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10 Tuesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
Your Local Views<br />
Cherry and Don Lorking<br />
respond to <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong>’<br />
article on the district<br />
council setting up a<br />
working party to look at the<br />
district’s facilities available<br />
to cope with freedom<br />
campers<br />
My wife and I agree working<br />
parties, throughout New Zealand,<br />
need to consider a charge<br />
for the honour of using the<br />
facilities we provide for freedom<br />
campers at great cost.<br />
They say they cannot afford to<br />
pay, so they don’t have a holiday<br />
in New Zealand. They have paid<br />
for air fares, vehicles and food<br />
so they need to budget for a payment<br />
for the facilities as well.<br />
Living near Coes Ford we see<br />
the numbers which have now<br />
put off families like ours going to<br />
enjoy the area.<br />
Steve Young responds<br />
to <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong>’ article<br />
on parking issues at The<br />
Famous Sheffield Pie Shop<br />
The parking around the pie<br />
shop is, as your photograph<br />
partly shows, ill-defined, which<br />
is the fault of both the property<br />
owner and the road controlling<br />
authorities.<br />
The shop’s off-street parking<br />
needs to be better defined, especially<br />
out front. The berms you<br />
refer to don’t belong to the neighbours;<br />
they are part of the road<br />
reserve, and as such it’s the district<br />
council’s job to maintain them.<br />
Although, obviously, most people,<br />
including me, mow the grass<br />
berms outside our properties.<br />
Widen the seal on Duke St<br />
(and preferably put in kerbing<br />
and footpaths as well), paint<br />
parking spaces, signpost the<br />
shop’s back car park, and problem<br />
solved. Widening the seal on<br />
the north side of State Highway<br />
73, with a bit of kerbing to define<br />
the road edge as well, would also<br />
be a good move.<br />
We said:<br />
The Famous Sheffield<br />
Pie Shop makes a darn<br />
good pie – but locals are<br />
screaming out for roading<br />
changes to make it safer<br />
to park outside the shop<br />
which sits beside a busy<br />
highway:<br />
You said:<br />
Alison Westrupp – Put in a<br />
bus lane. That’s what they do to<br />
ease parking issues isn’t it?<br />
I’m kidding, I support local business<br />
and I hope this issue is able<br />
to be sorted.<br />
Andrew Johnson – I’d park<br />
in Springfield and walk there for<br />
one of their pies.<br />
Denise Petrie – Parking<br />
omg. Seriously have you been<br />
to Auckland or Wellington and<br />
looked for a safe park. Walking<br />
is an option.<br />
Andrea Welsh – Oh yum.<br />
They have the best pies.<br />
Ken Duggan – Move the<br />
shop, easy.<br />
Andrew Gordon – Good<br />
pies.<br />
We said:<br />
Darfield has been<br />
labelled as having the best<br />
tasting water in the country<br />
by a panel of judges at<br />
the New Zealand Water<br />
Industry Operators Group<br />
conference. Do you agree?<br />
You said:<br />
Jenny Blacklock – Sounds<br />
great. We always take large<br />
containers of our water from<br />
Motueka when we go travelling<br />
as ours is just as superb also.<br />
Would love to know how we<br />
rated in the water industry tests.<br />
We will give you guys a “taste<br />
test” next time we are travelling<br />
through Darfield.<br />
Graeme Brown – Should<br />
have kept that quiet. Now they<br />
will sell the rights to a bottling<br />
plant for next to nothing and<br />
then charge Darfield higher rates<br />
to cover the costs.<br />
Hamish Middleton<br />
– Amazing that within 40km it<br />
either turns bad or disappears<br />
completely.<br />
Wendy McDiarmid: Waikuku<br />
Beach has the best water.<br />
Dean Anthony Robinson:<br />
Lake Tekapo’s water clear<br />
cool clean just so fresh.<br />
We said:<br />
Jimmy Barnes is<br />
heading to Lincoln. Oh the<br />
memories of playing Jimmy<br />
on the ol’ tape deck back in<br />
the day. . .<br />
You said:<br />
Mark Restieaux – Oh cool,<br />
just what Christchurch could do<br />
with after what they have been<br />
through over the past five years.<br />
Amanda Dixon – Definitely<br />
going again next year.<br />
Leonie Knight – This would<br />
be awesome.<br />
Lee Beattie – Awesome lineup.<br />
Can’t wait.<br />
Gilly Barker – Have to go.<br />
Mary McAtamney – I’m<br />
booked already.<br />
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closer<br />
to your<br />
dream lifestyle<br />
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