But will the roll bars save lives or are farmers crashing due to diminished wellbeing and fatigue? Motor Industry Association chair Simon Meade shares his opinion and insights around providing a subsidy on a non-regulated standard.
Call for seatbelts on school buses after multiple crashes
Travelling on country school buses with no seatbelts is a fatal accident waiting to happen, a North Otago mother says.
After letters to the Prime Minister, Transport Minister and her local MP, frustrated Waitaki Valley resident Pip Cameron has only received generic replies back saying that there's not much they can do about it.
When Pip’s eldest daughter started school a few years ago she enquired with the local bus company if there were seatbelts on the school bus and the answer was no. Pip joins Sarah’s Country to talk about her frustration and why she will continue to drive her girls to school until changes are made.
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POLITICS: Winter grazing extension, finding 50K and hort harvest shortage
Following the winter grazing rules’ 12 months deferment by the Government, National Party agriculture spokesperson David Bennett explains why Parker had no choice but to defer the regulations.
Bennett will also give his position on how the restriction of covid-free Pacific Island RSE (recognised seasonal employees) for the horticulture harvest has caused losses into the hundreds of millions for the fruit sector. Also, what is his Party's strateg
