Wright Bush News Today

Vickie Oldham writes a tribute to anthropologist Rosalyn Howard, who worked on a project to celebrate the history of the Newtown neighborhood.

The former All Black Leicester Rutledge has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to rugby and the Southland community.

Mayors are touring Southland this week in a bid to get rural people vaccinated against Covid-19.

Come Monday, Southland District mayor Gary Tong and Gore District mayor Tracy Hicks will start towing vaccine caravans throughout their districts with the help of health staff to get as many rural Southlanders jabbed as possible.

A train derailed in Southland on Monday morning. It will take about a week for KiwiRail to repair a track after a train derailed in Southland on Monday morning. KiwiRail is investigating what caused the derailment at Wright’s Bush, on the Ohai Invercargill line, between Thornbury and Makarewa. A KiwiRail spokesperson said eight wagons, each carrying two empty 20-foot containers designed to move coal, came off the tracks about 8.30am. READ MORE:

A large freight train has derailed in Wright's Bush, just outside of Invercargill and repairs to the track will take a week.

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