Bay Harbour: November 14, 2018

Wednesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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Book fair raises $7000<br />

• By Matt Salmons<br />

WITH MORE than 8000<br />

books donated and $7000<br />

raised, this year’s Lyttelton<br />

Book Fair was bigger and<br />

better than the last.<br />

The Saturday event was<br />

organised and run by<br />

parents from Lyttelton<br />

Primary School’s family<br />

hub to raised money for<br />

the school’s library.<br />

The first event in 2016<br />

boosted the library’s stock<br />

and allowed the school to<br />

run literary events over the<br />

last two years.<br />

Lyttelton Primary School<br />

secretary and librarian<br />

Rita Norris said this year’s<br />

money would also go towards<br />

the school’s library.<br />

“It will help with books,<br />

author visits and other<br />

activities,” Mrs Norris said.<br />

Organiser Ruth Connor<br />

said the event was “awesome.”<br />

“There was a queue of<br />

about 30 people outside<br />

before we started and<br />

people just kept coming in<br />

all day.”<br />

Ms Connor said $400<br />

was made from the sale of<br />

an 1899 first edition of The<br />

SEARCHING: People search through about 8000<br />

books to find some summer reading at the Lyttelton<br />

Book Fair on Saturday.<br />

Book of The Dead, a 20kg<br />

book detailing ancient<br />

Egyptian funeral rites during<br />

the silent auction.<br />

Ms Connor said a parent<br />

had bought 118-year-old<br />

book.<br />

After a story previewing<br />

the event appeared in the<br />

October 31 edition of the<br />

<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News, there<br />

was a jump in the number<br />

of books donated, Ms Connor<br />

said.<br />

“After the story came<br />

out, we got a lot of people,<br />

who had no kids or the<br />

school or any connection,<br />

turn up with boxes of<br />

books to donate.”<br />

She said people “were<br />

quite respectful” of the<br />

fact that donations should<br />

cease by Thursday evening<br />

to allow volunteers enough<br />

time to sort through them<br />

on Friday.<br />

About 150 books from<br />

those donated went<br />

straight into the school’s<br />

library, including copies of<br />

popular children’s fiction<br />

series Harry Potter. Some<br />

would replace damaged<br />

copies in the library.<br />

The remaining <strong>14</strong>0 boxes<br />

of books were bought by<br />

the Chertsey Book Barn<br />

when the event ended at<br />

2pm, Ms Connor said.<br />

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Bid to drown car fails<br />

• By Matt Salmons<br />

CAR THIEVES who took<br />

a car from Aidanfield on<br />

a joyride last Tuesday<br />

found that dumping it in<br />

Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong> was<br />

harder than they thought.<br />

The stolen car was reported<br />

to police at 5.45am<br />

after it was found dangling<br />

precariously over the<br />

water’s edge in the Naval<br />

Point parking area, near<br />

the Godley Quay, Cyrus<br />

Williams Quay intersection<br />

in Lyttelton.<br />

Lyttelton Police supervisor<br />

Sergeant Franco<br />

Lovrich said he suspected<br />

the car would have been<br />

taken by youths. However,<br />

police had no suspects as<br />

yet.<br />

“It’s been taken for a bit<br />

of joyride and it’s done<br />

a few wheelies and stuff<br />

down at the boat ramp at<br />

Naval Point.”<br />

Sergeant Lovrich said<br />

it appeared the car had<br />

been left in gear with the<br />

“intention of driving it off<br />

the edge.”<br />

However, that plan did<br />

not work out, Sergeant<br />

Lovrich said, with the car<br />

prevented from entering<br />

the water by the rocks and<br />

the angle of the descent.<br />

The vehicle had since<br />

been removed. As the<br />

owner was overseas, family<br />

members arranged to have<br />

it towed.<br />

•Anyone with any<br />

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or anonymously to<br />

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