Philip Chandler

The promoter of Queenstown’s huge Snow Machine music fest admits his event’s at risk of being canned, but claims it’d be more viable if it was staged downtown at the Recreation Ground.

Friends of Queenstown floorlayer Terry David Trowman, who died last month aged 40, are hailing him as the most sociable, genuine and caring person you could hope to meet.

Miles Wilson’s been a Queenstown store owner for 27 years, but says when he was in the Auckland corporate world he had no desire to ever become a retailer.