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THURSDAY, APRIL <strong>10</strong>, <strong>2025</strong><br />

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Community page targeted by online scammer<br />

• By Kees Chalmers<br />

TRADITIONALLY trustworthy<br />

community Facebook pages are<br />

becoming another hunting ground<br />

for online scam artists.<br />

Redcliffs resident, Kirsten Iliffe,<br />

learned this the hard way last week<br />

after being cheated out of $200.<br />

While scrolling Facebook<br />

on Wednesday night she came<br />

across the ‘Sumner, New Zealand’<br />

Facebook community page.<br />

She saw a post advertising outdoor<br />

furniture and contacted the<br />

seller, who requested a $<strong>10</strong>0 deposit.<br />

Although initially happy to<br />

oblige, Iliffe grew suspicious when<br />

Sumner swells<br />

with surf, sound<br />

IT WAS another successful year<br />

for the Single Fin Mingle, with<br />

its biggest result for international<br />

attendance.<br />

More than 50 international<br />

surfers took to the waves at Sumner<br />

Beach at the weekend, organiser<br />

Ambrose McNeill told Stuff.<br />

McNeill predicted some 5000<br />

people had walked through the<br />

longboard surfing competition,<br />

street party and other ticketed<br />

events since Thursday night.<br />

The four-day gathering included<br />

a film festival, live jazz and DJ<br />

performances, a street party, an<br />

organised bar hop and more.<br />

The surfers were met with large<br />

rough waves on Friday, the first<br />

day of competition. Conditions<br />

improved on Saturday for the<br />

finals, which saw Kai Ellice-Flint<br />

from Australia and Mahina<br />

Akaka from Hawaii win the men<br />

and women’s divisions.<br />

• More photos, page 4<br />

asked to pay the full amount upfront<br />

– but proceeded anyway.<br />

Iliffe also queried the name on<br />

the seller’s bank account which was<br />

different from her Facebook alias.<br />

“I thought for $200, it’s not<br />

worth the worry. It looked like<br />

good furniture, so I put it through,”<br />

she said.<br />

An hour later, Iliffe saw the<br />

original post had been deleted<br />

and re-uploaded, this time with a<br />

$300 price.<br />

She did not hear from the<br />

seller after that.<br />

“I feel a bit embarrassed about<br />

it, but I think we should get it<br />

out there because it’s so sad this<br />

is happening on these pages<br />

that do so much good for the<br />

community.<br />

“Most people are pretty<br />

aware that there’s scammers<br />

on Marketplace, but you<br />

just wouldn’t expect it on a<br />

community page.<br />

• Turn to page 5<br />

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Saturday, 9am-3pm<br />

Mt Pleasant Community Centre<br />

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Wa Korero-Storytimes<br />

Wednesdays, <strong>10</strong>.30-11am<br />

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Show of support for dark<br />

sky reserve on peninsula<br />

• By Kees Chalmers<br />

INITIAL MEETINGS confirm<br />

community support to turn<br />

Banks Peninsula into a dark sky<br />

reserve.<br />

Meetings have been held in<br />

Akaroa and Birdlings Flat to<br />

gauge community support for<br />

the eco-friendly initiative.<br />

Dark sky areas have limited<br />

light pollution, increasing the<br />

visibility of stars, reducing<br />

energy use and supporting<br />

conservation, human health and<br />

tourism.<br />

More than 20 people attended<br />

the Akaroa meeting while<br />

more than 40 went along to the<br />

Birdlings Flat one.<br />

Akaroa Stargazing co-owner,<br />

Luca Devescovi and Banks Peninsula<br />

MP Vanessa Weenink led<br />

the meetings.<br />

Devescovi said the response<br />

from the public was “overall<br />

positive”.<br />

“It looks like we have a lot of<br />

support,” he said.<br />

Akaroa Stargazing is owned<br />

by Devescovi and his partner<br />

Manon Sasso, and offers guided<br />

astronomical tours.<br />

Some Birdlings Flat residents<br />

VIBRANT: The Milky Way over Akaroa.<br />

PHOTO: AKAROA STARGAZING<br />

raised concerns over the large<br />

influx of tourists the dark sky<br />

reserve could attract.<br />

While Devescovi said the<br />

concerns were valid, he assured<br />

residents an increase in<br />

tourism would not be instantaneous.<br />

“Things are not going to<br />

change overnight, this is<br />

going to be a slow increase<br />

in tourism.”<br />

More significant than the<br />

tourism implications is the effect<br />

on the peninsula’s conservation.<br />

“This is the reason we are<br />

doing this,” said Devescovi.<br />

“We want to protect our<br />

future generations, we<br />

want to protect ourselves from<br />

light pollution, we want to<br />

protect our communities so<br />

everyone has a better quality of<br />

life.”<br />

Devescovi hopes to achieve<br />

certification for most of the<br />

peninsula, with its western<br />

boundary stretching from the<br />

end of the Kaitorete Spit to just<br />

west of Port Levy.<br />

SHOOTING FOR THE STARS: Luca<br />

Devescovi (above right) and Vanessa<br />

Weenink hosted two public meetings<br />

about turning Banks Peninsula into a dark<br />

sky reserve.<br />

He described being in a<br />

leading role for the initiative as a<br />

“tremendous honour”.<br />

Before a dark sky reserve<br />

application can be submitted,<br />

the city council would need to<br />

enforce lighting ordinances to<br />

regulate the use of lights, mainly<br />

street lights.<br />

Consultations with the public<br />

will continue to be held.<br />

“We are well on track, its<br />

looking positive. Finally,<br />

what we have been dreaming<br />

of is happening,” Devescovi said.<br />

NEWS 3<br />

In Brief<br />

Akaroa couple killed in<br />

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Akaroa couple Anne, 79, and Jack<br />

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who died after a car crash near<br />

Little River. They were married<br />

for nearly 40 years. Both were<br />

former teachers and Anne was<br />

president of the Banks Peninsula<br />

Scottish Country Dance Club.<br />

The couple’s car crashed down<br />

a bank on Christchurch Akaroa<br />

Rd last Thursday morning. Anne<br />

died soon after being transported<br />

to hospital, and Jack died on<br />

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Family’s car tips onto roof<br />

The Little River and Akaroa<br />

volunteer fire brigades were called<br />

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NEWS 5<br />

Facebook fraud<br />

prompts warning<br />

• From page 1<br />

“I suppose it’s just another level<br />

people are going to that we need<br />

to be aware of,” Iliffe said.<br />

She rang her bank that night<br />

to ensure the scammer could not<br />

gain access into her account.<br />

Iliffe was informed the scammer<br />

had an ASB account so<br />

she called the bank’s fraud line<br />

and told them to look into the<br />

account’s transactions.<br />

She also logged the situation<br />

with police.<br />

“$200 is not a big deal to me,<br />

but it’s about the principle. That’s<br />

a lot of money for some people.<br />

“It’s just wrong, you want to be<br />

able to trust that sort of stuff on<br />

your community page,” she said.<br />

Iliffe believes the scammer may<br />

have been able to hijack the Facebook<br />

profile of an existing group<br />

member in order to bypass any<br />

vetting carried out by the page’s<br />

administrators.<br />

Another group member who<br />

wished to remain anonymous,<br />

narrowly avoided being tricked<br />

by the same scammer.<br />

She was skeptical about sending<br />

the money before seeing the<br />

furniture in person.<br />

In a photo sent by the seller,<br />

the furniture was pictured on<br />

HAVE YOUR SAY<br />

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a balcony. Feeling suspicious,<br />

she visited the seller’s supposed<br />

address, only to find there was no<br />

balcony.<br />

The buyer immediately put a<br />

stop to the transaction.<br />

She then took to the community<br />

page to inform members of her<br />

experience and raise awareness of<br />

the issue.<br />

Sumner, New Zealand page<br />

administrator, Dan Vann, said<br />

the scammer had managed to<br />

re-upload the fraudulent post five<br />

times before he was able to ban<br />

the account.<br />

While he tries to monitor for<br />

scams, Vann admitted it’s difficult<br />

to catch all fraudulent posts.<br />

He advised members to look<br />

at the seller’s account before proceeding<br />

with a transaction. If the<br />

profile has been recently created<br />

or has only a few friends, it is an<br />

indicator of a scammer.<br />

Car crash cause of<br />

tsunami test failure<br />

• By Adam Burns<br />

PLANNED testing of tsunami<br />

sirens did not happen because<br />

the Auckland-based person<br />

responsible was dealing with a<br />

car crash outside their property<br />

at the time.<br />

The city council initially<br />

blamed the failure on “human<br />

error” but on Tuesday provided<br />

further details about why the 45<br />

sirens between Taylors Mistake<br />

and Brooklands did not sound<br />

at 11am on Sunday morning.<br />

City council head of community<br />

support and partnerships<br />

John Filsell conceded it was<br />

unacceptable to have an emergency<br />

system so dependent on<br />

one person.<br />

“The supplier was providing<br />

immediate response to a motor<br />

vehicle accident outside their<br />

property at the time of the test,”<br />

he said.<br />

“We recognise that it is not<br />

acceptable to have a system<br />

that relies so heavily on one<br />

individual, which is why<br />

discussions are under way<br />

with our external supplier<br />

to ensure there are sufficient<br />

safeguards in the system<br />

PHOTO: CCC<br />

to reduce the risk of this<br />

happening in the future.<br />

“We are also currently<br />

reviewing the role of sirens<br />

in the tsunami warning<br />

system for Christchurch and<br />

Banks Peninsula. The issues<br />

experienced on Sunday will<br />

form part of that review.”<br />

Testing of Christchurch’s tsunami<br />

sirens usually coincided<br />

with the beginning and end of<br />

daylight saving time.<br />

The sirens were expected to<br />

be retested in the next couple of<br />

weeks.<br />

In a memo sent to community<br />

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NEWS<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Decision on disputed<br />

Port Levy Bach delayed<br />

Public meeting<br />

on LPC expansion<br />

THE RĀPAKI tangata tiaki<br />

leadership group and Lyttelton<br />

community members are<br />

organising a public meeting<br />

to discuss the Lyttelton Port<br />

Company’s land reclamation<br />

project at Te Awaparahi <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />

It will be held at Lyttelton’s St<br />

Saviours at Holy Trinity Church<br />

at 3pm on Sunday.<br />

Spokesperson and former<br />

list MP Nuk Korako said the<br />

meeting was a call to action on<br />

how the Lyttelton communities<br />

partnering with mana whenua<br />

can join together to “stop this<br />

environmental travesty”.<br />

“Not one more metre” has<br />

become the call to arms.<br />

A new, seven-hectare phase<br />

of reclamation by the port<br />

company is now under way in<br />

Te Awaparahi <strong>Bay</strong>, about a kilometre<br />

east of the inner harbour.<br />

Iwi are concerned the reclamation<br />

has and will continue to<br />

have major adverse affects to<br />

marine eco-systems.<br />

Korako said the meeting lineup<br />

includes speakers from Te<br />

Hapū o Ngāti Wheke (Rāpaki)<br />

and Otago University’s Coastal<br />

Peoples Southern Sky. Politicians<br />

and councillors are expected to<br />

attend. It will be live-streamed.<br />

The meeting follows on from a<br />

Rāpaki Rūnanga hui on Sunday,<br />

Korako said.<br />

• By Kees Chalmers<br />

CONSIDERATION: The city council has asked for more<br />

information before deciding whether to give a contentious<br />

Port Levy bach a 25-year lease.<br />

A PORT LEVY bach at the<br />

centre of a neighbourhood<br />

dispute has hit a snag.<br />

It was expected the family<br />

which owns the bach would have<br />

been given a 25-year lease by<br />

the city council last week, after<br />

a recommendation by Te Pataka<br />

o Rakaihautu Banks Peninsula<br />

Community Board.<br />

The bach is owned by the<br />

Woodward family, who use it as<br />

a holiday home.<br />

Neighbours have been fighting<br />

to have the bach removed for<br />

more than a decade because it<br />

restricts public access to Port<br />

Levy at high tide. There are also<br />

concerns over a belief waste is<br />

being disposed into the bay, and<br />

rocks from the foreshore being<br />

used to create an elevated path.<br />

Council staff said the bach has<br />

existed and been occupied by the<br />

Woodwards on an unformed paper<br />

road for more than 80 years<br />

– another point of contention for<br />

neighbourhood spokesperson<br />

Ian Culpan.<br />

But the city council has gone<br />

back to the community board<br />

seeking more information before<br />

it makes a decision.<br />

“Further advice and consideration<br />

was needed regarding<br />

the terms of the lease and mana<br />

whenua views,” said council chief<br />

executive Mary Richardson.<br />

Bach owner Lindsay<br />

Woodward was disappointed,<br />

saying “the community board<br />

has been given <strong>10</strong> years of<br />

information”.<br />

Woodward also said he had<br />

the backing of Te Runanga o<br />

Koukourarata in the dispute.<br />

Koukourarata marae general<br />

manager Gina-Lee Duncan<br />

would not comment on Woodward’s<br />

claim, only saying: “This<br />

is a direct dispute between the<br />

CCC and Lindsay Woodward<br />

and his family.”<br />

Woodward told <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />

News his father taught him how<br />

to fish and hunt at the bach, and<br />

he taught his sons and grandsons<br />

to do the same.<br />

“I’d hate to be in the position<br />

where I’m denied the chance to<br />

teach my great-grandkids or see<br />

my son pass it on,” he said.<br />

Woodward has rejected his<br />

neighbours’ claims of dumping<br />

waste into the bay and complained<br />

they have been using<br />

scare tactics to drive his family<br />

away.<br />

“It’s just intimidation all the<br />

time,” he said.<br />

Culpan said he was not<br />

surprised the decision had<br />

been pushed back, as he felt<br />

community board consultation<br />

was “rushed”.<br />

He said he will speak to<br />

neighbours and figure out next<br />

steps.<br />

Help shape the future of your<br />

local electricity network<br />

To continue providing the safe, reliable<br />

and resilient power supply you depend on,<br />

we must invest more in our network. This<br />

includes renewing ageing assets, increasing<br />

capacity and resilience, preparing for new<br />

technologies, and innovating to improve<br />

our efficiency. What we do now will create a<br />

positive future for generations to come.<br />

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04<br />

<strong>April</strong> ’25<br />

In this issue:<br />

Investing in our network 1<br />

Shaping a positive future 2<br />

Our proposed investment approach 3<br />

Have your say 4<br />

Community<br />

Update<br />

Café des Artistes,<br />

Colombo Street<br />

INVESTMENT:<br />

Investing in the<br />

future of your local<br />

electricity network<br />

From that first cup of coffee, to checking emails and<br />

unwinding in front of Netflix, electricity powers every part<br />

of our day. As we move towards a more sustainable future,<br />

electricity will be the energy source of choice — making it<br />

more important than ever to invest in a reliable, resilient<br />

network that meets our growing needs.<br />

To continue delivering a safe and reliable power supply, we must<br />

invest in our network today to prepare for tomorrow. This means<br />

renewing ageing infrastructure, expanding capacity (including<br />

via smart virtual infrastructure), strengthening resilience, and<br />

adopting new technologies to improve efficiency. The steps we<br />

take now will shape a positive future for generations to come.<br />

Last year we signalled our intention to apply to the Commerce<br />

Commission for a customised price-quality path for the five-year<br />

period from financial year 2028 to 2032. This would allow us to<br />

increase investment in the network, ensuring it remains strong<br />

and future ready.<br />

Since then, we’ve been actively engaging with customers,<br />

stakeholders, and communities. Through detailed analysis and<br />

planning, we’ve developed a proposed investment approach<br />

that outlines the investment needed to maintain and improve<br />

our network, ensuring we continue to meet our customers’<br />

needs and expectations.<br />

Now, we want to hear from you. Your feedback will help shape<br />

our proposal before we submit it to the Commerce Commission<br />

in mid-2026. Read on to find out how we’re powering a cleaner,<br />

brighter future with our community and how you can have your say.

FUTURE FOCUS:<br />

What we<br />

do now<br />

will shape<br />

a positive<br />

future<br />

The topic of power prices has had a lot of airtime recently,<br />

especially following the decision by the Commerce<br />

Commission to allow electricity distribution businesses to<br />

increase lines charges. This decision supports necessary<br />

investment to improve networks and meet growing<br />

customer demands.<br />

At Orion, much of our network was built<br />

in the 1960s and 1970s, meaning critical<br />

infrastructure, such as power poles, now<br />

requires renewal. At the same time, our<br />

region is growing, and we must expand our<br />

network capacity (including via smart virtual<br />

infrastructure), to accommodate more homes<br />

and businesses. We also need to strengthen<br />

resilience against earthquakes and extreme<br />

weather events, prepare for emerging<br />

technologies, and drive efficiencies.<br />

That’s why we’re applying for a customised<br />

price-quality path — or CPP. A customised<br />

path would allow Orion to make targeted<br />

investments to maintain network reliability<br />

and support future demand growth. It<br />

ensures we can continue delivering a highquality<br />

service while keeping pace with the<br />

increasing demands of our community.<br />

Staying on the default path would mean<br />

we won’t recover enough revenue to make<br />

the investments needed. As a result, we<br />

would have to delay essential upgrades,<br />

increasing the risk of more frequent and<br />

prolonged power outages — something<br />

none of us want. Deferring investment also<br />

means facing even higher prices in the<br />

future and a network that struggles to meet<br />

customers’ evolving needs.<br />

For the last 125 years you’ve trusted us to<br />

keep the lights on. That's now expanded<br />

into keeping devices charged, the Wi-Fi<br />

connected, and many more ways we<br />

power our community. We cannot afford to<br />

delay these critical investments. By acting<br />

now, we ensure a reliable, future-proofed<br />

network that will benefit both current<br />

and future generations. Together, we can<br />

create a cleaner, brighter future for Central<br />

Waitaha Canterbury.<br />

Nigel Barbour<br />

The Orion Group Chief Executive<br />

The difference<br />

between default<br />

and customised<br />

price-quality paths<br />

Both types of price-quality path constrain the<br />

amount of revenue we can recover from our<br />

customers and set minimum standards for the<br />

service quality we must deliver. This creates<br />

incentives for us to manage our network efficiently<br />

and discourages us from reducing service quality<br />

to increase profits.<br />

The key difference between the two paths is<br />

how the total revenue amount is determined. For<br />

a default path, the Commission uses a simpler,<br />

standardised approach. This amount is calculated<br />

based on our past expenditure and to some extent<br />

the forward investment proposed in our asset<br />

management plan.<br />

For a customised path, the approach is more<br />

detailed and business specific. We are required<br />

to submit a proposal to the Commission, which<br />

includes detailed information about the challenges<br />

and opportunities our business faces, and our<br />

investment and other spending plans over the<br />

period. This proposal is then subject to in-depth<br />

audit, verification, stakeholder consultation, and<br />

evaluation processes. The Commission will only<br />

approve proposed expenditure to be recovered<br />

through our lines charges if it is prudent and efficient<br />

and in the long-term interests of our customers.<br />

Our network<br />

From the Rakaia to the Waimakariri, Banks<br />

Peninsula to Arthur’s Pass, Orion owns<br />

and operates the electricity distribution<br />

network that provides power to Central<br />

Waitaha Canterbury. Our network extends<br />

over 8,000 square kilometres, delivers<br />

electricity to more than 228,000 homes<br />

and businesses, and connects around<br />

4,000 new customers every year.<br />

As an electricity distributor, we distribute<br />

power from the national grid through our<br />

network to homes and businesses.<br />

8,000 +<br />

Square kilometres of network coverage<br />

14,300 +<br />

Kilometres of lines and cables<br />

52<br />

Zone substations<br />

90,000 +<br />

Orion power poles<br />

INFRASTRUCTURE:<br />

We build, maintain and upgrade the<br />

substations, poles, lines, underground<br />

cables and other equipment required to<br />

deliver power safely and reliably.<br />

Managing such a vast and complex<br />

network — spanning urban centres, rural<br />

communities, and remote locations — is<br />

a big job, requiring careful planning,<br />

continuous improvement, and a dedicated<br />

team to ensure everything runs smoothly.<br />

That’s why it’s important we keep pace with<br />

the evolving demands of our network and<br />

needs of our customers.<br />

5,800<br />

Distribution substations<br />

228,000 +<br />

Total customer connections<br />

4,000 +<br />

New customer connections a year<br />

2<br />

Orion<br />

Community Update

ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN:<br />

Our proposed<br />

investment<br />

approach<br />

Our <strong>2025</strong> Asset Management Plan (AMP)<br />

Update lays out the proposed investment<br />

approach for our customised price-quality<br />

path application. Each year we publish an<br />

AMP that details how we plan to manage<br />

our assets. The <strong>2025</strong> AMP Update<br />

comprises two sections:<br />

• Part 1 — outlines our proposed investment<br />

approach for the customised path period.<br />

• Part 2 — provides updated forecasts, and<br />

highlights any material changes since our<br />

2024 AMP.<br />

READY TO RESPOND:<br />

Ramping up our<br />

asset renewals<br />

Increasing our<br />

network capacity<br />

Challenges and opportunities<br />

As we look ahead, our investment approach<br />

is shaped by the unique challenges and<br />

opportunities we face at Orion, making the<br />

need for prudent and efficient investment<br />

in our network more critical than ever.<br />

We must make decisions in the long-term<br />

interest of our customers, as what we do<br />

now will shape a positive future.<br />

Challenges<br />

Asset renewals — Amping up our asset<br />

renewal programme to ensure we can<br />

effectively manage safety risk across the<br />

network and maintain reliability.<br />

Growth — Increasing our network’s<br />

capacity to support forecast population,<br />

demand and economic growth, which is<br />

very strong in parts of our region.<br />

Resilience — Strengthening the network’s<br />

resilience to natural hazards, particularly<br />

earthquakes, to reduce the risk of major<br />

disruptions to the power supply during and<br />

after these events.<br />

Opportunities<br />

Meeting future needs — Preparing for<br />

new technologies that support changing<br />

customer needs and customer choice.<br />

Improving efficiency — Taking advantage<br />

of innovations and integrating new tools<br />

and systems to improve our efficiency.<br />

Strengthening<br />

network resilience<br />

Preparing for new<br />

technologies<br />

Improving<br />

efficiencies<br />

About our proposed approach<br />

Our proposed approach represents our<br />

view of the investments and activities<br />

required to deliver a safe, reliable and<br />

resilient network that meets our customers’<br />

needs, now and for the future.<br />

In total we plan to spend approximately<br />

$1.73 billion over the five years from 01<br />

<strong>April</strong> 2027 to 31 March 2032. Most of the<br />

proposed spending is capital expenditure<br />

(67%), which is the long-term investments<br />

we plan to make in our physical assets.<br />

The rest is operating expenditure (33%),<br />

which is our day-to-day expenditure to run<br />

the network and support the delivery of<br />

our services.<br />

Focus of our proposed capex investment<br />

• Renewing assets to effectively manage<br />

network risk and maintain reliability.<br />

• Expanding and upgrading the network<br />

to support growth and prepare to meet<br />

future needs.<br />

• Strengthening the network to increase<br />

resilience.<br />

• Renewing and upgrading non-network<br />

assets to support new technologies and<br />

improve efficiency.<br />

Focus of our proposed opex investment<br />

• Maintaining our network assets to keep<br />

them in optimal working condition.<br />

• Managing vegetation around our assets.<br />

• Supporting our network and business<br />

operations.<br />

Keeping the<br />

lights on<br />

You’ve probably seen our Orion trucks with their<br />

distinctive orange reflector stripe around town and<br />

country. But have you ever wondered what the<br />

people driving them are doing?<br />

Our Network Operators are out every day, working<br />

hard to keep your power supply safe, reliable and<br />

resilient. Whether they’re maintaining power lines,<br />

responding to outages, or upgrading the network<br />

to meet future needs, their efforts help keep homes<br />

warm, businesses running, and essential services<br />

operating smoothly.<br />

To better serve our community, we’re proposing<br />

to invest more in our network — renewing ageing<br />

infrastructure, increasing capacity, and improving<br />

resilience. A well-maintained network makes it<br />

easier and safer for our operators to do their jobs.<br />

When equipment is upgraded and systems are<br />

smarter, our teams can prevent issues before they<br />

happen, reduce faults, and restore power faster<br />

when outages occur. This means fewer emergency<br />

callouts in severe conditions, less time spent on<br />

reactive repairs, and more focus on keeping the<br />

network running smoothly.<br />

So next time you see one of our team in the field,<br />

know that they’re working for you — keeping<br />

the power on across our region. And if you ever<br />

experience an issue with your power supply, our<br />

Customer Support team is available 24/7 at<br />

0800 363 9898 — we’re here to help.<br />

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available to help 24/7, you can call us on<br />

0800 363 9898.<br />

oriongroup.co.nz<br />

What we’ve<br />

heard so far<br />

What this<br />

means for you<br />

At Orion, we’re committed to listening to our customers and shaping<br />

our plans based on what matters most to you. Through regular<br />

engagement with our customers — including our customer advisory<br />

panel, community workshops, surveys and even the newsletter you’re<br />

reading now — we’ve shared our early thinking on future investments<br />

and gathered valuable insights.<br />

We’ve learned that network reliability, resilience, and affordability is a<br />

priority for customers. The customer advisory panel emphasised safety<br />

and reliability, while noting concerns about price increases, especially for<br />

vulnerable members of the community. Community workshops revealed<br />

that participants value reliability and resilience but also recognise the<br />

need to expand and upgrade network capacity to support demand.<br />

Our 2024 annual perceptions survey showed over 80% satisfaction with<br />

current reliability and highlighted the importance of minimising outages<br />

and quick restoration. Respondents also want us to leverage new<br />

technologies for efficiency and future readiness.<br />

Our proposed investment approach carefully balances risk, reliability,<br />

resilience, and affordability to ensure a strong and future-ready<br />

electricity network. To determine the best path forward we explored<br />

three investment approaches:<br />

• A more limited approach (lower investment, higher risk)<br />

• A balanced approach (our proposed approach)<br />

• An accelerated approach (faster and more investment,<br />

higher short-term costs)<br />

We believe the proposed approach best balances our customers’<br />

priorities, particularly maintaining the reliability of your electricity supply<br />

and the affordability of your power bills. You can find out more about the<br />

investment approaches we considered in our <strong>2025</strong> AMP Update.<br />

Delivering the proposed investment will add an additional $8.00<br />

(+/- $1.00) a month to your distribution lines charges over the five-year<br />

customised path period starting 01 <strong>April</strong> 2027.<br />

This is in addition to the recent Commerce Commission default path decision<br />

for Orion which will see an increase in distribution lines charges of around<br />

$16 per month on the average residential power bill from 01 <strong>April</strong> <strong>2025</strong>.<br />

How to have<br />

your say<br />

We want to hear from you. Your feedback will help shape<br />

our customised path proposal, which we’ll submit to<br />

the Commerce Commission in mid-2026. Let us know<br />

what matters most to you as we plan the future of your<br />

electricity network.<br />

The easiest way for you to share your views is through<br />

our Have Your Say consultation website at:<br />

www.haveyoursay.oriongroup.co.nz/cpp<br />

You can also sign up there for email updates to stay informed.<br />

If you’d prefer to send us an email, write to:<br />

haveyoursay@oriongroup.co.nz, or you can send a letter to us at:<br />

The Orion Group, 565 Wairakei Road,<br />

Burnside, Christchurch 8053.<br />

If you want to talk to someone about our investment<br />

approach, email: haveyoursay@oriongroup.co.nz to make<br />

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NEWS<br />

Runner digs deep<br />

for Camp Quality<br />

• By Jack Ward<br />

TENIEKE REILLY credits her<br />

resilience for keeping her going<br />

during a run for charity.<br />

Reilly was one of about 700<br />

participants in the Aramex Kiwi<br />

Walk and Run at McLean’s Forest<br />

on Saturday.<br />

Reilly is a volunteer companion<br />

at Camp Quality, a camp for children<br />

living with cancer. She was<br />

running to fundraise $500 for<br />

the charity.<br />

“There were times I wanted to<br />

stop and walk or ease up on how<br />

I was tracking,” Reilly said.<br />

“But focusing on what I was<br />

there for, fundraising for Camp<br />

Quality and giving it my best<br />

shot, I pushed through those<br />

thoughts and barriers and was<br />

able to cross the line and say I<br />

ran/jogged the whole thing while<br />

fundraising for a charity close to<br />

my heart.”<br />

Reilly said the <strong>10</strong>.8km run was<br />

the longest she had done<br />

for some time.<br />

“I was feeling rather nervous<br />

leading up to it as it was the longest<br />

distance I had run in a while.<br />

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and dig into my resilience and<br />

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Organisers said participation<br />

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A celebration of culture,<br />

cuisine and community<br />

SHOWCASE: Left, Te Aratai College teachers got their chance to shine on stage with an<br />

impromptu rendition of the Macarena. Right, MJ Mikaele gets encouragement from Te Aratai<br />

College teacher Naomi Faga-Ieti during his performance.<br />

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performs with the Haeata Community Campus Pasifika Culture group.<br />

• By Geoff Sloan<br />

TE ARATAI College’s annual<br />

Festival of Nations brought<br />

together 1300 students from 53<br />

nationalities to showcase their<br />

diverse cultures on Friday.<br />

The event, held at Edmonds<br />

Park, featured international<br />

cuisine and performances from<br />

groups representing Nepalese,<br />

Indian, Filipino, Samoan,<br />

Chinese, and other cultures.<br />

Te Aratai head of English<br />

language learning Archana<br />

Martins said the main purpose<br />

of the popular public event<br />

was to give the city’s different<br />

cultures the opportunity to mix<br />

and mingle.<br />

“There’s a lot we can learn from<br />

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She said the multicultural<br />

groups were eager to “share their<br />

stories” through dance and food.<br />

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event next year, with hopes<br />

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16 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2025</strong><br />

The Way<br />

We Were<br />

NO 1: A surprised Donella Thomsen is announced as Miss Universe New Zealand in 1981.<br />

Right – Debbie Houghton winning Riccarton Mall junior princess in 1971.<br />

BEAUTY PAGEANT PROTESTS<br />

Whether beauty pageants are<br />

demeaning to women is an ageold<br />

debate.<br />

In the 1980s, Christchurch<br />

pageants were increasingly targeted<br />

by protesters, as second<br />

wave feminism solidified.<br />

A group of women gathered<br />

outside the Town Hall ahead<br />

of the Miss Universe New<br />

Zealand pageant on <strong>April</strong> 16,<br />

1981. They held placards that<br />

read ‘Beauty contests degrade<br />

women’, ‘Abolish beauty<br />

contests’ and ‘Women are not<br />

sex objects’.<br />

Inside, the packed<br />

auditorium watched Donella<br />

Thomsen, a 21-year-old clerical<br />

typist and hairdresser from<br />

Auckland, take the crown.<br />

The following year, in August<br />

1982, 19-year-old dance<br />

instructor Debbie Houghton<br />

avoided protesters when she<br />

won Miss Canterbury.<br />

“She won from 15 finalists<br />

in front an incident-free<br />

evening at the Merivale Mall.<br />

A preliminary parade last<br />

weekend had been upset by<br />

mice-throwing protestors,” The<br />

Press reported.<br />

Houghton was no stranger<br />

to pageants – she had<br />

previously won six beach girl<br />

contests and had taken out the<br />

Riccarton Mall junior princess<br />

competition a decade earlier.<br />

About 40 protesters were<br />

stopped from entering the mall<br />

by police. The group, called<br />

‘Blood Sisters’, reportedly stood<br />

outside the main entrance<br />

singing, chanting and waving<br />

banners. It included several<br />

men.<br />

The Miss Canterbury pageant<br />

continues to this day, with<br />

2024 winner Paige Sullivan<br />

following in her grandmother’s<br />

heels – Dianna McFarlane had<br />

been crowned Miss Canterbury<br />

in 1958.<br />

Probably Christchurch’s most<br />

well-known beauty pageant<br />

contestant is Lynda McManus,<br />

who won Miss New Zealand in<br />

1986. She was third runner-up<br />

in Miss World later that year,<br />

despite being widely picked<br />

to win.<br />

ON BOARD: Miss Canterbury finalists relaxing on the yacht Fiddler in Lyttelton in 1972.<br />

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SCHOOL OPEN DAYS<br />

Te Aratai College inspiring diverse learners<br />

Te Aratai College has a clear focus – to meet the individual<br />

needs of every learner in a safe, caring environment. Te Aratai<br />

College is a place where every learner is known and valued as<br />

an individual and where whānau-school relationships matter.<br />

From 1954 and the opening of Linwood High School, to 2024<br />

and our first full year as Te Aratai College, our kura continues<br />

its proud history of serving its diverse community.<br />

We remain a truly community school, in the community<br />

and of the community. Our large and diverse catchment<br />

contributes to a richness that reflects Aotearoa-New Zealand’s<br />

current identity and prepares our learners to be active, global<br />

citizens.<br />

We have a vibrant, globally-rich culture that creates a<br />

stable, connected learning and social environment. All our<br />

learners therefore can expect to be challenged, enriched<br />

and supported to reach personalised excellence. With this,<br />

they develop core attributes that will ensure their success<br />

throughout life.<br />

Individuals learn best when who they are - language,<br />

culture and identity - is affirmed. Enhancing the mana and<br />

dignity of the individual is at the heart of Te Aratai College<br />

inspiring our diverse learners to be their best person.<br />

We focus on personalised success through a pathwayed<br />

curriculum, whereby learners progressively self-manage<br />

and direct their learning pathway - university, polytechnics<br />

and the workforce - reflecting our name gifted to us by Ngāi<br />

Tūāhuriri: Te Aratai College, Pathway to the Sea.<br />

We would love you to be part of this and we welcome<br />

whānau who wish to know more about their community’s<br />

completely rebuilt and stunning school.<br />

Te Aratai College Open Days<br />

Thursday 22nd May, Friday 23rd May, <strong>2025</strong><br />

These will run during the kura day. This is an opportunity for whānau to bring their tamariki/<br />

rangatahi in for a small guided tour and to see our kura in action. Whānau must book these<br />

visits by contacting our taupaepae-reception.<br />

For Open Days please contact reception to make a booking by calling 03 982 0<strong>10</strong>0 or<br />

emailing office@tearatai.school.nz<br />

Te Aratai College Open Night<br />

Tuesday 27th May, 4.30pm - 6pm<br />

The Open Night Tour will start promptly at 4.30pm with Principal Maria Lemalie addressing<br />

our visitors, followed by a guided tour of the kura, connecting with ākonga, kaiako, our<br />

cultural narrative and all that Te Aratai College has to offer. Everyone is welcome.<br />

Ad: 85 Aldwins Road, Phillipstown | Ph: 03 982 0<strong>10</strong>0 | Em: office@tearatai.school.nz | Wb: tearatai.school.nz

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18 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2025</strong><br />

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20 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2025</strong><br />

Retro 300 leading Tank’s SUV invasion<br />

A NEWCOMER with a quirky<br />

name has rumbled onto our<br />

shores in the form of Tank, an<br />

impressive sub-brand of Chinese<br />

manufacturer GWM.<br />

GWM these days is nothing<br />

like the mediocre Great Wall<br />

Motors of 15 years ago. The<br />

transformation of the company<br />

since that time, especially over<br />

the last five years, has been<br />

breathtaking.<br />

Heading the Tank assault on<br />

our market for now are the 500<br />

and 300 models with the latter a<br />

retro-styled medium-sized SUV.<br />

While new to our market, the<br />

300 its been sold in South East<br />

Asia, including China, since<br />

2020. GWM has kept its powder<br />

dry on a Tank invasion here<br />

until now, preferring to wait for<br />

the updated version.<br />

It’s packed with features,<br />

boasts good safety credentials<br />

and four of the five models sold<br />

here are powered by hybrid<br />

engine technology. A turbo<br />

diesel version will be added to<br />

the range later this year, and<br />

should appeal to both townies,<br />

and country folk alike, along<br />

Motoring with Bob Nettleton<br />

with the hunting and fishing<br />

brigade. The 300’s strong offroad<br />

talents should tick a bunch<br />

of boxes with this group of<br />

potential buyers.<br />

GWM is poised to hit the go<br />

button on raft of new vehicles<br />

for our market next year. Six<br />

new models are under starters<br />

orders for the first half of <strong>2025</strong><br />

with more to follow for the back<br />

half of the year.<br />

The first model out of the<br />

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Zealand is the new Cannon<br />

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Overall points out of <strong>10</strong>: 7<br />

The automatic gearbox is<br />

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