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Henry and Simon Anderson with Matthew Leonard at the Black Caps versus West Indies ODI at Saxton Oval on Saturday. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
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Nelson loves cricket
Nelson Cricket’s biggest day has been deemed a massive success, with a sell out crowd of 5300 witnessing a first class Black Caps victory over the West Indies. Everything from the venue, the crowd, the facilities and the result were given a big tick – with just the weather being the only groan as late afternoon rain resulted in a premature end with New Zealand given a 58 run win via the Duckworth Lewis Method. “There was a huge turnout, the wicket was good, everything proved to be as good or if not better than we had hoped,” says Nelson Cricket Association chairman David Leonard. “It was really, really important on a whole lot of levels that the game went ahead and we got a result so we are rapt about that.” Tickets had sold out a week prior to the fixture but talks are already underway to lift the capacity to above 6000 people with
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Police happy with start to 2014 Nelson celebrated the New Year with little trouble say police, in contrast to the final weeks of 2013. There were no major incidents on New Year’s Eve and police say behaviour across the district was excellent with the only arrests for a breach of liquor ban in the city and some for assault. While police were hailing the “noticeable
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change in the way people were behaving” there were several incidents at the end of 2013 that left them less than impressed. Shortly after midnight on December 20 a 34 year old man was attacked in New St. The man was hit over the head with a spade during an altercation. The attacker appeared in court yesterday to face charges of intent to cause grievous bodily harm
and theft. In the very early hours of Christmas morning 29 year old Jared Grafton was attacked by a group of four to five men on Queen St in Richmond. It left him unconscious and with multiple fractured bones in his face. His attackers have yet to be found and police are appealing for any information.
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Acting Tasman District Commander Inspector Steve Greally says despite the two violent attacks he was delighted with the way the region celebrated the New Year. “For two years running we’ve had relatively trouble free New Year’s celebrations in our district. That’s a credit to the work police have done to address alcohol-related offending,” he says.
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