Southern View: March 24, 2022

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Graffiti increase – report
• From page 1
“When people report graffiti
it’s removed quite quickly,”
Templeton said. “We’ve got a
network of both community
volunteers who go around and
report and remove graffiti on
council property, and contractors
who are able to do that.”
Templeton said it was hard to
predict what next month’s graffiti
report would look like.
“Past experience in my local
community has shown that
sometimes an increase is due to
specific people being in an area
at a certain time, rather than
broader stuff, and so it’s hard to
know what impact that might
have in the next month or so.”
However, city council head
of community support and
partnerships John Filsell said the
volunteers who monitor graffiti
are currently on stand-down due
to Covid, which could affect the
number of reported incidents.
Cashmere
Ward councillor
Tim Scandrett
said he thinks
it isn’t just
in Cashmere
where these
things are
Tim
Scandrett
“stepping up.”
“It just seems
right across the
board that petty
crime is rising, it is a concern and
it’s something that we’ve got to
talk with police about,” Scandrett
INCREASE: Reportings of graffiti have risen in the
Heathcote and Cashmere wards, in spite of a decrease
elsewhere in the city.
said. “Crime seems to start at the
lower level and then expand up so
it would be really good to try and
get a bit more focus on this.”
Scandrett said while it is a
concern, he hopes police can
apprehend some of the people
doing the graffiti and reduce it,
although he understands police
are stretched at the moment.
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• By Susan Sandys
A $10 MILLION pest-control
operation has been launched at
Kaitōrete Spit near Birdlings Flat,
scoring 18 hedgehogs and one
stoat in its first four nights.
Pest Free Banks Peninsula staff
are rolling out 280 traps along
the 5500ha, 25km, spit in the
coming five weeks.
Last week they laid the first 50
traps, but not all were operational
each night as they had to make
improvements after gusts of wind
and mice set some off.
Project leader Sarah Wilson
said on Friday she and fellow staff
had been thrilled with the kill
count so far, and were looking
forward to ridding the area not
only of hedgehogs and stoats, but
also possums, feral cats, weasels
and ferrets.
“Hedgehogs might be known
by some as Mrs Tiggy-Winkles,
but in this country the number
of lizards and important
invertebrates they munch every
night, along with eggs and
chicks, is phenomenal,” Wilson
said.
“We were thrilled about the
stoat (caught on the first night) in
particular, because stoats are very
problematic, especially for the
banded dotterel.”
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BIODIVERSITY: Pest Free
Banks Peninsula team
members Georgia Grace
(left) and Jayden Lum install
cameras on Kaitōrete Spit.
endemic to the spit, as well as the
katipō, several lizard species, and
threatened plants.
It is highly regarded for its
biodiversity, and was once a
major source of food for tangata
whenua and a key travel route for
Ngāi Tahu.
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mixture of kill and live capture
traps, which have remote
reporting nodes to show when
they have triggered.
Wilson said the project had
huge support from Taumutu
Rūnanga. Members had been
helping prevent reinvasion of the
spit by supporting a community
trapping project at Taumutu on
the southern end.
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