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‘Holy s**t someone has<br />
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• By Daniel Alvey<br />
THOSE WERE the words from<br />
one of the first on the scene when a<br />
car drove into the path of a train at<br />
a railway crossing.<br />
Scott McIlory was parked up<br />
in his ute facing away from the<br />
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“massive bang.”<br />
I looked at my side mirror and I<br />
saw a big cloud of dust. I thought<br />
‘holy s**t someone has just been<br />
hit by a train’,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> crash happened at the<br />
Browns Rd level crossing in<br />
Dunsandel last week.<br />
McIlory said the train’s horn<br />
sounded moments before impact.<br />
<strong>The</strong> train – two connected<br />
locomotives – hit the front of the<br />
Toyota Corolla, spun it around<br />
and pushed it off the tracks and<br />
onto a grass verge on Leeston<br />
Dunsandel Rd.<br />
<strong>The</strong> railway crossing lights<br />
were flashing and the bells sounding.<br />
When McIlory went over to<br />
check on the man, he was out of<br />
his car and walking around.<br />
“He was pretty shaken. He just<br />
said he didn’t see the train. He’s<br />
probably very, very lucky to be<br />
alive still.”<br />
McIlory called 111 and stayed at<br />
the scene until emergency services<br />
arrived.<br />
A St John spokesperson said it<br />
responded with two ambulances<br />
and a rapid response vehicle, but<br />
the driver declined to be assessed.<br />
McIlory said he felt sorry for the<br />
train driver.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y probably wouldn’t have<br />
known what they were walking<br />
back to.”<br />
LUCKY ESCAPE: <strong>The</strong> driver of a Toyota Corolla walked<br />
away after a crash with a train at the Browns Rd crossing<br />
in Dunsandel.<br />
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SHOULD RATEPAYERS fund<br />
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And what should the city<br />
council spend its money on?<br />
Those are the questions <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Star</strong> is today asking readers<br />
after it was revealed this week<br />
more than half of the public<br />
submissions to the city council’s<br />
Long Term Plan want the council<br />
to help fund ongoing operations<br />
of the financially troubled<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Long Term Plan maps out<br />
what the city council spends its<br />
money on – which ultimately<br />
finalises rates rises. Ratepayers<br />
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13 per cent; the final figure<br />
will be determined when city<br />
councillors vote next month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Arts Centre has a funding<br />
shortfall of $1.8 million.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were 7040 submissions<br />
to the city council, twice as<br />
many as the previous record.<br />
Helping out Orana Park also<br />
found favour with submitters<br />
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Hire company bid to take over A&P Show<br />
A HIRE company is proposing<br />
to take over running the <strong>2024</strong><br />
New Zealand Agricultural<br />
Show to ensure this year’s event<br />
goes ahead.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canterbury A&P Association<br />
board announced<br />
in April it was cancelling this<br />
year’s show due to financial<br />
difficulties. Earlier this month<br />
most of the board announced<br />
they would retire.<br />
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Paw-sitive outcome<br />
• By Daniel Alvey<br />
A FAMILY thought they might<br />
never see their cat Fletcher again<br />
after he was missing for 12 days.<br />
He turned up in Rangiora,<br />
about 45km from his home in<br />
Lincoln.<br />
Fletcher’s<br />
owner Rob<br />
Naysmith said<br />
he had no idea<br />
how he got to<br />
Rangiora.<br />
He said it was<br />
unlikely Fletcher<br />
walked. It was<br />
more plausible<br />
for missing feline<br />
Rob<br />
Naysmith<br />
he got into a vehicle or a trailer<br />
undetected, he said.<br />
“We’d spent hours searching<br />
for him.<br />
“We’d resigned ourselves to<br />
the fact we might not see him<br />
again.”<br />
Fletcher is a seal point birman,<br />
about eight-and-a-half-years-old.<br />
<strong>The</strong> family have had him since he<br />
was a kitten.<br />
Fletcher was found using a<br />
combination of his microchip<br />
and social media. Naysmith said<br />
while he was microchipped, the<br />
slimmed down version of the<br />
show, with a reduced number of<br />
stalls and visitors.<br />
He said they would hope to<br />
get between 30,000 to 50,000<br />
visitors over three days. Last<br />
HOME SAFE: Fletcher is now back with his family in Lincoln,<br />
after finding his way to Rangiora. <br />
details weren’t current.<br />
“With Fletcher, we hadn’t<br />
updated the details for his<br />
microchip. So when he was<br />
handed in to the fabulous people<br />
at Rangiora Vet Centre they<br />
scanned him but they couldn’t<br />
get in contact with us because it<br />
year, the show got 110,000 visitors.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are also proposing moving<br />
the show from Thursday to<br />
Saturday, rather than the traditional<br />
Wednesday to Friday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Agricultural Show<br />
usually ends on Canterbury<br />
Anniversary Day. Anderson<br />
said reducing the visitor numbers<br />
would help the planning<br />
process.<br />
“From a planning perspective<br />
it is good to work with limited<br />
numbers,” Anderson said.<br />
was the wrong phone number<br />
and wrong address.”<br />
Using the power of social<br />
media, people got in touch with<br />
the family to say Fletcher had<br />
been found.<br />
“We got in touch with the vet<br />
and they asked a whole lot of<br />
“You can do pre-sales, and<br />
manage your infrastructure.<br />
It’s really driven around traffic<br />
management, and toilet infrastructure<br />
et cetera.”<br />
Anderson said they also want<br />
to reduce the entry fees to make<br />
it very affordable for families,<br />
and to reduce the cost for stall<br />
holders.<br />
He said they are meeting<br />
with the board on Tuesday and<br />
would need a decision by the<br />
end of <strong>May</strong> in order to get on<br />
with planning.<br />
questions, as they should,” said<br />
Naysmith.<br />
“One of the staff was fabulous,<br />
she lived nearby to the vets and<br />
came out at 7.30pm to open<br />
up and give my wife and son<br />
Fletcher.<br />
“He was very smoochy and<br />
purred a lot, when he got home,<br />
he just stuck by us, and didn’t<br />
really leave our side. He slept<br />
right beside us on the bed which<br />
he never does.”<br />
Since being home Fletcher<br />
has had a checkup at his local<br />
Prebbleton Veterinary Hospital.<br />
“He’s lost about 500g, so he<br />
used to be just on 5kg now down<br />
to 4.5kg. But other than that he’s<br />
in perfect nick,” Naysmith said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Prebbleton vets<br />
encouraged people to get their<br />
pets microchipped and registered<br />
with the NZ Companion Animal<br />
Register.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> animal register means<br />
that as soon as an animal’s<br />
microchip is scanned by one of<br />
their approved users, they can<br />
contact you and arrange their<br />
safe return,” the vet said on<br />
Facebook.<br />
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Name of motorcyclist<br />
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<strong>The</strong> motorcyclist killed in a<br />
crash in Rolleston on Saturday<br />
was Shafie Bin Sulaiman, 52.<br />
<strong>The</strong> crash took place on Jones<br />
Rd about noon. Meanwhile,<br />
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names of two people killed in a<br />
head-on collison near Kirwee<br />
about 1.20pm on Tuesday. Bad<br />
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Man arrested after<br />
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A man has been arrested after<br />
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Cost of February’s<br />
Port Hills fire revealed<br />
February’s Port Hills fire has<br />
cost $3.45 million to date,<br />
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unconfirmed. <strong>The</strong> city council<br />
spent $1.15 million and Fire<br />
and Emergency New Zealand<br />
$2.3 million, it was revealed on<br />
Tuesday. However, city council<br />
head of community support<br />
and partnerships John Filsell<br />
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Judy’s life choice: Assisted dying<br />
• By Dellwyn Moylan<br />
JUDY SWANEY feels at peace.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 72-year-old retired aged<br />
care worker has made a major<br />
decision in recent months – to<br />
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Judy has terminal cancer and<br />
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Judy’s cancer journey began<br />
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was wrong with her.<br />
‘‘I was unaware I had it, but<br />
knew I was tired and, while hungry,<br />
didn’t want to eat. <strong>The</strong>y discovered<br />
a two-and-half kilogram<br />
tumour pressing on my kidney<br />
and spleen,’’ she said.<br />
Judy had surgery to have the<br />
two organs removed.<br />
She suffered a stroke in 2014,<br />
and was diagnosed with breast<br />
cancer in 2015.<br />
‘‘Three years ago I was told<br />
I had stage four metastasised<br />
cancer in my other kidney, lungs,<br />
bladder and gallbladder,’’ she<br />
said.<br />
‘‘My gallbladder specialist told<br />
me three years ago this month,<br />
have your gallbladder out within<br />
two weeks or you will be dead in<br />
two months.”<br />
Judy knew she did not want<br />
more surgery, so refused.<br />
‘At my<br />
memorial<br />
service,<br />
I want<br />
fun and<br />
laughter.<br />
I want<br />
funny<br />
stories<br />
to be<br />
told’<br />
– Judy<br />
Swaney<br />
FULFILLED: Judy Swaney, busy knitting for charity, is<br />
looking back on a life well lived.<br />
Three years later, she is still<br />
here today, but knows her time is<br />
limited.<br />
She finds comfort in the fact<br />
while it was never a choice to<br />
have cancer, she does have a<br />
choice on where and when she<br />
will die.<br />
‘‘It’s scary and you have no<br />
control. Making my own decision<br />
with Dennis’ and my family’s<br />
support has given me back<br />
some control,’’ Judy said.<br />
‘‘Having made the choice, we<br />
now have time to talk about it,’’<br />
she said.<br />
‘‘My funeral has been planned<br />
for three years. But given we<br />
CHARACTERS: Judy bringing laughter to Rosebank Home<br />
and Hospital residents in 2022, alongside diversional<br />
therapists Debbie Shaw and Nic Adlam.<br />
now have time, we can tweak<br />
things, and I know it’s all sorted.<br />
So when the time comes, Dennis<br />
and the family don’t have to<br />
think what I would like, or stress<br />
about it.<br />
‘‘At my memorial service, I<br />
want fun and laughter. I want<br />
funny stories to be told.<br />
‘‘Through my life, especially<br />
my work in aged care, I have met<br />
so many characters who had so<br />
many funny stories to share with<br />
their families, and that’s what I<br />
want.’’<br />
Judy also finds comfort knowing<br />
Dennis, and her children,<br />
grandchildren and wider family,<br />
will not have to see her suffer a<br />
painful death.<br />
‘‘After watching my dad suffer<br />
and pass away from lung cancer<br />
30-plus years ago, I didn’t want<br />
that,’’ Judy said.<br />
Today as Judy lives her life, she<br />
finds some days are better than<br />
others.<br />
She is grateful for pain management,<br />
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Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 5<br />
brings sense of control to cancer<br />
Knitting is a longtime passion,<br />
one that has seen her make<br />
hundreds of beanies for the<br />
Christchurch City Mission to<br />
give to the homeless. Judy has<br />
also knitted trauma teddies for<br />
St John.<br />
She makes Humpty Dumpty<br />
toys for Ronald McDonald<br />
House and her friend’s charity<br />
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren.<br />
And while her life has been<br />
upended by cancer, some things<br />
have not changed.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y include her bubbly<br />
personality and positive outlook<br />
– not to mention her love of<br />
chocolate. Whittaker’s is her<br />
favourite, and Dennis has to buy<br />
two blocks each time to ensure<br />
he gets the right variety.<br />
She and Dennis have had a life<br />
full of wonderful family memories<br />
together.<br />
<strong>The</strong> couple brought up three<br />
sons and have five grandchildren.<br />
Judy remembers where it all<br />
began when she met Dennis at<br />
the age of just 15.<br />
She said she was invited to his<br />
21st the following year, but her<br />
dad was not too sure he wanted<br />
his daughter going, as he had<br />
never met Dennis.<br />
So a meeting was arranged<br />
at her home. But when Dennis<br />
turned up, he was not too sure<br />
how things would go as he was<br />
greeted by her dad who happened<br />
to be carrying his deer<br />
stalking knife at the time.<br />
‘‘It all went well and we got on<br />
fine,’’ Dennis said.<br />
Judy and Dennis are grateful<br />
for the law change in New<br />
Zealand, which allowed assisted<br />
dying to become legal in 2021.<br />
Judy said she was a supporter<br />
even before she began to consider<br />
it as an option for herself. After<br />
her terminal cancer diagnosis<br />
three years ago, she wanted to<br />
find out more, but learned there<br />
TOGETHER:<br />
Dennis<br />
and Judy<br />
Swaney.<br />
Inset –<br />
on their<br />
wedding<br />
day 54<br />
years ago.<br />
were no doctors in Ashburton<br />
offering it. So she turned to<br />
Google.<br />
‘‘We found a doctor in<br />
Christchurch who was very<br />
switched on, very encouraging<br />
and very easy to talk to,’’ Judy<br />
said.<br />
‘‘Doctors aren’t allowed to<br />
raise it with a patient, there are<br />
no pamphlets in doctors’ waiting<br />
rooms about it because they can’t<br />
be seen to be influencing people,’’<br />
Judy said.<br />
Recently, she and Dennis<br />
took part in a Zoom meeting to<br />
participate in an assisted dying<br />
survey. Dennis suggested they<br />
needed to get the message out to<br />
people that this is an option.<br />
‘‘It shouldn’t be hidden away<br />
where medical people can’t put it<br />
out there as an option along with<br />
other options,’’ he said.<br />
Judy initially did not meet<br />
one of the main criteria, being<br />
that her illness would be likely<br />
to cause her death within six<br />
months. But by January this<br />
year she did meet that criteria,<br />
something two doctors had to<br />
agree on.<br />
‘‘I was then asked to choose the<br />
date I wanted to die,’’ Judy said.<br />
She can choose to bring the<br />
date forward if she wishes.<br />
Equally, if she does not wish to<br />
proceed on the chosen date, she<br />
can go ahead with another date.<br />
Judy is aware of different views<br />
around assisted dying, but said<br />
for herself and her family it has<br />
been the right choice.<br />
‘‘For some people their<br />
religious beliefs mean they are<br />
opposed to assisted dying,’’ Judy<br />
said.<br />
‘‘Or they haven’t seen a loved<br />
one suffer,’’ Dennis said.<br />
While her family, including<br />
her 93-year-old mum and six<br />
siblings, were heartbroken at the<br />
thought of losing her, they all<br />
supported her choice.<br />
– Ashburton Courier<br />
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Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 7<br />
Street racers targeted in police action<br />
FIVE VEHICLES were<br />
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<strong>The</strong> antisocial road user<br />
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Sergeant Luke Vaughan from<br />
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activity across the city”.<br />
Police issued 50 infringements<br />
and green-stickered eight cars<br />
that “did not meet the requirements<br />
to be driven on the<br />
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“Another five (vehicles) were<br />
impounded for sustained loss of<br />
traction from previous incidents.”<br />
Early on Sunday morning,<br />
police also broke up several<br />
unauthorised street and drag<br />
racing incidents on Riccarton<br />
Rd, Memorial Ave and in<br />
Phillipstown and Wigram.<br />
<strong>The</strong> operation started at the<br />
‘Cars and Cameras’ event at<br />
Bottle Lake Forest on Saturday<br />
evening.<br />
Vaughan said it was “a well<br />
organised and positive gettogether<br />
of car enthusiasts”.<br />
“As the evening wore on, the<br />
operation moved to monitoring<br />
cruising activity and disrupting<br />
several planned ‘skid meets’.”<br />
Vaughan said one driver fled<br />
in a vehicle believed to be stolen.<br />
Inquiries to locate the driver were<br />
ongoing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> operation marked the start<br />
of a wider crackdown on antisocial<br />
driving behaviour across the<br />
city.<br />
“Police take antisocial road<br />
user activity extremely seriously<br />
because it not only puts those involved<br />
at risk, but bystanders and<br />
members of the community.<br />
“If you see illegal road activity,<br />
call police via 111 if it’s happening<br />
now or 105 if it’s after the fact.<br />
Alternatively, you can report any<br />
information anonymously via<br />
Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.”<br />
CRACKDOWN: A police operation targeting illegal street racers saw five vehicles<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
8<br />
NEWS<br />
THE MAN WHO murdered<br />
a former Mongrel Mob gang<br />
member in a Sydenham housing<br />
complex has been sentenced to<br />
life in prison.<br />
Motu Smith will not be eligible<br />
for parole for 14 years and six<br />
months. He was sentenced by<br />
Justice Jonathan Eaton yesterday<br />
after a High Court jury found<br />
him guilty earlier this year of<br />
murdering Daniel Hawkins in the<br />
bedroom of his Brougham St unit<br />
on April 24, 2021.<br />
His sentences for the offending<br />
– ranging from three to four years<br />
– will be served concurrently, <strong>The</strong><br />
New Zealand Herald reported.<br />
At Smith’s trial in February,<br />
the court heard how he inflicted<br />
severe head injuries then cut<br />
Hawkins' throat and stabbed him<br />
in the neck.<br />
Smith then took off in the victim’s<br />
car, leaving him to die on his<br />
bed in a pool of his own blood.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Crown said Smith’s actions<br />
were part of a “spree” of offending<br />
during which he violently<br />
attacked two other men – also<br />
fleeing in their vehicles.<br />
But Smith argued he was acting<br />
in “self defence” when he injured<br />
Hawkins.<br />
Hawkins was a former Mongrel<br />
Mob member and was facing active<br />
charges when he died.<br />
Following Smith’s sentencing<br />
yesterday, Detective Inspector<br />
Nicola Reeves thanked members<br />
of the community who had provided<br />
valuable information and<br />
support throughout the investigation<br />
and trial.<br />
“I would also like to thank all<br />
the investigation team for their<br />
professionalism and tireless work<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Life sentence for murder<br />
of former gang member<br />
on this case to bring this matter to<br />
a successful conclusion,’’ Reeves<br />
said.<br />
“I would like to acknowledge<br />
the aroha and strength shown<br />
by Danny’s (Hawkins) whanau<br />
and loved ones over the last three<br />
years.<br />
“I hope today’s outcome brings<br />
some measure of peace for them,<br />
knowing that the person responsible<br />
has been held to account.’’<br />
CRIME SPREE: Motu Smith was yesterday handed down<br />
a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of Daniel<br />
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Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
COURT 11<br />
SERIOUS INCIDENTS: A man’s appeal against his sentence on charges<br />
of strangulation, threatening to kill and assault has been dismissed. <strong>The</strong><br />
victim – the man’s partner – had experienced “terror”, the judge said.<br />
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‘I truly thought I<br />
was going to die’<br />
• By Ric Stevens<br />
A VERY DRUNK man kicked open a<br />
bathroom door and grabbed his partner,<br />
holding her off the ground by the throat<br />
and shaking her until she lost control of<br />
her bladder.<br />
She lost control again moments later<br />
when Thomas Hoani Tuhou threw her<br />
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with both hands and squeezed until she<br />
could not breathe.<br />
“I truly thought I was going to die,” the<br />
woman said later in a victim impact statement.<br />
She said Tuhou watched true crime<br />
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was the perfect murder”.<br />
Her ordeal included other assaults, during<br />
which she scratched Tuhou’s face to try<br />
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Tuhou, 36, later pleaded guilty to two<br />
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Tuhou appealed against his sentence to<br />
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Justice Rachel Dunningham dismissed<br />
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Tuhou’s lawyers argued similar cases<br />
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<strong>The</strong>y also argued the assaults were an<br />
“uncharacteristic demonstration of violence”<br />
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before.<br />
However, Justice Dunningham said the<br />
victim had experienced “terror” during<br />
the attack.<br />
“It is important to recognise that, in the<br />
present case, there were two very serious<br />
strangulation events, both of which caused<br />
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“Furthermore, there were elements of<br />
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than giving to you, it’s our turn to give back.<br />
My beautiful<br />
companion<br />
Lola is 15<br />
years old in<br />
September.<br />
She has<br />
overcome<br />
huge hurdles<br />
to get to<br />
her geriatric<br />
years. She’s<br />
a three time cancer survivor - kidney cancer,<br />
anal gland cancer and a soft tissue sarcoma.<br />
She lives with spinal disease, weakness<br />
and never complains. She has allergic<br />
pad disease and laryngeal paralysis. She’s<br />
endured every test imaginable including<br />
MRI and CT and undergone Chemotherapy<br />
when she was 5 years old.<br />
She has the “Heart of a Lion” and wants<br />
nothing more than to have her family close.<br />
She’s now earnt her place in my consult<br />
room and<br />
mostly<br />
snores<br />
through my<br />
morning<br />
patients.<br />
I love<br />
catching<br />
up with<br />
my senior<br />
patients.<br />
Most of<br />
them know<br />
the drill and<br />
even know<br />
Sunbathing in my<br />
favourite place<br />
Dad<br />
operating<br />
to remove<br />
my cancer<br />
which room is mine. To do my job right I<br />
need to pay attention to the signals they<br />
give me, thoroughly examine them and pull<br />
great histories from their owners. Most of my<br />
elderly patients need me to do something<br />
for them so I need to be always on my game.<br />
Swimming and exercising<br />
on the beach<br />
Below is my list of<br />
important considerations<br />
for your older dog<br />
• Daily exercise and being able to socialise,<br />
meet other dogs, use their nose and stiff out<br />
new smells, exercise their joints and take in<br />
the world. Push them and build fitness and<br />
endurance.<br />
• A diet tailored to their Lifestage needs,<br />
whether it be gastrointestinal diet, a<br />
hypoallergenic diet for skin allergies, dental<br />
diets, grainfree diets and many more. Your<br />
vet can advise which diets are the best<br />
• A lean bodyweight<br />
• Time with you and your family, allowed<br />
to be involved and included in activities<br />
and family get togethers<br />
• Hydrotherapy and physiotherapy for<br />
mental wellbeing, mobilisation of joints<br />
and strength<br />
• 6 monthly urine and blood testing to be<br />
alerted to early signs of disease<br />
• Regular scheduled parasite control<br />
(worms and fleas)<br />
• Vaccinations to offer protection against<br />
preventable diseases<br />
• Six monthly Blood Pressure measurements<br />
• Vet check ups if things aren’t right, rather<br />
adopting the wait and see approach<br />
• Comfortable orthopaedic bedding<br />
as they sleep lots and many suffer from<br />
Osteoarthritis<br />
• Treat what needs treating, especially<br />
osteoarthritis. Don’t allow them to suffer<br />
in silence. <strong>The</strong>ir senior years are when they<br />
really rely on you<br />
• Keeping nails trimmed. Overgrown nails<br />
can affect gait and cause lameness<br />
• Maintain great dental health as we are<br />
aware teeth covered in calculus can lead<br />
to other secondary diseases<br />
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Many older patients become incontinent<br />
with age. Urinary incontinence can be<br />
successfully managed with oral medication,<br />
fecal incontinence is harder to manage<br />
but I have found adding Fibor to Lolas diet<br />
decreases this.<br />
Deafness is another hurdle to overcome.<br />
Lola went deaf very quickly of which there is<br />
no treatment. Luckily she learnt hand signals<br />
and can hear certain tones in my voice. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
world can become confusing and scary so<br />
they need to have eye contact with you to<br />
understand what you want and lots of touch<br />
and reassurance.<br />
Dementia and senility can affect us all and<br />
our K9 friends are no different. We term<br />
this disease “Cognitive Dysfunction”. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
confuse day and night, lose their social<br />
graces, appear dazed and vacant at times,<br />
lose control of tioleting, panic when left<br />
alone and can start vocalising. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
some medications, diets and supplements<br />
(medium chain fatty acids) that can help in<br />
this area.<br />
Blindness, mainly through Cataracts, is<br />
another common disease seen. Pets cope<br />
remarkably well. We are extremely lucky to<br />
have Dr Steve Heap with huge expertise in<br />
Ophthalmology and cataract removal. Not<br />
every cataract patient is a surgical candidate.<br />
Steve performed 2 cataract surgeries on<br />
dogs last week with success.<br />
If you are in<br />
any doubt<br />
regarding your<br />
pets health,<br />
book them<br />
a visit with<br />
your vet for<br />
a thorough<br />
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SCREAMING sale signs upon<br />
entry, bread and milk buried<br />
out the back, the classic allure of<br />
product placement and some feelgood<br />
music to keep you strolling<br />
the aisles longer – customers<br />
are getting pretty clever when it<br />
comes to the ways supermarkets<br />
try and make<br />
us ditch our<br />
well-made plans<br />
and spend more<br />
money.<br />
Yet we still<br />
bust the budget.<br />
Consumer<br />
behaviourist<br />
and professor<br />
of marketing<br />
at Canterbury University Ekant<br />
Veer has done lots of work analysing<br />
what people buy, and breaks<br />
it down in the first episode of new<br />
RNZ podcast Thrift.<br />
Look up and down and, if<br />
you can, leave the kids at<br />
home<br />
“So if you found the marshmallows,<br />
and they’re at eye level, look<br />
down at the bottom shelf, there<br />
might be cheaper ones,” Veer<br />
says.<br />
Product placement also plays<br />
around with shorter shoppers.<br />
“In the confectionary aisle,<br />
the highest gross profit items are<br />
actually at the eye level of a child<br />
because they know that kids are<br />
more likely to pester mum and<br />
dad for something that they can<br />
see.”<br />
So – if you can – come on your<br />
own, take the time to compare<br />
prices, and don’t cave to the pleas<br />
of others.<br />
Try to ignore the end-ofaisle<br />
displays<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y’re usually a quite high<br />
price because they want to move<br />
that product and so you will find<br />
things at the end of the aisle that<br />
will grab your attention. You<br />
might grab it by impulse and<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Beating supermarkets at their own game<br />
Ekant<br />
Veer<br />
SPENDING: To prevent shocks at the checkout, it’s important to avoid being manipulated<br />
away from your shopping plan.<br />
PHOTO: GETTY<br />
you’ll run away with it.”<br />
Try instead to focus on shopping<br />
the perimeters of the supermarket<br />
and then just do the aisles<br />
you need.<br />
It’s not time for a little<br />
treat<br />
It’s pretty well known not to<br />
take a rumbling belly to the<br />
supermarket, but if you’re feeling<br />
grumpy it will pay to try and<br />
shake that before you go in to<br />
spend.<br />
“You might find fruit and<br />
vegetables are typically first because<br />
they [we] feel they need to<br />
that and then alcohol, chocolate,<br />
sweets, high gross profit items<br />
would be further along in the<br />
journey because people feel like<br />
they can reward themselves.”<br />
Don’t give in to the<br />
compromise option<br />
“If you’ve been told to purchase<br />
a jar of artichoke hearts,” Veer<br />
explains, “and you’ve got three in<br />
front of you, probably around 70<br />
per cent of people compromise<br />
and get the middle one” – not<br />
the most expensive, not the least<br />
expensive, but that average jar.<br />
He warns some retailers will<br />
create new products, or juggle<br />
price points, to shift demand<br />
because they know full well how<br />
many of us opt for middle of the<br />
road.<br />
Be aware of heuristics<br />
When you don’t know much, you<br />
will start looking for other triggers<br />
that will draw you in – like<br />
trendy labels, stickers proclaiming<br />
awards and what appears to<br />
be the biggest discount.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se heuristics – mental<br />
shortcuts for making calls in a<br />
quick way – will try and sting<br />
you, so be mindful.<br />
Gamify your shop<br />
A visit to the supermarket can be<br />
fun. Veer suggests adding some<br />
playful elements to your visit –<br />
maybe a time limit to get in and<br />
out so you’re not wooed by the<br />
sales or sweets. <strong>May</strong>be it would be<br />
fun to see how many dollars you<br />
can save this week.<br />
Set yourself a goal and it will<br />
help keep you mindful and make<br />
it more fun.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> 20<strong>23</strong>-24 season ran from September<br />
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<strong>The</strong> train stopped in at the Mainfreight<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re are four carriages which can each<br />
take four adults, meaning there were well<br />
over 500 runs over the months.<br />
“We’ve had another fantastic season<br />
this year, and the train remains as<br />
popular as ever,” said city council parks<br />
programmes and partnership manager Dr<br />
Roslyn Kerr.<br />
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riding the train and this is really thanks to<br />
our volunteers who keep it running. We’re<br />
incredibly lucky to have such a dedicated<br />
group who are so enthusiastic about the<br />
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For volunteer Grant Lange, it’s the lasting<br />
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“An unforgettable moment from the<br />
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ride the train,” Lange said.<br />
“Her family were with her and managed<br />
to convince her to ride in the caboose,<br />
which has wheelchair access. In the end<br />
she absolutely loved it and her wide smile<br />
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Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Collaboration, education, innovation<br />
<strong>The</strong> city’s innovative<br />
health precinct marks<br />
its 10th anniversary this<br />
month. Kim Thomas<br />
reports<br />
IT’S 10.30AM on a brisk autumn<br />
day and the ground floor of the<br />
Manawa building on Antigua St is<br />
humming.<br />
Doctors, nurses, and students<br />
from a variety of health professions<br />
cluster at tables in the building’s<br />
café to meet or just catch up<br />
and enjoy a coffee.<br />
Next to the café is an open plan<br />
common area with ample work<br />
pods, whiteboards, and other<br />
paraphernalia for students to meet<br />
or work in the heart of a building<br />
that now forms a central part of<br />
the city’s health precinct.<br />
Te Papa Hauora, Christchurch<br />
Health Precinct, was a product<br />
of the post-quake government<br />
‘blueprint’ that divided the central<br />
city into precincts.<br />
It was officially established in<br />
<strong>May</strong> 2014 with the formation of<br />
an advisory council comprising<br />
representatives of the major<br />
tertiary institutions involved in<br />
health in the city and the Canterbury<br />
DHB. Mana whenua are<br />
represented by Ngāi Tuahuriri.<br />
Peter Townsend has been<br />
independent chair of the advisory<br />
UNIQUE: Peter Townsend, right, independent chair of Te Papa Hauora, Christchurch Health<br />
Precinct’s advisory board, says the Manawa building is an example of the precinct’s success.<br />
It houses almost 2000 nursing, midwifery, and medical imaging students, Health NZ teams,<br />
and Canterbury University’s health sciences division.<br />
council since July 2019. He is,<br />
perhaps predictably, a huge fan<br />
of the precinct and what the collaboration<br />
has achieved over the<br />
past decade.<br />
“Te Papa Hauora is unique<br />
in New Zealand. Nowhere else<br />
are big and small organisations<br />
involved in health research,<br />
education and innovation coming<br />
together with a common aim<br />
– to improve things for their<br />
community.”<br />
Townsend likens Te Papa<br />
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really good dinner parties<br />
with lots of great people around<br />
the table’’.<br />
“At that party you get to chat<br />
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same thing as you but coming<br />
from a different place. You make<br />
connections and spark ideas that<br />
likely wouldn’t have occurred if<br />
you weren’t there.”<br />
Townsend says Te Papa Hauora<br />
is a physical area where healthrelated<br />
organisations are located.<br />
“More importantly, it is healthrelated<br />
organisations working<br />
together to find clever, pragmatic<br />
and cost-effective solutions to<br />
pressing issues in health.”<br />
Pressing issues include ensuring<br />
the next generation of health<br />
professionals are well-prepared<br />
for their roles and can work in<br />
interprofessional teams, as well as<br />
limited funding for much-needed<br />
research.<br />
Townsend says one clear example<br />
of the precinct’s success is<br />
the Manawa building. It houses<br />
almost 2000 nursing, midwifery,<br />
and medical imaging students,<br />
Health NZ teams, and Canterbury<br />
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brought together in unique precinct<br />
Manawa has a high-fidelity<br />
simulation suite where a range of<br />
health professionals and students<br />
practice medical scenarios in a safe<br />
environment before encountering<br />
them in real life.<br />
“Recognising the value a<br />
building in the heart of the health<br />
precinct could offer, Ara and<br />
the then Canterbury DHB took<br />
the lead in developing Manawa.<br />
Without that joint effort it would<br />
not be here,” Townsend said.<br />
Today, almost all sites within<br />
the precinct are occupied.<br />
Christchurch Hospital has<br />
been redeveloped; the Pacific<br />
Medical Association occupies a<br />
multi-storey building on Oxford<br />
Tce; and the Otago University<br />
Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka are well<br />
underway with construction of a<br />
new $175 million building.<br />
Townsend says Te Papa Hauora<br />
has helped bring health conferences<br />
to the city and supported<br />
health workforce initiatives such<br />
as a unique nursing qualification<br />
developed and offered jointly by<br />
Ara and Canterbury University.<br />
It also supported the city’s Youth<br />
Advisory Council to produce<br />
videos for young people on mental<br />
health and endometriosis featuring<br />
medical specialists.<br />
To maximise limited research<br />
funding, Te Papa Hauora supported<br />
the establishment of the<br />
Research for Children Aotearoa<br />
LEARNING: <strong>The</strong> health precinct’s Manawa building offers<br />
ample space for health students to study.<br />
collaboration where experts from<br />
different universities and health<br />
organisations work together on<br />
research that improves the health,<br />
education and well-being of our<br />
youngest citizens, Townsend said.<br />
Another key activity is bringing<br />
technology developers and innovators<br />
together with health professionals<br />
to ensure innovations are<br />
suitable for the health system.<br />
Townsend says the precinct’s<br />
success comes from the concerted<br />
effort of organisations involved.<br />
“People are busy and often don’t<br />
have the time to see what others<br />
are doing or how they could work<br />
together. Those involved in Te<br />
Papa Hauora are committed to<br />
collaboration and doing things<br />
together, and it is this joint mahi<br />
that has made things better.”<br />
Pip Griffin is Te Papa Hauora’s<br />
executive officer. She says there are<br />
ample opportunities to build on<br />
and extend successful initiatives.<br />
New ideas include developing a<br />
health and wellbeing space for the<br />
community in the Parakiore Recreation<br />
and Sport Centre; assisting<br />
the Youth Advisory Council to<br />
create more health resources for<br />
young people; and becoming one<br />
of the South Island’s hubs for a<br />
national medical tech initiative.<br />
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a decade of activity, but more<br />
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<strong>The</strong> distinctive geography of the ocean<br />
bed along its coastline means Kaikōura is<br />
one of the most consistent and enticing<br />
surf regions in<br />
New Zealand.<br />
<strong>The</strong> waves started<br />
attracting surfers to<br />
Kaikōura from the<br />
early 1960s. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
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shape, and continue<br />
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and economic life in<br />
Kaikōura. However,<br />
their stores are<br />
mostly untold and<br />
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are connected with surfing in Kaikōura.<br />
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contributions<br />
from GNS, NIWA,<br />
oral historians,<br />
professional surf<br />
photographer<br />
Warren Hawke, as<br />
well as the local<br />
and wider surfing<br />
community.<br />
With amazing<br />
support from<br />
sponsors Kaikoura<br />
Community Opshop,<br />
Lotteries, Aotearoa Gaming trust,<br />
our exceptional design and storytelling<br />
team have created a visually stunning and<br />
fascinating exhibition that will be of keen<br />
interest to surfers and non-surfers, old<br />
and young alike.<br />
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winning Museum which features other<br />
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impressive fossil and marine collections,<br />
our very own UFO story and much more.<br />
With activities for kids and families, we<br />
have something for everyone. So if you’re<br />
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Check out our website for full details<br />
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WHARENGA - First Wave<br />
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Opens 24 <strong>May</strong><br />
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<strong>The</strong> portions are generous and hearty.<br />
Think pub style food with restaurant<br />
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sourced locally – try the crayfish or<br />
blue cod and mussels. <strong>The</strong> menu is<br />
accommodating with gluten free, dairy<br />
free and vegan options.<br />
<strong>The</strong> selection is varied with something<br />
for everyone and now with an exciting<br />
twist of onsite smoked eats. <strong>The</strong> huge<br />
smoker takes centre stage in the rear<br />
courtyard providing entertainment for<br />
guests who are watching the process and<br />
sending the aromas around the township.<br />
“We are looking to add to this experience<br />
by expanding the enterprise into the<br />
wood fired and smoked produce markets<br />
to further enhance the use of locally<br />
sourced food and seafood.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> bar stocks a great selection of<br />
beverages, local, NZ and imported,<br />
plus a great 0% alcohol range of beers,<br />
wines and soft drinks. Strawberry Tree<br />
Kaikoura are proud supporters of local<br />
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“We love sharing a local success story<br />
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Recently we have formed a partnership<br />
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around NZ. Our customers love it.”<br />
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<strong>The</strong> warm fireplace and great decoration<br />
made our experience memorable. Will be<br />
sure to stop by again when in Kaikoura”<br />
Strawberry Tree was voted into the<br />
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Just another reason to stop by when you<br />
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LETTERS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Council motives questioned by readers<br />
THe whole purpose in setting up<br />
CCHL was to enable the council<br />
owned companies to operate in<br />
a commercial manner free of<br />
interference from councillors,<br />
thus maximising long term<br />
benefits for the council and hence<br />
the city.<br />
It seems the current councillors<br />
have a different vision for the<br />
companies; they want to use<br />
the companies to advance their<br />
personal agendas in the short<br />
term.<br />
I also wonder if this is linked<br />
to councillors‘ opposition to the<br />
Tarras airport initiative, which is<br />
in fact a long term strategic move,<br />
exactly what a well-managed<br />
commercial company should be<br />
doing.<br />
I am strongly opposed to the<br />
councillors’ current approach<br />
to CCHL. Ironically they are<br />
demonstrating why it’s so<br />
important to have the armslength<br />
structure in the first place.<br />
– Vic Allen<br />
Are certain members of council<br />
just looking for corporate “yes<br />
men” to run CCHL, to be willing<br />
puppets to political whims?<br />
Or are they actually going<br />
to find experienced business<br />
operators who can come up with<br />
sound business strategies in the<br />
long-term?<br />
Makes you wonder who the real<br />
BLAME: Readers wonder whether the political agendas of city councillors are behind the<br />
problems with CCHL, the council’s investment arm.<br />
PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />
troublemakers are in that council<br />
(echo) chamber.<br />
– Campbell Neil,<br />
Riccarton<br />
Akaroa highway speed<br />
Your letters regarding Vanessa<br />
Weenink not increasing speed on<br />
SH75 were all negative. Not one of<br />
the letters published showed the<br />
reason why it was going to be kept<br />
at 80km/h.<br />
<strong>The</strong> impatience of Kiwi drivers<br />
shows here. <strong>The</strong> behaviour of<br />
drivers on narrow and winding<br />
roads requires a speed that takes<br />
into account factors such as that.<br />
<strong>The</strong> number of accidents on this<br />
road speaks for itself. Tough.<br />
– Claire Coveney<br />
To drill or not to drill<br />
One of your letters (<strong>Star</strong>, <strong>May</strong><br />
16) contains errors worth<br />
correcting.<br />
Electrification doesn’t<br />
necessarily involve rare earth<br />
mining as improved technologies<br />
in all fields are announced<br />
almost weekly.<br />
Of course there’s rarely any<br />
We want to hear your views<br />
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mention or concern over the<br />
mining needed to sustain the<br />
production of fossil-fueled<br />
vehicles or the appalling<br />
pollution record of the fossil fuel<br />
industry.<br />
Another aspect of<br />
electrification slipping beneath<br />
the radar is that by sharing<br />
their load, solar and wind<br />
farms connected to the national<br />
grid allow the hydro dams to<br />
conserve water every sunny or<br />
windy day.<br />
In effect, we already have<br />
dozens of Lake Onslows up<br />
and down New Zealand. We<br />
can definitely encourage more<br />
electrification.<br />
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• By Sam Coughlan<br />
CASHMERE Technical have<br />
kept on winning despite the<br />
loss of star marksman Garbhan<br />
Coughlan.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Irishman, who has scored<br />
18 goals in just five games, has<br />
returned to his homeland to<br />
get married. Tech coach Dan<br />
Schwarz expects he will be away<br />
for a couple of months.<br />
His absence hasn’t hindered<br />
Tech, who beat Nomads 3-0 at<br />
the weekend to remain top of the<br />
Southern League.<br />
Coughlan dominated the scoring<br />
charts last season as well with<br />
28 goals, but at<br />
times some of his<br />
teammates struggled<br />
to contribute<br />
– their nexthighest<br />
scorer had<br />
just eight.<br />
This has not<br />
been an issue this<br />
season, with wing<br />
Lyle Matthysen<br />
the league’s equal-third top<br />
Dan<br />
Schwarz<br />
scorer with nine goals and Tech<br />
have scored eight goals in the<br />
two games Coughlan missed<br />
this season – the 3-0 win over<br />
Nomads and a 5-1 triumph in<br />
round one against Dunedin City<br />
Royals.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> pleasing thing for me is<br />
we’ve got goals coming from all<br />
• By Sam Coughlan<br />
COMMITMENT is key for the<br />
Riccarton Knights in what has<br />
been a season of firsts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Knights claimed their first<br />
win over Linwood in five years<br />
and won the Jonny Pitman Cup<br />
for the first time in 10 years after<br />
beating Hornby.<br />
Now the side, who top the<br />
Canterbury Rugby League premiership<br />
after beating Halswell<br />
Hornets 28-22 at the weekend, are<br />
chasing their first finals appearance<br />
since 2015 .<br />
Head coach Sam Brown says<br />
the uptick in results is down to the<br />
commitment and buy-in from the<br />
team.<br />
“We had an extremely good preseason,<br />
which has been followed<br />
continuously week-in and weekout<br />
with player commitment to<br />
training and the style of footy that<br />
we want to play.<br />
“But we weren’t expecting to be<br />
where we are at the moment.”<br />
HONEYMOON: Cash Tech striker Garbhan Coughlan is out of action for two months – the<br />
Irishman is returning home to get married. PHOTO: MITCHELL COZZONE/DUST MEDIA<br />
over the park at the moment, and<br />
obviously we’re scoring quite a<br />
few, but it’s varied around who’s<br />
getting the goals.”<br />
Wing Lyle Matthysen is the<br />
league’s equal-second top scorer<br />
with nine, and he scored in the<br />
win over Nomads.<br />
But he, alongside midfielder<br />
Sam Lapslie, defender Tom<br />
Schwarz, and assistant coach Dan<br />
Terris, will be heading to Ireland<br />
to celebrate with Coughlan for<br />
the ceremony in mid-July.<br />
Knights’ allegiance<br />
paying dividends<br />
VETERAN: Kolio Vailu’u<br />
played his 200th premier<br />
game for Riccarton.<br />
Riccarton dropped their first<br />
two games of the season, but since<br />
then have gone on a five-match<br />
winning run to dispatch every<br />
other side in the competition.<br />
Brown said while it’s fantastic<br />
to be able to chalk off milestones,<br />
he doesn’t want it to count for<br />
nothing.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> competition is pretty<br />
close, there’s only a win or a loss<br />
between the majority of the teams.<br />
Schwarz doesn’t expect his side<br />
to struggle in that period.<br />
“We’ve got some great young<br />
players in the group and some<br />
players that are knocking on the<br />
door and asking for more game<br />
time.<br />
“So we’re in a great position to<br />
hopefully keep on doing what<br />
we’ve been doing.”<br />
Tech have so far withstood<br />
every challenge, unbeaten at the<br />
top of the league, but Schwarz<br />
thinks Saturday’s opponents<br />
“It’s fantastic but it’s going to<br />
count for nothing if, at the end of<br />
the season, we’re not competing,<br />
or we’re not in that top-four spot.”<br />
Riccarton also celebrated the<br />
200th appearance of club legend<br />
Kolio Vailu’u on Saturday.<br />
“That’s a fantastic milestone for<br />
Kolio and then for the rest of the<br />
players to turn up and put in the<br />
work for him, it’s fantastic,” said<br />
Brown.<br />
Riccarton take on Eastern<br />
Eagles at Wainoni Park this<br />
Ferrymead Bays will be tough.<br />
“Every time we play Bays, we<br />
struggle. <strong>The</strong>y’ve got a lot of<br />
hard-working players, a lot of<br />
tough players, and a couple of<br />
goal-scorers in the ranks this<br />
season.<br />
“We’re expecting it to be one<br />
of the toughest games that we’ve<br />
had this season, and that’s what<br />
we’re preparing for.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> other games on Saturday<br />
see second-place Christchurch<br />
United squaring off with Nelson<br />
IMPACT: Linwood’s Chanel Feala is tackled during his side’s<br />
32-22 win over Hornby Panthers on Saturday.<br />
PHOTO: ABRAHAM ATHERTON PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
weekend. Brown said it would<br />
be “probably one of the toughest<br />
games that we’ve played so far this<br />
season”.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y’re an extremely good side,<br />
well drilled by Archie (Jacobs,<br />
Eastern head coach).”<br />
Saturday’s other matches see<br />
Linwood, level on points with<br />
Riccarton but with an inferior<br />
points difference, play Greymouth<br />
Greyhounds at Papanui Domain,<br />
while Halswell and Hornby<br />
Panthers face off.<br />
Southern League round 7<br />
Coastal Spirit 2 Dunedin<br />
CR 1; Universities 6 FC<br />
Twenty 11 1; Cashmere<br />
Tech 3 Nomads 0;<br />
Christchurch Utd 5<br />
Selwyn Utd 1; Nelson<br />
Suburbs 4 Ferrymead<br />
Bays 2<br />
Round 8 (Saturday)<br />
Dunedin CR v Selwyn,<br />
Tahuna Park, 12.30pm<br />
Christchurch Utd v Nelson<br />
Suburbs, United Sports<br />
Centre, 2pm<br />
FC Twenty 11 v Coastal<br />
Spirit, Avonhead Park,<br />
2.45pm<br />
Ferrymead Bays<br />
v Cashmere Tech,<br />
Ferrymead Park, 2.45pm<br />
Universities v Nomads,<br />
English Park, 2.45pm<br />
Points<br />
Cash Tech 19; Chch Utd<br />
18; Coastal 17; Nelson<br />
13; Bays 10; Nomads 10;<br />
Dunedin 7; Selwyn 4; Uni<br />
3; FC Twenty 0<br />
Suburbs while Coastal Spirit will<br />
visit winless FC Twenty 11.<br />
Universities, who got their<br />
first win of the season 6-1 away<br />
at FC Twenty last weekend, host<br />
Nomads at English Park while<br />
Selwyn travel to play Dunedin<br />
City Royals.<br />
CRL premiership round 7<br />
Riccarton 28 Halswell 22;<br />
Greymouth 24 Eastern 20;<br />
Linwood 32 Hornby 22.<br />
Round 8 (2.45pm<br />
Saturday)<br />
Greymouth v Linwood,<br />
Papanui Domain<br />
Eastern v Riccarton,<br />
Wainoni Park<br />
Halswell v Hornby,<br />
Halswell Park<br />
Points<br />
Riccarton 10; Linwood<br />
10; Halswell 8; Eastern 7;<br />
Hornby 5; Greymouth 2
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SPORT<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Farewell Sam, you deserved better<br />
WE NOW KNOW Sam Cane<br />
will be spending his remaining<br />
playing days at Suntory<br />
Sungoliath with his family in<br />
Japan.<br />
But how will he be remembered<br />
back in New Zealand?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re seems to be an attitude<br />
here if you are not overly<br />
charismatic, don’t have a media<br />
friendly smile or in Sam’s case<br />
follow one of New Zealand and<br />
Canterbury’s greats in Richie<br />
McCaw, you are under even<br />
greater scrutiny.<br />
Remember the days of another<br />
All Black captain in Reuben<br />
Thorne, who was constantly<br />
questioned by the media and<br />
public (outside of Canterbury)<br />
about his selection in the All<br />
Blacks?<br />
Look at his career, representing<br />
the All Blacks from 1999-2007:<br />
He had four different coaches.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y all can’t have been wrong.<br />
Yet he doesn’t get the recognition<br />
across the country he deserves because<br />
he beat his own drum and<br />
didn’t become a media darling.<br />
Cane may have fallen into that<br />
category.<br />
Following McCaw would<br />
always be tough, but Cane was in<br />
the All Blacks for 12 years, over<br />
two coaching groups, and ended<br />
up as captain.<br />
Take the constant negativity<br />
Bevan Sisson<br />
Rugby matters<br />
around him away and let’s look<br />
at facts.<br />
As a rugby player he was brutal<br />
in defence and could create multiple<br />
turnovers at the breakdown.<br />
A great student of the game<br />
tactically, and incredibly tough,<br />
Cane came back from a severe<br />
neck fracture in 2018, a number<br />
of concussions, pectoral and<br />
shoulder injuries in 2021 and a<br />
severe back injury in 20<strong>23</strong> before<br />
the World Cup. Yet he managed<br />
to have the mental strength to<br />
come back after all those setbacks,<br />
when many would have taken the<br />
retirement path.<br />
During his time, people were<br />
constantly criticising his game,<br />
but you have to ask who else<br />
was better? Not just as good,<br />
but better. Over his tenure there<br />
was no one that demanded the 7<br />
jersey should be theirs.<br />
Recently Ardie Savea has<br />
shown he would be a force in any<br />
position in the back row, but then<br />
we needed him at 8.<br />
Cane’s game against Ireland at<br />
the World Cup was a class above,<br />
but unfortunately, the red card in<br />
the final didn’t give him the finish<br />
MALIGNED: Sam Cane was in the All Blacks for 12 years, over two coaching groups, and<br />
ended up as captain but still faced constant criticism.<br />
to the tournament he and New<br />
Zealand craved.<br />
Will we see Sam Cane in an<br />
ABs jersey again? I would like<br />
to think yes. No one deserves<br />
to get to 100 tests more than<br />
Cane (currently on 95) but those<br />
conversations would have already<br />
been decided and unless there is<br />
a series of injuries, his time may<br />
be done.<br />
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If he does fade away from<br />
the public eye, he should be<br />
remembered as humble, hard<br />
working and with a team-first<br />
attitude. So, I will raise a cold<br />
Waikato Draft in his honour this<br />
weekend and wish him and the<br />
family all the best.<br />
Sayonara All Black 1113.<br />
• Sisson is a former player,<br />
representative coach and<br />
New Zealand age group<br />
selector<br />
Burnside’s recent success built on belief<br />
• By Sam Coughlan<br />
POSITIVITY HAS been the<br />
theme of the season for Burnside<br />
as they lead the Christchurch<br />
Metro competition as it ticks<br />
over the halfway stage.<br />
Burnside bounced back in style<br />
from their first loss of the season<br />
against Lincoln University<br />
two weeks ago, dispatching<br />
Christchurch 45-7 at the<br />
weekend.<br />
“We flipped it as a real positive,<br />
taking a loss,” said co-captain<br />
Joel Lam, who scored in the win.<br />
“To get that earlier on kind-of<br />
made it a little bit easier for us.<br />
(It) took pressure off us from<br />
being unbeaten.<br />
“We were four-from-four and<br />
there was a lot of talk on the<br />
street about us going unbeaten<br />
already.”<br />
This weekend they’ll take on<br />
University of Canterbury, who<br />
currently sit fourth, in a DCL<br />
Shield challenge – University<br />
won it off HSOB last week.<br />
“It’ll be obviously in the back<br />
of our minds, but it’s not our<br />
ultimate goal”, said Lam of the<br />
shield challenge.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last time Burnside held the<br />
shield was in 2021 – Lam’s debut<br />
season.<br />
“It doesn’t come around very<br />
often, but when it does, obviously<br />
everyone’s aware of what’s up for<br />
grabs”, he said.<br />
“But I think we’re all just<br />
focused on putting out a good<br />
STRENGTH: Burnside halfback and co-captain Joel Lam tries to break a tackle during his<br />
side’s 45-7 win over Christchurch.<br />
PHOTO: SIDELINE PHOTOGRAPHS<br />
performance and the rest will<br />
take care of itself.”<br />
Burnside finished 10th last<br />
season but Lam doesn’t think<br />
their position this year comes as<br />
a surprise.<br />
“Going into the season you’re<br />
always wanting to take out the<br />
competition, so for you to believe<br />
in what you can do goes a long<br />
way.<br />
“At the start of the season,<br />
with the team we had assembled,<br />
we all believed we could be<br />
contenders this year.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> other matches on Saturday<br />
see a lot of crossover between<br />
the top and bottom halves of the<br />
table.<br />
Sydenham, who were knocked<br />
off top spot after surrendering a<br />
26-7 halftime lead to lose 35-26<br />
to Sumner last week, will visit<br />
cellar-dwellers Christchurch,<br />
Metro Rugby round 6<br />
Shirley 47 Belfast 5;<br />
Sumner 35 Sydenham 26;<br />
New Brighton 50 Lincoln<br />
Uni 7; Canterbury Uni 32<br />
HSOB 10; Marist Albion<br />
47 Linwood 36; Burnside<br />
45 Christchurch 7.<br />
Round 7 (2.45pm<br />
Saturday)<br />
Shirley v New Brighton,<br />
Burwood Park<br />
Canterbury Uni v<br />
Burnside, Ilam Fields<br />
Sumner v Linwood, St<br />
Leonard’s Square<br />
Christchurch v<br />
Sydenham, Christchurch<br />
Park<br />
Marist Albion v Lincoln<br />
Uni, Edgar MacIntosh<br />
Park<br />
Belfast v HSOB, Sheldon<br />
Park<br />
Points<br />
Burnside 25; Sydenham<br />
22; Marist 21; UC 21;<br />
Sumner 21; HSOB 20;<br />
Lincoln Uni 20; Linwood<br />
12; Shirley 12; New<br />
Brighton 11; Be;lfast 7;<br />
Christchurch 6<br />
while Marist Albion host Lincoln<br />
University.<br />
Linwood will look to make<br />
some ground on the top seven<br />
when they play Sumner, who<br />
have now won three in a row,<br />
while HSOB visit Belfast and<br />
Shirley host New Brighton.
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
THE CRUSADERS are<br />
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– but they know the fate of<br />
their season is now out of<br />
their hands.<br />
<strong>The</strong> red-and-blacks play<br />
the table-topping Blues on<br />
Saturday night at Apollo<br />
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Even then, they’ll be relying<br />
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“<strong>The</strong>re’s still a chance,’’<br />
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“While there’s still a<br />
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“We know we probably<br />
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This week they welcome<br />
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Blackadder and centre<br />
Levi Aumua to the starting<br />
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Williams and Dallas<br />
McLeod come onto the<br />
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Captain Scott Barrett is<br />
not fit to play, continuing<br />
his recovery from a back<br />
injury sustained against the<br />
Reds two weeks ago.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Blues will confirm<br />
top spot with a win if the<br />
Hurricanes lose to the<br />
Chiefs on Friday night.<br />
• Kick-off is at 7.05pm.<br />
SPORT <strong>23</strong><br />
Crusaders not focusing on slim playoff chance<br />
SLIPPING AWAY: Crusaders assistant coach<br />
Matt Todd says they will have to rely on<br />
other results if they have any chance of<br />
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BRIDIE'S BAR, 401 Worcester St:<br />
Friday 4pm - DJ Rakinem. Saturday 3pm -<br />
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CASHMERE CLUB, 50 Colombo St:<br />
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CHATS BAR, 251 Travis Rd: Friday<br />
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MACKENZIES HOTEL, 51 Pages Rd:<br />
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London St: Friday 7pm - <strong>The</strong> Meaniez.<br />
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7pm - Karaoke.<br />
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Rock. Sunday 3pm - Southern Cross Irish<br />
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THE CHURCH, 124 Worcester St:<br />
Thursday 8pm - <strong>The</strong> Unholy Trinity.<br />
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Kimber; 9.30pm - <strong>The</strong> Stowaways. Sunday<br />
3pm - Marcel.<br />
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Emmett, Jared Williams & Chris Baker).<br />
THE FITZ2, 77 Stevens St: Tuesday<br />
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THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd:<br />
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THE ROCKPOOL, 85 Hereford St:<br />
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9pm - DJ's.<br />
THE SIDELINE SPORTS BAR, 331<br />
Stanmore Rd: Thursday 7pm - Jam<br />
Night with Ritchie Gillies & Nick<br />
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THIRSTY ACRES, Kirwee,: Saturday<br />
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WOODSTOCK ADDINGTON, 291<br />
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• By Claire Reid<br />
A TALENTED teenage<br />
bagpiper has been selected<br />
to take part in two of the<br />
most prestigious bagpiping<br />
competitions in the world.<br />
Maggie McConnochie, 14,<br />
recently won the New Zealand<br />
Under 21 Piobrairechd and the<br />
Comunn na Piobairechd silver<br />
medal – and has since been<br />
invited to compete in seven<br />
competitions in Scotland in<br />
August. It includes two of the<br />
most respected solo bagpiping<br />
events in the world, the<br />
Argyllshire Gathering and the<br />
Northern Meeting.<br />
<strong>The</strong> St Andrew’s College student<br />
was the youngest person<br />
in the New Zealand awards<br />
categories.<br />
“It feels pretty good, but it<br />
feels unreal. It’s really exciting,”<br />
she said of the result.<br />
Maggie is likely to be the<br />
school, homework and sports.<br />
She also plays at rest homes and<br />
took part in the Rolleston Anzac<br />
parade in 20<strong>23</strong>, and led the<br />
dawn service parade in Twizel<br />
this year.<br />
Maggie first picked up<br />
the bagpipes when she was<br />
9-years-old. Under the tutelage<br />
of Richard Hawke (NZOM),<br />
she has gone from strength to<br />
strength.<br />
“Maggie wouldn’t be the<br />
piper she is withou the support<br />
of her tutors. She’s really grateful<br />
for Richard’s expertise and<br />
guidance,” Delwyn said.<br />
Maggie hopes her success<br />
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Females are significantly<br />
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piping world, making up about<br />
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Harcourts<br />
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Ma told OneRoof<br />
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surprised by<br />
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Lin Ma<br />
“I do get a bit nervous, sometimes,”<br />
she said.<br />
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I fee like I’m prepared<br />
and try no to think about it<br />
too much.”<br />
Maggie spends between five<br />
BLOWING UP A STORM:<br />
Teen bagpiper Maggie<br />
McConnochie has been<br />
invited to compete in two<br />
of the most respected<br />
• Maggie is self-funding<br />
her trip to Scotland, which<br />
will cost about $8600.<br />
She is selling cheese rolls<br />
It was announced on the market<br />
at $415,000 and sold for $465,000.<br />
Ma pu the strong bidding<br />
down to the good location, school<br />
zones and the entry-level price.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re were three people who<br />
really wanted it. It’s jus the<br />
and seven hours practising the<br />
solo bagpiping events in<br />
and has set up a Facebook<br />
location,” she told OneRoof.<br />
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Gathering and the<br />
Northern Meeting.<br />
page – Piping Hot Cheese<br />
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