Ashburton Courier: September 05, 2019

Page 2, Ashburton’s The Courier, Thursday 5 September 2019
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Cancer Society
volunteers Jenny
Proctor, Ann Craig and
Irene Paterson at the
Daffodil Day stand
outside Sim’s Bakery in
Tinwald last week. Ann
and Irene are wearing
specially crafted, and
exclusive, Daffodil Day
hats made by fellow
volunteer Sheena Clark.
Volunteers around the
district were taking
donations and had fresh
daffodil bunches,
button hole daffodils,
toy bears, pens and
bags available to help
fundraise money for the
annual Daffodil Day
appeal.
Selwyn’s election signs go west
Ashburton Ward election
candidate Selwyn
Price wants to know who
is stealing his signs.
Two of his election
signs were removed from
the fences of private
properties overnight.
‘‘I put up three election
signs, two on the
west side of town and one
on the east side, with the
blessing of the property
owners. This morning
(last week) Ihad atext
from one of the property
owners, on Belt Road,
saying the sign had gone
from her fence. When I
investigated, Ifound that
asecond sign, on Harrison
Street, had also disappeared.’’
Although there had
been some strong winds,
It’s ablast for area roads
It’s slippery in winter
and sticky in summer,
but thanks to watercutting
trucks, excess
bitumen on rural roads
around the Ashburton
District is being
removed to promote
better driver safety.
Ashburton council
has secured specially
designed water­cutting
trucks to blast off
excess bitumen sitting
on the road surface on
sections of Tinwald
Westerfield Mayfield
Road, Mt Hutt Station
Road, ForestDrive and
Beach Road East.
Excess bitumen on
the road surface can be
slippery in winter and
sticky in summer when
the hot temperatures
soften the bitumen.
Removing it also restores
the surface texture
of the road to
reduce slippage when
vehicles turn or brake.
The council will
focus on water­cutting
the wheel tracks of slippery
corners and intersections.
There are a limited
number of water­cutting
trucks in New Zealand,
however the council
managed to book the
trucks a few months in
advance from Fulton
Hogan.
The machine blasts
water at around 34,000
PSI (pounds per square
inch) tocut the bitumen.
the signs had been well
secured and it is not
likely that they had been
blown away, especially
as the sign on the east
side of town was still
intact, and that was the
only one exposed to the
nor’westers.
‘‘I understand that the
signs are attractive, and
potentially sought after,
but if they had waited
until elections end on
October 12th I would
have given them away,’’
Price joked.
He said it was dismaying
to speculate on
whether there was apolitical
motive.
‘‘Most of the candidates
know each other, and
many of us work together
on council. This is not how
we run political campaigns
in Ashburton, Mr Price
said.
He has replaced one of
the signs, but has had to
order more to be printed
before he is able to replace
the second sign.
Police have been notified.
Photo: One of the signs
taken.
Years for update
Ashburton Museum
director Tanya Robinson
said it could take
several years to update
its inventory of its collection.
She was asked during
areport to the Ashburton
council’s Service
Delivery Committee if
the museum had room
for the collection of
Ashburton Guardians
held by the Ashburton
Library, but she said it
had no shelves suitable
for bound papers.
However, it had digital
copies of the papers and
the National Library held
the best copies.
She said it would be
difficult to make abusiness
case for them to be
held there.
The museum had two
collections, the archives
from the Ashburton
council and the collection
of the Ashburton
Museum and Historical
Society.
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