Bay Harbour: June 06, 2018

Wednesday June 6 2018
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What is in a name?
Heathcote
Ward city
councillor
Sara
Templeton
explains
the process
behind road
naming in
the city
THERE’S BEEN some
discussion within these pages
recently about the naming of a
new street in Heathcote Valley –
Kairuri Lane.
It’s clear from comments
that the city council’s processes
around road naming are opaque,
so I thought I’d have a go at
explaining them, using this one
as an example.
Under the city council’s
roads and right-of-way naming
policy, the names considered
for new roads must be requested
by the developer, who puts
forward three for consideration.
The community board is then
able to either approve a name or
not.
In this instance the developer
had requested that Reynard Lane
be approved by the Linwood-
Central-Heathcote Community
Board, but the board had concerns
that it wasn’t in keeping
with other historic street names
in the area, so asked the developer
to present some other options.
He did and came back at the
following meeting with Reynard
Lane as his preferred option,
then Abney Lane (named for
an old surveying tool) and also
Kairuri Lane (the Maori word for
surveyor).
He had consulted with Mahaanui
Kurataiao Ltd, a resource
and environmental advisory
group, which agreed that the
name ‘Kairuri’ was culturally
appropriate.
The word kai in this case is
used as a prefix to verbs and
stipulates the person of the action.
For example mahi (work)
is kaimahi/worker and kōrero
(speak) is kaikōrero/speaker.
CONCERNS:
The choice
of name –
Kairuri Lane
– for a new
subdivision
on Bridle
Path Rd has
attracted
controversy.
Rūri is a translated English word
for ruler, so Kairūri means surveyor.
The community board has
previously had concerns about
the road naming policy and last
year asked the city council to
review the policy to enable better
outcomes.
We were concerned that
there is currently little resident
involvement and also that it was
difficult to encourage developers
to present Te Reo names as options.
The city has very few
Maori street names, even with
the long historic connection to
the area and so this was one of
the issues that we took into consideration
when we approved the
developers’ third option.
I am hopeful that the review of
the policy will mean both greater
community involvement in road
naming processes, especially
in existing communities, and a
greater recognition of tangata
whenua. Ngā mihi
We said:
Estuary shellfish are
under threat
You said:
Bernie McLean –
Having observed the
unmitigated looting of
shellfish over the previous
several decades I
think that a total ban is
perhaps now necessary
and easier to police.
Diane McCarthy – Cockles
are eaten by estuary birdlife.
Humans need to respect this.
Biodiversity means keeping
all lifeforms viable. I support a
total ban on collecting cockles,
enforced by volunteers until
viable numbers of shellfish are
re-established in the Avon-
Heathcote estuary. Monitoring
this by further research is
critical. Then a quota per adult
gatherer can be reset that
maintains a balance. However,
thought needs to be given as to
why some groups of new Kiwi
settlers are turning to gathering
this free food source. Perhaps
they are poor? Having better
living wages to buy seafood
commercially could sustain
them and our beloved estuary.
Christopher Gresson – In
my opinion there should be a
complete ban on gathering shellfish/cockles
in the estuary. The
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ecological health/birdlife of the
estuary is far more important
than people’s right to gather
shellfish from this estuary. On
another, but related matter, I
have observed people gathering
shellfish from the rocks around
the lifeboat breakwater
at Scarborough, and
from the rocks which
once formed the walls
of the old Bell’s Baths
– they take everything
which is alive – topshells,
cat’s eyes, limpets
and chitons. These
rocks are now almost completely
devoid of life.
Ron Williams – Total ban
for 10 years, until numbers are
able to withstand the “human
thievery.”
We said:
Quake-strengthening
time frame could be
shortened for Mitre Hotel
You said:
Dick Wilkins – As well
as being an increasingly
derelict eyesore and creating
visibility issues for traffic,
many pedestrians now have to
negotiate the fenced area around
the hotel if they are to use the
new crossing to the new bus
stop. Being caught in that fenced
area in an earthquake could be
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