Bay Harbour: September 19, 2018

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Wednesday September 19 2018
Lyttelton News
Production
to focus
on history
of port
• By Matt Salmons
CALLING ALL Lyttelton
residents, a cast is needed for a
show adapted to be all about the
port.
Twenty people between six and
100 were needed for the Lyttelton
Arts Factory’s biggest community
theatre event, with rehearsals set
to begin next month for the January
show.
Co-directors Mike Friend and
Hester Ullyart will run the casting.
The most produced play in the
United States, Our Town, was a
72-year-old drama about a small
town of average people.
The story had been adapted to
a local setting by Mike Friend,
Hester Ullyart and Joe Bennett.
“This play had to be adapted to
be about our town. Not someone
else’s town. So Joe Bennett and
I have set it at the beginning of
20th-century in Lyttelton,” Mr
Friend said.
Casting sessions would be
held on September 29. For more
information and to register email
info@laf.co.nz
Possible sites for seafarers’ centre
• By Matt Salmons
REPRESENTATIVES: Jed O’Donoghue, Felix Dawson, Pam Richardson, Tyrone Fields and
Andrew Turner gather for a meeting about the seafarers’ centre. ​
COMMITMENTS to continued
funding and finding a new
location have come from a
public meeting about the future
of the Lyttelton Seafarers’
Centre.
More than 40 Lyttelton
residents joined representatives
from the Seafarers’ Centre,
Seafarers’ Welfare Board for
New Zealand, city council and
community boards for the
meeting on September 9.
Welfare Board chairman
John McLister said the meeting
highlighted aspirations the town
had for the welcome they could
provide to seafarers.
“No one in Lyttelton wants to
see seafarers standing on a street
corner. They just want a functioning
seafarers’ centre.”
Seafarers arriving in Lyttelton
used the Norwich Quay centre
to relax and contact families.
But funding and volunteer constraints
meant the centre could
only open five nights a week and
accommodate 18 people.
Its lease on the current site
would expire in 2021.
Deputy Mayor and Banks
Peninsula Community Board
member Andrew Turner said
there was also “concern about
how the issue will be exacerbated”
by the return of the cruise
ships in 2020.
“We don’t want to find them
out of a home or ill-equipped to
meet the demand from increasing
numbers of arriving seafarers,”
Cr Turner said.
The city council had no legal
responsibility towards seafarers
welfare, Cr Turner said, but it
was “a question of moral responsibility.”
“The people of Lyttelton made
it very clear that they want us
to provide a quality welcome to
all visitors to the port, and that
includes seafarers.”
He said the city council had
provided $10,000 of operational
funding to the centre this year
and he committed to having
staff investigate ways to continue
that funding into the future.
Using voluntary contributions
from shipping companies
towards the operation of the
centre would also be investigated
with the Lyttelton Port
Company, Cr Turner said.
He said there was a “process
under way” to investigate using
the former Donald St Stables
as a new site for the centre. The
former Lyttelton Museum site
was also considered.
Mr McLister said there could
be hundreds of crew arriving
daily when the cruise ships
returned. “It’s not just a welfare
issue but making sure Lyttelton
can benefit economically from
this,” he said.
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