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Tuesday 11 March 2014
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Washed up skull found A human skull was found on the edge of the Waimea Estuary on Sunday night, by two “curious” fishermen. But the skull isn’t expected to be from anything suspicious. Mackenzie Rose and her partner went to the estuary, behind Nelson Airport, to fish when they spotted the skull. “We were just walking along the estuary when we saw it. We didn’t know if it was real or not but I picked it up and we could tell right away that it was real.” The pair then called police, who took the skull, along with some other bone fragments, away for investigation. Mackenzie says the skull was “really heavy”. “It was just bone but we wondered where it came from and how it got there.” Nelson police say they believe
The human skull that washed up near Nelson Airport. the skull and bones may have been dislodged by the recent high tides and wind. They did not anticipate anything sinister, says communication manager Barbara Dunn. “Police are working with DOC archaeologists to identify the bones.”
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Karl Dykes rubs dried mud off his head after Sunday’s Muddy Buddy in Tasman. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
Muddy Buddy ‘needs to continue’ The course was slightly new but the result was still the same – lots and lots of mud. Tasman School’s annual Muddy Buddy mud run attracted another large group of competitors, who
ran, crawled and slid their way through thick mud in the Moutere Inlet on Sunday morning. The future of the event remains up in the air with the school unsure whether they will get council
consent to run it in the same place next year. Everyone who took part seemed to enjoy themselves with many at the finish line saying that it “needs to continue”.
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