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Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper

Tuesday 8 October 2013

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Fires and clean air ‘possible’ A flue cap invented by a Nelson man lowers the emissions from wood burning fires and makes them more efficient, international testing has found. For the past four years Nelson City Council has told Neville D’Herville his cowl – which fits on the top of a chimney – wouldn’t be recognised until it is tested in New Zealand. Council staff and even some councillors have also told residents having them installed could be an insurance risk and they need to be taken out. But Nelson mayor Aldo Miccio says he is now trying to get it tested outside a lab, potentially paving the way for the flue caps to be installed on Nelson homes. Neville invented a flue cap in 2009 and says it is designed to make fires more efficient. Around 2000 have been sold

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throughout New Zealand and a British distributor says he’s sold thousands in the UK without bother and is now introducing them in Europe. But councils in New Zealand want it tested here to make sure it’s safe. Neville is refusing to allow them to do it because the testing is done in labs, without back pressure conditions you’d find in the real world. He says the conditions in the lab are drastically different to what they are on the top of someone’s house and that the lab testing is measured half way up the chimney, not at the top of it where the flue cap is.

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Greenacres Golf club members Wendy Grindlay, Mat’e Crins and Joyce Murray are baring it all today in the name of charity. Photo: Sinead Ogilvie.

Golfers bare all for calendar

A bunch of bare bums will tee off at Greenacres Golf course today, as female members of the club bare it all in the name of charity. The ladies will pose nude for a calendar they’re creating in a bid to fundraise for and put their club on the map – while turning a few heads at the same time. All in good taste and good humour, the ladies will sell the cal-

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endars to the public and the proceeds will not only go towards helping the club, but will also be donated to Special Olympics NZ. Members taking part in the photo shoot range in ages from early fifties to the early eighties and Joyce

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Murray, who is among the brave, says she jumped at the chance to participate because “life’s too short to be conservative”. The shoot may not be good for the concentration of club members who come across it though. “I don’t think they would have ever see anything else quite like it in all of their years of golf,” says Joyce.

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