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Armistice Day this year was marked locally with three separate commemoration services, led by the Te Awamutu RSA. The first was on November 8 in Kawhia, the second was at Anzac Green in Te Awamutu, at 11am on November 11 – where Waipā District Mayor Jim Mylchreest, RSA and Rhodesian veterans and service clubs laid wreaths – and the third was on Sunday at one of Waipā’s special places, the Pukeatua War Memorial Church

‘These boys ride with us’

By Viv Posselt

Around 20 Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club members from the Hauraki

chapter rode from across the central North Island to attend last Sunday’s morning Armistice service at Pukeatua War Memorial Church.

They joined other service members and residents at the last of three local commemorative services marking the signing in November 1918 of documents

Graham Smith at the Pukeatua ceremony laying the Te Awamutu RSA remembrance wreath in for the fallen.

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ending World War One. The Pukeatua War Memorial Church is one of only two churches in the country built specifically as a memorial to those who lost their lives in the two world wars. The other is in Tutira, north of Napier; both churches have historic building covenants over them.

Pukeatua’s relationship with the Hauraki Chapter of the Patriots Motorcycle Club, whose members are mainly either former or currently serving defence force personnel, has been ongoing for several years.

One of their number, Peter Leslie, said the club had ‘adopted’ the church as its chapter church because of its ties with the defence forces.

“We discovered it on one of our rides and have been associated with the church ever since,” he said. “We have come back several times since then to pay tribute to these fallen men. The way we see it, these boys ride with us.”

Twelve of the 44 Pukeatua men who served overseas during WW1 died in action.

A further 32 from the district saw overseas service in WW2. Seven lost their lives.

Riders from the club usually attend both Anzac and Armistice Day events at Pukeatua. Several years ago, they donated to a stained-glass Remembrance Window, which was created by Waipā artist Viki Bryant and dedicated at the church by Te Awamutu’s RSA padre, Rev Murray Olson in 2018. On that day, Mayor Jim Mylchreest commented on the fact that the Waipā District Council was the only council in New Zealand to own a church, and said that on the day it opened in 1955, it was ‘full to overflowing’.

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In much the same vein, Rev Olson commented on how services like Sunday’s Armistice commemoration, one that attracted a cross-section of the community, warmed his heart on such a day.

“This is a dream church for me,” he said, “the church is full, and half of them are bikies.”

He said the church’s Anzac Day commemorations were cancelled this year due to Covid-19.

Graham Smith laid a wreath at the church on behalf of the Te Awamutu RSA, and John Graham laid the Pukeatua Playcentre wreath.

Te Awamutu RSA president Lou Brown told those at the various ceremonies that the total number of New Zealand troops and nurses who served overseas during WW1, excluding those who served in the British and other Dominion forces, was 103,000 from a then population of just over a million.

“Forty-two percent of all men of military age served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which received its baptism of fire at Gallipoli in 1915, and went on to France and the Western Front,” he said. “Of these, 16,697 were killed, and 41,317 were wounded during this war. That represents a 58 percent casualty rate. We remember their sacrifice, and that of all New Zealand war dead.”

Pictured at the Te Awamutu Cenotaph after the November 11 commemoration of Armistice are, from left, John Ward, Les Winslade, Steve Kesby, John Graham, Wolf Hucke, Winston Hart and Church Osborne. John Graham laid a wreath on behalf of Rhodesian forces. Les Winslade and his son-in-law Wolf Hucke made the trip from Cambridge. Les, who is 100, recently moved into Cambridge Resthaven where is daughter Alison Hucke is resident.

Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club member Peter Leslie laying a wreath at Pukeatua War Memorial Church on behalf of the Jemmett family. Private H. Jemmett died during WWI – several Jemmett family relatives were in attendance.

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Operation Christmas Hampers is well and truly underway for the year.

The food drives are all but finished and once again we are blown away by the sheer generosity of this community.

We have had many local businesses donate time, money and product which highlights once again just how giving Te Awamutu is.

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Some local schools provided us with very talented young artists who decorated our boxes for the hampers. It was a real pleasure to see how creative our young people in town are.

Our next step is to work out the winning entry from each school and organise pizza for that child’s class for lunch.

We will be moving focus from food donations to toys shortly. We have organised a number of drop off points around Te

Awamutu. Zion Church, Police station, Century 21, St John Opportunity Shop and Kainga Aroha are accepting toy and food donations.

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School trustees

Sarah Davies and Jock (Jason) Ellis will join Te Awamutu College’s Board of Trustees. Returning officer Liz Parsons confirmed this week the pair were declared elected as the sole nominees for two mid-term vacancies.

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Te Awamutu’s Community Board will take a lead role in the town’s Christmas Tree display this year. It declined an application from Dean Taylor for discretionary funding to upgrade the lights, but will work with him and provide the display as one of its projects. “We will partner with him to light up the big tree in the Rose Gardens for Christmas,” board chair Ange Holt said. “Dean has proposed some new options, so we look forward to an even better display than we have had previously.”

Oksana crowned College dux Star students

Oksana Voznyuk is Te Awamutu College’s year 2020 dux.

Oksana, a Head Student described as a “fine ambassador” was top of subject for Drama, English Extension and Earth and Space Science.

She has already attained NCEA Level 3, gaining all 89 credits – at excellence level - she has attempted so far this year. She also gained an Excellence endorsement in Level 3 Chemistry last year in Year 12.

Oksana featured throughout last week’s award ceremony led by Principal Tony Membery.

On top of her $3000 award as dux, she collected a $20,000 University of Auckland Top Achiever Scholarship, the RSA Peace Award with M J Neethling

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Scott visits

Tom Scott, one of New Zealand’s leading writers and illustrators, will be in Te Awamutu on November 27 to talk about his book Searching for Charlie. Scott gave up his cartoon slot with Stuff to write the book about Sir Charles Upham, who won the Victoria Cross twice. “When I kept running into young people calling the Second World War, World War Eleven — as in, ‘I love world war eleven films’ I realised there was a knowledge gap that needed plugging,” said Scott. He will talk at the Te Awamutu RSA at 5.30pm on November 27 about his research.

Proxime Accessit Gemma Dykshoorn

and the General Excellence Cup for Academic, Sports, Culture, Participation and Service.

Mr Membery said Oksana’s participation, service and leadership in her time at the College has been extensive from 2016.

“As a Year 9 student she got involved in the SADD Committee, Support Act, Senior Band and school production,” he said. “She has continued involvement in Senior Band right through - she is an accomplished flautist.

He remarked on her “huge” contribution to school committees and commitment as a Keep Cool Mentor for the last two years working with year nine students.

The Mexted Cup for Proxime Accessit went to Gemma Dykshoorn who topped Accounting, Economics, Food Technology, Mathematics with Calculus and Media Studies.

The General Excellence Cup for Year 12 went to Matthew Yarndley, who topped Level 2 Economics and collected all 53 Level 2 credits he attempted. He has represented the school’s 1st XI Hockey team for four years, was a member of the Health and Service

Mayor Jim Mylchreest pictured with Te Awamutu College dux Oksana Voznyuk.

Committees and is part of the Camp Committee planning the 2021 Year 13 camp.

Bree Walker, chair of the 2020 Students Against Dangerous Driving (SADD) committee won the Te Awamutu Business and Professional Women Trophy for Initiative and Enterprise Billie Brown-Wahanui, who won the Waipā District Council Service to The Community Award was described as a capable and reliable Chairperson of the 2020 Service Committee.

“She has been able to not only lead but also delegate effectively,” Mr Membery said.

Craig Scott was the inaugural winner of the Prime Minister’s Vocational Excellence Award.

“This award is for a student who is not only succeeding academically here at school, as well as positively contributing to our school culture, but who is also successfully participating in Trades Academy, Secondary Tertiary programmes or Gateway programmes,” Ms Membery said Craig completed his Gateway placement with Magills Butchery in Te Awamutu and his additional credits through Skills 4 Work.

Major award winners at Te Awamutu College’s prize giving were: Ag Freeman Medal for Dux Litterarum - Oksana Voznyuk.

Mexted Cup for Proxime Accessit Gemma Dykshoorn.

Rogers Charitable Trust Tertiary Scholarship - Hayden Absalom.

Victoria University Of Wellington Tangiwai School Leaver Scholarship Jessica Cullen University of Waikato Ko Te Tangata Scholarship - Ruby Cassidy, Alyssa King, Liam Labuschagne, Amy Nightingale, Nathaniel Short.

David Johnstone Charitable Trust Scholarship – Nathaniel Short, Bree Walker.

University Of Waikato Te Paewai o Te Rangi Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement - Billie BrownWahanui Alison Clarke Memorial Award for top international student - Kaede Sato.

Academic excellence awards: Manaia Cup - Maude Rewha, Bouma Trophy – Sandie Goodrick, Kia Kaha Trophy – Keita Koroheke, Poot Cup – Megan Walker, Nga Kete o Te Wananga Trophy - Bree Walker.

Trebilco Cup (Academic, Sports, Culture, Participation & Service) Matthew Yarndley Te Awamutu BPW Trophy - Bree Walker.

Waipā District Council Service To The Community Award - Billie BrownWahanui.

Prime Minister’s Vocational Excellence Award - Craig Scott.

Te Awamutu Masonic Lodge’s Trophy Nikyla Miezenbeek.

Rotary Shield for service to the school Troy James and Kate Yarndley.

RSA Peace Scholarship - M J Neethling and Oksana Voznyuk General Excellence Cup - Oksana Voznyuk.

Ōhaupō students awash with the ‘Write’ Stuff

By Viv Posselt

Youngsters from Ōhaupō School have taken out the top places in all four age-group categories in the Te Awamutu Rotary Club’s 2020 Children’s Essay Competition.

Overall, they accounted for seven of the 13 placegetters in the entire competition, proving they have the ‘write’ stuff by a country mile and out-penning their peers from schools falling within the club’s catchment area.

The annual competition has been going for about 20 years, started by Rotarian Peter Robertson. It is open to youngsters from schools around the area – roughly covering Ōhaupō to Korakonui, Kawhia to Pukeauta and to home-schoolers.

“We had over 100 entries this year, an increase on last year,” Peter said. “We are extremely grateful to Paper Plus who donated all the book voucher prizes.” Ōhaupō School principal Sue McLocklan said the school was proud to win each age group and to have other placegetters as well.

“It hasn’t been an easy year, with children having to learn through Zoom and phone calls during weeks of lockdown, so we are doubly proud of such results. To have top writers right through the school is indeed validation of the effort we put into teaching and learning writing and other areas of literacy.”

She said the fact other placegetter schools also did well would serve Waipā well in the future.

The competition winners and their schools, in the following categories, were: 5-6 year olds, Emily Cribb (Ōhaupō) 1, Israel De Vries (Ōhaupō) 2, Niamh Hinchcliffe (Te Awamutu Primary) 3. 7-8 year olds, Lara Hollinshead (Ōhaupō) 1, Kate Davenport (Ōhaupō) 2, Sophie Perry (Pekerau) 3.

Ōhaupō School’s placegetters in the competition were, from left, Ekam Kaur Minhas, Emily Cribb, Lara Hollinshead, Kate Davenport, Pokaia Heke, Jaxon Buik and Israel De Vries.

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Simon steers fight against violence

By Viv Posselt

Simon Drumm, the man steering Violence Free Waipā in Te Awamutu since March, says the White Ribbon initiative is mainly about transforming men.

“It is about raising awareness … directing people away from violence, showing them another way,” he said. “A big part of what we see in terms of violence comes from men who feel they have lost their identity. They have lost their sense of purpose and take it out on those closest to them … that is hard to deal with.”

Messages spread through White Ribbon helped raise awareness around these and other issues, he added, and helped empower people to make better decisions. It also helped show the importance of others speaking out when they witness abuse or violence.

The annual White Ribbon campaign aimed at combating domestic violence is set to take place throughout New Zealand at the end of November.

The 2020 campaign theme is #outdated. It focuses on how stereotypes often handed down from male role models may appear harmless, but can carry messages with a potentially negative impact. Messages like ‘show them who’s boss’, ‘kids should keep quiet’, or treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen’ have long been heard, say organisers, but can cause unhealthy attitudes and behaviours. The campaign

Simon Drumm is getting behind White Ribbon Day through both Violence Free Waipā and Man Up Waikato.

this year is seeking to promote respectful relationships as an alternative.

The message is spread locally

through Violence Free Waipā, a network aimed at combating violence and abuse through education and awareness.

November 25 is White Ribbon Day, an international day when people wear a white ribbon to demonstrate their support for initiatives to reduce domestic violence. It began in Canada in 1991 and was introduced to New Zealand in 2004.

Simon has worked in several industries, including 17 years spent deep-sea fishing. He has been running the Man Up programme locally for several years - a national programme supporting men to be better husbands, fathers and role models. “It’s a brotherhood as much as a group … rather than being about rules, it is about values He is also involved in various other programmes, some focusing on marriage and parenting and delivered with his wife Audrey.

All have elements that he brings to his role with Violence Free Waipā,

particularly as needs increase.

“The workload has certainly increased this year, with Covid-19.

There has been an increase in violence … people have lost their jobs, there is a lot of stress, and many lack the tools to deal with it.”

Ruth Nicholls, Violence Free Waipa’s anti-violence co-ordinator for Cambridge, said police data for the year to August shows that women make up 90 percent of those violently assaulted by a partner or ex, and 98.6 percent of those sexually assaulted by a partner or ex.

“We have the highest rate of reported violence towards women in the developed world,” she said.

“Violence in our communities remains appallingly high. If we are to tackle it, we need to focus on the attitudes that enable young men to think violence is OK.”

Council names waste winners A kindergarten community composting system and zero waste Christmas workshop have received a funding boost from Waipā District Council.

Each year Council has $40,000 available through its Waste Minimisation Community Fund to support local projects that rethink, reduce and reuse waste.

The fund is provided to Council by the Ministry for the Environment from the Waste Levy.

One of the 14 recipients is Little Thinkers, a kindergarten in Cambridge, for the development of a community compost system.

The kindergarten, due to open in January

2021, will buy two Carbon Cycle compost bins for onsite composting of food scraps, garden waste and compostable packaging.

Other projects to receive funding include water refill stations at Mighty River Domain, a zero-waste school gala at Cambridge Primary School and menu planning workshops by Te Awamutu chef and mother Lylie Mallek.

Waste minimisation officer Sally Fraser said funding the projects helped support waste leaders in their workplaces, communities and education spaces to share what they know and help others reduce waste heading to the landfill.”

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Kākāpō on the Canines sweep Maungatautari waiting list

Plans remain to bring New Zealand’s favourite bird to Maungatautari.

The Kākāpō, the world’s heaviest parrot, won the country’s annual bird of the year competition this week – it is the first bird to win the title twice having won it in 2008. The poll run by Forest & Bird raises awareness of New Zealand’s native birds and attracted a record number of votes – almost 56,000.

Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari received $10,000 from Waipā District Council’s heritage fund early last year to explore a safe electric fence option to allow for the critically endangered kākāpō to be introduced to the park.

A Kākāpō Recovery Group is expected run start fence trials this month.

Kākāpō survive only on predator free islands and its

Relatives of Jem the kākāpō could one day live in Waipā. Photo: Department of Conservation.

numbers have risen to 213 – up from just 50 a little over 20 years ago.

The kākāpō is also the longest living, the only flightless, and the only nocturnal parrot in the world.

Maungatautari is home to a variety of endangered species including hihi, kaka, takahē, North Island brown kiwi and kōkako.

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More than 20 dogs used by the Department of Conservation and their handlers have gone back to school this week.

The teams are vital components in conservation work and, appropriately, gathered on Sunday for a training week at the Maungatautari – the country’s biggest inland fenced predator free zone.

Conservation Dog handlers generally work in remote areas and do not often have the opportunity for teamwork and collaborative learning.

The areas of expertise these conservation dogs have is in pest

detection, so while at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari they have been checking for the presence of rodents, mustelids, cats, Argentine ants, and plague skinks.

While Maungatautari claims to be predator-free, it must maintain a high level of vigilance. Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari Operations Team Leader James Matthews says, “of course our pest surveillance and prevention is intensive, but we don’t know what we don’t know.

“While we are confident that our systems in pest management are effective, we are always striving to do

better, and to know more”.

Between July and September three ship rats were trapped on the northern fence line.

The week also provides a great opportunity for James and his new aspiring conservation dog, Rua, to test his progress.

Rua is 10 months old, and James hopes he will become a certified Conservation Dog. That means he will be able to provide rodent detection services to Maungatautari, as well as lending a hand to other conservation projects.

The sanctuary is encompassed by a 47km long predator free fence.

The dogs and handlers will be in their training camp until tomorrow.

1080 helps kākā boom

A central North Island block subjected to 20 years of pest control – including the use of 1080 – has recorded a massive increase in numbers of kākā.

The latest round of monitoring has shown numbers of the forest parrot have leapt from 640 in 2000 to 2600 last October.

The Department of Conservation has been monitoring the bird in Pureora Forest’s 1150ha Waipapa Block to determine whether or not its integrated predator control work correlates to species protection and population growth, says DOC Science Advisor Monitoring Terry Greene.

The North Island kaka found in Pureora are classified as “at risk, recovering”.

The bird was common in pre-European times, but by the 1930s they were reduced to localised populations in

Kākā – fighting back.

a small number of areas – including Pureora. Kākā are known for their boisterous morning and evening group socialising, with amusing antics and raucous calling.

The major threat to the kākā comes from introduced stoats and possums. The female nests in a hole as is vulnerable.

Terry Greene says the monitoring work, completed in October, determined population size through the point-based distance sampling method.

“For this work, we visited 130 points on a grid within Waipapa, and people equipped with laser range finders measured the distance to kaka within a 100m radius of each of those points. Using a mathematical model, we can estimate the population density based on detections from those points.”

The observers who did the monitoring work

Photo: Herb Christophers, DOC.

in the field said it was immediately apparent the kākā were very common in the forest.

“Our observers also noted plenty of other birdlife in the area – a very positive sign our long-term conservation and predator control work is paying off,” Terry Greene says.

“It’s also worth noting the comparison in the time spend monitoring the birds in 2020, compared to previous years. This time, the groups of observers required only five survey days to get the required observations done.

“When these counts were initiated, back in 2000, it would often take almost twice as many survey days to accumulate the required minimum of 80 observations for robust estimation of population deansity.”

The Waipapa block was the site of predator control

using aerial 1080 in 2016, as part of DOC’s Tiakina Nga Manu programme (previously Battle For Our Birds). DOC also has ground-based predator control programmes for the Waipapa block.

Te Hau Kainga o Pureora Secretary Frances Hughes says the predator control work over several decades in Pureora has noticeably benefitted the forest’s birdlife.

“We have a beautiful pristine forest, amplified with the loud calls of the Kaka and the beautiful chorus of the Kokako, Tui, Toutouwai, and many, many others, that remind us of our childhood days,” she says.

She said predator control must remain in place, be maintained and developed regularly, to combat the resistance and behavioural patterns of predators, to totally eradicate them.”

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THE AGE OF REASON

It’s time to smell our roses

By Peter Carr

One of the advantages of retirement linked with advancing years is an alleged associated quantum of free time. Free, that is, to be used in any way legally appropriate.

So it is as I pen this week’s opinion piece that I find myself listening to the gentle lapping of a balmy Pacific Ocean in the upper part of Northland.

Beachside at Tauranga Bay having arrived here after departing at dawn from an even more remote Bland Bay. Interestingly named as Blind Bay by Captain Cook 250 or so years ago when he possibly perceived a narrow entrance.

Later local Māori, not comfortable with the nomenclature of Blind, changed it to Bland.

Like many of the bays in this part of the Northland east coast Bland Bay is indeed beautiful.

Parked nose to the beach we fall asleep to the sound of the lapping beach-edge water and wake to magnificent dawns.

Here at Tauranga Bay there is an identical situation. Boats going past just off the beach are headed towards the narrow entrance to the picturesque Whangaroa Harbour, which itself is well worth a visit. It is so land-locked and quiet that during World War II it was seen as a protective hideaway for the US Pacific Fleet.

Having taken a 34-foot yacht through the entrance even my Master Mariner status would baulk at taking a cruiser through that gap.

From here we will take a leisurely anticlockwise curve across and down Northland delighting in the views, warmth, fresh fruit and friendliness afforded by the locals.

We are part of a 35-strong campervan

group of Waikato residents - all of a similar age where 4pm Happy Hour is the strictest rule of the day.

So why this rambling outpouring of local tourism? Because this is the new and hugely growing opportunity afforded by the blasted virus.

Imagine the Opua ferry operator’s face at 7.20am today when I warned her that there would be 34 more vans behind me, all wanting to cross within two hours before the low spring tide made the off-ramp untenable for longer vehicles. The ferry company’s coffers will do well today.

And that is a very good reason why we should be putting thoughts of overseas flights and cruises behind us for quite some while.

The huge hit that all levels of tourism operations have taken is quite frightening.

35 campervans at $21 each this morning made the ferry operator’s 5am start well worthwhile.

Without doubt the false low fares in real value terms – driven by heavy airline competition – have lulled us into thinking that much of the world outside of New Zealand is more attractive visually, socially and historically.

This is partially true but taking time to smell the roses in Aotearoa is surely a must do for the younger generations and not just those of us eking out our existence within the parameters of the national pension.

FAITH IN WAIPĀ

The plague of prejudice…

By Murray Smith, Senior Leader, Bridges Church

In this climate of awareness concerning pandemic spread, I’ve been considering how another pandemic is manifesting in our society. In certain respects ‘prejudice’ also is an insidious disease - virulent and contaminating, with many strains causing isolation, division and social distancing.

Racial prejudice identified as abhorrent, joins a plethora of other expressions of prejudice creating barriers between age, gender, rich, middle class and poor, educated, uneducated, popular, unpopular; you get the picture.

The fact is we are all different from one another and learning to accept and appreciate people for who they are, without any prejudice on the basis of race, creed, ability or disability, or station in life is essential in ridding ourselves of the toxicity of prejudice.

Basically, we feel safest among those we’re familiar with. Being of different backgrounds and cultures pre-disposes some to judge and stereotype others. The antidote lies in respectfully valuing one another’s unique personhood.

The inclination crouches at the door to look down our noses at the homeless on the street without knowing anything of their story and yet admire a well dressed business person - to show favour to people we perceive to have it all together yet inwardly recoil from the disadvantaged, unattractive, or whatever. It’s terrible for any reason… to regard one person of more importance than anyone else on the basis of appearance or ‘reputation’.

I read about a woman in a store asking to use the bathroom. An attendant helpfully obliged. This woman was part Maori but that wasn’t obvious. When her mother, clearly Maori also wanted to use the bathroom, she

was told public toilets were down the street.

You may remember a TV Show consisting of bosses of large companies disguising themselves in order to work among their staff. It was a purposeful exercise for these undercover employers not to entrap staff but to achieve an ‘on the ground’ take on how things were really going at grass-roots level without veneer. Posing as being just another employee recently joining to learn the ropes, these bosses were able to observe behaviours at the coal face. It exposed workers with difficult attitudes but also revealed reliable and faithful workers.

People committed to the goals which the boss had for his company were often handsomely rewarded later when the boss divulged his true identity!

The point in these situations was that people who were rewarded were ones who treated everyone the same - even-handedly, kindly and who unconditionally accepted the ‘stranger’ completely unaware this person was actually their boss.

Some confronting words in the Bible (James 2) challenge the ‘prejudice’ issue bluntly.

“Suppose someone comes among you dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewellery, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in dirty clothes. If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but say to the poor one, “You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor”— such favouring of one over another is wrong!”

To summarise - never look down on anyone unless you are giving them a hand up.

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By Peter Matthews

Many years ago a lawyer said to me that the most tiring thing about being a lawyer in his line of work, which was the family court, was permanently being in a state of conflict.

It’s a bit like that today for those of us who endeavour to make ethical choices, ensure that our Ps and Qs are sufficiently PC, and just generally be good citizens of the global village.

Ride the bike or drive the car? Take an extra few minutes in the shower after a hard day at work? Buy that thing you want even though you know it has an environmentally irresponsible amount of packaging?

Choose pork belly from the menu when you know there’s a better than even chance that the pig never saw the light of day?

How to react to a joke, told by a friend, which was mainstream 20 years ago but definitely dodgy by today’s ever-evolving standards.

We met some friends for a drink last weekend, and afterwards went back to their house in the country for another - no I wasn’t driving.

So there I was, sitting outdoors by the pool, with a locally brewed beer and great company, as the evening light faded from the hills east of Cambridge, happy to be there in an idyllic setting.

Then I caught a glimpse of a milk tanker winding along Scotsman Valley Road and the question of the long-term sustainability of intensive dairy farming turned up uninvited in my mind.

I managed to banish the thought before it took hold. And then the conversation turned to the hillsides away to the left of our panoramic view. The pines which had been growing there for 15 plus years had recently

been harvested and you could see the tracks up and down the slopes.

The general consensus was that the land would soon be back in pines.

Here come those thoughts again: ‘Not ideal, but better than being bare - that would mean erosion problems and at least the trees will catch some carbon.’

Night fell and the stars came out, like they don’t where we live in town, and a very pleasant evening was had by all.

I just can’t help feeling a sense of lingering nervousness about the future of the planet.

It’s an actual thing you know - you can read about ‘climate-anxiety’ and ‘eco-anxiety’.

Will we be OK? Are we doing enough?

Are the people in charge doing enough?

Many times each day I find myself checking my actions against some sort of planetary barometer - and often coming up short.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be all right, and sometimes it seems hopeless. By all accounts the next 30 years will determine the outcome.

Just at the moment it seems to me that it could go either way.

The lawyer? Well he’s now a judge so I guess he spends more time resolving ONLY PLANET arguments than fighting them. I wonder if he spends any time feeling conflicted about environmental choices.

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Pedestrian plan unveiled

A $9.5 million investment into making Waipā pedestrian and cycle friendly has been announced.

“Waipā is home to around 56,200 residents, with over 55 per cent living in Cambridge and Te Awamutu. By 2050, the population of these two towns will nearly double,” the district council’s Transportation manager Bryan Hudson said.

“Improving walking and cycling infrastructure will give residents the option of getting out on foot or hopping on their bikes to get around town, instead of jumping in a car.”

The walking and cycling project would be rolled out over 10 years.

“We’d like to hear from residents on what they want us to focus on in this space.”

A working group which included residents from Te Awamutu and Cambridge had narrowed down walking and cycling options into three themes.

Residents are being asked to rank the themes in order of importance via a short survey at www.waipadc.govt.nz/ urbanmobility.

Feedback will be taken for the rest of the month.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2020

TIGHT LINES

Convenient flags - inconvenient truths

In the early 1920’s two American cruise ship companies were faced with a difficult task.

The public wanted alcohol to be served on the ships, but America was in a time of prohibition.

Because the cruise ships flew the US flag, according to international maritime law, they were governed by United States law no matter where they sailed in the world.

Something had to be done, so they did what they thought was best for business and looked offshore to register their ships under a different nation’s flag, and hence the term ‘flags of convenience was born”.

If you visit any port in New Zealand you would have no doubt seen a ship’s name on the vessel’s stern (back end of the ship) and where the vessel is registered.

In the attached picture you would have no doubt already worked out the ship’s name which is the Rena, and its port of registry - Monrovia.

“Flags of convenience” are an unbelievably good deal for the ship owners and crewing agencies. If you flag your ship out you will be able to register your ship to any nation you please, despite not being a citizen of that country. It can be done very easily over the phone or by email for a couple of thousand dollars. Some ships are processed and registered within 24 hours.

By re-flagging a ship to another nation, ship owners can skip their own country’s labour laws, minimum wage requirements and flout immigration laws to their advantage.

These crew, mainly of Filipino or Indonesian descent, can be chosen from anywhere in the world. In some instances the international shipping companies pay no income tax to their home nation and siphon off millions of dollars each year in tax revenue.

Another example is the cruise ship industry and New Zealanders definitely love to go on them.

The Carnival Cruise line and Royal Caribbean

cruises for example, both have their head offices in Florida, however their ships are registered in Panama, where international shipping companies pay no corporate income tax.

This is also why here in New Zealand we have foreign container ships , tankers, and cruise liners operating and delivering cargo all around the New Zealand coast, docking in Ports fully crewed with foreign nationals (Filipino, Indonesian, Chinese, Polish etc) running these vessels with absolutely no New Zealand ship mariners or crew members.

If you don’t know what I mean, then take a look at the Rena disaster which happened off Motiti Island in the Bay of Plenty in 2011.

The Rena was a container ship which ran aground on the Astrolabe reef causing New Zealand’s worst environmental marine disaster.

It was owned by Greek shipping company Costamare Incorporated, chartered and leased out to the Mediterranean Shipping Company, and was registered to the African country of Monrovia – Liberia, with a crew of about 25, mostly of Filipino descent.

There is no doubt foreign ship owners are getting one very sweet deal out of it all with many companies flying the flag of convenience knowing

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all too well that many third world registries have no direct involvement or enforcement of their own maritime laws, and many flout this with impurity.

In New Zealand, we used to have our own merchant ships (the Union Steamship company) flying the New Zealand flag with registered vessels traveling the world.

The beauty about that was taxes paid by the ship owners and their crews went directly to New Zealand and in our own economies, and even our own maritime authorities had direct control over the vessel operation, the crewing and manning requirements, the annual surveys and inspections, to make sure it was in a safe condition.

Once our own merchant industry became de-regulated that basically all flew out the door, with offshore companies starting to transfer their flags of convenience to other nations. New Zealand companies lost their own offices, their own shipping industry and of course jobs. Now we have a cheaper foreign workforce operating container ships, tankers, and even cruise ships on our own coast.

With the arrival of Covid-19, the worldwide shipping industry has been caught out like possums looking at the headlights- and now people have begun to question it.

Why is it governments ordered cruise ship back to their port of origin - their flagged state - instead of their home country?

Well it’s a simple one really, it’s because they didn’t pay taxes in that country, they didn’t park their ships in their country, leaving crew members stranded onboard for months on end.

And that is what I call a cockup.

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This month’s meeting featured a public forum, Waipā District Plan Changes update, quarterly reports for district growth and civil defence emergency management.

There were also two applications to the discretionary fund, but unfortunately they were both declined due to no financial records being provided.

My report featured the planned Kihikihi Summer Stroll, a brief update on Memorial Park, a possible street art project and Waste Minimisation Initiatives. .

Manager Compliance Karl Tutty took us through the district growth report.

Interestingly all the major building consents currently are around the airport or Cambridge. We asked about the proposed parking infringement officer and that role is currently being advertised.

Dave Simes joined us to present the Civil Defence Emergency Management Report. This included an Overview from the CDEM Group Joint Committee Meeting outlining the work the management of future emergencies and how we continue to recover from the impacts of Covid. Usually, the recovery phase is a core role of Civil Defence however due to the ongoing and far wider implications of Covid this has been delegated to local governments (ie Councils).

In response Waipa has created a Recovery Project Control Group.

Amongst the Waipa district plan change updates detailed by Tony Quickfall, Manager District Plan and Growth was a directive from government to remove any minimum car parking requirements in RMA plans.

This basically means new businesses can open without having to provide carparks.

This change will be made “as soon as is

practicable”.

Approval by way of motion was given for the funding of BBQ items for the Greywater and Rainwater Retention Event being held by board members Richard Hurrell and Jill Taylor on December 3 at Farm Source. All are welcome to join them and learn how you too can save water for your garden.

From my Chair report – the main points: we agreed to the Kihikihi Summer Stroll event which will be held on February 27.

This event will provide the opportunity for a heritage walk, some entertainment by way of the Cossie Ukes and the chance to speak with your Community Board.

A request to Council Staff was made for more information on how to get Palmer St residents safely across Vaile Street. We are proud to announce Community Board will adopt the Christmas Lights in the Rose Gardens project.

Recommendations from council staff for the Memorial Park have been delayed and will now come to Community Board early in the New Year.

We had one late item, the notification of the Hearing for the Application of an Off-Licence at 461 Alexandra St (the former Z station). Approval was given for a representative of the Community Board to attend this hearing on November 26.

For those wanting more information, here is the link for you to read at your leisure https://www.waipadc.govt.nz/ourcouncil/agendas-and-minutes

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Good night for Paynter

Cambridge trainer Ross Paynter took two horses north to Alexandra Park’s meeting on Friday night and he almost went home with the perfect result.

Expensive Crumpet started the night in perfect fashion when winning the Dunstan Speedfeed Summer Series Trot (2200m).

The daughter of Quaker Jet made a slow but solid start and driver David Butcher was able to find a handy position four back on the fence before securing the one-one behind Tobruk.

Butcher asked her to improve threewide turning for home and Expensive Crumpet was able to run over the top of her rivals to win by 2-1/4 lengths over Tobruk, with a further 1-1/2 lengths back to Rosie in third.

Paynter was pleased with the result and said he was relatively confident heading into the race despite his charge breaking last start.

“It was on the cards,” Paynter said.

“She had been racing really well.

“David drove her perfectly. She probably should have won last start, she was getting a nice trip, that’s when she tapped a knee and had a gallop.

“Her runs before that were pretty good really.”

Later on the card, stablemate Anditover nearly caused an upset when going down by just over a head to Sertorius in the Hydroflow Handicap Trot (2200m).

Paynter was pleased to see Anditover put it all together on Friday night after breaking at the Auckland track when first-up a fortnight ago.

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“He was probably just short of a run tonight but he went well. He sat outside the leader for a good majority of it and only went down by just over a head (in third).

“He just keeps coming. He is a real little stayer and tries his guts out. He is a pretty handy horse when he is right.”

The five-win gelding will now be set for some targets over the ChristmasNew Year period, while Paynter said

Expensive Crumpet will likely head to the spelling paddock.

“We may give Expensive Crumpet a break because there are some nice mares races coming up later in the year, so if we don’t give her a break soon she probably won’t get one,” Paynter said.

“We plan to aim Anditover for Christmas racing with the better stakes.

He should be coming into his own by then.”

– Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk

Expensive Crumpet winning the Dunstan Speedfeed Summer Series Trot (2200m) Photo: Trish Dunell

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Cambridge trainer Robert Wellwood is one of the bright young stars of the New Zealand training ranks and the hands-on horseman has already proved adept at a number of roles in the thoroughbred industry.

But on Monday Wellwood ticked another industry box, filling the void as the commentator at the Taupo trials, after a Robert Wellwood rostering faux pas.

“We turned up first thing as we had one in heat three and they announced over the loud speaker that because the trials were only put on at the last minute, somebody at the TAB had forgotten to roster on a commentator,” Wellwood said.

“Gerald Fell (member of the Taupo Club committee) said that if anyone wants to give it a go, come on up to the commentary box.

“We had one in the third trial, so I went and did that and they kept saying they were in need of a commentator after that, so I thought why not tick it off the bucket list?

“It was a very boring trial meeting without anybody commentating, so I thought I might as well give it a crack.”

Wellwood called at least half a dozen trials and enjoyed the banter with his mates in the tight-knit industry.

“I don’t know that I am any George Simon, but it is ticked off the bucket list.

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ADVERTISE YOUR VACANCY WITH US! “Local jobs for local people” Phone Janet 027 687 7520 or Vishal 021 270 6699

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FOR SALE

WANTED TO BUY

FIREWOOD FOR SALE – 5 cubic metres $200, 10 cubic metres $360. Delivery to Te Awamutu. Ph 021 617 349 or 07 873 9190.

OLD CEILING LIGHTS

FUNERAL SERVICES

Honouring your loved ones wishes

PUT YOUR HAND UP E TU TO RINGA

We are there for you in your time of need - 24/7.

FDANZ

Nikki Adamson

Volunteer for Citizens Advice Bureau Tuao mai mo Nga Pou Whakawhirinaki

07 870 2137 262 Ohaupo Road, Te Awamutu office@rosetown.co.nz

www.rosetown.co.nz

Want to make a difference to people’s lives?

Garth Williams

Pop in and see us in the Ray White Arcade, 2/213 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu or call us on 07 871 4111

Funeral Director, Owner

Locally owned and operated

Our team is caring and compassionate.

We give the utmost attention to detail in all aspects of our service.

VISIT AND GO IN THE DRAW TO WIN A PAINTING OR A POT

Pre 1970s Phone (07) 823 8225

PUBLIC NOTICES

Find out more at www.cab.org.nz/getinvolved or call 0800 FOR CAB (0800 367 222)

SITUATIONS VACANT

PUBLIC NOTICES

Drawn Sunday 29 Nov

JUST THE TWO OF US EXHIBITION

28 & 29 NOVEMBER 10AM - 3.30PM, CAMBRIDGE CAROLE HUGHES EXPRESSIONIST ARTIST 19 Queen Street www.carolehughesart.co.nz Stockist: Heritage Gallery

JO BECKETT POTTER 12 Alpha Street www.jobeckettpottery.co.nz Stockist: Garden Art Studio

Got a news tip?

Email editor@goodlocal.nz

MOTEL CLEANER WANTED – Casual morning work, variable hours including weekends and school holidays. Would suit mature person with attention to detail. Experience not a must, but preferred. Phone (07) 871 5779.

MISSED DELIVERY? Let Us Know Ph 07 827 0005

TE AWAMUTU OPEN HOMES CENTURY 21 GADSBY REALTY Sunday 22 November 3/753 Mahoe St 52 Hinewai St, Otorohanga 1 Cresta Court 179 Colgan St 108 Pokuru Rd

$680,000 Deadline $495,000 $525,000 Tender

12.00-12.30pm 12.00-12.30pm 1.00-1.30pm 1.00-1.30pm 2.00-3.00pm

$739,000 $739,000

12.30-1.00pm 1.30-2.00pm

FIRST NATIONAL Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

Saturday 21 November 1077 Bank Street 127 Main North Road, Otorohanga

Of an application for On Licence

Family Notices • Engagements • Weddings • Births • Anniversaries • Bereavements • In Memoriam etc

GBJ Group1 Limited has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 20 Arawata Street, Te Awamutu known as Station 32.

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is restaurant and bar. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Friday 11am2am the following day, Saturday and Sunday 9am-2am the following day.

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 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the first publication of this notice.

SERVICES

SERVICES

Contact listing agent prior-visiting as Open Homes times can change.

MOVIES

LUGTONS

Thu, Thu, 19 Nov

Fri, Fri, 20 Nov

A SON (M) A Dog's Way Home (PG)

1.40pm 11.30am

1.00pm 6.15pm

1 hr 51 mins

3.45pm

FILM NAME Film

14 Mar

BABY DONE (M) Colette (M) 2 hrs 6 mins

Call Janine 027 287 0005

• • • •

Interior painting Wallpapering Exterior painting Spray painting

or email decorator@daverowe.co.nz www.daverowe.co.nz

17 Mar

11.30am

11.30am

1.10pm

3.30pm

8.30pm

Tue, Tue, 24 Nov

19 Mar

1.40pm

11.15am

1.30pm 8.15pm

1.30pm 8.30pm

3.50pm 6.20pm

Green Book (M) 2 hrs 25 mins

1.10pm

8.15pm

HONEST THIEF (M) Hotel Mumbai (M)

11.15am

3.15pm

2 hrs 20 mins

6.00pm

8.00pm

MADE IN ITALY (M)

1.45pm 11.15am 8.00pm 3.50pm

1.15pm 1.20pm 6.00pm

Stan & Ollie (M) (PG) 1RAMS hr 53 mins

4.10pm 1.20pm 6.00pm 6.15pm

4.00pm 3.30pm 6.00pm

3.40pm 8.10pm 6.10pm

1.00pm 6.00pm 6.15pm

1.15pm 6.00pm 8.30pm

Swimming With Men (M) (E) SECRET IMPRESSIONISTS

11.00am 3.40pm 5.50pm

1.00pm 5.50pm

11.00am 4.00pm 8.40pm

11.00am 1.15pm 6.40pm

11.30am 1.30pm

3.45pm

2 hrs 16 mins

FATMAN (R13)

1.30pm 8.15pm

No Comps

8.25pm

I AM WOMAN (M) If Beale Street Could Talk (M)

11.00am 5.45pm

6.00pm

1 hr 52 mins

3.40pm 8.15pm

3.50pm 6.00pm

8.30pm

8.20pm

3.15pm 5.45pm

6.15pm

SHE IS THE OCEAN (E)

8.15pm

4.10pm

11.30am 8.00pm

1.30pm 8.30pm

1.40pm 3.50p

4.00pm

5.30pm

5.30pm

1.30pm

1.45pm

No Comps

The Guilty (M) 1 hr 40 mins THE SECRETS WE KEEP (M)

1.35pm 8.20pm

11.15am

1.35pm 8.00pm 3.15pm 8.30pm

1.00pm 6.15pm

3.40pm

1.30pm

11.15am

1.15pm 545pm

20 Mar

4.00pm

3.20pm

CHARLATAN Destroyer (M) (R13)

Wed, Wed, 25 Nov

3.45pm

3.45pm

No Comps

janine@goodlocal.nz

16 Mar

Sun, Sun, 22 Nov

6.15pm

2 hrs 15 mins

For a look you will love Call Dave Rowe

15 Mar

Sat, Sat, 21 Nov

10.45am 3.30pm

3.15pm

1.15pm 6.00pm

11.15am 5.45pm

4.10pm

8.20pm

11.00am 8.10pm

3.40pm 8.00pm

3.20pm 8.30pm

3.40pm 6.00pm

6.00pm

12.45pm 5.50pm

12.45pm 3.30pm

1.45pm

1.40pm

1.05pm

11.00am 8.00pm 6.20pm

11.00am 5.45pm 8.30pm

1.20pm 8.15pm 5.50pm

4.15pm

3.45pm

8.30pm

1.20pm

8.45pm

11.15am 3.45pm

www.tivolicinema.co.nz

Bookings 823 5064 – 32 Lake Street, Cambridge

2.30pm

3.15pm 8.15pm

12.30pm 4.30pm 6.15pm

6.40pm

11.30am 6.15pm

1.00pm 8.30pm

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