DOG SEES RED ON PALMERSTON NORTH RAILWAY LAND
Dog-versus-tank battle in Palmerston North on Railway Land
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You might like to do an item about the recreational battle on the Railway Land green space that occurred last Sunday, 19
October at 1 pm. I took the attached photo there. You might enhance it a bit. In the flour smoke of the menacing flour
canon and deadly flour grenades flung bravely at the tank, the bull terrier at the left was having a rollicking time
barking at the big red box with the dollar sign on the side. The big red box flour cannon wreaked unspeakable casualties
for a while, but in the end of course, the big red box was overrun by the people and defeated, its cannon flopping
limply down, and its cruel driver, Evan Natress, slumped in the turret, cut to ribbons by numerous rolled-up paper
sabres.
The event was not organized by the Railway Land Action Group, but just a group of people wanting to retain the parkland
for recreational use by the citizens rather than a commercial takeover by the Warehouse that will exclude such
recreational uses. Currently, an environmental commissioner, Paul Cavenagh, QC, is soon to decide whether to allow or
disallow zoning changes that would enable the Warehouse to build a huge, 1 hectare shop on the greenspace known as the
Railway Land. The tide may be turning against the Warehouse, because the latest round of public submissions has almost
entirely opposed the zoning change. Appeal to the Environment Court is likely even if the change is allowed.)
Evan Natress and Ross Harkness. Don Kavenagh had done an item in advance of it in the Standard. Natress' contact is
025-206-8812 or (06) 354-0062.
Marilyn Bulloch, Chair of the Railway Land Action Group, is at 06-357-7338