Southern View: September 05, 2017
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4 Tuesday <strong>September</strong> 5 <strong>2017</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
News<br />
Fooling about<br />
leads to shocks<br />
at Hillmorton High<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
TOMFOOLERY PUT three high<br />
school students in hospital after<br />
they received electric shocks.<br />
The Hillmorton High School<br />
students were taken to Christchurch<br />
Hospital last Tuesday after receiving<br />
electric shocks during a woodwork<br />
class. The students were back in<br />
class by Wednesday morning.<br />
School staff called an ambulance<br />
after the trio showed up at the sick<br />
bay reporting their injuries. St John<br />
arrived at the school on Tankerville<br />
Rd at about 12.14pm.<br />
Principal Ann Brokenshire said,<br />
although the boys were able to walk,<br />
the school did not “muck around”<br />
considering the nature of the incident.<br />
However, Ms Brokenshire said it<br />
was caused by “tomfoolery” from<br />
the students.<br />
“This is what happens when<br />
you fool around with a chord in a<br />
socket,” she said.<br />
The classroom was shut down<br />
following the incident, as the power<br />
immediately went out. WorkSafe<br />
has now deemed it safe to reopen.<br />
While the school would ensure<br />
the students learn the consequences<br />
of their actions, Ms Brokenshire<br />
said: “Our main concern is, of<br />
course, the health and well-being of<br />
the students.”<br />
Wastewater work will affect traffic<br />
WESTMORLAND residents<br />
are being warned to expect<br />
traffic delays in the coming<br />
weeks.<br />
The city council is about to<br />
start on the new south-east<br />
Halswell wastewater project in<br />
the area.<br />
Traffic delays will affect<br />
motorists between the Cashmere<br />
Rd and Penruddock Rise<br />
intersection and the south end<br />
of Hendersons Rd.<br />
City council project manager<br />
Kylie Hills said stop-go traffic<br />
control would be put in place at<br />
the Cashmere Rd and Penruddock<br />
Rise intersection, and at<br />
two pipe-trench road crossings<br />
in and near the Hendersons Rd<br />
and Cashmere Rd intersection.<br />
“We’re asking those that<br />
travel through this area to allow<br />
an extra five minutes for their<br />
journeys,” she said.<br />
But Ms Hills assured the city<br />
council would get the work<br />
done as quickly as possible.<br />
“While there will be some<br />
disruption to motorists the<br />
long-term benefits to local residents<br />
in the area will outweigh<br />
the traffic delays in the short<br />
term.”<br />
The Cashmere Rd branch<br />
of the South East Halswell<br />
Wastewater scheme will divert<br />
ROADWORKS: Traffic delays are likely between the Cashmere Rd and Penruddock Rise<br />
intersection and the south end of Hendersons Rd over the coming weeks. <br />
flows from Westmorland to a<br />
new pump station being built<br />
on Sparks Rd.<br />
This will take wastewater<br />
flows away from older<br />
downstream infrastructure<br />
and into other parts of the<br />
network.<br />
It will allow at risk infrastructure<br />
to be renewed without<br />
interruption of residents’<br />
wastewater services as well as<br />
increasing the capacity of the<br />
local network.<br />
The overall scheme involves<br />
constructing a pressure sewer<br />
network which is more than<br />
8km long and up to 450mm in<br />
diameter, along with constructing<br />
a new pump station on<br />
Sparks Rd and carrying out<br />
upgrades to existing pump<br />
stations.<br />
The wastewater pipelines<br />
are being constructed in three<br />
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