Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Tuesday 8 March 2016
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Wakefield’s Kenneth and Megan Storer take a ride on the steam boat, Flirt, during this year’s NZ Antique and Classic Boat Show at Lake Rotoiti. Insert: Nelson’s Nicky Murdoch and Newton King. Photo: Jessie Johnston.
Classic boats cruise around lake Jessie Johnston
From jet engines to the power of steam, the seventeenth New Zealand Antique and Classic Boat Show welcomed marine vessels of all kinds. The two day event attracted around 120 clinkers, steam launches, classic motorboats, sailing dinghies and their owners, to Lake Rotoiti’s Kerr Bay for displays both on and off the water. The event, which first started in 1999, was the creation of Pete
Rainey. “I was restoring an old classic boat and got interested in the kind of activity that was happening in the States with classic boating and saw that nobody was really doing that kind of thing in New Zealand, so thought I’d give it a go,” he says. Nelson boat owners Newton King and Nicky Murdoch brought their 1960s runabout Taranui along for the weekend, a boat they found and purchased around two years ago and know very little about. The vessel was discovered in the
shed of a bach they bought in Tennyson Inlet in 2013. The previous owner believed it had not been in the water for at least 20 years and, once it was brought back to Nelson, it was found to be in near perfect working order. While a number of awards were handed out for the different classes, it was the hydroplane Bel Air lll that took home the Jens Hansen trophy for Best Vessel Overall. Owned by Peter Knight Jnr, the boat was built by Peter Knight Snr in 1965 and set a world speed record in 1968.
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Councillors clash over committee
Nelson city councillors have clashed again, this time over a decision by mayor Rachel Reese to split the community services committee in two. The mayor announced the establishment of a new sports and recreation committee at last Thursday’s full council meeting as a late item – meaning it was the first time that most of the councillors had heard of the change. Councillor Pete Rainey has been chair of the community services committee since 2007 and sees the move as a demotion, as it will take responsibility for sport and recreation away from his committee. He says he was only told about the new committee last Tuesday in a meeting between himself, Rachel and deputy mayor Paul Matheson, who will chair the new sport committee. Pete says he walked out of the meeting.
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“It was the first I’d heard of it – I had absolutely no idea it was coming,” says Pete, who called the move to split the committee as just “petty politics playing out”. “This just suggests how the city is being run – all this behind the doors carry-on,” he says. “I was under the impression that this mayor wanted to operate in a transparent way. I don’t think it’s transparent. It’s frustrating having everything pulled out from under you when you’ve done so much hard work for the past nine years.” Rachel says feedback from the community indicated that there is a growing desire for an additional focus on sport and recreation, including looking after Saxton Field, the marina strategy
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