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Rose by another name? By Mary Anne Gill
The home to at least 20 Rosetown businesses – and the world-renowned Rose Garden - may be asked to debate a new town brand. Members of the Te Awamutu Community Board aired the thorny issue at their monthly meeting this week – which ironically, featured a successful application for funding from the Te Awamutu Rose Society towards November’s 58th annual Te Awamutu Rose Show. At risk of having her report nipped in the bud, board chair Ange Holt said she had been involved in a discussion with a marketer about the town’s main street “and ended up with a relook at the identity of Te Awamutu”. “The last time a ‘do we want to be Rosetown’ was undertaken was a few years back and organised by Susan Trodden for the Chamber. I think if we both get together on this and get an interested working group to drive it, it could provide a great outcome,” she said. Te Awamutu’s links with roses bloomed in the 1960s and in 1969 the Jaycees and several community groups developed a rugged piece of waste land in Arawata Street into the Rose Garden. Soon after that, because of the Rose Garden’s prominent position at the eastern entrance of the town, people began referring to Te Awamutu as ‘The Rose Town of New Zealand”. Four years ago, during a workshop on Te Ara Wai, a museum to showcase Waipā and New Zealand history, town leaders acknowledged it was probably time to ditch the Rose Town moniker and come up with something linked to Te Ara Wai. Board member and councillor Susan
The iconic bird sculpture at Te Awamutu Rose Garden designed by Ngāti Korokī Kahukura artist Fred Graham. O’Regan said there was a lot of work done then which developed into branding discussions about the town. “I wonder if there is an exercise where we pull together the work done previously,” she said. From there the board could develop a strategic plan. “This is very relevant and pertinent but it’s not about wasting people’s time,” she said.
Holt said there was an opportunity with Te Ara Wai now being established across the road from the Rose Garden and at one of the entrances to the town, to revisit Rose Town. “Is Rose Town still relevant?” Holt said a Waikato business student could assist with research. The project could be a Community Board/ Chamber of Commerce initiative. “It’s an opportunity to engage. We’ve got
a lot of new people in town who we could be asking. We also need to make sure the voice of iwi is heard and included.” Possibilities included marrying European influences of roses with Māori identity such as a pou decorated around the base with bright red roses depicting blood that fell on both sides during the Land Wars, she said. The board agreed to establish a working group to explore the identity of Te Awamutu.
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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 council, Waikato DHB and Chambers of Commerce in Te Awamutu and Cambridge were organising several celebratory activities. She was speaking before it was announced
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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.
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Waikato would remain at Level 3 until 11.59pm on 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. Te Awamutu nurse and vaccinator Margaret Mansell gave Waipā mayor Jim “Every parent Mylchreest his first Covid-19 shot in August at the Te Awamutu vaccinations has been told to get centre. vaccinated and to get to back Super Saturday and encourage their teenagers vaccinated,” she said. “We’ll people to get vaccinated. do whatever we need to do to.” The News has been approached this week Mayor Jim Mylchreest said Waipā needed by Labour’s Angela Roberts and Taranaki to come together and get vaccinated and King Country MP Barbara Kuriger, National challenged the district to live up to its – and they are singing from the same hymn moniker. sheet. “[It would] be great if Waipā: Home of Kuriger, National’s rural spokesperson Champions had the highest vaccination rate said farmers and their teams had been busy across the country.” doing their own thing, “but we’re at the end In a message of support from the DHB, of calving and lambing. Now is the time for chief Nursing and Midwifery officer Sue them to ensure that they and their families, Hayward paid tribute to all the nurses and as well as their staff, are protected.” support people who were giving up their “This time around, as well as making sure time and other commitments to “be the ones who are making sure we can have a healthier that everyone is safe, has food and financial support, we also need to get tested and most future. Kakepuku ward councillor Susan O’Regan importantly, get vaccinated,” Roberts said. “If you are already vaccinated, you still voiced her support for Super Saturday. have a job to do - talk to your whanau “Without widespread vaccination these and your mates. There is a lot of great simple things will not happen. Just get it information on the Covid-19 website to done and we can get back something closer answer all those valid questions that make to normal again.” us uncertain.” MPs have put politician differences aside
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People power prevails Over the last few weeks, we have fielded a number of complaints from the community at Te Pahu. They have alerted us to a series of wilful damage cases including an incident where a 4x4 vehicle was driven through some gates into a quarry, causing significant damage. The same vehicle was seen a week later causing damage in similar circumstances. This week a small team of police prepared a search warrant and yesterday morning travelled into Hamilton. A 19-year-old male was arrested and charged with a number of offences, and we are following
up on multiple positive lines of enquiry on other offences. Seeking support from your neighbours and belonging to a network in your area is key. Through videos posted on social media of the offending we have been able to make progress on these matters. Another group I have been working with is the residents of Pukeatua who are experiencing a lot of illegal street racing. I am developing a plan with them to help mitigate offending in that area. This will likely involve people power. Again, this will involve an active Neighbourhood Support network, organising residents to have a voice
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Briefs…
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.
Clarification
The Kihikihi Residents and Ratepayers group proposed a 'playground only' site at Rochfort Park as part of the submission process for the Kihikihi Urban Development Plan. Waipā District Council has yet to decide where a separate skatepark site would go and will consult with community groups.
No grinches here
“You can’t have Christmas without a Christmas parade. We can’t be the grinches,” said Susan O’Regan. With that, another round of discretionary funding approved by Te Awamutu Community Board wrapped up this week. Rotary received $3000 for its annual Christmas parade and the Te Awamutu Rose Show $2000 to help stage the 58th annual Te Awamutu Rose Show next month.
Peace Fountain on Te Awamutu’s Peace Fountain will be working for Armistice Day commemorations on November 11 and 14 following an approach from Te Awamutu Community Board chair Ang Holt.
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
Wedding Day in Glenorchy, from left, Boyd Davies, Codee Matthews, Emily Davies, Sarah Matthews, Justin Matthews, Liam Davies and Madelyn Matthews.
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
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.
School calls hui to discuss name change By Viv Posselt
Te Awamutu’s Pekerau Primary School will hold a public hui next Thursday - October 21 - in a bid to correct its name. With the support of staff, the school Board and mana whenua, new principal Tania Bagley is keen to get the name changed from Pekerau to Pekapekarau School. She says the original name of the area was understood to be Pekapekarau, meaning an area with hundreds of bats. The spelling Pekerau is deemed to be incorrect, she said. The word was likely a shortened version of Pekapekarau and should have been spelled ‘Pekarau’. Tania, who took over the school’s leadership in July, said at some stage the name was shortened, and then mis-spelled. “Getting the name corrected is one of the bigger issues coming up for our Board. It has been talked
about for a while, then was parked for some reason. I’d like to see it sorted out, and I fully support the Board members in their efforts to do that.” Board chair Erinna Lane said it was not entirely clear who originally raised the topic. “But when it came to light that the name was spelled incorrectly, conversations were held within our community. There was some korero and it was determined that if the name was wrong, it needed to be corrected. We believe the time is right to do that.” The public hui will be held at the school starting at 6pm. The idea, said Erinna, is to inform, update and include the kura whānau in progress around the name change. “We just want to bring voices together… to provide an opportunity for any other korero that might come from it.” “Another member of the Board, Maia Stockman, said they were ‘blessed to have
the guidance and backing from mana whenua thus far’ on the issue.” “Depending on the Covid level changes, we may have to hold the hui by Zoom – but information on that will be on our school Facebook page,” she said. “Whatever happens, the hui will be going ahead.” Tania said the hui would provide an opportunity for questions and discussions. “At the end of the day, it is about making something right.” Although new in the role of principal, Tania has taught at Pekerau School for a while and spent some time as acting principal. She is positive about the school’s future and said there is room to grow from the current roll of 236. “We have moved into a new positive phase, one of stable leadership. I am familiar with what Pekerau is about and am passionate about the school. Our rates of achievement are high.
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I’m committed to Pekerau’s future, to showing our community how amazing we are. My door is open and we welcome new families exploring options for their child’s education.” In September, the school made the news with a Zoom video on lockdown bloopers created by Pekerau students
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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 reducing
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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 cope 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.
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Talk to motorists says board chair By Blair Voorend
Commuters should be polled to find out what would make them switch from a car to a bus, Te Awamutu Community Board chair Ange Holt says. She believes it will probably take some form of incentive to help the shift. Covid fall out had not helped, as bus passenger number dropped during and after the first lockdown, but that is starting to turn around. “According to our last transportation report I see despite wearing face masks as at June 2021 bus use was up compared to pre 2020 covid numbers,” she said. Last year the Community Board was shown a proposal by council to increase bus options, with more regular trips to and from Kihikihi and potentially a weekly service to Waikeria and a Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Hamilton circuit. Council has since broken down this proposal into three stages with the first stage designed to provide a seven day a week between Hamilton and Te Awamutu and upgrading routes to Kihikihi and adding a Waikeria service.
This stage is expected to be implemented in 2022 but is provisional on Waka Kotahi funding. Stages 2 and 3 will look at creating routes between Cambridge and Te Awamutu and expanding the Te Awamutu town loop. Waikato Regional Connections committee chair Angela Strange said that improvements are influenced by passenger numbers, the need from district councils and the required funding. She said it was a complicated funding model and improvements usually took some time. “We are looking at how we
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Bunnings shunned A Te Awamutu Community Board member wants the Bunnings name booted out of town. In a notice of motion to the board on Tuesday, Richard Hurrell said the Bunnings car park should be renamed Arawata Street Carpark in all Waipā District Council communications. Bunnings closed both its Waipā stores last year. “Bunnings has done no favours to the Waipā and getting the public familiar with a change of name for the location would be beneficial to all,” said Hurrell. The former Te Awamutu store, bought for $2.05 million in May by council, will be home to Te Ara Wai, the district’s museum. It is currently being used as a Covid vaccination centre under an arrangement between the council and Waikato District Health Board.
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Gig, single on Karnack’s list By Luke East
Te Awamutu-based Heavy Metal band Karnack is booked to appear at next month’s Railfest – billed as Waikato’s biggest rock and metal festival. The band has been on tour throughout the North Island in recent months and plans to release their single Artificial Alliance in the New Year. Most recently, Karnack played at Hamilton’s Nirvara Lounge on what should have been the launch of an EP by Auckland band Downfall of Humanity. The launch joined the list of Covid casualties. The four-piece band have been performing together since 2015 and has twice been national Battle of the Bands finalists. It has also survived the
comings-and-goings of six bandmates but lead vocalist and guitarist Renelia Whitmarsh thinks they’ve got the chemistry right now. They’re booked to perform at Railfest in November alongside Deathnir and an array of other artists - but all that is dependent on the Waikato being at a lower alert level by then.
Renelia Whitmarsh pictured with the current Karnack line up, from left, Zach Walsh, Daniel Mackie and Scott Pye.
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When I was twelve years old my dad taught me to wallpaper. We scooted across the hill from the Hutt Valley into Whitby and spent a few days helping my aunty, who was a solo mum at the time. Dad showed me how to set the plumb line to ensure the wallpaper was hung properly; pattern matching with joins and corners nice and proper. The plumb line ensured we were able to achieve the result intended by the one who designed the wallpaper. This lesson became most important when, many years later, my wife and I pulled an all-nighter to refresh our hall and lounge with a new look. Again, the plumb line
was essential to ensure we completed our wallpapering job to the standard we hoped to achieve. What Kathy and I discovered in our old homestead in Matangi was the walls of older houses are not always square. And, in this, we learned a valuable lesson. You cannot base your assessment of what is true by the surrounding environment. You have to trust the plumb line, as the plumb line is always true. The world is not looking so flash at the moment and I propose to you the key reason is we have abandoned the plumb line. The standard for living as prescribed by the
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School goes to market for charity By Viv Posselt
Waipā Christian School students will be putting their faith into action next week by holding a Friday fundraising market day on October 22 in support of the charity, Loving Arms. A line-up of stalls at the school – themed in pink and blue – will be manned during the day by students who will sell items they have collected or made. School principal Jaco Labuschagné said the event would be very much a family and community affair, with a good mix of home baking, toys and other items on sale. Te Awamutu-based charity Loving Arms was started in 2014 by Sharni Budd and provides essential baby products to in-need mothers and families. Several Waipā Christian School students recently visited the charity’s home
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them the importance of volunteering and contributing to something larger than themselves. “Some of the children had some really insightful questions about helping after hearing one of our volunteers talking about why she volunteers her time. One of the biggest points we made to the children was that helping out doesn’t need to be a big deal. You just do what you can to make someone else’s life better with what you have.” The visit made quite an impression on some of the youngsters. Nathaniel Smith and Liam Maritz said Loving Arms did ‘lots of stuff to help families’, while April Hight said she never realised that so many people needed help. “I really want to do something for them … maybe get some of my old clothes or toys,” she said. The market day is just one
of several community events on the school’s calendar. Jaco has steered the ship for just over four years, stepping into the principal’s role after spending over five years’ teaching at St Peter’s Catholic
School in Cambridge. He is keen to build the roll from its current 69 pupils. The school started out more than three decades ago as Bethel Christian School, working out of the Te Awamutu Bible
Chapel centre across the road. It moved into its current building in 2014 and can now easily accommodate 104 students from new entrants to Year 8 across its four classrooms.
Waipā Christian School principal Jaco Labuschagné, left, and relief teacher ‘Mr Karlo’ with a group of Year 1/2 pupils.
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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
Kākā juveniles have been tagged in Hamilton and Morrinsville. Photo: Department of Conservation
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 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
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Rain welcome, but supply issue looms By Blair Voorend
Heavy spring rain has set up a productive season for farmers, says a Waipā farming leader. Te Awamutu Federated
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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,
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Farming is in their blood By Mary Anne Gill
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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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There can’t be many SH1 road-users who haven’t been agog at the eye-catching tree protectors standing proud in a paddock just south of Karapiro. Some have given voice to their curiosity, say the orchardists behind it, Helen Stockman and Paul Gardiner, with passers-by sometimes stopping to call out questions when they see one or other of them in the paddock. A few have offered a humorous nod as to what the paddock resembles – and it’s not
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always protection for trees they’re talking about. “They’ve certainly attracted a lot of attention,” laughed Helen, “and still do, even though they’ve been in for almost a year.” Their Vitalitree tree protection system is the result of ‘kitchen bench’ thinking and a lot of hard graft. It was when they were researching the best way to protect their young macadamia nut trees that they found an information vacuum. “We ordered the trees in 2019, knowing we would
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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. To 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. The 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
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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exclusion regulations to comply with. These 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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4.10pm 6.00pm 1.15pm 3.20pm 6.00pm 8.30pm The result for11.15am the 2021 Trustee election 11.15am that closed at11.15am 5pm on Friday 1st 3.15pm 11.00am 12.45pm Hotel Mumbai (M) PERSIAN LESSONSOctober (M) 20213.35pm 3.30pm 5.40pm that 11.00am 11.20am 4.20pm is outlined below. I confirm the official result was determined 6.00pm 8.00pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 8.10pm 5.50pm 2Green hrs 20 Book mins (M) 2 hrs 25 mins 1.10pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 4.00pm 4.10pm 6.00pm after the scrutiny of all returned voting papers and counting of all valid votes.
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Received 1.40pm 1.30pm Votes 1.45pm 11.15am 11.00am 3.45pm 11.15am 2.00pm DAVIES, Sarah 2,822 8.00pm 6.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 5.45pm 22 hrs 6.00pm 8.00pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 8.10pm hrs 15 20 mins mins MILNER, Ray 2,541 BANNON, Judy 2,513 6.15pm 4.35pm 4.15pm 5.00pm 4.10pm 4.00pm 3.45pm EAGLE (M)(M) Stan & THE Ollie (M) 1.45pm 1.15pm8.30pm1.45pm 1.30pm 1.45pm 1.40pm IfRIDE Beale Street Could Talk 9.00pm MCLEAN, David 2,262 6.15pm 6.10pm 6.15pm 8.30pm hr 53 8.00pm 6.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 5.45pm 21 hrs 15mins mins SANDERS, Craig 2,224 3.45pm 2.40pm 2,106 7.45pm THE ALPINIST (E) GOWER, Marcus 11.00am 1.00pm 11.00am 11.00am 11.30am Swimming 4.10pm 4.00pm 1.45pm 4.15pm 3.45pm Stan & OllieWith (M) Men (M)HURRELL, Richard 1,993 5.50pm 5.50pm 4.00pm 1.15pm 8.30pm 11 hr 52 mins TOON, David 1,653 6.15pm 6.10pm 6.15pm 8.30pm hr 53 mins THE BOSS BABY: FAMILY 11.00am 11.00am 3.30pm8.40pm 1.30pm 6.40pm GOOD, Chantelle 1,576 1.20pm 1.15pm BUSINESS (PG) 1,339 1.00pm 11.00am 11.00am 11.30am Swimming With Men (M)REID, Ashley 11.00am 4.10pm 8.45pm 6.40pm The Guilty (M) 1 hr 40 mins WESTERBAAN, Bernard 804 5.50pm 5.50pm 4.00pm 1.15pm 8.30pm 1 hr 52 mins 1.00pm THE ICE ROAD (M) INFORMAL 9.00pm 9.00pm 5.50pm 6.25pm 9 8.40pm 6.40pm BLANK 11 11.00am THE ROSE MAKER (M) 4.15pm 6.3pm 3.10pm 6.40pm Judy BANNON, Sarah DAVIES, Marcus GOWER, David 4.10pm 8.45pm 6.40pm The Guilty (M) 1 hr 40 minsI therefore declare 5.40pm McLEAN, Ray MILNER and Craig SANDERS to be elected as Trustees of the Bookings 5064 – 32 Cambridge “ Waipa P L ENetworks A S823 E Trust. WEA R Lake YO Street, UR M ASK”
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