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Council staff backed By Roy Pilott
Garry Dyet
Waipā District Council chief executive Garry Dyet says the exposure given in last week’s News to abusive on-line comments prompted an outpouring of support. Cr Susan O’Regan prefaced a discussion on plans for Te Awamutu’s
Memorial Park by reading some of the abusive and hostile messages which had been posted on social media. “Since Cr O’Regan made her comments, we have received very welcome messages from people who are horrified at what has been reported. We really appreciate those, and I’d like to thank the people for taking the time
to send those in,” Mr Dyet said. The story prompted the Te Awamutu Grapevine to review its monitoring of posts – but while all readers who contacted the News expressed negative views about the comments, some also suggested it was a consequence of frustration in dealing with the council. Much of the recent criticism has
Who’ll buy my poppy?
Valda Davison, manager of the Te Awamutu RSA is backing the call to support the annual Poppy Day collection – the primary source of funds for the organisation’s provision of support services to the service community. Poppy Day collectors will be out and about tomorrow in Te Awamutu, Cambridge and Kihikihi. On Saturday at 9am a March of Remembrance will be organised by Afghanistan Veterans starting with the land wars site of Orākau and finishing at the Sunken Cross in Memorial Park, Te Awamutu, where a poppy collections will also be organised. On Sunday the Pukeatua Church service will be held at 11am with Community Cadets and the Patriot Motorcycle Club members attending,
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centred on plans to rejuventate Te Awamutu’s Memorial Park. The council is also in the process of going through public consultation on its latest Long Term Plan – and is also weighing up whether or not to introduce a Māori ward at next year’s local body elections. Mr Dyet said he welcomed undertakings from social media page administrators adding “Waipā is much better than this”. Cr O’Regan told residents at last week’s meeting staff were leaving because of the abuse. Mr Dyet told the News he accepted some people will not always be happy “and they have every right to share their view”. “In fact, we bend over backwards to help people share their views... but that does not give a green light to abusing our staff or making outlandish, untrue claims.” He said in the “old days” editors used their common sense, ensuring claims made by letter writers and others were factually correct and that even strongly expressed views were fair and courteous. “It’s not like that anymore. The rise of social media has unleashed a level of vitriol not previously seen. People seem to think they can say anything they like on-line, without consequences. But there are consequences.” He said it was a shame that many staff chose not to engage in social media on council matters because they found it too destructive. “People need to remember that Council staff are like anyone else. We live in this community, our kids go to school here, we play in the same sports teams, we’re your neighbours. • Facebook administrator responds to comments – see Page 3.
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I was appalled to read the article ‘Bullies on the grapevine’ (Te Awamutu News, April 8). While I do not condone “online trolls” this article highlights the need to recognise why people are resorting to making such comments. The people are angry and frustrated with council who are persisting to pursue their plan to make changes to our War Memorial Park when the majority of us are against the proposed changes and what they will cost us as ratepayers. Do we the people not have the democratic right to freedom of speech and to voice our opinions? It would appear the council do not want to listen. Rowena McChesney Te Awamutu
Essential non-essentials
Hayden Woods (letters, April 8) neglects “non-essential” projects at the individual and society’s future cost. I’ll be selective and pick two: libraries and cycleways, keeping to Hayden’s financial focus, though there are many personal and societal non-dollar benefits. Libraries: The financial pay-off for the individual and society can be anywhere between minutes, months, years or even centuries in the future. I spent a lot of my first two decades in libraries, only in my third decade on this planet did this start to pay off. I now earn an above median salary and pay above median taxes. I’m willing to bet that many healthcare professionals globally battling Covid-19 and helping unlock the economy have spent plenty of time in libraries. Cycleways: You only have to look up the costs of inactivity, maybe in a library, to realise that encouraging any activity is relatively cheap in comparison to the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and other obesity related conditions. Plus you have the benefit of another means of getting from A to B. Planning and sowing seeds for the future is something which a farming community should be good at, not just paying todays rates. Alan Lapthorn Te Awamutu
Time to consult
Ōtorohanga Disricrt Counicl commences its consultation programme this month on its Long Term Plan. The counicl set out a timetable but revised it and informed the News. Last week we got it wrong and ran the old timetable. Below are the correct times when residents can discuss the LTP with councillors and staff: Ōtorohanga – daily drop-in centre Ō Café 35 Maniapoto Street April 27–May 21, 9am – 2.30pm Monday to Friday; The Village Green (Ed Hilary
Walkway if raining) May 1 10.30am–2.30pm, St David’s Church, Turongo St, May 5 5.30pm – 8pm. Arohena - Arohena Hall April 20, 4pm–8pm; and May 4 10.30am-2.30pm. Kawhia - Kāwhia Hotel April 29 4pm–8pm; Omimiti Reserve (Rusty Snapper if raining) May 8 10.30am – 2.30pm, The Rusty Snapper May 13 and May 20 10.30am–2.30pm For further information go to https:// otorohanga2050.co.nz/ or email Otorohanga2050@ otodc.govt.nz
On the beat with Senior Constable DEB THURGOOD Fake notes: what to do
I have a few things to touch on again this week. Firstly, over the last couple of weeks we have had several counterfeit notes presented to Cambridge retailers. While store staff have managed to intercept some, others have been removed by the suspects involved, who’ve then left the store. There may yet be other notes still circulating. Investigations are ongoing into this matter. Please check any notes you handle – a tell-tale sign is to ensure they have a watermark in the clear plastic insert at the side. If the insert is just clear plastic, it is counterfeit. If you work in retail and intercept a note while the person who handed it over is still in store, please call 111 immediately. If you otherwise come across such a note, minimise all handling amongst staff, securely store it in a paper envelope and advise Police. Remember to also save any related CCTV footage.
On the topic of CCTV, we regularly investigate cases where CCTV is recorded for a crime but business staff do not know how to save and export the footage. It is a good idea to make yourself familiar with how your CCTV software works. CCTV systems will typically overwrite data in a recording loop after a given timeframe. This can be as soon as one week or up to a month or longer depending on the setup. If footage isn’t saved before that time, it is lost and cannot be accessed. It is therefore also important that any CCTV evidence be saved/downloaded for Police at the earliest possible opportunity to avoid loss of evidence. Your CCTV is often crucial to identifying the offenders involved and proving their actions. Thirdly, I am again seeing posts on Facebook community groups and hearing stories anecdotally regarding criminal activity where it is unclear whether a report has
been made to police. It is important that you do report crime to accurately reflect criminal offending patterns in our town, which aids Police investigation and enables us to hold offenders to account for the most accurate number of offences possible. It also ensures that any related crimes are dealt with together. Where a report is made, you will receive a Police event number and/or file number which then enables any subsequent information to be linked easily to the file, whether that information is again provided by you or someone else. And finally, I recently assisted St Peter’s Catholic School with some guidance around Lock Down procedures. Thank you to principal Anita Asumadu for the opportunity. It was great to see the students doing so well on their first drill.
Network plan tabled Two transformational plans for extensive walking and cycling networks in Waipā are up for discussion. They are part of the Urban Mobility proposal being considered for funding in the 2021-2031 Long Term Plan. The plans for Te Awamutu and Cambridge were created following consultation with residents last year which showed strong support for investment in protected cycleways and shared pathways. Waipā District Council service delivery group manager Dawn Inglis said the plans were a highlevel overview of what the future of walking and cycling could look like in Waipā’s main towns.
The proposed networks would create pathways for cyclists to move across Waipā's main towns, provide connections to key destinations such as schools, and allow residents to get just about anywhere in town safely and easily on a bike, scooter or on foot. Inglis said if funding was allocated, further consultation would be carried out to give residents the chance to have their say on the finer details of the plans. Around $10.5 million in funding is being sought for Urban Mobility which would be rolled out over the next decade. For more information go to www. whatsnextwaipa.nz.
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Briefs… Traffic management Stop/Go traffic management will be in place at the intersection of State Highway 3 and Waikeria Road, south of Te Awamutu, on weekdays between 3pm and 6pm from next Monday. The decision has been made because of the increase in traffic in that area as a result of construction activity at Waikeria Prison. Netball search A search is on to find netball’s “Local Legends”. Major netball sponsor ANZ is backing the search across the country – and throughout the News readership area to find “the greatest supporters whose time and energy keep local netball alive through the good times and the tough”. The bank is also offering netball grants to schools and clubs through its 10-year-old ANZ Netball Grants programme. For more information go to ANZcourtside.co.nz. Giving a lot After four weeks of donations to Te Awamutu’s Regent Theatre on its Give-A-Little page the cinema has been donated $18,935. Over the last month 245 people have donated to the theatre after one of Allan Webb’s employees, Brooke Adler stated the page after concerns were raised about the theatre’s future. Back to work, artists… The Te Awamutu library is bringing the Artists at Work programme back after it became a Covid victim in 2020. The programme enables the public to see a range of artists at work and learn skills at an interactive workshop. It runs from 23 April until 29 April. For more details go to www. waipalibraries.org.nz Comments disappoint Waikato Regional Council chairman Russ Rimmington says he is disappointed at scathing comments made by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency Board member Patrick Reynolds, who has called the new Hamilton to Auckland rail service Te Huia the “worst of both worlds”. The service attracted significant support from Waka Kotahi.
With many questions and concerns coming up around Te Awamutu’s Memorial Park plan council have approved a revised plan, but what does the new plan contain? Blair Voorend takes a look.
Looking into the park plan The original draft plan proposed relocating the amphitheatre and historic relief wall panel to the open grass area by the Mangaohoi Stream. After receiving the feedback and following discussions with mana whenua, staff recommend an alternative option to retain the amphitheatre and historic relief wall panel in their current location. The original plan proposed removing the Peace Fountain due to water conservation measures and replace it with a contemporary memorial feature designed in collaboration with Te Awamutu RSA respecting all recent wars. But the RSA along with other respondents highlighted their desire to retain the fountain, which is now in the new plan along with improvements to better care for the fountain. Following feedback received, staff are now recommending Mangahoe Lane be kept open to one-way vehicular access. The new plan will retain the gateway, and create another eastern gateway where the Pioneer walkway connects to the park in collaboration with RSA and mana whenua. It will also retain car parks in the centre of the reserve and develop a dedicated bike lane along Mangahoe Lane. The pergola will also be kept, and a new pathway veering off from pergola will run through the fernery to connect to the playground/function space and the middle bridge. The current playground assets are dated and in poor condition so in response to feedback received, the revised plan supports the replacement of this playground with a more standard playground and the later development of a māra hūpara play trail along the Kaipaka Pa side of the Mangaohoi Stream. The draft plan also proposed filling the pond area to create a puna restoration planting connected to the stream riparian planting, a pavilion and open lawn function space but did not recommend
removal of the stone bridge. The new plan for the pond and surrounding area will require the removal of the stone bridge as it’s been identified not accessible for all ages and ability. It will be replaced with an accessible walkway through that area. The pond will be retained but the size reduced. The plan also proposes that if the netball court is not leased in future for netball, the area of the
club house and sport courts could be re- designed in collaboration with mana whenua and key stakeholders. As an example, the club house can be repurposed for community gathering and the open space can be multi use for a Farmer’s Market. The plan has been endorsed by council but cannot come into play until the council’s Long Term Plan is approved.
The park pond stays under the revised park plan.
Grapevine says it’s sorry The administrator of Te Awamutu’s Grapevine page took down a series of offensive posts relating to Waipā District Council after being alerted to them by the Te Awamutu News last week. And there are new plans in place to monitor comments more closely. At a committee meeting on Tuesday last week Cr Susan O’Regan read a series of hostile posts to councillors to underline the abuse meted out during a consultation process for a revamp of Memorial Park in Te Awamutu. Jessica Fowlie, who is an administrator of the Te Awamutu Grapevine Facebook page, said she discussed with moderators an email sent by the News which quoted the
comments. “Once the allegations from our members regarding the council and its employees were brought to our attention, we proceeded to find the comments that were quoted in your email to Bernard [Westerbaan, page moderator] as a first point of action,” she told the News. “We found that, yes, there was some abusive messages aimed at council and its procedures, however the wordings were substantially different. “We do not allow swearing or abbreviations of swear words of any kind in the Te Awamutu Region Community Grapevine. To ensure we police this fairly and timely we have
keyword moderation alerts. Every post and comment with profanities in it sends a notification to all the admin team, alerting us to the situation to which my moderators are quick to deal with the problem within a few minutes.” She said some “key words” which were not previously listed on an alert system had now been added to alert moderators “to ensure that this problem does not happen again.” She agreed that some of the comments removed were hostile and possibly defamatory. She said the page had always welcomed freedom of speech “as long as it wasn’t targeting someone personally or could jeopardise their
safety as this is part of the rules members have to agree upon prior to joining.” She said she was disappointed with the behaviour of some members and apologised to the council and counterparts. If the situation arose again the possibility of membership being revoked was “very high”. She suggested the comments indicated a lack of faith in the council and councillors. “People have these opinions as they have at one point or another been let down by the council or councillors, so it would make more sense to initiate a campaign to win back those people and see where the council as a whole could maybe improve in areas.”
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Pavarotti is nesting dormant… While kōkako numbers continue a steady climb in the Pirongia Forest Park, the love-struck Romeo continues to look for a mate. Pavarotti is a big healthy male – when he was caught in Pureora Forest Park in 2018 to be moved to Pirongia he tipped the scales at 283g. A small adult weighs 190g. “So he’s really big,” says Clare St Pierre, Chairperson of the Pirongia Te Aroaro O Kahu Restoration Society (PRS) and a Waipā District Councillor. Pavarotti has been seen with three females and has attempted a duet with two but hasn’t found the right tune. The good news is that while he continues to look for love,
Pirongia’s kōkako fledglings numbers are tipped to increase by 20. The PRS has almost completed its annual kōkako nest monitoring. There have been nine pairs this season, each incubating and rearing at least one clutch of chicks and, in the case of one pair, three clutches. The main threats to eggs and chicks are ship rats, possums and mustelids. Birds disappeared from the maunga in the 1990s due to pests; however, following extensive pest management, 20 birds were moved back in 2017, and a further 14 in 2018. Dave Bryden and Amanda Rogers, kōkako ecologists working with the PRS, headed into the
predator control area to find pairs in October. Volunteers also set traps around the base of the nesting tree. “We set 20 rat traps and one to two possum traps and check them every four days. We reset and re-bait, as necessary. Rats and possums have been caught, so it is necessary,” says Clare St Pierre. Department of Conservation (DOC) Biodiversity Ranger, Cara Hansen, works closely with the PRS providing technical advice and support. “The PRS is doing fantastic work on the maunga” says Cara Hansen. DOC supplements the work with pest control across the entire 12,500 hectares of forest. “It’s making a difference, and the
birds are evidence of that.” “There are a lot of people giving up their time to do this work,” Clare St Pierre says. “We wouldn’t be having this success without our
more than 100 volunteers, trappers, ecologists, and support from DOC and iwi.” For more information go to www.mtpirongia.org.nz
Drivers clock up the tickets Waipā District Council staff issue 169 parking tickets during March, most in the Te Awamutu and Cambridge CBDs. Drivers were parked illegally in disabled parking spots, on broken yellow lines, on the footpath and breaching parking time restrictions. More than 200 tickets have been issued in the last three months as the council counters parking issues in town centres. Council compliance manager Karl Tutty said although parking has always been enforced in Waipā, Council had increased its efforts in this area from just responding to complaints, to active patrols. “Prime parking spaces in Cambridge and Te Awamutu CBD areas should have a high turnover of cars, allowing more drivers to use them,” he said.
The highest ticketed areas have been Alpha, Victoria and Empire streets in Cambridge and Sloane Street and Selwyn Lane in Te Awamutu. Parking tickets range from $15 to $150 depending on the offence. In some cases, entire streets contained cars left in time-restricted spaces for an entire day and some drivers had received multiple tickets for repeat offences. “Those who are getting the tickets aren’t happy about it but overall, we have seen an increase in parking turnover and availability which is great, and we’ve had some good feedback from residents too, particularly around disability parks and the safety issues of cars on footpaths,” Tutty said. Parking maps which outline parking spaces in Cambridge and Te Awamutu centres are available at www.waipadc.govt.nz/parking.
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Managing your trees will help prevent power outages and keep the community safe. Check your trees regularly and keep them trimmed so they stay clear of the Growth Limit Zone. In the Zone:
The Electricity (Hazards from Trees) Regulations 2003 define two zones: a Growth Limit Zone and a Notice Zone.
Growth Limit Zone Trimming trees near power lines can be Branch Movement: Although the tree extremely hazardous and the dangers should foliage may appear to be at a safe distance from the lines, once you begin the work the not be underestimated. tree may move due to pressure placed on Contact with a power line can cause: branches, random wind gusts or other Injury or death to yourself, family or external interference. passers by Tree branches tend to be fairly elastic so you Injury of death to livestock should also be wary of any that may flick up as they are trimmed or as other surrounding Damage to property and other tress branches are cleared. Damage to electrical appliances Wet Weather: Branches tend to hang Damage to power supply facilities lower when the leaves are wet, so if it starts Damage to third parties to rain or if the leaves are already wet and Before attempting to clear tree foliage in the start to dry you should expect some vicinity of live conductors you should phone movement. Waipa Networks for advice. Debris: The path of debris should also be when attempting tree Growth Limit Zone: any tree growing in the considered maintenance. Growth Limit Zone (see diagram) must only be trimmed by a Waipa Networks authorised person.
In relation to Waipa Networks equipment this is the area within 1.6 metres in any direction of our 11kV electrical lines or 0.5 metres for 400/230V lines. If any of your tree foliage is within this Zone then it must be trimmed to beyond the Notice Zone.
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FAITH IN WAIPĀ
A life full of choices
By Joan McManus, St John’s Anglican Te Awamutu
The definition of the word choice is… the act of choosing between two or more possibilities. Some choices we make, even on a daily basis are insignificant, such as what to eat for breakfast or what colour lipstick to wear. Others are lifechanging, for example, who to marry, what career to study, where to live or what name to call your child. Right now, In New Zealand and Australia we are being given the opportunity to travel to either country with fewer restrictions. Immediately people have made their choice, paid their fares and are excited to visit. The road toll over the Easter weekend was tragically high. Maybe some of these accidents could have been avoided, thus preventing involvement of innocent road users, if the drivers had made different choices The current high price of real estate is resulting in buyers being forced into borrowing very large amounts to cover years of mortgage repayments, so again careful choices are vital. The year 2020 brought many new words to our vocabulary, such as social distancing,
‘bubble’, hand sani, mask wearing, and contact tracing. The ‘team’ of 5 million were asked to cooperate with these action words, sadly a small few chose not to do so. As winter in New Zealand is fast approaching so is the invite for the annual flu vaccination which the majority of the population choose to accept. This year the government will be offering the Covid vaccine to all adults at personal choice. The essential message of the recently celebrated Christian festival, Easter, was also all about choice, about how you respond to Christ’s life, death and the subsequent message brought to the world by witnesses of these events. Important choices bring responsibilities, as exemplified by Joshua (leader of the Israelites) who asked: Choose you this day who you will serve, but as for me and my house will serve the Lord.” And lastly, most importantly…when you next look at a cross, realise that Jesus chose that to show his love for us.
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How about an aviation tax? By Peter Matthews
A study published last year concluded that half of the CO2 emitted by the global aviation industry is caused by flights taken by just 1% of the population. In the UK 70% of flights are taken by 15% of the population. And there are plenty of other statistics where those came from - all pointing to the conclusion that the wealthy few are responsible for the majority of aviation emissions, especially since it seems that private jet travel has quietly jumped in popularity since the decline of commercial international services due to Covid-19. A few rich people are subjecting all of the rest of the people to the climatic consequences of their jetset lifestyle. Of course whether or not we would happily enjoy that lifestyle if we could is another subject. What to do about this clearly inequitable situation? A popular opinion on this is that a flight tax would be a good idea: User pays. At first glance this would appear to be a fair solution. Well, if not a solution - an approach. But where would that money go? Most likely straight into the coffers of the governments collecting it. I’ve got a better idea. Each year every person over 18 could be issued with a number of ‘air miles’, so that the total air miles issued would equate to the total miles currently being flown. If a person used all of their allocation within the year and wished to travel further, they would have to buy more air miles on the open market.
So if I had no plans to fly anywhere this year (and the majority of people don’t), but I did plan to buy a new fridge, I could sell my allocation on the open market via an online auction system. Computers do this stuff easily and so management of the scheme, if challenging to start with, would certainly not be difficult. I expect the government would want to clip the ticket along the way but that’s to be expected. Of course they would direct the money towards environmental initiatives wouldn’t they? In this way those who wish to fly a lot could do so - if they could afford it, and those who do not wish to fly could benefit from those who do. This would surely amount to an ongoing, fair and transparent re-distribution of wealth which would benefit all concerned. The jetsetters would get to keep jetsetting, the stay-at-homers could earn a bit of extra money, the government would get to collect some extra revenue, and most of that could go towards environmental concerns. Seems like a win win win win to me. So that’s sorted out aviation. Now what do we do about rice? Rice? Yes - the greenhouse gas emissions from rice growing around the world are equal to those of the global aviation industry. Let’s hear about Waipa’s environmental heroes - Contact Peter Matthews at: peter@ noplanetb.nz
Business confidence on the rise
Regional economic development agency Te Waka says businesses have more confidence in their own patch than they do for the rest of the country. The second Waikato Business Sentiment Survey shows business owners and managers are more optimistic about their sector and the region’s economic performance than they were
six months ago. They are not so confident in the country’s economic performance. The survey is conducted in partnership with local authorities, chambers of commerce, regional tourism operators, business associations and other economic development organisations and provides insights to the performance
of business in the prior six-month period and is an indicator of confidence looking ahead. Between February 15 and March 12, 565 responses were collected online. Confidence in New Zealand’s economy improved from -31 per cent to -3 per cent. Thirty-three per cent of respondents reported increased sales for 2020 compared to 2019.
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By Blair Voorend
The feature night on the Waipā business calendar, the Waipa Networks Business Awards is a day away. Tomorrow is a big night for a number of businesses across the region at the Mystery Creek Events Centre, where the awards will be presented. The new Awards Ambassador Steve Tritt is the Business Development Manager for the Waipā District Council and has been involved in the awards for a number of years as one of the Head Judges. He says these awards can help boost a businesses potential and make them more prominent in the community. “If you are a finalist then there is public endorsement for your business. A win is a sign of quality for potential customers and can form part of your sales pitch. “Success at business awards are part of your marketing toolbox.” The Awards are open to businesses in the Waipa region and aim to encourage and support businesses in their quest for success through; sustainability, innovation, leadership, and excellence. The Waipa Networks Business Awards has revised the awards categories to better reflect business issues and strategies during 2020. The finalists are: Excellence in Emerging / New Business: Ag Drive Limited, Wisteria Lane, Rotary Cambridge Urban Miners, Black Shepherd Apiaries Excellence in Small Business: Livewire
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Holidays and weekends are a great time to let your kids loose in the kitchen. Whether it be tearing up lettuce leaves for a salad and tossing them with a dressing or some simple baking, food preparation can become a fun art form — if you encourage the kids to use their imaginations. However, it’s best to provide some guidelines for success. Such as reading the recipe through first then gathering all the ingredients and equipment required on the bench. With baking it is important to use standard measurements — this means level metric cup and spoon measures. Pour liquids into the
measuring cup to the top of the line. Spoon dry ingredients into the measuring cups. Don’t shake or pat them down unless the recipe specifies this, eg brown sugar is often ‘packed’ into the cup. When using measuring spoons, heap the dry ingredients into the spoon, then, using the back of a knife or a spatula, smooth it over the spoon to make it level. Importantly, encourage your kids to clean up as they go rather than have a big pile of dirty dishes and cooking implements at the end. It’s also safer to have a tidy bench on which to work.
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What new home buyers do to better heat their homes efficiently and affordable? With winter creeping up and many first home buyers are about to experience their first winter in their own home. If you are moving into a new house and don’t want ot see high power bills over winter, here are a few saving hints and tips to make sure you don’t get to much of a fright seeing winter bill. Although house prices are going up, it seems power bills tend to follow the same trend so for new and first home buyers it is a matter of saving as many pennys as possible. Keeping a dry home is important so tackle moisture at the source, a damp home feels colder and is harder to heat. Easy ways to reduce airborne moisture include using pot lids when cooking, keeping kitchen and bathroom doors shut when steam is present, fitting
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Duck hunting season approaches Duck hunting season is just around the corner so many hunters around the region are gearing up and getting their maimai’s in order for the season kick off on May 1.
with your mates before the season starts. Pattern your shotgun – get to know the ammunition and chokes you are using, practice your calling – make sure you know what you are doing with your duck call and practice with your dog – reinforce the basic commands and have a refresher on retrieving.
But with any sport it is always important to get a bit of a refresher on some of the rules and regulations and also some handy tips to get the most out of the season. The first thing to make sure of is that you have your ‘must have’ things which is a game bird hunting licence, a regulations booklet (that applies to your region), and that you are using non-toxic ammunition, (no lead based ammunition). Licences can be bought
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By Andrew Hoggard, President Federated Farmers
Last week two eminently sensible and positive changes to taxation law slipped through almost unnoticed – a welcome relief from the increasingly large pile
of unworkable legislative requirements swamping New Zealanders. Federated Farmers has been key in achieving these changes - working closely last year with Inland Revenue officials on achieving sensible and positive solutions. The most significant and beneficial change is in relation the treatment of goods donated for charitable purposes (technically “donated trading stock”). These changes will be a welcome relief for food banks and the like that rely heavily on donations of goods rather than money. COVID-19 has simply exemplified the importance of such organisations. Until the law was changed last week (backdated to March 2019) donors of trading stock, such as food to food banks and farmers donating livestock via such programmes as ‘Meat the Need’, were legally required to pay tax on the donated trading stock as if it had been sold at market value. That’s gone now. The changes have safeguards in place to ensure they are
genuine donations. Federated Farmers were instrumental in identifying the need to change the legislation as we observed the effects of COVID-19 on urban families and our farmers reached out to help those in need. The second change was to ensure some of the farmers whose cattle were culled as part of the programme to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis would not be unfairly required to pay tax on unearned income. After working constructively with Inland Revenue, the Tax Bill made retrospective changes to the Income Tax Act that will allow farmers to spread the book income generated over six years thereby making sure that tax legislation did not make then worse off. Meat the Need is a charity created in 2020 with the purpose of supplying much-needed meat to City Missions and food banks. Farmers are encouraged to donate livestock (beef, sheep, lamb or deer) via the Meat the Need website (meattheneed.org), or via simply contacting the stock agents of the
charity’s founding partner, Silver Fern Farms. The value of sheep, deer and cattle donations is credited to Meat the Need’s ‘food fund’ and converted into purchase of 500g packets of quality minced red meat to distribute via foodbanks when it is needed. This spreads supply over the year for foodbanks, taking their minds off finding food and getting back to doing the great social work they carry out. The charity’s target this year is to receive 2000 donated animals and with the current count at around 770, there is still a need for more donations. As the charity’s co-founder Wayne Langford told farmers recently: “Donating an animal or two now is crucial in helping us do what we do. You’ll be making a big difference to those most vulnerable in our communities. Providing food is at the core of what farmers do.” You don’t have to be a farmer to donate to Meat the Need. For details go to www. meattheneed.org
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St Peter’s School will open its farm doors on Saturday. Owl Farm, which is just out of Cambridge, and owned by the school, is a fully operational dairy farm. The open day will “let people get up close to the action”, demonstration manager Jo Sheridan says. “People wanting a fun day out that doesn’t break the bank won’t need to look far. The open say will mark the first day of the
school holidays. Last year the farm team didn’t get the chance to run their annual open day as a result of the Covid outbreak. “If you live in town you may not get the chance to go on a dairy farm and see how it works,” Jo Sheridan said. “It’s a really cool chance for kids to experience what it is like to be on farm. “And if you are curious about what we do here on Owl Farm, now is your opportunity
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to take a look.” “The farm team have organised activities for people to see and do, like patting the friendly calves, watching the cows being milked, checking out the farm’s wetland area, and finding out how dairy farmers produce the top-quality milk we pour on our cereal in the morning.” Owl Farm partners including Lincoln University, Ballance Agri-Nutrients, Westpac and PGG Wrightson Seeds will be on hand
to share their expertise on what it takes to run a top-performing farm. Fonterra Farm Source is lending a milk tanker for people to have a look at, and DairyNZ will have “Rosie the Cow” to entertain children. St Peter’s students will be sharing their experiences of learning on the farm. The open day will run from 10am to 2pm on Saturday on Hanlin Rd, behind St Peter’s School.
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By Chris Lewis, Federated Farmers national board member
With the developing and serious workforce shortage on dairy farms top of mind, Federated Farmers and DairyNZ have combined to put the case to government for 500 migrant staff to be allowed into New Zealand to head off critical animal and human welfare issues. A survey conducted by our two organisations last month drew 1150 responses in just one week. Results told us that 49% of dairy farmer respondents were currently short-staffed; 46% had vacancies unfilled for more than three months and nearly a quarter had been unable to fill a gap on their team for more than six months. We’ve strongly made the point that we share the government’s desire to have more Kiwis working in our industry, given it is part of the backbone of our economy and New Zealanders’ standard of living. Our sector has launched Go Dairy and Good Boss campaigns; we have a comprehensive Sustainable Dairying: Workplace Action Plan and many farmers have made changes to rosters and other work conditions to retain staff and attract newcomers. The March survey showed 65% had increased salaries and wages, 42% had adjusted rosters to allow more time off and 36% were boosting efforts on upskilling and training staff. But we’ve also advised the government the simple fact is mid to high-skilled dairy farm roles must be undertaken by suitably skilled people who have the necessary ability, knowledge and competence to ensure good animal welfare and health outcomes, safe plant and machinery operation and pasture and environmental system management. This typically requires a minimum of 2-3
An agroforestry venture which plans to become the country’s leading egg production site opens today in the South Waikato. Better Eggs Chief Executive Gareth van der Heyden said the 139ha free range farm is a venture combining forestry and poultry enterprise. Over the next five years it is planned to make the farm home to 320,000 laying hens free ranging in the forest’s 90,000 native and exotic trees with eight laying sheds. The site will produce eggs under the Heyden Farms Free Range brand for egg producer and supplier Better Eggs Limited. Eggs are transported from the nesting boxes via conveyor belts to a robot that packs them into trays and pallets which are collected by trucks for delivery to the existing grading and distribution facility nearby in Lichfield. The forest farm will open with 20,000 hens.
When fully developed it will employ around 15 people. Mr van der Heyden said the land for the forest farm was purchased in early 2018 and the first shed was completed in late 2020. The second shed is scheduled to be completed in 2022 and tree planting for shed three will get underway in September 2021.
Chris Lewis years’ experience - longer for more senior roles. New Zealanders from outside the sector or in lower-skilled roles (dairy farm assistants) cannot reach this level of competence in time for the upcoming 2021/22 season. We need more migrant workers if we’re to maintain production and the export revenue New Zealand depends upon. The proposed trans-Tasman travel bubble is tipped to ease pressure on MIQ (managed isolation quarantine) places. This may open wider the window of opportunity for the government to meet our sector’s pressing need. Meanwhile, take a bow all you farmers out there who are getting on with the workload short-staffed, making all efforts to retain existing staff, and taking a close look at pay, rosters, accommodation, training and all the rest to make a career in dairy even more attractive and fulfilling.
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Reds lose away Te Awamutu was beaten 2-1 at Ngaruawahia in their WaiBop championship encounter last weekend. The reds host Te Puke on Saturday in a match whichnpits two teams with a ne win, two loss record. Cambridge and Tokoroa top championship the table and meet this weekend in Cambridge. Ōtorohanga and Huntly battled out a 2-2 draw in the Premiership on Saturday, leaving both clubs mid-table with a win, loss and draw from three matches. Taupō have set the pace in the competition with three straight wins.
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