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2 <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>23</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Numbers growing ... Akereru, left, and piwakawaka in Tiromoana Bush.<br />
Commissioner appointed at Loburn School<br />
From Page 1<br />
‘‘I am looking forward to working with<br />
Stuart and the management team, and I<br />
will provide regular updates to the<br />
school community.<br />
‘‘My objective is for Loburn School to<br />
be in astrong position for selfgovernance,<br />
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Birds make home in bush<br />
Native birds,including rare<br />
species, are becomingmore<br />
common in TiromoanaBush.<br />
Recent monitoring reveals<br />
increasedsightingsoftauhou/<br />
silvereye(up 104 percent),and<br />
piwakawaka/fantail (up 52%).<br />
Also,therehas been<br />
sightingsofspecies rarely<br />
seen at Tiromoana Bush, such<br />
as pipiwharauroa/shining<br />
cuckoo (up 72%) and<br />
ngirungiru/tomtit(up 1014%).<br />
The nationally atrisk<br />
puweto/spotless crake and<br />
koitareke/marsh crake were<br />
also detected at the Kate Pond<br />
wetlands for thefirsttime.<br />
It is the second round of bird<br />
monitoring in the bush,a<br />
407hectareregenerating<br />
native forest northeast of<br />
Amberley.<br />
It is owned by Transwaste<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>, which owns the<br />
adjacent landfill in Kate<br />
Valley. It funds the restoration<br />
project, pest controland<br />
monitoring.<br />
Transwastechairman Gill<br />
Cox saysbird monitoring is<br />
importanttounderstand<br />
whether the regenerating<br />
native bushand predator<br />
controlsare providing a<br />
Improving habitat ...<br />
suitable habitatfor native<br />
birds and fauna.<br />
‘‘Our vision for Tiromoana<br />
Bushwas to enable native<br />
flora and fauna to thrive in a<br />
regenerating native forest.<br />
‘‘It’s very exciting to learn<br />
the restoration project is<br />
working and native birds,<br />
particularly rare species, such<br />
as the tomtitand spotless<br />
crake, are making their home<br />
in Tiromoana Bush.’’<br />
Birdmonitoringto<br />
determine which species are<br />
present in thebushand in<br />
whatnumbers began when the<br />
restoration project started in<br />
2005.<br />
Dr DavidNorton,a<br />
professor from the University<br />
Kate Pond in the Tiromoana Bush.<br />
PHOTO:DAVID NORTON<br />
of <strong>Canterbury</strong>’s School of<br />
Forestry who wrote the bush<br />
restorationmanagement plan<br />
in 2004, says the steady<br />
increase in nativebird<br />
diversity in the bush is an<br />
encouragingsign.‘‘It’s<br />
gratifying to see previously<br />
rare native speciessuch as<br />
tomtit,kereru, and shining<br />
cuckoo become moreabundant<br />
in Tiromoana Bush.’’<br />
However, there has been a<br />
declineinobserved korimako/<br />
bellbird (down 24%) and exotic<br />
speciessuch as finches (down<br />
more than 50%).<br />
Professor Norton sayssome<br />
speciesare more vulnerable to<br />
predators and it might take<br />
longerfor numbers to recover.<br />
place as soon as practicable,’’ she says.<br />
Dr Wall thanked outgoing board<br />
members for their professionalism and<br />
dedication, and for the hours they<br />
committed to the school as volunteers.<br />
The school’s May 2019 Education<br />
Review Office report said, for sustained<br />
improvement and future learner<br />
success, priorities for further<br />
development were acoordinated and<br />
meaningful integration of te reo and<br />
tikanga Maori into the whole school<br />
curriculum, continuing to embed<br />
schoolwide initiatives for student<br />
wellbeing, and developing aspects of<br />
internal evaluation practice.<br />
The school, which goes to Year 8, has<br />
aroll of just over 160.<br />
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Its collection includes school<br />
rolls and class photographs,<br />
baptism records, marriage and<br />
cemetery records, minutesand<br />
record books from clubs,<br />
associations and businesses, as<br />
well as newspaperclippings<br />
from the 1870s to the present<br />
day. It also holds scrapbooks<br />
and family trees, plus old maps<br />
and indexes for land titles.<br />
For the past 10 yearsthe<br />
building,which was built in<br />
1922 and has aHeritage New<br />
Zealand classification,has<br />
waited in line with other<br />
council buildings in the district<br />
to be strengthened.<br />
Council chiefexecutive<br />
Hamish Dobbie says the Kowai<br />
ArchivesSociety had been<br />
extremely patient. ‘‘They play a<br />
huge role in our community.<br />
Withoutpeople like that, and<br />
having somewhere to store<br />
records,history can be lost.’’<br />
Mr Dobbie says manyofthe<br />
less complicatedstrengthening<br />
projects have been finished,<br />
but there are stillsome halls,<br />
buildingsatthe former Queen<br />
Mary Hospital, and other<br />
council buildings damaged in<br />
the earthquakes, awaiting<br />
attention.<br />
‘‘Thereare some we are<br />
having conversations about<br />
with the community because<br />
some are amenity funded, and<br />
not supported by districtwide<br />
funding,’’ he says.<br />
The formerAmuri County<br />
Councilbuilding at Culverden<br />
is waiting for decisions to be<br />
made about how the<br />
community would use it if it<br />
was strengthened.<br />
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