The Star: May 11, 2017

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Thursday May 11 2017
Big signs break the rules
• By Gabrielle Stuart
POLITICAL candidates have
been ordered to take down their
election signs, because they are
too big.
Warning letters have been
sent to both National list MP
Nuk Korako and Labour
Christchurch Central candidate
Duncan Webb, ordering them
to take down some signs.
Outside
the election
period,
candidates
have to follow
city council
rules, which
ban any signs
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taller than
90cm or
wider than
60cm unless they have special
consent.
Bigger signs up to three square
metres are allowed between July
22 and September 22.
Mr Korako, who is running in
the Port Hills electorate, said he
was not aware of the rules until
he was contacted by the city
council.
He said he had no complaints
about his signs last election.
He said he had taken down
some signs, including some
large ones on Dyers Pass Rd, but
had left others up in commercial
areas, where he believed they
did not break the rules.
“The council has got a job to
do, but they’ve been really good
about it, they don’t come down
on you with a hammer,” he said.
There are also rules around
election advertising, which is
only allowed during the election
period.
But he said his billboards were
advertising his office, not asking
for votes, so he believed they did
not break the rules.
Mr Webb also had to take
down several of his signs, because
they were too big.
He said he had seen dozens of
other non-complying signs up
all over the city, but he was told
by a city council worker that the
rules were usually only enforced
if someone complained.
“So it comes down to people
who might not agree with my
politics complaining about my
signs,” he said.
TOO BIG:
Christchurch
Central candidate
Duncan Webb and
National MP Nuk
Korako have been
ordered to take
down billboards
this size on some
residential streets,
because they
break city council
rules.
PHOTO: GEOFF
SLOAN
City council head of
regulatory compliance Tracey
Weston said complaints had been
made about 10 different election
signs so far this year, and some of
them were still under investigation.
But she could not say who
the signs belonged to, or if
other candidates had also been
warned.
She said the majority of the
signs were in residential areas,
and broke the rules because of
their size and content.
Wigram young
slow to enrol
• By Bridget Rutherford
LESS THAN half of young
Wigram residents are enrolled
to vote in September’s general
election – the worst electorate in
the city.
Between half and three quarters
of 18-24 year olds are already
enrolled in the Christchurch
electorates, including Selwyn and
Waimakariri, allowing them to
vote on September 23.
But only 46.7 per cent were
currently enrolled in the Wigram
electorate – the lowest of all.
Wigram MP Megan Woods said
a lot of people living in the electorate
were university students,
and enrolled in their parents’
electorates – similar to Dunedin
North.
Christchurch Central was the
second lowest, at 49.6 per cent,
and Ilam at 51.7 per cent.
The figures, provided by the
Electoral Commission, take into
account those enrolled of the estimated
eligible population, on both
the general and Maori rolls.
Port Hills had the highest number
of 18-24 year-olds enrolled of
the city electorates at 73.7 per cent.
It also had the highest number of
people of all ages enrolled, at 92.5
per cent.
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