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FERRYMEAD Heritage Park<br />

has welcomed the return of its<br />

Toyota Hilux after it was stolen<br />

on Sunday.<br />

Events manager Jack Fraser<br />

said the 1985 Hilux was driven<br />

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as he made his escape.<br />

“It’s caused considerable damage<br />

to the gate”.<br />

The incident happened about<br />

7pm.<br />

Fraser said the park’s workhorse<br />

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heavy items, along with gardening<br />

duties. Because it wasn’t<br />

used on public roads it did not<br />

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someone spotted it at a scrapyard<br />

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The Hilux was recovered on<br />

Wednesday and towed back to<br />

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signage had been painted over in<br />

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the theft. Parts from the<br />

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NEWS<br />

‘Barbaric’ charity boxing<br />

A week-long coronial<br />

inquiry into the 2018 death<br />

of Kain Parsons, who<br />

died after taking part in<br />

a charity boxing match,<br />

is expected to finish<br />

tomorrow. <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />

News reports on what has<br />

been heard so far<br />

SUMNER BUILDER turned project<br />

manager Kain Parsons sustained<br />

a serious brain injury following a<br />

one-sided contest at the Fight for<br />

Christchurch event on November 3,<br />

2018. His life support was switched<br />

off on November 6 and he died surrounded<br />

by his family aged 37.<br />

On Monday, the coronial inquest<br />

into his death began.<br />

Coroner Heather McKenzie said<br />

the inquest will seek to answer<br />

questions over the safety of such<br />

corporate and charity boxing events,<br />

how Parsons was matched with his<br />

opponent and the officiating of these<br />

events.<br />

On the first day of the inquest, the<br />

court heard statements from members<br />

of Parsons’ family. His mother<br />

Cheryl Gascoigne travelled from<br />

Australia to testify.<br />

She told the court of the last time<br />

she spoke with her son on the phone.<br />

“I asked him not to participate.<br />

I said I don’t feel good about it,”<br />

Gascgoine said.<br />

REMEMBERED: A photo of Kain Parsons and his children has been<br />

placed at the front of the room where the inquest into his 2018<br />

death is being held.<br />

Her son reassured her he would be<br />

fine and that he was committed to the<br />

event and raising money for his chosen<br />

charity.<br />

Gascgoine said she now felt guilty she<br />

had not done more to protect her son.<br />

The youngest of Parsons’ three children<br />

fought back tears as she spoke of<br />

her father. Millie Parsons, now 13, said<br />

she has been without her father for half<br />

her life, the NZ Herald reported.<br />

“I wish we were still a family of five<br />

and there wasn’t an empty spot at the<br />

dinner table.”<br />

Parsons’ widow, Alana Parsons, told<br />

the court her husband felt nervous<br />

before the fight, not because he thought<br />

he would be injured, but because he<br />

thought he was the underdog and<br />

might lose.<br />

Alana Parsons said there had been<br />

a number of interruptions to her<br />

husband’s training, including a head<br />

injury, a trip to Fiji, and the suicide of<br />

a friend shortly before the bout.<br />

She said right from the start, the<br />

fight was not going well for her<br />

husband.<br />

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NEWS 3<br />

needs to change, widow tells inquest<br />

“Kain looked startled and<br />

shocked,” she said.<br />

“I remember thinking at the<br />

time, this is barbaric, and it is<br />

meant to be for charity.”<br />

The court heard that Parsons<br />

had chosen not to wear head<br />

protection for the bout.<br />

He was given two standing<br />

eight counts before the final<br />

knock down, from which he<br />

never got up.<br />

Alana Parsons said she had initially<br />

been reluctant for her husband<br />

to take part, but he talked<br />

her around. She said she did not<br />

think he would have taken part if<br />

he had known all the risks.<br />

“Every day since Kain died I<br />

wished I had done more, questioned<br />

more, asked Kain not to<br />

participate in the boxing match.<br />

“Yet I feel other interested<br />

parties are only looking to deflect<br />

blame onto others, and to not<br />

accept responsibility for the<br />

part that they have contributed<br />

towards Kain’s death.”<br />

She said she thought it was abhorrent<br />

that charities raised money<br />

through the boxing events, and<br />

hoped she could get some change<br />

to make sure her husband’s death<br />

was not for nothing.<br />

The organiser of the charity<br />

event, Team Event managing<br />

director Callum Mitchell, also<br />

spoke to the inquest on Monday,<br />

RNZ reported.<br />

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TRAGEDY: Kain Parsons died after suffering a brain injury<br />

during the 2018 Fight for Christchurch charity boxing event.<br />

He was questioned over competitors<br />

signing a waiver months<br />

before the event in which they<br />

confirmed they had done sufficient<br />

training and had no medical issues.<br />

Mitchell agreed it would be<br />

preferable if the waiver was signed<br />

closer to the actual fight.<br />

He told the inquest that competitors<br />

were selected by himself<br />

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Mitchell told the inquest that<br />

Wallace was the one to make the<br />

final call on matching of fighters.<br />

Wallace also spoke to the<br />

inquest and said he had offered<br />

advice on match-ups, but the final<br />

decision was up to Mitchell.<br />

Wallace said he still thought<br />

Parsons’ match-up was a good one.<br />

On Tuesday, the court heard<br />

from Parsons’ opponent, former<br />

Crusaders, Canterbury and Tasman<br />

halfback Steve Alfeld.<br />

He had “tried to put the matter<br />

behind him” but acknowledged<br />

it was much harder for Parsons’<br />

family.<br />

Reading a statement he made<br />

after the event, Alfeld described<br />

his time in the ring with Parsons.<br />

“When I got punches through<br />

his gloves, I could tell it was<br />

hurting,” he said of the first round<br />

– but he did not think these were<br />

winning him the bout.<br />

In the second round, he found<br />

himself having to defend. Parsons<br />

was “throwing lots of punches,<br />

which I knew from training tired<br />

him out”, Alfeld said.<br />

Then, “his hands came down<br />

and I got one clean punch to the<br />

jaw”.<br />

Parsons was knocked to the<br />

canvas and did not get up. Medical<br />

professionals, who were there as<br />

spectators, helped the ring doctor<br />

and first responders treat him in<br />

the ring before he was transported<br />

to hospital.<br />

He was placed on life support<br />

but died three days later after it<br />

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“It’s a tragedy to have lost someone<br />

like him,” said Alfeld as he<br />

read his statement to the court.<br />

Coroner Heather McKenzie<br />

thanked Alfeld for giving Parsons<br />

“a voice”.<br />

Also on Tuesday, the inquest<br />

heard from Parsons’ coach and<br />

trainer Brad Milner on what had<br />

happened in the minutes before the<br />

fatal injury, the Herald reported.<br />

During the break between the<br />

first and second rounds, Milner<br />

said he told Parsons that Alfeld<br />

was “dangerous” and clearly had a<br />

lot of power.<br />

He noted that Parsons looked<br />

“unsteady” as he made his way to<br />

the corner but added it was “not<br />

unusual” for boxers to appear that<br />

way during a fight and Parsons<br />

told him he was “okay”.<br />

“I didn’t pull Kain out because<br />

he had good ability. I could see<br />

pulling out was not something he<br />

wanted,” Milner said.<br />

An experienced boxer and<br />

trainer, Milner has since closed<br />

his gym and has not led another<br />

fighter to the ring.<br />

Whether Parsons should have<br />

been matched with Alfeld at all is<br />

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Fraser said the brazen theft left had left park staff a bit<br />

shaken but it was great to get a “valued member of the<br />

team” back.<br />

Ferrymead Heritage Park management will be assessing<br />

the damage to the ute and working with their insurance<br />

company to get the vehicle back up-and-running.<br />

The Toyota Hilux was recently named as the most stolen<br />

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Over the six-month period between May 1 and October 31,<br />

171 Hilux utes were stolen around the country.<br />

Mystery over report of missing boat<br />

The search for a boat reported missing has been called off<br />

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Emergency services were called by a member of public last<br />

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NEWS 7<br />

First of many hang times at new park<br />

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“It is a testimony to the<br />

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“Thousands of hours of work<br />

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of skating fun and communal<br />

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City council community parks<br />

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the Sumner community.<br />

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‘hang out’ spot right in the heart<br />

of Sumner – ready in time to<br />

enjoy over the Christmas period<br />

and summer months.”<br />

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NEWS 9<br />

Noel still swims daily at 86 after<br />

half a century of surf lifesaving<br />

HAPPY PLACE: Noel Saxton spends most mornings in the pool, after decades of<br />

competitive swimming and surf lifesaving at Taylors Mistake.<br />

PHOTOS: NEWSLINE, AMELIE CLARK SURF/FACEBOOK<br />

NOEL SAXTON swims to keep<br />

fit, stay social and break records.<br />

The 86-year-old, who spent<br />

several decades as surf lifesaver<br />

at Taylors Mistake, trains most<br />

mornings, swimming lengths<br />

with a squad of up to nine others<br />

at Jellie Park.<br />

With over 50 years with Surf<br />

Lifesaving New Zealand, Noel<br />

says he’s been swimming for<br />

most of his life and is continuously<br />

setting new goals.<br />

“Untypically for my generation<br />

I had regular pool training<br />

throughout childhood, albeit<br />

in the unheated 50-yard New<br />

Plymouth seawater baths which<br />

were filled and emptied at each<br />

tide,” Noel said.<br />

“I’ve always had a goal of doing<br />

well at Masters World Athletics<br />

Champs. I try to make new records<br />

and find myself constantly<br />

setting new goals – I thoroughly<br />

enjoy it.”<br />

Noel’s surf lifesaving started<br />

with Old Boys at Oakura, New<br />

Plymouth, followed by a time<br />

with Island <strong>Bay</strong> in Wellington.<br />

He then spent several decades at<br />

Taylors Mistake.<br />

His days are now predominantly<br />

spent training at Jellie<br />

Park, where he passes the early<br />

hours of the morning in<br />

the water.<br />

“By the time I’ve walked to<br />

the pool, spent a few hours<br />

swimming laps, had a coffee<br />

with my swimming mates and<br />

walked home, half the day is<br />

gone,” Noel said.<br />

“I swim because I love<br />

it – I love the challenge of<br />

competitions, and it’s a great way<br />

to keep fit.”<br />

Noel’s past awards range from<br />

surf lifesaving to swim competitions,<br />

including New Zealand<br />

records at Fina World Swim<br />

Masters in Australia in 2008<br />

and Italy in 2012 in freestyle and<br />

individual medley. He also was<br />

second, fourth and fifth in the<br />

3km open water swims at the<br />

world masters in Christchurch<br />

(2002), Perth (2008) and Italy<br />

(2012).<br />

He received the Jasi Masters<br />

Swim Club swimmer of the year<br />

in 2000, 2007 and 2008, and the<br />

club’s Paul McStay Trophy in<br />

2023.<br />

Noel’s go-to swimming spot<br />

for an outdoor dip is his old<br />

stomping ground at Taylors<br />

Mistake, or the Jellie Park<br />

outdoor pools over the summer<br />

period.<br />

“The outdoor facilities are<br />

fantastic, I love the opportunity<br />

to carry out my training in the<br />

open air – whatever the weather,”<br />

he said.<br />

BAYLEYS<br />

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Ahead of this year’s festive season<br />

<strong>Bay</strong>leys Sumner is supporting the<br />

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Visit our <strong>Bay</strong>leys Sumner office and leave gifts<br />

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from now through to Thursday 19 <strong>December</strong>.<br />

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10 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2024</strong><br />

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What the buzz is all about<br />

• By Nicky Park<br />

IF YOU feel like there are more,<br />

fatter, flies buzzing around<br />

your home this year, you’re not<br />

wrong.<br />

While there is no official<br />

head count, pest control experts<br />

Kiwicare explain the late spring<br />

weather conditions were good<br />

news for flies.<br />

“We’ve had<br />

the perfect<br />

combination of<br />

warmth and humidity<br />

leading<br />

into summer,”<br />

said Kiwicare’s<br />

Jane McCarrison.<br />

“Usually, if<br />

you’ve had a<br />

Jane<br />

McCarrison<br />

warmer spring, it’s going to be a<br />

particularly bad fly season,” she<br />

said.<br />

“Because of the lack of rainfall<br />

. . . flies which have a breeding<br />

cycle of six to seven days, have<br />

longer periods where they can<br />

breed and multiply without<br />

being washed out.”<br />

Not only have flies had more<br />

time to breed, the common<br />

house fly (the ones that are about<br />

1cm long and feed off dry waste)<br />

can get fatter.<br />

“Because there’s good<br />

conditions, it means that there<br />

will be not only more flies, but<br />

they will be bigger because of<br />

SUPER FLY: Warmth and humidity in spring have led to fatter flies and more of them.<br />

PHOTO: GETTY<br />

that longer stretch of time.”<br />

McCarrison has anecdotal<br />

evidence to stack up the science,<br />

such as a 20 per cent rise in sales<br />

of their fly control products<br />

compared to this time last year.<br />

However, there’s no official way<br />

to know if there are more flies,<br />

or it just feels like it.<br />

“It’s not wrong, it’s just not<br />

proven,” said Dr Julia Kasper, an<br />

entomologist and lead curator of<br />

invertebrates at Te Papa.<br />

Kasper said it does make sense<br />

to be seeing<br />

more blowflies<br />

as they could<br />

be adapting to<br />

urban environments<br />

and there<br />

are more and<br />

more people,<br />

living closer and<br />

closer together. Julia Kasper<br />

“It would definitely help blow<br />

flies to adapt and to increase in<br />

numbers,” she said.<br />

Kasper wonders if there are<br />

other factors at play and we’re<br />

just not very tolerant.<br />

“I think people just forget how<br />

it was last summer. If something<br />

is annoying it feels like, ‘Oh my<br />

God, this is so bad and it has<br />

never been so bad before’.”<br />

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What can you<br />

do about flies?<br />

Keep bins in check and away<br />

from the door so you’re not luring<br />

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food scraps and waste to remove<br />

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you set off before heading out for<br />

a couple of hours. You return,<br />

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have a bug-free home for up to six<br />

months.<br />

Kasper, is a passionate ally<br />

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problem with more flies<br />

and definitely doesn’t want<br />

people going around spraying<br />

them.<br />

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<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2024</strong><br />

14<br />

RACING<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

McQueens Valley<br />

trainer strikes in<br />

Akaroa Cup<br />

• By Mike Love<br />

TRAINER STEVE Harding<br />

recorded his biggest win when<br />

Audacity took out the Cabins 2U<br />

Akaroa Cup at Motukarara on<br />

Saturday.<br />

And he didn’t<br />

have to go far<br />

for the win –<br />

he lives just<br />

down the road<br />

at McQueens<br />

Valley.<br />

“It was very<br />

impressive,”<br />

he said of<br />

Steve<br />

Harding<br />

Audacity’s performance.<br />

Audacity made a good<br />

beginning from the unruly<br />

10-metre mark with driver Ross<br />

Cameron. They worked into<br />

the three wide line from the<br />

2000m, improving gradually<br />

to mid-field. Cameron then<br />

went straight to the lead at the<br />

900m where they stayed and<br />

booted away, holding off the only<br />

danger in Xlendi to win by three<br />

quarters of a length, sizzling<br />

home in 55.8 seconds for the<br />

final 800m.<br />

“Ross (Cameron) said he was<br />

going to drive him like the best<br />

horse in the race. He’s done a<br />

very good job. That was Ross’<br />

first cup win as well.<br />

“The only question mark with<br />

him had just been his standing<br />

start manners. But he was so<br />

good on Saturday. He seems to<br />

have turned the corner since he’s<br />

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just so relaxed in the box where<br />

normally he’d been on edge and<br />

won’t stand still.”<br />

It was Audacity’s fourth win<br />

from 12 starts. A full-time<br />

electrician and hobby trainer<br />

it was Harding’s fourth win of<br />

the season, making it his most<br />

successful so far.<br />

“The plan now is probably<br />

Rangiora and stick to the<br />

country cups. Then he will<br />

probably have a bit of a freshen<br />

up and see what’s around in the<br />

new year.”<br />

Audacity was given to Harding<br />

by owner and breeder Graeme<br />

Trist to work up on the premise<br />

that he would be given a half<br />

share if he were to make it to the<br />

races.<br />

“I did a couple of horses for<br />

him a few years ago. He came<br />

back to me with the La Moocha<br />

breed. He said he had a few<br />

foals coming and whether I’d be<br />

interested in getting them up and<br />

going.”<br />

Audacity is out of In The<br />

Pocket mare La Moocha whose<br />

mother is former New Zealand<br />

Cup winner Kym’s Girl.<br />

“They’ve all been very head<br />

strong in their own different ways.<br />

Most people would have sacked<br />

Audacity in his younger days.”<br />

Trist also bred and part owned<br />

Manjimup who won six races. He<br />

too was trained by Harding and<br />

was out of La Moocha.<br />

“I’m pottering around with<br />

his younger half brother who<br />

is by Betterthancheddar. He’s a<br />

handful but has a lovely way of<br />

going.”<br />

– Harness Racing Desk<br />

EASY AS: A top drive from<br />

Ross Cameron propelled<br />

the Steve Harding-trained<br />

Audacity to a commanding<br />

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18 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2024</strong><br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2024</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News 19<br />

Take time to start a new tradition this Christmas<br />

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Christmas Eve box<br />

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Santa.<br />

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22 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2024</strong><br />

Frugal Swift Hybrid an engaging drive<br />

MISERLY FUEL economy has<br />

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According to combined fuel<br />

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This RS shouldn’t be confused<br />

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This mild hybrid uses a motor<br />

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This rather limp power output<br />

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Thursday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2024</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News 27<br />

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28 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2024</strong><br />

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