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GO NZ: Sounds like luxury: Cruising through Marlborough 10 minutes to read Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern [email protected] Peter de Graaf If you want to experience New Zealand s most beautiful places – and I mean experience them, not just look at them from afar – you need to suffer a certain amount of discomfort. You need to lug a pack groaning under the weight of a week s worth of food. You need to put up with mosquitoes invading your tent, a wafer-thin mattress and dehydrated meals. Don t even start me on breaking camp in the rain or sharing a hut with a dozen incurable snorers. ....
Kumutoto Bay is a 10-minute boat ride from Picton, across Tōtaranui/Queen Charlotte Sound in Marlborough. A developer who tried to stop the mortgagee sale of the bach he bought next to his Marlborough Sounds property has been ordered to pay nearly $80,000 to the finance company he used. Simon Lydall Savill, whose family trust owned a beachside bach in Kumutoto Bay, near Picton, borrowed $850,000 from finance company AMFL in December 2018 to buy the bach next door. He was to repay it within five months. But Savill, of Christchurch, failed to repay the loan in time. He claimed AMFL’s notice to repay was void, and refused to come to the door to accept the second notice delivered in March, saying he was starting lockdown early. The documents were then emailed to him. ....