Te Awamutu News | October 5, 2023

We’re in the business

The publisher of the Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News has added another print masthead to the company’s stable.

Good Local Media announced this week it had bought the Waikato Business News.

Good Local owner David Mackenzie said the Waikato Business News had a trusted and respected name and was a good fit with Good Local’s

existing publications.

“The Waikato Business News has been publishing for over 25 years serving the Waikato business community well – we look forward to building on this,” he said.

“With the significant depth and experience of our staff we can add a lot of value to the publication. We excel in producing high quality relevant local

editorial content and will do the same for the Waikato Business News.”

The move is the most significant for the company since June 2019 when it launched the Te Awamutu News as a sister paper to the Cambridge News.

“Our existing Cambridge and Te Awamutu clients who work with advertising director Janine Davy will have an opportunity to reach

the Hamilton and wider Waikato market and many of our advertisers already use the Waikato Business News.”

Good Local Media publications are edited by Roy Pilott, who spent almost four decades in senior roles with the South Waikato News, Waikato Times and the Taranaki Daily News.

Its senior writer, Mary Anne Gill, has a similar track

record on both community and daily publications and has collected a host of national awards. She is also a former business editor at the Waikato Times.

Davy has worked with Mackenzie for more than a decade on daily and community newspapers across the country.

PICTURED RIGHT: David Mackenzie

Obituary – JOHN GIBBONS: June 26, 1927 - September 25, 2023

Modest man’s Le Quesnoy legacy

By Viv Posselt

John Gibbons, one of New Zealand’s most remarkable bandsmen and a resident of Te Awamutu for 24 years, was farewelled at the town’s St Patrick’s Catholic Church last Saturday.

Recognised widely as a skilled bandsman, cornet and piano player, repairer of instruments and prolific composer, John died on September 25, aged 96.

His funeral acknowledged his musical standing with the inclusion of a brass band comprising members from around the region. They played one of John’s marches, ‘The Town of Taumarunui’, and formed a guard of honour at the end of the service.

Te Awamutu Brass member Steve Wilson said that outside his extensive association with bands, John was an accomplished pianist who spent many hours entertaining at Matangi’s Assisi Home, or at Rosehill Village where he and his wife Joan lived.

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He said John had given 58 years of service to the brass band organisation, starting out with the Takapuna Municipal band in 1943.

He also played for the Auckland Artillery Band, the Auckland Watersiders’ Band, Te Aroha Municipal Band, he formed the Te

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Aroha College Band, played for Lower Hutt Municipal Brass (now Titan City Brass), the Tauranga City Silver, and the Cambridge Municipal Band in 1996 and 1999.

A march he composed around 2004 for the 6th Hauraki Battalion, which carries lyrics written by Gavin Marriott, is rated as one of the world’s top marches, and was played for the late Queen Elizabeth.

One of the 50 marches he composed overall was entitled ‘The Spirit of Le Quesnoy’, a piece written for the Cambridge/Le Quesnoy sister city relationship formed around the story of the French town’s liberation in November 1918 by Kiwi soldiers.

“John was an active competitor as a soloist at regional and national contests, with many successes,” Steve said. “He was often awarded the Attendance Cup … his last national contest was in Hamilton in 2019.”

A guard of honour made up by band members from around the district farewells John Gibbons after Saturday’s funeral service in Te Awamutu.

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Born in Devonport and educated at St Leo’s Convent Primary and Sacred Heart College, John started his working life as a fitter, travelling around the King Country fixing petrol pumps.

Devonport’s St Leo’s Church was where he later married Joan; the couple went on to adopt four children – Philip, the late Kevin, Veronica and Helen.

The latter spoke of him being ‘sentimental and a romantic’, evidenced by their parents’ affection for an Auckland café where on their wedding night 62 years ago they shared toasted sandwiches.

“Six months ago, they went back to the same café and had toasted sandwiches.”

She spoke of John teaching woodwork and music, coaching school sports teams, striving to keep

young people off the streets. In 1959, he achieved the highest music exam mark in New Zealand – an LRSM from the Royal School of Music – coming first equal with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. He taught his children welding, direction-finding using a compass, and the value of changing a tyre and checking the oil before heading out in a car. They toiled as a family to build a garage, lay concrete and paint the house, often adopting techniques that Philip’s letter to the congregation suggested would not pass muster in terms of today’s safety regulations.

The family moved to Lower Hutt in 1974 where John taught fitter and turner courses and tech drawing until retiring in 1987, settling finally in Te Awamutu in 1999.

Retirement saw John and Joan travel and gave John more time to repair old band

Board hands out $35k

By Jeremy Smith

The Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board has allocated $35,000 from the first round of its discretionary funding. The board has $50,000 to distribute in the financial year starting July 1 – and received 29 applications seeking a total of $55,000. The largest grant awarded at the board’s meeting last week was the $5000 given to the Rotary Club of Te Awamutu, followed by the $4000 the Te Awamutu Community Menzshed received.

The Te Awamutu Citizens Advice Bureau and the Pirongia Forest Park Lodge each received $2500.

The Girl Guides Association of New Zealand received $1800, Operation Christmas Hamper got $1700 and the Kihikihi Residents and Ratepayers association was given $1500. A total of $1450 went to the Waikato branch of the New Zealand Hot Rod Association and $1400 to The Theatre Beautiful Limited.

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instruments. His musical renown was matched by his famed fish and chips, the strange language he invented, the cat stories he wrote, trainspotting and his love of cycling. In 1948, he biked from Auckland to Wellington.

Dancing in Ōhaupō

By Jeremy Smith

It was high time for a dance competition on Saturday. Nearly 30 competitors from north as Orewa, near Auckland, and as far south as Christchurch took to the Ōhaupō School stage to vie for glory at the Te Awamutu Performing Arts Highland and National dance event. Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Hamilton competitors were also present.

The event was hosted by the Lyn McCorquindale School of Highland Dancing, which has students Waipā-wide. Competitors aged eight to 20 tapped, jigged and sword danced their way through 10 dance disciplines.

Among the place getters was Olivia Hampton, who dances in Te Awamutu. She won the Peter Ryan memorial award.

Lyn said it was wonderful to see so many competitors taking part.

“For some of the dancers, it was their very first competition, others have been dancing for a long time. Whatever their experience level though, it’s so fun to see everyone doing well.”

Lyn helps organise four Highland and National dance competitions a year through her dance school.

Next up is a performance at the Waikato A&P Show, held in Hamilton later this month.

Te Awamutu Bible Chapel and Te Awamutu both received $1200, while Hospice Waikato, Kids in Need Waikato and La Leche League New Zealand each got $1000.

Among other grants The Maungatautari to Pirongia Ecological Corridor Society and the Te Awamutu Community Toy Library were both awarded $850, while The MS Waikato Trust – a not for profit organisation providing support services to people affected by Multiple Sclerosis and Huntington’s disease – was given $750. The board’s second funding round will be early next year.

Commissioners added Fourteen commissioners have been selected to be considered for Waipā District Council planning work, up from the previous pool of nine. Those commissioners are Robert van Voorthuysen, Philip Mitchell, Simon Berry, Steven Wilson, Richard Blakey, David Hill, Dave Sarjeant, Karyn Sinclair, Poto Davies, Peter Kensington, Tim Manukau, Alan Pattle, Vicki Morrison-Shaw and Sharon De Luca.

Weather forecast

The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research – NIWA – says the El Niño weather pattern “has officially arrived”, and is likely to continue over summer. It says we can expect dramatic temperature swings over the next three months, strong winds and rainfall levels which are below average.

John Gibbons with his beloved cornet.

Olivia Hampton competing at Ōhaupō School on Saturday.

Photo: Jeremy Smith

Hospital bus

Waikato Hospital will be easier for staff, patients and visitors thanks to a partnership between Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand and councils. The initiative will provide a 50 percent discount on bus fares for people using their Bee Card to and from Waikato Hospital using the Pembroke St and Hague Rd bus stops from October 16. The Pembroke St stops are serviced by the 24 Te Awamutu and 26 Te Kūiti buses and the Hague Rd stop is serviced by the 25 Taumarunui bus.

Gambling call

Pokies in Waipā will continue to be capped at 232 machines and transferred if the operator moves to a new venue.

Council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee confirmed this week the 2019 Gambling Policy will be rolled over despite 53 per cent of respondents to a survey saying there should be a sinking lid.

Vape attack

A Cambridge school principal has called on the new government to change the legislation around vaping to make it available by prescription only. Speaking at Waipā District Council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee this week, councillor and Cambridge Primary principal Mike Pettit called for the legislation to happen “overnight”. “In schools, vaping is an epidemic, a disaster, particularly in our intermediate, middle and high schools,” he said.

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Our home page continues to be the most popular part on teawamutunews.nz taking out top place last month ahead of Park the plan, our story about Ange Holt’s bid to see work on the War Memorial Park stalled. We stopped the presses last week to get our story in about plans for the $33 million Te Ara Wai Museum and it came in third ahead of our online version of the newspaper and in fifth the story about Grassroots Trust’s gambling policy submission.

Business ‘helpless’

By Jeremy Smith

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businessman says he’s at an impasse after trying to resolve issues with customers of one of his neighbours.

Sam Prasad says “hand on heart” he is doing his best to look after his staff, but he can’t get any support. His stores - Merchants Liquor and Hell Pizza –are neighbours of Work and Income’s Vaile St Te Awamutu office.

He says for months some Winz clients have engaged in verbal and racial abuse of him and his staff, used the carparks he provides for customers, and it’s now bordering on physical

violence.

Winz employs security guards at its premises. In a statement to The News, Ministry of Social Development Waikato regional commissioner Tracey Smith said while Work and Income staff sympathised with the frustrating situation Prasad faced, he should raise the issue with police.

“Our security guards need to focus on their role ensuring the security of the service centre, which means they aren’t able to spend time patrolling nearby parking owned by local businesses,” she said.

Prasad – who employs more than 20 staff across the two businesses – approached

The News saying he has grave concerns for staff safety. He said complaints to police had failed to resolve issues and Waipā District Council staff could not assist because the car parks are on private property. The businessman, who has been in New Zealand for more than 20 years, said he has regularly been told to “go back to your country”.

“When my staff are the ones getting abused, it doesn’t sit well with me at all. I can hand on my heart tell you that I try my level best to be the best employer I can to be and try to look after them.”

Prasad said Work and Income security guards

stationed outside its Te Awamutu building had helped disperse and control any potential incidents – but that had stopped.

Now he said his own clients were being put off from going to his shops.

“Look, individually there are some great people working at Work and Income, but collectively they seem very non-receptive towards helping solve this,” he said.

“I do everything I can to be a good neighbour. I’m not meaning to hassle them. All I’m asking for is that we work together to resolve these issues.

“I just want to know who can help me. How do I resolve the situation so I can

just go about my everyday business doing what I do? I didn’t get into business to pick fights.”

Smith said ministry staff were happy to meet with Prasad in an effort to resolve the situation.

Rural post issue in court

By Roy Pilott

New Zealand Post is facing a High Court challenge from a Waipā couple over what they say is an attempt to terminate their mail delivery contract.

Danielle (Danny) and Ian Kennedy are familiar to rural communities on the RD3 run – but they say a new business model threatens their future and a $500,000 investment.

The Te Awamutu couple were in court this week in Hamilton seeking an injunction to stall a proposed multi-courier run model, saying it was developed without consultation and was a breach of contract.

The couple argue they are the “tip of the iceberg” and fellow contractors around the country face the same issue.

The Kennedys have engaged Pro Driver Advocates, a company which advocates for contractors.

Its chief Peter Gallagher says if New Zealand Post “successfully forces them out” it will just be the beginning “with dozens of rural delivery contractors around the country facing a similar position in areas where urban boundaries are expanding into existing rural delivery areas”.

He said New Zealand Post had identified six regions it plans to introduce the model and the potential impact could mean more than $150 million of contracts it has sold, or allowed to be sold, to rural delivery contractors.

“It has also recently announced its intention to terminate 750 postie jobs, and appears fully committed to ‘courierisation’ of its business,” he

said in a statement.

The RD3 run in the biggest in Waikato –including rural Cambridge, Tamahere and Matangi, and the Kennedys have been covering it

through their Three Hills Group business it since 2019.

Justice Gault has reserved his decision on this issue.

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Sam Prasad outside his two businesses.

Photo: Jeremy Smith.

Danny and Ian Kennedy are contesting New Zealand Post’s new delivery plan.

‘Best job I’ve ever had’ –

A year ago this Sunday, Susan O’Regan became Waipā’s first female mayor. She will be in Europe for the opening of the New Zealand Liberation Museum – Te Arawhata in Le Quesnoy, France so The News senior writer Mary Anne Gill caught up with her before she left and found out what the last 12 months has been like.

Susan O‘Regan opens the A4 notebook in which she made notes for our interview.

She asked the day before what The News wanted to talk about.

Your first year as Waipā mayor, the highlights, the challenges, the successes, the disappointments, we say.

As she looks down at the words and phrases, some with blue highlighter, she gets out of the chair walks over to her desk and picks up a pair of light blue and brown framed reading glasses.

“That‘s one of the biggest changes. I do so much reading now and I need these more.”

It was 1.30pm Saturday October 8 last year when the two term councillor - who risked all on her bid for the top job - took the call from chief executive Garry Dyet.

Standing in her bedroom, the only quiet room in and outside the house full of friends and family gathered for a party no matter the result, she listened as Dyet congratulated her on the win.

Overwhelmed with emotion and relief, she and husband John Hayward hugged and a few minutes later she gave her first interview as mayor to The News.

So, what has happened in the intervening 12 months, we ask?

There‘s the glasses and a redecorated office for starters.

Nothing much had changed in it while the four men before her were mayor.

Bright artwork adorns the walls now, a large meeting table is at the southern end where once a desk had been.

Her small desk is at the other side of the office, tucked into the corner where she can see the comings and goings down the first floor hall. Spotify music plays from her laptop.

“It’s been really fun. It’s such a privilege, a huge privilege, it’s the best job I’ve ever had,” she says about her year as mayor, a job she describes as “full time and then some.”

“It just plays to all of the parts about me as a person. I just love this district. The more time I spend out of the district, at mayoral things and local government things, I realise how fortunate we are.”

She acknowledges her work-life balance got out of kilter.

“I had to walk the talk and there is no easy way to do that other than accepting invitations. People were saying to me they were sick of opening the paper and seeing me there.”

There was no pressure from home but O’Regan’s conscience was telling her things.

“If I am not here, you are failing the people, and if you are here too

much, you are failing the children, the husband, the farm.”

She feels she has the balance right now although recognises when the long term plan works begin next year, it will get manic again.

“I’ve just got to make sure I don’t over commit myself.”

Two events stand out as highlights.

The first – a triumph for Sanctuary Mountain, Maungatautari - was the return in July of kākāpō to the North Island after a 40 year absence.

The second was in April at the welcome ceremony for the international dragon boat festival competitors in Cambridge Square.

A photo of her standing on a podium amidst a sea of pink is on her screen saver and mayoral Facebook page.

She referred to her late mother Katherine O’Regan who died in 2018 after a 10 year battle with breast cancer.

“It took every ounce of my being to not cry,” says O’Regan.

“I think I have been a bit surprised at how emotionally I respond to things. I thought I was a bit hard-nosed as a person. My emotional response to some of the community situations surprises

me.”

Like the citizenship ceremonies which she moved to the Cambridge Town Hall.

“The council, the organisation and I have got better at reconnecting with our communities,” she says giving as an example the Ahu Ake spatial plan community engagement.

“It was incredible really. We met cow cockies in Te Pahu, teachers at Te Miro and lifestyle blockers at Pukeatua.

“The information we harvested was priceless.”

She describes her diary as “chaotic”.

“I love going to Rotary and Lions, school prizegivings. It’s the community part of the job that makes it.”

The year has had its challenges though.

“It hasn’t abated,” a reference to the central government reforms which has made it hard to plan and tough on staff as the rules kept changing.

“The very obvious elephant in the room is the very strong headwinds in the financial space. I can’t emphasise enough the challenges we will have.”

She cites inflation, interest and insurance as the big three.

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Susan O’Regan in the mayoral office.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

O’Regan on her first year

“Leading into our next long term plan, we need to be pretty honest with our community.”

O’Regan says discussion from Cambridge about a third bridge seems to have died down while the Cambridge Connections work is done on the transport needs for the town.

The work is nearing completion.

“It’s the business case that’s required to acquire Waka Kotahi

funding. It’s not just about a bridge crossing.”

Waipā has a good reputation among other local authorities.

O’Regan says another local authority colleague recently said how impressed they were with the collegiality and civility with the way meetings were run.

The News has argued that is because a lot of the debate occurs behind closed doors.

O’Regan disputes that and scoffs at the suggestion of “secret meetings”.

“We don’t make decisions in workshops. We’re not a particularly divisive bunch. We’re really fortunate and that brings stability.”

There have been three major disappointments.

The first was being unable to change government’s mind about housing intensification, the second a lack of movement in the Cambridge to Piarere extension and the third when there was flooding in the streets of Glenview in Hamilton. Ponds and a dam near the area are privately owned but managed by Waipā. The infrastructure failed.

“I had to be very clear about my dissatisfaction with the failure of our organisation to respond in the face of pretty clear reporting about the need to respond urgently.”

The problems with the dam predated O’Regan’s arrival on the council seven years ago.

“It’s not that I mind wearing it, it’s just as an organisation we didn’t heed those calls.”

O’Regan is more sedentary now than a year ago when she played competition squash and walked regularly around the farm. Now at events she goes to in an official capacity, there are treats. She admits she has put on weight.

“One of the best pieces of advice I got was from Toby Adams who

is mayor of Hauraki. ‘Don’t eat the sausage rolls,’ he told me.

“I’m trying to show a little bit of discipline in that space.”

She recently picked up an umpiring badge at her daughter Lily’s netball prizegiving.

“I’m better umpiring than on the sideline.”

So, what is the one thing she wants to achieve as mayor before the 2025 local body elections?

“I know in my heart what that is, but it would be wrong of me to express it simply because I would hate to be pre-determined.

“We shouldn’t be making decisions about what happens next

week or next year. We should be longitudinal thinking. We should be better ancestors. Making longer term decisions.

“I know we annoy people. I know they get grumpy with the decisions we make. I accept and own that. We are making decisions that fit into a picture that lasts more than a three year cycle.”

As we wrap up, O’Regan reiterates how much she loves the job.

“It’s all colours of the rainbow though, right? Frustrating, rewarding, annoying, boring, everything. I’m very lucky, very blessed.”

Susan O’Regan speaks at the release of the kākāpō on Maungatautari.

Photo: Stuart Attwood Photography.

Susan O’Regan and husband John Hayward celebrate after her election as mayor.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

- board

By Jeremy Smith

Community Board

members have been told the planned waste to energy plant for Te Awamutu will benefit the community – and also that it is a potential disaster.

The conflicting views came in presentations last week from Paul Connett, described as a waste management expert with nearly four decades’ experience, and the chief executive of the company which wants to build the plant, Roger Wilson.

Global Metal Solutions wants to build the plant, which would be called Paewira, in Racecourse Rd.

Paul Connett, speaking via a video link to the Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board’s meeting last week from the United Kingdom, said zero waste was the future and incineration belonged in the past.

The retired professor of chemistry specialising in environmental chemistry said he had given 2500 waste management presentations in 70 countries and helped prevent up to 400 rubbish incinerators from being built.

He argued the term waste to energy deceived the public, saying they produced very little energy given the investment involved.

Both sides of the Paewira debate were presented to the board hours after a public meeting was held to oppose it.

Hours after a public meeting was held to voice opposition to the plant, a packed public gallery heard from both Wilson and Zero Waste Network Aotearoa spokesperson Sue Coutts.

Wilson lauded several key benefits which he said would come from Paewira, while Coutts said company proposals sometimes “…

overstate the benefits and… understate the risks”.

Zero Waste released a statement this week saying it was “time” for a central government moratorium on mixed rubbish incineration. If it goes ahead, Paewira - which would take in rubbish from Waipā and beyond, sort and recycle it, then combust what cannot be recycled to power steam turbines - would be a New Zealand first.

Global Metal Solutions says Paewira will divert 150,000 tonnes of waste a year away from landfill, recover 80 tonnes of recyclable material a day and convert the waste into electricity to power 15,000 homes.

Resource consent applications for the plant are being considered by both Waipā District Council and Waikato Regional Council. Public submissions close on October 13.

Connett said there was no question air emission control equipment had improved during his years of waste management experience, but that came at a cost.

“It has made incineration extremely expensive… in fact, the most expensive way of handling waste and

Roger Wilson.

hears both sides

making electricity.”

He argued that from an environmental and health perspective incineration was a bad and risky idea for the Te Awamutu community.

Wilson countered by saying there were many design processes which would go into reducing waste at Paewira.

He said GMS operated scrap yards across Auckland, Hamilton and New Plymouth and the company was experienced in the recycling and waste management sector.

Wilson referenced a report saying more than five million of the six million tonnes of waste generated in

New Zealand annually goes to landfill.

“To put Paewira into perspective, of that 5.1 million tonnes, it is designed to process 150,000 tonnesthat’s about three percent of New Zealand’s total annual waste.”

He said the plant would create 60 full time roles.

Paul Connett on Zoom at the Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board last week.

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A ‘forever treasure’

By Jeremy Smith

Dakota Frazer will forever be 11.

And now, thanks to a gesture of community spirit in Te Awamutu, her mum Nikki has a “forever treasure” to keep her daughter’s memory close.

“It’s something I’ll always snuggle up with because she’s no longer here to cuddle,” Nikki told The News.

Dakota, a student at Maihiihi School 30kms south of Te Awamutu, died suddenly in December while on a holiday camping trip with her family – dad Aaron, mum Nikki and her three brothers Harley, Lane and Lincoln - at Taranaki’s Pātea Dam.

Nikki told The News they have yet to find out a cause, and in the midst of navigating “unexplainable grief” in the following months, she said a moment of inspiration came to her.

After gathering up a collection of her daughter’s clothes, Nikki went about seeing who could help her sew them into the queensized blanket Dakota had with her on the camping trip.

“That process of going through her clothes took me three months, and it was just heart breaking. It’s probably

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the hardest thing I’ve had to do since she’s been gone,” Nikki said.

Nikki searched for someone who could complete the blanket. Enter the team from Te Awamutu’s Sew Easy – run by life-long friends Angela Wood and Kathy Flay.

After hearing Nikki’s story, the pair decided to complete the blanket in their own time, for free.

“It’s so precious that both Kathy and I decided that we just couldn’t charge Nikki,” Angela said.

Kathy would often take the blanket away with her to the beach to work on at the weekends - “which Dakota would have loved,” Nikki said.

“She was so full of life, and was our little water baby. Whenever we were at the beach or a lake, she always

wanted to be in the water no matter how cold it was.

“I can’t tell you just how wonderful Angela and Kathy’s gesture was and how much it means,” Nikki told The News.

It’s one of many kind gestures Nikki said the family had been blessed with as others have also paid tribute to Dakota.

“In my case, it’s taken a village to bury my child, and those expressions of support have been so moving.”

At home, Dakota’s bedroom has been left as it was, and Nikki said the newly-completed blanket will take pride of place there.

“There are things in there which still smell like that camping trip. It’s a space I often find myself in. I go there just to talk with her,” Nikki said.

Nikki Frazer, left, with Kathy Flay and Angela Wood from Te Awamutu’s Sew Easy.

Photo: Jeremy Smith

Don’t let the bed bugs bite…

By Mary Anne Gill

Jo Davies-Colley thought she had her suitcase all packed and under control for her trip to Cambridge’s sister city Le Quesnoy this week until someone told her there was a bed bug crisis in France.

The Cambridge Community Board chair and Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan are next week representing the district at the opening of the New Zealand Liberation Museum – Te Arawhata.

“It will probably be one of the greatest things I will ever do,” Davies-Colley told The News on the eve of her departure.

“It is a huge honour and privilege. I’m just going to do the best I can for Cambridge over there.”

News of the bed bug scourge had her heading to the chemist for a can of bed bug spray which she popped into her suitcase alongside the gifts from Cambridge.

Waipā District Council have paid $10,180 for Davies-Colley and O’Regan to travel economy class to France. They will link up with deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk who paid her own way over. Stolwyk was influential in establishing the sister city relationship more than 20 years ago when she worked at the town’s information centre.

The relationship is actively nurtured by the Cambridge Le Quesnoy Friendship Association and the Le Quesnoy Sister City Working Group of the Cambridge Community Board.

Te Arawhata will be the only centre in Europe sharing stories of New Zealand’s participation in both world wars.

Just a week before the end of the First World War in November 1918, the New Zealand Division captured the French town of Le Quesnoy. It was the New Zealanders‘ last major action in the war.

The New Zealanders scaled a ladder set against the ancient walls of the town and took the remaining Germans as prisoners.

A 6m high, five tonne Le Quesnoy memorial sculpture designed by artist and kaumatua Fred Graham was unveiled in Cambridge in 2019. Its concept was based on a wellknown Parisian Tower, with the fern leaf reaching up two sides, like a

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ladder.

Across the road at St Andrew’s Church, a war memorial window shows New Zealand soldiers scaling the wall.

Because of that special relationship, Waipā council granted $150,000 in 2018 towards the renovation of Te Arawhata – a mansion house bought by the New Zealand Memorial Museum Trust in 2017.

It was the former World War One mayoral home and later the headquarters of the local gendarmerie (police).

Davies-Colley said she was looking forward to hearing stories like those of her grandparents Lansley and Meva, who met in World War 2. He was serving in the New Zealand Army and helped liberate Trieste in

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Italy where he met Meva who used to play the piano accordion at dances for the soldiers.

“It was a beautiful love story, they had a long marriage,” said DaviesColley.

“I think the trip will be overwhelming – a lifelong, amazing memory that I will look back on and say that was so special.”

O’Regan is travelling with her husband John Hayward, who is paying his own way.

“He’s never been to Europe, and I only had a fleeting visit 20 years ago.

“I feel so fortunate to go and represent Waipā. The French would be hugely insulted if we didn’t send a contingent from Cambridge.

“The people who hold that sister city relationship in such high esteem, and there are a lot of them, would be offended as well.

“I’ll go and wave the Waipā flag, and I hope I’ll represent the district well,” she said.

“This is a crucial piece of telling New Zealand history in an area where there is a paucity of New Zealand stories.

“The connection Cambridge has to Le Quesnoy and the town has with us is so important.”

Events for the official opening are over two days starting on Tuesday October 10 at 7am (6pm NZ) with a dawn blessing by Ngāti Waewae. The official opening of the museum will be the following day at 11am (10pm NZ).

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Early voting opened this week with a steady stream of people taking advantage of the opportunity to cast their votes in advance. Cambridge booths are in the Town Hall, Hautapu Rugby Club and Raleigh Street Christian Centre while in Te Awamutu they are at Pak’n Save and the Te Awamutu Scout Hall.

Business awards

Tyre recycler Treadlite, the Supreme winner at the Waipā Business Awards this year, has been named as a finalist in the Business Growth and Marketing categories of the Waikato Business awards. My Mortgage (Cambridge) and Safety Genius (Tamahere) are in the Service Excellence Award final three and the National Fieldays Society is one of two Sustainability Award finalists.

Contract extended Waipā’s District Council’s contract with Treescape Limited has been extended to late 2025. Trees are inspected on a four-yearly cycle, and some are inspected and maintained more frequently. Waipā District Council’s community services manager Brad Ward said Treescape had “worked above and beyond” to respond to almost 300 customer requests following Cyclone Gabrielle.

The historic manor house Le Quesnoy pctured in 2017. Photo: Robert Hanson.

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We’ll be doing the work in stages to minimise disruption as much as we can.

Groundswell in town

By Jeremy Smith

“We’re apolitical… that means we don’t tell anyone how to vote.”

Despite that statement from Bryce McKenzie - one of Groundswell New Zealand’s founders - there were clear agendas expressed when the organisation’s “drive for change” protest rolled through Cambridge and Te Awamutu on Saturday.

In Te Awamutu as rain fell, McKenzie addressed a crowd of about 100 people in Arawata St.

He and Laurie Paterson, a fellow founder of the lobby group, completed an eight-day journey from Invercargill to Auckland later that day.

The Te Awamutu protest was led by Groundswell New Zealand organiser Lee Smith, who is standing in the Taranaki-King Country electorate for the Democracy New Zealand party.

A sign on one of the first utes to pull into the car park read “No farms, no future”. Other signs present were more pointed - taking swipes at Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and agriculture minister Damien O’Connor.

From Arawata St the three

tractors which made the journey from Invercargill then led dozens of utes on a lap of Alexandra St, before the convoy made its way to Hamilton.

Smith told The News the country’s biggest income earner was being targeted by a government which had

no understanding of the practicalities of farming… “and because of that we’re clearly seeing a decline in farmers’ mental health”. She said “unwarranted attacks” on the rural sector was discouraging the next generation of farmers from entering the industry.

Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board deputy chair Kane Titchener was among the crowd which gathered on Arawata St. He told The News farmers’ concerns about “excess regulations” were not being listened to. “Yes, it’s time for change,” he said.

Murray’s the best

Ōtorohanga’s Nicole Murray has been named the world’s best female summer para athlete and was in Bahrain last week for a ceremony where her success was honoured.

The award topped an outstanding year for the 30-year-old cyclist who won two world titles on the track as well as three other world championship medals, two of which were earned on the road.

Her coach Damian Wiseman said Murray had an incredible 2022 season. Her five world championships medals were the most of any female C5 athlete and she was only C5 woman to win more than one world title across road and track.

“Simply put, she has proven herself the most consistent and successful C5 female athlete in 2022. She is now the athlete to beat,” he said.

Murray said she was honoured.

“I’m incredibly grateful for all the people who have come along with me on my journey as an athlete – I could not have got to this point in my career alone,” she said.

The 2022 results placed Murray second in the road and first on the track

globally for C5 women and she has collected a further world championship title this year.

Paralympics New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Greg Warnecke Murray’s success was indicative of the strength of para sporting talent in New Zealand. “This winter we’ve seen Kiwi world champions named in para athletics, para swimming and para cycling,” he said. “The Paris 2024 Paralympics are going to be an absolutely gripping ride for New Zealand.”

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Nicole Murray receives her award from Highness Shaikh Khaled bin Hamad Al Khalfia. Photo: IPC.

The three tractors which spent eight days travelling from Invercargill to Auckland lead the protest down Alexandra St in the rain.

Copious rainfall in the Te Awamutu district led to prolific pasture growth but changeable weather delayed hay making.

Progressive settlers were considering using modern machinery to bale hay crops instead of the usual custom of stacking. Haystacks were being destroyed by spontaneous combustion caused either by damp material being put into the stack or stacks not being sufficiently protected from the weather. Baling from the paddock meant hay could be stored in perfect condition, particularly where farm sheds were available. Modern machinery was thought to be more labour saving and economical and it was likely that stacking the hay crop would one day be looked on as an obsolete method.

Securing farm labour, though, was a problem with farmers sending their sons to work in towns. In the Te Awamutu and Ōhaupō areas, under the relieving farm manager scheme, there was no shortage of reliable, experienced men to take charge or assist on farms when a farmer wished to take a holiday. There was, however, a definite shortage of experienced farm labourers, and a pronounced shortage of youths. In many cases this caused farmers considerable hardship and resulted in dairymen reducing the size of their herds. The recent rise in wool values had also brought about a strong tendency on farms to reduce the herds further and to replace them with sheep. Mr Pierce of Ōhaupō despaired “our own people are not sending their children on the land. They are going in for the professions and industrial trades. I would like to know how many of our people are sending their children to positions in the towns. They are expecting labour in place of their own children, and the people who are making the most noise are those who are offering the worst conditions”.

A strong protest was made to the

government over the intention to remove and then re-erect Te Awamutu’s clock tower. An open letter to the acting Prime Minister, the Postmaster General, and the Minister of Public Works called the idea official vandalism and a gigantic waste of money merely to satisfy official whim. The letter appealed for a halt to one of the greatest follies that had ever been threatened in the name of Government. No one else would pull down a £1000 tower and then spend another £1000 to re-erect it a few yards away. The tower wasn’t faulty or dangerous - it had come through 25 years and still stood without a crack or blemish. This vandalism was a wicked, wanton waste at the command of some snugly entrenched official in Wellington.

A very merry party gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs Sullivan of Ōhaupō on the occasion of the coming-of-age of their eldest twin daughters, the Misses Mary and Eileen Sullivan. Sweet peas artistically decorated tables and the guests-of-honour received many gifts. A happy day was brought to a close with cards in the evening.

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Caring for what is created

By Samuel Pullenger - Ministry Assistant, St John’s Parish Te Awamutu

As Spring arrives, this year I have decided to get into growing fruits and vegetables.

Having been given a couple of strawberry plants, I have built a little raised garden and am beginning my journey into the world of gardening. One of the fascinating things I have been learning about in gardening is compost and topsoil. Almost all of the nutrients a plant needs are found in the topsoil.

So whatever I decide to spray on my topsoil, or the ingredients I put in my compost which will be worked into the topsoil, will be ingested by the plants I am trying to grow there. Or it will kill off the much needed nutrients that the soil already had. Though this research can get very dense, it is incredibly encouraging to see the new flowers blossom on my strawberry plants.

At the same time as I have begun gardening, the liturgical church is celebrating a month of care for creation. This is a time where we are invited to think, discuss and pray about the ways we can work with creation to flourish. We believe that we are not apart from creation, but formed within creation; if creation flourishes, we will flourish. Though we are invited to think about creation on an individual level, we are also invited to think more deeply about how we can work with our community to care for creation.

As many of you will know there is a resource consent application going through the local council to build a waste to energy plant within Te Awamutu. As the community of Te Awamutu, we are called to reflect on the possible impact this plant

can have on us and our environment.

Waste to energy plants are a significant way to lower the amount of waste that we are currently dumping into the earth. However, they also pose a significant risk to the air, soil and water that they are built around. This means they pose a significant risk to the humans they are built around too. I think this leads us to question what we really value and whether the electricity that will be produced is more important than the impact it could have on the environment.

For me, my faith is what guides me through the question. In the opening verses of the Bible, we are presented with a story of God’s creation of the world. This story focuses on the relationship God has with creation, and then calls humans to care for what God has created. In the closing verses of the Bible we are again presented with a picture of creation. However, this time is a creation renewed, one where God has come down to live among creation. In all this, we are given a picture of participation and mutual flourishing.

Like the soil I have planted my strawberries in, we are challenged to think about what we will allow to filter into our wider environment. In response, I encourage you to make a submission to the Waipa Council about the proposed waste to energy plant.

By Janine Krippner

In light of recent news reports of hikers being rescued from the Tongariro/ Ngāuruhoe volcanic complex, I hope it will help to share how I get ready for fieldwork as a volcanologist.

Seeing hikers who are wearing street clothes and shoes summiting an alpine volcano really grabs the attention of those of us who take care to make sure we are prepared to not only keep ourselves safe, but to hopefully prevent anyone having to risk their own safety to rescue us if we do an insufficient job. Unexpected things like broken ankles do happen, but plenty of cases are preventable. There are far more of these rescues than what ends up in the media.

I want to be clear here, volcanoes like Ruapehu, Tongariro, and Taranaki are dangerous environments with or without volcanic activity. The weather can change rapidly to conditions where our bodies are not equipped to stay alive for extended periods. The risk of rockfalls is present when you have slopes, and people accidentally dislodging rocks above you can lead to highspeed, heavy projectiles hurtling towards your relatively fragile self. The loose rocks can be slippery and unstable underfoot. There is the risk of avalanches and ice in winter. There also is the risk of phreatic (steam-driven) eruptions that may not give any warning. Volcanologists take all these risks seriously; we know all the ways people die and are injured on volcanoes.

I climbed Ngāuruhoe earlier this year for fieldwork (with the right permissions) after increasing my physical training for about 3-4 months. My training focuses on general increased fitness, strength, and a lot of climbing up and down hills. I do have

additional challenges having Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, but I wouldn’t train any less if I didn’t. I want to not only be safe, but to enjoy the experience. A colleague who rescues people off the mountains brought up a great point recently - would you run or walk a 21.1 km halfmarathon with no training? The Tongariro Alpine Crossing length is 19.4 km. Would you climb the Auckland sky tower without any training? The height of the tower is 328 m and the elevation of the Devil’s Staircase is about 350 m alone, whereas the total change in elevation if you’re doing the crossing is about 800 m. Are you comfortable exercising for the 6-8 hours it takes to complete? It is no longer advised to climb Ngāuruhoe.

In my pack I take plenty of food, about three litres of water, extra warm and waterproof layers (even in summer), gloves, a phone with backup battery pack, spare laces for my sturdy and worn-in hiking boots, extra socks, a bag for rubbish, any medications, a first aid kit, sunscreen, a torch and batteries or headlamp, a whistle (in case you need to get attention), and a survival blanket. I wear long field pants and a hat. Importantly, I tell people where I am and when I expect to be back, communicating along the way.

Once you are prepared, go to the GeoNet website to check on any changes in volcanic activity and always check the weather forecast before you head out. The Department of Conservation has more information and warnings, along with a guide for what to pack. Keep in mind that when things go wrong for people, they probably didn’t think that it would happen to them.

On the beat with Constable Ryan Fleming

The week in review

Here’s a look at how the week panned out for police in Te Awamutu.

Monday - Police attended two vehicle collisions, a family harm involving damage to property, a shoplifting incident was reported, we transported a mental health patient to Waikato Hospital and recovered a stolen motor vehicle.

Tuesday - A vehicle was unlawfully taken. Police were involved with a fleeing driver incident, there was a theft from a motor vehicle, a motor vehicle collision, a burglary of outdoor furniture, and a woman was issued a trespass notice after shoplifting. The male involved in Monday’s shoplifting incident returned to the store wearing the same clothing he had stolen. He presented a knife at the retailer and stole more items. A man was arrested a short time later and charged with aggravated robbery. Police also attended three family harm incidents.

Wednesday - Police attended a breach of protection order incident, which involved a mental health issue. A mental health incident resulted in a male being sectioned and transported to Waikato Hospital. During a burglary a motor vehicle was unlawfully taken and subsequently found and a male was found to be driving with excess breath alcohol.

Thursday - A male youth breached bail when police conducted a curfew check at his home, a male suffered a mental health incident, and another male was defrauded through a Facebook buy and sell page. Police attended a care home where a female became aggressive to staff, a teenager was reported missing by her mother, a youth breaching bail was seen attempting to break into a vehicle and is now before the court. A shoplifter was reported at a supermarket, a male breached his bail and was involved in a family harm matter, police attended a burglary, and a male was arrested for breaching bail.

Friday - Police attended a family harm incident, a suspicious male was spoken to by police who found him with a crowbar. Police also attended a burglary, a family harm and a firearm incident that involved a fleeing driver, an armed traffic stop and eventual arrest with the deployment of the Armed Offender Squad.

Saturday - A motor vehicle collision caused by cattle on the road was reported. Police attended a mental health incident and a family harm.

Sunday - Police attended a serious motor vehicle collision on Kihikihi Road.

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