A stoush has broken out over the legality of a massive tree-felling operation at Queenstown’s Arthurs Point, directly above the Shotover River, last weekend.
National MP Simeon Brown is calling for the government to immediately scrap the proposed closure of Milford Sound airstrip, saying the runway is vital to tourism operations.
Life’s become a pressure cooker for many of Queenstown’s staff-deprived hospo operators — with some close to breaking point as customers pour through their doors.
For Queenstown’s sake, the government should put out the welcome mat to migrants to address the crippling worker shortage, National’s deputy leader Nicola Willis says.
A retired surgeon is appalled at fast-growing Queenstown’s lack of emergency hospital facilities and reliance on transporting patients to Invercargill, or even further.