Southern View: July 04, 2017

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•HAVE YOUR SAY: What do you think of the decision to move L:inwood
College while it is rebuilt? Email sarla.donovan@starmedia.kiwi
FLAME FILES
Rescuing animals
all part of the job
• By Mark Thomas – specialist fire
investigator
I’M NOT sure what got into the
pets of Halswell last week but
over just two days our crews
were called to three animal
rescues in the suburb.
First a dog chased a rabbit
underneath a childcare centre –
and stayed there.
It was retrieved. Second, a
horse was stuck down a bank at
Kennedy’s Bush. With local help
and a vet on-site it was winched
up.
Finally, an old fashioned catup-a-tree
event in Arkwright Pl
shows no record of just what was
done in the radio message log.
It might still be there. But I
doubt it.
To complete this animal report
a mama duck from Bromley,
who is a bit out of season with
her troop of ducklings, fell into
a drain only to be rescued by the
good lads of the Woolston Fire
Station.
A bit early in the year you’d
think. I hope they all survive.
There were fires of course.
A very elderly lady wielding a
walking stick actively prevented
neighbours evacuating her from
her home in Sockburn after a
kitchen fire on June 24.
Consequently, she was treated
for smoke inhalation at the
scene.
Someone in Redwood used a
toaster as a cigarette lighter by
lying it on its side on June 23.
Not too surprisingly the
toaster caught fire.
There’s a thousand ways your
house can catch fire.
But there are many hundreds
of thousands of houses.
Most will never burn.
A bit of common sense makes
it much less likely.
Just how common that common
sense is, I sometimes
wonder.
We said:
Linwood College is on
the move to the former
Avonside Girls’ High School
site while the school is
being rebuilt
You said:
Laura McIntosh – Lots of
chopping and changing and
moving of sites to create this
Avonside Girls’ High School/
Shirley Boys’ High School super
school. Seems like they should
be staying where they are. Is
Linwood going to adopt this new
student-led learning policy like
Haeata?
Lisa Armstrong – This has
made me so mad. I have had
several chats with the principal
and others and they all said that
they won’t be moving, as they
didn’t want it to interfere with
the students and thought moving
VISION: Architect Carsten Auer will redesign Linwood College,
which will move to the former Avonside Girls’ High School site
while it is rebuilt.
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER ​
sites would do more harm
than good. The original plan
was to do one block that was not
being used at the time, i.e build
a new gym on site, then remove
the old building.
Sounds like saving dollars
became the first priority.
Stephan Lance Gardiner
– Fact of the day, the grounds
were used as the morge for the
influenza pandemic during the
war before the school was built.
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