Selwyn Times: October 17, 2017

10 Tuesday October 17 2017
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SELWYN TIMES
Your Local Views
Readers respond to Selwyn
Times’ article on reserved
car parking signage which
will be removed from a line
of shops in Lincoln
Hamish Middleton – Nice
to hear councillors from another
district are also hell bent on
destroying roads and businesses
with cycleways.
Rohanne Compton – Novel
idea but why don’t they provide
their own parking instead of laying
claim to public parking.
Elsie Panagan Kachfi
– This is not good for business
guys.
Tony Howell – Just park
there. They can’t enforce an
illegal parking restriction and
I’m sure the district council
will charge a stupid amount
of money to clean up the
defacement of public property.
Pat Dooley – If you don’t
own it (the parking spaces)
what makes you think you
can make the rules about who
uses it. The district council
should send a guy in an orange
jacket, safety boots and a hard
hat out there to pull the signs
down and paint out the markings
on the road.
Katrina Prendergast –
Parking in Lincoln is a nightmare
at the best of times, not to
mention the pot holes down the
main street.
A reader responds to
Selwyn Times’ article
on Lincoln High School
allowing its students to
grow facial hair
Christine Cheesman – Has
anyone raised the point that this
is setting students up for a whole
new form of bullying?
Not being man enough to
grow facial hair will be a form of
judging boys in school.
Uniforms are there to stop
competition and stop class bullying
such as an inability to afford
latest clothes.
There is already bullying over
size, hair colour, hygiene, and
make-up. If facial hair becomes
allowed, multiple piercing or
tattoos there will be peer pressure
to conform and it could
lead to bullying or negative peer
pressure. Sometimes personal
freedom and creative expression
is not all that positive in a highpressure
high school environment.
Readers respond to Selwyn
Times’ article on the
negative impacts freedom
camping is having on the
district’s environment
Joe Adams – The problem of
freedom camping is a common
throughout the country. This
stems from the efforts of visitors
to experience New Zealand “on
the cheap” but unfortunately
that is all they, or most of them,
consider.
My wife and I, along with
another 60,000-odd people, are
members of the NZ Mobile Caravan
Association. We often get
confused with freedom campers
for, in fact, that is what we are as
we park anywhere in designated
spots throughout the nation.
However, our difference is that
we operate in CRC vans and caravans
(certified self contained)
and in order to park in these
places, also our many privately
leased and owned grounds as
well as Department of Conservation
parks and national park
areas, we must not only keep
these vans up-to-date but also to
display evidence of such.
Our rules are stringent — no
disposal of trash, grey water or
sewage anywhere other than in
dump stations provided in various
locations.
Although most local bodies
have now become aware of who
we are this is not always the case
with private citizens who often
mistake us for overseas tourists
or at least among the people who
spread the mess.
In order to attempt to gain
a higher profile we as an
organisation conduct a national
clean-up day over the entire
country from Northland to
Southland where at least some
of this litter is collected and
dumped correctly.
Although it would be great
to be able to clean up entire
areas we at least do think it is
important to be seen doing the
correct thing and maybe as
membership grows in strength
it will be possible to get closer to
this goal.
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