Nor'West News: January 31, 2017

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Tuesday January 31 2017
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NOR’WEST NEWS
Parents urged
to take care
around school
drop-off zones
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AS STUDENTS start to head
back for another year of school,
the city’s travel planners are
urging parents to take a fresh
approach to school drop-offs.
City council travel advisers are
urging caution around schools
as more pedestrians and cyclists
hit the roads.
Gardening
which will
Transport operations manager
Steffan Thomas said the new
school year was the best time
to look at your school drop-off
and pick up routines and make a
change to active travel.
“We’re asking drivers to remember
that there will be more
pedestrians and cyclists about,
many of them young. We’re
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
the original Deans’ farm in
the heart of Riccarton could be
restored by the end of June.
The buildings at 39 Kahu Rd,
close to Riccarton House and
Bush, were damaged in the
February 2011 earthquake.
Work is under way on the
buildings,
become a
museum.
The city
council last
week rubberstamped
a
heritage grant
of $62,326 to
help the $2.1 million repair cost.
otoringThe buildings are on
asking drivers to be especially
careful and watch their speeds
around schools,” he said.
Mr Thomas said if walking or
cycling the entire distance from
home wasn’t practical, parents
could consider parking further
out from the school gate.
“Our school year starts back in
summer so the weather is warm
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year.
enough to walk, scoot or cycle at
least part of the way to school,”
Mr Thomas said.
Farm buildings to be restored
Christchurch Boys’ High School
land and are owned by the
school.
Headmaster Nic Hill (above)
said the grant was “wonderful
news.”
The school was committed to
having the buildings open to the
public within the first half of the
“We are really appreciative of
the support . . . it is important;
they are the first farm buildings
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The buildings had been
used for storage until they
were severely damaged in the
quake.
In the 1970s, fundraising had
began to convert the buildings
into a museum, but that never
eventuated.
The total cost to restore the
building is estimated to be $2.1
million.
The school has $1,486,468
available from insurance
and has so far raised almost
$150,000 for the project.
Other funding is being sought
and a Givealittle page has also
been set up.
Mr Hill said the school would
fund whatever the shortfall was
to complete the project.
The school has a long
association with the Deans’
family.
Its highest award, The Deans
Scholarship, was founded in
memory of Bob Deans, who was
a senior monitor at the school
before becoming a famous All
Black.
Deans etched himself into
REPAIRS: The
badly-damaged Deans’ farm
buildings will be restored by
June with a concept design
(left) showing what they could
look like.
rugby folklore when he had a
try disallowed against Wales at
Cardiff Arms Park in 1905.
The try would have allowed
the All Blacks to draw the
match.
Mr Hill said the restored
buildings would be the long
awaited museum which would
be open to the public.
The Deans’ brothers, William
and John, were some of the
earliest European settlers in
the city and were successful
farmers. They set up the farm in
Riccarton in 1846.
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