Queenstown news from February 2006

  • Queenstown to shake it up in Australia

    Posted on 21 February 2006 |

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    Winning cocktail from Cocktail World Cup 2005, called Floral Frenzy Queenstown’s sure to be the flavour of the day at the annual Queenstown Ski and Leisure Roadshow this week as world class bartenders from the 42 Below Cocktail World Cup mix up Kiwi cocktails at trade evenings in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Enhancing Queenstown’s position as...

  • World's Fastest Maori's Race to the Sky

    Posted on 9 February 2006 |

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    The 'world's fastest Maori' Marty Roestenburg is targeting a place on the podium and the fastest Kiwi driver title at the 2006 Silverstone Race to the Sky in his powerful H6 Subaru Impreza WRX. Roestenburg put the car,developed by David and Linda Loughlin of Tauranga, through its paces for the first time last year taking out...

  • Kerbside Recycling on Track for Wakatipu

    Posted on 9 February 2006 |

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    Kerbside recycling is on track to commence in the Wakatipu Basin in the spring of this year, Queenstown Lakes District Council waste manager Dr Linda Wright said. “We are in the process now of evaluating tenders and will be conducting interviews this week,” she said. A recommendation would then go to full Council at the...

  • New 'Secrets of Bungy' tour in Queenstown

    Posted on 1 February 2006 |

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    Fascination with the Bungy Jumping phenomenon can now be indulged with a new visitor activity on offer in Queenstown. The Secrets of Bungy tour launched by AJ Hackett Bungy takes visitors at the Kawarau Bridge site behind the scenes of the Bungy operation and offers an understanding of the adventure activity that was the catalyst...