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Tin cans and newspapers Kate Russell If you’re a Nelsonian, then you’ve probably seen the iconic ‘tin can aeroplanes’ at the Nelson Market, but you may not know the man behind them. Murray Harris has been making and selling the aeroplanes, which are made from recycled cans, for 19 years now, and is the only person in Nelson who does it. The aeroplanes in his collection are made out of every kind of can one could think of - from Speights cans, to lemonade cans, to obscure craft beer cans - and every one of them has been crafted with passion. He says it takes him two hours to make a medium sized aeroplane, and three hours for a large one. He has no shortage of cans either, with his workshop full to the brim of boxes of all sorts of interesting ones. Murray doesn’t drink himself, but he says friends bring him cans, and he also goes to the recycle cenwheelchairs mobility scooters walkers/canes electric bed/hoists lift assist chairs bathroom solutions incontinence products daily living aids/products
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Local icon Murray Harris with just some of the planes he’s made. tre on Pascoe St to pick them up. His son even gets his craft-beer drinking friends in Wellington to save their more obscure cans to give to him. Murray, an ex-carpenter, says he just
sort of fell into it as a hobby after he had a serious injury to his hand. He says he first saw the idea through a Dutchman over at Marehau who used Continued on page 2.
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