The Nelson Mail back issues from October 2007:
Bob relishes firefighting role
Oct 01, 2007; ... The technology might have changed during his 50 years on the job,but volunteer firefighter Bob Brown says he still enjoys his role asmuch as he did when he started as a teenager. Mr Brown, 67, was awarded a service medal for 50 years ofcontinuous service to Stoke and West Coast ...
Police order 32 cars off road in weekend blitz
Oct 01, 2007 ... Boy racers have been targeted in one of Nelson's mostcomprehensive road safety campaigns to date, which saw 32 carsordered off the road and one "brainless idiot'' clocked at 171kmh onWhakatu Drive. Eleven extra police were brought into Nelson from the West Coastand Blenheim to ...
Refuge disputes police claims
Oct 01, 2007; ... Women's Refuge is questioning claims by police that familyviolence is not getting worse in Nelson, despite crime statisticsshowing a rise in domestic offending. Police figures released Monday show that crime in the Nelsonregion is up 4.1 percent, with family violence up 7 percent ....
More get elective surgery
Oct 01, 2007; ... Nelson is part of a surge in the numbers of people receivingelective surgery. The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board delivered 510 moreelective surgical procedures to patients in the last financial year,up about 10 percent on the previous year. That is slightly more ...
Treasures come home
Oct 01, 2007; ... Maori taonga (treasures) handed back by private owners have been"brought home'' to Onetahua Marae in Pohara at a special ceremony. The artefacts, which included meta-argillite adzes, fish hooks andan ancient greenstone pendant, will shed new light on Golden Bay'scultural heritage, ...
Club celebrates flying high for 75 years
Oct 01, 2007 ... Magnificent men and women came together over the weekend to sharetheir passion for flying machines at the Nelson Aero Club's 75thanniversary. Club president Kevin Allport said current and former members fromaround New Zealand and Australia gathered to share their flyingstories ....
Diesel spill causes crashes
Oct 01, 2007 ... A truck carrying sound equipment for the Irish Rovers band was hitin one of two crashes on the Whangamoa Saddle which happened aftercars slid on a long diesel spill. The spill on Saturday stretched for at least 10km on State Highway6 between Nelson and Blenheim. Emergency ...
Warning over jellyfish
Oct 01, 2007 ... Swimmers and beach-goers are being warned to watch out forstinging jellyfish at Tahunanui, after large numbers of the lion'smane species were found at the beach and in Nelson Haven. Nelson City Council parks and facilities manager Paul McArthursaid the jellyfish packed "a bit of a ...
Subdivision opposed
Oct 01, 2007 ... Marsden Valley scheme upsets ex-councillors. Two former Nelson city councillors are among submitters opposed toa large subdivision planned in Marsden Valley. Consent is being sought for a subdivision of 117 sections, in astaged development on about 18.3ha of land in the ...
Shed floor ripped up to put out fire
Oct 01, 2007 ... Firefighters were called to a fire in a shed on the ApplebyHighway at 9pm yesterday. Richmond Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Ralph Lonsdalesaid ice creams were sold from the shed, which was also used as asleepout. The fire had started ...
Trip may have cost Watson
Oct 01, 2007 ... Nelson City Council mayoral candidate Gary Watson admits abusiness trip to Fiji may have hurt his election chances but remains"fairly confident'' of winning. He returned to Nelson last week after a trip to Fiji to set upinfrastructure for a new national television station there ....
German tourist attacked
Oct 01, 2007 ... Police charged a 43-year-old Nelson man with assault with intentto rape yesterday . Detective Senior Sergeant Wayne McCoy of NelsonCIB said a German tourist who had arrived in Nelson on Friday wasallegedly taken to an area along the Maitai River by the man between7pm and 8pm on ...
More rain forecast
Oct 01, 2007 ... Parts of Nelson were in for a further drenching today. After wetand blustery conditions kept many inside at the weekend, a frontwhich moved on to Fiordland and Westland overnight was affectingcentral parts of the ...
New appointment
Oct 01, 2007 ... Nelson-based industry body Aquaculture New Zealand has appointedformer Environment Ministry environment stewardship manager RikiEllison as its Maori development manager ....
Meet the candidates
Oct 01, 2007 ... The Nelson Residents Association will stage its third and final"meet the candidates meeting'' in Atawhai this Wednesday ....
Police roundup
Oct 01, 2007 ... A 20-year-old Nelson man was arrested at 10am on Saturday andcharged with three counts of driving while his licence was suspendedand seven counts of theft. Senior Constable Phil Wylie of Nelsonpolice said the charges related to several alleged petrol drive-offsin Nelson and Richmond ....
World watches, but China holds key
Oct 01, 2007 ... New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was not mincing words, theNelson Mail said in an editorial on Monday. "The whole world is now watching Burma, and its illegitimate andrepressive regime should know that the whole world is going to holdit to account,'' he said, responding to ...
Amalgamation `for the people, not candidates'
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, Recent candidate questions and now the article aboutamalgamation totally mislead the public. The implicit and explicitassertions that electing candidates with an electoral plank ofamalgamation will somehow solve this problem are an outrightelectoral sham. That sham is based ...
Time to merge
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, Despite parochialism among some, amalgamation of our twocouncils is necessary and inevitable. Urban or rural, we are allNelsonians, the city and the district are two parts of a whole thatbelongs to all of us. The city is the business centre for the wholeregion and the beaches and ...
Changing world
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, It's extremely challenging to imagine the world changingradically and soon. We live our lives expecting things to evolveslowly without major discontinuities. But the coming post-peak oilworld is going to be vastly different from this one. Maybe we can live with ever-rising ...
Endangered dolphins
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, M Hardyment seems determined to muddy the waters regardingthe plight of the hector's dolphin (Mailbox, September 20). However,Department of Conservation and Ministry of Fisheries are in no doubtthat hector's and maui's dolphins are endangered. Two years ago they set up an ...
Colourful dilemma
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, I've been into most of the clothing shops in my town and notone is stocking a summer shirt that I would buy. If you want a shirtof colour with any kind of floral or creative shape and colourdesign, you are out of luck. Some of my mature friends are waiting to buy overseas on ...
Naumi Park, Taranaki
Oct 01, 2007 ... The Friends of Naumi Park, Hawera, Taranaki, wants to tracedescendants of George Smeaton Watts and G M Haggett who were amongthe founders of ...
Let's get behind Frances Dick
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, We were delighted to see your article about Frances Dick andher achievement in qualifying for the Beijing Paralympics (NelsonMail, September 19). Your article finishes with an appeal to finance Frances taking herown horse to Beijing, and I just wanted to highlight some ...
Rainey shows the way
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, Arriving at Carols by Candlelight a few years ago wediscovered, despite the drizzle clearing, the event had beentransferred indoors. There was no more room inside the cathedral and we foundourselves, along with many others, shut out. Fortunately, Pete Raineywas amongst us ...
Funshine capital?
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, Nelsonians complaining about spontaneous artwork, condemninga college for condoning acceptance and tolerance: what sad-sacks!Wouldn't it be nice if we could rebrand Nelson as the fun (funshine?)capital of New Zealand? Is there a council candidate who ...
Little white line
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, Cycling in this morning on the cycleway from Atawhai, I wasyet again forced to play chicken to assert the basic road rule ofkeeping left. In this case it was a man and a dog that crossed to my side, hisright, as we closed. In Perth there is a similar cycleway, ...
Harmony in short supply
Oct 01, 2007 ... Sir, One of the rules our inharmonious government has forced uponus, is that of "home-grown'' music. Possibly that is in keeping withour present crop of interfering politicians, who evidently believeevery aspect of their electors' lives should conform to their ownwarped and diverse ...
Cool-headed Murray takes rally crown
Oct 01, 2007; ... Palmerston North driver Sam Murray hasn't exactly been fast andfurious this season but he showed the value of consistency to win theNew Zealand Rally championships after the final round in a wet, windyNelson. Murray finished sixth in Sunday's 0800 Boxman Rally of Nelson ...
Photos for sale
Oct 01, 2007 ... Yesterday's 0800 Boxman Rally of Nelson was dogged by rain, windand fog, making it a real test for drivers as they raced through190km of the region's forests. Nelson Mail photographer Evan Barneswas ...
Tasman finishes champs on a high
Oct 01, 2007; ... Tasman finished its NPC netball tournament in Palmerston North ona winning note when it led from start to finish to beat CountiesManukau 46-42. It was a fitting result for a team who had limited preparation,with coach Jen Hooper based in Christchurch, two players from Nelson,six ...
Pownceby boxes on `very happy' with life
Oct 01, 2007; ... New Zealand boxer Soulan Pownceby may never shake off hiscontroversial tag. But he's constantly trying to put his past behind him andexplained during a visit to Nelson at the weekend that he's entered anew and positive phase of his life. Pownceby was jailed for four years ...
Surge swamps College
Oct 01, 2007 ... Nelson College couldn't contain a strong-finishing St PatricksCollege team to lose 71-83 in the boys' national secondary schoolsbasketball final at the North Shore Events Centre on Saturday. Nelson College led 24-17 after the first quarter, but St Patricksdominated the second ...
Orwellian surveillance drama intricate and engrossing
Oct 01, 2007; ... By David Manning This year's Oscar winner for best foreign language film was TheLives of Others (M), a political and psychological drama set in EastGermany five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It leadsMonday's reviews, which also include the true-life story of a ...
Cafeteria food goes healthy
Oct 02, 2007 ... A chunky mince-and-cheese pie still sat in the Nelson Hospitalcafeteria warmer yesterday , but the other food is about to makedieticians and doctors a lot happier. The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board yesterday launchedits healthy eating policy for staff and visitors in ...
Street crime, assaults on rise
Oct 02, 2007; ... Street robberies and serious assaults are on the rise in theNelson region, and the number of teenagers and women committingviolent crimes is also increasing. Nelson Bays police area commander Inspector Brian McGurk saidannual crime figures released yesterday highlighted that ...
Police roundup
Oct 02, 2007 ... Several residents in Farnham Drive and Hill St, Richmond, have hadtheir power turned off at the mains over the last week. SeniorConstable Phil Wylie said police believed the incidents were schoolholiday pranks, and asked anyone affected to contact Richmond police. q A 41-year-old ...
Findings on drug risk welcomed
Oct 02, 2007 ... The family of a Nelson businessman who committed suicide haswelcomed a coroner's recommendation that health professionals fullyadvise patients and their families of the risks of certainantidepressant drugs. Nelson coroner Ian Smith has released his findings into the deathof real ...
More to life than Parliament
Oct 02, 2007; ... Good on Mark Blumsky, getting out of Parliament because he doesn'tdo "hate'' particularly well. The list MP and former popularWellington mayor, who was destined (in National's eyes anyway), towrest Wellington Central back from Labour, has decided to quitnational politics after just one ...
Tasers in focus
Oct 02, 2007 ... It is always tragic when a life is cut short, and especially sowhen someone else is held directly responsible, the Nelson Mail saidin an editorial on Tuesday. There are many questions to sharpen the grief of friends andfamily of 37-year-old Stephen Bellingham, shot and killed by ...
Les Miserables a `must see'
Oct 02, 2007 ... Sir, There is something magical going on in Nelson and I have justgot home from witnessing some of it. The Nelson Youth Theatre Companyhas been growing for some time now and I wonder how many peoplerealise just how special this phenomenon is. Their production of Les Miserables is ...
Blitz a first step
Oct 02, 2007 ... Long-suffering residents of some suburban thoroughfares and ofseveral rural parts of the district will have rejoiced at the news ofa boy racer crackdown carried out by police over the weekend, theNelson Mail said in an editorial on Tuesday. Of course this group of young people is ...
Police must `deal with the situations they find'
Oct 02, 2007 ... Sir, So often we hear it: "He was such a gentle person, kind,considerate ... '' This is said by people who remember him when hewas a rational being. When we mask or cancel that rationality, that humanity, by takingparty pills or whatever, what is left is a wild animal, and ...
Leader with passion
Oct 02, 2007 ... Sir, Regarding the mayoral candidate poll article by Peter Watsonin Wednesday's paper (September 19), I disagree with the statementthat Mike Ward has just an "outside chance'' of becoming Nelson'snext mayor. He sits in third place with 10 percent of the votes and there's ahuge ...
Greener future
Oct 02, 2007 ... Sir, R N Hellyer (Mailbox, September 9), accuses Hands Upcandidates of having an agenda to privatise the region'sinfrastructural assets based on the Meet the Candidates evening heldin Mapua recently. Having attended that same meeting, nowhere can I equate his theorythrough ...
Vision has substance
Oct 02, 2007 ... Sir, Daphne Stevens (Mailbox, September 27) will be beside herselfthinking that she might soon have to fly on Air New Zealand aircraftpowered by bio-fuel produced from sewage at Marlborough districtsewage ponds. I congratulate the leadership involved for having the knowledgeand ...
More and better
Oct 02, 2007 ... Sir, Recently the Nelson Mail seems to have quietly "lifted'' itsformat. Overseas news has much better coverage and the ...
Back to darkness
Oct 02, 2007 ... Sir, It is spring. It has been a delight to hear the birds in thelighter mornings and it was no trouble to wake and head off to work.The evenings, too, are much longer. But now, thanks to Nelson city councillor Mark Holmes, we areplunged back into winter. You will remember that Cr ...
Weather threatens small community
Oct 02, 2007 ... Nelson artist Josephine Cachemaille is "desperately'' hoping itdoesn't rain during the upcoming Nelson Arts Festival. If it does, it could destroy more than 60 Nelson homes. Cachemaille has been busy making a miniature version of the city'sWashington Valley as part of the ...
Eyeing up future fashions
Oct 02, 2007; ... must confess that I feel like a bit of a fraud, reporting on NewZealand Fashion Week. I didn't attend this year, but having trawledthrough more than 20 collections via the Internet, averaging 30models apiece, I feel my research is adequate. What can we expect for the winter 2008 ...
Nelson shines at wine show
Oct 02, 2007 ... Nelson wineries have again performed well at New Zealand's largestinternational wine show. Blackenbrook Vineyard's Nelson Sauvignon 2007 won the trophy forchampion sauvignon blanc as well as a gold medal at the 2007 NewZealand International Wine Show. Results for the ...
Nelson coaches up for national awards
Oct 02, 2007 ... Nelson's Alethea Stove and Alan Mathews are among the fourregional winners for the Watties volunteer coach of the year awards. Stove (inline hockey) and Mathews (soccer) were the Nelson,Marlborough and Buller district winners selected from the four newstudent, newcomer, general ...
Wedding farce a fine confection
Oct 02, 2007; ... I Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single (Starring Alain Chabat,Charlotte Gainsbourg. Directed by Eric Lartigau. M. State Cinema) A favourite storyline in recent French comedies has been acharacter trying to benefit by getting someone to pretend to besomeone they suddenly need ....
Chan fails to fire in Rush Hour sequel
Oct 02, 2007; ... Rush Hour 3 (Starring Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker. Directed by BrettRatner. M. State Cinema) Despite a giddy climax high on the Eiffel Tower, this comedy-action sequel feels as if it's running on empty. The first two Rush Hour movies were box-office hits, but theenergy level ...
Illness and injury fail to deter candidate
Oct 03, 2007; ... After a twin blow of being in a serious car accident and findingout she had cancer, Nelson College for Girls principal AlisonMcAlpine is now a firm believer in taking time to smell the roses. Mrs McAlpine, who is also a city council candidate under the HandsUp banner, has missed ...
Home insulation scheme hot
Oct 03, 2007 ... An initiative to heat up Nelson-Tasman homes has been put on holdas organisers seek more sponsorship to meet the "staggering'' demand. The Nelson Tasman Housing Trust has assisted more than 250households to install insulation since embarking on its healthierhomes project last year ....
Boys abused by principal
Oct 03, 2007 ... The former principal of a school in the Nelson region has admittedindecently assaulting six boys on school premises over a nine-yearperiod. Murray Stewart Hebberd, 64, was remanded in custody after he wasconvicted in the Nelson District Court on Tuesday on six charges ...
Contractor cuts power
Oct 03, 2007 ... Power was cut to 1821 consumers in the Mapua, Upper Moutere andRuby Bay areas this morning after a logging contractor hit highvoltage power lines ...
Overdose `would have been fatal'
Oct 03, 2007 ... Two men who overdosed on morphine in a Nelson house Tuesday nightwould have died if they had been found any later, paramedics say. St John Ambulance team manager Frank Elzenheimer said paramedicswere called to a Beatson Rd house Tuesday night about 9pm, where a 27-year-old man of ...
Burmese call for action
Oct 03, 2007 ... Myanmar refugees protesting against a brutal military regime intheir home country have spoken out about being imprisoned andtortured for political dissent. About 80 protesters marched onParliament yesterday calling for a democratic Myanmar (formerlyBurma) and the release of opposition ...
Award stuns retiring manager
Oct 03, 2007 ... The surprise announcement of a $2500 Orangi Kaupapa Trust Awardhas "overwhelmed and delighted'' Age Concern Nelson manager JimMaguire as he retires after two years in the job. The award and cheque were presented to Mr Maguire during thegroup's annual meeting yesterday. The Orangi ...
Drivers urged to slow
Oct 03, 2007 ... The Tasman District Council is reminding motorists of the risks ofspeeding near schools. The council will have the AccidentCompensation Cooperation speed trailer outside six schools during thefirst half of the new school term which starts next week. The trailercalculates the speed of ...
Travel offer a scam
Oct 03, 2007 ... Police are warning people not to be tempted by a telephone calleroffering them cheap airline tickets, after Nelson residents weretargeted in a credit card scam. Stoke community constable KeithJordan said residents had received calls from a man with an Indianaccent offering them a cheap ...
Police roundup
Oct 03, 2007 ... Two 20-year-old Nelson men were arrested for breaching the liquorban when they were found drinking alcohol on Church Hill yesterday morning. Senior Constable Phil Wylie of Nelson police said the menhad previously been warned not to drink in areas covered by theliquor ban and were charged ...
Sex assault admitted
Oct 03, 2007 ... A 19-year-old Nelson timber worker who admitted carrying out asexual act on a 15-year-old girl while he was drunk had made aneffort to take responsibility for his actions, a court was told. Michael John Jeffery had previously admitted a charge of unlawfulsexual connection, and ...