Southern View: December 12, 2017

6 Tuesday December 12 2017
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SOUTHERN VIEW
Tenders close for
Halswell skate parks
Historic cafe gets
new lease of life
•From page 1
It was originally home to David
McKay, an immigration officer
with the Canterbury Provincial
Government who also administered
the Charitable Aid Fund.
Mr McKay defaulted on the
mortgage repayments on the
house after he was charged with
embezzlement, lost his job and his
wife left him.
The house was bought by
Georgiana Thomson, the widow
of accountant William Thomson,
who was a captain with the
Canterbury Yeomanry Calvary,
Provincial Auditor and Official
Assignee at the time of his death
in 1866.
She named the two-storey
weatherboard house Cardowan
after a suburb in Glasgow.
When Georgiana Thompson
died she passed the house to
her son, John. He had arrived in
Canterbury as a child with his
parents and spent his early years
working on sheep stations before
taking up his father’s profession.
In his retirement John Thomson
took up walking long distances
on the Port Hills and in 1931 he
gifted 63 acres of land on the Port
Hills (now known as Thomson
Park) to the public.
The city council’s heritage team
is helping the new owners compile
a detailed history of the property,
email any information or photos
to heritage@ccc.govt.nz.
• By Emily O’Connell
THE TWO proposed Halswell
skate parks are one step closer
with the deadline for tender
applications closing yesterday.
After three years of planning,
the Halswell Domain and
Knights Stream skate parks
are expected to be ready by late
April, instead of January as
initially planned.
City council head of parks
Brent Smith said after the
resource consents were lodged,
the skate parks went out for
tender on November 16.
The consent process took
longer than expected and, as
a result, construction of both
parks has been delayed.
Halswell Residents Association
secretary David Hawke
said the skate parks are fantastic
and they will have a good impact
on the community.
“If you look at one of the
things the Halswell Hub is doing,
it’s got a different type of
outreach I suppose, for young
people in our community and
the skate parks fit into that bigger
picture,” he said.
Mr Hawke said parents are
currently having to drive their
children to Prebbleton to skate.
“You see people doing what
they’re not supposed to be
doing, which is sort of bounce
their scooters and skateboards
about in the supermarket
carparks and so on,” he said.
The city council won’t know
if both sites will be managed
together until a contractor has
been selected. Mr Smith said
the city council is intending on
choosing a contractor before
Christmas.
He said construction on both
skate parks should start at the
beginning of February, with
landscaping to be completed in
May.
PROGRESS: The
Halswell Domain
skate park (pictured)
and the Knights
Stream skate
park are both on
their way to being
built, with tender
applications closing
yesterday. ​
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