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Thrown can ‘gave us a hell of a fright’
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Simon Bloomberg Police are warning that anyone who throws a missile at a moving vehicle needs to think about the consequences of their actions, after a car was struck by a object on Whakatu Drive near Nelson last week. Richmond’s Brett Nicholls was driving a Toyota Hilux south on Whakatu Drive on Wednesday when an object hit the windscreen, showering him and his passenger with glass. Although Brett didn’t see anyone throwing the can full of drink, it appeared to come out of the bushes on the side of the road just south of the Songer St overbridge. “It gave us a hell of a fright,” Brett says. He says the can “sounded like a gun shot” inside the car. “We didn’t see anyone throw it but there were no other cars around and it seemed to come out of the bushes on the side of the road. We were travelling at 100kmh so it hit with a lot of force - it could have been really dangerous. “I didn’t swerve when it hit but you
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Lipscombe Auction House owner Warwick Savage with just a fraction of the 4000 books that will be auctioned and sold this weekend. Photo: Andrew Board.
Rare NZ history on the auction block Andrew Board Editor
andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz
An incredibly rare book collection, owned by a Nelson family for more than five decades, will go under the hammer this weekend. Owned by John and Cynthia Savage, the collection features
a huge number of New Zealand history books and artwork, including many on Maori history. The collection will be auctioned off in over 600 lots, the majority for books but others for samplers and artwork. Warwick Savage, owner of Lipscombe Auction House which will be handling the auction, says the collection is attract-
ing interest from around New Zealand. “You just don’t see collections like this, especially in Nelson. These kind of collections usually go to big auction houses.” Among the titles of books are: Games and pastime of the Maori; A folio of Watercolours by Charles Heaphy; The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand, and
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the rather long title An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress etc., of the Natives of the Pacific islands, Part 1. The collection also features several stunning pieces of Nelson history, including a book titled Gully’s New Zealand Scenery,
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