NBR prize a welcome holiday
Winning the Ultimate NZ Experience is a major change in fortune for The National Business Review subscriber Max Tarr, only months after he suffered a serious accident.
Winning the Ultimate NZ Experience is a major change in fortune for The National Business Review subscriber Max Tarr, only months after he suffered a serious accident.
The prize, valued at $40,000, gives three nights at each of three highly acclaimed New Zealand lodges: Kauri Cliffs, The Farm at Cape Kidnappers and the new Matakauri Lodge in Queenstown.
The competition was open to all NBR print and online subscribers.
Mr Tarr, a Palmerston North-based businessman who owns an electrical company employing more than 30 people, has been an NBR subscriber since 1991.
He described himself as a “market junkie” and said reading NBR has always been useful to him as a business owner.
“I like Shoeshine and I like Matthew Hooton’s column – I think he’s excellent.”
ABOVE: Click to hear Max Tarr learning of his win.
He said he and his wife Christine were very excited when they found out they had won.
“We typically holiday overseas – we haven’t been to any lodges in New Zealand so this will be a great new experience for us.”
Mr Tarr plans to wait until he’s fully recovered before taking the holiday: he is still on crutches from a crash in February, which broke nine bones and has required him to have three surgeries.
“Something happened between me and a tree. I do a lot of dirt biking. The tree won - I skinned it a bit but it’s not losing any sleep over it.”
Visit nbr.co.nz to listen to the winning phone call and check out page 38 to see NBR’s new subscriber prize draw.
NBR staff
Thu, 02 Jun 2011
Thu, 02 Jun 2011
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NBR prize a welcome holiday
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