Nelson Magazine - November 2021

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November 2021

What’s inside Features 15 - 17 Nelson’s music man 18 - 21 Women of the land 23 - 25 Flying high in Nelson for 100 years 27

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Setting goals to smash ceilings

29 - 31 Coffee culture 32 - 33 Songbird 35

A new Dawn for people with eating disorders

38 - 41 Fashion - Long summer nights 75 - 81

Travel Hawke’s Bay

Regular 13

A Day in the Life of…

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On the Street

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My Home

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59 - 67 At Home 69 Gardening 83

What’s On

84 - 89 Social pages 90 - 93 Eat and drink 94 Health 95 - 98 Harcourts Real Estate

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But there’s still that last push to go before the promise of longer, relaxing summer days. It’s a good time of year. I like the busyness it brings, having a to do list which keeps growing, and it’s exhilarating having one extra magazine to get to print before Christmas with early deadlines. But it’s made easier knowing there is a reward at the end with some days off, without pressures or interruptions, and some time for fun and reflection.

I hope you enjoy this edition.

See you in December!

Sarah Board

This month includes a taste of summer and the festivities ahead. Inside you’ll find what’s on, hot summer fashion, a feature travel article on the Hawke’s Bay region, and to help you be really organised, we’ve even included a recipe for your Christmas ham.

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Time’s up for Hangar 3 at Nelson Airport. The large old building has come to the end of its 80-year long life. With limited space at the airport, the site is expected to soon be occupied by a modern Rescue Fire Centre that will house the newlyacquired Rosenbaur Panther fire truck, and future hangar developments.

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It’s a horse, of course A product used for de-worming horses is selling out at local animal product retailers with people believing it can be used to prevent or treat Covid-19.

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One-wheeled wonder Nearly 100 children have learned the unique skill of unicycling thanks to Year 10 Nelson College student, Oliver Morton. Through his business studies project Oliver raised more than $1000 which he used to buy four unicycles for Hampden Street School, his old primary school. Oliver loves sharing his passion for unicycling and has inspired one fifth of the school’s pupils who can now be spotted tearing around on one wheel.

All aboard As the price of land increases, more people are looking to the sea. The waitlist for a space at the Nelson Marina is now five years, with the demand to live on a houseboat growing as a cost-efficient housing alternative.

For those lucky enough to secure a spot on the water the feedback is all positive. “There is no going back now, we absolutely love this lifestyle,” says Nelson local Ella Christieson.

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“I said, ‘Dude, you must look like a pressed pack of sausages’, and he said, ‘yeah man, that’s what’s so good about it’.”

Grant Smithies pages 15 -17

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A Day in the Life Of Hayden Rose

1pm 3pm

Lunchtime! Three hours of the show is complete, and I venture out of the studio into town to find something yummy for lunch. Sushi it is.

4pm

12pm

Jono and Ben have just finished and it’s my turn to take the station local for the day. In between the voice breaks (the talky-bits) I create and look after every promo in Nelson, Marlborough and the West Coast across our six radio stations and 32 frequencies. There’s always something to do.

The six hour show is done and dusted. I hand over to Laura and Estelle and begin some prep for tomorrow’s show, in amongst some more promotion planning and brainstorming with the team over Zoom.

Time to jump back in the pink Jono and Ben-mobile and head home. I love taking the Rocks Road route and spending the commute in the sun alongside the ocean. We live in such a beautiful place.

6pm

The office is cold this morning. I turn on the aircon, warm up the jug and prep the studio. I spend the next few hours planning the show before everyone else gets into the office. I’ll more often than not end up down random news holes on the internet if I’m not careful.

I’m in and out of the studio for the rest of the afternoon.

There’s a squeak on the studio door which I’ve been meaning to fix for the last three years. One day...

I’ve spent the last few hours catching up on the day’s news outside in the sun. Dinner is up and then I’m off to CityFitness with the boys.

8pm

5.00am 6.30am

I’m showered, dressed and fed. I venture outside where I’m greeted by Jono and Ben on the side of my very pink Hits car. I jump in and head into the studio, Mike Hosking coming through the stereo loud and clear.

8.55am

I’m woken up every morning by one of two things. A very loud alarm, or a cat outside my bedroom door meowing and scratching. Whichever comes first. I get up and then jump straight onto every news and social media app imaginable to get a quick overview of what the day might bring.

7am

Hayden Rose is a broadcaster and promotions manager at New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME). He hosts the 9am-3pm show on The Hits 89.6FM and is the youngest commercial radio host in New Zealand at just 18 years old, but radio is nothing new to him, having worked in the industry with NZME since he was 14.

Well, that was fun…I jump in the shower, before checking my phone one last time. I end the night by tuning into Newstalk ZB to catch Marcus Lush with the mood of the nation, as I get ready to do it all again tomorrow. Life is good!

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TESS JAINE

Music plays a loud part of Grant Smithies’ life so it’s no surprise to see him with a smile on his face in his own record store at The Free House Pub in Nelson.

Nelson’s music man Grant Smithies is described as the country’s finest music writer. His ear for a tune and eye for a yarn have led him around the world, to the halls of Hollywood celebrity and to fireside chats with some of the world’s biggest names in music. Yet his roots remain firmly at home with family in Washington Valley and nattering to locals at his record store in central Nelson, where Tracy Neal caught up with him.

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n the vinyl-lined hut, old records in mint condition compete for space with new releases, including Lorde’s latest, Solar Power. It features an odd sticker over her nearnaked butt as she scissors over the album cover.

“The record company did that,” Smithies volunteers, lest we think he has a prudish streak.

Smithies, as he’s known, has forged a big career out of music, shaped by little else than his dad’s ancient radiogram and his mum’s cassettes which whirred and stuttered around an old tape deck in the kitchen.

“I grew up in a skint part of Whanganui, in a house with a yard full of dead cars next door. My old man had a radiogram one of those ancient valve ones, and a bunch of 78s.

“The first record we had was a Beatles compilation called The Essential Beatles. It had a scratch on the song Penny Lane, so it went: “Penny Lane is in my….Penny Lane is in my…over and over, so every time I hear it on the radio I expect the song to do that.”

Smithies can hear a fine tune before it’s been created but he doesn’t read music. He admits his musical abilities are limited to the tin whistle – a simple six-holed instrument one might expect to hear rising above the din of the school orchestra.

“I got a guitar at some stage, learned to play three chords, then it got dusty in the corner before I gave it away, but I can play a surprising number of semi-adept things on the tin whistle.”

Before his ascension to musical raconteur, Smithies spent a

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few years in the UK where he worked as a gardener in Ireland, as a naked life model at Edinburgh Art College, and then as a house painter on the East Cape on returning to his homeland.

His work as a features writer and columnist for Sunday publications, and as a reviewer for Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon programme was shaped by his early days as an apprentice studio operator.

“I qualified as a radio technician, then travelled around the country working for different radio stations, by which stage I was writing ads and helping to edit documentaries for radio.”

Smithies says he was first introduced to Nelson while passing through en route to the West Coast.

“I spent a few days here and liked it, so came back, in about the late ‘80s, after I’d returned from overseas.”

He’s [Lou Reed] a key musical figure of the era, along with Iggy Pop, who I’ve also interviewed, and who by the way, told me he was wearing a pair of clear plastic pants and that he delighted in wearing them with no underwear.

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He worked in local radio before he and his wife, artist Josephine Cachemaille helped to establish Takaka Hill dance party festival, The Gathering, from the ashes of the smaller Entrain. By then, he had begun writing music reviews and got noticed by national mastheads.

“I never went through journalism school but discovered an aptitude for it. I bluffed my way, thrashed ideas about and found a thing that worked.”

Smithies is immune to being star-struck. It has nurtured an honesty in his writing, which has occasionally got him into trouble, like the time his critique of a Billy Joel album release triggered a threat from the artist.

“When I interviewed him he came across as this kind of…odd, arrogant, belligerent character to talk to, so when I wrote the story I was reasonably disparaging of him, implying that maybe his best days were behind him.

“He read my story and wrote a letter to the Sunday Star Times, saying: ‘Grant Smithies! If he comes to my Wellington show, he’d better wear a hockey mask in case I deck him’!”

One of his favourite interviews was with American musician and poet, Lou Reed.

“He’s a key musical figure of the era, along with Iggy Pop, who I’ve also interviewed, and who by the way, told me he was wearing a pair of clear plastic pants and that he delighted in wearing them with no underwear.

“I said, ‘Dude, you must look like a pressed pack of sausages’, and he said, ‘yeah man, that’s what’s so good about it’.”

The “notoriously crabby” artist Neil Young was surprisingly generous.

“He was on a bus, conducting the interview via Skype, and it kept dropping out, and he kept phoning back!

“He didn’t want to talk about his music – he wanted to talk about electric cars.”

Phil Collins was “tedious as”, while he once talked with Paul McCartney about how best to remove tree foliage stuck to his car.

“He was hilarious. He was walking to pick up his car in London and one of his workers had had it valeted. He was planning on driving to whatever stately home he’s got, but walked around the corner and saw the state it was in.

“He went, ‘oh f…, it’s all covered in leaves and sticks!’. I suggested he take it through the car wash.

“He said, ‘nah, I’ll just drive really fast down to Dorset and it will all fly off’.”

Smithies has been flown to the UK to write about Glastonbury, and to Los Angeles to interview celebrities featuring in television shows screening in New Zealand, despite his fear of flying.

He has fine-tuned the art of asking slightly curveball questions, which usually chisels out the most interesting tales.

“The trick is always getting something interesting out of them, because often they’ve talked to 40 people before me.”

Smithies opened his record store, Family Jewels Records about four years ago in the small hut beside The Free House in Collingwood Street. Its genesis was the record fairs he held in the yurt that was once a feature of the venue, and the 20 crates of spare records under his house.

Smithies says record stores are a beacon of alternative culture in any town, and it works well being alongside a local business he rates highly.

When I interviewed him he came across as this kind of…odd, arrogant, belligerent character to talk to, so when I wrote the story I was reasonably disparaging of him, implying that maybe his best days were behind him.

“A lot of my week is solitary, which I like, and then I come down here a couple of days a week and it’s really sociable, with all these eccentric music fans washing in and out.”

The discussions have confirmed his view there’s no such thing as “the good ol’ days” when it comes to music.

“It’s interesting how often I’ll get guys coming in who want to have that conversation about how there’s been ‘no decent music made since Bob Dylan in 1965 and that everything since is rubbish’.

“I think what happens with a lot of people is that the music which resonates at times of high emotional turbulence in their life, is what they think is best, but there’s as much good music being made now than at any time in human history. It’s just whether you get to hear it.”

He says the dominant musical forces which once funneled listeners to the same artist no longer exist. The myriad of platforms has made it hard to cut through the noise.

Smithies has just entered his sixth decade. It’s dawning on him that’s he’s now at the age he once considered unfathomably old.

“I’m in the middle of a slow retirement and looking forward to getting the pension.”

One senses though, there are a few more good spins on the turntable yet.

Aimee on the family farm with horse Locki.

Women of the land November is the start of the season for showing off all things agricultural and pastoral.

The Nelson A&P Show is gearing up for its 127th show, and despite nervous jitters about Covid, planning has been in full swing since last year. This month we’re going slightly rural, in honour of the region’s women of the land. Tracy Neal reports.

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hickens crowd and strut the paddocks of Willow Creek Farm in Upper Moutere like concertgoers at an outdoor rave.

The happy hens now number 6000 and are the lifeblood of the Macquet family’s free-range egg business. It has helped to shape 23-year-old Aimee Macquet, who grew up in the peaceful rural enclave.

Some are terrified of the hens – I have to piggy-back my friends through the paddocks, they’re so afraid.

Aimee Macquet

Her parents moved to New Zealand from South Africa, where they ran a specialty vegetable farm, and eventually bought the property in Upper Moutere. They started the egg farm with 1500 chickens, and it’s grown from there.

“When we first moved here Dad was commuting to Wellington for work so my job was to get up early and feed all the chickens before catching the bus to school.

“I’d come home and help with all the endof-day chores, like cleaning up all the hen houses.”

Aimee says feeding is now automated, which is just as well – 6000 hungry hens are not to be messed with.

AIMEE JULES

The farm runs mainly Hy line brown chickens – a mix of brown shaver and the Hy line variety.

“We used to get them when they were 14 weeks-old which was a major family mission.

“We’d have to drive over to Blenheim where they were raised, catch them at night, because it was only possible in the dark, put them in cages and drive them back to the Moutere where we’d unload them all.”

Aimee says it meant a 7pm start, and a return at 1am, two nights in a row.

“We couldn’t fit them all in one trip. It was always a giant family debacle.”

The farm now raises its own chickens, freighted in at the tender age of one day old.

Chickens are said to be the closest living relative to dinosaurs. While that was news to Aimee, she has noticed some unusual responses from friends visiting the farm.

“Some are terrified of the hens – I have to piggy-back my friends through the paddocks, they’re so afraid.”

Aimee, who goes by the name Aimee Jules as a photographer for this magazine, discovered photography as an off shoot of her industrial design degree.

“I’ve applied some of my product design learning on the farm. We designed all the tunnel houses and the nesting boxes. Honestly, it’s quite a fancy chicken farm.”

Aimee has acquired her mother’s love of horses, and the pair often ride together. She says while the land has helped to shape her so far, she’s not sure it will shape her future.

“I love the land. We have a stand of native bush where we go quite often as a family and sit on a chair we built at the top of the paddock where we look out over the whole farm.

“It’s a paradise, and mum and dad are very proud of what they’ve built. I do love it here, but I also see it’s a lot of work.”

The show must go on…Covid permitting.

The show’s organisers are once more nervously watching daily Covid announcements, hoping the 127th Nelson A&P Show will happen as planned on the 20th and 21st of November.

Nelson A&P Association manager Annette Robinson said as this issue went to print, that all fingers and toes were crossed.

“Currently, I feel we are in the butterfly games, flitting around. The bottom line is, we’ll have some sort of show, barring us being plunged back into Level 3 or 4 lockdown.”

The show's notable and historic cancellation was in November 1918 when Nelson was in the grips of the

Spanish Flu pandemic, and the showgrounds in Richmond were turned into a temporary hospital.

The show, which was launched in 1895 by Prime Minister Richard John Seddon with the words, “we must keep pace with the times”, has evolved into more of an education event, Annette says. This is because of changes to people's lifestyles, and as young people become less aware of basic food production.

"Things like where milk comes from, or what does a little lamb look like - a lot of people just don't get the opportunity to see and feel those sort of things."

All going to plan, the woodchopping will be a star attraction of this year’s show, helped by Canterbury competitors looking to Nelson now that the Christchurch show has been cancelled.

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Ocean swell from a northerly storm crashing on the beach at Cable Bay was Barbara Stuart’s first memory of the farm she was to call home.

The Banks Peninsula farmer’s daughter eventually became a strong advocate for sustainable land management practices in the Nelson region, and a voice for rural women.

She had met husband-to-be, Ian Stuart through mutual friends when she was head cashier at Whitcoulls in Christchurch, and Ian was farming in Lincoln.

They’re now retired, having handed daily management of the 900-hectare Cable Bay Farm to their son Sam and his wife Anni, but it’s been a successful team effort for decades.

“I always said Ian does all the work and I do all the talk.”

Barbara was familiar with steep hills and tough land to farm, such as those surrounding Lyttelton Harbour, but the sea rolling into north Nelson – the soundtrack to the Stuart family farm, was different.

“Ian brought me home to meet the family. We arrived late at night because back then it was a long drive from Christchurch.

“There was this northerly sea coming in – it was roaring all night. I’d come from a small bay in Lyttelton Harbour where the southerlies brought the storms, but here, it was coming from the north and it was different.”

The Stuart family has farmed the original Cable Station site since the early 1930s and has re-shaped the farm with land additions and subtractions over the generations.

Barbara’s involvement in an array of community groups has helped guide many in the rural sector.

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For 18 years she was the Top of the South regional coordinator for the New Zealand Landcare Trust, helping farmers reduce their impact on the land by boosting efforts to farm more sustainability.

She has also been involved with Rural Women NZ which collaborates with the Top of the South Rural Support Trust and Federated Farmers.

They’re challenging times for our young people who are a huge resource for this country.

Barbara Stuart

Barbara and Ian have ridden the highs and endured the extreme lows of farming, while at the same time suffering the worse blow imaginable with the loss of their son Evan at Cave Creek on the West Coast in 1995. He was among the 14 who died after a viewing platform they were on collapsed and fell 30 metres into the ravine below.

Barbara’s love of the land has never waned, but she is concerned for the next generation.

“It’s getting tougher and the public’s expectations of how people farm is becoming greater.

“They’re challenging times for our young people who are a huge resource for this country. We don’t want to lose the ability to produce food.”

Barbara Stuart at Cable Bay.

Rebecca Hayter with Hokey Pokey.

A farmlet by the sea in Golden Bay/Mohua was a calling for Rebecca Hayter. The New Zealand author and award-winning journalist grew up in the “bay”, which beckoned her back in late 2015 after a long media career in Auckland.

“It’s easy to fall into the thinking that men drive tractors and use the chainsaw and the women mow the lawns and do the garden, but you have to get over that and say, ‘Well actually, I’m going to drive the tractor and use the chainsaw’.

The former editor of Boating New Zealand magazine says she had no clue about what might be involved in running a 10-acre property. When interviewed for this story, Rebecca had spent half the previous night under a plum tree in her orchard, cuddling a tiny, newborn lamb from the rain, while its mother looked after its twin.

“It took me two years to get up the courage to buy a chainsaw and now I’m like Paul Bunyan (lumberjack folk hero) chopping down trees all over the place.”

Rebecca’s commitment to the move was confirmed once she found the right property, which she felt straight away had been developed with love.

“Most of us have a deep-down dream of living on the land and having chooks and a vegetable garden. It’s a bit idealistic, but for me it was a flame still burning and I wanted to pay attention to it and make it happen.”

It’s a bit idealistic but for me it was a flame still burning and I wanted to pay attention to it and make it happen.

Rebecca Hayter

Rebecca says that when she sole-owned a yacht, she found that the biggest roadblock to a task was lack of confidence. The same applies to running a lifestyle property, she says.

An unexpected delight has been the sheep which graze on seaside paddocks.

“Don’t tell my cat, but yes, I think my favourites are probably the sheep.”

Rebecca says owning land is like a relationship with any living being.

“The land gives you so much – obviously it gives you food, but it also allows you to be part of a living community, where you get to see the weka teaching their babies how to find worms, you see eels and pukeko in the wetland; everyone’s got their friends and their enemies and they’re just trying to survive.”

The challenges, she says, lie in the ongoing maintenance, but the overall experience creates a rich resource for her writing, including her award-winning column, High Heels and Gumboots, which ran in North & South magazine prior to its recent reincarnation.

“It’s about a city girl who comes to a lifestyle block without a clue about what she’s doing, but bumbles along from one disaster to another, helped along by her chooks, her sheep and her neighbours.”

Rebecca says the local community is hugely supportive, with advice on everything from composting to caring for sheep and nurturing native seedlings which flourish on the farmlet she’s named Oceanspirit.

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The site of the second plane landing in Stoke. Photo: F.N. Jones Collection Alexander Turnbull Library.

Flying high in Nelson for 100 years It has been 100 years this month since the first plane was seen in Nelson’s skies. Although neither Graeme McConnell nor Richard Waugh have ever piloted a plane, they have played a major role in preserving the history of aviation in Nelson. Jenny Nicholson talks to them about the first flight.

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om Newman had already made history pioneering the first horse drawn coaches in the Top of the South.

He wasn’t going to let a crash landing earlier in the week deter him from his dream of being the first passenger flown into Nelson. He paid 100 pounds for the flight.

Captain P.K. Shorty Fowler had made his own history just a month before, as the first person charged and later convicted for trick flying low enough to endanger the public. He was fined one pound.

Captain Fowler was a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War 1 and later would go on to be the Commandant of the Air Training Corps in 1944.

On the morning of 11 November 1921 Tom and Shorty were joined by mechanic Ted Ranish aboard the Avro 504K E9429.

With a compass, a cross level and a school atlas they took off from Lyall Bay in Wellington, with Tom’s Brightwater farm their intended destination.

While the take-off went smoothly, the rest of the flight didn’t go to plan.

“Before I got to French Pass, I was unsure where we were,” said Captain Fowler. “I said to Mr Newman, ‘Any idea where we are?’ and he replied, ‘I’m damned if I know!”

There was obvious relief when they finally spotted Nelson.

Aviation historianGraeme McConnell says the fuel gauge was very primitive and, as on approaching Nelson, the plane started to splutter.

“I was very anxious at this time because fuel was running low. Circling over the Post Office the motor stopped, and I was out of petrol,” Captain Shorty Fowler said. “Fortunately, the Avro had an extra four-gallon tank on the wing.”

Although they switched to the extra tank, fuel was still low, and Shorty looked for a place to land. With the tide out, he thought the mudflats looked promising. Tom was quick to veto that idea, so they continued flying as far as James Marsden’s property in Stoke.

They landed and history was made. They were the first to fly into Nelson.

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After refuelling from the garage across the road, their unscheduled stop was cut short. An unhappy James Marsden sent his gardener with a message to ‘get off my land.’ After a stop on Saxton farm, they continued toward Tom’s farm. This time it was Shorty who vetoed the plan saying the paddocks were too small. Flying a little further, they landed in Spring Grove.

different companies, competition to take locals flying was fierce between Shorty and Nelson. Both took off from Tahuna Beach.

At 89 years old, Richmond’s Mrs Sarah Haycock was the oldest to climb into the Avro for a joyride, but it was another of Shorty’s passengers who would go on to impact Nelson’s aviation and economy.

Years later Shorty said, “I would not cross the strait today in the Avro for a gold clock and a thousand pounds.”

Shorty Fowler’s daughter Janet King said recently that she is proud of her father - now.

“Unfortunately, I was a child. And then a teenager and I thought how boring when he talked about flying,” says Janet. “I didn’t realise how amazing he was.”

In reflecting on that first flight, Graeme McConnell says it was just luck that the flight captained

by Shorty Fowler was the first to arrive in Nelson. History could have been different if the skies between Marlborough and Nelson had been clear earlier that week. Tom’s quest to be the first to fly to Nelson started with two flights from Marlborough, both hampered by bad weather causing them to turn back.

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During the second flight, at about 800 feet, the engine failed, and following an emergency landing Tom walked away with a badly bruised arm.

“Undaunted, Newman became even more resolute to fly home,” says Graeme.

It was then that he boarded the ferry to Wellington to join Shorty Fowler on what was to be that successful first flight.

Organisers of Nelson Tasman 100th Aviation Celebrations Graeme McConnell and Richard Kempthorne with a book Graeme co wrote with Richard Waugh.

Tom Newman’s oldest son Jack flew with Shorty Fowler, and an interest in aviation was ignited. Later, he was influential in the forming of both the Nelson Aeroclub and Cook Strait Airways.

In the weeks after the first 1921 flight, skies were busy with Nelson’s first competitive aviation. Just two days after Fowler’s successful flight, H. Nelson Hawker flew in from Blenheim.

At 7.45 am on Monday 30 December 1935 Cook Strait Airways left Nelson on the first scheduled flight to connect the South and North Islands. By September 26 the following year 16 flights were scheduled to cross the Cook Strait.

Soon after World War 1 the British government offered New Zealand 100 planes. They accepted 33 and a number of these were loaned to three privately-owned flying companies. From

In 1977 Jack Newman was knighted for his services to the travel industry, commerce, and the community.

After refuelling from the garage across the road, their unscheduled stop was cut short. An unhappy James Marsden sent his gardener with a message to ‘get off my land.

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What passengers and pilots experienced in those early days would be unthinkable today. Passengers were all weighed prior to boarding, with the heaviest sat near the front of the plane.

Pilots had radio communication with the ground, but no radar. Procedure on cloudy days was for the pilots to request someone on the ground go out to the field to listen. If that person could hear the plane, the pilot knew they were clear over Tasman Bay and could gradually come down out of the clouds so they could see to land.

In 1938, just three years after the first scheduled flight, Cook Strait Airways flew 509,833 miles, with 24,134 passengers, 72,238 lbs of freight and 44, 735 lbs of mail.

“That reflects the remarkable growth in air travel in the years just before World War 2,” says Graeme.

From left William Arnold, Ted Ranish, P.K. Shorty Fowler, Alexander Thomson (Mrs Newman’s father), Christina and Tom Newman where the plane landed on William Arnold’s Spring Grove farm.

Photo: F.N. Jones Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.

“With Nelson surrounded by mountains and hills and gravel roads, travel was long and difficult,” says Graeme. “The introduction of regular flights had an enormous impact on the region.”

Passengers were all weighed prior to boarding, with the heaviest sat near the front of the plane.

In 1938 Cook Strait Airways flew the first perishable goods from the South Island to Auckland, arriving less than 24 hours after picked, in perfect condition. The same year Nelson’s airport opened which Richard Waugh says was a key milestone for the region’s social, economic and tourism future.

Graeme and Richard realised the significance of the 100th anniversary and since 2019 have been working on plans for a celebration.

“The 100th anniversary of Nelson/Tasman aviation provides the opportunity to celebrate the contribution of aviation to the region – to honour the pioneers, recognise the aircraft, personalities, innovations and events – and how the important aviation industry has helped develop the whole Nelson/Tasman province,” says Richard.

Along with a celebration dinner, there will be a re-enactment of the first flight to Nelson on the 100th anniversary and a fly over Nelson, Stoke, Richmond and Waimea on 11th November 2022. Times over Nelson city will be 1pm, Stoke 1.10pm and Brightwater/Spring Grove at 2.30pm.

For information on the celebrations visit nelsonairport.co.nz/100thAviationAnniversary

Excited locals gathering at Spring Grove following the arrival of the first plane in Nelson. Photo: F.N. Jones collection, Nelson Provincial Museum.

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Setting goals to smash ceilings Venus Sood Guy came to Nelson for a challenge. She’s certainly got that on her hands as operations manager of New World, a mother and as a board member for five separate organisations.

Words: Judene Edgar

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rowing up in a family of eight in the bustling industrial town of Rajpura in the Punjab State of India, Venus Sood Guy never dreamed of coming to New Zealand, let alone going overseas.

She had relatives in the UK and her family had friends in Canada and Australia but travelling to stay with her cousins in the neighbouring towns of Patiala and Bhagrana was her idea of the perfect holiday.

From a very early age she was taught that you need to try things and not be scared to fail.

“My family have always trusted and supported me, so it has enabled me to take leaps of faith to pursue my goals.”

At home, she was lucky to experience gender equality, a luxury she knows that friends of hers didn’t share.

“Often friends couldn’t do things their brothers could do, but in my family we had equal opportunities.”

With the support of her family, she studied law at Punjabi University and after completing her Masters degree went on to lecture in law, until she hit a glass ceiling.

“In India, if you are born into a middle-class family, there can be a glass ceiling as to how high you can rise in organisations.”

Determined not to let this hold her back, she decided to shift to New Zealand.

“I wanted to be challenged and to do things on my own,” she says.

She came to Nelson with her sister Suman and they both studied business management at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.

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Venus Sood Guy at Nelson Library, one of her favourite places to spend time.

“I really loved NMIT and made some great relationships.”

But Venus had goals to achieve. In fact, each year Venus writes a plan for the coming year and regularly reviews progress towards her goals. Even job rejections or failures are simply seen as learning opportunities to help her achieve her goals.

“I don’t focus on negatives. There’s so much you can’t control so you need to focus on what you can change, what you can do, and what you want to achieve.”

Thirteen years after arriving in Nelson, alongside her husband Greg, Venus is operations manager of New World with 150 staff, and oversees eight departments. Every day she juggles human resources, health and safety, food safety, and legal and compliance issues.

She also juggles raising a five-year old daughter and a growing focus on governance. Keen to be able to share her skills and give back to the community, she became a Justice of the Peace last year and is currently on five boards including Abbeyfield New Zealand and Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce, and is an associate director for Network Tasman Ltd. In September, she made the Ministry for Ethnic Communities’ list of top Board-Ready Emerging Directors for New Zealand.

And how does she do it all?

“I get up at four thirty every morning,” she says.

“4.30 to 6.30am is my time for reading and keeping up-to-date.

When you’re on a board you need to be on top of your game.”

“Women frequently underestimate themselves or are judged differently, but you need to believe in yourself, set goals, and then work hard to make them happen and make a difference.”

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Coffee culture Coffee puritans know just how they like it. But as methods of extraction have broadened in recent years, caffeine fixed Britt Coker ponders, should our minds broaden too?

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Zippy at his Vanguard Street coffee and lunch bar.

There’s no disputing it - we lot love our coffee. Here, it’s never more than a short walk between café choices no matter which street you’re standing on, and even on a hot day in summer you’ll find coffee cart queues at our region’s fairs and festivals. We can boast about the roast too with many loyal followers of bean baggers like Pomeroys, Sublime, Kush and Zumo, Raglan Roast, Rabbit Island, Celcius and Crossbow. For a population of our size, that’s a lot of coffee sack cushions and lampshade covers. And when you show this kind of devotion to the bean, it’s inevitable that niches form as a way of standing out from the crowd.

Zippy’s Vanguard Street coffee and lunch bar is only four months old and is a small place, about the size of a compact office. Which is exactly what it was before it was a coffee bar. It has your run-of-the-mill street access (customers like that kind of thing), but inside, there’s a door through to the neighbouring bicycle shop that Zippy helped set up with his friend, Nigel. “Let’s turn the office into a plant-based lunch bar”, he said, so they did. Now, if you ever desire a bike and a vegan coffee at the same time, this place will feel like a convergence in an alternate universe.

Zippy has been a vegan for 18 months and has put his coffee milks where his mouth is. He stocks five different plantbased milks – oat, soy, almond, macadamia and coconut, and doesn’t charge more than what you’d pay for a normal coffee elsewhere, nor any price difference for a large or small serving. This is a business model that goes against the flow, but then, so does a coffee shop that doesn’t stock cow’s milk. But word is getting out amongst the plant-based milk fans and vegan cycling peloton - and even traditionalists are coming back for seconds.

Zippy recalls day two of business when a tradie walks in.

“He said he wanted a full cream mocha and I said we don’t do cow’s milk here. He looked a bit disgruntled, but I made him a mocha with oats milk, chocolate sprinkles and vegan marshmallows and he walked out the door with a bit of a grunt. I thought, well I’ll never see him again. A few days later he walked in and said, “gidday mate, give me the usual!”

Now he’s a regular, visiting twice a week for his chocolatesprinkled usual.

Besides being a vegan or liking Earth, is there any good reason to drink a plant-based beverage? Ex-barbecue chef, Zippy reckons animal fats greatly affect the flavour of many food dishes and the same holds true of coffee.

“When you’re blending any product together [with animal fat] you’re manipulating the flavour of the hero ingredient. What we’re trying to do here is to hero the coffee but create an amazing flavour experience that’s balanced and consistent.”

Zippy measures every shot he extracts to keep the consistency. He says a lot of baristas do it, aware that tweaks need to be made in the process as the day warms up. This watchful eye on the extraction helps ensure the customer’s coffee tastes the same on this day as it did the last.

There used to be a quirky Hardy Street café/restaurant called Zippys once, but this isn’t it. Nor is it connected. But there’s an offbeat nature they share and though tracking down frothed macadamia milk is not akin to discovering the source of the Nile, if that’s your kind of exploring you’ll find Zippy’s a rewarding expedition end.

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Meanwhile, across town, one of Nelson’s most successful coffee roasters, Sublime, has opened a bar where the brew is not beer, but filtered coffee. Well known for their roasted beans (75 outlets in Nelson Tasman) and Haven Road espresso bar, Emma and Dan Hennah have set up a brew bar that honours the filtered coffee.

In the 16 years since the couple began roasting coffee, they’ve seen the rise and fall and rise again of coffee preferences. Dominating the 80s and 90s office kitchens were instant and filter coffees. Then we got a whiff of a cappuccino sprinkled with chocolate dust and never looked back. A little bit of European sophistication infused our souls as we sat al fresco with the sun on our faces,

breathing in car fumes and smiling benevolently at our companions’ frothy milk moustaches. Finally, we were really living. Then, not so long ago, caffeine innovators proved once again the cyclical nature of trends and the fickleness of the human spirit as they cast a thoughtful glance behind them and declared filter coffee deserved a second chance.

Naturally, this begs the question from any flat white-supping investigative reporter, “good Lord, but why?”

There are several reasons, says Emma. “Rituals are coming back into coffee making. Espresso is made fast and consumed quickly whereas a filter coffee can take a while to make and you build up a bit of a ritual sitting around. People are eeking as much as possible out of their coffee moment.”

“A great espresso coffee is usually a blend, whereas filter coffee draws less acidity so you can accentuate more of the delicate flavours of a coffee. It’s a really popular method to use for single origin coffee which is a trend people are really starting to look at…It’s a very clean way to drink your coffee.”

At Sublime’s New Street Roastery & Brew Bar they offer a tasting board featuring three different origins, or filtering methods. Folks who wander in for an espresso won’t find one, but Emma says they encourage visitors to give filter a go and get plenty of repeat customers through the experience.

Ritualistic and more flavoursome, Emma says there is one more reason people switch to filter over froth. The cost.

Sublime sell a lot of filter coffee machines to homeowners because, compared to espresso machines, filter is less of a financial outlay for the aficionado who wants to make a decent cup of Joe without leaving the house. Staying at home is another trend we’re seeing a lot of these days.

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Get it while it’s hot! Said no nitro coffee brewer, ever. That’s because nitro coffee is made by steeping a single original coffee grind for 12-24 hours in water, before infusing with nitrogen to preserve its flavour. While anyone can steep plunger coffee in cold water overnight, as well as maintaining the beverage quality for longer, nitrogen is purported to improve the flavour and texture of the brew and bring out the sweetness.

Slade Andrew has been cold brewing nitro coffee for a couple of years and his coffee car has a regular spot at the Isel Twilight Market. Service is quick because he doesn’t have to make a hot coffee but he reckons efficiency works against him and makes people suspicious. An orderly queue is comforting. Plus, he’s still got a lot of explaining to do.

He finds people equate a cold brew to a hot coffee that’s gone cold, or an iced coffee but without the ice. If they are as brave as they are curious, Slade reports the conversion rate as high.

“I’d say about 99 out of 100 love it as soon as they try it.

I get the odd customer who says ‘it’s not for me’ but the majority think it’s great and come back for another one.”

Slade stores then pours his nitrogen infused coffee from a 19 litre keg and serves the drink in a glass (“I’ve only lost one”). The result resembles a Guinness stout, complete with the thick head (crema). An affogato option comes with a scoop of Appleby Ice Cream which starts at the bottom of the glass but scoffs at gravity as it floats to the top.

There is less acidity and more sweetness in a cold brewed coffee so Slade finds that an espresso drinker who likes a hot coffee with milk and sugar will try his cold black coffee and enjoy it. He reckons coffee drinkers in the 40-50 age bracket are the most reluctant to trial a cold brew, whereas 20-somethings haven’t yet built lounge shrines made from recycled coffee bags in deference to the espresso gods.

And then there are those folks a little closer to meeting their maker who are also keeping their options open.

“My oldest customer had a walker. She was easily in her 80s or 90s and after trying it she said it was the best coffee she had ever had in her life.”

Now that’s a bittersweet tragedy no coffee lover should ever experience. So, whichever way appeals, why not get out and try it made a different way? Just in case you too find the best coffee you have ever tasted, and hopefully, well before it’s your last.

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Singer/songwriter Jacquie Walters has released her fourth album The Forest, a confessional-style folk album.

Songbird Singing and performing has played a major part in Jacquie Walter’s life and her new album takes a look back at that life with the album touching on gratitude, grief and wry reflections on her personal dating experiences. Adrienne Matthews finds out more.

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acquie Walters is one of those people who oozes honesty and integrity and her fourth and latest solo album is a kaleidoscope of ballads that shows this yet again.

Its inspiration is the torrid internet dating fiascos she has experienced throughout the last few years, grief from her family’s loss of a loved one and gratitude for the opportunity to live in a paradise like the Nelson region. In essence it is about love; the search for it, the irony of it and the breadth of feelings and emotions it engenders.

As a student of Linwood College, Christchurch, Jacquie received a scholarship to study at the United World College of the Atlantic in South Wales for two years. “This was an opportunity of a lifetime and where I discovered my singing voice,” she says.

Writing songs has been in Jacquie’s blood for over thirty years during which time she has been turning all manner of life experiences into exceptional songs which she has performed throughout New Zealand and overseas.

Embarking on a career in writing and communication on her return, music was never very far off her radar and she was a founding member of the group “Pounamu” in the early 1990s with Ariana Tikao and Leigh Taiwhiti. She and Ariana

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Back in New Zealand she achieved a university degree before her love of Shakespeare led her back to the UK to complete an MA at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.

went on to record two albums, making regular appearances on television and around New Zealand. In 1996 the duo was auspiciously chosen to represent the Body Shop’s petition against nuclear testing to the French presidential palace before performing at venues throughout Europe.

The older I get, the more I understand the universality of our experiences of love and loss. I hope this album will bring some healing to others as it has to me.

In 2012 Jacquie established Walters PR. Winning a national award for her public relations work for the University of Canterbury after the 2011 earthquake gave her the confidence to start her own business in Nelson after moving to the city with her two children as a single mother.

Jacquie’s passion for helping others in an ethical way is central to the way she runs her business. “It matters to me that I have the opportunity to work with good people who are seeking to make a difference, solve challenges for others, or improve our community or environment.”

The people she has met during the last ten years and the life happenings here have spawned the songs that populate Jacquie’s last two solo albums. “The latest, ‘The Forest’, is a confessional album,” she says. “It is a wry commentary on unsuccessful dating. It is about ordinary life and the small details within it. The older I get, the more I understand the universality of our experiences of love and loss. I hope this album will bring some healing to others as it has to me.”

The album’s name was inspired by the grief she and her family felt when her ex-husband passed away from cancer, complicated by early-onset Dementia. “We took our grief to

the forest and sang it to the trees,” she says, “letting the power of nature be part of our healing.” The song ‘Breadcrumbs’ is a poignant commentary on the Hansel and Gretel story. “The birds eating the breadcrumbs symbolise the memories of someone with the disease disappearing, piece by piece.”

There are some songs that will highly entertain such as ‘New World.’ “It tells the story of running into an ex at the supermarket and is probably the only song on earth that includes the words ‘I focus on our list of perishables’,” laughs Jacquie.

“Culloden” comes from her experience visiting the Scottish battlefield where 1300 young lives were lost. “They weren’t much older than my own children,” she says, while ‘Whakatu’ is a song Jacquie gifted to the Nikau Hauora Hub, a community mental health hub, written in response to the 2020 ‘We’ve Got This’ campaign. It is about the healing power of place.

Jacquie’s voice is rich, expressive and of international quality.

Her warmth and humanity shines through every note and her guitar playing is sublime. Bass and guitar maestro James Wilkinson produced this album as he did two of her previous ones, performing on it as well. Maria Oxnam also puts in an appearance on the harp.

“I have really enjoyed this project,” says Jacquie. “I want to unlock people’s hearts through my music. That’s why I do it. There are songs on here that will make people laugh and others that will make them cry. I write to process my feelings and am happy that I can share them in this way. Hopefully listeners will find a resonance that will uplift them.”

The hardest thing was figuring out how to share it now that CDs are rarely purchased anymore and streaming is the preferred option of so many music listeners. “I feel sad that for the first time there is no physical album,” says Jacquie. “There are no liner notes, no artwork, none of the tangible side of music that I love.” The album will be available on Bandcamp and at only ten dollars it is an extraordinary gift.

Gifts are what Jacquie Walters is about. “Essentially it’s a gift to the community,” she says. “I certainly won’t make any money from it but hope that as many people as possible will find something of value in it.”

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A new Dawn for people with eating disorders Living with an eating disorder is the epitome of being totally out of control says Dawn Marron.

But her new charitable trust aims to help women wrestle back control of their bodies.

Words: Judene Edgar Dawn Marron is establishing a charitable trust to increase awareness of eating disorders.

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awn Marron had an enviable physique for most of her life, but it wasn’t by choice. For the best part of 25 years Dawn had an eating disorder and an obsessivecompulsive relationship with exercise that was driven by childhood trauma.

“When a child experiences serious trauma, they aren’t yet equipped with the skills to be able to handle it, so survival instincts kick in to protect them,” says Dawn.

“One such survival instinct is dissociation. It’s a common trauma response that disconnects people from their bodies and surroundings and all of the shame, guilt, anger and grief they feel as a result of the trauma they’ve experienced.”

Dawn numbed herself by severely controlling her food intake and with excessive exercise – running long distances, lifting weights and teaching up to six dance classes each day. She’d constantly compete with herself to surpass daily and weekly goals, pushing her body further and further. Part of her drive was the need to control her body and her fear of weakness or being vulnerable.

Unfortunately, these behaviours were reinforced. As a dance instructor, people applauded her body, her fitness, and her drive, and she felt the pressure of having to deliver. She believed being invincible, indomitable and untouchable kept her safe. She felt that she had it all under control.

“It feels like control but an eating disorder is the epitome of being totally out of control.”

And then it all came crashing down. Her body and mind collapsed. She couldn’t regulate her temperature, she had no strength or energy, she hit rock bottom. It took nearly three years of rest, intensive trauma healing, and deep personal work for Dawn to recover.

“Eating disorder behaviours are an expression of unresolved trauma desperately seeking help,” says Dawn.

“But you can only suppress your trauma for so long before it begins to surface; ultimately you’ll need to address it.”

After her own journey to healing, Dawn is now determined to help others to break free and transform their relationship with food and with themselves. Dawn has become a Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach and Counsellor with additional training in trauma, somatic experiencing, Internal Family Systems and equine-assisted psychotherapy.

Eating disorders are very unique and specific to the person, which is why Dawn says it’s critical to get to know the person and work through their individual issues on a deeply personal level. However, with the burgeoning numbers of people with eating disorders and the lack of trained professionals, people can end up on such long waiting lists that, while waiting for treatment, they end up hospitalised.

“Unfortunately, I’ve heard lots of harrowing personal stories about hospitalisation,” says Dawn.

To tackle the growing problem Dawn is establishing a charitable trust to increase awareness of eating disorders, get more people trained, and enhance service provision and collaboration between professionals.

“These people and their families desperately need help, but we need more people, more information, more facilities, and we need a range of therapeutic approaches in order to help them.”

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Rob Myers is graduating with a degree in social work this year.

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hile challenges caused by the global pandemic may have caused Rob Myers learning journey to be less than straightforward, it’s done nothing to dampen his excitement for his graduation this year.

“I spent time on placement at the ‘Male Room,’ a support service specifically for guys and then worked in mental health with older people at the Alexandra Hospital and really enjoyed that,” says Rob.

Four years ago, Rob made the decision to undertake the Bachelor of Social Work at NMIT. Having tried his hand at a variety of jobs including sales, project management and landscape gardening, he was struggling to find the right career.

“I think mental health is the area I’m looking to go down.”

“I had never really found a career I felt passionate about,” says Rob. “Social work offered me the chance to find a career that was aligned with who I wanted to be as a person.”

Rob was also drawn to the flexible range of career options social work would provide him in times of global uncertainty.

“Social work gives you the opportunity to try a lot of different fields,” says Rob, “I’m really appreciative of the wide variety of career options now available to me.”

Practical placements are an essential part of the programme and Rob worked in a number of different community agencies and organisations, gaining an insight into where he would like his career to advance upon graduation.

While slightly nervous about returning to study after a number of years away from school, Rob quickly realised it wasn’t an issue.

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ON THE STREET Barista Izi Murray’s wardrobe is a mixture of second-hand grabs, timeless pieces and the odd thing grabbed from her mum’s closet too.

What are you wearing?

Today I am wearing my Zambesi dress I got in Auckland for my 18th birthday. My favourite black boots which make me feel very tall and mum’s really old Nom*d cardigan that she got off Trade Me. My brother Tom made my ring and Jonty Ward who is a regular customer made my earrings. They were inspired by a jumper with a Keith Haring print on the front, he calls them ‘Keith Hearrings.’ Feeling very New Zealand made today!

What is your style?

For me, comfort is key. I like jeans and tee-shirts, with sneakers. I call my Doc Martins ‘my high heels’.

I love fun and fantastic earrings and spontaneously cutting myself a very wonky fringe.

What is most of your wardrobe made up of?

Wide leg pants, snuggly knitwear, funky socks, vintage Zambezi, and of course too many pairs of jeans that I can’t seem to part with!

What are you loving at the moment?

My new Birkenstock felt slippers which I’ve embroidered with little flowers.

What are you dressed for today?

Today I am dressed to make coffee. Usually I’d go for something comfy and easy to clean after being covered in coffee grinds all day.

Where do you buy most of your clothes from?

I like to shop at second hand stores so I can repurpose old clothes, and local shops, as well as online, but of course mum’s wardrobe always has something I need!

What is your approach to shopping?

If I’m buying a quality piece of clothing I like to make sure it’s a timeless piece, something I’m going to enjoy wearing years later.

What is your all-time favourite purchase?

My black, chunky Zara boots I bought on Trade Me. Do you have a style rule you always obey?

I wouldn’t call it a rule, but I am trying to wear less black and some more colour at the moment- easier said than done though!

If you could raid one person’s wardrobe, who would it be?

I would definitely be rifling through the wardrobe of the Ocean’s 8 movie.

Finish this sentence – You would never catch me wearing…

Animal print.

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Owners of Beetees, Glen and Lorraine Beattie with model, Marina Kere, at a recent fashion shoot.

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hat is the philosophy at Beetees, say owners, Glen and Lorraine Beattie, acknowledging that their team and loyal customers are integral in the success of the local womenswear store.

While Glen tends to the general management, Lorraine works in the shop managing and buying new stock each season.

Most of all she enjoys helping women select clothing that best suits their own individual style, and that makes them look and feel good.

Beetees is lucky to have two fantastic assistants, Sue and Linda, who between them have many years of experience in the fashion industry.

Chandra is a real gun with technology and looks after their social media and website which are a key part of their promotional outreach. Another Sue completes the team, helping Glen with their accounts.

It’s been quite a journey for Lorraine and Glen who have both enjoyed varied careers and experiences prior to opening Beetees.

Glen has worked in the travel industry, originally starting with NAC in Nelson before owning a successful travel agency in New Plymouth. “It was an exciting time to be in that industry, looking after some big international clients involved primarily in the oil and offshore exploration business.”

Next came a stint in Australia, running a hotel in Bathurst.

Glen says it was a good experience, and although it didn’t work out quite as planned, it provided a good opportunity to regroup and to look and see what other opportunities are in front of you.

Lorraine managed fashion outlets in Taranaki and they both enjoyed living in that part of the country. However, the pull towards Nelson’s sunshine, family and good schooling for their young son became too strong to resist, and so Nelson became home.

Glen worked at Port Nelson loading ships for a year before becoming the general manager of the Nelson Suburban Club.

The Suburban Club was a busy hub for fun local activities, bands, and hospitality and his 15 years at the helm was an enjoyable time.

Lorraine, originally a private secretary, has always been interested in the fashion industry. She did some modelling in her younger days and managed the womenswear department in H & J Smith’s Nelson and Motueka branches. In 2005, Glen and Lorraine purchased the Motueka store, rebranding as Beetees. After successfully trading in Motueka for eight years, they decided to move closer to home and opened in Nelson.

When not at the shop, the Beattie’s love spending time with their pet dachshund’s Tessa and Josh. Travel has always been a big part of their relaxation and they have spent many summers at Kaiteriteri in their caravan, even more so now that overseas trips are off the agenda.

Beetees caters to women, generally in the over 25 years age bracket, offering high quality, affordable clothing sourced from a buying group in Christchurch and various international suppliers.

Glen and Lorraine are particularly thankful for the support and loyalty that they have received from their local customers, particularly during the lockdowns. “It has been a tough time for retailers, and the continued support has been fantastic.”

Beetees Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm 240 Trafalgar St, Nelson beetees.co.nz

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Tucked away in a sprawling garden of palms and banana trees is Chrissie and Rogers’ peaceful home in Ruby Bay. Where is your home and who lives here, and how long have you lived here?

What do you love about the neighbourhood where you live?

Korepo Road, Ruby Bay. My husband Roger and I have lived here for 18 months but have been in the Mapua area for 30 years.

Close to the beach and the views of the sea and the wonderful bird life.

What four words would you use to describe your home?

What piece would you never part with?

Design, view, peaceful, garden.

What inspired this look?

We like a mix of old and new.

Our china cabinet as it belonged to my mother.

What’s your favourite spot in the house?

The lounge, kitchen and dining room all look out to the view of the sea and garden.

ABOVE: Roger and Chrissie in the dining room of their Ruby Bay home.

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Where do you shop for homewares?

Have you done any renovations?

Darby & Joan in Mapua, Freedom Furniture, Harvey Norman and Moxini in Richmond.

A mix of old and new with special family photos and artwork on the walls.

The house itself has had many renovations over the years.

It was built in the eighties and features the original curved ceilings. It has been added to and done up before we bought it. Since we’ve lived here we have removed the gym wall mirrors downstairs and repaired and repainted the kitchen unit. We have done plenty of work in the garden, too.

What’s next on your interiors list?

What’s your favourite room?

New carpet.

The lounge, because of the wonderful views.

When it comes to homeware, do you save or splurge?

What should every home have?

Save.

If you had a day to refresh your home what would you do?

What’s your decorating style?

Best money spent?

Renovating the downstairs area to be a nice spot for guests to stay.

Good layout and flow.

We would really like to put new carpet down.

ABOVE: Chrissie has an eye for detail and collects interesting décor and artwork from local stores to decorate the home | The outdoor stone bathtub tucked away in the garden adds a bit of luxury.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Roger spends many hours in the garden. An extra water tank to collect rainwater is necessary for irrigating the tropical plants. | Outdoor living at its finest with stunning views of Nelson Bay.

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November 2021

You spend the first 50 years of your life filling up your home and the last 50 years trying to get rid of things!

Best seat in the house?

All rooms in the house have wonderful views to the garden and ocean.

Tell us about your space It’s a peaceful home you are always pleased to come home to.

What are you favourite pieces?

Our china cabinet.

Do you have any tips on how to keep your living area orderly?

No children at home! You spend the first 50 years of your life filling up your home and the last 50 years trying to get rid of things!

Did any of your purchases cause a debate?

No we usually both agree.

Best memory in your house?

Spending time with family and having family photos on the walls.

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At Home

Valley with a view Words: Adrienne Matthews Click Homes

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hidden spot in a small valley in Atawhai has provided the site for a couple’s dream home. Spying the land five years ago, it took until last year to finally get title and begin building. During that time, they lived in many rental properties and even did a year long stint in their caravan in Tahuna Holiday Park with their two children which was a good way to see what they really did and didn’t need in a living space.

Meeting Russell Bruce of Bruce Design & Build put the couple instantly at ease. “He really listened to us properly and was very down to earth. He understood our ideas right from the beginning which made the whole process straightforward.”

The couple knew they wanted a non-fussy, minimalist but functional home that blended into the environment but was a bit different to the norm. They were delighted that Russell

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Bruce of Bruce Design & Build was prepared to help them achieve that while maximising the views to hills of native bush and out to Tasman Bay. With multiple eco covenants on the subdivision ensuring the use of top-quality building materials, a high degree of energy efficiency required, including solar, wastewater and rainwater systems, it was a task that Russell and his team relished.

Having emigrated from England’s colder climes, the couple were determined to have their house warm. It is built on a New Zealand made, Italian designed, Cupolex pod

foundation which, as well as providing optimum reinforcing, is also used as a heat transfer system to keep the house cosy throughout the winter months.

The exterior is clad in a combination of cedar and coloursteel with a large deck constructed from sustainably sourced hardwood garapa timber.

The pair lead busy work lives with one of them commuting to work in Wellington so they needed someone to guide them through the building process who understood their needs

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and who they could trust. Two things were non-negotiable a mud room and a separate area where their boys could play within view, but their “mess” kept out of sight.

The family’s weekends are filled with physical activities whether out on their bikes, the boys playing rugby, or their father indulging his passion for kite surfing. The mud room is like a well organised locker room with cupboards for each

person in the household, a place for all the outside clothing and footwear along with laundry facilities. It works brilliantly, a place where all the dirt of the day can be discarded before the family walk into the living area.

The boys’ zone was trickier to achieve as the couple wanted it on a mezzanine floor, a challenge with a maximum building height permitted of only 5.5metres. Fortunately, Red Box

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Architects presented a workable solution, and the resulting space is much enjoyed by boys and parents alike.

A well-made and simple kitchen was a must with an island where everyone could sit and enjoy eating together. A striking feature is the window splashback with provides views to a growing native plant garden outside. The installation of an induction cook top meant more drawer space and the butler’s pantry provides extra storage space.

The main features in the bathroom were chosen by the couple. They opted for dark coloured concrete sinks “because they are more forgiving than light coloured ones.”

The boys’ shower has no glass which makes for less cleaning.

Striking are the tiles with tropical leaves and flowers while in the master bathroom the Prisma textured wall tiles are a rich design element.

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Knowing that the family will one day have another dog, the floor chosen for downstairs is Quick-Step Perspective Nature brushed oak due to it being “kid-proof, scratch-proof and dog-proof.”

The house, with its warm and spacious feel, flows perfectly into the outdoor deck space and garden. The couple agree that the build process was really enjoyable with great camaraderie between all the Bruce Design & Build tradespeople and contractors. “Russell has a great app that kept us constantly updated with progress and he was very particular about coming in on time and budget. We couldn’t ask for anything more and just love living here.”

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Garden hygiene is always critical when growing vegetables in a tunnel house. In between crops (seasons), make sure you remove finished plants and wash the covering material of the tunnel house (inside) with strong soapy water and/or vinegar.

For the soil, take off the top 10 centimetres to help remove any residual fungi that may be present in the topsoil. Replace the soil with fresh Daltons Garden Time Compost and Daltons Garden Time Enriched Garden Mix. It’s critical to keep refreshing and adding nutrients back into your soil between crops (seasons). Rich organic matter like compost stimulates microbial and earthworm activity. It also improves soil structure and drainage. The Enriched Garden Mix contains added fertilisers and nutrients for healthy veggie production.

You also need to check the ventilation to ensure that it is adequate – this is very important in tunnel houses, and often overlooked. The movement of air can help significantly reduce the number of fungal infections.

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Belinda Wilson in her South Street studio.

Artist finds a home in South Street

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It’s been a year since Belinda Wilson brought her considerable artistic talents to Nelson and she’s finding new inspiration in her new city.

here are very few corners of Belinda Wilson’s beautifully renovated premises in Nelson’s South Street that don’t benefit from the sun. Evidence of her talent with oil and acrylic paint hang on the walls of her home and garden studio; some small and perfectly formed while others are almost larger than life.

Born in Calcutta but largely brought up in Timaru, for Belinda the prospect of studying at Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts was never in any doubt. In this she had the full support of her parents, particularly her father who, despite his own creativity, had been denied the opportunity and was thus determined that his daughter should be encouraged to develop her talent.

After obtaining her Diploma of Fine Arts, Belinda moved to Christchurch where, not long afterwards, she held her first one man show at the CSA gallery and then, in 1976, she won the highly prestigious Kelliher Art Prize. Some years of travelling followed, during which time she worked in London and also spent time in the United States, but it wasn’t until she settled in Sydney that she got back into her art. “I got wonderful jobs in Sydney,” she recalls. “I would get commissions to do forty paintings or pastels for a particular hotel, murals in Queensland, apartments in George Street…I had a lovely time.”

Her medium of choice at that time was large format pastels which she then sprayed to achieve a series of textured layers but on her return to New Zealand she

started working with acrylics for a few years. Since the early 1990s her work has featured in an impressive number of shows. These days she likes to work with oils but is happy to “oscillate” between the mediums.

Although it’s been not much more than a year since she and her husband moved from Auckland to Nelson, Belinda feels very much at home here. An enormous amount of work has gone into their historic cottage and her current plan is to turn one of the rooms into a small gallery which will be open by appointment. As for utilising the garden studio, she’s keen to offer lessons to small groups as well as individuals, something she did on a regular basis in Auckland and which she enjoyed enormously.

“Visually I’ve been very stimulated by our move to Nelson because the light is so different,” she says. And after a break of nearly two years, she’s delighting in the way her return to painting is working out. “I’m just starting to get back into it – you end up making completely different marks after you haven’t worked for a while.”

Belinda’s work can be seen at a number of galleries in New Zealand and also be seen on her website.

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Hawke’s Bay Country The heart of wine and food

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rom Mahia in the north, to Porangahau in the south, Hawke’s Bay is a region of diverse and magnificent landscapes. Mountains and hill-country, braided rivers and sparkling coastline. Opportunities to experience culture and heritage, and elegant Art Deco architecture. Day-walks and a ‘Great Walk’, miles of cycle trails and a range of adventure tourism, all combine to form the vivid tapestry of New Zealand’s Food and Wine Country.

While vast from tip to toe, a trip to Hawke’s Bay never takes you far from a tasty bite. Fifteen minutes is all you need to travel from a two-hatted restaurant in the heart of Napier to a cidery or craft-brewery in Hastings, past cascading vines and orchards brimming with fruit, to your pick of award-winning wineries.

If Hawke’s Bay’s wide-open spaces beg to be explored, then the region’s food and wine will stop you in your tracks demanding to be savoured and enjoyed.

And it’s never been easier to get there either. Nelson’s own Originair is now flying direct from Nelson to Napier with services tailormade for those wanting to visit for a weekend.

The Mediterranean-like climate adds to the picture; everything from limes in Wairoa to truffles in Central Hawke’s Bay. The warm, dry coastal climate works hand-in-hand with innovative winemakers to deliver the country’s leading Bordeaux-style reds and buttery chardonnays.

The doors to Hawke’s Bay’s new airport terminal have been thrown wide open ready to welcome you into the vibrant heart of the airport. From the moment your plane touches down on the runway, you’ll be welcomed to the region with open arms and friendly faces. The new airport terminal is

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uniquely designed; it speaks of Hawke’s Bay, celebrates the best of the region and reflects the stories of the people, land and skies. Take the time to enjoy an organic coffee from local hero’s Bay Espresso café, or a glass of wine or beer from Roosters Brewery Bar before exploring the surrounding region. Grab a holiday picture in front of the WWII De Havilland propellor installation or immerse yourself in the cultural and heritage stories carved in the ceilings by renowned local artist, Jacob Scott.

The Airport is proud to be a regional connector with safety, sustainability and customer engagement at the heart of everything they do and look forward to welcoming you to ‘The Gateway to Hawke’s Bay.’

If you’ve got kids aboard, a trip to Hawke’s Bay has got to be centered in Napier. It’s a great little city to explore and to make your home base. Start by visiting the friendly team at the Napier i-Site,-they are in the know about where to go.

First stop, mini-putt at Par 2 MiniGolf. It’s slap-bang in the middle of town but with ‘big sky’ views of the sea. From there you can really get orientated. You’re right in the middle of the fish-hook of Maui – Te Matau ā Māui - where you can see as far as Mahia in the north and Cape Kidnappers in the south. Next it’s time for some culture, set off on an adventure into the past with the wonders and delights of the MTG with its changing exhibitions of art, culture and social history.

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BAY SKATE

Par2 is fun for everyone! Choose from two 18-hole courses with unique features or enjoy a round on both.

Open daily with extended summer hours! par2golf.co.nz

Let the good times roll at our world class skate park.

BYO wheels or hire from the huge equipment range for a ride in the park or a roll along Marine Parade. bayskate.nz

Weeeee!

THE FARADAY CENTRE

KENNEDY PARK RESORT

Fuel your imagination as you explore this interactive hands on museum. It’s a fascinating place packed to the rafters with gizmos and gadgets for the whole family to discover! faradaycentre.org.nz

With a range of accommodation options, there’s fun right on your doorstep with a fantastic playground complete with jumping pillow and a heated pool to keep the kids entertained for hours! kennedypark.co.nz

Vroom vroom!

MTG HAWKE’S BAY

NATIONAL AQUARIUM OF NZ

Visit our free award-winning museum. Explore artefacts in the Taonga Māori Gallery. Discover the story of the region’s recovery following the 1931 earthquake. mtghawkesbay.com

Discover an exciting world above and below the water!

Visit Penguin Cove, see sharks and stingrays swim over you in the oceanarium and spot kiwi and tuatara. nationalaquarium.co.nz

Watch us eat our lunch!

BROOK SABIN

Take in the views of the vast Pacific Ocean, from Napier Port to Cape Kidnappers on Marine Parade's Viewing Platform.

the whole family with up-close experiences with technology, science, gadgets, machines, vehicles, and toys from the past.

Then after a blast down the stunning Marine Parade and a delicious ice-cream, blow off some steam at Bay Skate. Pop an ollie, get some air, drop in to the bowl, whether you’re on inline skates, roller skates, a skateboard or a scooter there’s space for everyone.

Later chill out in the National Aquarium of New Zealand where you’ll meet some nice – and some naughty! – Little Penguins. They are Ambassadors of the Ocean, teaching visitors – little and large – to care for the sea that’s right on the doorstep. What a wonderful way to spend your day. And at night there’s no better place to hang out with the family than the award-winning resort Kennedy Park. With chalets, cabins and units, there’s a size to suit all. And while you enjoy the fruits of your vineyard and orchard wanderings the kids can play to their hearts delight on the gigantic bouncy pillow and the crazy pedal carts. To top it all off, take to the water in the onsite heated pool complex. Napier is the perfect little city that has it all.

If wine is your thing, this region has it in abundance. Get in touch with On Yer Bike Winery Tours who will help you discover some of the very best Hawke’s Bay wineries, all at your own leisurely pace. A great way to spend the day, the cycle routes cover up to 20km on the Hawke’s Bay Cycle Trails via award-winning wineries.

The start is easy, meet up at On Yer Bike’s shop located in the heart of Hawkes Bays premium wine growing regions - next to Ash Ridge Winery - hire a bike and create your self-guided tour via the Bridge Pa Triangle or Gimbletts Gravels trails.

Allowing 4-5 stops, hours of fun are to be had providing the perfect balance between exercise and delicious wine-tasting.

Family-owned business, Tony Bish Wines, are chardonnay specialists, which makes them quite unique. Based in Napier’s most iconic art deco building, the old National Tobacco Company in the beautiful port district of Ahuriri, Napier, they have a working urban winery where people can see the process of wine making, which is also a venue and wine tasting cellar door. There is a wide range of Hawkes Bay and international wines available, and live music twice a week, so people can have a boogie. “Being specialists has led to some innovation,” says Tony. “We have pioneered wine in concrete eggs, and now they are becoming popular throughout the country, from Waiheke Island to Central Otago.” Tony says this unique process leads to great texture and purity, without dominant oak flavours, and makes their wines distinctly different in a ‘very quantitative way.’ For a complete Hawkes Bay experience, all in one central location, be sure to visit The Urban Winery Just a 15 minute drive from Napier, nestled within the heart of Hawke’s Bay Food and Wine Country, you will find the Hastings District. Hastings promises a complete sensory experience that will inspire you with its natural beauty and creativity, exhilarate you with its physical challenges, rejuvenate you with its big skies and wide-open vistas, delight you with locally produced food and wine, and connect you with a proud cultural heritage. The City Centre buzzes with a palpable energy generated from the new bars, restaurants, and boutique retailers, making it a place of creativity and excitement.

So cast off your preconceptions and open yourself to Hastings, to the people and the whenua. Come and feel, and you’ll never want to leave.

Soak up the sun and enjoy the experience amongst the stunning Hawkes Bay country-side!

Terms and conditions do apply so make sure you check out the On Yer Bike website at onyerbikehb.co.nz or call 06 650 4627.

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Cycle Hawke’s Bay

Discover Maraenui Golf Club

Come to Hawke’s Bay and explore the region via a cycle ride along the scenic, easy bike trails.

Situated within a five minute drive of Napier CBD and just an iron shot to the ocean, Maraenui Golf Club is a flat easy walking course with tree lined fairways and strategically placed bunkers. Green fee players welcome.

Tākaro Trails offers cycle hire, self-guided multiday tours and awesome day tours to get to the best wineries off the beaten track.

0800 825276 | takarotrails.co.nz

06 835 8273 | maraenuigolf.co.nz

Accommodation | Horse Trekking | Farm Experiences

More fun than you ever imagined

Whether you’re looking for a relaxing long weekend on the banks of the river, a horse trekking adventure or an opportunity to learn some new skills and engage in a handson farm experience, Mohaka River Farm has it all. Reconnect with nature as you take in stunning views, explore the variety of different settings and trails around the property or take a dip in the refreshing Mohaka River.

Where else in the world can you jump on the back of a trailer and get towed along the beach by a vintage American tractor to a bird colony? The gannets are back and busily nesting! Gannet Beach Adventures unique coastal adventure awaits you…

06 834 9756 | mohakariverfarm.co.nz

0800 426 638 | gannets.com

Go further, see more…

Explore like a local

Napier City Bike Hire & Tours are Hawke’s Bay Trails experts and offer it all – cycle winery tours, Ebikes, pathway bikes and cruisers plus bikes and accessories for kids. Get an exclusive Nelson Magazine 10% off with code NSN10 on online bookings until 31.12.2021

Relax and let Fieldtrip curate the perfect day out exploring Hawke’s Bay. From famous food and wine spots, to art, nature and the perfect photo stop with all the hidden gems in between.

0800 245 344 | bikehirenapier.co.nz

020 415 49777 | fieldtripnz.com

Fieldtrip offers customised, private tours of this epic summer destination.

Tomoana Showgrounds

HAWKE’S BAY

NOVEMBER | 21

1 - 27 Nov TOP OF THE SOUTH FILM FESTIVAL 2021

WHAT’S ON

Locally produced short-films, show-cased on the big screen.

Events across the Top of the South.

Be sure to check out the Nelson screenings: Suter Theatre 5 - 6 November. tsfilmfest.org

For updated information visit itson.co.nz

Suter Theatre

1 Nov - 4 Dec

5 - 7 Nov

LATIN AMERICA & SPAIN FILM FESTIVAL

PADDLEFEST NELSON A weekend of paddle sports featuring long and short distance races, social paddle, relay and sprint races. Take part or come along and watch Waka Ama, surfskis and stand up paddleboards (SUP) all take to the water with a mix of competitive and social paddlers of all ages from both the North and South.

A cultural non-profit event dedicated to contemporary cinematographic productions from Latin America and Spain. Free event suitable for the whole family (English subtitles incl). For more info and program go to lasffnz. co.nz. Booking is essential.

NMIT Nelson, G Block Johnny Cash Room

Tahunanui Beach and Maitai River

6 Nov - 4 Dec

20 Nov

DIVAS EXHIBITION BY YNES GUEVARA

SHINE WITH PURPOSE Preview Shine’s spring/summer collection and party wear, and enjoy art, afternoon tea and bubbles. 4pm-6pm.

Email roisin@purpose.gallery for exclusive invitation.

Places are limited.

This exhibition plays with a narrative that aims to promote multicultural relations, and evoke present sentimentalism. Focused on displaying a contemporary context to latin divas. ynesguevara.com Suter Art Society’s McKee Gallery at The Suter Art Gallery

Purpose Gallery, Mapua

21 Nov

28 Nov

THE GREAT CHRISTMAS MARKET

RICHMOND SANTA PARADE

You’ll be spoiled for choice with over 90 incredible makers selling their wonderful handmade, NZ-made wares in a beautiful surrounding.

9am-4pm. Ticketed event to control social distancing. $3 via Eventfinder.

Join in the festive fun with entertainment and the chance to meet Santa at Sundail Square following the parade. Get your business or community group involved for unlimited Christmas fun. 12pm-2pm.

Loverichmond.co.nz

Founders Park

Queen St & Sundial Square

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Wellness getaway ENJOY A WELLNESS GETAWAY AT RUTHERFORD HOTEL NELSON ~ A HERITAGE HOTEL Do you or someone you know deserve a stressfree weekend away?

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RUTHERFORD HOTEL NELSON 27 NILE STREET WEST, NELSON

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Eat & Drink Local

Chia Sisters

The Veggie Guy

Sublime Coffee Roasters

Local natural drinks company Chia Sisters have just launched their new look, and we’re obsessed.

Created by local sisters Chloe and Florence Van Dyke in a bid to make the world’s most nutritious drinks, their range is all-natural, and is free from refined sugar and artificial ingredients.

The new look reflects the transparent, ethical, and natural approach they take to making health-driven drinks that do good for people and the planet. We love that they use local ingredients wherever possible.

Nelson Boysenberry Pressed Juice anyone?

The ultimate summer taste is a bite into a fresh strawberry.

With Summer creeping back in, soft serve and shakes are back on the menu at Sublime’s New Street Brew Bar all week long — 8:30am to 3:30pm, Monday to Friday.

Needing a coffee hit? Coffee shakes made with their concentrated Custom Deluxe cold brew will hit the spot.

Need more cake in your life? Try the delicious chocolate cake-shake with a slice of chocolate mud cake blended in for extra oomph.

chiasisters.co.nz

theveggieguy.co.nz

sublimecoffeeroasters.co.nz

Taste the unique flavours of Atutahi

The Junction Shop

Sprig + Fern Brewing Co.

Traditionally used by Māori as a natural rongoa these three wonderful native leaf drinks are locally made and brewed in Sunny Nelson. Hand harvested Kawakawa, Kumarahou and Horopito leaf are individually blended with New Zealand Blackcurrants, Tasman Bay Superberries and NZ fruits. Exceptional flavours, lightly carbonated and local.

More information online.

Summer is all about picnics, platters, and BBQs. Sharing food, spending time with family and friends, and making memories.

Summer with Sprig + Fern Brewing Co. beer just got better! The local brewery has announced they will launch their award-winning craft beers and ciders in cans this summer.

atutahi.nz

thejunctionshop.co.nz

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Sweet, succulent and plump, not only are strawberries delicious, they are also an excellent source of Vitamin C. Enjoy them raw, grilled or baked in cakes, dipped in chocolate or in a cocktail.

The possibilities are endless!

At the Junction at Old Factory Corner, you can try before you buy. They cut cheese from the wheel, slice Pâté from the loaf, and sell antipasto products by the scoop. Add locally baked sourdough, a bottle of wine or beer, a few sausages for the BBQ plus all the condiments.

They are your one-stop shop to make this summer one to remember.

Head to your local Sprig + Fern Tavern to try their core range and limited release beers and ciders fresh off tap!

sprigandfern.co.nz

Pestell’s Apple and Dijon Glazed Ham At the centre of the classic Kiwi Christmas dinner is a delicious ham, and this sweet, tangy mix of apple, marmalade and mustard is a hard to beat combination.

Ingredients

Method

Ham ½ Bee’s Knees cooked ham

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a roasting dish with foil and baking paper.

Glaze

Prepare the ham:

Whole cloves

Peel off the ham skin by gently pushing your fingers between the skin and fat. Leave as much fat on as you possibly can.

½ cup brown sugar ¼ cup marmalade 2 tablespoons apple cider 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Using a sharp knife, score parallel lines in the fat, almost down to the meat. Place ham in the prepared roasting dish.

Stick whole cloves in the ham fat working in straight lines and as close together as you wish.

Pestell’s Rai Bacon Co has been putting hams on the Christmas table for three generations and this year their hams are ‘The Bee’s Knees’!

To glaze: Place all the glaze ingredients in a small saucepan and place over low heat. Simmer until syrupy.

Spoon glaze over the ham as evenly as possible. Pour a little water into the bottom of the roasting dish. Place ham in the oven and cook for about 40 minutes until the glaze is sticky and well coloured. Baste the ham once or twice during glazing.

Tip Lining the roasting dish with foil and baking paper, helps to prevent any sticky, burning glaze stick hard to the bottom of the dish.

Be sure to order your ham nice and early this year to avoid disappointment.

Visit pestells.co.nz for more recipe ideas.

Come dine with us!

DINE, SHOP, ENJOY

244 Hardy Street, Nelson Open from 7.30am until late FIND US

SHOPPING & DINING PRECINCT

morrisonsquare.co.nz

Dining

Anchor Restaurant and Bar

Mapua Village Bakery

Taste of Delhi

Top quality food is best served with amazing ocean views! Blessed with a fantastic spot on the water, you will feel welcomed and won’t want to leave.

No matter what you fancy, they’ve got you covered with a fantastic menu full of all your favourites — homestyle baking, a huge pie selection, the famous big breakfast that is available every day until 2pm, and delicious fresh salad rolls to take away and enjoy on your spring picnics. There’s a good gluten free range and a different gourmet pie flavour each month, all topped off with a supreme coffee to add a bounce to your day.

After working for 15 years in restaurants across India, Jamaica, and New Zealand, Deepchand and his team are excited to bring the taste of authentic Indian street food to Nelson. Deepchand believes that cooking is an art, and its passion starts with respecting the ingredients. With a promise to provide exceptional customer service and a meal to remember, their affordable menu changes regularly, so call and book a table today.

62 Vickerman St, Port Nelson 03 546 6614 anchorrestaurant.co.nz

68 Aranui Rd, Mapua 03 540 3656 mapuavillagebakery.co.nz

89 Hardy Street, Nelson 03 922 9599 tasteofdelhi.co.nz

McCashin’s Tap Room

The Indian Café

Ambrosia Café

Calling all steak lovers! McCashin’s have extended their menu to share the very best and most flavoursome beef steaks.

With three great locations you can enjoy Indian Cafe’s delicious food no matter where you are. Head in and find out why Indian Café is the favourite choice for anyone looking for the highest quality food and a memorable cuisine experience.

As soon as you step inside, the smell of freshly brewed coffee and the delicious daily fare sets your mouth watering.

Specialising in local seafood and steaks, there are also delectable choices for non-meat eaters, people with special dietary needs and kids.

Choose from dry aged Angus sirloin, T bone, ribeye or sirloin served with your choice of four delectable sauces and your favourite sides. Best served alongside one of their own locally made brews. Open breakfast until late seven days.

660 Main Rd, Stoke 03 547 0329 mccashins.co.nz

All venues offer intimate restaurant dining and courtyard settings and takeaway options.

94 Collingwood St, Nelson | 03 548 4089 266 Queen St, Richmond | 03 544 8979 201 Songer St, Stoke | 03 547 0008 theindiancafe.co.nz

Ambrosia Café is licensed, so whether you want a quick coffee and something sweet, brunch, lunch with friends, a business lunch or a glass of wine and a snack, it’s all here. Open every day.

226 Queen St, Richmond 03 544 0025 ambrosiacafe.co.nz

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Fitness for mental fitness Exercise can make you happy, smarter, more aroused and less likely to get depression.

Nelson’s own Dr Marissa Kelaher explains how.

W

hile we all hear about how good exercise is for mental well-being, what does the research actually show?

These studies have found that exercise works by: • Reducing cortisol levels (stress hormone)

Scientific studies are often divided among population groups and look at patterns within large numbers of people, versus clinical trials where an intervention takes place, and the effect is measured.

• Increasing the size of your hippocampus (the part of the brain that stores memories and regulates emotional responses - this also makes you smarter and your brain age slower!)

In both areas there is amazing evidence which shows exercise is a powerful tool for use in preventing mental health issues from occurring, and in treating them.

• Releasing hormones that make you feel good (endorphins) and those which make you happy (serotonin and dopamine).

For example, large population studies from around the world consistently show that regular exercise (150 minutes per week) reduces the risk of depression by around 30 per cent. That is just as effective as many antidepressant medications.

• Increasing blood flow to the brain and stimulating the release of BDNF (a hormone that causes brain growth and rewiring).

And if you’re pushed for time, even shorter, more intensive exercise has a similar effect. This might be running 10 minutes per day or doing 10 minutes of high intensity training (HIIT).

• Triggering vagus nerve activation (the “rest and relax” part of your nervous system).

Exercise is highly potent in guarding against mental health problems in young children and teenagers as well.

Clinical trials have backed up these findings. One trial compared a group of people prescribed exercise against a group prescribed antidepressants, and one group given a placebo. A follow up four months later found that regular exercise was a remedy as effective as those who took antidepressants.

Each group improved significantly over that which took the placebo, but even more impressively, the people who exercised remained well when followed up a year later. The conclusion was that it prevented a relapse into depression.

Exercise is also proven to help with both anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is known to help ease the frequency and levels of anxiety symptoms, and the severity of panic attacks.

• Reducing inflammation (strongly linked to depression).

Exercise also improves sleep, concentration, libido, selfesteem, and energy levels - all of which are symptoms of depression or anxiety.

If you exercise in nature, such as a hike in the mountains or a swim in the sea, the effects are even greater. Studies have shown this can reduce stress levels by up to 60 per cent.

Motivation is often a barrier to exercise and if you’re feeling down, starting an exercise plan can feel overwhelming.

The secret is to begin with small, achievable goals and slowly build up from there. Even a 10 minute walk each day can really help, but try making it a regular habit.

The more you do it the easier it will get - new habits need about four weeks of consistency to become inbuilt. Find an activity you love doing and you’ll soon notice the difference.

Exercise also appears to “rewire” the brain out of the cycle of thoughts that occur after trauma, therefore helping to ward off the onset of PTSD.

So how does it actually work?

Scientists have done some interesting research on this, using blood tests to measure levels of stress hormones as well as “happy hormones” before and after exercise. They also use functional magnetic resonance images (MRIs) to look at how the brain changes in response to exercise.

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Dr Marissa Kelaher is a Nelson based GP who runs lifestyle, nutritional medicine and plant-based health clinics. She is based at Nelson Family Medicine.

Check out Marissa’s blogs and health and wellness tips at thesimplicitydoctor.com or on Facebook and Instagram @thesimplicitydoctor

Platinum Blue

MARKET UPDATE WITH

Chris

The release of the real estate industry sales data for September has brought a few anomalies to the fore. The data essentially shows that the country’s – and particularly Auckland’s – figures have all been affected by the Covid restrictions and lockdown levels and, because Auckland is such a big part of the New Zealand market, it creates the anomaly. To put it all into perspective, I expect that the media will trumpet that the national median sale price dropped over September and they will hope this heralds a slow down of the overheated property market.

To understand what’s happening, a person needs to first understand what the median price figure represents. The median price figure is derived from placing every sale price from across New Zealand for the month in descending numerical value order, and the reported median sale price is the figure right smack in the middle. Over the month of September, Auckland has largely experienced the lockdown so sales volumes in our largest market (that also has the highest price values) have slowed for the month.

Chris Harvey PRINCIPAL When looking at the data, you will realise that property values have still by-and-large increased almost everywhere, while sales volumes have reduced…pretty much because of the huge shortage of property available to sell and the unrelenting demand.

Auctioning your property is still obtaining very good sales results for vendors. If you have wondered how this process works, you may want to view our next Auction via our Facebook page on Friday 26 November at 1.00pm, where Mark McGoldrick our auctioneer will be live. Mark recently competed and won the New Zealand REINZ Auction Championship.

With a lot fewer sales happening at high Auckland prices, it is then understandable that the national median sale price will be lower over September, as there are far fewer high value sales at the top. But once Auckland is back to ‘business as usual’, I would expect the national median to sky-rocket again.

When the Auckland anomaly is taken out of the equation, we see that the escalating property prices have not slowed down elsewhere.

Mark McGoldrick - Harcourts Auctioneer

What’s happening in your location?

Nelson

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NUMBER OF SALES

Richmond 26

NUMBER OF SALES

$510,000 MEDIAN VALUATION (2018)

147%

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$862,000

% DIFFERENCE SALE PRICE TO RV

MEDIAN SALE PRICE

MEDIAN VALUATION (2020)

125%

$802,000

% DIFFERENCE SALE PRICE TO RV

$670,000

$52.3M

MEDIAN SALE PRICE

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MEDIAN DAYS TO SELL DATA SOURCED FROM REINZ

$25.2M TOTAL SALES

BORN AND BRED IN

Mapua

Wendy Perry is a household name when it comes to selling real estate in the Tasman region. Having lived and breathed the ‘Mapua Village’ lifestyle most of her life, Wendy’s knowledge of the local market is in a class of it’s own. An experienced agent in all aspects of real estate from sub-divisions, sections and new builds, right through to the most high-end and lifestyle properties, Wendy is a confident choice to market and sell your property. A person you know you can rely on with exceptional communication and customer service skills. Contact Wendy today for all your real estate needs!

Wendy

Wendy Perry 027 249 1701 (03) 544 4441 wendy.perry@harcourts.co.nz Platinum Blue Limited Licensed REAA 2008

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Rare Opportunity!

Opportunities and Options Galore

This replica Hop Kiln home is situated directly across from a vineyard where you can sit on the deck in the morning sun, and enjoy the peaceful outlook. There is a brand new open plan kitchen, dining space and a cosy living room with log burner for the cooler months. This opens out onto a private courtyard with a louvered pergola, ideal for entertaining or just taking time to relax. Both upstairs bedrooms look out across the vineyards to the valley, and the mountains beyond. The landscaping is done, there is plenty of room to park the boat or campervan plus…..a large high stud shed to store all your treasures. Call Wendy now for your private viewing!

My Vendors have said SELL now!!! On offer is a vacant, flat 6.88-hectare property with fertile, free draining soil. There is an existing water right, with an underground irrigation system in place. Water is gravity fed to the property from a closeby dam. The property is located on the outskirts of the popular, rural township of Wakefield. The added bonus of this block is that there are numerous house sites with superb rural vistas available.

Don’t delay, call me now! Deadline Sale Closes 4.00pm Thursday 11th November 2021 (Unless Sold Prior). Sale Price is Plus GST (if any).

Wendy Perry

Graham Cook

Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Licensed Agent REAA 2008

M 027 249 1701 wendy.perry@harcourts.co.nz

M 027 454 6229 graham.cook@harcourts.co.nz

Help!

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This is a free service to help you with your next move! Call Steve to discuss all of your financing options!

Steve Holbrook Mortgage Advisor 021 916 159 steve@mx.co.nz

Home Loans I Refinancing I Bridging Finance I Tops-Ups I Personal Loans

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Tahunanui 178 Tahunanui Drive

$860,000 Plus GST (if any) View harcourts.co.nz/NN24768

Bella Vista Motel Business For Sale Don’t for a minute think that this motel is not doing well because of Covid 19 - it certainly is! For the first 4 months of 2021 occupancy was running at 80%, the highest in years, as was revenue earned. Net surplus income to the owners to year end 31/3/21 was the highest on record. Additionally, the first 4 months of the 21/22 financial year have all produced record occupancy, this was achieved with basically no overseas tourism. The Bella Vista Group is popular with the corporate traveller and so not reliant on tourists to fill their rooms. This 18-unit motel is no exception, and often full mid-week with regular corporate guests. Bella Vista has been recently refurbished throughout. All units are in top condition with near-new décor, showers, LED lighting & furnishings.

The outside of the motel has recently been completely re-painted and had the lighting upgraded, providing a fresh and appealing exterior. The manager’s accommodation benefits from a quality near-new kitchen with a heat pump and living areas on the ground floor opening to a private outdoor area. Upstairs are 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, the master having an ensuite. Ideally located on the main arterial route of Tahunanui Drive, it’s just a short stroll to Tahunanui Beach, shops, bars, restaurants, and cafes.

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