Southern View: January 18, 2024

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2024
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Rubbish,
parking
issues
a blow for
Kite Day
• By Chris Barclay
WASTE DISPOSAL and
parking issues are under review
following New Brighton’s
annual Kite Day, with Coastal
Ward councillor Celeste
Donovan demanding
a smoother running of
the next edition.
While weather conditions
were optimum
– a peak wind gust of
46km/h and a maximum
temperature of
25.6 deg C – for last
Saturday, it wasn’t all
smooth sailing for the
popular event.
An estimated 8000 converged
on Marine Pde, the foreshore
and the pier, so rubbish bins
were soon overflowing. Car
space was also at premium,
prompting some motorists to
Celeste
Donovan
park illegally.
Donovan was at the beach
and sought answers from
council staff on Monday after
receiving adverse feedback during,
and after the event.
Southern View was told
12 extra rubbish bins were
placed at the event area
by city council events and
arts manager Lucy Blackmore,
but Donovan was
undeterred.
“I still think there’s
more than needs to be
done in terms of the waste
management strategy in
general,” she said.
Blackmore said there was
no waste overflow or excess
rubbish when the temporary
bins were removed about 90
minutes after Kite Day. But
Donovan said that was because
local business owners tidied up
the area.
“It shouldn’t fall on other
groups to clean it up. I saw them
picking up rubbish and doing
some of that work themselves.
They packed some of the excess
rubbish themselves.”
Blackmore said the council
had not received any public
feedback regarding illegal parking
and a lack of enforcement.
Concerns were evident about
parking – and rubbish – on the
New Brighton Residents Association
Facebook page.
“Extra rubbish bins needed
and extra parking enforcement
needed as visitors were parking
anywhere and everywhere, and
not always legally either . . .
Oram Ave especially,” posted
Laurine Driscoll.
• Turn to page 4
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this week
Musical Makers
Tuesday, 3-4pm
Spreydon Library
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Outdoor Paintings in
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All week, 9am-7pm
South Library
The outdoor painting club WEA
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morning. The artists are young and
old, experienced and beginners. They
connect through their love of the
outdoors, painting and each other’s
company. Come and enjoy their
works at the library.
Collage Postcards
Monday-Saturday, all day,
South and Spreydon Libraries
Cut and paste a unique postcard –
this is an unsupervised activity.
Share Kai and Kōrero, Saturday, 6-8pm, Risingholme Hall. Try some
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Persian tea and more are on offer. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal
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Rocking Paper Boat
Monday-Saturday, all day
South and Spreydon Libraries
Set sail on creative waves with a
handcrafted paper boat – this is an
unsupervised activity.
Lantern Making Workshop
Wednesday, 11am-noon
South Library
Make a Lunar New Year lantern to
celebrate the Year of the Dragon. All
welcome but the craft is suitable for
those 5 years and older. Free.
Creative Essentials - Affinity
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Thursday, 10-11am
South Library
Discover, explore, learn and master
creative essentials. Book a session
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design software in order to create a
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Suited for ages 13 and up. Free,
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Thursday, 1.30-3.30pm
South Library
Go along with your knitting, crochet
or any other portable crafts to enjoy
time with other crafters. Share
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Thursday January 18 2024 3
Marine training helps search and
rescue police with recovery skills
• By Dylan Smits
POLICE SEARCH and Rescue
officers have been training to
help fill a skills gap in body and
victim recovery from marine
environments.
Police SAR, Coastguard New
Zealand, and Taylors Mistake
and Sumner surf lifesaving clubs
have been working together to
bring their expertise to the training
sessions.
A second training was held in
December to skill up seven officers.
The first was held in October.
SAR squad member Constable
Tom Denman said there is a
need for more search and rescue
officers with experience in marine
operations.
“We need police SAR members
who understand DVI (disaster
victim identification) and SAR
operational processes, but we
also need people with experience
and skill operating in this type of
unique marine environment.”
A surf lifeguard himself,
Denman identified the missing
piece of the puzzle.
“Surf Life Saving New Zealand
are experts in the inshore rescue
space,” said Denman.
Police SAR members who
are already surf lifesaving club
members were selected for the
training sessions due to their
pre-existing skills. The advanced
training is needed for victim
recovery at sea.
“It’s often in choppy and
surging seas and requires
navigation and entry from the
water onto the rocky base of the
cliffs. It can be dangerous and
not everyone is confident in that
environment,” said Denman.
Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving
Club patrol manager Patrice de
Beer said the trainings have been
successful so far.
“Our role is to teach them how
to interpret what the surf does
and what areas of rocks
are safe,” he said.
The training also aims to
provide more capable body
recovery police, so surf lifesaving
club members do not need to
recover bodies themselves.
“If the police have specialised
people, then they can deal with
that. We don’t want to expose
surf lifesaving members to
unnecessary trauma.”
De Beer said more training
sessions in the coming months
are likely.
UPSKILLING: Taylors
Mistake Surf Life Saving
Club patrol manager Patrice
de Beer (left) and Constable
Tom Denman (third from
left) with Police SAR and
surf lifesavers. ​
Below – trainees worked
with coastguard members
to enter a hard-to-reach
area.
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Review of
Kite Day
event plan
urged
• From page 1
Leonie Bowkett agreed, adding:
“I know I saw some shocking
dangerous parking. Needs
enforcement.”
Donovan urged a review of
the event management plan with
the aim of avoiding a repeat in
2025.
“I’d like to know what was in
place so we don’t have these issues
in the future, we don’t want
anything to detract from what is
a showcase event for the area,” she
said.
“We want to make sure the
focus is on the positive side of it,
those things are quite avoidable.
You need to take into account
you’ve thousands and thousands
or more people coming through.
“During the summer we have
these big spikes (in visitors to New
Brighton) for events and I’m not
sure we’re responding to some of
the issues as quickly as we could
be. Having said that,
95 per cent of the event was really
smooth.”
Meanwhile, Kite Day was a
resounding success for the Youth
Alive Trust, which sold out their
500 kites for the first time ever as
a fundraising venture.
Scrabble master sharp at 99
WINNING WORD: Grace Hartley plays Scrabble every night against enrolled nurse Natasha Patterson at Arvida St Albans.
AT 99, Grace Hartley still
plays her favourite board
game, Scrabble, every night
– and she hardly ever loses a
game.
Like clockwork in the early
evening and after reading her
newspaper, the Arvida St Albans
wordsmith sets up the board
to play against nurse Natasha
Patterson.
Grace said they help each
other when they get stuck
finding a word but are still
competitive.
“I’m not afraid to use a few
risqué words to try and win
a game and make Tash laugh
at the same time. I do the big
words and Tash does the small
words.”
Grace took up playing
Scrabble about 10 years ago
when she moved into the
retirement village.
Patterson became her playing
partner when Grace’s daughter
Thursday January 18 2024
could no longer take part due to
the Covid restrictions.
She played so much the letters
wore off her original Scrabble set
due to overuse.
But Grace has now received
a new set to make sure she is
always game-ready and thinking
of the next big word for the win.
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Thursday January 18 2024 5
Organic college
puts down roots
at old school site
GROWING: Climate Action Campus Ōtautahi is spread
across the former Avonside Girls’ High School site and an
adjoining 1.8ha.
THE FORMER Avonside Girls’
High School site is the new base
for the Biological Husbandry
Organic College.
The college, first established on
Lincoln University farmland in
1976, will move to Climate Action
Campus Ōtautahi and offer its
tertiary courses from late February.
College trust chair Penny
Platt said the move will make it
easier for more people to access its
hands-on training and classroom
education.
It will be supervised by the
Southland Institute of Technology
and deliver level 3 and 4
programmes in organic primary
production.
Platt said joining the Avonside
Drive campus opens up a new
era for the college, which over the
decades has trained hundreds of
leaders in New Zealand’s burgeoning
organics sector.
“We will be more central and
accessible for everyone who seeks
knowledge and skills to grow food
in the most natural and sustainable
ways, whether they’re working
in local food systems or bigger
organics industries,” said Platt,
who is co-founder of Canterbury’s
Untamed Earth Organic Farm.
“We provide a solid grounding
in the practice and theory of organic
growing, delivered by tutors
with a wealth of knowledge and
experience and all in a friendly,
supportive environment.”
Former mayor Vicki Buck, who
founded the campus, said the college
provides innovation opportunities
for the city.
“Food security
is one of our top
priorities. The
more knowledge
and skill people
gain on growing,
soil, composting
and all other
Vicki Buck aspects of local
food production and supply, the
more we will be able to withstand
the shocks that come more
frequently and severely with
climate change,” she said.
“Christchurch now has a
vibrant local food culture with
its many community gardens,
bigger organic growers nearby
and farmers’ markets . . . it has a
tradition of growing and sharing
food.”
The campus, which sits on
the former school site and an
adjoining 1.8ha, is designated as
a state school for primary and
secondary students. It is managed
as a satellite school of Ao Tawhiti
Unlimited Discovery and is used
by a growing number of other
schools.
Said Buck: “Students come with
their teachers to take action on
climate change. There’s a range of
options we can provide, or they
can think themselves of anything
which they want to do related to
climate change.”
The campus will provide a
former sports field for food
growing and plans to use the
adjacent red zone land to create
an enlarged urban organics farm.
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BACK TO SCHOOL 2024
Papanui High School
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“Our aim is simple... to provide the best
education possible for every student.”
At Papanui High School positive
relationships are at the forefront of
what we do. Connecting through a
responsive local curriculum we provide
an opportunity for all students to learn
in a productive and future-focused
environment.
The opportunity to learn from an
innovative and broad curriculum is
critical to providing a pathway that meets
each student’s individual needs. Papanui
High School allows for a greater range
and flexibility in subject choice including
the utilization of the secondary/tertiary
interface. This reinforces the philosophy
underpinning personalised learning and is
strongly supported by understanding our
students’ interests, passions, talents, and
ultimately their career aspirations.
We understand that for effective learning
to take place, it has to be implemented
in such a way that students will be highly
engaged. The school does this in a ‘forward
thinking’ way by creating learning
environments that allow our students to
see value in what they do and achieve.
Papanui “PRIDE” is what we represent,
and we demonstrate this by having young
adults leave our school as confident
learners who have gained the appropriate
qualifications and social skills to become
valued contributing members of society.
All that we do here is reinforced by
positive relationships, an ethos of caring,
cultural responsiveness, inclusion, and
high expectations. The school highly
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wider school community. We have a
philosophical understanding that the
holistic development of the student is
critical to individual success.
The school is working hard to
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sustained and continuous improvement.
You are invited to view our website, school
charter, ERO report, and/or contact the
school for more information.
In 2024 we are looking forward to
welcoming new students along with a
new principal Mr Robert Gilbert. Robert
returns to Christchurch after serving
as Deputy Principal at Tauranga Boys’
College for the past eight years. He has a
background in the Arts, and previously
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High School and Rangi Ruru Girls’ School.
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START OF SCHOOL YEAR 2024
NB: SENIOR STUDENTS (Year 11 – 13). The Senior Course Tutor will
be available on the 23rd and 24th January for course changes. Other
students may receive an email to advise them of an appointment time on
the 25th or 26th January.
Monday 22 January - School Office opens
Tuesday 23 January – Thursday 25 January
Peer Support training camp
Monday 29 January
Staff Only Day
Tuesday 30 January
Year 9 students and new students report in full uniform to Hall - 9.00am
Pōwhiri for ALL new students – 9.00am
New students (Year 10-13) finish at 12.30pm
Year 9 students finish at 2.30pm
Wednesday 31 January
Year 9 students report to form classes at 8.30am
Year 12 students report to hall in uniform at 9.00am – 10.30am
Year 13 students report to hall at 10.00am – 11.30am
Thursday 1 February
Year 9 students report to form classes at 8.30am
Year 10 students report to hall in uniform at 9.00am – 10.30am
Year 11 students report to hall in uniform at 10.00am – 11.30am
Friday 2 February
Timetable starts
Tuesday 6 February
Waitangi Day observed
Papanui High School
30 Langdons Road, Christchurch 8053
Tel: (03) 352 6119
Email: admin@papanui.school.nz
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250g pearl couscous
500g halloumi, sliced
1 Tbsp Moroccan spice mix
2 zucchini, sliced
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Office Reopening:
The office will be open Friday 26th January 2024
10.00am - 2.00pm
Year 7 & 8 Whānau Interviews:
30th January 2024 – 1.00pm – 4.00pm
31st January 2024 – 8.30am - 4.00pm
Year 7 Start:
Thursday 1st February 2024:
Students assemble in the hall at 9.00am
School day finishes at 2.00pm
Year 8 Start:
Friday 2nd February 2024
All students go to their classrooms for
8.40am start. School day finishes at 2.50pm
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Thursday January 18 2024
250g cherry tomato medley, halved
½ cup fresh parsley leaves
½ cup fresh mint leaves, torn
1 Tbsp tahini
2 Tbsp Greek yoghurt
1 small garlic clove, crushed
1 lemon, rind finely grated, juiced
2 Tbsp pomegranate seeds
2 pita breads, toasted, torn
again. Cook zucchini 1-2min until just
coloured.
Combine couscous, zucchini, tomatoes,
parsley and mint in a large bowl. Season
well. Combine tahini, yoghurt, garlic and
lemon rind in a small bowl. Season. Add
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A taste of the Med
continuing education
It’s never too
late for music
British chef Jamie Oliver’s latest
book is all about providing a
whole rainbow of simple meal
solutions and "deliciousness",
and getting it to people’s
tables with minimal fuss. With
summer just heating up, now
is the perfect time to dip into a
bit of the Mediterranean way of
life . . . and eating.
Feta filo turnovers
Serves 4
Ingredients
4 sheets of filo pastry
200g feta cheese
½ a bunch of marjoram (10g)
25g shelled unsalted pistachios
runny honey, to serve
Directions
Lay a sheet of filo on a damp tea towel
and brush lightly with olive oil.
Crumble a quarter of the feta across
one side of the pastry, leaving a 3cm gap
around the edges, and pick over a quarter
of the marjoram leaves.
Carefully fold over the filo, press the
edges to seal, then fold in half again,
pressing down gently to secure. Brush
lightly with olive oil.
Place a large non-stick frying pan on
a medium heat with a splash of olive oil,
add the filo parcel and cook for 2 minutes
on each side, or until golden and crisp,
then transfer to a serving plate.
Meanwhile, bash or roughly chop the
pistachios. Drizzle the parcel with honey
and scatter over a quarter of the pistachios.
Repeat with the rest of the ingredients,
serving each parcel as soon as it’s
ready.
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DRIVER EDUCATION
Rogue ratatouille risotto
Serves 4
Ingredients
700g frozen chargrilled Mediterranean veg
300g risotto rice
1.2 litres chicken or vegetable stock
1 bunch of basil (30g)
100g goat’s cheese
Directions
Tip the frozen veg into a large, deep
pan on a medium-high heat with 2 tablespoons
of olive oil. Cook for 10 minutes,
or until soft, stirring regularly, then
remove half to a bowl.
Add the rice to the pan and stir for 2
minutes. Add a good splash of hot stock
and wait until it’s been fully absorbed
before adding another, stirring constantly
for 16 to 18 minutes, or until the rice is
perfectly cooked, adding extra splashes of
water, if needed.
Pick and finely slice most of the basil
leaves and stir into the pan with the reserved
veg, most of the goat’s cheese and
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, and
season to perfection.
Adjust the consistency so it’s nice and
oozy with a splash of boiling kettle water,
if needed.
Divide between plates, then scatter
over the remaining basil leaves and goat’s
cheese, to finish.
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Thursday January 18 2024
continuing education
Working but keen to keep
learning? The WEA might
have the answer…
Every term CWEA offers classes and
workshops in the evening and weekends for
people like you whose daily commitments
restrict access to learning opportunities.
New options include: a debating group to
hone critical thinking skills, how to craft
an argument and equip you to counter
pervasive erroneous views. This starts on 20
February, 6.30-8pm and runs fortnightly.
Chris Beardsley will run an 8-week
Pre-Retirement Planning course from
6-8pm that starts on Monday 5 February.
Ideal for those who want to maximise the
opportunities of this life phase.
If printmaking appeals, join Diane Swain
from Monday 4 March from 6-8pm for
4 weeks. Explore native Flora and Fauna
through woodcuts, mono prints, stencil and
simple screen prints.
If you prefer weekends celebrate Seaweek
by learning how to carve a stamp from
an old eraser with Anthea Ibell of Remix
Plastics on Sunday 10 March. There are two
options morning or afternoon. Or avoid the
nasties in commercial skincare products
and eliminate packaging waste with Jo Day
of Mcginns Made Fresh. She will teach
you how to make natural alternatives.
Deodorant on February 10, Lipstick on
March 9 and Mineral Foundation on 6
April. All workshops run from 1.30-4pm
With over 55 talks, classes and
workshops from February to April 2024,
discover more at www.cwea.org.nz.
Papanui High School’s Adult and
Community Education Courses Term 1 2024
Try something new
in the new year!
Are you wanting to learn something new
or just wanting to further your knowledge
and skills in a particular area? There are
many reasons why people wish to continue
to learn. Come along to Papanui High
School and enrol in one of our popular
classes where you will enjoy getting together
with like minded people.
Our tutors are well experienced in their
chosen field and are wanting to help make
your learning experience rewarding so
whether this is your first time returning to
the classroom or whether you are a regular
course junkie we know that you will find a
course that will give you the opportunity to
extend your personal skills and knowledge
and meet some new people in an enjoyable,
relaxed, friendly environment.
For Term 1 2024 we are offering a wide
range of courses from Arts and Crafts,
Languages including NZ Sign Language,
Exercise and Fitness, Food and Cooking,
Music, Photography and more! Some of
the new courses on offer for Term 1 include
Dance Fitness, Special Effects Makeup,
Oil Painting Portraiture, Basics of Cyber
Security and Genetic Genealogy to name a
few.
Our classes for Term 1 begin the week
of 12 February and most run for seven
weeks. Classes are held in the evenings
but there are some weekend workshops
on offer as well. For a full list of courses
and enrolment information please visit
our website https://www.papanui.school.
nz/com-edu/categories or telephone our
office on 03 352 0701 or email
ace@papanui.school.nz.

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continuing education
Make your mark with new art
courses at Risingholme
For almost 80 years Risingholme Learning has been
delivering adult and community courses that help people
expand their skills and explore their creative side. 2024
is no different with a lineup of new creative art courses
including printmaking, collage, and bookmaking. Taking
the humble art materials of paper and ink, each course
dives into the creative potential of each of these materials
and the various techniques that can be applied to turn a
blank piece of paper into a truly unique work of art.
In Printmaking for Beginners, learners will try a
range of printmaking techniques including stamping,
monotype, and intaglio prints. Course tutor Meg Nicoll
says that “with an emphasis on experimentation and fun,
this course will be a friendly introduction to printmaking
that will celebrate both the making and sharing of prints
without needing lots of specialist equipment”.
Also in keeping with the spirit of resourcefulness,
those enrolled in Collage for Beginners will be guided
through different techniques used to create textured and
painted papers that can then be cut, pasted, swapped, and
arranged into collages which emphasise each person’s
creative flair. For those interested in a more collaborative
approach, there will also be the chance to contribute to a
group collage throughout the 8-week course.
Rounding off the new course offerings is a weekend
workshop, also run by Meg, on Bookmaking for
Beginners. Having previously worked at the Eric Carle
Museum of Picture Book Art in the USA, Meg is very
familiar with the book format and will lead participants
through how to create colourful bindings out of folded
and sewn paper with lots of room for personalization.
All of these courses are deigned to be accessible
with no previous art-making experience required, so
enrol today and ‘book’ your spot early. Find all the
details and search for other courses we offer at
www.risingholme.org.nz.

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Thursday January 18 2024
CROSSWORD
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331
SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WordBuilder
WORDBUILDER
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16
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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
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.
once?
TODAY
Good 12 Very Good 15 Excellent 19
letters, including plurals, can you make
from the six letters, using each only
No words beginning with a capital are
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter
Solution 230: den, deny, die, dike, din, dine, dink,
dinky, dye, dyke, dyne, end, ink, inked, inky, ken,
word. key, kid, KIDNEY, kin, kind, kine, yen, yin.
Good 12 Very Good 15 Excellent 19
25 26
27 28
29 30
31 32
33 34
Across
1. Spiny tree or shrub (6)
5. Stew (6)
10. Romantic (7)
11. Indian rice dish (7)
12. Marksman (6)
15. Social outcast (6)
16. Current (7)
17. Long tale (4)
18. One of these (4)
19. Defile (7)
20. Gamble (4)
22. Ding (4)
25. Restricted (7)
27. Madman (6)
28. Stay (6)
31. Embrace tightly (7)
32. Allocation (7)
33. Scram! (4,2)
34. Pierce (6)
Decoder
Down
2. Preparing food (7)
3. Wardrobe (6)
4. As well (4)
5. Infant (4)
6. Antenna (6)
7. Blindly imitative (7)
8. Overtakes (6)
9. Entitlements (6)
13. Mechanical (7)
14. Bad guy (7)
15. Big cat (7)
20. Downfall (6)
21. Eat (7)
23. Inspect (7)
24. Renter (6)
25. Mourn (6)
26. Edict (6)
29. Accomplishment (4)
30. Musical composition (4)
Crossword
Across: 1. Acacia, 5. Braise,
10. Amorous, 11. Biryani,
12. Sniper, 15. Pariah,
16. Topical, 17. Saga, 18.
This, 19. Pollute, 20. Dice,
22. Dent, 25. Limited, 27.
Maniac, 28. Remain, 31.
Squeeze, 32. Portion, 33.
Beat it, 34. Skewer.
Down: 2. Cooking, 3.
Closet, 4. Also, 5. Baby, 6.
Aerial, 7. Slavish, 8. Passes,
9. Rights, 13. Robotic, 14.
Villain, 15. Panther, 20.
Demise, 21. Consume, 23.
Examine, 24. Tenant, 25.
Lament, 26. Decree, 29.
Feat, 30. Opus.
WordBuilder
ben, berm, bum, bun, bur,
burn, emu, men, menu, neb,
nub, numb, NUMBER, rub,
rube, rue, rum, rumen, run,
rune, umber, urn
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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Thursday January 18 2024
Join us for a
Summer High Tea
Here at Summerset Prebbleton, to celebrate the warmer months, we’re
hosting a Summer High Tea and you’re invited.
Join us on Saturday between 2pm and 4pm, and enjoy a range of delicious
summer treats on us.
Whilst you’re here, why not also get a taste of the Summerset life that our
residents love so much. We’d love to show you around our village and the
range of brand-new homes available.*
Spaces are limited so you’ll need to RSVP by Thursday 25 January
to Grace on 03 353 6312.
Love the life you choose
Summer High Tea
Saturday 27 January, 2pm - 4pm
RSVP to Grace by Thursday 25 January
Summerset Prebbleton
578 Springs Road, Prebbleton
03 353 6312 | summerset.co.nz/prebbleton
*All Summerset homes are sold under a licence to occupy and are subject to availability. Image is indicative.
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