Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 22 October 2013
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Makos to play final in Nelson
Tasman halfback Billy Guyton celebrates with reserve fullback Robbie Malneek on Saturday. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
The Tasman Makos could become our first rugby team since Nelson Bays in 2004 to win a national rugby championship. They are just one game away from clinching the ITM Cup Championship and need to beat old foe Hawke’s Bay at fortress Trafalgar Park on Friday for the second time this season in order to lift the trophy and shoot into the Premiership for 2014. Since its amalgamation in 2005, the Tasman Makos have never reached an ITM Cup final, and up until last weekend hadn’t even hosted a semi-final. Blenheim’s support was mediocre on Saturday as the Makos beat Southland 49-28 to book a place in the Championship final, so lets get behind our team and sell out Trafalgar Park for the first time since the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Kick off is at 7.35pm this Friday night.
Car seat law to save kids’ lives Nelson school principals and some parents say changes to the age that children must be in a car seat will be a pain in the bum, but NZTA insists there is only one purpose behind the move – to save lives. Changes to the law come into effect next Friday, November 1, which will make it mandatory for children to ride in an approved child restraint until the age of seven. Currently the law is for children until
the age of five. Local groups like Plunket and the Nelson Parents Centre say they support the move but the new law could be a problem for local schools if they take children on school outings. Two local principals spoken to by Nelson Weekly say it will be frustrating but they understand the safety reasons behind it. “Obviously it is a great idea if it’s a move
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reporter@nelsonweekly.co.nz towards safety,” says Stoke School principal Peter Mitchener. “But getting parents to help with transport for trips can sometimes be tricky and if we are now having to ask for boosters to be brought to school,
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left at school and then used for the trip, it could become hard. It may just mean that we need to buy half a dozen boosters and have them sat in the cupboard somewhere.” Don McLean, principal of Hampden St School, says he’s put it to parents to be aware to bring their five to seven year olds
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