Pegasus Post: November 28, 2017

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Fireworks display could be changed
• By Sophie Cornish
MAJOR CHANGES could be in
store for New Brighton’s annual
Guy Fawkes fireworks event.
Last week the city council
released a survey asking for
feedback about the event.
Questions included whether
the event should be moved to the
middle of the year to celebrate
Matariki (Maori new year),
moved to the nearest weekend to
November 5 and/or moved out of
New Brighton.
City councillor Sara
Templeton backs the Matariki
idea.
“Changing it to a New Zealand
celebration from an irrelevant
400-year-old English one would
be a great move and hosting it in
winter at 6.30pm would be much
more inclusive of the younger
members of our community,” Cr
Templeton said in a Facebook
post.
Coastal-Burwood Ward city
councillor Glenn Livingstone
wants something different all
together.
“I would like to build the event
around celebrating our diversity
as a city. We have that diversity
in the Coastal-Burwood area
with all the different nationalities
and cultures.”
Cr Livingstone would like to
see the fireworks display have
a Parihaka theme built around
it, since the anniversary is
celebrated on the same day as
Guy Fawkes.
“I’m sure we can build in
a theme around celebrating
Parihaka on the same day. I don’t
want it shifted into the middle
of the year . . . I think as a nation
it is important that we look at
Parihaka,” he said.
Parihaka symbolises the
peaceful resistance to confiscated
Maori land following the
invasion of 1600 Government
troops on the western Taranaki
settlement in 1881.
City council manager of events
and arts Karena Finnie said
the survey was part of several
completed every year by the
events and arts team on a range
of events to assist with future
development.
The primary issue with the
event being in New Brighton is
traffic management.
BRIGHT
LIGHTS: New
Brighton’s
fireworks
display may
face changes
including
being moved
to the middle
of the year
to celebrate
Matariki.
PHOTO:
ANASTASIYA
KORZH
Coastal-Burwood city
councillor Ward David East
agrees it could be done a lot
better.
“Everyone tries to get out of
New Brighton via Pages Rd or
QE II Drive. There are other
ways including through South
New Brighton or Parklands.”
Coastal-Burwood Community
Board chairwoman Kim Money
also agreed, saying there are
“some difficulties getting in and
out.”
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MARIAN College student Keely
Stuart has received a Ngā Mahi-a-
Ringa Pūtaiao Scholarship from
Otago University.
The fully-funded scholarship
will provide the year 11 student
the opportunity to participate in a
week-long programme during the
holidays and experience being a
science student on campus.
Hands-On is a programme run
by the university which encourages
young New Zealanders to
consider further study as a step in
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“I’m interested in a career in
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and whether I want to go on to
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Hands-On at Otago co-ordinator
and science education officer
Sandra Copeland said this year
a record 560 applications for 400
places were received.
The aim of the Ngā Mahi-a-
Ringa Pūtaiao Scholarship is to
inspire and motivate young Maori
students to develop their science
knowledge and skill.
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