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Same Event, Same Venue, different date, 30 November to 3 December.
Plenty to see and do, eat, buy and try.
From Agri machinery, to new innovations, career opportunities and competitions.
We want to celebrate the sector that is relentlessly hard-working, at the forefront of world-leading … View moreSame Event, Same Venue, different date, 30 November to 3 December.
Plenty to see and do, eat, buy and try.
From Agri machinery, to new innovations, career opportunities and competitions.
We want to celebrate the sector that is relentlessly hard-working, at the forefront of world-leading technologies, and economically critical to our country.
The largest agricultural event in the Southern Hemisphere.
Bringing town and country together over four days
The ultimate opportunity for agribusiness networking throughout the primary sector value chain.
Got to www.fieldays.co.nz to buy tickets.
From reporter Kristie Boland:
Natasha Grant’s daughter wanted to start queueing for the opening Kmart’s new Ashburton store at midnight, but they compromised and turned up at 3am instead.
They weren’t the only eager customers already lining up at that time for the district’s first … View moreFrom reporter Kristie Boland:
Natasha Grant’s daughter wanted to start queueing for the opening Kmart’s new Ashburton store at midnight, but they compromised and turned up at 3am instead.
They weren’t the only eager customers already lining up at that time for the district’s first Kmart store.
“We saw one car here and thought, ‘oh cool, we're not the only ones’,” Grant said.
The doors of the new 3650m2 store officially opened at 8am on Thursday, with a long line of keen shoppers ready to snap up some new items.
The first customers were welcomed with applause by staff while Ashburton College and Tinwald School students sang waiata at the front entrance.
“It’s just the excitement of having something new in the town,” Grant said.
She stocked up on candles and said she looked forward to bringing her grandchildren back for some Christmas shopping, at a more reasonable hour.
Tinwald School student Nellie Clay, 8, had some shopping to do after her performance. She had just one thing on her list: a dragon costume.
She found what she was looking for straight away.
“It's well stocked and there's a good variety of things,” mum Kirsty Clay said.
Seventeen-year-old Darnell Lima said she normally ventured north to Christchurch for her shopping, but on Thursday she was on a clothes and makeup buying spree in her hometown.
Store manager Kim Spooner said she the new store had been “a long time coming”. Having worked in both the Riccarton and Papanui stores in Christchurch, she was ready to start her new role in the Ashburton store.
“There's just pure excitement. It's going to be great for Ashburton,” she said.
The store had about 88 staff, with more roles to be filled in the coming weeks. Spooner estimated about 200 people had applied for roles.
“The store gives people better access to affordable prices, and it's just in time for Christmas.”
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The Auckland inner-city suburb of Kingsland has been named one of the world’s ‘coolest’ neighbourhoods in the annual survey from Time Out.
The UK media outlet received thousands of contributions from around the world and compiled the top 51 alongside local writers and editors. Kingsland … View moreThe Auckland inner-city suburb of Kingsland has been named one of the world’s ‘coolest’ neighbourhoods in the annual survey from Time Out.
The UK media outlet received thousands of contributions from around the world and compiled the top 51 alongside local writers and editors. Kingsland came in 43rd and was praised for its quirky shops and eclectic food scene.
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From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
It’s a 30-year plan, not a next-few-years plan.
That was the message as the outgoing Ashburton District Council adopted the Ashburton Airport Development Plan at the final meeting of its term last week.
Chief executive Hamish Riach said … View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
It’s a 30-year plan, not a next-few-years plan.
That was the message as the outgoing Ashburton District Council adopted the Ashburton Airport Development Plan at the final meeting of its term last week.
Chief executive Hamish Riach said creating the plan was about establishing a general direction for the future of the site.
“The idea of the 30-year plan is to create a framework for the development of the airport over the next number of decades”.
That framework in the plan aims to make the airport more financially independent, support its viability, and ensure it is safely and sustainably managed for the next 30 years.
Mayor Neil Brown said it is a 30-year plan to be used as a guide and “if it needs updating, we will update it as required”.
The consultation process raised concerns that the existing grass runways are already operating near capacity and will not cope with the forecast increase in flights proposed in the plan.
The council recently put in place a tracking system to monitor landings and from the data available estimates the current annual usage to be about 7500 to 8000 movements.
The plan states that “this level of usage can put stress on the grass runways, requiring steps to be taken to manage wear and tear. This could be expected to worsen if the airport grows”.
Sealing the runways is an option but it is not defined in the 30-year-plan, instead, it will be considered in any long-term plan process when the need arises.
“It will be dependent on the rate of development,” Riach said.
“There may be a development within the framework of this plan at a future point that would mean there needs to be an alteration to the runway but no one could predict when that would be.”
Safety was a key issue raised during the consultation, mainly focused on the potential increased air traffic.
A majority of the concerns had centred on the potential lease of land for a large-scale flying school operated by NZ Air Academy.
The council decided the NZ Air Academy proposal is a separate but related matter and deferred any decisions on the proposal until the development plan had been adopted.
Any proposal from the flight school will be presented to the council for consideration.
The plan confirmed the proposed location of the recreational, commercial, and hangar home precincts.
Any hangar home precinct, where people could live at the airport, will be explored, and it will require a District Plan Change process.
It also provides for the Ashburton Aviation Museum expansion plans.
* Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air
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From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown says waning voter turnout shows people aren’t engaged with local politics.
Voting in the Ashburton District dropped under 50% and Brown has joined national calls for the election process to be looked at.
“The … View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown says waning voter turnout shows people aren’t engaged with local politics.
Voting in the Ashburton District dropped under 50% and Brown has joined national calls for the election process to be looked at.
“The voting system needs to be looked and the system to be looked at is probably online voting,” Brown said.
“It appears to be that’s the only one we can move to. Perhaps a combination of both [online and postal], but it definitely needs looking into to get participation up.”
The silent majority got bigger as voter turnout across the country was down to a record low 36%, though it is expected to increase marginally once all votes have been counted.
Ashburton’s preliminary results had just 49.03% of voter returns – 11,337 of the 23,115 eligible votes – which was down on the 55.05% in 2019.
“People just aren’t engaged.
“I’ve talked to people who haven’t voted and asked why, and they said it’s because they don’t know the people, and they don’t want to get to know them.”
The lack of engagement isn’t just at election time.
“It is a problem the council grapples with all the time, working out how we get people more involved”.
Now, Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) is calling for an independent review, a move Brown agreed with.
“We need to have a look at how we get voters engaged in the electoral system,” he said.
LGNZ want to work with central government to review how elections were delivered and to consider factors such as the practicality of postal voting and accessing ballot boxes in more remote parts of the country.
“We want to see a short, sharp, and independent review that should feed into the Future for Local Government Review as well as the review of Parliamentary Electoral Law,” LGNZ chief executive Susan Freeman-Greene said.
Canterbury comparison:
District: 2022 - 2019
Kaikoura: 61.82% - 61.37%
Mackenzie: 53.98% - 60.51%
Waimate: 49.96% - 52.04%
Timaru: 49.22% - 55.01%
Ashburton: 49.03% - 55.05%
Waimakariri: 44.39% - 46.39%
Hurunui: 43.38% - 57.18%
Christchurch: 43.31% - 41.10%
From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Neil Brown is back in the big chair and says its straight back down to business.
Brown won the Ashburton mayoralty race by a whopping 8521 votes from his only opponent Jeff Swindley to be back at the helm and “straight back into it”.
With … View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Neil Brown is back in the big chair and says its straight back down to business.
Brown won the Ashburton mayoralty race by a whopping 8521 votes from his only opponent Jeff Swindley to be back at the helm and “straight back into it”.
With four councillors retiring at the end of the term, Brown said there was always going to be at least four new faces at the table.
With all of the incumbents being re-elected, Brown said it was a sign of confidence from the community in the council direction.
It also means there is continuity at the table.
“There is no need to stall so we can just keep progressing at the rate we have been going for the betterment of the whole community,” Brown said.
Of the four new councillors, one already has two-terms under his belt.
Russell Ellis infamously was unable to stand in the last election after a technical error on his nomination form and is “absolutely rapt” to be back on the council.
“I was really passionate about this role so there was some big disappointment in 2019," he said.
He said he had unfinished business that he missed out on being a part of over the last three years but can’t wait to get back into what will be his full-time employment.
“They do things a bit differently now than they did three years ago but I don’t have to find my feet as much,” Ellis said.
Ellis was the fifth highest polling candidate in the Ashburton ward but had an over 900 vote margin on fellow former councillor Thelma Bell.
Carolyn Cameron finished on top in the Ashburton ward to ensure a second term, with fellow incumbent Leen Braam polling third.
Tony Todd, and Phill Hooper are the new councillors in the Ashburton ward.
Todd may be a first term councillor at 75 years old but he said he saw that as a good thing.
“It doesn’t hurt to have older wise heads around the table,” Todd said.
Hooper would continue as a breakfast radio host on Hokonui Ashburton during the three-year term and wanted to bring “a fresh set of eyes and ideas” to the council table.
The incumbents in the Western Ward, Liz McMillan and Rodger Letham, were comfortably re-elected with Dame Lynda Topp missing out.
Topp said she was always a long shot to be “the first lesbian on the Ashburton council” and the people had spoken but she wasn’t too worried about the result, and it was unlikely to be the last the council would hear of her.
“You can do just as much from the outside as you can from the inside,” Topp said.
Out in the Eastern Ward, Lynette Lovett is back for a third term with newly elected Councillor Richard Wilson who takes the place vacated by his retired four-term councillor father, Stuart Wilson.
Wilson said while he is his father’s son, he is not his father.
“I am my own person with my own set of skills and experiences,” he said.
Wilson was looking forward to the taking on the challenges facing the district and while he would need to learn the ropes he “isn’t going to shy away from making my voice heard”.
The new Ashburton District Council will be sworn in on October 27.
Methven Community Board:
Richie Owen was the top polling candidate for the Methven Community Board where six candidates vied for five seats.
Owen returns for a second term and is joined by fellow incumbent and former Ashburton District Councillor, Kelvin Holmes.
Allan Lock, Megan Fitzgerald, and Robin Jenkinson are all first-term members completing the five-member board at this stage.
Adam Preston is the odd candidate out with 311 votes, but just five votes behind Jenkinson.
That margin could change when the special votes are factored in for the final results which will be announced by Thursday.
The new board members will be sworn in at the same ceremony as the new Ashburton District Council on October 27 before electing a chairperson and deputy chaiperson at the inaugural board meeting on October 31.
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