Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
tuesday 10 January 2017
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Water rescue call outs up 50%
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Batsmen take charge
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Kate Russell Nelson’s Coastguard has had the busiest start to the holiday period in years with a 50 per cent increase of call outs on the same time last year. Coastguard Nelson president Wayne Harrison says they have already responded to a range of call outs - including an impressive two-minute rescue where they happened to be in the right place at the right time. “We were on our way out of The Cut to do some training when we spotted a windsurfer in trouble, so we nipped over to him, pulled him aboard and took him back to shore,” he says. The biggest and most challenging was the search for the missing person in the water at the start of the holiday period, with five vessels on the water in the height of the search. “It was a Friday evening with rough sea conditions and rain. It made trying to locate a person in the water very difficult,” says Wayne. The person was eventually brought to safety by the Coastguard. “We had the Coastguard Nelson CRV, three vessels from Nelson Surf Life Saving Club and the Nelson Harbourmaster’s boat. The Westpac
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Evelyn Dalzell holds up a photo of herself as a young girl at the Tahunanui Beach Kiwi Holiday Park and Motel, after winning the Collective Memories ‘Best Story’ competition on Friday night. Photo: Brittany Spencer.
Stories of arguments, beer bottles and family Brittany Spencer Prime Minister Bill English spent his honeymoon there and Nick Smith sank a canoe in the pond during the children’s programme, but Evelyn Dalzell’s memories of family holidays, arguments and beer bottles topped them all. On Friday, the Tahunanui Beach Kiwi Holiday Park and Motel celebrated its 90th birthday, hosting a party and several competitions to mark the milestone. Originally from the West Coast, Nelson woman Evelyn Dalzell took out the ‘Best Story’ competition after writing down
Evelyn and her younger brother Robert, far right, with two other campers, stand by the trailer full of beer bottles. tales of travelling up to Tahunanui for a month-long family holiday each summer.
Enitled ‘The Annual Holiday Argument’, Evelyn’s story begins in the 1940s with her and her younger brother Robert lying in bed listening to their parents argue about what to pack into the trailer. “There was never enough room to put everything in the trailer so Dad would always say, ‘Jesus bloody Christ, Ag, where am I going to put that?’,” says Evelyn. “We’d leave a couple of things behind on his insistence and, of course, we needed them as soon as we arrived. Dad never
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