Stories about the development, events and community of Wānaka and surrounding areas
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Featured Stories
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The Smithy
Introduction of electric power to the Upper Clutha
Movies in the 1930s
The Wānaka Tree
The White Star Hotel
Early runs and farms in the Upper Clutha
Upper Clutha war memorials
Where did they meet and dance?
Pembroke’s public library – when and where?
What’s in a name – Mou Waho?
Earliest photographs of the Upper Clutha
Rewriting history – the first female child born in the Upper Clutha
How Pembroke (now Wānaka) was named
Maps and their stories
1913 – the year of the lorry
A mobile church of many names and great age
Fatboys
Queensberry Inn
The Wānaka Wharf and lake shipping