Coastlands Aquatic Centre hit by collapse of builders

By Alan Tristram

Just seven weeks out from the opening, the new Paraparaumu swimming pool has been hit by the collapse of the main contractoprs, Mainzeal.

The Kapiti Coast District Council has announced it’s ‘still assessing the likely impact of the news that Mainzeal Property and Construction Limited has gone into receivership.’

Mainzeal is the main building contractor on the $21.1m Coastlands Aquatic Centre Project, which is just seven weeks short of completion.

The KCDC says Council staff are talking with receivers, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), to determine the best way forward.

Chief Executive Pat Dougherty says: “We can be grateful at least that the project is 85% complete so it would make sense to do whatever is necessary to just push on and finish it. That is certainly what we will be discussing with the receivers.”

Council staff have been meeting PWC representatives in Wellington. Meanwhile, work on the Aquatic Centre, off Kapiti Road, has been suspended for 48 hours.

PWC has set up a website page, which will regularly update developments http://www.pwc.co.nz/mainzeal/

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti Coast councillors have toured of one of Aotearoa's unique buildings, the heritage - listed Rotunda at the former Otaki Health Camp, the country’s first.

Jeremy Smith reports that the 105-year-old, eight-sided rotunda predates the Health Camp.

It wasn't actually built in Otaki, but was one of two built in Rotorua in 1915 as part of a military hospital, on the site of Rotorua’s present public hospital.

Later they were taken to Otaki for the opening of the health camp in 1931.

Full story in the main column (December 19).

100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.

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Coastlands Aquatic Centre hit by collapse of builders