A cross-district approach to the sale of alcohol is being
considered in an effort to ensure a consistent approach to
hotel and bar opening hours on both sides of the Waitaki
River.
Although new Oamaru residents are complaining they are being
put on waiting lists or turned away completely when trying to
enrol with some general practitioners, the Southern Primary
Health Organisation (PHO) says people should not have an
issue finding a doctor.
A six-year project to repair an 89-year-old steam engine
finally came to a close yesterday, much to the relief of the
unpaid volunteers who made it happen.
Kurow and Duntroon farmers will have to pay more for
irrigation water from one of the Waitaki district's oldest
irrigation schemes, and irrigators warn costs on other
schemes in the district would also rise in the future.
An Oamaru cheese factory and New Zealand deer farmers could
be in line to make ''huge'' export gains in Asia, if
experiments in making cheese from deer's milk are successful.
After 120 ''fiercely, but fairly'' contested games of
football, rugby, hockey, basketball and netball, it proved
impossible to separate Oamaru's and Timaru's top teams in the
inaugural Southern Catholic Colleges Tournament on Monday.
Anzac Day dawn services will this year be held at Hakataramea
and Oamaru, and early risers attending the Hakataramea
service will be able to enjoy a glass of World War 1 stout
afterwards.
A census pilot scheme in Oamaru, which aimed to find ways of
reducing the estimated $90 million cost to the Government of
running the national census, will be used to plan the census
in 2018, Statistics Minister Maurice Williamson says.
