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Wanaka gets much-needed stormwater study ALLISON MCLEAN

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wo freshwater researchers will be studying the effects of urban stormwater runoff into Lake Wanaka starting this month. Funded through grants from Upper Clutha Lakes Trust (UCLT), ecologist Melanie Vermeulen and University of Otago masters student Victoria Grant will undertake testing and research to advance the understanding of stormwater quality across Wanaka’s urban development and understand the stormwater’s impacts and movement into Lake Wanaka.

The focus will surround Bullock Creek, a spring-fed creek that rises on Otago Fish and Game land and flows through town into Lake Wanaka’s Roys Bay. The research, a need that was identified in last year’s stormwater workshop held in Wanaka, will be used to better inform water management decisions to try and instill positive changes.

“Wanaka is growing incredibly quickly,” said UCLT Wanaka Water Project (WWP) manager Megan Williams. “Wherever you look there are new subdivisions and houses being built. The population is projected to double in as little as ten years. With rapid

growth comes the inevitable pressures on our waterways. More earthworks, houses, cars and hard surfaces mean a major increase in stormwater runoff which can carry a host of contaminants.

These can include: suspended sediment, heavy metals, animal faeces, pathogens, hydrocarbons (oil, tar and grease), garden fertilisers and weed killer, plastic, paints, dyes and sealants. The problem is, we don’t have a detailed record of what is going into our creeks, stormwater drains and eventually into lakes and rivers or any understanding of the impact of the contaminants which wind up in Lake Wanaka or the Clutha River.”

UCLT’s WWP provided grants to fund the research, which were secured from Central Government’s Freshwater Improvement Fund. The fiveyear WWP is also funded by Sargood Bequest, Million Metres, Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) and Otago Regional Council; it is supported by Catchments Otago and Te Kãkano Aotearoa Trust.

Vermeulen’s research is also supported by Otago Fish and Game.

Two two research projects, which are expected to finish by the end of 2019, will analyse samples from streams and stormwater

drains flowing through suburbs and developments into Lake Wanaka. Both researchers will be testing for different factors, including habitat assessment and chemical analysis as well as urban runoff quantity and quality.

The results from both research projects will be presented to the Upper Clutha community.

In related news, to help offset the potential contaminant runoff into stormwater systems, QLDC offers residents an ability to opt out of their kerbside being sprayed if they would prefer herbicides to not be used near their house.

QLDC has not disclosed which chemical they use for kerb spraying however they have said, “QLDC has undertaken trials of alternative sprays in the past, but they have proven both ineffective, expensive, or a mixture of both.

QLDC’s Parks and Reserves team continues to look at market alternatives and keep up to date with developments here, and we would certainly consider the use of an organic product provided it proves to be effective on targeted species of plant, and costeffective.” For more information on the No Spray Register, visit https://bit.ly/2vH7jTo. Pictured: Bullock Creek outlet into Lake Wanaka, the subject of two stormwater studies.

Destruction of grebe ecosystem ‘dismaying’ Emma Conyngham

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n a case of Murphy’s law, just when one attempt at environmental repair was going well, another falls spectacularly apart. John Darby, Wanaka’s local grebe expert, who has given many years of his life to encouraging grebes to breed successfully in

Roy’s Bay on Lake Wanaka, is astonished and dismayed that just over the hill in Lake Hayes, a foreign developer is destroying the nesting habitat of native endangered birds.

The southern end of Lake Hayes has been described by the Otago Regional Council as “a regionally important wetland” and one that Landcare rates as “an unusually rare natural wetland.” The developers are

currently driving a 68m boardwalk through the unbroken vegetation belt at the southern end to the lake edge. “I am astonished and dismayed at the huge amount of damage that has been done. Apart from the destruction of the ecosystem in this immediate area, the track is going through the nesting habitat of grebe and marsh crake and possibly bittern. The impact is huge, not only by way

of habitat, but also the disturbance this will cause when it is used by humans, dogs and predators alike,” said Darby.

Darby started his journey with grebe many years ago. “Before coming to Wanaka I had only ever seen one live grebe in my life, that’s how rare they are. Grebes are a family of birds that go back 40 million years or more.”

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Protect Wanaka website ready to recruit Emma Conyngham

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A website has been launched to coordinate and campaign against Wanaka airport’s proposed expansion.

The website has been set up by the Wanaka Stakeholders Group Incorporated (WSG) and states, “Our society's objectives are to engage with the residents on significant issues affecting our region, inform and stimulate discussion and to represent public concerns on issues affecting the Upper Clutha community.” The stakeholder group and the website both have the capacity to tackle any community issue but are currently campaigning most heavily on the airport.

The group have stated five objectives to their campaign: “WSG support and welcome the return of turboprop services to Wanaka; WSG oppose the development of Wanaka Airport for scheduled jet services; WSG is concerned about over-tourism and the adverse impact on the Upper Clutha communities and our environment; WSG support increasing air traffic to existing

regional airports in preference to developing Wanaka for jet services; and WSG believe that the Queenstown Airport Corporation needs to demonstrate that it has fully considered the environmental impact of an airport redevelopment at Wanaka and demonstrate that it can meet New Zealand tourism sustainability commitment.”

The prospect of international flights at Wanaka airport has divided local opinion with some people and businesses coming out in enthusiastic support for international expansion; however in the Wanaka Sun poll which has been running on our home page for a week, opposition is much stronger. After six days of polling, support for international flights sits at 14 percent; neutral opinion sits at seven percent, and opposition sits at 79 percent.

The group are serious about recruiting local support and getting funding to support a legal opposition to Queenstown Airport Corporation.

Membership is free however the Emma Conyngham option for becoming a financial editor@thewanakasun.co.nz member is $10. The new website is at When a band of local eco warriors took to the www.protectwanaka.nz.

Wanaka tree to make a statement about extinction on April 24, there was a good level of support but also a few raised eyebrows. Environmental issues such as plastic waste and climate change saturate green, cereal pellets that each contain social media feeds and appear almost daily in 0.15 percent biodegradable sodium many media channels. But how is the Extinction fluoroacetate (also known as 1080) Rebellion different, and why is their message will be applied by helicopter at a rate gaining traction on the leading environmental of one bait to every 60 square metres. issue of climate change?

The rebellion’s message is specifically on species OSPRI maintains that advanced GPS navigational equipment will be used extinction and the ecosystems and biodiversity to 'ensure the pellets are accurately required to sustain human life on earth. Far from placed and exclusion zones avoided.' being a few dreadlocked activists working on OSPRI indicates that affected alarmist data and fringe science, the Extinction landowners and occupiers will be Rebellion is backed by very convincing research contacted and visited by one of their from reputable sources. On April 18, the Ministry contractors to discuss boundary of the Environment released a report, Environment issues, water supply safety and the Aotearoa 2019 which provides an overview of the management of any risks to dogs state of our environment. The report presents nine and livestock. Consents from the priority environmental issues and at the top, in the Department of Conservation and the number one space, are ecosystems and biodiversity.

According to the report, “Our unique native Ministry of Health are required for this operation. Warning signs will be biodiversity is under significant pressure from placed at all likely access points to introduced species, pollution, physical changes the operational area, according to to our landscapes and coast, harvesting of wild species, and other factors. Almost 4,000 of our OSPRI's website.

OSPRI did not return our request for native species are currently threatened with or at further comment or clarification on risk of extinction.”

“Our biodiversity has declined significantly. At next month's 1080 drop. least 75 animal and plant species have become extinct since humans arrived in New Zealand.

Marine, freshwater, and land ecosystems all have species at risk: 90 percent of seabirds, 76 percent of freshwater fish, 84 percent of reptiles, and 46 percent of vascular plants are currently threatened with or at risk of extinction. The extinction risk has worsened for 86 species in the past 15 years.”

In addition to the ministry’s report, the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has spent the last three years working on an 1,800-page report on the state of the world's ecosystems, the final details of which have just been signed off at the IPBES Plenary in Paris. The report examines changes to biodiversity over the past five decades and suggests a number of ways to slow down imminent high rates of extinction over the coming decades.

In reference to the IPBES report, Associate Professor James Russell from the University of Auckland said, "The IPBES exists to normalise biodiversity in the same manner the more wellknown IPCC has raised awareness about the impacts of climate change. Framing biodiversity as a collective good is challenging, as it has many facets and threats to it, which has made it difficult to conceptualise in its global totality.

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Aerial drop of 1080 scheduled for Luggate ALLISON MCLEAN

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An aerial drop of 1080 for a ‘possum control operation’ is scheduled for the Alice Burn East area in Luggate starting next month.

OSPRI's TBfree programme will cover 1394ha of the area, which was originally scheduled for an aerial drop of 1080 last winter; however, the operation was suspended. More than 4000 people signed a petition against that proposed drop, which was presented to Mayor Jim Boult, Otago Regional Council Councillor Ella Lawton and Sam Anderson-Mangai of the Southern District Health Board.

On behalf of OSPRI, a contractor will begin the operation with a pre-feed of non-toxic, tan-coloured cereal pellets by helicopter to give the possums a 'taste for the pellets and to overcome bait shyness.'

One to two weeks later, toxic,

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"The report paints a bleak picture of the current status of biodiversity and its decline over the past 50 years, but now makes clear that we can no longer say ‘we don’t have enough evidence’. The science is in and it's no longer time to debate or deny the science, but to shift to discussions about appropriate policy responses.

"In saying that, I found the framing of ‘opposition from vested interests’ as problematic, as it creates an othering where there are sides of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people. I think the reality is simply that we live in a world of self-interested people, where we all live in a dissonance where our actions and desires are at odds with what the planet can sustainability provide, especially when all of us desire these things.

As it has been noted elsewhere, the key here would probably be to rein in the excesses of capitalism, one of the most egregious forms of resource hoarding. It has been noted that the fundamental tenet of economics is unlimited growth which is at odds with the fundamental tenet of ecology that is finite resources.”

Anna Simmonds who is helping to coordinate Wanaka’s Extinction Rebellion said, “Yes, Extinction Rebellion agrees that the climate and extinction crises stem from an economic, political and psychological crisis, with unrestrained capitalism and colonialism some of its main root causes.

The current system is, as Dr Russell says, utterly unsustainable within the limits of our planetary and ecological boundaries. Extinction Rebellion does not prescribe what another system should look like as we see ourselves as the fire alarm to create enough awareness for people to demand changes to the system, not the firefighters who figure out how to do it (yet).”

John Spicer, Professor of Marine Zoology, University of Plymouth said, “Reading the IPBES report there is a profound sense of déjà vu – in one way our general knowledge of biodiversity decline and what we can do about it seems to have changed little since the first global attempt to tackle biodiversity loss at the Convention for Biological Diversity, in 1992. But for me the key question remains how do seven billion human beings suddenly agree on an enlightened vision of caring for biodiversity, and so care for our own future? The answer may well have its seeds in the movement which resulted in more than 1.4 million young people around the world taking part in school strikes for climate change – it’s not 1992, and there is a new generation now.”

Pest control, rabbits, water management, habitat conservation, tourism growth and development are all issues the Wanaka community grapples with almost daily; one or more of these subjects is in The Wanaka Sun almost on a weekly basis. What has often been missing is a common thread that binds all those issues together. The Extinction Rebellion may well have just provided one. Pictured: The Extinction Rebellion in Wanaka on April 24.

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Darby found out that the grebe was extinct in the North Island and populations were reducing from north to south. There were some 350-400 birds left in the South Island and it was classified as rare and threatened.

“The Southern Crested Grebe is a very visual and beautiful element of the natural history of Lake Wanaka,” said Darby. “By reputation they are a timid bird, easily disturbed, and difficult to study.

Its behaviour is a reflection of the complexity of the ecosystem it lives in.”

“My attention was drawn to a pair of grebes that had tried to nest around the marina area around six years ago. But they kept failing which was sufficient for me to pry into the lives of grebes and try to find out why. In 2013 I found that there was a significant ‘dance’ of grebes on Lake Hayes, I made my way there to find out why there were so many and how they worked; in the sense, I needed to know what was going wrong and why before I could correct or change what was happening on Lake Wanaka.”

Thanks to Darby and his helpers’ efforts on Lake Wanaka, the grebe population has had 154 breeding attempts and 234 chicks have been fledged. But over the hill, the situation has reversed.

Despite John’s lengthy efforts to emphasise the importance of habitat for successful breeding, the developer has managed to sidestep this aspect of the ecology of Lake Hayes, and council have given them consent to install a boardwalk, and with the approval of DoC, to clear a significant block of wetlands. Darby believes there is a significant flaw in the process when the consent states, “The adverse effects of the proposal are considered to be no more than minor and all potentially affected parties have provided written approval. It is therefore considered appropriate to process the application on a nonnotified basis”.

“There are two obvious flaws in this sort of ruling,” said Darby. “Adverse effects are a matter of opinion and usually the opinion of a single person, more often the consultant employed to get consent for the developer. In this case the extensive loss of habitat and compromised ecosystem is a lot more than minor.” The environmental report was written

by John Edmonds and Associates and acknowledges that “the Lake is a 'habitat for threatened native fish species the Koaro Galaxias brevipinnis and for threatened swamp birds Australasian bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus and great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus australis.” But what it fails to mention is that a boardwalk through a nesting area provides easy access for dogs, stoats and other

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predators. The impact of visitors and associated disturbance is not recognised and is hardly a minor affect when the bird is endangered.

Darby said, “The second concerns affected persons/parties. In this case these are identified as DoC, Iwi, LINZ, ORC and Fish and Game. I would argue that affected parties should be wider, for instance, the Friends of Lake Hayes founded over ten years ago to protect and advocate for the lake consists of some 120 people. The have funded and promoted research, made submissions to QLDC and DoC on the lake, have a planting programme and also run a year-round predator trap line around the lake. In the case of all the work that has gone ahead and is planned, they were not notified or aware of what was about to happen!”

Ross Sinclair, committee member of the local branch of Forest and Bird said, “Some of our members have been to view the damage and from what we understand it appears that the proposed walkway and viewing platform is likely to cause the grebe population some grief. Forest and Bird was shut out from being able to submit on the proposal as the council did not notify it. ” Sinclair goes on to say “Forest and Bird is dismayed that habitat of the crested Grebe at Lake Hayes is being destroyed for a private development. Crested grebes are one of almost 4000 of our native species that are threatened with extinction. We expect the Department of Conservation and QLDC to be doing all they can to prevent the continued decline of our native wildlife and this seems to be an example of where people are turning a blind eye.”

Rebecca Pitts from QLDC stands by their decision; “The Council always reaches its own conclusion on effects, and doesn’t just adopt an applicant’s position without considering whether the conclusion is appropriate. Where necessary, councils can seek peer review of any assessment given. In this instance the environmental assessment provided to council for the alternative boardwalk location was considered fit for purpose.”

“The Council’s view is that the proposal is acceptable, subject to conditions. As such redress is not being considered,” she said.

The developers, a couple from Scotland and Malaysia who live in Singapore, reportedly acquired property in Arrowtown in 2015 after an 18-month process through the Overseas Investment Office. The felling of non-native willow trees and installation of the boardwalk is reportedly to improve their views.

They have been contacted by the Wanaka Sun for comment but no reply was received at time of going to print.

Wanaka residents enjoy a high-level of community engagement and that was in evidence at Tuesday night’s Shaping Our Future forum at the Lake Wanaka Centre.

Shaping Our Future inspires future-thinking conversations within the Queenstown Lakes District community. Their modus operandi is to let community voices discuss ideas, rather than preach one particular point of view. Conversation is organic rather than structured.

Board member AJ Mason said “Some people think it’s a think tank but the board doesn’t generate huge amounts of wisdom; we just help the community voice their opinion.”

Tuesday night’s forum was themed around climate change; how can we have an impact on climate change, and how will climate change impact upon us. “Out of that, the key driver that was identified was growth,” said Mason. “But then growth drilled down into transport, food systems, land use, participation etc. Transport is a technically very heavy but community voice was also discussed

because of the importance of local residents having a weighted opinion.

So discussions ranged from civil engineering to political philosophy.”

Around 65 people participated in the forum and Mason reports there was generally broad consensus on most issues, although to be fair he said, “a forum that is advertised about climate change, tends to appeal to people who are already engaged in that space.”

Mason also said that he believes Wanaka is relatively cohesive on the issue of climate change because our natural environment is what binds the community together. He also said that where there were differing opinions, the very act of sitting down and talking to one another made people realise they actually agreed on a lot of points and were perhaps looking at the same issue through a different lens.

Mason would like to thank the Otago Museum who very kindly sent over a couple of their science communicator staff and their travelling exhibit "Far From Frozen" (which is a climate change exhibit with an Antarctic / Southern Oceans twist).

Pictured: Shaping Our Future, where local community residents talk.

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Nominations for the 2019 Music Teacher of the Year have officially opened, and it will celebrate an outstanding teacher from Aotearoa at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards in November.

From May 1, people across New Zealand can put forward their local music teacher for the award – someone who provides children with the foundations of a career in music and the everyday skills that come with learning to read, write and play music.

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Recorded Music NZ will announce the winner of the Music Teacher of the Year Award at the Artisan Awards in early November and also acknowledge the winning teacher at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards ceremony in November at Spark Arena, Auckland.

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“After surgery and chemotherapy, I am now six years cancer free. I can’t recommend strongly enough the importance of getting checked—and of knowing the symptoms which could indicate bowel cancer,” said Cooper. “If someone had any concerns I would always recommend talking with their GP. A colonoscopy can seem daunting, but it’s a very straightforward procedure. Bowel cancer can be treatable and curable when caught early.”

Bowel cancer is one of the most common cancers in New Zealand, and Bowel Cancer NZ says “it’s time we kicked it in the butt.” June is Move Your Butt month where the organisation aims to raise $50,000 to help beat the disease. During the month of June alone, 250 New Zealanders will be diagnosed with bowel cancer and 100 New Zealanders will die.

“That’s why we’re asking you to join us and take on the Move your Butt challenge during June. It’s easy to join the Move your Butt challenge. You don’t need to be fit, but you do need to be willing to move a little more (or a lot!) during June and raise awareness and funds for Bowel Cancer New Zealand.”

As regular exercise is one simple way bowel cancer can be staved off, the objective of the fundraiser is simply to get participants to move their butts in any way they like. “Simply sign up, choose a challenge, ask your friends, family and whānau to sponsor you ... then Move that Butt during June.”

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A resource consent lodged with Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) to demolish one of Wanaka's older homes, in place of a new housing development, is on hold. Council is now seeking approval of the commissioning of a heritage assessment peer review for the 1927 home, which was originally determined a category three historic place last January.

The private, timber-framed, California bungalow-style dwelling’s overall heritage assessment listing is currently 'none to moderate' and is 'not considered to be of particularly significant historical importance'.

The January heritage evaluation report noted the house has undergone substantial modifications and extensions, which have compromised

its architectural value.

Subdivision and land use resource consent was approved last December for a two-lot subdivision on the land, 85 Halliday Road, with building platforms on each lot. The applicants are proposing building a new, better insulated home on the approved building platform once the existing house has been removed.

The proposed subdivision is documented to have no more than minor effect on the environment.

Earthworks are not required.

The house, currently occupied by the Halliday Homestead, is located in a rural location on Wanaka's eastern outskirts and south of Albert Town.

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Calling all local organisations, big or small: The Foodstuffs South Island Community Trust (FSICT) is looking for a new major funding recipient to start early next year.

The grant operates to help mainlanders and South Island organisations meet their needs and achieve their goals.

“The Trust’s goal is to help the South thrive and better the lives of South Islanders,” said FSICT chairman Justin Smith. “In 2018 alone, the Trust provided funding exceeding $400,000 to southern community organisations, school and education initiatives and sports and recreation clubs. The Trust is now seeking to fund an organisation with a communitybased benefit across the South Island.

We strive to support every community in the South Island, and the Trust

enables us to do this.”

The Trust’s major funding recipient during the last nine years has been the St John Friends of the Emergency Department (FEDs) programme, which includes 13 services in eight different South Island hospitals and provides non-clinical support to patients and their families. “We’ve been able to grow the St John FEDs programme into what it is today because of the faith and support the Trust has had in us since day one,” said Debbie Pipson, fundraising and marketing manager, St John New Zealand, South Island Region. “The Trust’s outstanding partnership and contribution to St John over the years has enabled us to provide invaluable support to patients and their families throughout the South Island.”

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Superintendent Steve Greally, NZ Police national manager of road policing, and Greg Lazzaro, NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) general manager of safety, health and environment, said the national campaign could not arrive at a better time. “Any death on our roads is too many, so we’re using Road Safety Week to remind drivers about the four simple and proven actions they can take to help keep themselves, and everyone else on the road, safe and alive,” said Greally.

Greally and Lazzaro said all drivers are responsible for their passengers and have a duty to other road users.

They outlined four actions to help ensure a safe journey: (1) always wear a seatbelt and make sure you are properly restrained, (2) do not drive when you are impaired, (3) keep your eyes and mind on the road by removing distractions and (4) drive to the conditions and do not go over the posted speed limit.

“There is no excuse; you either take road safety seriously or you put your own life, as well as everyone else’s on the road, at risk,” said Greally.

"We’ve seen too many deaths on our roads this year; we need everyone to step up and do their part.”

This year 143 people have already died on NZ roads, which is eight times more than this time last year. Thousands of others are seriously injured every year, and the Ministry of Transport reports that the

annual social cost of crashes is now at $4.8 billion.

Road Safety Week, which runs through Sunday, is coordinated by international road safety charity, Brake. It is supported by sponsors QBE Insurance, NZTA, NZ Police, St John New Zealand, Auckland Transport, the Yellow Ribbon Safety Alliance and Auckland's Takanini School, and it coincides with the United Nations’ Global Road Safety Week.

This year’s campaign, #SpeakUp, is a rally cry for conversations around safe vehicles, speeds and drivers as well as safe routes to school, safe road design and safe and healthy mobility. It also provides the opportunity for groups and individuals to speak up about issues that affect them.

“The Government is currently developing the new road safety strategy for the next 10 years and will be welcoming public input when it’s released later this year," said Lazzaro.

“It’s really important that we all speak up about road safety, whether it’s at a personal or professional level," said associate minister of transport Julie Anne Genter. "For instance, last year nearly a quarter (63 people) of all passenger vehicle fatalities involved people not wearing a seatbelt. So, if you’re with someone who’s not buckled up, speak up to them about it. In my role as Minister with responsibility for road safety, speaking up and delivering road safety outcomes that reduce, or eliminate, the number of lives lost or seriously injured in road crashes is the primary goal for me.”

To learn how to take part in Road Safety Week, or to read more about coordinated activities, visit www.brake.org.nz.

Pictured: Road Safety Week NZ calls on everyone to #SpeakUP for road safety to help save lives. Last month was reported as the most deadly April on NZ roads in a decade.

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A key player in the Central Otago fine wine industry has been listed as a finalist for the new and prestigious international ‘Future 50’ awards.

Nick Paulin from Aotearoa New Zealand Fine Wine Estates (AONZ) was shortlisted from more than 600 global nominations for the awards, which were launched this year by the Wine and Spirit Education Trust and the International Wine and Spirit Competition. The group’s goal is to ‘unearth the industry’s up-andcoming talent’ by honouring 50 top young professionals under 40 years old who are working around the world in the wine and spirits industry.

“I feel humbled to be nominated; it’s a nice feeling to be on the shortlist and a little pat on the back for hard work thus far in my career,” said Paulin.

The 35-year-old started his organic winegrowing career at Felton Road before becoming the viticulturist at Peregrine Wines; he now works as estate manager for AONZ’s Lowburn Ferry and as the biodynamic/organics manager at Pyramid Valley.

He told the Wanaka Sun that his favourite wine that he has tasted recently is the 2009 Pyramid Valley Calvert Pinot Noir. “I guess it’s quite a

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unique thing to the wine industry is that we get to enjoy the fruits of our labour, [which is] satisfying for all the hard work that goes into growing the wine, to sit back and enjoy a glass of [it].”

Paulin, who works in the vineyard and on several boards and committees, said he is committed to making Central Otago a place where both vines and people can thrive. “This is my goal and one of my driving forces: to produce amazing fruit, with minimal impact on our planet,” he said.

The ‘Future 50’ judges will be interviewing those included on their shortlist before announcing the winner in November.

Pictured: Central Otago’s Nick Paulin has been shortlisted for the new international ‘Future 50’ awards.

The Big Bike Film Night spins into Wanaka ALLISON MCLEAN

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Some of the world’s best cycling short films, including from New Zealand, will be shared in Wanaka this Monday and Tuesday. The Big Bike Film Night is setting up shop at the Edgewater-Lake Wanaka hotel during its 2019 roadshow and treating its cycle-centric audience to a trove of movies under several different categories.

The 2019 collection has a two-hour run time that covers eleven films each ranging between two to 27 minutes in length. The showcase includes several foreign-language films with English subtitles as well as a number of New Zealand premiers and international award winners.

The Big Bike Film Night team said the film tour enables their mission to share the best cycling short films around the world with their audiences.

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“This is our fifth collection...and it features a full array of cycling genres with something for everyone, whatever your ride is,” said The Big Bike Film Night curator Brett Cotter. It is a privilege and an honour to present The Big Bike Film Night 2019 collection, which is a great reminder of why we love to ride our bikes, by showcasing films that celebrate fun, adventure and inspiration that cycling enables.”

Cotter hand-selected the feast of short films; he said he particularly enjoyed ‘Lowest to Highest,” which is a documentary that follows five friends as they attempt to be the first to cycle across the Australian continent’s lowest point to the highest point.

For more information on ticket prices and tour dates, visit bigbikefilmnight.nz.

Pictured: The short film ‘Blue’ is showing as part of The Big Bike Film Night 2019, which will be riding into Edgewater-Lake Wanaka this Monday and Tuesday.

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As a festival that started small and partly by accident, the NZ Mountain Film and Book Festival has become a Mecca for armchair—and bona fide—adventurers. Tales from hair-rising, adrenaline-fuelled escapades are featured in film and text across one week in late June. Anyone wanting to be thrilled vicariously is welcome on a white knuckle ride by two of the latest adventurers to be announced by organisers.

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Ben Kozel Ben Kozel dreams up unique adventures, takes them on with his best friends and retells the tales with vivid recollections and a uniquely Australian narrative. His books, including accounts of an improbable journey down the Amazon and rowing through Mongolia and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean, paint an accurate picture of the adventurer and his expeditions.

Ben rafted down the Amazon from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Atlantic coast of South America with two friends. They survived storms, tropical diseases, local authorities and some of the fiercest white water on the planet. After 6 months, having travelled 7,000km of the Amazon, they arrived at the Atlantic Ocean.

He then tackled the first source-to-sea descent of the world’s fifth longest river, the Yenisey, which traverses Mongolia and Siberia into the Arctic Ocean. Ben and his teammates, fellow Australian Tim Cope (a past festival guest) and two Canadians, rowed 5,500kms to complete their mission and enter the record books. He will speak at the festival about his two epic journeys.

Bob McKerrow Bob McKerrow, a mountaineer, polar adventurer, humanitarian, writer and poet, will be speaking at the Book Festival. Bob was born in Dunedin and climbed in the Otago Alps as a teenager, and later extensively in the greater Southern Alps. Bob was a member of a New Zealand Andean expedition in 1968 that climbed in the Cordillera Vilcabamba; he climbed 12 peaks, eight of them first ascents. In 19691970 Bob wintered in Antarctica with three other people at Vanda Station; they were the smallest-ever NZ Government wintering over group. He did two major dog sled trips with legendary polar explorer Will Steger in the Arctic, including one to the North Pole.

Bob spent 36 years working for the International Red Cross in conflict situations and in times of major natural disasters, and would regularly take his leave in neighbouring mountain ranges. He lived in Afghanistan for three years from 1993 to 1996 and had many other short assignments there.

Bob has completed the Coast to Coast three times, has completed a sea kayak double crossing of the Cook Strait and, in an attempt to sea kayak the Tasman Sea with Paul Caffyn, was arrested for not having particular radar equipment. He is recognised as a world leader in disaster recovery, was editor of the New Zealand Adventure Magazine in 1989 and 1990, and in his spare time he likes to write.

Bob enjoys writing and has been a regular contributor to the NZ Alpine Journal and a number of magazines. He is the author of three books: Coast to Coast—The Great New Zealand Race; Mountains of our Mind – Afghanistan; and Ebenezer Teichelmann—Pioneer New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, surgeon, photographer and conservationist. Bob is currently writing a new book on mountaineering in South Westland.

The festival runs in Wanaka from June 28 to July 3, Queenstown from July 4 to 6 and Cromwell on July 7. The full programme will be released when general tickets go on sale on June 1 at mountainfilm.nz.

This weekend saw the season open for game bird hunters. I urge everyone heading out duck shooting to do so responsibly. Make sure you have permission to shoot on the land you are entering and have the correct licences (for licenses, check the Fish and Game website). Please make sure the rifles are packed away before the alcohol comes out. Police, along with Fish and Game officers, will be out and about checking people are being safe.

Coastguard were called upon to assist a jet skier who had run out of fuel on Lake Wanaka.

Wanaka Police and the Mental Health Team assisted several people in need of help this week. Remember there are many services available to those who may be going through a tough time. All you need to do is pick up the phone and dial. (The numbers you need are listed at the end of this article.) It’s a great idea to put these numbers into your phone now. You never know when you, or someone you know, will need them.

Again, three drivers were caught driving after consuming too much alcohol. One having their driver’s license suspended on the spot and

given a date to attend court. The other two receiving fines.

Another driver had their license suspended for three months after they racked up too many demerit points.

A man spotted walking around an industrial area with a firearm was spoken to. Turns out he was using an air rifle to shoot rabbits in a nearby paddock. He realised the concern local residents had and agreed to move on.

Please be aware of a couple of scams doing the rounds at the moment— anything to do with “Wellving Asset Management” who make contact by phone in the first instance, or “Lakeville Tours” who is sending brochures and scratch-and-win cards in the mail, claiming you have won prize money. Please do not engage with these companies. They are very organised overseas scams who will take your money.

Those frosty mornings are becoming more regular. Remember you must clear your windscreen before driving.

Winding down your side window to put your head out to see is dangerous, not to mention cold and you look like an idiot.

Thanks and have a great week.

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Northlake sign defaced with swastika STAFF REPORTER

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In one of Wanaka’s low moments, the Northlake sign on the corner of Aubrey and Outlet Roads, was graffitied with a swastika and the word “scam.”

Police said, “a couple of reports on this from this morning, [were] received around 10am. It does not appear to be known when the graffiti first appeared. The matter was dealt with by council who have bylaws around graffiti. If Police received any

further information around this, that would of course be looked into.”

However, Rebecca Pitts from Queenstown Lakes District Council said “We can confirm that the sign is privately managed by Northlake and has not been vested with the council.

While we are appalled to hear of the nature of the graffiti, we did not receive, nor did council contractors act on, any complaints on this situation.”

Winton (the owners of Northlake Investments Ltd) has been approached for comment.

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Originally known as Upper Dunstan, Clyde, like many Central Otago towns and settlements, owes its existence to gold which was discovered in the region in 1861. Two miners, American-born Horatio Hartley and an Irish immigrant to the United States, Christopher Reilly, tried their luck near the entrance to the gorge where Clyde now lies. Their fabulous gold strike in 1862 started the Dunstan Gold Rush and within a year up to 40,000 miners were digging along the banks of the Clutha River, then known as the Molyneux . By the end of the first year, the field had yielded close to 2000kg of gold.

By about 1870 traditional mining methods at the Dunstan field came to an end and gold was extracted by sluicing and dredging companies (at one stage about 30 dredges operated on the Clutha River between Clyde and Alexandra).

Although Clyde began life as a “canvas” town, permanent structures started to appear within a few years when the occupants of tent sites were given the opportunity to buy the title to their land.

In May 1865, the post office officially adopted the name Clyde, after Lord Clyde, the Commander of the British forces during the Indian Mutiny.

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A year later it was proclaimed a municipality after 61 people signed a petition calling for local government representation. The town was the administrative centre for the district until 1989 when it was relocated to Alexandra.

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Many new people came to live in the area and with the flooding of the Cromwell Gorge to fill the dam, the area lost one of its beautiful landscapes.

However the newly created Lake Dunstan is now a major recreational asset.

The modern town of Clyde could be described as a little town with a big heart. After the dam construction was finished, the population settled at just over 800 people although people living on the Earnscleugh Flats, Mutton town, and Springvale areas consider Clyde to be their home town.

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Family fun at Queenstown's LUMA STAFF REPORTER

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LUMA has become a regular fixture on the Queenstown list of events although many Wanaka families make the trek over the hill for an evening of family-friendly wonder.

Now in its fourth year, around 50,000 people are expected to brave chilly winter nights to go on a sensory journey through the gardens and around the Queenstown Bay waterfront.

Two major Queenstown businesses have announced their support for the multi-award-winning LUMA Southern Light Project.

Skyline Queenstown and Queenstown Airport are supporting the event as installation partners, with the countdown well and truly on, to four

evenings of illuminated art, light sculptures and entertainment in the Queenstown Gardens.

The free public event is a riot of light and colour, focusing on the transformation of space, public interaction, art, culture and education. It’s all made possible by curated collections of stunning light sculptures and thought-provoking installations, brought together by a group of young Queenstown professionals who donate thousands of hours’ time to bringing the event to life.

Skyline Queenstown is supporting the creation of a two-part projection titled Superposition by Creature, by artist Lakshman Anandanayagam, which will link the garden’s installation to the Skyline Queenstown complex on nearby Bob’s Peak.

Queenstown Airport is supporting 'Trilogy' by the South Island Light Orchestra

(SILO) and AMD. The installation has been designed specifically for LUMA and will also appear at the airport after the event.

Duncan Forsyth, LUMA Light Festival Trust chairman, says the increased business support is a new phase of growth for the event. Skyline is a firsttime installation partner and Queenstown Airport returns to the event after taking a break last year.

Duncan Forsyth says the trust is delighted to see more local businesses than ever before recognising the value LUMA brings to the town.

“Community engagement is at the heart of everything we do at LUMA so this is part and parcel of that,” he says. LUMA, Queen’s Birthday weekend, May 31 to June 3 2019, Queenstown Gardens and waterfront.

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Join the plastic-free challenge ALLISON MCLEAN

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The Zero Waste Network is calling for feedback on how participants in the Plastic Free July campaign would like to promote their involvement in the national monthlong crusade. Plastic Free July, created by a working group of councils, community groups and businesses, asks participants to pledge their refusal of single-use plastics for the entire month.

The Zero Waste Network, which represents community enterprises across Aotearoa New Zealand who are working towards zero waste, said opportunities exist for businesses to promote their participation in the campaign, including via co-hosted Facebook event pages, storefront posters and an email footer that groups and businesses can add to their email addresses. Bilingual and New Zealand-specific resources are also being created. The campaign is also creating a central repository online for pictures, which people can use for their communication efforts.

As the campaign ramps up its promotional efforts, the 2019 kickoff is already generating wide support, including from Wanaka-based One New Zealand, which praises Plastic Free July’s role in increasing awareness of the problem of plastic pollution and mobilising action.

“When you look around you plastics are

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everywhere,” said One New Zealand cofounder Monique Kelly. “The biggest problem is partly the material itself as it is just fossil fuel in another form, it's also the way we treat it as a cheap throwaway product. Eventually they all end up polluting our land, air and oceans.

Plastic pollution can be found everywhere from Antartica, to our tallest mountain, to the stomachs of the fish we eat. If we do nothing, a recent report suggests that by 2050 plastic will outweigh fish in the ocean (Ellen McArthur Foundation 2018).

The solution? Draw a line in the sand and refuse. If we can't, then we can reduce, reuse, recycle or let rot. Wanaka Hospo Goes Eco, headed by Brona Parsons and Chrissi Lahood, are doing just that. They are starting a campaign to get cafés on board to go single-use cup free in 2020 by replacing them with a cup share program.

It's really exciting for Wanaka hospitality as they could become leaders in hospitality and tourism.”

One New Zealand co-founder Arna Craig also touted the annual campaign’s efforts.

“Initiatives like this inspire change and generate a ground swell of interest across communities,” she said. “It is these small but effective initiatives that make change achievable, enabling that change in bitesized chunks. I am a huge advocate for this campaign as often taking part in something like this is the first step towards a more sustainable way of living for most

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t was with some considerable interest that I read the ‘Letter to the Editor’ under the heading of ‘Wanaka is a place of natural beauty so keep it that way’ that appeared in the Wanaka Sun last week under the signature of David Smallbone.

I have known David for over30 years and he is a very experienced businessman. The letter injected a dose of realism into the situation which, I fear, may fall on deaf ears or somewhat too late as the formality of the process has overtaken it.

The people behind suggesting these changes are well-meaning but, in many instances, are naïve in looking at the implications of what is proposed.

In the next decade there are going to be significant issues to be confronted in the Wanaka local community and area, least of which now also includes the development at the Wanaka airport.

Key to the success or otherwise of the Masterplan will be the orderly flow of traffic, both around and within the town centre itself.

Personally, I remain far from convinced that what is proposed at the moment is indeed ideal if even practical.

We have statements being made by the Deputy Mayor and other councillor’s as to the successful outcome of the street closure but not detailing any of the successes other than in an extremely general manner.

The retailers on the other hand have been quite specific in the impacts that they encountered when the streets were closed.

Given the materiality of the changes proposed the proper process would be for the final draft plan as signed off by the Wanaka Community Reference Group and subsequently the Wanaka Community Board to be put up for final public consultation. The reasons behind this are many but, in particular, the changes proposed are material and the community needs to be involved intimately in this final process.

One has to question what was so wrong with the 2016 plan that it has disappeared almost completely and certainly did not form part of the presentations on the days of the street closures.

The failure to properly consult the retail community in a timely manner is a matter which I am sure will surface in the future in the form of a legal challenge to the process.

Already expert lawyers have been in contact with members of the retail community to offer their services both currently and, more importantly going forward. In addition, the concept of the establishment of a fighting fund is already being

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explored by certain members of the business and retail community given the radical changes which are proposed.

Also, one has to question the justification of some of the proposals, for example, in relation to Lower Helwick Street the proposal to turn this into one way and change the parking is deemed to make the area safer.

This is done without any other explanation following all the alternatives which are available being fully explored or examined.

Already we have seen Wanaka stalwarts like Lois King and Lesley Burdon and, now, David Smallbone reinforcing the need to protect the green belt and the reserves around the Wanaka town as scant regard has been given to these areas by the planners.

For example it is proposed that parking be made available on Lismore Street and also on the Lower area of Stratford Terrace, both of which are reserves and, as a consequence are under the protection of the Reserves Act which does not encourage such activities let alone ‘civic amenities’ other than public toilet facilities etc.

There is bound to be legal challenge if the proposals go ahead in that regard in relation to these areas.

As has been stated previously one has to question the basis on which many of the recommendations are founded as they appear to lack substance and credibility in many instances.

It is unfortunate that some senior members of the Wanaka business community and experienced retired businessmen have now only become aware of the magnitude of what is proposed and wish to actively take part in and change the current way of thinking.

David Smallbone has to be applauded for the stance he has taken and the statements he has made because they echo the sentiments of many of the longer term Wanaka residents.

Most of these residents who were surveyed are not against change and even material changes, but consider they need to be more properly planned and explained to the Wanaka ratepayer base in particular.

In addition to the need for a final round of public consultation there is also the issue of the business case to support the proposals. In the absence of a properly founded and robust business case being put forward with the proposal, I suspect that legal action would commence almost immediately the filing took place given the nature of what is proposed. It is to be hoped that the councillor’s

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give proper consideration to the proposals and their responsibilities to the ratepayer base which, in some instances, their actions are being called into question.

It is very easy to ‘talk the talk’ but it becomes more difficult when one has to ‘walk the walk’.

In the article published last week I outlined the 4 key components of a successful retail precinct.

The proposals show little regard for these key factors and, despite statements to the contrary, the proposals follow closely those which have been adopted and are being put in place by the Queenstown Lakes District Council at Queenstown. As a consequence there is little doubt that the unique nature and characteristics of Wanaka, as outlined by Mr Smallbone in his Letter to the Editor are going to be put at considerable risk if not dispensed with.

There is little doubt that the proposals for the redevelopment of the Wanaka airport are going to have a significant impact on traffic flows and the Wanaka lifestyle in general and one would have thought, now that the announcements have been made and there is a further understanding of what is proposed, that the traffic components of the proposed Masterplan should be revisited in light of this.

However given the frenetic pace that is being employed to bring this Masterplan process to a conclusion I doubt that those involved would want to extend the timeframe and properly analyse the potential impact of that development.

Wanaka needs to have a successful retail precinct in the CBD. Already the proposals as put forward in draft and gaining momentum in reality are causing concern and considerable uncertainty amongst the retailers. It is indeed unfortunate that the proper consultation process has not been undertaken with regard to this important component of Wanaka’s society but be that as it may, the council and, indeed, the local councillor’s are on notice that now a sleeping giant has been awoken and that experienced successful business residents, the likes of David Smallbone now will rise up and ensure that their opinions are taken into consideration because if not, there will be consequential and elongated legal process that will no doubt have to be undertaken and in the meantime little progress can be made in the implementation of any Masterplan.

Signed: The Wanaka CBD Watchdog

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A unique musical combination comes to town ALLISON MCLEAN

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A unique instrumental pairing are on their way to Wanaka. Duo Col Legno, comprised of cellist Heleen du Plessis and marimba player Yoshiko Tsuruta, will perform a diverse programme at the Lake Wanaka Centre on Tuesday at 7.30pm.

Presented by the Wanaka Concert Society and Chamber Music New Zealand, the duo will share an evening of global musical styles, including Tchaikovsky, Arvo Pärt, traditional Japanese songs and the rhythms of Bulgarian guitarist and composer, Atanas Ourkouzounov.

The pair formed in 2014 and have commissioned Wellington-based Gareth Farr to write new marimba and cello music that will be performed on Duo Col Legno’s tour. Tahu-nui-ā-Rangi is the first work ever written for cello and marimba in New Zealand, which relates to the Southern Lights, Aurora Australis.

Cash-only tickets can be purchased Wanaka’s Gifted Design or by making an online payment at eventfinda.co.nz.

Pictured: International cellist Heleen du Plessis and marimba player Yoshiko Tsuruta, of Duo Col Legno, will bring their musical pairing to Lake Wanaka Centre on Tuesday evening.

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Catherine Bone will pick up the reins of Edgewater Resort on May 21, 2019. Bone has a long CV with an illustrious job history and expertise level.

Most recently, Bone has been a senior lecturer and stream leader at the Pacific International Hotel Management School in New Plymouth. She has completed an MBA degree from the University of Cumbria in 2016, majoring in leadership and sustainability.

According to the board of directors, Bone “brings extensive general management experience to Edgewater.

She has worked in prestigious hotels and resorts in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Her appointments have included: Hand Picked Hotels, Macdonald Resorts and Hotels (UK); Spicers Retreats, Hidden Vale and Peppers Craigieburn (Australia).

In New Zealand Bone has held management

positions at Marlborough Vintners Hotel and Accor’s Puka Park Resort.

In making the announcement, Chairman of the Board, David Robinson, noted the selection panel was impressed with Bone’s extensive management experience. “Catherine has a wealth of experiences and skills gained as a general manager in not only New Zealand, but also Australia and the UK. In addition, Catherine brings learnings from her recent MBA and hospitality lecturing roles,” says David.

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Miss 7 said; “Is this for real mum? Is this true life, for real, actually a real cat in this world?” When children’s books often focus on fantasy and makebelieve, it can be hard for small minds to get their head around the fact that some fantastical stories are, in fact, real. My seven-year-old had two visits from the tooth fairy last week, so her grasp of what’s real and what’s fiction is in that innocent child phase—but with a few emerging doubts. So, to explain that Dwayne was “true life, real and not pretend” made this book pretty special.

The cat from Muzzle is a children’s book that was just released this week

by Penguin Random House. It tells the extraordinary true story of Dwayne, a real cat (with the coolest cat name) who made his way back home to the remote Muzzle Station, from his new home in Kaikoura in an epic five-week journey. Whilst no-one knows for sure, guesstimates presume Dwayne went over the seaward Kaikoura range where the lowest saddle crossing is 1300 metres. He battled forests, mountains, snow, rivers and cold, but he made it back to his beloved home with all paws intact.

Local Wanaka artist Scott Tulloch illustrated the book, which is now on sale at Paper Plus. Tulloch is well known for his art and was previously an artist with paintings on exhibit in galleries, before he decided he’d rather

be an illustrator in children’s books.

Tulloch is the creative hand behind the pictures in Craig Smith’s My Daddy ate an apple, and Square eyes. He has also written and illustrated his own books, including Silly Goat Gruff, I am not a worm, (shortlisted for Children’s Book Award) and Willy’s dad.

The book was fun for Tulloch to illustrate. “How on earth did the cat know which way to go?” said Tulloch.

“If you were dropped at 1300m up Mt Aspiring would you have any idea how to walk your way out? I have been to Muzzle Station, hunting and camping on the seaward side of the Clarence River and it is incredibly remote. I just can’t fathom how a cat has that sense of direction and how on earth it got across the river.”

That sense of incredulity makes the children’s story a real adventure book. It is set in the South Island, which helps kids understand that it is real, and tangible and close. It is written in rhyme, which is great for young readers, with some repeated verses which help little readers gain confidence in syntax and rhythm.

Miss 8 said “I knew all the words mum,” whilst Miss 7 said “I like the rhyming.”

For cat lovers and fans of New Zealand authors, this is a great addition to your kids’ bookshelf.

Thumbs up.

The cat from Muzzle by Sally Sutton, illustrated by Scott Tulloch. Available now at Paper Plus. Pictured; Illustrator, Scott Tulloch.

Following the release of the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) statement and ensuing articles about the development of Queenstown and Wanaka airport, One New Zealand and Sustainable Queenstown wanted to make a joint statement as organisations that advocate for the climate and our region’s transition to carbon zero.

We felt that it was important to focus on the true cost of aviation – environmental, social and economic.

Currently, globally aviation accounts for 3 percent of global emissions. Sir Jonathon Porritt, Chairman of Air New Zealand’s sustainability panel, called climate change an “existential threat” to humanity and labelled aviation as an inherently unsustainable industry. The recent Tonkin +Thomson report drafted for the QLDC’s discussion paper on Climate Change, put these emission levels at 77,550 tonnes or 11 percent of our total emissions as a district. This figure is based on limited data and only includes domestic emissions within the district. The real environmental cost is much greater. If we look at the 2018 emissions for 2.14 million passenger movements, based on average emissions for travel between the main direct domestic and international routes, the greenhouse emissions generated flying into Queenstown airport are between 295,320 tonnes and 706,557 tonnes. The cost to offset total emissions ranges from $6.6 million to $27.5 million. In terms of trees, to offset we would need to plant a forest the size of Lake Dunstan per year at current numbers. In 2018 Air New Zealand through their voluntary FlyNeutral program, contributed $1million to native forest offsets. This is applaudable but falls far short of offsetting emissions for its Queenstown flights, let alone those of all of the other centres.

The issue of the cost to our community still remains. Exponential growth is inherently unsustainable. Increased (over)tourism does not lead to wealthier, happier, healthier communities as the inhabitants have discovered in Barcelona, Venice, Reykjavík and Amsterdam where overtourism has impacted on the environment,

cultural heritage and quality of life. Listening to our community (e.g. blue sky thinking in Queenstown and Protect Wanaka), we’re reaching the upper limit if not already beyond it. We need to rethink growth and look at value over volume as our success metrics for tourism. Focusing on providing exceptional opportunities, high visitor satisfaction and low carbon travel would make us global leaders in sustainable tourism.

In response, the international community is quickly mobilising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At a national level, the Carbon Bill will soon be enacted. Locally, in March 2019 the QLDC unanimously agreed to commit to Vision Beyond 2050, which clearly states our intention to be carbon zero and for our district to set “the standard for regenerative, low-impact living, working and travelling.” Our first district climate plan to reach this vision is currently being drafted by the QLDC. We have 11 years to focus our attention, resources and capital to ensure that we make the right decisions now so that our future community has a safe, viable home in which to live. For the moment, we are far from halting our current emissions, let alone reducing them with gross emissions in New Zealand rising by 2.2percent between 2016-2017. Between now and 2050, we have work to do. We need to wean our economy off fossil fuel in all its forms, protect our land, water and biodiversity, increase public transport, build safe bike lanes, improve our water systems, find ways to capture and use methane from waste and land use, double our energy generation, improve our building stock and innovate in the rural sector so that farmers become our carbon sink heroes and food systems champions and the while making sure we take care of the health and wellbeing of our community. We do not need our attention diverted by projects that run counter to achieving our Vision Beyond 2050, divide a community and come at an exorbitant environmental, social and economic cost.

[Abridged].

– By Monique Kelly, for One New Zealand

Container mystery not solved yet SALE OF ASSETS OF ARROW INTERNATIONAL (NZ) LIMITED (ADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED) IN THE WANAKA/QUEENSTOWN DISTRICT ONLY. The Administrators of Arrow International (NZ) Limited (Administrators Appointed) (“Arrow”) seek expressions of interest for the purchase of Arrow assets held in the Wanaka/Queenstown district.

The key assets include:  1993 32k Liebherr Self Erector Tower, 30m Jib and 24m under hook height  9m x 3m Portacoms  6m x 3m Portacoms  2m x 2m Toilet Block  20ft Containers  6ft Tools Container  Tandem Trailers If you require additional information on the assets available for purchase or wish to lodge an expression of interest, please contact Deanna Shore at BDO Christchurch. Expressions of interest are sought by 12pm, Monday, 13 May 2019.

Please note the Administrators reserve the right of prior sale.

The Administrators and their staff act as agents of the Company without personal liability.

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From the front, it’s a sheltered picnic spot with tables and chairs to enjoy a beautiful vista of the lake. But from the side and back, it appears to be an ugly container dumped on the lakefront, right in the middle of what should be a beautiful landscape.

It was placed there by council in late 2018 as part of the discussion around parking on the lakefront and pedestrianisation of the town centre. Signs erected in the container are promoting a car-free

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vista: “I like great views and I cannot lie. Cars in the way make me sigh.”

The trial of pedestrianisation was a heated debate that drew support on both sides however in the official survey that informs council’s final decision, 71 percent of those surveyed said they were in favour of moving cars away from the lakefront.

With the trial over and the survey results in, it is unclear why the container remains in place. The Wanaka Sun has asked council when it will be removed but did not receive a response at time of going to print.

Pictured: The container in Roy’s Bay.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Crown Land Water Management

The Forest and Bird article by Anne Steven (April 25 Wanaka Sun) makes some excellent points about the inadequate level of management by the Crown of its large holdings of Crown Land in Crown Pastoral Leases (CPL). Anne expresses concern about the “frequent disregard for the expert advice of the Department of Conservation when assessing consent applications”. One aspect of concern that was not explicit in Anne’s article is the issue of freshwater management.

NZ Crown Pastoral Leases contain many significant water bodies. Many CPLs border our deepwater alpine lakes but the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) seem to be indifferent to managing the effects of CPL land use on significant aquatic ecosystems.

For example the OIO application for approval of the recent sale of a large CPL included a plan to increase its productivity by 50 percent. This increase in productivity would mean a significant change in land use including increased burn-off, herbicide spraying, pasture preparation and planting, top dressing and increased stocking rates, all of which would result in increased contaminated nutrient rich run-off into two of our iconic deepwater lakes. When the OIO carried out their assessment of this aspect of the application’s potential environmental impact the response in the OIO report was one word: “Irrelevant”.

The impacts of land use on our freshwater ecosystems are much less visible and therefore more easily overlooked. It is time for central and regional government to heed Anne Steven’s recommendation to “seriously and diligently execute its role as steward of some of the most important landscape values in New Zealand”. While landscapes clearly incIude aquatic ecosystems, they are frequently forgotten. I would add to Anne’s recommendation that we not forget the aquatic ecosystems on which the social and economic well-being of the communities around the deepwater lakes and their catchments depends.

Don Robertson Chair, Guardians of Lake Wanaka, Member, Guardians of Lake Hawea

LINZ Response

Thank you for the opportunity to respond. Don Robertson and Anne Steven both make some very valid points. LINZ can assure all readers that the Crown is committed to seriously and diligently executing its role as steward of some of the most important landscapes in New Zealand. This is why the recent consultation on enduring stewardship has taken place, to understand in detail how we can better manage the 1.2 million hectares of Crown pastoral land across the High Country.

We acknowledge the concerns raised by both Forest and Bird and the Guardians of Lake Hawea.

When a leaseholder applies to carry out activities on a pastoral lease we do consider impacts on the environment when considering whether to grant discretionary consent.

We obtain advice from the Department of Conservation on the inherent ecological values of the land and the impact the activity may have on those values. The information from DOC is then used by the Commissioner of Crown Lands when considering the discretionary consent. It is common for the Commissioner to place restrictions on the activities taking place based on the potential impact to the environment.

One thing that LINZ is doing much more of is working in partnership with other consenting authorities such as district and regional councils to consider other consents that have been applied for or granted. This means we can take a fuller view of the impact the activity we are considering will have.

This is particularly important as regional councils’ consent for nutrient run-off and loading. Regional councils are also active in assisting farmers to take mitigating actions such as riparian planting.

Outside of the High Country LINZ is actively working to promote the health of waterways by removing lake weed and pest species in the rivers and lakes we’re responsible for. We would like to thank Mr Robertson for his work with us in controlling the spread of lagarosiphon in Lake Wanaka.

The Overseas Investment Act includes several factors relating to the environment, but they relate to very specific matters such as the protection or enhancement of significant existing areas of indigenous vegetation or habitats of indigenous fauna.

Dr Robertson appears to refer to an Overseas Investment Office (OIO) application made by Orange Lakes (NZ) Ltd in 2016 to acquire Hunter Valley Station.

If the same application was received today, our assessment would be influenced by the new 2017 Ministerial Directive Letter and assessed in line with new processes and resources available to the OIO.

No competition in grocery market

Dear Editor, This is one of the best local reports I've read, addressing a major local issue. We moved to Wanaka four years ago, and prior to living here I shopped at Pak n Save, Invercargill. When we relocated I was shocked at the price difference between New World and Pak n Save for exactly the same products and calculated it at 15 percent by comparing a few receipts from the two different supermarkets (and both owned by Foodstuffs NZ). This means that on our typical $350 weekly shop for a family of four with two teenage boys, we are spending $52 extra per week, a total of $2,730 over a year, literally to have my shopping bags packed (if I'm lucky enough to get a packer on my aisle at our local New World). That's a significant difference for most families, and money I'm sure we'd all rather spend on something other than groceries! In my mind the only difference between New World and Pak n Save is the packing service at the checkout, but they don't always have a packer on every aisle, and I'd prefer to do my own packing and save $2,730 per year.

Last year I was travelling to Cromwell three days a week so started shopping at the Cromwell New World store, which is more spacious, less crowded, has far more parking, resulting in a less stressful shopping experience. I was surprised to discover that the prices of fresh produce, such as fruit and vegetables, meat and bakery products, were often cheaper than at the Wanaka store. Yes, the national promotions are the same prices, but local stores can offer their own discounts, and the Cromwell owners appear to be more generous with their discounts than the Wanaka operators. One week broccoli in Cromwell was 99 cents on 'store special', whereas in Wanaka that same week it was $3.49—a whopping 261 percent extra!

It's not surprising we feel we're being fleeced in Wanaka, most of us visit other New Worlds on our travels and notice these differences.

What we really really need is a Pak n Save delivery service from Frankton, but that's not going to happen when the stores are all part of Foodstuffs. For most of us it's not worth doing a weekly drive to Frankton just for groceries, so we probably all need to vote with our cash and try the Countdown delivery service and leave the current Wanaka New World store to the tourists. Then perhaps our local owner operators will feel the pinch and become more generous with their store specials. And let’s hope the current government get on with the long overdue investigation into the two food groups in NZ, that have in effect created a duopoly, which is not healthy for us as NZ consumers. When we visit the UK every few years, we are always shocked and then saddened, when we compare food prices between the two countries. Dairy products are around half NZ prices (and that's not just for milk, it's for cheeses, yoghurts, cream, the entire range of dairy), as are bread and cereals. Yes, the EU has led to cheaper food prices (maybe not for much longer with Brexit), but the main point of difference is the healthy competition between Tescos, Sainsbury's, Asda, Co-Op, Morrisons, and more recently Aldi.

Other countries have more healthy competition amongst their various supermarkets, because they are not owned by large groups, as has been allowed to develop in NZ. Best Regards Denise Prince

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Wanaka Stadium Bowls: Monday, Edgewater Trophy; 1st= R Hurley B Steel B Holmes, T Malcolm M Hardy Y Gale 3rd M Steel D Hope B McLeary. Tuesday morning, 2x4x2 1st C Nyenhuis A Bryan 2nd N Dippie K Outram 3rd B Wilson K Davey. Tuesday afternoon; 2x4x2 1st N Matheson K Mitchell 2nd R Griffiths K Urquhart 3rd G Thomas G Raffills.

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Wanaka Bridge Club: Monday – Silver Champ Pairs 4 North/ South: 1st Ken Saxby Martin Unwin 63.07% 2nd Ena Leckie Laraine Shepherd 58.90% 3rd Dorothy McDonald Nan Ottrey 56.25%. East/ West: 1st Claire Romeril Carolyn Grey 71.33% 2nd Morag Chisholm Andrew McLennan 61.89% 3rd Brian McCandless Sherril Harries 55.94%.

Wednesday – Bronze Champ Pairs 3 North/South: 1st Allan Maclean Neil Robinson 57.41% 2nd Carolyn Field Jen Milburn 52.55% 3rd Maureen Hawke Jeanette Gillies 51.85%. East/ West: 1st Peter Hart John Milburn 62.04% 2nd Suzanne Ewing Lyn Hill 55.79% 3rd Alwyne Haworth Sue Thomson 55.56%. Friday 3 May – Handicap North/ South: 1st Lynne Fegan David Brewer 61.29% 2nd Deirdre Lynch Barbara Waterworth 56.92% 3rd Ian McDonald Boyd Ottrey 55.73%. East/ West: 1st Alan Chisholm Morag Chisholm 60.89% 2nd Ena Leckie Jacqui Roberts 54.11% 3rd Judy Muir Peter Hart 53.82%.

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Voting closes at noon on 7 JUNE 2019.

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The 2019/2020 registration invoices for all registered dogs are due to be posted the week commencing Monday 6 May 2019.

We’re looking for a charismatic and experienced Guide Manager to join our team at Guided Walks New Zealand. In this newly created role, you will be responsible for leading, motivating and supporting our hard-working guiding team ensuring our manuhiri (visitors) continue to receive a world class guiding experience.

If there are any changes to your dog’s registration details, please contact the Council as soon as possible.

Payment can be made a number of ways, using your Animal ID number as reference.

A link to the current fixed fees can be found at the QLDC website: https://www.qldc.govt.nz/services/ dogs-animal-control/dog-registration/

Amendments to the May Meeting Schedule Meeting Rescheduled: The meeting of the Planning & Strategy Committee previously advertised as taking place on Thursday 2 May has been rescheduled to Monday 13 May 2019 in the Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown at 11.00am.

Meeting Postponed: The meeting of the Traffic & Parking Subcommittee previously advertised as taking place on Wednesday 15 May 2019 has been postponed to a future date to be advised.

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Home defeat for Wanaka AFC

PHOTO: Paula Shortall

Netball gets off to a great start Sports reporter

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Last Saturday was the opening of the 2019 primary school netball season at the Wanaka Recreation Centre. Around 150 girls, and five boys, from the three local schools; Wanaka Primary, Holy Family, and Hawea Flat all took to the courts with huge enthusiasm. The weather was autumn at its best, so the frigid Saturday mornings in ice-cold wind is something still to look forward to.

Many kids had never played before, and had had only one training session during school lunchtime, so were somewhat bewildered at proceedings with faint understanding of the rules.

But the old hands were encouraging whilst umpires were patient, and

everyone left the court with a smile.

Netball Upper Clutha acknowledges the 22 coaches and six students from Mt Aspiring College who freely give their time to coach the young teams.

Without their volunteer help and community spirit, junior netball simply wouldn’t work. There are also three regular umpires and three parttime umpires, but, as that doesn’t quite stretch to cover all games, some coaches step in to umpire also.

All teams played two games last Saturday, and will do so again on May 11, then revert to one game each Saturday for the rest of the season.

Pictured: Hawea Huias, back left to right; Zoe Sarginson, Bronny O’Sullivan, Kerah Alexander, Sarah Dougherty. Front; Taylor MacRae, Briana Joyce, Natalie Shepherd.

An early mistake allowed Caversham AFC to leave with all three points on the leader table in round seven of the Southern Premier League on Saturday. Wanaka AFC chased the game for 87 minutes and were dominant for swathes of the game, but were unable to find the back of the net as they lost 1-0 to the visitors from Dunedin.

The Wanaka men stay in ninth place on the table with six points.

An innocuous freekick that was lifted towards the Wanaka goal, and slipped through the grasp of goalkeeper Britton Dowling in the third minute, was the only difference between the two evenly-matched sides. It was an uncharacteristic mistake for Dowling who has been excellent between the posts this season and again made several crucial saves on Saturday.

Dutch centre back Thomas van Hees returned to the starting lineup, for the first time since breaking a bone in his hand in round one, and he almost restored parity in the fifth minute, only to have his glancing header expertly saved by the Caversham keeper.

Recent signing Geordie Mansford struck the woodwork after good build-up play had him cutting in

and were holding their own against the league leading Uruguyans, down 2-1 at half-time, before they too conceded four goals to lose 6-1.

Young Flynn Brown scoring the consolation goal for the Reserves.

This Saturday will see Wanaka AFC making their debut in the ISPS PHOTO: Paula Shortall Handa Chatham Cup. Steeped in history from the right wing.

Further chances would fall to and tradition, the ISPS Handa Steve Pleskun, Paul Hodgeson Chatham Cup is one of New and Valentine Nova but the Zealand sport’s oldest and most coveted trophies and has been Caversham defense held firm.

Despite the result, the general contested annually since 1923 by feeling in the Wanaka camp was over 120 affiliated New Zealand positive, “we definitely believe Football clubs, schools and other it’s another game where we were teams.

“We are looking forward to the equal of our opponents” said hosting Geraldine in Chatham Cup Coach Ian Bell.

In the Radio Central Football football this weekend. They are a bit League both the Wanaka Seniors of an unknown. We feel confident and Senior Reserves shared a but we know, in cup football, similar narrative, with both teams anything can happen” said Coach keeping their games competitive Bell, a previous winner of the cup up until the hour mark before as a player in 1999 with Dunedin lapses in discipline and defensive Tech. The match kicks off, Saturday structure afforded their respective May 18, at 2pm at the Wanaka Rec opponents too much time and Centre. Meanwhile the Seniors will space in front of goal. The Seniors host Falcons in the curtain raiser were 1-0 down at the break to at 12pm at the Rec and the Senior Queenstown Classics before Reserves travel to Alexandra.

Pictured: Wanaka AFC player, conceding four unanswered second half goals. The Senior Valentine Nova.

– By Mike Finlay Reserves hosted Charruas FC

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