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Pirongia boardwalk construction is a summer job, and four year-13 students from Te Awamutu College volunteer for the last week, March 14 - 18. Here's Ashleigh Cassin. |
. . . and Emma Peake. |
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. . . and Helene Trentesaux, an exchange student from Belgium |
and Oona Lagstrom from Finland, cutting non-slip geogrid with Helene. |
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The whole team, with construction manager Noel Sandford in the orange hard hat. |
End of day. |
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| Oona washes her hair in the boot tub, with assistance from Helene. | The evening meal at Pahautea Hut. By the end of this shift, the 3 student teams had completed 71 metres of new boardwalk. April is reckoned as too wet to work, and the project will continue in January 2006. | |
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Te Araroa Waikato Trust and Te Araroa Trust thanks the team from Te Awamutu College, also John Arthur for use of his Pirongia farm as a staging post, and project funders the Perry Foundation, Trust Waikato, WEL Energy, Sky City Hamilton, Gallaghers Group, and Waikato DoC. |
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