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Wednesday 2 August 2023
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Students miss out in eBus timetable ANNE HARDIE A Wakefield parent is dumbfounded that the new electric bus timetable will be of little use to those school students heading to Nelson schools each morning and paying up to $50 per week to
get there on another bus. Kim Salmon says she was looking forward to eBus arriving in Wakefield as they have one child at Nelson College for Girls and another two children who will head to schools in Nelson in coming years.
Students heading to Nelson from Wakefield cannot use the Ministry of Education-funded school buses to their nearest school and now pay Nelson Coachlines $7 for a one-way trip or $10 for a return trip. The new eBus fares from Wake-
field to Nelson is $2 one way from August 1, but the new timetable has buses leaving Wakefield just after 7am and then almost 9am. A Tasman District Council spokesperson says the bus service was designed initially to assist with commuting traffic for peo-
ple who do not have alternative transport options, whereas the Ministry of Education runs services for school children. But Kim says students heading to Nelson schools pay their own
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WW2 code cracker turns 100 JO KENT Nadine Millen is the first person in the region to have received a letter from the King, when she turned 100 last weekend. The Wakefield centenarian says the secret to her longevity is not worrying about things she can’t control. “I’ve always accepted that if I can’t change something, or make something right, I won’t worry about it. I think that’s helped an awful lot over the years. I’ve had a very fulfilled life and have no regrets.” Born in Kent, England, in 1923, she signed up to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAFs) in 1939, aged just 16. “I was still only young when I went to London to join the WAAFs at the beginning of
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Nadine Millen says the secret to a long life is having a hobby. Photo: Jo Kent.
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