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4 Tuesday May 30 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi Your Local Views NOR’WEST NEWS Bid to bottle Belfast water won’t benefit community Fendalton- Waimairi- Harewood Community Board member Aaron Campbell writes about the controversial bottling of Belfast’s water We learned last week that 4.3 million litres per day of Christchurch’s aquifer water at the former Kaputone Wool Scour site in Belfast could be sent overseas in New Zealand’s second largest bottling operation. That’s more than Riccarton residents use per day; or another way, 600 Olympic swimming pools worth of water a year. The city council is hamstrung by legislation: The Government should tighten the Resource Management Act so a consent lapses when a business folds and it shouldn’t be transferable or sold. Worryingly, Phillip Burmester, who made $3 million on the wool scour sale, now plans to build another water bottling plant next door. In 2010, the Government sacked ECan councillors and Environment Minister Nick Smith said: “Allocation decisions are ad hoc, water quality is deteriorating” and “we are to water what the Saudis are to oil.” After seven years of an unaccountable ECan, is our water situation better? The RMA allows this water to be taken for 35 years and nothing is paid for the commercial use of our resource – this is privatisation by stealth. The Human Rights Commission says: “This has Treaty of Waitangi implications and affects economic, cultural and social rights, among others.” Export water has a commercial value. The Fijian Government WATER: More than 4 million litres of water could be sent overseas from the former Kaputone Wool Scour site in Belfast. taxes Fiji Water 15c a litre royalty – at that rate our Government will forgo $200 million-plus per year in revenue from just Belfast. A changing climate and overallocation, mostly for irrigation to enable intensive farming, is affecting residents in our neighbouring districts at both ends of dairying, resulting in E. coli-laden, nitrogen rich soluble fertiliser leaching through our stony soils. Our city council is busy drilling deeper wells in the northwest for better water security, but still our aquifers can’t recharge quick enough, we must use our water more efficiently, both domestically and commercially. WAITING: The location of the new Shirley Community Centre will be 10 Shirley Rd. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN A reader responds to an article about further delays to the Shirley Community Centre rebuild Meredyth Anderson – A great article, which I must say is good to know, but shocking too. It is outrageous that the city council is proposing to do this . . . They are all just talk and no action on things that matter. However, I see that when they want to pay for the mayor to have overseas travel or to buy a new thing, like the statue in the river, things get done quickly. It gives the impression that tourism and overseas relationships are more important than the community. The city council is a fiasco in my opinion.
NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi Tuesday May 30 2017 5 News Residents see red over playground •From page 1 Michelle Williams said the colours seemed okay to her. “Have you seen other playgrounds? They are a total mishmash of colours,” she said. Other Facebook comments said children love bright colours and they were excited to see the finished result. But Mrs Wallace said it was the loss of greenspace that dealt the harsher blow. “It is what it is now,” Mrs Wallace said. She said it would be unfair to say it was completely wrong before the job was fully complete. City council head of parks Andrew Rutledge said heritage •From page 1 “Tokyo is definitely on the cards to go hopefully . . . but if I don’t make Tokyo then definitely the 2024 Olympics,” she said. She thinks the 2024 Olympics will be a more realistic goal. If she qualifies for the Olympics, she joins other swimming Olympians from CGHS – Lydia Lipscombe and was considered when the colour were chosen. “The application for consent was submitted following discussions with the heritage team around the colour scheme. Red and cream were selected following those discussions,” he said. Friends of Abberley Park are still working towards keeping the heritage nature of the park in other ways. Mrs Wallace said members had voluntarily re-stained all the wooden seats. It is also lobbying for the restoration of the scent garden which was once a feature of Abberley Park. However, the group has not heard from the city council about it since January. Sarah Catherwood (Atlanta 1996) and Helen Norfolk (Beijing 2008) Her weekly training schedule sees her swim eight to nine sessions a week morning and evening at the Selwyn Aquatic Centre along with attending the gym three times and doing a pilates class once a week. Hannah lives in Lincoln. MODERN: The Friends of Abberley Park wanted a more natural style of playground equipment to fit with Abberley Park’s 150-year history instead of the brightly-coloured equipment put in by the city council. PHOTO: PATRICIA WALLACE Hannah has sights set on Olympics Hannah (left) said she gets up at 5.10am on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday to train at the aquatic centre while also training Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. She will need to raise $6000 to get to the Bahamas. The quiz night will be held at the Silver Dollar Bar and Restaurant Jones Rd, Rolleston, from 7-9pm, July 3. Teams can be up to six people and cost $10 per person. •To help Hannah to get to the Bahamas go to https:// givealittle.co.nz/cause/ hannahrepresentsnz or supporters can follow Hannah’s journey by giving her Facebook page “Hannah swimming my life” a like. •To book tickets phone Susan on 027 682 6992 or email bates-family@clear. net.nz Library named: Place of many eels • By Julia Evans PLACE OF many eels, ōWhatara, is the new Te Reo name for the Bishopdale Library. It’s previous name was Te Kete Wānanga o Papa Kōhatu, meaning place of many rocks. But as the old site on Farrington Ave is demolished, the city council was gifted ōWhatara for the new building, set to open in July. City council community central library manager Kate Ogden said the city council’s Ngāi Tahu partnership team asked whether it would be appropriate to continue to use the old library’s Maori name or whether the new facility should have a name more reflective of Ngāi Tahu/Ngāi Tūāhuriri history. “Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga was approached directly on our behalf and we were gifted the name ōWhatarau,” Ms Ogden said. The area was subjected to continual flooding of the old Waimairi River in pre-colonial times. “Apparently you found lots of eels there,” she said. The process is done as part of the city council’s partnership with Ngāi Tahu and the city council were not charged. Redwood MASSIVE RELOCATION SALE • Unbelievable prices • Huge range Ph: 354 4022 290 Main North Rd, Redwood SHOP HOURS Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.30pm. Sat 9.00am-4.00pm 3 reasons to see us today • Fast & friendly service • All dentures made on site • Doesn’t cost an arm and a leg call 322 4004 TexT 027 537 0567 230 BarringTon sT www.denturesouth.co.nz NICKY WAGNER MP FOR CHRISTCHURCH CENTRAL WE ARE MOVING FROM TUESDAY JUNE 6TH Papanui Medical Centre will be located at the former After Hours premises Bealey Ave & Colombo St cnr While we rebuild at our existing site A E P W “I’m Always Happy to Help” 103 Salisbury Street Central Christchurch PO Box 21359 Christchurch 8143 chch.office@parliament.govt.nz (03) 365 8297 www.nickywagner.co.nz Funded by the Parliamentary Service and authorised by Nicky Wagner, 103 Salisbury Street, Christchurch Hours: Monday - Wednesday 8am-5.30pm Thursday (late night) 8am-6.30pm Friday 8am-5.30pm BEALEY AVE SALISBURY ST CNR BEALEY AVE & COLOMBO ST Ph. 352-9053 | www.pmc.co.nz COLOMBO ST MANCHESTER ST
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