John Keast was born in Ashburton in 1955, and worked for many years as a journalist in both New Zealand and Australia.
Divining an opportunity for Methven
1 August 2004
Few events have so captured the local imagination as the search for a thermal bore near Methven. Word of the search spread after a drilling rig appeared in a paddock. Nothing unusual in rigs -- they dot Mid-Canterbury in the eternal quest for reliable sources of irrigation water. This rig, though, was not after cold water, but hot.