The Bluff resident who put forward the idea of an Auckland to
Bluff international yacht race is to be paid a $25,000
''rights fee'', the budget for the inaugural race shows.
The failings and poor decision-making of Easy Rider
skipper Rewai Karetai are highlighted in a damning report
into the sinking of the fishing vessel in Foveaux Strait last
year, which left eight people dead.
How a young purebred husky came to be wandering lost and
injured in the Catlins remains a mystery, but the kindness of
strangers has seen the dog saved from death.
The organisation which runs most of Southland's kindergartens
wants to buy a back yard for urban children who have no
access to a semi-rural playground.
Southland District councillors have decided they do not have
enough information to indicate support for a proposed highway
linking Haast to Milford Sound via the Hollyford Valley.
A controversial proposal to build a highway linking Haast to
Milford Sound via the Hollyford Valley should be supported in
principle by the Southland District Council, council chief
executive Dave Adamson recommends.
The Local Government Commission ''substantially supported''
the new representational structure for the Southland District
Council, which the council itself proposed, chief executive
Dave Adamson said this week.
It is time for Southlanders collectively to think about
building water storage reservoirs to prepare for future dry
spells such as the one being experienced, Federated Farmers
Southland provincial president Russell MacPherson says.
More Southland rivers have reached severe or significant low
flows, but Environment Southland has held off convening its
water shortage response group.
