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Coming together . . . The new Waimate High School Opportunities Project has provided a special opportunity for the community to be more involved with the school. Pictured are: (From back left) Waimate High School pupil Jaden Meynell (17), project chairman Ryan Luckman, pupils Jack Gillespie (15), Jack Farrell (16). (From front left) Waimate High School deputy principal Kellie Tagiaia, pupils Lucy Matheson (13) and Georgia Soper (14), Waimate District Charitable Foundation Raewyn Francis and Waimate High School principal Janette Packman. PHOTO: KAYLA HODGE
A new funding project is aiming to strengthen the bond between Waimate High School and the wider community.
The Waimate High School Opportunities Project has been launched to increase learning opportunities for the school’s pupils through funding various ventures in the community involving Waimate High School pupils.
School buses travelling outside a school district are not available to all students. (File photo)
A shortage of seats on a Waimate to Timaru school bus is causing rising stress levels for some parents of students who have piggybacked the service in past years. In the past the students have filled spare seats to mainstream high schools such as Timaru Girls High School (TGHS) and Timaru Boys High School (TBHS) on buses that take students to state integrated schools such as Roncalli College (Catholic) and Craighead Diocesan School (Anglican). However, an increase in Waimate students catching the Ministry of Education (MoE) supplied bus service to the integrated schools for 2021 is set to leave main stream students without transport causing discussions on social media from parents of the bus-less children seeking a solution before the school year starts next week.
Veitch, 68, spent the next four years in an apprenticeship and qualified as a general mechanic. “We worked on Holdens, Vauxhalls and Bedfords.” That was before some key changes in the motoring industry towards the end of the 1970s and ‘80s, he said. “Electric ignition was the first lot of it, it was the start of new technology. “It was a shift in technology.”
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Colin Veitch door-knocked Gib Staite Motors, now White Horse Motors, on December 18, 1970, looking for a job. Veitch said he undertook a few courses to keep up with technological advancements. The early computers were big machines, he said.
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