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The Wellingtonian Star light at the top of the Champagne tree on Wa-iti Road shines brightly over Timaru for Christmas 2020.
One of Timaru’s tallest trees will no longer host the town s Christmas star. The 34-metre tree, on the Wai-iti Rd property of Gary and Robyn Borland, has been illuminated by the Timaru District Council s decorative star every festive season since 2003, but that will come to an end this Christmas, with access to the site, now neighbouring a housing development, deemed “limited ’.
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The Wellingtonian Star on top of the tree in 2020. (File photo) Former Timaru District mayor Damon Odey, who is behind the subdivision project on the 6600 square metre site next to the tree, formerly home to the South Canterbury RSA (SCRSA), confirmed on Monday he has notified the council access “will be limited”.
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