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A council three down

By Mary Anne Gill

The resignation of Elwyn Andree-Wiltens on Monday has left Waipā council light on numbers as elected representatives debate major issues.

The council was three elected members down this week with Andree-Wiltens’ sudden departure following The News’ exclusive reporting of her financial interest in a sand quarry operating illegally on the banks of the Waikato River.

Hazel Barnes has leave of absence and Grahame Webber misses meetings as a result of ongoing cancer treatment.

We say…

The resignation of councillor Elwyn Andree-Wiltens appeared an inevitability, but it is also a loss to the Maungatautari community and is nothing to celebrate.

It was the consequence of a story broken exclusively by The News on April 1, and the fact we continued as the only media prepared to follow up the issue and demand answers.

In short, it illustrates the value of a robust, privately owned community newspaper.

Despite our constant prompting, Waipā District Council took three weeks to illustrate it understood the seriousness of the issue, and the Waikato Regional Council also appears to have been slow on the pick up.

This is not the end of the matter.

An audit must be carried out to determine where sand taken from the illegal quarry went.

Starting next week, the council will look to set its rates for the year and find money to pay for several projects not identified in its Long Term Plan such as a Sports Hall of Fame at the Velodrome.

Plus, councillors must address the pressing issue of the district’s transport requirements including the issue of a third bridge over the Waikato River in Cambridge. Then there are the Three Waters reform, staff shortages, rampant inflation and housing pressures to deal with.

“It’s a busy time,” chief executive Garry Dyet told the council on Tuesday, and he must now pull together a recommendation on how to cover Andree-Wiltens’ positions on the council, Cambridge Community Board, Maungatautari Reserve Committee, Heritage Fund and the Waikato-Tainui Joint Management Agreement.

Andree-Wiltens, the Maungatautari ward councillor for nearly six years and a community board member before that, released a statement on Tuesday apologising to the council for her involvement in the unauthorised quarry.

“It has always been my intention to engage with the community by being respectful and taking into account their concerns. I have always intended to provide an environment of integrity and trust to the community. A space that people know they can come to voice their concern and know they will be listened to.”

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company behind the sand quarry, had applied for a retrospective resource consent to mine the operation.

Elwyn Andree-Wiltens is an equal shareholder with husband Albert, son Mark and daughter-inlaw Julia.

At the time mayor Jim Mylchreest refused to comment on whether he was considering suspending Andree-Wiltens or whether sand from the quarry was used in any district projects.

But on Friday, following pressure from deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk and other senior councillors, Mylchreest called for AndreeWiltens’ resignation saying he was

“really disappointed” in her and said he told her a higher standard was expected of elected politicians because of the perception of bias.

The resource consent application would not be fast tracked and would be processed by independent consultants and independent commissioners, all paid for by Beacon Hill Contracting, said Mylchreest.

All operations at the mine were suspended on April 13 after a Waipā enforcement officer visited the site to meet the Beacon Hill owners and their consultant.

By Sunday, Rhys Powell, the man who tipped off the Waikato Regional Council to the sand

quarry’s existence, had lodged a Code of Conduct complaint with Waipā council saying he would take legal action if it did not act.

Dyet told Powell this week the council would “look into the wider issues relating to the matters” and would respond at the completion of the process.

Waikato Regional councillor Stu Kneebone said he knew little about the issue but had been assured by staff an investigation was ongoing into whether the quarry required a regional council consent to operate.

• The News publishes regular updates to ongoing stories on its websites www.cambridgenews.nz and www.teawamutunews.nz

We still remember them

As an old soldier remembers, and youngsters perform a haka, Viv Posselt’s photograph at the Te Awamutu Anzac service on Monday brilliantly illustrates how the annual remembrance day retains, if not increases its significance more than 100 years after it was first commemorated. The haka was performed by Te Tira Haka o Ngā Kura Tōpū Kapa Haka Group, representing Te Awamutu Primary, Te Awamutu Intermediate and Pekapekarau Primary schools. See more pictures and stories on Pages 8, 9 and 10.

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Reading the News the other day I was surprised to see that the Council wants to reduce/slow down urban density housing.

Not sure if I was reading that correctly. If that is true why are we still seeing massive subdivisions and infills happening?

Personally I perceive urban density as 400m2 sections with garages larger than houses. The small sections with housing have reduced the uptake of rainwater that normally goes into the ground. Is our infrastructure for stormwater sufficient to deal with sudden downpours? Or is the lack of permeable land now cause for concern with possible flooding when it will rain like a one in a 100 year event?

So, what is council doing? Following “orders” from central government is my thinking.

Three Waters is another subject of big concern. Waipā owns (ratepayers) $1.2 billion worth of three water assets and the initial offer was $20 million from central government. Now there is already more money being offered as a sweetener.

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These are exiting times in anticipation of a return by July of the full functioning of Waipā District Memorial Park’s access via the central ‘Airforce’ and Netball end ‘Army’ footbridges to the Picnic Playground Area donated for the Memorial by Austin Yarndley in 1951.

Along with the Navy footbridge the three were specifically dedicated in recognition of WW2 on behalf of the next of kin of the fallen and were formally dedicated on opening day to be named by the three armed services.

Along with other donations from the Waipā Districts, the significant Picnic Playground donation also brought a pound for pound government subsidy that enabled the construction of many memorial features throughout the memorial.

It should be noted that though the area is being referred to by WDC as a ‘dog exercise area’ it is actually an ‘On Leash’ area as is currently sign posted and according to the dog bylaw. The dog map for that area has long been incorrect.

The Picnic playground area should continue on as intended, now soon to also feature an embellishment of a Shared Culture Pathway continuing onward over the ‘Army’ footbridge, then behind the Netball Courts to Racecourse Rd. Marc Dawson Te Awamutu

Town survey

I would like to clarify the following points in relation to the story headed Survey Stays Exclusive published in The News.

Legal advice from LGNZ (Local Government New Zealand) has not been used for the Te Awamutu Community Board to provide information to one media outlet. As was published in last month’s Te Awamutu News “we welcome any publicity and support we can get for the survey so we can get as many perspectives as possible”.

This has not changed.

At the Community Board meeting on April 12 it was agreed we would try to promote the survey through both papers to get as much coverage as possible. You can watch this on the you tube link to the meeting at 1hr 23m.

LGNZ did advise that providing information regarding a project like this to a single media outlet was not illegal, however this was not the course chosen by the board.

I pressed the board to make sure their directions particularly in regard to the newspapers were clear to prevent any further confusion. So with my hand on my heart – “no one is being given any exclusive rights to anything related to this project”.

Ange Holt Chair, Te Awamutu Community Board

Council numbers

There is a serious deficiency within our elected council. We are currently down two elected councillors - one off due to ongoing concerns and one recently resigned.

Therefore, due to the current structure being disproportionate, and a violation of human rights, with the numbers of unelected iwi representatives with voting rights out weighing that of the elected council, it is fundamentally paramount that with two elected councillors down, and at least 85 per cent of ratepayers not receiving fair representation that a by-election or early election occur now.

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African flavour to art expo

By Viv Posselt

A South African-born dairy farmer who has called Te Awamutu home for almost 30 years is exhibiting his paintings at Te Awamutu Library until May 10.

Although he has painted intermittently through the years, it is only recently that Peter Korkie he has been able to spend more time on it.

His work speak to his love of landscapes.

There are sweeping South African scenes and wildlife, and paintings of local landscapes.

His love for the land is matched only by a strong determination that saw his younger self battle tuberculosis in the hip along with a level of scepticism that he would never be able to fulfil his dream to farm. He trounced both, got a degree in animal husbandry and ended up dairy farming at Tsitsikamma, near South Africa’s Port Elizabeth. When his farm was expropriated, he looked elsewhere, and after touring New Zealand’s North Island, decided to settle in Te Awamutu.

The exhibition in the library is the third in conjunction with the Rosebank Art Centre, the first two involved artists Charles Stewart and Margaret Dixon.

Te Awamutu library supervisor Sheree Gross said each exhibition lasts about three weeks. “This has been a great success and we’d like to keep the exhibitions going,” she said.

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An Anzac to remember While at the RSA on Monday after the Anzac service it occurred to me that the number of civic groups which lay wreaths is growing larger by the year.

The line of veterans gets shorter but the number of young people taking part grows larger.

My own children participated this year with their school and were so excited to be part of it. Those younger generations are the ones that will carry the torch forward for us The RSA has been wonderful in getting the Anzac message to the younger generation

and in this they do a great service to former servicemen and women.

The low flyover of the P3 Orion was thrilling and my children were so excited to see it. As was this big kid.

A big thankyou to all those that participated and attended. It did my heart good to see our topsy turvy world get a little more normal.

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Briefs…

Pics online

Our photographers were at Anzac Day services throughout the district.

Photos from those appear on our Facebook page while longer versions of some stories in today’s edition, and more pictures, can be found online at cambridgenews.nz and teawamutunews.nz

New animal bylaw

The Waipā District Animal Nuisance Bylaw will commence on Tuesday May 10 after months of discussion.

Submissions sought several amendments to the draft bylaw, particularly about keeping bees and pigs. Many of these were incorporated into the draft for the Strategic Planning and Policy committee who recommended a final version to council this week.

Homes development

Mystery surrounds the development of 11.52ha of land to the north of Cambridge with suggestions it is being eyed up as a site for high density and affordable housing. The land was bought from Waka Kotahi two years ago by the Ministry of Housing and Urban development, which confirmed it would be used for the Land for Housing Programme. The programme would build a minimum of 180 houses with at least 40 per cent of them to be public and/or KiwiBuild homes.

Wire winners

Auckland artist Gina Ferguson and West Coast artist Dale Cotton have won the top prize in the 2022 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award with their work It never rains but it pours. Te Awamutu’s Dagmar Elliott was among the finalists.

Your Honour?

Te Awamutu councillor Lou Brown is well known as a councillor who shows great respect – and he took it to a new level at a full council meeting this week referring to Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest as Your Honour rather than Your Worship on three occasions.

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Land return a blessing

By Benjamin Wilson

Sixty-one Rangiaowhia Road has been blessed on a day when both holy water and tears fell onto the historic whenua.

“When our tupuna were ejected from here, they left with tears of dejection, of sorrow, of pain. Today we are crying for a different reason,” said kaumātua Tom Roa. In February, Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Hinetu were unsuccessful at buying historically significant whenua in Rangiaowhia, which caused hurt. Last month, discussions between the Anglican Church, iwi, and landowners, resulted in a deal to see the land returned to mana whenua.

A service on Saturday acknowledged the Church’s support of iwi, and their intention of returning the whenua to them. After the service, archbishop Philip Richardson blessed the whenua with holy water.

“The support that we offer must be real, it must be down to earth, it must be total. This opportunity for land return represents something of that support today and forever,” Richardson said.

“We look back knowing that we must understand the past fully, unreservedly, and without censor, if we are to learn, if we are to move forward.”

Rangiaowhia was once a thriving settlement for Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Hinetu,

Curate Benjamin Ong (left) and Archbishop Philip Richardson blessed the whenua with holy water.

Jenny Charman, Bill Harris and solicitor Emma Whiley are celebrating the events that led to Saturday’s blessing.

who had a close relationship with the neighbouring Anglican and Catholic churches.

On February 21, 1864, Māori took refuge in the churches and other buildings during an attack by colonial forces caused Sixty-one Rangiaowhia Road is placed in between these churches.

“As a church, we are here humbly to reflect on the past, and with deep humility, to stand before the experiences of Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Hinetu.

We come to pay our highest respects, to enter as best we

can into your grief, and your loss, and to stand here with solidarity and with aroha,” Richardson said.

“Rangiaowhia is of the most poignant and crucial importance in our history as a nation, and it is not too much to claim of critical importance to humanity as a whole.”

Jenny Charman is one of the original claimants of whenua in Rangiaowhia.

She said she is very happy with the outcome but joked she wished it had happened sooner. “I haven’t got that much time you know.”

Initially Apakura tried

asking the government to assist them in their reclamation of whenua. But as solicitor Emma Whiley said, “the Church has moved faster than the Crown.”

Whiley was Ngāti Apakura’s lawyer for the entirety of their land reclamation efforts.

Apakura Rūnanga Trust chairperson, Bill Harris, told The News that Ngati Apakura plan to build a wharenui (meeting house) on the whenua, as Apakura do not have one of their own.

It is understood that the Church will gift the land to mana whenua at a later date.

It’s waste not, want not…

By Mary Anne Gill

A Waipā submission to the Ministry for the Environment about food recycling will include a suggestion to look at channelling some food waste to animals first before composting.

The suggestion came from councillor Susan O’Regan who owns a dairy farm in Roto-o-Rangi and feeds her cows rejected kiwifruit and carrots.

Other food rejected for aesthetic reasons could also be fed to animals, she told the council at its meeting this week.

Waste Minimisation officer Sally Fraser tabled a submission she had written to the ministry. In it she said it was unrealistic to expect the district to offer kerbside household food waste collection by 2025 and proposed a 2030 date at the earliest.

The district is 150kms from an established composting facility and having rolled out wheelie

bins in the last two years, adding a food waste collection was a “huge task” for a small council.

None of the councils offering food waste collections have come close to getting 100 per cent out of the rubbish, said Fraser. “So overall it seems unrealistic as a minimum target, especially considering there are proposed financial penalties if not achieved.”

Councillors agreed with one asking whether using waste disposal units installed in sinks was providing the right solution.

Mike Pettit says it might seem to residents who have the units, and most new homes come with them, that they are doing the right thing in getting rid of waste. But it goes straight into the sewerage system which council then had to treat, he said.

O’Regan said many farmers were seeing the benefits of feeding their animals food which while rejected because of some “human-created”

standard was perfectly good to give to animals.

“Kiwifruit is really great for cows.” O’Regan said the kiwifruit fed to her cows had been rejected for export because of size and appearance.

“It can be a positive way of using those reject goods.”

She gave the example of muesli bars which get packed, but the chocolate layer might be slightly too thick because a bar did not match the packaging.

Grain from the beer making process was another option for animals, she said.

“If it can’t be eaten by a human, it could be eaten by an animal and then composted.”

Mayor Jim Mylchreest said the government should avoid using arbitrary timelines before they set up proper guidelines.

“Someone needs to come up with a solution that is going to work.”

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FAITH IN WAIPĀ

Honouring the past

By Julie Guest

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No offence intended…

By Peter Matthews

And so another Anzac weekend rolls around.

Two years ago, in New Zealand there was outrage and grief that we were in lockdown for Anzac day which meant the many services usually held in every community around the country could not take place.

We had already been placing teddies in windows for youngsters to discover on their daily outdoor walks. Now, poppies were added as people sought a way to show their support. In the news, the RSA was despairing that their annual poppy sale had to be abandoned and worried about the resulting loss of revenue. Two years on, revenue loss is still an issue and Anzac services are still to return to normal.

A week before Anzac Day this year was Easter day. In 2020, Christians were not able to gather to celebrate this, the most sacred and significant day of the year. A huge sense of loss and grief pervaded the whole Christian church at being prevented from gathering on Easter day, but the need to care for the vulnerable among us meant a willing, if sad acceptance of the need to stay in lockdown. Two years on, and our Easter gatherings 2022, were also still affected

by Covid restrictions. Many of our usual practices during services cannot yet safely go ahead.

But the question I am interested in, is why the numbers attending Anzac services increased steadily over the years immediately prior to the pandemic, whereas numbers attending Easter services have steadily declined. When asked about their reason for attending Anzac services many say they are there to honour their grandparent(s). Many wear their ancestors’

medals with care and pride. Others state that they want to honour those who gave their lives to protect this country’s way of life.

All those are valid and sound reasons. I would argue that those same reasons apply to attending church. Most New Zealanders will have grandparents or ancestors for whom worshipping in church was a key part of their life.

Most of those tupuna will also have served their church and their God through volunteering in their community in some capacity – on the school committee, helping in a local sports club, baking for someone in need, caring for children. Obviously, the journey to being a member of a worshipping community (or church) is a spiritual one, but it begins by being there. If it is appropriate to attend an Anzac service to honour your tupuna, surely it is equally appropriate to attend their church, following in their spiritual footsteps to discover for yourself what it was that shaped their life.

It is fashionable to say that each person should discover their own spiritual path for themselves. To me that is as daft as saying that each person should discover how to read or play sport by themselves. In each case, exposure to the rules or skills needed and encouragement to practice and develop those skills is necessary. It is the same with things spiritual. Practice and knowledge are acquired within the context of a worshipping community, or church.

Honouring your ancestor may involve more than attending an annual Anzac service. Your ancestor’s church would welcome you.

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I found myself on the receiving end of a bit of a ticking off on Monday. It was Anzac Day. I contacted a colleague from another company on a matter to do with work on Monday morning and was duly reprimanded for doing so. My behaviour in carrying out any sort of work prior to 1pm was “highly disrespectful”.

Somewhat taken aback, I apologised immediately for any offence caused. Then I received a message telling me that I had, in fact, breached the ‘trading act’ [sic] but that the person knows me well enough to know that I ‘would not have realised - so all good’.

It’s not in my nature to be told I have breached an act of Parliament and leave it at that, so I got onto the New Zealand Legislation and Real Estate Institute of New Zealand websites to see what I could find.

It turned out I hadn’t breached any act, although the Reinz does encourage consideration of the “special nature” of certain days including Easter and Anzac Day. Fair enough too. In retrospect, had I thought about it, I may well have refrained from making the call.

Originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, Anzac Day has become a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations”.

There has historically been some antagonism towards the day, mainly due to the former legal ban on commerce and,

indeed, the banning by many local authorities of sporting and other entertainment events.

In the context of our society, Anzac Day remembers men and women who have made sacrifices in the defence of Australia and New Zealand, the defence of freedom.

In these increasingly PC times I find that one has to be ever more careful not to cause any kind of offence, which will be eagerly taken by ever widening sectors of the community. Comedians, in particular, are finding themselves in hot water, seemingly at every turn.

But freedom is a precious thing, and to have one’s freedom, whether of speech or action, curtailed by another individual’s proclivity for the taking of offence, or opinion as to what constitutes a lack of respect, is surely the thin end of an autocratic wedge.

You will, no doubt, have noticed that I am leaving out one important consideration: Whilst I have every moral right to do what I like on any day of the year, I do not have the moral right unilaterally to impinge upon the beliefs, views, liberties, or customs of others.

Therefore I apologise unreservedly to my colleague for encroaching uninvited upon their day of remembrance, and I shall endeavour to be more considerate in the future. I shall, however, continue to work, rest, or play whenever and wherever it may be necessary. This is an invaluable freedom in defence of which so many have given so much.

TALKING ECONOMICS

Inflation is everywhere

By Peter Nicholl

Inflation has again been in the news recently – and the news just keeps getting worse. Last Thursday’s announcement of inflation of 6.9 per cent for the year ended March 31 revealed just how far the RBNZ is behind the game. The inflation horse has well and truly bolted and the bolt is still gaining strength and speed.

The RBNZ, and most other Central Banks, had been hoping that the recent surge in global inflation wouldn’t lead to secondround effects that would start an inflation cycle. But second-round wage and price effects are already becoming widespread.

The recent minimum wage increase of six per cent in New Zealand is one example. I am aware of a local organisation that recently increased the rents of its tenants by seven per cent - and got no complaints or even questions. The tenants all expected it.

If Central Banks had started to take action against the inflation surge sooner, secondround effects may have been less. But when inflation first started to rise last year, some of the Central Banks continued to add fuel to the inflation fire. Others thought words would be enough. A few, like the RBNZ, did start taking some tightening action. But it was too little and too late.

The problem goes back to the behaviour of Central Banks in the preceding years in response to their concerns about economic activity. They over-reacted and lowered interest rates to ridiculously low levels and took everybody, including themselves, into uncharted territory.

I have been asking Central Bankers for some years how they were going to get their policy settings back to ‘normal’. They never had an answer – they simply had no Plan A let alone a Plan B. If they now raise interest rates as aggressively as they should in response to inflation, they will

create a financial stability problem. This dilemma could have and should have been foreseen by Central Banks as it is very similar to one of the main causes of the last global financial crisis.

The Central Banks have made their main policy tool unusable against the current inflation surge by their past behaviour. It is not a surprise therefore that Adrian Orr, the Governor of the RBNZ, now says he needs help from others to stem this inflation surge.

Second-round wage and price increases are also necessary for many people to retain their standard of living in the face of the rising prices. Some of the biggest price rises are in the areas regarded as necessities – food, housing and transport. Central Banks seem to be saying that because inflation will fall back to their target level of around two per cent, the inflation problem is only a temporary one. They are confusing the inflation rate and the price level. The inflation rate might come back to around two per cent sometime, but even transitory inflation raises the price level permanently unless the inflation rate becomes negative for a period.

So what will happen to the price level in New Zealand over the next few years?

Inflation was two per cent in 2020, 5.9 per cent in 2021, will be over seven per cent in 2022, and the RBNZ’s latest projection is 4.5 per cent for 2023. That means that the price level at the end of 2023 will be over 20 per cent higher than it was in 2020.

That is too big an increase for people to ignore. Also, it is not good policy-making to solve the problem of a price-level surge by lowering the living standards of the poorest members of our society.

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Meeting raises burning issues

By Benjamin Wilson

Environmental groups have made dire claims about the proposed waste to energy plant for Te Awamutu’s Racecourse Road, causing residents to seek further clarity on the proposal.

As part of their Regeneration Not Incineration Campaign, Zero Waste Network Aotearoa (ZWNA) invited residents to discuss Global Contracting Solutions’ (GCS) proposed plant in an online meeting, which took place last Wednesday.

The Te Awamutu News broke the story about the plans on February 19, reporting Te Awamutu homes could be powered by the country’s first waste-toenergy plant.

The Paewira plant would process 150,000 tonnes of waste derived fuel annually and produce 15 megawatts of power.

GCS is going through a resource consent process for the plant.

But it is opposed by activist Valerie Morse, the ZWNA coordinator who chaired last week’s discussion, which involved

around 45 people.

Environmental groups Go Eco and Para Kore were present, as well as residents, including Te Awamutu Community Board chair Ange Holt, who lives next to the proposed build site.

Morse said the plant would emit mercury, cyanide and cancercausing dioxins, pollute the surrounding land, water and air, and create noise and other disruptions for neighbouring residents.

“This is a toxic nightmare for the community, for the whole of the region,” she said.

“The smell of those tyres burning will fill the community with an unbelievable stench.”

Morse raised concerns about GCS’ transparency with the community. In their application, GCS asked that their resource consent not be notified to the public.

“They’re basically saying the effects are so minor of burning 160,000 tonnes of rubbish every year, that actually we are not even going to bother to notify the next-door neighbours.”

There were also claims that the proposed plant would pollute the

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Mangapiko Stream through the discharge of both storm and wastewater.

Global Contracting Solutions previously told The News they would send their water to filtration plants that were offsite, and not take from or contribute to the stream.

Morse said ZWNA had not contacted GCS about their proposal.

Sue Coutts, ZWNA director of external affairs, said fundamentally waste to energy plants created a demand for waste, and did not incentivise its reduction.

“Any kind of waste to energy proposal is contrary to a circular economy,” she said.

Coutts said instead of waste to energy plants, the focus should be on renewable energy, and making manufacturers responsible for the waste they create through disposable products.

“It is actually really simple, all we have to do is stop burning stuff and throwing stuff away, and then we will keep it in our economy and use it again… the really simple answer to not needing to extract materials, and not needing to incinerate, is just to keep recycling and composting,”

Ange Holt

she said.

Global Contracting Solution’s proposal has a recycling component, which was not discussed in the meeting.

Holt, a “greenie at heart,” says she wants more clarity around the proposal, and some of the statements that were made last week.

“Is there a place for a thing like this in the interim, to keep the balance of stuff out of landfills? That is the million-dollar question,” she told The News.

“I am going to do a bit of research when I have the time.”

Global Contracting Solutions has indicated it will review the concerns raised at the meeting and address them in The News next week.

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A career of compassion

By Benjamin Wilson

What would inspire a 76-year-old retired doctor to become the coordinator of a foodbank? For Rita, it was to “make a difference.”

Rita Middleton started volunteering for the Te Awamutu Community Foodbank three years ago, while she was working as a doctor part time for the Te Awamutu Medical Centre.

“I wasn’t used to having extra time on my hands, so I just decided that the foodbank would be a good place to volunteer.”

She became the foodbank’s coordinator last month, after Ian McLachlan the previous coordinator stood down. As coordinator, Rita oversees the foodbank’s processes and makes sure it runs efficiently to reduce food waste.

When she started her role, New Zealand was in the middle of its Omicron peak, and in her words, “it was the perfect storm.”

“Because supermarkets were struggling to keep food on their shelves, there were no donations from them. And so, the donations had dried up and the demand had gone through the roof.”

Rita says after going

through what she called “a steep learning curve,” she is gaining confidence in her role, and considers her position to be a privilege.

“I am just growing into this job as coordinator, but you almost feel like you could make a bit of a difference for people, and that is the key isn’t it? Being able to help people and make a bit of a difference in their lives.”

Before moving to Pirongia, Rita worked as a doctor in Masterton for 30 years. She worked closely with Child, Youth and Family and was a member of Doctors for Sexual Abuse Care.

Many of her clients were victims of both sexual and domestic violence. She was exposed to poverty and saw first-hand the damage it can cause.

“You get so involved in all of the horrible things that are out there in the community.

It was the most emotionally demanding, and in a way, the most emotionally rewarding part of my work as well.”

“I have a great deal of sympathy for the patients who are living on next to nothing and are trying to feed their families. That is certainly why I became involved with the foodbank. Families trying

Rita Middleton began her role of foodbank coordinator last month.

to get by on nothing is very difficult.”

Rita says she is looking forward to fully understanding her new role and feeling like she is doing it competently. She appreciates the “raw generosity from the community,” which has gone a long way to help the foodbank and make things easier. She acknowledges supermarkets, churches, and St Patrick’s Young Vinnies for their support.

Rita started volunteering for the foodbank when she was 73.

“You can just sit around and do nothing when you retire and you’ll have your foot in the grave for a long time, or you can get busy and do things and enjoy life a bit more,” she said.

Here’s to dad

By Benjamin Wilson

More than 100 people watched Cooper McCone honour his father on Sunday, when he hit the first ball of the Brendon McCone Memorial Tournament at the Te Awamutu Golf Club.

Brendon was the head greenkeeper at the club for over 25 years, until his sudden death in 2019, the day after his 51st birthday.

Brendon’s greenkeeping prowess was acknowledged on a national scale, and to recognise it, a strip of green from the Te Awamutu Golf Club was laid on his funeral casket “I can actually say hand on heart that Brendon would be proud of our course today, because it is back up to the standard that he had it,” president Gordon Kirkham said on Sunday.

“It is a very very special day.”

When Cooper was five, his mother Donna died, which left Brendon to look after him on his own. During the school holidays Cooper would spend time with his dad while he worked on the course.

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with Brendon often, so this is like a second home to him, he’d often be falling asleep on Brendon’s knee on the mower when he was a little guy,” said Sally Palmer, Cooper’s aunty.

Cooper is now 14 and goes to Auckland Grammar School. He is not a golfer but loves ultimate frisbee and is a part of the school’s premier team.

Cooper and club members alike were overwhelmed with the amount of people who had shown their support on

Sunday.

Cooper described his dad as “very friendly, courageous and zealous.”

He and his family plan to plant a tree in memorial of Brendon on Mount Kakepuku.

Oryn Hunapo was the first winner of the Brendon Memorial Tournament, with a nett score of 63. The trophy was presented to him by Cooper, and the club hopes that the tournament will become an annual event.

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Country church’s special role

By Viv Posselt

Members of the Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club acknowledged lifelong links to fallen servicemen when they rode in to join Sunday’s pre-Anzac Day commemorative service at Pukeatua War Memorial Church.

The village church is one of just two in New Zealand built as a special memorial to service personnel lost in both world wars – the other is at Tutira, north of Napier. Both have historic building covenants over them.

In 2017, members of the Hauraki Chapter of the Patriots Motorcycle Club decided to ‘adopt’ Pukeatua Church because of those strong military ties. Since then, around 20 of them make the annual pilgrimage to attend the church’s Anzac Day service, most of them riding in from around the district.

Patriots’ Hauraki president Paora Stanley said because the club’s members are all ex-military, they have a real affinity with those linked to Pukeatua Church.

“We choose to pay tribute to these men … the way we see it, these boys ride with us. We are lucky that we don’t have to do

what they did,” he said.

Sunday’s ceremony also saw the formal blessing by Te Awamutu RSA padre, Rev Murray Olson, of the recently completed replacement cross, crafted in recycled rimu by Te Awamutu Menz Shed member Richard Cato. It replaces the original brass cross which was stolen in January. The original cross had been donated by the parents of private Horace James Jemmett, who died at Gallipoli in 1915 aged 22. The acknowledgments were transferred to the new cross.

Sunday’s service was held outdoors because of Covid.

The memorial service was held outdoors this year.

Te Awamutu RSA’s Lou Brown naming the wreaths at the Pukeatua Church cenotaph. They are from the church community, the local school and playschool, and the Te Awamutu RSA.

The Te Awamutu Musical Allsorts led the crowd in song.

Te Awamutu RSA’s Rev Murray Olson and Paora Stanley, president of the Patriots Motorcycle Club’s Hauraki Chapter, speaking together at the end of the service. On the table is the new wooden cross made by the Te Awamutu Menz Shed.

The Te Awamutu Brass Band took a leading position in the march to Anzac Green from the Te Awamutu RSA.

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Stirring turnout in Te Awamutu Regional leaders told those at Te Awamutu’s Anzac Day civic ceremony to value and protect the freedoms for which the Anzacs fought and died.

In his address to the hundreds attending the mid-morning commemoration, Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest said you had only to watch televised newscasts of the Ukrainian conflict to witness the horrors of war.

He praised the courage of the Ukrainian people and said their President Volodymyr Zelensky would be remembered alongside the likes of Nelson Mandela.

“It is critical we keep these commemorative services going and that people keep turning out in these numbers.

I am quoting President Zelensky’s recent statement, “peace matters, freedom matters, people matter”. We all need to take stock of how well off we are in New Zealand.”

Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger also referenced Ukraine in her

address. She said we have a responsibility to ensure that the freedoms that came at the cost of so many Anzacs’ lives are not lost today.

“What is going on in Ukraine is a major battle for freedom. We are lucky in New Zealand… while some of our freedoms have been tested through the pandemic, that is just a short-term loss,” she said. “It is hard to understand why we have not got on top of our hunger for power, which is so detrimental to our world.”

Te Awamutu RSA president Peter Watson commented on the good turn-out and on how united the crowd was in singing the national anthem. He urged people to continue to sing it “with pride and as one nation”.

One of the four head students at Te Awamutu College, Marnie Gielen, spoke poignantly about her soldier ancestor and said that without the efforts of the Anzacs, we could not enjoy the educational and job opportunities New Zealand offers today.

Te Awamutu RSA president Peter Watson laying a wreath on behalf of the RSA, accompanied by RSA member Adan Te Huia.

Waipā District Mayor Jim Mylchreest laying a wreath at the Te Awamutu cenotaph, accompanied by RSA member and Te Awamutu councillor Lou Brown.

By Viv Posselt

Marnie Gielen, one of four 2022 head students at Te Awamutu College, addressing the crowd.

Some of the local veterans and RSA members who attended the Te Awamutu mid-morning commemoration service.

Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger addresses the crowd.

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A memorial service at Ōhaupō town hall was followed by a march to the nearby Memorial Park, where people laid wreaths to the Anzacs.

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Women from the Maori Women’s Welfare League perform a waiata at the misty start of the Kihikihi Anzac Day ceremony in the town centre. Mrs Ada Te Huia, second from right, then The iconically painted Ōhaupō town hall was the centre laid flowers at the cenotaph on behalf of the League. of a memorial service attended by the community.

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Te Awamutu RSA president Peter Watson laying a wreath at the Kihikihi cenotaph, watched by RSA members Adan Te Huia and Lou Brown.

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Farewell to the Narrows

By Mary Anne Gill

I said farewell to a tract of land in Tamahere on Sunday which has played a big part in my life.

The Narrows golf course has witnessed many shots from me which you would be hard-pressed to call vintage golf.

Sunday, the last time golf will be played on the course, was no exception although this time at least, the ambrose format enabled the team to discard my several bad shots.

There was the round when my tee shot on the 18th landed in the right-side bunker and I walked off the green with a 13 and two golf balls lost on the other side of Airport Road, one which ricocheted off the clubhouse roof and another which sailed over the top of it.

It took me some time to rake the bunker too in front of the many eyes in the clubhouse who always took great delight in watching how so-called golfers could badly play a simple par three hole.

Or the time I tried to chip over the lake on the 14th and four shots later, I was putting on the green for an 11 and walked off with a 14.

But there were some good times too. I have never had a hole in one but came close on the 1st and the 6th three years’ apart.

It is over now for the Narrows course which was founded as the Narrows Golf Club in 1935 alongside

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Sports in form ahead of derby

Te Awamutu Sports kicked off the new senior Waikato rugby season with a resounding win at Matamata ahead of a derby against Hautapu.

Matamata is back in the top flight having played only at Premier B level in 2021 and looked to be on the receiving end of a monster score when they trailed 52-20 at the break.

But it was only the home side which added to the scoreboard in the second half. Ōtorohanga fell 41-20 at home to Hamilton Marist and champions Fraser Tech beat a disappointing Hautapu 24-10.

The results will add extra spice to Saturday’s pending Waipā derby as Hautapu travels to Albert Park for the main game against Sports.

There is another Waipā clash in first division this weekend as Leamington pays Pirongia – and eyes will be on Ōhaupō to see if they can go three from three in Hamilton against fellow unbeaten side Suburbs.

Ōhaupō beat Te Rapa 19-13 at home on Saturday after leading 12-3 at half time.

Weekend results: Waikato Draught Premiership A, Hamilton Old Boys 24 University 22, Hautapu 10 Fraser Tech 24, Melville 30 Morrinsville Sports 16, Otorohanga 20 Hamilton Marist 41, United Matamata Sports 29 Te Awamutu Sports 52.

Premiership B, Hamilton Old Boys 24 University 17, Hautapu 10 Fraser Tech 24, Melville 30 Morrinsville Sports 16, Otorohanga 20 Hamilton Marist 41, United Matamata Sports 29 Te Awamutu Sports 52.

Gallagher Women’s Premiership, Otorohanga 38 Hamilton Marist 0, Southern United 10 Kihikihi 41, Taupiri 24 Fraser Tech 19, Putaruru 7 Melville 53, Hamilton Old Boys Huskies 125 University 0.

Lone Star Rototuna Division 1A, Hinuera 14 Suburbs 38, Ohaupo 45 Te Rapa 28, Pirongia 17 Taupiri 12, Putaruru 45 Leamington 28, Southern United 64 Frankton 0. Division 1B, Hinuera 54 Suburbs 5, Ohaupo 17 Te Rapa 24, Pirongia 5 Taupiri 49, Putaruru 22 Leamington 28, Southern United 19 Frankton 10.

Under 85kg, Leamington 5 Morrinsville Sports 34 , Suburbs 0 Hamilton Marist 7, Fraser Tech 8 Melville 14, Hamilton Old Boys – bye.

Colts Week 1, Hamilton Marist 74 Morrinsville Sports 0, Hamilton Old Boys 12 Hautapu 21, Te Awamutu Sports 30 Leamington 22, United Matamata Sports 36 Pirongia 12, Waitete 14 Fraser Tech 67.

Mary Anne Gill with Te Awamutu rugby legend Jono Gibbes in 2006 at Narrows.

the Waikato River at its narrowest point. Nine years ago, the club merged with its river neighbour Lochiel to become the Riverside Golf Club.

Not long after the Narrows course was sold to Waka Kotahi the New Zealand Transport Agency for its $600 million Southern Links project. The road for that has a 20-year lapse period and construction is still not confirmed.

After a lengthy settlement, the club accepted $20 million enabling investment to take place on the Lochiel course adjacent to Mystery Creek.

On completion, it was renamed Tīeke, after the member of the native saddleback family which

formerly ruled the roost in the area until the 19th century, but are now only found in Waipā on Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari.

Tīeke reopened in December last year and Waka Kotahi took possession of the Narrows course this month.

It will be used for grazing.

If Southern Links does go ahead, the road would go straight through the course and include 18 kilometres of state highway and 13km of urban arterial roads within the Peacocke subdivision.

It will link State Highway 1 from Kahikatea Drive in Hamilton to Tamahere and the Waikato Expressway in the south, and SH3 from Hamilton Airport to central and east Hamilton.

Lakes full of praise

Teams beaten in a cup match are not usually gushing in praise of their conquerers.

But Lakes Football Club from Rotorua is an exception. After beng knocked out of the Chatham Cup on Anzac Day by Te Awamutu at the stadium, the club posted a thank you on Facebook.

“Thanks for having us, and best of luck for the season and the rest of the Chatham Cup. “Love your work with the whole club getting the kids involved and the community backing. Super impressive,” the Bay of

Plenty club posted.

Te Awamutu won 2-1 after conceding the opening goal.

The match came two days after the team’s unbeaten start to the season came to an end at Gower Park.

On the perfect number one pitch at Gower Park Melville took an early lead and was three up before Waikato Ball added to his tally with half an hour remaining.

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Make mum’s day

Mother’s Day beckons and all I want is a happy family gathering — someone to make me laugh and to cook a meal and clean up afterwards. Many of my friends share my simple wishes. I wonder whether my hopes will be realised?

The origin of Mother’s Day can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, the celebrations as we know them are only about 100 years old. Mother’s Day is celebrated in over 40 countries (although on different dates) and is a popular event. Besides New Zealand, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Costa Rica, Samoa, Georgia, Australia and Thailand all have designated celebrations to honour mothers.

Although the day was originally supposed to foster friendship and community between mothers it quickly became commercialised. May’s retail sales boomed.

Flowers and chocolates are the most popular gifts. In the USA over $2.5 billion dollars are spent on flowers for Mother’s Day. Apparently, mothers are more appreciated than dads: Paymark shows that the spending is four times more before Mother’s Day than Father’s Day. RASPBERRY & WHITE CHOCOLATE SLICE Free-flow frozen raspberries can replace fresh but ensure they are thawed in the fridge and gently patted dry. This sweet treat is similar to a cheesecake slice. Store in the fridge.

1 1/2 sheets ready-rolled sweet short pastry 500g crème fraiche 1/3 cup (100g) caster sugar 1 cup ground almonds 2 large eggs 250g fresh raspberries (preferably) 100g white chocolate, coarsely chopped Preheat the oven to 180°C. Trim the pastry to fit the base of a 30cm x 20cm slice pan.

Press the edges together to join. Lightly prick the pastry with a fork every 5cm. Top with a sheet of foil pressing down gently. Bake for 15 minutes, remove the foil and bake for a further 5-10 minutes, until golden. Cool.

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Reduce the heat to 170°C. Beat the crème fraiche, caster sugar, ground almonds and eggs in a bowl until well mixed. Fold in the raspberries and white chocolate.

Pour evenly over the pastry base. Bake for 25-30 minutes until just set and lightly golden. Turn the oven off, open the door and leave to cool.

Chill then cut into bars or squares. Makes about 24 pieces.

Place the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Toss gently. Just before serving drizzle with the dressing. Serves 4.

PUMPKIN & PICCALILLI PINWHEEL SCONES About 150 grams of raw, peeled and seeded pumpkin makes 3/4 of a cup of cooked mashed pumpkin.

1 tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons sugar 1 egg 3/4 cup cold cooked mashed pumpkin 2 cups self-raising flour pinch salt 1/4 cup milk Filling: 1/4 cup chopped piccalilli 1/2 cup finely grated parmesan cheese Preheat the oven to 200°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

Cream the butter and sugar then beat in the egg. Stir in the pumpkin. Sift in the flour and salt and add the milk. Mix well.

Turn onto a lightly floured board and lightly knead. Pat out into a 2cm-thick oblong. Spread with the piccalilli and sprinkle with the parmesan.

Roll up from the long edge. Cut into 2cm thick rounds.

Place, cut-side down on the prepared baking tray, about 1cm apart.

Bake for 15 minutes or until golden and cooked. Makes 12.

MANDARIN CHICKEN SALAD Dressing: 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon each: hoisin sauce, sesame oil, soy sauce 2 teaspoons finely grated root ginger 1 clove garlic crushed 3 tablespoons canola oil Chicken Salad: 3 cups finely sliced iceberg lettuce 1 cup finely shredded red cabbage 2 cups shredded cooked chicken 310g can mandarin segments, well drained 1 medium carrot, shredded 2 spring onions, finely sliced 1/4 cup sliced almonds Place all the dressing ingredients — except the oil —in a bowl and whisk until well combined. Slowly drizzle in the oil — whisking continuously — until creamy.

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