Roselyn Fauth News Today

South Canterbury children now have a multi-million-dollar playground that draws on art, history and culture to fire up their imaginations.

South Canterbury children now have a multi-million-dollar playground that draws on art, history and culture as well as fine design to fire up their...

An ambitious new playground proposed for Timaru’s Caroline Bay looks set to go ahead, with the committee behind the project announcing they have raised enough money to get the project underway.

Covid-19 restrictions have limited raffle selling opportunities, leaving Lions club members frantically peddling as many as they can to raise funds for a new playground at Caroline Bay.

The 270-odd people living in Timaru East can lay claim to having the highest vaccination rate in the South Canterbury District Health Board catchment area.

A former Compulsory Military Training (CMT) officer believes he may have partially solved the mystery of a Royal NZ Armoured Corps cap badge recently discovered at Patiti Point.

“The early whalers could have sung it waiting for the Wellerman,’’ Fauth said. The Wellerman referred to provision ships operated by the Weller brothers, Joseph, George and Edward, which supplied their whaling stations, two of them at Timarus Patiti Point and Caroline Bay in the late 1830s. The shanty was believed to have been written by a young whale station worker pining for ‘’sugar and tea and rum,’’ and recalling a whaling ship the Billy o Tea, and its encounters with a rig...