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A life serving Viv Posselt catches up with Hazel Barnes – as of this week, Waipā’s newest QSM holder.

For all the service that led to Hazel Barnes’ Queen’s Service Medal, it is something much more personal that makes her heart swell with pride.

Raising three children single-handedly and enjoying their success in life has been her richest reward, she says, particularly as much of it happened while she was toiling through the decades of work that saw her awarded a QSM in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Hazel learned of her honour around a week before it was announced on June 1. Was it a shock? “Oh gosh yes! And now, going through the process of talking about it, I realise it adds up to something quite staggering. I never thought of it that way before.”

The Waipā district councillor, JP and current president of Te Awamutu Grey Power, was awarded the honour for service to local government and the community. That’s a very small nutshell for a lifetime of commitment to others, one that started as the second of five children born at Arapuni Hospital to a farming family. She rode eight kilometres to and from school, 19km each way when she played hockey in Hamilton; she toiled on the farm after school and learned about ‘doing things for others’ from her mother.

Hazel’s first brush with righting life’s wrongs came when as a student nurse at Waikato Hospital, she stood up to the matron for the abolishment of a nightly habit that left students exhausted by their 6am start.

“There was a ‘night snoop’ who banged open the

doors and shone a light in our eyes to see if we were asleep. At the end of it, the matron agreed to stop the practice. I realised then that if you approached things properly and reasonably, you could make changes.”

After gaining her registration a 21-year-old Hazel worked overseas, until a particularly bleak spell of English weather informed her decision to return. She and her then partner hitch-hiked and rode a Vespa through Europe, taking in Iran and Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. In what was then still Ceylon, they boarded a ship to Perth and hitched across

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Air New Zealand will resume morning commuter flights between Hamilton and the capital on Monday – and there are changes ahead for the region’s bus service.

The flights from Hamilton will leave Hamilton at 7.30am commuters will fly back from Wellington at 6.05pm. Wellington based commuters will board at 8.15am and leave Hamilton at 5pm.

The Monday to Friday return flights, which will range in price from $358 to $418, will be half full at best as the airline observes onemetre physical distancing.

“We’ve seen more flights at Hamilton Airport in Alert Level 2 than we’d expected, so we’re cautiously optimistic that slow, but steady, inroads to recovery are being made,” Hamilton Airport chief executive Mark Morgan said.

He said the same-day return flights are typically used by business and government related travellers.

Public transport in Waikato is also getting a review.

Waikato Regional Council is set to rollout timetable and route changes and a new ticketing system for its bus system will be in

place next month.

Regional Connections committee chair and Waikato regional councillor Angela Strange said the The Bee Card will replace the BUSIT card, to allow passengers to tag on and off and top-up their card balances online.

“It will make bus travel smarter and easier,” she said.

Most bus timetables in Hamilton will have minor changes from Monday to ensure drivers are getting adequate breaks.

The council is also working on the introduction of Te Huia, a passenger rail service between Hamilton and Auckland.

A service comprising two return journeys for up to 150 commuters on weekdays - and a return Saturday service - is scheduled to start before the end of the year.

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the Nullarbor Plain to Sydney, then on to New Zealand. It took around six months, partly because Hazel worked with the World Health Organisation on mosquito prevention measures in Greek and Turkish villages. She credits those months with “giving me the steel rod in my back”.

Once home, Hazel worked in Hamilton, married and had her three children. After her husband died at just 41, she chose a more rural lifestyle. It was some 24 years ago that she came to Te Awamutu, not long after she stood for the Waikato Area Health Board, principally because she believed more could be done in the area of Māori health. She re-trained as a medical social worker, and it was in that environment, one that blended health and community, that she found her niche.

Hazel rose above the gender discrimination of her day to make her mark.

She helped turn the Kihikihi Domain from a ‘cow paddock’ into an award-winning equestrian centre; she helped teenaged mums adopting out their babies avoid mental health problems by carving out a gentler system; she

On the beat with Senior Constable DEB THURGOOD

Ryan is taking a break this week getting some all-important RnR so, I’ll do my best to fill in.

Today, I want to talk to you about illegal drugs. Drugs have a significant social cost.

Addicts often resort to criminal activity (for examples, burglaries and robberies) to obtain collateral that can be sold or exchanged to fund their habit, a habit that without intervention, escalates in severity (and cost) overtime. In addition, there is a physical and mental health cost and a negative effect on a community’s sense of safety.

You may have seen in the news, Police having success in executing search warrants and drug seizures to shut down drug dealers and their networks. Drug dealing occurs nationwide, across all communities and demographics.

Signs you may have a drug house in the street include a house where high numbers of visitors stay for short durations. They may arrive by car or on foot and at all times of the day and night. You may see evidence

of deals happening, where money or other consumer items are exchanged for a small package – perhaps someone from the house walks out to a waiting car and makes the exchange through the car window. In some cases, you may hear of or detect a regular pattern, where activity increases after a visit by a certain vehicle or people, or on a certain day. You may notice that something changes at the house around these times - a particular garden ornament appears, or the garage door is left slightly ajar when it would otherwise be closed.

Police regularly receive information about drug dealing houses. While every bit of information forms a piece of the bigger picture, some information is more immediately useful than others. This is where you come in.

If you see such activity and are in a position to do safely so, write down the address in question, try to record the registration plates of visiting vehicles, the time and date of their visit and a description of the car and its occupants.

spearheaded the revitalisation of Kihikihi and fought for more community involvement in public health decisions. She was a founding member of the Waikato Asthma Society, was involved in the Waikato Counterstroke organisation, the Waikato Equestrian Centre, and the Hamilton Rehabilitation Association; was a trustee of Trust Bank Waikato Community Trust, and a voluntary marriage celebrant.

Hazel spent six years on the Te Awamutu Community Board, the last three in the chair, and joined the Waipā District Council 17 years ago.

She’s still a councillor, and is musing on a return to the Community Board at the next elections.

“That will be in 2022 … I’ll be 83 then! But I can’t see me stopping, I’ll keep going till I drop.”

Waipā district mayor Jim Mylchreest was fulsome in his praise of Hazel. “The amount of service that you have given over the years, not only from a council perspective, but also to your entire community, is absolutely huge.

Congratulations, and thank you for all you’ve done.”

Take note of their behaviour at the address, including if someone carries a bag/suitcase into the house, yet comes out empty handed, or vice versa. Be observant for any change at the house that may be the signal to customers, drugs are on hand. If there are any odours emanating from the address, note that also.

Once you have the information, contact us. You can phone 105 or report online at http://105.police.govt.nz . To provide anonymous information, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or go to https://www. crimestoppers-nz.org/ . You can also visit the station to speak to an officer directly.

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Businesses find ‘agile’ solutions

By Viv Posselt

Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce chairman Chantelle Good says while the town appears busy in the post-lockdown environment and to almost to have to normal, businesses are likely to face tough times in the months ahead.

“At the moment, we’re definitely busier than

Hamilton,” she said.

“That’s probably because you find that in smaller towns everyone goes out of their way to support local businesses where they can.

Once restrictions were lifted, people were keen to come into town.

“But realistically, there may be more of a downturn as we move through the next few months and the wage subsidy comes off.

Those businesses struggling with cash flow problems will come out of this period with a lot more debt.”

Chantelle is the founder and owner of The Good PA, a company that provides virtual support for businesses. She said her company had been contacted by a few individuals who had lost their jobs due to Covid-19, but in general, the numbers

at this stage were not as large as was originally feared.

“There have definitely been some losses, primarily in the hardesthit hospitality and retail sectors. I’ve rung around the Chamber members, and about 80 percent of them are relatively positive.

While this has obviously been a negative time for business generally, they

On the road to Orini

By Jeremy Smith

They’ve been going flat out all day.

But as they took a moment during a torrential down pour on Monday night - Gypsy Day - to chat with the News, the excitement of the move was setting in.

Former Cambridge contract milkers Hayden and Chloe Hawkes, who previously worked on a farm in Roto-o-Rangi, were among thousands of farmers around the country who on June 1 shifted to new farms to begin a fresh dairy season.

After two years in Cambridge, Chloe and Hayden and their children, Ben (7) and Lily (9), have moved to a 150 hectare farm in Orini on which they milk 450 jersey cows.

They also have an additional 50-hectare run-off block.

Hayden and Chloe have farmed for 13 and seven years respectively, and after having been in the industry that long they’re almost used to Gypsy Day. “That doesn’t mean there aren’t still aspects of the

move that are initially a little unsettling – like finding the kids a new school,” Chloe said.

They have that first task ticked off though – both Ben and Lily will go to Orini Combined School, which is “just down the road”.

“Honestly, it can at times be a little nerve-wracking as you shift your family to a new area, but there’s also the excitement of what’s ahead.”

Finding one’s feet in a new community also makes the move easier, Chloe said.

“You just have to a make an effort to get out and about in your new community and make some friends. That’s our aim.”

For Hayden and Ben, one of their passions is motocross, so they’ll be looking to get involved with Huntly Motorcycle Club.

“They both love it – Ben’s really good at it.”

Chloe said there’s lots of aspects they’ll miss about Cambridge, but are looking forward to what’s ahead.

“We love the farming lifestyle and being around the animals and it’s a great way for the kids to grow up as well.”

are remaining positive about the future. A number of business are finding different ways to manage the situation – some have changed their hours, closed on certain days. They’re being agile around the way they work.

“Around 20 percent of our members are still feeling a little overwhelmed with the information coming through.”

Former Cambridge contract milkers Hayden and Chloe Hawkes on the farm they’ve moved to in Orini.

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Bye bye Bunnings Bunnings has confirmed it will withdraw from Waipā and shut its Cambridge and Te Aawamtu outlets.

The decision, signalled just over three weeks ago, was confirmed on Wednesday as part of a seven-store closure costing 145 jobs. Bunnings has 21 full time and four casual staff in Cambridge and 17 full time, two part time and eight casual staff members in Te Awamutu.

Puraruru is also among the seven to go. Te Aroha’s branch closed at the start of the year.

Our money is on the move again

Waipa spending has bounced back – like the rest of the Waikato – following Covid-19 lockdown restrictions being eased.

Electronic spending – using cards - in Waipa, South Waikato and Thames Coromandel in the second full week of May was ahead of the same week last year.

The six other Waikato districts and Hamilton city also saw marked increases in expenses compared to the previous week.

Food, Liquor and Pharmacies and Home and Recreational Retailing categories saw the largest lifts in spending.

Spending levels during the Covid Lockdown plummeted, none more so than in Taupo, where it dropped in midApril by 70% compared to the same time in 2019.

Data released by Te Waka Waikato’s regional economic development agency – summarised spending levels for the weeks ended February 9 to May 17.

“While weekly spending under Alert Level 3 remained below last year’s levels, it appears the gap has largely closed. Spending in the Waikato region for the week ended Sunday 17 May was about 30 percentage points higher than the previous

week, relative to corresponding weeks last year,” the report said.

It anticipated its next report, which could cover the first full week at Alert Level 2, would see spending to increase further.

Te Waka collates data to gauge what is happening in the Waikato economy. It is assisted by Waikato Regional Council Economists Blair Keenan and Sarah MacKay. Electronic spending has been as high at $80 million in a week in the February to May period in Waikato – that figure was recorded in midMarch 2019.

Total spending in that peri-

od was almost 20% down on 2019 and the number of transactions fell almost 30 percent.

Marketview, using Pay-

mark data, has recorded cumulative spending across the country at virtually the same levels.

The number of Waikato people receiving Jobseeker Support has risen by 4,300, or 27% since the start of 2020.

Consumer spending relative to same week last year

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It’s a happy birthday…to us

Your Te Awamutu News, one of the country’s youngest newspapers, is a year old this week.

It was June 7, 2019, when we previewed Fieldays with a profile of Lewis Nicholls, one of the competitors in the Rural Catch Competition.

We backed a winner, Lewis – Ōtorohanga based and shortly to move to Bulls – won the competition.

During the year we celebrated as young Oscar Parker acted as mascot for an All Black World Cup match in Japan. In August we helped find the missing Te Awamutu A&P Agricultural Shield and we capped 2019 by naming constable Ryan Fleming as our inaugural News person of the year. We announced plans for Lime Scooters to be introduced.

And then, as New Zealand moved into isolation mode to combat Covid-19 we published the Cambridge and Te Awamutu News under a combined masthead.

“We launched the Te Awamutu News as something fresh following calls from advertisers who had

seen what we had done to our paper in Cambridge,” publisher David Mackenzie said.

“They wanted the same for Te Awamutu. It is not easy launching a local community newspaper. It takes resilience, patience, a strong team and good old-fashioned hard work.

Mackenzie was “extremely proud’ that the News was the only “local” newspaper to publish in Waipa through the recent lock down period.

“We believe in supporting our local communities through thick and thin, especially in times of need. We don’t pull out when the going gets tough in the interest of short-term profits.

Our team worked extremely hard

from home to bring you the news and views to keep you abreast of what was happening in our local community.”

He said the continued support from advertisers during lockdown had been crucial.

“We are a year old, and we are celebrating that – but we also know we have a lot to do.”

Pratts Group - which has stores in Te Awamutu, Ōtorohanga and Cambridge - has advertised with the News since the paper was launched.

“Congratulations on marking a year,” Sally Pratt said.

“What I find useful is that the News goes into both Te Awamutu and Ōtorohanga, and so from a business point of view, for us, advertising in

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the News allows us to target both markets.”

Pratts Group also recently marked a milestone of its own, celebrating 100 years in business.

“Well done on an awesome start, and wishing you many more years ahead,” fellow advertiser First National Te Awamutu director and principal Vayle Hammond said.

“We’ve enjoyed being part of the journey, thank you for having us along.”

The Te Awamutu News has launched a local website – www.teawamutunews.nz . It is a great way to catch up on local news if you’ve been away or missed a copy of the Te Awamutu News.

Mackenzie said as the News entered its second year, he hoped to receive more community feedback – including letters to the editor.

“We are constantly looking at ways to improve – right now we are looking for a locally based part-time journalist to join the team and we will grow our local opinion writers,” he said.

Pictured: Some of our front pages over the last year.

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Board wants parking revamp, by George

in a logical manner,” Ms Holt said.

“How someone hasn’t been seriously Te Awamutu Community Board wants injured in the area so far is more good luck plans to improve the George St carpark area than it is good planning. The congestion and accelerated. confusion that already exists in the area will The call formed part of the board’s get worse if we don’t do anything.” submission to Waipā District Council 2020She added that a “small survey” 21 draft annual plan. conducted in the Te Awamutu community Speaking to an extraordinary meeting last year indicated that the public was in of Council’s Strategic Planning and Policy favour of the suggested improvements.

Committee last week, Councillor Lou board chair Ange Holt Brown said he said it was a topic thought it was a which had been on good idea to have the board’s radar since carparking spaces before her time. which allowed “It’s something we’ve vehicles to park been waiting for for behind the shops the last three terms,” rather than in the she said. “To be fair street.

George St carpark. to council we had Mr Brown said he not previously approached this in the best felt it was also important to provide pick up way possible. It should have been included and drop off zones in the George St area. in at least an Annual Plan before now, rather Ms Holt said on Monday when she was than only being a recommendation from last at George St work had begun on minor Community Board. improvements – including paving in the “The costs for some of the improvements middle strip between carparks, planting are outside the annual budget for car park some new trees and a streetlight had been improvements,” she told the News. moved out of a tree.

Safety concerns formed the basis of the “So, that’s a good start,” she said. board’s calls for the area – and among others She also urged council to be expedient suggested improvements and additions when repairing damaged pavements in include a raised pedestrian walkway town. through to the toilet block area, a footpath “As a board, it can be frustrating when we from McDonald’s to The Warehouse, angled get told work will be completed within an parking and directional arrows in the ASB approximated timeframe, so we pass that bank block. on to members of the community who then “Angled parking and those directional come back to us 18 months or so later and arrows would at least help the traffic to flow say ‘you said this was going to be done.’”

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OPINION

Covid19: lessons to learn and opportunities to take

By Te Ururoa Flavell, Chief Executive, Te Wananga o Aotearoa

At Te Wānanga o Aotearoa we are proud of our history and mindful that we are beneficiaries of the foresight and vision of our founding kuia and kaumātua. We keep the stories of their sacrifice and perseverance close as a constant reminder of why we’re here – to achieve our vison of whānau transformation through education and tauira success.

We listened to many of those stories recently as we celebrated our 35th Anniversary, but our mindfulness for history isn’t just a Te Wānanga o Aotearoa thing - it’s an inherently Māori thing. It’s a cultural imperative for us, as essential as breathing.

The older I get and the wiser I get, the more I realise how true this is. No matter how new and challenging a problem might appear in this modern age, if we look to our cultural mores and oral narratives, a solution always presents itself.

So as we collectively face the threat of Covid-19, I look to our history. I recall kōrero tuku iho (stories of the past) from my elders, and others, and I find comfort because

our people have faced this nanakia mate urutā (epidemic) before.

The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 decimated our people, probably more than any other demographic in Aotearoa. Across the country, we have urupā with mass graves containing our tūpuna - young and old – cut down by that disease.

In Taranaki, where my wife comes from, places where those who died lay are marked simply by a bed of rocks. No headstones, no monument, no names.

No one other than the tribe would know what lies there.

Even in the Waikato - the birthplace of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa - its effects are still evident when you consider Tūrangawaewae Marae was built and manned by uri and tamariki orphaned by that epidemic.

As we contemplate the impact of Covid-19 on tangihanga protocols, for example, I am comforted by the fact our tūpuna faced these same dilemmas and were able to uphold our tikanga and adapt, like we’re doing now. They too had no choice.

The problem, however, is that these experiences aren’t

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in our recent memories and aren’t widely known.

Had we highlighted these stories earlier, it might have cushioned the impact of the current rāhui. That’s easy to say with hindsight, but iwi and Māori organisations across the country including us - are starting to unpack the cultural memory we have of pandemics, their effects and their human costs. It’s worth asking why this wasn’t considered as part of the national pandemic plan.

Understandably, the government’s plan has been clinical in its focus and application. As a nation, we stockpiled supplies of personal protective equipment and tests, reviewed hospital capacities and readiness, examined the economic implications and created macro plans.

Nationally, there seems to be a high level of confidence in the government’s clinical oversight.

But what about the human side? How do we build the nation’s resilience to endure the projected impacts?

The Māori and iwi response has been proactive.

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Iwi issued their own advice about tangihanga, and iwi and Māori organisations continue to produce their own messages for their respective communities. Our people established road blocks to protect vulnerable communities and ensure the safety of their pakeke.

This Māori resilience to cycles of crisis is not new.

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The Edgecumbe flooding was the same. Māori wardens, Whānau Ora navigators, Te Puni Kōkiri, marae committees all doing what they do best.

Looking after big groups of people is what we do every day - for tangihanga, poukai, Hui Aranga, Ratana, Waitangi and many other occasions. So it’s no surprise

that our people know what to do and get on and do it.

This Māori resilience comforts me as we contemplate Covid-19 recovery and the new norms we’ll have to embrace.

But just because Māori responses to these situations have been decisive and proactive, that does not abrogate the government’s obligations to Māori as a treaty partner. Covid-19 presents government, iwi and Māori organisations with a unique opportunity to enhance our relationship further, and it’s critically important to do so.

Here’s why.

Covid-19 recovery is going to be rough for a lot of people. Hika, life was already rough for many people before Covid-19.

Our most vulnerable communities - home to a disproportionate number of Māori - are going to face the most discomfort as we move out of rāhui.

I suspect the Prime Minister made the rāhui decision knowing she was trading one sort of human cost - the deaths of many New Zealanders - for another, the cumulative impact of loss; of work,

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District Council to become a The Te Awamutu board White Ribbon New Zealand chair hopes if council sets an accredited business. example other business will Ms Holt, Kainga follow suit.

Aroha Whanau Ms Holt is part of a resilience kaimahi – worker nationwide network of more - made the request last than 100 full time whanau week while speaking to an resilience workers tasked extraordinary meeting of with designing community council’s Strategic Planning programmes and services and Policy Committee about to create initiatives with a personal submission she whanau for whanau.

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The importance of preventing domestic violence was highlighted by the fact that nationally the government had committed to spending $15.4 million annually to whanau resilience and preventing.

“And, just because we didn’t see a significant rise in reported cases of domestic violence in Waipā during lockdown alert levels 3 and 4, that does not mean we do not have a problem here.”

Bats discovered

By Jeremy Smith

An unexpected discovery was a timely reminder for Te Awamutu’s David Hudson.

The Hamills Waikato owner was chopping trees for firewood near Hinuera with some friends when the made a surprise find of three long-tailed bats (pictured).

“We had absolutely no idea they’d be in there,” he told the News.

“Luckily though they were all uninjured because the chopping we did was above and below where they were in the tree.”

David said the group stopped working straight away, making sure they carefully placed the bats out of harm’s way before carrying on.

He said while he was aware the longtailed bats were regularly seen closer to Hamilton, and there was a population of

them on Maungatautari, he certainly wasn’t expecting to come across them.

“I suppose the message from our experience of course is that whenever you are chopping down trees, or anything like that, go carefully – just in case they are there.”

According to the Department of Conservation (DOC), the long-tailed bats are an endangered species which carry the highest threat ranking of ‘nationally critical’.

There are still more of them than their short-tailed cousins.

In 2018, DOC confirmed that long tailed bats found in the North and South Island were in fact the same species.

As well as the mainland, populations of the bats are on Stewart Island, Little Barrier and Great Barrier islands and Kapiti Island.

They weigh between 8-11 grams and can fly at 60 kilometres per hour.

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Community news voice gets louder Publicity over a Government call that community newspapers were not essential has been followed by a lift in membership of their national umbrella grop.

The Independent Community Newspaper Association provides support for newspapers all over the country – though it does not count publications aligned to NZME or Stuff.

CNA president David Mackenzie said the body catered for “true” community newspapers, and pot-pourri publications which carried common magazine type

copy and just one or two “local” stories - usually recycled from daily newspapers – did not fall into that category.

He said since the Government’s partial U-turn on ruling CNA newspapers were unessential while daily newspapers, carrying a price tag and material which had already been published on line were – there had been a membreship rise to almost 90.

New members include The Valley Profile (Thames), The Blenheim Sun, Waimea Weekly (Richmond), Waikato Business News, Seasons

Magazine, Twizel Update and the Wairarapa Times-Age. They join the likes of the Matamata Scene, The Mercury Bay Informer (Whitianga), Whangamata News, The Weekend Sun (Tauranga), Whakatane Beacon, Taumarunui Bulletin and Ruapehu Bulletin Mackenzie said the “old chestnust” of news quality could hardly be quoted any more as a criticism of privately owned community publications.

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Field Days back on trac(tor)

Bruce with a couple of his prized possessions.

By Jeremy Smith

Tractors and Fieldays – Cambridge’s Bruce Wallis is happy to admit those are two of his passions.

Well, strictly speaking, John Deere tractors.

“Some would call it a man cave – I just call it a really nice collection,” he said of the half a dozen or so he’s accrued over the years.

“I’ve always loved them. My dad had one – I think that might be where my enthusiasm for them came from.”

In fact, he and his mates – including Dean Bayley – have even driven their respective tractors out to the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural event – Fieldays – before.

And, even if they take a more traditional means of transport, they’re always there.

“We’re at Fieldays every year, it’s a bit of a tradition.”

But when Covid-19 saw said tradition end because Fieldays 2020 was postponed, Bruce, Dean and about half a dozen other friends got creative.

Putting their thinking caps on, that group has now become the organising committee for an event they’re calling Field days 100.

On Friday, June 12 - the typically busy Friday of the usual Mystery Creek Fieldays - Field days 100 organisers are inviting up to 100 tractors to attend a day held at Bruce’s Cambridge property Wallis Quarries.

The day is being supported by several sponsors and will include breakfast, a photo shoot, a convoy on the road and lunch.

“It’s a bit of a gamble, but we wanted to

have something fun to do. We’re wanting to have the best day we possibly can, and we couldn’t have done it without the help of our sponsors,” Bruce said.

A rule of attendance is participants must bring a tractor.

“Not only because we love them, but as part of the wider picture it’s how we’ll ensure we adhere to group gathering guidelines.”

When the convoy of the tractors hits the road, they’ll make their way around the Kairangi and Norwegian road loops.

“It’ll take about an hour and if we get a full complement of 100 tractors, the convoy will stretch for about a kilometre down the road.

The Wallis’ property is well-known in Cambridge.

About 10 years ago, inspired by the move Field of Dreams, Bruce built a fullsize baseball diamond in one of his maize paddocks.

“I just love that movie,” Bruce said.

He ran the field for about two years, attracting visitors from all over New Zealand.

A line in the film states, “if you build it, they will come,” and they did.

“Busloads of people used to visit the field.”

It’s a principle Bruce hopes will also ring true as Field days 100 prepares to hit the road.

Field days 100 begins at 8.30am on Friday, June 12. Entry is $10.

“Bring your tractor, be safe, be kind.”

Sinead Boucher’s coup in buying Stuff. In terms of journalism I have not seen any serous analysis.

“I can’t imagine a buyout of any other major company by its chief executive would get such cotton wool treatment from our national media.”

Independent community publications continued,though, to challenge and ask questions – and some of their senior journalists had track records which predated the rise of the internet.”

He said it was notable that one member, the Waitomo News,

which is based in Te Kuiti, had illustrated its robustness to such a point that Ōtorohanga College had complained about a story two the New Zealand Media Council.

“CNA members are the baton holders of community news and while the Government continues to spend on Stuff and NZME, advertisers are seeing that.

He said news at the weekend that Microsoft planned to replace its own journalists with computers was a further worrying example of the direction major companies were going.

Media Council rejects complaint The New Zealand Media Council has rejected a complaint by Otorohanga College against the Waitomo News.

The Waitomo News is, like the Te Awamutu News, a member of the New Zealanad Community Newspapers Association.

The College took issue with a story headed ‘Bullying allegation at Oto College’ which appeared last December. The school raised issues of privacy, confidentiality, accuracy, fairness and balance.

The Media Council said it was concerned that some background events that gave rise to the complaint “are apparently also the subject of legal proceedings”.

“There are two main questions to consider under the heading of fairness – whether the college and its representatives were given a reasonable opportunity to comment... and whether their response (or lack of response) was fairly represented in the article. It is apparent from the correspondence... that allegations of bullying at the college have

been around for some time and that as a result of publicity about them, the relationship between the Waitomo News and the College is not a comfortable one.”

The college complained that the time it was given the respond to questions was inadequate, but the Council noted that through its lawyer, the college did supply a detailed response within the requested time frame.

“While the response did not include the material requested by the Waitomo News and amounted to a request not to publish the article, there is no reason to believe that a response for publication could not have been prepared within the same time frame.”

The Council also responded to the college’s compaint that it was unfair to report it had refused to comment.

“In the context of a news story, there is no significant difference between a refusal to comment and a refusal to comment for publication.”

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Council open to advice Community voice for flood protection formalised Waikato Regional Council will establish subcommittees in areas paying the most for flood protection and drainage assets.

Two advisory subcommittees will meet on matters relevant to the council’s flood protection programmes

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in the Lower Waikato and Waihou-Piako zones, and two drainage advisory subcommittees will be established in each of the Waikato and Thames Valley catchments.

The chair of the council’s river and catchment management committee, Stu Husband, convened informal stakeholder group meetings in the Lower Waikato and Waihou-Piako zones during early March.

At last week’s council meeting he received a majority backing from councillors to formalise an advisory arrangement.

“Since disestablishing the catchment and drainage committees last November, we’ve been exploring new ways of obtaining effective input from community members and stakeholders targeted to our most

significant regional assets.

“It’s become clear that we do need some sort of formal process in place, but one that’s not going to come at a big cost,” Cr Husband said.

The four advisory subcommittees to the river and catchment management committee will comprise targeted ratepayers, iwi representatives and stakeholder interests.

The terms of reference for the subcommittees, including how appointments will be made, is still to be decided.

Members will not be compensated.

“Landowners in these catchments pay a fair amount of money through targeted rates for significant flood protection and drainage assets.

“It’s their money and their land being protected, and that’s

why it’s so important they have an avenue to provide us with advice, support and feedback,” Cr Husband said.

He said other parts of the region remained within the scope of the river and catchment management committee.

Waikato Regional Council chair Russ Rimmington said the move reflected the organisation’s vision, agreed last month, of ‘empowering our people, caring for our place’.

“Since being elected last October, we’ve taken a hard look at our strategy for the next 10 years and we’ve committed to encouraging communities to take action. Setting up these subcommittees is keeping us in step with our new strategy.

We want to walk the talk and that’s what we’ve done today,” Cr Rimmington said.

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Federated Farmers’ May 2020 Banking Survey shows farmers are slightly more satisfied and under less pressure from banks.

The proportion of respondents feeling ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’ with their bank lifted slightly from 68% to 69% in the past six months, and those feeling ‘undue pressure’ dropped from 23% to 19%.

The survey drew more than 1300 responses.

Banks have been actively encouraged by the Government to support lending during the economic downturn through measures like the Business Finance Guarantee Scheme. The Reserve Bank also delayed implementation of its tougher bank capital requirement, again to help banks support lending.

As with the November 2019 survey, Arable was the group with the highest percentage of farmers feeling under pressure and they also had the lowest percentage feeling very satisfied or satisfied. Meat & Wool farmers were relatively more satisfied than most other groups and less likely to be feeling under ‘undue pressure’.

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Waikato Regional Council has welcomed changes to freshwater regulations announced last week but says they could be unaffordable for some communities.

When the Action for Healthy Waterways regulations released last year by the collation government for feedback, the Regional Council applauded the intent but warned aspects were unachievable for the council and communities in the proposed timeframes.

“Overall this step change has been clearly signalled and our council has worked alongside the coalition government and the wider regional sector to develop and refine last year’s proposal,” said Waikato Regional Council chair Russ Rimmington.

“We’ll need time to look at the detail, but it appears government has listened to submitters in some respects while staying very much on the course they’d identified.

“They have reduced the impacts on regions and communities with some of the changes they’ve made, but on the surface it does appear there are very significant increases expected in our monitoring, policy and planning work, and engagement with farmers.

“This extra burden on regional councils will fall on us when communities are hurting from the effects of COVID-19. Our challenge will be meeting these

expectations in a way that’s affordable for our ratepayers at a time when jobs are being lost and we are facing a deep recession,” Cr Rimmington said.

Waikato Regional Council chief executive and regional sector freshwater advisory group co-chair Vaughan Payne said the council had led the country in communitydriven planning.

“We have worked very hard as the regional sector, along with the three other advisory groups, to help ensure any proposals are both

practical to implement and achieve the intended outcomes across all wellbeings.

“We absolutely support the Government’s vision and can see a lot of necessary actions in the new regulations, many of which are already required in the Waikato region. We also support a more streamlined planning process and idea of having specialist freshwater panels that include regional council and tangata whenua appointees.

“There’ve been a number of pragmatic decisions by the

Government in response to feedback, such as recognising that farmers who’ve already fenced off waterways shouldn’t have to move them to meet the new standards until they require replacement,” Mr Payne said.

“They’ve also listened to the sound advice of scientists and have put a hold on the dissolved inorganic nitrogen and dissolved reactive phosphorus attributes, allowing time for more research over the next 12-18 months to get these important attributes right.

“Farm environment plans have been targeted and the rollout prioritised, which we’d support,” Mr Payne said.

“We advocated for the deadlines for plan changes and regional policy statements to be extended, and the Government has done so by 12 months, giving us until December 2024 to have them notified and 2026 to have final decisions. This may still be a significant stretch.”

However, a decision to place a cap on nitrogen fertiliser use of 190 kg N/ha/year might have unintended consequences.

“New Zealand’s international competitive advantage is that we use sunlight, soil, fertiliser and rain to generate grass. If we can’t use nitrogen fertiliser to help grow grass because of the cap, farmers may have to bring in other forms of feed to maintain production, and so we may see an increase in cropping operations that can have significant environmental implications,” Mr Payne said.

Regional councils will also have to set up systems to receive and monitor levels of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use reported by dairy farms, he said.

Mr Payne said any disparity between Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1: Waikato and Waipā River Catchments and the new Action for healthy waterways regulations will be resolved through the Environment Court.

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By Bala Tikkisetty

Caution must be taken when applying nitrogen fertilisers to pasture or crops during winter.

Winter applications of nitrogen fertilisers are generally least effective for promoting grass growth. Slow growth of pasture in winter and drainage can result in nitrate leaching directly from fertiliser before plants can take it up.

Milking cows will excrete, in urine, about 70 per cent of the nitrogen consumed. The risk of nitrogen leaching from urine patches is much higher in winter.

Leaching (nitrogen) and run off (phosphorus) losses not only contaminate the water bodies but also represent a loss of economically valuable nutrients.

Most nitrogen is leached during winter and early spring when rainfall exceeds evapotranspiration. Generally, the pasture species are not active during low temperatures adding to the potential for nitrogen loss through leaching.

Some of the research to mitigate the nitrogen losses has focused on growing pasture with more rooting depth for interception of nitrate, duration controlled grazing for reducing the amount of time animals spend on pasture, and feeding high sugar grasses for reducing the dietary protein.

Nutrient budgeting using computer models

Winter is around the corner and currently most farmers are focusing on achieving increased productivity by judicious use of nutrients with an aim of minimising environmental impacts.

Cooler months can pose a significant challenge for nutrient management, some simple actions can reduce winter nutrient loss.

Bala Tikkisetty

such as Overseer, combined with feed budgeting, enables farmers to understand whether they are using too much or too little fertiliser.

It is important that all farmers to understand the technical term, “response rate”.

The response rate is the amount of pasture grown in terms of kilograms of dry matter (DM) per hectare per kilogram of nitrogen (N) applied. For example, when 30kg N/ ha is applied and an additional 300kg DM/ ha of pasture is grown the response rate is 10kg DM/kg N applied.

The response is dependent on several factors such as soil temperature, plant growth, soil moisture, the deficiency of available nitrogen in the soil and the rate of nitrogen applied per application.

The best response to N fertiliser occurs on fast growing pasture, when other factors such as moisture and soil temperature are not limiting growth. Response rate variation also depends on the season and on nitrogen application rate.

In winter, at the same application rate, responses are lower and slower than other times of the year.

The response rate also declines when the application rate (single dose) is higher than 30kg N/ha.

Nitrogen fertiliser reduces nitrogen fixation

by clover by about 1kg N/ha/year for every 3kg nitrogen fertiliser applied. In addition, clover content will be further reduced if nitrogen boosted pastures shade the clover.

This effect is seen during spring.

‘Nitrogen conversion efficiency’ for any farm is another key point to remember.

It is calculated from the total nitrogen in product divided by the total nitrogen inputs into a farm and is expressed in percentage.

For a dairy farm, if it is around 40 per cent, probably the farmer is doing fine.

Further, owing to the prolonged dry spell, nitrate poisoning can result from high nitrate levels in pasture, usually occur in late autumn.

This is particularly during a flush of growth where– nitrate levels build up in herbage as nitrate is taken by the plant faster than it can be converted into protein. Toxicity risk progressively increases with high soil nitrogen from various sources.

The profitability of applying nitrogen is dependent on the utilisation of the extra feed. Therefore, nitrogen needs to be strategically applied to fill genuine feed deficits.

• Bala Tikkisetty is a sustainable agriculture advisor at Waikato Regional Council.

Contact him on 0800 800 401 or email bala.tikkisetty@waikatoregion.govt.nz

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Go winter greens My son’s fave joke for many winters was: “What’s green and goes to summer camp?

A Brussel scout.” He had a distinct dislike of sprouts probably because they grew in abundance in our garden. However, after I began halving Brussels sprouts and roasting them with bacon and also thinly shredding them for a slaw, they won him over.

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Spinach is also a good source of nutrients and phytonutrients and is a member of the same family as silverbeet (or Swiss chard) — the Amaranthaceae. Both are relatives of the beetroot. Young leaves can be eaten raw and sliced into salads. As a side dish, spinach is best microwaved or steamed without any extra moisture and is great with eggs benny or salmon. It also makes a nourishing soup.

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