Bay Harbour: December 23, 2020

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Wednesday December 23 2020
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Fireworks ban for Port Hills
PARTS OF the Bay
Harbour News area are
subject to a fireworks ban
put in place last week.
After a spate of fires on
the Port Hills, fire chiefs
hope an immediate fireworks
ban and move into
a restricted fire season
will help stomp them out.
Fire and Emergency
New Zealand announced
the fireworks ban,
covering the Port Hills,
including Clifton in
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“They’re putting it into
their houses and people are
buying their houses,” said
Nobbs.
He said Akaroa’s
proximity to Christchurch
and its impressive
landscape have made it
desirable for buyers in the
last year.
“It’s a place that’s close
to Christchurch that gets
them out of Christchurch.
It’s beautiful and there’s
quite a lot to do once
your’re there.”
Nobbs said it’s hard to
pinpoint specific examples
of houses which have
sold for significant values
in Akaroa recently, but
“there’s been quite a lot
of multi-million and million
dollar sales and more
million dollar sales in the
last six to 12 months and
several years that become
the norm.”
Sumner, where a scrub
fire led to the evacuation
of 16 homes last Tuesday,
Akaroa and Bottle Lake
Forest Park, in Burwood.
On December 9, there
were three fires on Summit
Rd and on on Governors
Bay Rd.
With the spate of
fires and conditions
drying out in the
warm temperatures,
area commander Dave
Stackhouse said the use
City buyers find area desirable
VIEWS: This house in Muter St, Akaroa, is being
sold for offers over $1.4 million, with the median
house price in the town now at $830,000,
compared to $525,000 this time last year.
A three-bedroom, twobathroom,
1158 sq m house
in Muter St, Akaroa, is
on sale for offers over $1.4
million.
Nobbs said similar
increases in median house
prices have been seen
ESTUARY MATTERS
The Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust is a non-profit
organisation formed to protect one of New Zealand’s
most important coastal wetlands. Each week, board
members will discuss matters regarding the estuary, its
rich history and what makes it unique. This week Bill
Simpson writes about the country’s youngst member
of Parliament in history
ONE OF the oddities of
our estuary edge is a wide
drain where Linwood Ave
runs into Humphreys
Drive.
The land was designated
a canal reserve when early
European settlers arrived.
A canal was planned to
be built from a planned
port in the estuary to central
Christchurch. The idea
lost momentum when the
railway tunnel from Lyttelton
opened in 1867.
The planned route was
called Canal Reserve but
over time most of it became
a road.
There were many suggestions
for a new name
including Seaward Rd,
New Commercial Rd and
Port Christchurch Rd. The
old name Canal Reserve
Rd persisted until the new
name Linwood Ave was
firmly in place by 1924.
Early plans for Christchurch
show three routes
for canals; those routes
were along Marshland Rd,
Sparks Rd, and of course
Linwood Ave.
The wide drain at the
estuary end of the avenue
has been thought to be
the start of a canal, but it
was actually a stormwater
drain. Newspaper reports
from 1935 record how
the previous road-side
open sewer and drain was
widened and deepened by
unemployed relief workers.
Tidal gates were installed
of fireworks has been
banned under the Fire
and Emergency Act.
A breach of this
act can result in two
years imprisonment or
$300,000 fine.
Said Stackhouse:
“Using fireworks should
be completely out of the
question, and we will take
a very dim view of anyone
who is found to be using
them while this ban is in
place.”
across the Bay Harbour
News area in the last year.
House prices in some
of New Zealand’s holiday
hotspots have jumped more
than 50 per cent in a year,
according to the Real Estate
Institute.
The canal to nowhere
so at high tide the drain
became a storage basin for
stormwater.
Excavated dirt was used
to form Humphreys Drive.
Today you can cross the
Linwood Drain via the tiny
wooden pedestrian bridge
on Humphreys Drive. The
bridge itself is a section
of the wooden one-way
bridge that crossed the
mouth of the Avon River at
South Brighton which was
replaced in the 1980s.
The drain is a haven for
birds. Occasionally you
can see a white heron feeding
and scores of Christchurch
children have had
the delight of feeding
the numerous ducks that
gather there.