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• By Adam Burns 

SOME PARENTS and former 

teachers in Christchurch 

are skeptical on proposed 

changes to class size ratios in 

schools, and believe challenges 

facing the sector are not 

straightforward. 

Education Minister 

Jan Tinetti announced 

changes last week 

to help “improve 

teacher and learning 

outcomes”, reducing 

classroom ratios from 

one teacher per 29 

pupils, to 28 by 2025. 

Tinetti said reducing the 

number of students in the 

classroom would allow teachers 

more one-on-one time with 

their students. 

Thirteen-year-old Amelia 

Jan Tinetti 

Preston is a year 9 student and 

said she was in a classroom 

where three teachers looked 

after 80 pupils. 

She said there was no time 

for one-on-one with teachers. 

“It was actually really big and 

noisy and the teachers couldn’t 

really handle the kids.” 

Lexi Watson, 13, said the 

classes were “a lot of people 

for a teacher”. 

“You couldn’t really 

have much time with the 

teacher.” 

Mother Kate Grater 

said there was not just one 

solution to make learning 

easier. 

“I’m a parent and I want the 

best education for my son and 

it’s hard. 

“It’d be great to send our 

children to a private school and 

give them the best education 

but that’s not realistic for a lot 

of us. 

“And it’s also not realistic to 

after you’ve worked a full day, 

to sit down with your child, 

who is tired and review all of 

this (school work).” 

Grandmother Linda Askew 

thought the changes were 

futile. 

She said a back-to-basics approach 

was needed. 

“Making sure that our 

children can actually read and 

write and that we pick up these 

little ones who can’t, when 

they’re six or seven, not eight, 

would be much better. 

“Getting one more teacher 

ratio is not going to make 

much difference at all, and 

where are we going to find 

these teachers?” 

A Murchison mother, who 

preferred to remain anonymous, 

said her child was in a 

small class at a rural school, but 

some pupils still needed extra 

support. 

“In general, the teaching is 

fairly good because of (the size 

of the class). 

“Part of the problem with big 

classrooms is that all kids, no 

matter what level they’re at in 

the same age group, are put in 

together.” 

She doubted one less pupil 

in the classroom would make a 

difference. 

“If there’s a lot of different 

demographics and higher 

needs in that class, they probably 

need a couple of teachers 

in each class . . . that would be 

great. 

“But in the real world that’s 

not going to happen.” 

Father Michael Pacey 

thought classroom sizes had 

gotten smaller, but teachers 

had been provided additional 

duties. 

“I think the teachers do a lot 

more than just teach now,” he 

said. 

“Giving them the ability to 

do the work that they need to 

do in the background, to be 

able to teach effectively is a 

good thing. 

“There’s limited hours in the 

day so with the extra responsibilities 

there needs to be some 

slack given somewhere else.” 

RNZ spoke to retired 

teachers last week, who said 

the government needed to do 

better, proposing a ratio of one 

teacher per 20-25 pupils. 

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Peter Hope – Places, the Land 

and People Art Exhibition 

All day until April 29 

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre 

Peter Hope is a self-taught realist 

painter who aims to capture the 

nuances of light and mood he sees in 

his local area. Go along and see Peter’s 

work, mostly in acrylics, where he is 

drawn to ordinary buildings lit up 

with low morning or afternoon light. 

Riccarton Park Menzshed 

Tuesday & Thursday, 1-4pm 

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Friday, 10.15-10.45am 

Hornby Library 

Meet others in the community 

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rhymes and books that will delight 

and develop your baby or toddler. 

All whānau and caregivers welcome. 

Recommended for under twos. Free, 

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Beats Lab 

Friday, 3pm-4:30pm 


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Hub. Masters men’s and women’s hockey teams representing Hockey 

New Zealand and Hockey Australia will be playing for the first time in 

Christchurch. Check out the 16 teams ranging from over 35s to over 75s. 

scratching with a vinyl turntable and 

more with a range of instruments. 

Free, no bookings required. 

Wā Kōrero - Storytimes 

Monday, 10am-10.30am 

Upper Riccarton Library 

Connect with others in the 

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variety of stories, play and rhymes. 

All whānau and caregivers are 

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JP Clinic 

Thursday, 9.30am-12.30pm - 

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Tuesday, 10am-1pm - Te Hāpua: 

Halswell Centre 

Tuesday, 9.30am-12.30pm - Upper 

Riccarton Library 

A Justice of the Peace is on site to 

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Coffee and Games 

Thursday, 12pm-2pm 

Halswell Community Hub, Halswell Rd 

Drop in for a casual game of your 

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there. Cost is $2, all welcome. 

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Tuesday, 3.30-4.30pm 


Do you have a reluctant reader who 

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Thursday April 27 2023 3 

Sensors to monitor water quality 

in real-time along the Avon River 

NEW SMART sensors will 

measure water quality every 15 

minutes at four sites along the 

Ōtākaro Avon River. 

Monitoring sites have been 

set up in Riccarton Drain, 

Addington Brook, Dudley Creek 

and near Gloucester St and will 

test for a range of water health 

indicators in real-time. 

Smart Christchurch has 

teamed up with Spark IoT and 

specialist environmental monitoring 

company Adroit to install 

the sensors, which will enable 

the city council to respond more 

quickly to contamination events. 

Each station is 

powered by its 

own solar panel 

and takes water 

measurements 

every 15 minutes. 

The data is then 

Michael 

Healy 

uploaded to the 

Adroit Cloud platform 

via the Spark 

DATA: Smart sensors will measure the water quality every 15 minutes at four sites along 

the Ōtākaro Avon River. 

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Cat-M1 network. 

The city council already monitors 

river water quality, but this 

has largely been done through 

monthly grab sampling from 47 

sites across the city 13 of which 

are located on the Ōtākaro-Avon 

River. 

“There is currently up to a twoweek 

delay in between taking 

manual samples, testing them 

and responding,” said the city 

council’s Smart Christchurch 

manager Michael Healy. 

“What we’re hoping to see 

from the introduction of Adroit 

water quality monitoring is the 

ability to see pollution events 

unfold in real-time and potentially 

take preventative action.” 

Urban streams and stormwater 

networks experience particularly 

variable water quality due to 

rapid run-off from roads and 

paved surfaces after rain. 

“We were looking for a continuous 

water quality monitoring solution 

that allows for the capture 

and identification of water quality 

variation that might otherwise be 

missed,” said Healy. 

“In the longer-term, as we 

do more riparian planting and 

other initiatives to enhance the 

waterway, we can track the efficacy 

of those measures and see 

how we’re doing with the health 

of our rivers. 

“Our goal is to help restore a 

healthy waterway that provides 

a place for the whole community 

to swim, fish and enjoy the environment.” 

Both processes 

will run in parallel 

initially, to 

enable the city 

council to measure 

the effectiveness 

of the new 

real-time sensors 

in comparison to 

manual testing. 

Michelle 

Wong 

“Sustainability is front of mind 

for a lot of people at the moment, 

so it’s very pleasing to work on a 

project like this, that can really 

make a difference,” said Spark 

IoT lead Michele Wong. 

“By effectively monitoring 

the river, water quality can 

be improved, allowing the 

Christchurch community to 

enjoy our waterways as they were 

intended.” 

• You can check the water 

quality on https://smartview. 

ccc.govt.nz/environment/ 

androit 

A word from Ilam MP 

Sarah 

Pallett 

We’ve listened to feedback and 

announced major changes to our 

affordable water reforms, to deliver big 

cost savings to Canterbury households 

while also making sure that the work is 

led and delivered at a regional level. 

It’s no secret that our neglected water 

services are facing a crisis and without 

immediate action, households could 

face annual rate increases of over 

$4,000 - $9,000 per year in the future. 

As a Government, we’re not prepared 

to put this extra cost on Kiwis. That’s 

why we’ve taken another look at our 

water reform programme and come up 

with a pragmatic solution. 

Our affordable water reforms will fix 

New Zealand’s water infrastructure and 

make sure that households don’t foot 

the bill through huge rate increases. It’s 

a plan that will save families thousands 

of dollars, with projected savings of 

around $2,860 for households here in 

Christchurch City in the future. 

These changes strike a balance between 

saving households from ballooning 

costs while also being more locally led. 

We’ve extended the number of publicly 

owned water entities from four to 

ten. That means every council, and 

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a say over their local water services 

entities. By setting up more water 

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Bluey looks back on his days 

YOU WOULD have to be over 70 

to have heard of Bluey. 

Derek ‘Bluey’ Arnold was born 

on January 10, 1941 in Balclutha. 

In those days a person with red 

hair was called ‘Blue’ by their 

mates, a saying that seems to 

have originated from Australia: 

“Ow ya goin Blue?” 

Bluey was a rugby player. 

Between 1959–1971, he played 87 

matches for Canterbury and 15 

for the All Blacks, including four 

tests. 

A New Zealand player of the 

year in 1964, at 173cm and 67kg 

he would have been at a distinct 

disadvantage marking current 

All Black Jordie Barrett, who at 

196cm and 95kg often plays in 

the same second five position. 

Bluey says there is “daylight” 

between the rugby of his day and 

the modern game, not just the 

rules – now far too complicated 

and suffocating the sport – but 

the challenges facing the All 

Blacks before professionalism 

took over. 

Bluey was one of 30 players 

on the 1963 /64 tour of England, 

Ireland, Scotland, Wales and 

France, playing an unbelievable 

36 games from October 23 to 

February 24 (with just one loss 

0-3 and one draw 0-0). 

With nearly five months away 

from a job, some of the team 

had to resign to go on tour and 

a couple got leave without pay, 

while Bluey as a stock and station 

agent continued to get his salary, 

courtesy of a rugby mad boss. 

These amateurs were paid 10 

bob (shillings) a day by the New 

Zealand Rugby Football Union in 

the 1960s. 

Today, top All Blacks earn 

more than a million dollars a 

year. 

Bluey said in those days the 

rugby fraternity looked after the 

family at home, particularly the 

local clubs that rallied around, 

making sure the lawns were 

done, spare food was donated, 

and outings arranged and 

presents organised for Christmas. 

The players were a bunch of 

young, spirited guys overseas for 

an extended length of time. Bluey 

said it was an overwhelming new 

experience, discovering the big 

lights, especially for those players 

from rural New Zealand. 

The 1963/64 tour reality was 

a good example of downtime 

curbed by the weekly routine of 

rugby, rugby and more rugby. 

After breakfast it was training 

then lunch, training then tea, 

with evenings reserved for 

tactical discussions for midweekers 

and Saturday games. 

Public or private functions and 

travel fitted in in between, with 

the only time off on Sundays. 

This might be an afternoon at 

a bar or a bus tour, but in most 

cases it featured women. 

NOW AND THEN: Between 

1959–1971, Derek ‘Bluey’ 

Arnold played 87 matches 

for Canterbury and 15 for 

the All Blacks, including four 

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in the black jersey 

And many of the All Blacks 

found girlfriends on tour. 

Bluey said wearing the All 

Black blazer brought a lot of 

clout and admirers, with the 

rule what happened on tour 

stayed on tour. 

He said social behaviour and 

attitudes have changed since 

those times. 

“While you didn’t have anywhere 

near the conditioning of 

the modern player, we still had 

to manage our way through 

injuries because coming off 

the paddock was not really an 

option. There were no replacements, 

the 15 (where possible) 

stayed on till end of the game 

and we often had players limping 

from one on-field action to 

another. 

“There were players who got 

though a match with the aid of 

pain killers, but due to damage 

incurred a few players never 

played again.” 

Another five years were to 

pass before the rules allowed 

up to two players be substituted 

for injury, with tactical 

replacements now possible at 

any time. 

Bluey’s All Black career 

ended with getting on the 

wrong side of the new coach 

Fred ‘the needle’ Allen. 

“I was no shrinking violet, 

and we exchanged a few words 

a few times and that was it.” 

While rugby was a different 

game in his time and the 

demands on body and 

finances quite hard, Bluey 

said he would not change the 

experience of pulling on the 

black jersey for anything. 

“One of the proudest 

moments of my life.” 

It was a time in New 

Zealand where newspapers 

and radio dominated, and 

with the All Blacks at the 

forefront of these mediums, 

they were the heroes people 

most admired. 

Derek ‘Bluey’ Arnold was 

All Black 639, about halfway 

between the first to wear the 

jersey in 1884 and 2022’s tally 

of more than 1200. 

While the All Blacks remain 

an iconic team in world sport, 

some of the old players from 

around the country are living 

almost anonymously next 

door – like Bluey, who these 

days lives in South Brighton. 

– New Brighton Residents 

Association 

The 1963 team. Above – 

performing the haka. 

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13. Helicopter blade (5) 

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19. Currency of Switzerland (5) 

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26. Creme de la creme (5) 

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Suffers, 9. Aroma, 10. 

Terrorise, 11. Theme song, 

12. Pleat, 13. Rotor, 15. 

Top dollar, 18. Carpenter, 

19. Franc, 21. Pasta, 23. 

Commotion, 25. Bedridden, 

26. Elite, 27. Element, 28. 

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Protester, 3. Crave, 4. Tit for 

tat, 5. Sprog, 6. Foolproof, 

7. Exile, 8. Shelter, 14. Reexamine, 

16. Pyromania, 

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Touch of French Riviera in Skoda Fabia 

MONTE CARLO is one of the 

most fascinating places I’ve had 

the good fortune to visit. 

In terms of major motorsport 

events, it is also home to the 

iconic formula one grand prix 

and has long been host to a 

round of the World Rally Championship. 

Skoda has had regular contenders 

with the latter. It entered 

the competition in 1999 and has 

had a lot of success in both it and 

WRC-2, mostly with its Fabia. 

Capitalising on that success, 

the company has launched a 

couple of Monte Carlo models 

– Kamiq and five-door Fabiahatchback. 

The Monte Carlo is 

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of 1.5-litre. It’s a strong engine 

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outputs – 110kW and 250Nm, 

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energy, and that is the essence 

of the modern engine; power arrives 

smoothly and is linear. 

Drive is sent to the front 

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It is the Volkswagen group’s 

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with quick, clean shifts 

and ratios that complement the 

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terms of functionality, right from 

the clever door-located umbrella 

holder to the rubbish bin-type 

container inside the driver’s door 

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