Southern View: July 12, 2016
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SOUTHERN VIEW Tuesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 5<br />
News<br />
Davies departing to be<br />
involved in ‘radical’ politics<br />
• By Tom Doudney<br />
DEPARTING Hagley-<br />
Ferrymead Community Board<br />
member Joe Davies is off to<br />
Brexit-land, but will keep in<br />
touch with grass roots politics in<br />
Christchurch for the remainder<br />
of his term.<br />
Mr Davies, 21, will leave for<br />
the United Kingdom in the next<br />
two weeks, where he hopes to<br />
become involved with “radical”<br />
politics in the wake of the country’s<br />
vote to leave the European<br />
Union.<br />
The move will also enable<br />
him to spend more time with<br />
his Swedish girlfriend Lovisa<br />
Limseth.<br />
Although he will not seek<br />
re-election in October, he has decided<br />
not to resign early, in spite<br />
of not being able to attend the<br />
last five board meetings, so that<br />
he can keep in touch with what<br />
is happening in the ward for the<br />
remainder of his term.<br />
Mr Davies said he had asked<br />
for a resolution to be passed<br />
at the next community board<br />
meeting allowing him to finish<br />
his term without picking up a<br />
salary.<br />
LOVE AND COUNTRY: Departing Hagley-Ferrymead<br />
Community Board member Joe Davies will soon return to the<br />
United Kingdom where he was born. <br />
“I think Brexit has provided<br />
one of the most radical<br />
opportunities for politics in<br />
my lifetime and, although I<br />
am a Kiwi, my blood is<br />
British.<br />
“I think that we need to<br />
stop wallowing in self-pity at a<br />
democratic verdict and get on<br />
with it, so I am going to return<br />
to Europe to witness these<br />
radical times.”<br />
Mr Davies reiterated his desire<br />
to become a New Zealand MP in<br />
the future.<br />
“It has been an absolute honour<br />
to serve the people and I say<br />
with absolute certainty that I will<br />
return to New Zealand when the<br />
radical times arrive here.”<br />
In Brief<br />
STREAM RESTORATION<br />
A stream restoration project<br />
in Hoon Hay has been put on<br />
hold because one of the adjacent<br />
landowners wants to sell their<br />
property. The project involved<br />
the adjacent landowners, the<br />
Christchurch-West Melton<br />
Zone Committee, Environment<br />
Canterbury and the city council,<br />
which has bought some of the<br />
land. ECan land management<br />
advisor Shelly Washington said<br />
the project might still go ahead<br />
in future depending on available<br />
funds and the interest of all<br />
parties involved.<br />
ON GOING ROAD WORKS<br />
Part of Sparks Rd is now oneway<br />
due to road repairs. Stronger<br />
Christchurch Infrastructure<br />
Rebuild Team started work on<br />
the road between Hoon Hay<br />
Rd and Maryhill Ave earlier<br />
this month and the road is<br />
expected to be closed for another<br />
two weeks while repairs are<br />
carried out. Detours and traffic<br />
management will be in place.<br />
RE-OPENING: The Victoria Park visitors centre has<br />
re-opened. The building was damaged following the<br />
February 22, 2011 earthquake and was closed while it<br />
received repairs and strengthening. The rock and brick work<br />
was strengthened and new displays were added.<br />
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