

his elderly neighbour, who was 

in hospital. He and an associate 

stole a barbecue, a heavy-duty 

vice, a table, a bench seat, a 

compressor and a vintage engine 

from the man’s shed. 

Everything was sold on Facebook 

marketplace to unknown 

people, except for the heavy-duty 

vice which was recovered during 

a search of Pope’s house. 

Between June 17-20 last year, 

Pope and the same associate 

broke into a construction site in 

Wigram. 

Pope had a set of master keys 

and used them to unlock a digger 

for his associate to climb in 

and begin digging holes in the 

ground. 

The pair then stole two heavyduty 

digger ramps, hard hats 

and strops from the construction 

site before advertising them on 

Facebook marketplace. 

Pope and his associate also 

broke into a Christchurch City 

Council-owned sports building 

in Wigram, stealing a football 

launcher. This was later recovered 

at Pope’s address. 

Between October 2021 and 

January 2022 Pope was employed 

by a construction and engineering 

firm but only worked a total 

of nine days before quitting. 

After termination of employment, 

all employees are to cease 

use of company accounts but on 

four separate occasions, Pope 

used the account to purchase 

builder’s tools. He spent a total of 

$2702 at Bunnings Warehouse in 

Shirley and Mitre10 in Papanui. 

On July 6 last year Pope was 

working for a different construction 

company through a temping 

agency. 

Between 4-8pm, he drove to 

a construction site in Lincoln 

where he had been working and 

cut and ripped out copper cables 

from the ground. He also stole a 

hydrant stand, tools and a strop. 

That same night Pope was 

stopped by police driving a large 

tanker truck from the construction 

company during a time he 

was forbidden from driving. He 

also admitted to police that he 

didn’t have permission from his 

employers to drive the truck. 

Pope was given a sentence of 15 

months which could be served as 

home detention if he could find a 

suitable address, Judge Quentin 

Hix told him. 

Pope’s lawyer Sabrina Forrester 

said her client had a challenging 

upbringing with family members 

being in and out of prison, which 

was normalised in his youth. 

She said violence, mental 

health concerns and a mistrust 

of police had significantly shaped 

Pope’s perspective and could be 

connected to his offending. 

Forrester told the judge Pope 

was a vulnerable young man who 

had already been assaulted in 

prison and now understands the 

consequences of his actions. 

Judge Hix gave Pope discounts 

for his youth, remorse, challenging 

upbringing and mental 

health issues. 

He expressed his concern 

for Pope who was unable to 

find a suitable address to serve 

his sentence as one of home 

detention. 

“I just really worry because 

there’s nowhere for you to go 

to get out,” he told Pope before 

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Mansion on sale for $1 

– with a costly catch 

A GRAND mansion is being 

offered for sale for $1. 

But buyers will have to line up 

removal of the “as is, where is” 

14-bedroom house from Lunns 

Rd, Middleton, and fork out for 

an asbestos audit. 

One house removal company 

estimated the two-storey over 

500sqm mansion would need 

to be cut into up to eight pieces 

to fit on the moving trucks, and 

costs could quickly build into the 

hundreds of thousands. 

The hair-raising ins and 

outs of house removal came to 

kiwi’s attention in 2021 when 

former First Man,Clark Gayford, 

fronted TVNZ’s Moving Houses. 

It made no bones about the wise 

truckies, the nail-biting perils 

of winding a wide load around 

country roads - or the rewards of 

an old place given new life. 

The 1903 mansion, which was 

damaged in the 2011 earthquake, 

has been the home for 75 years 

for Hamilton Jet, the biggest waterjet 

manufacturer in the world, 

supplying customers from Shotover 

Jet to US military vessels. 

The company’s advertising for 

the property said: “This beautiful 

home has been witness to history 

in the making. Now is your 

chance to write the next chapter 

HISTORIC: The 1908 mansion, home to global company 

Hamilton Jet, is on the market for $1 for removal. 

in what has already been a classic 

kiwi story of forward thinking, 

family value and kiwi ingenuity.” 

The arts and crafts-style mansion, 

was built as the summer 

home for well-known Timaru 

farmers Rosamond and Thomas 

Teschmaker, and was the base 

for their daughters during the 

Christchurch ball season. It 

was designed by well-known 

architects Collins and Harman, 

whose buildings include the The 

Press and the former Canterbury 

College Students Union as well 

as many grand houses for the 

gentry. The grand staircase, 

many of the original fireplaces 

and stained glass windows survived 

the earthquake. 

Hamilton Jets founders, the 

Hamilton family, bought the 

property in 1944 for a new factory, 

at first using it as an employee 

boarding house before making it 

the company headquarters until 

the earthquakes in 2011. 

The $1 sale comes with some 

strict conditions, the company 

said, including all the costs of 

an asbestos audit, professional 

removal and reallocation within 

three months of purchase. 

– NZ Herald 

Apartment plan for 

old supermarket site 


THIS IS WHAT the former 

Four Square and New World site 

in Redcliffs will look like if it 

gets city council approval. 

Fletcher Living has applied for 

resource consent to turn the site 

on the corner of Augusta St and 

Main Rd into a three-storey 22- 

unit residential complex with a 

commercial unit on the ground 

floor. The plan is to dismantle 

the first and second floors, 

retain the ground floor car 

park and build two new floors 

of apartments above it. The 

site, which had been home to a 

store for more than 100 years, 

will be known as the Redcliffs 

Apartments. 

The commercial unit on the 

Augusta St corner might suit 

a food and beverage or retail 

outlet, the developer said. 

The first and second floors 

will each contain 11 residential 

units with mainly two or three 

bedrooms and two 50 sq m 

one-bedroom units. 

The resource consent will be 

made under the District Plan 

because it is a non-complying 

activity for the zone. 

It will not be notified, but 

will not be subject to public 

consultation. A Fletcher Living 

spokesperson said the building 

should cover a similar footprint 

to the existing supermarket. 

The spokesperson would not say 

what the apartments might sell 

for. “We are working through 

a design process and hope to 

apply for building consent later 

this year. The development is 

realistically 18-24 months from 

completion.” 

City council records show 

the property was purchased by 

Fletcher Residential Ltd for $5.5 

million. 

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NEWS 13 

Foote steps into CCHL chair’s role 

CHRISTCHURCH-based 

professional director Abby 

Foote has been appointed the 

new chair of city council-owned 

Christchurch City Holdings Ltd. 

CCHL Group includes the 

city’s major infrastructure 

companies, Christchurch 

Airport, Lyttelton Port Company 

(LPC), Orion Group, Enable, 

EcoCentral and Citycare 

Group. 

The group employs more than 

3000 people across Canterbury 

and around New Zealand. 

Her appointment comes after 

the resignation of its previous 

chief executive Tim Boyd in 

September. 

It was later revealed he’d 

been ordered to pay millions in 

damages as part of civil lawsuits 

in the US. He was also wanted in 

Arizona over unresolved drinkdriving 

charges from 2018, Stuff 

reported. 

Boyd claimed the events were 

entirely separate. Boyd went on 

leave less than four months after 

he started in the $430,000-a-year 

position, Stuff reported. 

In a statement released by 

the city council yesterday, it 

said Foote had over a decade 

of governance experience in 

both NZX listed and Crown 

companies and has qualifications 

in both law and accounting, 

her executive career focused 

TAKING OVER: Abby Foote is the new chair of CCHL, taking over from Tim Boyd, seen 

here in a police photo while he was wanted in Arizona over 2018 drink-driving charges. 

on corporate finance and 

commercial transactions. 

Foote has experience in a 

wide range of areas including 

strategic development and 

implementation, mergers and 

acquisitions, treasury, risk 

management, health & safety and 

ESG issues. She was chair of Z 

Energy from 2019-2022. 

She is currently on the boards 

of KMD Brands Ltd, Freightways 

Ltd and Sanford Ltd. 

As well as Z Energy, where she 

was a board member from 2013, 

her prior governance experience 

has also included directorships 

with Transpower, LGFA, TVNZ 

and Te Papa. 

Said Foote: “I’m excited 

to be playing a part in the 

opportunities ahead for CCHL, 

and to be joining a dynamic and 

capable team that is focused on 

investing in, and managing, key 

infrastructure while delivering 

a wide range of vital services 

and other benefits for the people 

of Ōtautahi Christchurch, 

Canterbury and wider New 

Zealand. 

“I’m particularly pleased to 

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point in its ongoing development, 

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approach through the strategic 

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The CCHL strategic review 

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Long Term Plan 2024 – 34, when 

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opportunity to provide input. 

City coucnillors have been 

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From hospital nurse 

Karin Bos was a nurse at 

Christchurch Hospital for 20 

years. Now she cares for 

some of the most precious 

wildlife on Banks Peninsula. 

Heidi Slade reports 

KAITORETE IS one of the 

region’s hidden, natural gems. 

The 25km spit runs south-west 

from near Birdlings Flat along 

the southern edge of Te Waihora/ 

Lake Ellesmere. 

Home to banded dotterel, 

ground-nesting birds such as 

oystercatchers and endangered 

native spiders like katipō, as 

well as skinks and two species 

of flightless moth, the area is 

also populated with pests such 

as hedgehogs, mustelids, 

possums and feral cats. 

Bos has been working for Pest 

Free Banks Peninsula for 20 

months on various projects. She 

is now based at Kaitorete as a 

dog handler for its conservation 

dog programme. 

‘‘I’m excited to be a part of such 

an enormous, amazing goal,’’ 

said Bos who lives in Little River. 

Since December, she has 

worked with Mobab, a threeand-a-half-year-old 

border terrier 

trained to track hedgehogs. 

Recently the pair were 

joined by Terry, a 20-month-old 

welsh springer spaniel trained to 

track down feral cats. PFBP has 

PET-LOVER: Karin Bos with her two detection dogs Mabob 

(left) and Terry. 

been contributing to 

Predator Free New Zealand’s 

Pest Free 2050 initiative 

since 2020, when 

Government funding was 

committed for five years. 

PFBP operations manager 

Tim Sjoberg said funding after 

2025 will depend on whether ‘‘we 

PLAYTIME: 

Mabob 

looks out 

over the 

ocean from 

Kaitorete. 

Left – Terry 

gets to 

work in the 

bush. 

are valued by the community.” 

‘‘We are hoping that Pest Free 

2050 funding will continue to the 

next stage,’’ he said. 

Kaitorete is one of two areas 

PFBP works in, Bos says. 

In Kaitorete, it aims to ‘‘get rid 

of possums, cats, stoats, ferrets, 

weasels and hedgehogs.’’ 

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In the other focus area – 

the extended wild side of 

Banks Peninsula – PFBP 

is working to get rid of all 

possums and drop mustelid 

and feral cat numbers to 20 

per cent of what they were 

when the branch began. 

‘‘We are the only Predator 

Free 2050 project that is 

targeting that many species at 

once,’’ Sjoberg said. 

After spending 20 years 

as a surgical and cardiology 

nurse at Christchurch 

Hospital, Bos said she 

decided to pursue her 

passion for conservation fulltime. 

She has found what she calls 

‘‘the ultimate job.’’ 

Sjoberg said PFBP is 

‘‘blessed’’ to have Bos. 

‘‘Her strength 

is communication and being 

able to work under pressure,’’ 

which he says comes from her 

work as a nurse. 

He also praises her ‘‘detailed 

and concise approach.’’ 

It helps Bos to get in touch 

with the dogs and understand 

their behaviours. 

Mabob and Terry live with 

Bos on her property, which 

she likes to call their ‘‘palace.’’ 

She said they benefit from 

living with their handler as it 

helps the dogs develop a much 

stronger bond with her. 

They are also expensive, 

highly-trained animals, so it is 

important to keep them safe. 

Sjoberg said ‘‘knowing the 

dog intimately so that the wag 

of a tail or scratch of an ear’’ 

indicates they are close to a 

pest is important. 

‘‘These are the little signs 

that Karin needs to pick up 

on and she’s so good at that. 


to looking after wildlife 

FUN: Karin Bos takes a break at the beach with Mabob (inset). 

‘‘I was just blown away 

with how much those dogs 

love Karin.’’ 

While no two days are 

the same, Bos will check 

the ‘‘remote reporting 

network’’ daily to see 

which of PFBPs numerous 

live capture traps have been 

set off, she said. After her and 

the dogs investigate, she then 

lets them sniff out other 

predators. ‘‘They are detection 

dogs (and) they are pointing 

the animal out to me . . . 

I’m the one in charge of what’s 

happening to the animals’’ 

Bos said. 

Training the dogs takes 

20 to 24 months and 

involves expert trainer Billy 

Barton from Hawea. Barton 

specialises in training dogs for 

conservation purposes. 

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Art’s Centre 

place to be 

this weekend 

THREE DAYS of exciting street 

entertainment, theatre and music will be 

held at the Art’s Centre this weekend. 

The programme will feature more 

than 50 events celebrating the centre’s 

restoration. The festival begins at 6pm 

on Friday with a free opening event. 

Most indoor events are ticketed 

and all outdoor shows will be free, 

encouraging the public to wander 

throughout the festival, to explore 

different activities. 

The programme is complete with 

workshops, comedy and kids’ activities. 

Lumière Cinemas will be taking 

part in the festival by screening Rocky 

Horror Picture Show for two nights 

only. 

The eclectic mix will showcase 

creativity and the diversity the Art’s 

Centre supports, whilst highlighting 

well-known New Zealand artists such as 

Tiny Ruins, an indie-folk band and the 

Toi Toi Opera. 

Arts Centre director Philip Aldridge 

said Off Centre recognises years of 

patience and hard work following the 

earthquakes. 

‘’It’s a significant occasion,’’ he said. 

Delicious food as well as shopping 

will be offered by The Arts Centre’s 

year-round retailers, which will be 

complemented by a festival mākete on 

both Saturday and Sunday. 

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NEWS 


Big effort behind music festival 

• By Darryl Baser 

WHEN THE Selwyn Sounds 

music festival starts at 11am on 

Saturday at Lincoln Domain, 10 

truckloads of gear weighing 70 

tonnes will be in place. 

Event director David Parlane 

says the crew has spent the 

last week erecting fencing and 

preparing the venue to welcome 

the crowd. 

“We will be at capacity on 

Saturday,” he said. “It’s all 

consuming at the moment, but all 

is calm and everything is falling 

into place at it should.” 

The main stage was in at 6am 

on Monday, fresh from being 

used at Electric Avenue in Hagley 

Park over the weekend. 

“As soon as it finished on 

Saturday evening the stage was 

dismantled. It is on two very large 

trucks and once the trucks are in 

place, supports are put down, and 

the roof gets put on. It is a two 

day job to get the stage in place 

before we can start hanging lights, 

speakers, screens all those sorts of 

things.” 

“It’s a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, 

you’ve got to start with the edges 

then you’ve got to work your way 

around.” 

Parlane and his business 

partner launched Selwyn Sounds 

in 2017. Covid-19 restrictions 

forced the festival to be cancelled 

a month before it was to take 

place last year. Parlane said even 

though the team has run the 

event successfully over the years 

it has gone ahead, there is never 

room for complacency. 

To make events like this run 

like clockwork there is more 

going on in the preparation which 

members of the public generally 

never see. Sound checks for 

example. All bands except Blam 

Blam Blam will have arrived by 

Friday morning and are spending 

the day at the venue making sure 

they will sound the best they can 

to give fans a great experience. 

“The first sound check is 

11.30am Friday and the last is due 

to be 7.30 that night, depending 

on when bands are arriving.” 

Blam Blam Blam are due 

to arrive very early Saturday 

morning and Parlane said they 

will have time for a “line check” 

before general admission gates 

open at 10am. 

There will 34 food vendors on 

site during the day, with “more 

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The team will return to the 

venue early on Sunday morning 

and take two days to fully pack 

up. “You wouldn’t know there had 

even been a festival there. A week 

to pack it in, and a couple of days 

to pack it out,” Parlane said. 

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Captain century leads 

Veterans claim 

series win 

over old foes 

• By Jaime Cunningham 

NEW ZEALAND seized a series 

win over Australia in the over-40s 

one-day international series in 

Canterbury. 

The three-match series was the 

first of its kind, as over-50s, 60s 

and 70s cricket grows in popularity 

ahead of the planned over-40s 

World Cup set to take place in 

September. 

New Zealand’s 14-man squad 

included former Black Caps’ brothers, 

Hamish and James Marshall, 

and ex-Ireland international Peter 

Connell. Five squad members were 

Canterbury representatives. 

The second game was abandoned 

due to rain, but New Zealand 

were able to win on Tuesday 

and Friday. Hamish made 59 off 79 

balls in the first game at Rangiora, 

then James scored 70 off 83 in the 

series decider at Ohoka. 

Australia struggled to get 

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surpassing the milestone in a 

warm-up against New Zealand A, 

which they lost by 72 runs. 

Scorecards 

•Game 1: Australia 197/7 (45 

overs), Joseph Price 61, Hamish 

Marshall 2/13, Peter Connell 

2/42 lost to New Zealand 198/4 

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1/37. Game 2: Abandoned 

Game 3: New Zealand 232/9 

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Dane Stevenson 3/51, Danny 

Batra 2/35 beat Australia 

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Rapson 2/29 (DLS method). 

OBC to second title 


A SUPERB knock under 

pressure from Old Boys’ 

Collegians captain Jack Lewis 

helped his side to a second club 

title this season. 

OBC were able to beat 

Burnside West in the one-day 

competition final by four-wickets 

after a shaky start to their chase 

at Burnside Park on Sunday. 

With OBC at 7/3, chasing 

Burnside West’s 219, the home 

side looked likely to continue 

their unbeaten streak in the oneday 

format until Lewis, 25, came 

to the crease. 

Lewis said his sole focus was 

to build a partnership with 

Australian batter Dylan Hunter. 

“I just wanted to spend some 

time at the crease with Dylan. I 

wasn’t thinking too much about 

scoring runs,” Lewis said. 

Hunter was then caught on 40, 

leaving OBC four down with 155 

to win. 

Although OBC were missing 

key players who were with 

the Canterbury A side, Lewis 

was able to build a 93-run 

partnership with Thomas 

Graham in the middle overs of 

the chase. 

Burnside West took two more 

wickets, but couldn’t stop Lewis 

bringing up his first premiership 

century then hitting the winning 

runs. 

“I was just focused on getting 

the team over the line, I couldn’t 

be happier,” Lewis said. 

OBC opener David Wakefield 

and Lewis were the only 

remaining players from the 

2016/17 team that last won the 

one-day competition. It was 

also Lewis’ first season with the 

premier side. 

But it was his second final of 

season as captain of the premier 

side, after OBC won the T20 final 

against Sydenham in December. 

“It’s pretty awesome. It’s 

something I’ll always cherish, 

looking back on this season,” 

Lewis said. 

With only two-day matches 

left this season, Lewis said 

his priority will be giving the 

club’s newest premier players 

experience at the highest level of 

club cricket. 

“The focus is getting the 

younger boys from Christ’s 

College and [Christchurch Boys’ 

High] out, and giving them a 

good run,” he said. 

With Elmwood Park set to 

get a full field reconstruction on 

Monday, OBC will have no home 

games after the weekend. 

Lewis said the premier side 

will be training at Christchurch 

Boys’ High ahead of the 

remaining two away matches of 

the season. 

•Premiership 

final scorecard: 

Burnside West 

218/7 (50 overs), Carl 

Huyser 70, Dylan Hunter 

2/32, Harrison Cox 2/44, 

lost to Old Boys’ Collegians 

220/6 (45.1 overs), Jack 

Lewis 109 not out, Will 

O’Brien 3/24, Curtis Millard 

1/27. 

STALWARTS: Jack Lewis made his first premiership century 

in the club cricket one-day final on Sunday, 

Left – Lewis and David Wakefield with the one-day 

competition trophy. 

Ling nets her 100th premier interclub win 

• By Diane Keenan 

NOTCHING UP her 100th 

singles win in the premier 

women’s interclub and helping 

to secure her team a place in the 

final gave Kerrie Ling cause for 

a double celebration. 

Ling’s Burnside Park Bishopdale 

finished top of the table 

and will take on the winner of 

Saturday’s semi between Cashmere 

Red and Te Kura Hagley 

in the final in two weeks. 

Ling, 43, can’t remember how 

many competition finals she 

has played in but says it’s a lot. 

She played representative tennis 

through the junior ranks in the 

1990s then took a break before 

returning to the court. Her 

first recorded “top dog” points 

earned in the premier interclub 

were in 2007 when she was 

playing for Burwood. 

Ling was set to reach her 100 

wins before Christmas. “But I 

cut the top off my thumb off in 

the kitchen and couldn’t play 

for a few weeks,” she said. 

But she reached the goal last 

weekend when all the premier 

teams were playing in the annual 

away fixture at Ashburton. 

As usual, she was playing 

alongside Joelene Feneon and 

Feneon’s daughter, Jade. 

Said Ling: “I was with Joelene 

when she reached 100 wins 

two seasons ago and we were 

playing together last Saturday. 

Her advice was to go out there 

and play my own game, which 

I did.” 

Ling is not phased by the 

many talented juniors who “like 

hitting the ball hard on their 

forehands.” They are often baffled 

by Ling’s all-round game, 

which includes strength at the 

net and mixing ground strokes 

with slice and spin. 

“Even when I’m down, I never 

give up. I just change my game 

plan if I need to and keep fighting,” 

she said. Ling said she will 

definitely continue to play tennis, 

but may follow in Feneon’s 

footsteps and concentrate on 

doubles. The pair won a national 

masters title in January. 

Pool play in the women’s 

competition was keenly contested 

with Burnside Park (125 

points) well ahead of Cashmere 

Red (104), Te Kura Hagley (98) 

and unlucky Elmwood (97) 

which missed the playoffs by a 

point. 

Te Kura Hagley has a strong 

pool of players to draw on for 

the semi-final. Cashmere Red 

lost all their matches to Burnside 

Park Bishopdale last week, 

but will be back to full strength. 

Several Cashmere players were 

absent due to commitments 

at the South Island secondary 

school championships at Wilding 

Park. 

The men’s competition has 

two more rounds of pool play 

before the play-offs. Leader 

Elmwood play Te Kura Hagley, 

while Cashmere face Edgeware 

Waimairi and Bishopdale play 

South Brighton. Burnside Park 

have the bye. 

Points 

•Men 

Elmwood 133, Burnside 

Park 114, Cashmere 

107, Bishopdale 93, 

South Brighton 75, 

Te Kura Hagley 60, 

Edgeware Waimairi 42. 

•Women 

Burnside Park 

Bishopdale 125, 

Cashmere Red 104, 

Te Kura Hagley 98, 

Elmwood 97, Cashmere 

Back 42, Waimairi 35 

ACHIEVEMENT: Kerrie Ling 

won her 100th singles match 

in the premier women’s 

interclub.


Colleen Falloon played 

in the first ever netball 

World Cup 60 years ago. 

The 79-year-old shared 

her experiences – which 

includes running 152 

marathons – as the guest 

speaker at the Mainland 

Tactix’s season launch. 

Jaime Cunningham 

reports 

COLLEEN Falloon may not 

have lived in the region for 

most of her life, but she’s a true 

Cantabrian at heart. 

Having made her mark as a 

young shooter at Christchurch 

West High School in the late 

1950s, Colleen (nee McMaster) 

was selected in the 1960 Silver 

Ferns team to play a three-test 

series against Australia. Just 

three years later, she boarded 

a ship bound for the inaugural 

World Cup at Eastbourne in 

England. 

“I was one of the lucky, lucky 

players to play in the first world 

tournament,” Colleen told Tactix 

players, coaches and sponsors 

last week at the Commodore 

Hotel. 

“We didn’t have any practices 

beforehand,” she added. 

New Zealand went on to win 

their first game of the 1963 

tournament against Northern 

Ireland, setting a record that 

still stands today. They won that 

match by the largest margin 

(112-4) in a World Cup game. 

Unfortunately the team failed to 

beat Australia in the competition 

and finished runners-up. 

“The ball was there but we 

couldn’t put it through the hoop 

in time,” Colleen said. 

After the World Cup, Colleen 

was selected in the 1969 team to 

travel to Australia. She was then 

picked for the 1971 Jamaica tour. 

“But I wasn’t interested as I was 

engaged,” she said. 

Colleen made the move to 

Auckland soon after, where she 

started running marathons. 

However, in the late 1970s only 

elite male runners could participate 

in races. Colleen’s first 

opportunity came when she was 

able to enter the 1979 People’s 

Marathon, organised by Arthur 

Lydiard in Auckland. 

“When I started marathons, 

women didn’t run and you didn’t 

see older folk running around in 

shorts either,” she said. 

Almost 45 years later, she ran 

her 152nd marathon in January. 

Colleen is currently in week 


Tactix take inspiration 

from World Cup pioneer 

GUEST: Former Silver Ferns and Canterbury shooter Colleen Falloon spoke at the 

Mainland Tactix’s season launch last week. 

five of a 14-week build-up for the 

upcoming Rotorua Marathon in 

May and expects to cover more 

than 1000km preparing for the 

race. 

“I just continue following a bit 

of a schedule. On Sunday we did 

27km. I’ve done 7km this morning, 

doing 16km tomorrow, and 

10km on Thursday. Just building 

up slightly,” Colleen said. 

She plans to run a marathon 

in Croatia in September but is 

not sure how many more she can 

manage. 

“I don’t think I’ll get to 200. 

The main thing is that I don’t 

have Covid or any injuries on the 

start line. Our immunity systems 

aren’t as good as they used to be.” 

REPRESENT: 

Colleen Falloon 

was a shooter in 

the Silver Ferns 

1963 World Cup 

team. 

Left – Colleen 

playing in the 1959 

national tournament 

in Christchurch. 

When she’s not running 

marathons, Colleen admits she 

doesn’t watch a lot of netball but 

keeps up with the results. 

She said netball is still her 

favourite sport. “I will always 

support Canterbury,” she said. 

At the season launch, she “told 

[the Tactix] they’ve got to harden 

up, it’s hard work. But it’s worth 

it. Good luck to the red ones.” 

Kimiora Poi was confirmed 

as Tactix captain, while Karin 

Burger was named vice-captain. 

•The Tactix first game 

of the ANZ Premiership 

season against the 

Northern Stars starts at 

7.35pm on Sunday at 

Pulman Arena, Auckland 

SPORT 23 

ABs coach 

decision 4-6 

weeks away 

THE NEXT All Blacks coach 

will be named in the next four to 

six weeks. 

New Zealand Rugby chair 

Dame Patsy Reddy said 

yesterday it has started the 

process to select 

the head coach for 

2024. 

Crusaders coach 

Scott Robertson 

recently hinted an 

announcement 

would be made 

soon. Current All 

Scott 

Robertson 

Blacks coach Ian Foster said he 

had been “watching this discussion 

about the All Blacks coaching 

process play out publicly”. 

“A particular frustration is 

that there seems to be a focus on 

setting timetables based on what 

some preferred candidates feel is 

right for them versus potentially 

what is right for this All Blacks 

team,” Foster said. 

Christchurch 

claim golf’s 

Longevity Shield 


CHRISTCHURCH have 

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Otago Golf Club in the ladies 

interclub challenge at the 

weekend. 

Christchurch’s senior team 

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Otago struggled with the fast, 

smooth greens on the Shirley 

Links course. At the end of 

Saturday, the Christchurch 

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foursomes. The friendly team 

finished the day even with 

Otago. 

The Christchurch teams 

prevailed on Sunday, with both 

winning by 8-4. 

The annual competition 

between the two clubs was first 

played in 1894 and brought back 

after Otago’s 150th anniversary 

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PART OF LINE-UP 

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THE Rodger Fox Big Band is starting their 

50th Anniversary Concert series with a 

full-on drum spectacular featuring three of 

the world’s greatest drummers. e Big 

Drum Off concert tour is coming to 

Christchurch on Friday, 10 March for a 

two-hour performance in the James Hay 

eatre. See link for further information. 

e three American drummers who will 

perform in concert with the Rodger Fox 

Big Band are Dennis Chambers, Gregg 

Bissonette and Peter Erskine. 

Rodger Fox says, “e Big Drum Off 

concert tour will feature all three renowned 

drummers on stage and performing 

alongside the Big Band for the rst rst of ve ve 

concert tours celebrating the Band’s 50th 

Anniversary. is ‘drum-off’ will be a 

performance to remember. e combined 

power of these three incredible drumming 

talents, in tandem with the Big Band’s 

sound, is not to be missed.” 

Peter Gregg Erskine Bissonette has is appeared a jazz and on rock 700 

drummer. albums and His lm broad scores experience and has won ranges two 

from Grammy big band, Awards blues, plus and Honorary rock, to Latin, 

fusion Doctorate and from much the more. Berklee A current School member of 

of Music. Ringo He Starr’s has played All-Star with Band, Weather has Report, 

played Joni Mitchell, on albums Steely by Dan, dozens Diana of artists, Krall, Pat 

including Metheny, and David the Lee American Roth's rst jazz three fusion solo 

albums, band, Maynard and has Ferguson performed Big with Band. Canadian Peter is 

jazz also legend a Professor Maynard of Practice Ferguson. and Gregg Director also of 

Drumset played with Studies the Rodger at the ornton Fox Big Band School on of 

Music, their recent University recording of Southern Reimagined! California. 

Rodger Fox says he is looking forward to 

collaborating with these three celebrated 

American drummers who will also take 

part in the Big Band’s ‘Jazz on the Road – 

Changing Lives through Music’ 

programme. Jazz on the Road is an exciting 

and challenging series of one-day 

workshops and concerts delivered by the 

Rodger Fox Big Band, featuring 

international jazz musicians and educators. 

“Man!!!!! To think we are now about to 

celebrate half a century of jazz aer aer the rst rst 

rehearsal at the Wellington Musicians Club 

in Wigan Street so long ago. at really 

blows my mind, to be very honest about it. 

"I hope you come out and join the fun 

while we present a series of concerts to 

remember alongside a spectacular guest 

‘drum-off’ featuring three of the world's 

greatest drummers - Gregg Bissonette, 

Dennis Chambers and Peter Erskine,” 

Rodger Fox said. 

Chalmers 

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JAMES HAY THEATRE | FRIDAY 10 MARCH 

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CHRISTCHURCH 

GIG GUIDE 

Thursday 2 to Wednesday 8 March 2023 

12 BAR, 342 St Asaph St: Thursday 

10pm - Odiusembowel and Carnel with 

special guests Vixen Execution and 

Utterance, tickets at 

cosmicticketeing.co.nz. Friday 8pm - 

Tealskie; HatcH; Saint Peter's Thursday, 

tickets at cosmicticketing.co.nz. Saturday 

8pm - Blindfolded and Led to the 

Woods with Elidi, Locked in Stasis, and 

From Moose Mountain, ticekts at 

cosmicticketing.co.nz 

ARMADILLO'S BECKENHAM, 155 

Colombo St: Saturday 9pm - 

Uncovered. 

A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo 

St: Thursday 6pm doors for 7pm start – 

Schecter Guitar Research and 

MusicWorks proudly present Nick 

Johnston (Canada) Guitar Clinic, tickets 

$20 from UTR.co.nz, under-18s can 

attend with a parent or legal guardian, 

door sales available; (No Open Mic this 

week). Friday 8.30pm – Rock favourites 

with Sign of the Firebird, free. Saturday 

8.30pm – The Late Starters, with special 

guests Bad Revivals, free. Sunday 4pm – 

Kay Duncan, Debut Album ‘Interstellar 

Refugee’ First Anniversary Concert with 

full band, feat Guy Hobson, Stephen 

McDaid, Geoff Cox, & John Weir, plus 

special guests, tickets $15+BF from 

UTR.co.nz, please be seated by 4pm for 

concert start. Monday 7pm – Believe It 

or Not Quiz, free. 

BLACK PEARL TAVERN, 9 

Humphreys Dr: Friday 8.30pm - 

Karaoke. 

BOO'S, 1/98 Victoria St: Thursday 

8.30pm - Trevor Michael. Friday 8pm - 

Kirsty Louisa; 10.30pm - Mac & TJ. 

Saturday 8pm - Lauren Marshall; 

10.30pm - Mirrors Duo. 

BRIDIE'S BAR, 401 Worcester St: 

Thursday 7pm - Quiz. Saturday 3pm - 

The Bottlejacks. Sunday 3pm - Housie- 

Bingo. 

CASHMERE CLUB, 88 Hunter Tce: 

Saturday 7.30pm - Mainland Big Band. 

CHCH CASINO, 30 Victoria St: 

Thursday 7pm - Live music; 10.15pm - 

Live music. Friday 7pm - Live music; 

10.15pm - Live music. Saturday 7pm - 

Live music; 10.15pm - Live music. 

CHCH FOLK MUSIC CLUB, Irish 

Society Hall, 29 Domain Tce: 

Sunday 7.30pm - The Wax Birds. 

FAT EDDIES, 76 Hereford St: 

Thursday 7.30pm - Live Band Karaoke; 

11pm - VOXY. Friday 5pm - Phil 

Doublet; 8.30pm - Black & Gold; 12am - 

Chilton House. Saturday 4.30pm - Nick 

Pitts Trio; 8pm - Sound Sensation; 

11.30pm - House of Groove. 

HORNBY CLUB, 17 Carmen Rd: 

Friday 7pm - Jo's Karaoke. Saturday 7pm 

- Take2. Sunday 3pm - Stephen James. 

JOLLY POACHER, 31 Victoria St: 

Friday 7.30pm - Red Zone; 11.15pm - 12 

Gauge. 

KAIAPOI CLUB, 113 Raven Quay: 

Thursday 12.30pm - Housie. Monday 

7pm - Housie Night. 

LITTLE BROWN JUG, 290 Wairakei 

Rd: Saturday 7pm - Misconduct. 

MICKY FINN'S, 85a Hereford St: 

Thursday 8.30pm - Keenan's Revenge. 

Friday 10.30pm - Uncovered. Saturday 

10.30pm - D'Sendantz. 

RACECOURSE HOTEL, 118 

Racecourse Hotel: Friday 7pm - DJ 

Chick Karaoke. 

RICHMOND CLUB, 'The Borough', 

75 London St: Friday 7pm - The 

Bottlejacks. Saturday 7pm - Third Time 

Lucky. Sunday 3pm - Neil Alexander. 

ROSE & THISTLE, 24a Main North 

Rd: Friday 8.30pm - A&J Karaoke. 

Saturday 8.30pm - Spektrum. 

SHARKEY'S BAR, 96 Hoon Hay Rd: 

Saturday 7pm - Sharkey's Karaoke. 

TEMP'S BAR, 21 Goulding Ave: 

Saturday 8.30pm - No Secrets. 

THE BELFAST TAVERN (THE PEG), 

899 Main North Rd: Friday 8pm - 

Hired Guns. 

THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Thursday - 

Quiz. Friday 6pm - Lorne Joblin; 10pm - 

Flat City Brotherhood. Saturday 11pm - 

Chilton House. 

THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: 

Friday 9pm - Open Mic. Saturday 9pm - 

Lionized; Finger of Contempt; The 

Camel Tony's, $10 entry. Wednesday 

9pm - Titanic. 

THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd: 

Friday 9.30pm - Bite the Bullet. Saturday 

9.30pm - Red Zone. Sunday 6pm - 

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THE PIANO, 156 Armagh St: Friday 

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WOOLSTON CLUB, 19 London St: 

Saturday 11th March, 7.30pm - Cyclone 

Gabrielle Benefit Concert feat. Roy 

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at the club. All proceeds (after expenses) 

go to the Cyclone Gabrielle cause. 

WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 19 

London St: Thursday 7pm - Award 

winning Canadian musician, Joël Fafard, 

tickets at undertheradar.co.nz 

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THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2023 

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SuNdAy 19 MARch 

12km, 6km Community Fun Run Event 

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TRAINING PROGRAMME 

weeK eIghT: Less than 3 weeks to go! 

You are now nearing the peak of your preparation. 

Congratulations if you are still following the 

programme and you have been able to do most of 

the sessions. This means that it is more likely that 

you will make it to the start line in good condition. 

If you have not been able to follow the programme 

or if you have only followed it half-heartedly you 

need to adjust your goals and be prepared to jogwalk 

the event all the way at an easy pace. You will 

get there but it will take a bit longer. 

Over the next couple of weeks, you need to 

become comfortable with your training pace. 

LeveL monday wednesday Thursday saTurday 

Beginner 

12km Jog/run 

Intermediate 

12km 

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6km 

walk 

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45 min 

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45 min 

Jog 

45 min 

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50 min 

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45 min 

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Get a good feel for it because that is the pace you 

will need to do for the event if you want to finish 

comfortably. If you go faster than your training 

pace you risk injury or you will struggle over the 

last few kilometres. The weekend run is close to 

the time you will be on your feet on the day of the 

event. This is a key session. Try not to miss any 

of the sessions over the coming 2 weeks or do at 

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45 min 

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50 min 

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12km 65 min (light) 

60 min 

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90 min 

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This programme and accompanying information are 

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TIP oF The weeK 

If your feet are sore and aching roll your 

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The Star: March 02, 2023

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