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A group of Christchurch residents 350m beyond the edge of the city s fibre broadband network face a costly bill to get connected.
About 8000 Christchurch properties have missed out on a city-wide fibre broadband roll-out. Many of these residents, who all live within the city boundary, have been told they will have to pay thousands of dollars to get access because Christchurch City Council-owned network provider Enable says it is not cost-effective to install fibre to their homes. A group of 36 homes at the top of Huntsbury hill have to pay $41,400 and residents at the top of Worsleys Rd in Cracroft have to pay $82,800 before Enable will install fibre broadband to 49 properties there.
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Jonathon Harper needs little introduction. He has paid his dues now after half a century of touring, composing, and recording.
His career has fallen into different eras with the focus on mastering a certain type of music: Folk, Classical, Latin, Rock, Italian, Flamenco, and (naturally enough) World Music.
His recent concert at Waikanae’s public Art Gallery with his ART GHETTO band featured a multi-instrumental mix of South American, Folk, and Jazz.creating their own local version of World Music. It included two South American musicians.
Now, with his upcoming solo Road Works concert for us, he will present an equal measure of original guitar instrumentals and poetic songs that reflect ordinary life in New Zealand. Jonathon admires and likes to emulate Sam Hunt’s approach that has harnessed a sophisticated knowledge of language and poetry to successfully reflect the experience of life back to ordinary Kiwis - including shows in p
Firefighters at the scene of a fire in Christchurch s Port Hills. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) assistant area commander Mike Bowden said scrub growth and dry conditions had compounded the problem on the Port Hills, which had already had “several reasonable-scale fires” this summer. MetService said strong winds were also forecast on Wednesday, but would start to die out on Thursday. Temperatures are expected to reach the low 20s for the rest of the week, before highs increase to the mid 20s at the weekend. The Port Hills were a “significant risk” to Christchurch and firefighters would attack any future fires “aggressively”, Bowden said.