Three years on from his failed attempt to become the first
person to swim the length of Lake Wakatipu, Wellington man
Ben Campbell-MacDonald has succeeded in his 80km challenge.
About 45 crew members and equipment and 60 people from
Queenstown were hired for the filming of a television
commercial for an American jewellery chain store in the town
this week.
The Queenstown Medical Centre has joined the Southern Cross
Primary Care network (SCPC) and patients should begin to see
changes by the end of the year.
A Shotover Delta "training
line" designed to reduce the flood danger to Queenstown when
Lake Wakatipu is swelled by back-country rain looks likely to
be built this winter.
Four young Cantabrians were labelled "very lucky and very
stupid" by Queenstown police after a boat trip went "terribly
wrong" and their dinghy sank in the freezing waters of Lake
Wakatipu on Saturday night.
Public access to the Lake Wakatipu foreshore at Twelve Mile
Delta Recreation Reserve will be doubled, once a $500,000
upgrade is finished by the Department of Conservation (Doc)
Wakatipu area office in time for the summer season.
