'Pack of fuddy duddies’
The . Canterbury United Council is a “pack of old fuddy duddies” according to a Paparua-county councillor, Cr A. Y. Shuker, last evening. Expressing disappointment that the United Council had decided not to support Orana Park this year, Cr Shuker
said the United Council needed to “rethink its ideas.” He told a Paparua council -meeting that the United Council had shown a “typical parochial Canterbury attitude” in recommending that the Akaroa slipway be this year’s beneficiary of the Local Authorities Community Facilities Fund which is administered by the Lotteries Board.
Cr D. R. Shipley, and the County Chairman (Mr J. Y. Pethig) also expressed their disappointment, but Cr W. J. Baker said that if he had been at the United Council executive meeting he would have voted in favour of the Akarda slipway. ; He. said that Orana Park was well under way and could call on’ various groups for financial ..help, whereas the Akaroa community was a small hardworking group without much, money. People- from all over Canterbury would use the slipway, said Cr Baker. Cr Shuker then had to be bought to order by Mr Pethig for booing and muttering about Cr Baker’s being a boatowneri: ’He said he was
sorry that the Paparua council had had no option but to join the United Council. “If the council thinks more people will use the silly old slipway at Akaroa than will see Orana Park then they need their heads read,” Cr Shuker said. “Orana Park was national asset and Canterbury could be proud of it,” he said.
The council decided that it would support Orana Park this year, and would itself
put a case for money for an African plains scheme before the Local Authorities Community Facilities Fund. That decision meant that the Prebbleton Hall, which the council had been going to support, would have to wait until 1981 for a recommendation. A motion was passed asking that the incoming council favourably consider the Preb. bleton Community Hall as its submission to the fund next year.
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Press, 6 May 1980, Page 6
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