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Wednesday 30 October 2024
Feasting for Halloween
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Claudia returns to Richmond
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New speed limits hit road block MAX FRETHEY
Local Democracy Reporter
Just a year after being asked what they think of lower speed limits, Tasman residents may be asked all over again. The revelation comes after Trans-
port Minister Simeon Brown’s new Setting of Speed Limits Rule would require speed limits adopted but not yet in force – with the speed signs up – by 30 October to be reversed. This is despite the region’s speed management plan being consult-
ed on last summer, submitted on by more than 2200 people, adopted in July, certified by NZTA last week, and most of its speed limits being in-line with those in the rule. The lower variable speed limits around schools are not affected
by the new rule, but it leaves the future of more than a hundred Tasman roads uncertain. The rule was causing “extreme frustration” for Tasman’s deputy mayor and regional transport committee chair Stuart Bryant. “We were hoping for a bit more
flexibility from the Government, and it seems they’ve made it more complicated than it needed to be,” he says. “I would like to push back [on the Minister] because of the time
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Wakey Bakey owner hanging up her apron ANNE HARDIE Trish Sullivan’s team of bakers can churn out 1,000 pies a day from the Wakefield Bakery and after 14 years at the heart of the village, she’s ready to hand her recipes over to a new owner. It was only going to be a four-month stint when she says she became a silent partner with her baker son, Steven, initially helping him establish the business before she returned to the Kapiti Coast. Fourteen years later, she is still in the bakery and the business has grown to 25 fulltime employees that operate a 24/7 business and has affectionately become known as the Wakey Bakey. “It was a six-person business back then and three of them were schoolgirls. I was serving at the counter and making filled rolls.
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Trish Sullivan planned to spend four months at the Wakefield Bakery and has stayed 14 years. Photo: Anne Hardie.
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