National
Banana Freckle
Eradication
Program
Community support for the National Banana Freckle
Eradication Program has ensured the Northern
Territory is on track to eradicate this serious plant
pest. We need to destroy banana plants that have
regrown to fnish the good work done so far.
Banana plants must not be grown in Red
Zones until after 1 May 2016.
HavE your BaNaNa PlaNts rEgrowN?
No
yEs – EitHEr:
Contact the Program with your
name, address and contact
details confrming your banana
plants have not regrown.
1. Destroy the regrowth and
contact the Program with your
name, address and contact
details, confrming you have
destroyed the regrowth.
12 NEWS
SATURDAY AUGUST 8 2015
Police search
for answers
A TEAM of specialist police
investigators spent yesterday
working at the Gawa Christian
School on the northern tip of
Elcho Island trying to determine how an 11-year-old boy
died under a four-wheel-drive
vehicle at a school sports day.
The tiny school was yesterday shut as a mark of respect to
the young boy and his family.
While there have been suggestions the boy’s death was
not the result of a “tug of war”
between students and a Toyota
Troop Carrier, as had been reported,
Detective
Acting
Superintendent Chris Board
said yesterday preliminary in-
vestigations indicated the tragedy involved a rope tied to the
front of a vehicle.
“At this stage the initial indications are that the child was
involved in pulling a rope with
a number of other people,”
Supt Board said. “And during
that event of pulling the car the
child has slipped and gone
under the vehicle.”
The accident occurred in
front of horrified members of
the Gawa school community,
including the young boy’s
school friends. It is understood
several counsellors have been
flown to the remote school to
deal with the impact of the
tragedy on the community.
Gawa is situated on the northern tip of Elcho Island and is
about a 90-minute drive from
the main township of Galiwin’ku.
The Gawa school is a member of NT Christian Schools
and the organisation yesterday
released a statement saying
they were continuing to work
with the community to support
students and families in the
wake of the tragedy.
NT Christian Schools chief
executive Debra Twartz flew
to Elcho Island yesterday and
said details of accident had still
to be confirmed.
2. Contact the Program and
arrange for Program feld staff
to destroy the regrowth.
tHErE is a BuNcH oF ways to coNtact us:
1800 77 11 63
[email protected]
web: www.banana.nt.gov.au
text message: 0439 798 140
With your support, we can eradicate Banana Freckle.
A semi-trailer loaded with concrete panels topples at the Jape Homemaker Village building site
Trailer takes turn for worse
A SEMI-TRAILER carrying
precast concrete panels
toppled over yesterday at the
construction site at Jape
Homemaker Village.
The fall happened about
6am.
A spokesman from Jape
said the tray of the semi-trailer
fell off as it turned a corner.
“It was with the contractors
– as they were turning in, the
panel just fell off the truck,” he
said. “It’s all been cleared up.
Lucky it happened before any
of the stores were open.”
NT WorkSafe was notified
of the incident.
There were no reported
injuries and the accident site
was cleared about 11.45am.
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