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Exhibition digs up lost stories<br />
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A new exhibition aims to shed<br />
light on the stories from the<br />
city’s oldest cemeteries.<br />
Grave Insights: Plotting Lives<br />
in Christchurch Cemeteries<br />
is part of the regular series,<br />
Tuakiri Investigates. It is<br />
running from Monday until<br />
September 14 at Tūranga.<br />
The project has been<br />
developed to complement the<br />
Christchurch Family History<br />
Expo, which is being held from<br />
August 2-3.<br />
Said city council acting head<br />
of libraries and information<br />
Rosie Levi: “This exhibition<br />
will appeal to<br />
anyone who<br />
might have<br />
spent time<br />
meandering<br />
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in some of the<br />
city’s older<br />
cemeteries<br />
and wondered<br />
Rosie Levi at the people<br />
buried there<br />
– who they were and the lives<br />
they might have led.”<br />
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Using the cemetery plans and<br />
other resources, the Tuakiri<br />
John Guntrip was buried alongside his second wife, Sarah, in plot 89C at the Barbadoes St Cemetery.<br />
team uncovered some of<br />
those lost stories. They include<br />
a grandmother and grandson<br />
buried side by side, a soldier<br />
buried at sea, and one of Christ<br />
Church Cathedrals first bellringers<br />
among them.<br />
John Guntrip was buried in<br />
plot 89C at the Barbadoes St<br />
Cemetery, alongside his second<br />
wife Sarah.<br />
John was head sexton at<br />
the cemetery for many years<br />
after he beat out 38 other<br />
candidates to claim the position<br />
in 1875.<br />
Originally John was a<br />
gardener from Middlesex.<br />
He arrived in the city on the<br />
Huntress in 1863 and started<br />
showing his horticultural<br />
skills, creating fruit, vegetable<br />
and flower displays for<br />
Christchurch Horticultural<br />
Society shows.<br />
He also became one of the<br />
first bellringers at the newly<br />
built Christ Church Cathedral<br />
in 1881. John died in 1916.<br />
Another story to arise was<br />
about Mary Ann Harvey.<br />
Mary was buried in the<br />
Rutherford St (Woolston)<br />
Cemetery following her death<br />
on February 29, 19<strong>17</strong>.<br />
Her granddaughter Lillian<br />
May Arnold, died on December<br />
22, 1916, and was buried at the<br />
foot of the plot.<br />
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who died at sea from influenza<br />
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The Rutherford St Cemetery<br />
opened in 1851 and closed in<br />
1885. It is the oldest cemetery<br />
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‘It never occurred to me to give up teaching’<br />
At 80, Paula Barrett still teaches three group fitness classes a week at Pioneer<br />
Sport and Recreation Centre.<br />
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Exercise is an antidote to<br />
ageing. That’s the motto of<br />
Paula Barrett, who at 80 teaches<br />
three fitness classes a week at<br />
Pioneer Sport and Recreation<br />
Centre.<br />
And she has done so since the<br />
late 1980s.<br />
“I am surprised when people<br />
are surprised that I am still<br />
working at 80. I still feel the<br />
same inside though my body<br />
has obviously changed with<br />
age,” she said.<br />
“I see exercise as an antidote<br />
to ageing.”<br />
Paula’s life-long love of sport<br />
and exercise started in the<br />
1950s in Ireland where she<br />
learnt to swim in the local river<br />
and took up Irish dancing.<br />
“In 1962, I went to Dublin<br />
for a course in physical<br />
education where I readily took<br />
to gymnastics, hockey, netball,<br />
lacrosse, cricket, rounders,<br />
tennis and swimming.”<br />
After a stint teaching in<br />
Ireland and London, Paula and<br />
her young family headed to<br />
Iten, Kenya, where she taught<br />
in a school famous for longdistance<br />
runners before making<br />
the final move to Christchurch.<br />
“In 1988, I came to New<br />
Zealand and my first job was<br />
at QEII taking a gentle exercise<br />
class. While I was there the<br />
manager from Pioneer rang<br />
looking for a basketball coach. I<br />
immediately put up my hand.<br />
“Taking basketball expanded<br />
into preschool and after school<br />
gymnastics, tennis, squash,<br />
dancing, trampolining and<br />
gentle exercise.”<br />
She hasn’t looked back since.<br />
Exercise is important at any<br />
age, but particularly when<br />
you’re older, she said.<br />
“It is never too early or too<br />
late to start looking after your<br />
mind and body. The benefits are<br />
innumerable.<br />
“Keeping active strengthens<br />
muscles, eases back problems,<br />
improves balance, keeps joints<br />
supple, helps with bone health<br />
and prevents recurrence of<br />
common aches and pains.”<br />
“It’s never too early or<br />
too late to start looking<br />
after your mind and<br />
body.”<br />
Paula Barrett<br />
Her mantra was put to the<br />
test when being fit played a<br />
vital part in Paula’s recovery<br />
from breast cancer, which she<br />
was diagnosed with four years<br />
ago.<br />
“While dropping off to sleep I<br />
felt an unusual sensation in my<br />
left breast. When I investigated<br />
why, I felt quite a large lump.<br />
A good lesson in regularly<br />
checking one's breasts for any<br />
changes.<br />
“I was diagnosed with stage<br />
three cancer. I went through<br />
the various stages of treatment,<br />
mastectomy, chemo and<br />
radiation and was grateful to be<br />
fit enough to cope with the side<br />
effects. It never occurred to me<br />
to give up teaching.”<br />
For Paula, it was a welcome<br />
relief to focusing on planning<br />
routines and suitable music<br />
rather than the next treatment.<br />
“The council was very<br />
accommodating in fitting in<br />
with my treatment dates. The<br />
regular class participants were<br />
supportive and emphatic,<br />
most had gone through similar<br />
challenges either themselves or<br />
a family member. To date I have<br />
been given the all clear.”<br />
Pioneer is a city council<br />
recreation centre.<br />
“The social side of regular<br />
classes is important, especially<br />
as we age. Life-long friendships<br />
are made, everyone is<br />
supportive and inclusive,<br />
not taking themselves too<br />
seriously.”<br />
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Tireless dedication to animal welfare<br />
BY GEOFF SLOAN<br />
Carole Worley has devoted 14<br />
years championing the cause of<br />
animals.<br />
“Animals are vulnerable.<br />
They've got no one to speak up<br />
for them,” she says.<br />
The SPCA volunteer driver<br />
said they see some sad sights.<br />
“It's unbelievable what some<br />
people can do to their animals.<br />
It just breaks your heart to see<br />
the unloved and abused ones.”<br />
While that was distressing, it<br />
was great to animals recover<br />
after treatment and gain their<br />
confidence.<br />
“The best part is when you<br />
see them adopted and going to a<br />
lovely family.”<br />
Carole’s tireless dedication<br />
to animal welfare led to her<br />
winning the devoted volunteer<br />
award at the SPCA's National<br />
Volunteer Awards in June.<br />
Said the judges: “Carole’s dedication<br />
to SPCA Christchurch<br />
is nothing short of extraordinary.<br />
For longer than most<br />
The SPCA has more than 300 animals<br />
in its care across Canterbury.<br />
Carole Worley with Lavender who was recently adopted.<br />
can remember, she has been<br />
a rock for both the team and<br />
the animals in their care. Rain<br />
or shine, she faithfully arrives<br />
ready to get stuck in and make<br />
a difference.”<br />
Carole said it was a big<br />
surprise.<br />
“When you think of all the<br />
fabulous volunteers we have at<br />
the centre and all over, it was<br />
nice to be recognised.”<br />
The self-confessed dog lover<br />
drives and does a wide range of<br />
other tasks at the SPCA.<br />
“There's always something to<br />
do, even if it's pulling weeds in<br />
the garden.”<br />
Her husband Leon passed<br />
away four years ago. She said<br />
since then the staff and volunteers<br />
at the SPCA have become<br />
part of her second family.<br />
“I really enjoy their<br />
company.”<br />
Carole doesn't have pets herself<br />
as she likes to travel, so she<br />
is able to foster dogs. She has<br />
provided a temporary home to<br />
about SPCA 20 dogs since she<br />
started volunteering when she<br />
retired.<br />
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“It takes strong will-power<br />
not to adopt them myself.”<br />
Carole was a blind low vision<br />
guide dog puppy raiser for<br />
more than a year.<br />
She said she enjoyed working<br />
with dogs and wanted to do<br />
something outdoors with a bit<br />
of variety so approached the<br />
SPCA.<br />
Carole was recruited into<br />
the dog squad they had at the<br />
time, walking dogs and training<br />
puppies.<br />
Turning her hand to driving,<br />
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Looking ahead to warmer weather<br />
Expert advice on what to do for<br />
your garden this week<br />
Vegetables<br />
Gardening at this time of the<br />
year is limited as the winter's<br />
worst weather usually comes in<br />
<strong>July</strong> and August.<br />
Cold, wet days are an opportunity<br />
to look through garden<br />
catalogues and order new seeds<br />
or plants.<br />
This is also a good time to<br />
plan where next season's vegetables<br />
will be sown or planted,<br />
using the practice of rotation.<br />
Although five-year garden<br />
diaries are valuable, an alternative<br />
is a sturdy indexed book.<br />
Record planting and other<br />
information under each alphabetically<br />
listed vegetable, noting<br />
the date when seeds were sown,<br />
when they came up and what<br />
plants were put in.<br />
Note varieties and, after harvesting,<br />
indicate how well each<br />
did.<br />
This gives a year-by-year<br />
record of the garden, one that<br />
is easier to cross-check than a<br />
series of diaries.<br />
Green manures – oats, lupins<br />
and the like – not yet dug in<br />
should be cut and turned into<br />
the ground.<br />
Soil cleared of crops such as<br />
winter cabbage, broccoli and<br />
parsnips benefits if it is turned<br />
over, too.<br />
Rough digging is the best<br />
treatment at this time of the<br />
Plant soft-fruit bushes such as raspberries in well-composted soil to get them off<br />
to a good start.<br />
Cinerarias grown in a glasshouse should be pushing up their flower stems and will benefit from a liquid manure once a week.<br />
year, with weeds turned under<br />
the surface and any spare compost<br />
thrown over the top.<br />
Complete with a dressing of<br />
garden lime.<br />
The rate will vary depending<br />
on soil acidity but plan on 50g<br />
to 100g a square metre, the bigger<br />
amount for heavier soils.<br />
Hedges can be trimmed in<br />
warmer areas but should be<br />
left until later in the year in<br />
districts that experience hard<br />
frosts or heavy snow.<br />
Soil can be prepared, conditions<br />
permitting, before cloches<br />
and cold frames are put in<br />
place for growing plants under<br />
shelter.<br />
If soil clings to tools or boots,<br />
the ground is too wet and any<br />
work should be postponed.<br />
When the soil has been dug,<br />
composted and worked to a<br />
fairly fine crumb-like consistency,<br />
position the cloches and<br />
leave them for three weeks<br />
before sowing seeds.<br />
This helps to lift soil temperature<br />
under each individual<br />
shelter.<br />
Cloche gardening is suitable<br />
for small gardens and strawberries<br />
give earlier crops grown in<br />
this way.<br />
Flowers<br />
Pruning roses this month can<br />
be risky, as early pruning can<br />
encourage roses to throw out<br />
fresh shoots that will be zapped<br />
by frost.<br />
Coastal areas can usually get<br />
away with winter pruning but,<br />
in general, August is the preferred<br />
month for rose pruning<br />
in the south.<br />
Until the development of floribunda<br />
– sometimes referred<br />
to as cluster-flowered – roses,<br />
hybrid tea (HT) roses dominated<br />
garden catalogues of the<br />
mid to late 20th century.<br />
Originating from crosses<br />
between HTs and hybrid polyanthas<br />
(which are polyantha<br />
roses crossed with HTs), floribundas<br />
are somewhat hardier<br />
than HTs but tend to lack the<br />
good perfume OF HTs, David<br />
Austin's english roses or heritage<br />
varieties.<br />
Garden centres have barerooted<br />
roses in stock now and<br />
buying early is recommended<br />
to obtain popular varieties.<br />
Cinerarias grown in a glasshouse<br />
will be pushing up their<br />
flower stems and will benefit<br />
from a liquid manure once a<br />
week, the day after they have<br />
been watered.<br />
Cyclamen can also be started<br />
in the greenhouse and brought<br />
indoors as soon as the first buds<br />
appear.<br />
Tuberous begonias can be<br />
grown in pots in the glasshouse<br />
until almost ready to flower<br />
in summer, when they can be<br />
taken indoors or put on a sunny<br />
doorstep or deck.<br />
Carnations can also be treated<br />
in this way.<br />
Put bamboo stakes into the<br />
pots before the young plants, as<br />
the flowering stems will need<br />
support later.<br />
Fruit<br />
If new fruit trees are still to<br />
be ordered, do not delay or<br />
you may miss out on a chosen<br />
cultivar.<br />
Plant trees and soft-fruit<br />
bushes (currants, gooseberries,<br />
raspberries and brambles such<br />
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Spending time getting the soil<br />
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With young fruit trees, avoid<br />
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season but instead let the trees<br />
develop sturdy trunks and<br />
branches for better fruiting as<br />
they mature.<br />
Rough digging is the best treatment for<br />
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13 14 15<br />
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Good 14 Very Good 20 Excellent 26<br />
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Good 14 Very Good 20 Excellent 26<br />
16 <strong>17</strong> 18 19<br />
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24 25<br />
26 27<br />
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<strong>17</strong>. Unharmed (9)<br />
21. Pig’s feet (8)<br />
22. Sunglasses (colloq) (6)<br />
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18. Plant, the source of tapioca (7)<br />
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20. Carrier (6)<br />
23. Surprised: taken __ (5)<br />
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