Selwyn Times: November 21, 2018

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Wednesday November 21 2018 7
• By Emily O’Connell
A PROPOSAL to add the former
Brookside School building and
the former Selwyn County
Council clerk’s house to the
heritage items list in the District
Plan will be peer reviewed.
The district council’s property
committee discussed the proposal
at its meeting recently.
District council staff reviewed
the schedule of buildings
and structures proposed
for listing as heritage
items and have identified
some concerns with the
two buildings.
These included the
former Brookside School
building, which is on
Brookside and Burnham Rd in
Brookside, being in a very poor
state of repair, it being
leased for equipment
storage and council not
budgeting any expenditure
on it.
The former school building
was built sometime
between 1869 and 1872.
The Selwyn County
Council Clerks House, which is
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Buildings for heritage list under discussion
Fire rages, homes at risk
on Bealey Rd in Hororata, was
built in 1913.
It requires significant work,
estimated at $40,000, to bring
it to a reasonable standard. The
house has been considered for
demolition or sale for removal.
Committee chairman and district
councillor Pat McEvedy (left)
said the peer review will assess
whether the buildings are “actually
worthy of heritage status.”
“Because there’s an expense
that comes with it . . . we’ve got
to assess what’s a good investment
and what’s not and do they
hold true heritage value,” he said.
Cr McEvedy said he wasn’t
sure when the peer review would
take place as it would be matter
of when the required person was
available.
SHOW: CentreStage
Rolleston has debuted
its first production,
Joseph and the Amazing
Techicolor Dreamcoat.
The show hit the stage
on Thursday in front
of a full house in the
Rolleston School hall and
it continues this week,
with the last performance
taking place on Saturday.
The Old Testament story
is set to a multitude of
musical genres, spanning
from country and western
and calypso to bubblegum
pop and rock ‘n’
roll. Tickets cost $25 for
adults and $15 for children
or students. For more
information or to buy
tickets visit https://www.
trybooking.com/nz/book/
event?eid=370&
PHOTO: GREG KNOWLES ​
Police plan to identify
stolen scooters and bikes
FREE ENGRAVING services
are being offered to Rolleston
schoolchildren by police to help
identify lost scooters and bicycles.
The service is available at the
Rolleston police station on Monday
to Fridays from 8am to 4pm.
Sergeant Alex Pickover said
they get “a lot” of bicycles and
scooters handed in to the police
and previously there was no way
of knowing who owned them.
“We can engrave an identifying
feature on the scooter or bicycle
and that can be anything like
mum or dad’s driver licence
number, a cellphone number or
an address,” he said.
The engraver was donated to
the Rolleston police station, Sergeant
Pickover said.
He said currently the service is
only open to schoolchildren from
Rolleston but that could change
in “due course.”
The police station is located at
69 Tennyson St.
Rolleston