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Graham and Nancy Wilson are unhappy Westpac Ferrymead is closing next month.<br />
PHOTO: KEES CHALMERS<br />
BY KEES CHALMERS<br />
Graham and Nancy Wilson<br />
have been coming into<br />
Westpac Ferrymead once a<br />
week for the past 30 years.<br />
The Heathcote couple are<br />
both 77. Graham suffers<br />
from arthritis, which makes<br />
it difficult for him to get<br />
around.<br />
They will need to travel<br />
further afield to do their<br />
banking when Westpac<br />
Ferrymead closes its doors on<br />
August 8.<br />
“It means I’ve got to go a lot<br />
further to go to a bank,” said<br />
Graham.<br />
Letters informing customers<br />
of the branch’s closure<br />
were delivered last week.<br />
In it, regional manager Leah<br />
McIvor said: “With Westpac<br />
The Palms and Westpac Barrington<br />
branches only 15<br />
minutes drive away and more<br />
customers choosing to do<br />
their banking online, we’ve<br />
made the difficult decision to<br />
close the Ferrymead branch.”<br />
Said Graham: “I’m being<br />
forced to go to a place I don’t<br />
know. I like to just get around<br />
local.”<br />
Fellow Westpac customer<br />
Pam Capaldi, 81, was also<br />
unhappy with the closure.<br />
“I was very upset to hear<br />
the news because there are so<br />
few cashpoints. I’m not very<br />
good with computers being<br />
elderly and it’s much easier to<br />
go into the branch, ask a few<br />
questions and I feel better,”<br />
she said.<br />
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Hillsborough,<br />
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her to bank in<br />
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David Capaldi<br />
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“It's the same for all of them<br />
(elderly), they're isolated, they<br />
can't get out. If they don't use<br />
computers and if they haven't<br />
got a physical branch, they're<br />
kind of stuffed,” he said.<br />
While the younger<br />
generation may be moving to<br />
online banking, many elderly<br />
customers still rely on meeting<br />
with a teller face-to-face.<br />
“We don’t have a computer<br />
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this (branch),” Graham said.<br />
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found the financial advice<br />
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especially after her husband<br />
passed away three years ago.<br />
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NEWS <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News, <strong>July</strong> <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2025</strong> | 3<br />
Ferrymead’s funding bid rejected<br />
BY KEES CHALMERS<br />
Ferrymead Heritage Park<br />
is looking to the public for<br />
continued support after its bid<br />
for more than $3 million in<br />
funding from the city council<br />
was rejected.<br />
The park asked for the funding<br />
over the next three years as<br />
part of the city council’s Annual<br />
Plan <strong>2025</strong>/26.<br />
Said the Ferrymead Trust:<br />
“The park acknowledges<br />
the support it receives from<br />
Christchurch City Council and<br />
recognises the pressure on city<br />
council budgets. While Ferrymead<br />
Heritage Park was not<br />
awarded funding in the Annual<br />
Plan we have exciting plans for<br />
the ongoing development of<br />
the park and will be working in<br />
partnership with the city council,<br />
other organisations and<br />
businesses and the park's societies<br />
to realise these.”<br />
The park would not expand<br />
on its future plans at this stage.<br />
It had asked the city council<br />
for between $700,000 and $1.2m<br />
a year for the next three years.<br />
The park has also applied for<br />
strengthening communities<br />
funding from the council. It has<br />
received a total of $1.5m from<br />
this fund over the past 10 years.<br />
Heathcote city councillor Sara<br />
Templeton said she expected<br />
the funding to continue. The<br />
park will find out in the next six<br />
to eight weeks whether it has<br />
been successful, said Ferrymead<br />
Heritage Park general manager<br />
Ian France.<br />
The Ferrymead Heritage Park was unsuccessful in its application for funding from the city council’s Annual Plan <strong>2025</strong>/26.<br />
He said the<br />
majority of the<br />
park’s funding<br />
comes from<br />
admissions.<br />
France was<br />
appreciative<br />
of the public’s<br />
support and<br />
hopes it will Sara Templeton<br />
continue.<br />
“We will keep the park going<br />
with whatever income we<br />
have,” he said.<br />
The park is also trying to<br />
attract more volunteers. It<br />
has been struggling in recent<br />
years, with earthquake-prone<br />
buildings it still cannot afford<br />
to fix.<br />
It wanted to hire more staff,<br />
develop more exhibits and<br />
enhance its existing ones,<br />
and boost its marketing to<br />
promote itself as a key tourist<br />
destination. Currently it does<br />
not have the money to do this.<br />
Templeton said the park’s<br />
submission was not discussed<br />
in the formal Annual Plan<br />
meeting, but was raised in<br />
workshops.<br />
“There's a range of things that<br />
we should have looked at in the<br />
Annual Plan that weren't part of<br />
the process. Ferrymead is one<br />
of those,” she said.<br />
Templeton said city<br />
councillors were told to bring<br />
amendments up at the end<br />
of the Annual Plan process,<br />
which did not lend itself to good<br />
discussions.<br />
She attributed the<br />
submission’s rejection to<br />
the pressure on funding.<br />
“I’m definitely still keen to<br />
work with the park and see<br />
what we can do and having a<br />
conversation with the wider<br />
community next year would be<br />
more useful,” said Templeton.<br />
She cited the Air Force<br />
Museum of New Zealand as<br />
an example. The museum was<br />
given $5m as part of the Annual<br />
Plan after going through a<br />
consultation process, two years<br />
after its initial submission.<br />
“It's not easy when there's<br />
so much pressure on for so<br />
many groups and the team at<br />
Ferrymead Heritage Park do<br />
a lot of amazing work on very<br />
little money and it's really<br />
appreciated,” said Templeton.<br />
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NEWS <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News, <strong>July</strong> <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2025</strong> | 5<br />
Braving the cold for good causes<br />
Hundreds of people in fancy dress turned<br />
out for the annual mid-winter community<br />
swim at Sumner Beach on Sunday.<br />
“The number of participants and<br />
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continue,” said organiser Julie Zafireh.<br />
After their icy dip, swimmers warmed<br />
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The Sumner community getting amongst it at the annual mid winter swim<br />
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More consultation<br />
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for BP Meats site<br />
BY KEES CHALMERS<br />
Options for uses of the BP Meats<br />
site in Akaroa will go out for<br />
further consultation.<br />
City council staff presented<br />
Te Pataka o Rakaihautu Banks<br />
Peninsula Community Board<br />
with feedback from two<br />
community workshops held<br />
in June. Restoring the Akaroa<br />
Butchery, Deli and Pantry was<br />
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important to the community.<br />
Other ideas for the Rue<br />
Lavaud site included creating<br />
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opportunities, and potential<br />
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“We’ve got a good steer on<br />
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The site, for a very long time,<br />
has served very little purpose<br />
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Banks Peninsula city councillor<br />
Tyrone Fields.<br />
City council staff will now<br />
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Fields suggested a community<br />
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Love brings artist to peninsula, but nature<br />
After travelling the world,<br />
Russ Harris has found a place<br />
to call home in Governors <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
Now retired and inspired by the<br />
nature around him for his art,<br />
Harris has quite the decorated<br />
story to tell. Kees Chalmers<br />
reports<br />
Russ Harris moved to<br />
Governors <strong>Bay</strong> nine years ago,<br />
chasing a love he found in an<br />
unexpected place.<br />
He met his now-partner, Jane<br />
Robertson, online through a<br />
family connection. Neither had<br />
used online platforms to meet<br />
people before, but they quickly<br />
bonded over books, art and<br />
politics.<br />
After two years of<br />
conversation, Harris took a leap<br />
of faith – moving to Governors<br />
<strong>Bay</strong> to meet Robertson in<br />
person for the first time.<br />
“It was extraordinary, it was<br />
scary, it was all sorts of things,<br />
but it was right and good,” he<br />
said.<br />
Robertson, a retired teacher,<br />
is also a published author. Her<br />
books Head of the <strong>Harbour</strong> and<br />
Living Between Land and Sea<br />
explore the history of Lyttelton<br />
and the surrounding areas.<br />
Before moving to New<br />
Zealand, Harris, 74, spent<br />
22 years teaching design,<br />
technology, art and music in<br />
Wales.<br />
Since retiring, he has<br />
returned to making art – this<br />
Although inspired by the nature around him, Russ Harris’ art can often move into the political realm.<br />
time, just for himself.<br />
He now specialises in print<br />
work and says he is constantly<br />
inspired by his surroundings.<br />
“I could spend the rest of<br />
my art life just drawing on the<br />
immediate environment for<br />
inspiration – the spirit of the<br />
environment – for inspiration.<br />
“Who would want to leave?”<br />
Harris finds being<br />
surrounded by budding artists<br />
to be beneficial for his own<br />
endeavours.<br />
“It’s a great town to be in. The<br />
people are cool, it’s got its rough<br />
edges, it’s got stupidity,” he said.<br />
“I could spend the<br />
rest of my art life<br />
just drawing on the<br />
immediate environment<br />
for inspiration – the<br />
spirit of the environment<br />
– for inspiration.”<br />
Russ Harris<br />
Last year, Harris collaborated<br />
with his friend Simon Mortlock<br />
to design a board game called<br />
Red Herring. The game won<br />
the pair the Waiti Award at<br />
the Matariki Taonga Awards in<br />
June.<br />
Harris is not a big board<br />
game player, so designing one<br />
took him slightly outside of his<br />
comfort zone.<br />
“It was very enjoyable, a nice<br />
challenge,” he said.<br />
Harris is originally from<br />
Dannevirke, a small town in the<br />
Manawatū-Whanganui region.<br />
His father, Anthony, served in<br />
the army, and Harris’ earliest<br />
memories involve moving<br />
from camp to camp – Waiouru,<br />
Mangaroa and Trentham.<br />
Moving from place to place<br />
left Harris feeling semidetached,<br />
never having the<br />
opportunity to connect with a<br />
particular group of friends.<br />
Eventually, Anthony left the<br />
army to become an english<br />
teacher, and the family<br />
settled in Levin. He attended<br />
Horowhenua College but left at<br />
16.<br />
“I hated school, it was just<br />
sort of pointless. I was a<br />
disoriented guy at the time. I<br />
wasn’t much interested, just<br />
wanted to get away,” he said.<br />
Though he never studied art<br />
at school, Harris developed a<br />
love for painting, literature and<br />
music in his own time.<br />
“Art has always been a kind of<br />
thread in my life,” he said.<br />
He also had a difficult<br />
relationship with his father.<br />
“He and I didn’t really work. I<br />
was quite glad to get away from<br />
home.”<br />
After school, he worked on<br />
farms around the country,<br />
taking jobs wherever he could<br />
find them.<br />
Eventually, he and a friend,<br />
Richard Morse, left for Australia<br />
where Harris met his first wife,<br />
Georgie Christian.<br />
Together, the couple travelled<br />
the globe – hitchhiking and<br />
busing through Darwin,<br />
Singapore, Pakistan, Afghanistan,<br />
Iran and Turkey before<br />
eventually landing in London<br />
with a daughter on the way.<br />
Between 1970 and 1974,<br />
Harris worked a variety of jobs<br />
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As humans, we have the luxury of interpreting pain with<br />
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For them, pain isn’t just a signal, it’s a survival tool deeply<br />
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Pain can manifest in different ways. Acute pain comes on<br />
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• loss of appetite or difficulty eating<br />
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• posture changes – may be rigid, hunched, or drooping<br />
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• Visceral – coming from internal organs such as<br />
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inspires him to stay<br />
in England, driving trucks,<br />
working on railroads, scraping<br />
by however he could.<br />
Christian later left for Morocco,<br />
taking their daughter K’lo with<br />
her.<br />
But when K’lo was just four,<br />
she was sent back to live with<br />
Harris, a sign for him to get on<br />
the straight and narrow.<br />
He moved with K’lo to Brecon<br />
in mid-Wales, where he hoped to<br />
work as a truck driver and raise<br />
his daughter.<br />
He met his second wife, Judith<br />
Sharp, there and had three more<br />
children – Jack, Henry and Ellen.<br />
Harris continued doing odd<br />
jobs until he returned to study,<br />
training in early childhood<br />
education.<br />
A short-term role at<br />
Llandrindod High School, filling<br />
in for a design teacher, turned<br />
into a 22-year career.<br />
“I enjoyed it a lot. I love<br />
teaching kids, I love getting them<br />
to make things,” Harris said.<br />
Over his two decades in the<br />
UK education system, Harris<br />
witnessed significant shifts,<br />
especially after Margaret<br />
Thatcher came to power.<br />
He sees parallels in New<br />
Zealand today.<br />
“Education becomes a focus of<br />
getting grades so that your school<br />
can be compared to the next<br />
school and so on and so forth.<br />
“The focus becomes not on<br />
children and finding the place<br />
for them to go, but pushing them<br />
through exams,” he said.<br />
His art work is often political.<br />
One piece, currently on display<br />
Harris said meeting Jane was“extraordinary, it was scary, it was all sorts of<br />
things, but it was right and good.”<br />
at the Rei Gallery in Lyttelton,<br />
where he volunteers every<br />
second Friday, depicts Tame Iti’s<br />
Waitangi flag protest last year.<br />
Harris was critical of the<br />
current coalition government,<br />
particularly David Seymour,<br />
labelling his treaty principles bill<br />
as “antagonising” and a “waste<br />
of time”.<br />
"It’s a regressive government<br />
who try to push back on all the<br />
advances made by the original<br />
inhabitants of this land. There’s<br />
two people in there, one who will<br />
destroy the environmental fabric<br />
of this country and the other has<br />
worked very hard to destroy the<br />
social fabric – and 90% of the<br />
country didn’t vote for them,” he<br />
said.<br />
He is also outspoken about<br />
the rise of AI-generated art,<br />
criticising its environmental<br />
impact and the uncredited use of<br />
human artists’ work.<br />
“The less machinery between<br />
the person who makes the art<br />
the better, for me. I like to see the<br />
mark of the artist,” he said.<br />
Westpac Ferrymead customers will have their accounts transferred to Westpac<br />
The Palms when the Ferrymead branch closes on August 8. PHOTO: KEES CHALMERS<br />
Elderly feeling isolated by<br />
bank’s decision to close<br />
› From Page 1<br />
“They just did everything for<br />
me,” Jean said.<br />
She is able to do her banking<br />
online, but prefers to do it in<br />
person.<br />
Graeme Baird, 78, from the<br />
Sumner RSA, comes into the<br />
bank twice a week to cash<br />
in its poppy sales – which is<br />
not possible through online<br />
banking.<br />
“As far as I’m concerned,<br />
they don’t give a f**k about<br />
customers,” he said.<br />
A Westpac NZ spokesperson<br />
told <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News:<br />
“Transaction volumes at<br />
Ferrymead have been falling<br />
for many years, including by<br />
15% over the past 12 months, as<br />
customers increasingly choose<br />
to do their banking online.<br />
“We intend to install a<br />
Smart ATM in the area of the<br />
Ferrymead branch, and we’re<br />
also planning to have bankers<br />
available at community<br />
locations in Woolston and<br />
Redcliffs to help customers with<br />
queries and provide digital<br />
assistance,”the spokesperson<br />
said.<br />
Locations could include<br />
libraries, the spokesperson<br />
said. Details were still being<br />
finalised.<br />
Customers who bank at<br />
Ferrymead will have their<br />
accounts automatically<br />
transferred to Westpac<br />
The Palms branch, at 20-22<br />
Marshland Rd, Shirley.<br />
BARRINGTON ST<br />
LYTTELTON ST<br />
FRANKLEIGH ST<br />
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One-way system<br />
Cable duct to be installed<br />
Previously installed<br />
Road or lane closure<br />
Frankleigh St one-way traffic from 14 <strong>July</strong><br />
We’re strengthening<br />
our electricity network<br />
Orion is installing a new 66kV underground<br />
power cable between the Milton Substation<br />
and the Halswell Substation on Sparks<br />
Road. This is part of a wider programme to<br />
replace older cables across Christchurch and<br />
strengthen the network.<br />
Please allow extra time for your journey and<br />
follow all signage and instructions from our crew.<br />
From 14 <strong>July</strong>, a one-way system will be in place<br />
on Frankleigh Street with traffic travelling from<br />
Lyttelton St to Barrington St. There will be<br />
additional traffic management in place as we work<br />
through the Lyttelton St intersection in August.<br />
Thanks for your patience while we<br />
complete this work, for more information<br />
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Outward Bound adventure an ‘amazing opportunity’<br />
Cara Brignull is invigorated<br />
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21-day leadership course with<br />
Outward Bound in Anakiwa.<br />
The scholarship, sponsored in<br />
memory of Allan Williams, is part<br />
of the Sumner Ferrymead Foundation<br />
Scholarships and Awards<br />
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The foundation’s annual<br />
awards for <strong>2025</strong> were held on <strong>July</strong><br />
4 at the Mt Pleasant Community<br />
Centre.<br />
The foundation offers academic<br />
scholarships for second year<br />
university students, apprentice<br />
awards for new apprentices, Outward<br />
Bound scholarships for both<br />
the leadership and adapted programmes,<br />
and an environmental<br />
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“We sailed, rock climbed, built<br />
rafts, kayaked and did coast steering.<br />
There were multi-day hikes, a<br />
three-night solo alone in the bush.<br />
If that wasn’t enough, the course<br />
finished with a half marathon on<br />
the Queen Charlotte track straight<br />
after a three-day tramp,” Brignull<br />
said.<br />
“I had lots of time to reflect on<br />
myself, gaining a better understanding<br />
of who I am and the<br />
kind of person I want to be in<br />
the future. I also learnt so many<br />
valuable skills like leadership,<br />
resilience and teamwork, along<br />
with making special memories.”<br />
As part of the leadership course,<br />
the 12 trainees, aged between 18<br />
and 25, helped clear tracks used<br />
by volunteers to place pest traps.<br />
“It was good to give back to the<br />
community,” Brignull said.<br />
The course was both physically<br />
The Outward Bound participants out on the water, rowing together when the wind<br />
was too light to sail. Cara Brignull is in the stroke seat on the front left, setting<br />
the rhythm for the crew.<br />
and mentally challenging, but<br />
a great precursor for Brignull’s<br />
upcoming adventure.<br />
“I’m preparing and saving<br />
before I head to the USA to study<br />
and row on a full-ride scholarship<br />
at the University of Tulsa in<br />
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What does it mean to be part of<br />
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“I now feel more prepared to<br />
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Cara, centre, is joined by fellow Outward Bound participants Luc and Caitlin.<br />
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BY SAM COUGHLAN<br />
Schoolboy rugby teams around the<br />
country will sport bright yellow<br />
shoelaces this weekend to remember a<br />
Christchurch kid who died from cancer<br />
five years ago.<br />
Kelly Sharpe started Lachie’s Laces<br />
in 2020 as a way to remember her<br />
son Lachie Sutherland, who had<br />
neuroblastoma and died earlier that<br />
year at just 12 after an eight-year battle<br />
with the disease.<br />
The laces are in the colour of the<br />
Child Cancer Foundation and cost<br />
$5 a set, with proceeds going to the<br />
foundation.<br />
Lachie loved sport and played both<br />
rugby and football.<br />
Sharpe said the idea to have every<br />
team wearing the laces started<br />
with Lachie’s cousin, now in the<br />
Christchurch Boys’ High first XV, and<br />
one of his best friends, who is at Nelson<br />
College.<br />
With this year being five years since<br />
his death, it would be a special way to<br />
remember him.<br />
“I wondered if we could maybe<br />
have those teams wear the laces, as<br />
something really personal to these two<br />
boys who had a close relationship with<br />
Lachie,” Sharpe said.<br />
That idea extended to an attempt to<br />
get all 10 teams in the competition on<br />
board, a movement which has been<br />
more than successful. Every team<br />
in the Miles Toyota Premiership will<br />
wear the laces, alongside some schools<br />
outside the competition.<br />
“We had Napier Boys’ College come<br />
on board, we had Wellington College,”<br />
Sharpe said.<br />
“Spreading into those North Island<br />
teams, which we couldn’t have hoped<br />
for, is just absolutely amazing.”<br />
West Melton have also been supplied<br />
with more than 100 pairs of laces,<br />
which will be worn by their division 1<br />
side, their under 18s and under 16s.<br />
For Sharpe, seeing the laces around is<br />
always a special reminder of Lachie.<br />
“A conversation I had with Lachie,<br />
towards the end when he knew he was<br />
going to die, was that he didn’t want to<br />
be forgotten,” she said.<br />
“That was kind of a promise and a<br />
commitment that we made with him,<br />
and this is part of ensuring that legacy<br />
continues.<br />
“I love it when people post the laces<br />
and they’ll tag Lachie’s Laces so it<br />
comes up on my feed, it’s a wonderful<br />
feeling.”<br />
• To support Lachie’s Laces or buy a pair, visit<br />
lachieslaces.co.nz<br />
• More sport, page 12<br />
The yellow laces<br />
will be worn<br />
by schoolboy<br />
rugby teams to<br />
remember Lachie<br />
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who died in 2020<br />
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Wave falls short but momentum building<br />
BY KEES CHALMERS<br />
Sumner’s season may be<br />
over, but head coach Gareth<br />
D’Almeida is already planning<br />
for the next.<br />
The Wave were knocked out<br />
in their Metro Premier plate<br />
semi-final on Saturday, narrowly<br />
losing 22–21 to long-time<br />
rivals New Brighton.<br />
While disappointed with the<br />
result, D’Almeida said the season<br />
laid a strong foundation for<br />
future success.<br />
“There’s still ground to cover,<br />
but the building blocks are<br />
there for us to become a top<br />
team in this competition,” he<br />
said.<br />
Early-season injuries to key<br />
senior players forced Sumner to<br />
bring through younger talent –<br />
a challenge at the time, but one<br />
D’Almeida believes will pay off<br />
next year.<br />
"We can see how much<br />
growth has happened in one<br />
season. It’ll be pretty exciting to<br />
see them when they come back<br />
next season,” he said.<br />
D’Almeida will hold oneon-one<br />
post-season debriefs<br />
with every player and begin<br />
Sumner second-five Kaliova Mocetadra muscling his way towards the try line.<br />
planning for the year ahead.<br />
The coach said initial feedback<br />
suggests everyone wants<br />
to stay.<br />
"You look at the positivity and<br />
the belief the team has, particularly<br />
against Christchurch, to<br />
score 28 points in 10 minutes,<br />
PHOTO: TONY BRUNT PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
you don’t achieve that unless<br />
there’s a strong sense of belief<br />
in the squad.”<br />
Sumner will return to<br />
pre-season training in January.<br />
Saturday’s loss came in dramatic<br />
fashion. Sumner was<br />
leading 21–15 with just minutes<br />
to play before New Brighton<br />
second-five Thomas Robertson<br />
scored in the corner.<br />
Former Sumner halfback<br />
Tyson Belworthy, who had<br />
missed a crucial penalty the<br />
previous week against Lincoln<br />
University, nailed the sideline<br />
conversion to steal the win with<br />
two minutes remaining.<br />
New Brighton will now play<br />
Belfast in the plate final at<br />
Rawhiti Domain at 2.45pm on<br />
Saturday.<br />
Despite the heartbreak,<br />
D’Almeida said the match<br />
showed just how far Sumner<br />
has come – especially in defence<br />
– compared to their 50-31 loss<br />
to New Brighton earlier in the<br />
season.<br />
"When you look at the start of<br />
the season we were getting 50 to<br />
60 point margins put on us. But<br />
in the back half, we came very<br />
close to some very good sides.<br />
“For the boys to come as far<br />
as they have come in that space<br />
of time, I’m really proud of the<br />
whole effort.”<br />
Bowler to make national debut<br />
after nearly 50 years on greens<br />
BY KEES CHALMERS<br />
Winning the National Champion<br />
of Champions title would be the<br />
perfect early retirement gift for<br />
Sumner bowler John Lavell.<br />
The 64-year-old will make<br />
his first appearance at the<br />
tournament this week – nearly<br />
50 years after first picking up a<br />
bowl.<br />
The national competition<br />
starts in Auckland tomorrow<br />
and runs until Sunday.<br />
Lavell was born deaf and<br />
uses a hearing aid in his left ear,<br />
which gives him limited hearing.<br />
Without it, he hears nothing.<br />
But that hasn’t stopped him<br />
from excelling in a sport he<br />
loves.<br />
On the green, Lavell uses hand<br />
signals to communicate with<br />
umpires. He said his hearing<br />
impairment doesn’t affect him at<br />
all during games.<br />
That is part of the reason he<br />
loves playing bowls – it does not<br />
hinder his ability and he is able<br />
to compete with able-bodied<br />
athletes.<br />
He qualified for the Champion<br />
of Champions after winning<br />
the Canterbury Champion of<br />
Champions singles title in April.<br />
The final was a tense affair.<br />
He had an early lead of 20-8 but<br />
conceded eight unanswered<br />
points which threatened a<br />
comeback.<br />
His partner, Elaine Taylor,<br />
was watching on in the crowd,<br />
squeezing her friend’s hand out<br />
of pure nerves.<br />
But Lavell held his nerve<br />
and scored the winning point –<br />
calling it the most satisfying win<br />
of his career so far.<br />
Now, he’ll go up against the<br />
best singles champions from<br />
other provinces across the<br />
country.<br />
“I’m feeling good,” he said.<br />
“Confident I can take it out.”<br />
Earlier this year Lavell was<br />
awarded Canterbury Bowls Para<br />
Athlete of the Year for the 2024-<br />
25 season.<br />
He has worked at NZ Post for<br />
nearly five decades.<br />
He started as a postal assistant<br />
at Spitfire Square when he<br />
was just 16, then became a<br />
runner before settling into a<br />
long-term role sorting mail at<br />
the Christchurch Mail Service<br />
Centre.<br />
After 48 years of service,<br />
Lavell will retire on August 1 –<br />
freeing up time to do what he<br />
loves most, playing bowls every<br />
day instead of just on weekends.<br />
John Lavell hoisting the Canterbury Champion of Champions singles trophy.<br />
He started bowling in 1976<br />
after his father Allan, a handy<br />
bowler himself, took him down<br />
to the Sumner Bowls Club.<br />
Lavell has never played<br />
for another club and has had<br />
a decorated career, starting<br />
with winning the Sumner colts<br />
singles – a category for bowlers<br />
with less than two years of<br />
experience.<br />
He won his 25th Sumner club<br />
singles title this year, as well as<br />
multiple titles in the doubles,<br />
triples and fours over the years.<br />
He was given a gold star for<br />
winning five centre titles in<br />
20<strong>17</strong>.<br />
Lavell has also represented<br />
New Zealand in the<br />
International Deaf Bowls<br />
Championships in Edinburgh.<br />
He loves the club, particularly<br />
the people and the bar.<br />
Lavell is competitive on the<br />
green, but win, lose or draw, he<br />
says he always goes inside for a<br />
Speights and a yarn.<br />
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BLACK EDITION<br />
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JUST<br />
$29,990<br />
EX-FLEET • LOW KMS • LIMITED STOCK<br />
*$148.97 per week repayments based on ASX Black Edition with a sale price of $29,990.00, no deposit, a 9.99 % p.a.interest rate fixed for the 60-month term of the loan. Total balance payable $38,602.80.<br />
Payments include a $130 UDC establishment fee, $10.35 PPSR fee, a weekly maintenance fee of $0.50, and a dealer origination fee of $250 will apply, includes Est fees of $390.35.<br />
CHRISTCHURCH MITSUBISHI<br />
386 Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch | Tel 03 379 0588 | chchmitsubishi.co.nz<br />
DRIVEAWAY<br />
TOP OF THE RANGE<br />
NAVARA PRO-4X<br />
buyers. Available on new Nissan MY24 Navara models while stock lasts. Sale prices exclude on-road costs (ORC). Premium accessories available at additional cost.<br />
CHRISTCHURCH NISSAN, 392 Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch<br />
Ph: 03 595 6820 www.christchurchnissan.co.nz<br />
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Welcome to the good life, where sustainability meets comfort in a connected,<br />
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1 1 1 1<br />
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This home is a rare find, being a one-bedroom home<br />
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This unique Habitus Homes property stands out with its<br />
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