The triple treat

• Published date: 29 September 2022
• Publication title: Mountain Scene

The recipients, recognised for their ‘‘extraordinary and enduring philanthropic contribution to the Whakatipu’’, were the late David Crow, Jillian and Dick Jardine and Darren Rewi

A one-time meteorologist, David Crow, who died last year, aged 88, kept daily weather recordings, almost without fail, for 59 years, and was a jazz aficianado.

The Jardines this year formally gifted 900 hectares of their Remarkables Station to the QEII National Trust to ensure its landscape’s protected in perpetuity.

They earlier gifted their original homestead to the University of Otago for use as an academic retreat.

A respected kaumatua, Rewi was rewarded for leading the Maori community through the pandemic and his contributions to youth, culture, employment, community and the environment through initiatives like founding the Mana Tahuna charitable trust.

Mayor Jim Boult gave a special mayoral award to all the local organisations and volunteers who helped the community through...