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Hazel plans next campaign

By Blair Voorend

Hazel Barnes (pictured right) has spent almost two decades as a Waipā District Councillor – now she is planning to take on a different challenge.

The outspoken octogenarian, who revealed she planned to stand down in 2022 last month, plans to stand for the Te Awamutu Community Board.

“I had been thinking about leaving for a little while now,” Hazel said.

“I actually realised that councils were starting to change their thinking and that the role was moving more into a management type of position and I’m not into that.

“I’m a people person and my interest is working with the people and the community, so I’ll try to get on the local community board because that’s the area and the work I want to be doing.”

She said that the change to council and how it works is necessary and the best way forward for the region but that it just wasn’t for her anymore.

“I’ve felt over my time I’ve been able to bring a view from our people’s eyes and keep a very important view on how certain decisions will impact the community.”

Over the last 30 years, Hazel has kept her connection with the community, making significant contributions to the Waipā community and helping revitalise her hometown of Kihikihi.

Upon her initial election, she established a committee of volunteers dedicated to reviving Kihikihi and her efforts have led to a variety of restoration projects in the town with Kihikihi Domain one of her proudest achievements.

“The work the community did to the Domain was amazing,” she said.

“Taking it from a cow paddock to the international

equestrian centre we have now is quite an achievement especially when you consider the volunteer work that was put into it and the hundreds of thousands of dollars that council saved.”

Her work hasn’t gone unnoticed. She was awarded a Queen’s Service Medal last year for service to local government and the community.

Her work hasn’t been limited to the Waipā region.

Hazel was a founding member of the Waikato Asthma Society, the Waikato Counterstroke organisation, and the Waikato Equestrian Centre – and served those three organisations for a combined total of 40 years.

She also worked as a nurse for 13 years and as a social worker for 15 years.

And was an executive member of the Hamilton Rehabilitation Association for seven years and a Trustee of the Trust Bank Waikato Community Trust Board for four years.

On top of that she has also been an active Justice of the Peace for 29 years and is the current President of the Te Awamutu Grey Power organisation.

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But for the second oldest of five children born at Arapuni Hospital to a farming family she feels that her life has been the impact for her work, whether from working with the older generation to young families and young mums.

Hazel lost her husband when he was just 41 – the couple had three children.

“I’ve worked in the community with all kinds of people and have really focused my work on those who need it and to be able to work directly with those in our community gives me great pleasure.”

Although Hazel would be 83 by the time her term ends at next year’s elections, she has no plans to slow down soon.

“Recently I had to stay home for a little bit for health reasons and the only thing I thought was that I would just go mad if I stayed doing this, so I have to keep going and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.”

Waipā’s communications and engagement team, from left, Debbie Lascelles, Regan Schoultz, Natalia Pepperell, Karen Cousins and Charlotte FitzPatrick

Letters…

A campaign which challenged the Waipā communities to engage with their district Māori wards council picked up medals at the country’s Waipā District Council already has a Māori premier public relations award ceremony council costing thousands, and cites the last week. treaty as to why they have it. Our council is The ‘Deciding on the future of Waipā’s deceitful - they want this, the community premier parks’ campaign combined concept was not made aware of it and they use plans in Cambridge and Te Awamutu - Lake this so called partnership in the treaty as Te Koo Utu and Memorial Park. their authority. There is no such thing in It won silver medals for most innovative the treaty nor consultation. Now they are campaign and community relations and going along with this racist Māori ward. engagement and a bronze for experiential Maori have exactly the same access to voting and activation. and standing for council and submitting to Another campaign ‘Smart water council plans, so why this extra council of management through Waipā’s worst 13? New Zealand gave South Africa a hard drought’ also picked up silver medals for time for separatism and now this council is issues, crisis or reputation management and on the Mahuta bandwagon. community relations and engagement.

Bernie Fynn Communications and Engagement Te Awamutu manager Charlotte FitzPatrick said she was

thrilled her team was recognised by their peers at the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) awards.

“It goes without saying that the two concept plans have been challenging for the communications team at times so it’s great to get a pat on the back and acknowledgement of work well done to engage our communities in local government decision making,” she said.

The water management campaign included the work done on the Cambridge Road detour during a drought and while a new pipeline was being installed.

The PRINZ Awards recognise excellence, promote continuous improvement, and showcase the outstanding work achieved by public relations and communications management professionals in New Zealand across all industries and sectors.

On the beat Cyber bullying: what to do with Ryan Fleming

Cyber Bullying is an issue that is becoming more prevalent as society tries to navigate the ever-growing online world. I for one am very pleased social media wasn’t around when I was at high school.

Online bullying is particularly insidious because the victim is subjected to bullying 24 hours a day.

Cyber bullying involves posting or sharing harmful or false content about someone in order to humiliate them, inciting the victim to harm themselves or sharing personal information.

Inciting someone to commit suicide is

a criminal act under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 and is punishable by a term of imprisonment. Cyber bullying has the potential to have long lasting effects, for example, future job opportunities in the case of misinformation.

There are ways to keep yourself and your children safe from cyber bullying.

Save the messages as evidence. Do not delete them, take screenshots if necessary.

Report cyber bullying to www.netsafe.org.nz Most social networking sites have a function to report harmful activity.

Familiarise yourself with these functions.

Talk to your children about cyber bullying.

Keeping the traditional lines of communication open can really help circumvent issues that arise from bullying. On the Netsafe website there are excellent tools for helping the whole family keep safe. The Family Safe Online Treaty and Online Safety Parent Toolkit.

If you see online bullying, don’t just stay silent, report it. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.

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Briefs…

Fly tipping

Visitors to Te Kuiti’s Mangaokewa Reserve are being asked to report fly tipping, vandalism and suspicious behaviour because of persistent damage and dumping there. The reserve is a sacred site for Ngāti Rora hapū and caves there were historically used as the final resting place for tīpuna.

Correction

In last week’s coverage of the Māori ward decisions by councils and the reaction to it, we quoted Te Whakakitenga o Waikato Chair Parekawhia McLean.

The article contained an incorrect reference to her and we apologise for the error.

Trees chopped

Two wattles were removed by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency on Monday at the State Highway 1 site on the southern edge of Hamilton where two fallen trees in 12 hours cause significant traffic disruptions and power cuts.

New sponsor

Foster Construction Group has been named as the new primary sponsor for the Waikato Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Business Awards which opened for entries this week. Westpac has sponsored the glamour event for 21 years.

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Call to resize council Waipā District Council has too many elected members and should reduce the numbers to attract people with the skill sets the district needs.

The call comes from Susan O’Regan, who chairs the council’s Strategic Planning and Policy Committee, and was one of 14 elected officials who considered 1505 submissions to the council’s LongTerm Plan over four days last month.

She says having a mayor, 13 ward councillors and 11 community board members for a district population of 56,200 people is too many. Add in central and regional representatives and Waipā is “over-governed”, she says.

In contrast, Hamilton has a mayor and 12 councillors for a population of 169,300 people.

Chairing the committee was a mammoth job for the 49-year-old former barrister who was brought up to value public service and service to the community. She is the only daughter of the late Katherine O’Regan who was the first woman elected to the Waipa County Council and who then went on to be a Member of Parliament for 15 years.

In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with The News, Susan O’Regan spoke of her political ambitions, life on an award-winning farm with husband John Hayward and being the mother of a blended family of five aged from six to 21.

The two-term councillor represents just over 4000 residents in the sprawling rural Kakepuku ward which surrounds Te Awamutu on all sides and shares boundaries with both the Pirongia and Maungatautari wards.

“There are too many elected members. I’d prefer to see that number reduced in Waipā and would like to see us do a bit of work around actively reducing the numbers.”

Waipā has a pool of $470,016 a year from the Remuneration Authority to allocate to its elected members. Fewer elected members would result in higher salaries for individuals.

“Hopefully, we can attract the people with skill sets we need rather than people with time on their hands and who have passive incomes.”

O’Regan concedes she is in a privileged position where her husband can accommodate for her when she is on council business.

But most councillors must forgo having a full-time job because of the time demands and that results in a council that is not reflective of society, she says.

“We have meetings every Tuesday. It doesn’t lend itself to being an option for a lot of people.

“I’d like the membership around our table to be like our streets,” she says.

Mayor Jim Mylchreest gets $135,500, deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk $43,335, four committee chairs, including O’Regan, $40,001 each and councillors

Susan O’Regan wants to see some active work carried out to cut councillor and board numbers in Waipā. $33,334. Chairs of Cambridge and Te Awamutu community boards get $18,778 and $18,132 and members $9389 and $9066.

By comparison, Hamilton mayor Paula Southgate gets $174,500 and committee chairs $101,700.

The last review of councillor numbers was held in 2018 and resulted in an additional representative for Cambridge. Another review will be required to accommodate the new Māori ward for next year’s local government elections.

• Mary Anne Gill talks to Susan O’Regan – see page 8.

A further two deaths on the stretch of road which the Government cut from Waikato Expressway extensions has further fuelled calls for the Karapiro section to be upgraded.

Four people died in three crashes on Waipā roads in the eight days, including two following an early morning crash last Friday on State Highway 1 at Karapiro.

Two people in a car died at the scene of the crash involving a truck. The other fatal crashes were on Kakaramea Rd just north of the Pirongia Golf Club and on Ōhaupō Road near Te Awamutu both last Thursday.

Waikato Chamber of Commerce chief executive

Don Good said the Piarere crash was a tragedy that should never have happened.

“The Waikato Chamber of Commerce has been campaigning for several years to get the government to reinstate and complete the Cambridge to Piarere section of the Waikato Expressway,” he said.

He said the government call four years ago to cancel the C2P Expressway extension project and redirect funds into Auckland projects that might save commuters 10 minutes had resulted in deaths.

“Politicians need to be held to account.”

Waikato MP Tim van de Molen and National Spokesperson for Transport Michael Woodhouse will address a public meeting at the Karapiro

Taotaoroa Settlers Hall on June 14 on the issue. The meeting will start at 5.30pm.

When the project was canned in 2018 more than $4 million had been spent on preparatory work, which involved consulting landowners.

At the time, Hamilton based Labour MP Jamie Strange said the change shifted funds from the Waikato Expressway and other Roads of National Significance to areas such as road safety improvements, rail, coastal shipping and public transport.

He was confident a roundabout and median barriers for the Piarere stretch would result in significant safety improvements.

By Mary Anne Gill

Expressway demands get louder

More land opened for development

Waipā District Council has designated 201 hectares of industrial land for development to keep up with projected population growth and demand.

Council’s district growth and regulatory group manager Wayne Allan said there was a steady flow of enquiries for new commercial and industrial land in Waipā. The district was ready and able to respond positively, he said.

“Through the Waipā 2050 Growth Strategy, we have provision for 201 hectares of industrial zoning, located in Hautapu and Te Awamutu.

We anticipate these new industrial areas will be quickly snapped up by developers when

they are made available for purchase.”

Council has been investing heavily in three waters infrastructure (water, wastewater and stormwater) to and from the newest industrial areas in Hautapu, known as C8, C9 and C10. Transportation projects include the recently completed first stage of the walkway/ cycleway to Hannon Road.

New roundabouts and road upgrades are planned for the near future.

Although earmarked for development in 2035, the C10 growth cell has already seen some early development take place with the new APL building. The rest of the growth cell

is expected to be developed after 2035.

“Ensuring we have great industrial areas and a commercial overlay in our new developments provides economic and employment opportunities for residents to the area. Ideally, we would love to see these new residents not only live, but work and play in the district as well,” Allan said.

The responsibility to provide the main three waters infrastructure and local roads for new developments sits with the Council, which wants growth cells to be developed in a staged way.

“By taking a prudent, staged approach

to development we’re making sure land developers pay their fair share, reducing the burden for expensive infrastructure on ratepayers.”

Once water and transportation infrastructure is in place, developments are able to proceed.

Developers are then responsible for developing the land and infrastructure within in based on the relevant structure plan.

Waipā has seen a population boom over recent years, with the highest population projections looking to reach nearly 92,000 residents by 2061.

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Just over 1500 submissions were received on Waipā District Council’s ’s draft 20212031 Long Term Plan, the Council’s most important planning tool for setting direction, projects, services and budgets.

A total of 65 submitters and delegations spoke to their submissions last week.

Councillors then deliberated on the big issues impacting Waipā and other concerns raised by the community in their submissions.

Waipā District Council went out to the community with a proposed 1.8 per cent average annual rates increase over the next 10 years, starting with 4.1 per cent in 2021/2022.

Budgets were reworked at an extraordinary Strategic Planning and Policy committee meeting last month and councillors landing on a revised average (after growth) rates increase in 2021/2022 of 4.6 per cent and an average over the next 10 years of 2.2% (was 1.8%).

Mayor Jim Mylchreest said community projects have been the real winner.

“We’ve made relatively small changes to the budget for big community gains,” he said. “The changes made highlight the value of the consultation process.”

Mayor Mylchreest said Council staff and elected members participated in over 30 meetings, on-street pop-ups, presentations and park tours. This included a new ‘Speed dating with your councillors’ event, coffee with the mayor, activations at our three largest high schools, and tours of Lake Te Koo Utu and Te Awamutu’s Memorial Park.

In addition to events and meetings, Council carried out a multi-channel campaign using social media, digital platforms, an eNewsletter, advertising, videos, podcasts, and other promotional material.

Council will meet to adopt the 2021-2031 Long Term Plan on June 29.

What’s in and what’s out of the 2021-2031 Long Term Plan?

• Pirongia – Ngāroto-Te Awamutu Cycling Connection $3,275,832 to construct section two of the mostly off road cycle way via Macky Access.

• Urban Mobility Network $10,920,120 with $5,569,261 funded by Waka Kotahi (NZTA) to build a network of cycling routes in Cambridge and Te Awamutu.

• Lake Te Koo Utu $5,855,892 (with $4,049,340 funded by asset sales) to fully implement the concept plan.

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• Memorial Park, Te Awamutu A scaled down concept plan will be implemented to a value of $5,075,500 rather than the proposed $9,040,450.

• Resource Recovery Centre Budget has been allocated to purchase or lease an existing site to set up a resource recovery centre partnering with a community organisation, charitable group

or iwi partner.

• Te Ara Wai Lease costs for the site purchased for Te Ara Wai at 244 Arawata Street, Te Awamutu of $123,500 excluding GST per annum.

• Cambridge Town Hall $120,000 of operating costs in year one for the Cambridge Town Hall Community Trust, which will be used for catch-up repairs and maintenance to make the Town Hall a more presentable facility, contract resourcing and associated marketing focussed on activation of the facility, and initial community engagement and consultation on potential future uses and development of the Town Hall.

• Kihikihi Town Clock $70,500, being a combination of new funding and existing property budgets, has been dedicated to repair the Kihikihi Town Clock in year 1.

• Skate parks $120,000 in year one for site identification, feasibility, geotechnical advice and concept design for skate parks across the district. Then $1,730,000 for construction and redevelopment of skate parks in year two across the district.

• Kihikihi Community Centre $50,000 for a feasibility study to develop a community centre in Kihikihi in year two.

• Kihikihi Domain $50,000 for a feasibility study for a sports centre at Kihikihi Domain in year three, and $30,000 for a master plan for Kihikihi Domain in year three. $40,000 will also be provided for administrative resource for the Kihikihi Domain once an agreed plan is in place, but no earlier than year two.

• Cambridge Racquets Club $25,000 for court renewals at the Cambridge Racquet Club.

• Leamington Domain $25,000 to prepare a Leamington Domain Masterplan in year two.

• Kihikihi Police House Temple Cottage Trust A $1000 grant to be paid to the Kihikihi Police House Temple Cottage Trust for each year over the next 10 years.

• Sport Waikato Ongoing contribution of $11,850 to fund the Sport Waikato regional active spaces plan.

• John Kerkhof Park, Cambridge $600,000 capital expenditure in year two for sports field development at John Kerkhof Park, Vogel Street, Cambridge, and $80,000 in maintenance costs per annum from year three.

• Cambridge Library No budget has been allocated for a new library in Cambridge.

• Cambridge third bridge Council will complete a Transportation Strategy this month. If this indicates the need to move at pace and identify a third crossing, Council will use funding from operating reserves to designate and acquire land for a third bridge.

Gathering feedback from the community

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Kihikihi plan unveiled

Waipā District Council will seek feedback on priority projects for Kihikihi, following a decision at the Council’s Strategic Planning & Policy Committee meeting this week.

Councillors voted unanimously to bring the draft urban development plan to residents, to help ensure projects are put forward for the 2024-34 Long Term Plan.

The draft Kihikihi Urban Development Plan will open for a four-week consultation period from the middle of this month and will include community and stakeholder meetings.

Council drew criticism during this year’s 2021-31 Long Term Plan (LTP) consultation for the lack of projects for Kihikihi.

Strategy Manager, Kirsty Downey said the draft urban development plan addressed a number of concerns raised during the LTP consultation.

“During the LTP hearings, we heard from the Kihikihi Resident & Ratepayers Association about a number of key concerns including heavy traffic speeds, improving parking around the school, creating safe connecting pathways, playgrounds and improvements at Kihikihi Domain,” Downey said.

“I trust that the community will be pleased to see these are included in the urban development plan, so it will now be a matter of prioritising these so we can allocate budgets and get some of these underway.”

The draft urban development plan includes key topics such as Open Spaces,

Movement, Recreation & Play, Village Centre, and recommends improvements at a number of neighbourhood reserves, including Turata, recently corrected after a historic spelling error saw it named RataTu for decades.

The draft plan was initially planned to be brought to the committee for adoption last year so projects could be included in this year’s Long Term Plan for budgeting but was delayed due to Covid-19 and to seek further input from mana whenua.

With feedback from mana whenua included, the plan will now be presented back to the community for prioritisation.

Feedback from the community in 2017 indicated there was a strong appetite to share the town’s Māori and European history through both the Waikato Wars and the New Zealand Land Wars. Two significant battles occurred nearby in Rangiaowhia and Ōrākau in 1864 which decimated the community and dramatically changed the village’s landscape.

One prominent feature in the village’s landscape - the Kihikihi Domain - which regularly hosts international events, was also highlighted as an opportunity for improvement by residents.

Sharing the village’s history and putting together a cohesive plan for the Domain’s future are both included in the draft plan.

Residents will be able to provide feedback when consultation opens at the Council website www.waipadc.govt.nz/ haveyoursay or in person at a Council office in Te Awamutu or Cambridge.

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Spotlight on prostate cancer

By Viv Posselt

National Party deputy leader Dr Shane Reti says men battling prostate cancer should talk openly about it and it is time the disease was as much in the public eye as melanoma.

Dr Reti was speaking at a public gathering last week organised at Te Awa Lifecare Village by the Cambridge Prostate Cancer Support Group. Present were prostate cancer sufferers and their families, medical professionals, representatives of the Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ, and Taupo MP Louise Upston.

As well as holding the position of National Party deputy leader, Dr Reti is National’s spokesman for health and is a practising GP in Whangārei.

Attendees heard some startling facts around prostate cancer. It is the most common cancer among Kiwi men, with one in eight developing it in their lifetime.

Ten are diagnosed daily and over 3500 diagnosed annually, putting it on a par with breast cancer diagnosis levels.

Over 60 percent of prostate cancer survivors reported no symptoms at the time they were diagnosed. Testing for the disease is via an initial blood test (PSA test) and a digital rectal examination (DRE).

Dr Reti said all men over the age of 40 have a prostate that is enlarging as a natural process.

Shane Reti, second from right, pictured with from left, Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ CEO Peter Dickens, Taupo MP Louise Upston, foundation national support/education manager Raewyn Paviour, and Cambridge Support Group co-ordinator Ron Greenwood.

In most cases, it will continue doing that without causing problems, but in some, the prostate will become cancerous.

The risk of that occurring is greater where close relatives have been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Dr Reti urged men to be more proactive in talking about the disease.

“If you have a prostate story, tell other men about it. You’re doing them a favour. It is also important to ask your doctor for a blood test as part of a regular check-up … it might save your life. We also need to advocate more proactively for education and funding around prostate cancer. Melanoma is in front of us all the time… we need to treat prostate cancer in the same way and give it more prominence.”

There should be increased lobbying for regular prostate

cancer screening to be made available to every man in New Zealand over the age of 50, said Dr Reti.

“My recommendation would be for us to have a national screening programme for prostate cancer. New Zealand has decided not to do that … part of the reason is cost efficiency.

There are certain criteria to be met and the ministry keeps looking at it, but sometimes I have concerns that the cost efficiency part of it is trumping the other parts.”

He said other countries had a policy where there was a national screening programme for prostate cancer – some aimed at over-60s – and urged primary care doctors in New Zealand to petition government to introduce a similar programme here. “That is how we will achieve better outcomes.”

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Focus on…Susan O’Regan

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Watching the Waipā District Council Long-Term Plan deliberations, senior writer Mary Anne Gill was impressed at how councillor Susan O’Regan chaired the meetings, so she decided to find out more about the woman whose political pedigree runs through her veins.

Susan O’Regan was 12 when her mother first entered Parliament as MP for Waipā in 1984.

When we meet at her Judge Valley Dairies farm, midway between Te Awamutu and Cambridge, it is two days after what would have been Katherine O’Regan’s 75th birthday and her only daughter says how much she misses her and reflects on their similar paths.

The previous week Susan, 49 and husband John Hayward were in Wellington meeting Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and Environment Minister David Parker on the fifth floor of the Beehive. When her mother was a minister in the fourth National Government, her office was on the floor below and Susan was a regular visitor before taking on a job working in Murray McCully’s office.

So, it is an obvious question to ask. Had Susan ever thought about standing for Parliament herself?

She considers her answer carefully in a way which makes her an obvious politician - and she recalls the times her mother was away from their Te Awamutu home.

The life of a politician is one of sacrifice, it can take a toll on families and marriages, she says.

“I love politics because it’s about people.

It’s not just a decision ‘selfish’ Susan has to make. But never say never. My background and my experience as a child was very formative. That whole desire to serve, see a problem, want to fix it, that runs deep. The

answer to that is I don’t know.”

Eight years ago, she was asked to consider throwing her hat into the ring when Shane Ardern stood down in the Taranaki-King Country seat. The decision was made for her when she became pregnant with youngest child Jack. The couple have a blended family of five children - Emily, the oldest at 21, works on the farm, George and Ben away at university and Lily and Jack who both attend Puahue School.

Susan’s first foray into politics came in 2016 when she was elected to Waipā District Council in the Kakepuku Ward.

“She had to do something, she’s a talented lady, she can’t be sitting here listening to me all the time,” says John.

Susan, who studied Law and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in political studies at Otago University, had been a practising barrister in Te Awamutu specialising in family law.

“When I had Lily, who is now 11, it seemed wrong to put her into daycare and rush off to look after other people’s children.

My primary role was to grow the best human being I could.

“I feel passionately about public service and service to your community. That’s the ethos I was brought up with. When you see a problem, you say what skills do I have or how can I help in this situation, or how can I help fix it? It’s just the way I was brought up.”

Susan and John have won a clutch of environmental awards for their 240 ha Judge Valley Dairies farm. When they first moved onto the farm 13 years ago, they decided to

identify unproductive areas. They fenced their waterways, planted about 30,000 native trees and regenerated wetlands. They now have 380 dairy cows producing more milk per cow than most dairy farms around. They grow nothing for cultivation so as not to upset the soil but do grow 26ha of maize feed.

They have no intention of resting on the laurels of their award-winning farm and are constantly looking at ways to innovate while still being sustainable.

“I think in New Zealand, before we look at climate change, we should be looking at efficiencies. We should be looking at waste,” says John who gives the example of the truckloads of kiwifruit he regularly feeds their cows.

The kiwifruit comes from Bay of Plenty where it has been rejected for export but is perfectly fine to feed cows. It is “crazy good feed”, he says. “Perfectly fine kiwifruit, just not the right shape. Look at the water, the nutrients and everything that’s gone into developing that kiwifruit, and then it’s waste.”

It gives the cows more energy but for John and Susan, it is more about building a sustainable farm through effective use of waste.

After a learning term on the council, Susan stood again in 2019 and was appointed Strategic Planning and Policy Committee chair. The committee oversees the development and implementation of liveable spaces with a focus on promotion of the district’s social, economic, environmental

and cultural wellbeing. It develops and implements council’s plans, bylaws, strategies and policies.

Susan missed the Long-Term deliberations three years ago as they occurred the same week her mother died. She chaired the Annual Plan hearings last year via Zoom, but the Long-Term Plan deliberations were her first of such magnitude.

Held over four days and comprising 1505 submissions, the hearings determined council’s priorities for the next 10 years.

One issue, the concept plan for Te Awamutu Memorial Park, attracted significant debate and hundreds of abusive and vicious comments on social media.

Susan was furious and at the April committee meeting she calmly but forcefully gave a massive serve to the members of public who had subjected staff to online and personal abuse.

She read out some of the comments and says she makes no apology for doing so despite the language used.

Susan was impressed with the passion showed by submitters during the May hearings.

“I tend to not be so moved by people who are not making as much money as they thought they might. Mine is about the human part of it and the connectivity. You’d have to be pretty cold-hearted to not have some of those resonate.”

She worries about the submissions the

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council did not get on social issues.

That is where she most resembles her mother.

“My mother always described herself as liberal in social issues but on economic issues she was conservative. She was a centrist and I don’t think I’d be too far from being in that space as well.”

A year out from the next local government elections, Susan is considering her future. One possibility is a return to family law. Another is running for mayor although that depends on what Mayor Jim Mylchreest wants to do.

“Yes, I would consider that and I’ve made no secret of that. But that’s kind of a tricky one too. I wouldn’t rule it out but it’s my understanding he intends to stand again. There are other members who I know have other aspirations but it’s a hard task to unseat a successful, popular and well-liked mayor.”

Susan admits she loves local government and considers herself well suited to it.

“There’s a lot of change coming and my sense of it is it’s a change into an area that I feel really comfortable in - play shaping, connectivity, communicating, breaking down barriers between decision makers and the community itself.

“I feel I have a lot of value in that space,” she says.

Few would argue with that given the way she guided the council through the Long-Term Plan process.

“It’s our contract with the district. It’s the reason we were there.”

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New developments are no longer required to provide minimum carparks.

Waipā Mayor Jim Mylchreest has made his views clear on a government directive on parking which he says “ultimately” leaves decisions with developers.

The directive compels his council to remove minimum carparking requirements.

“We’ve heard loud and clear that our communities want more car parks, not less, so we’ll certainly be looking at new developments so the developers can take parking needs into consideration.”

The carparking removal is one of the provisions identified through the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPSUD) which come into effect on July 23.

A Government website said the plan “is about ensuring New Zealand’s towns and cities are well-functioning urban environments that meet the changing needs of our diverse communities”.

It claims to remove overly restrictive barriers to development to allow growth ‘up’ and ‘out’ in locations that have good access to existing services, public transport networks and infrastructure.

Mr Mylchreest said the nationwide direction to remove minimum carparking across all zones from the District Plan meant leaving the decision up to developers and

could result in a complete lack of onsite carparking.

“We are required by central government to implement the NPSUD, whether or not we agree with the changes, and this is one that goes against what our local communities want,” he said.

It is expected that even with the minimum carpark requirements taken out, retail developments and service-based industries will still retain onsite carparks for their customers.

“Ultimately however, the decision will be made entirely by the developers.”

Waipā, along with all territorial authorities across New Zealand, has now removed policies, objectives, rules and assessment criteria from the District Plan that had the effect of requiring a minimum number of car parks.

The requirement for accessible carparks, parking dimensions, manoeuvring standards and other on-site traffic management methods such as parking for vehicles other than cars, loading bays, drop off areas, bus and bike parking are not affected and will remain in the District Plan.

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I called in to Countdown this afternoon and was reminded that soft plastics recycling is back up and running. This is commendable and full marks to Countdown for it.

I can see a couple of potential hurdles though.

The first, and this is easily fixed, is for people like me to stop being so useless and actually make use of the facility which is being offered. I have been saving soft plastics to bring in for a few weeks now.

The weak link is my memory. Every time I walk through the entrance; there it is, and I think “Doh! forgot the plastics again”. Here’s me - supposedly a greenie (I like to think I am) and I can’t even organise myself to bring the plastics, which I have gone to the trouble of separating and keeping, into the collection point. It’s a question of habit though, isn’t it? Once the habit is formed it will become normal and all will be well.

It’s a bit like when single use shopping bags were discontinued a while ago; we got used to it soon enough, even though it usually means transferring everything from the trolley to the back seat of the car and then into the house at the other end. In fact, now we don’t even use the bags they still provide for the fruit and vegetables.

It’s a little bit inconvenient but it does give an opportunity for some impromptu fruit and veg artwork on the conveyor at the checkout - usually smiley faces. And walking

around the supermarket, one can see evidence of things changing - I think more and more people are choosing less packaging - or am I just seeing what I want to see?

Which points to the second problem: The idea was a victim of its own success last time when there was simply too much to handle.

This time around, if enough people get on board actually to make a difference, it seems to me that the system might quickly be overwhelmed - again.

Imagine for a moment that the scheme is a roaring success and half of all the soft plastics which leave the supermarket with the groceries find their way back to the collection bin by the front door - the foyer would quickly become congested, and shoppers would have to fight their way through a mountain of plastic just to be able to get inside and buy some more!

The company which runs the scheme is planning to ramp up capacity as they add collection points across the country. Have a look at www.recycling.kiwi.nz for more on that. There’s information there about what can and can’t be included and it’s important to stick to that otherwise there’s the risk of contaminating the whole lot with a small amount of the wrong stuff.

Let’s hope both of these hurdles are just that, we’ll all do our bit, and the system won’t buckle under the strain.

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Tough start to leaf collection

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Bad weather and heavier than usual leaf fall have made for a difficult start to Council’s annual leaf collection service.

The service operates for 11 weeks from approximately May to July, and collects leaves from designated streets in Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Kihikihi that have fallen from Council owned street trees and protected trees into the adjacent properties.

Waipā District Council operations team leader Jennifer Braithwaite said contractors were facing much higher volumes this year than in previous years.

“This year’s leaf fall collection has been significant due to several

factors. Continuous wet and windy weather has caused much of the leaves to drop off the trees earlier in the season, which has made leaf collection extra challenging.

“Usually, trees lose their leaves simultaneously over a period of 10 to 12 weeks. This year however, the majority of trees have lost their leaves in a period of just three to four weeks which has resulted in a much larger collection loads.”

Braithwaite said with the recent improvement in weather, contractors had been able to make some headway in the collection.

“A build-up of leaves can block drains, cause slip hazards and make a mess of our roads. With the

excess leaf fall this year, our contractors are visiting more than 60 streets each week and working hard to keep on top of collection.”

Residents on collection streets, who have leaves from the street trees in their front yard, should put the leaves for collection in a pile on the berm, not in the kerb and channel as this can create blockages. Garden waste and sticks will not be collected.

Residents on non-collection streets need to dispose of their leaves by other means.

Leaves are collected weekly in Cambridge and Te Awamutu and fortnightly in Kihikihi. Collection maps are available online at www. waipadc.govt.nz/ourservices/leavescollection.

More trains coming Waikato Regional Council will roll out more Te Huia train services - and sooner - in response to public feedback on its long term plan.

It’s one of a number of decisions made during deliberations on the council’s 20212031 Long Term Plan, Mahere Whānui in Hamilton last week.

More than 80 per cent of all submissions were on the proposal to extend the new Waikato to Auckland passenger rail service.

Of those 1240 submissions, 95 per cent were in favour of improvements to the service.

Many wanted it to happen sooner than the

proposed 2023/24 timeframe.

Councillors decided an inter-peak service will be trialled for 12 months, starting in December 2021 at the earliest. That is due to lead in times to complete the required work to implement the service, including confirmation of the operating cost, 75.5 per cent government subsidy and timetable.

Councillors also approved an extension of Saturday Te Huia services to The Strand in Auckland’s CBD for an annual cost of $10,000. A start date for the extended service is to be confirmed, pending completion of the necessary operational requirements.

Kuriger on offensive

Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger has accused Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor of living in an alternate reality – “and that’s a problem as it’s affecting Rural New Zealand and its communities badly”.

“One of his most recent statements in the media — that dairy farmers needed to do more to attract workers — is so out of touch,” she said.

“For months now, industry groups around the country have been telling him and the Government about the need to open the

borders and MIQ spaces to help fill the desperate shortage of skilled workers.

“The operative word here is ‘skilled’. It includes dairy, rural contractors, agri-business, red meat, horticulture, wine, wool and shearing industries — and the extensive list goes on.

She said the Minister believed New Zealanders would rush to fill the vacancies, “while I, like most of us who operate and live in the real world know, that won’t happen, nor is a statement like that, helpful”.

She said the only clear

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Ōhaupō double at industry awards Two Ōhaupō farmers took top honours at the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.

Christopher Vila won Dairy Manager of the Year and Ruth Connolly was named the Dairy Trainee of the Year winner at the awards night.

Christopher is a farm manager on the JA BE Turnwald Family Trust 103.8ha farm, milking 341 cows in Ōhaupō.

He won just under $22,000 in prizes and also won the DeLaval Livestock Management merit award.

Dairy Manager Head Judge Malcolm Scott said Christopher managed to build a very strong relationship with his farm owners and family earning him a great deal of trust.

“Christopher is the first person the family has employed that is not a family member. Christopher has earned their trust and respect and is growing with this opportunity.”

“He’s on a farm that is like a goldfish bowl, surrounded by

50-odd houses and lifestyle blocks,” said fellow judge Gray Beagley from DairyNZ. “He understands the property is in the public eye and does everything on-farm to the absolute best of his ability.

“His attention-to-detail is outstanding and he wants to do everything very well.”

The judges describe Christopher as a humble, competent and passionate dairy farmer who sets high standards for himself and staff.

The Dairy Trainee Judges said there was only a whisker separating first, second and third places, and Ruth stood out in the practical and was outstanding in the interview sections of the awards.

Ruth is a farm assistant on the Rukuhia Holdings Ltd 259.6ha property at Ōhaupō, milking 800 cows.

“Ruth is passionate about dairy farming and is constantly pushing for perfection,” said Dairy Trainee head judge Tony

Christopher Vila built a strong relationship with his farm owners.

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The judges described Ruth as articulate, considered and concise with a broad understanding of different industry issues.

“Ruth has a huge love and respect for the cows, the land and the people,” judge Nicky Allomes said.

“She will lead by example and will bring people into the industry.”

Fellow judge James Courtman said Ruth’s passion for the dairy industry as well as her work ethic and trustworthiness were noted by the judges.

“She has an insatiable thirst for knowledge which, coupled with specific and high-reaching goals, which will stand her in good stead.”

Ruth Connolly is “constantly pushing for perfection”.

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Council approves homes scheme

A sustainable homes scheme called “different and visionary” will be rolled out by the Waikato Regional Council.

The plan, featured in the News earlier this year, will assist homeowners by making loans available to make sustainable improvements.

“Everyone deserves to have a warm, dry home,” chair Russ Rimmington said. “This programme will enable people to do that, and to make other improvements that will have really good social outcomes and be great for the environment too.”

Further work is required to develop the final scheme, which is expected to be launched in the latter half of the 2021-22 financial year.

Initially $5 million will be available and applications will be capped at $15,000.

The lending rate to homeowners will be 5.5 per cent over 10 years, to be paid through a voluntary targeted rate levied on individual properties from July 1.

A similar scheme operates in Hawke’s Bay. The council set is long term vision in concrete last week and settled on a 7.9 per cent rates increase to existing ratepayers in year one of the long term plan – 0.6 per cent more than proposed when the council opened for consultation on April 1.

For three-quarters of Waikato ratepayers, it’s an increase of less than $50 a year.

“This is on the back of a zero per cent increase in rates revenue from current ratepayers last year, which recognised the impact of Covid-19 on our communities,” Russ Rimmington said.

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government’s new Essential Freshwater regulations which makes up just over two per cent of the rates increase in year one.”

It would have been a rise of 8.4 per cent in year one if councillors had opted to bring forward the start of biodiversity work to the 2021-22 financial year.

“Our communities told us there is a biodiversity crisis so we should bring work to protect it forward a year. We wanted to do this too,” Cr Rimmington said.

“But we had a very good discussion about it, and at the end of the day we agreed to stick with the preferred option we consulted on. We need to see the detail of government direction on indigenous biodiversity first, but we’re poised to respond with a bold plan to increase biodiversity support from year two.”

Chief Executive Chris McLay said the council had stepped up its engagement

approach for this year’s long-term plan, which showed in the number and quality of submissions.

“Almost 1500 submissions were received by the council on our long-term plan proposals – an increase of 454 per cent on 2018. It’s clear from this that we’ve hit the topics right for the community and communicated them well.

“In many ways this is very much a business as usual long term plan, but there are meaty issues we have to get stuck into for the region,” Mr McLay said.

“It’s been a long journey to develop this 10-year plan and, while there’s still work to do, we’ve reached a major milestone this week.”

The budget decisions will be ratified at this month’s meeting of council when the longterm plan is adopted.

Titipounamu back on Maungatautari The country’s smallest native bird has a new home at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari (SMM) thanks to help from another mountain – Mt Pirongia.

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They will live in 3240 ha of native forest, protected by a 47km long pest-proof fence.

SMM Species Coordinator Janelle Ward said Titipounamu disappeared from Maungatautari and much of the Waikato, due to introduced predators.

“They were identified in our Restoration Plan as a key species to be returned to the maunga, with Pirongia and Pureora being the most suitable source sites.”

A total of 80 birds will be re-introduced to Maungatautari over the next few weeks, and then their progress monitored.

The catching process began with a karakia from Ngati Apakura and then teams set up mist nets at five sites on Pirongia maunga and used recorded Titipounamu song to entice the birds into the nets.

Catch team leaders from Tiritiri Matangi and the Hihi Conservation Trust led this work, and their experience was invaluable.

A group of Te Pahu School students were able to shadow the teams to see the whole process and saw firsthand the care taken with the birds.

Waipā District Councillor Clare St Pierre, the Chair of Pirongia Te Aroaro o Kahu Restoration Society, released one of the first Titipounamu at Maungatautari.

“This is the first species sourced from Pirongia to benefit another site. We’re incredibly proud that our mahi is delivering benefits across multiple species and that our neighbouring maunga is the recipient.

She said when pest control began on Pirongia Titipounamu were in very small numbers, in just a few pockets.

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THE AGE OF REASON

FAITH IN WAIPĀ

The benefit of villages

Talking about faith

The addition of another retirement village to be constructed in Cambridge will bring, when completed, the total to seven.

Lest we are confused as to what comprises a retirement village, please note that this is not the industry that is loosely described as rest homes. Those latter are generally for people of an age and physical condition where some state-supported medical or nursing care is provided, the residents generally are not publicly mobile and tend to stay withing the confines of the establishment that houses them.

Sadly, that leaves them open to unwanted entrants like the virus currently upon us. That more than two thirds of the 900 people who have died in Australia were in rest homes tells its own story.

Retirement villages are a whole different being. Generally, they operate as a set of dwellings of a high standard where the commercial arrangement sees those within not owning the house which envelops them.

They operate under an Occupation Rights Agreement where the bulk of the initial down payment to gain entry is returned at the end of their stay. The ‘end’ either arrives because they are deceased or are going onto some form of care.

One of the five Cambridge villages already in existence has an arrangement where the residents own their houses, but the building sits upon land owned by the company.

Further in all cases the residents contribute a weekly fee to pay for several services and administration activities. Fees vary but are not onerous. The village management provides a raft of activities and services, usually transport for local activities and needs and services that include gardening, window washing, house washing plus swimming and spa pools.

So why am I telling you this?

Last week I attended and addressed the annual conference in Auckland of the

Retirement Villages Association being the group that represents well over 80 percent of the 430-or-so operators of villages in New Zealand.

This was in my capacity as national president of the association that represents the residents in those villages. Like many industries that affect peoples’ lives there is a plethora of interface, correspondence and discussion ensuring that promises made are promises kept. Like all industries there are unfortunate occurrences that require highlighting and remediating. That said the bulk of operators – some of them with in excess of 30 villages - are fair-minded, caring and responsible. Some of them make large profits and in a small number of cases part of those gains find their way into the pockets of public shareholders.

The industry is a major employer. Upwards of 20,000 people earn their weekly income inside those villages and their associated administration areas. The sheer size of the industry saw, at last week’s conference, the beginning of a formal training scheme for village management to ensure a desired platform of professionalism, similar acceptable practices and a level playing field.

And in the case of Cambridge, just like the Avantidrome, the socio-economic spin-off from these establishments will be noticeable.

Not only the residents (which will total approximately 1,300) but also embracing the residential and retail purchasing needs of their staff members.

Such villages are becoming a welcome and energetic part of the fabric of residential society and Cambridge itself is to be congratulated as being perceived to be the home of the enterprises. Many of the residents are active in the wider community being both agile and mentally aware of their ability to contribute to society.

Following an illness or a surgical procedure we all have the hope or belief that the miracle called healing will take place – cut muscles or damaged skin and bones will be restored or renewed.

Belief is an acceptance that something is true, and this motivates us to act.

Imagine this scene: a military commander in charge of a hundred soldiers in an invaded country is so concerned about the health of one of his servants that he risks his reputation, even his career, to ask the help of an itinerant Jew who he has heard has been healing the sick.

He is even heard to say, “I am not worthy for you to come into my house – just say the word and he shall be healed.” Wow! What

Bunny Mortimer left an ever-growing legacy for the region she called home.

The determined tree conservationist, who has died aged 97, created the Taitua Arboretum at Temple View with her late husband John over many decades, eventually gifting the leafy haven to the city of Hamilton for perpetual public enjoyment.

Bunny and John were also founding donors for the Momentum Waikato Community Foundation and entrusted their Taitua endowment fund to the foundation’s care.

Momentum Waikato Development Director Janice Lapwood said Bunny and John were valued members of the Momentum whanau.

“Bunny was an incredibly unselfish person, she loved our planet and our people

and she showed this love in every inch of her heart,” says Janice.

“I will forever treasure the peach tree I propagated from a pip that Bunny gave me when I first started at Momentum Waikato – the tree is now over ten feet tall and is bearing fruit.”

Momentum’s founding Chair Ken Williamson also paid tribute.

“Each visitor stands in awe of the beauty of the Taitua Arboretum. But for those privileged to have met Bunny it was her manner, her kindness, her concern, and care for others that was truly beautiful. She led a humble life and gave far more than she ever received. She is now at peace with John.

“Kua hinga te tōtara i Te Waonui a Tāne.

Two great totara have fallen, but the forest remains. Forever.”

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an example of faith and belief. They are two sides of the same coin.

Where does today’s society put faith or belief? The advertising world is overwhelming us with products that want people to believe in their ‘power,’ for example, to make us look younger or slimmer or fitter or richer or… Do we have faith or belief in them?

The Christian faith is motivational, invitational and gives hope to beliefs that are proven both by time and experience by generations of people for the past two thousand years.

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Hopes alive despite loss Te Awamutu’s hopes of qualifying for the top four the Waikato premier rugby competition remain alive despite their latest lost to Hamilton Marist.

But losing to a team which had lost its previous two matches did not help on Saturday.

TA Sports fell to Hamilton Marist at both premier and reserve grade level last weekend. The seniors were beaten 33-12 and the reserves 25-10.

After three games in the eight-team comp Fraser Tech and Hautapu are leading the way with successive wins, followed

by Hamilton Old Boys, with two from three. Ōtorohanga, Marist, Melville and Te Awamutu all have a single win, leaving Morrinsville as the only team to record a win or a draw.

There will be no games over Queen’s Birthday Weekend.

The Championship remains a three horse rase – University,

Matamata and Leamington have all recorded three successive wins – the other five in the grade have two wins between them.

Matamata beat Pirongia 71-17, and University won 41-4 over Hinuera while Leamington also scored 41 points in a 4112 win over Suburbs. Ōhaupō and Southern battled to a 17-all draw in the other match in the Championship.

In Division 2 the only two Marist clubs in the Waikato clashed, with the Hamilton side running out 31-10 over Te Awamutu.

The game between teams second and third on the ladder was played in trying conditions with rain and wind at times and came down to which team handled them the better.

TA had plenty of opportunity when they went wide, causing Hamilton problems, but to Hamilton’s credit they

kept it tight with their experienced forward rolling up the field. The city side led 14-5 at the interval.

Turning with the wind in the second half TA tried to play an expansive game but, in the end, errors proved costly, and Hamilton was good value for the win.

Scott Sands had an excellent game for TA, both on defence and attack.

Hamilton Old Boys continued to run away with the competition, notching its seventh straight win, 63-5 over Kihikihi.

Old Boys’ senior women’s team is doing the same thing in the Gallagher premiership where Ōtorohanga and Kihikihi sit third and fourth. Old Boy’s latest win was a one-sided 114-0 win over bottom of the league Taupiri. Ōtorohanga won 60-0 over Southern on Saturday while Kihikihi won 25-14 at Putaruru.

out of the boat 12 times a day – but I really enjoyed being out on the water and having fun. And I was the one who stuck at it.”

He believes the discipline needed to learn music has served him well in canoeing.

“It takes a lot of dedication and patience to learn music and I think a lot of those skills transfer to sport,” he said.

Max thrives on the challenge of driving his body to its physical limits and believes canoeing is “one of the hardest things you can put yourself through”.

“Your legs are driving, your hips are twisting, you’re literally using every muscle in your body,” he said. “You’re just hurting.

Often you’ll vomit after the race, and you’ll be seeing stars.”

He was “super excited” to win selection for the Tokyo Olympics last year and then

men’s K1 1000m individual sprint at this year’s national championships and the K2 1000 two-person sprint with Kurtis.

“Obviously we want to do really well but we just literally have no idea how everyone’s going.

Everyone’s had different Covid circumstances and setbacks, so there are a lot of unknowns. But that’s actually really exciting.”

While he’d love to win a medal, his goal is just to “make the boat fly as fast as possible”.

“It’s been a ridiculous build up to go and race for 3.5 minutes; it’s a lot of work and years for a very small amount of time,” he said.

“So, I think the exciting part is trying to make sure you nail those 3.5 minutes so all those years were worth it.”

Max, who has just bought a house in Cambridge, said he felt instantly at home

Tutoring strikes a chord with future Olympian

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

Sign up for guitar or piano lessons at Cambridge Middle School and you might end up being tutored by a future Olympian.

Champion canoeist Max Brown moved to Cambridge in January 2018 when Canoe Racing New Zealand shifted its training base from Auckland to Lake Karapiro.

Since then, he has been putting his Bachelor of Music degree to good use, tutoring music students both privately and at Waipā schools while he prepares for the Tokyo Olympics.

His job teaching guitar and piano at Cambridge Middle School fits perfectly around his intensive training schedule and he loves it.

“Anna Johnson, who runs the music programme, is an absolute star and she really looks after me,” he said. “I would say her programme is second to none in New

Zealand for intermediate age groups.”

Max is also studying part-time towards a master’s degree in business management from the University of Waikato.

The driven 26-year-old was born and raised in Whanganui and grew up in an “amazing family” of music lovers. He began learning the electric guitar when he was 10 and later took up piano, mastering both instruments while at high school. In 2014 he moved to Wellington to study music at Victoria University.

The keen outdoorsman had discovered one of the other loves of his life – sprint canoeing – through the Whanganui Multisport Club at age 15.

“My friends were doing it on Saturdays, and they said come join us,” he said. “I was probably the worst... I was hopeless – I was falling

“gutted” when the games were postponed.

“I was pretty dark for two days, pretty despondent,” he said. “I thought, what’s the point in all this? But it comes back to perspectives.

I could have been in Italy sick with Covid. Other people had it much worse than I did. So, I just got on with it.”

This February he had to trial again for the Olympic team and was “just relieved” when his selection was confirmed last month.

He will be flying into Tokyo on July 8 and then heading to Komatsu to acclimatise to the heat and humidity before returning to the capital to race in the men’s K2 1000m canoe sprint with Kurtis Imrie, who is also based in Cambridge, on August 4 and 5.

“We haven’t raced any overseas teams since 2019,” said Max, who won the

Cambridge Middle School music tutor Max Brown is heading to the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: Hannah Fromont Photography.

when he arrived here three years ago.

“I posted on the Grapevine looking for students and had 55 messages within about four hours,” he said.

“From then on you could just feel the sense of community and everyone looking out for each other.”

Rookies take on the big guns

By Andy McGechan

It could truly be the “battle of the rookies” by the time the 2021 New Zealand Enduro Championships wrap up in the Wairarapa region in just a few weeks’ time.

Oparau’s James Scott and Napier-based former Wairoa man Tommy Watts are relative novices when it comes to enduro bike racing, but just a handful of races into their 2021 enduro campaigns, they have both been able to humble some of the established stars of the sport.

Round three of the Yamahasponsored series, another doubleheader, is scheduled for Moonshine Valley, near the Kapiti Coast, halfway between Porirua and Upper Hutt, over Queen’s Birthday Weekend, and Scott and Watts have now shown they will be a couple of riders worth watching out for.

Scott has even managed to put himself on the top step of the podium this season.

The talented 19-year-old, a fencing contractor during the week and motocross star at the weekends,

tackled his first enduro event just last year and it’s hard to believe he’s actually a rookie after seeing his recent results – at round one of the series near Tokoroa in early April and the double-header, two-day

second round in Marlborough three weeks later.

Scott (Honda), the 2021 national 250cc motocross No.2, finished fourth overall at round one of the enduro nationals near Tokoroa and

Oparau’s James Scott (Honda CRF450X), a motocross star on the charge for national enduro honours too. Photo: Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com

then, encouraged by that success, he headed south for the two-dayer in Marlborough.

Scott finished fifth overall on Saturday’s first of two days of racing in Marlborough, but then stunned everyone when he won day two outright, finishing 54 seconds overall ahead of Cambridge’s national enduro No.2 Dylan Yearbury (Husqvarna).

Yearbury had won the previous day and so these combined results gave Yearbury the overall win for the weekend, with Scott finishing runner-up and Helensville’s Tom Buxton (KTM) claiming third.

So, after two of five rounds thus far, Yearbury is in the No.1 position for the championship overall, with Buxton in second and Scott now holding onto third overall.

“I rode the enduro nationals last year just for fun, but now I can see I’m going well enough to take it more seriously,” said Scott.

“If I can keep my momentum up, I know I can do well in the enduro champs. It’s a great activity for my motocross off-season. It helps me to improve my skills and teaches me how to ride the more difficult

terrain (than motocross).”

As for fellow teenager Watts, he also comes from a motocross background, although cross-country racing could also be described as his forte, having won the New Zealand Cross-country Championships overall for the first time earlier this year.

The 19-year-old Watts scored his best enduro result, a third overall on the first of two days in Marlborough in April, but, because he crashed and failed to finish day two in Marlborough, he is currently positioned only 18th overall in the series.

Other riders to impress in the series thus far include Palmerston North’s Paul Whibley, Whanganui’s Seth Reardon, Taupo’s Wil Yeoman, Omihi’s Ethan McBreen and Tokoroa’s Jake Wightman, to name a few, and the battle for outright honours remains tight.

All rounds are counted towards the championship overall, but riders are to count only four of their five results in terms of capturing an individual class win, ensuring it will also be tight to the finish in the chase for bike class honours.

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Overcoming depression

JUNE 2021

– A WAIPĀ FARMER’S STORY

Marc Gascoigne – “You just want to sit at home by yourself, which is the worst thing that you can do.”

Marc Gascoigne remembers sitting at the kitchen table on his farm with a to-do list in front on him. He stayed there for 30 minutes staring at his list. He didn’t move.

The Cambridge farmer, who has worked in the Waikato since 1992, suffered depression and anxiety six years ago and is now taking proactive steps to protect his mental and physical wellbeing.

“My experience of depression was I just couldn’t think straight,” he says.

“I couldn’t make simple decisions.

I was so stressed and fatigued that my brain went into fight or flight mode. I wasn’t coping.”

Gascoigne is not alone. An ACCfunded study for Farmstrong shows 58 percent of recently injured farmers linked their accident to stress associated with farm work. A quarter of them said it was a major factor.

Exhaustion, lack of sleep, the stresses of farming, being isolated from friends and family, and being unable to take a break all add to the risks that a farmer or farm worker will have an accident, the research shows.

“My brain told my body that something was seriously wrong, and I was under attack, so it just shut

down. It was telling me that there was a threat to my life, and it took away all of my decision making. On the farm that is really dangerous because you have to make little decisions all day, every day.”

Gascoigne says with dealing with animals that weigh half a tonne and machinery, the farm is a high-risk environment, particularly if you are not thinking clearly.

He remembers one day when he could have seriously hurt himself.

He was herding his cows when one of them bolted from the herd. He took after her on his quadbike and flipped it on its side.

“It was bloody dangerous,” he says. “It was because I was stressed and fatigued, and I made a poor decision. I was bloody lucky. These days I’d just let her go and sit back and have a breather.”

He is sharing his story to help others who are in the same situation.

“I would never have talked about my depression six years ago,” he says. “I would have been horrified to share my story then, but I realise it’s important to tell people what you’re going through so they can help.”

Agriculture is New Zealand’s biggest export earner but it’s also

one of our most high-risk industries.

In 2020, there were 22,796 farmrelated injury claims accepted which came at a cost of $84 million to help people recover. That is over 60 farmers getting injured every day.

In all, ACC has spent more than $383 million on farm related injuries in the past five years, with the cost in 2020 the highest from this period.

In the past five years in Waikato there were 22,652 farm related injury claims accepted, with 4405 injuries occurring in 2020. This was the highest number for the past three years.

Waikato has had the highest number of farming related injuries in the past five years in New Zealand ahead of other prominent farming regions Canterbury (17,761), ManawatuWhanganui (10,641) and Otago (9659).

Farmstrong is a rural wellbeing initiative for farmers and growers to help them ‘live well to farm well’. It encourages farmers to share their stories and to look after themselves as well as they do their pasture and livestock.

In 2016 ACC became a strategic partner of Farmstrong, joining FMG and the Mental Health Foundation.

Last year ACC increased their

investment to $3.5 million over the next five years.

These days Gascoigne says he has two priorities for looking after his wellbeing – he exercises every day, and he prioritises connecting with people.

“I found that doing some exercise, getting out for a run or a cycle, really helped with my depression and just cleared my head,” he says.

“A lot of farmers will tell you that they simply don’t have time or the energy to do that sort of stuff. But I just found that that break gave me so much more energy and it needs to be a priority.”

Gascoigne says it is important to have an event to train for, or train with a group of mates so it gives the exercise more meaning and accountability.

He says you get into that sort of frame of mind, dealing with depression, you don’t feel like mixing with people.

“You just want to sit at home by yourself, which is the worst thing that you can do.”

These days he connects with as many people as he can every day.

“Everyday things like talking to the cashier in the supermarket. They always say ‘Hi, how’s your day

been?’ I used to think ‘man I don’t have time to talk about that with you’.

“Now I really make an effort and that improves my wellbeing and I have a better day. I recommend connecting with as many people as you can to improve your mental wellbeing.”

Gascoigne stressed the importance of taking time out, getting off the farm and having a break.

Virginia Burton-Konia ACC’s Head of Workplace Safety says all farmers need to prioritise their wellbeing as many injuries are preventable.

“Farmers spend their lives growing our food and milk and helping our economy, but they’re not great at looking after themselves,” says Burton-Konia.

“We are challenging all New Zealanders to have a Hmmm. It’s important for farmers, to take a moment to think about what they are about to do and think about what could go wrong to prevent injury.”

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doing. While many folks’ perception is one of hard work, it’s no different to any other job in the modern workplace in that it requires a mixture of skills.

A 2021 farmer requires the same amount of thinking, study, training, and hard work to be successful on the job as any other highly skilled professional.

The business skills required wouldn’t be out of place on an MBA program and sometimes it also seems like you need an accounting degree thrown in.

Read through the last few months’ worth of Feds press releases and member advisories and you’d have an idea of the range of topics farmers need to stay of top of, including: changes to resource management legislation, housing tenancy and employments law changes, milking machine guidelines, riparian planting, soil nutrient science, animal health changes that requires you to be the vet at times (or at the very least to recognise when to phone

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These skills are most often learned on the job, with some off-farm training when you can get away from the milking shed, the drenching yard or behind the wheel of a harvester.

Being a modern farmer requires you to have learned the skills taught in many trades and degrees, to update that knowledge and practices regularly, apply them continuously in your farming operation and teach your family and staff about them. The complexity and breadth of what’s involved would span content from a score of degrees.

This is why we need immigration to supplement New Zealand workers, and skills and training to be focused on providing flexibility so we can ride the ups and downs of weather and trade conditions.

We need certainty to plan and invest in our industry, so we can keep employing with confidence and promote our industry as something all New Zealanders should consider as a career option.

Investment certainty would also help with retention as we combine technology

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and more automation to boost job satisfaction and reduce hours.

The public sector is fretting about the signalled wage freeze but in the last six months there has been no clamp on agricultural wages, they have gone up significantly - I suspect in my own business by 25%.

But rents have skyrocketed too, and the cost of living has matched the rocketing expenses that businesses face to operate.

Some of it is pandemic related, but a large chunk can also be traced backed to government policies such as fuel tax increases, minimum wage increases, local authority rates rises spurred by 3Waters policy and tighter environmental rules, to name just some of them.

These are all worthy things, but someone must pay and often the hardest hit are the average workers and small business owners such as farmers.

Our government sets direction for the country and for farming; they have all the resources, money and powers of elected office.

We farmers have the passion and skills but now,

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unfortunately, dropping enthusiasm for our sector.

Let’s work together to confront some of the issues, not work to strict deadlines that kills off ideas and enthusiasm.

Let’s develop an ambitious but practical fit for a better world plan together, taking our community forward as leaders on some of these issues.

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Jane Lacy-Hulbert, DairyNZ’s senior solutions and development specialist asks why do we need animal health plans - and what do good ones look like?

Work with your vet to develop a prevention and management plan appropriate for your farm.

Most dairy farmers are becoming familiar with animal health plans. Developed with your vet, these plans provide a valuable tool for figuring out how best to look after your animals, the beating heart of any farm business.

Animal health plans reinforce the responsible use of antibiotics. They provide an agreed way to manage and prevent ill-health, which reduces the need for antibiotics. Less use of antibiotics in agriculture preserves the viability of antibiotics for human medicine, so this is why many vets now incorporate animal health planning into their prescribing and authorisation process.

Animal health plans also provide a mechanism to improve consistency and communication across your farm team. This in turn leads to fewer animals requiring treatment and, for animals that do get sick, a more consistent approach in the way they are treated.

Most dairy companies are incorporating animal health plans into their quality assurance and incentive schemes, to demonstrate how their farmers provide world-

leading animal care and provide high quality, sustainable food to the consumer. With the sector’s increasing drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, less disease and ill-health will support efficient milk production by every animal.

What does good look like?

The simplest plans outline the current and target incidence of common disorders such as mastitis and lameness, annual mortality rates, agreed interventions for thin cows, and a plan for when to get help.

More comprehensive ones can include: • prevention plans including vaccination and dosing schedules to prevent common diseases and disorders • mitigation plans for adverse weather, heat and cold stress • monitoring plans for growth of youngstock, as well as health of adult stock • treatment plans for sick animals and recording of diseases and negative welfare events.

The Animal Wellbeing Plan that’s part of Fonterra’s Co-operative Difference programme is one such example.

It extends beyond animal health to cover nutrition, mitigating

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environmental challenges, and supporting cows to express natural behaviours.

How do I create one?

Your vet is the first port of call – they can help you set up a plan that works for your farm.

Online versions or apps are also available from some animal health companies.

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Fieldays is known for showcasing cutting-edge innovation and connecting rural communities – it is also recognised for spreading the word on rural health and wellness.

The Health and Wellbeing Hub is back at Fieldays (June 16-19) this year, in a bigger location with more organisations focusing on the importance of rural health and wellness and providing free health check-ups and advice to visitors, which could be potentially lifesaving.

The Hub is run in collaboration with Mobile Health, who provides elective day surgery for patients in rural New Zealand and supports the rural health workforce. Mobile Health CEO Mark Eager said the initial idea behind the Hub was to build a health centre of the future, and provide an interactive platform that farmers and growers could resonate with.

“With the Health and Wellbeing Hub, since we do things a bit differently, we get engagement from people that don’t usually receive health care.

“In 2019, we’d see women walking into the Hub with purpose, spending a while inside looking around. Later, you’d see them return with their husbands pulled along by the ear to get a check-up.”

A total of 25,000 went through the Health and Wellbeing Hub at Fieldays 2019.

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were detected in the Hub, and one woman discovered she had type 1 diabetes – both were serious conditions that were caught at the right time.

In the Hub this year there will be organisations covering all facets of health and wellbeing, with an abundance of health check-ups on offer that could easily cover the cost of a Fieldays ticket.

They range from hearing checks, blood sugar level testing and hepatitis C testing, to skin cancer spot checks, blood pressure checks, atrial fibrillation checks, and confidential mental health

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support.

Organisations new to the Hub this year include sleep experts EdenSleep, the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand, Anglesea Pharmacy, and The Pindrop Foundation, who will be sharing information on cochlear implants.

Rural mental health is also at the forefront of support in the Hub. Wanda Leadbeater from the Rural Support Trust, a staple exhibitor in the Hub, says there are lots of stressors affecting farmers and growers that are completely out of their control, which is hard on their mental health as a result.

“Pressures on farmers and growers, such as the weather or changes in the market, can often mean they work longer hours or suffer detrimental financial consequences. They are great at looking after their stock and crops, but sometimes they don’t remember to look after themselves.”

A new challenge at the Rural Support Trust stand this year challenges people to beat the buzzer in a wire game that tests how steady they can be under pressure.

Mark Eager says one of the

special parts of the Hub is that it presents health and wellness in a such a way that people are open to interact and listen.

He recalls a watt bike display from Rural Support Trust in 2019 prompting farmers to talk about their mental health: “What you actually see is farmers having a chat with the Rural Support Trust people, then they’d go away for a coffee to make a plan on how they can get support. They thought they were just watching a watt bike, but they ended up leaving with a lot more.”

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Philippa Cameron and Federated Farmers Vice President Karen Williams were backed by representatives of Rural Women NZ and St John NZ. Both organisations agree with the message that it is unsafe and illogical that parents dropping their children off by car at pickup points for the school bus run unbuckle their youngsters from legislatively-required restraints and seat belts to get onto buses that don’t have the same basic safety equipment.

Karen Williams said in many rural areas, school buses travel long distances at on winding, gravel roads that were shared by milk tankers and forestry trucks travelling at

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She said she and Philippa Cameron had heard from bus drivers who were very uncomfortable that they got to wear a seat belt, but that protection was missing for the children riding behind them.

“In social media responses, people have told a lot of stories about when their kids were in a (school bus) crash, or when the bus driver had to put the brakes on really suddenly. Children sitting in that front seat have gone over the rails into the footwell, others have smacked their teeth.”

Philippa Cameron, a farmer from Waitaki Valley, north west of Oamaru, said in her district she talked to a bus driver who won’t put 5, 6 and 7-year-olds in the front seats.

She and Karen Williams want to see a plan for staged implementation which could start with the Ministry of Education requiring, from a given date, that any company tendering for a school route must use buses fitted with seat belts.

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Kaharau jumps into the future

Emily Farr has finally convinced trainer Kenny Rae into a career change for evergreen stayer Kaharau.

The nine-year-old gelding won his 2000m Open Hurdle trial at Cambridge on Monday, impressing both rider and trainer.

“That’s the first time I have ever seen him jump. I was quite pleased with him,” Rae said of the stakes winner, who won 14 races on the flat.

“At this stage he is going to go to Ellerslie on Saturday or Ruakaka on the 19th (of June), and he is going to Hastings for a maiden hurdle race (on July 3).”

Jumping has revived Kaharau’s racing career -the son of Ad Valorem was previously sent to the retirement paddock.

“He was given away and came home and we brought him back into work to get the two-year-olds going down on the beach,” Rae said. “He did a few trips to the races with the young horses as a mate.

“He has had a lot of races, but he just loves being in work. Emily has always had a high opinion of him.”

Farr had been educating Kaharau alongside Gobstopper for a jumping career two years ago, however, Rae had a change of heart and decided to continue

to pursue flat racing with his gelding.

Farr said the two stayers couldn’t be separated on their jumping ability and Gobstopper went on to perform at the highest level in Australasian hurdle racing.

The former Gr.3 New Zealand Cup (3200m) winner was victorious in his sole hurdle start in New Zealand before heading across the Tasman where he won the Brendan Drechsler Hurdle (3500m), Galleywood Hurdle (3200m), Australian Hurdle (3900m), and Kevin Lafferty Hurdle (3200m).

Farr believes Kaharau has got just as much ability,

and she is delighted that she has finally convinced Rae to follow a jumping path with his pride and joy.

“I had them both around the same time. They were very much on par the whole way through and then Kenny Rae decided he wasn’t going to jump him (Kaharau) until now. I have twisted his arm,” Farr said.

“I feel that Kaharau is a horse that you can put pretty much anywhere in the field, whereas Gobstopper was one that always had to be quite positive and forward. If anything, Kaharau is easier to ride than Gobstopper.

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another aspect of his career.

He had massive ability on the flat and it’s easy when they jump well as well and show that they want to do it.

“When you have won 14 races on the flat and you know that they stay and he has jumped very well all the way through from when he first started jumping the little logs, it is very exciting.

“I have worked with him the whole way through (with jumping) and I am very privileged to have the ride on him. He is like Kenny’s child, so for him to trust me with him is something I am very appreciative of.” – NZ Racing Desk

Ōtorohanga travel to Tauranga City this weekend on the back of a 3-2 win over previously unbeaten WaiBop Premier league football leaders Unicol.

The King Country side led throughout after Aaron Kelly opened the scoring. Tawhirimatea Ball and Mason Apperley’s second half strikes sealed the deal.

Unicol came into the match with a seven win, one draw record and had conceded only four times.

The result leaves four clubs separated by three points at the top of the league – Ngaruawahia’s 7-0 drubbing of Ngongotaha saw them leapfrog to the top. Unicol is a point behind and Taupo and Ōtorohanga follow on 20.

Tauranga sit ninth with three wins from 10 outings. Ōtorohanga’s Facebook page, which reported on the Unicol match – and paid tribute to the visitors - wrapped up with some sobering comments from coach Mark McKenzie.

“Our boys are working really hard on making referees and linos feel respected and valued. When we are watching OFC at the Domain please help make the officials feel welcome. We need them more than they need us.”

Te Awamutu came agonisingly close to snatching a draw at third placed Otumoetai in the WaiBop Championship as they sought to avoid a third successive loss.

The league’s joint top scorer Bradley Eggleston twice brought the Reds level at Fergusson Park before substitute Thomas Jamieson grabbed an 89th minute winner.

Te Awamutu host Wanderers on Saturday and a win will see them leapfrog the Hamilton club on the table.

Cambridge remain top of the table followed by Tauranga Old Blues, Otumoetai, Tokoroa and Te Puke.

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The Trustees and the Directors propose that the Ownership of the Company should continue to remain 100% Trust owned on behalf of the Community.

The Trustees hereby implement a Public Consultative Procedure. Notice is given that the Ownership Review will be available for inspection by the public from the 1st May 2021, from the Trusts website www. waipanetworkstrust.co.nz or during normal business hours at the following location: Waipa Networks Ltd 240 Harrison Drive TE AWAMUTU

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TE AWAMUTU & DISTRICT MEMORIAL RSA (INC)

Waipa Workingmen’s Club Inc, 139 Albert Park on Thursday Notice is hereby given Road, Te Awamutu has made application to that the the Annual June 10th General Meeting and Election of the Executive Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal 1.30pm Committee will be held at the RSA at Clubrooms, of a club licence in respect of the premises at 139 381 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutuatonthe RSA. Albert Park Road, Te Awamutu known as Waipa Sunday 27th of June commencing at 1.00pm Workingmen’s Club.

Nominations for members The general nature of the business conducted under of the committee open on Club.

MondayType the 17th ofof May and close the licence is as a Workingmen’s Sunday May.on Forms are available from the business is a Chartered Club.

The 30 days which Club’s is Office. and the hours during which alcohol sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 9am-1am.

Notice of Motion must be in the hands of the Secretary

by Sunday 6th June.

The application may be inspected during ordinary with District candidates nominated profiles office hours at the office ofA newsletter the Waipa willStreet, be available at the Clubroom on Monday 7th Licensing Committee, 101 Bank Te Awamutu June, it will also be emailed to members. or 23 Wilson Street, Cambridge. for the Executive Committee will be from Any person who is entitled Voting to object and who to Friday 25th June 2021. wishes to object to the issueMonday of the14th licence may, not later than 15 working daysThe after the Annual date offinancial the report to the 31st Audited publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the at the clubrooms on March 2021 will be available objection with the Secretary ofthe theFriday District Licensing before the AGM. Committee at: Waipa District W.J. Council, Bag Lyford,Private Secretary/Manager 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.

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