Waimea Weekly Your Community Newspaper Wednesday 20 November 2013
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Sheep showing still worthwhile When Brightwater farmer Mal Irvine first started showing sheep at the Nelson A&P Show about 25 years ago it was critical to their stud farm’s success. The show was the shop window for sheep breeders looking to promote their stud and attracted hundreds of prospective buyers from farms throughout Nelson and Marlborough. It was serious business with breeders spending hours selecting and grooming sheep for the show and if a farmer was lucky enough to win a class it could add considerable value to their line of sheep. But the glory days of sheep showing are long gone and when Mal, who has been breeding Suffolk and Romney’s with his brother Don for over 30 years, takes their stud’s prize ram and ewe hoggets to the Golden Edge Nelson A&P Show at Richmond Park this weekend it will be a low key affair. SEE PAGE 2
Kids rip off elderly parents Sons and daughters are draining the bank accounts of their elderly parents, says Age Concern, with around 50 reported cases in Nelson and Tasman this year. Age Concern came forward with its concerns around elder abuse in the region after reading the new chief medical officer’s comments about Nelson and Tasman’s ageing population in last week’s Waimea Weekly. Age Concern Nelson manager Sue Tilby says Dr Nick Baker is spot on to highlight the issue and they are disturbed and concerned about the increasing number of abuse cases they are working on. This year alone the organisation has 65 proven cases of abuse in Nelson and Tasman, 14 of those for self-neglect, the rest by carers ripping off older people. “We see a huge amount of financial abuse here in Nelson, a huge amount,” says Sue. “It mainly comes from family members, in fact 77 per cent is from sons and
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Andrew Board Editor andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz
daughters ripping off their parents.” She says others befriend older people with an ulterior motive to rip them off. She says it’s hard to get the money back and in two separate cases this year they’ve seen one woman befriend a lonely elderly lady only to have massive cheques written for her. Because the woman signed the cheque they can’t get the money back. Another case was a carer who was given an elderly woman’s credit card and pin number. She used it to withdraw $25,000 for herself. Because the woman supplied her with her pin number, no charges were laid and the bank refused to try to recover the money. She says sometimes they can SEE PAGE 2
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