Bay Harbour: February 13, 2019

Wednesday February 13 2019
News
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Suspected drink drivers
prompt call from police
• By Louis Day
DON’T USE Facebook to
report crime. Contact the
police.
That is the plea
from Sergeant
Franco Lovrich
after details about
two suspected
drink drivers were
posted on the
Diamond Harbour
Facebook page.
Resident Lorraine
Heaton-
Caffin posted on Facebook
after her children saw two
4x4 vehicles being driven
up the rock wall at the
Diamond Harbour wharf
car park.
Her children believed
the drivers were drunk.
Mrs Heaton-Caffin told
Franco Lovrich
the Bay Harbour News
she did not think she had
enough evidence to report
the incident to the police.
But Sergeant Lovrich
said people should
report this kind of
incident to police
so they could be
the best judge.
“That’s the frustrating
thing, people
see something
and they start gossiping
about it on
Facebook instead
of reporting it to us. By
reporting directly to us we
can get an accurate judgement
of offences as they
occur and from there we
can prioritise resources,”
he said.
Mrs Heaton-Caffin said
she posted about the incident
on Facebook to see if
anyone else saw anything.
“My children told me
they were driving their
cars right up against
the side of the car park
which made the rocks fall
down on to the car park.
They said both kids were
drunk,” she said.
Another resident said
on the Facebook page they
saw the suspected drink
drivers leaving the car
park in “an awful manner.”
Sergeant Lovrich refused
to comment on speculation
made over social
media but condemned
drink driving as a serious
offence.
“If you are going to
drink find a sober driver
to get you home.”
Call for end to double cruise ship days
• By Louis Day
AKAROA residents are
calling for an end to
double cruise ship days
after 6568 cruise ship
passengers and staff
docked in the town last
Thursday.
This was the largest
cruise ship day since the
start of December when
7060 people arrived.
Akaroa also had to
accommodate 4312 cruise
ship passengers and staff
on Monday when they had
a triple cruise ship day.
Akaroa Civic Trust
secretary Rosie Davidson
said the town was bursting
at the seams during the
recent double cruise ship
visit.
“When you have a
population of 640 people
and you have a good 6000
people landing on your
doorstep it is just chaos,”
she said.
Mrs Davidson said
Beach Rd was congested
with tour buses and the
wharf was “heaving with
humanity.”
One local business
owner who wished to remain
anonymous told the
Bay Harbour News during
TOURS: Buses line Beach Rd.
BURSTING: More than 6000 cruise ship
passengers and staff visited Akaroa last Thursday.
the double cruise ship visit
in December, they had
tourists break into their
private toilets.
“This Australian passenger
had used our toilet in
spite of me telling him to
use the public bathrooms
across the road and had
left mud all throughout
the bathroom.”
Deputy Mayor and
Banks Peninsula
councillor Andrew Turner
said discussions were
ongoing to reduce double
cruise ship visits in future
seasons.
“My understanding
from relevant management
at Christchurch NZ
is that progress has been
made in reducing double
cruise ship days in the
future.”
Cr Turner said
Akaroa did not have the
infrastructure to cope
with 6568 cruise ship
passengers and staff at a
time.
“They [double cruise
ship days] don’t work for
the passengers, they don’t
work for the businesses
and they don’t work for
the community, they are
just not an ideal situation.”
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