Waikato Herald
  • Waikato Herald home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Rural
  • Lifestyle
  • Lotto results

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
  • Lifestyle
  • Lotto results

Locations

  • Hamilton
  • Coromandel & Hauraki
  • Matamata & Piako
  • Cambridge
  • Te Awamutu
  • Tokoroa & South Waikato
  • Taupō & Tūrangi

Weather

  • Thames
  • Hamilton
  • Tokoroa
  • Taumarunui
  • Taupō

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Waikato News

Trading Old4New lifejackets to save lives this summer

Hamilton News
30 Nov, 2017 06:30 PM2 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Time to trade in your old lifejacket. Photo / 123RF

Time to trade in your old lifejacket. Photo / 123RF

Coastguard's highly successful Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade campaign is back in time for summer and visiting communities throughout the country from 2 December.

This will be the second year the popular boating safety initiative has been run nationwide with the Old4New van, supplied by the Giltrap Group, visiting popular boat ramps and key locations from the far north to the deep south.

Forming a key part of Coastguard's advocacy for safe and enjoyable boating, the concept behind the Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade is straightforward: bring your old, damaged or out-of-date lifejacket to the Old4New van and receive a discount on a new, quality Hutchwilco Lifejacket.

"Lifejackets save lives — it's as simple as that," says Coastguard New Zealand CEO Patrick Holmes.

"Two-thirds of recreational boating fatalities would likely be prevented if lifejackets were worn. A lifejacket has never ruined a day on the water.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"The Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade campaign provides an easy and accessible way for people to ensure they have the correct number of fit for purpose lifejackets to wear on their boat."

More than 7000 lifejackets have been traded in over the last three years of the campaign, meaning thousands of kiwis are now safer out on the water.

For those who aren't able to come to the Old4New van, retailer Boating and Outdoors is also supporting the initiative by offering the Old4New trade in deal at their stores nationwide during specific weeks of the campaign.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

The reach of the Old4New lifejacket Upgrade even goes beyond New Zealand shores, with good quality, traded-in lifejackets that meet New Zealand standards shipped to communities in need.

"Through our partnerships with Matson Shipping we're able to send these lifejackets to at-risk communities in the Pacific Islands," says Holmes.

"Since the start of the Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade in 2014, close to 1500 lifejackets have been given to these communities ensuring local fisherman don't risk their lives while out at sea and Island children are kept safe on their commute to school."

The Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade is funded by Maritime New Zealand with support from the Southern Trust in conjunction with Hutchwilco and the Giltrap Group.

The the Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade will be in Hamilton on Friday December 22 from 1pm to 4pm at Fish City Hamilton, corner of Kahikatea Drive and Latham Court.

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Waikato News

Waikato Herald

Celebrating Waikato farmer Gordon Stephenson’s legacy

07 Jun 05:01 PM
Waikato Herald

Desert Rd reopens six hours after fatal crash

07 Jun 06:35 AM
Waikato Herald

Motorist's road rage caused para-cyclist training for Paralympics to crash

06 Jun 07:00 AM

Why Cambridge is the new home of future-focused design

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Waikato News

Celebrating Waikato farmer Gordon Stephenson’s legacy
Waikato Herald

Celebrating Waikato farmer Gordon Stephenson’s legacy

07 Jun 05:01 PM

“He believed deeply that you should leave the land in a better state than you found it."

Desert Rd reopens six hours after fatal crash
Waikato Herald

Desert Rd reopens six hours after fatal crash

07 Jun 06:35 AM
Motorist's road rage caused para-cyclist training for Paralympics to crash
Waikato Herald

Motorist's road rage caused para-cyclist training for Paralympics to crash

06 Jun 07:00 AM
'Game changer': Corrections Minister opens Waikeria Prison's new 596-bed facility
Waikato Herald

'Game changer': Corrections Minister opens Waikeria Prison's new 596-bed facility

06 Jun 03:21 AM
Clean water fuelling Pacific futures
sponsored

Clean water fuelling Pacific futures

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Waikato Herald e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the NZ Herald newspaper
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Waikato Herald
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • What the Actual
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven CarGuide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP