NOVEMBER 2019 • ISSUE: 244 In This Edition: • Orton Bradley Park Café Returns • Governors Bay jetty • Pesky possums NEWS Next Issue print date: Issue 245, 3rd Deecember2019. New valuations coming for Christchurch, Content Deadline: 5pm 29th November 2019. Banks Peninsula property owners THE Review Christchurch and Banks Is a Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre initiative Peninsula properties designed to keep our community informed with what is have only risen slightly going on around the harbour. It’s also an opportunity to in value over the past showcase the people and places that other wise would go three years, the latest under the radar. Our community connections ensure we district revaluation know what’s going on in the wider community and can shows.Christchurch share the news with you all. City Council is required to carry out a general revaluation every three years to ensure A big thank you goes out to all the contributors and our that rates are spread fairly across the city. funders Rata Foundation and Christchurch City Council Strengthening Communities who enable the hard copies e job, which was contracted to Quotable Value (QV) to be printed each edition. Similarly to Wendy Everingham entails revaluing more than 160,000 properties across for writing and editing and Jenny-Lee Love for design and Christchurch and Banks Peninsula.e revaluation shows production. that, on average, values across the district have increased about one per cent since the last revaluation was done in If you have any local events, news or stories you would like 2016. e average house price is now $540,000. included we’d love to hear from you. e biggest increase in residential values has been at the Wendy Everingham lower end of the market, while there has been a softening at Mobile: 021 047 6144 the top end, analysis by QV shows. Property owners will be Email: [email protected] able to check their new valuations online at ccc.govt.nz/rates Content Deadline: 5pm Friday from Wednesday 27 November. 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You will need your October rates invoice with you when you Have you stopped to watch the ¦ll out the form as you will need your valuation number and unique document number to register for the service. Timeball rise and drop? Once you have registered, you will receive your next rates It does so at 1pm every day? invoice notice by email. Article CCC Newsline 2 LYTTELTON REVIEW November 2019 Issue:244 NEWS Tuia 250 heads to Te Ana Marina chance to meet the waka crews and learn about traditional navigation and history from the Tuia Mātauranga travelling e Ngāi Tahu waka, Kōtukumairangi has arrived at Te roadshow and a range of speakers. Ana Marina ahead of the Tuia 250 commemorations in Whakaraupō / Lyttelton Harbour next month. Tuia 250 ki Whakaraupō will be held on Saturday, December 7 and Sunday, December 8, 2019 at Te Ana Marina, Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke in partnership with the Lyttelton Lyttelton. For up-to-date information, visit mch.govt.nz/ Port Company (LPC), and with the support of Te Rūnanga tuia250 and keep an eye on the Tuia 250 Whakaraupō / o Koukourarata, Christchurch City Council, Ministry of Lyttelton Harbour Facebook event Culture and Heritage and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, are hosting the historic ©otilla of vessels at Te Ana Marina as About Te Ana Marina: part of Tuia 250 events. LPC owns and operates the Marina and associated facilities. e Marina has 170 berths for yachts and powerboats. It is is as far south as the ©otilla will travel, marking 250 years includes a safe, waterfront promenade and e Woolstore, since the ¦rst encounters between Māori and Europeans which accommodates the Marina’s administration oces, and celebrating the voyaging traditions of Aotearoa. berth-holder amenities and public washroom facilities. As part of the event, three waka hourua / Polynesian double- Ngāti Wheke has worked closely with LPC in developing hulled sailing canoes, as well as the Spirit of New Zealand Te Ana Marina and the wider area, as it has a rich legacy as will be welcomed to Whakaraupō. is includes Fa’afaite a place of shelter and food gathering. from Tahiti, and Haunui and Ngāhiraka Mai Tawhiti from the North Island. e name Te Ana was gifted to LPC by Ngāti Wheke for the marina area and comes from the original name for Te e crew will be ¦rstly hosted overnight by Te Rūnanga Ana o Huikai – a small bay located just beyond LPC’s Dry o Koukourarata, before a pōwhiri at Rāpaki that ocially Dock which was reclaimed when the original port and wider begins the Tuia 250 proceedings on Friday 6 December. Naval Point area was developed. e ©otilla will make its way from Koukourarata to Rāpaki, accompanied by Kōtukumairangi and other local e bay was a sheltered area used by Ngāi Tahu rangatira vessels. Peter Ramsden of Koukourarata acknowledges the Huikai on his journeys to and from his home at Koukourarata importance of commemorating Tuia 250 and the role they / Port Levy. have accompanying the ©otilla on the water. e striking carvings at Te Ana Marina created by the “We warmly welcome the ©otilla and the crew as part of the Whakaraupō Carving Centre acknowledge the history and Tuia 250 commemorations. As their ¦rst stop down south, I values associated with Te Ana o Huikai and the wider area. cannot think of a more appropriate way to welcome the crew About Kōtukumairangi than to journey alongside them in Whakaraupō.” Kōtukumairangi is a traditionally carved waka tangata, Ngāti Wheke Chair Manaia Rehu is looking forward to the meaning a canoe for people of all ages, genders and ethnicities hapū leading the Tuia 250 in Whakaraupō. – that normally resides on the banks of the Ōpara River opposite the Okains Bay Māori and Colonial Museum. “We appreciate having all the waka in Whakaraupō and e museum is situated within the rohe of Te Rūnanga o working with our partners and supporters to give the public Koukourarata who assume responsibility for the upkeep and a chance to experience them close up and learn about our maintenance of the waka. navigation traditions. is reminds us why Whakaraupō and our oceans are important, both as travel routes and as e waka was built with the blessing of Ngāi Tahu kaumātua sources of food. “ in the late 1980s and launched at Okains Bay on Waitangi Day 1990. After extensive rebuilding in the 1990s it was LPC Chief Executive Peter Davie says it is a privilege to formally gifted to Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu on Waitangi support Ngāti Wheke and host Tuia 250. Day 2000 by Murray acker, founder of the Okains Bay “Te Ana Marina was opened last year with the aim of Māori and Colonial Museum. regenerating the Inner Harbour as a vibrant community- It has recently undergone extensive conservation and focused destination, so Tuia 250 is exactly the kind of event maintenance work, which includes an innovative we want to see here,” says Peter. modi¦cation that allows the taurapa (stern) to be hinged “We worked closely with Ngāti Wheke to ensure Te Ana back in order to clear low bridges. acknowledges and re©ects the area’s rich history, and we e paddling of the waka is a highlight of the Waitangi continue to work together on various projects.” Day commemorations held at the Okains Bay Māori and As part of the Tuia 250 activities, members of the public Colonial Museum will have the opportunity to view all of the waka up close at every year. Te Ana Marina. e family-friendly event will also include Article Lyttelton kai, market stalls and entertainment and will give people the Port Company. LYTTELTON REVIEW November 2019 Issue:244 3 NOTICES Election for the Lyttelton Orton Bradley Park Café Returns Reserves Management e seasonal café at Orton Bradley Park is open again.