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“It was very old and scary, because the teacher had a strap,” Sage Nelson​ said. “Some kids brought pigs and sheep to school, and the naughty kids had to pick up all the poop,” Dean Phillips​ said. “If you brought a horse to school and left it there, you had to pick its poop up at morning tea,” Blake Beattie​ said. He added that because they “didn't have phones, they had to have neat writing so people could read it, and so they could send messages to their mum and dad”. Helen Nickisson/Stuff The Tuamarina School near Blenheim will celebrate their 150th year of existen...

The changes include 500m of Hunter Rd and 500m of Blind Creek Rd reducing from 80kmh to 60kmh. Campbells Rd and Cotterill St had reduced from 100kmh to 40kmh. Speeds on several other roads across the region had also been reduced, including in Blenheim and Picton. The new speed limits were the result of amendments to the existing council bylaw following the Local Road Speed Limits bylaw review. Tua Marina pupil Henry Nott, 10, said it was great the speed limit had changed, because it was less dangerous. “When it is in school hours, people can go quite fast. It can be dangerous,” Henry ...