Bay Harbour: September 25, 2019

PAGE 8 Wednesday September 25 2019
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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.
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