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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Growth puts pressure on advice bureau<br />
• By Anan Zaki<br />
A COMMUNITY service group<br />
in Hornby says it’s increasingly<br />
under pressure due to a<br />
population boom.<br />
The Citizen’s Advice Bureau<br />
Christchurch area manager<br />
Mollie Howarth wants more<br />
volunteers and donations to cope<br />
with demand.<br />
The bureau is a voluntary<br />
group providing free legal,<br />
justice of the peace and social<br />
services.<br />
The demand for services at<br />
the Hornby branch is being<br />
fuelled by more people moving<br />
to Wigram and Rolleston, Mrs<br />
Howarth said.<br />
She said the population<br />
growth in the area started after<br />
the September 2010 and February<br />
2011 earthquakes.<br />
“It’s perhaps because there’s<br />
the perceived psychological feeling<br />
of [the west] being the safer<br />
side of town,” Mrs Howarth said.<br />
“A lot of people from Selwyn<br />
are stopping off in Hornby,<br />
working in Hornby, doing their<br />
groceries, and I’m primarily<br />
talking about Rolleston,” she<br />
said.<br />
The Selwyn District Council<br />
estimated Rolleston’s population<br />
to be at about 13,000 in 20<strong>16</strong>, an<br />
increase from 9500 in 2013.<br />
Out of 8811 clients contacted<br />
by the branch in the 2017/18<br />
financial year, 10 per cent are<br />
from Selwyn.<br />
Most of the demand is for Justice<br />
of the Peace services, which<br />
made up 2346 clients in 2017/18.<br />
The clients are dealt with by<br />
52 volunteers in the Hornby<br />
branch.<br />
But there are not enough volunteers<br />
to open a new branch in<br />
Selwyn, Mrs Howarth said.<br />
It also needed more donations<br />
to meet the increased population<br />
growth.<br />
Volunteers often have to get<br />
clients to open up about their<br />
issues, she said.<br />
“For example we might get a<br />
phone call from someone saying<br />
‘I need a food parcel,” Mrs Howarth<br />
said.<br />
“So our volunteers will ask<br />
why. Some people might say<br />
they’ve been drinking heavily<br />
after breaking up with their girlfriend<br />
and spent all their money<br />
on alcohol.”<br />
UNDER<br />
STRAIN:<br />
Citizens Advice<br />
Bureau Hornby<br />
volunteers<br />
(from left),<br />
Bruce Whelan,<br />
Robert Clark,<br />
Christchurch<br />
area manager<br />
Mollie Howarth<br />
and volunteer<br />
Helen Cropp.<br />
The volunteers will then<br />
arrange for a food parcel and<br />
discuss counselling support.<br />
“That is one aspect of what we<br />
do,” Mrs Howarth said.<br />
“We’ll be looking for more<br />
volunteers in March next year, so<br />
there will be opportunities.”<br />
There are currently no advice<br />
bureaus in the Selwyn District.<br />
Mrs Howarth says with more<br />
funding, that could be possible.<br />
•To donate to the<br />
Citizen’s Advice Bureau,<br />
phone 349 5236.<br />
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