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Skull was a young woman’s A human skull found by two fishermen in March has been examined and found to be from a Polynesian woman, most likely from before European settlement of Nelson. Mackenzie Rose and her partner found the skull on the edge of the Waimea Estuary, behind Nelson Airport, when they went to go fishing. They called the police, who sent the skull, along with some other bone fragments, to Otago University to be examined. Police spokeswoman Barbara Dunn says the results are back and show the remains were found to be from a Polynesian woman, believed to have been under 30 years of age. “We are now making arrangements for them to be returned to a site dedicated for koiwi at Marsden Valley Cemetery.”
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Liz Watson and Brian Grant won the prize for the fancy dress at the Nelson Mountainbike Club’s Six-Hour Mid Winter Breakout at Kaiteriteri on Sunday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg. The human skull that was found behind Nelson Airport by fishermen in March. Mackenzie said at the time that it was a strange situation. “We were just walking along the estuary when we saw it. We didn’t know if it was real or not, but I picked it up and we could tell right away that it was real.”
Bikers dressed for fun, not speed It was difficult to tell whether the Nelson Mountainbike Club’s Six-Hour Mid Winter Breakout at Kaiteriteri on Sunday was a fancy dress party or mountainbike race although the answer was probably a bit of both. Four hundred and seventy-five riders entered the popular event at the Kaiteriteri Mountainbike Park and, while most were there for the racing, it was the fancy dressers who stole the show. “The fancy dress is going up a notch every year,” race organiser
Wayne Pool says. Brian Grant’s Viking costume, complete with double-bladed axe, and Liz Watson’s dragon teamed up in their How to Tame Your Dragon outfits to win the fancy dress, ahead of Warrick Spence’s Sergeant Pepper and his daughter Mandy Plumtree’s Wonder Woman. There were also clowns, cows, Little Red Riding Hoods, Evel Knievels and angels on bikes. The father and son team of Mark
and Henry Jaine led the charge of the lycra-wearing speedsters, blasting around the five kilometre circuit 19 times in 5 hours 37 minutes. It was a top performance by Henry who consistently posted 15 minute laps in his first race since breaking his collarbone eight weeks ago. However, one of the most impressive performances of the day came from Warrick’s 76-year-old mother Jill Charlton, who teamed up with her husband Tony, 70, to ride six laps.
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