23 April 2013

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Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper

Tuesday 23 April 2013

Rain can’t stop street party

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NEW E STOR

RICHMOND

Netball tournament a success

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Clean up begins By Andrew Board Some of the heaviest rainfall in the history of New Zealand has led to damage to more than 100 businesses and homes in Stoke, Richmond and Hope. Many business and home owners spent most of yesterday surveying the damage to their properties, including Nelson City Council, which owns the badly-affected Saxton Stadium. It is the second major flood the region has had in a year and a half and Nelson mayor Aldo Miccio described it as “horrendous”. “This has affected many more people than the floods and slips in 2011 but nowhere near as bad as the people it affected a year ago. A lot of people will be hurting from this. There is damage all over Stoke and Richmond,” he says. Flooding began on Sunday afternoon and 104

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