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Thursday, <strong>February</strong> 5,<strong>2026</strong> | Issue 1181 | www.starnews.co.nz<br />
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HurunuiCollegestudentsbring kiwi home<br />
By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
It’s awrap after 18 years of adventures<br />
into the Nina Valley, in the Lake Sumner<br />
Park, for Hurunui College students<br />
trapping predators, to bring the great<br />
spotted kiwi home to the valley, bereft of<br />
any known kiwi for many decades.<br />
The huge amount of extracurricular<br />
work by the Hurunui College NinaValley<br />
Restoration Group, led by the school’s incharge<br />
science teacher, Tim Kelly, which<br />
has seen the kiwi return, is coming toa<br />
close.<br />
Mr Kelly, who founded the group in<br />
2008, and who is much admired for his<br />
enthusiastic leadership of the project, says<br />
he doesn’t have the time to commit to the<br />
project now he has family of his own, and<br />
weekend sporting commitments.<br />
However, he says the growing<br />
population of kiwis will be in safe hands<br />
with the Doubtless Conservation Group<br />
taking up the mantel.<br />
He says some college students will still<br />
be able to help carry on the good work with<br />
this group, who are from the Christchurch<br />
area, and who over the past 10 years have<br />
also done countless hours supporting the<br />
students’ work through extending trap<br />
lines in both the Nina and Doubtful<br />
valleys.<br />
‘‘But officially we are now closed as an<br />
entity.<br />
‘‘But students should be proud of what<br />
they have achieved over the years,’’ Tim<br />
says.<br />
Tim says students had established aline<br />
of around 200 traps over more than 20km,<br />
and raised $150,000 for work helping the<br />
kiwis.<br />
The funds, he says, have come from<br />
funders, encouraged by the Restoration<br />
Group’s work, and the awards it won for its<br />
work including aprestigious Green<br />
Ribbon award.<br />
The Green Ribbon Awards recognise<br />
the outstanding contributions of<br />
individuals, organisations, businesses and<br />
communities protecting and enhancing<br />
New Zealand’s environment. There was<br />
total of 54 entries in the education and<br />
communication section which the group<br />
won.<br />
In the 18 years, Year 7to13students<br />
have trapped thousands of stoats and<br />
At home ... Agreat spotted kiwi in the<br />
Nina Valley.<br />
PHOTO: SUPPLIED<br />
predatorsincluding possums and ratsover<br />
the years, learnt an array of kiwihandling<br />
skills, takenpart in translocating kiwi<br />
projects, created new trap lines in the<br />
Nina and Doubtfulvalleys, and even made<br />
travelboxes for kiwi.<br />
Tim says the Department of<br />
Conservationhas been good aboutthe<br />
students being hands on.<br />
‘‘Theyhave trained the kids to use the<br />
telemetrygear to track kiwi; they show<br />
them how to change transmitters and how<br />
to monitor the welfare of the kiwi.’’<br />
Studentshad also gone out into the field<br />
to collect Kiwi eggs, and had visit<br />
Willowbank where the eggs were<br />
incubated.<br />
As far as possible all the activities they<br />
carried out were transported back into the<br />
classroom.<br />
He says there have been three groups of<br />
pupils who have taken the trek regularly<br />
into the Nina Hut, which he has done<br />
about ‘‘120 times’’, to set up campand<br />
check traps.<br />
One group of students were keen on<br />
conservation and saving the kiwi, another<br />
group likedthe hunting and trapping side<br />
ofthe weekend, and then therewas a<br />
‘‘bunch’’ ofkids who just wanted<br />
something to do to get out of the house for<br />
the weekend, and loved it.<br />
‘‘I wouldn’t have kept doing it if the kids<br />
didn’t want to do it,’’ he says.<br />
Two were encouraged by their work in<br />
the valley to take their studies, and career<br />
paths, to greater heights via Otago<br />
Allhands on deck ... Agroup of students and helpers take abreak besidethe sign proudly<br />
showing the work of the group in the Nina Valley.<br />
PHOTO: SUPPLIED<br />
University.<br />
Dr James Tweed completed aBSc at the<br />
University of Otago from 2013–15 before<br />
beginning his MSc in the School of<br />
Geography there in 2016. It was during this<br />
timethat James discovered apassion for<br />
studying the ecology and conservation of<br />
insect biodiversity.<br />
After working as an ecologist for an<br />
environmental consultancy for three<br />
years, James moved to Brisbane in 2021 to<br />
begin aPhD studying the insect fauna of<br />
Norfolk Island.<br />
In aFacebook post Dr Tweed said the<br />
Nina Valley project produced so many<br />
benefits overits 18 years itwas impossible<br />
to quantify them all.<br />
‘‘I definitely credit this project and the<br />
opportunities it gave me with awakening<br />
my passion for conservation and the<br />
outdoors, and it certainlysolidified my<br />
career path long before Ieven realised it.<br />
‘‘Not only did it lead to the fantastic<br />
conservation outcomes within the valley<br />
itself (highlighted by the return of kiwi),<br />
but it also touched so many lives and has<br />
given so many kids incredible outdoors<br />
experiences and skills that will stay with<br />
them (us) forever.<br />
Anna Clark, who spent aconsiderable<br />
amount of time emptying possum,<br />
mustelid and rat traps with the Nina<br />
Valley Restoration group, was determined<br />
to find new pest control technology that<br />
was more ethical and efficient. After<br />
completing her Genetics undergraduate<br />
degree in 2017, she conducted aMasters<br />
and researched potential outcomes of<br />
genetic pest control, that identified<br />
suppression gene drives in mice, and<br />
potentially other mammalian pest species.<br />
In 2021, Anna received aPredator Free<br />
2025 Capability Development grant to<br />
explore gene drives in more complex<br />
ecological models.<br />
As part of this project, Anna received a<br />
Fulbright award to conduct a12month<br />
researchvisit to the lab of Professor<br />
Philipp Messer at Cornell University in<br />
Ithaca, New York.<br />
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Harvest celebratedinWaikari<br />
By SHELLEYTOPP<br />
Anopen day has been held at the<br />
WaikariGreat <strong>North</strong>ern Community<br />
Garden to celebrate the annual potato<br />
harvest.<br />
Entrywas by koha/donation and<br />
visitors were invited to dig their own<br />
potatoes from the large crop which was<br />
planted last October.<br />
It was afamilyfriendly day out forthe<br />
community with food, including freshlycooked<br />
potatoes from the garden,<br />
available throughout the day alongside<br />
live music and tugofwar contests.<br />
The garden, which was established to<br />
bring the community together, has been<br />
aworkinprogress for asmall group of<br />
Waikari/Hawarden residents, including<br />
former Hurunui Mayor Winton Dalley,<br />
and Surrey Earl, both lifetime<br />
gardeners.<br />
They worked alongside Shayne<br />
Brown, AlisonErickson, Sam Mahon,<br />
Rangi Pio, Shane Hooper and Michael<br />
Chubb, who worked initially with the<br />
Hurunui District Council to secure a<br />
lease to occupy the land which for many<br />
yearshad been used for grazing animals.<br />
The 0.8 hectares (2 acres) block of land<br />
is to the north of the Waikari Health<br />
Centre and adjacent to the Waikari<br />
Domain.<br />
Surrey, who is one of the original core<br />
group of gardeners who continues to<br />
maintain the notforprofit garden, says<br />
the northsloping land, which has rich,<br />
dark soil, is aperfect place for it.<br />
AHurunui District Council<br />
requirement for the garden that the soil<br />
on the former railwayowned land had to<br />
betested for possible contamination<br />
could have derailed the project because<br />
that was going to ‘‘cost alot of money,<br />
which we didn’t have’’, Surrey says.<br />
However, Lincoln University offered<br />
to do the testing for free and the soil<br />
samples were clean, so permission for<br />
the garden was granted and the first<br />
crop of potatoes planted in October 2024.<br />
The bountiful garden now also<br />
includes strawberries, pumpkins,<br />
cucumbers,cabbages, broccoli, carrots,<br />
beans, sweet corn, silverbeet, red onion,<br />
lettuces and tomatoes.<br />
Surrey says that the persistence of the<br />
original core group, and those who<br />
continue to contribute time sustaining<br />
the garden every week is the key to its<br />
success.<br />
‘‘Without that core group’s energy, not<br />
much would have been achieved,’’ he<br />
says.<br />
The hope is now that the wider<br />
community will help ‘‘sustain’’ the<br />
garden by visiting on days when the<br />
volunteer coregroup are working there,<br />
to get their weekly vegetables, picked<br />
fresh from the garden and paying for the<br />
produce with adonation.<br />
‘‘This is anotforprofit garden,’’<br />
Surrey says.<br />
‘‘We arenot in this to make money but<br />
Welcomingvisitors ... Waikari Great <strong>North</strong>ern Community Garden head gardener Surrey<br />
Earl, left, of Pyramid Valley, with visitors to the garden, Roz and Richard Sutherland,of<br />
Waikari, during the harvest open day..<br />
PHOTOS:SHELLEY TOPP<br />
Bountiful harvest ... Dom Maxwell, who<br />
recently retired as the CEO of Greystone<br />
Wines in Waipara after 21 years with the<br />
company, enjoys the day digging potatoes.<br />
the garden does have costs so if the<br />
community can support us in this way it<br />
will remain viable.’’<br />
Waikari residents Roz and Richard<br />
Sutherland, who attended last<br />
Saturday’s harvest celebration, are keen<br />
Visitors from the city ... Kate Jones and<br />
her grandson Oscar Crosby, aged 6, from<br />
Christchurch, having fun at the harvest.<br />
to do this.<br />
‘‘It is so rewarding to get such<br />
beautiful, fresh produce picked in the<br />
garden which is only afew minutes from<br />
home,’’ Roz says.<br />
‘‘This is afantastic community<br />
project.’’<br />
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Rangiora RSA takes twoawards<br />
By JOHN COSGROVE<br />
Itwas second time lucky for the<br />
Rangiora RSA Club when they were<br />
awarded not one, but two of the top<br />
awards at the recent <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> Business Awards hosted<br />
by Enterprise <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> in<br />
Rangiora.<br />
The Rangiora RSA Club scored the<br />
Percival Street Bakery Customer<br />
Services Award and then later picked<br />
up the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
People’s Choice Award at the awards<br />
ceremony.<br />
It was the second time the club has<br />
won the customer services award.<br />
Rangiora RSA Club secretary<br />
manager Jane Sommervillesays the<br />
club won it first in 2023 and then again<br />
in 2025.<br />
‘‘It was wonderful to have been<br />
awarded it again late last year.<br />
‘‘As aclub and staff of 30, we have a<br />
strong ethos on creating afantastic<br />
place for members, friends, family and<br />
guests, who can come togethertoshare<br />
the good and bad times of their lives as<br />
we cater for weddings, birthdays,<br />
business meetings and funerals.’’<br />
Judges cited the Rangiora RSA Club<br />
for creating aspace where everyone<br />
feels valued.<br />
‘‘Its attentive serviceand focus on<br />
shared business,social, and sporting<br />
interests, helped the club foster strong<br />
relationships, and it has a<br />
commitment to dynamic and excellent<br />
service.’’<br />
Mrs Sommerville says the club has a<br />
very supportiveatmosphere suited to<br />
cateringfor all occasions in acaring<br />
and professional way.<br />
‘‘It’s wonderful that our staff know<br />
the names and tastes of our regulars.<br />
‘‘They are often found singing happy<br />
birthday to them and on days when it’s<br />
needed, giving them ahug when things<br />
aren't so good.<br />
‘‘We wanted to let the community<br />
know we pride ourselvesonbeing the<br />
bestand this year also winning the<br />
people’s choice award is testament to<br />
this.’’<br />
She believesthe Rangiora RSA Club<br />
is aunique place where even if you<br />
come on your own ,you will meet<br />
someone to chat with and feel<br />
welcome.<br />
‘‘If you bring 100 for alarge event,<br />
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details and make your event asuccess.<br />
‘This shows through the many events<br />
who book and then rebook yearafter<br />
year,’’ she says.<br />
Space at the club is often at a<br />
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groups,ear clinics,first aid courses<br />
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lifestyle and travel events, weekly<br />
bowls, darts, pool and snooker.<br />
‘‘There’s something for everyone<br />
here,’’Mrs Sommerville says.<br />
‘‘The staff we haveare passionate<br />
about what they do, and when we enter<br />
this competition they really do step up<br />
and try to be the besttheycan even<br />
when sometimesthings don'tgoso<br />
well.’’<br />
She says the staff were very excited<br />
to receivethese awards and to take<br />
care to liveuptohigher expectations<br />
that came with them.<br />
‘‘Our members also takepride in the<br />
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‘‘Lastyear we had aweekend cycling<br />
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‘‘As manager of this great club now<br />
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Feedback sought<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
Feedback on local government reform,<br />
water services and major projects will be<br />
sought as part of the Waimakariri District<br />
Council’s annual plan consultation.<br />
Councillors proposed an average rate<br />
rise of 4.91 percent after last week’s<br />
<strong>2026</strong>/27 annual plan deliberations.<br />
Mayor Dan Gordon said the budget<br />
reflects ‘‘a careful, prudent approach’’,<br />
balancing affordability with the need to<br />
maintainthe council’s core services.<br />
‘‘Every year we go through the budget<br />
line by line, and this year was no<br />
different,’’ Mr Gordon said.<br />
‘‘This annual plan sticks closely to what<br />
we signalled in year three of our Long<br />
Term Plan.<br />
‘‘We’ve cut our cloth where we can,<br />
without compromisingthe servicespeople<br />
expect, and we’ve scaledback our capital<br />
programme to alevel that is realistic,<br />
achievable and, importantly, affordable.’’<br />
The Government has proposed arates<br />
cap of between 2% and 4%, butitwould not<br />
take effect until 2029.<br />
As there were no major changesfrom<br />
what was signalled in the 2024/34 Long<br />
Term Plan, the council was not requiredto<br />
consult on this year’s annual plan.<br />
But Mr Gordon said the council was<br />
keep to hear back from the community.<br />
‘‘This is alowkey annual plan. It’s<br />
largely about responding to changes in the<br />
operating environmentrather than<br />
introducing new initiatives.<br />
‘‘We want to keep people informed<br />
about what’s changing around us and hear<br />
their views.’’<br />
The council wants feedback on the<br />
proposed changes to local government,<br />
whether the council is on the right track<br />
with its inhouse water servicesunit and<br />
on its revised capital works programme.<br />
Staff are proposing to reduce the capital<br />
works programme this year from $73m to<br />
$60m, by deferring projects, including<br />
some roading projectswhich were not<br />
funded in the 2024/27 National Land<br />
TransportProgramme.<br />
But it will still include nearly 200<br />
projects.<br />
Projects going ahead include the $4.1m<br />
Pegasus Community Centre and the<br />
Mandeville resurgence channel, with<br />
stage one ($2.3m) set to get under way this<br />
year and stage two ($24.1m).<br />
Both projects will be loan funded.<br />
Feedback is also sought on the business<br />
case for the proposed $37.9m Rangiora<br />
eastern link road, which will be submitted<br />
to Waka Kotahi NZ TransportAgency later<br />
this year.<br />
Aproposed $19.7m Rangioralibrary<br />
extension was also proposed in the Long<br />
Term Plan.<br />
The eastern link road and library<br />
extension would be funded by amix of<br />
loan funding and development<br />
contributions.<br />
Acommunity centre is proposed for<br />
Ravenswood, whilestaff are reviewing<br />
whether to bring forward work to upgrade<br />
the water mains on High Street, Rangiora,<br />
after two breakdowns with burst water<br />
pipes in the last year.<br />
The council will meet again on <strong>February</strong><br />
17 to adopt the draft <strong>2026</strong>/27 annual plan<br />
for consultation.<br />
It will be out for consultation from<br />
March 14 to April 14, with hearings<br />
planned in May. Dropin sessions will be<br />
held around the district, giving residents<br />
thechance to speak directly withcouncil<br />
staff and elected members.<br />
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by RNZ and NZ On Air.<br />
Haste causes concern<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>’s regional councillorsare<br />
concerned at the speed of change for<br />
councils and the Government's push for<br />
more centralised decision making.<br />
Environment <strong>Canterbury</strong>councillors<br />
discussed adraft submission to the<br />
Natural Environment Bill and Planning<br />
Bill, at aworkshop in lateJanuary. The<br />
proposed legislation overhauls the<br />
Resource Management Act (RMA).<br />
It aims to cut red tape and make it easier<br />
to buildhomes and infrastructure.<br />
While ECan councillorsagreed the RMA<br />
‘‘is no longer fit for today’s challenges’’,<br />
they also expressed concerns centralised<br />
decisionmaking will lead to aloss of local<br />
voices and environmental frameworks<br />
which do not provide the outcomes sought<br />
by local communities.<br />
The prospect of having resource<br />
allocation rules (including water) and<br />
environmental limits set inWellington<br />
were among the concerns.<br />
In the draft submission, Environment<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> (ECan) staff expressed<br />
concern the speed of change would risk a<br />
reliance on future amendment Bills, which<br />
would slow down implementation and add<br />
unnecessary cost.<br />
<strong>North</strong><strong>Canterbury</strong>councillor John<br />
Faulkner said it was important ‘‘get things<br />
right’’ before the Bills pass into law.<br />
‘‘For the Government to say ‘we will just<br />
fix the gremlins', Iget into Mr Mackenzie’s<br />
(Cr IanMackenzie) campinsaying, ‘the<br />
idiots upthere (Wellington) don’t know<br />
what they’re talking about’.<br />
‘‘When they say it’s simple to fix. It’s not<br />
simple and we really need to push back<br />
hard on some of these things.’’<br />
Cr Faulkner said the former Hurunui<br />
Waiau Zone Committee found outhow<br />
hard difficult and costly it was to fix ‘‘a<br />
simple error’’, withits 10 percent rule for<br />
nutrient loading in the Hurunui and<br />
Waiau River Regional Plan.<br />
‘‘Our simple 10% mistake in Hurunui<br />
was an enormous financial cost to ECan<br />
and an enormous cost to the community.’’<br />
Fellow <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> councillor<br />
Claire McKay said she was concerned<br />
about introducing centralised decision<br />
making for resource allocation rules,<br />
including water, when ‘‘so much work has<br />
been done with the <strong>Canterbury</strong> Water<br />
Management Strategy’’ (CWMS).<br />
The CWMS was established in 2009 by<br />
the <strong>Canterbury</strong> Mayoral Forum, which<br />
represents the region’s mayors and ECan.<br />
It has worked with local councils, ECan,<br />
Mana Whenua and communities to<br />
develop freshwater plans.<br />
Councillors expressed concern at the<br />
proposed marketbased allocation<br />
methods,and the proposed setting of<br />
human health environmental limits by the<br />
Health Minister and ecological<br />
environmental limits by regional<br />
authorities.<br />
NgāiTahu councillor Megen McKay,<br />
who chairs ECan’s strategy and policy<br />
committee, said the setting of limits should<br />
not be separated and she was concerned it<br />
could lead to weaker limits and worse<br />
biodiversity outcomes.Deputy<br />
chairperson Iaean Cranwell said<br />
excluding Mana Whenua from the<br />
decisionmaking process will ‘‘create more<br />
Treaty grievances’’. ‘NgāiTahu has gone<br />
through the claims settlement, and we<br />
have worked well with ECan.’’<br />
Chairperson Deon Swiggs said the<br />
council had an important role to play in<br />
ensuring good environmental outcomes for<br />
the region, even though the future of<br />
regional councils was uncertain. ‘‘This is<br />
the mostfundamental thing in front of us<br />
and as regional governors we still have a<br />
role to play.’’<br />
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Artist AmeliaGreen’sfirst solo exhibition<br />
BySHELLEY TOPP<br />
NEWS<br />
Ayoung artist who is studying<br />
psychology, and is inspired by the<br />
ocean, has created work that responds<br />
to the ‘beautiful coastlines’’ around<br />
Aotearoafor her first solo exhibition.<br />
Amelia Green’s exhibition Flow<br />
State, opened at the Chamber Gallery,<br />
in the Rangiora Library, last Sunday.<br />
Her psychology studies have also had<br />
an influenceonher work in this<br />
exhibition.<br />
‘‘I chose to really focus on the way<br />
simple shapes can come together to<br />
evoke afeeling,’’ she said.<br />
‘For many of us, the beach is tied to<br />
joy, memory, and asense of ease,<br />
whatever summer means in our own<br />
lives.<br />
‘These works explorethat emotional<br />
connection. Throughcolour, light, and<br />
simplified forms, Ihave tried to capture<br />
small moments of calm, the kindof<br />
feelingsthe ocean gives us without<br />
needing to say anything at all.’’<br />
Flow State is part of the Waimakariri<br />
Community Arts Council's (WCAC)<strong>2026</strong><br />
exhibition programme.<br />
During the opening of the exhibition<br />
the WCAC chairwoman Miranda Hales<br />
said Amelia, who is 19, was ayoung<br />
woman with abright future.<br />
‘This is adelightful exhibition,’’ she<br />
said.<br />
Amelia, who is based in Christchurch<br />
for her studies at the Universityof<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>, grew up in Waimakariri<br />
attending <strong>North</strong> Loburn Primary<br />
School and then Rangiora High School<br />
where her two art teachers, Ms Glass<br />
and Ms Mehrotra, were abig<br />
inspiration for her.<br />
‘‘Having someone who believes in<br />
your work makes ahuge difference,’’<br />
she said.<br />
‘‘I have never had any other art<br />
Flow State ... Amelia Green’s first solo exhibition focusing on simple shapes.<br />
tuition, just amazing teachers at school<br />
andalot of practice.’’<br />
Amelia’s artwork encompasses a<br />
range of styles from children’sbook<br />
illustrationstorealism and the more<br />
graphic, abstract style on show in Flow<br />
State.<br />
‘‘I am constantly experimenting and<br />
letting my work evolve, following<br />
colour, emotion, and storytelling<br />
wherever they lead. Whether Iam<br />
painting, illustrating, or creating<br />
murals, my aim is always to make<br />
pieces that spark afeeling,’’ she said.<br />
PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP<br />
Amelia is hoping to have more<br />
exhibitions in future, but for now she<br />
plans to continue studying hard<br />
towards achieving her degree and<br />
painting in her free time.<br />
The Flow State exhibition closes on<br />
March 12.<br />
Beachwalks within reach<br />
Graham moved tothe coast for the beach<br />
lifestyle.At68, theretired builder hadtraded<br />
hissuburbanhomefor abeachfront property,<br />
dreaming of daily walks along the sand,<br />
hearing thewaves at night.<br />
“I’d moved here for this,” Graham says,<br />
gesturing atthe sweeping coastline. “But I<br />
wasbarelymanagingone shortwalkaweek.”<br />
His wife faced similar challenges. They’d<br />
both head out together, but neither could<br />
enjoy the beach properly. Their dream<br />
retirement was looking very different from<br />
what they’d imagined. All thanks to aging<br />
knees that didn’tcooperate.<br />
“We never talked about it,” he recalls.<br />
“Just accepted that this was becoming our<br />
life. Watching other people walk bywith<br />
easeand enjoywhatwecouldn’t.”<br />
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And once that happened, you start moving<br />
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Focus on<br />
Waimakariri<br />
with Mayor Dan Gordon<br />
Pegasus Bay user<br />
surveyunder way<br />
While the weather hasn’t exactly played<br />
ball so far this summer, Iknow many of<br />
you will still have been out enjoying our<br />
beautiful Waimakariri coastline<br />
whenever the sun has shown itself. If<br />
you’ve visited our beaches recently,<br />
Council would really like to hear from<br />
you.<br />
The <strong>North</strong>ern Pegasus Bay Beach User<br />
Survey 2025/26 is currently underway,<br />
with signs up at key beach access points.<br />
This survey is an important way for us to<br />
understand how people areusing our<br />
beachesand how well the <strong>North</strong>ern<br />
Pegasus Bay Bylaw 2025 is working to<br />
manage activities across the foreshore<br />
and surrounding areas.<br />
By taking afew minutes to share your<br />
experience, you’ll help inform the next<br />
review of the bylaw, scheduled for 2030.<br />
Just as importantly, your feedback helps<br />
us protect and improve this special<br />
coastal environment in the years<br />
between reviews, so it remains safe,<br />
accessible and enjoyable for everyone.<br />
It has also been abusy start to the year<br />
at council as we work through the Annual<br />
Plan and review our budget for the year<br />
ahead.<br />
As always, councillors and staff have<br />
gone through the numbers line by line to<br />
make sure we are achieving every<br />
possible savings.<br />
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We have agreed on an average rate<br />
increase of 4.91 per cent.<br />
This Annual Plan closely reflects what<br />
we signalled in year three of our Long<br />
Term Plan.<br />
We’ve cut our cloth where possible,<br />
withoutcompromising the core services<br />
our communities rely on, and we’ve<br />
scaled back our capital programme to a<br />
level that is realistic, achievable and,<br />
importantly, affordable.<br />
Within that overall figure, the general<br />
average rate increase for most ratepayers<br />
across the district is 2.7 per cent.<br />
Ihope everyone has something<br />
enjoyableplanned for the upcoming<br />
LongWeekend.<br />
I’llbetravelling to Waitangi in my role<br />
as Vice President of Local Government<br />
New Zealand.<br />
While I’ve visited Waitangi before, this<br />
will be my first time attending the official<br />
commemorations.<br />
The significance of that place, and the<br />
opportunity to be part of such an<br />
importantmoment for our country, is<br />
somethingI’m really looking forward to.<br />
As always, Iwelcome contact from<br />
anyone who needs assistance orhas an<br />
issue that youmight want to discuss.<br />
Email me at dan.gordon@wmk.govt.nz<br />
or phone 021 906 437.<br />
I’m here to help.<br />
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RANGIORA OCEANWATCH<br />
MattDoocey<br />
MP for Waimakariri<br />
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Authorised by Matt Doocey MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington.<br />
Focus on bold reform<br />
Ihope you all managed to enjoy your<br />
Christmas and NewYear and spend<br />
some quality time with your family and<br />
loved ones, despite the weather not<br />
always being the best this year.<br />
Well done to all the parents and<br />
caregivers out there whohave juggled<br />
the school holidays, and good luck to all<br />
the teachers and school staff as the kids<br />
return to the classroom this week.<br />
It's great to get back to work to focus<br />
on this year’s priorities for the<br />
Government.<br />
As local MP Ican’t waittodeliver on<br />
the Government’s commitment to start<br />
construction of the Belfast to Pegasus<br />
Motorway including the Woodend<br />
Bypass.<br />
As outlined in the Prime Minister’s<br />
State of the Nation speech, at anational<br />
level the Government will be focused<br />
on our programme of bold reforms<br />
which aim to build afuture that will<br />
provide more opportunities for New<br />
Zealanders.<br />
It's been adifficult time for many<br />
families and businesses, but the<br />
National Government has worked hard<br />
to reduce wasteful spending, which has<br />
helped bring downinflation and<br />
interest rates while protecting services<br />
families rely on like health and<br />
education.<br />
We are focused on fixing the basics<br />
and building the future by rebuilding<br />
the economy to create jobs, lift wages<br />
and ensure we build the schools,<br />
hospitals and roads Cantabrians rely<br />
on.<br />
When it comes to education, we are<br />
focused on teaching the basics<br />
brilliantly and raising achievement.<br />
Weknow the cell phone ban has<br />
made asignificant and positive<br />
difference for schools, and our<br />
mandated hour of reading, writing and<br />
maths every day, along with structured<br />
literacy and phonics, is also resulting in<br />
vast improvements academically the<br />
number of new entrants achieving at<br />
the expected level in phonics has<br />
already increased from 36 per cent to 58<br />
per cent.<br />
Still to come is work on replacing<br />
NCEA with anew national<br />
qualification, built for tomorrow’s<br />
workforce and higher learning.<br />
Lastly, thanks to Mark Brown, board<br />
chair of the Oxford Community Medical<br />
Centre, for taking the time to show me<br />
its new site at Weld St last week. Iam<br />
really impressed by the board’s plans to<br />
build amultiphase development with a<br />
new GP practice, colocating other<br />
health services and expanding<br />
outpatient clinics. The new centre is<br />
going to be real asset to the Oxford<br />
community, and Iamlooking forward to<br />
following the progress of this exciting<br />
project over the coming months.<br />
Medical centre development in the spotlight<br />
By DAVIDHILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
A‘‘fit for purpose’’ hospital could be<br />
build in Oxford, alongside anew<br />
communitymedical centre development.<br />
Oxford Community Health Centre<br />
board chairperson Mark Brown has<br />
confirmed he has spoken with Associate<br />
Health Minister Matt Doocey and Te<br />
Whatu Ora Health NZ and is open to<br />
extendingthe development.<br />
‘‘The trust is open to any health service<br />
conversations that meets its vision of<br />
‘Oxford living well’.’’<br />
The board announced last year it had<br />
purchasedalarge section in Weld Street,<br />
Oxford, where it plans to build anew<br />
medical centre to serve the town and<br />
surroundingrural area.<br />
The existing Oxford Community<br />
Health Centre shares its Park Avenue<br />
site with the Oxford Hospital.<br />
Waimakariri Mayor Dan Gordon has<br />
been calling for answers on the future of<br />
the Oxford Hospital, which is in need of<br />
maintenance and is underutilised.<br />
Mr Doocey,who is also Waimakariri<br />
MP, said he met with Mr Brown last week<br />
at the Weld Street site to discuss the<br />
plans for the new medical centre.<br />
‘‘I was really impressed by the<br />
multiphase development planned to<br />
buildanew GP practice, colocate other<br />
health services and expand outpatient<br />
clinics.’’<br />
He said the development was an<br />
opportunity for Health NZ to discuss<br />
whether anew fit for purpose facility for<br />
hospital level care could be included in<br />
the development.<br />
‘‘We have seen with the Rangiora After<br />
Hours facility currently being built,<br />
there is potential for private providers to<br />
build new facilities with no cost to<br />
taxpayer and ratepayer in return for a<br />
long term contract to deliver health<br />
services.’’<br />
Health NZ Te Waipounamu regional<br />
planning, funding and outcomes director<br />
Chiquita Hansen said rural hospitals<br />
play asignificant role in their<br />
communities.<br />
‘‘We are planning community<br />
engagement, starting with Oxford and<br />
Darfield, to explore what health services<br />
are required in these communities that<br />
will enable people to receive care closer<br />
to home.<br />
‘‘We have spoken with Mark Brown<br />
and signalled that we are keen to explore<br />
opportunities that anew build presents<br />
that are wider than the provision of<br />
hospitallevel beds.’’<br />
Any decisions will be subject to<br />
funding.<br />
No funding has been set aside to<br />
replace theexisting Oxford Hospital, Ms<br />
Hansen said.<br />
TheOxford Hospital offers amix of<br />
respite care, hospitallevel aged<br />
residential care and endoflifecare.<br />
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Amberley 8:09am 2.5 1:57am 0.4 9:00am 2.4 2:45am 0.5 9:49am 2.3 3:33am 0.6 10:38am 2.2 4:22am 0.7 11:26am 2.1 5:14am 0.8<br />
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Beach<br />
8:39pm 2.4 2:25pm 0.5 9:29pm 2.3 3:12pm 0.6 10:19pm 2.3 4:00pm 0.6 11:06pm 2.2 4:48pm 0.7 11:54pm 2.2 5:38pm 0.8 12:14pm 2.1 6:28pm 0.8 1:03pm 2.1 7:17pm 0.8<br />
8:08am 2.2 1:55am 0.4 8:59am 2.1 2:43am 0.5 9:48am 2.0 3:31am 0.6 10:37am 1.9 4:20am 0.7 11:25am 1.8 5:12am 0.8<br />
6:06am 0.8 12:41am 1.8 7:00am 0.8<br />
Motunau 8:38pm 2.1 2:23pm 0.5 9:28pm 2.0 3:10pm 0.6 10:18pm 2.0 3:58pm 0.6 11:<strong>05</strong>pm 1.9 4:46pm 0.7 11:53pm 1.9 5:36pm 0.8 12:13pm 1.8 6:26pm 0.8 1:02pm 1.8 7:15pm 0.8<br />
8:20am 2.5 2:08am 0.4 9:11am 2.4 2:56am 0.5 10:00am 2.3 3:44am 0.6 10:49am 2.2 4:33am 0.7 11:37am 2.1 5:25am 0.8 12:<strong>05</strong>am 2.2 6:19am 0.8 12:53am 2.1 7:13am 0.9<br />
Gore Bay 8:50pm 2.4 2:36pm 0.5 9:40pm 2.3 3:23pm 0.6 10:30pm 2.3 4:11pm 0.6 11:17pm 2.2 4:59pm 0.7<br />
5:49pm 0.8 12:25pm 2.1 6:39pm 0.8 1:14pm 2.1 7:28pm 0.8<br />
8:18am 1.7 2:02am 0.2 9:10am 1.6 2:55am 0.2 10:00am 1.6 3:46am 0.3 10:50am 1.5 4:38am 0.3 11:39am 1.4 5:29am 0.4 12:04am 1.5 6:21am 0.4 12:53am 1.5 7:11am 0.4<br />
Kaikoura 8:46pm 1.6 2:35pm 0.3 9:37pm 1.6 3:26pm 0.3 10:26pm 1.5 4:15pm 0.3 11:15pm 1.5 5:02pm 0.4<br />
5:48pm 0.4 12:27pm 1.4 6:34pm 0.4 1:15pm 1.4 7:20pm 0.4<br />
*Not for navigational purposes. Wind and swell are based on apoint off Gore Bay. Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa. www.ofu.co.nz www.tidespy.com Graphic supplied byOceanFun Publishing Ltd.<br />
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Call to visitors to give marine animals space<br />
By BEN ULISSE<br />
NEWS<br />
The Department of Conservation is<br />
calling for everyone to give marine<br />
animals the space they need when<br />
visiting our coastlines.<br />
DOC South Marlborough Operations<br />
Manager Stacey Wrenn says Kaikōura<br />
Peninsula offers great opportunities<br />
for people to get out and enjoy nature,<br />
but visitors need to treat our native<br />
species with respect.<br />
‘‘We’ve had reports of people getting<br />
far too close to seals, and even areport<br />
of people trying to kick or poke fur<br />
seals to try to get aphoto, which we are<br />
investigating.<br />
‘‘This sort of behaviour is completely<br />
unacceptable.’’<br />
The request comes after agroup of<br />
tourists werefilmed harassing and<br />
crowding around an adult fur seal on a<br />
Kaikōura beach, in aclip which went<br />
viral on TikTok.<br />
In the video, the seal tries making a<br />
break for the water but its escape route<br />
is repeatedly blocked by people nearby<br />
holding their phones out.<br />
This interaction goes on for several<br />
seconds before the seal is seen to lose<br />
its patience and make alunge at one of<br />
the individuals, causing her to jump<br />
backwards in surprise.<br />
DOC has responded to the footage<br />
and says asafe distance of 20m from<br />
seals should be observed at all times.<br />
Their guidelines for watching seals<br />
include never feeding or attempting to<br />
touch them, keep dogs and children<br />
away, and do not make loud noises or<br />
throw things at seals.<br />
These guidelines are for the safety of<br />
both seals and people, Stacey says.<br />
‘‘Disturbing the natural behaviour of<br />
aseal can have negative consequences<br />
forthe animal.<br />
‘‘At this time of year, mothers can<br />
even abandon pups if the are<br />
disturbed.’’<br />
She says that while fur seals aren’t<br />
typically aggressive, they are awild<br />
animal and can react if they feel<br />
threatened.<br />
‘‘If you see someone getting too close<br />
to aseal or other native animal,<br />
politely let them know they need to<br />
back off abit. If they or their dog are<br />
harassing the animal, call the 0800<br />
HOTDOC hotline.<br />
‘‘Any photos or video you can safely<br />
take are very helpful.’’<br />
Kaikōura is astronghold for seals she<br />
says, but local colonies have had a<br />
tough few years.<br />
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Teddy bears<br />
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By JOHN COSGROVE<br />
Teddy of all shapes and sizes, plus all his<br />
furry mates, are invited to the Teddy<br />
Bears Picnic being held on Sunday,<br />
<strong>February</strong> 22, at Victoria Park in<br />
Rangiora.<br />
The Lions and Lioness Club of<br />
Rangiora are hosting the picnic as a<br />
fundraiser for Plunket.<br />
Agoldcoin admission gets access to the<br />
picnic, which starts at 10 am and runs<br />
through to 2pm.<br />
Organisers say the family fun day is a<br />
great opportunity for the public to come<br />
along and have some fun, plus bring a<br />
picnic lunch for their families and<br />
teddies.<br />
There willbeaballoon man, asausage<br />
sizzle, acoffee cart, ahoney stall, akid's<br />
craft table and abouncy castle onsite.<br />
During the day, there willbeafun paw<br />
hunt for the children and lots of games<br />
and face painting, plus craft stalls and<br />
the Teddy Grand Parade at 1pm.
Classicsand military vehicles on display<br />
ByJOHN COSGROVE<br />
Waimak Classic Cars, at Leithfield,<br />
celebrated the decades between the<br />
roaring thirties and the 1950s with a<br />
display of classic cars and military<br />
vehicles last weekend.<br />
The event was held to honour the<br />
service and sacrifice of the veterans at the<br />
Rangiora RSA, supported by the cadets of<br />
No. 88 Squadron (Waimakariri) air cadets,<br />
and the scouts who staffed the sausage<br />
sizzle onsite.<br />
Dancers from the Christchurch Rock'n<br />
Roll Club entertained as visitors looked<br />
over the many classic cars and various<br />
military equipment, all on show in the<br />
museum's grounds.<br />
There was avariety of exmilitary<br />
equipment on display, including a<br />
howitzer, several Jeeps, aBren Gun<br />
Carrier, aDodge command car, and<br />
several reenactors dressed as uniformed<br />
German, British and NZ World War 2<br />
Soldiers.<br />
“It was agreat way to honour our family<br />
members who served, plus we like<br />
showing our restored exmilitary<br />
vehicles,’’ says Gideon Couper, of<br />
Motorpool Restorations, who, with his two<br />
sons William and George, came dressed<br />
for the occasion.<br />
“William is dressed to honour my<br />
grandfather, who fought at Cassino,while<br />
George was dressed to represent the<br />
German side of the Family.It’s about<br />
living the history and seeing how the men<br />
then worked in the heat and the cold of<br />
Italy and the Western Desert in their<br />
woollen uniforms.’’<br />
William says he was impressedthe men<br />
of the day fought and marched in heavy<br />
hob nail boots.<br />
Davina and Alex Smith are part ofthe<br />
Godley Head Heritage Trust, and they also<br />
came dressed in WW2 period costumes.<br />
Davina as aBritish Auxiliary Territorial<br />
Service driver–just like the futureQueen<br />
ElizabethII, and Alex as a101st Airborne<br />
US paratrooper.<br />
‘‘We are history buffs and love<br />
recreating the era, the trust members have<br />
awonderfulcollection of memorabilia and<br />
vehicles and Godley Head, on the<br />
northern headland to Lyttelton Harbour,<br />
is nationally significant,being one of the<br />
most intact and extensive WW2 coastal<br />
defence batteries left in New Zealand,’’<br />
says Alex.<br />
The trust hasestablished aHeritage<br />
Centre in the old Regimental<br />
Headquarters/Quartermaster's Store<br />
building onsite at Godley Heads, and it<br />
will focus on New Zealand's WW2 Coastal<br />
defence.Interactive displays withsound<br />
and lighting will give visitors an<br />
appreciation of why the batterywas<br />
constructed, and tellthe story of the<br />
personnel stationed there.<br />
NEWS<br />
She’s abeaut ... Gideon Couper, ofMotorpool Restorations, explains the workings of his<br />
restored WC56 Dodge Command Car at the 1930s to 1950s celebration and military vehicle<br />
display held at the Waimak Classic Cars at Leithfield, on Sunday.<br />
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Softwaretransition causes disruption<br />
ByDAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
‘‘Teething problems’’ adapting to anew IT<br />
system are creating some headachesfor<br />
two <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> councils.<br />
The Hurunui and Kaikōura district<br />
councils jointly implemented the<br />
Datascape local government software on<br />
July 1last year, replacing the Ozone<br />
programme.<br />
Both councils said the transition has<br />
created ‘‘significant disruption’’ in<br />
financial planning as staff work on their<br />
respective <strong>2026</strong>/27 annual plans.<br />
But the delays are not unexpected,<br />
Hurunui District Council chief executive<br />
Hamish Dobbie said.<br />
‘‘If you change your whole enterprise<br />
system you are going to get some teething<br />
problems.<br />
‘‘It’s acontinuous improvement journey<br />
and sometimes it feels like you are battling<br />
abit, but I’m confident we will end up with<br />
amuch bettersystem.’’<br />
The two councils share the sameITstaff.<br />
Kaikōura District Council executive<br />
Will Doughty said he was aware of other<br />
councils experiencing similar issues after<br />
switching to Datascape.<br />
‘‘Our challenge is the resources we have<br />
and the workload. We haven’t got the<br />
large, dedicated finance teamsother<br />
councils have.’’<br />
The new system was alot more<br />
responsive, withchecks and balances, and<br />
the reporting ‘‘will be alot stronger’’, once<br />
staff have worked through the teething<br />
issues, Mr Doughty said.<br />
Both councils said it was too early to<br />
predict what rates will look like this year,<br />
but they were not expecting any<br />
significant changes.<br />
‘‘We’ve have done our first cut and it<br />
hasn’t gone to council yet,’’ Mr Dobbie<br />
said.<br />
‘‘It’s not looking too horrific and there<br />
are no surprises from the Long Term<br />
Plan.’’<br />
Roading continues to be apriority for<br />
the Hurunui council.<br />
Councilshave faced rising costs in<br />
recent years, including increases to<br />
construction costs, insurance and audit<br />
fees.<br />
The Hurunui council signalled an<br />
average rate rise of under five percent for<br />
the <strong>2026</strong>/27 financial year in its 2024/34<br />
Long Term Plan, while Kaikōura council<br />
signalled 66.5%.<br />
Roading and footpaths are priorities for<br />
the Kaikōura council, along with housing<br />
developments and the Wakatu Quay<br />
marine development project, which have<br />
received Government grants.<br />
The two councils will produce two<br />
annual plans,asthis year’s budget will be<br />
the first one without three waters<br />
included. Staff are preparing the<br />
financials for the new joint water services<br />
council controlled organisation, Kaikōura<br />
Hurunui Water Services Ltd.<br />
Detour<br />
repairs<br />
Ratepayers will not have to dig into<br />
their pockets to pay for repairs to<br />
local roads being used as detours<br />
while repairs are done to State<br />
Highway One.<br />
Hurunui District Council chief<br />
executive Hamish Dobbie says it has<br />
an agreement with New Zealand<br />
Transport Authority/Waka Kotahi to<br />
repair any road deterioration of<br />
local roads caused by increased<br />
traffic being detoured on to them.<br />
The increased usage coincided<br />
with awet summer which was<br />
adding to the damage to council<br />
roads, he says.<br />
State Highway One, northbound at<br />
Glasnevin, was closed from January<br />
12 until January 30, between Innes<br />
Rd and Georges Rd, with<br />
northbound traffic detoured via<br />
Douglas Rd, Mount Brown Rd, and<br />
Georges Rd, before rejoining SH1.<br />
The southbound lane remained<br />
open.<br />
Aseries of night closures and<br />
other traffic management are<br />
scheduled for part of State Highway<br />
1through <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> next<br />
month as amajor road rebuild is<br />
carried out.<br />
Visit the New Zealand Transport<br />
Authority/Waka Kotahi website or its<br />
Facebook page for updated<br />
information.<br />
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Aheadline in the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> on January 29 referred to the<br />
Southern Community Hub Project at<br />
Southbrook Park, Rangiora, as ‘‘a sports<br />
complex’’.<br />
The Southbrook Community Sports<br />
Club wants to emphasise the project is<br />
more than just asports facility.<br />
It is ahub for the whole community.<br />
The new building would replace the<br />
ageing Southbrook Pavilion.<br />
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The Southbrook Community Sports Club<br />
will host acommunity workshop at the<br />
Southbrook Pavilion on South Belt,<br />
Rangiora, on Tuesday, <strong>February</strong> 17,<br />
from 6.30pm. The workshop is to discuss<br />
options to replace the ageing<br />
Southbrook Pavilion and to seek<br />
community feedback and support.<br />
Anyone who is interested is asked to<br />
contact Gary McNicholl on 0274384279<br />
or register at events.humanitix.com/<br />
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Purple Poppy Day<br />
Purple Poppy Day will be held at the<br />
Rangiora Cenotaph on Tuesday,<br />
<strong>February</strong> 24 at 11am. Purple Poppy Day<br />
remembers the loyal service of animals<br />
involved in war service and those who<br />
paid the ultimate sacrifice.<br />
Christ’s College<br />
If you’re consideringaChrist’s College<br />
education for your son, aWaimakariri<br />
enrolment event is being held to learn<br />
more about life at College, 5pm to 6.30pm,<br />
at Fresca Mediterranean,ConwayLand,<br />
Rangiora. Hear from Headmaster Joe<br />
Eccleton, with time for questions and an<br />
overview of the enrolment process.<br />
Bridge lessons<br />
Bridge lessons start in Rangiora on<br />
Tuesday, April 14, at 6.45pm for 12 weeks.<br />
The cost of the lessons, which will be held<br />
at the Rangiora Bridge Club rooms, 31<br />
Good Street, is $50. If interested please<br />
email to admin@rangiorabridgeclub.co.nz<br />
or visit rangiorabridgeclub.co.nz. You will<br />
be contacted. Any queries phone Dawn<br />
0273142557.<br />
Ford vs Holden<br />
The annual Ford versus Holdendisplayat<br />
the Better Half Kitchen and Barin<br />
Ashworths Beach Road, Leithfield, is on<br />
Sunday, <strong>February</strong> 8, from 9am. All classic<br />
vehiclesare most welcome to be on<br />
display,but Fords and Holdens only on<br />
grassedoval. Food and drink is available.<br />
Freebouncey castle. Admission is a<br />
donationtothe Amberley MenzShed.<br />
TimeBank Waimakariri<br />
Asummer plant and crop swap is being<br />
held on Saturday, <strong>February</strong> 14, at Eco<br />
Educate, Waimakariri Education Space<br />
(formerly the Hope CommunityGarden),<br />
115 East Belt, Rangiora, 10am to 12 noon.<br />
Cost: Agold coin koha. All welcome.<br />
Ashley Combined Friendship Club<br />
If you are new to the Rangioraarea and<br />
would like to meet new people or want to<br />
get out more, then the Ashley Combined<br />
Friendship Club could be for you. Ther<br />
club holds monthly meetings with avariety<br />
of interesting speakers with time to mingle<br />
over morning tea, coffee mornings and<br />
regular trips to interesting places. If this<br />
soundslike your kind of thing, please<br />
phone Wilma 03 313 8851 or Annette 03 313<br />
1289. Next meeting Main Power Stadium,<br />
10am, Thursday, <strong>February</strong> 12.<br />
Woodend Bowling Club<br />
The Woodend Bowling club invite<br />
community and business teams to be part<br />
of our SummertimeofCommunityBowls<br />
evenings to be held over three Friday<br />
nights. Major Sponsor: Summerset<br />
Rangiora. Teams of three play two games<br />
per night culminating in afinals night<br />
whenall points are combined to find our<br />
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PHOTO: RANGIORA BOROUGH SCHOOL<br />
Going back to school<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
After supporting school principals over the<br />
last four years, Simon Green is goingback<br />
to school.<br />
Mr Green has been appointed principal<br />
at Rangiora Borough School and says he is<br />
looking forward to getting back in the<br />
classroom.<br />
‘‘I would like to spend time in the<br />
classroom. It’sthe whole reason Ibecame<br />
ateacher and I’mlooking forward to<br />
joining the school camp.<br />
‘‘The school has areally long and proud<br />
history going back more than 150 years.<br />
Born and bred in Rangiora, Mr Green<br />
has spent his entire career in <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>, serving as principal at two<br />
schools prior to hisrole with Evaluation<br />
Associates advising new principals and<br />
boards of trustees.<br />
‘‘I loved that role and working alongside<br />
principals. Iwould have worked with 50<br />
principals for the first three years of their<br />
appointment,over the last four years.’’<br />
He is also Rangiora High School board<br />
of trustees presiding member.<br />
Following arestructure at Evaluation<br />
Associates, Mr Green felt it was the right<br />
time to get back into school leadership.<br />
RangioraBorough School board of<br />
trustees presiding member Emma Symons<br />
said the board was ‘‘delighted’’ to have<br />
secured Mr Green.<br />
‘‘The board is looking forward to<br />
working closely with him this year as he<br />
settles into the role and continues to build<br />
on the strong foundations of our school.<br />
‘‘We’re excited about the opportunities<br />
ahead for our students, staff, and wider<br />
school community.’’<br />
Mr Green said he had no immediate<br />
plans to make changes at his new school.<br />
‘‘I just want to spend time in the school,<br />
to notice things, to get to know the school<br />
and the connections with community,<br />
businesses and community groups, and<br />
then look at what needs to happen.<br />
‘‘We’ve got awesome teachers and an<br />
awesome board of trustees and there’s<br />
some real opportunities to grow.’’<br />
The school roll has been stagnant in<br />
recent years with up to 450 tamariki, but<br />
with growing subdivisions in Rangiora<br />
there are strong prospects for growth.<br />
The school has abilingual unit, Nga<br />
Rakau eRua, and hosts asatellite<br />
classroom for Southern Health School.<br />
Across the road is Dudley Park with<br />
sports fields and an aquatic centre, and the<br />
Rangiora Town Hall is nearby.<br />
While the funding for Kāhui Ako<br />
(community of learning) has gone, Mr<br />
Green said he is looking forward to<br />
working with other principals.<br />
‘‘I’m looking forward to being aschool<br />
leader again in <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> and I’m<br />
pretty committed to the wider education<br />
network and using what I’ve learned over<br />
the last four years.<br />
‘‘I’ve worked acrossthe South Island and<br />
I’ve had the privilege of being in dozens of<br />
schools and picking up examples of best<br />
practice.’’<br />
Mr Green attended Loburn School and<br />
Rangiora High School before training to be<br />
ateacher. He first taught at Woodend<br />
School, before becoming deputy principal<br />
at Loburn and Cust schools,and then was<br />
principal at <strong>North</strong> Loburn and Amberley<br />
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Chargefrom1April<strong>2026</strong> (Excluding GST)<br />
CustomerPrice Categories<br />
Residential Customers<br />
Approximate<br />
Customer Estimate<br />
1Feb <strong>2026</strong><br />
Gross<br />
Dollars/day<br />
–<br />
Rebate<br />
Dollars/day<br />
=<br />
Fixed<br />
Net<br />
Dollars/day<br />
+ Transmission<br />
Dollars/day<br />
=<br />
Total<br />
Dollars/day<br />
Variable<br />
Gross Transmission<br />
Total<br />
Dollars/kWh + Dollars/kWh = Dollars/kWh<br />
ResidentialStandardUser 21,758 3.22420 -1.20612 2.01808 0.74579 2.76387 0.06528 0.00000 0.06528<br />
Residential LowUser 16,856 0.90000 -0.33673 0.56327 0.00000 0.56327 0.14740 0.01822 0.16562<br />
Other Customers<br />
Non–Residential 5,827 4.43510 -0.75595 3.67915 1.41422 5.09337 0.04457 0.00000 0.04457<br />
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Temporary Supply 293 5.32320 0.00000 5.32320 0.00000 5.32320 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000<br />
Irrigation (per kW connected) 1,455 0.199930 -0.01966 0.18027 0.14729 0.32756 0.02967 0.00000 0.02967<br />
Council Pumping 211 4.82090 0.00000 4.82090 3.53184 8.35274 0.02114 0.00000 0.02114<br />
Streetlighting (per fitting connected) 98 0.097<strong>05</strong> 0.00000 0.097<strong>05</strong> 0.04248 0.13953 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000<br />
Non–Residential–LargeUsers (weightedaverage) 44 58.31981 -5.91400 52.4<strong>05</strong>81 66.44222 118.84803 0.02461 0.00000 0.02461<br />
DistributedGeneration 0 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000<br />
OptionalAdditions<br />
RightofWay Lighting 70 – – – – – 0.11833 0.00000 0.11833<br />
Under Verandah Lighting 22 – – – – – 0.11833 0.00000 0.11833<br />
ElectricVehicle 0 – – – – – 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000<br />
Night Only 2,510 -0.06528 0.00000 -0.06528<br />
Hot WaterControl 34,348 -0.03023 0.00000 -0.03023<br />
Distributed Generation (Residential)* 2,898<br />
Mar-May, Sep-Nov – – – – – 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000<br />
Jun-Aug, Dec-Feb – – – – – -0.01260 0.00000 -0.01260<br />
Distributed Generation (Non-Residential DistributedGeneration)* 74<br />
Mar-May, Sep-Nov – – – – – 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000<br />
Jun-Aug, Dec-Feb – – – – – -0.01260 0.00000 -0.01260<br />
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Approximate<br />
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1Feb 2025<br />
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–<br />
Rebate<br />
Dollars/day<br />
=<br />
Fixed<br />
Net<br />
Dollars/day<br />
+ Transmission<br />
Dollars/day<br />
=<br />
Total<br />
Dollars/day<br />
Variable<br />
Gross Transmission<br />
Total<br />
Dollars/kWh + Dollars/kWh = Dollars/kWh<br />
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Temporary Supply 238 4.2540 0.0000 4.2540 1.0692 5.3232 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000<br />
Irrigation (per kW connected) 1,387 0.2106 -0.0135 0.1971 0.1254 0.3225 0.0309 0.0000 0.0309<br />
Council Pumping 203 6.5499 0.0000 6.5499 2.5864 9.1363 0.0211 0.0000 0.0211<br />
Streetlighting (per fitting connected) 1<strong>05</strong> 0.1188 0.0000 0.1188 0.0297 0.1484 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000<br />
Non–Residential–Large Users (weightedaverage) 44 85.1980 -4.7000 80.4980 51.5900 132.0880 0.0325 0.0000 0.0325<br />
Distributed Generation 0 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000<br />
OptionalAdditions<br />
RightofWay Lighting 69 – – – – – 0.1183 0.0000 0.1183<br />
Under Verandah Lighting 23 – – – – – 0.1183 0.0000 0.1183<br />
ElectricVehicle 0 – – – – – 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000<br />
DistributedGeneration 2,434 – – – – – 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000<br />
Night Only 2,570 – – – – – -0.<strong>05</strong>66 0.0000 -0.<strong>05</strong>66<br />
HotWater Control 34,243 – – – – – -0.0364 0.0000 -0.0364<br />
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NCEA causesconcern<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
One <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> school<br />
principal fears students could miss<br />
out on NCEA due to literacy and<br />
numeracy requirements.<br />
Kaiapoi High School principal<br />
Jason Reid said there were ‘‘some<br />
gems’’ in this year’s NCEA results<br />
But 24 percent of Year 11 students<br />
were not eligible for NCEA as they had<br />
not passed the new literacy and<br />
numeracy tests.<br />
Students must pass the literacy and<br />
numeracy online tests, which were<br />
introduced throughout the country<br />
last year and are available from Year<br />
10, if they want to achieve NCEA at any<br />
level.<br />
‘‘This is going to be the bottleneck,<br />
with having astudent’s qualifications<br />
dependent on those tests,’’ Mr Reid<br />
said.<br />
He said 92% of Year 12 students had<br />
achieved the numeracy standards and<br />
93% the literacy standards, while 99%<br />
of Year 13 students had achievedboth<br />
standards.<br />
The challenge is keeping students at<br />
school enough to pass the tests.<br />
‘‘We have some amazing<br />
interventions set up in year 11, 12 and<br />
13 and we have some targeted<br />
responses,’’ Mr Reid said.<br />
‘‘It’s very exciting even though it’s a<br />
real pain as there is no option but to<br />
pass those tests if they wanttoget a<br />
qualification.<br />
‘‘But it doesn’t help those with<br />
specificlearning needs or<br />
neurological wiring itmakes it so<br />
much more difficult.’’<br />
The pass rate among Year 11<br />
studentswas 71 percent, but level two<br />
and three results were much stronger,<br />
at 14% and 19% above the national<br />
average respectively.<br />
The nationalaverage was 72% pass<br />
rates at level one and two, and 70% at<br />
level three.<br />
Oxford Area School acting principal<br />
Lesley Inch said there were ‘‘no<br />
surprises’’, with NCEA results in line<br />
with students'goals.<br />
‘‘We were particularly pleased with<br />
the increase in our level two merit and<br />
excellence endorsements.’’<br />
Cheviot Area School principal Matt<br />
Barlow said there was ‘‘a sharp<br />
increase’’ in merit and excellence<br />
courseendorsements at level two and<br />
three.<br />
Students at levelone hadachieved<br />
100% in literacy and 89% in numeracy.<br />
Pass rates were 86.6% atlevel one,<br />
89.2% at level two and 78% at level<br />
three.<br />
Kaikōura High School principal Jo<br />
Fissendensaid her students continue<br />
to ‘‘punch well abovetheir weight’’,<br />
especially Māori students,which<br />
make up48percent of the school roll.<br />
Māori students achieved a65% pass<br />
rate in Year 11, 71% in Year 12 and<br />
75% in Year 13, while Pākeha students<br />
achieved75% in Year 11, 76% in Year<br />
12 and 73% in Year 13.<br />
At Rangiora High School, 77% of<br />
students gained the necessary 60<br />
credits at level one, 85% at level two<br />
and 80% at level three.<br />
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PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP<br />
Quest for the Quill<br />
reading celebration<br />
By SHELLEY TOPP<br />
The Waimakariri Libraries’ successful<br />
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Quill, has been celebrated with aparty<br />
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The party was held last Friday to<br />
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imagination shown by all the young<br />
readers who took part in the challenge.<br />
Waimakariri Libraries’ customer<br />
services assistant Twyla Pearce said the<br />
challenge was organised to ‘‘halt the<br />
summer slide’’ when children’s reading<br />
levels often drop during school holidays.<br />
‘‘This year we had 276 signups and<br />
received so many amazing entries,’’ she<br />
said.<br />
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Gordon was aguest at the event to hand<br />
out prizes and certificates to the<br />
participants.<br />
‘‘This year’s theme Quest for the Quill<br />
has inspired imagination, creativity and<br />
alove for storytelling,’’ he said.<br />
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Flavio Villani, an ItalianbornNew<br />
Zealand pianist now living in Auckland,<br />
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month.<br />
The internationally acclaimed<br />
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Australia, California and Texas.His<br />
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Abandonedvehicles, cars blocking<br />
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on grass verges could face stricter<br />
enforcement in Waimakariri, <strong>North</strong><br />
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Council staff have received 2304<br />
complaints for issues related to<br />
parking over the last five years,<br />
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the previous parking bylaw adopted in<br />
2019.<br />
Complaints included abandoned<br />
vehicles being left on the side of the<br />
road, cars blocking driveways and<br />
footpaths, the parking of motorhomes<br />
and trailers, parking close to an<br />
intersection or corner and parking on<br />
grass verges.<br />
The proposed bylaw would expand<br />
the scope of the existing bylaw to<br />
include traffic movement controls,<br />
provide some clarity around parking<br />
in semi rural areas, clearer rules<br />
supporting accessibility and the safe<br />
use of public spaces, staff said.<br />
It is one of several bylaws the<br />
council is reviewing this year,<br />
including the stockmovement bylaw,<br />
new commercial and residential<br />
wastewater bylaws, and the property<br />
maintenance bylaw.<br />
MayorDan Gordonsaid he had<br />
‘‘some reservations’’ on the proposed<br />
parking and traffic bylaw and is keen<br />
to hear feedback from the public.<br />
CouncillorNiki Mealings said<br />
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and dear to our residents' hearts’’.<br />
‘‘It will be interesting to see the kind<br />
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‘We get ahigh number of service<br />
requests... so this is something we<br />
need to get right and we are able to<br />
enforce.’’<br />
Cr Tim Bartlequestioned what<br />
happened if someone pulled over on a<br />
grass verge in asemi rural area to<br />
answer the phone, or to attend to<br />
‘‘children misbehaving’’.<br />
Council environmental services<br />
manager Billy Charlton said staff had<br />
discretion.<br />
‘‘We would be unlikelytoget a<br />
complaint for an incident like that and<br />
even if we did by the time we got there,<br />
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By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>regional councillors want to<br />
serve their full three year term until 2028<br />
to support the region through change.<br />
The Government announced plans in<br />
November to abolish regional councils,<br />
with regional functions fallingtothe<br />
region's mayors and potentially ministerappointed<br />
representatives.<br />
Environment <strong>Canterbury</strong> (ECan)held<br />
aworkshop on Thursday [January 29] to<br />
discuss adraft submission on the<br />
Government’s proposal, called<br />
Simplifying Local Government.<br />
ECan councillors support reform but<br />
say fixing local government is not as<br />
simple as abolishing regional councils.<br />
Under the Government plan, mayors<br />
would form acombinedterritorial board<br />
and would have two years, from when the<br />
legislation passes, to develop aregional<br />
reorganisation plan (how councils work<br />
together and function) and aregional<br />
spatial plan (which guides the future<br />
development of the region).<br />
This will need to be approvedbythe<br />
Local Government Minister.<br />
But ECan wants to continue<br />
performingregional functions, while a<br />
governance body with representatives<br />
from the <strong>Canterbury</strong> Mayoral Form,<br />
ECan, Mana Whenua, independent<br />
experts and Government agencies <br />
develops aregional reorganisation plan.<br />
Asimilar body should be set up to<br />
prepare aregional spatial plan, the<br />
councillors said.<br />
The <strong>Canterbury</strong> Mayoral Forum<br />
comprises the region’s mayors and the<br />
regional council chair.<br />
ECan chairperson Dr DeonSwiggs said<br />
the mayoral forum has ‘‘a similar view to<br />
where we are landing’’.<br />
‘‘We are all want to make something<br />
work, both the [local councils] andthe<br />
Local governmentreform ... <strong>Canterbury</strong>’s regional council wants to support the region through change.<br />
regional council. We are notalayer of<br />
government, we are acouncil which does<br />
functionsacross the region.<br />
‘‘There were layers of planning in the<br />
old Resource Management Act which<br />
gave the impression of layers of<br />
government, but that has been removed<br />
in the new legislation.’’<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> councillor John<br />
Faulkner said the regional council had a<br />
role to play in guiding <strong>Canterbury</strong>’s<br />
future.<br />
‘‘There’s adepth of experience around<br />
this table and there is not the same<br />
institutional knowledge among the<br />
mayors.’’<br />
Cr John Sunckell said allowing the<br />
regional councillors to serve out the term<br />
will provide some certainty forcouncil<br />
staff.<br />
Cr Ian Mackenzie said he backed<br />
regional councillors supporting the<br />
transition, but there was no needtoset<br />
2028 as ‘‘the end game’’.<br />
‘‘It seems to be amove to aunitary<br />
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the region. We need to support the<br />
mayors and listen to what additional<br />
support they need.’’<br />
Councillors also discussed adraft<br />
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proposal to set arates cap oftwo to four<br />
percent.<br />
Dr Swiggs said there needed to be a<br />
wider review of the affordability and<br />
funding of local government, with<br />
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Agastache<br />
Honey bees, bumblebeesand butterflies<br />
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Much loved by bumblebees, chives are<br />
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Globe artichoke<br />
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bumblebees. This plant is amust for your<br />
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Fennel<br />
Let fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)<br />
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providing ajungle gym for pollinators and<br />
other insects. Fennel will grow, thick,<br />
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and over. Yellow fennel flowers attract<br />
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As long as it’s growing in full sun, this<br />
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Tithonia<br />
Also known as the Mexican sunflower,<br />
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NEWS<br />
Workingtogether to overcome funding cut<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> school principals are<br />
working together to overcome afunding<br />
cut.<br />
Funding for the Kāhui Ako<br />
(communities of learning) programme<br />
ended in December, endinga<br />
programme which was established in<br />
2014 and saw local preschools, primary<br />
and secondary schools working<br />
together.<br />
Rangiora High Schoolboard of<br />
trustees presiding member Simon<br />
Green said the disestablishmentof<br />
Kāhui Ako was disappointing, but the<br />
links will not be lost.<br />
‘‘I think with the Kāhui Ako being<br />
disestablished, it will lead to the <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>Principals’ Group getting<br />
back together.’’<br />
In <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> there were three<br />
Kāhui Ako, includingPuketeraki which<br />
comprised 18 schools centred on<br />
Rangiora High School, Katotebrought<br />
together nine schools including<br />
Kaiapoi High School and Tipu Maia<br />
Kāhui Ako comprised six area schools<br />
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<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> Principals’ Group<br />
president Maree Lucas, who is<br />
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Amberley, said local principals had<br />
been surveyed to find out what support<br />
they needed.<br />
‘‘It's been ahuge loss in terms of<br />
leadership opportunities for teachers<br />
and principals, professional learning<br />
opportunities and collaboration<br />
between leaders, teachers and<br />
students.’’<br />
Ms Lucas had been Tipu MaiaKāhui<br />
Ako lead principal and said the kāhui<br />
had split into two groups, with the<br />
smaller primary schools working<br />
together and the area schools<br />
continuingtocollaborate ‘‘as much as<br />
we can, without the budget’’.<br />
‘‘Inour small school group we are<br />
looking at running some student events<br />
across all schools,such as science fairs<br />
andcultural days, but we rely on<br />
schools to help fund these.’’<br />
Swannanoa School principal Brian<br />
Price, who was Puketeraki lead<br />
principal, saidschools were chipping<br />
in to keep the work going.<br />
Around 40 teachers had been engaged<br />
in various part time roles acrossthe<br />
kāhui.<br />
‘‘We are operating in askeleton way,<br />
with each principal picking up abit and<br />
contributing funding so we can have a<br />
0.4 teacher working across the schools.’’<br />
Mr Price will continue to lead the<br />
kāhui in his ‘‘spare time’’, and he is<br />
working in with Ms Lucas and Te Katote<br />
lead principal Andrew Retallick.<br />
The Puketeraki team is planning gettogethers,<br />
professional development<br />
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schools to ease the transitions between<br />
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‘‘Wewill keep doing the things people<br />
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meeting with the junior teachers, and<br />
the Year 7/8 teachers working<br />
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The schools are also working on a<br />
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which is being led by Ashgrove School<br />
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MrRetallick, who is Woodend School<br />
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on attendance and engagement, thanks<br />
to Ministry of Education funding.<br />
Te Katote Kāhui Ako plans to offer a<br />
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Grant Nordstrum, Regional Livestock<br />
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on previous sales, he was happy with the<br />
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up to support the sale.<br />
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<strong>Canterbury</strong> and Marlborough to try and<br />
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‘‘We had one farmer who couldn’t get his<br />
ewes to the fair because he couldn’t gethis<br />
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‘‘Overall prices were very strong and<br />
reflected the strength of the current<br />
market.<br />
“Anything that was well grownmade<br />
$300 or better, some went as high as $380.’’<br />
He said the small number of twotooth<br />
ewes offered saw the top lines all sell<br />
above $300, while some lines of capital<br />
stock sold from $200 to $280, with fiveyear<br />
and annual draft lines with good condition<br />
selling above $200.<br />
Mr Nordstrum is looking forward to<br />
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BySHELLEY TOPP<br />
After winning three medals at the Special<br />
Olympics New Zealand Summer Games in<br />
Christchurch aKaiapoi equestrianisin<br />
line to be selected for the 2027 Special<br />
Olympics World Summer Games in<br />
Santiago, Chile.<br />
Hinemoa (Hine) Wakefield, aged 22,<br />
won gold, silver and bronze medals at the<br />
games riding Mack, ahorse on loan from<br />
the Sumner Valley Riding School.<br />
It was an exciting time for the young<br />
rider and her supporters, afterthe<br />
disappointment they experienced when<br />
Hine’s own horse, Lochie, who she has a<br />
close bond with, was injured preventing<br />
him from taking part in the games.<br />
Preparation for the Special Olympics,<br />
which were held last December, involved<br />
many hoursoftraining for Hine with her<br />
coaches, mum Karen Wright, Charlotte<br />
Thompson of All the Bells and Whistles<br />
Equine Services at Eyreton and Lynda<br />
Ballantyne of the Sandow Riding School<br />
in Omihi.<br />
To become eligible for the Special<br />
Olympics in Christchurch Hine and<br />
Lochie had to first compete at local level,<br />
and then gain placings —1st, 2nd or 3rd —<br />
at the Regional Games in Christchurch<br />
during 2024.<br />
To lose Lochie to injury so close to their<br />
main goal was adevastating blow, but one<br />
that Hine and Mack overcame with style.<br />
The Special Olympics competition<br />
consisted of three disciplines: Dressage,<br />
English Equitation and Working Trail.<br />
‘‘The riders are able to train for the<br />
dressage test as they know in advance<br />
what the movements and pattern will be,’’<br />
Karen says.<br />
In English equitation the judge calls out<br />
the movements —the riders don’t know<br />
beforehand what they will be askedtodo.<br />
Working Trail involves obstacles of<br />
varying complexity.<br />
Hine won agold medal for English<br />
Equitation, asilver for Dressage and a<br />
bronze for Working Trail.<br />
For Hine, who has dyspraxia, a<br />
neurological condition that affects motor<br />
skills and coordination,horseshave been<br />
aconstant passion in her life eversince<br />
she was atoddler with only three words to<br />
her vocabulary —‘‘Mummum, Dada and<br />
horse’’.<br />
As atoddler Hine had her first riding<br />
Weedons and Darfieldlead cricket comp<br />
Weedons comfortably headed off<br />
Pleasant Point in atopofthetable<br />
clash in the latest round of the Ray<br />
White Real Estate, <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
Country cricket premier competition<br />
on Saturday.<br />
Played at Pleasant Point, the<br />
visitors were given 180 runs to win in<br />
their allocated45overs.<br />
experiences on apony belonging to one of<br />
Karen’s friends‘‘sitting up on the saddle<br />
in front of us’’.<br />
She loved the experience but learning to<br />
ride solo is asteep mountain to climb for<br />
anyone, and Hine has found it challenging.<br />
However with ‘‘determination,<br />
perseverance and agreat deal of support’’,<br />
she has achieved her goal and topped it off<br />
with SpecialOlympics success.<br />
The Special Olympics New Zealand<br />
Summer Games is anational event that<br />
celebratesinclusion and athletic<br />
achievement and is held every four years.<br />
More than1200 athletes from all across<br />
NewZealand took part in the<br />
Christchurch games.<br />
On the global stage the Special Olympics<br />
is an organisation providing yearround<br />
sports training and athletic competition<br />
for childrenand adultswithintellectual<br />
disabilities, fostering inclusion,<br />
confidence, and joy through sports.<br />
‘‘Intellectual disability (or ID) is aterm<br />
used when aperson has certain<br />
limitations in cognitive functioning and<br />
skills, including conceptual, social and<br />
practical skills, such as language, social<br />
and selfcare skills,’’ Karen says.<br />
‘‘These limitations can cause aperson to<br />
develop and learnmore slowly or<br />
differentlythanatypically developing<br />
person.’’<br />
Hine is amember of the Pegasus Adult<br />
Riding Club which holds rallies and a<br />
summer camp throughout the year, so<br />
when Lochie is fit again, she is keen to<br />
take part in those events and also continue<br />
dressage training.<br />
Thenthere is the 2027 Special Olympics<br />
World Summer Games in Santiago to<br />
consider, butthat is along way off and<br />
getting there is along way to travel, Karen<br />
says.<br />
‘‘We might look to concentrate on<br />
competitions closer to home.’’<br />
Talented young equestrian ... Hinemoa<br />
Wakefield, aged 22, of Kaiapoi, riding her<br />
horse Lochie who was injured before the<br />
Special Olympics New Zealand Summer<br />
Games in Christchurch last December<br />
where Holly won aperfect set of gold, silver<br />
and bronze medals riding another horse,<br />
Mack, on loan from the Sumner Valley<br />
Riding School.<br />
PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP<br />
The target was reached in the 38th<br />
over for the loss of only six wickets.<br />
Cheviot made visitors Darfield work<br />
hard for its victory at the scenic<br />
Cheviot cricket ground.<br />
Darfield was set amoderate 123 for<br />
victory,atotal that Darfield achieved<br />
for the loss of eight wickets.<br />
In ahigh scoring game atSefton,<br />
Ohoka set the home team asolid 288<br />
for victory. The total was one step too<br />
far for Sefton who were dismissedfor<br />
228.<br />
Kaiapoi won abottom of the table<br />
clash against Oxford. Batting first<br />
Kaiapoi totalled 167 before dismissing<br />
Oxford for 147.<br />
Progress championship points:<br />
Weedons and Darfield 42, Pleasant<br />
Point 38, Ohoka 29, Peninsula Harbour<br />
26, Cheviot and Sefton 18, Oxford and<br />
Kaiapoi8.<br />
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LocalDemocracy Reporter<br />
An alcohol ban in Kaiapoi’s Trousselot<br />
Park has been extended.<br />
The WaimakaririDistrict Council has<br />
approved an amendment to the<br />
council’s alcohol bylaw to extend an<br />
alcohol ban at Trousselot Parkand<br />
Scott Rose Garden, in Kaiapoi, to<br />
include neighbouring reserve land<br />
owned by Land Information New<br />
Zealand (LINZ).<br />
Staff said both LINZ and the police<br />
supported extending the ban, during a<br />
council meeting on Tuesday.<br />
Council policy analyst Nadeesha<br />
Thenuwara said having part of<br />
Trousselot Park outside the alcohol<br />
ban area created issues for<br />
enforcement.<br />
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could look into abylaw to address the<br />
district’sgrowing issues around<br />
homelessness.<br />
The council’s strategy, engagement and<br />
economic development general<br />
manager Simon Hart said staffwill<br />
review the relevant legislation to see<br />
what authority the council has and<br />
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Council senior planner Neil Sheerin<br />
said technically designations were not<br />
enacted until the new District Plan was<br />
fully operative.<br />
The District Plan is partially operative,<br />
while aspects of the plan are subject to<br />
appeal. But none of the designations<br />
were included in any of the 21 appeals<br />
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for particular purpose such as anew<br />
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LocalDemocracy Reporter<br />
It was hailed as a ‘onestop shop ’ to<br />
make it quickerand easier to build<br />
major projects when it pa sed into law<br />
last December.<br />
But none of the five <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
projects included in the Government’s<br />
Fasttrack A provals Act have<br />
progre sed beyond being ‘listed ’<br />
projects in the fasttrack proce s.<br />
They were among 149 projects listed<br />
in the legislation.<br />
In astatementreleased last w ek,<br />
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop<br />
and Regional Development Minister<br />
Shane Jones said around 50 of the 149<br />
projects had lodged substantive<br />
a plications with the Environmental<br />
Protection Authority (EPA), since the<br />
a provals regime was established in<br />
<strong>February</strong>.<br />
Of those, none have b en a proved so<br />
far, with the first eight expected to be<br />
signed o f by the end of the year.<br />
Proposed housing developments at<br />
Ōhoka, W odend and west Rangiora<br />
were listed in the legislation, along with<br />
the W odend Bypa s and the Amuri<br />
I rigation Company Ltd’s Balmoral<br />
water storage facility and fish scr en.<br />
An EPA spokespersonhas confirmed<br />
none of the five <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
projects have lodged substantivefasttrack<br />
a plications.<br />
Developers of alisted project can<br />
a ply to the EPA where an‘expert<br />
panel’ wi l a se s theprojectand<br />
consult with ‘directly a fected groups ’.<br />
Panel convenors determine the extent<br />
of the consultation, meaning the is no<br />
guarant e local communities wi l have a<br />
say.<br />
There is no timeframe for alisted<br />
projec tolodge an a plication, the<br />
spokesperson said.<br />
When the project list was a nounced<br />
in October lastyear, Mr Bishop pointed<br />
the finger at councils for creating the<br />
housing crisis.<br />
‘Speaking in general terms, councils<br />
have contributed to our housing crisis<br />
by being overlypicky aboutwhere<br />
houses can be built, ’ he said a the time.<br />
The W odend and west Rangiora<br />
developments have since b en included<br />
in the new WaimakaririDistrict Plan<br />
adopted last month, meaning they may<br />
not n ed to be fasttracked.<br />
Amuri I rigation Company<br />
chairperson David Croft said the<br />
company anticipated aresource consent<br />
would be granted by Environment<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> (ECan) in the next few<br />
months, after it was lodged in 2023.<br />
‘It l oks like the normalconsenting<br />
proce s wi l befaster. In some waysit<br />
would bethe ideal situation because<br />
everybody hashad thechancetohave<br />
their say in asystem theyare familiar<br />
with. ’<br />
A$20m loan from the Government’s<br />
Regional Infrastructure Fundwas<br />
a nounced earlier thismonth for the<br />
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The proposed Ōhoka development<br />
was rejectedfrom the District Plan,<br />
after aprivate plan change requestwas<br />
rejected by an independent<br />
commi sioner in November 2023.<br />
It is sti l subjec to an Environment<br />
Court a peal.<br />
An Environment Courtspokesperson<br />
said thea pe lant, Carter Group, has<br />
b endirected to advise thecourt by<br />
August 2 ‘how or whether it intends to<br />
proc ed ’.<br />
Waimakariri District Council<br />
developmentpla ning manager Ma t<br />
Bacon said underthe new District Plan,<br />
the siteofthe proposed Ohoka<br />
development is zoned rura lifestyle.<br />
It mean the farmland could be subdivided<br />
into 4ha lots, but not into an<br />
850home development as proposed.<br />
Carter Group was contacted for<br />
comment but areply hadnot b en<br />
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By DAVID HI L,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
It was hailed as a ‘onestop shop ’ to<br />
make it quicker andeasier to build<br />
major projects when it pa sed into law<br />
last December.<br />
But none of the five <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
projects included in the Government’s<br />
Fasttrack A provals Act have<br />
progre sed beyond being ‘listed ’<br />
projects in the fasttrack proce s.<br />
They were among 149 projects listed<br />
in the legislation.<br />
In astatement released last w ek,<br />
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop<br />
and Regional Development Minister<br />
Shane Jones said around 50 of the 149<br />
projects had lodged substantive<br />
a plications with the Environmental<br />
Protection Authority (EPA), since the<br />
a provals regime was established in<br />
<strong>February</strong>.<br />
Of those, none have b en a proved so<br />
far, with the first eight expected to be<br />
signed o f by the end of the year.<br />
Proposed housing developments at<br />
Ōhoka, W odend and west Rangiora<br />
were listed in the legislation, along with<br />
the W odend Bypa s and the Amuri<br />
I rigation Company Ltd’s Balmoral<br />
water storage facility and fish scr en.<br />
An EPA spokesperson has confirmed<br />
none of the five <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
projects have lodged substantivefasttrack<br />
a plications.<br />
Developers of alisted project can<br />
a ply to the EPA where an ‘expert<br />
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Thereisnotimeframe for alisted<br />
projec to lodge an a plication, the<br />
spokesperson said.<br />
When the project list was a nounced<br />
in October last year, Mr Bishop pointed<br />
the finger at councils forcreating the<br />
housing crisis.<br />
‘Speaking in general terms, councils<br />
have contributed to our housing crisis<br />
by being overly picky about where<br />
houses can be built, ’ he said a the time.<br />
The W odend and west Rangiora<br />
developments have since b en included<br />
in thenew WaimakaririDistrict Plan<br />
adopted last month, meaningthey may<br />
not n ed to be fasttracked.<br />
Amuri I rigation Company<br />
chairperson DavidCroft said the<br />
company anticipated aresource consent<br />
would be granted by Environment<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> (ECan) in the next few<br />
months, after it was lodged in 2023.<br />
‘It l oks like the normal consenting<br />
proce s wi lbefaster. In some waysit<br />
wouldbethe ideal situation because<br />
everybody has had the chancetohave<br />
their say in asystem they are familiar<br />
with. ’<br />
A$20m loan from the Government’s<br />
Regional Infrastructure Fund was<br />
a nounced earlier this month for the<br />
Balmoral water storage project.<br />
The proposed Ōhoka development<br />
was rejected from the District Plan,<br />
after aprivate plan change requestwas<br />
rejected by an independent<br />
commi sioner in November 2023.<br />
It is sti l subjec to an Environment<br />
Court a peal.<br />
An Environment Court spokesperson<br />
said the a pe lant, Carter Group, has<br />
b en directed to advise the court by<br />
August 2 ‘how or whether it intends to<br />
proc ed ’.<br />
Waimakariri District Council<br />
development pla ning manager Ma t<br />
Bacon said underthe new District Plan,<br />
the site of the proposed Ohoka<br />
development is zonedrura lifestyle.<br />
It mean the farmland could be subdivided<br />
into 4ha lots, but not into an<br />
850home development as proposed.<br />
Carter Group was contacted for<br />
comment but areply had not b en<br />
received by the time the <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong> wen toprint.<br />
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency<br />
has b en completing geotech reports as<br />
it continuesscoping workfor the<br />
proposed W odend Bypa s.<br />
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Set across four private hectares, this outstanding lifestyle property<br />
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host of sought-after features. The master suite isatrue retreat, complete<br />
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Designed for modern family living, the sleek kitchen with anexpansive<br />
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entertaining. Five generous bedrooms, three bathrooms and adedicated<br />
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If the open home times don’t suit, please get intouch to arrange aprivate<br />
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Auction: 12th <strong>February</strong><br />
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M 027 545 4272<br />
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Rangiora 41 Watkins Drive<br />
New Listing<br />
Scan for more<br />
Space,comfort and lifestylecome together<br />
Set on aquiet street within awell-establishedsubdivision, this beautifully laid-out four-bedroom home offersspace, style, and<br />
seamless indoor-outdoor flow-all on an easy-care sectiondesignedfor low-maintenanceenjoyment. At theheart of thehome<br />
is agenerous open-plan kitchenand dining area, idealfor botheverydayuse and entertaining. The kitchen featuresawalk-in<br />
pantry, expansivebench space, and alarge central island, finished with high-endSmegappliances thatelevate both form and<br />
function. This central hubconnects effortlesslyoutdoors toakwiladeckwith acovered pergola featuring automatic louvres,<br />
creating an inviting spacefor entertainingorunwinding. Comfort is assuredyear-round with centralheating throughoutthe<br />
home, complementedbyunderfloor heating in boththe main bathroom and themaster ensuite. All fourbedrooms are<br />
generously sized, with the master suiteenjoying awalk-inwardrobe andabeautifully tiled ensuite.The main bathroomis also<br />
well proportioned, complete withtiled finishesand abath.<br />
4 2 1 2<br />
DeadlineSale closes Wednesday18th <strong>February</strong>, <strong>2026</strong> at 3.00pm,<br />
(unless sold prior)<br />
View Sat7Feb 2.00 -2.30pm<br />
Sun 8Feb 2.15 -2.45pm<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RU218023<br />
Ethan Harris<br />
M 021 157 1484<br />
Leigh Miller<br />
M 021 308 202<br />
E ethan.harris@pb.co.nz<br />
E leighm@pb.co.nz<br />
Loburn 399Barkers Road<br />
New Listing<br />
Scan formore<br />
Motivatedvendors -thisproperty must be sold<br />
Short Deadline, LIMavailable, do not miss outonthisone!Withour vendorshavingalreadypurchasedelsewhere, this<br />
outstanding 4halifestyle opportunityinthe heart of sought-after Loburn is now seriously forsale. With aview of the hills and<br />
designed to embrace space, privacyand moderncomfort,this 2012-built home offersthe lifestylesomany buyersare chasing<br />
andopportunities like this are rarely available. Thewell-appointed home features four generous bedrooms, twobathrooms<br />
and adedicated office, ideal for families or those working fromhome. Alarge open-plan kitchen, dining and livingareaforms<br />
the heartofthe home, capturingstunning hillviewsand flowing to sheltered outdoorliving spaces -perfect forentertaining or<br />
unwindinginapeacefulrural setting. Double internal-accessgaragingadds everyday practicality. Outside, thepropertyis<br />
superbly set up with five well-fenced paddocks completewith concrete troughs, aversatilethree-bay shed for storage or<br />
projects, andestablished vegetable gardenswithafantastic greenhouse for year-round growing.<br />
4 2 1 2<br />
Deadline Sale closes Thursday12th <strong>February</strong>, <strong>2026</strong> at 3.00pm,<br />
(unless sold prior)<br />
View Sun 8Feb 1.00 -1.45pm<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RL214342<br />
Leigh Miller<br />
M 021 308 202<br />
E leighm@pb.co.nz<br />
PropertyBrokers LtdLicensed REAA 2008 |pb.co.nz<br />
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Amberley 2Benn Street<br />
Amberley 284 Racecourse Road<br />
New Listing<br />
Newlybuilt &pro-activelypassive!<br />
This brand-new home that has been pro-actively designed and built<br />
future proofing it for years to come!Builttopassive house standards,<br />
itdelivers aconsistent 20-25C year-round withupto90% savings on<br />
heatingand cooling.The constructioncreates awarm,quietinterior,<br />
while filteredfresh air andcontrolled humidity support healthierliving.<br />
The open-planlivingisbeautifullydesigned flowing effortlessly<br />
indoors and out andthe master suite will impress, while other<br />
thoughtful extras include aStiebel Eltron heatrecovery system and<br />
water filter and softener. Thisiswarm,efficient, modern living done<br />
perfectly!Have questions? Would like toview? Please just ask!<br />
3 2 2<br />
For Sale Buyers$970,000+<br />
View Sun 8Feb 3.00 -3.30pm<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RU222284<br />
Aaron Clark<br />
M 027 873 5121<br />
Anna Pethig<br />
M 027 913 4909<br />
Arare opportunity so close to Amberley<br />
54.1haofversatile rural living just minutes from Amberley. Set in a<br />
sought-after <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>location, 284 Racecourse Road offers<br />
an exceptional blend of scale,comfort, and convenience. Located<br />
closetoAmberley township, Mt Grey,and Amberley Beach,thiswelldeveloped<br />
propertyisideal forthose seeking aproductive rural<br />
lifestyle without sacrificingproximity to amenities. Thefour-bedroom<br />
home is warm and well presented, featuring doubleglazing,awood<br />
burner with wetback, and anew wrap-around deck thatprovides<br />
seamless indoor-outdoor living and agreatspace to relax or entertain.<br />
4 2 3<br />
For Sale By Negotiation<br />
View By appointment<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RR215628<br />
Cannan Elvines<br />
M 027 399 3229<br />
Aaron Clark<br />
M 027 873 5121<br />
Rangiora 13 Keldon Avenue<br />
Oxford 6Redwood Place<br />
The easy yes!<br />
Some homes need ato-do list before youmovein-this one hands you<br />
the keys and says "relax, it's alldone."Modernised throughout and<br />
cleverly split over two levels, this Rangiora home makes family living<br />
feel easyfrom day one!Inside offers spacious, flexible living witha<br />
contemporary kitchen at the heart, three bedrooms, an updated<br />
bathroom, study nook and asecond living space downstairs. Plus there<br />
is exceptional garaging, aworkshop, carport andgenerous off-street<br />
parking providespace for allthe toys.Outside,enjoy aprivate,<br />
establishedsectionwithalargedeckand establishedlandscaped<br />
gardens. Positioned in theAshgroveSchool zoneand within easy<br />
walkingdistance to town.<br />
3 1 2 1 2<br />
Deadline Sale closes Wednesday18th<br />
<strong>February</strong>,<strong>2026</strong> at 4.00pm, (unless sold<br />
prior)<br />
View Sun 8Feb 1.00 -1.30pm<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RU220026<br />
Aaron Clark<br />
M 027 873 5121<br />
Anna Pethig<br />
M 027 913 4909<br />
Flexible family living<br />
If you've been looking forspace,flexibility and agreat garden area,<br />
thisproperty delivers. Tucked away at the end of aquiet cul-de-sac,<br />
the home offers aversatile layout that can be configured as four<br />
bedrooms and one living area, or threebedrooms andtwo living<br />
spaces, with the added convenience of two bathrooms. Abrandnew<br />
bathroom,excellent heating with afire on wetback plus heat pump,<br />
andgenerous living spaces create comfort year-round. Livingareas<br />
flow easily to agreat outdoor entertaining space, while fruit trees and<br />
planter boxes make the most of the grounds.<br />
4 2 1 1<br />
For Sale Buyers $649,000+<br />
View Sun8Feb 11.00 -11.30am<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RU211731<br />
AllieMiller<br />
M 027 398 3752<br />
Property Brokers Ltd LicensedREAA 2008 |pb.co.nz<br />
Proudtobehere
Leithfield Lot3238 Leithfield Road<br />
NewListing<br />
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Secure your slice of Leithfield<br />
Opportunitieslikethis don't come around oftenand the strong interest in thepreviousreleasesays it all. This approximately<br />
1-hectare bare block presentsararesecond chance to secure desirableland on theedge of Leithfield,soact decisively.<br />
Beautifully positionedand thoughtfullyterraced,the landoffersanappealing balanceofspace and ease -perfectfor those<br />
seeking roomtobreathe withoutthe commitmentofintensiveland maintenance.Services arealreadytotheboundary,<br />
allowingyou to focus on bringing your plans to life from dayone.Whether you envisionaproductivegarden,spacefor afew<br />
animals, orsimply wide-open grounds to enjoy,the flexibilityhere is undeniable. Sweeping, uninterrupted viewsofMtGrey<br />
create astunning naturalbackdrop,whilethe surrounding landscape delivers privacy, peace, and atrue sense of country calm.<br />
Set just beyond the heart of theever-popularLeithfield village. Leithfieldcontinuestoattract buyersseekingvillage charm<br />
pairedwithopen-space living anddemand remainshigh. Interestisexpected to be strong onceagain, so don't missthis<br />
second opportunity to secure landofthis calibre.Awaiting Title.<br />
DeadlineSale closes Thursday26th <strong>February</strong>, <strong>2026</strong> at 2.00pm,<br />
(unless sold prior)<br />
View By appointment<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RL218545<br />
Dayan Muntz<br />
M 021 432 926<br />
E dayan.muntz@pb.co.nz<br />
Leithfield 20 Smarts Drive<br />
Scan for more<br />
Motivatedvendors -mustbesold -act now!<br />
Triplegaraging,solid &spacious with ascenic outlook. Set in aquiet, family-friendlycul-de-sac,thisspacioushomeoffers<br />
multiple living spacesproviding adaptable choices suited to your family needs, with three bedrooms, large open planliving<br />
room and 2additional living rooms providing options foranoffice, gamesroom,2nd lounge or perhaps an adaptable<br />
bedroom for when guests stay.Enjoying stunningrural views, agenerous section, plenty of parking foryourcars,boat or<br />
trailer, andendlesspotentialtomodernise or personalise, this is your chance tocreate theperfect home. Whatever yourvision,<br />
the possibilities areendless. Inside, theopen-plan kitchen andliving area formthe heart of thehome, withawetbacklog<br />
burner keeping your homewarm, andthe power bill low in those winter months. Situated closetoLeithfieldBeach, theschool,<br />
and local amenities, this propertycombines relaxedrural-coastal livingwith easy access to Amberley and Christchurch.With<br />
scopetoenhance andtruly makeityour own, 20 Smarts Drive is an opportunity nottobemissed and must be sold.<br />
3 2 3 3<br />
Auction 1.00pm, Thu 12th Feb, <strong>2026</strong>, (unless sold prior), Russley<br />
Golf Cluband Function Centre, 428 MemorialAvenue, Burnside<br />
View Sun 8Feb 1.45 -2.15pm<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RU218976<br />
Dayan Muntz<br />
M 021 432 926<br />
E dayan.muntz@pb.co.nz<br />
PropertyBrokersLtd Licensed REAA 2008 |pb.co.nz<br />
Proudtobehere
Leithfield 20 McleanDrive<br />
Scan for more<br />
Must besold at auction!<br />
With plans locked in, the vendorsare committedtoselling. This sought-afterproperty must be soldatauction and represents<br />
anexceptional buyingopportunity.Thiscontemporary MikeGreer Home combines style,space, and versatility,featuring three<br />
bedrooms, twobathrooms, and generousopen-plan living. Designed with family livinginmind with open-plan livingarea, a<br />
sunny,separatelounge andstylishkitchen complete with awalk-in pantry and SueKelly filter system.Year-round comfort is<br />
ensuredwith two heat pumps, alog burner, heattransfer system, ceiling fans in all roomsand double glazingthroughout.<br />
Enjoyeffortless indoor-outdoor livingwith twocovered entertaining areasand arelaxing swim spa -perfect for hostingor<br />
unwinding.The extra-long double garage provides internal access, built-in storage, andattic space. Seton agenerous, private<br />
sectionwith beautifullyestablishedgardens,there's plentyofroom forfamiliesand pets. An impressive81m2 three-bay shed<br />
(two enclosedwith shelving), woodand garden sheds, and an outdoor toiletadds practicalityand appeal.<br />
5 3 3 2<br />
Auction 1.00pm,Thu 12th Feb, <strong>2026</strong>, (unless sold prior), Russley<br />
Golf Cluband Function Centre, 428 MemorialAvenue, Burnside<br />
View Sun 8Feb 2.45 -3.30pm<br />
Web pb.co.nz/RU162595<br />
Kiara Tinirau-Philps<br />
M 027 545 4272 E kiara.tp@pb.co.nz<br />
Waikuku 16 MacDonalds Lane<br />
Scan for more<br />
Stopscrolling -Selling$170,000under RV<br />
This property must be seen to be believed.Now selling $170,000 under RV,the instructionsare clear -this home mustbesold.<br />
This is not apricing exercise or atest of the market; this is aonce-onlyopportunity to secure serious lifestyle, space and<br />
flexibilityatexceptional value. Set onover5,000m2ofpark-likegrounds, this warmand practical family home offers the<br />
highly sought-after advantageoftwohomes in one. It delivers genuine multipleliving optionsunder oneroof, allowing<br />
everyonetolive independentlyorcome together with ease. Kidswill lovethe freedom to runand play outdoors, while adults<br />
willappreciate just howwell this propertyworks for real life.Currently configuredasafive double-bedroom home, theflexible<br />
layoutallows easy separationintoindependentliving zones, supported by multiple external accesspoints. Ideal forextended<br />
family, teenagers, guests,AirBnB,rentalincome, or alive-in/let-out setup -all while maintaining privacyand balance. Comfort<br />
andefficiency arestandoutfeatures.Enjoy European uPVC doubleglazingthroughout, underfloor heating in all four<br />
bathrooms,log burners in both lounges,plussolar hot waterand solar power<br />
5 4 2 2<br />
For Sale Buyers $1,350,000+<br />
View By appointment<br />
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NEW LISTING<br />
Fernside 777 Mount Thomas Road, RD1<br />
High specificationluxurylifestyle property<br />
•Only ten minutes’ drive from the bustling andgrowing Rangioratownship<br />
•Main architectural residence with awe-inspiring views across the scenicAshley River landscape and spectacular<br />
vistas to the Southern Alps<br />
•568sqm two levelhome designedbyDarren O’Neill Architecture completed in 2025<br />
•Fourcar internal access garaging andfully fittedlaundry and mudroom.<br />
•Separate500sqm approx. hangar/shed complete with afully self contained one bedroom apartment<br />
•Current aviationlanding strip (could be your own golf driving range)<br />
•Total land 34.36Hafully fenced (including deer fencing)<br />
5 3 5 4<br />
Auction (unless soldprior) 12pm, Thu26Feb <strong>2026</strong><br />
3Deans Avenue, Chch<br />
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NEW LISTING<br />
Burnside 28 RubensPlace<br />
Smart zoning,serious motivation<br />
Ladies and gentlemen,welcome to 28 Rubens Place, Burnside.Abeautifully refreshedhome in alocation that<br />
consistently rewards smart buying. Ourowners are rightsizing to asmaller home …are you right sizing up to<br />
something alittle more comfortable?Their next move is underway, and this sale is anecessary step to make that<br />
happen, opportunity is knocking the door down! Set over two levels andoffering approximately 180sqm of living,<br />
this home delivers space, comfort, and style with four bedrooms andtwo bathrooms,ideal for families,<br />
professionals, or those wanting roomwithout compromise.The home has been thoughtfully updated, with a<br />
renovated kitchen featuring stone benchtops,and aloungeelevated by avaultedceiling thatbrings light, calm, and<br />
openness.<br />
4 2 2 2<br />
Auction (unless soldprior) 10am,Sat 21 Feb <strong>2026</strong><br />
3Deans Avenue, Chch<br />
View Sun12.30-1pm<br />
Grant Law 022 381 6743 grant.law@bayleys.co.nz<br />
Anna Bray 027 320 7457<br />
anna.bray@bayleys.co.nz<br />
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NEW LISTING<br />
Oxford 3587 SouthEyreRoad<br />
Self-contained dairyasset<br />
Attention to detail,meticulous maintenance, andadisciplined programme of ongoing improvement underpin this<br />
high-quality, fully self-containeddairyasset. Supportedbyaproven location, the 408ha (more or less) property<br />
consistently delivers reliable production within awell-established system. The farm is consented to 1,250 cows and<br />
operates under an A-grade audit.Reliable waterissupplied from bothwell water andWIL schemewater. Irrigation<br />
infrastructure is extensive, withapprox. 301ha under pivot andafurther78haundersprinkler and fixedgrid,<br />
providing strongpastureand productionconsistency. Currently milking approx.850 cowsthrough a50-bail rotary<br />
dairy shed equippedwith Waikato milking plant. High-quality infrastructure includes the complete redevelopment<br />
of theMontana block within thepast12months, complementedbyquality housing forstaff andfamilies.<br />
bayleys.co.nz/5529485<br />
408.0153 ha<br />
DeadlineSale (unless soldprior)<br />
12pm, Thu 26 Feb <strong>2026</strong><br />
View by appointment<br />
Ben Turner 027 530 1400<br />
ben.turner@bayleys.co.nz<br />
Craig Blackburn 027 489 7225<br />
craig.blackburn@bayleys.co.nz<br />
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NEW LISTING<br />
Ohoka 163 Raddens Road<br />
RuralGrandeur on Raddens<br />
•Set behind atree-lineddrivewayand secured by electric gates, this 4.28-hectare Ohokaestate holds aprized<br />
<strong>North</strong><strong>Canterbury</strong> address,with 387sqmofinteriorsoffering generous proportions,arelaxed timeless palette<br />
andscope to personalise.<br />
•Amodern kitchen opens to two living anddining spaces suited to family life. Five bedrooms and three bathrooms<br />
are complemented by ductedheating upstairs,aheat pump andmultiple fires.<br />
•Outdoors, asheltered terrace opens ontoimmaculate lawns,aheated in-ground pool, achildren’splay area, and<br />
aseparateshed. Just20minutesfromChristchurchAirport, theestatecombines space,refinement and enduring<br />
appeal.<br />
bayleys.co.nz/5529532<br />
5 3 3 3<br />
Auction (unless soldprior) 12pm, Thu26Feb <strong>2026</strong><br />
3Deans Avenue, Chch<br />
View 11-11.30am Sun 8Feb<br />
Mark Pringle 027 4333334<br />
mark.pringle@bayleys.co.nz<br />
Jack Pringle 027 533 4820<br />
jack.pringle@bayleys.co.nz<br />
WHALAN ANDPARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSEDUNDER THEREA ACT2008<br />
Boundary lines are indicativeonly<br />
Ohoka 38 Truro Close<br />
Multigenerationalmasterclass<br />
•Amasterclassinmulti-generational living,thisrenovated 308sqm Ohoka home offers asmart dual-wing design<br />
inaprized lifestyle location.<br />
•The main wing includes generous living,awell-appointedkitchen,three bedrooms,two bathrooms (including a<br />
masterwith ensuite and walk-in robe), and an internally accessed double garage. The fully self-containedsecond<br />
wing features itsown kitchen,two living areas, abathroom, andaspacious bedroom—ideal forextended family.<br />
•Set on 5,000sqm of establishedgrounds with aseparate office or studio,this tightly held cul-de-sac property is<br />
within walking distance of MandevilleVillage, sports grounds, and the dog park.<br />
bayleys.co.nz/5528213<br />
4 3 3 2<br />
Auction (unless soldprior) 10am,Sat 21 Feb <strong>2026</strong><br />
3Deans Avenue, Chch<br />
View 12.15-12.45pmSun 8Feb<br />
Jack Pringle 027 533 4820<br />
jack.pringle@bayleys.co.nz<br />
Mark Pringle 027 4333334<br />
mark.pringle@bayleys.co.nz<br />
WHALAN ANDPARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSEDUNDER THEREA ACT2008<br />
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Rangiora 85 Enverton Drive<br />
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Kaiapoi 13/548 Williams Street Flaxton 13 Bramleys Road Rangiora 6Ambrose Place<br />
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Sefton 853 Marshmans Road Ohoka 17 Joy Place Ravenswood 13 John Raven Lane<br />
Backed by Bayleys’ reputation for premium service across Aotearoa, Kiwis<br />
are utilising our proven blend ofinsights and market-leading innovation.<br />
Contact Team Pringle today for acomplimentary market appraisal.<br />
Mark Pringle AREINZ | 027 433 3334<br />
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jack.pringle@bayleys.co.nz<br />
George Pringle | 027 726 4912<br />
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www.markpringle.bayleys.co.nz<br />
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RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL<br />
OPEN HOME<br />
AMBERLEY 2Haydon Place<br />
Deceased Estate -Must BeSold!<br />
Built to capture the sunand rich in features,this<br />
substantial home reflects thevision our clients had<br />
when building, while offering scope to further<br />
enhance.Located on the ever-popular west side of<br />
town, close to the primary school, preschool,<br />
swimming pooland domain. Theopen-plan kitchen,<br />
living and diningfeatures alog burner, heat pump and<br />
walk-in pantry. Asemi-separate lounge, three<br />
oversized bedrooms(primary with en suite),excellent<br />
storage, internal access doublegarage, barn-style shed<br />
and ablank canvas garden complete this generous<br />
2,302sqm property at 2Haydon Place.<br />
3 2 2<br />
OFFERS OVER $665,000<br />
CONSIDERED<br />
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Maria Rickerby<br />
M 027 563 1733<br />
E mrickerby@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
Ruby Burney<br />
M 027 312 3533<br />
E ruby.burney@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
AMBERLEY 15 Johnson Avenue<br />
Packed With Possibilities and Extras!<br />
Discover the perfect opportunity in Amberley’ssoughtafter<br />
OakfieldsSubdivision!This2020-built, 217sqm<br />
home sits on a700sqm easy-caresection andboasts a<br />
light-filled, functional layout. Enjoy open-plan living<br />
with awalk-in pantry, asemi-separate lounge, and<br />
seamlessindoor-outdoor flowtoasunny north-facing<br />
patio. Featuring three spaciousbedrooms, includinga<br />
primary suite withwalk-inwardrobe and en suite, plus<br />
doublegarage withattic storage. Fully fenced,lowmaintenance<br />
grounds andample parking complete<br />
the package—close to local amenities!<br />
3 2 2<br />
PRICE BYNEGOTIATION<br />
VIEW 12.00-12.30pm, Sat 7Feb<br />
Maria Rickerby<br />
M 027 563 1733<br />
E mrickerby@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
Ruby Burney<br />
M 027 312 3533<br />
E ruby.burney@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
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UNDER OFFER<br />
OMIHI 2Cotswold Road<br />
Location, Scale, Quality &Opportunity<br />
‘Cotswold’, held by one family since 1943, isan<br />
exceptional 769ha property in sought-after Omihi,<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>, close to the coast and handy to<br />
Amberley and Christchurch. Featuring fertile limestonebased<br />
soils and abalanced mix of flats, downs, and hill<br />
country, it supports productive, versatile farming.<br />
Traditionally asheep and beef breeding and finishing<br />
unit, it offers scale, flexibility, and proven performance.<br />
Improvements include amodernised four-bedroom<br />
homestead, athree bedroom house, extensive farm<br />
buildings, afour-stand RB woolshed, and yards.<br />
DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY<br />
Plus GST (if any) (Unless Sold Prior)<br />
Closes 2.00pm, Thursday 5March<br />
VIEW By Appointment Only<br />
Peter Crean<br />
M 027 434 4002<br />
E pcrean@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
Mark Clyne<br />
M 027 531 2964<br />
E mark.clyne@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
FERNSIDE 481 Mairaki Road<br />
Your Slice of Paradise Awaits<br />
Positioned in the highly desirable Fernside area, this<br />
4-hectare bare land property presents arare<br />
opportunity to secure your own slice of paradise. Set<br />
back from the road, the land is beautifully contoured<br />
and well-proportioned, providing picturesque views.<br />
The property is privately positioned off Mairaki Road,<br />
accessed via ashared driveway. Domestic and<br />
livestock water is provided via one unit sourced from a<br />
bore, and delivered through aprivate scheme to a<br />
30,000L storage tank. Power connection is available on<br />
the opposite side of the shared driveway.<br />
PRICE BYNEGOTIATION<br />
Plus GST (if any)<br />
Mark Clyne<br />
M 027 531 2964<br />
E mark.clyne@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
Peter Crean<br />
M 027 434 4002<br />
E pcrean@pggwrightson.co.nz<br />
pggwre.co.nz/RAN42858<br />
pggwre.co.nz/RAN42101<br />
SOLD<br />
SOLD<br />
SOLD<br />
RURALAND LIFESTYLE<br />
SPECIALISTS<br />
SOLD<br />
352.2ha Hanmer Springs<br />
SOLD<br />
770.5ha WekaPass<br />
SOLD<br />
145.5ha Omihi<br />
Selling can be acomplicated<br />
process,but Peterand Mark will<br />
guide youevery step of the way.<br />
Dedicated to keeping youwellinformed<br />
and always availableto<br />
answer your questions,they provide<br />
clear advicetosupportyour decision<br />
making.Their full commitment<br />
ensures thebest possible results.<br />
They welcomeyour call.<br />
271.5ha Hawarden<br />
188.9ha Oxford<br />
561.9ha Hawarden<br />
CONTACTUSTODAY<br />
SOLD<br />
SOLD<br />
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PETER CREAN MARK CLYNE<br />
M 027 434 4002 M<br />
027 531 2964<br />
198.4ha Hawarden<br />
40.9ha BurntHill<br />
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027 422 6395<br />
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What’s happening in your<br />
community...<br />
WaimakaririVolunteer Expo <strong>2026</strong><br />
The Waimakariri Volunteer Expo returns in<strong>2026</strong>,<br />
with this year’s event taking place at the Trevor Inch<br />
Memorial Library inRangiora.<br />
On Friday 6March from 4–7pm, come along and meet<br />
the many local groups and organisations looking for<br />
people who are keen to give back to their community.<br />
Whether you’re new to volunteering orsimply exploring<br />
your options, the Volunteer Expo is agreat chance to<br />
connect with awide range of organisations inone place.<br />
You’ll beable toask questions, learn about what each<br />
group does, and find the roles that best match your<br />
skills, interests and availability.<br />
You’ll find adiverse mix of groups, including<br />
emergency services, social services, community<br />
and information services, environmental groups,<br />
community safety organisations, friendship and<br />
support groups and many more.<br />
There’s something for everyone. Examples ofroles on<br />
offer include:<br />
•Providing companionship ormentoring<br />
•Cooking orserving acommunity meal<br />
•Helping in an op shop<br />
•Joining agarden working bee<br />
•Becoming aneighbourhood contact person<br />
•Reception or admin support<br />
•Driving people to health appointments<br />
•Assisting during civil emergencies<br />
•Supporting fire response efforts.<br />
The Volunteer Expo supports theCouncil’scommitmentto<br />
strengthening the capability ofour local community and<br />
social services. Bygetting involved, you’re helping create<br />
amore connected, resilient andinclusive community.<br />
Please email aimee.claassens@wmk.govt.nz if you<br />
have any questions.<br />
A Good Street to CelebrateRangiora’sHeritage<br />
Rangiora’s town centre has anew window into the past,<br />
with two large black and white heritage prints installed<br />
in the Good Street laneway courtyard.<br />
The images–—showing 140HighStreetand 108HighStreet<br />
as they appeared in thelate1800s andearly 1900s—give<br />
passers-byachance to pause, reflect, andsee just howfar<br />
thetownshiphas come.<br />
The heritage prints are part ofaseries, complementing<br />
those already on display along the BNZ bank building.<br />
Good Street was chosen for the new additions asitsits<br />
close towhere the original photos were first taken.<br />
The project, which issupported by the Rangiora-Ashley<br />
Community Board, has anestimated cost of $1,000<br />
to install.<br />
The original prints were sourcedfromthe Rangiora<br />
Museum,who will also providehistoricaldetails about<br />
each building forplaques that will sitalongside theprints.<br />
AlcoholLicence Applications<br />
To view all public notices for new and<br />
renewal alcohol licence applications visit<br />
waimakariri.govt.nz/publicnotices<br />
VOLUNTEER<br />
E<br />
V<br />
EXPO. <strong>2026</strong>2<br />
YOU<br />
CANMAKE<br />
ADIFFERENCE<br />
F<br />
E E<br />
Meete<br />
representativese<br />
from<br />
local community organisationsi<br />
6March,RangioraLibrary,4–7pm<br />
CONNECTION PURPOSE SERVICE LEARNING<br />
Find outmoreatwaimakariri.gov m vt.nz<br />
Waitangi Day<br />
Collections<br />
There isnochange tokerbside<br />
collections onWaitangi Day<br />
(Friday 6<strong>February</strong>).<br />
If your collection dayisFriday,<br />
please ensure your bins and<br />
bags areout before 7am.<br />
Transfer Stations<br />
Southbrook Resource Recovery Park<br />
and Oxford Transfer Station will be<br />
open usual hours.<br />
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FLow stAte<br />
AMelIa greEn<br />
1feB -12maRch<br />
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AUTHOR TALK<br />
The Food Farm<br />
Want to grow your ownfood?<br />
Hear from Angela Clifford and Nick Gill<br />
about life ontheir <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
Permaculture property. Learn how tobe<br />
more self-sufficient and connected to the<br />
land with their book The Food Farm.<br />
Bookings required<br />
waimakaririlibraries.com<br />
0800 965 542<br />
Free English<br />
Language Classes<br />
Is Englishyoursecondlanguage?<br />
Come alongtoour classestoimprove your<br />
speaking,listening and grammar skills<br />
through arangeofinteresting topics!<br />
Term 1•14 <strong>February</strong> –28March<br />
Beginnerclass Intermediate class<br />
Saturdays•9–11am<br />
WarMemorialHall<br />
55 High Street,<br />
Rangiora<br />
EugenieBrain<br />
BeginnerTutor<br />
eugeniebrain@gmail.com<br />
Enrolmentisessential<br />
Rangiora Library<br />
13 <strong>February</strong><br />
5.30pm<br />
Does Your Pool<br />
FenceComply?<br />
Saturdays•10am–1pm<br />
Rangiora Town Hall<br />
Function Room,<br />
303HighStreet,<br />
Rangiora<br />
Julie Cloughley<br />
Intermediate Tutor<br />
cloughju@hotmail.com<br />
027 403 8245<br />
Summer’scoming—is your pool<br />
barrier compliant?<br />
Make sure your pool meetsthe<br />
requirements of theBuildingAct 2004.<br />
Usethe ‘Homechecklistfor pool owners’<br />
on ourwebsite to check.<br />
Council carries out routine inspections<br />
year-round to ensure pool safety and<br />
protect children under five.<br />
Gotquestions?Call03311 8906<br />
Register your pool at waimakariri.govt.nz<br />
Search ‘Swimming Pool Registration’
Free Digital<br />
SkillsClasses<br />
Introduction to SmartPhones<br />
KaiapoiLibrary<br />
Wednesday 11<strong>February</strong> • 10am–12noon<br />
Rangiora Library<br />
Friday 13 <strong>February</strong> •10am–12noon<br />
Introduction to Apps<br />
KaiapoiLibrary<br />
Wednesday 18<strong>February</strong> • 10am–12noon<br />
Rangiora Library<br />
Friday 20 <strong>February</strong> •10am–12noon<br />
Bookings Essential<br />
waimakaririlibraries.com<br />
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PUBLIC NOTICES<br />
COFFEE & CRAFT In<br />
term times 9.45am -<br />
11.45am Wednesdays.<br />
This term 11th Feb -1st<br />
April. Cost $2 entry plus<br />
costs. Crafts this term -<br />
card<br />
making,<br />
scrapbooking, knitting &<br />
nattering, Do your own<br />
thing. 111 East Belt,<br />
Rangiora Baptist<br />
Church. Enquiries Ph<br />
Lynette 03 313 6370 or<br />
027 634 5118.<br />
PUBLIC NOTICES<br />
HINEMOAKAIAPOI HOCKEY CLUB<br />
ANNUAL GENERALMEETING<br />
Sunday15<strong>February</strong>|3.00pm<br />
Hockey Club Rooms<br />
1Smith Street,Kaiapoi<br />
Businessincludesreports,elections andgeneral<br />
business.<br />
Allmemberspleaseattend.<br />
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BOOK FAIR<br />
Friday 20 and Saturday<br />
21 <strong>February</strong>, <strong>2026</strong> at St<br />
Bart’s Church Hall, 23<br />
Cass St., Kaiapoi.<br />
9:00am to 5:00pm<br />
Friday and 9:00am to<br />
2:00pm Saturday.<br />
EFTPOS Available<br />
Books $2.00 each or 6<br />
books for $10.00,<br />
puzzles $4.00, Children’s<br />
books10for $2.<br />
Tea and coffee<br />
available.<br />
Donations of good<br />
quality books, DVDs,<br />
jigsaws are most<br />
welcome. Please no<br />
tapes or CDs. Donated<br />
goods can beleft atthe<br />
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ContactMary327 8457.<br />
This is an Anglican Parish of<br />
Kaiapoi Fundraiser towards<br />
parish work.<br />
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<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>February</strong> 5, <strong>2026</strong><br />
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SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
PACKING STAFF<br />
required for our<br />
vegetable packing shed,<br />
8am start, Monday to<br />
Friday, varied finishing<br />
times, Clarkville area,<br />
approximate start date<br />
20th <strong>February</strong> for about<br />
8weeks, own transport<br />
required. Phone 027 221<br />
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MoneyTalks<br />
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KeepingTrack of your Money<br />
2<strong>February</strong>, 11am-12pm<br />
NeedsvsWants:Debtand BorrowingSensibly<br />
9<strong>February</strong>,11am-12pm<br />
Savingsand Setting Goals<br />
16 <strong>February</strong>,11am-12pm<br />
Open Session:WINZand IRDAssistance,<br />
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23 <strong>February</strong>,11am-12pm<br />
Bookings Essential<br />
KATE VALLEYLANDFILL<br />
COMMUNITY TRUST<br />
APPLICATIONS FORFUNDING<br />
ASSISTANCE<br />
The Trust invites applications from eligible<br />
groups orindividuals for grants from the 21st<br />
funding round.<br />
Application period isfrom 26January <strong>2026</strong><br />
to 27 <strong>February</strong> <strong>2026</strong>. Only applications on the<br />
<strong>2026</strong> form will be accepted.Forms areavailable<br />
from theHurunui District Libraryorbyemailing<br />
secretaryKVLCT@gmail.com.<br />
Ageneral information evening will be held at<br />
the Waipara Hall on Thursday 5th <strong>February</strong><br />
<strong>2026</strong> 7:30-8:30 pm at which Trustees will<br />
explain the eligibility requirements and assist<br />
with anyapplicationquestions.<br />
Enquiries should bedirected toJulian Ball on<br />
021671 721.<br />
PUBLIC NOTICES<br />
Professional Fundraiser<br />
Part Time (20hrs/week)<br />
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CompassFM<br />
CompassFMis<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>’s<br />
community radiostation —and we<br />
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Youwillrecruit newdonors, andlead<br />
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Applyby:Noon,Monday 9<strong>February</strong><br />
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Email: jobs@compass.fm<br />
Phone:Naomi Woodham–029770 9151<br />
Addressapplications to:Chairperson,<br />
<strong>North</strong><strong>Canterbury</strong>Radio Trust<br />
Rangiora High<br />
School<br />
Casual<br />
Cleaners<br />
Monday-Friday.<br />
Allenquiries<br />
andCV’scan be<br />
emailedto:<br />
wlj@rangiorahigh.<br />
school.nz.<br />
SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
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Waimakariri Libraries<br />
Pop-up Library<br />
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PegasusPlayground<br />
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13 <strong>February</strong><br />
9am–12.30pm<br />
13 <strong>February</strong><br />
2–3.30pm<br />
20 <strong>February</strong><br />
9.30–11.30am<br />
20 <strong>February</strong><br />
1.30–3.30pm<br />
27 <strong>February</strong><br />
9.30am–12.30pm<br />
27 <strong>February</strong><br />
2–3.20pm<br />
Southern<br />
Community Hub<br />
Community<br />
Workshop<br />
Southbrook Pavilion<br />
117 SouthBelt<br />
Tuesday <strong>February</strong> 17 th<br />
from 6.30pm<br />
Please register at<br />
events.humanitix.com/<br />
workshop-communityhub-at-southbrook-park<br />
Or call Gary McNichollon<br />
027438 4279<br />
Allwelcome<br />
PUBLIC NOTICES<br />
Lees ValleyHigh<br />
CountryTour<br />
Oxford A&PAssociationFundraiser<br />
Sunday 22nd <strong>February</strong> <strong>2026</strong><br />
Sign in from 8.30amatthe<br />
Lees ValleySchool<br />
Sign in from 8.30amatthe Lees ValleySchool<br />
Reserve, 2209 Lees ValleyRoad, Lees Valley7495.<br />
Convoy departsat9.30am. Cancellation day1st<br />
March<strong>2026</strong>. CASH ONLY ON THEDAY,paidatstart<br />
point,$200 pervehicle<br />
Allowatleast1hr travel time from Oxford<br />
township to theSchool Reservestart point.<br />
BYOlunchand chairs.<br />
ARecreationalEvent suitable for4WD vehicles<br />
only.Must have lowrange capability, current<br />
WOF, andacompetentdriver.<br />
Sparkarrestoressential.<br />
Vehicles and participants travel at theirown risk.<br />
Reasonable safety precautionswillbetaken by the<br />
volunteerorganiserswho will not be held liable.<br />
AHealthand Safety document will be provided to<br />
read,mustbeadheredtoonthe day, along with a<br />
Disclaimer of Liabilitytobesigned.<br />
No dogs allowed.<br />
Enquiries:Gus 021 2<strong>05</strong> 3385 or Harry027 476 1867<br />
Rangiora High<br />
School<br />
Kaiāwhina/<br />
Teacher<br />
Aide<br />
We areseekingto<br />
appointaKaiāwhina<br />
(TeacherAide) to<br />
undertakelearning<br />
support work in<br />
ourLighthouse<br />
Programme,working<br />
with ORSfunded<br />
studentswithhighand<br />
very high needs.<br />
•Permanent part-time<br />
position working<br />
27.5hours perweek<br />
(termtimeonly).<br />
•Previousteacheraide<br />
experience preferred,<br />
but notessential.<br />
Closingdate: Monday<br />
16 <strong>February</strong> <strong>2026</strong><br />
Pleasevisit theRHS<br />
websitefor further<br />
information:<br />
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employment
Thursday,July31, 2025 | I sue 157 | www.starnews.co.nz<br />
By DAVID HI L,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
It was hailed as a ‘onestop shop ’ to<br />
make it quicker and easier to build<br />
major projects when it pa sed into law<br />
last December.<br />
But none of the five <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
projects included in the Government’s<br />
Fasttrack A provals Act have<br />
progre sed beyond being ‘listed ’<br />
projects in the fasttrack proce s.<br />
They were among 149 projects listed<br />
in the legislation.<br />
In astatement released last w ek,<br />
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop<br />
and Regional Development Minister<br />
Shane Jones said around 50 of the 149<br />
projects had lodged substantive<br />
a plications with the Environmental<br />
Protection Authority (EPA), since the<br />
a provals regime was established in<br />
<strong>February</strong>.<br />
Of those, none have b en a proved so<br />
far, with the first eight expected to be<br />
signed o f by the end of the year.<br />
Proposed housing developments at<br />
Ōhoka, W odend and west Rangiora<br />
were listed in the legislation, along with<br />
the W odend Bypa s and the Amuri<br />
I rigation Company Ltd’s Balmoral<br />
water storage facility and fish scr en.<br />
An EPA spokespersonhas confirmed<br />
none of the five <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
projects have lodged substantivefasttrack<br />
a plications.<br />
Developersofalisted projectcan<br />
a ply to the EPA where an ‘expert<br />
panel’ wi l a se s the projectand<br />
consult with ‘directly a fected groups ’.<br />
Panel convenors determine theextent<br />
of the consultation, meaning the is no<br />
guarant e local communities wi l have a<br />
say.<br />
There isnotimeframe for alisted<br />
projec to lodge an a plication, the<br />
spokesperson said.<br />
When the project list was a nounced<br />
in October last year, Mr Bishop pointed<br />
the finger at councils for creating the<br />
housing crisis.<br />
‘Speaking in general terms, councils<br />
have contributed to our housing crisis<br />
by being overly picky about where<br />
houses can be built, ’ he said a the time.<br />
The W odend and west Rangiora<br />
developments have since b en included<br />
in the new WaimakaririDistrictPlan<br />
adopted last month, meaning they may<br />
not n ed to be fasttracked.<br />
AmuriI rigation Company<br />
chairperson David Croft said the<br />
company anticipated aresource consent<br />
would be granted by Environment<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> (ECan) in the next few<br />
months, after it was lodged in 2023.<br />
‘It l oks like the normal consenting<br />
proce s wi l be faster. In somewaysit<br />
would be the ideal situation because<br />
everybody has had the chance tohave<br />
their say in asystem they are familiar<br />
with. ’<br />
A$20m loan from the Government’s<br />
Regional Infrastructure Fund was<br />
a nounced earlier this monthfor the<br />
Balmoral water storageproject.<br />
The proposed Ōhoka development<br />
was rejected from the District Plan,<br />
after aprivate plan change requestwas<br />
rejected by an independent<br />
commi sioner in November 2023.<br />
It issti l subjec to an Environment<br />
Court a peal.<br />
An Environment Courtspokesperson<br />
said the a pe lant, Carter Group, has<br />
b en directed to advise the court by<br />
August 2 ‘how or whether it intends to<br />
proc ed ’.<br />
Waimakariri District Council<br />
development pla ning manager Ma t<br />
Bacon said under the new District Plan,<br />
the site of the proposed Ohoka<br />
development is zoned rura lifestyle.<br />
It mean the farmland could be subdivided<br />
into 4ha lots, but not into an<br />
850home development as proposed.<br />
Carter Group wascontacted for<br />
comment but areply had not b en<br />
received by the time the <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong> wen to print.<br />
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency<br />
has b en completing geotech reports as<br />
it continues scoping workfor the<br />
proposed W odend Bypa s.<br />
LDR islocal body journalism cofunded<br />
by RNZ and NZ On Air.<br />
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Promotion runs from <strong>05</strong>/02/26 until 04/03/26. Redemption ends: 18/03/26. Offer not inconjunction withany other HiKOKI promotional bonus offers.<br />
T&Csapply.Redeem allHiKOKI Bonus items onlineatwww.hikoki.co.nz/promotions/. *Spend inone transaction.<br />
WORTH<br />
$319<br />
RRP<br />
WORTH<br />
$389<br />
RRP<br />
WORTH<br />
$618<br />
RRP<br />
HiKOKI<br />
730W 125mm AngleGrinder<br />
327656<br />
$119<br />
9<br />
Was<br />
$189<br />
Spend $2999* or moreonHiKOKI to redeem a<br />
Multi Volt Tabless Battery, PortableUSB Power<br />
Charger,18V InflatorSkinand 18V AirDusterSkin<br />
(2040728+2063165 +2<strong>05</strong>5744 +2032103)<br />
SAVE<br />
$500<br />
SAVE<br />
$250<br />
Spend and Redeem on<br />
HiKOKI PowerTools<br />
WORTH<br />
$1166<br />
RRP<br />
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100% LOCALLYOWNED &OPERATED.<br />
Prices valid until 4thMarch <strong>2026</strong><br />
While stocks last<br />
*Ifyou find alower priceonanidentical in-stockproduct,wewill beat it by 15%<br />
Excludes special quotes, onaccount (credit and cash) purchases, stock liquidations and commercial quantities.The same instock<br />
product must beavailable to you for same day delivery orcollection. Includes GST and delivery charges. Ifyou find the<br />
same product cheaper from another Mitre 10store or online at www.mitre10.co.nz we’ll match that price.The in-store price<br />
may be lower than that advertised.<br />
RANGIORA
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