Selwyn Times: March 27, 2019

4 Wednesday March 27 2019
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SELWYN TIMES
News
Bus driver
fails to
see cyclist
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
A CYCLIST was lucky not to
sustain serious injuries after
being hit by a bus on Sunday
night.
A 21-year-old man was
cycling east on Ellesmere
Junction Rd at about 9.30pm
when the driver of the bus, also
heading east, failed to see the
cyclist and collided with him.
Sergeant Phil Bayne said
another vehicle was heading
west on Ellesmere Junction
Rd, which the bus driver was
concentrating on.
He said the bus driver
thought he hit a possum and it
wasn’t until he went back to the
depot and heard the volunteer
fire alarm go off that he went
back to check and discovered
he had hit a cyclist.
No passengers were on
the bus at the time of the
collision. The cyclist was taken
to Christchurch Hospital with
moderate injuries.
He said cyclists need to
ensure they wear bright,
fluorescent clothing and
bicycles have front and back
lights.
Call to micro-chip domestic cats
• By Anan Zaki
A SUPPORTER of trapping feral
cats says a new bylaw should
include the micro-chipping of
domestic cats.
The district council voted
earlier this month to prepare
a portfolio paper to consider
developing a bylaw to regulate
the keeping
of domestic
animals,
including cats.
A portfolio
meeting will be
held next month.
Springfield
Township
Sean Ellis
Committee
secretary Sean
Ellis – who has campaigned to
trap feral cats – welcomed the
move.
“It will take a couple of months
[after the portfolio meeting]
to sort out what will go in the
bylaw, then [council will] ask for
petitions and then it will go to an
open forum and decide exactly
what the bylaw is going to be,”
Mr Ellis said.
He said micro-chipping
domestic cats “is the way ahead”
in regulating the population of
feral cats which threaten native
wildlife.
“The main aim is to protect the
domestic cat so that we can then
go after the feral cats . . . at the
moment we can’t go after feral
cats because we don’t know if
they are feral or domestic.”
“The last thing we want to do is
kill someone’s cat,” he said.
Mr Ellis has been lobbying the
district council on managing
the feral cat population since
UNWANTED: Micro-chipping
the district’s domestic
cats may be needed to
manage the population of
feral cats which threaten
native wildlife.
last year. Since he started
his campaign, he said he has
received backing from Predator
Free NZ, SPCA, Department of
Conservation, Forest and Bird,
Waimakariri Environmental
and Recreational Trust and the
Arthur’s Pass Trust.
The district council also
passed resolutions to take an
educational and supportive
role to promote responsible cat
ownership and environmental
protection.
It also voted to continue work
to better understand the impact
of cats on biodiversity and
how those impacts can be best
managed.
The district council
estimated there are about
20,000 domestic cats across the
district.
The number of feral and
stray cats is “unknown” but the
council estimated it to be in the
thousands.
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