ANZAC Day, arguably the most respected of all public holidays in New Zealand. It’s origin, a time when we followed the United Kingdom into their troubles on the other side of the world. It was the right and only thing to do back then. Ever since, this day is marked with respect for all our service men and women, past and present. We stand to attention with almost every resident in the village of Arrowtown at the Cenotaph on the top of Soldier Hill, or at the Memorial Gates on the waterfront in downtown Queenstown. It’s an emotional show of community spirit and a powerful experience. This Saturday, 25 April. Do not forget.
Imagine being one of those young men 109 years ago in places like the Belleview Spur near Passchendale in Belgium. Parallel lines of trenches divided by a no-man’s land exposed to artillery and machine guns and strewn with barbed wire obstacles. Casualties were a day-to-day occurrence thanks to trench raids and artillery bombardment. However, the real bloodletting occurred when either side sent men “over the top” to assault the opposing trench lines. Mowed down by machine-gun fire, caught up in barbed wire in awful weather. So awful the heavy rain contributed to the Allies gaining only five miles of ground in three months.
Within the first few hours of this battle at Passchendale the New Zealand Division suffered 2,700 casualties, of which 845 were fatalities. These casualties amounted to 6% of New Zealand’s total casualties in the entire First World War and our highest one-day death toll in history. About 325,000 Allied troops and 260,000 German troops died in this battle alone making Passchendale one of the muddiest and bloodiest battles of World War I. Let us never forget and keep alive the memories of those who sacrificed so much. In Passchendale and every Kiwi service man and women since. Now here we are in 2026 and war is fought very differently. Sadly, an indictment on humankind as the conflict continues. For Kings, Queens, Religion, Tyrants, Land, Resources and Economics. This is the scary bit. Economics and the fight over an ever-decreasing pool of resources to sustain humankind. It seems to me every conflict currently destroying people and planet is economically driven. What does this have to do with us here in New Zealand?
Quite a lot. We need our service men and women more than ever. Not to rush off and join someone else’s war. That’s a hard “no” from me. Our fair weathered “friends” and their economic threats if we don’t jump in support can get the diplomatic middle finger. We need to harden up and back ourselves. Someone, friendly or not, will buy our milk and lamb. Our military need to be here to come to our rescue when nature strikes and to protect our economic resources.
We have an exclusive economic zone 200 miles out to sea. 4,300,000 km2 of resource rich area, 15 times our land mass. Is that respected by foreign fishing vessels? Give them a taste of Kiwi I reckon.
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Wealthy buyers eyeing up New Zealand since Iran war started
The conflict in the Middle East has prompted increased interest in multi-million-dollar New Zealand properties, the head of a luxury real estate company says.
Changes to the so-called Golden Visa came into effect a year ago, and Immigration Minister Erica Stanford recently updated the investment that had been made so far.
Changes to the Overseas Investment Act came into effect on 6 March.
Investors from Germany and the United States have reportedly already made purchases.
Sotheby’s International Realty managing director Mark Harris told Nine to Noon there had been increased interest from foreign buyers since the rule changes were announced, even before they came into force.
“We’ve also had more recently a pick up out of Asia again, out of Hong Kong.
“It’s interesting looking at our web traffic, has really picked up in the last month from the UAE so you’ve got to think that the AIP is encouraging these guys but we’ve obviously got a geopolitical situation that’s unfolding in the Middle East and that’s generating a lot of web traffic and
interest as well I think in New Zealand.”
He said there was now interest from across all the United States, where previously those looking to buy here were predominately from the West Coast.
“Noticeable pick up particularly from the US, and countries like Germany and Switzerland lately.”
While the immigration changes allowed foreigners to buy home worth more than $5 million , there was more interest in the $10-20m category, Harris said.
“The ones that we’ve got are generating quite a bit of interest in that sort of ultra high end so I’m sure there’ll be contracts coming forward.”
The southern lakes region - Queenstown and Wānaka - were the most popular areas, though there was still interest in Auckland’s harbourside suburbs, he said.
A film and television production village in Queenstown has been given the go ahead under the government’s fast-track approval process despite negative environmental effects.
The Ayrburn Screen Hub will include film and television studios, offices and 201 accommodation units on the Ayrburn Farm property in the Whakatipu Basin.
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop said it took an expert panel five months to approve the project that was expected to inject about $280 million into the local economy and support about 640 jobs across Otago.
“The screen sector makes a significant contribution to the economy,” Bishop said.
“Once complete Ayrburn will allow Queenstown to attract international
productions and provide high-quality facilities for local filmmakers. Purposebuilt infrastructure will help New Zealand compete for high value international productions.”
The panel assessed landscape, traffic, noise, servicing, ecology and cultural effects.
“It found that while some landscape effects would be more than minor they are not significant, will reduce over time and could be managed through conditions,” Bishop said.
It is the second project in the Otago Region that has gained fast-track approval after the Homestead Bay residential development of 2800 homes and a retail precinct in Queenstown was granted approval in February.
And he thinks the interest in New Zealand is sustainable.
“I think the interest in New Zealand is not going to go away.”
The Ayrburn Screen Hub will include film and television studios, offices and 201 accommodation units.
Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon
Increase in property fires FENZ warns beware
by Sue Fea
With a spate of property fires around the Wakatipu Basin in recent months, the most recent destroying a tiny house at Glenorchy last Wednesday, Fire and Emergency NZ staff are warning people to take basic precautions. Fire completely engulfed and destroyed the sleepout-tiny house in Birley Rise, just outside Glenorchy, with two volunteer Queenstown Fire crews and a Glenorchy Fire crew all involved in fighting the blaze, which started about 2.30pm.
A FENZ spokesperson says the fire was well involved by the time the crews arrived and they’d called for their water tanker on route. It appeared that a digger on the site was used to help pull the building apart and fully extinguish the fire with crews finally leaving the site at 6.40pm. FENZ Otago Lakes group assistant commander Nic McQuillan says fire crews had to shuttle water using tankers and cool log cylinders that had been affected by the fire from a distance. A FENZ fire investigator was investigating but the cause of the fire may be difficult to ascertain due to the extent of the fire and evidence being destroyed.
He says there had been at least one other property fire in a sleepout in Glenorchy in recent months and a number of property fires at Hanley’s Farm, some of those due to people not disposing of cigarette butts outside houses appropriately, or ash from fireplaces.
In November Police were called to a suspected arson in Shiel Street Glenorchy where fire crews were fighting a large out of control property fire centred in a shed and sleepout.
Early last month fire crews also turned out in force to battle a significant fire at Arthur’s Point which threatened houses and came dangerously close. In some areas McQuillan says flames were lapping within 2m of the homes. Police moved residents to safety. Swift work by fire crews also got a mass scrub fire under control alongside the Gibbston Trail at Morven Ferry four days earlier.
“That Arthur’s Point fire was started due to inappropriate disposal of hot ashes from a fireplace that were placed on a garden compost area,” McQuillan says. Queenstown, Frankton Arrowtown and Glenorchy Fire crews fought hard to contain the blaze which put multiple houses at risk, he says.
A temporarily unoccupied Kingston rental house was completely destroyed and razed to the ground last winter, around 15 volunteer firefighters working through the night to get the blaze fully under control.
“We’ve been having more property fires lately and inappropriately disposing of ashes and cigarette butts have been to blame in a number of these,” McQuillan says.
“Ashes from fires need to be cooled adequately in metal containers and make sure they’re properly out before you put them in the garden or anywhere,” he says. “Don’t smoke near a property or house and keep a bucket of sand outside to dispose of butts in.”
Some recent fires were due to the warmer temperatures and drier late summer conditions too, he says.
McQuillan says it’s also that time of year when chimneys should be swept for winter. “We usually start to see chimney fires at this time so get it swept before you light that first fire.”
“People don’t think to check. We are no longer in a prohibited fire season locally, but people still need to apply for a permit to have any fire in the open.”
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The sleepout-tiny house engulfed by flames at Birley Rise off Rees Valley Road near Glenorchy Wednesday afternoon, 15 April
CRIMELINE
by Sue Fea
Burglars target building sites, new builds – Gear worth $17,000 stolen
Burglars have been targeting newly completed Jack’s Point homes and construction sites nabbing spray painting equipment and paint worth nearly $17,000 recently, prompting Police to warn tradies and homeowners to beware.
Sergeant Tracy Haggart says tradies and owners of newly completed homes should be ramping up security and considering installing CCTV cameras to protect valuable gear after unknown people threw a rock through a ranchslider window to gain entry into a newly built Jack’s Point house last week. The burglars made off with a large paint spraying machine valued at $8000 and full 10L containers of paint valued at $2000. The house in a new subdivision in Little Owl Loop was unoccupied, and that burglary occurred between midday on Saturday, 11 April, and 8am on Monday, 13 April, Haggart says.
Burglars also entered a new Jack’s Point house under construction in Taurus Lane making off with a large Graco spray painting machine, worth $6500. That burglary occurred between 6pm on Friday, 10 April, and 10.52am on Saturday, 11 April.
Haggart is urging people to report any information about these burglaries and any suspicious behaviour around building sites to Police.
“Please lock away all tools and equipment and have everything clearly labelled so it can be easily identified,” she says. Any information regarding these incidents or any suspicious behaviour around building sites should be reported to Police.
Heli rescues:
- Earnslaw Burn
Two people were rescued by the Otago Southland Rescue Helicopter on Monday night, 13 April, about 8km from the start of the popular Earnslaw Burn Track, near Glenorchy, after the alarm was raised at 9.30pm. It’s understood they were picked up from the side of the creek on what was a cold night, but it’s unclear whether the pair were injured or lost.
A St John Ambulance spokesperson says the two people were assessed by the helicopter crew, but no information was available as to whether either of them was injured, whether they were transported to hospital, or where they were from.
A Police spokesperson says Police were notified but not required to attend.
- Bluffed in Fiordland National Park
Two people, one injured, were also rescued from Fiordland National Park after they became bluffed and called for help just after 11am on Thursday, 9 April. The rescue helicopter flew in with a paramedic from Queenstown. A St John spokesperson says one patient in a moderate condition was flown to Lakes District Hospital.
- Ben Lomond
A person was also picked up off Ben Lomond by the rescue helicopter Wednesday morning, 14 April, after a call came in for help just after 9.30am. A St John spokesperson says one patient was flown to Lakes District Hospital with minor injuries.
Time for a feed
A 36-year-old Queenstown man was arrested for obstruction after a scuffle on the street outside Fergburger on Saturday, 11 April. Haggart says Police were called after there was some alleged pushing and shoving and a few punches thrown by an unknown man. Two local men, 36 and 27, had to be separated by Police. The 36-year-old was released without charge once he calmed down, she says.
Drinking and cannabis
Four men were seen allegedly drinking and consuming cannabis in a vehicle parked in Camp Street at 1.20am on Saturday, 11 April. Haggart says a search of the vehicle allegedly located a cannabis grinder and small amount of cannabis. A 28-year-old Queenstown man was issued with an infringement notice for drinking in an alcohol ban area, while a 27-year-old Christchurch man was warned for possession of cannabis and cannabis utensils, she says. Education was given.
Car rolls 15m off Moke Lake Road
A 20-year-old woman and her passenger were fortunate to escape injury after their vehicle rolled about 15m down a bank on Moke Lake Road, coming to rest on its roof against a tree, at midday on Saturday, 11 April, Haggart says. The woman had been driving towards Glenorchy Road and allegedly overcorrected after taking a bend too far to the left in loose gravel losing control, Haggart says. Police are investigating.
LAKES WEEKLY POLL
LWB regularly polls locals on issues affecting our region. This week’s responses are below.
Do you think this fuel crisis will result in the country and Queenstown moving away from fossil fuels?
Yes - 11%
No, but I would like it to - 44%
No and it shouldn't - 26%
Not sure - 19%
Should more be invested into Queenstown's film industry?
Yes - 49%
No - 26%
Not sure - 25%
Will you be skiing or snowboarding this winter?
Skiing - 23%
Snowboarding - 7%
Other - 6%
None - 65%
Should all events in our district be aiming for zero waste?
Yes - 81% No - 19%
Should we scrap daylight savings?
Yes - 28%
No - 73%
There were 102 respondents this week. If you would like to take part: you can sign up on the LWB Facebook page.
Altrusa’s Annual Fundraising Quiz Night COMMUNITY NOTES
On Wednesday, 29 April, Altrusa will be holding their annual Quiz night. The theme this year is Golden, Gorgeous & Gifted. Get a team together (six max), dress up (or not) and come along - with easy, tough and everything in between questions, a bar, nibbles, raffl es, auctions and plenty of laughs it will be a fun night.
A bit about us - Altrusa is an international non-profi t organization founded in the USA (1917) and established in Aotearoa in 1966. There are now 15 Districts (groups) throughout the Motu. It’s objectives are predominantly to help our local communities through leadership, partnership, and service. We have three main fundraising events each year. A local business or organisation is elected to be the recipient of the funds raised. Most recently the Frankton Fire Department and Baskets of Blessings were receivers but many others have received a ‘chunk of change’ to help enhance their services.
This year all funds raised at the Quiz night will go towards local projects: Books for babies (every newborn in the district receives a new book), the Whakatipu Buddy Programme and two annual scholarships at Wakatipu High School.
But fundraising is not all Altrusans do. The list is long but a few things are: the delivery of Meals on Wheels, reading with gorgeous young primary school students – (they do the reading), cups of tea made for those good souls that donate blood or show up to the ANZAC dawn service, collecting for Child Cancer, sandwich making for a locals funeral or directing those crazy people coming all the way to Queenstown to run a marathon.
We are a small group of women, 28 members to date, but we get s*** done with generous, warm and invigorating spirit. We welcome new members, of course. Feel free to check out our Facebook page or come to a meeting (no obligation), held on the fi rst Wednesday of every month at the senior citizens rooms. No - we are not all senior citizens!!!
Back to the Quiz – come along to the rugby rooms behind Memorial Hall after 6pm (April 29). There is a prize for the best dressed team. It’s $150 per team.
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Annual Plan consultation closes 24 April
Our draft Annual Plan 2026-2027 is open for community consultation. Full details about proposed investment in infrastructure, local projects, changes to fees and charges, and the potential effect on the rates you pay are all online. Take a look and make your submission before Friday 24 April at https://letstalk.qldc.govt.nz/ap26-27
Feel the need for speed (limits)?
We’re proposing some speed limit changes across the district and want your feedback before 10 May. Have your say and find more details, including a full list of roads and a map with proposed speed changes, at https://letstalk.qldc.govt.nz
Funding rounds closing soon
We’re calling all community groups, event organisers, and those involved with preserving our natural and built heritage. Applications for QLDC’s annual funds that help support local initiatives close on 30 April. Keen to apply but not sure where to start? Find out more and watch a recording of our free webinar at www.qldc.govt.nz/community-funding
Help save our stuff!
Got a clever idea for reducing waste or finding other ways to make use of stuff we normally throw away? Grants from QLDC’s Waste Minimisation Community Fund are available to help local groups, schools, and businesses make a real difference. Applications close 30 April. Full details at www.qldc.govt.nz/wmcf
Lest we forget
To commemorate Anzac Day, Council offices and libraries will be closed on both Sat 25 April and the observed public holiday on Mon 27 April. Transfer stations, along with the public recycling drop-off facility on Glenda Drive will open a little later on Anzac Day: 1.00 – 5.00pm. There will be no changes to kerbside bin collections on 27 April, and the transfer stations will be open as normal. For opening times of our swimming pools and recreation centres visit www.qldc.govt.nz/recreation
Good and ready
Disasters and emergencies can occur anytime and anywhere in New Zealand, often without warning. Join the Good and Ready disaster and emergency preparedness workshop to explore how we can keep our communities safe when emergencies occur. Tuesday, 12 May at Queenstown Events Centre from 5.30pm. Workshop from 6.00 – 7.30pm. Register via email to southern.area@redcross.org.nz
Don’t bin batteries or vapes
Batteries and vapes, especially those containing lithium, are highly flammable if damaged or mishandled. Please keep them out of rubbish and recycling bins. Household batteries and vapes can be recycled free of charge at Queenstown transfer station, Glenda Drive.
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A Celebration of Vera Lynn – ANZAC Day Garden Party
Step back into the swing-time era for a relaxed and joyful Anzac Day afternoon in the garden. This special tribute to Dame Vera Lynn and the music of wartime Britain features local favourite Margaret O’Hanlon as Vera Lynn, joined by the magnificent Queenstown Party Orchestra – a 20–30 piece ensemble recreating the full, rich big band sound of the 1940s. You’ll reminisce to beloved classics like We’ll Meet Again, The White Cliffs of Dover, Lili Marlene and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, along with many other wartime favourites. A perfect way to pay tribute to the valour of the past. Bring a picnic, a rug, a chair, plenty of sunscreen and settle in for a festive, nostalgic and easy-going afternoon of music in a beautiful private garden setting. Parking provided onsite. The concert runs from 2–4pm, making it the perfect way to gather after Anzac Day services.
Feeling the pinch at the pump? Wondering if an EV could save you money? Come along to this free community Electric Vehicle “Ask Me Anything” popup and get straight answers from real EV owners. Ask anything: Charging, costs, range, road trips, batteries. Nothing is off limits.
Check out a range of EVs up close: including some of the latest and most interesting models, and maybe go out for a spin!
Whakapapa, by Jolt Dance, shares the stories of six dancers with intellectual disabilities, exploring identity, culture, and ancestral connection through dance, text, and film. Co-created by the dancers, each piece offers a deeply personal perspective. Together, these stories celebrate individuality and move beyond labels of disability, offering a powerful vision of belonging and cultural pride.
When: Friday, 1 May, doors at 6.30pm, performance 7pm – 8pm Where: Te Atamira, 12 Hawthorne Drive, Frankton
Pint-Sized Plays
Pint-Sized Plays is short format theatre that brings a play writing competition to life. It’s live short-format theatre performed in pubs or small venues featuring a small cast and using minimal set, props and tech support. The audience votes for their favourite play. Always popular, get your tickets before they sell out!
When: Wednesday, 6 and Thursday, 7 May, 7pm Where: The Crown, 3 Murchison Road, Frankton
If you would like your show, event, exhibition or meeting promoted in Goings On drop us a line at info@qmg.co.nz with the details
Every Bite
Wastebusters and Sustainable Queenstown are stoked to be bringing Every Bite back – their food waste prevention programme designed to help households cut back on their food waste, become more food resourceful, and save money in the process. This fourweek programme provides resources, support and loads of tips, tricks, and tasty recipes for keeping your kai in date and on your plates. With the average household throwing away more than $1300 worth of food a year, a few tweaks to your daily habits can make a big difference to your household food waste and your grocery bill. Head to Humanitix for more info and to sign up.
When: Wednesday, 29 April, 6pm – 8pm
Where: Lake Hayes Pavilion, 719 Lake Hayes-Arrow Junction Highway, Lake Hayes Estate
Community Craft: Mamehe Movement
Join Te Atamira on the third Tuesday of each month for Community Craft – a free, drop-in night to explore creative forms like writing, sewing, and dance. All levels and ages welcome. This month’s theme is Mamehe Movement - Rooted Storytelling & Pacific Dance. This session will have participants exploring the joy of movement through a gentle and inclusive introduction to Polynesian-inspired choreography and storytelling. You will learn how rhythmic gestures and Pacific stories can help you reconnect with your heritage and the land you stand on.
When: Tuesday, 21 April, 7pm – 8pm
Where: Te Atamira, 12 Hawthorne Drive, Frankton
Queenstown BioBlitz
Take Part in the Queenstown BioBlitz! This Conservation Week, join in on a relaxed, drop-in BioBlitz celebrating the incredible flora and fauna of the Whakatipu Basin. With guidance from experts at Kiwi Park Queenstown, Whakatipu Wildlife Trust, Southern Lakes Sanctuary, and Wai Wānaka you’ll explore local biodiversity and learn how to document species using iNaturalist. Your observations will contribute to the global City Nature Challenge, and align with Conservation Week led by the Department of Conservation.
When: Sunday, 26 April, 11am – 4pm
Where: Marine Parade, Queenstown
Rescue Helicopter Hanger Open Day
The Otago Southland Rescue Helicopter would like to invite the local community that they serve to come and visit the hanger to see the helicopters and meet the crews that are available to respond for them on Sunday, 26 April between 10am and 2pm. There will also be other emergency services at the hanger for the day, so you can see many of the emergency operations and responders from this area. Come and go in the draw for a ride in the Rescue Helicopter on the day and ride the rescue winch simulator.
When: Sunday, 26 April, 10am – 2pm
Where: Tax Smith Lane, Frankton
Better Building Brekkie: This Is How We Build
Join Better Building Southern Lakes for the launch of This Is How We Build - a new training series designed to support the building industry to build smarter and more circular at every stage. This FREE brekkie session (eligible for LBP points) launches the first two modules in their six-part series - Why Care and Circular Economy 101. You’ll watch the short, practical training films together, followed by a quiz and kōrero on what better building looks like in action and how it can be applied in your work right now.
When: Wednesday, 29 April, 7.30am – 8.30am
Where: Mitre 10 MEGA, 46 Brookes Road, Frankton
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Exploring identity through dance, text and film
Te Atamira will host Whakapapa by Jolt Dance next week. The performance shares the stories of six dancers with intellectual disabilities, exploring identity, culture and ancestral connection through dance, text and films.
Jolt Dance Company pioneer innovative disability-led dance practices, creating opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to train, perform and lead, challenging traditional ideas about dance and celebrating each dancer’s unique creative voice.
The performance is a unique opportunity to see and hear the voices of people with intellectual disabilities and learn a bit about who they are as individuals. It explores the performers unique ways of thinking and seeing the world.
“We share our own stories, and I talk about my family, and some others, who are Māori or who are Pākehā, share their different cultures,” Jacob Levington, one of the performers, says.
Levington has performed internationally in Glasgow and he’ll be heading over to Korea later this year. He’s part of the management team at Jolt and he teaches his own bump class, too. His performance at Te Atamira will reflect on his connection to each member of his close family –he’ll also be doing a dance to Scatman. He’s been involved with Jolt since 2010 and really enjoys
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dancing and sharing his story with the audience.
“I really like to meet other people, and I like to be a role model and a leader as well. Some of my friends that are performing in Whakapapa, I now have connections with their families as well.”
Levington will perform alongside five people including Joel Forman, Jokani Coe, Robert Sopoaga, Jono Bennett, and Lachlan Oakes. Each of their stories celebrates their individuality and moves beyond labels of disability, offering a powerful vision of belonging and cultural pride.
“The show will feature six really different stories from six individuals, all with lived experience of disability, all with different cultures,” Lynn Cotton, Artistic Director at Jolt says. “And it’s all about connecting and reconnecting to each individual Whakapapa,”
While here, Jolt will also lead a one-off workshop for dancers and learners, which is designed to be inclusive and accessible for people with a range of abilities and support needs. They’ll use music and movement to build connection, communication and creativity, creating spaces of freedom, exploration and joy.
“All of our work is inclusively taught. The workshops will be taught predominately by our Kaitiaki Whaikaha, which are our disability leaders, who are both dancers performing in Whakapapa,
but have also trained within our teacher training scheme.”
“I really like to meet other people, and I like to be a role model and a leader as well. Some of my friends that are performing in Whakapapa, I now have connections with their families as well.”
The workshop will empower dancers’ imaginative responses through building body awareness, focus, engagement – non-verbal communication, connecting through touch and play – music and creativity.
“Come and join us, everyone is welcome,” Levington summarises.
The Whakapapa by Jolt Dance will be at Te Atamira on Friday, 1 May, with doors opening at 6.30pm for a 7pm start time. The Wairua Auaha workshop will be ahead of the performance at 11am. For more information, to purchase tickets to the performance or register interest in the workshop, head to teatamira.co.nz
Central Otago Regional Orchestra Present Gravitas
Drama, innovation and variety are the key to the must-see Central Otago Regional Orchestra (CORO)’s Autumn series. The group will perform Gravitas at Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall on
Saturday, 2 May and Alexandra Memorial Theatre on Sunday, 3 May.
CORO is a community-based ensemble, bringing together talented musicians from across the region. Founded with a passion for classical and orchestral music, CORO aims to provide highquality performances and nurture local talent. The performance is set to be an unforgettable one. Bold, dynamic and exciting, the concert series is led by newly appointed musical director and conductor, Rakuto Kurano. The thrilling programme features the powerful contemporary works Gravitas and Warrior Legacy by Soon Hee Newbold, alongside the brilliance of Joseph
Haydn’s Piano Concerto No. 11 and Max Bruch’s Romance for Viola — both featuring Rakuto as soloist. Audiences will also enjoy the entertaining and energetic Fiddle Faddle by Leroy Anderson and the beautiful Suite for Strings by John Rutter.
Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for seniors and free for school-aged children. Cash door sales are available and tickets can be purchased on Humanitix or cash ticket sales are available from Alexandra Unichem and Arrowtown Museum. Follow Central Otago Regional Orchestra’s Facebook page for regular updates and more information.
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Construction is progressing well on Coronet Peak’s new SnowFactory as NZSki gears up for a guaranteed early start to winter.
While temperatures in Queenstown reached freezing levels this week, Coronet Peak and TechnoAlpin crew have been busy up the mountain installing the $2million-plus SnowFactory, which will eventually be capable of producing 200 cubic metres of snow each day. For perspective, the SnowFactory could cover an entire rugby field with 10cm of snow in just over three days.
Cranes were on site last week, lifting two containers in place on the ski field, which will house the SnowFactory unit. Foundation work and supporting infrastructure are also in place ahead of commissioning, which will take place this week with the help of specialist TechnoAlpin technicians travelling from Europe. All going well, snow will start to be produced from the start of May.
NZSki CEO Paul Anderson says the project is tracking well and demonstrates NZSki’s ongoing commitment to investing in its ski areas. It means that Coronet Peak will be the first New Zealand ski resort to open, earlier than ever before, every year. This year the Coronet Peak learner slopes will open on Friday, May 29.
“This is an exciting milestone for the team and for Queenstown,” Anderson says. “The SnowFactory gives us the ability to produce snow regardless of air temperature, which means we can confidently build a snow base well ahead of winter and give guests the confidence to book their ski holidays.”
by Sue Fea
My Life story
COLIN CLOUDESLEY
Carrying on the legacy
He was a pretty skinny cat himself, but Colin Cloudesley was best known in Queenstown for his Fatz Cat Restaurant (Ristorante Italiano), knowledge of Italian food, and Italian impersonations, despite having not an ounce of Italian blood in his veins.
There was a strong flow of hospitality in those veins though, the son and grandson of well-known Christchurch and Canterbury publicans. His grandfather operated Warners Hotel in the 1940s, a landmark in Christchurch Cathedral Square sadly lost to the 2011 earthquakes. Colin had continued family tradition opening his successful Christchurch restaurant, Piccolo Ristorante Italiano, in Somerfield in 2010.
Stands to reason then that in his younger days Colin was top Kiwi salesman for Roche, selling more Berocca per head of population than any other Roche salesman in the world. It was the early 80s with massive promotions of Berocca as a great hangover cure. “I won a silver tray for that,” he recalls, with a grin.
Colin, now 75 and “still doing one-arm press-ups”, grew up in Christchurch, attending Addington Primary from the mid-1950s, then Cashmere High School, working in the local butcher’s shop after school, one of six children spanning 15 years. “We’d bike off in the morning and be back at dinnertime. The mischief happened in between,” he grins.
Colin began his hospo career young, making home brew at 14 or 15 and selling it at the door of the local church Youth Club. “I charged 10 cents a small bottle and made the other kids drink the whole bottle at the door so I could refill it, but the minister still loved me.”
A gifted salesman, he left school at 17 to work for International Cameras, then on to Henry Berry’s, supplying hospitality and hotels with everything from baked goods to machinery. “I started in the showroom at 19 and increased sales by 300%.
I listened to the people and tried to understand what they required.”
He then moved on to Kennedy’s Diamond Rings. “Young couples lined up the staircase on Friday nights, a few of them putting $2 down on an engagement ring, then they never came back. I think most of them were saying, ‘I love you tonight, but I won’t see you tomorrow,” he grins.
“We’d bike off in the morning and be back at dinnertime. The mischief happened in between.”
After working for a cosmetic company, then Roche, Queenstown friend Peter Fleming suggested Colin talk to an Auckland company selling souvenir teaspoons and ski badges. “They were doing $1m turnover annually when I started with them and in two-and a-bit years that was $11m.”
Nigel Brown then encouraged him to sell real estate in Queenstown in 1990. “There were 25 agents in town.” Real estate was tough in the 90s, Colin then a solo dad to his eldest two kids, so he began moonlighting, running Club 21 nightclub in Shotover Street at night.
He’d bought his first Fernhill section for just $20,000, buying more, each time building two townhouses and on-selling.
Partner Anne then moved down from Christchurch with their son, Harry, in 1996 and Colin opened Fatz Cat in Hec Boyd’s building in Brecon Street during tough economic times.
“I remember Chico from Avanti’s coming over and telling me how bad the recession was. I felt sorry for him, so I gave him a pizza.”
Undeterred, Colin unsuccessfully stood for mayor against incumbent Clive Geddes to fight for a
better deal for hospo operators. “They wanted outdoor table patrons gone by 10.30pm so I gave the council a dressing down.
“Those were good days down in Queenstown. We had a lot of fun, some really good friendships.”
A move from the original restaurant to make way for the Sofitel Hotel saw a shift to Steamer Wharf, but the rent doubled soon after, Colin selling his lease to Wai and running Fraser’s Bar and Restaurant while the new Sofitel was completed.
A difficult time followed in his restaurant business back in the hotel building with Colin losing a significant amount of money. “I left Queenstown with nothing.”
Undeterred, and with help from a great Christchurch landlord, he started over opening Piccolo. The restaurant rapidly became famous for all the “wrong reasons” after a customer threw a plate at him and a fight broke out. “The woman with him insisted her order, that she’d just eaten, was wrong and wouldn’t pay.”
Next thing Colin was receiving media calls from Auckland, including top TV journalists. “Each time I answered in an Italian accent and gave my name as ‘Georgio’. They were chasing me for about a month,” Colin grins. “After that I had a lot of people wanting to see the terrible chef. My restaurant took off.”
He owned that for 14 years and these days Colin’s a partner in a business importing tiny houses from China, for which there’s huge demand. He loves to travel and just gave away his liquor licence for good, ending generations of Cloudesleys in the business.
While he’s always been an ‘old school’ boss, expecting high standards from staff, Colin says he ensured “at the end of the night we were still friends”.
Staff across the world remain lifelong friends. “I talk to many of them monthly, and the odd one still calls me for advice.”
Colin at son Harrys 21st birthday celebrations in 2017
Colin on a trip to China Colin with his kids, from left, Penny, Jono and Harry
Colin feeling right at home at the London Food Show in 2023
That’s a wrap folks! Summer has departed. I think most of us are still waiting for it to arrive!
Now for the autumn that has had a few lovely summery moments, way better than our imaginary summer. Yes, I am moaning and I do feel ripped off.
Despite the summer crazies, it’s been a great year for apples, pears and peaches, plus a few plums. My apricots struggled again with the late frost snowfall we received. Everything has had a two-week ripening lag and I have some late peaches that are still ripening. Another week of good weather will get them over the line I’m hoping.
It sounds like folks have had a mixed summer growing season. Many tomatoes did well early in the season then turned all spindly in the second half. This was definitely not the season for outside heat loving crops. Think tomatoes, pumpkins, corn, zucchini. These crops have thrived in the Mediterranean microclimate that a tunnel or glass house gives us. These crops have generally been flops outside. That is unless you’ve planted them in a backyard with a mediterranean-like microclimate. Features like schist walls or large boulders heat up an outside garden space, and we need protection from those cooling southerly winds we’ve had heaps of.
Autumn can take a turn to the super cold any time.
So, this is your last chance Charlie moment to get some leafy greens in the garden. Any tunnel house/glass houses, I have just ripped out the tomatoes etc giving the bed a schiff of compost and I’m getting those seedlings in as you read this. It’s probably too late to direct sow seed; I would be planting seedlings only at this stage. If you have plants with green tomatoes still on, still pull them out, leaving the tomatoes on the vine and store in a sunny warm place. The green tomatoes will ripen on the vine over time.
Crops I’m planting right now wishing I’d planted them a few weeks ago are… cos lettuce, spring onions, mizuna, spinach, perpetual spinach and kales. I think I will flip a coin and sow radishes and Daikon radishes from seed either in a tunnel/glass house or in a cold frame or under frost cloth outside. Everything I’m planting or sowing’s success will depend on the weather over the next weeks and how quickly we flip into a winter cycle. Anything that struggles to get going will come away late winter and start feeding you early spring when the veggie garden is often at its least productive. You can mimic a tunnel/glass house with a plastic cover over some hoops. Or take a look at a traditional ‘cold frame’ design that you could build with an old window frame. A great system for growing winter greens.
Top jobs this month:
1. As a bed becomes free and isn’t destined for anything, sow a green manure. If you follow me you’ll know I’m a big fan of broad beans for their amazing nitrogen fixing abilities. Sow more than you think. One way is to prep the bed, place all the broad bean seeds down on the soil and cover with 2-5cm of compost. Firm down. Don’t forget the bird net. Or you can use frost cloth. Anything really that keeps the birds at bay. Grow them all winter long.
2. Look at getting your garlic planted early this year. Large cloves give you large bulbs. I like to be super generous when planting garlic cloves. Presoak in seaweed for 24 hours and chuck one to two handfuls of quality compost or vermicast in each hole. They will thank you. Mulch well and cover with some netting to stop those birds.
3. Get ready to make some easy compost. An abundance of leaves mixed with some manure. It doesn’t get any easier. Fill up a bay alternating 20cm layers of leaves with five centimetre layers of manure. The leaves will really compact down. So don’t be surprised how much you will use. Add some water as you go. You can even chuck a bokashi bucket load in the middle of the pile. In six months you will have an amazing compost to use. I would do this in a wooden pallet compost bay or a black compost bin. Fill up to the very top.
4. Mineralise all your beds with a quality rock mineral product and lime. Remember you’re a miner. The soil needs some help replenishing its supplies. Adding minerals and lime to your veggie beds is a must do once a year. Applying compost in the autumn is a winner too. I like to do both at the same time.
5. Not composting yet, turn all your kitchen scraps into a top fertiliser for the garden using the bokashi buckets. Get along to your local council office on Gorge road. Special price just for you. This system will turn you into a rock star gardener.
6. Spend a week watering your compost heap every day. Its been a dryish six weeks and compost piles are bone dry. There’s no compositing happening without moisture. Then grab some old black plastic and put a cover on it to keep the moisture in.
Happy gardening and composting!
Dr Compost aka Ben Elms is a permaculture and gardening expert who’s been operating in the unusual Central Otago climate for over 20 years. Funded by QLDC and delivered by Wanaka Wastebusters, the Dr Compost project aims to reduce organic waste going to landfill. Got a question? Check out @drcompost on Facebook or benelms.com @dr_compost | @doctorcompost | benelms.com
LWB QUIZ
1. Which part of the plant conducts photosynthesis?
2. What is the capital of Chile?
3. Which New Zealand national park is famous for the Tongariro Alpine Crossing?
4. What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
5. Which gas is essential for human respiration?
6. Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
7. Which New Zealand region is known for producing many of the country’s apples and stone fruit?
8. Which famous scientist is associated with the law of gravity?
9. What is the main language spoken in Brazil?
10. Which New Zealand lake is known for its remarkably clear water and visibility?
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KERBSIDE COLLECTION WILL BE COLLECTED as normal on ANZAC Day observed (Monday 27 April). Please recycle with care: if in doubt, leave it out.
BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLDTOUR returns to Queenstown Memorial Centre 29 and 30 April. Don’t miss out on some of the worlds best mountain and adventure films, tickets selling fast at Eventbrite. Queenstown Banff Film Fest on Facebook for more info.
ARROWTOWN ANZAC DAY SERVICE. When:10.30am Saturday 25 April. Where: The Cenotaph, Durham Street, Arrowtown. Those wishing to join the Parade please assemble at 10am at the Athenaeum Hall, Buckingham Street to march to the Cenotaph for the service at 10.30am. If weather is inclement the service will be held in the Atheneum Hall.
QUEENSTOWN TRANSFER STATIONS and thepublic recycling drop-off on Glenda Drive will be closed on the morning of Anzac Day (Saturday 25April). Opening hours will be 1pm - 5pm.
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RealNZ Welcomes Environment Court Approval for Walter Peak Rural Tourism Zone
RealNZ welcomes the Environment Court’s determination to approve the creation of the new Walter Peak Rural Tourism Zone. The determination enables a planning framework for the future of the peninsula, allowing new visitor experiences to be developed, with a strong commitment to the protection and regeneration of its natural ecosystems.
The approval followed a collaborative and successful mediation between RealNZ and the Queenstown Lakes District Council, which was ratified by the Environment Court.
RealNZ Chief Executive Dave Beeche says the outcome aligns strongly with the organisation’s long-term vision for Walter Peak High Country Farm - to create unique, authentic and extraordinary guest experiences, grounded in conservation and restoration.
“Walter Peak is an extraordinary place, and we acknowledge the responsibility that comes with caring for such a special part of our taiao. We are committed to ensuring that the development of new visitor experiences enhances and protects the natural environment, both now and for future generations.
“Our purpose is to help the world fall in love with conservation, and Walter Peak is an opportunity to bring that to life in a meaningful way. Alongside any future visitor experiences, we are already investing in reforestation and pest control to support the return of native flora and fauna.”
The decision paves the way for an exciting future for Walter Peak.
“The real mahi starts now – our team are now finalising an inspiring vision and strategy for Walter Peak. They are looking forward to engaging with key stakeholders during the planning process,” says Beeche.
Further details on Walter Peak’s future will be shared in due course.
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