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O’Regan: I won’t stand

By Mary Anne Gill

The race for the Waipā mayoralty has been given extra spice with the shock announcement this week experienced councillor Susan O’Regan – regarded by some as a potential contender – will not stand again.

Mayor Jim Mylchreest told the News in August last year he was standing and since then several councillors have been considering making a race of it.

Mylchreest was elected unopposed in 2019, but it looks certain there will be a race in 2022.

O’Regan, a barrister specialising

in family law before she was elected to the council, chairs the council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee and drew huge praise for her handling of last year’s Long Term Plan deliberations.

She is joining Dairy NZ as its senior advisor strategic engagement but will see out her term until the new council’s election on October 8.

“My decision was not an easy one. I have really enjoyed doing my best to bring a strong, forward thinking rural voice to council and to have our lives as farmers and families living on the land considered in decision making,” she said.

“I have enjoyed working with a great bunch of people passionate about Waipā and am hugely grateful for their wisdom shared and help given to me over the past five years.”

Sources say deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk would be a serious contender, given she lives in Ōhaupō, represents the Cambridge ward and has strong community links across the district.

Delaying her decision is her loyalty to Mylchreest, family – she has three teenage sons – and her site manager job at Mighty River Domain, Lake Karāpiro.

Others mentioned in dispatches

We’re in the slot The first slots race seen in harness racing in Australasia will put the focus on Waipā next Thursday.

The major race on next week’s card at Cambridge Raceway carries a record purse and features a field of pure class, including four Australian entrants.

Setting up the $900,000 invite-only race - The Race by Grins – involved the Waikato Bay of Plenty Harness Racing Club selling “slots” into the race for $75,000 for a three year term. Similar slot races have garnered huge followings in gallops and greyhound racing in Australia.

Cambridge Raceway chief Dave Branch, who has spearheaded the project, has done everything he can do for the event – the government announcement this week that the country remains in red means the gate takings will be limited.

He just wants April 14 to be a fine day.

“We are hoping there will be 1500

include Cambridge councillor Philip Coles who has strong business support through his involvement with Destination Cambridge and the Chamber of Commerce. He is a real estate agent and a fifth generation Cambridge resident with strong ties to St Peter’s School.

Marcus Gower lives in Kihikihi and runs his own Information Technology business. He is into his fourth term on the council and has shown his strength in the regulatory areas. He chairs the Regulatory committee and is on the licensing committee.

O’Regan, a National party supporter, also ruled out a tilt

general admission sales and we will have a good atmosphere. In other circumstances we would have been hoping for a crowd of 5000,” he said.

General admission tickets cost $25 and come with a complimentary extras. Gates to the eight race card will open at 5pm and the big race starts at 8.55pm.

Branch is delighted with the quality of the field – probably the finest to have lined up at the raceway, and is confident the best show in Waipā next week will draw strong support from throughout the district.

The barrier draw will be made on Saturday. The full field is Krug, Stylish Memphis (Australia), Mach Dan (Aus), Pembrook Playboy, Majestic Cruiser (Aus), Hot And Treacherous, Spankem, South Coast Arden, Self Assured and Alta Orlando (Aus).

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at the Tauranga seat vacated by Simon Bridges. Her mother, the late Katherine O’Regan, an MP for 15 years, ran twice in Tauranga, losing both times to Winston Peters, the last time in 1999.

O’Regan would not be drawn on who she would support only saying her departure presented an opportunity for another skilled and experienced person to step up.

“There is a lot of interesting work being done in Waipā right now and with the reform of local government in the pipeline it will be an exciting space to be albeit (in) somewhat uncharted territory.”

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The Returned and Services Association (RSA) is increasing awareness of New Zealand’s younger veterans to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their annual Poppy Appeal.

In 1922, the RSA established the Poppy Appeal to fund the support of veterans returning from the First World War, as well as their families. But as Graeme Ambler, Te Awamutu’s RSA secretary manager said, “the RSA is old, but not all of its members are.”

The association claims that over the past 30 years, New Zealand has created over 30,000 veterans under the age of 50. Ambler said there are around 60 in the Te Awamutu area who fit into this demographic.

“While soldiers today face different issues, our support of them still continues,” he said.

The RSA wishes to spread an awareness of these veterans, so that they can be properly recognised and supported.

Peter Watson, the president of Te Awamutu’s RSA, says there is a stigma amongst returning servicemen, where veteran means an “old guy”. He believes that this stigma is preventing servicemen from seeking support at the RSA.

RSA members, from left, Terry Findlay, Peter Watson, and Graeme Ambler.

“Their problems are no different to those ‘old guys’,” Watson said.

“Probably more complex in some ways, because of the technologies they’re dealing with.”

Terry Findlay, a Vietnam veteran and lifetime RSA member said the problems that some veterans face extend much further than just physical injuries, and thus require more complicated support.

“I’m lucky with my family, that they understood, but I went through a bad patch… you withdraw into yourself… you don’t want to talk to anybody,” he said.

Findlay said he struggled until he saw an ex-army doctor who understood his experiences.

“It changed my life, just finding somebody who understands what

you’ve been through,” he said.

Ambler said that although each veteran has their own unique experiences, the RSA exists to support one another, including the younger servicemen who do not, although should, consider themselves to be veterans.

“It’s a place for them to come to actually get back into the community itself,” he said.

“How we connect with them, that is where we’ve got a little bit of a problem,” said Watson. “This should be their home.”

Poppy pins can be gained throughout April by way of a gold coin donation. The Appeal runs for the entirety of the month, with Poppy Day, April 22, being the organisations most significant collection day.

End of pass rules celebrated

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Between 50-200 people entered Waipā District Council facilities on Tuesday to celebrate the end of vaccine passes.

Nina Parker, a Cambridge woman who launched a legal fighting fund last December to prevent the council requiring vaccine passes for entry to its venues, said it was an emotional day.

The group went to Te Awamutu and Cambridge libraries and then Go Waipā swimming pools in both towns. “As a group, there was a lot of discussion about the healing nature of deciding to re-enter this way.”

Parker made a speech at each venue and read a submission by a 92 year old Christian man about trusting each other and people showing compassion to each other. “I feel this was fitting for how we must move forward as a community.”

There were some tense moments around mask exemptions by some council staff, she said. “I feel this is natural.”

Waipā Community Services acting manager Brad Ward said “lots” of library books were checked out.

“We did note in general across the whole day that there was a level of confusion from members of the public to whether masks were still required since other

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A group of people entered Te Awamutu Library when vaccine pass mandates came off on Tuesday.

restrictions had been lifted – so we were reminding people that Covid protocols still required a mask to be worn indoors by those aged 12 and over.

“Some of those without masks held exemptions which was also acceptable.”

Go Waipā chief executive Matthew Horne said there was some “minor confusion” around mask wearing.

Masks must be worn entering and exiting the pools’ reception and dry side areas but once inside the actual pool areas, masks are optional.

“I feel there is a lot of emotion on all sides about these changes, and I respect where all people are coming from,” said Parker.

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I wonder if anybody has taken time to consider the positives regarding the three waters reforms?

The biggest of these is that taking this away from local government means that the risk of disaster is removed. The Havelock North incident a few years ago was a direct result of council staff incompetence and infrastructure that was well overdue for replacement. Here in Waipā we have had a recent flurry to catch up Te Awamutu’s supply as it has been neglected for decades.

Looking at Auckland, they have a guy there who is in charge of a reservoir and for all the hundreds of thousands of dollars he is paid, he cannot stop the leaks.

In most cases councils farm out the control of municipal water to contractors at every level so we pay double or triple for the service. Here in Waipā, the meter reading and billing is done by someone else.

If you look carefully at it, you may find that the water is excessively billed and the money goes by way of “internal borrowing” to all sorts of lovely extras. When it comes time to do an upgrade, the depreciation account is empty and the money has to be borrowed.

The council has taken its eye off the ball once again.

Councils have had their chance to run the show properly and for the benefit of the people and they have all failed to such an extent that their strangle hold on water should be taken away.

We deserve a better deal.

The same goes for power reticulation. It is not acceptable to be paying for three levels of governance when one would do.

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Ovato, the company that distributes the Cambridge News and Te Awamutu News, is closing its delivery business in New Zealand.

Good Local Media, publisher of The News, wants to retain the services of all delivery people employed by Ovato in Waipā. “We deliver more than 25,000 copies of The News in Waipā and we are working to establish a new delivery network to ensure readers continue to receive their ‘must read’ newspaper every week,” publisher David Mackenzie said.

Lapping it up

More than 50 St Peters students did “Laps at Lunchtime” last week to raise $13,000 for the Cancer Society. The move followed the cancellation of the Relay for Life event at Claudelands. Swears House leaders and deans brainstorming for an event in a Red Covid setting came up with Laps at Lunchtime where limited numbers were able to participate to raise awareness and funds for the cause.

Kiwibank winner

The co-founder of the Māori power company Nau Mai Ra, introduced to The News readers in August 2020 as a company aiming to appeal to Māori, has been named Kiwibank’s Young New Zealander of the Year. Ezra Hirawani, who affiliates to Te Āti Haunuia-Paparangi, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hako and Waikato Tainui, founded the company in 2019. In December the company said it had 1000 customers – but a waiting list of 10,000.

Correction

The News reported last week no dividend had been paid by Hamilton Airport to its council shareholders since 1989. In fact, it paid a $300,000 dividend as recently as 2020 to Waipā, Hamilton, Matamata-Piako, Waikato and Ōtorohanga councils. Waipā’s share was $46,800. The News apologises for the error.

Ngā Roto proposal rejected

By Benjamin Wilson

Waipā District Council has rejected a proposal from Te Awamutu company Ergozyme to clean up Lake Ngā Roto.

Ergozyme approached the council last month with a proposal involving their products to improve the lake’s water quality following a devasting algae bloom, which caused the death of hundreds of fish and other wildlife.

Company director Wium Mostert told The News his company’s products use a biotechnology to emulate how water is naturally cleaned over time.

After hearing Mostert’s proposal Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest told the council “if it is as successful as claimed, then it could be the answer to our prayers”.

But the council have chosen not to pursue Ergozyme’s offer for the time being.

“At this time, we are not proceeding with the Ergozyme proposal, and we have informed the product supplier,” acting community services manager Brad Ward told The News.

The council have concerns about the level of risk associated with the product.

“While having been used in sewage treatment ponds, there is no evidence

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Herbicide: toxic but safe

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The lake was the scene of an ecological disaster at the start of the year.

of the product being used in a complex natural lake environment such as Ngā Roto,” Ward said.

The proposal would also need to gain regional consent if it was ever to be actioned.

“Discharging a contaminant such as this to a water body would require a consent under Waikato Regional Plan,” Ward said.

Ergozyme’s proposal may still be considered as an option in the future.

However, the company will first need to supply research and trial data that alleviates the concerns that council have with their product.

Mostert plans to come back to council with an array of

different trial options.

“I’m not going to give up, we know it can work, it is just a matter of convincing them,” he said.

Mostert said the council has been sent trial results, but it wants to see the results first-hand.

“We will just have to work out another plan to show them it is actually not a problem.”

In the meantime, council have opted to continue undertaking measures that were identified in their recently completed 10-year Ngā Roto Restoration Plan.

The plan, finalised last September, lists weed and pest control as a top priority

for the next two years, with revegetation work the next priority, beginning in 2024.

Fish and Game manager David Klee, wrote a letter to the council earlier this year to request that action be made at the lake. He told The News that because of rain and cooler weather, the lake is looking much nicer than it did earlier in the year.

But Klee warns that if no drastic action is taken this year to change the lake.s hydrology, another hot dry summer could trigger repeat algae blooms.

“It’ll be fine from now right through winter, and then the cycle will repeat again,” he said.

A herbicide toxic to aquatic organisms has been deemed safe for use near Lake Ngā Roto.

In a notice last week, Waipā District Council said it would use the agrichemical glyphosate 510 (branded as Deal 510) to control pampas, willows, and blackberry around the lake.

Deal 510 is commonly used as an agricultural herbicide.

But its datasheet lists it as a hazard to water bodies. It considered to be “toxic to aquatic organisms with long lasting effects.”

Acting community services manager Brad Ward told The News the chemical has been deemed safe for use by the council provided that its application adheres to the manufacturer’s standards.

A drone will be used to deliver the spray itself, “to ensure the most even and effective application for the targeted area.”

Hand spraying was ruled out as an option because of Nga Roto’s hard to reach terrain and uneven surfaces.

The spraying programme will run from tomorrow to May 6.

Council explains ‘buy local’ push

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā District Council says a Buy Local campaign using its ratepayer funded communications department will focus on its own social media platforms.

Details of the campaign were unveiled at an unadvertised council workshop last week with Customer and Community Services group manager Sally Sheedy saying the council wanted to support the business community.

But Good Local Media has questioned the need for the council campaign saying it was an inappropriate use of ratepayer funding and its newspapers in Cambridge and Te Awamutu were already running Shop Local campaigns.

The council could “cherry pick” The News’ advertisers, impacting on the viability of regional

media, said publisher David Mackenzie.

Sheedy said some of the stories its communications department would find might suit a more in-depth look which it would provide to the local media.

There would be no exclusive arrangements with any media organisation, she said.

The council would work with local businesses, Chambers of Commerce in Te Awamutu and Cambridge and local social service providers to create a “positive and uplifting campaign to show the diversity, innovation and sheer determination from our local business community to continue on throughout the effects of Covid-19.”

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce chief executive Kelly Bouzaid said it already had a shop local campaign under the Totally Locally

Cambridge brand.

It was great to see council thinking “in this space” and “we 100% advocate for shop local - but I wonder if local government should be spending ratepayer money to promote individual businesses.”

Mackenzie said it was not the role of the Waipā communications department to write advertorials for commercial operations or compete with existing local companies, in this case Good Local Media.

“This campaign has the potential to have a negative impact on the one newspaper company committed to producing exclusive Waipā content at a time when it is facing massive price hikes in the costs of distribution and newsprint and has seen a downturn in advertising from the district council,” he said.

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Views of history

By Tom Roa, Tikanga Advisor, Waikato University

As I write this, a karakia resounds with me, conducted recently at Ōrākau, to commemorate the event that took place there which we know today as ‘The Battle of Ōrākau’. In the early part of the last century Rudall Hayward filmed a very romanticised production which he termed ‘Rewi’s Last Stand’, loosely based on the same event.

Both of these titles excite in their languaging something in the reader of the term or the hearing of the listener to its recital. Both of them fall short of the actuality of that event and its significance both to this region, and to Aotearoa/New Zealand.

How we remember, and forget - often how we choose to remember or forget - our history has much to do with the contexts of our upbringing, our learning, and those who play leading roles in our lives.

I want to make it clear, if it is not clear already, that I write with a bias. That bias has much to do with my upbringing, my schooling, and my own exploration in, of, and with, others’ opinions some of whom I wholeheartedly agree with, others I wholeheartedly disagree with, and others again whose thoughts confound me completely! And vice versa, I daresay.

It is my understanding that on March 31 1864, more than 1400 veteran troops professional soldiers - of the most powerful army in the world at that time, the British Empire, equipped with the most modern of weaponry, laid siege to a hastily constructed, incomplete, defensive ‘pā’. Inside the pā were approximately 300 Māori men, women, and children, armed with muskets and their traditional weapons of defence, led by veterans of other encounters with the

Talking about suffering

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‘Armed Constabulary’ and ‘New Zealand Defence Force’, essentially farmers, fisherfolk, asserting that they were the force in defence of their lands, homes, livelihoods, way of life – this is termed by many to be a ‘battle’.

By April 2, after surviving an horrific bombardment of cannon and musket fire, the hastily garrisoned Māori defence force had exhausted their food and water and were very low on ammunition for their muskets.

Lieutenant-General Cameron called for them to surrender The response continues to reverberate with many today, ‘E hoa, ka whawhai tonu mātou, ake, ake, ake!’ – Friend, we will fight for ever, and ever, and ever! When invited to send the women and children out Te Ahumai’s response on their behalf: ‘Ki te mate ngā tāne, me mate anō ngā wāhine me ngā tamariki!’ – if the men are to die, the women and children must die also!’

So the defenders, after much heated debate, decided to withdraw. My mother’s tupuna Te Whakatapu, and Tiraroa, were amongst those who came away from there, not unscathed. My mother asserted they came away to fight in another way on another day.

Hardly ‘Rewi’s Last Stand’.

How we talk about ourselves and others; how we choose to remember, and to forget; and how we choose and use words in that remembering and forgetting show our biases. But then, as Rick Warren said in his book, ‘The Purpose Driven Life, What on Earth am I Here For?’, ‘We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners’.

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I am going to broach an uncomfortable subject, the topic of suffering. It has long been an observation of mine that our society is so oriented to comfort and ease, that anything to do with suffering is hidden, avoided. We are suffering averse. We do not prepare young people to understand that suffering is part of life. Perhaps the need to do so has crept up on us as a society without us realising.

Since WWII especially, it seems there has been a concerted effort to “live the good life,” to avoid even the mention of pain, in an attempt to never again have to face the loss and ugliness that the world at war brought about. We have been lulled into believing that life “owes” us happiness and success.

And to some extent the policies adopted in educating and raising our children have added to the problem. I am referring to the way children have been praised for every little achievement, to the extent that it seems to them that all their achievements are due praise. I’m not against praise, nor against encouragement but I am wary of a system built entirely on external praise and not on the concept of the task having merit in and of itself. I also believe that a steady diet of praise is akin to growing plants in rich fertiliser. There is tremendous lush growth to start, but when conditions are less than perfect the plant growth slows, then without steady intervention, withers and dies.

Children raised on a diet of praise are not equipped to cope with the realities of life’s struggles and suffering.

And as a society, we are seeing people suffer. Isolation. Separation. Overwork, or conversely, loss of long held jobs or businesses built up over years, together

with the attendant loss of income, status, comradeship and selffulfilment. Thousands are affected. We daily hear reports that stress and anxiety are rising steadily. Could it be that this pandemic has pushed society into the first serious contact with ongoing suffering caused by that stress, by division within our communities and families that many New Zealanders have had to face?

This next idea may be difficult to swallow, but I believe we need to learn to embrace suffering. I believe that great good can come from it. Romans 8:28 says, “We know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans.” (Living Bible) That is never to say that God causes the suffering, but that if it happens, God can bring good from it. Our very beginning in life, our birth, causes suffering. And yet, the reward is so great we have siblings. Think of the many sports stars who have suffered a disability, but that very injury has propelled them to achieve in their sport. God can bring good out of bad, even very bad things. Unseen by us, God is making all things new, bringing new life where there is has been loss.

Eventually each of us will experience pain - emotional, physical or spiritual that seems more than we can bear. If we can also hold on to belief that this too will pass, and that one day life will rise from these ashes, our suffering will become endurable, the glimmer of hope will carry us through.

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Complaint made over quarry

would border a proposed sand quarry 2kms east of Cambridge. He alleges the giant quarry An opponent to a planned quarry just south would see 200 trucks a day visiting the site and travelling through the town. There were huge of Cambridge has told the Waikato Regional health, environmental and cultural issues if Council he believes an unconsented sand the quarry next to his property was allowed to quarry is operating in the same area. proceed, he said.

Rhys Powell lodged a complaint with Beacon Hill Contracting is described on the council on Friday alleging Beacon Hill its website as a family-owned earthmoving Contracting, which has a sand quarry at company operation which initially carried out its registered office – 599 Oreipunga Road, general farm maintenance and has now moved Maungatautari – is operating illegally. on to major farm conversion jobs with large Wayne Allan, Waipā District Council group scale earth-moving projects. Companies Office manager District Growth and Regulatory, said there was a small sand quarry on the land and the council would conduct a further investigation as to whether consent was required for it.

“We currently have no consents on record for this quarry, however farm quarries (for material used on-farm) are a permitted activity in the rural zone.”

Elwyn Andree-Wiltens, who was elected unopposed for the Maungatautari ward at the 2019 local body elections, has a 25 per cent shareholding in the company and lives across the road from the quarry.

Powell lives in French Pass Road which

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records show the company was formed in August 2012.

In recent years the company’s work base diversified into civil works, drainage and roading while working alongside local and regional councils for project consents, the website says.

The other shareholders, each with 25 per cent, are Albert, Mark and Julia Andree-Wiltens with the two men as directors.

The News approached the company and Cr Andree-Wiltens for comment. No response had been received when The News went to print.

A day for assemblies

The regional council confirmed it had received a complaint about the Maungatautari quarry.

Powell said after he found out about the planned quarry next to his property in French Pass Road, he went looking on Google Earth for other mining operations in the area.

That is when he saw the quarry in Oreipunga Road which is visible from across the Waikato River at Little Waipā Reserve on Horahora Road.

“This is the first (quarry) we found, we are looking at others as well,” he said.

Church in the Park: Reach Te Awamutu Assembly of God parishioners celebrate the phasing out of vaccine passes with a barbecue in Memorial Park on Sunday.

Rhys Powell on his property overlooking a proposed quarry site.

It has been a long few months for the Reach Te Awamutu Assembly of God church faithful so when church leaders suggested a “phasing out of vaccine passes” celebration on Sunday, there were plenty of takers.

Pastor Ariki Ashford was put in charge of the

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Menz Shed restores faith Bridging the gaps

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By Benjamin Wilson

Te Awamutu’s Menz Shed is showing off community spirit again, by creating a replacement cross for Pukeatua Memorial Church.

In January a brass cross and two silver challises were stolen from the church.

Menz Shed only had a photo of cross with a ruler next it to design the replacement. After copious amounts of trial and error they sought help from Instawood Products to finish the design.

Like many of their projects, the replacement cross is made out of recycled timber.

“Farmers would quite often ring and say, ‘we have got some timber sitting under the shed’,” vice chairman Steve Mannington said.

Menz Shed member Richard Cato, who has overseen most of the work on the cross, says it should be completed this week and he hopes it can be given to the church on Monday.

The woodwork for the cross and its base is finished, all that needs to be done to complete it is the joining of the two pieces and final staining.

When Mannington was asked how he felt about being about to replace the church’s cross, he simply said, that is just what they do.

“We’ll take any community project.”

The cross is just one of many community projects undertaken

by Menz Shed. Last year they made chair raisers for Freeman Court retirement village as well as a memorial seat for Kihikihi School.

Many of Menz Shed’s projects are undertaken on a donation basis, but some projects are commercial. The group regularly sell rat traps and has built picnic

By Susan O’Regan, Waipā District Councillor

Richard Cato with the replacement cross.

tables for Waipā Networks.

The money raised by these projects goes back into the club to keep it going and to fund future work. Last year they bought a $4000 bench saw and they have recently secured a second-hand heavy-duty lathe for just $100.

Another new addition to the club is its community Automated External Defibrillator - AED. The AED was installed outside the Menz Shed’s main building to fulfil safety concerns, and is available for use for anyone who may need it.

Menz Shed has 32 members.

“We are always looking for new members, particularly younger ones, we are all in our 70’s at the moment,” Mannington said.

A variety of talents fill the club, including gardeners, engineers, farmers, carpenters, and truck drivers.

“We have got people from all walks of life… we have all got a common thing, coming in our doing our bit for the community.

A job will come in and then I’ll hunt around to find the right man to do the job.”

He says the club isn’t just about making things, it is also acts as a social outlet for the members.

“We have got some guys who come in and don’t have good health, they’ll come just for a cup of tea and a chat… quite often the wives would lead the men down here once they retire,” he said.

Later this month the club will be having a market day to help clear stock and to raise funds.

They will be selling hand crafted toys and tools. Chopping boards, pull carts, and wooden diggers are just some of the items that will be available. Mannington says there is also the possibility of the club making extra items on request if they run out of something.

The market will run from 8am to noon on April 23 at Menz Shed’s workshop on 132 Raeburne Street. The club hopes to use money raised to paint their building.

This year is a biggie for Waipā.

We have an ambitious ‘To Do List’ including the Annual Plan, the review and adoption of three major strategies - Transport, Environment and Economic Well-being - plus the development of our district-wide Community Spatial Plan.

Strategies like these represent a long-term vision of what we want our district to be like in the future. They drive important conversations with residents, but it’s important those conversations are based on fact.

The Draft Transport Strategy has created a bit of noise, specifically around the population projection data being used and the planning already underway for a third bridge in Cambridge. There’s been a lack of clarity about these two issues so let’s clear it up.

The population numbers we rely upon for all our planning are used at both a district and a sub-regional level.

We all know they are not perfect (no projections ever are) but they are also used consistently by our neighbours and by multiple government departments. It is critical we are all working from the same place.

Those population numbers are always under review. When they are updated, we will be plugging the new numbers into all our strategy work, as will everyone else. The suggestion we are working with “wrong” data is wrong and, in many ways, irresponsible.

The very same numbers we and other councils use are the ones used by Waka Kotahi, the government agency which helps fund big roading projects including (we hope!) a third bridge for Cambridge.

We know we will need a third bridge in Cambridge; council absolutely agrees and I can assure you work has already begun.

In June last year, councillors unanimously agreed to allocate

around $300,000 for feasibility work to be undertaken if the draft Transport Strategy identified a need for a third river crossing. The strategy has done exactly that and work on a feasibility study is already budgeted and scheduled to begin very shortly. The suggestion we are doing nothing is false.

This feasibility study will help with a formal Business Case. Without a formal Business Case, based on agreed and consistent data that we all use, Waka Kotahi simply won’t be interested. And that would be a disaster for the whole of Waipā, not just Cambridge.

If Waka Kotahi don’t agree with our business case (and our data), all Waipā residents will pay the full cost of a third bridge. This will add around $460 per year in rates to all rates bills… for the next 30 years. That’s unaffordable and inequitable. We need to get our ducks in a row and make sure Waka Kotahi comes to the party.

This is why the development of the Waipā Community Spatial Plan is such an important part of our strategy work programme. It will become our blueprint, our planning roadmap for the next 30-plus years.

The Spatial Plan will pull together our existing plans and strategies to help us prioritise investment decisions for our district that all of us will have to fund. It will help us build connected, vibrant, liveable and resilient communities. It is an interesting, challenging, complex and large project.

I have decided not to re-stand for council so I will not see the Spatial Plan through. But I will follow progress on this and on other Waipā strategies with interest. This work is critically important, it’s imperative we get it right, and we need everyone to help us to do that.

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Advocate dies

Waikato disability advocate John McIntosh, 74, has died in Waikato Hospital after a short illness. He was last year made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to people with disabilities. Mr McIntosh, who was born with scoliosis – curvature of the spine – joined Life Unlimited Charitable Trust in 2003.

Sight unseen

An artist’s impression of how the site might look.

By Benjamin Wilson

A request for further information has paused progress on Global Contracting Solutions’ (GCS) plans to build a waste to energy plant on Te Awamutu’s Racecourse Road.

GCS applied for consent in December 2021, however their application was paused in early March. Waipā District Council requested further information be given

to them before any processing on the application continues.

Waste to energy plants recycle materials and create energy through the combustion of non-recyclable waste.

GCS’s plant, named Paewira, is being promoted as being capable of processing 150,000 tonnes of waste derived fuel a year. From that, the plant could produce 15 megawatts of power - enough to power 15,000 homes, or all of Te Awamutu in the

Collection time

The Te Awamutu Urban Miners collection event on Sunday resulted in 31 different items of e-waste being dropped off outside Te Awamutu Sports Club. The collections are usually held on the first Sunday of each month and predominantly staffed by Te Awamutu Rotary volunteers and the Te Awamutu Community Board. Recently board chair Ange Holt initiated a used battery collection bin at Pak ‘N Save.

summer.

The council’s information request addresses a range of concerns, including application clarifications, waste and water management, cultural effects, safety, transportation, sound, environmental and residential impacts, and numerous other topics.

Quentin Budd, Waipā District Council’s consents team leader said their information request reflects the complexity of the GCS application, and the need to ensure any decision on the application is properly informed.

“Processing will commence when we receive a response to all the matters raised in the letter.”

GCS executives had a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the request, and they are working through their responses. The company declined to make a public comment on the issue this week but it is understood the council’s information request was within expectations.

There are no active waste to energy plants in New Zealand, and if GCS is successful in building their plant, it would become a national first.

Six videos on the Te Ara Wai Journeys website were turned off for most of January - the peak of the tourism season – because a subscription expired, Waipā District Councillors have been told. Te Ara Wai: Journeys is a free, selfguided tour showing places of importance, accompanied by stories. Museum and Heritage director Anne Blyth once the issue was identified, the account was reinstated.

Sports challenge

Te Awamutu Sports and Recreation Club is finding it challenging to maintain its grounds and wants to work with Waipā District Council’s Parks and Reserves staff on a possible solution, councillor Clare St Pierre told a recent council meeting. She said she attended a club fun day and was told weather conditions had been challenging and the club wanted to upgrade their clubrooms.

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Four funerals…

By Viv Posselt

Hundreds of people packed the Cambridge Raceway stands to farewell publican Richard Bright and extend their sympathies to the families of the other men who died with him in the March 20 boating tragedy off North Cape.

Richard and four others died when their fishing charter boat, Enchanter, foundered during a storm. They were Cambridge’s Geoffrey Allen, Michael Lovett, and Mark Walker, and Te Awamutu’s Mark Sanders.

The outdoor service was officiated

by Kay Hallberg-Gregory, who acknowledged the presence of the families of those involved in the tragedy and praised the efforts of the search and rescue team.

“You have all shared something indescribable. This is a terrible time for each family.”

Most of those lost knew one another through shared patronage at the Group One Turf Bar in Cambridge, the pub purchased by Richard and his wife Brenda on April 2, 21 years ago. It became the centre of mourning last week.

Brenda told the News on Monday that the previous week had been an unusual one. Three funerals and a memorial service were followed on Saturday by a wedding uniting their daughter Julie and her groom, Reece Stratton.

“It was very impromptu as all the family was here, and they managed to get the licence through,” she said. “We had it in the back yard. It was a fitting end to a very big week.”

Those at the March 30 farewell service heard how Richard, a Ngāruawāhia lad from an early age showed his metal as a hunter, fisherman and future businessman. Kay Hallberg-Gregory who shared some of his childhood years, said his work ethic always stood out.

Richard Bright, aka Cambridge’s ‘Basil Fawlty’, and others lost with him were farewelled last week.

“He hankered after owning a pub, always loved being front-of-house,” she said, “and he always told Brenda he would never grow old… he didn’t like the thought of slowing down.”

Richard’s daughters, Jessica and Julie,

and his father Cyril, said he always had time for them and was generous to a fault. Cyril described his son as the strong and generous ‘core man’ in their family, one with whom he shared business ideas and a host of exploits through the years.

Others reminisced about Richard’s love of his grandchildren and willingness to support local causes, including the volunteer fire brigade. He was known for his hunting and fishing prowess, his love of horses and his perfectionist traits when working the bar.

“He could pour beer faster than anyone, take change quickly, and always put on a bit of a show if you were watching,” said Rick Williams of The Oaks Stud. “I recognised when meeting him that he was a bit free-range … he danced to the beat of his own drum.

The more he liked you, the more abuse he’d give you.”

That blunt, ribbing characteristic was much mentioned at Richard’s farewell.

Peter Archer described him as an ‘enigma’, a teaser who was also humble, caring, humorous and ‘totally offensive’.

George Simon told mourners that Richard called him ‘his favourite nonCaucasian New Zealand race-caller’, always with a touch of salt, adding that he was the only ‘non-Caucasian New Zealand race-caller’.

“After 40 years of knowing Richard, I can finally say what I want without him interrupting me,” he said. “Richard was loud, rude, inappropriate, obnoxious … he was Cambridge’s version of Basil Fawlty.”

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Richard and Brenda’s daughter Julie with her groom Reece Stratton after their impromptu wedding last Saturday.

Council gives a bee plus Belated honour for Peter

By Mary Anne Gill

Restrictions to beehives are to be removed from the draft Waipā Animal Nuisance Bylaw.

And people wanting to keep beehives at or above the second storey of a building can also do so provided the building is strong enough to support the additional weight.

The council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee first heard verbal submissions on the proposed bylaw in February but it became clear then there was some ambiguity in the technical information and advice staff received about keeping bees.

Strategic Projects driver Graham Pollard originally suggested a maximum limit of hives depending on the size of the property and rules around location.

Submitter Phil Evans said there should be no restrictions at all on how many

hives and where they were located.

He said the distance from the boundary is irrelevant and needs to be removed from the bylaw. “Fence height is of far more importance.”

Nuisance complaints could easily be dealt with by the council instead, he said.

The committee this week agreed to change the beekeeping recommendations and remove the clause limiting the number of hives and distance from the boundary provided there is a solid two metre high fence.

Apiculture New Zealand submitted on the bylaw earlier this year and told the committee hobby beekeeper members reported successfully keeping hives on apartment block balconies, on garage roof tops and on top of containers.

These bee changes to the bylaw will now be sent to council for adoption at its next meeting.

Upgrade nearly complete The Kihikihi alternative water supply project is nearing its completion.

The project which began late last year, aims to improve the resilience of Kihikihi’s water supply by connecting it to Te Awamutu. Currently, Kihikihi’s water comes from two bores located on Church Street and Hall Street.

The towns are being connected by a pipe that travels along Park Road, Golf Road, and Flat Road. It connects the supply from Te Awamutu’s Albert Park Drive to Kihikihi’s existing reservoir on the corner of Rolleston Street and Grey Street.

Waipā Project Engineer Karan Sehgal says the project is nearly complete.

“With the contractor working on the final connection into the reservoir, we will concurrently be starting the road reinstatement works along Rolleston Street.”

Once completed, council expects Kihikihi residents to experience minor improvements to their water pressure as well as water clarity.

Although the project’s immediate benefits have been described as minor, council says it was a necessary step in accommodating Kihikihi’s rapidly growing population.

By Mary Anne Gill

Cambridge economist Peter Nicholl has received an international award for his work as governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nicholl, who writes a regular column for The News, received the Central Banking Institute’s award last month for outstanding contribution to capacity building.

The 78-year-old Hamilton born, and Cambridgeraised banking consultant is delighted to get the recognition 18 years after he finished at the bank.

In 1997 he was recruited from the International Monetary Fund in Washington, where he had moved two years previously after 22 years with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to lead Bosnia’s first central bank.

He and wife Glynyss Watkins, also an economist, undertook an audit of the central bank which revealed the bank had little capital and almost no income.

They also helped design Bosnia’s new currency after there had been so much debate, no one could decide on anything.

When he left the bank in 2004, the country had low inflation and a stable exchange rate.

The family, which now included daughter Lily, moved to Italy in 2006 – the same year he was awarded a QSM for his services in Bosnia, before returning to New Zealand seven years ago.

It was to Cambridge they went, Nicholl happy to be back where he grew up and went to school – at Cambridge Primary and High schools.

His family originally farmed on St Kilda Road, opposite where a new housing subdivision now is.

Nicholl had left school in the 1960s to work for five years on the family dairy farm before taking up a job with Federated Farmers in Hamilton.

While there he studied economics through Massey part time and then achieved an Honour’s Degree in economics and accounting from Victoria University.

Peter Nicholl has received an honour – 18 years after leaving the Central Banks of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He tells the story of how at a job interview for a position overseas, when asked where he studied, Nicholl said “Cambridge.” So impressed were the interviewers, he got the job.

Since his return home, Nicholl has been a ministry-appointed member of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board and a banking consultant.

He has a reputation of being able to explain economics in a non-economic way and is often described as eastern Europe’s best central bank governor.

His passion for rugby – he once played for Hautapu – means he will soon be writing for The News wearing a sportswriter’s hat rather than an economist’s one. Nicholl would be the first to say they are not that different.

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Where’s there’s smoke…

Driving through Cambridge at the weekend I was startled by a cloud of thick black diesel smoke which burst forth from a pair of vertical exhaust pipes attached to a large vehicle in front of me. Equally startling was the noise which accompanied the burgeoning cloud.

After the audio visuals the next sense to be assaulted was smell; this was thick diesel smoke and all my windows were open.

Pretty sure I could taste it as well. Thankfully the last of my five senses remained untroubled, but judging by the acceleration with which the vehicle took off, touch was a real possibility for anything in front of it.

The upshot of all this fuss was to move our protagonist forward, very quickly, by 40 or 50 metres whereupon he (I’m assuming ‘he’) had to put his braking system through

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a stringent practical test in order to prevent him from mowing down the people on the second pedestrian crossing on the main drag.

You may have noticed my intentionally jarring use of the word ‘drag’; it’s not a word I would normally use to describe the main thoroughfare of our town however it does enable me to say: It’s not meant to be taken literally.

These exploits should be reserved for the aptly named dragstrip at Meremere.

Clearly this was attention seeking behaviour, and I’m sure plenty of heads were turned: Job done.

It’s easy to ascribe my best prejudicial stereotype to the character concerned and come up with a raving lunatic who would like to have been at the forefront of the Capitol Riot of 2021.

Perhaps his haste was due to his need to get back to his hydroponic plantation to adjust the delicate balance of nutrients required for the optimum crop - of lettuce of course - what did you think? - oh well that’s just your prejudice.

So I tutted, and glanced to the pavement in search of anyone with whom I could exchange a stoically aggrieved raise of the eyebrows.

We all want reinforcement don’t we?

We all want people to think how cool we are. How competent, successful, together, and organised we are. We want everyone to believe our social media persona at face(book) value.

In fact I wonder if that is all most people really want: affirmation. You pat your pet dog’s head and say “Who’s a good boy

then?” and the dog’s life is complete. Is it the same for people?

The person responsible for the vehicular histrionics and spiralling smoke wanted his audience to be impressed, and I daresay some of them were.

I wasn’t. However I do feel some gratitude to the person since the incident precipitated the train of thought which I have just laid before you.

I have to concede that the evidence in support of my initial reaction was thin at best. I have no reason to suppose that the occupant of the thunderous contraption before me wasn’t a human rights lawyer working for Medecin-Sans-Frontieres except he wasn’t was he?

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Flavours

with Jan Bilton

Appetising Easter

Let’s celebrate Easter. Taking a break, enjoying the end of summer and feasting with friends should set us up for the cooler weather to come.

My local region is celebrating with a huge foodie festival including: culinary gems showcasing their skills at cooking classes; unique dinners including a progressive one; a Taste Asian walking tour; a free foodie movie night; and among others, a wine and food evening.

Easter is a time when traditional treats take pride of place on the menu. Hot Cross Buns, chocolate Easter eggs and rabbits and lamb are enjoyed worldwide but how they are presented can make all the difference. Barbecued lamb is our family fave but a butterflied roast doused in a minty pesto is also a winner The hot cross bun has not always been associated with Easter.

Its origin lies in pagan traditions of ancient cultures with the cross representing the four quarters of the moon. Later the Christian church adopted the bun and gave new meaning to the cross. And although hot cross buns are normally enjoyed hot with lashings of butter you may want to turn the traditional into something contemporary. See the fruity number following.

FRUITY HOT CROSS BUN STACK These yummy buns make a divine dessert but can also be served at brunch.

1 cup kiwi berries pulp of 3-4 passionfruit 1-2 tablespoons honey or sugar 4 brioche hot cross buns 125g crème fraiche 1 cup each: raspberries, blackberries Top and tail the kiwi berries and halve. Combine the passionfruit pulp with the honey.

Halve the buns and lightly toast. Spread the cut sides generously with crème fraiche.

Top the base halves with the berries. Drizzle with the passionfruit pulp and cover with the top halves.

Excellent served with extra crème fraiche and passionfruit pulp on the side. Serves 4.

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Banana & Passionfruit Cake

BANANA & PASSIONFRUIT CAKE A super seasonal cake to serve at Easter.

Cake: 3 medium bananas, peeled and chopped 3/4 cup caster sugar 2 large eggs 125g butter, softened 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 3 tablespoons passionfruit pulp 1 3/4 cups self-raising flour 3/4 teaspoon each: baking soda, ground cinnamon Filling: 1 cup cream 2 tablespoons icing sugar 4 tablespoons passionfruit pulp Preheat the oven to 180°C. Lightly grease a 20cm cake pan.

Line the base with baking paper.

Place the bananas in a food processor with the caster sugar, eggs, butter and vanilla. Process, until smooth. Scrape into a bowl. Stir in the passionfruit pulp.

Sift the flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Fold into the banana mixture. Do not over-mix.

Tip into the prepared cake pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes then remove from the pan and cool on a wire rack.

When cold, halve horizontally through the centre using a sharp, serrated knife.

To prepare the filling, whip the cream and icing sugar together until thick. Fold in 2 tablespoons of the passionfruit

pulp. Spread on the base half of the cake. Drizzle with the remaining passionfruit. Top with the remaining half cake.

Great dusted liberally with icing sugar. Serves about 8.

SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER Raising funds for our local RSAs

ROASTED LAMB WITH MINT & BASIL PESTO Kumara, pumpkin or potatoes can be roasted in a different pan at the same time.

Pesto: 1 clove garlic, chopped 3/4 cup lightly packed mint leaves 1/2 cup lightly packed basil leaves 3 tablespoons pine nuts 1/4 cup finely grated parmesan cheese 1/2 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons lemon juice Lamb: 780g butterflied leg of lamb freshly ground black pepper to taste Place the garlic, herbs, pine nuts and parmesan in a blender with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Pulse until finely chopped.

With the motor running, slowly drizzle in the remaining oil to make a paste. Remove to a bowl and stir in the lemon juice.

Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180°C. Score the lamb and place in a roasting dish. Rub about 1/3 of the pesto into the lamb pressing it into the scoring. Sprinkle with black pepper. Cover the remaining pesto and refrigerate.

Roast the lamb for 30 minutes per 500g. Remove, tent with foil and drape with a heavy towel. Rest for 15 minutes before carving. Dollop with the remaining pesto. Serves 6.

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Carole Hughes, a well-known local expressionist artist, has gifted one of her paintings, “Flanders Fields,” to the Cambridge News and Te Awamutu News for a silent auction to raise funds for Cambridge RSA and Te Awamutu RSA

RSA AUCTION BIDDING

OPENS: 5.30pm Monday 4 April - Closes noon Tuesday 26 April. Winner will be notified Friday 29 April.

Highest bid wins, funds from winning bid are split equally between Cambridge RSA and Te Awamutu RSA TO PLACE YOUR BID: Email admin@goodlocal.nz with your auction bid. Please include name, email address and phone number

This year, Anzac Day is 100 years of the poppy and highlights RSAs work over the last 30 years supporting the 30,000 war veterans under 50 years of age from recent wars such as Afghanistan.

PAINTING VIEWINGS: Te Awamutu RSA from 5.30pm Friday 4 April until 4pm Friday 15 April 2022; Cambridge Unichem Cambridge Victoria Street from Saturday 16 April until noon Tuesday 26 April 2022

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Open Day: Wednesday, 13 April 11.00am - 1.00pm

An interesting and versatile property, situated in a great location midway Te Awamutu and Otorohanga, and very close to SH3, is now available for 1 June 2022 settlement.

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83 Te Kawa Road, R D 3, Te Awamutu 116.4791 hectares - current land use dairying contour varies from flats to easy rolling to smaller area of steeper hill soil types include mairoa ash, puniu silt loam and clay loam well subdivided; v.g access via a ring race system with additional side races water supply - 2 x deepwell bores to tank; hp pump to the farm and dwellings calving approx. 310-315 cows; av. production approx. 123,000-124,000 kgs ms good 36 a/s farm dairy; spacious yard & sufficient concrete to hold the total herd

Ph Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

• a good range of implement shedding, calf rearing facilities & supporting buildings • two dwellings including:(i) 4 brm homestead, ensuite, kitchen/dining, lounge; separate double garage (ii) 3 bedroom dwelling; open plan living; separate double garage • very well located with utility services in close proximity and a great range of primary and secondary schooling within easy reach • versatility of land use is a significant feature; options could include a mix of dairying, dairy support, intensive beef finishing and / or maize growing

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A lovely quality dairy farm, situated in the Ohaupo district within easy reach of Te Awamutu, Cambridge & Hamilton, is now being offered for sale for the first time in 50 years.

427 Ryburn Road, R D 3, Ohaupo for sale for the first time in 50 years 67.72 hectares - extensive road frontage; multiple titles access from Ryburn Road, Sing Road & Lake Rd; stream on the southern boundary flat contour, sandy loam and silt loam soils very attractive with a scattering of mature specimen trees, v.g. races & subdivision calving approx. 240 cows on a high input system, under a split calving basis, 50/50 autumn and spring • average production approx. 140,000 kgs milk solids

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• numerous buildings; 16 a/s farm dairy with 23 sets of cups, 2 x large herd homes, extensive concrete area with feed pad; multiple feed bunkers; v.g. effluent system • two dwellings including:(i) 5 yr homestead, 3 brms, ensuite, open plan living, dble gge, additional shedding (ii) 3 brm home with usual amenities including heating, insulation and garaging • excellent central Waikato location enhanced by superb views to the spectacular bush-clad mountains of Pirongia and Maungatautari • a great district with multiple options for schooling

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eves.co.nz Open Home

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Katikati 694C State Highway 2 Harbour Front Orchard- One Title or Both Prime position, current options, future potential. The two titles on this north facing 13.7 ha approx.) holding, one of 8.8ha (more or less) and one of 4.9ha (more or less) can be purchased together or separately. Purchasers seeking to build their dream home in a rural atmosphere will appreciate the beautifully positioned potential house sites, right on the harbours edge with magnificent views across to Tuapiro and out to Tanners Point. The well managed avocado production orchard spanning 3.67 canopy hectares could be one for the portfolio. The Hass avocado trees are in great health and split between seven blocks, all with irrigation. The lemons which provide a fantastic income are Yen Ben and Meyer varieties and span over 4 canopy hectares. These varieties have been chosen specifically for export and local market.

Machinery list available on request. To be sold plus GST (if any).

For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty Closes 3pm, Fri 6 May (unless sold prior) View 1.30-2.30pm Sat 9 Apr & Sun 17 Apr or by appointment Durrelle Green 027 949 3725 durrelle.green@eves.co.nz

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Katikati 431 Kauri Point Road Top Performing Avocado Investment This is one of the best quality avocado properties to be offered to the market for some time, situated on 5.9 ha (approx.) in the heart of the avocado capital of NZ. The home is perfectly oriented to enjoy all day sun and gorgeous views from the deck over the tennis court and beyond. This beautifully presented home combines character with the modern convenience of todays appliances and interior design. The tidy and well laid out 4.8 canopy hectares of Hass avocado trees has provided significant income from consistent production, with a good crop hanging for the 22/23 season included in sale. There is expansive shedding and a serious list of machinery. Being sold +GST (if any)

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Dad to the rescue English top flight – 163 for Mansfield Town and four for Blackpool and Chesterfeld from 1985 to 1994.

The midfielder went on to spent a further nine years in non-league football.

He has a New Zealand Football C licence and spent six season as head coach at Tauranga City The club is, ironically, away this weekend to Tauranga Old Blues.

And as a measure of how the club has turned the ship around, it convinced football authorities to allow it to fill one of the vacancies in the premier league this season –

despite finishing second bottom in the championship last season.

“We were faced with playing Waikato A level,” Sean Stringfellow said. “But clubs pulled out of the premiership and spots opened up.

We’ve brought back women’s football too – everyone is saying how well the club is looking.”

Ian Stringfellow said he had watched Te Awamutu play.

“I have the Golden Book from Hudders and, regardless, all that really matters is we win,” he said The women’s team start their campaign away to Huntly on Sunday.

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Te Awamutu coach Richard Hudson has returned to Australia for family matters – but in making the announcement of his temporary departure on Monday he had an ace up his sleeve.

Ahead of Te Awamutu’s return to the top flight of the WaiBop football league on Saturday, Hudson, who has overseen the club’s best build up in recent seasons, has brought in Tauranga based Ian Stringfellow to stand in.

Stringfellow is the father of experienced Reds defender Sean – and he clocked up 167 appearance in the

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Ōhaupō prop Met Camaibatiki in action last weekend during a preseason game against Putaruru.

Waikato club rugby kicks off this weekend with a memorial rugby game for Ōhaupō legend Wally Kite.

Wally was well known for his farming of Ayrshire cows and served as ex-president of the Ōhaupō club, which hosts Taupiri.

“He is just a good genuine old bastard, who is going to be sadly missed,” said club committee member Wayne Davies.

Because of the Covid restrictions there was just a small service after Wally died in November.

This weekend’s match will be a tribute to him.

“I said ‘we need to have a memorial day, so that other people can come and tell stories about him,’” Davies said.

Wally’s farm, Kiteroa Ayrshires, was a big sponsor of the Ōhaupō Rugby Sports Club, and is now run by his son Zane, who also played for the club.

Wally was a member of Ayrshire New Zealand since 1960, who posted a tribute of him last year. Wally founded the

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Kiteroa Annual Sale, and presented the Kiteroa Trophy to the group, which is an annual award “presented to the person contributing the most to the Ayrshire breed.”

“He will be missed in every organisation he’s been involved in,” Davies said.

“He was always up there in the committee, or out there on the field painting lines so that we could play rugby. They weren’t always the straightest lines, but they were lines,” Davies said.

There will be a minute silence before each game in Ohaupo on the day.

In other club rugby matches, Leamington, which narrowly missed out on promotion to the top flight last season, hosts Hinuera and Pirongia travels to play Southern United.

In the women’s grade Kihikihi is away to Fraser Tech and Otorohanga goes to Hamilton to play Old Boys.

The premiers kick off after Easter.

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