Western News: April 09, 2019
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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>April</strong> 9 <strong>2019</strong> 5<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Changes to online Halswell page<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
AN ONGOING social media<br />
quarrel has led to a survey being<br />
released on how Halswell’s<br />
largest community Facebook<br />
page is run.<br />
The Halswell<br />
Community<br />
Group<br />
Facebook page<br />
will mostly<br />
stick to the<br />
status quo after<br />
releasing results<br />
on what its<br />
members think<br />
Chrys Horn<br />
about the way<br />
the page is run.<br />
Halswell<br />
Community Project chairwoman<br />
and one of the administrators<br />
Chrys Horn<br />
said after the<br />
page has been<br />
facing so much<br />
trouble recently,<br />
it was<br />
important to<br />
gauge what<br />
people thought<br />
Greig Russell<br />
about what it<br />
does.<br />
The page has<br />
come under fire from outspoken<br />
Halswell resident Greig Russell<br />
who was removed from the<br />
group of nearly 11,000 members<br />
for posting a mobile number on<br />
ONLINE: The result of an online survey will help guide how the<br />
Halswell Community Group Facebook page is run.<br />
the page.<br />
As a result of falling out with<br />
the administrators, he has<br />
since set up his own page called<br />
Halswell Community Page<br />
Uncensored.<br />
Following the Halswell<br />
Community Group Facebook<br />
page releasing the findings of its<br />
survey, the group decided it<br />
will continue to approve posts<br />
in spite of the majority voting<br />
against it.<br />
Out of the 352 people that took<br />
part in the survey, 61.9 per cent<br />
preferred it being allowed for<br />
any member to post to the<br />
Facebook page, while 34.7 per<br />
cent voted to have all online<br />
posts approved.<br />
But Dr Horn said approving<br />
all posts online has made the<br />
administrators lives so much<br />
easier and it has cut down their<br />
workload enormously.<br />
She said because the group is<br />
approving posts before they go<br />
online she feels it was unlikely<br />
Mr Russell would cause too<br />
much damage and would be<br />
happier about adding him back<br />
to the group.<br />
But Mr Russell said he was no<br />
longer interested in being part of<br />
the page and it was not worth the<br />
“headache.”<br />
He said he didn’t think the<br />
group was going to change and it<br />
was “wrong” for them to decide<br />
what people should or shouldn’t<br />
read and many Halswell<br />
residents were sick of it.<br />
Mr Russell has also criticised<br />
the page for temporarily shutting<br />
down over the weekend<br />
recently.<br />
But Dr Horn said that<br />
was not fair, the group<br />
administrators needed a<br />
weekend to talk about the way<br />
the group was run.<br />
“It is all done voluntarily . . .<br />
we had a team where people were<br />
starting to think, oh we don’t<br />
really want to do this anymore,”<br />
she said.<br />
Other conclusions from the<br />
survey was for the group to<br />
allow local clubs and<br />
groups advertise fundraisers, the<br />
majority wanted to see<br />
less trolling, bullying and<br />
bickering and members<br />
should not be able to list items<br />
for sale.<br />
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and fashion<br />
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difference in the community at<br />
an upcoming fashion show.<br />
The Hub Hornby will be<br />
putting on its first fashion<br />
show to showcase its upcoming<br />
new season line.<br />
As part of the event, six<br />
residents nominated from<br />
the greater Hornby area will<br />
receive a “top to toe” $1000<br />
makeover, styled by mall fashion<br />
stylist Vicki McMillan.<br />
The Hub Hornby centre<br />
manager Jason Marsden said<br />
the idea is to celebrate diversity<br />
in the community and all<br />
nominees are “really neat<br />
people.”<br />
As part of the show, rather<br />
than using professional models,<br />
participating retailers are<br />
organising their own models<br />
using staff, friends and family.<br />
“This is going to be all about<br />
real fashion on real people. We<br />
want our customers to think:<br />
Yes I could wear that,” he said.<br />
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