Nor'West News: July 02, 2019

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Election campaigns heat up
•From page 1
Mr Mauger’s comments
come after media reports last
month on the Coastal-Burwood
Community Board’s bid to have
a pile of shingle removed from
a car park alongside the Avon
River near the intersection of
New Brighton
and Wainoni
Rds.
The article
prompted Mr
Mauger to get
his staff and a
digger to clean
most of it up.
He posted
Glenn
Livingstone
a photo of the
clean-up on
his election
Facebook page, which
Cr Livingstone said was
“electioneering.” Mr Mauger said
it wasn’t.
But the day after it was cleaned
up, a Maugers Contracting
truck appeared at the site with
a sign saying “Vote Mauger For
Burwood.”
Interviewed again last week,
Mr Mauger said a staff member
had made the decision to take
the truck to the location.
“I just said to my guy on the
truck, ‘you drive where ever you
like’,” he said.
When asked what he thought
Cr Livingstone would think
of this, Mr Mauger said he
was sick of criticism (from Cr
Livingstone) about the way
he was running his election
campaign, and the fact he lived
outside of the Burwood Ward.
Rather than criticising him,
Cr Livingstone should “do
door-knocking and just do
commonsense electioneering,”
he said.
Cr Livingstone responded to
those comments by saying doorknocking
had played a much
bigger role in his campaign than
criticising Mr Mauger had.
“Maybe he’s just been caught
up in a moment of passion,
which is quite understandable
because campaigns can be
UNFINISHED:
Phil Mauger
says he will
clean up the
rest of the
shingle piles
in a car park
beside the
Avon River
this week.
stressful at times,”
Cr Livingstone said of Mr
Mauger’s comments.
“It’s not the approach I’d take
myself.
“I think there is a propensity in
campaigns for candidates to try
different things to attract votes
and I really have to leave this one
up to the community to judge for
themselves.”
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Fire rages, homes at risk
RESERVE UPGRADES
A project to upgrade Horseshoe
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month and finish in September.
It will involve the construction
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of an earthquake-damaged
bridge, upgrades to the existing
footpaths, landscaping and
stormwater improvements.
Traffic and pedestrian
management will be in place for
the duration of work.
Young artist
recognised
•From page 1
Fifteen top artists were
selected to display their
work, which included Ruby,
who is in her last year at St
Margaret’s.
The exhibition invited
members of the public to view
the works and bid on them
in a silent auction. Three of
Ruby’s artworks were sold for a
combined total of $2075.
The Breadmaker was sold for
$1000, The Explorers went for
$675 and Angel netted $400.
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exhibiting and selling her work
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