Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Tuesday 1 March 2016
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NAYLAND COLLEGE U B I L E E Powerboats at TH J 24 - 27 MARCH 2016 Lake Rotoiti
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MP: Region owes dam, road to future generations Andrew Board
Library on the move?
Andrew Board Nelson’s Elma Turner Library could be moved to Trafalgar St under an idea mooted by mayor Rachel Reese. The city’s main library has money allocated to it in the long term plan for redevelopment. Rachel says the council should be thinking whether the money is best spent on the current site – on Halifax St – or on a new library taking over the State Advances building and the bottom floor of the neighbouring Civic House, both on Trafalgar St. “Moving the library to Trafalgar
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The Lee Valley Dam and the Southern Link motorway are two pieces of crucial infrastructure that Nelson “owes” to its future generations, the first meeting of the Nelson Residents Association heard on Sunday. Nelson MP Nick Smith was the first guest speaker for the NRA, which is planning a series of meetings throughout the local body election year. He spoke to around 60 people who gathered at 623 in the City about challenges facing the region. He said Nelson is the second fastest growing region in the country and spoke of how key infrastructure was needed for it to continue to grow. He likened the $70 million Lee Valley Dam and the controversial Southern Link motorway to the Cut made through the Boulder Bank in 1905, allowing ships to enter Port Nelson. “We are huge benefactors of the infrastructure that has been built by previous generations. When our city forefathers put the Cut in the port, there was a rampant argument over the huge cost to the people of this city. Those brave forefathers of our city made exactly the right call and the port would not exist and this town would not be the buoyant, fantastic place that it is, if they had not made that call. “We owe it, in the same way that they put
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