Gaiety for Repair Despite No Quake Payout
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THE PRESS, Christchurch Monday, December 23, 2013 NEWS A9 ART IDEAS FOR HER Women At Christmas time more Hoglund Landscape Vase, Hand Blown Glass, Earth 31cm High friendly Rachel Young [email protected] IN THE BINS ● ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● Simon Williams Evening Light on the Canal, Kiwi women are more likely to Non-recyclable items found in Venice Oil on Canvas, 200 x 200 mm be environmentally friendly Christchurch recycling bins: Open until 4pm Christmas Eve and than men. ❯❯❯❯ Lawn mower through Christmas/New Year (closed for stat days) A survey has highlighted the ❯❯❯❯ Extremely large fish head gender differences between ❯❯❯❯ Computer monitor women and men’s actions when ❯❯❯❯ A house lot of curtains it comes to the environment, ❯❯❯❯ Full nappies aka ‘‘baby with one of the authors saying bombs’’. OPEN 7 DAYS Cnr Riccarton Rd & Paeroa St, Christchurch Phone: 03 348 0064 • [email protected] women are more www.brycegallery.co.nz environmentally conscious as 5242996AA they are naturally more nurturing. NUMBERS ARDec13-03 The triennial Public Percep- tions of New Zealand’s Environ- keep or share! keep ment 2013 found more than 70 Amount of kerbside recycling per cent of respondents bought collected by the Christchurch YOUR environmentally friendly City Council in the year to products, reduced their elec- June 30. tricity and composted or grew 2000: 13,218 tonnes, 2001: SMILE their own vegetables, with 14,374t, 2002: 15,756t, 2003: women more likely to do so. 17,250t, 2004: 20,882t, Report co-author Ken 2005: 24,125t, 2006: 26,301t, IS LIFE Hughey said: ‘‘Females are more 2007: 27,171t, 2008: 29,517t, nurturing and more connected 2009: 33,274t, 2010: 40,971t, to the environment. Females are 2011: 39,941t, 2012: 39,378t, CHANGING better with electricity and fresh 2013: 37,781t. water and they tend to purchase the products.’’ Cantabrian Shelley Bakker including air quality, native said women tended to be at plants and biodiversity. home more so took care of the Hughey said people recycled day-to-day running of as it was the right thing to do, households, including shopping, and had become the ‘‘social gardening and recycling. norm’’. Canterbury’s been through a lot The mother-of-three reuses ‘‘People feel quite good about as much as possible, composts, it. They think it’s a solution to Let’s remember it’s grows her own vegetables and an environmental problem.’’ often the simple things that bring the most joy. fb.com/allrightnz fruit and has a worm farm. When the Christchurch City ‘‘It’s for the future Council first started collecting generations, for our kids and recycling in 1999 about 12,000 their kids. Otherwise there will tonnes was processed. be nothing left.’’ This has steadily increased, The survey found 95 per cent with a jump in 2009 when the of respondents recycled house- ‘‘yellow wheelie bin’’ was intro- hold waste, a 7 per cent increase duced. from the 2002 survey. Those on lower incomes were The CLEARANCE The survey of 2200 people, more likely to have reduced or Casual shirts, Polo shirts & T-shirts conducted by three Lincoln Uni- limited their use of electricity, Huge reductions on the versity lecturers, asked while those on higher incomes Brands you Want at Prices you Want questions across a range of were more likely to have visited Peeking through: Shelley Bakker believes being environmentally friendly is vital for future generations. The old rabbit house is a home for the chickens and an environmental categories national parks. old toilet cistern acts as a watering system collecting rain water. Photo: DEAN KOZANIC/FAIRFAX NZ Terrace concept Ben Sherman $33 to $71 Brooksfi eld $66 to $74 Burbank airweave all $54 starts to Charlie K $36 to $64 Daniel Hechter $41 to $67 Ellesse $29 to $41 take shape Enrico Rossi $24 to $61 Euro all $9 Reinforcing steel has been laid as work Fletcher Jones $35 to $54 on Antony Gough’s $140 million Oxford Greg Norman Golf Tce development in Christchurch con- $14 to $54 tinues. Lichfi eld $24 to $61 Stage one of The Terrace will Legends $39 to $58 include two buildings facing on to Logan $17 to $49 Oxford Tce and a third facing Hereford St. It is scheduled to open late next year Louis Feraud $29 to $54 and will include retail, hospitality and Nike Golf $41 to $63 office space. Regatta $29 to $51 Construction of stage two will start Tommy Hilfiger early next year and will include two $45 to $77 buildings to complete the central Trespass $31 to $58 piazza, while stage three may include Sizes from SM to 7XL in stock. Because we are an Outlet store residential apartments. we do not suggest to offer complete ranges, but we do have over The completed development will 3,000 shirts available in the Shirt Capital of Bishopdale. include 45,000 square metres of built space where up to 2000 people are KNITWEAR CAPITAL OF BISHOPDALE expected to work. The Terrace concept plan aims to promote the river with flights of broad • Full-zip cardies steps, ramps and decks between the • Pure wool & Bridge of Remembrance and Victoria wool mix available Square. Christchurch Central Development NOW $84 to $140 Unit director Warwick Isaacs recently said he expected other new develop- ments ‘‘right next to The Terrace’’ to 100% extra fine merino kick off early next year as part of the • 11 fantastic colours retail precinct. • SM to XXXL. • RRP $159.99 MY PRICE $98 to $112 Quake-prone: The Christchurch City Council has committed to repairing the Gaiety Theatre in Akaroa. Photo: DEAN KOZANIC/FAIRFAX NZ MOLESKINS, CHINOS, and many other casual pants Gaiety for repair despite no quake payout From $37 to $79 Brands you want Lois Cairns The Gaiety has been closed since the chairs the council’s community com- munity a signal that it took their con- Prices you want [email protected] @ ● ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● council’s detailed engineering evalu- mittee, said it was important the coun- cerns seriously and valued the facility. an Outlet store for Manufacturers ation in 2011 revealed the building’s cil act quickly . ‘‘We have an opportunity to get The Christchurch City Council will seismic capacity was only 24 per cent of ‘‘We could do some temporary fixes something moving with the Gaiety Opening Hours: 10am - 4pm Mon-Fri push ahead with repairs to Akaroa’s new building standard, meaning it was but the community in fact just want us despite any difficulties there might be historic Gaiety Theatre even though it considered earthquake-prone. to get on with permanent repair,’’ around insurance,’’ Turner said. 10am - 3pm Sat has to yet reach a settlement with its In recent months members of the Johanson said. The Gaiety had been sorely missed Closed Xmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day insurer. community have become increasingly ‘‘It’s a better use of funding to focus by the community and it was important At their last meeting of the year, concerned about its condition, with on the permanent rather than the tem- to get it operating as soon as possible. Opposite Westpac Bank councillors approved in principle the some alleging invasive engineering porary.’’ The Gaiety was insured for $628,000 repairs to the 134-year-old Italianate investigations have caused more dam- Banks Peninsula councillor Andrew but it is not yet clear how much the Built to last: The site of Antony Gough’s The MY mens store theatre, subject to a full report coming age than the quakes. Turner said by repairing the Gaiety the repairs will cost, nor how much the Terrace development is a mass of Bishopdale Village Mall to the council at the end of January. Councillor Yani Johanson, who council would be sending the local com- council’s insurer will pay out. reinforcing. Photo: DEAN KOZANIC/FAIRFAX NZ 5826983AA.