In Gear | Rotary in Southern New Zealand Issue 2 | Page 67

Classic!
Carnegie Hall … the Kennedy Centre … the David Letterman
Show … the Rotary Club of Wanaka Emergency Response
Kits fundraiser.
The Trapeze Quintet, a group of leading New Zealand
classical musicians who’ve played some of the world’s
most illustrious venues, paid a special visit to Wanaka
recently to perform an evening of chamber music
before 120 Rotarians and guests.
Rotary Club of Wanaka Public Image director and
president-elect Fran Tate described the evening, held
in the Pavilion at Edgewater Resort, as ‘just stunning’.
Brought to town by Wanaka Rotarians, with support
from sponsors Harraways and Harcourts, the musicians
– all professionals who play for the Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra – enchanted the audience with a programme including
works by Benny Goodman, and Provofiev’s ‘Quintet in G minor’, from
the Trapeze Ballet.
In total, Fran says, $3600 was raised, and will provide for six Emergency Response
Kits (ERKs), which are used in the aftermath of disasters in the South Pacific
region.

And the cup runneth over
Our District 9980 contingent allowed
ourselves a little air punch moment at
September’s Rotary Institute held in
Sydney – we were awarded the coveted
Rotary Foundation New Zealand Annual
Giving Cup.
District 9980, which has a particularly
strong and proud tradition of giving,
comfortably took out the cup in 200708 and 2008-09 – but stiff competition
from our friends at District 9910 saw us
bow out until the 2015-16 year.
The cup is awarded to the New Zealand
district that gives the most to the Rotary

Foundation, crucial contributions
that enable Rotary to carry out
humanitarian work around the world.
Each district governor, in consultation
with clubs, sets the target every
year, which is monitored by Rotary
Foundation staff, who publish ongoing
rankings.
And the winning numbers: District
9980’s per capita contribution was
nearly $150 per member, which
worked out almost $13 higher than
our closest competition – District 9910
– and was around 70 percent ahead of
the district which gave the least.

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