David Bruce

Omarama Airfield has turned in a small profit this year, less than in the previous year, after lower income and higher expenses.

Irrigation was only one factor the Waitaki District Council needed to take into account in the future when it considered issues that contributed to flooding in the district, roading assets manager Michael Voss said yesterday.

The search for a solution to sewerage problems in Hampden goes on, 16 years after the issue was first raised.

The Omarama Golf Club might not survive unless it can get more members to help maintain its facilities.

All sports - not just cricket - will benefit from spending $90,000 on back fields at the Centennial Park stadium, the Waitaki District Council was told yesterday.

Three fires in North Otago in about 10 days have prompted a warning to farmers to check tractors and machinery before starting them for birds' nests or other combustible material.

The Waitaki District Council is looking at changing its meeting times, and taking meetings on the road to Palmerston and Otematata.

Waitaki people who want to see Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sing in Oamaru have to be quick to buy the few tickets left. When they go on sale on Saturday from 10am, they are expected to sell out within minutes.

Irrigation is being blamed for intensifying flooding during heavy rain, raising issues about the long-term effects on roads, Waitaki District Council roading manager Michael Voss says in a report on the district's August floods.

A new geotechnical survey of the controversial Forrester Heights subdivision will only increase costs for Waitaki ratepayers and is not needed, the chairman of the North Otago advisory committee to the Otago Chamber of Commerce, Gary Kircher, says.