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By MARK PRICE
The timing for our Aussie visitors couldn’t have been better.
Just three days after the first international flight in more than a year landed at Queenstown Airport, Arrowtown’s holding the mother of all autumn parties.
The 36th Arrowtown Autumn Festival fires up today after, like all major events last year, being forced to put the 2020 event on ice.
The town that sprang from the 1860s gold rush has turned on the colour just in time for the five-day festival and the town’s ready to celebrate.
Festival coordinator Carole Watts says having to pull the pin on last year’s Autumn Fest was ‘‘extremely disappointing’’, but it’s back this year, bigger and better. ....

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