Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 26 June 2012
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Laché Melvin, 10, performs in the Hampden St School production, Close Encounters of the Kiwi Kind. Photo: Rosie Thomsen.
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Spending highest in Nelson Building industry leads the way
School play all action More than 400 Hampden School students Students St make up the cast and there will be a CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OFSt THE KIWI KIND: Hampden School’s production will perform this week as part of the school’s choir as well as dance groups and bands. The production. teachers and students have been working on the Close Encounters of the Kiwi Kind is an origi- production throughout the term, with parents nal script written by teachers at the school. The helping with costumes and props. performance is about an inept crew of aliens The matinee performance was held yesterday, who crash-land in New Zealand and come with performances in the school’s hall tonight across the country’s various inhabitants. and Thursday from 6pm.
Spending in Nelson grew more than anywhere in the country last month and retailers say they hope the good times roll into winter. Figures released by Paymark at the start of the month showed Nelson spending through eftpos machines on the Paymark network grew 8.4 per cent in May, higher than anywhere else in New Zealand. Spending for the same month in 2010 sat at $65.4 million. It rose last year to $67.4 million and jumped to $73.1 million this year. Nationally, the annual growth was 5.8 per cent for the month with much of that spending growth in the retail building sector. Plumbing retailers had a growth of 17.7 per cent, wholesale building stores 16.4 per cent and floor covering suppliers 13.8 per cent. Nelson City Council also re-
corded a big increase in the number of building consents issued, up to 116 from just 74 in May last year. Paul Whiston from Paymark says the results are better than they would normally expect. “In particular, spending is running better than usual amongst merchants that have some association with the building cycle and in terms of regions, Nelson stood out.” Nelson City Council says while its building consent figures show a remarkable increase from the same time last year, there was a spike in applications before March last year when the Licensed Building Practitioner scheme started. But consents are still up for the year to date and 15 new houses were built in May 2012 against 11 for the same month last
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