Christina McDonald

Tomorrow's entrepreneurs are organising their business ideas of today and the ideas will become a reality at St Joseph's School's major fundraiser - the annual book sale.

After completing skydives, more and more visitors to Queenstown are taking away a fiancee with their souvenir photos.

Masterchef finalists Jaimie Stodler and Bec Stanley, from Arrowtown, were last night proud of their achievements as the competition finale aired on television, revealing the pair had finished second to sisters Kasey and Karena Bird, from Maketu, Bay of Plenty.

They see the happiest moments and are also there for the most risky, but Queenstown midwife Ann Mackay said most people ''do not think about'' the role of a midwife until they need one.

Wakatipu's fingers were prised off the White Horse Cup in Queenstown on Saturday and the cup left the field firmly in Arrowtown hands.

Ryan Strayer has heard stories of the flaming rivalry between Queenstown's Southern Stampede and Christchurch's Red Devils.

Five hundred copies of Katie Scott's parents' marriage certificate were used to make a wedding dress which Katie wore on top of another garment - featuring the subsequent divorce certificate.

''It's those wee things'' which make the Arrowtown Autumn Festival so successful, committee chairman Lex Perkins said of the event which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year and finished for another autumn yesterday.

How well nails have been put in, how well doors have been hung and the quality of the paintwork were scrutinised in five Queenstown homes this week.

A Queenstown Bay skipper is asking the drunks who unlawfully board his luxury boat an estimated four times a week to remember the boat is not their property.

Golfers played on as a large scrub fire raged out of control behind them yesterday afternoon at Jacks Point, near Queenstown.

A manual slicer is just one piece of evidence for a fondness of ''how things used to be made''.