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Wednesday 13 March 2013
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Teachers hit street over no-pay
Some local teachers haven’t had a pay check this year, prompting a protest by teachers at Richmond’s Garin College last week. Teachers took to the streets with signs highlighting their plight caused by the botched Novopay system which is designed to pay all of the Ministry of Education’s 90,000 staff throughout New Zealand. Teachers’ pay packets has been affected since the
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andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz software’s introduction seven months ago and Garin’s principal John Boyce says the time for excuses is over. “It is a complete botch-up and that’s a polite term.” He says several of his teachers haven’t been
paid since the start of the year and that is having a huge impact on stress levels. “Say an experience teacher suddenly finds she hasn’t been paid for six weeks, she’s got mortgage commitments, hire purchase things going out of her account. Come Wednesday she’s got a full days teaching then she’s got to go home and ring the bank and get around all the people she has made commitments to and say she can’t honour
it. The stress that causes is just awful.” John says when the system was first introduced he wasn’t too worried about the mistakes but as time has marched on it has become frustrating and “total chaos”. “I was a principal in ’94 when the previous system came in and there were lots of complaints and it went to parliament, all SEE PAGE 4
Blokes open up their sheds
Lindsay Jukes will be showcasing his bottle collection at this weekend’s Blokes in Sheds trail. He is pictured with organiser Marg Palmer of Life Education. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
Ever wondered what goes on inside a man's shed? Well, all will be revealed this Sunday when ten hobbyists and collectors open their garage doors to the public for a fundraising trail that maps through Nelson and Richmond. Thousands of beer bottles, once made to case alcohol, now stored away in a garage and worth hundreds of dollars to collectors will be on display at one of ten stopovers with others showcasing model railways, Model T Fords, trucks and tractors, speed bikes, tools, and much more. Lindsay Jukes has thousands of collectables, including bottle openers, patent cures and medicine bottles, glass cups and locally designed tea pots, although his first passion was for beer bottles. The most staggering part of his collection is not the history of each brew or the fact they survived a hen house fire in the ‘80s, but the amount of money other people are willing to buy them for. The
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