Everything about Blenheim New Zealand totally explained
| Blenheim |
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| Population: |
29,400
(EST 2007) |
| Mayor: |
Alistair Sowman |
| Territorial Authority |
| Names: |
Blenheim |
| Regional Council: |
Marlborough District Council |
Blenheim is a city in
Marlborough, in the north east of the
South Island of
New Zealand. It has a population of about 29,400.
Catholic schools for boys and girls also were established in Blenheim in 1872. St Mary's Boys' school replaced it in 1886. In 1929, St Mary's was rebuilt after a fire.
A coeducational secondary school called Marlborough High School was founded in Blenheim in 1900. It moved to the Marlborough Boys' College Stephenson Street site in 1901. In 1919 it changed its name to Marlborough College. The intermediate section was split to form Bohally Intermediate in 1956, and the girls moved to form Marlborough Girls' College in 1962, at which time the school took its current name.
Marlborough Boys' College is a boys' secondary (years 9-15) school with a roll of 1006.
Marlborough Girls' College is a girls' secondary (years 9-15) school with a roll of 1029. Both have a decile rating of 7.
The other schools in Blenheim are all coeducational.
Bohally Intermediate is an intermediate (years 7-8) school with a roll of 407 and a decile rating of 6.
Blenheim School and
Whitney Street School are contributing primary (years 1-6) schools with decile ratings of 3 and 5, respectively. Blenheim School has a roll of 81, and Whitney Street School has a roll of 248.
St Mary's School is a state integrated full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 8 and a roll of 376.
Other primary schools are in the suburbs of
Redwoodtown,
Witherlea,
Mayfield,
Springlands,
Fairhall, and
Riverlands.
The
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology has a campus in Blenheim.
Transportation
Air
Woodbourne Airport is a
domestic airport and is also used by the
RNZAF as an operational base. There are direct flights from
Wellington,
Christchurch and
Auckland.
Omaka Aerodrome, to the south of the city centre, is used solely by private and vintage aircraft pilots. An airshow (based mainly on World War I and II aircraft) is held at Omaka Aerodrome every two years on Easter.
Road
State Highway 1 runs through Blenhiem and
State Highway 6 terminates at the junction of the two state highways. Blenheim is notable for a town of its size, in that it doesn't have
traffic lights at any intersection. Instead,
roundabouts were installed to speed arterial traffic flow. Since the installation of these roundabouts, traffic volumes have quickly increased and upgrading options are being considered, eg. traffic lights, longer 2-lane approches and even a bypass.
Rail
Blenheim is on the
northern section of the
South Island Main Trunk Railway. A daily long-distance passenger service between Picton and Christchurch, the
TranzCoastal, stops at the
Blenheim Railway Station.
A major
railway classification yard is located north of Blenheim at
Spring Creek.
Media
Print
Blenheim is served by a variety of print publications. The major daily newspaper serving the Blenheim-Picton area is The Marlborough Express. Its headquarters are in downtown Blenheim. The Saturday Express and Midweek newspapers are published by the same company. Another smaller weekly newspaper is The Blenheim Sun - distributed to every home in the Marlborough region each Wednesday. It is the main community newspaper in Blenheim.
Radio
This is a list of FM & AM radio stations in Blenheim.
Events and points of interest
Omaka Aerodrome, south of the town centre, is the setting for the biennial
Classic Fighters Marlborough airshow. The show, with a large emphasis on aircraft of World War One, has been held biannually since 2001, with the next show set to be held over the weekend of 10-12 April 2009.
In December
2005 the third meeting of the biennial
Australasian Ornithological Conference series, initiated and organised by the
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and jointly sponsored by the RAOU and the
Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ), was held in Blenheim.
Spy Base
The GCSB Waihopai communications monitoring facility, part of the ECHELON network, is situated near Blenheim.
Further Information
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