Bay Harbour: October 09, 2019

Wednesday October 9 2019
News
• By Jess Gibson
THE eight-year-old wood-fired
oven at The Tannery has cooked
more than 500,000 pizzas.
And now, it is time for it to
retire.
Cassels The Brewery Bar and
Restaurant has upgraded to a
larger pizza oven to help keep up
with growing demand.
Alasdair Cassels, who
owns The Tannery, opened the
bar and restaurant shortly after
the February 22, 2011 earthquake
as a place for the community to
gather while the city dusted itself
off.
Mr Cassels said the number
of pizzas cooked was
“unbelievable.”
•From page 1
Mr Needham called the lack of
candidates “disappointing.”
“It’s community representation,
and that’s not what we’re getting,”
he said.
Mr Needham is a Charteris
Bay resident and runs an internet
sales business. His aim is to stop
rate rises and put and end to
closed-door meetings.
Only three of the eight
members who had seats on the
community board last term are
standing for re-election and
seven new candidates, including
“I would not have believed it
when we put it in. We love that
everyone loves our pizzas as
much as we do.”
The most popular pizza
flavours are the Rakaia, topped
with akaroa salmon, cream
cheese and capers followed
by the Linwood, topped with
waitoa chicken, bacon, kransky
and smoked cheese and the
Pigeon Bay, topped with waitoa
chicken, capsicums, red onion and
jalapenos.
Mr Cassels runs the joint with
his son Zak Cassels and son-inlaw
Joe Shanks.
Other than pizza, the spot
is best known for its awardwinning
beer which is brewed
on-site.
Mr Needham, are standing.
Low pay has been cited
as one of the reasons the
community board did not
attract enough candidates.
In its last term, members
were paid less than half
of what inner-city board
members receive.
As it stands, community
board members are set
to receive $9864 and the
chairperson $19,729 after
the elections.
But Mr Needham said income
played no part in his decision to
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500,000 pizzas cooked at venue
UPSIZING: Alasdair Cassels and Joe Shanks replaced the
8-year-old wood-fired pizza oven at Cassels The Brewery
Bar and Restaurant for a larger one to keep up with growing
demands.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
Low pay cited for shortage of candidates
Bill
Studholme
stand for the council and community
board seats.
“I didn’t even look at
that. I’ve been here for
five years and I love this
area, so I looked at how I
could get more involved
with the community.”
However, Charteris Bay
Residents’ Association
secretary Bill Studholme
said Mr Needham has
made no contact with
the group in the lead-up to the
elections.
He said the association was
“extremely well served” by former
Mt Herbert representatives
Felix Dawson and John McLister.
“We would rather somebody
we knew, but if there’s nobody
there then we will just come
across as some noisy outsiders,”
Mr Studholme said.
As the current remuneration
model is set by population,
community boards with bigger
populations get higher pay.
However, that may change after
the newly-elected city council
decides on the allocation of a
$1,843,200 governance pool.
BAY HARBOUR
PAGE 5
Contentious
liquor store
slow to open
• By Jess Gibson
A NEW liquor store given the go
ahead in Redcliffs is yet to open.
Rizak Enterprises Ltd sole director
and shareholder Juraj Singh
was granted an off-licence to open
Redcliffs Fine Wine and Spirits
store at 1/87 Main Rd in July.
The alcohol regulatory and
licensing committee’s decision
came after Mr Singh made
amendments to an application
which was opposed by almost 50
people.
Mr Singh told Bay Harbour
News the store will “definitely”
still go ahead, and that he has
been tied up with family commitments
and managing other stores.
“I’m not able to give time to
the store at the moment, but the
licence has been granted and everything
will be eventually done.”
He said there is no timeline
yet, but that a refit could possibly
be completed in the next two
months.
“These things take time,” he
said.
Mr Singh’s amended application
included a renaming of the store
from Thirsty Liquor to Redcliffs
Fine Wine and Spirits.
It also assured CCTV security
would be installed inside and
outside the store and no alcohol
advertising would be placed
outside the building.
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