8 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2017</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Your Local Views Local News Now PEGASUS POST Fire rages, homes at risk Readers respond to the New Brighton fireworks display article Pamela Neil – No more fireworks until the whole thing can be done in a more professional way. Take a lesson from Sydney and Brisbane. Tamsin Carter – Guy Fawkes fireworks display should be held on Guy Fawkes Day. It’s the backyard fireworks that should go. Although the traffic is bad getting in and out of New Brighton, the view for the show on the pier is great . . . you can also watch from up on the hills. Tanya Didham – Would prefer to see New Brighton fireworks in winter, maybe to celebrate mid-winter/Matariki! Guy Fawkes is just a weird thing to celebrate anyway, and it’s a bit silly having to wait so long for it to get dark. Ruben Witteman – No. The pier is cool, you can sit on the beach miles away and see them clearly. Better than everyone crammed into Hagley Park. Nic Davies – Yes, move it into the park, New Brighton is too hard to get in and out of. Karen Beaumont – Why not have two, on both side of town at the same time. Split the problems. Madeleine Hurricks – Matariki time please . . . less fire risk, more dark hours and so Kiwi. Aubrey Walker – Majority rules, keep Guy Fawkes in New Brighton. Maryanne Hay – Don’t change it, it is set on November 5 for a reason people need to get over themselves. It’s once a year, your kids ain’t going to die from staying up late one night in the year and don’t change it from New Brighton, we get forgotten here and I would hate for them to take this away from us locals too. Jo Zuydendorp – If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Hamish Middleton – Weekend before daylight saving. Could do somewhere like Riccarton or Addington Racecourse where there is heaps of parking, heaps of seating and lots of access. Could have music/bands with existing set up. Sylvia Oliver – How about it just stops. Try New Year instead. Peter Warren – Leave it at New Brighton . . . we don’t need to set fire to any other part of the city . . . safer over water. It would be an advantage to hold it before daylight saving . . . winter hours would be good but weather/temperatures less predictable. And get rid of firework sales. Anne Marchant – Yes, fireworks should be at mid-winter. Earlier, darker, more fun. It’s the right time of year. Who cares about this guy, Fawkes? It would be nice to borrow the name Matariki, if local Maori agree. But let’s have the winter fireworks anyway. Traffic problems can be solved – treat it as a rehearsal for emergency evacuation, and direct some traffic over the Bridge St bridge. Philip Humphreys – It’s the one time of the year New Brighton gets to put itself on show why take that’s away from the east side. Tania Watkins – European history is as much a part of New Zealand history now as Maori history. Or the history of any other culture living here. When are we going to celebrate being a multi-cultural community? Readers respond to the merger plan for the Rawhiti and Avondale golf clubs which has gone off course Jo Zervos – These golf courses should not have been included in Regenerate’s planning options at all, they are not part of the red zone. Rachel Turner – Maybe that was the idea – for the council to portray that they are “listening to the people”, when it was never going to happen in the first place. Tanya Didham – Was a completely weird last minute addition. I certainly hope it is dead in the water. Pamela Neil – There are more important issues in the city than worrying about where to relocate a golf course. Richard Rowe – We all hope the Government will act on what the majority tell them they want or don’t want. Especially when they ask for it. Does anyone believe Regenerate Christchurch will do that? Karen Whila - Good it was a silly idea for the red zone. Stephen Graham – Rawhiti should be left as it is, a park/reserve/golf course (and, of course, cricket, culture at its highest).
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