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Wednesday 22 April 2015
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Students get taste of war The reality of fighting in the trenches at Gallipoli was graphically illustrated at Richmond School on Monday when children were given an interactive tour of an Anzac-themed display set up in the school grounds. During term two each year, the school focuses on one topic as part of their enquiry learning. This year the topic is Aotearoa and each week teachers focus on a specific subject, this week’s topic being Anzac Day. Its aim is to give children authentic learning experiences as opposed to just looking at pictures in a book and the Gallipoli display certainly exceeded expectations. The amazing collection of items included a WWI military ambulance and Jeep provided by Roger and Dot Humphries, a replica Vickers machine gun, original WWI rifles supplied by RSA
member Stuart Mirfin and army uniforms while teacher Nicole Lams brought her family’s Gallipoli medals. School caretaker Dean Wilkinson also found the school’s Roll of Honour and gave it a coat of varnish so it could be displayed outside an army tent guarded by pupils Lochy Mirfin and Matthew Galletly who were dressed in WWI New Zealand and Turkish army uniforms. Lochy says he couldn’t believe that one of the soldiers shown in a photo in the display was only 15. “He lied about his age to get in the army,” Lochy says. “He’s only five years older than me and he went to war - it’s really scary. Lochy says his great, great, great uncle Darcy was killed at Gallipoli.
Richmond School’s Quinn Heiford is stretched off the battle field by Roger and Dot Humphries at the school’s Anzac Day display. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Richmond roads ‘not working’
Commuters are using Richmond’s residential streets as state highways as they continue to avoid the traffic lights on Gladstone Rd and the problem will only get worse with key commercial developments planned for the town. That was one of the conclusions in the Tasman Regional Land Transport Plan for 2015-2021 presented to the Tasman District Council at their meeting last Thursday. The report concludes that
State Highway 6 is “often congested” during peak traffic and that the internal ring road around Richmond’s town centre was “starting to show signs of inefficiency”. As a result, drivers are using residential streets as “state highways’ to avoid the congestion with figures showing significant increases in traffic on Hill St, Champion Rd and Hart Rd since the lights were installed on Gladstone Rd between 2009 and 2010.
Simon Bloomberg
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simon@waimeaweekly.co.nz Richmond councillor Judene Edgar says the report simply tells residents what they already know but admits there’s no easy answer. “Champion Rd, Hill St and Bateup Rd are residential roads and they are being used
as state highways - they are Richmond’s avoidance ring-road,” Judene says. “I know people from Golden Bay who drive straight through the roundabout at Three Brother’s Corner and go up Bateup Rd and along Wensley Rd to get to Richmond or Nelson and avoid the lights.” Judene says the traffic problems on the narrow Bateup Rd are going to get worse
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