If you wait too long, you’ll miss it…
With LUMA just around the corner and tickets selling quickly, now’s a good time to have that conversation about where we’re heading. This is the first year the ticket price has had to truly reflect the cost of the event. This is down to reduced public funding, higher costs and a need to pay contributors at realistic rates. For some, this has been hard to swallow but it really is a makeor-break year for LUMA. 2023 marks a step-change in the way we operate and the feedback we’ve had so far has been enormously supportive. For the price of a couple of beers or a movie ticket you get to experience LUMA at a new level, with international producers, artists and performers delivering a project we’ve all been working on for over a year.
This year each evening has a capacity cap to protect the Gardens and spread the crowds throughout the space. We’ve also added an extra session, which will all add up to reduced crowds, fewer queues and more space to explore. With Saturday already the most popular night of the weekend, if you’re planning to see the show, you’ll need to choose your preferred night soon or risk missing out.
We really are lucky down here in lil’ ol’ Queenstown when it comes to entertainment. We get to see national and international artists performing in our backyard, pulling together huge productions delivered to a standard not seen everywhere in New Zealand. The diversity of professions here also means we’re able to attend shows and events produced using local skills honed in film, design, sport and adventure, often without knowing what’s going on behind the scenes (usually lots).
The flip side of all this choice is that we’re all guilty of taking it for granted at times.
One of the biggest issues event producers have to deal with is the ‘LastMinute Majority’. Yep, we’re all doing it: “I’ll get a ticket nearer the time just in case something better comes up or there’s a rerun of Friends on the telly.”
Since Covid, events are becoming more costly, more risky and more demanding on everyone involved. Suppliers who were once happy with a handshake, now need deposits or full payment. Event insurance costs the earth and compliance is now a major consideration if you’re pulling large numbers of people into one place. It’s work. Lots of work, but the results are always worth the effort. We get to see cricket matches, international DJs, live bands, plays, light festivals and all manner of world-class entertainment without even leaving the basin.
If you think events need to be part of our future here in the Southern Lakes, do yourself a favour, buy your tickets early. Use it or lose out. It’s that simple
Tim Buckley, LUMA
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Winter Games NZ, which takes place on Queenstown Lakes skifields each year, has secured its future for the next five years with $6 million in funding through the New Zealand Major Events Fund, through to 2027. See story on page 10.
AND COUNTING
By David Gibbs, Queenstown Media Group
On 5 July, back in 2005, the Lakes Weekly was born... with the first edition just four-pages long when it hit the streets. This week, we celebrate 900 issues, so by my reckoning in two years’ time, 20 years later, we’ll be producing our 1000th issue.
Time has flown since those early days and we continue to innovate and evolve to remain relevant, and hopefully something Queenstowners are very proud of, as part of the local media community. The Lakes Weekly started out as a vehicle for local businesses to get their message out, to attract customers and staff at a reasonable price. There was no real plan on how it was going to grow, originally it was started as a place to buy and sell stuff, advertise local business, and find staff.
We did things differently right from the outset. Our idea was to get copies into the hands of every business in the district, with the editorial on the front page rather than buried in the edition. Some things worked and some didn’t but with a bit of luck, some good judgement, and listening to your feedback, we seem to have had more wins than losses. And we are continuing to grow and try new things, despite the challenges of the American and now Chinese behemoths of Facebook, Google and TikTok. We have remained ‘hyper local’ and we get fantastic feedback from you, our readers, which helps drive our decision-making.
The strength of the Lakes Weekly is in the amazing team we have. Past and present, they are and always have been incredible. One of our longest
serving team members, Kendalle McLeod, our beloved finance operative, leaves us this week. Kendalle has been with us for nearly 15 years, and to be honest that sort of longevity is not uncommon. We are incredibly blessed with our team. There is a lot that goes into producing an edition each week, from the advertising team who are always in regular contact with our clients, to the graphics team that puts the ads and articles together, laying out the publication, to the wonderful news and content writers, all hitting deadlines so the edition can be whisked off to Alexandra for printing. The window to turn around the issue is tight and ODT Print, who have done the printing for us for 14 odd years, haven’t skipped a beat.
Now the Lakes Weekly has sister publications and digital products: JobFix and the Queenstown App have been with us for a few years now, while more recently there’s been the birth of Lakes Business Monthly and our new Lakes Weekly website. The feedback on these has been very satisfying and continues to give us confidence that we are delivering products that you and the Queenstown community enjoy. We are extremely proud of what we have achieved to this point. I still love Tuesday mornings, seeing just how fast the Lakes Weeklys disappear under the arms of locals to be enjoyed. Keep reading and keep giving us your feedback and most importantly thanks for supporting local media.
CONTENT LIST 18-19 Hospo Guide 16 - 17 Mother’s Day Feature 20-21 Goings On About Town 26 Sit Vac - Jobs News 25 Train Your Brain 24 Joseph Mooney Monthly Column 6 Kiwi Harvest winter campaign launch 100 trollies for 100 planters 13 My Life Story Wendy Clarke - Working With Words 8 Waves hit Hāwea 9 Community Notes - Airport backs LUMAbility - Kiwi Park Locals Discount 11 Tit Bits Lakes Weekly Poll Results 15 Tonnie Spijkerbosch Tribute to an ingenious creator and tourism entrepreneur 4 Hundreds of trees to be felled on Kelvin Heights golf course Course Closed For Two Weeks 7 Coronation celebration 10 $6m boost for Winter Games NZ 14 White wins by-election 21 Trucky McTruck Face? Name grit and CMA trucks 22 Arts+Culture - Whatever you do, don’t feed the plant!
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The Wakatipu’s eldest living born and bred ‘local’ – True Southern Man
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Hundreds of trees to be felled on Kelvin Heights golf course Course Closed For Two Weeks
By Sue Fea
About 470 trees are likely to be felled from Kelvin Heights Golf Course, most of them this month – at least 330 Douglas Firs and 100 aging poplars, because of safety and nuisance concerns.
Queenstown Golf Club Board of Management chairperson Athol Stephens says the golf course will be closed from May 8 until 22 while the extensive tree felling work is carried out.
The Douglas Firs – a noxious plant, which has been a pest since the early golf course founders formed a committee to build the course in 1968, drop cones, windblown branches and spread seedlings far and wide, he says. “Tree roots have been gradually penetrating across the fairways which is not entirely satisfactory and they’re very thirsty trees that swallow up water.”
The poplars – a golden splendour at this time of year, have been assessed by an arborist as being 50 to 60 years old and in declining health, so unfortunately they have to come down too, he says. “We estimate about 100 poplars will have to come down, including the row directly opposite Grove Lane. One snapped off several years ago quite unexpectedly and one could fall with tragic consequences,” says Athol.
Five gum trees will also be removed.
The club leases the course from the Queenstown Lakes District Council, which therefore owns the trees. The council has granted permission to fell 427 trees, with the club applying to fell a further 43 – that decision expected in June. It first approached the council’s community and services committee in August or September last year with the proposal and Athol says they’ve been working through the plan with council staff.
“For every tree that’s felled the club has to replace it with two, mostly natives or deciduous exotics, so we will be planting up to 940 trees in this project,” he says. “It all depends on funds and availability of stock, but we want to do it right and make it look great. The liquid ambers are just magnificent this year.” He says there’s an opportunity to especially enhance the northern slopes inside and outside of the golf course with fabulous deciduous exotics.
Peninsula Walkway trees surrounding the course are outside of the club’s lease and won’t be touched, he says.
Local landscape architect Rebecca Lucas is designing the landscaping plan.
The club will stump up between $50,000 and $70,000 for the poplar work with the Wakatipu Conifer Control Group providing support funding for the Douglas Fir removal.
The council has donated the timber felled to the club to sell and Athol says that will help offset some of the costs with building supplies in demand at present, says Athol. “Douglas Fir is a good framing timber. It’s straight, stiff and water resistant.”
Unfortunately, he says, the Wakatipu Reforestation Trust, which really wanted to help, doesn’t have enough spare tree stocks, so the club is hoping to source its natives from specialist nurseries in Invercargill and north of Dunedin. Closing the course while the work is underway was the only option under health and safety regulations. Other Central Otago golf courses have been very generous in providing their courses for Queenstown Golf Club’s more than 600 members. “A lot of our members think it’s time this happened.”
He says Douglas Firs had started to encroach on the land when the course was built in the early 1970s and more tree felling was done in the 1990s with former course manager John Stephens having to fell 128 during his time. There’s been a boon in Queenstown Golf Club members in the past 18 months with numbers growing from 487 in June 2021 to 607 last year and 600 now.
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100 trollies for 100 planters - Kiwi Harvest winter campaign launch
By Jess Allen
With the pressure of rising mortgage rates, rent and cost of living increases, Kiwi Harvest are currently supporting over 760 individuals in our region each week. With the financial pressure that we’re all under, they have launched their Winter Food Campaign to help alleviate some of the strain that people are feeling.
Kiwi Harvest’s mission is to reuse excess food from supermarkets, cafes and local businesses that is donated to the community groups helping those in need. Around Otago, the group provides food to Te Whare Hauora ki Tahuna, The Salvation Army, Baskets of Blessings and Happiness House in Queenstown, Community Networks Foodbank and Food for Love in Wanaka, and Cromwell Foodbank. They also have plans to expand to Alexandra in the future. Last year, the crew rescued 120,000kg of food in the region, which equates to 340,000 meals worth of food.
“For a very small team with a small imprint, it has a big impact every week. We’re just trying to do what we can and this campaign is part of that,” says Gary Hough, the Queenstown Branch Manager for Kiwi Harvest. “For people who are struggling out there, they are not alone. There’s a huge amount of people struggling – we are there as a community to help them in their time of need”
Part one of their plan to increase food donations by introducing trollies at local supermarket entrances, where the community will be able to make food donations and bring in any excess food from their home. For every trolley that is filled, an upcycled customised raised planter package will go to locals in the community with the goal of helping with long-term resilience within the community.
Next, Kiwi Harvest are asking for donations through their Givealittle page. All funds raised will be split among the local charities to increase food supply and capability. Finally, they’re asking for volunteers – if you have any amount of regular time during the week and want to be part of the amazing mahi that local charities are doing, it would be greatly appreciated.
They say it takes a village, and local businesses certainly stepped up to the plate for this project. Naylor Love have taken up the task of creating the upcycled raised planters from palettes that would otherwise go to waste. They will be enlisting the help of the community and noted they will be
looking to retirees, individuals who are out of work, fathers and sons, or daughters and mothers to help build the boxes.
As many people are living in rented accommodation or without large space, it was important to create something that can be easily moved and make the most small areas. They also wanted to make it easy for those under timeconstraints, or who may be lacking a bit of a green thumb – Liger Academy Students designed the self-watering system for the planter.
Ecostore donated 300 used drums, which were used in the creation of the planter, and Cherry Tree Farm are donating the seedings to be used. Bunnings have supplied the netting, and Dr Compost have created a custom maintenance and training booklet on the planters. Chef Alvaro Morales will create budget-friendly recipes that will incorporate the leafy greens, and Wao Charity have offered research support and help to connect the community with the imitative.
Wao have reported that in 1923, over 90% of our calories were grown within a 100km radius of us, whereas now, we bring in over 95% of calories into the region. We’re becoming more disconnected with our food systems and this programme is a practical way to help people overcome some of the hurdles that come with growing your own food.
“Everyone’s costs are going up, including charities. We’re not exempt from that and some of us are seeing a huge increase. Demand goes up and our costs go up, and that’s just not a good combination for the community. So as part of that, we’re just trying to give points that the community can get behind the charity, so we’ve set up a Givealittle page,” says Gary.
To find out more about what Queenstown Kiwi Harvest do and their Winter Campaign you can head to kiwiharvest. org.nz/central-lakes-winter-campaign or you can donate to the Givealittle at givealittle.co.nz/cause/ kiwiharvest-central-lakes-winter-food-campaign
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Coronation celebration
By Paul Taylor
It was a far cry from the pageantry of Westminster Abbey but special none the less. Queenstown marked the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, King of New Zealand, by planting a Tōtara tree in Queenstown Gardens.
Pictured at the ceremony are QLDC Mayor Glyn Lewers, MP Joseph Mooney and Community Manager Kenneth Bailey.
Mooney says: “The new King has a well-known love of the environment and the Tōtara as one of New Zealand’s forest giants was a great choice to commemorate his coronation, with care it could still be in the gardens in a thousand years.”
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Waves hit Hāwea
By Jess Allen
Hāwea is now home to a set of consistent waves thanks to some Kiwi ingenuity. YourWave is a unique artificial surf wave and the brain child of product designer Ross McCarthy. It’s suitable for surfers of all abilities –beginners can learn to pop-up, while experts can carve steeper breaking waves.
The dream of creating a custom standing wave came to Ross after he finished a master’s degree in industrial product design. In the past, wave pools have been created with minimal water and using hard surfaces, which could cause injury – YourWave is instead inflatable.
“It all came when we saw competitors making similar waves, I suppose,” says Ross. “They were using hard surfaces and when you’re surfing on three inches of water – ours is deeper than that at about 300mils – it could be quite unsafe. Our idea was, why don’t you take a bouncy castle idea and chuck a wave over it? Then making it a lot softer and a lot more user-friendly, because people were getting quite seriously hurt on other machines, so that’s where the idea started.”
From there, Ross and the team started building prototypes and found that they could adjust the air pressure in the inflatable sails and start chopping and changing the wave. As a result, it “all worked out a lot better.” The first prototype was created in a warehouse in Dunedin, where Ross was based for 18 years. Eventually, investors came on board and allowed them to build the unit that is now in Hāwea.
The artificial wave isn’t open to the public just yet, but that will change very soon as the team await some final signoffs. In the meantime, Ross and his mates have been enjoying the one-of-a-kind experience all to themselves.
“I have a lot of friends who are surfers and they’ve been surfing it, and yeah, they’re really
enjoying it. Some of them even say that they probably prefer to come out here and surf this, rather than travel the distance to go surf real waves. It’s been a pretty good reception.”
Simulating a real-wave experience, those who have had the opportunity to ride the wave have said it feels exactly like surfing. It’s a great way to hone your skills, giving users the ability to pop up and surf time and time again, something that could take weeks or more to master in the natural environment.
Once YourWave is open to all it will be available for private hire or for people to book online and head in on the weekends. You can bring your own board or they can supply you one – they’re in the process of testing out which boards are most suited to their wave – fibreglass boards aren’t recommended.
With the first one done and dusted, the primary business now is to sell the wave pools themselves. The internationally-patented product has a competitive edge by way of its ability to adjust the waves. The height, angle and face shape of the wave to cater to individual needs.
Bookings for YourWave will be open to the public soon. You can find out more information at yourwave.surf.
Airport backs LUMAbility
A bright idea to make the LUMA Southern Light Project accessible to all is being sponsored by Queenstown Airport.
LUMAbility will be run as a pilot project when the popular arts, performance and sensory event returns to the Queenstown Gardens at King’s Birthday Weekend, 1-5 June, 2023.
Guided tours catering to diverse needs will be offered outside normal operating times so guests can enjoy the artworks and musical installations without having to navigate crowds and traffic congestion.
“LUMA is a wonderful event and we want to make it welcoming and accessible to everyone,” Queenstown Airport’s Partnerships and Marketing Manager, Vanessa Hartnell, said.
“We hope LUMAbility will provide a really memorable experience. And, if it is a success, it could be used as a model for other inclusive community events.”
LUMAbility organisers have been working with community groups such as the Pivotal Point Charitable Trust, the Mint Charitable Trust, Living Options,
Kiwi Park Locals Discount
If you have never had the opportunity to visit Queenstown’s Kiwi Park, perhaps now is the time as the park has a locals offer available for the month of May. By visiting the park, you are also supporting the conservation work Kiwi Park undertakes as well as getting 30% off using the discount.
The Park
Kiwi Park covers over 2 hectares in central Queenstown and is a family-owned and operated wildlife centre, dedicated to saving our endangered wildlife species. There are over 20 species of native wildlife on display, including New Zealand’s national icon, the kiwi and our living fossil, the tuatara.
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Get up and personal with our most fascinating, endangered wildlife in an entertaining 30-minute free flight show. Presented by the park’s team of skilled and passionate animal keepers this entertaining show both entertains and educates on just how special our native wildlife really is and the threats they face in the wild.
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IDEA Services and the Wakatipu Senior Citizens Association to develop the pilot project.
Tours will be tailored to the audience and will be run by Sunny Sky, from Epic Living, who has a wealth of experience working with alongside groups with diverse abilities.
“We’ve had very positive feedback,” LUMA spokesman, Tim Buckley said. “We’re excited to be working with Queenstown Airport to establish accessibility as another cornerstone of how LUMA is delivered for our community.”
Hartnell said Queenstown Airport had a ‘one team’ philosophy that encouraged collaboration to create a diverse, inclusive, dynamic and welcoming environment where people feel safe and valued.
“LUMAbility lines up with this goal perfectly.”
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$6m boost for Winter Games NZ
By Paul Taylor
Winter Games NZ has secured its future for the next five years with $6 million in funding from Central Government.
The international snowsports competition, which takes place on Queenstown Lakes skifields each year, will be boosted by the support through the New Zealand Major Events Fund, through to 2027.
Winter Games NZ CEO, Marty Toomey says the funding provides long-term confidence to organisers and commercial partners.
“This funding support will allow us to showcase Aotearoa New Zealand to the world through epic content, captured during the biggest snow sports programme we have ever delivered.”
Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson says the Games, which attracts around 600 international athletes each year and is the largest annual snow sports event in the Southern Hemisphere, is “a unique element of the sports landscape and significant in the development of aspirational and elite athletes”.
“The competition in Central Otago aligns strongly with Sport NZ and HighPerformance Sport NZ strategies and is critical to our campaign planning and preparation for the Winter Olympics,” Robertson says.
“The Winter Games also help ensure Kiwi snow sport athletes can compete in a significant competition in front of a home audience, which supports the athletes and inspires future talent.
“I am proud that organisers and athletes can now look forward to a great competition.”
Winter Games NZ 2023 will host 14 traditional events across alpine, freeride and freestyle (park and pipe) disciplines between the 25 August and 8 September.
The Australia New Zealand Cup (ANC) alpine skiing Giant Slalom, Slalom and Super G races will take place at Coronet Peak. The North Face Frontier Freeride World Tour qualifying 2-star and 4-star events will be held across the Wakatipu Basin at The Remarkables ski area.
The world’s best freeski and snowboard athletes aged 14-18 will battle it out at Cardrona Alpine Resort for the prestigious FIS Junior World Champion titles in big air, halfpipe and slopestyle and the chance to secure a nation spot for the 2024 Youth Olympic Winter Games being held in Korea in January 2024. Despite being juniors, the eligible athletes will include reigning junior and senior World Champions and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympians. Economic Development Minister Barbara Edmonds says is a “proudly Kiwi... homegrown event”.
“It offers elite international sports competition across New Zealand’s Southern Lakes District in the northern hemisphere’s summer,” Edmonds says.
“It will support the region’s post-COVID-19 recovery and generate a number of new economic and social and cultural opportunities.
“The event organisers work with local businesses and Chambers of Commerce to promote economic opportunities and sponsorship activities. There are also strong tourism and travel promotion opportunities from North Island and Australian markets, and the Winter Games promote extended travel and visits for tourists.”
In addition to a stacked traditional schedule, Winter Games NZ will also hold the inaugural International Obsidian Challenge from 9-16 September at Cardrona Alpine Resort. The International Obsidian Challenge is an athlete focused team event and will see teams made up of the best freeski and snowboard athletes representing Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America, battle it out for bragging rights across custom built terrain park venues and extraordinary freeride terrain.
“We love showcasing Aotearoa New Zealand to the world and encourage as many people as possible to watch our events unfold on mountain. For those who can’t be there in person we will be producing amazing content for our digital and television audiences,” Toomey adds.
“With so many events to choose from across the Southern Lakes world class ski areas, the 2023 Winter Games NZ will be quite the celebration.”
Sport NZ and High-Performance Sport NZ also invests about $5 million in Snow Sports New Zealand for both domestic and high-performance sports.
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King Charles has a personal fortune hundreds of millions more than the late Queen
Analysis by The Sunday Times suggested the King is worth £600 million (about $NZ1,216 million), while his mother had a personal fortune of about £370 million ($745 million) in the London newspaper’s 2022 Rich List that was released before she died last September.
An unnamed former advisor to Charles told the newspaper that Charles became scrupulous with his finances in the wake of his divorce from Princess Diana in 1996 that cost him £17 million (about $34 million today).
The advisor told The Sunday Times that following his divorce Charles began saving profits from the Duchy of Cornwall, a property empire now controlled by his eldest son, Prince William.
The value of the Duchy of Cornwall rose by $570 million in a decade under Charles’s stewardship. It generated £23 million ($46.5 million) in profits last year. Charles chose to pay income tax on that income. However, a large chunk of his fortune comes from the 20,000 acre Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The home and its farmland have been owned by the royals for more than 160 years.
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‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Officially Smashes $1 Billion Globally
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the $1 billion milestone at the global box office.
After 26 days of release, the animated video game adaptation, from Universal, Illumination and Nintendo, has grossed US$490 million in North America and US$532 million internationallly. It’s only the fifth movie of pandemic times to join the $1 billion club, following “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Jurassic World Dominion” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” opened on April 5 and generated $204 million in its first five days of release, notching the biggest opening weekend of the year and the second-biggest debut ever for an animated movie.
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A mother wins a $2M lottery after paying for her daughter’s cancer treatment with her life savings
A Florida woman who spent her life savings to help her daughter beat breast cancer is now a millionaire.
Geraldine Gimblet of Lakeland bought a winning Florida Lottery ticket one day after her daughter completed her final treatment for breast cancer. The $10 ticket was a $2 million winner for Gimblet, according to the Florida Lottery.
“I just didn’t know. I was like, ‘Are you sure, would you check this on your phone?” Gimblet, 74, told GMA.
Gimblet’s daughter, Lawrencina Jackson, was equally shocked to learn her mom won the lottery just one day after Jackson rang the bell at a local hospital, signifying the end of her breast cancer treatment.
“It was truly amazing,” Jackson told GMA.
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OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation
OpenAI, the startup behind the widely used conversational AI model ChatGPT, has picked up new backers, TechCrunch has learned. VC firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global picking up new shares. Altogether the VCs have put in just over $300 million at a valuation of $27 billion – $29 billion. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year, which closed in January. The size of Microsoft’s investment is believed to be around $10 billion. If all this is accurate, this is the closing of the tender offer the Wall Street Journal reported was in the works in January.
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LAKES WEEKLY POLL
LWB regularly polls locals on issues affecting our region. This weeks responses are below.
If you work a five day week (and with employer approval), do you work from home on Mondays and/or Fridays?
Yes
Yes - 12%
I work from home
I work from home but not Mon and/or Fri - 10% I work all my hours at my place of employment - 38% Not relevant to me - 40%
I work all my hours at my place of employment
Should the government raise the unemployment payment in the upcoming budget?
Unsure
Yes
Yes - 26%
No - 62%
Unsure - 12%
Not
No
Have you had a flu shot?
Yes
Yes - 20%
No, but I am booked - 9%
No, but I am booked
No, must do that - 21%
Not getting one - 50%
How do you think King Charles III will perform as New Zealand’s head of state?
Unsure
He will do well
He will do well, let’s keep things the same - 35% Okay but the monarchy is irrelevant to NZ - 58%
Unsure - 7%
Okay but the monarchy is irrelevant to NZ
Do you support the government’s defence policy strategic review?
Yes - 22%
No - 9%
Unsure - 69%
There were 154 respondents this week.
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Not relevant to me
Yes No Unsure
No, must do that getting one
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BLACK JACKET RAINPROOFS WITH A HOODIE STOLEN or taken by mistake (it happens, it’s ok) at Bungalow on Saturday night. Please bring it back there or to the Police station. Fabien 0225003187. Thanks, that’s my only one, I’m a local and winter is coming.
FOUND
Unclaimed items sitting at the Police Station, at 11 Camp Street, this week include:
• KRUZ REMI-CLEMINSON – BAG CONTAINING DOCUMENTS AND airpods
• JONATHAN MORAN – WALLET
• K. VENN – WALLET
• HINEIRA PIO-AINSLEY WALLET
• KEIRAN MOORE – WALLET
• BLACK GUCCI PURSE with single stripe, found at Soho
• JESSIE REYNOLDS – PURSE
• DAPHNE WRIGHT – PURSE
• VERA TAI – PURSE
• APPLE AIRPODS in blue rubber case, found at the Stanley St bus stop
• ARENIEL MONTORO – SAMSUNG PHONE
• BLACK JBL WIRELESS HEADPHONES
• SMALL SILVER NIKON CAMERA, found at Sky City, possibly belongs to the ‘Bretherton’ Family
WSCA – ROOMS FOR HIRE - SPACIOUS, sunny rooms are available for hire to Queenstown Community Groups. The rooms hold up to 90 people, with seated dining for 40. Located on the 1st floor of Malaghan House, 10 Memorial Street, Queenstown with lift access. There are kitchen facilities, toilets, Wi-Fi, media equipment for projection onto large screen plus large screen TV. Contact us on 03 4429214 or info@wsca.org.nz for more details.
Everything Else
MENTAL HEALTH HELP - MY NAME IS Dr Rebecca Bloore and after 10+ years’ experience conducting positive psychology research, I am offering consulting sessions. Are you or anyone you know struggling with relationships, anxiety, anxiety, difficulties at work, fatigue or stress? Using positive psychology, I take nonmedication approach to help assist general wellbeing and help you thrive in your daily life. I am doing a block special (3 or more) at $145 per session (normal cost $180-$235). To book call or text 0204 1337 505. Located online/or in person (Wanaka). Couples and individuals welcome. All ages.
QUEENSTOWN DHARMA CENTRE, 12 LAKE ST. WED (10 May), @ 6:30pm “Change Your Mind - Change Your Life” with Annette Macalister; SUN (14 May), @ 10am, “Cultivating Awareness Practice” followed by “Social Sunday.” Sessions are free with dana for the centre gratefully accepted. Session details on dharmacentre.org.nz or FB.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “FOLLOW YOUR HEART, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.” - Olympia Dukakis
NEED AN IDYLLIC SPOT IN KINGSTON TO rent for your tiny home or caravan? Please text 022 404 3545.
2023 SHED STORED CONVENTIONAL BALES- HAY; RED Clover and Meadow Hay, Peastraw and Barley Straw. Baled with late model equipment; resulting in tight, dense and uniform bales. Bales are located in Riversdale, Southland but can deliver. 0274757313
FOR SALE: A VERY EFFECTIVE METHOD OF ADVERTISING –Line Ads in the Lakes Weekly Bulletin are a very effective method of advertising. Take the first step to your successful business advertising by going to www.lwb.co.nz and place your ad online. Pricing starts from $9.50
Community
QUILTING TALK AND TRUNK SHOW – CHRIS Jurd. Queenstown
Quilters and Patchworks are bringing Chris Jurd to Queenstown. She is a prolific quilter, teacher, and pattern maker. Known for using curves in her pieced and geometric quilts, though she is currently making use modern print fabrics in vibrant colours. The show is on Friday 12 May at7.00 pm at Te Atamira. Contact Jude Grace-Dillon 0273750910
FREE IMMIGRATION CLINIC. IF YOU NEED IMMIGRATION information or advice the Citizens Advice Bureau run an immigration clinic every Wednesday from 7pm. To make an appointment call them on 03 442 6679
WHAKATIPU DRIVE MY LIFE ARE SEEKING VOLUNTEERS to become mentor buddies to help our vulnerable people achieve their drivers licence. If you are interested or have any questions contact Louise Ward louise@reap.co.nz
SPCA OP SHOP – 51 GORGE RD. Open Monday – Saturday 9.00 – 5.00. Pre-loved goods and clothing at great prices. Help support the ongoing work done by the SPCA. Your old goods, or your time, could help save a life. Accepting donations (no electrical at the moment) and volunteers now. Volunteers wanted!
HAVE THAT NIGGLING ACHE OR PAIN THAT just won’t go away? A recurring condition, or maybe you’re looking for something to assist alongside your more traditional treatments to speed up recovery? Two Feathers can help, an Alternative & Holistic Health Service including Tuning Forks, Energy Healing & Reiki Master. For more info contact Amy on: healing@ twofeathers.co.nz or 022 454 8288
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by Sue Fea
My Life Story
WENDY CLARKE Working With Words
She’s now passing on a lifelong passion for poetry and reading to future generations with works published and the first of her plays performed locally this week, but Wendy Clarke’s talents haven’t always been recognised.
Growing up in Invercargill, the eldest of four kids, Wendy’s dad managed the Southland Phosphate Works where the family lived. “The sulphuric acid plant used to explode periodically and Mum would lock us inside with towels sealing the windows.”
Her mother fostered her love of poetry and books, taking the kids to Invercargill Library every Saturday morning, where renowned librarian Elizabeth Millar reigned supreme. “She had such a positive effect on so many Southland children,” says Wendy.
However, her mother didn’t succeed at passing on her champion swimming genes. “I was useless, and we had a very high-powered coach with a large stick. He’d push your head under if you weren’t trying hard enough.” Wendy, in her white bathing cap with green lilies, spent much of the lessons shivering poolside for chattering, with her teeth now doing all the work.
A prefect and head librarian at Southland Girls’ High, a rather intimidating male careers advisor told her she couldn’t possibly be a journalist as her 75 percent School Certificate English pass wasn’t an ‘A’. “He said, ‘Anyway, it’s a very hard career for a woman. You should be a teacher or a nurse’, so teacher it was.”
Wendy loved Otago University life, taking her first teaching job at Portobello School where the staff kept trying to marry her off to local fishermen or farmers.
During a stint teaching in Invercargill she began dating now husband of 30 years David Clarke. “He had two gold earrings and nice long, curly hair. We met at (former NZ DOC director) Lou Sanson’s country and western flat party in Gala Street. The house was full of hay bales.”
During three years of travel Wendy nervously drove rental Mercedes cars to rich Saudi Arabian visitors, manoeuvring her way along four-lane motorways, one grateful customer tipping her 50 pounds. She waitressed in a Swiss ski village where teenage Saudi Arabian students attending Swiss Finishing Schools turned up in their Porsches and Lamborghinis, and French guests fed their pooches at the restaurant table. Taught how to disarm students carrying knives and ready to push the alarm button at the lower socioeconomic London school where she worked, Wendy felt for the Pakistani girls whom she was told to ‘teach embroidery’. “We took them on the tube to see the Thames and have lunch at a pub instead.”
Back in NZ in the 1980s building boom they settled in Queenstown buying 2ha at Speargrass Flat for $50,000 and were mocked by their friends.
“They called it The Camel Farm and it’s now The Golden Triangle,” says Wendy. David built their first home there and Izzy and Hamish were born in the 1990s. They eventually subdivided, only selling their final home there, with its beautiful gardens, last year to move into Arrowtown.
After being given a start at St Joseph’s School, Wendy taught at Arrowtown – a connection that has lasted 29 years. Given a free reign on the creative writing programme by principal Helen Turner 20 years ago, Wendy completed a dissertation on poetry and rhyme extramurally.
On a mission to prove that teaching children poetry didn’t have to include rhyme, Wendy wrote resource books - ‘Poetry in The Classroom’, still selling nationally and internationally.
Inspired by Arrowtown School’s ginger cat, Mango, Wendy wrote a children’s book in 2017 which the school PTA published as a fundraiser. Junior children did the illustrations. Mango has sold nearly a thousand copies and raised thousands of dollars for the school.
One of those instrumental in saving the Arrowtown Flower Show, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in September, Wendy is a former chair and has served on that committee for 25 years. She’s also been involved with Arrowtown Preschool, Arrowtown Autumn Festival and Arrowtown RSA.
With writing her first love, Wendy has had poetry published in school journals and national poetry publications, also winning several short story competitions, including the Winter Festival Competition in the 1990s. “(Broadcaster) Maggie Barry judged that and I bought the most amazing black boots from Goddess with the $500 prizemoney.” She’s also won the Bannockburn Across the Bridge Poetry Competition and placed third in The Mirror Short Story Competition. However, it’s having her upcoming play performed in Remarkables Theatre’s Pint-Sized Plays this week that she’s been most excited about. “I’m the least competitive person in the world, but I’m just pathetically excited about seeing a play that I wrote acted out on stage by the likes of Mike Legge.”
While Wendy is only relief teaching in Arrowtown now, she has three part-time jobs and a very busy life. “Sometimes it’s difficult to find some head space so I love to get away to our wee stone cottage in Ophir and just be in the mountains where it’s very quiet.”
Wendy and David on their wedding day at their Speargrass Flat property in 1993.
Wendy relaxing in her favourite Vietnamese city, Hoi An.
Arrowtown’s Wendy Clarke
The Council Word
Grants available for ‘wasteful’ ideas!
Got a clever idea for reducing waste or finding other ways to make use of stuff we normally throw away? Grants from QLDC’s Waste Minimisation Community Fund are available to help local groups, schools and businesses make a real difference. Applications close Friday 19 May. More info at qldc.govt.nz/wmcf
Towards affordable housing for all
Feedback is open on a plan for local and government partners to work together on our district’s housing needs. Learn more about the Joint Housing Action Plan and its nine solutions for renters and homeowners, then have your say at letstalk.qldc.govt.nz/jhap
Get a grip this winter
Sign up to our winter road reports and get an email every morning about driving conditions before you leave home. Road closures, whiteout, black ice or sweet as – it’s a free service due to start in a few weeks. Sign up at qldc.govt.nz/winter-road-reports
Ladies Mile: a housing solution?
We think Te Pūtahi Ladies Mile could become one of our most liveable areas. You can have your say on proposed changes to the District Plan that would enable higher-density housing in line with the masterplan adopted last year. Submissions close 9 June. Find out more at qldc.govt.nz/ladies-mile-variation
Sign up for text alerts
With winter fast approaching now’s a great time to sign up for our community text alerts. Enter your number and the locations you’re interested in, and we’ll flick you a text about things like closed roads, water shutdowns and dangerous driving conditions. Sign up for free at qldc.govt.nz/text-alerts
Good dogs update their details
Humans! Your pooches need you to update your details so we send renewal notices to the right place. If you’ve moved house or changed your phone number, email address or other key info please let us know at services@qldc.govt.nz or 03 441 0499.
Alcohol licence applications
All recently lodged alcohol licence applications are on our website. Any objections must be made within fifteen working days of the public notice being published. Visit qldc.govt.nz/services/alcohol-licensing/public-notices
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White wins by-election
By Paul Taylor
Melissa White will be the new Arrowtown-Kawarau Ward councillor after another super tight council election result.
White won the by-election by just 26 votes from John Glover, based on the preliminary results released on Friday.
The Lake Hayes Estate mother-of-two received 767 votes ahead of sole challenger Glover with 741 votes.
The voter turnout was 19.2%, being 1,519 votes. There were 8 special votes still to count but the result is expected to be confirmed early this week.
Queenstown’s known for its tight council elections with one coming down to a coin toss. That was between AJ Mason and Glyn Lewers six years ago. Lewers won and was elected to council, and went on to become the mayor.
“I had no idea how it was going to go and when I heard it had come down to just 26 votes, it did make my heart jump a little,” White says.
“I was pleasantly surprised with the result and the fact it went my way, but it was very close.”
White plans to provide a voice for the people in the bustling subdivisions of Lake Hayes Estate and Shotover Country.
“That’s my biggest motivation because there’s a lot happening out this way, so for someone who actually lives here to have a seat at the council is very important.”
Big issues include the rezoning of Ladies Mile, which will provide up to 2400 much-needed new apartments and houses, but has proved unpopular with many locals due to concerns about traffic.
White will likely be able to see both sides of the debate. She lives in a Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust House, from where she operates her cake and cupcake business.
It was her dealings with council over regulatory requirements, including her frustrations with the processes and procedures, which initially sparked her interest in becoming a councillor.
During her campaign, she said: “It’s so much more than that now, there are so many issues the council is facing, both large and small, and I believe it’s important to have local and diverse representation around the council table.” Before the serious work begins, however, there’s been a little time for some celebrations.
“I had a few drinks on Friday night with some friends who popped around to say congratulations, which was really good,” White said, on Sunday.
“But it’s my daughter’s seventh birthday tomorrow, so that takes over, as you’d imagine birthdays are quite big in this house . . . I have a Cat in The Hat cake-theme to make, which I’m secretly quite excited about.”
Her phone was buzzing non-stop on Friday afternoon, with calls and messages of congratulations from other councillors, friends and her opponent John Glover.
They were both a little disappointed with the voter turnout.
“We were expecting a poor voter turnout, it being a byelection, but it would have been nice to have people more engaged,” White says.
She actually got fewer votes than when she ran in October, when she landed 1081 votes, with a voter turnout of 43%, finishing fifth in the race for the three seats.
Craig ‘Ferg’ Ferguson, Lisa Guy and Neeta Shetty were elected but the byelection was called after Shetty resigned just three months into the new term. Nell Hunter, who’d finished fourth in October, chose not to stand again. Glover didn’t stand in October but has put his hat in the ring three times now. He’s not sure whether he’ll give it another go next time around.
“Fourth-time lucky is not the best election slogan,” he says, “but it’s two years away and we’ll see how things shake out.”
For now, he’ll continue his work for the community as chair of Shaping Our Future, and with the Glenorchy Community Association.
“I’m lucky I get paid to do community work with is so rewarding and inspiring, so standing for council was never a binary choice. I’m disappointed but that’s democracy.”
White is expected to be sworn in at the next Full Council meeting on 1 June.
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Tribute to an ingenious creator and tourism entrepreneur
Tonnie Spijkerbosch
By Sue Fea
In a day long before it was fashionable Tonnie Spijkerbosch led the charge on repurposing, renowned locally as a creative entrepreneurial visionary, plumbing genius and King of DIY.
Almost 300 people turned out to farewell this much-loved, longtime local on Saturday, April 29, with many tributes, funny stories and anecdotes shared, all in honour of Tonnie’s humorous style. He died on March 23 after a short illness, aged 79. There was a common thread – Tonnie was such a kind, genuine man, full of quirky humour, spirit and creativity with a strong work ethic.
A Dutch immigrant, Tonnie arrived in NZ, speaking minimal English, with younger brother Jos on the adventure of his life in 1967. A plumber in Holland, his technical know-how and skill was in demand here. He worked in sheet metal in the North Island before arriving in Dunedin where he scored a plumbing job and met wife of 52 years, Erna, at a Town Hall dance. He was working at West Arm Manapouri Hydro Dam for a time.
They married in 1970 and moved to Queenstown. Tonnie worked for Hec Boyd plumbing for just over a year.
Tonnie and Erna then launched Spÿkes Plumbing, eventually employing 15 people and, as Erna says, “saving the day one pipe at a time”.
Anja, Michael and Uan were born in the 1970s then Tonnie had one of his ‘ah-ha’ moments, while working at the Queenstown Camping Ground. He had a keen entrepreneurial eye and decided they should build NZ’s first dedicated campervan park, Queenstown Holiday Park Creeksyde, which opened in 1988. It was such a hit they sold Spÿkes Plumbing in 1989.
The couple worked hard to transform the old plant nursery in Robins Road, preserving it as a green oasis for central Queenstown. The park bears many of Tonnie’s ‘plumbing art’ creations and is testament to his incredible do-it-yourself talents, repurposing discarded items into working features at the park.
Creeksyde soon gained fame for its eco-friendliness and this creative plumbing art, inspired by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Dubbed by his family as a “quirky artist and junk-collector extraordinaire”, they say Tonnie found joy in repurposing seemingly useless items into unique art pieces. He was often spotted attending farm-clearance sales with Erna, hunting for new treasures and potential masterpieces. “You can’t make something if you don’t have bits to build with,” he’d say.
Tonnie was always first to offer a hand up, creating DIY solutions for the community whenever required. His humour and generosity were contagious and he was known for encouraging his staff and apprentices to also create art from his treasure trove of collected items.
The ingenious thermette water heater system and the 44 gallon drum, fire in a grid cooking systems he designed and created for the Wakatipu High School Branches Camps in 1986 are still used and greatly appreciated today.
Another of his most notable accomplishments includes locating and donating the long-lost Coronet Peak Cresta Run remains to the Naseby community, now installed alongside the Ice Luge.
While Erna turned to local politics and became vice and national president of the Holiday Accommodation Parks of NZ Board, she says it was Tonnie - masterminding behind the scenes that made the park such a success.
Behind the scenes was just how he liked it, according to son Uan. Also an active member of Queenstown Lions, Tonnie’s skills were so often integral in making things work.
A dedicated ‘family man’ he loved his children and grandkids to bits.
Indulge with High Tea this Mother’s Day
Treat the mother figure in your life to a luxurious High Tea at threesixty Restaurant, Crowne Plaza Queenstown. Our chefs have crafted a special Mother’s Day menu with sweet and savoury delicacies to indulge in, while enjoying the stunning Lake Wakatipu view.
Spoil you mum this Mother’s Day. Sunday 14th May is the one day when mum gets to be pampered (well the official day anyway).
Whether you’re shopping for mum, grandma, your mother-inlaw, or even a friend, we have some great ideas here that are perfect for that special woman in your life. Check out our amazing selection of ideas that can be found here in Queenstown.
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The Big Bike Film Night
Composting Workshop
Dr. Compost is hosting a free composting workshop where he will teach how to turn food scraps into food for the garden. Learn the basics of starting to compost in your own home so that you can reduce waste and feed your soil! Healthy soil grows healthy plants, and a great way to feed your soil is by composting your kitchen scraps and garden waste. Discover which method will suit best and get all the know-how to turn food and garden waste into nutrients to feed your plants and soil. While the workshop is free, bookings are required. Contact either Queenstown or Frankton Library to book: frankton.library@qldc.govt.nz or queenstown.library@qldc.govt.nz
When: Saturday 13 May, at 11:00 am
Where: Frankton Library, Hawthorne Drive, Frankton
When: Saturday 13 May, at 1:30 pm
Where: Queenstown Library, Gorge Rd
Art Workshop - Unloosed
Explore the art of colour in adornment with experimental materials. Make something wild and energetic to break all the tight boundaries we have around contemporary jewellery. Hosted by Jessica Winchcombe, this workshop will commence with a tour of the exhibition and artist talk before the practical workshop.
When: Sunday 14 May from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Where: Te Atamira, Remarkables Park Town Centre
Digital Drop In
Do you need a helping hand with your digital devices? Pop in, give us a call, email or join a drop-in session. We might ask a few questions about your issue beforehand so that we can plan to get the most out of your session. The team at the libraries are not tech experts, just friendly librarians with good IT skills. We’ll do our best to fix your problem, but on occasion we will direct you to the experts. Sessions are free.
For Queenstown appointment email: queenstown.library@qldc.govt.nz
For Frankton appointment email: frankton.library@qldc.govt.nz
For Wanaka no need to book, just drop in on the day What do I need to bring?
Bring your digital device and your questions.
Where and when: Frankton and Queenstown Library by appointment and at the Wanaka Library every Thursday between 4:00 pm and 5.30 pm
TALKS
The Sources of a Future Taiwan Crisis
Today’s decision-makers in the People’s Republic of China, the United States, and on Taiwan have different definitions of the cross-strait status quo and different assessments of the interests at stake. As a result, says Harvard University Professor of China in World Affairs, Alastair Iain Johnston, the probability of military conflict appears to be rising, though it is unclear by how much and how fast.
Johnatan’s Catalyst discussion comes at a time of rising rhetoric on both sides of the US–China power plays in the Indo-Pacific, with AUKUS and Australia’s recent decision to build long-range missile capacity adding regional heat. Registration required online at Eventbrite.
When: Thursday May 18, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Where: Rees Hotel, 377 Frankton Road, in the conference room
The Big Bike Film Night is riding into town on its missionbringing the best cycling short films from around the world together for you. There will be action, drama, humour, and plenty of inspiration across 2 ½ hours the evening is going to be unashamedly aimed at the two-wheel devotee of which there many in the region. This year’s treasure chest of films includes an uplifting film that celebrates a humble volunteer whose community spirit is inspiring and so are the majestic winter views of the trail where he lives in rural heartland Central Otago, a delightful young Australian bikepackers learnings from completing a scenic trip to Hell; a visually commanding film set in postcard Tuscany following a 74-year old bicicletta rider whose spirit personifies cycling among many others.
These short films are a great reminder of why we love to ride our bikes with films that celebrate the fun, adventure, and inspiration that cycling enables, whatever your ride is.
When: Thursday 11 May, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall, 33 Buckingham Street
When: Wednesday 17 May, 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm Thu, 18 May, 7:00 pm –9:30 pm
Where: Wanaka Community Hub, 34 McDougall St
Quilting Talk and Trunk Show – Chris Jurd
Queenstown Quilters and Patchworks are bringing Chris Jurd to Queenstown. Chris is an artist who lives in the Blue Mountains, Australia. She is a prolific quilter, teacher, and pattern maker. Known for using curves in her pieced and geometric quilts, those she is currently making use modern print fabrics in vibrant colours. This talk and trunk show will be a stimulating visual feast. To find out more contact Jude Grace-Dillon 027 3750 910.
Entry fee $5.
When: Friday 12 May at 7.00 pm
Where: Te Atamira, Remarkables Park Town Centre
Little Shop of Horrors – Musical
Little Shop of Horrors is a Broadway and Hollywood scifi smash musical, and has been in production for over 30 years. The show is a horror comedy rock musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics and a book by Howard Ashman. The story follows a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. Bookings are online at Eventfinda.
When: Thu 18 May, Fri 19, Sat 20, Tue 23, Wed 24, Thu 25, Fri 26 and Sat 27 May at 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm.
Matinee on Sun 21 May, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm.
Where: Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial Drive
Tiny Ruins - Ceremony Album Release Tour
Tiny Ruins have embarked on a national tour to celebrate the release of their fourth album, entitled Ceremony. Traversing influences that cross genre and era. The artistry of Hollie Fullbrook and her band spans delicate folk, lustrous dream pop and ebullient psychedelia. Hollie Fullbrook’s evolution as Tiny Ruins has reached an apex as she’s become a deft bandleader of incredible musicians. Tickets from Banished Music.
When: Saturday 13 May at 7:00 pm
Where: Sherwood, 554 Frankton Road, Queenstown
FILM NIGHT
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Trucky McTruck Face? Name grit and CMA trucks
By Paul Taylor
Could ‘Gritney Spears’ stop your winter mornings being toxic? Will ‘Spready Mercury’ break you free from the icy conditions?
With winter fast approaching and the return of grit and CMA trucks working to keep roads safe in the district, Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) wants your help to name some of these champions of the chilly months. The council is taking suggestions to name two grit trucks, one plough truck, and one CMA truck, before a shortlist of the best proposals is made and put to a public vote.
QLDC Infrastructure Operations Manager, Simon Mason said the naming competition was just one part of a campaign to raise awareness of winter road conditions and encourage safe driving habits.
“We want people to get a grip this winter and maintain that grip. Road conditions can change at any time during the chillier months, and the more people know what to expect, the safer they’ll be,” Mason says.
“A name won’t change how much grit a truck can spread, but we can create more understanding around what these vehicles and the crews operating
them are doing. Hopefully drivers find a bit of joy on those cold and dark mornings when they come across a truck they might have named or voted for.”
The names that prove most popular in voting will be assigned to one of the four winter road trucks, with each receiving its own personalised badge to be displayed on the side of the truck.
Suggestions for grit, plough, and CMA truck names can be made on QLDC’s Facebook page, or emailed through to letstalk@qldc.govt.nz.
The naming competition also marks the start of a drive for residents and visitors to the Queenstown Lakes District to sign up to QLDC’s Winter Road Reports and Community Text Alerts, via the council’s website at www.qldc. govt.nz.
Road updates are also available through the Queenstown App. Chain fitting workshops are planned for the district too, at Queenstown Events Centre from 11am-1pm on Friday, 9 June 2023, and at Wānaka Recreation Centre from 11am-1pm on Tuesday, 13 June 2023.
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Crown Range in winter is grit-truck territory.
Arts+Culture
Whatever you do, don’t feed the plant!
By Jess Allen
Showbiz Queenstown is bringing the classic musical, Little Shop of Horrors, to Queenstown from next week. The show is a sci-fi/comedy/musical that has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for more than 30 years.
The show is based off a movie from the 1960s about a carnivorous plant. The music for the original movie was composed by Alan Menken and offers rock and roll vibes. It follows a floral assistant, Seymour, and his crush on Audrey. Seymour finds a mysterious plant, which starts to bring him some luck, but it’s not long before mysterious happenings take place.
The show is directed by Tiffany Bindon, who studied Performing Arts and Dance in college and has had a passion since she was four. She’s the General Manager of Turn up the Music and has been involved in countless shows around Queenstown over the past 15 years.
“It’s my happy place – kind of like my sanity is in being dramatic, I guess,” says Tiffany. “What I really love about directing is finding those connections or helping the actors find the connections with the characters, to give a real performance the audience can believe and relate to. That’s why I love directing.”
The cast includes Mitchell Walsh, who is new to town and will be making his Queenstown debut, Andy Bell, a much-loved figure in our theatre scene, and Dana Hamilton, another local favourite. Alex Fraser will voice Audrey II (the plant), and choreography is by Drey Tendron from Remarks Dance.
“The audience can expect to meet lots of different types of characters –some good, some bad. Mitchell Walsh will play seven different characters, and one of his main roles is Oren, the dentist, who is just such a big character. He’s one of the bad guys that you’ll love to hate. He’s quite unnerving at times and he just nailed it – he’s just such a huge personality Mitchell moved to town seven months ago from across the ditch on the Gold Coast. So far, he’s been loving life in the Whakatipu and decided to move here after holidaying. He has a background in theatre, starting when he was in high school, and Showbiz are excited to have him on board.
“After high school I went and studied at uni – I did a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Drama at Queensland University of Technology,” says Mitchell. “After that, I went to the States and studied a conservatory programme at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for a year. Then, I came back and was working at the theme parks on the Gold Coast as a performer, as well as teaching at my local community theatre, Spotlight, which was amazing. I did a lot of shows through there – directing and performing. I did a bit of film and TV but didn’t like it, theatre is my main go to!
The show has a small cast of ten, but there’s a huge team of crew, volunteers and people behind the scenes that make
Tiny Ruins to play at Sherwood
the show possible including set builders, makeup artists, costume and prop makers/finders, front of house and bar people, as well as a backstage team. Rehearsals started around February, and everyone involved can’t wait for it to take the stage.
For those wondering if you can bring the kids, Tiffany says “Though it’s thoroughly entertaining, there are some scenes that, although comedic, could potentially be scary for viewers under the age of 13. Pre-teens should only attend at parent’s discretion.”
Little Shop of Horrors will be performed at Queenstown Memorial Centre from 18 – 27 May. Tickets and more information can be found by scaning the QR code bellow:
Auckland-based indie-folk band Tiny Ruins will play at the Sherwood on Saturday 13 May as part of their headlining tour supporting the release of their latest album, Ceremony. The album is their fourth and the follow-up to the celebrated and successful 2019 album, Olympic Girls, which was a finalist for the Taite Music Prize. It features the singles ‘Dogs Dreaming’ and ‘Dorothy Bay’.
Hollie Fullbrook is the singer and multi-instrumentalist for the band – she originally performed solo but has now become a strong leader to a band of incredible musicians. Hollie and the band describe their music as spanning delicate folk, lustrous dream pop and ebullient psychedelia.
There were a number of influences for the latest album and Hollie has said one place she drew inspiration from was the Manukau Harbour, which is nearby to where she lives. Ceremony is a really intimate album that intertwines personal experiences and also tends towards a joyful/hopeful take on the passing of time. The overarching theme is realising the beauty of life’s unpredictable paths.
Tickets for the show can be purchased at banishedmusic.com/tiny-ruins-ceremony
The Wakatipu’s Eldest Living Born and Bred ‘Local’ – Bill Dagg
True Southern Man
By Sue Fea
Taking the crown for the Wakatipu’s oldest living born and bred local, Bill Dagg epitomises the Southern Man… and not because he drinks Speights. Bill, turning 93 in July, only retired from Coronet Peak Station, which he owned and farmed for 48 years, aged nearly 80, when son Brian sold in 2000. Born in 1930, delivered by midwife Mrs Chalmers’ at the maternity home at the top of Ballarat Street, Bill was second youngest of seven. His father, Harry, farmed 200 acres (80.9ha), now part of Coronet Peak Station. When Bill was nine the family leased that, farming at Littles Road for 10 years. Bill’s older brother Jack drove the pony, towing a jogger, to Arrowtown School with all his younger siblings on board, Bill making the five mile journey from age five. “One year it was frozen and the pony was trotting along and went down on the ice on Malaghans Road,” says Bill. “On another occasion the jogger shaft broke and Mr (W.S.) Reid from Willowbrook wired it all up for us kids.”
No PE teachers then. Rev Cameron, the Presbyterian minister, came to school once a week to take outdoor games.
Just nine, Bill was unaware World War II had broken out with no radio at home. “Dad used to ring our neighbour Joe Hunter every night after 9pm to get the world news.”
While Bill’s mother attended high school in Arrowtown, he biked into Queenstown from Littles Road early Monday morning, boarded behind the Ballarat Street butcher’s shop, and biked home Friday night. “I used to spend time with George Chalmers, the old saddler, telling me yarns.”
Once the school bus started, Bill and his brother were collected at 7.30am, checking their rabbit traps beforehand and re-setting them on the way home. “The rabbit cart came around every second day and took the carcasses to Bothwick’s Processing in Alexandra. We got 3 shillings and sixpence for a pair.” Ferrets were used to trap the rabbits in their burrows.
A skilled horseman, Bill left school at 16 and drove a team of horses to work his dad’s farm – no tractors then.
At 18, he went mustering as part of a gang working on the surrounding Wakatipu stations. Bill eventually worked for ‘Cap’ Jardine as head shepherd, then stock manager, on Remarkables Station, marrying school friend Alvena in 1953.
Here he gained invaluable experience for taking on the massive, 66,000acre (26,709ha) Coronet Peak Station, which he and brother, Ron, bought in 1955. Ron’s boss, Glencoe Station owner Lloyd Ewing, assisted the Dagg brothers onto the property, which was a huge hand up, says Bill. “We were
thrilled. We were guaranteed 6000 sheep and took over 6300.”
It wasn’t without its moments. Snow raking – freeing trapped sheep from deep high country snow, was done on foot, sometimes spotting with light planes – no helicopters until the early 1980s. It was Bill’s biggest challenge and he recalls tramping through five feet (1.5m) of snow around the tops trying to push sheep out during the big snow of 1968. “The Army came with an Iroquois helicopter and loaded 13 of us men, with a dog each, on board, taking off from the Queenstown Rec Ground.”
Miraculously, Bill, Ron, Jack and a fixed wing pilot walked away unscathed during another 1960s snow raking expedition after a serious plane crash in white out conditions above Jack’s Mount Soho Station. The wing snapped off the Dominie on impact. “We slid down the hill about 500 to 600 yards (457.2m to 548.6m) down before crashing into a little gully and had to walk home.” Father of three, Bill, was first out, climbing through a hole in the roof. Legendary Queenstown pilot Tex Smith tried to drop them in a bottle of whisky to warm up, but by then they’d reached the Arrow Riverbed, walking in their zip-up slippers.
Bill and Ron rode Coronet Peak’s first chairlift at its opening. Famously, while mustering in 1948, Bill and his gang drank the last seven beers served up by retiring licensee Mrs Lewis at the Skippers Road Long Gully Hotel. They’d camp there, and at Greengates, during the station muster.
Rabbits were notoriously bad. “You couldn’t canter a horse across the Branches Flats in case it fell through the top layer and broke its leg in the masses of burrows.”
President for many years, Bill helped found the Upper Shotover Rabbit Board. They poisoned thousands of rabbits dropping in laced carrots by air.
Keas, then a pest too, would mutilate sheep with their sharp beaks, sitting atop their woolly backs and picking through the wool to eat their flesh, leaving them vulnerable to poisoning. Runholders got paid 10 shillings a beak by the government and Bill collected his beaks in a honey tin.
“It was a great lifestyle,” says Bill, who’s most proud that his two boys, John
An excerpt from Australian author-photographer David Darcy’s book Kiwi Dogs and Their People, featuring Bill and his trusty dog, Help: “Been here 80 odd years and worked on all the stations around here. I remember coming out of Macetown on the shortest day in the middle of June. It was bloody cold. We had to cross the river half a dozen times on horseback through the freezing water at night and you could hear the ice jingling on the dog’s coats.”
Bill, all spruced up back in the day.
Bill and his beloved dog, Help. Photo - David Darcy - Kiwi Dogs And Their People.
Monthly Column
Joseph Mooney MP for Southland
Queenstown-Lakes is facing an accommodation crisis so I recently hosted the National Party’s Housing Spokesperson, Chris Bishop, so that he could hear and see for himself what is happening in our town. Along with a public meeting, Chris and I met with the people directly affected, social agencies, and business owners.
Chris also announced a housing policy to help address the immediate crisis which sees many houses in our region sitting empty while people sleep in cars, tents, and on couches. While Labour’s changes to the tenancy laws may have been well-intentioned, they have not worked and have seen many houses taken out of the rental market because it has become too hard for homeowners.
Chris announced that in addition to restoring the brightline test to two years, National will also reverse Labour’s removal of noclause terminations, and provisions that require a fixed term tenancy agreement to become a periodic tenancy agreement upon expiry. Many landlords who once would have offered short-term fixed tenancy for some months of the year have decided that renting is simply too difficult.
Under Labour, the removal of no-clause terminations has hit vulnerable tenants hard, the very people that Labour have claimed to be concerned about. I have heard that landlords are now reluctant to take a chance on some tenants, particularly those with poor rental histories, because of the difficulty of ending a tenancy when it isn’t working out. This has had the unfortunate effect of leaving some without the ability to secure long-term accommodation.
The effect of Labour’s residential tenancy changes has been that they have discouraged some landlords from offering their properties for rent. It has decreased supply and put upward pressure on rent prices as a result. Some landlords have decided that the risks are too great and have quit the rental market altogether.
Since 2017 Labour has seen national rents rise by an average of $175 per week and Queenstown-Lakes rent go from $555 per week in October 2017 to $700 per week at the beginning of 2023. As rents rise this fast it makes it harder and harder for people to be able to save for their own house, or even just to make ends meet during the cost-of-living crisis.
Mum and Dad landlords are not the enemy in the national and Queenstown housing market, and we need landlords to be able to provide good quality rental accommodation. I have also heard from businesses who are finding it difficult to keep steady staffing levels as their employees find the market too tough and move on. National’s changes aim to make it easier to be a landlord which will lead to an increase in supply of rental properties and help end Labour’s housing crisis.
Officials warned the Labour Government about the risks of their war on landlords and how they could backfire. Ministers were warned that “If not managed carefully, improving security of tenure could potentially affect landlords’ willingness to rent, and the amount of rent charged”. That is exactly what happened.
Queenstown is the perfect example of how these law changes have backfired, with around a quarter of all properties sitting empty, some of which would undoubtedly be available to the rental market with better laws. This is happening while there are reports of many sleeping in tents, cars and on couches.
National wants to see those in Queenstown-Lakes have more opportunity to access quality rental housing by bringing back common sense to our rental market. There will be more announcements around further changes in the weeks and months ahead
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Cookright Relief Operator
• Opportunity to join our friendly team
• Physical strength required, some heavy lifting
• Shift days are Friday – Tuesday with 5am starts
• $60,000 salary PA
• A can do attitude and good communication is required
• Must have full NZ drivers licence and clean criminal history. Must be legally able to work in NZ. References required.
Call Scott on (027) 246 3886 or email queenstown@cookright.co.nz
Is currently seeking CHEFS / LINE COOKS
$25 per hour to start, potentially more based on experience
If you're interested in joining one of Queenstown's iconic restaurants and bars email your CV to chris@smithscraftbeer.co.nz or apply in person.
Valid working visa required.
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Skilled and Unskilled Labourers Traffic Controllers
Looking for casual, temporary or long term work??
Queenstown Personnel and Labour Hire are looking for labourers for a variety of jobs around Queenstown with an immediate start. Contact Sharleen - 027 778 7377 or email sharleen@qtplabour.co.nz
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Just one more to complete our team! Maybe you?
Skills required – Experience in a busy front of house setting. A first, second, and top gear. A hospitality radar. If it’s in your blood… we want to talk to you.
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Central Drycleaning has a position available for immediate start:
FULL TIME EMPLOYEE
Full training will be offered for the role. The tasks will include all aspects of the running of our business, garment pressing, loading and unloading of machines, sorting garments, packing customer orders. Customer service on our counter and collection and delivery via our van runs.
The ideal candidate/s will have the ability to work in NZ. A current drivers licence would be beneficial in the roles.
Successful applicant will receive excellent renumeration and other benefits supplied by Central Drycleaning Ltd.
Apply to accounts@centraldrycleaning.co.nz
Full Time Hairdresser Role at Frankton Hair Studio Apply Now.
We're looking for a full time hairdresser for our amazing team here at Frankton Hair. Hours are negotiable Monday to Friday with one late night but NO weekends required! We’d love you to have a few years experience and be competent in all aspects of Hairdressing. Start date negotiable.
If this sounds like you, call Becky on 021 144 8191 or email your C.V to Franktonhair@gmail.com
We have a number of positions for Ski & Snowboard Rental Staff for the coming season.
Previous experience in the Winter sports industry is preferred. Accommodation available if hired.
Email CV & references to apply jobs@snowrental.co.nz
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Arts Programme Support (Casual)
Do you enjoy working with young people? Are you passionate about the arts?
Te Atamira are looking for enthusiastic people to assist in the delivery of our creative youth programmes during the busy school holiday periods. Multiple positions available. For more information or to apply: www.teatamira.nz/about
We currently have the following vacancies available:
FRONT OF HOUSE / DUTY MANAGER
We have a full-time role for a Front of House superstar available to join our Clubhouse team. We offer a generous hourly rate with attractive hours of work and only occasional late nights required for events.
We are looking for an individual with an amazing ‘can do’ personality, proven customer service skills, someone who shows initiative and who will fit in with the rest of our high performing team.
You will need to have worked in Front of House for at least 2 years and have the following skills:
• Barista training / experience
• Be able to assist in setting up for and running events
• Stock control and general administration tasks
• Bar skills & cocktail making
• Duty manager's licence would be desirable
GOLF CART AND DRIVING RANGE ATTENDANT
Primary responsibilities will be to deliver outstanding service to members, cart staging, cart cleanliness, cart maintenance, and daily driving range operations. Other duties will include helping out the rest of the team as required.
This position requires a well presented and practical individual who can work with minimal supervision and interact with members and guests in a friendly and professional manner. Days of work will be Wednesday to Sunday with flexibility required to meet the demands during the busy times at the Club.
GREENKEEPING ASSISTANT / LABOURER
This vacancy is for a general seasonal greenkeeping assistant to join our team. We are looking for someone who is reliable, personable, and physically fit who loves working outdoors. You will need to be reliable, have a strong work ethic, and be willing to do an extremely diverse array of outdoor tasks. Preference will be given to applicants with experience in a similar role, or with practical skills and a willingness to learn.
With great staff benefits including staff golf, subsidised lunches, easy access & uniform supplied these opportunities come with an immediate start. Send your expression of interest to annette.smith@thehills.co.nz
Work with NZONE Skydive
We are looking for Drivers and customer facing staff to work at our Jacks Point based drop zone. If you have the following a ributes, we would like to hear from you:
• An energetic, people person that isn’t afraid of ge ing their hands dirty and can juggle multiple tasks at once
• Strong communication skills
• High standard of customer care
Transport Supervisor
Role involves:
• Co-ordinating the maintenance and repair of our fleet
• Managing the daily transport operations
• Recruiting, rostering and training drivers
• Assisting with transporting customers to our drop zone
You’ll need to have a full NZ drivers licence with a P Endorsement and experience driving with trailers. Class 2 and dangerous good licence would be preferred.
Driver
Role involves:
• Taking care of our customers pre and post skydive
• Transporting customers between our Queenstown central shop and drop zone
You’ll need to have a NZ drivers licence (Class 2 preferred) with a P Endorsement.
Customer Experience Agent
Role involves:
• Taking care of our customers pre and post skydive
• Completing customer check-ins and safety briefings
• Actively selling skydive options
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The ability to work weekends and public holidays is essential. Must have valid work rights for NZ. Please send your CV and cover le er to jobs@experienceco.co.nz
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Located in Arrowtown The Hills Golf Course offers a great work environment where you’ll spend your days in one of the most stunning landscapes in the world.
Bar Manager Jervois Steakhouse
We have a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Bar Manager to come and lead the bar team at Jervois Steakhouse team in Queenstown. We will offer you a competitive pay package, fantastic work culture with the ability to develop your career with one of the leading restaurants in Queenstown.
About the role:
• Permanent full-time position
• Minimum of 40 -45 hours per week
Key accountability areas:
To be successful in this role, the Bar Manager needs 100% focus on the tasks detailed below.
• To create, manage and consistently maintain a bar environment that exceeds customer expectations, enhances Jervois’s reputation and generates repeat business
• To manage all beverage and wine stock maintaining the appropriate quantity and quality to meet customer demand
• Manage and maintain an environment that is consistent with the group’s philosophy to exceed customer expectations
• To select, train, and mentor all members of the bar team to develop their skills and raise their performance levels to the required standard, creating a positive and well-balanced team.
• Build excellent relationships with guests and colleagues to enhance delivery and commercial success
• Strictly and consistently adhere to all Liquor Licensing and Health and Safety Regulations and ensure you are aware of and comply with the requirements at all times to minimise risk to yourself, your team, and the business
• To take responsibility for all equipment, systems and the training of those systems for the bar team to ensure the bar runs smoothly and without issue.
• To manage and be responsible for the effective rostering of the bar staff.
Why work with us:
• Competitive pay package
• $700 sign-on bonus after 6 months of continuous employment
• A very supportive and skilled management team
• Paid day off on your birthday after one year of continuous service
• 20% discount across Foley sites www.foleyhospitality.co.nz
• Flexible working hours - Nights only so you have the day to sightsee or ski with the team before service
• Annual staff party and awards
• Full support of all visa applications from our HR team Abou.t you:
• Experience in a busy venue (at least 2 years’ experience in similar style venue)
• Excellent communication and customer service skills
• Sound food and beverage knowledge including local wines and beverages,
• Hands-on and able to operate successfully in a high-pressure environment
• Punctual and reliable and work well in a team
• Friendly, energetic, and hard-working attitude
• Hold a current General Managers Certificate or be willing to obtain one
Contact Jo Thorp-Olesen
Restaurant Manager
+64 3 442 6263 | josephine@queenstownjsh.co.nz
The team at Brandland are looking for a new Retail Team Leader who will take charge and bring our retail store to the next level.
Do you have a passion for Retail and Customer Service?
Are you highly motivated, outgoing and friendly?
Do you like working in a team environment? Have you got at least one year experience in retail or similar?
Then Brandland is looking for you! A permanent, full time position has become available.
Tuesday to Saturday but flexible on hours for the right person. We offer great chat, a social working environment and staff discounts.
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Email your CV to manager@brandland.co.nz
We are seeking hospitality professionals who value a high-performing culture, flexible working arrangements, work-life balance and a caring work environment to join our team in the following roles:
• Duty Manager
• Recep�onist
• Food and Beverage Supervisor
• Breakfast A�endant
While are always on a look out for experience staff, but we also believe in hiring people without experience with the ‘can do attitude’ and ‘work ethic’. Lots of opportunities to develop and train on offer.
Benefits and Rewards
• Star�ng rate $27/hour-$30/hour
• Staff accommoda�on available
• Flexible Work Op�ons available
• Heavily Discounted Food and Beverage
• Free staff parking and on duty meals provided.
• Well-being ini�a�ves
• Sustainable work prac�ces
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When you're a part of IHG, you're more than your job �tle. And that's what we love – the individual talents, interests and dreams that make you who you are.
Please email your resume at manager@holidayinnqueenstown.co.nz
Shop Assistant Wanted
Job description:
Checking out, customer service, replenishment and loading of goods, sorting shelves, receiving goods from supplier, counting the number, etc.
Requirements:
• Self-motivated and hard-working
• Teamwork spirit, good at communicating with colleagues
• Have a sense of responsibility and a correct working attitude, always put the interests of customers first
• Fluent English, Bilingual speaker with Asian language preferred
• New Zealand PR/Citizen or valid work visa 工作内容:收银,客户维护,超市内补货上 货、整理货架,接收厂家来货、清点数目等工 作。
要求:
1. 手脚勤快,做事细心,吃苦耐劳
2. 有团队合作精神,善于同事间交流沟通
3. 有责任心,及端正的工作态度,永远把客人 利益放在第一位
4. 掌握基本的英文会话能力
5. 新西兰PR或合法工签 업무 내용 : 계산대, 고객 유지 보수, 슈퍼마켓에서 상품 보충 및 적재, 선반 분류, 제조업체에서 상품 수령, 수량 계산 등 필요하다:
부지런한 손과 발, 신중한 작업, 근면 팀워크 정신, 동료들과 소통을 잘함
책임감과 올바른 업무태도를 갖고, 항상 고객의 이익을 최우선으로 생각한다.
기본적인 영어회화를 마스터한다
뉴질랜드 영주권 또는 합법적 취업 비자
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We have incredible opportunities in a variety of roles with shifts and hours that will suit whatever you are looking for across our 3 Queenstown properties.
F&B SUPERVISOR – COPTHORNE LAKEFRONT RECEPTIONIST
NIGHT MANAGER
CHEF DE PARTIE
SOUS CHEF
KITCHEN ATTENDANTS
F&B ATTENDANTS
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EMPLOYERS!
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2 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS 15% DISCOUNT
3 OR MORE CONSECUTIVE WEEKS
We are recruiting new Food & Beverage team members!
We are looking for:
•Sous Chef
•Senior Chef de Partie
•Commis Chef
We can offer:
•Full time & part time roles
•Paid overtime & time and a half
•Various staff incentives & benefits!
If you want to join an amazing and inclusive team, with career opportunities to work at our other SkyCity NZ and Adelaide properties, then don't hesitate to contact us at employment@skycityqueenstown.co.nz
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TRAVELSALESCONSULTANT
Doyouhaveapassionfortravelandlovetalking topeople?HappyTravelsisscalinguptheirteam togetreadyforabusyWinterseason.Previous Salesexperienceisabonusbutnotessential.
WHATWEOFFER:
CompetitiveBasePay+Commission
DiscountedStaffAccomodation
InDepthSalesTraining
Afunanddynamicworkenvironment
FREEadventureactivitiesaspartofyour training
Sendyourresume lewis@happytravels.co.nz
CLUB HOUSE ASSISTANT
Located in beautiful Arrowtown our club is rated one of the best courses in New Zealand.
We have a full-time role available for someone with a great attitude, motivation and commitment. Our clubhouse team are responsible for the day to day running of golf operations, membership administration and assisting in the bar at peak times.
We are looking for someone who has a strong customer focus and a welcoming demeanor for our members and many visitors. You will have fun multi-tasking and will be joining a small but enthusiastic team. The following skills are desirable:
• You consider yourself extremely reliable
• You do what you say you are going to do
• The ability to smile
• Computer literacy
• Great customer service skills
• Willingness to learn
• Capable of basic bar work
• Interest in golf (not essential)
• Flexible attitude
We pay a competitive hourly rate, overtime , no night work, a great view and the opportunity to start immediately.
If this sounds like you , please send your CV to mananger@arrowtowngolf.co.nz
Looking for accommodation and work in central Queenstown?
We are looking for a couple who are interested in a 1 bedroom apartment plus wages in exchange for assisting us with the management and housekeeping of a small apartment complex. As a team you would be responsible for running the property Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On these three days one of you will be required from 8:30am-5:00pm with the other assisting for up to 4 hours on each of these days.
Your responsibilities will be general admin, check outs/check ins, housekeeping and common area maintenance. One of you will be required for two other mornings during the week. Some previous experience is preferential, knowledge of accommodation booking systems a real bonus. You will have good English and must be presentable as this is a front of house position. You also must be able to provide holiday coverage for the managers at various intervals throughout the year. Combined there is about 44 hours per week at between $30-$32 per hour depending on experience. This is an excellent job-sharing opportunity which could lead to more responsibility in the future.
The apartment will be treated as a service tenancy with a minimum 6-month contract required. The rent will be at below market as further incentive.
Sorry but we cannot offer sponsorship.
Email your CV to turnerh@queenstown.co.nz with some information about yourselves or pop up to the property for a chat.
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JOIN THE MOVEMENT
and be a part of Republic Hospitality Group
•Tired of being bored at work?
•Want to make your Queenstown life epic!
•Looking to meet a fun and friendly crew?
Republic Hospitality Group has 10 venues in Queenstown, and we offer casual, part-time and full-time work. So whether it’s bar, restaurant or kitchen work you’re interested in, we’ve got it available at all levels
Our perks are pretty hard to beat:
• Staff pricing (did someone say great deals on food & drink?)
• Staff accommodation options
• Epic staff parties
• Great staff incentives
• A trusting culture
• Competitive pay
• Free staff meals
• Training and upskilling
• A welcoming and friendly team
Republic is a finalist in the NZ Hospitality Awards for Excellence in People & Culture for a reason. Get in touch and join us today, email HR@republicqt.co.nz and tell us what you’re looking for.
Check out our venues at www.republichospitality.co.nz
Water and Wastewater Network Operator Queenstown
Veolia are taking on operation of the Lake Hayes Scheme, and are looking for experienced operators to provide first class service to the community.
What we offer:
● On the job training and development
● Opportunity to be part of a team delivering essential community services
● Exciting career opportunities
● Competitive hourly rate, $27 to $35 per hour
● Time and a half rates for hours over 40 per week
● Participation in discounted share offers
What you’ll need:
● Experience in municipal water and wastewater services provision
● Focus on Health and Safety, and Environmental Protection
If this sounds like you send your CV to qtadmin@veolia.com
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AVIS & Budget Queenstown
RENTAL SALES AGENT
Do you enjoy working in a fast paced environment where the days go quickly?
Do you enjoy meeting and talking to people from all over the world?
Do you appreciate a consistent working roster because your life outside of work is important too?
If you answered yes to any of these then maybe this customer service, sales and office administration based role is the new job for you.
Full Time & Part Time contracts available with set days off, Shifts are mostly 8am to 5.30pm with at least one evening shift per week. The role also requires you to work weekends or at least one weekend day per week. You'd be based out of our Queenstown Airport office in Frankton.
What you need:
• Full drivers licence
• Good command of the English language
• Working rights in New Zealand
Please send a CV to: Claire.hampson@abgroup.co.nz
Applicants must have:
Current NZ Driver’s License
Be well organized
Be motivated and reliable
Works to a very high standard
Have an ability to work independently or as part of a team
We are looking for a maintenance plumber to join our team!
If you have problem solving skills, like each day to be different then this is the job for you! Company van supplied.
If successful you will be joining a professional team with a proven track record & performance. Please send CV to enquiries@advantageqt.co.nz
WE’RE HIRING BARTENDING SUPERSTARS
Full time or part time
Arrowtown’s newest cocktail & live music venue is looking for people with great customer service skills and personality.
Experience with cocktail bartending is desired but not essential. Full training can be given by our experienced team.
• Competative hourly rates.
• Drink & food discounts across multiple venues.
• Guaranteed set days off weekly.
• Become part of an awesome community!
Forward your cv to info@hydebar.co.nz or speak with a manager in person.
We look forward to hearing from you!
We are looking for an experienced Duty Manager to join the Heartland Hotel Queenstown family. Why not let your career take the Scenic Route?
Location: Queenstown, Central Otago
Hours of Work: Guaranteed a minimum of 40 hours per week. Rotating roster, including weekends.
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent position
The Duty Manager role offers variety, and is vital in ensuring the smooth and effective running of our property.
This role requires a can-do attitude, great people skills and the ability to work within a diverse team.
We are also looking for a hands-on Maintenance Assistant
Location: Queenstown, Otago
Hours of Work: Guaranteed a minimum of 40 hours per week.
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent position
Our ideal candidate will have a trade qualification, or, have basic maintenance skills, grounds-keeping experience, and be practically minded.
All applicants must have the right to work and reside in New Zealand at the time of application.
Please apply for either role, to Lisa Baylis. Email: lisab@scenicgroup.co.nz
To apply please email fran@zigzagzoo.co.nz
Come and join our team as a driver/ guide on our mountain transport and 4WD scenic tours. We are recruiting now for our winter season.
You will love winters, snow and providing a service to our visitors.
We are looking primarily for people to drive our busses up and down to Coronet Peak and The Remarkables from now until the end of October.
Preference will be given to people with a Class 2 NZ driving licence with a P endorsement, but full training can be given if you do not hold these licences currently.
We are looking to fill full time, part time and casual roles. We operate a 7 day roster, and the successful applicants need be able to work weekends. We offer an attractive remuneration and the opportunity for you to ski/board during the day.
Requirements for this position are:
• NZ Class 2 with P endorsement.
• Being fluent in English with the ability to speak other languages would be great too.
If you are interested please reply to this advert with a cover letter and CV to ops@nomadsafaris.co.nz
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Come and join our team as a driver/guide on our mountain transport and 4WD scenic tours. We are recruiting now for our winter season. You will love winters, snow and providing a service to our visitors. We are looking primarily for people to drive our busses up and down to Coronet Peak and The Remarkables from now until the end of October. Preference will be given to people with a Class 2 NZ driving licence with a P endorsement, but full training can be given if you do not hold these licences currently. We are looking to fill full time, part time and casual roles. We operate a 7 day roster, and the successful applicants need be able to work weekends. We offer an attractive remuneration and the opportunity for you to ski/board during the day. Requirements for this position are: NZ Class 2 with P endorsement. Being fluent in English with the ability to speak other languages would be great too. If you are interested please reply to this advert with a cover letter and CV to ops@nomadsafaris.co.nz FOR YOUR JOB VACANCY FIND THE
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ARROWTOWN
Come and immerse yourself in the 1,500+ wines and spirits we stock and help us showcase the 100+ wines, gins, whiskies & spirits we have for tasting everyday with customers who come from all over the world. We have Part Time (15-30 hours/week) & Full Time (40 hours/week) positions at our Arrowtown store in various roles.
Wine Sales
This could be an ideal step up if you have experience at a cellar door or if you have enthusiasm for wine, hospitality and retail with a great customer service attitude. You would bring additional value if you have your Duty Managers Certificate and/or WSET qualifications.
Barista
You may be an experienced Barista wanting to expand into wine, or a coffee and wine loving local who wants to work school hours. Full training can be provided, options for 15-40 hours, 2-5 days a week.
Kitchen Hand
This is a great entry into hospitality, we will train you in preparing and serving our cheeseboard and tapas menu, and all our kitchen operations. Ideal if you are looking for 20-40 hours, 2-4 days a week. Enquire confidentially to: henry@thewinery.co.nz or come & chat with Henry at The Winery, 27 Ramshaw Lane, Arrowtown.
Reservations, Guest Services and Administration
$27 - $29.99 per hour | Full-time permanent Staysouth.com Ltd. is a short-term visitor accommodation provider and luxury property manager. We are looking for someone Queenstown based to work Thursday – Monday, with every fourth weekend off. This role will cover tasks and responsibilities in Reservations, Guest Services and Accounts admin.
For more information and to apply, please email your CV and cover letter to info@staysouth.com
Jucy Snooze Queenstown are looking for energetic and enthusiastic people to join us in our re opening!
You don’t need experience to work with us! We offer staff benefits from staff accommodation to car rentals and Food & Beverage discounts!
Housekeeping Room Attendant (Starting from $25.00 an hour)
Chef roles (at all levels)
Night Manager
Please send through your resume to marcos_diniz@jucysnooze.co.nz
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We’re looking for superstars! kitchen
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APPRENTICES
Delivering award-winning commercial and residential projects to discern clients in the Queenstown and Southern Lakes area We have two vacan for new apprentices who want to start their career in construction wi great foundation If you want to achieve, take pride in your work and ha passion for excellence come see us
We provide a safe and stable work environment, excellent c onditions, solid management support, mentoring from our long-term local and diversely experienced owners, plus opportunities for advancement and career development.
•Top-end luxury home projects in stunning locations
• No experience needed only a willingness to learn and excellent work ethic
• Great working environment with quality equipment
•Need to have a great attitude and be a good team player
• Must have a valid clean drivers licence, be an NZ citizen, resident or hold a valid long-term work visa.
• Positions for immediate start.
CV and applications to: guilia@trinityqt.com, call 0274 967 488 for a chat or drop into 117 Glenda Drive.
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Youth Worker Position
Are you an awesome people person?
Are you easy-going, fun and good at making people feel welcome? Are you an outdoorsy-up-for-anything kind of person? Do you like to innovate and create? Can you organise and make things happen? Do you have experience working with young people aged 10-18 and up to 24 years old? If so, then you could be the person extraordinaire that we are looking for to join our dynamic crew at Whakatipu Youth Trust. Whakatipu Youth Trust is seeking a motivated, enthusiastic youth worker for a 40-hour-weekday, permanent position commencing in May/ June 2023.
• Ideally you will be experienced in working with and mentoring youth in a one-to-one capacity, as well as, delivering outcomesbased programmes for young people.
• You will have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and a high level of computer literacy, self-management, and personal integrity.
• Preference will be given to those who have experience in working with youth, a relevant qualification and a commitment to working in the Queenstown.
• Must have long-term accommodation in Queenstown.
• A current full clean New Zealand driver’s license is essential, and you must be legally entitled to work in NZ.
• Applicants should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa and be fully vaccinated for Covid-19.
• Whakatipu Youth Trust is a child-safe organisation that are committed to following safe recruitment processes, including (and not limited to) police vetting.
• Terms and conditions are negotiable for the right applicant.
• Check out what we do at www.whakatipuyouthtrust.org.nz.
• For a full job description and job application form, please email Kirsty at info@whakatipuyouthtrust.org.nz
• Applications close on May 15th 2023.
F&BManager SkyCityQueenstown Salary$75k+
SkyCityQueenstownislookingforaFood&BeverageManager tojointheirteam.ReportingtotheGeneralManager,youwill beresponsibleforoverseeingtheF&BoperationofSkyCity Queenstown,includingorganisingfunctions,eventsand runningtheWildThymeRestaurantandBar,whilstbuildinga strongcultureofexcellenceinservice,products,andcustomer experience.
Abouttherole
AsF&BManager,youwillbemanagingyourteamtoprovide exceptionalproductdeliveryandasuperbcustomer experience,whilstmeetingbudgetexpectations.Youwillbe thepointofcontactforqueriesfrominternalandexternal stakeholders,includingrelationshipswithSkyCityQueenstown sponsorshipagreements.Therolewillbehandson,whilst maintainingresponsibilityfortheQueenstownF&Bfinancial performance,relationshipwithbackofhouse,planning, resourcinganddevelopmentofbothmanagementand frontlinestaff.
ThisisaFullTimeopportunity,working40hoursperweek includingnightsandweekendsasrequired.
Abitaboutyou
You'lllikelybesomeonewithapassionforpeople,providinga deepF&Bknowledge,ongoingtraininganddevelopment,with thegoalofguaranteeingourserviceofferingisofthehighest standard.
Aswellasexceptionalcustomerservicedelivery,you'llbring:
Aminimumof5years'experienceinF&Bwithatleast3 years'experienceatamanagementlevel
Provenexperienceinthemanagementandtrainingofstaff
Astrongcontinuousimprovementfocus
Demonstratedexperienceinfinancialmanagement, includingbudgeting,costcontrolandmonthlyP&L reconciliation
StrategicmindsettowardsSkyCityQueenstown'sbusiness plan
Soundknowledgeofakitchenoperationincludingordering andfoodcontrolplans
Culturalawarenessobtainedthroughbeingpartofa diverseteam
What'sgreataboutworkingforSkyCity?
Otherthantheopportunitytojoinafantasticteaminavaried role,youwillhavegreatscopefordevelopmentandcareer progressionallwhilstgettingtoworkinafun,busyandvibrant environment.Andifallthat'snotenough-SkyCityoffersgreat staffbenefitsincludingdiscountsacrossouroutlets, subsidisedhealthinsurance,andmuchmore!
Webeginreviewingallapplicationsassoonaswereceive them,soifthisroleticksyourboxes, applytodayorat employment@skycity.co.nzandwecouldbespeakingtoyou verysoon.
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