Te Awamutu News | February 2, 2023

United it stands…

By Roy Pilott

A century after a community campaign saw the establishment of Anzac Green in Te Awamutu, the same spirit is alive and well as plans proceed to save its flagpole.

The Green, originally the Memorial Triangle, features a memorial commemorating Waipā soldiers who fought in World War I and is an open civic space in the central business district.

But its kauri flagpole, which has overlooked the

green since 1923, has a bad case of dry rot. Water has seeped through the bolt holes which hold the flagpole in place – and something has to be done.

Enter a combination of the Te Awamutu RSA, Menzshed, Waipā District Council and Mitre 10 to sort the problem out.

The pole is about to be taken down so that repair work can be carried out and it can spend another 10 decades flying the flag.

Menzshed’s Steve Mannington said just how big the job will be won’t be known until the bottom of the pole is checked out, but it is expected a good metre of it will eventually be replaced.

Mitre 10 is coming to the party to help with transport and removing the pole, the council is providing help via its Parks and Reserves department with health and safety and Te Awamutu’s RSA is also involved.

Lou Brown – a councillor and RSA member – said it was a real community effort, just as installing the pole had been in 1923.

“At that time the RSA had only been formed for two years in Te Awamutu,” he said.

“The pole was presented by a community group which funded the project.”

Brown said his knowledge of that group was light – and he would be interested in hearing from people who know more about it.

With Menzshed donating time and materials it is hoped to have the pole up again with a new pulley by Anzac Day.

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The seeping rust stain is a sign of trouble for Te Awamutu’s flagpole.

The pole has stood for a century – and will be primed to complete another once repair work is done.

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Retirement village launched

By Mary Anne Gill

Two packed rooms for the launch of Ryman Healthcare’s new Cambridge village last week shows the Waipā retirement industry is in a boom phase.

The $200 million Cambridge Road village is one of three under construction in Waipā – two in Cambridge and one in Te Awamutu - and another, on Maungatautari Road at Henley Hotel is going through a neighbourhood consultation phase.

Ryman chief executive Cheyne Chalmers told more than 170 people who attended a launch where plans were unveiled for the new Cambridge village that the company wanted to find a new name for it.

Villages in other centres have been named after famous residents – Anthony Wilding, Bert Sutcliffe, Bob Owens, Bob Scott, Bruce McLaren and in

Letters…

Kiwifruit consents

Hamilton, Hilda Ross and Linda Jones.

Ryman has joined forces with The News to call for suggestions.

“We think it is a great way to give the village an identity rather than just a location and pay respect to pioneering locals,” she said.

“Who better to ask than the people who live here already. There’s nothing better than local knowledge.”

Retirement Village Residents Association president Peter Carr said he believed in two years there would be more retirement village residents in Cambridge per capita than in any other similar centre. Waikato has 53 retirement villages, third behind Auckland and Canterbury.

The association’s website shows eight of the Waikato ones are in Cambridge, two in Te Awamutu and one in Ōhaupō. There are also two in the Waikato district, close to the Waipā

In response to your story Getting a taste of Kiwi (The News, January 26) - if the council will just approve retrospective consents that easily it will be a farce as any developer will just choose that option. As the same company has done it twice now they should have been aware the second time - but still went ahead.

This makes home owners powerless against this practice. If a decision is made to not allow any retrospective resource consents

I’m back in the hotseat after my annual leave. I was one of the lucky ones in that when I went to the Coromandel the weather was fantastic.

But while I was away it did make me think about what would happen if we did get trapped over there. That thought has turned quite topical this week with all the rain we have had in the North Island. It does make one think about our own preparedness.

Often in a Civil Emergency we will be “on our own” for a short period as authorities attempt to re-establish contacts, lines of communications and roading. This is the concept of getting through.

border in Tamahere, one each in Putāruru and Morrinsville and two in Matamata.

Chalmers told the 170 people who attended the Cambridge information sessions the new village would include 80 resthome, hospital and dementia care beds.

Plans include an indoor swimming pool and spa, library,

bar, movie theatre, dining rooms, café, hair salon and beauty therapy rooms. The company designs, builds and operates its own retirement villages

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this practice will cease. It’s the responsibility of any developer to investigate local council requirements and not assume it’s the same as the Bay of Plenty.

Slightly off topic from the kiwifruit canopies, but still regarding council consents - despite all the concern from council regarding safety on SH1 at Karāpiro, council appear to have consented expansion at Mobil Karāpiro without any consideration to

entranceways and traffic flows.

It involves additional fuel pumps and a car wash, not to mention the expanding workshop at the rear.

One would think expansion would result in more traffic in and out of a site, and should therefore require entranceway/ intersection upgrades to cope with it, especially given the level of safety concern that already exists.

Tom Jones Cambridge

To that end I’ll provide some advice to get your household ready.

The key is understanding the risks and hazards in your area. If you are stuck at home due to road washouts, for example, Do you have enough supplies of food, drinking water and medication to get you through?

Make sure there is an adequate supply of the above as well as torches and batteries.

Most households have a supply of the necessary equipment already, however it is advisable to have a kit of these items in one accessible location.

An alternative cooking source is an essential item. Often homes can simply use

the barbecue.

If the power goes out and is likely to stay out for a period of time, consume the food in your fridge/freezer first. Make plans to deal with no electricity. Does any person in your house need electricity for life saving medical treatment?

By taking care of your household in the first instance, you are helping take pressure off emergency services allowing us to restore services more quickly.

Next week I’ll speak about what do you do if you can’t get home

Mieke Smit Tamahere

Ryman sales general manager Bernadette Forsdyke speaks to guests at the Cambridge village launch.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Hearing set

Independent commissioner

Alan Withy has ordered all submissions on a retrospective resource consent application for kiwifruit shelters and shelterbelts within the permitted setback regulations at 582 Parallel Road be with him by February 10 for a February 22 hearing. Withy can decide then whether the application is granted or declined. The News has received several emails from readers about the issue and will follow the story closely both online and in print.

School roll growth

Several Waipā schools are experiencing strong roll growth and numbers at all schools across the district are expected to be up when the first term begins this week, says the Education ministry. New classrooms are at Te Awamutu College, Te Awamutu Primary, Goodwood, Cambridge East and Cambridge Middle School. A new contributing primary school will open in Cambridge West early in 2025.

Tractor trek

More than a dozen tractors are leaving the farm and heading out on the roads in the Waikato for a two-week trek, starting in Cambridge next week, to support a children’s mental health programme. The trek is the brainchild of former farmer Phil Aish whose daughter Cat is a Mental Wellbeing educator. The trek will be launched at Cambridge Middle School on February 13. She will visit Te Awamutu the following day and Roto-oRangi on Thursday.

Step up…

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan is on the hunt for people to join a national leadership programme. The Tuia Leadership programme, aimed at outstanding Māori, involves a young person working alongside their mayor. Applications close February 6.

Museum gems protected

By Mary Anne Gill

Most objects in Te Awamutu Museum’s collection are safe in climate-controlled storage following the sudden decision to evacuate the museum’s Roche Street building three months ago.

Uenuku, a taonga of Tainui and the most valuable piece in the museum’s collection, is in storage at an undisclosed location following the decision to close the building when it was deemed an earthquake risk.

A spokesperson for Waipā District Council said there were no security concerns for the rest of the museum’s collection and all other management systems such as climate and pest control, and fire protection were in place.

But The News has been told some of the collection, owned by the community under the auspices of the Te Awamutu and District Museum Trust Board, will be moved into the museum’s temporary home in Rickit Road.

And several boxes of trust board records, previously stored in the museum’s lock up, are now held in chair Dean Taylor’s Sloane Street office.

The safety of Uenuku was always going to be a top priority and the council worked alongside mana

whenua, the Office of Kingi Tuheitia and the Trust Board to ensure all the taonga in the museum were taken care of.

The early Māori totara carving, is not only extremely significant to Tainui but also for its archaeological value. It is thought to date back to between 1200 and 1500.

The museum, the oldest in the Waikato region, has more than 18,000 other items spanning centuries and holds extensive material about the New Zealand land wars and colonial settlement in Waipā.

The News understands museum staff want some of the collection in Rickit Road so they can work on new collection-related projects and digitise photographic slides.

They have sought permission

from the trust board which took over ownership of the museum’s collection from Te Awamutu Historical Society in 1987.

The collection’s value is such that Waipā District Council has already spent more than $2 million to purchase the old Bunnings building so the site can be developed into Te Ara Wai, a new $20.5 million museum and discovery centre. Te Ara Wai will showcase Waipā and New Zealand history with a focus on the New Zealand land wars.

Council allocated lease costs of $123,500 a year for the Bunnings site and $7.2 million in its 2021-2031 Long Term Plan to cover design and construction costs.

The impact of the museum’s closure on the council’s finances is

expected to be high on the priority for the council when meetings start up again this month.

A council spokesperson said council planned to open a small popup museum in Rickit Road in early March.

“There will be limits on what can be in this space, given staff will not be able to provide the normal care given to artefacts.

“The pop-up space is likely to have an education and research focus, using a range of display and interpretive options such as digital images, maps etc,” the spokesperson said.

Plans have yet to be finalised. The council wants to use other spaces in the community to display museum objects and information.

Storm: how our mayor prepared

By Mary Anne Gill

Susan O’Regan was only days into her new job as Waipā mayor late last year when she sought a briefing with the council’s Emergency Management team.

“There were a handful of things that were very quickly thrown into my diary and one of them was a briefing with Dave Simes and Wayne Allan and then with Julian Snowball.”

They are the local and group Civil Defence emergency management controllers for the Waikato region.

She was given a ‘Guide for Declaration to and Transition from a Local State of Emergency’ which she now carries around with her everywhere she goes.

It has all the procedures, contact details and the form a mayor must complete to call a State of Emergency.

Deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk has the same guide which she carries with her in case she needs to deputise for O’Regan.

“A lot of our staff were involved in the emergency response in Waitomo. We have a cooperative joined up effort. We were really proud we could help our neighbours out. I didn’t feel I was ill-prepared or unable to respond if the weather went foul on us.”

O’Regan said she is well aware of the importance of a mayor in an emergency.

“It’s a public facing role to present that response and recovery function. Predominantly my role, had we been in that situation, would have been people and welfare focused and concerned for people’s safety and their properties.

“It’s about showing empathy and concern and presenting a calm face

and having complete confidence in the response your officials and your district has undertaken and has everything in hand.”

O’Regan said Waipā seemed to have “dodged a bullet” on the weather front but she and staff were keeping a close eye on things as more bad weather was predicted. Council staff will continue to monitor levels on both the Waikato and Waipā rivers. She would not be drawn on Auckland mayor Wayne Brown’s response to the flooding emergency on Friday.

“My heart goes out to Aucklanders. They’ve got a bit of a road ahead of them. Absolutely my huge condolences to families who have suffered losses. These are exceptionally hard times for them.”

• See: Helping our neighbours, page 5

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Te Awamutu Museum’s building was closed late last year.

The folder which accompanies Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan with her everywhere.

Harry’s last day

Eleven year old Harry Bosanko was having a hard time of it. The night before, his mother, Fanny had reprimanded him for being naughty and the next day was not much better.

On Friday January 26, 1906 the Te Awamutu lad was outside under the trees when his mother came looking for him and asked him to come inside. He initially resisted but came in afterwards and sat down to read ‘The History of the Indian Mutiny’. Shortly after, with things still uncomfortable between them, his mother said she was going into town. She saw Harry go outside but was never to see him alive again.

Three days later, around 1pm, a lad named Edward Maynall was searching for hen eggs in some fern and scrub down a side street close to the township’s centre when he made the shocking find of Harry’s body. Constable McPhee was promptly alerted. He found a pea rifle, containing the empty case of a discharged cartridge, underneath Harry. Harry’s mother had thought that he had gone to visit his uncle, Fred Gibson, who lived about four miles away, at Mangapiko, something that he often did.

At the inquest it was established that Harry had died from a bullet wound to the chest. His mother said that although he was not in a very bright mood the last time she saw him he made no threats of any sort and didn’t say that he would run away. Frank Kerr, Harry’s stepfather, said that the boy was never punished harshly.

It transpired that Harry had borrowed the pea rifle from Mr and Mrs Fraider, telling them it for his stepfather who was going to shoot a dog. A few seconds later the Fraiders heard a shot just outside their house. On being asked to give back the rifle Harry replied “no fear” and ran off with it up Walton Street. Constable McPhee testified that Harry was a well-cared for boy. In his opinion his death was accidental. It was possible the rifle’s trigger had caught in thick scrub and gone off. Dr Brewis, of Hamilton, had examined the spot where the incident happened. He agreed with Constable McPhee. He thought it also possible that Harry had stumbled while the rifle was pointing towards him.

The jury returned a verdict that Harry was accidentally killed by a bullet from a pea rifle, but how the rifle was discharged there was no evidence to show. A rider was added that the Government should introduce legislation to prohibit the use of pea rifles by boys.

Pea rifles, so named because they fired pea sized bullets, were very popular, inexpensive and the cause of many accidental shootings among boys and younger men. Despite the verdict speculation remained and it was felt investigations did not really throw any light on the mysterious affair.

Harry was buried with his father Richard Bosanko, a celebrated stud sheep breeder, at St John’s Anglican cemetery in Te Awamutu.

Down the drain at Karāpiro

Liz Stolwyk puts it down to 17 years hard work –and making sure the drains are not blocked.

More than 2000 rowers, thousands of cars and a village of tents filled the Karāpiro Domain for three days over one of the wettest weekends the country can recall – and it all went off, pardon the pun, swimmingly.

Stolwyk, the site manager of the Waipā District Council owned Mighty River Domain – and also Waipā’s deputy mayor – spent much of the weekend of the North Island Rowing championships in wet weather gear as one of the workers keeping the three day event on the 18ha site running smoothly.

She was mindful that the weather had claimed other events – aside from raining on Elton John’s parade in Auckland, it also put paid to the Festival One event at nearby Whitehall Road, Concert organisers raised the white flag on the Christian music event at 8.30am on Saturday, with half the ticket holders on site.

The ninth version of the event was scheduled at a new venue in Whitehall Rd – a couple of kilometres from the Karāpiro domain as the crow flies. Friday’s rain left the site in such a bad condition it was decided not to go ahead.

Stolwyk said the years of drainage work at Karāpiro had paid off – but doing the simple things, such as checking the drains, was also important. The Mighty River Domain’s grounds were cut up heavily in places under the weight of a constant flow of cars, but as an example, on Sunday just two needed assistance.

Stolwyk said the spell of dry weather leading up to the storm was also a blessing. Visitors to the pre-Christmas regatta there noted the parking area appeared wetter on that occasion.

This time, the speed at which the grounds could absorb and drain water was the key.

• See where volunteers rule, Page 7.

Boost for Lifeskills

Cambridge Lifeskills has received a $10,000 funding donation from the Bupa Foundation Community Grant Programme.

Lifeskills provides free counselling services to the 13 public schools in the Cambridge district and the announcement was made just days before the 2023 school term started.

Bupa St Kilda Village manager Sonya Anderson nominated the charity because many of her employees are parents themselves with school aged children.

Sandy Wesford, Cambridge Lifeskills manager

and clinical lead, said the services requires $150,000 a year to run.

“Students may be challenged by depression, anxiety, a family situation, bullying at school, post-traumatic stress, or simply need a safe space to be listened to. Cambridge Lifeskills provides free support to help grow the next generation of mentally healthy and resilient kids,” he said.

The Bupa Foundation provides funding each year to grass-roots initiatives that help improve mental health and wellbeing or supports environmental sustainability.

Marsh nabs Mo’unga

A half-brother to multiple Group One winner Mo’unga will remain in New Zealand after his purchase by Stephen Marsh at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Book 1 Sale on Sunday.

The Cambridge trainer went to $380,000 to secure lot 91, the Super Seth colt, out of Waikato Stud’s draft, and he is hoping he can live up to his pedigree. Standing alongside American bloodstock agents Mike McMahon and Jamie Hill, in addition to Ken Smole and agent Dylan Johnson, Marsh and his clients saw off keen interest for the colt.

“We were rapt to secure him at the price we did,” Marsh said.

The sales were also significant to Waipā as the first since the death of Sir Patrick Hogan. New Zealand Bloodstock opened its 97th National Yearling Sales Series with a commemorative ceremony dedicated to the breeder, who in the words of New Zealand Bloodstock principal Sir Peter Vela made the sales his own “through 40 years of selling yearlings at Trentham and Karaka”.

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Sir Peter also announced the naming of the Karaka auction ring to the Sir Patrick Hogan Auditorium.

“In my lifetime there has been no greater influence on the New Zealand breeding industry than Sir Patrick,” he said.

The sales finish tomorrow.

Harry was buried at St John’s Anglican cemetery in Te Awamutu.

Jamie Hill (left), Waikato Stud principal Mark Chittick, Stephen Marsh, Mike McMahon, Dylan Johnson, and Ken Smole.

Photo: Sarah Ebbett

Helping our neighbours

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā staff came to the rescue of southern neighbours Waitomo during the Anniversary Weekend storms which pummelled the upper North Island.

Little damage was reported in Waipā district itself where the stormwater system was able to cope.

Experienced operators like Wayne Allan and Cathie Shaw joined Western Waikato Emergency Management staff in Te Kuiti where the Mangaokewa Stream burst its banks.

Allan took on the role of local controller at the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) in the King Country town on Saturday afternoon and was part of the team that recommended mayor John Robertson should declare a State of Emergency because of heavy rainfall predictions.

When Robertson did, it was the first time a State of Emergency had been declared in the western Waikato area which includes Waipā, Ōtorohanga and Waitomo districts.

The EOC dealt with a significant water supply failure affecting 100 properties and a water tanker was brought in from Te Awamutu with water bottles for residents.

More Waipā staff came on the Sunday when Emergency Management operations manager Dave Simes was called back from holiday to relieve Allan as local controller.

District Plan and Growth manager Tony Quickfall and governance officer Keryn Phillips replaced other tiring EOC staff.

Robertson withdrew the emergency on Monday morning on Simes’ advice. The situation had significantly improved with lower river levels and the severe flooding had receded.

Allan is the District Growth and Regulatory group manager at Waipā and been with the council for 33 years with lengthy

experience in Civil Defence. Shaw is the council’s Emergency Management coordinator and joined the council in 2001.

Simes is a former police officer who joined the council in 2018 as Emergency Management operations manager.

Waipā District Council usually activates a local Emergency Operations Centre for Civil Defence emergency management at a local district response.

Waikato Regional Council

Weather toll

Reports of storm damage in Waipā included:

administers the region’s Group Emergency Management Office and the group plan from its headquarters in Hamilton where there are four group controllers including Julian Snowball, the group manager. There are 13 local controllers across the Waikato region, including three in western Waikato.

The group and local controllers are all statutory positions appointed under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act.

• a tree branch across Whitehall Road was cleared by the farmer and contractors removed debris

• On the corner of King St and Robinson Street in Cambridge - there were blocked catchpits on the intersection causing water over the road .

• Budden Road, Te Awamutu – drain flooding into farm land

• Arapuni Road, Pukeatua –Tree branch hanging down over road

• A slip covering both lanes on Te Miro Road. Cleared by contractors but there has been road damage.

• In Oriepunga Road, Maungatautari contractors attended to a slip plus a pine tree across both lanes.

• Inglefield Street, Pirongia, water pooling on one property flooded the garage.

• In a new subdivision in Pirongia, there was surface flooding on some streets.

• a slip on Te Awa River Ride within the St Peters area.

• War Memorial Park, Te Awamutu – a path has been impacted by pavers falling away

• River Side Reserve, Cambridge – high water levels have eroded behind platform.

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Wayne Allan (standing) as local controller does the shift changeover in Te Kuiti on Sunday morning.

Love your neighbour

By Julie Guest, Vicar, Parish of St John’s Anglican Church

Last Friday evening I was one of the 40,000 people standing in line waiting to be let into Mount Smart Stadium when to our great surprise we saw hundreds of people exiting. Gradually the news spread that the Elton John concert had been cancelled. Disbelief was palpable. There were many in the queue behind us who thought we were having a laugh and when the truth dawned, deep disappointment followed.

It was one of those moments when as an individual you become connected to complete strangers by circumstance. We had all battled monumental traffic snarl ups; whether we had travelled by bus, private car, or taxi, we had been stuck, were late and had to be dropped off and walk much further than expected. As we were disembarking our cars, the full force of the rain storm hit, so by the time we arrived at the stadium gates every one of us, no matter how carefully we had dressed to prepare, were drenched. We were in good spirits though, because we were about to be part of Elton’s final tour. Worth the effort and making a memory we said to each other. Then came the news. It was all for nothing.

That was when the connection really happened. What to do? Buses had left. Friends who had kindly done the drop off had returned home, or, worse were stuck in the snarl up somewhere.

As the crowds began to flow out of the stadium again, the mood shifting from anticipatory to something darker, a wonderful gesture by a clever member of the police force lifted spirits. He had parked across the flow of people to guide them away from a flooded area and blaring from his car’s speakers was Elton John in concert. Everyone caught the mood, singing and jigging down the road. That was a journey. Thousands of people on foot, keeping an eye out

Inflation stood

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for each other, wading through deeper and deeper flooding.

In some places we passed homes set below the level of the road, and could see water rushing down their driveways and rising up their walls. I guess most of us realised that a cancelled concert, even at such inconvenience to ourselves , was a small matter compared to what we could see was happening to others.

Sometimes it seems the world is full of terrible things. The flooding that unfolded that night was terrible. But in the midst of it, as in every disaster, the kindness of strangers is what stands out. Media will speak of the devastation for weeks, whereas the small stories of people helping people will die away. But all over our country people are still trying to recover from devasting weather events and it is neighbourliness and the care of one for another that will get us through.

Jesus said love your neighbour as yourself, and wherever we see that enacted we see people recovering. But it is hard work , giving and giving as one who cares.

Where then can you find the ongoing strength to be there for those in need, to be a caring neighbour?

Immediately prior to Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbour, Jesus said that the first and greatest commandment was to love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. Loving God, and knowing how much God loves you, is the energy we each need to love in this costly way.

As we expect more wild weather this week, and we are told, in months and years to come, I pray that communities will remember this invitation from Jesus to receive God’s love and as a result, be able to care for our neighbours.

New Zealand’s annual inflation rate for 2022 was announced last week. It was 7.2 per cent, the same as it had been for the year to September, 2022.

The Reserve Bank had forecast 7.5 per cent. I had expected (hoped for) 6.9 per cent. If we had averaged our expectations, we would have been spot on. The annual inflation rate has now been around the same level for the last three quarters.

It is becoming safer to say that the peak has been reached for this cycle. But 7.2 per cent is still well above the Reserve Bank’s target range so the policy question now is how quickly will inflation ease back towards the target level?

In thinking about this, it is important to look at what is happening to inflation rates in the rest of the world. Europe and the USA also seem to have reached a peak and recent predictions for both inflation and economic growth there have become a little more positive. That still hasn’t happened in the UK or Australia, but they seem to be outliers. Globally, the outlook for both inflation and growth has improved recently.

It is also interesting to look at what the main drivers were that kept the annual inflation rate in New Zealand at over 7 per cent. The three main ones were housing and household utilities (up 8 per cent), food (up 11 per cent) and transport (up 8.4 per cent).

Within the transport sector, international airfares were up a massive 19 per cent and domestic airfares 14 per cent. These huge increases in airfares are occurring because international and domestic tourism is moving back towards pre-covid levels very rapidly. This change has occurred so rapidly that airline capacity, which was heavily reduced during the covid period, has not been able to adjust

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as quickly as prices. But airline capacity is now increasing rapidly. For example, I recently saw a story that American Airlines is looking to recruit 2000 pilots. As airline capacity adjusts, prices should stop rising and could even begin to fall.

Many New Zealanders are mystified why we pay so much for food here when we produce enough food to feed 40 million people. A lot of what we produce is exported and the producers of these types of products say New Zealanders have to pay the international price or this food will all be exported. However, one of the other explanations for high food prices in New Zealand is that we are at the end of a long supply chain and it costs a lot of money to ship the food we import to New Zealand. Surely that argument should work in the other direction too. It costs a lot of money to export New Zealand food products to our global markets. It should be possible to sell the same product in New Zealand for less as the supply chain here is a truck ride, not a long ship journey. But we seem to pay the supply chain price on the food we import but don’t get the benefit on the export products we produce and consume here.

Am I missing something or are we being ripped off?

Then there is the often-mentioned issue of having a duopoly in the important supermarket industry. This issue has been studied and criticised for several years. But little concrete action has been taken. Our new prime minister has said he intends to focus on ‘bread and butter’ issues. This is a bread-and-butter issue.

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The logic – and lack of it

Daft: A generous way to describe some of the less than rational viewpoints adopted by some of the less than rational members of our wonderfully diverse global society.

Only today, I read somewhere on social media a quote from Chris Hipkins who said the extreme weather conditions being experienced in Auckland are a

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consequence of climate change.

The first comment beneath this announcement said “Perhaps he should read the Old Testamenthe might learn something”. Now I feel quite safe suggesting that one of those people is working on the fringe of reality. Of course, which one you think it is depends entirely upon your own interpretation of the information available to you. Another daft thing I saw recently was a post from a person who has set up a business in which he or she, I can’t remember which, will address the mental concerns of your pets. And they will do this telepathically, without coming near the pet. I don’t know about you but I would be more inclined to send money to my newly-discovered Nigerian uncle than someone who claims the ability to ease my cat’s anxiety by remote control. How is it going to work?

Let’s assume for one ridiculous minute that this could actually happen. We all know how radio waves work, and I presume the telepathic tranquillisation of pets would have to work in a similar way. How is it that it won’t affect all the pets in the neighbourhood while only one owner pays?

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Do I email some sort of ethereal IP address (that’s an internet location FYI)

in the hope that the anxious cat will be singled out by a rush of soothing cosmic waves, which will tease it alone down from the height of angst and disquiet known to afflict all but the most sedate moggies. I don’t mean to be confrontational, but if someone is going to make such a claim they must be ready to defend it.

Some years ago I found, by accident, a small purple crystal underneath and behind my bedside table. I thought nothing of it at first, but it niggled, and eventually I asked my other half if she knew anything about it. It turned out that, being not immune to a bit of superstition, she had placed the offending article there some weeks earlier, in the hope that it might make me less sceptical of all things airy-fairy, and very possibly less grumpy to boot. She was forced to concede that it hadn’t worked.

The world is full of people who hold views which to others are impenetrably illogical or outright daft. This is fine and there should be no problems arising, given that we are all so reasonable and tolerant. But we are not.

The problems arise when, instead of discussing and debating different views, some will simply shout victimisation, or throw soup on a painting, or deny their antagonist the right to speak at all. Or even go to war. That is daft.

Where volunteers rule

By Roy Pilott

Colin Birch barely needs to look at his run list.

“Yes, they can come through – but they are really early,” he says.

Cambridge based Birch is acting as the effective bus conductor – the gatekeeper as rowers come and go with the boats to and from the water at Lake Karāpiro.

And a request has come from a crew who want to get on the water now.

The businessman who has spent 10 years as a rowing umpire is one of countless volunteers in grey and blue shirts ensuring the North Island rowing championships go off without a hitch – albeit in frequent driving rain.

It’s three days of racing, virtually non-stop as clubs from all over the country battle it out on the water. For many rowers it’s part of the build up to this year’s Maadi Cup to be held at the same venue starting on March 27.

Another crew arrive and a member is swiftly asked to turn off his Bluetooth speaker and does so immediately. There’s no question about who is calling the shots here.

“Etiquette is very important,” Birch explains. “You don’t want to be

talking to a team about their upcoming race with loud music in the background.”

He became involved in rowing when the first of his three children took up the sport. When Victoria, now 27, Henry, 24 and Alexander, 22, left school, he remained as a volunteer.

He served on the Cambridge Rowing Club committee for five years before, in 2018, starting a now completed stint as its chair.

Wife Mary is also a qualified rowing umpire.

Today, when rowers are on the water, they will be there too. Saturday and Sunday involved 14-hour shifts.

Monday was a bit shorter. The family home’s doors were opened to visiting volunteers from Tauranga and Auckland.

Other volunteers at the weekend arrived from Whangārei, Whanganui, Auckland and Wellington.

“You have 65-70 volunteers at every regatta – people at the start, eight on the water, support crews, a couple of safety boats, judges in the tower, people tabulating the results…”

He points to the efficiency of it all. When a thunderstorm announced itself on Sunday the call was

made to evacuate the lake.

“We have up to 100 boats on the lake at any one time. The races in progress finished – and the lake was evacuated in about three minutes.”

Birch just loves it. Talk to him for a short time and you will be encouraged to join up too.

He is hugely impressed by the calibre and discipline of the young men and women who get involved in the sport.

“It’s just a fabulous environment,” he says. And a rowing backgrounds isn’t a bad thing on a CV. Birch owns Smart Climate Solutions and Lilies by Blewden, and he says the moment someone comes to his company with a CV that mentions an involvement with rowing, they will be given an interview - because “you can tick off 10 things” about them straight away. On bus

A month for heritage

February sees a return of Waipā Heritage walks in both Cambridge and Te Awamutu, as well as a month of associated heritage scavenger hunts. The events are being held by Waipā District Libraries to mark Heritage Month.

The scavenger hunts in both

Cambridge and Te Awamutu are open to entrants of all ages through to February 28.

A free guided heritage tour of central Cambridge, hosted by Michael Jeans and Sue Milner, will take place February 16, from 10am to noon. The walk will cover Cambridge town

from north to south, passing heritage buildings and key locations. It will require a reasonable level of fitness.

Entry forms and scavenger hunt questions for both centres are available and further details are available at the Te Awamutu and Cambridge libraries.

conductor duty – Colin Birch.

Masson gets title shot

By Roy Pilott

A Te Awamutu born boxer is to fight for the title vacated by Joseph Parker’s last opponent.

Brisbane based southpaw Floyd Masson fights Italian Fabio Turchi - also a southpaw - for the vacant IBO World Cruiserweight title in Queensland on April 1.

The title was vacated by Jack Massey when he moved up to heavyweight and was outpointed this month in Manchester, England, by New Zealand’s Joseph Parker.

Hero’s reception for Langman

By Viv Posselt

Andrew Langman, described as someone who has been fundamental to the success, positive culture and adaptability of athletics for several years, has won a Sport Waikato award.

Masson, who boasts a perfect win record after 12 bouts, won the Australian cruiserweight title with a majority decision win over Aussie Mark Flanagan in December 2021.

He is ranked 12th with IBF and is in the top 30 on the respected website Boxrec.

Only one New Zealander, the late Jimmy Thunder – one of many Samoan born Kiwis to make headlines in the ring - has won an IBO title. Thunder won the heavyweight belt in 1994 against unheralded Richard Mason and later defended it against Tony Tubbs, who fought the likes of Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe.

Masson’s opponent Turchi, 29, last fought in June in London when he stopped Englishman Richard Riakporhe, a former British cruiserweight champion, in two rounds. He is ranked 13th by the IBF.

Masson was born and raised in Te Awamutu and began fighting as an amateur in New Zealand before moving to Perth where he made his professional debut five years ago.

He has been based in Brisbane for two years and is preparing for the fight in Las Vegas under trainer Steve Rowlands.

He was presented with the 2022 Community Unsung Hero Award at Waikato Sport and Active Recreation Awards last Thursday. His nomination was for his voluntary contribution with an initiative or organisation over the past year.

Andrew’s involvement in athletics has covered both Cambridge and Te Awamutu and he has also campaigned against family violence.

Last year he became president of the Athletics Waikato Bay of Plenty regional board.

He has been part of the Cambridge Athletics and Harriers Club for 11 seasons, seven of them spent as chairperson of the Cambridge Athletics subcommittee before stepping down last year.

A man who prefers to be out of the spotlight, Andrew said was ‘overwhelmed with gratitude’ to have been nominated for the award, never mind win it. “I am passionate about giving children a sport that can help them with so many aspects of their lives. I don’t care if they want to be an elite sportsperson or just lark around with their friends. As long as they are striving to be better and do their best to improve their individual personal best in an event then I’m excited for them. It is amazing to watch athletes beat their personal best in an event… the massive smile on their face and the excitement they show is what keeps me going.”

Andrew is known for making athletics fun, accessible and family-oriented. His leadership through connections with children’s club nights and events such as the annual Cambridge Pentathlon has won him a host of fans who admire his mentoring across all levels.

He has been involved in the organisation of several key regional events, and through his involvement in the wider Waipā community fronted a campaign against family violence.

In 2018 he entered the Cambridge Club into the

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Athletics NZ club development programme, a fouryear joint commitment with the national organisation offering workshops, opportunities to interact with clubs around the country, and attracting additional equipment and coaching.

In 2020/21 when work took him to Napier/ Hastings, he volunteered at their athletics club, and in the following season, he supported the Te Awamutu club in arranging an integral interclub event held at the Te Awamutu grounds after it was initially cancelled due to Covid.

Throughout the 2021/22 season Andrew ran club nights to ensure strict adherence to health and safety protocols and enabled neighbouring club members to join Cambridge Athletics at no cost while facilities at their clubs were unavailable.

He is responsible for many of the programmes and philosophies now enjoyed by Cambridge Athletics, and he enthusiastically supports a wide range of local and regional events.

Effusive in his thanks, directed to his family and those supporting his activities, Andrew said this region was privileged in having the number of volunteers it has to help sport in the Waikato.

“If anyone has ideas on how to get more volunteers to step forward, please let me know as I’m keen to get more people into sport administration.”

Floyd Masson

Andrew Langman, left, pictured at last week’s awards with Sport Waikato chair, Phil Taylor. Photo: Sport Waikato

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Beale ups sticks for pro career

By Mary Anne Gill

One of the best hockey players Waipā has ever produced has secured a professional contract with a leading Dutch club.

Jackson Beale, 18, will make his debut for Hockey Club (HC) Houten sometime in the next week. He flew out of New Zealand yesterday (Wednesday) en-route to Amsterdam via Los Angeles.

The classy midfielder, who plays for the Te Awamutu Sports Hockey premier men’s team, started playing hockey when he was six and a pupil at Cambridge Primary School.

He continued onto Cambridge Middle School and Cambridge High School where he excelled at hockey, football and cricket.

He came to the attention of social media purists during the first Covid lockdown in 2020 when he won the Waikato Hockey Trick for a Stick competition.

His video showing some tricks with a stick and ball impressed the judges.

While Jackson was working through options for tertiary study towards the end of last year – scholarships at AUT and Waikato were on the cards - his mother Paulette suggested he might want to look at playing hockey overseas during a gap year.

“That seemed such a cool idea,” said Jackson.

So he put his CV out on the market with videos of him playing for Cambridge HS, Te Awamutu and Waikato.

There are hockey leagues in the UK, Germany, Belgium and Australia but the competitiveness of The Netherlands appealed to him.

He had a lucky break when Stephen Atkinson, a former St Peter’s School student who had played for HC Houten, put in a good word for him.

Houten head coach Jens de Graauw took a punt and signed Beale. One of the club’s midfielders picked up an injury earlier in the season so Beale will fill in for him.

Houten, a commuter city known for its bicycle friendliness, has a population of about 50,000 and is in the centre of The Netherlands in the Utrecht province. The hockey club is second in the Gold Cup league having been promoted last year from the Silver Cup league.

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The squad has 16 players, including two keepers, so the chances of Jackson getting a run are high. Shortly before he arrives, the team is heading off on a training camp to Spain. He does not speak Dutch but most of the players and club staff speak English anyway.

While it is a professional contract, Jackson is not getting paid – mum Paulette and dad Colin are his major sponsors – he will get accommodation provided and the club is already setting up work opportunities.

Jackson is in The Netherlands on a 90-day tourist visa but the opportunity to extend that is promising.

“I’m always up for a challenge. I have high hopes I should get a longer visa,” he said.

Cambridge High School hockey manager Glenys Bichan said the school and the club was very proud of Jackson.

“He is a Waikato under 18 player with a huge talent, and in year 10 he set some hockey goals and now he is fulfilling those. He was the captain of our team that won Olympic Sticks and he scored all our goals. The boys adore Jackson, he is a great leader,” she said.

“He has worked really hard for this and we couldn’t be prouder of him. He is a humble guy but I think this is a great honour for him, his family our school hockey and our town.”

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Golfers fly high

Te Awamutu Golf Club and members figured prominently in a successful four-day Waikato Festival of Golf rescue helicopter charity fundraiser.

Cambridge Golf Club hosted the opening day the opening day of the Waikato veterans tournament for over 55s and fielding five teams in the 34 team event, three of its teams finished in the top five. The Cambridge course was the venue for the Monday, January 23 kick off followed by Morrinsville Golf Club, no play on Wednesday, and rounds at Pirongia and Te Awamutu clubs to complete the week.

According to Waikato veterans’ golf president Brian White, the 2023 festival, and associated activities, is set to add $10,000 to the rescue helicopter’s coffers.

Cambridge further embellished its reputation by adding a collection of $1500 to the joint fund plus another $780 from a raffle held last week. The Morrinsville club added $770, the Waikare club (Te Kauwhata) $550 and a donation is also expected from Te Awamutu.

A team from the Waihi Golf Club, captained by Francis Gascoigne, took out overall honours closely followed in second, third and fifth by Cambridge teams led by Graeme Harrison, , Tony Broadbent and Julia Kuggeleijn.

The Waikato Veteran Golf Association’s Festival of Golf is the longest continual sponsor of the Phillips Search and Rescue

Helicopter Trust. Over a span of more than a quarter of a century the association has raised in excess of $160,000.

Each year the January festival attracts 32 to 34 mixed teams of golfers from all over the Waikato and Auckland.

Brian White thanked a host of sponsors and voiced his appreciation that golf clubs involved generously provided their courses and facilities at no charge to allow as large a donation as possible for the emergency rescue service.

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Jackson Beale with his trusty hockey stick outside Cambridge High School before he departed for The Netherlands.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Cambridge Golf Club veterans’ convenor Steve Cooper (right) and club president David Donnelly pictured with the Waikato rescue helicopter money box which was the focus of a $2280 donation leading up to a combined $10,000 fund raising effort last week.

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Lunchbox bets

I’ve often thought that coming up with a winning school lunchbox can be a bit like picking the winner of a horse race. Today’s sure bet is often tomorrow’s also-ran. But your kids’ sometimes fickle tastes mean you have to provide a variety of different treats.

And it’s important to provide a balanced diet to energise them through the day.

Fruits and vegetables hit the vitamin and mineral trifecta when it comes to nutrition. And if you can include a good selection, your kids will benefit from enjoying some nutritious winners.

Fats are often thought of as bad bets, and often are. But the fat in cheese, eggs, nuts and meat is beneficial when consumed in moderation. For example, meat and eggs are jam-packed with quality protein which keeps your kids hunger pangs at bay — a bonus in any school lunchbox. Cheese provides calcium as well as protein, and nuts contain antioxidants.

Many ethnic dishes are top picks with today’s kids: think pasta salad with satay sauce; tacos with kidney or black beans and salad veggies; chicken kebabs; lettuce cups with Thai larb; stir-fried rice; pizza; wontons with dip; and sushi –winners that tickle their taste buds.

PASTA SALAD WITH SATAY DRESSING

Chopped hard-boiled eggs or nuts could be swapped for the chicken. Pack the salad into small containers with lids. I used Asian slaw from the vegetable section of my supermarket.

Dressing: 2 tablespoons each: peanut butter, soy sauce, honey, lemon juice

1 teaspoon finely grated root ginger

1 clove garlic, crushed

Salad: 1/2 cup macaroni or small shell pasta

2 cups prepared slaw

3/4 cup chopped cooked chicken, optional

Whisk the ingredients for the dressing together in a bowl, until smooth.

Boil the pasta according to the packet instructions. Drain

and rinse under cold water. Drain again. Cool. Combine with the slaw in a large bowl. Add the chicken, if using. Toss together with the dressing. Serves 2.

SOFT TACOS WITH CHICKEN

If preferred, add grated cheese or drained and roughly mashed cooked kidney beans. Crisp taco shells could replace the tortillas.

2 mini soft tortillas

1 cup shredded lettuce

1/2-3/4 cup shredded chicken plain or chipotle mayonnaise to taste

1/2 small avocado, diced

2 teaspoons lemon juice

cherry tomatoes

Place the tortillas on a paper towel and microwave for 15 seconds. This helps soften them and takes away any raw flavour. Cool.

Divide the lettuce over the tortillas and top with the chicken and mayo. Roll up or fold and fit into a lunchbox. Sprinkle the avo with lemon juice and place in a small container with a lid. Add the cherry tomatoes to the lunchbox. Serves 1.

VEGETABLE STICKS WITH YOGHURT DIP

Cut the vegetables into sticks about 1cm thick and 4-5cm long.

1/2 cup plain Greek-style yoghurt

1 tablespoon peanut butter

1-2 teaspoons mango or other fruit chutney cucumber, carrot and/or celery sticks crisp crackers

Place the yoghurt, peanut butter and chutney in a bowl stirring until well combined. Pour into a small container. Seal with a lid. Place the vegetable sticks in a lunchbox with the dip container and the crackers. Serves 1.

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