Bid for park land continues The trust proposing developing a riverside park near Luggate has made Contact Energy an offer, in a last ditch effort to secure the land. PAGE 3
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Government statistics which show guest nights in Wanaka for August are down 5.4 percent compared to last year, are misleading, according to Lake Wanaka Tourism general manager James Helmore. He said the statistics, put out by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, refer to short-term commercial accommodation, and does not include visitors staying in private houses and cribs. However co-owner of Accommodation and Reservations Wanaka, Peter Barrow, who specialises in holiday homes and apartments, said their figures are down too, compared to last winter. Wanaka Motels Association president Bridget Parker said the decline in the number of visitors staying in Wanaka was partly due to increasing numbers
making day trips to Treble Cone, Cardrona and/or Wanaka from Queenstown, rather than staying here. James, Bridget and Peter all said there were many factors affecting tourist numbers this winter, not the least of which was a slow start to the season due to lack of snow. This put people off making forward bookings, James said. Australia’s very good snow season was also a factor, they said. Another issue was the high New Zealand dollar. “Our Japanese numbers are way down – they can go glacier skiing in Switzerland for the same price as coming here, and that’s what they’re doing,” Bridget said. “The Snow Park closure has affected numbers. Ski teams which used to come here for the whole season are now going to Ohau or Roundhill. It’s a whole combination of different factors.” Bridget said it was frustrating that
Queenstown was so much busier than Wanaka. “You would go over there and it was bedlam, and come back here and it was very quiet,” she said. Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment statistics show while Queenstown guest nights were down one percent for the month of August (compared to Wanaka’s 5.4 percent), Queenstown guest nights for the past year were up eight percent (compared to Wanaka which was down four percent.) James, Bridget and Peter all said people in the industry need to get their heads together and come up with a solution. The Wanaka Motel’s association’s AGM is next week. “We need to get together and discuss the issues,” Bridget said. “We need to do more winter marketing.” Peter said no Winter Games this year definitely affected numbers. “I wouldn’t like to think [falling guest night numbers] was a long-term trend,” he said.
JamessaidLakeWanakaTourismwould hold a meeting early in November with representatives from the ski areas and other sectors (including accommodation and hospitality) to collate their data. “Our collective message about skiing in Wanaka has to be as strong as it can be,” he said. He said other statistics Lake Wanaka Tourism uses (from the Department of Statistics) indicate the August spend around Wanaka on Australian tourists’ credit cards was up 75 percent on last year, indicating healthy tourist numbers. James is also on the New Zealand Board of Regional Tourism Operators, and said a top priority for the board is to get all the tourism research and data aligned. “We’re having a big push at national level,” he said. “We need to get the Tourism Industry Association on board.”
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Council seeks views on pools Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun
Digging for fibre
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Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Earthworks are being carried out to lay cables for the fibre broadband rollout in town. The project to connect to Chorus’ next generation fibre network will be carried out in three stages. More than 160 business premises in Wanaka’s central business district bordered by Ardmore, Dungarvon and Brownston streets will be connected in stage one, followed by stages two and three which would include
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other commercial areas and residential areas. In the Gigatown competition Wanaka and Dunedin are tussling for the social media share top spot with Dunedin just 5 percent ahead of Wanaka yesterday. Wanaka’s gigateam are hosting a number of “meet and tweet” evenings, beginning tomorrow from 5.30pm at Gin and Raspberry for Wanaka’s Twitter community to meet and share ideas. Wanaka is also accumulating points in the quiz total tally with
2158 but lies behind Dunedin (3728) and Nelson (3975). There is still time to enter the Gigatown Wanaka competition to win a luxury break in Wanaka - recruit ten friends, get them to sign up and support Wanaka and complete the quiz to go into the draw (more details on the Gigatown Wanaka website). Every entry will help Wanaka increase its support numbers and add to its quiz tally, both challenges make up 19 percent of the final score.
The council has set itself a deadline of December 18 to decide on the location, make-up, timing and budget of Wanaka’s new swimming facilities. Queenstown Lakes District councillors decided last week to carry out a “special consultative procedure,” to collect Wanaka ward ratepayers’ and residents’ views on future swimming facilities in the town. The council’s operations general manager, Ruth Stokes, expects to publicly release a document outlining the options on Monday, October 20. Members of the public will then have a month to submit their views. The whole council will make up a hearings panel to consider the public submissions, in Wanaka on December 8 and 9, before making a decision on December 18. The project will be included in the council’s 2015-2025 long term plan, which will be released
for public submissions around March and April next year. The options document to be released for public feedback this month will ask ratepayers and residents for their views on when the new swimming pools should be built – in 2016 or 2021, and where they should be built – on Plantation Road, at Three Parks, or at Northlake under a lease agreement with the subdivision developers who would transfer ownership of the pools to the council after 50 years. Community views on whether the lap pool should have six or eight lanes, and how much ratepayers are prepared to pay for the facility will also be sought. The pools will be paid for by Wanaka ward ratepayers - who will also begin paying for stage one of the new sports facility next year - not by ratepayers throughout the Queenstown Lakes District. Ruth Stokes said a “special consultative procedure” needed to be
carried out because new pools are not included in the council’s current tenyear plan and they would exceed the “significance threshold” of $2 million. She said the Office of the Auditor General would also review the consultation document the council is releasing this month, to ensure it is consulting the public to a high standard. Having the document reviewed was not a statutory requirement, she said, however, it was wise given the amount of money new swimming pools would cost Wanaka’s small population. Councillors decided in August to consult the community on the timing, size, location and budget of new swimming pools, after concern was expressed about their plan to delay adding pools to Wanaka’s sports facility, which is to be built at Three Parks, until 2020/21. Councillors had hoped upgrading Wanaka’s existing swimming pool on Plantation Road would provide adequate facilities in the interim, until it was
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found to have structural problems. The options outlined in the consultation document range in cost from $9.979 million to $12.72 million. The resulting rates increases range from 7.94 percent to 10.82 percent, except for the “status quo” option, which would involve upgrading the existing pool and would add 0.13 percent to rates. Wanaka ward ratepayers are likely also to begin paying for stage one of the new sports facility at Three Parks next year. Costing about $13.4 million, it will result in a 2.04 percent rates increase on average, or around $47.97 per property per year. New swimming pools costing about $11.8 million, for example, would add around $208.43 to each property’s annual rates bill. The rates increase for both a $13.4 million sports facility and $11.8 million pools would be 8.99 percent on average. The council envisages charging adults $8 and children $3 to use the pools.
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Bid for park land continues Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun The trust proposing developing a riverside park near Luggate has made Contact Energy an offer, in a last ditch effort to secure the land. The 0.4ha is about 350m upstream of the Red Bridge, on the Luggate side of the Clutha River. Contact Energy, which inherited the site along with other riverside land in 1996, has said it wants $300,000 for the land and it extended its deadline for the trust to raise the money to October 21. The trust has raised $142,500 in donations and pledges, $135,000 of which was given to it by Lewis Verduyn-Cassels, who lives in a cottage on the land, and his family. Before the trust was formed in June, Lewis made a personal offer of $190,000 for the land, in order to form a communityowned park. Contact Energy declined the offer but, since then, it has sold 164ha of land on the banks of the Clutha River to the Department
of Conservation (DOC), for $935,000. Lewis declined to tell the Wanaka Sun how much the trust had offered Contact Energy, but he said he hoped the fact the power generation company had
barrier to its fundraising efforts. “There is a perception that Contact has already made a substantial profit by selling off land along the Clutha that it inherited in 1996, and therefore some people say that although
There is a perception that Contact has already made a substantial profit by selling off land along the Clutha that it inherited in 1996, and therefore some people say that although they really support the trust and the project they do not wish to give money to Contact via the trust. sold riverside land to DOC for $5700 per hectare for conservation purposes was an indication it would look favourably on the trust’s offer. He also said 1.79ha of bare land adjoining the site sold for $190,000, despite having a capital value of $363,000 in 2013/14. In a letter to Contact Energy, the trust said there had been a
Hellebrekers’ to manage pest control A familiar figure to local outdoors people has been appointed as the operations manager for a West Matukituki Valley conservation project. Paul Hellebrekers, the former Wanaka area manager for the Department of Conservation (DOC), accepted the new position which was recently sponsored for two years by the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds Ltd. The joint Matukituki Valley Protection project between the Matukituki Charitable Trust and the DOC aims to reduce pest numbers such as stoats, ferrets and possums in the valley to benefit threatened native wildlife. Trustee Gillian Crombie said that the operations management role was established to coordinate the logistics and delivery of various activities the trust is undertaking, including trap installation, monitoring, maintenance and volunteer support. “The trust is pleased that Paul Hellebrekers has accepted the role as foundation operations manager. SHPG sponsorship of this role adds greatly to the trust’s ability to deliver its objectives in a timely and efficient manner. It is hoped the project will eventually be part of a larger animal pest control project covering the Matukituki catchment.” - Tim Brewster
they really support the trust and the project they do not wish to give money to Contact via the trust. “The typical comments are that Contact should support the local community by donating the land, or that Contact should sell the land at a price the trust can afford, or that Contact should match the funds raised by the trust dollar for dollar,” the
letter said. Lewis Verduyn-Cassels has lived on the site since 1991. He has removed many of the wilding pines and planted kanuka, flax and kowhai, grown in an on-site native nursery, on 90 percent of the land. The trust wants the land to become a community-owned park in perpetuity, where people can access the river, learn about the ecology of the area, picnic or even get married. There are also the remnants of a Chinese gold miner’s hut and tailings on the site. The entire park would be 5.2ha in size, comprising the 0.4ha, a large marginal strip near the Red Bridge, and 2.6ha which used to house punt infrastructure. Contact Energy has said it will donate the former punt site to a community organisation and the trust hoped it would be the chosen group. If the trust was successful in its bid to secure the land, Lewis would continue to live in the cottage as caretaker of the park until he retired and was replaced.
Lakefront plan going to council Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun The Wanaka Community Board is recommending the Queenstown Lakes District Council adopt its Wanaka Lakefront Reserves Management Plan at the next council meeting. This was decided at the community board meeting on Tuesday, pending editing of the draft document. The plan has been controversial particularly around issues of buildings on lakefront reserves. The new plan allows for land to be leased for the proposed new water sports facility. WCB chair Rachel
Brown told the meeting she was very impressed with the level of public engagement in the process. A total of 379 submissions were received. “There is a lot of passion for our waterfront,” Rachel said. “We have done a lot of work and there has been a lot of public consultation. It’s a delicate balancing act between the apparent contradiction of preservation [of the landscape and views] and creating opportunities for people to recreate.” Sally Battson spoke to the meeting on behalf of the Wanaka Residents
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Association (WRA). “Your job is to protect the legacy for future generations,” she told the board. “The character of the reserves should not be compromised by structures.” Sally said while the WRA supported the rowing club, granting a lease for a large building on the proposed lakefront site was not protecting the unique landscape. Hawea resident Don Robertson also s p o ke d u ring the public forum. He asked for reassurance the public would be included in any discussions regarding building structures on waterfront reserves.
Bike crash recovery The three young men involved in last week’s motorcycle accident on Lake Hawea Station are reported be to be at various stages of rehabilitation. All aged 19, the three were part of a group of eight out riding their dirt bikes when they missed a blind corner on a four-wheel-drive track and rode over a bluff. “The boys were on two-wheel dirt-bikes and not quad bikes as some have suggested. They had permission to be on the farm, no alcohol was involved and apart from the accident the boys were out having a good time as young men should,” Wanaka police sergeant Aaron Nicholson, who was in charge of the rescue, said. Fraser Dowling, of Wanaka, received the worst injuries breaking his lower lumbar vertebrae. He underwent surgery on Friday in Burwood Hospital, Christchurch. Jack Mansfield was in Dunedin Hospital recovering after having his elbow reconstructed. He also suffered concussion, a small puncture to his lung and cracked ribs. The third rider, Ged Corkery, was considered the luckiest of the three, having walked away from the crash with only cuts and bruises.
Southern health services plan The draft Southern Strategic Health Services Plan is open for consultation until November 21. The draft plan is described by the Southern District Health Board as “a pathway to a better overall health service, and the most comprehensive, whole-ofsystem, longer-term plan for Southern since the 2010 merging of Otago and Southland District Health Boards”. It will shape how services will be linked and delivered, and how and where resources should be distributed and developed over the next ten years. A full draft of the plan, a summary of the plan and the questionnaire are available on the SDHB website.
Draft economic strategy consultation Queenstown Lakes District Council will be embarking on a second round of consultation over the Draft Economic Strategy in “November/December” this year. Deputy Mayor Lyal Cocks said most of the feedback suggested submitters were focussing on the proposal to review the district’s tourism bodies. “That was just one of 15 suggestions, but it appears to have become a contentious issue for many people and distracted attention from the other parts of the strategy,” he said. “It may be better to park the promotion body issue and encourage those organisations to focus on the wider, strategic economic development opportunities for our district.” Submissions close tomorrow. After submissions have been analysed, QLDC will consider the key points and agree on a schedule of changes. It will then seek further input from stakeholders and the community. The council would need to amend and adopt the strategy by February 2015 in time for any funding requirements or other changes to be included in the Draft Ten Year Plan. QLDC will be consulting on the new Ten Year Plan in March 2015.
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We’re getting all pirated up down at the Crib over the coming weeks for Wanakafest 2014, which has helped us get over calling off the parade for this year. Don’t worry all you parade lovers, we’re looking at how the parade will fit in to the exciting new format of the festival with a view to a triumphant return in 2015. This means we’re putting all of our energy into our Great Cardboard Boat Race, and we want to encourage as many of you as possible to do the same. We want more entries than ever this year; and we want all you grown-ups to know that we have an over-20s
section too, and we would absolutely love you to join in the silliness. It’s going to be awesome! Once again this year the grand prize is a jet boat ride from the great folks at Lakeland Adventures, plus we’ve got vouchers from our fantastic friends at Amigos and Cinema Paradiso and more. If that’s not enough we’ll be handing out our custom, handmade, cardboard boat trophies, which will be this year’s must-have accessory for sure. We’ve already had a boat building day during the holidays and we’ve still got enough cardboard in the Crib to make our own armada. So if you’ve not started yet, on Saturday
you can come to the Crib between 3pm and 5pm at 11 Russell Street and build one for a tiny donation; so there are no excuses! The Cardboard Boat Race will be held at 12pm on Saturday October 25, straight after the Ray White Polar Plunge which we have the honour of coordinating once again. You can find the rules (yes, there are rules) on our event page on Facebook and on the Wanakafest website; you can email us on kahu.youth@xtra. co.nz, or give us a call on 443 5880 with any questions you may have.
Baby lions on the case Fifteen local people aged 12 to 18 years have joined the Upper Clutha’s newest service group, the Wanaka Leo Club. Its advisor, Ann Saunders, who is a member of the Upper Clutha Lions Club, said Leo clubs were essentially “baby lions” clubs for teenagers. The club members have been involved in a few Lions Club fundraising events so far, including collecting aluminium pull-tabs at Wanaka Wastebusters to raise money for the Kidney Kids of New Zealand charity and sorting old coins to support the Heads Up for Kids charity, which helps young people attend courses such as Outward Bound. Pictured collecting aluminium pull-tabs at Wanaka Wastebusters are Ellise Price, 12, Veron Pittaway, 14, and Nicole Price, 14. PHOTO: GINA DEMPSTER
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Beautiful donation Teacher researching penguins Staff Reporter
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Wanaka Sun Hair to Help, a group of Wanaka residents “with very long hair [who] have decided to chop it all off to donate it to a charity making wigs for cancer patients”, has gathered 25 ponytails to donate to Beautiful Lengths The ponytails, including one from fiveyear-old Ciara, who lost her hair three years ago when she underwent chemotherapy, were boxed up and sent away yesterday to be made into wigs. It takes six to eight ponytails to make one wig. The wigs are sent to Look Good Feel Better New Zealand which distributes free wigs to cancer patients. This year the wigs are being distributed to CanTeen - the New Zealand organisation supporting young people living with cancer. For anybody else who is inspired to cut
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off their hair, organiser Bevin Young said the Beautiful Lengths website
has information on where to send your donation.
A Wanaka-based high school teacher is sailing to the subantarctic Auckland Islands next month to study yellow-eyed penguins. Cromwell College teacher Christina Greenwood (pictured) is one of two recipients of the 2014 Sir Peter Blake Trust Environmental Educator Award. Christina teaches social studies, geography, travel and tourism. She was also a lead teacher during a week of intensive research into sustainable uses of water held in the Waitaki Basin earlier this year. Christina and New Zealand
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Maritime Museum staff member Frazer Dale will leave Bluff on November 17
aboard the 28m SV Evohe with a Department of Conservation
team. The trip to the islands should take two days. Everyone will
live on the yacht, going ashore before dawn each day to spend several hours counting the number of endangered penguins heading out to sea. They will return to Bluff at the end of November. The New Zealand subantarctic islands are a stronghold for yellow-eyed penguins; however work on the Auckland Islands has been limited. The last census taken there was done in 1989. Since 2009 DOC and the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust have been gathering data to calculate a revised population estimate and next month’s figures will complete the research.
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Volunteer training Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun People, particularly those with voluntary roles, are invited to a training workshop on governance. Organised by Volunteering Central, it will be held in Queenstown on the evening of October 23. Volunteering Central senior coordinator, Gillian White, said the workshop would cover the roles and responsibilities
of boards and management committees; managing staff, and tips for helping a board or committee to function well, among other subjects. It will be facilitated by Gigi Hollyer of Queenstown, an experienced trainer who has a good understanding of, and personal experience in, the not-for-profit or not-for-loss sector. The workshop was organised following
requests from voluntary boards of trustees. It will be held at the Wakatipu Senior Citizens’ rooms at 10 Memorial Street from 6pm until 8.30pm. The workshop will cost $20 per person. Car-pooling will be available from Wanaka and people in Alexandra and Cromwell can catch the Alexandra Community Bus for free. Register by contacting Gillian White.
The talk of the town Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun Aspirations were challenged and conversations were heated during Wanaka’s first Aspiring Conversations festival of ideas held at the weekend. More than 2000 tickets were sold to people who came from far and wide to listen to debates on topics ranging from ISIS to identity. The first of 13 sessions, led by Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni, set the tone with provocative ideas and challenging information. Loretta blamed the invasion of Iraq in 2003 for the current rise of the Islamic State and said the West should get out of the Middle East. “They want us to intervene,” she said, claiming Western interference increases support for ISIS. “They are guiding our foreign policy and controlling it.” “The solution will come through democratic means and negotiation – not occupation and violence.” Ironically the last speaker of the festival, historian Damien Fenton presented quite a different point of view, saying if the West doesn’t interfere now to keep the size of the Islamic State contained, it will get so big the West won’t ever defeat it. Another session was on inequality and the growing gap between rich and poor. Chaired by Radio New Zealand’s Wallace Chapman, the panel included “The Inequality Debate” author
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Max Rashbrooke, UNICEF NZ’s Deborah MorrisTravers and Wanaka philanthropist Scott Gilmour. Much of the debate focussed on kiwi children, 25 percent of whom now live in poverty compared with 14 percent 30 years ago. Deborah, in particular, emphasised that parents are not to blame. “Only about 5 percent of families are so dysfunctional the parents are not concerned about their kids,” she said. “The other 95 percent all want the best for their children.” Speakers agreed the gap between the rich and poor here is now one of the biggest in the western world. “We have to invigorate our democracy so all of us can hold our government to account,” Deborah said. Sunday’s sessions included a heated panel debate on water. The discussion featured (pictured) former Federated Farmers
president Bruce Wills, economist Rod Oram and NgaiTahu’s Tahu Potiki, chaired by festival director Philip Tremewan. In a strongly worded conclusion, Rod Oram responded to Bruce Wills’ earlier assertion that farming, fishing and forestry were all “totally renewable” by adding a fourth, expletive ‘F’ to the list stating that “time is desperately short” for positive environmental action. A session on technology starred Callahan Institute CEO Dr Mary Quin, who described agriculture as “New Zealand’s Silicon Valley”. She said the challenge was how to grow more Kiwi companies into big multinationals. “A good idea isn’t enough. We must invest in R&D both in terms of product manufacture and service delivery,” she said. The panel agreed that education was the key to development both in
New Zealand and around the world. Four festival sessions featured well-known New Zealand writers including Dame Fiona Kidman, New Zealand Poet Laureate Vincent O’Sullivan, Kirsty Gunn, CK Stead, Charlotte Grimshaw and Ian Wedde. They read each other’s work aloud and discussed identity, home, memory and, of course, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. On the Saturday evening, legendary musician Tim Finn performed White Cloud to a full house. The show was a musical journey through family histories featuring home videos from the 1950s and 1960s. Philip Tremewan said audience feedback for the festival had been extremely positive. Aspiring Conversations is expected to continue as an annual event, held both in the biennial Festival of Colour and separately in alternate years.
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Wanaka Sun Whether you approach the Mackenzie Country from Fairlie or from over the Lindis Pass, when you get there you know you’re somewhere different. This is where James McKenzie filched his sheep from the squattocrats, stealing through the night with his dog, and where the night sky is so dark that it’s protected under world heritage status. It is where, on Glenmore Station, which runs up one side of Lake Tekapo all the way to the boundary with Mount Cook National Park, the Murray family has farmed for 100 years and four generations. Their story has been recorded in “Heart of the MacKenzie – the Glenmore Station story”, by former journalist Matt Philp. The book is being released tomorrow, joining a handful of other high-country station stories which have been published during the last decade. Third-generation Glenmore runholders Jim and Anne Murray (pictured) moved off the station four years ago. They now live in Wanaka, where their daughter Kate also lives with her daughter Milly.
inbrief An annual seed swap is taking place on Thursday, October 23, giving gardeners an opportunity to exchange seeds which grow well in the Upper Clutha area. The Spring Seed Swap is run by the Aspiring Beginnings Early Learning Centre and the Local Food Wanaka group and focusses on sustainability and community members working together. It will take place at the early learning centre at 120 Warren Street from 5pm until 7pm. Entry is by a gold coin donation to cover the cost of tea and coffee.
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Jim and Anne’s son Will and his wife Emily run the station, however Jim and Anne are still very involved. Anne said the book was originally intended to be a private family journal for their grandchildren. “We realised the cost of publishing our own book would be horrendous,” she said. “When Random House approached us saying they wanted to do it, we agreed providing we could be involved. We joined up with Matt [Philp] and he was fantastic. It was
important to us the book didn’t romanticise high country life, because it’s really quite humdrum, and very hard work.” Jim inherited the station in the 1960s when he was 21 and his father died of a heart attack. Under Jim’s watch, Glenmore become a very different station to what it was in the early years. It is now a renowned merino stud, It was the first station to supply merino wool to Icebreaker. Jim sat on Icebreaker’s board for some time and most of the Glenmore clip still
goes there. Anne said leaving Glenmore and moving to Wanaka was a huge wrench for Jim. He’s still very much the family patriarch and he’s still involved on the station, going up for the autumn muster and also for shearing. He remains Glenmore’s woolclasser ― responsible for everything in the shed from the moment the wool comes off the sheep’s back until the bales go out the door. Jim, along with other merino growers like Bendigo’s John Perriam,
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was also a driving force behind the ‘merino revolution’ and the establishment of the breakaway organisation New Zealand Merino from the old guard of the industry. Jim says Will and Emily can’t afford to rest on the advantages that have been left to them. The station won’t survive unless they adapt their practices to changing circumstances. But, as Glenmore is being slowly remade for the twenty-first century, some traditions will always persist.
Thirty-two entries have been received for the Trustpower Queenstown Lakes District Community Awards. The awards recognise and reward voluntary groups for the outstanding contribution they make to the local community. It covers five categories; Heritage and Environment, Health and Wellbeing, Arts and Culture, Sport and Leisure, and Education and Child/Youth Development. The category winners will be announced and presented at a function on Wednesday, November 12, each winner receiving $500 and runners-up receiving $250.
Swayed but not shaken A 6.2 magnitude earthquake rated as ‘severe’ by GeoNet shook western Southland but was barely noticed in Wanaka on Monday. The earthquake struck at 6.15pm at a depth of 10km and 140km west of Tuatapere. Wanaka Pharmacy reported swaying shelves, and social media reports had some individuals noticing swaying but not feeling the quake.
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An artist at the table Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun
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Market back at park After a winter inside Spencer House Mall, the Wanaka Farmers Market is heading back to Pembroke Park next Thursday for the summer season. The summer launch will be celebrated with live music, cheerleading and hoola hoops with the usual vendors present, selling produce including fresh fruit, vegetables and baking. Organisers say the market is a great way to teach kids about how the local economy works and to get them involved in growing their own food. The launch starts at 3pm.
Iconic New Zealand artist Grahame Sydney is leaving his Central Otago home in the Cambrian Valley next week to launch a new book about his paintings in Wanaka. “Grahame Sydney - Paintings 1974 – 2014, essay by Vincent O’Sullivan” includes an autobiographical essay by Grahame which traces the roots of his development as an artist, finishing around 1974, when he was taken on by art dealer Peter Webb. “Grahame’s account of his formative years and the growth of the painting obsession is wonderfully honest,” Julia Le, who is organising the book launch, said. Grahame writes of his mother’s obsessive hoarding of everything he drew, and the fascination which “comes with being able to remember almost every single one, where I was when I drew them, what was happening around me and what I thought. The same still happens today: each painting is a vault of invested memory, instantly conjuring recollections of the private, sometimes secret place from which they grew.” Another story recounts, “…my father, an accountant all his life,
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confessed to me [on his deathbed] his frustration that there seemed to be no concrete record of his time spent, his experience and accumulated knowledge, and his greatest achievements, no evidence of his character – all
that would go with him. It was a desperately sad admission. Artists – or painters, at least – have no such regrets. Their works defy time and unwanted oblivion, charting the braided pathways of their lives, every
safeboating Be prepared to be on water The inaugural Safer Boating Week (October 17–24) will focus on three key boating safety messages - prep your boat, check your gear and know the rules - ahead of the traditional start of the boating season, Labour Weekend.
PREP YOUR BOAT Get your boat ready for the water by getting the engine serviced and the battery professionally checked. Check the fuel and if your boat has been out of the water for a while change the fuel. Always have a third of the fuel in your tank reserved in case of emergencies. Give your boat a good once-over and replace or repair anything that is damaged or worn.
CHECK YOUR GEAR Check your lifejackets are the right size and in good condition and service your inflatable lifejacket. Check your equipment to ensure it’s in good working order and you have everything you need. Check expiry dates on flares and fire extinguishers, replace if necessary. Check batteries and replace where needed. Ensure your safety gear is accessible in case of an emergency. Make sure that someone else knows how to operate the boat if the skipper can’t.
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work, as Laurie Lee wrote, ‘a tiny arrest of mortality’. Especially if they have a mother who keeps everything.” In Part Two, New Zealand Poet Laureate Vincent O’Sullivan has contributed an extended essay about Grahame’s paintings. The second half of the book is dedicated to a collection of his major paintings, from 1974 to 2014. Grahame was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services to painting in 2004. His work spans four decades and includes oils, watercolours, egg tempera, lithographs, etching, photography and film. The book contains 200 reproductions. Grahame’s paintings of the Central Otago landscape with their big skies and trademark colours are well-known to many New Zealanders. Grahame’s work extends beyond landscapes and the new book reveals that, and some of his portrait work. The book launch, “An artist at the table with Grahame Sydney”, is being held at Bistro Gentil. Restaurant owner and art patron Luc Bohyn said a percentage of book sales made during the evening, which includes a talk and dinner, will be donated to the Outspoken Festival of which Grahame is a patron.
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Food shopping is harder than you’d think Gina Dempster It was a busy school holiday for our family, one with lots of physical challenges and therefore lots of eating! It kicked off with the Spring Challenge, an “all-girls” adventure race held in pouring rain near Hokitika. Despite, or maybe because of, the rain and mud, it was a lot of fun and my team made it to the end in a pretty respectable seven hours. I’m a total novice in any kind of adventure racing, and it was a bonus to find out that exercising for that long makes food taste extra-delicious. Normally I have a bit of an aversion to supermarkets. Is it the artificial lighting or the endless aisles of food full of numbers which makes me feel like a rat in a maze? But after the race, I could think of nothing better than spending hours in a supermarket putting every delicious thing I could find in my trolley. Luckily for our bank account (and my summer clothes), we were off to tramp the Abel Tasman, so
Jem Curtis and Quinn Curtis (behind) on the Abel Tasman. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
my shopping was quickly limited to what we could carry for the next five days. Why is it that children can eat like adults but can only carry half as much? So inefficient – if they were cars they’d be taken off the road as gas-guzzlers. We erred a little on the light pack side of the equation, (must have under-estimated the kid to food ratio) and food stocks were looking a little scanty
for the last two days. Major mother crisis! Someone might get hungry, or even worse, we could run out of chocolate! I’d failed as a food provider, but luckily our generous friends shared their treats to keep us all moving. That little brush with scarcity made me understand why I always walk out of the supermarket with more food than I intended to buy. It’s almost a primal
instinct to have extra food as a back-up. That’s not a drama if the food has a long shelf life, but so many food staples are perishable: fruit, vegetables, milk, bread. When you think of all the things that affect what and how much food our families eat
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in a week (appetites, exercise, friends, weather, fussiness), it’s amazing that we come close to getting it right. I think all family shoppers deserve an honorary degree in mathematics, economics and psychology. But when food goes off, and that’s always going to happen sometimes, it’s such a waste. Not only of food, but also of the resources it took to grow it, transport it and keep it cold. If food ends up in the landfill it rots and releases methane, a climate change gas. At least if you compost food waste, you can capture the nutrients for your own garden and prevent that happening. If you want to know how, come along to Dr Compost’s free composting workshop at Aspiring Beginnings, 6pm-8pm on Tuesday October 21. I’ve done it, you’ll never look back.
crimescene Thefts and vandalism More than ten thefts from unlocked vehicles have been reported to police. Thieves are targeting cash and small items. Golf clubs have also been stolen and petrol has been siphoned. Police are advising residents to lock their vehicles. A pair of 183cm, black and red Nordica Ace skis, with blue and white 2014 Marker bindings were stolen from the roof of a car on Upton Street. A 16ft white sailing dingy with an orange base was reportedly stolen from the Wanaka Yacht Club. It had its mast down and had no number plates or trailer lights. Letterboxes in the Bills Way area were damaged. An intoxicated 35-year-old male entered an unlocked Albert Town home at 5am Saturday. He refused to leave until assisted by an occupant of the house.
For non-emergency advice or assistance from Wanaka Police call 443 7272. You can also find us on Facebook. In an emergency always dial 111. To provide information anonymously, call the organisation CRIMESTOPPERS on 0800 555 111
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BOARD OBSERVATION OF THE WEEK:- UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF CIGARETTE BUTTS AT THE SKATEPARK. SURELY ALL OUR FIT YOUNG WANAKANS ARE CHEWING ON THE BEEF ALREADY. BOLK YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A BRAIN SURGEON OR A GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN YOU BUILD EMBANKMENT AND END IT ON A MAJOR BEND IN THE RIVER BEFORE THE ALBERT TOWN BRIDGE!!! DIAMOND LAKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN TRACK ....WHAT PART OF “NO DOGS” IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT , AS A RATE PAYER ON A PENSION I AM EXPECTED TO PAY ANOTHER $250 ODD A YEAR FOR SPORTS CENTRE AND THEN PAY $8 TO HAVE A SWIM AS WELL !!! WANAKA DOESN’T DESERVE A NEW SKATE PARK, THANKS TO THE TAGGERS WHO KEEP TAGGING THE TOILETS WHY ARE DIESEL KILOMETRES FIVE DOLLARS SEVENTY FIVE MORE AT POST OFFICE WANAKA PER THOUSAND KILOMETRES THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN COUNTRY? ISN’T IT A SET GOVT PRICE? THANKS COMMUNITY NETWORKS FOR A GREAT HOLIDAY SCHOOL PROGRAM.
EDITORIAL Winter business has been booming in Queenstown for the past two winters and while our local ski areas have benefited, the town of Wanaka appears to be moving off the tourist snow radar. In the winter of 2013, an additional 10,000 airline seats arrived at Queenstown airport and this past season a record 50 flights a week on average arrived from Australia alone resulting in more than 50,000 additional seats between July and September. The resulting increase has meant big numbers over the hill for bars, restaurants and accommodation providers. Bed nights in Wanaka however, do little to reflect the substantial increase of Australians heading into Queenstown for a week on the slopes. Guest nights for August show a drop in visitors from last year – which also show a drop from the year before – of more than 5 percent, and local businesses must be wondering why. Lake Wanaka Tourism has suggested the data is flawed. However, most businesses whose cashflow is based on real numbers through the door will say otherwise. Is it time to revisit the notion of a stand-alone winter marketing group?
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Get on with it Check mate! I am tired of this, maybe others are too – the ongoing battle of Brownston Street and the 26 acre block. A lot of us will not be here before any improvements are made. Remember, we are a tourist town, and that park is a disgrace. Whilst Wanaka itself is so tidy and proud of it. The council can’t complete the parking area due to this ongoing argument. Childish! What is to be done? Practical thinking my friends. Come on. Let’s agree. My suggestions: We need parking for the sports and activities on the reserve and to be shared for anywhere else; a walkway on the reserve, parallel to the road for pedestrians; angle parking with intervals landscaped in between which would enhance this area. Yes, an extra metre or two of the reserve to be used so cars can back out safely. Oh, have I upset some people? Why? My suggestions are practical. I may not be popular, as Churchill was to some. But results were there. Let’s get on with it. Pete Chamberlayne (letter copied to QLDC)
Why 1080 In mid-November the beautiful valleys of the Wilkin, Young and Makarora will be mass poisoned with 1080. A group of up to eight helicopters will carry out this drop over a couple of days. On the day of the drop DOC staff will walk the popular tracks of these valleys to sweep the 1080 pellets from the tracks; so our clean green image can be maintained to our overseas visitors. This sweeping process is repeated again after a few days, then one last time after strong wind as pellets may be blown out of the trees. This 1080 drop is to control the mouse and rat plague that the supposed beech mast will support. I have worked in these valleys for ten years, spending on average 50 days a year enjoying this pristine environment. I have not noticed the beech mast the powers in Wellington are telling us about and have caught about three mice all winter at the property I look after in Makarora, this is a lot less than most years. A friend who works for DOC also informed me that only two to three rats have been caught in his trap line over several months. Several years ago two American clients and I were caught up in one of these 1080 drops whilst walking up a west coast river. How it added to their amazing Kiwi experience watching two helicopters going up and down dropping pellets of poison, having explained to them what was happening, they were in absolute shock that this process could happen. Sadly I am going to have the same experience this year. Is the start of tourist season the perfect time to do this poison drop? If ever? P. Wright
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Combined art exhibition Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun The combined Wanaka Arts Society and Wanaka Camera Club’s Labour Weekend Exhibition will be held at the Wanaka Primary School hall. The exhibition opens next Friday (October 24) at 7pm with an awards presentation and celebration. The Special Section, themed “Out on a Limb”, was an
interesting challenge for artists to interpret in their chosen media. There will be painting, printmaking, creative fibre, photography, woodwork, sculpture, pottery, ceramics and embroidery exhibited, and a large display of quilts by the Aspiring Quilters. Mount Aspiring College teacher Simon King is the guest artist. His work includes cabinet making, woodturning, carving,
inlay work and musical instrument making. Simon works with fine Japanese and European tools, with woods including oak, walnut, elm and New Zealand beech. The exhibition is open on Saturday and Sunday (October 25, 26) from 10am to 6pm and Monday (October 27) from 10am to 3.30pm. Pictured: Jacqui Scott, Marg Jefferies, Jo Nimmo, Mechy Kemp and Susie Ruddenklau. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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KIND “BORROWERS” returned the outdoor chairs taken from our deck. Thank you so much. Very much appreciated!
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PART TIME and full time senior hair stylists required. Contact Jade at Hairculture for more info 03 443 9515 or jadealex2009@live.com
“FULLY QUALIFIED Early Childhood Teacher looking for part time position. Years of experience with Infants/Toddlers/Pre-Schoolers/Special Needs. Perm Wanaka resident. Excellent references. PH/TXT: JO 0276522144” TREBLE TONES is a women’s acappella group in Wanaka. We are looking for interested, experienced Alto I and Alto IIs. Kirsty 0272005111 CASUAL CLEANING job wanted. Local German woman, experienced with eye for detail (weekly or one-offs). $25/hr. Jeannine 0274859580
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DOUBLE BED excellent condition $100. Two bedside tables (cream) $50. TV plus cabinet Free. Ph 443-1244 or 0274335566
FREE BUDGET ADVICE available at Community Networks by appointment. Call 4437799 or email info@communitynetworks.co.nz
FOR SALE cabin. New Iron exterior , ply inside. Insulated 4,6x3m $7200,ph 0279116590
JP SERVICES at Community Networks Tuesdays1pm and Fridays 10.30.For appointments call 4437799
DR COMPOST free Get Composting workshop: Easy ways to compost at home: bokashi, compost heaps, worms - Tues 21st October, 6-8pm, Aspiring Beginnings.
WANAKA FURNITURE Design bringing your furniture designs to life, from Shaker style kitchens to stunning free standing pieces contact www.wanakafurnituredesign.co.nz 021 067 9615
TWO/THREE BEDROOM house required to rent from 27th Dec 2014 to 2nd Jan 2015. Please contact Ross on 029 433 4031 or email ross.stableford@xtra.co.nz
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BEAUTIFUL CHINA tea cup bird feeders, great for attracting wax eyes and bell birds to your garden. Makes the perfect present. $25 ph or txt 021 680 110
WANAKA WINDOW CLEANING professional, friendly, efficient service. Enjoy those mountain views. High, awkward windows a specialty. Paolo 021 0572505/ 4432420
BELLE FIORE china, various items for sale. Plz contact 021 680 110 to view
DRIVING LESSONS available. Call Nicky at Aspiring Drivers to book your lesson for professional driving instruction. 0210607310
GARAGE SALE: general household items: fridge, m/wave, toaster, portacot, elec bbq, assorted tools, glassware, crockery, bed linen. Everything must go. 9am Saturday 18 October – 77 Parry Crescent, Lake Hawea
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notice BUSINESS NETWORKING International. The Wanaka chapter of BNI meets weekly at 7am Tuesday morning. Great networking opportunity to grow your business. Contact Jake for information 021 404 641 WANAKA PRIMARY School ‘Op Shop’ open Tues & Thurs - 12 midday to 4pm. Use Koru Way entrance, off Totara Terrace, alongside the steps. CUSTOMER LOYALTY Cards – ask about these cards on your next visit to the Salvation Army Family Store WANAKA SALVATION Army Family Store Opening Hours - Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9.30am-4pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
ASPIRING ARTIST workshop with Richard Adams November 20 till 23rd. All materials supplied including lunch. Contact rebecca@fantailproductions. com or 443 1243 for details BENNY LACKNER Tri, fine Jazz 25th October, 7pm. PEAK Functions. Tickets from I-site or www. eventfinder.co.nz NZ JAZZ at its best. Sunday 27th, 4pm PEAK Functions. Tickets from I-site or www.eventfinder. co.nz DONIZETTI TRIO next Tuesday at Lake Wanaka, 7.30 pm. Tickets at Gifted Design. Door sales available. YES! THE Sunday Craft Markets start again this month! See you at Pembroke Park 26/10 for great handmade in NZ arts and crafts!
SEWING REPAIRS alterations. Quick, reasonably priced solution to those broken zips and seams in your favourite clothes. Phone Sue 0272472181
SPRING SEED Swap, Thurs 23 Oct, 5-7pm at Aspiring Beginnings, 120 Warren St, Wanaka. All welcome, gold coin donation.
VINTAGE & CLASSIC CAR restoration, mechanical & electrical, MOTOR HOME & CARAVAN repair and restoration. Steve Rumore 027 222 6600
ART AND photography exhibition. Labour weekend. Wanaka Primary School gym Ironside dr off kings dr. Opening fri 24 @7pm.
RAVE REVIEWS FOR TERRA SERVICES! Landscaping, clearing, grading, & more. FAST, EFFICIENT. Great rates. www.terraservices.co.nz or ring Steve Rumore 027 222 6600
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CANCER SOCIETY Supportive Care Services in Wanaka. Confidential practical free support for anyone affected by cancer. Contact Susan 027 9165 028 or Susan@cansoc.org.nz
SALVATION ARMY FAMILY STORE thanks all our loyal customers for their continued support, your support helps support others in the community
HOUSE SITTING position required Christmas/ New Year by reliable, travelled NZ woman. References available/situation details required. Ph: Joy 03 218 4676
LALALAND HAPPY Hour daily from 5pm – 7pm. $5 tea cocktails from 4pm – 8pm. FRIDAY 17TH October 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. $5 admission. Dr Catherine Mohr, Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical Inc, California. Title: To be advised DR COMPOST free Get Growing workshop: Bountiful vegetable gardening: raised beds, seedlings, top crops - Tues 14th October, 6-8pm, Aspiring Beginnings.
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SPRING SPECIAL AT FLATHEAD CAFE - antipasto platter for under $20!! Match with glass of local Maude wine or Wanaka Beerworks beer. GOT GRANDKIDS for the day? Bring them to Transport & Toy Museum! Cafe, playground, Lego, toyshop.. Fun for all ages!
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FRIDAY 14TH November 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. $5 admission. Professor Nicola Peart, Faculty of Law, University of Otago. Title: To be advised Contact Kathy Dedo for details: 021 130 6276 or kdedo@yahoo.com. DUCK RACE, a Rotary Wanaka event, 25 October 10am. Start Dungarvon Street, Finish Dinosaur Park, Ticket outlets Video Ezy, New World 5, 12 Oct ROTARY CLUB of Wanaka & Harraway & Sons (sponsor) invite the Koru Quintet to Edgewater, Sunday 26 October 6.30pm Contact Don 021 236 1518 ON THE Same Wavelength: Lotta Dan will speak about her experiences with alcohol. Lake Wanaka Centre, October 22, 7-9pm; Cromwell College Auditorium, October 23, 7-9pm.Gold cold donation. LUGGATE BADMINTON Club is on every Wednesday night 7.30pm at the Luggate Memorial Hall. $2 bring your own racquet. LAKE HAWEA Golf Club Open Ambrose Tournament on the 26th October. All Players most welcome. Teams of four or teams can be made up on the day. $20 PP includes BBQ. Good prizes. Be there at 11:30 am for a start time of 12 midday. Inquiries Rick Johnston 021 922 915.
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Local footballers SI champs Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun A Central Otago underten soccer football team has been named the South Island champion for its age group. The tenth grade representative team, called Central Otago Gold, was competing in the annual three-day Jack McKnight Football Festival in Nelson for the first time. Among the squad of 11 players were Louis McCutcheon of Hawea Flat and Ethan
Arratia of Makarora (pictured). The rest of the players were from Cromwell, Alexandra and Queenstown. They were coached by Sebastian Arratia of Makarora. There were 18 teams in the undert e n c a t e g or y a n d Central Otago Gold beat Nelson Black, from Nelson Bays, three-nil to win the tournament. The seven-a-side teams played two 20-minute halves, on a small-sized soccer field.
Wanaka is to host its first national series mountainbike competition in a decade with a cross-country and downhill event early next year. Bike Wanaka spokesperson Jamie Greenway said the event is the first of four national competitions and is scheduled for January 10-11.
sport results WANAKA BOWLING CLUB Friday Progressive Skips: 1st :Trevor Tovey 2nd: Michael Barnett 3rd: George Russell Thirds: 1st: Rob Mathewson 2nd: Jon Barron 3rd: Madeleine Wilson Leads: 1st: Oscar Verbiest 2nd: Garth White 3rd: Bruce Thorburn
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WAFC thrilled with young players Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Top junior footballers from the Wanaka Associated Football Club (WAFC) played in a number of South Island Age Group tournaments recently for representative teams. The WAFC has 16 teams and comprises 175 players aged five to 17. During the football season, from April to June, teams play weekly games around Central Otago. The top players are then selected to train and play in Central Otago Representative Age Group teams from July to October. The annual age group tournaments were held in Queenstown, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch and Dunedin last week with up to 17 South Island teams taking part in each division. “The WAFC are thrilled and
very impressed with how well all the teams and individual players performed this year,” WAFC treasurer Kay McFarlane said. “We are extremely proud of our local players. There is a great deal of commitment from parents in getting players to these South
results for local players and coaches are as follows: Playing for the tenth grade development team, Xion Lippe, Blake Lang, Benji Pujol, Will Collins, Jem Curtis and Tay Simpson, coached by Kerry Lang, placed 15th in the Jack McKnight Bowater
The WAFC are thrilled and very impressed with how well all the teams and individual players performed this year. Island tournaments. Wanaka is also extremely fortunate to have some excellent regional coaches.” “It was wonderful to see the passion and commitment that our young players have and the successful tournament results show how strong our local players really are.” The CO representative team
MTB nationals for Wanaka
Tournament in Nelson. Ollie Alderson and Red Simpson were part of the 11th grade team which placed fifth out of 17 teams in its age group. The tenth grade A team placed first (see story, above). The boys’ 12th grade team, coached by Ian Bell and Nic Cavanagh, placed third at the Gavin Roberts South Island Tournament
in Blenheim. Weston Bell, Ben McNabb, Michael Geolago, Fletch Cavanagh and Jacob Lang represented WAFC. At the same tournament Aimee McArthur and Annabel Carter, playing for the girls’ 12th grade team, placed eighth. Playing for the 13th grade boys’ team Flynn Brown, TJ Lilly and Wesley Moore, coached by Derek Lilly, placed sixth in the 13th Grade South Island Tournament in Queenstown. The 14th grade girls’ team was placed third at the 14th Grade South Island Tournament in Christchurch. Wanaka was represented by players Lilly Waters, Gina Lilly and Phoenix Brownlie and coach Pete Waters. In Dunedin the 14th grade boys’ team, represented by Alex Plimmer, was placed eighth in the 14th Grade South Island Tournament.
LAKE HAWEA GOLF CLUB Mt Maude Stableford. Men 1 Ian Brown 44, 2 Gerry Browne 44, 3 Dick Sullivan 43, 4 Gerard Haggart 39, 5 Chris Morrow 38. Ladies 1 Joy Hanson 30 count back from Kay Ross. Closest to the pin No5 G Haggart. Birdies Net Eagles Gerry Brown WANAKA BRIDGE CLUB RESULTS. Championship Pairs 11. Silver Division. North/South:- Murray Pryde, Kenneth Roberts 61.76%1. Lynne Fegan, Maggie Stratford 59.67%2. Josey McKenzie, Barbara Waterford 57.44%3. East/ West:- Rebecca Corkin, John Mitchell 65.22% 1. Helen Cornwell, Boyd Ottrey 58.81%2. Ena Leckie, Gaye Marshall 55.29%3. Bronze Division. North/South: Noeline Goldsbrough, Heather Wellman 54.76%1. Julie Mulholland, Kate Summers 51.43% 2. John Mercer, Shelia White 50.95%3. East/West:- Pauline Davidson, Jane Hamilton 65.56%1. Bruce Cathie, Peter Herbert 61.67% 2. George Foreman, Jane Hawkey 57.22% 3. Friday Bridge 10 October. North/South:- David Brewer, Lynne Fegan 64.15%1. Carolyn Grey, Shona Johnstone 61.89%2. Joy Baxter, Vivienne Christie 54.55%3. East/ West:- Jan Cunningham, Jenny Muir 68.18%1. Rosemary Boswell, Morag Chisholm 58.90%2. Pam Taylor, Jan
Peaks, storms for Cardrona Capacity numbers due to combined trans-Tasman school holidays resulted in six record days and Cardrona Alpine Resort closing their access gates earlier this winter. However, stormy weather which closed the resort for nine days meant slightly lower overall visitor numbers than last year’s record-breaking season. Marketing manager Nadia Ellis declined to give numbers for the season, but said the resort is looking at ways to attract customers for spring months with the overlap of the school holidays being repeated next year. A storm which deposited 90cm at the resort over a week in early August was followed by an unprecedented 29 days of clear weather which resulted in good snow conditions for spring, she said. The resort extended opening hours until 5pm for the last weeks of the season.
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Wyn-Williams 58.71%3. Hunter Pairs 3. 8 October. North/South:- Sandy Bryan, Noeline Goldsbrough 66.53%1. Lester Foulds, Anton Kumbaroff 64.19%2. Miranda O’Leary, Noeline Turner 58.62%3. East/West:- Simon Lawrence, Steven Renall 71.83%1. Blair Coghill, Heather Wellman 57.39%2. Hans Limacher, Claire Williams 55.00%3. TARRAS GOLF CLUB 2104 Prize List Women: Patterson Trophy, Sealed Partners, Annan Trophy, Eclectic, Jan Gibson Prize, Phillips Trophy, Robert J. Winton Tray-Chris Illingworth. Clark Trophy & Purvis Cup-Margaret Sell. Single Knockout-Maire McElrea, R/up-Barbara Kane. Gross Ringer Prize & Putting prize-Jan Gibson. Gross Nett Prize-Adrienne Rowley. Lindis River Wines Prize-Annabel Spiers. Canadian Foursomes-Margaret Sell & Adrienne Rowley, R/up-Barbara Kane & Avril Templeton. Senior Champion-Yeverley McCarthy, R/up-Carmel Hyndman. Intermediate Champion-Jan Gibson, R/up-Annabel Spiers. Junior Champion-Jan Allen, r/up-Maria Wilson. Men:Clark Trophy, Brian Goodger Trophy, Single Knock-out-Dave Trevathan. 4BBB & Purvis Cup-Graeme Rive. Putting Prize-Jonny Trevathan Allan Philip Memorial-Robert Pearson. Eclectic & Gross Ringer-Tom Moore. Nett Ringer-Ken Galloway. Lindis River Prize-Craig Still. Deer Park Trophy-Ken Galloway & Craig Still. Senior ChampionHolger Reinecke, R/up-Dave Trevathan. Intermediate Champion-Ken Galloway, R/up-Richard Pullar. Junior ChampionCraig Still, R/up-Murray Hyndman.