Nor'West News: February 25, 2020

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Damaged graves could cost family
• By Matt Slaughter
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NORTHWOOD resident
Lynette King is shocked by the
state of the grave sites of her
relatives.
Mrs King’s great grandmother,
great grandfather and two of
their sons, one who died in
World War 1, are buried at
Bromley Cemetery and their
gravestones are damaged.
Mrs King said her son in law
Steve Berry is a concrete layer
and he wants to do the repairs
for free himself.
The city council have said
this can’t happen and Mrs
King’s family will have to pay
a city council-approved contractor
if they want the graves
repaired.
Mr Berry has installed headstones
at Linwood Cemetery and
Harewood Memorial Gardens
and Crematorium in the past
and estimates going through a
city council-approved will cost
about $5000.
Said Mr Berry: “I do a bit of
work for them [the city council]
and when they do get contractors
to do work it is I’d say
extravagant but they may not say
that.”
Said city council community
parks manager Al Hardy: “Only
an approved contractor for monumental
work may undertake work
associated with any monument
(including concrete kerbing or
covering) in a council cemetery.”
Said Mrs King: “I didn’t know
that we had great grandparents
at Bromley Cemetery so we went
and had a look and the grave was
disgusting. It had all fallen over,
the headstone was off, there had
been nothing done to it.
“They [the city council] won’t
let us tidy that grave and yet it’s
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a disgrace, that whole cemetery,”
she said.
One of Mrs King’s relatives’
headstones has fallen on its face
and the family wants to prop
it up again so people can see
the name on it. Mrs King said
they’ve been told this also has
to be done by a city councilapproved
contractor.
Mrs King believes families
of people buried at the cemetery
should be able to fix the graves of
Conditions apply
UNFAIR: Lynette
King is mad her
family will have to
pay if they want
the graves of four
relatives fixed in
Bromley Cemetery.
PHOTO: GEOFF
SLOAN ​
their loved ones themselves.
“These are family members.
These people came from Ireland,
came over on a boat . . . started
businesses, they had 12 children.
They have to be respected. If I
had a grave and it was in that
sort of repair I’d be disappointed
in my family that they didn’t
at least tidy it up and make it
respectable so people could read
who they were in that grave.
That’s all we want.”
In Brief
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GRASSMERE ST CLOSURE
The Grassmere St and Main
North Rd intersection is now
closed between 7am and 6pm
until March 23. Traffic signals
for vehicles and pedestrians
will be installed as part of the
Main North Rd Bus Priority
Lane project. Works also include
widening the road on Grassmere
St to add both a left and right
lane into Main North Rd.
DRAFT PLAN FEEDBACK
The Waipapa/Papanui-Innes
Community Board draft plan
for 2020-2022 is now open for
feedback. The plan outlines
visions and priorities for the
community and will guide
decisions on local activities,
projects and facilities over the
next three years. Submissions
close on March 2 via the city
council website.
CRANFORD ST WORKS
Oxley Ave has closed at the
Cranford St intersection until
March 29 due to the installation
of a new water pipe down
Sherborne and Cranford Sts,
along with road changes. This
work will allow people to pass
through the area, provide safe
access to schools, and add safer
walking and cycling routes due
to additional traffic from the
Christchurch Northern Corridor
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