Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 14 August 2012
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Patients can still get Marmite fix
Andrew Board
thing right. “They heard the smoke A quick thinking family, alarm go off in the top bedalong with the help of a sole room. He evacuated the smoke alarm, has saved an house and the other three entire block of homes, says flats as well, which was absolutely superb. We have a local fire officer. An oil fin heater caught fire to praise them that the smoke alarm was on Friday night installed because it and flames from it saved the day, and were seen coming that the evacuafrom the windows tion was incredof the flat’s top stoible. We are really rey when the fire pleased with how engines arrived. they reacted to the The family were situation.” downstairs when The family told it heard a smoke alarm sound. The Craig Davies the fire service that they bought father of the family the heater from the Warewent upstairs to investigate and saw the heater in one house, which, according to its website, currently has a of bedrooms on fire. He tried to put it out but recall on Kent five fin and it was too hot so he evacu- nine fin oil column heaters. ated his family and the Craig says smoke alarms residents of the three other weren’t fitted in the other flats while the fire service three flats so it was lucky the heater was in the right was called. Station officer Craig Davies SEE PAGE 2 says the family did every-
Solveig Sheed having Marmite on toast for breakfast at Nelson Hospital last week. The hospital still has a supply of the spread which hasn’t been produced since March. Photo: Andrew Board.
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It may not be an advisable way to get your Marmite fix, but waking up in Nelson Hospital is one way to get your hands on the scarce spread. Patients at the hospital are still being offered Marmite for their breakfast despite it not being produced for the past five months as its manufacturer, Sanitarium, repairs its earthquake-damaged plant. Production is expected to resume in October but jars of Marmite have been selling for hundreds of dollars on Trade Me as desperate foodies seek out the few remaining jars in the country. For Nelson woman Solveig Sheed, all she had to do to get her hands on it was tick the right box at Nelson Hospital when ordering her breakfast. Maria Chhina, food manager for Compass Group which supplies food to Nelson Hospital, says the region got lucky with its supplier, Bidvest, having a higher than usual stock of the small Marmite portions when the plant closed down. She says some patients have been very appreciative and that the hospital will have enough stock to last until production starts again in two months. “Some have said ‘yay, I can’t believe you still have Marmite, thanks so much’. But for most of them what’s on their toast isn’t their chief concern, it’s getting better,” says Maria. Solveig says she is a Marmite fan and was pleased to see it on the menu.
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