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Thursday, <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong>, <strong>2023</strong> | Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper<br />
<strong>The</strong> Jester’s<br />
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Mates’<br />
World<br />
Cup<br />
pact<br />
welcome – page 10 – pages 16 & 17<br />
Builder suspended for<br />
threatening clients<br />
• By Jeremy Wilkinson<br />
A BUILDER harassed his<br />
former clients with a flurry<br />
of threatening emails and<br />
even made an unfounded<br />
complaint to Immigration NZ<br />
after they asked him for their<br />
deposit back for work he didn’t<br />
complete.<br />
“Getting immagration [sic]<br />
involved il find something on<br />
you watch out,” the builder texted<br />
Christchurch couple Esmail<br />
and Maryam Fathi-Loshani<br />
at nearly 11pm one night after<br />
what he said was an evening of<br />
heavy drinking.<br />
It was the prelude to a series<br />
of texts, emails and complaints<br />
he made to the city council,<br />
Immigration, the Law Society<br />
and MBIE about the couple and<br />
their lawyer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> builder appeared before<br />
the Building Practitioners<br />
Board last month facing charges<br />
of breaching the Licensed<br />
Building Practitioner’s code of<br />
ethics.<br />
He is the first person to be<br />
charged under that new code<br />
which came into effect at the<br />
end of last year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> board yesterday morning<br />
released its formal decision<br />
to suspend the man’s licence<br />
DECISION: <strong>The</strong> builder, who has name suppression, has had his licence suspended<br />
after harrassing his former clients.<br />
and also grant him name<br />
suppression on the basis he<br />
hired immigrant workers who<br />
might lose their jobs if their<br />
employer’s name was published<br />
and his work opportunities<br />
diminished.<br />
At the hearing the builder<br />
admitted his conduct and told<br />
the board he had issues with<br />
drinking, mental health and<br />
his company had been under<br />
financial stress at the time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> summary of facts stated<br />
he had been hired by the couple<br />
to build a conservatory at their<br />
home.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
Emergency<br />
call made<br />
one minute<br />
before<br />
attacks<br />
• By Anna Leask<br />
SIX MINUTES after the<br />
Christchurch gunman sent<br />
a chilling manifesto to the<br />
Prime Minister’s office, a<br />
parliamentary staffer called<br />
111 to report the “concerning”<br />
contents.<br />
That would be the first of<br />
many calls to 111 about the<br />
unfolding terror attack and its<br />
ghastly aftermath.<br />
<strong>The</strong> staffer told police that the<br />
email outlined an “attack on<br />
Christchurch”, threatened the<br />
use of firearms and explosive<br />
devices – and named three particular<br />
mosques.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sender was “claiming<br />
some sort of political ideology”<br />
and his manifesto had “a white<br />
supremacist theme”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> parliamentary staffer told<br />
police while he suspected the<br />
email was a hoax, he was still<br />
concerned enough to alert them<br />
almost immediately after he<br />
received it.<br />
He never could have imagined<br />
what would happen next.<br />
That staffer who made that<br />
emergency call gave evidence<br />
yesterday at the coroner’s<br />
inquest into the 2019 terrorist<br />
attack.<br />
His name cannot be<br />
published.<br />
• Turn to page 6
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Implants change twins’ lives...........................3<br />
Mosque attack inquest....................................6-7<br />
Wedding ring burglar sentenced...............8<br />
Man held knife to 80yo’s throat....................9<br />
Davidson predicts by-election date.........10<br />
Bill Hammond charity auction ....................14<br />
Mates’ World Cup travel pact...............16-17<br />
Letters...........................................................................17-18<br />
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COCHLEAR IMPLANTS have<br />
changed the lives of deaf twins<br />
Thomas and Ryan McLiskey.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 21-year-olds were born<br />
14 weeks premature and profoundly<br />
deaf.<br />
To help their hearing, the<br />
twins received cochlear implants<br />
when they were three-years-old.<br />
“While we didn’t talk until we<br />
were four or five, the cochlear<br />
implants helped us with that<br />
confidence to be who we are, to<br />
be treated as equal to everyone<br />
else,” Thomas said.<br />
A cochlear implant is a small,<br />
complex electronic device that<br />
can help to provide a sense of<br />
sound to a person who is profoundly<br />
deaf or severely hard-ofhearing.<br />
A national fundraiser for<br />
cochlear implant programme,<br />
Loud Shirt Day, is taking place<br />
on Friday.<br />
Originally from Invercargill,<br />
the twins have been based in<br />
Christchurch at the Ko Taku<br />
Reo campus, formerly the van<br />
Asch Deaf Education Centre,<br />
since they were 15.<br />
THE CITY council’s animal<br />
management team is urging<br />
pet owners to take special care<br />
of their animals as the firework<br />
season approaches.<br />
Guy Fawkes on November 5<br />
is typically the busiest time of<br />
the year for the team, as it deals<br />
with animals on the loose after<br />
being frightened by fireworks.<br />
“This time is incredibly<br />
stressful for pets and their<br />
owners, with animals getting<br />
spooked and confused by the<br />
loud noise of fireworks which<br />
can often prompt them to run<br />
away,” said city council animal<br />
services manager Lionel<br />
Bridger.<br />
“If you have pets, we recommend<br />
keeping them inside<br />
or confined in a safe space at<br />
night during the period which<br />
fireworks are available, which<br />
is from November 2 to 5.<br />
“Keep your doors, windows,<br />
and curtains closed to try and<br />
lessen the noise and minimise<br />
any flashing lights outside. You<br />
can also leave on the TV or<br />
radio to distract your pets from<br />
what’s going on outside.”<br />
Bridger said if you usually<br />
take your dog’s collar and ID<br />
<strong>The</strong>y learnt sign language and<br />
lip reading, and attended Hillmorton<br />
High School and Hagley<br />
College.<br />
After learning to live<br />
independently, the twins now<br />
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Guy Fawkes a scary time for pets<br />
tag off when at home, it may<br />
pay to leave it on until Guy<br />
Fawkes is over.<br />
“We can normally reunite<br />
animals with their owners<br />
very quickly if they are microchipped<br />
or have an ID/registration<br />
tag, so now is a great time<br />
to check that we have your<br />
contact details correct in our<br />
system.”<br />
Animal owners should call<br />
the city’s council contact centre<br />
on 03 941 8999 or 0800 800 169<br />
immediately if their pet goes<br />
missing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> centre is open 24/7.<br />
Implants gave twins<br />
confidence to thrive<br />
HEARD: Twins Thomas and Ryan McLiskey are sharing<br />
their story ahead of Friday’s Loud Shirt Day, a national<br />
fundraiser for the cochlear implant programme.<br />
PHOTO: LIZ ROBSON/DISTANT SEA<br />
flat together.<br />
Thomas is the quieter of the<br />
two; Ryan said Thomas was bullied<br />
at primary school because<br />
he speaks fast. Ryan said he’s<br />
more social with many hearing<br />
PHOTO:<br />
NEWSLINE<br />
friends. He said his deafness is<br />
irrelevant to them.<br />
Despite sight impairments, the<br />
twins are both keen sportsmen.<br />
In <strong>2023</strong>, Thomas represented<br />
New Zealand at the world championship<br />
for deaf basketball in<br />
Greece. He took up basketball in<br />
primary school and returned to<br />
the game through social competition<br />
in his late teens.<br />
Meanwhile, Ryan is passionate<br />
about scootering – practicing<br />
tricks, and collecting rare parts<br />
to customise scooters for sale.<br />
He recently started a<br />
caretaking role at Ko Taku Reo<br />
and would like to become an<br />
entrepreneur one day, while<br />
Thomas wants to become a<br />
youth worker and help young<br />
people turn their lives around.<br />
This year the Southern Cochlear<br />
Implant Programme (SCIP)<br />
is celebrating 20 years. Thomas<br />
and Ryan’s stories are included<br />
in SCIP’s commemorative book<br />
Hear our stories – Celebrating 20<br />
years.<br />
• For more info visit<br />
www.loudshirtday.org.nz<br />
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NEWS 3<br />
In Brief<br />
Increased hospital<br />
parking trial under way<br />
A two-week trial lane closure<br />
for increased hospital parking is<br />
beginning this week on Hagley<br />
and Riccarton avenues, to scope<br />
the feasibility of permanently<br />
removing the lane to increase<br />
on-street parking. <strong>The</strong> first<br />
week of the trial will see the<br />
kerbside lane, on the Hagley<br />
Park side of the road, coned<br />
off, while the second week will<br />
include rephasing the traffic<br />
lights. Once the trial ends the<br />
council will analyse the data and<br />
a report will go councillors to<br />
decide if the lane will be closed<br />
permanently to create more car<br />
parks.<br />
One dead after SH1<br />
Cheviot crash<br />
One person has died after<br />
a multi-car crash in North<br />
Canterbury, which injured six<br />
others and forced a closure of<br />
State Highway 1. <strong>The</strong> crash north<br />
of Cheviot happened around<br />
4pm on Tuesday, with fire crews<br />
from Cheviot responding. A St<br />
John Ambulance spokesperson<br />
said they sent three helicopters,<br />
four ambulances and one<br />
operations manager to the scene.<br />
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Lansdowne goes up for sale<br />
ONE OF Canterbury’s oldest<br />
European building sites is on<br />
the market.<br />
Lansdowne at 132 Old Tai<br />
Tapu Rd was created in the<br />
1850s by William Guise Brittan,<br />
a prominent pioneer colonist<br />
who significantly contributed<br />
towards the early development<br />
of the Canterbury Settlement<br />
and was an ancestor of Captain<br />
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When sold, the majority of<br />
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John Robert Godley Memorial<br />
Trust in support of Cantabrian<br />
heritage and arts.<br />
Canty Uni student in court after<br />
allegedly possessing weapons<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
A CANTERBURY University<br />
student has appeared in court<br />
after police allegedly found<br />
offensive weapons in the halls of<br />
residence.<br />
But his lawyer has argued the<br />
student, who has name suppression,<br />
has been wrongfully<br />
charged in relation to possession<br />
of a restricted weapon, stressing<br />
he faced no firearms charges.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man appeared at the<br />
district court yesterday, charged<br />
Later, in the 1870s,<br />
Lansdowne became home to<br />
New Zealand’s foremost early<br />
statesman and the country’s<br />
longest-serving 19th century<br />
Premier, Edward (later Sir<br />
Edward) Stafford.<br />
Said Bayleys salesperson<br />
Chris Jones: “Both Brittan and<br />
with possession of an extendable<br />
baton and a knife after police<br />
were called to a university address<br />
on <strong>October</strong> 19.<br />
In court, police withdrew the<br />
possession of a restricted weapon<br />
charge and replaced it with possession<br />
of an offensive weapon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man’s lawyer said media<br />
had “speculated” as to what his<br />
client was charged with and the<br />
possession of a restricted weapon<br />
charge “should have never been<br />
laid”.<br />
Stafford played significant roles<br />
in New Zealand’s move towards<br />
self-governance and privately<br />
shared a passion for<br />
landscaping, to the lasting<br />
benefit of Lansdowne.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> property is for sale by<br />
auction on November 23, unless<br />
sold prior.<br />
He asked the judge to grant his<br />
client interim name suppression<br />
as well as suppressing the summary<br />
of facts. <strong>The</strong> man’s lawyer<br />
said there were issues around<br />
allegations of self-harm so it was<br />
“prudent” to ensure his name<br />
was suppressed.<br />
Judge Murray Hunt granted<br />
the man name suppression, and<br />
suppressed the summary of facts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man was remanded on<br />
bail until his next appearance on<br />
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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NEWS 5<br />
Builder refuses to return $7k deposit<br />
• From page 1<br />
He had visited their property<br />
several times midway through<br />
2022 before providing them<br />
with quotes. <strong>The</strong>y paid a $7000<br />
deposit and expected the work to<br />
be completed before Christmas<br />
the same year.<br />
However, come November the<br />
man informed them he couldn’t<br />
complete the work and they<br />
asked for their money back.<br />
Esmail Fathi told the board<br />
that he attempted to contact<br />
the builder via phone, text and<br />
email over the course of several<br />
months attempting to get his<br />
deposit back with no success.<br />
“I couldn’t understand why he<br />
could not pay back a $7000 debt<br />
for such a big business,” he said.<br />
“It’s not a big amount of<br />
money for a builder with 10<br />
years’ experience.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>n on November 29 the<br />
builder emailed Fathi saying;<br />
“I’m sending you a bill for pissing<br />
me around. I’m not paying<br />
anything until next year. Don’t<br />
call me anymore piss off. And<br />
don’t try coming to my home or<br />
I’ll f**k you up.”<br />
From there Fathi took the<br />
matter to the Disputes Tribunal<br />
to get his deposit back and won.<br />
But their builder still wouldn’t<br />
pay up until March <strong>2023</strong> after<br />
Fathi hired a lawyer to file a debt<br />
enforcement order and make a<br />
complaint to the Building Practitioners<br />
Board.<br />
<strong>The</strong> builder then paid the<br />
principal debt but refused to pay<br />
outstanding fees of roughly $300<br />
which encompassed filing fees<br />
to the tribunal and interest on<br />
Fathi’s deposit.<br />
After becoming aware of the<br />
complaint against him, despite<br />
having repaid the deposit, the<br />
builder sent a flurry of emails<br />
to the city council claiming the<br />
Fathi-Loshanis had engaged<br />
another builder to carry out unconsented<br />
works on their garage,<br />
another to Immigration NZ<br />
where he alleged they might be<br />
in the country illegally, a complaint<br />
to the Law Society about<br />
the couple’s lawyer and a further<br />
complaint to MBIE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> council investigated<br />
Fathi’s property and issued them<br />
a warning for potentially unconsented<br />
insulation in their garage.<br />
No action was taken by Immigration<br />
as the couple are New<br />
Zealand citizens and it is unclear<br />
about what stage the Law Society<br />
complaint is currently at.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following few mornings<br />
the builder emailed Fathi outlining<br />
what he was going to do to<br />
him day by day, in apparent retaliation<br />
for the complaint made<br />
against him.<br />
“I was receiving heaps of<br />
LASH OUT:<br />
<strong>The</strong> builder,<br />
who has name<br />
suppression,<br />
contacted the<br />
city council,<br />
Immigration, the<br />
Law Society and<br />
MBIE to complain<br />
about the couple.<br />
emails from him. Every morning<br />
I wake up and see an email in my<br />
inbox from him,” Fathi told the<br />
board.<br />
“Any time he was busy with his<br />
work I was okay, but any time he<br />
had some time in the evening he<br />
would email me.”<br />
Fathi filed a complaint to<br />
police about the threats, which<br />
ceased shortly after.<br />
By way of explanation, the<br />
builder said it had been a bad<br />
year for business and his company<br />
had been stung with an<br />
unexpected tax bill shortly after<br />
Fathi paid him a deposit and<br />
didn’t have the finances available<br />
to pay them back.<br />
“I think the alcohol didn’t stop<br />
me . . . I was upset more than<br />
angry . . . I’m not sure what I was<br />
thinking,” he told the board at<br />
his hearing last month.<br />
Board chair Mel Orange asked<br />
how he’d deal with a similar<br />
situation in the future.<br />
“I’d pay it,” the builder said,<br />
before accepting that he knew<br />
his conduct was unprofessional.<br />
However, he denied that contacting<br />
Immigration was racially<br />
motivated.<br />
“I don’t know why I said it but<br />
it was nothing to do with racism,”<br />
he said.<br />
“I’m just so sorry . . . It’s out of<br />
character for me. I’ve never done<br />
this ever before. I was just highly<br />
stressed at the time.”<br />
Ultimately the board chose<br />
to suspend the man’s building<br />
licence until he could complete<br />
several training modules that<br />
focused on time management<br />
and conflict resolution.<br />
<strong>The</strong> builder sought permanent<br />
name suppression and said that<br />
he could likely lose contracts<br />
if his name was published and<br />
in that event his six Filipino<br />
employees who were on work<br />
visas might have to go home.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> parliamentary staffer was contacted<br />
by a colleague on March 15, 2019 after the<br />
manifesto landed in a generic inbox for<br />
then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.<br />
<strong>The</strong> colleague was worried about the<br />
contents of the email – which was also<br />
sent to about 70 other recipients including<br />
then National leader Simon Bridges, other<br />
political figures and media at 1.33pm.<br />
After looking over the email – at<br />
1.39pm – the staffer was equally concerned<br />
and called 111.<br />
“It will be a nutter, I’m sure,” he said to<br />
the operator.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> more and more you read it, it<br />
sounds more like a prank.<br />
“It almost appears like this may have<br />
already occurred . . . or in progress as we<br />
speak.”<br />
At 1.40pm, the gunman stormed into<br />
the Al Noor Mosque on Dean’s Ave and<br />
started shooting at men, women and children<br />
gathered for Friday prayers.<br />
He inflicted fatal bullet wounds on 51<br />
people and injured another 40 after he<br />
opened fire indiscriminately at both Al<br />
Noor and the Linwood Mosque.<br />
<strong>The</strong> parliamentary staffer told the<br />
inquest today after assessing the email<br />
quickly – for about a minute – he had seen<br />
enough to alert the police.<br />
“I was concerned enough that I called<br />
police via 111, I was still reading the<br />
manifesto,” he explained.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re were references to an actual<br />
place . . . Comment around the attack<br />
‘today’ . . . all that led me to believe there<br />
was enough concern to follow up pretty<br />
TRIBUTE: Flowers and candles at<br />
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after the mosque attacks of 2019.<br />
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quickly.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re was stuff in there that . . . I didn’t<br />
want to leave it any longer . . . the title of<br />
the email, the content was enough that I<br />
felt I needed to report that pretty quickly.<br />
“I had no idea at that time it would lead<br />
to what it sadly did lead to.”<br />
He told the court that at the time he<br />
received the email, he had no idea if it was<br />
credible or not – but was sure he needed<br />
to report it to police so they could assess it<br />
properly.<br />
He said his use of the words “nutter”<br />
and “prank” were not intended to influence<br />
the police reaction to the threat.<br />
“I definitely remember feeling uneasy<br />
after making that phone call, and then<br />
there was live reporting of shots fired in<br />
Christchurch and that heightened everything,”<br />
he said.<br />
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initially deemed ‘prank’<br />
by the Chief Censor as “a crude<br />
booklet that promotes murder<br />
and terrorism”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> staffer was questioned by<br />
lawyers for the victims’ families<br />
and the wounded on whether he<br />
took the threat seriously enough.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y asked him why, given<br />
the terrorist gave his name and<br />
outlined his intentions clearly, he<br />
stated it was probably a “prank”.<br />
He said he was “literally<br />
two minutes into receiving it”<br />
when he passed on his concerns<br />
directly to the police – and was<br />
adamant he had acted as quickly<br />
as possible.<br />
<strong>The</strong> staffer was questioned if it<br />
would have been more helpful to<br />
have a “more senior police” contact<br />
for threats like the gunman’s<br />
instead of calling 111.<br />
He said “that would be nice”<br />
but staff were still advised to call<br />
111 directly with any received<br />
threats or concerns.<br />
Deputy Chief Coroner Brigitte<br />
Windley asked the staffer if, looking<br />
back, he would have done<br />
anything differently.<br />
“No, not at all – I don’t know<br />
what more we could have done,”<br />
he replied.<br />
<strong>The</strong> inquest began on Tuesday<br />
before Coroner Windley in<br />
Christchurch. It is set to run for<br />
at least six weeks.<br />
More than 600 people have<br />
CRUCIAL:<br />
Deputy Chief<br />
Coroner Brigitte<br />
Windley explained<br />
the inquest process,<br />
saying it was<br />
important to seek<br />
answers for the<br />
victims’ families,<br />
and for the country<br />
as a whole.<br />
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Coroner Windley explained<br />
the inquest process and why it<br />
was crucial to seek answers, for<br />
not just the families of the dead<br />
and survivors but for the whole of<br />
New Zealand.<br />
She said the objective was to<br />
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questions for grieving families<br />
about what happened to their<br />
loved ones – and to examine<br />
whether anything further can be<br />
done to prevent more tragedies.<br />
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Wellington has been set for two<br />
far-right activists facing charges<br />
over sharing the live stream<br />
of the Christchurch mosque<br />
attacks.<br />
Kelvyn Alp<br />
and Hannah<br />
Spierer, presenters<br />
on the Counterspin<br />
platform,<br />
are charged with<br />
distributing<br />
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material. <strong>The</strong> publication is a<br />
so-called documentary which included<br />
the full livestream of the<br />
Christchurch mosque attacks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> video was banned by the<br />
chief censor just days after the<br />
attacks happened in March 2019.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair did not appear in<br />
Wellington District Court on<br />
Tuesday but their defence lawyer<br />
represented them over the<br />
phone.<br />
Judge Bruce Davidson<br />
confirmed the case had been<br />
transferred to Wellington from<br />
Christchurch, largely for the convenience<br />
of the defence counsel.<br />
He said a pre-trial will be held<br />
on February 14, 2024, on the<br />
basis witnesses were available,<br />
to deal with issues around the<br />
admissibility of evidence.<br />
Judge Davidson also ruled that<br />
Alp and Spierer’s bail continued<br />
and excused them from attending<br />
the next hearing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> defendants were also facing<br />
charges for failing to carry<br />
out obligations in relation to a<br />
computer search, while Spierer<br />
is also charged with failing to<br />
supply identifying particulars<br />
and obstructing<br />
police.<br />
Alp and Spierer<br />
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Parents-to-be lose $100k of items<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
A PREGNANT woman whose<br />
home was targeted in a $100,000<br />
burglary, had not only baby<br />
clothes and her wedding ring<br />
stolen but also her passport,<br />
meaning she couldn’t visit her<br />
dying father overseas.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman had travelled from<br />
South Africa to New Zealand<br />
because she thought it was safe.<br />
However, Judge Kevin Phillips<br />
told the offender, Santana Smith,<br />
in court: “You put all those beliefs<br />
down the toilet for her.”<br />
Smith, 25, appeared at the<br />
district court last week for sentencing<br />
after she and an associate<br />
broke into two homes and “ransacked”<br />
them. One of the homes<br />
was that of a widow whose<br />
husband had recently died.<br />
According to the summary of<br />
facts, between January 5 and 8<br />
this year, Smith and an associate<br />
broke into the expecting couple<br />
Hugh and Janene Burnett’s Richmond<br />
home through a window<br />
while they were away on a camping<br />
trip.<br />
Smith and her accomplice<br />
“ransacked” the house to the<br />
point that every room was<br />
littered with the Burnetts’ property.<br />
More than 300 items were<br />
stolen including wedding rings,<br />
laptops, computers, electronic<br />
equipment, a TV, speakers, food,<br />
RANSACKED: Hugh and Janene Burnett’s Richmond home was stripped of all sentimental belongings.<br />
passports and nursery items for<br />
the baby.<br />
Judge Phillips said, “to add<br />
insult to injury”, Smith loaded<br />
up the items into the Burnetts’<br />
car and left.<br />
<strong>The</strong> combined value of the<br />
property stolen was approximately<br />
$100,000.<br />
<strong>The</strong> court heard how Burnett<br />
could not visit her dying father<br />
in South Africa due to her passport<br />
being stolen. All her family<br />
pictures on her laptop were also<br />
“gone forever”.<br />
Judge Phillips said Smith also<br />
smoked cigarettes in the house<br />
and put them out on the bedroom<br />
walls.<br />
In November last year, Smith<br />
and an associate also targeted a<br />
widow’s home, whose husband<br />
of 33 years had died around a<br />
similar time to the burglary.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman’s engagement ring<br />
was stolen, as well as cameras<br />
containing pictures and videos<br />
of weddings and family footage.<br />
Smith and an associate had<br />
also stolen a golf cart from a golf<br />
club.<br />
Following the burglaries,<br />
police were “thrilled” to recover<br />
a “significant amount of the<br />
property” from both of them.<br />
Hugh Burnett said police had<br />
found “a few” items stolen as well<br />
as property suspected to have<br />
been stolen from others.<br />
“We’ve at least got some sentimental<br />
stuff back, so it’s a little<br />
bit of a win,” he said.<br />
“We’ve had great support from<br />
friends and family, neighbours<br />
and even people we don’t know.<br />
It’s been pretty overwhelming.”<br />
Smith’s lawyer Matt Smith said<br />
she has shown remorse, but was<br />
unable to pay back any reparation<br />
to the victims or make any<br />
emotional harm payments.<br />
He asked the judge to impose<br />
a community-based sentence<br />
for his client, stating she needed<br />
rehabilitation.<br />
However, Judge Phillips<br />
doubted Smith’s remorse, stating<br />
she had told her victims during<br />
a restorative justice meeting that<br />
she did not play a lead role in the<br />
burglaries, something the judge<br />
had “difficulties” with.<br />
He said Smith’s victims had<br />
lost items that had no value to<br />
her but were “absolutely irreplaceable”<br />
to them.<br />
“You were thoroughly and<br />
absolutely involved in it. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
was no thought of the people you<br />
were victimising at the time.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> court heard Smith had<br />
struggled with addiction issues,<br />
using meth at 18 and was abused<br />
in her family home.<br />
Judge Phillips sentenced Smith<br />
to three years imprisonment. As<br />
Smith could not pay reparation<br />
to any of the victims, this was<br />
not sought by the judge.<br />
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Elderly woman robbed at knifepoint<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
AN ELDERLY woman thought<br />
she was going to die when a<br />
stranger walked through her<br />
retirement village front door and<br />
held a knife to her throat.<br />
Kalib Kerr-Millar then<br />
searched her home before stealing<br />
the woman’s late husband’s<br />
watches and fleeing in her car.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 27-year-old appeared at<br />
the district court on Tuesday,<br />
where he admitted two burglaries<br />
of elderly people and driving<br />
on the wrong side of the road as<br />
he left the scene.<br />
He pleaded guilty to a raft of<br />
charges including aggravated<br />
burglary, theft, assault with a<br />
weapon, burglary, unlawfully<br />
getting into and taking a<br />
motor vehicle and dangerous<br />
driving.<br />
<strong>The</strong> summary of facts said on<br />
July 12 last year, Kerr-Millar was<br />
travelling with an associate from<br />
Timaru to Christchurch in a<br />
stolen vehicle.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair filled up the car with<br />
$218 of petrol at a BP station on<br />
Evans St, Timaru, and left without<br />
paying.<br />
When they were driving<br />
through Methven, police noticed<br />
the stolen vehicle and used road<br />
spikes to deflate its tyres.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair then began to overtake<br />
other cars at speed, fishtailing<br />
across the road and accelerating<br />
towards officers preparing<br />
to spike the vehicle again.<br />
Kerr-Millar and his associate<br />
abandoned the vehicle and Kerr-<br />
Millar hid from police.<br />
Between 2.35pm and 7.15pm<br />
that day, he went to an 81-yearold’s<br />
home in a retirement<br />
complex on Ross St, in Darfield.<br />
He entered through the external<br />
garage door and attempted to<br />
steal a Toyota IST but was unable<br />
to start the vehicle because it had<br />
a steering lock.<br />
He stole a black shoulder bag<br />
containing film, a camera and a<br />
pair of socks before leaving.<br />
About 7.15pm, he entered<br />
another home at a retirement<br />
village in Darfield, through the<br />
front door.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 80-year-old occupant was<br />
watching rugby. Kerr-Millar<br />
approached her holding a knife<br />
and demanded she hand over her<br />
money and car keys.<br />
He then looked through her<br />
medication before demanding<br />
again that she hand over her keys<br />
and money.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman looked for the<br />
SCARED:<br />
An elderly<br />
woman<br />
thought she<br />
was going<br />
to die when<br />
a stranger<br />
walked<br />
through<br />
the front<br />
door of her<br />
retirement<br />
village<br />
home<br />
and held<br />
a knife to<br />
her throat.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
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keys in a drawer that had some<br />
of her late husband’s watches<br />
in it. Kerr-Millar grabbed some<br />
of the watches and put them in<br />
his pocket before searching the<br />
drawer for money and taking the<br />
woman’s car keys.<br />
He also took her handbag and,<br />
holding the knife to the left side<br />
of her body, walked her to her<br />
car.<br />
She opened the external garage<br />
door so he could drive her 2017<br />
Mazda 3 away. As she did so,<br />
she closed and locked the<br />
internal garage door to get away<br />
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from him.<br />
When Kerr-Millar realised she<br />
had locked the internal door, he<br />
crashed through it, pinning her<br />
to the wall.<br />
He then placed the knife<br />
against her throat and traced<br />
it back and forth. Although he<br />
did not cut her, she could feel<br />
the blade against her neck and<br />
thought she was going to die.<br />
She suffered a lumbar sprain as<br />
a result of the incident.<br />
Kerr-Millar then left in her car.<br />
Shortly afterwards, police saw<br />
him driving erratically at speeds<br />
of up to 160km/h on the wrong<br />
side of the road in the stolen car<br />
when there was heavy rain and<br />
surface flooding in the Canterbury<br />
region.<br />
Police stopped him and found<br />
the stolen black shoulder bag, the<br />
woman’s handbag, clothing from<br />
the first burglary, watches and a<br />
large knife.<br />
Kerr-Millar was remanded in<br />
custody until his sentencing in<br />
February next year.<br />
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Davidson<br />
to formally<br />
resign on<br />
Monday<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
LABOUR MP-ELECT Reuben<br />
Davidson expects a by-election<br />
will be held for his seat on the<br />
Banks Peninsula Community<br />
Board in February.<br />
Davidson (left)<br />
won the Christchurch<br />
East electorate,<br />
beating National’s<br />
Matt Stock.<br />
City council<br />
electoral officer Jo<br />
Daly said the by-election date<br />
will depend on when the council<br />
receives Davidson’s resignation.<br />
Davidson said he will formally<br />
resign from the board at its next<br />
meeting on <strong>October</strong> 30. He resigned<br />
from his position as chair<br />
in July, but kept his Lyttelton seat<br />
while campaigning.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new MP has moved into a<br />
North New Brighton home.<br />
Reflecting on his time on the<br />
community board, Davidson said<br />
he is proud of its involvement in<br />
the redevelopment of Naval Point.<br />
He believes there are several<br />
good potential candidates for the<br />
Lyttelton seat.<br />
“My hope is that some of these<br />
people will step forward again to<br />
serve and represent.”<br />
• By Geoff Sloan<br />
A COLOURFUL new eyecatching<br />
sculpture now greets<br />
motorists as they enter New<br />
Brighton.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Jester is the creation of<br />
well-known sculptor Don Paterson<br />
and sits on the corner of<br />
Paterson’s property on Seaview<br />
Rd at the entrance to the suburb.<br />
<strong>The</strong> colourful piece has replaced<br />
his controversial Bearman<br />
sculpture.<br />
“(It’s) a bit different from the<br />
bear, which was talking about<br />
the chaos that New Brighton<br />
was facing, and it was time<br />
for something a little bit more<br />
people-friendly and jovial,” Paterson<br />
said.<br />
Paterson is a big rugby fan who<br />
can often be found at Rawhiti<br />
Domain on Saturdays watching<br />
New Brighton. He painted <strong>The</strong><br />
Jester black and yellow, the colours<br />
worn by the rugby club.<br />
Paterson says the sculpture is<br />
a self-portrait with bits of other<br />
artists he knows thrown in. It is<br />
also a commentary on the nature<br />
of art and the creative process.<br />
As one of New Zealand’s leading<br />
civic sculptors, Paterson was<br />
instrumental in the development<br />
of large-scale steampunk projects<br />
in Oamaru. But the sculptor<br />
admits he has found it harder<br />
to get his ideas accepted in New<br />
Brighton.<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
New sculpture more in jest<br />
• Watch the video at starnews.co.nz<br />
“Perhaps I’m too controversial,”<br />
Paterson said.<br />
“That my ideas are a little bit<br />
too far out for some people, but I<br />
think you need that.<br />
“You need that when you’re rebuilding<br />
a community and how<br />
do we draw people here?<br />
“We don’t draw them here by<br />
doing what we can see all over<br />
the country.”<br />
He and his wife love living in<br />
New Brighton and have met a<br />
lot of talented people in the area.<br />
Paterson believes the suburb’s regeneration<br />
is a great opportunity<br />
for residents to work together<br />
to make it a more dynamic and<br />
attractive place to live.<br />
<strong>The</strong> regeneration plan includes<br />
a new $2.5 million village green<br />
surrounded by bars, restaurants<br />
and shops at New Brighton<br />
mall. <strong>The</strong> community-led project,<br />
funded by a grant from the<br />
Canterbury Earthquake Appeal<br />
Trust, would also turn 1000m²<br />
of mostly vacant land off Marine<br />
Pde into an area where the<br />
community can gather and hold<br />
events.<br />
<strong>The</strong> former Westpac building<br />
at 56 Brighton Mall was bought<br />
by the city council as part of the<br />
Oram Ave extension project,<br />
which proposes to develop a<br />
new corridor from Oram Ave to<br />
Hawke St. <strong>The</strong> city council also<br />
plans to replace the earthquakedamaged<br />
Pages Rd bridge as part<br />
ART: Don<br />
Paterson’s <strong>The</strong><br />
Jester is more<br />
jovial and less<br />
controversial than<br />
his Bearman<br />
(inset). PHOTOS:<br />
GEOFF SLOAN<br />
of the $65 million Gateway to<br />
New Brighton project.<br />
“Art could really be used as a<br />
drawcard for New Brighton and,<br />
perhaps, if some of the people<br />
in power could maybe embrace<br />
me, I’m not telling anyone they<br />
have to do my ideas, but just do<br />
something that’s different.<br />
“And I can help them if they<br />
want.”<br />
He’s working on a number<br />
of other pieces at the moment,<br />
some of which he would like to<br />
see displayed around the suburb.<br />
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JAMIE AND Kath Lang moved to<br />
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<strong>The</strong>n Jamie saw a woman riding a<br />
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Hammond original<br />
donated to auction<br />
IF YOU’D LIKE a Bill Hammond in<br />
your art collection and don’t have a spare<br />
$1.75m, you’ll want to be at the biennial<br />
Peninsula Art Auction this weekend in<br />
Lyttelton.<br />
<strong>The</strong> auction, of which Hammond was<br />
a long-time benefactor, was first held in<br />
2005 in the late artist’s hometown and<br />
is organised by the Lyttelton Education<br />
Charitable Trust.<br />
In 2019 and 2017, original Bill Hammond<br />
works went under the hammer for GENEROUS: Hammond’s Bone<br />
under $10,000.<br />
Eagle C is expected to fetch<br />
This year, Bill Hammond’s widow Jane upwards of $4000.<br />
has generously donated a 2007 etching<br />
Bone Eagle C, with price expectations of Jackson, and the late Llew Summers’ son<br />
anywhere from $4000.<br />
Dan Summers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Peninsula Art Auction is a<br />
Kim Hickford, a spokesperson from the<br />
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Primary School and local businesses, said it was a joy to see creatives being<br />
making this year’s auction a community brought together for a good cause.<br />
effort.<br />
“I love the cyclical nature of the event<br />
<strong>The</strong> most recent auction in 2019 raised this year,” she said.<br />
over $40,000 for the primary school and “Some of the kids who have benefited<br />
the team are looking forward to bringing from the funds raised in the past are now<br />
the auction back after its hiatus<br />
exhibiting right next to Bill Hammond,<br />
due to Covid.<br />
including his granddaughter, Akilah.”<br />
Said Lyttelton Primary principal Jenny Up to 200 works, including paintings,<br />
Felton: “<strong>The</strong> Peninsula Art Auction is sculpture, jewellery, ceramics, and photography,<br />
will be exhibited with a silent<br />
a major fundraiser for us and is well<br />
supported by our creative and talented auction, running across the weekend at a<br />
community. We are privileged to be part contemporary ‘pop-up’ gallery at Lyttelton<br />
of such an enduring and successful event.” Primary School.<br />
More than 100 artists in this year’s<br />
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Friends make pact to go to every<br />
• By Tiffany Salmond<br />
THREE HIGH school friends<br />
from Christchurch made a pact<br />
to go to every Rugby World Cup<br />
together.<br />
Twelve years later, they have<br />
made it to their fourth.<br />
Andy Peat and Adam John<br />
have made appearances at the<br />
World Cup in New Zealand 2011,<br />
England 2015, Japan 2019 and<br />
France <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
Kim Boustridge completed a<br />
trio of tournaments, with the<br />
minor exception of England.<br />
Before the February 22, 2011<br />
earthquake struck, Christchurch<br />
was to host seven World Cup<br />
matches that year.<br />
But unfortunately the Garden<br />
City was stripped of its hosting<br />
duties as the damage to<br />
infrastructure – including AMI<br />
Stadium – was too severe.<br />
“It was tough because the city<br />
had been through a lot. Not only<br />
with that earthquake but the<br />
previous ones,” Peat said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group of three decided to<br />
scrape together the money they<br />
had and fly to Wellington where<br />
some of the games had been<br />
relocated.<br />
It was in Wellington where<br />
they came up with the idea.<br />
“It was an awesome experience,”<br />
Peat said.<br />
“Obviously we love rugby and<br />
FOURTH WORLD CUP: Kim Boustridge (left), Andy Peat and Adam John at the <strong>2023</strong><br />
Rugby World Cup ahead of the Ireland v All Blacks quarter final.<br />
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the All Blacks and it would have<br />
been such a shame if we didn’t<br />
make that trip and allowed the<br />
earthquake to stop us from going.<br />
“We were like, let’s not miss<br />
this again.<br />
“We’ll make a vow, which is<br />
‘every World Cup until we die’.”<br />
Travelling overseas for a World<br />
Cup does not come cheap, but<br />
the friends have a unique strategy<br />
to ensure money is never the<br />
reason their pact fell through.<br />
Each weekend, the trio take<br />
turns spending $100 each on<br />
sports bets and deposit the winnings<br />
into a fund for the upcoming<br />
World Cup.<br />
“It actually became this amazing<br />
way of keeping in touch,”<br />
Peat said.<br />
“As you get older you naturally<br />
lose touch, and that’s okay, but<br />
this ‘vow’ and the $100 each<br />
week has really kept us in touch<br />
considering we all live in different<br />
parts of the world now.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>y began saving for France<br />
two years ago and have contributed<br />
to their fund every weekend<br />
since.<br />
“We’ve notched up about<br />
$30,000, so the trip is essentially<br />
paid for. <strong>The</strong> next World Cup,<br />
which is in Australia, the goal<br />
‘I went to the airport but I<br />
had some passport issues.<br />
You can’t make this up<br />
but a dog had eaten my<br />
passport’ – Andy Peat<br />
is to get to about $75,000,” Peat<br />
said.<br />
Adam John said his favourite<br />
memory so far was from the<br />
Ireland v All Blacks quarter-final<br />
on <strong>October</strong> 14.<br />
“When Sam ‘Greatlock’ won<br />
the turnover and the three of us<br />
launched into celebratory jumping<br />
hugging chaos surrounded<br />
by an Irish sea of dismay. <strong>The</strong><br />
Irish fans were super gracious<br />
and good fun throughout<br />
though,” John said.<br />
Sometimes in life, the best<br />
times are when things do not<br />
go to plan. This was all too true<br />
for Peat and the crew when they<br />
planned to fly home after the<br />
2015 semi-final when the All<br />
Blacks beat South Africa.<br />
“I went to the airport but I had<br />
some passport issues. You can’t<br />
make this up but a dog had eaten<br />
my passport,” Peat said.<br />
Although he had a temporary<br />
passport, it was not sufficient for<br />
the American airline to allow<br />
him to board the plane.<br />
“That was my sort of ‘higher<br />
power’ moment where I thought,<br />
well I better stay for the final.”<br />
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Rugby World Cup<br />
<strong>The</strong>y stayed in London and<br />
thankfully managed to grab a<br />
couple of tickets.<br />
“I ended up shouting an<br />
Australian friend of mine to<br />
the game who I’d met on Sail<br />
Croatia three weeks earlier. It<br />
was great because we ended up<br />
beating Australia.”<br />
“That’s probably my best<br />
memory,” Peat said.<br />
Making a lifelong pact was<br />
a hefty commitment, but Kim<br />
Boustridge said having something<br />
to look forward to every<br />
four years kept them motivated<br />
to navigate the forward-planning<br />
needed.<br />
“We’re already talking about<br />
the next World Cup in Australia<br />
and the likelihood that we will<br />
need to accommodate partners.<br />
“It was supposed to happen<br />
this World Cup but unfortunately,<br />
none of the boys landed<br />
that big fish,” Boustridge said.<br />
Peat was also welcoming the<br />
potential of a different dynamic<br />
in the years to come.<br />
“Everyone always says ‘is it a<br />
HAPPY TRIO: Adam John<br />
(left), Kim Boustridge and<br />
Andy Peat at the Eiffel<br />
Tower. Above – Peat and<br />
his dog-chewed passport<br />
in 2015.<br />
lads trip?’, and the answer is not<br />
really.<br />
“We’re all single but the idea is<br />
if we end up with families, that<br />
we bring them on the journey<br />
and hopefully the kids would<br />
carry it on as well.”<br />
After this weekend’s final,<br />
all three fly home and go their<br />
separate ways. But it will not be<br />
long until they begin planning<br />
for Australia 2027, where they<br />
were hopeful there will be a few<br />
plus ones in tow.<br />
– RNZ<br />
Readers respond to the<br />
two-year jail term Mark<br />
Nagel received for the<br />
manslaughter of Tony Kelly<br />
outside Ballantynes<br />
Our justice system is<br />
broken. Time and again we<br />
hear of inappropriately low<br />
sentences given for horrific<br />
crimes, especially where gangs<br />
are involved. It appears that<br />
as a general rule our police<br />
department is doing their job, but<br />
so often offenders come before<br />
judges and are not appropriately<br />
punished.<br />
In this instance, the sentence<br />
is abysmal and makes life appear<br />
cheap here in our country.<br />
We look back to the referendum<br />
that Norm Withers instigated<br />
years ago after his mother<br />
was brutally beaten. It was asking<br />
for harsher sentencing for violent<br />
crimes. A huge percentage of the<br />
population voted in favour of<br />
change, it was quite overwhelming,<br />
but nothing has changed.<br />
Whatever was this judge thinking?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no justice in this<br />
sentence. What ever is happening<br />
to New Zealand?<br />
- Shelley and Rod Hickling<br />
Martial art techniques are<br />
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skilled and designed for self<br />
protection. Not for killing. A twoyear<br />
sentence with right to apply<br />
for home detention is an absurd<br />
sentence for killing a man. My<br />
heart goes out to Kelly’s family<br />
and loved ones.<br />
What is happening to our<br />
justice system?<br />
- Libby Durey<br />
Was appalled to read the sentencing<br />
of this offender, plus the<br />
judge telling him he could apply<br />
for home detention. <strong>The</strong> offender<br />
and his associates should be held<br />
to account. Two years is just a<br />
joke, his life needs to be impacted<br />
for this terrible senseless attack.<br />
What a sad day for justice in<br />
our wonderful country.<br />
- Ruth McMorran<br />
If this is the best that our justice<br />
system can do with this sort<br />
of sentencing of Mark Nagel, then<br />
perhaps we should just hand the<br />
whole of sentencing over to AI.<br />
It’s a joke. Take a life, do life.<br />
He should receive a life sentence.<br />
Meaning that he must spend<br />
the rest of his life behind bars,<br />
no parole. New Zealand needs<br />
harsher punishment for offenders.<br />
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Two years jail for manslaughter ‘a joke’<br />
• From page 17<br />
<strong>The</strong> sentence is disgraceful.<br />
Lock him up for at least 10 years<br />
before he is even eligible for<br />
parole. And put the mates in<br />
jail as well for not helping Tony<br />
Kelly. Make thugs accountable<br />
even if they have had a “poor<br />
upbringing”.<br />
- June Milne<br />
Why didn’t the judge throw<br />
in a big bag of lollies as well.<br />
He shouldn’t be seeing daylight<br />
for at least 25 years. Time to get<br />
a petition going and make it<br />
harder for criminals and then<br />
they might think before they act.<br />
- Corall Luscombe<br />
<strong>The</strong> justice system needs a kick<br />
up the backside,<br />
Toughen up justice system.<br />
- A Syme<br />
KICK TO THE HEAD: Mark Nagel was sentenced to two<br />
years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of Tony Kelly.<br />
Justice Rachel Dunningham told Nagel he could apply for<br />
home detention. PHOTO: POOL/STUFF/ALDEN WILLIAMS<br />
such a low sentence. My thoughts<br />
– should be at least 10 years to be<br />
fully served and only released at<br />
the end of the sentence to give<br />
some comfit for the aggrieved<br />
family. <strong>The</strong> justice system seems<br />
to support the perpetrator and<br />
not the victim/s.<br />
- Cyril Smith<br />
A sad illusion that justice was<br />
served when the reality of it is<br />
these kind of people don’t learn<br />
and the law allows them to get<br />
away with murder, literally. I feel<br />
there should be a minimum of 10<br />
years with a two-year probation<br />
to follow. While manslaughter is<br />
an accident, actions need<br />
to be accounted for. This young<br />
boy in my eyes looks like a little<br />
smart ass.<br />
Martial arts is a sport that is<br />
taught with discipline. When<br />
learning such a sport it is well<br />
known knowledge such powerful<br />
kicks and punches should<br />
only be used as a self defence,<br />
to just use it as a random act of<br />
violence goes against everything<br />
taught in such art.<br />
Nagel obviously knew what<br />
he was doing when he delivered<br />
a kick to the victim, and what’s<br />
worse he showed no remorse,<br />
knocking the person to the<br />
ground and instead high fived<br />
his mates.<br />
This is sadly why we have repeat<br />
gang raids, repeat violence<br />
and constant general public<br />
crime because the justice system<br />
is too weak. Enrol them into the<br />
army, send them off to the front<br />
line. <strong>The</strong>y enjoy violence but two<br />
years jail, that’s laughable.<br />
-Mandy Smyth<br />
(Abridged)<br />
I’m outraged that a thug can<br />
get only two years for taking a<br />
life, home detention, what a joke.<br />
- Brent Ashworth<br />
Time for us citizens to reject<br />
these judgments and protest,<br />
especially when we have a new<br />
government. <strong>The</strong> harshest sentence<br />
was required here and for<br />
future crimes like this.<br />
- Murray Metz<br />
Absolutely disgusted with the<br />
two-year sentence. <strong>The</strong> police<br />
should definitely appeal the<br />
sentence.<br />
- Bob Jaslarz<br />
Two years jail for killing Tony<br />
Kelly is an insult to his loved<br />
ones.<br />
- Marcel van Leeuwen<br />
Killing an innocent man and<br />
the penalty is two years prison<br />
with the ability to apply for home<br />
detention is a complete and utter<br />
disgrace to our legal system. I<br />
feel deeply for Mr Kelly’s family.<br />
I also see that young man<br />
from South Canterbury has been<br />
released from prison after a short<br />
term for the deaths of five young<br />
kids. Our justice system is weak<br />
and meaningless.<br />
- Jimmy Wallace<br />
Justice has not been adequately<br />
delivered in the case of the of<br />
Tony Kelly. A two-year sentence<br />
with a right of home detention.<br />
How pathetic. <strong>The</strong> family of<br />
the victim must be enormously<br />
grieving for his death and to see<br />
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Premier tennis to bounce back<br />
after bad luck with weather<br />
• By Diane Keenan<br />
PREMIER TENNIS players are<br />
itching to get on court for their<br />
first premier interclub game of<br />
the summer season after bad<br />
weather has twice thwarted the<br />
season opening.<br />
After the opening week of play<br />
was washed out by rain, extreme<br />
wind conditions the following<br />
week and there was no play at<br />
Labour weekend, players could<br />
not be happier that Saturday’s<br />
forecast is for fine weather.<br />
“It has been a real shame that<br />
we haven’t been able to play so<br />
far this season,” said Elmwood<br />
premier women’s team captain<br />
Louise Oxnevad.<br />
“We all just want to get out on<br />
court.”<br />
Oxnevad and fellow Elmwood<br />
player Tessa McCann have a<br />
busy weekend of tennis ahead.<br />
Both will play for Kohimarama<br />
in the first round of Caro Bowl,<br />
Auckland’s premier interclub<br />
competition on Friday night<br />
before flying home the following<br />
morning in time for interclub<br />
against Cashmere at 1pm at<br />
Cashmere Courts.<br />
Kohimarama is drawn to play<br />
Royal Oak, which has Ruby<br />
Young, Cashmere’s top player, in<br />
its ranks.<br />
“It is possible that Tessa and<br />
Ruby could be playing interclub<br />
against each other twice this<br />
weekend,” says Oxnevad.<br />
Oxnevad, a former top New<br />
Zealand junior who grew up<br />
in Queenstown, is a welcome<br />
addition to Christchurch<br />
premier tennis, having joined<br />
Elmwood for its final two games<br />
last season.<br />
Oxnevad says she was<br />
fortunate to be coached by Lan<br />
Bale at the same time he was<br />
coaching a number of promising<br />
juniors including Ben and Riki<br />
McLachlan.<br />
Oxnevad was awarded a tennis<br />
scholarship and played college<br />
tennis while also studying<br />
architecture at California<br />
Polytechnic State University.<br />
After graduating, she worked in<br />
Sydney for several years before<br />
her shift to Christchurch where<br />
she now works as an architect.<br />
Her mother Felicity is also<br />
an accomplished representative<br />
player.<br />
Elmwood’s team is formidable<br />
with Abby Mason, McCann and<br />
Oxnevad as its top players.<br />
Jenny Blackburn, the captain<br />
of Cashmere’s premier women’s<br />
team, is also enthusiastic about<br />
a possible start to the season this<br />
weekend.<br />
“We want it to be a good<br />
competitive tie against<br />
Elmwood,” she said.<br />
Blackburn is a club stalwart for<br />
Cashmere and, with sister Heidi,<br />
played her junior tennis for the<br />
club.<br />
“We are really looking forward<br />
to playing a home game this<br />
weekend. Cashmere members<br />
always turn up to support us<br />
when we are playing at home.”<br />
Blackburn will be joined by<br />
Ruby Young, Ruby McPhail, Lily<br />
McHarg and Mandy Wilson.<br />
In other women’s match-ups,<br />
Shirley will host Waimairi,<br />
while last year’s competition<br />
winners Te Kura Hagley plays<br />
Bishopdale.<br />
Cashmere, last season’s<br />
competition winners, are at<br />
home to Bishopdale in the men’s<br />
competition. Players include the<br />
three Meredith brothers, Matt,<br />
Tim and James, along with<br />
Harry Weeds, Jonny McHarg<br />
– who returns this season from<br />
injury – Lucas Evans and Liam<br />
Barrett. Bishopdale will include<br />
Will Schneideman and Grayson<br />
Cullen.<br />
Elmwood, a team stacked<br />
with experience, will be a tough<br />
opponent for Te Kura Hagley,<br />
a team which is in a rebuilding<br />
phase. Elliot Darling is playing<br />
with brother Lawrence, Mid<br />
Canterbury coach Jack Tiller and<br />
Benji McGillivray for Elmwood,<br />
while Te Kura Hagley includes<br />
Pat Nolan and Ben Smith.<br />
Burnside Park, with club coach<br />
Remi Feneon at the helm and a<br />
talented lineup in Finn Emslie-<br />
Robson, Jordan Edwards, Liam<br />
Adams and Jamie Poole, will<br />
play at home against Edgeware<br />
Waimairi.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new competition format<br />
means there are now only three<br />
round-robin games to earn a<br />
place in the pre-Christmas<br />
semi-finals.<br />
EYE ON THE BALL: Louise Oxnevad, Elmwood premier<br />
women’s team captain, is looking forward to getting back<br />
on the court.<br />
Kobori clinches individual honours at<br />
Eisenhower Trophy championship<br />
PHOTO: GETTY<br />
CHRISTCHURCH golfer<br />
Kazuma Kobori has won the<br />
individual honours at the<br />
Eisenhower Trophy world<br />
amateur teams championship,<br />
leading New Zealand to a<br />
top-five finish in Abu Dhabi.<br />
Kobori is the second New<br />
Zealander to claim the top<br />
individual spot at the biennial<br />
global tournament, following<br />
Phil Tataurangi in 1992.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 21-year-old fired a<br />
brilliant seven-under 65 at Abu<br />
Dhabi Golf Club, finishing<br />
with a chip-in on the 18th hole,<br />
helping the three-man New<br />
Zealand side to an eight-under<br />
team total in the final round<br />
and a vast improvement on<br />
their overall placing of 35th two<br />
years ago.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir tally of 23-under was<br />
good enough for equal fifth, 13<br />
shots behind runaway winners<br />
the United States.<br />
Kobori, who battled illness for<br />
much of the week, said his game<br />
felt solid over the weekend.<br />
“I played really nicely over<br />
the last few days. I think I made<br />
a total of 16 birdies which is<br />
always fun,” he said.<br />
He shot 70, 70, 67 and 65 to<br />
seal the individual honours<br />
over US Amateur champion<br />
Nick Dunlop.<br />
It continues a brilliant year<br />
for Kobori, who has already<br />
won the Australian Amateur,<br />
the Western Amateur, and the<br />
US Elite Amateur Series.<br />
Taranaki’s Sam Jones shot<br />
the second counting score on<br />
Sunday, shooting a one-under<br />
71, contributing to the team<br />
score for a third time, while<br />
Jayden Ford shot even in his<br />
final round.<br />
<strong>The</strong> trio head to Melbourne<br />
to compete in the Asia-Pacific<br />
Amateur Championship this<br />
week.<br />
– RNZ
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Double for ‘Dobbie’<br />
• By Jonny Turner<br />
Driver Ben Hope saluted as<br />
Muscle Mountain powered away<br />
COOL, CALM, and collected is<br />
from his rivals to win by a huge<br />
the only way to describe Olivia<br />
six-length margin.<br />
Thornley’s winning drive behind<br />
Like Thornley, Hope was<br />
superstar pacer Akuta in the<br />
wearing a black armband in<br />
Ashburton Flying Stakes on<br />
honour of Dobson.<br />
Monday.<br />
“I’m not one to do a salute, but<br />
Thornley set up the first leg<br />
I’m incredibly honoured to be<br />
of a winning double for the late<br />
driving this horse, and a huge<br />
Ian Dobson and his family as<br />
part of that is to Ian, and that<br />
Akuta strode to an easy win<br />
salute was for him.”<br />
just a matter of minutes before<br />
Muscle Mountain was<br />
Muscle Mountain took out the<br />
surprisingly beaten in his last<br />
Ashburton Trotters Flying Mile.<br />
start in the Canterbury Park<br />
Pulling on Ian ‘Dobbie’<br />
Trotting Cup.<br />
Dobson’s green colours to drive<br />
<strong>The</strong> classy trotter showed he<br />
the New Zealand Cup favourite<br />
was right back on track with his<br />
put all eyes firmly on Thornley in BIG SMILES: Olivia Thornley donned Ian Dobson’s colours emphatic win on Monday.<br />
the cup’s most important race. to drive Akuta to success in the Flying Stakes.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s a few doubters out<br />
And she took it all in her would be happy.”<br />
Rasmussen.<br />
there, but we know we’re going to<br />
stride, while honouring Dobson Thornley moved up to sit<br />
Purdon, along with son and have him tip-top on Dominion<br />
in the process.<br />
parked before any serious pace training partner Nathan, put day, and today I just wanted to<br />
“It meant a lot to get the win, went into the race, and from their trust in Thornley on prove to people that he still has<br />
especially with the passing of there, her four-year-old delivered Monday, and she repaid that to be respected.”<br />
‘Dobbie’,” Thornley said.<br />
a first-over crush.<br />
faith with a calculated drive. <strong>The</strong>re were plenty more<br />
In a straggly old start to the “<strong>The</strong> horsepower he has, you “It is amazing, I am so grateful outstanding performances on<br />
Ashburton Flying Stakes, Akuta can put him anywhere in a race, to them for putting me on. Monday’s huge afternoon of<br />
was safely into stride but left well and he just relaxes, and when “I am just rapt to be able to harness racing at Ashburton.<br />
back in the field.<br />
you ask him to go, he just keeps repay the faith.”<br />
Cold Chisel and<br />
“Going into the race all that trying,” the reinswoman said. Dobson’s colours were back in Aardiebytheseaside ran to<br />
mattered was I stepped – it<br />
Thornley was thrust into the the winner’s circle just two races excellent Sires Stakes heat wins,<br />
didn’t matter how fast or slow,” spotlight this week following later when Muscle Mountain while Aardies Express and<br />
Thornley said.<br />
the suspension of Mark Purdon powered to victory in the green Sooner <strong>The</strong> Bettor were also big<br />
“So long as I took off pacing, I and unavailability of Natalie Cullen Racing silks.<br />
winners.<br />
– HRNZ<br />
Muscle Mountain proves<br />
too good once again<br />
• By Michael Guerin<br />
NOBODY WOULD have<br />
begrudged driver Ben Hope the<br />
rarest of all racing celebrations<br />
at Ashburton if he had had the<br />
audacity to launch into a double<br />
whip salute.<br />
Hope restricted himself to just<br />
one though as Muscle Mountain<br />
strode to one of the easiest wins<br />
of his career in the What <strong>The</strong><br />
Hill Trotters Sprint, the salute<br />
dedicated to the great trotter’s<br />
late owner Ian Dobson.<br />
Dobson showed faith in Hope<br />
when many others lacked it,<br />
allowing him to drive Muscle<br />
Mountain throughout his career<br />
when he could easily have opted<br />
for a more experienced driver.<br />
Hope and Muscle Mountain<br />
have grown up together so ‘Dobbie’<br />
deserves his salute to cap a<br />
poignant day for his family after<br />
Akuta’s win earlier.<br />
But Hope also would have been<br />
justified in saluting again, this<br />
time as the exclamation mark on<br />
a win Muscle Mountain needed<br />
to regain maximum respect.<br />
He cost himself his previous<br />
start at Addington when he was<br />
divebombed by Oscar Bonavena,<br />
and his tendency to shut off late<br />
was going to start costing him<br />
far bigger races if he didn’t get it<br />
out of his system.<br />
So Team Hope opted for slide<br />
HOPE: Muscle Mountain regained respect, with trainers opting for slide down blinds and<br />
controlled aggression.<br />
down blinds and controlled<br />
aggression and now Muscle<br />
Mountain is back as king of<br />
trotting’s castle, his fear factor<br />
re-established.<br />
“I might have been a bit easy<br />
on him in front a few times, but<br />
it is time to start driving him like<br />
the best horse,” says Hope.<br />
If that re-ignites Muscle<br />
Mountain’s home straight desire<br />
then he has the potential to go to<br />
another level.<br />
He is already one of our best<br />
ever trotting sprinters and now<br />
the Dominion beckons, with<br />
him potentially giving Bolt For<br />
Brilliance a start in what will be<br />
one of the great highlights of cup<br />
week.<br />
Muscle Mountain’s win was<br />
his third straight in the Trotters<br />
Sprint and his 1:54.5 mile rate for<br />
the 1700m was slick enough on a<br />
track holding plenty of top.<br />
Smokin Bandar looked happy<br />
to be home with a super second<br />
and Time Up <strong>The</strong> Hill roared<br />
into third, another emotionfilled<br />
placing with the mare’s<br />
connection to regular driver<br />
Katie Cox as the industry rallies<br />
around her.<br />
Oscar Bonavena could manage<br />
only fourth, coming to the end of<br />
his run after looming at the top<br />
of the straight. – HRNZ<br />
Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
RACING 21<br />
<strong>The</strong> best<br />
of the rest<br />
Ashburton<br />
• By Michael Guerin<br />
MONDAY’S Ashburton meeting<br />
was one of the strongest harness<br />
racing programmes of the season<br />
and the best form guide to New<br />
Zealand Cup week.<br />
Here is what unfolded in the<br />
other features outside of the two<br />
open class races:<br />
Race 4, Two-Year-Old<br />
Pacing Fillies: Treacherous Love<br />
continued the great recent run<br />
of North Island-trained horses<br />
at the south’s biggest meetings<br />
when she bolted away for trainer<br />
Brent Mangos. She went straight<br />
to the front and driver Ricky May<br />
got away with a very slow early<br />
section before she blasted up the<br />
straight in <strong>26</strong>.5 seconds for her<br />
last 400m. Already the winner<br />
of the Delightful Lady Final she<br />
headed home a trifecta for pacing’s<br />
new rave stallion Captaintreacherous.<br />
Race 5, Two-Year-Old Pacing<br />
Boys: Favourite Vessem worked<br />
hard early but Cold Chisel still<br />
worked hard and over-powered<br />
him so now must rate as our best<br />
male juvenile pacer, albeit it in an<br />
even crop.<br />
Race 6: Three-Year-Old Pacing<br />
Fillies: <strong>The</strong> biggest talking point<br />
out of the race was the scratching<br />
of Millwood Nike, who was<br />
unbeaten in 15 and still is.<br />
She got kicked by another horse<br />
so didn’t start and Aardiebytheseaside<br />
was the major beneficiary<br />
after working early, then copping<br />
a trail and holding out the luckless<br />
Treacherous Gal.<br />
Race 7, Three-Year-Old Trot:<br />
<strong>Star</strong> trainer of trotters Phil Williamson<br />
thought Aroha Kenny<br />
was his best three-year-old trotter<br />
but Isolate is making a strong case<br />
to change his mind. <strong>The</strong> big, fast<br />
and raw daughter of former age<br />
group star Escapee, Isolate gave<br />
most of our better three-year-old<br />
trotters a start and the go by in a<br />
1:56.6 mile rate for 1700m. <strong>The</strong> big<br />
improver out of the race and the<br />
horse to beat in the NZ Trotting<br />
Derby on December 10 is Confessional.<br />
Race 8: Three-Year-Old Pacing<br />
Boys: Tony moved at the right<br />
time on Cold Chisel earlier in the<br />
card and again on Sooner <strong>The</strong><br />
Bettor in this race to comprehensively<br />
beat two Dunn racing<br />
runners in Triple G and Who’s<br />
Delight. <strong>The</strong>se horses all have two<br />
problems blocking their future<br />
pathways in every major race:<br />
Don’t Stop Dreaming and Merlin,<br />
who will be favourites when this<br />
crop get to their NZ Derby.<br />
Race 10, Aged Pacing Mares:<br />
Aardie’s Express sat four wide for<br />
the first half of the race and won<br />
so easily she could have sat four<br />
wide the entire 1700m and she<br />
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GARDENING 23<br />
Plant pumpkins and prune poppies now<br />
Vegetables<br />
Given rich soil, zucchini,<br />
marrows and pumpkin are easily<br />
grown in the home garden.<br />
Pumpkins need a hot, dry<br />
summer to do well, so this year<br />
looks promising for harvest.<br />
Bush marrows, such as Cocozelle<br />
di Napoli, require less room than<br />
the trailing types but zucchini<br />
are more popular than marrows,<br />
so seed of the latter can be<br />
difficult to obtain.<br />
Sow the seeds now in pots or<br />
seed boxes. Mini greenhouses,<br />
a little like an old-fashioned<br />
cold frame, are ideal for these<br />
tender vegetables, as is a<br />
bottomless box, with a square<br />
of glass set over the top and<br />
placed in the warmest part of<br />
the garden. Plants can be put in<br />
their permanent place from the<br />
end of the month, or once the<br />
likelihood of frost has passed.<br />
When fruits form, liquid manure<br />
will encourage good growth.<br />
Watering is needed only when<br />
the soil is dry in the plants’<br />
earlier stages.<br />
Celery can be sown in the<br />
same way as marrows or pumpkins.<br />
Trenches can be prepared<br />
now for planting out early in<br />
December. Dump plenty of manure<br />
in the bottom of the trench<br />
and top with soil but leave the<br />
surface 5cm to 10cm lower than<br />
the surrounding garden to help<br />
retain moisture, as celery will<br />
quickly go to seed if the ground<br />
dries out.<br />
Flowers<br />
Outdoor fuchsias, Californian<br />
tree poppy (Romneya coulteri)<br />
and willows grown for bark<br />
effects can be pruned now. Cut<br />
them hard, trimming last year’s<br />
growth close to older wood.<br />
Young, rooted pieces can be<br />
taken from the outside of violet<br />
plants and the central portion of<br />
old clumps discarded. Violets do<br />
best in partial shade with rich,<br />
heavy soil.<br />
Herbaceous perennials, such as<br />
Michaelmas daisies, can still be<br />
increased by taking side growths<br />
with a few roots attached.<br />
Hardy annuals can be sown<br />
outdoors this month. Clarkia,<br />
Asters, nasturtiums, Calendula<br />
and sweet peas are good options.<br />
Dwarf sweet peas do not need<br />
staking. Little Sweetheart is one<br />
of the smallest, growing to 25cm,<br />
making it suitable for bedding,<br />
pots and hanging baskets. <strong>The</strong> soil<br />
for sweet peas should be welllimed<br />
and the ground worked to a<br />
fine crumb. Phosphate worked into<br />
the soil (30g per sq m) will give the<br />
seedlings a good start and a sturdy<br />
root system.<br />
Lawns that have become<br />
patchy because of grass grub<br />
damage or the removal of weeds<br />
on a large scale can be brought<br />
back to order with a dressing<br />
now of one part superphosphate,<br />
three parts sulphate of ammonia<br />
mixed and spread at the rate of<br />
30g per sq m. Apply this mix<br />
now and in early autumn as<br />
growth restarts after summer.<br />
Mossy soil can be dressed with<br />
the same mixture, with the addition<br />
of a half-part of sulphate<br />
of iron to suppress moss. Some<br />
damage to the leaves of nearby<br />
grass will appear, but recovery is<br />
quick.<br />
Dwarf annuals for a rockery<br />
or the front of garden beds<br />
include Phacelia (blue shades),<br />
Nemophila (blue), Linum<br />
grandiflorum and Limnanthes<br />
(yellow). Linaria produces<br />
flowers resembling miniature<br />
PREPARE:<br />
Plants can be put<br />
in their permanent<br />
place from the end<br />
of the month as<br />
we near frost-free<br />
mornings.<br />
Pumpkins can<br />
be planted, and<br />
poppies – such as<br />
the Californian tree<br />
poppy – should be<br />
pruned now.<br />
PHOTOS: GETTY<br />
snapdragon on slender stems,<br />
15cm-25cm high.<br />
Fruit<br />
Tomatoes can be planted now<br />
in unheated greenhouses. <strong>The</strong><br />
ground or container mixture<br />
does not need to be over-rich, as<br />
fertilisers applied when the fruits<br />
set will provide a heavy crop to<br />
the ripening stage.<br />
<strong>The</strong> soil must be free from<br />
disease, though, and growing<br />
tomatoes in pots or bags of<br />
new mix each season is recommended.<br />
In autumn, put the soil<br />
on the vegetable garden. Avoid<br />
over-watering young tomato<br />
plants during the first few weeks,<br />
as this can damage their roots.<br />
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03 982 8850 0800 486532<br />
www.gumleaf.co.nz<br />
Trades & Services<br />
Pets & Supplies<br />
CATS UNLOVED<br />
can help with the cost<br />
of desexing your cat.<br />
catsunloved@xtra.co.nz<br />
GLAZING<br />
TWISTY GLASS &<br />
GLAZING LTD<br />
• Mirrors • Pet Door Specialists<br />
• Splashbacks • All Broken Windows<br />
THE CAT DOOR MAN<br />
Phone Cushla or Darren Twist<br />
027 352 6225
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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 25<br />
Your guide to our LOCAL & TRUSTED<br />
Trades & Professional Services<br />
To advertise: Phone 379 1100 or email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
• SECTION CLEARING<br />
• METAL CARTAGE<br />
• SITE PREPARATION<br />
• FOUNDATION<br />
WORK<br />
• DRIVEWAYS<br />
• POST HOLES<br />
• SOIL SPREADING<br />
• AUGER DRILLING<br />
• POOL DIG OUTS<br />
• GREENWASTE<br />
DISPOSAL<br />
• FLOODING<br />
SOLUTIONS<br />
• SERVICE<br />
TRENCHING<br />
• CIVIL WORKS<br />
FREE no obligation quote<br />
13 years experience, local contractor<br />
Professional roof<br />
restoration<br />
Roof Painting, Concrete, Decramastic, Iron<br />
Rope & Harness, Access Specialist<br />
12 Year Guarantee<br />
• Waterblasting • All Roof Repairs<br />
• Moss Treatments • Leaks<br />
• Gutter Cleaning & Repairs<br />
20 Years in<br />
Roofing Industry<br />
✓<br />
✓<br />
✓<br />
✓<br />
Trades & Services<br />
Free Roof<br />
Inspections & Quotes<br />
Ph: Vinnie 027 505 7779<br />
Trades & Services<br />
PAINTING<br />
• Interior/Exterior<br />
• Roofs / Fences<br />
• Airless Spraying<br />
PhoNe JohN<br />
027 224 2831<br />
PAINTING &<br />
DECORATING<br />
All types of int/ext<br />
painting undertaken.<br />
30+ years exp.<br />
Ph Michael<br />
022 496 3322<br />
GARDENER<br />
Available for<br />
maintenance, weeding<br />
pruning, spraying,<br />
planting, advice.<br />
Qualified. 40 years<br />
experience.<br />
Call Richard<br />
0274 918 234<br />
03 349 4022<br />
DIRTY TILES<br />
& GROUT?<br />
Tile & Grout Cleaning<br />
Mouldy Silicone Replacement<br />
Tiled Shower Makeovers<br />
Old Grout Re-Colouring<br />
Trades & Services<br />
THE ROOF<br />
SPECIALISTS<br />
CANTERBURY LTD<br />
Protective coatings<br />
10 year guarantee on:<br />
Faded coloursteel<br />
Tiles & iron<br />
Decramastic<br />
Phone NOW 4 FREE<br />
Roof check & report<br />
Scott McKenzie<br />
022 044 3008<br />
EXPERIENCED<br />
GARDENER<br />
(Kevin Garnett)<br />
30 Years<br />
Christchurch Botanic<br />
Gardens.<br />
ALL landscape<br />
work done.<br />
Maintenance, pruning,<br />
tidy up, lawn work,<br />
landscape planning<br />
and planting etc.<br />
Free Quotes<br />
Phone 348 3482<br />
✓ Tile & Grout Sealing/ Repairs<br />
We specialise in professional cost<br />
effective solutions for ALL your tile &<br />
grout issues.<br />
Call 0800 882 772 for a FREE quote<br />
www.theprogroup.co.nz/dpc9385<br />
Gutter, Roof Repair/Replacement.<br />
Phone Glen @ Clean Gutters<br />
30 years + experience<br />
Older house<br />
restorations:<br />
no problem!<br />
Quotes: FREE!<br />
Rates: Reasonable<br />
Paint supplied at<br />
trade price!<br />
NO JOB TOO SMALL<br />
Light industrial also<br />
Roger Brott<br />
Painter & Decorator<br />
021-1966-311<br />
ROOF<br />
PAINTING 24/7<br />
Rope & harness<br />
a speciality,<br />
no scaffolding<br />
required,<br />
30 years of<br />
breathtaking<br />
experience.<br />
FREE QUOTES<br />
20% OFF other<br />
roof quotes<br />
Exterior staining,<br />
exterior painting,<br />
water blasting.<br />
Moss and mould<br />
treatment $300.<br />
Phone Kevin<br />
027 561 4629<br />
AAA HANDYMAN<br />
licensed carpenter<br />
LBP, all property and<br />
building maintenance,<br />
repairs, bathroom/shower<br />
installations, with free<br />
quotes 03 387 0770 or 027<br />
245 52<strong>26</strong> ciey@xtra.co.nz<br />
A CARPENTER<br />
Licensed Building<br />
Practitioner no. 100981.<br />
All carpentry & building<br />
repairs & maintenance.<br />
Alterations & property<br />
upgrades.Laundries /<br />
bathroom / kitchens<br />
replaced. Specialising in<br />
replacement of all rotten<br />
timber, fascia boards,<br />
window, windowsills etc.<br />
John Sandford, ph 329<br />
4616, mob 027 5189 598<br />
johnsandford2@gmail.<br />
com<br />
021 049 0902<br />
CARPET<br />
CLEANING<br />
sPECIAL<br />
3 Rooms<br />
& Hallway<br />
FROM<br />
$<br />
59 .00<br />
Trades & Services<br />
ARBORIST.<br />
Qualified. COPPER<br />
BEECH TREE<br />
SERVICES.Tree<br />
removal, pruning,<br />
height reduction, hedge<br />
trimming. shaping, tree<br />
planting, firewood, .Free<br />
Quotes. Contact Angus<br />
Edwards 027 259 6741.<br />
copperbeechtreeservices@<br />
gmail.com<br />
BENNET & SONS LTD<br />
Qualified & licenced<br />
builders. New homes, villa<br />
restoration, extensions,<br />
decks, weatherbord<br />
repairs, t&g flooring.<br />
Phone Sam 0274 969 362<br />
or sambennet@live.com<br />
BEST BATHROOMS<br />
Full renovations<br />
specialists, LBP builder.<br />
Free quote, all building<br />
property maintenance. Ph<br />
387-0770 or 027 245 52<strong>26</strong><br />
ciey@xtra.co.nz<br />
BRICK & BLOCK<br />
LAYING<br />
all restoration work<br />
and new work plus<br />
foundations, ph 342 9340<br />
or 021 853 033<br />
BUILDER QUALIfIED<br />
50 yrs exp. Bathrooms,<br />
Kitchens, Renovations,<br />
Repairs & Extensions<br />
Free quotes. Discount for<br />
pensioners. Ph Mike 03<br />
980 9771 or 027 2<strong>26</strong>6 930<br />
BUILDER<br />
New builds, alterations,<br />
decks, fencing. 30 yrs in<br />
the trade has given me<br />
ability to build to a high<br />
standard. Free quotes. Ph<br />
Brent 027 241 7471<br />
BUILDER /<br />
MAINTENANCE<br />
Chris has a wide-ranging<br />
skillset and is available<br />
now for all improvements,<br />
makeovers, and fitouts to<br />
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also cover Healthy Homes<br />
Reporting and remedial<br />
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Chris on 027 3888 211.<br />
office@prowessbuilding.<br />
co.nz<br />
MARTYN<br />
OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE<br />
Phone: 027 220 2256<br />
building<br />
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Get in touch with Matt from Bloomfield<br />
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LBP & Certified Builder<br />
Bloomfieldbuilding@hotmail.com<br />
0212201011<br />
landscaping<br />
25 Years experience<br />
• Landscape construction and<br />
garden maintenance<br />
• Residential & light commercial<br />
• Garden makeovers<br />
For a proFessional job call<br />
ross legg 027 222 0388<br />
email ross@revivelandscaping.co.nz<br />
SCRAP METAL<br />
Dominion Trading Co Ltd<br />
• Scrap metal buyers<br />
• Canterbury owned & operated<br />
• Top prices paid $$$<br />
• Open Saturday morning<br />
Open Mon-Fri 8am – 4.30pm Sat. 8.30am-12.30pm<br />
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03 343 9993 333 Blenheim Rd<br />
TREE SERVICES<br />
CRAIGS<br />
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P: 027 2299 454<br />
E: craigstrees@xtra.co.nz<br />
www.craigstrees.co.nz<br />
Fully insured<br />
Excavations<br />
• Driveways<br />
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• Stump & Hedge<br />
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Phone Steve on<br />
021 338 247<br />
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<strong>26</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Classifieds<br />
Trades & Services<br />
GLAZING<br />
TWISTY GLASS &<br />
GLAZING LTD<br />
• Mirrors • Pet Door Specialists<br />
• Splashbacks • All Broken Windows<br />
THE CAT DOOR MAN<br />
Phone Cushla or Darren Twist<br />
027 352 6225<br />
Trades & Services<br />
CARPET LAYING<br />
Exp. Repairs, uplifting,<br />
relaying, restretching.<br />
Phone John on 0800<br />
003181, 027 240 7416<br />
jflattery@xtra.co.nz<br />
CHIM CHIM CHIMNEY<br />
SWEEPS<br />
We’ll sweep your<br />
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nz<br />
CRACK REPAIR<br />
For Brick, Stone and<br />
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ELECTRICIAN<br />
A Prompt & reliable<br />
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commercial work, new<br />
housing and switch board<br />
replacements. Phone Chris<br />
027 516 0669<br />
Dirty Grout &<br />
Tiles?<br />
Patios Need Cleaning<br />
Mouldy Silicone?<br />
+6421-2088-183<br />
Trades & Services<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 />
GARDEN SORTING<br />
Planting/ maintenance .<br />
Lawn sowing/patching<br />
Ph Graeme 027 341 8596 ,<br />
342 5151<br />
GLAZIER<br />
Glass repairs - pet doors<br />
- conservatory roofs. Exp<br />
Tradesman. Call Bill on<br />
022 413 3504 or 981-1903<br />
HIGH SPEC PAINTERS<br />
Quality<br />
local<br />
professionals. E: corban@<br />
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027 846 5035<br />
LANDSCAPING<br />
Paving, Lawns, Irrigation,<br />
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Kanga & small digger<br />
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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 />
Re Roofing<br />
Roof Repairs<br />
• Approved Age Concern<br />
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• 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 />
*<br />
FREE<br />
Quote<br />
Trades & Services<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 />
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V Plumbing Ltd. 022 351<br />
4125<br />
PLUMBER.<br />
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Call today! MJ Plumbing<br />
Ltd 021 109 2397<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<br />
CLEANING<br />
Spouting Unblocked,<br />
Cleaned Out and Flushed<br />
Out, Call Trevor 332 8949<br />
or 021 043 2034<br />
STUMP<br />
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,<br />
tree trimming &<br />
rubbish removal.<br />
Phone for free quotes 022<br />
540 4900<br />
• Phone our local team 03 379 1100 • Email star.class@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Trades & Services<br />
House & Garden<br />
Property Services Ltd<br />
Tree & hedge trimming<br />
Gardening<br />
Landscaping<br />
Lawn mowing<br />
Waterblasting<br />
All aspects of<br />
property maintenance<br />
CALL uS 03 <strong>26</strong>0 4499<br />
or 021 405 277<br />
Tuition<br />
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avail for computer, IPad,<br />
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computertutor.nz<br />
Wanted To Rent<br />
Wanted cottage in country<br />
, anywhere in South Island,<br />
willing to do repairs. Write<br />
to: Geoff Bayliss, Flat<br />
35 / 16 Dundee Place,<br />
Spreydon, Christchurch.<br />
Wanted To Buy<br />
TOYS WANTED<br />
Suitable 5yr old and up.<br />
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AAA Buying good quality<br />
furniture, beds, stoves,<br />
fridge freezers, house<br />
lots .Gold jewellery<br />
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Phone 980 5812 or 027<br />
313 8156<br />
A+ ALL whiteware<br />
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service, cash paid for<br />
freezes, fridges, washing<br />
machines, ovens. Also<br />
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Anything considered. Ph<br />
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22 116<br />
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books, furs, vintage<br />
clothing, paintings,<br />
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Antiques, 194 Edgeware<br />
Rd 385 5117<br />
ACADEMY ANTIQUES<br />
Buying estates, antiques,<br />
old china, crystal, art,<br />
Royal Doulton , Royal<br />
Albert etc. Best prices, free<br />
appraisal. Call Rob 349-<br />
4229 academyantiques.<br />
co.nz<br />
A+ Household effects,<br />
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machines, ovens. Good<br />
cash paid. Ph Paul 022<br />
0891 671<br />
CARAVAN. With, shower<br />
& toilet . Any condition.<br />
Reasonable price. Ph<br />
Steve 027 622 0011.<br />
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country, firearms,<br />
uniforms, badges, medals,<br />
memoribilia, WW2 or<br />
earlier ph 338-9931<br />
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shop Arbuckles and<br />
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If anyone has any of<br />
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com<br />
TOOLS, Garden garage,<br />
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buyer Phone 355-2045<br />
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Public Notices<br />
Linwood<br />
Rugby Club Inc<br />
and<br />
Linfield Cultural<br />
Recreational &<br />
Sports Club Inc<br />
will be holding<br />
their AGM<br />
Wednesday<br />
29 November <strong>2023</strong>,<br />
56 Kearneys Road<br />
starting at 6pm.<br />
Public Notices<br />
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT<br />
ACT 1991 CHRISTCHURCH<br />
DISTRICT PLAN<br />
Notice of council decision - Amended decision on<br />
Proposed Plan Change 5E noise sensitive activities near<br />
roads and rail corridors.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Christchurch City Council has made its decision on<br />
amendments to Proposed Plan Change 5E - Noise<br />
sensitive activities near roads and rail corridors, at its<br />
meeting on Wednesday, 18 <strong>October</strong> <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> council has adopted the Hearing Panel’s<br />
supplementary recommendations that the plan change<br />
be approved with some modification. <strong>The</strong> Hearing<br />
Panel’s supplementary recommendation and the plan<br />
change, as amended by the council’s decision, are now<br />
available for public viewing online at https://ccc.govt.nz/<br />
the-council/plans-strategies-policies-and-bylaws/plans/<br />
christchurch-district-plan/changes-to-the-districtplan/<br />
proposed-changes-to-the-district-plan/<br />
plan-change-5. This can be viewed by<br />
electronic means at the City Council’s<br />
Civic offices at 53 Hereford Street,<br />
service centres and libraries.<br />
Mark StevenSon<br />
MANAGER PLANNING<br />
SCHOOLS. SPORTS CLUBS OR CULTURAL EVENTS<br />
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Contact:<br />
Mike Fulham<br />
379 7100<br />
mike@starmedia.kiwi
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Classifieds<br />
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FAT EDDIES, 76 Hereford St: Thursday<br />
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ANTHONY KUTOVOY is<br />
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in a promising future in speed<br />
skating.<br />
<strong>The</strong> St Andrew’s College year<br />
11 student will compete in the<br />
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(under 15) division a the New<br />
Zealand open shor track<br />
championship in Dunedin in<br />
September, he gained entry to<br />
the firs two junior world cups.<br />
A these competitions, he will<br />
be seeking to qualify for a third<br />
junior world cup and the junior<br />
world championship, held in<br />
February 2024.<br />
“A the Dunedin competition,<br />
I also set a new record in the<br />
1000m distance for my age<br />
group,” said Anthony.<br />
“Since I’ve started skating,<br />
I have improved a lot . as<br />
well as being the New Zealand<br />
champion for my age group.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> 15-year-old is part of<br />
the Canterbury Alpine Ice<br />
Skating Club. He has been<br />
skating since 2019, originally<br />
for the Mainland Ice Racing<br />
Club before transferring to<br />
Canterbury Alpine in 2021.<br />
Said the Parklands resident:<br />
“One of the things that caught<br />
CARVING OUT A FUTURE: Anthony Kutovoy (right) will compete in the junior world<br />
cup speed skating series in the Netherlands in late November and early December.<br />
THE ŌTĀKARO Avon River<br />
Corridor co-governance<br />
establishment committee has<br />
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assess any city council-led<br />
projects planned for the former<br />
residential red zone.<br />
Co-chairs Te<br />
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Lianne Dalziel said<br />
the new assessment<br />
framework will be<br />
used as a sounding<br />
board for future<br />
projects.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> framework<br />
covers factors such<br />
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resilience, ecological<br />
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innovation and the<br />
ability to practice<br />
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“As well as being<br />
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Te Maire<br />
Tau<br />
Lianne<br />
Dalziel<br />
for us to determine the merits of<br />
my eye with shor track is the<br />
compete overseas against other,<br />
competitiveness and adrenaline<br />
like-minded people whose goal<br />
<strong>The</strong> first junior world cup<br />
council-led projects, the new assessment<br />
framework also be used<br />
of trying to hit your top speed<br />
and push your boundaries.<br />
“All while having to try to<br />
pass and block other skaters. I<br />
is like mine – to be the best version<br />
of myself.”<br />
Anthony said he is training<br />
six times a week with<br />
is from November <strong>26</strong> to<br />
27. Anthony and his coach<br />
have self-funded flights for<br />
November 18, to train in<br />
New Zealand with the very<br />
limited ice time and old equipment,”<br />
said Anthony.<br />
“(Speed skating) is very<br />
by anyone proposing projects in<br />
the ‘activity areas’ of the OARC,<br />
where non-council-led projects<br />
can occur.<br />
love skating because you ge to<br />
Canterbury Alpine coach Ben<br />
Whiteside.<br />
the Netherlands for a week<br />
beforehand.<br />
competitive and requires a lot of<br />
training and self-improvement,<br />
“Our overwhelming interest is<br />
to ensure we return the area to its<br />
“It is very hard to train in<br />
which results in a healthy<br />
lifestyle.”<br />
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