Selwyn Times: November 15, 2016

SELWYN TIMES Tuesday November 15 2016 5
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Community committee
elections get under way
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IF YOU thought elections in
Selwyn were over and done with
– think again.
Elections for Selwyn’s 63 community
committees will take
place between this month and
February.
The committees assist with
running local facilities like com-
ardening
munity halls, swimming pools,
reserves and local township or
residents’ committees.
The district council is appealing
for people to consider joining
a community committee and
help shape local services.
Mayor Sam Broughton (below)
said community
otoring
committees had an
important role to
play.
“By joining a
committee, you help
make decisions about local facilities
and services in your area
and give advice to council to
help us provide the right services
for your area,” Mr Broughton
asty Bites
said.
“We really appreciate the
voluntary work that committee
members do and I would
encourage people who use and
LOCAL MANAGEMENT: The Southbridge Hall and
Prebbleton Community Cottage (inset) are two of the many
local facilities which local community committees help run. ​
enjoy local facilities and services
to consider joining a community
committee.”
Township or residents’
committees are allocated
discretionary funding to pursue
improvement and beautification
projects, and facility and reserve
committees oversee
the maintenance of local
facilities and parks.
Each committee sets its own
meeting schedule, with most
committees meeting once every
month or every two months.
Anyone interested in joining
a committee can visit www.
selwyn.govt.nz for a list of
upcoming local election meeting
dates.
Cup Week mates
have a grouse time
A GROUP of former Hutt Valley
rugby teammates and good
friends travelled from across New
Zealand and Australia to stay at
Lincoln’s Famous Grouse Hotel
for Cup and Show Week.
The group was keeping alive a
tradition which started about 50
years ago as two separate annual
trips by players from the Hutt
Valley Marist and Petone rugby
clubs.
About 30 years ago they combined
their trips into one and the
Famous Grouse Hotel has hosted
them for the last six years.
Group members now come
from as far apart as Australia,
Auckland and the Kapiti Coast,
as well as the Wellington area.
Organiser Brian Tebbutt, of
Upper Hutt, said he was one of
about “five or six” original members
of the travelling group who
still made the trip. There were
usually about 20 in the group
each year, including several, like
himself, aged in their 70s.
Mr Tebbutt, who used to play
rugby for Petone, said the group
had often stayed at Christchurch’s
Sandridge Motel in the past but
decided to make The Famous
Grouse their regular home away
from home when owners Craig
and Bridget Bradford sold the
former and bought the latter.
“One of the highlights of the
trip is the way that Bridget and
Craig and the people at the [Famous
Grouse] hotel look after us,”
he said.
Mr Tebbutt said this year’s trip
had been fantastic, even if the
bets they placed at Addington
Raceway and Riccarton Park
Racecourse had not been lucrative.
“A few guys had a good collect
but most of us left quite a bit of
North Island money down there
as we normally do,” he said.
Mr Bradford said the group was
fantastic.
“They are just a brilliant bunch
of guys and the nicest blokes you
could ever run into,” he said.
“The locals love them, even
though they take over half the
pub.”
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