Western News: June 05, 2018

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Tuesday June 5 2018 7
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Club legend’s dying wish
•From page 1
THe club is trying to raise
$30,000 needed to secure a loan
for new changing rooms, which
he hoped to open next year. The
project was estimated to cost
$245,000.
“I’m in a bit of a hurry to see
projects finished,” Mr Barclay
said.
Seeing the new changing
rooms would make everything
“worthwhile,” he said.
He joined the Knights when
he was 28, after switching
codes from rugby union and
kept on playing until last year,
aged of 58. Over the years, Mr
Barclay played in the seniors,
the reserves and finally the
president’s division, for over 35s.
“I wanted a fresh challenge,
I played for Burnside
[rugby union] and
wanted to try something
new.”
Playing rugby league
was a “mission”, Mr
Barclay admitted. He
played as a hooker, prop
or “where ever” he was
required.
“I quickly learned
about fitness, but you
know it was something I believed
in so I just kept plugging away.
“I finished at the start of the
season. It was all the aches and
Peter Carey
Jim Barclay
pains. I had to accept that I was
getting old and that I’ve had my
time,” he said.
When Mr Barclay first
joined the club, there were no
junior teams and took
it upon himself to form
one.
THe juniors proved
successful, paving the
way for young players,
including Manly Sea
Eagles second-rower
Lewis Brown, who is set
to return to the city for
their game against the
Warriors this week.
“He came to us as an eight or
nine-year-old. He played for us
until he was a young teen and
then he went to Australia.
“He was a player that had the
right attitude. He would always
do the training, he wasn’t always
out chasing girls,’’ Mr Barclay
said.
But the club wasn’t all about
rugby league, he said. It had
softball and touch teams that
were just as important to the
Knights, keeping activity alive
throughout the year.
Riccarton Knights treasurer
Peter Carey said the club
wouldn’t be in a position to
build new changing rooms
without Mr Barclay’s stable
leadership.
“We are probably one of the
few clubs that has a fairly healthy
bank balance at the moment,”
Mr Carey said.
He lauded Mr Barclay’s
integrity, which helped the club
become stable.
“We had a president who
helped himself to the club
funds to go gambling and
Jim helped track him down
and had him exited from the
club pretty quickly,” Mr Carey
said.
As for Mr Barclay himself, it
has become a waiting game.
He remains hopeful to finish
his list, including visiting
Melbourne for tomorrow’s State
of Origin opener and a trip to
Fiji in October.
•From page 1
In response to the article,
Airport Business Park property
manager Doug Allen wrote to the
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood
Community Board and accused
the city council staff of not consulting
the business park prior to
restricting parking time limits in
the area in April last year.
Parking time limits on residential
streets near the business park
were reduced from 120min to
60min.
“Going forward, Airport
Business Park Ltd would like
it recorded that we wish to be
involved in any and all communications
around parking issues
within a 750m radius of the business
park,” Mr Allen said.
He said the current parking
restrictions in the area was “fair
and reasonable.”
Community board chairman
Sam MacDonald spoke to city
council staff on Friday and
believed the business park was
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restrictions imposed last year.
“What the staff did was leaflet
drops to the residents and all the
cars that were out there. I don’t
know if leaflets were put at their
[business park] doors, I suspect
that probably not.”
But on the issue of proposed
residents only car parking near
the business park, city council
staff would not consult the business
park for the time being, he
said.
“The council don’t have the
ability to implement residents
only parking at the moment.
When the council does have that
ability, consultation would have
to occur.”
He said city council staff were
currently working on residents’
only parking rules and would be
considered by the city council
later year.
“It’ll hopefully be ready in a
couple of months,” Mr MacDonald
said.
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