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Thursday <strong>October</strong> 4 <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
People taking<br />
advantage of<br />
charity box<br />
• By Anan Zaki<br />
A SALVATION Army store in<br />
Hornby has had enough of people<br />
taking donated goods.<br />
Items from the store’s afterhours<br />
donation box have gone<br />
missing, or have ended up damaged,<br />
Salvation Army Community<br />
Ministries Hornby director Kevin<br />
Waugh said.<br />
Mr Waugh said the donation<br />
box is left open to fit a variety<br />
of goods that the store may<br />
receive and counts on people’s<br />
honesty.<br />
But good Samaritans often<br />
alerted the store.<br />
“People from the community<br />
have said to us that during afterhours<br />
they’ve seen stuff dropped<br />
off and then seeing another car<br />
come in and go through everything,”<br />
he said.<br />
Mr Waugh is disappointed that<br />
people have taken advantage of<br />
the box.<br />
Police suggested additional<br />
security but the store will take<br />
another approach.<br />
Mr Waugh is asking people to<br />
stop donating goods after-hours<br />
and phone the store instead.<br />
Tug Lyttelton blowing off steam<br />
• By Matt Salmons<br />
THE TUG Lyttelton is gearing<br />
up to steam across the harbour<br />
again after three years laid up<br />
for repairs.<br />
Tug Lyttelton Preservation Society<br />
treasurer and head stoker <br />
Mike Bruce said volunteers had<br />
started stoking the boiler on<br />
Monday morning.<br />
It could take<br />
four days to<br />
build pressure<br />
without damaging<br />
the longdormant<br />
and<br />
irreplaceable<br />
Mike Bruce<br />
boiler.<br />
Once the<br />
right pressure<br />
was reached, the society would<br />
turn on the engines for the first<br />
time in three years.<br />
“I’m excited and terrified at<br />
the same time,” Mr Bruce said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> society was confident<br />
the tug could be accepting passengers<br />
again this sailing season.<br />
Each lost season meant a loss of<br />
income for the society.<br />
It was hoped tug Lyttelton<br />
would have been ready for<br />
the last sailing season. However,<br />
repairing and overhauling the<br />
boat to satisfy issues raised in its<br />
last marine survey three years<br />
ago took longer than expected.<br />
Today, a marine surveyor and<br />
marine architect would inspect<br />
the boat.<br />
“It’s looking really positive. If<br />
they’re happy, that’s pretty much<br />
it,” Mr Bruce said.<br />
If approved, the group could<br />
“slip the moorings” and head<br />
out to the harbour. If not, the<br />
process would “start all over<br />
again.”<br />
“And once that works it’s<br />
hopefully sea trials. And then if<br />
all goes well and the authorities<br />
deem the ship safe we’ll get our<br />
passenger licence reinstated.”<br />
To ready the engines, stokers<br />
STOKED: Tug Lyttelton<br />
Preservation Society stoker<br />
Elf Wilson raising steam in<br />
the 112-year-old tug’s boiler.<br />
would hand shovel around three<br />
tonnes of coal each day at a cost<br />
of $400 a tonne.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is 30 tonnes of water<br />
we need to heat up to 80psi, in a<br />
boiler that was built at the same<br />
time as the Titanic. So we raise<br />
the temperature and pressure<br />
nice and slow.”<br />
Originally called Canterbury<br />
when it arrived in Lyttelton<br />
on September 10, 1907. A larger<br />
tug took over most of its duties<br />
in 1939.<br />
It later saw use by the Royal<br />
New Zealand Navy during<br />
World War 2 and carried its first<br />
passengers for the preservation<br />
society in 1973 after it was<br />
retired from tug duties in 1970.<br />
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