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By Sam Morton An Ashburton business manager fears the CBD may soon be littered with window bars after another local business was repeatedly targeted by burglars. Colin Zhong, the manager of Ashburton Coin Save, said his business has been hit seven times in as many years and believes that Ashburton’s society is changing for the worst. Mr Zhong’s comments come on the back of another Ashburton business being targeted on several occasions last month and he is tired of dealing with the aftermath. After dealing with countless problems in Whanganui and Auckland – during his stints at the respective Coin Save franchises, Mr Zhong moved south in 2007 in the hope of a quieter lifestyle. As it turns out, it has been anything but. “It was a very messy place in Whanganui, we would have a lot of problems with teenagers. “For me it’s not the point that they are taking products, it’s the expense at replacing the windows – I don’t see why they can’t just come in, be pleasant to staff and buy the things they want– it’s not too expensive,” he said. The most recent break-in was last Friday, when thieves smashed through the front doors, stealing hundreds of dollars worth of products, before scarpering. The thieves were caught on camera, but Mr Zhong said the footage was too dark, pointing to a street lamp outside his store that has been vandalised, and not yet replaced. “I don’t know who needs to fix that, I think it might be the council, but if that was all back up and working, then that would be a big help. “I leave my lights on in the shop
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at night now, I didn’t used to do that – so people need to know they can be seen if they are in the shop,” he said. Mr Zhong also credits his security firm for their ongoing efforts, but feels more needs to be done to protect Ashburton businesses after hours. “My security firm, who I pay to watch the place after hours, has helped track down and chase a couple of thieves in the past and they have been very good. “We feel safer now we have them, but I think the place is getting worse. It’s not as bad as other places I’ve lived in, but it’s definitely not the nice place it was,” he said. Mr Zhong now fears Ashburton businesses will have to start introducing large steel bars on windows around the premises, if things don’t improve. But he insists he doesn’t want it to come to that. “What will that do for the place? ... that will be so horrible ... very ugly,” he said. “But, if things keep getting bad ... what choice will we have, it really is getting that way.” *The Ashburton Police are keen to hear from anyone who may have seen or heard anything in the area between 1am and 8am on Friday. If you can help, contact (03) 307-8400.
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Ashburton’s Graham Ritchie with his newly-built 80 per cent sized Fokker D7, complete with the finishing touch of a German replica war helmet. By Susan Sandys Ashburton’s Graham Ritchie is looking forward to this weekend when he will display his pride and joy, a replica German fighter plane he has built. He has spent countless hours over the past three years putting the 80 per cent sized Fokker D7 together, down to the last detail of painting it in bright colours and attaching toy machine guns. This Saturday the plane will be among those at the Ashburton Aviation Museum’s biennial Great Plains Fly In, although it is
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“We have been sorting out issues with the engine temperature and oil pressure, hopefully we have come to the end of it now,” he said. Mr Ritchie sourced a replica Pickelhaube German World War One helmet on the internet to go
with his aircraft. The Fokker was a fighter plane used mainly by the Germans during the war. “I got it (helmet) for things like the Fly In, I thought I might wear it just to add some background,” Mr Ritchie said.
He said he had built several aircraft over the years, and when it came to each project he could not count the hours involved. “That’s a very difficult question to answer, because you tend to do it in fits and starts, the first aeroplane I built I got to 400 hours and stopped counting,” he said. Mr Ritchie is a GP in his day job, but wanted to be called Mr when it came to his aeroplanebuilding passion. “It’s something totally different from what I do on a daily basis. I like making things, it’s not particularly difficult, it just takes time.”
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not quite ready to take to the air. Mr Ritchie said he and friend Paddy McDonnell had built two of the aircraft after they arrived in kitset style parts in long boxes from the manufacturer. They had completed the first recently and it had gone to its owner on Rangitata Island, who would hopefully be flying it to the Fly In. As for Mr Ritchie’s aircraft, he hoped to be flying it very soon. It has already been for test flights and there were just some minor adjustments that needed to be made to the motor before he could fly it.
Teachers on leave for the next 30 years and $4000 owed to one staff member are part of the worst pay round schools have seen in months. School offices across the district were scenes of stress and frustration yesterday, as teachers emerged from a well-deserved Waitangi Day break to find more pay errors in what was expected to be the worst pay round since
the disastrous Novopay system was introduced six months ago. Once again, both local colleges felt the brunt of pay blunders in what is a complex time of year for schools as new and departing staff are added or taken off the pay roll. Novopay trouble-shooter Steven Joyce likened the system to trying to change a tyre while driving at 100km/h, and that was exactly how schools felt as they tried to keep on top of staff pay mistakes yesterday.
Mount Hutt College principal John Schreurs said the “20 to 30” errors they found rated as one of the worst pay rounds the college had seen. According to Novopay pay slips, one of his teachers was scheduled to stay on leave until 2049, and, in more serious circumstances, a fixed term staff member was not paid $4000 in allowances they had accumulated during the past year. Not to mention five new staff members who had not been paid.
“I shouldn’t have to be dealing with all this, the whole point of this system was to make it easier,” Mr Schreurs said. Ashburton College saw up to 30 errors as principal Grant McMillan’s office door revolved with upset staff members, one of whom had been paid $200 short of their weekly wage. Ironically, Mr McMillan was grateful for the reduced number of errors the college faced. He said the situation was looking bleak two days ago when 30 staff were
not going to be paid at all. However, frantic and committed workers at the Ministry of Education and Novopay managed to avoid what could have been a “disaster” for several staff. “It’s a lot better than what we thought it was going to be 36 hours ago, I’m not unhappy because it could have been much, much worse,” Mr McMillan said. “We are just seeing different variations of mistakes now so that’s something we will now have to look out for.”
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