Selwyn Times 11-08-15

BY TOM DOUDNEY

Selwyn residents may be asked to weigh in on whether Central Plains Water should get another $8 mil-lion loan.

CPW had requested the money in an Annual Plan submission to assist with the funding of design and construction-ready work for stage two of the $385 million irriga-tion scheme.

The request comes at a time of financial uncertainty for the dairy industry with Fonterra having slashed its milk price forecast to $3.85 per kilogram in the face of falling global demand.

A district council report for to-morrows meeting has recommend-ed holding public consultation on the matter.

The report identified a lack of farmer uptake of the scheme as one

possible obstacle to stage two, a risk which was heightened given cur-rent dairy prices.

CPW chief executive Derek

Crombie said falling dairy prices were no reason to be concerned about the schemes finances.

One of the conditions before we could draw down the loan would be that we could prove sufficient up-take. So we would be going back to our shareholders and confirming in the second half of this year that they do still want to do this.

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Robyn and Mark Wilson of Lincoln were among about 150 costumed people to attend a Mad Hatters Tea Party at the Lincoln Baptist Church on Saturday. The charity event raised $7453 for Hagar, an international organisation dedicated to restoring the lives of human rights abuses. The afternoons entertainment included music, a silent auction and prizes.

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From page 1Mr Crombie said that stages

two and three of the scheme would largely not be servicing dairy farmers but would be irri-gating cropping, sheep and beef farming land instead.

CPW has already received more than $5.4 million in loans from the district council, all of which have been repaid.

CPWs water and develop-ment rights, and the right to use its already completed intake and headrace infrastructure, have been offered as security in the case of a default.

Stage two will introduce an-other 37,000ha of land to ir-rigation via an expanded canal network. When the third and final stage is complete, it will be irrigating 60,000ha of land between the Waimakariri and Rakaia rivers.

The $8 million would be ad-dition to an already confirmed $3.7 million and requested fur-ther $5 million from the Min-istry of Primary Industries, as well as $4 million of CPWs own funds.

The report recommended that consultation remain open for four weeks, wrapping up on October 2. Submissions would be considered in a district coun-cil meeting on October 28 with the first $3 million installment of the loan, if approved, to be paid out late this year.

A 2014 report prepared for CPW by Dr Caroline Mary

Saunders found that the scheme would provide $268 million in additional revenue and 849 full-time equivalent jobs in Canter-bury by 2020.

Mayor Kelvin Coe would not be drawn on whether he would support loaning the $8 million, saying only that he looked forward to taking part in the debate at tomorrows meeting.

I think we have done a pretty

good job of evaluating the risks, he said, referring to the district council report.

The Central Plains Wa-ter scheme is a finalist in the Champion Canterbury Business Awards. The scheme, which will see 60,000ha of Selwyn farm-land irrigated, was nominated in the infrastructure and trades category. Winners will be an-nounced at a ceremony and din-ner on September 16.

Scheme asks for another $8m

CARVED UP: Stage one of the Central Plains Water scheme has already made its mark on the landscape. Now an $8 million loan is being sought for stage two.

Bottle store approvedBY TOM DOUDNEY

A new Darfield bottle store has been approved in spite of oppo-sition from health authorities.

Thirsty Liquor Darfields li-quor licence application has been approved by the Selwyn District Licensing Committee.

The licence had been opposed by Canterbury medical officer of health Dr Alistair Humphreys who argued that the density of off-licences would be too high at one for every 660 people in Darfield.

He was also concerned about the proximity to schools and childcare centres.

The store, expected to open in November, is owned by Michael Brown who also runs the Wai-mak Tavern, south of Kaiapoi, and MacKenzies Hotel in Christ-church.

Mr Brown said he would be serving the whole Malvern area, not just Darfield, and therefore just looking at the density of outlets in the town itself did not make sense.

Police testified that Darfield had no problems with alcohol related crime and they had no objections to the licence being granted.

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It appears a supermarket may not be part of a scaled back shopping centre planned for West Melton.

A new company has taken over development of the 8300 sq m site on Weedons Ross Rd, across from West Melton School, and plans have been reduced from a two sto-rey to a one storey design.

Supermarket chain Progressive Enterprises says it wont be in-volved.

James Lloyd Developments has an option to buy the land and di-rector Tony Hickman said the company was expecting to start work on the site within the next few weeks.

The original developers, Robin and Jackie Butt, had initially hoped

to open the centre in late 2014. However, a higher build cost than initially envisaged and a key inves-tor pulling out have left it in limbo since then.

A Progressive Enterprises super-market had previously been touted as the anchor tenant by the Butts but Countdown general manager of property Adrian Walker said the chain had no plans to be part of the centre.

A spokeswoman for rival chain Foodstuffs said it also would not locate there.

Mr Hickman would not reveal how much the development was expected to cost.

However, he did say the top sto-rey, which was to have contained commercial offices, had been re-moved from the plans to reduce

the price and make the develop-ment feasible as there was not enough demand for office space in West Melton.

It just wasnt viable for the area at this time. What is needed at the moment is a retail shopping centre. Offices could probably come in at a later date, somewhere else.

All the resource consents had been approved, meaning the big-gest hurdle was out of the way, Mr Hickman said.

It has been a long wait for [local people] but we are going to be able to make it work and make a start so thats positive for the West Melton community.

When asked why he wouldnt di-vulge costs, Mr Hickman said the company preferred to just keep our build cost to ourselves.

We have made the project hap-pen out there by doing a bit of a redesign and gone from there, so all I can really say is the project is going to go ahead.

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A BASS drum which saw action on more than 20 battlefields during World War 1 and 2 could be lost to Canterbury.

It is one of hundreds of war rel-ics which could go if the Burnham Regimental History Centre has to close.

The drum survived some of the bloodiest battles of World War 1 including Gallipoli, The Somme, Flanders and Passchendaele.

It was brought back after the war but used again during World War 2 at battles in Europe and North Af-

rica, including the battles of Crete, El Alamein and Cassino.

And it wasnt only used as a drum.

On the battlefield at Gallipoli sol-diers used the drum as a makeshift carrier for medical supplies, filling it with bandages as they treated the wounded.

Trust chairman David Clarkson said the drum was just one of hun-dreds of stories, photos and pieces of memorabilia from Canterbury soldiers preserved at the centre.

The centre is currently based in a 105-year-old historic brick build-ing at Burnham Military Camp.

But the building was damaged

in the earthquakes, and it is not yet known if it will be able to be repaired.

If it is demolished and the group is unable to find a new building, they could have to shut the centre.

Its likely the collections would then be split up and sent to the Na-tional Army Museum in Waiouru or Te Papa in Wellington.

Mr Clarkson said the group was working to try to find a new base.

It is essential we maintain some-thing like this in Canterbury, or all this history will be lost, he said.

But it is proving difficult, be-cause they need such a large space to display everything.

There are weapons and uniforms from 100 years ago at the centre, as well as life-size displays and hun-dreds of photographs and stories.

The relics include Canterbury insignia embroidered by captured Turkish soldiers in World War 1.

They also have equipment from early Canterbury mounted regi-ments, old documents and records, and lanterns and other pieces soldiers brought home from the trenches.

Mr Clarkson said about 200-250 sq m of floor space would be need-ed to display everything.

The group has already ap-proached Ngai Tahu and the Air

Force Museum in Wigram about relocating there, but neither had the space.

They are working with the Christchurch Arts Centre to look at possibilities there, and hope to find out more soon.

The centre is currently run by five volunteers, all former soldiers who have fought with Canterbury regiments.

Most of the volunteers are in their 70s or 80s, and Mr Clarkson hoped relocating to the city might make it easier to attract more vol-unteers.

He said it would also give the public easier access to the museum.

Burnham could lose war HISTORY: The Regimental History Centre is currently based in a 105 year old his-toric brick building at Burnham Military Camp, but the building has earthquake damage.

DRUMMER: Burnham Regimental History Centre chairman David Clarkson with their historic bass drum, which was used at more than 20 battles in World War 1 and 2.


The drum was used on battlefields including:World War 1Suez Canal from February 1915Gallipoli from April 1915Somme from September 1916Messines from February 1917Passchendaele from October 1917Hindenburg from September 1918World War 2Greece from March 1941Crete from April 1941Sidi Rezegh from November 1941Minquair Quaim from May 1942El Alamein from June 1942Orsogna from December 1943Cassino from January 1944

ARMOURY: Weapons on display at the centre range from modern-day pieces to some used before World War 1. PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN

BY FRASER WALKER-PEARCE AND TOM DOUDNEY

The Canterbury District Health Board is being asked to show more urgency in planning health services for Selwyns booming population.

District councillor Grant Miller (right) said he remained frustrated by the slow progress on planning for the future.

Looking at the services we currently have, we need more, just plainly because there has been explosive growth around Selwyn, particularly in Lincoln and Rolleston.

He appreciated that the CDHB had had its hands full in Christchurch after the earthquakes.

But we also have needs in Selwyn.

Cr Miller said the district council had been meeting with the CDHB for some time discussing how to plan for Selwyns future but a cohesive plan did not seem close.

Along with a need for more doctors clinics, Selwyns de-mography showed a need for more social services too.

The general demographic of Selwyn is showing the two extremes of age. For example,

22 per cent of the population is under 12, so these social services will become very important in the coming years. For this part of the commu-nity, theyre getting into that stage where hospitals, mental, sexual all of those health services are needed.

A range of services could be co-located in a single building a hub concept CDHB had previously proposed for Selwyn.

Selwyns current population is estimated to be 51,000. It grew 32.6 per cent between the 2006 and 2013 census.

That is expected to rise to 75,000 by 2030, with80 per cent of the growth to take place in the urban areas.

Cr Miller said that land was available to develop health facilities on, but it was being snapped up quickly.

There is land available around the Selwyn District Council head office. Rolleston School is very keen to expand, but we could also put in a doc-

tors, or another service; so we need to weigh up the greater good of Selwyn.

CDHB planning and fund-ing team leader Dr Greg Ham-ilton said everyone wanted to see a healthcare model which provided better care for the people of Selwyn but careful consideration needed to be given to how any future devel-opments would complement existing practices.

We need to be clear on what this model of care will look like before any infra-structure and facilities work is considered. It is important that future developments are carefully worked through to ensure they support this model and make best use of limited resources.

Cr Miller said another con-cern for Selwyn residents was the redevelopment of Christ-church Hospital which could see some services being tem-porarily moved to Burwood Hospital, making the trip into Christchurch for Selwyn locals even further.

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The group is also working to find out more about the history of the Gallipoli drum.

Lines of names have been scratched on the inside of the drum, but it is not known if they were names of people who played it, or of other soldiers.

It will be sent away this week to a police forensics laboratory, where equipment will be used to magnify and try to identify some of the names on it.

They hope the information can be used to track down people who might know more about its history.


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There have been 35 crashes in-volving animals on Selwyn roads since 2010.

Police released the figures for Canterbury along with a map showing their locations.

These included the fatal crash that killed Lincoln woman Diana Clair Morton on Birchs Rd in 2013. Morton was driving at night with her husband when their car struck a horse which had got loose and wandered onto the road.

There were also four other crashes involving minor injuries and the rest were without injury.

Across Canterbury, there were 177 reported crashes involving animals, including two fatal and five involving serious injuries.

By far the biggest cause was straying animals 142 cases. The others involved 18 cases of a pet playing or escaping onto the road, seven of a farm animal which was being attended to when the crash happened, eight involving wild animals and two unknown.

The equivalent breakdown for Selwyn was not released.

Senior Sergeant Pete Stills re-leased the figures two weeks after a Selwyn police officer struck a cow while driving on Clinton Rd, near Darfield.

An investigation into the in-cident has been completed but a formal determination is yet to be made. However, Senior Sergeant Stills said preliminary findings

were that the officer involved had not done anything wrong.

He said it was important that owners make sure their stock were under control, paddocks were well fenced and gates were locked to prevent passers-by from opening them and letting

animals out onto the road.The results could be tragic when

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BY TOM DOUDNEY

A freakish weather event led to a car carrying a Leeston man and his four children skidding off the road and crashing through a fence.

The family were driving from Leeston to Dunsandel along Hanmer Rd, Brookside, at about 9pm on Friday when they turned a corner and found the road ahead littered with about 5cm of hail.

The car slid off the road, went through a fence and ended up in some bushes.

Senior Sergeant Pete Stills said the family were lucky to have been uninjured in the crash which left their car too badly damaged to drive.

The children were aged two, three, five and seven.

Senior Sergeant Stills said it ap-peared a band of intense hail only about 100m wide had swept up from the south. The road before the corner had been completely free of hail and there were no warning signs of what lay ahead.

He called it a freakish occur-ance.

We can talk about driving to the conditions but the piece of road he was on was fine and then it changed unexpectedly.

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Paradise FoundJan Chaffey was born in the south of the South Island. She grew up with a

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Exilio is an exploration and celebration of New Zealands eight native kowhai. The series brings together a number of her interests calligraphy, the painted narrative, abstract expressionism, and botany. Working in goache on paper and oil on canvas, Jans latest series is bold and contemporary. Her painterly style is gestural and spontaneous and owes something to William de Kooning and Mark Tobey. Her real message, however, is about the fragility of our native flora and fauna and the importance of its preservation. She calls New Zealand our inherited environment - something to be respected and treasured. Her paintings are a forum for raising awareness about the beauty and vulnerability of nature.

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He helped out on his fathers farm for some years prior to his enlistment on November 11, 1916. He was one of four brothers to serve in the war.

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In Egypt, he was posted to the New Zealand Mounted Train-ing Regiment at Tel el Kebir on July 27, 1916, and the same day transferred to the Imperial Camel Corps.

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However, like many others, he was exposed to malaria-carrying

mosquitos and on October 6, he was sent to hospital with a fever.

This may have been malaria but he could also have been suffering from influenza which was also prevalent.

In October 1918, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Pales-tine experienced simultaneous epidemics of falciparum malaria and influenza during the cavalry campaign that defeated the Turk-ish Army.

Hansen died on October 11, 1918, aged 28, while being evacu-ated by field ambulance.

He is buried in the Haifa War Cemetery and remembered on the Ellesmere County War Memorials Leeston plaque.

Private Thomas GuyThomas Guy was born at Annat

on March 25, 1886, to John and Annie Guy.

He married Jessie Winifred Campbell at Amberly on January 19, 1916, and they had one child, Gladys Mary.

Guy was working a labourer at Springfield before enlisting on December 5, 1917. He had previ-ous military experience with the Malvern Mounted Rifles.

He was assigned to the 24th Reinforcements, Canterbury In-fantry Regiment, C Company, and embarked aboard the Pakeha from

Wellington on April 14.However, the ship returned and

he re-embarked for Devonport on April 26.

In France, Guy joined the 1st Battalion and was posted to the 13th Company on September 16.

On April 5, he suffered a gun-shot wound to his left arm and was evacuated to England where he was treated in hospital at Wal-ton on Thames.

On September 3, after his recovery, instead of being sent to France, Guy was posted to Larkhill Camp, not far from Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain. It was an Infantry training camp.

He left for France on September 29 and joined the Canterbury Infantry Battalion in the field on October 7.

However, on October 15, he was sent to No 3 Casualty clearing sta-tion where he died of pneumonia the next day, aged 32.

Guy is buried in the Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cem-etery and remembered on the Malvern County and Sheffield war memorials.

Trooper William HendersonWilliam Henderson was born

at Halkett on March 3, 1885, to Gilbert and Margaret Henderson.

He was farming at Halkett before enlisting on November 17, 1916.

He had previ-ous military ex-perience having served with the Waimakariri Mounted Rifles.

Henderson was assigned to

the 29th Reinforcements, Mount-ed Rifles Brigade and promoted to Corporal on January 28. On November 13, 1917, he embarked for Suez.

He was sent immediately to Moascar where he relinquished his

rank of Corporal and was posted to the Imperial Camel Corps on January 5, 1918.

Henderson joined the Corps in the field on February 15 and served with them for six months until being transferred to the 2nd Mounted Machine Gun Squadron on July 31, 1918.

The Machine-Gun Squadron was a sub-unit of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade during the war, serving with them in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign from 1916 to 1918.

On October 3, an accident resulted in Henderson received gunshot wounds to the neck. Later investigation showed that the wound was caused by a re-volver bullet from the gun of one Sergeant Middleton. The gun had gone off unexpectedly.

He was admitted to the French Hospital in Damascus on October 4, where he died of his wounds on October 19.

Henderson is buried in the Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery and remembered on a memorial at Halkett Presbyterian Church, as well as on the South-bridge School Roll of Honour.

Bombardier Leonard Talbot Russell

Leonard Talbot Russell was born at Brookside on September 10, 1892, to Alfred and Mary Russell.

He was a keen rugby player and for several seasons played halfback for the Irwell Club and also took part in representative matches. He played in the seven-a-side tournaments and was a member of the team which won the senior competition the last season before his departure for the front.

Russell was managing his mothers farm before enlisting on August, 25, 1915, and being as-signed to the 8th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles. He embarked for Suez on November 13.

He was stationed at Zeitoun for his first few months in Egypt, un-til March 25, 1916, when he was transferred from the Canterbury Mounted Rifles to the 12 Battery, NZ Field Artillery.

Along with many others he was sent to France, on April 7, where he was assigned to the 3rd Brigade, New Zealand Field Artillery.

Information on Russells service over the next two years is limited, until April 1, 1918, when he was appointed Acting Bombardier. A few days later, he was wounded but remained with his unit.

On August 6, he was detached to the 3rd Army Rest Camp in the field for a short time on August 20.

He was promoted to Bombar-dier to complete the establish-ment not long after his return on August 28.

On October 20, Russell suffered a gunshot wound to his head, resulting in a fractured skull.

At the time, the artillery were firing in support of the 42nd Divi-sion, which attacked from Briastre as part of the ongoing assault on the Hindenberg Line.

Russell died on the same day at the 3rd Canadian Casualty Clear-ing Station.

He is buried in the Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cem-etery, Manancourt, and remem-bered on the Ellesmere County War Memorial.

Private Frank Lewis BergFrank Lewis Berg was born at

Devonport, Tasmania, on August 26, 1896, to Isaac and Elizabeth Sarah Berg.

The family had arrived in New Zealand around 1911.

He was working as a labourer at Greendale before enlisting on September 19, 1916. He had previous military service with the Territorials although he did not state which unit.

World War 1 claimed the lives of about 18,000 New Zealand soldiers, while a further 41,000 were injured or fell ill. To honour those from Selwyn, a project was undertaken by volunteer historian Lynda Seaton on behalf of Selwyn Libraries to identify, research and record every soldier whose name was recorded on a World War 1 memorial in the district. To mark the centenary of the conflict, the Selwyn Times continues its weekly series, Soldiers of Selwyn.


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till the end of warBerg was assigned to 21st Rein-

forcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company, and em-barked for Devonport on January 19, 1917.

In England, he joined the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment before leaving for France. He joined them in the field on June 19, 1917.

Berg was sent to hospital sick on December 26, suffering from anaemia, but rejoined his unit on January 12, 1918.

He fought with the regiment through the campaigns of that year until being killed in action, aged 22, on October 23, 1918.

Berg was part of the attack on the little hamlet of Pont--Pierres, where the Beaudignies road crosses the river. Although progress was astonishingly rapid and successful, at the outset they had met somewhat severe artillery fire and a considerable volume of machine gun and rifle fire. He may have been a casualty of this gunfire.

He is buried in the Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, France, and remembered on the Malvern County, Greendale and Sheffield war memorials.

Corporal William George Henry Jones

William George Henry Jones was born on August 10, 1881, to George Henry and Ada Emma Jane.

He was working as a labourer at Leeston before enlisting on June 27, 1916.

Jones was a widower, hav-ing married Elizabeth Guill in Dunedin on April 24, 1909, in a Salvation Army service. They had two children - Margaret Ada, born 1910, and Myrtle Elizabeth, born 1912.

She died on March 3, 1916, a few months before Jones enlisted.

He had previous military expe-rience with Ellesmere Mounted Rifles.

Jones was assigned to the 18th Reinforcements, Canterbury In-fantry Battalion, C Company, and was promoted to Lance Corporal

in camp. He embarked for Plymouth on October 11. As was usual, he reverted to the rank of private in England.

He was posted to the

Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 13th Company, on April 2, 1917, and left for France two months later.

On October 24, he was promot-ed to Lance Corporal and a month later to Corporal on November 13.

Jones was wounded in action on December 16, suffering a shrapnel wound to his left arm, and taken to the No 22 General Hospital at Camiers.

After spending Christmas there he was evacuated to the 2nd NZ General Hospital at Walton upon Thames in England on December 29.

It was May 19, 1918, before he returned to the field in France, joining the No 2 Entrenching Battalion. While serving with them he was appointed temporary sergeant.

He was then transferred to the Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion and posted to 13th Company.

Jones was wounded in action on October 5, suffering wounds to his abdomen and buttock. The New Zealand Division was involved in an attack on the Hindenburg Line in the area around Bapaume and Cambrai.

He died, aged 37, at No 29 Ca-sualty clearing station on October 22, 1918.

Jones is buried in the Grevillers British Cemetery and remembered on the Ellesmere County War Memorials Leeston plaque.

William Thomas BucknerWilliam Thomas Buckner was

born at Ashburton on August 2, 1893, to Thomas and Emily Henri-etta Buckner.

He was working as a teamster in Waddington before enlisting on October 16, 1916. He had served two month military training with territorials.

Buckner was assigned to the New Zealand Rifle BrigadeRe-inforcements H Companyand embarked for Devonport on March 14, 1917. While at sea he was hospitalised with measles.

In France, he was posted to A company in the field on July 11. He served with them throughout 1917, including the disastrous battle of Passchendaele.

In January, 1918, he was sent to 22nd General Hospital in Camiers with trench foot. It was March 26 before he was able to rejoin the Rifle Brigade, although he appears not to have been posted back to the field.

On October 8, at Etaples, Buckner went before the stand-ing Medical Board to review his condition.

The medical exam noted that he was pale, debilitated with a persis-tent cough, had cogwheel respira-tion in the left lung and his heart was irritable. On October 11, he was sent to England with the recommendation he be returned to New Zealand for 12 months.

He arrived at Torquay, the New Zealand Discharge Depot, on October 12 but a week later he was admitted to the temporary hospi-tal at the town hall with influenza and acute pneumonic consolida-tion of the lung.

Buckner was placed on the dan-gerously ill list and taken to the Red Cross Hospital on October 21. He died two days later from heart failure, aged 25.

He is buried in the Hillingdon and Uxbridge Cemetery and re-membered on the Springston War Memorial.

PrivateCharles Warwick Fountain

Charles Warwick Fountain was born at Christchurch on February 2, 1891, to John Henry and Henri-etta Fountain.

He was working on a Hororata farm before enlisting on July 25, 1916. He had previous military ex-perience with the Normal School Cadets although the Territorials had rejected him as unfit.

Fountain was assigned to 19th Reinforcements, Canterbury In-fantry Battalion, C Company, and was promoted to Lance Corporal on November 8. He embarked for Devonport on November 15.

In England, he reverted to pri-vate before leaving for France on March 1, 1917.

On April 28, Fountain marched out to the Segregation Camp sup-posedly intended to keep newly arrived soldiers who might be in-fected from passing on infection. He returned to the main camp on June 21 before joining 2nd Battalion Canterbury Regiment in the field.

A few months later conditions took their toll and he was sent to the field ambulance with diar-rhoea, rejoining the battalion on September 1. However, he was ill with diarrhoea again two weeks later.

Fountain spent a month with F Company NZ Engineers before re-joining 2nd Battalion again on the October 20. He fought with them for the rest of the campaign until he was killed in action on October 24, 1917, aged 27. This was only two weeks before the Armistice.

The 2nd Battalion had received orders that two companies were to establish a line on the Ruesnes-Ghissignies road, north-east of Beaudignies.

Fountain is buried in the Be-audignies Communal Cemetery and remembered on the Ellesmere Countys Southbridge plaque, as well as the Hororata War Memo-rial.

James Samuel HumphreysJames Samuel Humphreys was

born at Tai Tapu on August 3, 1894, to Samuel and Eliza Hum-phreys.

He was farming for his father before enlisting on July 26, 1916.

He had previous military ex-perience, having served with the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, B Squadron.

Humphreys was assigned to the 20th Reinforcements, New Zea-land Mounted Rifles, embarked for Suez on December 14.

In Egypt, he was posted to the Mounted Rifles Training Regiment at Moascar and later transferred to the Mounted Rifles in the field on April 29. He was posted to 1st Squadron on May 2.

Humphreys was trans-ferred to the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regi-ment which, along with the rest of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, moved east across Palestine into the Jordan Valley in early 1918 as part of the Anzac Mounted Divi-sion.

On October 5, he was admitted to hospital with malignant malaria and on October 12 he was placed on the dangerously ill list at the 36th Stationary Hospital at Gaza where he died the same day.

Humphreys is buried at the Gaza Military Cemetery and remembered on the Tai Tapu War Memorial, as well as the plaque in St Pauls Church.

Selwyn Libraries welcomes your feedback or any informa-tion you can provide regarding these soldiers. Please [email protected]

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Firstly, could you tell me a little bit about yourself? Where were you born, and where did you grow up? When did you move to Christchurch? What made you get into show business?

I grew up in the United King-dom, in northern England in 1948, so Im 67. Ive lived in New Zealand for almost 12 years now. We just wanted to do something with our lives in our mid-50s, so we moved over here. We lived in Guernsey (UK) before that; its much smaller than New Zealand, and Guernsey is old and full of history, while New Zealand is relatively new.

I used to want to be a train driver, and became a footballer, but Ive never had a massive driv-ing ambition. I used to play in a band when I was younger, then I became a marketing manager in Guernsey; organising concerts, and trying to get cinemas into Guernsey.

The story told in the Bible was of Abraham, he was told by God to take his only son Isaac, whom hed

waited 100 years to have, and sac-rifice him on top of a mountain. Imagine yourself in that situation, if you were Abraham, having waited all that time for a son and then having to do that.

Id read through that and inspiration kind of struck me. I went upstairs and sat down at my keyboard and wrote the first verse of a song called Why me, Lord? I finished off the song later, and then went through the story in the Bible, and every time I re-read it, a new song came to me. Now there are 16 songs in total, and from that I put together a script involving the Bible and adding in bits and pieces where it was a bit vague; and all of a sudden, now were in rehearsal mode. Were into the ninth rehearsal already. We have a five-piece band, and theyre busy learning songs, so altogether there are 21 people in our cast.

Is it your first production?Yes, Ive never done anything

like it before. Its pretty exciting really; it was scary at the start,

but we had a musical director to help us through, and a technical adviser. Im just leading the direc-tion side of things now.

How long did it take to create the script that youre happy with?

Its been two years in develop-ment and waiting for the right time to design the script, now just feels right. The bare bones of the story probably took three months.

Another song which we added in a while ago has had ongo-ing refinements as we went along. In total I think I started in Octo-ber 2013 and the script was ready in February 2014. From there we were just waiting for the right time to put it in action.

Were us-ing this as a thrust to

raise funds for the Sano Diyo girls home in India, who have saved and adopted around 40 girls off the streets to give them an educa-tion.

Tell me a little bit about your football career.

I played against some semi-famous people in my football years for Halifax Town in Eng-land. Teams travelled over like Portsmouth and Queens Park Rangers, when

they were in their heyday. I had some great experiences there, but I was never going to make it into the big leagues.

How have rehearsals been going?

For the first part of rehearsals, we concentrated on singing for the best part of it, then into the drama and acting. People have volunteered to help out with costumes, makeup, sets and props and the like, so thats been very helpful.

The good thing about it is, Im always open to changes in the songs, and there are always amicable agreements to smaller disagreements we may have.

Where and when will the production be staged?

It will in the auditorium of the Hope Church in Hornby, on Wednesday,

September 30 at 7.30pm; then Friday, October 2 at 7.30pm, and Saturday at

2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets

are $10.

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Your banking needs are served by BNZ, Westpac and an ASB ATM machine in front of Rolleston Drycleaning and Laundromat.

BNZ was the first bank established in Rolleston. Located on the street side of the Rendezvous Caf it offers full banking services with a later closing time on Thursdays and Saturday morning banking. There is also an ATM machine outside for after-hours banking and they have 20 mobile bankers assisting rural customers.

Westpac can be found in the east block of Rolleston Square next to Coffee Culture. It is a new style high-tech self-service bank with friendly staff who are there till 5.30pm each weekday night. They can help with your banking needs such as organising foreign currency and taking out a loan; all in a relaxed and comfy setting.

Rolleston Drycleaning and Laundromat has been in Rolleston since 2007. Kathleen and her team provide a full environmentally friendly dry-cleaning service whether clothing or soft furnishings and also have a laundromat for household and commercial washing. The business gained a Platinum rating in 2014 and has twice been a co-winner of the Responsible Business Award run by the Lincoln Envirotown Trust.

We dont release chemicals other than detergent into the water, dust from our dryer filters is composted and all chemicals are recycled, advises Kathleen who also encourages her staff to take part in community events such as one of her employees managing a local rugby team.

Also based at Rolleston Square west are two real estate firms: Harcourts and Ray White.

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Android phone users are being targeted by scammers who accuse them of watching child pornog-raphy and illegally downloading other material.

The scammers pose as police, and also say the countrys security organisations the SIS and GCSB will take action against them if a $200 fine is not paid.

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The device will be taken over by a virus-style infection and the screen will show a warning that encourages you to pay a $200 fine via the Ukash or Paysafe voucher network, said Mr Halls.

The woman who took her phone into the Papanui Police Station had received a message saying she had been watching child pornography and the police had blocked her phone.

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Award-winning Christchurch director Peter Youngs new documentary will be shown for the first time at the New Zealand International Film Festival.

The Art of Recovery captures the creative revival in central Christchurch, the global attention it is attracting and questions the top-down Government-led ap-proach to the recovery.

It will be shown at the Isaac Theatre Royal on August 13 and 18.

The film focuses on a small but passionate group of artists and entrepreneurs from the February 2011 earthquake over a four-year period.

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and Ryan Reynolds of GapFiller, street artist Wongi Wilson and his wife Emma, entrepreneurs Sam Crofsky (C1 caf) and Johnny Moore (Smash Palace) and artist Peter Majendie who created the 185 empty chairs memorial.

Their stories reveal the power of the human spirit. What they have achieved in post-quake Christchurch is really quite re-markable, Mr Young said.

They responded quickly and creatively to the earthquakes bringing life back to the ruins of the central city by creating wel-coming places for people to be.

Its work that is attracting the attention of urban designers

around the world some of whom feature in the documentary. They describe the creative recovery as pioneering and powerful.

NZIFF director Bill Gosden says the festival is delighted to be able to include The Art of Recov-ery in its programme.

We couldnt be more pleased that our first NZIFF world pre-miere at the Isaac Theatre Royal celebrates the creative activity thats burgeoned all around it, said Mr Gosden.

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A Christchurch mortgage broker is involved in High Court action to stop restraint of trade restric-tions being put on him.

James Heath is one of seven former Mike Pero Mortgages franchisees who have taken High Court action over restraint-of-trade obligations that stop them competing with the brokerage business for two years.

The former franchisees of New Zealands largest chain of mort-gage brokers are seeking a decla-ration that the restraint-of-trade terms they signed up to cant be enforced, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Mike Pero (New Zealand), franchisor of the mortgage business, has since got interim court orders against the seven franchisees preventing them competing with the firm as mortgage brokers.

The company is owned by Aus-tralias Liberty Financial. Founder Mike Pero no longer has any part in the business.

Details of the bust-up emerged this week in the Auckland High Court, where the company ap-plied for those orders to continue against Mr Heath.

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Over the past few years Selwyn has been a region dealing with exponential growth.

This general trend was intensified by the number of people relocating to Selwyn following the February 2011 earthquake.

According to the National Construction Pipeline Report, which provides national and regional forecasts of building and construction activity, the value of building and construction activity is forecast to top $200 billion nationwide over the next six years, peaking at about $37 billion in 2016.

If the forecast is correct this will be the strongest sustained level of growth in the industry in 40 years.

However, there are signs that our local construction boom may have peaked, with growth in residential construction shifting from our region to Auckland, where it is most needed. When compared to the same quarter last year, there has been a 15 per cent decline in consents in Canterbury and a 19 per cent increase in Auckland.

Housing consents in Canterbury are plateauing and forecast to drop from 7750 in 2015 to 3000 by 2020. Auckland consents are forecast to continue to increase from 10,500 in 2015 to around 14,000 between 2016 and 2020.

This trend is expected to continue as the rebuild slows and momentum from Government housing initiatives gathers in Auckland. This will be welcome news for Aucklanders because the best way to address housing affordability is by increasing supply.

However, this trend should not be seen as bad news for Selwyn as our region continues to be popular for families and businesses to establish themselves, particularly with land values remaining more accessible than in many parts of Christchurch. Some easing in the level of growth in Selwyn may allow local infrastructure to more readily keep pace with the increasing population levels.

There may also be an opportunity for Selwyn to adjust to the national trends much of our construction has been based around the three or four bedroom family home but there has been limited construction of smaller homes which may suit older couples or those living on their own.

The average house size in New Zealand increased by 38 sq m in the 1990s, and by 2010 it had gained another 26 sq m.

However, since 2010 the national average house size has been in decline and is expected to fall by 28 sq m this decade. This may provide our district council and developers with some food for thought.

District remains popular for building homes

Amy AdamsSelwyn MP

GOING UP: Houses being built in Rollestons Faringdon subdivision.PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN


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Allenvale School student Bradley Garner was part of the New Zea-land Special Olympics basketball team which won silver at the World Summer Games.

They finished in the silver medal position in division two, which was held in Los Angeles.

Garner, 20, was the top points scorer in every match the New Zealand side played.

The division two ranking is the highest grading of any of the five New Zealand teams that have participated in the World Games since 1991.

In the division two gold medal match against the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand went down 29-15.

The team was coached by in-augural Canterbury Rams player, Al Robson, who also coached the New Zealand 2011 team at Athens to a division three silver medal.

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This was the first time it has ever been presented to a team by thehundreds of volunteers who helped, making sure the tourna-ment ran smoothly.

They voted for the team that demonstrated the true values of Special Olympics as well as be-ing friendly, respectful, showing sportsmanship and out of the 75

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The team qualified for division two after a series of six, short, 9min grading games winning four of the six.

They played Saudi Arabia, Trini-dad and Tobago, Hungary, Great Britain, Indonesia and Italy, with quite a mix of playing styles.

In their first pool game after the grading games New Zealand came up against Trinidad and Tobago again. The side came from behind to win 23-17 with Garner playing a leading role.

Robson said it was a really tight game.

They jumped out to a lead with their big man dominating the game at both ends while we were making mistakes.

Eventually we settled down and played some great defence. Brad-ley played a great game and made plenty of free throws drawing fouls on their big danger man.

The second pool game was a Kiwi whitewashing of Nippon Japan 58-15.

In the final pool game New Zealand lost to UAE 28-14 but still came home with medals around their necks.

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