Record
December 17 2014
Your Local Dealership
The
NZCNA WINNER
2014
‘The voice of your community’
10,350 copies distributed weekly to Rolleston, West Melton, Darfield and districts
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Electric celebration Lake Crichton series on again
Entries for the Lake Crichton Triathlon and Duathlon summer series have opened …
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Top award for former student
Former Darfield High School student Karl Iremonger has received a top New Zealand science award …
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Windwhistle School students added to the sense of occasion when the Lake Coleridge Power Station celebrated its 100th birthday recently. The power station was the first Government-built hydro-electric power station constructed in New Zealand and was opened by the then Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey on December 2, 1914. Windwhistle School attended the public open day this month as part of the 100 year celebrations and reenacted school life from a century ago. The school hired costumes from Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch so students and teachers could look authentically dressed for the occasion.
West Melton bus service axed by Kent Caddick
Selwyn Mayor Kelvin Coe is calling for rural bus services to be subsidised.
Keeping children safe this summer Plunket is encouraging Selwyn families to keep an eye on their children …
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The call comes after the Red Bus Company decided to axe its afternoon service to West Melton from Christchurch after just six months. The company is retaining its daily Darfield to Christchurch service. Red Bus chief executive Paul McNoe said the decision to cut the West Melton service was a commercial one as the service, unlike the Go Bus company’s Rolleston service, does not receive an
Environment Canterbury (ECan) subsidy. “The afternoon service to West Melton, like the Darfield service, is a fully commercial one and therefore totally dependent on patronage for its viability,” Mr McNoe said. “Unfortunately the numbers using the service do not stack up. We regularly had five or six users, mainly school children returning from school in town but it wasn’t enough to make it viable.”
Selwyn Mayor Kelvin Coe said it was disappointing the service was being cut but he understood the company’s reasoning behind the decision. “It was really a case of use it or lose it,” Mayor Coe said. “What we would really like to see is rural bus services attracting the same sort of subsidies as urban services.” … continued on page 6
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