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Drink driver says sorry and goes public By Emma-Jane McLennan

BAY HAIKA is so embarrassed about a three-hour drinking binge before getting behind the wheel he has publicly apologised. The 55-year-old demolition worker was caught at more than four times the legal drink-driving limit after his work Christmas party. He will appear in the district court on Friday to face a drink driving charge. And he has taken out newspaper ads in a bid to prevent others from doing the same. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope that by reading it someone else will take my advice and not drink and drive, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cos you know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a regular guy not just someone on TV telling them not to.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘Turn to page 3

REMORSEFUL: Demolition worker Bay Haika has taken out newspaper advertisements (above) saying he is sorry for drink driving, and wants to help prevent others from doing the same. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN

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New group could control buses By Gabrielle Stuart

A NEW entity controlling the city’s public transport could be set up, because of the stormy relationship between the city council and Environment Canterbury. The tension between the two came to a head last year over the overhaul of the bus system. With ECan controlling the bus routes and the city council controlling bus stops, the issues ranged from delays to the Riccarton Rd passenger lounges to parts of routes being left without bus stops. The new entity would include representatives from the city council and ECan, as well as the Selwyn and Waimakariri district councils. It is set to be discussed at a city council committee meeting tomorrow. In late 2014, the Canterbury Mayoral Forum asked Transport Minister Simon Bridges in a letter to review the way the transport system was managed, because the councils were not working well together. “This is seriously impacting upon the region’s ability to deliver a fully functional and effective public transport service which

is considered integral to the recovery and rebuild of a vibrant Greater Christchurch,” they wrote. Consultant firm McGredy Winder & Co was brought in to look at the problems and ways it could be Peter Winder addressed. In a report to the councils, the

Ministry of Transport and the New Zealand Transport Agency, director Peter Winder said the councils have different priorities and there was a lack of trust between them. “There is frustration that ECan does not face, nor fully consider the full costs of its decisions and in effect passes on costs to the territorial authorities. Equally, there is frustration at the slowness of implementation/re-location

of bus stops and bus priority measures, and the lack of priority given to region-wide benefits by city council.” It said the councils agreed in principle about the role and needs of the public transport system. “But underneath the high level and in principle agreement on public transport strategy there are multiple public transport plans that are either not aligned or not fully integrated,” it said. It recommended that the councils either improve the partnership and share decision-making, or reallocate their roles and responsibilities. It also suggested 10 different options for allocating or managing the public transport responsibilities between councils. ECan has already agreed to setting up a joint committee, but all the options will be put to the city council to look at before it decides if it will support the move. It will also need to decide whether to delegate all its public transport powers to the committee or keep some or all of them. If it agrees to the plan, the new entity is expected to be set up by May this year.

No complaints over frozen meals for CDHB AN OUTCRY over the quality of frozen meals being trucked from the North Island has erupted in Dunedin – but in Christchurch no such complaints have arisen. While the Canterbury District Health Board uses the same catering company as Dunedin’s health board, it hasn’t had any issue with them, a spokeswoman said. “Compass does all of our hospital meals and meals on wheels, and will continue to do so.” The questions come after it was revealed that elderly Dunedin residents were refusing to eat the food, with 11 cancelling the service since the new provider started on December 18. Age Concern Canterbury chief

executive Simon Templeton said he wasn’t aware of any major issues. “You do often hear complaints about bulk-made food, some say it’s lovely and others not so much. I haven’t heard anything recently about the quality.” He added that there are “many other” affordable meals-onwheels options if people didn’t like what they were given. It comes as a University of Otago human nutrition authority has warned Dunedin’s cashstrapped health board may lose more money than it saves from the outsourcing if people will not eat the food. Associate Professor Winsome Parnell said the board might need

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SUMMERTIMES.CO.NZ Crown extends leases for Re:Start Mall By Emma-Jane McLennan THE CROWN confirmed yesterday that it will extend land leases in the Re:Start Mall for another 12 months. While developers are gearing up to start building on their parts of the iconic Cashel St mall, the Crown’s leases will continue through until January 31 – past the original cutoff of May this year. Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority Minister Gerry Brownlee

said yesterday the extension will allow part to continue, enabling “this very popular attraction is able to continue while developments progress around it, and its existing tenant look to options for the future.” Sections of the Ballantynes end will likely be progressed soon, with developer Denis Sunderland calling tenders for his planned $9 million four-storey mixed-use complex this month. Neighbouring developer Pe-

ter Guthrey is currently working through plans with the city council, and will likely start construction over the next few months. The crown-owned land at the Avon River end, which takes in a complex of eateries, cafes and retail stores, will continue to run independently while the surrounds are developed. The Crown intends to sell the land for retail development early EXTENDED: This section of Re:Start Mall will now stay open for next year. another 12 months. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN

$7m flooding solution Drink driver says sorry up for discussion

By Gabrielle Stuart

A SOLUTION to flooding problems in St Albans and Mairehau will come down to one question tomorrow: Is it worth spending money now to save money in the future? A $7m plan to improve the Cranford Basin floodwater network would protect the area against flooding in the future. Dozens of residents around Flockton and Dudley Creek have had their homes and vehicles destroyed by floodwater since the earthquakes, as parts of the land have dropped. The work would include upgrades to embankments, drains, floodwater storage areas and gates and systems in Jo Byrne the network. But spending an extra $2.5m on extra embankments and flow control could give better protection, with an extra floodwater capacity of 15,000 sq m. A city council committee is set to discuss the options at a meeting tomorrow. Shirley-Papanui Community Board member Jo Byrne, who represents a group of homeowners in the flood-prone areas, said it was a balancing act for the city council. “It’s trying to weigh up the

INUNDATED: A $7m plan to improve the Cranford Basin network has been welcomed by many residents in the area who have had their homes and cars repeatedly flooded. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN money thing, because there are residents who can’t cope with rates rises, but on the other hand we do need to have dry homes.” She wanted to see the bigger option, but said either would improve the situation. The city council has already agreed to building a $48m pump station and water bypass system in the area, with work due to start in April. “Obviously they’re doing a pile of engineering work across the city and they can’t sacrifice one part of the system to focus on another,” she said. “They have to balance things that will make a good impact now

with things that will give better protection in the future.” In a report to the committee, engineering consultant Tom Parsons recommended that the city council go ahead with the project, but keep it to $7m rather than spending extra for better protection. He said the extra work could be done at a later date. If the committee decides tomorrow to go ahead with the project, it will need to be put to the whole city council for approval. If it is given the green light, work could start on the project this year.

•From page 1 Mr Haika was caught on December 18 by police with 1013mcg/l breath alcohol – more than four times the 250mcg/l limit. His licence was suspended for 28 days. This week he took out two newspaper ads to apologise for his actions. In them he wrote his full name and said he would like to apologise to the ‘wider communities out there’ for driving under the influence: “It’s just not worth it!! The harm you can cause to others and your own family/ partners, to maim and/or worse cause death, whilst doing a stupid action! for an extra celebration drink or two [sic].” He said it was a “random” decision to run the ad, but he’d been praised for speaking out by colleagues and friends. “A lot of them said it’s really cool.” Mr Haika said he hadn’t drank excessively for about 18 years, until a work Christmas party. “It all happened because of the staff break-up.” He started drinking at his boss’ house around 5.30pm, before moving on to a nearby pub with his workmates. While he was “just drinking beer” – Heineken and Speight’s – he said he “drinks fast and had too

many to remember” before deciding to drive his partner to their house, just 1km down the road, at about 8.30pm. “Yeah, I decided to drive her home but I could have hurt someone so that’s why I thought I should do an apology.” Mr Haika he had been a heavy drinker up until 18 years ago when he was caught drink driving, which had been a wake-up call. He was hugely disappointed in himself that he had slipped up at the Christmas work party. “Drink driving is a stupid idea and you just don’t know what’s going to happen the next day.” He also said it’s more important to stay sober now because he often drives his grandchildren to sport at the weekends. When out drinking with friends now, Mr Haika said they all take a courtesy van home afterwards. Mr Haika has his licence back after the 28-day suspension, but could face up to three month’s imprisonment, a maximum $4500 fine and mandatory disqualification of at least six months. He’s scheduled to appear in court on Friday, but says his biggest issue now is finding a lawyer to represent him: “They’re all on holiday.”

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New outpatient facility confirmed A NEW outpatient facility will be built in the Health Precinct on St Andrew’s triangle, directly opposite Christchurch Hospital. It will be five storeys high and will provide 10,500 sq m of stateof-the-art facilities for outpatient and other clinical services. It is expected to be completed in 2018. The design process has made rapid progress, with the early concepts and preliminary design completed in two months. The next step is to begin the developed design, such as detail of room layouts, this month. Murray Cleverley, Canterbury DHB chairman and member of the Hospitals Redevelopment Partnership Group, says he is delighted about this very welcome announcement. “A completed new facility will be a major achievement as part of the bigger Christchurch Hospital redevelopment picture,” Mr Cleverley says. “This is a very auspicious start to the new year and another really important step in addressing the legacy of disrupted services in the aftermath of the earthquakes -to have received ministerial sign off is a great way to start the new year.” Mr Cleverley says the new outpatient facility will finally bring together again a number of general consultation clinics and provide for the delivery of services such as diabetes, endocrine, ophthalmology and dental.

CLINIC: An artist’s impression of the new outpatient facility planned for Christchurch Hospital. with additional funding from the “These services have been dis- Health Hub. Dr Rob Ojala, Canterbury DHB Government’s Hospitals’ Redevelpersed across the Christchurch Hospital campus, with dental at clinical lead for facilities redevelopment budget, which is also conHillmorton Hospital, since the opment, says the emphasis is for tributing to the $650 million plus Canterbury quakes significantly this facility to support integrated cost of new facilities at Burwood Hospital and the Acute Services damaged a number of health fa- specialist community care. “This will help patients gain Building on the Christchurch cilities,” he says. Currently most outpatient access to the specialist care they Hospital campus. “I want to thank all of the staff, clinics are temporarily housed need outside of the more tradiin Hagley Outpatients, a facility tional hospital-based care envi- including clinical teams and contractors, who have already made built in just 100 post-quake days. ronment,” Dr Ojala says. Mr Cleverley says the funding significant contributions in terms Once the new outpatients’ facility is open, part of the Hagley Outpa- for the new outpatient facility will of their time, commitment and tients building will be relocated, be a combination of money re- expertise to get us to this stage,” as planned, to find a second lease ceived through Canterbury DHB’s Mr Cleverley says. Canterbury DHB has a number of life as part of Rangiora’s new insurance settlement, together

of major construction projects under way at present, with a new Integrated Family Health Centre in Kaikoura; a new Health Hub in Rangiora; the $650 million redevelopments at Burwood and Christchurch; and a new operating theatre and acute assessment unit under way in Ashburton, he says. “All these new facilities will support staff to provide the very best care, and each one is a major morale boost for staff and patients who have had to ‘make-do’ with substandard and temporary facilities for long enough already.”

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Opposition halts plans for Cranford St changes By Andrew King

CONTROVERSIAL changes to a busy Christchurch intersection could be scrapped. The junction of Cranford and Westminster Sts was earmarked for an upgrade to cope with the ever-increasing traffic volume. But public opposition from several businesses appear to have halted the whole process. Shirley-Papanui Community Board chairman Mike Davidson said it was a huge win for the board and the community. “It shows they [city council staff] have listened to the community board, they have listened to the submissions and listened to what the community wants,” he said. But board deputy chairman Aaron Keown said there will need to be something done as the Northern Arterial project will need somewhere to link to. “It needs to head right into the city, not just end around Innes Rd,” he said. The former city councillor said there has been a real “lack of leadership” around the issue. “We need to have a look at the plan for the Northern Arterial so we as a community and city council can find the best solution

Speed limit review under way across city By Andrew King

ON HOLD: Controversial plans to upgrade the intersection of Cranford and Westminster Sts could be scrapped much to the delight of local businesses.

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to the increasing traffic issues in the St Albans area,” he said. Consultation yielded a high number of submissions last year unhappy with the changes proposed to Cranford St. There were 38 submissions made between May 25 and June 22 over the changes to Cranford

St, with 72 per cent of them against the plan. Consultation leaflets were hand delivered to about 50 affected residents, businesses and absentee landowners. Ninety-nine key stakeholders were also identified and sent a copy, including St Albans School and St Albans Residents’ Association. There were 19 submissions stating they were unhappy about losing parking and they were met

Number of cars that use Cranford St • Four day weekday average – 23,800 vehicles/day. • Morning peak 7-9am – 2000 vehicles/hour. • Afternoon peak 4-6pm – 2060 vehicles/hour. with the same response from city council.

A FACT finding mission is under way to identify what streets in Christchurch could benefit from a reduced speed limit. City council staff are about to start reviewing the speed limits around the city and want feedback from residents. A memo has been sent out to all community boards across the city asking them to to provide a list of any roads they feel need looking at. As the process takes a long time city council staff are looking to include the community boards as soon as possible. Community board meetings are back once a fortnight with the Shirley-Papanui Community Board meeting tonight at the Papanui Library and Service Centre on Langdons Rd. HAVE YOUR SAY Are there roads around the city you know that could benefit from a reduced speed limit? Email your thoughts to andrew.king@ starmedia.kiwi

Wednesday February 3 2016

Quake exhibition boosts museum visitors

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MORE THAN 100,000 people visited Canterbury Museum and its special exhibition Quake City in January, the highest-ever visitor numbers recorded in a single month, as tourists and locals return to the central city in ever-increasing numbers. The record-breaking month (102,527 visitors) was up almost five per cent on the 98,012 visitors welcomed in January 2014, when the previous record for the month of January was set. The museum is on course to break its annual record of 666,000 visitors in the 2014/2015 year. Museum director Anthony Wright said the Christmas holiday period has been incredibly busy with throngs of people in the museum throughout the day. “Our two temporary exhibitions – Da Vinci Mechanics and Corrugations: The Art of Jeff Thomson have proved very popular with visitors of all ages, along with museum favourites including Fred & Myrtle’s Paua Shell House, the Christchurch Street and Discovery, our natural history centre for children. “It’s fantastic to see so many people enjoying the museum and out on the streets in the Cultural Precinct – visiting the newly-opened Christchurch Art Gallery, enjoying the Botanic Gardens and seeing the progress in restoring the Arts Centre,”

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Plans to get tramway extension moving again By Gabrielle Stuart

said Mr Wright. “Quake City, our special exhibition in Re:Start Mall which tells stories from the Canterbury earthquakes, has been very busy as well with the increased number of tourists in the city. “The January figures come on top of great visitor numbers in December, when 72,018 people visited, many enjoying the magic of Christmas at the museum with our special event, A Victorian Christmas. This was just short of our previous December record of 73,210 set in 2013 when the RISE! street art exhibition opened.”

A TRAMWAY extension which was abandoned after the earthquakes could be restarted, but it is likely to be several years away. The extension would run through the Innovation Precinct along Lichfield and Poplar Sts before connecting to High St. The loop was under construction in 2010, but the work was stalled after the February 2011 earthquake. The city council is now planning to integrate the tramway extension into its plans for public spaces in the area. The plan is set to be discussed at a committee meeting tomorrow. Christchurch Tramway director

Michael Esposito said the tracks were not badly damaged, and would be relatively easy to repair. But he said the plan was put on hold because most of the shops and public spaces in the area were gone. He said it could be opened once shops began to move back and the public spaces were built. “There would be nothing gained going down there today, but in 10

years it’s going to be an exciting place,” he said. He said people riding the trams were often tourists, so the route was designed to showcase places they otherwise might not visit. “There’s no use going to places that are still under development. You really want to go into areas where it’s thriving, where people want to get out and experience it, so it can be an advertisement for the city.” The tram currently stops on High St and has to reverse back toward the city, so he said the extension would make it a much smoother loop. He said it was likely to add another five or 10min to the 50min journey.

Arthur’s Pass fall victim named THE 31-YEAR-OLD man who fell to his death on Mt Rolleston has been named as Gergo Verhas, a Hungarian who lived in Auckland. Mr Verhas was climbing on Mt Rolleston near Arthur’s Pass with two women companions when he fell about 7.30am on Monday. In spite of an immediate emergency response from the Canterbury Westpac Rescue Helicopter, he was unable to be saved. Mr Verhas was an experienced climber and a member of the New

Zealand Alpine Club. Chief executive Sam Newton told the New Zealand Herald what happened yesterday. “In a team of three climbers, Gergo had ascended the Central Direct Route on the Otira Face of Mt Rolleston on Sunday. After spending the night near the summit, the party was descending via the standard descent route, early on Monday morning,” he said. “During that descent, Gergo slipped on loose scree, slid across

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Boom times on CBD edge Fitzgerald Ave: More potential and affordable

By Emma-Jane McLennan CHEAPER rents and development possibilities have led to Fitzgerald Ave being dubbed “the new Moorhouse Ave” of Christchurch. Empty parking lots are turning into thriving businesses, with more popping up all the time, Hire King director Tim Aldridge said. “It’s great, there’s so much building going on. In Moorhouse Ave, the rents are very high, but on Fitzgerald it’s a lot more affordable and it’s all happening here. It really is the new Moorhouse Ave, just spilling around the corner.” The business officially opened its new site last Friday – joining competing hire companies Accessman – on Fitzgerald Ave – and Hirepool, nearby on Moorhouse Ave. Across the road from Mr Aldridge’s business site, Richard Peebles is developing a site for two others: Repco and Mag & Turbo Tyre and Service Centre. It’s just one of the many Fitzgerald sites the prominent Christchurch developer is involved with. There’s the Penny Homes site, the Cancer Society building, the Wattyl Trade Paint Centre just off Fitzgerald, on Tuam St. The list

STOKED: Tim Aldridge says his business has found a good new site on Fitzgerald Ave. Below: The new Repco and Mag & Turbo Tyre and Service Centre sites being built on Fitzgerald Ave. PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN goes on, Mr Peebles said. “I’ve seen the potential in Fitzgerald Ave, for a long time, I’ve just been waiting for it to come to fruition. It’s got massive profile, it’s one of the four major avenues and it’s simply undeveloped.” But with new buildings progressing at rapid speeds, that potential is finally being realised, he said: “It’s about bloody time!” Cafe owner Stewart McDougall has been operating the Purple Weka Cafe on Fitzgerald Ave, for four years now, and says after some “very hard” times on the site it’s finally looking up. He operated the business out of a container for a year while the building was rebuilt: “It was very, very difficult. Our business

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dropped by 70 per cent because we were outdoors in the weather and the dust, then we were broken into – twice.” But now with their building back and new customers arriving every week, it’s looking up for Mr McDougall. “It’s certainly getting a bit of a buzz around here, we’ve got Repco coming in next door and three new building around us – all office warehouses. It’s all been happening in the last four or five weeks,” he said. And developments are only just starting to accelerate, Mr Peebles said. “If you want your business on a main thoroughfare, there’s not much to choose from. You’ve got

Moorhouse, Blenheim or Fitzgerald. There’s still a lot of land here, buildings being up-specced and the like so it’s good.”

Casino chips in for region’s surf lifesavers SURF LIFE saving clubs in the Canterbury area have been given a cash boost thanks to a donation from the Christchurch Casino. The $5000 donation to each of the eight surf lifesaving clubs will be used to help support the clubs with their day-to-day lifesaving operations. The clubs are Waikuku Beach, Spencer Park, Waimairi, North Beach, New Brighton, South Brighton, Sumner and Taylors Mistake. Surf Life Saving New Zealand southern region manager Stu Bryce said with a busy summer, the Christchurch Casino saw a need to support their local area and help ensure that volunteer lifeguards can continue providing an essential service for the wider community. The eight clubs are incredibly grateful for the generous donation, he said. “There’s still a wide range of costs to train and upskill volunteer lifeguards and to make sure they are equipped with essential gear to save lives each summer. This donation will go towards coverings some of those costs that the clubs would typically fundraise for within the community,” he said.

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Over the weekend Labour leader Andrew Little unveiled plans to bring back free tertiary education to all students for up to three years, which is estimated to cost $1.2 billion each year. Gabrielle Stuart asked for people’s thoughts on the policy, and whether it would affect the way they would vote.

Karyn Jordan, office manager, of Shirley: “I don’t agree with it at all, because I don’t think it’s going to be affordable for the country. I’m happy for university education to be subsidised but I still think people should pay for whatever they want to study, so long as it is not humongous sums.”

Tom Eatson, student, of Ilam: “I wouldn’t support it, because I think free tertiary education devalues it. You’d have more people coming into classes and the quality would drop, because it is really a numbers game. I think you’d also get people coming into the kind of courses where there aren’t jobs, rather than the ones where more people are required. So no, it won’t change the way I vote.”

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Michael Eatson, student, of Richmond: “I think the cost of the fees deter a lot of people who are wanting to study. So I think it’s a good idea, although the question is how are they going to fund it, and that’s what would sway me. But they’ve got to do something, because if they keep using the current model where the fees go up every year the cost of study is going to be out of control.”

Mick Grennan, electrician, of the central city: “I generally agree with the idea of free education if there is enough money in the pot, because the way I see it, it benefits everyone when people in society are better educated. I think making people pay for study can increase the gap between the rich and poor, too. So it wouldn’t completely change the way I’ll vote, but it will play a role.”

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Erun Kumar Manickavasegam, student, of Upper Riccarton: “A lot of people don’t know a lot about the course they’re choosing when they enrol, and it becomes a burden if they need to change their course and they have to pay all the fees. So I think having fees paid would mean the courses could be more flexible, and that would be advantageous. So yes, it would make me more likely to vote for them.”

Matt Jones, project manager, Johnathan Barnsley, Matthew Reeve, of Avonhead: “I’m student, of Otago: student, of Ilam: a father-of-three “When I heard about “I feel like it would so I like the policy, it my first response bring in a lot of but I’m concerned was yeah, it’s a great people who don’t about the details of thing. I do think it’s really want to be how it is financed. good to be encourat university but On the face of it I aging more people just get on the think yeah, great, to study. But having bandwagon for the but I don’t think we said that, there’s student lifestyle. I’ve can afford it. So I’d no point investing got a huge loan but be for it with the in people who are I don’t regret doing proviso that it is going to leave the what I’m doing fiscally sound and country straight because I’m hoping not supported by a after they finish uni- it will pay off once shortfall somewhere versity, so if you’re I get into work. I’d else in the budget. going to pay for love to have had a I’m usually a their study you need free three years, but National voter and I to make sure they there are pros and don’t think anyone can actually find jobs cons and I think it should change their here first. I was lean- would bring in too vote based on one ing toward Labour many people for the policy, but I’d have anyway, but yes, wrong reasons. So to see the details it will probably be I won’t be swayed before I could say if something I consider either way by it.” it would be a factor.” when I vote.”

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Wednesday February 3 2016

Opinion

Council CEO pay rise, security sensors, drone policy

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Readers respond to a recommendation by city councillors being made on chief executive Karleen Edwards’ $395,000 pay. It will now go to the full council for a decision.

council. In short, timing is wrong if a increase is given! Pauline Harper: Why do we pay our rates? I would rather fix Christchurch than pay nonconsequential pays that are so exorbitant, and the basic worker gets phuk all.

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Chris Knight: If a pay rise is given I ain’t paying my rates. Will not support a council, or the mayor, if this goes ahead!!!! We, ratepayers had enough of this with the Marryatt, Parker debacle. NO MORE !!!!!!! Stewart Poi Kaa: I’m okay with performance-based salaries. Question – what has this CEO done for the ratepayers of Chch that justifies an increase at this point. If restructuring is just cause for a salary review, then I would have to agree with the majority of Chch, we have had enough of this under Bob Parker’s leadership and

Carol Geddes: Yep agreed. Christchurch does not need this right now. Let’s all pull our sleeves up and get our city up and running. Neil David Osborne: Look at what the average bus driver gets. For the chief executive’s pay you could employ five full-time bus drivers working 60 hours a week. When I drove buses I had an average earning of $700 to take home, based on 55-60 hours per week – with child support and tax, $19 per hour. Why pay council staff who technically sit fiddling doing nothing, but causing problems for us, almost five times that? I worked six days – 12hr 25min each day with a 2hr break – so paid for 10hr 25min.

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Murray Horn: Rather typical of CEO/management having huge pay rises while the workers stay the same or get cuts with allowances taken from them. Absolutely disgusting the huge amounts CEOs get while others struggle. Vim Paranjothy: Her pay is already enough. Give more to the true worthy hardworking workers! Kim Boshier: How can the city council afford to give her a pay rise when they have just laid off some staff ? Or maybe they were laid off to pay for her pay rise!

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Mike May: So give her a huge pay rise yet sell City Care because of its costs? What does she actually do? I’ve never even heard of her.

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These salaries are truly disgraceful. My average year’s earning was $60,000. On ACC and an average pay of $564 per week I think that is about $30,000. Where do these people get the nerve to ask 10 or 12 times what the average person is earning?

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A safer passage but will it last? Former St John Christchurch volunteer Anna McPhee has travelled to a Greek island off the coast of Turkey, where she is working to help thousands of Syrian refugees. On Saturday a refugee boat sunk, killing more than 30 refugees including at least five children. Since then, she said things on the island had changed ONCE A week I let go and get away. I escape to the relative normality of a cafe overlooking the ocean and I let the weight of the world fall on me. Sometimes there are tears, sometimes despondence. Usually I manage to get some work done in there too. Today’s emotion of the moment is bewilderment. Today things have changed, my little world here is different to how it was yesterday or last week, things on Lesbos are shifting. I don’t yet know what that means for me or the others here. For two nights now I have sat through the sunrise without the usual panoramic of little black dots approaching in the horizon. The ocean has been empty of those I am here to rescue, and that is a good thing. No boats means no drownings, no deaths, none of this unnecessary suffering I have become accustomed to. It looks like the authorities are getting their act together, it looks like the very beginnings of a safe passage are emerging. This is fantastic news, if it lasts.

Anna McPhee The Syrian refugee crisis

Forgive me for sounding sceptical here, but my initial reaction is a feeling of too good to be true. For the past two days numerous volunteers have speculated on why the boats have stopped arriving, how come we are watching smooth oceans and great weather and not seeing any refugees signalling in the distance. Perhaps the coastguard are turning people back to Turkey? There were rumours of Turkish police being spotted patrolling the Izmir coastlines at night, thwarting smugglers’ attempts to send off boats. Whatever the

reason, something was going on and the whole island had been spending the evening discussing it. Today emerged more information, on one of the main social media information groups for volunteers Léon van Schie posted: “Breaking news from the front; in the Aegean Sea around the island of Lesvos, right in front of the Turkish waters, lay six huge Greek naval vessels that stop all refugee boats. The Greek let them board the navy ships, register them, and when their numbers approach 400, they sail towards Mytilini

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which will lose momentum once the spotlight is taken off. This isn’t the first instance of a “volunteers aren’t needed any more” statement. It has been suggested a number of times last year when various changes were made and milestones reached, however, in every case the need for volunteers remained. Will this be the case once again? So where are we needed now? There is already an influx of notyet-arrived volunteers questioning whether they should come to Lesbos, or whether their help is going to be more needed on the other islands, or perhaps Athens. Of course there is no clear answer to this, other than to say that whether we are meeting boats or not, the refugees are still coming, and still being taken into the camps where there is always a need for assistance and support. I am sure many will leave in search of other places to help, perhaps Turkey, while others (most likely myself included) will wait it out on Lesbos to see what happens once the media spotlight subsides. It will be interesting to see how long Frontex and the Greek authorities sustain this practice for. I certainly hope this is a sustainable solution, and a step in the direction of safe passage. But if it’s not, and it is just a temporary facade, I will be here ready when the boats return. In the meantime, it’s business as usual with people to feed and refugee camps to run – beach rescue or not.

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Wednesday February 3 2016

Fat scales

Weighing up the fat in your body How much body fat do you have? That’s the question you could now answer with a home body fat scale – the latest in a whole range of health and fitness tracking devices. Emma-Jane McLennan has more THIRTY-FOUR blocks of butter. That’s the equivalent fat the average New Zealand adult male is carrying around – or 40 blocks of butter for the average female. It’s a fact many would like to avoid, but knowing how much fat you are carrying can be helpful according to dietitian Lea Stening. “Absolutely it can be very helpful, but a fat-measuring scale is just one component of that.” The fat scales she is referring to is the latest in a long line of fitness and health related devices. The device – which you can buy from your local electronics store for just a few hundred dollars – works by sending a very fine current through your body and testing how quickly it comes back. Tissue containing a lot of water, such as muscle, allows the current to come back very quickly, but when it hits fat it slows down. The scales measure that data, together with information you enter such as your gender, age, height and level of fitness to calculate your body fat percentage. It’s that part you need to re-

Lea Stening member, as there is a danger in simply aiming for “the less fat the better,” without taking your body type into account. Every body is different, but there are some basic guidelines when it comes to how much fat you should have. Firstly, there is a stark contrast between males and females, as the latter needs more fat for reproduction. There’s also different guidelines for adults at “fitness” or “athlete” levels. It’s important to remember these, Mrs Stening said. “There is a standard you need to

measure against, and it certainly needs to be done in conjunction with a plan and a dietitian.” Some will even need to consult a doctor or dietitian before using a fat scale – as the light electrical current can be dangerous if you wear a pacemaker. It can also be unreliable or unhelpful for children, athletes, bodybuilders, people with metal plates or screws in their bodies and pregnant women. If you are wanting to use a fat scale at home there is one thing to remember: Use it at the same time every week. That way it can be used with “reasonable accuracy,” but when it comes to tracking your weight it needs to be used as part of a wider plan. That’s why Mrs Stening also recommended regular waist and hip measurements to track weight loss, and said many will use it in conjunction with a pedometer. With fitness-tracker watches also becoming more popular among a raft of such appliances, it’s becoming easier to track almost every area of your health and fitness.

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It isman-made also narrower hasnot too been far but you don’t want nal, the little on open the Baise Vianne a bastide, which ection of the banks and so the On a balmy summer night we wonderfully preserved — yet still the vegetables call out to ed is 6 knots rather than 8 ate in the square. Not only was operational — structures. be taken and served up. ts to limit the damage bow the food excellent, but the people Across the canal is the Then came the dried es cause. It is also narrower were just so friendly. Vianne so Chateau de Nerac, home to Henry hams, and the olives and more natural-looking. captured our hearts we may well of Navarre who became Henry IV. the cheeses! Did I When on the canals you need end up living there. Henry was one of the great kings mention the artisan an ahead so you can clear all The next morning we headed of France, although his 21-year breads? Thought not. e locks between yourself and to the boulangerie and feasted on reign ended under an assassin’s Well, they are fabulous r destination. exquisite baking before heading blade. too. In fact, absolutely ATMOSPHERE: There is history arou ortunately, the distances are to the church of St Christopher The chateau is only a everything on show I every corner in Nerac. too far but you don’t want to that stands by one of the town’s remaining wing of the original would have tried to eat. tuck in a lock when the gates. building as the rest was destroyed I had to be dragged matic cut off at 7pm arrives. It is a lovely building and has by a mob during the French away. So, when planning a trip to our hearts were heavy. We s t would be both annoying and the cutest stone gargoyles Revolution, but it does show what Nerac, have at least one Saturday had one night left on board a y embarrassing. decorating its interior. In its an impressive place the entire in there. enjoyed a meal at the Agen t While I reckon the Garonne is heyday the church would have palace would have been. Our return trip included a station made famous by Rick e picturesque along the canal, been fantastic to see, as the faded St Nicholas church is near the second night in Vianne where Stein in his French Odyssey. ittle towns on the Baise are paint on its columns hinted at. chateau. It is large and was built they were having the annual Our own odyssey was ov ply wonderful. A couple of hours down the just prior to the revolution in a village International Food the adventure on our “petit We fell in love with Vianne, a river was Nerac, which fellow neo-classical style. Inside, the Festival in the square. It was a fun bateau” will live with us fore ghtful place of about 1200 travellers on the canal had building is astounding. Huge community evening of food, wine It was a glorious week in ple that is famed for glassspoken about with awe. They said stained glass windows lighten the and laughter. which we didn’t travel far, o wing and has been in existence it was the prettiest place in the solid feel of the church and bring Next morning we were first and that made it such a won lmost 800 years. area and so off we tootled at a an extraordinary amount of light through the lock at Vianne. experience. It gave us time t Vianne is a bastide, which breakneck 6 km/h. to the altar area. Giant paintings It was a sad moment. absorb the delights of Aquit ns a royal stronghold, and its We were not misled. dominate the ceiling. Farewell Vianne, au revoir and there are plenty of those s would have been tough to Nerac is stunning and is filled Saturdays in Nerac are market Canal du Baise, hello the Garonne Au revoir Aquitaine, nou ach. 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would have tried to eat. I had to be dragged away. So, when planning a trip to Nerac, have at least one Saturday in there. Our return trip included a second night in Vianne where they were having the annual village International Food Festival in the square. It was a fun community evening of food, wine and laughter. Next morning we were first through the lock at Vianne. It was a sad moment. Farewell Vianne, au revoir Canal du Baise, hello the Garonne and a passing wave to Arnaud the restaurateur at Buzet. The remaining 11km of our wonderful cruising week went far too quickly and as we crossed the picturesque viaduct to enter Agen our hearts were heavy. We still had one night left on board and enjoyed a meal at the Agen train station made famous by Rick Stein in his French Odyssey. Our own odyssey was over but the adventure on our “petit bateau” will live with us forever. It was a glorious week in which we didn’t travel far, or fast, and that made it such a wonderful experience. It gave us time to absorb the delights of Aquitaine and there are plenty of those.

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SALE AND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL ACT 2012 SECTION 127 & 101

Monday to thursday 8.00aM to 11.00pM. Friday and saturday 8.00aM to 12.00 Midnight.

School Run to some private schools Run to some exSchool Selwyn/Halswell area private “Wide rangeschools of coaches ex Selwyn/Halswell and buses for area

SUBMISSIONS PANEL MEETING The following meeting is in addition to those previously advertised, and will be held as follows: COUNCIL HEARINGS PANELS Date

Time

Venue

5 February 2016

11am

Civic Offices, Committee Room 1, 53 Hereford Street, Christchurch

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SALE AND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL ACT 2012 SECTION 101 Priestley’s Cuisine limited (tHe OWner, 27 Globe Bay drive, Christchurch 8042), has made application to the district licensing Committee at Christchurch for the issue of On-liCenCe neW in respect of the premises situated at 38 Orchard road known as AntArCtiC CAFe. the general nature of the business conducted under the licence is: On-liCenCe restAurAnt ClAss 2. the days on which and the hours during which alcohol is intended to be sold under the licence are: mOndAy tO sundAy 8.00Am tO 12.00 midniGHt. the application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Christchurch district licensing Committee at Civic Offices, 53 Hereford street, Christchurch. Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of notice of the application, in the newspaper (being the star), file a notice in writing of the objection with the secretary of the Christchurch district licensing Committee, PO Box 73049, Christchurch 8154. no objection to the granting of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 105(1) of the sale & supply of Alcohol Act 2012. this is the first publication of this notice.

nEw yEar’s EvE 8.00aM to 1.00aM thE Following day.

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the application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Christchurch district Licensing Committee, Civic Offices, 77 hereford Street, Christchurch. Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with the Secretary of the district Licensing Committee, PO Box 73049, Christchurch 8154. No objection to the renewal of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 131 of the Sale & Supply of Alcohol Act 2012. this is the first publication of this notice.

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MONKEY 13 LiMitEd, the Owner, the Celtic Arms, 308 Selwyn Street, Christchurch, has made application to the district Licensing Committee at Christchurch for the renewal of ON LiCENCE RENEWAL in respect of the premises situated at 308 Selwyn Street known as thE CELtiC ARMS iNN.

the days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are:

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the general nature of the business conducted under the licence is: ON-LiCENCE tAVERN.

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Wednesday February 3 2016

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that RAWHITI GOLF CLUB New Brighton, Christchurch gives notification of its withdrawl from the

RAWHITI COMMUNITY SPORTS INCORPORATED as at 10 December 2015

Abbeyfield Christchurch Inc. seek to employ a responsible person to relieve for the Housekeeper occasionally as required and regularly for 4 days in every 14, currently Thursday – Sunday, for Abbeyfield House at 6 Lesley Keast Place, Hornby, Christchurch. Primary duties include: • Meal preparation for 13 persons • Menu preparation and cooking of balanced meals

Mairehau/ Burnside/ City Areas Monday-Friday 3pm-7pm

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• Responsibility for Health and Safety while on duty and for record keeping • Responsibility to identify issues and problems as they emerge and to act with initiative • Must maintain a current First Aid certificate Applicants will need catering experience, have empathy for and understanding of the needs of older persons and have a cheerful and flexible disposition. Further details and an application pack are available from: The Manager, Abbeyfield Hornby House, 26 Richards Ave, Papanui, Christchurch 8053 or by emailing fshaw36@gmail.com with your street address. Closing date for applications is Fri 19 Feb 2016.

Lawn Mowing Every tuesday 8.30am to 3.30am You will need to be able to pass a security check and have NZ citizenship or Permanent Residence as this is a long term position. in return, we offer above award wages.

Please email your CV to csc@totalcanterbury.co.nz

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Dated: 22 January 2016

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