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Heather Hughes fires a World War I German cannon, with her husband Neil and helpers, Cullen McLeod, his father Todd McLeod and Peter Robson, looking on. The Hugheses, who own the cannon, tested it at a firing range at Otatara on Friday in preparation for it to be used at the Anzac Day Dawn Service at the Invercargill cenotaph on Sunday.
The Hughes family’s World War I cannon passed its annual test on Friday for use at the Anzac Day Dawn Service in Invercargill on Sunday. It fired two blanks perfectly for owners Neil and Heather Hughes at a range in Otatara on Friday.
Among the hardest hit will be Gorge Road [19 per cent or $387 increase]; Nightcaps [18 per cent or $430 increase]; Stewart Island [18 per cent or $344; Orepuki [17 per cent or $197]; Tuatapere [17 per cent or $431]; Ohai [17 per cent or $387] and Tokanui [17 per cent or $330]. At the other end of the scale, Thornbury faces an average four per cent, or $64 increase, Browns a five per cent increase [$88], and Woodlands a 6 per cent increase [$98]. Ohai resident Asha Carr said she believed the council was tone deaf to propose such high hikes for many people, given some were already struggling financially and with stress due to losing jobs during Covid.
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”The toilets are old and grotty and we need to make sure that when tourists return they have a holistic experience. There s some pretty big ticket items there but any assistance that would take the financial burden off rate payers here, some of whom are really struggling at the moment, would be very welcome. “It might be quiet here now but we’ve got to take the positive approach that it s not going to be like this forever, and we need to think about that when planning infrastrusture,’’ he said. The council would hold a workshop on Wednesday where councillors would discuss the application to the fund.