Cambridge News | November 10, 2022

Questions, questions…

By Mary Anne Gill

Six Waipā residents have put in 15 per cent of the 434 official information requests to the council in the last year, taking up more than eight weeks’ staff time.

The most prolific requester, with 14, is a Cambridge woman whose requests have taken more than 70 hours and include questions about cycleways, rock garden intersections, residents’ survey, council meetings, replacement bridge and the Duke Street intersection.

Close behind her is a Te Awamutu man with 13 requests taking more than 65 staff hours on matters including Memorial Park, noise and dust management, Rangiaowhia site, spatial plans and upgrades to the Bunnings Building among others.

Another requester complained to the Ombudsman about the council’s use of a macron in Waipā.

The News requested the information under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings

Act (Lgoima). The council said in the 12 months ended October 31, 33 people had put in more than

one request under the act.

Legal counsel Diana Aquilina said the council had a well-tested system to

handle Lgoima requests and did not consider the process to be a waste of time.

“It’s all part of local

government business,” she said in support of the system which she said provided transparency for the public.

“We take it in our stride.” Each request takes on average five hours.

Aquilina, who has been with the council for two years and for five years prior to that was with Waikato DHB, graduated from Victoria University before beginning her work in public service.

It is an area she enjoys working in because of the variety and being part of a wider team.

The Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act was passed in 1987 and recently revised. Requests for information can be made either verbally or in writing and agencies can charge a “reasonable fee” for staff time and photocopying.

Agencies can reduce or waive the charge if there is a good reason.

Aquilina said the council often puts LGOIMA responses on its website, particularly if they are issues of public interest, with requestors’ names withheld to protect their privacy.

Lucy Bennett, a senior communications adviser at the Office of the

Diana Aquilina briefs newly elected councillors about their obligations under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Questions, questions…

Ombudsman said the law did not limit the number of requests a person can make to a local government agency.

LGOIMAs are tools the public and media can use to ensure agencies are open, transparent and accountable. Anyone can request ‘official information’ from the council and get an answer within 20 working days after the day it was received, she said.

There is a section of the act which can be used if agencies believe a request is frivolous or vexatious or if the information is trivial. But the threshold is high.

An item from Aquilina was the only substantive one on the inaugural council agenda last month when she outlined how the act applied to elected members’ council correspondence from both their Waipāprovided and their private email addresses and text messaging services.

Earlier this year chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier said local bodies should treat requests for information as a priority and not a chore or a challenge and vowed to take stronger action if statutory timeframes were not met.

Waipā rarely attracts any attention from

the Ombudsman’s Office but did so three times in the past year.

One was when a requester complained a request had not met the 20 working day response time.

An incoming email had gone to the council’s spam box, so staff were unaware and unable to respond to the email.

Another was a complaint about the use of the macron in Waipā and the third was about road sealing issues.

Waipā’s prolific requesters and the time taken in the past year are:

• Cambridge woman put in 14 requests around cycleways, traffic monitoring, Duke St intersection roundabout, replacement second bridge, Fieldays, Water Tower, rock garden intersections, Residents’ Survey, council meetings, money spent on areas, projected spending, Ahu Ake Stakeholders. Total hours approx 70 hours.

• Te Awamutu man, 13 requests around Concept of Memorial, Te Awamutu By-pass, Cambridge Townbelt, Māori consultation groups, noise and dust management, upgrade to Bunnings building, population growth, Rangiaowhia site, concept plans, Spatial Plan, Velodrome. 65 hours.

• Te Awamutu man, 12 requests around Pirongia Cemetery, Te Awamutu skatepark, Lidar (lasar) system, Three Waters, redirections process, external consultants, structural reports, 2018-2028

What’s Our Story booklet, Waipā District Council Growth anomaly, population projections, Deloitte Sustainability Report. 60 hours.

• Te Awamutu man, 10 requests around: Geographic information system (GIS) query, recording cameras, council purchases, Long Term Plan consultation, Covid Level 3 working, Treasury Report, senior council members, Annual Residents Perception Survey, Vaccine Passport, Deloitte Sustainability Report. 50 hours

• Te Awamutu man, nine requests around: fluoride, water related draft plans, vaccine mandate, Covid19 Health and Safety policy, council job losses due to vaccine mandate. 45 hours.

• Cambridge woman, seven requests around Transport Strategy workshop, Leamington Domain, Fergusson and Karāpiro bridge repairs. 35 hours.

Letters to the Editor

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You will have seen publicity around the reduction in the speed limit from 100 kph down to 80kph on part of State Highway 1 near Hickey Road.

If you have driven it since then, you will have seen the new limit is clearly signposted. While we cannot remove driver error and action from the crash equation, a drop in speed limit, backed by an associated change in driver behaviour means that the level of harm can be reduced.

With a drop in speed, as a driver you get more time to react and the impact - if it happens - will likely be less catastrophic. Stopping distances vary accordingly to a number of vehicle and environmental factors. As an indication however, at 80kph, the typical distance you travel while reacting to a hazard, is 33 metres. The distance required to stop is 52 metres. At 100kph, the typical reaction distance increases to 42 metres and stopping distance to a whopping 80 metres. When you consider the number of people who routinely drive at speeds

above the limit, those distances increase even further (110kph, typical reaction distance is 46 metres, stopping distance is 97 metres, for example.

While most members of the public are shielded from the realities of road trauma, emergency services personnel deal with the horror of fatal crashes all too frequently. The impact is huge, on us, on the families of victims as well as on the driver found responsible. Please keep your speed down.

Onto other matters, I’m looking forward to meeting some of you at our Community Engagement Day on Saturday morning at Cambridge base. See details in the page 3 briefs today. It will be a good opportunity to show off our new building and for you to see a couple of our specialist squads. Neighbourhood Support and Cambridge Community Patrol will also be on hand to talk to everyone, so if you want to learn more or want to form a Neighbourhood Support in your neighbourhood, come along for a chat. If you can’t make the morning, you

will see us taking a team from the Cambridge Fire Brigade at Tug of War after lunch, as part of the Cambridge Youth Day at Leamington Domain. Come along and support the team.

Talking of Cambridge Community patrol, I want to share appreciation for their keen observations one night last week. The patrol noticed a suspicious vehicle and highlighted it to our incident (“I -”) car. Police attended and found the vehicle with two occupants. The driver was found to be under the influence and was processed for driving with excess breath alcohol. In addition, the passenger had an outstanding warrant for their arrest so was taken into custody. Good team work resulted in a good catch!

Lastly, I need to add some clarification to the moped discussion in last week’s column. The criteria for a moped is not to exceed 50cc but also not to be capable of speeds exceeding 50kph.

Have a great week and drive safe.

Diana Aquilina

Hell’s bells

Oh dear. Our front lead headline last week quoting Hemingway’s novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls omitted the m, and not surprisingly it was instantly picked up by readers. We just hope our glaring error provided some extra publicity for the appeal for new bell ringers.

Police open day

Cambridge police will open their doors to show off the community’s new Fort St police station on Saturday. The base, opened in August, is the first developed under a partnership agreement between Tainui Group Holdings and police. The open day will run from 9am to noon.

Lotto wins

Tickets bought at Robinson Street Superette, Cambridge, and Paper Plus Ōtorohanga were among 11 to pick up second division prizes last weekend in Lotto. The tickets each earned $25,000.

Diana farewelled

Netball stalwart Diana Galletta was farewelled at a packed funeral service in Cambridge on Monday. Diana, affectionately known as the grandmother of the Cambridge Netball Centre, died on November 1. The News will run an obituary next week by Viv Posselt.

New to town

Cambridge Baptist Church will welcome a new minister and his wife - Ken and Raewyn Keyte - on Sunday. The couple, who have four children, are moving south from Auckland.

Clouded out

Much of Waipā was left in the dark during Tuesday’s lunar eclipse – the forecasters correctly predicted the event which sees the Moon turn red would be screened in the upper North Island by cloud. Tuesday’s eclipse, where the Earth was positioned in a line between the Sun and Moon, will be repeated in 2025. The late evening event lasted about 90 minutes.

Weeding out lake issues

By Mary Anne Gill

A robotic kayak invented by Waipā engineer Jeffrey To is on course to capture what’s going on in Waikato’s lakes.

Ngā Roto near Te Awamutu has koi carp aplenty, some sunken objects including a 55m long oxygen pump and no plant life in the deeper parts, To found when he launched his kayak into the lake several months ago.

He was in Cambridge on Sunday to do the same at Lake Te Koo Utu.

His map should be available soon, but initial observations are the news is not much better for the Cambridge lake.

The fact the kayak got stuck in the western vegetation and To had to resort to some heavy hitting mechanical work suggests the thick plant life is an issue.

To, 33, and his protégé Tamehana Hohepa – 10 years younger - live in Te Awamutu and met at a gym in town where the former Hong Kong resident was press-benching weights Hohepa can only dream of.

“We got talking and I found out what Jeffrey was

doing,” said the former Cambridge High School and Te Awamutu College student who works as a scaffolder and is an automotive enthusiast.

“He’s a genius,” said Hohepa.

What To had done was invent and develop an unmanned surface vehicle – an autonomous boat – to map lakes and produce a bathymetric (underwater) map.

To test out the kit and find out what they could discover about Ngā Roto, the two men took the kayak, its sonar equipment and a GPS scanner out for a spin.

Motorboats are not permitted on the lake, so the inflatable kayak was perfect.

After estimating the depth of the water, To and Hohepa set the path and waypoints to maintain a consistent width so they could maximise the scan’s quality and avoid blind spots in the lake.

The carp were so big they were easily spotted by the first-person view camera mounted on the kayak.

In the water itself there was very little vegetation, some old tyres and other waste. But it was the oxygen

pump which fascinated him, and its owners were soon discovered – it was the council which had put the pump in several years before.

“The water clarity was very low, it looked almost black, we could barely see into the water except for the brightly coloured carp as they swam by.”

Only one person is needed to transport and control the kayak but with a few tweaks the system could be turned into an automated job.

To published his findings to his website and they attracted the attention of Waikato Regional Council lakes scientist Mat Allan.

“This is very innovative and a way to map depths in shallow and deep areas because some shallow areas cannot be accessed by normal boats.”

Allan has employed To and Hohepa, who provides technical operation support, to launch the boat in other Waikato lakes, including Te Koo Utu.

Hohepa is along for the

ride and having seen now how innovative To is, wants to be an engineer himself.

“I better get a move on,” he jokes, admitting he left school several years ago.

“I’m pushing this guy to study,” said To whose journey of discovery began 16 years ago when he was accepted into a cultural exchange programme between Hong Kong and New Zealand.

At first, he thought he had drawn the short straw when he was put into Year 13 at Te Kuiti High School but what it fostered was a love for the Waikato region.

He studied engineering in Auckland and worked his way into leadership roles in mining, manufacturing, aeronautical and IT software moving from Te Kuiti, to Ōtorohanga and now Te Awamutu.

To did some business studies as well and two years ago he and his wife Chloe Leung established Māki Products Ltd so he could turn his ideas into reality.

The software he has developed with information gleaned from the regional council, Conservation Department and NIWA combines all the data into one 3-D bathymetric map.

“With regular scanning on a routine basis, we would be able to record any changes to the lakes, and better track long term trends and any effects of seasonality,” said To.

“Our aim is to move towards monitoring and reporting, and subsequently implementation of maintenance systems in order to help maintain water quality and prevent future algae blooms at other lakes,” said To.

The other lakes To and Hohepa will investigate over the following months are: Kareaotahi (Cameron), Harihari, Kainui, Kaituna, Korekai, Numiti, Okoroire, Parangi, Pikopiko, Puketi, Rotongaro, Rotongaroiti, Rotopounamu, Tutaeinanga, Waiwhata West, Whakatangi, Te Otamanui, Waiwhakareke (Horseshoe).

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Launching technology: Jeffrey To and Tamehana Hohepa with Māki, their unmanned surface vehicle, on Lake Te Koo Utu.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

The robotic kayak is out on the lake while on shore its findings are recorded.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Stand and deliver…

By Mary Anne Gill

Do not expect to see any political in-fighting on the Cambridge Community Board while Jo DaviesColley is chair.

It is an environment she wants nothing to do with and she thinks voters and mayor Susan O’Regan have delivered her a team of doers who will work hard for the community and steer clear of petty politics.

How the 41-year-old was elected chair is a classic example of how they are going to get on with it. They met each other in advance of the inaugural meeting at Lake Karāpiro and again on the day confirming Davies-Colley in the chair and Elise Badger as her chair.

“I was really pleased how unified we were with it,” she said.

“Our job as a community board is to advocate to council about how our

community feels. Our main focus is advocacy and representation.”

Three of the board – DaviesColley, Badger and Alana MacKay were newbies last term and bring that experience into a second term.

Former chair Sue Milner was a district councillor while Andrew Myers of Maungatautari is the only new face.

O’Regan appointed new district councillor Mike Montgomerie, who was on the board the previous term, and two-term councillor and former board member Philip Coles, a team Davies-Colley says she is “really pleased” with.

Last term was a messy one with most meetings held by Zoom and community events limited.

“It wasn’t the same experience that we will get now,” she said.

A pre-election review of community boards means there is a new focus this term.

“Our priority is overall to be good advocates to council about issues that are important to the community and to be that real link.

“We aim to be more visible and open our public forums, so people feel comfortable coming to us.”

Priorities include connecting with youth, critically important with so many young families in town.

Davies-Colley was born in Auckland and came to Cambridge with husband Christian, a large animal vet at Vetora.

The couple have two girls aged 11 and 9 and a boy aged 7. They all attend Cambridge Primary School and cycle to school. Davies-Colley is a huge fan of urban mobility and describes the Streets for People project of last term as a positive one but with communication difficulties.

It trialled more than 25 temporary changes on several streets in Cambridge to create routes for children to safely and easily, walk, bike and scooter to school around town.

This term she hopes the council gives the community board more of a heads up about projects like Streets for People so they can be the voice of the community.

Davies-Colley was a hospital midwife at Middlemore Hospital before moving to Cambridge.

“I wanted to do something meaningful and one of my skills is relationship building, compassion and empathy.

“I loved being with women in that

caring role.”

The shared connection with her husband, who works in the rural areas, makes for interesting conversations around the dinner table when they talk about such things as breech births.

She no longer practices but wants to return to midwifery one day.

“I really love being in the community and I really love some of the smaller issues. I like chatting to people about what matters to them.”

Davies-Colley was brought up in Italy as a teenager and attended high school there. Her grandmother was Italian.

“I’ve maintained that connection with my culture,” she said and now teaches Italian language classes.

She also helps in her husband’s veterinary practice coordinating emergency vet calls at the weekend, all of which allows her to work around the family and now the Cambridge community.

Jo Davies-Colley’s role as community board chair is to deliver and advocate for Cambridge.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

The new Cambridge Community Board from left: Elise Badger, Alana MacKay, Jo DaviesColley, Andrew Myers, Mike Montgomerie, Sue Milner. The other member is Philip Coles.

space to excel

St Peter’s students have been busy this term with the youth production of Mary Poppins, Senior, Sport and Arts’ Awards ceremonies, Graduations, 2023 Head Student announcements and welcoming international students back to the school.

Choosing an NCEA alternative

The St Peter’s thirteenth cohort of IB students is now in the last few days of completing their final examinations. The two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma programme is an alternative to NCEA offered by St Peter’s, Cambridge since 2009. Students study six subjects, with the additional subject of Theory of Knowledge, a critical thinking course, and a personalised extra-curricular program ‘CAS’ (creativity, activity, service) also central to this system.

To celebrate the two-year journey, Cohort 13 IB students and their teachers attended a celebratory afternoon tea on their final day of lessons on 18 October (pictured below), before embarking on examination leave. Head of IB, Toni Foley reflects, “we are very proud of the tenacity shown by these students over the last two years, and the diligence that each student has shown in their pursuit of personal excellence. The care that they have shown each other has been heartwarming. We are excited to see what the future holds for this inspiring bunch of young people.”

Why become a homestay?

Meet Raywin Pierce - a lady who loves hosting international students. Raywin has been a St Peter’s homestay host for 3 years. She has developed incredibly close and lifelong friendships with the students who have become a part of her family. She has enjoyed raising her own children and feels she still has so much ‘Mum’ to give to others, so signed up to be a St Peter’s homestay. During Covid, students were able to stay with her when they were unwell, and one student moved in permanently after he had such a nurturing experience during lockdown.

Raywin will be sad when her most recent homestay Karim (pictured below), leaves school to study in the South Island. But as she says “at least he’ll still be in New Zealand and we can catch up”.

If you are interested hosting an international student, please email: heather.joubert@stpeters.school.nz.

Poppins was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious .

A spoonful of sugar makes for a wonderful entertainment spectacular when mixed with 73 students and 36 staff who worked together to make the 2022 St Peter’s youth production such an amazing success!

After fourteen weeks of rehearsals, cast and crew shone in four shows with nearly 1700 audience members in attendance last week. Thank you to all the Cambridge community for your support of this show. Next year’s Senior Production will be Anastasia, taking to the stage from 29 April 2023.

Mary

Matteo has the write stuff

knowledge of journalism in that entire time. The kid is a natural.”

Braunius, who edits the Newsroom website’s books section, discovered Di Maio’s work online in 2020 and invited him to write several articles.

“He was super polite, really friendly, incredibly efficient...he didn’t bring any kind of ego or difficulty to the job, and really it was like dealing with a journalist in their mid to late twenties,” he said. “He was that good. And everyone else at Newsroom who I was working with were like who is this guy, how did you find him? He’s amazing!”

Giovanni, in home renovations. His sister Valentina is in year 7 at St Peter’s Catholic School.

So far, winning dux hasn’t changed his life much – although it has added pressure at Alpino restaurant, where he works waiting tables.

“A couple of teachers came in last night and they were like, this

guy was dux of our school, so in that respect it meant I had to be a little more careful I didn’t mix up any of their orders,” he said.

Fortunately, everyone got their ravioli on time.

Equally passionate about science and the humanities, Di Maio has won a scholarship to study Biomedical Science at Auckland

University next year. • St Peter’s Catholic School is celebrating the achievements of several other past students this week, with Bella Peacocke named head girl of Cambridge High for 2023 and Daniel Plant and Lucy Eastwood announced as prefects. Kyle Chandrasekera was also made a prefect at St John’s College.

Airport comes flying back

By Archer Miller

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

Matteo Di Maio’s dazzling intellect has already won him many admirers in the world of journalism.

It also won him Cambridge High School’s coveted dux award last week.

It’s a big call, labelling someone a wonderkid, but the astonishingly talented 17-year-old might just qualify.

“You know what, I really don’t think that is going too far,” says award winning New Zealand Herald journalist and author Steve Braunius.

“I’ve been in journalism for 42 years and I’ve not seen a secondary school student show that much understanding, intelligence and

Di Maio was in his first year of high school when he had his first opinion piece published in British online newspaper The Independent in 2018.

In year 11 he began contributing a regular column, Down With the Kids, to Cambridge News.

“We saw him two years ago as a youngster who wanted to write for us and were astonished by the quality of his work,” editor Roy Pilott said.

“No one at Cambridge News will be surprised he’s won dux. He’s an extraordinary kid.”

Di Maio, grandson of former Hamilton City Councillor and restaurant owner Giuseppe (Joe) Di Maio, was born in Hamilton but has lived in Cambridge most of his life. His mother, Harriet, works in interior design and his father,

Hamilton Airport (pictured) says passenger numbers have bounced back to pre-pandemic levels ahead of the first post-pandemic summer.

Numbers varied greatly during the pandemic and the April-June 2021 quarter, when international borders were closed, saw a burst of people travelling domestically.

Passenger numbers in the present quarter have exceeded numbers recorded in the same period in 2019, before Covid came to New Zealand.

Data from Hamilton City Council and Hamilton Airport shows

December is stacking up to be the busiest month in more than three years.

The airport has five direct routes – Wellington, Christchurch, Napier, Nelson, and Palmerston

North, and up to 26 flights every weekday.

The news comes as the airport prepares for the formal opening of its $15 million refurbished terminal early next month.

The new terminal features structural upgrades and flooring as well as dedicated workspaces for travellers, a new departure area and cultural artworks.

Graeme Purser Heather Savill

Cambridge High School 2022 dux Matteo Di Maio.

FAMILY BUSINESS BACK AT CAMBRIDGE RACEWAY

A new gym has arrived in town, but not a gym like you know it, but the much anticipated, highly popular group fitness success that is BFT (Bodyfit Training)

More importantly, it is being brought to town by a local family who have had ties with BFT’s new home of Cambridge Raceway for generations. The Raceway holds a special place in the family’s heart, and they are thrilled to be the inaugural tenant in their exciting redevelopment plans.

Mother and son Michele & Taylor Connell, as well as their business partners were thrilled to take advantage of a space at Cambridge Raceway as part of their exciting new development. The old ‘Alf Walsh ‘lounge has had a stunning transformation and is now a huge light filled workout space that provides a truly beautiful studio to work out in.

BFT is taking NZ by storm, winning awards in Australia and is a group training gym offering a timetable of classes every day to suit everyone regardless of age and fitness levels. BFT uses science and technology-based training techniques combining both cardio and resistance programmes in an inclusive coach-led environment.

With 13 fantastic 50-minute workouts, aimed at training a different energy system and muscle group every day, it is easy to see why BFT is so popular.

They are soon adding a ‘mums & bubs’ class for those busy mums on the go, timed for just after school drop off.

Michele and Taylor come from harness racing ‘stock’ with Michele the daughter of well-known Cambridge identity Charlie Hunter who has enjoyed much success as a trainer and driver at the Raceway and continues in his support as the current patron.

Michele said ‘We come from a harness racing family and spent so much time at Cambridge Raceway growing up, following our racehorses, attending functions and celebrations, and even dropping the kids off to school balls at the ‘Alf Walsh Lounge’ that is seems surreal to be opening a business in a space that holds so many memories.

Still living locally, they are thrilled to bring BFT to Cambridge. Taylor currently owns the New Plymouth franchise, other partners Alisha & Levi own the hugely successful Hamilton East franchise, Nic is a current BFT trainer and Taylor roped in Michele to join the team when the opportunity came to purchase the Cambridge territory.

They are excited to have got to the finish line, in more ways than one, having officially opened on Saturday November 5. “It will feel like turning back time, arriving at the track, but having nothing to do with the exercise of the horses, instead focusing on the exercise of the humans,” Michele laughs.

Clockwise from back left: Taylor Connell, Levi Metekingi, Nicola Mayall, Michele Connell, Alisha Metekingi

New leaders for trust

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā Networks Trust has appointed Sarah Matthews as its new chairperson, the first woman to lead the trust.

David McLean was chosen as the trust’s deputy chairperson.

Matthews, a chartered accountant with Ruapehu District Council, will soon move to Taupō District Council as chief financial officer.

The 37-year-old is a first term trustee – she topped the pool in last year’s elections – and has a long-standing relationship with the trust as the trust’s secretary/treasurer for more than a decade.

The network trust owns Waipā Networks Ltd which is responsible for the electricity lines throughout Waipa, parts of Waikato and Ōtorohanga districts and delivers power to nearly 30,000 consumers.

Matthews and her husband Justin have a blended family of five children ranging in ages from 8-15.

“I am beyond excited to serve as the trust’s chairperson and to continue working with the company to

ensure a positive impact for all Waipā power consumers”.

Matthews also paid tribute to her predecessor Craig Sanders, who held the chairperson position for nine years.

“Craig provided many years of stable leadership to the trust, leading the trust through many significant milestones during his tenure. I am extremely lucky to have been given the opportunity to continue this work.”

The other elected trustees are Ray Milner, Judy Bannon and Marcus Gower.

Matthews is also the chairperson of two other Waikato organisations; YWCA in Hamilton and HRT Property Holdings Trust.

Our women in politics

By Mary Anne Gill

Waikato’s female local body leaders have committed to reviving the Women in Politics movement buoyed by their performances in the recent elections.

Hamilton deputy mayor Angela O’Leary will coordinate the group which was popular when the number of females in local politics were in the minority.

Now with four mayors – Susan

O’Regan (Waipā), Jacqui Church (Waikato), Paula Southgate (Hamilton) and Adrienne Wilcock (MatamataPiako); three deputy mayors – O’Leary, Liz Stolwyk (Waipā) and Carolyn Eyre (Waikato) and regional council chair Pamela Storey, it seemed an opportune time to revive the movement. The women met after the Local Government New Zealand Zone Two meeting at Lake Karāpiro last week only hours after they learned Sarah

Matthews had been elected Waipā Networks Trust chair.

The Women in Politics group is likely to add National Party MPs Louise Upston (Taupō) and Barbara Kuriger (Taranaki-King Country) and any other women elected to a Waikato political position.

This would include women like Jo Davies-Colley and Ange Holt, recently elected to the Cambridge and Te Awamutu community boards.

Trust team: Waipā Networks Trust chair Sarah Matthews and deputy chair David McLean.

Photo: Supplied.

Gathering momentum: Pamela Storey, Adrienne Wilcock, Susan O’Regan, Paula Southgate, Angela O’Leary and Liz Stolwyk will lead the revival of Waikato Women in Politics.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

Armistice event draws crowds

By Mary Anne Gill

More than 2000 people attended the twoday Armistice Day Cambridge event at Lake Karāpiro at the weekend which organisers say is on a par with past years.

And that’s despite bad weather on the Sunday and worries that a two-year absence because of Covid might have had a detrimental impact.

One of the organisers Paul Watkins said the venue at Karāpiro Domain was buzzing with excitement when the New Zealand flag was raised early on Saturday.

By mid-morning, after the Vietnam Battle ReEnactment, Watkins said he knew the event was going to be a success.

There were a couple of hiccups. After the WW2 Market Garden battle re-enactment, several children ran onto the mock battlefield and picked up shells.

While the participants were using blanks, some shells may still have had gunpowder in them which could cause some burning.

Some shells were returned following an announcement over the loudspeaker but Watkins said if anyone had shells, they should hand them into a police station.

A newcomer this year was Nitro Circus’s Jump Flex which saw BMX bike riders propelled down a shute and then propelled into the sky where they performed tricks while hanging onto their bikes, all with the lake as a backdrop.

A Tiger Moth biplane, piloted by Matamata air veteran Peter Ryan, which had been due over at 2.45pm, was delayed because another Tiger Moth, due to be part of the display, had mechanical problems.

Watkins acknowledged that while most uniforms worn by participants caused no issues, one man wearing a Nazi SS uniform with swastikas, would be spoken to. “There is no place for that,” he said.

Cambridge information session

Come along on 17 November 2022, from 1 – 6pm to the Cambridge Town Hall to hear the latest information from the team at Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, share and discuss your feedback on the following projects:

To Cambridge

Newcombe Road

Short-term safety improvements

Tell us what you think of our designs for safety improvements on SH1:

• Installing more flexible median barriers and associated turnarounds

• A roundabout at Karāpiro Rd/SH1 intersection

• Improving safety at other intersections

Longer term project

Walking and cycling

Share your ideas about options for walking and cycling from Cambridge to Piarere.

SH1/29 intersection improvement

Find out the latest on the SH1/SH29 intersection improvement project

Maintenance

Hickey Road GortonRoad

See the latest on the long-term plans for the expressway between Cambridge and Piarere.

Hydro Road

KarāpiroRoad Tunakawa Road

FergussonGullyRoad

Keeley’s Reserve

Chat with our maintenance experts on the big plans for maintenance this summer, and learn all about what, when and where.

KentuckyRoad MaungatautariRoad

For more information, please visit www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/cambridge-to-piarere or email c2p@nzta.govt.nz

Piarere

Flying High: A competitor on Nitro Circus’s Jump Flex.

Participants in the WW2 Market Garden Re-Enactment fire blank shells which were later picked up by children, prompting organisers to call for them to be returned.

A truck used in the desert during World War II forms part of the historic military vehicles display.

The Madeleines, from left Shannon Evison, Hannah Kee and Jess Rogers entertain the crowd with their Vintage Wartime set. Photos: Mary Anne Gill

Concert in the park

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The late withdrawal of Cambridge Brass Band musical director Rob Hocking with Covid and inclement weather meant attendance for the annual free Armistice Salute Concert on Sunday, in front of the Victoria Park cricket pavilion, was disappointing. Assistant musical director and drummer Jack Redpath filled in helped by alternative conductor Bill Stoneham. Despite the low numbers, the band played enthusiastically and brought tears to several eyes with some stirring performances. Photos: Mary Anne Gill.

Fill-in conductor Jack Redpath and the Cambridge Brass Band acknowledge the applause.

A disappointing crowd heard from the Cambridge Brass Band.

All seriousness: Conductor Jack Redpath

Reflected glory: Lucas Goodwin playing the B Flat bass

Cambridge RSA president Tony Hill, left, with Paul Murphy and Bob Peterson stand silently while the French flag is raised.

Wolfe Hucke who was a member of the French Foreign Legion in front of the Le Quesnoy billboards.

Bagpipe player Bryan Mitchell watches on as from left, Cambridge RSA president Tony Hill, community board chair Jo Davies-Colley and deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk reflect on the Le Quesnoy sister city relationship.

Family affair: Bob Peterson served as a medic in the New Zealand Navy and met his wife Marion in Auckland, where she was a member of the Women’s Royal New Zealand Navy Service (Wren).

Karāpiro safety work starts

Cemetery pair in court

Two men have been sentenced for their part in August’s vandalism at Hautapu cemetery.

A vehicle was used to tear up turf and splatter mud over headstones.

Three men have been charged – one has pleaded not guilty, the other two were in Hamilton District Court this week to be sentenced on charges of intentional damage and operating a vehicle with sustained loss of traction.

The national transport agency has started making road safety changes it promised in a letter to Karāpiro School, reported by The News last week.

The highway through Karāpiro has been the scene of several fatal crashes this year and Taupō MP Louise Upston says while the work announced by Waka Kotahi is welcome, it should have been done earlier.

David Speirs, Waka Kotahi’s director of regional relationships for Waikato and Bay of Plenty, said the community had been “crying out for safety improvements on this stretch of highway, and we are delivering”.

“While our mahi on the longer term 16km expressway is progressing, and we have been working on more permanent safety improvements on the current SH1, there are things we can do right now to save lives. Probably the most influential will be the temporary reduction of the speed limit to 80kph from 100kph from north of Hickey Road to south of the Karāpiro Road-SH1 intersection.”

That move in particular has been greeted by the school.

Waka Kotahi will also erect ‘high crash area’ signs north of Hickey Road and south of Karāpiro Road, and electronic warning signs.

It will add and improve rumble strips, hit sticks and edge marker posts and install wide painted median strips between the end of the expressway and Fergusson Gully Road.

The temporary speed restriction will remain in place until permanent safety infrastructureflexible median barriers – are added. More than 4km of flexible median barriers have already been installed between Cambridge and Piarere.

Waka Kotahi says the barrier south of Fergusson Gully Road has been hit 40 times already, any of those incidents had the potential to be a head-on crash.

An additional flexible median barrier will be installed just south of Maungatautari Road before Christmas, the road resurfaced, and a short southbound passing lane removed.

By early next year there will 7.7km of flexible

median barriers between Fergusson Gully Road to near the intersection with SH29 at Piarere.

Upston called it too little, too late.

“So far there have been three deaths and six serious injuries on this stretch of road this year. In the previous five years there were six deaths and 26 serious injuries,” she said.

“While it is pleasing to see some change coming, this work is urgent. Two years is not fast enough.”

National is still fuming over the government’s decision to stall the extension of the Waikato Expressway to Piarere.

Upston said the move was false economy and would have been completed in 2024.

“On average, well over 18,000 vehicles travel that section of road every day. This highway is a vital transport link for the region and the North Island. Upgrading it must be made a priority and it’s not funded this decade under Labour.”

Details of the latest Waka Kotahi work will be discussed at an information day at the Cambridge Town Hall on November 17.

Monty Smith, 24, was disqualified from driving for nine months, ordered to pay $1000 reparation, given three months community detention and placed on supervision for a year. Haka Tutaki, 19, was discharged without conviction and ordered to pay $1000 reparation.

The court heard both men worked in the horse racing industry and had attended a funeral earlier in the day.

Last week The News reported Waipā District Council parks staff spent around 10 hours dealing with damage – and telling families of effected burial plots. Companies came to help.

PGG Wrightson and Parklands Turf provided free grass seed and fertiliser and free levelling, seeding and fertilising of the area.

The speed limit has

cut

80kph north of Hickey Rd, pictured, to south of Karāpiro Rd

The teacher who couldn’t quit

By Archer Miller

Roto-o-Rangi School teacher Pam Furze is retiring – reluctantly.

After almost 50 years in the education sector, and 20 years at the school as a teacher and sports leader, Pam is working up to her retirement at the end of the term.

Originally from Hikutaia in the Hauraki Plains, Pam moved to the Waikato in 1975 to study at the Hamilton Training Institute, before beginning her teaching career at Cambridge East Primary School in 1977.

She hasn’t strayed far from Waipā, with Pukeatua School being Pam’s only role outside of Cambridge.

Staff at Roto-o-rangi School say Pam is an incredible woman, and highly respected by both pupils and staff.

Despite Pam’s eagerness to enjoy her retirement, she says she can’t just stop. She’s still teaching at the school two days a week, doing science and technology, and junior reading for the rest of the term.

“After 47 years of teaching, to just stop instantly, I would have found that quite hard.”

She says she loves the school, the community, and the kids, but she’s ready

to retire.

“I love teaching, and I love the community. It’s just the way that teaching is going at the moment I don’t particularly like – it’s just so much paperwork and you don’t get as much time to spend with the kids as you’d like.

“I remember in my first years of teaching; I’d go out and play with the kids at interval and lunchtime. Now you just haven’t got the time or the energy, because of all the other paperwork you have to do.”

A total of 47 years in any industry brings with it a huge expertise – Pam has seen enormous changes in the way children are taught in New Zealand, including the introduction of screens in the classroom from the mid-late 90’s.

She laments the loss of freedom to play for the kids, but has found an upside to the new tech.

“I’ve met a lot of my ex-pupils on Facebook and seem to have a good rapport with them all still, which is nice.”

As for how she’ll be spending her retirement, Pam says she’s looking forward to spending more time in her garden and travelling New Zealand with her husband.

By Archer Miller

A community fun day at Leamington Domain on Saturday aims to garner support for a community youth centre.

The day is designed to support tamariki in Cambridge, connecting them and their families with groups and opportunities to help them thrive.

The idea was sparked by Raylene Martin, who has previously worked with youth through Oranga Tamariki, and has lived in Cambridge for 46 years.

“I’ve got a passion for the children, for the youth… I’ve always wanted to do a fun day for them, because there’s nothing here for our youth,” she said.

The fun day “is only the first step” to get the ball rolling.

“What I want is a sports hub for them to learn sports, a café for them to learn barista skills and life skills like cooking. Have a learning room there, for children who can’t go to school. Have job opportunities, have course opportunities – not everyone fits into the ‘school’ category”

“Every child has this value, I just want to get that value inside of them out and share it with everyone.”

The event will run from 10am to 3pm and is being supported by businesses and police.

Pam Furze

Communications break down

A review discussing how to make local government more relevant to people has itself highlighted a glaring communications’ failure.

The Department of Internal Affairs informed national media and Government funded local democracy reporters about the release of a draft plan - but newspapers like the Cambridge News were left out of the loop.

The review includes 29 recommendations on how to revitalise and boost engagement with local government. Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) is calling on councils to see He mata whāriki, he matawhānui as an invitation to think big.

The review was carried out by an independent panel set up by Local Government minister Nanaia Mahuta.

LGNZ president Stuart Crosby says the review was a “once-in-ageneration chance to move past the two-dimensional way we think about

The council won the Community Impact geospacial award for its early work on the development of Ahu Ake –Waipā Community Spatial Plan. Judges noted Waipā’s approach to using GIS modelling and StoryMaps to explore what the future of the district could look like and tell that story in an engaging and easy-to-understand way. Waipā’s entry, submitted in collaboration with consultancy Beca, was up against a host of other entries from across New Zealand. “This is our first community spatial plan and the fact we have won this award speaks volumes about the hard work that has already gone into creating this plan,” Waipā Strategy group manager Kirsty Downey said. The entry will now move forward into the regional Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards where it will be judged against other entrees from the wider Pacific region.

councils”.

“Low voter turnout at October’s election reinforces what’s at stake – we must make real change if we want to strengthen local democracy,” he said.

In an unattributed response about its publicity of the review, the Department of Internal Affairs said “we have clearly missed you as an independent title and we apologise for that”.

Good Local editor Roy Pilott said the omission underlined a blinkered Government approach to news and advertising evident in a constant failure and or refusal to communicate with members of the New Zealand Community Newspapers Association. The organisation represents more than 80 community mastheads.

“Stuart Crosby is right – there is a need for change, and acknowledging a section of the media which is hyper local would be a step in the right direction,” Pilott said.

Good Local Media generated almost 80 stories during the just completed elections - about 10 times the number clocked up by its rival “community” publications which benefitted from Government advertising.

Beca consultant, Regan Powell (left) and Waipā District Council project team members, Kirsty Downey and Vanessa Honore were celebrating last week at the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards in Wellington.

Inflation is out of control

By Peter Nicholl

Mervyn King, a former Governor of the Bank of England, said publicly in late October that ‘central banks have lost control of inflation’.

I agree. All central banks were very slow to take action to control inflation as it rose to levels that were double, then treble and then over four times above their inflation targets. They were slow off the mark because they believed initially the surge in inflation would be transitory. But the drivers of inflation have now become widespread and are becoming entrenched.

Most central banks are belatedly taking action to slow inflation down. The most aggressive recent actions have been taken by the US Federal Reserve.

The Fed on November 2 announced its fourth successive interest rate increase of 0.75 percent. The Fed’s actions are going to put the pressure on other central banks to follow their lead.

The Fed is not like other central banks. It is the central bank of the country that issues the world’s number one reserve currency, the US dollar.

The US dollar has been strengthening recently because with the amount of uncertainty and instability in the world increasing, investors have been looking for ‘safe havens’.

The US dollar is still regarded as the safest haven currency. The US now also has higher policy interest rates than many other countries, including New Zealand.

Given these two things, there is only one way the US dollar exchange rate will go in the next few months. It will continue to get stronger. This means that other currencies, including the NZ dollar, will continue to get

weaker against the US dollar.

Many major import items are priced in US dollars so that means the inflationary pressures impacting on NZ from abroad will continue to rise.

One of the most worrying things about recent inflation data in New Zealand is that though the initial surge in our inflation was primarily driven by external factors, locallygenerated inflation has been at a similar rate in the last two CPI releases.

There is also more anecdotal evidence of wages rising strongly here. Pay rises are to be expected. Labour is the scarce factor of production in many industries.

Economics tells you that the prices of items that are scarce tend to rise. Most central banks, including the RBNZ, are still forecasting that inflation will fall back towards their target range of 2-3 percentbut their forecasts keep moving the date that this will happen further into the future.

Not long ago they were saying this would happen in 2023, then 2024 – and now they are saying it could happen in 2025.

I expect that date to continue to shift into the future and to be like a mirage – out there in front of you but you never seem to get closer to it.

The US Federal Reserve is finally taking some aggressive action to get back control over inflation.

But because central banks have been so slow to take action, inflation pressures have strengthened and spread. It is going to be a long and bumpy battle to get them back under control.

The empowering force of unity…

By Murray Smith, Senior Leader, Bridges Church

Last week in this column I wrote about the inherent power in unity and what people can accomplish when ‘agreement’ exists.

It’s important we’re aware that being united around common objectives works, whether be it for good purposes - or similarly be it for evil purposes.

I’ve thought about this in the shocking context of Henry Ford (father of the Ford Motor Company), galvanising his staff’s support to persecute his only child, Edsel. Much has been written about Ford’s misguided attitude to his son and the abusive relationship he perpetuated.

He claimed, “the boy is weak and needs be toughened up”… thus he set about to make his life an emotional assault course. Humiliating and grooming Edsel for failure became this unkind father’s focus so his boy would ‘feel the sting of life’ and somehow, thereby ‘discover strength’.

Henry Ford would shame Edsel around the boardroom table telling him, “Shut up Edsel, you don’t know anything…” He controlled initiatives Edsel implemented - even destroying work he was creating. Edsel Ford became president of Ford Motor Company and while his dad was away, he decided to expand the administration building.

The basement was dug, but when Ford returned he confronted Edsel and stopped him. Edsel promised to fill in the hole, but Ford made him leave it. Everyday Edsel was forced to walk by the hole and be reminded of his failure. Edsel said, “I don’t know what kick father gets from humiliating me this way.”

Once the Model-T began selling less and less, the Vice President of Ford Motor

Company wrote to Edsel, urging production of a new model car. Edsel agreed with the V.P. and initiated designing the Model A to save the company.

He constantly tried to get his father’s approval for a new car, but was always turned down. Ford told a colleague to tell Edsel to take a long trip to California, where he would be sent for, “when I want to see him again”.

Later Ford relented and the Model A was produced. Everyone at Ford knew credit for its success belonged to Edsel who designed the car, but Henry drew all the limelight.

In his forties Edsel’s waning health reduced him to drinking just milk to help with stomach ulcers. He longed for his father’s approval – but the abuse continued.

Eventually Edsel was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Henry Ford claimed there was nothing wrong, and that Edsel was just weak. When Edsel died at 49 years old, his friends claimed he really died of a broken heart.

Can you imagine what a powerhouse Henry and Edsel might have been as a united team? If this father had turned his heart (and staff) toward his son, who knows what together, they might have achieved?

Within our culture, family breakdowns lurk as an eroding shame - notably, between fathers and sons. Relationships between dads and their boys can be restored - I’ve witnessed this first hand and it’s precious beyond words… when God’s help is sought, the release of forgiveness and reconciliation is imminently possible.

New playwright wins praise

By Viv Posselt

Fred Simpson’s first play, centred on the woes of MIQ entrapment may well have set the Cambridge doctor-turned author onto a new path.

‘Stop, Watch’ followed the testy musings of seniors Joan and Henry, locked together as much in a tired marriage as in two weeks’ isolation in an MIQ facility. Their mutual irritation and frequent acerbic sparring leads to an unexpected deeper understanding between them, driven as much by their settling on a common enemy, aka MIQ staff, as their enforced re-evaluation of their relationship.

Fred, a now-retired GP known for his penmanship of poetry and his novels, ‘Ted’s Urn’ and ‘The Sunflower and the Sparrow’, wrote the play after experiencing MIQ with wife Pat in 2020.

That, he quickly advised, had been a far happier

experience, with none of the snappiness attributable to Joan and Henry, and with sensible pre-planning to offset cabin fever. Pat busied herself with things she enjoyed while Fred reread James Joyce’s Ulysses, finding it considerably more entertaining than when he read it as a young man.

“It was after that MIQ experience that I thought of writing the play,” he explained. “The clock was important – hence the title ‘Stop, Watch’ – as it signified the changes Joan and Henry go through. There were health issues, ageing issues … and many paradoxes, the final one being that the enforced time in MIQ that could so easily have separated them ended up helping resolve their issues.”

The human condition fascinates Fred, and his mastery at revealing it, warts and all, helped make the Saturday night reading a

success. The production at the Gaslight Theatre was directed by Karen Carrol and starred Karen along with Sara Young, Mike Cooper and Jo Wadsley. Karen’s daughter Maddie ran lights and sound. An earlier reading in Morrinsville had been equally successful.

An earlier encounter between Sara the patient and Fred the GP resulted in the play being picked up.

“I was so impressed with his manner that I went out and purchased his novels,” said Sara. “I started following his Facebook page and reading his poetry … he shows such an insightful and empathetic understanding of people and their situations.

I contacted Fred to say how much I enjoyed his work, and he mentioned having written a play. I said I’d love to read it and see if we could put it on stage.”

“Writing the play was very different for me,” said Fred.

“With poetry, it’s a feeling

you get … something that triggers a thought and I feel compelled to put it down. With prose, I can guarantee I get something down every time I sit at the computer.

“I found the play much more challenging, in some way because you have to visualise it on stage. I have no background in theatre, but it was very exciting. At least writing a play is slightly more manageable than a novel, in terms of scale, so maybe I’ll do another ….”

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Your overall interest rate will be lower - compare 4.25% on your mortgage with up to 22% on your credit card debt.

e length of your term can be structured to suit your needs.

Let me give you an example:-

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Consolidate this debt into a home mortgage and the repayments will come down to approx $180 per month over a 30 year term. Pay $580 per month over a ve year term and the repayments are reduced by more than half and the $30,000 debt can be paid o in full in ve years!

Fred Simpson

Goodwood School pupils put

forward to support last week’s Gumboot Friday, a venture to drive fundraising to provide free counselling for young people. Pictured from left were James Nancekivill, Harry O’Connell, Locke Shaw, Scarlett Derecourt-Griffin, Frankie Iremonger, Keana Thomas, Caedence Sutton, Kezia Jesani, Georgia Bailey, Charlotte Crooks, Jessica Hawkins, Madison Fraser, Amelia Barnao, Johnny Leonard and Archer Griffin

in a glass of its own…

The Profile Group has been celebrated as the supreme winner at the Waikato Chamber of Commerce business awards.

The group includes Hautapu based agricultural glass products company AGP.

It won the Foster Construction Group 2022 Supreme Award and also collected Business Growth and Service Excellence awards.

New Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan was present to see the awards presented to the company – a member of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce.

The Community Contribution commercial award went to Discover Waitomo.

AGP operates from a giant base at Hautapu next to the Waikato Expressway. The country’s largest manufacturer of aluminium windows and doors moved to the site from Te Rapa after Mitch Plaw, a major shareholder in The Profile Group, began developing the 56.7ha site.

Waikato Chamber chief executive Don Good said Profile Group

represented a family of powerhouse businesses that form New Zealand’s only integrated supply chain for aluminium window and door solutions.

“Profile Group is on a journey to redesign how they do business, how they manufacture even more efficiently, how they reimagine and repurpose waste streams, regenerate the natural world around us and enable their people to realise their full potential across all facets of the businesses.

“Their success is driven by an excellence of service ethos. Their structures, processes, and more importantly – people – set the standard for service excellence both nationally and internationally.”

in store

Judges said the group was a world class role model around future vision, long-term strategy, innovation and product design, operational execution, ongoing commitment and an ethos of genuine care for the people, community, Aotearoa and the environment.

Te Rapa based MilktechNZ’s Gustavo Garza was named Chief

executive of the Year. MilktechNZ is a leader in designing electronic milking cup removers with futureproof technology and accessories for herringbone and rotary cow sheds. The company also won the Innovation Award.

Aware Group’s Jo Mickleson was named Emerging Leader of the Year. Aware Group is a Hamilton based leader in emerging technologies. It provides a range of innovative solutions and services that focus on artificial intelligence, big data and Internet of Things.

Don Good said the quality of the four emerging leader finalists was exceptionally high with Mickelson competing against managing

director / founder of (AGP) Architectural Glass Products David Bunting, Young New Zealander of the Year and Nau Mai Rā founder Ezra Hirawani, and Chiefs Rugby general manager commercial Kate Rawnsley. Good said it was great to be back to the full complement of 600 people at Claudelands.

“The calibre of entries this year shows the resilience and positivity of Waikato businesses as they emerge from the impacts of Covid.

“It was wonderful to have finalists and winners from all over the Waikato. And while international headwinds remain strong, the Waikato is in a good place with strong foundations.

“The region is booming. You can see wherever you go that the Waikato is establishing itself as New Zealand’s economic powerhouse behind Auckland. Benefiting from its proximity to Auckland, its strong farming foundation, its booming tech industry, strong construction sector, superb educational entities, its highly efficient and well located logistics industry and the major work being undertaken in sustainability are making the region a stunning and positive place to live, work and play.”

Awards winners:

Business Growth Award - Profile Group – AGP, CEO of the Year - Gustavo Garza – MilktechNZ, Community Contribution commercial - Discover Waitomo, Community Contribution non-commercial - Waikato Hauraki Coromandel Rural Support Trust, Emerging Leader of the Year - Jo Mickleson – Aware Group.

For Purpose Award - HMS Trust, Innovation Award - MilktechNZ, Marketing AwardShift72, Micro Business - The Chopping Block Limited, People and Culture - EAS, Service Excellence - Profile Group, Sustainability –MyNoke, Supreme winner - Profile Group. Applications for the 2023 Waikato Chamber of Commerce Business Awards will open in April.

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The AGP team collected three gongs at the Waikato business awards.

Fluoride debate

If Dr Penelope Roberts believes that she reported overwhelming scientific facts and reliable numbers supporting community water fluoridation she has been grossly misinformed. (The News, November 3).

If dental decay and oral health infections are the number one reason children are admitted to hospital it is not because neurotoxic fluoride is absent from drinking water but that sugary drinks and absence of regular teeth cleaning are prevalent.

In this country individual dosage of fluoride is not monitored in spite of urine testing for total fluoride being recommended by the World Health Organization before fluoridation programmes are implemented.

Roberts’ quote of 40 per cent reduction in tooth decay effected by fluoridation from ‘Our Oral Health’ 2009 study was from an extremely small sample over 16 age groups – 519 from fluoridated areas and 468 from non-fluoridated. That 2009 report states that the survey was not designed as an in-depth water fluoridation study.

An Official Information Act disclosure of that data showed that at ages 16 and 17, of the 52 fluoridated teenagers surveyed the average decayed, missing

or filled teeth (dmft) was 2.46 and of the 55 non-fluoridated teenagers the average dmft was lower at 2.39.

With latest (2020) statistics of children examined by the school dental service showing that 28,394 five-year-olds were 57 percent caries free and 37,941 12-year-olds 66 percent caries free it is economic and pharmacological lunacy to attempt closing the gaps by mass treating the whole population with a cumulative neurotoxin in their water at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars nation-wide.

Dr Peter Mansfield, a member of the UK advisory board on fluoridation, has said: “no physician in his right senses would prescribe for a person he has never met, whose medical history he does not know, a substance which is intended to create bodily change, with the advice ‘take as much as you like, but you will take it for the rest of your life because some children suffer from tooth decay’”.

Ross Forbes Kerikeri

No story?

I noted with great disappointment that unlike our other community newspaper you chose (The News November 3) to side line the recent “pre-work blessing” of the painting of Victoria Street

Bridge.

If you are truly to consider your paper a focussed and serious purveyor of local news and events then a fulsome report about (the lunacy of) a “blessing” for upcoming painting work should have been a priority. That such an insane event was held beggars belief.

Your paper would have done ratepayers a great service by highlighting the pathetic event and questioning council about the cost to ratepayers of such nonsense when there are more important matters to attend to and pay for.

As a community paper it is incumbent on you to support ratepayer/resident interests and call council to account when they ignore or are contemptuous of ratepayers’, not exhibit such ambivalence towards reporting questionable junkets. Such nonsense as the pre painting “blessing” now seems to be the norm so perhaps I should ask council to arrange a “blessing” of the painting of my front door soon?

Kelvin Dunn Leamington

Editor’s note: We were not made aware of the blessing ahead of time, and it was old news when we were. The published article you refer to was taken from an October 27 Waipā District Council media statement released the week after the event.

Company plugs Christmas shortfall

By Viv Posselt

A windfall donation has given a boost to this year’s Christmas Cheer initiative.

After hearing Cambridge Community House’s Amy Watkins talk at a recent Rotary Cambridge gathering, club member and Legacy Funerals’ Cambridge funeral director Jono Gibson was moved to do something for the cause.

“Amy said they were trying to raise enough funds before Christmas to meet a Christmas Cheer shortfall of $4500,” he said. “I thought we could help. It was a good opportunity for Legacy to do something for the community.”

The swift payment of the shortfall was gratefully received by the team behind the initiative.

“They donated the full amount to the Christmas Cheer fund,” said Amy. “It will be used to buy grocery vouchers for families. We are very grateful.”

The Christmas Cheer programme falls under the auspices of the Cambridge Committee of Social Services (CCOSS), a group made up of social agencies, churches and community groups that each year gifts supermarket vouchers, Christmas food and toys to nominated families in need.

Collection bins for unwrapped toys are at various spots around town, and wider community efforts included the recent participation by Te Miro School students who donated $400 to Christmas Cheer. Last year, the initiative helped 120 families in need.

Cambridge Legacy Funerals’ team Jono Gibson, Ian Calvert and Charlie the dog, joined by some representatives of the CCOSS initiative. They are, from left, Ruth Nicholls, Amy Watkins, Julie Epps, Maree Payne, Annette Willis and Aimee Noakes.

It’s a family affair

David Butcher and sons Zachary and Benjamin created history at the New Zealand Trotting Cup meeting in Christchurch on Tuesday, but it wasn’t for having prizewinning drives.

Cambridge-based David, 58, has been involved as a driver and trainer since 1981 but this week he and his sons were the first father and sons to drive in the cup.

David was competing in the race for the 16th time – this time on Kango, which finished 10th – and has won it once in 2008 on Changeover.

Zachery, 31, was behind one of the pre-race favourites Old Town Road, which finished sixth. He had driven in the cup seven times

before this week and never won.

Benjamin, 27, had driven in the cup only once, when he finished 11th aboard Check In. His drive BD Joe came eighth.

First in the family to drive in the cup was David’s father John Butcher. He drove Tobias in three New Zealand Cups – 1966, ’67 and ’69.

David has won a remarkable 35 Group One races, Zachery 17 and Benjamin two. With her husband and two sons in harness racing’s biggest race, it might be assumed Wanda Butcher would be glued to the television.

“I doubt it. She doesn’t go well with one of us in a race let alone three,” Benjamin said.

Battle of the Bridge Hautapu vs Leamington

By Benjamin Wilson

Hautapu and Leamington will go headto-head in a corporate ‘fight night’ next month.

The boxing event will be headlined by a matchup featuring Hautapu’s former All Black forward Liam Messam.

For the second time in a row Messam will be kept waiting to find out who he will fight – this time it’s because and South Islander Sam Watt has been forced out with an injury.

That fight was to be for the vacant New Zealand Pro Boxing Heavyweight title. Pro Box NZ is one of four governing bodies in New Zealand. It was founded by Torchy George in Hamilton 10 years ago.

Work was underway this week to line up another opponent for Messam in what is expected to be a non-title bout.

Earlier, he said while fighting for a title was “really cool” it was not his prime motivation, “it is just another way of challenging myself”.

The Battle of the Bridge is an annual sports competition between rival Cambridge clubs, Hautapu Sports and Leamington Rugby Club. The December fight night, which will be held at the Velodrome, is a twist on the clubs’ annual tradition.

“Rugby is the theme of it, but it is for anyone associated with Hautapu or Leamington,” Messam said.

Messam has been training with experienced boxer Cairo George

“It is pretty full on; you’ve got to be pretty consistent and disciplined. You know if you don’t get the work done that there is nowhere to hide in the ring.”

The corporate fighters have been training six days a week for the past six weeks in preparation of their fights next month.

“They’ve showed their courage, consistency and effort in their training. Both sides have come a long way and they’re absolutely loving it,” Messam said.

Corporate boxers will wear 18-ounce gloves and headgear. Messam and his opponent will wear traditional 10-ounce gloves.

“We want to give people the experience of what it is like to fight, but we also want it to be safe,” Messam said.

The corporate matchups are yet to be finalised, but both club captains are expected to fight.

The fight night is partnering with The Waterboy initiative, which aims to break down barriers that prevent people from engaging in sporting activities.

An auction on night will raise money for the sporting initiative.

“Money shouldn’t be a barrier to play sports, but they’re there to help out and sponsor kids to play their chosen sport. It is an awesome charity,” said Messam.

Fresh fields for football

A $900,000 project to provide two more year-round pitches starts next week at the home of Cambridge football.

The work will involve two fields near the Cambridge Football Club’s rooms which can become unplayable in wet weather.

It is expected the work at John Kerkhof Park on Vogel Street will be completed early in the New Year – ahead of the start of the winter football season.

“This work will be beneficial to the community by creating two additional playing platforms which can be used all year round,” Waipā District Council’s community services manager Brad Ward said.

The contract for the project has been awarded to TIC Contracting Ltd.

Works will include installing new drainage and irrigation, earthworks and re-levelling the existing ground area. A swale drain which runs through the

middle of the grounds will be filled in.

The positioning of the drain makes it impossible to mark up two pitches to regulation dimensions for senior football.

The fields will be closed to the public while under construction.

Waipā District Council said Cambridge Football Club was working closely with those involved to minimise disruption to playing

schedules.

The club is enjoying a successful period on the park and was in the news recently when it was revealed it would benefit from a trickle down of the transfer fee paid by English Premier League club Newcastle United to Burnley for Chris Wood –who played junior football for Cambridge.

The club is also gearing up to a 75th anniversary in March next year.

Father and sons, from left: Benjamin, Zachery and David Butcher after their cup efforts in Christchurch.

Liam Messam will fight for Hautapu in the Battle of the Bridge fight night next month. Photo: Benjamin Wilson

Work will start on Monday to create this part of John Kerkhof Park into two full size football fields.

with Jan Bilton

Jingle bell cakes

It’s time to fire up your festive baking skills. A rich fruit cake will keep for years and like wine, it often improves with age. Prepare traditional cakes at least one month before cutting. During this time, the flavours mellow and the texture improves making the cake easier to cut.

This year I experimented with two new (to me) cake pans. A friend made me a wooden cake box with sides but no base. You sit it on top of sheets of newspaper and baking paper, fill it with the cake mixture then cook it at a low temp. The wood protects the outside of the cake from burning. I remember my grandmother cooking her Christmas cake this way. Wooden cake boxes are available from some kitchenware stores. I also tried a more modern approach. Many kitchenware stores are selling extra deep, heavy cake pans which have become popular with designer bakers. I lined the cake pan with baking paper to protect the sweet, dried fruits from burning on the outside. The deep sides of the cake provide an excellent canvas for artistic expression whether it be with icing, ribbons, raffia or stick-on decals.

All recipes use level metric measures.

CHOCOLATE CHRISTMAS CAKE

The pan I used was 9.5cm deep and 18cm in diameter. You could also cook the cake in a deep 21cm cake pan and bake for just 2 hours or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Start testing after 1 1/2 hours

1kg quality mixed dried fruit

150g green glacé cherries, halved

1/2 cup brandy, sherry or orange juice

225g each: butter, dark cane sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

4 large eggs

175g quality dark chocolate, chopped 225g plain flour

1 1/2 teaspoons ground mixed spice

1/2 teaspoon each: ground cinnamon, nutmeg, salt

Put the dried fruit in a bowl with the brandy. Cover and soak for several hours.

Preheat the oven to 150°C. Line the base and sides of a deep,

BAYLEYS

Saturday 12 November

heavy 18cm-round cake pan with 1 layer of baking paper. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, dark cane sugar and vanilla essence, until light. Add the eggs one at a time. Mix well.

Melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water or in the microwave in 30 second bursts. Stir well. Cool slightly. Add to the butter mixture.

Sift the flour, mixed spice, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together. Stir into the butter mixture. Fold in the dried fruit. Mix well. Spoon into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake for 3 hours, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Cool on a wire rack. Can be brushed with brandy once a week before cutting. Wrap in foil and keep in a cool place.

CRANBERRY & ORANGE CHRISTMAS COOKIES

The dough can be frozen and the cookies baked when required.

125g butter, softened 1/2 cup sugar

1 egg, lightly beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla essence finely grated rind 1 orange 1 tablespoon orange juice 2 cups plain flour

1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup each: craisins, pistachio nuts, Beat the butter and sugar until creamy. Add the egg, vanilla, orange rind and juice. Beat well. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Sift into the butter mixture. Beat well. Coarsely chop the craisins and add. Finely chop the pistachios in a small food processor. Place on a small tray.

CAMBRIDGE OPEN HOMES

8 Mike Smith Drive Auction 11.00-11.45am

Sunday 13 November

24 Taylor Street Auction 10.00-10.30am

58a Byron Street AP $800,000 11.00-11.30am

13 Browning Street Deadline Sale 11.00-11.30am

8 Mike Smith Drive Auction 11.00-11.45am

191 Flume Road PBN 12.00-12.30pm

139 Maungakawa Road AP $1,850,000 12.00-12.30pm

19 Clifford Close Auction 1.00-1.30pm

2 Robinson Street Auction 2.00-2.30pm

CAMBRIDGE REAL ESTATE

Saturday 12 November

77C Grey Street Deadline Sale 11.00-11.45am

Sunday 13 October

3B Hall Street $605,000 10.45-11.15am

1 Pepys Place $763,000 11.00-11.30am

77C Grey Street Deadline Sale 11.00-11.45am

32 Muir Road Deadline Sale 11.00-11.45am

29 Hemans Street $789,000 11.30-12.00pm

13 Cooper Crescent $1,325,000 11.30-12.00pm

2/195 Chamberlain Road $865,000 11.30-12.00pm

44 Byron Street $1,375,000 11.45-12.15pm

32 Princes Street PBN 12.00-12.30pm

40 Weld Street PBN 12.00-12.30pm

5 Williams Street $885,000 12.00-12.30pm

36C Clare Street PBN 12.00-12.30pm

3/11 Bryce Street $629,000 12.15-12.45pm

99B Kinglsey Street $1,150,000 12.30-1.00pm

105 King Street $1,075,000 12.30-1.00pm

4A Upper Kingsley Street PBN 12.45-1.15pm

16 Alan Livingston Drive $2,195,000 12.45-1.15pm

2/35 Hydro Road Deadline Sale 12.45-1.30pm

3 Hillary Place $799,000 1.00-1.30pm

41 Catalyst Ave $1,925,000 1.00-1.30pm

1 Hulme Place $690,000 1.00-1.30pm

25 Hodge Drive PBN 1.00-1.45pm

3 Richards Street $1,445,000 1.15-1.45pm

6/17 Pope Terrace $750,000 1.15-1.45pm

6B Manfield Street $659,000 1.30-2.00pm

18 Cotter Place $1,299,000 1.45-2.15pm

39 Sheridan Crescent $919,000 1.45-2.15pm

64A Thompson Street $799,000 2.00-2.30pm

35 Whare Marama Drive $2,200,000 2.00-2.30pm

234 Shakespeare Street $680,000 2.00-2.30pm

9 Homestead Lane $1,470,000 2.00-2.30pm

222A Shakespeare Street $635,000 2.15-2.45pm

66J Queen Street $465,000 2.30-3.00pm

18A Saffron Street $1,155,000 2.30-3.00pm

98A Scott Street $725,000 2.45-3.15pm

31B Clare Street $959,000 2.45-3.15pm

HARCOURTS

Sunday 13 November

114 Victoria Street PBN 10:00-10:30am

61 West Thompson Street 11:00-11:30am

12:00-12:30pm

1.00-1.30pm 101 Thompson Street $519,000 1.00-1.30pm 6 Tiaki Way Auction 1.30-2.00pm 32 Goldsmith Street Deadline Sale 2.00-2.30pm

Divide the dough in half. Roll each into a 20cm long log. Roll in the pistachios. Coat well. (At this stage the logs can be wrapped in plastic film and frozen.) Cut as many rounds as required then replace the remainder in the freezer.

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

Cut the logs into 2cm thick rounds. Place on the tray about 2cm apart. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden.

Cool on the tray for 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack. When cool, store in an airtight container. Makes about 26.

G-F CHRISTMAS MINCE TARTS

Not all Christmas fruit mincemeat is gluten-free — check the packaging.

200g gluten-free flour

125g chilled butter, diced 1 tablespoon icing sugar

1 egg extra butter for greasing 400g fruit mince

Place the flour, butter and icing sugar in a food processor. Pulse until the mixture resembles fresh breadcrumbs. Add the egg and mix until just combined. Roll into a ball, flatten then wrap in plastic film. Chill for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 190°C. Lightly grease 2 x 12-hole mini muffin pans.

Roll the pastry out between 2 sheets of baking paper until 3mm thick. Using a 5cm-6cm diameter biscuit cutter, stamp out 24 discs. Re-roll any trimmings and use. Gently place in the muffin holes.

Spoon the fruit mince into the unbaked shells. Bake for 15 minutes, until the pastry is light brown. Cool on a wire rack. Store in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer. Makes 24.

Chocolate Christmas Cake

Cranberry & Orange Christmas Cookies

During the last few years, I have become something of a downsizing specialist I have dealt successfully with many

One of the main ways retirement village operators make their profit is exit fees. When you leave the village, one way or another, there will be fees payable In many cases this will be a set percentage of the purchase price of your unit and you or your estate will retain the remainder There is another model, which is gaining popularity, where you or your estate handle

the sale of the unit, at market price, to the next owner and your exit fee is based upon a percentage of the sale price These can be tiered so that you pay a certain percentage per year of occupancy up to a capped amount I have handled quite a few of these now, and healthy profits have been the norm

Karapiro luxury living

Driving through the

of

the action, opposite the Lake Karapiro

Karapiro

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BLACKIE, Morva Ellen Anne, (nee Baldwin) –

Peacefully passed away in her sleep at Te Awa Lifecare on Friday, 4th November 2022, aged 87 years. Dearly loved mother and mother in-law to David & Stephany, Mark & Lily, Libby & Andrew, Rachel and the late Warren. Cherished Nana to Kurt, Alexandra, Katherine, Kaleb, Jordyn, and Reggie. Special thanks to the nursing staff of Te Awa Lifecare for the love and care shown to Morva. A celebration of Morva's life will be held at St Andrews Anglican Church, Hamilton Road, Cambridge on Monday, the 14th of November 2022 at 11:00am followed by the burial at the Hautapu Public Cemetery. All communications to the Blackie Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434

HAMPSON TINDALE , Elisabeth Margaret 06-11-1939 - 27-10-2022.

Wife and best friend to Gary for 59 years and treasured mother and grandmother to children Anne, Jeff, Steve, Erin, and grandchildren, Morse, Esme, Deon, Isla, Emma, Aiden and Taylor. At her request, a private family farewell has taken place, and although Margaret’s life has come to an end, her unconditional love and our memories will be with us forever.

HANSEN, Norman Arthur

DAVISON, Michael Fred –

Passed away peacefully on Sunday 6 November 2022, aged 85 years. Much loved dad of Jo, grandad of Clare, Edmund and Hamish, and great-grandad of Esme and Kon. A celebration of Mike’s life will be held at Woodside Estate, 130 Woodside Road, Matangi on Wednesday 16 November at 2:30pm.

– Passed away peacefully at Waikato Hospital on Friday, the 30th of October 2022, aged 59. Dearly son of Iris and the late Rex. Much loved brother to Lance & Sandra. A private family farewell has taken place. All communications to Grinter’s Funeral Home, 3 Hally’s Lane, Cambridge 3434

RILEY, Rosamond Mary

On 02.11.22 at Rangiora. Dearly loved daughter of the late Rex and Rosamond Garland (Cambridge) and loved sister and sister-inlaw of Bill and Sue Garland, Paul and Lynne Garland (both of Cambridge) and loved aunty of Michelle and Greg; Nichola, Mark and Christopher and their families.

GARLAND, Leo Wayne –

Unexpectedly passed away at Metlife Care St Andrew’s on Tuesday, 1st November 2022, aged 75 years. Much loved son of the late Nelson & Daisy. Dearly loved brother & brother in-law to Melba & Joe, Barbara, and June & the late Rob. Much loved uncle, great uncle, and great great uncle of his many nephew’s and nieces.

He tangata pono A true gentleman. A service for Leo has taken place. All communications to the Garland Family, c/3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434.

GATFIELD, Lawrence

Arthur (Laurie) – Passed away peacefully on Saturday 5 November 2022, in his 98th year. Much loved husband of Phyl for 67 years. Adored father of Janet, Jenny and the late Lynne. Respected father-in-law of Greg. Treasured grandad of Donna and Jarrod, and greatgrandad to Ethan and Isaac. A celebration of Laurie’s life will be held at St Andrews Church, 85 Hamilton Road, Cambridge on Tuesday 15 November at 12.30pm.

HOUSEHOLD goods, plus tools and lots more. Downsizing house and gardens. 11 Mahy Way, Leamington, Cambridge. Saturday 12th November, 8am-2pm. All welcome.

Cambridge Seventh-Day Adven�st Church

Cr. Shakespeare & Browning Streets Bible Study Each Saturday: 9.30am – 10.45am

Worship Service: 11.00am

Like us on Facebook: h�ps://www.facebook.com/cambridge.sda.9 email: cambridge.sda.nz@gmail.com Phone: 027 677 6433

Hope Channel – Freeview Ch 27, Sky 204

We offer detailed study of the Bible and inspiring worship experiences.

All Welcome.

NOTIFICATION OF INTENTION TO CONSIDER TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES

Waipa District Council will consider an application to close the following roads to ordinary vehicular traffic:

• Alpha Street – between Victoria Street and Bryce Street

• Dick Street – between Queen Street and Duke Street

• Duke Street – between Victoria Street and Hallys Lane between 6.00am and 12.30pm on Sunday, 5 March 2023 for the Waipa Fun Run 2023.

The application will be considered under the Tenth Schedule of the Local Government Act 1974.

Arrangements will be made for access by emergency vehicles during the closure, if required.

Any objections to the proposal must be lodged with Waipa District Council, in writing, to events@waipadc.govt.nz, before 4.00pm on Friday, 25 November 2022. Please include the nature of the objection and the grounds for it. See the Privacy Statement on the Council’s website for further information.

For more information, please contact Waipa District Council on 0800 924 723.

NOTIFICATION OF INTENTION TO CONSIDER TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES

Waipa District Council will consider an application to close the following roads to ordinary vehicular traffic:

Sunday, 5 February 2023

• Maungatautari Road – from Gate 1/Judd Lane to Gate 3 of Mighty River Domain (with traffic detoured through Mighty River Domain) - 6.00am to 5.30pm

• Maungatautari Road – from Gate 3 to Luck at Last Road - 6.50am to 7.30am

• Lamb Street – from Scott Street to Maungatautari Road - 6.30am to 5.00pm

Monday, 6 February 2023

• Ariki Street/Hydro Road – from Maungatautari Road to Karapiro Dam lookout - 7.00am to 1.00pm for the Long Course Weekend multisport event. The application will be considered under the Tenth Schedule of the Local Government Act 1974.

Arrangements will be made for access by emergency vehicles during the closure, if required.

Any objections to the proposal must be lodged with Waipa District Council, in writing, to events@waipadc.govt.nz, before 4.00pm on Friday, 25 November 2022. Please include the nature of the objection and the grounds for it. See the Privacy Statement on the Council’s website for further information.

For more information, please contact Waipa District Council on 0800 924 723.

Dyet CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Garry Dyet CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Garry

by Re v. Alistair McBride.

Sunday Service at 10am will be led by Rev. Mohu Lolohea

PURE BRED German Shepherd puppies, microchipped, vaccinated, wormed, 6 weeks old. Looking for forever homes from 21 Nov. All pups will have pedigree papers and registered with Dogs NZ. To view www.kriegerin.nz Ph 027 821 1989

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

Of an application for On Licence

Riverside Golf Limited, 72 Lochiel Road, RD2, Hamilton, has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal and a variation to increase the licence area and hours of a on licence in respect of the premises at 72 Lochiel Road, RD2, Hamilton known as Tieke Golf Estate

The general nature of the business conducted under the licence is Golf Club. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: Sunday to Wednesday 7.00am to 10.00pm and Thursday to Saturday 7.00am to 11.00pm.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Waipa District Council, District Licensing Committee at either 101 Bank Street Te Awamutu or 23 Wilson Street Cambridge.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the issue of the licence may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with the secretary of the District Licensing Committee at: Waipa District Council, Private Bag 2402, Te Awamutu 3840

No objection to the issue of a renewal licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the first publication of this notice.

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE

HUGHES ARTIST

CAROLE HUGHES

OPEN DAY & JUNIOR PARENT INFORMATION EVENING

Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Cambridge Primary School is holding an Open Day and a Junior Parent Information Evening. Everyone is welcome

OPEN DAY – 9:00am – 12:00pm

We welcome all existing and interested parents to visit our school.

Public notice of new opening date for Cambridge West School

Initially, Cambridge West School was projected to open in Term 1, 2024. This timeframe has been updated and the school will now open in Term 1, 2025.

Affected schools have been notified, and the current Establishment Board will continue to work with the Ministry of Education to establish the school.

For any queries please contact cambridgewestschool@gmail.com

Senior children will take you on an informative guided tour of the school, while sharing with you their learning journey at Cambridge Primary. Senior staff will be available for you to talk with and refreshments will be served.

JUNIOR PARENT INFORMATION EVENING 6:00pm – 7:00 pm

We warmly invite all parents of Pre-School children to an Information Evening being held at 6:00pm in Room 16. Staff will share with you what Cambridge Primary School offers children in the junior end of our school. We will also present our Flying Start Pre-School Kit to assist children with a successful transition to their formal school years.

A babysitting service will be available by RSVP before 12:00pm on Monday 14 November to admin@cambridgeprimary.co.nz

Clause

1, Resource Management Act 1991

Waipa District Council gives notice of the availability of the summary of decisions requested by persons who made submissions on Proposed Private Plan Change 20 (Airport Northern Precinct Extension) to the Waipa District Plan under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA).

The summary of decisions requested by submitters and the submissions received on Proposed Private Plan Change 20 may be viewed at:

• Online at www.waipadc.govt.nz/planchanges

• Waipa District Council offices in Te Awamutu and Cambridge

• Waipa District Council public libraries in Te Awamutu and Cambridge

Making a further submission

The following people may make a further submission:

(a) any person representing a relevant aspect of the public interest; and (b) any person that has an interest in the proposed policy statement or plan greater than the interest that the general public has; and (c) the Waipa District Council itself.

A further submission must be limited to support of or opposition to a submission that has been made on Proposed Private Plan Change 20 and must seek that the submission be allowed or disallowed (in whole or in part).

A further submission needs to contain all of the information detailed in Form 6 of the Resource Management Forms, Fees and procedures Regulations 2003. A copy of Form 6 can be downloaded from www.waipadc.govt.nz/planchanges or is available from the above-listed places.

Lodging Your further submission

You may send your further submission to Waipa District Council by one of the following methods:

• Fill out the online further submission form 6 at www.waipadc.govt.nz/planchanges

• Download and print a form 6 and either:

• Email to: districtplan@waipadc.govt.nz

• Post to: Private Bag 2402, Te Awamutu 3840

• Deliver to: Waipa District Council, 101 Bank Street Te Awamutu OR 23 Wilson Street, Cambridge

A copy of your further submission is also required to be sent to the submitter to which your further submission relates, no later than 5 working days after lodging your further submission with the Waipa District Council (refer clause 8A, Schedule 1, RMA).

Dates

The Summary of Decisions requested is publicly notified on Friday 11th November 2022. Further submissions must be lodged with Waipa District Council by no later than 5pm Friday 25th November 2022, which is 10 working days after the day on which public notice is given.

Garry Dyet Chief Executive

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BLACK ADAM | M

Wed 10:00, 5:20, 7:45

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Thu 6:00 Fri 5:55, 8:35 Sat 3:20, 5:35, 8:10 Sun 10:40, 3:30, 6:05 Wed 5:45, 8:45

DAME VALERIE ADAMS: MORE THAN GOLD | M | Final

DON’T WORRY DARLING | R13 Fri 8:40

LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE | PG

The loveable New York croc Lyle from Bernard Waber’s popular children’s book makes his way to the big screen.

Sat 1:05 Sun 10:50

DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS | PG Sat 3:20 Sun 1:20

TICKET TO PARADISE | M | Final Weeks Sat 3:00 Sun 1:10, 3:15

7 of Schedule

Public Notice of Availability of the Summary of Decisions Requested in Submissions on Proposed Private Plan Change 20 – Airport Northern Precinct Extension

Garden Guide November

• Existing tomato plants will need a little care, ensure they are staked, laterals are taken off and they are fed with tomato food.

• Keep planting salad crops for summer harvesting.

• Finish planting summer vegetables and herbs such as chillies, courgettes, cucumbers, beans and basil.

• Watch for insects on roses. Spray them if necessary.

• Feed all fruiting crops, flowering annuals, perennials and flowering shrubs.

• Plant your colour for Christmas and summer in pots.

• Plant to attract bees into the garden.

• Keep on top of weeds.

Meet the Team:

Left to right: Tim, Pete and Micheal.