The Star: October 12, 2023

Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper 

All aboard the 

greyhound 

bus 

Battling the 

course and 

cancer 

– page 3 

PHOTO: NZ HERALD 

One in a million 

Ciro Carrascull suffers 

from a rare inherited 

retinal degeneration 

that affects the 

toddler gets 

photoreceptors behind his eye 

and causes low vision. 

If the condition goes untreated, 

the 2-year-old is expected to be 

totally blind by the age of 5. 

a chance 

But he now has a chance. 

• Find out more on 

pages 6 and 7 

– page 21 

Housing 

density – 

22 groups 

lodge 

complaint 

TWENTY-TWO groups have 

lodged a complaint with the 

Office of the Ombudsman over 

the handling of proposed housing 

density changes. 

Tuesday was the first day of 

a submissions panel on the city 

council’s proposed changes, 

which could see greater housing 

intensification in a number of 

suburbs. 

The plan change has been 

brought in as a response to a requirement 

from the Government. 

However, a Christchurch group, 

made up of 19 residents’ associations 

and three other groups, have 

now complained to the ombudsman 

saying the panel process was 

unfair. 

Riccarton Bush-Kilmarnock 

Residents’ Association’s Tony 

Simons said there were a number 

of issues the group was concerned 

about, including late changes to 

the city council proposal. 

Simons said submissions on 

the plan change closed in May, 

and after that only those who 

had made a submission could 

make further contributions to 

the process, but the council then 

made further changes to the 

plans. 

• Turn to page 4 

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Luna chaffeured around the city................3 

Comedian Cal Wilson dies................................4 

Family’s leap of faith for blind son........6-7 

Cook shares her 60-yr love of food.....8-9 

Ex-partner attack ‘vigilante action’ .......10 

Pre-quake rug up for sale.................................12 

Millionaire’s tech helps Ukraine..........16-18 

Motorsport: Sharp’s win ‘a bit surreal’.20 

Hendry in fight of his life...................................21 

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NINE-YEAR-OLD greyhound 

Luna is living the high life as 

she’s chauffeured around the city 

in her very own cargo bike. 

Douglas Horrell says biking 

with your dog is the perfect way 

for your pup to tag along when 

you leave the house, and it’s a lot 

more practical than you think. 

For small dogs it’s easy – a carrier 

or basket will suffice. But 

there are plenty of options for 

bigger or less mobile canines. 

“My bike was made locally by 

the talented Pete Thornton at 

Cargo Bike World, who dubbed 

it the ‘greyhound bus’,” said 

Horrell. 

“I chose to make my own box 

with a side door to make it easier 

for Luna to step in, which is important 

as her arthritis worsens 

so I don’t have to lift her.” 

For Luna’s first day on wheels, 

the pair rode slowly around a 

quiet cul-de-sac, but this didn’t 

prove popular. 

“After three to four minutes 

she’d had enough and tried to 

jump out, so we stopped there for 

the day. 

“But within a week she was 

happy sitting on the bike while I 

pedalled. 

“Over the next month we 

slowly built up our journeys, 

travelling further, faster, and using 

busier roads. Short training 

sessions and lots of treats are the 

key to success! 

“The best part of all now is 

seeing Luna having a great time 

POLICE WILL return to an area 

south of Christchurch today for 

clues to the disappearance of 

missing real estate agent Yanfei 

Bao. 

The focus will again be on 

Hudsons Rd, Greenpark, where 

police previously searched 

farmland and drained an irrigation 

pond, and nearby Motukarara. The 

edge of Lake Ellesmere near Jarvis 

Rd will also be searched. 

Bao was last seen alive on July 19, 

when she arrived at a house for sale 

on the bike. She travels all over 

town, sniffing the breeze and 

dozing contentedly in her sofaon-wheels.” 

Horrell says pedestrians and 

cyclists often stop to say hello 

to Luna, and she’s learned that 

being on the bike means getting 

a lot of attention and pats. 

“Getting from A to B with 

your dog in New Zealand is very 

associated with using a car, but 

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Police return to area in Yanfei Bao search 

on Trevor St, Hornby, set to show a 

potential buyer through it. 

A week later, her disappearance 

was upgraded to a homicide 

investigation. 

Her alleged murderer, Tinjun 

Cao (right), was named after he did 

not apply to continue his interim 

name suppression. 

A tentative trial date has been set 

for October 21, next year, for four 

weeks. 

He has pleaded not guilty to 

murder and kidnapping. 

All aboard the ‘greyhound bus’ 

PRECIOUS CARGO: Greyhound Luna is used to being chauffeured around the city in her 

owner Douglas’ cargo bike. 

PHOTOS: NEWSLINE 

it’s great to discover that bikes 

are a perfectly viable option too. 

I’d encourage anyone to give 

cycling with their dog a go.” 

Horrell is co-organiser 

of the Dogs on Bikes event 

happening on October 29. The 

free Biketober event is the first 

of its kind in the city. It will loop 

through the red zone, finishing 

with ice cream for the dogs – and 

the humans, too. 

Thursday October 12 2023 The Star 

NEWS 3 

In Brief 

Teens charged after 

fleeing scene of burglary 

Three joy-riding teenagers aged 

between 14 and 16 have been 

charged after a burglary at a 

Lyttelton supermarket. Police 

said officers responded to reports 

of a burglary at FreshChoice 

on London St about 3am on 

Wednesday. A suspect vehicle 

was then spotted on Dyers Rd 

and spikes were used to stop 

it. But the vehicle kept going 

and police followed from a 

distance as it travelled through 

Opawa, Phillipstown, Linwood, 

Richmond, and St Albans. Police 

deployed road spikes again and 

the vehicle was stopped near the 

corner of Bishop St and Canon 

St in St Albans. Three youths 

aged between 14 and 16 are due 

to appear in the Youth Court 

on charges including burglary, 

unlawfully taking/getting into a 

motor vehicle, and driving-related 

offences. 

City to host conference 

on climate change 

Christchurch is to host an 

international climate conference 

in 2025, the United Nations 

has announced. Canterbury 

University has won the hosting 

rights for the eighth Adaptation 

Futures Conference, which is 

part of the UN World Adaptation 

Science Programme. About 1500 

people are expected to attend 

the event, which will bring 

together international scientists, 

indigenous scholars and policymakers. 

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morning saw seven fire crews 

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NEWS 


Chch-born comedian 

Cal Wilson dead at 53 

Preference for 

hearing panel 

CHRISTCHURCH-born 

comedian Cal Wilson has died in 

Sydney at the age of 53. 

Wilson’s management confirmed 

the news that the popular 

stand-up and TV personality 

passed away surrounded by family 

and friends at Sydney’s Royal 

Prince Alfred Hospital. 

“We are devastated to share the 

news that Cal Wilson, the muchloved 

stand-up comedian, writer 

and actor died today, surrounded 

by family and friends after a 

short illness at Royal Prince 

Alfred Hospital in Sydney,” the 

statement by Token Artists read. 

“Cal’s generosity, talent and 

friendship have been constants 

in the Australian comedy scene 

for the last twenty years. Cal 

was loved by her family, friends, 

fans and peers and a huge hole 

has been torn in the heart of our 

community.” 

Wilson moved to Melbourne 

in 2003 to star in the sketch 

show, Skithouse. She went on 

to become one of Australia’s 

best-known comedians with 

appearances on Spicks and 

Specks, Good News Week, Would 

I Lie To You and in her own 

Netflix stand-up special. 

Wilson became a fixture on 

the Australian comedy circuit, 

performing in the Melbourne 

Comedy Festival a total of 14 

times. She eventually became a 

member of its board. 

In 1997, she became one of the 

inaugural winners of the Billy 

T Award, presented annually 

during the NZ International 

MUCH 

LOVED: 

Tributes 

have 

poured 

in for 

comedian 

Cal Wilson, 

who died 

in Sydney. 

PHOTO: NZ 

HERALD 

Comedy Festival. 

On screen, she appeared on 

Australian show Have You Been 

Paying Attention and co-hosted 

The Great Australian Bake-Off, 

which was in production at the 

time of Wilson’s first admission 

to hospital. 

Wilson is survived by her 

husband, Chris, and son, Digby. 

– NZ Herald 

to be paused 

• From page 1 

He said he would like the 

hearing panel to be paused. 

City council head of planning 

and consents John Higgins 

said council officers have made 

recommendations to the Independent 

Hearings Panel on the 

submissions received, including 

recommended changes to the 

plan change as notified. 

“This has regard to the merits 

of what has been sought in 

submissions, as well as following 

review of the evidence to 

date. It is consistent with other 

planning processes under the 

Resource Management Act here 

in Christchurch and elsewhere,” 

he said. 

“The Independent Hearing 

Panel will consider the recommendations 

of council officers 

along with the evidence put 

forward by submitters before 

making recommendations 

to the council next year. The 

recommendations made by the 

IHP may well differ again from 

what was notified and what has 

been recommended by council 

officers.” 

Higgins said council would 

assist the ombudsman with its 

inquiry to the extent required 

but had no further comment on 

the complaint. 

The first submitter at the 

panel was the city council’s legal 

counsel for the Plan Change 14 

process, Cedric Carranceja. 

Carranceja said Christchurch’s 

district plan was extensively 

reworked after the Canterbury 

earthquakes, and pre-empted 

urban development issues which 

have since emerged in other 

centres. 

The changes prompted central 

government to take action to 

increase housing in other cities, 

with Christchurch almost 

looked at as a case-study, he 

said. 

The hearing of submissions 

was expected to continue until 

the end of November, with a 

further six days scheduled next 

year. 

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NEWS 5 

City water supply ‘safe to drink’ 

despite being non-compliant 

• By Niva Chittock 

IT IS UNCLEAR if a parasite 

barrier will be installed on an 

uncompliant water supply in 

Christchurch. 

Water regulator Taumata 

Arowai wrote to the city council 

and 26 others which do not have 

protection against protozoa and 

other parasites on some of their 

supplies. 

Collectively, the drinking 

water supplies missing a 

protozoa barrier (such as a UV 

treatment system) provide water 

to over 300,000 people. 

The Christchurch supplies 

alone serve more than 168,000 

people. 

Taumata Arowai sent notices 

to the non-compliant councils 

after a cryptosporidium outbreak 

made dozens of people sick in 

Queenstown. 

There had been 65 confirmed 

cases of illness so far, which was 

believed to have stemmed from 

human faecal contamination of 

a water supply drawn from Lake 

Wakatipu. 

The affected Two Mile supply 

has no protozoa barrier and 

residents remained on a boil 

water notice until one could be 

installed. 

The city council confirmed it 

had received the non-compliance 

letter and was considering its 

next steps. 

The city’s situation was unique 

and a plan was already in 

place to make it compliant, the 

council’s head of Three Waters 

Brent Smith had previously said. 

“We have high quality 

drinking water drawn from deep 

aquifers. Based on extensive 

studies there is evidence to 

show that the risk of protozoa 

contamination is very low,” he 

said. 

“In most contamination events 

involving protozoa, the water 

supplied to residents is sourced 

from rivers, lakes or very shallow 

aquifers. Other potential sources 

are animals entering reservoirs 

and UV would not help this. 

“In order to be compliant 

with the protozoa-related rules 

set by Taumata Arowai we 

need to have UV sterilisation 

installed or have proved ‘Class 1’ 

water. Christchurch has spent 

significant funds in the past 

years to secure our wells to attain 

Class 1 status, which according 

to the Drinking Water Quality 

Assurance Rules do not require a 

protozoal barrier.” 

According to Taumata Arowai, 

Class 1 status meant water 

drawn from a depth of more 

than 30 metres below ground by 

a sanitary bore head in which E. 

coli and other bacteria had not 

been detected over a period of 

three years (proven by monthly 

samples). 

Where the council did not 

expect to achieve this status, UV 

treatment had been installed or 

the pump stations were no longer 

used for drinking water, Smith 

said. 

Christchurch’s water sources 

had previously been compliant 

but a rule change meant further 

testing was now needed to 

become compliant again, he said. 

“Although the Christchurch 

supply is non-compliant at 

present, the water is safe to 

drink,” he said. 

Taumata Arowai said surface 

water sources had until the end 

of next year to be compliant and 

operational, while bore water 

sources had until the end of 

2025. 

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NEWS 

A Christchurch toddler 

suffering from a “onein-a-million” 

genetic 

blindness condition 

has been given a rare 

window of opportunity 

to receive treatment. 

Nathan Morton reports 


Family takes medical leap of 

CIRO CARRASCULL suffers 

from Leber congenital amaurosis 

(LCA), a rare inherited retinal 

degeneration that affects the 

photoreceptors behind his eye 

and causes low vision. 

If the condition goes untreated, 

the 2-year-old is expected to 

be completely blind by the age 

of 5. 

When the condition was first 

diagnosed in August last year, 

his mother Clara Pichon-Riviere 

was told by an eye specialist little 

was known about treatment 

options. 

However, the specialist had 

exciting news in July after attending 

a conference in the 

United States – an experimental 

treatment had been discovered. 

“This feels like a strange 

window of opportunity,” Pichon- 

Riviere said. 

“There was nothing available 

in New Zealand and suddenly 

there’s this opportunity that 

doesn’t have a lot of history, being 

so new, but I don’t know if 

we’ll get this chance again.” 

Alarm bells were initially 

raised around Ciro’s health 

in November 2021 when, at 3 

months old, he was taken into a 

24-hour clinic with a cold before 

doctors noticed his constant eye 

movements. 

They showed concern about 

his eyes and performed a number 

of CT scans, which revealed 

anomalies with a particular gene 

that affected his eyesight. 

“It was good-bad news 

because we knew there was 

nothing wrong with the brain or 

anything else, but his vision was 

low,” his mother said. 

In April this year, Ciro was 

taken to Auckland University to 

meet with associate professor in 

ophthalmology Andrea Vincent 

to determine possible treatments 

for his eyesight. 

Initially, Vincent couldn’t provide 

answers about a cure. She 

attended an eye genetics conference 

in the US a few months later 

and, in July, was eager to share 

what she’d discovered. 

“She was very excited because 

she’d learned of these great 

developments on what Ciro has, 

but she needed to do some scans 

HOPE: Ciro, 2, has been given a rare opportunity 

to head to the UK and trial an experimental 

surgery to cure the condition that could leave 

him completely blind by age 5. 

PHOTOS: 

GEORGE HEARD 

on his retina,” said 

Pichon-Riviere. 

Ciro’s illness means the photoreceptors 

in the back of his 

eye don’t produce the correct 

amount of proteins and, as a 

result, the retinas don’t develop 

as normal. 

Eventually, they’re expected 

to weaken and stop working 

altogether. 

The condition is known to 

occur more commonly in teenagers, 

so research and treatment 

have been designed for that age 

group and involves assisting 

their DNA. 

Pichon-Riviere said she was 

told by the specialist of a treatment 

performed in only four 

other children worldwide – now 

her son would be given a chance 

to receive the same treatment in 

the United Kingdom. 

The surgery, called gene therapy, 

has only been performed on 

people in Ciro’s situation since 

2019. It’s a surgical process of 

introducing new DNA into the 

patient’s photoreceptors and 

pushing the DNA code to produce 

stronger protein. 

The treatment, costing more 

than $1 million, is fully funded 

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faith, hopes for blindness cure 

by the UK government under a 

hospital exemption – and Pichon- 

Riviere has the chance to take 

her son overseas to receive the 

surgery. 

“But there’s a lot of theoretical 

risks,” Pichon-Riviere said. 

The lack of tried and tested 

aspects of the treatment meant 

there were question marks 

around how safe it was and there 

was a possibility the surgery 

wouldn’t be made mainstream 

due to its cost. 

“On one hand, it feels like if 

they do find more children then 

they’ll run out of what they came 

up with. On the other hand, Ciro 

will most likely be blind by 4 or 5, 

so he won’t have another opportunity. 

So we’re in the spotlight.” 

Pichon-Riviere has started fundraising 

online to make the trip 

to the UK possible – the money 

would cover her time off work 

and the living costs associated 

with the minimum two months 

spent overseas. 

If anything goes wrong during 

the operation, there is a chance 

the trip could be lengthened to 

six months, Pichon-Riviere said. 

“We’ll need to be able to raise 

the money, otherwise I don’t 

think we’ll be able to afford to 

go.” 

Ciro’s low vision has become an 

opportunity for him to express 

the humorous side of his personality, 

Pichon-Riviere said. Her 

son has learned to make jokes 

and laugh about his condition 

when times get hard. 

“He’s very clever – he knows 

how to not feel like he’s missing 

out,” she said. 

“But he does bump his head 

quite a lot. If we go to a new place 

it takes longer for him to adjust 

and know where he is. Sometimes 

he feels scared of exploring 

but he’ll hold your hand for support, 

he wants to go out as much 

as he can.” 

Pichon-Riviere said she and 

her husband have learned how to 

communicate with their son – it’s 

taken adjustment and “can be a 

bit draining” – but they’re proud 

of the work they’ve done to create 

a safe environment for him to 

grow up in. 

“We do feel the reward of him 

achieving certain things,” said 

Pichon-Riviere. 

“You can tell he will just do 

things differently. We’re very 

patient and describe everything 

for him. The hard work all pays 

off in the end.” 

Vincent said Ciro’s unique condition 

sets him apart from every 

other child in New Zealand. 

“We have a database of 1500 

people that we do gene testing 

on and he’s the only one (with 

LCA),” said Vincent. 

She said the condition comes 

from a rare recessive gene carried 

by both Ciro’s parents. 

“One copy of the gene is normal 

but the other isn’t – so it’s 

like your car running on half a 

tank of petrol. And through an 

extremely cosmic coincidence, 

the father also carries the same 

mistake but the other copy is 

fine,” said Vincent. 

“There was a one-in-four 

chance of Ciro inheriting the 

mistake and, boom, his car runs 

out of petrol.” 

She said the preclinical studies 

of this experimental treatment 

shown to her in the US showed 

huge promise, but the possibility 

of Ciro benefitting from it rode 

on whether he had enough functioning 

cells in his retina. 

FUNDING: 

Gene 

therapy 

is fully 

funded 

by the UK 

under a 

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exemption, 

but the 

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because their fields have improved, 

their contrast sensitivity 

and quality of life is massively 

improved.” 

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Sixty years of cooking for others: 

WHEN SHE was 7-yearsold, 

Tina Duncan could turn 

out a perfect batch of scones. By 

the age of 10, she was confident 

enough in the kitchen to turn out 

a full roast dinner. 

Now, after a lifetime of cooking 

for others, Duncan still loves it. 

That’s just as well since she says 

people are often afraid to cook 

for her. 

“Everybody wants you when 

they know you love food. They 

want you to do the food. They 

want you to look after them, they 

want you to cook for them. It’s 

just my love language, really,” she 

said. 

Duncan is a self-taught cook, 

caterer, cooking school tutor and 

now author of a new book Plated: 

A lifetime love affair with food. 

With thousands of recipes to 

choose from, she wanted Plated 

to reflect not only her catering 

experiences but also her culinary 

upbringing on the family far, 

“There’s things there from my 

grandmother, my grandmother’s 

brawn recipe because I adore 

brawn . . . it’s got my mother’s 

shortbread, it’s got cinnamon 

oysters that my mother always 

made, there’s lots of lovely things 

from my childhood as well as 

things moving in through my 

years. 

“My mother was an extraordinary 

cook, and you know, you 

grow up in a family and you 

don’t know how wonderful your 

mother was until you go to other 

places and realise that not everybody 

was eating what you were 

eating at home. 

‘We had the most 

extraordinary vegetable 

garden that my father 

grew and (my mother) was 

really happy to teach me. I 

just found my place in the 

kitchen with her, and she 

was wonderful’ 

– Tina Duncan 

“We ate beautiful meats. We 

had the most extraordinary 

vegetable garden that my father 

grew and (my mother) was really 

happy to teach me. I just found 

my place in the kitchen with her, 

and she was wonderful.” 

When she left school Duncan 

became a dental nurse but left 

that career to travel overseas. 

“What you did when you were 

doing your OE, the easiest thing 

to do was to slot into a restaurant 

somewhere. That’s what I did 

when I got to London, I went 

with my sister and I worked in a 

restaurant, and then I just carried 

on with that pattern. 

“When I came home, we 

bought a service station in the 

North Island. I was always having 

dinner parties. And then 

eventually when we moved 

south, I worked in a cafe because 

we were farming, and farmers 

weren’t making money in those 

days. So I worked in a local cafe 

and did catering, and then I kind 

of got sucked into a catering 

company in Christchurch and in 

the end I bought it.” 

Over the years, Duncan and 

her White Tie Catering team 

– which has included her four 

daughters – have provided food 

for thousands and thousands of 

events. 

“One night we did a huge dinner 

in Christchurch, in Hagley 

Park and there were 11 cabinet 

ministers there and the Prime 

Minister and I remember the 

head chef turning to me and 

saying, ‘Tina, we could bring the 

country to its knees tonight!’” 

Duncan struggles to recall a 

total catering disaster, but in the 

book she does share the story of a 

wedding cake that nearly wasn’t. 

“It was a big deal, this wedding 

cake, because I had three meetings 

about it, and it was supposed 

to be me making it. There was a 

red carpet down the middle of 

the Great Hall in Christchurch 

with the cake at the end. And I 

hadn’t made it. 

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Tina Duncan shares her secrets 

“At 10 o’clock in the morning, I 

realised that it had to be in place 

at 2pm.” 

Duncan rushed off to buy 

some cakes and then got busy 

icing them. In the rush, she 

put the wrong size cake on the 

bottom. 

“I got the 10-inch cake, and 

then I put a 12-inch cake tin over 

the top of it and iced the tin, then 

carried on layering up the cake. 

I said to the supervisor that day, 

‘you make sure when the bride 

and groom cut the cake, they cut 

into the middle, not into the tin!’. 

But I did it, I pulled it off.” 

When it comes to cooking 

at home – especially for others 

– Duncan says many people put 

too much pressure on themselves. 

“I think very often they try and 

try too hard. I want to be having 

fun when I have people for dinner, 

I do not want to be slaving in 

the kitchen.” 

Her secret weapon for a dinner 

party is doing things in advance. 

“I like to be completely prepared. 

If you’re coming to my 

place for dinner, by midday I’m 

done. I probably got a dessert in 

the freezer for starters because 

it’s probably done a week prior. 

“I always blanch my greens 

in advance, so if you’re coming 

for dinner, in the morning I 

might do the asparagus or the 

brussels sprouts or whatever my 

greens are, are always blanched 

in very, very, very salty water for 

a couple of minutes until they’re 

tender, then put them into ice 

cold water to set the chlorophyll 

so they’re lovely and green. Then 

at nighttime, there’s two ways: 

you can either plunge them back 

into boiling water very quickly, 

or you can pop them on an oven 

tray, drizzle olive oil over them 

and into a hot oven.” 

The secret to perfectly cooked 

meat, she says, is using a meat 

thermometer and taking the 

meat out of the oven before it 

reaches the desired temperature. 

“For example, a fillet of beef, 

I would take out at about 48 

degrees C if I was wanting it 

medium rare, and then I cover it 

in tin foil and tea towels and just 

leave it quietly for half an hour. 

And by the time it comes to 50- 

54 degrees C, it’s perfect. 

“I’m so used to cooking 250 

steaks for somebody. If we’re 

doing a wedding in a paddock 

on a Saturday, on Friday I’ve 

partially cooked all the meat and 

it’s chilled, and then I’m taking 

it and then just reheating it. You 

can sear off your steaks and then 

have them in the chiller, then 

take them out and then bring 

them up to room temperature 

into a really hot oven and just 

bring it up to eating point.” 

Over her long career in 

food, Duncan has experienced 

plenty of trends and changes. She 

credits the celebrated chef Peter 

Gordon with opening New Zealanders’ 

eyes to new spices and 

flavours. 

“Growing up, I’d never eaten 

chilli in my life. I went to London 

and the first thing that my 

flatmate made was a chilli omelette, 

I’ll never forget that.” 

Duncan’s daughters have 

all worked in her catering 

business – “we had instant 

staff!” – and followed in her 

culinary footsteps, which brings 

her great joy. 

“I cry about that often. Sitting 

around the table with them, that is 

just one of the highlights for me. 

“I don’t think I was a 

particularly good teacher, which 

sounds ridiculous because I 

run a cooking school, but not 

with the children. I think it was 

quicker for me to do it myself 

because I was really busy. But 

they’re all very good cooks 

and they say they’ve learned 

by osmosis. I gave them all a 

Stephanie Alexander Cooks’ 

Companion.” – RNZ 

• Plated: A lifetime love 

affair with food by Tina 

Duncan (Camberdown 

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Attack on ex-partner 

and new girlfriend 

‘vigilante action’ 

A CHRISTCHURCH woman drove 

almost five hours to confront her 

ex-partner and his new girlfriend, and 

attacked them with a metal wheel brace as 

they slept. 

Desiree Ruia Krystal Taputoro, 31, was 

sentenced in the Dunedin District Court 

to two and a half years’ jail after a series of 

violent attacks against her ex-partner. 

In May 2017, she was issued with a protection 

order and on November 7 last year, 

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Taputoro arrived at the shearing quarters 

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Arming herself with a wheel brace, she 

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She asked the woman to identify the 

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The victim felt immediate pain and the 

force caused her skin to 

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“You attacked a vulnerable 

victim in bed 

with an iron, having 

unlawfully entered the 

property,” Judge Michael 

Turner said. 

“ . . . It was vigilante 

action.” 

Taputoro turned her attention to her 

ex-partner, striking him twice and asking: 

“What about our children?” 

The man wrapped his arms around the 

defendant to stop any further blows. 

“The victims were entitled to feel safe 

in their private quarters . . . you had no 

right,” Judge Turner said. 

A month later, Taputoro warned the 

woman not to contact police: “One thing 

you are taught in jail is you never snitch. 

Ask (an associate) what happens to 

snitches.” 

The defendant had a previous conviction 

for domestic violence against the same 

man for which she spent two years and 

five months in jail. 

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. . and a propensity to use weapons when 

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In November last year, 

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The man said he was 

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While he was on the phone, Taputoro 

picked up a tyre iron and swung it at his 

head several times, striking him on the 

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“He was doing the right thing and you 

attacked him. You tried to stop him from 

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order,” Judge Turner said. 

Taputoro reportedly suffered “significant 

childhood adversity” and was exposed to 

domestic abuse and alcohol abuse from a 

young age. 

A report provided to the court said: “It 

is not surprising she thinks violence is an 

appropriate reaction. She did not witness 

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Taputoro was convicted of injuring with 

intent to injure, intimidation and two 

charges of breaching a protection order. 

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NEWS 

Prison 

reaches 

capacity 

CHRISTCHURCH Men’s Prison 

reached “operational capacity” 

over the weekend, forcing one 

prisoner to be held in police cells 

and 22 to be transferred to Otago 

amid “emergency planning”. 

Corrections said to it did not 

have a shortage of beds but “ongoing 

staffing pressures” meant 

while it had 944 beds there was 

only “operational capacity” for 

786. 

Corrections’ national commissioner 

Leigh Marsh said the department 

had enough capacity to 

manage anyone who is remanded 

into its custody. 

Marsh said transferring prisoners 

between sites ensured Corrections 

kept staff safe and that people 

in prison were provided with 

their minimum entitlements and 

could participate in activities such 

as rehabilitation programmes. 

“Operational capacity is a technical 

term we use to show what 

number of beds at a site are available 

based on staff availability at a 

point in time,” she said. 

The number of frontline 

vacancies at the prison as of 

September 30 was 44.1 out of 

461.1 full-time equivalent roles. 

A ONE-OF-A-KIND giant wall 

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prior to the earthquakes is up for 

auction to help raise money to 

build Youth Hub Christchurch. 

Belgotex Flooring donated the 

3x5 metre rug which has graced 

the walls of its showroom for 

nearly a decade. 

“We’re sad to see the rug go,” 

said spokesperson Michael 

Skinner. 

“But if it can help raise money 

for the muchneeded 

Youth 

Hub and give 

another local 

business the joy 

it’s given us over 

the past decade, 

that’s a winwin.” 

The rug’s 

Skinner 

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prior to the earthquakes 

encapsulates a moment in time 

before about 70 per cent of the 

depicted structures were either 

transformed or destroyed. 

Its panoramic view includes 

landmarks like the PGC 

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Chancellor, Westpac Building, 

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from Salisbury St to near 

Moorhouse Ave. 

Said Youth Hub chair Dame 


Pre-quake rug up for auction 

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grateful to Belgotex for helping 

with our fundraising efforts and 

I’m sure there’s 

a local business 

out there that 

has a perfect 

new home for 

the rug.” 

The hub is 

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The hub is continuing to 

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Events included a pōwhiri, 

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16 

NEWS 


Kiwi at cutting edge of Ukraine 

Most people have 

never heard of Oleg 

Vornik, but Vladimir 

Putin almost certainly 

has. Bruce Munro talks 

to the Russian-born, 

Christchurch-raised 

head of a multimilliondollar, 

counter-drone 

technology company 

playing a significant role 

in the Ukraine-Russia 

war 

OLEG VORNIK IS speaking 

via video link from his office, 

situated about a kilometre from 

the Sydney Opera House, talking 

about the ethics of where his 

rapidly expanding company’s 

cutting-edge counter-drone 

technology should, and should 

not, be sold. 

The world’s nations are 

divided into three groups, the 

DroneShield chief executive says. 

There is the white list – 

countries like the United States, 

the United Kingdom, New 

Zealand and France. 

There is also the blacklist – 

players such as Russia, China, 

North Korea and Iran. 

“You know, the usual fun 

crew,” he says. 

And there is the grey list, 

whose members change from 

time to time; countries not 

strictly beyond the pale, but 

with whom Vornik and his team 

choose not to do business. 

“We’re saying no, no. You’ve 

got to choose what side you’re 

on. And if you’re on the side of 

the good guys, you can’t ship to 

anybody else.” 

For those not first-naming 

it with generals and ministers 

of defence, DroneShield is an 

unfamiliar moniker. Less than 

a decade ago, however, even the 

military brass who are now so 

aware of the capabilities of the 

Australian company’s dronedefeating 

weapons had never 

heard of it. 

DroneShield began creating 

the counter-drone industry 

before most people had any 

idea drones – unmanned aerial 

devices remotely guided to scope 

out enemy forces, hack software, 

PART TO PLAY: 

New Zealandraised 

defence 

technology 

company head 

Oleg Vornik 

is pleased his 

company’s 

counterdrone 

guns 

are playing a 

“meaningful” 

role in Ukraine’s 

response 

to Russia’s 

aggression. 

direct missile attacks and divebomb 

with explosive payloads – 

would become the global poster 

child of 21st-century conflict. 

It was then, in the early 2010s, 

when quadcopters were still 

toys flying around living rooms, 

that two US scientists foresaw 

their potential as a military 

threat. Using cutting-edge audio 

technology to detect the sound 

of an approaching drone, they 

tested their anti-drone prototype 

at the Boston Marathon just two 

years after a domestic terrorist 

attack killed three people and 

injured hundreds of other 

runners and spectators. 

“The Wall Street Journal ran 

an article about this really 

unusual, innovative technology 

dealing with a threat nobody had 

thought about before,” Vornik 

explains. 

Investors saw an opportunity, 

bought a majority stake and soon 

realised a lot more money would 

be needed if DroneShield was to 

make the most of having pole 

position in this nascent market. 

So, they gave Vornik a call. 

At that point, he was an 

investment banker in Australia. 

But not a happy one. 

“I felt I had overstayed my 

welcome. 

“I just didn’t enjoy writing 

pitch books and trying to present 

ideas to other people, for those 

people to decide and create 

something. 

“You feel like you are on the 

stands watching gladiators, as 

opposed to being a gladiator 

yourself.” 

The investors were looking 

to hand DroneShield’s day-today 

reins to someone familiar 

with Australia and its “really 

generous” research-anddevelopment 

tax incentives;



NEWS 17 

defence with drone technology 

someone who could list the 

company on the ASX, far from 

the constraints of America’s 

closed-shop investment scene; 

someone who could employ and 

marshal the readily available 

pool of talented Aussie software 

engineers. 

For his part, Vornik knew 

and trusted the investors and 

was taken with the “really cool 

technology”. 

“I thought this was . . . 

something I could sink my teeth 

into . . . that was also very much 

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could create something.” 

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Research and development led to 

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“Radio frequency is by far the best way 

of detecting drones,” Vornik says. 

With it, a C-UAS operator can search 

for the radio wave “handshake” between a 

drone and its controller. 

“So, we listen for those uplinks and 

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location of both the drone and the pilot.” 

A drone gun can then fire a jamming 

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Interest in DroneShield’s technology 

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including New Zealand. 

“And then, of course, the Ukraine war 

started in February, 2022. 

“We were asked to deliver the first 

batch of our counter-drone equipment 

right away, with support from a foreign 

government.” 

He has no love for Putin. The feeling, 

apparently, is mutual. 

“Six months ago, I was personally put 

on the Russian government sanctions 

list, together with a couple of other 

people at DroneShield, off the back of our 

involvement supporting Ukraine.” 

The first batch of counter-drone devices 

sent to Ukraine had an immediate impact. 

DroneShield was quickly swamped with 

inquiries from the Ukraine armed forces, 

civilians and families of Ukrainian 

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Vornik is reluctant to detail which 

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through which countries’ support, are 

being used in the war. 

“We obviously feel it’s completely 

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and help Ukrainians to defend themselves 

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part of Ukraine’s defence.” 

Business continues to boom. 

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counter-drone devices. 

The company now employs close to 100 

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Sharp’s championship win ‘a bit surreal’ 

• By Daniel Alvey 

CHRISTCHURCH teenager 

Louis Sharp has achieved a key 

win in his journey to the top of 

motorsport. 

The 16-year-old Rodin Carlin 

driver secured the 2023 ROCKiT 

F4 British championship at 

the weekend, in the final race of 

the year. 

Heading into the last round 

PHOTO: 

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at Brands Hatch near London, 

Sharp held a slim one-point 

margin over championship rival 

William Macintyre (Hitech 

Pulse-Eight). 

“There was a few nerves 

heading into the weekend, 

especially with how close it 

was, but I knew we were 

going to be fast after testing 

there earlier in the year,” 

Sharp told Mike Hosking 

Breakfast. 

Sharp started the weekend 

well, securing pole position for 

race one, which he converted in 

a lights-to-flag victory, opening 

up the championship to a 

13-point margin. 

That was closed down to 10 

after Macintyre got some points 

back in Sunday morning’s 

reverse grid race, finishing 

seventh and with Sharp 11 th 

after starting 16 th and 19 th 

respectively. 

Sharp started from pole in 

the final race, Macintyre in 

third. Sharp was beaten off 

the line by Deagen Fairclough 

who remained in the lead, with 

Sharp following in second and 

Macintyre staying in third, 

securing Sharp the title. 

“It still hasn’t really sunk in, 

to be honest, it still feels a bit 

surreal,” Sharp said. 

Rodin Carlin also scored the 

team’s cup with points from 

Sharp, Dion Gowda, Josh Irfan, 

and Noah Lisle who won 15 of 

the 30 races. 

Born in the United Kingdom, 

Sharp spent most of his 

childhood in Christchurch, 

attending St Joseph’s School 

and St Bede’s College, before 

moving back to the UK last year 

with dad Jason to pursue his F1 

dream. 

Sharp is yet to confirm plans 

for 2024, but he will be looking 

for a step up. 

“Everything we do next year is 

highly dependent on budget. 

“There’s a lot of different 

championships you can race 

in, but it’s just about what 

works best for you and what 

works best for the money you’ve 

got.” 

Sharp is looking to retain 

his relationship with Rodin 

Carlin, which has teams in FIA 

Formula 3 and Formula 2, the 

next progression from F4. 

Shirley keep it in the family 

• By Diane Keenan 

IT’S A FAMILY affair for 

Shirley’s premier women’s tennis 

team who face the daunting task 

on Saturday of playing Elmwood, 

a team stacked with big name 

players. 

It will be the first test for 

players in both the men’s and 

women’s grade after rain washed 

out the first round of the competition 

last weekend. All games 

are at Wilding Park. 

Shirley are a newcomer to 

the premier women’s grade this 

season. The team includes sisters 

Nicole and Casey Fitchett and 

Allie and Rebekah McConnell, 

who are also all cousins and have 

played through the grades for 

Shirley since they first picked up 

rackets as pre-schoolers. Now all 

in their late 20s-early 30s, they 

are playing premier tennis for 

the first time this season after 

convincingly winning the division 

1 grade last year. 

“We have been playing tennis 

together for so long in junior, 

women’s and mixed grade teams 

and last season it came together 

for us really well in division one 

when we were playing our best 

tennis,” said Shirley’s captain 

Allie McConnell. 

“We were all keen to step up 

and give premiers a go, given 

that there is no time like now. 

We are all of an age that we are 

really enjoying our tennis.” 

Promising junior Nishitha 

Maarka, who has represented 

New Zealand and previously 

played premier tennis for Cashmere, 

joins the team as a strong 

Nicole 

Fitchett 

Allie 

McConnell 

Casey 

Fitchett 

Rebekah 

McConnell 

No 1, along with Dasha Sanina 

who has come through the ranks 

at Shirley. 

McConnell said the team will 

“do its best” against Elmwood 

which is this season fielding a 

line-up of highly ranked players, 

including Abby Mason, Tessa 

McCann and Lousie Oxnevad. 

In the other women’s matchups 

Bishopdale plays Cashmere 

while last year’s champions Te 

Kura Hagley takes on Waimairi. 

In the men’s competition 

defending champion Cashmere 

will play Elmwood in a replay of 

last year’s final. 

Cashmere, convincing winners 

of the final played indoors last 

season, will field a full-strength 

team from its pool of players 

including all three Meredith 

brothers, James, Matt and Tim, 

along with Harry Weeds, Liam 

Barrett and Lucas Evans. 

Elmwood will also put out a 

strong team on Saturday, says 

captain Elliot Darling, who will 

play with brother Lawrence, Mid 

Canterbury coach Jack Tiller and 

Benji McGillivray, who returns 

full-time to the team this season. 

Former Davis Cup player and 

manager Alistair Hunt or James 

Spence will play the doubles. 

Missing from the Elmwood 

lineup are brothers Tom and 

Eddie Batt. Tom is overseas, 

while Eddie has moved to 

Auckland and is in a team with 

another former Elmwood and 

Canterbury representative player 

Brendan Furness. 

Darling said teams will have to 

perform well every week under 

the new competition format, 

given there are now only four 

round-robin games to earn a 

place in the pre-Christmas semifinals 

. 

Edgeware coach Nick Jenkins, 

who is at the helm of the combined 

Edgeware Waimairi team, 

supports the new competition 

format, which he says gives 

all teams a chance of making 

the semi-finals. He believes 

the Edgeware Waimairi team 

has more depth this season. 

TEAM: In the men’s competition, Cashmere also makes it 

a family affair with the Meredith brothers, James (above), 

Matt and Tim. 

PHOTO: CASHMERE TENNIS CLUB 

It includes university student 

Sam Baird, new recruit Charlie 

Bradbury and Jack Muirson. 

Alvin Na who played in the 

International Tennis Federation 

junior tournament last weekend, 

will also play for the team as 

required. 

Bishopdale, who Jenkins says 

will be tough, includes Will Schneideman 

and Grayson Cullen. 

In other matches Te Kura will 

take on Burnside Park, another 

team stacked with top players 

including Remi Feneon, Finn 

Emslie-Robson, Jordan Edwards, 

Liam Adams and Jamie Poole. 

Te Kura coach Hugo Nurse 

Strang said the club has listed 

Juan Matias Gonzalez from 

Chile as its top player. Gonzalez, 

a friend of Nurse Strang’s, 

played in the Christchurch 

competition pre-Covid and is 

expected to join the team mid- 

November. 

Others in the team include 

Pat Nolan, who will play at one 

on Saturday along with the very 

reliable Ben Smith.



SPORT 21 

Hendry in the fight of his life 

• By Neville Idour 

CANCER BATTLER Michael 

Hendry will headline a top 

field at the DVS Clearwater 

Open which tees off tomorrow 

morning. 

Hendry revealed in May 

he had been diagnosed with 

leukaemia, ruling him out of the 

British Open at Royal Liverpool 

in July, which he had qualified 

for. 

But six months later and in the 

fight of his life, he is on the golf 

comeback trail. 

He played the Carrus Open 

in Tauranga in late September, 

finishing 12th, and is on a new 

fitness regime. 

“I want to make the most of 

life and golf is what I know and 

my wonderful wife Tara and my 

children mean the world to me,” 

said Hendry. 

Among Hendry’s rivals at 

the $50,000 Clearwater event 

is defending champion and 

European Tour player Josh 

Geary, Harry Bateman, Luke 

Toomey, Gareth Paddison, Ryan 

Chisnall and Troy Ropiha and 

former NZ Open winner Mahal 

Pearce. 

Several Canterbury 

STRIKING: 

Josh Geary 

won the 

Carrus Open 

and heads 

into the DVS 

Clearwater 

Open 

feeling on 

good form. 

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professionals in the field include 

Craig Mitchell, Peter Giles, Matt 

McLean and Danielle Price. 

Hendry, the NZ Open winner 

in 2017 and two-time winner 

of the NZ PGA Championship, 

said he returned home from 

overseas in April to receive the 

shock diagnosis. He has been a 

regular on the Japan PGS circuit. 

“I was shocked to find out 

(about the cancer diagnosis) 

after returning from overseas. 

I spent six weeks in hospital 

undergoing treatment.” 

Hendry is in remission but the 

battle is still not over. 

“This is the fight of my life, a 

fight for my life, but one I am 

determined to win.” 

The DVS Clearwater Open is 

the only Jennian Homes Charles 

Tour event in the South Island. 

Geary won the Carrus Open 

in Tauranga and is feeling in 

good form. 

“I had a few weeks off over 

winter to freshen up. I only got 

the clubs out three or four weeks 

ago,” he said. 

“I will play the Charles 

Tour then some of the major 

Australian events. Next year I 

may look at the Asian Tour.” 

Well performed Canterbury 

amateurs Deanna Mathews, 

DETERMINED: 

Hendry is making 

a comeback 

following his 

leukaemia 

diagnosis in April. 

PHOTO: GETTY 

“This is the fight of my life, a fight for my life, but one I 

am determined to win.” – Michael Hendry 

Aroha Minhinnick, Alisia Ren, 

Sam McGill, Cooper Moore, 

Yuki Mya, Dominic Brettkelly, 

Aaron Forsyth, Tim Leonard 

and reinstated amateur Oscar 

Cadenhead are in the field of 

112. 

There is a with a 36 hole cut 

of top 60 and ties made on 

Saturday afternoon before an 18 

hole shootout on Sunday. 

There are 112 golfers teeing 

off on Friday morning with a 36 

Hole cut of top 60 and ties made 

on Saturday afternoon before an 

18 Hole ‘shootout’ on Sunday. 

Cashmere Tech toughest task ahead 

• By Sam Coughlan 

CASHMERE Technical face 

their toughest task in the 

National League season this 

weekend. 

They travel to Auckland to 

take on Northern League and 

Oceania champions Auckland 

City, who are looking to defend 

their National League title this 

season. 

Tech striker Garbhan 

Coughlan said it will be a huge 

test. 

“They’ve set the standard 

across the country with their 

performances and title-winning 

teams. But we relish the chance 

to go and play them and test ourselves 

against the best,” he said. 

Auckland have won their first 

three National League games 

this season and with only six 

weeks remaining are looking 

good to make the final. 

Meanwhile Tech have a win, 

a loss and a draw from their 

three fixtures – but can take 

heart from a 3-3 draw against 

last year’s runner-up Wellington 

Olympic at Nga Puna Wai on 

Saturday, which hosted its first 

National League match. 

Coughlan believes the result 

puts Tech in good stead. 

“The result against Olympic 

gives us great confidence going 

into the next game. We know 

how important it will be to get a 

result in Auckland and that will 

be our focus this week.” 

Winger Lyle Matthysen had 

a game to remember against 

Olympic, scoring two goals and 

grabbing an assist, while also 

seeing a spectacular long-range 

goal chalked out for offside. 

Christchurch United have 

started the National League 

strongly, with two wins and a 

draw leaving them third in their 

quest for the ‘Quadruple.’ 

The Southern League, English 

Cup, and Chatham Cup winners 

are eyeing a fourth title this year 

– and their first National League 

title since 1991. 

They look to bounce back from 

letting a 2-0 lead against Auckland 

United slip to a 2-2 draw 

– the first goals they’ve conceded 

STRIKING: Garbhan Coughlan in action against FC Twenty during a Southern League match 

earlier this season. 

PHOTO: MITCHELL COZZONE/DUST MEDIA 

in three games. 

United host the struggling 

Manurewa, who have lost all 

three of their games after being 

surprise qualifiers from the 

Northern League. 

The South Aucklanders sit 

rock bottom of the table but 

can take heart from their goalscoring 

ability, netting 4 in their 

last game and 6 for the season 

so far.


22 

RACING 


Millwood Nike goes 15 from 15 

• By Michael Guerin 

WHERE THERE could have 

been nerves for young driver 

Olivia Thornley last week there 

was only belief. 

And Millwood Nike didn’t let 

her or the punters down, with a 

winning resumption at Addington 

on Thursday night, where 

the only harness star to shine 

brighter was Thornley herself. 

The 23-year-old reinswoman 

was handed the hottest sulky seat 

in harness racing when she was 

asked to drive Millwood Nike in 

her Nevele R 50 Years of Success 

heat as co-trainer Mark Purdon 

and logical back-up Blair Orange 

were suspended. 

Thornley is no stranger to 

Millwood Nike, having driven 

her to win her first two races, but 

the expectation on the superstar 

filly is so much greater now, going 

into her comeback race on 

14-straight wins. 

“I know there was some pressure 

there because you don’t 

want to be the first driver to get 

her beaten,” said Thornley. 

“I suppose I could have been 

nervous but I knew what I had in 

front of me.” 

Punters wouldn’t have been so 

calm as rival driver Carter Dalgety 

did every thing he could to 

beat the $1.10 favourite as Sweet 

Coco led and latched on, seemingly 

having Millwood Nike off 

the bit at the 350m. We should 

have known better. 

Once the field straightened 

and Millwood Nike got balanced, 

Thornley asked her for 

her best and she changed gears 

and gathered in the leader easily, 

going away at the line. 

“I can see how she might have 

looked in trouble but she gave 

me a great drive, she just relaxed 

outside Carter’s horse. 

“When I asked, she knew what 

to do.” 

So Millwood Nike is 15 from 

15 and will head to another 

Nevele R heat at Ashburton 

before the final on Cup Day and 

then maybe two races ending her 

season in the NZ Oaks. 

Thornley won that race last 

season on No Matter Wat, who 

has just been retired. 

“To get another drive on this 

girl so close to No Matter Wat 

being retired was very special.” 

The whole night was special for 

Thornley as she also drove Chase 

A Dream to win his Woodlands 

Sires’ Stakes heat and Waterford 

to win the Dunstan Horsefeeds 

Fillies Juvenile heat to give her 

a clean sweep of the features 

on the first night of the New 

Zealand junior drivers’ championship, 

for which she ironically 

didn’t qualify. 

“I’ve actually never qualified 

for it but this makes up for that. 

I am lucky to drive some pretty 

amazing horses,” she said. 

Chase A Dream swooped late 

to win his heat over Hadron 

Collider and Miki’s Courage in 

a race that saw the first defeat of 

Vessem, who worked hard early 

TRIUMPH: Olivia Thornley drove Millwood Nike to 

win the Nevele R 50 Years of Success heat last week. 

Thornley’s success is a repeat of last season, where 

she won on the retired No Matter Wat. 

but still finished only fifth while 

the other early burner Miki’s 

Courage finished in front of him. 

“He (Chase A Dream) has really 

improved and keeps getting 

better so I think he is in for a 

good campaign,” said Thornley. 

Waterford is also improving at 

the right time as she led home an 

All Stars trifecta in the juvenile 

girls heat. 

She showed good gate speed to 

lead then trail Madrid and catch 

her late suggesting there is not 

much between several in this 

crop as the major juvenile races 

approach. 

– Harness Racing Desk 

• Big wins in Australia, 

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the club nights and salvage squad sessions 

usually reserved for its volunteers so everyone 

can come along. 

RAD currently spreads its operations 

across The Commons, using a shed built 

from recycled rubble 10 years ago, and 

Space Academy. 

Now the organisation is actively hunting 

for a permanent home – ideally a secure, 

indoor space in the central city. There 

have been positive discussions but nothing 

signed and sealed as yet. 

“It takes a certain type of volunteer to 

stand in the cold and dark outside a shed 

in the inner city. And we’re spending 

hours each week setting up and packing 

down. In a permanent home we could 

serve more people, have better security, 

minimise waste more efficiently, and build 

stronger community,” says Smale. 

The vision may be ambitious, but RAD 

has a history of making dreams come 

true. 

Meanwhile, there will be a birthday 

party for RAD whānau in late October 

– a celebration of longevity and a thanks 

to many generous supporters who have 

helped RAD to thrive. 

• Find out more at www.radbikes. 

co.nz and www.biketoberchch.nz 

The 

YUMMI 

study. 

Now open 

at the Gallery 

Free entry 

The role of cow, goat or sheep milk in 

the nutrition and health of older women. 

Milk provides important nutrients that help older people to maintain 

muscle and bone health, and low milk intake is often associated with 

poor nutrition in older adults. 

We are looking for female volunteers aged 60 to 80 years to participate 

in the YUMMI study, a 12-week research study investigating the health 

effects of consuming different types milk – cow, goat, or sheep. 

We will provide you with cow, goat or sheep milk powder to drink 

twice a day for 12-weeks, or you will be asked to eat your normal diet 

(control group). The time commitment for the study will be about 11 

hours and you will attend five clinic visits. You will receive up to $220 in 

supermarket vouchers in recognition of the actual or reasonable costs 

involved with participating in this study (e.g. parking and/or travel costs). 

If you are a woman aged 60 to 80 years and can drink milk, we would 

love to hear from you. 

Department of Human Nutrition 

Ping Ong 

yummistudy@otago.ac.nz | 021 2798214 

This project has been reviewed and approved by the University of Otago 

Human Ethics Committee (Health). Reference: H22/067 

A partnership project between 

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o 

Waiwhetū and Canterbury Museum 

George Henry The Black Hat 1904. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna 

o Waiwhetū, presented by the Canterbury Society of Arts, 1932. Maker unknown 

Bilas, ceremonial headdress. Papua New Guinea. Collection of Canterbury Museum


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PAPANUI 

SPIRITUAL 

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150 Harewood Rd 

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Sunday 7pm 

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Sunday 7pm 

All Welcome 


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61 Grafton Street 

Sunday 7pm 

Address: 

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Clairvoyance: 

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Tuesday 

Healing 1 – 1.45pm 

Clairvoyance 2pm 

All Welcome 

Clairvoyance Night 

7pm Wednesday 

25th October 

$10 per person 

Funeral Directors 

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Cremation 

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Family Funeral with Cremation $4,800 

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Phone 0800 804 663 - 24 Hour Availability 

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SPREYDON 16 Dundee 

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Garage Sales 

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14th October. Fine china 

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clothing for all the family. 

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CALL uS 03 260 4499 

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CATS 

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MOBILE Toe Nail 

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please leave a message 

on 027 263 3669. Small 

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A Male 59 seeks lady any 

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can help with the cost 

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catsunloved@xtra.co.nz 

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027 224 2831 

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All types of int/ext 

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022 496 3322 

GARDENER 

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03 349 4022 

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022 044 3008 

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repairs, t&g flooring. 

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027 352 6225 


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Phone John on 0800 

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jflattery@xtra.co.nz 

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1920 

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021 661 246 for your free 

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replacement of all rotten - conservatory roofs. Exp 

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021 529 022 / 342 8950 


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co.nz 

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ph Steve 021 255 7968 

PAINTER 

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20 yrs exp. Int / Ext. 

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0272 383 224 or 331 8133 

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repairs & painting. 021 

529 022 / 342 8950 

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4125 

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Call today! MJ Plumbing 

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REMOVAL 

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Van, Trailer Rubbish 

Removal.Phone Gary 342- 

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SPOUTING 

CLEANING 

SPECIALIST 

Entire spouting system 

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Jo 021 164 0365 

SPOUTING 

Select Spouting 

The PVC specialist. 

Repairs & replacement. Ph 

022 197 2351 

SPOUTING 

CLEANING 

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Cleaned Out and Flushed 

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or 021 043 2034 

STUMP GRINDING 

Best price guarantee Tony 

0275 588 895 

TILING 

Floor & walls. Kitchen & 

splashback specialist. No 

job too small.35 yrs exp. 

Free quotes Ph 027 483 

3887 

TREE SERVICES 

Free quotes 20+ yrs exp. 

Tree, hedge or shrub 

- reduction, shaped or 

removed. Ph/text Paul 

The Branch Manager 

0274314720 

TREE SERVICES 

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Tree & hedge reduction. 

Professional advice. 

Stump grinding and 

branches chipped. Txt or 

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949 

TREE SERVICES 

Specialist tree pruning 

& shaping. Also hedge 

trimming and garden tidyups. 

Ph Hugh, The Little 

Green Groomer 021 275 

5445 

Tree Work & Garden 

Maintenance 

Need Trees removed or 

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Qualified and 

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I offer a professional 

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Contact me for a free quote 

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TOYS WANTED 

Suitable 5yr old and up. 

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Ph 021 0268 6514 

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furniture, beds, stoves, 

fridge freezers, house 

lots .Gold jewellery 

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Phone 980 5812 or 027 

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A+ ALL whiteware 

wanted. Same day 

service, cash paid for 

freezes, fridges, washing 

machines, ovens. Also 

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postcards, coins, gold, 

bank notes, badges, 

medals, jewellery, 

watches, china, crystal, 

books, furs, vintage 

clothing, paintings, 

furniture, estates & 

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Antiques, 194 Edgeware 

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A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St: 

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presents Songwriters’ Open Mic Night, all 

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Closed for private function. Saturday 9pm – 

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present URGE Christchurch with DJs Gregor 

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Sunday 3pm – Janes Refugees present Open 

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BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday - 

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Saturday - Oblivion. Sunday - Micky Rat 

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BRIDIE'S BAR, 401 Worcester St: Friday 

4pm - DJ Rakinem. Saturday 3pm - Nexus; 

6pm - DJ Rakinem. 

CASHMERE CLUB, 50 Colombo St: 

Friday 7pm Jingo. 

CBS MUSIC, Catholic Pro-Cathedral, 

373 Manchester St: Wednesday 1.10pm - 

Wednesday's at One feat. Tim Emerson & 

friends. 

CHAT'S BAR, 251 Travis Rd: Thursday 7pm 

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CHCH CASINO, 30 Victoria St: Thursday 

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9pm - End Game. Saturday 5.30pm - Cantora; 

9pm - Unhinged. Sunday 4pm - Tumehe. 

CHCH FOLK MUSIC CLUB, Irish Society 

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Open Mic. 

FAT EDDIES, 76 Hereford St: Thursday 

6pm - Jazz Club with Eat My Shorts; 8.30pm - 

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2.30pm - Fuchsia Haze; 5pm - After Five; 

8.30pm - Liberator; Midnight - Diamond Blue. 

Saturday 2pm - King Tubbs Duo; 4.30pm - 

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Sunday 4pm - Jarred Fell, Comedian/Magician, 

$20 entry; 6.30pm - Phil Doublet & Josh 

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FOOD TRUCK ALLEY, 3 McCormacks 

Bay Rd: Sunday 4pm - Eastside. Sunday 22nd 

Oct - The Sound Hunters. Sunday 29th Oct - 

Te Aratai College Bands. 

HORNBY CLUB, 17 Carmen Rd: Saturday 

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KAIAPOI CLUB, Raven's Quay: Friday - 

Don't Tell Mama. 

LITTLE BROWN JUG, 290 Wairakei Rd: 

Saturday 7pm - Flat City Brotherhood. 

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MAK BAR, 1276 Main North Rd: Saturday 

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MICKY FINN'S, 85a Hereford St: Thursday 

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OAK N FERRY, 608 Ferry Rd: Saturday 

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NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine 

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RACECOURSE HOTEL, 118 Racecourse 

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THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Thursday 7pm - 

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Shameless Few. Saturday 7pm - Harry Burt; 

11pm - Smashbox. Sunday 5pm - The 

Meaniez. 

THE BOWER, 487 New Brighton Rd: 

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THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: Friday 

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