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Nelson Weekly staff reporters Unrest over Lewis Stanton’s ongoing Trafalgar St protest is heating up. Last week Nelson Weekly reported that city retailers were hanging clothes outside their stores to as a counter protest to Lewis, who now hangs his washing up at his protest spot outside Nelson Farmers. On Sunday two local women decided to join the retailers, by setting up their own protest near where Lewis, who likes to be known as Hone Ma Heke, sits. Pat Craig and Margaret Bowler set up chairs, their own washing line and cardboard signs, similar to those that Lewis displays. Like the retailers, they say they’re angry with Nelson City Council and police for allowing Lewis’ long-standing protest to continue. “We think it looks disgusting with the washing hanging outside Farmers, well, anywhere along the main street, so while Hone might think we’re supporting him,
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Nelson Coastguard volunteer Haden McCrorie won the volunteer of the year award at the regional Coastguard awards recently. He is up for the national award later this month. Photo: Andrew Board.
What a rescue! Coastguard pulls of daring yacht rescue When Nelson Coastguard member Haden McCrorie jumped onto a yacht, battered from two days at sea in “horrific weather”, it was the easy part of the rescue. The hard part was figuring out how to sail the yacht, and then getting it and its two exhausted crew into calm waters in the middle of the night five months ago.
Andrew Board Editor
andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz The nine-hour mission, involving most of the Nelson Coastguard crew, earned Haden the “Rescue Vessel Volunteer of the Year” award at the regional Coastguard
awards last month. The yacht, which started sailing from Wellington on route to Auckland, got into trouble when it hit Cook Strait in bad weather. A big wave meant the yacht took on water which destroyed its electrics, including its navigational equipment and motor.
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