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tuesday 6 March 2018
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Terror in Marsden Valley
‘My mother lost her husband and then got kidnapped’ Charles Anderson Editor
charles@nelsonweekly.co.nz EXCLUSIVE
Reverend David Barnes was finalising the details of his father’s
burial at Marsden Cemetery, when he left his elderly mother and wife in his car with the engine running. “I would usually never do that, but I literally was only going into
the office for a minute.” His 90-year-old father had died the previous evening and the family was already shaken. But when came back to the car he was in for another “horror”.
The car, which was a gift from a friend, was gone, along with his mother and wife. “It was terrible, have you ever heard anything like that before?” While David was organising the
burial, a 15-year-old girl, who was working under supervision at the cemetery, allegedly escaped. David says the girl then saw his car
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Old invoices found in new pharmacy Kate Russell
ProPharma Nelson manager Barry Nicholas and pharmacist Deirdre Magee with some of the 1973 invoices that were found in the ceiling during renovations of the Victory Square Pharmacy. Photo: Kate Russell.
A stack of pharmaceutical invoices dated from 1973 were found during renovations of the St Vincent St/Toi Toi St corner site late last year, when Victory Square Pharmacy made the move back to its old premises. The pharmacy’s roots in Victory go back to the 1950s, moving several times around the shopping village until current owners, Sean and Deirdre Magee, decided to take the pharmacy back to the corner site. But Sean made an interesting discovery when they were re-wiring the building. “I was up in the roof with my head torch on and I started biffing these things out, just thinking they were rubbish. But then Deirdre took one look at them and realised that they
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