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Silver for new club

A fledgling waka ama club formed on the shores of Lake Karāpiro just three years ago has picked up its first medal at the Te Wānanga o Aotearoa national waka ama sprint champs.

The Midget W12 mixed boys and girls crew from Karāpiro Waka – formed by Ngāti Koroki Kahukura in 2017 – finished second in the Cup final on Monday, marking the first competition success for the club at its first appearance at the national champs.

The club was formed after regatta sponsors Te Wānanga o Aotearoa signed a memorandum of understanding with the iwi and ran its year-long Level 4 Certificate in Waka programme for about 25 iwi members at Lake Karāpiro, the venue for this week’s national champs.

Ngāti Koroki Kahukura – with marae at Maungatautari and Pōhara – are the hau kainga (home people) of the regatta.

Karāpiro Waka cochair Lee Ann Muntz says the club was given two waka from WaikatoTainui and had received massive support from Te Toki Voyaging Trust and others at the nationals.

“All the other clubs here are with us,” she says.

With around 100 mostly young members, the club aims to grow slowly and entered four junior crews in their first attempt at the national champs.

The Midget W6 girls crew qualified for the championship semi-finals, the Midget W6 boys

made the cup final and combined to win silver in the Midget W12 cup final.

The J16 W6 girls’ and boys’ crews gained good experience but were eliminated in the heats of their competition.

Lee Ann says much of the club’s early success is down to passionate coach Laurie Tauroa.

Along with training the junior crews, Laurie also stores the waka at his home and hauls them to and from the lake and their training venue at Epworth, further up the Waikato River.

“We don’t have a base so that’s what we’d like to achieve in the future and the future for the club looks very positive,” she says.

The club is also part of a push

by Ngāti Koroki Kahukura to encourage iwi members to return home and Lee Ann says this is

proving successful, with the recent opening of a 10-home papakainga at Pōhara Marae.

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Hone’s crew keeps the volunteers fed

Volunteers at the Te Wānanga o Aotearoa national waka ama sprint champs at Lake Karāpiro work hard for long hours but are always assured of a decent feed thanks to the tireless work of Hone Mutu and his team.

For 12 years Hone has been feeding the volunteers and VIPs at the event, which attracts thousands of paddlers and tens of thousands of fans every year.

After starting out as a volunteer, Hone decided he and his team of whānau and friends could make a better contribution by making sure the volunteers were well fed.

“We thought the best way we could help was to ensure they have a good breakfast in the morning and a beautiful dinner at night and so we’ve stuck to that principal,” he says.

On the menu this year has been a range of dishes including beef Wellington, lasagne, scotch fillet, glazed ham, roast pork, lamb racks and, of course, hangi.

Hone – who lives at Waimate North - says the event is a good time for his whānau to catch up with each other and they come from around the Feeding the masses: Hone Mutu country to help out at Karāpiro. and lunch so that’s our koha to Tainui Catering for crowds is because they’re looking after all the something his whānau is used to, he VIPs down there. I’ve never charged says. for that or for the pōwhiri kai because It was a whānau decision to take I’m not happy to charge for what is a on the catering contract 12 years ago tikanga thing, that’s our koha back to and there was never any intention of Waka Ama.” making money out of it.

His crew feed more than 70 people “If we wanted to make money we’d each morning and evening during the be having mince and whatever else week and he says it’s something they every night, that sort of food, but we love doing. choose not to go down that path and “I guess that’s our passion, me instead to give them the best quality manaaki te tangata ahakoa ko wai no that we possibly could,” he says. hea, me tika te tiaki i a ratou. For all the “Our thing has always been manaaki work that they do the least we can do and so all the kai that we have in the is provide them a nice kai and we hope VIP area, we don’t charge for. We that we provide that. supply the VIPs their morning teas

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On the beat

with Senior Constable DEB THURGOOD

Inside search and rescue This week I’m sending greetings to Te Awamutu as well as Cambridge readers and Constable Ryan Fleming is on annual leave.

I thought I would take the opportunity to give you all an insight into one of the roles that our officers can undertake, in addition to their core Policing role.

Constable Matthew Burke, based at Cambridge station, is part of the Police Search and Rescue (SAR) team. He has helped give me an insight into what he does and why he does it. Constable Burke thinks SAR is awesome, as you never know who you’re going to help next and where you might end up working.

Each week in the Waikato Police, three officers ready to respond to a search and rescue event along with the many trained staff on duty. All SAR members take turns being on-call. When on-call, they have their Police cell phone with them 24-7. When a call comes in, you do not know what or where it could be.

Examples of the types of job Constable Burke could be involved in range from a couple of walkers lost in the dark on Maungatautari or a person with dementia lost and walking around Hamilton, to a capsized boat off Port Jackson, Coromandel. The Summer months are traditionally the busy time of year, with more people outdoors enjoying the better weather.

Last week Police were involved in 14 SAR Call outs of varying degrees.

A lot of the time Police rely on the help of volunteer groups such as Coast Guard and LandSAR, to assist in locating and rescuing people. The majority of the time, Police will act as incident controller and conduct a search from a suitable location. In some instances, jobs can be resolved in a matter of hours, but there are situations where searches will go on for multiple days or weeks. Unfortunately, not all searches are successful and there is loss of life. SAR’s job does not stop there, they will keep working until a body is recovered and the identity is confirmed to the satisfaction of the coroner.

In a lot of instances, a situation could be avoided if people were simply better prepared – if they took more supplies, had better equipment, and knew their capabilities, because when things go wrong, they can go wrong really fast.

Constable Burke’s advice to you is when venturing out for a day walk or out on your boat, make sure you’ve got adequate supplies - not just for the time you’re out there, but in case the unexpected happens.

Tell someone where you going and what time you’ll be back. On the water, have two forms of communication, VHF and cell phone. On the land, please have a charged cell phone or if you can, a personal locating beacon (these can be hired from Cambridge I-Site).

Lastly, when you see a LandSAR, Coastguard or similar volunteer group working or fundraising, please give them your support or if you would like, find the nearest group and join up. You will learn a lot and meet some great people.

Until next week, stay safe and be prepared!

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Briefs…

Property prices The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand says median house prices in the greater Waikato rose 17.4 per cent in the past year to $675,000. Ōtorohanga and Hauraki districts and Hamilton city achieved record highs – Ōtorohanga rose from $430,000 to $480,000 between November and December. Waipā’s media price rose in the year to December from $600,000 to $705,000.

Rowers coming Lake Karapiro will host the North Island Rowing Championships – and an expected 2300 competitors from schools and club level - over four days starting on Friday next week.

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Waikato District Council says stricter controls are being put in place by processors who receive recycling from waste – and residents must now remove lids from plastic and glass containers. The lids are typically a different material, will contaminate glass and plastic recycling and can get stuck in moving machinery used to process recycled product.

Business chance Budding entrepreneurs living or working in the Waikato district will have the opportunity to attend a free 10-day business course in March. Waikato District Council and Ministry of Social Development is working together to bring the PopUp Business School Aotearoa to the Waikato district as part of its economic and social development initiative.

For more information go to https://tinyurl.com/ WaikatoPopUp Water levels Waikato Regional Council chairman Russ Rimmington is signalling he want a ceiling placed on the volume of water Auckland may take from the Waikato River. The city now takes 175 million litres a day – and has tabled an application to allow it to take another 150 million more. Mr Rimmington said the Waikato region couldn’t give from the river endlessly after that.

Giltraps’ time to shed…

By Viv Posselt

Wilfred Giltrap’s January 23 shed sale of vintage tractors, engineering machinery and tools marks a significant turning point in the life of a man whose name is woven into the fabric of New Zealand agriculture.

The sale will effectively sign off on a large chunk of his life and signal the settling into another, more leisurely one in the Te Awa Lifecare home he shares with his wife Shirley.

It seems, however, that there are reminders of his legacy around every corner.

“A lot of people living here are ex-farmers,” he smiled.

“They know all about our machinery,” Six decades have passed since a young Wilfred fostered his love of engineering on the Maihihi family farm near Ōtorohanga.

In 1959 he started Giltrap Engineering with just one worker in tow. Today, around 200 employees operate across two separate arms of the company, Giltrap Agrizone and Giltrap Engineering, run respectively by son Andrew

Giltrap, and daughter and son-in-law, Belinda and Craig Mulgrew.

From those early beginnings, when Wilfred dared not imagine such expansion, Giltrap has spread to the Pacific islands, New Guinea, Indonesia and Chile. Now, about half of the production from the engineering operation goes to Australia.

There were many landmark ‘firsts’ along the way, among them the development of the successful wheel drive trailer and silage wagons built for feeding out to larger herds of stock.

“The idea was to make about 15 feed wagons a year, but within two years we were making around 200.” It’s an enviable legacy, one rooted right here in the Waikato.

Illness saw Wilfred step back from the day-to-day workings of the business in 2002 and he relaxed into a more hobby-driven rhythm of restoring vintage tractors.

Now, he says the time has come to ‘thin stuff out’ – hence the upcoming sale at his recently-sold Maungatautari land near

Wilfred and Shirley Giltrap going through the minutiae of a lifetime’s work at their Te Awa Lifecare home in Cambridge.

Karapiro, close to where the couple lived for 20 years before moving to Te Awa 12 months ago.

“I’ve decided the time is right to sell everything … reluctantly, of course. It’s quite a big step for me,” he said.

It’s an equally big step for Shirley, who has toiled at Wilfred’s side throughout

their marriage. Her early training on Burroughs machines at the bank kicked in when she saw him wrestling with his accounts soon after they married.

“There were six statements, spread out all over his desk.

I said, ‘let me take care of those’, and had them done pretty quickly,” she smiled.

“I’ve been doing the accounts

till I retired.”

The sale from Wilfred’s 180 square metre shed this weekend will see 200 lots and five tractors go.

It’s taking place at 983 Maungatautari Rd from 9.30am to 2.30pm on Saturday, January 23.

For more information email him on w.giltrap@ gmail.com.

Doc gives possums the push

A successful pest control operation on Mount Pirongia will allow native wildlife there to flourish over summer, says the Department of Conservation (Doc).

Predator control was carried out at Pirongia Forest Park last September with drops of 1080 over 14,000 hectares as part of Doc’s nationwide Tiakina Ngā Manu programme The work is part of long-term conservation efforts at the site, home to a huge range of forest birds, insects, lizards and plants including threatened species such as pekapeka (bats), kōkako and Dactylanthus—a rare parasitic plant.

“Possum monitoring, before and after the control operation shows we’ve reduced the possums in the forest park, providing rata trees, Dactylanthus, kokakō and a multitude of other valuable New Zealand species the opportunity to thrive,” says Doc Biodiversity Ranger Cara Hansen.

Monitoring by an independent contractor using leg hold traps spread throughout the forest park in the weeks after the Tiakina Ngā Manu operation drew blanks at all 240 traps checked over three nights.

Monitoring at the same site, undertaken in January 2020, showed 5.4% of the traps had caught possums – so about 13 would have been tempted by the baits before the drop.

Cara Hansen said the figures demonstrated the value of Doc’s predator control operation and the detailed and lengthy planning and consultation.

“The removal of possums — and other predators such as stoats and rats — at Pirongia

Possum numbers have dropped on Pirongia.

means the many forest bird species found there will be able to successfully raise clutches of chicks. Controlling predators also allows the forest canopy to recover, improving the forest’s health and providing important habitat for native species.”

Over the last 25 years, Doc and a range of government and community organisations have undertaken extensive predator control and species protection efforts within and around Pirongia Forest Park.

Monitoring at Pirongia over the past 20 years shows a downward trend of possum numbers and, through ongoing predator control work, there is an opportunity to maintain the benefits of keeping possum numbers down.

Tiakina Ngā Manu contributes to Predator Free 2050 through the sustained control of introduced predators over large areas of conservation land to protect native species and forests until predators can be removed permanently.

Cara Hansen said the calls of the kōkako, which had been successfully reintroduced by Pirongia Te Araroa o Kahu Restoration, could now be heard across the maunga.

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Almost half the “recycling” put out by Waipā residents is heading straight to landfill.

Contaminated recycling is proving to be such a major issue that the Waipā District Council is warning offending residents they will lose the service if they do not use it properly.

Since lockdown, 13 households have had their service suspended due to ongoing contamination in their wheelie bins.

The issue relates to residents placing incorrect items in their recycling bins.

Council operations team leader Jennifer Braithwaite said that was costing up to $33,000 a month to deal with.

She said contamination of both mixed and glass recycling had soared since lockdown and an average of 206 tonne of recycling was sent to landfill each month as a result.

The issue was also raised late last year.

“We’re seeing everything from bags full of rubbish to used medical products, needles, dog poo, dirty nappies and just last week dead fish coming through the sorting line. Other contamination such as car motor oil and other liquids have forced the closure of the production line for major clean-ups.

“Items like these can contaminate an entire load of recyclable materials and force our contractors to send otherwise good recycling to landfill.”

Costs to deal with contaminated recycling include transporting the material to landfill, disposing of it and the loss of revenue from otherwise good product which could have been sold on the recycling market.

Braithwaite said Council’s recycling

contractor made regular bin inspections across the district to try and manage contamination.

Contaminated bins are stickered in the first instance and not collected. On the next collection drivers will check them again and if contamination is found, the property owners will be told their bin won’t be emptied.

After a third offense, the property owners receive a letter from Council and service may be suspended to that property.

Braithwaite said households with

extreme contamination could face having their service removed permanently.”

She said the Council needed the help of all residents to reduce contamination.

“This isn’t something we can achieve by ourselves. There are some fantastic recyclers in our communities who are doing a great job but there are others who knowingly and blatantly put stuff like rubbish, dirty nappies and car motor oil in their recycling bins and don’t seem to care about the effect this is having on the service.”

An example of items regarded as recyclable by some Waipā residents.

Flying the flag for TA’s Fat Bottomed Girls

By Viv Posselt

Te Awamutu’s Fat Bottomed Girls have been striding the streets of Te Awamutu and Kihikihi for three years.

Their numbers have remained pretty steady throughout, says admin member Christine Jenkins.

“We’re around 22 as we go into our fourth year. Not all of them are out there walking all the time, many of them just join us on a casual basis. A lot of the women here are either working or have young families,” she said.

The local group has 32 mapped walks, or sections, they cover in no particular order.

Members keen to put together a walk simply make mention of it on the group’s Facebook

page, and see who wants to join them.

Their Cambridge’s purple-clad equivalent are finalists in Sport Waikato’s 2020 Sport and Active Recreation Awards.

Christine said all the walks cover about 5km, and they do occasionally stray from the mapped sections if they feel like a more casual amble along a different route. Most of the sections they cover are mapped as close to a figure of eight pattern as possible so members have the option of returning to their car halfway through if they prefer.

“It’s definitely about having fun. It’s more about half-pie walking and half-pie friendship than anything else,” Christine laughed.

For more information contact Christine via their Facebook page or email fbgclubnz@ gmail.com.

Market boost for Lions A couple of humdinger markets held just before Christmas may well have set the Mt Pirongia Lions Club on track for a positive 2021.

One of the organisers, Lion Jim Henderson, said a combination of great weather, last-minute shoppers and over 50 stalls of quality fare resulted in the club’s ‘biggest and brightest market’ for 2020.

“What a way to finish the year!” he said. “We’re really pleased with the final 2020

market and believe we’re in a good place as we enter 2021.”

The club’s Pirongia Christmas Market and Pirongia Sunday Market took place on December 20.

Jim said he hoped that with the help of a core group of dedicated vendors selling quality produce, the club would be able to build on the December markets’ success throughout this year.

The 2021 markets will run on the last Sunday of each

month, said Jim, with the exception of April when it will be on Saturday April 24 to avoid clashing with ANZAC Day. Another change will be in December, when the market will is scheduled for December 19 to avoid Christmas. On all of those market days, they’ll be open for business at the Pirongia Community Centre from 9am to 2pm.

The markets are run by the Lions as a major fundraiser for the community.

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Recycling change

Recycling calendars look a little different this year following a change to Waipā’s glass recycling service.

All households now have 12 glass collections per year, one less than in previous years. There are no changes to the mixed recycling collection which occurs every two weeks, the same as in previous years.

The change is due to many households putting their blue glass recycling bins out for collection less frequently than first expected when the service was started in July 2019.

Waipā District Council operations team leader Jennifer Braithwaite said the initial contract for recycling had been tendered for 12 glass collections and 24 mixed yellow recycling collections but was increased to 13 glass collections once the contract was awarded to Council’s recycling contractor.

“We had expected more frequent glass collection would be needed however, many households are finding they only need to place their bin out every second or third collection.

“This means we often have drivers collecting barely any glass recycling on a number of their routes.

We are effectively over servicing for glass recycling.”

Braithwaite said the change would mean there would be one point in the year for all households where there would be six weeks in between collection dates.

“To avoid bins going out on the wrong day, I encourage residents to regularly check their 2021 recycling calendars or the recycling day finder on our website to ensure they are putting their bins out on the correct day.”

Braithwaite said the change back to the original 12 collections per year would also save Council more than $25,000 each year. Currently, any extra savings would help with the mounting cost of contamination of mixed and glass recycling.

“This is a major issue we are facing at the moment but are working to tackle it through increased bin inspections and education efforts for our community.”

More information on recycling in Waipā can be found at www.waipadc.govt.nz/recycling.

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New ramp for league office

A new ramp is making access easier to Te Whiringa – Te Awamutu Māori Women’s Welfare League office.

In September, Waipā District Council successfully applied for $38,600 from the Provincial Growth Fund to renovate and install a wheelchair ramp at the Councilowned facility in Kihikihi.

The work was carried out in early December.

The Provincial Growth fund is administered by the Provincial Development Unit, part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

Rosemary Murray, president-elect of the MWWL says the new ramp will be well used by visitors to the house especially those with a walking aids or disability.

“The new ramp means our regular groups can more easily access our building for activities and support where it previously was a barrier,” Murray said.

Murray said physiotherapist Angela Brown initiated the project. Brown was supporting a fun ukulele lesson over several months and noticed the difficulty the people were having gaining entry then leaving having no handrail or ramp.

“We support community health services with our volunteer membership to help in educating families to look after their own families through our community garden, ‘Te Ketungatahi’ a cooking programme, crafting and latterly weaving, alongside health education with opportunities to have regular health check done on promotion days.”

Council’s property manager John Miles said improving the property was one way to support the volunteer organisation which provides a wealth of services to Māori women in the community.

The league has been based at its Lyons St, Kihikihi home for 14 years.

A recent addition, Pataka Kai, is at the front of the house and is supported by the wider community with donations of non-perishable food. The branch made a successful application to Council’s Waste Minimisation Fund for the purchase of a freezer to preserve food for community food packages.

Te Awamutu Maori women’s Welfare League also offers advice to help family or liaise with other agencies to assist with family needs.

Rosemary Murray is delighted with the new ramp

Poppy’s book is food for thought

By Viv Posselt

Several months after publishing a book chronicling her secret struggle with an insidious eating disorder, Poppy Wortman knows her decision to tell her story was worth it.

She launched the book, entitled ‘The Tale of Poppy and Ed’ – Ed referring to eating disorder – at the Avantidrome on December 8. She was distinctly nervous on the night, unsure of how its confronting message would be received.

Anyone knowing Poppy is familiar with her bubbly personality and go-getter approach to life as a writer, global adventurer, yoga teacher and marriage celebrant. Hesitancy isn’t a natural fit with her.

Fast forward to early January, and Poppy was into her second print run, with around 400 books sold and plans well advanced for stocking the book beyond its current distribution through Cambridge Paper Plus and via the online Best Little Bookstore.

“The number of those reaching out after reading the book

has truly astounded me,” she said. “My reason for writing and publishing it was to bridge the misunderstanding gap … the messages I have received from family members of someone struggling, or from those struggling themselves, has made it wholeheartedly worth it.”

Poppy was driven to write her story when in treatment for the disorder in 2015. It had been intended for her eyes only, something that might help her understand herself and what she was going through. Two things sparked her decision to put her story out there.

“One was a friend of mine who committed suicide. I’ve never been at that point myself, but there were a few times during treatment where it crossed my mind it would be easier to die than to be in my own Ed-riddled head.”

She hoped the book might help others facing a similar dilemma.

The second catalyst was a call for help from a family with a daughter going through the same thing. She saw their desperation and recognised her younger self in the girl’s

struggles.

Poppy now knows the prevalence of eating disorders and recognises the importance of finding pride in the fight rather than shame in the affliction.

She talks candidly of her boundless efforts to disguise her disorder and remembers the moment when it all started– a primary school maths lesson that involved the pupils weighing themselves.

Twenty years on, that moment still fills her with dread.

“I was eight. I should’ve been running around in a bikini with no thought to my slightly protruding belly. I should’ve been eating Goody-goody-gum-drops ice cream with gusto, not lying awake at night wracked with guilt from having consumed it.”

Now recovered, but cognisant of unhealthy thoughts when they creep in, Poppy wants to urge those similarly afflicted to reach out for help.

“An ill, diseased mind is another part of the body that’s not functioning as it should … it needs care to get it going again.”

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A time to share

By virtue of wandering around the North Island over the early part of January we have been able to interface with many Kiwis enjoying both their country - and the glorious weather that never seemed to cease.

Sweltering afternoons, covering up those fragile areas, ensuring the ice cube container stayed stocked, cricket with the kids on the lawn, the squeals of even younger ones in the surf – and the longed-for return to summers that most remembered from their younger days.

Picking fruit at the roadside, the chimes of the ice-cream van in a coastal settlement, digging large ‘sit-in’ holes for hot water, real fish and chips of the non-city variety where the fish is, actually, both local and fresh.

All this potpourri of enjoyment was layered with lingering outside in the evening to appreciate the cooler air, time to actually fully read (and sometimes enjoy) the morning paper, decisions needed to declare the preference of salads with the never-ending slices of ham in the fridge, sand in your toes – also layered with spending really useful time with the grandchildren.

No school pressure, no alternative recreation – just an abundance of free time to appreciate and understand each other more deeply.

In case you think I am going a little away from my mainstream theme of taking an interest in those of a more advanced age, well, I was, for the sight of three generations of families was everywhere.

Grandpa looking for a quiet corner, grandma showing teenage (and younger) offspring how to create culinary masterpieces, the middle generation appreciating that they did not need to spend all day hankering to the wishes of their phone-clutching children. God was in his heaven and there was peace in the world.

At least that part of the world that holds dearly onto the landscape and sea-girthed

High summer – the time of the year gardeners look forward to. At least this is true for those lucky enough to live in the sunny, fertile Waikato!

Those seeds, nurtured in September, became little seedlings which were planted out around Labour Weekend.

Hours of careful weeding and watering have followed.

At last, tomatoes which have been green on the vine for the last four weeks suddenly turn red.

Within days there is a glut of tomatoes.

Zucchini, with their huge yellow flowers, appear as if by magic every morning.

If you don’t pick them for a couple of days, they become marrows. Oh well, our two heifers love to be hand-fed slices of zucchini.

Sweet corn with its pale yellow silk, starts to go brown. Yum! – mouth-watering corn cobs on the BBQ. And so it goes on: peas, beans, capsicum, aubergine, lettuce, radish, cucumber, not to mention the ripening pumpkins and butternut. Then there are the fruit trees, beautiful pink blossoms in spring have turned into red plums, golden peaches and crisp apples.

If you have gardened in the Waikato all your life, you may take this bounty for granted, moaning about kilos of plums to be dealt with.

However, if you have tried to garden for 40 years in the teeth of a Wellington nor’wester, you give thanks for every small cherry tomato which makes it to ripe enough to eat.

A garden rewards you amply if you give it some care and attention. I am new enough to Te Awamutu to be amazed every summer at the prolific harvest from our garden and

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boundaries of Aotearoa.

Somewhere, but who cared where, there was conflict even without the COVID virus strains.

The United States was developing into a cesspit of ridiculous internal bloody-minded conflict.

The UK, led by amazingly inept politicians, was fighting what appeared to be a losing battle at the doors of their National Health System.

India was becoming the epicentre of vaccination production but siphoning off the front end of supply to ensure that they could look after their own. Who can blame them?

And airlines were ceasing services – or at best the more direct ones – thus ensuring those who really wanted to fly had elongated journeys timewise.

It all seemed a long way away from the gentle sound of willow hitting leather on sun dappled grass-topped grounds and the superb escalation of the Black Caps to new and glorious international heights.

And a high number of charter planes flying direct to Melbourne to permit the escape of their precious racquet-wielding passengers from a portion of appropriate lockdown.

Who cares? There is still a cold beer in the fridge, the sun will still come up in the morning and the pension will be in the bank next Tuesday.

But if there is a message here in ‘NuZelan’ let it be this.

There is an appalling number of people who are not following the government’s dictum to use their phones to register with the yellow-ringed code at the door of every business in the land.

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orchard which, six years ago, was paddock. Of course, working the land doesn’t always go according to plan.

We can all feel desperately sorry for those orchardists who have lost their entire crop due to unseasonable heavy rain and hail.

Aside from enjoying the harvest yourself, I believe there are two further key blessings to be gained.

Firstly, a garden is to be enjoyed. What is more pleasurable in the summer than sharing a meal and conversation al fresco in the shade of a beautiful tree.

Secondly, it is a real blessing to be able to give away the surplus. Those without space to grow fruit and veges always appreciate the fruits of our labours.

Jesus accepted a drink of water from the Samaritan woman at the well and took the time to find out about her and her situation (John 4).

Another time (Matthew 26), he said: “I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink … Whatever you did for the least of people, you did for me.”

2020 is over, but the crisis of Covid will be with us for most of this year.

In a time when many are unable to be with family and friends who live overseas, when many women find their jobs at risk, when livelihoods are still precarious, one of the best things we can do for our community is to live into these words of Jesus and share the bounty of our gardens.

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By Peter Matthews

This morning, on the last day of our holiday, I had a slight shift of perspective.

I was sitting up in bed with a cup of tea gazing through the trees, across the lawn, and over Lake Rotorua.

We stayed at a lovely property once owned by a very well known NZ doctor / thug / inter-planetary fighter and host to many even more well known beautiful party-goers who would arrive at the Hefner-style pool and cabana by helicopter.

That didn’t faze me though - I’m used to hobnobbing with the rich and famous; I can see the colour of the pilot’s shirts as the choppers pass my office window on their way in and out of the large business just across the road from our house.

I can almost see the clouds of carbon dioxide swirling around the incredibly loud motors as they pass.

On those days I can’t help wondering whether there is any point riding my bike in to work. I could cycle to work every day for a decade and the benefit of that to the planet might be wiped out by a quick trip to the bach.

Oh well, I guess we all work to our own conscience, and no - of course I’m not jealous, how could you think such a thing?

As I drove home from Rotorua in a car I’ve owned for thirteen years, I glanced nervously every thirty seconds at the engine light which has started to flicker.

The nice people at the workshop tell me it is probably the transmission causing the light

to come on and when that has to be fixed it is going to cost multiples of what the car is worth - but that’s another story.

Anyway back to my shift of perspective.

Staring mindlessly across the lake I saw a flock of seagulls (they probably partied at the cabana back in the day) angling through the view and I wondered why there weren’t more of them.

Idly, my mind went through a series of thoughts: ‘there must be as many of them as the local ecosystem will support’, ‘do they have predators?’, ‘are they short of food?’, ‘what about the effect of humans?’.

See what happened there? I fell into the popular misconception that we humans exist somehow outside the ecosystem.

Of course we don’t; the only reason humans are, for the time being, at the top of the food chain is that some bright spark a hundred thousand or so years ago worked out how to make an arrow head, or perhaps it was all triggered by the person - seems like an incongruously modern term for an advanced primate - who lit the first (intentional) fire?

Of course the point is that the human race is part of, not in charge of, a self-correcting ecosystem and we can either work with it or against it.

And so I resolve to maintain a more realistic perspective, the seagulls exit scene-left and there goes a helicopter.

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Another Karaka for Sir Patrick

Sir Patrick Hogan is looking forward to getting back to Karaka in just over a week for the NZB National Yearling Sales.

For 31 consecutive years Hogan’s Cambridge Stud was the leading vendor at New Zealand’s premier yearling sale.

After vacating Cambridge Stud in April 2017, following the sale of the iconic thoroughbred nursery to Brendan and Jo Lindsay, Hogan stepped away from the limelight that he so frequently shone in.

But when horses are your lifelong passion, retirement is not an option.

The 81-year-old, who has battled ill-health in recent years, has a spring in his step as he looks forward to seeing his 14 yearlings go under the hammer.

Sir Patrick and Lady Justine Hogan’s finest families will be represented across a handful of drafts. Hogan is principally putting his faith in emerging vendors Carlaw Park and Woburn Farm.

“When I moved out of Cambridge Stud I kept some horses, particularly race fillies and broodmares which were in partnership, which I chose not to include in the sale with Cambridge Stud,” Hogan said.

“I retained around 16 mares and fillies from the very successful families I developed, like Eight Carat’s family, Tricia Ann’s family and L’Quiz’s family —all strong families that produced and still do produce good stakes winning and

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“I had to decide where I was going with the yearlings that I was going to breed because I wasn’t in a situation where I could consign them myself.

“That was part of the arrangement with the sale of Cambridge Stud that I didn’t step up and become competitive to Cambridge Stud itself.

“The Carlaw decision wasn’t

difficult because Nick Fairweather worked for me and worked with the yearlings at Cambridge Stud so I knew him well.

“I knew that I could rely on him to prepare and present yearlings the way that I was doing it at Cambridge Stud.

“I then chose Woburn as Adrian Stanley had also done some work for me and on the basis of some homework I did. I

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made some enquiries and found that everybody I spoke to were all impressed with the way their horses were presented at the sales and they sold well.

“I couldn’t be more happy with both of those operations going into my second year having them prepare yearlings for me.

I’m thrilled to bits. The other advantage for me is that both those properties are in Cambridge and

are just around the corner from Hautapu where my Monarch Farm property is. They’re on-tap so to speak where I can go around often and have a check-out and have a talk to them about the yearlings.”

Hogan, who has suffered from a back issue in recent years, has been able to get to a couple of on-farm yearling parades in recent weeks.

“I’m going to make the sales,” Hogan said.

“When Woburn and Carlaw have had official parades, I have popped around a couple of times and sat in the corner and watched the horses coming out.

He also went to Pencarrow Stud and spent a day looking at yearlings with David Ellis and a few others, followed by lunch hosted by Sir Peter Vela.

“I had a very enjoyable day.

I was most impressed with the yearlings. I said to Peter ‘they all came out and I felt like they were walking out of the old Cambridge Stud preparation.

While on one hand Hogan feels he needs to slow down a bit, he still gets a great kick out of the sales process.

“I do enjoy promoting and marketing a product and I’ve had a lot of pleasure in this draft of yearlings because I’ve got a nice lot of horses.

“I’m working out my game plan and in a few days, I’ll have to start working out my reserves. I thoroughly enjoy it.” – NZ Racing Desk

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When I was a kid, a holiday highlight was catching snapper from the family dinghy. It’s been a long time since I last enjoyed that summer pleasure but I will always remember that delicious taste of the sea.

And a sea-fresh smell is what fish should have when you purchase it. ‘Stinky’ seafood will simply ruin a good dish.

If you unwrap fish and have to take a step backwards then more often than not it should be tipped out.

However, even fresh fish may be a bit smelly.

To alleviate the problem, first wash the fish in cold water, pat dry, then soak in milk for 30 minutes. Ensure it’s patted dry before using. This will also help reduce cooking smells.

Frying fish in summer encourages squadrons of flies to visit your kitchen or barbecue so choose cooking methods carefully.

This prevents the bedrooms and the rest of the house smelling like the back of a bad takeaway shop.

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Demolition Man collars a win

By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk

Demolition Man has been the perennial bridesmaid for much of his career, but that title was shed at Cambridge Raceway last week when he won the Kidz Kartz Course Starts Jan 18 Book Today Trot (2200m).

The five-year-old had finished runner-up in half of his previous 22 starts, but it was lucky number 23 that had his connections celebrating an elusive win.

The Majestic Son entire began well from his wide draw and took an early sit behind Keystone Comet, who set a genuine tempo up front. Demolition Man enjoyed the soft run in the trail, and he was able to use the passing lane to run away to a three-quarter of a length victory over Doris Rae, with Sky High Flyer a further neck back in third.

“He is a real honest little trier, he is just a lovely horse,” trainer Trevor Phillips said. “I am happy, but the owners are absolutely rapt that he finally got there.”

Demolition Man has been plagued by breathing issues his entire career and Phillips said the addition of a Cornell Collar worked well on Thursday.

The Cornell Collar is a device developed for use on racehorses to prevent dorsal displacement of the soft palate during racing.

Phillips spoke of the frustration of finishing runner-up all the time.

“He was doing his best all the time, but it did become a bit frustrating,” Phillips said. “But I am really happy with the win today. He is as honest as they come, and you would love to have a few like him in your stable.

“He is paying his way, so you can’t ask for any more than that.”

The win was also Phillips’ first since 2019.

“I don’t work a big team, but he is a nice wee horse. It is good to get back in the winner’s circle again after two years,” he said.

Demolition Man is expected to return to Cambridge Raceway at tonight’s meeting and is likely to then an operation.

“I have got to get the ownership group together and decide what we do,” Phillips said.

“He is going to have his palate operated on at some stage to try and stop him from flipping his palate. The Cornell Collar is doing its job at the moment, so we will leave that on for a while.”

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heck the condition and air pressure in all tyres including the spare to make sure they are roadworthy.

Your proudly local Ford and Mazda dealer

Remember, heat is a tyre’s biggest enemy.

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Make sure your sun visors are doing the job. Glare from the sun, either directly or from other vehicles, can blind you temporarily.

If you are towing, ensure your towbar and braking capability is up to the load you are hauling.

Deane Mark Auto Electrical DM Auto is Te Awamutu’s one-stop automotive repair shop, covering auto electrical and mechanical repairs, air conditioning, WOFs and more. It offers a 24-hour breakdown service.

Fairview Motors Te Awamutu Fairview Te Awamutu sells new Ford and Mazda vehicles and can access more than 300 used vehicles through the Fairview dealership network. All makes and models serviced.

Because of the strain towing can place on your car, it’s vital your cooling and lubrication systems are in top condition.

HAVE AN EMERGENCY KIT If you are on a gravel road in the back of beyond, there may not be too many passers-by and what happens if your cell phone won’t work?

GM Auto Electrix Well-known in Te Awamutu, GM Auto Electrix’s friendly team can sort your auto electrical and air conditioning issues, diagnostics, vehicle servicing and mechanical repairs.

Rosetown Motor Group Rosetown Motor Group (formerly Rosetown Holden) now sells three world-leading vehicle brands – Hyundai, Isuzu and Renault – while offering full Holden vehicle servicing

AN EMERGENCY KIT SHOULD INCLUDE:  Jumper cables  Jack and wheel-brace  Torch  Water for both the radiator and yourself (around two litres)  Blanket and towel  Emergency reflectors

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Replace ragged wiper blades, and make sure the wash reservoir tank is full and you’ve added proper cleaning agents – not dishwashing liquid.

Check all your lights are working. With longer daylight hours you may not use your lights very much, so that blown bulb can go unnoticed – until you need it.

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Phone 07 07 870 870 2535 2535 Phone 132 Kihikihi Kihikihi Road, Road, Te Te Awamutu Awamutu 132

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and parts. Their range includes everything from small eco-friendly cars to seven-seat SUVs. Pop in for full vehicle servicing, repairs and parts, NZTA services and 24-hour refuelling at G.A.S. pumps.

Total Automotive and Engineering Total Automotive and Engineering specialises in general mechanical repairs, Warrants of Fitness, tow bars and vehicle servicing. Pick-up and delivery options available.

Grant McFie 3/406 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu. Opposite Beaurepaires

Phone 07 2142140

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GAS Te Awamutu FUEL AVAILABLE AA SmartFuel available during open hours

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177 Rickit Road, Te Awamutu P 07 870 6006 or 07 871 7311

AA Smartfuel hours: Monday-Friday 7.30am-5.30pm Saturday 8.30am-12.00pm P: 07 870 1362 | E: graham@rosetown.nz

Call our friendly team on 07 870 6255 452 Bond Road, Te Awamutu

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UDC Finance standard terms, conditions, lending and credit criteria apply to any UDC loan. UDC Finance Assured Future Value terms and conditions apply. If these conditions are not met, the assured future value may not be available, and the underlying loan must still be repaid in full. compatibility see: www.owner.ford.com/support/how-tos/technology/convenience/wireless-charging.html 3. Warranty conditions and exclusions apply. Visit www.ford.co.nz/owners/warranty for further information. 4. Ford Assured Future Value is available on selected vehicles only through My Ford Finance. My Ford Finance is only available through UDC Finance Limited. UDC Finance standard terms, conditions, lending and credit criteria apply to any UDC loan. UDC Finance Assured Future Value terms and conditions apply.

If these conditions are not met, the assured future value may not be available, and the underlying loan must still be repaid in full.

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Hamill’s in Te Awamutu We are looking for someone to join the team at Hamill’s Fishing and Hunting store in Te Awamutu. To be the successful you will be an open minded, mature, with good work ethics, an outgoing person, honest with integrity and a good knowledge of the outdoors. Sales experience in retail/or customer experience would be helpful. You will have a passion for the products we sell and should thrive when interacting with clients, you will excel when communicating with people from all back grounds. You will enjoy being part of a friendly sales environment including staff and owners, you will bring a high energy to the role and will enjoy working with a small but driven team. You will have a strong handle on both spoken and written English and will be comfortable communicating with customers over the telephone, written emails and face to face.

You will need to be flexible to meet the needs of the business, available to work Saturdays. You will also need to have the relevant right to work in NZ or Visa conditions to be able to commit to full time work.

Job tasks and responsibilities:

• Sell merchandise with superior customer service • Accuracy and efficiency in all point of sale interactions • Live locally with local knowledge • Knowledge of the Arms Act 1983 • Hold a NZ Firearm Licence – or have started the process • Be consistently friendly, energetic, genuine and personable in all interactions • Housekeeping, help keeping the store clean and neat at all times • Hamill’s shirt supplied, be neat, clean and tidy when in the store • Participates in all incoming and outgoing processing of inventory • Assist in growing customer communication and database by informing customer of email address and phone capture.

Please send applications to Katrina Hudson admin@hamillsta.co.nz Closes 30-January 2021.

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