Wet-bikes at Sumner

Press, 19 February 1986, Page 18

Wet-bikes at Sumner

Sir,—As spokesman for the group of Sumner residents who organised a protest against the approval of wet-bikes at Sumner, I congratulate and thank the four East Ward councillors who listened to the people and voted against this commercial scheme at the Christchurch City Council's meeting. However, it is now public knowledge that the majority voted to introduce wet-bikes at Sumner on a trial basis. I would like to advise this majority, and to reassure the citizens of Sumner who spoke out so angrily, that this is not the end of the matter. Within the next two or three weeks a public meeting will be held in Sumner so that 1 citizens may express their views more fully, and this will be announced in the area. I hope that some of those councillors who interjected rudely all through the speeches of the East Ward councillors at the meeting, might choose to come to the public meeting in Sumner and hear the anger of the Sumner residents on their home ground. — Yours, etc., RUPERT GLOVER. February 18, 1986.