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Wednesday 18 January 2012
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The Roding River has missed out on close to 50,000 users this season and it is not the only summer hot spot jeopordised, as the December flood continues to have a detrimental effect on the Tasman region. Aniseed Valley Rd remains closed off to all public access meaning the usually populated river holes are forced vacant. Last year, the Roding River in Aniseed Valley had an estimated peak of 1600 visitors on one day, according to a study conducted by the Tasman District Council last year. The study also estimated that a total 46,000 users visited in the site throughout the summer season. A private commercial road owned by a local forestry company is the only thing allowing residents access to their homes, which council says is main priority in the recovery stages of the flood. But it remains com-
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pletely closed off to all other members of the public. Tasman District Council’s transportation manager Gary Clark urges the general public to find other spots to swim in until the road is reopened, which could be as early as this week. “Mead Rd is a private road and the owners have been very accommodating in allowing access until essential engineering works are completed on Aniseed Valley Rd,” says Gary. There have been a number of circumstances already where members of the public have used Mead Rd to access the recreational areas and have blocked off the road to trucks by parking on the road’s edge. “Until the Valley Rd is restored, people are asked to refrain from using the road unless they are residents or are representatives of the owners of the road itself.” Slopes need to be stablised
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Zayden Hodgson dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on horse Stanley Brook What a Fright, competing in the fancy dressed ponies competition at the Tapawera Show. Photo: Jonathan McKeown.
Tapawera show a classic A crowd of 4000 people turned out for what was a “fantastic day out” at the Tapawera Show Day. There were so many stalls, displays and events on “you’d never get round them all” says Daniel Newport, president of the Tapawera Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural
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Club. The highlights included, the country fare, gold panning, medieval archery, dog trials, shearing competitions, wood chopping, show jumping, sheep racing, a World War II battle re-enactment, a monster lolly scramble and ‘tug of war with a twist.’
The ‘twist’ was supposed to be that the 80 odd children involved were opposing a vintage tractor, but there was more to it than met the eye. Roger Carlton set up the popular event with Ellis Hodgkinson driving a 1950 Mc-
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