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2nd Installment 2009/10 Rates
Ratepayers of the Clutha District
Council are reminded that the last day for payment of the 2nd instalment of
2009/10 rates is 27 November 2009. A 10% statutory penalty will be imposed
on any outstanding rates remaining unpaid after this date.
Payments may be made direct to
council service centres situated at:
Tapanui,
Suffolk Street, Tapanui
Milton,
124 – 126 Union Street, Milton
Balclutha,
4 Clyde Street, Balclutha
Lawrence,
5 Peel Street, Lawrence
and District Office,
1 Rosebank Terrace, Balclutha
OR
post to P O Box 25, Balclutha 9240.
Arrangements
may be made to pay rates weekly, fortnightly monthly or quarterly by contacting
the Rates Department at District Office.
Road closure
CLOSED: Bridge
239 over the Catlins River on the Morris Saddle Road at Tawanui.
Road users are
advised that there is no through route available from Puketiro to Owaka Valley
via the Morris Saddle Road, as damage to Bridge 239 over the Catlins River at
Tawanui have resulted in Bridge 239 being closed until further notice.
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Road Name |
Location |
Closure
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Morris Saddle
Road |
at the Tawanui
Bridge (no. 239) over the Catlins River |
Effective
immediately, until further notice |
It will be an
offence under the above regulations for any person otherwise than under
authority of an authorised permit to use the bridge for ordinary vehicular or
pedestrian traffic during the period of closure.
Clutha District Council
Notification of Weight and Speed Limits on Bridges
Heavy Motor Vehicle
Regulations 1974 - Regulation 11
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Regulation 11 (3) of
the Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations 1974, the Clutha District Council has fixed
the following maximum weight (and/or speed) limits for heavy motor vehicles and
combinations including a heavy motor vehicle on the bridges described hereunder.
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Bridge Number |
Road Name |
Structure or Waterway Name |
Axle limit
(kg) |
Gross limit
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Speed limit
(km/hr) |
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118 |
Allangrange Road |
Clydevale Bridge |
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50% (23000kg max) |
10 |
It should be noted
an overweight permit system is in place for the use of the bridge under
prescribed conditions. Operators should apply to:
MWH New Zealand
Ltd,
92 Charlotte
Street,
Balclutha 9230
Telephone (03) 418
0479
Fax (03) 418 3158
Attention:
Qutaiba
Alani
Email:
Qutaiba.J.Alani@nz.mwhglobal.com
Proposal to close the roads
listed below
Pursuant to the Transport
(Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1965, notice is hereby given that
the Clutha District Council, for the purpose of the Project Clutha to hold a
Market Day, proposes to close the following roads to ordinary vehicular traffic
for the period indicated hereunder:
DATE: SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 2009
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Street |
From |
Time: |
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John Street |
Clyde Street
(SH1) to James Street |
8.30am – 12.30pm |
Any person objecting to the
proposal is called upon to lodge notice of his/her objection and grounds thereof
in writing before 29th November 2009 to the office of the Clutha
District Council, 1 Rosebank Terrace, Balclutha 9230.
Charles Hakkaart
CHIEF
EXECUTIVE
Clutha District Council Restricted Fire Season
Public Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 19, 22 and 23
of the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977.
THAT AS FROM MONDAY
16
NOVEMBER 2009
A RESTRICTED FIRE SEASON WILL EXIST IN THE CLUTHA
DISTRICT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
1. Burning
permits are required for all fires in the open air during the restricted fire
season except for the following:
a) The burning
of agriculture crop residues, stubble or straw provided
that no crop residue, stubble or straw shall be burnt until a fully
ploughed fire break of not less than five metres in width has been created
around the area to be burnt.
NOTE: Fire permits are required for all agricultural residue fires within 500
metres of City Forests Ltd, Wenita Forest Products Ltd forests and/or within 1
kilometre Department of Conservation area. Fire permits are obtainable on
application from these organisations.
b) Barbecues lit in
properly constructed containers which are fuelled with gas, solid or liquid
fuel.
c) Cooking fires at
camping sites lit within a concrete or stone surround and with not less than
three metres of ground surrounding the container cleared
of all combustible materials.
PROVIDED THAT NO SUCH FIRES SHALL BE LIT WHEN HIGH OR GUSTY WINDS ARE
PREVAILING.
2. A ban on all
fires on any day or days of extreme fire hazard as broadcast under Section
20 of the Forest & Rural Fires Act takes precedence over this notice.
3. In all
cases a person lighting a fire within these provisions shall remain
in attendance at the fire until it is fully
extinguished or cannot spread.
4. It is no
legal defence against the claims for damage caused by the fire, that
the fire was of a type or lit at a time
permitted by this notice.
Burning permits may be obtained on application to the:-
Clutha District Council
Balclutha
Ph (03) 4190200
or CDC Service Centres at
Milton
Ph
(03) 4178109
Lawrence
Ph
(03) 4859909
Tapanui
Ph
(03) 2048306
At least five working days notice is required to allow prior
inspection of the area concerned.
*** FOR FIRE EMERGENCY DIAL 111 ***
P O Box 25
S B Vigers
BALCLUTHA
PRINCIPAL RURAL FIRE OFFICER
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