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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>August</strong> 8 <strong>2019</strong><br />
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NEWS<br />
Rabbit cull<br />
results still<br />
weeks away<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
HOW EFFECTIVE a cull of<br />
rabbits in the red zone has been<br />
will be known in several weeks.<br />
Land Information New Zealand,<br />
which manages the land, said all of<br />
the carrots contaminated with the<br />
calicivirus K5 have been consumed<br />
since the drop late last month.<br />
LINZ manager land and property<br />
Matt Bradley said biosecurity<br />
experts will survey the rabbit<br />
numbers in late September or early<br />
October to determine if further<br />
control is required. <strong>The</strong> population<br />
will be compared to a survey<br />
carried out last year. <strong>The</strong> number<br />
of rabbits found dead so far has<br />
been relatively low, because they<br />
often return to their burrows, Mr<br />
Bradley said.<br />
A contractor is regularly<br />
inspecting the area to remove<br />
any dead rabbits. “We have also<br />
instructed our maintenance<br />
contractors to report if they find<br />
dead rabbits so we can have them<br />
removed,” Mr Bradley said.<br />
No further releases of the virus<br />
have been scheduled yet. As part of<br />
the management of the red zone,<br />
LINZ is legally required under the<br />
Canterbury Regional Pest Control<br />
Strategy to reduce rabbit and pest<br />
numbers when they get too high.<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
TRADITIONALLY 50th<br />
anniversaries are celebrated<br />
with gold, but a badminton<br />
club has used ice to mark the<br />
occasion – and lots of it.<br />
When a contingent of 23<br />
players from Lincoln headed<br />
to Franz Josef to celebrate the<br />
club’s 50th anniversary, the<br />
original plan was to only play<br />
badminton in the town’s hall.<br />
However, that quickly<br />
changed after a phone call<br />
between Lincoln club captain<br />
John Morrish and Franz Josef<br />
player Graham Berry. <strong>The</strong> idea<br />
of taking advantage of some<br />
‘local rates’ to go up the glacier<br />
via helicopter was raised by<br />
Berry before things skyrocketed.<br />
“I said: ‘We can take a<br />
badminton racket and have a hit<br />
up there,” said Morrish.<br />
After a short pause, Graham<br />
said: “That’s a great idea. Leave<br />
it to me.”<br />
With enthusiastic support<br />
from Franz Josef Glacier Guides,<br />
Tourism Westland and local<br />
helicopter operators, the joke<br />
became a reality.<br />
It was decided Morrish and<br />
Adam Thomas would represent<br />
Canterbury, while Berry and<br />
Adrian Waters would represent<br />
South Westland in the first ever<br />
provincial game of badminton<br />
news online at www.star.kiwi<br />
Badminton on ice a bit<br />
ALL GO: John Morrish gets ready to play a game on the glacier.<br />
on the glacier.<br />
Guides went up in the<br />
morning and flattened off an<br />
area half the size of a standard<br />
badminton court. <strong>The</strong> four<br />
players then abseiled down to<br />
the court before putting up a<br />
net.<br />
“If you were playing at one<br />
end you had to be tethered with<br />
an ice screw and a short rope,<br />
so you couldn’t disappear at<br />
the end of the court. If you did<br />
you wouldn’t come back,” said<br />
Morrish.<br />
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