The Star: December 28, 2023

Thursday, December 28, 2023 | Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper 

Wishes all 

readers a 

Happy 

New Year! 

Boys’ High 

cut above 

the rest 

– page 11 

Doctor attacked former employers online 

• By Ethan Griffiths 

A DISGRUNTLED doctor 

used an alias on social media 

to attack his former employers, 

accusing one medical centre of 

“disgusting behaviour” and the 

other of dangerous practices. 

The GP also laid a Health 

and Disability Commissioner 

complaint against one of the 

centres under the same false 

identity, alleging it put profits 

before the care of its patients. 

Dr Preechapon Tovaranonte, 

known as Pleayo Tovaranonte, 

has now been censured and 

ordered to pay $48,000 following 

a hearing before the Health 

Practitioners Disciplinary 

Tribunal. 

While the tribunal’s ruling 

was made in November last year, 

it was only publicly released last 

week. 

It’s not the first time 

Tovaranonte has drawn the ire of 

the tribunal. 

In 2017 he was suspended 

for three months after copying 

patient information from a 

Christchurch Hospital database 

on to a USB stick and later 

using the information to claim 

more than $30,000 in false ACC 

claims. 

Tovaranonte continues to work 

as a doctor and is currently a GP 

at Doctors on Cashel, according 

to its website. Last week he 

was also listed as a doctor at 

Normans Road Surgery in 

Strowan, but his name has now 

been removed from its website. 

In his latest case before 

the tribunal, the statement 

of facts stated his contract 

at an unidentified clinic was 

terminated in November 2016. 

• Turn to page 4 

Good Samaritan strikes again 

GENEROUS: Dean Graham has paid for 

people’s groceries and petrol over the 

festive season. PHOTO: JOHN SPURDLE 

• By Niva Chittock 

DEAN GRAHAM, the now 

not so secret Good Samaritan, 

has been at it again. 

In the days leading up to 

Christmas, Graham paid for 

people’s petrol, groceries and 

even fish n’ chips. 

It all happened in Graham’s 

hometown of Lincoln, and it 

didn’t take long for his identity 

to be revealed once people 

started posting on Facebook 

to express their gratitude to 

the mystery man. 

“To the person at pump one 

at Challenge Lincoln, who 

paid for pump five around 

8.40, thank you so much!” one 

said. 

“My card declined, and 

when I went to call my 

parents, someone paid for 

my fuel. You made me cry – 

thank you for your generosity. 

There are still some good 

people out in the world.” 

The son of late Mainfreight 

rich-lister Neil Graham, he 

said over time his identity had 

become less of a secret, but he 

wouldn’t be changing his ways 

any time soon. 

Said Graham: “There’s 

so much doom and gloom 

around; I guess I like doing it 

because it shows that people 

care. And if I can make someone’s 

day, especially when 

they’re having a s****y day, 

why not?.” 

Another person said the 

good Samaritian had paid for 

the remainder of their fish ‘n’ 

chips at Lincoln Fish Supply. 

“My son didn’t take enough 

cash. He was going to come 

home and get more, but a 

kind man offered to fix the 

rest of the bill! How kind! 

He wanted to come back and 

repay you but since you had 

gone, thank you again!” 

Another thanked them for 

covering some groceries at the 

supermarket. 

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‘Absolute 

legend’ 

sparks joy, 

urges others 

to pay it 

forward 

• From page 1 

“I was out at the car getting 

my forgotten wallet. You don’t 

know me – I work in healthcare 

and have had three huge days at 

work, [and am] still recovering 

from a bout of Covid one month 

down the track and feeling a bit 

of brain fog,” they said. 

“While financially I am not in 

need, I was very much in need of 

a good deed and some kindness. 

You mentioned to the supermarket 

lady to pay it forward, 

so I have done my own version 

of paying it forward somewhere 

else in Lincoln . . . It made my 

day.” 

A New World shopper got a 

surprise when their card wasn’t 

working. 

“Thank you so much to the 

absolute legend who paid for 

my son’s treats at New World 

DO GOOD: In 2021, Dean Graham paid $10,000 for a 

cardboard Lamborghini, with funds going to Starship 

Hospital in Auckland, before auctioning it again for 

another charity. 

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COLLECTOR: Dean Graham on one of the Easy Rider 

Harley-Davidsons. 

yesterday when my card wasn’t 

working for them. Let me know 

if I can pay you back. We are so 

grateful, as we were having quite 

a busy and stressful day.” 

Graham said he just enjoyed 

the effect it had on people. 

It all began in Auckland when 

he was at a concert with his partner, 

he said. 

“I could see this family there 

and could hear them (saying), 

‘Oh no, we can’t just order this 

and order that’ – they were 

struggling a bit,” Graham said. 

“I thought to myself, ‘You 

know what, I’m just going to pay 

their bill and walk out . . . It will 

just be a nice thing to do’.” 

That was four years ago, and he 

has done it dozens of times since. 

It was even better when the 

generosity was passed on, Graham 

said. 

“I did in Hornby, it was in a little 

shop that made beautiful pork 

sandwiches. I could see there 

were older people behind me, 

and I paid for theirs as well and I 

walked out,” he said. 

“I went in again maybe three 

weeks later and the lady said to 

me, ‘Oh, you’re that guy that paid 

for that couple’s lunch!’ 

“She went, ‘You’re not going to 

believe this. They did it the next 

week for someone else’. So if you 

can spark that sort of thought, 

and spread that feeling, it’s a 

good thing.” 

An urban legend falsely 

claimed it all began when Graham 

won Lotto. 

“No, I haven’t won Lotto at all, 

but I’m not short of a quid . . . I 

just love doing it. I like seeing 

people buzzing,” he said. 

• Graham is an avid collector 

of motorcycles and vehicles, and 

his man cave, where they have 

pride of place, featured in The 

Star in July. 

Among his collection are two 

of the Harley-Davidsons used in 

the 1969 cult classic Easy Rider 

which Graham bought about 

four years ago near Auckland for 

$740,000. 

Easy Rider is Graham’s favourite 

movie. 

He also bought a cardboard 

Lamborghini for more than 

$10,000 being auctioned for 

Starship Hospital in Auckland 

in 2021, and then put it up 

for auction again for another 

charity. 

– RNZ 

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Family get 

house for 

Christmas 

after waiting 

seven years 

A DISABLED Christchurch man 

and his family have received 

some Christmas cheer after 

finding themselves in a desperate 

housing situation. 

Father-of-two Rudolph Delport 

is a double leg amputee and is 

on kidney dialysis, while his 

wife Natasha is unable to work 

because of health problems. 

He previously told RNZ that 

his disability allowance was not 

enough to cover his rent in the 

private market, alongside growing 

health expenses. 

Delport feared his family 

would eventually be homeless, 

after being on the MSD housing 

register for seven years. 

“We totally understand that 

we’re not the only ones in this 

situation but we’re also talking 

about someone who has a life 

expectancy. We’ve actually tried 

to find cheaper accommodation,” 

said Natasha Delport. 

“The doctor (has) said the road 

ahead is just going to get worse 

and worse and worse for us.” 

Following RNZ inquiries with 

the Ministry of Social Development, 

the Delport family has 

been granted accommodation 

through Kainga Ora, which will 

cut their weekly rental expenses 

in half. 

Meanwhile, the Christchurch 

City Mission said it was having 

to turn more people away amid 

an increase in requests for food 

parcels. 

The longstanding charity has 

noticed a 10 per cent increase in 

parcels being given out over the 

past year. 

City Missioner Corinne Haines 

said Christmas was a tough time 

for those most vulnerable. 

Over the past six months, 

Haines said the charity has 

bought three times the value of 

the food it bought in the same 

period last year. – RNZ 

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‘CEO’ made fake profiles, false claims 

• From page 1 

Before he began work there, 

he created the pseudonym ‘Paul 

Tavern’ to use in online reviews 

and Trade Me listings. But in 

May 2017, he used the false name 

to post a negative review of the 

clinic on Google. 

“The waiting time was astronomically 

long to the point of 

being dangerous,” he posted. “I 

think they have had three managers 

over the last year. There 

must be something intrinsically 

wrong in this organisation or the 

higher management.” 

He made another disparaging 

post in December 2017. 

In May 2019, he was sacked by 

another clinic, which was also 

not identified in the decision. 

Tovararonte took to a community 

Facebook page under the 

same pseudonym claiming he 

took his sick child to the clinic 

but was turned away as they were 

about to close. The claim was 

false. 

In July 2019 he wrote to the 

Health and Disability Commissioner 

under his pseudonym, 

stating the clinic put financial 

gain before patients’ best interests 

and had dismissed patient concerns 

about those policies. 

The following month he made 

several online posts about the 

clinic, including responding to 

another user’s allegation in which 

he wrote the clinic was “well 

UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT: Dr Pleayo Tovaranonte has 

been censured by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary 

Tribunal. 

known for this kind of disgusting 

behaviour”. 

In response to an online 

recommendation of a doctor, 

Tovaranonte wrote “he charges 

your arm and your leg. Plus he 

is close to retirement and he has 

not been up to date with modern 

medicine”. 

The decision said Tovaranonte 

had founded a website to provide 

career advice to doctors. In 2020 

he revamped the website and 

labelled himself as “co-founder 

and CEO” and included profiles 

PHOTO: LINKEDIN 

of two other people he also listed 

as co-founders. 

The two other “co-founders” 

were fictitious, and photographs 

of them were ripped from a stock 

image site. 

Tovaranonte’s profile on the 

website and his LinkedIn profile 

also listed two law degrees from 

two UK universities. 

The claim was false – 

Tovaranonte had never obtained 

the qualifications, the decision 

stated. 

In his latest case before the tribunal, 

Tovaranonte was charged 

with professional misconduct. 

While he did not dispute the 

facts, his lawyer submitted that 

even if he was misguided in his 

actions, they were consistent with 

a genuine motivation. 

Ultimately, the tribunal found 

his comments made against the 

first practice, where he labelled 

its alleged failures “dangerous”, 

were derogatory. 

“The tribunal considers that it 

is unethical to make a statement 

using the pseudonym, and then 

drawing on material others have 

told him, and then to falsely cast 

this statement as being his own 

personal experience.” 

His comment referencing 

“disgusting behaviour” about the 

second clinic was “highly unprofessional 

criticism”, the tribunal 

ruled. It reached a similar conclusion 

regarding the comments 

he made about a specific doctor. 

Regarding the complaint to 

the Health and Disability Commissioner, 

the tribunal found 

Tovaranonte misused the process 

by providing misleading and 

inaccurate information involving 

a vulnerable patient. 

His lawyer submitted the 

complaint was a “protected 

disclosure” under a piece 

of law designed to protect 

whistleblowers. The tribunal 

disagreed. 

Tovaranonte told the tribunal 

This report was produced by 

Open Justice – Te Pātītī, an 

NZME initiative funded by 

NZ on Air 

he accidentally published his 

website in an unfinished state. 

The tribunal still found it to 

be misleading, due to both the 

fictitious “co-founders” and the 

doctor’s false claims about his 

legal qualifications. It reached the 

same conclusion for the LinkedIn 

profile. 

Tovaranonte said detailing 

the qualifications was an 

“inadvertent error”. 

“We are satisfied that Dr 

Tovaranonte acted in an 

unprofessional and unethical 

manner. This is a significant 

departure from professional 

standards and separately 

warrants a finding of professional 

misconduct.” 

Tovaranonte was censured, 

fined $8000 and ordered to pay 

$40,000 in costs. 

He was also ordered to engage 

with a clinical psychologist every 

three months for three years 

and to undergo professional 

mentoring and supervision. 

The New Zealand Herald 

attempted to contact Tovaranonte 

via Doctors on Cashel. While 

the clinic confirmed he worked 

there, it said it could not pass on 

the request. 

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Life on the most expensive street in the city 

Queens Ave in Merivale 

is Christchurch’s most 

expensive street with 

a median sale price of 

$2.58 million. Sasha 

Watson reports 


WHEN SIMA Siruspour moved 

to Christchurch from Tehran in 

late 2008, she put location to the 

forefront when seeking to buy a 

house. 

She bought a three-bedroom, 

two-bathroom 15 years ago on 

Queens Ave, for about $420,000. 

The house was rebuilt in 2016 

after the February 2011 earthquake 

and now has a RV of $1.26 

million. 

She is surprised though the 

street is now the city’s most expensive. 

“It was all 

about the location 

when I was 

looking for a 

house. This home 

has a great location 

and I will 

most likely be 

here until I die,” 

she said. 

Sima 

Siruspour 

Siruspour said one winning 

feature of the street was the nice 

and quiet neighbours, which 

is a sentiment held by many of 

Queens Ave’s residents. 

David Clare bought a fourbedroom, 

two-bathroom house 

STREETS OF GOLD: The 

median sale price of houses 

along the street is about six 

times more than what Sima 

Siruspour originally paid. 

PHOTOS: SASHA WATSON 

on Queens Ave for $285,000 

about 30 years ago, which now 

has an estimated value of $1.64 

million. 

Said Clare: “It’s a nice spot, 

very quiet, with a strong community 

feel. We used to hold street 

parties. But it did change after 

the earthquake. 

“Several neighbours held on to 

their properties afterwards and 

rebuilt their homes. Many of the 

homes that used to have lawns 

now have expansive housing and 

much less grass space.” 

Clare said the street is in a 

handy location for his job, close 

to Hagley Park, and is just down 

the road from where former All 

The most expensive 

streets in Christchurch 

at median sale price: 

1. Queens Ave, Merivale 

– $2.58 million. 

2. Waiwetu St, Fendalton 

– $2.547 million. 

3. Mayfly Lane, Northwood 

– $2.358 million. 

4. Garden Rd, Merivale 

– $2.26 million. 

5. Fendalton Rd 

– $2.237 million. 

Blacks rugby captain Richie Mc- 

Caw and his wife, former international 

hockey player Gemma, 

used to live. 

They spent $2.5 million on 

a five-bedroom house with a 

sauna, swimming pool and 

underfloor heating in late 2016, 

with daughters Charlotte and 

Grace also living there until 

March this year. 

Lyn Anderson has owned a 

house on Queens Ave for a long 

time, having bought her original 

1960s house in 2002. 

Said Anderson: “I couldn’t tell 

you the exact price. After the 

earthquake, I had to rebuild my 

home for well over $1.5 million, 

like many others along the street. 

There were cracks and a lot of 

damage that ran right through 

the middle of the house. 

“I’ve always lived around the 

area – even before the quake hit, 

I was happy. My garden is a haven, 

my house is set up for family 

and friends staying over, and I 

have no worries.” 

Top Harcourts Grenadier agent 

Alison Aitken is familiar with 

the city’s most expensive streets. 

“A lot of the expensive streets 

in Christchurch, such as Queens 

Ave and Fendalton Rd, are popular 

because of the school zones 

and the proximity to the park 

and a lot of buyers who are just 

hard-working families,” Aitken 

said. 

The priciest street in New 

Zealand was Marine Pde in 

Herne Bay, Auckland where 

the median sale price was 

$11.5 million. 

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The bitter truth about the ‘bank of 

• By Diana Clement 

ACADEMICS have warned that 

home ownership in New Zealand 

is turning into a family affair, 

arguing that Kiwis with wealthy 

parents are able to get a foothold 

on the property ladder much 

easier than those who don’t. 

The experts also told OneRoof 

that buyers with moderately 

well-off families are sometimes 

putting their parents under pressure 

to stump up help they really 

can’t afford. 

Max Rashbrooke, senior research 

fellow at the Victoria University 

of Wellington, says unlike 

in many other 

countries there 

is little research 

in New Zealand 

on generational 

wealth. 

“We have 

a lack of data 

Max 

Rashbrooke 

because we don’t 

have inheritance 

tax. But I think 

it’s pretty rare to buy a home 

without an inheritance or some 

kind of assistance from your 

parents,” he said. 

That assistance isn’t always 

hard cold cash. 

“So for instance, you often 

hear stories about 25-year-olds 

already owning three properties. 

Often it turns out that they 

PROPERTY LADDER: Rising prices and the need for bigger deposits have put pressure on 

Kiwis – and in turn their parents. 

PHOTO: FIONA GOODALL 

saved up because they’re able to 

live rent-free with their parents 

and that’s equivalent to an 

inheritance. It’s delivered in the 

form of subsidy effectively,” said 

Rashbrooke. 

Pushpa Wood, director of 

Massey University’s Financial 

Education and Research Centre, 

doesn’t believe New Zealand has 

reached the point where homeownership 

is impossible without 

parental involvement but does 

note that pressure to provide 

financial help 

can cause strife 

for the older 

generation. 

In the past 

money typically 

passed from 

parents to adult 

children after 

the parents had 

Pushpa 

Wood 

died, but “now parents and 

grandparents are transferring 

the wealth and the assets in their 

lifetime”. 

Said Wood: “It’s becoming 

more important because what 

our younger generation wants to 

achieve with homeownership is 

beyond their reach. Parents and 

grandparents are thinking: ‘Can 

I use my wealth to help my child 

or my grandchild into homeownership?’” 

She said it is only natural for 

parents to want to help, whether 

that’s in the form of contributing 

cash to the deposit or providing a 

larger lump sum to reduce interest 

payments on the mortgage. 

But that can have a darker side. 

“There are unspoken social 

pressures and moral obligations 

we as parents feel if our child is 

financially struggling. Parents 

are feeling that pressure,” she 

says. 

“The more homeownership becomes 

beyond (younger people’s) 

reach, the more the trend will 

continue, that the parents and 

grandparents will be expected 

to transfer the wealth to their 

children.” 

The pressure manifests in 

different ways, said Wood. One 

example is empty nest syndrome. 

That’s where the children are 

expecting parents to downsize to 

a smaller house to free up capital 

to hand over to the children or 

grandchildren. 

Where parents might be 

making a mistake when passing 

money over to the next 

generation is assuming they’re 

not going to need that money. 

At age 55, 60 or 65, they may not 

understand their future needs. 

“I see the other side of things 

where the parents have given 

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mum and dad’ 

Suspense a 

everything to their children to 

help them out, and then they’ve 

got nowhere to go. Financial 

abuse of parents is happening 

more and more.” 

Rashbrooke said parents 

shouldn’t have to help their 

children with massive financial 

grants, though. 

“People are always going to 

help their kids and that’s natural. 

But people shouldn’t be having 

to pour vast sums of money into 

their children’s futures. 

“A lot of parents feel under 

pressure to stump up quite a 

lot of money for their children’s 

tertiary education. 

“Then because we have such a 

dysfunctional housing market, 

they also feel under a lot of 

pressure to help their children 

into housing, even in some cases 

where they can probably ill afford 

to do so. 

“They probably need that 

money for themselves because 

they need to be saving up for 

their own retirement. That’s 

partly because things like private 

pensions, which used to provide 

a lot of economic security for 

people have been wound back 

by companies. New Zealand 

superannuation, although pretty 

good compared to international 

alternatives, doesn’t tend to provide 

everything that people need 

in retirement.” 

Rashbrooke said the clash of 

generations narrative that boomers 

have wrecked everything for 

millennials isn’t helpful. 

“The fact is there are rich 

boomers and poor boomers, and 

there are some very rich millennials 

already. Inequality within 

each generation is huge.” 

Data being collected currently 

by Stats NZ for the Household 

Economic Survey will give a 

more definitive picture of gifts 

and inheritances when it’s published 

in 2025, said Rashbrooke. 

“I will put my money on it 

showing exactly the same thing 

that every international dataset 

shows, which is that people who 

receive inheritances are already 

disproportionately well off compared 

to their peers. The story is 

inheritance is mostly better off 

parents giving to already better 

off children.” 

Across the Tasman, research in 

Australia by economists Rachel 

Ong ViforJ and Christopher 

PHOTO: GETTY 

HELPING 

HAND: Often, 

getting on 

the property 

ladder is 

helped 

by having 

wealthy 

parents. 

Phelps looked at the role of 

parental assistance in the move 

from non-homeownership to 

home ownership. 

Using Household, Income and 

Labor Dynamics in Australia 

(HILDA) Survey data, they estimated 

that those who receive 

a cash transfer or inheritance in 

excess of $5000 from the bank 

of mum and dad are more than 

twice as likely to enter into home 

ownership than those who do not 

receive assistance. 

Parents were also helping in 

non-cash ways, Ong ViforJ and 

Phelps found, with 13.4 per cent 

co-residing with parents and 4.5 

per cent living rent-free in homes 

provided by family or friends. 

Such in-kind transfers to first 

home buyers played a critical role 

in helping them into the market, 

Ong ViforJ and Phelps found. 

They noted that living with 

higher socio-economic parents 

was more beneficial than living 

in a lower economic home. 

– NZ Herald 

firm favourite 

DESPITE A FEW new novels 

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knocking Lee and Andrew Child 

from their No 1 spot. 

Christchurch City Libraries has 

put together their most popular 

books for the year, and the thrilling 

Jack Reacher series has come 

out as No 1 with No Plan B by 

Lee Child and Andrew Child. 

“We weren’t surprised to see 

a Jack Reacher novel 

as our most popular 

book for 2023, as this 

is now the sixth year 

in a row the British 

writer Lee Child has 

taken out the top 

spot,” said city council 

head of libraries and 

information Carolyn 

Robertson. 

“It was fantastic to 

see New Zealand author 

Peter Gossage make the top 

five with How Maui Slowed the 

Sun, a book that’s been around 

since 2017,” she said. 

“The craze of going ‘viral’ on 

social media was a huge factor 

this year, with Coleen Hoover’s 

It Starts With Us and Ugly Love 

making the list following their 

popularity on social media platform 

TikTok.” 

Royalty came into the mix with 

Spare by Prince Harry as the 

most popular adult non-fiction 

book, followed by Aotearoa’s Sam 

Neill with Did I ever tell you this? 

A memoir. 

As well as the most popular 

overall, No Plan B by the Child 

brothers was the No 1 adult fiction 

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duo. 

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the most popular book in the 

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out as 18 th overall. The series 

didn’t stop there, with Harry 

Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

and Harry Potter and the Goblet 

of Fire sitting at number two and 

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• By Sam Sherwood 

WHAT NOT to take to a prison 

visit? A car full of drugs, cash, a 

gun, and drug paraphernalia. 

One person learned that the 

hard way recently when they 

were caught with a cache of contraband 

in their vehicle during 

a visit to an inmate at Christchurch 

Men’s Prison. 

Corrections said staff became 

suspicious of a vehicle that attempted 

to drive into a visitor 

car park and bypass the prison 

entry checkpoint while the drug 

dog detection team was conducting 

routine searches of vehicles 

entering the prison. 

• By Emily Moorhouse 

A CHRISTCHURCH freezing 

worker who chased and stabbed 

a man in a backyard with a 

boning knife he had hidden 

under his jacket claims he was 

acting in self-defence. 

But a jury didn’t buy Viliame 

Kasanawaqa’s stories as he was 

jailed for four-and-a-half years in 

the district court. 

Kasanawaqa was found guilty 

earlier this year on one charge 

of wounding with intent to 

cause grievous bodily harm and 

one charge of wilful damage 

Staff redirected the driver to 

the checkpoint area and the two 

occupants were instructed to get 

out of the vehicle so it could be 

searched. 

“Drug detector dog Kaos 

alerted staff to a bag inside the 

vehicle, which was passed on to a 

handler for manual searching. A 

large amount of cash, cannabis, 

and a number of empty small 

ziplock bags were located inside 

the bag,” prison director Jo Harrex 

said. 

“When staff carried out a 

further search of the vehicle, they 

found drug paraphernalia and a 

firearm.” 

Police were contacted and a 

relating to a car. 

The court heard that Kasanawaqa 

was at a party on December 

19, 2020, when an argument 

broke out. 

While a man was being 

restrained on the ground Kasanawaqa 

approached him and 

began punching him in the head. 

Kasanawaqa was then removed 

from the address. 

The following week, two men 

from the party went to Kasanawaqa’s 

address to confront him, 

after being told he had smashed 

the windscreen of a car as he was 


Prison visitor busted with drugs, gun 

person was taken into custody. 

All items were seized by police. 

“This was a fantastic find by 

our dog section, with Kaos front 

and centre of this operation,” 

Harrex said. 

“Let this serve as a reminder 

to anyone who visits our sites 

with prohibited items – we will 

find them and you will be held to 

account.” 

– NZ Herald 

SNIFFED OUT: Detector 

dog Kaos alerted staff to a 

bag inside a vehicle in the 

prison’s visitor car park. 

PHOTO: NZ HERALD 

Freezing worker claimed stabbing self-defence 

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leaving the party. 

Kasanawaqa denied he caused 

the damage to the car and suggested 

going to a fourth man’s 

address to discuss the matter. 

The two men agreed to Kasanawaqa’s 

suggestion and offered 

him a ride to the fourth man’s 

house but he refused, saying he 

would meet them there. 

When the two men left Kasanawaqa’s 

address, he went into 

his house and grabbed a boning 

knife, which he had from his 

job at the freezing works, and 

concealed it in his jacket. 

Kasanawaqa then travelled to 

the address of the fourth man. 

The two men were already at the 

address, standing at the back 

door as they spoke with the 

owner of the address. 

Kasanawaqa began to slowly 

climb the outdoor steps behind 

one of the men so he was the 

same height as him before he 

began to punch him in the head. 


COURT 9 

The man responded by returning 

punches to Kasanawaqa. 

He then pulled out the boning 

knife and stabbed the man in the 

abdomen. 

The man turned to get away 

from Kasanawaqa but he chased 

and stabbed him a second time 

while threatening to kill the 

man, before leaving the address. 

The court heard the man who 

was stabbed had a pregnant wife 

who he was not able to support 

due to having time off work. He 

also suffered nightmares from 

the attack and felt unsafe. 

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Contractor who failed to fill walls 

with insulation a former detective 

• By Tim Scott 

A HOMEOWNER is shocked 

after a former Christchurch 

detective charged him $4700 to 

insulate his walls, but left half of 

them empty. 

The man, who declined to be 

named, said he recorded the actions 

of Jason Bracegirdle – who 

is now also working as a private 

investigator in Dunedin – on 

CCTV. 

Bracegirdle was contracted to 

retrofit wall insulation, which involves 

drilling a hole and pumping 

the product into the cavity, 

into all walls of the home. 

CCTV footage supplied by the 

homeowner shows Bracegirdle 

drilling into a wall, then filling 

the holes with putty without 

installing insulation material. 

The saga began a few months 

ago when the homeowner 

contracted Bracegirdle through 

distributor Cosy Home to install 

CosyWall, a brand of retrofitted 

insulation product, around his 

Dunedin home. 

Once the job was done, the 

homeowner said he had a “gut 

feeling” something was off. 

He reviewed the CCTV footage 

and used thermal imaging 

CAUGHT: CCTV footage shows the contractor drilling 

holes into a wall, then filling the holes with putty without 

installing insulation material. 

equipment to scan the walls, 

which showed some parts of the 

walls – he estimated 50-60 per 

cent – had not been filled with 

insulation. 

The homeowner said he was 

“shocked” upon making the discovery 

and requested an auditor, 

who had to fly in from out of the 

city, to assess the job. 

During two visits with the auditor 

present, Bracegirdle drilled 

a series of test holes around the 

property so the walls could be 

assessed. 

After testing a hole with an 

endoscope, the auditor told the 

homeowner there was “nothing 

there” and that they were “looking 

at a void”, the homeowner 

said. 

After more insulation was 

injected during the visits, the 

homeowner accepted the walls 

were as good as they could be. 

However, when a builder visited 

the house for an unrelated 

job he noticed other issues, including 

inappropriate materials 

used to jam the house’s ventilation 

and shrinking mortar putty, 

leading the homeowner to once 

again question the work. 

The homeowner said he had 

paid the $4700 invoice because 

he thought the work had been 

done, but now wanted a refund 

or for the work to be fixed. 

“My battle right now is to get 

my house reinsulated properly, 

and I don’t want the local contractor 

to do it based on the 

behaviour I’ve seen.” 

When the Otago Daily Times 

contacted Bracegirdle, he said he 

had been advised not to say anything 

and declined to comment. 

CosyWall is a brand supplied 

by Safe-R Insulation. 

Safe-R Insulation general 

manager Wade Maurice said it 

had been working closely with 

the homeowner. 

Its auditor found areas of the 

home had been missed due to 

“the drill pattern”, Maurice said. 

“While most of the walls were 

filled, recommendations for 

remedial works to fill the missed 

spaces were made and carried 

out by the distributor.” 

However, further assessment 

revealed more work was required, 

he confirmed. 

Safe-R had arranged for 

the work to be done, but the 

homeowner indicated he wanted 

someone else to do it, Maurice 

said. 

The company also offered to 

pay a third party to do the work. 

“We have spoken with him at 

length and done everything we 

could to address the issues and 

remedy the situation.” 

Safe-R had been working 

with Cosy Home for five years 

and this was the first customerdriven 

complaint Safe-R had 

received that had prompted it to 

provide ongoing support in this 

way, Maurice said. 

The distribution agreement 

between the two companies was 

due for renewal and they would 

be “discussing the way forward” 

over the coming weeks, he said. 

– Otago Daily Times 

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• By Sam Coughlan 

THE NUMBER of South 

African-born stars in New 

Zealand cricketing circles 

continues to rise. 

Black Caps Glenn Phillips and 

Devon Conway hail from the 

rainbow nation – and hoping to 

join them is Sydenham batter 

Bevon-John Jacobs. 

Jacobs moved to New Zealand 

with his family as a three-yearold 

from Pretoria, South Africa. 

He grew up in Auckland, 

where Jacobs said he learned 

cricket from his father, an avid 

fan of the sport. 

“My dad loved the game,” he 

said. 

“And so he introduced it to 

me, and it just kind of went from 

there.” 

Jacobs played for Westlake 

Boys’ High School’s first XI 

as a teenager and represented 

Auckland U19 at the national 

provincial competition. 

After leaving school he moved 

to Christchurch to study sport 

and recreation management on 

a cricket scholarship at Lincoln 

University. 

Said Jacobs: “Me and my family 

had a discussion about it and 

we thought that that would be 

the best step forward for me and 

my career. 

“Not only can I chase my 

dream of playing cricket but I 

can get the degree done at the 

same time.” 

MAKING HIS MARK: South-African born Bevon-John Jacobs celebrates a century for 

Sydenham against East Shirley. Inset – scoring runs for fun in the Christchurch Metro 

competition. PHOTOS: KEVIN CONGDON 

Jacobs joined Sydenham in 

2021 and took to the Christchurch 

Metro competition, breaking 

multiple records during his 

time at the club so far. 

The 21-year-old set the record 

for the highest 50-over score 

in the competition’s history in 

January, scoring 178 runs in an 

innings against Old Boys Collegians 

to break the previous 

record of 169. 

In the same season his tally of 

535 runs in the one-day set another 

record and higher honours 

seemed inevitable. 

The hard-hitting batter became 

a regular for second-tier Canterbury 

A, and said being in that 

environment benefited him. 

“From then onward is when 

I felt like maybe I had a chance 

and so I just tried to keep working 

at it,” he said. 

Jacobs’ hard work paid off 

when he was named in the Canterbury 

team for his Ford Trophy 

debut against Wellington at 

Hagley Oval in November, and 

he described it as “unreal”. 

“I think it didn’t really hit me 

until I got onto the field and first 

experienced it for myself. 

“I couldn’t really describe 

the feeling but I really enjoyed 

myself.” 

He backed it up with a successful 

T20 Super Smash debut 

against Auckland, where he 

scored 42 runs off just 20 balls, 

against Black Caps bowlers 

Jimmy Neesham and Ben Lister. 

Jacobs’s efforts couldn’t secure 

a win for Canterbury but he 

said he was grateful for the faith 

shown in him. 

“It’s nice to have that reassurance, 

that they’ve picked me and 

I feel like I can actually belong at 

this level.” 

He’s not getting ahead of himself 

either, being realistic on his 

chances in the future. 

Said Jacobs: “I’ve only just 

broken onto the domestic scene 

now. 

“I’m just trying to put my best 

foot forward and then hopefully 

the rest can take care of itself.” 

Boys’ High dominates Gillette Cup again 

PACE: Alex Kirkland in action against Otago Boys' High School. 

PHOTO: ASH WANASINGHE PHOTOGRAPHY 

• By Sam Coughlan 

DEPTH. 

That’s the key to Christchurch 

Boys’ High School’s 

continued domination of the 

Gillette Cup – the national 

secondary schools’ cricket 

competition. 

Boys’ High claimed their 

12th title at Bert Sutcliffe Oval 

in Lincoln – extending their 

lead in the list of most titles 

won, well ahead of Auckland’s 

King’s College, who have won 

five. 

Boys’ High cricket coordinator 

Rob Smith said the 

success is down to the depth 

they’ve built, with 18 cricket 

teams throughout the school. 

“Over the years we’ve built 

successful systems and there’s 

good continuity with new players 

coming in each year. 

“They understand what it 

takes to play and win at these 

competitions.” 

The title was claimed after 

Boys’ High won all five games 

at the competition, beating 

representatives from each of 

New Zealand’s major cricketing 

provinces. 

Auckland’s Westlake Boys’ 

High School pushed them close 

but lost by 14 runs in the final 

game. 

Left-arm fast bowler Alex 

Kirkland took the final wicket 

in that game to seal the title, 

and he, along with Chris Ellison, 

Toby Robinson and Nick 

Smith all represented Canterbury 

U19 at the recent national 

tournament. 

Rob Smith said the boys all 

had excellent tournaments. 

“All four of them have very 

bright futures moving into the 

big world next year.” 

Opening batter Robinson 

scored 245 runs for the tournament, 

the second-highest and 

two runs behind first-placed 

Jordan van Zyl from Westlake 

Boys’. 

That included a huge 132 not 

out against Wellington College. 

Fast bowler Nick Smith also 

took 12 wickets to finish top 

of the bowling standings, and 

Kirkland took 10 to finish 

fourth. 

Of the 12-man squad for 

the tournament, only five will 

be staying for 2024 with the 

rest finishing school, and Rob 

Smith said next year has to be a 

new start. 

“There’s lots of competition, 

especially in the Christchurch 

qualifiers which are really 

tough,” said Rob Smith. 

“But this year’s success is 

a great foundation and we’ll 

definitely have a go.”


12 

TRAVEL 


From electric cars to cat cafes, 

China a delightful destination 

Susan Sandys travelled 

to China travelled with 

China Southern Airlines 

as it re-introduced, for 

the first time since the 

Covid pandemic, its 

direct Christhchurch- 

Guangzhou flight 

Flying economy 

with China Southern 

Airlines Christchurch 

– Guangzhou return 

costs about $1900. 

The airline offers the 

service November 

10 to February 25. 

PHOTOS: SUSAN SANDYS 

GUANGZHOU is the perfect 

place to fly into for those 

wanting to travel around China. 

The flight from Australia is 

relatively short – about 11 hours 

– while Guangzhou is in the 

province of Guangdong, known 

as China’s southern gateway. 

Guangzhou is just a bullet-train 

journey away from the highprofile 

destinations of Shanghai 

(7 hours) and Beijing (8-10 

hours). 

Guangdong also has its own 

attractions, as we found out by 

staying in its biggest city, Shenzhen. 

Just across the water from 

Hong Kong, Shenzhen is dubbed 

‘the miracle city’ due to the speed 

with which it rose from a fishing 

town 40 years ago to a metropolis 

of 17 million people today. 

It offers the visual spectacle of 

towering skyscrapers contrasting 

with parks, surrounding coastal 

wetlands and greenery. 

Shenzhen is a young city 

with an average age of 32, as it 

draws in talent from across the 

country. It is known both as the 

Silicon Valley of China, due to 

being the home for high-tech 

companies such as Huawei and 

TenCent, and a city of parks, due 

to its large networks of the green 

spaces. 

We viewed the Shenzhen Light 

Show, a spectacular night display 

across the modern skyline. 

Lights on the buildings flash 

and sparkle in synchronisation, 

with various colours, shapes and 

patterns. 

We also went to Shenzhen 

Civic Center, a building with 

a 486m-long winged roof that 

provides a striking backdrop to 

a nearby square and adjoining 

park, where thousands go to 

enjoy the outdoors. There were 

dozens of families flying kites, 

enjoying a 25-degree warm day. 

There were youths involved in 

their own hip hop dance classes, 

breakdancing with a ghetto 

blaster, and making videos (there 

is a huge TikTok culture in 

China). 

And we visited what must be 

two of Shenzhen’s most stunning 

parks – the Dasha Ecological 

Corridor and Shenzhen Talent 

Park. 

The ecological corridor winds 

along the Dasha River from the 

mountains to the sea. It was only 

eight years ago the city began 

to transform the riverside from 

a degraded environment to the 

STUNNING: The backdrop to Shenzhen Talent Park, featuring the spring-bamboo shaped 

China Resources Headquarters Tower. Inset – the Shenzhen Light Show. 

flourishing green space it is 

today. It has thousands of mature 

trees, which have been re-located 

there. 

From a southern viewpoint 

we could see white herons congregating 

along the corridor’s 

swampy shoreline. We could also 

see the Hong Kong skyline on 

the horizon, as well as the long 

bridge that connects this Chinese 

city to the mainland. 

ALL ELECTRIC: This concept 

car at BYD was designed 

by Audi’s former head of 

design. 

Shenzhen Talent Park was just 

as beautiful as the corridor – an 

expansive park around a lake 

with another stunning skyline, 

this one featuring the 400m 

China Resources Headquarters 

Tower. It is the city’s third tallest 

building, built to resemble 

a spring bamboo. The park has 

dozens of sculptures paying 

tribute to the talented people 

who have contributed to the 

city’s development, as well as 

global historical figures such as 

Eddison, Einstein, Beethoven 

and Confucius. 

In Shenzhen, we were hosted 

by the Foreign Affairs Office. 

This meant we were fortunate 

enough to be taken behind the 

scenes to some of the companies 

which had helped Shenzhen 

become the city it is today. The 

most exciting of these was electric 

and hybrid car, bus and rail 

manufacturer BYD. 

Electric cars are big in China. 

There are at least 40 different 

manufacturers in the country. 

BYD is taking on Tesla in the 

global market, having developed 

safety and longevity features in 

its electric car batteries. This year 

it was on track to sell 3 million 

new vehicles internationally. We 

saw some of its latest vehicles, 

including a red Ferrari-looking 

sports electric car designed by 

Audi’s former head of design 

Wolfgang Egger, who now works 

for BYD. 

Next we flew to Shanghai, 

China’s most populous and 

wealthiest city, 1200km north. 

Our trip was in autumn, 

and here we found the weather 

cooler, similar to a New Zealand 

autumn. 

We were met at the airport 

by our guide Minji, a journalist 

at English-language newspaper 

Shanghai Daily. 

By its name alone, Shanghai 

felt like a glamorous place to be. 

A bit like New York, London 

and Paris. We walked along 

The Bund, a waterfront area 

and historical district in the 

central city, beneath the city’s 

signature skyline. The skyline 

features China’s tallest building, 

Shanghai Tower, as well as the 

landmark Oriental Pearl TV 

Tower and the “bottle opener’’ 

Shanghai World Financial 

Center. We took a $2 cruise 

across to the other side of The 

Bund’s Huangpu River, snapping 

photos along the way. 

Shanghai was a nice city to 

walk around, with its old original 

streets, the contemporary 

‘‘M50’’ art district, and glitzy 

shopping areas. We got to sample 

cafes and tea-drinking shops 

along the way, not to mention 

amazing restaurants featuring 

not only the best of authentic 

Chinese cuisine, but also food 

from around the world. 

While eating out costs about 

half what it would in New 

Zealand, clothes and other items 

in mainstream shopping areas 

were either similarly priced or 

more expensive. Although we 

did visit a market area which 

offered cheap buys, as well as 

fake-branded items such as Louis 

Vuitton. 

The highlight of Shanghai was 

visiting Yu Garden and its neighbouring 

outdoor boulevard, 

which sold items from souvenirs 

to luxury 24K gold jewellery. 

There was a cat cafe there, which 

we found we could not walk past! 

We just had to go inside and 

spend some time with the 10 or 

so cats of many different breeds. 

The garden was once a private 

walled garden of the Pan family 

in the Ming Dynasty. It blends 

pools, bridges, pagodas, archways, 

rockeries and carvings 

around the original home. We 

also viewed the nearby City God 

Temple, one of many such structures 

in China which stand as a 

testimony to the country’s Taoist 

and Buddhist heritage. 

Once again in this city, we got 

taken to places perhaps many 

a tourist would not go. Across 

the Yantze River on Chongming 

Island, we visited a conservation 

centre for the endangered 

Chinese sturgeon, a fish that 

was once abundant in the river. 

We also visited a cotton textile 

weaving showroom, and a farm 

operated by about 245 villagers 

who live on-site. 

All in all, our whirlwind trip 

offered an amazing experience 

in a country I never thought I 

would get the opportunity to 

visit. 

Shanghai and Shenzhen 

were clean and felt very safe. I 

thought they might have been 

smoggy, with overcrowded 

roads. But they weren’t at all, 

having fresh air, perhaps aided 

by their coastal locations, as 

well as free-flowing roads. And 

while busy with people, the 

streets themselves were not 

overcrowded. China feels like 

a safe place to travel, perhaps 

helped by its ubiquitous CCTV 

cameras. The people are friendly, 

abiding, polite, and enjoy a 

laugh. 

I highly recommend visiting 

China. I have already decided I 

will return there one day, most 

likely once again flying China 

Southern Airlines into Guangzhou. 

The airline’s Dreamliner 

aircraft had a modern and clean 

feel, the service was good, and 

the food generally fresh and delicious. 

I have already started planning 

my itinerary – spend some time 

again in Southern China before 

taking the bullet train up north, 

including to the capital of Beijing 

to climb the Great Wall of China 

and see the country’s iconic 

panda bears. 

OLD AND NEW: The tree-lined streets of downtown Shanghai.


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CROSSWORD 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

9 10 

328 

SUDOKU 

Every row, column and box should 

contain the digits 1 to 9. 

WordBuilder 

WORDBUILDER 

228 

6 

O F A 

L M R 

11 12 

13 14 15 16 17 

18 19 20 

How many words of three or more letters, 

How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six 

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign 

words or words beginning with a capital are 

from allowed. the There's six letters, at least one using six-letter each word. only 

once? 

TODAY 

Good 16 Very Good 20 Excellent 24 

Solution 227: emit, emu, item, men, menu, met, 

mien, min, mine, mint, MINUTE, MINUET, mite, 

word. mute, net, nim, nit, nut, ten, tie, time, tin, tine, tum, 

tun, tune, unit, unite, untie, ute. 

letters, including plurals, can you make 

No words beginning with a capital are 

allowed. There’s at least one six-letter 

Good 16 Very Good 20 Excellent 24 

21 22 23 24 

25 26 

27 28 

Across 

1. Tanned animal skin (7) 

5. Meeting notes (7) 

9. Stone worker (5) 

10. Boundary line (9) 

11. Wanderlust (5,4) 

12. Verse (5) 

13. Titan (5) 

15. Streamlined (9) 

18. Branch of science (9) 

19. Lawful (5) 

21. Tip over (5) 

23. Filled with wonder (9) 

25. Ocean-going (9) 

26. Muscle (5) 

27. Missives (7) 

28. Give as part payment (5-2) 

Decoder 

Down 

1. Small Arctic rodent (7) 

2. Business colleague (9) 

3. Useful (5) 

4. Symbolise (9) 

5. Worth (5) 

6. By the numbers (9) 

7. Shabby (5) 

8. Snake (7) 

14. Of poor quality (5-4) 

16. Boxing division (9) 

17. Give support, spur on (9) 

18. Advice (7) 

20. Fooled (5,2) 

22. Praise, glorify (5) 

23. Awry (5) 

24. Leg bone (5) 

Crossword 

Across: 1. Leather, 5. 

Minutes, 9. Mason, 10. 

Perimeter, 11. Itchy feet, 

12. Rhyme, 13. Giant, 15. 

Efficient, 18. Chemistry, 

19. Licit, 21. Upend, 23. 

Awestruck, 25. Seafaring, 

26. Brawn, 27. Letters, 28. 

Trade-in. 

Down: 1. Lemming, 2. 

Associate, 3. Handy, 4. 

Represent, 5. Merit, 6. 

Numerical, 7. Tatty, 8. 

Serpent, 14. Third-rate, 16. 

Flyweight, 17. Encourage, 

18. Counsel, 20. Taken in, 

22. Exalt, 23. Amiss, 24. 

Tibia. 

WordBuilder 

arm, far, farm, faro, flam, 

flora, foal, foam, for, fora, 

form, FORMAL, fro, from, 

lam, loaf, loam, mar, marl, 

moa, molar, moral, oaf, oar, 

oral, ram, roam 

Sudoku 

DECODER 

Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the 

given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out 

which letters are represented by the other numbers. 

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DJ Steve Edwards (Skylark Lounge); 7pm - 

DJ Eric (Foyer); 9.30pm - Third Time 

Lucky (Main Gaming Floor): 10pm - Black 

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HORNBY CLUB, 17 Carmen Rd: 

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KAIAPOI CLUB, Raven's Quay: 

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LYTTELTON CLUB, 23 Dublin St, 

Lyttelton: Sunday New Year's Eve, 8pm - 

Maiden England. 

MACKENZIE'S, 51 Pages Rd: Friday - 

Titanic. Sunday New Year's Eve 6.30pm - 

Speedboat. 

MANDEVILLE TAVERN, Raven Quay, 

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MICKY FINN'S, 85a Hereford St: 

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NEW BRIGHTON CLUB, 202 Marine 

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Lino. 

OAK N FERRY, 608 Ferry Rd: Friday 

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OHOKA MARKET, Ohoka: Friday 10am 

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PINEGLADES, 135 Brookside Rd: 

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RICHMOND CLUB, 'The Borough', 75 

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Rock Band. Saturday 7pm - Unhinged. 

Sunday New Year's Eve 8pm - 

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ROCK THE PARK, North Hagley 

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ROSE & THISTLE, 24a Main North 

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Misconduct. 

SUMNER SOCIAL, 22a Esplanade, 

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Saturday 1pm - Live music. 

TEMP'S BAR, 21 Goulding Ave: 

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THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Thursday 

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Saturday 7pm - Topia; 10pm - Flat City 

Brotherhood. Sunday New Year's Eve 6pm 

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THE CHURCH, 124 Worcester St: 

Sunday New Year's Eve 9pm - The Eastern. 

THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: 

Wednesday 24th Jan, 9pm - Titanic. 

THE LITTLE FIDDLE, 132 Oxford Tce: 

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THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd: 

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THE PENGUIN ARMS, 3 Brighton 

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THE ROCKPOOL, 85 Hereford St: 

Thursday 9pm, Friday 8.30pm, Saturday 

8.30pm, Sunday 8pm - DJ's. 

WOOlSTON CLUB, 43 Hargood St: 

Sunday New Year's Eve 4pm - Lino. 

WUNDERBAR, 14 Canterbury St, 

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$ 

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Sun 31st Dec: 

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Mon 1st Jan: Club closed 

Tues 2nd Jan: Open at 11am | Bistro closed 

Wed 3rd Jan: Open at 11am | Bistro closed 

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from 

from 

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Thursday, December 28, 2023 

Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper 

Wishes all 

readers a 

Happy 

New Year! 

MASSIVE 

Boxing Day 

DEALS 

See yah, Santa. It’s time to get all the 

stuff that wouldn’t fit under the tree. 

Earn 3x Airpoints Dollars on selected Appliances, TVs, Audio and Beds ~ 

Chiropractic HD Ultra 

Free Delivery^ 

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Queen, King, 

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13 Place Setting 

White Dishwasher 

9063781 / 

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$675 

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SEE PAGE OVER 

FOR MORE DEALS! 

Offers valid from 7pm 24 Dec 2023. Offer expiry dates vary, see individual products online or in-store for details. Terms, conditions, exclusions, and limits apply. ~ 3x Airpoints Dollars on selected Appliances, TVs, 

Audio & Beds valid Sunday 7pm 24 December 2023 – 2 January 2024. Promotion and Airpoints terms, conditions and exclusions apply. Personal shoppers only. Excludes Commercial and Trade sales. See smithscity. 

co.nz/airpoints for full details. #Discount is off our full retail price. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. ^ Free delivery on Sleepyhead beds valid 20 December 2023 - 16 January 2024. Free delivery 

terms, conditions, and exclusions apply. Applies to Sleepyhead branded beds only. Available in-store and online. Applies to delivery addresses within 25km of a Smiths City store. Also applies to local Auckland 

delivery addresses (from Auckland CBD extending to Albany, Henderson, Howick, and Papakura). Deliveries to some rural areas and the Outer Islands (Chatham Island, Stewart Island, Kawau Island, Waiheke Island, 

Matakana Island, Great Barrier Island and d’Urville Island) are excluded. Excludes unpacking, set up, and installation. Additional delivery charges and free delivery exclusions apply in some circumstances. Not 

available in conjunction with any other offer. Personal shoppers only, trade and commercial not supplied.

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was 

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selected Sleepyhead Beds # 

+ FREE DELIVERY 

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selected Lounge Suites 

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selected Outdoor 

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up to 

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Limited Stock 

Bissell SpotClean MAX Carpet 

& Upholstery Cleaner 60002031 

$229 

45% 

OFF # 50% 

OFF # 

was 

$449 

Ninja Foodi Dual Zone 

Air Fryer 9065131 

Branded Import 

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$249 $864 

was 

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20% 

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Bedding # 

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30% 

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Samsung Jet 90 

Pet Handstick 

Vacuum Cleaner 

9067815 

$999 

$899 

Hisense 65” UHD 

was 

4K LED Smart TV 

9077350 / 65A7K 

$1499 $649 

Found a better price, on the same item, elsewhere? 

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more 

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Colombo Street 

550 Colombo Street, 

Christchurch 

Smiths City 

Northwood 

1 Radcliffe Rd, 

Christchurch 

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Hornby 

6 Tower Street, 

Christchurch 

Offers valid from 7pm 24 Dec 2023. Offer expiry dates vary, see individual products online or in-store for details. Terms, conditions, exclusions, and limits apply. #Discount is off our full retail price. Not available in conjunction 

with any other offer. †Price Promise terms, conditions and exclusions apply. See smithscity.co.nz/price-promise for more detail. ^ Free delivery on Sleepyhead beds valid 20 December 2023 - 16 January 2024. Free delivery 

terms, conditions, and exclusions apply. Applies to Sleepyhead branded beds only. Available in-store and online. Applies to delivery addresses within 25km of a Smiths City store. Also applies to local Auckland delivery 

addresses (from Auckland CBD extending to Albany, Henderson, Howick, and Papakura). Deliveries to some rural areas and the Outer Islands (Chatham Island, Stewart Island, Kawau Island, Waiheke Island, Matakana Island, 

Great Barrier Island and d’Urville Island) are excluded. Excludes unpacking, set up, and installation. Additional delivery charges and free delivery exclusions apply in some circumstances. Not available in conjunction with 

any other offer. Personal shoppers only, trade and commercial not supplied.

The Star: December 28, 2023

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