Cambridge News | November 17, 2022

Storm clouds above

By Mary Anne Gill

The honeymoon is well and truly over for the newly elected Waipā council with confirmation the “perfect storm” chief executive Garry Dyet predicted during the election campaign has landed with a thud.

The warning of a need to tighten belts – branded “fake news” by a mayoral candidate in the election campaign – has been sounded loud and clear at the Waipā District Council meeting this week.

Dyet told The News, and alerted candidates in September, a perfect storm of inflation, supply issues, job vacancies and growth pains was looming.

In a paper called Top Risks and Risk Appetite tabled at this week’s meeting, Organisational Excellence manager Georgina Knapp said the council was in “a really volatile environment at the moment”.

The volatility around the labour market and supply chain issues was expected to change and the council would need to keep a close eye on it.

Inadequate staffing capacity and capability to deliver on council’s objectives was rated as an ‘extreme’ risk.

Very high risks were listed as financial sustainability, failure to deliver the programme of capital works, community engagement, climate change impacts, key stakeholders’ relationships and failure to give effect to Te Tiriti (Treaty of Waitangi) and build successful iwi/mana whenua partnerships.

High risks were listed as failure to manage responses to and the impacts of local government reforms and managing health and safety and wellbeing.

Protecting information management assets rounded out the risks with a medium ranking.

Newly elected councillor Mike Montgomerie said the risk appetite of the council struck him as high.

“I don’t want to cause trouble on my first day,” he said and went on to say the risks were potentially setting the organisation up to fail.

The corporate world would not accept that level of risk, he said and gave the example of the council saying health and safety was high risk when the only “acceptable

appetite” was for low.

“You don’t want to artificially massage the risk.”

Clare St Pierre said a council business had more constraints on it than corporates did while Lou Brown said times were uncertain.

“We’re facing a lot of legislation changes which can impact on our operation.

“We are a public body. We do have a line in the sand.”

In her report, Knapp said the council was willing to take well defined risks at a moderate to high level where it would result in the achievement of strategic objectives and provide opportunities.

Hello, hello, hello: Budding coppers the Beadle siblings Charlie, 3 and Mischa, 5, with Youth Aid officer Constable Danica Hibdige at the police engagement day in Cambridge. See more on page 5. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

In the picture

Who knows?

I think we should not take the expertise of dentists as any better than the anti-fluoride lobbyists. We have had three or four generations of dentists filling mouths with mercury and silver amalgam. Both are toxic heavy metals.

In the last decade or so they have rushed to remove amalgam fillings because of the harm they do. Many people have died from diseases that may well be traced back to this supposed remedy but the cause was dismissed as simply the accepted remedy of the time.

Dentists now want to have us drink and bathe in fluoride when this method of dosage is far from targeted where it should be. Their track record eliminates them from any claim of expertise. A similar problem arose with the Radium Girls whose bones rotted while they painted fluorescent gauges and that harm was denied too for a very long time.

Similarly the claimants that fluoride lowers “IQ”, presumably, Intelligence Quotient, do not say how much you need to take for this to happen. My hunch is that you would be killed by an overdose before there would be any reduction of mental function. The studies I have found are far from convincing.

Most people have never had an “IQ” test and most people don’t need one as they are “average”. I had my first one about 35 years ago and I can still remember most of the questions and answers. Surprisingly I am well above average.

What we do need is the ability to choose for ourselves if or not we should have anything other than hydrogen and oxygen atoms in our water.

James Parlane Te Awamutu

Putting a line over it I have some sympathy with the person who complained about our council adding a macron to the name Waipa. My knowledge is that all the iwi/hapu within the boundaries of the Waipā district are affiliated to Waikato Tainui, who do not use macrons in their written language, choosing instead to double a long vowel. They spell as follows, Maaori, Hapuu, Waipaa. To me this makes sense as it is quite difficult to add a macron on a keyboard. Interesting to note that my “Outlook” software prompts me to choose two options if I type the name Maori, I am prompted to choose between Māori or Maaori. I choose the latter.

As far as I am aware the use of macrons was not known prior to about 1945.

Confusion within council is epitomised by the changing of the name of our treasured lake from Te Koutu, to Te Koo utu. I can only assume this change was instigated by local iwi/ hapuu.

A glance at the websites of both Hamilton City and Waikato District Council will show that they spell all Maaori words the Waikato Tainui way.

I suggest Waipaa is out of step.

A photo taken 50 years ago this month has rekindled some memories.

Michael Jeans’ picture at the opening of the Cambridge Resthaven community-owned rest home on November 25, 1972, was published in our November 3 edition.

The photo went with a story about a 50th anniversary event in the form of an afternoon tea which will be held on November 25 for Resthaven residents and staff – and an invite has also gone out to anyone who was at the opening.

“The two people sitting in the front on the far left are Bill and Dorothy Robinson from Robinson Rd Roto-oRangi… they are my parents both since died,” Margaret Hodges of Lauriston Park told us.

Margaret left Cambridge 54 years – but returned five years ago, and her sister Maureen Cameron left about 60 years ago and came back six years ago.

Margaret Dodd also saw the photograph – and called The News to say she was in it.

Margaret moved to Cambridge in June 1957 and is a long-time friend of Resthaven – she recalls the first sod being turned for the project.

Today she describes herself at “retired but still very busy”.

And thanks to seeing the photo, a trip down memory lane back to Resthaven with a copy of the November 3 edition under her arm is on the calendar.

What a great turn out we had at the Cambridge station community engagement day on Saturday.

I hope everyone enjoyed looking inside our new base. I was hanging out in the custody suite and was happy that I got to meet many of you and tell you a bit about our holding cell and interview room procedures for offenders. Some of our smallest community members enjoyed having their ‘prisoner’ photos taken too. I know however that meeting our police dog handlers (especially their dogs) and having a close up look inside a patrol car were definite favourites outside.

I would like to thank Cambridge Community Patrol and Neighbourhood Support Group for joining us and making time to highlight their services to the community. I’m told they had a good number of new people signing up and I fully encourage more to do the same. I’m a bit disappointed that we didn’t get to show our tug of war might later on Saturday against the fire

brigade due to the postponement of the planned youth day. You can be assured we’ll still be up for the challenge when a new date is decided!

In other good news, the team have caught two lots of taggers in the act within the last two weeks. It is great to hold them to account. One was a visiting adult from Hamilton, proving not all taggers are youth and not all are local. It’s great to now have the information linking tags to people for the future. I have also had information about tagging at a local business and am following up on leads. Please report tagging in progress to 111 and provide as much information as possible on the offender/s and their vehicle.

My last comment for this week relates again to vehicle crashes. On Saturday afternoon I spent a couple of hours assisting with a serious vehicle crash on State Highway 29. To keep everyone safe and preserve the crash scene, a colleague and I had to blocked off the turn from State Highway

1 onto SH29, detouring traffic bound for Matamata and Tauranga onto other routes. Most motorists were understanding and continued past.

There were a few however, who caused delays and frustration unnecessarily, and risked causing a crash themselves. Despite traffic cones and a road closed sign, a police car blocking the road with flashing lights and two police officers standing in the road, these drivers insisted on blithely continuing through the road blocks. Heading to Matamata or Tauranga, they weaved through road cones, past signs and in one case went onto the wrong side of a traffic island to do so, with just their own destination in mind.

It is often the few who cause problems for the many and this is such a case. Please pay attention to police cordons and traffic management staff. Those cones are there for a good reason.

Murray Reid

Cambridge

Michael Jeans’ 1972 photo. Michael continues to record Cambridge life through his lens.

Slow justice

The News sought details of last week’s sentencing of two men on charges related to vandalism at Hautapu Cemetery last week. Almost five working days later the Ministry of Justice, via Hamilton District Court, responded by inviting us to fill out a form. Thankfully, despite the delaying tactics, we had already secured the information.

Helping hand

Ebbett Volkswagen Hamilton has backed the Kids In Need programme run by Cambridge’s Linda and Graeme Roil in Waikato by providing the charity with a Volkswagen Transporter Van.

School delay

The education ministry has put off the opening of a new school in Cambridge West until January 2025 – a year later than initially announced. The Ministry says it will require some extra time to explain why.

Be more visible

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan has used her first council meeting in Te Awamutu as an opportunity to tell councillors they need to “fly the flag” more in the community and attend events in what will be a busy three years ahead.

Cost cutters

Urban Miners, who collect e-waste in Waipā, have announced they will lower their charges for the second time in six months. The reductions range across most of the items they accept and the cut is designed to encourage more people to recycle.

Confusion reigns

Signs announcing SH1C would be closed this week from 8pm to 6pm have been up in Hamilton – without explaining what part of the road, which runs from Tamahere and follows the former SH1 route to north of Hamilton was closing. It turned out the closure is on a small stretch between Cobham Bridge and Grey St in Hamilton.

Councillors cut the pay pie

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By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk is in for a $22,850 pay rise to $66,835 a year while other returning councillors also get significant pay increases.

Pironga-Kakepuku ward member Clare St Pierre’s salary goes up $19,241 to $53,075 while at the other end of the pay scale, Cambridge’s Roger Gordon will be the lowest paid of the 11 councillors, though the $41,280 is still up on the $33,834 he got last term.

It was the council’s job this week to divvy up a remuneration pool of $544,506 for the year among the councillors, two fewer than last term.

It will be up to the Remuneration Authority, which increased Waipā’s pool for 2022-23 by $70,000 based on population and other factors such as size, to approve the formula used.

Salaries for mayor Susan O’Regan and the community boards have already been set and published by the authority on August 25.

O’Regan gets $145,391 up from the $135,500 former mayor Jim Mylchreest received while Jo Davies-Colley gets

$19,327 for chairing the Cambridge Community Board – up from $19,060 former chair Sue Milner got - and Ange Holt receives an additional $258 from last term for chairing the Te AwamutuKihikihi Community Board, taking her pay to $18,662.

Board members in Cambridge receive $9663, $133 more, while Te Awamutu-Kihikihi members have another $129 a year, now getting $9331.

Governance manager Jo Gread told the council the amount of money available could not be changed. “The only thing you have a say in is how that is split up.”

O’Regan earlier told The News she wanted to ensure councillors who also sat on community boards – they were not paid extra last term – and deputy chairs, which did not exist previously, were remunerated for their time.

Council staff devised a formula to accommodate that.

“We have been able to do things a bit differently this time,” said Gread.

If accepted by the Remuneration Authority, Stolwyk will receive $55,041 as deputy mayor but gets an additional

Andy’s legacy goes on sale

Sales of a pinot noir which go on sale tomorrow will help fund a scholarship in the memory of a winemaker with strong Cambridge links.

Andy Anderson bought Cambridge Fine Wines after graduating from Lincoln University in 1998 and forged a bond with Takapoto Estate at Karāpiro.

In 2017 and 2018 he won the International Wine and Spirit Competition’s Best Pinot Noir Trophy with grapes sourced from Bannockburn and then Gibbston in Central Otago.

Anderson died in 2019, a victim of cancer,

His colleagues decided to set up a viticulture and oenology scholarship at Lincoln – offering $10,000 towards course fees.

The sale of a pinot noir named Andy will start at Takapoto tomorrow and continue on Friday next week in Queenstown. It is hoped to sell a total of 100 cases over the two sale days.

‘Andy’ Pinot Noir 2020 is described as a fitting tribute to the life, legacy and talent of Anderson.

$11,794 because she chairs the Strategic Planning and Policy committee.

St Pierre has the next highest salary behind O’Regan and Stolwyk because she chairs the Service Delivery committee and is deputy chair of the Regulatory committee.

New Māori ward councillor Takena Stirling gets $47,177, the same as community board members Lou Brown and Philip Coles, because of his additional iwi portfolio responsibility.

Gordon’s apparent inequity is because he is deputy chair of the Audit and Risk committee which meets quarterly, rather than monthly.

Neighbouring chair and mayors’ salaries are:

• Paula Southgate, Hamilton $180,335

• Pamela Storey, Waikato Regional Council $163,254

• Jacqui Church, Waikato $157,039

• Susan O’Regan, Waipā $145,391

• David Trewavas, Taupo $143,105

• Adrienne Wilcock, Matamata-Piako $134,533

• Gary Petley, South Waikato $133,621

• John Robertson, Waitomo $115,856

• Max Baxter, Ōtorohanga $107,465.

WHAT THEY EARN

Susan O'Regan $145,391

Liz Stolwyk $66,835

Clare St Pierre $53,075

Andrew Brown $51,109

Bruce Thomas $51,109

Mike Montgomerie $51,109

Lou Brown $47,177

Philip Coles $47,177

Takena Stirling $47,177

Marcus Gower $45,212

Mike Pettit $43,246

Roger Gordon $41,280

Jo Davies-Colley $19,327

Ange Holt $18,662

Elise Badger $9,663

Sue Milner $9,663

Alana MacKay $9,663

Andrew Myers $9,663

Sally Whitaker $9,331

Jill Taylor $9,331

Kane Titchener $9,331

John Wood $9,331

Total $803,862

Cycleway extended

By Mary Anne Gill

The next stage of Te Awa River Ride – between Tamahere and Hamilton Gardens – is expected to open in a fortnight.

Te Awa chair Simon Perry told Waipā District Council this week there would be a “proper celebration” on March 25 at Hamilton Gardens.

The ride currently goes from Ngāruawahia to Hamilton and from Tamahere to Karāpiro but with patchy coverage in Cambridge.

“Our trust has been focussed on building the trail. We’re now putting our tourism hats on.”

It was looking at ways to create a safe passage through Cambridge from the Gaslight Theatre – where Te Awa currently

finishes - to Carlyle Street in Leamington where the river ride picks up again and goes through to Karāpiro.

Te Awa supporters have always favoured adding a cycle way to the Cambridge Wastewater Pipe Bridge which was upgraded in 2018.

Council did investigate the option of changing the sewer pipe to provide a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists to cross the river.

But a feasibility report, commissioned in 2014, estimated the cost at $17.7 million.

Both banksides are in private ownership and land access negotiations to allow public access would have required additional time and funding which the council did not have.

Jim Goddin JP Funeral Director

Andy Anderson.

Photo: Stuff

Te Awa River Ride finishes at the Gaslight Theatre in Cambridge but supporters have always favoured extending it over the Wastewater Pipe Bridge, pictured behind the sign.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Full house at police station

By Mary Anne Gill

About 1000 residents toured the new Cambridge Police hub on its community engagement day with patrol dogs Valko and Bluey among the star attractions.

Waikato district western area commander Inspector Will Loughrin said the Saturday morning event was a great opportunity for the police to show off the new hub.

The base opened in August and is the first developed under a partnership agreement between Tainui Group Holdings and New Zealand Police.

German shepherds Valko, 7, and Bluey, 4, brought their handlers along as well. Waikato Police Dog Section team leader Sergeant Mark Sandford, who joined the police in 1985 and has been in the dog section since 1990, said Valko was his fifth dog.

He was already training another dog to take Valko’s place as most dogs work for around eight to nine years and it takes 18 months to train a dog.

Waikato has nine dog handlers, including Sandford and Gibson, who both live in Cambridge, as does Loughrin.

Of the 80 puppies born each year

under police patrol dog breeding programme, around 50 per cent of the ones chosen as suitable for training become fully operational patrol dogs.

Patrol dogs are german shepherds, due to their proven history of performing to high standards.

Their reaction to factors such as crowds, noise, other animals, children, acts of aggression, and new places is important in determining their suitability.

Valko and Bluey revelled in the attention they got on Saturday, particularly from children.

All dogs wear a Sabre Tactical Mako harness, which shields their vital organs from stabbing and slashing.

One of Sandford’s dogs was stabbed with a screwdriver around his neck but recovered to return to duty.

New Zealand police dogs and their handlers are one of police’s frontline responses, and are used to respond to incidents, track offenders and help to secure scenes. Depending on their handler’s qualifications and the dog’s attributes and training, some specialise in search and rescue, and armed offender work. Detector dogs work with narcotics, cash, firearms and explosives.

“It still amazes me how many offenders try to run away,” said Sandford, who estimated most police dogs can reach speeds of 45kph, faster than the world’s

fastest sprinter.

Other highlights were the Armed Offenders Squad with their mobile base consisting of drones and observation equipment used extensively at the Waikeria Prison riots in December 2020.

Neighbourhood Support and the Volunteer Community Patrol were also on hand as was a police car. Many children took the opportunity to try on police hats and other equipment.

Inside another highlight was the whānau room, a key feature

of the hub, which provides a collaborative space for engaging and working with community partners to better support youth issues, family harm, mental health and our own staff to respond to the diverse needs of the community.

“This is a welcoming space that everyone can feel safe coming to and we are absolutely committed to delivering the best possible policing service for our community,” said Loughrin.

Go to Cambridgenews.nz to see more pictures from the open day.

Waikato district western area commander Inspector Will Loughrin with Fletcher Christiansen, 3.

Police dog handler Vinnie Gibson and Bluey, 4, with the Daniel family from left Holly, 6, Sara, Hudson, 6 and Isla, 8

Backchat

“Give me a facelift,” she says with a wink!

The Cambridge Town Hall is a grand old lady and needs a bit of a scrub-up. I was there recently and it brought back so many memories. The old lady, born in 1909, whispered to me, “I’m worn out. My bones are great but I need a boost.” This beautiful old girl can tell an immense story, one of which the Cambridge Town Hall Community Hall Trust, chaired by Kirsty Johnson, is well aware. Bring back the fun. Bring back the dreams. The Town Hall in the 60s and 70s was full of laughter and music, and was the centre of Cambridge. There was no centre line dividing the main street, everyone knew everyone else, and at midnight some would “float” up the middle of the road after being part of some fundraising event that went mad.

Plunket’s Medieval Banquet! Pigs’ heads (real ones) lining the stage, honeymead from Te Awamutu, stocks specially built with two people gleefully hopping in them and being pelted with … I don’t remember! Everyone was dressed in medieval costume, very tasteful and very glamorous. Music was loud, everything was loud. You name it, there was a theme. Pacific Island food, drink, clothes, the 1920s, Al Capone, and short dresses – it was imaginative and everyone loved it. I remember a Jung Choo! I think it was called that. Everyone boogied, danced and laughed and Madame Town Hall loved it. Cambridge Repertory did all their magnificent musicals in the Town Hall, and wine and cheese followed the performance. The Cambridge Society of Arts held their shows there and celebrated afterwards

with the audience – once again with wine and cheese!

A large section of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra played there one night.

Mrs Waikato was held there, I think, with Cambridge Plunket as the host. The competitions for children to show how good they were at dancing, singing, and reciting were always held in the holidays.

The very first Child Care Centre (named Kiddies Korner) started in the Edwardian Room on a Friday and was copied by other towns who came to have a look. This was run by a small committee.

In those days you didn’t need a liquor licence, kitchen access was top notch, and schools held their fancy dress balls there. Bring it back!

BY CAROLE HUGHES

This special Trust, set up in 2021, is talking to local community groups, stakeholders, and mana whenua about ways to rejuvenate the Town Hall, embracing its past and making it get back up to scratch to host a range of events, meetings and activities.

Feedback so far is clear that the Town Hall needs some work. It needs a modern security system, better acoustic performance, and basic things like WIFI, projectors and a sound system. Interior spaces, including the Victorian and Edwardian rooms, also need some immediate cosmetic

work and upgrades, and accessibility in and around the outside of the Town Hall needs some attention too.

The long list of issues (and opportunities) also includes improving the bar facilities and payment options, replacing the auditorium furniture, making lighting improvements, and making sure each space can be set up for different purposes, whether it is a business meeting or a larger event.

The intended capital works spend for 2022/2023 is $1.8 million, which is a slice of the $3.78 million allocated to the project

in Waipā District Council’s 2021-31 long-term plan. Still, it’s only a small portion of the funding that will be required to bring the Town Hall up to

standard, and external fundraising will be vital.

So, there it is. A beautiful historic building, filled with memories, that will be brought back to life, and the sooner the better.

This is the House that WE Built

BY KAREN PAYNE

Not everyone was thrilled when the new Cambridge Town Hall was built in 1909. This poem is written in the style of This is the House that Jack Built. The poet refers to three people by name: Andrew Carnegie, the

American philanthropist who donated £1000 towards the costs of a new library within its walls; the Clerk of the Works W G Care, and the Contractor S C Chappell. The Architect referred to was A B Herrold

Lines Upon a White Elephant, by Autolycus

This is OUR HOPE: That we yet may see, Blessed by the Shade of CARNEGIE, Some small slight profit in days to be, In spite of THE LOAN that looms behind The long, persistent, perpetual grind: The Ghost of the money we have to find, Which troubles THE CLERK OF THE WORKS, who dare Say he has never a thought of CARE Who sits and grizzles, and stirs his hair, As he looks at THE MUTILATED PLAN Of what once was good, ere the work began; A thing to trouble the soul of a man

Who thinks of THE ROOMS all gloomy and dark That are fit perhaps for a larrikin’s lark, But not for their purposes. Save the mark!

Which worry THE CONTRACTOR, scratching his head, Muttering words that were better unsaid, Prayers perhaps, but by CHAPELS not read, Who curses THE ARCHITECT puffed with pride; Little he cares if his work’s decried Certain the public is satisfied;

Who smiles at THE STONE that stands in front, And bears the storm and the weather’s brunt, Which states that once, on a certain day, It was placed to proclaim for ever and aye, That this is the House that WE built

Elizabeth Harvey Manager

Karen Payne Administrator

Cambridge Town Hall, showing the Carnegie Library, in 1919. Ref: 2457/15

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh dining at the Town Hall during their visit in 1953. Ref: 2958/24

Sports hall move delayed

By Mary Anne Gill

The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame is staying in Dunedin another year but is heading north to the Velodrome in Cambridge after that.

Representatives from the Home of Cycling Trust told Waipā district councillors this week they had entered phase two of the plan to bring the hall north to Cambridge.

Since199 the Hall of Fame has been in the Dunedin Railway Station, but it is no longer considered a suitable longterm home. Trustees there had announced it would close from late next year but have now extended that into 2024 because more time was required to inspect and catalogue artefacts then ship them to Cambridge

Trust chair Graeme Maw and trustees Simon Perry, Miff Macdiarmid and Alan Livingston fronted at the newly elected council’s first meeting in Te Awamutu to confirm it was full steam ahead for the move.

The year’s extension was convenient for both Dunedin and Cambridge, said Livingston, and allowed time for trustees to pursue other opportunities including adding the Māori Sports Hall of Fame to the mix.

Earlier this year the council provided a $750,000 loan guarantee to the trust which then promised to start community consultation and keep councillors informed.

Maw said the cost of the build to add 1800 square metres of floor space to the Velodrome had already gone up from $7 million to $8.2 million. A total of $3 million already raised. Grassroots Trust, principal sponsor behind the Velodrome, has committed $1.1 million plus given $300,000 for operating support. Other funders including Brian Perry Charitable Trust, Trust Waikato and operating

support from Sport NZ.

The trust was budgeting on 30,000 visitors a year with an entrance fee of $10 touted as ideal.

The trust behind the Sports Hall of Fame in Dunedin would hold a special general meeting in January where Perry was likely to become chair of an energised trust comprising some of the southern trustees to provide continuity while new trustees would provide

local, national and international credibility.

Resource consent had been lodged with the council and commercial tenants were being lined up to ensure long-term financial sustainability, said Maw.

Tainui leader Rahui Papa has been added to the trust to handle iwi relations and his connection with King Tūheitia’s office would be invaluable, said Maw.

Branding for the new facility, which would not just be a static Sports Hall of Fame but more an interactive experience, had begun led by Perry, who chairs the Perry Group.

“Simon has the power of vision…the vision to grab this idea of inspiring champions, not necessarily the ones standing on podiums but in everyday life,” said Maw.

The tag Everyday Champions was likely to feature in the final product.

Councillor Roger Gordon said he had been privy to many details about the Hall of Fame.

“My enthusiasm just builds and builds for this project.”

Māori ward councillor Takena Stirling queried the involvement of mana whenua and was told Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Koroki/ Kahukura had recommended Rahui’s involvement.

Waipā chief executive Garry Dyet told the trust things were “tight” for the council and providing any other funding would be difficult. Maw said the trust would factor that in.

Mayor Susan O’Regan said she expected to hear more from the trust whose members she described as “experienced, skilled and passionate people” during the Annual Plan process.

This forms part of a larger picture to bring more tourism opportunities to Cambridge, she said.

Hall of Fame trustees from left Graeme Maw, Miff Macdiarmid, Alan Livingston and Simon Perry brief councillors.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Storm clouds above

The News story in September, hinting at what lay ahead, prompted bizarre allegations from candidate Woodhams, who finished third in the election race.

He wrote: “Fake News needs to be called out. I called Garry Dyet after I saw the article titled 'Promises, Promises'. In the conversation he stated he is livid, saying it is data that is out of context and he did not talk to the paper at all!”

But The News did talk to Dyet at his request on Friday September 9 for more than 11 minutes and he provided us with a copy of the ‘Heads Up’ blog he sent to his staff. That interview and the blog formed the basis of the article.

Dyet said the blog had been drawn from material on the council website under Information Requests and “all candidates were emailed and alerted to this.”

In the blog he told staff: “Hang onto your seats folks, we’re in for some ‘fun and games’ over the next few months.”

The News subsequently requested under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (Lgoima) all correspondence sent to mayoral, council and community board candidates by the council.

Emails were sent to all candidates on August 24, September 6 and October 14. The one on September 6 referred candidates to a page on the council website containing workshop presentations “including a recent one on the 2023/2024 Annual Plan.”

Neither Woodhams or the Facebook site administrator Brenda Stamp have responded to requests to remove the post in which he claimed the article was pulled from

various unrelated disparate documents published and the newspaper was “inventing content rather than reporting.

“Certainly, their level of information appears to be limited to the creativity of the writers.”

Te Awamutu Community Board chair Ange Holt, whose email address was included in the three emails sent to all candidates along with Woodhams’, said on her post:

“I do not recall being invited to anything like that either or had any correspondence from Garry saying any of those things.”

Woodhams and Stamp both complained to the Media Council about The News coverage and were told there was no substance to the complaints.

“We see straightforward reporting of a local body election, and no evidence to show how the reporting was inaccurate or unbalanced.”

Councillors

Youth awards announced

Two Cambridge High students have collected excellence awards for academic and community work in this year’s Waipā youth awards.

Matteo Di Maio, who featured in The News as Cambridge High dux last week, won the academic category judged by Karsten Zegwaard and Chris Eames from Waikato University.

Elena Huggins was awarded the excellence award, judged by Richard Hurrell and Judy Bannon.

The Waipā District Council awards have run for 20 years – the last two have been announced on line. They acknowledge youth excellence in sport, arts, academics, community service and leadership.

Mayor Susan O’Regan said the calibre of

students nominated for this year’s awards reinforced the knowledge that the district’s future was in good hands.

“Our youth have shown just how resilient they are in times of continuous change and should be immensely proud of all they have achieved.

Other award winners: Excellence Leadership award, judged by Alan Livingston and Barbara Kuriger - Matthew Yarndley, Te Awamutu College.

Excellence endorsement, sports, judged by Mahe Drysdale, Alison Shanks and Sarah Cowley - Devon Briggs, Cambridge High.

Merit endorsements, Arts and Culture, judged by John Drummond and Tami Lee Ward) - Emily Carr, Tomas Metz, Cambridge High and Jack Dams and Felix Rowe, St Peter’s.

Multi-Achiever award, judged by Alan Livingston and Barbara Kuriger - Meghana Gaddam, St Peter’s.

held their first full meeting in Te Awamutu on Tuesday.

Pool wins design award

Cambridge’s refurbished swimming pools have been described as an inspiration to other communities.

Waipā District Council collected an urban design award for the Perry Aquatic Centre Puna Kaukau o Te Oko Horoi development last week.

The complex won the Central Property People Awards for Urban Design award ahead of five other entries. The awards, run by the Property Council New Zealand, celebrate the people behind key property projects.

Judges said the facility provided a key recreational offer for a landlocked community, “Swimming is second nature for New Zealanders,” judges said. “The pool complex serves as an inspiration to other communities, reminding us to take opportunities to provide a great facility and also incorporate latest technology, design elements, connections and collaboration.”

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan said the win was an outstanding achievement for a commuunity which had embraced the pool complex and made it a roaring success.

“This is truly a community facility, and worth every cent of the investment made by council and others. It has been designed to meet the needs of our community now and for years to come; this was a major focus for the many people involved in bringing the development to life.”

The aquatic facility, managed by the Waipā Community Facilities Trust and opened in May last year, includes a 25-metre indoor pool, 50m outdoor pool, toddler pool, hydrotherapy pool, sauna and spa pool.

Mayor Susan O’Regan and deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk with the urban design award.

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All hail the Black Ferns

By Peter Carr

The Oxford dictionary defines ‘sport’ as – an activity involving physical exertion and skills in which an individual or a team competes against another or others for entertainment.

Several key words leap out from that heavy book the key ones (for me) being those suggesting skill and entertainment. Who is displaying the skill and who is being entertained – the player(s) or those observing the competition?

The event that started me on this sporting ramble was the magnificent spectacle on Saturday where 23 fit and determined young women combined as 15 to overcome the grit and pride of a well-drilled team who had no less than 30 international wins in a row under their belts.

The build-up to the Eden Park spectacular was a display that indicated to the oftenstodgy men’s game that flair, personality and self-belief do have a place in rugby. That almost 43,000 screaming poi-waving mainly young people crammed into a stadium that many would like to demolish was a message.

The English perfectly straight line of scowling, arms-crossed English maidens almost contemptuously waited for the prematch haka to run its course said it all. They had that superior look that said ‘we are here for just 80 minutes to put the 31st first notch on our sporting gun’.

And most Kiwis possibly thought that would be the result.

The TAB clearly thought so and no doubt, deep in his well-experienced mind, coach Wayne Smith, given the chance, possibly expected that outcome.

That the result brought to the nation a very satisfying sigh of relief was portrayed in an unusual way – the stadium remained packed

with smiling people in awe of what had just been accomplished.

Having served my time many years ago supporting daughters on the hockey field playing for a school where the only other real team option was netball, this was the zenith of achievement for young women.

All those years ago any other group sport was either shunned, frowned upon or just was not going to happen.

Now that same school’s excellent glossy annual report displays sports and other group activities that show that young women have turned the corner and displaying determination to succeed where, hitherto, only the males were given the honours.

For me the real winners on Saturday evening are the cohort of seven years old girls still at primary school who were handed a bucket-load of hope, where flair and personality (lacking in the men’s game) came to the surface.

Sponsors will have to take a fresh look at this awakening movement. We now have a vibrant entertaining group capable and willing to carry the country’s brands to faroff corners of the world.

As our exporters leap on the now reawakening aircraft that depart our shores, they could be well served to take with them the thought that they can display a pride that a group of young women have put before them.

To any young lady yet to ascend to a secondary school level the spoils are there and will remain there for you provided women’s rugby is allowed to flourish, grow and embrace hopes and dreams.

Getting stuck in ‘revolving doors’…

By Murray Smith, Senior Leader, Bridges Church

In an attempted 1975 bank robbery in Scotland, three men showed that robbing a bank isn’t as easy as movies can make it look.

Upon entering the bank, the unarmed trio managed to get stuck in revolving doors after trying to push them the wrong way. At this point, it wasn’t clear that they were robbers, and the bank’s staff kindly helped them out of the predicament. Shortly afterwards though, they returned and demanded five thousand pounds. Unfortunately for the robbers, they caught the staff at a bad time, who were still laughing among themselves about the revolving door incident.

They thought the robbers were just playing a practical joke, and didn’t take the demands seriously. Puzzlingly, the ‘gang’ leader lowered the demand to five hundred pounds, which provoked further hilarious laughter. To show he was serious, the leader jumped over the counter and fell, twisting his ankle. Panicking, the others ran out of the revolving doors... only to get stuck again in exactly the same way.

Tricky things, revolving doors… numerous other stories detail robber’s careers ‘ending’ exactly this way. Encounters with ‘revolving doors’ are often far from funny. For Margalea Warner, they carry connotations of battling with mental health. She likens her experience of 15 years in and out of hospital to becoming stuck in revolving doors. She hadn’t committed a crime and wasn’t in jail, but the locked psychiatric ward, while not a horrible place in itself, became a deeply unwanted interruption to life after years of hospitalisations.

Margalea describes her mental health battle…

“On June 15, 1995, my favourite nurse, Judi Thrapp, unlocked the door and let me out, accompanied by my Pastor who had been so helpful to me. I went out the revolving hospital door. I never got stuck in it again. I was 35 that day. By God’s grace, today I’m 62. How did I do it? I took my medicine religiously. I found a therapist I could trust and was honest with. When I had occasional thoughts of self-harm, I resolved not to act on them. I found insight by keeping a journal and I told my story through writing and speaking.

I didn’t do it alone. I had a church family that prayed, listened and showed up at all the right moments. With support from Weight Watchers, I reversed the weight gain caused by side effects of medicine. God’s love, expressed by my network of support, was key.”

She says, “There is no shame in being hospitalised when you’re in a mental health crisis. Thriving in your community after hard years is something to celebrate…”

Margalea describes her journey from repetitive hospitalisation with mental health issues, in her article, “I found 27 Keys to Better Mental Health: You can find Yours.”

She states her ‘keys’ included…right medicine, cognitive therapy, allowing sorrowful tears to come, dignity of work, laughter, disallowing negative voices and rejecting distorted thinking.

Significantly, Margalea cites “faith and prayer” and discovering God’s love, as keys on her list. I’d call them imperatives for wholeness.

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Farewell to netball godmother

By Viv Posselt

An online tribute to Diana Galletta suggested that God think twice before arming the netball legend with a whistle as she passed through the pearly gates.

“Those who knew Diana will all remember her voice on the loudspeaker … her whistle blowing on court,” it said. “She will be sadly missed by all. God has another angel up there in heaven: he better watch out no-one gives her a whistle”.

Diana’s passage to the pearly gates on November 1 has left not only Cambridge netball with an unfathomable space, but also the wider community.

She was loved as much for her sunny nature, her joy in piano music and laughter as much as she was for that longstanding and deep commitment to the Cambridge Netball Centre.

Nephew Paul Galletta, who spoke at his aunt’s November 7 farewell service at St Peter’s Church, said Diana was part of a loving Cambridge-based family for whom Christmas was the pinnacle of their year.

“The house would be filled to the brim on Christmas Day … anything up to 40 people.

It was a major operation getting ready for that. Diana was always happy. She never drank, smoked or got married. She had a natural euphoria … she didn’t need any vices to enjoy her life to the full.”

He told the packed church how Diana, who arrived in Sydney from Europe with her family at just eight years old, remained proud of her roots throughout her life. Once settled in Cambridge, the family wove itself into the fabric of the town; Diana immersed herself in her work, her beloved Catholic church, netball, running fundraising stalls and raffles.

Paul said no-one could walk past a stall run by Diana and not get stopped to either buy a raffle ticket or a jar of jam.

That telling online post said she had been the voice of Cambridge Netball Centre for many years. Diana had started out in her youth, playing in rep teams across the Waikato before becoming a national umpire, steering classes, organising tournaments and co-ordinating events.

Paul said she took particular pride in a photograph on her lounge wall of her as a New Zealand umpire. “What she did for netball in Cambridge was immense … and

she did it with commitment and passion.”

Diana also spent more than 54 years as a teller with the National Bank, winning the hearts of her many customers with her warmth and efficiency. A colleague for most of that time, Jenny Beckett, described Diana as loyal and hardworking, although apparently a bit of a bull at the gate over attaining her drivers’ licence.

“She went for her licence during her lunch hour. She said, ‘it didn’t go so well’, then told me how she had failed because she went through a red light as she wound down her window to greet someone she knew,” she laughed. “She finally got her licence on her third try.”

Travel was another of Diana’s loves with many family holidays enjoyed at Island Bay. She enjoyed visiting her family roots in Stromboli, an island off the Sicilian coast, and vacationed in the United States and Norfolk Island.

The church was a huge part of her life, and she sang with the St Peter’s Church Choir for many years.

Hers was a rich, full life throughout which her good nature shone like a beacon.

“Diana always saw the best in everyone

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… she never thought bad of anyone. I never heard her swear or get angry, she was always patient,” said Paul. “There is so much history associated with the family here … but this is the last chapter in their dynasty. That book is closed now.”

Diana Galletta, who died earlier this month, has left a hole in the fabric of Cambridge life.

Festival lights the way

The Cambridge Town Hall will be lit up in green, white and red as part of the town’s Christmas festival.

A 40-strong team of volunteers will partner Steen and Morrow - Betta Electrical to decorate the hall facade in Christmas colours which will light up in the evenings.

The festival is returning after a pandemic year off and eight trees will be themed as “Create and Inspire” and will line the hall from December 3 to 18.

In 2021 the festival gave out more than $26,000 to 10 community groups

including St John Ambulance, Cambridge Community Patrol and Interlock Waipa.

“Giving back to groups really is the spirit of Christmas, we appreciate our community’s support and we thrive on sharing some Christmas cheer and creativity,” committee member Linda Sutherland said.

“Having our local electrician coming on board with the lighting really brings home the message in giving to others during this time of year, we are so thankful,” Sutherland said.

The festival will return with

all its “staples” - a festival shop, choirs, tea room and

It’s a lightbulb moment for Sherry

By Mary Anne Gill

Residents like Sherry Hinett were confused when they came to get their free lightbulbs

from Waipā Networks at the Cambridge Community Pavilion last week.

“Which one have I got? Bayonet or screw?” a reference

to the type of lightbulb they needed for their light sockets at home.

A steady stream of residents lined up for five free generation Ecolbulb LED energy-saving light bulbs valued at up to $200.

A sausage sizzle was held as part of the event with funds raised going to the Community House.

The nine-watt bulbs have a 30-year lifespan and provide the same energy as 100 watt conventional bulbs.

The estimated annual power cost of each bulb is $2.73, saving individual households up to $112 a year in power costs.

A total of 85,000 light bulbs are being distributed throughout

Waipā as an initiative to light the region more efficiently.

Te Awamutu residents have their opportunity to get the bulbs at the Black Friday Blow Out Street Party on November 25. And the advice from Sherry Hinett? Check your light sockets first.

The bulb types are:

• 10W Downlight (most common lighting fixture in modern homes)

• 9W B22 Bulb (bayonet - mainly used in hanging light sockets or in a lamp)

• 9W E27 Bulb (screw in - popular fitting for a range of household settings such as lamps and feature lights)

• 4W MR16 Halogen (used in residential settings for directional light)

• 5W GU10 Halogen (spotlight bulbwhere directional light is needed in areas such as kitchens).

New pastor welcomed

Cambridge Baptist Church commissioned new pastor Ken Keyte, at Sunday service this week.

The service was conducted by Peter Foster, Baptist Regional Leader for Waikato-Bay of Plenty, whose sermon challenged the congregation with the question - ‘now what?’

Ken, supported by wife Raewyn, has previously pastored at the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle from 2018 to 2022) and before that at Te Puke Baptist Church from 2002.

Prior to becoming a pastor Ken worked for the New Zealand Dairy Board in Hāwera, Wellington and Santa Rosa, in the United States.

Raewyn is an early childhood teacher.

The couple say they are looking forward to living and working in Cambridge and becoming part of the community. They are both keen runners and cyclists and have four young-adult children.

“I love helping people through church community become people of faith, self-giving love and transformative hope – the kind of people God made us to be,” Ken said.

Ken and Raewyn Keyte, with Baptist regional leader Ken Foster (centre).

Santa, who will be appearing on weekend afternoons.

Helping prepare this year’s Cambridge Christmas Festival shop products were, from left, Marie Moncur, Robyn Bridgland, Jenny Shaw and Helen Larnach.

Community Day: from left, Sherry Hinett with a bayonet and screw lightbulb, Annette Willis (Community House), Sarah Matthews (Waipā Networks Trust), Francis Radloff (Community House) and Tom Hinett. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

Cambridge High School Educational Trust (incorporating the Tom & Rose Milnes Trust award)

Congratulations to the following Scholarship winners

Danielle Armstrong Bastiaan Banks Gemma Barham

Olivia Begbie Anne Eade

Sophia Goodrich

James Hartley

Sam Kingston

HeatherAnn Knowles Mikyla Knowles

Hannah Leng Anneliese O’Brien Cole Sherborne

Anna Smith Deanna Young

Only the hardy turned up to mark Armistice Day at 11am on Friday November 11 in Cambridge as driving rain meant any attempts for a long ceremony were set aside.

But two days later, at the Civic ceremony outside Cambridge Town Hall and in front of the Cenotaph, a healthier number battled the bright sun to honour those who fell in the Great War.

Led by new Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley and RSA president Tony Hill on both days, the ceremonies had a poignant touch to them due to the work of the council’s parks team.

While more turn up for Anzac Day commemorations in April, Armistice Day in Cambridge is always well marked because of the town’s sister city relationship with Le Quesnoy in France.

The town was liberated by New Zealand troops a week before Armistice Day. Photos by Mary Anne Gill.

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Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley and RSA president Tony Hill battle the pouring rain to lay wreaths at 11am on 11 November, Armistice Day itself.

Cambridge Brass Band musical director Rob Hocking plays the Last Post on the steps of the Town Hall on Armistice Day.

The official Armistice Day remembrance ceremony was held on Sunday. Board chair Jo DaviesColley and RSA president Tony Hill lay their wreaths while mayor Susan O’Regan waits to lay one on behalf of Waipā District Council.

Waipā parks staff timed the flowering of poppies and other flowers in front of the Cenotaph to perfection for Armistice Day remembrance on Sunday.

‘Brothers right from the word go’

By Benjamin Wilson

Victor Two Company concluded their three-day veterans’ reunion with a march and ceremony at Te Awamutu’s Sunken Cross on Sunday.

“The strength of Victor Two Company has always been our people, so stay in touch with one another, and look after one another, as we have always done,” said Victor Two’s ranking representative, retired lieutenant colonel Tony Howell.

The company served in Vietnam from November 1967 to May 1968. Their last reunion was held at Burnham Camp in the South Island in 2019.

Howell honoured Private Desmond Hirini and gunner Stuart Ellwood, who both died in combat during the company’s service.

In total, 72 of Victor Two’s past members were named by retired privates Cecil Poa and John Linley, who called out the company’s roll of honour. Many from Victor Two had their lives changed forever due to health complications that resulted during their service.

Howell acknowledged the affect that post traumatic stress disorder had on the unit, and the support that was shown to the company

by their families.

“Thank you for all your support, I know for some it has been a rough ride, for that all I

can say is, sorry, we didn’t know that we were quite as bad as we were,” he said.

Lindsey from the Te Awamutu Brass

played the trumpet for the ceremony’s last post.

Councillor Lou Brown spoke as a council representative during the reunion. He served in Vietnam as a private for Victor Three, the company which relieved Victor Two, from 1968 to 1969.

Despite Victor Two and Victor Three never serving together, a bond formed between the two companies, Brown said.

The two companies each had their own identities, but “we are all the same, we all did a lot of our basic training together in various forms,” he said.

“We were brothers right from the word go,” said a corporal Howard Wilson.

“The idea of the reunions is to keep that link going, because we’re all a part of what we call a family,” said Brown.

He said that New Zealand has become more accepting of its soldiers who served in Vietnam.

“Because we weren’t accepted at the time… we were called all sorts of things. I virtually went into a shell before I became involved in politics.

“We were not mercenaries; we were New Zealanders. Regular soldiers that were sent there by the government, nothing else.”

Stuart

Lou Brown and Victor Two’s Tony Howell, Miki Apiti, Howard Wilson, and Cecil Poa. Photo: Benjamin Wilson

Farewell, MacDaddy

By Mary Anne Gill

medallist Sam Gaze.

If

see a cyclist wearing a yellow jersey around the backroads of Cambridge with MacDaddy on the back, that’s the legendary John McDonnell who has retired as Cambridge High School deputy principal.

The jersey with Tour de Force – a play on Tour de France – the logos of Cambridge High School and Toa Parawhau house on it with his years of service – 2010-2022was presented to McDonnell at a special ceremony recently.

Several alumni sent video messages to McDonnell including Olympic Games gold

Paralympian gold medallist Devon Briggs was present and said McDonnell had introduced him to cycling and was an inspirational person.

“He was someone who has believed in me and saw something in me I never saw in myself.”

Briggs started cycling at the Velodrome in Cambridge in 2014, two years after McDonnell started running cycling races at the venue.

“He told me ‘racing should be fun, it should not be about winning but about enjoying the moment’.”

McDonnell is into his 10th and final year

at Cambridge High School after moving from Whanganui where he had been assistant principal at Whanganui High School.

Seven years ago, he became an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for

services to cycling and earlier this year was a commissaire (referee) at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Last week he ran his final day of coaching Cambridge High School students at the Velodrome.

John McDonnell, left, with Jeff East and Josh Toa, ran his final cycling session for Cambridge High School students at the Velodrome last week.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

ARTS AWARDS

Music - Junior Orpheus Award - Diligence in Music Grace Vivian

CHS Outstanding Junior Musician Hunter Davis

Music - Open Vagg Cup - Instrumental Music Jacob Nelson

Calvert Cup - Outstanding vocalist Ben Bonetti

CHS Farrington Cup for Brass El Cross Top Musical Group / Duo Pineja

Music - Senior Sullivan Award: All round excellence in Music

Daniel Peters Cup - Outstanding Contribution to Music

Cameron Stoddart

Mikyla Knowles & HeatherAnn Knowles

Dance - Junior Outstanding Contribution to CHS Dance Anna Crouchman, Daniella Sem, Brooke Lomey (Shared)

CHS Cup for Diligence in Dance Evie Axcell Outstanding /Top Dancer Elise Carr

Dance - Open Thornton Cup for Outstanding Contribution to Dance Anneliese O'Brien

Dance - Senior Thornton Trophy for Diligence in Dance Lily Smith Alana Wells Cup for Outstanding Contribution to CHS Dance

Brooke Vanin

CHS Outstanding / Top Dancer Emily Carr

Visual Art - Junior Diligence in Visual Art Charlene Theron All round excellence in Visual Art Harriet Drake

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Sophia Goodrich

Angela Anderson

Thomas Henson

SUMMER AWARDS

Outstanding / Top Visual Artist Amelia Snape

Drama - Junior Diligence in Junior Drama Becky Mitchell

All Round Excellence in Dramatic Performance Erin Bouwer

Drama - Open Michael Garrett memorial Cup – Drama (offstage) Philip Johnson

Michelle Loye Memorial Cup for Drama Production Deanna Young

Drama - Senior Larissa Peters Award for Outstanding Contribution to Drama

Manaia Wetere-Ryder

Outstanding / Top Dramatic performer Georgia Willats

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Best

NGAA POUTIAKI CELEBRATION EVENING AWARDS

Michaela Ihaka-Ngamoki

HeatherAnn Knowles

Mikyla Knowles

Manaia Wetere-Ryder

SPORTS AWARDS

Cycling CHS Trophy - Female Road Rider of the Year Arabella Tuck

Athletics Herbert Smith Cup - Senior Girls Champion Riley Wood

Martin Byrne Cup - Senior Boys Champion Mikey McNamara

CHS Cup - Outstanding Performance in 2022 Bradley Bidois

Swimming Herbert Smith Cup - Senior Girls Champion Anna Smith

Speight Cup - Senior Boys Champion Ryan Nelson

CHS Cup - Outstanding Performance in 2022 Olivia Emmett

Cricket Thomas Cup - Services to CHS Cricket Abe Wolland

Hunt Cup - 1st XI Boys: Player of the Year James Guzzwell

CHS Cup - Outstanding contribution to Girls Cricket Eve Wolland

Equestrian CHS Cup - Outstanding Equestrian Performance Mikayla Rogers

CHS Cup - Outstanding Contribution to CHS

Show Jumping Isobel George

CHS Cup - Outstanding Service to CHS Equestrian Kendra Rogers

Futsal CHS Cup Player of the Year Keyson Mackey

Golf Penrose Cup - Golfer of the Year Rei Masters

Motocross CHS Trophy - Rider of the Year Jared Hannon

Rowing CHS Rowing Club Cup - Outstanding Service and Dedication to CHS Rowing Jenna-Lee Markgraaff CHS Cup - Girls Rower of the Year Brylee Deacon

CHS Cup - Boys Rower of the Year Jack Gillanders

Sevens Hudson Trophy - Girls Player of the Year Hannah Gordon

Tennis A Johnson Trophy - Best WSS Result Tara Sacke

Volleyball CHS Trophy - Outstanding Contribution to Volleyball Bella Peacocke

CHS Cup - Senior Girls Player of the Year Jasgin Lopena

Waterpolo Rose Family Trophy - Outstanding Service and Contribution

Bastiaan Banks

CHS Cup - Girls Player of the Year Talulla-Belle Smedley

CHS Cup - Boys Player of the Year Noah Ludlum

Water Skiing CHS Cup - Water Skiing Luke Runciman

WINTER AWARDS

Cross Country CHS Trophy Senior Girls Champion Lucy Steele

Hart Cup Senior Boys Champion Jacob D'Ath

CHS Cup - Outstanding Performance in 2022 Tara Sacke

Basketball Haigh Trophy - Service and Leadership in Basketball

Samuel Kingston

CHS Cup - Premier Girls Player of the Year Yuri Sakamoto-Aish

CHS Cup - Premier Boys Player of the Year Weston Leadbetter

Cycling CHS Trophy - Outstanding Service and

Contribution to CHS Cycling

McDonnell Cup - Exemplifying School Values within Track Cycling

Jaxson Russell

CHS Trophy - Male Road Rider of the Year Maui Morrison

Colin Dixon Cup - Female Track Rider of the Year Molly Hayes

Grant Ackerman Cup - Male Track Rider of the Year Jaxson Russell

CHS Cup - BMX Rider of the Year Leila Walker

Ackerman Trophy - Senior Cyclist with Outstanding Potential Jack Eva

Football Peter Wilkinson Cup - Services to CHS Football Becky Savage

Hollis Trophy - 1st XI Girls: Player of the Year Courtenay Baker

Vic Butler Cup - 1st XI Boys: Player of the Year Keaton Budd Hockey Bichan Cup - Services to CHS Hockey Bastiaan Banks

Lyburn Cup - 1st XI Girls: Player of the Year Rosie Davis Mills Cup - 1st XI Boys: Player of the Year Jackson Beale Lacrosse CHS Cup - Service to CHS Lacrosse Isabelle Vrensen

Forman Trophy - Girls Player of the Year Catriona Lamb

CHS Trophy - Boys Player of the Year Bastiaan Banks Netball Windsor Nissan Trophy - Dedication to Netball Anna Jago

Mary Scott Trophy - Premier Girls Player of the Year Taya Hart Rock Climbing CHS Cup - Climber of the Year Cameron Bell and Mikaela Davidson Rugby Landers Cup - Girls Player of the Year Carys Aveyard

Bodle-Coates Trophy - Outstanding Achievement in Girls Rugby Carys Aveyard

Peter Brodie Memorial Cup - Upholding High Values Jack Kibby

Voyle Cup - Services to 1st XV Rugby Mitchell Hills

Rugby Club Trophy - Most Valuable Senior Player Lachlann McCarthy BOS Trophy - 1st XV Player of the Year Flynn Crookston Squash

Edmunds Cup - Boys Player of the Year Tyler Lee

Edmunds Cup - Girls Player of the Year Drew Livingstone Shooting Laurie Gray Cup - Coach's Award Stirling Kraakman

CHS Trophy - Smallbore Shooter of the Year Blake Allison

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Visual Art - Senior Outstanding Contribution to Visual Arts Gabrielle Morris

THE 2023 CHS EDUCATIONAL TRUST MAAORI SCHOLARSHIP Angela Anderson CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL’S MOST INSPIRATIONAL JUNIOR MAAORI STUDENT FOR 2022 Malakai Eade

Georgia Mitchell

Unsung heroes nominated

Waipā will celebrate an unsung hero when the Waikato sport and active recreation awards are announced in January.

All three nominees – Andrew Langman (Cambridge athletics ) Kerry Rennie (Cambridge netball)

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and Sean Stringfellow (Te Awamutu football) are from Waipā.

There are also nominations in the Community Connections Award for the Te Awamutu Football Club’s First Kicks Expleo ProgrammeHe Waka Eke Noa and for the Te Awamutu Boxing Academy in the Commitment to Youth Engagement Award.

First Kicks has been running in Te Awamutu for more than 15 years and is a first introduction to football through the club.

Youngsters star as young as four and at seven they start their games in the Waikato Bay of Plenty (WaiBop) competition.

The sponsored programme ran for eight weeks in the second term this year and the turnout – 80 youngsters – exceeded expectations. It then ran for the third term and exposed more than 100 children to football.

Event organisers say “you won’t find many elite athletes among the award finalists this year, but what you will find are some pretty incredible community coaches,

unsung heroes and amazing initiatives that are growing participation in communities around the Waikato region”.

The 2022 Waikato Sport & Active Recreation Awards encouraged nominations from those in the community who go above and beyond to deliver programmes and initiatives that meet the needs of the participant and help create a more active region.

“We’ve been overwhelmed with a vast range of entries this year, with an outstanding 100 nominations,” said Sport Waikato CEO Matthew Cooper.

“And it’s coming through loud and clear that the voice of the participant matters more than ever now – with initiatives, coaches and unsung heroes all working to ensure that they cater to the needs of the people and ensure they have a great experience. This is key to keep people coming back and creating a lifelong love of being active.”

The winners will be announced in Hamilton on January 26.

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Two St Peter’s Year 13 students have accepted sports scholarships offerings at American universities.

Samantha Eden will attend Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas on a full-ride (an award that covers all college-related expenses) athletic scholarship for rowing, and Ing Iadpluem will study at the University of North Carolina on a full-ride golf scholarship.

Both have been high-performing members of their respective sports academies at St Peter’s.

Eden said she had learned the importance of balancing academic life with athletics, especially towards the end of her final year at the school as she took on a new challenge and joined one of the top rowing clubs in the country.

As part of the international student cohort, Iadpluem has already demonstrated her aptitude and love of golf. Her parents decided on St Peters because of the golf programme offering.

Samantha Eden Ing Iadpluem

The many elements that make Fowler Homes a destination company for Waikato homeowners can be encapsulated in just one word – Trust.

The many elements that make Fowler Homes a destination company for Waikato homeowners can be encapsulated in just one word – Trust.

Those seeking to build the bespoke home of their dreams, designed with their lifestyle in mind and built to the highest quality, can trust Cambridge-based Fowler Homes to make the process enjoyable throughout.

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metre covered outdoor space featuring an outdoor fireplace kitchen that flows seamlessly into the main kitchen, living and lounge area.

The cladding features a Resene integra plaster

system, vertical shiplap western red cedar with a platinum stain, which adds contrast and texture to an overall look that is light and crisp throughout. The same crisp, clean lines make the home sit proudly on its site.

Joe says the company has long focused its attention on smarter ways of heating and cooling the homes they build by facing homes towards the sun to maximise solar gain.

The Show Home can

be viewed at 32 Whare Marama Drive, Pukekura in Cambridge.

For opening hours, visit the website at www. fowlerhomes.co.nz.

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Fowler Homes Waikato is a stand-out operation that offers the twin bene ts of being part of a larger brand at the same time as providing the assurance of a boutique oneon-one service.

The award-winning Fowler Homes brand has been part of the New Zealand landscape since the early 1980s. As the company’s Waikato owners, Joe and Shelley Cattle bene t from the security such an established network provides in terms of national buying power and supply arrangements.

At the same time, they have skin in the game right here in the Waikato. They operate throughout the region, building high-end homes in local communities using local expertise and local contractors.

It makes for a winning combination centred on quality rather than quantity and sees Fowler Homes Waikato clients deal directly with Joe and Shelley throughout the process. The seamless, personalised

experience they enjoy has led to many positive testimonials and built a steady ‘word-ofmouth’ business format.

Joe and Shelley bring to the table a solid background in nance, project management and customer service. Joe handles the overall project management, and Shelley brings a masterful eye to the design and décor side of the operation.

The business is based on building in the high-end

residential sector with a focus more on lifestyle properties and high-end homes that align more with the established buyer than those seeking entry-level home ownership.

When creating a new home from scratch, building a relationship on trust is paramount.

“We are upfront with everything from the outset,” says Joe. “Our clients can trust that there will be no

surprises down the line … the costings they are given at the start will be a true re ection of the full build cost. We know how important it is for clients to have peace of mind that there will be no shocks down the road.”

Most of their work is contract building, the design and construction of homes either on land owned by the client or in a house and land package.

Taking care not to overcommit is a vital part of the company’s ethos, Shelley says. “We don’t say yes to everything … that’s because we don’t want to be building a lot of homes at any one time. Our deliberate approach is not to take on more than we do while upholding the quality that is so important to us.”

Once a brief is in, roundtable discussions involving Joe and Shelley, the architect and the client, cover off the concept design and detail, and the handling of administrative requirements such as securing consents, road access and so on. Once underway, most builds take around six to seven months, depending on the size of the project.

Joe and Shelley have a couple of architects they prefer to use. They value the rapport they build with clients, believing a successful project is as much about being a good listener and getting the right ‘feel’ for a project as it is about the business end.

Fowler Homes Waikato owners Joe and Shelley Cattle.

Peckham takes Sanctuary

Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari has selected a Waikato graduate as its next chief executive.

Andrew Peckham grew up in the Waikato and completed his education at St Paul’s Collegiate and then the University of Waikato.

He will start work next month, suceeding Phil Lyons, who resigned to return to England recently to be with family.

“We were pleased to have such high calibre applicants for this role offering a wide range of local and international experience,” Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari Co-Chair Don Scarlet said.

“One of the many benefits of the mahi that has been done on the maunga over

the years is it helps us attract new talent in all areas of our business. The Board are very confident in our appointment of Andrew,” he says.

Peckham is committed to seeing Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari being recognised as a Waikato tourism must-see.

“It’s an incredible privilege to lead a conservation project of such significant scale and impact,” he said.

He plans to focus on the Sanctuary’s visitor experience and sustainable growth as New Zealand’s tourism sector recovers from the past two years.

Peckham is a chartered accountant, who has held leadership roles at Air New

Zealand, Mercury NZ and most recently, Taupō District Council.

“It only takes a morning at the maunga to understand the incredible value we are creating here for our community, our partners and our tamariki,” he said.

Remembering Olivia

A plaque installed in memory of Olympic cyclist Olivia Podmore has been installed outside the Velodrome in Cambridge in a seating area. Podmore, who was Olympian number 1333, died on 9 August last year of a suspected suicide.

The Canterbury athlete, who moved to Cambridge to train with the national cycling team in 2015, is buried in Christchurch.

She competed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2018 Commonwealth Games but despite reaching the qualification criteria, was not selected for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo held last year.

Her death has been referred to the Coroner.

Andrew Peckham

A centenary to remember

The Karāpiro School community came together last Friday to celebrate 100 years on the current school site.

The school actually opened 137 years ago on a site further down Karāpiro Road, and today is the last in the area still standing after Taotaoroa No1 and No2 Schools, Whitehall and Karāpiro Hydro schools closed many years ago.

The move in 1922, at the wish of the then school committee, was granted to move the school to its current site, closer to the village.

On Friday the school seized the opportunity to open its doors to the community and to share the learning of local histories the school has spent the last year researching, The celebration day began with open classrooms where the visitors, received with welcome letters from Karāpiro students, shared their school stories.

A highlight was an assembly which included the school’s first kapa haka group performing waiata and haka. Current students Leo SmithSerei and Ava Williams spoke on behalf of the students, reflecting the changes in education over time.

Principal Tina-Maree Thatcher read a letter of congratulations from Mr Marcus Freke, previous principal of Karāpiro School and now Director of Education, Waikato, for the Ministry of Education.

Returning student Burt Tuhi recalled fond memories of lifelong friendships made at the school in the 1960’s. He was honoured by ringing the school hand-bell – which is still in daily use at the school.

Les Bennet was a student at the school in the 1950’s and spoke to the group, retelling stories of crossing the road at lunchtime to buy ice-cream at the dairy. David McNair told stories of lighting the fire in the classroom early in the morning when he was the teaching principal.

Tina-Maree Thatcher said the day was thoroughly enjoyed by staff, students and families and the school enjoyed being able to open its doors and share the stories of schooldays together.

“It was a really special day celebrating everything that is special about Karāpiro School – past and present.”

Board Chairperson Marilynn Jones read a letter from Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern congratulating the school on its celebrations.

The gathering at Karāpiro School on Friday.

Celebration cake made and iced by our Office Manager Ms Lynda Smith. Cut by eldest returning student Mr Les Bennett and youngest current student Anthony Daly

Past and present - from left, former principal David McNair, board chair Marilynn Jones, former pupil Jessie-Lee Marriott-Atkinson, principal Tina-Maree Thatcher, former students Burt Tuhi and Les Bennett and his son Iden Bennett, a current student.

Fieldays finalists named

A total of 65 finalists have been named to compete for the Fieldays Innovation Awards for the expo, which opens at the end of the month.

The awards are judged by a panel of 15 experts from around the Food and Fibre sector.

Finalists have been selected to showcase their innovations - 21 in the Prototype category, 31 in Early-Stage, and 13 in Growth & Scale.

Four of these entries are also in the running for the Young Innovator of the Year award. 52 of the entrants in the ever-popular Innovation Hub, and 13 others will participate from the Innovation Trail, displaying their innovation from their sites around the event. Innovations include a mix of technological solutions like data recording, sensors and automation and everyday products that could revolutionise the Primary Industries.

“We are seeing entries from a wide range of sectors within the industry- dairy, forestry, farm management, animal health and genetics, horticulture and viticulture, water and waste Management,” said , Fieldays Programme Manager Steve Chappell. He was pleased to see the number of entries with an environment and conservation focus, “as it shows the Innovators are developing novel solutions to the problems of today and the future”.

The finalists range from individuals, local Waikato companies, and New Zealandbased global companies, to entries from Australian, American, Israeli, English, and Irish companies that are dipping their toes into the NZ market.

The finalists and their award categories are: Prototype: AgLoco Ltd, AgriSea NZ Ltd, Breakaway Farm, Common Knowledge Insect, Delta Waterways, Donald Cornwall, Gallagher Group Ltd, Herdsman SCC, Infinity Fence, Macso Technologies, MixRite, NZ AutoTraps (two entries), On2it Electronics, Onfarm Data

Ltd, Smart Farmer Ltd, St Paul’s Collegiate School (two entries) and University of Waikato (three entries)

Early-Stage: Agovor, Agriscore Limited, Agricademy, Beefree Agro, Bio Gold Pine Pollen, Bovonic, Cleanery, Concept Dairy, Datamars Livestock (two entries), Farmgate, Farmote Systems, Goldpine, GPSit Group Limited, H2Ortigator, Idexx, Ingenum, L2C Compacting Systems, Machines at Work, Pāmu Farms of New Zealand, Precast Products, ProTag, Qconz, Rapid Spray, Ravensdown Ecopond, Snpshot, Springarm Products Limited, SPS Automation, Sustainable Foods/Plant, Watercare and WelFarm.

Growth and Scale: AHV New Zealand, CropX, Farmax, Halo Systems, Herdwatch, HerdX powered by Snap Core, HydroMetrics, Koru Diagnosis, OmniEye, Onside, Qconz, RiverWatch and Rurtec.

Tech head appointed

Pāmu Chief Executive Mark Leslie has named Tammy Auranen (pictured) as the company’s first Chief Technology and Digital Officer.

Pāmu is the brand name for Landcorp Farming and the country’s largest farmer. It has a nationwide portfolio of 116 farms covering 360,000 hectares that produce milk, beef, lamb, wool, venison and more.

Auranen, who will join Pāmu early next year, has more than 20 years of experience in senior digital, technology and improvementbased roles in New Zealand and her native Canada.

She leads Customer Solutions at NZ Post and before that managed IT and systems functions for organisations including Northpower and the Far North District Council.

Leslie said the new role of Chief Technology and Digital Officer recognises Pāmu’s commitment to ensuring it remains at the forefront of technology and innovation.

Immaculate

555 Wallace Road, Cambridge

dairy farm

Immaculately well presented, flat, easy care 79.2ha dairy farm with modern 40 aside HB including inshed meal feeders, a 300 cow feedpad and fully compliant effluent system. Fertile, mature peat soils ensure strong year round grass growth. On Pukerimu water scheme. Good support shedding plus excellent housing with a near new, six bedroom brick home and a good three bedroom secondary dwelling. Must be seen to be believed - be sure to come to an open day.

For Sale $5,000,000 + GST (if any)

View Friday 18 November, 11.00am - 12.30pm

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LICENCE TO OCCUPY

Most retirement villages operate on the basis of a ‘Licence to Occupy’. This is one reason why you can’t have a mortgage on these properties there is no title against which to register an interest. In the normal course of events this is nothing to worry about, although it is important to realise that you will not own the the land or the building itself, rather you will have the right to

occupy the property until such time as you leave

When you do decide to sell it is the ‘Licence to Occupy’ which you will be selling As mentioned last week, some operators will buy the licence back at a pre agreed rate and on sell it themselves while others will allow you to sell it and they will take a percentage of the sale price as an exit fee Watch

First Class Location Fencourt District

• 648 Fencourt Road, 1 km from Goodwood School & 7 kms from Cambridge Central

• approx. 1.349 hectares title still to be issued

• easy rolling to flat contour, deer fencing on the boundary

• 4 brm dwelling, mainly solid plaster walls, wooden joinery, long run coloursteel roof

• ensuite and walk in wardrobe off master bedroom

• additional shower and toilet in the laundry area

• gas hot water; wood burner; HRV heating system; alarm system

• functional kitchen with standard features incl stove, range hood, dishwasher, central wooden island bench etc.

• Healthy Homes Standards Report available

• water supply from adjoining landowner will be metered and charged at standard rates

• 3 car garaging including a double garage with auto door opener plus a single garage with additional toilet & storage area

• a well serviced location being an easy distance to Cambridge Middle School, Cambridge High School and approx. 9 kms to St Peter’s Private School

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An extremely well located lifestyle property located in the very popular Fencourt district, featuring a good, solid dwelling situated on a sunny elevated site with extensive rural views.

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He tūranga e wātea ana ki te Wharekura o Ngā Purapura o Te Aroha. E kimi ana mātou kia rua ngā kaiāwhina mō te kura, e mōhio ana ki ngā mahi whakaako tamariki. Me ū te kaitono ki te reo māori me ōna tikanga. Me matua mōhio hoki te kaitono ki ngā mahi whakahaere i te akomanga, me ngākaunui hoki ki ngā mahi whakaako tamariki.

E whakapono ana mātou, he taonga te tamaiti, ko rātou hoki te pūtake o tā mātou kaupapa. Ka kati tēnei tono hei te 02 o Hakihea, 2022 Tukua tō Tātai Oranga (CV) ki te Tumuaki: tari@npota.school.nz Tukua mai mā te poutāpeta rānei ki: attention: Te Wharekura o Ngā Purapura o te Aroha. Enquiries 021 225 7577

BAYLEYS

JOB VACANCY

HOLIDAY PROGRAMME SUPERVISOR

We are looking for a superstar holiday programme supervisor to join our amazing team of carers. This role will involve looking after, and engaging with, children during the term breaks at our holiday programme based at Leamington School. This is a 2IC position and has the option to be for Before and After School Care too.

Hours would be up to 5 hours daily during term time, and up to 10 hours daily during term breaks.

Applicants should love being around children, be able to quickly build a rapport and actively engage with them, be physically fit enough to join in games and have a creative streak.

If that sounds like you, please send your CV, with a covering letter, to Petra Gilbert at petra.g@leamington.school.nz.

Applications close Monday 21st November at 3pm

CAMBRIDGE OPEN HOMES

2:00-2:30pm 1033 Maungakawa Road PBN 3:00-4:00pm CAMBRIDGE

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20 November 3/11 Bryce Street $605,000 10.45-11.15am

Alpha Street Deadline Sale 11.00-11.45am

Hemans Street $789,000 11.30-12.00pm

Pengover Avenue PBN 11.30-12.00pm

Avenue PBN 11.30-12.00pm 98A Scott Street $725,000 11.45-12.15pm

Weld Street $935,000 12.00-12.30pm

Grey Street Deadline Sale 12.00-12.30pm 8 Mirbeck Avenue PBN 12.15-12.45pm

Clare Street PBN 12.15-12.45pm 99B Kingsley Street $1,130,000 12.30-1.00pm 44 Byron Street $1,299,000 12.45-1.15pm 47 West Thompson Street PBN 12.45-1.15pm 41 Catalyst Avenue $1,925,000 1.00-1.30pm 18A Saffron Street $1,155,000 1.00-1.30pm 7 Richards Street $2,075,000 1.00-1.30pm 6/17 Pope Terrace $750,000 1.15-1.45pm

1.45-2.15pm

Marama Drive $2,200,000 1.45-2.15pm

Street $775,000 2.00-2.30pm

BISSET, Cynthia Kay, (nee Fulton) – Passed away peacefully in her sleep, aged 78 years. Dearly loved wife of Tom. Much loved mother to Bruce & Robyn, Murray & Denise, Donna & Blu, Nana Cynthia to nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. At Cynthia's request a private farewell has taken place. All communications to the Bissett Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane Cambridge.

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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

HOUSEHOLD items, linen, crockery, kitchen goods, miscellaneous. $10 box lots. Cash only. Saturday 19 November. 12 Isobel Hodgson Drive, Cambridge. Starts 9.30am.

NOTICE: In the matter of the estate of Ian Raymond Smith. Could any unpaid creditors please send invoices to: The Executor of the will of Ian Raymond Smith, 39 Moumoukai Rd, RD3 Papakura 2583.

WAIPA DISTRICT COUNCIL MEETING NOTICES

Pursuant

Tuesday 29 November 2022

Monday 05 December 2022

Strategic Planning and Policy Committee 9.00am Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Audit and Risk Committee 10.00am Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Tuesday 06 December 2022 District Promotion Committee 8.30am Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Tuesday 06 December 2022 Service Delivery Committee 9.00am Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Tuesday 06 December 2022 Finance and Corporate Committee 1.00pm Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Wednesday 07 December 2022 Cambridge Community Board 6.00pm Cambridge Service Centre 23 Wilson Street CAMBRIDGE

Monday 12 December 2022 Regulatory Committee 10.00am Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Tuesday 13 December 2022 Council 9.00am Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Wednesday 14 December 2022

Thursday 15 December 2022

Te Awamutu Community Board 6.00pm Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Pirongia Ward Committee 4.00pm Council Chambers 101 Bank Street TE AWAMUTU

Please visit the Council website for all meeting information. Electronic copies of Council agendas are available on the Waipa District Council website prior to meetings.

Dyet Chief Executive

Garry

FENCOURT HALL AGM

Monday 21 November at 7.30pm

at Hall 529 Fencourt Rd beside Goodwood School

All welcome Don Heaslip Chairperson

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

Of an application for On Licence

GL Events Ltd has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 601 Maungatautari Road, RD2, Cambridge known as Sir Don Rowlands Centre.

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is Function Centre. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday, 11am12 midnight.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Waipa District Licensing Committee, 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.

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 second publication of this notice. This notice was first published on 10th November 2022.

Weekend Assistant, Part Time

Saturdays, 10 am – 2 pm (4 hours per week)

Cambridge Museum is a much-loved culture and heritage organisa�on commi�ed to caring and preserving its collec�on on behalf of our community as well as developing and sharing engaging content through displays and educa�onal programmes.

We are currently looking for a Saturday Museum Assistant who is helpful and friendly to support and deliver a welcoming visitor experience through customer service and posi�ve interac�ons with the public whilst ensuring the safety and security of visitors, staff and collec�ons. The fundamental part of this posi�on is to be the first point of contact for all our visitors to provide a warm welcome and a great visitor experience in keeping with Manaakitanga (respect, humility, kindness and honesty to others) and Kai�akitanga (guardianship and protec�on). Basic collec�on management, wri�ng and research tasks will also be part of the role.

We are looking for a person who has:

• Outstanding customer service skills with a proac�ve approach

• An interest in history and museums

• An awareness of a wide range of cultures and associated protocol and tradi�ons within Cambridge

• A “can-do” posi�ve a�tude to solving problems or issues

We have a permanent part-�me Saturday role available. This is a great opportunity to work around your studies or whanau commitments.

To apply, please supply a le�er/ email expression of interest and a CV to Elizabeth Harvey, elizabethharvey@ cambridgemuseum.org.nz .

You must be currently eligible to work in New Zealand to apply for this permanent posi�on. To read the full posi�on descrip�on, please visit cambridgemuseum.org.nz/jobvacancies/

We are reviewing applica�ons as they are received, so don’t delay apply today.

Closing date: 4pm Friday 2 December 2022

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The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

Thur 5.30pm, Frid 5.30pm & 8.05pm, Sat 12.25pm, 3.20pm, 6.30pm Sun 10.50pm, 5.40pm, Tue 5.25pm, Wed 5.20pm 8.10pm

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

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DON’T WORRY DARLING | R13 | Final Screenings Fri 8.15pm, Sat 8.00pm

LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE | PG Sat 12.45pm, Sun 10.40pm

DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS | PG Sat 3.05pm, Sun 1.20pm

TICKET TO PARADISE | M | Final Screenings

Sat 5.45pm, Sun 11.00am, Tue 5.45pm, Wed 7.45pm

WHEN THE COWS COME HOME | E | Locally made film Waipa-made and NZ Film Commission funded film. Sat 12.40am, Sun 3.35pm, Wed 10.15am

Tiny Tot Session – for those with under 2s 11am – Mrs Harris Goes to Paris $10

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AM305

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