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By Jeremy Smith

Waipā councillors got to meet face to face again on Tuesday - for the first time since late March.

There was a full turn out of councillors for a meeting of the Strategic Planning and

Policy committee, and Council staff and about a dozen members of the public were in the chambers when committee chair Susan O’Regan called the meeting to order for a 9am start.

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Te Awamutu-based Sailability Waikato has launched what is being called the most monumental purchase in its fouryear history – a $34,000 rescue boat.

The group also plans to be back on the water, running its fortnightly sailing sessions at Lake Ngaroto, by the start of the new sailing season in September.

By that time, thanks to several factors including low water levels at the lake over summer followed

by Covid-19 restrictions, it will

have been almost six months since group members have sailed.

Financial help from several Waipā-wide community organisations made buying the boat possible, and Sailability Waikato’s sailing master Michael Maloney has a fresh breeze of enthusiasm in his sails as he describes the possibilities it opens up for them once they’re back on the water.

“We’re very grateful for all of their support,” he said.

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The rescue boat, a 4.7m Southern Pacific RIB craft, will accompany the group’s three Hansa 303 craft, which group members sail in while they are on the water.

Mr Maloney, who has international sailing experience, said it was the magic of sailing that was the driving force behind the opportunities Sailability Waikato provides.

“When you introduce people to it and you see the smiles on particularly the kid’s faces, that makes it all worth it,” he said.

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been receiving assistance from Ngaroto Sailing Club, which up to this point has provided its patrol boat for Sailabilty Waikato to use when been available.

“We’re really grateful for their input. Now though, this purchase means more to us than simply being just a rescue boat,” Mr Maloney said.

“It means going forward we’ll be able to set our own calendar for the sailing season and be on the water whenever we like.”

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Every three weeks I work a duty week where I am rostered on late shifts for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The purpose of these shifts is to support frontline staff when there is a higher number of calls for service during the peak times.

The weekend just gone was my turn.

On Thursday I had a meeting to assist in setting up a neighbourhood support group.

I met with some concerned residents and as a result they are in the process of eliciting support from neighbours to get a formal group set up. They also set up a Facebook page to exchange information. All great proactive stuff.

The following day, Friday, in the evening I received a 111 call from one of these residents because they saw something that was suspicious. They had seen a person in the darkness using a headlamp for light tampering with a shed in an industrial area that their house overlooked.

I headed immediately to the scene. The frontline staff headed to the other side

of the yard to block off any escape. As I arrived, I could hear noises which sounded distinctly like someone tampering with a door. I turned a corner and saw two males in the dark next to a car and trailer.

I challenged them and as they stood, I immediately recognised one of them as a male who I know personally and is not a criminal. I also knew he was moving house that day. His explanation was of course that he was storing some of his personal belongings in the shed at the end of a long day.

It was all completely innocent, and I tell this story because this highlights how effective Neighbourhood Support can be.

I also want to point out that this sort of observed behaviour was worth a 111 call any day of the week.

The following shift for me was Saturday.

It was a quiet evening shift with nothing of real concern called in. So, imagine my surprise when on Sunday morning while scrolling through my Facebook feed I saw on a Community page a post about a car being broken into. To my annoyance I saw a

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It’s 2.4 from 4.2: how rates will rise

A recommendation for a 2.4 per cent rate rise will go to a full Waipā District Council meeting at the end of the month.

If approved, and councillors are almost certain to back their own recommendation, the new rates will apply from next month.

The decision follows calls for a zero rate rise as a consequence of the Covid lockdown, but Mayor Jim

Mylchreest has consistently made it clear he did not support that.

On Tuesday, Council’s Strategic Planning and Policy Committee endorsed the 2.4 per cent figure, which is below the 4.2 per cent increase initially proposed in February, and less than the 2.7 per cent increase originally forecast three years ago in Council’s Long Term Plan.

Chief Executive Garry

Dyet said Council has undertaken ‘substantial’ work to review all operational budgets, capital works, revenue and internal resourcing to keep rates as low as possible.

“We started 2020 on the understanding our next financial year would be challenging as we dealt with the impacts of constrained labour markets and higher construction costs. Now our focus has shifted to leading

the recovery programme for our district from the global COVID-19 pandemic,” Dyet said.

“The coming year will be the most challenging year we have faced in recent times.”

Dyet said Council staff had worked tirelessly to find the right balance between providing short-term rates relief for residents and continuing with projects and activities to help the local

economy recover.

Council’s revised Annual Plan for the 2020-2021 year is made up of $97.82 million in operating expenditure, $186.61 million for capital expenditure, and $124.38 million for revenue. External debt sits at $185.5 million.

Only 55% of Council’s revenue comes from rates.

The rest is made up of development contributions, fees and charges and funding from Government

agencies. Council is forecasting a significant drop in revenue, largely due to a projected 18% decline in residential and nonresidential construction as a direct impact of COVID-19.

Dyet said any further reduction in costs to make savings in rates will likely result in a reduction in the services that make our district an attractive place to live and invest in.

Glad to be back Meet Dave – the tractor

Maungatautari ward councillor Elwyn Andree-Wiltens, Te Awamutu ward councillor Andrew Brown, and Cambridge ward councillors Philip Coles and Roger Gordon at Tuesday’s meeting.

By Jeremy Smith

From his seat at the table, councillor Grahame Webber spots the News.

Pushing his wheelie chair back a few steps, he gives a thumbs up with a big smile.

“It was so good to be back,” he said later.

The greeting seems somewhat symbolic of the jovial feeling in the room.

There are smiles all round as Waipā District Council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee prepared for a 9am start time on Tuesday.

The chamber at Council’s Bank St Te Awamutu offices is packed with councillors, council staff and members of the public.

It’s the first time a council meeting has been held there, face to face, in nearly three months.

On March 25 the country went into Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown - not long after Council transitioned its meetings online, utilising the world of technology and the platform Zoom.

Glancing around it’s clear to see people are happy to see each other.

And those spoken to by the News following yesterday’s meeting agreed that while Zoom had been a good way to keep

meetings rolling in lockdown, there’s really no replacement for being together in person.

“It was wonderful to be able to meet and greet again - some of the staff I hadn’t seen in the nearly that entire three months and a took the opportunity to say hi to everyone,” Mr Webber smiled.

He felt that while meeting remotely had filled a need, there was at times a certain interpersonal dynamic that was lacking.

“It was good to have that back by being in the chamber,” he said.

Mayor Jim Mylchreest agreed the shift to Zoom had been a “steep but good” learning curve and saw scope for it being utlised going forward.

“There’s definitely a place for it to be used again in the future - alongside usual proceedings, not as a replacement.”

Te Awamutu ward councillor Bruce Thomas agreed, adding that simply put, Councillors enjoyed each other’s company. returning to the room and the atmosphere.”

Maungatautari ward councillor Elwyn Andree-Wiltens echoed those sentiments.

“It was fantastic - it is much more the preferred way. I feel there’s far more engagement and debate,” she said.

A Waipā author’s new children’s book will raise money for charity.

Farmer and vet Rachel Numan has turned a tractor into a hero in a series which followed the adventures of “Tractor Dave” on a New Zealand dairy farm.

In the first book, Dave steps in to save the day after drama hits during the important maize harvesting day on the farm.

Mother of two Rachel Numan is a firsttime author based in Pokuru, Waikato with her two young sons and her husband.

Numan said the idea for the book came from a classic eighties tractor.

“A few years ago, my husband and I bought a 1390 David Brown tractor. It’s a sweet little tractor that starts with a purr on the first try, and it quickly won our whole family’s heart - especially my three-year-old.

“While we initially purchased it for mowing the roadsides of our dairy farm, Tractor Dave as he became known, soon found himself being roped into helping out

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with the big tractor jobs - like teddering silage and weed control on the farm.”

The 32-page book is aimed at three to seven-year-olds and is illustrated by Filip Lazurowicz.

Described as a “fun rhyming adventure” Numan hopes the book will appeal to machinery lovers both big and small.

She also hopes the book she described as a fun rhyming adventure will help children living in urban centres understand more about farming life.

“I am passionate about encouraging kids to read, and about New Zealand’s primary industries.

It would be awesome to engage little future farmers with Dave’s story, as well as showcase the rural sector in a fun way.”Fifty cents from every copy of Tractor Dave sold will also going to a farmer led charity which supplies meat to food banks for New Zealanders in need.

The book will be released in September.

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The cultural changes influenced by Covid-19 have extended to how we work. Jeremy Smith talks to a broker who found staying home works.

Working at home

Matangi’s Gavin Lynch has switched an office in town for the comforts of home.

After being given a sense of what operating his business - Yes Mortgages - entirely from his home office would be like, thanks to the enforced nation-wide lockdown, he’s decided to do so permanently.

Now, post Covid-19, the mortgage broker won’t be returning to the office space in the Cambridge CBD he’s occupied for nine years.

All told, Mr Lynch has run his business from several office based in town for 13 years - so the move home is a big one.

Thoughts of doing so had been on his mind prior to Covid-19 but lock down and the pandemic sped up the process and “forced the issue”, he said.

A conversation with his wife Lisa in the early stages of alert level 4 about the practicalities of doing so then led to the decision that, in his case, it could work going forward.

“I had been wondering what working from home would look like, and once I did I thought ‘I really do like this.”

His experience reflects a wider discussion now being had throughout New Zealand’s business community in the wake of the lockdown.

And the question being asked is: can the country’s employers now move away from traditional working arrangements and towards greater flexibility?

Last month, it was reported that 70 percent of a snapshot of 1300 workers and managers surveyed by Auckland firm Frog Recruitment said they were happy working from home and

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their own balance between work and lifestyle. Each is interchangeable as the balance shifts to meet changing needs.

“This particular piece comes out of a period of adversity, and suggests the importance of balancing things,” she said. “I lost my sister a few years ago and had a bad year with the calves. I needed to do a bit of re-balancing myself to get back on track.”

Decades of rural life with her husband, home, six children and time spent helping at a playcentre honed her creativity, and as her interest broadened, she did courses in weaving, basket-making, wire art and more.

In 2016, Toni placed third in a Fieldays Ag Art Wear Award for a pink dress made of sileage wrap and baling twine called ‘Knots and Barbs’. She enjoys seeing what comes up at the Fieldays awards, as well as the World of Wearable Arts, and has found herself musing on what she might fashion out of bits that would be a good fit.

“Being named a finalist is a great acknowledgement.

It will inspire me to keep on doing different things,” she said.

weren’t in a rush to get back to the office.

While Mr Lynch agreed working from home, either in part or entirely, wouldn’t suit some business models - in his case a number of factors meant it would work well.

About 80 percent of the work he and his other staff member - Kendall Nolan - do is based around phoning and emailing clients and then visiting them in their homes.

He primarily looks after the wider Cambridge area, Kendall Nolan looks after Hamilton.

“I had to weigh up a number of key factors, like how this would work in terms of financial factors, business factors and thinking ‘would this negatively affect what I can offer my clients?

“Then, of course, I had to consider what it meant for my family.

“It all depends on individual circumstances, but once I could see that in my case working from home was ticking all the boxes, I really couldn’t see there being any negatives,” he said.

The fact that he and Lisa’s five children - Clara, 17, Daniel, 15, Maria, 12, Anna, 10 and Jessica, 8, - were now a little older was also a positive, he said.

Working from home also added extra flexibility in that when he needed to, he could be present at school events such as cross country.

He said he has already noticed a marked increase in workload post Covid-19, another positive moving forward, he said.

Waikeria Road resident Toni van der Hulst is a finalist in the 2020 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award, now back in play after a two-month delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A total of 28 works were selected as finalists by the judge, sculptor James Wright. Winners will be announced on July 2, and the finalists’ exhibition will run from July 3 to August 3 at ArtsPost in Hamilton.

The annual award, sponsored by Momentum Waikato Community Foundation and managed by Waikato Museum, challenges artists to create sculptures using No.8 wire and other agricultural materials.

That fits right in with the Waipā artist’s artistic bent, because for all the creative things she has pursued in recent years, it is working with wire that grabs her the most. Her wood and wire entry, called ‘Farming – A Balancing Act’, incorporates a ‘tree’ representing a sustainable environment, a ‘cow’ giving voice to the animals, a ‘dollar sign’ for the bottom line, and a ‘person’ representing the families trying to find

Passenger flight numbers in and out of Hamilton airport are on course to reach 50% of pre-lockdown levels in the next couple of months.

Flights to Christchurch and Wellington resumed earlier this month and the pre-Covid service to Palmerston North will resume, the airport says, when resources and demand allow.

Waikato Regional Airport Limited chief Mark Morgan said the current schedule has steadily increased to about

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30% of the pre-Covid level, and it expected it to rise to 50% in July and August.

But it could be 18 months before the schedule is at the pre-Covid capacity.

“The upcoming July school holidays, and the removal of restrictions on the numbers attending mass gatherings, means we will very likely see an increase in passenger activity, and Air New Zealand has put on extra flights to meet demand,” Mr Morgan said.

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Back to the future for Rotary

By Viv Posselt

Te Awamutu Rotary’s incoming president, John Harrison, plans to generate more activity among members, and is considering the reintroduction of different committees to achieve that.

John, who has spent three decades with Rotary, will succeed Colleen Kaelin on July 7.

The club’s membership currently stands at 37 and includes four who transferred from the Kihikihi Rotary Club when it closed.

The president-elect wants to encourage more member involvement.

“Like most clubs, we have our stalwarts, who seem to do most of the work. In the old days, we used to run committees for the club’s various activities. Then the committees disappeared…

I’d like to look at bringing them back.”

The club’s biggest project for the past two years has been the Te Awamutu Rotary Christmas Parade, supported by Coresteel Buildings Waikato, the Waipā District Council and Te Awamutu Community Board. Their biggest fundraiser is an annual book fair which was to be held this month but is now scheduled for later this year.

Outgoing Te Awamutu Rotary president Colleen Kaelin and incoming president John Harrison talk through upcoming projects.

The club’s focus remains on youth and education. It supports the Te Awamutu Tertiary Scholarship, which provides a secondyear Waikato University student who has a link to Te Awamutu, with $3000 towards his or her studies; the Waipā District Youth Awards; the Te Awamutu Essay Competition; the annual Te Awamutu Competitions Society Performing Arts weekend; the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards; the Rotary Youth Programme of Enrichment; and the Rotary Shield to a Te Awamutu College student.

Te Awamutu Rotary also supports Kainga Aroha’s annual school camp and has taken over the supply of books to Waikeria Prison from Kihikihi Rotary Club, as well as the production

of the Rotary Community Directory.

An early 2020 project was the supply to Kihikihi School of two basketball hoops and two netball hoops – another spinoff from the closure of the Kihikihi Club with assistance from Te Awamutu Rotary and a District Grant – and helping fund the building of Kawhia Community Playground.

A project linking Te Awamutu Rotary with the National Wetlands Trust is just getting underway and will involve groups of volunteers working at Lake Rotopiko on a fortnightly basis.

“That is a new project, one that ties in with our environmental focus,” said John. “We’re hoping to get some of the local schoolkids involved.”

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The other field days…

By Jeremy Smith

Organisers of the inaugural Field Days 100 event held last week are calling it a success on all fronts after more than 100 tractors rolled up to take part.

“It was a perfect storm really, we couldn’t have written it any better,” organising committee spokesperson Bruce Wallis told the News on Monday.

The gathering - held on Mr Wallis’ Roto-oRangi property aside from a tractor convoy on the road - was the brainchild of its eightperson organising committee after Covid-19 postponed the physical event a Mystery Creek.

Mr Wallis and several other committee members always attend the annual Fieldays - and have even driven their tractors there in the past.

The day also featured a sponsored breakfast and lunch.

The tractor convoy, which ultimately stretched about 2km down the road as it made its way around Kairangi and Norwegian roads, was a sight to behold, Bruce said.

“Just seeing how it all came together made all the work worthwhile, I actually find it hard to put into words.”

A wide range of tractor drivers from around the district and even some who had previously moved away, came back to be part of Field Days 100, Bruce said.

“Part of the convoy loop saw us go past Roto-Rangi School and as we did, all the kids stood on the tennis court and waved to the tractor drivers, who were grinning from ear to ear, it was just magic.”

One convoy participant, David Schnuriger, said the camaraderie on display was his big take away.

“It was a great community effort, we all had a lot of fun. Everyone knew everyone, so having the opportunity to catch up with all the locals was quite cool.”

Mr Wallis hasn’t decided whether or not to repeat the event next year – when Fieldays is scheduled to return to Mystery Creek.

“I think the stars all aligned this year and, given what we’ve all been through, made it really special. It is a legend in its own right now and I don’t know if we could recreate it.”

Tractors leave for the 2km convoy at Field Days 100. In the orange tractor is Roto-o-rangi’s Kevin Monks.

Sanctuary move for tiny birds delayed

New Zealand’s smallest native bird will be arriving at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari a little later than planned.

Titipounamu, or rifleman – are found on Mt Pirongia and birds from there were to be taken to Maungatautari before Covid-19 intervened.

Now it’s likely to move – described as “translocation” will

happen next April or May. The tiny, short-tailed insectivorous bird, one of the last two species of endemic New Zealand wren, were once found on Maungatautari, but fell victim to introduced predators.

The other wren is the grounddwelling rock wren – Mātuhu – which is found in the South Island.

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The survey made use of rifleman song playback, listening and observations with teams of people scouring the sometimes steep and slippery slopes of the maunga.

Pirongia will be a key source for the birds, along with a DOCmanaged site at Pureora Forest, which was also surveyed in 2019.

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The reason for statues In my birth town in Yorkshire is a grandiose statue, strikingly golden in colour, depicting what appears to be almost a saint astride a lively horse.

Sitting – the statue that is – above a set of public toilets.

The relationship between that person depicted in the statue does not, to my knowledge, have any real link (other than a set of stairs descending beneath) to necessities with regard to deposing of bodily waste.

The statue is a lasting recognition, placed there in 1734, denoting the part played by the subject King William III – known locally in the town as King Billy.

His claim to fame (and thus a statue) was the part that he played in ensuring that the locality remained governed by Protestants to allay a fear that the earlier (and Catholic) King James II would not reign supreme under direction from Rome.

Putting aside this tilt against the ecumenical movement the discussion clearly took place at the time that King Billy concluded “‘e did good so we need to recognise him, not just for the present but for all posterity”.

Which brings me to the reason for statues, their worth and the extension of that worth as the years roll by.

Clearly the extremely sad and brutal treatment of a local criminal in Minneapolis (go and check on his lengthy law-breaking record) by the local police is, at the least, shocking.

That the iphone film recording the whole incident has been blasted throughout the world is testament that, these days, we should always be aware of the watchful eyes

By Peter Carr

of Big Brother.

And understandably the sorrowful incident has caused a world-wide reaction to the actions of the local police in that mid-Western city.

I am reliably informed that there are 360 different police forces in the USA and all have different and confusing training regimes.

All have elected (yes as in voting) police chiefs. And do not forget that the local court judge is also elected.

Given the poor attitude in this country to voting in local body elections (sometimes with good cause) can you imagine a party official running our local Cambridge police and they, having to go cap-in-hand, to a political party hack who would be sitting on the bench in the local courthouse?

So when the Mayor of a nearby town decides to remove the recognition of the alleged founder of the borough (even though he never visited) one has to ask the question as to whether a locally elected mayoral official has the right to meddle with history.

In reality the removal (and defacing) of statues has nothing to do with what happened in Minneapolis.

It has everything to do with a longdistance judgement of the people who felt, at the time, grateful for a statue’s subject for the good work they undertook be it martial, academic, political or cultural.

Far better to get on with making the area a better place to live in wherein one can hand over to following generations a recognition depicting pride and an optimistic future.

Benefits of the burbs Last weekend we finally finished moving into our new house, and from where I’m sitting right now I can see the lights inside the new and enormous APL factory just outside Cambridge, I can see the traffic hurrying in either direction on the new freeway, and I can see the lights up and down Victoria Road in and out of town.

Immediately surrounding our house though, is a swathe of green on three sides with encroaching suburbia on the far edges of all fields.

This is all recent development too; you don’t have to have lived around here for very long to remember the right side of the road from Cambridge to Hautapu being all farmland.

Of course, as a greenie, or at least a person with an environmental conscience, my initial reaction to the view from our house was one of dismay at the speed with which green is turning to grey.

But then I thought about it and I’m not sure that it is all bad. Here’s the rationale, along with a disclaimer against the chance that I am entirely wrong.

I have no empirical evidence or facts to back up my suggestions, but my chain of thought went like this: People have to live somewhere, and they have to do their shopping, and conduct their business, and relax.

For Cambridge we’re talking about a lot of people because it’s a popular place. So, we are swapping fields of grass for suburban development.

An area of land which is covered with grass is, from an environmental point of view, pretty neutral; it doesn’t contribute a lot, but then it doesn’t detract either - unless you get into the fiery debate about the effects

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of intensive animal farming which I do not propose to do here.

So once that land has been transformed into suburbia, is it going to contribute to the planet in a positive way or is it going to detract from the planet by consuming resources and requiring waste treatment and transport infrastructure etc…?

Here’s where a difference can be made, not only by the planners and developers, but by the people who live in these new suburbs.

Of course, we should look to central and local government for direction, for sustainable choices, extensive planting in public places, efficient and fiscally viable public transport systems.

By and large they are not doing too badly on that score, but this is where the individual can make a positive difference: Plant more shrubs and trees and have smaller lawns, reduce the amount of household rubbish going to landfill, put solar panels on your roof, drive an electric or hybrid car, recycle and re-use more and throw away less, get the dryer fixed instead of buying a new one.

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Schools are tickled pink

Three Waipā schools will receive signed, limited edition Gallagher Chiefs Women In Rugby jerseys to help their girls’ rugby teams with fundraising.

Cambridge High School, Te Awamutu College and Ōtorohanga College are among a total of 23 schools within the Chiefs’ region to receive shirts.

With Super Rugby’s return post Covid-19 on the weekend, one of the fixtures saw the Chiefs take on the Highlanders in Dunedin.

When the Gallagher Chiefs squad took to the field, they donned the Women in Rugby jersey to acknowledge women who play or support rugby.

The playing squad’s jerseys from that game will help the schools fundraise towards sports equipment, travel or apparel for girls rugby teams at the respective schools.

Te Awamutu College principal Tony

Membery said receiving the jersey was very pleasing.

“We have a proud tradition of girls’ rugby, and girls’ involvement in a wide range of other sports.

“The striking jersey will be put to good use for fundraising once we have shown it to students at assemblies and explained its message and design,” he said.

Cambridge High School director of sport Guy Ockeden told the News the school found out they were a recipient on Tuesday and were delighted with the donation. Ōtorohanga College principal Traci Liddall was delighted.

“We are a keen rugby school and love the Chiefs, so to have that support recognised is awesome.”

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The purgative fervour released in recent days around the globe and in Aotearoa New Zealand for the removal of ignominious statues and various monuments connecting us to aspects of our past deemed to be shameful, has resulted in many feeling flushed with victory…while others are increasingly unsettled about how far this might go.

Some have questioned if this is an attempt to revise history - but could it just be that tolerance for celebrating injustice and aspects of an inglorious past have reached a tipping point? (Literally.)

Some ‘memorials’ exist to restrain evil being repeated - whereas anything explicitly honouring or exonerating accounts of historical inhumanity or painful loss ought to be intolerable.

This isn’t exactly something new. As a pakeha school kid, learning the story of powerful Ngapuhi leader Hone Heke in 1844, chopping down the British flagpole at Kororareka (Russell) impacted me. Visiting the exact spot later made it real - especially equipped with a better understanding of the circumstances and frustration prompting Hone Heke to take this action. History offered through the lens of one point of view without a full disclosure of wider context inevitably creates jaundiced rhetoric.

Hone was known for his zeal for justice and looking after the interests of others. He was the first rangatira (chief) to sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi. He’d formed strong friendships with the missionaries and having persuasively advocated for signing an agreement with the British, he later along with many other Māori became disillusioned with government actions undermining rangatiratanga (authority of chiefs). His appeal to the Governor demanding a greater level of self-determination and freedom from British authority in Māori affairs

was ineffective. Thus, the symbol of British authority, the flagstaff was cut down…no less than four times. British troops discovered in the ensuing battle that broke out, the degree of passion motivating Hone Heke and his allies. ‘Peace’ was made but for the rest of his days Hone continued to promote fair and just treatment for his people.

Years ago living virtually under the shadow of One Tree Hill, I observed the contention over the huge pine atop Maungakiekie.

Being a non-indigenous species it symbolised colonialism and therefore deserved to go. A grievous wound that was inflicted ensured its demise after ‘talk fests’ failed to resolve differing views. Now we have No Tree Hill.

Hopefully we can do better with consultative processes that will go beyond token conferral to facilitate genuine listening, mutuality and understanding.

A couple of practices in the current push to eradicate symbols of the shackles of repressive colonialism might be useful.

Firstly, forgiveness can go a long way… A kaumatua told me of the pain local iwi felt after the construction of Lake Karapiro Dam in 1948. Flooding the Waikato River flowing at the bottom of the steep sided ravine, created the lake, unceremoniously destroying sacred tomo (ancient burial caves) without consultation or conferral. While deep pain resulted, he said the offence had been forgiven graciously. But was our lesson learned?

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Otorohanga opened their WaiBop premier football league campaign with a resounding 5-0 derby win over Te Awamutu last weekend.

Now they face a consistent performer in the league – Taupo – in the main 2.45pm game at the Otorohanga Domain at 2.45pm on Saturday.

Bulk Lines Otorohanga were runaway winners of the Federation League last season and arrived in Te Awamutu with two off-season recruits from the host club in – Michael Sergeant-Mens and Richie Wilkins.

Their scorers last weekend included another Gisler Architects TA old boy, Jack Connor. Mason Apperley 2, Dallas Maguire and Nathanael Wrack grabbed the other goals.

The match was a spirited, if not at times overly spirited encounter, and the hosts were already behind when Jordan Ball was redcarded in the second half.

Te Awamutu travels to Huntly on Saturday in a match pairing the two sides who took the heaviest beatings last weekend.

Football returned with a draw which

pointedly paired near-neighbours and it was another derby which produced the highest win of the day and denied Otorohanga bragging rights for topping the table on goal difference. Ngaruawahia scored a 7-0 win over Huntly.

A Bay of Plenty derby saw Tauranga City lose by the odd goal in nine to Papamoa, while Taupo gave new club Waiariki a tough debut, winning 5-1.

Rotorua United – itself the result of a 2007 merger between former Rotorua City and Rotorua Suburbs – has teamed with Ngongotaha to field sides in the WaiBop competition under the Waiariki flag.

Results: Soccer Shop WaiBOP Premiership: Matamata 3 Otumoetai 1, Ngaruawahia 7 Huntly 0, Unicol 4 West Hamilton 0, Tauranga 4 Papamoa 5, Taupo 5 Waiariki 1, Te Awamutu 0 Otorohanga 5.

Waikato Men’s Divisoin 3: Northern United 3 Unicol 0, Te Awamutu 0 Claudelands 2, Otorohanga 5 Putaruru 1 Melville 2 Morrinsville 0.

Waikato Men’s Division 5: Cambridge D1 6 Tokoroa 6, Unicol Gold 2 West Hamilton 5, Northern United 1 Cambridge D2 1, Claudelands 3 Te Awamutu 8.

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Waipā rider shows the way

Husqvarna rider Dylan Yearbury leads the way after the opening two rounds of the 2020 New Zealand Enduro Championships.

The 25-year-old builder from Cambridge shone as the series got off to a belated start last weekend with back-to-back events in the Wairarapa region.

Yearbury, on a new Husqvarna TE300i bike chalked up a win and a second. Fellow Waipā rider James Scott (Oparau) was also among the leading riders.

Record entries greeted organisers for both days of this high-profile dirt bike competition – round one near Masterton on Saturday and round two near Martinborough on Sunday.

It was the first major motorcycling event since restrictions were lifted after 10 weeks of sporting inactivity due to the Covid lockdown.

A revised schedule will squeeze the championships into a shortened calendar.

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Kiwi international Yearbury won the Saturday event and followed Whanganui’s defending champion Seth Reardon, third on day one, home on Sunday.

“I am pretty happy with how my weekend went,” said Yearbury. “I was sort of surprised I went so well actually because I had been concussed while racing in

the Grand National Crosscountry Championships in the United States, just before the Covid lock-down here in New Zealand, and had only had one ride on the new bike for the first time last weekend.”

Other stand-out riders at the weekend included Raglan’s Jason Dickey, Helensville’s Tom Buxton, Palmerston North’s Paul Whibley, and Thames rider Jason Davis.

Chiefs back home Rugby fans will return to Waikato Stadium on Saturday for the first time since the Covid lockdown.

The Investec Super Rugby Aotearoa match between the Gallagher Chiefs and the Blues will be a significant one for Hamilton’s FMG Stadium Waikato.

The game, kicking off at 7.05pm, is the first of four in the competition scheduled for Hamilton.

Hamilton City Council spokesperson

Sean Murray said initiatives for those games included the introduction of more cleaners and sanitising stations around the stadium and contact tracing procedures at each gate.

Fans will be able to buy food using a contactless payment system, but “cash out” facilities have been removed.

FMG Stadium Waikato Venue Manager Ben Slatter said customers should use Paywave as their primary method of payment.

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Former Black Fern keeps girls onside 2002.

Now, in between running a farm and wedding venue at Te Miro with her husband Dan and raising three children, she coaches Cambridge High School’s 1st XV girls’ rugby and sevens teams.

Last year, in an attempt to bridge the gap between primary and high school rugby, she also created a 10-week rugby coaching module for year 7 and 8 girls, aimed at retaining existing players and attracting new ones.

“My husband looks at me sideways sometimes,” she said of her hectic schedule.

“But it’s worth it, because seeing these girls develop is just awesome. I love seeing their

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Former Black Fern Annaleah Bodle is on a mission to stop girls leaving rugby once they hit middle school.

“In Cambridge, rugby teams are mixed right up until high school, and we get a lot of girls dropping out in year 7 and 8 because the boys tend to get bigger and more aggressive at that age,” she said.

“Also, there are not a lot of other girls in the team, which can be a bit isolating.”

Bodle (née Rush), who graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Physical Education and a teaching diploma in 2000, played for the Black Ferns from 1996-

faces. I love seeing them look powerful and just the positivity of them when they know they can do something right, or achieve something they didn’t think they could.

Those are the moments I coach for.”

She is passionate about getting more girls involved in the sport because she got so much out of it herself.

“I just loved to be able to express myself out on the field, physically and aggressively, and the competitiveness,” she said. “It kind of made me feel as though I could do anything.”

She would love to see a local girls’ only competition developed for year 7 and 8 players.

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Tokoroa need girls’ teams, and they need to be playing weekly on Saturdays,” she said.

“Last year, out of the 34 girls I coached in the year 7 and 8 module, only four of them played with the boys because it just wasn’t an attractive environment for them. There are girls out there that want to play, but you need to give them their own competition.”

The year 7 and 8 coaching module kicks off on June 25 and is open to anyone in that age group interested in learning and playing rugby, from complete beginners to those with more experience.

“Visit the Cambridge Junior Rugby Facebook page to get your girls signed up,” Bodle said.

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FUNERAL SERVICES

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Advertiser is responsible to advise us of any copy changes before end of day Monday prior to publication date (Friday). Advertising supplied complete deadline is Tuesday midday prior to publication date (Friday). For advertisers on a regular schedule invoices will be sent at the end of the month and payment is due by the 20th of the following month. For advertisers not on a schedule invoices will be sent at the end of the week and payment is due within 10 days. Accounts in arrears may be subject to a $95 + GST late payment fee per advert. Advertiser is responsible for any and all debt collection fees.

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CHURCH NOTICES

Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance as we come out of lockdown THURSDAY 18th JUNE 12:15 - 1pm

St John's Anglican Church, Te Awamutu The Church will stay open afterwards for people who would like some quiet time to pray and reflect.

Please gather as a community to remember those who died due to Covid-19, businesses that closed and jobs that were lost. We pray hope into our future and give thanks for the freedom and health we can now experience.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

Of an application for On Licence Ohaupo Community Sport and Recreation Centre Trust has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the issue of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 13 Forkert Road, Ohaupo known as Ohaupo Community Sport and Recreation Centre .

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is function centre and community centre. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 11.00am-12.00am The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Waipa District Licensing Committee, 101 Bank Street, Te Awamutu or 23 Wilson Street, Cambridge.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the issue of the licence may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with the Secretary of the District Licensing Committee at: Waipa District Council, Private Bag 2402, Te Awamutu 3840.

No objection to the issue of a renewal licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 105 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the first publication of this notice.

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