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Students making sandbags in Anakiwa.
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They were part of the large community response to the flooding in the Sounds that cut off isolated settlements last weekend. Tourist and barge operators joined in the rescue and recovery efforts.
Ninety teenagers were two weeks into their three-week mind body soul course with Outward Bound, based in Anakiwa, when MetService forecast downpours for the top of south last weekend.
The students were quick to embrace their haepapa (responsibility) lessons before the weather hit, making and placing sandbags around Anakiwa to reduce the risk of flooding, and anchoring a resident s trampoline to a tree.
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Morgane Solignac Chloe Ranford Local Democracy Reporter16:44, Jul 19 2021
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Aerial footage shows slip damaged on Queen Charlotte Dr following wild weather in Marlborough.
A Christchurch couple had to message emergency services through a friend in Auckland after a mud slip cause by heavy rain took out two baches beside them in the Marlborough Sounds. Christchurch woman Lucy Clark and her husband Alastair thought their “mini break” in Pukenui Bay, off Queen Charlotte Drive, would be “wonderful” until the weather went “wild”. During their first day at the bach, their neighbour, a long-term resident, told them the heavy rain that had been battering the upper South Island on Friday night had caused the road out to collapse a metre, trapping them in the bay.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, National Party leader Judith Collins, and Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta will be at the event. Air New Zealand’s head of tourism and regional affairs Reuben Levermore said Marlborough had established both the facilities and track record to compete successfully.
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The three waters reforms will be high on the agenda at the Local Government New Zealand Conference. “We have a close working relationship with Destination Marlborough which helps give confidence to event organisers,” Levermore said. Marlborough Airport chief executive Dean Heiford said it allowed Marlborough Tour Company to set up a welcome desk at the airport to help organise people when they arrive.