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Rapaki Marae on Banks Peninsula
was bulging with old and new New
Zealanders for Waitangi Day
celebrations.
Numbers have doubled over
the past three years as hapu Ngati
Wheke has opened up the event to
visitors and incorporated a
citizenship ceremony.
Marae spokeswoman Ripeka
Paraone said organisers managed
to squeeze 300 people into the
marae, which was built to
accommodate about 100.
‘‘We were just about sitting on
each other’s laps, but we got in.’’
Visitors included Christchurch
Mayor Lianne Dalziel and 30
residents who were there to
receive New Zealand citizenship.
Residents from the Rapaki and
wider Banks Peninsula community
also joined the festivities.
After the ceremony the new
citizens – from 11 countries – were
asked to share a greeting in their
own language.
Visitors were given a briefing
on the welcome (powhiri) and
taught a couple of songs before
being brought on to the marae,
Paraone said.
Speeches were delivered by
two Ngati Wheke representatives,
Banks Peninsula councillor
Andrew Turner, president of
Christchurch Multicultural Council
Dr Surinda Tandon and Dalziel.
Then it was time to eat.
About 200 hangi were sold as a
fundraiser for new bilingual school
Te Waka Unua, Paraone said.
It was the second year Ngati
Wheke had included a citizenship
ceremony in their Waitangi
celebrations.
‘‘It actually ties in really nicely
because that was one of the
principles of the Treaty – you have
your way of doing things, we have
our way of doing things, we can
come together and we can share
that culture and be OK about it
and celebrate it,’’ Paraone said.
The hapu opened the event to
the local community in 2012 to
give neighbouring residents a
marae experience.
Some who had lived on Banks
Peninsula for 30 years had never
been to a marae, Paraone said.
‘‘It’s a way to say, ‘hey, come
and meet the natives. We won’t
eat you, but we’ll feed you’.’’
Te Maire Tau, of Te Ngai
Tuahuriri, and Waimakariri Mayor
David Ayers spoke to a crowd of
about 200 in Trousselout Park,
Kaiapoi, for the North Canterbury
celebration yesterday and 500
hangi were enjoyed by visitors to
commemorations at Okains Bay
Maori and Colonial Museum.
Christchurch businessmen injured when fuel tanker slams their car
Myles Hume
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A crash in New South Wales has
left two prominent Christchurch
businessmen seriously injured,
including one who is in an induced
coma with spinal injuries.
Maugers Contracting director
Phil Mauger and Christchurch
Mag & Turbo Warehouse owner
Hayden Knighton were seriously
hurt when their car became
sandwiched between a fuel tanker
and three other vehicles on the
Great Western Highway on
Thursday afternoon.
The businessmen were travelling with two GT3 Endurance Ltd
team-mates to the 2015 Bathurst 12
Hour race, west of Sydney, which
begins tomorrow.
Team member Scott O’Donnell
said Knighton suffered pelvic injuries. Mauger’s eldest son, Jordan, said his father had fractured
vertebrae, pelvic injuries and a
collapsed lung.
Phil Mauger’s daughter Brittany joined her father’s partner,
Chris Nash, at his bedside yesterday. Jordan and his younger
brother Clark were considering
travelling to see him.
‘‘My sister has been talking
with the nurses and doctors . . . the
induced coma was just for precaution and isn’t anything lifethreatening, he’s definitely going
to pull though,’’ Jordan said.
He hoped the crash had not
aggravated vertebrae his father
fractured a couple of years ago in a
workplace accident. ‘‘You’d think
something like this would happen
on the bloody race track not on the
way to the race track.’’
Phil Mauger’s company, Maugers Contracting, has worked on
the Masham Park Subdivision,
Broomfield Swale and Delamain
Little Oaks subdivisions around
Christchurch.
Scott O’Donnell, managing director of Southland’s HW Richardson Group, remained in Orange
Hospital with cracked ribs while
his uncle Lindsay O’Donnell – a
Christchurch property developer
and the fourth person in the car –
was not admitted to hospital.
The elder O’Donnell owns Am-
Accident scene: Nine patients, including three Kiwi race car drivers, were taken to
hospital after a multi-vehicle accident on the Great Western Highway on Thursday.
Photo: PHILL MURRAY
Developer : Phil Mauger, left, and Frank Lyons seen in 2006.
herst Properties, which was behind the six-storey Anderson
Lloyd House in Gloucester St.
Scott O’Donnell, who was driving, said they were stopped at a red
light in Kelso, five kilometres from
their destination, when the truck
rear-ended them, sending their
rented BMW X3 hurtling into three
cars in front.
‘‘We were stopped dead and this
truck just came through and blew
into us all,’’ he said from his hospital bed. ‘‘I don’t know what
speed, but it was enough to do a lot
of damage to us and also the car.’’
Bathurst newspaper the Western Advocate reported nine people
were taken to hospital from the
crash.
O’Donnell said Mauger and
Knighton were the most seriously
injured after being cut from the
backseat of the wreckage and
Photo: FILE
flown to a Sydney hospital.
The quartet had only arrived in
Sydney a few hours before the
crash and were among six drivers
racing two cars for the Christchurch-based team.
The team entered two Porsches
in the competitive Class B and
were hopeful of a podium finish.
‘‘It’s soul-destroying for us as
you can imagine because the cars
are there and we can’t use them,’’
O’Donnell said.
‘‘We paid all the money, the
freight and preparation . . . let’s
just say it’s never cheap.’’
Two other team members,
British father-and-son duo Frank
and Michael Lyons, raced one of
the cars in practice sessions yesterday. The team is bringing in a
substitute driver so it has the
required three drivers to race one
car in the event.
Lookout: A young girl looks skyward during Waitangi Day commemorations yesterday inside the meeting house at Rapaki
Photo: KIRK HARGREAVES/FAIRFAX NZ
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