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Wednesday 6 August 2014
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Thieves Kids target local get businesses
Thieves were so neat and fast when they removed large shopfront windows to steal $8500 worth of equipment from two Richmond businesses, the robberies went unnoticed by security guards and staff. About $2500 worth of electrical equipment was stolen from BNT in Richmond on June 24 and three days later a $6500 motorcycle was stolen from Morley Motorcycle and Marine in Wakatu Estate in Stoke. The burglars gained entry to both businesses by removing a shopfront window and Morley’s managing director Ian Robinson says the burglars were so tidy, staff and customers didn’t notice anything was wrong until two days later. “The alarm went off at 4.23 in the morning and our security company was there four minutes later but they didn’t notice anything obvious was wrong,” Ian says. “I went to
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work in the morning and we didn’t notice anything either a lot of sensors had been triggered but we thought it was just an alarm malfunction. “But then the next day we were having a meeting and one of the guys noticed there was a stand with no bike in it. That’s when we realised the bike and window were missing and that we’d been robbed. “We’d had customers in all day and none of them noticed either - one of them said ‘it’s cold in here’ but that was all. We even had to point out the missing window to the police when they arrived.” Ian says the 1.8 metre wide by 0.8 metre high window was hidden behind some trees next to their building. “It would be quite a mission to
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head start
Chloe Fauchelle, 4, of the Richmond Early Learning Centre, at a swimming lesson at the ASB Aquatic Centre. Photo: Phillip Rollo. Most of us will remember trips to the swimming pool during school time, but not many will be able to remember doing the same when we were just four years old and still at pre-school. Well, children from the Richmond Early Learning Centre have been getting their weekly “school time” swimming lessons in a year early, partnering-up with the ASB Aquatic and Fitness Centre’s Swim
Magic programme. Lisa Stove, the Nelson region coordinator for Swim Magic, says Water Safety New Zealand statistics show that there are still huge numbers of intermediate-age children who can’t swim 200m, and she hopes getting them in early will go a long way to improving those statistics. Most of the schools in the region have regular swimming lessons at
the facility, but this is the first time that children from early childhood education have joined up. “Our catchphrase is that it takes a long time for a child to learn their ABCs, well it takes just as long to learn to swim to save yourself,” says Lisa. “We just want to start their water confidence early. There’s no best age to start swimming, it’s just as early as possible, it’s all about water familiarisation.”
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