Cambridge News | December 1, 2022

joins the team

Marc van den Heuvel Partner

Gaye Bezzant, right, has become Cambridge’s 41st inductee on the Sports Walk of Fame in Duke Street - and Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan visited her this week with the plaque which will be unveiled today. Gaye, who has been honoured for her contribution to softball represented New Zealand for a decade from 1955 and served as vice captain in the 1964-65 season. She also represented Waikato in softball, netball, basketball and goal and was the ultimate all-rounder. The 85-yearold still plays golf regularly and many of her golfing buddies are looking forward to walking over her plaque once they find out where it is on Duke Street. Gaye (nee Smith) was born in Cambridge – two blocks away from where she now lives. She and her husband Max, who died three years ago, farmed at Whitehall for many years. – Mary Anne Gill.

It’s Fieldays weather…

By Mary Anne Gill

It was Fieldays, but not as you know it. Or was it?

Fog greeted northern visitors heading over the Bombay Hills towards Waikato yesterday morning and heavy rain meant gumboots were the order of the day.

Opening the event soon at 6am, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor thanked New Zealand National Fieldays Society president James Allen for making farmers feel at home with the weather.

Fieldays is usually held in mid-winter but moved to November-December after Covid mandates prevented this year’s event going ahead.

O’Connor was joined for the opening by Small Business minister Stuart Nash, Customs minister Meka Whaitiri and Climate Change minister James Shaw.

Also on hand were the three Waipā-based MPs Louise Upston, Barbara Kuriger and Tim van de Molen; Waipā and Hamilton mayors Susan O’Regan and Paula Southgate.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived in time for lunch and confirmed the next steps to develop a strategy for on-farm carbon sequestration.

She confirmed the government would bring scientifically robust forms of sequestration into the Emissions Trading Scheme, starting from 2025.

“This will be done at full value, rather than at a discount, so farmers can realise the true potential of the vegetation on their farms.”

As Community Liaison Officer, I am not only based at Cambridge station, but also part of the wider Western Waikato police prevention team. This team is composed of other community liaison officers, school and community officers and youth aid officers from Huntly down to Te Kuiti.

Part of our combined role is event policing and this week will see me heading out to Fieldays at Mystery Creek. I am looking forward to the opportunity to work the event and meet members of the wider rural community. If you see me there, do stop and say hi. I am also looking forward to leading the Cambridge Christmas parade on Sunday afternoon – it is always such a great event.

With the silly season upon us and many companies now having Christmas celebrations, I want to remind people about host responsibility. If you are booking a private function, planning needs to include how your staff will get to and from the location. Consider nominating a sober driver,

utilising a courtesy van or taxi chits. Where alcohol is involved, be sure to provide adequate food and be aware of intoxication levels.

My experience shows this is especially important if your work function involves bussing staff to team building activities out of town, where celebrations span several hours. Every year, alcohol is a key contributor to disorder and assault type offending.

If we take responsibility not only for ourselves, but also for our friends and colleagues, we can keep this to a minimum and reduce harm and those avoidable calls for police.

If ever you see someone about to drive when drunk or drugged, take steps to intervene if possible and call 111 if they have already left, providing vehicle and driver details plus a clear direction of travel or intended destination. Your call could enable us to prevent a serious crash.

On other matters, our commercial vehicle

team have asked me to remind people about oversize vehicles and the high level bridge. Last Friday morning, not one, but two oversize vehicles ignored signs (one hit the height limiting sign and continued across the bridge). This was reported and the companies involved are being spoken to.

The Waipa District Council camera network includes coverage of the bridge approach for just this scenario and offenders will be followed up. The limitations on the bridge are in place due to vital weight and width restrictions.

These measures ensure the structural integrity of the bridge and traffic flow. If the warning sign triggers and redirects you to Williamson Street, please follow the instruction.

Key takeaways from me this week: be a responsible party host and if you stop a mate from drink driving, you’re a bloody legend.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joins, from left, Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan, Bruce Wright and Judi Lady Gallagher for the Primary Leaders lunch at Fieldays. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Cutting the ribbon: from left, Fieldays president James Allen, Tumuaki Hone Thompson, compere Te Radar and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

council still divided

Award winners

Two Waipā companies were among the winners at last weekend’s Master Builders House of the Year Awards.

Kit Markin Homes was successful in the National New Home up to $500,000 category and J A Bell Building won the National Builder’s Own Home category.

Mayor’s invite

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan has invited a government minister to see first-hand the potentially negative impacts of law changes aimed at building more houses, faster. She wants Minister for the Environment David Parker to hear concerns about changes council planners say could dramatically change the district’s character.

Dam dates

The road across Mercury’s Karāpiro Dam which has been closed since August as part of the $75 million, sixyear upgrade to the station will re-open at different periods over the summer. The dates are December 23January 8, January 15-23 and February 4-6. The road will remain closed after Waitangi Day while work on the replacement of the turbine headgates continues.

Parking warning

Parking wardens will be on the beat in Te Awamutu and Cambridge over Christmas to ensure shoppers and retailers get a fair go when it comes to parking. Council will be stepping up parking enforcement during December to discourage people from overstaying their welcome in popular carparks. Those who do overstay risk being hit with a $15 ticket fine.

Rainy days

More than 250mm of November rain had been recorded at Hamilton Airport up to yesterday morning. The average is 85mm and the showers over Mystery Creek before 9am will ensure the total is more than three times the norm.

By Mary Anne Gill

Woes that thwarted the previous Waikato Regional Council in the debating

chamber look set to continue.

Nine discretionary committees were selected at the new council’s first meeting - but it took six hours and 15 minutes of official time and another two hours of behind the scenes activity to agree to them.

The council may have several new faces – but a split down the middle remains.

Waipā-King Country constituency representative Stu Kneebone was appointed onto the powerful Finance and

Ready for the Games

Services Committee and is odds on favourite to become chair. He is also on the Strategy and Policy committee with fellow Waipā-King Country councillor Clyde Graf. But there was controversy over chair Pamela Storey’s recommendations for the council’s committees which some argued said favoured her supporters.

Claims of stacking and sexism were made. Kneebone said he and other councillors had only found out about Storey’s suggestions when the agenda went out to the public.

“It feels to me like you’re treating us as second-class citizens and you’ve got no respect for us.”

When the two went head-to-head for the chair’s position last month it ended in a seven-seven stalemate and Storey’s name was pulled from a hat to get the job.

Several divisions – a method of taking a vote that physically counts members – were called for throughout the meeting last week and Storey used her casting vote twice when there was a deadlock over membership numbers.

A motion to increase membership of the Strategy and Policy committee from the proposed 10 to all 14 councillors was lost.

Similarly, a motion to increase membership of the Climate Action committee from five to eight was lost. However, the numbers were later increased to seven in a unanimous vote to ensure Māori involvement in decision making.

While there was discussion on who should sit on each committee, and some changes made, eventually membership was confirmed by way of a unanimous vote. But both Tipa Mahuta and Kataraina Hodge abstained at times.

Councillors delegated decisions on the chairs and deputy chairs to each committee in meetings to be held in the coming weeks.

The Regional Connections committee, established last term, has gone and instead, councillors voted to engage with Future Proof partners over establishing a Metro Public Transport Subcommittee.

The council will now meet Hamilton City, Waikato, Waipā and Matamata-Piako districts – where there is most public transport demand and investment – to confirm arrangements for a subcommittee.

The Regional Transport committee will extend its focus to include public transport in the wider region.

The nine discretionary committees confirmed by councillors are Risk and Assurance, Finance and Services, Chief Executive Employment and Remuneration, Strategy and Policy, Submissions, Waikato Plan Leadership, Integrated Catchment Management, Environmental Performance and Climate Action.

There was also support for establishing a joint Freshwater Policy Review Committee with iwi partners, as well as the Metro Public Transport subcommittee.

If the behaviour at last week’s Waikato Regional Council meeting is an indication of what’s ahead for the organisation charged with looking after our land, air, water, public transport and biosecurity, let’s bring in a commissioner now. It took councillors more than eight hours to decide who to put on their various committees and they’ve yet to decide on chairs and deputy chairs because of a split.

Seven councillors support chair Pamela Storey and seven support Waipā King Country constituency member Stu Kneebone.

Nastiness and petty politics were the order of the day and mirrors the tumultuous nature of the council’s previous term. The split threatens to rear its head continually and prevent the council doing what ratepayers expect and deserve.

Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta must be asking her officials to keep an eye on the council with a view to doing what she so speedily did in Tauranga –call in a commissioner.

Tauranga City Council’s four commissioners were appointed in November 2020 – and sources say the city has never had it so good with warring councillors out of the picture.

But Mahuta’s sister Tipa, a Kneebone supporter, is a member of the council – so the monitoring may be handed to her associate minister Kieran McAnulty.

The Waipā King Country electorate is also divided - Clyde Graf is in the Pamela Storey camp with Chris Hughes, Mich’eal Downard, Warren Maher, Robert Cookson and Ben Dunbar-Smith.

His fellow ward councillor Stu Kneebone is in a camp with deputy chair Bruce Clarkson, Kataraina Hodge, Angela Strange, Mahuta, Jennifer Nickel and Noel Smith.

They clearly do not like each other and if you do not want to take our word for it, buy yourself some popcorn, pour yourself a drink and tune into the council’s You Tube council to watch the meeting.

Putting aside the appalling camera position and shocking sound, some might call it entertainment. We think it’s a disaster movie.

Go to cambridgenews.nz to see who is on the committees.

Pamela Storey

Stu Kneebone

Cambridge’s Christina Crawford (right), pictured with fellow competitor and good friend Matthew Slone, are part of the country’s biggest sporting event of the weekend – the Special Olympics in Hamilton. More than 1400 athletes and coaches and 600 volunteers will be part of the national summer event.

The games involve 10 sports across eight venues and swimmers Christina and Matthew will both be at Waterworld competing in the pool.

Photo: Grace Odlum.

Spending up in Waipā

By Mary Anne Gill

Credit card spending in Waipā is holding up better than Hamilton.

The information comes from data produced to the Waipā District Council as part of its newly-elected member induction.

Infometrics principal economist and director Brad Olsen said Waipā had solid local foundations and momentum and the primary sector was particularly strong.

The theme of his presentation was ‘Inflation battle to stunt growth in 2023’.

Just over 14 per cent of the Waipā workforce works in agriculture, forestry and fishing, 13 per cent in construction, 10 per cent in manufacturing and nine per cent in retail – all above the rest of New Zealand.

Waipā’s four weekly moving average card spending in October was up 12.5 per cent on 2019

compared to five per cent for the Waikato region while Hamilton and New Zealand figures are about the same at just over two per cent.

The district’s gross domestic product estimate – at 2.4 per centputs its economic outcome in a far healthier state than the 0.9 per cent for Waikato and New Zealand.

The strong local momentum continues through consumer spending, employment at place of residence, tourism expenditure, guest nights, residential and non-residential consents and unemployment rates.

But cost pressures are building particularly on the farm where expenses are soaring by 13.4 per cent.

House prices have also dipped in the district while a limited labour market will cost employers more.

It is harder than ever to keep hold of staff and as poaching rises, so too does the pressure on wages,

Olsen said.

Infometrics are independent economic advisors the council uses to track how the local economy is tracking in comparison to the Waikato region and nationally.

Olsen will continue to provide updates as staff develop the next Long Term Plan.

St Peter’s honours alumni

St Peter’s School has recognised four past students from across business, science, technology innovation and the arts.

The St Peter’s Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented to Ray McKimm, Sunil Kadri, Anna Hawkins, and Craig Piggott at the Don Rowlands Centre, Karapiro, last Friday.

The awards, presented annually by the school’s Alumni Association, recognise past students who have achieved excellence across a variety of fields

Alumni of all ages, and guests travelled from across the country for the event, which had been delayed a year due to Covid. Dr Kadri lives in Chile.

Ray McKimm, a St Peter’s student from 1958 to 1963, is the founder of beds and furniture stockist Big Save Furniture and contributes widely to

his Hawke’s Bay community.

Dr Kadri, 1976 to 1981, is an aquaculture innovator who has been behind numerous start-ups in the fish farming and welfare sectors. He was appointed this year as strategic adviser to Te Arawa Fisheries Trust, assisting aquaculture projects in the Bay of Plenty.

Singer songwriter Anna Hawkins, 2001 to 2004, has performed internationally and has released several albums. She performed two songs at the awards dinner.

Craig Piggott, 2006 to 2012, is the founder of Halter, which uses solar-powered smart cow collars and an app that allows farmers to remotely shift, virtually fence, optimise pasture and monitor herd health. Halter is in use at St Peter’s Owl Farm.

Waipā’s four weekly moving average card spending compared with Hamilton, Waikato and New Zealand.

St Peter’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, from left, Ray McKimm, Anna Hawkins, Dr Sunil Kadri and Craig Piggott.

Brad Olsen, Infometrics

Filling in where needed…

By Mary Anne Gill

Penelope Roberts is putting her skills where her mouth is and making a difference in people’s lives by volunteering to provide lifechanging dentistry.

The Waipā-based dentist has just returned from Ruatōria with Trinity Koha Dental Services where free fillings and extractions were offered to eligible residents. On previous trips she went to Putāruru, Tokoroa, Tauranga and Ngāruawāhia.

A month ago, she returned from 13 days in Fiji where she had been on the MV YWAM Koha, a 48m repurposed medical ship, providing free dental treatment in remote Fijian islands.

The 51-year-old mother of four could be earning a nice living with her own practice as a dentist but has chosen to do voluntary work from now on.

“This is a first world country, but we have third world dentistry. Sixty eight per cent of kids in this country haven’t been seen in the past five years.”

It is only going to get worse, she says, because oral dental health therapists are

providing a catch up service and cannot keep ahead.

“We’ve got a terrible dental health crisis in this country. That’s why we need voluntary services like the one I’m involved with.”

Trinity Koha Dental Clinic brings mobile dental clinics in a converted caravan to underserved New Zealand communities to help relieve urgent oral health needs.

The clinics are a partnership between Youth with a Mission Ships Aotearoa (YSA) and Trinity Lands Ltd, a charitable trust which owns farms, orchards and forestry in South Waikato and Bay of Plenty.

Three years ago, YSA was given a German built container ship which had been used to carry supplies to Pitcairn Island on contract to the UK Government. When that contract expired, owners Nigel and Brenda Jolly gave YSA the ship to use to travel to some of the Pacific’s remotest islands.

The ship has had a refit and has three containers on board, two of them fully equipped for dental surgery: the other for medical procedures.

Roberts (nee Allen), husband Nick and two daughters Ivy, 17, and Missy, 15, all volunteered for the October trip to the islands. He works in the telecommunications industry and is a former ocean racer and was in his element guiding boats to shore while the girls helped in the clinics having learnt how to sterilise equipment and provide post treatment care.

Triaging took place on shore and the worst taken out to the ship where Roberts, an experienced oral surgeon and the only New Zealand dentist on the trip, would see about 15-20 patients a day.

“Every patient needed so much, you had to be very decisive about your priorities which was heart-breaking,” she said.

“We had it front in mind this was our first visit. We were going in to build relationships and assess what’s needed.”

When she was growing up in Morrinsville and attending Waikato Diocesan School for Girls in Hamilton and then Nga Tawa School in Marton, she had dreamed of becoming a veterinarian.

In the seventh form (Year 13) she went on a trip to Samoa with Friends of the Pacific which had her thinking more about medicine.

“A lot of my friends were going to (Otago

University) Dunedin so I went there.”

She studied physiology for two years, applied for dental school and got in.

After graduating she moved north to work in hospitals around Auckland.

After working in private practice, she moved to the UK and worked in various hospitals in London including Paddington Hospital. She was working as a community dentist and heading down the oral surgery or paediatric path when she met Nick, Continued next page

Urban Miners drive e-Waste initiatives

It’s 1pm on a recent Tuesday and the Urban Miner volunteers are on time for an afternoon of mayhem and destruction all in the name of reducing e-waste.

Brian makes a start on the washing machine he has been assigned to take apart grabbing an automated screwdriver to extract the rst of hundreds of screws, plastic, stainless steel, aluminium and other bits of scrap he can keep from going to land ll.

Alison, who has become known as the modem expert, starts on her rst one of the day dismantling it expertly screw by screw.

All around them there is some chatter as members of the Cambridge Rotary Club and the volunteers grab televisions, laptops, computers, batteries, printers, household appliances, mobile phones, stereos, gaming consoles, wiring and cabling collected from the Urban Miners e-waste collections at Te Awamutu and Cambridge.

Items which can be resold are given to the Cambridge Lions Club for its second-hand shop. Cell phones, laptops and desktop computers which can be repaired are sold directly to the public at Tamahere Country Market. This is to help make them a ordable and accessible. Land ll becomes the last resort.

Founder David Blewden has a huge smile on his face. He has found a dongle (used to power a wireless mouse) in an old laptop a fellow

Rotarian handed in. “That’s going to cost you at the next Rotary meeting,” David tells the Rotary member over the phone. There seems more E-waste than usual and that is probably because it’s been the rst collection since Urban Miners reduced the collection fees.

When David and Mark Hanlon started Urban Miners two years ago as a not-for-pro t organisation to divert material from land ll through recycling, reuse, or repair, they were unsure how the nances would stack up.

It was decided originally that any

surplus would be returned to the community by way of reduced fees.

Both support from the community for the service over the last couple of years coupled with the processing e orts of the volunteers means Urban Miners was able to reduce the fees.

They knew they did not want to be a drain on Cambridge and Te Awamutu Rotary clubs funds which are used for their charitable endeavours.

What they do know is the service will never be a free one.

“People need to realise there is a cost to recycling and factor that

in when they buy something electronic,” says David.

So, when the public pays Urban Miners $10 to dispose of their at panel TV and at panel computer monitor ($25 for the older and heavier TVs), $15 for their printer and between $25 and $40 for photocopiers, they know that money is going to several good causes.

The obvious one is keeping the waste from Waipā’s land lls.

A recent study in Whangārei showed that less than two per cent of e-waste was recycled there.

New Zealand produces around 90,000 tonnes of e-waste each year, the fastest growing waste stream in

the country.

That equates to about 20 kilograms of e-waste per person per year –one of the highest amounts per capita on the planet.

New Zealand does not have a national e-waste management scheme, and e-waste can be dumped legally into land ll despite the known environmental risks.

Urban Miners received funding from the Waipā District Council Waste Minimisation Fund and Cambridge Community Board for its capital set up costs.

Te Awamutu Community Board funds a free battery drop o point in Te Awamutu while the Cambridge board provides some funds for a similar scheme still under development.

E-waste Collections take place from 9-11am in Te Awamutu, on the rst Sunday of every month at the Te Awamutu Sports and Recreation Club while the Cambridge collection is held in Swayne Road outside Cambridge High School on the third Sunday.

Urban Miners is always on the look out for community volunteers to help dismantle the various items at their Arnold Street premises and to sell refurbished items at the Tamahere Market. It is two hours of your time when you know you are making a di erence, says David.

And as Alison from Lauriston puts it: “It’s as much about the fellowship, being part of a team,” she says.

Penelope Roberts, left, and Helen Wilson performing dental work on Ben Cavu, a Fijian crew member. Photo Caleb Ansley, Youth with a Mission Ships Aotearoa (YSA).

The m/v YWAM KOHA- a refitted cargo ship built in 1968 that now serves as a medical outreach vessel.

LEFT: Urban Miners and volunteers gather for a recent session sorting recycling: from left Bill Wilson, Brian Bell, Alison Weggery, Melanie Midgley (red apron), Anne Blewden (blue top), Murray Glensor (site foreman), David Edwards, Harriet Lamb (marketing and social media), David Nairn, Mike Keightley, The IT Guy (computer specialist), David Blewden.

RIGHT: Taking apart modems and laptops, from left Alison Weggery and Melanie Midgley.

Continued from previous page an Australian, got married and then fell pregnant.

Her first son Harry is nearly 22. A year later, when she was pregnant with her second son George, the family decided to move to Sydney to be closer to family in Australia and New Zealand.

She worked as a locum dentist and as a lecturer in the Sydney University Dental School when George told his parents he wanted to go to St Peter’s School in Cambridge.

There was a family connection; previous headmaster Richard Morris, who retired in 1995, is Roberts’ second cousin and his stories of the school impressed young George, who started at the school in 2015.

Two years later the family moved across the Tasman.

“We just feel Cambridge chose us. Our

boy decided to come here and Mum was in Morrinsville. The doors were closing in Sydney and opening here.”

They moved to Fencourt and she reregistered as a dentist in 2017 doing mostly locum work.

“I’ve never wanted my own practice, so I’ve been happy locuming.

“At the beginning of last year, I found out about this mission ship. I just want to do aid work now. It is incredibly fulfilling.”

She will return to Fiji next year.

What Roberts has seen in New Zealand has reinforced her belief in community water fluoridation.

She was stunned when there was opposition to the planned introduction of fluoride into Cambridge’s water supply.

“Anywhere it can go in, it should go in.”

The benefits of community water fluoridation are overwhelming, says Roberts.

How a good app saved Chinnell

An app which alerts people with CPR training to emergencies helped save the life of a woman in Cambridge.

Off-duty emergency medical technician Nichola Higgins was walking her dog when the Good Sam app she downloaded a week earlier went off, Newshub’s Karen Rutherford reported.

It directed her to the home of Chinnell Tihore who was having a cardiac arrest.

“I just opened it up and saw she was literally around the corner from me, so I jumped in my car and raced around there. Her friend was a bit shocked when I walked in,” Higgins said.

The 35-year-old St John officer said she "scooted him out of the way and proceeded to do what I was trained to do".

Cambridge fire and ambulance crews arrived soon after to offer backup, Higgins insisted it was a "team effort".

"Essentially she looked dead, which is scary. Her poor son was there absolutely beside himself, which was heart-breaking. I was devastated I didn't get to console him at the time," Higgins said.

Hato Hone St John told Newshub anyone with the skills to perform CPR or use a defibrillator can sign up for free for the Good Sam app. Using GPS, emergency services use it to ping responders within a kilometre of a suspected cardiac arrest no matter where they are in the world.

Ten thousand New Zealand medical professionals, fire crews and members of the public use the app, but Hato Hone St John would love it to be more.

Cardiac arrests are one of the leading causes of death in New Zealand. On average 2000 people a year suffer a cardiac arrest and statistics show only 25 survive the arrest itself.

"It doesn't cost you anything and it's voluntary, you don't have to attend [an incident] but if you do you could potentially save a life by starting those compressions," Higgins said Tihore put up a social media post in an effort to find and thank Higgins –and the pair were reunited this week.

"She is like a hero to me, she did what any superhero would do and saved my life," she said.

The dental outreach team in Rabi Island, northern Fiji, from left, Nathanael Herman, Shika, Penelope Roberts, Lepani.

Photo Caleb Ansley, Youth with a Mission Ships Aotearoa (YSA).

The international Good Sam app is a lifesaver

Karāpiro of the future

By Mary Anne Gill

Within 30 years Ōhaupō will be a small town growing to the north and Karāpiro will have a new school in a thriving village hub.

The suggestions are two of several scenarios in Ahu Ake, Waipā’s interim draft spatial plan or blueprint for the future.

The spatial plan contains 20 bottom lines which Ahu Ake must deliver to be successful and aims to cater for the district’s accelerated population growth, estimated to increase 25 per cent to 75,000 by 2045.

Strategy manager Kirsty Downey gave an exclusive briefing to The News about the interim draft spatial plan which heads out on a community roadshow from February next year.

“This is the piece of work that’s going to drive everything else we do.”

The roadshow would include topics like village growth, papakāinga, peat lakes and economic opportunities. Every part of the district would be involved in an informal and interactive way, she promised.

Ahu Ake says all future growth should be contained in the council’s existing growth cells except for Ōhaupō.

“We anticipate greater growth there which will come about because of increased activity at the airport, Hamilton growing south and the Southern Links transport network.”

Southern Links will link SH1 from Kahikatea Drive in Hamilton to south of Tamahere.

The growth in Ōhaupō will come about because of more employment around the airport hub and an increase in public

transport options with provisos around the district’s ability to deliver reticulated systems, water and wastewater.

In Karāpiro, Downey says they have anticipated the Cambridge to Piarere SH1 Expressway extension would provide an opportunity for increased access to the lake.

That then opens tourism and other ventures making Karāpiro a marketable package destination, she said.

“Our feedback is the community feels very disconnected. We’ve heard that people come together and connect at the school or the service station if people want to have discussions.”

Ahu Ake –which broadly means to move forward and progress - suggests working with Waka Kotahi and the Ministry of Education to move Karāpiro School across SH1 into the village where it would be a community hub.

Creating a park space, an early childhood centre and a small retail area, would fit the ‘Destination Karāpiro’ concept and ensure good walking and cycling connections, she said.

Other smaller communities like Te Miro, Pukeatua and Ngāhinapōuri would be included in the informal engagement along with Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Kihikihi and Pirongia.

“It’s all about connecting with those communities and adopting an informal approach.

“We want the conversations to be

meaningful with people who don’t normally front up to a council chamber.”

When it consulted earlier this year with key stakeholders and community organisations, the feedback was that council had predetermined the outcome.

“We know we haven’t. This is a starting point for consultation with the community,” said Downey. Questions would be open ended to allow for informal discussion over what the council might have missed or got wrong. The priorities might need rejigging.

“This will be a live document,” she said.

Councillors were briefed on Tuesday at the first Strategic Planning and Policy committee of the term and approved going out for consultation.

Senior Strategic planner Vanessa Honore said Ahu Ake had 20 bottom lines under five themes: collaboration, socially resilient, cultural champions, environmental and economically progressive.

“Ahu Ake will impact all of our Waipā communities, current and future. It will become (our) key strategic planning document. It will drive our future activities and investments with respect to our organisational planning and service delivery, ensuring that we successfully deliver on our Vision, Community Outcomes and Strategic Priorities.”

Following the roadshow completion in March, the plan will be updated for more community engagement and then formal consultation.

A preferred version would go to the council for adoption in September next year.

The plan for Karāpiro has taken at least one Waipā councillor by surprise but another who works there says the community has felt disconnected for years.

Ahu Ake Waipā Community Spatial Plan has picked up on opportunities to create a unique destination in response to the proposed SH1 Cambridge to Piarere improvement projects, Strategy manager Kirsty Downey told councillors this week.

But Pirongia-based councillor Clare St Pierre is worried about how the concept got into the plan.

“My concern is that this is quite a large scale recreational proposal that I think will have some large dollars attached to it and it’s all on the eastern side of the district that is already well served by rivers and cycleways.”

The western side of the district would struggle to get any traction to get something into council’s plans and she was unconvinced mana whenua had any involvement with the proposal.

Deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk, who chairs the Strategic Planning and Policy committee where Ahu Ake’s consultation plans starting in February next year were approved, said it had been difficult for the Karāpiro community, particularly when there is a hydro dam road in the middle of it and that road had been closed for some time.

There was a real desire in the community to start to have regular meetings, she said.

Downey said concerns the western side of the district was missing out were allayed in Ahu Ake with plans to protect the peat lakes and provide a corridor between Pirongia and Maungatautari.

In an email to councillors the previous day she said over 30 years Destination Karāpiro had the potential to deliver on improved health and wellbeing of the waterways, connect people to the river and facilitate economic development.

Asked whether the plan showed a spatial imbalance of investment for amenities being proposed, she said Ahu Ake set out long-term strategic initiatives.

Kirsty Downey

New role for Bech

Aksel Bech has been snapped up as new Waikato Housing Initiative chief after his political aspirations were hit for six at the local body elections.

The former deputy mayor of Waikato District threw his hat in for mayor only, and was beaten.

Now the Tamahere based businessman will lead an organisation which is working toward a vision of every person and every family in Waikato being well-housed in sustainable, flourishing and connected communities.

Co-chair Lale Ieremia said Bech already had oversight of Waikato Housing Initiative’s activities and could hit the ground running.

“We’ll benefit greatly from being able to tap into his experience at this crucial time.”

“We are working together to change the current status quo of housing across the Waikato by leading, connecting and facilitating the delivery of affordable, quality and accessible homes in our region,” cochair Nic Greene said.

“It’s the right time for the Waikato Housing Initiative to appoint a CEO who can lead the strategic partners

and working group.”

Bech said he very conscious of the lack of affordable housing across the region and the effects of it.

Over the past five years, the Waikato Housing Initiative has worked with local authorities and developers to promote integrated, affordable housing as part of master planned communities. This has included developing a ‘scorecard’ housing providers and developers use to assess their housing projects so they can more closely match the region’s vision and goals for housing outcomes.

The carriage awaits…

Waikato’s horse drawn vehicles society celebrated fine weather –and the success of new members – at a two-day event at Kihikihi last weekend.

The Waikato Horse Drawn Vehicles Society is the Waikato area club belonging to the national carriage driving. The Waikato society is based principally in the Te Awamutu area and most member live in Waipā and Hamilton.

The events featured a dressage tournament on Saturday and a short dressage test, followed by a cone course - which is likened to the show jumping phase of ridden eventing - and then marathon obstacles, where speed and skill are key on Sunday.

The dressage tournament forms part of a national circuit and contributes to the national championships to be held early next year in Flaxmere.

The club has seen an influx of new members, and it was great to see one, Stacey Bennett, who drove Willow, did exceptionally well in her first outing.

Other successful drivers on Saturday included Jennifer Carew from Te Awamutu who won the Advanced and Intermediate tests with Willowview Express, Leanne Bertling from Cambridge with Toy Boy.

Bertling and Carew also starred in the Sunday competition – Carew going home as champion and Bertling reserve

champion at the end of the weekend.

The next event on the competition calendar is at Weal’s Property at 149 Kakepuku Rd on December 17 and 18. The second day will feature an international event pitting New Zealand against Australia – with speed courses on either side of the Tasman testing the competitors.

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Leanne Bertling and Toy Boy during the dressage Tournament on Saturday.

Work starts on retirement village

hectare Cambridge Rd site.

A blessing from Ngāti Koroki Kahukura signalled the start of Ryman Healthcare’s new development last week on an 8.6

The village will include 80 care beds, 60 serviced apartments and 185 townhouses, an indoor swimming pool, café, hair and beauty salons.

Ngāti Koroki Kahukura’s Harry Wilson said the land was the

original site of King Tawhiao where around 20,000 people once lived. With plentiful crops on the land and fish in Lake Te Koo Utu it made a popular rest stop, he said.

“It was a central hub of Māoridom. Whenever people came to our turf there was no fighting.”

He also noted the historical land confiscations that forced local Māori to settle in less desirable areas.

He looked forward to the

employment and residential opportunities that Ryman Healthcare’s new village would bring for local people.

Ryman development manager

Tayla Beck said the village would employ around 150 team members including clinical leaders, registered nurses and caregivers as well as kitchen, housekeeping and maintenance and gardening teams.

Ryman villages offer a choice of

independent and assisted living options as well as resthome, hospital and dementia care all on one site.

Sales manager Colin Caldwell said Cambridge would be the company’s 41st New Zealand retirement village in New Zealand and will build on the great work our teams have done at Hilda Ross and Linda Jones villages in Hamilton over many years.

Harry Wilson (left) performs a

with Irihapeti Bullmore, Ryman Healthcare’s Taha Māori Kaitiaki – Cultural Navigator.

Looking to the future for local government

A Sustainability and Wellbeing Committee has been added to the Waikato District Council committee structure.

It will become one of the council’s main committees alongside the Policy & Regulatory, Strategy & Performance and Infrastructure committees which all councillors attend.

The committee will handle decisions on council work that relate to sustainability and community wellbeing and it’s expected to apply a ‘wellbeing lens’ on how council delivers its Long Term Plan work programmes. For example, it’s expected to oversee progress on our climate action plan, as well as economic development, social development and cultural strategies and programmes. Emergency management in the district will sit with this committee, as will the distribution of grant funding.

This move, together with the council’s decision to introduce Māori wards at this year’s election, will start to align the council with the direction of local government reform outlined in the Government’s ‘Review into the Future for Local Government’. Released a month ago, this review is out for public consultation until February 28.

By Crystal Beavis

funding arrangements for local government are unsustainable and recommends new funding streams be established, alongside a simplified rating system, to include more co-investment by central Government.

The importance of community, and local participation in decision-making, will not be new to those of you who take an interest in local organisations and initiatives that support a rich and vibrant community life.

So thanks to those of you who have stood for election to your local community and hall committees. You play a fundamental part in our local democracy and in the operation of local assets, ensuring that local aspirations are articulated and heard by the council precisely because they are community-led and supported.

Resthaven celebrates a half century

With community and hall committees operating in Tamahere, Matangi and Tauwhare, as well as Newstead, Eureka, Puketaha, and Gordonton, the Tamahere-Woodlands Ward is well-placed to benefit from this renewed recognition and emphasis on the importance of local democracy and community wellbeing.

A gathering of four decades of “matrons to managers” was among the highlights as Cambridge’s Resthaven celebrated its 50th anniversary over two days last week.

clocked up long years of service, noting Resthaven had dedicated stayers.

Welcome to Lockerbie Village

The review sets its sights on making local government ‘fit’ to meet a host of challenges from climate change to growing social and economic inequity. It calls for change to maximise community wellbeing and strengthen local democratic decision making, including Māori representation and participation. The Review recognises that the Three Waters and Resource Management reforms – which seek to regionalise infrastructure and spatial planning - will impact a significant proportion of what local authorities do, and it argues for the need to reallocate local and central government roles, so councils play a greater role in community wellbeing. It also recognises

So, it’s important that we share with others, especially our young people, our interest in taking responsibility for our neighbourhoods – and the rewards of friendship, mutual support and engagement that arise out of it.

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How do we attract this commitment in an age when online ‘communities’ are rivalling real neighbourhoods? That’s a question for all of us to work together to resolve. The future of local democracy, and our kiwi way of life, depends on it.

When Resthaven opened, the head role was the matron and the gathering featured Margaret Wyllie, matron and later principal nurse-manager from 1982 to 1995, Ruth Strawbridge, acting manager in 1995, Iris Durney 1995-2001, and David Hall who has been chief executive officers since 2001.

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A number of the team have reached the 20-year mark, and the longest serving staff member, Elaine Peter, worked there for 33 years up to 2007 and was at the birthday celebrations. Next longest serving team member is current staff member Sue Crowe at 31 years.

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Resthaven residents, past and present staff, and the wider community network came together for Friday afternoon’s celebration at the Resthaven Village Centre.

Guest speaker Hamish Wright entertained with stories about the book shops in Cambridge prior to Paper Plus - dating back to the JH Edwards shop in 1904 - and his life as the owner of a book shop today.

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Waikato District Council Tamahere-Woodlands ward members Crystal Beavis and Mike Keir will present monthly comment pieces for The News.

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Trust Board chair Kevin Monks and past chair Sarah Barns Graham discussed the history being celebrated by the community-owned organisation. Monks referred to the staff who had

A gala evening and charity auction capped off the celebrations on Saturday and attracted about 200 people.

Kevin Monks spoke about the past, present and future of Resthaven, and encouraged people to read From Community Spirit, a book which celebrates the 50 years of Resthaven.

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Matrons to managers, from left, Iris Durney, Margaret Wyllie, Ruth Strawbridge, and David Hall.

Photo: Michael Jeans.

Fieldays spring back

By Peter Carr

Next week our roads will be under strain as drivers will arrive at – and depart from –a warmer edition of Fieldays.

That annual – now in its 54th year – event that brings town and country together to celebrate and view the innovative backbone of our country’s prime industry –agriculture.

In 1969 the first event was held after a group of like-minded people listened to the advice and recommendation of the late John Kneebone.

In those days a young Hinuera-based farmer was in England as part of his work under the umbrella of a prestigious Nuffield Scholarship.

He wrote to the then Farming Editor of the Waikato Times to push the idea that those in the ‘town’ should meet with those in the ‘country’ to share an understanding of what was essentially driving the commercial thrust of a small though rapidly growing nation.

that it be held at a time in the year when those creating the agricultural worth would be able to attend – the attendance of the ‘town’ component being flexible as to the season of the year.

board being a general downtime for most Waikato farmers as they were immersed in the dairy industry.

was broken to accommodate the visit of the Queen and her family but at no other time did the event depart from foggy, cold mornings until this year.

been driven not by adherence to matters of majesty, but by the disruptive fangs of a

pandemic that had caused the cancellation of a previous event.

So, no warm clothing this year – shorts will be to the fore.

The traffic congestion, slow-moving crowds and excited children will remain. Those who favour a warmer weather environment should take time to enjoy this one. The 2023 event will revert to the month of June.

The logistics for the event are enormous. As a past president of the Fieldays Society I was privy to the degree by which preplanning to fit in with other events was and is essential.

The event has bloomed - and now accommodates matters not purely

FAITH IN WAIPĀ

Redemption for Pākaraka

By Murray Smith, Senior Leader, Bridges Church

A little township near Whanganui has been in the process of having its original name reinstated. Following a long process of discussion between local Māori, regional authorities and people in the township, public submissions revealed 189 favoured the name change, from 255 responses received. The details have been getting finalised and the town of Maxwell will henceforth be called Pākaraka. Good job.

It’s not a new name. It always was Pākaraka. That is, until an event unworthy of commemoration took place in 1868. Patrolling colonial settler militiamen on horseback came across a group of Māori boys, the oldest about 10 years of age (unarmed of course) who happened to be hunting geese and pigs.

An unprovoked chase ensued, led by a Scotsman named Sergeant George Maxwell. With the children being pursued, shot at and attacked by “soldiers” wielding sabres on horseback, they stood little chance. The reported outcome varies - accounting for two being killed, with many others being injured, while others claim far worse - a massacre with one survivor.

The small township from that point on was then named Maxwelltown. In 1927 it became just Maxwell. Questions have been asked for decades by Ngāti Maika and other iwi of Taranaki, why a shameful event could be dignified by naming the town after the man responsible for a senseless attack on their ancestors. After years of process, a reversion of the town’s name back to its original Pākaraka, has been authorised. (‘Pa’ meaning home and ‘karaka’ for the trees that once proliferated locally.)

Learning the community is getting its proper (and nicer) name back is great. In January 2023, Waka Kotahi will supply new road signs

which will support the effort to expunge Maxwell references in favour of ‘Pākaraka.’ With signs already disappearing, the change seems eagerly awaited.

’Pākaraka’ being reinstated as the town’s rightful name, somehow feels like redemption.

The story directs my thoughts to the meaning of the word, to ‘redeem’… to ‘restore’, buy back, or ‘reinstate’ for an original purpose. The triggering connotations of ‘Maxwell’ left some people resistant to considering its backstory. Similarly, acknowledging that the entire human race became corrupted, sold out to evil and rebellion, is a scenario many people don’t want to consider either.

But that’s the reality. I have wonderful kids who I’m proud of - but I remember marvelling as they were very little people growing up, at their instinct for naughty stuff. Nobody ever taught them that. Nobody taught me that either… those streaks of defiant wilfulness, selfishness, or any other propensity to wrong-doing, existed in us from birth like an inbuilt bias on a bowling ball.

We’ve all gone our own way, rejecting God. In spite of humanity abandoning His purpose and design, He’s nonetheless provided a plan for redemption - it’s found in accepting Christ’s death on the Cross which paid for our salvation, clearing the debt for every wrongdoing. It means forgiveness, reinstatement and transformation.

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The Oxford Dictionary’s definition of redemption expresses it well… “Redemption is regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt.”

MP joins bridge call

By Mary Anne Gill

Louise Upston has told Waipā District Council it is vital it identifies a site for a third bridge in Cambridge so the issue is on central Government and Waka Kotahi’s radar.

The Taupō MP broke her silence in a social media post last week saying as Cambridge’s population continues to outstrip forecasts, the need for a third bridge grows.

“Any further delays will put our community under enormous pressure so I’m working hard for this community, working with the council to ensure we make that happen,” she said in a video.

“What we do know is the two bridges are already kind of at capacity. As soon as you take one out for maintenance and repairs, it causes all sorts of challenges.”

The News asked Upston why she had not spoken out sooner and she said she had not wanted to get involved while it was a local body election issue.

We also asked who in council she had been talking to because a spokesperson told us no council staff had spoken to Upston on the

third bridge issue since April when former mayor Jim Mylchreest wrote to her saying because there had been “misinformation circulating” he wanted to set the record straight.

A month after the letter was sent, the Waipā Transport Strategy confirmed the need for another river crossing.

Upston said she had spoken to Mylchreest but the latest formal contact between her and the council happened this week when the MP met new mayor Susan O’Regan in Cambridge.

After Upston posted to social media last week, Waipā council posted a response saying to Upston: “Perhaps you’re not up to speed with this project,” before going on to say it was not easy to confirm a location “and why for the sake of Cambridge (including Cambridge landowners) we must get it right.”

The posting referred Upston to the Cambridge Connections project which is now underway with stakeholder information sessions being held this week.

Upston said she would attend one of the sessions

and said she asked O’Regan whether that project would determine a preferred location and O’Regan told her it would.

“I’m concerned if a site isn’t found it will place undue pressure on the community and businesses,” said Upston.

It was crucial in future proofing the transport infrastructure.

The stoush on social media continued with a third bridge supporter saying Upston’s support was needed to convince council, to which the council responded: “The council does not need to be ‘convinced’. The Waipā Transport Strategy adopted in May this year has already confirmed the need for an additional river crossing. Work is already underway to secure critical government funding for the bridge so that Waipā ratepayers (not just those in Cambridge) do not have to bear the full cost.”

Asked by one of the third bridge supporters why there was no mention of urgency in the strategy, the council responded:

“It’s because the decision on where a third bridge would go will have a huge impact on Cambridge

long-term, including on neighbouring residents and businesses. For example, a third bridge location would require council to designate land, meaning the land would be zoned for future road use. A lot of land would be needed and once designated, council would likely be required to borrow money to buy that land, even though the bridge will be some years away. A designation may also require existing road corridors to be widened, forcing council to buy further land from residents or businesses, some of whom may not wish to sell.”

Upston told The News she did not have a preferred site for a third bridge as she was not a roading engineer but it was a priority project.

Special effects and prop company Wētā Workshop has created a scale model of a kauri for Waikato Regional Council to help publicise measures to protect the tree.

The 1:82 representation of kauri in the Coromandel Peninsula around 1850 is based on a tree known as Father of the Kauri which stood at Mercury Bay.

Father of the Kauri had a trunk diameter of about 7.5 metres - more than two metres bigger than that of Tane Mahuta in Northland’s Waipoua Forest.

Kauri Protection Lead Kim Parker says the model, along with a virtual reality experience which is still being developed, is part of a mobile educational programme.

“We’ll be rolling it out to community trapping groups, landowners, mana whenua and supporting ThamesCoromandel District Council’s kauri ambassador programme to let them know specific ways they can help protect kauri as individuals, and to inspire a bright future for kauri in the Waikato,” says Parker.

Kauri need protection from a dieback disease caused by a microscopic soil-borne organism called Phytophthora agathidicida that affects kauri through its roots, damaging the tissues that carry nutrients and water and effectively starving the tree. Stopping the movement of dirt around kauri is the best way to protect kauri.

Waikato Regional Council has been helping community groups introduce kauri protective behaviours, such has installing hygiene stations; and supporting farmers to fence off kauri areas to prevent stock incursion.

Louise Upston

Wētā’s model kauri.

On the road again…

I commend your newspaper and your writer Mary Anne Gill for highlighting the real statistics behind the incidents on this stretch of road. It is a pity that local politicians could not wait for the cause of recent fatalities to be determined by the police and the coroner before rushing into the public arena with emotional comments about the state of the highway engineering. Based on the News’ research, just two of some 70 fatal or serious injury incidents in the last five years could be attributed to ‘road factors’. Of course, that is two too many, but let’s keep this in perspective.

Peter Hamling Cambridge

No need for speed

Mary Anne Gill’s lead story “reveals” something which has been well known to me, and doubtless others, for the last 70 years. Road accidents are caused by drivers.

While reducing speed limits may reduce the number of incidents in that drivers have more time to react, it is a totally useless measure unless properly enforced. The present speed limits are largely ignored by most drivers in

New Zealand.

The root cause of driving incidents is that the requirements to obtain a licence are wrong.

Learning how to operate a piece of heavy machinery travelling at 100 kms/hour is a skill which can be taught. Having regard for life and property, your own and others, is a psychological condition which has to become part of your personal culture.

I was a member of a Government Committee which (admittedly on the instruction of the Head of State) recommended that anyone caught speeding for the first time would be fined and warned that if caught for a second time they would lose their driving licence for from one to five years.

Immediately everyone obeyed the speed limits and collisions were reduced. However, studies showed that this reduction was in part because drivers, having to watch their speed, were just more attentive generally.

You do not have the right to drive - as many obviously believe. You have a responsibility to negotiate your vehicle correctly, safely and with consideration for others. If you are mentally unable to grasp this concept then you should not be driving.

Of course we need safer roads, appropriate speed limits and

safer cars but unless governments are prepared to change the way in which drivers are licensed, the number of people killed and injured by motor vehicles will increase.

The goal must be to change the attitude and thinking of drivers. Safe driving is a function of our brain. The problem is trying to get everyone’s brains working.

(Abridged) Sean Brady Cambridge

It’s not right…

I’ve been driving for 50 years. I took professional driving lessons and when passing a vehicle (back in those days) you passed and always went back into the left lane.

Sensible thing to do when there are only two lanes going each way. For 50 years I have used this rule even on multilane highways. However we have a new driver these days who stays out on the right lane and holds up traffic. It is most uncomfortable when I was a passenger in a car and the driver stays in the right multilane all the way to their destination. I just want to get back into the left lane and leave the right passing lane for passing vehicles. Have the rules changed? Or are people unaware of the road rules.

It must be hard to have to look at both/multi lanes for people criss-crossing lanes at their whim or even passing in the left lane? Or should we as I was taught many moons ago, to always keep left?

One more thing, people turning right – no problem in town – but out in the country when cars are motoring at 100kph the rule was always to pull left and let traffic past before going right.

Has that rule changed too? Best thing to do these days is always be alert to any possible danger and be aware people don’t always follow the road rules.

Deborah Harper Cambridge

It’s the drivers

I live in Cambridge and frequent this so-called dangerous road. I have said for a long time that there is nothing wrong with the road.

It’s not rocket science.

It’s how we share the road that is the problem. Some don’t want to share, they just want to use it. The stats speak for themselves. If road conditions were on the list, it would probably be marked down as zero. Enough said, I reckon.

Alan Sayers Cambridge

Kiwifruit hearing

An application to establish kiwifruit shelters at 582 Parallel Road in Cambridge is heading for a hearing. A date for the limited notified resource consent application has not been set.

LIM numbers up

The number of Land Information Memorandums processed from July 1 to September 30 has increased from 231 the previous quarter to 293. All were processed within timeframes and took an average of 4.73 days.

Airport development

The industrial part of Hamilton Airport continues to be developed. The western precinct is mostly full while development of the southern and eastern precincts is progressing. A private plan change for the northern precinct is underway with concerns about the implications for the sub-regional wastewater facility and roading connections.

Levies dip

Waipa District Council raised 302 development contribution levies for the 2021-2022 financial year totalling $36.5 million. This is down $10 million on the previous year. The council has $54.5 million in development contribution levies outstanding which does not include a recent $13 million agreement signed between the council and 3M developers in Cambridge.

Last week’s story in The News about the causes of crashes on the Cambridge to Piarere section of State Highway One has generated considerable debate both in print – on this page – and on our website. Today we have decided to hold back our follow up stories on the issue to give readers their say. Watch for more on the issue next week.

Some of the country’s finest young rowers put on two days of outstanding racing on Lake Karāpiro last weekend.

The regatta attracted a host of Waipā and Waikato rowing clubs and schools – and promising rowers from Auckland, Rotorua, Tauranga, Whakatane, Whangarei and Whanganui.

Weather for the event was threatening, but it largely remained dry over the two days.

St Peter’s Year 11 and 12 students were at the Karapiro Club Regatta and all made finals.

The boys’ quad of Harrison McClintock,

Joshua Yeoman, Khaidar Tuikin and Valentin Barrio-Frojan raced well in men’s senior coxless quad sculls, finishing fifth in a highly competitive final.

Peyton Barnard and Charlise Davison won the girls’ U16 double sculls in convincing fashion. Arabella Barrio-Frojan and Imogene Short stormed home in the women’s club double sculls.

Te Awamutu Rowing Club’s Lolkje Deboer was fourth in the women’s club single sculls while from Cambridge High the women’s intermediate coxed eight of Charlotte Wilson, Elise Pickford, Kendall Muir, Isla Newlands, Caitlan Bax, Annaliese Jenner, Ruby David, Molly Macdiarmid and cox Jack Charlton clipped six seconds off their heat time to win the A final.

Karāpiro will host a Christmas regatta over three days from December 16.

St Peter’s boys quad, from left, Valentine Barrio-Frojan, Joshua Yeoman, Khaidar Tuikin, Chris Thorsen (coach) and Harrison McClintock.

Laid-back lunch

What is a long lunch? Historically it was a great favourite with restaurant owners. It was a tradition of businesspeople to indulge in lunches of three to four hours or longer claiming ‘business deals’ were consummated over a bottle or two of expensive wine and a dozen or so oysters to start. However, financial recessions have put paid to these luxuries. Deals are finalised back in the boardroom, or these days, even on Zoom.

ITALIAN-STYLE SEAFOOD SALAD

The Southern Littleneck Clams in a 500g bag came from my local supermarket. Keep the salad chilled.

Dressing: 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind

1/4 cup lemon juice

2 cloves garlic, crushed pinch each: sugar, chilli flakes

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

Seafood: 1kg mussels in their shells

4 cloves garlic, crushed 2 bay leaves

3 tablespoons olive oil

1/4 cup water

500g littleneck clams, rinsed 1-2 squid tubes

freshly ground black pepper to taste 250g cooked prawns

Extras: 1/4 cup finely chopped parsley

2 small fennel bulbs, trimmed and thinly sliced Whisk the ingredients for the dressing for 1 minute and place aside.

Wash the mussels and remove the beards. Place 2 cloves of crushed garlic, the bay leaves and half the olive oil in a large saucepan. Heat gently then add the water. Add the mussels, cover and heat until the mussels just open. Remove each one as it opens to a bowl. (Discard any that don’t open.)

Place the clams in the saucepan. Cover and heat until they just open. Place aside.

Discard any cartilage from the squid tubes. Cut into 1cm rings. Toss in the remaining oil and sprinkle generously with black pepper and. Stir-fry the squid in a non-stick pan for about 2 minutes until just cooked. Place in a large bowl.

Remove the meat from the mussels and clams. Add to the bowl together with the prawns. Mix well. Pour in the dressing and mix. Cover and chill for at least 2 hours or overnight. Just before serving add the parsley and fennel. Serves 4-6.

TERIYAKI DUCK WITH ORANGE

Delicious served warm or cold.

Marinade: 1/4 cup dark soy sauce 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tablespoon each: freshly grated root ginger, mirin, honey 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Duck: 460g (2) fresh NZ duck breasts

freshly ground black pepper to taste

Orange Salad: 2 oranges 1 cup rocket leaves

Combine the ingredients for the marinade in a bowl. Score the skin of the duck. Place in the marinade. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour or overnight.

Remove the duck and pat dry. Reserve the marinade. Place the duck skin-side down in a cold, non-stick frying pan. Turn the heat to medium-high. Cook for 9 minutes. The fat will melt and become the frying liquid. Flip the breasts over and continue cooking for 5 minutes. (Alternatively, cook in a 180°C oven for 5 minutes). The internal temperature should be about 60°C. Cover with foil and rest for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, stand the oranges on a chopping board. Using downward cuts, remove the skin and pith. Cut the segments

from the oranges between the membranes. Pour any juice into a small saucepan and add the reserved marinade. Boil for 2 minutes.

Layer the orange segments and rocket on a serving plate. Thinly slice the breasts and place on top. Drizzle with the boiled marinade. Serves 4-6.

WATERMELON & FETA SALAD

This attractive salad is an ideal long lunch selection. 200g low-salt feta cheese

1/2 cup good balsamic dressing

700g seedless watermelon, peeled 3 cups torn crisp lettuce leaves

1/2 telegraph cucumber, scored and thinly sliced 1/2 cup blueberries or pomegranate arils (seeds) or both 1/4 cup sliced, pitted kalamata olives

Cut the feta into cubes and place in a bowl. Add the balsamic dressing. Cover and marinate in the fridge for at least an hour or overnight.

Quarter the watermelon and slice into 1cm-thick wedges. Arrange the lettuce, cucumber and watermelon on a serving platter.

Drain the feta, reserving a 1/4 cup of the dressing. Roughly crumble the feta.

Top the salad with the blueberries and/or the pomegranate arils, the olives and feta. Serve the dressing on the side. Serves 6.

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Teriyaki duck with orange

Italian-style seafood salad

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FAMILIES WHO'D HAVE 'EM?

Everybody wants the best for their families, and you will want to discuss your plans

family members voice objections to your plans which seem to have more to do with their priorities than yours

If you find yourself arguing your case with someone who is being less supportive than you might have hoped, do listen to what they have to say and then remember this is about you and what you want And of course give me a call if you’d like to talk

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Sunday 4 December

CAMBRIDGE OPEN HOMES

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31 Campbell Street Auction 1.00-1.30pm

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4/360 Aspin Road Deadline Sale 12.15-12.45pm

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Sunday 4 December

9 Manuka Place $779,000 10.45-11.15am

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8 Mirbeck Place PBN 12.15-12.45pm

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11 Bryce Street Deadline Sale 1.00-1.30pm

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3/11 Bryce Street $605,000 1.45-2.15pm

64A Thompson Street $775,000 2.00-2.30pm

35 Whare Marama Drive Offers +$1,980,000 2.00-2.30pm

3 Richards Street $1,445,000 2.15-2.45pm

4A Upper Kingsley Street PBN 2.30-3.00pm

18 Cotter Place $1,299,000 2.30-3.00pm

6/17 Pope Terrace $750,000 2.45-3.15pm

16 Alan Livingston Drive PBN 3.15-3.45pm

14 De La Mare Drive PBN 3.15-3.45pm

97B Hinton Road Deadline Sale 3.15-4.00pm

Tuesday 6 December

2/205 Oliver Road Auction 11.30-12.30pm

HARCOURTS

Sunday 4 December

49a Weld Street PBN 10.00-10.30am

39 Plescher Crescent PBN 11.00-11.30am

50a Scott Street $895,000 12.00-12.30pm

34 Recite Avenue PBN 1.00-1.30pm

103 Fergusson Gully Deadline Sale 2.00-3.00pm

LJ HOOKER

Sunday 4 December

31a Tennyson Street $775,000 11.00-11.30am

5 Mirbeck Ave Deadline Sale 11.15-11.45am

10a Weld Street PBN 12.00-12.30pm

6a Williamson Street $969,000 12.00-12.30pm

31a Goldsmith Street $969,000 12.45-1.15pm

LUGTONS

Saturday 3 December

97B King Street Auction 2.00-3.00pm

Sunday 4 December

37 Ruru Street $1,175,000 1.00-1.45pm

97B King Street Auction 2.00-3.00pm

MORE RE

Saturday 3 December

9 Henry Bell Close PBN 10.00-10.30am

82 Princes Street PBN 10.00-10.30am

4A Mason Place 675,000 10.00-10.30am

58 Jarrett Terrace PBN 11.00-11.30am

32 Robinson Street BEO $945,000 11.00-11.30am

10 Damio Place BEO $1,200,000 11.45-12.15pm

56 Tennyson Street $949,000 12.00-12.30pm

16 Keats Terrace $639,000 12.30-1.00pm

61 Bowen Street PBN 1.00-1.30pm

30 Williamson Street $1,095,000 1.00-1.30pm

Sunday 4 December

9 Henry Bell Close PBN 10.00-10.30am

68 Princes Street PBN 10.00-10.30am

82 Princes Street PBN 10.00-10.30am

4A Mason Place 675,000 10.00-10.30am

16 Keats Terrace $639,000 10.00-10.30am

58 Jarrett Terrace PBN 11.00-11.30am

120B Shakespeare Street $549,000 11.00-11.30am

20 Mike Smith Drive PBN 11.00-11.30am

31 William Paul Street BEO $1,445,000 11.00-11.30am

16A Thornton Road $759,000 12.00-12.30pm

15A Vogel Place BEO $920,000 12.00-12.30pm

49 Baxter Michael Crescent PBN 12.00-12.30pm

51 Baxter Michael Crescent PBN 12.00-12.30pm

35 Baxter Michael Crescent $1,720,000 1.00-1.30pm

61 Bowen Street PBN 1.00-1.30pm

10 Lilac Close PBN 1.00-1.30pm

32 Robinson Street BEO $945,000 2.00-2.30pm

49 Jarrett Terrace PBN 2.00-2.30pm

4 Richmond Street PBN 2.00-2.30pm

56 Tennyson Street $949,000 3.00-3.30pm

108 Thornton Rd PBN 3.00-3.30pm

73 Massey Rd PBN 3.00-3.30pm

RAY WHITE

Sunday 4 December

100 Rahiri Road Tender 11.00-12.00pm

15 Sewell Place $755,000 11.00-11.30am

36 Whare Marama Drive PBN 11.00-11.30am

91a Carlyle Street Offers +$1,000,000 12.00-12.30pm

86 Aspin Road $1,875,000 12.00-12.30pm

32 Goldsmith Street PBN 1.00-1.30pm

8 Duke Street PBN 1.00-1.30pm

508 French Pass Road PBN 1.00-1.30pm

12 Pengover Avenue $1,435,000 1.30-2.00pm

Wednesday 7 December

100 Rahiri Road Tender 11.00-12.00pm

Contact listing agent prior-visiting as Open Homes times can change.

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First Class Location Fencourt District

• 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

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• 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

TradeMe search # R1413

Sale by Deadline: Wed, 14 December 4.00pm

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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.

Peacocke

Hautapu

Kaipaki

Kiarangi

Leamington Campground

Leamington Primary School

Matangi 4 Square

McDonalds

Resthaven Village Community

Centre

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St John Ambulance Station

St Kilda

Te Miro Hall

Whitehall Settlers Hall

Whitehall Fruit Packers

Wilkinson Transport Engineering

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PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE

Clause 7 of Schedule 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 Plan Change 17 Hautapu Industrial Zones 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 Plan Change 17 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 Plan Change 17 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 December 5th 2022. Further submissions must be lodged with Waipa District Council by no later than 5pm Monday 19th December 2022, which is 10 working days after the day on which public notice is given.

Garry Dyet Chief Executive

Public Notice of Availability of the Summary of Decisions Requested in Submissions on Proposed Plan Change 17 Hautapu Industrial Zones

LAND INFORMATION NEW ZEALAND

Shift Manager

Carters Manufacturing, Cambridge

Night shift leadership role in Carters Frame and Truss plant

Responsible for leadership, quality management, planning and scheduling.

Great career development, fantastic benefits package. Mon – Thur 5pm-5am, Fri 4pm – 3am

Apply now – www.carters.co.nz – careers

Or email jenny.cussins@carters.co.nz

Kaiāwhina/ Associate Teacher Part-time (33 hours per week) Te Awamutu: 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

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

Notice of Weed Spraying in Lake Karapiro

Property owners and users of Lake Karapiro, including for recreation, are advised that the herbicide diquat (Reglone) in gel form will be applied via boat to the following sites at Lake Karapiro:

• Horahora Domain

• Lake Karapiro/Mighty River Domain

• Navigation Safety Zones 1 through to 12

The work is scheduled to begin from Monday 28 November 2022 and may continue intermittently to Friday 9 December 2022, as weather, weed and water conditions permit.

Treatment will not take place during weekends or on public holidays.

As a precautionary measure only, Land Information New Zealand advises users not to take water from Lake Karapiro to consume or for irrigation purposes from the vicinity of the treatment area until 24 hours after treatment has been completed.

Notices will be placed at www.linz.govt.nz 24 hours prior to the planned spray dates. Warning signs will be placed at authorised public boat ramps prior to and during treatment and will be removed 24 hours after treatment. Changeable weather conditions may result in delays to weed spraying. Please scan the QR code below to access the most up-todate information.

The Hazard classi cation for diquat is 6.1C, 6.3A, 6.9A, 8.1A, 9.1A and 9.3C.

Weed control in Lake Karapiro is supported by the Waikato Regional Council, Waipa District Council, Mercury and Land Information New Zealand.

A copy of the Spray Plan can be obtained from Bo a Miskell Ltd during o ce hours on 0800 638 943, by writing to PO Box 110, Christchurch 8140, or emailing biosecurity@bo amiskell.co.nz.

SITUATIONS VACANT

Cambridge Junior Rugby and Community Sports Club AGM

To be held at CJRS clubrooms, corner of Taylor and Victoria Streets, Cambridge on 13th December 2022 at 6.30pm

Anyone is welcome to attend

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

Of an application for On

Licence

Alpha Street Food Co Limited, 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge known as Alpha Street Kitchen & Bar.

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is restaurant and bar. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 7am1am.

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

Good Union Limited, 98 Victoria Street, Cambridge has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 98 Victoria Street, Cambridge known as Good Union.

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is tavern. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Sunday to Thursday 9am to 10.30pm, Friday and Saturday 9am to 12 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.

CAMPBELL, Valmai Dawn – Passed away peacefully at Bupa St Kilda Retirement Village on Wednesday, 23rd November 2022. Aged 89 years. Dearly loved wife of Fergus. Much loved mother and mother-in-law to Dianne & Colin, Glenys & Steve, Julie, Karen & John and nana to 10 grandchildren & 17 greatgrandchildren. The service for Valmai has been held. All communications to the Campbell Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434.

HOMEWOOD, Judith Ellen, (nee Fitness) – Passed away peacefully surrounded by family at Waikato Public Hospital on Wednesday, 23rd November 2022. Aged 78 years. Dearly loved wife of the late Gordon. Cherished mother and mother-in-law to Wendy, Ross & Dee, David, Shelley & Steve, Lynda & Hannah, and grandma to Gordon and Ellen.

“Rest In Peace”

The service for Judith has been held. All communications to the Homewood Family, c/3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434.

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Tuesday 22 November 2022, aged 89 years. Very much loved wife of the late Noel for more than 60 years. Loved mum and mother-inlaw of Neil and Jayne, Vicki, and Tony. Adored Nana of Jeanna, Lea, Craig, Jason, Megan, Nicole, Dana, Kelly, and Jaime. Great-Nana to Gracie, Jay, Ella, Jonny, Jack, Bella, Oscar, and Pippa. In accordance with Shirley’s wishes a private service has taken place.

MANA HAPORI AGM

11am Saturday 3rd December Mana Hapori office, 18 Raleigh St Cambridge All welcome.

For more information contact: JANETTE MANNELL boardchair@manahapori.co.nz

NGAIO GILLIES Ngaio@manahapori.co.nz

Badminton Club AGM

NOVEMBER 24th - 30th

• Visit our website www.theregent.nz

MISTER ORGAN | M |

Following reports of fraudulent car clamping in Auckland, journalist and filmmaker David Farrier opens an investigation that pushes him to the limits of his sanity in this true cat-and-mouse story of psychological warfare.“This is a dark, compelling, bleakly hilarious and - at times - disturbing film.”

Thu 6.30pm, Fri 6.00pm, Sat 5.25pm & 8.00pm, Sun 2.55pm & 5.45pm, Wed 6.30pm

THE MENU| R16 | Comedy/Horror Tongue-in-cheek horror about a young couple who travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant whose chef has created a lavish, shocking menu.

Thu & Fri 6.15pm, Sat 3.20pm, 5.30pm, 7.50pm, Sun 3.00pm & 5.30pm, Tue: 5.45pm, Wed 10.10am

SERIOUSLY RED | M |

A rowdy and rambunctions musical comedy about Red’s life under the spotlight as a Dolly Parton impersonator. After misreading her work party’s dress code, Red tumbles outta bed into a new world of tribute artists and impersonators in her wild and messy journey that includes romancing a Kenny Rogers impersonator.

Thu 6.15pm, Fri 6.30pm, Sat 12.45pm & 7.50pm, Sun 12.45pm & 3.20pm, Tue 5.35pm, Wed 10.00am & 5.35pm

EMILY | M |

The biographical drama of Emily Brontë, charting her journey of rebellion and womanhood Sat 7.40pm, Wed 5.45pm

SHE SAID | M |

Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the New York Times reporters who broke the bombshell Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Fri 5.55pm, Sat 2.45pm, Sun 5.20pm, Tue 5.30pm, Wed 10.10am

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER M |

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

Thu 6.00pm, Fri 5.25pm, Sat 12.20pm, 3.45pm, 6.55pm, Sun 12.30pm, 3.45pm, Wed 5.25pm

BLACK ADAM | M |

Thu 6.00pm, Sat 12.20pm & 5.15pm, Sun 12.20pm & 5.00pm

WHEN THE COWS COME HOME | E | Locally made film

Waipa-made and NZ Film Commission funded film When the Cows Come Home had sell out sessions at the NZ International Film Festival. Director Costa Botes (Forgotten Silver, Angie) explores the philosophies of this Waikato musician turned farmer, who saved the two bovine beauties from slaughter so that they could become "forever cows". Sat 5.20pm

MRS.

McCAMMON, Diane Elizabeth, (Jess) –

Unexpectedly passed away at home on Thyrsday, 24th November 2022, aged 61 years. Dearly loved mother & mother in-law to Jay & Kim, and Nana to seven grandchildren. At Jess’ request a private farewell has taken place. All communications to the McCammon Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434

Sunday

by Re v. Alistair McBride.

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

Christ’s reign brings peace.