Pegasus Post: November 13, 2025

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healing history
The Star, January 23, 2025
A new temporary garden is
bringing history to life and
reimagining parts of the
building that once stood there.
The site at 2 London St,
Lyttelton, was previously home
to the United Friendly Society
Dispensary The Star, January (1886 23, to 1918), 2025
which provided healthcare
services similar to a modern
pharmacy.
The garden beds trace the
footprint of the dispensary
building and are designed to
inspire visitors to reimagine a
community The Star, January medicine 23, 2025 cabinet.
Traditional medicine gardens
were created to teach physicians
and herbalists about
healing plants. The beds feature
a mix of native and introduced
species, all locally grown and
selected for their medicinal and
symbolic properties.
“Planting a garden is like
casting a spell – the sum
is infinitely greater than
the parts,” designer Sarah
Amazinnia said.
“Carefully selecting and
combining certain plants is
an exercise in creativity and
well-being.”
Plant species will change
over the seasons, and currently
include silver tree fern, star
jasmine, Solomon’s seal,
cyclamen, canna lily and
butterfly pea.
Silver tree fern extract acts as
a natural skin barrier, with antiinflammatory
and antiseptic
properties, while butterfly pea
flower has been traditionally
used in Southeast Asia as a tea
for its strong antioxidants.
The planter boxes recreate
the look of the previous
building’s cladding, and double
as seating with views of the
harbour.
City council head of planning
and consents Mark Stevenson
said the garden aims to bring
life and activity to the corner
site, which has remained empty
post-quake.
“We’re pleased to see the site
is already a drawcard and being
used as a place where residents
can connect with one another
and learn more about the
history of the area they live in,”
he said.
The project has been
delivered by the city council’s
Enliven Places programme and
Olearia Design.
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The medicinal herb garden is planted at the site of a former dispensary.
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Community advocate on a mission:
A near-fatal crash as a teenager
set Wayne Hawker on a lifelong
mission to serve his community
through volunteer work —
from fighting alcohol harm to
dedicating decades to netball.
Geoff Sloan reports
After he was nearly killed by a
drunk driver about 50 years ago,
Wayne Hawker has spent his life
advocating for community issues
and fighting to rid Christchurch
of unwanted liquor stores.
At 18, Hawker and a friend
were biking home from
Woodford Glen raceway along
Russley Rd about 11pm.
“We were doing what young
people do, earning a bit of pocket
money by selling raffles and
programs, things like that.”
Hawker said the pair had lights
on their bikes, but both were
struck by a drunk driver.
“I got 27 stitches in my head, 25
in my thigh and I was in a coma
for four days.”
His friend took the worst
of it, going through the car’s
windscreen and breaking his leg,
leaving him with a permanent
limp.
“I have no memory of it. The
last thing I remember on the day
it happened, was around 4pm
when I called into the bike shop
at Hornby to buy a new light for
my bike. I don’t even remember
the racing at Woodford Glen,”
Hawker said.
After Wayne Hawker was nearly killed by a drunk driver when he was a teenager, he has devoted much of his life to advocating
for communities, including protesting against school closures in 2013.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
His next memory was in
hospital the following Tuesday
afternoon, where he spent up
to three weeks recovering from
his injuries.
Hawker said the American
driver was part of Operation
Deep Freeze Base – the United
States military’s regular
Antarctica resupply mission
based at Christchurch Airport
– and admitted he had been
drinking since lunchtime.
“The driver only got a $300
fine and was disqualified from
driving for six months. Drink
driving wasn’t treated seriously
back then.
“He had an international
licence so he could go back
home and start driving straight
away,” he said.
The 67-year-old said the
incident is one of the reasons
he advocates so strongly against
unwanted and unnecessary
liquor outlets in Christchurch. He
also lost his son-in-law to alcohol
abuse.
“Thousands of alcohol harm
victims don’t have a voice. I’m a
survivor and I have a voice.”
In June, Hawker made a tearful
submission to the city council’s
draft Local Alcohol Policy
hearing, urging councillors
to do more to protect their
communities.
“I urge you to also look at
making meaningful changes
regarding unlicensed alcohol
sales and consumption as well.”
The city council approved the
LAP soon after, requiring all offlicence
retailers, such as bottle
stores and supermarkets, to stop
selling alcohol at 9pm daily.
The new rules, which came
into effect last month, also
include a freeze on new offlicences
in high-deprivation
communities, and restricting
their proximity to schools and
addiction services.
“They didn’t go far enough.
I don’t believe these changes
will make a bit of difference,”
Hawker said.
He has been a strong advocate
for many local community issues
over the years.
“People who know me know
that if something needs to be
said, irrespective of what the
issue is, they know I will say it.
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‘I’m a survivor and I have a voice’
“A number of years ago, I
actually got called a rottweiler by
the Christchurch Central Labour
MP at the time, Tim Barnett.”
It came after Hawker had a
health and safety issue with
Aranui High School involving the
supervision of his daughter and
some of her friends while on a
sports team trip.
“It took me nearly three years
of backwards and forwards to
the school, Ministry of Education,
the Minister of Education and the
Education Review Office before
I got the result I was looking for”
he said.
At 17, Hawker joined his first
committee while playing roller
hockey at the Rollerdrome rollerskating
club in Sockburn.
“It’s like any organisation,
you benefit from it. But if you
want to help, or if you think
changes need to be made or
you have ideas, the best way to
do it is from being inside the
organisation.”
The now-retired baker’s
52-year career allowed him time
for volunteer work.
“Because I generally worked
nights, my days were free and
you’ve got to do something.”
Hawker served 20 years on
the Phillipstown School board
of trustees, and volunteered
for 10 years at an after-school
programme run by GirlGuiding
New Zealand.
“You name it, I’ve probably
done it.”
Hawker is also one of 41
volunteers who run the Peace
Hawker protesting against the opening of a new Liquorland store in 2018.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
Train in the Botanic Gardens.
“I just love seeing the enjoyment
and smiles on the faces of
the kids, and adult kids as well.”
Alongside his other volunteer
work, Hawker’s greatest passion
is netball.
For more than 25 years, he has
devoted himself to the Christchurch
netball community as a
coach, umpire, administrator
and member of the Christchurch
Netball Centre’s executive and its
competition sub-committee.
He discovered his passion for
the sport after supporting his
daughters, Carol and Marianne,
from the sidelines.
After hearing Cashmere High
School may not be able to take
new players because they did not
have enough coaches, Hawker
stepped up to coach a couple of
the school’s teams.
“No club (or school) should
have to turn a player away if
they want to play netball or any
other sport.”
After his daughters moved
on to club sport, Hawker held
a number of positions at the
Cashmere Netball Club including
secretary, treasurer, club
umpire co-ordinator, organiser/
fundraiser and 12 years as
president.
Hawker is most proud of his
work to ensure anyone of any
age or ability can play netball.
“If players want to play, we
need to do everything in our
power to let them play.”
For his decades of service to
netball, he was named Netball
“My great grandfather
was at the birth of New
Brighton. Now a whole
cycle later, I want the
Hawker name to be
involved in the rebirth of
New Brighton.”
Wayne Hawker
NZ Volunteer Administrator
of the Year in 2017 and also
received a Local Hero award,
as part of KiwiBank’s New
Zealander of the Year honours.
“While it’s nice to be recognised,
that’s not my prime focus.
“My greatest reward is seeing
the enjoyment on the faces of
young people playing netball.”
For 20 years, Hawker has
served as a trustee for the
Phillipstown Community Centre
Charitable Trust, home to about
30 organisations based at the
former Phillipstown School site
after it was closed following the
2011 earthquakes.
However, last month the Ministry
of Education announced
it planned to dispose of the
Nursery Rd site, and gave the
community hub until March 31
next year to move out.
“I jumped up and down big
time. And I’ll continue to jump
up and down to try and do
everything I can to save the site,”
Hawker said.
He said the community hub
was home to many organisations
doing great work across the city.
“The Phillipstown hub has
delivered big time for the city,
and I believe it is now time for
the city council and the city to
deliver for Phillipstown, and
save this hub.”
Hawker said he could not have
done his volunteer work without
his wife, Linda.
“Her support has allowed me
to do what I do.”
He stepped back from regular
seasonal netball to spend more
time with family and to help
more in New Brighton.
“Netball has given me so much.
I’ve enjoyed every bit of it along
the way. I’m taking a step back,
but I’m not stepping away.”
With New Brighton’s
regeneration in full swing,
Hawker hopes to contribute to
keeping up the momentum.
Despite living in Phillipstown
for 45 years, he said New
Brighton was his spiritual home.
“My great grandfather, George
Thomas Hawker, is known as the
Father of New Brighton.”
There is a plaque honouring
George outside New Brighton
Library.
It was his family’s history that
led him to volunteer at the New
Brighton Museum 15 years ago,
where he is currently president.
“My great grandfather was at
the birth of New Brighton. Now
a whole cycle later, I want the
Hawker name to be involved in
the rebirth of New Brighton.”
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The Star, November 13, 2025
Lichfield St car park: Should
the city council sell it or not?
The public is being asked
whether the city council-owned
Lichfield St car park should be
sold or not.
The city council voted in June
to consult with residents about
the car park, with two options
put forward for public feedback
from today.
Option one would see the
city council retain ownership
of the car park, but change the
operating model to improve
financial performance. The
second option would see the car
park sold, freeing up funds to
invest in other infrastructure
or community assets or pay city
council debt.
City council head of facilities
and property Bruce Rendall
said the potential sale of the car
park, which has a book value of
$50 million, was raised by the
council as part of their 2025-
2026 Annual Plan discussions.
“The car park is currently
profitable, generating
an operating surplus of
approximately $1.5 million
per year or a 3% return on
investment. However, these
are not the commercial returns
expected, and it is appropriate
to examine options for the car
park’s future.”
The car park is not a strategic
asset and, based on its policy,
the city council should be
looking to achieve commercial
returns from the facility.
Rendall said it is important
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the city council understands the
views and preferences of the
community before making a
final decision.
“We understand the car park
has filled an important role
since being built following the
earthquakes. It has successfully
supported the rebuild of the
central city by providing shortterm
off-street parking for
shoppers and visitors.
“Now we want Christchurch
ratepayers to have a say on
whether it remains a council
asset with changes to the
operating model to improve the
return on investment or if they
think it could be sold and that
money used more beneficially
elsewhere.”
If a decision is made to sell,
the building can only be used
for car parking and fees are
likely to remain competitive to
attract continuing usage.
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The summer pool season is here.
Five of the city council’s outdoor
summer pools and eight of
its paddling pools will open this
weekend.
Jellie Park’s outdoor pools,
Waltham Pool, Templeton Pool
and The Norman Kirk Memorial
Pool in Lyttelton all open
on Saturday, and Te Hāpua
Halswell Pool on Sunday.
The paddling pools for
younger visitors open on Saturday
at Scarborough, New
Brighton, the Botanic Gardens,
Spencer Park in Spencerville,
Edgar Macintosh Park
in Bryndwr, Avebury Park in
Richmond, Woodham Park in
Linwood, and Abberley Park in
St Albans.
City council head of recreation,
sports and events Nigel
Cox said summer will also bring
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Outdoor pools to
open this weekend
the pool party series.
“What makes our outdoor
pools such a great destination
idea for the summer is the
range of facilities we have available,
including hydroslides,
lane pools, toddler pools, BBQ
hire and picnic areas,” Cox said.
“On top of that, we’re throwing
our usual pool parties at
each, which add inflatables,
competitions, and things like ice
cream scavenger hunts to the
mix. If you have a lot of people
looking for a lot of fun, we think
this is the best value option in
town this summer.”
Cox said the council is once
again holding manu competitions,
with the grand final on
January 24.
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starnews.co.nz The Star, November 13, 2025
The Way
We Were
1899 – ADDINGTON RACEWAY OPENS
The first race meeting at
Addington was held on
November 6, 1899.
The land, once a potato
farm, had been leased from
Sunnyside Hospital. It allowed
the Metropolitan Trotting
Club to shift from Lancaster
Park and form its own track,
but it wasn’t until 1980 that
the club purchased the lease.
Each year on the second
Tuesday in November,
Addington hosts the NZ
Trotting Cup.
The 3200m (2-mile) race
was introduced in 1904,
with Monte Carlo winning
the inaugural race in 4min
44.4sec.
The raceway has had four
major fires, the first on Cup
Day in 1916 and two on Show
Day in 1953 and 1961.
On November 7, 1916, the
stewards stand caught fire.
Reported The Press: “About
1.15pm, a gentleman upstairs
in the stand remarked to a
friend that it seemed to be
getting warm, and, being of
an enquiring nature, he prodded
the floor with his walking
stick in several places, ceasing
his inquisitiveness when his
stick went through the floor
and smoke and flames were
seen through the hole made.”
The stand was then cleared.
The most notable fire was
on November 10, 1961, when
the main £150,000 grandstand
burnt to the ground after its
new sprinkler system failed.
The fire was announced
20min prior to the final race
and after a delayed start
Cardigan Bay won the freefor-all
while the grandstand
blazed. Amazedly, with
20,000 spectators, no-one was
injured.
‘Cardy’ went on to become
a US sensation and the first
standard bred horse to win
a million dollars. Cardigan
Bay Reserve on Lincoln Rd is
named after him.
Cardigan Bay wins the free-for-all while the grandstand blazes in 1961; Cup Week race-goers look away in 1976.
Below – Miss New Zealand Lynda McManus stands by while NZ Breweries managing director Ron Endley signs sponsorship of
the Lion Brown 1987 Interdominion Championships with MTC president Mr Dan McCormick; operating the totalisator in 1950.
Far right – the crowd at the NZ Cup in 1963.
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426
SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WordBuilder
WORDBUILDER
A S O
W D H
326 326 6
W D H
words of three or more letters,
How
including
many
plurals,
words
can you
of
make
three
from
or
the
more
six
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign
How words or beginning with a capital are
from many
allowed.
the words
There's
six letters, of three
at least one
using or more
six-letter
each letters,
word.
only
including once? plurals, can you make from the six
TODAY
letters, Good using 19 each Very letter Good only 25 once? Excellent No 31 foreign
No words beginning with a capital are
words or words beginning with a capital are
allowed. allowed. Solution There's 325: There’s deer, at drey, least at dry, one least dye, six-letter dyer, one edge, six-letter word. edger,
word. edgy, ere, erg, eye, eyed, gee, geed, greed, GREEDY,
grey, GREYED, gyre, red, TODAY reed, reedy, rye.
Good 19 Very Good 25 Excellent 31
letters, including plurals, can you make
20 21 22 23 24
25 26
Solution 325: deer, drey, dry, dye, dyer, edge, edger,
edgy, ere, erg, eye, eyed, gee, geed, greed, GREEDY,
grey, GREYED, gyre, red, reed, reedy, rye.
27 28
29 30
31 32
33 34
Across
1. Assassination (6)
5. Loathe (6)
10. Give details, make clear (7)
11. Violent windstorm (7)
12. Detective (6)
15. Middle (6)
16. Six-sided figure (7)
17. Despatch (4)
18. Warmth (4)
19. Judge (7)
20. Occupied (4)
22. Otherwise (4)
25. Linked (7)
27. Submerged (6)
28. Formal discussion (6)
31. Fissure (7)
32. Voter (7)
33. Feel remorse (6)
34. Lure (6)
Decoder
Down
2. Many (colloq) (7)
3. Scarcity (6)
4. South African currency (4)
5. Obligation (4)
6. Soup dish (6)
7. Surprise (7)
8. Against (L) (6)
9. Hidden (6)
13. Encourage (7)
14. Relating to wedlock (7)
15. Overlaid (7)
20. Cut in half (6)
21. Genuine (7)
23. Stretchy (7)
24. Hypothesis (6)
25. Resuscitate (6)
26. Overcome (6)
29. Encounter (4)
30. Deal out (4)
Crossword
Across: 1. Murder, 5. Detest, 10. Explain, 11. Tornado, 12. Sleuth, 15. Centre,
16. Hexagon, 17. Send, 18. Heat, 19. Arbiter, 20. Busy, 22. Lest, 25. Related,
27. Sunken, 28. Debate, 31. Crevice, 32. Elector, 33. Repent, 34. Entice.
Down: 2. Umpteen, 3. Dearth, 4. Rand, 5. Duty, 6. Tureen, 7. Startle, 8.
Versus, 9. Covert, 13. Hearten, 14. Marital, 15. Covered, 20. Bisect, 21.
Sincere, 23. Elastic, 24. Theory, 25. Revive, 26. Defeat, 29. Meet, 30. Mete.
WordBuilder
Ado, ados, ads, ash, dah, dash, dhow, dhows, doh, dosh, had, has, haw,
haws, hod, hods, how, sad, saw, shad, SHADOW, shod, show, sod, soda,
soh, sow, wad, wads, was, wash, who, whoa, woad, woads.
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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