Bay Harbour: April 17, 2019

Wednesday April 17 2019
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BAY HARBOUR
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Tug Lyttelton’s licence
too late for passenger
cruises this season
• By Louis Day
TUG LYTTELTON has been
given the all-clear to carry
passengers.
However, it has come too late
for the 112-year-old vessel to hold
a passenger cruise this season.
The tug has been issued its
certificate of survey, which is a
subset of requirements for the
passenger service licence.
Tug Lyttelton Preservation
Society head stoker Mike Bruce
said the first passenger cruise
in more than three years would
happen in October at the start of
next season.
“I’m frustrated it took so long
but at the same time absolutely
thrilled that we can take her out
and enjoy her. That’s what it is all
about, getting out in the sea, the
feeling of camaraderie you get
on board with the crew and your
mates,” he said.
The passenger cruise was
originally scheduled to take
place in December but was
pushed back to January and then
February and then to next season
due to delays with the passenger
service licence.
The preservation society is now
struggling financially as it has not
DISAPPOINTMENT: Tug
Lyttelton’s passenger service
licence has come too late for
it to hold a passenger cruise
this season.
held a passenger cruise in more
than three years.
“We are under extreme
pressure, we are going for some
grants, some of the members are
supporting us, but we have just
got a bill for our public liability
insurance for $6000, we just don’t
have the money to pay for it.”
The hull of the vessel also needs
repainting, which is expected to
cost about $20,000.
FUNDING: An artist’s impression of the planned Akaroa Health Centre, which may be paid for
through a targeted rate.
Majority of Akaroa supports
health centre targeted rate
AN ANALYSIS of public
submissions suggests the
majority of Akaroa ratepayers
are willing to pay a targeted
rate to fund the new Akaroa
Community Health Centre.
The Akaroa Community
Health Trust asked city council
to provide it with a grant of up
to $1.3 million and suggested
the city council recover the
money through a targeted rate
on all properties within the
Akaroa subdivision of the Banks
Peninsula Ward.
The targeted rate would be
an annual fixed charge which
ratepayers would have to pay on
top of their normal rates.
The city council has spent
the past few weeks consulting
residents in the Akaroa and Bays
area about the proposed targeted
rate.
In that time 811 submissions
have been received, with 74
per cent in support of paying a
targeted rate.
Twenty-five per cent of the
submissions opposed paying a
targeted rate and one per
cent did not indicate a
preference.
Submitters were also asked
if they would prefer to pay the
targeted rate for a four or 10-year
period.
Fifty-three per cent of the
submitters said they would
prefer a four-year period,
while 35 per cent indicated
they would prefer a 10-year
period. The remaining 12
per cent did not indicate a
preference.
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