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Sticking points appear to remain to get the Club Hotel in Bluff demolished to allow the town’s popular oyster festival to go ahead. A resource...
The Bluff Oyster and Food Festival has been cancelled due to the threat of Covid-19 outbreaks and rapid changes to traffic light settings.
The Bluff Oyster & Food Festival is back and it is just as popular as ever. After an enforced break last year due to alert level restrictions, showery weather did not deter the crowd as the queue stretched around the block waiting for the gates ...
The Fishing boat Kotuku is brought to the surface at Port William, Stewart Island in 2006. Fifteen years after fishing trawler Kotuku capsized in Foveaux Strait, widow Judy Hayward will visit the cemetery and gather together with some of those involved in the tragedy, just as she does most years. Hayward’s husband Ian (known as Shorty) was one of nine people aboard the fishing boat when it was hit by a rogue wave on the afternoon of May 13, 2006. Three people survived and swam to nearby Women’s Island but Leslie Christian Topi, known as Peter, his daughter Tania Marie Topi, his two 9-ye...
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Boats are set to hit Foveaux Strait today for the beginning of the oyster season.