30 September 2020

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Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated

Wednesday 30 September 2020

Summer Motoring

Rescue Helicopter starts appeal Page 5

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SH6 closed sensibly

Kohatu Park race track is the future

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Trout season begins tomorrow

Matt McCrorie

Jacob Page

Reporter

matt@waimeaweekly.co.nz

The trout season begins tomorrow and thousands of Kiwis will be heading to their favourite river or lake for the much-awaited start of the new fishing season. Jacob Lucas from Fish & Game says, “Every river you cross, or lake for that matter, is an opportunity to catch some of our world-renowned trout, and there’s no better time to hit the road and see our wonderful country - fishing rod in hand, of course.”

A busy stretch of the State Highway 6, south of Nelson, will be closed in the last week of the school holidays. Motorists will be looking at a longer journey, with the 30km section of SH6 between Motupiko and the Kawatiri Junction closed off for nearly two weeks by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, from Monday October 5 to Saturday October 17. A 62km detour will be in place. Heading south, turn left at the Belgrove Tavern, and continue along Korere-Tophouse Rd, through Kikiwa, past St Arnaud and on to SH63, before coming back on to SH6 at the Kawatiri Junction. NZTA says that the detour route is approved for HPMV/ 50MAX vehicles (high productivity motor vehicles/ large trucks and trailers). “Waka Kotahi’s Tasman Journeys highways maintenance team needs to upgrade two culvert pipes badly damaged in the Glenhope storm in November last year,” says Andrew James, system manager Waka Kotahi for Nelson and Marlborough. Along with the culvert replacement, guardrail will be replaced, as well as shoulder widening, pavement repairs, water channel clearing, and cleaning of signs undertaken to make sure the road is safe for summer. Andrew says that members of the highway maintenance team agreed with the Murchison and Districts community board on the timing of the closure, and when it would have the least impact. “This included consideration of the closure’s

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Weesang parka with a tagged trout. The trout season begins tomorrow. Photo: Supplied.

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