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Carterton
Every person 12 years + can now have their Covid-19 vaccination
The Departmental Building clinic closes at 1:00pm. The last booking there is 12:30pm. Afternoon clinics are held at Colombo Road netball courts, from 1:30pm.
If you have limited mobility, need a longer appointment time, or require any extra assistance during your vaccination, please tell one of our staff as soon as you arrive. Translation and sign services need to be arranged when you book.
Departmental Building
35 - 37 Chapel Street Masterton - beside Subway Monday - Saturday 8:30am -12:30pm Closes at 1:00pm
Colombo Rd Netball Courts Drive Thru Enter from the north - Te Ore Ore Road end Open Monday - Saturday afternoons Clinic 1: first car in 1:30pm, last car in 3:45pm Clinic 2*: first car 4:30pm, last car 7:15pm* * No bookings needed from 4:30pm
Tekau Mā Iwa
Featherston
Community Centre, 14 Wakefield Street Open Monday - Saturday Clinic 1: 10:00am - 1:30pm Clinic 2: 2:30pm - 6:45pm
• Please wear your mask • Leave your dogs at home or secure them in the car • Bookings are preferred. All clinics take non-booked people. Non-booked queues will likely be longer • Expect a delay - bring water and snacks as needed • No vaping or smoking anywhere on site in any clinic • Wear loose fitting clothing to allow your upper arm closest to the car door to be bare for the vaccination • There's a compulsory 15 minute wait after vaccination
Book online or over the phone:
Call 0800 28 29 26 between 8am and 8pm any day of the week, or book online at www.BookMyVaccine.nz
You don't need to know your NHI number but it will make the process faster for you
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Keep up to date on the Wairarapa DHB website and facebook page
Tom Taylor
tom.taylor@age.co.nz
Martinborough has wrapped support around a family after a fi re left their rental home in tatters.
Brett McCall and his four young boys lost many of their belongings, including clothes, food, and kitchen appliances, in a fi re on August 27.
In the week after the fi re, property owner Joe Howells had set up a Givealittle page to help the family get back on their feet.
By the time of publication, $5000 had been donated to the family through the page.
The fi re broke out on the morning of August 27 and had engulfed the house on Broadway St by the time emergency services arrived.
Five fi re trucks from the Martinborough, Featherston, Greytown, and Masterton brigades attended the fi re but could not save the house.
Howells said all tenants were out of the house at the time of the fi re.
The house had since been demolished.
“It was a hazard, with loose iron in the wind,” Howells said. “It really was a mess.”
Howells lived around the corner from the rental property and knew where the smoke was coming from as soon as he saw it.
“I shot around the corner and down the road, and I could see the brigade was already there. Flames were leaping out the windows. My fi rst reaction was, ‘My God, I hope there’s no-one in that place.’ That’s the main thing, that nobody was hurt. Property can be replaced.”
McCall and his family had moved into temporary accommodation in Martinborough after the fi re and were now looking for a permanent place to stay.
Howells had set up the Givealittle page to help the family replace their clothes and household goods.
“I was quite pleased – I hadn’t used Givealittle before and I was pretty amazed at the community response.”
The Martinborough Lions Club, of which Howells was a member, donated $500 to boost donations up to the target of $5000.
“It’s the sort of thing that a service club should help out with: a family in need where an unforeseen event has come across their path and put them in a diffi cult situation,” Howells said.
Howells had bought the property as a strategic business investment but had not insured the house.
“While we would rather that the house was still there, the fact that it’s not is not a major loss for us. We’ll move on, and fi gure out what to do next with
The rental house in Martinborough was declared a write-off after it was severely damaged by ÿ re. PHOTO/FILE
the site.”
Martinborough fi re chief Jake Hawkins said the fi re had quickly gutted the interior of the house and burned the roof cavity.
“It appeared to be a fault in the fl ue on the chimney,” Hawkins said. “It looked as though the heat shield had been getting very hot up against the back of the wall, and it caused the wall to catch fi re.”
McCall said the community’s support had given his family hope.
“Thank you to Joe and to all those who have donated,” McCall said. “We are extremely grateful.”
To donate, visit givealittle.co.nz/cause/ family-struggling-after-ahouse-fi re
Road repaired at contractor’s expense
PHOTO/FILE
Emily Ireland
emily.ireland@age.co.nz
Repairs to Masterton’s Chapel St were made recently, at the cost of the contractor.
In June, the road began rapidly deteriorating, causing concern for road safety advocates.
At the time, AA Wairarapa chairman Craig Bowyer said Chapel St averaged up to 20,000 vehicles on it each day and that it was simply a matter of time before a motorist or cyclist was injured due to the fast-forming potholes.
New Zealand Transport Agency [NZTA] maintenance and operations manager Mark Owen said heavy rainfall exacerbated damage to the more vulnerable areas.
The section of Chapel St directly beside Pak’nSave was last resurfaced in 2005, while a section further along from this was resurfaced in 2017.
Owen said this week’s repairs were done at the cost of the contractor.
He could not disclose the cost.
“Any rework on this type of repair is typically at the cost of the contractor, unless there are issues beyond their control that have contributed to the issues requiring the rework.
“We are currently working with our contractors to refi ne our strategy for addressing both short-term [things like potholes or other surface repairs] and longer-term [rehabilitation of the road surface] maintenance along this section of Chapel St.”
Currently, almost all of Chapel St was scheduled for resurfacing within the next three years, with plans to rebuild some sections.
NZTA undertook regular temporary pothole repairs during winter, followed by permanent repairs in summer when conditions were more suitable.
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