Rotary

Queenstown Rotarians joined forces with Happiness House Community Support Centre staff last week to give a helping hand to bring the Park St premises "into the 21st century".

White-coated Rotarians, a familiar sight at Carisbrook rugby matches, will make way for surf life-saving volunteers in security uniforms for events at Forsyth Barr Stadium, leaving Rotary facing a $15,000 loss of revenue annually.

Oscar McCoughy (8), of St Joseph's School, receives a new dictionary from Rotarian Bruce Jefford, who, along with Queenstown Rotary youth director Alistair Smith, delivered the last of an estimated 195 dictionaries for the area's year 4 pupils on Monday.

The initiative was part of Rotary's literacy month.

The tide is turning in Rotary clubs across the country, New Zealand's first female district governor says.

Being part of a team of two million volunteers immunising 150 million children against polio is just one of the life-changing experiences on the agenda for a southern team who will spend six weeks in India next year.