The Nelson Mail back issues from July 2009:
Relief for ratepayers as rises trimmed
Jul 01, 2009; ... WHAT YOU'LL PAY Final adjustments for some Tasman DistrictCouncil targeted rates. Draft cost Final cost Golden Bay CommunityBoard rate $19.23 $16.45 Motueka Community Board rate $12.50 $10.63Annual pan charge $627.75 $606.38 District facilities rate $49.94$42.51 Shared facilities rate ...
Kindy fire 'gut-wrenching'
Jul 01, 2009; ... Distraught parents, children and teachers who gathered at a fire-damaged Richmond kindergarten today are outraged that someone woulddeliberately set fire to the centre. The fire damaged Waverley Street Kindergarten about 4.30am, andpolice and fire safety officers are treating it ...
O'Shea opposes NCEA unit plans
Jul 01, 2009; ... The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) yesterdaysignalled the likely scrapping of "a significant number" of unitstandards in schools from 2011, a move which Nelson Collegeheadmaster Gary O'Shea says would negatively affect boys' schools. Critics say unit standards are ...
A trip down memory lane
Jul 01, 2009; ... Two men are taking the slow coach to Murchison to celebrate theachievements of two pioneering Brightwater brothers. Tom and Harry Newman set off for Murchison from the Foxhill Hotelon this day in 1879, the first journey of what became NewmansCoachlines. They carried mail on ...
Warm response to house offer
Jul 01, 2009; ... WHAT YOU CAN GET Insulation: 33 per cent of cost up to $1300Heating device: $500 Banks will top up mortgages to pay forinsulation and heating - Eeca Energywise programme -------------------- Big demand from Nelsonians wanting to warm their cold homes hasmore than 50 people a day ...
Shop for prizes
Jul 01, 2009 ... Nelson city retailers are wooing shoppers with a winter promotionoffering giveaways over the next five weeks. The "Shop Here 2 GetThere" promotion has more than $20,000 in prizes to give away, andshoppers who buy from stores participating in it will go in a drawto win a ...
Apartments hearing
Jul 01, 2009 ... A resource consent hearing into an application by Landon Carterto build 30 apartments at Pakawau Beach Park began today at theTakaka ...
Men 'not at track'
Jul 01, 2009 ... The men involved in a fatal crash at Upper Moutere on Sunday werenot known to the Nelson Kart Club and had not been at the trackwhich was closed, says club race official Lynn Barrett ....
Dinghy arrest
Jul 01, 2009 ... An 18-year-old Motueka man who allegedly took a dinghy from theTalley's wharf to the Kina peninsula was arrested ...
Man addicted to child porn
Jul 01, 2009 ... Police have uncovered graphic child pornography images on aNelson man's computer, a court was told. David John Goodman, 42, admitted 10 charges of possessingobjectionable material when he appeared in the Nelson District Courtyesterday. Police prosecutor Sergeant Wayne ...
Field to open with low snow
Jul 01, 2009 ... Rainbow Skifield might lack a bit of snow, but still plans toopen on Saturday - just in time for the school holidays. The ranges surrounding Nelson got covered with the freezing whitestuff on Monday, but the weather missed the place it was neededmost, said skifield operations ...
Green port study funding approved
Jul 01, 2009; ... Funding has been approved for an in-depth study on the scope of aproposed large-scale private "green port" development at PortNelson. Government agency New Zealand Trade and Enterprise will give$100,000 in funding for a feasibility study on the full scope of theproject which ...
Entreaty to judge fails
Jul 01, 2009 ... A plea by a young Richmond man with a "terrible driving history"has failed to stop a judge sending him to prison. Kane Elliot Heal, 23, who in October last year nearly killedhimself in a car surfing stunt, was yesterday jailed for for twomonths after admitting a recent charge of ...
Offer follows TV performance
Jul 01, 2009 ... Nelson musician Dan Kendrick, who exhibited his singing talentand flexibility on the final of Stars in Their Eyes last night, hasbeen approached by a company which hires impersonators. Although Kendrick is still pondering about whether he will takeup the offer from the ...
Car thefts lead to four arrests
Jul 01, 2009 ... A 17-year-old Nelson youth and three 16-year- old boys werearrested last night following a spate of thefts from cars in theAtawhai-Marybank area. Senior Constable Phil Wylie of Nelson police said the youths werecaught by police after an Atawhai resident heard a car horn and ...
Graffiti pushes anti-violence message
Jul 01, 2009 ... Prisoners in custody at the Nelson police station have pulledtheir blankets over their heads to try to escape the bold images ontheir cell wall. The graffiti art has an anti-violence message which police arekeen to push. "It's in your face and that's the whole idea," said ...
Committed young volunteers seen as the norm
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, I was saddened to read yet more letters in yesterday'sNelson Mail bemoaning the behaviour and attitude of our region'syoung people. I invite Ben Johnson and Debbie Middleditch to attend next year'sYouth Volunteer Awards. Close to 200 people crowded into the New Hubon June ...
Youth efforts hidden
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, It is pleasing to see that you are promoting positivereporting on the front of The Nelson Mail, most nights. However, I was disappointed on June 18 that you didn't promotethe Youth Volunteer Awards in a positive light. The best you coulddo to acknowledge their efforts was ...
Consult council earlier
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, J P McLaren (Nelson Mail, June 25) comments that it hastaken nearly four months to obtain various consents to develop aproperty in Golden Bay. A building consent application was lodged onMarch 27, 2009 and consent approved on April 28. Within this time, further information ...
What about the flue?
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, Thanks for another interesting, well-written article fromGeoff Collett - this time on the home heating battle front (NelsonMail, June 27). But why no mention of Nelson inventor Neville D'Herville'srevolutionary log-burner flue cap that can apparently tune uplaggardly smoke ...
Ban-happies in the cold
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, How are we going to keep warm? Wood and coal fires are out.They promote heat pumps and guess what? They are using too muchpower now. There are a couple of accidents with gas heaters. Nowthey want to ban them. I have a Rinnai gas heater, fairly old. When it is lit no ...
Show us Tamiflu trials
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, The United States Food and Drug Administration's record ondrug safety is not unblemished. Perhaps Dr Hamilton (Mailbox, June 27) may be able to suggest foryour readers at least two well- designed, ...
Bridge could be lost
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, The Saturday June 25 account of the options to maintain theSalisbury historic bridge reports that the consultant firm MWHrecommends that "old, new'' be used for repairs at a costconsiderably above what could be achieved using new timber. If therewas a Historic Places Trust ...
Road warnings
Jul 01, 2009 ... The latest signs of a review of funding for big-ticket transportitems are ominous. As The Nelson Mail reported yesterday, theregion's local bodies have been warned that the review could seemany of the projects underpinning Nelson's transport planningsidelined by an increased Government ...
Hard times need arts more than any other
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, In 1941 the French composer Olivier Messiaen composed hisQuartet for the End of Time and it was first performed to anaudience of 5000. Not in a gilded opera house but in a Germanprisoner of war camp in Silesia. He said the act of compositionsustained him with a sense of ...
Bored with mean-spirited attacks
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, Reluctantly I enter debate with the single- issuecorrespondents who increasingly dominate these columns. What is withDan McGuire, C Kerby et al in their boring, one-sided campaignagainst councillor Pete Rainey? The latest volley from Mr Kerby (June 27) claims Mr Rainey ...
National backed Rockquest
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, With reference to C Kerby's blatant personal attack on PeteRainey (Mailbox, June 27), I would draw the writer's attention tosection 4 of the National Party's 2008 Arts, Culture and HeritagePolicy released on July 15, 2008 by Christopher Finlayson(www.national.org.nz), which states ...
Game and set for non-satellite TV viewers
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, Unlike your correspondent Diane Everton (Mailbox, June 27),I am absolutely delighted that TV One is showing live coverage ofthis year's Wimbledon tennis tournament. Not being able to receive "dish TV'' programmes, I am thoroughlyenjoying the live coverage of a major sports ...
Foolish driving tipped cyclist off bike
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, As a Pom who has lived here for four years, I have to sayKiwi driving skills leave a lot to be desired. Are you taught not toindicate at junctions/turnings or wait until you are actuallyturning before letting anyone know? Dangerous overtaking andtailgaiting seem commonplace, talking ...
Inspirational film
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, I went to the pictures last evening. Got drama, actionaplenty, romance, high- level diplomacy, excellently produced, with a "man of the hour'', and, it was free. At the Suter, which shouldhave been packed, but it wasn't. Why mention it? Because the hero, who received a Nobel ...
Power board reunion
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sir, We are organising a reunion of former employees of theWanganui Rangitikei Electric Power Board (1922-1990) to be held in2010. Any former employees interested in attending this reunion,please forward your contact ...
Reckless driver was over limit
Jul 01, 2009 ... An engineer living in the Redwood Valley has admitted driving atmore than 190kmh with more than double the legal amount of breathalcohol in his system. Jason John Hepburn, 23, admitted charges of reckless driving,driving with excess breath alcohol and failing to stop for ...
78-year-old off the road for six months
Jul 01, 2009 ... A 78-year-old woman with a spotless driving record has expressedher sorrow for colliding with a motorcyclist, resulting in thevictim losing four toes on one of her feet. Gertrude Dawn Gray, from Hope, had previously admitted a singlecharge of careless driving causing injury when ...
Melting pot of whimsy
Jul 01, 2009 ... All Barbara Franklet ever wanted to be was an artist - and nowshe is, introducing her eclectic work to the Nelson public. Themigrant from Houston, Texas, is exhibiting her most recent pieces atMorrison Street Cafe. She has called the exhibition Mockingbird Stewand it is a compilation of ...
Hidden faces revealed
Jul 01, 2009 ... Expressions of personal identities are on show at the RefineryArtspace as part of a class project for graduating primary studentteachers. The students were required to design, make and present amask to be a reflection of who they were. University of CanterburyCollege of Education ...
Life and loves recalled
Jul 01, 2009; ... Il Woo Nam brought his family to New Zealand more than a decadeago and worked in his two loves of medicine and art. Four yearsafter his death, he's remembered by an exhibition at the SuterGallery, as Charles Anderson reports. -------------------- L ookingat Il Woo Nam's One Icy Day, Sam ...
Don't mention the war
Jul 01, 2009 ... The elephant in the room is the topic that no-one wants to bringup. James Roy's novel for young adults, Hunting Elephants (RandomHouse, 339 pages, $19.99) contains two of them, and they are bigones. Harry and his family head to the country to attend his UncleFrank's fourth ...
Global warnings
Jul 01, 2009 ... A book on global warming by an economist and a journalist? Whynot? All the experts seem to have an entrenched opinion so economistGareth Morgan and writer John McCrystal set out with an open mind toexamine both sides of the argument in Poles Apart (Random House, 287pages, $39.99) ....
Name is Blonde
Jul 01, 2009 ... The last in Jill Marshall's seven-book Jane Blonde series,Spylets are Forever (Macmillan, 221 pages, $17.99) starts with amystery then spends a chapter bringing newcomers up to speed on thestory so far and the extraordinary gadgets our protagonist, JaneBlonde, has at her disposal. An ...
Sam Hunt remembers Baxter
Jul 01, 2009 ... James K Baxter: Poems Edited by Sam Hunt Auckland UniversityPress, $29.99. Witi Ihimaera: his best stories By Witi Ihimaera.Penguin/Raupo, $30. Reviewed by Jessica Le Bas. --------------------Sam Hunt's quirky cadences are rife as he selects and introduces hisfavourite James K Baxter ...
Actor's writing on the bright side
Jul 01, 2009 ... Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist ByMichael J Fox. Ebury Press, 279 pages, $39.99. Reviewed by TediBusch. -------------------- Michael J Fox is fixated on finding acure for Parkinson's disease. This has been his goal since beingdiagnosed with the disease at the ...
Everyday passions
Jul 01, 2009 ... Larisse Hall has been on a Journey of Love and her exhibition atthe Independent Gallery is a testament to that. Hall says theexhibition is about showing where she has come from and where she isgoing. But also it is about how blessed we all are to have thethings we have. "I have struck it ...
Trained eyes
Jul 01, 2009 ... There is a Nelson connection in a touring exhibition by thePhotographic Society of New Zealand which is on display at theNational Bank in Trafalgar St. Nelson Camera Club member DonPittham's photographs of the Kingston Flyer steam locomotive areamong the collection of 30 selected from ...
Harsh film beautiful in its humanity
Jul 01, 2009; ... T omorrow night the Nelson Film Society screens I Was Nineteen. East German director Konrad Wolf's 1968 autobiographical film isset at the close of World War II. It is 1945 and Gregor Hecker is a19-year-old lieutenant in the Red Army. He is German, his parentshaving emigrated to ...
Beasties in the backyard
Jul 01, 2009; ... Any story that begins with a conversation with Andy Warhol isbound to be good. Charles Anderson reports. -------------------- Dennis Pearson's story starts in New York City in 1965. "I met Andy Warhol at a private party. I mean, this is a truestory," Pearson says. "I told ...
Bush thriller sets artists on road
Jul 01, 2009 ... R emember that time you awoke and were lost? Remember how youfelt in those moments before the shapes around you started to makesense? Isolation is set in that space - the gap between sleep andlucidity. A tourist struggles to find herself, a hermit struggles tokeep her and a young man ...
Harris raising cash to get back on road
Jul 01, 2009 ... Nelson rally driver Daniel Harris is appealing to the public forfinancial assistance after a crash in the recent International Rallyof Whangarei caused around $20,000 of damage to his car. Team Harris Rallysport is holding a fundraising evening at theWorld of Wearable Arts and ...
Conquerors' spoils go to Golden Bay
Jul 01, 2009 ... The Golden Bay High School climbing team again confirmed theirdexterity by claiming some significant individual titles at theTasman secondary schools indoor rock climbing championships at theVertical Limits climbing centre. Golden Bay's Jessica Philp and April Crawford won the ...
Nelson under-16 girls take back McCallum
Jul 01, 2009 ... The Nelson under-16 girls' hockey team have reclaimed theMcCallum Trophy and retained their unbeaten record for the season. Nelson beat Marlborough 7-0 in Nelson on Sunday to win theMcCallum Trophy after building on a handy 3-0 halftime lead. Georgia Thomson-Laing, Sascha ...
Nayland take on the Aussies
Jul 01, 2009 ... Nayland College is embarking on one of its biggest ever sportingassignments as three of its leading teams, involving about 50players, head to tournaments in Australia this week. The 1st XV rugby team and senior A netball team travel to theGold Coast tomorrow, while the 1st XI ...
Match to be played later
Jul 01, 2009 ... Last night's scheduled Challenge Round netball clash betweenJacks Office Products Depot and Opus Wanderers has again beendeferred after a booking clash at the Garin College gymnasium. The game had originally been brought forward to counter expectedplayer unavailability during the ...
Compo not first worry - historian
Jul 02, 2009; ... Nelson historian John Mitchell says talk of compensation forMaori should not be the first response to the likely scrapping ofthe Foreshore and Seabed Act. A review of the contentious 2003 Foreshore and Seabed Actlegislation has said the Government should start negotiating ...
How big is the armchair with the $70,000 TV?
Jul 02, 2009; ... Got a spare $70,000 and don't know what to spend it on? If you've always fancied footy on the big screen or seeing larger-than-life soap stars, this beauty could be just the ticket. The 103-inch (2.6-metre) Panasonic plasma screen television is onshow at Nelson's new Harvey ...
Police warn friends on 'cruise' for dead driver
Jul 02, 2009 ... Police are warning Nelson boy racers not to break the law inhonouring a young man who died in a high-speed car crash. His friends say a "cruise" for him will go ahead but drivers willstick to the law. Aaron Wayne Chalmers-Hill, 21, was believed to be driving atspeed with ...
Maori palliative care service launched
Jul 02, 2009; ... Maori who live in the top of the south can be assured theirwhanau will now receive better palliative care, thanks to a newservice put together by Whakatu Marae. The Whanau Ora Palliative Care Service was launched at the maraeyesterday, welcoming three new kaitakawaenga hauora ...
Happy ending to stolen medals
Jul 02, 2009; ... Seeing 96 war medals stolen from the Waiouru Army Museum returnedwas reward enough for Nelson businessman Tom Sturgess, but he wasstill delighted to receive the thanks of the Richmond-Waimea RSA ata special ceremony yesterday. The medals, including two Victoria Crosses awarded to ...
Link between fires investigated
Jul 02, 2009 ... Police are investigating whether a suspicious fire which severelydamaged Richmond's Waverley St Kindergarten is linked to otherrecent fires in the town. The fire at the centre was believed to have been deliberately liton Wednesday night, and started on the kindergarten's porch ....
Charge over fireworks
Jul 02, 2009 ... A 24-year-old Nelson man is alleged to have set off fireworksaround sleeping huts at Dip Flat, where Royal New Zealand Air Forcemembers were on an exercise, about 9pm last ...
Application withdrawn
Jul 02, 2009 ... The resource consent hearing on an application to build 30apartments at Pakawau Beach Park, which was due to start yesterday,was cancelled after Landon Carter withdrew his application. A noticeleft on the door of the Takaka Bowling Club, where the hearing wasdue to take place, apologises ...
Tar residue on fire
Jul 02, 2009 ... An old tank being cut up at a metal scrap yard sparked anemergency services callout yesterday after tar residue in the bottomof the ...
Campaign launch
Jul 02, 2009 ... The Nelson Environment Centre will launch its climate actioncampaign this Saturday at Montgomery Square. It aims to make thepublic aware that the Government will set New Zealand's 2020 carbonemissions ...
Band second
Jul 02, 2009 ... The Nelson City Brass Band under the musical direction of MickDowrick came second in the street march and stage events at the WestCoast ...
Weather outlook
Jul 02, 2009 ... The Nelson region can expect average temperatures, with nearnormal rainfall, soil ...
Helicopter called
Jul 02, 2009 ... A 62-year-old man was flown from Motueka to Nelson Hospital bythe ...
Chance for journalism career
Jul 02, 2009 ... Fairfax Media, New Zealand's largest newspaper, magazine and webpublisher, is again seeking the country's brightest young journalismprospects for its journalism intern scheme. Fairfax Media group executive editor Paul Thompson said that forthe fourth year in a row, the company was ...