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Thursday, <strong>October</strong> 5, <strong>2023</strong> | Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper<br />
My life<br />
with<br />
Jodi<br />
New format<br />
for premier<br />
tennis<br />
– page 3<br />
RUGBY STAR TACKLES<br />
TIM BATEMAN has many<br />
strings to his bow.<br />
A former professional rugby<br />
player with the Crusaders,<br />
Hurricanes, Japanese club<br />
Red Sparks, and captain of the<br />
Māori All Blacks, he has also<br />
SERIAL PEST<br />
penned children’s books <strong>The</strong><br />
Lonely Lemon and <strong>The</strong> Sad Banana<br />
and operates two wellness<br />
centres with his wife Laura.<br />
And he had to use his rugby<br />
skills when he was attacked by<br />
a homeless man with a pole<br />
who had been pestering female<br />
staff at one of his wellness<br />
centres. Bateman tackled the<br />
homeless man and held him<br />
until police arrived.<br />
<strong>The</strong> incident has now had its<br />
sequel in court, where the man<br />
was sentenced to 12 months<br />
intensive supervision.<br />
Bateman holds no animosity<br />
towards the man, saying he<br />
hopes he gets the help and<br />
support “he obviously needs”.<br />
• Full story, pages 8-9<br />
– page 25<br />
Summer<br />
conditions<br />
to reach<br />
scorching<br />
40 deg C<br />
• By Hamish MacLean<br />
SUMMER EXTREMES this<br />
year could include days where<br />
temperatures climb to 40 deg C,<br />
Niwa forecasters say.<br />
Despite increased variability,<br />
hot, dry conditions could present<br />
fire risks along the east coast of<br />
the South Island, particularly<br />
Canterbury.<br />
And the arrival of a strong El<br />
Niño will bring “really windy<br />
conditions” that could push fire<br />
through green pastures.<br />
Niwa meteorologist Ben Noll said<br />
New Zealand’s hottest temperature<br />
happened during an El Niño<br />
summer – when temperatures<br />
climbed to 42.4 deg C in Rangiora<br />
in February 1973. In Christchurch<br />
it got to 41.6 deg C.<br />
This El Niño event, confirmed<br />
last week, would be one of the<br />
biggest in the last couple of<br />
decades.<br />
<strong>The</strong> weather pattern would<br />
“elevate and enhance” the<br />
variability of spring, which<br />
could produce wild swings in<br />
temperatures and strong winds.<br />
Niwa forecasting principal<br />
scientist Chris Brandolino said<br />
it was more likely than not that<br />
temperatures would climb to 40<br />
deg C in parts of the country over<br />
summer.<br />
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Support for Barnett after wife dies...........3<br />
Sepuloni challenged at <strong>The</strong> Palms...........5<br />
‘I forgive you’ victim says to pimp.........6-7<br />
CTV disciplinary action allowed................10<br />
Community board infighting ......................13<br />
Reducing the risk of stroke.............................14<br />
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<strong>The</strong> library and service<br />
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<strong>The</strong> concept design has been<br />
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City council head of community<br />
support and partnerships<br />
John Filsell said the decision<br />
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option.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> building was damaged<br />
quite badly in the 2011<br />
earthquakes, and since then the<br />
council has made it safe with<br />
temporary strengthening while<br />
we focused on getting other urgent<br />
library and service centre<br />
projects up and running, such<br />
as Tūranga.<br />
“Today’s decision signals the<br />
council’s ongoing commitment<br />
Thursday <strong>October</strong> 5 <strong>2023</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NEWS 3<br />
South Library rebuild gets the green light<br />
to work with communities,<br />
while carefully making the<br />
most out of valuable resources,<br />
to deliver a first-class, sustainable<br />
and future-focused facility.”<br />
Construction should take<br />
about 20 months. Staff are looking<br />
at options for temporarily<br />
relocating library and customer<br />
services while construction is<br />
under way.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rebuild project is<br />
estimated to cost $32.75 million,<br />
with $22.6 already set aside.<br />
‘Your wife is dying’<br />
– Barnett on his<br />
life with Jodi<br />
SIMON BARNETT has opened<br />
up on his life with wife Jodi, who<br />
died after a five-and-a-half-year<br />
battle with brain cancer this<br />
week.<br />
<strong>The</strong> interview was published<br />
in the NZ Herald on Saturday,<br />
where the well-known<br />
Christchurch broadcaster<br />
revealed Jodi only had a short<br />
time to live.<br />
He told journalist Shayne<br />
Currie a palliative care doctor<br />
visited recently and was frank.<br />
Barnett came off air from his<br />
Newstalk ZB Afternoons show<br />
straight away.<br />
“She said, ‘We’ve always<br />
known, Simon. I think you<br />
need to understand that,’ – her<br />
words – ‘your wife is dying’.<br />
“It was very confronting. I<br />
just sobbed.”<br />
Barnett tells of how their love<br />
story started on the slopes of<br />
Mt Hutt in 1988.<br />
He had first spotted the<br />
striking brunette at the Les<br />
Mills gym, during aerobic<br />
classes.<br />
“I just remember thinking<br />
this girl was impossibly beautiful<br />
not just physically – she was<br />
clearly that. But there was just<br />
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something that radiated from<br />
her.”<br />
Back then, Barnett was hosting<br />
the TVNZ children’s showWhat<br />
Now.<br />
“So I was like big time,” he<br />
jokes.<br />
But, sadly for him, “she had<br />
never heard of What Now, never<br />
seen What Now . . . !”<br />
While he was filming a segment<br />
for the show on the Mt<br />
Hutt skifield, he saw someone<br />
struggling on the Poma lift, and<br />
recognised her as the woman<br />
from the gym.<br />
“She just happened to be there<br />
that day, by chance, and she was<br />
quite possibly the world’s worst<br />
skier.<br />
“I was possibly the second<br />
worst, although I pretended I<br />
was immensely capable.<br />
“She fell off the Poma lift and<br />
the whole lift came to a standstill.<br />
I saw this and I thought<br />
‘That’s the girl from the gym!’”<br />
He scrambled down the mountainside<br />
on skis, not knowing<br />
how to stop himself properly.<br />
“I said, ‘Would you like a<br />
hand?’, which is patently ridiculous<br />
for me, given that I can’t<br />
really ski.<br />
“She said ‘That would be<br />
really good, please’. I got her up<br />
and that just started it. She was<br />
jaw-droppingly kind from that<br />
moment.<br />
“Every time I was in her<br />
company, I just felt so much<br />
better.”<br />
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NEWS<br />
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Hot, dry summer ahead<br />
Older people sauté at<br />
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ballet class<br />
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Demolition of Lyttelton<br />
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“When you superimpose<br />
these warm phases of natural<br />
variability on to a warming<br />
climate it’s hard not to think,<br />
‘How do you not get warmer?”’<br />
Otago University geography<br />
senior lecturer Dr Daniel<br />
Kingston said the El Niño<br />
influence on top of the region’s<br />
climate-change-affected<br />
summers was adding “another<br />
layer of extremeness”.<br />
As global temperatures<br />
increased over the coming<br />
decades, the hot days were going<br />
to get hotter as well.<br />
“What we might think of<br />
as an extreme hot day at the<br />
moment will occur more<br />
regularly into the future.<br />
“If we used to expect El Niños<br />
to make our summers that bit<br />
drier or that bit hotter, under<br />
climate change we are starting<br />
from a higher baseline.”<br />
El Niño would produce<br />
more westerlies in particular,<br />
Kingston said.<br />
While the West Coast could<br />
receive a lot of rain, it was the<br />
eastern side of the South Island<br />
that tended to produce drier<br />
conditions.<br />
Fire and Emergency NZ<br />
national wildfire specialist Tim<br />
SCORCHER:<br />
Hot, dry<br />
conditions could<br />
create fire risks<br />
for much of the<br />
country this<br />
summer.<br />
Mitchell said strong winds<br />
could push fire through green<br />
paddocks as it burned through<br />
thatch.<br />
Through a variable spring, he<br />
expected “a see-sawing of fire<br />
danger risk”.<br />
Heading into Christmas<br />
though as the land dries out<br />
there would be increasing risk<br />
in the east coast of both islands,<br />
he said.<br />
“Normal is quite different to<br />
what we’ve experienced for the<br />
past couple of seasons.<br />
“This year is going to be<br />
different.”<br />
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NEWS 5<br />
Sepuloni faces testy shoppers<br />
CABINET Minister Carmel<br />
Sepuloni was challenged on<br />
her party’s record on crime,<br />
the cost of living, veterans and<br />
beneficiaries during a visit to<br />
<strong>The</strong> Palms mall on Tuesday<br />
afternoon.<br />
Sepuloni, who has held several<br />
portfolios including social development<br />
and employment while<br />
also filling the role of deputy<br />
prime minister since Chris Hipkins<br />
took over as prime minister,<br />
did a walkabout at <strong>The</strong> Palms in<br />
Shirley.<br />
She chose a quiet time to visit,<br />
but two women were keen to<br />
express their concerns on crime<br />
and how the cost of living was<br />
hitting young people.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y said young people were<br />
not facing consequences when<br />
they committed crimes.<br />
Sepuloni responded that there<br />
were a lot of different issues going<br />
on in young offenders’ lives,<br />
including fallout from suffering<br />
family harm or having other<br />
family members who have been<br />
to jail.<br />
By offering them wraparound<br />
services there had been a massive<br />
reduction in ram-raids, she said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>n it’s not just them but<br />
also their siblings and their<br />
families who are getting the<br />
support so they aren’t going on<br />
to re-offend . . . if you just lock<br />
them up and throw away the key<br />
then in the future it’s just going<br />
to cause more problems for us.”<br />
She added the government had<br />
also been trying to help retailers<br />
who were affected by crimes.<br />
Sepuloni was questioned about<br />
people on benefits using their<br />
dole to buy drugs.<br />
It was too easy for these people<br />
to do nothing, the woman said.<br />
“What are you going to do<br />
with these guys cos they’re just<br />
taking taxpayers’ money and<br />
getting high?”<br />
When told that some drug<br />
users needed support from<br />
the health system rather than<br />
punishment, the woman said she<br />
doubted they would be willing,<br />
or interested, in accepting this<br />
help.<br />
<strong>The</strong> majority of people went on<br />
a benefit for a short time to get a<br />
helping hand, Sepuloni said.<br />
Her government had seen<br />
higher numbers of beneficiaries<br />
moving into jobs, in part because<br />
of the government making it<br />
easier to take up apprenticeships<br />
and introducing programmes to<br />
help them upskill, such as getting<br />
their driver licences.<br />
One woman said, in contrast<br />
to Sepuloni’s day, it was much<br />
harder for young people to move<br />
out of home these days.<br />
Sepuloni said Labour had<br />
lifted the minimum wage each<br />
year and had also raised the<br />
student allowance.<br />
Half-price public transport,<br />
cheaper or free prescriptions<br />
and plans for free dental care for<br />
under-30s were other initiatives.<br />
Sepuloni was approached by<br />
an army veteran, James, who<br />
RED: Carmel Sepuloni defended<br />
Labour’s track record during a visit to<br />
<strong>The</strong> Palms mall.<br />
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asked why Labour does not have<br />
a veterans policy.<br />
He complained about the massive<br />
delays to accessing veteran<br />
support services which ranged<br />
from 80 days to a year.<br />
When she tried to respond, the<br />
veteran said: “I’m going to keep<br />
talking.”<br />
After a long list of complaints,<br />
he said: “None of this is being<br />
discussed in the election and I<br />
don’t think this is fair.”<br />
He said it was a problem for<br />
him that service during the aftermath<br />
of the February 22, 2011<br />
earthquake, which had caused<br />
him to develop Post Traumatic<br />
Stress Disorder (PTSD), was not<br />
covered by Veteran Affairs, while<br />
ACC did not understand the<br />
needs of veterans.<br />
He refused to accept her offer<br />
to shake hands at the end of the<br />
conversation.<br />
Sepuloni told RNZ Labour<br />
does not have a veterans policy<br />
and she will be following up.<br />
Rounding off her mall visit,<br />
she joined volunteers hitting the<br />
phones to ask people to vote for<br />
Labour. <strong>The</strong>re was no answer<br />
on her first two calls and on her<br />
third call the person answered<br />
but did not want to chat.<br />
Earlier on Tuesday, Sepuloni<br />
and Ilam MP Sarah Pallett visited<br />
Canterbury University.<br />
When both met with a group<br />
of Pasifika students, one asked<br />
why politicians and Labour’s<br />
Pacific caucus only visit the<br />
Christchurch Pacific community<br />
in an election year. Sepuloni said<br />
she has visited Christchurch on<br />
other occasions, as have Aupito<br />
William Sio and Poto Williams.<br />
One student asked what would<br />
stop supermarkets from pocketing<br />
profits if GST was removed<br />
from fruit and veges. Sepuloni<br />
said the grocery commissioner<br />
would ensure that does not happen.<br />
When asked what Labour was<br />
doing to tackle racism, Sepuloni<br />
said the party was calling it out.<br />
On whether New Zealand<br />
should cut ties with the monarchy<br />
she said there were more<br />
pressing issues.<br />
– RNZ<br />
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‘I forgive you’ victim says to man who<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
A MAN who organised sex<br />
work for a 15-year-old girl and<br />
took some of her earnings while<br />
she was addicted to drugs and<br />
desperately looking for guidance<br />
has been offered forgiveness.<br />
“I stand here to tell you that I<br />
forgive you,” the now 20-year-old<br />
woman, who has turned her life<br />
around, told Mathew Stephens.<br />
Stephens, 44, appeared in the<br />
district court yesterday where<br />
he was sentenced for “exploiting<br />
an extremely vulnerable” girl by<br />
organising a prostitution deal<br />
and taking $100 of the girl’s<br />
earnings.<br />
After giving Stephens<br />
discounts for previous good<br />
character, Judge Gerard Lynch<br />
sentenced him to three months of<br />
community detention with a curfew<br />
from 7pm to 6am daily, and<br />
100 hours of community work.<br />
He also ordered Stephens to<br />
pay an emotional harm payment<br />
of $1000 to the victim.<br />
After a jury trial in June,<br />
Stephens was found guilty of one<br />
charge of assisting persons under<br />
18 in providing commercial<br />
sexual services and one charge<br />
of receiving earnings from commercial<br />
sexual services provided<br />
by persons under 18.<br />
<strong>The</strong> charges relate to Stephens<br />
dropping the girl off at a motel to<br />
HARM: Mathew Stephens was found guilty at trial of assisting a person under 18 in<br />
providing commercial sexual services and receiving money from those services.<br />
meet a client before taking $100<br />
of her earnings when the job was<br />
done, between <strong>October</strong> 2016 and<br />
June 2018.<br />
Stephens was found not guilty<br />
of another assisting and receiving<br />
charge.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman read her victim<br />
impact statement in court,<br />
describing feeling lost and alone,<br />
turning to prostitution to fund<br />
her drug addiction.<br />
“You guided me to use my<br />
body for money. I looked up to<br />
you. I needed you to tell me I<br />
didn’t need to do that, and I<br />
PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD/NZ HERALD<br />
had choices.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman said she couldn’t<br />
face her own family and was<br />
crippled for years not knowing<br />
what to do with her life, looking<br />
for guidance when she met<br />
Stephens.<br />
She has been working and<br />
living in Christchurch and for<br />
the past few years has done a lot<br />
of reflection on what her life was<br />
like.<br />
“I am free now because of<br />
God’s grace. I am able to love and<br />
forgive myself.<br />
“I stand here today to tell<br />
you that I forgive you Mathew<br />
Stephens.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman, who has automatic<br />
name suppression, said she hoped<br />
Stephens was able to “change<br />
your heart and forgive yourself”<br />
as well.<br />
<strong>The</strong> young woman said she<br />
won’t ever get those years of her<br />
life back but will continue with<br />
her personal growth journey,<br />
stating her “only wish” was for<br />
Stephens to do the same.<br />
Stephens was charged under<br />
the Prostitution Reform Act<br />
2003 and repeatedly denied any<br />
involvement in the offending,<br />
claiming the woman was<br />
“vindictive and jealous” and<br />
made up the allegations to get<br />
back at him for sleeping with her<br />
friend.<br />
During the trial, the woman<br />
said she met Stephens when she<br />
was 15 and was very “mentally<br />
fragile”.<br />
She was also addicted to<br />
drugs, using methamphetamine,<br />
cannabis, speed, and MDMA,<br />
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pimped her out at 15<br />
No change to<br />
<strong>The</strong> Crown alleged Stephens<br />
introduced himself to the woman<br />
and told her that he sorts out<br />
deals for girls wanting to make<br />
money through sex work.<br />
He told her he was there to<br />
protect her and make her feel<br />
safe.<br />
In an interview with the police,<br />
which was played to the court,<br />
the woman described herself as<br />
a walking body with “no soul or<br />
spirit”.<br />
She said she was very broken,<br />
suicidal, “basically homeless”<br />
and felt like she had no genuine<br />
connections with anyone during<br />
the period she was associating<br />
with Stephens.<br />
She was raised in a Christian<br />
household and was not aware of<br />
what the real world was like and<br />
was “probably an easy target”,<br />
she said.<br />
She and Stephens would message<br />
each other often and see<br />
each other roughly four times a<br />
month, sometimes for sex work<br />
or to just “hang out”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first time they met, Stephens<br />
gave her $100, she said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman also said Stephens<br />
was always quick to give her<br />
money and described him as<br />
“grooming” her, stating he would<br />
often pay her to spend time with<br />
him.<br />
She described “inappropriate<br />
behaviour” from Stephens that<br />
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she felt “obliged” to respond to,<br />
such as kissing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> court heard how she<br />
sometimes felt uncomfortable,<br />
and Stephens would act as if the<br />
pair were a couple, on one occasion<br />
asking her for sex but later<br />
admitting it was wrong of him<br />
to ask.<br />
She described being high and<br />
sleep-deprived most of the time<br />
they saw each other. She eventually<br />
admitted herself to a rehabilitation<br />
programme to turn her<br />
life around and in 2020, made a<br />
statement to the police.<br />
She described Stephens as “manipulative<br />
and controlling” and<br />
having “no boundaries”.<br />
Crown prosecutor Patrick<br />
Brand said deterrence and<br />
denunciation for this type of offending<br />
was an important part of<br />
the sentencing process.<br />
Brand stressed how vulnerable<br />
victims were in this type of<br />
offending and while the woman<br />
was “extremely vulnerable” at<br />
the time, she had gone on a “path<br />
of self-discovery” and was much<br />
stronger now.<br />
Stephen’s lawyer Joshua<br />
Grainger said his client was assessed<br />
as having a low risk of reoffending,<br />
stating the organised<br />
prostitution happened one time<br />
and was quite a few years ago.<br />
“Mr Stephens is someone<br />
who will hopefully remain a<br />
stranger to this court once this<br />
case is over,” Grainger told Judge<br />
Gerard Lynch.<br />
Grainger pointed out the<br />
stigma that Stephens will have<br />
attached to him with media<br />
reporting on the case and asked<br />
the Judge Lynch to consider a<br />
sentence of community detention<br />
rather than home detention.<br />
Judge Lynch said while there<br />
would be some attention on<br />
Stephens’ case “that is simply a<br />
result of criminal offending”.<br />
Judge Lynch turned to the<br />
woman in court and acknowledged<br />
her generosity in forgiving<br />
Stephens and her courage in<br />
sharing the impact his offending<br />
had on her.<br />
“I wanted to acknowledge<br />
today just how impressed I was<br />
to learn how you did not wallow,<br />
rather you pulled yourself up<br />
and are a much different and<br />
improved version of yourself<br />
today.”<br />
Judge Lynch said Stephens<br />
exploited the woman who<br />
was “extremely vulnerable”<br />
and would have seen him as a<br />
person she could trust given the<br />
significant age gap.<br />
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COURT 9<br />
On June 3 about 7.10am, the<br />
woman was inside the studio<br />
when another employee came in<br />
and said a man had followed her<br />
into the studio.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman went outside and<br />
asked the man what he was doing,<br />
to which he replied, “Whatever<br />
you want me to do”.<br />
Kazakos then approached the<br />
woman aggressively, causing<br />
her to feel scared and go back<br />
into the studio, locking the door<br />
behind her.<br />
Kazakos then began to shake<br />
the door before calling the business<br />
a total of 143 times, leaving<br />
“aggressive” voice messages of<br />
him “ranting and rambling”.<br />
On June 11, Kazakos called the<br />
woman’s personal phone multiple<br />
times and left voice messages.<br />
<strong>The</strong> same day. Bateman was<br />
leaving the business when he saw<br />
Kazakos. He confronted him<br />
about calling the woman and<br />
told Kazakos he was not allowed<br />
back into the studio.<br />
Kazakos shouted at Bateman,<br />
“Do you want to go c***?”, before<br />
running to a small doorway<br />
and grabbing a long metal pole,<br />
swinging it at Bateman in a baseball<br />
bat fashion.<br />
Kazakos put the pole down,<br />
adopting a fighting stance and<br />
lunging at Bateman several times<br />
before picking up the pole again<br />
and hitting Bateman on his left<br />
arm.<br />
Bateman then tackled Kazakos<br />
to the ground and held him there<br />
until police arrived.<br />
Bateman told the NZ Herald<br />
the biggest thing<br />
for him, and his<br />
team, was that<br />
Kazakos got the<br />
help and support<br />
he obviously<br />
needs.<br />
He said they<br />
Tim have hundreds<br />
Bateman of customers<br />
coming into the<br />
studio every week, sometimes<br />
forced to tackle problem head on<br />
when it’s dark outside, and it was<br />
important that they feel safe and<br />
comfortable, as well as his staff.<br />
“It’s not nice knowing people<br />
like that are out and about just<br />
out of control.”<br />
He said Kazakos would call<br />
up the business “ranting and<br />
rambling” in an aggressive<br />
manner, to the point where he<br />
became concerned he might hurt<br />
somebody.<br />
Bateman said he had no animosity<br />
towards Kazakos, saying<br />
he would rather he be assaulted<br />
by the man than one of his female<br />
staff members.<br />
PROTECT:<br />
O Studio owner<br />
and former<br />
Crusader Tim<br />
Bateman<br />
used his rugby<br />
skills to detain<br />
Leoindos<br />
Kazakos.<br />
PHOTO: GETTY<br />
He felt as though the matter<br />
had been dealt with well.<br />
Kazakos was also charged<br />
relating to an incident on February<br />
16, when he pushed and<br />
threatened a security guard who<br />
served a trespass order on him at<br />
the South City shopping centre.<br />
From the dock, Kazakos asked<br />
the judge for permission to<br />
speak, stating he would never<br />
call the business 143 times or<br />
approach the females in a sexual<br />
way.<br />
“Why would I be doing that to<br />
females when I can just pay for<br />
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it?” he asked the judge.<br />
Kazakos’ lawyer Kerri Bell said<br />
her client had mental health issues<br />
at the time of the offending<br />
but is now getting the support he<br />
needs.<br />
She asked Judge Mark Callaghan<br />
to impose a sentence of<br />
intensive supervision and said<br />
Kazakos had told her the three<br />
and a half months he’d spent in<br />
custody had been a good opportunity<br />
for him to “get clean”, and<br />
he is in a good space now.<br />
He was also willing to pay<br />
reparation to the victims, the<br />
court heard.<br />
Judge Callaghan said reports<br />
provided to the court showed<br />
Kazakos suffered from various<br />
mental health issues and if he<br />
didn’t continue taking his medication,<br />
he would likely re-offend.<br />
He sentenced Kazakos to 12<br />
months’ intensive supervision<br />
with special conditions,<br />
including not to possess or<br />
consume alcohol or nonprescribed<br />
drugs, not to contact<br />
the victims of his offending<br />
and to attend mental health<br />
appointments.<br />
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building.<br />
However, Reay is calling for<br />
the disciplinary action to be<br />
abandoned because of how much<br />
time has passed.<br />
It follows years of litigation,<br />
including judicial decisions on<br />
whether a disciplinary committee<br />
had the jurisdiction to<br />
investigate someone who was no<br />
longer a member of the professional<br />
body.<br />
Now, Justice Paul Radich has<br />
ruled in ENZ’s favour.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> disciplinary process is<br />
able to, and should, see itself<br />
through,” he said, noting the<br />
court would not normally intervene<br />
before a complaint process<br />
was completed.<br />
“I am satisfied that in this case<br />
it continues to be in the public<br />
interest to enable the disciplinary<br />
committee to consider the complaints<br />
substantively.”<br />
At a hearing at the High<br />
Court at Wellington last month,<br />
Reay’s lawyer, Kristy McDonald,<br />
Alan Reay<br />
TRAGEDY:<br />
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PHOTO:<br />
GEOFF SLOAN<br />
argued there was no explicit<br />
requirement under the 1986<br />
rules – when the building was<br />
constructed – for her client to<br />
supervise his employee.<br />
She argued the agency had not<br />
specified which rule her client<br />
was meant to have broken, and<br />
had drawn the matter out over<br />
more than a decade.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was no need to protect<br />
the public, McDonald said, as<br />
Reay was now 82 and had retired<br />
from engineering.<br />
Justice Radich said while the<br />
1986 code did not refer explicitly<br />
to supervision, it was implied in<br />
how the provisions were worded.<br />
“A member operating a<br />
business that employs other<br />
engineers will, if they are to act<br />
professionally and with integrity,<br />
and if they are to recognise their<br />
responsibilities in the public<br />
interest and to their profession,<br />
supervise those employees,” he<br />
said.<br />
“Accordingly, it is for the disciplinary<br />
committee to determine,<br />
based upon evidence of the<br />
nature of Dr Reay’s practice in<br />
1986, whether his peers would<br />
regard that conduct as being<br />
in line with generally accepted<br />
standards of the profession at the<br />
time.”<br />
While he acknowledged the<br />
time that had elapsed, Justice<br />
Radich found the delays should<br />
not prevent the disciplinary<br />
hearing from proceeding, and<br />
would not unfairly impact Reay.<br />
ENZ chief executive Dr Richard<br />
Templer said he was encouraged<br />
by the court’s decision.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> reality is it’s been 12<br />
years since the Christchurch<br />
earthquake, whereby 115 people<br />
tragically lost their lives when<br />
the CTV building collapsed.<br />
“People are looking for answers<br />
and this decision confirms<br />
this complaint must be allowed<br />
to continue through the normal<br />
process and be heard by a disciplinary<br />
committee from the<br />
profession.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> disciplinary process would<br />
begin as quickly as possible,<br />
Templer said.<br />
A 2012 Royal Commission of<br />
Inquiry found Reay’s employee,<br />
engineer David Harding, made<br />
fundamental errors in designing<br />
the building.<br />
It criticised Reay for handing<br />
sole responsibility for the design<br />
over to somebody so inexperienced.<br />
That same year, 54 family<br />
members and the Ministry of<br />
Building, Innovation and Employment’s<br />
chief engineer made<br />
complaints about both men to<br />
the professional body.<br />
A separate police<br />
investigation, which concluded<br />
in November 2017, resulted in<br />
no criminal prosecution for the<br />
building’s collapse.<br />
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NEWS 13<br />
Community board infighting, insults<br />
• By Daniel Alvey<br />
INFIGHTING and name calling<br />
on a community board has led<br />
to resignations, triggering a byelection.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Malvern Community<br />
Board in the Selwyn District is in<br />
disarray after member Sean Ellis<br />
resigned in late August followed<br />
by chair Ken May a week later.<br />
May and Ellis appear to have<br />
been in regular conflict.<br />
May said Ellis thought he<br />
was “god” and was trying to<br />
undermine him as the chair.<br />
But Ellis responded saying<br />
he, along with the other board<br />
members, were trying to change<br />
May’s approach and attitude.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> rest of the board tried<br />
to change it and make it more<br />
professional and more open and<br />
we were getting knocked back all<br />
the time,” Ellis said.<br />
“He wasn’t behaving correctly<br />
as chair.”<br />
Ellis said he left the board out<br />
of “frustration” with May which<br />
was affecting his personal and<br />
family life.<br />
“It was getting to a position<br />
where it was very unhappy and<br />
very frustrating and that was<br />
starting to impact on my family<br />
lead to resignations and by-election<br />
life,” said Ellis.<br />
May also took a swipe at other<br />
board members saying, “I’m too<br />
old to be pissing around with<br />
children.”<br />
He singled out Calvin Payne<br />
and Sharn Nu’u, saying they<br />
were “no brainers”.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re was a severe lack of<br />
desire on my part to deal with<br />
idiots. <strong>The</strong> only two sensible ones<br />
were Bruce Russell and myself,<br />
in my opinion,” he said.<br />
Ellis said May’s comments<br />
were “vulgar” and “uncouth”.<br />
May and Ellis’ resignations<br />
mean a by-election will now be<br />
needed.<br />
May said what finally led to his<br />
resignation were issues around<br />
the Springfield Donut, the<br />
township’s symbol and tourist<br />
attraction which the Selwyn<br />
district council has copped<br />
criticism for bad paint leaving it<br />
looking tatty.<br />
Between 2020 and 2022 the<br />
donut has been painted four<br />
times at a cost of $17,864.<br />
“Calvin ‘no brain’ Payne went<br />
up to Springfield because there<br />
were problems with the donut<br />
and came up with a whole lot<br />
of bs about the donut. That it<br />
should be encased in scaffolding<br />
and it was dangerous, the stand<br />
behind it was unsteady.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>n the other no-brainer<br />
Sharn Nu’u got onto it and made<br />
some comment about how she’d<br />
CONFLICT:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Malvern<br />
Community Board<br />
in happier days –<br />
Sharn Nu’u (left),<br />
Sean Ellis, Ken May,<br />
Bruce Russell and<br />
Calvin Payne.<br />
taken her kids up there once and<br />
it felt unsafe and that she might<br />
hurt herself,” May said.<br />
Payne confirmed he had raised<br />
safety issues with the donut, but<br />
he had no response for being<br />
called a “no-brainer”.<br />
Nu’u also confirmed she had<br />
raised the issue of feeling unsafe<br />
on the donut in a conversation<br />
outside a public meeting.<br />
Nu’u said May’s comments<br />
were an example of what they<br />
were dealing with.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> board lost confidence in<br />
the chair.”<br />
She said May’s comments were<br />
unacceptable and unprofessional.<br />
May claimed Payne had<br />
been going around other<br />
board members calling for his<br />
resignation. Payne said that<br />
wasn’t correct.<br />
“I did not want Ken to resign.<br />
Not from the board, no,” Payne<br />
said.<br />
Nu’u also said May’s claim was<br />
incorrect.<br />
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NEWS<br />
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Innovative research using patients’<br />
heart cells to reduce stroke risk<br />
HEART ATTACKS and<br />
strokes should not happen<br />
says a scientist whose research<br />
into these diseases has won a<br />
$155,000 grant.<br />
Canterbury University school<br />
of biological sciences associate<br />
professor Steven Gieseg is<br />
leading the research project ‘Is<br />
artery inflammation driven by<br />
plaque composition?’ which has<br />
been awarded a Heart Research<br />
Foundation grant.<br />
Gieseg is the principal<br />
investigator of a team that has<br />
developed an innovative new<br />
tissue culture system allowing<br />
researchers to study in the<br />
laboratory human artery samples<br />
from stroke patients. <strong>The</strong> team<br />
includes Christchurch Hospital’s<br />
professor<br />
Justin Roake<br />
and University<br />
of Otago<br />
Christchurch’s<br />
Dr Barry Hock.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> body<br />
is normally<br />
Steven<br />
Gieseg<br />
very good at<br />
regulating the<br />
inflammatory<br />
process that causes strokes and<br />
heart attacks,” said Gieseg, who<br />
REGULATE: Canterbury University research is examining artery plaques removed from<br />
stroke patients to illuminate the inflammation process.<br />
PHOTO: GETTY<br />
has been researching heart<br />
disease and heart health since<br />
1990.<br />
“Within the arteries though,<br />
the control systems appear to<br />
become ineffective, allowing<br />
cholesterol filled pus to build up<br />
inside the artery wall, forming<br />
artery plaques.<br />
“It is the rupture of these white<br />
blood cell-filled artery plaques<br />
that causes blood clots to form<br />
and stops the flow of blood to the<br />
brain or heart.”<br />
About 1700 New Zealanders<br />
die from out-of-hospital cardiac<br />
arrest each year.<br />
Better understanding of the<br />
inflammation activity in heart<br />
cells could lead to a reduction in<br />
heart attacks and strokes, while<br />
an innovative new approach<br />
developed over the last six<br />
years could lead to research<br />
breakthroughs.<br />
Said Gieseg: “We have<br />
developed a unique system<br />
where we can take artery plaques<br />
removed from stroke patients by<br />
our surgical collaborators and<br />
keep it alive in the laboratory<br />
for up to a week. This allows us<br />
to examine the inflammation<br />
process in actual human artery<br />
plaque instead of relying on<br />
mouse models.”<br />
Researchers can then break<br />
the tissue down and count the<br />
individual cell types generating<br />
and causing the inflammation.<br />
For the first time researchers will<br />
be directly measuring cause and<br />
effect.<br />
“By piecing together what<br />
is actually happening with<br />
the inflammatory cells<br />
within the plaque we can take<br />
cardiovascular disease detection<br />
and treatment beyond just<br />
measuring cholesterol and look<br />
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within a patient.<br />
“Blood cholesterol and blood<br />
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cell inflammation.<br />
“We want to work out<br />
what exactly is driving the<br />
inflammation in the artery that<br />
creates heart disease. If we know<br />
what the drivers are we could<br />
help develop new drugs to block<br />
the disease without shutting<br />
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NEWS 15<br />
Mobil<br />
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Landslides cause more deaths<br />
than any other natural hazard<br />
RESEARCHERS have received<br />
EQC funding to investigate how<br />
climate change could increase<br />
the risk of damage triggered by<br />
earthquakes and landslides.<br />
Canterbury University School<br />
of Earth and Environment<br />
senior lecturer Dr Timothy Stahl<br />
is leading the research.<br />
Stahl says earthquakes and<br />
landslides are two of New<br />
Zealand’s deadliest and most<br />
costly natural disasters.<br />
“Cumulatively, landslides<br />
have caused more deaths in<br />
New Zealand than any other<br />
natural hazard and lead to $300<br />
million in insurance claims each<br />
year. Our research programme<br />
spans geology and disaster risk<br />
resilience and provides a better<br />
fundamental understanding of<br />
these processes,” he said.<br />
“We plan to create up-to-date<br />
models for these hazards that<br />
will ultimately allow us to be<br />
more prepared and resilient.<br />
We’ll also drive new research<br />
into how natural disasters,<br />
such as landslides, cliff collapse<br />
and flooding triggered by<br />
earthquakes, are affected by<br />
climate change.”<br />
A big quake on the alpine<br />
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Stahl says it is a high priority<br />
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warming climate and more<br />
frequent storms will continue<br />
to increase the cost of insurance<br />
claims and have a profound<br />
impact on people’s lives and<br />
property.<br />
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climate change, which is linked<br />
to varying storm frequency,<br />
intensity and duration, has<br />
an impact on several other<br />
hazards.<br />
“If you have more saturated<br />
ground prior to an earthquake<br />
this increases the risk of<br />
earthquake-induced flooding<br />
and also means there’s a greater<br />
risk of landslides on hillsides.<br />
“Rising sea levels and rivers<br />
running higher will also change<br />
patterns of earthquake-induced<br />
flooding.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> research team is one<br />
of three from the university<br />
awarded funding from EQC<br />
to fill knowledge gaps and<br />
improve engineering practices.<br />
Each programme will receive<br />
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2024.<br />
Stahl said the study will<br />
expand geological data at key<br />
locations along active faults,<br />
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FOR OVER a decade, the Governors Bay<br />
Jetty was closed to the public.<br />
<strong>The</strong> jetty, which was damaged by the<br />
February 22, 2011 earthquake, officially<br />
reopened at the weekend to an audience of<br />
over 400 supporters.<br />
Said Governors Bay Jetty Restoration<br />
Trust chair Prue Miller: “I’m actually a bit<br />
speechless about it, knowing that it will be<br />
used for the next hundred years.”<br />
Miller said children were among the first<br />
to wander down the new jetty.<br />
“Most children in Governors Bay had<br />
never had that experience.<br />
“It was an amazing turn out and a<br />
fantastic vibe.<br />
“Sixteen jetty jumpers braved the cold<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Canterbury Open Water Swimming<br />
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to be the first jetty jumpers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> online Trade Me auction was set up<br />
by the trust to raise funds to pay for the<br />
jetty.<br />
<strong>The</strong> total cost of the rebuild was $3.7<br />
million, and the trust received financial<br />
backing from the city council to fund the<br />
project. After sourcing the $1.5 million<br />
of their share, the trust has $350,000 left<br />
to raise for the rebuild. Miller said the<br />
next major project will be starting on the<br />
boathouse.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is still a lot of work to do, but we<br />
have four years to pay for the jetty.<br />
“We have all had the same vision since<br />
the beginning of the project, and a great<br />
many people were a part of making the<br />
jetty restoration such a success.”<br />
THE <strong>2023</strong> GENERAL ELECTION<br />
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<strong>The</strong> ultimate event for women is back<br />
GIRLS’ DAY OUT: <strong>The</strong> Christchurch Women’s Lifestyle Expo<br />
brings together 180 of the best lifestyle companies under<br />
one roof this weekend.<br />
THE Christchurch Women’s<br />
Lifestyle Expo is returning for<br />
<strong>2023</strong>, bringing together 180<br />
of the best lifestyle companies<br />
under one roof at Wolfbrook<br />
Arena on <strong>October</strong> 7 and 8.<br />
<strong>The</strong> expo will have something<br />
for everyone’s taste. Whether<br />
you’re looking for the perfect gift<br />
for a friend or family member<br />
with the unique range of artisan<br />
goods and giftware, after a bit of<br />
pampering for yourself, or need<br />
to stock up on your eco-friendly<br />
essentials, you can be sure you’ll<br />
find what you need.<br />
<strong>The</strong> best of local companies<br />
will be exhibiting at the expo,<br />
alongside a number of national<br />
companies who will travel to<br />
Christchurch especially for the<br />
event. It’s the perfect opportunity<br />
for a girls’ day out, or to<br />
treat yourself to a day leisurely<br />
wandering between exhibitors.<br />
Says NZME event director<br />
Renee Murray: “It’s been incredible<br />
seeing our communities<br />
coming together to support local.<br />
We are so pleased to be able to<br />
provide an opportunity for Kiwi<br />
businesses and local Christchurch<br />
companies to connect with<br />
thousands of women.<br />
“We have some incredible<br />
companies exhibiting this year,<br />
from young entrepreneurs to<br />
larger well-known brands. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
are some amazing new businesses<br />
like NEXTANN, a sustainable<br />
beauty brand who offer plantbased<br />
tanning solutions, <strong>The</strong><br />
Book Shoppe, a book subscription<br />
giftbox, and Fling Cocktails,<br />
showcasing New Zealand’s home<br />
of Premium Canned Cocktails<br />
made with fresh ingredients.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> popular Artisan Zone will<br />
include artisan crafters from all<br />
over New Zealand with unique<br />
products including soaps and<br />
organic beauty goods, jewellery,<br />
original art, home decor, clothing<br />
and more.<br />
Appreciating that shopping,<br />
pampering, trying and testing<br />
can be hard work, the expo Taste<br />
Zone (a mini food show) will be<br />
on hand to offer pick-me-ups,<br />
and tasty treats and bites to keep<br />
you going. Sample an array of<br />
gourmet food and beverages<br />
with everything from gin and<br />
vodka to plant-based slices,<br />
boutique condiments, gourmet<br />
cookies, liqueurs, tea, handcrafted<br />
chocolate and so much more<br />
– you can buy what you love to<br />
take away and enjoy at home.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> expo is happening<br />
on Saturday, <strong>October</strong> 7<br />
(10am-5pm) and Sunday,<br />
<strong>October</strong> 8 (10am-4pm) at<br />
Wolfbrook Arena. Earlybird<br />
tickets are available on<br />
iTICKET and door sales will<br />
also be available across<br />
the event weekend. Follow<br />
the buzz on the Women’s<br />
Lifestyle Expo Facebook<br />
page or find out more on<br />
the website<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
YUMMI<br />
study.<br />
<strong>The</strong> role of cow, goat or sheep milk in<br />
the nutrition and health of older women.<br />
Milk provides important nutrients that help older people to maintain<br />
muscle and bone health, and low milk intake is often associated with<br />
poor nutrition in older adults.<br />
We are looking for female volunteers aged 60 to 80 years to participate<br />
in the YUMMI study, a 12-week research study investigating the health<br />
effects of consuming different types milk – cow, goat, or sheep.<br />
We will provide you with cow, goat or sheep milk powder to drink<br />
twice a day for 12-weeks, or you will be asked to eat your normal diet<br />
(control group). <strong>The</strong> time commitment for the study will be about 11<br />
hours and you will attend five clinic visits. You will receive up to $220 in<br />
supermarket vouchers in recognition of the actual or reasonable costs<br />
involved with participating in this study (e.g. parking and/or travel costs).<br />
If you are a woman aged 60 to 80 years and can drink milk, we would<br />
love to hear from you.<br />
Department of Human Nutrition<br />
Ping Ong<br />
yummistudy@otago.ac.nz | 021 2798214<br />
Support<br />
your community<br />
Equip yourself to help and support individuals, families and<br />
communities with the Certificate in Health and Wellbeing,<br />
starting in February. Course options include mental health<br />
and addiction support, social services, and community<br />
support. You’ll learn from experts, gain hands-on skills<br />
and graduate work ready.<br />
Learn more and apply at<br />
ara.ac.nz<br />
This project has been reviewed and approved by the University of Otago<br />
Human Ethics Committee (Health). Reference: H22/067
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SENIORS’ LIVING LIFE<br />
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After the application is filed, the Court<br />
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in Court. However, a hearing may<br />
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Conclusion<br />
When a person loses capacity, appointing<br />
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SENIORS’ LIVING LIFE<br />
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SENIORS’ LIVING LIFE<br />
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Advertising Feature<br />
Still time to get<br />
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Are you still keen to get a holiday in before<br />
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Supreme offer FREE home pick up and<br />
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ensure you have a fun and informative time.<br />
Taranaki Tour 27th <strong>October</strong>: 5 days.<br />
Fly direct to New Plymouth and then enjoy<br />
three nights at the Novotel and visit private<br />
gardens only open during the festival, Len Lye<br />
Gallery, Tawhiti Musuem, travelling back on<br />
the Forgotten Highway for overnight in the<br />
National park before via Taupo and Hamilton<br />
gardens and back to Auckland where you fly<br />
back to your home port. Check with the office<br />
on costs of domestic flights for this one.<br />
Whanganui/Wairarapa 30 <strong>October</strong>:<br />
5 days. Add domestic flight to Auckland<br />
and overnight before joining our coach<br />
for travel to Taupo. Visit National Army<br />
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Taihape and then on to Whanganui for two<br />
nights. Cruise on Whanganui River with<br />
lunch. Travel via Mt Bruce Wildlife centre<br />
to Martinborough for two nights in or own<br />
lovely villa accommodation. Visit Aotearoa’s<br />
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light lunch in a vineyard. Time for a visit to<br />
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home port.<br />
Tasmania Tempter 9th November:<br />
Fly from your home port to Auckland for<br />
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as the open air market in Salamanca. Head<br />
through the Derwent Valley, Russell Falls to<br />
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Scenic Southern Splendour 23 November:<br />
Fly to Dunedin (three nights) visiting<br />
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Ring Supreme Tours and travel on<br />
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Time to talk<br />
Nowadays people are eager to take<br />
a more active part in deciding how to<br />
be remembered. This is a way you can<br />
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Family members can also gain comfort<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re is no cost for this service. You can<br />
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at any time. We would recommend you<br />
let family and caregivers know we are<br />
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To book an appointment at your place<br />
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Fly to Dunedin, full of Scottish Heritage (3 nights). Visit the Albatross Colony, Botanic Gardens, Chinese<br />
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Paterson Inlet and visit Ulva Island, a renowned birdlife sanctuary. Try the local Blue Cod as we dine at the<br />
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• By Jaime Cunningham<br />
A NUMBER of national and<br />
South Island champions will<br />
headline Papanui Boxing Club’s<br />
heavy hitters fundraising event,<br />
which returns for an eighth year<br />
on Saturday.<br />
Although the club has lost<br />
some top fighters overseas and<br />
to injury, the event is a chance<br />
for Papanui to showcase their<br />
club and the region’s talent in<br />
the 19 bouts.<br />
Event organiser and five-time<br />
New Zealand champion Sam<br />
Watt said the smaller clubs in<br />
Canterbury have grown and<br />
impacted on the level of competition.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Canterbury boxing scene<br />
is growing from strength to<br />
strength,” he said.<br />
“In the past, Riverside boxing<br />
have dominated throughout the<br />
mid-2000s to mid-2010s and<br />
lately the traditional strong clubs<br />
Woolston, Papanui and Smiling<br />
Tigers.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>se clubs have now been<br />
joined by Rangiora boxing and<br />
Champ Nation also having<br />
strong stables. This has meant<br />
the local scene is really competitive<br />
and a great camaraderie has<br />
been built.”<br />
While Papanui’s stable is<br />
rebuilding after dominating over<br />
the past couple of years, there<br />
will be plenty of up and coming<br />
talent in the ring on Saturday.<br />
Riley Te Ao will be one of the<br />
headliners, despite his short time<br />
competing.<br />
Watt said he has only been in a<br />
boxing gym since February last<br />
year.<br />
“But (he) has racked up a<br />
number of wins with his great<br />
footwork and fierce body punching,”<br />
he said.<br />
Riley was the most scientific<br />
junior boxer at both the Canterbury<br />
championships and South<br />
Island Golden Gloves this year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ages of boxers will range<br />
from 14 to 36 at the event, which<br />
will have four female bouts.<br />
Welterweight and multiple<br />
South Island champion Christian<br />
Tikao will also feature.<br />
Watt said Tikao is an “absolute<br />
headache” for any opponent,<br />
with other welterweights declining<br />
to fight him.<br />
<strong>The</strong> night will finish with a<br />
bout between Papanui’s William<br />
Vuidreketi and Champ Nation’s<br />
Jacob Hermens.<br />
Vuidreketi is the current South<br />
Island Golden Gloves champion<br />
and has won his last four fights.<br />
Four-time New Zealand<br />
champion Azeez Ghazizada<br />
won’t be on the card after his<br />
opponent Ryley Sutherland<br />
(Woolston) withdrew earlier this<br />
week.<br />
Ghazizada won a silver medal<br />
at the Oceania championships<br />
in May, losing his final by a split<br />
decision to Australian Redhu<br />
Diyanshu.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> first fight starts<br />
at 6pm at Christchurch<br />
Rugby Club on<br />
Westminster St. Entry is<br />
$20 for adults and $10<br />
for under-18s on the door<br />
(cash only). For more<br />
information go to Papanui<br />
Boxing Club’s Facebook<br />
page<br />
Teenager revs up for race of his life<br />
• By Daniel Alvey<br />
CHRISTCHURCH teenager<br />
Louis Sharp is preparing for<br />
the biggest event of his motor<br />
racing career as he faces a<br />
championship showdown.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 16-year-old Rodin Carlin<br />
driver is leading by one point<br />
in the <strong>2023</strong> ROCKiT F4 British<br />
championship, ahead of Hitech<br />
Pulse-Eight’s William Macintyre.<br />
<strong>The</strong> three-race showdown will<br />
take place this weekend at the<br />
Brands Hatch race track near<br />
London.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s nothing to lose now,”<br />
he said on Facebook.<br />
“We’re heading into the last<br />
round. With how close it is we<br />
really need to go out and nail it.”<br />
Sharp has had five wins so far<br />
in his second championship season,<br />
three more than Macintyre.<br />
He hopes winning the championship<br />
will move him to the next<br />
step on the ladder.<br />
“I’m hoping we will be moving<br />
onwards from F4, there’s a bit<br />
of chat about what we do next<br />
year but apart from that I’m<br />
fully focused on closing out the<br />
championship,” Sharp told the<br />
Barc’ing Mad podcast.<br />
Born in the United Kingdom,<br />
Sharp spent most of his childhood<br />
in Christchurch, attending<br />
St Joseph’s School and St Bede’s<br />
College before moving back to<br />
the UK last year with his dad<br />
Jason to pursue his F1 dream.<br />
“As a family, we have had to<br />
sacrifice a lot to make this happen,<br />
but if I want to achieve my<br />
dream I need to be in the UK.”<br />
Sharp is hoping to follow in<br />
the footsteps of fellow Rodin<br />
driver Liam Lawson, who has<br />
been making his mark on Formula<br />
One as he stands in for the<br />
injured Daniel Riccardo at Alpha<br />
Tauri.<br />
A former winner of the<br />
championship was McLaren F1<br />
driver Lando Norris in 2015.<br />
IN FRONT: Christchurch<br />
teenager Louis Sharp is<br />
leading the British F4<br />
Championship by one<br />
point. PHOTO: JAKOB<br />
EBREY PHOTOGRAPHY
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
• By Diane Keenan<br />
FORMER NEW Zealand<br />
billiards and snooker champion,<br />
Dave Meredith will make his<br />
debut on the international<br />
tennis circuit at the International<br />
Tennis Federation World<br />
Tennis Masters in Mallorca this<br />
month.<br />
Meredith (left), the country’s<br />
current 75s champion, is part of<br />
the four-man New Zealand team<br />
competing in the world event for<br />
ages 65 to 85, which has attracted<br />
entries from 21 countries. His<br />
team mates are former Davis<br />
Cup representative David<br />
Hawkes of Wellington, Gavin<br />
Dunn, also from Christchurch<br />
and Phil Crozier of Ashburton.<br />
He leaves this week for the<br />
teams’ event, which runs from<br />
<strong>October</strong> 8-13. Meredith will then<br />
line up for individual honours<br />
against 66 other players from<br />
around the world in his age<br />
group from <strong>October</strong> 14-21.<br />
“For me playing tennis<br />
overseas is definitely unchartered<br />
territory. I will be on a learning<br />
curve as there are a lot of<br />
unknown factors to overcome<br />
such as playing on clay and<br />
playing opponents who I know<br />
nothing about,” he said.<br />
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SPORT 25<br />
Snooker veteran off to tennis world masters<br />
On the plus side for Meredith<br />
– currently ranked 262 in the<br />
world – is his experience in<br />
international competition. He<br />
competed in three world amateur<br />
snooker championships in 1978,<br />
1980 and 1987 and six world<br />
amateur billiards championships<br />
in 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990<br />
and 1996.<br />
“I am definitely looking<br />
forward to the tennis and<br />
will give it my best shot,”<br />
said Meredith who still plays<br />
regularly at a high level and is<br />
coach and mentor to a number<br />
of aspiring players, including his<br />
grandchildren.<br />
Experienced hands ready<br />
for premier competition<br />
New format<br />
will ‘keep<br />
game alive’<br />
• By Diane Keenan<br />
FAMILIAR FACES will be on<br />
court for Cashmere and Te Kura<br />
Hagley as they seek to defend<br />
their titles in Christchurch’s<br />
premier men’s and women’s<br />
tennis competition.<br />
Competition starts on<br />
Saturday with the Cashmere<br />
men having a home tie against<br />
Burnside Park, while in the<br />
women’s competition Te Kura<br />
Hagley plays Shirley at Shirley.<br />
<strong>The</strong> men’s and women’s<br />
competitions have both<br />
attracted six teams – Cashmere,<br />
Elmwood, Burnside Park,<br />
Bishopdale, Te Kura Hagley and<br />
Edgeware/Waimairi contest<br />
the men’s competition, and the<br />
women’s teams are Te Kura<br />
Hagley, Bishopdale, Cashmere,<br />
Elmwood, Shirley and Waimairi.<br />
South Brighton is missing from<br />
the men’s ranks this season while<br />
in the women’s competition,<br />
Cashmere is only fielding one<br />
premier team and Shirley<br />
rejoins the premier ranks after<br />
dominating the Division One<br />
grade.<br />
Tennis Canterbury General<br />
Manager Bevan Johns said the<br />
competition format has changed<br />
this season following player<br />
feedback with a round, including<br />
semi-finals and finals played<br />
before Christmas, and a second<br />
round starting on January 20,<br />
2024, also with play-offs. If<br />
different teams win both rounds,<br />
they will contest a grand final in<br />
March.<br />
Captain of last year’s winning<br />
Cashmere team Matt Meredith<br />
supports the change, saying it<br />
means more tennis for top-level<br />
players. Cashmere is fielding the<br />
same team at last year, with the<br />
addition of highly ranked New<br />
Zealand junior Alvin Na.<br />
Meredith said Cashmere has<br />
a policy of bringing in younger<br />
players, including Liam Barrett<br />
and Lucas Evans through into<br />
premier ranks so they benefit<br />
from playing alongside its<br />
experienced core of players.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team includes all Meredith<br />
brothers, Matt, Tim and James,<br />
Harry Weeds, and Johnny<br />
McHarg, who returns after a<br />
spell last season due to injury.<br />
Burnside Park, Cashmere’s<br />
competition on Saturday,<br />
features club coach Remi Feneon,<br />
Finn Emslie-Robson, Jordan<br />
Edwards, Liam Adams and<br />
Jaimie Poole. <strong>The</strong> team also has<br />
a very strong division 1 team to<br />
draw on for its premier team,<br />
including nationally ranked<br />
juniors, Jack Hansen Ratter and<br />
Ricky Kotepong.<br />
Bishopdale plays a strong,<br />
unchanged Elmwood team<br />
at Bishopdale and Edgeware<br />
Waimairi plays Te Kura Hagley<br />
at Edgeware.<br />
In the women’s competition Te<br />
Kura Hagley’s experienced lineup<br />
including Beth Williamson,<br />
Michele Kelsen, Adele Orangi,<br />
Petra Belzova and Bailey Wilson<br />
face an unknown in Shirley,<br />
which includes sisters Casey<br />
and Nicole Fitchett and Rebecca<br />
and Aleisha McConnell. Former<br />
Cashmere player Nishitha<br />
Maarka joins Shirley as its likely<br />
top player, along with Dasha<br />
Sanina who has come through<br />
the club’s junior ranks.<br />
Te Kura Hagley captain Beth<br />
Williamson, who credits her<br />
team of “probably having the<br />
highest average age” in the<br />
competition, also supports the<br />
format change.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> competition is probably<br />
the strongest it has been for a<br />
number of years and this format<br />
will keep it alive,” she said.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be a lot of interest<br />
READY: Te Kura Hagley captain<br />
Beth Williamson supports the<br />
format change and said the<br />
premier tennis competition is the<br />
strongest it has been in years.<br />
in the clash between Elmwood<br />
and Bishopdale. Elmwood is<br />
fielding an extremely strong<br />
team boosted by the addition<br />
of Louise Oxnevad, who played<br />
college tennis in the United<br />
States. <strong>The</strong> team includes the<br />
Mason sisters, Abby and Emma,<br />
and Tessa McCann, who played<br />
for Cashmere last season.<br />
Bishopdale’s line-up features<br />
mother and daughter Joelene and<br />
Jade Feneon, along with juniors<br />
Aliyah Daley, Marija Filipovic<br />
and Honor Barry.<br />
Waimairi plays a formidable<br />
Cashmere team which includes<br />
Lucia Gale and Ruby Young who<br />
are competing this week in the<br />
International Tennis Federation<br />
Junior 100 event at Wilding Park.<br />
Gale is fifth seed in the<br />
women’s draw and Young<br />
seventh seed. In the men’s singles<br />
local player Diego Quispe-Lim is<br />
the top seed ahead of Australian<br />
Cruz Hewitt, the son of tennis<br />
great Leyton Hewitt.<br />
Bowlers<br />
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Living House Burnside under-26<br />
singles tournament at the<br />
weekend.<br />
Of the 32 players, 15 are from<br />
the North Island, 12 from the<br />
South Island, three from Australia,<br />
and two from the Cook<br />
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Disappointing<br />
end to season<br />
for Canty Bulls<br />
AN underwhelming season for<br />
the once powerful Canterbury<br />
Bulls has seen them lose 34-22<br />
to Waikato Mana in the national<br />
rugby league premiership<br />
relegation match.<br />
<strong>The</strong> defeat means the Bulls will<br />
spend next year’s season striving<br />
to regain a place in the premiership<br />
from the second-tier national<br />
championship.<br />
Continuing the trend of their<br />
winless pool stage, the Bulls<br />
defensive lapses, poor completion<br />
rate and inability to ice scoring<br />
chances proved the difference<br />
against a more clinical Waikato.<br />
“It’s not a campaign we’re proud<br />
of,” said Bulls captain Uale Peneli.<br />
“We tried to put what happened<br />
the last few weeks behind us and<br />
try to come down and compete,<br />
but we weren’t good enough.<br />
“No excuses, just disappointed.”
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SPORT 27<br />
Top three the target for veteran<br />
• By Jaime Cunningham<br />
BARRY Washbourne will be<br />
the oldest clay target shooter<br />
at the Oceania continental<br />
championships in Brisbane.<br />
But that won’t stop the<br />
Christchurch shooter from<br />
firing on all cylinders against<br />
competitors who weren’t even<br />
born when he took up the<br />
sport.<br />
Throughout his 40-year career,<br />
Washbourne has competed<br />
in three different disciplines,<br />
represented New Zealand 12<br />
times and travelled the world.<br />
This month, the two-time<br />
national champion will compete<br />
in the skeet events at the Oceania<br />
competition for a fourth time.<br />
Washbourne, 64, admits<br />
the competition will be tough,<br />
considering the majority are in<br />
their 20s.<br />
“I’m by far the oldest competitor<br />
there,” he said.<br />
“I’ve only taken on this discipline<br />
in the last 10 years and<br />
probably should’ve taken it up<br />
40-odd years ago.”<br />
But age is just a number for<br />
Washbourne, who goes into the<br />
competition as the second-ranked<br />
New Zealander, behind Paul<br />
Wilson. Washbourne scored<br />
299 in his best three events since<br />
September last year, while Wilson<br />
top-scored with 322.<br />
Washbourne will be looking<br />
to improve on his best placing of<br />
fifth, which he achieved in 2017.<br />
“Obviously doing better than<br />
fifth is the goal, a placing like<br />
first, second or third would be<br />
the best,” he said.<br />
“Just as high of a result as I can<br />
manage.”<br />
He will also compete in the<br />
new mixed pairs event with<br />
Christchurch’s Chloe Tipple.<br />
Eleven countries from Guam<br />
to Norfolk Island will take part<br />
in the eight-day, biennial event.<br />
Because of Covid, it will be the<br />
first Oceania competition since<br />
2019.<br />
Although there is one Paris<br />
Olympic qualification up for<br />
grabs, the ins and outs of being<br />
able to qualify as the ‘quota’<br />
makes Washbourne’s chances<br />
difficult.<br />
“It’s quite a long-winded<br />
process and to be picked for<br />
your country, you have to fly to<br />
compete at the world (championships)<br />
next year,” he said.<br />
“Nine out of 10 miss the quota<br />
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HURLEY,<br />
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Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED<br />
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Trades & Services<br />
Trades & Services<br />
registered electrician<br />
with 24 years experience<br />
for all residential and<br />
commercial work, new<br />
housing and switch board<br />
replacements. Phone Chris<br />
027 516 0669<br />
fAST COMPUTER<br />
REPAIRS<br />
Helping locals since<br />
1997.Work guaranteed.<br />
Windows or Mac.<br />
Computer Help 0800 349<br />
669<br />
fENCING<br />
All types of fencing . Free<br />
quotes. Ph Jim 022 137<br />
1920<br />
Re Roofing<br />
Roof Repairs<br />
• Approved Age Concern<br />
provider<br />
• Over 30 years experience<br />
• Licensed Building Practitioner<br />
N A BARRELL<br />
ROOFING LTD<br />
Ph: 0275 389 415<br />
Email: nabroofing@xtra.co.nz<br />
Trades & Services<br />
GARDENING<br />
Lawns, weeding, pruning,<br />
garden clean ups. Call Phil<br />
021 661 246 for your free<br />
quote<br />
GARDEN SORTING<br />
Planting/ maintenance .<br />
Lawn sowing/patching<br />
Ph Graeme 027 341 8596 ,<br />
342 5151<br />
GENERAL<br />
HANDYMAN<br />
for all your maintenance<br />
requirements. I specialise<br />
in fences and decking, also<br />
do spouting cleans and<br />
repairs and everyday home<br />
maintenance. Complete<br />
landscape packages, NO<br />
JOB TO BIG OR SMALL<br />
I can do it all, please<br />
don’t hesitate to call me<br />
on 022 600 7738 for a no<br />
obligation free quote.<br />
HANDYMAN<br />
Some jobs don’t need a<br />
tradie, so why pay more?<br />
Gardening, building,<br />
electrical, plumbing. No<br />
charge for quotes. Ph Dave<br />
022 451 7314<br />
HANDYMAN<br />
SERVICES<br />
Builder / Joiner. 30<br />
years experience. Decks,<br />
fencing, small renovations,<br />
general house repairs and<br />
odd jobs. Phone Robert<br />
021 044 2272<br />
HIGH SPEC PAINTERS<br />
Quality<br />
local<br />
professionals. E: corban@<br />
highspecpainters.co.nz Ph:<br />
027 846 5035<br />
LANDSCAPING<br />
Paving, Lawns, Irrigation,<br />
Decking, Fencing.<br />
Kanga & small digger<br />
services. Check out Squire<br />
Landscaping on facebook.<br />
FREE QUOTES. Ph<br />
Arthur 347-8796, 027<br />
220-7014 Edwin 027 220-<br />
7154<br />
LAWNMOWING<br />
Free quotes. You Grow I<br />
Mow, Chris 021 252 1801<br />
LAWNMOWING<br />
and pruning from $30<br />
Garden cleanups.. Ph Gary<br />
021 529 022 / 342 8950<br />
PAINTING<br />
Exterior experts. Free<br />
quotes. Int/ext & roof<br />
painting Family run<br />
business, work guaranteed.<br />
Pensioner discounts. Ph<br />
Kerin or Paul 022 191<br />
7877 or 379-1281. Website<br />
www.swedekiwipainting.<br />
co.nz<br />
PAINTING<br />
Indoor / Outdoor, over 30<br />
yrs exp, same day quotes,<br />
ph Steve 021 255 7968<br />
PAINTER<br />
Plastering. Trade qualified.<br />
20 yrs exp. Int / Ext.<br />
Reasonable rates. Ph Paul<br />
0272 383 224 or 331 8133<br />
PLUMBER<br />
Do you need a reliable<br />
plumber? Quality and<br />
timely services. No job<br />
too big or small. Phone<br />
V Plumbing Ltd. 022 351<br />
4125<br />
PLUMBER.<br />
Highly experienced<br />
Plumber.Exceptional<br />
service.Ready to help with<br />
all your plumbing needs.<br />
Call today! MJ Plumbing<br />
Ltd 021 109 2397<br />
PLUMBER.<br />
All plumbing work, HWC<br />
replacements. Pensioner<br />
discount. No job too<br />
small. Friendly, reliable<br />
& professional service &<br />
workmanship. Ph Nigel<br />
027 4136004<br />
or 385 2930<br />
• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Trades & Services<br />
ROTARY HOEING<br />
It’s time to create the<br />
perfect garden for your<br />
fresh spring and summer<br />
vegetables and herbs. I<br />
can provide a prompt and<br />
efficient service. Contact<br />
Murray on 027 694 5275<br />
RUBBISH REMOVAL<br />
Furniture Deliveries<br />
Van, Trailer Rubbish<br />
Removal.Phone Gary 342-<br />
8950, 021 529 022<br />
SPOUTING CLEANING<br />
SPECIALIST<br />
Entire spouting system<br />
cleared. Single or 2 storey.<br />
Jo 021 164 0365<br />
SPOUTING<br />
Select Spouting<br />
<strong>The</strong> PVC specialist.<br />
Repairs & replacement. Ph<br />
022 197 2351<br />
SPOUTING CLEANING<br />
Spouting Unblocked,<br />
Cleaned Out and Flushed<br />
Out, Call Trevor 332 8949<br />
or 021 043 2034<br />
STUMP GRINDING<br />
Best price guarantee Tony<br />
0275 588 895<br />
TILING<br />
Floor & walls. Kitchen &<br />
splashback specialist. No<br />
job too small.35 yrs exp.<br />
Free quotes Ph 027 483<br />
3887<br />
TREE SERVICES<br />
Free quotes 20+ yrs exp.<br />
Tree, hedge or shrub<br />
- reduction, shaped or<br />
removed. Ph/text Paul<br />
<strong>The</strong> Branch Manager<br />
0274314720<br />
TREE SERVICES<br />
Pensioner discounts.<br />
Tree & hedge reduction.<br />
Professional advice.<br />
Stump grinding and<br />
branches chipped. Txt or<br />
ring Andrew on 027 20 44<br />
949<br />
TREE SERVICES<br />
Specialist tree pruning<br />
& shaping. Also hedge<br />
trimming and garden tidyups.<br />
Ph Hugh, <strong>The</strong> Little<br />
Green Groomer 021 275<br />
5445<br />
TREE SERVICES<br />
Hedges, shrubs, tree<br />
trimming & rubbish<br />
removal. Phone for free<br />
quotes 022 540 4900<br />
Tuition<br />
COMPUTER LESSONS<br />
avail for computer, IPad,<br />
or Mobile. Please contact<br />
Jobee 027 290 9246 www.<br />
computertutor.nz<br />
Wanted To Buy<br />
ALWAYS<br />
BUYING<br />
Estates, China,<br />
Antiques, Art, Royal<br />
Albert, Royal Doulton<br />
etc. Best Prices,<br />
Free Appraisal. Call<br />
Rob at 349-4229 or<br />
027 299 7232<br />
academyantiques.co.nz<br />
WANTED<br />
SLEEPOUTS<br />
Sleepouts Galore<br />
Buyers and sellers of<br />
relocatable buildings<br />
11 Brixton Street, Hornby<br />
Phone: 021 1062 900<br />
Wanted To Buy<br />
TOYS WANTED<br />
Suitable 5yr old and up.<br />
Would consider damaged.<br />
Ph 021 0268 6514<br />
Wanted To Buy<br />
AAA Buying good quality<br />
furniture, beds, stoves,<br />
fridge freezers, house<br />
lots .Gold jewellery<br />
& antiques. Same day<br />
service. Selwyn Dealers.<br />
Phone 980 5812 or 027<br />
313 8156<br />
A+ ALL whiteware<br />
wanted. Same day<br />
service, cash paid for<br />
freezes, fridges, washing<br />
machines, ovens. Also<br />
buying furniture & h/<br />
hold effects.Anything<br />
considered. Ph Dave 960-<br />
8440, 027 66 22 116<br />
A1 Albums, old photo’s,<br />
postcards, coins, gold,<br />
bank notes, badges,<br />
medals, jewellery,<br />
watches, china, crystal,<br />
books, furs, vintage<br />
clothing, paintings,<br />
furniture, estates &<br />
downsizing. Etcetera<br />
Antiques, 194 Edgeware<br />
Rd 385 5117<br />
A+ Household effects,<br />
fridges, freezers, washing<br />
machines, ovens. Good<br />
cash paid. Ph Paul 022<br />
0891 671<br />
A Records Wanted. Don’t<br />
play them? Recycle them!<br />
Excellent prices paid.<br />
Pennylane Records, ph<br />
366-3278 Sydenham, 7<br />
days.<br />
CARAVAN. With, shower<br />
& toilet . Any condition.<br />
Reasonable price. Ph<br />
Steve 027 622 0011.<br />
GOLD AND SILVER<br />
BUYER. Pay up to the<br />
following prices: 1/2<br />
Sovereigns $400. Full<br />
Sovereigns $800. Gold<br />
nuggets $3100oz. 18ct<br />
gold $75gram. 9ct gold<br />
$37gram. Also wanting<br />
Gold rings, Bar Brooches.<br />
Gold & Silver Chains,<br />
Sovereign Cases, Medals,<br />
any damaged jewellery. Ph<br />
Murray 021 441 400<br />
MILITARIA Any<br />
country, firearms,<br />
uniforms, badges, medals,<br />
memoribilia, WW2 or<br />
earlier ph 338-9931<br />
Stafford Trading wanting<br />
to buy duchesses, bedside<br />
cabinets, whiteware &<br />
deceased estates. Phone<br />
366 5994 and leave<br />
message.<br />
TOOLS, Garden garage,<br />
saw benches, Lathes. Cash<br />
buyer Phone 355-2045<br />
Wanted To Rent<br />
Male wanting 1 bdrm flat<br />
with garage. Call Dan 021<br />
024 59 679<br />
Situations Vacant<br />
PAINTER REQUIRED<br />
Suit semi retired person to<br />
repaint windows and sills<br />
on single storey family<br />
home in Papanui. Hourly<br />
rate neg. Ph 021 372 479<br />
Property Maintenance<br />
Business established since<br />
1982 requires a qualified<br />
appointment person based<br />
in greater Christchurch<br />
area. Phone or text 021<br />
472 737 or email office@<br />
strada.nz<br />
Public Notices<br />
STAMP AND<br />
POSTCARD FAIR<br />
<strong>The</strong> Philatelic Centre<br />
67 Mandeville Street,<br />
Riccarton<br />
Saturday 7th <strong>October</strong><br />
9am-12pm<br />
Sellers tables available<br />
Phone 027 6354 957<br />
Public Notices<br />
FREE CHRISTIAN<br />
EVENT Join us, a free<br />
Christian Event with a<br />
powerful message, prayer,<br />
and healing, including<br />
lunch and refreshments<br />
on <strong>October</strong> 7th <strong>2023</strong> from<br />
10am to 2pm at Te Hapua<br />
Halswell Centre, 341<br />
Halswell Road, Halswell,<br />
Christchurch 8025. More<br />
details:<br />
gmail.com<br />
clallnations@<br />
Public Notices<br />
Senior Citizens<br />
Outings<br />
with Travel 88 Ltd<br />
KAIKOURA - PICTON - MAIL BOAT -<br />
COASTAL PACIFIC TRAIN BACK TO CHCH.<br />
DePARTINg OCT 17<br />
FOR 2 NIgHTS / 3 DAyS.<br />
day 1: Free home pickup then coach to<br />
Kaikoura & overnight at <strong>The</strong> Panorama Motel<br />
with dinner at <strong>The</strong> Pier Restaurant.<br />
day 2: After breakfast we travel to Picton<br />
and after lunch we take the magic MAIL RUN<br />
CRUISE up <strong>The</strong> Queen Charlotte Sounds.<br />
Overnight at THE HARBOUR VIEW MOTEL.<br />
day 3: Picton sights & shopping then we take<br />
THE COASTAL PACIFIC TRAIN back to ChCh.<br />
We meet and take you back home.<br />
Our price of $1390.00 includes your own<br />
motel unit (no sharing) - all evening meals &<br />
breakfasts - <strong>The</strong> Mail Boat fare - <strong>The</strong> Coastal<br />
Pacific train fare - home pickup & drop off.<br />
PHONE PETER ON 0800 453 873 fOR bOOkiNgs<br />
- NO PaymENT uNTil day Of TRavEl.<br />
TRavEl 88 lTd.<br />
SCHOOLS. SPORTS CLUBS OR CULTURAL EVENTS<br />
OUTSTANDING<br />
Fundraising opportunity<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has a fantastic opportunity that is an ideal way<br />
to fundraise while at the same time helps to profile and<br />
promote your team and their goals and ambitions.<br />
Call now to find out more about how you can fundraise<br />
those hard to get dollars, while at the same time<br />
promoting some of the great positive work being done<br />
in the community. It also offers exceptional value for<br />
your supporters and sponsors.<br />
Contact:<br />
Mike Fulham<br />
379 7100<br />
mike@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Public Notices
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Classifieds<br />
Public Notice<br />
Thursday <strong>October</strong> 5 <strong>2023</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 31<br />
• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment<br />
COLLECTORS<br />
NEEDED<br />
Can you help us raise funds on<br />
Friday 10 or Saturday 11 November <strong>2023</strong>?<br />
Help support one of our biggest events of the year,<br />
the Annual Appeal.<br />
We are looking for volunteers to collect donations at<br />
various locations through Ōtautahi Christchurch.<br />
If you can help, please get in touch via the email<br />
below to register!<br />
Thank you - we appreciate your support.<br />
How you can support:<br />
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Enrolments for our next “Flying Without Fear”<br />
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Entertainment<br />
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ARMADILLO'S BECKENHAM, 155<br />
Colombo St: Saturday 9pm - Speedboat.<br />
A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St:<br />
Thursday 8pm – Open Mic on the big stage,<br />
all welcome, full back-line, free; Friday<br />
7.30pm - Monk Seals EP Release Show, with<br />
special guests Pool House, and Crustaceanz,<br />
tix from UTR.co.nz – early bird $17.50+BF,<br />
GA $22.50+BF, door sales if not sold out<br />
prior; Saturday 7.30pm – Skule B4 Mule<br />
featuring <strong>The</strong> C-Side from Rangiora High<br />
School, followed by <strong>The</strong> Mule, everyone’s<br />
favourite party dance band, 8-10-piece with<br />
brass, playing ska, soul, RnB, reggae, funk<br />
and all the rest, koha entry; Sunday 6pm –<br />
La Mer (Taranaki), 5-piece authentic French<br />
gypsy swing band in concert, fresh from<br />
Akaroa French Festival, tickets $15+BF<br />
UTR.co.nz or $20 door sales; Monday 7pm<br />
– Believe It or Not Quiz, free; Wednesday<br />
7.30pm – Swing Dancers take over A Rolling<br />
Stone - Swingtown Rebels host a Band Night<br />
with 3Kg, plus free swing-dance taster class<br />
(taster class is at 7.30pm at St Michael’s<br />
School Hall, 249 Durham St, no registration<br />
required, just turn up). <strong>The</strong>n come join fab<br />
live act 3Kg for a night of dancing from<br />
8.30pm at A Rolling Stone, kitchen open<br />
from 5pm, free entry!<br />
BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday -<br />
Micky Rat Karaoke. Friday - Wendy<br />
Wiparata. Saturday - Mandi Miller. Sunday -<br />
Micky Rat Karaoke.<br />
BRIDIE'S BAR, 401 Worcester St: Friday<br />
4pm - DJ Rakinem. Saturday 3pm - Blue<br />
Groove; 6pm - DJ Rakinem.<br />
CARLTON, 1 Papanui Rd: Saturday 8pm<br />
- Flat City Brotherhood.<br />
CASHMERE CLUB, 50 Colombo St:<br />
Friday 7pm - <strong>The</strong> Party Singers. Wednesday<br />
7pm - Quiz. Friday 13th, 7pm Jingo.<br />
CBS MUSIC, Catholic Pro-Cathedral,<br />
373 Manchester St: Wednesday 1.10pm -<br />
Wednesday's at One feat. Janet Cubey &<br />
friends.<br />
CHAT'S BAR, 251 Travis Rd: Thursday<br />
7pm - Nautilus feat. Kev Emmett & Nic<br />
Pegg.<br />
CHCH CASINO, 30 Victoria St:<br />
Thursday 6pm - Page 28. Friday 5.30pm -<br />
Absolut; 9pm - <strong>The</strong> Meaniez. Saturday<br />
5.30pm - Delta Bros; 9pm - In the City.<br />
Sunday 4pm - Lissel.<br />
CHCH FOLK MUSIC CLUB, Irish<br />
Society Hall, 29 Domain Tce: Sunday<br />
7.30pm - Renaissance: an Elizabethan<br />
Consort.<br />
FAT EDDIES, 76 Hereford St: Thursday<br />
6pm - Jazz Club with the Curio Club;<br />
8.30pm - Live Band Karaoke. 11pm - Black<br />
& Gold. Friday 5pm - Heather & Darren;<br />
5pm - Penny Blues Band; 8.30pm - Black &<br />
Gold; Midnight - Mr Speaker. Saturday<br />
4.30pm - King Tubbs Duo; 5.30pm - Steven<br />
Gill Trio; 8pm - Headrush; 11.30pm -Jinx.<br />
Sunday 5pm - Black & Gold.<br />
FOOD TRUCK ALLEY, 3 McCormacks<br />
Bay Rd: Sunday 4pm - <strong>The</strong> Nowhere Men.<br />
Sunday 15th Oct - Eastside. Sunday 22nd<br />
Oct - <strong>The</strong> Sound Hunters. Sunday 29th Oct<br />
- Te Aratai College Bands.<br />
To add a listing, contact<br />
Jo Fuller 03 379 7100 or<br />
027 458 8590<br />
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />
HORNBY CLUB, 17 Carmen Rd: Friday<br />
7pm - Jo's Karaoke. Saturday 7pm - Sweet<br />
Azz, $5 entry (Events Centre); 8pm - On<br />
Tap (Mezzanine). Sunday 3pm - Topia<br />
(Pavilion).<br />
LITTLE BROWN JUG, 290 Wairakei<br />
Rd: Saturday 7pm - <strong>The</strong> Meaniez.<br />
LYTTELTON CLUB 328, 23 Dublin St,<br />
Lyttelton: Friday 13th Oct - Rocky Horror<br />
Juke Box Night. Sunday 28th Oct - Pre-<br />
Halloween Party. Sunday 29th Oct - Lyttel<br />
Spooks Halloween Party.<br />
MICKY FINN'S, 85a Hereford St:<br />
Thursday 8pm - Sionna. Friday 10.30pm -<br />
Uncovered. Saturday 10.30pm - Cropduster.<br />
OLD LEITHFIELD HOTEL, 11 Old Main<br />
North Rd: Friday 7.30pm - Flat City<br />
Brotherhood.<br />
NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine<br />
Pde: Friday 27th Oct, 7pm - Level 6.<br />
RACECOURSE HOTEL, 118<br />
Racecourse Rd: Friday 7pm - DJ Chick<br />
Karaoke.<br />
REDWOOD BAR, 340 Main North Rd:<br />
Friday 7pm - Old Skool.<br />
RICHMOND CLUB, '<strong>The</strong> Borough', 75<br />
London St: Friday 7pm - Smooth Talk.<br />
Saturday 7pm - End Game. Sunday 3pm -<br />
Topia.<br />
ROSE & THISTLE, 24a Main North Rd:<br />
Friday 8.30pm - A&J Karaoke. Saturday<br />
8.30pm - Shameless Two.<br />
SHARKEY'S BAR, 96 Hoon Hay Rd:<br />
Friday 7pm - Sandy's Girl Power. Saturday<br />
7pm - Karaoke. Sunday 4pm - Open Mic.<br />
TEMP'S BAR, 21 Goulding Ave:<br />
Saturday 8.30pm - Titanic.<br />
THE AVONHEAD TAVERN, 120<br />
Withells Rd: Friday 7.30pm - Live music.<br />
THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Thursday 7pm<br />
- Quiz. Friday 7pm - Joel Lee; 10pm - <strong>The</strong><br />
Corks. Saturday 7pm - Topia; 11pm - Black<br />
& Gold. Sunday 5pm - Willie & Friends.<br />
THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd:<br />
Friday - Open Mic. Wednesday 9pm -<br />
Titanic.<br />
THE LITTLE FIDDLE, 132 Oxford Tce:<br />
Thursday 9pm - Topia. Friday, Saturday 9pm<br />
- DJ's. Sunday 4pm - Sunday Session.<br />
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd:<br />
Thursday 6pm - Music Bingo. Friday<br />
9.30pm - Girl from Mars. Saturday 9.30pm -<br />
Oblivion. Sunday 6pm - Karaoke with<br />
Lance. Tuesday 7pm - Quiz. Wednesday<br />
7.30pm - Karaoke with Lance.<br />
THE ROCKPOOL, 85 Hereford St:<br />
Thursday 9pm, Friday 8.30pm, Saturday<br />
8.30pm, Sunday 8pm - DJ's.<br />
WOODSTOCK, 291 Lincoln Rd:<br />
Thursday 7pm - Quiz. Friday 7.30pm - Live<br />
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Wednesday 7pm - Willie's Open Mic.<br />
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FRIDAY 7PM<br />
SMOOTH TALK<br />
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Friday 4.30pm<br />
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Thursday, <strong>October</strong> 5, <strong>2023</strong><br />
Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper<br />
Young<br />
ballerina<br />
faces<br />
decision<br />
of a<br />
lifetime<br />
EN POINTE: Tamison<br />
Soppet has gained a<br />
scholarship to some of<br />
Rotary club<br />
funds TVs<br />
for cancer<br />
patients<br />
CANCER PATIENTS and their<br />
visitors can now watch TV in<br />
their rooms thanks to a Rotary<br />
fundraising effort.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bishopdale-Burnside<br />
Rotary Club has made a $20,000<br />
donation to the Cancer Society<br />
Canterbury from money raised<br />
from its successful Bookarama.<br />
<strong>The</strong> money will pay for TV sets<br />
the society has installed in each of<br />
its patient rooms.<br />
Said the society’s chief executive<br />
Nicola Coom: “We are very grateful<br />
to the Bishopdale-Burnside<br />
Rotary for their donation of<br />
$20,000. This donation has meant<br />
we have been able to purchase televisions<br />
for each of the 50 patient<br />
rooms.<br />
“Patients come to us from all<br />
over the South Island. <strong>The</strong>y’re in<br />
an unfamiliar city undergoing<br />
cancer treatment, which can<br />
mean they spend a fair amount<br />
of their time in bed or exhausted,<br />
the world’s best ballet<br />
schools after winning<br />
unwell and sometimes confined to<br />
their room.<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
TAMISON SOPPET might only<br />
be 13, but she has what could be<br />
a life-defining decision to make.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Convergence Dance<br />
Studios student has been offered<br />
scholarships to the Royal Ballet<br />
School in London, John Cranko<br />
Ballet in Germany, Princess<br />
Grace Dance Academy in<br />
Monaco and the Australian<br />
Ballet School in Melbourne.<br />
Tamison has the opportunity<br />
to follow in the footsteps of<br />
Italian Alessandra Ferri, who<br />
attended the Royal Ballet<br />
School in the early 1980’s; or<br />
Queen Elizabeth II’s appointed<br />
school, Dame Margot Fonteyn;<br />
or even the famous Rudolf<br />
Nureyev.<br />
“Tamison has been competing<br />
all her life and dancing since<br />
she was four. Her dream is to<br />
become a professional dancer,”<br />
said her mother, Toni Soppet.<br />
a major competition in<br />
Sydney.<br />
dancing at different schools,<br />
and see what is ou there for<br />
her.”<br />
Tamison competed a the<br />
Youth America Grand Prix<br />
ballet competition, held in<br />
Sydney late last month, against<br />
“Having a television for entertainment<br />
purposes and staying<br />
connected with the outside<br />
world contributes greatly to their<br />
recuperation and relaxation,” said<br />
Coom.<br />
“It also helps us create that<br />
‘home away from home’ that we<br />
strive to achieve.<br />
“A heartfel thanks from<br />
prima ballerina assoluta of the<br />
“Now, she has an opportunity<br />
to travel the world, experience<br />
more than 200 dancers aged<br />
12-14.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
all of us at Cancer Society to<br />
Bishopdale-Burnside Rotary. We<br />
cannot do what we do withou the<br />
generosity of people and groups<br />
like you.”<br />
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Thursday <strong>October</strong> 5 <strong>2023</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 37<br />
Create your perfect<br />
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360 Colombo St<br />
Mitre 10 MEGA<br />
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10<strong>05</strong> Ferry Rd
38 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>October</strong> 5 <strong>2023</strong><br />
Lounge around outdoors<br />
Big Range, Low Price, Local Advice<br />
Barcelona Corner Lounge Setting 4 Piece $3999 378985 Tuscany Lounge Setting 4pc $2499 2011318<br />
Mix&<br />
match<br />
Barcelona Single Outdoor Lounger<br />
$949 378961<br />
Barcelona Double Outdoor Lounger<br />
$1499 378959<br />
Tuscany Triple Outdoor Lounger<br />
$1499 2001416<br />
Tuscany Round Side Table<br />
$189 2001502<br />
Weber Q<br />
Q Plus 2600N+<br />
BBQ LPG Red<br />
2016385<br />
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Meteor<br />
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BBQ 4 Burner<br />
335923<br />
Masterbuilt<br />
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Digital Charcoal<br />
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377835<br />
$699 $249<br />
Was<br />
$1499<br />
$1699<br />
Nouveau<br />
Outdoor Cushion<br />
Storage Box 360L<br />
2001409<br />
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Charcoal<br />
3<strong>2023</strong>0<br />
$199<br />
Was $219<br />
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$3499<br />
RRP $4499<br />
Mitre 10 MEGA<br />
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☎ 03 349 8497<br />
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☎ 03 359 5443<br />
Mitre 10<br />
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☎ 03 332 7557<br />
Mitre 10 MEGA<br />
Ferrymead<br />
☎ 03 366 6306<br />
Prices valid until <strong>October</strong> 23 rd <strong>2023</strong><br />
*Terms & conditions apply.<br />
Accessories not included.<br />
If you find a lower price on an identical in-stock product locally we will beat it by 15%<br />
*if you find the same product cheaper from another Mitre 10 store or Mitre 10 website we’ll match that price.<br />
Excludes trade and special quotes, stock liquidations and commercial quantities. <strong>The</strong> in-store price may be lower than advertised.<br />
www.mitre10.co.nz
Thursday <strong>October</strong> 5 <strong>2023</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 39<br />
Dining & Grilling Alfresco<br />
Big Range, Low Price, Local Advice<br />
Mondo Dining Setting 5pc $1399 2010457 Montego Round Outdoor Dining Setting 7pc $1849 !11670<br />
Mix&<br />
match<br />
Havana<br />
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$79 99 378982<br />
Vivace<br />
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$149 354004<br />
Havana<br />
Dining Arm Chair<br />
$99 99 378974<br />
Siena<br />
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$469 354010<br />
Montego<br />
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$349 2001437<br />
Grilled<br />
Atlanta Gas BBQ<br />
4 Burner<br />
2000811<br />
Masport<br />
Classic 6 Burner<br />
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320987<br />
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Pro 575 Wood<br />
Pellet Smoker<br />
353681<br />
$599<br />
$999<br />
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$1599<br />
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Available in Black or White<br />
Nouveau<br />
Concrete Umbrella<br />
Base 25kg<br />
107649<br />
Nouveau<br />
Aluminium Market<br />
Umbrella<br />
2.7m Red<br />
379030<br />
Nouveau<br />
Market<br />
Umbrella<br />
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337277<br />
$69 99 $169 $249<br />
Mitre 10 MEGA<br />
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☎ 03 332 7557<br />
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Ferrymead<br />
☎ 03 366 6306<br />
Prices valid until <strong>October</strong> 23 rd <strong>2023</strong><br />
*Terms & conditions apply.<br />
Accessories not included.<br />
If you find a lower price on an identical in-stock product locally we will beat it by 15%<br />
*if you find the same product cheaper from another Mitre 10 store or Mitre 10 website we’ll match that price.<br />
Excludes trade and special quotes, stock liquidations and commercial quantities. <strong>The</strong> in-store price may be lower than advertised.<br />
www.mitre10.co.nz
40 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>October</strong> 5 <strong>2023</strong><br />
Enjoy the outdoors, no matter your space<br />
Big Range, Low Price, Local Advice<br />
Siena Outdoor Pod Setting 3 Piece $1699 336875<br />
Sanremo Outdoor Bistro Setting 3 Piece $2099 !10226<br />
Malay Outdoor Lounge Setting 3 Piece $1099 354033<br />
Weber<br />
Baby Q 1000N<br />
BBQ LPG<br />
107649<br />
NEW<br />
Meteor<br />
Kettle Charcoal<br />
BBQ & Pizza Oven<br />
377572<br />
Woodland Outdoor Bistro Setting 3 Piece $1899 !10228<br />
Meteor<br />
Homestead<br />
Portable Gas<br />
BBQ 2 Burner<br />
2000635<br />
$449<br />
Nouveau<br />
Cantilever<br />
Umbrella 3m<br />
Black<br />
304376<br />
$119<br />
Available in Black or Red<br />
$349<br />
Nouveau<br />
Outdoor Cushion<br />
Box 254 Litre Black<br />
2001408<br />
$249<br />
Was $269<br />
Outdoor Cushions<br />
45cm Reversable<br />
Patterns<br />
Various Colours<br />
Nouveau<br />
$89 99 From<br />
$29 99<br />
Mitre 10 MEGA<br />
Hornby<br />
☎ 03 349 8497<br />
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☎ 03 359 5443<br />
Mitre 10<br />
Beckenham<br />
☎ 03 332 7557<br />
Mitre 10 MEGA<br />
Ferrymead<br />
☎ 03 366 6306<br />
Prices valid until <strong>October</strong> 23 rd <strong>2023</strong><br />
*Terms & conditions apply.<br />
Accessories not included.<br />
If you find a lower price on an identical in-stock product locally we will beat it by 15%<br />
*if you find the same product cheaper from another Mitre 10 store or Mitre 10 website we’ll match that price.<br />
Excludes trade and special quotes, stock liquidations and commercial quantities. <strong>The</strong> in-store price may be lower than advertised.<br />
www.mitre10.co.nz