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Wednesday 30 July 2014
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Shots fired on popular walkway Hearing shotguns echoing in the air, and coming across dying piglets on the track, wasn’t what one Richmond man expected when he was walking his dogs last week. The man -- who didn’t want to be named -- believes walkways in the Dellside Reserve, up Kingsland Forest, are attracting hunting and poaching, and he hopes it will end before someone is hurt. He says he saw a man walking with a rifle and hunting dogs, three weeks after seeing another person in a ute with open dog boxes on the back. He also saw three “half eaten” piglets. He had reported all incidents to Tasman District Council. “They were half eaten, it was a bloody ugly sight but they were still on the track, just off where you walk. If I was a young girl and saw that I’d probably throw up,” he says. “It’s obvious that pig hunting is going on, they must’ve got the
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mother and the piglets didn’t survive the attack.” The last incident was when he spotted a hunter with a rifle in a sleeve slung over his shoulder and heard gunshots shortly after. “It was about 9.39am, I heard ‘kaboom!’, you could hear it right up the valley. It was definitely a shot gun. It’s only 200 yards from the houses on a reserve where there are heaps of people.” Tasman District Council’s reserves officer Stephen Richards says while permits can be granted for hunting, the Kingsland Forest area was not one of them, and this case was “very unusual”. “It’s a unique situation and I’d very much like to chat with the person who is involved. We take this very serious, it’s not some
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Ching Contracting’s Ollie Biggs won the Humes Young Achiever Award at the Nelson-Marlborough New Zealand Contractors Federation Awards held in Nelson last Saturday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Hope contractor wins young achiever award Hope’s Ollie Biggs, who won the Humes Young Achiever Award at the Nelson Marlborough Contractors Federation annual awards held at the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson on Saturday night, says the award is a reflection of his employer’s commitment to staff training programmes. Ollie has become a key member of Ching Contracting’s team since joining the Stoke-based company after finishing school seven years
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ago and has completed a number of qualifications, including National Certificate in Infrastructure pipe-laying level three. Ollie is presently studying for National Certificate in Water Service and says Ching’s has a policy of “encouraging their staff to gain new qualifications.”
“I have always been interested in machinery and my parents encouraged me to get a trade, so this is a perfect job for me. I like working outdoors and there’s always plenty of variety too.” Ollie is the principal operator of Ching’s new five-tonne excavator and has been second-in-charge at a number of construction sites. He also gained experience as site
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