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Lorna Thornber17:12, Jun 05 2021
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Quirky sculptures, monster trucks, and supersized pizzas - here are our favourite offbeat Queenstown experiences.
With the Queen to thank for this long weekend, we thought we’d take a look at the New Zealand towns named after Elizabeth II and her whānau. Given the huge number of places named after British military types, I was surprised to find there aren’t many. Queenstown, Kingston and Alexandra are the only three settlements in Aotearoa said to be named after royals, perhaps as a result of the anti-royalist attitudes of the long-defunct New Zealand company, which essentially tried to turn us into a Little Britain.
Mountain Scene
May 15, 2021
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Another four months of road closures and temporary removal of carparks, this time along
Queenstown’s Camp Street and Earl St, will start next week but the end is far from sight.
Queenstown council contractors will start digging trenches and installing 600 metres of
wastewater pipe along Camp St next week as the Rec Ground pump station and wastewater upgrade which started 12 months ago moves to the next phase.
Council property and infrastructure boss Peter Hansby says the disruption there will continue till late September contractors will be talking with directly-affected businesses about managing disruptions and maintaining access as the project moves along Camp St.
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