Photo: Mountain SceneIf a community’s held together by volunteers, you could say Arrowtown this week lost some of its glue. Twenty-four years after settling in Arrowtown and throwing themselves into the community, Nigel and Alison Douglas left on Monday to forge a new life in the South Canterbury town of Geraldine. After 17 years managing a Northern Southland farm, Nigel, who hails from Invercargill, says they decided to move to Arrowtown in 1996 due to a farming downturn. Alison initially travelled around Southland, working for a rural education programme, before landing her preschool teaching role with Montessori. “While I’m still physically and, hopefully, a bit mentally capable, we can do something else.”But Arrowtown, he adds, “has been very kind to us”.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 08, 2020 18:33 UTC