The Star: March 07, 2024

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2024 

best overall, behind Wakatipu 

U15 coxed eight as well as the 

Coxswain Bella Harris 

directed wins for the U15 

connecting you with your neighbourhood 

water. PHOTO: ELIZABETH 

INGLIS PHOTOGRAPHY 

17 th March 2024 

upgrade work in the area. 

council’s Christchurch Regenera- 

Other projects will include a 

street renewal of the southern end 

Tactile pavers have also been 

installed at all Riccarton Rd 

intersections between Matipo and 

Balgay Sts and several other sites 

in high pedestrian areas. 

St Margaret’s top Canty 

school at SI champs 

• By Sam Coughlan 

ST MARGARET’S College 

has finished the South Island 

secondary school rowing 

championships as the top 

Riccarton 

streets get 

safety 

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Canterbury school and third 

as part of a wider package of 

Thursday, March 7, 2024 

Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper 

High School and Timaru Boys’ 

High. 

The crews won the U17 coxed 

four, U18 coxless pair, U15 

coxed eight and U18 novice 

coxed four, at Lake Ruataniwha 

in Twizel. The gold medals 

were accompanied by four 

silvers. 

The result is an improvement 

The Bradshaw Tce renewal 

starts next week, with construction 

running til late May. 

“This work has been on the 

cards since 2010 and was delayed 

after the earthquake,” said city 

council transport planning and 

delivery manager Jacob Bradbury. 

“The community has been patient 

enough and has been calling 

on last year’s two golds, three 

out for this project, so we’re pleased 

silvers and five bronzes, and 

saw St Margaret’s finish as 

the top girls’ school in the 

competition as well. 

Scarlett Hansen and Poppy 

Blakely were a part of two 

to finally be able to deliver it as part 

of our wider Riccarton work.” 

Upgrades will include a full 

street renewal, including a safer 

turnaround area a the end of the 

cul-de-sac, kerb and channel, new 

stree trees, and a new garden bed. 

winning teams – they won the 

The work is part of the city 

U18 novice four, competing up 

three age groups. 

tion Acceleration Facility package 

throughout residential Riccarton. 

coxed eight and U17 coxed 

four. 

St Andrew’s also performed 

strongly a the event. 

They won four golds as well – 

in the boys’ U16 coxed four and 

eight, the girls’ U16 coxed eight 

and boys’ U18 coxed four. 

• Turn to page 5 

WINNERS: St Margaret’s 

Lilah Stallard and 

Phoebe Wilson row 

to victory in the U18 

coxless pairs event . 

PHOTO: SHARON 

BENNETT PHOTOGRAPHY 

Left – St Andrew’s on the 

of Brockworth Pl and various traffic 

calming projects and pedestrian 

safety upgrades throughout 

a number of residential streets. 

A new signalised crossing has 

been approved for Waimairi Rd 

a the Bush Inn Centre and the 

city council is investigating options 

for a pedestrian crossing on 

Deans Ave. 

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Thanks for your patience 

While work is underway on the construction of a new roundabout 

on Candys Road, SH75 and the entrance to RIVERSTONE. 

The intention of the new roundabout is to greatly 

improve the safety of vehicles, pedestrians 

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the debate 

THAT’S THE question The Star 

is asking readers today. 

Murder victim Michael 

McGrath’s loved ones finally have 

a conviction, yet they don’t have 

his remains, robbing family and 

friends of an element of closure. 

Former prison guard David 

Benbow has refused to reveal 

the whereabouts of his childhood 

friend’s body, so should 

New Zealand’s judicial system 

introduce ‘no body, no parole’ 

legislation where a convicted 

killer cannot apply for parole 

unless they disclose their victim’s 

location? 

McGrath’s brother Simon 

opened the debate after the 

sentencing on Tuesday, when 

Benbow was given life imprisonment 

with a non-parole period 

of 17 years. 

Simon McGrath urged the 

Government to follow the lead 

of Australian states and introduce 

a ‘no body, no parole’ law. 

“I believe New Zealand needs 

to strengthen the law to follow 

Australian states – no body no 

parole.” 

The magnitude of the crime 

and concealment of a body was 

enough to warrant a law being 

introduced. 

No trace of McGrath has been 

found since the 49-year-old went 

missing from Halswell in May 

2017. 

The New South Wales 

Government followed the lead 

of Queensland, South Australia 

and Victoria in October 2022 

by passing a law to make 

it impossible for convicted 

murderers to be released on 

parole if they refuse to cooperate 

and divulge the location 

of victims’ remains. 


• Convicted killer’s texts to 

journalist, pages 13 & 14 

CONVICTED: David Benbow 

has been sentenced to life in 

jail with no parole for 17 years 

for the murder of Michael 

McGrath (left). McGrath’s body 

has never been found. 

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CHRISTCHURCH Hospital’s 

emergency department was 

in high demand on Tuesday 

night, with more than 100 

people waiting for care. 

Te Whatu Ora Waitaha 

group director of operations 

Jo Gibbs said more than 100 

people were being cared for in 

the ED at 9.15pm on Tuesday. 

“There is no single reason 

for high numbers of patients 

attending at present, but we are 

currently seeing patients with a 

range of complex conditions.” 

Gibbs said from midnight 

Monday to midnight Tuesday 

the ED saw 357 patients. 

“The usual number of attendances 

is between 330 and 

370 people every day,” Gibbs 

said. 

“What made yesterday and 

last night particularly challenging 

was the large number of 

very unwell patients all requiring 

care at the same time – at 

its peak there were 124 people 

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in the department, it dropped 

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Man arrested over 

pharmacy robbery 

Police have arrested a man 

in relation to the aggravated 

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Langdons Rd, Papanui, on 23 

February. The 60-year-old has 

been charged with aggravated 

robbery. 

Urbanist to speak on 

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The man behind the 

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in Barcelona is coming to 

Christchurch. Leading urbanist 

Salvador Rueda will speak at the 

first Christchurch Conversations 

of the year tonight from 6pm in 

Tūranga’s TSB Space. Presented by 

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and City Making, An Urban 

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will centre around Rueda’s work 

taking street space traditionally 

used for motor vehicles and 

opening it up to things like 

walking and cycling. “We are so 

thrilled to have Salvador here, 

to kick this year’s Christchurch 

Conversations series off,” 

Te Pūtahi Director Jessica 

Halliday said. The Christchurch 

Conversations series will run 

through winter 2024, focusing on 

Neighbourhood Transformations. 

Successful test of 

earthquake solutions 

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have been able to test earthquake 

innovations under ‘real life’ 

conditions at a ground-breaking 

laboratory in China. Tonji 

University in Shanghai has 

three-storey buildings and ‘shake 

tables’ constructed to gauge the 

effectiveness of engineering 

solutions. “New Zealand is at 

the cutting edge of earthquake 

engineering, but we would never 

be able to test our solutions on 

a three-storey building in an 

earthquake laboratory back home,” 

said University of Canterbury 

professor Greg MacRae. Testing 

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Benbow ‘would 

be treated as any 

other inmate’ 

• From page 1 

Talk of tougher laws come as 

the Department of Corrections 

vowed ex-staff member Benbow 

would be treated as any other 

inmate. He was a prison guard at 

the of McGrath’s murder. 

“Former Corrections staff 

members who are sentenced to 

imprisonment are managed the 

same way as other prisoners. Like 

other prisoners, their specific circumstances 

and level of risk will 

determine where they are placed, 

and how they are managed,” a 

Corrections spokesperson told 

the New Zealand Herald. 

Benbow could request to be 

segregated from the general 

population. 

“We have policies and operational 

procedures in place to support 

the safe, secure and humane 

management of all prisoners,” the 

spokesperson added. 

In accordance with the 

Corrections Act: 

• Prisoners can be lawfully 

denied association with other 

prisoners if their behaviour presents 

a risk to the security of the 

prison, the safety of others, or if 

it is considered it is necessary to 

assess or ensure their mental or 

physical health. 

• Prisoners in New Zealand 

have the ability to request to be 

placed in voluntary segregation 

for the purpose of protective 

custody. This may be due to the 

prisoner fearing for their own 

safety or in order to be removed 

from gang members as they are 

trying to rehabilitate away from 

this lifestyle. 

• A prisoner can withdraw 

from voluntary segregation at 

any time. 

• A prison director can also 

direct the prisoner into voluntary 

protective segregation, without 

the prisoner requesting it, if they 

believe the safety of the prisoner 

has been put at risk by another 

person, and there is no reasonable 

way to ensure the safety of 

the prisoner otherwise than by 

giving that direction. 

• Segregated prisoners are 

provided with minimum 

entitlements set out in the 

Corrections Act. They also have 

regular and ongoing contact 

with Corrections staff, including 

health services staff and mental 

health professionals as required. 


Townhouse fire caused 

by charging e-scooter 

A SHIRLEY townhouse fire 

which forced a mother to drop 

her child to safety from a second 

floor bedroom was caused by a 

charging e-scooter. 

Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s 

investigation determined 

the fire started accidentally 

inside the unit on New Brighton 

Rd, opposite The Palms shopping 

centre, last Tuesday night. 

When the e-scooter was 

charging it went into ‘thermal 

runway’, effectively an uncontrollable 

increase in temperature 

which often resulted in system 

failure in electrical circuits and 

battery cells. 

A FENZ spokesperson 

reminded the public it was important 

to take care when using 

these batteries as they are a fire 

risk when not stored, charged, 

used, or disposed of correctly. 

“Only use chargers that are 

supplied with the device, don’t 

charge them on or near flammable 

surfaces, and avoid leaving 

lithium-ion batteries or devices 

charging for prolonged periods 

of time,” the spokesperson said. 

Meanwhile, FENZ Canterbury 

community risk manager Dean 

Harker recommended all households 

devise an evacuation plan, 

BLAZE: Both levels of the townhouse were extensively 

damaged. 

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“Pre-planning is very important. 

If you have to break a 

window do you keep anything 

in those rooms capable of breaking 

glass? 

“Is there a tree outside your 

window? Can you get out onto 

your roof? What sort of windows 

have you got? Some people 

have rope ladders,” he said. 

Harker said multi-storey 

dwellings should also have a fire 

extinguisher accessible at the top 

of a stairwell. 

“That fire extinguisher may 

give you enough time to fight 

past the fire and get out.” 

Smoke alarms positioned at 

the top and bottom of stairs may 

also buy valuable time as an 

early warning system. 

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• By Adam Burns 

BUILDING contractors for the 

floundering new sports centre 

have abandoned an appeal of 

last year’s High Court decision 

which prevented the firm from 

pulling out from the project. 

It follows a legal standoff between 

contractors CPB and the 

Government’s delivery agency 

Rau Paenga and a mammoth 

cost blowout for the plagued 

Parakiore Recreation and Sport 

Centre in the central city. 

Construction on the longawaited 

facility began six years 

ago and was initially set for 

completion by October 2021. 

But the project has been 

burdened by constant delays, 

ballooning costs, and precarious 

ground conditions. 

It all came to a head last 

year when the contractors and 

project managers Rau Paenga 

ended up in court, much to the 

chagrin of local sports groups 

and authorities. 

CPB launched a bid to 

terminate the contract in the 

High Court, after Rau Paenga 

rejected claims of sizeable cost 

variations. 

The firm estimated the total 

cost for Parakiore was $696m, 

more than triple the original 

contract price agreed on. 

The contractors requested extensions 

to the project, but this 

was declined by engineers. 

In September 2022, CPB 

claimed for an additional 

$212m, which ballooned to 

$439m in 12 months. 

Both parties initially agreed 

on a contract price of $220m. 

Justice Geoffrey Venning 

ruled in favour of Rau Paenga 

last October, barring CPB 

from suspending on-site 

construction works based on its 

“unsubstantiated claims”. 


Appeal dropped over 

floundering sports facility 

BUDGET 

BLOWOUT: 

The 

Parakiore 

Recreation 

and Sport 

Centre in 

2022. 

“The parties ultimately blame 

each other for various breaches 

of obligations resulting in the 

delay and increased costs,” the 

court ruling stated. 

“Resolution of a number 

of CPB’s claims through the 

contractual dispute resolution 

process is ongoing.” 

Earlier this week, Rau Paenga’s 

chief executive John O’Hagan 

confirmed CPB had applied to 

the Court of Appeal over the decision 

but had since withdrawn 

its application. 

“CPB has continued work on 

site throughout these proceedings, 

but putting the legal action 

behind us allows everyone to 

refocus on getting Parakiore 

completed as soon as possible.” 

But Rau Paenga suggested 

the projected timelines remain 

a bone of contention with the 

agency pushing for construction 

to be completed before 2025. 

“The facility is now about 

75 per cent complete, but as 

reported at the end of last year, a 

gap remains between our desire 

to see construction finished at 

the end of this year and CPB’s 

mid-2025 projection,” O’Hagan 

said. 

“We will continue to work 

with CPB to try and close this 

gap.” 

One thing that remained unclear 

was how much the project 

was ultimately going to cost. 

CPB had been paid $220m by 

the time the matter ended up 

in court last year and the city 

council had contributed $147m 

to the project. 

Rau Paenga could not provide 

a figure on what the project was 

estimated to cost in total. 

“We expect to also be able 

to provide an update on cost 

around the end of May.” 

– RNZ 

NEWS 5 

Preventative 

detention 

for child sex 

offender 

A CHILD SEX offender with 

more than 40 convictions for 

crimes spanning more than three 

decades has been sentenced to 

preventive detention for abusing 

a boy while on an extended 

supervision order. 

David Keith Morgan was 

sentenced in the High Court at 

Christchurch by Justice Melanie 

Harland. 

She said his offending was “escalating 

and getting worse”. 

A pre-sentencing report said 

there was a “high” risk of reoffending. 

Preventative detention means 

he has an indeterminate prison 

sentence. He can be released on 

parole, but would remain managed 

by Corrections for the rest 

of his life and can be recalled to 

prison at any time. 

Judge Harland ordered he serve 

a minimum period of imprisonment 

of five years. 

Morgan, 59, had earlier pleaded 

guilty to one charge of sexual 

connection with a male under 

the age of 16 and two charges of 

breaching the conditions of an 

extended supervision order. 

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Businessman shells out extra $275k 

• By Nikki Preston 

A BUSINESSMAN hopeful he 

had bought a tired but spacious 

townhouse for $1.2m ended 

up having to shell out an extra 

$275,000 to beat off stubborn 

competition at the broughtforward 

auction. 

The four-bedroom, two-bathroom 

townhouse on Clare Rd, 

Merivale, had only been on the 

market for four days when a man 

who had been looking for a lockand-leave 

in central Christchurch 

made a pre-auction offer on the 

townhouse. 

But the plan to grab the house 

before too many people saw it 

backfired when a few days later 

he found himself in a bidding 

war with another buyer who 

also desperately wanted the 

standalone townhouse. A third 

buyer was also in the Harcourts 

Holmwood auction room earlier 

this month, but failed to bid. 

The auction opened at the 

accepted brought forward offer 

of $1.2m and steadily rose 

in $10,000 bids. Several bolder 

bids of $20,000 bids made in an 

attempt to get rid of the competition 

were also unsuccessful. 

By the time the price hit 

$1.445m bidding had slowed and 

a few smaller $5000 bids were 

placed before it eventually sold 

for $1.475m to the person who 

started it off with the offer that 

brought the auction forward. 

Harcourts salesperson Kathryn 

Picton-Warlow, who had been 

working with the 

successful buyer, 

said she had no 

idea how much 

he had planned 

to bid. 

“It got to the 

point where he 

didn’t want to 

lose it.” 

The businessman 

was 

Kathryn 

Picton- 

Warlow 

downsizing from a much larger 

Christchurch home and had 

viewed about six other centrally 

located properties ranging from 

apartments to new townhouses. 

The Clare Rd townhouse ticked 

all the boxes in terms of location 

and size, she said. It was also a 

corner section that could not be 

built out. 

“He basically just wanted to 

own it. He wanted that location, 

he wanted proximity to the 

Hagley Park and the cafes in 

Victoria St and really was just 

downsizing out of a large family 

home in Christchurch.” 

The rooms were much larger 

than in newer townhouses, she 

said, but would be getting a complete 

makeover including a new 

kitchen and bathrooms. 

“The spaces in these 2005 to 

2010 properties – because the 

build costs weren’t so astronomical 

– the spaces are really generous 

and the living proportions 

are usually very good.” 

Harcourts listing agent Paul 

Nichols said it was a tightly 

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only assume were well-healed 

and experienced bidders. 

“They weren’t small bids, which 

tells you there are 

people out there 

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They weren’t 

necessarily using 

all the budget 

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MARCH MADNESS SALE 

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brick house on Wai-iti Tce, Fendalton, exceeded expectations when it sold 

for $1.1m. 

PHOTO: NZ HERALD 

“They were essentially looking to say, 

‘look no I’m going to have it’, ‘I’m going to 

have it’.” 

The elderly owner had lived in the home 

for almost 20 years and had moved into 

a retirement village. Her family, who had 

been selling it on her behalf, had been 

happy with the result which saw them 

walk away with a “significant” $275,000 

more than they had been banking on 

when they accepted the pre-auction offer 

of $1.2m, Nichols said. 

The impressive auction result comes as 

several homes in suburbs such as Merivale 

and Fendalton have smashed expectations 

at auction, selling for several hundred 

thousand dollars more than expected. Last 

month a three-bedroom, one-bathroom 

1950s brick house on Wai-iti Tce, Fendalton, 

exceeded expectations when it sold for 

$1.1m. 

Nichols said the reason these top 

suburbs could be getting exceptional 

results could be because the type of people 

buying in those areas might have extra 

cash reserves and once they decided they 

would buy it were prepared to fight until 

the end. 

The average house values in Fendalton 

and Merivale are $1.747m and $1.577m 

respectively, well above Christchurch’s 

average value of $790,000. 

Nichols said the $1.47m price fetched 

for the Clare Rd home was considered 

only mid-range for those areas. It was not 

uncommon for homes to sell in the $2m to 

$3m plus range. 

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Three brothers claimed by war and 

Kirwee is an anomaly 

on the Canterbury 

Plains. It was named 

after Karwi, a town in 

northern India, by an 

Irish-born British army 

colonel, politician and 

farmer, De Renzie 

James Brett, who 

introduced irrigation to 

the province. And there 

is no war memorial. 

Chris Barclay reports 

on manoeuvres to 

belatedly honour the 

fallen, and those who 

returned home 

AS YOU enter Kirwee from 

Christchurch along State 

Highway 73, a water feature 

honouring Brett has pride 

of place, rather than the 44 

men who enlisted for the New 

Zealand Expeditionary Force. 

Paul Jarman’s great great great 

grandfather purchased what is 

still the family’s pastoral land 

in 1863, so the fifth generation 

crop, sheep and dairy farmer 

at Greendale, near Darfield, is 

acutely aware of the importance 

of irrigation. 

Yet the 73-year-old also 

appreciates the sacrifice his 

predecessors made in the Great 

JARMAN BROTHERS: Harry Nesslea (back left), James 

Herbert (front left) and Frank Elworthy (front right) were 

casualties of WW1. 

Right – Descendent Paul Jarman has donated to the 

fundraising campaign for a war memorial in Kirwee. 

War, hence his interest in Kirwee 

finally making concrete plans for 

a war memorial at Anzac Lane 

by the cemetery and behind the 

rugby fields on the rural settlement’s 

reserve. 

After prolonged negotiations 

with the Selwyn District Council 

to secure a suitable location, a 

fundraising campaign is gathering 

momentum to raise around 

$30,000. 

When the memorial is eventually 

in place, Paul Jarman’s 

grandfather and two great uncles 

will be remembered side by side 

for the first time in public view. 

Jarman is among the donors 

– no surprise given his family 

connection to a conflict which 

counted Frank Elworthy Jarman 

and Harry Nesslea (Ness) Jarman 

among the World War 1 dead at 

Gallipoli and in France respectively. 

Of the 44 men who left the 

settlement to fight for King and 

Country, 11 were killed. 

James Herbert (Bert) Jarman, 

Paul’s grandfather, returned to 

the family farm from Palestine 

in 1919 but was still essentially a 

casualty of war. 

Stricken by malaria, he never 

truly recovered and died in hospital 

in 1922 following complications 

from an appendectomy. 

Because he did not die on foreign 

fields, Bert was not remembered 

with his brothers, who are 

memorialised at the Darfield War 

Memorial Obelisk and the gates 

at Greendale Domain. 

“They’re going to put all three 

on (the memorial), I’m pleased it’s 

happening. Kirwee was probably 

their centre of life in those days,” 

Paul Jarman said. 

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now family campaign for memorial 

REUNITED: James Herbert ‘Bert’ Jarman with wife Lottie 

and son Jimmie after his return from the Middle East in 

February 1919. Right – the couple’s grave. 

Bert is buried in the same 

Greendale Cemetery plot as his 

wife Lottie, who died, aged 90, 

in 1978. They are at rest near 

Essendon, the farm where Paul 

Jarman lives. 

He has also gone farther afield 

to visit the resting places of 

Frank and Ness. 

Frank, the first Jarman lad 

to volunteer, and the second 

of Thomas and Annie’s eight 

children, enlisted with the 

Canterbury Mounted Rifles as a 

trooper and headed for Egypt in 

October 1914. 

He was killed in action, aged 

28, during the assault on Chunuk 

Bair on August 6, 1915 and 

is buried at the No 2 Outpost 

Cemetery on the Turkish 

peninsula. 

Undeterred by his brother’s 

death, Ness, the youngest of the 

five boys, also enlisted when he 

joined the Canterbury Infantry 

Regiment, C Company in 

October 1916. 

He left for France the following 

May and was killed on August 

25, 1918 when the Canterbury 

Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion 

fought the Germans at Bapaume. 

The 25-year-old Lance 

Corporal is buried at the 

Grevillers British Cemetery at 

Pas-de-Calais. 

“It’s very touching to see your 

family name there in those 

places. It’ll be nice to see them in 

Kirwee too,” Paul Jarman said. 

Conscription was introduced 

in August 1916; Bert was selected 

and reported for duty with the 

New Zealand Expeditionary 

Force 33rd Reinforcements, 

Mounted Rifles Brigade, in 

March 1917, after getting the 

harvest in. 

He arrived in Egypt four days 

before Christmas 1917, and 

although he survived Turkish 

onslaughts in Palestine, Trooper 

Jarman fell seriously ill with 

malaria, which continued to 

linger. 

When he returned to Essendon 

Bert was perpetually blighted 

by the mosquito-borne disease, 

though it was surgery for 

appendicitis which proved fatal 

for the 32-year-old father of 

three. 

He succumbed to chloroform 

poisoning on May 25, 1922 – his 

beloved Lottie’s birthday. 

Paul Jarman’s father Keith 

was three-weeks-old when Bert 

died, but his correspondence 

home – and the letters written 

by Frank and Ness ensures their 

wartime exploits are known by 

generations. 

A cache of about 50 letters 

were found in the 1980s and 

were used as the basis of a 

family history, In Foreign Fields, 

published in 2015. Copies of the 

letters are archived at Te Papa 

and the National Army Museum 

in Waiouru. 

Although the brothers describe 

death and destruction, there was 

also an interesting agricultural 

element to their ordeals. 

“They all talk about where 

they visited from a farming 

perspective. Farming on the 

banks of the Nile in Egypt, and 

other places,” Paul Jarman said. 

“It was nice they had some 

good experiences along the way. 

They took leave in England and 

went up through Scotland. 

“They got to see things in the 

days where travel was pretty 

limited for anyone.” 

On Anzac Day, Paul Jarman 

attends the Darfield dawn 

service or the remembrance for 

the 20th Armoured Regiment in 

Riccarton, because Keith fought 

within it in Italy, returning home 

safe after World War 2. 


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‘This memorial will consolidate everything’ 


He is now looking forward to a 

third option on April 25. 

“Kirwee? Yes, indeed. That’ll be 

very good when it’s opened.” 

The Selwyn District has several 

prominent public-facing war 

memorials at locations including 

Leeston, Springston, Tai Tapu 

and Darfield. 

West Melton was the latest 

addition when a memorial on the 

school grounds was unveiled in 

2014. 

So why had Kirwee been overlooked? 

“It was a pretty small place until 

recently, Kirwee. It’s a decent 

size now and it wasn’t always that 

way,” Paul Jarman thought. 

Kirwee covers only 3.62 sq km 

and the settlement was home to 

603 people in 2006, according to 

Statistics New Zealand. 

The latest population estimate 

was 966 in 2018. 

Kirwee Community Committee 

member and memorial 

project co-ordinator David Stott 

offered another explanation: “No 

one sort of asked for it before.” 

Stott has accumulated 123 

names of Kirwee men who 

fought in both world wars, from 

rolls of honour in the Kirwee 

Community Hall, St George’s 

Anglican Church, Kirwee School 

and a hall at Halkett, about 12km 

east on the outskirts of West 

Melton. 

SITE: Kirwee’s war 

memorial is planned for 

this location on Anzac Lane 

in the reserve. Below – an 

architect’s impression. 

“Some names are on more than 

one, some aren’t. This memorial 

will consolidate everything in a 

public place,” he said. 

Committee chair Stu Begg 

said the memorial would finally 

allow residents to attend their 

own Anzac Day commemoration 

rather than troop to Darfield, a 

seven-minute drive away. 

“Everyone else seems to have 

their own services like Sheffield 

and Springfield. West Melton has 

one down at the school,” Begg 

said. 

“The only recognition we have 

is some honours boards in our 

local community hall but it’s not 

open to the public all the time, no 

one can just wander in there.” 

The committee made a presentation 

to the Malvern Community 

Board last week in an 

attempt to secure funding for a 

project floated four years ago. 

They have about $10,000 

thanks to donors and a charity 

bowls tournament. A pub quiz 

and garage sale is also planned. 

When Kirwee’s memorial is 

set in stone and unveiled, it will 

be a sombre occasion for Paul 

Jarman, a cause for reflection, not 

celebration. 

He retrieves a bottle of Moët & 

Chandon Brut Imperial Champagne 

from a locked cabinet in 

the lounge, which will remain 

unopened for evermore. 

Thought to have been gifted 

to Lottie by Mr Knight from 

Racecourse Hill – considered 

one of the few gentlemen with 

the means to import champagne 

in those days – it was meant to 

be uncorked to mark the end of 

hostilities. 

The gesture fell rather flat when 

Bert wrote to his mother Annie 

from Port Suez on December 10, 

1918, a month after the Armistice. 

“Mum, I don’t want a lot of 

fuss made when I land home, no 

parties or anything like that. If 

there’s any public welcome home 

or anything like that I won’t be 

there. 

“If poor old Ness could have 

been there to share the joy it 

might have been different, so 

please do nothing. 

“I know it will be mighty hard 

knowing our dear old Frank and 

Ness will never come back again 

so make it as easy as possible. 

“Today I picked up an Otago 

Witness in a tent and whose 

photo should be there but the 

poor kids. It was a lovely photo 

but the words killed in action 

were cruel.” 

During peacetime the Moët 

has lost its effervescence. It is 

undrinkable, in more ways than 

one. 

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NEWS 13 

How killer’s texts to journalist 

ended up in a High Court trial 

On Tuesday, former 

prison guard David 

Benbow was sentenced 

to life imprisonment 

with a minimum nonparole 

period of 17 

years for murdering 

his childhood friend 

Michael McGrath nearly 

seven years after he 

disappeared. New 

Zealand Herald senior 

crime 

reporter 

Sam 

Sherwood 

reports 

on how a 

series of 

text messages from a 

man who called himself 

‘Nigel’ led to him being 

called as a Crown 

witness in a murder trial 

“HELLO, SAM. You inquired 

about a witch-hunt of a good 

friend of mine,” the conversation 

began shortly after I arrived 

home from work. 

Looking at my phone, I knew 

instantly the message from the 

unknown number related to 

an approach I’d made two days 

earlier to David Benbow. 

It was nearly 300 days since 

his childhood friend Michael 

McGrath went missing and 

Benbow had just put his family 

home on Candys Rd, Halswell, 

up for sale a second time. 

He’d tried selling it several 

months earlier with another real 

estate agent, but following media 

coverage of the listing, they 

decided to pull out as it was “too 

much hassle”. 

McGrath had done some work 

on the property, helping Benbow 

work on a deck and also making 

a playhouse for his children. 

McGrath’s disappearance on 

May 22, 2017 made national 

headlines, with several police 

press conferences being held as 

detectives appealed for sightings 

of the 49-year-old. 

However, to date, Benbow, 

whom police said was a “person 

of interest”, was yet to make 

any public comment aside from 

telling a reporter from The Press 

he was the victim of a witchhunt. 

I had spent many hours 

looking for another way to 

contact Benbow. I couldn’t find 

a Facebook account, and he was 

not in the phone book. I had 

tried calling his mum, but she 

did not want to comment. 

It was not until March 2018, 

when his house was listed for sale 

a second time, that I got what I 

was after. I went online and the 

real estate agency had uploaded 

TEXTS: At the first trial, David Benbow admitted being the person behind the text 

messages sent to journalist Sam Sherwood. 

PHOTO: KURT BAYER/NZ HERALD 

several documents related to 

the house. As I scanned the 

documents, I spotted one which 

included Benbow’s cellphone 

number. Finally, I had an 

avenue through which I could 

communicate with him. 

I wasn’t under any impression 

he would agree to an hourlong 

interview but felt it was 

important, given I was intending 

on writing a story, that I give him 

a chance to comment. 

I called on March 14, the 

phone rang and Benbow 

answered. He wasn’t interested in 

talking. 

I then sent him a text saying 

I wanted to give him the 

opportunity to talk about how 

the last 300 days had been for 

him. I said I had some questions 

for him, including how he 

believed he was the victim of a 

“witch-hunt”. 

I got no response and thought 

that was the end of it. 

Then, two days later on March 

16, 2018, I received the first 

message from an unknown 

number. 

Another text followed saying 

Joanna Green, Benbow’s expartner, 

had “triggered the 

investigation”. They claimed 

Green had a “chronic drinking 

problem”. 

“Confirmed is in new 

relationship with Michael,” they 

said before alleging Green “can 

be violent on occasions”. 

I asked who I was speaking 

to, and they said their name 

was Nigel. I was immediately 

suspicious about who was really 

behind the texts – in the back of 

my mind, I wondered, ‘What’s 

this man, whom I believe to be 

Benbow, going to tell me? Will he 

slip up?’ 

“The police have never 

searched her rental house . . . or 

her car,” the messages continued. 

“She is a person of interest, but 

In the back of my mind, I wondered, ‘What’s this man, whom I believe to be Benbow, 

going to tell me? Will he slip up?’ – Sam Sherwood 

you don’t put her photo in the 

press and occupation.” 

I asked Nigel whether Benbow 

would be happy to speak to me, 

hoping I would finally get an 

interview with him. Nigel said he 

would ask him the next day. 

I told Nigel at the time I was 

not in possession of a photo of 

Green, which was why we had 

not published any. 

“Because your 1 dimensional 

eg witchhunt, getting the idea 

now (sic),” Nigel said. 

The word witch-hunt, which 

Michael McGrath was last 

seen at his Halswell home 

in May 2017. 

by now Nigel had used twice, 

piqued my suspicions further, 

given it was the term I had used 

in my text to Benbow. 

He then told me to go to 

Green’s workplace the following 

Monday morning to get a photo 

of her, supplying her number 

plate to make it easier to find her. 

I then asked Nigel how his 

good friend was coping, hoping 

I might be able to use these 

comments later down the track 

if I were ever able to confirm 

Benbow was behind the phone 

number. 

“Ask yourself the question. 

David has had his life turned 

upside-down, all the press 

coverage, 300 days of no 

evidence. I don’t think David is 

that clever. But I bet you publish 

another article in the morning.” 

Nigel then tells me two young 

girls were sitting in the gutter 

opposite McGrath’s house in the 

early hours of the morning over 

the period in question, which 

was reported by a neighbour but 

had not been mentioned. 

“A commotion and loud voices 

reported about 2.45am over that 

period by three neighbours. One 

neighbour witnessed a vehicle 

driving off. It wasn’t David’s 

vehicle and he wasn’t present. 

But the police still promoted his 

vehicle on (Police Ten 7).” 


INVESTIGATION: Police searching David Benbow’s Candys Rd property (left) and Michael McGrath’s in Checkett Ave, 

both in Halswell. 

PHOTOS: KURT BAYER/NZ HERALD


14 

NEWS 


Sim card used to send text messages 

had been in Benbow’s cellphone 


Keen to see what more “Nigel” 

would tell me, I asked why he 

thought police were treating 

Benbow the way they were and 

whether he thought McGrath was 

still alive. 

“It’s not just the police, look at 

the way you are treating David. 

As outlined, they have not looked 

outside the box and explored 

all other options. One would 

presume vital evidence has now 

been lost if anything untoward 

has happened to McGrath.” 

I replied it must be hard for 

Benbow not knowing what happened, 

considering they were 

“good friends”. 

“They were good friends and 

he hasn’t been given a chance 

to grieve over a missing friend. 

Also, information circulating 

(suggests) Michael McGrath 

(was) not a complete angel as 

displayed,” he replied. 

I asked what sort of information 

he was referring to, and 

Nigel replied: “Maybe (we’ll) 

talk next week. You have enough 

to go on for now. See what you 

deliver. Cheers, Nigel.” 

I saved the number in my 

phone as “Benbow’s friend” and 

sent three more texts to Nigel 

COURTROOM: Crime journalist Sam Sherwood giving 

evidence at the Michael McGrath murder trial. 

with questions, but I never heard 

back. 

I also texted Benbow on March 

21, saying I had been talking to 

“Nigel”, and wanted to see if he 

wanted to talk. There was no 

response. 

After about a week, I informed 

the officer in charge of the case 

at the time about the messages, 

believing I was likely talking 

to Benbow and he was using 

a phone number that may not 

be known to police, thinking it 

PHOTO: POOL 

might be of use. 

Nearly five years on, I sat in 

the High Court at Christchurch 

reading the messages in open 

court. Asked by the Crown why 

I was confident I was speaking to 

Benbow, I said the term “witchhunt” 

and the amount of information 

the person had about 

Green’s car and when she left 

work had piqued my suspicions. 

After I left the courtroom, a 

police officer gave evidence about 

how police were able to identify 

the Sim card for the number belonging 

to “Nigel” that had been 

used in Benbow’s cellphone. 

It also emerged Benbow actually 

admitted to sending me the 

text messages. However, the exact 

reason why remains unknown. 

The trial ended with the jury 

unable to reach a verdict and a 

retrial was ordered. 

About a week before the retrial, 

I was advised by police the 

defence had opposed the admissibility 

of my evidence and the 

judge had ruled in their favour, 

meaning I would not be called for 

the second trial. 

Benbow’s defence argued the 

jury could find him using the alias 

Nigel and a new Sim card was 

“unusual conduct”, and gave risk 

the jury would draw an “adverse 

inference” as to his character. 

They believed such an inference 

would be wrong and unfair 

as Benbow was “simply responding 

to persistent media requests 

that he comment on the police 

investigation”. 

Alternatively, the defence suggested 

the text messages could 

be admitted as evidence, but the 

Crown should not be allowed to 

mention that Benbow used a false 

name and a new Sim card. 

In reply, the Crown said the 

evidence was another strand of 

its circumstantial case. 

They said in referring to “grieving”, 

a jury would be entitled to 

infer Benbow knew McGrath was 

dead rather than missing. 

They also argued the “disparaging 

comments” about Green 

were “probative of guilt” and reflected 

an attempt by Benbow to 

distance himself from the police 

investigation. 

Justice Jonathan Eaton did not 

accept the Crown’s arguments 

and said the fact Benbow used 

an alias and a different phone 

number was of “low probative 

value”. 

“Whilst I do not consider 

the evidence would have a 

significant prejudicial effect on 

the proceedings, it is likely to lead 

the jury to consider Mr Benbow’s 

behaviour to have been odd. 

“There is a risk the jury would 

equate odd behaviour with guilt. 

That would give rise to unfair 

prejudice.” 

In the end, it did not matter. 

Benbow was convicted of 

McGrath’s murder. 

– NZ Herald 

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Gay bashing victim goes public: 

Five youths have 

been sentenced for a 

series of unprovoked 

attacks on gay men 

across Christchurch, 

filming the assaults. 

Sam Sherwood speaks 

to one of the victims 

about the night he 

thought he was going 

to die 

IT SEEMED innocent enough at 

first. It was late on April 17 last 

year and Kelly Hopkins was at 

his home chatting with a man 

on Grindr, a dating app popular 

with gay men. 

The man said he wanted 

to meet Hopkins at a park in 

Avonhead. 

“It wasn’t that unusual because 

you would generally meet 

somewhere public and it was late 

at night,” Hopkins recalls. 

Hopkins, who doesn’t drive, 

got an Uber to the park. Once 

outside he messaged the man 

asking him to come out on to the 

street. 

“He was quite insistent I go 

into the park which I felt was a 

bit dodgy.” 

He told the man he wasn’t 

going to go into the park, and 

the man gave him an address for 

a house nearby where he said he 

lived. 

Hopkins then got a Lime bike 

and went to the address thinking 

if something did go wrong he 

could just bike off. 

Once he got down to the end 

of the street he saw someone 

shining what appeared to be a 

torch. 

“He said ‘are you the guy from 

Grindr’ and I said yes and he 

said ‘my house is just over here 

follow me’ and he just went to 

like half turnaround and I said 

no, I’m just going to go. 

“I turned around on the bike 

and he yelled something out 

and all these figures in black just 

came at me out of the dark.” 

Hopkins isn’t sure exactly 

how many people there were but 

thinks it might have been about 

eight. 

ASSAULTED: Kelly Hopkins was one of 10 people attacked by the group. 

PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD 

“I just took off down the street 

and I actually came off the bike 

and that’s when they got on me 

and beat the s*** out of me. 

“I thought I was going to die. 

I thought they were going to kill 

me.” 

The group kicked and punched 

Hopkins while he was on the 

ground, not saying anything to 

him. 

“I was yelling help me, call the 

police. I was screaming bloody 

murder. . . I was screaming for 

my life. People in the houses 

around started to yell out and 

one of them turned on their 

lights but nobody came outside. 

The last thing he could 

remember from the attack was 

a rock hitting him in the head 

before the group fled. 

Once the offenders fled, 

Hopkins yelled out for someone 

to bring him a torch so he could 

try to find his phone in the dark. 

After waiting to see if someone 

would come, he decided to get 

back on the bike and head home, 

worried the offenders might 

come back. 

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“I biked all the way back into 

the city, it was about 45 minutes. 

They’d broken my glasses so I 

couldn’t really see anything and 

it was about 1am. 

“Every car that came I thought 

was them coming after me.” 

Once he got home he made an 

online police report and called 

a friend who came and helped 

clean him up and put a bandage 

on his head. A few hours later 

he went with a colleague to 

the scene and found his phone 

“smashed to pieces”. 

He also spoke to police about 

the ordeal and worked from 

home after telling his colleagues 

he’d had a scooter accident. 

That evening he went to the 

after hours clinic to get looked at. 

“I had an abrasion on my 

elbows and knees and a massive 

gash on my head, but I didn’t 

know at the time because I was 

still so in shock but I also had 

bruised ribs. . . I couldn’t twist 

or turn or sit down properly for 

days.” 

As the days turned into weeks, 

Hopkins tried putting it all 

behind him and moving on with 

life. 

“I tried to pretend it didn’t 

happen.” 

About six weeks after the 

incident he got a call from police 

asking if he could come in to 

make a formal statement. Two 

weeks later he got another call 

from police to say they were 

looking at some suspects they 

had brought in following another 

incident. 

“[Police] said they’d found 

videos on their phones and that’s 

how they’d found these guys.” 

Hopkins says police told him 

the groups had filmed several 

assaults and uploaded them to a 

private group. 

He says it was “horrific” to find 

out his ordeal had been filmed. 

Last week five youths were 

sentenced in the Youth Court by 

Judge Quentin Hix. 

The sentencing began with 

two of the victims reading their 

victim impact statements. 

The first of the two men, who 

was 32 at the time, told the court 

how he suffered “severe trauma” 

to his face as a result of the 

offending. 

His cellphone was never 

recovered, and he had to pay an 

excess of $500. 

“This offending caused 

me a lot of physical pain, but 

psychologically the pain is 

ongoing.” 

He hardly uses the app now, he 

shelters himself away at home. 

When he puts the bins out at 

night he fears he will be attacked 

and has regular flashbacks of the 

offending. 

His pants were pulled down 

with his genitals exposed on 

film. 

He found it “too painful” to 

talk about what happened with a 

health professional and fears he 

has PTSD. 

The man said he now hid his 

sexuality in fear of being beaten. 

“It’s so upsetting to be 

dehumanised, treated like an 

object.” 

The second man said the 

impact of the attack continued 

today physically and emotionally 

and he had not told his family 

what had happened. 

He was scared of anyone 

wearing hoodies on the street 

and no longer felt safe, forcing 

him to move several times since 

the incident. 

Judge Hix thanked both men 

for reading their statements. 

He said the catalyst for the 

offending appeared to come from 

social media videos depicting 

violence against people in the US. 

“The group has decided to 

engage in copycat offending.” 

He described the offending, 

involving 10 attacks between 

March and June last year, as 

“extremely serious”. 

Not all of the youths in court 

were involved in all of the 

offending. 

The victims were “lured” 

to areas late at night and then 

attacked by members of the group. 

One of the victims had arranged 

to meet someone at a park. Once 

he arrived he was punched and 

kicked and called a paedophile 

as the group demanded his 

money and phone. Footage of the 

incident was shared on social 

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‘I thought I was going to die’ 

Judge Hix said there were several 

key factors in dealing with the 

offending including the group 

nature of it, the premeditation, 

the seriousness of the violence 

and that it was recorded. 

He said from reading the 

paperwork it appeared the 

offending was related to a social 

media influence and some form 

of “vigilante action”. 

Other evidence indicated the 

motive was in relation to money. 

He said there was no proof that 

the victims’ sexual orientation 

was a motivation for the group. 

At the beginning of sentencing 

crown prosecutor Penny 

Crown said the 10 attacks 

were “extremely violent” on 

vulnerable people between 

March and May last year. 

“Not only were they 

premeditated and repeated, they 

were filmed and the attacks 

shared on social media.” 

Each of the five young men was 

sentenced one at a time. 

Two of the youths were given 

six months of supervision and 

150 hours community work. 

Three other youths were given 

six-month informal plans and 50 

hours of community work. 

• By Chris Barclay 

THE ACTIONS of five teenagers 

who filmed a series of assaults on 

gay men in Christchurch have 

resonated with family of Allan 

Aberhart, the victim of a fatal 

homophobic attack in Hagley 

Park 60 years ago. 

Nicole Skews-Poole might be 

a distant cousin of Aberhart, but 

last week’s proceedings in the 

Christchurch Youth Court still 

felt close to home. 

Aberhart’s killers were six 

teenagers aged 15-17, who 

admitted to setting out to attack a 

gay man on January 23, 1964. 

The 37-year-old from 

Blenheim, who was in town to 

drive his mother to a wedding, 

was felled by a punch at a toilet 

block in the park. 

SHOCK: Kelly Hopkins says it was ‘horrific’ to learn the attack on him was filmed. 

The last of the youths to be 

sentenced read a letter of apology 

saying he had “an extreme sense 

of remorse for my actions. 

“I apologise for the harm 

I’ve caused, I deeply regret my 

involvement.” 

Detective Senior Sergeant 

Damon Wells said police are 

urging users of dating app 

users to take steps to protect 

Although they confessed to 

police, and were charged with 

manslaughter, the teenagers were 

found not guilty by a Supreme 

Court jury after a five-day trial. 

Aberhart’s case was 

subsequently considered a 

miscarriage of justice, and a 

touchstone for the gay rights 

movement in New Zealand. 

Skews-Poole would not be 

drawn on the punishment 

handed down to the teenagers 

responsible for last year’s spate of 

attacks on gay men, though the 

case reopened old wounds. 

“Obviously this is an echo of 

what happened to Allan,” she 

said. 

“One of the recent victims 

(Kelly Hopkins) spoke at Allan’s 

memorial last month, and it’s 

themselves when meeting up 

with people they’ve only spoken 

to online. 

He said the victims showed 

incredible courage and that 

helped lead to convictions. 

“The victims have done 

nothing wrong. The offenders 

made a choice to take advantage 

of people’s trust and planned 

these attacks with the intention 

clear that while we’ve come far in 

some regards, we haven’t come 

far enough. 

“Sixty years on, gay men 

are still being subjected to 

homophobic hate crimes using 

planned, organised, predatory 

methods by attackers.” 

About 80 people attended the 

memorial for Aberhart at the 

scene of his death on January 

23, during which a fund in his 

name was announced to support 

victims of hate crimes. 

Details of the Allan Aberhart 

fund created by his family and 

the Christchurch Foundation 

with support of rainbow 

charity, the Rule Foundation 

will be released during the city’s 

LGBTQIA+ Pride celebrations, 

which start next Friday. 

of hurting people. 

“While this sentencing brings 

some closure, it won’t undo the 

mental scars these victims have 

endured, or the pain they’ve gone 

through.” 

Wells advised dating app users 

to tell a close friend if meeting 

someone for the first time. 

“Arrange to catch up in a busy 

location, and trust yourself; if 

something doesn’t feel right, 

don’t hesitate to take action to 

keep yourself safe. The victims 

of these crimes have gone 

through an ordeal, but we can’t 

thank them enough for their 

bravery through this process.” 

Nearly a year after he was 

attacked, Hopkins says he’s lost 

all of his enjoyment in life and 

has been diagnosed with posttraumatic 

stress disorder. 

“If I hear the sound of a group 

of people behind me it freaks me 

out. I’m conscious I don’t know 

who some of these offenders 

are. I find it really hard to sleep, 

I don’t really trust anybody or 

anything now.” 

The 48-year-old still can’t 

believe it happened to him. 

“To think we’ve made 

progress in so many ways as a 

society and as a world and then 

this kind of thing still happens.” 

He hopes that with sentencing 

now over that he might be able 

to regain some control of his 

life. 

“I’d just like to be able to put it 

all behind me. I’d like to go back 

to my life.” 

– NZ Herald 

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A PENGUIN chick at a 

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The little penguin or kororā is 

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Pōhatu manager and Averil’s 

husband, Kevin Parthonnaud, 

said due to the chick’s late birth, 

his parents had to return to sea 

for foraging before maturity was 

reached. 

“They have a biological need 

to leave and gain back the weight 

lost during breeding, but this 

means their chicks aren’t going 

to make it without us.” 

The species’ breeding season is 

from September to December. 

Finistère is being monitored 

in the colony’s DOC-certified 

Kororā Nursery, located at the 

Parthonnauds’ home. 

“My main job is cleaning 

penguin poop,” said Averil. 

“We also, once they have blue 

feathers, give them swims. We 

use an old bathtub.” 

The rehab team will check 

if Finistère’s feathers are 

waterproof and once he weighs 

about 1kg, he will be released. 

‘He’s actually a really 

feisty chick . . . He’s got an 

attitude.’ 

– Averil Parthonnaud 

Like all other penguins 

released from the colony, the 

chick will be microchipped so 

he can be tracked and identified 

upon a possible return. 

“One day we will be able to 

see if the fledglings have made it 

back to the colony,” said Averil. 

He will likely be mature 

enough to go to sea in about two 

weeks. 

First, Finistère will be “soft 

released” into a transition area 

in the colony and will have the 

choice of when to enter the wild. 

“Most fledglings that have 

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for by 

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after being left 

by his parents 

at the Pōhatu 

colony. 

been raised by us just take one 

night and they are off to sea by 

themselves under the cover of 

darkness,” Averil said. 

It is unknown where Finistère 

will go when released. 

Averil said no research has 

been done into little penguin 

foraging habits or their range of 

travel. 

Finistère was named by a 

sponsor as part of the colony’s 

‘adopt a penguin’ programme, 

after the peninsula in north-west 

France they come from. It means 

to ‘end of the earth’. 

Pōhatu is the largest little 

penguin colony in mainland 

New Zealand. 

The colony was last surveyed 

in 2020 and found 928 active 

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LETTERS 23 

Concerns over safety of apartments 

YOUR FRONT page fire story 

(February 29) and photos have to 

be a wake-up call for many. 

Christchurch residents’ 

associations have long opposed 

the proliferation of lower-end 

multi-apartment developments, 

on aesthetic grounds and 

because of the destruction of 

trees which provide shade and 

bird habitat, plus the additional 

stress they place on parking and 

other infrastructure. These are 

all valid concerns. 

Association members have 

been called selfish nimbys. I 

never bought that label, but 

we obviously didn’t see the fire 

(literally) through the smoke 

(screen) we conveniently created 

for developers, investors and our 

council, in fluffing about with 

our first-world whinges. 

We did not see the much 

bigger and truly sinister picture. 

How did we all miss this 

significant safety and health 

issue? And now we know about 

it, we surely can’t unsee it, can 

we? 

It’s true these places are aimed 

at the vulnerable. Three quarters 

are owned by investors who 

let them out at huge rentals to 

people who can ill-afford them, 

many being subsidised by the 

taxpayer. They’re not long-term 

homes; there’s no room to hang 

out a decent load of washing, 

let alone swing a cat or a tennis 

racket. They’re stepping stones, 

to nowhere some will say, and 

they won’t age well. 

But until we walked past the 

scene of the fire on New Brighton 

Rd, and imagined the terror – of 

being on the high second level 

while flames raged up the stairs 

– we didn’t truly understand the 

extent of that vulnerabilty. 

Like other onlookers, we 

shocked by the pitiful and futile 

attempts a desperate mother 

must have made to smash 

double-glazed windows which 

don’t open more than 15cms. 

We saw buckled stays which 

showed us how desperately she 

must have tried to force them, 

before dropping her baby from 

such a height, and then smashing 

her own way out. Most such 

FIRE TRAP: Readers say property developers bear some responsibility for the recent fire at 

a block of apartments on New Brighton Rd, Shirley. 

apartments do not have secondfloor 

doors or balconies. 

In the days since, I’ve heard 

of a man in his 60s who made a 

rope ladder when he was housed 

in a three storey unit in Salisbury 

St. One could not get a more 

third world solution, surely? And 

of a profoundly deaf woman 

who has been refused by her 

landlord an upgraded fire alarm, 

consequently sleeping in her 

downstairs living area. 

Is this what the Fire Service 

means when it exhorts us all to 

plan our escape routes in case 

of emergency? Does it have any 

say in the consenting process of 

these developments? 

I live next door to a block of 

five, and although I am first to say 

they are not the bogey houses we 

feared, I now look at the tenants in 

a new light. 

For the first time I’ve looked 

at their window design and 

configuration. I know I would 

never be able to get out of those 

in an emergency, and I sincerely 

hope they have taken all possible 

steps to protect themselves, until 

someone in authority steps up 

to the plate to look after them. 

And I hope that is very soon, as 

accidents will always happen. 

– June Peka 

Of course it’s good news no one 

died at the fire at one of the flats 

on New Brighton Rd opposite The 

Palms. 

Of course it’s good that the 

firewalls in between the flats 

stopped the fire from spreading. 

However, there is no mention 

of the fact that only a very small 

part of the top-floor windows 

can only be opened, making 

it almost impossible to get out 

quickly. 

Why were these flats allowed 

to be built with such a lack of 

fire-safety planning? 

Who is responsible, the 

developers, council? 

– Ann Vanschevensteen 

Smart poles 

I am firmly against the 

installation of smart poles in our 

city. These poles are promoted 

as tools to enhance safety, yet 

their actual effectiveness is 

questionable. 

First, the surveillance cameras 

on these poles might merely shift 

anti-social behaviours to areas 

beyond their reach, failing to 

address the underlying causes of 

crime. 

Furthermore, the effectiveness 

of these cameras is dubious 

without swift police intervention, 

which appears to be waning. 

Additionally, features such 

as car and pedestrian counting 

provoke concerns about the real 

intentions behind these poles. 

Are they truly aimed at security, 

or do they serve a more sinister 

purpose? 

We must not overlook the 

broader consequences of 

perpetual surveillance. These 

poles are a step towards 

We want to hear your views 

on the issues affecting life 

in Canterbury 

Send emails to: 

barry@ 

starmedia.kiwi 

Letters may be edited or rejected 

at Star Media’s discretion. Letters 

should be about 200 words. 

A name, postal address and phone 

number should be provided. 

Please use your real name, not 

a nickname, alias, pen name or 

abbreviation. 

normalising invasive monitoring 

throughout our city, all under the 

pretence of developing a ‘smart 

city’ and enhancing our ‘safety.’ 

In truth, this is surveillance 

masqueraded as advancement. 

Intrusive cameras have already 

been installed at our intersections 

without our consent. As the adage 

warns, sacrificing privacy for 

safety leads to the loss of both. We 

must oppose this infringement on 

our privacy and freedoms. 

– James Andrews 

THree smart poles are to be built 

in Christchurch to keep us safe. 

Pedestrian and vehicle counting 

are part of the functions and 

we are told they are completely 

anonymous. I feel safer already. 

Security cameras on the poles 

will be linked to the police but as 

understaffed police reportedly 

didn’t even look at CCTV 

camera footage of an attempted 

abduction of a primary school 

aged child in Lyttleton and 

another in Woolston earlier this 

year, I fail to see how this will 

make anyone any safer. 

These poles will also feature free 

WiFi to add to the EMF (Electro 

Magnetic Field) pollution and 

keep us looking at our phones. I 

really feel safe now. 

Funding has come from 

the previous government’s 

support package for community 

wellbeing. 

What a relief it’s only my tax 

money that’s being wasted not my 

rates money. 

– D Downward 

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TRAINING PROGRAMME 

SuNdAy 17 MARch 

12km, 6km Community Fun Run Event 


The work is done. The only thing to do now is to freshen up. You do that by getting plenty of sleep and eating healthy foods this week. Nerves can get in the way 

of a good taper. So try and “keep the lid on”. Nerves can also interfere with your eating. This is not the time to put on or lose weight. Keep focused on the plan. 

You often hear top athletes talking about sticking to the process. That means they are not thinking of the final result at the finish line but they focus on their task 

during the event. This also applies to you. It means that most of the time your thoughts will be with your rhythm, pace and technique. Your breathing will be a 

good measure of your pace and if your breathing is more laboured than during your training sessions you are going too fast. Prepare yourself to run surrounded 

by a large group of people. It can be quite unnerving for some people. Above all, run at your own pace from the start. Hold back a bit when the gun goes off 

rather than trying to get ahead of the pack. If you start too fast there will be a price to pay later. If you have someone you can run with who is of a similar level you 

can keep each other in check. 

TIP OF ThE WEEK 

The main tip is to enjoy yourself. 

While you are “sticking to the 

process” there is no reason why 

you can’t take in the occasion at 

the same time. 

Run with a smile on your face. 

Have a good one! 

On behalf of the team at 

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With only 10 days to go until this exciting event, please make 

sure you read below for all the important information you need 

for race day! 

Already entered? Bib collection is available at Les Mills (203 Cashel 

Street) Thursday 14th and Friday 15th March 10:00am - 6:00pm 

and Saturday 16th March 10:00am - 5:00pm. You will need your 

confirmation email with you for collection. The option to have your 

bib posted to you has now closed. The last bibs are currently being 

couriered. 

Haven’t entered yet? If you need to buy another entry bib you can 

drop into Fresh Choice, Frontrunner Colombo, Fitness NZ, Star 

Media or enter online and pick up your bib from Les Mills or at the 

start line. Remember no bib, no run, no bus. 

Entered in a team? A reminder that if you are part of a team, your 

group coordinator can pick up your bib on your behalf. If you want 

the day to be extra special, you can book a team site to celebrate 

together at the finish line for as little as $175 (site only). Email Nicky 

at info@city2surf.co.nz for more details. 

The bib will give you entry to either the 6km or 12km event – you 

can make your mind up on the day (no need to tell us). Simple. Easy! 

Our City2Surf and Thermatech performance gear is still available for 

purchase online. Orders from now onwards will be couriered after 

the event. 

Transport at the Event 

Parking is available at Rawhiti Domain finish (entry off Shaw Ave and 

get a bus to either 6km or 12km start line) or Porritt Park (entry off 

Kerrs Road and get a bus back from the finish). 

Bentleys Transport Buses will go to both start locations with priority 

to the 12km start line as it starts earlier (it’s about a 400m walk to the 

start lines from the bus drop off - good warm up). 

Be at the finish in plenty of time to catch a bus to the start lines – 

buses commence from 7:00am on Lonsdale Street, New Brighton 

(Keyes Road end). 

Buses start again from the finish line at 10:00am and will depart 

when full. The last bus after the finish is at 1:00pm. There may be 

queues during high demand periods. 

The course 

Les Mills classic 12km - Latimer Square at 9:00am 

Sports canterbury 6km - Porritt Park at 9:45am 

If you want to drop your clothing before you catch a bus, a secure 

area will be available at Rawhiti Domain finish, otherwise we have 

clothing transport available from both start lines from the Moving 

Company to the finish line. Please ensure your clothing is in a secure 

bag. Lost pins for your bib? We’ve got you covered. Spare pins will 

be available at the start line. 

When you are called to line up for the start, its runners first, then 

joggers followed by walkers. No roller blades, e-scooters, push 

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There will be on course entertainment to keep you motivated and in 

high spirits! You can be rest assured that there will be many marshals 

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sure to give them a shout out and thank you as you pass. 

Due to the nature of the course, there may be some slip and trip 

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your health and safety, it is important that you MUST use the ANZAC 

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Fitness NZ have provided us with finish line clocks for both the 6km 

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We have some delicious food available at the finish line including 

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The prizegiving will start at 12 noon with thousands of prizes from 

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FRESH OFF defending their title 

as Canterbury champions, the 

Kaiapoi Queens will head into 

the national championship with 

confidence on home soil. 

Kaiapoi won the title last 

weekend, beating Papanui in the 

final 7-0 at Dynasty Ballpark – 

where the nationals will be held 

starting today, running through 

to Sunday. 

Five Canterbury sides are 

in the 14-team competition – 

Kaiapoi are joined by Riccarton, 

Papanui, Halswell and PCU. 

Kaiapoi coach Mike McDowell 

said the Canterbury title puts 

them in good stead. 

“We definitely wanted to show 

that we’re the same team as last 

year. 

“(We’re as) confident as we can 

be, of course. There’s a few good 

teams out there coming down 

to try and win this down here, 

but, look, it’d be good to give it a 

good crack and take it out for the 

local fans.” 

McDowell said they are 

looking to improve on last year’s 

semi-final place. 

“We choked at one of the last 

hurdles. We went through top 

seed going into the final round, 

then lost the semi-final to a team 

that we’ve beat seven times all 

year (PCU). 

“We’ve learnt from our 

mistakes last year and hopefully 

we’re not going to make that 

mistake again this year.” 

With the nationals being the 

last competition of the season, 

JUBILANT: Kaiapoi celebrate 

after their win over Papanui 

in the Canterbury final. 

Right, Arnora Hesp in action 

in the final. 

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McDowell said the team will be 

up for the challenge. 

“They save their best for last, 

and they throw everything at it. 

“So it’s going to be a very 

exciting tournament.” 

Papanui and Halswell will be 

the first teams in action today at 

9am, against Auckland Metro 

and Waitakere, while Riccarton 

start at 11am against Otahuhu. 

Kaiapoi and PCU will be 

the last teams to start their 

tournament, against Auckland’s 

Metro and Waitakere at 1pm. 

Bishopdale into final after tight playoff 

• By Diane Keenan 

BISHOPDALE will play 

Cashmere in the final of the 

premier men’s tennis interclub 

competition on Saturday after 

the rule book determined its 

qualification following a draw 

with its neighbouring club 

Burnside Park in the play-offs. 

Bishopdale’s men’s captain 

Grayson Cullen is delighted 

with his team’s achievement in 

reaching the final. 

Their path to the final 

culminated in them slugging it 

out against Burnside Park for 

more than five hours for a tie last 

week. When the final ball was 

played, the score was locked at 

three matches, eight sets and 62 

games each after a countback. 

“It was just the closest and 

craziest tie I’ve ever played,” 

Cullen said. 

“All the singles matches 

went to three sets and several 

featured some spectacular come 

from behind wins in the super 

tiebreaks. 

“We each won two singles in 

three sets and shared the doubles 

with identical scores, 7-5 6-3. 

Given it was a playoff and there 

had to be a winner, we had to 

ring Tennis Canterbury for them 

to make a ruling on who went 

through the final. 

“Luckily it was us because we 

went into the match on higher 

points and we had beaten 

Burnside Park in the roundrobin 

match.” 

Both Cullen and Bishopdale’s 

No. 1 Will Schneideman were 

down in the tie break before 

clawing back to win, with 

Schneideman saving four match 

points. Burnside Park put up an 

excellent fight with Jamie Poole 

winning 17-15 

in the tiebreak 

against Bishopdale’s 

club coach 

Gareth Robb. 

Emilio Gonzaga 

continued 

his winning form 

winning in the Grayson 

third set against Cullen 

James Wilson. 

Cashmere, a convincing 

winner over Elmwood in the 

semi-final, is seeking its third 

season championship in a row 

when it plays on its home courts 

on Saturday. It also clinched 

the title in the pre-Christmas 

competition. 

Cullen says his team faces 

a difficult task against the 

experienced Cashmere lineup 

which includes all three Meredith 

brothers, James, Tim and Matt, 

Harry Weeds and Lucas Evans. 

“Given the way they have 

played this season they deserve 

the home tie. We are looking 

forward to it as we all get on well. 

We will have some supporters 

there too as our club is very 

proud to be in the final,” he says. 

In the women’s competition 

Elmwood and Te Kura Hagley 

are well deserved finalists with 

both teams out-hitting and 

outwitting their opponents, 

Bishopdale and Cashmere 

respectively, in last week’s semifinals. 

Bishopdale captain Juliette Ma 

won both her singles and doubles 

with Aliyah Daly for her team’s 

only wins against Elmwood 

which took the tie with the other 

three singles and a doubles win. 

Te Kura Hagley were equally 

dominant against Cashmere 

whose top singles player Ruby 

Young recorded her team’s 

only success by winning her 

singles and doubles with Jenny 

Blackburne. 

Elmwood, which also 

won the women’s first round 

championship, will host the 

women’s final. 

The club has been all class this 

season having the luxury of three 

highly-ranked players, Abby 

Mason, Tessa McCann and Louise 

Oxnevad, ably supported by Mia 

Wardlaw, Holly-Jayne Feutz and 

the consistent junior, Danielle 

Scheepers. 

Te Kura Hagley, also has 

a formidable lineup. Beth 

Williamson, Michele Kelsen, Petra 

Belzova, Bailee Wison and Adele 

Orangi will not be fazed by their 

opposition as are all experienced 

players who have competed at the 

top level. 

The finals get under way at 1pm.



SPORT 27 

Debutants shine with bat and ball 


MICHAEL RAE and Matt Rowe 

have made an instant impact 

on debut for Sydenham in their 

match against Merivale-Papanui 

at Edgar Macintosh Park. 

Rowe, a bowler by trade, 

scored 47 from number eight to 

lift Sydenham from a perilous 

104/6 to 222 all out, before Rae 

took over with the ball. 

The 28-year-old starred, taking 

6/28 to skittle Merivale-Papanui 

for 116 in an exhibition of seam 

bowling in his first appearance 

since moving from Dunedin last 

year. 

With six overs left in the day 

and a lead of more than 100, 

Sydenham enforced the followon 

but could not pick up another 

wicket before stumps with 

Merivale-Papanui finishing the 

day 12 without loss, trailing by 

94 runs. 

Burnside West Uni are in 

a comfortable position for 

an outright win against East 

Shirley at Burnside Park and put 

themselves in pole position for 

back-to-back titles. 

Captain Matt Hay took four 

wickets as East Shirley were 

bowled out for 135 before a 

century from 20-year-old Scott 

Jannett – scoring 110 off just 92 

balls – took Burnside to 234. 

Both Shirley openers then 

went for golden ducks in their 

STAR: Michael Rae took 6/28 for Sydenham against Merivale-Papanui. PHOTOS: ASH HART 

second innings, Jackson Latham 

doing the damage with 3/18 as 

Shirley finished the day 33/4, still 

66 runs behind Burnside’s firstinnings 

total. 

The Heathcote pair of Dan 

Stanley and Talor Scott cut loose 

against St Albans at Heathcote 

Domain to secure a healthy firstinnings 

lead. 

Stanley picked up where he left 

off in the one-dayers, scoring 63 

runs off just 27 balls at the top 

of the order, while Scott contributed 

56 off 41 in Heathcote’s 

total of 248. 

St Albans had earlier been 

bowled out for 134 with only 

Nabil Moughal (41) offering any 

resistance, and will resume their 

second innings on Saturday at 

79/3. 

A confident showing from 

Lancaster Park will likely see 

them gain valuable first-innings 

points – but an outright win 

could be beyond them. 

Park batted first and scored 

226/9 – with skipper Angus 

Hamilton facing the last ball of 

the innings and hitting it for six 

before declaring at the 60-over 

mark to gain batting points. 

IMPACT: Matt Rowe scored 

47 on debut for Sydenham 

to dig them out of a hole. 

Hamilton was then destroyerin-chief 

with the ball, taking 

4/38 with his off-spin to leave 

Old Boys 137/7, still 89 runs off 

Park’s first-innings total. 

Matches resume at 10:30am on 

Saturday. 

Points 

Burnside 85.4; Lancaster 

Park 70.1; Heathcote 68.3; 

Sydenham 62.1; Old Boys 

59.2; East Shirley 51.2; St 

Albans 32.5; Merivale- 

Papanui 23.8


28 

SPORT 

OLD HAND: Willi Heinz will 

start at halfback against the 

Fijian Drua in Lautoka in 

his first appearance of the 

season. PHOTO: GETTY 


THE CRUSADERS have opted 

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starting team to face the Fijian 

Drua in Lautoka on Saturday, as 

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Willi Heinz comes in to start 

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Hotham, who was substituted 

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37-24 loss to the Waratahs last 

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Experience favoured in Crusaders’ line-up against Drua 

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GIG GUIDE 

Thursday 7 to Wednesday 13 March 2024 

AIR FORCE MUSEUM, 45 Harvard Ave: 

Thursday 7.30pm, Friday 12pm (School 

Session) & 7.30pm, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 

2pm & 6pm - Taki Rua presents The FNZ 

National Tour of Hatupatu Kurungaituku 'A 

Forbidden Love' inspired by the Te Arawa 

Kōero, tickets at premier.ticketek.co.nz 

AMBERLEY HOTEL, 84 Carters Rd, 

Amberley: Saturday 8pm - The Feelgood 

Factor. 

ARMADILLO'S BECKENHAM, 155 

Colombo St: Saturday 9pm - Simmer. 

A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St: 

Thursday 7pm – Monthly Open Mic on the 

big stage, full back-line provided incl drums 

and piano, all welcome, free. Friday 7pm – 

Karaoke on the big stage, all welcome, come 

and sing your heart out! free. Saturday 8pm – 

Rock Night with Passenger (Acoustic), The 

Deadlights, & I See Tomorrow – classics from 

1960’s to 2000’s, plus some stonking originals, 

rock across the ages for all tastes, koha entry. 

Sunday 4pm – Li’l Chuck’s – The One Man 

Skiffle Machine’s SO/LO Album Release Show 

– Recently released to rave international 

reviews, Li’l Chuck presents his album in its 

entirety, full one-man-band style with multiple 

guitars – “He highlights his love & knowledge 

of The Blues to great effect. Great slide & 

harmonica.” Blues Matters Magazine (UK) 

2024 – don’t miss this tea-time show for allages, 

come and see what this genuine oneman-band 

is all about, koha entry. Monday 

7pm – Believe It or Not Quiz, dinner specials, 

lots of prizes and fun, table bookings on 03- 

377-4787, free. 

BAILIES BAR, Edgeware Village 1066: 

Thursday 7pm - Live music. 

BALCAIRN HALL, 4 Ashbys Rd, Sth 

Amberley: Saturday 23rd March, 7.30pm - 

Suzanne Lynch, Liz Braggins & Graham 

Wardrop, tickets $30 www.balcairnhall.com. 

BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday 7pm 

- TP Karaoke. Friday 7.30pm - TP Karaoke. 

Saturday 7pm - The Meaniez. Sunday 6pm - 

Fired Up Karaoke. 

BRIDIE'S BAR, 401 Worcester St: Friday 

4pm - DJ Rakinem. Saturday 3pm - 

Unhinged; 6pm - DJ Rakinem. 

CASHMERE CLUB, 50 Colombo St: 

Friday 8pm - Level 6. Saturday 13th April - 

Totally 80's Show. 

CHCH CASINO, 30 Victoria St: Friday 

5.30pm -MindBlank Duo; 9pm - The 

Meaniez. Saturday 5.30pm - Nightowls; 9pm - 

Red Zone. 

CHCH FOLK MUSIC CLUB, Irish Society 

Hall, 29 Domain Tce: Sunday 7.30pm - 

Dave Flynn.. 

FAT EDDIES, 76 Hereford St: Thursday 

4pm - Phil Doublet & Josh Keating; 7.30pm - 

Live Band Karaoke; 11pm - Jinx. Friday 5pm - 

Mike Ferrar Trio; 8.30pm - Black & Gold; 

Midnight - Corner Sounds. Saturday 1.30pm - 

The Curio Club; 5pm - Nick Pitts Trio; 

8.30pm - Oval Office; Midnight - House of 

Groove. Sunday 1.30pm - Fuchsia Haze; 5pm - 

Nicole & Freddie. 

FINNEGAN'S IRISH PUB, Prebbleton 

Village: Friday 8pm - L&B Duo. 

FOOD TRUCK ALLEY, 3 McCormacks 

Bay Rd: Sunday 4pm - Eastside. Sunday 17th 

March - The Neutrons. Sunday 24th March - 

Monster Music. Sunday 31st March - The 

Nowhere Men. 

HORNBY CLUB, 17 Carmen Rd: Sunday 

3pm - SandBar. Saturday 6th April - DnD 

Showband presents ABBA & The 80's Show 

tributes. 

LYTTELTON CLUB, 23 Dublin St: Friday 

7.30pm - International Women's Day feat. 

Mandi Miller. 

MACKENZIES HOTEL, 51 Pages Rd: 

Friday 8pm - Hired Guns. Sunday 4pm - 

Speedboat. 

MICKY FINN'S, 85a Hereford St: Friday 

10.30pm - Flat City Brotherhood. Saturday 

10.30pm - Shadow Puppet. 

OAK N FERRY, 5/608 Ferry Rd: Saturday 

8pm - The Party Singers. 

OLD LEITHFIELD HOTEL, 11 Old Main 

North Rd: Friday 7.30pm - The Party 

Singers. 

OPAWA BOWL & JACK, 15 Opawa Rd: 

Friday 7pm - Fired Up Karaoke. 

QUEENSPARK TAVERN, 60 Queenspark 

Dr: Sunday 3pm - 12 Gauge & Hired Guns. 

RACECOURSE HOTEL, 'The Borough', 

75 London St: Friday 7pm - DJ Chick. 

RICHMOND CLUB, 'The Borough', 75 

London St: Friday 7pm - Speedboat. 

Saturday 7pm - Smoot Talk. Sunday 3pm - 

Reminisce. 

ROSE & THISTLE, 24a Main North Rd: 

Friday 8.30pm - A&J Karaoke. Saturday 

8.30pm - Shameless Two. 

SHARKEY'S BAR, 96 Hoon Hay Rd: 

Friday 7.30pm - Sandy. Saturday 7pm - 

Karaoke. Sunday 4pm - Open Mic. 

SUMNER SOCIAL, 22a Esplanade, 

Sumner: Friday 5pm - Live music. Saturday 

1pm - Live music. 

TEMP'S BAR, 21 Goulding Ave: Saturday 

8.30pm - Oblivion. 

THE AVONHEAD TAVERN, Withells Rd: 

Friday 7.30pm - Live music. 

THE BLACK HORSE, Lincoln Rd: 

Wednesday 7pm - Karaoke with Annalea & 

Junior. 

THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Thursday 7pm - 

Quiz. Friday 6pm - Willie McArthur; 10pm - 

12 Gauge. Saturday 7pm - Joel Lee; 11pm - 

Smashbox. Sunday 5pm - Matt Hall. 

THE BOWER, 487 New Brighton Rd: 

Saturday 4.30pm - Sons of Satoshi. Sunday 

3.30pm - Triple J. 

THE EMBANKMENT, 181 Ferry Rd: 

Friday 7.30pm - Open Mic. Wednesday - 

Carpathia (Kevin Emmett, Jared Williams & 

Chris Baker). 

THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd: 

Friday 9.30pm - Nexus. Saturday 9.30pm - 

Girl from Mars. Sunday 6pm - Lance Kiwi 

Karaoke. Tuesday 7pm - Quiz. Wednesday 

7.30pm - Lance Kiwi Karaoke. 

THE PENGUIN ARMS, 3 Brighton Mall: 

Saturday 8.30pm - The E.C.H.O. 

THE RICCS, 280 Blenheim Rd: Thursday 

8pm - Karaoke. Saturday - 8.30pm - Titanic. 

THE ROCKPOOL, 85 Hereford St: 

Thursday 9pm, Friday 8.30pm, Saturday 

8.30pm, Sunday 8pm - DJ's. 

THE SIDELINE SPORTS BAR, 331 

Stanmore Rd: Thursday 7pm - Jam Night 

with Ritchie Gillies & Nick Buchanan. 

THE STOCK XCHANGE, 110 Marshland 

Rd: Saturday 7.30pm - Hired Guns. 

WOODSTOCK ADDINGTON, 291 

Lincoln Rd: Wednesday 7pm - Open Mic. 

RESTAURANT & CAFÉ 

WEEKEND 

BRUNCH 

SENIOR'S 

LUNCH 

SPECIAL 

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& SUNDAY 

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FRIDAY 6PM 

TICKETS ON SALE FROM 5PM 

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www.gardenhotel.co.nz

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