North Canterbury News: December 04, 2020
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NEWS<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>December</strong> 3, <strong>2020</strong><br />
3<br />
MattDoocey<br />
MP forWaimakariri<br />
From my family to yours,<br />
Iwish youahappyand<br />
healthy Christmas and<br />
apeaceful newyear<br />
Authorised by Matt<br />
Doocey,Parliament<br />
Buildings,Wgtn.<br />
Fun in fairyland ... From left, sisters Heidi and Mia McElroy, and<br />
Peyton Langford enjoyed their day.<br />
Magical place ... Pippa Ginders, left, and her cousin, Kelly Abbott,<br />
at arainbow door.<br />
PHOTOS: SUPPLIED<br />
Culverden’svery own fairyland<br />
The Widest<br />
Music Variety<br />
By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
There is alittle bit of magic in<br />
Culverden’s Rutherford<br />
Reserve and Domain.<br />
Afairyland awaits visitors,<br />
with 34 fairy doors now<br />
gracing the area.<br />
The tiny doors, which<br />
proved ahit with many<br />
children on Sunday, are<br />
thanks to an initiative by the<br />
Culverden Playcentre,<br />
supported by playcentre<br />
families, local businesses and<br />
organisations.<br />
The magical world of<br />
fairyland was introduced to<br />
the playcentre during atrip<br />
to Hanmer Springs, where<br />
fairy doors in the forest<br />
captivated their little<br />
charges.<br />
Culverden playcentre mum<br />
Stacey Ginders organised the<br />
doors, using ajigsaw to<br />
produce some interesting<br />
shapes from designs<br />
submitted by families.<br />
Kathryn Langford finished<br />
the doors, using her eye for<br />
detail in painting them.<br />
There are traditional<br />
Filipino homes, gumboots,<br />
and farm animals, and an<br />
important door thanking<br />
sponsors. They include the<br />
Culverden Community<br />
Committee, which funded the<br />
project alongside the<br />
Culverden Lions Club, the<br />
Community Response<br />
Committee, Four Square,<br />
Stockers, The Red Post,<br />
Farmsource and <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> Tyres.<br />
Last Sunday’s opening day<br />
was described as awesome,<br />
with abig crowd appreciating<br />
the fantastic team effort.<br />
The playcentre, at 43<br />
Montrose Avenue, has 24<br />
little people enrolled. It is<br />
open on Tuesdays and<br />
Thursdays from 9am to 12<br />
noon.<br />
Tune in nowtolisten on<br />
1<strong>04</strong>.9 for <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
103.7 for Hanmer Springs<br />
andKaikoura<br />
Prime land in Hanmer Springs to be sold<br />
By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
The Ministry of Health is quitting the<br />
southern part of the formerQueenMary<br />
HospitalsiteatHanmer Springs.<br />
It has decided to sell the prime<br />
9.42hectare property on Amuri Avenue.<br />
Land Information New Zealand, on<br />
behalf of theministry, has told the<br />
Hurunui District Council of its plans.<br />
The council was formally told because<br />
it ownsthe adjoiningland.However,it<br />
had decided in April 2018 it had no<br />
interestinacquiringthe property after<br />
the ministry first signalled it wouldsell it.<br />
The council can submitanintention to<br />
acquire it onlyifthe landisneeded for a<br />
publicworks project.<br />
Ngai Tahu hadfirst refusalonthe<br />
property under the NgaiTahu Claims<br />
Settlement Act 1998.<br />
The site, with acapitalvalue of<br />
$6 million in 2018, includes the<br />
Rutherford ward, whichwas the<br />
administrative hub of the oncerenowned<br />
alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre.<br />
It hasbeen in Crownownership since it<br />
was boughtfrom NgaiTahu through the<br />
Kemp Purchase of June 1848.<br />
The northern part of the hospital<br />
property, comprising 5.2 hectares which<br />
includes the historicSoldiers’, Chisholm<br />
and Nurses’blocks, wastransferred to the<br />
council in November2010 after yearsof<br />
lobbying for public ownershipofpart of<br />
the site.<br />
However, the bulkhas remained in<br />
Crown ownership and in limbo, withthe<br />
ministry as its caretaker.<br />
Built in 1916,the Queen Mary Hospital<br />
in the alpine settlementinitially operated<br />
as aconvalescent home for soldiers<br />
injuredduring World War 1, using the<br />
medicalbenefits believed to be obtained<br />
frombathinginthe nearby thermal<br />
waters.<br />
The hospital later became atreatment<br />
centre for those withfunctional nervous<br />
disorders, and lateraninternationally<br />
recognised facility for treating drug and<br />
alcohol dependenciesuntil2003.<br />
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