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A weekend of cultural and artistic magic is under way in the Queenstown region. The Arrowtown Creative Arts Society (ACAS) is behind the inaugural ...

A weekend of cultural and artistic magic is on the way for Queenstown. The Arrowtown Creative Arts Society (ACAS) is behind the inaugural ‘Gardens ...

A capital gains tax is inevitable but can be introduced painlessly, writes John Lapsley. To declare the obvious, money trousered from making a...

Mountain Scene By PHILIP CHANDLER The author of the most talked-about book in New Zealand this year talks about her life and her work at a literary event in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall on Wednesday night. Celebrated Kiwi novelist Charlotte Grimshaw hit the headlines with her ‘‘explosive’’ memoir, The Mirror Book, which critiques her father, literary lion C.K. Stead, who’s now 88. After being traumatised by a marriage crisis, Grimshaw — who grew up knowing NZ’s literary elite as regular visitors to her home — realised her family background had been far darker ...

Mountain Scene By TRACEY ROXBURGH Guests donned their best in Arrowtown last Saturday afternoon for a special garden party and art trail event, held to raise money for the Southland Charity Hospital. Established in 2019 following Southlander Blair Vining’s highly-publicised battle with terminal bowel cancer, the hospital’s been founded by the community, for the community and — once completed — will provide free services to those in the southern half of New Zealand who can’t access care through the public or private health systems. Arrowtown Lifestyle Retirement Villa...