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Tense Whale Trail talks reveal residents 'petrified' of hitting cyclists stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SUPPLIED/Marlborough Express The proposed Whale Trail, in red, uses the stopbank behind properties in Tuamarina before joining SH1. The other option, sticking to the stopbank, in orange, needed landowners on board. It looked liked the wheels were finally in motion last year when the project received $18 million from the Government, putting it on the post-Covid “shovel-ready” list. But turning the first sod could be a ways away yet in Tuamarina. Residents aren’t happy with the route, which would take cyclists along the stopbank at the back of their houses, before taking a hard right at the community hall and left onto SH1 for 50 metres. ....
'It's not as easy as it looks': Blenheim croquet player set for nationals stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scott Hammond/Stuff Gas powered “bird bangers” are being dragged out the shed to scare birds away from grapes before harvest. Vineyards using gas-powered “bangers” to scare birds off ripening grapes are asked to check them as malfunctions can produce “a fireball” in dry grass. With parts of Marlborough reaching “dry” and “very dry” on Niwa’s drought index this month, coinciding with the start of the grape harvest, a spark from a bird banger could set a grass fire off to a roaring start. Scott Hammond/Stuff Starlings hunt for grapes to eat above vineyards near Renwick in Marlborough. ....