The must-have item for music-lovers this Waitangi Day in Wanaka - tickets to the biennial Rippon Music Festival - remain scarce, although website trawlers may find themselves some on the Internet.
The popular New Zealand music festival sold out of its 4500 tickets about a month after they went on sale in October.
About 30 tickets were being advertised on the Internet yesterday, for prices ranging from below the $118.50 face value, up to more than $320 for a pair of tickets being sold out of Christchurch.
Rippon Festival organisers are giving $4500 - the equivalent of $1 for every ticket sold - to help assist with aid relief and rebuilding efforts in Samoa, after the islands were ravaged by a tsunami last September.
Festival director Lynne Christie could not be contacted yesterday.
Fine weather is forecast for Wanaka this Saturday.
