The Nelson Mail back issues from September 2001:
New name, new optimism for Richmond group
Sep 01, 2001 ... The sky's the limit for the development of Richmond, says thetown's revamped promotions body. The organisation previously known as Promote Richmond unveiledits new name, Richmond Unlimited, yesterday. Chairwoman Barbara Heaton said the new name better reflectedRichmond's ...
Mental health group members named
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board has announced theseven members of its new mental health services advisory group. The group is the first step towards implementing therecommendations of the region's mental health review, which werereleased by a team of investigators in ...
Councillors want water decision delayed
Sep 01, 2001 ... Nelson's controversial proposed water treatment plant will be puton hold indefinitely if two Nelson city councillors get their way. Cr Alan Turley and mayoral candidate Rodney Haines will putforward a motion at a special council meeting on Monday for anydecision on the $23 million ...
Student facing drug trial
Sep 01, 2001 ... A Nelson student will stand trial in the High Court on a chargeof possessing cannabis oil for supply. At a preliminary hearing in the Nelson District Court onThursday, two JPs ruled that there was sufficient evidence for CraigFrancis Bull, 26, to stand trial. Bull has ...
Sealord mussels into north
Sep 01, 2001; ... Nelson-based Sealord Group is about to develop its first musselfarms outside the Nelson-Marlborough region. The company plans to develop about 100ha of sea space in WilsonsBay, north of Thames, over the next few years, with the first mussellines due to be installed by October ....
Spooner seal needs repairs
Sep 01, 2001; ... Cracks and potholes in the newly-sealed Spooner Range roadrealignment are a result of sealing the road in difficult weatherconditions, says Transit NZ project manager Mary Falconer. Temporary repairs to sections of the 7km stretch of State Highway6 are expected to be complete this ...
Police order candidate to take a break
Sep 01, 2001 ... Nelson City Council candidate and police officer Eric Davy hasstarted his election campaign a little earlier than expected afterbeing ordered to take seven weeks' leave until after the poll. Mr Davy, a senior sergeant with Nelson police, said there was anational directive that ...
Tourism views sought
Sep 01, 2001 ... Nelson and Tasman mayoral candidates will face questions frommembers of the tourism industry at a forum on September 13.Candidates will get five minutes each to ...
Assault claim rejected
Sep 01, 2001 ... Police have found no proof to support a claim that a taxi driverallegedly assaulted a passenger outside the Nelson Suburban Club onAugust 23. Senior Constable Hamish Blanche of Stoke police ...
Offender recaptured
Sep 01, 2001 ... A Nelson man who fled home detention was back behind bars today.Hemi Curtis, 19, was found by police at a Washington Rd house aboutmidnight last night, hiding behind a door. He had been ...
Fire threatens house
Sep 01, 2001 ... A Tahunanui house was threatened by fire early today after alarge tree caught alight metres from the property, the Nelson FireService said. Senior ...
Police roundup
Sep 01, 2001 ... q A 19-year-old Nelson man was arrested in Bridge St, Nelson at10.20am yesterday and charged with theft and possessing a knife. q A 38-year-old Nelson man was arrested and charged withpossessing cannabis ....
NCC `hamstrung' over offer
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Nelson City Council says it is hamstrung over an offer madeto buy the former United Video site in Trafalgar St until theMillennium Centre Trust has completed its feasibility study. Council asset committee chairman Russell Egan said the councilhad received a "very good'' offer ...
The knack of modelling art
Sep 01, 2001; ... Wearable Art season is nearly upon us. The works of art wouldseem less spectacular without someone to display them on. In thefirst of a three-part series, Tracy Neal meets two of the WearableArt models. -------------------- The giant jigsaw that every year becomes the ...
Councillors attack transport strategy
Sep 01, 2001; ... The recently completed draft regional land transport strategy hasbeen attacked by Nelson city councillors, who say it is a "warmfuzzy'' document that does not have enough emphasis on cars. The report was put together by the regional land transportstrategy committee, led by Cr ...
More money for cycleways
Sep 01, 2001 ... An extra $335,000 is to be spent on Nelson city's cyclewaynetwork during the next 10 years, following the adoption of a newcycle strategy. Neil Jorgensen of the Nelson City Council's technical servicesteam presented the final report to councillors on Thursday. It includes ...
Reading, writing ... and running
Sep 01, 2001 ... Triple Olympian Rod Dixon was never really interested inschoolwork. Instead of focusing on the three Rs in the classroom, the youngDixon was more interested in another kind of R - running. Dixon, who was special guest starter at Henley School'scrosscountry yesterday, ...
SBS robber still at large
Sep 01, 2001 ... Nelson police are no further ahead in their hunt for the armedrobber who held up the Nelson branch of the Southland BuildingSociety in July. A man believed to be aged between 35 and 40 walked away with asum of money after he held up the branch with a sawn-off firearm orpistol ...
Water critics `selfish'
Sep 04, 2001; ... Nelson deputy mayor Jo Raine has called protests by older peopleagainst Nelson's planned new water treatment plant "selfish''. Cr Raine, who has been an outspoken advocate for the elderly inthe past, criticised their stance on the $26 million plant, whichwas approved by the ...
Retired budget adviser hits back
Sep 04, 2001 ... A retired budget adviser has taken Nelson deputy mayor Jo Raineto task for her comments that the mainly older people opposing thecity's water treatment plant are "narrow and selfish''. John Magee said Cr Raine's comments were "a lot of nonsense,frankly''. He said the main ...
Violent offences increase
Sep 04, 2001; ... Nelson is the safest place in New Zealand to live but violence ison the rise, according to the latest police statistics. Homicides, stabbings and four "home invasions'' in the NelsonBays area contributed to an increase in violence during the past 12months. Violence ...
Giants feature in sensational Tall Blacks win
Sep 04, 2001 ... The Nelson Giants may have fallen short in the NBL playoffs lastmonth but team members made a huge contribution when the Tall Blacksupset Canada in the Goodwill Games in Brisbane last night. Nelson guards Judd Flavell and Phill Jones were among the starsas New Zealand ...
Medical supplies donated to Vanuatu
Sep 04, 2001 ... Beds, bassinets, incubators and other hospital equipment andmedical supplies donated by Nelson and Blenheim hospitals are ontheir way to a needy hospital in Vanuatu thanks to efforts by aMotueka Rotary club and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Volunteers helped load nearly three ...
Saddleback returning to Nelson region
Sep 04, 2001; ... The Department of Conservation hopes to return the saddleback tothe Nelson Lakes area within a year. If the rare bird is successfully re-established as part of anexpanded "mainland island'' project at Rotoiti, it will be possiblythe first population in the region for almost a ...
Repeat drink-driver jailed
Sep 04, 2001 ... A repeat drink-driver who has refused to deal with his alcoholproblem has been sentenced to two years in prison. Mervyn Kenneth Fitchett, 45, appeared in the Nelson DistrictCourt yesterday for sentencing on charges of driving whiledisqualified and driving with excess breath ...
Please take your seats
Sep 04, 2001; ... A sell-out crowd for the Nelson School of Music auditorium'scentenary concert tonight will enjoy the comfort of sitting on brandnew seats. The school's trust board launched an appeal in June to raise$100,000 to replace the school's 75-year-old seating with newchairs. The ...
No plea to sex charges
Sep 04, 2001 ... A 52-year-old man charged with rape, forcing a girl under age 12to do an indecent act and indecently assaulting a girl under age 12entered no pleas when he made his second appearance in the ...
Man to stay in custody
Sep 04, 2001 ... A 47-year-old unemployed Nelson man was again remanded in custodywhen he reappeared in the Nelson District Court on a raft of chargesyesterday. The man, whose name is suppressed, has yet to enter aplea to 18 charges of wilfully mistreating a ...
Takaka youth arrested
Sep 04, 2001 ... A 16-year-old Takaka youth has been arrested and charged withthree house burglaries ...
Student broke into hotel
Sep 04, 2001 ... A Christchurch student who paid an early-morning visit to aTakaka hotel admitted charges of theft and unlawfully taking a motorvehicle when he appeared in the Nelson District Court yesterday. Police prosecutor Sergeant Wayne Johnston said Steven WilliamAlfred Christensen, 35, ...
Player to appear in court
Sep 04, 2001 ... A member of the Nelson Bays rugby team is facing charges after anincident in central Blenheim on Sunday morning. The player, who has not been named, is accused of fighting in apublic place. The fight is alleged to have broken out in Market Stat 3.30am on Sunday. The accused ...
Nelson power savings still above average
Sep 04, 2001; ... Nelson's power savings dipped by 0.6 percent yesterday, at thesame time Nelson Pine Industries resumed full production at itsRichmond fibreboard plant. Network Tasman analyst Collin Just said Nelson domestic andindustrial consumers had saved 8 percent during the past week ....
Engineer hurt by plant leak
Sep 04, 2001 ... A Sealord engineer was taken to Nelson Hospital this morningafter an early-morning ammonia leak at the company's Vickerman Stplant. Senior Station Officer Chris Perkins of the Nelson Fire Servicesaid two engines attended the callout around ...
Nelmac staff call off all strike action
Sep 04, 2001 ... Strike action has been called off by staff of Nelson City Councilcontracting company Nelmac, and talks over employment issues willcontinue, management said today. More than 40 of Nelmac's 85 workers gave notice last month ofproposed rolling strike action from today, for two days a ...
Nelson officers off to prison
Sep 04, 2001 ... Nelson police are being sent behind bars. About nine Nelson Bays police officers were travelling toWellington today to help run the city's prisons following a disputebetween prison staff and the Corrections Department. Area commander Inspector Jim Wilson said he was still ...
Police seeking `antique dealer'
Sep 04, 2001 ... Police are looking for a suspicious man who invited himself intoa Richmond woman's home. The man, who claimed he was an antique dealer, visited thewoman's Griffin St home twice last week, saying he wanted to buyantiques. He then pushed his way into the house and looked around ....
Motocross injuries `expected'
Sep 04, 2001 ... Organisers of a Woodstock motocross event are not too worried bythe number of injuries to participants. The Nelson Motocross Championships involving 125 riders over theweekend saw two boys taken by helicopter to Nelson Hospital. On Saturday afternoon a 12-year-old Blenheim ...
Thieves grab buckets of cash
Sep 04, 2001 ... Someone pinched the milk money yesterday -- bucket loads of it. Two five-litre buckets containing between $1500 and $2000 incoins, the takings of Motueka milk vendor Darrin Burke, were stolenfrom his home. One bucket contained five-cent pieces, while the other ...
On yer bike, you vehicle junkies
Sep 04, 2001; ... Im not quite one of those anti-car nutters who reckon we shouldrevert to people-power to get around. I realise that unless Nelson's population hits the million mark,the world runs out of oil or the sun implodes, that won't happen,such is our infatuation with the money-gobbling, ...
Council makes a brave decision
Sep 04, 2001 ... Yesterday the members of the Nelson City Council made a bravedecision. Their majority vote to press ahead with the controversial$26 million water treatment scheme for the city showed a commendablefortitude. It is the biggest single project spending commitment thecouncil has ever given, ...
Supermarket spin
Sep 04, 2001; ... Venturing bravely into the depths of the supermarket, BarbaraDunn finds that rising food prices are everybody's problem. -------------------- The supermarket does not leap out at the top of the list when itcomes to preferred places to spend my limited leisure time and notso ...
Juniors compete for sevens titles
Sep 04, 2001 ... Around 500 young players contributed to a day of perpetual motionat Greenmeadows on Saturday when 46 teams contested the fourthannual Stoke rugby sevens junior tournament. Forty-six teams from Nelson, Motueka, Golden Bay and Marlboroughcompeted in four grades with the top two ...
Nelson women clean up on Coast campaign
Sep 04, 2001 ... The Nelson representative women's hockey team received a timelyconfidence boost after retaining the Pope Shield in Greymouth at theweekend. Nelson heads to Christchurch next Saturday for its southernhockey league semifinal clash against Selwyn, buoyant after threestraight ...
Nelson masters take titles
Sep 04, 2001 ... Nelson has enjoyed unprecedented success by securing two titlesat the recent New Zealand badminton masters championships in Timaru. It's the first time Nelson players have won titles at thenational event, with its trio of Andrew Gourdie, Jayne Marwick andMartin Lubransky also ...
Nelson trio beats NZ's best pruners
Sep 04, 2001 ... Three first-year Nelson grape pruners beat the best of the restfrom throughout the country at the Silver Secateurs competition inNapier last weekend. Dave Pratt's Horticultural Services team of Rikk Evans, MartyMcKelvie and Jason Derbyshire beat 15 other teams from the ...
US demand hits local beef prices
Sep 04, 2001 ... Beef buyers will soon be facing higher prices as the stockshortage bites. Gary McQuillan of Nelson's Tom's Meats said the wholesale pricefor prime beef was tipped to climb by 10c to $4.50 a kilogram nextweek. Three months ago butchers were paying $3.80 to $4, he said ....
Nelson olive growers urged to experiment
Sep 04, 2001 ... Nelson olive growers have to experiment with varieties and blendsto find what the region produces best, rather than rely on advicefrom consultants and international experts, says Moutere grower MikeEggers. Mr Eggers, and his wife Sue, planted 2200 trees of a range ofvarieties on ...
Rising prices cut bull-beef margins
Sep 04, 2001; ... Higher calf, milk powder and meal prices and a rising New Zealanddollar are reducing bull-beef margins. Faced with feed shortages and high stock prices, beef farmers aretending to focus on building up supplementary reserves rather thanbuying replacement stock, said Stanley Brook ...
Marketing company eyes overseas opportunities
Sep 04, 2001 ... Nelson Olives Ltd, the marketing company representing 17 of theregion's olive growers, is exploring export markets in London, NewYork and Singapore. The company was formed in April to market virgin oil on behalf ofshareholders. A sister company, Nelson Olive Services, was ...
Runners go wild off the beaten track
Sep 04, 2001; ... Runners are starting to go bush. Olympic 1500m bronze medalistRod Dixon tells Nelson Mail sports reporter Simon Bloomberg whytrail running is taking off. -------------------- If overseas trends are any indication, running is about to enjoya renaissance in New Zealand ....
A bit of Aussie fun
Sep 01, 2001 ... It's not often that Australians go in for a good old-fashionedKiwi cultural cringe. On this side of the Tasman, people tend toglance about nervously and lower their voices before expressing anyview that even vaguely contradicts a firm belief in treatyobligations and biculturalism. Over ...
Droplets of inspiration
Sep 01, 2001; ... "Tell me, Mr Wooster, did you draw that haughty old man from aliving model?" "Oh no. Just thought of him and bunged him down, you know." (The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse.) "Didn't you once tell me that you made up your columns whiledriving to and fro across ...
The sound of music
Sep 01, 2001; ... An auditorium dreamed up in a remote tramping hut more than acentury ago is today regarded as one of the best in the SouthernHemisphere. Mariam El Orfi reports on the history of the NelsonSchool of Music's auditorium, which celebrates its 100th birthday onTuesday ....
Men simply aren't materialistic enough
Sep 01, 2001; ... Dave left a jersey in Wellington and a jersey in Nelson. Now hehas no jerseys and walks around the office shivering, JaneO'Loughlin writes in this week's Me `n Mot column. He has only two jerseys! How can a person own only two jerseys? I draw attention to this, not merely to ...
Diva captivates concert crowd
Sep 05, 2001; ... pera diva Dame Malvina Major braved painful toothache to performat Nelson School of Music's auditorium centenary concert last night,but no one would have guessed. Her discomfort was undetectable as she captivated the concert'ssellout crowd with a selection of operatic arias sung ...
Southern boom benefits region
Sep 05, 2001 ... Nelson and Marlborough are performing well in a positive SouthIsland economy -- they jointly recorded 3.8 percent growth ineconomic activity in the year to June, according to National Bankfigures out today. Nelson-Marlborough outperformed all North Island regions. The ...
NMIT staff to strike on Friday
Sep 05, 2001 ... Teaching staff at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology willhold a one-day strike on Friday following the breakdown of theircontract negotiations. Cash-strapped NMIT has rejected its staff's reduced pay claim andhas proposed pulling out of a multi-employer collective ...
Aboki proves it's a cut above the rest
Sep 05, 2001 ... Nelson's Aboki Hairdressers have proved themselves to be a cutabove the rest, winning this year's Top Shop award. Champagne corks were popping at the Buxton Square salon thismorning, as staff celebrated their win in the Commerce Nelson event. Owner Melissa van Gosliga said the ...
Power price surge a shocker
Sep 05, 2001; ... Soaring power bills are starting to hit Nelson businesses, withsome facing increases of up to 60 percent. Doug McKee, owner of Nelson's Quayside Restaurant, will have tofind an extra $1500 a month after being notified that his currentcontract with power retailer TrustPower is ...
An `old-fashioned' centenary
Sep 05, 2001 ... Nelson School of Music Gala Concert: Celebrating the Centenary ofthe Auditorium. School of Music, September 4. Reviewed by MichaelMonti. -------------------- "This is an old-fashioned concert'' commented Nelson School ofMusic patron Dame Malvina Major, "and it's just lovely ...
Fewer than half our crimes solved
Sep 05, 2001 ... Crime in the Nelson area for the year to June 30 totalled 8484reported offences, of which 4050 or 47.7 percent were resolved. This was 3.3 percent higher than the 8197 reported offences inthe previous year, of which 3636 or 44.4 percent were resolved. Reported crime around ...
Mirfin enters no plea
Sep 05, 2001 ... The Nelson Bays rugby player arrested following a game againstMarlborough over the weekend has had his case adjourned untilSeptember 18. Blair Gavin Mirfin, a 25-year-old builder, was arrested ...
Ruby Bay residents ready to rock
Sep 05, 2001; ... It's been a rocky road for a group of Ruby Bay residents in theirbattle to get protection from the sea. After seven years of battling the Tasman District Council andthree crumbling clay walls, 15 residents have got the go ahead tobuild a rock wall to protect their beachfront ...
Nelson woman offers free accommodation
Sep 05, 2001 ... A Nelson woman is offering to help Afghani refugees rescued bythe Norwegian ship Tampa wishing to come to Nelson. Mayor Paul Matheson said the woman had sent him a letterindicating that she was willing to offer rent-free accommodation toAfghani refugees for one year. Her ...
Drink-driver jailed for fifth conviction
Sep 05, 2001 ... A repeat drink-driver has been sentenced to three months in jail. Simon Michael Harris, 29, appeared in the Nelson District Courtyesterday for sentencing on his fifth conviction for driving withexcess alcohol. Harris gave a blood alcohol reading of 100 milligrams of ...