Southern View: May 03, 2016

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Bid to light up court
TOM DOUDNEY
A teenage basketballer with a
famous namesake and his friends
are hoping to get their local court
lit up at night so they can play after
dark.
Shaquille Ausage, 17, who was
named after American basketball
star Shaquille O’Neal, is part of
a group of teenagers who put the
request for lights at the Hoon Hay
Park basketball court to the Spreydon-Heathcote
Community Board.
The board has asked city council
staff to investigate the idea.
Ausage said he and his friends had
been playing basketball at the park
for about 10 years.
“We have a lot of good basketball
players here in our neighbourhood
so other people from around Christchurch
come and check out our
court because they want to see the
ballers who are here,” he said.
“When it’s not daylight savings
we have heaps of time to play but
it’s just during the time when it
gets dark early [that the lights are
needed]. Some people are working
so they don’t finish until 5pm or
6pm.”
Board chairwoman Karolin Potter
said residents near the park were
yet to be consulted but she believed
there was a good chance of the idea
being approved.
Megan
WOODS
Member of Parliament for WIGRAM
“So far the staff seem to think
the actual basketball court are far
enough away from the residents
around the perimeter of the park for
noise and light not to be a nuisance,”
she said.
Having more people on the basketball
court until later would also
make the park safer for others, she
said.
Cross Over Trust community liaison
facilitator Roy Kenneally, who
is supporting the teenager’s efforts,
said Ausage had raised the idea with
him about two years ago.
“I was talking with [Ausage]
about what they wanted in the community
and he talked about the light
and I thought ‘it’s going to be in the
too hard basket’ but a year later I
asked him again and he still said the
light,” Mr Kenneally said.
“So I thought if these guys are
keen then lets start fundraising to
see how keen they are and I thought
that might deter them but it didn’t.”
The teenagers had raised $1000
through a variety of efforts including
selling snow cones, sausage
sizzles, helping a woman move
house and helping with setting up
and packing up a community event.
They were also going to help the
city council run a three-on-three
basketball tournament at the park on
May 22.
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GAME TIME: From left, Jasmine Tusa, Callan James Sio,
Shaquille Ausage, Michael Pule and Cross Over Trust
community liaison facilitator Roy Kenneally hope to see lights
installed at the Hoon Hay Park basketball court.
MP’S EXPENSES
How much money MPs
claimed on expenses from
January 1 to March 31 has been
revealed. National list MP Nuk
Korako reported expenses of
$23,984 from Parliamentary
Service including $8362 on air
travel, $8376 on other travel,
$6444 on accommodation in
Wellington and $802 on further
accommodation. Port Hills MP
Ruth Dyson’s expenses were
$16,903 from Parliamentary
Service including $6444
on accommodation in
Wellington, $277 on further
accommodation, $6352 on
air travel and $3829 on other
travel, as well as $1187 from
the Office of the Clerk for
inter-parliamentary travel.
Wigram MP Megan Woods’
expenses were $13,421 from
Parliamentary Service including
$6444 on accommodation in
Wellington, $5689 on air travel
and $1288 on other travel.
Christchurch Central MP Nicky
Wagner’s expenses were $2182
from Parliamentary Service for
air travel.
TEEN AIRLIFTED
A teenager was airlifted to
Christchurch Hospital with
serious injuries on Sunday
afternoon after falling off
his mountain bike on the
Bowenvale track. Emergency
services were alerted at about
2.20pm.
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