Mountain Scene
By PHILIP CHANDLER
A kayaker who once almost drowned in Lake Wakatipu has just paddled 206km to circumnavigate it.
Queenstowner Bruce Telford, 57, arrived back at his Frankton Arm put-in point last Monday, after completing the challenge in eight legs over about a month.
Most paddles lasted about six hours though a stretch from near Walter Peak to Kingston took nine hours.
‘‘At times, long hard paddles with a head wind were demoralising while being wet and cold, yet it was truly epic at times,’’ he says.
‘‘I saw some amazing scenery, wild deer and goats, but no fish.’’
If it goes ahead, the upgrade should make Hamilton a much more pleasant place to begin, end, or stop off on a journey. It will include a 24-hour seated waiting area with security monitoring; secure parking for bikes and scooters; improved ticketing facilities, public address system and “wayfinding signage”. Perhaps most importantly, there will fully accessible, electronically adjustable toilets and handbasins to cater for people with those needs. In recent times a lack of Waka Kotahi funding for Hamilton projects has led to much frustration around the council table over the city getting an apparent cold shoulder from the Government agency.
Mountain Scene
By KERRIE WATERWORTH and MARK PRICE
Queenstown Lakes councillors have agreed to start community engagement on a draft masterplan and associated planning provisions for Ladies Mile between Frankton and Lake Hayes.
City Hall planning and development boss Tony Avery says the masterplan includes a wide mix of development densities, opportunity for an improved bus service, local facilities like a town centre, a primary and high school, and a community and sports centre.
“These factors aim to encourage movement in and around the area, and reduce the number of trips in private vehicles required to cross the Shotover Bridge,” Avery says.
Mountain Scene
April 30, 2021
A Frankton builder convicted for sexually assaulting a resort woman in January already has a conviction for a similar assault on a drunk French tourist in 2016.
Steven Enting, 36, was sentenced to four months’ home detention and given a ‘second strike’ warning by Judge John Strettell in Queenstown’s court on Tuesday.
On January 8, after socialising in central Queenstown, the victim went home by taxi about
9pm and went to sleep in her bedroom.
She woke up just before midnight to find the defendant touching and kissing her hip.
As he began pulling her skirt down, she woke up fully and yelled at him to get out.
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 2:47 pm
With the entry thresholds, compliance requirements and
tax implications of owning residential investment property
creating tangible barriers to the sector, leading agency
Bayleys is noting an uptick in enquiry from prospective
investors looking to invest in commercial and industrial
property for the first time.
232 Ellis Street,
Frankton development
The industrial segment of the
market in Hamilton is attracting particular attention, with
entry-level units within strategically-located and planned
business parks selling down off the plans in record time and
often to investors who have previously not competed in this
sector.
Jordan Metcalfe and Rebecca Bruce of Bayleys
Waikato are keen to help educate first-time entrants to the