As reported by Mountainwatch, Buller Ski Lifts successfully auctioned 61 chairs from the Blue Bullet chairlift on Saturday, raising AUS$100 000 in the process for the Mansfield District Hospital.
The sale of the chairs generated over AUS$70 000, with a donation raising the final figure.
The money will be used to buy a telemetry system for monitoring cardiac patients at the hospital.
The Blue Bullet chairlift has been in operation since 1984 and, by the time it retires on 7 October, will have carried an estimated 17 million passengers.
Read the article online at: https://www.mountaintechnologymagazine.com/ski-lifts/24092018/blue-bullet-chairlift-auction-raises-money-for-mansfield-hospital/
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