16 April 2014

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Waimea Weekly

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RSA needs your help The Richmond-Waimea RSA is encouraging members of the public to carry small change on Thursday, as the annual Poppy Day fundraiser appears to have declined in recent years, with less people having cash on them. Poppy Day has been part of the New Zealand calendar since 1922, making it one of the oldest nationwide appeals. All of the money raised in Nelson-Tasman will stay in the region, and be used for RSA welfare to support ex-service people like Rex

Waters, who fought in World War 2. “They can help with the medical bills. Once you get past 90 years old you want a little bit of help sometimes,” he says. “As you get older you get more things wrong with you. I’m just waiting to go for a cataract now.” Rex, who was born in the Tutaki Valley near Murchison, flew Lancaster aeroplanes in England during 19431945. Volunteers will be on Queen St, outside Kmart and in the Richmond Mall, selling poppies this Thursday.

Rex Waters and Terry Richardson of the Richmond-Waimea RSA ahead of Poppy Day. Photo: Phillip Rollo.

‘Sneaky strategy’ threatens school Salisbury School in Richmond is under threat from a "sneaky and underhand" strategy aimed at "strangling the school by stealth", according to Nelson-based Labour MP Maryan Street. Last week the Waimea Weekly revealed that Salisbury School's roll is falling at an alarming rate with just 17 students left and another four expected to leave at the end of this term. wheelchairs mobility scooters walker/canes electric beds and hoists lift assist chairs bathroom solutions incontinence products daily living aids/products

That represents a significant decline with the roll falling from 71 at the same time in 2011 to 43 in 2012 and just 21 last year and Maryan says she is shocked by those numbers. "I went to the school's last barbecue for the season last Thursday and discovered what the roll was now. I was very shocked, especially as it was blindingly obvious that if the school was given the chance to respond to the huge list of peo-

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simon@waimeaweekly.co.nz ple wanting to get into the school, the roll would be much higher." The Ministry of Education controls enrolments at Salisbury School and last week it confirmed that there have only been seven

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new students enrolled within the last year. Maryan says the by the Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, had already tried and failed to close the school, replacing it with a community-based wrap-around education service that involved sending some of the girls to a boys residential college in Halswell in Christchurch.

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