P.D. labour to tidy port’s graves

Press, 19 July 1988, Page 5

P.D. labour to tidy port’s graves

The Lyttelton Public Cemetery will be tided next month by periodic detainee labour from the Justice Department. The council’s request for labour to help remove rubble had been granted, Mr Geoff Adams told Lyttelton Borough Council members at their monthly meeting last evening. The periodic detention labourers will work during the four Saturdays in August or until the cemetery is tidied properly. © A request by Holy Trinity parish for assistance was not clear, Mrs Mahoney May said.

It was not the council’s place to assist with the running of the parish, she said. However, if the parish wanted money for the restoration of the church, the council’s grants committee would consider any request for assistance in

maintaining the historic building. © It was interesting to note that the Canterbury United Council had endorsed the plan by Lyttelton Borough and Mount Herbert County to amalgamate, said the Mayor of Lyttelton, Mr Mel Foster.

This contrasted with plans by the Mayor of Christchurch, Sir Hamish Hay, to incorporate Lyttelton and part of Mount Herbert into “one huge city.”

O The Port Hills Energy Authority will give one electricity consumer each month $lOO worth of free power as part of its celebration of 100 years of electricity in New Zealand. The lucky consumer would be chosen at random from all those who paid their electricity bills on time, said Mr Stan Helms.