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The Maniototo community rallied together on Friday to protest the proposed closure of Ranfurly’s Westpac bank - the only bank in town. JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN Residents threaten boycott

JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN lation, many fear how the elderly We will show them none.’’ and to feel the threat of the undo- open, she said. will cope without a bank. The Hore and his family stood with ing of all and many others’ hard Central Otago mayor Tony The Hore family has banked in closest bank is a 180-kilometre about 300 community members in work, commitment and invest- Lepper said he had submitted to the Maniototo since the first bank round trip to Alexandra, and even Ranfurly on Friday protesting the ment is heartbreaking. The Westpac on the community’s opened in the 1880s. That could further for outlying towns. proposed closure. reality is nobody wants to be gath- behalf and they had declined to soon change. Hore said the proposed closure Protest organisers and ering here under these circum- meet with him. Stuart Hore, 77, is one of many was a ‘‘disgrace’’. Maniototo businesswoman Amie stances, but as if we were going to ‘‘I have been thinking, what Maniototo residents threatening ‘‘It is disgrace Westpac should Pont said when the bank sit back and do nothing. We have can you guys do to stop it...there to pull his business from Westpac consider closing such an isolated announced its proposal two weeks done the best we possibly can to are a lot of rural customers out if it closes its Ranfurly branch. bank...My family has been bank- ago reactions had ranged from stick up for ourselves and demand there who bank with Westpac and The town’s branch is one of 19 ing for four generations. I am shock, anger, disbelief, despair that we deserve a bank.’’ I lived in this area, and I banked Westpac is proposing to close loathe to take my banking else- and there had been emotional Over 900 people had signed a with Westpac and they closed my around the country. where but if they shift the bank outcries from many community petition, and ‘‘hundreds’’ of letters bank, I would change banks, and The town of 800 only has one from Ranfurly, I will surely think members. and submissions had been written that is what I think you should bank, and with an ageing popu- about it...they show us no loyalty. ‘‘We are invested in this area, appealing for the bank to stay do.’’

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Alexandra rolled out the red car- JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN pet for the Prime Minister for a visit to ‘‘see something a bit differ- John Key has made history, ent’’. becoming the first Prime Minister John Key started the day at to visit Alexandra’s Dunstan High Dunstan High School, making his- School. tory as the first Prime Minister to The Prime Minister visited the visit the school. He then got his school during a visit to Alexandra hands dirty in the sandpit with on Thursday, as well as visiting a some early childhood pupils at kindergarten and high country Kidsfirst Alexandra Kindergar- station. ten. Principal Brent Russell said ‘‘The kindergarten was beauti- the visit was ‘‘an historic day for ful and the school was absolutely our school and our community’’. fantastic and you can see from the Key delivered an insightful successes those youngsters are and inspirational talk to the getting. students and told them to ’’dream ‘‘We can take a great deal of big’’ and not to leave ‘‘anything in confidence in it but we should be the tank’’. supporting rural schools. I mean, He used his background as a Dunstan hadn’t had a Prime Min- platform to pass on lessons he had ister ever go there, and when you learned from his Austrian-born think about it, they should have mother who, at 16, left with her by now, so it was good to go.’’ aunty and 18-year-old brother to He took time to answer some live in the United Kingdom dur- pressing questions from children. ing World War II. Fletcher Corderoy, 4, of Alex- His mother taught him to get andra Kindergarten, asked him qualifications at school, to how many bees there were at the achieve what he wanted in life. Beehive. She also taught him, ‘‘you get ‘‘Do you know...none,’’ Key out of life what you put into it’’ said. ‘‘But they were wanting to and ‘‘dream big’’. put some bees down at Govern- ‘‘You can sit around and think ment House just down the road. It Alexandra children Rocky Lemuelu, 4, Fletcher Cordery, 4 and Finn Anderson, 4, with John Key. JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN about all the things that hold you is called the Beehive because it back and make life difficult. The looks like a beehive.’’ many of them recalled how he Earnscleugh Station where he question is are you prepared to do Kidsfirst Alexandra Kinder- was helping them in the sandpit, observed Peter Lyon’s shearing Question of the day the things that can change your garten head teacher Lisa Lowery digging and having fun. Pixi gang hard at work. own life? It doesn’t matter what Fletcher Corderoy: How many bees said it was a privilege to have the thought it was really funny when ‘‘Obviously the rural com- your own personal aspirations are at the Beehive? Prime Minister at the kindergar- Finn asked him to drink the munities are the backbone of the are, it is just having them and John Key: None...but they were ten. muddy water.’’ country, shearing isn’t something owning them. Give it everything wanting to put some bees down at Some children had prepared Key said he had wanted to that gets the level of exposure I you have got and don’t leave any- Government House. important questions. spend time in Alexandra to ‘‘see suppose that maybe dairying and thing in the tank. Look back one ‘‘It was great to see his natural some things that were a bit differ- other things do. I have been a bit day and say, ‘I made the most of interaction with the children, and ent’’, which included a visit to to shearing shows...but I have never seen it on the farm.’’ my life’.’’

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JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN ‘‘She is just a bit of a Georgie is smarter than your natural. I think she average dog. Though it took a few is a bit of a freak years to discover. The 7-year-old black labrador some of the things retriever is a New Zealand cham- she does. ’’ pion gundog and the only Kiwi Peter Southee canine about to take on Aust- ralia’s four-legged finest. Her owner, Peter Southee, of Southee, particularly in the all Galloway in Central Otago, left for breed trials. Australia on Sunday to compete All breed trials demanded dogs in the New South Wales state completed tasks not natural to retrieving championships and the retriever breeds. It involved all 47th national retrieving cham- breeds of gundogs finding and pionships. flushing out game. Dogs zig zag, Southee said she would be covering the ground trying to find competing trials completely dif- the game. ferent to New Zealand, including ‘‘Not a lot of dogs can do it. She retrieving multiple birds from 200 got better and better and started to 300 metres away. She was the winning. She is the only lab doing first official New Zealand rep- it in New Zealand.’’ resentative to compete in the She holds numerous champion Australian championships, he titles, including New Zealand said. grand champion. Both her ‘‘It’s entirely different to parents were grand field trial ours...I had to start from scratch champions and her father was a to train her. If I get in the top 10 I record holder, Southee said. will be rapt.’’ ‘‘Every time you win the Her talents as a gundog were Peter Southee, of Galloway, is in Australia competing with his champion labrador retriever Georgie. JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN provincials you get a point. She not initially obvious, in fact, she has 43 points and the record is 50 was considered ‘‘soft’’. wouldn’t retrieve or anything...I Then I slowly started to enter her the different trials required the which her father holds. She is just ‘‘I got her third-hand from a put her on a short chain with a big in competitions.’’ dog to complete different a bit of a natural. I think she is a breeder. He couldn’t handle her dog and he dragged her along. She competed in retriever challenges. Her success in New bit of a freak some of the things because she was too soft, she After that she never looked back. trials, as well as ‘‘all breeds’’, and Zealand trials has shocked even she does.’’ Run to remember loved ones

JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN Hamilton’s wife Lana something for myself to pay trib- described ‘‘Trav’’ as funny, ute to them, and I want others to A 33-year-old Cromwell woman is caring, who had the biggest heart. be able to come along and remem- organising a 5km run-walk to ‘‘He loved to socialise, his ber their friends or family raise awareness about suicide, rugby, hats, diggers and trucks. members.’’ after losing two family members He would always make sure The event was also about rais- within months of each other. everyone was included. He was a ing awareness about suicide, get- Rebecca Mason lost family very special person who had ting people to ask for help and just member Travis Hamilton a year touched the hearts of many talk about it. ago to suicide. He was a 29-year- people.’’ ‘‘I don’t think enough people do old popular Cromwell rugby Mason said a few months prior talk about suicide.’’ player, father-to-be and husband. to Hamilton’s death, her cousin, Meet on Saturday, September ‘‘He was an active, sporty, bub- Richard Hunt, of Dunedin, com- 3, at Cromwell College’s audi- Event organiser Rebecca Mason, of Cromwell, lost two family members to bly guy who was really popular - mitted suicide. torium for a 10am start. People suicide. JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN he had lots of friends.’’ ‘‘I personally wanted to do are encouraged to wear yellow.

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Celebrity cook Annabel Langbein MARJORIE COOK and a United States chef ambassa- dor showed Central Otago foodies At least 110 international athletes how to bring the farm to the table from 21 countries, and a similar at a cooking demonstration. number of Kiwis, will line up at Langbein and chef William the Snow Farm’s Worldloppet Dissen, who owns and runs Mar- Merino Muster on Saturday. ket Place restaurant in Asheville, Among the athletes are US North Carolina, treated students team members Noah Hoffman and and the public to a cooking Jessie Diggins, Merino Muster demonstration at the Otago Poly- Ltd director Mary Lee said. technic’s Central Campus in Korea has nine skiers in the Cromwell on Thursday. endurance races. The pair visited Central Otago A Scandanavian tour group of and Queenstown following their 28 has also entered. participation in the Wellington on Canadian athletes are not com- a Plate Festival. peting. They completed their They got a tour of the polytech- annual southern camp last week nic’s operation prior to the and have gone home. demonstration where they gath- ‘‘This year it is really exciting ered fresh herbs and vegetables to because the US team are doing cook in front of a large crowd in their training later,’’ Lee said. the polytechnic’s kitchen. Four Wanaka juniors who ‘‘I haven’t been here before. It raced last weekend’s 7km Kanga- is so exciting and it is incredible roo Hoppet are keen to stamp to think that this is all happening their mark on the 7km Straggle just here and it is so sustainable,’’ Muster. Langbein said. The New Zealand Cross ‘‘You’ve got a composting Country development team com- plant, you’ve got chickens, all of prised two sets of siblings, Camp- this being able to be grown inside. bell and Daniel Wright, and Louis From the point of view of the and Olivia Jones. student, it is that real farm to Campbell was second overall table experience that you can Lecturers Chris Smith and Bill McDonald with Annabel Langbein and visiting chef William Dissen. JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN and second in his under-16 teach them.’’ category. Working from farm to table vegetables and take them into the season and really letting the focused on ingredients, ideas and Daniel was third in the under- also made you more resourceful, kitchen and cook them was ‘‘what ingredients shine. That’s for me food of the South-East of the 12 category and 42nd overall. Langbein said. it is all about’’. what fresh food is all about. We United States and the parallel Louis was fifth overall and ‘‘This is your palette, this is Dissen said there was a strong manipulate as little as possible so between that and the South third in his under-18 category, what you have got to work with.’’ parallel in the way his farm to we can put directly from the farm Island, he said. while Olivia was 17th overall girl Dissen said a lot of students table philosophy and approach to to table and taste that life of the ‘‘There is a similar mentality and sixth in her under-14 might not have had experiences food aligned with New Zealand’s food...so you are eating greens growing local, eating local and category. on the farm, so to get them con- food culture that are almost still alive.’’ eating in season and I think Entries are accepted on the day nected to what is in season and to ‘‘There is this idea of taking The pair had been involved in fortuitously that’s why Annabel for the 42km, 21km and 7km Mer- be able to harvest herbs and very fresh food and what’s in a Southern Soul SeriesFREE which and I were put together.’’ ino Muster races. Curtain Making* Plus 15% off Luxaﬂex venetian blinds

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Anti-1080 campaigners are calling it ‘‘the biggest fraud in New Zea- land’s history’’ as the Department of Conservation gets ready to drop poison across the Dart, Routeburn and Caples Valleys from Monday. Glenorchy residents were warned of the coming aerial 1080 drop in a letter from DOC earlier this month. Former Ban 1080 Party member James Veint, whose family has a farm in the area, felt most of Kendra Breen, of Alexandra, won the women’s section of the 160km with a time the community was against the of 28hr 04min 28sec. JAN MCKENZIE Battle For Our Birds programme which planned to drop 1080 across 720,000 hectares of forest in New Zealand this year. ‘‘I’m still very, very much ‘‘Brutal’’ CO race opposed,’’ Veint said. ‘‘I could come up with many, many accounts when DOC have killed native birds. The decrease pushes runners in birds around our farm and adjoining bush is just dramatic. JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN petitor Paul Munro who finished ‘‘I believe it’s the biggest fraud with a time of 14 hours and 37 in New Zealand’s history.’’ Unrelenting rain saw competitors minutes. The previous record of Veint said most residents felt drop out of the Great Naseby 15hr 30min was set by Christ- ‘‘vulnerable’’ and at the mercy of Water Race, and some even battle church runner Marty Lukes. DOC and their continued advo- Anti-1080 campaigners are worried about the effect the poison will have on near hypothermia at the weekend. Alexandra’s Kendra Breen cacy of the poison. native birds and livestock when drops start on Monday. The Great Naseby Water Race won the 100-mile event with a ‘‘DOC hold all the cards organiser Jamie Sinclair said con- time of 28hr 04min 28sec. really.’’ The DOC letter sent to DOC Queenstown partnerships ditions were ‘‘horrible’’ and ‘‘To be honest, it was the There would be no physical residents warned dog owners to ranger Chris Hankin said Battle ‘‘crap’’ for competitors entered in toughest thing I have ever done, it protest over the planned drops in exercise ‘‘extreme caution’’ due to For Our Birds was a science- the gruelling 160km race. was brutal. For me, there wasn’t the area, but Veint said he would its toxicity. based campaign and there would ‘‘It was horrible. We started at really an option not to finish. It try and inform people of the ‘‘Poison baits and animal always be a small number of birds 10am Friday morning and by was just a matter of getting dangers of 1080 to native birds, carcasses are deadly to dogs. that ‘‘get to it’’. 3.30pm it had started to drizzle through as best I could. You do livestock and pets. Some poisoned animals may be ‘‘But much more [birds] will and it didn’t let up until 10am walk, and I did a lot of shuffling.’’ Veint’s father, Jim Veint, said found short distances outside the die if you let the rats and stoats Saturday morning so conditions She would have struggled with- the programme was a ‘‘waste of treatment area,’’ the letter said. get to them,’’ Hankin said. were crap for everyone.’’ out the amazing support from money’’ and there was a lot of It also said overnight trampers A change from the 2014 pro- There was a high attrition rate friends and family who helped ‘‘nonsense’’ being spread by DOC could be held up while the drops gramme was having a deer repel- with 42 entered in the 100-mile make decisions for her during the about its effectiveness in killing took place anytime from Monday, lent on the bait to protect small event, and only 23 finishing. race, and even ran with her. rats and stoats. September 5. DOC could not be numbers of white-tail and fallow Despite the wet conditions, a new ‘‘If it wasn’t for them I’d prob- ‘‘It’s just not justified,’’ he said. more precise due to the weather. deer in the area, he said. record was set by Australian com- ably still be out there now.’’ BEEKEEPING CARDHOLDERS’ DAY TOMORROW

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Scott has always had a passion for using his skill set for An Adjunct Assistant Professor of humanitarian work. When he started New Zealand Hearing, Nashville’s Vanderbilt University, he knew that he wanted that element to be a cornerstone. He has made two trips to the Cook Islands and two trips to Scott Wright, his wife Alison and Pitcairn Island in the past two years. This has seen him their four sons made Wanaka, aboard container ships, long boats and landing on runways that more resemble dirt roads. New Zealand their home several ‘‘Where there is a need, we need to address it,’’ he says. years ago. ‘‘I may be fortunate enough to reside in Wanaka, but going outside of ones comfort zone is the best way to n Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nashville’s appreciate things. We are very lucky in New Zealand to have Vanderbilt University, Scott Wright, his wife Ali- the health systems and funding we do.’’ Ason and their four sons made Wanaka, New Zea- Scott is very grateful for the support he has received over land their home several years ago. the last two years, particularly from his clients who have put We moved here for the lifestyle and the experience of their hearing in his hands. living somewhere iconically beautiful,’’ he says. He realised that locals were unable to access hearing health services easily and two years ago took steps to resolve the problem by establishing New Zealand Hearing ‘‘I may be fortunate enough to in Wanaka. Scott is as experienced as they come when it comes to reside in Wanaka, but going hearing and audiology, he wrote the book on how to oper- outside of ones comfort zone is ate audiology clinics and deliver a smarter service and experience to customers. the best way to appreciate Celebrating their two year anniversary the full time, full things.’’ — Scott Wright, New service audiology practice has proven a huge success with the hearing health of Wanaka all the better for it. The ser- Zealand Hearing, Wanaka. vice has been well received and is valued. Why you should be proactive and get your hearing sorted The most rewarding part of my perception, thinking, reasoning of Neuroscience, Dr.Arthur job is seeing proactive custom- and remembering. Therefore ers who want to do something healthy cognitive function is cognitive aging and the rela- about their hearing loss. They valuable. tionship between memory and want to remain engaged social- hearing acuity. He says untreat- ly and are aware of the down- Several recent studies have ed hearing loss not only affects sides of hearing loss. They want show a link between hearing the listener’s ability to “hear” to put a stop to the additional loss and dementia, including the sound accurately but “even effort required everyday to do studies from Johns Hopkins Uni- if you have just a mild hearing LOVE YOUR things that require hearing well, versity that found hearing loss loss that is not being treated, which is almost everything. is associated with accelerated - HEARING cognitive decline in older adults cantly.”“You have to put in so and that seniors with hearing much effort just to perceive and another but aging is a certainty. understand what is being said | We like to think we are 10 years to develop dementia over time that you divert resources away younger than we actually are than those who retain their from storing what you have and ignorance is bliss. With age hearing. Researchers from John heard into your memory” says comes experience but it also Hopkins also believe that loss comes with several hurdles of hearing increases brain tis- including hearing loss and sue loss at a more accelerated There is no upside to hearing the impact that this can have, rate than in people who either loss. Its not just about having including accelerated cognitive hear well naturally or who have to turn the volume up or asking Start with a hearing test decline. addressed their hearing loss people to repeat themselves, Call 03 443 0744 today there is a very real stress put So what is cognitive function? directly through hearing aids. on our brains that has a very It is an intellectual process Some experts believe that real impact on brain function. by which one becomes aware interventions, like hearing aids, It is therefore recommended to of, perceives, or comprehends are the best tool for maintain- get a hearing test and get your ideas, environments and situa- ing healthy cognitive function. hearing sorted sooner. tions. It involves all aspects of Brandeis University Professor

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Eat well, be active, get healthy I look at Dad and see a spritely Positive lifestyle changes follow- amounts at sleep and find time in man who is always busy, hardly ever ing retirement may therefore lead to your busy life to savour the moment sits down and deserves a bit of a better health down the track and - even just for a few minutes a day. rest, some valuable time spent with his wife of 44 years and maybe a say’It’s about time you gave yourself sleep-in or two. a break’, but it’s a whole different He’s been working full-time since ball game when it’s your that has to he was 15, surely it’s time to slow retire and he’s not alone in his worry. down. 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Dental Technology at the University of Otago. run their teeth before they are completed he ‘‘I worked in Invercargill before spending a says. decade working in Australian dental labs as both a ‘‘We make up the teeth in wax first to allow the technician and a clinician before moving back patients to try them in to ensure they are happy Keep your whole family home,’’ says Gareth. with the appearance before the denture is fin- Gareth grew up in Queenstown and Te Anau ished. ﬁt for winter sport… and spent a couple of years travelling the world, ‘‘We’ve even had some patients take them with a main base in Scotland, where he met his home for the night at this stage, to have a good wife Megan. look in the mirror and make sure they love their ‘‘We moved to Australia together and had two new smile.’’ sons,’’ he says. 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