With its February deadline fast approaching, the Carisbrook
Stadium Trust is confident it can achieve the minimum 60% of
private-sector funding required to gain final approval to
build the stadium.
Despite facing a 200% increase in wages and the imminent
departure of one of its biggest clients, vocational service
provider Cargill Enterprises is determined it will survive.
"I saw the whites of its eyes, and then bang . . . I thought
I was going to die," says Stephen Brown, one of nine men
injured when their van slammed into a group of cattle on
Sunday morning.
Police have yet to decide if charges will be laid against a
farmer whose wandering stock were hit by a van yesterday
morning, injuring all nine occupants who were heading to
Dunedin for a stag party.
Take a bright idea, add a healthy dollop of Kiwi ingenuity,
stir in a camera, computers and a bunch of iPods for good
measure - and, hey presto, you have a recipe for success.
From a part-role as an information officer with the Dunedin
Visitor Centre to becoming the newly-appointed chief
executive of Tourism Dunedin - it has been an exciting
journey for Hamish Saxton.
