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A council proposal to extend the time boats are allowed on the Clutha River to sunset during summer is upsetting some people.

At present boats are only allowed on the river between 10am and 6pm in summer, and 10am and 4pm in winter.

In its proposed Navigation Safety Bylaw 2014 – which is currently out for public submissions – the Queenstown Lakes District Council is proposing extending the summer hours to sunrise to sunset.

The change would apply to the stretch of the river from the old county boundary, marked by yellow poles, to the current boundary with the Central Otago District Council downstream from the Red Bridge at Luggate.

Otago Fish & Game officer, Cliff Halford, said the organisation was lodging a submission against the change, saying noisy boats on the river in the evening would spoil the main fishing time for anglers.

The affected area included Dean’s Bank which was a “locally, regionally and internationally respected fly-fishing area and increased disturbance from watercraft will have an impact on

angling enjoyment,” he said.“The proposed uplifting will affect

the tranquillity of the outlet. The drone of boats and disturbance from jet skis…will have a significant impact on angling amenity values in a highly-used passive recreational area.

“The current upliftings have been working well for many years and I believe all recreational users have been fairly accommodated,” Cliff said.

Ann Horrax, owner of the Riversong Bed and Breakfast on the banks of the Clutha River at Albert Town, agreed the current time limits should remain in place.

Boats and jet skis on the river until 6pm in summer did not bother her as everyone was entitled to enjoy the river, she said, but she would not like the associated noise to continue until the late daylight savings sunset.

“There are lots of other areas where people can go boating. It’s not as though the river is the only place,” she said.

A QLDC spokesperson said the change had been proposed to benefit fishermen, by improving access for people fishing from boats.

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It was Decorate your Bike day for Montessori Children’s House and Holy Family School children on Tuesday. Montessori children and Year 7 and 8 students from Holy Family School were pictured with their teachers and parents at the event at the Holy Family School courts.

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Work underway at Diana Falls

Farewell Father Fenton

Work has begun on the installation of the first of three rockfall fences being built across the Diana Falls slip face to enable two-lane, 24/7 traffic access through Haast Pass to recommence.The New Zealand Transport Agency’s senior network manager, Mark Pinner, said drilling has been completed for the anchor posts for the first fences and work is underway installing the mesh.The six-metre-high fence was being installed to catch any rocks that may still fall down the slip face. The mesh drapes across the slip to help prevent any material sliding off the mountainside.“Once work on this top fence is completed, it will enable us to proceed quicker with the installation of the remaining two fences, as it provides a safety barrier and improves conditions for those working on site.”

The road was closed yesterday after a slip. NZTA will update the the status of the road at 10am today.

Wanaka identity Father Brian Fenton passed away last weekend and his funeral is being held tomorrow (Friday August 1) at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wanaka (12 noon). He had moved to the Little Sisters of the Poor residential home in Dunedin in June.“I’m very happy here,” he told the Wanaka Sun soon after moving. “They look after me very well.”Father Brian continued to offer daily mass at the home, as he had done at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wanaka for more than a decade. The Wanaka Sun will publish an obituary in next week’s edition.

The Morgan Foundation h a s c r i t i c i s e d t h e g o v e r n m e n t ’ s n e w freshwater management policy stating the public wants water to be suitable for swimming, not just wading. It also said the policy should include a “maintain or improve” requirement for every individual waterway (with regional authorities able to grant exceptions) rather than simply requiring water quality “across a region” to be maintained or improved.

Local photographer/naturalist Gilbert van Reenen supported the Morgan Foundation initiatives.

“The national standards proposed by Environment

Minister Amy Adams are vague and confusing and haven’t gone far enough,” he said. “The time horizon for implementing the standards is far too long. The spectacular degradation of many of our waterways is happening right now and needs urgent attention. Remedies will take a very long time to achieve and will become more and more expensive the longer we leave it.”

Gilbert said it was important to realise the campaign was not anti-farmer or anti-dairying.

“It recognises that the collaborative collegial approach will have the best outcomes,” he said. “The [foundation’s] guidelines were derived by consensus.”

The Morgan Foundation (set up by namesake Gareth

Morgan) consulted 16 freshwater scientists who work across the spectrum from Dairy NZ, the Fertiliser Manufacturers Association and Agresearch, to New Zealand universities, NIWA and the Cawthron Institute. Among them was Massey University’s Dr Mike Joy who spoke in Wanaka last month and the University of Otago’s Dr Marc Schallenburg who has been involved in research on the water quality of Lake Wanaka for some years.

The foundation said the government’s new freshwater management policy was an “inadequate step to meet the public’s expectations on water quality” and that it should enable regional authorities to “require all prospective polluters

to demonstrate why the pollution effects from their developments will either: not exist, be offset by improvements elsewhere, or be outweighed by the economic benefits to the community.”

Gilbert described dairy sector debt as an elephant in New Zealand’s drawing room. “Currently $4 billion is paid annually to foreign-owned banks just to service dairy farmers’ debts of over $60 billion, and this doesn’t include capital repayments,” he said. “The true costs of the deleterious effects of agricultural intensification are seldom considered by the exponents. The government’s proposed National Water Standards are extremely weak and pragmatically negligent.”

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Māori teacher Jeromy van Riel said the theme of Māori Language Week - a word for each day - was congruent with the aim of constantly adding to the basket of knowledge. The aim of the week was to normalise Te Reo Māori through everyday use, learning without translation but rather through experience and meaningful learning contexts for the community. Mount Aspiring College year 8 students created books talking about themselves and their families during Māori Language Week from July 21 to 27 which they will take to Oanaka Educare.Currently all Year 7 and 8 students have a rich Māori language focus with NCEA Maori language options available. Last year, 33 percent of students passed NCEA Level 1 with High Merit or above in one or more of their papers. MAC teachers have also received professional development in the field of Raising Māori Success rates. This approach takes into account indigenous views on teacher-student relationships and the importance of acknowledging the culture, language and desires of the student and their respective families in order to better serve them in obtaining an education which compliments the student. “It is the birthright of all New Zealanders to be given the opportunity to connect to New Zealand through the Māori culture and language regardless of their ancestry,” Jeromy said. “For our children will one day say ‘I’m from New Zealand.’ What if someone asks them prove it? “I’m grateful to my elders who shared their language and culture with me and I’m honoured to be able to share it with our youth in return.”

Eight worried dog owners spoke at a public hearing on the Council’s draft dog control bylaw this week.

They were among nearly 80 people who lodged submissions on the Queenstown Lakes District Council draft bylaw, the majority of which opposed a proposed rule that dogs must be on a leash anywhere outside the rural general zone.

G r a h a m D i c k s o n w a s among those who spoke at

Tuesday’s hearing. His submission said there was “no reasoning or justification [for] such a major change”.

A similar proposal by the council nearly a decade ago was thrown out and the compromise that dogs could be off-leash but under control in public places “had worked well with few problems,” he said.

Callum Grant, who trained avalanche dogs, agreed there was no need to change the rules. Instead, education for some dog owners could be provided, he said.

Nicole Meldrum’s submission said dog owners could inadvertently break the rules by not knowing which zone a track was in.

“If you walk your dog from the yacht club…to the outlet campground, which part is zoned residential and which part is zoned rural general?” she asked.

T h e d r a f t b y l a w a l s o proposed dog exercise areas be considered. Submitter David Hawkins said, from his experience, such parks were a “recipe for disaster”.

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Fish & Game’s submission also said fishing at Dean’s Bank had been restricted to fly-fishing only for many years, to “provide a special experience” for the sport’s enthusiasts.

“A further uplifting to 10pm during daylight-saving hours will place undue pressure on a very important recreational locality and the angling community that frequent the area.”

Cliff Halford said he was concerned about the relaxation of boating restrictions on some of

the district’s other rivers in recent years, including t h e M a t u k i t u k i a n d Hunter rivers, “at a time when growth needs to be managed sustainably [and] in the best interests of the resource and its recreational users.”

The speed limit for boats on the Clutha River was five knots from the Lake Wanaka outlet to the old county boundary, which the proposed bylaw said was about 2km downstream and marked by yellow poles and buoys.

It was also five knots in the channel on the

true right of the river at Albert Town, which was marked by yellow buoys upstream and d o w n s t r e a m o f t h e island.There was no speed limit outside of these areas.

Cliff Halford disagreed w i t h t h e p r o p o s e d bylaw’s description of the speed limit zones, saying, in his opinion, the five-knot zone ended about 1km – not 2km – downstream of the lake outlet.

T h e d e a d l i n e f o r public submissions on the proposed bylaw is August 5.

Wanaka Swim Club president Richard Fairbairn has been assured by the council the Wanaka Community Pool will re-open within two months.

“I’m a builder myself and I’ve seen the plans,” he said. “The repair job will only take ten days. The rest of the time is in design and consenting, and I think they’ll be able to fast track the consent.”

The pool was closed a fortnight ago after an independent engineering investigation found the building only met 20 percent of the new building standard, making it officially “earthquake prone.” The council’s $115,000 repair job will bring it up to 34 percent of the standard, which would make it legally usable. However, Richard said he doesn’t think it is worth spending another $1 million to bring the pool to about 90 percent of the standard, when a new pool complex would cost $3.6 million.

“I don’t think it’s an option to extend the existing building,” he said. “It was said to be past its use-by date nine years ago.”

The swim club believes the best site for a new pool is at Kelly’s Flat.

“It’s perfect,” Richard said. “It’s close to the schools and there is plenty of room for expansion and other sporting facilities.” He said a steering committee had rejected Kelly’s Flat as a potential site for the whole sports facility in 2006, however, the footprint of the facility, now planned for Three Parks, has since been reduced. Richard said the whole facility would

now fit on Kelly’s Flat. “Splitting the pool and

the rest of the facility is not a good idea,” he said.

The siting of the new pool is on the agenda for the next full council meeting which is scheduled to be held in Wanaka on August 28. Richard said councillors are also having a workshop on August 7 to discuss the issue.

“It’s going to be a very important meeting,” he said.

P i c t u r e d : W a n a k a Swim Club president Richard Fairbairn, with his daughter Sophie who is a national swimming champion.

Roaming dogs attack chickensWanaka Police helped Queenstown Lakes District Council staff deal with two roaming dogs in Hawea Flat last Thursday. QLDC regulatory manager Lee Webster said the two pups attacked chickens on a Hawea Flat property. The dogs’ owner has received a $200 infringement fee for failing to keep the pups under control and has paid for veterinary treatment for the chickens. The owner of the chickens will help the dogs’ owner train the pups not to attack chickens.

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Appeal possible on subdivision

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Extended hours proposed

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Submitters against the Northlake subdivision say they’re yet to decide whether to appeal the council’s decision to support the plan.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council last week approved commissioners David Whitney and Lyal Cocks’ recommendation to adopt private plan change 45.

It was lodged with the council last year by developer Michaela Ward Meehan, on behalf of the four owners of about 220ha between Aubrey Road and the Clutha River, in the Outlet Road area, of which she owned the majority of the land.

The private plan change proposed rezoning the site, from the current mix of rural general and rural residential land, to a Northlake Special Zone, which would enable low to medium-density housing, some larger sections on the southern and northern edges of the site and a “neighbourhood” c o m m e r c i a l a r e a containing, for example, convenience shops, a café and hairdresser. Building restrictions on the most sensitive land were also proposed.

About 1400 sections were envisaged with an average of seven houses

per hectare. In the most populated parts of the subdivision, 15 houses per hectare were proposed, on 450-500 square metre sections, including townhouses and terraced housing.

The plan attracted 132 public submissions, most of which opposed it.

In the commissioners’ recommendation, adopted by the council last week, they said they were “satisfied that such a change of zoning is appropriate and provides certainty with respect to the ultimate development of this area of Wanaka.”

The commissioners recommended some changes to the plan, including a minimum lot size of 4000sqm in “activity area A”, where the developer had proposed a minimum section size of 1800sqm.

The commissioners also recommended a minimum lot size of 4000sqm in “activity area C5”, and that the “building restriction area” be extended along the Sticky Forest boundary to the last residential lot on Peak View Ridge.

Visitor accommodation, c o m m e r c i a l a n d community facilities and retirement villages should also be non-complying activities outside of “activity area D1”, the commissioners said.

Their recommendation

was at odds with that of a planning consultant for the council, Vicki Jones, who recommended the number of sections be reduced to a maximum of 710.

Vicki said the medium-density housing areas should be removed from the plan, leaving a minimum lot size of 700sqm, in line with the rest of Wanaka.

While the Wanaka Structure Plan anticipated development on most of the site, it envisaged an average of five houses per hectare, her report said. She also recommended the neighbourhood commercial area be rejected and retirement villages allowed, and that development not extend as far north as the developer proposed, instead aligning with the boundaries envisaged by the Wanaka Structure Plan.

The subdivision should also be put on hold until about December 2019, she recommended, when work on stage one – of around 440 sections – could begin. The remaining lots – to a maximum of 710 – should be staged over the following ten to 15 years.

A council spokesperson said the decision was being publicly notified this week and any person who lodged a submission on

the proposed plan change had 30 working days to appeal the council’s d e c i s i o n t o t h e Environment Court.

U p p e r C l u t h a Environmental Society president, Julian Haworth, said the organisation did not have sufficient resources to appeal the decision, but it would “certainly” join any other party which was planning to appeal.

Julian Haworth said the society supported Vicki Jones’ recommended changes to the proposal.

“I think there are good grounds for an appeal based on [Vicki Jones’] expert opinion.

“We’re very surprised council supported 1400 houses,” he said.

Environmental lawyer Jan Caunter, who represented 51 opposing submitters at the hearing, told the Wanaka Sun her clients would still be digesting the commissioners’ recommendation and they had not indicated whether they would appeal the council’s decision to adopt it.

Michaela Ward Meehan was also the developer behind the existing Northlake subdivision, which had consent for 64 sections of at least 4000sqm, the majority of which have already been sold.

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at HaastNew defibrillator

Local mothers will join thousands of others around the country when they take part in The Big Latch On t o m o r r o w ( F r i d a y August 1). Breastfeeding women will meet from 10-11.30am at registered locations to latch on/breastfeed their child or children to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. Organisers are hoping for the biggest turnout ever. Last year there were 130 events

around the country. In 2012, 26 babies and their mothers took part in Wanaka and last year 14,500 babies took part worldwide.

“The Big Latch On raises public awareness of breastfeeding and h o w i t s h o u l d b e embraced,” Southern PHO health promotion c o o r d i n a t o r S a r a h Berger said. “It shows t h a t b r e a s t f e e d i n g is normal and that breastfeeding in public is really okay. Also, we want to raise awareness of the breastfeeding

support and knowledge w h i c h i s a v a i l a b l e locally.”

Wanaka has a free support service, which is run by mothers and administered by Kate Wolfe, called Wanaka Breastfeeding Support.

Wanaka’s Big Latch On event wil l be at Cinema Paradiso and is supported by the Southern PHO, Wanaka Breastfeeding Support and Plunket. Mums and babies are invited for morning tea and to help break the record from 10-11.30am.

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Mountain film festival grants

After the highest mountain film festival attendance rates ever – 4000 people in Wanaka, Queenstown and Cromwell – the festival’s charitable trust has more than $4000 to give away.

The festival charity auction in Wanaka raised over $3500 and Paper Plus added a donation of $500 from sales of festival speaker Tim Cope’s book about his four-year journey on the trail of Genghis Khan.

Applications to the trust for grants close on October 30. The trust wants to fund adventure film-making courses and adventure skills training for young people, support local environmental projects such as river clean-ups and native tree planting, and assist people with disabilities to buy specialist sporting equipment.

Last year it made six grants totalling $3235. Two environmental groups received money for native tree planting projects, including Lake Hawea’s Thursday Group ($300) and Wanaka’s Te Kakano Nursery($600). Two youth climbing groups received grants - the Queenstown Climbing Club ($500) and the National Youth Climbing Camp ($500). Wanaka’s Jessica Bailey received $600 towards studying for a Diploma in

Outdoor Education and Otago high school students who were attending the 2014 Adventure Film School received $150 each.

Pictured is a scene from the National Youth Climbing Camp for children at Mount Cook which was sponsored by the festival charitable trust. The film was called Reaching for Their Heights and was made by Guil laume Charlton.

Meanwhile, some of the films from the festival are

being shown nationally. Called The Best of

Wanaka, the tour begins in Twizel on Saturday (August 2) and goes to a variety of locations from Arthur’s Pass and Castle Hill to Napier and Ohakune. Mark said tour hosts in each location have chosen programmes which they feel best reflect the interests of local audiences.

The last award from the festival has also been announced. The People’s Choice award went to And Then We Swam – a British film about two friends who set off from Perth to row a second-hand boat to Africa. No-one thought they would make it. Three months later, within sight of Africa they were bleeding, their boat had sunk, it was night-time and they were trying to swim the final few kilometres.

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Local events in national awardsThe Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow and the Audi Quattro Winter Games have been named as finalists in the “Best New Zealand Owned Major Event” category of the New Zealand Association of Event Professionals Awards, alongside four other finalists including Contact Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge and the World of Wearable Arts Show.“It’s a great honour to be recognised by your peers. Being recognised in this way by other event professionals is very satisfying,” WOW event manager Mandy Deans said.The awards have been re-launched this year with a new format to recognise emerging leaders in the events industry and events that have positively impacted on New Zealand and its regional or local communities. More than 70 entries were received for the nine categories. The winners will be announced on August 6.

Trust receives awardAt its Annual Public Meeting on Monday, Central Lakes Trust (CLT) was presented with a special award by Ian Rae (pictured right), the Director of Ceremonies for The Order of St John. CLT chairman, Dr Malcolm Macpherson, received the award on behalf of the Trust. It recognises the significant financial contribution the trust has made to St John operations in Central Otago since the trust’s inception. The “Priory Vote of Thanks” award is signed by the Governor General, Sir Jerry Mataparae, in his role as the Prior of the Order of St John in New Zealand and Gary Wilson, the Chancellor. CLT has provided funding of $2,026,280 to the Order of St John for various projects over the last 14 years.

A defibrillator is now avai lable in Haast township, thanks to donations from visitors to the area and a Wanaka organisation.

Senior constable Robin Manera, of Haast, said the defibrillator would be available beside the public telephone at the police station in a couple of months’ time, once a cabinet to house it had been installed.

It would be accessible even if the police station was not manned, he said.

In the meantime, the life-saving equipment was available at the Heritage Park Lodge, which was about 100m from the police station.

M o n e y f o r t h e defibrillator was collected by the owners of Santana, a Haast business, from New Zealand Motor

Home members who camped on their property over the past year. It cost about $3000 and the fund was topped up by the Wanaka Freemasons.

“We’re very grateful to the Wanaka [Freemasons] and thank them very much for their donation,” Snr Const Manera said.

Signs would be erected in Haast informing people of where the defibrillator was installed. Once functioning, there were voice prompts instructing the user how to operate the equipment. Haast residents and businesspeople had also been trained to use it, by Red Cross representatives from Greymouth.

Snr Const Manera said there was also a defibrillator at a Jackson Bay resident’s house and one in both the local ambulance and the district nurse’s vehicle.

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Losing their locks for charity

Bannockburn beanies award

New look for Kahu van

Trust donates to sport

Kahu Youth youth workers Richard Elvey and Angie Griffiths, pictured with Sean O’Connell from Wanaka Signs, are delighted with the new sign-writing on the van which was carried out this week. Sean did the work for free and is also going to sign-write a closed trailer which is on a long-term loan from the Cobblers. The van was purchased in December with money donated from community groups and the sale of the group’s old van.

Fifty-seven organisations have benefitted from the Otago Community Trust June round of funding with a total of $892,932 donated. Of that, $768,500 was given to Otago sporting bodies through the trust’s annual sports development grants.Among the local recipients were Sport Central, the Wanaka Tennis Club and Snow Sports New Zealand. The Wanaka Tennis Club received $5000 towards court resurfacing. Sports Central in Cromwell received $20,000 and Snow Sports received $35,000, with both grants made to assist with development programmes.

Bevin Young was brought up to do things for charity. Her mother donated blood regularly throughout Bevin’s Irish childhood.

“She would pick me up from school and I would go with her and eat the biscuits while she gave blood,” Bevin said. During her lifetime Bevin’s mother donated more than 100 pints.

When Bevin moved to Wanaka ten years ago she looked into donating blood here, but was told she couldn’t because of the BSE (mad cow) scandal in Britain. Then she looked at donating bone marrow and discovered the New Zealand Bone Marrow Donor Registry only accepts marrow from Maori, Pacific Islanders and ethnic minorities. She continued her search and came across a charity called Pantene Beautiful Lengths which collects

donated hair and makes wigs for women who have lost their hair through cancer treatment.

Bevin decided she would donate her hair. She said although most of the people she knows who have died did suffer from cancer, there wasn’t a particular person who inspired her to donate

her hair.“It’s good to do it, just to

do it,” she said. “But I will miss my hair very much.

“Unfortunately at the time my hair was dyed, so I set about growing it out. It’s taken about five years but it’s plenty long now.” (Donated hair has to have no dyes, bleach or chemicals in it, be no

more than five percent grey and be at least 20cm long.)

Now Bevin is ready to cut her hair, she is campaigning to get more people to do the same.

She’s set up a Facebook page called Hair to Help – Wanaka Friends Cutting Off Hair for Charity, and already has eight people

committed to cutting their hair off between August 18 and 25. They include Francesca and James Voza who are helping with the campaign. Bevin hopes more people will join them, including schoolgirls who tend to wear their hair long. “The hard part will be getting their mums to agree,” she said.

People who don’t have suitable hair or don’t want to cut theirs, but still want to help can make cash donations, which will go to the Upper Clutha Children’s Medical Trust. “It’s a wonderful charity that supports families who are struggling financially, due to their children’s health issues,” Bevin said.

Several local hairdressers including Alice, Chocolatt and Flair have offered free or half-price haircuts for people donating hair.

Pictured: Hair to Help campaigners Francesca and James Voza and Bevin Young, with her son Winston.

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The “Bannie Beanie Awards” will be held for the first time as part of this year’s “Across the Bridge in Bannockburn” event, being held from October 2 to 5.

T h e c h a l l e n g e , according to organisers, is to “help raise the beanie to a regional art form which celebrates the essence of Central”.

The beanies must be

handmade, functionally warm, wearable and creative. They can be made of felt, yarn or any fabric, knitted, sewn, crocheted, macraméd, woven or mixed media, and there is no limit on the embellishment, shape, texture, height, colour or pattern.

“Beanies are, with good reason, a valued item of the Central Otago wardrobe. Its function is to provide warmth and protection

from the elements. Its form is a statement of our individuality and personal style,” one of the organisers, Jan Hawkins, said.

A w a r d s i n c l u d e People’s Choice, Kids, Youth, Best Use of Colour, Most Creative or Craziest, in Essence of Central and entries would be exhibited in the Bannockburn Hall during the October “Across the Bridge” weekend.

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On July 22 police received a complaint of wilful damage to a letter box and a solar light on Halliday Road which had occurred the previous weekend.

Last Thursday Cardrona Alpine Resort staff dealt with a male in his 20s who was using an invalid ski pass. Police are yet to speak to the man.

Police have had another report of stolen skis and poles from a ski resort and there have been more reports of black ice in the mornings on the mountain passes and roads, particularly in shaded areas.

Last Tuesday a male was breath tested on Golf Course Road and blew 983mcg of alcohol per litre of breath.

In the early hours of Sunday, two intoxicated males who were unknown to each other were removed from a bar. Outside, one of them punched the other in the head. The offender has been apprehended and will face a court appearance for common assault.

Police are focussing on speed outside local schools. There is a 4kph tolerance level within school zones, and a 20kph speed limit when passing a school bus.

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farmingnewsA monthly column by Kim Reilly of Federated Farmers, on issues affecting the Upper Clutha’s rural community…

Earlier this month the Government released an amended National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, including a National Objectives Framework, which sets national bottom lines for our freshwater resources.

The approach provides a fairly comprehensive way of managing New Zealand’s freshwater environmental issues, with expectations clearly set around minimum expectations for water quality. It applies across New Zealand and is equally tough on both rural and urban communities.

The reality is that water quality is not just a farming issue. Yet over recent times, we’ve heard a repeated cry from environmentalists that farming is single-handedly ruining New Zealand’s waterways.

In most conversations, little regard is given to the widespread acceptance from the farming community that changes within the industry are indeed necessary.

Nor is there any recognition that practices to implement positive changes – such as riparian management, fencing off waterways or more efficient and effective effluent management – are already in place and set to continue.

The resulting response from the farming community requires huge investment from farmers, in terms of time, effort and money, each and every year. Can urban polluters, including our city sewage dischargers, claim that they are lifting their game to the same extent?

Regional councils are required by the National Policy Statement to establish objectives and set limits for fresh water within their regional plans. The Otago Regional Council’s response was met through Plan Change 6A, which passed through a fairly substantial appeal process before being settled outside of court.

Council’s objectives for Plan Change 6A are to protect good

water quality, while minimising constraints on land uses and the way rural people manage their land. It is a fairly pragmatic effects-based approach, but it certainly won’t be easy on farmers.

As part of its implementation plan, the council recently completed a series of 15 water quality roadshows around the province, introducing to farmers what needs to be done now, and what they need to have achieved by 2020.

Federated Farmers will continue to work alongside the council and other stakeholders to ensure farmers have continued access to the information they need to assist them in meeting these expectations.

The existing good water quality around Wanaka is a testament to the instinctive good practices by local farmers over the years.

Despite what you often hear, water quality is also crucial to farmers. Livestock couldn’t exist without it, farming families rely

on it and equally want to be able to hold their heads high in the community.

There is an incredible amount of ongoing funding and research into ways to improve farming practices. Work doesn’t simply end at riparian, nutrient and effluent management. Technologies are fast moving and innovation is both encouraged and rewarded.

If farming is to meet its own industry aspirations, central and local government expectations and maintain the respect of the wider community, then we all need to be walking together down the same path.

What we ask of the local community is to take the time to understand what modern farming is and more importantly, what it is not.

- By Kim Reilly,

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Mount Barker resident Andy Ramsden has been selected as a finalist in the innovation section of the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Sheep Industry Awards. Andy has been involved in sheep genetics for 20 years and has developed some trademark breeds.

“Andy’s had a heck of an influence in breeding industry,” awards organiser Mark Harris said. “He’s been visionary.”

The sheep breeders’ award winners will be announced on August 6 in Napier. As well as the innovation award, there are four other industry awards: trainer of the year, individual or business making a significant contribution to the industry, industry science award (recognising a

project, business or person undertaking science that is having a positive impact on farming now) and supplier award (recognising a farmer supplier nominated by processors for consistently meeting company specifications and other key performance indicators).

There are also several genetics-related awards, derived from the performance of breeders’ rams.

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Two new classrooms have just been built at Wanaka’s Holy Family Catholic School to accommodate the growing number of pupils.

Principal Jo McKay said the school roll was currently 127 and it was expected to increase to 142 by the end of the year, if the Ministry of Education agreed to raise the school’s cap from 135.

The school opened with just 28 pupils in early 2006.

Friends of the School (FOS) member Karen Wells said the group of parent volunteers had raised $25,000 to fit-out the new classrooms with “really funky” furniture.

The new furniture had been ordered and would include desks with whiteboard surfaces which pupils could write on and erase, which would be particularly useful during maths lessons, Karen said.

Colourful seats which, when put together, formed a petal shape had also been ordered.

Most of the money was raised at the primary school’s biennial gala, which was last held in December 2012.

Jo McKay said there were plans to build more new classrooms in the future, to accommodate further rol l growth, assuming the school’s roll cap was lifted by the ministry.

Free pet de-sexing from SPCA

Choir to sing

The SPCA has launched a campaign for people who are struggling financially to have their pet cats and dogs de-sexed for free. The service starts tomorrow (August 1) and is available from both veterinary clinics in Wanaka as well as clinics in Cromwell and around Central Otago. There are no restrictions on the numbers of animals per household, or on income level of pet owners, however the SPCA has emphasised the aim is to help people in enduring financial difficulty. The SPCA is a charity and does not receive any government or local body funding. The free de-sexing service has been made possible by a donation from the Pelorus Trust. The SPCA would appreciate donations from people using the de-sexing service if they can manage it. “Meanwhile, we are very proud to support the community and sincerely hope our efforts will make a big difference to those in need,” an SPCA spokesperson said.

On Sunday August 3, the choir of the Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle, Dunedin, will be returning to Wanaka with Director of Music, George Chittenden. The choir, which sang in Wanaka last August, will be singing both a Choral Eucharist at 9.30am and a concert at 11am, at St Columba’s Anglican Church.

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Course suits aspiring athletes

The Junior Interfield ski racing series continued on from Coronet Peak to Cardrona Alpine Resort on Sunday, with competitors in the under-8 to under-16 age groups completing two runs of a giant slalom combi course.

Cardrona athletes won both the men’s and women’s under-16 races, with Ben Richards winning the men’s race in a time of 1:16.97 and Eden McKay (pictured) taking first place in the women’s race in 1:18.92. In the women’s event, Pat Miquel from Queenstown was second and local Audrey Hermann was third. In the men’s race, Jeong Woo Shin took second place.

The best of the local teams – Cardrona and Treble Cone – were: Mathilda Watterson and Toby Jackson won the under-eight category, with Bayley McDonald, Alister Packer and Kezik Magill coming in second to fourth place; in the under-10 category, Isabella Soper in fourth place was the best of the girls, while Samuel Packer, Gustav Legnavsky and Jesse Mutton were first, second and fourth respectively; Emma Speiser won the under-12 race, while in the boys’ category Leo Staufenberg and Patrick Hartley were second and fourth; Julius Staufenberg won the under-14 competition and Julien Hermann and Kate Richards came second in their categories.

Wanaka athletes Dougal Allan and Joanna Williams won the men’s and women’s 2014 Peak to Peak titles last weekend.

Almost 400 competitors entered the 44km race which started at the top of the Remarkables with a 2km ski stage, followed by a 17km mountain bike ride down the access road. From Frankton Beach, racers paddled 7km to Queenstown Bay and then ran up Gorge Road to the Coronet Peak Road transition. The last leg of the race was the uphill bike ride to the Coronet Peak ski area base building.

Dougal took the lead

with a strong kayak stage, pursued by Christchurch-based Flavio Vianna and Wanaka’s Hamish Fleming. He extended his lead in the individual competitors’ race on the run stage to win in a time of 2:05:20. Dougal has now won the race four times.

“I had a really good race today and the conditions were near perfect,” he said.

In the women’s field, 2009 and 2012 champion Joanna Williams dominated the women’s field. She led through the first ski transition and opened up a four-minute lead during the downhill bike and kayak stages over Natalie Jakobs. Joanna increased her lead through the final stages,

winning by 23 minutes, in 2:28:47. Queenstown’s Natalie Jakobs (2:51:22) and Sarah Cairns (3:11:22) took the other podium places.

Wanaka’s Bob McLachlan and Beth Masser won the veteran men’s and women’s divisions and the veteran team section was taken out by Avanti Plus Dunedin. Mike Greer Wanaka won the mixed team category, with ProActive Physio winning the open team division and Leighs Construction the Business House division. Wanaka Physiotherapy was second to Queenstown’s Mary Jowet Architects in the women’s team event. Dunstan High School was the fastest school team in 2:18:21.

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Aspiring Athletes members Sammy Burke, Laura MacCulloch, Caitlin Sanders and Caitlin O’Brien competed at the Otago Athletics Cross Country Championships last weekend. The challenging Waikouaiti course suited the quartet which enjoyed excellent results and times.Racing in the under-18 division, 14-year-old Sammy Burke had a good race over 4km, finishing second to Hana English, the current New Zealand secondary school cross country champion. Laura MacCulloch, also 14, raced above her age group to finish a creditable fifth. Caitlin Sanders also raced well over 3km, finishing as the first club runner home and winning the Leith Cup. Ten-year-old Caitlin O’Brien also ran a good race above her age in the under-13 2km event and finished fourth. Sammy, Caitlin Sanders and Caitlin O’Brien have qualified for the National Cross Country Championships being held in Christchurch on August 9. “I was proud of the girls stepping up to race in an older age group with more competition, and I am excited to see them race against New Zealand’s top running talent at the club nationals,” coach Val Burke said.

Commonwealth woes and a winWanaka triathletes Nicky Samuels and Tony Dodds both came tenth in their individual races in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Thursday. Andrea Hewitt was the best of the Kiwi triathletes in fourth place and Kate McIlroy, who was 12th, was dropped from the mixed team in favour of Nicky Samuels. The mixed team of Andrea, Tony, Nicky and Ryan Sissons competed on Saturday with Andrea getting the team off to a strong start. Tony took the second leg and maintained second position behind England. Nicky then closed the gap on the English before Ryan competed during the last leg. A poor transition between the bike and run cost seconds and dropped the Kiwis back to a disappointing fifth place at the finish line.Cyclist Tom Scully, who moved to Cromwell with his parents when he was eight, won gold in the men’s points race on Sunday, scoring 98 points - 14 more than second-placed Peter Lennaugh from the Isle of Man. Tom’s teammate, Aaron Gate from Auckland, won a bronze medal.

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EDITORIAL In the last six weeks advocacy for keeping our freshwater pristine has gone from the realm of “greenies” to that of all intelligent members of the community.People here don’t accept the latest mandate - that our water should be safe to wade in.We want to swim in our lakes and rivers, we want to drink the water and we want to be able to see the bottom. Scientists keep telling us that if our water can sustain a healthy ecosystem then all will be well. These are hardly radical ideas. They are common sense. The Upper Clutha could become a national example of how water quality can be looked after, in a healthy, prosperous community. We’ve got good people on our councils, community boards, farming groups, tourism and business organisations.While our water quality is now deteriorating, it’s generally still clean, clear and safe to drink. All we need to do is introduce the science, monitoring, regulations and willpower to keep it that way. Let’s show the country what we can do. Who knows, there might even be a profit in it.

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Plan change proposal

Water testing

Convention centre

A fine district it should not be

In reply to Lorna Schmidt’s request for more information on water testing, I currenty have two recent samples being tested by Hill Laboratories in Hamilton. My previous sample was also tested there and when I receive the most recent results I will publish the details of all. Please watch this space.

Garrick Cameron

Regulating where we can walk our dog and that they must be on a lead is not the answer. Segregating our society is not the answer. Segregating our community is not the answer.It does sadden me when I see a child with the look of horror on their face when a dog is approaching wagging its tail. I think maybe the council should fine the parent for being a bad parent and not educating them, not fine the dog owner for not having their dog on a lead!A better solution would be to educate people about what is threatening dog behaviour and what is not. The council has seminars for composting, why not have seminars for educating kids and adults about dog behaviour. Get an experienced dog trainer and I’m confident in a very short time they will lose the fear. The term “man’s best friend” didn’t come from dogs being vicious. Getting a fright from a dog is no different from a mountain biker coming around the corner at speed. The answer is education. Segregating our community and having a “fine” system does not solve the problem.

Mark Buckingham

BRAVO CAROLINE HARKER AND B HOWIE! LET’S KEEP CHILDREN CHILDREN! INNOCENCE IS PRECIOUS.

TNX SOO MUCH BOP FOR BEING THE BESTEST SOUL SISTA A GIRL COULD EVER HAVE..

NORTHLAKES REZONING FROM RURAL TO MEDIUM/HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL MEANS HUGE INCREASE IN REVENUE FOR COUNCIL. COULD WANAKA BECOME QLDC’S CASH COW?

THANKS TO “MICHELE” FOR NOT RINGING ME 3 WEEKS LATER TO CHECK AND SEE IF I WAS ALRIGHT AFTER HER PUPPY RAN OUT AT OUTLET TRACK AND SENT ME OVER THE HANDLE BARS AND KNOCKED ME OUT. STILL FACIAL BRUISING AND SORE KNEES AND PALMS THAT’S OK. KEEP YOUR PUPPY RUNNING FREE!

I CAN’T BELIEVE SOMEONE I VOTED FOR COULD SO MISREPRESENT THE WANTS AND NEEDS, AND FUTURE OF WANAKA IN THE NORTHLAKE DECISION. YOU’VE LOST MY VOTE COUNCILLOR

DRIVING UP A STREET IN WANAKA AT DUSK, ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD, AT SPEED, COMES A SKATEBOARDER WEARING BLACK HOODIE AND JEANS, NO HELMET OF COURSE, TALKING ON HIS MOBILE PHONE. IF I HIT THIS TRAFFIC LOOPHOLE NIGHTMARE WHO IS TO BLAME? ME!

THE PEMBROKE SUPERCROSS TRACK IDEA IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER HEARD

THANKS SO MUCH TO THE GIRLS AT CHARLOTTE JEAN. GET YOUR LATCH ON. REGARDS WILL & JODIE

NO PROBLEM WITH THE TOW ON THE CROWN RANGE LAST WEEK. I HOPE THE POLICE DIDN’T ISSUE YOU A FINE FOR YOUR MISFORTUNE.

TO THE WOMEN WALKING WITH THEIR PUSHCHAIRS ON CEMETERY RD. IT’S A 100KM ZONE WITH DIPS IN THE ROAD WHERE CARS CAN’T SEE YOU. YOU CAN CHAT OVER THE PHONE

WANAKA “SMUDGE”. GOOD ONE. LOVE IT.

I LIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WANAKA AND I CAN SEE THAT 1400 HOUSES AT NORTHLAKE IS A SILLY IDEA. IF BEING CONCERNED FOR SOMETHING SILLY HAPPENING IN YOUR TOWN THAT YOU DON’T THINK IS APPROPRIATE LABELS YOU A NIMBY, THEN I’M A WANAKA CITIZEN NIMBY!

RE NORTHLAKE - “LOW DENSITY” HOUSING IS 700M2 SECTIONS, SAME AS LAKE HAYES ESTATE, “MEDIUM DENSITY” IS 500M2, LIKE DOWNTOWN WANAKA. THIS ALONG THE OUTLET ROAD ADJACENT TO OUR BEAUTIFUL RIVER? AND LYAL OUR ELECTED COUNCILLOR THINKS THIS AGREES WITH 2020 AND THE STRUCTURE PLAN?

CALLING FOR URGENT DOGSH*T COLLECTION FOR MT IRON WALK. DOG OWNERS NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN PET’S POO AS WELL AS THAT OF OTHER DOGS! SEE IT, BAG IT, REMOVE IT. SIGNED, KEEP MT IRON OPEN FOR DOGS.

I do not have any strong opinions regarding the proposal on the Northlake plan change but there are two matters of concern.How can a person make an impartial recommendation as a commissioner at a QLDC planning hearing when they themselves are a member of Council. This has concerned me for a number of years and there are two conflicts of interest. One being a member of the local authority who will later rule again impartially on the recommendation of the commissioners (their own recommendation). The other is the pecuniary interest because they receive payment to act as a commissioner from the QLDC. The Local Authorities (members interest) Act 1968 along with a number of guidelines on this matter do give recommendations on how to avoid any conflict of interest. I’m not convinced this is being followed.The other matter is when the commissioners make their recommendation to Council do they give any consideration to the impact the planning change would have for the council on the roading networks and utilities for Wanaka. I would have thought this information would be important for Council to consider at the time of approving or rejecting the recommendation. Aubrey Road and Anderson Road are the two roads in question here and the local businesses have already made noises about the traffic problems on Anderson Road. The Council may want to approve the recommendation but could delay the final approval to do a cost analysis for upgrading these roads before a final decision is made.We need to get some common sense into the decision making and future implications for Wanaka when subdivisions and planning changes are considered.

David Kerr

Response from Adam Feeley, Chief Executive, QLDC:A councillor is not precluded from acting as a planning commissioner solely by virtue of being an elected member. However, having acted as a commissioner on a hearing, a councillor is then precluded from participating in any way on Council decision whether to adopt the commissioners’ recommendation. QLDC adopts this practice in all cases, including the Northlake Plan Change 45 ratification. Any commissioners, whether or not an elected member, must have proper regard to a matter put before them for consideration and, equally, must ignore any matter irrelevant to the decision before them. Failure to observe these requirements opens their decision to appeal or judicial review.

Perhaps I lead a sheltered life but I’ve yet to meet anyone who wants to spend ratepayer’s money on a convention centre in Queenstown. I know the residents of Wanaka, Hawea and Makarora are against it. I don’t know what to make of Queenstown. Did they really vote for it? Perhaps they’ve been brainwashed by the con that’s called trickle-down. Because, of course, most of them won’t benefit. White elephants only benefit the small, influential business groups that push these schemes, leaving ratepayers to pay the piper. It should be noted that some business people, ethical business people, are also against a ratepayer funded convention centre. Like the rest of us, perhaps they wonder what happened to user pays.

Christopher Horan

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TAPESTRY LOOMS WANTED for a local group. Buy or lend. Phone Jane 443 6879

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED – The Wanaka Primary School Op Shop re-quires volunteers for 2 afternoons a month on Tuesday or Thursday. Please phone 443 5755 to discuss.

WANTED - clean supermarket bags, please deliver these to the Salvation Army Family Store, Helwick Street - thank you.

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CANDLE MAKING! This friday 1 august. MI CASA ARTS, CRAFTS AND MUSIC CLUB. 7 to 11 year olds. $15. phone 0210496203

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The Netball Upper Clutha year 6 representative team of (back) Madi Loudin, Isla Gellately, Abby Fisher, Anna Barrett, Abby East, Whitney Bennett; (middle) Piper Cavanagh, Alice Howard, Georgie Bruce; (front) Holly Gibson, Mackenzie Barnett and Georgia Robertson, pictured with coach Tracey Gibson, is preparing for a month of tournaments. A squad of nine players will be chosen to play at tournaments in Queenstown on August 3, Balclutha on August 10, Alexandra on August 17 and Dunedin on August 24.

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The second round of the futsal League of Champions took place over the weekend.

First to play was the Ballstars against the Misfits. Ballstars threw away the play-book, showed they did have a plan B and got stuck in, grinding out five goals in the first half as a result of defensive errors as much as attacking guile. With better football from both teams in the second 15 minutes, a more even half saw the Ballstars dominate in the end, finishing 7-0. In a week

that saw a record number of goals for the season, Andre Klein managed to scramble home five of the seven goals.

In the next game, both teams were missing key players. The veterans, WPC, were without their new signings and could only turn out six players. The Mishits lost a few players who had been drafted to the Football United Tour, but they fielded a squad of eight and showed great depth. However, the Mishits were no match for the revitalised WPC which capitalised on its domination to go 4-1 up at half time. Although

the Mishits had a few moments of useful play in the second half, WPC’s Luke (Spooky) Godfrey bagged his fifth goal to close the game 8-3 to his side.

T h e p e n u l t i m a t e game was between the only other genuine title contenders, Independent S c o t l a n d a n d Notinyourmumsforest. The Scots showed plenty of flair, scoring a number of fantastic individual and team goals. And the goals kept coming – 6-1 at half time, 10-2 on the final whistle. The Foresters rallied and showed fine fighting spirit, but are bottom of the league

after two games. After last week’s

nasty injury, Caleb Nicol seemed on the road to recovery with his leg raised but still smiling up in the stands with the WAGs. The Dribble Squad fielded a replacement keeper in its depleted squad. None of this seemed to matter, however, as they took on the New Team and showed them more of the same crisp passing and a dynamic running game. As the goals flowed, the New Team members’ eyes kept creeping up to the scoreboard and it looked like a few of their players

would have happily settled for finishing at half time, 8-1 the score. Unfortunately for them, the onslaught continued with the whole of the squad contributing to the goal tally (except the goalkeeper). Olly Ceci shone with six goals and great team play, showing why he has recently been chosen to represent New Zealand in the under-17 training group. The Dribble Squad continues to top the table of the League of Champions after week two, with a final score of 12-2.

Next week is the f i r s t r o u n d o f the cup.

Goal extravaganza in round two

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New class for race meetNovember’s Highlands 101 race meeting at the Highlands Motorsport Park will feature a new Euromarque category as a key support class.“We’re looking for between 30 and 40 cars to create an exciting racing spectacle in the new Euromarque class, which is very much in keeping with the European flavour of the Highlands 101 event which features the Australian GT Championship sports car marques such as Audi, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Aston Martin,” Highlands’ general manager Mike Sentch said. The qualifying race cars will be of a saloon or GT type with a German engine. Up to 40 competitors will contest the Euromarque 10+1 races with practice, qualifying and three 11-lap races during Saturday and Sunday’s race action. The 2014 Highlands 101 event takes place on November 8 and 9. The race schedule also includes the Highlands 101 endurance race, the season finale of the Australian GT Championship and the Highlands 1+01 one-hour-plus-one lap invitational race.

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WANAKA BRIDGE CLUB RE-SULTS. Bridge results: Pem-broke Pairs 2. North/South:- Vivi-enne Christie, Josey McKenzie 60.58% 1.. Freda Ryder, Linda Sutton 59.78% 2. Georgie Rob-erts, Laraine Shepherd 57.85% 3. East/West:- Clare Scurr, Ann-Louise Stokes 63.94% 1. 2. Mark Harry, Heather Wellman 61.70% 2. Lynne Fegan, Mag-gie Stratford 57.05% 3. Friday Bridge 25th July North/South:- Ena Leckie, Laraine Shepherd 60.19% 1.. Alan Bunn, Denise Bunn 56.94% 2. Nan Ottrey, Boyd Ottrey 55.32% 3. East/West:- Lynne Fegan, Mag-gie Stratford 63.43% 1. Mary Gibson-Collings, Beaton Marr 59.49% 2. Jan Cunningham, Jo-sey McKenzie 56.71% 3. Lindis Pairs !. North/South:- Carolyn Field, Shona Watt 71.0% 1. Den-ise Bruns, John Mercer 60.0% 2.East/West:- Judy Muir, Ruth Coghill 67.83% 1. Kay Ross, Lynne Fegan 52.50% 2.

WANAKA STADIUM BOWLS RESULTS w/e 27:07:2014 Monday Evening Edgewater Trophy 1: Donald Urquhart, Marg Young, Alice Turnbull 2: Bill Turnbull, Kerry Suckling 3: Henry Thayer, Richie Muir, Kura Urquhart Tuesday Afternoon 2x4x2 Pairs 1: Ken Mitchell and

John Maddison 2: Jon Barron and Don McLeay 3: Lynette Wil-son and Sandy Morris Tuesday Evening Trades Competition 1: Lions: Ken Mitchell, Mike Kelly, Herbie Sheat 2: Bowl’m Over: Jeff Limmer, Stu Pinfold, Brian Limmer 3: 4M’s: Johnny Mayen, Trevor Mackay, Barry Morgan Wednesday Afternoon Triples 1: Kaye Hodge, Peter Wilson, Murray Roberts 2: Graeme Godby, Charles Kiewiet, Isobel James 3: Glad Cross, Bob Smyth, Lorraine Pannett Wednesday Evening Trades Competition 1 Haggis 2: Trail Enders 3: G & T Thursday Afternoon 2x4x2 Pairs 1: Geoff Thomas and Gaye Beattie 2: Noeline Turner and John Lischner 3: HenryThayer and Bruce Hamilton Thursday Evening Trades Competition 1: R McNeilly, L Allison, R Muir 2: W Sutton, I Dench, P Davidson 3: A Haig, G Dowdall, N Walker Friday Afternoon Progressive Skips:1: Ian Brown 2: Min Mayen 3: Kerry Suckling 2nds: 1: John Maddison, 2: Gerrard McCarthy 3: Murray Roberts Leads:1: Den-ise Brown 2: Bob Smyth 3: Made-liene Wilson Saturday Studhol-me Memorial Scurr Heights 63, Mt Albert 54, Bremner Park 47, Rippon Lea 36, Beacon Point 31, Hawea 30, Pembroke 28, Mead-owstone 23

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