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Nelsons superyacht industry set to boomNelson is primed to be the latest must see destination for the rich and famous, creat-ing a new million dollar industry for the region.Today, a multi-million dollar superyacht is set to sail into Nelson Haven, the fifth this summer and with each spending around $30,000 in the region, it is having positive spinoffs for the local economy and three local businessmen say that is just the start to a new luxury tourism market in the re-gion.John Baudier, Haden McCrorie and Dave Pinker started Yacht Services NZ last No-vember, which, among other things, spe-cialises in servicing superyachts. They say the number of extremely wealthy tour-ists coming to the region is set to explode and it could be worth millions to the local economy.The trio have in fact been so success-ful in getting superyachts to Nelson that Port Nelson is considering a reshuffle of the marina to accommodate them all and Nelson Tasman Tourism is working with them to help bring more to the region.Haden, who grew up in Richmond, worked on a superyacht for eight years and his knowledge of what is needed by crew is such that he can tailor an entire visit for overseas guests. In the past few months he has worked with chefs to arrange gour-met food delivery, arranged hanger space for private jets at Nelson airport and even planned wine tours and accommodation for the guests. John admits they have been busier than they thought, thanks in part to a positive response they have received from agen-cies in Auckland who are now sending clients to Nelson and Marlborough. This

year there are as many superyachts in New Zealand as there were during the Ameri-cas Cup in 2003, and next year we know there is going to be more.John and Haden refused to say if anyone famous had visited Nelson this summer, as privacy is a cornerstone to their success, but John did manage to tease. They may not be household names but if you read the Wall Street Journal you may have heard of some of them. Some guests we had looked after had their own Gulfstream G550 here in Nelson, go look up how much they are

worth and you will have some idea of the money they have.A Gulfstream G550 jet airplane is worth around US$50million according to the manufactures website.Nelsons key advantage is Haden, says John. The superyacht industry is pretty small and often its the crew that make decisions about where they are going and they talk with each other. They know Haden, or know of him, and when he says why dont you come down here they trust him. And they havent been let down, every single

super yacht weve had here loved it.The majority of the superyachts are owned by wealthy Americans, Europeans and Australians.Harbour master Dave Duncan says the arrival of multiple superyachts to Nelson is exciting for the region. This is some-thing new and something that will be of massive benefit to Nelson financially so we are working hard to make that easier for them.

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SUPER SIZED NEW BUSINESS: Yacht Services NZ directors Haden McCrorie, left, and John Baudier. Photo: Andrew Board.

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On top of the superyachts, another five adventure yachts have come to Nelson because of marketing by John, Haden and Dave. Not all of them used us but they all spend time in Nelson, bought groceries, bought fuel and used local businesses, says John.They say the season will start earlier this year with the Rugby World Cup in Sep-tember.John says support from the region has been great. Weve had a great working

relationship with the port and the airport. We are working with local businesses in hospitality, painters, upholsters, rental car places and a lot of other businesses that will benefit from this new industry, says John.But Haden says it is not just the rich yacht owners that spend up large. Crew, at sea for months at a time, often have a week off once the guests leave, meaning they also want to explore the region and they dont mind spending. You cant spend your money at sea so when they land some-where like Nelson, they go pretty hard.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The race to win the front page of Nelson Weekly has been reduced to ten. Next week we will fea-ture a snippet of the final three, and our readers can vote for which story you would like to see on the front page. There has been more than 130 en-tries to the competition.

A new miniature train will debut at the Tahu-nanui Modelers Pond this Sunday. The new train has been built in Auckland and is modeled on a Kiwirail train. It will be taking rides for the first time from 12 noon on Sunday.

As Kiwis we are used to taking on opposi-tion bigger than ourselves and winning. We do it in sport, in science, in innovation and in business.Todays issue of Nelson Weekly, just seven months after it launched last September, is a milestone for our locally owned and oper-ated newspaper. We took on the Australian-owned Fairfax newspapers in the region, not with size or money, but with passion, hard

work and a genuine love of our city and re-gion. This issue, 36 pages in size, is a mam-moth effort by our team of six. Advertisers are now getting real results from the Nelson Weekly and in turn are buying more adver-tisements. This is what gives us our size and the ability to deliver the paper free to your home. This paper is put together 100 percent by locals, again we have that on our own! We are very proud of what we have achieved so

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School making a racquet for world recordHampden Street School will be making a racket this Friday if they get their names in the Guin-ness World Record books.The primary school is targeting the world record for the highest participation in bouncing a tennis ball on a tennis racquet for ten seconds. And the record of 383 paritcipants is well within reach ac-cording to teacher Dean Francois. Deans class studied a unit called Were Amazing, at the start of the year, so he could find out what skills each student had. Dean set challenges for the students, including bouncing a ball on a ten-nis racquet. After days of practicing, Jack Cronin was easily

the best and had the class record of more than 140 bounces. His talent sparked a quick search for genuine records the school could grasp.Parents and ex-students are welcome to enter in the record attempt but they must bring their own racquet and ball and be registered at the school by 1pm. The attempt will be at 1:30pm.The attempt has to be filmed from a wide angle allowing everyone to be seen. Two reputable wit-nesses must also attend and all persons under 18 years-old needed a signed note along with a spe-cific sized photograph. If we wanted, we could have got an official world record person to come. But they cost about 4500, says Dean.

Jack Cronin practices for a Guinness World Record attempt with classmates Neisha Parker, Mad-dy Barber, Courtney Gorman, Henry Blakeborough, Aidan Patchett, Matt Christian, Will Harley and Grace Friend, all 8 years-old. Photo: Phillip Rollo.

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HE SCORES: Nelson All White Jeremy Brockie got engaged to his now-fiancee Jess Passmore in Golden Bay. Jeremy is back in Nelson for a month during the off-season from his club Newcastle Jets in Australia. Photo: Andrew Board.

New marina block ready to rollThe building of a new facility at Nelson marina will take a further step forward this week.Expressions of interest will be sought to build a block which includes four show-ers, toilets, laundry, meeting room and a new office for the Marina Supervisor, says Nelson City Council.Designed by local architects Jerram Tocker Barron, expressions of interest for construction open on Wednesday and close on 21 April. Its expected the new facility on Cross Quay, near the current Supervisors of-fice, will be finished by the end of August. The $380,000 building will be funded from the marina account. Co-community services portfolio holder, councillor Pete Rainey says the new fa-cility will be a real asset to the marina, visiting yachties and the group of live aboards who call the marina home.

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mates that cannot be substantiated by design drawings or quality surveyors estimates, as none appear to exist. The total operating losses could be in the region of $5 million per annum, wrote TDC chief Paul Wylie in a report to councilors.Nelson mayor Aldo Miccio says a performing arts centre would have financial benefits for the city but he wanted to wait for the submission process to finish before going any further with it.Paul says the business case for the centre is now worse than when TDC rejected supporting a the-atre two years ago. Submissions close on the performing arts cen-tre and the rest of the NCC draft annual plan on April 29.

Neneh Martin, of Nelson College for Girls, runs down the Church steps as part of the Longest Day. Photo: Andrew Board.

The CACTUS Longest Day is about hard work, determination and endurance but organiser Vicky Carnegie doesnt mind seeing a few smiles as well.Twenty two high school stu-dents completed the five hour challenge, dubbed the long-est day. It is the culmination of CACTUS, an eight week mil-itary-based physical training program for youth in Nelson. Students meet before 6am, three days a week for training sessions that improve physical fitness, leadership, teamwork and mo-tivation. It is run with support from Nel-son police, Nelson City Coun-cil, Big Brothers Big Sisters and the New Hub. The Nelson Ca-det Unit, Nelson fire service, Riverside pool and MiGym also helped out during the pro-gramme. During the longest day students from Nelson College, Nelson College for Girls, Nay-land College and Garin Col-lege had to carry logs all over Nelson, run up and down the church steps, compete a course at the fire station and run up the Centre of New Zealand amongst other activities. All the students were presented completion cer-tificates by mayor Aldo Miccio, police district commander Gary Knowles and police area com-mander Brian McGurk.

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CUT FOR CANCER: Staff at Kensington Court Retirement Village who had their heads shaved as a fundraiser for the Cancer Society. They are clockwise from bottom right; Vanessa Kingsbury, man-ager, Maxine Poole, Terry Coleman, Margaret Newport, Ken Burt, Shirley Goodman, Jay Jannke and Lorna McFowan. Photo: Andrew Board.

Not all the residents of Kensing-ton Court Retirement Village thought the seven staff members who decided to shave their hair for cancer looked good after it.But they all admitted they were brave.Manager Vanessa Kingsbury says she decided several weeks ago to shave her head in an ef-fort to raise money for Shave for a Cure, a charity that encourages people to lose their locks for the cause.When she arrived at work to tell her staff she says she was sur-prised but proud that another six put their hands up to also go bald. Since then the group has raised around $2500, more than they anticipated.More than 3300 people have shaved their hair off in New Zea-land, raising close to $500,000.The group shaving was done last Friday at Kensington Court to the delight of many of the residents. Vanessa was the first to have her hair shaved off and promptly walked around the room with residents keen to feel the freshly shaved head.Around the region dozens of the other people shaved their hair off, from nurses at Nelson hospi-tal to workers at Placemakers, all in an effort to raise money for a cancer cure.

Hundreds sail into Museum for last lookMore than a hundred people have taken the opportunity to get a free look at the Nelson Provincial Mu-seums exhibition before it closes for good.Last week the museum launched a voucher in Nelson Weekly that al-lowed people to visit Port Nelson Haven Ahoy! for free before it gets set to close next week. Another voucher is also printed in this weeks edition only, on page 21.Museum chief executive Peter Mill-ward says he was astonished with the response to the voucher. I am delighted, it has been a very popular exhibition and Im glad people are pouring in to see it before it closes.More than 13,500 people have been through the exhibition since it opened last October. It will close on April 17.Peter says the last week is a great opportunity to see how the first set-tlers to Nelson travelled here from England in the 1840s.We have a very long and proud history and I urge every Nelsonian who hasnt yet seen the exhibition to come along and have a look.Close to two-thirds of all primary school children in Nelson and Tas-man have visited it says Peter. For more information call 548-9588.


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Broadgreen House will be the place to be on the weeks surrounding the roy-al wedding, with 100 years of wedding dresses on display in Wedded Bliss.Wedded Bliss runs from April 18 to May 15 and is intended to celebrate 100 years of Victorian and vintage wedding gowns, the earliest dating back to 1850. Other traditions from

past weddings, including a chimney sweep, which was good luck to see be-fore the important day, will also be on display along with royal memorabilia.During the dates, the exhibition is open from 10:30am to 4:30pm. Adults $6, senior citizens $5 and children $2. On April 29, the day of the royal wed-ding, anyone married on April 29, in

any year, is invited to a high tea in the convervatory. There are limited book-ings. To RSVP call 5470403 by Apirl 25.Committee member Diane Ramsay says the exhibition is a chance for anyone who has been, or is planning on getting married, to come check out gowns of yesteryear.

Conductor of the Nelson Male Voice Choir Andrea Hamilton with choir members Bryan Hamilton, left, and Ernie Tarling. The choir is looking for more members. Photo: Andrew Board.

A male voice choir is one of the greatest sounds says conduc-tor Andrea Hamilton, but she admits to being biased, she is Welsh. The sound of the male voice choir has been made fa-mous by the Welsh and Andrea says that by her high standards the Nelson Male Voice Choir is in the best shape it has been for some time, with 34 singers mak-ing a fantastic sound.Member Ernie Tarling says since Andrea started conduct-ing again the choir has im-proved and with former con-ductor Pauline Boyd still in the mix it has a strong team. We are

so happy to have Andrea back and the choir is sounding really good, but with male voice choirs the more singers the better the sound and we are trying to get a few more people to help make our sound even better.The group is especially look-ing for younger members and Andrea says a formal singing background is not required. No matter what your voice is we can find a place for you and we can also help singers improve.The choir practises each Monday evening in the Nelson School of Music. For more information call Ernie on 548 7291.

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Broadgreen House will be the place to be on the weeks surrounding the roy-al wedding, with 100 years of wedding dresses on display in Wedded Bliss.Wedded Bliss runs from April 18 to May 15 and is intended to celebrate 100 years of Victorian and vintage wedding gowns, the earliest dating back to 1850. Other traditions from

past weddings, including a chimney sweep, which was good luck to see be-fore the important day, will also be on display along with royal memorabilia.During the dates, the exhibition is open from 10:30am to 4:30pm. Adults $6, senior citizens $5 and children $2. On April 29, the day of the royal wed-ding, anyone married on April 29, in

any year, is invited to a high tea in the convervatory. There are limited book-ings. To RSVP call 5470403 by Apirl 25.Committee member Diane Ramsay says the exhibition is a chance for anyone who has been, or is planning on getting married, to come check out gowns of yesteryear.

Conductor of the Nelson Male Voice Choir Andrea Hamilton with choir members Bryan Hamilton, left, and Ernie Tarling. The choir is looking for more members. Photo: Andrew Board.

A male voice choir is one of the greatest sounds says conduc-tor Andrea Hamilton, but she admits to being biased, she is Welsh. The sound of the male voice choir has been made fa-mous by the Welsh and Andrea says that by her high standards the Nelson Male Voice Choir is in the best shape it has been for some time, with 34 singers mak-ing a fantastic sound.Member Ernie Tarling says since Andrea started conduct-ing again the choir has im-proved and with former con-ductor Pauline Boyd still in the mix it has a strong team. We are

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Former cricket star Stephen Fleming is the face of Fujitsu, and now Nelson Colleges Doug Colling is heating up the heat pump market as he hopes his video will be the jingle of Hitachi.The 17 year-old performing arts student is leading the race with the most views on YouTube in a Hitachi heat pump competition, where the winner will land a cool $10,000. But he hasnt blown away the competi-tion yet, hes a long way from the finish line and is hoping the Nelson community can get behind him and watch the video as many times as they can.The criteria for the clip included an already made song that you could add your own interpretation and spice to and a ukulele must feature with a particular chord, the rest was all in Dougs control.So how did Doug come across the heat-pump comp? Its a small ob-session of mine. I spend a lot of my time going through magazines and picking out heat pumps. We have a heat pump at home. Its not Hitachi. I wish it was. I really do, jokes Doug. A teacher at Soundstage, he ap-proached me with the poster. I didnt think much of it at first. I thought, everything is worth a go.Doug has been trying to spread the word via social networking website Facebook. It had reached 12,700 views by Monday. Dougs theme was also pretty spontaneous and he took the silly approach, hoping it would get more views than a serious video. His biggest competition is a school in Taranaki, which he didnt want to name for competitive purposes. Its got a really nice cam-

era, really good picture, and theyre really cute, with very cute animals. So its quite threatening.Doug is intending to travel overseas next year and $10,000 would go a long way towards it.To find Dougs Hitachi Day Song on YouTube, search: Doug Colling Hitachi Song.

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New Zealands lame duck Skyhawks may not be seen in the skies again, but one local politician is hoping one will be spotted in Nelson permanently. Nelson MP Nick Smith is working with the WOW Museum to see whether it is possi-ble to secure one of the 17 mothballed Sky-hawks for public display as part of the Air Forces disposal of its former fighter jets.The Royal New Zealand Air Force was

first established in Nelson dur-ing World War II and it would be great to recognise this heritage by securing for pub-lic display one of the Skyhawks. It would be a huge attrac-tion alongside the other eclectic collec-

tion of cars and costumes at the WOW museum, says Nick.The Skyhawks and 17 Aer-macchis have cost $34m to store and

maintain since they were decommissioned and put on the market in 2001. The Min-

ister of Defence announced last week that the Government had given up on the sale process for the Skyhawks and was going to allow them to be allocated to museums around New Zealand. There is a lot of interest from museums around the coun-try in the Skyhawks and Im delighted the WOW Museum has put its hand up. I will be seeking the support of the Nelson and Tasman Councils for the bid, he says.

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Jonny Benbow, manager of Nayland Scaffold and Crane, with some of the scaffold-ing that will be erected around Trafalgar Park during the Rugby World Cup. Nayland Scaffold and Crane won the contract to supply a range of services and temporary buildings, worth $250,000. Nelson City Council awarded the tender to the company late last year and say they were thrilled it went to a local firm. Jonny and his team will control the traffic management plan, a marquee for media, temporary ticket booths, a major generator that will light the whole stadium if the power goes out and a few other projects. Jonny says he was happy to get the contract as he is expecting it to be a reasonably quiet time of year for his team. Its also exciting being involved in such a massive event for Nelson, he says. The Rugby World Cup comes to Nelson for three games in September and October. Photo: Andrew Board.

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and very easy to work with, says Robert.There were more stalls this year, with a wide variety on show for every-one who went along. We were very pleased with the quality of the dis-plays. Despite Nelson being one of the smaller places we take the Wom-ens Lifestyle Expo, Nelson always provides us with a great turnout and its one of the friendliest places we get to. The exhibitors are great too, says Robert.

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Santa Regina for Strait Shipping continued her regular Saturday service from Wellington, four addi-tional Container ships including the regular Pacifica calls, a log ship, the cement ship; a seismic survey ves-sel was in briefly, eight large fishing vessels and two super yachts led to a busy port. The Wednesday night yacht racing has ceased until the winter series starts in May. Kayakers continue to be seen during the mornings and evenings enjoying a leisurely paddle or training hard for future events. Many recreational craft went out last Friday for a local fishing competition. The behaviour of most recreational craft skippers was great and it is pleasing to see the number wear-ing life jackets as the days and the water temperature cools down. Lost overboard, engine failure, acciden-tal grounding or collision can be one of many reasons a person ends up swimming. Accidents continue to occur around the country so please take your safety seriously.

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Fifty years on and the students from day one of Nayland Primary School returned to their old stomping ground for its 50th reunion over the weekend. The first day students are from left; Wayne Sellers, Jillian Hodgkinson, Grant Russ, Margaret Burton, Les Holland, David Foster-Barham, Paul Darroch and Pip Edwards. Photo: Phillip Rollo.

The Arts fraternity is at it again. Blind support for the $60+ mil-lion Arts and Conference Centre proposal with little regard for the economic consequences. They completely disregard those who are struggling to live through these tough economic times (quote from mayor Miccio, An-nual Plan 2011).Once again the Nelson City Coun-cil is proposing major expenditure with little information for the pub-lic to make an informed decision on. Where is the business plan/cost-benefit analysis? Andrew Talley provided disturb-ing facts that make the conference centre a reckless venture. Secondly, no civic performance venue in NZ runs at a profit. Pri-vate enterprise would never invest

funds into such insolvent ventures so why expect the ratepayers be party to reckless trading? NCC does admit one thing, if these two ventures went ahead, they alone would increase rates by around 17 percent over the next five years. Add inflation and per-haps three percent for all other expenditure annually, and we are facing a 50 percent increase in rates by 2015/16. And thats only the average. Many will pay sub-stantially more.To try and ram two insolvent dreams though this annual plan is criminal. Nelson City Council must get out of the business of competing with its ratepayers.

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The theme for World Heritage Day is water and Riverside Pool, along with Nelson City Council has jumped in head first to take advantage of that and celebrate the 1927 opening of the Municipal Pool, now Riverside.Heritage Week in Nelson is from April 17 and

Riverside manager Dave McKenzie has put to-gether a display and events to celebrate the pools history.In the past swim carnivals and business house relays were regular events at Riverside, so on Monday April 18 appropriately attired teams and

a mix of veterans and newcomers will battle it out for a special heritage trophy. Nelson Mayor Aldo Miccio will be on hand to welcome every-one and special guest Amaka Gessler who is a silver and bronze medalist from the 2010 Dehli Commonwealth Games will present the swim-ming cup to the winners. If you come into the pool dressed in vintage attire you can also get a free swim and there will be heaps of fun activities for the kids from 10-2pm. Swim Magic Holiday Intensive and Stroke Clin-ics also begin on Monday 18 May and run every day of the holidays except Easter. This is a great

way for swimmers to boost their technique over the holidays and spots are still avail-able for week two of the holidays. Swim-magic is New Zea-lands biggest swim school, developed through years of ex-

perience from swim schools around the world. The Swim-Magic programme has been designed to give your child the best chance of progression in the shortest possible time.Come dressed in vintage attire and stay for a free swim and fun activities for the kids. The aquarun will be up and run-ning for the kids to challenge themself and the rope swing will be out for some flying fun. If you are luck you might even see Swim School mascot Kori the blue penguin. You can also relive your mem-ories with a historic display at the pool and Elma Tuner Li-brary. For more information call Riverside on 546 3221.

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The Fowler Homes show home is all completed and looking great, they are opening its doors to the public this Sunday.Lisa and Andrew Stevenson have been running Fowler Homes for eight years and say they live and breathe the company.The husband and wife team say they can design and build a home for real living.Its the personal touch that Lisa and Andrew bring to the whole building process that adds to the uniqueness of their business.What we bring to the market, is that we are owned and run by Lisa and myself and it has been from the very beginning, it has always been a husband and wife team, says Andrew.People are still really passion-ate and focused on that personal touch.Andrew has been a builder all his life and he built the show home on Daelyn Ave himself.I came out of the office and physi-cally built the show home. We did that for a number of reasons and one is so that when were actually

here selling it I can say I actually built it, Im a builder not just a salesman.The couple are thrilled they are able to provide this great point of difference to their clients.You only deal with us, thats what a lot of people who have built with us say, that its so good be-cause theyre not ringing an office and getting put on to this person or that person, were the one stop shop. Were accountable, says Lisa. We have built this with family in mind, we designed the home as we would live. With three chil-dren ourselves we concentrated on that, our space, their space, and with our girls wanting to move in, I would say the design matched the brief, our brief says Lisa.The whole process has been a lot of fun for the couple, who say that building a home doesnt need to be stressful.Thats the thing everyone enjoys when theyve built with us. People going into it say its stressful but we say there is no reason for it to be. We deal with the stress and you en-joy it.

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Building a home is a personal experience and Lisa says relationships have been formed with their cli-ents in the past. The couple have attended weddings, birthdays and other celebrations for people they have built homes for.Andrew says building a home from scratch is a big thing in someones life.Its big financially and its a commitment we take very seriously. All of the Fowler Homes sub contractors and suppli-ers are fantastic according to Lisa and Andrew. Theyve been with us for the eight years as well. With most of the people advertising within this fea-ture were loyal to them and theyre very loyal to us and they see our clients right. They follow our way and are always available for us and our clients. Be-tween us and our contractors we really do offer a full service, from helping our clients find the right sec-tion through to full interior design. I help 90% of our clients with interior design, I have even helped on

move-in day to arrange furniture! says Lisa. This is all part of the Fowler Homes full service, you wont have to pay for an interior designer when building the them. Lisa is more than happy to visit clients cur-rent homes to see how they live and to view their fur-nishings to make sure all their favourite pieces can have pride of place in their new home.The builders have also been with Fowler Homes for eight years. You get quality because we know them and we have a good relationship with them, one of our longest standing builders helped Andrew build the show home.Lisa says she and Andrew are starting to see clients come back for a second home. We get lots of repeat business and referrals. Fowler Homes is a national brand and is respected throughout the country.People in Nelson ask who are they and what are they? Were not a franchise; were a joint venture so we run this. We pass on our buying power through

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Were not saying that so we can over spend it, if we know their budget we can tell them what they can have. We find this the most important starting point when designing a home. If we know what they want to spend, the clients needs, proposed size, we can design a home within that figure. Talking square metre rate is a thing of the past, we talk about how we can give our clients what they want within their budget, we can help them make the correct choices so there will be no blow outs. Going over budget is the thing that is most con-cerning for those building a house.With us you dont do it unless you want to do it, says Andrew.Transparency is important to how Lisa and An-drew run their business.Fowler Homes can provide plans, but Andrew says the company basically designs and builds for every client, giving that personal touch to some-

ones dream home. Looking at proposed section choices with clients helps us all choose the per-fect house design for their section, views, sun and lifestyle.The official opening of the Fowler Homes show home is this Sunday, April 17, from 1pm to 4pm on Daelyn Ave, Richmond. After this, the open-ing hours of the show home are Sunday to Friday 1pm to 4pm.

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Saturday, April 2At 12.35am, a 25 year-old Nelson man was ar-rested for breach of the liquor ban on Bridge St.At 1.48am, a 37 year-old Richmond woman was arrested for possessing an offensive weapon in a domestic incident. At 2am, a 24 year-old Nelson man was arrested for male assaults female and contravening a protection order. At 2.32am, a 42 year-old Christchurch man was arrested for refusing to give a blood test on Waimea Rd. At 4.10pm, a 28 year-old Nelson man was arrested for prevention of suicide. At 10pm, a 24 year-old Nelson woman was arrested for breach of the peace in a domestic incident.

Sunday, April 3At 1.45am, a 27 year old Nelson man was arrest-ed for disorderly behaviour. He was on Bridge St with his shirt off inciting other male to fight him. At 2am, a 20 year-old Nelson man was arrested for wilful damage. He smashed the entry glass door to the Night Owl dairy on Waimea Rd. At 2.10am, A 24 year-old Nelson man was for assault, posses utensils after a domestic dispute with partner. At 2.50am, a 24 year-old Nelson man was arrested for fighting in a public place. At 2.50am, a 20 year-old Nelson man was ar-rested for fighting in a public place. At 9.10am, a 21 year-old Stoke woman was arrested for theft from vehicles, possession of cannabis in the car park of Countdown on Halifax St. At 9.25am, a 23 year-old Nelson man was arrested for breach of bail and theft from cars on Halifax St. At 1.53pm, a 23 year-old Stoke man was arrested for unlawfully being on a property.

Monday, April 4At 2.35pm, a 15 year-old Nelson boy was ar-rested for burglary on Weta St. At 8.30pm, a 29 year-old Nelson man was arrested for assault on a female.

Tuesday, April 5At 2.04am, two 19 year-old English tourists were

arrested for unlawfully entering a building. They were located by dogs on the roof of Milton St dairy. At 10.59am, a 53 year-old Nelson man was arrested for theft. At 4.45pm, a warrant was is-sued for a 28 year-old Nelson man. At 7.50pm, a 20 year-old Nelson man was arrested for bur-glary and intentional damage in Vanguard St.

Wednesday, April 6At 3.08am, a 18 year-old Nelson woman was ar-rested for assault. At 3.13am, a 18 year-old Nel-son woman was arrested for disorderly behav-iour. At 7.30pm, a 27 year-old Nelson man with no fixed abode was arrested for theft ex car.

Thursday, April 7At 7.30am, a 18 year-old Nelson man was arrest-ed for breach of bail. At 7.38am, a warrant was is-

sued for a 22 year old Nelson man. At 8.43am, a 23 year-old Nelson man was arrested for breach of bail. At 4.23pm, a 19 year-old Nel-son woman was arrested for shop-lifting from Farmers. At 6.31pm, a 19 year-old Nelson man was ar-

rested for breach of bail. At 9pm, a 24 year-old Nelson man was arrested for assaulting a female and assault. At 9.57pm, a 44 year-old Nelson man was arrested for contravening a protection order, breach of bail and assault.

Friday, April 8At 12.29am, A 24 year-old Nelson man was ar-rested on Bridge St for driving while disquali-fied, breach of the peace and refusing to give a blood test.

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Nelson pool team off to NZ 8-ball champs

RIGHT ON CUE: Mike Shanaher, Tim Shanaher, David Miles, Braydon Diamond, Xandre Little, Sam Miller, Chey Case-Connor, Brittany Kidd, Clare Shanaher, Nathan Geddes and Braydon Drummond get some last minute practice at the before the NZ Clubs 8-ball junior championship in Palmerston North this weekend. Photo: Phillip Rollo.

Ten Nelson teenagers are heading off to the New Zealand Clubs 8-ball Junior Championship this weekend, looking to claim high honours.The tournament is held at City Club 2000 Palm-erston North. Brothers Mike and Tim Shanaher, along with Nathan Geddes, are ranked in the top ten in the country and are the biggest hopefuls from the Nelson Suburban Club contingent. Mike and Tim have both competed at the open championship before, which is the next transition from the junior competition. While ages range from 10 years-old to 18 years-old, all competitiors will be facing each other in singles and pairs. Coach Clare Shanaher says the 8-ball tournament is a great op-portunity for the younger players to get experience playing at a high level, against older competitiors.There is prize money for the winners.The pool players practice every week at the Nelson Suburban Club and Clare says its a sport for all shapes and sizes. Not all kids are in to running around paddocks kicking balls. This gives them an-other opportunity, she says.


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