Nor'West News: December 11, 2018

8 Tuesday December 11 2018
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WHAT’S INSIDE? Helping Papanui-Innes Community Board
chairwoman Ali Jones open the time capsule are Molly Vaile
(left), Annabel Allen, Rory Forsythe and Max McNulty.
Time capsule to spend 100
more years underground
THE CONTENTS of a 1920s
time capsule recently opened
in St Albans are set to be
reburied.
The capsule was opened in
September after being hidden
for nearly 100 years. It was buried
in 1920 when the St Albans
Public Library was constructed
and was only discovered in 2011
when the building was demolished.
Copies of The Lyttelton Times
and The Press from the 1920s
were among the artefacts found
in the capsule, along with a
letter.
However, at Friday’s meeting,
the Papanui-Innes Community
Board decided to rebury the
capsule alongside a new one.
It will be buried in 2020 with
the completion of the new St Albans
Community Centre and is
set to be reopened on the 100th
anniversary of the community
centre in 2120.
City council staff will incorporate
the two capsules into the
centre’s foundation design.
Community groups will be
invited to make a contribution
to the contents at the St Albans
Park reopening event.
A replica of the contents of
the old capsule may also be
displayed in the entrance to the
community centre.
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But city councillors Mike
Davidson and Pauline Cotter said
the report actually highlights
a more dangerous intersection
along the corridor – Greers and
Harewood Rds.
Said Cr Davidson “You can
read through reports and try and
pick out little bits that you have
issues with, but
when you read
the report in its
entirety, it’s very
clear that actually
the intersection
that is creating the
most risk down
Mike
Davidson
there is the Greers
Rd/Harewood Rd
intersection.”
The city council needed to be
“careful” about moving capital
forward to pay for upgrades at the
Breens, Gardiners and Harewood
Rds intersection, Cr Davidson
said.
He said that intersection would
likely not get a New Zealand
Transport Agency subsidy.
“We need to look at what
actually needs to be done first.
We need to be mindful where the
risk is down that corridor.”
However, Cr Keown said you
cannot compare the two as
the Greers and Harewood Rds
intersection already has traffic
lights. “The problems are not
because it has traffic lights, it’s
a number of other reasons. This
is about getting people
across that intersection.”
Mayor Lianne Dalziel
said it is important to
look at the entire corridor
as Harewood Rd has
changed.
“It is no longer the
major thoroughfare that
it used to be. As a result,
the four lanes encourage
people to speed because there
isn’t a lot of traffic to slow it down
Lianne
Dalziel
NOR’WEST NEWS
Local
News
Now
Clash over intersection upgrades
Fire rages, homes at risk
DEBATE: City councillors have clashed over whether the
controversial Breens, Harewood and Gardiners Rds intersection
should be upgraded first.
and so it creates a dangerous
corridor.”
“There are significant issues in
this report that need to be
worked shopped.”
She called for a
workshop involving
the Papanui-Innes and
Fendalton-Waimairi-
Harewood community
boards.
But she said there were
a number of upgrades
needed along the route,
including at the Greers Rd and
the Bishopdale roundabout.
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