The amount of alcohol in the system of a hotel guest who died of alcohol poisoning after downing a cocktail of spirits could have changed after death, a court heard.

A civil engineer who died from acute alcohol poisoning after downing a cocktail of shots had challenged friends to drinks races on nights before, a court was told.

FORESTRY farmers have received approval for 1,500 hectares of new forestry planting for the current autumn planting season.