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Nelson's Floral Fiesta

To coincide with the annual conference in Nelson this year of the Teleflower organisation, Nelson Lions conducted a floral fiesta in the city. Trafalgar Street was decorated with flowers, retailers gave space in their windows to floral arrangements, and floral carpet competitions and decorated bicycles and prams for children were held. The public, also, was given the opportunity of viewing the work of the Teleflower design school, and the money collected from this source was given to the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Association. (Pix by Peter Cooper Studio).

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The central display at the design school

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Two growers, Major and Mrs F. R. Collins, enjoying the social get-together.

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The work of the professionals in the design school was an eye-opener. What those girls didn't know about decorative work wasn't worth knowing. (Peter Cooper Studio pix).

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From a veritable forest of flowers the girls chose their blooms.

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Glads of every size and hue.

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"Would you look at that - a bloomin' bunny".

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A little know-how makes all the difference.

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(Peter Cooper Studio pix).

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Lions president, Wilf Gibson, places a flower tyre in position.

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Mrs G. H. Bowden (right) hands over a big bunch of flowers for the decorations to Mrs R. Render, at the receiving depot,

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Children taking part in the floral decorated bike/pram contest.

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The parade to the Sports Hail was led by marching girls.

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A pretty lass with a pretty pram which won second prize.

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The Lions' entry in the floral carpet being completed by Ruth Moore, Jill Ewart and Sylvia Johnson (it won first prize).

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The Mapua-Mahana Women's Institute entry

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Frank David thought the entry of the Tahuna Women's Institute worth a pic

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Susan Merrick and Eugene Morris examine the Horticultural Society's entry most carefully.

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Working on the Girl Guides' and Scouts' carpet are Mesdames Eve Cannington, Bea Taylor, Joyce Russell, Nancy Evans and Maree Taylor.

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The Plunket Society carpet caught the eye of Pauline and Kay Berry

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Now, at long last, the Council has topped some of the trees, and the view is a whole lot better. Jaycees were considering this as a project and some action by them was a possibility in view of the importance of Botanical Hill as a tourists' "must".

Might we suggest that Jaycees retain their interest and carry the work on the hill a stage further by erecting a board at the trig station, pointing out the significance of the site and other interesting data?

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In December 1961 we published photographs similar to this one, and pleaded that pines and macrocarpas blocking the view from Botanical Hill should be topped. In the three years which have passed, unnumbered visitors have plodded up the hill, only to find at the summit that the view was not worth the effort.

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The sight of Transport Department officers writing "tickets" for parking meter offences will soon be a thing of the past. Applications have been invited for the position of meter maid and it is likely that an appointment will be made shortly.

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Probably the only object in Motueka in recent months to arouse more heat than the destructor of Baigent and Co has been the effect of the destructor. Since it was installed at the company's milling plant opposite Rothman's factory, the destructor has played up badly, and notwithstanding alterations and additions, residents still had complaints of soot and ashes which belched out of the arrester and on to homes and clothing. The plant is still under test and the company is continuing to explore ways of overcoming the nuisance. The Borough Council has decided that unless the nuisance can be abated, the plant must go. It would appear that if there is going to be fire, then there's not to be smoke.

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We New Zealanders are a queer breed. We take a lot, at tirnes, and shrug if off with a "she'll be right" attitude. Possibly the instigators of the new bank charges felt, in making the charges, that as in the past, this attitude would allow this directive to be put into effect without overmuch protestation, If so, they must have suffered a rude shock. From one end of the country to the other, depositors expressed their views very forthrightly and finally stirred the government from its apathetic attitude into a decision to look into the charges. The furore increased in intensity to the stage that, as-we were going to press, the banks conferred to "assess the public's reaction to the charges". There was even a suggestion that the proposal might be dropped. We hope so.