Bay Harbour: March 03, 2021

Wednesday March 3 2021 Bay Harbour News
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz
Progress under way for track
upgrade after three years
• By Samantha Mythen
WORK IS happening behind the
scenes on mountain bike track
upgrades in Urumau Reserve.
Lyttelton Mountain Bike
Club member Joshua Merriam,
asked the Banks Peninsula
Community Board at its
meeting on Monday to approve
the track upgrades at the
reserve’s entrance. The track is a
component of the 2018 Urumau
Development Plan.
He presented a petition to
the board with more than 100
signatures during the meeting.
Community board
chairwoman Tori Peden said
the board is waiting for a final
report from city council regional
parks manager Paul Devlin as
there is now funding available
for improvements on the track.
Said Mt Herbert subdivision
board member Scott Winter:
“Everyone is in agreement that
this should be approved.”
Merriam said the community
board’s response was frustrating
as it has been the same response
they have been receiving for
several years.
“I’ll give them the benefit of
the doubt and trust that movement
is actually happening in
the background,” Merriam said.
The campaign began in
August 2018 after the board
approved the development plan,
including the entrance track.
However, no progress has
been made since then to actually
approve the access track into
the reserve. Instead the track
is still classified as a “proposed
track,” in spite of being used
by both mountain bikers and
walkers alike to access the track.
“It’s roadblock terminology,”
said Merriam.
Inaction from discussions
with the Urumau Reserve Management
Committee, prompted
Merriam to take this campaign
A STEP
CLOSER:
Lyttelton
Mountain
Bike Club is
hoping the
entrance track
to Urumau
Reserve will
be approved
after almost
three years of
inaction.
PHOTO:
GEOFF SLOAN
to the board.
Approving the track would
allow for increased engagement
with the reserve and it
would complete the entrance
connection from Foster Tce to the
Urumau traverse track, allowing
for appreciation of the native
planting through which the area
it traverses, Merriam said.
NEWS 7
Grower ordered
to repay wages
ASPARAGUS grower
Christopher Gray has been
fined for under-paying exploited
workers.
The Employment Relations
Authority set the penalty for the
owner of Motukarara Asparagus
at $26,000, after ordering in October
that he repay 13 staff about
$54,000.
Many of the workers were from
Fiji and were vulnerable because
they didn’t know their entitlements,
and English was their
second language.
Workers were paid a piece
rate based on the amount of
asparagus that they picked, and
weren’t paid minimum wages and
holiday entitlements.
It was found some of the
employee’s wages were being
calculated based on how much
asparagus they picked at $2.50 a
kilogram.
According to the ERA, there
are four different types of breaches
by Gray.
A failure to pay minimum wage
for 12 employees, failure to obtain
consent for deductions from
wages for 11 employees, failure to
provide for public holidays and
failure to keep compliant holiday
and leave records.
The ERA found pay was being
deducted for things such as
airfares and accommodation
without the workers’ consent.
– NZ Herald
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