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West Coast: A road trip to Ōkārito reveals pure magic

Miranda Spary08:47, Jun 10 2021 BROOK SABIN Along a windswept stretch of road from Karamea to Haast you ll find some of the South Island s best hidden gems. This article was published on Scout. Miranda Spary says there’s no time like the present to explore the glitter and fritters of the South Island’s West Coast. Ten years ago, I drove the 803.8km from Nelson to Queenstown on the West Coast road and vowed never to do it again. Admittedly, I’d chosen the busiest time to be on any road – just after New Year. It was nose to tail the whole way, boiling hot, and every ice cream, fuel and loo stop involved a very long queue and a lot of impatient (and anxious, in the case of the loos) waiting.

GO NZ: Where to see kiwi, seals, dolphins, whales and more in the wild

GO NZ: Where to see kiwi, seals, dolphins, whales and more in the wild
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The day a settlement got swept away: Waikino publicans remember the storm of 81

The day a settlement got swept away: Waikino publicans remember the storm of 81 14 Apr, 2021 10:01 PM 4 minutes to read An aerial view of Waikino after the flood. Photo / File Bay of Plenty Times Malou Honore had never seen a flood before in her life. I m from the Philippines and we don t have floods there. I d only just come to New Zealand and I couldn t believe it. Malou and David Honore were the publicans of Waikino Hotel from 1980 to 1982 and endured two terrifying days in April 1981 when a storm raged and torrential water flooded their hotel and devastated the area. The hotel, which was already historic and from the 1800s, was still intact after the event. It was one of just two buildings in the shopping area that wasn t swept away. The hotel was slightly higher than the river-side of the road.

Mooted changes to farmland leases labelled discriminatory and unreasonable

Some descriptions at the hearing included “not fit for purpose”, “discriminatory”, “threatening” and “totally unreasonable”. Many felt that plans to tighten regulation around fundamental farm activities such as fencing, maintaining roads and clearing shrub would make farming difficult, bureaucratic and financially marginal. Debbie Jamieson/Stuff Three generations of Mt Nicholas Station managers, Kate Cocks, Linda Butson and Jess Cocks, 11, at an environment select committee submissions hearing on the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill, in Queenstown. They see it as an attempt by the Crown to slowly reclaim the land, ignoring their years of custodianship and not recognising that the high country farmers are knowledgable and proud guardians.

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