Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club
| Early Queenstown Ice Rinks |
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| 23rd May 2010 |
Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club |
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Early Queenstown Ice Rinks Lat: 43'00'00.04S Long: 171'00'00.00E Elevation 000M |
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Early Queenstown Rinks |
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Ice skating has been
popular in the Queenstown area since the early 1900s. During the
1930s there were very severe winters and it was common for Moke Lake
and Lake Dispute to freeze over with fifteen centimetres of ice. The
Park Pond, which is near the present ice rink, also used to freeze
over for two months each winter.
The new Queenstown Rink (original) opened
on June 4th 1966. The Queenstown Ice Skating Club was formed a year
later. The manager
was Eoin Buckley. The freezing plant was from an old freezing works
and had been used for other ice rinks before being sent to
Queenstown. It had no automatic start up so Eoin had to start and
reset the plant each time there was a power failure. This was a
common occurrence in Queenstown at that time and Eoin had to sleep
at the rink in the school holidays to restart and maintain the plant
so the ice was retained.
The Queenstown Ice
Skating Club was established and incorporated in 1968. This club
which included figure skating, speed skating and ice hockey was
started by Kath Craven, Diane Buckley, Gill Harvey and Margaret
Mills. Picture from the ODT  A group of young skaters poses for the camera on the frozen pond at the Queenstown Gardens, probably about the 1890s. Photo by Lakes District Museum Collection. REF: EL 1757. |
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Reference: NZ Ice
Skating Association (Inc) 50th Jubilee 1937-1987 History of the NZISA (Inc) Published by Rhona Whitehouse |
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