Bay Harbour: June 28, 2017

Wednesday June 28 2017
Latest Christchurch news at www.
.kiwi
BAY HARBOUR
PAGE 3
News
From Bermuda to Akaroa for Team New Zealand?
• By Gordon Findlater
THE AKAROA Yacht Club
hosted a crowd of around 40
for yesterday’s America’s Cup
finale. After its success they
can’t see why they couldn’t host
the whole regatta.
“There were some murmurs
of Akaroa hosting the next
America’s Cup,” laughed club
• By Caitlin Miles
A TEMPORARY targeted
rates increase could be put on
properties in Akaroa to help
fund the health hub.
Akaroa Community Trust
has asked the city council
to increase rates on houses
that the Akaroa Health Hub
would service to help reach its
community fundraising target.
The community needs to
raise roughly $2 million for the
project and, while fundraisers
and private donations are
helping it towards this goal, the
trust thinks the temporary rates
increase could speed things up.
The health hub is not a city
council project, meaning it is
uncertain whether the increase
will actually happen.
City council staff are working
captain Tim Richardson. “It
was a beautiful morning here,
you could have thought you
were in Bermuda, other than
there being no wind and some
ice on the steps.”
When a 5am coffee quickly
turns into a champagne breakfast,
any idea can’t be ruled out.
The club has been in full
swing, hosting early morning
on a report about the impact of
the proposed rates increase so
councillors can make a more
detailed decision on what it
should do.
Ngai Tahu Holdings – Te
Runanga o Ngai Tahu pulled
out of the project last year,
which meant the Akaroa
community needs to raise the
more of the money required for
the health hub.
The project is a partnership
between the Canterbury District
Health Board and the Akaroa
community.
HAVE YOUR SAY: Should
the city council put a
targeted rates increase on
Akaroa properties? Email
your views to caitlin.miles@
starmedia.kiwi
breakfasts since the beginning
of the Louis Vuitton America’s
Cup qualifiers.
“We haven’t changed the
menu. It’s been ham and cheese
croissants with gold medal ham
from the Akaroa Butchery,”
said Mr Richardson.
Even after the events of San
Francisco, he described the
atmosphere in the early hours
as a calm one.
“We were pretty confident.
We had We Are the Champions
by Queen ready to play as soon
as they crossed the line,” he
said.
After the big race some of
the club members got into the
racing spirit themselves with
some remote control yachts on
the wharf.
Plan to increase rates to build health hub
OUTSIDE: An artist’s impression of the final design for the
Akaroa Health Hub.
In Brief
MUSEUM LAND FEEDBACK
The Lyttelton community has
until Friday to provide their input
into a proposal to gift city council
land to the Lyttelton Historical
Museum Society. The city council
is considering gifting land at 33-35
London St to the society so it can
rebuild a museum. The city council
has no plans to use the land,
which the Lyttelton Service Centre
occupied until it was demolished
following the February 22, 2011,
earthquake. The land is valued at
$220,000. To make a submission on
the proposed gifting of the land, go
to https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/
consultations-and-submissions/
haveyoursay/show/39
RESIDENTS PARKING
A decision on introducing
controversial residents only
parking in Clifton Tce, Sumner,
could be made soon. The Linwood-
Central-Heathcote Community
Board will go to the section of
Clifton Tce on Monday which the
city council is proposing to make
residents only parking. This would
mean residents would have to pay
a yearly fee to be able to park there.
The plan was met with mixed
responses from residents. Five
responders supported the plan
and five were against. The
community board is expected to
make a decision once they have
visited the site.
Nuk Korako
National list MP based in
the Port Hills
A
E
P
6/950 Ferry Road, Ferrymead
nuk.korakomp@parliament.govt.nz
03 384 0008
facebook.com/nukkorako.PortHills
korako.co.nz
Funded by the Parliamentary
Service and authorised by
Nuk Korako, 6/950 Ferry Road,
Ferrymead, Christchurch
WINTER
NESTING
Top Quality
Free Range Meat
Cuisine Artisan Award Winner 2017
• Fresh meats – all free range
• Smallgoods made on site
• Gluten free sausages
• Cheeses and deli items
Share, like and
make a comment
on our Facebook
page to go into
the draw to WIN a
$50.00 voucher
Closes June 30, 2017.
303 Colombo Street
(opp Funky Pumpkin)
Telephone: 03 337 2929
www.eurogourmetmeats.co.nz
CHECK OUT OUR
NEW WEBSITE
homestore + ten27 eatery
curtains + cushions + wallpaper + furniture + bed linen + homewares
1027 Ferry Road + 03. 384 4880
www.casualandcountry.co.nz