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Wednesday 23 November 2016
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Pie sales get big shake-up Simon Bloomberg Greymouth Star
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Pie, petrol and coffee sales in Murchison and St Arnaud have skyrocketed with traffic driving through the two small towns increasing by more than 2700 vehicles a day after last week’s massive 7.8 earthquake that closed State Highway 1 near Kaikoura. New Zealand Transport Agency figures show that 2700 vehicles, including 550 trucks, were travelling on SH1 between Christchurch and Picton every day. Those vehicles are now using the shortest alternative route through Murchison and St Arnaud, almost tripling the traffic volumes through those towns from 1500 to 4200 vehicles a day. And, if anything, that figure is an underestimate with NZTA spokesman Andy Knackstedt saying there will be “a larger number of trucks than the pre-quake
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It’s only been a week but we’ve had about three times the number of people through the store. - Elaine Richards.
counts as the rail freight traffic, which used to be carried along SH1, is transferred onto trucks.” Andy says the traffic numbers will also be boosted by the earthquake response and recovery traffic using the SH7 Murchison Highway. St Arnaud Alpine Store co-owner Elaine Richards says the impact of the closure of SH1 on their business has been huge with pie sales skyrocketing from 200 a week to 1000. Sales of fuel have also increased by around six-times and, for the first time, trucks are
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Florence, Wilfred, and big brother Douglas Miller lit up with priceless expressions as they rode the Ferris wheel at the Golden Edge Nelson A&P Show. Photo: Brittany Spencer.
Top year for A&P Show Brittany Spencer
Nelson’s A&P Show is just getting bigger. Last weekend’s show drew families, locals and tourists to the Richmond Show Ground for two days of competitions, fun, entertainment, and a fair bit of wind. A&P Association manager Annette Robinson says, despite the predicted weather hiccup, the show went off this year. “I’ve had people telling me they thought it was a fantastic show with everything that was here, there was
so much to do and see, and I know the RDA couldn’t get over how many people were lining up for horse and pony rides.” Annette says the show keeps growing year on year and isn’t showing any signs of slowing, with well over 12,000 people estimated to have flooded through the gates. “We won’t know how many people came through for another day but we’re expecting it to be well above last year’s numbers, both Saturday and Sunday were really busy so it should be a lot more.” Crowds drew towards the wood-
chopping, helicopter rides, strongman challenges, home brewing demonstrations and the shearing competition, but one of the humorous highlights of the show was definitely the terrier racing. “Two ran off, they knew what they were doing, but another one decided to lie down on the middle of the track and have a wee itch and another one was off having a pee somewhere which took a long time, and then another one just didn’t want to run so they had to coax him and he eventually came third, it was very funny.”
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