Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 9 October 2012
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Nelson’s $400M injection Andrew Board Nelson is poised for an investment injection unlike anything it has ever seen and on a scale that will see the region’s growth skyrocket, says a local expert. By the middle of 2013 local iwi should start to see Treaty of Waitangi settlements from the Government transferred to it, to the tune of an estimated $300400 million. Nelson City Council Maori liaison officer Geoff Mullen says most of that money will be invested in the top of the south and will see growth in the region on a scale never seen before. It comes at a time when Nelson businesses are already experiencing growth with the region’s Economic Development Agency chief executive Bill Findlater
saying Nelson is in for a “bloody exciting” future on the back of the iwi investment and Nelson’s current business expertise, especially in primary production, like growing and producing food. Local iwi and businesses are already engaging in how that money will be invested with a conference to be held in just over a week at Nelson’s Rutherford Hotel. Geoff says the investment will most likely be in horticulture, aquaculture, viticulture and forestry, areas Nelson already does really well in. He says local iwi are unlikely to “blow” their settlement like Taranaki iwi Ngati Tama did earlier this year, investing their
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Cyclefest takes off A loop around Nelson’s most iconic landmark was the perfect way to kick off the opening weekend of the Konica Minolta Nelson Cycle Festival.
The Nelson City Criterium, along with round six of the Benchmark Series ridden in the Moutere Valley, were the two big events held over the weekend for the festival
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Nelson cyclist Robbie Hill takes a corner during the race around the Cathedral on Sunday. Insert: Cyclists race past the Cathedral. Photos: Phillip Rollo.
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