The wild, wild west

July 2014

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July 2014

Riding through rain forest on the West Coast Wilderness Trail. Photo: Dave Mitchell
Will the West Coast Wilderness Trail do for small West Coast communities what the Otago Central Rail Trail has done for Otago? Roy Sinclair meets the canny and sometime eccentric small business owners who are hoping to ride the gravy train New Zealanders rarely experience anything like this, Paul and Rosie tell us. From Rangiora, […]

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