- Sunday News recently reported embattled New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and partner Jan Trotman were renting a $2.5 million property in Auckland’s Herne Bay – owned by none other than Queenstown Airport Corporation chairman and local accountant Mark Taylor. The Taylor property is now for sale –
Peters and partner have bought a $2m villa in the same suburb.
- In her column in Christchurch magazine Avenues, Jo Blick explains Winter Festival hooks people into shifting to Queenstown but three weeks later “they discover they’re paying Auckland prices for everything but having to pay for it with an Auckland Island wage”.
- Citing the receivers’ report into Queenstown’s failed Five Mile project, an NZ Herald journalist lists some of the goods claimed by creditor Smith Crane & Construction – an angle grinder, a portaloo, three wheelbarrows, a water blaster, drop saw, two small concrete skips and dead man mould and blocks – before commenting: “This is what a $2 billion property project has been reduced to.”
- Interesting to see former long-time NZSki supremo Duncan Smith, who now works on special projects for the company, is the independent chairman of the country’s only indoor skifield, Snowplanet in Auckland.
- Besides dealing with last Thursday’s jetboat tragedy, Kawarau Jet co-owner Andy Brinsley has been nursing a dislocated shoulder suffered while skiing at Mt Hutt five days earlier.
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