DOCSLIB.ORG

Street Works, Tree Planting Put on Hold Dentist

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Street Works, Tree Planting Put on Hold Dentist THE PRESS, Christchurch Friday, October 1, 2010 NEWS A5 ■ CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE ■ TRIBUNAL Street works, tree planting put on hold Dentist Glenn Conway Projects postponed until already started or is con- would ensure funding and should be delayed until staff his ward when other parts of to the council as soon as to learn the 2011-12 year include work sidered essential by council staff resources were available knew the full cost. the city were devastated. possible. More than $56 million of on kerbs and channels, water staff. for recovery work. Cr Sue Wells said ‘‘the The new council will Parker said the council Christchurch street works mains and footpaths, along Corporate finance man- The council had planned to world has changed’’ and the be asked to urgently investi- wanted to give ratepayers ‘‘a will be deferred until next with tree replacements and ager Diane Brandish, in a spend about $102m on renewal deferments were ‘‘prudent gate rates-relief options for clear signal’’ there would be his fate year as the city focuses on non-urgent roading. report to the council, said staff projects this financial year. It financial management’’. owners of quake-damaged rates relief for residents ‘‘in earthquake recovery. Details of changes will be were still determining the has so far spent $8.8m. Of the Cr Claudia Reid said properties. extraordinary circum- A Canterbury dentist found Mayor Bob Parker said the given to affected residents and council’s earthquake bill. $93m left, $56m will not be communities would accept Council chief executive stances’’. guilty of making a sedated move, endorsed by the Christ- community boards. Most of it would be covered spent until the 2011-12 year. some work had to be delayed, Tony Marryatt said there The review would be done female patient touch him church City Council yester- Some projects were by insurance or through Yani Johanson, the only and Cr Barry Corbett said he were still many details before November 15 – the sexually should learn his fate day, meant the disaster would retained or got partial funding government subsidies. councillor to vote against the would be uncomfortable to be confirmed, but the penalty date for the next rates this month. have no impact on rates. cuts because work has She said the deferments move, said the decision having a new road sealed in information would be given instalment. In May, the Dentists Disci- plinary Tribunal found the dentist guilty of causing a patient to touch his penis while she was sedated under More roads limited to 30kmh his care in 2001. The dentist, who has name suppression, continues to Police are enforcing 30kmh practise. speed limits in central A draft decision on a Christchurch and penalty and continued name earthquake-damaged suburbs. suppression is expected today. A 30kmh limit was It will be checked by tribunal introduced in parts of members and should be sent Dallington, Richmond and to all parties this month. Avonside this week because of However, the victim has damaged roads and concerns criticised the dentist’s ability about vibrations causing to continue practising. more damage to buildings and ‘‘I think all women have underground pipes, the the right to know who he is so Christchurch City Council they can make a call whether said. to go there or not. I am sure The 30kmh restriction has his clients would be horrified also been introduced on parts and not use him again,’’ she of New Brighton Rd, Rocking said. Horse Rd and Queenspark ‘‘I think the name sup- Drive. pression needs to be lifted and In the central city, a 30kmh he needs to be struck off.’’ limit remains in place on The tribunal upheld the parts of Oxford Tce and charge relating to the 2001 Gloucester, Worcester, case, but did not uphold two Hereford, Cashel, Lichfield similar charges relating to and Tuam streets to keep alleged incidents in 1984 and pedestrians, cyclists and 1989. drivers safe. The dentist claimed a The council said yesterday sedative caused sexual that all 485 bridges in hallucinations in his patient Christchurch and Banks in 2001. Peninsula had been inspected by structural engineers. Eight had structural and approach damage, one – the ■ EREBUS MEMORIAL Sabys Rd bridge in Halswell – had been demolished, two footbridges were destroyed and four bridges needed 80 people structural repairs. Photo: DAVID HALLETT The council also announced yesterday that drawn for admission to its Centennial, Getting Christchurch back to normal Jellie Park, Pioneer and Queen Elizabeth II Park pools Drilling contractor Grant Christchurch’s vital Christchurch had water Supplies had been tested, would be free this weekend as Ice visit Freeman checks a water- services back to normal. supplies, but there could be and those tests were con- a goodwill gesture. The QEII pumping station in Hills Rd The Christchurch City short breaks if work was tinuing. All tap water was hydroslides will have a as work continues to get Council said that all of being done in the area. safe to drink. discounted price of $6. Eighty people who lost family members in the 1979 Erebus tragedy will travel to Antarctica on a remembrance ■ GST CHANGES ■ ROAD ACCIDENT ■ WESTPORT DISTRICT COURT flight this summer after their names were drawn in a ballot. A Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757 will fly to 13th drink-drive Scott Base in February, en- Welfare payments up 2% abling family representatives to spend a few hours experi- Pensions, benefits, student annuitants and beneficiaries. encing the unique environ- allowances and Working for The people at the ‘‘The people at the top of offence ‘ludicrous’ ment that drew those on flight Families tax credits rise by the heap, the top 10 per cent TE901 to it almost 31 years just over 2 per cent today to top of the heap, that get 42 per cent of the tax A West Coast fisherman ago, Air New Zealand said compensate for the increase the top 10 per cuts, will laugh all the way to convicted of his 13th drink- yesterday. in GST under National’s ‘ the bank. driving offence has escaped a The ballot, open to the im- flagship tax reforms. cent that get 42 ‘‘This is a very good jail sentence. mediate families of the 257 Income tax rates will be cut per cent of the change for the highest income Raymond Thompson, 54, of people lost in the tragedy, across the board under the tax cuts, will earners, and for the bottom 20 Cobden, was twice the legal drew nearly 200 applications changes, with about half the per cent, who get 2 per cent of alcohol limit when he was representing 126 of those lost $14 billion cost over four years laugh all the way the tax cuts, this is going to stopped last November. on Erebus. It was drawn on covered by GST rising from to the bank. spell further disaster in their He had had 12 convictions September 20. 12.5 to 15 per cent. ability to balance their budget for drink-driving dating back Some of those successful in State payments will Phil Goff at the end of the week.’’ to 1975, and was jailed in 1987 the ballot lost more than one increase by 2.02 per cent to Opposition leader But Social Development for drink-driving. His last family member in the tragedy, compensate for higher prices, Minister Paula Bennett said conviction was in 2004. and the 80 represent more but while some superannu- Labour leader Phil Goff the Government had taken In the Westport District than 100 of the Erebus itants will be more than $10 a also warned that the lowest- steps to ensure nobody was Court yesterday, Judge Raoul victims. week better off according to paid workers, who get the worse off. ‘‘Tax cuts coupled Neave said Thompson had Last year, Air New Zealand Government calculations, smallest tax cuts, would be left with compensation for the displayed ‘‘repeated bad judg- Raymond Thompson took six family members of beneficiaries and students worse off once the increase in rise in GST, means that ment’’. victims on a flight to mark the will have nothing extra. GST and other price rises – beneficiaries will not be ‘‘One conviction could be be no deterrent for Thompson. 30th anniversary of the disas- A paper by the New such as the effect of an adversely affected by the forgiven, but 13 is ludicrous, In the latest case, Thomp- ter. Zealand Institute for Econ- increase in petrol levies – October 1 changes,’’ she said. particularly for a man of your son had returned home im- It has since been working omic Research, an indepen- were taken into account. Under the changes, the top years.’’ mediately after setting out in with the Government, the air dent think tank, said the tax Petrol is expected to tax rate will drop from 38 to 33 He said Thompson had a his car because he realised he force and Antarctica New cuts would boost take-home increase by 7 cents a litre cents in the dollar. Photo: DAVID HALLETT low risk of reoffending and was too drunk to drive. Zealand on a further Antarc- pay, but warned it would not from today as higher GST The middle rates drop from did not have a drinking Thompson told The Press tic opportunity for families be enough to close the real adds 4 cents and a 3-cents-a- 33 to 30 cents and 21 to 17.5 Cyclist injured in Christchurch problem. he was ‘‘grateful’’ for his who lost loved ones. wage gap with Australia. litre fuel excise comes into cents, and the bottom rate Thompson was sentenced sentence.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Christchurch Street Names: B
    Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Badger Street Named after Ronald Parklands Badger was a real estate Sylvia Street Information supplied "The property Smith Badger agent and a landowner in by Richard Greenaway market", The Press, (1880?-1946). New Brighton. in 2008. 19 October 1918, p 10 First appears in street directories in 1928. “Obituary, Mr R. S. Badger”, The Press, 18 September 1946, p 5 Baffin Street Named after Baffin Wainoni One of a number of streets Huron Street, “Chester Street West or “Tunnel’s first blast Island in the Arctic in a subdivision between Niagara Street, Cranmer Terrace?”, celebrated”, The Ocean of Northern Ottawa Road, Pages Road Ontario Place, The Press, 28 April Press, 22 July 2011, Canada. and Cuffs Road given Quebec Place, 1959, p 7 p A7 Canadian place names. Vancouver Information supplied in Crescent and Named because Canadian 2005 by Tim Baker in Winnipeg Place. engineers and workers an interview with Also Ottawa lived in the area while Margaret Harper. Road. working for Henry J. Kaiser Co of USA and building the Lyttelton road tunnel. Houses were built for them by Fletcher Construction. After the tunnel was opened in 1964, the Canadians went home and their houses were sold to locals. © Christchurch City Libraries February 2016 Page 1 of 172 Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information OR Named because they were near Ottawa Road. Named in 1959. Baigent Way Named after Steve Middleton Baigent was a former Riccarton/Wigram Baigent.
    [Show full text]
  • Christchurch City Council Agenda 24 April 2013
    CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL AGENDA WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL 2013 9.30AM COUNCIL CHAMBER, CIVIC OFFICES, 53 HEREFORD STREET We’re on the Web! www.ccc.govt.nz/Council/Agendas/ AGENDA - OPEN CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL Wednesday 24 April 2013 at 9.30am in the Council Chamber, Civic Offices, 53 Hereford Street Council: The Mayor, Bob Parker (Chairperson). Councillors Peter Beck, Helen Broughton, Sally Buck, Ngaire Button, Tim Carter, Jimmy Chen, Barry Corbett, Jamie Gough, Yani Johanson, Aaron Keown, Glenn Livingstone, Claudia Reid and Sue Wells. ITEM NO DESCRIPTION PAGE NO 1. APOLOGIES 1 2. DEPUTATIONS BY APPOINTMENT 1 3. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES - COUNCIL MEETINGS OF 28 MARCH 2013 AND 2 11 APRIL 2013 4. PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS 2 5. REPORT BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE BURWOOD/PEGASUS COMMUNITY BOARD 21 15 APRIL 2013 6. REPORT BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE SPREYDON/HEATHCOTE COMMUNITY BOARD 26 19 APRIL 2013 7. REPORT OF A MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY, RECREATION AND CULTURE COMMITTEE 31 OF 2 APRIL 2013 8. REPORT OF A MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE OF 3 APRIL 2013 95 9. REPORT OF A MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND INFRASTUCTURE COMMMITTEE OF 121 4 APRIL 2013 10. REPORT OF A MEETING OF THE CORPORATE AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE OF 275 5 APRIL 2013 11. CANTERBURY WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY: BANKS PENINSULA ZONE 647 COMMITTEE AND CHRISTCHURCH - WEST MELTON ZONE IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMMES 12. CASHMERE PRIMARY SCHOOL SPEED ZONE – CHANGES TO TIMES OF OPERATION 750 13. HAGLEY OVAL STAGE 1 FUNDING 755 14. HEATHCOTE VOLUNTARY LIBRARY COST ESTIMATES 757 15. METROPOLITAN DISCRETIONARY RESPONSE FUND 2012-13 APPLICATION 760 16.
    [Show full text]
  • Health & Safety
    NEW ZEALAND FEBRUARY 2013 VOL 23 NO 1 Health & Safety: What leading companies are hoping for in imminent report Inside: Mainzeal in receivership Impending insurance changes Government apprentice incentives Houston’s Beer Can House THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE REGISTERED MASTER BUILDERS FEDERATION OF THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE building today What’s better than free team calling? Free team calling on this. SAMSUNG GALAXY S III $0 Upfront on a 24 month $119 ($103.48 excl. GST) Smartphone Plan. > FREE mobile team calling* > 600 Anytime mins > 600 Txts > 2GB Data > RRP $849 Mobile only * Fair use policy applies Call 0800 BUS HUB (0800 287 482) to connect to your local Telecom Business Hub (telecom.co.nz/localhub) or call 126. Smartphone $0 upfront oer available while stocks last and ends 28 February 2013. Telecom terms, conditions and monthly charges apply. Early disconnection fee or repayment of the mobile phone subsidy may apply if your contract ends early. Free mobile team calling available to business customers on all $39+ Smartphone Plans, all mobiles must be on the same account. Anytime national minutes, data use and national person to person texting only. Standard charges apply to additional minutes, text and data and can TPM4553_BT be found at telecombusinesshub.co.nz 1-0 04553 BUS Samsung Galaxy SIII_BuildingToday_210x297.indd 1 1/02/13 12:22 PM contents ° ° ° building today FEBRUARY 2013 I VOL 23 NO. 1 Just when you thought it was safe to risk a more positive outlook on the country’s construction sector. Just when you thought the industry had turned the corner.
    [Show full text]
  • Invest Christchurch Newsletter
    Invest Christchurch Issue 02. November 2012 From the director Market engagement on The devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in recent weeks is a tragic reminder Convention Centre Precinct that the risk of natural disasters is part of life for all of us. At some time, every town, city and country will be affected by some form of natural disaster. It’s our readiness for gathers pace these events, as much as their magnitude, that will determine their impact. For that reason, the hurricane Following the release of an Expression of Interest premium city blocks at the heart of the new city.” he underlined for me just how important it is (EOI) for the Convention Centre Precinct on 10 said, “Our strong desire is to see innovative and that we record and share the lessons October, close to 150 potential investors packed The creative proposals.” learned during the Christchurch rebuild. Atrium Function Centre late last month for a The closing date for EOIs was 9 November. Just as our own planning has been informed presentation on the anchor project. Warwick said that the project team would have its by other initiatives in disaster response and CCDU Director Warwick Isaacs and Council Chief work cut out over the next few weeks analysing urban regeneration around the world, we Executive Tony Marryatt led the presentation. proposals and finalising the procurement model. must make sure that others benefit from our Its purpose was to give people the opportunity to view experience. the site and hear first-hand from CCC and CCDU as Over the past month, we’ve seen joint sponsors and ask questions before they submitted important progress on some of the priority an EOI.
    [Show full text]
  • Council Set to Apply for Lost Accreditation
    THE PRESS, Christchurch Tuesday, March 18, 2014 NEWS A5 Council set to Jigandajar apply for lost accreditation Lois Cairns ber last year to 62 per cent in lectively they could handle up to [email protected] ● ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● February. In his latest progress 220 consents a week. report for his government masters, It has also been recruiting The Christchurch City Council Martin says the council will additional consent officers and plans to formally apply for the formally apply for accreditation building inspectors. To date it has accreditation it needs to issue next month. taken on 11 new recruits and it has building consents next month. Ianz will then send a team of another 11 due to start by the end However, a senior government assessors to conduct an audit of of July. Most are from Canada, the official believes it will be several the council’s consenting operation. United Kingdom or Australia. months before it gets it. That audit is scheduled to begin Minturn said the council was Last July the council was on July 8 and take two weeks to deliberately looking offshore for stripped of its accreditation to complete. its new building control officers issue consents. That came after it Andrew Minturn, who works because there was a shortage of repeatedly failed to address con- for the Ministry of Business, Inno- them in New Zealand and they did cerns raised by International vation and Employment (Mbie) not want to ‘‘pinch’’ staff from Accreditation New Zealand (Ianz) and is Martin’s senior adviser, told other councils when they were so about its consenting processes and The Press yesterday it was unlike- willingly helping out.
    [Show full text]
  • Peter Beaven 1
    ITINERARY n.24 NOT ON MAP 2 3 5 6 9 13 10 4 11 8 7 12 1 : Stephen Goodenough Photo This itinerary looks at Peter Beaven’s architecture before his hiatus in London in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A forthcoming itinerary will look at the work he has completed since his return to NZ. Biography: Peter Beaven 1: The 60s & 70s Peter Jamieson Beaven was In 1972 an exhibition entitled “The New Romantics in Building” was held at the Dowse Gallery in Lower born in Christchurch on 13 Hutt, including work by Ian Athfield, Roger Walker, Peter Beavan, Claude Megson and John Scott. The August 1925. He attended show celebrated one of the high points of 20th century Kiwi architecture, as a cohort of designers spliced Christ’s College, deciding local and international influences with such audacity that it seemed, if only briefly, that the nation could to become an architect after host a globally significant stream of architectural development. Peter Beaven was one of the senior a conversation with Paul members of this group (he’s seventeen years older than Walker), but he had rapidly made the transition Pascoe. He studied at the from a more orthodox modernism to the adventurous, hippy-fied approach of the youngsters. Such School of Architecture at the slipping in and out of both the Kiwi and international mainstreams has been the hallmark of Beaven’s University of Auckland, his career. studies being interrupted by Beaven established his office in the mid-1950s and his early work sits comfortably within the restrained, war service in the NZ Navy.
    [Show full text]
  • Council 11 December 2014
    CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL AGENDA WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2014 10.30AM AND THURSDAY 11 DECEMBER 2014 9.30AM COUNCIL CHAMBER, CIVIC OFFICES, 53 HEREFORD STREET Watch Council meetings live on the web: http://councillive.ccc.govt.nz/live-stream AGENDA - OPEN CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL Thursday 11 December 2014 at 9.30am in the Council Chamber, Civic Offices, 53 Hereford Street Council: The Mayor, (Chairperson). Councillors, Vicki Buck, Jimmy Chen, Phil Clearwater, Pauline Cotter, David East, Jamie Gough, Yani Johanson, Ali Jones, Glenn Livingstone, Paul Lonsdale, Raf Manji, Tim Scandrett, Andrew Turner ITEM DESCRIPTION PAGE NO. NO 1. APOLOGIES 1 2. DECLARATION OF INTEREST 1 3. DEPUTATIONS BY APPOINTMENT 1 4. PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS 1 5. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES - COUNCIL MEETINGS OF 27 NOVEMBER 2014 AND 1 5 DECEMBER 2014 6. REPORT OF THE AKAROA/WAIREWA COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING OF 8 OCTOBER 2014 11 7. REPORT OF THE LYTTELTON/MT HERBERT COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING OF 17 15 OCTOBER 2014 8. CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT OF THE LYTTELTON/MT HERBERT COMMUNITY BOARD 23 MEETING OF 19 NOVEMBER 2014 9. REPORT OF THE HAGLEY/FERRYMEAD COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING OF 29 5 NOVEMBER 2014 10. REPORT OF THE HAGLEY/FERRYMEAD COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING OF 35 19 NOVEMBER 2014 11. REPORT OF THE RICCARTON/WIGRAM COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING OF 53 4 NOVEMBER 2014 12. REPORT OF THE RICCARTON/WIGRAM COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING OF 57 18 NOVEMBER 2014 13. REPORT OF THE RICCARTON/WIGRAM COMMUNITY BOARD EXTRAORDINARY MEETING 73 OF 25 NOVEMBER 2014 14. REPORT OF THE SHIRLEY/PAPANUI COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING OF 5 NOVEMBER 2014 75 15.
    [Show full text]
  • Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board Agenda
    HAGLEY/FERRYMEAD COMMUNITY BOARD AGENDA WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2013 AT 3PM IN THE BOARD ROOM, 180 SMITH STREET, LINWOOD, CHRISTCHURCH Community Board: Sara Templeton (Chairperson), Joe Davies (Deputy Chairperson), Alexandra Davids, Yani Johanson, Paul Lonsdale, Brenda Lowe-Johnson and Islay McLeod. Community Board Adviser: Jo Daly Phone: 941 6601 DDI Email: [email protected] PART A - MATTERS REQUIRING A COUNCIL DECISION PART B - REPORTS FOR INFORMATION PART C - DELEGATED DECISIONS INDEX PG NO PART C 1. APOLOGIES 3 PART C 2. DECLARATION OF INTEREST 3 PART C 3. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES – 20 NOVEMBER 2013 3 PART B 4. DEPUTATIONS BY APPOINTMENT 3 4.1 Clampett Developments Limited 4.2 Presbyterian Support Services 4.3 Elizabeth Graham PART B 5. PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS 3 PART B 6. NOTICES OF MOTION 4 6.1 Community Emergency Response and Inter-Relationship Capacity Project. PART B 7. CORRESPONDENCE 4 PART B 8. BRIEFINGS 4 8.1 Heathcote Rail Route, Major Cycleway PART C 9. HEATHCOTE DOMAIN STORMWATER REQUEST 10 PART A 10. KA WAHINE TRUST – DEED OF SUBLEASE TO PRESBYTERIAN SUPPORT 22 SERVICES PART A 11. CHRISTCHURCH NETBALL CENTRE – FENCING AT SOUTH HAGLEY PARK 24 PART A 12. BOTANIC GARDEN VISITOR CENTRE – POWER CABLE EASEMENT 30 PART C 13. ALEXANDRA STREET – PROPOSED STOPPING RESTRICTIONS 33 PART C 14. MONTREAL STREET – PROPOSED 10 MINUTE PARKING RESTRICTIONS 36 We’re on the Web! www.ccc.govt.nz/Council/Agendas/ 11. 12. 2013 - 2 - PART A 15. FERRY ROAD MASTER PLAN 38 PART C 16. HAGLEY/FERRYMEAD COMMUNITY BOARD GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS – 50 2013/16 TERM PART C 17.
    [Show full text]
  • 2015 Innovate Awards Magazine
    AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE INNOVATE 2015 CONTENTS 02 WELCOME 09 INNOVATE AWARDS 02 A Message from the President 09 A Message from the Convenor 03 About ACENZ & Membership 10 About INNOVATE NZ Awards of Excellence 13 Gold Awards 19 Silver Awards 05 ACENZ Awards 27 Merit Awards 36 Finalists 06 Tonkin & Taylor Future Leader Award 08 AECOM / ACENZ Best Practical Work Report Award INNOVATE A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT “The quality of life we enjoy in New Zealand, is in no small part, due to our efforts in delivering and maintaining the necessary infrastructure for our communities. I urge you to continue to strive to deliver excellent and innovative projects in the wider public interest” It never ceases to amaze me the positive influence that our With ACENZ now representing consultants in the natural and members have on the communities that they live in through the built environment, it is important to acknowledge the diversity projects and advice they deliver. The INNOVATE NZ and ACENZ and wide range of professional contributions to these successful Awards provide a superb opportunity to recognise and celebrate projects including engineering, planning, surveying, architectural these achievements and contributions. and project management specialists. The INNOVATE Awards are valued for the quality of judging and rigorous approach taken All recipients of INNOVATE Awards can be proud of that by our judges. We thank them for the time they volunteer in significant contribution, the recognition of innovation and assessing these outstanding projects. excellence in their projects and, of going the extra mile for their clients. These outstanding projects are also delivered through Not only do we acknowledge this year’s award winning projects, effective team work and collaborative involvement of clients and but also the collective contribution that our members’ projects contractors.
    [Show full text]
  • March 2008 March 2012
    MARCH 2008 MARCH 2012 Synod steps forward while the ground keeps moving Planning for the future is not easy when the ground underneath your feet keeps moving, says strategic planning coordinator for the Central South Island Synod Jill Hawkey. Jill's task is to work with the Synod to develop a long term strategic plan in light of the recent earthquakes in Canterbury. The situation for parishes changes from week to week. On February 10th, the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) announced that 213 residential orange zone properties are now zoned red, which means that they will be subject to government offers of purchase and the residents will have to move. Many of these properties surround Wainoni Methodist Church and include the parsonage. The church building itself is being used for services and many community meetings but much of the community around it is disappearing. Christchurch North Methodist parish has also faced significant challenges in the last few months as an engineer's report indicated that most of the complex was 'earthquake prone'. The congregation had been meeting in the church hall but a generous offer from the local Catholic Church provided them with a new venue for Sunday worship. Jacinda, Tim and Louisa short oversee the release of little blue penguins rescued from the Rena's oil spill. A significant aftershock on December 23rd damaged the hall further and the whole complex is now 'red-stickered' ‘Penguin people’ step up and cannot be used. This not only has a major impact for the parish but also for the 50 groups who used the complex on to protect God's creation a regular basis.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Plan, 1996
    Annual Plan for the year ending 30 June 1997 Adopted by the Christchurch City Council on 31 July 1996 WE CHOOSE RECYCLED PAPER Published on 28 August 1996 by the Office of the City Manager, Christchurch City Council, in compliance with s.223D of the Local Government Act 1974 (as amended), ISSN 1171-8714 P O Box 237, Christchurch, New Zealand. The Christchurch City Council's world wide web address is: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/ or email: [email protected] Tel: (03) 379 1660. Fax: (03) 371 1786 MISSION STATEMENT OF THE CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL To provide a system of local government for the community of Christchurch which: • is responsive to local needs; • gives strong expression to local identity; • strikes a balance between democracy, effectiveness, and efficiency; • is highly accountable for its actions; • advocates in the interest of the whole community; • adds value and employment to the city's economy; • enhances the quality of the city's environment; • is based on sustainable management principles; • efficiently delivers high quality services; • maintains an effective working partnership with central government and the regional unit of local government; • is both a good corporate citizen and a good employer. TE KAUPAPA E WHAIA E TE KAUNIHERA O TE TAONE NUI O OTAUTAHI Kia whakaritea tetahi ara mo te kawanatanga-a-taone mo nga iwi o otautahi • kia aro atu ki nga hiahia-a-rohe • kia tino whakaataria nga ahuatanga o te taone nei • kia whakaritea te kawanatanga horite kia tika tonu, kia kakama hoki • kia whakaae ki te hiki pikau mo
    [Show full text]
  • Governing the Recovery from the Canterbury Earthquakes 2010 -11: the Debate Over Institutional Design
    Governing the Recovery from the Canterbury Earthquakes 2010 -11: the Debate over Institutional Design Rachel Brookie Working Paper 12/01 June 2012 INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND POLICY STUDIES WORKING PAPER 12/01 MONTH/YEAR June 2012 AUTHOR Rachel Brookie rachel [email protected] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to acknowledge and thank the following parties for the generous contribution of their time and expertise, their helpful comments, guidance and support: Jonathan Boston, Janet Tyson, James Smart and Rob Laking, Vic Lipski for copy-editing and Berys Cuncannon for administrative support. She also wishes to thank the Summer Scholar Scheme at Victoria University of Wellington for providing the funding to make this research possible. INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE School of Government AND POLICY STUDIES Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington NEW ZEALAND For any queries relating to this working paper please contact [email protected] DISCLAIMER The views, opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are strictly those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, the School of Government or Victoria University of Wellington. Contents Part 1 – Introduction .............................................................................................................. 4 Background - A series of unfortunate events ........................................................................ 4 PART 2 – Looking at the literature .........................................................................................
    [Show full text]