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Principal Mary-Angela Tombs was very proud to announce that the young student had been selected for a repre-sentative position, as well as that he had been selected for the tournament team – which is a huge honour to Mosese.

Mosese, who plays in the number 12 position, had to play at his best to impress the selectors as the SNIPS region comprises of Wellington to Upper Hutt, Wanuiomata, Eastbourne, Porirua, Mana; as well as the Horowhenu/Kapiti and Wanganui regions.

To make the team is a huge achieve-ment for Mosese, and puts him at the very top of the list of players in his age group.

Mosese says it was an “awesome op-portunity” that has helped him become better at the sport he loves. His friends are also proud of his achievement.

Last week, the young rugby player was presented with his tournament winner and tournament team selection medals.

Teachers at St Teresa’s School believe that Mosese has a promising future in

rugby, and say that being recognised as best at his age is a great accomplishment.

Mosese also plays rugby for Marist St Pats. He has also represented his

school in cross country and athletics competitions.

He is also a member of the school kapa haka group.

HANGING OUT: Pese Fa’amausili, Mosese Lea’aepulu, Harrison Schubert, and Katieri Sului. PHOTO: Dan Whitfi eld

By Dan Whitfi eld

A new classroom block has been given the thumbs up by St Benedict’s School principal David Lamont and although the plan is still in the concept stage, the likelihood of it being operational this time next year is possible.

The plan is to build a two-storey block that will house two classrooms in the southeast corner of the school grounds.

Each classroom will be approximately 72 metres-squared and will provide extra space if the roll increases in the future.

St Benedict’s School was also accepted into Genesis Energy’s Schoolgen pro-gramme and as a result, 16 solar panels will be installed on the roof of the new block.

The project has allegedly been on the cards since about 2009 and at this stage, the classroom block and installation of solar panels are set for the second half of next year.

David says to see where the project is already is great and everyone is excited to see it unfold.

“It’s very exciting…The board has worked hard to get us to where we are at now, and the best part is this this solution won’t take up much space,” David says.

The new classrooms will be built into a relatively unused bank on school grounds, encroaching on as little play-ground space as possible. The upper level has been designed to open up on to a deck and create a large classroom.

“To be accepted in the programme at the same time as we are planning to build the new classrooms is great. It’s going to means it will be an energy effi cient building,” David says.

“It’s going to shave a huge amount off the power bill that we can use on the children,” he says.

The solar panels are set to generate about 4kW/h for the school.

NEW CLASSROOM: St Benedict's School principal David Lamont looks over the plans. PHOTO: Dan Whitfi eld

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Celeste Fontein is almost ready to shout from the rooftops but before she can properly celebrate coming top in year 12, she has to sit a few more exams.

The Newlands College student was fl attered by the achievement, saying that it shows her effort to get the best results.

“It gives you a sense of achievement,” Celeste says.

Celeste was recognised for coming fi rst in Ger-man, media studies, art painting, art photography, and English. The award was given out at the school’s recent senior prizegiving.

“This year was a big year and a new experience for me. It was also really challenging, but it pushed me to be the best I could all year,” Celeste says.

The 17-year-old says that it was really good to have opportunities and support from the school; her parents were also really supportive. One of the op-portunities that Celeste received earlier in the year was a chance to go on an exchange to Germany.

When the Independent Herald caught up with Celeste on Friday she had two more exams left for this year, and had just fi nished one for English. “I’m pretty happy with how well I have gone so far…But I’m really looking forward to going on holiday after exams,” she says.

At this stage, Celeste is looking to jump into leadership opportunities when she returns in 2015.

“I really want to get involved with peer support. It’s a perfect opportunity to give back to the school after all these years,” Celeste says.

She believes that everything changes from year 12 and that as a student you start to build the relationships and connections that will help you in the future. “It helps you get lots more out of the work you do,” Celeste says.

Looking back over this year, Celeste is glad she put a lot of effort into what she used to do as hobbies because of the success it has given her.

“I’m proud my achievement; so are my parents,” she says.

While Celeste still has another year to go at Newlands College, she already has a goal to attend university.

“Next year will help narrow down the sense of direction,” she says.

“I’d still love to go overseas and do more travelling but I think that will come after university.”

THE STUDENT LIFE: Celeste Fontein, 17, is almost fi nished for this year. PHOTO: Dan Whitfi eld.

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Norm Heke and Julie Noanoa have responded to requests from parents and teachers on how

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AUTHORS: Norm Heke and Julie Noanoa. PHOTO: Dan Whitfi eld

After many years being terrifi ed of public speaking, Sarah Davy has overcome that fear thanks to hard work and dedication towards com-pleting a Competent Com-municator Award at her local Toastmasters club.

The Karori local Sarah real-ised that it was impossible to learn public speaking from a book and instead had to learn by getting up and actually doing it.

At the start, she was looking online for help but discovered the service that Toastmasters offered people in the same predicament.

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to a Toastmasters meeting, she was spurred on by one of her workmates that told her she was a nervous speaker.

“Walking through the door on my fi rst visit was nerve-wracking…but the people there were fr iendly and welcoming and I began to calm down enough to enjoy myself,” Sarah says.

She says it took two extra visits before she was able to stand and speak.

Over the past year with the help of her club mentor Lu-cinda Chiu, Sarah was able to complete the ten speech assignments for her first award, known as Competent Communicator.

The book has a unique focus on both children and adults with a collection of projects that offer opportunities to develop practi-cal skills using everyday craft materials and recycled objects.

It also has an emphasis on upcycling which means ideas are accessible to the budget conscious without compromis-ing on quality. Both Norm and Julie believe it will be a valuable resource to parents and teachers alike.

“It’s going to sow the creative seed in children and help them be inspired,” Julie says.

The idea for the book came to them about two years ago following careers in art and education. It features projects that are based on artwork from New Zealand artists including Cliff Whiting, Brian Flintoff, Kohai Grace, and Robert (Bob) Jahnke.

“Children will be able to say their work was inspired by an actual artist. It provides creativ-ity that is transferable between both adults and children – [by using fi ne art and projects that have easy to follow instruc-

tions],” Norm says.“We want to make Maori art

and culture common knowledge to people…It’s about making is so anyone can make Maori art,” Julie says.

Julie has worked as an educa-tion specialist at City Gallery Wellington, Pataka Art Mu-seum and Te Papa, where she developed a number of online digital learning resources for art exhibitions; while Norm is a photographer and digital artist, and has been an imaging specialist at Te Papa for over 20 years.

“I believe having a tangible knowledge available can in-crease experiences that people have,” Julie says.

The book was officially launched at The Children’s Bookshop in Kilbirnie.

While it is a children’s book, Norm believes it is like the movie Toy Story where “it has an older side and a side that appeals to children.”

The book has aspects of fi ne art and information, balanced with activities for young chil-dren.

SHE’S GOT THE WORDS: Toastmaster member Sarah Davy with her Competent Communicator Award. PHOTO: Supplied.

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One of the worst aspects of “T’is the season to be jolly” is the damage to property caused by out of control party goers. Residents in Churton Park and Glenside have borne the brunt of this vandalism during the past week. A few minutes of misguid-ed and senseless “fun” resulted in a large number of distressed victims.

In Churton Park a number of resi-dents in Waverton Terrace were victims of a letterbox smashing spree during last weekend. In some cases letterboxes were ripped off their posts and thrown across the street, beyond repair. One letterbox was thrown at a parked vehicle causing a large dent in the hatch and a gouge in the bumper. A pot plant located near a front door was smashed.

The centre of the problem appears to have been a party in Chippen-ham Grove where a victim called Police to report a number of party goers on their property, and later discovered that their letterbox had also been smashed.. Other damage to letterboxes has been reported in Cambrian Street. In Halswater Drive two vehicles parked on the street were damaged caused by off enders jumping on the roof and bonnet areas. Similar wilful damage to property also took place during the same time period in Glenside where a letterbox in Middleton Road was removed and taken away. A silver Audi parked in Glenside Road was sprayed with Black, white and blue paint. In the same street two garages had their walls sprayed with tagged images.

In Khandallah a green Suzuki Vitara parked overnight in Waru Street was stolen. An unsuccessful attempt was made to force the door locks of a white Nissan Vanette parked overnight in Rangoon Street. Oil taken from the back of the Ute was poured over the windscreen of the vehicle. A water blaster was stolen from the back of the vehicle.

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Deadlines have become a lot more real for a class at Wel-lington Girls’ College following the announcement they would be creating the fi rst ever school newspaper.

The paper, dubbed WGC4U, will be a culmination of work done throughout term four and will give students the chance to act as editors, journalists, production staff, and publicity offi cers.

Helen Breeze, the teacher in charge of the media studies de-partment, described the paper as a magazine by students, about students, and for students.

She also tells the Independent Herald that it is a “real-life pro-ject” that helps teach them about the boring and challenging aspects of life, where things can go wrong and that meeting deadline is important.

Students involved in WGC4U are in year 10 and were assigned roles earlier in the term. All are work-ing hard towards the November 24 deadline that is getting ever closer.

The 16-page newspaper is set to feature articles on world news such as the rise of feminism, as well as a section on local news. A Christmas 'how to' section with gift ideas will also be included in the fi rst issue.

READ ALL ABOUT IT: Amandie Weerasundara and Madison Campbell-Akers. PHOTO: Dan Whitfi eld

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Johnsonville-based artists Tai and Kaaterina Kerekere showcased a bunch of mixed media and jewellery creations at an exhibition designed for contemporary Maori artists recently.

Tai and Rina produced the work over the last two years in their studio Ke Design, and say it was an amazing opportunity to attend and display their work at the Toi Maori Art Market.

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that are eco-friendly, waste-free, bio-degradable, organic, recy-cled, handcrafted, fairly-traded, locally made, or all of the above!” Some of the retailers that are participating is Sustainability Trust, Trade Aid, Commonsense Organics, Wellington Choco-late Factory, Hoopla Organic Kids Clothing, Munch Cupboard, House of Dumplings, Big Bad Wolf, and People’s Co� ee. The market is open November 22.

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Question: What was your biggest achievement at school?

readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Tim Caulder, Ngaio

“I learnt how to write a good English sentence and also represented my school in fi rst XV rugby.”

Stephanie Clark, Johnsonville

“Gaining university entrance was my biggest high school achievement, and going on to further education.”

Renee Moffi tt, Stokes Valley “I’d say my biggest school achievement would have been winning sports woman of the year at Onslow College.”

James Powdrell, Churton Park

“I played rugby for the Newlands College under 55kg team and won the second division fi nal.”

Christine Ritchie, Johnsonville

“Getting through school and going on to further education.”

Marika Schrader, Johnsonville

“I was a school rep for tennis and also represented Wellington in basketball and played in premier one netball.”

Marika Schrader, Marika Schrader, Stephanie Clark, Stephanie Clark, Tim Caulder, Tim Caulder, Christine Ritchie, Christine Ritchie, James Powdrell, James Powdrell, Renee Moffi tt, Renee Moffi tt,

Join us atCashmere HomeEnliven’s Cashmere Home is a long-standing community icon. Residents of Cashmere Home are supported to continue doing the things they love, while we provide the very best in clinical care. They tell us they enjoy the vibrant, warm and welcoming community where there is always something happening!Now we’re inviting members of our community to join us to socialise and have some fun. Men’s ClubTuesdays from 2-4pmJoin the men of Cashmere for stimulating activities, to chat about the rugby and enjoy some refreshments.

Recreation ClubFridays from 1-3pm Join us for a game of bowls or a gentle exercise class followed by afternoon tea.If you live in the Johnsonville area we can pick you up and drop you home.

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By Dan Whitfi eld

A love for science has not stopped Ther-ese Featherston from realising her dream.

“Most people think it's a bit odd because I'm a girl and there's this whole stereotype of only guys succeeding in science, but it's most defi nitely one of my passions,” she says.

Therese was one of 16 students who were giving the opportunity to be part of the Genesis Energy Realise the Dream programme which rewards and celebrates those that have undertaken an interest in science research or technology develop-ment.

“It's incredible! I never thought that I'd be given the opportunity to take part in something like this and I feel really hon-oured and grateful to have been selected. It still hasn't quite sunk in yet still,” Therese says.

The year 13 prefect at Queen Margaret College was selected for the programme after coming first in class five of the NIWA Wellington Regional Science and Technology Fair.

Her project was based on strawberry birthmarks and the potential to be able to grow red blood cells within this tumour. She worked at the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute complete the project.

“I was completely shocked to be hon-est,” Theresa says.

“I thought I'd mucked up the interview and there was no way I was going to get it. All day I had been telling myself, ‘At least you gave it a shot and there will be other opportunities out there for you!’

Theresa is really thankful to the institute

TEST TUBES: Therese Featherston at Gil-lies McIndoe Research Institute. PHOTO: Supplied.

for giving her the chance to do this.At the moment Theresa is just fi nishing

up a International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBD) exams and her fi nal year at school.

She is then planning on going to uni-versity to study something science based.

“I know for sure I want to do science, but I'm still not too sure what that's going to be – whether it be research or medicine,” she says.

Science on the mind

In the past year Family Works Central has supported almost 50 women step out of the Arohata Prison gates and make positive changes in their lives.

Presbyterian Support is contracted by the Department of Corrections to offer the voluntary Out of Gate programme at women’s prisons throughout the country. At Arohata the not-for-profi t organisation’s Family Works social workers meet with the women before release to talk about what support they need. On the day of release they are met by a Family Works community navigator who supports them to settle back into the community.

Family Works general manager Julia Hennessy explains the programme focuses on supporting the women to fi nd a suitable place to live, a job or education and training, access health and wellbeing services, as well as helping them develop positive life skills and connect with whanau and community support.

“We’ve had really positive feedback from the women expressing that having the support available to them is really making a difference.”

And statistics show the programme is working. More than 90 per cent of the women who have been supported by Family

Works Central have not reoffended within the fi rst six months of being released.

“We’re really humbled to have quality locally-connected women acting as naviga-tors to other women in the community. I think the difference is our navigators walk alongside the women during this journey – we’re not doing it for them or to them,” says Julia.

The Out of Gate programme is part of the government’s commitment to reduce reoffending in New Zealand by 25 per cent by 2017. This means 4,600 fewer offenders would return to prison and there would be 18,500 fewer victims of crime by 2017.

Julia says due to the success of the Out of Gate programme so far the Department of Corrections is further funding Family Works to offer other services to the women.

“We have been able to offer other services to the women when needed, such as coun-selling or parenting courses. It’s all about making sure each woman is supported in the best way possible. Whatever is right for the individual.”

To find out more about the Out of Gate programme or other Family Works services call 04 528 4164 or visit www.familyworkscentral.org.nz

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LETTERS to the editor

Dear Ed, HURRAH! for Karori Baptist Church's initiative in sup-porting children to request food bank donations instead of lollies as Halloween treats. Now, if we could move the "Guy Fawkes" fi reworks to Matariki (which actually means something to New Zealanders and

occurs at a conveniently dark time of year) these "imported" celebra-tions could become genuine Kiwi traditions.

Patricia QuinnKarori

Dear Ed, I am frankly appalled at the ignorance of drivers in and around the Broderick Rd area. On several occasions now, I have been held up for longer than half an hour by turning or stationary trucks and buses. I’ve also nearly been taken out by the stupid drivers that are behind the wheel.

When is this all going to stop? I know that there is a lot of work

being done to the bridge, but there is no need to the shocking driving skills recited by the drivers.

Has anyone else been affected by this? I’m sure that I am not the only person slightly annoyed.

Yours sincerely,

D. AndrewsJohnsonville

Dear Ed, As you may be aware the Karori West Scout Hall suffered a second arson attack recently, we are very happy that the Independent Herald has covered so much of our story so far and we were hoping that you would help keep us in the public eye. We have a launched a Givealittle funding page, and as you

will see one boy has donated all his pocket money, the website can be found here http://www.givealittle.co.nz/org/KWScout. I hope you are able to help us in our venture.

Kind regardsAmanda Garnett

Dear Ed, Leith Wallace In-dependent Herald November 12 asks where the tradition of Halloween comes from, and what its lesson is. I’m happy to educate him; Halloween (“hallowed evening” or “holy evening”) is a Christian feast dating back to at least 1745. It is heavily influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, but now celebrates Christian ob-servances of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, a time to remember the

dead, particularly martyrs and saints.

The “treat” tradition is based on soul cakes, small cakes given to children and the poor, who went from door to door, singing and saying prayers for the dead on their journey to Heaven. The tradition of costume comes from the idea that if one is in disguise, one is safe from any bad spirits that may be threatening “tricks” to the unblessed.

Personally I give out healthy

treats like muesli bars or sugar-free chocolate to trick-or-treaters. None of them have ever begged to me; they have all looked happy and thanked me most politely.

I would say the lesson of Halloween is to honour those who went before you, pray for them and appreciate any gifts and happiness you are given because of it.

Cheers,K. Barker, Newlands

Dear Ed, In an article last week, you asked for the public’s feedback in terms of what events would be good for the community. What we have at the moment, parades, fairs, fundraisers, etc, is perfect however, what I think what we need is more activities and infrastructure that is going to bring people into the

town – for example a better mall or movie theatre.

The roading around the town is receiving a massive overhaul, and the swimming pool is getting an upgrade, yet I feel it will be without benefi t until we get other things fi xed up or improved.

What can we do? Where do

we turn to get things to started? Something needs to be done be-cause Johsonville seriously needs a spruce up.

What do you think?

Many thanks,B. Dunlop

Dear Ed, As you know it was an extremely windy night on Sunday 2 November. When I got up in the morning there was a trampoline in our garden.

I have no idea where it has come from. I have contacted the local neighbourhood watch coordinator as well as Wades-

town and Thorndon Schools.As you can imagine the out-

come could have been dread-ful. It may have severely hurt someone, killed a beloved pet, gone through a window or into a car. Thankfully none of those things happened.

It’s a timely reminder for

people to take objects inside that could take off in windy conditions.

Yours sincerely,Sally KabakWadestown

Good idea for events in community

Can donations this Halloween

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Appauled drivers behind the wheel

Thanks for the support

Dear Ed, When entering this roundabout who has priority? It is

not clearly understood. Leon Goh

Who has right of way?

Dear Ed, As a ratepayer, I would like to lodge my objection. I do not agree with the council's decision for the convention centre to be publicly

funded by our rates without proper consultation.

Yours sincerely,Grace Chen

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By Dan Whitfi eld

For the last fi ve years, Grant Morris has been going through old journals and legal documents to fi nish writing a biography on the infamous New Zealander that is Sir James Prendergast.

His name is one you probably haven’t heard of, but as the third Chief Justice of New Zealand, he was best known for referring to the Treaty of Waitangi as a ‘simple nullity’.

This is Grant’s fi rst published book, excluding a textbook he had written a few years ago as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Victoria University.

“During his lifetime, he was a highly respected lawyer and judge. He was arguably New Zealand’s dominant legal professional from 1865 to 1899…I just saw it as an interest and wanted to know more about him,” Grant says.

Titled Prendergast: Legal Villain?, most of the biography was written by Grant as part of his PhD – allowing the Ngaio

resident to continue his particular interest in the New Zealand legal profession from 1860-1900 after studying.

“Prendergast’s good reputation began being deconstructed in the 1980s, when the Treaty of Waitangi returned to the centre of political life,” Grant says.

“The more the Treaty has been cel-ebrated, the more Prendergast has been condemned. My book asks who was this legal villain, and was he really a villain?” he says.

Grant believes the book will be ben-efi cial to some of his students, and will appeal to lawyers and people who have an interest in New Zealand history – although he says it is a book for everyone.

As a senior lecturer, Grant says his research and teaching interests did infl u-ence the book, and will defi nitely look to write more on the topic of legal history in the future.

The biography was launched last week, and was made possible through a grant from the New Zealand Law Foundation.

Victoria University profes-sors Phil Lester and Geoff Whittle have been given a chance to extend research in their specifi c fi elds after being acknowledged with highly sought-after James Cook Research Fellowships.

The two researchers, one who is from Victoria’s School of Biological Sciences and the other from Victoria’s School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, were among a

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Phil was awarded so that he could research ways of reducing the impact of para-sites and pathogens that are a central cause of declining bee populations in North America, Europe and New Zealand.

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RESEARCHER: Phil Lester with some of his research. PHOTO: Supplied.

known as Rota’s Conjecture. Both of them say they are

extremely delighted to be rec-ognised.

“This will allow us to make significant progress toward converting what we know is fact, into useful research papers for the mathematics community—a process that will take several years' inten-sive work,” Geoff says.

Fellowships are administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand on behalf of the Gov-ernment and are awarded to re-searchers who demonstrate that they have achieved national and international recognition in their area of scientifi c research.

Along with a team of col-laborators, Phil will attempt to infect honey bee eggs with a species of bacteria that provides resistance against viruses.

“We know that some bacteria can do this. It’s just a matter of fi nding the right bacteria to obtain maximum protection against viruses,” he says.

By using this approach, Phil believes there is a good chance his team can drastically in-crease the global health of bees, prevent the effects of mites and decrease the use of pesticides for mite control.

Phil is from Karori while Geoff is from Aro Valley.

Victoria researchers rewarded fellowship

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THE FIRST COPY: Grant Morris with his biography Prendergast: Legal Villain?. PHOTO: Dan Whit� eld.


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Stopping drink driving crashes is going to take more than just reducing the adult drink driving limit, says the Automobile Association.

The adult (20 and older) limit will lower to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood (.05) on December 1 and the AA supports this change. The old limit allowed people that were impaired to still be legal to drive and the lower limit reinforces the message to the public that drinking and driving is unacceptable.

However, for New Zealand to really reduce the number of people hurt by drink drivers, there are other changes in the way that of-fenders are dealt with that need to happen.

“Catching drink drivers is not the problem. The problem is that what we’re doing once we catch them isn’t working,” says AA Mo-toring affairs general manager Mike Noon.

An AA Research Foundation report last year showed that 11,979 or 51.2 per cent of the drink drivers caught in 2012 were repeat offenders.

“A lot of drink drivers are people with serious alcohol issues who aren’t in control of their drinking. Taking away their driving licence is not effective enough at keeping these people off the road and putting in-nocent lives at risk,” says Mr Noon.

“High risk drink drivers should have to have alcohol interlocks fi tted to their vehi-

cles. These only allow a person who is 100 per cent sober to use the car. The courts also need to do much more assessment of drink drivers for alcohol problems so that people with issues can have treatment combined with their sentence.

“More alcohol interlocks in drink drivers’ vehicles and treatment will do more to prevent crashes than the lower limit.”

Alcohol interlocks are devices like breatha-lysers that drivers have to use before and during a drive. They became a sentencing option in New Zealand in 2012 but, out of 11,692 eligible offenders that appeared before the courts in their fi rst year, just 228 received an interlock licence.

The AA wants all repeat drink drivers or those caught at twice the criminal limit to have an interlock fi tted to their vehicle. The revenue from the fi nes from drivers caught at alcohol levels between .05 to .08 under the new limit should also be used to fund more interlocks for the highest risk offenders.

“Even with the tiny number of interlocks in use in New Zealand there were still nearly 1000 in the programme’s fi rst year when the device wouldn’t let a vehicle start because someone with alcohol in their system tried to use the car. If we are serious about saving lives we need to have thousands of these in vehicles rather than a couple of hundred,” says Mr Noon.

Stopping drink driving will take more than just lower limit

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By Dan Whitfi eld

Krav Maga is a military self-defence system that was adopted and developed by the Israel De-fence Forces as their official system – and now, Andre Maritz is hoping to educate locals about this life saving survival skill.

Although Andre has been in martial arts for more than 35 years, he says it is not a sport like boxing or karate, but is a system that is based on your body’s instinctive reactions.

“It’s all about defence. We don’t want to fi ght. It’s about being able to protect yourself on the street if a situation arises,” Andre says.

As part of his lessons which run twice a week, he teaches people how to protect themselves using three levels of defence – soft, medium, and hard defence.

Andre says soft defence is about educating people to just walk away and remove themselves from situations. It also teaches them how to read body language.

Medium defence helps people learn how to injuring the attacker and then walk away; while hard defence is about serious hurt to

remove the threat of an attack.Krav Maga is still only new in

New Zealand, following Asser-tive Action Krav Maga (AAKM) started in 2008.

As head coach for New Zealand, Andre says you do not have to be fi t and it does not matter about your age – anyone can do it.

“It’s easy to learn and it’s really benefi cial. I just want to teach others how to defend themselves so that they can have a level of defence that is affective,” Andre says.

“This system does that,” he says.

Andre has a plan to reach out to people that face do-mestic violence and bul-lying issues on a regular occasion – “I want to teach these people self-defence.”

He believes this is going to help a number of kiwis and with it being a new opportunity he is hopeful lots of people will take interest in learning it.

The classes stress the drills. It also helps people with stress and adrenaline to push their body to the limit and defend themselves.

tive Action Krav Maga (AAKM)


“It’s easy to learn and it’s really benefi cial. I just want to teach others how to defend themselves so that they can have a level of defence that is affective,”

“This system does that,”

Andre has a plan to reach out to people that face do-mestic violence and bul-lying issues on a regular occasion – “I want to teach these people self-

He believes this is going to help a number of kiwis and with it being a new opportunity he is hopeful lots of people will take



“It’s easy to learn and it’s really benefi cial. I just want to teach others how to defend themselves so that they can have a level of defence that is affective,”

“This system does that,”

Andre has a plan to reach

help a number of kiwis and with it being a new opportunity he is hopeful lots of people will take


A system of self-defenceAT THE READY: Andre Maritz is ready to teach others Krav Maga. PHOTO: Supplied.

Newlands College had a very successful year in sport, and recently four of its students were named the 2014 Sports Person of the Year.Aizaya Anderson, Aprille Mincher, Cathleen Perez, and Caitlyn Taniela were recognised by College Sport Wel-lington for their success in their chosen � elds of solftball, athletics, table tennis, and volleyball this year.Caitlyn was named the volleyballer of the year and won her category.

Sporting success at Newlands

By Dan Whitfi eld

Eight Onslow College students have been training all year for the Hillary Outdoors Adventure Racing competition – practicing things like climbing, kayaking, abseiling and orienteering.

Laurence Hughes, Connor Riley, Nick Holland, Nicholas Moore, Beth Williams, Maggie Booker, Tertia Hempel, and Lily Moss-Baker are set to represent Wellington at the grand fi nal on Great Barrier Island in December, following a win at the regional competition in earlier this year.

Organised by Hillary Outdoors and supported by sports clubs and organisations right across New Zealand, the competition has been designed to encourage a wider participation in outdoor pursuit activities.

Laurence, Beth, and Maggie caught up with the Independent Herald on Tuesday to talk about the feat that is ahead of them.

All three say that there has been a lot of training, but are looking forward heading away and com-peting as a team.

The year nine and 10 students will be away for a week, and they will not know until they get up each morning what the challenges will be for that day – which makes the whole thing sort of like the television programme, Survivor.

“We’ve been enjoying it so far, and it’s going to get better,” Laurence says.

“We had a look at videos from past years and it looks fun,” Mag-gie says.

THE GROUP: Laurence Hughes, Maggie Booker, and Beth Williams. PHOTO: Dan Whitfi eld

Despite the students working hard to ready themselves physically, they need help from the community to help raise some funds.

All up a sum of $5500 is needed to send the team away, and so far fundraising efforts have collected about half.

A quiz night at the Khandal-lah Trading Company has been

organised to help support the group getting to the competition. This is set to run on Sunday, November 30, at 7.30pm.

In keeping with the Hillary theme, the group has got hold of a thread of wool from one of Sir Ed’s climbing socks, and everyone who buys ticket for the night goes into the draw to win the piece of history.

Climbing, kayaking, abseiling – is on the list

The hard yards have begun for many local players as the Johnsonville Rugby Football Club 2015 pre-season training regime kicks o� for another year.Players from all teams were invited to attend a session at the club recently, seeing many of them take part in cross� t and team building circuits.The emphasis on the pre-season training is on core, power and speed. Club o� cials advised that all premier players should take part to make sure the team is in top form.The club posted on its Facebook page telling players to front up for yourself, your team and your club…Every success story has a starting point, start early, build together.If you are interested in joining the Johnsonville club, contact Mason Lawrence on 0274 420 106.Next year’s season starts on March 21.

Training begins

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