Bay Harbour: September 06, 2017

Wednesday September 6 2017
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DELAY: Plans for new play equipment at Governors Bay
Reserve have been delayed due to a lack of money. ​
• By Sarla Donovan
A LACK of money is being
blamed for delays in getting
new playground equipment and
recreation facilities at Governors
Bay Reserve.
The city council budgeted
$170,000 for the renewal of
the junior playground space,
landscape work around the
new community hall and pool,
development of a skate facility,
dirt pump track, nature play and
tree hut.
Consultation on the proposed
facilities closed in May but
the city council now say they
don’t have enough money for
everything.
That’s because public feedback
indicated the junior playground
design needed changing to
include more equipment.
This has had a knock-on
effect resulting in insufficient
funds for the skate bowl and
half-pipe, bike track and tree
house.
Now, the community is being
asked to rank which of those
three facilities they prefer.
Governors Bay Community
Association Chairwoman Karen
Banwell said she would be
concerned if the skate bowl/halfpipe
was given a low priority.
“That skate area has been
agreed to for a very long time. If
we find that it isn’t going ahead,
we might have to take some
action,” she said.
She would have preferred work
to have already started and they
were ready to plant now, rather
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than starting at the end of the
year as was now proposed.
•Feedback on the amended
plan for the Governors Bay
Community Centre and
Pool Reserve is open until
September 21.
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HISTORIC: A human femur like this was found during road
excavation work at the bottom of Clifton Hill.
Road works unearth
human bones
A MAORI midden (refuse
heap) containing human and
animal bones dating back to the
pre-1500s has been uncovered
during trenching work on
Sumner’s Main Rd.
The Peacock’s Gallop project
involves installation of new water
main and wastewater pipes,
road resurfacing and a permanent
crash barrier at Rapanui/
Shag Rock corner.
Before work started in mid-
July, the site, which is near
caves, was identified as an area
of cultural and archaeological
significance and all contractors
underwent an archaeological
induction.
A contractor doing trenching
work outside the Sumner Surf
Club discovered the midden on
August 22.
This triggered the
Koiwi/human discovery
protocol and work stopped
immediately while an on-site
archaeologist and cultural
monitor advised on the process.
Following the Koiwi protocol,
Ngāi Tūāhuriri were alerted to
the find, along with Heritage
New Zealand and police.
Photos were taken of the
bones before they were removed
and an off-site archaeologist carried
out a visual assessment of
the remains.
Remains from part of a human
leg bone (femur) were
discovered along with other
animal bones including kuri
(polynesian dog), ling (fish) as
well as moa. The presence of
moa fragments meant the bones
were estimated to date from
before the year 1500.
John Moore, the city council’s
three waters and waste planning
delivery manager, said the find
was important.
“We have taken every step
possible to ensure the bones are
properly protected and treated
in a culturally appropriate way.”
Monitoring will continue.
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