Lynda van Kempen

Ice-skaters and curlers might make way for hockey players one day on the Ice Inline site.

The Alexandra Airport is on the cusp of a bright future but the Central Otago District Council has to decide whether to spend up to $500,000 to realise its potential, or ''let it go'', councillors were told yesterday.

Central Otago Mayor Tony Lepper remains unconvinced his council has to comply with national drinking water standards.

A $14.5 million water supply upgrade is on the cards for Alexandra residents, but who will fund the project has yet to be decided.

How do you take your water - filtered, bottled or softened, or maybe with the addition of lime, bugs or worms?

A land swap involving a small piece of Bob's Cove conservation area, near Queenstown, in exchange for land owned by neighbour Sue Farry, of Punatapu Holdings Ltd, looks set to proceed. The Otago Conservation Board gave its support to the proposal yesterday.

The merits of whether Cromwell was getting value from spending $40,000 of ratepayers' money on the wages of the district promotions group's only paid employee was debated by community leaders yesterday.

Developing a new brand for Cromwell could cost about $66,000 but that was far cheaper than the ''hundreds of thousands'' such a project would cost if it was put out to tender, the Cromwell Community Board heard yesterday.

Police nvestigating the theft of about 280 litres of diesel from a truck parked in a transport yard at Ranfurly say the amount stolen could be higher as 10 other trucks were also tampered with.