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Restored relic heading back<br />
to explorer’s Antarctic base<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
A TREASURED book from<br />
Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated<br />
South Pole expedition is heading<br />
back to the ice.<br />
Two Cantabrians are part of<br />
the Inspiring Explorers programme<br />
which will be returning<br />
a copy of <strong>The</strong> Count of Monte<br />
Cristo to Scott’s Discovery hut in<br />
Antarctica.<br />
<strong>The</strong> classic adventure novel was<br />
read by the 1911 expedition team<br />
at Ross Island and still has the<br />
party’s fingerprints clearly visible<br />
on the pages.<br />
Written by French author<br />
Alexandre Dumas in 1844 and<br />
sees a wrongly imprisoned young<br />
sailor seek revenge on those who<br />
betrayed him.<br />
A conservation technician at<br />
Canterbury Museum, Louise<br />
Piggin, 26, is on a team of eight<br />
New Zealanders and Australians<br />
heading to Antarctica on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
She will be joined by Jake<br />
Bailey, 27, who grabbed headlines<br />
around the world in 2015 when<br />
he gave a rousing end of school<br />
speech after being diagnosed<br />
with an aggressive form of stage<br />
four blood cancer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> head boy of Christchurch<br />
Boys’ High School at the time,<br />
Bailey went into remission.<br />
He has since written bestseller<br />
What Cancer Taught Me<br />
and works as a public speaker.<br />
On a month-long tour organised<br />
by the Antarctic Heritage<br />
Trust, they will visit the huts of<br />
Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton<br />
on Ross Island and repatriate the<br />
book.<br />
Said Piggin: “It’s really cool.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y would have just been reading<br />
it in the hut, and they would<br />
have had really dirty hands<br />
covered in soot and seal blubber.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y left the marks just from<br />
reading it over and over again.”<br />
Piggin works at the museum<br />
archive in Hornby cataloguing,<br />
researching and preserving the<br />
collection before the museum’s<br />
renovation is scheduled for completion<br />
in 2<strong>02</strong>9.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> privilege of visiting one of<br />
the most remote places on earth,<br />
let alone being able to walk in the<br />
footsteps of the early Antarctic<br />
explorers, is an incredibly unique<br />
opportunity to connect with that<br />
history,” he said.<br />
• Turn to page 2<br />
CARE: Trip conservators<br />
Louise Piggin and Daniel<br />
Borstein repairing pages<br />
from a copy of <strong>The</strong> Count<br />
of Monte Cristo carried by<br />
Captain Robert Falcoln<br />
Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic<br />
expedition. <strong>The</strong> book will<br />
be repatriated to Scott’s<br />
Discovery Hut on Ross<br />
Island by a group from New<br />
Zealand and Australia.<br />
PHOTOS: CANTERBURY<br />
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• From page 1<br />
Members of the Inspiring<br />
Explorers team have been<br />
working on conserving the<br />
Count of Monte Cristo with<br />
Piggin helping to reattach<br />
some loose pages ahead of<br />
the Antarctic trip.<br />
“We need to keep the book<br />
nice and safe and make sure<br />
it doesn’t fall apart while<br />
we’re transporting it to the<br />
hut,” she said.<br />
“I work with lots of different<br />
items usually, but not<br />
usually ones from such remote<br />
areas which have been<br />
through harsh conditions. So<br />
it’s pretty special.”<br />
An anonymous donor gave<br />
the book to the Antarctic<br />
Heritage Trust after receiving<br />
it as a school prize in 1965.<br />
When Piggin steps on to<br />
the Antarctic ice for the first<br />
time, she does not know how<br />
she will feel.<br />
“I don’t quite know how I<br />
will feel, but it is a once in a<br />
lifetime experience.”<br />
Through returning the<br />
book, Piggin looks forward<br />
to carrying out some in-thefield<br />
work as she completes<br />
her masters in museum<br />
studies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> trip aligns with her<br />
passions for historical conservation<br />
and the outdoors.<br />
“I love history and looking<br />
at how you can tell stories<br />
through artifacts, but then<br />
I’m also super into hiking<br />
and exploration. It’s sort of<br />
like my worlds colliding.”<br />
Piggin is one of the three<br />
young conservationists<br />
selected for the trip while<br />
others in the team will<br />
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Antarctic repatriation mission<br />
‘once in a lifetime experience’<br />
ADVENTURE: Conservation technician Louise Piggin<br />
is going to Antarctica as part of the Inspiring Explorers<br />
programme. She will tour the historic huts of Sir Ernest<br />
Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott. Along with two<br />
other young conservationists, her job is to conserve a<br />
book read by Scott’s team and return it to Scott’s hut.<br />
PHOTO: CANTERBURY MUSEUM<br />
make a podcast about the<br />
experience for the heritage<br />
trust.<br />
“It’s going to be really<br />
special stepping into those<br />
historic huts.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y are completely<br />
preserved how they were<br />
when the explorers left,” said<br />
Piggin.<br />
Doomed expedition beaten to the Pole<br />
BEFORE SETTING out<br />
on a fatal expedition to the<br />
South Pole in 1911, Robert<br />
Falcoln Scott and his team<br />
would spend freezing nights<br />
huddled around a hut’s stove<br />
fire.<br />
Waiting for clearer weather,<br />
the men would thumb<br />
through the pages of <strong>The</strong><br />
Count of Monte Cristo in an<br />
attempt to stave off boredom.<br />
Scott, along with Sir Ernest<br />
Shackleton were part of the<br />
‘heroic age’ of Antarctic<br />
exploration from 1900 to<br />
1922 and led expeditions of<br />
scientific discovery in the<br />
continent.<br />
PRESERVED: <strong>The</strong> Inspiring Explorers programme will tour<br />
the Antarctic bases of Robert Falcon Scott, left, and Sir<br />
Ernest Shackleton.<br />
PHOTOS: GETTY<br />
From 1901 to 1904, Scott<br />
led the first official British<br />
exploration of the Antarctic<br />
regions since the voyage of<br />
James Ross 60 years earlier.<br />
But Scott was determined<br />
to reach the South Pole first<br />
and embarked on another<br />
expedition in 1910.<br />
His voyage arrived at Ross<br />
Island in <strong>January</strong> 1911 after<br />
resupplying in Dunedin.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mission to reach the<br />
South Pole succeeded on<br />
<strong>January</strong> 17, 1912, but to<br />
Scott’s anguish, he found<br />
Norwegian Roald Amundsen<br />
had beaten him five weeks<br />
prior.<br />
On the return journey, a<br />
planned meeting with supporting<br />
dog teams from the<br />
base camp failed, despite<br />
Scott’s written instructions.<br />
Only 20km from the next<br />
supply depot, Scott and his<br />
companions died from starvation<br />
and frostbite.<br />
When the party’s bodies<br />
were discovered, they had<br />
in their possession the first<br />
Antarctic fossils, confirming<br />
the continent had drifted<br />
south away from warmer<br />
climates.<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>5 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NOT ONLY have Lee and<br />
Andrew Child taken home the<br />
most popular book for the seventh<br />
year in a row, they’ve also taken<br />
out the second spot.<br />
Christchurch City Libraries’<br />
annual list of most issued books<br />
reveals the prolific thriller authors<br />
have the two most issued books in<br />
2<strong>02</strong>4 with <strong>The</strong> Secret and No Plan<br />
B from the Jack<br />
Reacher series.<br />
“No Plan B<br />
was the most<br />
popular book in<br />
2<strong>02</strong>3 as well so<br />
we cannot deny<br />
there is something<br />
special about<br />
these novels that<br />
keep our readers<br />
hooked,” head of<br />
libraries and information Carolyn<br />
Robertson said.<br />
“We were pleased to see the<br />
third spot go to a kiwi with Sam<br />
Neill’s memoir Did I Ever Tell<br />
You This? It’s a great read, which<br />
tells the story of how he became<br />
one of the world’s most celebrated<br />
actors.”<br />
Rounding out the top five most<br />
issued books are historical fiction<br />
novel <strong>The</strong> Women by Kristin<br />
Hannah and the latest in the<br />
children’s series Diary of a Wimpy<br />
Kid by Jeff Kinney, No Brainer.<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
<strong>The</strong> top 20 borrowed books of last year<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Secret by Lee Child<br />
and Andrew Child<br />
• No Plan B by Lee Child<br />
and Andrew Child<br />
• Did I Ever Tell You This?<br />
by Sam Neill [NZ]<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Women by Kristin<br />
Hannah<br />
• No Brainer by Jeff<br />
Kinney<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Exchange by John<br />
Grisham<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Spy Coast by Tess<br />
Gerritsen<br />
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor<br />
Catton [NZ]<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Last Devil To Die by<br />
Richard Osman<br />
• Spot Goes To School by<br />
Eric Hill<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Gruffalo’s Child by<br />
Julia Donaldson<br />
• <strong>The</strong> 13-storey Treehouse<br />
by Andy Griffiths<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Year Of <strong>The</strong> Locust<br />
by Terry Hayes<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Bullet That Missed<br />
by Richard Osman<br />
• Captain Underpants<br />
And <strong>The</strong> Tyrannical<br />
Reacher rules: Another thrilling<br />
year for Christchurch readers<br />
Carolyn<br />
Robertson<br />
BEST BOOKS: Lee and Andrew Child’s <strong>The</strong> Secret topped the charts for library readers in<br />
2<strong>02</strong>4 with their book No Plan B taking second spot.<br />
“As well as our overall list of<br />
most popular books, we’ve also<br />
got lists for most popular New<br />
Zealand book, adult fiction, nonfiction,<br />
rangatahi teen, tamariki<br />
kids and comics/graphic novels.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are also ‘Best of 2<strong>02</strong>4’<br />
lists – the crème de la crème of<br />
Retaliation Of <strong>The</strong> Turbo<br />
Toilet 2000: <strong>The</strong> Eleventh<br />
Epic Novel by Dav Pilkey<br />
• Spare by Prince Harry<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Last Secret Agent:<br />
My Untold Story of Life As<br />
A Spy Behind Nazi Enemy<br />
Lines by Pippa Latour<br />
with Jude Dobson [NZ]<br />
• Upside Down by<br />
Danielle Steel<br />
• Hairy Maclary’s Hat<br />
Tricks by Lynley Dodd<br />
• Think Twice by Harlan<br />
Coben<br />
books, magazines, newspapers,<br />
films and television shows<br />
– curated by librarians and<br />
customers.<br />
NEWS 3<br />
UC scientists<br />
challenge<br />
existence of<br />
‘dark energy’<br />
CANTERBURY University<br />
scientists have released new<br />
research that suggests one of<br />
the universe’s most mysterious<br />
concepts – dark energy – does not<br />
exist.<br />
For years physicists have tried to<br />
explain observations that the universe’s<br />
expansion is speeding up in<br />
all directions with the concept of<br />
“dark energy”.<br />
Dark energy is a proposed form<br />
of energy affecting the universe on<br />
the largest scales and drives galaxies,<br />
stars and planets apart.<br />
Now a team of physicists led<br />
by UC Professor David Wiltshire<br />
analysed light curves from the<br />
Pantheon+ supernovae to show<br />
the universe was expanding in a<br />
“lumpier” way.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new study – published in the<br />
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical<br />
Society – shows the idea of<br />
“dark energy” is not needed at all.<br />
Instead, the team proposed a<br />
different model – called timescape<br />
cosmology – to understand the<br />
evolution of the universe.<br />
<strong>The</strong> scientists said the findings –<br />
together with new data – implied<br />
“profound consequences” for cosmology<br />
and astrophysics and may<br />
help resolve the universe’s biggest<br />
mystery within five years.<br />
On the UC website, Wiltshire<br />
says dark energy “may in fact be<br />
a misidentification of ‘quasi-local<br />
gravitational energy’, an aspect of<br />
Einstein’s theory that we have yet<br />
to fully understand”.<br />
“My team and I are testing<br />
its properties. In future we aim<br />
to more deeply understand the<br />
nature of gravitational energy by<br />
rigorously construct a modified<br />
statistical geometry for the<br />
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NEWS 5<br />
Feeding foodbanks in desperate times<br />
WHEN BILLS pile up and money<br />
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“We want to be sure we can<br />
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In 2<strong>02</strong>3, Kairos rescued and<br />
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Ennor said the rising cost of living<br />
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historian Richard Wolfe<br />
examines how the<br />
flightless forest-dweller<br />
became part of our<br />
national identity<br />
IN KIWI: A CURIOUS Case of<br />
National Identity, Wolfe writes<br />
about how companies adopted<br />
the name and image of the<br />
flightless bird and its popular<br />
association with New Zealand<br />
soldiers during World War I.<br />
Even prior to European settlers<br />
arriving, the feathers of the<br />
bird – also known as te manu<br />
huna a Tāne or the hidden bird<br />
of the god of forest Tāne – were<br />
highly sought after for prestigious<br />
cloaks (kahu kiwi).<br />
Some of the other earliest<br />
adaptations came in the 1850s,<br />
when an insurance company<br />
used the bird as part of their<br />
logo, and the Bank of New<br />
Zealand’s imagery was associated<br />
with the bird early on too,<br />
Wolfe told Nine to Noon.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> kiwi, along with many<br />
other examples of our flora<br />
and fauna and Māori culture,<br />
with varying degrees of cultural<br />
insensitivity, were used<br />
for trademarks and symbols<br />
for companies and for various<br />
organisations.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> big thing that really gave<br />
the kiwi a sort of boost in terms of<br />
it being accepted as a national<br />
symbol and aligning itself or<br />
being adopted by New Zealanders,<br />
was the invention<br />
by an Australian (William<br />
Ramsay) of kiwi boot polish<br />
… when he came to giving<br />
it a name, he decided to honour<br />
his wife’s homeland.<br />
“Kiwi being a short, sharp, sort<br />
of easily remembered name and<br />
the image of the bird, a sort of nice<br />
round image, suited a round tin<br />
admirably.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> product, which was<br />
launched in Melbourne in the<br />
early 1900s, went on to become<br />
popular abroad too, as the British<br />
government bought it in bulk for<br />
use by the army during World<br />
War I, he says.<br />
“So the tins then became scattered<br />
around the battlefields of<br />
Europe and the connection was<br />
made with New Zealand soldiers<br />
HISTORIAN: Author Michael Wolfe tells the story of how New Zealand embraced the kiwi<br />
as a national emblem.<br />
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UNLIKELY ICON: Without any sort of official endorsement, the kiwi<br />
emerged as a national symbol in the early 1900s, following the invention<br />
of Kiwi brand boot polish.<br />
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over there, and so by the time they<br />
came back to New Zealand postwar,<br />
the connection had sort of<br />
been made.<br />
“Prior to that, New Zealanders,<br />
like Australians, soldiers were<br />
referred to as diggers, but at least<br />
calling them Kiwi gave them a<br />
rather separate identity.”<br />
Near the end of WWI and<br />
whilst stationed at Sling Camp in<br />
southern England, New Zealand<br />
soldiers became frustrated while<br />
waiting for transportation home<br />
and preoccupied themselves by<br />
drawing a kiwi outline on the<br />
side of the chalk hill overlooking<br />
their camp, Wolfe says.<br />
“This bird became a local<br />
landmark. So, I think that sort<br />
of helped cement the association<br />
between the soldiers and the bird.<br />
“But interestingly, during the<br />
Second World War, the kiwi had<br />
to be covered over, because it<br />
was seen as a bit of a landmark<br />
that Germans coming across the<br />
channel would keep an eye out<br />
for it and know where they were.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> landmark is still visible and<br />
was initially being cared for by<br />
the same company that invented<br />
the kiwi shoe polish, he says.<br />
But the bird’s emergence as a<br />
symbol of the country could be<br />
dated back even further to the<br />
early 1900s, with several cartoons<br />
depicting the All Blacks team as<br />
a kiwi.<br />
Wolfe believes one of the factors<br />
that boosted the kiwi as a<br />
national emblem was that it was<br />
unofficial.<br />
“New Zealand’s national symbols<br />
are the silver fern, which is<br />
on the national coat of arms, and<br />
the Southern Cross … which is<br />
on the national flag.<br />
“But the kiwi doesn’t have<br />
that sort of official endorsement,<br />
although it’s on coats of arms of<br />
various cities and burrows …<br />
but it’s very much a bird of the<br />
people, and I think the fact it has<br />
not had that official endorsement<br />
has helped its rise and acceptance<br />
by New Zealanders at large.”<br />
Wolfe says concerns about<br />
“the most unlike bird of birds”<br />
being the national symbol were<br />
overcome thanks to its special<br />
traits and apparent ingenuity,<br />
which New Zealanders have been<br />
likened to. - RNZ
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Environmental, community and<br />
earn acknowledgement in 2<strong>02</strong>5<br />
Christchurch residents<br />
have been recognised<br />
on the New Year<br />
Honours list for their<br />
personal achievements<br />
and contributions to<br />
their community<br />
To be Knights<br />
Companion of the New<br />
Zealand Order of Merit<br />
Peter Skelton<br />
Skelton has been recognised for<br />
services to environmental law and<br />
the earthquake recovery.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fendalton resident was<br />
appointed as an<br />
Environment<br />
Canterbury<br />
commissioner<br />
in 2010 and<br />
has been a key<br />
player in the<br />
development of<br />
Christchurch’s<br />
post-earthquake<br />
Land Use<br />
Recovery Plan.<br />
Skelton has been heavily<br />
involved in the development<br />
and implementation of the<br />
Canterbury Water Strategy.<br />
He acted as mediator between<br />
the city council and ECan on<br />
the development of stormwater<br />
management consent processes.<br />
Skelton was instrumental<br />
in establishing the Resource<br />
Management Law Association in<br />
20<strong>02</strong> and was a founding member<br />
and inaugural vice president of<br />
the Environment Institute of<br />
Australia and New Zealand.<br />
He served as the first chair<br />
of the Environmental Legal<br />
Assistance Fund panel from 2001<br />
to 2008.<br />
As an independent<br />
commissioner, Skelton presided<br />
over hearings by Environment<br />
Waikato concerning the control<br />
of nitrates entering Lake Taupō.<br />
He was an advisor to the<br />
Local Government and<br />
Environment Select Committee<br />
on the Resource Management<br />
Amendment Bill in 2009.<br />
Skelton served as a judge of the<br />
Environment Court from 1978 to<br />
2000 and was appointed as chief<br />
freshwater commissioner in 2<strong>02</strong>0.<br />
To be Members of the<br />
New Zealand Order of<br />
Merit<br />
Judith Bell<br />
Bell is a multi-instrumentalist<br />
and award-winning music<br />
educator who has made<br />
significant contributions in<br />
Canterbury and nationally to<br />
music education.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shirley resident was<br />
the specialist music teacher at<br />
Chisnallwood Intermediate from<br />
1999 to 2<strong>02</strong>1.<br />
She was a major influence on<br />
the school’s national reputation<br />
for music excellence.<br />
Bell ran<br />
numerous<br />
courses from<br />
theory to sound<br />
technology and<br />
supported the<br />
school’s local<br />
and national<br />
award-winning<br />
bands, choir<br />
and orchestra.<br />
Outside Chisnallwood, she has<br />
held a range of volunteer roles<br />
with music organisations and<br />
initiatives.<br />
She has co-chaired Music<br />
Education Canterbury since 2011<br />
and has been co-artistic director<br />
of annual children’s music festival<br />
Strum, Strike and Blow since<br />
2013.<br />
Bell was director of the<br />
Christchurch Big Band Festival<br />
from 2011 to 2<strong>02</strong>1 and was<br />
appointed artistic director in<br />
2<strong>02</strong>3.<br />
She helped establish and<br />
has chaired the Christchurch<br />
Jazz Foundation Trust since its<br />
inception in 2015, which oversees<br />
the Big Band Festival and other<br />
jazz events.<br />
Now a life member, she was<br />
on the national board of Music<br />
Education New Zealand Aotearoa<br />
from 2014 to 2<strong>02</strong>2 and wrote the<br />
Kiwicorder resource for primary<br />
teachers in 2<strong>02</strong>3.<br />
Bell has presented music papers<br />
and workshops internationally<br />
at conferences in a range of<br />
countries.<br />
David Hodder<br />
Hodder’s services to<br />
conservation and outdoor<br />
recreation are being awarded.<br />
He has been a committed<br />
volunteer over 50 years from the<br />
grass roots level to advising the<br />
Department of Conservation and<br />
holding positions on conservation<br />
boards, research committees and<br />
implementation groups.<br />
He has<br />
been involved<br />
with the<br />
New Zealand<br />
Deerstalkers<br />
Association<br />
in various<br />
capacities since<br />
the late 1960s.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spreydon<br />
resident became a branch<br />
member in 1971, was vice<br />
president of the Hawke’s Bay<br />
branch from 1978 to 1981, and<br />
was a member of the national<br />
executive for 24 years until 2005.<br />
He served as national vice<br />
president from 1984, then<br />
president from 1989 to 1992, and<br />
in 2011 was made a life member.<br />
Hodder was a member of the<br />
Himalayan Tahr Control Plan<br />
Advisory Committee from 1993<br />
to 2018 and a member of the<br />
Wapiti Crown Herd Management<br />
Committee.<br />
He became chair of a<br />
helicopter-hunting subcommittee<br />
in 2010 when DOC<br />
allowed aerial access for hunting<br />
of chamois and tahr.<br />
Hodder has helped organise<br />
and run the hunter training<br />
programme HUNTS as well as<br />
conservation projects.<br />
This involved providing<br />
hands-on assistance with trap<br />
lines, hut and track maintenance,<br />
and formal animal control<br />
programmes.<br />
Hodder has helped with search<br />
and rescue operations and<br />
provided forecast and message<br />
relaying services with mountain<br />
radio.<br />
Marian Johnson<br />
Johnson has been contributing<br />
to business and technology for<br />
15 years by supporting startup<br />
innovators and entrepreneurs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Richmond Hill resident<br />
served as chief executive of the<br />
Ministry of Awesome from 2017<br />
to 2<strong>02</strong>4, and is currently chair of<br />
MoA’s electrify<br />
programmes.<br />
MoA is an<br />
innovation hub<br />
which provides<br />
support to<br />
startups, a<br />
coworking<br />
space, and a<br />
mentoring<br />
community for founders in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Johnson has been supporting<br />
the national innovation sector<br />
through MoA where startups<br />
have to-date raised $112 million<br />
and generated 344 new jobs at<br />
their earliest stages.<br />
She led the establishment of<br />
New Zealand’s early stage startup<br />
incubator, Electrify Aotearoa,<br />
the country’s first ever women’s<br />
startup founders’ conference,<br />
and Electrify Accelerator which<br />
is New Zealand’s only women<br />
founders’ startup accelerator.<br />
Johnson is a member of the<br />
New Zealand <strong>Star</strong>tup Council<br />
and chair of the New Zealand<br />
HiTech Trust.<br />
As a member of the startup<br />
council, Johnson helped deliver<br />
the Upstart Nation Report which<br />
advocated for innovation-friendly<br />
improvements in New Zealand<br />
government settings.<br />
This aimed to help New<br />
Zealand grow and succeed as a<br />
competitive, globally engaged<br />
startup hub.<br />
Lachlan Marshall<br />
Marshall has been playing,<br />
coaching, refereeing, and<br />
supporting water polo for almost<br />
50 years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> central city resident started<br />
playing water polo in 1974,<br />
initially as part of junior teams<br />
in Canterbury and Otago before<br />
representing New Zealand.<br />
He played 100 games in the<br />
New Zealand men’s team from<br />
1981 to 1993, 35 of which were<br />
international tests, and captained<br />
the side from 1989 to 1993.<br />
He played a key role in the<br />
re-establishment of water polo in<br />
Canterbury following the 2010<br />
and 2011 earthquakes.<br />
Marshall<br />
sourced<br />
alternative<br />
club training<br />
facilities and<br />
spearheaded<br />
fundraising<br />
and<br />
sponsorship<br />
efforts.<br />
Scholarships<br />
were created to encourage new<br />
talent into the sport and help<br />
import players from overseas to<br />
compete.<br />
He has coached various teams<br />
since the early 1990s and is<br />
often called in to cover coaching<br />
shortages for other club teams.<br />
Marshall has been a board<br />
member of Canterbury Water<br />
Polo for many years and was<br />
chair from 2008 to 2<strong>02</strong>2.<br />
He is a life member of both<br />
Canterbury and New Zealand<br />
Water Polo.<br />
Marshall has led Canterbury<br />
Water Polo to be one of the most<br />
competitive clubs in New Zealand<br />
and coached many athletes who<br />
have since competed at a national<br />
level.<br />
<strong>The</strong> King’s Service Order<br />
Jim Goodwin<br />
Goodwin has been recognised<br />
for services to survivors of abuse<br />
in state care.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Woolston resident<br />
established a support group for<br />
survivors of abuse at Christ’s<br />
College.<br />
This provided a forum for them<br />
to discuss their experiences.<br />
Goodwin is a retired psychiatric<br />
nurse who has helped support and<br />
advocate for<br />
male survivors<br />
of abuse.<br />
He draws on<br />
his personal<br />
experiences as<br />
a survivor of<br />
abuse in a faithbased<br />
boarding<br />
school.<br />
He has been a member of the<br />
Survivor Advisory Group of<br />
Experts for the Royal Commission<br />
of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in<br />
State Care since 2019.<br />
SAGE has helped provide<br />
the inquiry with guidance and<br />
support to engage with survivors<br />
and representative organisations<br />
on their experiences.<br />
Goodwin has been a member<br />
of the Trauma Advisory Group<br />
and has remained active within<br />
various survivor networks and<br />
survivor communities.<br />
Gary Williams<br />
Williams has been advocating<br />
for fellow disabled people in New<br />
Zealand institutions for several<br />
decades.<br />
He is recognised for his work<br />
advocating for disabled victims of<br />
abuse in state care in particular.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Papanui resident has<br />
driven change for disabled<br />
people, serving<br />
as a specialist<br />
consultant<br />
to the<br />
Government<br />
and nongovernment<br />
organisations,<br />
through Ngā<br />
Hau e Whā<br />
National Marae, Your Way Kia<br />
Roha Trust and the VisAble<br />
Trust.<br />
He is the Government’s<br />
non-official member to the<br />
negotiating team for the<br />
United Nations Convention<br />
on the Rights of Persons with<br />
Disabilities.<br />
Williams has been a member<br />
of the Survivor Advisory<br />
Group of Experts for the Royal<br />
Commission since 2019.<br />
Through SAGE, Williams<br />
has advocated and represented<br />
the views of disabled survivors,<br />
particularly Māori.<br />
<strong>The</strong> King’s Service<br />
Medal<br />
Kathleen Coster<br />
Coster has been advocating<br />
for survivors of abuse for several<br />
decades.<br />
She has been a member and<br />
board representative of the<br />
New Zealand Collective of<br />
Abused in State Care Charitable<br />
Trust (NZCAST) since its<br />
establishment<br />
in 2<strong>02</strong>0.<br />
NZCAST is<br />
a survivor-led<br />
organisation<br />
which<br />
offers free<br />
programmes,<br />
educational<br />
workshops and<br />
support services for survivors of<br />
abuse in care and their families.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Papanui resident was the<br />
third generation of her family<br />
to have been placed in state care<br />
and has been advocating for<br />
survivors of abuse to the Royal<br />
Commission.<br />
Drawing on her own personal<br />
experience of foster care and its<br />
impacts on her mental health and<br />
relationships, she has advocated<br />
to ensure the inquiry accounts<br />
for the concerns and interests of<br />
all abuse survivors.<br />
Coster has provided support<br />
to survivors of abuse through<br />
workshops that focus on healing<br />
and growth.
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musical work<br />
honours list<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Zealand<br />
Antarctic Medal<br />
Colin Monteath<br />
Monteath has received an<br />
honour for a longstanding<br />
commitment to Antarctica<br />
research.<br />
Since the<br />
1970s he has<br />
been involved<br />
with Antarctic<br />
field support,<br />
archival<br />
preservation,<br />
literature and<br />
photography.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cashmere<br />
resident has contributed to<br />
Antarctica in the areas of<br />
tourism and library services.<br />
He has also been a researcher,<br />
Antarctica photographer and<br />
author.<br />
In 1981, Monteath received<br />
a Queen’s Service Medal for<br />
his contributions to the Mt<br />
Erebus 1979 air crash recovery<br />
operation.<br />
After working for the New<br />
Zealand Antarctic Research<br />
Programme as field operations<br />
officer from 1973 to 1983, he<br />
established his reference library<br />
on Antarctica.<br />
It is now New Zealand’s most<br />
extensive polar library.<br />
Monteath assists authors and<br />
publishers both nationally and<br />
internationally with information<br />
and historic images.<br />
<strong>The</strong> library is used by<br />
researchers, expeditioners, and<br />
Canterbury University.<br />
He is a life member of the New<br />
Zealand Antarctica Society and<br />
is recognised internationally as a<br />
leading authority on Antarctica.<br />
Monteath’s work spans 51<br />
years. He has advocated for and<br />
promoted conservation practices,<br />
as well as safety and security<br />
practices in Antarctica.<br />
He has been a photographer and<br />
author for numerous book projects,<br />
including his award-winning 2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
book Erebus the Ice Dragon – A<br />
Portrait of an Antarctic Volcano.<br />
Notably Monteath was principal<br />
photographer for the 1985 Reader’s<br />
Digest book Antarctica and his<br />
photographs have since been<br />
published in dozens of polar books.<br />
From 1983 to 2<strong>02</strong>0 he worked as<br />
an expedition leader, lecturer and<br />
guide for various polar cruise and<br />
adventure companies.<br />
QUALITY: Portal is Christchurch Airport’s new flagship bar and restaurant.<br />
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More options for passengers<br />
as airport opens new venues<br />
CHRISTCHURCH Airport<br />
opened its new flagship bar<br />
and food court just before<br />
Christmas.<br />
It involves two major new eateries,<br />
alongside its new food court,<br />
as part of its ongoing terminal<br />
revamp project.<br />
<strong>The</strong> outlets are part of the wider<br />
terminal upgrade, which will see a<br />
total of 12 new eateries, upgraded<br />
bathrooms, the revamped food<br />
court, new retail spaces, a parent’s<br />
room, and a large children’s play<br />
area completed by mid-2<strong>02</strong>5.<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest additions – Fern & Co<br />
and Portal Bar & Eatery – bring<br />
the total number of new dining<br />
options at the terminal to eight<br />
since the project started in May.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are located near the<br />
domestic departure passenger<br />
screening area.<br />
Christchurch Airport teamed<br />
up with global food and beverage<br />
outlet operator, SSP, to deliver the<br />
hospitality offerings.<br />
Said SSP managing director<br />
of Australia & New Zealand,<br />
Dominic Cain: “We’re thrilled to<br />
bring Fern & Co and Portal Bar &<br />
Eatery to Christchurch Airport,<br />
offering travellers exceptional dining<br />
options that reflect the vibrant<br />
style of Christchurch.<br />
“With these venues, we’re setting<br />
a new benchmark for airport<br />
dining in New Zealand, blending<br />
quality, innovation, and local<br />
charm.”<br />
Said Christchurch Airport GM<br />
of customer and commercial,<br />
David Cooper: “SSP operates in<br />
37 countries and specialises in airport<br />
food and beverage offerings.<br />
“We asked them to create<br />
something special, and they<br />
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Teenage boredom turns to success<br />
on the greens for croquet quartet<br />
• By Sam Coughlan<br />
SEVEN YEARS ago, four young<br />
friends picked up an unexpected<br />
sport – not knowing they would<br />
become some of the best players in<br />
the country.<br />
Josh Winter, twins Myles<br />
and James Duggan (all 21), and<br />
Levi Franks, 20, started playing<br />
croquet in late 2017 and then<br />
began competing in 2018, while at<br />
Cashmere High School.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have seen big success<br />
since then – with a high point of<br />
representing New Zealand at the<br />
U21 golf croquet world championships<br />
last year and winning<br />
numerous national titles.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y will all compete at the<br />
open national championships in<br />
Nelson starting on Monday.<br />
It was Winter who started<br />
things off. When his mum Lisa,<br />
wanting him to try something<br />
new, got a flyer in the letterbox<br />
from the Cashmere Croquet Club<br />
offering a give-it-a-go day, she told<br />
him to go down.<br />
“I didn’t know what it was, and I<br />
really didn’t want to go, but I went<br />
down,” said Winter who was 14 at<br />
the time.<br />
“I was into pool at the time so<br />
she thought I would like croquet.”<br />
He went down with a friend,<br />
Matthew Sherman, who no longer<br />
plays, and shortly after got his<br />
YOUTH: (From left): Josh<br />
Winter, Myles Duggan, James<br />
Duggan, Franks before the<br />
national secondary schools<br />
competition in 2018.<br />
INTERNATIONAL: Levi Franks will compete in the Openshaw<br />
Shield in Tasmania and the U21 world championships in<br />
Florida this year.<br />
PHOTO: SAM COUGHLAN<br />
other mates involved.<br />
“Myles had a sleepover at my<br />
house and we were bored in the<br />
morning, so we decided to play<br />
croquet a bit.<br />
“We started playing, then James<br />
and Levi turned up about a half a<br />
month later.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were all sporty kids –<br />
Winter played football with<br />
James and Myles Duggan.<br />
He isn’t sure exactly what kept<br />
them coming back but said they<br />
were just having a lot of fun.<br />
“ I don’t think we would have<br />
kept playing if we didn’t enjoy it!”<br />
Golf croquet was the choice<br />
for the foursome – a shorter, less<br />
complex version of the game<br />
where each player plays one<br />
shot at a time. <strong>The</strong> first to get a<br />
ball through seven hoops is the<br />
winner.<br />
It’s similar, but not identical, to<br />
association croquet – the more<br />
traditional version of the sport<br />
where players can take more than<br />
one shot in sequence as a reward<br />
TOP: <strong>The</strong> foursome were all<br />
among the top eight players<br />
at the recent U21 nationals.<br />
Myles Duggan (second-left),<br />
Josh Winter (fourth-left), Levi<br />
Franks (fourth-right), James<br />
Duggan (second-right).<br />
PHOTO: CROQUET NZ<br />
for getting a ball through a hoop<br />
or hitting another ball. <strong>The</strong> first<br />
to get through each of the six<br />
hoops twice and then hit the<br />
centre pole is the winner.<br />
Last month, the foursome<br />
competed at the U21 nationals in<br />
Palmerston North, where Franks<br />
took out the singles competition,<br />
beating James Duggan in the<br />
semi-finals while Winter was<br />
another semi-finalist.<br />
Myles Duggan lost to his<br />
brother in the quarter-finals and<br />
the twins also made the final of<br />
the doubles competition, losing to<br />
another sibling duo, Wellington’s<br />
Jessica and Nathan Bullen.<br />
Franks is also among the top<br />
players in the country for all ages,<br />
having won the national championship<br />
singles once and doubles<br />
three times – twice with Winter<br />
and once with James Duggan.<br />
He will be a part of the national<br />
team heading to Tasmania for<br />
the Openshaw Shield – the world<br />
teams championship – in February,<br />
and the U21 world championship<br />
in Florida in April.<br />
“ My goal is to win a world<br />
championship,” Franks said.<br />
“Next year I have two chances<br />
– I think the under 21 worlds<br />
will be my best chance. <strong>The</strong> biggest<br />
thing with the open worlds<br />
is I’ve got my whole life to try<br />
and win it.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>y will not be the only<br />
Cantabrians at the nationals<br />
– defending champion Logan<br />
McCorkindale, 24, is from<br />
Ashburton originally but now<br />
lives in Christchurch and will be<br />
competing alongside his brother<br />
Reece.<br />
Paul Kaiser, 20, lives and studies<br />
in Christchurch after moving<br />
from Palmerston North and will<br />
team up with James Duggan for<br />
the doubles competition.<br />
Jason Hodgett, who competed<br />
at the U21 world championship<br />
in 2019, will also be taking part.<br />
Former world No 1 Chris<br />
Clarke and his wife Jenny, a<br />
reserve for the Openshaw Shield<br />
team, will compete only in the<br />
doubles.<br />
James Duggan looked back<br />
fondly on the foursome’s journey<br />
so far.<br />
“ Croquet has brought us really<br />
close together, and it’s just a<br />
whole lot of great memories over<br />
the six years,” he said.<br />
“I look back and it’s one of the<br />
best times of my life.”<br />
• Interested in playing<br />
croquet? Contact Gay<br />
Jones at the Canterbury<br />
Croquet Association at <strong>02</strong>1<br />
977 714<br />
BEGINNINGS: Josh Winter, left was the first to take up<br />
croquet after his mum got a flyer in the mailbox but it<br />
wasn’t long before his mates like James Duggan got in on<br />
the action. PHOTOS: CROQUET NZ/MARK DUGGAN<br />
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WEEK ONE<br />
TrAiNiNG ProGrAMMe<br />
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No doubt, the first hint of panic will have set in as your thoughts turn to ‘how are you going to<br />
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WeeK oNe: starting out<br />
LeveL Thurs or Fri suN Tue WeD<br />
Beginner<br />
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intermediate<br />
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Jog/run<br />
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Walk<br />
6km/12km<br />
25 min<br />
Walk 4 min, Jog 1 min<br />
(repeat 5 times)<br />
25 min<br />
Easy jog<br />
20 min<br />
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(repeat 4 times)<br />
6km 14 min (light)<br />
12km 40 min (light)<br />
30 min<br />
Walk 4 min, Jog 1 min<br />
(repeat 6 times)<br />
40 min<br />
Easy Jog<br />
30 min<br />
Walk 3 min, Jog 2 min<br />
(repeat 6 times)<br />
6km 15 min (mod)<br />
12km 30 min (light)<br />
40 min<br />
Walk<br />
20 min<br />
Easy Jog<br />
40 min<br />
Walk<br />
6km 20 min (mod)<br />
12km 40 min (light)<br />
30 min<br />
Walk 3 min, Run 2 min<br />
(repeat 6 times)<br />
50 min<br />
Easy Jog<br />
30 min<br />
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6km 30 min (light)<br />
12km 60 min (light)<br />
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TiP oF <strong>The</strong> WeeK<br />
If you have never run or jogged before,<br />
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ciey@xtra.co.nz<br />
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George Lockyer,<br />
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313 8156<br />
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freezes, fridges, washing<br />
machines, ovens. Also<br />
buying furniture & h/<br />
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66 22 116<br />
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bank notes, badges,<br />
medals, jewellery,<br />
watches, china, crystal,<br />
books, furs, vintage<br />
clothing, paintings,<br />
furniture, estates &<br />
downsizing. Etcetera<br />
Antiques, 194 Edgeware<br />
Rd 385 5117<br />
A Flying Nun records and<br />
tapes wanted. Will pay Pin<br />
Group Coat $1000, Six<br />
Impossible Things $700,<br />
Surburban Reptiles Sat<br />
Night $1600. Anything<br />
by 25 cents, Gordons,<br />
Builders, Clean, Mainly<br />
Spaniards, Playthings, Toy<br />
Love or any other Flying<br />
Nun and 80s alternative<br />
punk bands. Dave <strong>02</strong>1 222<br />
6144 Pennylane Records,<br />
Sydenham, Chch, 7 days.<br />
All jazz records wanted,<br />
Kiwi and overseas artists.<br />
Blue Note, Prestige,<br />
Riverside, ECM, Verve,<br />
Impulse, CTI, Milestone<br />
etc. Top prices paid for<br />
good titles. Please phone<br />
Dave <strong>02</strong>1 222 6144,<br />
Pennylane Records, Chch.<br />
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366 3278<br />
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memoribilia, WW2 or<br />
earlier ph 338-9931<br />
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Pennylane Records,<br />
Sydenham, 7 days, plenty<br />
of parking. Ph 366 3278<br />
Music books wanted.<br />
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Sydenham, 7 days, plenty<br />
of parking. Ph 366 3278<br />
Old Toys, Models &<br />
Trains. Tri-ang, FunHo<br />
Matchbox, Dinky, Hornby,<br />
Meccano, Marklin, Corgi<br />
etc. Ph <strong>02</strong>7 604 1816<br />
toymodelcollectors.co.nz<br />
Pennylane Records<br />
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430 Colombo Street,<br />
Sydenham, Chch. 366<br />
3278 Open 7 days<br />
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buyer Phone 355-2045<br />
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18 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>January</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>5<br />
Pavilion Café Opens 8am daily | Legends Bar Opens 10am daily<br />
Chalmers Restaurant Opens 5pm Wednesday - Sunday<br />
Reception Open from 9am daily<br />
FROM THE<br />
HORNBY<br />
CLUB!<br />
Thank you<br />
for your<br />
support, we<br />
look forward<br />
to seeing you<br />
in 2<strong>02</strong>5<br />
CHALMERS - CLOSED<br />
Reopens 19th Jan for<br />
Sunday Buffet and<br />
Normal Weds-Sun hours<br />
from 22nd Jan.<br />
PAVILION<br />
Open daily 9am-4pm<br />
until 25th <strong>January</strong><br />
LEGENDS<br />
Open 10am-10.30pm Fri & Sat<br />
Reduced hours until 19th Jan.<br />
OFFICE HOURS<br />
Thu 2nd, Fri 3rd Jan: 10am-4pm<br />
Sat 4th, Sun 4th Jan: 10am-8pm<br />
Mon 5th to Thu 9th Jan: 9am-5pm<br />
Fri 10th & Sat 11th Jan: 9am-8pm<br />
Sun 12th Jan: 9am-5pm<br />
Normal Hours from 13th Jan<br />
TICKETS $25<br />
SATURDAY 15 FEB<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
Chalmers Restaurant<br />
is now closed for the<br />
Christmas Break.<br />
It will reopen for<br />
Buffet Dinner<br />
19th of Jan 2<strong>02</strong>5.<br />
During the<br />
holiday break,<br />
our raffles<br />
and club<br />
games<br />
take a<br />
pause<br />
Raffles, Crack the Cube,<br />
Chase the Ace, and<br />
member’s draws<br />
return on the week<br />
of 13 <strong>January</strong>.<br />
Quiz returns the<br />
first week of February.<br />
STARRING DIRECT FROM THE UK<br />
LIZA REBECCA & BAND<br />
TICKETS $40 AT THE CLUB<br />
OR EVENTFINDA<br />
SATURDAY 1 MAR<br />
Come on down!<br />
17 CARMEN RD. PH. 03 349 9<strong>02</strong>6<br />
WWW.HORNBYWMC.CO.NZ<br />
Andris<br />
Apse<br />
Gallery<br />
opens in<br />
Diamond<br />
Harbour<br />
INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed New<br />
Zealand photographer, Andris Apse,<br />
has opened a gallery on the Peninsula<br />
and is inviting people to view and<br />
purchase his award winning<br />
photography by appointment.<br />
Aer 20 years based in Ōkārito, 100<br />
kms south of Hokitika, Andris has<br />
relocated to Diamond Harbour where he<br />
has set up his print workshop and<br />
Landscape Gallery.<br />
Although many may not know of<br />
Andris Apse, many will most certainly<br />
recognise his work. It has been<br />
commissioned by prestigious publications<br />
all around the world and created into<br />
catalogues of sumptuous and coveted<br />
books of photography.<br />
Born in Latvia in northeastern Europe,<br />
Andris spent ve of his early childhood<br />
years in a postwar refugee camp in<br />
Germany before emigrating to New<br />
Zealand and settling in the Bay of Islands<br />
with his mother.<br />
At 18 years of age Andris Apse had no<br />
aspirations to become an award winning<br />
photographer. In fact, he says he didn’t<br />
even have a camera. However taking a<br />
position as a trainee Forestry Worker had<br />
him travelling the country where he<br />
found himself absolutely spellbound by<br />
the breathtaking beauty of Fiordland. He<br />
said he felt a strong need to share this<br />
experience and knew then that he would<br />
pursue a career as a photographer.<br />
And he has made a career of it. Today<br />
he is one of New Zealand’s most<br />
celebrated Landscape Photographers. His<br />
awards and acknowledgments are many<br />
including a New Zealand Order of Merit,<br />
Olympus International Photographer of<br />
the Year, and Guest Exhibitor at the<br />
International Photography Hall of Fame,<br />
Oklahoma, USA.<br />
Chatting with Andris it is immediately<br />
evident how passionate and emotionally<br />
attached he is to his cra. Great planning<br />
and patience goes into each shoot and he<br />
has an exceptional eye for detail. His<br />
photos capture and explain unique stories<br />
that speak out its viewer.<br />
“Landscape photography has been my<br />
life for more than 40 years. During that<br />
time I have been fortunate to create work<br />
that has delighted and inspired people<br />
from all around the world, earning the<br />
respect of peers and critics alike. I<br />
warmly invite you to my gallery so that<br />
you can view my work and discover your<br />
own personal connection to the New<br />
Zealand landscape through my<br />
photography.”<br />
Andris Apse Diamond Harbour<br />
Gallery is located at Koromiko Crescent,<br />
Diamond Harbour. Viewing by<br />
appointment. For an appointment phone<br />
<strong>02</strong>1 884 618 or email<br />
andrisapse@gmail.com<br />
WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK<br />
AT THE RICHMOND CLUB<br />
LIVE sport in <strong>The</strong> Critic<br />
Join us for the Australian<br />
Tennis Open action starting<br />
12th <strong>January</strong>!<br />
FRI<br />
3 Smooth<br />
Talk Duo<br />
7pm<br />
LIVE MUSIC<br />
SAT<br />
4<br />
Nightwatch<br />
Band<br />
7pm<br />
SUN<br />
5<br />
Zed & Andy<br />
Duo<br />
3pm<br />
75 London Street,<br />
Richmond, Christchurch<br />
8013<br />
03 389 5778<br />
theborough.nz
,<br />
WHAT S ON<br />
GIG GUIDE<br />
Thursday 2 to Wednesday 8 <strong>January</strong> 2<strong>02</strong>5<br />
Thursday <strong>January</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>5 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 19<br />
WE ARE<br />
OPEN!<br />
Weekend<br />
Brunch<br />
Check out our great<br />
brunch selection<br />
From $20<br />
Special kid's menu too<br />
SAT/SUN 10am-2pm<br />
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ<br />
SENIORS' SPECIAL<br />
Two courses<br />
Soup/Roast or<br />
Roast/Dessert<br />
$27<br />
Special available lunch only<br />
Mon - Sat 12pm - 2.30pm<br />
‘Famous for<br />
their roasts!’<br />
TREAT THE<br />
FAMILY!<br />
Kid’s 2 course<br />
special<br />
$13<br />
Jordan Luck and his band plays all the classic Exponents hits<br />
(and more) in Tai Tapu today as part of their summer tour.<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
RACECOURSE HOTEL<br />
& Motorlodge<br />
118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn<br />
Phone 03 342 7150<br />
www.racecoursehotel.co.nz<br />
A ROLLING STONE, 579 Colombo St:<br />
Thursday - closed. Friday 8pm - Live<br />
Music. Saturday 8.30pm - Norwest,<br />
storming Rock and Blues trio playing<br />
classics and gems to kick off your new year!<br />
Koha/donation entry. Sunday 4pm - Live<br />
Music. Monday - closed. Tuesday - closed.<br />
Wednesday - closed.<br />
BILL'S BAR, 1 Halswell Rd: Thursday<br />
7.30pm - Karaoke with Annalea & Junior.<br />
Friday 7.30pm - TP Karaoke. Saturday 7pm<br />
- Mandi Miller. Sunday 6.30pm - Fired Up<br />
Karaoke.<br />
BRIDIE'S BAR, 401 Worcester St:<br />
Friday 4pm - DJ Rakinem. Saturday 3pm -<br />
Bottlejacks; 6pm - DJ Rakinem. Sunday<br />
3pm - Sunday Session. Thursday 9th Jan -<br />
Karaoke returns.<br />
CATHEDRAL SQUARE: Saturday 1pm -<br />
<strong>The</strong> WIGGLES Sound System Festival.<br />
CHCH CASINO, 30 Victoria St: Go to<br />
christchurchcasino.co.nz/live-entertainment<br />
for info.<br />
COMMONERS, 10 Oxford St,<br />
Lyttelton: Tuesday 7.30pm - Vintage Jazz.<br />
DARKROOM, 6 Poplar St: Saturday 11th<br />
Jan, 8pm - Absolute Bowie. Saturday 18th<br />
Jan, 8pm - Oh My Goth! feat. Djs Regress<br />
& 59.<br />
DUX CENTRAL, 6 Poplar St: Saturday<br />
18th Jan, 7pm - Oakley Grenell Echoes LP<br />
Summer Tour feat. <strong>The</strong> OG Anthology<br />
Band.<br />
FAT EDDIES, 76 Hereford St: Go to<br />
fateddiesbar.co.nz/livemusic for info.<br />
GOOD TIMES COMEDY CLUB, 224 St<br />
Asaph St: Wednesday 7pm Fresh, free. All<br />
tickets can be found at<br />
https://events.humanitix.com/host/<br />
goodtimes<br />
HAGLEY PARK NORTH, Rolleston<br />
Ave: Friday 10th Jan, 2pm - Fisher with<br />
support LF System; Ayybo; Chloe Caillet;<br />
Little Fritter.<br />
HORNBY CLUB, 17 Carmen Rd:<br />
Saturday 15th Feb, 7.30pm - Pacific Kings<br />
presents Double Trouble feat. Johnny Angel<br />
& Taurean K Mill. Saturday 1st Mar,<br />
7.30pm - Shania & Country Legends feat.<br />
Liza Rebecca and 3 piece band.<br />
INTERNATIONAL AKAROA MUSIC<br />
FESTIVAL, Gaiety Hall, Akaroa:<br />
Saturday 11th Jan, 7pm - Scarborough Fair<br />
feat. Magdalena Pikuła (soprano,<br />
percussion); Wolfgang Kraemer (recorder);<br />
Yuhka Nagai (violin); Tomas Hurnik (cello);<br />
To add a listing, contact<br />
Jo Fuller 03 379 7100 or<br />
<strong>02</strong>7 458 8590<br />
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Jonathan le Cocq (theorbo, Baroque guitar);<br />
Tim Emerson (harpsichord).<br />
LIVE AT THE POINT, Stoddart Point<br />
Reserve, Diamond Harbour: Sunday<br />
1pm - Drummie Dan; 1.51pm - Stephen<br />
McDaid & Morvern Tuathlaith; 2.30pm -<br />
Tess Liautaud & Band; 3.45pm - <strong>The</strong><br />
Eastern.<br />
MICKY FINN'S, 85a Hereford St:<br />
Friday 10pm - Diamond Blue. Saturday<br />
10.30pm - Hired Guns.<br />
OUTDOOR CINEMA, <strong>The</strong> Arts Centre,<br />
2 Worcester Boulevard: Friday 7pm -<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fall Guy; 9.30pm - <strong>The</strong> Rocky Horror<br />
Picture Show. Saturday 5pm - Kung Fu<br />
Panda 4; 7pm - Bullet Train; 9.30pm - <strong>The</strong><br />
Lost Boys. Sunday 5pm - IF. Friday 10th<br />
Jan 7pm - Ghostbusters Frozen; 9.30pm -<br />
Office Space. Saturday 11th Jan 5pm - <strong>The</strong><br />
Garfield Movie; 7pm - <strong>The</strong> Menu; 9.30pm -<br />
Best in Show. Sunday 12th Jan 5pm -<br />
Wonka.<br />
RICHMOND CLUB, '<strong>The</strong> Borough', 75<br />
London St: Friday 7pm - Smooth Talk<br />
Duo. Saturday 7pm - Nightwatch Band.<br />
Sunday 3pm - Zed & Andy Duo.<br />
TAI TAPU HOTEL, 21 Goulding Ave:<br />
Thursday 1pm - Henry McIlraith; 2.20pm -<br />
Sign of the Firebird; 3.24pm - Flat City<br />
Brotherhood; 5pm - D'Sendantz; 6.20pm -<br />
Jordan Luck Band. Sunday 1pm - Sign of<br />
the Firebird.<br />
THE BOG, 50 Victoria St: Go to<br />
thebog.co.nz/christchurch/events for info.<br />
THE MILLER BAR, 308 Lincoln Rd:<br />
Saturday 9.30pm - Live music.<br />
THE OLD LEITHFIELD HOTEL, 11 Old<br />
Main North Rd: Friday 7pm - <strong>The</strong> Party<br />
Singers.<br />
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 />
Buchanan.<br />
WUNDERBAR LYTTELTON, 669 Ferry<br />
Rd: Thursday 9th Jan, 8pm - Te Huhu<br />
'Deelishis Herbs' album release tour with<br />
support Leonard Powell. Thursday 7th Feb,<br />
7pm - Screamfeeder Aotearoa Tour 2<strong>02</strong>5.<br />
FRIDAYS<br />
$8<br />
QUARTS<br />
Karaoke<br />
RETURNS<br />
NEXT THURSDAY<br />
JANliveMUSIC<br />
FRI 3 :<br />
BRIDIE'S BAR<br />
OPEN DAILY FROM 8AM - GREAT MENU<br />
BRIDIE'S BAR & BISTRO | 401 WORCESTER ST<br />
PH (03) 260 0325 | WWW.BRIDIES.CO.NZ<br />
10PM<br />
DIAMOND<br />
BLUE<br />
WHAT'S PLAYING<br />
FRI.4PM: DJ RAKINEM<br />
SAT.3PM: LIVE MUSIC<br />
B O T T L E J A C K S<br />
FOLLOWED BY DJ RAKINEM<br />
SUN.3PM: LIVE MUSIC<br />
SUNDAY SESSION<br />
THE<br />
WEEKEND<br />
LINE UP<br />
SAT 4 : 10.30PM<br />
HIRED GUNS<br />
85a Hereford Street | Pool Tables | Function Rooms | www.therockpool.co.nz
20 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>January</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>5<br />
CHRISTCHURCH MITSUBISHI<br />
386 Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch<br />
Ph 03 379 0588 | christchurchmitsubishi.co.nz<br />
Filly Place, Yaldhurst t: 03 943 5391 | w: apws.co.nz