Howick and Pakuranga Times, June 20, 2019

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An aerial shot of Musick Point, covered in a thick blanket of fog last Friday, June 14. It was shot by local aerial photography company, Sky View Photography, at 9.30am from a height of 120 metres using a DJI P4P Drone. The fog hung low over Auckland, Wellington and much of the South Island causing flight cancellations and chaos on the motorways. Photo supplied: Sky View Photography

e Uho te Nikau Primary School’s pleas for help have been answered. The Howick local Board has allocated more than $500,000 in funding to build a temporary pedestrian bridge on Flat Bush School Road to provide safe access to the primary school. This follows 11 months of discussions between the school, Auckland Transport (AT) and the Howick Local Board on ways to improve safety conditions for students walking to and from the new school. The current bridge access to the school is narrow with no footpaths. Board of Trustees chair Karen Gibson pleaded with the board at Monday night’s board meeting to make a decision on a new and safe pedestrian bridge. “We need to see the board moving decisively tonight to remedy the daily situation where five-year-old pedestrians continue to dice with 3m wide concrete trucks on a 7.5m wide bridge as they walk to and from school every day,” she said. Soon after, as set out on the agenda, the board agreed to use $520,000 from

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