Southern View: April 30, 2019

4 Tuesday April 30 2019
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Kart track
consent
•From page 1
The club’s lease contains a
contractual right of renewal for a
further term of 33 years operable
from February 1, 2021, meaning
it could stay until 2054.
The city council allocated $3.5
million in the Long Term Plan for
the club to move.
It originally contributed
$100,000 towards the consenting
costs. Last year it granted an additional
$70,000 to help with the
relocation process.
Ms Stieller said the question
has to be asked by its elected
members to the city council staff
what has been achieved with the
$170,000 for the relocation when
no progress has been made.
Her view was backed by
Halswell Residents’ Association
chairman John Bennett, who said
there doesn’t appear to be much
fire in anybody’s belly to do anything
to move the club.
But city councillor Anne Galloway
said there has been a lot of
progress over the last six months
as additional noise, ecological
and traffic monitoring work was
required.
She said the additional
information has now been
supplied.
Climate group apologises for mall graffiti
• By Sophie Cornish
A CLIMATE change protest
group admitted it “misjudged”
how the New Brighton
community would react after
its supporters used graffiti to
convey its message.
Extinction Rebellion Otautahi
is asking the community for
“forgiveness” after members
of the group used chalk, chalk
paint, and normal paint to tag
its logo and name around New
Brighton mall.
Messages reading ‘Rebel 4
Life’, ‘Extinction Rebellion’ and
posters about climate change
were put up on store fronts and
messages were sprayed and
written on the footpath, shop
windows and on seats.
A post with more than 200
comments was made on a New
Brighton community page, blasting
the taggers with many people
complaining the graffiti was not
an appropriate way for the group
to get their message across.
Local resident Robbie Baigent
said he has no problem with the
group having a cause or drawing
on pavements with chalk.
“It wasn’t just drawing on
pavements with chalk and pushing
their point, it was drawing
on shop windows, putting
posters on shop windows and
TAGGED: Climate change protesters sprayed shop windows in New Brighton with paint.
rubbish bins. Some of the stuff
on the footpath was done with
enamel paint, so it is still there.”
“Yes, New Brighton might not
look the best but it doesn’t give
anyone the right to come in and
make the place look even more
disgusting than what it is . . .
It’s not how it should be. When
you turn people against you, the
cause is lost, because nobody
cares,” he said.
Extinction Rebellion Otautahi
spokesman Rowan Brooks
said the group is a “bunch of
passionate people who have
made a mistake.”
“The people who did it made
a misjudgement and have really
upset some people,” he said.
Mr Brooks said the group’s
action is about changing to conversation
so people understand
there is a climate emergency.
“That’s where the motivation is
for us to go and write these messages
. . . it is really urgent that
people can come together and
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approached things is causing
division between people that we
want onboard. Hopefully the
New Brighton community will
forgive us . . . their voices are the
ones we want to be hearing in
our movement,” he said.
Sergeant Jim Currie said
witnesses who reported the
graffiti said a man and a woman
aged between 50-65 were seen
tagging. Police inquiries into the
incident were ongoing.
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