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Athletes take aim 

Christchurch pupils have come away from last week’s AIMS games in 

Tauranga with several medals. Cobham Intermediate’s Juan Lee (boys 

tennis, above), Clara Allison (year 7 girls mixed team canoe racing relay) 

and Amelia Black and Rina Kim (badminton doubles) won gold in 

their events. Cooper Murphy (left, No 823) was second in the boys BMX, 

while Lee and Harley Xiong placed third in the boys tennis doubles. 

Heaton Intermediate’s Chloe Chuang was third in the year 7 girls rock 

climbing. Intermediate and middle schools from across the country 

took part in the annual multi-sport tournament. 

PHOTOS: JAMIE TROUGHTON/DSCRIBE MEDIA, ALAN GIBSON/GIBSON 

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Waimairi Stream improvements under way 

UPGRADES TO a section of 

Waimairi Stream in Fendalton 

Park are under way. 

The upgrades will enhance 

water quality, create a healthier 

aquatic habitat and stabilise the 

banks. 

The section of the stream runs 

along the south of Fendalton 

Park, starting near Medbury 

Tce and winding alongside 

Fendalton Bowling Club. 

Work began on Monday and 

will continue until the end of 

October. 

Waimairi Stream is a tributary 

of the Ōtākaro Avon River, 

flowing from Burnside Park 

and connecting with Wairarapa 

Stream before meeting the river 

at Mona Vale. 

Boulder and cobble clusters 

will be placed in the stream to 

enhance flow diversity. This will 

upgrade water quality and create 

a healthier aquatic habitat. 

Native vegetation will be planted 

along the banks to reduce 

sedimentation and erosion, and 

improve natural biodiversity. 

The section of the stream is 

home to native shortfin eels, 

longfin eels and upland bully, 

plus introduced brown trout. 

Further waterway works upstream 

near Daresbury Park are 

continuing, with enhancements 

to a section of Waimairi and 

Fendalton streams. 

Old timber linings will be 

replaced with new timber and 

rock linings. Native riparian 

plants will be put in, as well as 

fish hides. 

Enhancements at the 

Waimairi/Fendalton streams 

section will be completed in late 

November.

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Tuesday 10.30-11am 

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GOLD: Hunter Smith won the basic novice boys’ competition. 

Nationals next for 

successful skaters 

• By Sam Coughlan 

THE CENTAURUS Ice Skating 

Club is turning its attention to 

the nationals after picking up 

a haul of medals at the North 

Island championships at the 

weekend. 

Centaurus had eight competitors 

in Auckland for the competition 

and took home five golds 

and two bronzes. 

Hunter Smith won the basic 

novice boys’ competition, and 

older sister Eva Smith placed 

third in the juvenile girls. 

Juliette Miller won the juvenile 

girls’ event and then made it two 

golds when she combined with 

Timothy Sampson to win the 

free dance competition. Sampson 

also won the adult interpretive 

silver event. 

Izzy Hack won youth interpretive 

silver and Coco Flood was 

third in girls’ basic novice. 

Claira McDowell competed but 

didn’t medal. 

All except Flood will be in 

action at the national championships, 

which will be hosted by 

Centaurus at the Alpine Ice 

Sports Centre from October 17- 

20. It will be the first time since 

2016 the competition has been 

held in Christchurch. 

Committee member Clare 

Attenborough said the North Island 

competition served as good 

preparation for the skaters ahead 

of nationals. 

“For us it was a case of more 

competition exposure, more 

feedback for their skating, and 

different competition,” she said. 

“In the South Islands, you 

tend to compete against similar 

people all the time, so you’ve 

got different competition and 

people who will be competing at 

nationals.” 

BALANCE: Izzy Hack, left, competing in the youth interpretive silver competition where 

she won gold. Juliette Miller won the juvenile girls’ competition. 

PHOTOS: CENTAURUS ICE SKATING CLUB/ OLGA LEVIEN PHOTOGRAPHY ARTIST 

POISE: Eva Smith on the ice during the juvenile girls’ competition. She finished in third. 

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Properties linked to alleged illegal 

• By Ric Stevens 

PROPERTIES IN Russley, 

Redwood, Upper Riccarton and 

Burnside are among those set to 

be forfeited to the Crown after 

an alleged black market tobacco 

operation. 

The properties and others 

in Auckland, Wellington and 

Queenstown have been linked to 

an alleged black market tobacco 

operation. 

The restraining order also 

applies to all other property 

“wherever located” belonging to 

a man accused of Customs fraud 

and tobacco-related offences, and 

two companies of which he is a 

director. 

The man’s name is not being 

published as he is due back in the 

district court this month. 

He faces several charges under 

the Customs and Excise Act 2018, 

along with one of burglary, after 

police and Customs raided an alleged 

illegal cigarette factory 

in Christchurch three months 

ago. 

They seized 408kg of tobacco 

and more than 11,000 cigarettes. 

They alleged the operation 

was an attempt to evade over 

$850,000 in tobacco taxes. 

In total nine houses and apartments 

– five in Christchurch and 

four in Auckland, Wellington 

and Queenstown are facing 

confiscation. The combined value 

of the real estate which is now 

HAUL: Tobacco and related items, including a cigarette-making machine, were seized by 

police and Customs in a raid in Christchurch in June. PHOTOS: NZ CUSTOMS SERVICE 

under a High Court restraining 

order is around $5.7 million, 

based on council rating valuations. 

The man has been charged 

with the unlicensed manufacture 

of tobacco products, removing 

tobacco from a Customs-controlled 

area, defrauding Customs 

revenue and the importation of 

prohibited goods. 

In the meantime, police have 

filed civil action to gain control 

of his real estate properties under 

the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) 

Act 2009, which allows 

assets that have been “tainted” by 

significant criminal activity to be 

forfeited to the Crown. 

The Russley property is the registered 

office of a company which 

the accused man is a director. 

The company is the registered 

owner of the Russley house and 

all the other properties made 

subject to the restraining order 

issued in the High Court at 

Christchurch by Justice Jonathan 

Eaton. 

Another of the man’s companies 

is also named in the police 

application for the restraining 

order, along with a second person 

who is connected in Companies 

Office records to one of the companies 

and the Russley house. 

The seizure of assets under the 

Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) 

Act is usually a two-stage process. 

First, police obtain a restraining 

order which prevents the assets 

from being sold or disposed of. 

Then, often some months later, 

they go back to the High Court to 

apply for a forfeiture order, which 

transfers ownership of 

the targeted property to the 

Crown. 

The law is used not just to 

seize real estate, but also bank 

accounts, cash, vehicles and even 

jewellery – anything considered 

to have been obtained through 

the profits of crime. 

Seven of the nine properties 

are subject to mortgages, issued 

by the ANZ, ASB and Westpac 

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tobacco operation 

SEIZED: More than 11,000 cigarettes were confiscated during the raid. 

If they are seized and sold by 

the Crown, the mortgages would 

be repaid. 

The police application for the 

restraining order was supported 

by an affidavit 51 pages long 

with a further 229 pages of 

evidence. 

“I am satisfied that there are 

reasonable grounds to believe 

that the first respondent has 

unlawfully benefitted from 

significant criminal activity 

related to the importation 

and distribution of tobacco 

products,” Justice Eaton said in a 

decision. 

The Customs and police 

raid in June stemmed from 

the investigation into an 

alleged burglary on June 16 at 

a warehouse in Christchurch 

where boxes supposedly 

containing tea from China 

were being kept. 

Customs said that about 80kg 

of tobacco was taken in the 

burglary. 

In the raid on another 

premises a week after the 

burglary, police and Customs 

seized not just tobacco and 

cigarettes, but machinery used to 

manufacture cigarettes, cigarette 

brand labels and almost $2500 

in cash. 

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was first overall in the year 9-13 division for the second 

year in a row at the Tūhono kapa haka festival. 

Girls’ High defends 

kapa haka title 

• By Isabella Adams 

CHRISTCHURCH Girls’ High 

School has come up tops at the 

Tūhono kapa haka festival for 

the second year in a row. 

The kapa haka group, consisting 

of 31 students, beat 15 other 

schools in the year 9-13 division 

on Sunday. They also came first 

in waiata tira (choral song), 

waiata ā-ringa (action song) and 

whakamihi wahine. 

Tūhono offers an alternative 

opportunity to the regionals for 

schools across Christchurch to 

compete in kapa haka. 

This is the fourth time Girls’ 

High has participated. They also 

placed first in the year 9-13 division 

last year. 

Principal Helen Armstrong 

said she was extremely proud of 

the group’s success. 

“They worked exceptionally 

hard to produce a performance 

that was of such a high calibre. 

I was so emotionally touched 

when that happened. 

“It’s been an amazing experience.” 

Whaea Adrienne Huia and 

Matua Piripi Edwards lead the 

group, alongside student leaders 

Sophia Smith, Aromea Lee-Reiri 

and Chloe Carswell. 

Huia said it was great to see 

the participation in the event. 

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gives the girls a shared goal to 

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letters, including plurals, can you make 

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