Trail plan upsets landowners
Several property owners in Gibbston fear plans to move a cycle trail further from the highway will create a "path of destruction" through vineyards...
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Several property owners in Gibbston fear plans to move a cycle trail further from the highway will create a "path of destruction" through vineyards...
Mountain Scene By PHILIP CHANDLER After a 22-year absence, the Wakatipu Rodeo Club’s hoping to make a comeback. Though still incorporated, the club went into recess in 1999, after its former arena, at Arrowtown’s Butel Park, was subdivided. Now a group of locals wants to bring the controversial sport back. Vanessa Sharp, whose daughter Zoe Johnston, 13, competed on the national circuit last summer, says the club’s secured a seven-hectare piece of flat land with a natural spectators’ amphitheatre, opposite Gibbston’s Kinross, owned by American Samuel Belk. ‘‘He...