Bay Harbour: November 02, 2016

Wednesday November 2 2016
News
Ara students behind
harbour picnic areas
BAY HARBOUR
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• By Annabelle Dick
PICNIC TABLES have been
donated by Ara Institute of
Canterbury construction
students to sit at locations
around Lyttelton Harbour.
Five tables will be spread
around the new Godley Head
campground, on Quail Island
and on top of Mt Herbert.
A small hut will also be
installed at Packhorse Saddle
during summer.
The tables were built by Ara’s
construction and infrastructure
vocational pathway students
who have teamed up with the
Department of Conservation.
“It is fantastic for us and for
Ara, something we would have
struggled to achieve without
their help and the sponsors who
helped supply materials,” DOC
operations ranger Murray Lane
said.
Ara’s construction and
infrastructure vocational
pathway students build tool
sheds and bench seats to practice
their skills.
The tool sheds have been sold
on Trade Me and the bench seats
LOADING UP: Ara construction students help stack picnic tables
for the Department of Conservation to install around Lyttelton
Harbour. ​
distributed around the campus.
However, tutor Nigel Jamieson
saw the potential for the tool
sheds to be converted into
DOC huts and contacted the
organisation.
“Engaging the students on a
real life project made learning
very effective,” he said.
“This is a great relationship
with DOC that has a lot of
potential for future projects.”
Mr Lane was not only
interested in the huts, but was
also keen to make use of five
bench seats and make this an
ongoing project.
“Further down the line, we will
add tables to the Banks Peninsula
and other tracks,” he said.
RETURN: The reredos sits proudly at St Saviour’s at Holy Trinity
in Lyttelton. ​
Piece of St Saviour’s
finds its way home
• By Annabelle Dick
AN ornamental screen
damaged during the
earthquakes has been restored
and placed in St Saviour’s at
Holy Trinity.
The oak-framed ‘reredos’ – a
decoration which sits behind
the altar – fell off the wall of St
Saviour’s and has been restored
with the help of a city council
heritage grant and funding
from the Lottery Grants Board.
St Saviour’s was built in
west Lyttelton in 1885 and was
later relocated to Cathedral
Grammar School in 1976.
The church building was
moved back to Lyttelton
in 2013 with the help of a
$143,000 heritage incentive
grant to replace the demolished
Holy Trinity Church.
A number of items salvaged
from Holy Trinity were
incorporated into St Saviour’s,
which was renamed St
Saviour’s at Holy Trinity.
The 100-year-old ornamental
screen covers the wall at the
back of the altar and was built
in memory of the late wife of
the first vicar of St Saviour’s.
“ I choose
the bus
to save
looking for
a car park.”
Natalie, Orange Line bus user -
180 minutes not spent looking
for a car park this month.
ECN/006/SM
What would you do with more time?