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Parking woes, by George By Mary Anne Gill

Safety issues at the George Street public carpark and the level of action by the district council are worrying the Te Awamutu Community Board. In her report to the board on Tuesday, board chair Angela Holt said while Waipā District Council had budgeted $170,000 to parking improvements in the town, it was not clear how much of that would go to George Street. “There is some money allocated to carpark improvements, however we need to push harder to get the George Street carpark

addressed before someone does get hurt. “That carpark is getting busier and busier and how someone between McDonalds and the Warehouse has not been seriously hurt is unbelievable. “We do not expect everything to be done at once but doing nothing year in and year out is not acceptable,” she said. Entrance to the car park is from Sloane Street to the west, where traffic mingles with McDonald’s takeaway clients and George Street, to the east. When The News visited, several cars were seen travelling

the wrong way through the car park. Board member Richard Hurrell was just as frustrated. “It was asked of them and it’s in the too hard basket. If they are considering the safety thing, they need to have a footpath from the shops on the northern side of that carpark to the toilets. I don’t know how nobody has been run over in that area,” he said. “We said originally that was needed but it’s been ignored.” Another in support of changes was Jill Taylor who said the changes needed to happen very quickly as people had ignored the

no exit signs for at least 12 years. The board was to recommend to the council’s Service Delivery committee to approve the installation of a marked walkway in the carpark from McDonalds to The Warehouse with a raised crossing between the public toilets and The Warehouse. It would provide a safe place for pedestrians to cross and slow traffic down at the blind corner, Holt said. But board members recalled they had a standing motion with the council and so instead asked for staff to find that so they could decide at the next meeting.

The George Street car park confuses drivers and is a safety concern for the community board.

Church land up for sale By Mary Anne Gill

The Te Awamutu Presbyterian Church has offered to sell part of its land in Mutu Street to Waipā District Council to help fund its new church. Te Awamutu Community Board Jill Taylor member Jill Taylor made the announcement at the board meeting this week. She said the offer had gone into council on Monday. The amount of land would create 30 much needed car park spaces in the middle of town, she told the board. The church was offering the land to the council and would use the funds raised to help build their church, she said. Council had first rights to buy, otherwise the land would be sold privately. Board chair Ange Holt said it was “thinking outside the square”. There has been a Presbyterian Church at 80 Mutu Street in Te Awamutu for more than a century. The previous Hinuera stone church, built in 1965, was demolished six years ago for safety reasons after it was deemed earthquake prone. Plans for the new $3 million church on the large site incorporate an auditorium, hall, commercial kitchen, flexible function and seminar rooms, counselling spaces, play areas, a barista corner and offices. The new spaces would be available for use and hire by the community seven days a week. Church services would be held in the auditorium along with weddings and funerals which have had to be turned away since 2015.

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Te Awamutu remains among Waikato centres continuing to operate daily Covid testing sites.

Advisor roles may be permanent By Mary Anne Gill

Wāipa District Council is hoping to make the two community advisor roles, which were established last year as part of a Covid recovery package, a more permanent arrangement. Gina Scott and Corren Ngerengere started in November and in more recent times have worked closely with Waikato District Health Board to support their vaccination efforts in the district’s hard to reach areas. Council Strategic Partnerships manager Gary Knighton told the Cambridge Community Board the council was looking to extend the 18-month fixed-term roles which are funded from a $795,000 recovery package. “We see a lot of value in those positions and we’re in the process of making those a permanent role so that would be based on the Covid funding they were initially funded on. We are moving to make those roles permanent,” he told board members. Their work with the DHB was critical, he said. “It’s about utilising those contacts that they’ve built up and trying to drill into those harder to reach areas.” Board member Elise Badger welcomed the work done by the community advisors. “I think it would be great to see local council really supporting that vaccination drive. I think it’s in the best interests of our community that we can be unlocking and be prepared for whatever this pandemic brings.”

Ōtorohanga, Hamilton and Te Kuiti also have pop-up and dedicated testing sites operating as they report new cases daily. But in Cambridge business leaders are calling for the town to drop down to level 2 with the bulk of New Zealand as fully vaccinated rates close in on 90 per cent. Waipā has leap-frogged Hamilton to lead the region’s vaccination rates with 91.5 per cent of the eligible population having one dose and 80 per cent fully vaccinated. The last active case in Karāpiro, linked to other known Hamilton cases, dropped off Waikato DHB’s reporting late last month. When level three restrictions eased a little last week, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce urged retailers to put tables and chairs outside their shops but a Police Covid taskforce then reportedly threatened businesses with closure if they took their trade outside. Police did not to answer a specific question from the News about the taskforce’s visit but did say they continued to have “high visibility” in communities by conducting reassurance patrols across Waikato. They were “educating” members of the public and businesses around the new rules “some of whom were not aware of the alert level changes,” a police spokesperson said. Taupō MP Louise Upston, who lives in Cambridge, had already written to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asking her to explain why the town was still in level three

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but reacted furiously at the weekend when told about the outside furniture ban. “Have we become a police state now?” Upston’s office said yesterday they have not had a response from Ardern or the police. Cambridge Chamber chief executive Kelly Bouzaid said the regulations about tables and chairs “make no sense.” “We are trying to comply and accept the rules, but they keep changing.” By Wednesday, as The News went to press, there were 35 active cases in Hamilton, 21 in Te Awamutu-Kihikihi, 23 in Ōtorohanga, two in Kawhia and one in Te Kuiti. The first Cambridge case was reported in Karāpiro more than a month ago. The DHB closed its Cambridge Community Vaccination Centre at the community marae 22 days ago saying the town was so well vaccinated, local providers could complete the programme. People can still be vaccinated at Cambridge Medical Centre and Unichem Family Health Pharmacy. In Te Awamutu vaccination centres are open at Unichem Marshalls Pharmacy, Te Awamutu Medical Centre, old Bunnings Building and Sanders Pharmacy. The nearest testing centres are in Hamilton, at Founders Theatre, Claudelands and Te Kōhao Health and in Te Awamutu at the Te Awamutu Events Centre Carpark between 10am-2pm.

Like many groups, Covid-19 has had an impact on the team at Operation Christmas Hampers. This time each year we are busy out on the streets getting donations of food, Christmas treats and presents for families in need. Many organisations have collection boxes and it is a lot of fun being together collecting donations. Sadly, this year we have had to adapt in the ever-changing environment that is the Covid-19 restrictions. Even if we are in a position to scramble and begin our collection drives, there is no guarantee that we can safely meet

together and package up the hampers. The risk and uncertainty is too high. To that end, in the spirit of improvise, adapt and overcome we have changed up how we are going to deliver. We won’t let Covid beat us. Throughout the year the team has been busy soliciting donations from a number of generous business who want to help. These donations will be put to good use with vouchers for supermarkets (not redeemable for tobacco or alcohol). It is not entirely what we intended, my favourite part of the Operation is

when we supply a large amount of roast meals for families but sadly circumstances have dictated we do it this way. I have been asked by many people from the community how they can help. This year, we are asking people to help by setting up a collection point at the workplace. Christmas is normally a stressful time for many but this year with the looming spectre of social restrictions, now more than ever we need your help

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Briefs…

Remembering them

Armistice Day celebrations in Waipā will be somewhat muted this year. The Te Awamutu RSA will hold a small ceremony at Anzac Green on Sunday. There will be 25 people on either side of the monument and wreaths will be laid, councillor Lou Brown said. In Cambridge, there was to be a wreath laying service today while on Sunday the Cambridge RSA will lay wreaths at the Cenotaph, the Hautapu Memorial Gates and in the RSA Section of the Hautapu Cemetery.

Weeds will go: council By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā council staff have assured the Te Awamutu Community Board that median strips full of “ugly” weeds at Te Awamutu’s eastern entrance will soon be gone. Te Awamutu Community Board chair Angela Holt complained the entrances at Arawata Street, SH3 and Cambridge Road looked terrible. “The excuse that it is too dangerous, or a transit issue is not acceptable,” she said in her monthly report to the board this week.

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Cambridge’s annual Christmas Parade is off - so organisers are challenging would be float builders to construct a shoe box size entry. Floats can follow any theme and should be registered before November 25 and shared on social media. Floats will then be displayed in shop windows and a winner announced on December 4. For details go to www.cambridge.co.nz

Finfish call

Waikato MP Tim van de Molen has welcomed an amendment to the recreational daily bag limits for finfish, under the Fisheries (Amateur Fishing) Regulations 2013 proposed by Fisheries New Zealand. The MP, a keen fisher, is encouraging people to get submissions in on the proposal before November 18 at www.mpi.govt.nz

Turning on: Te Awamutu’s Peace Fountain will be working for Armistice Day.

“We recently have received a written complaint from the public and it is a general comment made by many in our community.” Parks Operations team leader Matt Johnston said staff sprayed the entrances and median strips and garden staff would cut down the taller weeds when they could safely get onto the island. There are other roadworks in the area that make it hard to safely complete the work, he said. Acting general manager Strategy and Community Sally Sheedy said it was dangerous for council teams to do work in areas like this and so any work had to be done alongside traffic management teams. “While I appreciate doing some low maintenance plants within these sites would be desirable, weeds are still the strongest aspect in these locations so even planting would require some maintenance work.” Board member Jill Taylor said she had never seen the weeds so bad in the area. Meanwhile, Holt praised council staff for their support and assistance to get the Peace Fountain in Te Awamutu Memorial Park working for Armistice Day and the next few days. “I also want to acknowledge the positive working relationship that is growing between the War

Weeds out: The unsightly median strip in Arawata Street.

Memorial Park committee and park staff,” she said. The Peace Fountain was built in 1955 and was part of the park’s original design. Water to the fountain comes from the town’s water mains. A notice at the site says the water has been turned off due to low water levels. This would help prevent any damage to the pumps which are unable to operate effectively at lower water levels, the signs say. A concept plan for the park approved by the council as part of its Long-Term Plan advocates the use of solar pumps to reticulate the water.

Joint roading group proposed By Mary Anne Gill

A radical approach to boosting use of public transport by centralising funding and decisionmaking has been floated in an independent review of Waikato Regional Council’s service. The review recommends investigating having one organisation contracted and funded by all Waikato territorial authorities and Waka Kotahi (New Zealand Transport Agency) to run the region’s public transport. Regional Transport Connections director Mark Tamura told the Regional Transport committee last week the need for greater use of public transport or other alternatives to single occupancy vehicles was “significant and pressing”. Grahame Webber, Waipā’s representative on the committee, said the plan might be a radical one for New Zealand, but was commonplace overseas and “way overdue”. Committee chair Hugh Vercoe said the Waikato

region had a history of working together and “making things happen.” The primary objectives of the review, prepared by Beca Ltd and Invise Ltd, were to assess public transport business performance and develop a set of prioritised, practical and actionable recommendations. “So why is it so difficult for us to meet the demand? A lot of that comes back to the complexity of our funding and decision-making environment for public transport in terms of how it’s funded,” said Tamura. Progress has been difficult but as part of the Regional Transport Plan, the region now had the opportunity to make changes. Among the recommendations approved by the Regional Transport committee were for the council to investigate establishing a Council Controlled Organisation, moving to a bulk funding model for public transport and infrastructure and establishing a regional transport alliance.

Those funding changes would require legislative changes and a high degree of alignment between authorities. “We need our own decision-making framework for how that money is spent and by practising that, applying it and doing it well. It would require ministry changes, the government and Waka Kotahi having confidence,” said Tamura. The public transport budget for Waikato is $36.2 million with $23.9 million of that going to public bus services, $6 million to passenger rail, $700,000 to Total Mobility and $5.6 million for planned improvements, support systems, facilities and staff. Hamilton urban services make up 76 per cent of the budget with 18 per cent going on travel between Hamilton and neighbouring towns, including Cambridge and Te Awamutu, and six per cent to regional services. Waka Kotahi provides 51 per cent of the funding. The regional council funds services within Hamilton

from rates as do other district councils where services are within their districts. Where services link Hamilton with neighbouring towns, funding is split between the regional council and district councils. Tamura said that made for an uneasy model and he gave the practical example of trying to establish a high frequency connection between Hamilton and Cambridge. Those talks would involve the Hamilton, Waipā and Waikato councils, Waka Kotahi and the regional council. Getting them all to align and provide the funding required made it difficult to build a public transport system that reduced transport emissions, makes more efficient use of transport corridors and connected people and communities. Deputy chair Angela Strange said it was heartening to read developers were keen to contribute to public transport infrastructure and not services. “We need transformational

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Waipā ticks domestic boxes By Benjamin Wilson

Waipā is a shining star, Hamilton and Waikato Tourism chief Jason Dawson says. He says its attractiveness to domestic tourism has enabled the region to prosper during the Covid-19 pandemic. The region saw seen annual growth of an estimated 14 per cent in visitor spending to the year ending in June – well p on pre-Covid rises. New Zealand’s international visitor arrivals plunged by 84 percent between June 2019 to June 2021. Jason Dawson said Waipā range of attractions have domestic appeal. It has not been the same for Waitomo and Matamata, which rely heavily on international tourist dollars spent at the Waitomo Caves and Hobbiton and not repeat visits from domestic tourists. Dawson said the impact on the Waitomo community was particularly significant – and issued a plea to Waikato residents to support the industry there. He said where previous visitors might recall the glow worm caves as a memorable experience offer, today there were 20 worth seeing. Conversely, Waipā is the home to many internationally recognisable sport and event

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travel within their own island,” Dawson said. The future looks equally bright for the district. Hamilton airport, which is in Waipā, is undergoing a multi-million-dollar upgrade and $12.4 million has been budgeted for the construction of the Te Arawai Museum in Te Awamutu.

Demand for help from Te Awamutu’s foodbank continues to rise at a time when donations have fallen. “We have had a sharp rise in the number of people seeking food from the foodbank,” Maree Richardson from Te Awamutu Combined Church said. The combined churches are among several groups in the region offering food packages and they have seen a sharp rise in demand from people who are self-isolating. “There were a number of close contacts when Covid hit Te Awamutu who had to self-isolate, and District Health Board advised them to contact us for assistance,” Maree said. “We are a small food bank, and we are unable to store large volumes of food. During the lockdown, the number of food parcels has stripped our resources, and we have not been receiving the usual amount of food donations.” Pick up services are still under social distance restrictions, and volunteers have been offering their services to help with deliveries. “All our deliverers are volunteers, and a number are in the at-risk group. We are very fortunate to have others who have stepped up to help as all our food parcels are delivered.” The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has provided a grant to assist with additional costs, but there are concerns about how the services will be sustained, she added. “Traditionally the December to January period is the high demand period, without Covid.” “At this stage, we are in a position to meet the need, but we can see that our cash reserves will not hold out if the demand continues.”

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Te Awamutu’s Pekerau School has taken its first step towards correcting its name to Pekapekarau School. The decision to move towards a name change was given the green light at a hui held via zoom on October 21. The next step is to get Ministry of Education approval. Correcting the name has been a topic of discussion within the school community for some time, based on the understanding that when the name was first recorded with the Ministry of Education, it was misspelt and then shortened. Pekerau School Board of Trustees chair Erinna Lane said following a consultation process, the school community was invited to attend the hui where they heard stories from kaumatua and mana whenua of Ngāti Apakura which linked the school to the bats (pekapeka) from which its name is derived. “The correction of our school name was put to a vote at the end of that hui where

it received a unanimous vote of support,” Erinna said. “This correction is now waiting on the approval of the Ministry of Education and we will look forward to unveiling Pekapekarau as our rightful name at a date to be confirmed in 2022.” The hui was facilitated by Waimihi Hotere and attended by Pekerau School principal Tania Bagley. Stories of pekapekarau were shared by Ngāti Apakura representatives Georgina Rewha, Tom Hemara-Wahanui, Maria Murray, Haupai Puke, and Hazel Wander. The history of the name correction discussion was shared by acting deputy principal Riss Randell and Board support was shared by Maia Stockman. Principal Tania Bagley said the proposed name change would go to this month’s meeting of the Board and then move to the Ministry of Education. “The Ministry is aware of our call to have the name changed … it’s awesome that the process has started. There are exciting times ahead.”

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The arrival of rail By Luke East

Almost 150 years ago a meeting was held in Te Awamutu to discuss the construction of a rail line from Te Awamutu to Tauranga and on a subsequent visit to Kihikihi in February 1878, where he held a public meeting at the hotel, Sir George Grey was urged to support the extension of rail to Te Awamutu. Although much has changed in the intervening years and the motorcar is now a mainstay of almost every household as we face a time of increasing congestion, pollution, urban sprawl and gridlocked roads, rail looks to again be the future of transport. At that 1873 meeting in Te Awamutu those present declared that “all legitimate influence to attain [the creation of a rail line through the Upper Waikato to Tauranga]” should be used and by 1874 the Government allotted £11,290,190 for railways,

with Te Awamutu being reported in 1875 as the “furthest extension south of the Auckland railway” (the first sod of the Main Trunk Line was later turned by Rewi Maniapoto and Prime Minister Sir Robert Stout in 1885), today the line is still in use and slowly but surely passenger rail is returning to the Waikato. Earlier this year Waikato Regional Council chairman Russ Rimmington told the Te Awamutu News that it must again be a priority to extend passenger rail to towns including Te Awamutu and Cambridge. Te Awamutu’s first train

station was built in the 1880s and subsequently replaced in 1958 by a larger building which was demolished in 2001. In its heyday the station attracted tens of thousands of travellers a year. As rail experiences a slow but steady resurgence the Te Awamutu Community Board chair Ange Holt says she is “supportive of a little station” being built in Te Awamutu because rail is a more eco-friendly way to travel, but says she hopes that if passenger rail is again extended to the town that it is “timely and economical or people won’t use it”.

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Rephrasing JFK By Christine Bryant, Lay Minister St John’s

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” President John F. Kennedy challenged all Americans to put their nation before their own interests. Unfortunately, JFK was not given long to act on his words. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Navigating the crisis that is Covid-19 began for us on February 26, 2020, when the first case reached our shores. Since then we have had lockdowns, learnt a mass of new vocabulary and got to grips with self-isolation, how viruses mutate and how vaccines are developed. Many have learnt to work from home and all our students have coped with online study. We have all acquired new skills and knowledge. Now we have moved into another phase. We cannot eliminate this virulent form of Covid. So, it is time to re-phrase JFK’s challenge and to ask: What is the most helpful thing I can do for my country at this time? There are two very good reasons for asking this: Firstly, we are responsible for doing all we can to protect the most vulnerable. They are the 0–12-year-olds who can’t yet be vaccinated and the frontline workers and the elderly, many of whom were the first to roll up their sleeves and whose protection against Covid is now waning. Secondly, we need to protect the livelihoods of those whose income has been disrupted by lockdowns. Small businesses and professionals have hardly had a client through the doors since mid-August, but also think of school and office cleaners who are amongst the “new

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slow vehicle speeds entering and exiting the side road, formalise carparks on Great Burke Street and Great South Road and move the bus stops closer to the town centre. Work is scheduled for the middle of next year will take around four months to complete. A link to the Zoom meeting will be posted on the council’s Facebook page. For more details go to www.waipadc.govt.nz/ ohaupocrossing.

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It’s time to dust off the barbecue, scrub the grill and enjoy cooking al fresco. Besides producing fabulous flavoursome foods, I find barbecues encourage family togetherness and conversation — it’s difficult to watch television dining under a sun umbrella! Barbecue cooking has become sophisticated: marinades and spicy rubs add exotic flavours to meats and fish; minced meats combined with Asian ingredients make tasty burgers; fresh herbs add interest to fish and shellfish; and popular vegetarian recipes have been created to cater for non-meat eaters. One of my standbys is thickly sliced eggplants, capsicums and courgettes combined in a large bowl with whole mushrooms, a generous slosh of olive oil, plenty of crushed garlic and freshly ground black pepper. Move the vegetables around to ensure they are well coated. They can be marinated — covered — in the fridge for several hours. Barbecue in batches until just tender. PIRIPIRI BUTTERFLIED CHICKEN 1.3kg butterflied chicken 1/2 cup piripiri sauce 1/4 cup each: olive oil, lemon juice 3 cloves garlic, crushed Place the chicken in a shallow dish. Combine the piripiri sauce, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic. Brush the chicken generously all over with the mixture. Cover and marinate in the fridge for at least 1 hour, turning over once. Preheat a barbecue with a cover to about 180°C. Place the chicken on the hot plate or in a shallow baking tray, cut-side down. Cover and cook for about 50-60 minutes until the juices run clear or the internal temperature is 82°C. Serve with the skewered barbecued taewa. Serves 6.

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500g small purple potatoes 2 cloves garlic, crushed 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon finely chopped rosemary Boil or steam the potatoes until they are just tender. Don’t overcook as they will break up when skewered. Cool. Thread onto metal skewers. Combine the garlic, olive oil and rosemary. Brush over the potatoes. Barbecue for 8-10 minutes, turning often. Serves 6.

finely grated rind and juice 1 small lemon 1 tablespoon olive oil Extras: 6 burger buns, halved and toasted 1/2 cup mayo 2 large tomatoes, sliced 1 red onion, thinly sliced Place the chickpeas, garlic, spices, chickpea flour, tahini, lemon rind and juice and herbs in a food processor and mix well. Combine the cooked spinach with the chickpea mixture. Form into 6 equal patties about the dimension of the burger buns. Chill. To make the salad, drain the feta and cut into 6 equal pieces. Thinly slice the fennel into rounds. Place the feta and fennel in a shallow dish. Combine the remaining ingredients and pour over the top. Marinate until ready to cook. To cook, brush the chickpea burgers with olive oil. Barbecue for about 3-4 minutes each side depending on the thickness. Drain the feta and fennel and barbecue on a hot plate for about 2 minutes each side. Spread the bottom half of each burger buns with mayo. Top with the chickpea burgers, tomato, feta, fennel and red onion. Serves 6.

SKEWERED BARBECUED TAEWA Taewa or riwai are potatoes with purple flesh and skin. I’ve chosen small ones. They heat through quickly on the barbecue.

CHICKPEA BURGERS WITH FENNEL & FETA Chickpea Burgers: 2 x 400g cans chickpeas, drained 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1 teaspoon each: ground cumin, paprika, cinnamon 2 tablespoons chickpea flour 1 tablespoon tahini 1/4 cup each: chopped parsley, mint finely grated rind and juice 1 small lemon 240g baby spinach leaves, steamed, squeezed dry and chopped 1-2 tablespoons olive oil for cooking Fennel & Feta Salad: 200g low salt feta 1 small fennel bulb 1 teaspoon diced chilli

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A hive of activity

By Viv Posselt

Maria and Celso Baldo are a prime example of migrants making good in New Zealand. They’re the founders of Waipā’s Marcel and Sons Honey. Selling multiflora honey is their thing, but they also rear and sell queen bee cell or mated queen bees and offer a pollination service. More recently they have started selling beeswax wraps and candles. Their French Pass Road operation east of Cambridge has been a decade in the making. When the family arrived in New Zealand from the Philippines in 2008, it was in search of a life that would enable them to use their environmental training while raising their family. Celso is a forester by profession, Maria a Bachelor of Environmental Planning graduate. It was through Maria’s urban-based job providing environmental education that she met Celso, who was then working for the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture in the north of the country. The difficulty in conducting a long-distance relationship prompted Celso to pursue other opportunities, particularly after they married in 1999. His interest in bees had been sparked after being exposed to a beekeeping project funded by the European community. He trained from 1999 to 2003, then moved to Australia for a while to work on a queen breeding farm in Queensland. Maria joined him for his second season, but the couple decided Australia wasn’t for them and went home for a while before an opportunity arose in New Zealand. “I came to Galatea in 2007,” Celso said. “It was more welcoming here… I quickly felt at home. After one season I asked Maria to start

The Baldo family with one of the demonstration hives they use to advocate for bees through giving public talks.

processing papers for her and our first-born, Paulo.” They stayed in Galatea for four years, and welcomed their second son, Barry, in Rotorua in 2010. The couple set about enhancing their skills in readiness for the home-based business they wanted to start. Both did apiculture qualifications through Telford Rural Polytechnic, Celso completing a Certificate in Apiculture Knowledge and Maria completing a Certificate in Queen Bee Rearing Knowledge.

“We got our residency in 2010, and thought it was time to give our own operation a good go,” said Celso. “This was where we wanted to stay.” They started from a single swarm Celso had been given from his employer. “I then collected three more, then seven. Now we have about 300 hives.” Some of their hives are on the property they rent on Cambridge’s fringe, while most are spread around the region. Honey may

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be at the heart of it, but their associated skills are often in demand well beyond Cambridge. Both run other jobs as they bed in their home-based business, working at Cambridge Resthaven. It was there that they launched a ‘world of bees’ education programme earlier this year, delighting residents with a firsthand look inside an observation hive and hearing about the inner workings of beekeeping. Educating people about bees is

something they want to do more of; they are keen to promote awareness of the importance of bees by giving talks to schools and other groups. “Our passion is the environment, this is our way of giving something back to the community,” said Maria. The Baldos named their business Marcel and Sons Honey because both their sons, 18-year-old Paulo and Barry, 11, are hands-on and have real skin in the game.

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The future of local government Three waters mess no surprise By Andrew MacPherson

By Jacqui Hahn, President Federated Farmers Waikato

The government has change on its mind and is rolling out a major shake-up of public services, including local government, resource management, three waters, health, education, and other sectors, all of which have significant local implications. I’m on the record as supporting the work being done to review the Future of Local Government. This work is an independent Ministerial review which commenced in April. The review is being done by an independent panel who have recently released their interim report. At the Waikato Regional Council (WRC) we are keen to support this work and agreed on a set of 17 working principles to guide our engagement with the review panel. In this article I will introduce you to a few of these principles. WRC want to see effective partnerships with iwi/Māori and central government which are supported and appropriately resourced. We value effective partnerships with iwi/ Māori and are keen to advocate to the Crown to fully fund Treaty of Waitangi settlements in perpetuity as required by settlement arrangements (as legislated). My view is that central government hands down too many responsibilities (mandates) to councils with no money provided to pay for the extra work, meaning we must increase our rates, which we strongly object to. There needs to be more clarity of roles and responsibilities in local government so that it is simple for the community to know who is accountable for what. Duplication of roles and oversight amongst Regional and District Councils needs to be avoided. Our council wants to see local democracy protected in a way that provides for diversity of our

region. Its obvious from the current political commentary, for example around the planned three waters reforms, that local democracy and representation is valued very highly. The voter turn-out at the last local government elections demonstrated the lack of interest in the electoral process. Our council believes in the principle that the electoral processes should be well resourced and that there are opportunities to achieve significant increases in interest, engagement, and diversity The final two principles I would like to mention involve customer service and performance management of elected representatives. WRC believe local government should be appropriately resourced with customer service at its core, and that new technology and data is shared and used to improve efficiency and effectiveness for communities generally. Rationalisation of back-office systems when done well should drive down the costs of service and improve service levels. You don’t have to look far to find examples of elected representatives behaving poorly. We believe the local government review should put forward ideas on effective performance management strategies for elected representatives. These councils are complex businesses and need governance teams where each elected member is contributing to make the council as effective and efficient as they can be. For more details go to waikatoregion.govt.nz/ principles-for-lg-review ). Both Stu Kneebone, 021 943 055, and I, 021 932 624, are keen to discuss any of the matters in this article.

The Government decision to make mandatory its Three Waters solution - despite the widespread opposition and lack of buy-in from councils - has been justified on the basis that council investment in three waters infrastructure has been woefully lacking and without government intervention ratepayers will be faced with phenomenal rates hikes. How can this sad state of affairs be a surprise to central government? Over the decades central government has been offloading more and more responsibilities and obligations onto councils, and this has diverted ratepayer money away from funding for key infrastructure. Vague well-being targets have spurred extra costs to ratepayers for no tangible improvement in essential services. Communities end up paying higher and higher rates. As collective expectations about wellbeing and what our councils should deliver increase, so do costs. How did we get here? It has been a gradual slippage for as long as I can politically remember. For many years now Federated Farmers’ messaging to councils has been simple - stick to your core business, look after the infrastructure, do a good job in contracting people and make sure the ratepayers don’t end up paying more than they should. The aversion to the government’s three waters reform is largely driven by concern about the removal of assets from local councils to another distant publicly owned entity, with very little confidence in the accuracy of the data being used to justify this very significant move. There are real concerns that central government is using scaremongering tactics to try and sell it to the wider public, with vague talk of economies of scale savings to appease the populace. However, we know

that ‘bigger is better’ often doesn’t work for smaller communities like ours, with centralisation leaving smaller communities worse off. A nationalised standard to telecommunications is a prime example as how the last 5% don’t get service at all because they can be ignored by providers. Guess where that 5% live? Feds has for a long time been annoyed at the difference in accountability put on a private person versus public entities when it comes to the Resource Management Act. The high incidence of sewage leaks and beach closures in our big cities is disturbing. Councils should ensure key infrastructure assets are in optimal condition; sub optimal infrastructure – including three waters networks - affects the wellbeing of those using it. That, in our opinion, is how councils should focus on meeting their four wellbeing responsibilities rather than dipping into social welfare or economic aspects that are better met by central government agencies or private business. Councils should only be focusing on those things that are public assets. The money issue is that councils are not really required to do a good job using money wisely. Some councils perform very well, yet underperforming councils have not been held accountable. Local government reviews into this have proved completely toothless. As standards increase, central government should also have increased funding for these asset improvements. This surely was how our three waters issues should have been addressed, not the approach that has now been mandated.

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My son won the cup… By Steph Bell-Jenkins

Alistair Martin knew James McDonald was destined for greatness. “There was something about him that you knew he’d be successful – and it was kind of in an unassuming way – but you just knew he was going to make it,” said Cambridge Middle School assistant principal Martin, who taught McDonald in year 7 back in 2003. The jockey proved him right. Piloting New Zealand-bred mare Verry Elleegant in last week’s the Melbourne Cup, the 29-year-old surged up the home straight at Flemington Racecourse, thundering past red-hot race favourite Incentivise with more than 300m left to run and leaving the rest of the field in his dust as he crossed the line to win Australasia’s most coveted racing prize. In doing so he broke a 160-year ‘curse’ becoming the first jockey to win from the Barrier 18 starting position. As McDonald, who was inducted into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame in May, was celebrating on the racetrack, his mother Dianne was whooping with joy in front of her friend’s television set in Cambridge. “I’m embarrassed to say there’s a video out of me jumping up and down and screaming at the TV, which will never be revealed,” she laughed. Watching her son win “the race that stops two nations” was “unbelievable.” “I thought it was a dream and that I would

wake up really,” she said. That next night I couldn’t sleep because I thought did it really happen? It was hard to get my head around that he did it.” McDonald grew up in Cambridge with his parents and younger brother Luke and went to Kaipaki School, Cambridge Middle School and Cambridge High School. He now lives in Sydney with his partner Katelyn Mallyon, a retired jockey and Channel 7 racing presenter. His parents, who still live in Cambridge but are now separated, trained horses together and his father Brett is a former jockey. Although McDonald was immersed in the equine world from birth, dairy animals were his first love. He got into riding horses after meeting jockey Lance O’Sullivan, aiming to save money to buy a dairy farm. “He basically got on a horse that day and six weeks later he was out hunting out with me, and the rest is history,” Dianne said. She celebrated her son’s win with champagne and cocktails and spoke to him on the phone that evening. “All I remember saying is it’s just unbelievable, and he was like yeah, pretty good eh? I was just so proud of him,” she said. She’s not sure if winning the cup will change his life but “it’ll help him pay a bit more off the mortgage, which will be nice”. “If you know anything of James, he’s very down to earth,” she said. “He’s very loyal to his friends and he doesn’t like all the stardom and all the interviews.”

Winning the iconic race was the highlight of a stellar Melbourne Cup Carnival for McDonald, who broke a record held for more than 20 years for most wins in a cup week. “He won 10 races – the previous record was nine – including four Group Ones, which was pretty phenomenal,” Dianne said. CMS teacher Alistair Martin has kept an eye on McDonald’s achievements over the years. He remembers McDonald as a gifted sportsman with incredible drive and determination, a “very nice, caring person who everybody liked”. “He was from a country school and when he came to our school I think he found it was quite a big transition, so he was fairly quiet and fairly shy when he first arrived,” Martin said. “He was physically at the time quite a small guy, but his confidence built as the year went on. He was a very unassuming character but there was something about him... you just knew he had the x-factor. “His absolute passion in life, even at age 11, was horses. He very much looked up to Lance O’Sullivan, who was at that time a very successful jockey. James used to work in the morning mucking out stables; he was saving hard for a life ahead of him. “He wanted to be a jockey more than anything – and not just a jockey but an outstanding jockey. And he was prepared to put the work in; that was probably the difference. He was absolutely committed,

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McDonald with his mother Dianne at Auckland Racing Club on Boxing Day 2019.

even back then.” In turn, McDonald’s mother remembers Martin being a special teacher who took her “tiny and very timid” son under his wing. “I actually contacted Mr Martin years ago and told him he was the turning point for James because he gave him confidence and made him feel so comfortable,” she said. “He was just the nicest guy, and he was so gentle with James. Oh Mr Martin, bless him.” She was delighted to see Cambridge Middle School posting news of McDonald’s success of Facebook last week. “This is a once in a lifetime week,” she said. “You wouldn’t believe that something like this could happen. To have 10 wins and some seconds and to win four Group Ones in one week including the Melbourne Cup – it’s what dreams are made of.”

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