Not many people, even local residents, recall that Sir Henry Wigley is responsible for the Queenstown Lakes Region becoming the Mecca of winter sports for the South Pacific.
Although primitive ski fields has existed since the 1920s, it was not until Wigley persuaded the Government to seal the
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