Roading contractors reach trapped huntersHIGH COUNTRY HELICOPTERS The flooded Waikaia Valley on Monday. A party of 10 hunters who are stranded in a remote area in northern Southland will leave their campsite as they planned on Thursday. Roading contractors had reached the party on Tuesday and had reported that they were all fine, he said. Minor repairs would be made to bridges on Waikaia Bush Road before the group could drive out. Thirty eight four-wheel drivers were trapped in a snowstorm on Waikaia Bush Road for 20 hours last May.

Source: Stuff January 23, 2017 23:58 UTC