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PAGE 8 Wednesday September 25 2019 BAY HARBOUR Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz News New toilets for Cass Bay • By Jess Gibson A NEW $225,000 toilet block will be installed in Cass Bay. The Banks Peninsula Community Board approved the construction of the public toilets beside the playground at 50 Bayview Pl during its most recent meeting. New facilities will include two unisex toilets which can be used as changing rooms, two external showers, signage in braille and a timber cladding design. The current toilet block is nearing the end of its life and given the increasing popularity of Cass Bay, the area needed facilities which could keep up with future demands. Parking at Cass Bay is currently being considered and city council staff have been asked to work with the Cass Bay Reserve management committee regarding a suggestion to install a sensory garden. Staff were also asked to consider including showers with all new or replacement toilet blocks planned for the Banks Peninsula in the future. Construction will begin in December and is expected to be complete by about May next year. Meanwhile, Lyttelton residents are hoping to get more toilets installed before a new cruise berth brings in large vessels next October. Neighbourhood barbecues on the menu • By Louis Day COMMUNITY BOARDS have taken little notice of Darryll Park’s idea to cut funding to neighbourhood barbecues in order to decrease rates. At a major mayoral debate on September 11, Mr Park said he would need to cut $100 million over three years from the city council budget in order to achieve his fundamental campaign promise of zero rates. When asked how he would do this he said he would look at cutting community funding, such as neighbourhood barbecues. This sparked a public • By Jess Gibson POLITICAL pamphlets described as “racist propaganda” are being distributed to letterboxes in Lyttelton. The flyer, produced by lobby group Hobson’s Pledge, urges voters to question local body election candidates where they stand on racial separatism. Hobson’s Pledge, lead by former National Party and Act leader Don Brash, campaigns against what it claims to be preferential treatment backlash and was ridiculed by incumbent mayor Lianne Dalziel during the debate. Since Mr Park made his towards Māori. A woman who discovered the pamphlet in her letterbox made a post to the Lyttelton Facebook page calling it “racist propaganda” and “uninformed fear-mongering.” The pamphlet, which is being delivered to areas with the highest interest in local body voting, reads: “Want your rates spent on racial separatism?” “Mayors, councillors and bureaucrats were intent on dividing communities, handing power and money out according comments, 79 barbecues have been approved by community boards. The Banks Peninsula to ancestry and ethnicity,” it said. The pamphlet challenges the principals of the Treaty of Waitangi, which ensures councils provide a fair representation of Maori. “Maori do not need racebased representation to achieve success. It’s condescending to suggest that if we have Maori ancestry, we must be appointed or gifted council seats or voting rights instead of standing on our own merit.” The New Zealand Community Board has approved $1250 funding towards barbecues. Community board deputy chairman Tyrone Fields labelled Mr Park’s comments as “moronic.” “The barbecues cost very little and the social outcomes from them massively outweigh the costs,” he said. The Papanui-Innes Community Board approved $4000 for barbecues. John Stringer was the only member of the board to vote against the applications. Mr Stringer said he favoured Mr Park’s proposal. Political flyers labelled as ‘racist propaganda’ Maori Council asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate Hobson’s Pledge in May over its behaviour, which was believed to incite racism and violence. However, an HRC spokeswoman told Bay Harbour News it does not investigate such complaints. Hobson’s Pledge spokeswoman Fiona Mackenzie said there was “absolutely no racism in the Hobson Pledge’s pamphlet,” nor the group’s philosophy. PaiNt It ReD! 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