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Wetland going
wild as native
birds move in
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The Ōtākaro Avon River
Corridor’s first wetland is fast
becoming a haven for native
wildlife, with new bird species
flocking in to nest.
Regular monitoring at the
Waitaki St, Bexley, wetland
shows both bird numbers and
species diversity are on the rise.
City council ecologist
Andrew Crossland said
the area’s wildlife is
steadily improving.
The two-hectare
wetland was created
earlier this year after
the council removed
sheet metal pilings north
of the Pages Rd bridge,
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allowing tidal river
waters to flow back into
low-lying areas.
The site now provides a rich
habitat for native plants to
regenerate naturally, while also
supporting the feeding, roosting,
aCrossland said the habitat is
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developing exactly as expected.
Exotic grasses and weeds are
Andrew
Crossland
giving way to saltmarsh, while
ephemeral ponds forming along
the old street alignments are
creating ideal conditions for
wildlife.
“This is the perfect wet,
marshy habitat for native water
birds, and we’re now seeing
several species coming in to
roost in preparation for
spring,” he said.
“Spur-winged plovers
are already nesting in
the areas, and native
black-billed and redbilled
gulls are showing
interest in the stony
islands.
“We’re expecting piedstilts
to be nesting on the
islands soon as groups
have been showing pre-breeding
behaviours. We may see native
waterfowl coming in too.”
With birds now establishing
themselves at the site, Crossland
is urging residents to help
protect the new breeding
grounds.
“Loud noises including
motorbikes and fast e-bikes
passing through the area can
disturb the wildlife, as can dogs
running off-lead.
“So we’re asking residents
to please take care when
travelling nearby.”
Over summer, minor
landform changes will help
smooth off the old stopbank,
giving it a more natural shape
and making it even more
suitable for roosting.
The wetland will continue to
regenerate naturally, with salttolerant
native marsh plants
expected to come through in
spring.
The downstream edge of
the tidal wetland will keep
transforming over the next two
to three years as regeneration
progresses.
Since the city council
allowed tidal river waters
to flow back into lowlying
areas on Waitaki St,
Bexley, native birds have
flocked to the newlycreated
wetland to roost
for spring. Residents are
being urged to help protect
the new breeding grounds
as the site continues to
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Peggy driven by her love for people and the
BY GEOFF SLOAN
Peggy Butterfield is as New
Brighton as they come.
"I was born in Union St, lived
in Owles Tce, and now live in
Lonsdale St. Where else would
you live?"
The 81-year-old is one of 21
volunteers at the New Brighton
& District Historical Society and
Museum helping to keep the
seaside suburb’s rich history
alive.
“We’re preserving history.
Apart from Lyttelton and possibly
Sumner, we’re the only ones
doing that,” she said.
The secretary/treasurer “and
scone maker” started volunteering
at the museum after the
February 2011 earthquake.
“They were really having
trouble, and their secretary had
left so nobody could work the
computer.”
Peggy started helping out and
never left.
“And none of us still know
how to use the computer
properly.”
Peggy’s daughters, Lynda and
Jill, often joke that she can’t just
join anything, she has to run it.
Earlier this year, Peggy and
fellow museum board member
Tim Baker were surprised with
life memberships at the museum’s
annual meeting
“It was a honour, and it means
the museum respects what I
do,” Peggy said.
She said volunteering was
something everybody should
try.
Peggy Butterfield has volunteered at the New Brighton and District Historical Society and Museum since 2011.
“It makes you think about
other people, not just yourself.
You get as much out of it as you
put in, you really do.”
After raising her two children,
Peggy worked for 18 years
as a checkout operator at the
original Countdown supermarket
on Bridge St.
"I worked there from the day
it opened until the day it closed.
It became a SuperValue after
that. I loved it because everybody
knew me."
Peggy said the museum volunteers
were the “keepers
of history”, showcasing New
Brighton's past through displays
and archives to more than 3000
visitors each year.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
Meeting and greeting the visitors
is her favourite part.
“People like the museum.
Especially if they've lived in
New Brighton but then moved
away. They get very nostalgic.”
Peggy said the museum
wasn’t just about exhibits, but
also local stories from years
gone by.
“People like the
museum. Especially
if they’ve lived in New
Brighton but then moved
away. They get very
nostalgic.”
Peggy Butterfield
One tale she shares with
visitors came from a volunteer
who, as a boy in 1953, was
fishing on New Brighton’s old
wooden pier. He saw a family of
five in their Sunday best, visiting
from the city.
As they walked down the
pier, one of the little girls fell
through a rotten timber plank.
The boy stripped off his shoes
and trousers and dived in, dragging
her safely to the beach.
The mother was so grateful
that she went and bought him
a present from Gracie's, a New
Brighton drapery shop.
He said the parcel contained
two pairs of underpants.
“In 1953, only rich people
could afford underpants. He
had stripped off his pants and
dived in, bare bum and all,”
Peggy said.
The museum is working hard
to attract a younger audience,
hosting schools, scouts, and holiday
programmes.
Peggy enjoys teasing
children when they come
across old technology, like a
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suburb she calls her home
rotary telephone.
“I tell them it’s a phone and
ask them to make a 111 call on
it. They bash it and hit it and
ask how do you do that?”
After showing one boy how to
dial, she recalled his horror at
how long it took.
“He had also just seen a slide
show showing the first fire
engine in New Brighton was a
horse-drawn cart. He said by
the time you’ve dialled and
waited for the horse to arrive,
you didn't have much of a
chance if your house was burning
down.”
The museum was founded in
2002 in a room above Kmart in
New Brighton Mall, moving to
its current building on Hardy St
in 2006.
In 2022, it faced eviction after
their landlord signalled he
wanted to sell the 110-year-old
historic property – the oldest
structure in New Brighton.
Leaping into action, Peggy
rallied the locals and led a
fundraising effort to buy the
building.
With help from a Lotteries
Commission grant, fundraising
events, and private donations,
the building was saved.
But the work is ongoing. The
museum still needs funding for
new signage, car park resealing,
and repairs. With exhibits that
can never be replaced, the team
also hopes to get expert help
creating an online catalogue.
The museum is also planning
new innovations such as
a heritage walk around New
Volunteers held a strategic planning workshop in July looking for ways to create
a better museum.
PHOTO: NEW BRIGHTON MUSEUM
Brighton in coming months.
With all the work still left to
do, Peggy is not slowing down
and reckons she will aim for the
age of ninety at least before she
thinks about quitting.
“They'll have to carry me out.”
• The New Brighton &
District Historical Society and
Museum on Hardy St is open
every day from 1-3pm (from
11am on Mondays)
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City council to increase
pool, gym prices and
community discount
The city council is making
changes to its recreation and
sport services charges.
It will put up the price of
some services, while also
increasing the discount for
those on lower incomes.
The price rises apply from
October 1 and will help with the
escalating costs of delivering
recreation and sport services.
Recognising this will most
impact those on lower incomes,
the city council has also
increased the discount of Community
Services, SuperGold,
Hāpai and secondary student
cardholders from 25% to 30%,
giving them an overall price
reduction across most services.
“Inflation has meant a steady
climb in the cost to the council
of providing the recreation
services our residents enjoy so
much,” said city council head
of recreation, sports and events
Nigel Cox.
“This is the first significant fee
increase in two years – despite
inflation, we’ve managed to
keep most fees and charges
unchanged, or with only a slight
increase.
“Our mantra is to get more
people more active more often,
and the best way to do this is
to keep the entry price as low
as possible so customers can
come more often.”
Fees are not going up for
swim lane and room hire, or for
birthday party packages.
Casual products, multi-visit
passes, recreation programme
fees, Southern Centre fees, Ngā
Puna Wai fees, camping ground
fees, and memberships (except
Swimsmart) will rise from October
1.
Court hire, preschool gymnastics
and Swimsmart fees
are increasing from January 5,
2026.
There is no change to the 50%
discount for Hāpai cardholders
on applicable casual entry
products.
When Parakiore Recreation
and Sport Centre opens, the
entry fees and memberships
will be the same as the rest of
the network.
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Treating soldiers and bull terrier Major Major
A new exhibition is shining a
light on the wartime service of
101 Christchurch nurses, with
personal profiles dedicated to
each one.
The exhibition is being held
in the historic Nurses’ Memorial
Chapel at Christchurch Hospital.
It features photographs and
artefacts, with the centrepiece
a folder containing profiles of
every nurse.
Andrea Grieve, a member
of the chapel’s museum subcommittee,
spent several years
researching and compiling
the stories of the women who
trained at Christchurch Hospital
and went on to serve in World
War 2.
Grieve said little has been
recorded about the individual
women who served, and
she wanted to ensure their
contributions weren’t forgotten.
She wants to acknowledge the
amazing work they did during
the war.
“Just completely out of their
comfort zone, coming from
a well-equipped hospital to
facilities with a dirt floor,” Grieve
said.
“They occupied an old
tuberculosis hospital somewhere
and had to disinfect it from roof
to floor.
“Just amazing, the deprivation
and injuries they coped with.”
The nurses served in a range
of countries, including Egypt,
Italy, and later in Japan as part of
J Force.
One of Grieve’s favourite
stories was that of Quita O’Cinidi,
Andrea Grieve, left, and Jennie Hamilton in the Nurses’ Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital.
who served in Egypt.
“Quita O'Cinidi was on duty
in a theatre in Egypt when they
brought in Major Major, a white
bull terrier who was a war
mascot for the New Zealand
Infantry Regiment.
“He had a shrapnel wound in
his rump. He was operated on in
theatre and had it removed.
“I believe it was because of
this, she was so impressed with
the dog that later bull terriers
became her life.
“She bred and showed bull
terriers. She became a world
authority on bull terriers.”
Some of the nurses also tended
to the wounds of those injured in
the 1943 Bari air raid in Italy.
“The Luftwaffe bombed the
Bari Harbour which was full of
PHOTO: RNZ / NATE MCKINNON
ships and there was an American
ship which was storing mustard
gas, which nobody knew about,”
Grieve said.
“So there were a lot of injuries,
but they didn’t know what they
were.
“They could have done
preventative stuff but a lot of
sailors died, and a lot of local
people died.”
The unusual story of Quita O’Cinidi who
served as a nurse in Egypt was one of
Grieve’s favourites in the exhibition.
About 1000 military and
merchant marine personnel,
and another 1000 civilians, were
killed in the attack.
The mustard gas on board was
covered up and denied until
US records were declassified in
1959, though little was widely
known until 1967.
Museum sub-committee
member Jennie Hamilton said
the idea for the exhibition came
after seeing the dedication
Grieve had put into her
research.
“The committee decided the
exhibition would be a good
way to pull all the hard work
together, and put it in a wider
context.”
Grieve said the profiles are a
living document and she hopes
to add new details as more
information comes to light.
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Memorial Chapel at Christchurch
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The Way
We Were
Queuing. We all do it – well,
most of us – whether in
person or over the phone.
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behaviour. It’s also time
consuming. And at times
frustrating, as this motorist
attests, on September 6, 1981,
when the Lyttelton Tunnel
was closed to cars for the
annual spring cycle.
Over the years Cantabrians
have formed sizable queues
for tickets, money and petrol.
We’ve queued for concerts
and sports events. And to get
into bars on the strip.
We’ve even queued to buy
books, but possibly not for
this one by American David
QUEUING
Andrews: Why does the other
line always move faster? The
myths and misery, secrets and
psychology of waiting in line.
Andrews attributed the
birth of modern queuing to
the French Revolution – the
word “queue” comes from old
french, meaning “tail”. It was
a time of famine and bread
shortages, when peasants
lined up outside bakeries.
It also had political
connotations. “The slogan of
the French Revolution was
‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’,”
Andrews wrote, so to
“patiently wait one’s turn was
to hold everyone as equals”.
And so we queue.
Kevin Cole, Darryl Edwards and Lance Mitchell waiting outside Lancaster Park to get the best tickets for the Canterbury v
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word. rot, tip, tiro, top, topi, TODAY tor, tori, trio, trip.
Good 15 Very Good 19 Excellent 23
letters, including plurals, can you make
Solution 315: fir, fit, fop, for, fort, frit, fro, oft, opt,
pit, poi, port, pot, pro, prof, PROFIT, rift, riot, rip,
rot, tip, tiro, top, topi, tor, tori, trio, trip.
27 28
29 30
31 32
33 34
Across
1. Loan shark (6)
5. Scanty (6)
10. Gains retribution (7)
11. Half man, half horse (7)
12. Cuts in two (6)
15. Crater (6)
16. Usual (7)
17. Adult female horse (4)
18. Animal enclosure (4)
19. Drool (7)
20. Hit (colloq) (4)
22. Chooses (4)
25. Plentiful (7)
27. Small waterway (6)
28. Helix (6)
31. Knowledgeable (7)
32. Greed (7)
33. Scottish dish (6)
34. Sickly looking (6)
Decoder
Down
2. Outstanding (7)
3. Feel remorse (6)
4. Trick (4)
5. Cult (4)
6. Yearly (6)
7. Staying power (7)
8. Nautical measure of depth (6)
9. Knitted pattern (6)
13. Indication (7)
14. Plait of hair (7)
15. Insensitive (7)
20. Hamper (6)
21. Chemical recipe (7)
23. Porch (7)
24. Morose (6)
25. Kind (6)
26. Stretch out (6)
29. Wine sediment (4)
30. Excludes (4)
Crossword
Across: 1. Usurer, 5. Sparse, 10. Avenges, 11. Centaur, 12. Halves, 15. Cavity,
16. Typical, 17. Mare, 18. Cage, 19. Spittle, 20. Biff, 22. Opts, 25. Copious,
27. Stream, 28. Spiral, 31. Erudite, 32. Avarice, 33. Haggis, 34. Sallow.
Down: 2. Stellar, 3. Regret, 4. Ruse, 5. Sect, 6. Annual, 7. Stamina, 8. Fathom,
9. Argyle, 13. Symptom, 14. Pigtail, 15. Callous, 20. Basket, 21. Formula,
23. Portico, 24. Sullen, 25. Caring, 26. Sprawl, 29. Lees, 30. Bars.
WordBuilder
Dip, dips, dust, ids, its, pit, pits, psi, pud, puds, pus, put, puts, sip, sit, spit,
spud, stud, STUPID, suit, sup, tip, tips, tup, tups, ups.
DECODER
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out
which letters are represented by the other numbers.
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