Bay Harbour: October 19, 2016
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Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
News<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
In Brief<br />
PAGE 3<br />
PEST: Rats and possums are among the predators which kill about 25 million native birds in New Zealand each year.<br />
Making properties pest-free<br />
• By Annabelle Dick<br />
THE SUMMIT Road Society<br />
is urging residents to catch<br />
possums, rats and stoats on<br />
their properties as they launch<br />
an initiative to eradicate pests.<br />
The Predator-Free Port Hills<br />
programme aims to maintain<br />
the local flora and fauna by<br />
removing pests from around the<br />
boundary of the Port Hills.<br />
Summit Road Society vicepresident<br />
Jeremy Agar said they<br />
want to encourage people to set<br />
up traps in their back yard to<br />
help the effort.<br />
“Where residents live on the<br />
Port Hills, between Taylors Mistake<br />
and Halswell and around<br />
Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong>, it’s a perfect<br />
opportunity to have traps for<br />
predators in their back garden<br />
because they tend to be heavy<br />
on the edges of bush,” he said.<br />
The group is holding a public<br />
seminar to teach residents about<br />
the local pest problem and how<br />
they can help mitigate it.<br />
They will discuss the predatorfree<br />
concept, community pest<br />
control methods in Redcliffs<br />
and Sumner and how to host<br />
and maintain traps.<br />
The group is following<br />
the Government and other<br />
community organisations<br />
around the country which are<br />
aiming to make New Zealand<br />
free of pests.<br />
“We’re really encouraged<br />
by the Government’s call to<br />
become predator-free by 2050<br />
and we think the way to do that<br />
is to act where we are and that’s<br />
the Port Hills,” he said.<br />
In New Zealand, predators<br />
kill about 25 million native<br />
birds each year and have pushed<br />
species to the brink of extinction.<br />
The Government launched an<br />
initiative to make the country<br />
predator-free by 2050 earlier<br />
this year.<br />
The Government also said<br />
in this year’s budget that it will<br />
spend an additional $28 million<br />
over four years and $7 million<br />
every year thereafter on pest<br />
control.<br />
This is on top of the more<br />
than $70 million already spent<br />
each year on predator control in<br />
New Zealand.<br />
A public meeting will be held<br />
at the Cashmere Presbyterian<br />
Church on <strong>October</strong> 27 at 7pm.<br />
RETAINING WALLS DONE<br />
Stronger Christchurch<br />
Infrastructure Rebuild Team<br />
has completed repairs to two<br />
earthquake-damaged retaining<br />
walls in Lyttelton. Retaining<br />
walls on Voelas Rd and the cnr of<br />
Voelas Rd and Webb Lane have<br />
been finished after nine months<br />
of work. SCIRT has repaired<br />
and rebuilt 166 publicly-owned<br />
retaining walls in Christchurch<br />
and Banks Peninsula as part of<br />
the five-year infrastructure repair<br />
programme.<br />
CYCLEWAY INPUT<br />
The Heathcote Expressway and<br />
Rapanui-Shag Rock Cycleway<br />
projects will soon be open for<br />
consultation with the community.<br />
The city council has begun<br />
consulting on several of the 13<br />
new cycleways which will be built<br />
over the next seven years at an<br />
estimated cost of $156 million. The<br />
Heathcote Cycleway goes from<br />
Heathcote through Woolston,<br />
Opawa, Waltham and Sydenham<br />
into the central city along large<br />
sections of the rail corridor. The<br />
Rapanui-Shag Rock Cycleway<br />
will start at the Ferrymead Bridge<br />
and lead to the central city via<br />
Linwood. The Coastal Pathway,<br />
which will run from Sumner<br />
to Ferrymead Bridge, is funded<br />
separately to the Major Cycle<br />
Routes programme.<br />
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have just opened a new local<br />
business in the area and you<br />
want good quality, fairly<br />
priced, friendly, local<br />
accountancy and tax<br />
advice then contact<br />
Chris on:<br />
03 384 8179<br />
022 354 8218<br />
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