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Monday December 1, 2014
Milk monitored at Lyall Bay By Sam Duff A group of budding historians from Lyall Bay School have been trawling through the archives for a project on milk in school. Milk was provided free to most New Zealand school children between 1937 and 1967 under a government programme. In 2013 Fonterra started a Milk for Schools programme which works alongside 72 per cent of New Zealand schools to give free milk to 170,000 kids a day. Anita Pownall, 10, says the group looked at two sides of the programme, the early version and the
MILK HISTORIANS: Lyall Bay School students, back left, Anita Pownall, 10, Lily Teahen, 10, and Isaiah Opai, 10, with, front left, Eva Gibson, 10, Asha Pulepule, 9, Maya Hatchwell, 10, and Tommy Barnett, 10. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff
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enjoyed learning about why the programme originally ended in 1967. “It stopped because people were getting sick,” she says. “The milk was left out in the sun and it got disgusting so people would throw-up.” Eva Gibson, 10, says parents have to sign permission slips these days before students at Lyall Bay School can have milk. “I like the way it’s really cold and sometimes it’s nice on a hot day.” The students interviewed older teachers who could remember milk in schools from their younger days. Their findings were presented at a technology expo and are available at www.livingheritage.org.nz
Road an accident waiting to happen - residents By Sam Duff A Mornington intersection is an accident waiting to happening for walkers, according to a group of locals who are encouraging the council to fix the problem. Local man Caleb Carnie says a crossing is needed to connect Mornington to MacAlister Park just before the Britomart Street meets Farnham Street. Walkers doing the Te Araroa National Walkway and the City to Sea walkway have to cross just before the intersection to Mornington and it is incredibly dangerous, Caleb says. “It’s not a top priority yet because nobody has died,” he
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says. “I have seen people down there who have a pram and a dog, what a nightmare.” The intersection is partly blind for pedestrians looking to see if there are any vehicles coming. Cars also often speed through the intersection, Caleb says. “It’s super busy.” Caleb says in an ideal world it would be nice to have the entire crossing area redesigned with pedestrians in mind. “What we would like is a pedestrian crossing with curve drops,” he says. A raised platform in the centre of the road, signs and speed bumps are ideas that residents have discussed. The road is very busy and
many kids try to cross it when there are sports on at MacAlister Park and after school, Matthew says. “Kids are crossing there constantly.” Ellen Blake, from Living Streets Aotearoa, says people cannot currently safely cross the road. She says a pedestrian crossing may not be the best solution as it may just giving pedestrians a false sense of security without it actually being any safer. Caleb and other residents organised a petition, which attracted 72 signatures, and has been given to the Transport and Urban Development committee at the council to review.
DANGEROUS CROSSING: Mornington resident Caleb Carnie with neighbour Matthew Sole and son Josh. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff
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new one. What made it more interesting was that Lyall Bay School was the first Wellington school to be part of the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme, Anita says. The work the students produced has been uploaded to the Living Heritage website, a history resource put together by youngsters from New Zealand and the pacific. Asha Pulepule, 9, says the children all finished the project with plenty of knowledge about milk in schools. “When we first started looking at it, it wasn’t that interesting but then we dug deeper,” Asha says. Maya Hatchwell, 10, says she
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