Selwyn Times: May 09, 2017

10 Tuesday May 9 2017
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SELWYN TIMES
A reader responds to last
week’s Selwyn Times’
article on a proposal
for a new Returned and
Services Association to be
established in Rolleston
Lawrence Mitten – While
the Templeton RSA rooms on
Kirk Rd are useful, it makes a
good deal of sense to move the
Templeton RSA to Rolleston.
Moving the Canterbury Regiment
Association’s history centre
from Burnham to a new RSA at
Rolleston is a fantastic idea and
needs further promotion.
The current Christchurch
RSA is failing and is struggling
to make ends meet. The history
centre has some fantastic displays
and much memorabilia. If
this project is done correctly, and
I have no doubt that it will be,
then Canterbury will have the
first military museum combined
with an RSA in the South Island.
This will be an opportunity for
the history centre’s curators to
gather up the many thousands of
items of memorabilia which are
throughout the South Island.
Visitors can combine a visit
to the Rolleston RSA clubrooms
and a visit to the Rolleston history
centre, and, prior or after,
a visit to the Air Force Museum
of New Zealand in Wigram – a
wonderful outing.
The South Island, and Canterbury
in particular, has paid a
PLANS: Support to move the Templeton RSA to Rolleston is growing. (Right) – A reader calls for the banning of freedom campers.
heavy price in lost sons during
the wars New Zealand has been
involved in since the Boer War.
We must preserve their
memory and sacrifice.
A memorial museum would go
a long way to achieve this. Burnham
Military Camp, which is
about 6km from Rolleston will
supply a number of members,
both serving soldiers and returned
veterans from the recent
deployments from the Middle
East.
The New Zealand Defence
Force is closing the Waiouru
Military Camp shortly and the
army is moving to Burnham and
will become the central pivot
for the army throughout New
Zealand. This is a golden opportunity
for the Templeton RSA.
A reader responds
to last week’s Selwyn
Times’ article on freedom
camping
David Taylor – Very simple
. . . keep it black and white. Do
we want second tier tourists who
add little, and cost New Zealanders
heavily?
Simple answer is no.
Do we want high quality tourists
who add value? Yes.
Ban freedom campers period.
Make people stay in Department
of Conservation camps or normal
camping grounds.
Not fair that campground
owners invest and provide a
good service.
Why should people camp essentially
where they like.
This country attracts tourists
based on our clean image
and the beauty we have . . . keep
this up and no one will want to
come to New Zealand which will
just be another trashed filthy
country like so many others.
If tourism is managed properly
and if we invest heavily into
infrastructure it can work. But
typical of all governments and at
local level too – they are reactive
and lazy rather than be proactive
and anticipate likely outcomes
before they happen.
Our politicians and councillors
are too self-serving and interested
more in keeping their jobs
than do the hard yards necessary
to protect what we have, but for
how long as the environment is
being severely compromised all
in the name of money.
As a New Zealander I’m far
from happy the way we are being
sold out.
Like the state of our waterways,
it’s a disgrace.
Clean and green is the biggest
con. New Zealanders will soon
wake up, as the will the rest of
the world, that the country is a
rort.
We invest too much on marketing
how great we are. I only
wish so much effort and money
went into protecting what we
have for future generations . . .
sustainability springs to mind.
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