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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER <strong>30</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />

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Endangered penguins<br />

are part of the family<br />

• By Monique Steele<br />

A FAMILY on Banks Peninsula<br />

are playing their part in<br />

protecting the largest little<br />

penguin colony on mainland<br />

New Zealand.<br />

Sheep and beef farmers<br />

Shireen and Francis Helps have<br />

been carrying out predator<br />

control and rehabilitation to<br />

help the now 2000-strong colony<br />

of white-flippered penguins<br />

thrive at their Flea Bay home.<br />

White-flippered penguins<br />

only live in Canterbury and are<br />

a variant of the Australasian<br />

kororā little penguin.<br />

The Helps ran an eco-tourism<br />

business, called Pōhatu Tours,<br />

which involved taking tourists<br />

from Akaroa by 4WD to the see<br />

the colony.<br />

Shireens said they have been<br />

trapping predators, putting up<br />

fencing and rehabilitating the<br />

kororā colony on their farm<br />

for decades – but the fight is<br />

not over. “We’re keeping the<br />

predators out of the colonies,”<br />

Helps said.<br />

“We got on top of the ferrets<br />

years and years ago, so actually<br />

we haven’t seen a ferret in the<br />

bay for a very long time.<br />

“We do have an ongoing problem<br />

with stoats. They’re very<br />

hard to catch. Very cunning<br />

little blighters.”<br />

Helps said the colony has now<br />

spread to neighbouring properties,<br />

including Department of<br />

Conservation land.<br />

“Of course, we graze that,<br />

because the worst enemy for<br />

penguins is long grass and<br />

dense vegetation. The predators<br />

go mad in it, and that causes<br />

problems for the rats and mice.<br />

Predators come in after them,<br />

and that’s when you start to lose<br />

birds.”<br />

Other threats to the penguins<br />

are extreme heat and severe<br />

weather events.<br />

•Turn to page 4<br />

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Sometimes music, sometimes<br />

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Shared Reading<br />

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Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />

Zonta says ‘yes’ to dragon boat racing<br />

• By Sasha Watson<br />

ZONTA SAYS no to violence<br />

and yes to dragon boat racing in<br />

an effort to raise awareness of<br />

violence against women.<br />

Zonta Christchurch-Canterbury<br />

and Zonta Christchurch<br />

South formed a dragon boating<br />

team to raise the profile of<br />

one of Zonta’s major advocacy<br />

campaigns: ‘Zonta Says No to<br />

Violence against Women and<br />

Girls’.<br />

After a few practice sessions,<br />

the team felt ready to tackle their<br />

first regatta. On Saturday the<br />

newly formed team competed<br />

against 16 teams in the Aoraki<br />

Ice Breaker Regatta at Kerrs<br />

Reach.<br />

Despite not winning any of<br />

their heats, the team managed<br />

to get within 20 seconds of first<br />

place in the three 200m races<br />

and within 40 seconds of winning<br />

the three 500m races.<br />

“We have only practised<br />

five times by<br />

paddling with<br />

wooden paddles.<br />

Our opponents<br />

have carbon<br />

fibre paddles,<br />

which we are<br />

Marie Kyle-<br />

working on getting,”<br />

said club<br />

president Marie<br />

DRAGON POWER: Zonta Christchurch-Canterbury and Zonta Christchurch South formed a dragon boating team to<br />

raise the profile of one of Zonta’s major advocacy campaigns – saying no to violence against women and girls.<br />

Stevenson<br />

Kyle-Stevenson.<br />

Zonta Christchurch-Canterbury<br />

and Zonta Christchurch<br />

South are two of four clubs in<br />

Christchurch that are incorporated<br />

societies run by volunteers.<br />

“As we got out of the boat on<br />

the last race, the Breast of Life<br />

team formed a guard of honour<br />

for us, so amazing. What a<br />

wonderfully positive community<br />

Dragon Boating is,” said Kyle-<br />

Stevenson.<br />

“Now, more than ever, it is<br />

essential that we work together<br />

to end violence against women<br />

and girls.<br />

“We also have a campaign that<br />

runs worldwide with a focus on<br />

activism for 16 days to December<br />

10. During this time, you will<br />

see many buildings around<br />

Christchurch lit up in orange.”<br />

Zonta is an international<br />

organisation originating in<br />

Chicago with a mission to build<br />

a better world for women and<br />

girls.<br />

“We are achieving this<br />

through education against child<br />

marriage, climate change, living<br />

free from violence, and offering<br />

various scholarships to young<br />

women in Tertiary education,”<br />

said Kyle-Stevenson.<br />

Zonta clubs support women<br />

and girls in 63 countries<br />

around the world and there are<br />

about 535 members in<br />

New Zealand.<br />

Way safer intersections in Shirley<br />

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We’re upgrading the intersection of Marshland,<br />

Briggs and Lake Terrace roads, and work will<br />

be completed early December.<br />

Learn more<br />

ccc.govt.nz/shirley


4 Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

‘We ended<br />

up with <strong>30</strong><br />

chicks in<br />

the kitchen’<br />

•From page 1<br />

The area near the Helps’<br />

property has been a hub of<br />

restorative and reconstruction<br />

work over the past few years<br />

after severe floods on the<br />

peninsula, especially in<br />

December 2021, damaged<br />

roads, and destroyed critical<br />

conservation fencing to keep<br />

predators out.<br />

It caused landslips down the<br />

back of the Helps’ property<br />

towards the colony’s habitat.<br />

“The fences were munted . . .<br />

the team was running around in<br />

the rain rescuing penguins out<br />

of the boxes and burrows as the<br />

hill started to fall down and the<br />

creek came up,” she said.<br />

“The penguin boxes were just<br />

going out to sea so we ended up<br />

with <strong>30</strong> chicks in the kitchen<br />

here in cages.<br />

“Plus the sheep in the house,<br />

too.”<br />

Environment Canterbury allocated<br />

$132,000 over two years<br />

to re-instate about 6km of fencing<br />

and under take floodgate<br />

repairs.<br />

ECan zone delivery lead for<br />

Banks Peninsula and Selwyn/<br />

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was a key priority for the<br />

zone.<br />

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Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 5<br />

Christmas parade in four years<br />

• By Geoff Sloan<br />

THE FESTIVE season was<br />

launched in style with the first<br />

ever Christmas Show Parade at<br />

Canterbury Agricultural Park.<br />

Blue skies and warm temperatures<br />

attracted more than<br />

35,000 people to the colourful<br />

spectacle on Sunday.<br />

Parade director Jason Reekers<br />

said it was great to finally<br />

get the event up and running<br />

after a four-year break due to<br />

Covid and rain last year.<br />

“We have all of the old traditional<br />

Santa parade floats that<br />

date back 75 years,” he said.<br />

The last Christmas parade<br />

in the city was held in 2019 on<br />

Madras St.<br />

“We’ve restored them<br />

all, fixed all the motors, and<br />

we’ve got some new ones.<br />

We’ve got 66 entries in the<br />

parade, all singing,<br />

all dancing and they’re looking<br />

beautiful.”<br />

The floats will include a giant<br />

Mother Goose, Disney Princesses<br />

and traditional favourites<br />

like the Mad Hatter.Reekers<br />

said logistics meant rethinking<br />

the event and combining the<br />

parade with a festival.<br />

“We couldn’t get the parade<br />

in the city. Christchurch has<br />

been designed in a way that it<br />

can’t really host a parade. So<br />

we’ve had everything here at<br />

the park, but we couldn’t just<br />

bring people here to the park<br />

just for a parade. So we’ve had<br />

to supply entertainment.”<br />

The event is run by the<br />

Christchurch Children’s Christmas<br />

Parade Trust, which want<br />

to re-establish it as the city’s<br />

premier Christmas celebration.<br />

Headline act Santa Claus arrived<br />

on time to an appreciative<br />

audience.<br />

– Public Interest Journalism<br />

funded through NZ On Air<br />

•Watch<br />

the video at<br />

starnews.co.nz<br />

FESTIVE: Disney characters the Hatter and the Queen of Hearts featured in the parade, with<br />

Santa making a guest appearance for the crowd despite his busy schedule.<br />

PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

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• 2 tbsp whole linseed<br />

• ½ tsp salt<br />

• grated lemon rind<br />

• juice from 1 lemon<br />

• splash of vanilla<br />

• butter to cook the pancakes<br />

Method:<br />

1. Peel and mash the bananas in a bowl.<br />

2. Stir in the eggs, vanilla, linseed, salt<br />

and lemon ingredients.<br />

3. Add flour and mix to a smooth batter.<br />

4. Cook pancakes in frypan on one side<br />

until they bubble on the surface or hold<br />

together enough to be flipped over.<br />

5. If the mixture is thick, flatten the<br />

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MAZDA HAS launched a twopronged<br />

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new CX-60 and CX-90, a couple<br />

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The CX-90 is a worthy flagship<br />

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proportioned than any<br />

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electrified power trains.<br />

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90 are the most important new<br />

models for Mazda in a generation.<br />

Easily the largest and most<br />

imposing model is the highly<br />

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Quality 8; Comfort 8; Passenger and Load Space 8; Value<br />

for money 8; Road test avg consumption 10.2L /100km;<br />

Safety – ANCAP crash rating 5 star.<br />

Overall points out of 10: 8<br />

response and pulling power.<br />

This new generation motor has<br />

a new polished gear-changing<br />

companion in the form of a<br />

freshly developed 8-speed automatic.<br />

That’s two extra ratios<br />

than the long serving 6-speed<br />

automatic that’s still a mainstay<br />

current Mazda range.<br />

The CX-90 Takami offers<br />

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and load space and 7-seat versatility.<br />

Mazda have got the luxury<br />

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Bose surround sound system,<br />

360 View Monitor camera system<br />

plus Adaptive LED Headlights<br />

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Nappa leather trim with heated<br />

and ventilated front seats and<br />

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Quality St.<br />

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Mission Without Borders<br />

visit the Sechka’s house<br />

with support to lift them<br />

out of poverty.<br />

Families in Ukraine<br />

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The Sechka family live in a rural area<br />

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