The Star: May 06, 2021

The Star Thursday May 6 2021
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NEWS
Police issue 52 tickets in a day to drivers ignoring stop signs
POLICE HAVE clamped
down on motorists running
intersections, issuing 52 tickets in
a single day.
The campaign in Lyttelton
came after residents complained
about driving behaviour.
Said Sergeant Gerard Peoples:
“We recently noted local
concerns about drivers not stopping
at the Lyttelton stop signs
including some occasions where
pedestrians have almost been hit.
As a result of these concerns we
conducted an operation to target
stop sign runners. An incredible
52 tickets were issued in the
course of one day, often while
police staff and vehicles were in
plain view.’’
Motorists were fined $150.
“Surprisingly, many people
thought they were give way signs,
and out of the 52 only two were
not locals.
“I understand that giving
out tickets is not popular but
people running stop signs and
putting others at risk is even less
popular.”
Police have also been targeting
speeding drivers and riders along
the main roads through the bays.
A significant number of speeding
tickets have been issued in
recent weeks, Peoples said.
“However, it astounds me that
motorcyclists continue to ride
through the area in the manner
in which they do, especially after
the tragic death of one of their
own only a few weeks ago,”
he said.
“Anybody can drive or ride
through these roads at speed
but the speed limits are in place
as you not only need to stick to
the road, you also need to be
able to stop in time when
something unexpected appears
in front of you such as coming
across a broken-down car, a kid
running out in front of you or
a car turning in your path,”
Peoples said.
Reserve status granted
for historic Red House
• By Matt Slaughter
AN AKAROA house and section
for which ratepayers paid more
than double the valuation will
become a
historic reserve.
The Banks
Peninsula
Community
Board approved
at a meeting
Jamie
Stewart
on Monday a
proposal for
The Red House,
at Takapūneke, to be formally
declared and recognised as a
historic reserve.
Last year the city council purchased
the house for $2.55 million,
more than twice its rating
valuation of $1.2 million.
Community board member
Jamie Stewart said: “The history
of that site is right up there with
Waitangi [and] the Treaty of
Waitangi. It plays such a huge
part in the history of New
Zealand – a lot of people don’t
realise it.
“The house itself, it won’t be
able to run any businesses or
anything like that. It just means
that the whole lot’s now part of
the Takapūneke [reserve].”
Takapūneke is a site of significant
history and most of the land
is officially classified as a historic
reserve but the land on which
The Red House sits has been in
private ownership for decades.
Takapūneke was once a thriving
commercial centre for Ngāi
Tahu under the authority of Ngāi
Tahu Rangatira Te Maiharanui.
This significant Ngāi Tahu
trading centre supplied travelling
vessels from Europe, America
and Australia in the 1820s.
The original Red House was
built in 1839 for William Green
and his family, who set up the
first cattle station in the South Island.
That house, named because
of its colour, was destroyed by fire
in 1888. In 1924/25 a new Red
House was built to replace it.
SIGNIFICANT: The Red House in Akaroa will be formally
declared and classified as a historic reserve.
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