Recently added articles from The Nelson Mail:
Nelson's sunny days expected to lift energy levels
Aug 22, 2008; NEAL, Tracy ... Nelson could become New Zealand's first "solar city", after thecity council agreed to spend half the $40,000 needed for a studyinto how to encourage wider use of solar energy systems. Newly-formed Richmond company Energyshift Ltd has offered $20,000towards the joint study, with an ...
No charges over sex with teen
Aug 22, 2008; CHUG, Kiran ... A former Child Youth and Family social worker who resigned afterhaving a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy in CYF custodywill not be charged by police. Detective Senior Sergeant Wayne McCoy, of the Nelson CIB, lastmonth told the Nelson Mail that the investigation was ...
Whitley on fraud charges
Aug 22, 2008 ... Richmond businessman Philip Whitley was arrested and charged bythe Serious Fraud Office today in relation to his company NearZeroInc, which has left hundreds of people badly out of pocket afterthey invested in revolutionary data technology he promoted. Whitley was asked to go to ...
Multi-cultural launch for scheme
Aug 22, 2008 ... A $450,000 mental health pilot programme has been launched inNelson with a raft of groups and ethnicities coming together for itslaunch. Nelson Bays Primary Health Organisation chief executive AndrewDobbs said the launch of the primary mental health initiative washeld at Whakatu ...
Tasman seeks $26m loan
Aug 22, 2008 ... The Tasman District Council has voted to borrow a further $26million, to allow it to carry out its work scheduled for thisfinancial year. Councillors agreed to $23.6 million in loans for work included inthis year's annual plan at a meeting in Richmond yesterday. Corporate ...
Helicopter helps out
Aug 22, 2008 ... An Iroquois helicopter from Taranaki has been used to run wireand lift poles in the hill country between Howard and Glenhope, ascontractors battle to restore power to homes still withoutelectricity following last week's snow storm. Network Tasman chiefexecutive Wayne Mackey said 35 ...
Stones film to screen
Aug 22, 2008 ... Rolling Stones fans are being warned to be in fast if they wanttickets for the one- week season of Martin Scorsese's concert movieof one of the world's biggest rock bands when it opens in Nelsonnext week. Shine A Light, filmed over two nights of Stonesperformances at New York's ...
Police roundup
Aug 22, 2008 ... An altercation at a Richmond house yesterday led to four peoplebeing arrested. Police say further charges against them and otherpeople are likely. Senior Constable Phil Wylie said a group ofpeople allegedly went to the Otia Drive house for retribution afterone man's car was damaged. He ...
Service station auction
Aug 22, 2008 ... The Havelock Shell service station will remain closed for atleast another month after it was seized by the courts and attemptsto reopen it temporarily failed. Shoreline Services was seized bybailiffs more than a week ago because its owners, Ivan and SueWeaver, did not pay $1.8 million ...
Maths win for Garin
Aug 22, 2008 ... Garin College has won a regional mathematics competition for thesecond year running. The college this week won the Nelsomathixcompetition held at Nelson College on ...
Jury due out in gang fight case
Aug 22, 2008 ... A Nelson jury hearing the case of two men charged over aconfrontation outside a Blenheim gang headquarters was expected tostart deliberating on its verdicts today. The trial of Matthew Te Puia, 31, and Sloan Daniel LouisMacDonald, 29, started in the Nelson District Court ...
It's a rap as another fear faced
Aug 22, 2008 ... Grant McNeill last night stepped up to his first rap battle. This month the Nelson man is facing a new fear almost every dayin August to test himself and raise money for Discovery camps, whichchallenge teenagers to overcome their fears. Mr McNeill said he was way out of his ...
Aussie going against flow
Aug 22, 2008; KIDSON, Sally ... While New Zealanders are moving to Australia to live in recordnumbers, Nelson woman Jo Westrupp is a former Aussie bucking thattrend. Mrs Westrupp was one of 32 people who became New Zealand citizensat a ceremony in Nelson yesterday. The treaty claims administrator for four ...
Logging truck route causes worry
Aug 22, 2008; HUNT, Tom ... A large increase in logging trucks expected to start rumblingthrough residential Nelson streets within days has some residentsconcerned for their safety. The increase in logging activity from the Maitai Valley forestscould start as early as today and comes after large numbers of ...
More than 100 have say on city centre strategy
Aug 22, 2008; NEAL, Tracy ... Nelson's hanging baskets and central city trees are firmfavourites on a wish list of how people want to see the city infuture. However, there is ample room for improvement, according to thethemes that have emerged from a public meeting in early July and areport to the central ...
Pupils get Olympics taste
Aug 22, 2008 ... In the Olympic spirit, Clifton Terrace School's top runners wereable to claim a podium finish at the school cross-country this week. Principal Rob Wemyss said 232 pupils ran in the school cross-country on Wednesday on a course laid out through the school and onnearby footpaths ....
Vaccinations well worth the expense
Aug 22, 2008 ... Sir, MeNZB vaccination significantly reduced the high rates ofmeningococcal disease in our community. Eighty-five percent ofchildren under 20 years old received three doses. The successful NewZealand response to the strain-specific epidemic has beenacknowledged by highly credible groups ...
Speeding drivers
Aug 22, 2008 ... Sir, Firstly, thank you, Dan Richardson, for your letter respeeding drivers (Mailbox, August 18). I'm pleased someone elseshares my concerns. To Viesturs Altments - as my first letter stated, the speedingoccurs mainly during the day. I noted a specific day where it ...
Witchcraft course
Aug 22, 2008 ... Sir, This week Massey University announced that it is running awitchcraft course - that's got to be good for society, I sure hopethere's a free correspondence course available in prisons and psychwards for people who are already ticked off and confused. Come on! We have a chronic ...
Models for NZ society
Aug 22, 2008 ... Sir, Any large grouping of animals, including humans, behavesaccording to a "collective intelligence''. It allows an ant colonyto function without any noticeable "chain of command''. It alsomeans perfectly normal, rational human beings can commit atrocitiesunder Nazism, Pol Pot etc ....