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Successful sea trials for tug
Thursday October 11 2018
Fire rages, homes at risk
• By Matt Salmons
THE HISTORIC tug Lyttelton
could be carrying passengers
for the first time in three years
in December after successfully
undertaking sea trials last week.
Tug Lyttelton Preservation
Society stokers successfully
brought the 112-year-old tug’s
boiler up to the
right pressure
over four days.
Crew members
were given the
green light to
head out for sea
trials last week.
Mike Bruce
Tug Lyttelton
Preservation
Society head
stoker Mike Bruce said he and
the crew were “very pleased”
and it was a “very emotional
time for many.”
“We never expected this a
week ago, never expected it.”
Mr Bruce said the society’s
short-term task will be to address
any further issues raised
by the marine surveyor present
last week. The surveyor’s report
would be discussed at the society’s
next meeting.
The stoking of the engine went
“absolutely perfectly,” Mr Bruce
said. The optimum pressure of
• By Julia Evans
BEFORE IT becomes the city’s
stadium, the land bound by
Tuam, Hereford, Madras and
Barbadoes Sts will become
Wilson Parking lots for at least
four years.
The car parking company
applied to the city council for
resource consent to establish
582 temporary car parks on
several sites for the next five
years.
However, independent
commissioner Ken Lawn
approved the consent for a fouryear
term.
In his report, Mr Lawn
80psi was reached by 10am last
Thursday.
All equipment on-board was
run and signed off by an attending
marine surveyor and a
marine architect as steam was
pushed through the engines to
warm them.
Mr Bruce said the engines
“ran like they had never been
down” after they were started
for the first time in three years
at 11am.
“It’s a very real credit to the
said: “In particular there was
a disagreement about the
appropriate term of consent.”
City council officers wanted
a three-year term due to
the uncertainty of when
construction of the stadium will
start. There is money set aside
for the 2020-21 financial year
for the stadium build.
Wilson Parking has appealed
the decision, as it still wants a
five-year term.
“It would utilise an otherwise
vacant area until the land is
required for the new stadium.
While that may be as early as
three years . . . it could be up to
five years,” Mr Lawn said.
fantastic team of engineers who
have looked after them all this
time. Not to forget those men
who designed and built them all
those years ago,” he said.
When it was suggested the
crew could “slip the lines and
take her off the wharf,” Mr
Bruce said it was like “kittens
running to the cream bowl,”
with society members scrambling
in excitement.
“One of our members, who
joined three years ago and turns
“I have decided that a term of
four years is appropriate. I think
that is long enough to recoup
development costs and may well
still coincide with the development
of the site of the stadium.”
The time frame for appeal will
be set down by the court, a city
council spokeswoman said.
The sites are all gravel surfaces,
except on Cashel St which
is sealed.
CHUGGING:
Tug
Lyttelton
cruising
around the
harbour
on her first
outing in
three years.
up every week, had never seen
the engines running. Never
sailed on-board while under
her own power. The guy was
ecstatic.”
He said the tug’s lap around
the harbour went “too quick”
and feedback from those who
had seen it said it was “huge,
better than we hoped for.”
“We intend to build on
that momentum and keep
this historic vessel for future
generations.”
Temporary car parking plan for stadium site
GRANTED: Wilson Parking
will move into the site of
the city’s new stadium
until construction begins.
COST: Two new backboards
have been bought for the
Tall Blacks game.
$175k put into
Horncastle
ahead of
Tall Blacks visit
• By Julia Evans
NEARLY $175,000 has been spent
on getting Horncastle Arena up to
scratch for the Tall Blacks game.
Two scoreboards, two backboards
and two shot clocks have
been purchased by the city council
for $174,189 in preparation
for the game against Jordan on
November 29.
“Securing this equipment now
means we can host basketball
matches at Horncastle Arena until
the Metro Sports Facility opens in
late 2021,” said head of recreation,
sports and events Nigel Cox.
The scoreboards, backboards
and shot clocks had to be purchase
to meet FIBA hosting requirements.
It is the first time the
Tall Blacks will play in the city in
14 years since they upset Australia
80-75 in 2004. The game against
Jordan is an Asian zone second
round FIBA World Cup qualifier.
The equipment will ultimately
be used at the long-awaited $300
million Metro Sports Facility.
Construction of the centre is
expected to start early next year
with ground works currently
under way.
The more than 30,000m 2 facility
will include a 10-lane, 50m competition
pool with spectator seating,
a diving pool, leisure pools,
hydroslides, multi-purpose indoor
courts, group fitness rooms, an
aquatic sensory space, and a high
performance sports centre.
It is set to be the largest aquatic
and indoor recreation and leisure
venue of its kind in New Zealand.
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