Ashburton Courier: October 28, 2021

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NEWS 6 Ashburton Courier, October 28, 2021 High tourism spend in July Tourism spendin the Ashburton District in July was arecord$8.2 million. Bruce Moffat from Mid Canterbury tourism promoter ChristchurchNZ told Ashburton District councillors last week that electronic card transactions showed $3.2m had been spent in Ashburton, $3.8m Bruce Moffat in Methven and the rest aroundthe district. ‘‘It’s the healthiest July ever and $1m up on the same monthlastyear,’’ he said. Mr Moffat said the July momentumlooked set continue before another lockdown came into force and stopped visitors from Auckland and other areas coming here during the school holidays. He said tourism data had been difficult to capture during covid times and thepandemic’s impact continued to reverberate across the tourism industry. Forthe period June to August 2021 domestic spend in the district was $15.8m and up 21 percent on the same period in 2019. International spend was $1.6m and down 64 percent compared with the 2019 period. www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz Water report bleak reading MICK.JENSEN @ashburtoncourier.co.nz An economic impactreport looking at the implicationsofnew land and water legislation on farming in Mid Canterburydoesn’tmake pretty reading. The report, commissionedby AshburtonDistrict Council, uses modelling andfarm systemanalysis to lookatthe changes that will need to occur to achieve afuture freshwater soluble nitrate levelof 2.4mg perlitre. Results from the report show the district’s gross domestic product will declineby$409 million or 23% and that there could be the loss of 1735 jobs. Farm profitability would be reduced by 62%and land values would go down to $25,306per hectare or $7.4 billion district wide. Council’s agricultural portfolio adviserRichard Fitzgerald, who wrote thereport, said the implications of achieving 2.4mg were not wellunderstood at afarm level or on the impact to the district’s economy. There were still anumber of unknowns,and the bold targets set by government would present many challenges. Mr Fitzgerald said report analysis had looked at three mitigation interventions; onfarmnutrientloss, groundwater supplementation, and land use change. Forestry had been chosenfor land use change because it was alow nitrate crop knowntothe Canterbury plains. The interventions would result in a reduction of dairy farming and dairy support land use by over 50 percent from currentlevels. By applying the interventions, the freshwater nitratelevels would shift from the weighted average starting ADC agricultural portfolio adviser Richard Fitzgerald. point of 11.5mg to 6.3mg,and would dropfurtherto2.4mg when the managed aquiferrecharge scheme andland use changeswere included. Therewas no timeframe forthe legislation,but it was likely to be overthe next 30 to 40 years, he said. AshburtonDistrict mayor Neil Brownsaid thereport was never going to be pretty reading. Asimilar report late last year had shown the direeconomic impact of havingtoreachatarget of 6.9mg. Council hadasked for the current reportand it wasaworst case scenario. ‘‘The 2.4mg of nitrate target is not going to go away and we need to try andachieve it. ‘‘We need scienceand we need time to achieveit, but the report shows us what will happen if we do nothingtoday.’’ The intention of council is to refer the reporttothe CanterburyMayoral Forumand other relevant stakeholders, for consideration and comment. Councillor Stuart Wilson was less than impressed with the report. He asked if council was nowgoing to go outand ‘‘tell farmershow to suck eggs’’. Council was beingpresumptuous with thereport. ‘‘We should be going out and lobbying Environment Canterbury (ECan)because they hold the reins to what’s going to happen in the future, notthe local accountants or thelocal farmers. ‘‘I don’t want to seeratepayers money used in thewrong way.’’ Mr Brownsaidhebelievedthe workings in the report andany other reports could be used by ECan when it came time to writing theregional plan. Council adopts new dog bylaw AshburtonDistrict Councilhas adopted its newDog Control Bylaw and Dog Control Policy and it includes an extended dog exercise areaatArgyle Park andanew area off Company Road. Anotherarea at Ashton Beach is now offlimits to dogs becauseof specialflora and fauna in the area. Thenew bylaw includesaclause that owners mustensure dogsare wearing current registration tags on any landthatisnot theirown and thatowners must carryplastic bags or other means to pickupdog poo. Council received 29 submissions on the proposedbylaw changes. 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