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NEWS<br />

starnews.co.nz<br />

Three cheers for our King’s Birthday awardees!<br />

Three <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />

residents were recognised in<br />

the King’s Birthday Honours list<br />

ELLESE ANDREWS (Clifton)<br />

To be a Member of the New<br />

Zealand Order of Merit<br />

For services to cycling<br />

Andrews was a standout at<br />

the Paris Olympics last year<br />

winning two gold medals and a<br />

silver. She became the second<br />

New Zealander to win three<br />

medals in a single Olympic<br />

Games, and now ranks as New<br />

Zealand’s sixth most successful<br />

Olympian.<br />

Her potential was evident in<br />

2017 when she set a new world<br />

youth record at the Junior<br />

Track Cycling World Championships<br />

and was recognised with<br />

the Halberg emerging talent<br />

award.<br />

Andrews went on to win<br />

three gold medals and a silver<br />

at the 2022 Commonwealth<br />

Games, and silver medal at the<br />

Tokyo Olympic Games. In 2023,<br />

she became the first New Zealand<br />

female sprinter to claim a<br />

world title, winning gold at the<br />

World Championships.<br />

She was recognised as Cycling<br />

New Zealand road and track<br />

female track cyclist of the<br />

year in 2022 and 2023, and has<br />

been a top-five finalist in the<br />

High Performance Sport New<br />

Zealand sportswoman of the<br />

year category for three years<br />

running.<br />

Through her role in the athlete<br />

leaders group, she has been<br />

Ellese Andrews has been recognised for services to cycling.<br />

an important advocate for her<br />

teammates, and a key driver<br />

of applying tikanga Māori to<br />

Cycling New Zealand’s programme.<br />

Andrews has given<br />

back to the community through<br />

speaking engagements, mental<br />

health awareness campaigns<br />

and voluntary roles at community<br />

events, including<br />

Cambridge’s cycling festival.<br />

PHIL BRINDED (Clifton)<br />

To be an Officer of the New<br />

Zealand Order of Merit<br />

For services to psychiatry<br />

Associate Professor Brinded is<br />

a pioneer in the field of forensic<br />

psychiatry<br />

in New Zealand<br />

and has<br />

contributed<br />

to the area<br />

of mental<br />

health since<br />

the beginning<br />

of his<br />

Phil Brinded<br />

specialist<br />

training as a psychiatrist<br />

in 1981. He was a member of<br />

the assessment team for the<br />

1988 Mason report looking into<br />

the procedures used in psychiatric<br />

hospitals, and helped<br />

implement its recommendations<br />

at Hillmorton and Porirua<br />

hospitals.<br />

He has<br />

been a<br />

Parole Board<br />

member<br />

since 1993,<br />

guiding its<br />

challenging<br />

work<br />

Morrin Rout<br />

in deciding<br />

when, if at all, those subject to<br />

life sentences might be released<br />

into the community. He has<br />

also served on the New Zealand<br />

Public Protection Order Review<br />

Panel.<br />

His academic career has<br />

included positions as senior<br />

lecturer in psychological<br />

medicine as well as an<br />

associate professorship at<br />

the Christchurch School<br />

of Medicine. His extensive<br />

academic writing career<br />

includes numerous book<br />

chapters and academic articles,<br />

one of which won the best<br />

article award for the Royal New<br />

Zealand Journal of Psychiatry<br />

in 2001.<br />

Brinded has been the forensic<br />

section chair of the Australian<br />

and New Zealand Royal College<br />

of Psychiatrists, and was an<br />

expert witness to the United<br />

Nations Assistance Khmer<br />

Rouge War Crimes Tribunal in<br />

2009.<br />

MORRIN ROUT (Lyttelton)<br />

To be a Member of the New<br />

Zealand Order of Merit<br />

For services to the arts,<br />

particularly literature<br />

Rout has contributed to the<br />

Christchurch arts and literature<br />

communities for more than 30<br />

years. She was a broadcaster on<br />

Plains FM, Women on Air, 1994<br />

to 2014, and Bookenz from<br />

1994 until the present. She was<br />

a co-presenter and producer<br />

of Bookmarks on Radio New<br />

Zealand from 1997 to 20<strong>05</strong>.<br />

During her broadcasting<br />

career she has conducted<br />

book reviews and interviews<br />

with both New Zealand and<br />

international authors and<br />

championed emerging and<br />

established writers, poets and<br />

playwrights.<br />

Rout was involved with the<br />

Christchurch Writers Festival<br />

from its inception in 1997<br />

until 2012 as a co-programme<br />

director, establishing networks<br />

with similar international<br />

organisations. She helped to<br />

establish the Hagley Writers'<br />

Institute, a part-time creative<br />

writing course for adults at<br />

Hagley College and worked as<br />

the director from 2007 to 2020.<br />

In 2007 and 2008 she was a<br />

Montana Book Awards judge.<br />

She has been on the<br />

Creative New Zealand library<br />

assessment and a member<br />

of the assessment panel<br />

for the Prime Minister’s<br />

Literary Awards. She was<br />

also a founding member of<br />

the Lombardy Trust which<br />

ran a biennial Sculpture on<br />

the Peninsula festival for 20<br />

years to raise money for the<br />

Cholmondeley Children’s Home.<br />

– Special day at Ferrymead<br />

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PUB POLITICS<br />

SESSION<br />

with Vanessa Weenink,<br />

MP for Banks Peninsula<br />

Thursday 12 <strong>June</strong><br />

5.30-7.00pm Two Thumbs Redcliffs<br />

vanessa.weenink@parliament.govt.nz<br />

Please take this opportunity to<br />

come have an informal chat about<br />

the issues that matter most to you.<br />

Expect delays in the central city<br />

Antigua Street upgrades<br />

We’re making essential wastewater and transport upgrades<br />

prior to the opening of Parakiore Recreation and Sport Centre.<br />

Antigua Street will be one-way north-bound<br />

between Moorhouse Avenue and St Asaph Street<br />

from late May to November <strong>2025</strong>.<br />

South-bound traffic will be detoured. Cyclists can<br />

travel in both directions. Please follow the signage.<br />

Riccarton Ave<br />

South<br />

Hagley Park<br />

Christchurch<br />

Hospital<br />

Ōtakaro Avon River<br />

Cambridge Tce<br />

Tuam St<br />

Oxford<br />

Tce<br />

Cashel St<br />

Hagley Ave<br />

Parakiore<br />

Recreation and<br />

Sport Centre<br />

St Asaph St<br />

Antigua St<br />

Moorhouse Ave Moorhouse Ave<br />

Railway<br />

Authorised by Vanessa Weenink,<br />

Parliament Buildings, Wgtn.<br />

INF7925 May <strong>2025</strong><br />

Ngā mihi nui, thanks for your patience.<br />

Find out more<br />

ccc.govt.nz/antigua-st-cycleway