Sunday 16 March 2014

Fines for not wearing life jackets

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? Mr Norman (The Hawke’s Bay Harbour master) and 8 people in Hawke's Bay

2. What was the key event from the news article? That you will get fined for not wearing life jackets

3. Where did this event take place? Hawke's Bay

4. When did this event take place? On the 11th of March
5. Why did this event happen? To promote safer boating because people were putting them selves in danger by not wearing life jackets
Thinking Questions
1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?  Mr Norman, said that the people fined were seen putting their life jackets on only as they entered the harbour in the hope to not get caught
6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article. 
1. irresponsible - Lacking a sense of responsibility, unreliable, careless; incompetent, unfit to assume responsibility (Law); not accountable to a higher authority, independent 
2. Whilst - While, during; as long as; although
3. Regulations - Rule, statute, law; act of controlling, management, direction; state of being controlled, state of being managed

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