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November 8 2018 Vol. 27 No 21 November 8, 2018 www.opunakecoastalnews.co.nz Published every Thursday Fortnight Phone and Fax 761-7016 A/H 761-8206 for Advertising and Editorial ISSN 2324-2337, ISSN 2324-2345 Inside Council rejection welcomed on streets of Opunake The news that the South Taranaki District Council has decided not to go ahead with a proposed policy on 2018 dux Opunake earthquake-prone buildings High School. Page 3 has been welcomed by Opu- nake business owners. The proposal would have seen the CBDs of Hawera, Eltham and Opunake desig- nated as priority areas where owners of buildings deemed earthquake-prone would have had seen the required time to fi x things up halved from 25 years to twelve and a half. Those who died Councillors unanimously in fl u epidemic rejected the proposal at a remembered. P5 meeting held on October 29. The proposal had been particularly unpopular in Eltham, a town which had long seen its heritage build- ings as one of their big selling points. Of the 36 submissions on the proposal, 29 were op- posed, and 22 of these came from Eltham. Arguments against the pol- Crime on the rise. Coastal icy included the high costs Okato cops page 6 it would lumber businesses with. This could force many to up sticks and leave, mean- ing the town centres could end up resembling ghost towns. Rhonda Crawford who gave an impassioned address to the South Taranaki District councillors on the consequences Among those who made of insisting on earthquake strengthening being mandatory on local business owners. a submission opposing the seen a lot with what’s been record of loss due to earth- Opunake. reversed it and all credit to policy was Opunake business happening in the last season. quakes in Taranaki or Opu- “It’s bureaucracy gone mad. Rhonda Crawford for making owner Rhonda Crawford. The rural community needs nake, and building owners It will probably destroy New a submission and speaking “It’s good to see that com- their small towns, and people weren’t able to afford the cost Zealand towns. It’s hard to the council about it. The Celebrating one of mon sense has prevailed,” like to come in and have a of an engineer’s report or the enough now in the small Council’s been very poor on those blighters. P 7 she said. “All our services connection with people they work needed to strengthen the towns with people with no publicity and there’s been a are going to stay in town, know. We definitely don’t buildings, she said. jobs. We try to keep every- very limited time to put in a and people can continue with want to see the community Similar sentiments were thing as cheap as possible in submission.” their livelihoods.” fall apart.” voiced by other business our little town. Most of the Like Rhonda, he questioned “I told the council how it In her submission she said owners spoken to by the little shops don’t pay much the need for a policy like this would affect our town, and she and her husband owned Opunake and Coastal News. rent.” in a place like Opunake. that there are more pressing two businesses in Opunake. Jim Dodunski said the “It’s fantastic the Council’s Continued page 3 issues in the here and now. The building where her busi- plan which the council re- Mental health is a huge thing ness was based is 104 years jected would have had dire for the rural sector and we’ve old. There had never been a consequences for places like Come in and checkContinued pageout 3 our Taranaki Art awards winners. Page Large selection Local news, local people, local businesses, local sport, local arts and of Christmas events. Delivered free around the mountain every fortnight. toys, Give your Bathroom / Kitchen a quick face lift before Christmas with a new set of taps. decorations & Also, is it time to replace that toilet?? supplies. Buy a new one - priced from $220. [email protected] Arriving this week [email protected] Avvailaailabblele at yoourur llocalocal supersupermmararkeett [email protected] Phone: 06 761 7016 4SQUARE 45 23 Napier St, Opunake 77 TASMAN ST Ph 06 765 5336 OPUNAKE 06 761 8668 OPEN 7am to 9pm EVERYDAY! See us online at www.opunakecoastalnews.co.nz FOR ADVERTISING OR EDITORIAL PLEASE PHONE/FAX (06) 761-7016 2 NEWS AND VIEWS Thursday, November 8, 2018 OPUNAKE & COASTAL NEWS Send your your views to: “Let’s create your business growth Letters to the Editor strategy together” 23 Napier Street, Opunake. LLettersetters ttoo tthehe A whole school producing good people Your only local community accounting firm Fax: (06) 761 7016 email: [email protected] EEditorditor You are welcome to use a pseudonym but must supply your name and address to us. Accounting for the future, today with all males and females or drugs. Some drivers really Hawera - Opunake - Patea - 06 278 4169 Desperately Stop blaming forgetting what our road suffer with road rage, or try code states, and not con- to race other drivers as they OPUNAKE OFFICE needed our roads think they are professional OPEN EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 10am TO 3pm Can someone help to get our After reading Anon’s po- centrating enough on their school children that catch the etry called drivers Beware, driving skills, if any, talking Formula One racing drivers school buses in Pungarehu it really sums up what some on cellphones, having radios when they are not. a bus shelter. We were of- of our province’s drivers are turned up to loud, too busy Finally I believe all drivers fered one two years ago, but really like. Whenever there is talking to passengers, and male and female should take the donation was not taken. an accident causing death, the having kids scream in their a defensive driving course HARDINGS There are about 15 children very fi rst thing people blame ears. Or they think they are which would improve their FUNERAL SERVICES LTD that catch the buses in Pin- are the roads, which is a lame the only person on the road driving skills and abilities 17 REGENT ST HAWERA garehu. They have no shelter excuse and a load of complete and try to overtake milk tank- and driving habits as well as apart from an old drapery that rubbish. ers, logging trucks or other knowing the road code fully. Our professional attention to detail has been turned into a holiday The problem lies in too vehicles on double yellow We still have drivers, both & empathy is our hallmark house. When it is occupied much speed. Over the last lines. They forget to give male and female that take they cannot stand under its 10 years or so, vehicles are way or stop at intersections driving for granted, as they roof, so they must stand in the so much quicker and faster. because most drivers are al- are the ones who get injured PHONE 06 278 8633 wind and the rain. Please can Anyone’s speedometer can ways running late for work. or killed. SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES FOR 3 GENERATIONS someone help keep our kids reach 150kph without any I say, get properly organised. dry and warm. effort and trouble at all, so Too many drivers still drive Tom Stephens Concerned resident now the whole problem lies under the infl uence of alcohol New Plymouth ADELPHOS The Lifesaving Station This is a well known the crude building. They felt split in the club membership. only now most of the people anecdotal story to reflect the rescued needed a more Most of the members wanted drown.” upon. comfortable place as their to stop the club’s life-saving Refl ection questions. The “On a dangerous seacoast first refuge. The building activities as they were moral: Christian leaders/ where shipwrecks often occur was enlarged, with nicer unpleasant and a hindrance elders in their coastal life- there was a once a crude furniture. Now the life-saving to the normal life pattern of saving churches are called little life-saving station. It station became a popular the club. to risk their lives in being was just a hut, and there gathering place and was But some members insisted co-workers with God. They was only one boat, but the re-decorated beautifully and that life-saving was their are called to personally few devoted members kept furnished as a sort of club. primary purpose and pointed offer the life-saving a constant watch over the Fewer of the members were out that they were still called gospel to others. What is sea. With no thought for now interested in going to a life-saving station. But hindering church people in themselves, they went out day sea on life-saving missions, they were fi nally voted down their dwindling part-time or night tirelessly searching so they hired lifeboat crews and told that if they wanted and non-pastored churches for the lost. to do this work. About this to save the lives of all the from communicating the Continued from page 1 So many lives were saved time a large ship was wrecked various kinds of people who gospel to those drowning new by this little station that it off the coast, and the hired were shipwrecked in those young families in our coastal became famous. Some of those crews brought in boatloads waters, they could begin communities? Are they who were saved, and others, of cold, wet and half-drowned their own life-saving station ashamed of Jesus’ message? wanted to be associated with people.
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