Marjorie Cook

Wanaka

Wanaka Sun editor at Allied Press Limited

Senior journalist at Otago Daily Times

Journalist at Fairfax Media/Southland Times/The Mirror

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Articles

Hospital site questioned

Mar 1, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaAny new regional hospital based in Queenstown would be inaccessible for the majority of the region’s population in the future, members of Health Action Wānaka (HAW) say.
Foodie keen to expand flavour horizons

Mar 1, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaWhen Rowan Bishop began visiting her cousins in Wānaka, it was not possible to buy fish and chips and most food was "pedestrian" meat and three vege. The Kaitangata-born-and-bred farm girl did not grow up in a foodie family in the modern sense but was always in the kitchen preparing meals to help her mother. "It was very traditional, roast on Saturday, cold meat and salad on Sunday.
Flowers power Hugh’s fundraising drive

Mar 1, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaA Wānaka flower grower brightened Hugo Dale’s world last weekend by donating flowers to the Mount Aspiring College student’s fundraising campaign for freeride lessons. Hugo, 12, loves freeride and because his mum Claudia Guisolan supports him and his sister Elsie, 14, by herself, he decided last year to help her out and raise money for his lessons and competition fees.
Tramper in tears after partner’s death

Feb 25, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

A distraught young Frenchman ran through challenging terrain to the nearest backcountry hut after his tramping partner died in a glacier fall in Mt Aspiring National Park. Police said the woman who died had been attempting to make her way across exposed and difficult terrain and fell several metres on Friday night. The Otago Daily Times understands both trampers were in their 20s.
Tramper in tears after partner's death on glacier

Feb 24, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaA distraught young French man ran through challenging terrain to the nearest backcountry hut after his tramping partner died in a glacier fall in Mt Aspiring National Park. Police said the woman who died had been attempting to make her way across exposed and difficult terrain and fell several metres on Friday night. The Otago Daily Times understands both trampers were in their 20s.
Proposed earthworks concern

Feb 22, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaThe QLDC has applied to do non-notified earthworks in the protected Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs Reserve. Wānaka Sun editor Marjorie Cook investigates. Wanaka Retirement Village resident Mary Gray is on the warpath for more awareness of proposed earthworks in the Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs Reserve.
New Hawea River loop track proposed

Feb 22, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

The Upper Clutha Tracks Trust has applied for resource consent and begun fundraising to complete a 10km loop track from Lake Hawea Dam to Camphill Bridge, using both sides of the Hawea River. The consent application is for a new 4.5km track on the true right bank of the Hawea River, connecting to the existing Hawea River Track on the true left bank. Queenstown Lakes District Council planner Rebecca Holden is vetting the application, lodged by the trust on February 11.
Walking in circles for Brain Injury Association

Feb 20, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaBen Suncin, 75, was to set out at 6am today on a 12-hour walking mission to raise funds for the Otago and Canterbury branches of the Brain Injury Association. Mr Suncin, who has suffered a brain injury himself, did his first 12-hour fundraiser in 2022, when he completed 35 laps of Pembroke Park and raised nearly $2500.
Archie ‘different kid’ after open heart surgery

Feb 20, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaCute Wānaka 3 and a-half year old Archie Lee is one of the faces of the Heart Foundation’s annual fundraising campaign, the Big Heart Street Appeal, which is on streets today and tomorrow. The son of Sam and Alyse Lee is already a Wānaka media identity, after he and his grandmother Mary Lee completed a 43.8km MyMarathon walk around Pembroke Park last year.
Wanaka man wins silvers for US

Feb 17, 2025 | odt.co.nz | Marjorie Cook

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. SportOther SportOlympic athlete Campbell Wright now has two world championship silver medals under his belt — though both of them have been in United States colours. The New Zealand-born, Hawea Flat-raised, former Mount Aspiring College student switched allegiances to the US after competing as a "lone ranger" for New Zealand at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.