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Tuesday 12 August 2014
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Mission to feed for less
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Threepeat for Rabbits
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Philip Walker, left, and Kyle Paki Paki won the Bravery/Heroism Award in Christchurch last week. Photo: Martin Hunter/New Zealand Herald.
Doing us proud
Nelsonians win two Pride of NZ awards. They will now head to the national finals. Full story page 3.
Hope for Saxton Oval A back-down from organisers of the Cricket World Cup, by allowing the Auckland Nines event to go ahead, has locals hopeful there will be a similar back-down at Saxton Oval. Former Nelson City councillor Derek Shaw is a member of Athletics Nelson, and says he is
“hopeful” track and field will be in action at Saxton Oval during the Cricket World Cup. As part of its contract with Nelson City Council, Cricket World Cup has exclusive use of the athletics track from January 26 until March 15 – the peak of the track and field season – despite all the
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games being held next door. The exclusivity of the cricket oval, athletics track, pavilion and infield of the track, runs from 21 days prior to the first match until
ten days after the last one. But an exemption, to allow the NRL Nines to be held at Auckland’s Eden Park for three days during their same exclusivity period, has given Derek some hope that Athletics Nelson can also reach an agreement with world cup organisers. “People have be-
come more optimistic that Cricket World Cup will start focusing on some of the smaller details and realize they don’t need all of that exclusivity time. That news from Auckland gives us some further encouragement that there’s scope
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