Western News: November 12, 2020

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Mora to stay on as 

board chairman 

• By Bea Gooding 

MIKE MORA has done a 

U-turn over his plan to step 

down as chairman of Halswell- 

Hornby-Riccarton Community 

Board. 

Mora, 72, had planned to hand 

over the reins after 28 years on 

the board, serving more than 20 

years as chairman, and deputy 

chairman combined. 

The plan was for deputy 

chairman Andrei Moore to take 

Mora’s position this year, with 

Mora serving as deputy chairman 

for the remainder of the 

three-year term. 

The current term will be 

Mora’s last as he intends to retire 

by 2022 to spend more time 

with his family after nearly three 

decades as an elected member of 

the board. 

He believed his decades of 

experience and extensive knowledge 

of the area were driving 

forces behind his re-election. 

Said Mora: “I feel like I’ve got 

the confidence of the board. The 

members wanted me to stay on 

because there’s still quite a lot of 

work to do on the Annual Plan 

and the Long Term Plan. 

• Turn to page 4 

VERDICT: Mike Mora has been re-elected as chairman of the Halswell-Hornby- 

Riccarton Community Board in spite of plans to retire this year. 

Speeds 

through 

Yaldhurst 

to lower 

soon 

SPEED LIMITS in Yaldhurst will 

soon be reduced in response to 

increased traffic in the area. 

The changes will take place 

from next month on State Highway 

73 extending west through 

the Yaldhurst township. 

The existing speed limits were 

80km/h and 100km/h, with 

70km/h through the township. 

“The speed limits on Yaldhurst 

roads have been the subject of 

ongoing community calls for 

reductions, particularly with the 

significant development in the 

area which has generated more 

pedestrian and cycling activity 

alongside traffic,” said Jim Harland, 

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport 

Agency director regional relationships. 

The technical assessment 

conducted by Waka Kotahi 

supports reductions to 60km/h 

through the urban fringe and 

Yaldhurst town centre with a 

reduction to 80km/h to the west 

of the town, while the intervening 

rural section east of Yaldhurst is 

to remain at 80km/h. 

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The Art Group Exhibition 

Thursday to Saturday, All Day 

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These free drop-in sessions are 

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including using email, searching 

the internet, using the library catalogue, 

using electronic resources and 

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WESTERN NEWS 

Free Legal Advice, Thursday, 6.15-8.15pm, Hornby Library. A lawyer will 

be available to answer your legal questions. Take relevant documents. Free. 

No bookings required. 

Family History 

Wednesday, 11am-1pm 


A volunteer from the Riccarton 

branch of the New Zealand Society of 

Genealogists will be available to help 

you with finding your family history 

online. Meet at the Family History 

computer. 

Mah-jong Group 

Wednesday, 1-3 pm 


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Scrabble Club 

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Thursday November 12 2020 3 

Council wants feedback on services 


IS THE city council meeting 

your needs when it comes to its 

services and facilities? 

That’s what the bosses at the 

city council want to know as they 

start on their annual residents’ 

survey. 

Each year the city council 

surveys residents across the city to 

understand how satisfied they are 

with services covering its parks, 

libraries and service centres. 

City council chief executive 

Dawn Baxendale said the survey 

was one of the tools 

used to assess where 

they were performing 

well, and where 

improvements 

needed to be made 

and prioritised. 

“We want to find 

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well for residents and what’s not 

working well because our focus, 

as an organisation, is on meeting 

the needs of our residents,” she 

said. 

“The findings of this year’s survey 

programme will feed into the 

development of our 2021-31 Long 

Term Plan, so I would really 

encourage people to share their 

views if they are approached by 

staff at a council location or if 

they receive an email or letter 

from us.” 

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This year’s survey included 

specific questions that will help 

the city council decide what it 

should prioritise in the LTP. 

The LTP is the document that 

councils are legally required to 

produce every three years. It sets 

out what the city council will do 

over the next 10 years and how it 

will pay for it. 

“The Covid-19 pandemic 

has prompted many people, 

businesses and organisations to 

rethink their plans and priorities 

and to tighten their belts. 

We are having to do that too,” 

Baxendale said. 

“As we start to review our plans 

and priorities, we want to gather 

your views about the opportunities, 

challenges and choices that 

Christchurch is facing.” 

The city council urged residents 

to participate in the survey 

if they were approached or contacted 

by staff. 

The findings of the survey 

programme will be made public 

next year. 

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Changes to 

bin collection 

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THE CITY council is looking 

to change aspects of its kerbside 

wheelie bin collection in a bid to 

reduce contamination. 

A report presented to the 

Finance and Performance Committee 

outlined plans to make the 

service more flexible as part of a 

review into solid waste management. 

The work will give priority to 

current kerbside collections. Flexibility 

around bin sizes, fees, as 

well as a separate glass collection 

are also being investigated. 

The three-bin kerbside system 

has diverted about 65 per cent of 

household recyclable and organic 

materials from landfill since its 

inception in 2009. 

“We’ve been hearing from a lot 

of people that their green bins 

aren’t big enough and we are 

known as the garden city, so we’ll 

be looking at how we can make 

this service better,” said Helen 

Beaumont, city council head of 

three waters and waste. 

“It will also help us reduce the 

amount of contamination we’re 

getting in recycling bins.” 

The first stage of the review will 

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WESTERN NEWS 

‘I want to get these things sorted’ 

• From page 1 

“We just need to concentrate 

on doing the job and getting 

the best outcomes for our 

community. I just want to get 

these things sorted before I 

retire at the end of this term.” 

The community board 

members voted to re-elect 

Mora as its chairman for the 

remainder of the term after no 

other names were put forward. 

Out of all the board members, 

councillor Catherine Chu was 

the only member who voted 

against the decision. 

Mora decided to continue for 

another two years because there 

was still unfinished business 

to attend to in the wider 

community. 

By staying in the position, it 

kept the momentum going on 

any “outstanding issues” that 

needed to be resolved before 

passing the torch on to someone 

new. 

These included the Hornby 

Centre’s construction, the 

Halswell Junction Rd extension, 

supporting “landlocked” 

residents at Yaldhurst Village, 

tidying up the Sockburn Service 

Centre and park, and sorting 

out pedestrian and cycleway 

links between major centres in 

Hornby. 

He also wanted to put a 

succession plan in place for the 

area’s future in the next 10 to 

20 years, setting goals now to 

enable work towards them in 

the next term and beyond. 

In addition to Mora’s reelection, 

former city councillor 

Helen Broughton has been 

elected as the board’s new 

deputy chairwoman, taking 

over from Moore. 

In spite of previous tensions 

between the pair, such as 

Broughton’s concerns that 

Mora’s priorities did not focus 

on Riccarton, Mora believed 

this would not get in the way of 

future decisions. 

“We work together even 

though we don’t always see 

eye-to-eye. We had a chat after 

the meeting and we want to 

put the past behind us and 

move forward in a positive 

direction for the community we 

represent.” 

Plans to take on another term 

ISSUE: Mike 

Mora wants 

to see the 

Sockburn 

Service 

Centre 

tidied up 

before he 

retires. 

after the current one ended was 

not likely for Mora. 

“If people want me to stay 

for another term, I’m not 

considering that at this point 

in time – unless something 

happens later on,” he said. 

“I just want to concentrate 

on more time for family and 

other interests. At the end of 

this term I would’ve spent 30 

years in local government, that’s 

quite a big chunk of a person’s 

life.” 

Increased traffic 

reason for change 

• From page 1 

“The feedback we received provided 

good support for speed reductions 

in the area and did not identify any 

particular further issues that we were 

not aware of,” says Mr Harland. 

“Some people did, however, call 

for lower speeds and to extend the 

lower speed zones further west of 

Yaldhurst, which we may consider in 

the future. 

“The increase in traffic and subsequent 

crashes, along with the commercial 

development and the many driveways 

off the highway, means 60 and 80 

kilometres per hour limits are safe and 

appropriate speeds for this area.” 

The city council consulted on the 

speed limits for sections of Ryans, 

Pound, Hasketts and School Rds. 

The speed limits for these roads 

are being reduced from 70km/h or 

80km/h to 60km/h. 

Sections of Ryans, Hasketts and 

School Rds have already been implemented. 

The remaining changes on Ryans 

and Pound Rds will be co-ordinated 

with changes to SH73. 

“Improving the safety of the 

road network is a critical issue for 

the council. These changes will 

reduce speeds at approaches to 

high-risk intersections and maintain 

consistency of speed limits across the 

joint road network,” city council head 

of transport Richard Osborne said.



Ollie helps design health hub 

FORMER Christchurch Boys’ 

High School student Ollie 

Latimer has battled mental 

illness and helped design 

plans for a youth health hub in 

Christchurch. 

Latimer’s mum succumbed 

to breast cancer when he was 

just four-years-old and his dad 

took his own life in 2017. 

Youth Hub Trust chairwoman 

Dame Sue Bagshaw 

helped him through this. 

Now, the health hub proposed 

for Salisbury St, which 

will help others like Latimer 

if approved, has received resource 

consent. 

Said Latimer, now 26: “I was 

really struggling with depression 

when I first reached out 

for help. 

“Sue was really there for me 

from the start, helping me deal 

with troubling issues both at 

school and home. I had lost 

my mum to breast cancer 

when I was just four. The welcoming, 

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at 298 Youth Health 

Centre really helped me.” 

Once stronger, Latimer left 

Christchurch to spend the 

next five years in Auckland, 

studying for a degree in spatial 

design. 

But in 2017, he returned to 

APPROVED: Resource consent has been granted for a 

youth health and well-being hub on Salisbury St. 

Inset: Ollie Latimer. 

Christchurch after his dad’s 

death. 

“I was really struggling to 

cope with renewed grief and 

turned once again to Sue for 

counselling. 

“That was super important 

for me and I was able to pick 

up again where we left off from 

high school. Sue is incredible. 

I spent many hours with her 

through it all. What she does 

to support youth is amazing. 

She is there for so many young 

people, she’s just so selfless 

and caring,” said Latimer. 

Bagshaw knew Latimer 

needed some direction in his 

life and sensed an opportunity 

to involve him and his skills 

with her ambitious one-stopshop 

youth hub plans, then in 

their infancy. 

She asked him to a meeting 

where he was introduced to 

the Field Studio team, who 

were soon engaged to design 

the hub. Bagshaw and Field 

Studio’s director thought Latimer’s 

skills would be a good 

fit for the project and Latimer 

was invited in to the firm’s office 

to join the project team. 

Once built, the Youth Hub 

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of growth, support and wellbeing 

for 10 to 25-year-olds. 

It will provide support services 

including access to catchup 

education, healthcare, 

mental health counselling, 

vocational training, recreation 

and employment. 

The centre will provide 

space for about 12 different 

youth organisations including 

298 Youth Health Centre, 

YouthLine, Qtopia and the 

Christchurch City Mission. 

Resource consent approval 

comes just weeks after another 

positive win for the ambitious 

project – a $10 million 

dollar kick-start from the 

Government’s $3 billion dollar 

Covid-19 Response and 

Recovery Fund, set aside for 

shovel-ready projects. 

“That generous investment 

is around half of what we 

ultimately need to make the 

youth hub a reality,” said 

Bagshaw. 

Neighbours have been 

consulted, with the design 

adjusted to address concerns. 

Although resource consent 

has been granted, affected 

parties have until the end of 

November to lodge an appeal. 

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GRATITUDE: New World Wigram owner James Backhouse, is presented 

with a thank you card by Oaklands School pupils Amelia White, Alex 

Montague-Ebbs, Emilia Montague-Ebbs, Megan Siave, Declan Siave and 

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Oaklands School gets 

behind local businesses 

• By Kim Thomas 

OAKLANDS SCHOOL 

is promoting businesses 

owned by its families or 

Halswell locals as a way 

of supporting them in 

difficult economic times. 

The Halswell-based 

school is also giving 

thank you cards made by 

students to businesses that 

have previously supported 

fundraising activities. 

Oaklands parent teacher 

association president 

Cameron Montague-Ebbs 

said it wanted to thank 

and support those who had 

given generously to school 

fundraising activities in 

the past, or businesses 

that were owned by school 

families. 

The PTA, with the 

backing of school leaders, 

developed the Oaklands 

Te Kura o Ōwaka Business 

Directory and promoted it 

on the school’s newsletter, 

website and on the PTA’s 

Facebook page. 

It hoped when people 

needed a product or service 

they would consider 

giving their custom to 

businesses on the list, she 

said. 

“Covid-19 has had a big 

impact on many aspects of 

life and we wanted to do 

what we could to support 

our community,” she said. 

“Local business have 

been very supportive of 

our fundraising activities 

in the past but we understand 

in this environment 

if they are not able to be as 

generous as they previously 

have. 

“Instead of asking, we 

wanted to say thank you 

and let them know we are 

grateful for what they have 

already done for our school 

community.” 

WESTERN NEWS 

The school has had to 

alter or cancel a number 

of fundraising activities 

this year to keep pupils 

safe, such as regular discos, 

sausage sizzles and a quiz 

night, Montague-Ebbs said. 

The school was still planning 

to hold its end-of-year 

community celebration, 

the school gala, on December 

11 from 5.30pm. 

“The focus of our gala 

this year is a celebration 

of each other, and we are 

inviting families to come 

and enjoy rides, games 

and great food with their 

families and friends.” 

Oaklands School 

principal Margaret Trotter 

said the local community 

was always important to 

the school and fostering 

that connection was 

increasingly important 

following the Covid-19 

pandemic. 

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MEMBERS OF St Andrew’s 

College’s mixed team for next 

year’s Coast to Coast don’t have 

to look too far for advice on 

how to tackle the multisport 

endurance event for the first 

time, as they follow in familiar 

footsteps. 

Kayaker Georgia Sparks can 

get paddling tips for tackling the 

Waimakariri from her father 

Geoff, a seven-time competitor 

and brother Henry, who 

represented St Andrew’s in last 

year’s 243km slog from Kumara 

Beach to New Brighton Pier. 

“I’ve done lots of adventures 

with my family, but not 

kayaking specifically,” Sparks 

said. 

“I’ve done rafting down the 

rivers and some kayaking as 

a family, but not on my own 

as such, so this will be a good 

experience. 

“Dad’s done the event a fair 

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few times though, so it’ll be good 

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Nate Pringle also has family 

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uncle Aaron winning the twoperson 

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The couple originally 

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While they were living 

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When they first moved 

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Preparing young for life’s adversities 

Myriad groups help 

keep our community 

moving. Reporter Bea 

Gooding speaks to 

Life Education Trust 

Canterbury community 

engagement manager 

Andy Gray about why 

the trust has been an 

iconic fixture in schools 

for the past 30 years 

and why he’s involved 

Could you tell me a bit 

about what the Life Education 

Trust does, and how it came 

to be what it is today in 

Canterbury? 

The Life Education Trust 

started over 30 years ago, which 

started in Canterbury. There’s 

now 32 regional trusts across 

the country, and one national 

branch. The vision is to inspire 

tamariki and rangatahi to make 

positive choices and to give them 

the power to do that. The trust 

addresses challenges including 

obesity, substance use, mental 

health and well-being and 

bullying. 

We operate in three mobile 

classrooms in Canterbury, 

they’re like big container shells 

that have been turned into 

REWARDING: Life Education Trust Canterbury community engagement manager Andy 

Gray is passionate about inspiring children to make the right decisions in life. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

classrooms and are moved 

around different schools – 

whether it was as far as Omihi in 

North Canterbury, right down 

to Rakaia. Whether schools have 

35 students or 500 students, we 

end up making our way there no 

matter where they are. 

What issues is the trust 

currently facing in the wake of 

Covid-19? 

Quite a few in all fairness – 

when Covid-19 hit during the 

first lockdown, even though we 

were still continuing to support 

the teachers and tamariki during 

lockdown, we didn’t get any 

school fees come in, and the 

funders that we usually used 

were all closed down. 

It’s been tough, but we 

managed to get through it 

and we’re in a better position 

now. We reached out to a lot 

of people that have done quite 

well throughout Covid-19, like 

supermarkets, and to the Rata 

Foundation and Lottery Grants 

Board who have helped us out. 

With Covid-19 it’s a doubleedged 

sword. It’s great that 

we’re busier now and we’re 

looking to expand to a fourth 

classroom because of it. But the 

double-edged side of that sword 

is obviously with increased 

demand it means that more 

people are affected, there are 

higher anxiety levels. 

We’ve learned a lot about 

mental health from the 

earthquakes in the past 10 years 

and also the mosque attacks 

where kids have been affected. 

Things like a lack of employment 

that comes from it just filters 

through to the kids, so we expect 

to see increased demand over the 

next few months. 

The trust has been iconic in 

Canterbury schools for the past 

30 years. What do you attribute 

towards its success? 

Obviously, the most 

memorable thing about Life 

Education is Harold the Giraffe. 

But the reason why I think we’re 

so iconic is because we tend to 

react to the issues currently at 

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‘It’s the kids’ reactions which I find the most rewarding’ 

•From page 11 

We don’t get any government 

or Ministry of Education funding, 

so we aren’t led by their 

agenda, and it’s why we’re the 

number one health education 

provider. We don’t want to be led 

by what they want, which is why 

we work with teachers to adapt 

[the lesson]. I think that’s what 

makes us so successful. 

Why did you decide to join 

the trust? 

I’ve got a wee eight-year-old 

boy and things are a little bit different 

now than back in my day; 

kids have got different challenges 

now, so I just wanted to make 

sure I was getting in touch with 

what was going on. Kids seem to 

be a lot more involved and more 

aware of what’s happening around 

them because of social media and 

access to the internet. That was 

my excuse to get involved and 

understand what’s happening in 

my own child’s head. 

What are the rewarding parts 

of your job? 

The kids – when Harold comes 

on board, the kids wander in and 

when they see him, they all get 

pretty excited to hear what he 

has to say. It’s the kids’ reactions 

which I find the most rewarding. 

Like most jobs, it’s not always 

fun and games. What can be 

challenging about your role? 

I think seeing the statistics 

that are pretty grim, like when I 

hear about the teen suicide rates 

or how many kids are stressed. 

About 35 per cent of kids are 

stressed at least once a week. 

It’s like, bloody hell, these kids 

are eight or nine-years-old, they 

shouldn’t be stressed, they should 

be watching Pokémon on TV or 

something. 

Tell me a bit about where life 

began for you – where did you 

grow up? How about family? 

I was born in Salford, UK. 

When I was about 13-years-old 

my folks decided to ship us all 

over, with my brothers and sister, 

and start life afresh over here. I 

ended up going to school down 

the road at Christchurch Boys’ 

High School, and eventually at 

the University of Canterbury. 

After travelling overseas for a 

while, I came back and became 

the director at Specsavers (Papanui) 

after opening up a franchise 

here. After selling that I was 

lucky that I had a bit more free to 

pick and choose the jobs I wanted 

to do, and that’s when the Life 

Education Trust job came up. 

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My two brothers live in Sunshine 

Coast and Gold Coast in 

Australia. My sister is here in 

Christchurch so she’s not very 

far from me, and my parents 

are retired now and live in the 

Hurunui District. 

Do you remember much from 

life back in England? 

I remember quite a lot of it. It’s 

quite a rough spot where we were, 

a lot of cars were being nicked 

every night and there were a lot 

of fights, you could just watch it 

from your window - that’s what it 

was all to me. 

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it’s just a matter of writing a 

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I’ve always loved movies, the 

idea for me growing up was to 

become either a football player, a 

fireman or a moviemaker. 

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• By Louis Day 

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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding 

the eastern suburbs start to 

Northern Corridor opening has 

see Lianne Dalziel’s campaign 

been delayed by six months. 

THE earthquake-damaged 

aspirations for the area come to 

The CNC was due to open in 

former Sockburn Service Centre 

fruition. 

the middle of this year, but last 

could finally be demolished in 

During October’s local body 

week the New 

July – if the funding needed is 

elections, Ms Dalziel identified 

Zealand Transport 

Agency 

It comes as the 

obtained. 

repairs to the eastern part of the 

city’s footpaths, pipes and roads 

announced more 

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 

as one of her main priorities for 

time was needed 

this term. 

to complete the 

Community 

“We need a fully integrated 

$290m motorwayten 

in its draft 

Board has writ- 

programme of works for the 

east, I have loosely called this 

The original 

submission to 

Readers respond 

Chance to the eastern alliance, which 

scope of the 

Delay in 

Market day the city council’s 

would essentially be an alliance 

project has been Mark Wilson 

Annual Plan 

Mike Mora 

to supermarket 

farewell Holden 

of contractors who can take 

extended to include 

a third southbound lane on 

requesting the city council ad- 

making mall 

goes green at 2019-2020, 

the whole area bit by bit and 

rebranding 

in style 

systematically get the work 

the Waimakariri River bridge and 

exit safer 

Cashmere dresses the HS budget gap so the 

done,” she said during the 

a clip-on cycleway. 

buildings can be removed as soon 

campaign. 

St Albans resident Mark Wilson 

as possible. 

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GIRL Page BOSS: Julia 17 Holmes But chief wants executive to be a Dawn geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said GIRL the BOSS: community Julia Holmes are “somewhat 

her achieve thankful” her for dreams. the delay. 

Page 3 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Page 11 said the final submission is yet to 

wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora 

her achieve her dreams. Baxendale said any request to 



pursue a specific for biology, project in and the from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, •“The By community Bea Gooding will be somewhat 

thankful for a reprieve of the 

for biology, and from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, be completed but it was likely the 

east would have age to has be always agreed been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science, 

technology, engineering 

age has always been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science, 

technology, engineering requested. 

demolition of the site would be 

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South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of 

City councillors are yet to pass 

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Holmes is on a mission on to 

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FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Julia in how things worked, often country to participate in the 

months, but it’s still there. Until 

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next month, designed She was shocked to hear the 

and maths. 

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PHOTO: GEOFF The SLOAN year 11 St Margaret’s this, she said. 

community first, then there is no 

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• By Louis Day 

CALLS HAVE been made to 

stop rates increases in response 

to the Covid-19 crisis. 

City councillors James Gough, 

Sam MacDonald, Catherine 

Chu, Phil Mauger, Aaron Keown 

and James Daniels have sent a 

letter to Mayor Lianne Dalziel 

asking her to lead a conversation 

as to how a zero per cent rates 

increase could be achieved this 

year. 

The city council is proposing 

an average rates increase of 4.65 

per cent across all ratepayers in 

this year’s Draft Annual Plan 

which is currently under public 

consultation until April 5 and 

will be finalised before July 1. 

The 2018-2028 Long Term 

Plan also predicts a 50 per cent 

rates increase over 10 years. 

Said Cr MacDonald: “In 

the current environment it’s 

clear business as usual is not 

appropriate and the council 

needs to look at how we enable 

this 12-month rates increase 

freeze to occur, it’s crucial for 

the economic confidence of our 

city.” 

Ms Dalziel said the las thing the council’s budget, which is 

the city council needed was for not entirely funded by rates, and 

someone to hi the panic button. the consequences that will flow 

“Calm heads must and will from decisions we make. 

prevail,” she said. 

“The Annual Plan is not 

“Our residents and businesses signed off for three months so 

will be depending on us to we have time to ge this advice. 

make adjustments, and we will, A the same time, the council 

however, we will need advice is meeting with our economic 

on the impacts on all aspects of development agency, ChristchurchNZ, 

the Canterbury Employers’ 

Chamber of Commerce 

and other key players so we are 

best prepared for the economic 

challenges that lie ahead.” 

City council chief executive 

Dawn Baxendale did not rule a 

zero rates rise out. 

“We’re considering a series of 

options in light of the extraor- 

Thursday, March 19, 2020 

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dinary circumstances related to the economy in response to the 

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options with elected members The biggest boost is $5.1 

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she said. 

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