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Fighting tooth and nail More than 50 anti-fluoride opponents heckled Waipā District councillors at their Tuesday meeting. The Te Awamutu News was there and Mary Anne Gill reports. Furious anti-fluoride protesters called district councillors “criminals” this week and appeared to hold them responsible for the Ministry of Health’s move to order communities to add fluoride to water. They filled the Waipā chambers in Te Awamutu when councillors debated director general Ashley Bloomfield’s parting gesture as part of its draft Water Supply bylaw. Waipā has been instructed to add fluoride to its Cambridge water supply. It would be the first time fluoride had been added to any water in the district since it was introduced in New Zealand in 1954. There was anger and tension in the chamber, but a largely orderly protest illustrated fluoride was an issue capable of pressing emotion buttons harder than a local body election. The focus on council came on a day when just five people had been confirmed as candidates for 22 local body positions to be voted on in October and 10 days before nominations close. One of the district’s most ardent opponents of fluoride, community board member Kane Titchener,
presented a forceful argument which drew loud applause from his supporters. That descended into name calling once council adopted the draft bylaw. “Shame on you, you’re criminals,” a member of the public shouted. “Your grandchildren and children have to drink that water. This is on you,” shouted another while others said “disgusting” and “hope you sleep at night” and “you’re poisoning us”. Earlier Titchener said the council’s role was to “protect, promote and maintain public health safety”. The council would be in breach of its water policy if it decided to go ahead with water fluoridation, he said. He asked the council to tell the Ministry of Health not to fluoridate Cambridge or any other Waipā township due to the latest science which he said showed a lowering of IQ because of fluoride exposure. Titchener said an alternative to fluoridation was the Scotland Childsmile Programme, funded by the Scottish government and introduced 11 years
ago, which sees every child provided with a dental pack containing a toothbrush and a tube of fluoridated toothpaste. In addition, every three and four year old child
attending nursery gets free, daily, supervised toothbrushing. Titchener accused mayor Jim Mylchreest of reneging on an agreement to hold a discussion with both sides
of the fluoride debate. “Waipā has allowed this undemocratic situation to arise resulting in mandatory fluoridation.” Council’s legal counsel Diana Aquilina said the
council had to respond to Bloomfield’s order. “It’s a criminal offence for the council not to comply with the direction. It’s also not within council’s powers not to fluoridate,” she said.
There were angry allegations form the public gallery following the council debate. Photo: Benjamin Wilson.
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New exhibition
By Roy Pilott
The percentage of students who leave Waipā homes to attend schools outside their “zone” is consistent across the region. The News established last week that nearly a third of students who could attend Te Awamutu College went to other towns or cities, as did 21 per cent per cent of Cambridge High zoned students. But writer Benjamin Wilson’s sentence explaining that movement was altered in a subbing process which introduced an error. We said the 21 per cent included students who went to St Peters, also in Cambridge. The sentence should have said it didn’t include them. Consequently, the implication was that Cambridge held on to more students than Te Awamutu. In fact, they are about the same. If we get it wrong, then that’s my fault, we own up and we apologise. This story was written because we were interested in knowing how many students “left town” to go to school. Our interest was piqued because Te Awamutu College was proving so popular - 250 students there come from outside the school’s bus route - it was looking at establishing a new zone. The story points to what we already knew – both schools are held in high regard by their community and in both communities, parents and caregivers take advantage of opportunities to send students to state integrated or special character schools.
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Art finalists
An exhibition of Maryanne Wolter’s latest paintings opened this week at the Te Awamutu Library and will run until August 22. The artist, who is a member of Rosebank Art Centre, works mainly in acrylics and specialises in painting figures from ancient history and portraits, as well as art décor and folk art. She recently led a successful folk art course at the art centre.
Te Awamutu artists Stevie Cook and Sarah Griffin have made the top 30 and are eligible for the People’s Choice award, worth $2000, in the IHC art awards. Sarah’s piece features Mt Cook while Stevie’s shows the van Gogh bedroom painted after the Enrich Plus artists visited the Van Gogh Alive exhibition last year. Online voting closes on Friday August 12.
On the beat Love thy neighbour
with Constable Ryan Fleming
This month Neighbourhood Support is focusing on spreading a little joy through random acts of kindness. It’s an interesting concept that does make our community a better place and costs nothing. An example is letting someone in when you’re waiting in traffic. That simple act has a flow on effect. It makes road rage less necessary for a start. There are many other ideas such as paying it forward in the line
at a cafe or simply helping someone who is struggling with their groceries (we’ve all been there at the supermarket when we only popped in for one thing). The beauty of these acts is that it is unconditional. The person performing that one small thing often never knows just how much of an impact the act has on a person having a bad day. Often in policing, we are only called to jobs when someone’s day had gone really
bad. As a police officer we often never learn the outcome of our attendance, especially if the person who called is a repeat caller. It is always a great feeling when a cop bumps into a former “customer” who managed to turn it around, especially when you are the one that had the impact. Small acts have great consequences. Try it.
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Briefs… Hospo winner
Podium Lodge in Cambridge was named winner in the best accommodation category of the annual Hospitality Awards for Excellence last week. Five Stags in Leamington was a finalist in the Excellence in Gaming category.
Thieves mist out
A fog cannon thwarted thieves who broke in and stole items from Cambridge Jewellers early on Saturday morning. They used a rope connected to the shop’s security grill and a stolen ute. Social media comments suggested the ute was spotted in South Waikato after the incident.
Tamahere success
Ōku NZ co-founder Helen Paul-Smith won the Māori Women's Development award for sales and marketing at a function in Auckland last week. Paul-Smith, who is of Tapuika and Ngāi Te Rangi descent, had also been nominated as a finalist in the regional Tainui award. Ōku is based in Tamahere and has developed a range of herbal teas, balms and elixirs built around native plants.
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‘Menacing’ dog numbers up By Mary Anne Gill
Waipā’s menacing and dangerous dog population has increased, Animal Control statistics released this week for the year ended June 30 show. The district has 135 menacing dogs – up from 118 the previous year. Menacing dogs are classified under the Dog Control Act based on their breed or type, not necessarily because of their behaviour, and they must be neutered. The district had seven dogs – up from five – classified as dangerous. Dangerous dogs are those that exhibit aggressive behaviour and by law must be neutered, kept in a fenced enclosure and on a leash and muzzled when in public. If not, council staff may take the dog. While those numbers were up, complaints and requests to the council were down
to 3412 from 3733 the previous year. It continues a downward trend since 2017. There are 9390 dogs in the district - 8313 registered as at 8am Monday which is about 500 more than last year. Throughout the year, 224 dogs were impounded in either the council’s Kihikihi or Cambridge dog pounds – 176 were claimed, 19 euthanised, two stolen or escaped and 23 rehomed. There were no dogs in the pound at the end of the financial year. In the last quarter, six dogs were put down, including three pit-bull type pups from the same litter signed over by the owner. The Strategy team is working on an early public engagement process for the upcoming review of the Dog Control Bylaw and Policy documents including attendances in Cambridge and Te Awamutu.
Waipā regulatory group manager Wayne Allan, left, was at the Cambridge Farmers’ Market on Saturday talking to a member of the public.
Students support Tyson
Wasted time
The paint powder coating on Waipā’s wastewater pumps is unlikely to be refreshed soon because the coating is supplied and manufactured in Ukraine, where production has been halted. Efforts to source similar products have been unsuccessful.
Nothing to see here
Police are saying no more than “enquiries are continuing” line following a series of hoax bomb threats to schools last week. They have cited privacy reasons for not identifying all the schools involved. One was Cambridge High. The News asked if police had determined whether the calls were made from within New Zealand, whether any schools recorded the threat and how many police staff were involved.
Helping hands – students, from left, Aimee McGregor, Hannah Sikking, manager Krissy Witehira, Shayla Officer, Ashleigh Miers, Ang Bolger and Amanda Howells.
By Benjamin Wilson
Students from the Hamilton based Elite School of Beauty and Spa will participate in an all-day massage marathon to support Tyson Hollran through his battle with cancer. When The News first met Tyson in February, the 12-year-old was in remission and was getting ready to beat cancer for good. In April, when he was just months away from completing treatment for his acute lymphoblastic leukaemia,
he relapsed. On Sunday, 100 students from Elite will offer 10-minute massages for $10, from 9 am to 7 pm at the school’s Bryce Street campus. All profits are to go to Tyson and his family. The Melville Sports Club will also support Tyson on Sunday, by hosting a barbeque and fundraising. Elite campus manager Krissy Witehira arranged the fundraiser. She got to know Tyson and his family through the Melville Rugby
Club and was his sister’s netball coach at Melville Intermediate. “A couple of us really wanted to do a sports day for him, but he ended up getting too sick and we couldn’t do it,” she said. “I thought well, I am the campus manager at Elite, its winter, let’s do 10-minute massages for $10.” Krissy said when she pitched the idea of a massage marathon to her students, they instantly jumped at the chance to help. She hopes around 200 people
will turn up on Sunday to support Tyson. Some people who could ot attend had already pledged to make a donation. “The main thing is, Tyson will look at this live and he will know that it is for him,” Krissy said. “If he can have a smile on his face on the day… that is all I care about. That is enough for me.” A Facebook page for the massage marathon fundraiser can be found online.
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We will welcome them
By Mary Anne Gill
Street parades will be held in Waipā for the district’s Commonwealth Games athletes to recognise their achievements in Birmingham. The games still have another four days to go so there might be even more successes to come. “Whatever else happens, we really need to celebrate their achievements. They deserve that,” deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk told The News. Right from day one Waipā athletes were to the fore with squash player Joelle King chosen with Cantabrian Tom Walsh as the New Zealand team’s flagbearer at the opening ceremony. The next day cyclists Ellesse Andrews, Rebecca Petch and Olivia King dominated Canada to win the women’s team sprint gold in a Games record at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London. Sam Webster, Sam Dakin and Bradley Knipe won bronze in the team sprint soon after. Cycling New Zealand’s interim chief executive Monica Robbers, who lives in Cambridge, said the atmosphere at the velodrome, nicknamed Pringle because of its shape, was electric. “Cycling New Zealand has done itself proud,” she said. Stolwyk said she always felt it was “inevitable” the cycling team would do well in Birmingham. “The hard work of these determined people has paid off,” she said. The New Zealand cycling team’s success comes just under three months after an independent inquiry found cycling’s highperformance model was “broken” and needed to be “reimagined.” The report was commissioned after the death through a suspected suicide last year of elite Cambridge-based cyclist Olivia Podmore. The inquiry found fault with the centralised high performance base in Cambridge that it said carried a risk for athlete wellbeing. Cambridge squash player Joelle King, who has already won six medals at previous Commonwealth Games, was in line to win three more when The News went to print. After her shock semi-final loss, King was to play for bronze earlier today (Thursday) with the doubles and mixed doubles schedule for the game’s final day on Monday. “We’ve had some amazing welcome homes in the past,” said Stolwyk, a reference to parades when Olympic gold medallists Rob Waddell and Sarah Ulmer were honoured. The council would work closely with the
Waipā members of the New Zealand cycling sprint squad, from left, Ellesse Andrews, Olivia King, Rebecca Petch, Nick Flyger (sprint coach), Sam Webster, Sam Daikin and Bradley Knipe, holding Fionn Cullinane (assistant sprint coach). Photo: Anna Meares athletes to find a suitable date. Petch is from Te Awamutu and passed up the opportunity to compete at the world BMX champs in France to ride in Birmingham.
She came agonisingly close to adding to her medal tally when she rode the third fastest time in the women’s 500m time trial, only to be overtaken by the final rider from Australia who went on to win gold.
Her Te Awamutu BMX teammates competed with some success in France. Leon Dumbell made the 10-year-old boys final and now has a world ranking of three. • See: Three of the best, page 10.
Anger over cemetery vandalism
Vandals who caused about $3000 damage at Hautapu Cemetery on Monday night have been condemned by thousands of people on social media. And it is understood police and the Waipā District Council believe they have the names of the culprits. At least two cars went to the cemetery overnight and drove onto a grassed area, where the drivers did “wheelies” – cutting up the already sodden turf and spraying mud and grass on neighbouring crosses and paths. One vehicle was driven over the top of a fresh grave.
The money to repair the damage will be taken from council’s general maintenance budget. As a result, other work on parks and cemeteries will go undone. A Waipā District Council spokesperson said the posting of the incident online was viewed by more than 160,000 people, and thousands of them responded with comments on shared the post. The News was at the scene on Tuesday. There was little evidence of structural damage – but the area was a mess. The council spokesperson said there was damage to berms
and it would take some time to restore the lawn. She said such was the anger generated by the incident that there had been offers of
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Consents up, The stories behind genealogy time down By Benjamin Wilson
By Mary Anne Gill
Waipā council staff are catching up with processing consents and taking less time to do so, District Growth and Regulatory Services manager Wayne Allan told this week’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee. In the quarter from April 1 to June 30 the number of consents went up from 140 to 143 in the previous quarter. “However, there has been a reduction in average processing days down from 37.50 days to 31 days,” said Allan. Those going over the statutory timeframe of 20 working days had also improved with only three going over compared to nine in the previous quarter. A total of 552 building consents were issued - up 112 on the same quarter last year – and they included 145 new dwellings. Cambridge and Leamington were steady (from 56 to 55) with the notable increases coming in Te Awamutu and Kihikihi (from 25 to 33) and the rest of the district (from 48 to 57). “This aligns with Waipā as a growth district and continued
increased construction activity,” said Allan. Development activity continues at a high level with the number of land use and subdivision applications representing a diverse range of activities. Pre application meetings indicate no easing of the workload for the engineering team, he said. There were 543 building consents lodged – 58 fewer than the same quarter last year totalling $191.96 million The significant building consents issued were: • 102 Swayne Road, to construct four two-storey apartments. • 32 Ingram Road, new warehouse and attached two level office facility. • 196 Airport Road, new office and hotroom extension to existing production building. • 168 Ossie James Drive, new warehouse office development. • 22 Riverhurst Drive, new warehouse and associated site works. • 1881 Cambridge Road, structure and services design for a retirement village twostorey main building.
Boards of family history are being displayed around Te Awamutu in celebration of Family History Month. The boards share the stories of research done by Te Awamutu New Zealand Genealogists Society (NZGS) members. “This is really just an opportunity to get some of their stories out there. Those who had a story to tell were encouraged to do so,” said Sandra Metcalfe, a genealogist and past convener of NZGS Te Awamutu. Family History Month is observed by Australia and New Zealand annually in August. Metcalfe said genealogists sometimes focus too much on the “thrill of the hunt,” and the stories of their research is often not shared as well as it could be. “One of the issues that genealogists have is that we get so hooked up on the research that we forget to do the story side of it,” she said. “We need to get these stories out there and share them amongst our families. That is what our branch has been doing for the last couple of years.” The boards were made by NZGS member Richard Cato, and have been placed in shop windows around town, including the Te Awamutu Library, Robert Harris, and Storyteller Eatery and Bar. Cato has been involved with the genealogist society for over 20 years
Stories of family history can be found on display in the Te Awamutu Library and other businesses around town.
and says he is happy to help others with the sharing of their stories. “I enjoy that, I enjoy listening to what other people’s lives have been about.” He has written six books about his own family history as well as the history of others. “We need to get things down on paper, because a lot of it is digital today, and with the digital information, there are a lot of stories that aren’t told and people don’t know about,” he said. Metcalfe has a story of her own on display in the library. It is about her 30-year search for information about her great grandfather William Williams. “It was before the days of the internet and DNA. I could find what I could in New Zealand, but I could not find a birthplace for him where he said he came from in Cornwall,”
she said. “It wasn’t until I found a marriage certificate 14 years after his first child was born that I was able to identify his mother’s name as Jemima Smitheram,” she said. Metcalfe eventually found a link to Smitherman’s third granddaughter who she connected with through a genealogy website. In 2017 tests established they had a DNA connection. “She did some investigation in the national archive and found some service papers for one of Jemima’s sons, it said he arrived in New Zealand on the second of May 1876, and there was a line through his name, which meant he never returned to the UK. That is how we discovered that his real name was Thomas Peters,” said Metcalfe. “It was an amazing experience to be able to crack that.” BUSINESS SHOWCASE
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Quarry consent work delayed Mayoral race: By Mary Anne Gill
The resource consent for a controversial Waipā quarry has stalled while planners acting for the district council seek further substantial information. Beacon Hill Contracting was to provide the information by June 30, but its consultants Mitchell Daysh have asked for an extension till August 12. The Maungatautari quarry has been mired in controversy since The News revealed in April it was operating without a resource consent and had been doing so for at least five years. The council suspended operations at the site on April 13. The four shareholders include former Waipā councillor Elwyn Andree-Wiltens who resigned from the council because of a conflict of interest 19 days after The News revealed her involvement and three days after mayor Jim Mylchreest called for her resignation. Independent consultants and commissioners, all paid for by Beacon Hill, would process any applications, Mylchreest said at the time. The principal planning and policy consultant for 4Sight, Louise Cowan, who works out of the company’s Hamilton office, is considering the application. Beacon Hill has applied to Waipā for a land use consent to operate four sand quarries at Oreipunga Road.
The company has also applied for two consents from the regional council which would retrospectively authorise the sand quarrying activities and make the activities “lawful.” In an eight-page response to Beacon Hill on June 8, Cowan said statutory timeframes for the application had been put on hold while she waited for the response. Her two most significant requests were for a comprehensive landscape and visual assessment prepared by a qualified and experienced landscape architect or landscape planner and a copy of who has been consulted and what they said. The site borders the Waikato River and is only kilometres from the protected Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari. Sources say the landscape assessment would take some weeks to prepare because Cowan is seeking an assessment of the potential adverse amenity effects that may occur when excavation is visible to the public. “This particularly relates to those parties utilising the Waikato River and on the terraced land across the Waikato River opposite to the site, including view shafts from Horahora Road, Little Waipā reserve and similar.” In June, a regional council incident response officer wrote to the original informant saying the council had taken “no sanction action” despite finding a breach at the site and the environment was at
no risk from workings at the quarry. The letter from Cowan confirms the regional council had also requested additional information from Beacon Hill. She has said anything provided to the regional council must also be sent to Waipā. Cowan wants to know why the applicant needs a longer period than consent conditions allow, a rework of expected truck movements and load sizes, an estimate of existing baseline traffic from the site and an indication of what will happen to the excavated quarry area. She has sought quarry activity or records which show why the applicant believes 80 per cent of its demand will come from Cambridge and asked whether Waka Kotahi had seen the Intersection and Crash Analysis report to decide whether it had any concerns about the increase in traffic at the SH1 and SH3 intersections. Beacon Hill needs to review its calculation of financial contributions as greater use of Maungatautari Road past Karāpiro Domain might use more local roads and may increase the amount it has to pay the council, she said. Four of the 13 major resource consent applications lodged with Waipā and in progress relate to quarry applications but the list does not include one for RS Sand Ltd which wants to establish a giant quarry on the outskirts of Cambridge near the Cambridge golf course.
now it’s three A third candidate has put his hand up for the Waipā mayoralty. Cambridge businessman Chris Woodhams, and wife Kirsten, own salad, juice and smoothie shop Crave. The father of four joins district councillor Susan O’Regan in challenging sitting mayor Jim Mylchreest. Nominations for the local body elections close on August 12 and The News is aware of at least one more potential candidate. The vetting of nominations to ensure candidates can stand is thought to be behind the fact that as of Monday evening no mayoral candidates were listed has being nominated on the elections.nz website. It had recorded just one candidate for each of the Te Awamutu Community Board, Māori ward and Cambridge Ward of the Waipā District Council, and two candidates for the Te Awamutu Kihikihi ward. Woodhams told The News he believed that for growth five areas should he addressed immediately – opportunities for all, strengthening of families and young people, infrastructure, business growth and investment and sustainability and the environment.
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“It’s time to build better and more visible social and business connections between Te Awamutu, Ōhaupō, Cambridge and Pirongia,” he said. He advocates frequent open meetings in Te Awamutu, Ōhaupō, Pirongia and Cambridge, attracting more business and advancing plans for a third bridge over the Waikato River in Cambridge. Woodhams said his goal around Three Waters “is to protect our asset” and he would aim to see a “showcase” clean container park – a dump – established in Cambridge where users sorted their own rubbish. And “Beyond that, we need to solve the drainage problem at Te Koo Utu Lake in Cambridge”.
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The genesis of racism By Tom Roa, Tikanga Advisor, Waikato University
The word ‘race’ as a noun has a number of meanings. There is of course the ‘race’ you run, a competition, and if you win you celebrate, if you lose you commiserate. Then there is the water race which is used to describe a swift current. For us rural folk, there is that narrow passageway for directing livestock such as one leading to a sheep dip. And then the engineers amongst us will know that a race for them describes the groove in which ballbearings move. And then there is the human race, the group to which we, in our sharing of our humanity, as human beings, all belong. There is a very interesting TedD Talk on YouTube called ‘The lie that invented racism’ by John Biewen. He asserts that race is a recent invention. We humans divided our selves into various groupings according to our religion, tribal groupings, languages. For most of human history, people had no notion of ‘race’. In Ancient Greece he says, they believed that they were better than any other people they had encountered. This was not because of an idea that they were innately superior. They just thought that they had developed the most advanced culture, and that all the others were kind of barbaric in comparison. Culturally, they were just ‘not Greek’. And yes there was slavery. However they didn’t just enslave those who didn’t look like them. They also enslaved those who looked exactly like them. It is clear to Mr Biewen that notions of superiority were not based on ‘race’. His presentation quotes the findings of
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leading historian Dr Ibram Kendi. Through Dr Kendi’s exhaustive research he discovered that Gomes de Zurara of Portugal writing in the 1450’s was the first person to lump together all the peoples of Africa, that vast, diverse continent, describing them as one distinct group, inferior and beastly. There was no recognition on his part, and on the part of many who followed his writings, that at that time some of the most sophisticated cultures in the world were in Africa. Dr Kendi posed the question, why did he do that? The answer Mr Biewen suggests is clear if you follow the money. Gomes De Zurara was hired by the King of Portugal to write that book. A few years earlier Portugese slave traders tied to the Portugese crown were the first Europeans to sail directly to sub-Saharan Africa to kidnap and enslave African people. So it was suddenly really helpful to have a story about the inferiority of African people to justify this new and extremely lucrative trade. With the stroke of a pen Zurara invented blackness and whiteness. Other European countries quickly followed the Portugese lead, adopting this fiction, justifying their trade in human property and free labour. Mr Biewen’s conclusion is that racism didn’t begin with a misunderstanding. It began with a deliberate lie. And for him learning this history has brought about a real shift in how he understands racism today. It is not biological. It stems from a deliberate lie to justify the brutal exploitation of other human beings for profit.
Recently the media has highlighted sporting activities being used to advance various ideological viewpoints. It’s nothing new cropping up, because although issues vary over years, sport has always been used to communicate messages loud and clear. Many hold memories of the 1981 Springbok Rugby tour which divided New Zealand. Images of disrupted games and police clad in riot gear battling protesters are etched in the nation’s memory. New Zealand was polarised over views that playing sport with South Africa condoned its racist apartheid system. Many felt opposing the tour was an opportunity to address the issue of racism in New Zealand, while showing solidarity with the oppressed black majority in South Africa. Regardless of where we stood, the point was made, and changes ensued. Back in 1938, the English soccer team was about to play the German team in the packed Berliner Olympiastadion - which had been purpose-built for the 1936 German Olympics. This stadium’s 120,000 capacity failed to meet the pre-match demand for over 400,000 tickets. A famous photo reveals the English players standing in line, each with his right arm held aloft in a Nazi salute. What prompted these players to give the Nazi salute? And could we ever understand the circumstances leading to that? Although this game was actually a return match, booked in 1935 after England had beaten the German team in a home game, by 1938 the Nazi agenda had escalated. Recognising this, the English Prime Minister said, “the Nazis are looking for victories to boost their regime. It is their way of claiming
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a super-race.” Months before this match, Nazi Germany had invaded and annexed Austria in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. The international community’s response was mixed, from outrage at Hitler’s arrogant aggression disregarding law in favour of expansion, to others who viewed it merely as breaking an outdated, unjust law. The match wasn’t cancelled in spite of a cauldron of controversy. Under protest, the English team reluctantly complied with instructions to offer the Nazi salute as a formal gesture towards their hosts, not an endorsement of the regime. Today, with the benefit of hindsight, we’d see the Nazi salute as support of an ideology that - by 1939 dragged Europe into one of the bloodiest wars in modern history. Such foreknowledge was not available to those England players. The freedom to protest and maintain one’s personal convictions without coercion is a double-edged sword - that is, it ‘cuts’ both ways. High profile sports personalities today often publicly exercise their right to express opinions of an ideological nature. Providing it’s done respectfully without demeaning others nobody has the right to decry them simply on the basis that someone else disagrees or takes offence. As a person anchored in Christian faith which shapes and calibrates my views on everything - be it marriage, gender issues, human dignity and identity or whatever - I realise others, even those who also claim faith, may not agree with my convictions. Nonetheless mutual respect, acceptance and open dialogue must be preserved.
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The genie is out of the bottle By Peter Nicholl
The world’s leading Central Banks all implemented exceedingly loose monetary policy over recent years. They assumed inflation was no longer a problem so they took on the task of saving the world from a covid-induced recession. They reduced their policy interest rates to unprecedently low levels, including negative interest rates in some countries. When that didn’t seem to be enough, they developed new tools - the creation of enormous amounts of cheap liquidity for banks. The Central Banks use counter-factual reasoning to judge their policies a success. They claim if they had not acted, the world would have gone into a major recession. They can’t prove this would have happened. But I can’t prove it wouldn’t have happened. I can claim though that they created far more extra liquidity than needed as a lot of it sat unused on banks’ balance sheets. Another thing we can see now is that these Central Bank policies have substantial costs. First, they have let the inflation genie reappear. Global inflation has been stoked by the price affects arising from the Ukraine war. But the start of the current inflationary cycle was due to excessively easy monetary policy. Central Banks are belatedly trying to do something about. But their monetary policy settings were taken to such ridiculously extreme levels that they cannot quickly get them back to even neutral levels without causing the very thing they claimed to be fighting – recession. In the UK for example, the inflation rate is about to go over 10% and the Bank of England has raised its policy interest rate to 2%. A second major impact was a surge in many asset prices, especially housing. This has both winners and losers. For the fortunate, it led to huge windfall gains in wealth. For the unfortunate, rents have risen dramatically. The cost is a huge shift in income and wealth distribution, something societies will live with for decades. A third cost has just been revealed in New Zealand. The Government is going to recapitalise the RBNZ to the tune of around $8.8 billion. Why? The RBNZ purchased $54 billion of securities in order to provide liquidity to the financial sector. They purchased them when interest rates were low. Interest rates are now rising. The consequence is that the value of the securities the RBNZ owns has fallen by $8.8 billion. In 2020, the Minister of Finance gave the RBNZ an indemnity which effectively said that if their liquidity injection programme ran at a loss, the Government would recapitalize the RBNZ. The $8.8 billion bill could go higher if interest rates continue to rise over the next two years – which is likely. So, on the costs side of the great Central Bank experiment of unprecedently easy monetary policy we have a return of inflation, an increase in income and wealth disparities and large financial losses by Central Banks. On the positive side, we have the Central Banks’ claim that they prevented a recession. But the fear of a recession has recently reappeared – and there’s little the Central Banks can do about it as they have not returned their policy instruments to anything like neutral positions. So perhaps, all their huge liquidity creation did was to delay the recession rather than prevent it. It could be that’s all monetary policy is capable of doing. It needs to refocus on what it has shown in the past it can achieve – controlling inflation.
Waste options draw ministry funding Waikato Regional Council has secured $134,000 from the Ministry for the Environment’s Waste Minimisation Fund to explore options for putting organics, including food and garden waste, to best use. The research will align to the Waikato regional Waste Prevention Action Plan which sets out how the council will work with groups to coordinate waste reduction initiatives and accelerate the transition towards what it calls circular economic principals. It will be split into three areas, focusing on reducing contaminants, understanding the end market for compost and exploring processing options that make the best use of resources and knowledge. The two-year project builds on research published earlier this year into the opportunities for local government in Waikato to develop a deeper understanding of circular economy concepts. It will also receive $50,000 from the Waikato Wellbeing Project.
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Search for Colin’s medals By Benjamin Wilson
A Waipā veteran is on a quest to recover his grandfather’s missing army service medals. “It is to preserve family history,” said troop sergeant (retired), Colin Parkinson. Colin, 69, told The News that he discovered his grandfather’s British War Medal and Victory Medal were missing in 2020, right before the country went into lockdown. At the time he made inquiries with police and searched medal collectors - but because of the chaos caused by New Zealand’s multiple lockdowns, the search has been on hold until now. “I last had them sometime between 2014 and 2018 during an Anzac parade in Cambridge,” he said. Colin believes that he dropped the medals during one of the parades and didn’t notice. He thinks that somebody picked them up, and has either held onto them, or worse, sold them. “There is quite a trade in those things,” he said. On medal collector websites, World War One medals are sold for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars, and there is no central registry of medals that have been traded, or who they’ve been sold to. He said if nobody had picked up the medals, the chances of them being recovered would be greatly reduced. “There is a concern that maybe they are just lost.” His grandfather, Colin Stewart Parkinson, served in the New Zealand Army as a gunner between 1915 and 1919, mostly in France. “Because he was a gunner, he was very lucky, he never went right into the front lines. But nothing is totally safe, like most of them, he suffered pretty badly and never really talked about his service at all,” said Colin. The medals are engraved with his name and rank, Drvr C.S.Parkinson 9/2380 around the edges. Colin has reproductions of the medals, but they are not engraved, “the
Colin Parkinson hopes to preserve his family’s three generations of military service.
replicas are not the same, they’re not real,” he said. Colin’s father and uncle both served in World War Two. His uncle, Gerald Andrew Parkinson, was a pilot and died when his plane was shot down in 1943. His father, Raymond Leslie Parkinson, joined the navy after his brother’s death. “The old man came home, and I only recently inherited all of his medals,” said Colin. Colin joined the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1969 as a mechanic. He served as a leading marine engineer when he transferred to the New Zealand Army in 1974 and retired from the Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers in 1991 with the rank of troop sergeant. He struggled to get recognition for his service and was only presented with his New Zealand Operational Service Medal (NZOSM) this year, more than 50 years after he first enlisted. Colin has a display that contains photographs of Gerald and Raymond, buttons from his grandfather’s uniform, their service medals, and trinkets from the family’s varied
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The Te Awamutu BMX Club is celebrating after one of its members picked up a Commonwealth Games gold medal and two others shone at the BMX world champs – where one finished with a ranking of third in the world. Club president Rodney Prescott reports.
Leon Dumbell shows off his trophy from the world BMX champs.
The Te Awamutu BMX Club is proud to have had two of their members travel to Nantes, France to contest the BMX world champs over the past week. Leon Dumbell (10 boys) and Baylee Luttrell (under 23 woman) headed to France in great form after some amazing performances in Hamilton at the New Zealand BMX nationals held last April where Leon won the 10 boys national title and Baylee took out the under 23 woman’s title. In France Leon was racing against a huge field with 119 of the best 10-year-old boys in the world and started his first race well but unfortunately when challenging for the lead slid out in the corner and crashed, which dropped him towards the bottom of the field, with a lot of work to do to get back into contention for a title. Leon’s next three races all went to plan, moving him up the leader board and on to the quarter finals. He managed fourth in his quarter final then had arguably his best race of the day to finish second in the semifinal. The eight fastest boys in the world contested the final and they didn’t disappoint. Leon was pipped at the post by a Brazilian and a French rider
and managed to hold on and proudly come home with the number three world ranking. Baylee started strong in her first heat of the day finishing in third place. She came up against some very skilled riders in the semifinal and finished seventh, narrowly missing out on the final and finishing the day in 14th position. The Te Awamutu club was missing their biggest star from the world champs this year as Rebecca Petch made the difficult decision to skip these champs to instead travel to Birmingham to race on the track with the New Zealand Commonwealth games track team. Rebecca hasn’t been riding track for that long so when this opportunity came up it was too hard to turn down. It paid
off massively for her as the sprint team of herself, Ellesse Andrews and Olivia King dominated their qualifying race and posted a new games record on their way to winning Commonwealth gold. Rebecca also lined up for the 500m time trial and missed the bronze medal by 0.3s. As a club its great to see our riders performing on the world’s biggest stage and we are very proud of all of them. The club will hold two “give it a go” days on September 11 and 18 for anyone wanting to try it out,. If you have any questions about the sport of BMX, please check out our Facebook or Instagram pages or our website www.tabmxclub.co.nz or you can email tabmxclub@gmail.com
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An own goal, a keeper seeing red, chances going begging and a missed penalty kept a good crowd entertained as Te Awamutu fell short against unbeaten WaiBop football league leaders Unicol last weekend. As in the first meeting between the sides, the Reds gave as good as they got – albeit not on the score sheet. After comfortably handling the student’s style of playing the ball at the back and hitting it long – and seeing Tawhiri Ball’s penalty saved by visiting keep Donovan Latham, Te Awamutu had good reason to be optimistic going into
the second half. An eight minute spell put paid to that as the hosts went two goals and one player down. On 56 minutes a shot deflected into the goal off Dylan Brett, it was two when visiting skipper Thomas Wright scored – and on 64 minutes Wade Vincent was shown a straight red by referee Phillip Rogers for holding a player back. Brett went in goal, and it was the 10 men who almost added to the scoring as youngster Josh Fitzpatrick, on for just a minute, underhit a shot when he looked set to score.
Unicol will clinch the premiership with two games in hand if they avoid defeat at home to Taupō in Hamilton on Saturday, while Te Awamutu, with two matches to play, sit in a creditable fifth on their return to the top level, are away to fourth placed Papamoa. The weekend also saw wins in the Waikato league for Te Awamutu, who upset the form book to beat Ōtorohanga 3-2 in the fourth division while the club’s women’s team celebrated a Luci Harder winner at Northern Rovers by the same score.
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Student James Morgan got to hold the Lexus Melbourne Cup when it visited Cambridge Middle School last week. Last November at Flemington Racecourse, the trophy was being kissed by Cambridge produced jockey James McDonald, who won the 2021 Melbourne Cup on New Zealand bred mare Verry Elleegant. McDonald grew up in Cambridge and attended Cambridge Middle School as a boy – a connection that helped secure CMS’s spot on the cup’s tour last week. “With all the connections some of our children and staff have with racing in the district it was pretty special to be able to touch it and see it,” Principal Daryl Gibbs said. Victoria Racing Club has been touring Australia and the globe with the Melbourne Cup for 20 years, covering more than 760,000km and visiting more
James Morgan with Greg Miles (left) and Lexus Melbourne Cup tour manager Joe McGrath.
than 560,000 destinations. Victoria Racing Club’s Lexus Melbourne Cup tour manager Joe McGrath and Australian race caller Greg Miles took the cup on the New Zealand leg of this year’s tour. Goodwin bred Verry Elleegant, a mare sized by Zed, whose father Zabeel stood at Cambridge Stud. Verry Elleegant was named the Seton Otway Horse of the Year at Saturday night’s
National Breeding Awards at Karāpiro. Octogenarian Goodwin was also named New Zealand Small Breeder of the Year. Savabeel scored a clean sweep of stallion titles for the 2021/22 season, winning the Grosvenor Award as Champion New Zealand Sire for the eighth time in a row. An extended version of this story can be found at cambridgenews.nz
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Last year, before finally finding a house, my husband and I rented a tiny apartment with extremely limited cooking facilities. But it did have an excellent frying pan. And I just love whipping up one-pan meals. They’re so easy. This pan had a very heavy base so it distributed the heat evenly. It was non-stick which meant I didn’t have to use oil in much of my cooking. The pan was a good size providing enough room for cooking breaded schnitzels to keep the coating crisp instead of going soggy. And it was large enough to cook an entire meal for four servings. If you do need to use cooking oil, choose one with a high smoke point so it doesn’t seep into the food. I prefer canola or sunflower as they are affordable and have a mild taste. However, if you want more flavour try grapeseed or avocado oil. Heat the oil until a faint haze rises. To test for the correct temperature, add a cube of day-old bread to the heated oil. Cook for about one minute until it turns golden and crisp — then the temperature is right for frying. FUSILLI WITH SAUSAGE & MOZZARELLA Because the sausages contain a little fat, there is no need to use oil for frying. 500g Italian-style, fresh sausages 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1/4 teaspoon chilli flakes or to taste 2 x 400g cans diced tomatoes 1 tablespoon tomato paste 2 cups dried fusilli (spiral) pasta 3 cups water 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese 4 tablespoons sour cream or cream 75g fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced Heat a non-stick frying pan on medium. Squeeze out the meat of one sausage into the pan making 5 small balls. Repeat with the remaining sausages. Stir-fry until the sausage balls are browned all over. Stir in the garlic and chilli flakes and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper, if preferred. Stir in the tomatoes and tomato paste. Simmer for 5-7 minutes.
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Stir in the fusilli and water. Bring to the boil. Cover and simmer gently until the pasta is cooked, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in the parmesan and sour cream. Top with the mozzarella. Cover until the cheese has melted, about 2 minutes. Great garnished with fresh herbs and a little paprika and served with a crisp salad on the side. Serves 4.
cooking liquid to the stock. Heat the remaining oil in the same pan on medium. Cook the pumpkin and onion for 5 minutes, or until softened and starting to colour. Add the stock mixture and peas. Cover and cook for 5 minutes, until tender. Stir in the couscous. Remove from the heat and cover. Stand for 5 minutes. Add the lemon zest and fluff up with a fork. Top with the chicken. Serves 4.
MOROCCAN CHICKEN WITH LEMON COUSCOUS For the best flavour, use the full two tablespoons of grated lemon rind. 4 large skinned and boned chicken thighs 1 tablespoon Moroccan seasoning 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided 3 cups chicken stock 300g pumpkin, peeled and seeded 1 red onion, diced 1 cup each: frozen peas, couscous 2 tablespoons finely grated lemon rind Trim any fat from the chicken and pat dry. Rub the Moroccan seasoning all over the chicken. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large frying pan on medium. Cook the chicken for 5 minutes on each side, until brown. Add a 1/2 cup of the stock. Cover and cook for 20 minutes or until chicken is cooked. Meanwhile, cut the pumpkin into 2cm cubes. Remove the chicken to a plate and keep warm. Add the
SMOKED CHICKEN FRYING PAN PIZZAS I love these ‘cos they’re so quick to prepare. Toppings are limited only by one’s imagination. 1 tablespoon canola oil 4 small garlic pita breads or similar 4 tablespoons tomato chutney 1/2 cup grated tasty cheese 150g smoked chicken, sliced 1 cup mixed baby salad leaves 2 tablespoons each: basil pesto, lemon juice. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan on medium heat. Cook the pitas for about 1 minute, until hot. Flip them over. Top with the chutney, cheese and chicken. Cover and heat through on medium for 1-2 minutes. Remove and lightly pile with the salad greens. Drizzle with a little of the combined pesto and lemon juice. Serves 2 as a main.
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