The Nelson Mail back issues from January 2008:
Holiday queue tensions get the silent treatment
Jan 01, 2008; ... Nelson's i-Site tourist centre has come up with a novel way oftackling the holiday tensions of waiting tourists - send in themimes. A pair of white-masked mimes on Monday danced and mimicked theirway around the centre as part of a plan devised by its supervisor,Charlotte Eyles ....
Region in good spirits; Revellers kept on tight rein
Jan 01, 2008; ... Well-behaved revellers celebrated the start of 2008 in goodspirits across the Nelson region, with police reporting a relativelypeaceful and trouble-free night. While police were kept busy with alcohol-related disorder, theymade fewer arrests over the course of the night than on ...
Man on kidnap charge
Jan 01, 2008 ... A 55-year-old Nelson man was to appear in court on Tuesdaymorning charged with kidnapping after allegedly tying up his formerpartner and holding her for "many'' hours. Detective Sergeant Kevin Tiernan said the woman was allegedlytied up on a couple of occasions on Sunday night at ...
Woman injured in crash
Jan 01, 2008 ... A 19-year-old Nelson woman suffered serious face and headinjuries and had to be cut free from her crashed car on theoutskirts of Wakefield this morning. The accident happened about6.30am just south of the town, on State Highway 6, at the turnoff toEdward Baigent Memorial Park ....
Burning couch, bonfires doused
Jan 01, 2008 ... A burning couch in the middle of the road in Toi Toi St, a smokebomb let off at a bar in Bridge St and a few bonfires on TahunanuiBeach heralded the New Year for the Nelson Fire Service. Senior Station Officer Steve Shackleton said the level ofactivity was ...
Booze, pills swell patient numbers; Partygoers suffer after big night
Jan 01, 2008 ... Half the patients treated at Nelson Hospital's emergencydepartment overnight were suffering the effects of party pills ortoo much alcohol during New Year's Eve celebrations. Charge nurse manager Jan Mitchell said the flow of people intothe emergency department last night was ...
Most revellers well-behaved: police
Jan 01, 2008 ... Liquor bans and an active police presence led to a relativelytrouble-free New Year's Eve in Motueka and Kaiteriteri. The sold-out Feelers concert at the Riwaka Hotel last nightattracted 2000 people, and police received no reports of any troublearising from the event ....
Major work on wetland a year away
Jan 01, 2008; ... Development of a wetland area at the Wakapuaka sandflats hasstarted, but major work will not get under way until 2009-2010,Nelson City Council technical services manager Alec Louverdis says. Development of the 13ha wetland, the subject of debate in 2005over cost and effectiveness, ...
Another festive season mall-ing
Jan 01, 2008; ... I hate malls. Malls-'n-me fit together like drink and driving,George Dubya and reason, obesity and longevity, fashion and sense. Maybe the feeling is reciprocated. At Auckland's Botany TownCentre, I had the chicken wrap for lunch and six hours later themost miserable night I've ...
There's no time like the present
Jan 01, 2008 ... Last night, amid all the forced frivolity and genuinue - if oftenalcohol-fuelled - fun, many people around New Zealand and around theworld were indulging in the customary practice of making New Year'sresolutions, the Nelson Mail said in an editorial on Tuesday. Today they're ...
Analysis of vote costs didn't go far enough, says Cr Barker
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, As 2007 draws to a close I have a few thank-yous. First, thanks Nelson Mail, (December 26) for highlighting thecost of a mayoral vote in the recent election. It's a pity theanalysis didn't go further. After I spent over $3000 on newspaper advertising, $1.44 a votecast, ...
Island's pines
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, After reading the letter by Helen Beere regretting the lossof the Oyster Island pine stand (Mailbox, December 14), each daywhen I drive along Rocks Rd and look out upon our Nelson Haven Ionly wish the pine tree cull had included those dead pine trees onHaulashore Island ....
Buller Gorge crash
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, If Tony Haddon (Mailbox, December 26) had read my letterproperly he would have seen that I was referring more to the otherguy's letter (Wilson Hawke, Mailbox December 14) agreeing with himthat the motorcyclists were speeding. As he has resorted to name-calling, I bet he feels ...
`Excess watering'
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, Council parks and facilities manager, Paul McArthur, hasbamboozled us with figures to justify the excess watering ofNelson's hanging baskets (Nelson Mail, December 26). To quote him: "The hanging baskets are watered twice a day'' ..."total volume of water each time was ...
Police priorities
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, I write regarding two items shown on TV One news on Sunday,December 23 - the youths openly selling drugs seated by the gate ofa reported state house and the scam involving franchise contractsworth thousands connected to a reputable company which was not awareit was happening ....
Flat earth mentality
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, In the latest round of the debate by "atheists'' versus"Christians'' (both rather vague terms encompassing almosteverything and nothing) there has been continuous mention, mainlyderogatory, of the "flat earth'' mentality and who believed it. A little research shows that the ...
Lack of transport
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, I've just read Peter Benham's letter (Mailbox, December 27)and I agree that we are the privileged people to live in anunderpopulated island. I'm also concerned about the terrible lack of transport. Thesystem in Christchurch is excellent and could be done ...
Difference accentuated
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, Having just viewed the Boxing Day film Calendar Girls (on TVOne) with their delightful accents, I was reminded that over 50years ago when I met my future English husband-to-be (I was youngand foolish!) and he mentioned my accent, I said "What accent?'' But moving on, when we ...
New bike stolen
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sir, Santa gave me a neat yellow-and-black bike on Christmas Day.It is my first new bike. It was stolen only three days later from mydad's garage in Annesbrook on Waimea Rd on Thursday night about10pm. We heard a noise. When Dad went out, the thieves had gone. A ...
Frog year leaps in
Jan 01, 2008 ... Stilt-walkers and leaping children would usually be considered ahazard to frogs, but at Nelson's Natureland Zoo yesterday theykicked off a year dedicated to raising awareness of the frog'sfragility. With 2008 declared the Year of the Frog, Natureland had thehonour of starting a ...
A summer wine cruise
Jan 01, 2008; ... Long summer days leave plenty of time to indulge in some ofNelson's great wines. Neil Hodgson gives some good advice on whereto go and how to organise it. -------------------- If you are a visitor to Nelson, I hope you are having a greattime and not suffering too much ...
FEATURES - FOOD
Jan 01, 2008 ... Asian shredded chicken Four to six main-course servings This must be prepared several hours, preferably a day, in advanceto allow the flavours to develop. Ingredients For the dressing and dipping sauce 1/4cup low-sodium soy sauce 2 teaspoons ...
Going to town in 2008
Jan 01, 2008; ... The new year brings thoughts of dressing up, in a sustainableway, of course. --------------------- his was my third Christmas catch-up with my style-loving friendElla, since I began to pen this column. Ella has always challengedme, a friend with whom I can laugh until the ...
A snapshot of rural Nelson 2007
Jan 01, 2008 ... The great thing about rural Nelson is its diversity and thepeople who are passionate about their industry ...
Blackgrove, Roulston go head-to-head
Jan 01, 2008; ... When Tour of Southland winner Hayden Roulston and US-basedprofessional Heath Blackgrove last rode together in the Star andGarter Tour de Vineyards two years ago, they were allies on thepowerful Subway Cycling team. But this year the two road cyclists will be racing against ...
Another underwhelming quest for Cage and co
Jan 01, 2008; ... National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Starring Nicolas Cage, DianeKruger, Ed Harris. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. PG. State Cinema) A pale, bloated imitation of the Indiana Jones action-adventuremovies, this second outing of National Treasure recycles much of theoriginal and ...
Fantasy brushes unanswered questions aside
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Golden Compass (Starring Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman.Directed by Chris Weitz. PG. State Cinema) This is the kind of fantasy film in which a battle can rageinvolving armoured polar bears, Cossack-style troops with wolves,flying witches, mad scientists, gypsies and a ...
Early start to road toll as walker dies
Jan 02, 2008 ... Police hope harsher penalties to deter bad drivers will help tolower the Tasman police district's road toll, which increased by onethis morning. Sixteen people died on the district's roads in 2007, up from 14in 2006. The Tasman police district includes Nelson, Marlborough andthe ...
Pinny-wearing is payback
Jan 02, 2008; ... German tourist Frank Konsorski couldn't have possibly known thatpayback for the hospitality shown by Nelson artist Jeannette Marlowwould be having to model one of her zany aprons at Tuesday'sTahunanui Arts and Crafts Fair. Mr Konsorski and wife Silke were stuck for accommodation ...
Teenagers charged with stealing $16,000 from cinema
Jan 02, 2008 ... Three Nelson teenagers have been arrested after allegedlystealing more than $16,000 from Nelson's State Cinema 6 whileworking there. Acting Sergeant Wade Jennings of Nelson police said cinemamanagers contacted police on Friday for advice after they suspectedthe money had been ...
Swedes try to avoid offence
Jan 02, 2008 ... A Swedish family of happy campers has rolled into Nelson ready tohit Tahunanui Beach but with naughty slogans on their Wicked Campersvans blocked out. The company's garishly painted campervans were all the Olssonfamily from Torsby, plus extras Charlotte Johansson from ...
Attack on car puts a dampener on holiday
Jan 02, 2008 ... Christchurch's Chris Thomson and his family have been holidayingin Motueka every Christmas for the past decade, and have neverexperienced anything worse than a rained-out campsite. But this Christmas break proved to be the exception when apassenger in a passing car threw a water ...
Shade in hot demand on blazing day
Jan 02, 2008 ... Free sun umbrellas for hot, bothered and burning beachgoers werea popular item at Tahunanui Beach on Tuesday. The SunSmart Beach Oasis, a project by the Cancer Society Nelson,youth organisation Hype and the Nelson City Council, was on hand tomake sure locals and visitors were safe ...
Tahunanui now one of NZ's busiest beaches
Jan 02, 2008; ... Tahunanui Beach is now among the five busiest beaches in thecountry, with soaring temperatures this week prompting thousands ofpeople to go there daily, lifeguards say. About 4500 people were estimated to have been at the beach onMonday, and even more were thought to have flocked ...
Illegal bonfires frustrate firefighters
Jan 02, 2008 ... The Mapua Volunteer Fire Brigade is frustrated with the number ofbonfires it is having to extinguish over the holiday period. Station officer Matt Davidson said the brigade had been alertedto six or seven non-permitted bonfires, which he believed weregenerally lit by ...
Wakapuaka work due to start in 2009
Jan 02, 2008 ... The trust seeking to create a multimillion-dollar eco-tourismdevelopment at the Wakapuaka sandflats is on track to start work in2009-10, Wakapuaka 1B Trust spokesman Selwyn Katene says. There was much work to do between now and then, including theresource consent process, he said ....
Arrest at camp
Jan 02, 2008 ... An 18-year-old Christchurch man has been charged with indecentassault following an incident at the Maitai Valley Motor Camp on NewYear's Eve. Detective Sergeant Kevin Tiernan of the Nelson CIB saida ...
Kidnapping charge
Jan 02, 2008 ... A 55-year-old Nelson man who allegedly tied up his former partnerwas remanded in custody when he appeared in the Nelson DistrictCourt yesterday . The man faced a charge of kidnapping, whichDetective Sergeant ...
Attack on beach
Jan 02, 2008 ... Police are looking for a man in connection with a sexual assaulton a woman on Papamoa Beach early yesterday morning . The 20-year-old victim had been celebrating New Year's Eve at the Bay of ...
Taxi hits trailer
Jan 02, 2008 ... An injured man was taken to Nelson Hospital yesterday morning after the taxi he was travelling in hit a trailer in Atawhai.Sergeant Tod Kirker of Nelson police said the stolen trailer hadbeen pushed off a Bayview Rd property and came to rest in the middleof Atawhai Dr some time between ...
Police roundup
Jan 02, 2008 ... Three Wellington men were charged with wilful damage at 3.15amtoday after they allegedly damaged hanging baskets in Nelson'sHardy St. Senior Sergeant Stu Koefoed of Nelson police said a 23-year-old teacher, a 24-year-old banker and a 24-year-old golferwould appear in court on January ...
Too much left
Jan 02, 2008 ... Sir, I have a lot of respect for Alan Turley but in relation tothe southern link (Mailbox, December 27) his dates are completelyout. As I am one whose ancestors lived in Nelson from late 1859 I amvitally interested about dates in Nelson history. The southern link was planned as ...
Waste policy
Jan 02, 2008 ... Sir, I'm not the poorest person on the planet, but when I'mshopping at Countdown I occasionally grab a few lettuce leaves fromthe throw-away bin. Why people discard the outer leaves (the mostnutritious part) is beyond me. So, I fill up a bag of them and twice I've been swooped on ...
Fashion Island turns Nelson into `Anytown'
Jan 02, 2008 ... Sir, With the opening of Fashion Island, a comment that I haveheard several times is, "It does not feel like shopping in Nelson.'' I consider this very sad feedback on the development of Nelsoncity. It is a real shame when a city loses its unique feel andinstead turns into ...
Not neutral?
Jan 02, 2008 ... Sir, The moment someone criticises or disagrees with a letter JimCable has written to Mailbox his immediate response is to belittlethe person involved. He says he is politically neutral which is hogwash as he onlycriticises Labour members of Parliament. Yet some of the ...
And a quiet time was had by all
Jan 02, 2008 ... What was behind the remarkably peaceful New Year's Eve in thisregion and around New Zealand, asked the Nelson Mail in an editorialon Wednesday? Has the nation come of age? It would be comforting to believe so.The booze and testosterone-fuelled rampages of the past havereflected ...
No sale to this customer
Jan 02, 2008 ... Sir, Customers - be aware of deceptive practices. I had neverasked the Warehouse to send me details of "The Sale, the sale of allsales'', as advertised in the delivered brochure. Special offersthree days only, Saturday 29th to Monday 31st. Between thisinformation, 30 percent off all ...
Woollastons all in the frame
Jan 02, 2008 ... lmost three decades after Toss Woollaston donated 101 pieces ofhis art to the Suter, the last of them have been framed, thanks todonations. Suter gallery acting director Julie Catchpole says the 101 piecesdonated in 1979 were a range of drawings, watercolours, ...
Artists matched up
Jan 02, 2008 ... Four years into a fulltime painting career, Golden Bay artistDean Raybould says he is surprised to be the "established'' artistmatched with "emerging'' Nelson artist Geoff Noble for a newexhibition. Six established artists from the Nelson region have chosenemerging artists whose ...
Sculpture to visit Suter
Jan 02, 2008 ... Nelson waterfront's loss has been the Suter gallery's gain, atleast until the wheels of bureaucracy grind into action. A sculpture by Jim Mackay that was gifted to the city byNelsonians Cliff and Ann Nighy to sit beside Rocks Rd cannot find anew home until decisions have been made ...
Graduate lands role in Court Theatre show
Jan 02, 2008 ... Former Nayland College student Monique Clark is being touted as arising star in the acting world after graduating from a course atChristchurch's National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art. No sooner had she graduated from the three-year course than shelanded a role in ...
Go West, young man
Jan 02, 2008; ... Nelson Mail reporter Marcus Stickley unravels memories of roadtrips spent discovering red rock canyons, dinosaur bones and whatwas left of the Old West, as a young boy in the United States in thelate 1980s. -------------------- Red rocks, arid, craggy hills and the ...
Silversmith hits streets
Jan 02, 2008; ... The age of the Internet has helped revive the ancient craft ofsilver and gold smithery, which will be seen this summer in actionin central Nelson . It helped put a European jeweller in touch with an iconic Nelsonenterprise. With the popularity of Jens Hansen jewellers ...
Swimming through the generations
Jan 02, 2008 ... In the Then photograph above, a group of young men enjoy thesunshine at the Marine Baths, a popular public facility at the Portof Nelson, particularly on a Sunday. The oval salt-water pool at Wakefield Quay had 26 small showerrooms around the perimeter, where hot salt-water was ...
Cornwell loses the plot as Scarpetta novel unravels
Jan 02, 2008; ... Reviews by David Manning Book of the Dead, by Patricia Cornwell. Little Brown (HachetteLivre). 387 pages. $40. No sooner do you start thinking that Patricia Cornwell hasrediscovered what made her early novels so successful than sheliterally loses the plot. After an ...
The perfect taste of the wild
Jan 02, 2008 ... Al Brown and Steve Logan: Hunger for the Wild, by Al Brown andSteve Logan. Random House. 208 pages. $40. Reviewed by Vic Evans. These are two top blokes and this is a cracker of a book. Al Brown and Steve Logan own Logan Brown, a Wellington restaurantthat specialises in fresh ...
Coming-of-age tale is rich, moving and challenging
Jan 02, 2008 ... The Perfect Man, by Naeem Murr. Vintage Books (Random House NZ).428 pages. $27. Reviewed by Matt Bowler. Put simply, Naeem Murr's Booker long-listed novel is a brilliantand humble smouldering ember of a story. It is beautifully written,psychologically rich and challenging, and at ...
Pacific scam tests loyalties
Jan 02, 2008 ... Black Earth White Bones, by Chris Else. Vintage (Random HouseNZ). 283 pages. $28. Reviewed by Matt Bowler. Chris Else's fifth novel centres on a motley crew of misfitcharacters who, for various reasons, have opted out of "real'' lifeand find themselves sharing the top floor of the ...
Friends' road trip across America strikes a hitch
Jan 02, 2008 ... Road to Paradise, by Paullina Simons. HarperCollins. 532 pages.$37. Reviewed by Catherine Campbell. This coming-of-age novel has a feeling of Thelma and Louise, butwithout Brad Pitt. It's about discerning who you are and who youthink your friends are, and discovering the truth ...
Sebold offers complex tragedy
Jan 02, 2008 ... The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold. Picador. 291 pages. $38.Reviewed by Matt Bowler. You may have heard of Alice Sebold's first novel, The LovelyBones; this is her "difficult'' second novel. It's difficult on a number of levels, not the least of whichbeing that it is hard to ...
`Two or three' families at risk of death
Jan 03, 2008 ... Domestic violence in the Nelson region puts the family members oftwo or three offenders at risk of becoming homicide victims at anyone time, say Nelson police. Police have been called to 45 cases of domestic violence in theNelson Bays area since Christmas Eve, ranging from verbal ...
Kaiteriteri hunk has fine ambition
Jan 03, 2008; ... Some entrants did it for a laugh, some wanted the glory andothers simply bowed under the weight of peer pressure, but theeventual winner of the male section of Kaiteriteri's annual pageanthad a more pragmatic reason for participating. "I had to pay for a speeding ticket,'' ...
Fair day brings out thousands of browsers
Jan 03, 2008 ... They might have been two of the youngest stall holders at theWakefield Craft Fair on Wednesday, but sisters Shannen and AlyshaTurner were as serious as anyone else about selling their "lollytrees''. With a holiday to Christchurch lined up for next week, thesisters were hoping to ...
Pakawau's the place - for now
Jan 03, 2008 ... If Pakawau Beach Park closes, Wendy Davie and her family willprobably not return to Golden Bay for their annual holiday nextsummer. "I just love it here, it's a unique part of the world and we cancamp so close to the beach. There's nowhere else like it in the bay - the other ...
Police seek answers to man's death
Jan 03, 2008 ... The Buller man who died when he was hit by a car near Inangahuaon Wednesday morning had been celebrating the start of the new yearat the nearby Phat 08 dance party. Brian Joseph Win, a 49-year-old labourer, died instantly when hewas hit by a car on Browns Creek Rd just before 5am, ...