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Population accelerates

• By Tom Doudney

NOT ONLY is five-day-old

Hadley Baikie the apple of his

parents’ eyes, he is one of a

rapidly expanding number of

children being raised in eastern

Selwyn.

Hadley’s family, which

includes parents Phill and Tessa

and 21-month-old sister Tayla,

live in Rolleston, part of an area

identified by a new Infometrics

report as the third fastest

growing in the country.

THe area, called “southwest

Christchurch” in the

Regional Hotspots report, also

includes West Melton, Lincoln,

Prebbleton and Halswell.

Based on projected population

growth between 2013 and 2023,

it predicted the area would have

grown by 85 per cent in that time

period, an increase of 22,790

people.

Only Hobsonville in Auckland

(up 254 per cent) and central

Christchurch (up 105 per cent)

are expected to have higher

growth rates.

Mrs Baikie said life was good

in Rolleston.

“I think it’s more country-like.

You haven’t got the busyness of

the city, but it’s close enough to

the city if you needed to get in

there,” she said.

“It’s quite family-orientated.”

Mr Baikie has lived in Selwyn

all his life and Mrs Baikie had

been in the district since moving

from Balclutha with her parents

10 years ago.

After living in the area between

West Melton and Templeton,

they decided to build their

first house in Rolleston about six

years ago.

•Turn to pages 4 & 5

• By Tom Doudney

FINALLY SELWYN’S struggling

dairy farmers can expect to have

a little more cash in their pockets

– and that is expected to provide

a boost of about $140 million to

the district’s economy.

A new report from Infometrics

has predicted dairy farmers will

break even this season for the first

time in three years, with an end

to the series of low milk payouts

within sight.

The report said good spring

rainfall in Selwyn meant pasture

was heading towards summer in

a healthy condition.

“Dairy farmers continued to

struggle through the winter, but

will be sighing with relief due to

the recent rally in dairy prices,”

it said.

Infometrics senior economist

Benje Patterson said this would

be good news for Selwyn – and

not just the dairy sector.

“We have had more than a 50

per cent increase in the farm

gate milk price so far this year in

terms of the payout forecast, and

dividends from Fonterra are also

looking pretty good,” Mr Patterson

said.

“Our estimates show there is

going to be about another $140

million pumped into Selwyn’s

economy this dairy season if the

payout ends up being $6.”

•Turn to page 3

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WE’RE GROWING fast in parts

of Selwyn, in fact third fastest

in New Zealand, latest statistics

reveal.

When you see the amount

of housing going up, the new

schools being built, and business

coming into the district, it’s easy

to see why Selwyn is near the top

of the growth table.

Today we have coverage of the

latest figures on pages 1, 4 and

5 and we focus on one of the

district’s brand new faces – fiveday-old

Hayden Baikie.

He’s come into a world where

the pace of change will quicken

incredibly over the next few

decades with technological

advances.

But young Hayden will no

doubt take all of these in his ever

growing strides, as generations

before have during the changes

in their lifetimes.

– Barry Clarke

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News

Social media fuels

rescue effort to relocate eels

• By Tom Doudney

SOCIAL MEDIA has been used

to mobilise a rescue effort to

relocate eels trapped in dried

up stretches of the Selwyn/

Waikirikiri River.

Volunteers, Department of

Conservation and Environment

Canterbury staff and Fish and

Game officers spent several days

last week finding and relocating

eels trapped in a stretch of

the river which extended both

upstream and

downstream

from the State

Highway 1

bridge.

A post by Will

Clayton in the

Rolleston Community

Page on Facebook was

widely shared and more than 60

people commented with a number

of people offering advice or

reporting that they were heading

down to help.

However, reports suggested

many eels and other species such

as trout had already died by the

time they were found.

One person had found “78

dead eels, lots of dead small

trout, and four very big live eels.”

SAD SIGHT: Photos of eels trapped in the Selwyn/Waikirikiri

River, and others which were relocated, were shared to the

Rolleston Community Page on Facebook.

Te Ara Kakariki Greenway

Trust chairman Craig Pauling

(left), also a former member of

Ngāi Tahu’s Te Waihora Management

Board, told the Selwyn

Times the situation was pretty

sad.

He believed that the endangered

longfin eels would be most

affected as they tended to live

upstream and would be trying to

come down to Te Waihora/Lake

Ellesmere to migrate.

“It’s about the right time of

year for them to come down,” Mr

Pauling said.

“They could be very old,

perhaps at least 70 and they

only go down to the lake once to

migrate.”

Mr Pauling, who camped on

the Waikirikiri/Selwyn River as

a child, said the flow of the river

was not what it once was.

Environment Canterbury team

leader hydrological science Helen

Shaw said the river was dry

because of an extended period of

drought which had resulted in

very low groundwater levels.

Drying reaches were likely

to have a major impact on eel

(called ‘tuna’ in Maori), particularly

the longfin species which

penetrated many kilometres

inland.

“If tuna cannot return to sea,

they cannot breed,” she said.

“Unseasonably low flows will

have an impact on fish populations

and increase the likelihood

of getting caught in a drying

reach.”

Department of Conservation

biodiversity ranger Anita Spencer

said the situation was concerning

because longfin eels only

bred at the end of their life and

there had been few opportunities

for them to make it from the top

of the river down to the ocean,

via the lake, over the last two

years due to dry conditions.

She believed the latest migration

attempt might have happened

when a period of rainfall

briefly filled some dried out

parts of the river before the water

quickly receded again.

“That was the problem, it

rained quite a lot but not enough

to keep it flowing,” she said.

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from milk prices

•From page 1

Dairy farmers had been

tightening their belts with the

low payouts, which would have

constrained some retail and

wholesale spending in the district

and may have contributed

to the number of people seeking

Jobseeker Support increasing by

6.8 per cent in the last year.

“[Farmers] are not going to

completely throw their money

around like maybe a few years

ago, but they are gradually going

to spend a little bit more,

particularly on things that they

have been putting off for the

past couple of years,” Mr Patterson

said.

Federated Farmers North

Canterbury dairy chairman

Michael Woodward said an

increased payout would give

farmers some peace of mind.

“At the moment, we are still

just waiting for Westland [Milk

Products] and Synlait to come

out with their updated forecast

to see if they are on track with

Fonterra,” he said.

“Until the last lot comes

through, we can’t count our

chickens just yet, but it’s

definitely a good sign at the moment.”

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More people, more schools

•From page 1

“We just wanted to stay in the

Selwyn area, really, because both

of us already lived out this way,”

Mrs Baikie said.

“We enjoy Rolleston, it’s quite

family-orientated and everyone is

so nice here.”

The Infometrics report said the

previously strong demarcation

between Christchurch’s suburbs

and the towns of Prebbleton, Lincoln

and Rolleston had become

less pronounced since the February

2011 earthquake and the

construction of the Christchurch

Southern Motorway.

Prebbleton and Lincoln still

had “a small-town feel” to them,

but were expected to expand by

30-40 per cent each over the next

eight years.

Over the longer-term, development

along Springs Rd was likely

to see Prebbleton, in particular,

become “more and more like a

suburb of Christchurch.”

Ray White Lincoln co-owner

Steve Morgan said sales of sections

in Prebbleton and Lincoln

had been steady.

“Sales prices have come back

a bit; they had to really because

they were a bit over the top postquake,

but there is still steady

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interest in sections and houses,”

he said.

“There are a lot of people who

want to stay in the [Christchurch]

area post-quake and they see

Lincoln and Prebbleton as a little

bit of a village-type scenario,

where it is still quite easy to commute

to town but they are on the

outskirts.”

The report said that while

Rolleston remained a core component

of growth in the area, the

town’s population, which stood

at 10,000 in the 2013 census,

was projected to be much less

meteoric in coming years. It was

not expected to top 20,000 until

the 2030s.

However, even this rate of

population growth would still

need further substantial development

of retail, community, and

education facilities in the town.

Its first secondary school,

Rolleston College, and fifth primary

school, Lemonwood Grove,

will open next year. Seven years

ago there was only one primary

school in town.

The numbers that the Regional

Hotspots report put around

growth in Selwyn and west

Chrustchurch are huge. However,

they come as no surprise to local

residents, who have watched

sub-divisions, shopping centres

and business parks around them

spreading upward and outward

at a huge rate.

Central Christchurch was also

bound to take off soon, with

many commercial developments

cutting ribbons this year and

moving trucks a regular sight

outside new apartment buildings.

But how long will it last?

The report was optimistic: As

more businesses moved west,

it drew people to homes in the

west. As subdivisions’ boomed,

the demand for shops and business

to service residents’ grew.

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as parts of district booms

It predicted that cycle would

continue.

Others are more conservative.

When asked what he thought

would happen in Christchurch’s

future, Mr Cookson’s first

response was that he was a historian:

Crystal ball-gazing was not

what he did.

But if we were to learn the

lessons of history, he said, we

should look at transport.

“I think there’s a real possibility

we’ll reach the end of the satellite

town development around

Christchurch because the more

you built out of town, the more

traffic you get going in and out

of town, so the more it becomes

inconvenient. At that point,

more people will move back into

town,” he said.

That cycle had been seen in

New Brighton, which was a

thriving shopping hub while it

was the only place shops were

allowed to open on the weekend.

When nationwide Saturday

trading was introduced in the

80s, convenience won out and its

popularity dropped.

The same thing was seen in

the central city after cars became

cheaper and more accessible.

Suburban malls began to boom,

GROWING: With new homes built in subdivisions like Faringdon, the Infometrics Regional

Hotspots report predicts a growing demand for shops and services over the next seven years.

as people no longer needed to

take public transport into the

central city.

While the threat of another

earthquake or a tsunami might

have drawn people toward the

west, he believed that had less

of an impact on people’s choices

than other factors like good

schools or convenience.

Massey University pro vicechancellor

Paul Spoonley, an

expert in demography, said there

were several things that could

dramatically change the shape of

cities.

The number of immigrants

who moved to help with the

rebuild would be having an

effect, he said.

“They tend to live in areas New

Zealanders will traditionally not

want to live in, like high density

areas they are often quite used

to. And they tend to go to new

builds, not the older, historic

areas New Zealanders might

gravitate to,” he said.

Large businesses could also

have a big effect, he said, because

if they chose to base themselves

in an area, they often brought

with them employees who

wanted to live and shop close to

work.

Hornby Quadrant development

manager Kevin Arthur said

there had been huge demand

for commercial sites in the

development, which runs

between Main South Rd and

Springs Rd.

But a lot of the growth was

due to the sped-up consenting

process, he said.

“We were eyeing Hornby

for 10 years plus prior to

the earthquakes, but to get

planning consent for industrial

development takes an awfully

long time. In one case, it took us

seven years. This short-circuited

the whole system,” he said.

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Bypass won’t benefit everyone

In Brief

SHOPPING CENTRE OPEN

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding

POUND RD residents may have

to put up with an increase of

heavy vehicles past their homes

daily as part of a plan to mitigate

heavy congestion in the Hornby

business area.

A $15 million

new bypass is to

be constructed

through Waterloo

Business

Park.

As part of

this work, the

Mike Mora

Sara Harnett

NZ Transport

Agency plans

to upgrade the

intersection

at Barters Rd,

Pound Rd and

Main South

Rd to cater for

increased traffic.

Waterloo

Business

Park assistant

development

manager Joel Webber said it was

expected between 3000-5000

people will be working at the

park when it is completed.

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton

Community Board chairman

Mike Mora said while the

intersection would ease

congestion, the new bypass will

send trucks along Pound Rd.

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“If heavy trucks are coming

from the south going north, they

will either come up Main South

Rd at least to Carmen Rd, turn

left, and then head north.

“They won’t need to with this

new intersection at Pound Rd

and Main South Rd in place,” Mr

Mora said.

The current traffic volume on

Pound Rd is about 5500 vehicles

a day.

But Pound Rd residents said it

was hard to say how they would

be affected by the bypass.

Resident and Yaldhurst

Residents’ Association

chairwoman Sara Harnett said

there would definitely be more

noise.

“I hope there are not too many

big trucks going there but there

is certainly potential,” she said.

Resident Debbie Payne said

with Fulton Hogan Quarries

Canterbury down the road they

already had heavy loads going up

and down the road.

She said it would be great

when the traffic lights were put

in because the intersection at

Barters Rd and Main South Rd

was a nightmare.

A NZTA spokeswoman

said, as of November 1, 2016,

about 24,000 vehicles used the

intersection at Main South Rd

and Barters Rd each day.

She said there were 19 injury

crashes at the intersection of

Main South Rd and Barters Rd

between 2011 and 2015.

The project is planned to take

15 months to complete.

Along with the construction

of the bypass, stage 2 of

the Christchurch Southern

Motorway project has begun to

improve congestion problems for

motorists commuting between

Halswell and Rolleston.

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Adams on Friday. Ms Adams

unveiled a plaque. She and

Deputy Mayor Malcolm Lyall

both spoke at the opening. Several

shops at the mall are now

open, including Four Square

West Melton, and most of the

others are expected to open over

the next month.

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Chance meeting leads to New York show

• By Annabelle Dick

ATTENDING a cousin’s birthday

party as a 14-year-old led

Southbridge’s Jayde Vivian to an

invitation to take part in one of the

world’s most coveted fashion events.

Jayde, now 16, has been handpicked

to walk in several New York

Fashion Week shows in February.

She’s only been modelling for two

years and never considered it until a

chance encounter at the party.

“THere was a girl from NZ Models

& Talent at my cousin’s birthday and

she came up to me and we got talking

and she said I should model. She

gave me the director’s card and it just

kicked off from there,” she said.

Now the Ellesmere College student

will walk for the world’s leading and

emerging designers like Vera Wang,

alongside exclusive models such as

Gigi Hadid.

She’s one of two local models to

be picked. Selwyn Times reported

earlier this month that Lincoln’s Jaime

Spencer, 20, will also walk in NYFW.

THe pair are two of three New

Zealand models who were chosen for

the opportunity through the Ozlink

Fashion Programme.

Said Jayde: “I can’t really believe it,

it will only feel real once I’m in New

York. I feel so privileged.”

THe pair will spend 10 days in

New York taking part in the major

international Amit Singh Chahaun

show, two boutique shows and two

realway shows.

THey’ll also get a city and studio

photo shoot with a professional

fashion photographer.

“Going from little old Southbridge

to New York is insane. If I got scouted

it would be incredible,” she said.

THis will be the first time she’s

travelled further than Australia, and

she says her parents aren’t too worried

to let her travel abroad in spite of her

age.

“THey’re really excited for me,

they’ve been so supportive,” Jayde

said.

While preparing for the New York

events, the year 12 student is also just

trying to get through schooling and

finish her exams.

“It’s been a wee bit tough but you’ve

just got to prioritise,” she said.

Jayde plans on studying business

after leaving school.

However, the pair both need to raise

funds before committing to the trip.

THe girls will be in New York from

February 9 to February 22.

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PICTURESQUE: This historic mansion in

Darfield (above), and a Prebbleton home

(right), were among 100 houses from around

the country entered in the final of the

Registered Master Builders House of the Year

competition. However, neither came away

with a prize when results were announced

at a gala dinner in Auckland on Saturday.

The Darfield mansion, renovated by Craig

Brown Construction Ltd, was entered in the

Renovations Over $500,000 category and has

previously won one of two supreme awards in

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Year in July. The Prebbleton home, built by

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Police crack

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drink drivers

POLICE SAY they will be

carrying out more random patrols

on all Selwyn roads over the

Christmas and New Year holiday

period – and the booze bus will be

deployed in both rural and urban

areas.

They have partnered with the

district council and licensed

premises across the district in

a Christmas-New Year drink

drive campaign, saying motorists

should be prepared for checkpoints

and patrols anywhere, any

time.

The campaign encourages

drivers to plan a safe ride home

if they’ve had a few drinks this

holiday season. While many

people believed drivers who had

been drinking had a lower chance

of being stopped when they drove

on rural back roads, this was not

the case.

“Police will be active in Selwyn

operating check points and policing

the roads in an effort to ensure

that everyone is safe,” Senior

Sergeant Pete Stills said.

“Police encourage motorists to

plan to have a sober driver and,

if utilising licensed premises in

Selwyn, to make use of the courtesy

vehicles available.”

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Bid to make better use of community space

• By Tom Doudney

SCHOOLS, CAFES and other

businesses could be utilised to

provide more community space.

The new direction has been

signalled in the Eastern Selwyn

Community Spaces Plan which

was adopted by the district council

on Wednesday.

A staff report which accompanied

the plan said New

Zealanders’ usage of space for

community activities was shifting

from the traditional community

halls to cafes, markets,

schools and other business and

public premises.

Most traditional community

halls were no longer fit for purpose,

inflexible, poorly equipped,

had unused capacity and were

disconnected from their surroundings.

“There is unrealised and

underutilised community space

outside of usual operating hours

in schools, cafes and other business

premises,” the report said.

“This [is] a step away from the

current model which is heavily

focused on providing more asset,

not necessarily concerning

TIMES CHANGE: New Zealander’s use of community space is shifting away from more traditional venues like Prebbleton Hall

(left), and towards other venues such as cafes.

itself as to whether that creates

‘waste’, or, whether the kinds of

community spaces intended to

be built will meet community

expectations and needs.”

Businesses making their

premises available as community

spaces outside of their normal

operating hours could potentially

be offered rates rebates or

might benefit by providing catering

services.

Mayor Sam Broughton said the

district council did not want to be

replicating facilities that already

existed in the community.

“The council has traditionally

had a lot of halls but people don’t

just meet in halls, they meet in

cafes all the time and schools

have facilities that can be really

good for community use,” he

said.

“It’s about working with people

who are open to the possibility

of their space being used. That

can be good for business if it’s in

a cafe and it means council is not

spending money doubling up.”

The plan calls for the district

council to make seed funding

available as a catalyst to activate

use of community spaces. Things

which might be funded could

include the development of an

online booking system, the

management of community

spaces and the introduction of

programmes, festivals, art and

functional landscaping.

The district council’s own

Rolleston headquarters would

be made available for after-hours

community use, starting at some

point during the next year, as a

way of leading by example.

Retrofitting some of the district

council’s existing ‘not fit for

purpose’ community buildings

would also be pursued.

Schools approached in Lincoln,

Rolleston and Prebbleton

had been open to further discussions

about their use as community

space, as had Lincoln

University.

Exciting times in store for Rolleston

District

councillor

Craig Watson

writes about

utilising older

buildings

when looking

at town

centre master plans

Shortly is it expected that

the Minster of Conservation

approves the transfer of reserve

status from Rolleston Reserve to

Foster Park. This will give some

drive to the implementation

of the Rolleston Town Centre

Masterplan.

That is exciting. Rolleston

can have a heart, a centre for

it’s community and even more

exciting it will help ensure that

Selwyn has a true retail, social,

sporting and supply epicentre.

I see Rolleston becoming

like Oamaru for the Waitaki or

Rangiora for the Waimakariri,

albeit on varying scales from

our regional friends. There will

always be a reason to head into

Christchurch, but hopefully less

reasons over time. Let us be an

independent Selwyn that I think

we can be.

We received an interesting paper

last week at council, entitled

The Eastern Selwyn Community

Spaces Plan, which you can find

on the agenda page on the district

council website. The paper

was commissioned to help us

shape our towns, it talked about

(among other things) creating

opportunities within existing

spaces.

That got me thinking. One

thing that the Rolleston Town

Centre Masterplan proposes is a

new Library/Community Centre,

one that is fit for the rapidly

increasing population in the

centre of our district. So what

about the existing Rolleston

Community Centre?

The current plan proposes

that the new centre will be on

a different spot within the new

town centre and the current area

becomes another commercial/

retail area, but do we want to

put up another shop or do we

want to repurpose the existing

building?

If we were to repurpose the

building what big picture (but

low cost) ideas could we come up

with? Well here are a few ideas

I have thought of to get the ball

rolling. Ideas that I think we are

missing in our fledgling community

or ideas that might have been

floated to me while campaigning

and of course some ideas that are

just plain left field ideas because,

as a new community, I think we

need to take a few risks to make

us stand out a bit.

So to get the discussion rolling

(remember this is early days and

I am just one councilor throwing

ideas out for the community to

consider and feedback on) here

are a few ideas to ponder and

debate.

How about a district museum

to celebrate our heritage, an

art gallery to celebrate our talent,

a youth facility to support

our growing 10 – 18 year old

population, an above ground

learn-to-swim pool to take the

pressure of the Selwyn Aquatic

Centre, a boutique movie theatre

or a community theatre for local

productions to feature the talent

of our district?

I am interested in knowing

what you think? Please send me

an email on CrCraig.Watson@

selwyn.govt.nz or on facebook

on @Craig4Selwyn

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Road upgrade may

be fast tracked

• By Tom Doudney

THE UPGRADE of an unsealed

pothole-filled road in the

heart of Lincoln may be fast

tracked after its condition was

highlighted in the Selwyn Times.

West Belt, on the northern

side of Gerald St, is unsealed on

one side for about two thirds of

its length.

The district council had

previously said it would look at

upgrading it as part of its 2018-

2028 Long Term Plan.

However, district councillor

Grant Miller said he and other

local district councillors would

be pushing to get the work

scheduled as part of the 2017-

2018 Annual Plan instead.

“We believe it needs to happen

faster,” he said.

Asked if the work should have

been done already, Cr Miller

said: “It’s an easy shot to raise,

because certainly I believe it

should have been done, but what

we are charged with is actually

prioritising roads over all of

Selwyn.

“We have increased the budget

substantially and we want to get

roads like this done but we were

charged with looking at roads

all over Selwyn, not just Lincoln

or Rolleston, so other roads have

been higher up the priority list,”

he said.

“But that said, it’s not an

excuse, and it is part of our plan

to get it done and we will get it

done as fast as we possibly can.”

Deputy mayor Malcolm Lyall,

one of three Springs Ward district

councillors along with Cr

Miller, said he would support Cr

Miller’s efforts to get the work

on West Belt into the next Annual

Plan.

“In my long time on the council

there have been a number of

years that local residents have

asked for that to be sealed and I

am backing Grant in trying to

get it brought forward to get it

tidied up,” he said.

“It also means that it gives

us overflow parking for other

events and things that happen in

the community.”

District council property and

commercial manager Douglas

Marshall said budget discussions

on the next Annual Plan were

let to happen so he couldn’t say

at this stage how likely it was

that sealing West Belt would be

funded.

The fully sealed portion of

the road north of Gerald St was

partially funded by the owners of

The Laboratory bar and restaurant,

which opened about a year

ago, as part of resource consent

conditions around car parking.

Owners Martin and Lisa Bennett

paid about $75,000 towards

the overall cost ($230,000) of

sealing the road and building

a shared car park behind their

building, also used by Lincoln

Library and Lincoln & Districts

Community Care.

•HAVE YOUR SAY: What

would you think of the

district bringing forward

work on West Belt to its next

Annual Plan? Send your

views to tom.doudney@

starmedia.kiwi

ECan opposes exploration

• By Tom Doudney

ENVIRONMENT Canterbury

has joined the Christchurch,

Auckland and Dunedin city

councils in opposing deep sea

oil and gas exploration off the

Canterbury coast.

Regional councillors voted

10-2 to submit in opposition to

the Government’s proposal to

open more than a quarter of a

million square kilometres of

seabed along New Zealand’s east

coast, including Canterbury, to

oil companies.

The vote came after a deputation

by Oil Free Otautahi and

climate protection organisation

350.org Christchurch.

Cr Peter Scott and Cr John

Sunckell voted against adopting

the submission, while Cr Elizabeth

Cunningham abstained.

The submission raised concerns

over the “very significant”

environmental risks related

to oil and gas exploration and

requested that the Government

give further consideration to its

commitments under the Paris

Agreement on climate change.

It also requested that if the

Government did go ahead with

the proposal, then full public

consultation should be carried

out. At present only local authorities

and iwi are able to make

submissions.

Cr Lan Pham (right), who

tabled amendments to the submission

which signalled ECan’s

opposition to the proposal, said

the 10-2 vote was heartening.

Looking back

GOOD SHOOTING: Two men

returning from a successful duck

hunting session at Te Waihora/Lake

Ellesmere (date unknown).

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“In the past ECan had submitted

but hadn’t really taken a position

on it,” she said.

“Now we are saying ‘look it’s

our responsibility to protect our

people, our economy and our

environment’ and it’s through

basically sending this

message to the Government

that these activities

don’t constitute

a sustainable future that

we are actually representing

the people and

letting them have their

say through us.”

Oil Free Otautahi

spokesman Charles

Drace said the opposition from

ECan and the other councils

meant the Government must

take notice.

“For economic, environmental,

climate and moral reasons,

there is no alternative but to oppose

deep sea oil drilling in the

Pegasus Basin and hector’s and

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maui dolphin habitat,” he

said.

Cr Sunckell declined to comment

on his reasons for voting

against the submission.

“I had a view but that’s the vote

so collectively that’s our position,

so I support our position,”

he said.

Cr Scott said his

opposition related

to the process of the

meeting rather than

the content of the

submission and in

hindsight he should

have abstained rather

than voting against it.

The district council’s chief

executive David Ward said it had

not considered the matter, therefore

it had no position. Selwyn

has about 40km of coastline,

extending from Birdling’s Flat to

the Rakaia River mouth, adjacent

to a proposed offshore exploration

area.

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SCHOOLS

BUDDING FILM MAKERS: Lincoln’s MADE Awards recipients on stage at a school assembly.

Lincoln wins movie awards

Lincoln Primary School

pupil Holly Walker writes

about the digital media

awards her school won in

the MADE competition

The MADE (Movie And Digital

Excellence) awards ceremony was

held at the Baycourt Community

and Arts Centre in Tauranga.

This event was described as

a red carpet event for the way

people were dressed up.

There was a guest speaker

called Will Johnston.

Lincoln Primary School did

very well. We received two first

place awards, two second place

awards and two third place

awards.

We had two teachers attending

the ceremony – Mr Prisco and

Miss Newton.

They said they enjoyed the

drum performance. The drums

were made of containers. They

also said that next year we could

improve on our acting skills.

The awards won were:

•First – Year 7-8, Stand up,

Stand up

•First – Team 3 Green, 5 Freedoms

for Animals

•Second – Year 7, Pay it Forward

•Second for best actor – Angus

Macaulay

•Third – Year 4-6, The Pixel

Graft

•Third for best actor – Jay

Dixon

The prizes included trophies,

two iPad Minis and technology

vouchers.

It was a night to remember for

Lincoln Primary School. Well

done to all who won a prize.

Awards, certificates and prizes

were re-presented to pupils at our

school assembly on Friday.

AGILE: Lisa, Bella and Emily on the high rope course at The

Groynes.

Change to school camp

plans doesn’t hinder fun

A CHANGE of plan due to the

recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake

in North Canterbury meant

West Melton School pupils spent

a planned school camp on the

outskirts of Christchurch instead

of the Marlborough Sounds.

The pupils had been due to

travel to Mistletoe Bay in the

Sounds but instead stayed at

the Omaka Scout Camp near

Sawyers Arms Reserve.

Taking part in the camp was

the pupils final William Pike

Challenge activity.

To complete the challenge,

pupils must participate in eight

outdoor activities, take up a new

sport or hobby and do 20 hours

of community service.

The programme was created by

William Pike, who, in 2007, was

one of two climbers caught in a

volcanic eruption on the slopes

of Mt Ruapehu.

As a result of his life

threatening injuries, his right

leg was amputated below the

knee and he required extensive

rehabilitation.

During the camp, the pupils

completed a difficult high ropes

course at The Groynes, which

they walked one and a half hours

from their camp to get to.

The pupils also went sailing

on Lake Roto Kohatu and, on

a day which was pouring with

rain, were given the challenge of

building a bridge across a stream

with tubes, a plank and ropes.

They spent their down time

playing games, rubber tubing,

exploring and feeding eels.

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developed an exchange programme for junior students. The schools take turns visiting each

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