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Waipā is moving towards a new set of rules when it comes to keeping animals – and that could be bad news for Kunekune pig Sir Douglas. Benjamin Wilson reports.

Piggy in the middle

“I’m a responsible pet owner,” Sarah McLachlan told a Waipā District Council committee on Tuesday.

Sir Douglas, a Kunekune pig, has been a part of McLachlan’s family for the past five years, but a proposed bylaw is threatening to rehome him.

Sir Douglas is vaccinated for Lepto, doesn’t smell, or make much noise. He has full roam of a large grass backyard and cannot get out.

He is fed two Weet-Bix and a banana each morning. After breakfast, he comes in to sleep on the dog’s bed. Throughout the day he grazes on grass and whatever fruit he can plunder from the five fruit trees he has access to (he loves lemons). And in the evening, he is treated to a carrot.

“He is just like one of the dogs, in fact, he is easier,” said McLachlan.

A new Animal Nuisance Bylaw would ban pets like Sir Douglas in urban areas “There is a clause in there for nuisances and health hazards.

They didn’t really need to have a pig specific one,” McLachlan said.

In the bylaw’s current state, nuisances caused by Sir Douglas, or any other animal, can be addressed through council channels. But this bylaw change would mean that Sir Douglas would be banned, even if he wasn’t a cause of concern.

McLachlan’s neighbours all

know Sir Douglas and are happy with his presence. They regularly pat, feed him, and talk to him.

During the Strategic Planning and Policy committee meeting, McLachlan was told the proposal was to remove the specific clause around pigs, because they can already be addressed with the pre-existing nuisance laws.

“There has to be a little bit of common sense when dealing with these things,” said Cr Lou Brown.

Animals are McLachlan’s passion. Before advocating for Sir Douglas’ rights, she used to train dogs at both the Waikato Canine Obedience Club and Waikato Agility Group.

Prior to Covid-19 restrictions, McLachlan, and her staffordshire terrier Layla, would frequent Waikeria Prison to visit the inmates. Layla is a therapy dog associated with Canine Friends Pet Therapy, who assess dogs for their eligibility and facilitate animal therapy for those who seek it.

“Layla would jump in their laps, and we would just sit around and talk about dogs,” she said.

McLachlan is hoping her recommended changes to the bylaw are taken on board.

“Something that I find really beautiful about Waipā, is that it is rural. If you keep putting bylaws in place, it takes away from that rural beauty,” she said.

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Our award winning journalist He’s been with us for less than a week – but our newest addition to the team of News reporters already has a front page lead under his belt – Benjamin Wilson and an award.

Benjamin Wilson has completed Wintec studies to become a News reporter and his brief is to get the best stories from Te Awamutu, Ōhaupō, Ōtorohanga, Pirongia and Kihikihi.

Readers will note he’s already been to Kihikihi to meet Sir Douglas, a Kunekune pig.

And on Tuesday he revealed he will collect the award for top New Zealand diploma of journalism student at next month’s Wintec graduation.

Good Local News Director Roy Pilott – who tutored Benjamin at Wintec last year – said he is looking forward to the stories coming the way of Te Awamutu News readers.

“Benjamin is an outstanding young journalist and I was delighted when he accepted an opportunity to come and tell our stories,” Pilott said.

The Good Local team also includes two of the country’s most experienced community newspaper journalists in Mary Anne Gill and Viv Posselt. It also has Steph Bell-Jenkins, whose human interest stories were a highlight in the Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News in 2021.

Benjamin tells you a bit about himself today on Page 2.

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The next major development in a key commuter route in and out of Hamilton will arrive on Friday next week.

Traffic which has been restricted to a maximum of 50kph from the Tamahere interchange to just south of Newell Rd for the past year will be moved to a bridge which crosses the underconstruction Waikato Expressway.

Overnight detours will be in place on State Highway 1 at Tamahere on Friday. A full closure of the road is required to move traffic on to the new bridge and the road will be closed from 6pm while barriers are moved, and line-marking done.

The closure points are at the SH1State Highway 26 roundabout at Hillcrest and SH1-State Highway 21 interchange at Tamahere. The highway will reopen around 6am on February 12.

Night-time travellers, especially freight, are being encouraged to plan ahead and make use of alternative routes, such as State Highway 1B, State Highway 2-State Highway 27, State Highway 3, State Highway 39 and SH21.

Residents will have access to their homes at all times, including into Tamahere via Newell Road at the city end and SH21-Airport Rd to the south.

The traffic switch is needed to create construction space for the 22km Hamilton section of the expressway, which is expected to be completed mid-year.

Traffic will be moved on to the new bridge, which will eventually be the southbound on-ramp, for about six weeks before northbound traffic will return to using the on-ramp into the city.

All traffic will use the curved Cambridge Road bridge after February 11.

having me

By Benjamin Wilson

Hi everyone, my name is Benjamin, and I’m proud to announce that I have joined the Te Awamutu News team as one of their journalists.

Last year I interned for the paper while studying. It was a privilege to do this and to write about the community tales that were shared with me. I am excited that I am able to do this again, and I look forward to hearing more of those community stories that deserve to be shared.

My background is a complicated mix of both hospitality and photography. I am from Hamilton, and I trained as a chef in 2014. Cooking has taken me to many places, including Australia, but the height of my culinary career was being the head chef of Profs @ Woodlands in Gordonton.

Parallel to cooking, I have a deep interest in photography.

Over the past six years I have taken on freelance jobs wherever possible, taking portraits and photographing anything from weddings to events. Photography is my way of recording the experiences and fleeting emotions that would normally be forgotten.

This is what led me to pursue a career in journalism.

Despite what they say, there are only so many words that can be expressed through a photograph. Writing a story alongside a photograph gives it context, but journalism gives it a purpose.

My favourite kind of stories are the smaller ones that normally wouldn’t be given a second thought. The stories that can be world changing to a select few, but are unheard of by others.

That’s enough about me though. What is your story?

Email me at benjamin@goodlocal.nz

On the beat with Senior Constable DEB THURGOOD Keep your eyes peeled…

School is back! This means there are again large numbers of children commuting on our roads. They are on foot, bikes and scooters and there is an increase in vehicular traffic, especially around school drop off and pick up times. I’ll start with a reminder to look out for those younger members of our community. They are easily distracted and can sometimes behave impulsively and unpredictably around the road. Police enforce the lower speed limits around our schools to reduce the risk of harm, so remember to keep your speeds down and drive defensively.

In previous columns I have given some insight into the court process with which we work. This week, I wanted to highlight an alternative action option police sometimes use when holding offenders to account. In Waikato, we have an initiative called Police Supported Resolution. It is recognised that a person’s offending is frequently the end result of a combination of social and other factors.

This process aims to help people get their

lives back on track and to get them out of a circular pattern of offending, whilst avoiding the traditional court process. At the same time, it holds them accountable for their actions and includes a component to ensure we do right by any victims of their crimes. The process is only for qualifying offences (predominantly less serious ones such as shoplifting, wilful damage or common assault - not family harm related).

The offender must be over 18 years of age, admit to committing the crime and agree to engage in the programme. Only then might a referral to Police Supported Resolution be appropriate.

The process begins with the participant meeting with a panel that looks not only at the offence in question, but also what is going on in the person’s life (for examples issues such as finances, drug/ alcohol dependencies, employment and housing). The assigned support agency then works with the participants to make a plan to address the problems they may be facing. The plan sets out actions they must

complete and conditions they must follow. These can include getting support to quit drugs and alcohol, assistance with driver licence training, gaining employment or enrolling in a training course. They can be required to pay reparation to victims for costs incurred due to their offending. The onus is on the participant to complete the process, but it does provide wrap around support to assist and encourage them along the way.

Failure to uphold their end of the agreement, will result in the matter being referred back the police officer in charge and prosecution through the courts in the usual way. This ensures an outcome either way for the victim. I have seen first-hand how this process can make a positive impact on an individual, create real change in their life and prevent repeat crime.

On that note, I will leave you to what I hope is a great week ahead. Take care out there, Deb.

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Briefs…

Covid cases

Waipā has five Covid-19 cases – four in Cambridge and one in Te Awamutu – but no places of interest other than Mystery Creek, where the Soundsplash Festival was held and became a super spreader. According to Waikato District Health Board’s communications staff, the DHB’s public health team “were very busy and unable to provide information on individual cases.”

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Crossed wires

The cross taken from the Pukeatua War Memorial Church in Te Awamutu last month is made of brass and not silver as reported in The News last week.

The two vases stolen were silver. Kathie Claypole, who discovered the theft from the church, said she is heartbroken anyone could steal from a church and appealed for any information.

Ram raid update

Police say they have made no arrests following the ram raid at the Noel Leeming Te Awamutu branch in December.

Burglars took electronic items from the store on December 17. The store’s front window is still damaged and is boarded up. Efforts to obtain comment from Noel Leeming were unsuccessful.

Turn it down

Waipā council staff confiscated a stereo and fined two people $500 each following noise complaints in the quarter from October to December. The council received 231 noise complaints with 79 of them being issued with written or verbal directions to turn the noise down.

Parking tickets issued

Nearly 160 car owners have been pinged for over staying time limits in Te Awamutu and Cambridge central business districts. Councillor Grahame Webber said some people had contacted him to say the signs were not clear while Philip Coles said he had received “very little” complaints from retailers since the enforcement officer had increased his ticketing workload.

Growth is continuing in Te Awamutu.

The service station on the corner of Alexandra and Rewi streets will become an unmanned fuel stop.

By Mary Anne Gill

Infrastructure growth in the Waipā district is expected to continue throughout this year given the large surge of applications, pre-application meetings and enquiries council staff fielded before Christmas.

In his quarterly report to the Strategic Planning and Policy committee this week, Growth and Regulatory Services group manager Wayne Allan said the council suspended pre-application meetings at the end of last year to allow staff to prioritise processing consents already in progress.

District Plan and Growth manager Tony Quickfall told the committee there was “sustained interest” with numbers so high, the council had to outsource 30-40 per cent of the work to consultants.

“We use consultants to take the peak load. Covid has not had much of an impact (on the work),” he said.

A total of 531 building consents

valued at $168.33 million submitted to council in the quarter from October to December, up by 64 in the same period in 2020.

There were 486 building consents issued in the quarter with 152 of them being new dwellings: 75 in Te Awamutu and Kihikihi, 26 in Cambridge and Leamington and 51 in the rest of the district.

Councillor Mike Pettit noted Te Awamutu was outstripping Cambridge which showed the impact of the delay with the 3Ms development in Hamilton Road, he said.

The significant building consents among them were: • 1907 Cambridge Road Cambridge, new commercial building and associated carpark. (Gym) • 16 Hanlin Road Cambridge, erect new single storey food technology block for (St Peters School).

• 280 Peake Road Tamahere, new office/ warehouse building.

Mixture of concrete structures; timber framing and steel

structures.

• 2/105 Hautapu Road Tamahere, new office and warehouse building. Mixture of concrete structures; timber framing and steel structures.

• 451 Alexandra Street Te Awamutu, reinstate the decommissioned service station on the corner of Alexandra St and Rewi St, Te Awamutu into an unmanned fuel stop.

• 6 Vogel Street Cambridge, construction of new independent living apartment building, fit-out of level 1 of existing courtyard wing and construction of new single level shop. (Cambridge Resthaven).

Several major resource consent applications are also in process and include: • 401 Racecourse Road, Te Awamutu - Construct and operate plant to generate power through combustion of refuse derived fuel.

• Waikoha Road, RD 5, Hamilton - Retrospective clearance of

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vegetation from Significant Natural Area and proposed planting of exotic trees.

Habitat for Humanity, 387 Roche Street, Te Awamutu - Habitat for Humanity is seeking land-use consent to establish a compact housing development for elderly residents, comprising seven twostorey blocks (accommodating 46 one-bedroom units) in an identified Compact Housing Area.

18 Le Quesnoy Place, Cambridge - Remove protected Black Walnut tree.

1 Bath Street, Cambridge Construct nine residential apartments and commercial tenancies.

1881 Cambridge Road, Cambridge - To construct, operate, and maintain a comprehensive care retirement village in C2 Structure Plan area.

1248 Cambridge Road, Te Awamutu - 77 lot subdivision in the Residential Zone.

DHB, police opt for Facebook

Facebook has become a preferred communication tool for Covid and crimefighting.

Police and the Waikato District Health Board are using their Facebook pages to report crime and Covid outbreaks – and not telling print media circulating in Waipā.

This week Waikato District Health Board announced three Covid cases in Cambridge on its own Facebook page.

“The Waikato DHB FB post is where daily local information is available. Most media seem to go there as well,” the District Health Board’s communications manager Kathryn Jenkin told the News.

Police are using the same process to report crime.

They took to Facebook in an attempt to get information about a December ram raid at Noel Leeming, Te Awamutu – but did not inform the News about it.

The irony is that police staff regularly lament the fact that Facebook users report crime on that platform – but don’t tell police about it.

Good Local Media news director Roy Pilott said the moves were indicative of Government departments stage managing the release of information.

“We saw the same thing during the Super Saturday Covid promotion. District health boards delayed the release of places where people could go to be vaccinated to suit their digital platforms.

We did our own work to compile the lists and readers appreciated it.”

He said as recently as last month the Waikato District Health Board told the News it had no plans for an additional vaccination centre in Cambridge.

It opened one four days later.

“The District Health Board is not a media outlet and they should not be competing with us in the midst of a pandemic,” he said.

The sister papers, Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News reach more than 25,000 households every week.

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Cat’s out of the bag

By Mary Anne Gill

A Waipā district councillor finds it “puzzling” the council has invested so much in protecting native species but has no regulations on cats who prey on them.

Marcus Gower supported a submission from Forest and Bird Society, calling for limits on cat numbers in Waipā at the council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee meeting this week.

“I don’t want to see the cat issue dropped off again,” Gower said. “If you’ve got any more than three cats, that’s an issue. It becomes an issue to the neighbours.”

The committee considered a draft animal nuisance bylaw and cats and bees were most controversial.

Members pushed back

and deferred the bylaw’s adoption so staff could work further on the wording.

The draft bylaw went out to public consultation in November and attracted 21 submissions. Several were miffed at the omission of cats, another wanted horses banned from Cambridge and Te Awamutu streets, a Kihikihi woman wanted to be able to keep her pet pig and a beekeeper took exception to the suggestion beehives should be sited no closer than five metres from a property’s boundary.

Amelia Geary of the Forest and Bird Waikato branch called for a limit of three cats for each household and for every domestic cat to be neutered and microchipped.

She criticised the council for its level of consultation about cats when it drafted its bylaw.

“Domestic cats pose a significant risk to native and endemic birds, lizards and insects. The detrimental direct effect of cats on native species has been widely documented,” she said.

Geary acknowledged the position cats hold as a valued companion animal to loving owners.

“As a loved animal, these owners also need to take responsibility for their cat’s behaviour and safety. Limiting the number

of cats on a property and ensuring all cats are desexed and microchipped is the bare minimum of this responsibility.”

Raquel and Dale Richards wanted cats included in the bylaw too.

“We have a significant amount strolling on our property, breeding and hiding kittens, spraying and lying on our outdoor furniture and constantly breaking into our rubbish.”

There was no

accountability or regulations for cat owners, they said.

On the bee issue, Phil Evans from Hamilton said putting beehives under a washing line or in the middle of the lawn, so they were five metres from the boundary, was a nonsense.

“It’s fence height that is more critical than location.

It is irrelevant, and distance from boundary needs to be removed from the bylaw.”

The council received six complaints about bees in

the last five years and the complaints were easily resolved, he said.

Cr Roger Gordon said he could not understand why bees were in the bylaw when the issue was quite minor “…the nuisance value isn’t there so why do you seek to limit the number of beehives?” he asked.

Committee members asked for the revised draft bylaw to come back before this year’s local body elections.

Dogs destroyed following attacks

By Mary Anne Gill

Two people – one a teenage boy and the other an adult woman - required hospital treatment after being attacked by dogs in Cambridge and Pirongia.

Both separate incidents started out as dog versus dog incidents, Waipā District Council compliance manager Karl Tutty told the Strategic Planning and Policy Committee this week.

The two dogs involved were both euthanised, one by its owner and the other by the council. The dog owners intervened to protect their own dogs and were injured in the process, said Tutty.

Staff will look at what other action might be taken

against the dog owners.

The council’s animal control team received 622 calls in the quarter October through to December with 345 of them relating to animal control issues.

Of the 13 reported dog bites across the district – eight on other animals, five on people) - two were in Ohaupo/Pirongia, four in Te Awamutu/Kakepuku and seven in Cambridge/ Maungatautari.

They were down on the previous quarter likely due to the impact of Covid restrictions, he said.

Only 230 dogs remained unregistered and there was only one dog in the council pound at the end of December.

Fire check warning

Waipā farmers are being asked to check for smouldering rubbish and land clearance fires to ensure they are out.

Fire and Emergency District Manager Daryl Trim made the call after two fires in the district.

“Attendance at these wildfires is putting an unnecessary strain on our firefighting resources,” he said.

Brigades were fully stretched attending a fire caused by a rubbish fire pit at Lake Karāpiro, which required a helicopter and helps from Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Pirongia and Hamilton brigades.

A second fire at Pokuru, near Te Awamutu, was started by two separate old rubbish fires, which ended up burning four hectares of grass.

Trim said with the help of a wind shift, the responding brigades saved a house.

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Novel deal is two good

By Viv Posselt

Nikki Crutchley was swamped with emotion when she heard her latest novel had secured a two-book deal with Harper Collins Australia.

“There were tears,” she laughed. “Getting a book deal itself is difficult enough.

Getting a two-book deal is fantastic!”

It wasn’t expected. Nikki has self-published three books before, and even though they brought recognition and success, it was with a sense of resignation that she approached this fourth attempt. Working closely with her agent Vicki Marsdon, someone she secured at the end of 2018, she began writing To the Sea in January 2020, just as the pandemic hit.

“It wasn’t an easy year. The kids were at home because of lockdown, and it was difficult to write with any consistency,” she said. “It took almost a year … I re-wrote the ending three times with Vicki’s guidance. It went to the publishers at the end of the November that year and within a week Harper Collins Australia came back to us with the two-book deal. I was stunned. There were tears, I can tell you.”

The finished book launched internationally in December.

Nikki already has thoughts in place for the next one and as she generally completes a book a year, she feels on track. When self-publishing, she knew the sales numbers in detail.

“This time, I won’t know how it’s doing until I get a royalties cheque. I’ll have to get used to that.”

To the Sea has been described as ‘a compulsively readable suspense thriller’ and has generated rave reviews from top New Zealand literary critics and authors, including one from

Nikki Crutchley’s new book, To the Sea, is said to ‘crackle with menace’.

Paddy Richardson who reckoned it ‘crackled with menace’.

Her first book, Nothing Bad Happens Here, was a Ngaio Marsh Book Awards winner in 2018. Her second, No One Can Hear You, was longlisted for the same awards in the best novel category, and her third, The Murder Club, won her even more fans. All were self-published mysteries that plumbed her extensive research into police procedural work and her instinct towards writing criminal dramas, albeit without gratuitous gore.

This latest book is more of a psychological thriller, she said, more intent on examining the psychology of those behind the crime.

Nikki has always been attracted to dark questions around ‘why-dunnit’ rather than simply the ‘who-dunnit’

when it comes to crime. She was born in Cambridge but did most of her schooling in Ōtorohanga, then completed an English and sociology degree before travelling and living abroad.

She had always been keen on psychology and did a paper on crime and deviance while at uni. On coming home, she did a diploma in library and information studies before starting her own proofreading business which she juggles with her writing.

She was always an avid reader, and so are the daughters she shares with husband Simon.

While the material might be dark, Nikki is anything but. “To be clear, I write to entertain people. There is absolutely nothing lofty about it at all,” she laughed.

“I’m not going to apologise for that.”

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FAITH IN WAIPĀ

The importance of order

By Julie Guest

This week schools will be opening their gates to receive pupils again for the first term of 2022. I spent my school years in Napier, where stories of the 1931 Napier earthquake dominated the beginning of every year.

I had one teacher who lived through it as a child. That day her mother was preserving peaches. In order to prevent the peeled peaches from turning brown she had filled her bath with water and peeled peaches.

That “peachy’ water was all the family had for the following days – and our teacher remembers it being carefully shared among the neighbours. We would be reminded of the event, see photos, hear the stories.

Most of all, we would carry out school wide earthquake practices where the 1000 or so of us would stream “in an ordered fashion” onto the field – away from buildings and trees.

During those school years, order was deemed highly important. At 12.50pm each day the bell monitor rang the warning bell so that by 1pm sharp, every one of us was lined up in our classes ready for outdoor assembly.

These were held on the school courts in the full Hawke’s Bay sun. Half an hour of announcements, encouragement and exhortations followed, while we sweltered.

Kids without shoes would try to keep their feet on the cooler painted lines. Occasionally someone would faint. There was little fuss, the floppy one would be helped to the shade, head between the knees until they recovered.

(Never a mention, then, of hats, sunscreen, sunglasses, or the need for shade.)

Finally, the school record player was hung out of the staff-room window, connected to the speakers in each classroom and through all the open doors would blare the music

to which we were required to march back to our rooms. Those who demonstrated the best order were heartily praised. Order, it seemed was highly valued and schools worked to instil the need for order into us.

And as one who received that education, I am grateful. Order is desirable, or to say it from the other side, disorder is undesirable.

Those are sweeping statements which I don’t have enough space to unpick here. But if you will grant me the supposition, let me get to my point. An ordered society is one where there is a general consensus about how it should be run. A society where freedoms are suppressed can appear ordered because anything that doesn’t fit is eliminated or prevented. But turmoil will foment out of sight and will eventually explode. A truly ordered society offers its individuals freedoms, balanced with responsibility.

In Jesus’ day, his people were oppressed, dominated by a foreign power. Jesus’ response to the people was to remind them to love themselves and each other. He repeatedly modelled caring for those who were oppressed, but he also responded with compassion to those belonging to the ruling class when they asked for his help. By his words and actions, Jesus advocated for a society in which compassion is the guide in all things, where order exists because no-one is left behind.

As our children return to school, I pray someone will teach them about the great love that Jesus has for them, and they will hear how to draw close to Jesus for themselves.

Then we will be growing an ordered society.

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Punch bowl or punch bag?

By Peter Nicholl

A good central banker used to be described as someone who would take away the punch bowl just as the party started to liven up.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and most other central bankers around the world, have certainly not been acting like this over the last few years.

They reduced interest rates to ridiculously low levels and injected huge amounts of liquidity, creating the biggest monetary punch bowl the world has ever seen in the process.

The inflation party is now well and truly roaring along. Inflation in New Zealand in 2021 was 5.9%, the highest level for 31 years.

In the USA it is even higher. Part of New Zealand’s inflation problem is global.

Imported or tradeable inflation was around 6.9% in 2021. But the domestic part of our inflation was 5.3% - and is rising quickly. Once this domestic component starts to spread, and it is already beginning to do so, it will be hard for the RBNZ to reverse it or even slow it.

Faced with inflation rates that are rising rapidly and are already at levels not seen for over 30 years, what have the RBNZ and most other central banks done? – they have done very little.

The measures they have taken are miniscule compared with the stimulatory punch bowl they created over the preceding decade – and which Is still in existence.

I worked in central banking for over 40 years and I chaired the RBNZ’s Monetary Policy Committee when New Zealand first started inflation-targeting.

I cannot understand the lack of urgency the RBNZ and other central banks are displaying as inflation reaches levels not

seen for 30 years.

A New Zealand Herald column last week asked ‘will the RBNZ raise interest rates even if house prices are falling?’ The question is quite extraordinary and should not even be considered by the RBNZ. The RBNZ continued to pour oil on the housing sector fire In the form of lower interest rates as house prices soared. They helped create one of the biggest wealth transfers New Zealand has ever seen.

The RBNZ response to this criticism was that their target was inflation, not house prices.

This needs to work in both directions.

If inflation and house prices move in the same direction, the RBNZ does not have a dilemma.

But if inflation stays where it is or rises further and house prices fall, the RBNZ would need to tighten monetary policy – and remind themselves that their target is inflation, not house prices.

On their web-site the RBNZ says that their ‘purpose, vision and values’ are to ‘enable economic well-being and prosperity for all New Zealanders.’ Not all New Zealanders are home owners.

The RBNZ’s role will not be easy in 2022.

Whatever they do, they will not be popular with or appreciated by everybody.

But there is a chance that if they continue to show such little urgency when New Zealand’s inflation is at a 30-year high, they could end 2022 unpopular and unappreciated by everybody.

The punch bowl could turn into a punch bag.

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New head for intermediate

By Benjamin Wilson

“I feel immensely proud to be appointed as principal of Te Awamutu Intermediate” Pip Mears said, after tackling the first day of her new role last week.

Mears’ new position has been accompanied by the Covid-19 Red Light restrictions.

“The students in our schools today are certainly receiving a different education experience to what many of us have ever

experienced, but throughout these unprecedented times I am continually impressed with how capable and resilient our young people are.”

She arrives at Te Awamutu Intermediate after almost four years at the helm of Te Uku School, near Raglan.

While many businesses have been able to operate at a semi-normal capacity, schools are having to deal with Red Light in a more creative manner.

Masks are a requirement

for staff and students in years four and up. Large school events, or any with an elevated degree of risk, have been put on hold during redlight. And, the complications caused by this are only greater in larger schools.

Waipā District Councillor Mike Pettit, the Principal of Cambridge Primary, enjoyed being able to visit his classrooms and students throughout the school day.

Under the new settings, he will no longer be able to do

Ngaroto: like an effluent pond

By Roy Pilott

A Fish and Game manager is challenging councillors to spend time with him at the scene of what he calls the region’s latest environmental disaster.

David Klee, Game Bird Manager for the Auckland/ Waikato Fish and Game Council has penned an open letter about Lake Ngaroto – which he likens to an effluent pond.

Thousands of fish and birds have died this year in the lake.

Now he is challenging Waipā District Councillors and decision makers to meet him at the lake.

“When you are seeing the carnage unfolding, it’s a bit different, it becomes more real,” he said.

Klee, who has been in the Hamilton office for 12 years and specialises in lake ecology says the problem has built up over years and “you can’t just go round the edges – it’s a big job”.

In his open letter he wrote “I have been getting feedback that apparently some local body officials hold the belief that: hey, it’s a dry year and shallow lake, these things happen in these environments, it’s part of a natural cycle. So, if you read this and hold that belief, this letter is addressed to you.”

He says the lakes do not naturally have nutrient levels “off the charts and get cyanobacterial blooms with cell counts high enough to kill a dog if they took a drink”.

“Second, these lakes do not naturally go anoxic (without oxygen) for days, causing even the hardiest fish species such as koi carp, goldfish and eels to die on mass. Third, these lakes do not naturally get botulism outbreaks that will likely kill the birds that inhabit them.”

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Because of gathering limits, many large schools are keeping their year groups segregated during break times, and for Pettit, it means that he cannot have the same school-wide presence that he used to.

In Karāpiro, being small is the school’s “superpower” says principal, Tina-Maree Thatcher.

While the school has had to put many events on hold, including their 100th year site anniversary, its small size has allowed them to avoid the full impact of many of red light‘s restrictions.

Students can have regular assemblies, can use any facility, and mix across the year groups. The schools two large oak trees also allow for classes to be held outside, so the students don’t have to wear masks all day.

Te Awamutu College doesn’t have that luxury, and posted announcements ahead of Tuesday’s first day about format changes and where students should assemble.

The college starts 2022 with new house names in place. They are Kōwhai, Pounamu, Pōhutukawa and Kikorangi.

Wayne Donnellon,

Principal of Roto-O-Rangi School, has an optimism that can be shared across all of Waipā’s schools.

On his students returning,

he said “we are looking forward to having a wonderful time with them, and a stable year of learning.”

Te Awamutu Intermediate Principal, Pip Mears.

Another maggot-infested shag carcass is pulled out of Lake Ngaroto.

He says these are symptoms of highly degraded ecosystems, “and in fact, the only places where such events regularly occur are town effluent ponds”.

“That is the current state of Lake Ngaroto. These issues also don’t just happen overnight; they are due to the systemic failure of our institutions to set and implement appropriate policy and rule frameworks to safeguard our freshwater ecosystems.”

David Klee recounted a visit to the lake where he talked to the Waipā District Council’s new contractor.

“As he was retrieving another week-old maggotinfested shag carcass with a stomach full of decaying fish, I could see the gag reflex starting to kick in, and I thought whatever he’s getting paid, it’s not enough.

“In amongst the dead and dying mallard ducks, we found dead grey teals, black shags, little black shags, a heron, and we even flushed an Australasian bittern, a critically endangered

species. It made it to the other side of the lake.

Hopefully, it will move on to cleaner water elsewhere.”

David Klee said his letter was not designed to “put the boot in”.

“Council staff are doing great things; they are keen and passionate. Individual landowners are doing a good job, planting and fencing streams.

“But the science is clear – if you fence streams while increasing fertiliser use and stock levels, the quality of the water will still get worse.”

He warned that the cost of restoring lakes in a condition like Ngaroto grows exponentially.

Nearby Lake Serpentine (Rotopiko) looked in good condition, but “the science says most of our lakes are going backwards”.

“I hope councillors take me up on my offer, we need an incentive to make change.”

David Klee can be reached through the Forest and Game website.

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Rates resists inflation rise

Waipā ratepayers are being sheltered from the current inflation boom.

Draft proposed average annual rates increases announced by Waipā District Council ratepayers have remained aligned with the 2021-31 Long Term Plan despite record levels of price inflation in the wider economy.

Waipā District Council’s draft average rates increase is 4.3 percent.

Waipā’s Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer Ken Morris said the figure is testimony to the approach council has taken to its budget, at a time when annual consumer price inflation is

5.9 percent for the year ended 31 December 2021 – its highest level in 30 years, He had a word of caution on the draft proposed average rates increase, noting that although the 4.3 percent is the average, very few properties will receive an increase of that level.

“If the plan is adopted as currently proposed the majority of rural properties will have increases in the range of 1 to 3 percent, while the majority of urban properties will have increases in the range of 5 to 8 percent. This profile also stays true to the 2021-31 Long Term Plan.”

The draft 2022-23 Annual

Plan was discussed at a public workshop as part of the Strategic Planning and Policy Committee meeting on Tuesday.

Morris said there were several further steps in the process of the adoption of the final Annual Plan

by June 30.

Following Tuesday’s meeting, it will be presented to the Strategic Planning and Policy Committee meeting on March 1 to seek elected members’ approval. The plan will be out to the community from around mid-March to midApril.

While a special consultative procedure was not required due to the draft proposed average

rates increase staying similar to that estimated in the 2021-31 Long Term Plan, Council wants to engage with the community about the plan and gain feedback, Morris said.

“How we engage with the community will depend on the Covid-19 traffic light setting because it’s not socially responsible for us to hold physical events in the present climate,” Morris said.

“Once we have gathered community feedback and made any changes required, we can move forward to finalise the Annual Plan for adoption in June.”

Therapy students offer help to community groups

Waikato-based occupational therapy students are promoting holistic healing and rehabilitation by collaborating with community groups.

Students in their third year of the Occupational Therapy/Whakaora Ngangahau (OT) degree programme help deliver a community-based project by working closely with the chosen group or community, to identify a specific need and work with them to create solutions with an occupational focus.

The Bachelor of Occupational Therapy degree has been offered at Wintec through Otago Polytechnic for 11 years.

Jessica Harries, who attended Fairfield College, is a third-year OT student who worked with the Selwyn Centre in Chartwell, Hamilton, to create resources and an exercise video around falls prevention.

The Selwyn Centre is a community organisation run by the Selwyn Foundation.

Their kaupapa (ethos) is about providing support to people over 65 years old who are lonely or socially isolated.

They wanted an exercise video tailored for them that focussed on falls and how to prevent them with an emphasis on improving strength and balance.

“ACC statistics and other research has shown that when you develop strength and balance, it really reduces the risk of falling,” says Harries. “It took us a while to research what exercises would be most appropriate for the ageing community, practise doing them and make them work for the group.”

Another student, Alexandra Denkowski, who now works at Waikato Hospital, worked on an entirely different project, collaborating with Hamilton City Libraries to structure the blueprint for a project called the ‘Hamilton

Wintec students work closely with a chosen group or community.

Human Narrative’.

“A human narrative is an in-person event where an individual is considered a living book,” says Denkowski.

“They share their life story and experience, and the people who attend the event are the readers who listen to the stories of the living books. The idea is to break down stigma and barriers, and to connect people.”

As the project was so large, the role of the occupational therapy students was to brainstorm ideas and find a way to make the project meaningful for different people in Hamilton.

“Instead of focussing on the entire population of Hamilton, we stuck to one

First run for reds New Te Awamutu coach Richard Hudson has had his first look at the squad he will take into next season’s WaiBop football championship.

The experienced coach was unveiled last month and held a sit-down chat with players and potential players a week later.

“It was very encouraging to see the number of seniors trailing as it was a long weekend with many players still away,” he said “The lads worked hard in

hot conditions. It was a great opportunity to see the player at work for the first time.”

Hudson doesn’t plan to waste time.

“I am looking forward to moving forward quickly. The trial period runs until the end of February before the senior squad will be announced for the 2022 season ahead,” he said.

He said if any player wants to come along to trial, it is not too late and that they can reach him on 0211453423.

demographic to truly understand their needs. hose 15–25-year-old school leavers as during our research we discovered there was a high percentage of school leavers who are unemployed, or face life-long struggles with unemployment,” says Denkowski.

Kim Reay, an Occupational Therapy lecturer for the degree programme says that the community outreach projects have a multitude of benefits for all involved - the students, the school, and the community.

“Every year we reach out to communities.

Some organisations we have ongoing relationships with like the Selwyn Centre, and we always get a few new projects in as well like the Hamilton City Library,” says Reay.

Coach Richard Hudson talks to his new charges last weekend

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Can’t see the wood for the trees…

Federated Farmers is calling on the government to make good on a pledge and review the Overseas Investment Act ‘special forestry test’.

Feds Meat and Wool Chair William Beetham says government policies are driving farmland to be sold for pine tree carbon farming, and a multitude of changes are needed to restore balance to land use policy, says.

“Sorting the special forestry test is straight forward and a good first step,” he said.

The Overseas Investment Act ‘benefit to New Zealand’ requirement is waived under the special forestry test when overseas investors buy farmed land for ‘forestry activities’.

A report commissioned by Beef and Lamb NZ from Wairarapa-based BakerAg last year found that between 2017 and 2020 24,956ha of land were approved for sale to overseas buyers under the special forestry test.

The policy makes it easier for foreign investors to buy New Zealand farms to convert to trees “and is one of many distortionary policies that benefit carbon farming over other land uses such as sheep and beef farming,” Beetham says.

Technically, the forestry test indicates that the planted trees eventually be logged but there is no mechanism to ensure this actually happens, nor even any rules to ensure that pruning or pest control is done.

“That’s not fair even to our responsible New Zealand foresters,” William says.

“The recent spike in the afforestation of sheep and beef farms is not the result of consumer driven demand, but heavy-handed and short-term Government policies designed to incentivise more trees, regardless of whether or not they are the right tree in the right place.”

The price of carbon under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has hit a record $68 per unit.

Polluting industries looking to offset their greenhouse gas emissions are behind big increases in the value of land used for raising sheep and beef cattle, he said.

“Overseas investors can simply plant pine trees, claim the credits, sell them and take the huge profits overseas, while New Zealanders carry the consequences now and into the future.

“Those wanting to use land to continue farming for the future prosperity of Aotearoa New Zealand are being out-bid. There is little benefit but a huge cost to future generations.”

Beetham says other than when the trees are first planted for carbon credits, there’s little or no employment benefit.

“Rural families move out, school rolls fall, meat processing plants close, downstream industries suffer, and it becomes a vicious cycle of rural downturn - never mind the loss of export earnings from meat and wool.

“Federated Farmers is certainly not arguing against planting trees to sequester greenhouse gas emissions.

But we need to be strategic about it and consider the long-term picture not just short-term mindless profit.”

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with Jan Bilton

Lunch box leaders It’s back to school and back to work. And back to finding ways to make the transition from holiday fun easier. Interesting new lunch box creations fit the bill.

The sandwich is the lunch box supremo: open to endless interpretations and as simple or as elaborate as you like.

Sandwiches are popular around the world — Americans eat more than 300 million a day! — with many countries offering their own unique versions.

These include; the crust-free cucumber, salt and pepper summer sandwich of Wimbledon fame; the katsu sando of Tokyo — fried breaded pork, sliced cabbage, tonkatsu sauce and mayo; the peanut butter and jelly — a favourite of the midwestern USA; and, of course, the bahn mi of Vietnam.

Sandwiches are synonymous with lunch boxes. And lunch is the second most important meal of the day, especially for children.

It should provide about one-third of our daily nutrients which help keep our energy levels and concentration in peak condition during the afternoon.

CHICKEN BHAN MI Although this Vietnamese sandwich is usually served hot it also makes an excellent cold take-away lunch for picnics or work. The chicken can be cooked the night before. Or toss cooked chicken in the marinade if you’re short of time.

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Combine the fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, garlic and chilli.

Place the chicken in a small dish and pour the marinade over. Cover and marinate for at least an hour or overnight.

To pickle the veg, combine the water, rice vinegar, sugar, salt and chilli flakes in a small bowl. Thinly slice the carrots and radishes on an angle. Add to the marinade. Cover and marinate in the fridge for at least an hour or overnight.

Drain the chicken and grill about for about 6 minutes each side or until cooked. Slice open the rolls and grill the insides until golden.

Thinly slice the chicken. Spread the mayo over the cut sides of the rolls. Drain the vegetables. Layer the rolls with the thinly sliced chicken, pickled veg and mint. Makes 2

a tomato slice.

Cook on medium for 2-3 minutes, until golden. Flip and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Makes 6.

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Butter one side of 4 slices of the bread. Place 2 slices, butterside down, in the pan. Layer with the cheese and pickled cucumber.

Top with the unbuttered bread slices. Top with the diced ham and beetroot chutney. Top with the remaining buttered bread, butter-side up.

Toast until golden underneath. Flip and toast the second side. Cut on the diagonal. Serves 2.

MINI CHEESE BITES An option is to use garlic butter.

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