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Council has confirmed the preferred option is to invest $39.4 million of a $52.5m total budget – including $12.9m of third party funding - for the museum between 2021–2026. Its preferred location remains Queens Park at this stage and the plan is that the redeveloped museum will be opened no later than 2026-27. The purpose of the governance group is to create “a unique and compelling vision for the museum that will define the nature of the service for the community of Invercargill and solidify its role in the Southland region”. Council leisure and recreation group manager Steve Gibling said Williams had the ideal business and public sector acumen, and museum sector knowledge, to chair the governance group.
Invercargill Central Ltd project director Geoff Cotton has confirmed they're on schedule to get the Farmers department store and surrounding retail stores open in 12 months.
He had made a lot of phone calls to get tradies along and he would make even more ahead of next year’s event, he said. He noted: “Builders are screaming out for people and a lot of boys are really keen on building, so I want to connect them to a builder.” The trades expo was the first the school had held and it would become an annual event, given about 70 per cent of boys’ high students got jobs in the trades, Marsh said.
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Southern Institute of Technology school of advanced engineering technology programme manager Carlo Gabriel talks to students, from left, Tommy Tawhai, 16, Johannes Boersen, 16, Hunter Campbell, 16, Jack Johnston, 16, Josh Kubrycht-Ellis, 17, and Ben Stewart, 16 at the Southland Boys’ High School trades expo on Friday.
Trevor Wilkey, a former policeman and motor mechanic, joined MenzShed three months ago after moving from Bluff to Invercargill. News of the engineering department opening delighted him as he will be donating equipment to it. He has no room in his town house to set up a workshop and is pleased to share his gear. The camaraderie at MenzShed made it enjoyable, Wilkey said. Assistant manager Nick Sarisa said MenzShed gave members a place to form friendships, help each other on projects and learned new ways to do things. It’s a place retired people can go to, he said.