Bay Harbour: January 22, 2020
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 9<br />
Wednesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>22</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
News<br />
Public cruises back<br />
on Tug Lyttelton<br />
• By Jess Gibson<br />
AFTER THREE years, it’s<br />
back to smooth sailing for Tug<br />
Lyttelton.<br />
The 112-year-old tugboat was<br />
fully booked for its second day<br />
running a public cruise around<br />
the harbour on Sunday.<br />
It had been out of commission<br />
for three years due to a need<br />
for repairs and the requirement<br />
to pass a number of expensive<br />
surveys.<br />
Tug Lyttelton Preservation Society,<br />
whose members voluntarily<br />
keep the tug in full working order,<br />
had financial struggles over<br />
this period as passenger cruise<br />
tickets go towards keeping the<br />
tug operational.<br />
The passenger cruise was originally<br />
scheduled to take place in<br />
December 2018 but was pushed<br />
back to <strong>January</strong>, then February<br />
and then to this boating season<br />
due to delays with the passenger<br />
service licence.<br />
Grants from the city council<br />
and other fundraising meant the<br />
society was able to repair the vessel<br />
and have it pass a $83,240 dry<br />
dock survey so there would be no<br />
more delays.<br />
For its first day on <strong>January</strong><br />
12, two 45-minute-long sessions<br />
were held and between them,<br />
there were about 100 passengers.<br />
Society board member Roger<br />
Ellery said it feels fantastic to<br />
have the cruises back up and<br />
running.<br />
FULL VESSEL:<br />
There were blue<br />
skies as Lyttelton’s<br />
historic tugboat<br />
ran its second day<br />
of public cruises<br />
on Sunday. <br />
“Now that we’ve come back<br />
from the brink it’s a tremendous<br />
morale booster to get them up<br />
and going again.”<br />
Cruises will now run every<br />
Sunday until the end of the<br />
summer sailing season.<br />
To book tickets, visit https://<br />
tuglyttelton.co.nz/product-category/tickets/<br />
REBUILD: A new $3m pavilion will replace the old, earthquakedamaged<br />
Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving clubhouse.<br />
Surf club construction<br />
to get under way<br />
CONSTRUCTION of the<br />
Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving<br />
clubhouse can get under way<br />
following an official blessing<br />
ceremony.<br />
Maui Stuart of Te Hapū o<br />
Ngāti Wheke blessed the site and<br />
workers who will be involved in<br />
the rebuild of the new $3m facility<br />
on Friday.<br />
Ngāti Wheke holds mana<br />
whenua or right to the land over<br />
Taylors Mistake.<br />
The surf life saving club has<br />
been operating from Taylors<br />
Mistake Beach for 103 years.<br />
The old building was red-stickered<br />
after the 2016 Valentines<br />
Day earthquake rendered previous<br />
stop-gap repairs unsafe.<br />
Since then the club has had to<br />
operate out of three Portacom<br />
buildings.<br />
A large number of club members<br />
and residents attended the<br />
ceremony.<br />
After the blessing, club president<br />
Viv Bickley thanked Mr<br />
Stuart and acknowledged Ngāti<br />
Wheke as holding mana whenua<br />
over the land.<br />
The club and Ngāti Wheke<br />
will be working with together in<br />
the coming months and into the<br />
future.<br />
Project leader David Hill spoke<br />
about and thanked the large<br />
team of people working on the<br />
rebuild.<br />
Miles Construction will soon<br />
start on stage one of the project<br />
which is the construction of the<br />
gear shed.<br />
Seconds<br />
Available<br />
238 Port Hills Road,<br />
Heathcote<br />
corner of Port Hills and Chapmans<br />
shop hours<br />
Monday to Saturday<br />
8am - 6pm<br />
Sunday 9am - 4pm<br />
Visit our new website: www.min.nz<br />
With thriving communities and<br />
picturesque views,<br />
the bays are truly spectacular<br />
COASTAL REAL ESTATE SPECIALISTS<br />
We’ll help you live the dream.<br />
Min Sarginson Real Estate Ltd. specialises in homes, sections and<br />
rental properties in the spectacular Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong> bays, and<br />
coastal suburbs of Christchurch, New Zealand.<br />
We’ll make it so easy for you. All our sales consultants live in the<br />
area – we can give you valuable insights into life in our thriving<br />
coastal communities.<br />
This is an exciting time; of promise, optimism, and opportunities<br />
never anticipated pre-quakes. Beachfront, or hillside with<br />
grandstand views, find the property of your dreams:<br />
Lyttelton | Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong> | Governors <strong>Bay</strong> | Cass <strong>Bay</strong><br />
Charteris <strong>Bay</strong> | Church <strong>Bay</strong> | Purau <strong>Bay</strong> | Port Levy | Northshore<br />
Southshore | New Brighton | Heathcote | Sumner | Redcliffs<br />
Scarborough | Mount Pleasant | Clifton<br />
Call Min Sarginson Real Estate Ltd. for free, no-obligation advice. Lyttelton: 03 328 7273, lyttelton@min.nz or Church <strong>Bay</strong>: 03 329 4161, churchbay@min.nz
Change language