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The seaside suburbs continue to rise in popularity following the earthquakes, with buyers clamouring for ‘as is, where is’ properties.

In the past two years there have been at least 50 such sales in Sumner, Redcliffs and Mt Pleasant – 29 of them last year and 21 in 2014.

Ray White Prier Manson area specialists co-principal Rae Manson (right) is expecting another busy year of ‘as is, where is’ sales.

“There’s still a steady stream of these homes coming to the market – some of which are being offered for sale for the

first time in five or more decades. We expect that we’ll see more of these sales this year as the insurance companies are now only cash settling.

“For instance, we’re currently working on a lovely 80-year-old home in Mt Pleasant that has been owned by the same family for 55 years but the prospect of repair is beyond the vendor,”

she said.“This sort of property

represents the opportunity for someone to buy and restore this house so it can be home to another family for many more years or as an investment proposition.”

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Seaside property market buoyant

‘My house is safe, so why isn’t the school?’

Matt Cockcroft, a geologist and father of a Redcliffs School pupil, lives in the residential green zone left of Main Rd, between the school and the cliff behind. He says the school site is safe, even following the Valentine’s Day earthquake, just before he took this photo. Read what he thinks about Education Minister Hekia Parata’s interim decision to close the school on page 4.

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Ephemeral Art Exhibition on Sumner Beach

Today (Wednesday) at 5pmSea-inspired artwork by

local children and artist Mike Kerslake will be on display from 5pm, following a day of creative workshops. People are invited to add their contribution to the group artwork, or may be moved to create their own sea-inspired piece nearby. The aim is to create an ephemeral (short lived) exhibition using found objects, that anyone using the beach can enjoy. Over time the display will be weathered away, like the sea slowly changing our coastlines.

Sumner Beach, free event. For more information visit http://www.sumnerhub.nz/things-to-do/event/ephemeral-art-on-sumner-beach or email [email protected]

Ocean InstameetFriday, 7.30-9.30pmBlack Cat Cruises and

Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism are hosting a 90min sunset cruise of the Akaroa Harbour for keen ‘Instagrammers’. It is an opportunity to learn about, photograph and see wildlife. There will also be drinks and nibbles on the wharf before the cruise.

Akaroa Wharf, free.

Estuary Fest Saturday, 1-5pmCelebrate the estuary with

your family at this fun-filled festival. Dress up as your favourite sea creature or swashbuckling pirate – you may win a spot prize. There will be fun rides, music and food as well as tent full of Seaweek surprises. The event has been organised by the Mt Pleasant Residents’ Association.

McCormacks Bay Reserve. Free entry, but some some rides

will cost. Visit https://www.facebook.com/Estuaryfest/ for more details.

Fishing Rules Information Evening

Saturday, 7pmAn information sharing

evening with a fishing quiz, information regarding local fishing rules and fish identification. Go along and hear an MPI Compliance Officer from the Ministry for Primary Industries explain the ins and outs of fish identification, methods and bag limits. Refresh your knowledge on the local fishing rules and the boundaries applying to the various fishing areas. Comedian Mullet Man will MC the evening.

Hilltop Tavern, Christchurch Akaroa Rd. Entry is a small donation. For more information call Hollie Hollander on 027 4197507 or email [email protected]

Akaroa Harbour Foraging Trip with Peter Langlands

Sunday, 9amThis 2hr foraging trip led by

forager and wild-foods writer, Peter Langlands, will look at a wide range of species along the coastal margin. Seaweeds and shellfish will be identified, so wear appropriate clothing.

Meet at the Duvauchelle Hotel car park at 9am, wet or fine. This is a free event but you must register with Hollie by phoning 027 4197507 or emailing [email protected]

Charlesworth Wetland Guided Walk

Sunday, 4pmThis event will include a

guided walk by a park ranger through 20ha of restored wet-land. It is easy walking on good track and suitable for all ages. Dogs must be on a leash.

Meet at Charlesworth St car park (off Ferry Rd). Free. For

more details call 027 224 5627.

Sea-inspired meditation at Sumner

Sunday, 3.30pmAn open invitation to join the

Sumner Meditation Group on Sumner Beach for a relaxed get together with local meditators for an hour or so, then move on to Sumner Yoga School for a meditation session. Feel free to bring a coffee or picnic along to the beach. Meet on the beach just in front of the new surf club.

Free event. For more informa-tion visit https://www.facebook.com/SumnerMeditationGroup

Sunday BandstandSunday, 12.30-2pmTake a picnic rug or chair to

Scarborough Park and relax on the lawn while being entertained by the Sumner Silver Band.

Scarborough Park, free.

Tai Chi for BeginnersEvery Wednesday, 9.40amThis tai chi class is aimed at

beginners, and will run every Wednesday. For more informa-tion phone Tressa Hansen on 326 6831 or Liz Chapman on 326 6207.

Union Church Hall, Nayland St, Sumner, $70 for 10 lessons.

Banks Peninsula Rafting Regatta

March 13, timed runs start by 1pm

Ignite your imagination and build your own raft to enter in the Banks Peninsula Rafting Regatta. Enter as a team or on your own. There will be prizes for best raft design, creativity, team dress and fastest times. A sausage sizzle will be held after the event.

Okana River.

Governors Bay FeteMarch 20This is one for your diaries –

The Governors Bay Fete is an annual non-profit event which raises funds for the community. Last year’s money bought a defibrillator which is now at the Governors Bay Hotel for emergency situations in the community. Those interested in running a stall at this year’s fete, can phone Annabelle on either 329 9268 or 027 222 4604.

Allandale Domain.

Proposed Volunteer Group for Drayton Gully Reserve

(from McCormacks Bay/ Basil Place up to Mt Pleasant Rd/Bellview Tce)

The group would help city council staff with native tree planting, weeds, litter and pest control and track maintenance. If you are keen to help, phone Dave Bryce on 384 9967 or email [email protected]

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Lyttelton: Every Saturday, 10am-1pm, London St.

Sumner: Every Sunday, 10am on the corner of Esplanade and Marriner St.

Akaroa: Every Sunday from October to April, 9.30am-1pm, the Madeira Hotel car park, Rue Lavaud.

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BRIDGET RUTHERFORD

A $2.5 million scheme to prevent flooding in Heathcote Valley will be decided tomorrow.

The city council’s infrastruc-ture, transport and environment committee will decide whether to approve the Matuku Valley Flood Mitigation scheme at its meeting tomorrow morning.

The committee will look at three options.

The preferred scheme would see the Heathcote Valley Drain upgraded and a new pipeline installed along Bridle Path Rd.

The second option would see the waterway diverted from Morgans Valley to connect with the Northern Matuku Waterway at Cooks Lane, and the third would be to do nothing.

Funding has been set aside under the Land Drainage Re-covery Programme, which has fast-tracked the project to the 2015/16 financial year.

Currently, the Southern Ma-tuku Waterway discharges into Heathcote Valley Drain, which then continues through a series of piped and open watercourses down to Truscotts Rd Drain.

Water often overflows at Heathcote Valley Drain because it does not have the capacity to hold it.

The new pipeline along Bridle Path Rd would divert the water away from the drain, which is currently at risk of flooding.

Heathcote Valley suffered severe flooding in 2014 and the waterway diversion was identi-fied as a necessary component of the flood protection works.

Heathcote Valley Community Association chairwoman Jackie

Maurice said Heathcote Valley residents would be happy some-thing was being done.

“All I know is that it will make a huge difference in terms of moving that water around so it doesn’t move up and flood the valley.”

She said some residents had only just got back into their earthquake-repaired homes when they were flooded in 2014.

“It’s been a terrible problem and completely heart-breaking for some people.”

Decision looms over $2.5m flood prevention scheme

BRIDGET RUTHERFORD

Heathcote Valley residents will soon be able to buy a book outlining the positive progress it has made following the earthquakes.

The Heathcote Village Project has been working on the Silver Linings Book, which is due to be published in April.

It will contain photos and

details of about 75 projects that have been completed in the community since the February 2011 earthquake.

Heathcote Valley Community Association chairwoman Jackie Maurice said the community was hit hard in the earthquakes, but found innovative ways to come back from it.

She said the book would be an amazing record.

People would be able to buy it for $15, so they could keep a copy for themselves, she said.

Some of the projects that will feature included bus shelters, the community garden, the trol-ley derby and the school pool rebuild.

The book will come out at the same time construction on the new combined community facil-ity is due to start.

Book on quake projects out soon

COMPETITION: Teams battle it out in the tug-of-war at The Great Sumner Picnic held over the weekend. Sumner residents flocked to St Leonards Square on Sunday to enjoy the sunshine and kick start Seaweek celebrations. There was entertainment from local talent, stalls, food, prizes for the best dressed, and fun for families.

COB COTTAGE REPAIR SOLUTIONCity council staff are working through a process to determine possible solutions to repair Ferrymead’s Cob Cottage. The historic cottage on Main Rd was significantly damaged in the earthquakes. City council senior project manager Richie Moyle said the cottage had already been assessed. It was working on coming up with solutions and a preferred option would be decided on.

SPEED LIMIT REVIEWThe Lyttelton-Mt Herbert Community Board has asked the city council to include sections of Governors Bay Rd in the city council’s upcoming speed limit review. As part of the review the city council will look at whether speed limits on problem roads could be changed. The board asked to include the section of Governors Bay Rd between Governors Bay and Ohinetahi and the section around Rapaki and Purau Ave be included.

SWIM ZONE SUCCESSFULLA new Safe Swim Zone which spans from Naval Point to the western end of Cass Bay has

been successful so far. The new swim zone was installed at the end of last year after consultation with swimmers and the Lyttelton-Mt Herbert Community Board. Lyttelton navigational safety officer Gary Manch said he had received good feedback so far. The area is marked with buoys, and although it is non-exclusive to swimmers, the markers make it safer for them, he said.

WASTEWATER SCHEME DROP-IN SESSIONA public drop-in session about the proposed Lyttelton Harbour wastewater treatment scheme is being held tomorrow from 4.30-6.30pm at the Top Club, 23 Dublin St, Lyttelton. The project team will be there to answer questions about the proposed scheme which would stop discharges into the harbour. The scheme would see wastewater pumped from the Diamond Harbour and Governors Bay wastewater treatment plants before being pumped through a new pipe under the seabed, to Lyttelton, then onto the Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bromley.

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Last week the Bay Harbour News asked its readers what they thought about Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith’s comments about Redcliffs School

Terry Blogg, Redcliffs: It is absolutely clear that Parata has always had a hidden agenda to close Redcliffs School.

We’ve been hoodwinked in a similar manner in how EQC has robbed us of what we should be

entitled to. I’ve been a staunch National supporter all my 62 years and it sticks in my throat that next time I’ll be supporting another party. And as for Nuk Who! I’m outraged that National has placed such an ineffective waste of space into my constitu-ent!! I’m certainly not the only traditional National supporter within my group of friends with very similar sentiments.

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Hi there, as I write this I am thinking about the two weeks I am about to have off, I probably have one of the best jobs in the world, dealing with great people and working across the best region in New Zealand, Canterbury.

However, it is still nice to take time out and spend time with family and friends.

The boating season gener-ally draws to a close around Anzac weekend, then all of you summer boaties pull the boats up onto the hard and prepare them for next summer. It is great practice to winterise your vessels and that way the cold and damp does not get into the electrics and motors and al-low little gremlins to make life difficult when you want to start the motor next summer. Unfor-tunately little gremlins can grow into horrible monsters.

Preventive maintenance is the key to reliability, if you are not sure what you are doing, pop

down to your local boat shop and have a word, they will be sure to help, and get you on the right track. One word of ad-vice though, if you don’t know what you are doing, don’t touch things, it will end up costing you twice as much.

For those who are going to be out and about on the water in au-tumn and winter, please remem-ber that cold is our enemy. The risk of hypothermia is high, both from wind chill and cold water immersion. Please ensure that you are dressed appropriately. It’s not a silly idea to wear a wet suit with your life jacket over it as this way not only do you have the thermal properties of the wet suit, if you end up in the water your chances of survival are far greater than being in jeans and jersey. The life jacket will give you flotation, but you require the warmth as well.

That’s it from me, chat to you soon.

Matt Cockcroft says Redcliffs School pupils would be put more at risk if they had to travel to Mt Pleasant or Sumner to go to school, as opposed to being on the school’s Main Rd site:

Do I still think Redcliffs School is safe following the February 14 earthquake? 100 per cent yes.

My property is within the resi-dential “green zone” assigned by the Government after a great deal of scientific investigations and very robust and conserva-tive risk modelling. My property is directly between the cliffs and Redcliffs School and is at a far higher risk from rockfall than the school, yet is deemed safe by the Government for my fam-ily to live in. Why then is the safety of the school site from rockfall being questioned?

Being a resident of one of these houses (between the cliffs and the school), a geologist who has studied the cliff face in detail and also a parent with one child already at Redcliffs School, I believe I am in a strong position to accurately comment on the safety of the school. Undeniably there will be further earthquake occurrences that may create rockfall within Redcliffs School grounds. How-ever, for rockfall to firstly reach the proposed embankment and secondly to breach this em-bankment, Christchurch would have to experience a much larger catastrophic earthquake sequence than it has to date. If there are any future disrup-tions at Redcliffs School then I strongly suggest that there will be massive disruptions all over the Christchurch area far worse than what will occur at Redcliffs School. Risk v safe? This is really a question for the Gov-ernment. How much ‘risk’ is acceptable before they are will-ing to declare a site ‘safe’? This

must surely be a quantifiable value. A word of caution for the Government when answering this question as its decision will surely set a safety precedence for all New Zealand schools across the country.

Additionally, if Redcliffs School was to close then the closest alternative schools are either Sumner School or Mt Pleasant School. Both of these schools are at least 40min walk away. My children will not be able to travel to school by themselves and will require driving every day. Walking or driving my children to Sumner School poses significantly higher risks than that of the Redcliffs School location: Rockfall from the cliffs into Sumner (Peacocks Gallop) has

a rockfall risk of (1 in 10 to 1 in 100) 10-1 to 10-2 annual individual fatality risk (GNS, May 2012). While Redcliffs School, without the proposed rockfall embankment, has a rockfall risk of 10-6 (1 in a million) annual individual fatality risk (GNS report, May 2012). The increased travel distance and time to get my children to another local school would involve a higher risk exposure to traffic related incidents. This associated risk would be greater than the rockfall risk at Redcliffs School.

On the matter of disrup-tion, the MWH report (MWH, August 2014) concludes that with only a minor (10 per cent) retreat from the cliffs Redcliffs School’s risk from rockfall will be 1 in a million (10-6) annual individual fatality risk. This figure is 100 times safer than residential the Government’s “green zone”. Additionally, if the proposed rockfall embank-ment is built then this will re-duce this risk even further. This additional layer of protection quite clearly implies that further disruption from rockfall is and will be non-existent.

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CAITLIN MILES

After months of traffic congestion, there is relief on the way for Ferry Rd commuters and also for nearby businesses crippled financially by roadworks.

Roadworks outside Te Waka Unua School on the corner of Hopkins St and Ferry Rd are ex-pected to finish at the end of this week.

There are about five sets of roadworks along Ferry Rd, most of which will be finished this month according to the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Re-build Team.

Madam Butterfly’s owner Melanie Cavaye, who has a store on the corner of Ferry Rd and Smith St and surrounded by a work site, said she has taken a hit financially, and healthwise, due to the roadworks.

She is doubtful SCIRT will complete their work on time.

“We’ve heard it all before. The deadline date comes and goes and I have to call to find out what’s going on,” she said.

The continual roadworks and uncertainty about when she will see less orange cones surround-ing her business has left Ms Cavaye stressed and feeling the financial burden.

“The noise had been horren-dous. My health has had a real impact,” said Ms Cavaye.

A SCIRT spokeswoman said while the new wastewater main

and laterals along Smith St was supposed to be finished last year, the completion date has been pushed out to early this year be-cause of the extensive damage found within the pipes.

“My customers have been

understand but I’ve barely sur-vived,” said Ms Cavaye.

Other businesses in the area have taken big hits financially, with parking one of the biggest issues. They did not want to be named.

Pipes being laid outside 430-438 Ferry Rd should be complet-ed by early March, said a SCIRT spokeswoman.

Delays will be continued be-tween Aldwins Rd and Tilford St until mid-March and repairs between Manning Pl and Heart St won’t be completed until the end of March.

BOXED IN: Madam Butterfly’s store owner Melanie Cavaye, says the roadworks on Ferry Rd have cost her financially with lack of parking available for customers. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN

Traffic congestion on Ferry Rd to end soon

FIRST VISIT TO BEACH: Mebrahatom Abera (rear) recently had a new experience which many Kiwis might not remember having. A trip to Sumner was the first time he had been to the sea. He is from Ethiopia and one of 91 New Zealand Aid students at Lincoln University who come from developing countries. He was among an intake of 32 new students who have just undertaken an inaugural nine-day orientation which included trips around Christchurch. The students come from around the world, including the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Students from these regions can find it more difficult to acclimatise, and the longer orientation before other students arrived last week, provided them time to do this while the campus was quiet. Mr Abera is pictured (from left) with Lulu Numiman (Papua New Guinea), Sicelo Simelane (Swaziland), Laone Thake (Botswana), and Merie Unagi (Papua New Guinea). PHOTO: SUE BOWIE

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Ms Manson said there were varying motivations for buying ‘as is, where is’ houses.

“In our experience, we’ve worked with builders who are seeking opportunities, investors who are seeing good

rental returns for liveable properties, parents who have equity are buying or helping family members get onto the property ladder, and people are seeing opportunities to buy into suburbs they couldn’t normally afford. Buyers are also attracted by the opportunity to secure a

building site, which is normally just about impossible, in such an established area.”

She said Sumner, Redcliffs, and Mt Pleasant had definitely returned to popularity as people realised all the things that were attractive in these suburbs had not changed.

seaside properties popular

BRIDGET RUTHERFORD

Anyone who thought the Lyttelton Volunteer Fire Brigade was just there to fight fires can think again.

The brigade carries out a num-ber of tasks for the community, even hosing down the Lyttelton Recreation Grounds to make it softer for rugby training.

The brigade was training at the grounds on Thursday night, when one of the rugby club members asked jokingly wheth-er they could help the rugby

club out with the hard ground.The brigade members were

happy to help, and gave the grounds a squirt with the hose to soften them up.

Station officer Andrew Yaxley said it worked out well, because the next couple of days had reached about 30 deg C in tem-perature.

“We do all sorts of stuff that the community wants us to do.”

The rugby club has been do-ing pre-season training to pre-pare for their first round-robin game in April.

Fire brigade big with community work

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Chelsea Halliwell, McCormacks Bay: Our school has tried to engage the Government in open and upfront communication about the proposal to close, to no avail. The ministry itself has said its concern is not about safety, it is about the potential for disruption if, after a significant earthquake, the school has to close while it is reassessed. Well, we had a significant earthquake on February 14, and there was minimal further rockfall. This is before the protection measures are put in place, so, in this case, there would not have been any disruption. It was an earthquake significant enough to cause major rockfall in other, previously red-zoned areas – backing up the geotech reports all the way along. No parent or teacher would advocate for keeping a school open if it was unsafe. We have read the reports, talked with the experts, and we understand the science. It’s a shame our Government doesn’t do the same before speaking out about closing Redcliffs School, as in the case of Nick Smith last week.

Sandra Thomas, Sumner:Dr Smith has made a number

of misleading statements about the school site. Here is just one of them. In the article he says: “The school site has had five major rockfalls since 2010, ranging from 100 tonnes to 50,000 tonnes.”

The school site has not had this rockfall. No rockfall has entered the school site. The rockfall has occurred in the area at the bottom of the cliffs, not all of which are directly behind the school.

Ann and Bill Newsom, parents of four children who all went to Redcliffs School:

How is it that a swimming pool for children can be built under the cliffs at Sumner with no protection from falling rocks and Redcliffs School can not be re-occupied when it is further

away from the cliffs than the pool? Also there is going to be a barrier built to stop any pos-sibility of rocks getting onto the school grounds. Children are more likely to be hit by falling rocks along Peacocks Gully and Wakefield Ave when riding to school from Redcliffs to Sum-ner. No rocks came down near Redcliffs School in the recent aftershock.

Redcliffs is an ideal part of Christchurch for young families and Redcliffs School is a vital part of the community. National will never get our vote again if they close the school. There will be a huge loss of support for National in the Banks Peninsula electorate if the proposal put for-ward by the education minister goes ahead.

Have any Government min-isters been down to Redcliffs to look at the school site and talk with the local community? There is also no bus to Mt Pleas-ant School. Not everyone has cars so how are children sup-posed to get there?

Solvejg Ruarus: It is just shocking to say the least how this Government is trying to eliminate the Redcliffs School. Surely if the cliff would be unstable, no parent would dream of getting the children back to that site. I admire the strength of the parents and their community to keep asking for return to their site. I wish them all the luck to get there.

Helen Taylor-Ford, Redcliffs mother:

Thank you for your article Smith accused over Redcliffs scare. I was extremely disap-pointed to read Nick Smith’s blog regarding Redcliffs School.

One would have to ask is the minister that poorly informed or is this a deliberate attempt to mislead the people of New Zealand regarding the safety of Redcliffs School? The school site can be made safe with miti-gation works, the Minister of Education agrees with this. Redcliffs School like any school in New Zealand, faces risks to people and infrastructure from a number of natural hazards. No one can predict what may hap-pen and when. If the Minister of Education closes Redcliffs School because of future disrup-tion, it will mean she can do this to any school in New Zealand, at any time. It is insulting to hear people making ignorant com-ments implying we would put our children at risk. We want our kid’s kept safe, that is why we want them back on site at Redcliffs School. The journeys to neighbouring schools feels far less safe. This Government needs more of the good old fash-ioned ‘Kiwi can do’ attitude and work with the school towards getting them back on site. Not just shutting it down and over-crowding neighbouring schools. This is not what is best for our children’s education.

Jude Turner, Redcliffs: Who is playing cynical politics! Regarding comments by Nick Smith, of course he is trying to scare the public into believing the Main Rd site is unsafe for Redcliffs School to return. Engineers have their evidence and deemed the site as safe. Therefore, along with Hekia Parata and the National Government, they must have a hidden agenda for the site, other than for the return of the school. Thank you to Ruth Dyson for

her response to Nick Smith.

The Bay Harbour News asked its readers what they thought of freedom campers staying in Ferrymead’s Windsport Park and in parts of Banks Peninsula

Yolanda Phibbs: Windsport Park in Ferrymead was once a place I would visit to watch the kite and wind surfers or enjoy an ice cream on a weekend afternoon. Now it is over run with campers taking advantage of the ratepayers in Christchurch. Why on earth does the city council fund free holidays for five days (not enforced) also providing portable loos and rubbish collection (at ratepayers’ expense) when I (a ratepayer) cannot even shop in the city without getting stung for one hour parking. It seems ludicrous that we provide such a valuable piece of property for free loaders when there is a perfectly good camping ground (all seasons) just down Linwood Ave. The city council again has lost its mind. Ban freedom camping city wide!!! They should pay their way like we all have to do. A once scenic spot is now a horrible tip of free loaders!!

Roger Boyce, Heathcote:I’m responding to the Bay

Harbour News coverage of ‘freedom campers’. The comments, regarding freedom campers, in the February 24 issue were almost wholly negative.

I surf and dirt-bike and so hap-pen to frequent parking areas, urban and rural, where freedom campers congregate. My experi-ence with the, mostly young, European campers has been only positive. They are, as a rule, polite, friendly, and considerate. Although I have heard multiple tales from the campers about having been singled out for vehicle theft by locals.

I have seen more damage done to reserve and public facility toilets by, often inebriated, local youth, and adults . . . if discard-ed booze bottles, and aggressive hooligans, are any evidence. When travelling and making a

bush-pee stop, New Zealand’s roadside bushes are often festooned with toilet paper and human faeces. More mess than could possibly be attributed to out of country visitors. Many of the so-called freedom campers at the Windsport Park in Fer-rymead are Christchurch’s own homeless.

There are also particularly mean-spirited comments about the freedom campers being low-end tourists. Were the commenters never young, wide-eyed, and on a shoestring travel budget. Most of these young European tourists are university educated and not yet fully rooted. As they travel they may very well fall in love with New Zealand and come back to us as professionally qualified immigrants. But not if they are greeted by penurious natives whose squint-eyed view of youth and adventure is only softened by how fat a wallet a tourist bears.

I enjoy chatting with our inter-national freedom camper visitors when I’m going to and from the water or dirt tracks. I’d hate to see them replaced by selfish and short sighted n.i.m.b.y locals, who can only see financial bottom-lines.

The Redcliffs Residents’ Association wants the Redcliffs Community Pavilion to be repaired, but the city council does not want to pay to do so. Readers respond.

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FUTURE STAR: Bruno Davies does his best Brendon McCullum impersonation as he watched him play his final test match.

GOOD SPORT: Even the Aussies got support from Frances Dougherty.

Our Lady Star of the Sea School pupils got to head along to Hagley Oval to watch the Black Caps play against Australia in Brendon McCullum’s final test match.

REMEMBERING: Redcliffs senior pupils Zack Waite (left) and Tom Barker next to the river of flowers table at the school’s earthquake commemoration last week.

SYMBOLIC: Emilia Crooks with the five helium balloons that were released to represent each year that has gone by since the earthquakes.

FLY AWAY: The five balloons float off into the sky as Redcliffs pupils look on.

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EXCITED: Our Lady Star of the Sea School junior class picked up another classmate while visiting the Christchurch Art Gallery. From left: Izzy Godfrey-Morris, Molly Ryan, Izzy Girvan, Zoe Hall, Nathan Soper, Holly Hembry, Mathilda Froggatt, Zavier Symington, Charlie-Rose Powell, Sofia Marshall, Phoebe Chapman, Liam Miller and George Martin.

LEADERS: The school’s new year student leaders are getting stuck into their work. From left first row: Alice Wehi, Mia Thew, Michelle Marshall, Eliza Morritt, Cass Robertson, second row: Connor McSoriley,

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GENEROUS: Pupils organised a book drive to gather second hand books to be donated to Woolston’s St Anne’s Catholic School. Connor McSoriley (left), Flynn Greig and Liam McSoriley presented St Anne’s principal Dallas Wichman with more than 200 books they gathered.

Our Lady Star of the Sea School pupils have had a busy week, with some pupils organising a book drive, and outings to the cricket, the Christchurch Art Gallery.

UNDER THE SEA: Ruby Hawkins, 4, dressed up as a mermaid as part of Pebbles Preschool’s Sea Week celebrations last week. The children dressed up, learned about the ocean and had fun creating posters. The activities helped the children learn about their Sumner community.

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So Bruno can you tell me a bit about yourself?

So I’m originally from France, I’m 43-years-old. I grew up in the south-west of France inland half way in-between the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Then I studied in the north of France where I stayed for my professional life, because I’ve always enjoyed the mountains. First, I studied forestry and environment. In the end I went for outdoor degrees and I became a mountain guide. I did lots of caving; my grandfather and my father were into caving, so at 13 they were teaching me the skill of caving and abseiling. I learnt how to do ropes, first for caving.

What brought you to Diamond Harbour?

I’ve just started a business last year. I hoped to work with ropes with difficult jobs and thought I could do simple jobs here cleaning gutters because

there are people who are not able to or don’t want to climb on their roofs. Lots of people have started to call me about chimney cleaning. I found someone willing to train me, and then I bought some equipment. Now my business is called All Clear Chimney Cleaning, it is a seasonal activity so I’m starting to get quite busy. The rest of the year I can do jobs with difficult access such as roof maintenance and cleaning gutters.

And I understand you were doing humanitarian work? Can you tell me what you were doing?

I was meant to work with my ropes in Madagascar, but that never happened. So I started to read about the island, in the end having no job there I decided to go by myself. I

worked as a volunteer in a Christian school as a teacher.

I stayed there for nearly a year and that was a very important part of my life as it was the first time I was discovering how most humans live on earth versus the western world.

And what about your work with Doctors without Borders. What did that involve?

I worked for them for almost a decade

as logistician, and was working in tech for medical

people. In New Zealand you would call it a jack of all trades. Every project was very different, I was in Sierra Leone, it was the war, so I was going to places where nobody else was willing to go. There were a lot of women and babies running away and

hiding in the forest, and we had to establish a bush hospital and nutrition centre in order to take care of these many people in crisis. So my job was to clear the land, find water, logistic communications, to

make sure the medical people could do the work in the best possible conditions. Every mission was different. In other places we would be working in refugee camps.

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In some occasions it was scary indeed. We were in the middle of a battleground in Chad in 2006 and it was so scary in the sense that we were treating the wounded from one side and the other side of the battle had no access to our facilities. Leaving it all behind was the difficult part.

Where else did you go?Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Sierra

Leone, Liberia, Nepal, Chad and South Sudan. And Pakistan is where I met my Kiwi wife, Sarah. She was working for the same organisation. She is a medical doctor from here so that’s why I moved here. She was born in Lincoln, and grew up in Lincoln but her parents always had a bach in Charteris Bay that is where my parents-in-law are now living.

Do you remember the first time you met Sarah?

Oh it’s a horrible story!

CLEVER: Bruno Kowalczewski spends a lot of time outdoors, and uses his high ropes skills to carry out household jobs that others cannot do, or don’t want to.

Bruno Kowalczewski spent more than seven years doing humanitarian work in war-torn countries. Now he is living with his Kiwi wife in Diamond Harbour. Bridget Rutherford spoke to him about how it felt to save hundreds of childrens’ lives and stumbling upon an archaeologically significant cave as a teenager

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We were in Pakistan high up in the valley, isolated due to land slips, and the road was closed. I first arrived as part of emergency team in a military helicopter. There was me, one nurse and one doctor. That first doctor worked there for two weeks then went away. He was replaced by Sarah, my wife, who arrived by helicopter. I was pretty keen on that helicopter, as it was supposed to bring our supplies. Sarah and another person came down and when the helicopter flew away all the boxes flew into the riverbank. So our first meeting was picking up all the supplies. There were sanitary pads scattered all over the place! It wasn’t the most romantic place to meet. It took us a while to realise we liked each other. Then when the mission was over we went our separate ways, I went to France she went to New Zealand. But then I bought ticket to New Zealand.

And I hear you have a daughter

We do, called Elise, she is going to start school at Diamond Harbour School in one week. She’s a bit of an adrenalin junkie like me unfortunately.

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adrenalin junkie, what activities do you like doing?

It’s funny because we call it adrenalin junkie, but there are ways to do things safely. I do gliding, mountaineering, rock climbing, skiing. You get to enjoy the pristine environment.

What would be the craziest thing you’ve done?

When I was 16 I was already

hang gliding, so I did that sort of stuff. But a story I remember is I was digging by hand a small hole to the entrance of a cave and I was lucky enough to dig through. The cave was decorated by an unusual crystal formation. They were flower shaped and very white. The cave was about 500m long. It was of very high interest to archaeologists because it had human presence

traces that were more than 100,000 years old.

Wow, were you the first person to find it?

Yes, it was in the south-west corner of France in Bruniquel, it was called grotte de Bruniquel, or Bruniquel’s Cave. It was a tiny hole for animals to go through and it was blowing the air out. A natural phenomenon had blocked the entrance to the cave. There were bones from hyenas, bears, and an unusual type of antelope inside.

Is there any one moment that sticks with you through your humanitarian work?

Well when you say

humanitarian there’s humans, so it can be very rewarding. One of the most rewarding projects was Sierra Leone. You arrive in one place, it was so broken with more than 20 years of war that there was no money, no coin, nothing. There was no market, no rice, which is a necessity. And then we arrived and we would see these women arriving with their kids, lifeless. They were closer to death than life. Then after some good medical care you’d see the same kid three weeks later, full of life. To see what you do, simply saving lives by the hundreds was very rewarding.

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HELPING OTHERS: Bruno and villager Mushtaq try and stay warm as the weather begins to close in while Bruno was doing humanitarian work in Kaghan Valley, Pakistan, in 2005.

HIGH UP: A photo Bruno took while he was hang gliding in the French Alps.


Individual efforts from Sumner Surf Life Saving Club members helped to clinch the club a third place finish in the recent southern region championships, held at New Brighton Beach.

Throughout the weekend, Sumner earned a combined total of 19 gold medals, and finished Sunday only 34 points behind second-placed Dunedin club St Clair Surf Life Saving Club, while Taylors Mistake took just 19 points, leaving them in ninth.

Individual brilliance earned Sumner’s Cameron Jeffrey and Walt Robberds seven gold medals each, Seb Johnson took six, Lucy Johnson won four golds, and Brittany Andrews scored three.

Sumner club captain Henry Lawson said the club’s performance was an impressive one, and a stepping stone to more dominance.

“In future we will aim for that first place – we’ll continue to grow and win more. We went from having two open athletes and a few under 16s a few years ago to now having a really progressive club.

“We’re up there, but it’s now about maintaining that dominance across the board,” he said.

Lawson said it was hard to pick standout performers for the club.

“There were some amazing performances from everyone really. Lucy and Seb (Johnson) were amazing as they usually are. Lucy won the open womens’ ski race, the board race, double ski, and the open iron woman. And between Seb, Cameron (Jeffrey) and Walt (Robberds) they absolutely killed it. The team of younger girls were awesome as well,” he said.

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Overall club points: South Brighton 180.5, St Clair 155, Sumner 121, Waimairi 83, Brighton 65, Spencer Park 34.5, New Brighton 31, North Beach 19, Taylors Mistake 19, Waikuku 17, Mount Maunganui 11, Kaka Point 5, Mairangi Bay 4.

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the first partnership between Tom Gooday and Chris Wilson putting on 50.

After Wilson’s dismissal, Gooday was joined by Marcus Thompson, who scored a quick 41.

Captain Brendon Wellington was sent in after that, and continued his good run of form taking him past 800 runs for the season in his 82 not out.

Sumner eventually finished up at 287/7.

In reply New Brighton lost wickets in quick succession to

be all out for just 65. Dan Vann bagged six wickets for just 28 runs and Jonny Percasky continued his good form this season when he took three wickets for 12 runs.

Sumner enforced the follow on and New Brighton were again in early trouble with Gooday this time terrorising the New Brighton top order with four wickets for 16 runs. Percasky again chimed in with two wickets for 10 to leave New Brighton 57/6 at the end of the first day.

ACHIEVEMENT: Sumner captain Brendon Wellington on the way to an 82 not out against New Brighton. RIGHT: Wellington celebrates is half-century.

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This contemporary executive family home is ready for new owners. Fully double glazed, with two heat pumps, new LED lighting, new carpets, central vacuum, induction cooktop, TV jackpoints to all bedrooms, living areas and garage. It has large double, internal access garaging plus off-street parking room for extra vehicles, caravan or boat.

Views of the hills and mature trees with bird life provide a pleasing backdrop, yet the central city is just a short drive away. On slightly elevated CEra-zoned TC2 land, among newer and larger homes in the blossoming Ferrymead edge of Woolston on a private rear section at the end of a lane off a cul-de-sac.

Many amenities are close; a shopping

centre (with a new supermarket due august) just 10 minutes’ walk, and restaurants, entertainment and boutique shopping emporium The Tannery are nearby. Bus stops are five minutes’ walk. Handy to outdoor recreation of the Estuary, beaches and Port Hills.

Call today for more information, viewing will certainly impress.

Open Home date: Sunday 11.45am to 12.15pm, or for an appointment to view contact Debra Hakaraia of Smart real Estate (Licensed agent rEaa 2008) on 027 562 0420 or 384 8600 or send Debra an email to [email protected] or visit www.smartrealestate.co.nz.

Sleek, stylish and secluded9 St Thomas Place, FerrymeadEnquiry over $549,0003 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | 3 living rooms | 2-car garage | 2 off-street parks | Listing #: SMT1933

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