Selwyn Times: November 28, 2018
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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
is not a s**t town of New Zealand<br />
“Honestly, I work here and I<br />
am living here, too, but I don’t<br />
like to spend my free time<br />
here so I go to<br />
(Christchurch)<br />
or surrounding<br />
areas . . . because<br />
I think it’s<br />
very plain and<br />
boring,” he said.<br />
Seeing the<br />
Sam<br />
Broughton<br />
funny side of the<br />
post, Mayor Sam<br />
Broughton said<br />
“it’s good to be<br />
able to laugh at yourself.”<br />
“There have been numerous<br />
articles recently highlighting<br />
how business has been thriving<br />
in Rolleston and the commercial<br />
growth the town is continuing to<br />
see,” he said.<br />
Mr Broughton said as one of<br />
the fastest growing towns in<br />
New Zealand, “there is plenty in<br />
Rolleston to love.”<br />
“New community facilities<br />
the council has planned and<br />
budgeted for over the next five<br />
years will only enhance the<br />
enjoyment for those who live<br />
here already,” he said.<br />
Rolleston Residents’<br />
Association chairwoman Leonie<br />
MacLachlan said the post was<br />
“so far from the truth,” and the<br />
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POPULATION: As one of the fastest growing towns in New<br />
Zealand, residents say there is plenty to love about Rolleston.<br />
person who wrote it must have<br />
never been to Rolleston.<br />
She said Rolleston has a lot of<br />
attractions, activities and is close<br />
to the mountains, lakes and the<br />
sea.<br />
“What does annoy me is<br />
that fact they say Rolleston<br />
has become a town after the<br />
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earthquakes – we were a town<br />
before the earthquakes,” Mrs<br />
MacLachlan said.<br />
Rolleston resident Abigail<br />
Curd told <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> she was<br />
“a little bit shocked” by the post<br />
and thought it didn’t give the<br />
town the credit it deserves.<br />
“I like Rolleston, I’ve grown up<br />
•More than 17,000<br />
people currently reside<br />
in Rolleston and its<br />
population is expected<br />
to increase to more than<br />
26,000 by 20<strong>28</strong>.<br />
•Between 2006-2013,<br />
Rolleston’s population<br />
more than doubled from<br />
3822 to 9555.<br />
•Rolleston was named<br />
after Canterbury’s last<br />
provincial superintendent,<br />
William Rolleston.<br />
•The town was once<br />
a small railway junction,<br />
where the West Coast<br />
railway line left the main<br />
line.<br />
here . . . all the locals here are all<br />
really lovely people,” she said.<br />
Miss Curd found the humour<br />
in the post, but said comparing<br />
the town to Hamilton was just<br />
“cruel.”<br />
The post read: “Originally<br />
intended as another state-built<br />
satellite slum like Porirua or<br />
Otara, Rolleston was once<br />
labelled ‘the Town of the Future’<br />
– an embarrassing moniker<br />
as any place aspiring to be<br />
Hamilton clearly has serious<br />
problems.”<br />
District councillor Craig<br />
ROLLESTON LAW<br />
Watson,<br />
who lives in<br />
Rolleston,<br />
shared the post<br />
on his public<br />
Facebook page,<br />
commenting<br />
“any publicity is<br />
good publicity<br />
right? The page<br />
Abigail Curd<br />
is great satire.”<br />
The review also targets the<br />
town’s lack of a main street.<br />
“Like the majority of its<br />
pregnancies Rolleston was<br />
unplanned and thus also lacks a<br />
main street, leaving its resident<br />
youth utterly confused about<br />
where to do laps<br />
in their soupedup<br />
Subarus,”<br />
it said. Once<br />
completed,<br />
Tennyson St<br />
will be made the<br />
main street in<br />
Rolleston.<br />
The Facebook<br />
page has recently<br />
reviewed<br />
Wellington, Cromwell and<br />
Alexandra.<br />
Craig<br />
Watson<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: What<br />
do you think of Rolleston?<br />
Email your views to emily.<br />
oconnell@starmedia.kiwi<br />
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