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United for Super Saturday By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā will look to cement its place at the top of the Waikato Covid vaccination table on ‘Super Saturday’. More than 40,100 people in Waipā had their first doses by Wednesday morning. At 82.7 per cent, that puts the district well ahead of Hamilton in second place on 78.9 per cent. Deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk said she wants the district to break through the 90 per cent barrier after Super Saturday and to encourage residents to do that, the district council, Waikato DHB and Chambers of Commerce in Te Awamutu and Cambridge were organising several celebratory activities. She was speaking ahead of

Where to get the jab The News was provided with no information, either through media releases or advertising about where Waipā people should go to get vaccinated on Super Saturday, so senior reporter Mary Anne Gill got on the phone to ask. We do not suggest this is a complete list. Cambridge Cambridge Medical Centre, 48 Alpha Street, 9am-2pm. Unichem Family Health Pharmacy, Hamilton Road, 9.30am-3.30pm. Cambridge Community Marae, Pope Terrace, Leamington 9am-4pm. Te Awamutu Waikato Vaccination Centre, 244 Arawata Street, 9am-4pm. Unichem Marshalls Pharmacy, 156 Teasdale Street 9am-5pm. Sanders Pharmacy, 670 Cambridge Road 9.30am-4.30pm.

yesterday’s announcement that Waikato would remain at Level 3 until 11.59pm Monday. Nga Hau E Wha (Cambridge Community Marae) committee member Kiri Gray said she and others from the Leamington marae would “strum for the cause” with their Ukulele Club. Māori vaccinations continue to lag – 51.1 per cent of the eligible Waipā Māori population were vaccinated by Wednesday morning. “Every parent has been told to get vaccinated and to get their teenagers vaccinated,” she said. “We’ll do whatever we need to do to.” Mayor Jim Mylchreest said Waipā needed to come together and get vaccinated and challenged the district to live up to its moniker. “[It would] be great if Waipā: Home of Champions had the highest vaccination rate across the country.” In a message of support from the DHB, chief Nursing and Midwifery officer Sue Hayward, who lives in Cambridge, paid tribute to nurses and support people who were giving up their time and other commitments to “be the ones who are making sure we can have a healthier future.” Super Saturday and the ongoing vaccination drive would ensure every person is protected and able to look forward to a life not destroyed by a preventable disease, said Hayward. MPs have put political differences aside to back Super Saturday and encourage people to get vaccinated. The News has been approached this week by Labour’s Angela Roberts and Taranaki King Country

We need you to get vaccinated: front to back: Kiri Gray, member of marae committee; Ian Grant, Rotary president; Warren Beard, Lions president; Liz Stolwyk, deputy mayor; Kelly Bouzaid, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce; Ian Crabb, Lions Club. MP Barbara Kuriger, National – and they are singing from the same hymn sheet. Kuriger, National’s rural spokesperson said farmers and their teams had been busy doing their own thing, “but we’re at the end of calving and lambing. Now is the time for them to ensure that they and their families, as well as

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When the General came Luke East looks back on a visit to Cambridge.

Ninety-five years ago, this year Cambridge hosted General Sir Charles Fergusson (pictured right) and his wife. Several hundred local schoolchildren and a great many members of the Cambridge community gathered outside the Town Hall to welcome their viceregal guests, among them a party of Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. Sir Charles was at that time the GovernorGeneral of New Zealand, having had an illustrious career after many years in the military, having first enlisted at the age of 18 and served successfully in Egypt, Sudan, Northern Ireland, France and Germany over a period of some thirty-five years. On his visit to Cambridge Sir Charles

was greeted by a military guard of honour, bunting strung far and wide, loud cheers and a rendition of ‘God Save The King’ by the local band. In his address to the assembled crowds and dignitaries the spoke of the great strides the Waikato and wider country had made since his years here as a child and then afterwards spent some time greeting the children and veterans who had gathered to see their Governor-General, before decamping into the Town Hall for afternoon tea with local officials. His tenure as Governor-General was a time of great change in New Zealand, over those six years: the first radio transmission from London was received here, the country’s first national radio broadcaster was formed,

New Zealand introduced the first state-funded family allowance payments, postal voting was used for the first time in a national election and a number of hydroelectric power stations opened (including the one at Arapuni). Cambridge’s Fergusson Gully Road is named after his father Sir James Fergusson (also a former Governor-General of New Zealand and war hero) as the land was owned by him and the Fergusson family for many years. Four generations of the Fergusson Family have served our country at the highest level, Sir Charles’ son (Sir Bernard Fergusson) served as New Zealand’s Governor-General from 1962-67, his grandson (George Fergusson) served as British High

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I occasionally repeat a topic I’ve done before, usually with updated and expanded information – this is because we continue to get incidents where members of our community are being caught out by the same things. Being duped when buying or selling items on Facebook is just one of these. Facebook Marketplace entered the social media space and quickly became a popular alternative to other methods such as TradeMe. Where as TradeMe allows traders some recourse when things go wrong, Facebook Marketplace is not so kind. We frequently receive complaints where people have purchased items via Facebook Marketplace and paid money over Internet banking, only for the goods to never turn up. To add insult to injury the seller usually then blocks them, at the same time removing any contact history. From the other side, people have sold items and been shown screenshots of payments having been made, only to find the funds never actually went through, or were reversed after the item had been handed over. Again, the buyers can block the seller on Facebook which

can make tracking the person down that much more difficult. In many cases, the Facebook profile used to buy/sell the item is in itself fake and not a true representation of the offender themselves. (Fortunately even these fraudsters give over bank details for payment and Police have avenues to investigate the account holders and go from there.) I am a huge believer in the prevention first approach however. My very strong advice to people is as follows. If you wish to buy or sell items over the Facebook Marketplace platform (especially expensive ones), insist on pick up and cash payment at the time. As a buyer, this enables you to confirm firstly that the item exists in the real world and secondly that it is as advertised. From a seller’s perspective, this ensures that payment is received, cash in hand, before you give the item over. The other difference between TradeMe and Facebook Marketplace is that TradeMe allows traders to see a seller’s feedback - good, bad and neutral. This helps to give you some idea of the trustworthiness of the person behind the

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profile. With Facebook profiles being able to be faked so easily, this is not always possible. Indeed, sometimes our complainants have only realised they have been duped when they see a post highlighting a scammer’s behaviour on a local buy and sell group or similar. When buying and selling on Facebook Marketplace, protect yourself. Screen shot the profile of the person you are dealing with. Screen shot all messages arranging the trade. Consider googling the profile name to see if there are any other posts on Facebook (or elsewhere) about the person that may highlight something dodgy is going on. And remember, pick up the item in person if at all possible. Sometimes with all the best intentions, even the most cautious of people can fall prey to fraudsters. If this happens to you, please be sure to talk to your bank and report the matter to the Police, including all possible evidence, as quickly as possible. Be safe from scams. Until next week, Deb.

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Briefs… Market cancelled

Labour Day’s St Andrew’s Giant Craft and Collectable Fair has been postponed because of uncertainty over Covid-19 levels. Organiser Ian Dunn said it was the first time the market would not go ahead since being launched in 1996 with 30 stalls. Today it attracts more than 130. He said hopes are high a twilight market, planned for Saturday November 27 will go ahead.

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Titchener ejected

Te Awamutu Community Board member and Waipā anti-fluoride campaigner Kane Titchener’s verbal submission to the council’s representation review hearing this week was cut short. Titchener said in his written submission he wanted to explain why boards should stay and would suggest changes but instead argued the case against fluoridating community water supplies. Chair Andrew Brown used his authority to banish Titchener from the Zoom meeting.

Books delayed

Cambridge Rotary’s annual book sale – Bookarama – has been dealt a Covid blow for a second year in succession. The event was to run from yesterday to Sunday. Organiser Ray Milner said book fair would go ahead in the New Year, but a date has still to be set.

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Cambridge’s Waipā sister Te Awamutu is set to discuss whether or not it still wants to be known as Rose Town. The issue has come up in a Community Board forum.

Why poll topper must quit By Mary Anne Gill

Sarah Matthews was on her honeymoon when she found out she had been elected to the Waipā Networks Trust. The first-time candidate, standing as Sarah Davies, topped the poll leaving her no option but to resign as the trust’s long-time secretarytreasurer. It marks yet another interesting chapter in the 36-year-old accountant’s career. Earlier this year she was named the Emerging Financial Manager of the Year at the New Zealand Chief Financial Officers’ awards in Auckland. Soon after she left her job as finance manager at Waipā District Council in July to become the executive manager Finance and Strategy at the Taumarunui-based Ruapehu District Council and married Justin last month. The network trust owns Waipā Networks Ltd which is responsible for the electricity lines throughout Waipa, parts of Waikato and Ōtorohanga districts and delivers power to nearly 30,000 consumers. Every five years, the trust is obliged to review its ownership structure. The trustees resolved this year to retain its 100 per cent shareholding and continue paying dividends to eligible customers every year. The trust’s shareholding is worth $175 million yet only 4405 votes were cast in the trustee elections, a

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disappointing 15.86 per cent return. Matthews was surprised at her result. “I thought if I got in, I would scrape in. Honestly, I nearly fell off my chair,” she said. Matthews has plenty of business and personal networks which gives her a profile with those people but

not necessarily in the media. Matthews’ governance journey began in her early 20s. She acts as a mentor for young people, particularly women, wanting to go into governance. “I thought when I started that I almost had to earn my right to go into governance.”

Getting onto your first board position is the hardest part but rewarding, she said. “All of my experiences on boards have made me a much stronger people leader and strategic thinker.” The other elected trustees are Ray Milner, Judy Bannon, David McLean, Craig Sanders and Marcus Gower.

Community Board grants list announced The Cambridge Community Board last week allocated $25,000 from the first round of their discretionary funding. The board has $59,697.25 to distribute in the financial year starting July 1. Thirty-two applications asking for $116,440 were received for round one. The applicant must be a not-for-profit group or organisation providing a local community or welfare service for the benefit of the wider Waipā community. Priority was given to groups that promoted resilience or recovery from Covid-19. A second round of funding will be considered in April next year. Money went to the following organisations: Act of Kindness Charitable Trust - Spring Clean event for families and Resthaven residents - $500 Cambridge Bowling Club - Assistance with the preparation of ground area to have mat laid $1,000 Cambridge Committee of Social Services -

Funding for emergency vouchers - $2,800 Cambridge Dirt Jumps Sub Committee Assistance to complete an assessment of sites for dirt jumps - $1,000 Cambridge Motorcycle Club Inc - Relocation of the Cambridge Motorcycle Club - $1,500 Cambridge Toy Library - Assistance to wages of toy librarian - $500 Cambridge Tree Trust - To provide a suitable surface for parking cars at the Tree Trusts nursery - $3,000 ChildPlayWorks Charitable Trust - Assistance with Child Play therapy costs - $500 Children 1st Charitable Trust - Contribution to the costs of a resilience programme - $500 Citizens Advice Bureau Cambridge Inc - Contribution to operating costs including insurance & CABNZ subscription - $1,200 Community Development Team - Assistance for the programmes at Leamington School, Cambridge High School & Cambridge Middle School - $1,000

Destination Cambridge - Cambridge Christmas parade - $2,000 House of Science South Waikato Charitable Trust - Purchase one new science kit - $1,500 Kairangi Hall Society Inc - Repairs and maintenance to the roof and windows of the Kairangi Hall - $2,500 Kids in Need Waikato Charitable Trust Contribution to the costs of care packs - $2,000 New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups Inc - Support toward operational costs for volunteers Support Worker programme - $500 Te Miro Mountain Bike Club - Construction of a map shelter - $1,500 True Colours Children’s Health Trust - Funding support to deliver service to families in the Waipā - $1,000 Youthline Auckland Charitable Trust Operational costs - $500 Are you associated with one of these clubs or organisations? Do you want to tell your story? Contact us today editor@goodlocal.nz

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Sue Milner – welcomed review

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reducing the number of councillors from 13 to 10 and making several boundary changes. Forty-nine submissions were received. While the boards would remain, some hard questions had to be asked about them, said Mike Pettit. “I don’t think we should be axing them, but I do not think they should be going on in their current state.” Council should decide what it wanted community boards to deliver for their communities, he said. The News exclusively revealed in August that council favoured abolishing community boards in favour of appointed committees. Holt, who let the cat out of the bag in her monthly report, said she had no regrets about making the plans public.

She welcomed the opportunity to have the role and functions of boards reviewed. Councillor Clare St Pierre said she felt council staff did not see community boards as a vehicle to do their consultation through. “I’m not surprised we don’t think they’re doing anything.” It was time for the council to start giving community boards their attention, she said. Deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk said she wanted to retain community boards. “I would like to see community boards be elected and that way they have a mandate from the community.” Two councillors were unconvinced by the arguments to retain boards. Susan O’Regan and Marcus Gower voted for them to be

scrapped. O’Regan, who has consistently questioned community boards’ roles, said it was good to hear other councillors accepted the current structure was not working. “My preference would be to remove the structures of the community boards and do the work leading up to the next election.” The committee directed staff to undertake a review of the role and functions of community board. The scope and parameters of the review would be agreed by the Finance and Corporate committee before the work begins. It would be completed by September next year, weeks before the local body election. Milner said that would provide clear guidance for potential candidates.

Community boards need to improve their performances in Te Awamutu and Cambridge and the best way to ensure that is to review what their roles and functions are, a Waipā council committee has decided. Community Board chairs Ange Holt and Sue Milner have both welcomed the move saying a lot of their boards’ work goes unnoticed and they were often ignored. “Community boards are about the people, we care about our communities and people need to know that,” said Milner. Waipā District Council’s Finance and Corporate committee voted to retain boards this week and accepted nine other recommendations which included

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CAMBRIDGE’S DISTINCTIVE AND CLASSY BUILDING One thing is for certain you can’t miss it and… if you have bad knees you can’t walk up the stairs to Karen May’s Kaz Design! Always distinctive, always classy the former Legal Chambers in Duke Street has always stood out. This building has a huge heritage and is now the base for Chris La Pine Physiotherapist and Karen May’s Kaz Design, the latter is a marketing business. The present exterior renovation and refurbish was carried out in 1989 by Chris La Pine who, with his wife Mary, owned the building and Chris was determined to keep the original building intact. Latterly it changed hands but Chris remained a tenant. Lets look back! Originally the building was built in 1899 for W.F Buckland, lawyer and one time Mayor of Cambridge. The Chambers were designed in the “beaux” arts style of architecture characterised by its symmetrical appearance and features such as rusticated stone work. Another tenant was civil engineer Henry Roche who designed the Hora ora Power Station the

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first large scale hydro electric scheme in New Zealand. Sam Lewis who was Mayor of Cambridge from 1921 -1923 moved his practice further down Duke St and bought the building in 1912 still keeping it as a Legal Chambers. In 1915 he became partner with Henry Dickens Dallimore, councillor from 1915 -1921 and they used the offices until 1947. Peter Lewis joined the firm in 1945 and made the building his offices with David Jecks until 1962. The Matamata County Council occupied the upstairs area (where

Karen May now runs her business) until they moved to Tirau and you tripped up those stairs to renew your licence! A surveyor used the upstairs area at one time and the Waikato Independent used the back of the building to print their paper. This was before World War 1. The back rooms were built in 1905 by Fred Potts. The building is registered as a Category Three Historic Place which deems it as “a place of historic signiﬁcance”. For Karen May the building has a very

SWIMMING IN CAMBRIDGE On hot summer days, you will almost always ﬁnd swimmers in the Waikato River near the Karapiro Bridge. This has been a long tradition for Cambridge residents. Ken Wilkinson, in an article published in 1936, remembered “the long summer days loafed away in the Karapiro creek, then a delightfully clear, sandy bottomed stream ... The twelve o’clock rush – excited swarms of small boys, out from school, tearing down Duke Street, disrobing as they ran, until, when they reached the creek, they dived straight in, naked as the day they were born.’

The ﬁrst Cambridge Swimming Club was established in the 1890s in a roped oﬀ area of the Waikato River in front of Major John Wilson’s property in Wilson Street. The Club then moved to Lake Te Koo Utu. William Rout wrote in 1897: “A few years ago a bathing house was erected at the lake and is now much frequented by persons of both sexes, at special hours in the summer time, set apart for them.” Mixed swimming was frowned upon. In 1912, the Cambridge Swimming Club moved

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Frank Green, the pool’s caretaker, raised £100 for extension and refurbishment in 1928. It provided more shallow area for swimming lessons. Many longtime Cambridge residents have fond memories of these pools, and the White Heather takeaways nearby. In 1964, a new pool was mooted and, after much fundraising, the Centennial Swimming Pools in Williamson Street were opened in 1971. The pools were upgraded and reopened in 2021. But you can be sure, swimmers will still be enjoying the waters of the Waikato River, down by the Karapiro Bridge!

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I often drive past a building in town that has experienced issues with pigeons incessantly fouling its roof in the awful way they do. The mess and nuisance factor these marauding ‘bombers’ introduce is legend. Recently a large imitation owl was placed on this roof. The pigeons became extremely wary of the new visitor and by observation a noticeable decline in the numbers was evident. This ‘newcomer’ appeared to be a great success. Then, I noticed a gradual re-incursion taking place as numbers of curious pigeons sat metres away from the decoy… slowly more showed up. By last week, I laughed out loud when I drove by. Crowds of cheeky pigeons were sitting all over the owl. What had happened? Familiarity created a sense of comfortable complacency. Apparently, figurines of owls are often used with some success when flocks of birds make a nuisance of themselves on buildings. Plastic owls can work well for a while but soon birds catch on. Slowly they get used to whatever decoy is being used. Many times, for example, birds will end up turning scarecrows into a comfortable perch! The solution in part, is to move the decoy around, positioning it in different places to create the sense of it being an animate object thereby keeping unwanted birds wary. Comfortable complacency can really backfire. Becoming overly familiar or passive is never good. As a kid I watched an expression of indifference unfold with dire consequences. Our family enjoyed water skiing and boating was a part of holidays and

recreation. My Dad was driving a friend’s boat powered by an outboard motor. The friend happened to be skiing while my dad drove for him. With no observer, my father drove the boat alone sitting on the side (gunwale) as it sped along, turning his head occasionally to check on the skier. Crazy right!? The skier was a big guy and while executing a hard carving turn it jerked my father off his perch leaving the boat careening along with no driver. The skier had the sense to let go, watching his boat power towards a beach through larger moored vessels. It smashed into the bow of a sizeable launch at its mooring, literally imbedding itself in the launch’s bow above the waterline. The ski boat pushed the launch around in circles like an eggbeater. Some hardy soul eventually jumped onto the ski boat to disable the engine. There are many things in life that we ought to never become ‘overly’ familiar with or complacent about. It’s just about taking time to be aware and a whole lot less thoughtless. Never take the love of others or a friendship for granted… notice life, notice one another. Show kindness. If you’re reminded of someone, call or message them. Take time to observe the beauty of creation around you… smell the roses and listen. Allow your thoughts to drift towards God. He is thinking about you. Put aside indifference and complacency. Reach out and see what happens.

Anyone know what a devious lick is? Sitting at the dinner table this evening I mentioned that my deadline was rapidly approaching and I had yet to settle on a subject. Hidden in the avalanche of irrelevant and often downright mischievous suggestions under which I found myself was the term ‘devious lick’. So, despite the fact that, as yet, I have no idea how I am going to relate it to my environmental brief, I have decided to go with it. Jimmy Carr the English comedian is a bit of a comedic technician, in fact he has written a book about why jokes work and why we need them. Amongst others he makes the point that the joke can only happen in your head. That is to say that if your reaction to reading the phrase ‘devious lick’ was to imagine a dodgy character in a crowded subway getting up to no good and thereby deriving his nefarious jollies - that reaction was down to you - not the phrase. As you may have guessed that was my first mental image upon hearing the phrase. Sorry about that - but you see the point? There’s no point claiming to be upset or offended by a well told joke as the mental connection or image upon hearing the punch line can only take place in your own brain: It’s your own thought. As it happens a devious lick is, simply put, a viral trend which started as recently as last month in which school students video themselves stealing items from school. As a sensible, older member of society I don’t really get it; it’s just ill-behaved toerags costing taxpayer’s money. That’s a bit unfair on the young people

though, isn’t it? I remember disengaging the handbrake of the sailing bus (a full-sized single decker bus) at school and running it down a slope onto the middle of the hallowed turf that was the cricket square in the dead of night. Imagine if we could have put that on social media. On another occasion my great-grandfather gave me a bugle which, he said, saw action in WWI. Fifteen-year-old me, having no appreciation of the significance of the gift, hot-footed it straight to the nearest antique shop and sold it for twenty pounds. So blasé was I that I even told my grandmother what I had done. I was genuinely surprised at the intensity of the wrath and disappointment which rained down on me from all quarters of the family. So I guess, when not understanding, or disapproving of the actions of younger people, one should remember that they are not right in the head, at least not yet. Perhaps we should be more generous with the time we give them to grow up and realise that there are some globally serious issues to be dealt with. Climate change for ONLY PLANET instance, is not a problem of their making but they sure are going to have to deal with it.

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A housing theory of everything

Life down south

By Matteo Di Maio

By Peter Carr

During the past week I have spent time in the South Island making presentations from Mosgiel in the south to Nelson in the north. Four planes, six meetings in all and time to talk with people as to how they perceive life. Firstly, Christchurch traffic aside, it is much quieter down there. An interesting observation was the paucity of trucks on State Highway One. The people have to eat yet one wonders how the supermarket produce gets to them. Given that some food is grown locally the more packaged items will be sourced from the North Island. Putting aside the slow journey time of the railway industry, and associated treble handling, it is clear that the swifter road and ferry deliveries are the way to go. But between Timaru and Christchurch the middle of the weekday road was strangely quiet. Interestingly, large acres of oil-bearing Canola were very evident. In Dunedin the retired people I spoke with are bemoaning the high rates increase that Dunedin City Council is set to impose. There were expressions of horror at the huge increase announced by the Otago Regional Council. At Timaru there was much discussion on the announcement the council intended to leave their national industry membership group - Local Government New Zealand over the Three Waters issue. Imagine my horror at receiving a copy of the July (yes July) formal agreement between LGNZ and the government making the Three Waters issue a done deal. Our Mayor Jim Mylchreest, who sits on the LGNZ Board, was very much against this document as he can clearly see that waiting

Half of the things in politics are disagreements over how to solve the agreedupon problem, and half are about whether the problem exists at all. The housing crisis is, thankfully, the former. This universal acknowledgment is such that economists Bowman, Myers and Southwood have recently proposed that it is the “Ur-crisis”, in their essay: “the housing theory of everything.” Think of a problem the Western world faces - climate change, obesity, political polarisation. More (more affordable) housing could feasibly solve many of these. Essentially, the key economic narrative of the last 50 years is that houses have become more like fine art, gold or stocks – and less like refrigerators, cars or televisions, essential utilities whose prices have all fallen drastically. Everyone has their own pet policy to pull prices down—less QE, so-called “affordable housing schemes”, a rise in the OCR (check!). But what about the policies we haven’t considered, and probably never will? I’ve collected some such suggestions below. 1. We could institute a Georgist economy. The 19th century economist Henry George—whose book for a while outsold everything but the Bible—famously posited that the political economy is organised all wrong. We fund our governments by taxing the income of citizens, while famously being quite reticent to tax sacred, private property. In a Georgist system, a Land Value Tax is the primary source of State income, whilst the earnings of citizens are not taxed at all. 2. The contemporary economist E Glen Weyl has proposed an update to Georgism: DW60FC2X1

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citizens self-value their properties, publishing the valuations online. The catch? They must sell their property to anyone who bids the valuation price. If you think you can use land more productive. If owners want stability because they are adding value to a property, then they list a very high price, so that a sale would make moving out worthwhile. Set your price too high and no one will buy it, while you will be losing money on the land tax. Set it too low, and someone will buy it and they themselves will use it more productively. 3. We could ramp up squatters’ laws. One of the key economic inefficiencies of a housing boom is that landowners may be encouraged to hold a property. The number of empty houses in Auckland from 2013 to 2018 rose 6000 to 39,393. What if we made it legal to move into an unoccupied home? If you live in a property continuously for more than 20 years, the Registrar General of Land can already cancel the existing title and replace it with one in your name. What if we brought this threshold down, to two years, and passed a law saying houses left empty for more than six months were free takings for the homeless? If housing really is the “theory of everything” for the Western world’s problems, then solving it—no matter how radical the solution—would have one more additional benefit: a reason to finally be optimistic about the future of the West.

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Project Manager Richard Dodera pictured with one of the new screw pumps on site at Mangawhero before it was installed.

Waikato Regional Council is keeping its fingers crossed as it continues flood protection maintenance work throughout the region during Covid restrictions. Integrated Catchment Management Director Greg Ryan says flood protection work continues to achieve its goals and that was highlighted recently when water dispersed quickly after some extremely heavy rain. His task is to have the right people in the right place carrying out ongoing maintenance in the wake of a wet season and the next few weeks are key to getting some of that work completed. Level 2 is manageable, but he would not be so comfortable if Waikato moved back to Level 3. Council chairman Russ Rimmington is keeping a watch on the work – he could be concerned if the Covid restriction caused any

ongoing delays. Under the Shovel Ready projects heading the Regional Council has secured about $29 million in funding for environmental restoration, biosecurity and climate resilience towards projects totalling about $48 million across the Waikato region. That included $16 million from the Government’s Covid-19 recovery fund for flood protection infrastructure projects totalling $24.85 million. Flood protection work helps ensure food-producing land is not lost in times of heavy water flow. Greg Ryan said the Waikato system was as good as any. The protection schemes safeguard about 3000 square kilometres of high value food-producing land, and services and infrastructure such as water supply, power, telecommunications, and

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Cambridge’s Ann Aylett, who died earlier this month at age 81, knew about life at both ends of the spectrum of chance. She and her late husband Derek spent their years in New Zealand running Christian camps and fostering children with health and other problems. They worked with those battling drug and alcohol-related issues and helped rehabilitate prisoners and were vocal advocates for the rights of people living with disabilities. Ann’s other side was an extraordinary connection she had with Britain’s royal family. She spent several years as Queen Elizabeth 11’s genealogist, updating a collection of royal family private records that were originally compiled by the late Lord Mountbatten. The commission was given to her at Buckingham Palace in 1987, and Ann delivered the completed volume to the palace in 1989. She ended up knowing more about the British royal family than did many of its own; her work later became the subject of several newspaper articles. Born in London in 1940, Ann grew up near Windsor and experienced the London Blitz. She was always a keen royalist, collecting whatever material on them that she could find. It was when working as a journalist with Punch magazine that she started corresponding with one of the Queen’s private secretaries – a meeting that resulted in

Ann Aylett became Queen Elizabeth’s genealogist three decades ago.

a 1987 visit to Buckingham Palace where she was invited to update the royal family’s private records. In a Cambridge Edition story marking the 2014 visit to Cambridge by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, she said: “They told me that it was clear from the content of my letters that I knew what I was doing and they wanted me to update the records for the Queen’s personal use.” Ann was given unprecedented access to whatever records she needed. She spent time in the Royal Archives and talked to a host of people, documenting

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Kākā making a comeback Waipā residents are seeing more – and different - native birds in suburban back yards as conservation projects continue to develop throughout Waikato. The news comes as the Department of Conservation celebrates a rise in the number of kākā in the King Country. A long-term kākā monitoring programme in Pureora Forest Park has shown a fourfold increase in kākā numbers following pest control in the Waipapa Ecological Area and a tipping of the balance back towards a

more even sex ratio. The Waipapa kākā population has increased from 600 birds between 2000 and 2007 to around 2,600 birds during 2020 - an average annual population increase of 6.4 per cent. Mana Whenua Landcare Research expert John Inness says “generally” the level that birds will reach at Cambridge and Te Awamutu will be set by how much planting of food trees people do – and there has to be predator control where and when birds try to nest. “Ongoing conservation

efforts at Maungatautari and Pirongia in particular will help chances that some of these birds will one day decide to try nesting outside, but without predator control it is risky for them,” he said. Kākā are already being found in Hamilton and Morrinsville. “We have been catching kākā and putting GPS tags on, but they never nest here,” John Innes says. Most of them are immature and have come from the Hauraki Gulf. To get them to nest around towns, they would need to be bred

Kākā juveniles have been tagged in Hamilton and Morrinsville. Photo: Department of Conservation

in the Waikato – such as Maungatautari and next to Hamilton Zoo. “The zoo director Baird Fleming is committed to focusing more on New Zealand conservation issues, and the zoo and Waiwhakareke will be run side by side. They are looking at pest-fencing Waiwhakareke.” There has also been a surge of effort into gully restoration in Hamilton and more pest control means more chances for native wildlife to flourish. Numbers of suburban tui have boomed over the past 15 years but attracting kereru and korimako – the bell bird – out of rural settings and into the Hamilton, Cambridge and Te Awamutu has posed a puzzle. Mana Whenua Landcare Research is not sure why the tui has benefited so much more than kereru and korimako. “We have not done the research on them that tui got. We think that korimako may be nesting at Tamahere, but they are very rare in town. I think there is the odd kereru in Hamilton, but they never display dive or attempt to nest. We think that they may have food issues in the broader landscape, but we

can’t work them out,” John Innes said. He says the planned Mangapiko corridor between Pirongia and Maungatautari should in the long-term help birds move around and

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Rain welcome, but supply issue looms

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Heavy spring rain has set up a productive season for farmers, says a Waipā farming leader.

Ōhaupō farmer Andrew Reymer.

Te Awamutu Federated Farmers representative and Ōhaupō farmer Andrew Reymer said while there were some heavy falls, none of them were out of the ordinary. “That’s given us a good start to spring and soil moisture levels are looking good going into summer compared to the last two years,” he said. “Some on farm silage has already gone in and maize crops starting to go in the ground around the Waikato which is great to see this time of year.”

According to MetService statistics Waipā saw an average rain fall of around 150-170mm of rain fall over September, one and a half times the normal September average of 95-100mm for the region. Supply issues will be an ongoing problem, says Reymer. “More locally supplied stores have been able to stay open but again, supply for products produced or dispatched from Auckland have been delayed and (this has) caused issues for farmers,” he said.

Reymer said the payout estimate remains strong and recent feedback from Fonterra shows a positive path forward. Fonterra’s milk price range for the 2021/22 season of $7.25 - $8.75 per kgMS, with a midpoint of $8 per kgMS, is a considerable jump on last seasons midpoint of $7.54 per kgMS. “The logistics of getting our products produced and dispatched can not be underestimated with Covid and shipping restrictions, so they should not go unrecognised as a key part of

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Ben Carpenter jokes he did everything he could to stay away from farming. So how come he, wife Renee and their three children live on their own Te Kawa Road dairy farm on the Waipā-Ōtorohanga border? You would have to say it is in his and Renee’s blood, quite literally. Both were brought up on farms – Ben in South Auckland, Renee in Ōtorohanga. They left the farms; Ben to do a Bachelor of Applied Science at Massey University, majoring in rural valuation and Renee for a time in London and then in the ASB Bank back in New Zealand. They met in Hamilton by which time Ben was a registered rural valuer. About eight years ago, the couple got an opportunity to go into a sharemilking partnership with Renee’s parents in Ōtorohanga. Ben was back on a farm but then, like today, he retained his valuer’s ticket. “I was already out of the (valuation) game for six years before we bought this. I came armed with lots of analysis and knowledge though.” In 2019, the couple went into an equity partnership with his parents at the 150ha property in Te Kawa Road. A month after Ben and Renee moved in, his father died. His mother retains her interest from Auckland. The Carpenters side of the road is in Ōtorohanga district; across the road is Waipā. The property is 45 per cent rolling contour and they have spent their first two seasons putting automation in so people would enjoy working with them. “We’ve been working really hard to get water infrastructure in the Ben and Renee Carpenter, Harry, 8, Max 5, and Izzy 3.

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Several months ago, I gave readers an update on how things were progressing with the Healthy Rivers Wai Ora project (or PC1). The appeals process is ongoing, working its way through the various points of contention. T o refresh, this part of the process is the last opportunity to shape the new plan rules. Discussions between appellants and Council to resolve matters in contention are progressing constructively, with the aim of minimising the issues that will need to go before the Environment Court. PC1 utilises Overseer in ways that the recent Government commissioned reports are indicating that it should not be. However, the Government have also noted that there are operative Regional Plans around the country that require Overseer to be used and that Councils must continue to implement their plans as they are written for now. T he government has also said that Councils can continue to progress existing plan development process such as PC1, but that they should take account of the Overseer review findings. In the meantime, the government is supporting several workstreams to develop alternative methodologies with a view to better understand and manage nutrient loss. This does leave WRC in an interesting position. PC1 needs to demonstrate that on farm nitrogen loss is managed, and that high nitrogen emitters are reducing. However, without a suitable methodology to do this, it will be challenging to progress the parts of the PC1 appeals process that relate to the N loss provisions. There are the Government’s proposed stock exclusion regulations to comply with. These

I see from a recent Police report that stock rustling is again an issue in the area. Despite the risk of harsh penalties, trespass for illegal recreational and commercial hunting remains commonplace and a danger to many in the rural community. The attached image is from a Federated Farmers 2021 Survey on poaching and illegal hunting, with the red dots indicating people who had experienced this crime since 2019. During a recent series of rural crime workshops with Police and FMG, participants heard from Police of the continued rise of crime and problems associated with drug addiction along with the increased cost of living that is encouraging the theft of livestock, vehicles and fuel alongside crimes such as poaching and other illegal activity. Although rural people are not alone in dealing with theft, it is our isolation that leaves people feeling vulnerable. Setting up security cameras and appropriate lighting to capture criminals is now commonplace. Limiting vehicle access points to your property is far more difficult in a rural setting, so it’s very useful to be involved in neighbourhood support groups. People should report all unusual activity to the police via 111 (if it is taking place) or 105 after the event. Several years of hard work by Feds paid off in December 2018 when Justice Minister Andrew Little agreed to fast track muchneeded changes to the Crimes Act that ushered in tougher penalties for the theft of livestock and unlawful entry to farmland. The Crimes Amendment Bill was passed in March 2019. It included provisions targeted at livestock rustling which we strongly advocated for:

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are still evolving, and while generally they seek to achieve the same sorts of things as the provisions in PC1, there are a number of differences in the approach that they take. Things such as the slope thresholds and the way in which particular classes of stock are being managed which then dictate when stock need to be excluded from a specific type of water body or wetland are different to PC1. It appears to be hard to know when the national regulations would apply and/or when the PC1 rules would apply. PC1 has to align with the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater NESFW, meaning more changes, some of which can be achieved via the appeals process. WRC is very conscious of the huge amount of time and resource that stakeholders have invested in the PC1 process over a number of years now. Council is actively taking every opportunity to strongly convey this message to the Government, reinforcing that PC1 was a collaborative effort by stakeholders to develop a Waikato/Waipa specific approach to give effect to the Vision & Strategy. It simply makes no sense to have to re-visit and change all of this work in the interests of an over arching national approach that in reality will make no difference to the freshwater quality outcomes we are all aspiring to achieve in the Waikato/Waipa catchment. Please feel free to phone myself on 021943055 or Andrew Macpherson on 021932624 if you have questions.

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• Theft of livestock or other animal, carrying a maximum penalty of 7 years imprisonment. • Unlawful entry to land used for agricultural purposes, where the offender intends to steal livestock or act unlawfully against specified things, such as buildings or machinery, on that land. That offence carries up to 10 years imprisonment. • The shooting or hunting of wild animals is legislated under the Wild Animal Control (WAC) Act 1977 (deer, pigs etc) or the Wildlife Act 1953 (ducks, pheasants etc). • There are harsh penalties under both Acts but they are not often used – we are working with local police to increase this. • Police have begun pushing harder for the loss of firearms licence for those caught poaching, based on not being a ‘fit and proper’ person to hold a licence and under the amended Arms Act there is now an offence ‘carrying a firearm with criminal intent’. Police numbers per head of population have increased by 15% in the last three years. Federated Farmers wants an equal share of this extra resource to be applied in rural areas. We often hear rural people say they haven’t reported a theft because they didn’t think police would be interested. To get more Police on the ground it is important people report crimes as this is the basis for adding police officers to a community, and it might be a piece of information that adds to a pattern and helps with detection. Irrespective of current rates of solving crimes, not reporting only makes matters worse.

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isn’t great, the best he’s done in five starts is one second and one third. In last year’s Livamol Classic he was 11th of 16. “To be fair, he wasn’t right when he went to Hawke’s Bay last year, and in a couple of other races there he had big weights. Weightfor-age certainly helps him,” Rogerson said. “I couldn’t be happier with him at the moment. Saturday will tell,” Rogerson said. Rogerson had enough of an opinion of Beauden that he had looked at the CaulfieldMelbourne Cup double but he and owner Joan Egan decided against it due to the difficulties of getting a spot in managed isolation and quarantine coming back from Australia. However, Rogerson hasn’t given up hope of getting Beauden to Australia this season. “We’re going to make a final decision after Saturday, but at this stage it looks as though we’ll aim at the Wellington Cup (Gr.3, 3200m) and then we may go over in the autumn.” – NZ Racing Desk

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An exciting opportunity to secure an attractive section close to the town centre. Enjoy the established neighbourhood surrounded by quality homes. North facing with a slight elevation at the top end of the section. Use your imagination as there are options for your building site. Geotech Report available. With Title issued, and land covenants in place to protect your investment, this 958m2 site is available for your immediate possession. A supreme setting for family living. Please Note: Viewing strictly only with Agents - please do not drive up the driveway. Phone Debbie Towers or Trevor Morris for details. TENDER: CLOSES 4PM THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER AT THE OFFICE OF CAMBRIDGE REAL ESTATE (UNLESS SOLD PRIOR)

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night at the Cossie club (what we call The Cossiewealth Games) a quiz night, and our famous $2 fines that occur when you do something stupid or have a photo in the paper or appear on TV. It does happen. All the fine money then goes on the bar at our annual dinner and prize giving. So you get it all back. Most of our referees say their only regret is not giving it a go earlier. So if you have given up playing due to injury or had enough bumps and bruises, come along and give it a go. You won’t regret it.

Tree scheme goes nuts same time as giving us easy access to the trees so we could apply mulch or prune them.” After time spent searching for a solution, during which they threw out various ideas as being either impractical for their needs or too costly, dejection set in. “I retreated to my shed and started thinking … different ideas were beginning to percolate,” said Paul. “After asking Helen if she thought she could sew frost cloth in the way we needed, and then finding she could, it hit us that we might be on to something.” The upshot was Vitalitree, a reusable system of protection for young trees, sufficiently adaptable to protect them through their tender first years. Durable UV protective material is clipped to a sturdy wire three-ringed structure, with a peaked top to provide additional sun or frost protection that can be fixed to a central stake using a drawstring. The strong circular shape encourages upward growth, while a simple unclipping provides access to the tree. They launched officially and managed to tie up the legal side just before the 2021 National Fieldays, where Vitalitree attracted a lot of attention in the Innovation Category. Paul and Helen currently have around 420 trees planted and want to put in another 1000 on the property they purchased

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Paul Gardiner and Helen Stockman hold up prototypes one, two and three of their Vitalitree protection sleeves, demonstrating the product’s developmental stages.

several years ago. Both have farming backgrounds but have worked for years in different fields while raising calves and running a grazing operation for dairy heifers. Helen retired after 30 years’ working regionally for the DHB, and Paul still works at Kinleith Mill. The couple sought advice from Prime Strategies Group associate, Brad White. He helped them do market research prior to launching the product and remains on hand to guide them as interest grows, both nationally and internationally. Right now, like many other

start-ups, they’re battling Covid-related supply chain challenges. “It was pretty clear that the Vitalitree product is just what the market needed to protect these valuable trees, but I don’t think we truly realised what opportunity was out there until now. It’s amazing how what is literally a No.8 wire invention has so much potential, and that even at this early stage we have already received some enquiries for export distribution,” Brad said. “The challenge for us now is to ensure that this ‘kitchen bench’ business can scale to meet the

demand whilst still holding to its core values. There are certainly exciting times ahead!” Among the core values held dear by Paul and Helen is the desire to help horticulturalists and orchardists protect their assets in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way, and to share these years close to nearby family. “If we can help people grow trees in areas that have marginal temperatures then that is a plus for us,” said Paul. “We’ve seen the product’s initial success, but we’ll tweak away as we go. There will always be things we can fine-tune.”

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DEATH NOTICES

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(Emma) Joan ADAM nee MacDougall – Passed away peacefully at Lifecare Cambridge on Tuesday 12th October 2021, aged 94. Beloved wife of the late Meyrick and much loved and generous mother and mother-in-law of Bruce and Francis (and the late Colleen), Greg and Catarina, Murray and Diana, Fiona and Peter. Also an adoring grandmother and great grandmother to 20. Dearly loved and missed.

PEDERSEN, Bryan Hugh – Bryan passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on 10 October 2021, aged 86 years. Loved husband of Fay, much loved Dad of Darryl and Ange, and Sandra, and much loved Poppa to all his grandkids. Messages may be addressed to The Family of the late Bryan Pedersen, c/- PO Box 39127, Christchurch 8545. At Bryan’s request, a private family service has been held. Bryan will be returned to Cambridge at a later date. ChCh Crematorium Funeral Services, ph 03 341-6117, 65 Vickerys Road, Wigram.

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CATTON, June Nellie Lily – Passed away peacefully, surrounded by the love of her family on Friday, 8th October 2021, aged 89. Dearly loved wife of the late Barry. Beloved mother and motherin-law of Mike & Sue, Lyn & Dean, Steve & Val, and Sue. Loved nana of David & Stacy, Rachel & Thomas, Kelsey, Alle & Matt, Nick, Nicole, and James, and great nana to Jett, and our angel Nîkau. Adored sister of Lesley and the late Tony, sister-in-law of Margaret and the late Neil, and loved aunty and great aunty to their families. Special thanks to Oakdale Ultimate Care, Cambridge for their ongoing kindness and care. A private cremation will be held, and this will be followed by a joint memorial service for Barry and June at a later date. All communications to the Catton Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434. “Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.”

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Of an application for On Licence Nosh Enterprise Limited has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the issue of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 55 Duke Street, Cambridge known as Pony Bar and Eatery. The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is restaurant. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 10am-1am. The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Waipa District Licensing Committee, 101 Bank Street, Te Awamutu or 23 Wilson Street, Cambridge. Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the issue of the licence may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with the Secretary of the District Licensing Committee at: Waipa District Council, Private Bag 2402, Te Awamutu 3840. No objection to the issue of a renewal licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 105 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

SITUATIONS VACANT

RECEPTIONIST/ GENERAL ADMINISTRATOR

Want to join a busy progressive client friendly accountancy practice based in Cambridge? An opportunity has arisen for a personable, well presented Receptionist to join our firm. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated preferably with the following skills: - Experience in reception duties including handling of telephones, client queries, scanning and filing - Experience with Excel and Word - Have excellent work ethic and attention to detail - Experience of working in a professional office environment. Experience with Accountants office, MYOB and Xero would be preferable. - Must make a great coffee and laugh at bad jokes by the bosses This is a fulltime position offering a competitive salary. Applications close Friday 22nd October 2021. Please email your application and CV to Sue Webb at sue@webbwood.co.nz

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The Future Proof Strategy is a 30 year growth management and implementation plan for the Hamilton, Waipa and Waikato sub-region. The Strategy is essential to managing growth in a staged and co-ordinated way while addressing complex planning issues. An updated Future Proof Strategy has been developed and is now open for public comment. The updated Strategy retains the core elements of the 2009 and 2017 Strategy but also incorporates the Hamilton to Auckland (H2A) Corridor Plan and the Hamilton-Waikato Metropolitan Spatial Plan. It also factors in key national documents and initiatives such as the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) and the Government’s Urban Growth Agenda. The Strategy incorporates seven transformational moves for change: • Iwi aspirations: enhancing the health and wellbeing of the Waikato River in accordance with Te Ture Whaimana, the Vision and Strategy, and iwi placebased aspirations. • Putting the Waikato River at the heart of planning. • A radical transport shift to a multi-modal transport network shaped around where and how communities will grow. • A vibrant metro core and lively metropolitan centres. • A strong and productive economic corridor at the heart of the metro area. • Thriving communities and neighbourhoods including quality, denser housing options that allow natural and built environments to co-exist and increase housing affordability and choice. • Growing and fostering water-wise communities through a radical shift in urban water planning, ensuring urban water management is sensitive to natural hydrological and ecological processes. Future Proof partners are now seeking feedback on the updated Strategy. To read the Strategy and make a submission, please go to futureproof.org.nz Submissions close at 5pm on Friday 12 November 2021. Future Proof partners include Waikato District Council, Waipa District Council, Hamilton City Council, Waikato Regional Council, tangata whenua, central government partners and Tamaki Makaurau partners (iwi and Auckland Council).

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9.00pm

4.15pm 4.10pm

6.3pm

6.40pm 8.45pm

– 32 Cambridge “ Bookings P L E A S823 E 5064 WEA R Lake YO Street, UR M ASK”

www.tivolicinema.co.nz

Cambridge

11.15am Tue, 3.45pm 19 Mar

4.10pm 1.15pm 6.00pm 11.00am 11.20am 8.10pm 4.10pm

2 hrs 16 mins

11.00-11.30am 12.00-12.30pm 12.00-12.30pm 12.00-1.00pm 1.00-1.30pm 1.30-2.30pm

Fri, 15 Mar

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Hotel Mumbai (M)

PBN PBN $999,000 Auction Deadline Sale PBN

C L O S E D

11.15am 10.45am11.30am 11.30am 11.15am 6.15pm12.40pm 11.30am

Film 1 hr 51 mins

All open homes subject to being in level 2

LJ HOOKER continued Sunday 17 October 13 Kowhai Drive Deadline Sale 42a Weld Street Deadline Sale 34a Scott Street Deadline Sale

Film FILM NAME

(PG)Home (PG) AAINBO Dog's Way

CAMBRIDGE OPEN HOMES

LJ HOOKER Saturday 16 October 13 Kowhai Drive Deadline Sale

The Best Value in Showbusiness

Deadline Ahead

OPEN HOMES

BAYLEYS Saturday 16 October 6 Victoria Street Sunday 17 October 359 Marychurch Road 71 Baxter Michael Cres 3 Cotter Place

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Bookings 823 5064 – 32 Lake Street, Cambridge

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