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The Rotary Club of Wānaka teamed up with Upper Clutha Plunket for the New Year book sale.
here is no let-up in local appetites for reading books, as the success of the Rotary Club of Wānaka’s New Year book sale shows. The sale ran for three days in early January and Rotary Club of Wānaka member Mike Elliot says it was hugely successful. “We had people everywhere and three of us on the till just to keep things moving”. Rotary collaborated with Upper Clutha Plunket, which will receive money raised from the event. Mike said he thought the club would be able to donate around $7,000 to Upper Clutha Plunket.
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“It’s a fantastic result,” Upper Clutha Plunket community service coordinator Sarah Ashford said. “Anything we do for the community we fundraise ourselves, so this is of huge benefit to us to be able to help families in the area.” Sarah said demand for Plunket’s services had grown significantly in recent years. “You just need to look at all the housing that has blown up in the Upper Clutha area,” she said. “It is such a wonderful place for children to grow up and a safe place for children to grow up. It has been called a bit of a nappy valley in the last few years.”
Upper Clutha Plunket supports families and children under five in the community. Its services include providing ‘safe havens’ for families at events, and ‘the rooms’ at 51 Ardmore Street, which is a place where families can go at any time to get away from the hustle and bustle of home life, where they can feed, change children, and play. The Rotary Club of Wānaka organises biannual book sales, one at New Year and the other in the July school holidays. For more details go to www.wanakarotary.club. – By Tony O’Regan
The median value of Wānaka homes has broken through the $1.75 million mark. Data released this week also shows median property prices in Albert Town are at $1.22m and just over $1 million in Lake Hawea. Mt Pisa’s median property price sits at $1.1 million, Cromwell is just shy of $820,000 and Clyde is $833,000. Three Queenstown Lakes centres – Arrowtown ($2.01m), Jacks Point ($1.9m) and Lake Hayes ($2.35m) were among four in the country to record gains of more than $550,000 in the past year. The data – a review of property values in 933 “suburbs” across the country was released on Tuesday by CoreLogic NZ, an independent provider of property data and analytics. The company was formed in 2014 following the merger of Terralink Ltd and PropertyIQ NZ Ltd – and boasts the most comprehensive property database in the country. It covers 99% of the NZ property market. Wānaka values jumped 28 per cent from $1,368,400 to $1,752,750, Albert Town went from $947,600 to $1,220,150 and Lake Hāwea went from $839,900 to $1,005,400. Spokesperson Kelvin Davidson said Wānaka had a flatter 2020 than some other parts of the country as tourism activity took a Covid hit, and the property upswing was a bit slower and later to get going. However, the boom took hold in 2021, and a 28.1% rise in median values put it right amongst the faster growing areas. Continued on page 3
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