Rolleston

So you go through Hornby, past Hornby, past Adenfield, and then finally, I mean, I

may as well be in bloody Rolleston.

Out into Greg Prebleton.

Yeah, well, there's been a couple of texts for Rolleston as well.

Zoe is Hallswell, picture perfect.

Oh, thanks.

or maybe out of their own greed they begin subtly manipulating or conning people out of finances, surely here at Hope Presbyterian we would know and notice.

And I am very grateful that within our church, within our network, the other sites at West Melton and Rolleston, that we have people here within our congregation who know their Bibles very well, who aren't afraid to ask good questions, And that's really great.

We encourage that.

Don't hesitate to come and talk to Marty or myself or one of the elders.

Yeah, particularly construction.

I think there's some of the prisons, I'm thinking of Rolleston particularly, which is in the South Island of New Zealand, have for a number of years had construction yards.

It was initially a sort of reaction to the Christchurch earthquakes of a decade or so ago, where so many homes were damaged.

And construction yards were set up within the prison where houses were not only being built, but being repaired, moved in and then moved off site.

They are just looking at funding the train itself.

And I don't know if you know, or you've been on, I think you have, the Crusaders train, so to speak, and they've got those... serviceable but bloody awful aluminium ramps to get on and off we've got to have something far better than that if we're wanting people to come in and out of town and if it's 20 minutes from Raleigh or Rangiora and it takes 5% of cars off the road, it won't suit everyone but if it works we've got to give it a go

Alright, speaking of cars on the road, what do you make of National's policy giving councils the right to demand more off-street parking in these new housing developments?

Music to my ears It's especially out in the suburbs.

It has attracted 2,500 signatures in a matter of days.

Rolleston ratepayer Brian Clark says the increase in price has been a real shock.

It's going to be very, very expensive for me.

I can see myself ending up paying over $6,000 a year for my rates in the water.

Schools get to choose how they use non-teaching spaces, is what Gilmore said.

And there's a school in Rolleston, which is Te Uru Tarata, Lemonwood Grove, and it's gone the other way.

So it's having to use its library as a classroom as its role of 200 pupils is above its capacity.

Its principal, Blair Travitsky, told the press it's taking students to the public library, which is fair enough.