Another rumour: Shania buying property i NZ

[shaniaDKfan]

Came across this story about Shania. Thought I wanted to share it with you all:

Hmmm!



Twain does heli-tour of South Island
07 April 2003

Country music superstar Shania Twain is understood to have done extensive sightseeing of the South Island by helicopter during her recent New Zealand visit.


Twain and her producer/songwriter husband Robert "Mutt" Lange were spotted at Wanaka Airport about two weeks ago.

Their helicopter refuelled and took off and was seen flying in different parts of the Wanaka area, possibly looking at properties, the Southland Times reports.

Real estate agents and developers have said they know nothing of the singer's visit or any property deal.

Twain filmed two videos in Auckland last week for songs from her new album.


Source: stuff.co.nz - Twain does heli-tour of South Island

[Ammoguy]

Hmm, pretty far-fetched rumour.. People see a helicopter flying around Wanaka area and somebody has seen Shania & Mutt in it.. And the conclusion is that they were looking for properties.. Actually I saw that somewhere else too, can´t just remember where..

Originally posted by Ammoguy
Hmm, pretty far-fetched rumour.. People see a helicopter flying around Wanaka area and somebody has seen Shania & Mutt in it.. And the conclusion is that they were looking for properties.. Actually I saw that somewhere else too, can´t just remember where..

Yeah ...... rumours

[manu_georgine]

I hear it's beautiful there! But yeah, it does sound a bit far fetched. Maybe they were just sightseeing and the best way to see nature related sights is by helicopter... but you just never know.

Manu

[SHANIANUTS!]

Yes this article was posted on the 7th of April and the same discussion ensued.

[Troll]

Originally posted by SHANIANUTS!
Yes this article was posted on the 7th of April and the same discussion ensued.

Here it is.

http://www.shaniaforums.com/showthre...threadid=20401

[shaniaDKfan]

SHANIANUTS! and Troll:

You killed a perfectly good thread

I was actually very proud of it!

Shame on you!

[Esther]

hhm!! interesting!

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by shaniaDKfan
SHANIANUTS! and Troll:

You killed a perfectly good thread

I was actually very proud of it!

Shame on you!

Eh?

[shaniaDKfan]

[rainbow19]

Shania was the front page of the Christchurch Press (NZ) today in an article that says that her and Mutt have offered 16 million NZ dollars for a property near Wanaka.

Go here to read:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepres...0a6009,00.html

Hope it's true

[SHANIANUTS!]

Country star coming on over?
29 April 2003
By DAVID COURTNEY

Canadian country music star Shania Twain is set to join the landed aristocracy of Wanaka.


The town is abuzz with talk that Twain has offered about $16 million for the picturesque 17,000ha Motutapu Station about a 30-minute drive from Wanaka. Only an application to the Overseas Investment Commission stands between her and station life, the rumour mill says.

Twain is flush with cash after her Come On Over album success, which apparently sold a record-beating 34 million copies worldwide. The backdrop of alps provided by Wanaka will remind Twain of her home in Switzerland where she lives with her husband, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and their baby.

Motutapu Station is behind Glendhu Bay on Lake Wanaka and has the popular Motutapu River flowing through it.

Twain was in New Zealand about three weeks ago filming a music video in Auckland.

Residents said she had been seen in Wanaka about the same time and had done extensive sightseeing around the area by helicopter.

The station's owners, Hamish and Anna MacKay, were quiet on the prospect of the sale. They said the property was on the market and had not been sold yet. They would not say who was interested in buying it.

Geoff Kerr, of Harcourts Wanaka, said the vendors, purchaser, and his agency had entered into an agreement on the property but it had not been sold. He would not reveal the potential buyer.

A local real estate agent who did not want to be identified said he had heard the property was under offer from Shania Twain. He said news of the purchase had been doing the rounds of Wanaka for the past few days.

He said if the rumoured $16 million offer for the property was true it would be an "outstanding result" for the local property market. The property's listed Government Valuation made in September last year was $4m. According to the property's advertisement, 12,000 stock are grazed on Motutapu.

Councillor Aaron Heath, a Wanaka representative for the Queenstown Lakes District Council, said there was no surprise there was high-profile interest in property around Wanaka.

"Queenstown already attracts plenty of interest and it was only a matter of time before it turned to Wanaka," Mr Heath said.

Overseas Investment Commission (OIC) head Stephen Dawe said the sale of Motutapu was not before the commission at the moment.

It often took weeks for a potential sale to come before it as the parties needed time to gather the relevant information.

Twain was described as an "intensely private person" by New Zealand representatives of her record company, Universal Music

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by rainbow19
Shania was the front page of the Christchurch Press (NZ) today in an article that says that her and Mutt have offered 16 million NZ dollars for a property near Wanaka.

Go here to read:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepres...0a6009,00.html

Hope it's true

you might wanna put this on breaking news forum too!!!!!!!!!!!

[SHANIANUTS!]

http://www.bigjude.com/Motutapu.html

Motutapu...Sacred Island There are many "motu tapu" in the Pacific. This one is generally believed to have been named by Taikehu of the waka Tainui after the the tiny islet of Motutapu which guards the entrance to Muri Lagoon in Rarotonga, farewell point to anyone leaving for Aotearoa/New Zealand, since Kupe established the star path to get here perhaps 1200 years ago. Muri Lagoon was definitely a staging post for some of the giant waka which brought the Maori and the Polynesian system of straight line navigation required those who came from the islands which are now French Polynesia, to go first to Rarotonga to line up their star path. Whatever the source of the name, there were people living on Motutapu when neighbouring volcano Rangitoto( see the picture below) burst out of the sea the sea into fiery life in a deadly pall of ash and smoke, their footprints preserved in the ash layers, be dug up by archeologists 400 years later. Side by side in absolute contrast. Rangitoto, which is separated from Motutapu by a narrow tidal creek now bridged with a causeway, is younger than Westminster Abbey while Motutapu is old, sedimentary and a relic of Gondwanaland. Over its basement rock (greywacke and argillite) are layers of soft sandstones and a mantle of ash from successive volcanic eruptions, not only from Rangitoto. There are 48 volcanoes in the Auckland field most of which have erupted since Motutapu was born. A study in contrasts. Looking across the rolling green fields of Motutapu to bush clad Rangitoto, the brooding island volcano which rose out of the sea about 400 years ago. This schematic shows the closeness of the two islands. The tidal creek between them is so shallow that when Bishop Samuel Marsden tried to sail his cutter through at the begining of last century, it got stuck in the middle and had to be carried out by a team of brawny Maori. Even narrower today having silted up as an result of land clearance and other European activity. The large inlet at the bottom (south) of the schematic is Islington Bay, popular boatie anchorage , commonly known as Drunks after the days when the Gulf scows over-nighted there to let their crews sleep off the effects of Auckland. Thick forest replaced by farming, deer

In pre-European times, Motutapu had a thick canopy of Kauri forest, fringed with Pohutakawa, both of which grew strongly in the volcanic ash, but that all changed in 1869 when the island was bought by John and James Reid. In typical migrant manner, they set out to transform their aquisition, planting English grasses where magnificent forest had once grown, displacing birds, insects and lizards. To entertain their wealthy friends they had shooting parties, for which they imported red deer from England's Windsor Park, ostriches, emus, donkeys, wallabies, opossum and even a buffalo. (James Reid was a friend of Sir George Grey and shared his enthusiasm for importing exotic animals to this mammal-free land.) In recent years, the descendents of the possums they liberated for sport had so over ran neighbouring Rangitoto that they had to be eradicated by aerial poison drops to save the emerging forest. The Reid family kept Motutapu until World War Two when it was taken over by the Army to become part of the ring of fortifications protecting Auckland against possible Japanese invasion. Guns-sites, magazines and radio huts can still be found around Administration Bay but the army is long gone and the old buildings are now leased to the Auckland Outdoor Education Organisation Inc. for use as a school camp. Over 6000 children are hosted annually. Administration Bay, Motutapu Island,showing the underlying rock structure . There's a walkway on Motutapu, taking about three hours to cross the island and back again. Plenty of evidence of the island's earliest human inhabitants can be seen. More than 400 separate archaeological sites have survived the years of pastoral farming and deer, ranging from from sizeable fortified pa, as in Home Bay and Station Bay, to small camps and hamlets.The fortifications on the headlands are easily recognized from the sea.A major revegetation programme is well under way and the island will eventually be returned to bush. Motutapu Island is part of the Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park and is just a short ferry trip from Auckland There are good walks, including one to the summit. For the less agile, a tractor-drawn train. The island is administered by DOC (Department of Conservation) and reached by Fullers' ferries. To choose another island, click here. You are inside "Islands", the Hauraki Gulf website in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Please explore our links and logic. Places... People... Pirates... Peace... Painters... Prehistoric... Parrots... Plants The Thin Green Line (the Kiwi environmental mailing list) . . Visitor Information office Links, search engines and associated sites....Page design and construction: Judy Voullaire Copyright 1996 ( to the artists, photographers and authors mentioned on this page.)

[rainbow19]

The front page of the Christchurch Press has Shania on it in an article that atates she as offered $16 million for a property near Wanaka in the South Island.

Go here to read:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepres...0a6009,00.html

Hope it's true!

[rainbow19]

I have now posted this message in Breaking news. Thought that's where I had put it! Please forgive me, it's only just after 7.00am here and now I have to go to work teaching 30 2, 3 and 4 year olds! That's enough to fry anyone's brain!

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by rainbow19
I have now posted this message in Breaking news. Thought that's where I had put it! Please forgive me, it's only just after 7.00am here and now I have to go to work teaching 30 2, 3 and 4 year olds! That's enough to fry anyone's brain!

You did but it was moved here - I guess cuz it is not a done deal and still in the iffy stage perchance.

[SHANIANUTS!]

Now it was merged with another thread!!!!!!!!

[Jay]

16 million is a lot...

[SHANIANUTS!]

Here is a map of South Island so you can see where property is:

http://www.backpack-newzealand.com/m...uthisland.html

I could not find a close in map of the area - can anyone help on that?

[aFinn]

This again is starting to enter the area of Shania´s personal life, in my opinion we do not need to know everything.

[SHANIANUTS!]

It has become public knowledge however with the front - page article in the Christchurch Press. This is NOT a tabloid fabrication.

[aFinn]

we don´t however need closeup maps etc, eh?

[shaniarools]

He he, there's a place called Twizel! I wanna live there!!!

But I could not for the life of me find this other place on the map. Where is it?

[SHANIANUTS!]

It is on the west side of the island - kind of in the middle near the coast as far as I understand it.