Pegasus Post: May 17, 2016

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Tuesday May 17 2016
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What’s in a name?
FRASER WALKER-PEARCE
Have you ever wondered why
Waitikiri Golf Club is spelled
differently to Waitakiri Primary
School?
Waitikiri, the subdivision and
golf club, is spelled with an ‘I’,
but Waitakiri, the school, has an
‘A’. It’s only 2.7km from one to
the other. So why are they different?
The answer goes back to 1860
when the first European, John
McLean, moved onto the now
Waitikiri land, which was used
for farming at the time.
A local history fact file on Bottle
Lake and Waitikiri: the early CONFUSION: Waitakiri Primary School opened this year, but is spelt
years, on the Christchurch City differently to its neighbouring subdivision, Waitikiri.
Libraries website, says the name and was the merger of Burwood “The feedback we received was
came about because of a house and Windsor Primary Schools. that the most current understanding
of the word was ‘meandering
built on the land in the late 19th- Principal Neil O’Reilly said the
century by William Reece, which name of the school came after waters’ or ‘muddy waters’. I think
he called Waitikiri.
a long community consultation that makes sense to us if you
Waitikiri, pronounced ‘why period.
think about the Travis Wetlands
tick eerie’, at the time had several “We went out into the community
and asked for name sugges-
O’Reilly said.
and all the streams in there,” Mr
differing Maori interpretations,
including ‘muddy water’, ‘water tions. Many names came back,
He said during their consultation
they weren’t looking to find
springs back’, ‘there it is dug’, including combinations of the
and ‘a lagoon’.
two school names, like Burwind,
out whether it was the “right or
The land was bought in 1937 Windwood, and things like that.
wrong spelling”, just if it was
by Waitikiri Links Ltd, and now One of the names was Waitakiri,”
right for the school.
two golf courses are on the land, he said.
Waitikiri and Bottle Lake Forest Mr O’Reilly said the board “This seemed to be the most
Golf Club.
liked the name, and consulted right interpretation, and it doesn’t
As for Waitakiri, pronounced with Ngai Tahu to see if it was mean Waitikiri is wrong. It just
‘wai tah key ree’, the school was “locally and culturally” significantment
in time,” he
means it’s right for us at this mo-
formed more recently, in 2014,
said.
QE II Park land use
under question
FRASER WALKER-PEARCE
A surviving member of the
New Brighton Trotting Club
has signed an affidavit saying
that QE II Park was to be set
aside “for recreational use
only.”
Norma Robinson,
88, is “adamant” that
an 11.5ha block of
land in QE II Park
was never intended
to be used for educational
purposes,
and was to be used
by “the people of
Christchurch.”
Mrs Robinson
wrote an affidavit last week,
stating that the condition of the
land sale to the city council in
1963 was that the land was to
be set aside as a park for the
people to use recreationally.
Christchurch Concerned Citizens
Group chairman Garry
House is leading the charge
against the city council.
“We found a committee
member from the trotting club,
we think she’s the last surviving
member. She has taken the
steps of signing an affidavit,
which is a legal document that
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can be used in court. It’s very
seriously dealt with if found to
be wrong, and she’s thought of
that,” he said.
Mr House (left) said the
group had not decided whether
they would be taking
the city council to
court over the land
sale, but said he
would “rather negotiate
and see where it
goes.”
He said the group
will meet on Sunday
to discuss their options,
which include
“considering taking
legal action” if the council
didn’t negotiate with them.
Mr House said the group
would be pushing for Christchurch
to get a fair deal.
“We always try and negotiate
for the best deal for the citizens
on the east, and indeed for
Christchurch,” he said.
A city council spokeswoman
said the affidavit will be considered
by the hearings panel
and the city council when they
consider whether to proceed
with the proposed disposal of
the land, or not.
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