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Wednesday 1 May 2019
What a gem
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Green machine rolls on
Lift-out
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Giving up on housing market Sara Hollyman and Kate Russell
The Nelson property market proved to be too hard of a nut to crack for one family and has pushed them out of the region. Ned and Rachael Worboys uprooted their life in Wellington
close to family and moved to Nelson in January last year, in hope of being able to buy their first home to raise their two young sons. After more than a year of open homing and consistently being priced out, they made the “very difficult” decision to give up on their
dream and head to the Wairarapa. “We ended up having to move from Nelson. The way the market went, and the way houses were being sold, meant we weren’t going to be able to buy even if we waited a few years,” she says. Instead, the couple moved to the
Wairarapa and say they easily secured twice the home and twice the land. “It’s not Nelson, but we have a lovely home and some money left over to make it ours.” Rachael says their experience of open homes here, of which they had
attended at least a dozen, was much better, with owners giving a fair idea of what they wanted, making it a much less stressful experience. Latest QV figures show that in March 2019 the average home
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Nelson’s heritage standing up tall Sara Hollyman
Those who stepped through the gates of Founder’s Heritage Park on Sunday were transported to much simpler days where newspapers were printed manually, and circus acts were big entertainment. Co-ordinator Giles Burton says the heritage fair was aimed at being a fun family day out with old time games like coconut shy and quoits, distorting mirrors and magicians. “People are quite interested in the history, they are more interested in heritage, particularly in New Zealand.” He says Nelson has a good handle on its heritage, but the way early events panned out are “probably not quite correct”. He says many have Pakeha-driven version of historic events. “But actually, if you look a bit deeper it’s not quite as crystal clean as that, but I think people are more interested in finding that out.” Giles noted that a previous heritage event, the Wairau Affray, drew a lot of interesting comments from people who didn’t previously know the history particularly from Maori perspective. After being entertained with circus performers Eight-year-old twins Lilly and Kaitlin Hippolite stand atop Twisty Twinz Jola and Nele Siezen as part of the Nelson Heritage Fair. Photo: Sara Hollyman.
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