Bay Harbour: March 07, 2018

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Wednesday March 7 2018
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Council seeks future use for Banks
• By Sarla Donovan
IDEAS ARE being sought for
the future use of four heritage
buildings on Banks Peninsula.
They are the Lyttelton Borough
Council stables in Lyttelton; Yew
Cottage in Akaroa; the Little
River Coronation Library and
Kukupa Hostel in Pigeon Bay.
Individuals, groups and
organisations interested in using
or helping to fund the buildings’
restoration have until March
29 to submit ideas to the city
council.
Most sustained damage in the
September 2010, and February
2011, Canterbury earthquakes
and are yet to be repaired.
“Unfortunately, we don’t have
enough money right now to
repair all our heritage buildings
within the next few years, so
we need to prioritise how these
funds should be spent,’’ city
council acting head of parks
Brent Smith said.
Lyttelton resident and former
property manager at The
Tannery, Ian Knewstubb, said
the former stables should be
retained and eventually restored,
in spite of the cost.
“My oath – there’s so little left.
They don’t have to happen that
fast. The main thing is to hold on
to them.”
He said the building should
be made weather-tight and a
working party should be set up.
“In Italy, they just make sure
nothing happens to the (old)
buildings. If it takes 10, 20,
30, 40 years – that’s what it
takes. The major thing is to
hold on to them and establish
a working party to look at how
to maintain them as they are,
how to fund raise, and also to
establish what purpose they
should be put to.”
The stables were built in
1914 for councillors to lodge
their steeds; the horses were
replaced by motor vehicles
in 1939.
Estimates put the cost of
restoration at around $2.2
million.
AT LEAST $750,000 TO RESTORE: The Little River Coronation Library building sits in the Awa-Iti
Domain near the War Memorial Gates. ​
‘Water and Light’, it’s all around us and nowhere
more so than on the Banks Peninsula.
As small outcrop of volcanic rock jutting out into
the Southern Ocean we are surrounded on all
sides, and nowhere
is that interplay
between water and
light more evident.
The Little River
Gallery is proud to
host Philip Beadle’s
latest work, inspired
by the landscapes
of the Plains and
Peninsula.
Using a mixture of oil, watercolour, drypoint
and monotype, Philip’s work is as varied as the
landscapes he depicts.
Christchurch based Philip Beadle, whether
working with the human form or drawing
inspiration from the low sun on water agitated
by wind, uses the Canterbury environment to
inform his work.
Warm and inviting, cold and forgiving, water
and light are constant but also forever changing.
‘Water and Light’ is showing at
Little River Gallery from 10th March
to 4th April.
LANDMARK: Yew Cottage is known by Akaroa locals as Jeannie’s
Cottage in honour of long-term resident Jeannie Wendelborn.
autumn is here but the
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Harcourts Grenadier Ferrymead
1020 Ferry Road
P: 03 384 7950 | M: 027 588 4440
E: chris.moores@harcourts.co.nz
GRENADIER
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Philip
Beadle
Water & Light
10 March – 4 April
Main Rd, Little River | 03 325 1944
art@littlerivergallery.com