Varied fare tomorrow

Press, 22 September 1978, Page 9

Varied fare tomorrow

The major part of the Rangiora Borough centennial programme will start tomorrow with a busy round of events. A road running relay from Oxford to Rangiora and out-and-home cycle race along the Oxford Road will be held in the morning. A week-long centennial arts festival will begin in Victoria Park in the afternoon, and the Rangiora men’s and women’s hockey clubs will hold a reunion dinner at the Rangiora Golf Club in the evening. The events will usher in a two month queen carnival to raise funds towards the furnishing of Holmwood, an interdenominational home for

the aged,, which will be erected at 116 King Street, Rangiora, by the Presbyterian Social Services Association. Helping with the furnishing of the home has been adopted by the borough as its official centennial project. The cost of furnishing the 1860 sq m home is expected to be about $lOO,OOO. The home will be available to all elderly persons but particularly those living north of the Waimakariri River. The name Holmwood has been chosen because the site has had this name since 1910, when a local farmer, George Holmes, bought the Flaxley Lodge built for W. H. Foster in

1885 and changed its name. ■ ■ z ■ The complex will pro-, vide accommodation for 20 men and women in residential bedrooms. Hospital accommodation will be provided in four fourbed wards and four single rooms. The six-sided building will have a northerly aspect. A sun room, sitting room, dining room, and lounge will be clustered around two central courtyards. A house and a flatette have been purchased on an adjacent site at 7 Murray Street to give better access to the . home. Recently bought, another house property at 124 King Street will allow extra parking facilities, a

centre for occupational therapy and physiotherapy if necessary, day care facilities, and a possible distribution centre for meals-on-wheels. The building is expected to be ready within two years of calling tenders, for which approval is now awaited from the Health Department. A government subsidy of $700,000 has been approved for the building, for which the total cost may be more than SIM. It is expected that $lOO,OOO will be raised within North Canterbury to furnish the home. A management committee has been set up with representatives from a wide cross-section of the local community.