Nor'West News: July 11, 2017

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Further $45k signed off for Plunket rooms
• By Julia Evans
A FURTHER $45,000 has been
allocated for repairs to the
Redwood Plunket rooms.
Originally budgeted at
$30,000, the quote was then
upped to $75,000
for the rooms to be
repaired for community
use.
Papanui city
councillor Mike
Davidson said it
Mike
Davidson
was a “big win” for
the Northcote and
Redwood area.
“This is not much money in
the grand scheme of what we’re
going to achieve in the community,”
Cr Davidson said.
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However, Mayor Lianne Dalziel
is sceptical whether repairing
the old building is in the city
council’s best interests.
She said it was a challenge to
make the decision as the city
council was not provided with a
detailed report.
Ms Dalziel said the repairs
would only get the building to
67 per cent of the new building
standard.
“It will still be old, still be
unimproved and still be poorly
insulated. It has old services and
contains significant inherent
maintenance issues,” she said.
The building will be home to
a social worker, who is being
funded by the Papanui-Innes
Community Board. Cr Davidson
said the Plunket rooms are in an
ideal location next to the Redwood
Library.
They will also be used as a
community gathering space. A
research report from city council
staff has shown that a lot of
young people feel unsafe in local
parks around Northcote and
Redwood.
“(The area) lacks neighbourhood
space for people to come
together and the younger generations
feel unsafe in the parks
due to drugs and gang involvement
in the area,” he said.
The city council approved the
additional funding in the 2017-
18 Annual Plan.
MUSIC: St
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College
chamber choir
has made it to
the national
finals of the
Big Sing. Only
24 choirs from
around the
country have
been selected.
The finale
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Wellington from
August 24 to 26.
FLAME FILES
Fire Service’s new look
• By Mark Thomas - specialist fire
investigator
THE NEW Zealand Fire Service
disappeared last Saturday.
It ceased to exist.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand
began life in its place.
It’s what we’ll be called into
the future.
What’s the reason?
Until now, there have effectively
been two fire services in
the country.
Those that covered urban
settlements, towns and cities,
and those that tackled mainly
wildfire in more rural settings.
To a certain extent, the
boundaries were blurred and we
generally co-operated as much
as we could.
The new Fire and Emergency
New Zealand Act combines us
into a single organisation, still
with distinct urban and rural
sides but working side by side.
It’s got to be better.
As far as most New Zealanders
go, there won’t be any change
whatsoever except the fire trucks
that respond to your emergency
might have different stickers on
the side.
For those of us in the new organisation,
there’s some learning
of new legislation but essentially
it’s business as usual.
Christchurch had a quiet week
as the change occurred. Ten people
got themselves trapped in a
lift at a city bar in the early hours
last Saturday morning. It took
about half an hour to free them.
And a fire truck was used to
hold up a severed power pole in
Barrington St after a car crash
on Sunday evening which kept
live wires off the street and power
going for Spreydon homes.
Finally, fire crews assisted ambulances
at about 10 incidents
where people suffered seizures
and died suddenly.
That’s about double a normal
week.
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