Whanganui District Council says the district has room for more people and will promote Whanganui as an attractive place to move to. Photo: Moana Ellis / LDR
Whanganui will have a chemo unit by the end of the year, three and a half years after its funding was announced. At the moment, patients have to travel to Palmerston North for treatment but the new, six-bed facility will get rid of at least some of those hours in the car.
The Whanganui District Council is beginning work on its 10-year long term plan and Mike says it is aiming high - a population increase of 5000 by 2034.
Meanwhile average weekly rent price has grown 9.1 per cent in the last year, much more than the national average of 4.8 per cent.
And contractors replacing a 113-year-old wastewater pipe in Whanganui East hit turbulence recently when their drill kept getting jammed on wood eight metres down.
Turns out it was 4575-year-old totara, perfectly preserved, even further down than the pumice layer from the Taupo eruption 1800 years ago.
Mike Tweed is a Multimedia Journalist for the Whanganui Chronicle
