About 60% of our community in Queenstown has an average of three weeks of savings to cashflow their daily living costs. It’s a service town with no one to service for the foreseeable future. Home seizures, car seizures. The impact is on the workers and the small companies that supply the film industry. It is in their interest to ensure the workers and businesses remain here, so they can relaunch on the other side.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 14, 2020 16:30 UTC