Selwyn_Times: August 23, 2023

Selwyn Times Wednesday August 23 2023
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NEWS
Enforcing
speed limits
Reader’s letter
Is the 40km speed limit in
Prebbleton township ever likely to
be enforced?
At present it is an absolute
joke and appears to have been a
complete waste of money even
putting the signs up.
The majority of traffic belts
through the town average 60km
plus and God help you if you are
one of the very few who actually
travel at the posted limit as
you will invariably have some aggressive,
intimidating ignoramus
right on your tail.
Some speed cameras and speed
bumps would go a long way to
enforce the speed limit and also
make it safer for crossing Springs
Rd, which is an exercise in taking
your life in your hands these days.
- C Struthers
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‘Yellow Cat is alive!’ – Family
hastily buries wrong pet
• By Nathan Morton
A WEST Melton family was
shocked to discover they buried
the wrong cat after their beloved
tabby wandered in soon after a
hasty burial, leaving the owners
wondering whose cat they just
lowered into the ground.
The mother has made a plea
on social media asking if
anybody knows who owns the
dead cat her family mistook for
their own.
Belle Wallace-Cochrane said
she was putting her son to bed
last week when her neighbour
called her with devastating news.
“She says, ‘I think I saw your
cat on the side of the road.’
“I live on a country road, so
traffic is fast and I figured she
must have been hit by a car.”
Wallace-Cochrane walked
outside in the cold and dark
with rain pouring down to find
a ginger tabby lying dead on the
side of the road.
She immediately thought it was
their pet, Yellow Cat.
She checked the cat’s head,
looked at its face and determined
quickly it was their pet.
“I didn’t pick it up, because
that’s gross, but I went inside and
told my husband and said ‘You
need to go and get the cat’.”
Her husband and their third
child, Lucas, collected the dead
cat and placed it in a box.
An informal funeral was held
in the rain as a hole was dug
and the box was buried on their
property.
Wallace-Cochrane was inside
when she heard Lucas run inside
with news from the grave.
“He came running in and
yelled, ‘Yellow Cat is alive!’. I said
he must be joking – he’s always
telling jokes.”
As it turned out, Yellow Cat
had made a last-minute cameo
as the backyard funeral wrapped
up, possibly wondering what all
the fuss was about.
– NZ Herald
BACK FROM THE DEAD: The Wallace-Cochrane family’s pet,
Yellow Cat. The family buried a cat they thought was Yellow
Cat, only for the ginger tabby to turn up. Now they want to
know whose pet they buried. PHOTO: NZ HERALD
SPEED
Not the cause but the KILLER