Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 12 August 2020
Focus on WakeField Wanderers push WOB Life-saving barrier’s true value revealed Kiwis get to remain active
Charles Anderson Journalist
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The median barrier that stretches along Wakatu Dr on SH6 has potentially saved dozens of lives and
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millions of dollars as new data reveals the interventions it has made in preventing head-on collisions in Nelson. The wire rope barrier was installed in 2006, at a cost of about $5 million. Since then, it has been
hit an average of 12 times a year, with an average repair cost of $5,000 each time, data released by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency shows. However, there have only been 10 incidents of serious injury in the
time since it was installed. “I think of median barriers as vaccines for roads,” says Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s senior road safety manager Fabian Marsh. “Where they exist people don’t notice them, but when
Hope restarts hangi tradition
something goes wrong they can be life or death.” In the last 20 years there has only been one death on the highway relating to an incident where a
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Hope school students Thomas Young, Brody Matthews, and Lincoln Boyd, helping dig the pit for Hope school’s hangi the first hangi the school has hosted since 1971. Photo: Matt McCrorie.
Matt McCrorie Hope School students, family members and members of the community gathered in the school grounds for a hangi on Friday last week, and enjoyed a meal of food cooked in the ground. The school partnered with members of local iwi and had help from several members of the Whakatū Marae to make sure the day went off without a hitch. “It was really exciting,” says principal Freya Hogarth. Freya says the school discussed the idea of hosting a hangi last year. “We thought it would be a really great experience for our kids and for our community,” she says. Freya says the rural school has been working to incorporate Te Ao Māori into the curriculum. “We have done quite a bit to really incorporate Te Ao Māori into the way we do things at Hope School. We thought that the idea of having a hangi would be really great to tie in with Matariki celebrations, and teaching our kids about that,” she says. Freya says that the hangi was a way to celebrate
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