Tracey Roxburgh

Almost 400 children from Wakatipu schools leapt at the opportunity to help AJ Hackett Bungy celebrate its 21st birthday.

A pre-Christmas treat promises to spirit audiences to the Middle East at the end of this month when a group of amateur actors presents pantomime in Arrowtown for the first time.

"Overwhelmed" was the word St John Wakatipu area committee chairman Marty Black used to describe a surprise $10,000 donation from the Queenstown Lions Club on Wednesday night.

The Arrowtown community raised just over $4000 in October for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.

A memorial fund dedicated to the memory of a respected musician and entertainer will be established in Arrowtown, on the first anniversary of his death.

It took a mammoth effort involving about nine people, but Cecil Peak Station's overturned barge was finally righted just before 6pm yesterday.

When author Paullina Simons was asked yesterday which question she would like from the Otago Daily Times, her response was: "Is The Bronze Horseman going to be made into a movie?"

A call for an overarching policy addressing water demand in the Queenstown Lakes district was made on Tuesday by acting utilities committee chairman Lyal Cocks.

540 submissions received on Arrowtown boundary About 540 submissions have been received by the Queenstown Lakes District Council on Plan Change 29: Arrowtown Boundary, 500 of those from Arrowtown residents, QLDC senior policy analyst Mark Rushworth reported to the council's strategy committee.

"Get it finished and get it out of the way" was the message from retailers on Beach and Rees Sts to the Queenstown Lakes District Council's utilities committee this week on planned work in the area.

A report will be presented to the Queenstown Lakes District Council utilities committee next month detailing the failure of the Wakatipu Recycling plant's "air-knife system".

Anyone with information on a distinctive missing rifle is being asked to contact Queenstown police.

"A financial time bomb" is how Queenstown Lakes District Council Mayor Clive Geddes describes New Zealand Transport Agency road maintenance funding cuts - which for the QLDC total $2.3 million over the next three years.

A Lake Hayes resident requested "mercy" from the Queenstown Lakes District Council utilities committee yesterday, saying he was sick of the green, smelly and unsafe water supplied to his home.