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tuesday 26 April 2016
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Huge crowds at Nelson’s Anzac services Kate Russell
Bugler Mason Robinson sounds the last post during Anzac Day’s dawn service at Anzac Park on Monday. Photo: Evan Barnes/Shuttersport.
Six-year-old Grace Batty wore her poppy with pride at yesterday’s Anzac service in Stoke, in remembrance of all four of her great-grandparents who served in the war. She and her sister, Charlotte, were just two of many young people who attended services around Nelson yesterday. Three of their great-grandfathers served in WW1, and their greatgrandmother served in WW2, and they say they “like everything” about attending Anzac Day services. “I think it’s important to remember all the men and woman who fought in the war,” says eleven-year-old Charlotte. Grace and Charlotte’s mother, Katherine Batty, says it’s important for her
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Southern Link groups rally support Feedback on the Southern Link Investigation closed on Sunday, and groups who are both for and against the controversial new road made a mad, last-minute dash last week to prompt Nelsonians to have their say. Anti-link lobby group Nelsust sent out a chain email last week, urging people to
send their feedback against the link in to NZTA, as well as asking people to visit the ‘Stop the Southern Link’ Facebook page. The group’s spokesperson, Peter Olorenshaw, urged the importance of “getting as many people as possible feeding back against the Southern link” and asked people to forward the email to “any and every
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kate@nelsonweekly.co.nz Nelsonian” they knew. Similarly, pro-link lobby group, Progress Nelson Tasman, circulated a chain email
out to Nelson residents last week, asking people to show their support by giving feedback supporting the creation of a new arterial route. The NZTA also held seven public information sessions in April at a range of venues
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