Southern View: November 13, 2025

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traces site’s
healing history
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A new temporary garden is
bringing history to life and
reimagining parts of the
building
The Star,
that
January
once
23,
stood
2025
there.
The site at 2 London St,
Lyttelton, was previously home
to the United Friendly Society
Dispensary (1886 to 1918),
which provided healthcare
services similar to a modern
pharmacy.
The
The
garden
Star, January
beds
23,
trace
2025
the
footprint of the dispensary
building and are designed to
inspire visitors to reimagine a
community medicine cabinet.
Traditional medicine gardens
were created to teach physicians
and herbalists about
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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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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.
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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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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.
• Consultation is open now until
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Outdoor pools to
open this weekend
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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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.”
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again holding manu competitions,
with the grand final on
January 24.
All summer pools and
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until March 29, 2026.
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Recognising Outstanding Achievement
2025 has been an exceptional year for student
achievement at Cashmere High School – Te iringa o
Kahukura.
Full list of awardees on our website.
Across academia, arts, sport, service, and culture,
our students have excelled and lived our values of
Citizenship, Opportunity, Vibrancy, and Excellence.
Highlights included Achievers’ Evening, Zonta
Sports Awards, Arts and Service celebrations,
and Te Tū o Kahukura, our Māori Prizegiving.
These events recognised not only performance,
but also dedication, contribution, and character.
At our Year 13 Graduation, we celebrated
the success of the graduating class and
acknowledged our highest academic honours.
The premier award winners (pictured left)
— Dux, Proxime Accessit, and All Round
Excellence — alongside other top academic
awards, recognised exceptional achievement
and consistent effort in learning.
We are immensely proud of every student
who has represented Cashmere with integrity
and heart. The future is bright — and in capable
hands.
Year 13 Graduation at Christchurch Town Hall.
Head Students for 2026 Year 12 Premier Award Winners Year 11 Premier Award Winners Achiever's Evening Top Senior & Junior
Sportsperson
Start made on
new classrooms
Achievers Evening Top Senior & Junior
Arts Person
Achiever's Evening
Service Celebration Top Awards
Te Tū o Kahukura – Māori Prizegiving Top Awards
Zonta Sports Awards
Principal John Stradwick and Banks
Peninsula MP Vanessa Weenink on
the site of the first 10 of the 24 new
classrooms recently approved by the
Ministry of Education.
1970s Reunion
Recently more than 100 past pupils and staff
gathered for Cashmere High School’s recent 1970s
Reunion — a truly special evening filled with
laughter, stories, and nostalgia.
It was wonderful to see so many reconnecting,
reminiscing, and celebrating the shared memories
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Buildings that ‘drift’ less perform better in quakes
PHIL PENNINGTON
In a Taiwan warehouse,
researchers hit a button, and a
five-storey, steel-and-concrete
box starts to buck and sway.
That’s about the closest
researchers can get to how the
sort of multi-storey commonly
constructed in New Zealand
9000km away might behave in a
large earthquake.
The revelations from the
work are now coming in.
“You know, partition walls,
gypsum board that we use,
windows, doors, even ceilings,
which previously we thought
would do worse in more robust
buildings, we’re seeing all these
components do much better,”
said Canterbury University's
Santiago Pujol.
The UC civil engineering professor
is used to finding things
out – he won a top US award
two years ago, looking into
high-strength steel in reinforced
concrete members – but
the ceiling performance in the
Taipei prototype tests surprised
him.
“Yeah, that’s one of the things
that we’ve sort of discovered
here recently.”
There had been some
research into this before, but it
wasn’t systematic. Now it is.
The overall upshot of the
New Zealand-Taiwan efforts
is to solidify a growing global
consensus that stiffer buildings
that “drift” less perform better
in quakes – opposite to the way
New Zealand has built for many
decades.
Canterbury University’s Santiago Pujol is conducting tests which are showing stiffer buildings that ‘drift’ less perform better
in quakes – opposite to the way New Zealand has built for many decades.
On top of that, they have
shown it need not cost much,
say, only 1-2% of the total building
budget to make it stiffer.
“You want to maximise ability
to deform and then you
want to minimise deformation
demand, if you will,” Pujol said
in engineering-speak.
“It’s in that sense that we can
improve things, if we make
buildings more robust, closer
to what they build in Chile and
Japan.”
Japan had built this way for a
century, since the Great Kantō
Earthquake split Tokyo in 1923,
and Chile since the 1930s.
“You know, some of these
things take time to understand
and professions adhere to different
schools of thought.
“By now, it’s fairly clear the
consensus – the worldwide consensus
– is that we need more
robust buildings.”
The United States was going
this way, and so too Turkey,
where they were trying to
change the building code to
avoid a repeat of the 2023
quake that killed over 40,000
people.
“I think we could act a little
faster,” Pujol said of New
Zealand.
“The first thing we need
to do is update our building
standards to require more
robustness.”
Those conversations were
already happening with
“By now, it’s fairly clear
the concensus – the
worldwide concensus
– is that we need more
robust buildings”
Santiago Pujol
the Ministry of Business,
Innovation and Employment
that oversees the building code,
he added.
“New Zealand does have good
building codes that protect the
lives of their occupants. What
we’re talking about here is
buildings that go beyond just
life safety and try to ensure,
again, functionality. It’s a different
model.”
Hospitals were an example of
buildings that needed to function
fast after a shake.
Data provided by the Health
Ministry in Chile to his team
had shown stiffer hospitals
there performed better.
He did not know the specifics
about hospitals being built
in New Zealand, but said he
did know of several local companies
already trying to build
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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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The never-ending joy of roast lamb
From a hot roast one day to a
never-ending joy of cold cuts,
lamb is a versatile special treat,
writes Nigel Slater
I rarely roast a shoulder or leg
of lamb – they are expensive –
but like any roast, it feels like a
celebration. A special treat not
only to eat warm, but for the
meals that follow.
​
ROAST LAMB
Serves 5-6. Ready in 2 hours
Slow cooking produces a
particularly tender result,
although it is unlikely to be pink
inside, as it would be with a cut
roasted at high temperature.
​
Ingredients
2kg lamb shoulder
a little olive oil
8 anchovy fillets
3 bushy rosemary sprigs
8 thyme sprigs
​200ml vegetable or chicken stock
or water
350g spring greens
250g shelled peas
​
Method
• Heat the oven to 180°C. Lay
the lamb in a large roasting tin,
then thoroughly rub all over with
olive oil.
• Season with sea salt and black
pepper. Pierce the fat in 15 or so
places, pushing 3-4cm deep into
the flesh.
• Finely chop the anchovies.
Pull the leaves from the rosemary
and thyme, then chop them
finely and mix with the chopped
anchovies. Push these down into
the slits in the lamb with your
fingers.
• Roast the lamb for an
hour and a half until the fat is
translucent, the colour of pale
honey.
• Remove the lamb from the tin
and set aside on a warm platter
to rest. I like to cover it with foil
at this point, to keep it nicely
warm.
• Trim and roughly chop the
stems of the greens, removing
the tender leaves and setting
them aside. (They will be used
later.) Place the roasting tin over
a moderate heat and pour in the
stock or water.
• Bring to the boil, then stir
with a wooden spatula or spoon
to dislodge all the roasted meat
juices from the pan, then add
the peas and stems of the greens
and cover the pan with foil to
allow the vegetables to cook in
their own steam. Leave for 4 or 5
minutes, turning once.
• Add the leaves of the greens
now, turning them in the hot
juices until they have wilted. Lift
all the vegetables on to a serving
dish.
• Turn up the heat under the
roasting tin and let it bubble for
a minute or two, then check the
seasoning. I like to add a little
red wine vinegar sometimes, or
perhaps a trickle of honey.
• Carve the lamb and serve
with the greens, peas and
roasting juices.
ROAST LAMB SANDWICHES WITH
CRUSHED PEAS AND WASABI
Enough for 4 open sandwiches
Lamb works very well when
eaten as a cold cut, but I think
it benefits from being used at
room temperature or, even
better, still slightly warm, rather
than fridge cold. So that will
make this a recipe for a Sunday
evening sandwich rather than
Monday night.
Ingredients
250g peas
1 tbsp wasabi paste
40g butter
4 thick slices sourdough bread
a little olive oil
salad leaves – mustard,
watercress, little gem lettuce
4 handfuls leftover roast lamb
roasting juices optional, but good
if you have some leftover
Method
• Put a saucepan with 100ml
water in it on to boil, salt it
lightly, then add the peas. Cook
until the peas are tender (3-4
minutes only if you are using
frozen peas, but 4-10 minutes if
using fresh, depending on their
age.)
• Drain the peas, add the
wasabi paste and butter, then
crush with a vegetable masher. I
like them to retain quite a bit of
texture, while others may prefer
to mash them to a smoother
consistency. Taste the mixture
and season if necessary.
• Toast the pieces of sourdough
bread lightly on both sides. I
have a preference for a few
charred edges on the crust.
• Sprinkle the surface of the
toast with a little olive oil, then
lay a few of the salad leaves on
each slice.
• Place a couple of spoonfuls
of the crushed pea mixture on
top of the leaves then add some
slices of the cold roast lamb.
• Salt the lamb generously,
then trickle over a few spoonfuls
of either olive oil or the delicious
hot roasting juices.
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