Cook Strait News 13-12-18

WELLINGTON SOUTHERN & EASTERN SUBURBS

Thursday December 13, 2018

Today 14-20

YOUR LOCAL NEWS

Friday 14-21

Saturday 14-21

Sunday 14-22

Phone: (04) 587 1660

Strait up, she’s done it

By Jamie Adams

A nationally-renowned outdoor challenge programme was the inspiration that led to Miramar’s Breanna Ward achieving something only a few dozen people have done.

The 21-year-old swam across Cook Strait on December 1, completing the 29km North-South journey in 7 hours and 26 minutes.

It makes hers the 113th crossing of the strait, with several swimmers having done it multiple times.

Continued on page 2.

Breanna Ward at her workplace, the Kilbirnie Aquatic Centre, after completing a seven-and-a-half hour crossing of Cook Strait earlier this month.

PHOTO: Jamie Adams

Motorcycle

Newtown Laundry & Dryclean • Off Street Parking • Open 7 days • Woollens • Ironing, pressing • Duvets • Bedding • Sports Gear • Dry Cleaning • Big washers and dryers

www.newtownlaundrette.co.nz OPEN 7 DAYS info@kpclaundry.co.nz • 0800 536 536 4 Wilson Street, Newtown, Ph 04 389 8156

Inspection Services “I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy holiday season!”

I would love to assist you in 2019 for all your property requirements - just give me a call!!

Paula Muollo Licensed Salesperson REAA 2008

P: 04 803 1790 M: 021 888 864 E: paula.muollo@harcourts.co.nz Wellington City, Level 1, 54-56 Cambridge Terrace

Bruce Lewis

• Complete Workshop Service • A-Grade Motorcycle Engineer • WOF Inspections • Dyno Tuning

30 Martin Square, Te Aro

Ph: 04 801 7400

2

Thursday December 13, 2018

How to reach us

Outward Bound inspires Miramar local to take on the strait

Phone (04) 587 1660 Address 23 Broderick Rd, Johnsonville P.O. Box 38-776, WMC 5045 Fax (04) 587 1661 www.wsn.co.nz REPORTER

Jamie Adams cook@wsn.co.nz 587 1660 SALES

Brett Jennings brett@wsn.co.nz 587 1660 SALES

Sam Wadham sam.wadham@wsn.co.nz 587 1660 NATIONAL SALES

Sam Barnes sam@wsn.co.nz 587 1660 CLASSIFIED SALES

classifieds@wsn.co.nz

Continued from page 1.

What’s notable about Breanna’s swim was how early in summer it was done – most people do not attempt it until February or March when the weather and water is typically at its warmest.

“Cook Strait has always been a major dream of mine, but doing an Outward Bound course last year was what really kickstarted me into achieving it,” Breanna says.

“I mentioned it at the end when we talked about goals that we wanted to go away and do.

“Because of this, as well as the huge positive impact Outward Bound had on my life, I decided to make my Cook Strait swim a fundraiser for Outward Bound.”

Breanna, who works as a lifeguard at Kilbirnie Aquatic Centre, has raised about $2300 so far, including proceeds from a public two-hour Swimathon at the centre on Sunday.

“I raised about $1000 before the swim and then during the swim so many people were donating.”

She says that was as much a factor in her motivation to succeed as was the personal aspiration. Despite being in the water for nearly a third of a day,

Breanna Ward approaches the Marlborough Sounds during her 29km swimming journey.

PHOTO: Supplied

Breanna says at no point did she feel like giving up, having prepared throughout the year by swimming up to 65km a week.

Throughout the winter she trained at the aquatic centre, which meant biking there and back in the dark to train before and after her shifts.

Thereafter she transferred to the sea, at one point embarking on a five-hour-long 16km harbour swim which led to a damaged shoulder just a week before the big event. Prior to her training, the longest distance

she had continuously swum was just 3km.

She says she will never forget the beach she landed at when she touched the South Island.

“It was beautiful and overwhelming looking back towards the distant North Island and feeling the accumulation of a year of training, knowing I had done it.”

She also credits support from family and friends who accompanied her by boat, including veteran Phil Rush who organises crossing attempts.

While she is open to repeat-

ing the feat, Breanna says she now has other ideas for ultraswimming, including taking on the “really challenging” North Channel between Scotland and Ireland.

She also plans to cycle around New Zealand with a friend and would like to run a marathon.  Breanna aims to raise $2500 for Outward Bound by the end of January. It will go to scholarships for people who wouldn’t be able to afford the course fees. To donate go to obchampion.everydayhero. com/nz/breannaward.

DISTRIBUTION Genx Distribution

michelle@genxbuilders.co.nz (04) 970 0439

Fate of convention centre proposal to be known

22,700 copies weekly

Cook Strait News The largest circulating newspaper in Wellington Southern and Eastern suburbs.

YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER

Wellington City Council will today decide whether to proceed with a new Convention and Exhibition Centre.

It is proposed the $154.3 million centre be developed on land the Council owns on Cable Street, opposite Te Papa.

The building with 18,000 square metres of floor space will cater for conventions of up to 2200 people and the 1651

sqm exhibition area will attract international exhibitions.

The City Strategy Committee was to vote on the centre this morning.

“I’m strongly in favour of the centre and throwing my full support behind it,” says Mayor Justin Lester.

“What is proposed is a stateof-the-art convention centre complemented by an exhibition

ROOM AT THE INN Celebrating 55 Years of Service in the Community

CHRISTMAS DAY MEALS For the housebound, lonely, students and visitors to Wellington A Christmas Day meal will be provided at the Aro Valley Community Centre, 48 Aro St, commencing at 12:30pm.

Meals can be delivered for those housebound.

Those who wish to volunteer their services should

Telephone 04 499 3240 CC38110

43818

space that will attract touring exhibitions such as Harry Potter, Marvel, World of Wearable Arts, Ballet Russe and Star Wars.

“Our council has an ambitious social programme to make Wellington a fairer place to live, but we also need a strong economic platform upon which we can base it,” says the mayor.

“Wellington’s convention in-

MAKARA CEMETERY Monthly Bus Service

Next Bus

Wed 19 th December 2018 This private bus service has

dustry is worth $240 million a year. The Australasian and Asian convention market is growing and we are missing out on big conventions because we don’t have the appropriate space.

“This project has been more than five years in the making and what it now needs is a favourable decision from the council.”

Showroom: 29 Hutt Road, Thorndon BLINDS FOR YOUR HOME AND OFFICE

been operating for 17 years.

Sponsored by Harbour City, Guardian and The Wilson Funeral Homes.

DEPARTS FROM: Island Bay (Medway Street) (Outside New World)

12:45pm

Harbour City Funeral Home (56 Onepu Road, Kilbirnie)

1:00pm

Miramar Library

1:10pm

Newtown Library

1:20pm

Courtenay Place (Main Bus Stop)

1:30pm

Karori opposite The Wilson Funeral Home, (142 Karori Road, Karori)

1:40pm

Karori Library (Outside the Postshop) 1:45pm

Fare: A donation to Wellington Free Ambulance would be greatly appreciated.

• Exciting new fabrics • Wide range of blinds • Colour consultancy • Installation - Repairs • 3 year guarantee

FREE measure and quote Hours: Mon-Fri 8.30am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm JUST DEDICATED TO YOUR SATISFACTION

sales@justblinds.co.nz Ph: 04 472 9920 - www.justblinds.co.nz

Thursday December 13, 2018

Shelly Bay iwi determined to get their land back

By Jamie Adams

Local iwi collective Taranaki Whanui vow to reverse the sale of Shelly Bay land by the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust (PNBST), a decision they say is an injustice to the original owners.

Spokesman Anaru Mepham says the successful challenge in the Court of Appeal by Enterprise Miramar to a housing development plan by new owners The Wellington Company was “remarkable”, but also places Taranaki Whanui in a new position.

“It’s a position of opportunity where people can potentially influence the outcome of this next stage of planning and development of our land here,” Anaru says.

“We challenge the sale of this land; the sale of this land is unlawful.”

In 2016 the PNBST asked members to vote on permission to sell three sections of land they had bought from the Crown. It had been bought for $15 million with money received from a treaty settlement.

Despite Taranaki Whanui’s five iwi opposing the sale, the trust went ahead anyway, with the land sold to The Wellington Company for $2 million, well below its valuation of $7.4m.

“This whenua has been sold by our own people for a pittance, which is disgraceful,” iwi member Dan Love says.

“The vote clearly came back not to sell.”

Anaru believes the sale has breached article 2 of the Treaty of Waitangi regarding how land transactions are dealt.

Last Thursday Taranak i Whanui members gathered at Shelly Bay to plant a Tino Rangatiratanga flag in a sym-

3

inbrief news Talk therapies critical for preventing suicides Samaritans Wellington welcomes the Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry report to Government, believing access to talk therapies is critical for preventing suicides.

“We would like to see the Government working together with community organisations like Samaritans to properly fund the talk therapy services that are already in place” Wellington board chair Peter Barker says.

He says Samaritans has a vital role in suicide prevention — listening and talking to people who are distressed, depressed, lonely and contemplating suicide, but as a volunteer organisation that receives no government funding, it is “forced to lead a hand-to-mouth existence”.

Wellington ‘one of top destinations’ A panel consisting of five of the world’s top travel influencers and bloggers has chosen Wellington, as one of the six top emerging travel destinations in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific for 2019. The annual awards honouring up-and-coming destinations were published last night on the site TravelLemming.com, which covers emerging and under-toured destinations around the world.

Winning destinations were determined by a panel consisting of five of the top travel bloggers, vloggers, and influencers in the world, with a combined following on social media of over 1.2 million. Wellington was nominated for the award by the Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency.

Members of Taranaki Whanui admire the Tino Rangatiratanga flag, right, after it was erected by Anaru Mepham, left, at Shelly Bay on Thursday following the Court of Appeal ruling.

PHOTO: Jamie Adams

bolic gesture of claiming the land back.

“We are calling for the trustees of the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust to step down from their positions and get the people to revote and have a say in how this trust should be managed,” Anaru says.

Hereni Jenkins-Mepham says with the resource consent quashed, the chance to move forward constructively

is “huge”.

“We are tangata whenua.

Without land we have no identity,” Hereni says.

Another iwi member, longterm Shelly Bay resident Kenney-Jean Sidwell, says she has felt “so much grief” since the sale.

“This is wrong for iwi, wrong for the community and for the environment.”

Anaru says they are prepared to fight the sale in court if

necessary and are now seeking to meet Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little to discuss whether they have a case.

They say the saddest aspect of the situation is the lack of communication from the trust, which has only been prepared to speak through its lawyers.

The PNBST has been approached by phone and email for comment. There was no reply as of yesterday.

Christmas craft market After successes with previous events in July and October, Kilbrinie is gearing up for its third Craft Market, this time with a Christmas theme.

Organiser Sonia Markholm says everything to be displayed has been hand made by local crafters and there will be a number of great items for Christmas gifts including dolls’ clothes, crocheted and knitted teddies and toys, jewellery, paintings, cards, peg dolls, Christmas decorations, hand bags, fans, crystals and art works.

Kilbirnie Christmas Craft Market will be at Kilbirnie Community Centre, 56 Bay Road, from 10am to 2pm on Saturday, December 15.

24 HOUR

It’s the one stop shop for all your biking needs.

EMERGENCY SERVICE All Insurance Work and WINZ quotes welcome.

Members of Window Assoc. of NZ Ltd

Free quotes, advice and consultation ALL WINDOW REPAIRS, CUT GLASS WHILE-U-WAIT, LEADLIGHT, SHOWERS & MIRRORS, SPLASHBACKS, CAR & MARINE GLAZING

Aluminium Window & Door Maintenance

WGTN 472 2663 | PORIRUA 237 0120 | L HUTT 570 1596 | U HUTT 527 0121

Muds, your friendly local bike shop since decades ago!

MUD CYCLES 424 Karori Road, Karori

(Drive on access from Makara Rd)

Ph 04 476 4961 mudcycles@mudcycles.co.nz

www.mudcycles.co.nz

Email: glassshoppe@xtra.co.nz Website: www.glassshoppe.co.nz  Home Glazing  Commercial Glazing  Double Glazing  Shelves & Sliding Doors  Sound Reduction  Crystal Repairs HS 387B V/1 FINAL CTP.indd 1  All Mirror Work  Glass Splashbacks

 Rear Vision Mirrors  Coloured & Heritage Glazing  Cat Doors  Firedoor Glass  Table Tops  Glass Blocks  Reputtying

306 Willis Street (Cnr Willis & Aro Streets), Wellington 2/12/15 12:40 PM Ph: 04 385 0745 www.lychgate.co.nz

4

Thursday December 13, 2018

inbrief news Ngā Taonga relocating to safer site Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Wellington office will be moving in May 2019 from its current location in Taranaki Street to the National Library building on Molesworth Street due to earthquake risk.

“The move from Taranaki Street is the culmination of a great deal of research, planning and negotiation made necessary by the reclassification of our premises as earthquake prone in 2014,” Chief Executive Rebecca Elvy says.

Ahead of the move, the ground floor space at Taranaki Street will retain its building reception function but the café service and cinema will not reopen after the Christmas and New Year break.

ACC levy changes ‘backward step’ The NZ Automobile Association is disappointed with the announcement by the Government to end ACC’s Vehicle Risk Rating scheme.

“Scrapping Vehicle Risk Rating is a backward step at a time when a rising road toll is demanding more action to improve road safety,” says AA principal advisor – regulations Mark Stockdale.

He says much more needs to be done to promote vehicle safety to Kiwis.

The move will see the annual motor vehicle levy for the 38 percent of cars currently in the safest band rise $28 – more than double the ACC levy their drivers currently pay.

App offers free background checks A new app for property owners allows users to conduct free background checks through the mobile application.

Proper is connected to three national databases with over 10 years of records.

After gaining the tenant’s approval, owners only need to input the tenant’s full name, date of birth, email address, and mobile number to conduct a search.

They will then receive reports through email detailing tenancy tribunal history, court fines, police history, media, and social media presence.

The free feature of the app is an important gain for owners feeling uneasy about the current reforms being made to renting, Proper CEO Aaron Yee says.

Waiting game as Kilbirnie booze ban on cards

By Jamie Adams

Kilbirnie residents will have to wait until the middle of next year before they know if they will finally get a much-desired public liquor ban in their shopping precinct.

Last Thursday Wellington City Council, in its city strategy committee meeting, agreed to an amendment to a proposed modification of the current liquor ban area.

They agreed to a motion from eastern ward councillor Simon Marsh to consult with the community about creating an alcohol ban area within the Kilbirnie business area.

That area would be bordered

by Mahora Street, Coutts Street, Childers Terrace, Evans Bay Parade and Rongotai Road.

Council officers will report back by June 30, 2019 after which councillors will decide.

Councillors also agreed to a “comprehensive range of initiatives seeking to manage alcoholrelated issues in the Kilbirnie community”, such as an increase in Local Hosts and improved

access to tenancy services for those living on the streets.

Kilbirnie Business Network manager Gary Holmes was pleased councillors were finally taking a stance after years of lobbying by local businesses and residents.

“We will put in a strong submission through the consultation process,” Gary says. “We are confident the council will make the right decision.”

Gary says the problem of alcohol-related crime in Kilbirnie is as bad as ever and it was important the ban area extended beyond Bay Road.

“We are getting regular reports of businesses getting broken windows, even on [Evans Bay] Parade.

“In Auckland most suburban centres have 24/7 liquor bans in place and there’s been no issues.”

Bernard O’Shaughnessy, a selfdescribed “agitator”, has been a vocal critic of council inaction on the issue.

Several councillors had previously opposed implementing a ban on the grounds that it would not work, as the people

Bernard O’Shaughnessy points out what he says are two big contributors to Kilbirnie’s ongoing public drinking problem due to their sales of alcohol until as late as 11pm. PHOTO: Jamie Adams

who drank in public in Kilbirnie were often homeless alcoholics who would either ignore a ban or take the problem elsewhere.

Bernard says a local business survey showed 85 percent of operators believed the drinking problem among beggars has become worse over 2017/18.

“A ban allows normal good people to go about their legit business and pleasure in a responsible manner, showing respect to the free unmolested safe passage of others.”

He believes Kilbirnie’s situation is made worse by the fact

there are two supermarkets in close proximity to Bay Road where liquor is readily available to vagrants. Countdown’s licensed hours in Kilbirnie are 7am to 11pm while Pak’nSave across the road sells alcohol from 7am to 10pm.

A Countdown spokesperson says it takes its responsibilities as a retailer “really seriously”, and it has strict procedures in place for selling alcohol in its stores.

Pak’Save Kilbirnie owner Dean Galt would not comment on Bernard’s claims, but is supportive of public liquor ban.

More counters to show bike trip numbers Additional electronic counters and improved online data will help show how Wellington City travel patterns change over time as more paths, lanes and other changes are made to make it safer and easier for more people to make some trips by bike, a Councillor says.

Wellington City Council installed electronic counters on eight key routes earlier this year, including Evans Bay Parade and the airport subway.

It has just installed counters in another 11 locations, including

Seatoun Tunnel, Cobham Drive’s bike and footpaths (near Miramar cutting) and Crawford Road’s bike lanes.

Data collected is also being more comprehensively displayed on the Council website transportprojects.org.nz Wellington City Council’s Portfolio Leader for Walking and Cycling, Councillor Sarah Free, says it is early days yet.

“Over time, the Council wants to be able to track how the numbers change as safer facilities for people on bikes are developed, the population

grows, and the city eventually has a connected cycle network.

“The counters will give us year-round 24/7 counts, showing seasonal variations, and what’s happening at different times of the day on different routes.

“We regularly get asked for this information so we are keen to make it readily available and easy to understand,” says Sarah.

She says we can expect to see more people – and different types of people – biking once

What do you look for in your smile?

Your journey begins with a visit and chat with us to find out what your winning smile means to you Services we provide: • Implant over-dentures • Repairs/relines • Full set dentures • Acrylic & chrome partial dentures • Snore guards • Specialist referral • Anti-bruxism night guards

• Eye examinations • Wide range of fashion frames • Contact lenses • Saturday morning appointments

10% Student Discount

on examinations and all spectacles

• Diabetic retinal screening

PH 04 387 9000

www.thedenturist.co.nz

RUBBISH COLLECTION

FOR 4 WEEKS WITH ANY 12-MONTH WEEKLY HIRE 2 WEEKS WITH ANY 6-MONTH WEEKLY HIRE (VALID FOR NEW CLIENTS ONLY)

LOWER PRICE INCL. GST

• Supergold discounts

12 Months 6 Months 3 Months 12 Months 6 Months 3 Months

Jayesh Chouhan Optometrist and Contact Lens Practitioner.

(B Optom, TPA Endorsed)

Email: admin@thedenturist.co.nz 40 Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie

FREE

• WINZ preferred supplier • Customer car parking available

Registered Clinical Dental Technician

more safe routes are in place.

“At the moment most of our counters are on the road in lanes shared with general traffic but we are seeing an increase in the number of trips made by bike. We expect this to increase even more once there is a better and safer bike infrastructure in place.”

Sarah says the city’s population is expected to grow to 280,000 people by 2043 so the Council needs to plan for the equivalent of five to six suburbs the size of Karori over the next 25 years.

e: jay@cvo.co.nz www.cvo.co.nz

LYCHGATE CENTRE 100 Riddiford St, Newtown

PH: (04) 939 0304

240 Litre 240 Litre 240 Litre 120 Litre 120 Litre 120 Litre

$340 $214 $129 $241 $137 $89

DAILY WASTE • CHEAP • CONVENIENT • HYGIENIC

Ph 388 7711 Ph 027 450 5700 www.dailywaste.co.nz

Thursday December 13, 2018 A4 Poster.pdf

Berhampore playground set for makeover

Sunday 24th February 2019

1

5/12/18

8:38 AM

5

www.xterrawellington.co.nz

Marine Gardens, Raumati Beach

Join the fun

There’s something for Everyone Triathlon

The Jeypore Street Play Area has been saved from demolition.

P H OTO : Jamie Adams

By Jamie Adams

A playground in Berhampore is set for an upgrade after successful efforts to stop its closure.

Wellington City Council attempted to close the Jeypore Street Play Area in 2014 with plans to create a “super playground” at Wakefield Park.

However local residents and MP Paul Eagle campaigned successfully to save it for families.

Recreation Portfolio holder and Southern Ward Councillor Fleur Fitzsimons, who was not a member of Council at the time, says small well-fenced playgrounds such as Jeypore are very important and well-loved, particularly by toddlers in the area.

“Families in Berhampore and beyond sent a very strong message to the Council that this playground plays an important role in their lives and should be saved.”

Fleur is also pleased the Council is investing in upgrading it.

Duathlon

- Full Course - 1/2 Course - Sprint Distance - Full Course - 1/2 Course - Sprint Distance

Swim/Cycle Event Have a go – Fun Run/Walk

Swim/Run Event Teams

For additional information and online entries visit our website www.kwt.org.nz Email: enquiry@kwt.org.nz | Phone 06 362 6438

“I encourage families to have their say in the upgrade of playgrounds to ensure that the Council understands the views of families who use these playgrounds.”

The woman who led the campaign to save Jeypore St Play Area was Wilhelmina van der Aa, who died in October 2016.

A mother involved in the campaign, Ann Thomson, says Wilhelmina would have been thrilled with the outcome and future plans.

“It’s an important part of our neighbourhood and community and she really pressured the council to keep it as a park,” Ann says.

“What’s great about it is that is fully fenced so kids can’t bolt on to the street.”

The fact it is in a cul-de-sac near Berhampore School also made it important.

“I know teachers take special needs students to the park throughout the day.”

The planned improvements include installation of a wooden play structure with a slide and a climbing wall, and an upgraded swing.

THE BEST RUNNING EVENT IN WELLINGTON

C

M

Y

CM

MY

CY

CMY

K

Sunday - 24th March Sunday - 24th March WEST WIND - MAKARA WIND FARM WEST WIND – MAKARA WIND FARM Sunday - 14th April Sunday -FOREST 14th April THE ORONGORONGOS - RIMUTAKA PARK Saturday 27th April THE ORONGORONGOS - RIMUTAKA FOREST PARK STARLIGHT RUN - WAINUI TRAIL PARK SaturdaySunday - 27th19thApril May AWESOME AKATARAWAS - PARAPARAUMU STARLIGHT RUN - WAINUI TRAIL PARK Sunday 9th June MAD MAKARA - MAKARA PEAK MTB May PARK Sunday - 19th AWESOME AKATARAWAS - PARAPARAUMU Sunday - 9th June MAD MAKARA MAKARA PEAK MTB PARK

1

RACE ONE

RACE TWO

2

RACE THREE

3

RACE FOUR

RACE FIVE

4

5

Christmas at koru hub New Zealand gifts with heart

118 The Parade, Island Bay

koruhub

6

Thursday December 13, 2018

OUT&about

PHOTOS: IZZY DAVIS

Strathmore Park Christmas Festival

Timothy, Ella, and Alicia Jamal enjoy some sausages in bread from the barbecue fundraiser of the women’s touch rugby team.

Families came together to enjoy the Raukawa Community Centre’s Christmas in the Park on Saturday.

The party was in full swing as people joined in the celebration of Christmas and the community came together to organise the event.

The day was filled with performances from local musicians, choirs and dance groups, food from sausage sizzle to chop suey were offered, fun activities including a bike track for the kids and the chance to explore inside a fire

truck. There were also stalls which offered jewellery, clothes, T-shirt design, face paint and knitted items.

Strathmore Park locals took part in the activities throughout the day and joined in with the performers with singing and dancing.

The event was community organised with support from the council. The organisers brought a unique quality to the event and ensured the festival reflected the diverse community it was set in.

The Samoan Dancers entertain the crowd.

Toulata Pala and Gese Tan offer their Aute chop suey for lunch.

Sunday Service 10-11 am 16 December 2018

God the Preserver of Man

The Martin Andrews Duo in action.

How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings.

Psalms 36:7

Sunday Service 10-11 am 16 December 2018 Christmas Carol singing for all accompanied by the pipe organ this Sunday.

Bring yourself, bring a friend, feel the joy of Christmas!

Every Sunday a service open to everyone at the

Christian Science Church 285 Willis St Wellington Parking available 216 Victoria St

SPECIAL OFFER WHILE STOCKS LAST

With every purchase receive a

FREE GIFT

Purchase online at www.bloombagz.co.nz or visit Amadeus Hair, 191a Riddiford Street, Newtown

Bloombagz, garden growing bags made from recycled plastic bottles. Light and transportable, plants thrive in Bloombagz because the roots can breath and the fabric prevents overwatering.

As a result Bloombagz are ideal for people who care for their plants.

Thursday December 13, 2018

7

8

Thursday December 13, 2018

readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Question: In light of some recent high-profile murders, do you feel safe in NZ?

Mary Hart, Island Bay “I feel safe in New Zealand, particularly Wellington. I’ve lived in Auckland and in a big city it’s more likely to happen.

NZ is much safer than other countries.”

Peter Baylis, Island Bay “I do. We have to accept we live in a complicated society with different cultures.

I walk down the street every day and I don’t get harassed.”

LETTERS to the editor

Keryn Hutchens, Upper Hutt “I feel safe. I think you are unlikely to get murdered here. The murders are an aberration. We’ve had crime sprees before.”

Dear Editor: I am disappointed with pedestrian access to the new so-called ‘bus hub’ in Kilbirnie which is operational now. Public transport in the form of buses should be expanded not just be reorganized.

In an expanded service there needs to be direct access from pedestrian safe areas such as the Kilbirnie shops to the ‘hub’.

Perhaps Paul Franken’s suggestion (CSN,

LAUNDROMATS

BERHAMPORE-NEWTOWN 195 RINTOUL ST 7 DAYS: Open 24 Hours Dry up to 14kg WASH 2 MINK from $4 in only 25 BLANKETS OR DUVETS FOR minutes! Save Time ONLY $8 & Electricity

WASH & DRY ALL YOUR LAUNDRY IN UNDER 1 HOUR from

4.00 WASH $4.00 DRY

Nov 22) of a covered walkway would suffice by encouraging pedestrians to relax into that route in any kind of weather and also get the attention of vehicle drivers.

Or perhaps a pedestrian bridge would be in order.

The evident lack of interest in this need by ‘the designers and carry-outers’ Mr Franken refers to, whoever they are, is characterised by Mr Franken using a

• Fast Dryers • Sports Gear • Duvets • Mink Blankets • Bedding • Washers • Domestic Laundry

Other Locations: Paraparaumu • Newlands • Waterloo • Lower Hutt • Johnsonville • Silverstream • Levin

www.liquidlaundromats.co.nz

Dear Editor, Mayor Lester and WCC councillors who are responsible for the underlying agendas and deliberately working against the ratepayers’ wishes have no integrity - they sold out to big-business long ago.

Mayor Lester ascribes himself as a civic engineer specialist in deciding to impose his own personal version for the Island Bay cycleway, rather than accepting the residents’ preferred option E. With the impending gentrification of Newtown under our ‘do nothing’ mayor for the ratepayers and citizens, Lester’s big-business capitalist system is now out to make lots of money by transforming old Newtown into a modern upper working-class suburb under

Come and Join us for a

Fun Nativity Service Looking for an Accountant Look Local!

Count On Us to save you time and money

There will be card making, decoration making, tree decorating, a spontaneous drama, singing and a story.

It will be fun for the whole family (we promise)!

December 16th 9.30am All Saints Church 90 Hamilton Road, Hataitai We also have the following services: 23 Dec 9.30am - Love 24 Dec 9.30pm - “Midnight Mass” 25 Dec 9.30am - Christmas Day

Call Peter now for an obligation Free Chat 387 8113 1/13 Bay Road, Kilbirnie, Wellington www.countonus.co.nz

little-known verb, concubination, which the CSN rejects. Now my American dictionary has the noun, concubinage, and the adjective, concubinary, but no verb form.

However, I think we should give Mr Franken credit for a logical construction of such a verb, concubination, meaning the creation of an illegitimate relationship.

Richard Keller Wellington

Mayor and councillors have sold out

SELF SERVICE

City Expertise and Suburban Pricing Trusts and Estates Management and Advice Business Reporting and Analysis Tax Returns Xero & Myob Installation & Support Rental Properties Contractors Tradesmen – Plumbers, Builders, Electricians, etc…

Corey McCullough, Island Bay “It’s still a pretty safe country, there’s just a few bad eggs.

Murders have always been happening but people are more aware now because of social media.”

Appropriate word for illegitimate hub

LIQUID

$

Peter Wilkinson, Southgate “There is more chance of me getting run over than murdered.

I’ve been all over the world and I think here is safest along with Switzerland. I’m more scared when riding my bike.”

Continued on page 12.

Letters on issues of community interest are welcomed. Guidelines are that they should be no longer than 150 words.

They must be signed and a street address provided to show good faith, even if a nom de plume is provided for publication.

The editor reserves the right to abridge letters or withhold unsuitable letters from publication.

Send or fax them to the address on page two, or email them to news@wsn.co.nz. Please note that your name and street address must also be provided in e mails.

HOT WATER & EXTRA LARGE WASHERS AVAILABLE

Peter Chapman, Brooklyn “I do. I just think we have a good caring community and we look after each other.

There’s possibly a nasty element in certain parts but mostly it’s pretty safe.”

Also, keep an eye out for our changing Nativity Scene in our window. You can see it from the Moxham Ave entrance.

the guise of ‘progress’ and why Kiwibank abandoned Newtown for Kilbirnie.

Newtown is thriving, but rents will rise beyond the workers ‘and the beneficiaries’ means and leases for the small shop operators will force them out. Despite the Shelly Bay demise, the undemocratic changes about to be imposed upon Newtown will see Kilbirnie flourish with the onset of a Light Rail hub via a duplicate Mt Victoria tunnel.

As a senior, I have been deprived throughout my life more cunningly under Labour governments than National. Winston Peters should seriously question his coalition partner’s gentrification of Newtown before they destroy it.

Martin Beck Mornington

Snoopy’s death a reminder of past cat Dear Editor; I dropped a few tears over the item (CSN Dec 6) about Snoopy the friendly pussycat who lived to be aged 16, only to be killed when a car ran over her. I’m an unashamed aleurophile, even though two of the six men who have agreed to carry my dead body to the grave are aleurophobes who hate cats! I suppose the brute-beasts have no life after this one; but I can’t help hoping that perhaps they might have one after all.

I still have fond memories of Muffie, my loved she-cat who also died at age 16 in mid-1979; so it would be nice to think she’s

gone to “the great cat-basket in the sky”. In cold weather she would burrow under the counterpane and sleep with me, but not in the warm weather times: you can always trust a cat to find the warmest spot or the coolest spot as occasion requires! She was a keen catcher of mice and birds all her life; but I guess this wouldn’t be allowed in the after-life.

At any rate, it’s good to know that Snoopy had so many friends at the bus-stop in Kingston - the tributes to her were very touching.

H Westfold, Miramar

Thursday December 13, 2018

Phantom Hover WAS $209

NOW $ 169 www.lifestylesports.co.nz Massive range of Havaianas

Kids

$29

Kids

$30

Kids

$30

$35

$39

$35

$40

9

10

Thursday December 13, 2018

Adidas Corporate Logo Deals

www.lifestylesports.co.nz

Brand 47

Exclusive in NZ

WAS $209

NOW 169 $

Thursday December 13, 2018

Merrell Jungle Moc

Merrell Jungle Moc

$179

$179

Merrell Around Town

Merrell Adhera

$175

Merrell Concert

$175

$140

www.lifestylesports.co.nz Softball/baseball cleat

Comes in both metal and rubber

$159 NB 247

NB 247

NB 247

NB 247

NB 247

NB 247

$110

$110

NB 247

$110

NB 247

$110

$110

$110

$110

$110

11

12

Thursday December 13, 2018

Chance to get close to world’s largest rodents Wellington Zoo is introducing a new opportunity for patrons to get close with the world’s largest rodent next year.

The zoo’s Close Encounters are an opportunity for visitors to meet an animal up close; learn more about them and what they can do to help them in the wild.

Participants also help Wellington Zoo in their work to save animals, as 10 percent of proceeds go towards projects supported by its Conservation Fund.

The capybara, a type of rodent mammal native to South America, shares similar features with the guinea pig and eats mostly grass, water plants and vegetables, as well as fruit and tree bark.

Although capybaras are not endangered, their population has been affected by hunting and habitat loss and it is related to the tamarin, which is endangered.

Wellington Zoo actively supports a range of conservation projects to help save animals that live in the same habitat as the capybara.

The zoo is home to three adult

Vara, one of the female capybaras in captivity at Wellington Zoo, tends to one of Iapa’s babies. PHOTO: Supplied

capybaras: One male, Pepe, and females Vara and Iapa, who is the mother to its most recent litter of babies.

Visitors can now purchase a Close

LETTERS to the editor

Encounter Gift Card at the zoo, or via the zoo website, for a unique Christmas gift. Tickets are $99pp and bookings will be available in early 2019.

This December, Women’s Refuge is launching its nationwide Give a Gift appeal asking Kiwis to donate presents to children affected by domestic violence this Christmas.

New Zealand has one of the highest rates of family violence in the world, with an act of domestic violence reported every five and a half minutes.

Over Christmas, sadly these numbers surge and it can be common for women who are fleeing from violent relationships to leave with nothing, which includes the presents under the tree.

In December last year, Women’s Refuge’s 40 safe houses around the country were at capacity, with 1629 children among the occupants.

Women’s Refuge hopes to raise awareness of the Give a Gift campaign and the plight of women and children facing Christmas in a refuge, so that ultimately everyone in their care can celebrate and open a gift on Christmas.

Local community members can contribute to Give a Gift – which runs until December 21– by purchasing a gift and dropping it off at their local Bunnings store in its dedicated collection boxes.

Big or small, by donating a gift locals will help bring joy these holidays.

Continued from page 8.

Hubs not serving their intended purposes

Width of cycleway nightmare for buses

Dear Editor, The Hub should be the centre of things around which everything is ordered. Surely not the thing you are married to!

Now we have a sports hub, right on the edge of the playing fields, adjacent to residential houses.

Bus hubs, placed further away from the shops with not even a toilet or a tap. I suppose it is correctly named a bus hub if its central purpose is to save money for the bus owner.

Education hubs are now proposed; the centre of education should be the pupil, not a group of unrelated school-boards to hold a central Christmas party!

Paul Franken Strathmore Park

Dear Editor, Driving up Crawford Road into Constable Street the other day I was shocked at the massive impact the new and ugly cycleway has made on these two roads. It’s simply ridiculous!

The width of the cycleway is unacceptable given the width of the roads. It’s obvious buses will not be able to pass each other - what a nightmare in the making! It’s also clear that the congestion this stupidity will cause will do absolutely nothing for our carbon emissions goal! What are the roading engineers thinking?

The WCC Councillors and all council officers involved should all hang their heads in shame.

Daniel Nixon Vogeltown

Let’s open community centres to homeless Dear Editor We agree with wise old Rose Wu (CSN Dec 6) saying that Kilbirnie urgently needs a drinking-inpublic-street liquor ban in Bay Road shopping area.

Yes and what a good idea to open up some community centres overnight to house the homeless, feed, shower and give a hot meal.

Let’s open the Newtown, Kilbirnie and Karori centres to solve the problems.

Councillor Dawson and his evergrowing number of Council staff shut down the well-attended ‘drop in centres’ so we have the group of people who had somewhere to go now just have no destination so

Women’s Refuge launches gift appeal

they roam the streets and get into trouble.

The director of community centres (Jenny Rain) could be rostered on call/duty to help sort out the downtrodden lost minority ethnic group that was over-run by the Pakeha.

Meantime a liquor ban would allow us law-abiding ratepayers to see the woman Maori Santa at Farmers and purchase our clothes made in Bangladesh. Hohoho.

Merry Christmas to readers and the best local paper ever!

Tim Dalman Te Aro

Cyclists are easy target of systemic problem Dear Editor, It is totally outrageous and wrongheaded of Hoffman and Green in their CSN letter of December 6 to blame Patrick Morgan for cyclist behaviour at Island Bay. Patrick is doing his best to promote safe cycling through cycleways and other initiatives like teaching school kids, including my daughter, about safe cycling. How ridiculous to blame him. I guess he is an easy target and it’s a kind of shoot-the-messenger mentality.

What critics need to see is that we have a systemic problem with the growth of motorised traffic over decades trying to fit on the tight and narrow Wellington streets. Walking,

cycling and dare I say double-decker buses are all solutions to maximising limited road space.

All these solutions involve everyone having a willingness to share space and avoid inflammatory claims like “The Parade has become increasingly dangerous for pedestrians”. In Berhampore we still have cyclists riding on the footpath because there is no cycleway. Every morning Island Bay cyclists ride along their cycleway to Berhampore but when they get here half of them take their lives in their hands by riding on the road while the other half, mainly school kids, go onto the footpath.

Curtis Nixon, Berhampore

Public’s views supported Dear Editor, I agree with Irene Studman (CSN December 6) about the proposed arena on the waterfront - the money should go to

sports facilities for the northern suburbs.

I also think Ferne McKenzie has a very good point about parking needed for tradespeople,

skips, visitors, and people with children.

Helena Hutchinson Berhampore

Moving Airport Flyer’s bus stop illogical Dear Editor, Regarding the new Wellington Airport bus hub (CSN, Dec 6), I do not understand why [transport] manager Pippi Kettle thinks moving the Flyer stop from 25 metres from baggage claim to 150 metres away going by all the taxis (who clearly want the bus-business) is a good decision.

Anybody who takes the bus

will agree that the bus stop should be at the closest possible location from baggage claim. We do not have five buses lining up that need all that parking space: we have one bus (and it rarely arrives on time, by the way).

I do not understand why almost every decision made regarding buses worsens service. Obviously, as people have said at local meetings about bus changes,

those making decisions do not ride the bus.

The Airport Flyer should go down Tirangi Road, enter the airport the “back way” (the faster way), drop passengers off at the departure/check-in level, and then pick up passengers as close to baggage claim as possible.

Steve Behrendt Kilbirnie

Thursday December 13, 2018

13

14

Thursday December 13, 2018

Advertising Feature

School Holidays A beautiful cottage to visit Nairn Street Cottage is one of the first houses built in Wellington. It represents three generations of one of Wellington’s originally settlers; the Wallis Family. The bedroom has hand-carved furniture

by William Wallis who built the house while the kitchen tells a tale of the 1970s with a Kenwood Mixer and ‘It’s in the Bag’ showing in black & white on the

tiny TV that was a classic part of New Zealander’s introduction to technology back then. This is a great place to bring the whole whanau and start to share stories about your history and how things have changed over the years. Tours are on the hour during weekends. Visit museumswellington. org.nz for full details.

Art as part of history In celebration with Suffrage 125, Wellington Museum presents ‘A Cameo Appearance,’ by Genevieve Packer, a newly-commissioned, textile-based artwork celebrating the achievements of 31 prominent New Zealand women running through 2019. Set against the

backdrop of the all-male Wellington Harbour Board, ‘A Cameo Appearance’ questions the acknowledgement and recognition of women within the wider history of New Zealand. For more information visit: www.museumswellington.org.nz

Joy is... Holidays!

Visit us online at

Cookstraitnews.co.nz

This December, Capital E is bringing the wild wonderment of children’s imagination to life with Joy is…

Holidays!

Visit the dream house (designed

by Wellington tamariki), make joyful decorations and hang them in the

trees, wrap and un-wrap gifts, and set the table for a Christmas dinner.

Hunt for Joy across the world, play games, and send a letter to the North Pole in this merry celebration experience. Open November 26 – December 22. Free entry! Suits ages 3+

YMCA Holiday Camps We have exciting programmes on offer for kids and youth these holidays.

Pioneers Day Camp for 5-7 years, Explorers Day & Residential Camp for 8-9 years plus Discoverers Residential

Camp for 10-12 years. Canoeing, High Ropes, Archery, Bouncy Castle & more! Duke of Edinburgh also available! www.ymcawellington.org.nz

YMCA Holiday Programmes Our friendly, fully-trained team can’t wait to have your kids on board. All our centres operate from 7.30 until 6pm.

With seven centres Wellington wide finding care has never been easier!

Activities include Bowlerama, Zoo, Science Day & more!

For more info & to book, visit our website. w w w.y m c a w e l l i n g t o n . o r g . n z

50

Thursday December 13, 2018

15

%

Sleep Easy this Christmas

OFF

with our Everyday Dream Prices

SERENITY 6 SERENITY Carnation

CLASSIC Sigma EVERYDAY DREAM PRICES

Queen Size Mattress & Base

ONLY $749

Queen Size Mattress & Base

NOW $1,699

50% OFF

WAS $3,399 Medium Feel Designed for lasting performance featuring a Duracoil spring, which provides robust support for all shapes and sizes.

Firm Feel

CLASSIC Gamma Delta PopPop Up Up

SERENITY Dahlia

& Base King Single Single Mattress Trundle Set

$1199 ONLY $999

Conforms to your shape for a more comfortable sleep resulting in less pressure points on the body.

EVERYDAY DREAM PRICES

WONDEREST Easy Sleeper Queen Size Mattress & Base

ONLY $999

OFF

Medium Feel The sleeping surface features Fibre Nuvole and Dreamfoam® comfort layers. A solid foam edge provides support right to the edge.

EVERYDAY DREAM PRICES

SERENITY Jasmine Queen Size Mattress & Base

NOW $1,899

50% OFF

WAS $3,799

Medium Firm Feel Independent pocket springs respond to your individual weight and shape and help to minimise partner disturbance. Support foam will prolong the life of the mattress and provide pressure relieving comfort.

Plush Feel Low partner disturbance, NZ Made, Pocket Spring system to help relieve pressure points giving you a more restful sleep.

MORE

NZ'S LARGEST

RANGE OF

INSTORE

DEALS

BEDS

BEDSRUS.CO.NZ

NOW $1,769

50%

WAS $3,549

Great space saver, perfect for kids or spare rooms. King Single top mattress with additional single trundle mattress, ideal for sleepovers or guests.

JOIN ONLINE TODAY

Queen Size Mattress & Base

VIP

SLEEP SOCIETY

PH 473 5505 STORE NAME BEDS R US 190 THORNDON Address Details QUAY, THORNDON Ph: 00 123 4567

*Offer valid from 27/11/18 to 25/12/18 or while stocks last. Up to 50% offers applies to selected beds only. Excludes Everyday Dream prices, clearance stock and not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Prices as marked.

See in store for details. We reserve the right to correct errors or misprints. 10 year warranty applies unless otherwise specified. 30 day Comfort Guarantee Ts and Cs apply. *12 MONTHS INTEREST FREE OFFER: Q Card and Latitude Financial Services lending criteria, fees, terms & conditions apply.

The Team at Beds R Us Thorndon would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

16

Thursday December 13, 2018

Advertising Feature

Talk to your

LOCAL PHARMACY

Kelvin Lim Pharmacist

HATAITAI PHARMACY

4 Moxham Avenue, Hataitai, Ph: 386-1647

Tara, Verina-Mary, Ray, Shahlaa, and Yousr Opening Hours Mon - Fri 8.30am-6pm | Tues 9am-6pm Sat 9.30am-12.30pm

139 Riddiford St, Newtown. Ph 389-4600 Fax: 389-4655

Linda Choie, Alana Pretoria, Androulla Kotrotsos (owner) and Victoria Pickering.

Pharmacy Kilbirnie (Formerly Baycourt Pharmacy)

26 Bay Road, Kilbirnie Ph: 387-3939 • Fax: 387-3935 Parking at the rear in Kilbinie Plaza

SUN SAFETY AND SKIN CANCER Summer is a great time of year when we can all really enjoy the sun and the time spent outdoors. However if we are not careful the sun can be harmful and the ultraviolet radiation can burn the skin, age it prematurely damage our eyes and cause skin cancer.

Levels of skin cancer in New Zealand are among the highest in the world and we all need to protect our skin when we are exposed to the sun. Skin cancer can affect people with fair skin as well as those with darker skin. People who have had a skin cancer before, have an increased risk of developing other skin cancers and those people with a family history of skin cancer also have increased risk of getting skin cancer.

Being sunburnt often and being severely sunburnt can increase your risks of getting skin cancer, but the majority of skin cancer can be prevented by sun protection. Skin cancers can be detected early by regular self skin examination that you can do and also skin checks by a trained health practitioner.

Look out for any new growths, changes in size and shape or if you are at all concerned, then get it checked out by a health professional without delay.

There are a number of things that we can do for sun safety and skin protection when we go out into the sun. Slip slop, slap and wrap reminds us to slip on a long sleeved shirt, trousers or skirt or slip into the shade, slop on plenty of broad-spectrum sunscreen of at least SPF30, slap on a wide brimmed hat or cap with flaps and wrap on those sunglasses to protect your eyes.

The time of day that we are out in the sun makes a big difference to the amount of UV exposure we get as well. Try and spend time in the sun in the early morning or later in the afternoon when the UV radiation levels are lower. The UV index lets you know the UV exposure so it helps you to avoid harmful exposure to UV radiation and can be found at the following sites: https://www.sunsmart.org.nz/sun-protection-alert https://www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/ online-services/uv-and-ozone/forecasts and https://www.niwa.co.nz/node/111461 If you need to be out in the sun when the UVI is 3 and higher then do practice being sun smart and use all the SunSmart steps.

There are many different sunscreens that are available to be purchased from your pharmacy and it can be difficult to know what to choose.

Options available include lotions and aerosols and they all need to be applied as instructed to get sun protection. Broadspectrum sunscreens are active against both UVA and UVB radiation and it is recommended to use these as well as sunscreens that are at least SPF30.

Talk to your Self Care pharmacist for a recommendation that’s going to be right for you, especially if you have sensitive skin.

How much sunscreen do I need to use?

Self Care Pharmacists recommend at least one teaspoon for each arm and leg and half a teaspoon for your face, nose, ears and neck.

More people get sunburned on their face and neck than any other part of the body, so apply well in these areas and don’t forget

the ears! Apply sunscreen 15 to 20 minutes before going outdoors and re-apply often (every 2 hours). This needs to be done even if it isn’t sunny, as the sunscreen gets worn off, or rubbed off and comes off after swimming.

Look after your sunscreens.

Just like our skin, sunscreens ‘age’ in the sun and heat, and their UV-protecting properties can be destroyed. So don’t leave them in the sun, or in the car’s glove box for too long. Also, don’t keep them past their ‘use by’ dates as they do lose their effectiveness.

Sometimes you might be prescribed medication that can cause you to be more sensitive to the sun than you usually would be. This photosensitivity can result in intense sunburn with redness, pain and skin peeling.

Photosensitivity does depend on the dose of the drug as well as the amount of sun exposure, so if these are at a minimum then the photosensitivity may not occur.

However, if the photosensitivity does occur and is severe it may be necessary to stop or change the drug. Drugs that can cause photosensitivity reactions include some common antibiotics, such as tetracycline, doxycycline, some diuretics, and some anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and diclofenac Talk to your Self Care pharmacist to find out more information on these drugs which you may have been prescribed.

They can also give you a Self Care fact card on Sun Safety and Skin Cancer to help you be SunSmart and enjoy the sun safely.

Speak to us for your Self-care needs Pam - MPS ANZCP Dip BuAd Sacha - B Pharm MPS

Meet the team...

Melanie- B Pharm MPS

Pharmacists

from left:

Kim, Phil, Sarah, Casey, Simon, Harry and Monique.

Unichem Cuba Mall Open 7 days

Opening Hours

122 Cuba Mall • P: 384 6856 • F: 382 9180

Mon - Fri 8.30am-5pm

Unichem Courtenay Place Pharmacy

33 Rintoul Street, Newtown

Open: Mon - Sat

100 Courtenay Place • P: 384 8333 • F: 385 6863

Ph 04-380-0818 Fax: 04-380-0828

KILBIRNIE PHARMACY Caring for you & your family

504 Broadway, Strathmore

On Bay Road, Ph: 387 9254

Hours: Mon-Fri 8.30-6.00pm & Sat 9am-1pm

kilbirniepharmacy@xtra.co.nz

Ph: 388-6593 Fax: 388-6594

Thursday December 13, 2018 Wednesday November 18, 2015

17 13

Sirens blare among Christmas cheer as police deliver gifts To Lease

Firewood

SECURE STORAGE 14sqm $42 per week.

Wainui Self Storage, Waiu St, 0274805150.

Composed by Tony Watling 11th. Nov. 2015

By Jamie Adams

A convoy of police crews, including the Armed Offenders Squad and dog handlers, con-

FACT OF THE D AY

Trades and Services

2m seasoned pine $180 4m Split pine store for next winter $330

Large Kindling $13 theBagsChristmas. the huge police contingent had collected from staff at FORgifts ALLthey ELECTRICAL repairsPolice and College, Large Bags Dry Pine/ arrived to deliver col- New Zealand Wellington Hospital Foun$14 chair Bill Day says hardwood mix Nationalwith Headquarters, lected as partinstallations of a Christmas toy Police dation by top-qualifi ed electrician the Lower Island patients, families and staff appeal for therecord hospital’s patients. of over fifty yearsand of giving locals North the Free Delivery in Wainui The initiative saw boxes of gifts and Upper South Island police were overwhelmed by the lowest cost “around-the-clock” service, just stations. The appeal also gifts and police visit.

Our summer pools were built by us. phone 977-8787 or 021-0717-674 or email company included private “A big part of what we do Blends in well did cause no fuss. donations. is focused creating jack.powell@outlook.com Trades andaround Services With hydro slide will cause a splash.

Seventeen police cars lined moments of happiness for kids And to it many people dash. outside the entrance to in hospital – thing that allow Situation up Vacant Through native bush we twist and wiggle. the children’s hospital, with them to just be kids.

From the children brings a giggle. constables and AOS mem“We’re very grateful to DanSevern days a week the place is open. bers then delivering the gifts iel and NZ Police for bringing Hot summer days we all are hopen! throughout the children’s so much joy to children and hospital wards. their parents,” Bill says.

Children and staff got to “The Police have always meet the offi cers, wear their been strongSt supporters over 46 Waione Petone Public Notice hats and check out the inside thePh:years andOpen thisSatis9am-3pm the first 5685989 of the police cars and mobile time they’vecpa done something Formerly spares police unit. really big to the extent of Wainuiomata Squash Club Senior constable Daniel this.”

Funeral Director AGM Ralph of the NZ Police ColActing charge nurse manN lege says police were motivat- ager Lynne Cowley says preed by a desire to put a smile senting gifts for her patients 7.00pm on the faces of those who were would make Christmas for Monday 30th November too unwell to be at home for them a little more bearable.

At the Clubrooms

verged on Wellington Children’s Hospital on Monday.

Don’t worry, as despite the cacophony of sirens, there was no major criminal incident. Rather

POOLS OF SATISFACTION

0220831542

51. J.K. Rowling chose the unusual name ‘Hermione’ Corner of Main Road so young and Moohan Streets, Wainuiomata girls wouldn’t Eight of Newtown School’s 10 recipients of the Ray White Scholarship Awards courtesy of agents Lance be teased Williams (right) and Sonya Jivan (fifth from right). PHOTO: Jamielocal Adamsnews Bringing for being nerdy! to the community

opening especially for...

Newtown School biggest beneficiary of sports scholarships Situation Vacant

A solid

By Jamie Adams

back to primary school children but also to do with sports.

Newtown School pupils have proven to be very “We know lots of things have cost but getting keen when it comes to getting active, with 10 of them involved in sports is such an awesome thing to do and successfully applying for sports scholarships thanks to we’re lucky in New Zealand we have great outdoor the generosity of a local real estate agency. places to do these sports.”

Lance Williams and Sonya Jivan of Ray White KilMore than 100 scholarships have been distributed to birnie visited the school on Monday to award the $250 schools in the past five years that it has run.

Join us with family and friends for a scholarships in Lance’s name to the 10 lucky recipients.

This year’s 26 scholarships also went to pupils at evening of food and wine Lance, who was a teacher at Newtown School 15 Kahurangi, St Francis de Sales, Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie Deliverers Required in menu includes fresh oysters, roast lamb, delicious years ago, says every house he sells creates a sports and Te Kura Kaupapa schools. salads and dessert scholarship for a child in the eastern and southern Lance says the reason Newtown benefited the most Area 1: Momona, Mohaka, Kawatiri Kaponga. suburbs. was because it had the highest number of parents who Monday 24th December “We have had people who have done swimming applied for them. ***Bookings are essential*** lessons, bought new sports gear, gone on trips with When asked what they planned to use their scholthem,” Lance says. arships to get involved with, the childrenApplications mentioned call (04) 388 55 66 View the 5:30pm & 7.30pm sittings are available at our recruitment Wainuiomata News “What’s really important to us is that we can give netball, soccer and skateboarding. office or at the security gate based in the

Wainuiomata Newspaper Deliverers

WANTED

Contact Sandra on 587 1660 accounts@wsn.co.nz

CROSSWORD CROSSWORD C R O S S W O R D Puzzle CROSSWORD CROSSWORD

onlineset www.wsn.co.nz $50 per person menu

Ngauranga George in Wellington.

Contact Barry 472 7987 or 021 276 6654.

By Russell Russell McQuarters McQuarters By By Russell McQuarters

By Russell McQuarters 41.Illness Illness(7) (7) 53.Insight Insight(11) (11) ACROSS 41.

53.

ACROSS 43.

Gaunt (7) 54.Angry Svelte (7) 1.Contract Contract (7) (7) (abbr) (3) 51.

(5) ACROSS 43.

Gaunt (7) 54.

Svelte (7) 1. (abbr) (3) 51. Angry (5) ACROSS 44.

Finecotton cotton fabric(6) (6) Harshquestioning questioning (5,6) (5,6) 33.

Sphere (3)(3) fabric 52.52.

Solidify by by cooling (7)(7) 1.5.Harsh Result (5-6) 44.

Fine 5.

33.

Sphere Solidify cooling 1. Result (5-6) 45.

Bewilder (6) DOWN 11.

Large Eskimo boat (5) 38.

U.S. horse race; ...

Derby (8)(8) 53.

Anaesthetic (5) 7. Scoundrel (7) 45.

Bewilder (6) DOWN 11.

Large Eskimo boat (5) 38. U.S. horse race; ...

Derby 53. Anaesthetic (5) 7. Scoundrel (7) 46.

Muffled (5)(8)(8) Nestling pigeon (5) 12.11.

Scrap (7) 40.

Restrained 54.

Humbleness (7)(7) 11.

Pulls (5) 46.

Muffled (5) 1.1.

Nestling pigeon (5) 12.

Scrap (7) 40.

Restrained 54.

Humbleness Pulls (5) 47.

Uncanny (5) Brag (7) (11) 13.12.

Drive (5) 42.

Casual (7)(7) 55.

Friendship 12.

Deviousness (7) (7) 47.

Uncanny (5) 2.2.

Brag (7) 13.

Drive (5) 42.

Casual 55.

Friendship (11) Deviousness 49.

Comfort (5) 3.

Ancient Scandanavian 14.

Of plants (9) 44.

Annual calendar (7)(7) 13.

Excellent (5) 49.

(5) 3. Ancient Scandanavian 14. 13.

Of plants (9) (5) 44.Comfort Annual calendar Excellent raider(6) (6) 15.14.

High-spirited (9) 46.46.

Scoffs (6)(6) DOWN 14.

Alert (9) (9) (9) Scoffs DOWN Alert raider 15.

High-spirited Song writer(words) (8) 16.15.

Pointed remark(4) (4) 47.47.

Manservant (6)(6) 1.

(5) 15.

So (9) (9)remark Manservant 1.

Sound (5) So 4.4.Sound Song writer(words) (8) 16.

Pointed (7) 17.16.

Flightless bird(7) (7) 48.48.

Form of of expression (5)(5) 2.

(11) 16.

Directs (6)bird Form expression 2.Acrobat Sent (11) Directs (6) 5.5.Sent Acrobat (7) 17.

Flightless Silly (5) 19.18.

Upper-arm muscles(6) (6) 49.49.

Water vapour (5)(5) 3.

(8) 18.

Skull (7) (7) muscles Water vapour 3.

Shy (8) Skull 6.6.Shy Silly (5) 19.

Upper-arm Bypass (6)revenue 23.21.

Recieve (6)(4) 50.50.

Gambol (5)(5) 4. public revenue (6)(6) 21.

Disorder (4) Gambol 4.

Of public Disorder Solution 7.7.Of Bypass (6) 23.

Recieve (6) SOLUTION 8.

Outbreak(disease) (8) 26.

Month (7) SOLUTION 5.

Turn outwards (5)(5)(8) 23.

Racket (3) 5.

Turn outwards 23.

Racket (3) 8. Outbreak(disease) 26. Month (7) last week – 6 9, December For For October April 6, 2003 2004 SOLUTION SOLUTION Substitute (11) 29.25.

Boundary (4) 6.

(7)(11) 25.

Take by by sips (3) (3) 6.

Constrict (7) Take sips For For October April 9,6, 2003 2004 9.9.Constrict Substitute 29.

Boundary (4) Solution last week, 11 November For For July April 28, 9, 2003 2004 For For July April 28, 9, 2003 2004 10.

Splendour (5) 30.

Spread hay(to air) (3) 7.

Has high morals (8) 27.

Stake (4) 7.

Has high morals (8) 27.

Stake (4) 10. Splendour (5) 30. Spread hay(to air) (3) Obvious (7) 32.28.

Pallid (3) (7) (7) 8.16.

Reduce (6)(7) 8.Obvious Reduce (6) 28.

Artlessness Artlessness 16.

32.

Pallid (3) 18.

Sing (5) 34.

Wrong (4) 9.

Sanction 30.

Low chair; Chaise ...

(6) 9.

Sanction (7) 30.

Low chair; Chaise ...

(6) 18. Sing (5) (7) 34. Wrong (4) 20.

Breastbone (7) 35.32.

Sea god...

(7) 10.

Audacity Expert; ... hand 10.

Audacity (5)(5)(7) 32.

Expert; hand (3) (3) 20.

Breastbone 35.

Sea god (7) 16.

Arrange in steps Strange 21.

Suitable (3) 36.33.

Inprovoked (6) 16.

Arrange in(3) steps (7)(7) 33.

Strange (3) (3) 21.

Suitable 36.

Inprovoked (6) 17.

‘Old Blue Eyes’ Frank ...(7) Zealous 22.

Not many (3) 39.34.

Fruit (6) (6) (6) 17.

‘Old Blue Eyes’ Frank ...(7) 34.

Zealous 22.

Not many (3) 39.

Fruit (6) 19.

Competitor In name brisk time(music) (7) 24.

Formal (11) 40.35. name Frederick Austerlitz 19.

Competitor (5)(5) 35.

InReal brisk time(music) (7) 24.

Formal (11) 40.

Real Frederick Austerlitz 20.

N.Z. Prime Minister 36.

U.S. state (4) 20.

N.Z. Prime Minister 36.dancer; U.S. state (4)...

25. gallon hat (3) dancer; Fred ...(7) (7) 25. ......gallon hat (3) Fred 1975-84 Sir Robert Biblical vessel Sir Robert ... ...

(7)(7) 37.

Biblical vessel (3) (3) 27.1975-84 Quotes (5) 42.37.

Fraud (4) 27.

Quotes (5) 42.

Fraud (4) 22.

Boils (7) (3) 39.

Curve (3) (9) 22.

Boils (7) 39.

Curve (3) 28.

Uncooked 46.

Small portrait 28.24.

Uncooked (3) 46. 41.

Small portrait (9) Catch Cupid 24.

(3)(3) 41.

Cupid (4) (4) 31.Catch Moisture (3) 48.Apathetic Apathetic (9) 31.

Moisture (3) 48.

(9) 26.

Group of whales 43.

Exposed to air (7) 26. ofsleep whales 43.

Exposed to air (7) 33.Group Shortsleep (3) (3)(3) 50.Sandal Sandal(5) (5) 33.

Short (3) 50.

29.

Topic 45.

Female relatives 29.

Topic (5)(5) 45.

Female relatives (6) (6) 37.

Choke (8) 51.

Bounty (7) 37.31.

Choke (8) guest (4-7) 51. 48.

Bounty (7) Uninvited endless time(Lat) 31. guest 48.

An endless time(Lat) (9) 38.Uninvited Complaints (8)(4-7) 52.NZ NZAn novelist, Janet ...(5) (5)(9) 38.

Complaints (8) 52. novelist, Janet ...

Deoxyribonucleic acid handed people(inf) Deoxyribonucleic acid 49. 49.

LeftLeft handed people(inf) (9) (9) 32.32.

18

Thursday December 13, 2018

CLASSIFIEDS

Children from five Wellington schools pose with letters on Island Bay beach to show their love of Taputeranga Reserve after 10 years. PHOTO: Te Kawa Robb.

Taputeranga’s 10 years celebrated in style

By Jamie Adams

About 300 pupils from five Wellington schools – including four from the southern suburbs – turned up at Shorland Park to hold a special presentation on Friday.

They took to the beach to pose for a photo to show their love for the Taputeranga Marine Reserve which turned 10 years old last week.

Classes undertook several ecoaware activities at Shorland Park for much of the day, including turning T-shirts into shopping

bags, identifying marine creatures, sorting out recycling and learning about the regulations of the marine reserve.

Prizes were also drawn for competition winners that included free tours of the reserve and Somes Island.

“We did our first snorkel the first year Taputeranga was established.

We didn’t use this one initially, we used Kapiti. But because the reserves got better every year, now it’s a no-brainer as it’s right on our doorstep,” director Zoe Studd says.

The event was organised by Mountains to Sea, a charitable trust dedicated to educating the public about their local environment by getting them participating in a number of programmes.

By coincidence 2018 has also been the 10th anniversary of the trust, which has led 20,000 people, including students from 41 schools, through their programmes since July 2008.

As victims of their own success, the trust is fundraising for a new trailer and second-hand truck to cater for the extra demand for

snorkelling equipment.

While the organisation did receive more than $242,000 in funding from corporate and charitable sponsors over the 2017/18 financial year, nearly two-thirds of it went into programme delivery and hosting events.

“We work out of our trailer.

We go all around the Wellington region. We don’t have an office, we just turn up, open up our trailer and through wetsuits out,” Zoe says.

“Currently I throw everything into the back of my car and

while the Wellington team has a dedicated trailer we don’t have one for any of the other teams.”

Mountains To Sea’s 10th anniversary will be celebrated further this Saturday with a free public snorkelling event at Princess Bay this Saturday from 10am-3pm.  The Pledge Me fundraising campaign finishes on December 19 with the aim of raising $20,000. They are currently at about $15,0000. To makle a donation go to pledgeme.co.nz/ projects/5866.

Classifieds WHATS ON...

The Community Noticeboard is for non-profit organisations. For $15.00 you can publish up to 25 words.

No AGMS, sporting notices or special meetings. Community Notices must be pre-paid.

Call into our office, phone (04) 587 1660 or email classifieds@wsn.co.nz

Kilbirnie Craft Market for Christmas Gifts

Trades & Services

Wanted to Rent

GUTTERS CLEANED: Steve 528 3331 / HANDYMAN reliable, no job too small, we’ll fix them all. Ph 021-2986712

1 BEDROOM self contained flat for two young professionals working full-time. Sean, a chef and Maggie, in communications. Move in asap, references available. Please call 0278159135

BUILDING CONSENT Approval and

Trades & Services

0272 377 020

house plans. Free estimates provided. Call Doug on 934-1398.

Rubbish & GReen PAINTING TEAM with own waste Removal Free quotations

scaffolding

Ph Sam on

Exc. Refs. Comp Rates. All work guaranteed.

FREE QUOTES Contact Marcus on: 021 764 831

021 0252 7361 No job too small

Sat 15 Dec 10am – 2pm, Kilbirnie Community Centre, 56 Bay Rd

Linkline Social Club Inc For active mature persons. Club dinners 6pm last Saturday of each month plus a range of other activities.

Phone Jossie: 577 1876 Men’s Footwear

Advertise your services here.

587 1660 Interior Painting & Wallpapering Contact John on 388 3862 or 027 4466 371 www. johnsdecorationsltd.co.nz

PAINTING Interior/Exterior Wallpaper - FREE QUOTES Call Theo 021400812 CRAFTSMAN PLUMBER

REG DRAINLAYER Graham Plumbing & Drainage Ltd Call John 970 2409 or 027 457 4999

Death Notices

BURNS, Patrick James: Dec, 2018 FOK, Millicent: Dec 9, 2018 JENKINS, Allan Terence: Dec 9, 2018 JOHNSON, Freida Rose: Dec 9, 2018 Public Notices

hAtAitAi School

2 Arawa Road, Hataitai, Wellington

School enrolment Scheme out of Zone Applications open: 2018/2019 Enrolment at the School is governed by an Enrolment Scheme, details of which are available from the School office or our school website: www.hataitai. school.nz The Board of Trustees has determined that in addition to accepting all in-zone enrolments there are 5 New Entrant places available for out of zone students for 2018/2019.

If the number of out of zone applicants exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot.

Deadline for the receipts of applications: Monday 17 December 2018 Date of Ballot (if required): Tuesday 18 December 2018 To apply, please complete an Out of Zone Ballot Preenrolment form available from our website.

Email completed applications to office@hataitai. school.nz. Applications must be received by 12 noon, Monday 17 December 2018.

If a ballot is required, parents will be informed of the outcome of the ballot within 3 days of the ballot being held.

44236

ADVERTISING TERMS & CONDITIONS All advertisements are subject to the approval of Wellington Suburban Newspapers. Advertisements are positioned entirely at the option of The Publisher & no guarantee of placement is given. Applicable loadings apply only to the specific placement of strip or island advertise-

ments. Placement & approval is at the discretion of The Publisher. While every effort will be made to publish as instructed, The Publisher accepts no liability for any loss caused through loss or misplacement. The Publisher reserves the right to reject any advertisement considered unsuitable for publication. Advertisements will be charged on the size of the material supplied or the space ordered whichever is the greater. It is the responsibility of the Advertiser or Advertising Agent to notify Wellington Suburban Newspapers of any error within 24 hours of its publication. The Publisher is not responsible for recurring errors. To obtain a classified space order (defined as annual commitment of advertising space or spend) please speak to your advertising representative. (Surcharges may apply if commitment levels are not met or cancellation of a space booking & or contract). Cancellation: neither display nor classified cancellations will be accepted after the booking deadline.

No credits will be issued to classified package buys that have commenced their series. If an advertiser at any time fails to supply copy within the deadline, it is understood & agreed that the last copy supplied will be repeated. Specific terms & conditions apply to certain classifications. These may relate to either requirements & conditions set by industry standards for the advertising of certain goods & services, or set by The Publisher. Please speak to your advertising representative to obtain a full copy of these. Advertisers agree that all advertisements published by Wellington Suburban Newspapers may also appear on a relevant website.

Thursday December 13, 2018

SPORT

Record number of Halberg nominees The Halberg Foundation has announced a record 93 nominations in six categories for the 56th Halberg Awards, New Zealand’s pre-eminent event to celebrate and honour sporting achievements from 2018.

The awards, held annually since 1963, are the brainchild of Olympic athletics champion Sir Murray Halberg to honour sporting excellence and as a major fundraiser for the Halberg Foundation.

That is his charity which aims to enhance the lives of physically disabled young New Zealanders by enabling them to participate in sport and recreation.

Forty-three sporting codes are represented in the nominations, recognising achievements in 2018 up to November 30.

The evolving international feats of females in sport has been recognised with 22 nominations from 15 sports for High Performance Sport New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year — the most of any category.

The 2017 winner and 2016 supreme Halberg Award winner canoe racing champion Lisa Carrington is in the running again.

There are 18 nominations from 12 sports for the Sportsman of the Year Award.

The list also includes Brodie Retallick (rugby union), Codie Taylor (rugby union) and David Andrew Liti Olympic (weightlifting), Five-time winner Sophie Pascoe has again been nominated for the newly named ISPS Handa Para Athlete/Team of the Year, with

support from Paralympics NZ. The Para swimming champion is joined by nine others.

There are 14 nominations from 10 sports for the Team of the Year award.

Nominees for the Para Athlete/Team, Sportsman, Sportswoman and Team categories will all be eligible for the supreme Halberg Award – the country’s highest accolade for sporting excellence.

The Emerging Talent category, designed to assist a young athlete in their quest to reach the pinnacle in their sport, includes 15 nominations.

The Halberg Awards judges will now review the nominations to shortlist into finalists who will be announced in January 2019.

The 56th Halberg Awards will be held on Thursday February 21, 2019 at Spark Arena in Auckland.

Other awards presented during the ceremony include; New Zealand’s Favourite Sporting Moment public vote category, Sport New Zealand Leadership, Lifetime Achievement and inductees into the Sports Hall of Fame.

“It is impressive that we have received the highest number of nominations to be considered by the judges, once again a testament to the hard work and achievement of our elite sporting teams, athletes and coaches,” says Shelley McMeeken, chief executive of the Halberg Foundation.

19

Great local results at primary inter-zone athletics

Champion runners Lucy Skogstad and Lachlan Stefands practise their block starts for their respective sprint events. PHOTO: Geoff Henry

Seatoun man part of national bridge champion team Here is a happy man – and he has every reason to feel on top of the world.

Simon Louisson, from Seatoun, was part of the Wellington Interprovincial team who won the prestigious Dougal McLean trophy in Auckland last month.

The inter Provincials are made up of four sections: Open, Senior, Intermediate and Women.

Simon was part of the Intermediate team, which also included Margaret and Graeme Dick, and Turei Haronga. They lost three matches along the way but also played great bridge to win section by a sizeable margin.

The Wellington Bridge Inter provincial Team played outstanding Bridge on November 24-25 to claim the Dougal McLean trophy for the third year in a row.

Chef de Mission of the Wellington Team, Nigel Kearney says that before the weekend Auckland were the favourites in Open grade because their team was made up of four international players, but the Wellington Team made up by Alan Grant, Nigel Kearney, Kyle and Anthony Ker pulled off the incredible feat of winning

ning the girls’ 100m, long jump and high jump, while Gabrielle Healey took out the girls’ 200m and 1500m, Phoebe Gray the girls’ discus and Hugo Jones the boys’ high jump. Also George Te Matapuna was joint winner of the boys’ long jump.

Year 8 athletes also fared well, with Ilaria Stefanidis winning the girls’ 200m, Lachlan Stefanidis the boys’ 100m and 200m, Eliza Squire the girls 1500m and Phoenix Hague-Smith the girls’ Vortex.

Sports talk

with Jacob Page

That schoolboy rugby debate blow-up

Simon Louisson celebrates with the Dougal McLean Trophy and the top Intermediate trophy. PHOTO: Supplied

all their 12 matches and had the event won before the last three matches on the final day.

LOCAL CRICKET RESULTS: MEN’S PREMIER ONE-DAY Eastern Suburbs 233/7 (50 overs) beat North City 174 (46.1 overs) Taita 131/5 (21.2 overs) beat Wellington Collegians 126 (48.4 overs) Hutt District 208/6 (50 overs) beat Wellington Collegians 157 (48.4 overs) MEN’S PREMIER RESERVE ONE-DAY Eastern Suburbs 266/9 (50 overs) beat North City 99 (33.2 overs)

Outstanding results were achieved by athletes from the Newtown-based Wellington Harrier Children’s group at last month’s inter-zone primary schools athletics championship.

Among the winners at the November 29 event were Xavier James in the year 4 boys’ 100m and high jump and George Gray in the year 5 boys’ 800m and Vortex.

Year 7 athletes did particularly well: Lucy Skogstad was the standout, win-

Eastern Suburbs 177 (47.5 overs) beat Karori 173 (49.5 overs) Hutt District 171/8 (34.0 overs) beat Wellington Collegians 170 (43.4 overs) PREMIER GIRLS T20 Hutt District 44/3 (6.1 overs) Wellington Collegians 40/7 (9.3 overs) Upper Hutt 91/0 (15.1 overs) beat Eastern Suburbs 90/4 (20 overs) Eastern Suburbs 103/7 (20.0 overs) beat Johnsonville 111/3 (20.0 overs)

The high school rugby player poaching scenario has been a powder keg waiting to explode for a long time.

Auckland’s St Kentigern College will now be the scapegoats for this.

If you watched any First XV rugby game anywhere in the country, rest assured there were players there playing purely for their on-field abilities.

Whether it’s players changing schools in their own regions or players coming from overseas, nearly every school I can think of has enticed schoolboy prospects to play for their school, usually under the guise of a scholarship.

I attended Marlborough Boys’ College during 2003 - 2007 and it was abundantly clear as a student, a lot of the school’s public persona and success was wrapped up around how the first XV was going in the Crusaders’ region secondary school competition.

Secondary schoolboy rugby is a business.

Success and failure really matters and the player poaching and the faux rugby scholarships have been part of the cycle.

The dominance of New Zealand rugby comes down to two things, the

strong national provincial competition which is unparalleled globally and the high standard of First XV rugby.

Whatever happens with this saga going forward could potentially hurt the professional game in this country.

Top players in all sports have gone to bigger schools to further their sporting futures.

I’ve seen it in basketball, tennis, hockey, cricket and rowing to name a few over my decade as a sports journalist.

It’s simply families doing what’s best for their talented kids.

But for every 10 of those instances I’m sure there’s cases of player poaching.

It just happens that rugby is this country’s most popular sport.

The past week will have a number of high profile rugby schools on edge that they could be next in the firing line of accusations.

That worst-kept secret in secondary school sport, that constantly-whispered issue of schools loading up their rugby teams, has now become a public topic of debate.

Watch this space. It has only just begun.

20

Thursday December 13, 2018