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Monday, 15 March 2021, 3:08 pm
Have you ever seen heavy machinery used to crack open a
beer, pour a cup of tea or slam dunk a basketball? Many of
these crowd-pleasing challenges will be on show in Feilding
later this week when New Zealand’s best excavator
operators compete for the national title at the Civil
Contractors New Zealand CablePrice National Excavator
Operator Competition.
The annual event, now in its
27th year, will take place on 19-20 March during the Central
Districts Field Days at Manfeild Park in Feilding. Eleven
regional competition winners from across New Zealand will
join defending champion Riki Lum as they are put through a
NZTA/STUFF
A first look at the full Transmission Gully road, due to open in September 2021. (First published in November 2020)
Plans for a merging lane extension to ease traffic between State Highway 1 and the southern end of Transmission Gully have been shelved by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. Without the 650-metre merge-lane extension at the point where Transmission Gully meets SH1 at Linden, experts fear massive congestion problems as the region’s population continues to grow. “It is a travesty if it doesn’t happen, and I hope they will ring-fence the money,” said Mike Noon, general manager of motoring affairs at the Automobile Association. “We don t want to have a huge bottleneck.”