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Plans to use the controversial poison 1080 to cull rabbits near residential parts of Hawea Flat are distressing some locals.

1080 will be laid on 50 to 60ha of land partially bordered by Newcastle Road and Loess Lane in mid to late August. It will also be laid on 176ha between the end of Kennels Lane and the Hawea River.

Some neighbours of the land were informed of the plans this week. Those spoken to by the Wanaka Sun were surprised and worried

1080 was going to be used so close to residential areas.

“I am very concerned to be told that the (Otago Regional) council will be dropping 1080 poison in Hawea Flat. Surely this can’t be true. To drop extremely dangerous poison adjacent to a residential area with many pet dogs and small children.

“Our family and pets will not stray onto the farms, but the poisoned rabbits may stray onto our property as the properties aren’t rabbit fenced. I find this very disturbing,” one neighbour said.

The residents did not wish to

speak publicly until they had more information.

Otago Regional Council senior field adviser, Scott Liddell, said it was the landowners’ choice to use 1080. The council had informed them the number of rabbits on their land breached its pest management plan and poisoning – by 1080 or pindone – would be the best way to eradicate them.

The landowners had chosen 1080, probably because it was cheaper and more effective than pindone, and it did not leave residue in the soil long term, Scott Liddell said.

1080 remained toxic until it had

biodegraded, so stock could not be put on the land for about ten weeks or until around 100ml of rain had fallen.

The carcasses of rabbits which had died as a result of consuming 1080 posed a serious threat to dogs which may scavenge them. The carcasses remained toxic until they had completely broken down, which took about six months.

“I wouldn’t be in any hurry to walk my dog on that block,” Scott Liddell said.

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Kahu Youth youth worker Richard Elvey is “ecstatic” about how well the Matariki celebration on the Wanaka lakefront went on Saturday. The youth group fed about 600 people from the hangi and estimated 1000 people joined in the activities during the day and attended the evening bonfire and fireworks display.

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Shroomy is back…the small hand-painted mushrooms, first publicised by the Wanaka Sun in February last year, have again been spotted along lakeside paths in recent weeks.

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The Wanaka Community Patrol start date has been pushed out a week and the volunteers still need a donated vehicle and fuel to run the service.

Weekend night patrols of Wanaka, Albert Town, Lake Hawea, Luggate and Cardrona will now start on July 11.

Wanaka Community P a t r o l c o m m i t t e e chairperson, Steve W o r l e y , s a i d t h e volunteers who would carry out the patrols had most of the gear they needed – for example,

a cellphone, camera and high-visibil ity clothing – mainly thanks to a $2000 grant from the Government.

However, if a vehicle and an ongoing supply of fuel were not donated, the volunteers would be supplying this as well as their time, he said.

Wanaka Community Patrol Incorporated’s application to become a registered charity was approved by the Department of Internal Affairs this week, meaning it could now accept tax-deductable donations.

Steve Worley and the patrol group’s police

liaison officer, Constable Mike Thomas of the Wanaka Police, attended a training session in Nelson at the weekend.

T h e n a t i o n a l organisation, Community Patrol New Zealand, had about 4500 volunteer patrollers throughout the country, who were an integral part of the police’s preventative policing initiatives, Steve Worley said.

He hoped the local group would become as integrated in the community as the volunteer firefighters and ambulance staff.

With 22cm of new snow at the top of the Home Basin at the start of the week and good snow-making conditions in recent days, Treble Cone has rescheduled i ts opening day to tomorrow (Friday) from 9am. TC Marketing and Sales Manager, Nick Noble, told the Wanaka Sun y e s t e r d a y t h e t e a m had “a great night for snow making,” with temperatures reaching minus eight degrees. If the snowfall and freezing temperatures continue, the Home and Saddle basins would be open with groomed trails.Yesterday’s Snow Farm report said all beginners’

trails were open, along with the intermediate trail “Hanging Valley” a n d a l l t r a i l s w e r e

covered by fresh snow.C a r d r o n a r e p o r t e d excellent early season skiing conditions with

al l upper mountain lifts open, along with “Lil Bucks” and “Stag Lane”.

Warnings about the danger of black ice have been reiterated by the Queenstown Lakes District Council, following crashes near Cardrona and around Queenstown in recent days.Motorists are being advised to be very wary of “dawn freezes,” when the temperature drops sharply around dawn and, in a short time, roads turn from damp to frozen.

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Fresh snow for school holidays put back a week

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Otago Federated Farmers vice-president Phill Hunt made a plea for farmers and environmentalists to work together and give the new water quality rules a chance, at an Otago Regional Council public meeting in Wanaka on Tuesday night.

“This issue has been polarising our community,” he said. “It has been to mediation. The farmers still think it’s too tough and the environmentalists think it’s too weak, so it’s probably about right. Now we need to work together as a community with the plan and make it work.”

Phill was referring to the ORC’s new water quality rules – Plan Change 6A. The main principles behind PC6A are: water quality should be maintained where it is good and enhanced where it is not; limits will be set so the water quality of rivers, lakes and aquifers is safe for drinking, swimming and food gathering, and for healthy functioning ecosystems; the focus will be on the actual effects of on-farm management (rather than telling the

farmers what to do). The rules in the plan address water contamination from sources, including leaching, runoff, drains and events such as stock pugging and earthworks.

“The success of these rules depends on all people in our primary industries working with the community spirit we saw in action during our consultat ions,” ORC chairman Stephen

Woodhead said. The ORC has been

working on the new rules since 2007. Some changes came into effect in May this year, allowing a transition time until the main new rules come into effect in 2020. The 2020 rules include limits on the amount of contaminants (such as nitrogen, phosphorous and E.Coli) which can be in both surface and groundwater leaving rural land. Each farmer will be responsible for his own property. ORC resource

science manager Matt Hickey said local water quality is “generally pretty good” and farmers can get run-off water tested by laboratories and can test their groundwater with a computer programme called Overseer.

ORC community liaison and education manager Nicola McGrouther spoke at the meeting about ways to look after water quality such as managing sediment

runoff with electric fencing and buffer zones, managing stock access to waterways and regularly measuring water quality.

Phill Hunt said most local farmers do not know if they will have to change their farming practices as they have not yet tested their water. However, the new rules are tough, he said. “Let’s just say it would be very unwise to do a large land use change without putting the figures through Overseer first,” he said.

Several people at the

meeting raised concerns about the lag time in measuring the effects more intensive farming could be having on groundwater, rivers (particularly the Clutha) and lakes.

“The science is not there to do that yet,” Matt Hickey said. “But we have set limits (on the amount of contaminants that can be discharged from rural land) and the limits in this area are very tough.”

ORC chief executive Peter Bodeker agreed the lag time was an issue. “In 2025 we will have to do a major assessment of the Clutha River,” he said. “Meanwhile we’ve been through mediation and agreed on these limits and this plan.”

Other concerns raised by members of the public at the meeting were the unreliability of Overseer and the unknown long-term effects the increasing intensification of farming in the Upper Clutha could have on water quality.

I n r e g a r d s t o t h e concerns about Overseer, Matt Hickey told the meeting “We know it’s not perfect, but it’s the best tool we had available.”

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The merging of Otago’s six rural fire authorities will make applying for a fire permit simpler, the Queenstown Lakes District Council says.

The amalgamation came into effect on T u e s d a y w i t h t h e creation of the Otago Rural Fire Authority (ORFA).

Previously, Otago’s five local authorities and the Department of Conservation each managed a rural fire authority. The new a u t h o r i t y ’ s c h i e f executive and principal r u r a l f i r e o f f i c e r , Stephanie Rotarangi, said obtaining a fire permit would be more

straight-forward as a result of the change, with one contact for all rural fire permits.

“Previously it could b e c o n f u s i n g a n d time-consuming for l a n d o w n e r s t o g e t a fire permit. Some farmers had land that covered more than one authority, each with its own plan and processes.”

G o v e r n a n c e , t h e s e r v i c e s p r o v i d e d to fire-fighters and administration would also be more consistent as a result of the merger, she said.

Amalgamating the authorities had been discussed for several years and was formally approved by all the parties late last year.

Stephanie Rotarangi said there would be little change on the ground, with local r u r a l f i r e f o r c e s delivering the same response and services to landowners, from the same locations.

T h e r e c e n t l y -appointed Southern Lakes deputy rural fire officer, James Cowan, would be based at the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

The money local authorities and DOC provided to cover the former, separate system would fund the new, single organisation.

The authority would work on a region-wide f i r e p l a n o v e r t h e coming months, Stephanie said.

Distillery decision imminent

Farmer calls for cooperation Fire permits simplified

1080 in Hawea Flat

The farmers still think it’s too tough and the

environmentalists think it’s too weak, so it’s probably about right.

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A decision on whether plans for a whisky distillery, perfumery and museum at Cardrona will be granted consent is imminent.A public hearing of submissions on the proposal was held on June 10 and the commissioners, Andrew Henderson and Lyal Cocks, were expected to release their decision to the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday.Wanaka resident Desiree Reid has proposed building the complex on a 3.5ha site near the corner of Cardrona Valley Road and the road to the Snow Farm, opposite the entrance to Cardrona Alpine Resort.The Sarah Scott Architects-designed development, comprising three buildings around an open courtyard, would have a total footprint of 700sqm and be between 6.4m and 8m high. It would be clad in schist stone and corrugated iron.Seven public submissions were lodged in favour of the plans, along with two against and one neutral submission. Several of the supportive submissions were lodged by Cardrona residents and businesspeople. One of the opposing submitters, Mount Cardrona Station, withdrew its submission when the applicant agreed to a condition of consent which related to potential odour from the distillery.

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Rabbits took between 30 minutes and two hours to die after consuming 1080 and there was “certainly a risk” they could leave the properties on which the poison had been laid and die on others. Scott recommended neighbours of the poisoned properties walk over their land the day after the 1080 had been laid and throw any carcasses back on to the poisoned land.

He said rabbits which were going to take the bait would do so on the day it was laid. Any which did not take the bait on the day it was laid were unlikely to in following days, as they would “go to ground” as rabbits became sick and died around them.

However, vet Beth

C a m p b e l l a d v i s e d neighbours of the poisoned properties to err on the side of caution and treat any rabbit carcass found on their land in the three months following the poison drop as potentially toxic.

The bait would be spread by quad bike. Two lots of plain carrot would be spread initially, about a week apart, to encourage rabbits to take the third lot of bait which would be laced with 1080.

By law 1080 cannot be laid within 150m of a house and Scott Liddell said, in this case, the bait would not be laid within 100m of the fences of neighbouring properties. Advertisements would be placed in newspapers before the poison was spread and signs would be erected at the properties

when it had been laid.Scott Liddell said the

regional council would not support the use of 1080 on these properties if it believed it would pose a threat. It did not spread 1080 on public areas, such as lakefronts and walking tracks, but believed it was safe to use it on fenced farmland.

Another regional council spokesperson said the use of 1080 on these sites had been approved by a medical officer of health.

Scott Liddell’s letter to neighbours of the properties advised them not to enter the poisoned properties without permission, not to shoot rabbits on them, not to handle or remove dead animals or bait from them, and not to allow children or dogs to roam on the land.


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Treble Cone (the book) review

L a l a l a n d b a r t e n d e r Shannon Sanderson (pictured) was placed second at the national finals of the World Class cocktail competition last week, with his very own “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.

Shannon’s creation was gin-based with other ingredients, including a citrus camomile tea reduction, lemon juice, egg white and a grapefruit rhubarb dust.

Shannon has been competing against 45 bartenders from around the country since February.

Monthly tasks tested their bartending skills and business acumen. The five top-ranking entrants competed in the national final which included a speed session, a signature serve judging session and a people’s choice judging round. Shannon was placed third last year.

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Simply called Treble Cone, the book - which went on sale a week ago - only exists thanks to the efforts of three men: former TC director Nat Craig, writer Matt Conway and publisher Gilbert van Reenen.

Nat Craig was part of a group who loved the ski field so much they bought it in 2003 when it was in big financial trouble. “Soon after that Curly [Mark Thomas] wrote a wonderful article about [the “godfather” of Treble Cone] Murray Raffills and the Wanaka Ski Club held a 30th anniversary dinner,” Nat said. “Bonny Teat organised an historical slide show and people s t o o d u p a n d t o l d amazing stories. I thought if we don’t document this information soon it’s going to be lost forever.”

Nat took the idea of a book to the TC board of directors. Eight years later it’s finished and for sale.

Non-skiing reporter M a t t C o n w a y w a s commissioned to write the book and Gilbert

van Reenen was asked to publish it through his company Clean Green Press.

“I’m delighted with the book,” Nat said. “We gave Matt the freedom to write what he wanted and Gilbert has worked his magic on the pictures. Everyone who has seen it is very impressed.”

Local opinion certainly seems to be that the colloquial style of the book is a perfect match for the pioneering kiwi story it tells. Many of the identities mentioned are still alive today and could be harsh critics of a book attempting to tell the story of the

much-loved iconic ski field which changed the face of Wanaka. Among them are founders Tim Wallis and Murray Raffills (along with the late Rod Aubrey, Ray Cleland and Don Ross), TC managers M e r v B u r k e , P e t e r Thompson and Jackie van der Voort, and Coners Bill Brooker, Robert and Lynette Duncan, Steve Schikker, Geoff Small, Annie Trengrove, Prue Wallis, Geoff Wayatt, Noel and Jude Wilson, and many more. Everyone the Wanaka Sun has spoken to loves the book as much as the mountain itself.

Publisher Gilbert van Reenen said the biggest

job for him was getting all the old photographs up to a good publishable standard. “I was given a lot of autonomy regarding the design and choice of pictures,” he said. “I’m very proud of it. But it was Nat who commissioned it eight years ago who was the driving force. That was visionary.”

Treble Cone (the book) celebrates the pioneering kiwi spirit. Every serious Coner will want a copy.

P i c t u r e d a b o v e (from the book): “John Blennerhassett throws down a textbook daffy, a classic big air trick from the emerging hot-dog era.”

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Four generations of Annie May’s extended family celebrated her 90th birthday at the Lake Hawea Hotel on Saturday. Among the guests (pictured with Annie) were her daughter Barb Bayliss, great-grand daughter Isla Gellatly, 10, and grand-daughter Katherine Nicholson, all of whom live in Wanaka. Annie was born on July 10, 1924.

Very local birthday

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Salvation Army Kaumātua Ken Baker (pictured) blessed the Wanaka Salvation Army Family Store on Monday. Ken and his wife live in Pukekohe and were in the Upper Clutha visiting their son Shaun who is a Corp Officer in the Army. Shaun is in charge of the four stores in Queenstown and the Wanaka branch. The Wanaka Family Store is managed by Maree Achilles and has a pool of 15 regular volunteer workers.

Sallies blessed

Rockquest tonight

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Apocalyptic show knocks them dead

Mount Aspiring College’s 2014 production Rock Apocalypse had a sell-out four-night season last week with punters and producers very happy with the show.

Director Emily McRae said the students ended the season “a happy, tight-knit cast who were completely there for each other every step of the way.

“The main reason I love to direct school shows is to enable students to understand that life is about the journey not the destination. As a cast they learnt that each individual’s contribution to the journey is essential for the end result to work,” she said.

“For two of our male leads Lewis Brooks (pictured with fellow cast member Ella Glynn) and John Steven it was their first

time singing in such a public fashion. It was enormously satisfying for them to get through the show.

“Students working behind the scenes in back stage, choreography and technical were absolute stars and stayed many hours in the hall to make sure things came together.

“Dancing was entirely student choreographed under the supportive eye of [teacher] Gena

Bagley. Rachel MacPherson led the team with Aly Gibson and Amy Jolly. They were totally professional in their approach with fantastic results.

“The band battled illness and music scores arriving very late, but managed to make it all seem easy in the end.

“Musicals build character a n d a l l o w s t u d e n t s t o understand strong value in hard work.”

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Mount Aspiring College will be represented by just two bands at tonight’s Central Otago Smokefree Rockquest, after three entrants pulled out because the event clashed with the school’s biennial production.

The production, Rock Apocalypse, ran from Wednesday to Saturday and the musicians who had also entered the Smokefree Rockquest felt they had insufficient time to prepare for both it and

the regional final. Oddity (pictured top right) and Near Armageddon (pictured bottom right) are the only MAC representatives in tonight’s final, with 45th Parallel, Kirsten Jongsma and Phoebe having to pull out.

The annual national secondary school music competition involves two categories - soloists and duos, and bands - from throughout the country competing for a spot at the national finals, held in Auckland in September.

The MAC entrants will take on musicians from

Queenstown’s Wakatipu High School and Cromwell College.

The Central Otago final is being held at the Lake Wanaka Centre tonight from 7pm. Tickets cost $10 for school students and $20 for adults and can be bought at the door.

Oddity (from left): John Steven, Florence Collins-Caballero, Connor Moore, Bronnie Ormandy and Louis Koopman.

Near Armageddon (from left): Isaac Bell, Lucan Smith, Tyler Bai ley and Morgan Allen.

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Last Thursday, Wanaka Police attended two vehicle crashes in five minutes near Bridge 8 at the top end of Cardrona Valley. The non-injury crashes were caused by the drivers hitting black ice.

On June 28, Senior Constable Ian Henderson attended a non-injury vehicle crash on Cardrona Valley Road near James Road, where the road iced up between 8.30am and 9.30am. Police have warned drivers to treat the area with caution and reduce speed at the areas known as “the icebox” and “The Larches” which are trouble spots.

On Sunday, three young people were seen to decamp from under the roller door of Ardmore Street’s Alivate building. All three have been identified and are in the process of being dealt with by Constable Peter Reed.

At 2am on Sunday, a male standing on the corner of Brownston Street and Helwick Street was knocked out with a punch from a tall bearded male. The victim suffered a badly broken nose and was treated by ambulance staff. Police are seeking witnesses to the incident.

At about the same time, there was a fight near the Doughbin between males. One person was arrested, receiving a pre-charge warning.

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Icy roads, and witnesses sought

A course in the art of raranga (Maori flax weaving) has kept 16 students busy during six weekends in the Hawea Flat Hall. Among the students were (pictured) Mechy Kemp, Emma Allwood and Nicola Morris.The zero fees course was taught by Pip O’Connell who is employed by Te Wananga o Aotearoa and the Southern Institute of Technology. As well as weaving techniques, the students learnt about tikanga (protocols), myths, legends and whakapapa (genealogy). Waiata (songs) and whakatauki (proverbs) were also an integral part of the course. Pip learnt to weave in Waikato and has been teaching for five years. She will have a weaving open day this Saturday and more courses will follow.

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Raranga in Hawea

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The Central Otago E x t r a s p e l l i n g c o m p e t i t i o n w a s held on June 25 at Goldfields School hall. The ODT Extra spelling quizzes are part of the Class Act Programme w h i c h c e l e b r a t e s the excel lence of young people. The competition involved ten sections including spelling, dictionary skills, word origins, proof reading and an

“all or nothing” section where students guess the word after clues are given. Students from all over Central Otago took part in two sections (years 5 and 6, and years 7 and 8).

H o l y F a m i l y C a t h o l i c S c h o o l students did well in both sections. The year 5 and 6 team of Caitlin O’Brien, Luke Smith and Danny Holt were second equal out of 43 teams with 91 points. In a tight 46-team

competition, year 8 team of 11-year-olds Drew Pilkinton, Isobel Smith and Alexander Combe (pictured) finished first equal with the Queenstown Primary School Team. Queenstown won after the tie-breaker competit ion. The year 7 and 8 team of Ben McLachlan, Eva Wilson and Brianna Curtis also performed well, coming fifth with

90 points.

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Every month the Wanaka Camera Club will share some tips and ideas about how to capture a perfect moment...

Shooting in a natural environment

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A Wanaka man has been successful at the Master Joiners Apprentice Awards.

Shane Pilkinton (pictured complete with wooden tie) won best fitment of a kitchen, cabinet, bar or bench, in the 4001-8000 hours category.

Shane, who is in his mid-forties, was a professional ski instructor for 15 years and keen on DIY, before being offered an adult apprenticeship at Masterwood Joinery in Cromwell.

He was also acknowledged at the awards as the designer of the “zipper door,” which was part of an entry by a Dunedin apprentice joiner, Mohamed Valibhai, who won three awards including a People’s Choice Award.

The awards, which were held in New Plymouth late last month, were judged by experienced joiners, architects and kitchen designers.

Shane’s entry was a contemporary kitchen, which is the centrepiece of a new house in Wanaka.

Shane, who is married with two children, will complete his apprenticeship at the end of the year.

Local wins joinery award

The subject for the Wanaka Camera Club’s May competition was “natural history.”

Rod Macleod won the judge’s approval for the month with this image of feral goats. Rod, along with other Upper Clutha Tramping Club members, came across this family of goats last summer. They were browsing on the ridge between the Saddle at Treble Cone and End Peak and, for some reason, were not immediately spooked by the trampers. Rod and his companions came within 50m of the goats and had approximately ten minutes to capture some great images before they eventually took fright. Rod used a Canon 1000D SLR camera fitted with an 18-270mm zoom lens to

catch the action.Rod joined the Wanaka

Camera Club in 2011 and has improved his photographic skills as a result of his attendance a t c l u b m e e t i n g s a n d e n t e r i n g c l u b competitions. Joining the club was Rod’s first association with any artistic group. He has

also attended Wanaka A u t u m n A r t S c h o o l classes in photography to further improve his skills and his appreciation o f p h o t o g r a p h i c composition. His initial interest was in landscape photography, but he now attempts to capture a wider range of subjects including portrait and

wildlife images.If you want to turn

your snaps into artworks, come along to the Wanaka Camera Club to find out how. The club meets at 7.30pm on the second Monday of every month at the St John’s Ambulance meeting room on Link Way. New members are welcome.

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Comedy act coming to townWellington-based Welsh/Samoan comedian James Nokise is performing in Wanaka on July 18. James was a Fred Dagg comedy award nominee in 2013 and was nominated for the Billy T comedy award twice. He has a reputation for poking fun at a wide range of targets, from politicians to Pacific Island stereotypes.Last year a New Zealand Herald reviewer saw James Nokise’s show and commented “Made you wonder why he’s not a household name.” The Wanaka show will also feature Dan Brader as MC and El Jaguar as the supporting act.



Twelfth year of festival the best yet...

Opening in style this Friday

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The New Zealand Mountain Film Festival is set to be one of the best yet with a record number of films being shown and some of the highest standard of cinematography seen over its 12 years.

Organisers received submissions from Russia, Slovakia, Europe, Asia, Canada, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Australia, South Africa and Kenya; 121 films in total, 17 of which were from New Zealand. The high calibre of the speakers and films is complemented by workshops and activities designed to inspire people into safe, outdoor adventures.

Doors open at 7pm t o m o r r o w ( F r i d a y July 4) with live music, complimentary nibbles and time to view the trade show and art exhibition. The event will be kicked off in style with a session of short films and adventure films showcasing the festival’s programme and announcement of the awards.

A Short Film session gets underway with Wanaka director Jase Hancox’s edit “While you Sleep,” a nocturnal number filmed over two nights at Cardrona Alpine Resort. This smart little film lets you in on the secrets of what happens on a ski hill in the dead of the night.

United Kingdom director Ben Finney captures the true spirit of the festival in the story of two friends who set out to cross the Indian Ocean in a secondhand boat in “And Then We Swam.” The catch? The friends had never rowed before in their lives.

The session closes with Special Jury Award recipient,

“The Sensei,” which follows Yuji Hirayama’s final mission - on the island of Borneo - to complete a project at the spectacular summit of Mount Kinabalu. The award-winning film offers the audience a sneak-peek at the high standard of entries in the 2014 New Zealand Mountain Film Festival.

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Just a normal working week.

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Inspirational speakers…

A superb selection of films

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The festival welcomes keynote speaker Kitty Calhoun, fascinating adventurer Tim Cope and New Zealand caver Kieran McKay. Kitty is regarded as one of world’s most accomplished female ice climbers. She has climbed all over the world including America, Peru, Bolivia, Alaska, Argentina, and Nepal. Tim’s talk about his epic three-year journey by horse from Mongolia to Hungary on the trail of Genghis Khan will be a festival highlight. Kieran is

one of New Zealand’s most accomplished cavers. He will recount discovering a mystery link. At about

10km long and dropping 1200m below ground, it is the deepest cave in the southern hemisphere.

A record 74 films will be shown at this year’s festival. Among them is the grand prize winning film, “Footprints on the Ridge.” The film will take the audience on a breath-taking journey along the Slovakian Western, High and Belianske Tatras, a long ridgeline formed by more than 130 extreme peaks and towers. The story follows two friends as they traverse the entire ridge alpine style, in winter, unsupported, in one single push.

The “Cave Connection -

Into the Unknown,” made by Austrian director Niko Jäger and featuring festival speaker Kieran McKay, is one of the best films of 2014 and takes us deep underground into huge and widely unexplored cave systems, leaving you wondering how they captured the colours and tight spaces of this foreign world.

The film “High Tension” was awarded Best Film on Mountain Culture and Environmental. This exclusive story describes how climbing duo Ueli

Steck and Simone Moro were attacked by a crowd of angry Sherpas at Camp Two while attempting a new route on Mount Everest.

Seven New Zealand finalists will be competing f o r t h e p r e s t i g i o u s Hiddleston/MacQueen Award and a $1000 prize purse for the Best New Zealand Made Film, under a new judging format being introduced this year. The films will be screened at the festival in Wanaka where the winner will be chosen.

Tickets are on sale now for the five-day festival, which runs from July 4 to 8 in Wanaka and from July 10 to 11 at the Queenstown Memorial Centre. Tickets can be bought online at mountainfilm.net.nz or, once the festivals are underway, from the venues (the Lake Wanaka Centre and the Queenstown Memorial Centre).

Into the Empty Quarter.

A Year on Ice.


The condensation obsession

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I’m officially obsessed. Even my kids have noticed. Maybe it was my habit of popping up by their bedside windows at 7am with a rubber scraper and a towel. Condensation attack! Sadly this is how exciting my obsessions get these days.

But actually the ins and outs of condensation are really quite fascinating! The water on my crying windows is basically indoor dew, which sounds a lot more romantic than condensation. The “dewpoint” measures the temperature at which water vapour condenses from the air onto my windows. It depends on two things: humidity (how much water vapour there is in the air) and temperature (warm air will hold more moisture).

There are some real downsides to a damp house. Damp air feels colder, so you have to use more energy to heat your house to a comfortable temperature. Condensation doesn’t only form on windows, it also forms on walls and furnishings. That means damp sheets and mouldy curtains. And a damp house can also make the inhabitants more likely to get sick, especially with respiratory illnesses.

The first way to fight damp and condensation is to make sure your house is warm – by insulating the roof, floor and walls, and by hanging thermal drapes. Lots of quality curtains come through Wanaka Wastebusters, so it’s a good place to revamp your window coverings.

The second thing to do is to let out all the moist air. After some research, I discovered that the easiest and cheapest answer is (drum-roll) ….to open the windows. Even on a rainy day, opening the windows a crack will reduce the amount of moisture in your house. Those Grandmas knew what they were doing when they used to fling all the doors open for some fresh air.

Y o u a l s o w a n t t o minimise the amount of moisture getting pumped into your house. Four people living in a house will put 20 litres of water into the air every day, from showering, cooking, washing clothes, drying clothes and breathing. Not much you can do about the breathing, but closing doors while you wash or shower and turning on extractor fans and rangehoods can make a big difference.

By reducing moisture and ventilating the house more, we now only get crying windows when the outside temperature drops below zero. I can live with getting my rubber scraper

out on those mornings. Now I just need a new obsession to keep me occupied!

Tips for a warmer, drier house: Ventilate house during the day; Use extractor fans in bathroom and laundry and rangehood in kitchen. Keep running for 15 minutes after you finish; Dry laundry outside as much as you can. If you have to dry clothes inside, open a window; Don’t use unflued gas heaters or unflued clothes driers; Wipe down windows if condensation forms. I just bought a “Scoopy” from Trademe – it’s a rubber scraper with a hollow handle to collect the water. Makes it a bit quicker to whip round the house; Insulate your house and curtain windows – a warmer house can hold more moisture in the air, meaning less condensation on your walls, windows and sheets; Check for (and deal with) leaks and damp under the house; Minimise indoor plants – luckily I’ve killed any that like water, so the remaining cacti and succulents can stay.

Gina Dempster.


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Simple food made good with loveThe third of July 2009 was a great day for us. Five years back we had the good fortune of starting our restaurant, The Spice Room in this lovely town of Wanaka. Our family of five, my husband (Abhishek), my mother-in-law (Priya), taking care of our 21 month old daughter (Ania-Kanu), our brilliant chef (Nafees) & myself (Meetu), never imagined that we would become such an integral part of the larger family of the people in Wanaka; that their love would bind us to stay here forever.

Working long hours to make our venture successful became a labour of love. With our

combined experience in the food & beverage departments, we were soon able to introduce some new gastronomic experiences to the people of Wanaka. Their increasing patronage continued to fuel our energies & we put in our efforts with double

the zeal.We actually look

forward to serving those who have not tried our specialities. We hope that the goodness & taste of our dishes will be whispered into their ears by some of our guests & we will have the pleasure of having them at

our premises.We are indeed grateful

to our regular guests, who have by word of mouth given us such great credentials that after five years we now have another restaurant in Queenstown as well. In this competitive market if we are able to do well it is solely because we believe that the satisfaction of our guests is the most important thing for us and the pleasure of serving them simply brings us all Happiness.

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Orioles team member Jack Sanford, with Bradley Gendall in support, was pictured during Upper Clutha’s Mini Hockey team game against Maniototo 2 on Sunday. The team, aged six to eight years, play in the mini division of the Upper Clutha Hockey Association.

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sportbriefNational team, development squad selectedMore than 40 percent of the athletes selected by Snow Sports New Zealand for its National Freeski and Snowboard Teams and Development Squads are from Wanaka and Cromwell.The local athletes selected include Janina Kuzma and Lyndon Sheehan, who were selected for the emerging elite national freeski team. Beau-James Wells progressed from the emerging elite team to join brothers Jossi and Byron and Cromwell’s Sam Smoothy on the elite national freeski team. Jackson Wells and Finn Bilous progressed from the freeski talent development squad to the high performance development squad, joining locals Sam Lee and Hamish McDougall. Wanaka’s Manu Barnard, Craig Murray and Hank Bilous were joined by new member Maggie Little on the freeski talent development squad. Stefi Luxton and Rebecca Sinclair were selected for the emerging elite national snowboard team and Wanaka’s Corrah Phillips and Cromwell’s Kristal Roberts were named as part of the nine-person snowboard talent development squad.

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T h e a t h l e t e s w h o have been selected to attend the Snow S p o r t s N Z J u n i o r Alpine Development Camp include three W a n a k a a t h l e t e s : Julius Staufenberg, Ben Richards and Sam Richards. Snow Sports New Zealand made

the announcement on Friday.

The camp, run by World Cup Alpine Ski Coach Chris Knight and managed by SSNZ Alpine Manager Ian Mclean, will be held from July 14 to 18, at the Coronet Peak Ski Area.

“We received over 40 applications for the development camp and the selectors were

extremely impressed by the quality of the applicants,” Ian said.

The camp will focus o n a d v a n c e m e n t ( g i a n t s l a l o m a n d slalom technique), enhancement (training using winning tactics a n d p r a c t i c e s ) , progression (train to train, train for success) and individual athlete evaluation.

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The Wanaka Mustangs (Ethan Arratia, Xion Lippe, Luca Harrington, Tay Simpson, Will Collins and Blake Lang pictured above - absent Will Pryor, Benjamin Pujol and Louis McCutcheon) are the 2014 competition winners of the Central Otago under-10 first division soccer league. The Mustangs beat Alexandra, Cromwell and three Queenstown teams to top the leader board at the end of the season.

The Wanaka division one under-12 football team was undefeated in 27 games on its way to win the league and finals day. The team, pictured inset, includes Fletch Cavanagh, Flynn Brown, Jacob Lang, Red Simpson, Ben McNabb, Ollie Alderson, Tyler Danielson, Weston Bell, Olly Thomas and Michael Gealago, with coach Ian Bell and assistant coach Nick Cavanagh.

Season league winners included Wanaka Mustangs division one under-10,

Wanaka Ninja’s division one under-12, Wanaka Ya Nan FC under-17. The final’s day plate and cup winners included Wanaka Jets division one under-8 (plate), Wanaka Ninjas division one under-12 (cup), Wanaka Rampage division one under-14 (plate), Wanaka Ya Nan FC under-17 (cup).


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EDITORIAL Water quality has been a hot topic around Wanaka these last few weeks. There have been two public talks by scientists hosted by the Wanaka Royal Society, and two Otago Regional Council meetings (in Wanaka and Tarras) which discussed the new Otago Water Plan (Plan Change 6A) which is about “protecting good water quality while minimising constraints on land uses and the way rural people manage their land.”It seems that we all want our water to be clean. Clean enough to see through, clean enough swim in, clean enough to drink. We also appreciate the importance of farming to our community and our country.There are a lot of people who know a lot about water and water science. There also seems to be a lot that we don’t know. We don’t know the long term effects of intensive farming on groundwater in this environment. We do know that it is much easier not to contaminate water than it is to clean up contaminated water.We need to work together, learn together and make the right decisions together, if we are to maintain what we have here.

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The publicity your paper has given to our freshwater resource and the environmental problems that might ensue from intensive dairy farming in the region is to be commended. However, it’s perhaps unfortunate that last week’s Wanaka Sun had a photo showing a banner proclaiming “No Cows,” and beneath it the names of two speakers and the Wanaka Royal Society. Some might assume from this that the speakers and the Wanaka Royal Society were associated with or advocating extreme solutions to any problems. They are not.The Royal Society of NZ (Wellington) and the Allan Wilson Centre (Palmerston North) sponsored Dr Mike Joy and Professor Nigel French, respectively, to present the science around the issues, with a focus on freshwater pollution and infectious diseases to humans, particularly children. Both are very prominent scientists and came to Wanaka as part of wider tours around the country. The University of the Third Age (U3A) co-hosted Prof French jointly with the Wanaka Branch of the Royal Society.While the science points to likely problems if some actions are not taken, the solutions are not necessarily extreme or even dramatic. It is likely that sensible changes to farming practices, plus adherence to scientifically determined guidelines around levels of pollutants and contaminants, would mitigate many of the problems. There are clear examples elsewhere in the country which demonstrate the huge economic and environmental cost of delaying action.It is a case of “prevention is better than the cure.” Graeme Ballantyne(President, Wanaka Branch Royal Society of NZ)


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LAKE HAWEA GOLF RESULTS 29/6/14: Hidden Holes. Men 1 Mark Anderson, 24. 2 Rick Johnston, 22. 3= Chris Morrow, 18, Gerry Browne, 18. 4= Stew Burt, 16, Gerrard Haggart, 16, Tony Arscott, 16. Ladies 1 Kay Ross, 15. Closest pin no1. Tony Arscott, no5. Rick Johnston.

TARRAS GOLF RESULTS: Clark Trophy-Dave Trevathan 40 Stablefords, Holger Reinecke 37, Ken Galloway 36, Ian Harvey 35, Willie Moore 34, Graeme Rive 32. Two-Willie MooreBisque Par-Margaret Sell +5, Jan Gibson +2, An-nabel Spiers +1

WANAKA BRIDGE CLUB RESULTS. A J McKen-zie Stakes 1. North/ South:- Ena Leckie, Mary

Gibson-Collings 66.41% 1. Freda Ryder, Noelene Raffills 55.72% 2. Jane Hawkey, Georgie Roberts 53.91% 3. East/West:- Mark Harry, Lynne Fegan 74.10% George & Jack Foreman 57.54% 2. John Mercer, Jan Cunningham 55.88%3. Friday Bridge 27 June. North / South:- Carolyn Grey, Shona Johnstone and Jack Foreman, Maggie Stratford 54.70% 1= David Brewer, Lynne Fegan 54.49% 3. East / West:- Noeline Turner, Sheila White 55.31% 1. Gaye Marshall, Claire Romeril 54.40% 2. Ena Leckie, Julie Mulholland 54.12% 3. Matukituki Pairs. North / South:- Michael Chapman-Smith, Maggie Stratford 66.25% 1.Jack Foreman, Noe-line Goldsbrough 47.55% 2. East / West:- Betty Swift, Noeline Turner 71.79% 1. Hans Limacher, Claire Williams 63.13% 2.

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A t e a m o f n i n e j u n i o r competitors aged 9 to 13 years and one colt aged 15 from the Wanaka Kyokushin Karate Club travelled to Milton with family members and Wanaka instructors Jim Thomson and Trevor Bailey on Saturday, to participate in a match fight competition organised by Kyokushin Karate Tokomairiro.

Thirty-two competitors from the Karitane, Dunedin, Wanaka and Milton clubs were represented at the competition, for students of Kyokushinkai Karate from the lower South Island.

Fighters were evenly matched according to age, weight and

experience, with the two-minute-long fights run as per

Kyokushin Knockdown Rules. The local students won ten fights out of the 16 entered and their instructors, J im and Trevor, said they were “extremely impressed” with the effort put in on the day and in the build-up to the event.

Pictured at the tournament are (back row) Hannah Rizzi, 15, Ben Boyd, 13, Tom Rizzi, 13, Nicholas Rumore, 12, Jacob Harwood, 13, Barnaby Jackson, 11, (front row) Bella Sarginson, 9, Samantha Traynor, 11, Bonnie Traynor, 9 and Daisy Orbell, 9.

Shihan Graeme Gavagen of Dunedin said all the fighters in the tournament did themselves proud.

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Rowing challenge back for second year After a s u c c e s s f u l inaugural event last year, the “Battle of the B u s i n e s s e s ” rowing regatta is back this year. Organised by the Dunstan Arm Rowing Club as a fundraiser, last year’s event attracted 15 teams of between four and six rowers. This year’s event has been opened up to the Cromwell and Wanaka rowing clubs, which will receive a portion of the funds raised at the event. It is aimed at people who have little or no rowing experience. Teams will be assigned a coach from the local clubs who will train them twice a week for six weeks in September and October. The regatta will be held on October 18 on Lake Dunstan.


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Wanaka karate students impress

Guts and determinationThe Mount Aspiring College 1st XV travelled to Dunedin on Saturday to take on the unbeaten Otago Boys High School 1st XV.

It was 7-0 to the OB after 20 minutes and they resorted to forward drives to break down the MAC team. With a heavy forward pack and two 130kg props, they proved hard to stop. The half-time score of 26-0 was a tribute to how well the MAC team had played. The second half became more difficult when OBHS unleashed its backs, including a centre of Sonny-Bill Williams’ proportions. The final score of 71-0 was a credit to the MAC team as most South Island schools struggle to hold the OBHS team to less than 70 points.

The entire squad, including reserves, played with spirit, skill and commitment throughout the game. Stand out forwards, for their guts and determination, were Sam Boyne, Lachlan Woods,

Nathan Summerall and former OBHS pupil, Charles Lucas. Ellis Meyer-Budge (pictured) was outstanding at halfback and

Rube Peina and Billy Norton made few mistakes and tackled well. Teegan Vink was the player of the match for his 70-minute

effort at openside flanker.They play Southland Boys

High School next Saturday in Wanaka.

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