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No cents in spending big in election Judene Edgar Reporter
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Money can’t buy everything and that proved to be the case in last October’s local body elections with some of the lowest spenders being voted onto council and some of the biggest spenders missing out. T-shirts, fridge magnets, rosettes
and even paying their own children to deliver brochures may have helped win election campaigns in Nelson City, but Tasman’s council candidates were far more conservative and frugal. In the Moutere-Waimea ward the three lowest spenders were elected onto council with Tim King spending nothing, Dean McNamara outlaying just $205 and Anne Turley $329.
The biggest spender was Graeme Stradling, who forked out $2500, missing out by only 156 votes to third-placed Dean. Tim was reelected for his seventh straight term, and his sixth without spending a cent. “I did spend some the first time, but I can’t really remember how much – it probably wasn’t much,” he says. “Since I first got elected I figure you’ve either done a rea-
sonable job or not, and people will vote for you if they think you have. “When first standing, people usually don’t know you as well so you need to spend money, but once you’re there I think you need to let what you’ve done speak for itself.” Election spending by Richmond ward candidates ranged from $30 to $5000. Mark Greening
was successful with a modest $30 spend, coming in at number four, narrowly beating Michael Higgins, by 154 votes, who spent just over $5000 on his unsuccessful bid to be returned to council. The average expenditure for Richmond ward candidates was $2381, which contrasts markedly with their Moutere-Waimea ward
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Iconic WWI uniform brought home Brittany Spencer A single Twitter post has reunited Ruby Bay’s Annie Coster with her grandfather’s military uniform. Lt Col Cyprian Brereton, or Cyp as Annie calls him, was a famous World War One commander who survived being shot in the head in Gallipoli, as well as being the Nelson Provincial Museum’s first professional curator. But to Annie, he was just Granddad. “He was a lieutenant, a curator, talked on the radio, spoke at schools, hosted library days, but first off he was my grandfather,”
says Annie. “He was a very eccentric and unassuming sort of bloke, when he wasn’t dressed to the nines or in his military uniform he would look like nothing on this earth, he’d wear a tea cosy on his head, and go to church in slippers.” Cyp’s military dress uniform came up for sale from a private owner a few months ago, but it wasn’t until a member of the public tweeted the news to the Nelson Provincial Museum that the family, or museum, knew it existed. The dark green and gold
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Nelson Provincial Museum's Lucinda Blackley-Jimson, left, stands with Lt Col Cyprian Brereton’s granddaughter Annie Coster and his military uniform. Photo: Brittany Spencer.
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