Cambridge News | February 23, 2023

High level paint job

By Mary Anne Gill

What do the Eiffel Tower and Cambridge’s Victoria Street Bridge have in common?

It is one of those Mastermind questions everyone in town should know, says Waipā Transportation asset engineer Paul Strange pointing towards the lattice steelwork on the High Level bridge.

It shares the design with the Paris tower.

The hinged truss bridge over the Waikato River was prefabricated in 1906 by the American Bridge Company of New York - a freshlypainted imprint in stage one of the $2.6 million painting job confirms the US company’s involvement.

When InterGroup Ltd founder Alan Hill heard Victoria Bridge needed repainting, he told his team they had to get the job.

He was involved the last time it was painted in 1999, commercial general manager Brett Farrell said on a tour of the site for The News last week.

With Farrell and Strange in the site office on the Cambridge side of the bridge for the tour is experienced InterGroup site supervisor Charlie Cabales, who has moved his family to Cambridge for the project.

Technology has changed so much in the ensuing 24 years that this paint job is expected to last more than 40 years.

The type of paint used is the same applied to the North Sea oil rigs and like any paint job, preparation is the key, says Farrell.

Pigeons with their corrosive poo and harsh weather which leads to rusting create the biggest clean up problems and lead to paint deterioration.

“Repainting is a very important aspect of bridge maintenance, making sure it stays in good condition,” says Strange.

The paint provides an important protective layer over the steel, preventing rusting, corrosion, bird roosting and graffiti.

“It’s a complicated engineering job.”

The work is being done in stages starting at the Cambridge end. Stage one – the first span – is nearing completion.

Meanwhile scaffolding is already built out towards the arch section with council Water Services staff taking the opportunity to check the watermain under the bridge.

Each stage will be wrapped in the same white plastic sheeting used on leaky buildings.

That will prevent any paint particles or other debris falling into the Waikato River or adjacent vegetation.

Underneath that protective cover Cabales and his blaster painting team clean the bridge and the lattice using high pressure, low volume amounts of water.

They then prepare the surface – repairing any rust, replacing rivets with bolts where necessaryworking in the heat and noise from the bridge above them.

And that noise is not going anywhere. The plan is to keep the bridge open throughout the project.

Cabeles says it is the pedestrians, cyclists and scooters on the footpaths either side which make the most noise.

And to those who suggest the bridge is not worth the money?

“This bridge will last as long as we maintain it,” said Strange.

Victoria Bridge, a Heritage New Zealand Category One structure,

was shipped to New Zealand as a 330-tonne kitset in 1906 and taken by train to Cambridge and Te Awamutu for erection on either side of the Waikato River.

It was the first example of construction using the process of cantilevering the two half arches from each bank.

The use of lattice steel in bridges

was relatively common in the latter half of the 19th century. In New Zealand, it was used in railway bridges like the central North Island Hāpuawhenua and Taonui viaducts and the High Level Bridge. And of course, the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

• See: Fast facts about the High Level Bridge, page 3; A bridge to the past, page 17.

Under cover, from left Paul Strange, Charlie Cabales, Regan Powell and Brett Farrell at the Cambridge end of the High Level Bridge where work is nearly finished. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Our cyclone relief steps up

By Viv Posselt

Cambridge lost no time in reaching out to help those most affected by last week’s Cyclone Gabrielle.

Individuals, businesses and other groups and organisations moved swiftly to gather and send out items needed urgently for those in the most severely affected areas. Many here were spurred into action after seeing images of the devastated Hawke’s Bay area. They reached out to social media to launch initiatives which will stay in place for several months.

Among the first to move was a Cambridge Jewellers team. Anna Gerring shared her desire to do something on social media and by 11am she had been contacted by Mainfright to say they had a truck going down and could transport donations being dropped off at the jeweller’s shop.

“People are so generous. It’s all stuff that will be used immediately – toiletries, tinned food, pet food, baby formula, sanitary products and the like,” said Anna. “When the truck arrived down there on Saturday, there were people in the streets applauding.”

Anna and her colleagues – Vicky Vickers, Stacey Murray, Laura Cannon – put the call out for boxes and on Sunday were joined by Anna’s fiancé Murray Yeates and Cambridge Chamber chief Kelly Bouzaid for a busy packing session before the goods were transported. That initial truckload went on Saturday and another large trailer-load was taken on Sunday headed to Wairoa.

Friday also saw Mike Ross, managing director at C & R Developments, put out a call for warehouse space to accommodate

donations that gathered quickly at their Hautapu premises once they put the word out.

The company is run by the Ross brothers, who have historic connections to Hastings and were keen to assist where they could across the Hawke’s Bay area. Their great-grandfather Francis Hicks was one of the founding settlers of Hastings.

“I was awake around 2am on Friday and thought I’d like to do something,” Mike said on Monday morning. “We had a spare truck available and were ready to go. There was a great response to our weekend call for warehousing, and we’ve now probably got

enough donations to easily fill two trucks.” Goods were still coming in, and he expects the initiative will continue for some time. The generosity of local communities is being welcomed by Civil Emergency and Red Cross teams who are collaborating nationwide to support the relief effort, but they are urging donors to familiarise themselves with what is needed.

Wayne Allan, Western Waikato local civil defence controller, said monetary donations were the single, most helpful things Kiwis can do right now.

• Te Miro chops in, See page 24

Cyclone Gabrielle has certainly hit the country with force. I know that many of you were affected directly, locally with fallen trees, power outages and slips or indirectly having friends or family displaced elsewhere in the North Island.

I hope everyone has come through safely.

It is at times like this that a strong sense of community comes to the fore. We are lucky to have organisations such as Civil Defence and Neighbourhood Support who work to prepare for, respond and manage such emergencies. It is a reminder of the importance to be prepared ourselves, for example having extra non-perishable food supplies, water, a battery powered radio, medical supplies, a back-up UPS for critical equipment (for example medical, security) . If weather warnings are issued it is helpful to also prepare a ‘go bag’ of family essentials to take with you in the event of a sudden evacuation.

While the cyclone has been forefront of everyone’s minds, our criminals haven’t stopped.

We have had a bit of a change in vehicle theft type in recent weeks. I have highlighted motorcycles and trailers. In the past month however, seven utility vehicles have been stolen in Cambridge. Two burglaries just this week each targeted two utes, but while ignitions were pulled in all cases, they only got away with one. One offender or group of offenders will often be responsible for a high volume of incidents, feeding into a network of receivers (those people who exchange drugs or money for stolen goods and sell or trade them onward).

Identifying features such as registration plates and VIN plates are commonly removed from stolen vehicles and in some cases a completely new vehicle identity is fabricated. The more information and photographic evidence you have of

distinguishing marks, damage, customisations or modifications made to vehicles you own, the better.

Still on the topic of vehicles, I’d like to remind you about driving behaviour around schools. Schools are always high traffic volume areas for drop off and pick up times. We then have the added risk of children on foot, scooters and bikes, not all of whom are paying attention to their surroundings. Please keep your speed to the lower 40 kph limit around schools and be aware of parking restrictions. No parking zones are in place for a reason, often to ensure clear visibility for pedestrian crossings, so do not park on them. I have also been asked to remind the community that bus stops do not constitute a drop off zone. Until next week, stay safe and report anything suspicious.

Some of the Cambridge Jewellers team with a few of the donations. They are, from left, Anna Gerring, Stacey Murray and Laura Cannon.

Library membership

Membership at Waipā’s two libraries in Cambridge and Te Awamutu continue trending upwards as do book issues. Cambridge has 21,538 members and issued 147,529 books in the three months starting October 1, while Te Awamutu has 16,096 members and issued 78,526 books, the council’s Service Delivery committee was told this week.

Boy racers out

Roads in Cambridge, Maungatautari, Te Awamutu, Kihikihi, Pirongia and Ōhaupō will be closed between 9pm and 4am under Waipā council plans to curb antisocial driving. The behaviour is often intimidating, creates litter issues and excessive noise. In rural areas, the noise frightens stock, as well as disturbing residents, council Transportation manager Bryan Hudson told the Service Delivery committee meeting this week.

High vis reps

There will be no mistaking Te Awamutu-Kihikihi

Community Board members following the board’s decision last night to invest $250 in high vis vests for members attending community events.

Clocking the risk

The Cambridge Clock Tower will be given a detailed seismic assessment. A heritage architect, who was engaged to make a condition assessment, recommended commissioning a report to ascertain if the tower is an earthquake risk.

Te Kanohi fees

Waipā’s four iwi representatives – known as Te Kanohi - will receive meeting fees rather than an annual payment, under a recommendation tabled at the Finance and Corporate committee this week. A $450 half day and $550 full day meeting fee, plus mileage, will be paid. The annual fee will come to about $16,300 –up by $3300.

What’s it like when voters boot you out of office and you’ve got hours to clean out your desk? Roy Pilott talks to former mayor Jim Mylchreest about life after politics.

Make it worth it…

Jim Mylchreest says central government must address issues with local government – and he’s highlighted remuneration as a key one.

Mylchreest served nine years as Waipā mayor, effectively a full-time job with evening commitments added.

“Without another income you couldn’t afford to do the job,” he said.

“Central government politicians get superannuation, local government politicians can’t get Kiwisave.

“Central Government politicians who get voted out or decide to leave get three months’ notice, in local government you only get half the month you were working and it’s just cut off dead.”

He said younger politicians in local government will serve a term – “then they say, look we are in our principal money earning years, we can’t afford to do this for our family where it’s impacting on our superannuation.”

Mylchreest says an indication of the poor remuneration is that many people who run for council waited until they are retired and are receiving a pension.

“I think they probably need to reduce the number of councillors and pay them a more realistic remuneration for the amount of work they are doing – and really follow what central government politicians get.”

He “absolutely” agreed that the present remuneration impacted on the quality of local body councillors.

Local government was a good system.

“In fact, local government is the only democratic governance we’ve got – 40 per cent of central government MPs are appointed and they never face the electorate.”

He thought the country was getting “off track” with

co-governance.

“We need to be talking good governance and not cogovernance in my view.”

He believed the council should spend more time working with central government – “but at least standing up to them when they are making stupid decisions that are not based on fact”.

Three Waters was a classic example, he said. Waipā had forgone a lot of community development to invest in its own three waters – “and now it’s going to be expected to fund other areas which have not bitten the bullet”.

He said central government should call local body councils to account where they were not performing, but disagreed with a blanket approach.

He argued people came to Waipā because of the level of services the district have.

His other gripe was that local government was hamstrung on how it raised finances – “and the moment rates go up central government is criticising”.

“Yet look at the percentage of gross domestic product over the last 100 years - rates impact is just about level at five per cent and central government taxes had grown exponentially.”

Councils were criticised for trying to manage on a rate base when they had no other sources of income - and he believed those councils should receive finding from other quarters.

“Even if it was GST on development contributions… around Waipā I wouldn’t imagine there’s a section for less than $350,000 – and out of that the government creams $50,000 in GST and none of it comes back to the community.”

• Jim’s life after politics – see page 6.

Jim Mylchreest has been

High level paint job

Some key facts around the work on Victoria Bridge

• Over 7000 scaffold components will be used in the staging of scaffold.

• Over 850 Layher lightweight scaffold decks will be used for this project.

• The lightweight system has a bending strength 24% greater than traditional steel scaffolding tube.

• The system has lower overall weight which means less load from the scaffolding system itself.

• Almost 30 tonnes of garnet, grit-sand blasting, will be used to blast the old paint and rust off the bridge.

• It is estimated that over 2000 litres of paint will be used. The paint has been used on a range of structures, including bridges, oil rigs and chemical plants around the world.

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A triumphant comeback

By Mary Anne Gill

Peter Parker was 18 when he fell in love with his 1962 Triumph TR4 .

Not long after, he fell in love with Diane from Waharoa and the three of them went on their honeymoon together in the 1970s.

The first time Peter hit 100 miles/per hour in the car, Diane was with him and her words to him were: “That’s a time machine.”

The Kaipaki couple organised the Triumph TR (Triumph Roadster) national weekend held in Cambridge over four days wrapping up on Sunday with a forum in the morning, lunch at the Good Union where presentations were made and then a farewell to the participants.

Numbers were down – missing were at least 10 cars from Hawke’s Bay – but the passengers in the 65 cars from all over New Zealand were still in good spirits.

Diane said she and Peter had contemplated postponing the event but they had already

done that last year because of Covid.

“It’s been a journey for a lot of people to get here so we wanted them to have a good time,” she said.

Highlight was on Friday when the cars went on display at Victoria Square where the participants were welcomed by deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk.

Peter and Diane’s blue Triumph was there its hub caps, bumper, parts and paintwork gleaming in the Cambridge sun.

The car started its career red, albeit somewhat faded. Peter painted it blue and added a mahogany dash.

He recalls why, when living in Hamilton, he spent $2140 buying it.

“I was sitting in the smoko room at the Te Rapa dairy factory, and everyone was talking about their cars so I wanted something myself.”

He did the rounds of the car yards and fell in love with the Triumph TR4 -code named Zest during its development in 1960 – and

became only its third owner. There are about 60 TR4s in New Zealand.

The Triumph Motor Company’s marque (emblem) retired in 1984 after nearly 100 chequered years. BMW now owns the brand but despite some rumours more than a decade ago, seems unlikely to revive it.

The first car to use the TR moniker was the “Bullet” TR-X which was a flop because of its unreliability. TR model - a prototype, went on display at the London Motor Show in 1952.

Production started the following year with the TR2. They went on to morph through the years finishing with the TR8 eight cylinder version in 1978.

The TR racing models all have 15 inch wheels and two doors in common, said Peter, and are close to the ground which makes travelling long distances problematic.

Diane remembers the bumpy ride they had when they took the Triumph TR4 up Mount Ruapehu’s Bruce Road on their honeymoon and admits she would not want to do it again.

Peter jokes he knows it will be time to sell the car when he can no longer climb in and out of it. And that happens more frequently now, he says.

There are more than 700 Triumph TR cars in New Zealand with the 1968-1975 TR6 the most popular.

The Triumph TRs on display at Victoria Square in Cambridge.

Peter and Diane Parker with their Triumph TR4 at Victoria Square in Cambridge.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Retire or refire…that is

Roy Pilott catches up with former mayor Jim Mylchreest – and finds him refreshed and keen for a chat…

It was just a day after he celebrated his 70th birthday that Jim Mylchreest was ousted as Waipā’s mayor.

He was aiming for a fourth – and probably final term - having spent nine years in the

job.

“I thought it would be close – but I thought it would be closer,” he said of the result which saw Susan O’Regan win by almost 2000 votes.

They are experts in their field.

Election night was a victory for female candidates in regional and district council elections all over the Waikato. Not so for all male leaders. Mylchreest was rolled, Waikato deputy mayor Aksel

Bech failed to get the top job, the only one he sought, Waikato Regional Council chair Barry Quayle failed to get in after switching from Hamilton to the Waipā King Country

Continued next page

When Mike and Debbie Glasson bought a hydroseeder machine 17 years ago, it was arguably one of the most crucial business decisions they ever made.

The couple have owned Ōhaupō-based Lawn & Turf Contracting (civil and domestic lawn and turf specialists) for 21 years relying initially on Mike’s international experience as a golf course greenkeeper and turf expert.

He realised hydroseeding – hydraulic mulch seeding, or spray on lawns – offered cost effective opportunities to install a quick establishing and healthy lawn.

So, they borrowed the money to buy the hydroseeding machine and they have never regretted the decision.

The company now owns four hydroseeding machines using them for everything from domestic lawns to civil works, small lifestyle blocks and farms.

Mike was an earlier adopter of hydroseeding machines realising what a game-changer they are to the lawn and turf market.

“Preparation is the key and that’s what we pride ourselves on,” he said.

The service doesn’t stop after the lawn or turf has taken either. The company provides a complete package – from preparation and lawn installation through to irrigation and aftercare.

The business worked its way through the Covid pandemic and is now busier than it has ever been.

“Our business has grown due to our ability to provide an all-round service, from site preparation, irrigation design and installation, sowing of seed, hydroseeding and providing aftercare service and lawncare service,” said Mike.

In recent years the company has also branched out into synthetic artificial turf, popular among town house developers as an example.

They are both committed to their community – Mike grew up in Te Awamutu and Debbie in Ōtorohanga and they now run their family-owned business in Ōhaupō because it is ideally placed to cover the greater Waikato area.

The business has a large client base ranging from local councils, building companies, home owners, civil companies and has just completed a large hydroseeding job on the new Waikato Expressway in Tamahere.

They were also brought in to provide their expertise at the new Tīeke golf course (formerly Lochiel).

Swale drains, new roadside and footpath berms are among regular jobs they do for various councils and developers.

“We have a can do attitude – anything to do with lawn and turf, our goal is to get it right so our clients have a great

lawn or turf to be proud of,” said Mike.

Lawn & Turf also has an online shop for everything from lawn seed to fertiliser and garden equipment.

You can also visit their showroom in Ryburn Road (entrance off Forkert Road) in Ōhaupō to look at the various lawn and turf options available.

If you are a golfer, take your putter – Mike has installed a putting green to prove his greenkeeping skills are still top notch.

There are also examples of lawn available – rye-fescue, fine fescue or tall fescue – so you can take your shoes off and try it out yourself.

Debbie and Mike Glasson with one of their trucks and hydroseeder machines at their Ōhaupō Lawn & Turf Contracting premises.

Debbie and Mike Glasson on the putting green set up at their Ōhaupō Lawn & Turf Contracting premises.

Debbie and Mike Glasson at their Ōhaupō Lawn & Turf Contracting premises.

Jim Mylchreest has enjoyed having the grandchildren over – and being able to spend as much time with them as he likes.

Jim’s question

seat and his predecessor Russ Rimmington was also ousted.

Mylchreest banked on his reputation to get back in – he spent a third of what rivals O’Regan and Chris Woodhams paid out for their election campaigns. It’s a decision he says he doesn’t regret.

It’s Thursday morning and Jim Mylchreest is looking relaxed and fit.

There are upsides to not being a mayor.

“Since October I’ve been trying to catch up 30 years of inattention to our lifestyle property,” he explains.

He’s also been able to spend time with his family – including five grandchildren. Being mayor is a seven day a week job and Mylchreest took pride in endeavouring to accept every invitation.

His siblings live close and of the five Mylchreest children, two are in Hamilton, one has returned home, one is in New Plymouth and the other in Wellington.

But now he’s wondering what the future holds – is this retirement life the way, or should be get back into public life in one form or another?”

“I’ve got to make up my mind on whether I do go and look for something else to do or whether I just accept age has caught up with me.”

He now looks back on the election result with a touch of humour, but also reveals the unusual emotions it brings.

“I don’t like to think I’ve passed it at 70 –but a lot of people obviously did.”

The sentence is ended with a laugh.

He found it quite strange when Cyclone Gabrielle was doing its worst n Waipā.

“I’m thinking I should be out there doing something – and I’m not.

Nine years as mayor, then nothing.

“It’s an instant cut off, if you are planning to stand down, it’s probably not quite the shock.

“To lose 45 years of experience and knowledge – it’s effectively wasted. It’s something I’m mulling over – what to do next.”

But it goes with the territory – that’s what you accept when you put your hand up for local or central government, he says.

Our chat covers his views on central government, achievements, critics – and a strange request to the Audit Office.

He acknowledged letter writers to The News – and one in particular - who complain that population growth in Waipa was not necessary.

“There is a kernel of truth in it. One of the big issues for New Zealand is to determine what the level of growth is. There has been no national debate on what size we want New Zealand’s population to be.

“The infrastructure that was put in in the older parts of town and cities around New Zealand was designed for one house on a quarter acre section and 35 per cent site coverage – so it you allow 85 per cent site coverage the system can’t cope.”

Other callers to The News would occasionally reveal they knew something –the mayor’s wife Robyn was chief executive Garry Dyet’s PA – (and still is).

The background was Mylchreest, a Waipā County Council staffer, employed Dyet as an environmental health officer 30 years

ago when Robyn was a council secretary.

“When I got into office – and I’ve got a really good working relationship with Garry Dyet - we said if it doesn’t work, Robyn would resign. We ran it by the Audit Office and got a clearance.

“I would joke that I’m the only mayor in the country that’s got Audit Office approval to sleep with the chief executive’s PA.

“I don’t think it would work in a lot of places, I think it worked well here - there were no secrets, no hidden agendas. It’s critical for good local government for management to work openly with their political masters, for want of a better word … and that’s why I think Waipā has done so well even before I was mayor. There has always been a strong relationship between the political arm and the management and having aligned goals.”

On social media he was less complimentary.

He doesn’t do social media.

And he hopes his successor O’Regan doesn’t spend too much time reading what’s on there – “because it’s soul destroying”.

“Continually you’ve got to tell yourself 95 per cent of the population are good people who appreciate what’s going on.

“You just think what a miserable life they must have.”

Of his successor Susan O’Regan, who he called to congratulate as soon as the result was announced - and who he appointed Strategic committee chair to lead the Long Term Plan consultation … “I’ve got no criticism – she’s an astute lady”.

Speech winner

Year 12 student St Peters student Sonali Pera has won the United Nations Association New Zealand Speech Award 2022 competition. The annual secondary school competition provides students an opportunity to learn more about the UN and develop public speaking skills.

Property sales stall

John Miles’ resignation as Property Projects manager at Waipā District Council has delayed the disposal of property programme, which is essential for much of the work identified in the Long Term Plan. The position will be filled early next month. Finance staff will identify how much of the programme can be completed in this financial year ended June 30.

Garden fees

Hamilton Gardens’ enclosed gardens will come at a cost to non-Hamilton residents. Hamilton City Council has opted to charge visitors a $10 fee to the themed gardens – but there will be a concession arrangement for Waipā and Waikato district residents. The charging regime will be introduced when the Gardens’ Visitor Entry Precinct project is completed – likely to be late this year or early 2024.

History lessons

Two historically-linked events will be held in Te Awamutu next week as part of Waipā Libraries Heritage month. From 10.30am on Wednesday a virtual tour is on offer at Te Awamutu Library, entitled From Then to Now – Changing Times for Te Awamutu’s 1920s Commercial Architecture. On March 4, also from 10.30am, is a presentation and tour hosted by the Te Awamutu branch of the NZ Society of Genealogists. Entitled Stories from the Dead Centre of Town, the presentation will include an introduction about the graveyard and the old St John’s Anglican Church, as well as stories from a selection of Māori and pakeha burials.

History learned, recalled

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

The value of Aotearoa’s new history curriculum was made clear to Waipā students this week.

After about 50 people gathered in the mist on Tuesday for an annual commemoration of one of the country’s most controversial incidents, students from one Waipā school told how it had all been news to them.

Pupils from St Peter’s Catholic School in Cambridge expressed astonishment at the fact they had

known nothing of history in their own district at Rangiaowhia –where a confrontation between Māori and pakeha took place more than 150 years ago.

“We were amazed as we delved deeper into the history of Rangiaowhia and learnt about its people, culture and their lifestyle,” said Valentina Di Maio, a student at St Peter’s Catholic School in Cambridge, speaking to a gathering at the Holy Angels Catholic mission site and urupa on Tuesday.

“My parents didn’t even know what it was, and when I told them of the incredibly well-run community that was known as the ‘food bowl of Auckland’ they agreed with me that this is something important that should be shared and remembered within New Zealand.”

Lying between Cambridge and Te Awamutu, Rangiaowhia was a thriving village where Māori and pakeha lived together harmoniously for more than two decades.

However, on February 21, 1864, British forces attacked it. A thatched building caught fire and an elderly man who ran out raising a white blanket above his head was shot, as were two others who tried to escape. There are conflicting views on how many died inside the burning building.

The students’ comments came in the week new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins acknowledged he left school with more knowledge of Tudor England than his own country.

The new history curriculum being rolled out in schools and focusing on New Zealand this year has roots in Rangiaowhia. In 2015, students from Ōtorohanga College, aware of the Rangiaowhia story, presented a petition to parliament supporting a more New Zealand based history curriculum.

There were about 400 school students at this week’s commemoration and among the

more than 100 adults was a strong representation from the Catholic and Anglican churches which have enjoyed a close relationship with the community.

The chair of the Ngati Apakura Runanga Trust, Bill Harris, said the commemorations were an opportunity for Ngati Apakura and Ngati Hinetu to recognise the losses they had suffered.

“It hurts us when Jacinda… and this shouldn’t be a race or a competition, but when Jacinda says the first terrorist attack in New Zealand was in Christchurch, that’s just not true. And for somebody that comes from this area to make a statement of that nature really

hurts as well.”

Roto-o-Rangi Rd resident Harland Sinclair, who attended Tuesday’s 6am service at 61 Rangiaowhia Rd with his sevenyear-old daughter Kenzie, said he felt it was disgusting he hadn’t learnt about Rangiaowhia until he was 40.

“I think this particularly tragic event should be better known and better commemorated,” he said. “It would never on the scale of Anzac Day or anything like that, but similar, where work starts a little bit later or something like that and enables people to come and commemorate properly and learn the history of it.”

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Year eight student Valentina Di Maio - sister of former Cambridge News columnist Matteo – represented St Peters Catholic School at Rangiaowhia

Archdeacon Turi Hollis speaks at the dawn service at Rangiaowhia – with the help of torch bearer archbishop David Moxon. Also pictured were Hazel Wanda, Moepatu Borell and Tom Roa.

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More take city bus bargains

By Mary Anne Gill

Half-price bus fares as part of the government’s cost of living support are contributing to an increase in patronage on regional bus services from Cambridge and Te Awamutu to Hamilton.

And those numbers are expected to rise further with the launch of services from Te Kuiti and Tokoroa which stop in both towns but at fewer places between there and Hamilton.

Figures released to Waipā District Council’s Service Delivery committee show people using public transport is well ahead of last year –when Covid restrictions were in place – and now ahead of pre Covid levels.

Transportation manager Bryan Hudson said design and planning was also well advanced for electric bus charging stations in Cambridge and Kihikihi.

Diesel powered buses currently run on the regional services.

The once a day Tokoroa and Te Kuiti weekday service had a low-key launch earlier this month.

Waikato Regional Council’s Waipā- King Country councillor Stu Kneebone said the new services were on trial for 18 months subject to patronage. They have come about as the result of a stakeholder group involving a number of parties, including Te Mahau, University of Waikato, Waitomo, Ōtorohanga and South Waikato district councils with funding assistance from Waka Kotahi.

“It’s a really good example of everyone working together to improve services for the community and reduce congestion on our roads,” said Kneebone.

“Both Cambridge and Hamilton are suffering

from too many cars and not enough capacity on our urban transport networks to accommodate them.

“Road capacity is unlikely to change unless we change our behaviour, so public transport is a very obvious solution.

“I appreciate it’s a big change for many, but I don’t see that we have any other realistically affordable alternatives, and it’s good for the planet,” said Kneebone. Earlier this month The News revealed Waikato medical professional Luk

Chin was championing an electric bus service for around Cambridge.

“I’m really supportive of these sorts of initiatives to improve connectivity for the community. Particularly for those who can’t use private cars and also because I think

that we simply can’t continue to rely on private cars for all of our travel in and amongst our urban centres, as we don’t have the ability to accommodate them,” he said.

The Tokoroa Connector leaves at 7.10am, arrives in Cambridge opposite the Town Hall at 8.08am and in Hamilton at 8.50am. Its only stops in between are at the Velodrome, Tamahere, Knighton Road and the Transport Centre, unlike the regional services which stop throughout Hamilton.

It leaves Hamilton at 4.45pm and arrives in Cambridge at 5.28pm and Tokoroa at 6.26pm.

The Te Kuiti Connector leaves the town at 6.50am, arrives in Kihikihi at 7.30am, Te Awamutu at 7.37am and Ōhaupō at 7.49am. The service finishes at Wintec Rotokauri at 8.23am where it leaves at 5.15pm, arriving in Te Kuiti at 6.47pm.

The Velodrome stop is used by the regional service from Cambridge to Hamilton and the new Tokoroa Connector.

Domain job to tender

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā District Council will go to the market to find a company to provide onsite management at its Lake Karāpiro events venue.

GL Events Ltd, owned by deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk and her husband Andrew Reymer, has provided the service for 19 years and is into the last year of a six-year contract.

In a report to council’s Finance and Corporate committee this week – after The News went to press –Property Services manager Chris Ryan said the domain was a legal reserve vested in the council.

“Priority is given for recreation and sporting activities for the physical welfare and enjoyment of the community. There is limited ability to charge for services at the domain which means that council retains responsibility for funding access to services,” he reported.

Procuring a management service – as it has done with GL Events – ensured a highquality standard of service delivery and community engagement.

By putting the contract out to tender, the process would invite competitive bids on the open market.

Hamilton-based The Property Group will handle the tender for council. A procurement plan will be finalised by March 1, consultation take place with Mana Whenua and a contract updated by the end of March. A request for tender would go to the market in early April and close on April 28. The new contract runs from July 1.

Stolwyk’s involvement with Karāpiro Domain predates her election as a councillor in 2016. Each term she has declared her conflict of interest and obtained approval from the Office of the Auditor General to continue her involvement at the domain.

In her GL Events report to the finance committee, Stolwyk said the Mighty River-sponsored domain

was recognised as an international, domestic and local event centre and had recovered to pre Covid operating levels.

Stolwyk said the bounce back after Covid highlighted how inadequate the accommodation was for the corporate and recreational market.

Traffic management is another issue.

“Traffic management has moved from something domain staff could handle in house but now has become so complex it is moving behind our original scope as domain management.

Deputy chief executive Ken Morris told the committee Stolwyk’s suggestions “resonate with officers”. Council staff would work to identify, assess and implement solutions.

Liz Stolwyk and husband Andrew Reymer working during the recent Waka Ama nationals.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Sharing spaces on the streets

By Mary Anne Gill

Erik Van Der Wel is part of a team at the forefront of getting Waipā residents out of their cars and onto a network where they can safely walk, bike or scooter.

The $10.9 million to build a districtwide Urban Mobility Network over the next eight years is already underway and will start ramping up soon on both sides of the district.

Van Der Wel, the Transportation programme engineer, joined deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk and Cambridge Community Board chair Jo DaviesColley to show The News the start of a safe route from the town which will eventually connect to the Te Awa Cycle way at St Peter’s School west of Cambridge.

To say the project has been mired in controversy is an understatement.

It started with the experimental ‘Streets for People’ with its polka dots and pink traffic sticks and on the way resulted in the closure of a popular dairy in Grey Street as the street was sealed off to accommodate the first stage of the two-way Hamilton Road Cycleway.

Stolwyk and Van Der Wel both conceded there were parts of those projects that were not well communicated.

And as we stop for a photo in a Shared Zone space at the northern intersection of Grey Street and Hamilton Road – the through route to Cambridge Middle School which has seen a huge increase in cycling and scooter

numbers since ‘Streets for People’ – the communication confusion is obvious as cars assume control of the space.

Explaining what a Shared Zone space is to all users is a priority as these spaces will form part of the future network.

“We know most people want fewer cars on our roads and safe pathways for mobility scooters, e-scooters and walkers,” Stolwyk said last year when the government announced Waipā would get up to $10.4 million from its Climate Emergency Relief Fund.

That money will go on two projects – a linked pedestrian and cycleway connecting Kihikihi Town Centre with the primary school and domain – and the protected pathways in Cambridge West taking in the new housing opposite Te Awa Village.

Stolwyk chairs a governance group which meets regularly to establish a shortlist of priority options for the network on both sides of the district.

Its next job next month will be to develop short list options from the project team’s strategic case.

The council will seek further community input at in-person drop in sessions and an online Zoom webinar.

Davies-Colley has three children who cycle regularly to and from school and she often accompanies them.

She is aware of the issues all road users experience and wants to ensure the community is involved.

The same is true in Te Awamutu and Kihikihi where the community board there is taking an active interest in the network which will eventually link the two communities together.

Waipā Transportation programme engineer Erik Van Der Wel, left, with deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk, centre, and community board chair Jo Davies-Colley.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

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Regrouping my thoughts

By Peter Matthews

Having written last week about how people should stop doing whatever it is they have done successfully in the past before it becomes unseemly, I find that I’ve been required to give the matter a lot more thought.

I received a phone call from an old musician friend who suggested that he and I, and two other fairly aged musicians, should get together to see if anything sparks, with a view to ‘getting the band back together’. Now, having not played a paying gig in about 15 years, my first reaction was “not likely”, and the second was “you’ve only just written a column about how people shouldn’t do this”.

However, as Kevin (McNeil of 60s band The Mods amongst others) and I continued to talk the idea began to take on an unexpected appeal.

Last year, as a 60th birthday present my family gave me a brand new Gibson ES335 and I play it most days – just for fun.

They kept the secret from me for six months while they brought the guitar in from Australia - and paid for it.

Those of you who know will appreciate that this gift was not the equivalent of a bunch of flowers from the gas station.

Have you heard of BB King, the American blues player? Can you picture his guitar? It’s one of those.

Of the other two people Kevin has in mind, one is possibly the best drummer I have ever heard let alone played with, which I have – a lot, and the other is a well-known keyboard player vocalist from over the hill, the Kaimai Range, in this case, whom I have often seen and heard but never performed

United in a big clean-up

By Jo Davies-Colley, Chair, Cambridge Community Board

with.

So, you see the dilemma?

Having told the world, well you anyway, that I think older people should stay at home and not embarrass the rest of the population with their attempts to recapture their youth, I now find myself in the position of contemplating just that.

We have been to two weddings this last week and met a wide range of characters and personalities: Some as dull as ditch water and others so full of life, wit, charm, and personality that one finds oneself wanting to be like them.

These people are living life as it should be lived. The diversity of temperament and disposition to be found in humans is wide indeed.

According to Pink, the American singer, the rule is “Do whatever you like, but don’t be rude, and don’t be a dick”. Makes sense to me.

My view on this subject has changed, even since last week: If a person wants to strap on a guitar and squawk about the vicissitudes of life, fair enough. Whether he or she should be permitted to do this in public, or even be paid for it, is a matter for the owner of the venue to decide.

Whether anybody wants to step out of their way to sit and listen to it is, in turn, their own decision.

The Cambridge Community Board wishes to extend its thanks to the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade, Waipā Networks, Waipā District Council staff and all those in our community who helped with the response and clean-up after Cyclone Gabrielle.

Our town has lost many of its beautiful trees and many in the community sustained damage to their homes and properties. We are thankful that we have such a supportive and united community and that the clean-up is progressing swiftly and effectively.

Cambridge Neighbourhood Support have an excellent neighbourhood emergency plan template.

This can be filled out by yourself and your neighbours, and details who around you has useful emergency skills, for example, nurses, or those with useful equipment, such as generators, chainsaws and medical supplies. It also would include those in your neighbourhood who would need assistance during an incident.

The Ahu Ake roadshow has begun and concludes at the end of March. The first local event is at Karāpiro School on March 1, 2:30-4pm. That evening we will also be at the Karāpiro Lookout from 5:30-8pm.

Cambridge Community Board members will be at all of the events and we encourage you to attend if you are able. Your feedback and ideas about the future of Cambridge is vital and we would like to hear from as many of you as possible.

Ahu Ake will become the key strategic planning document for council and it will drive all planning and services to ensure that council’s vision to build connected

communities is delivered.

If you are unable to attend any of the Ahu Ake events, you can give valuable feedback on the social pinpoint map on the Ahu Ake website. Hard copy surveys are also available at the council offices and library in Wilson Street.

In December, the Cambridge Community Board received a business case from Tesla, who proposed the installation of 12 electric vehicle charging bays in the carpark below St Peter’s Catholic Church in Anzac Street. These super-fast chargers were intended to be for Tesla vehicles only.

As a board we spent considerable time discussing and workshopping this idea as well as engaging with and consulting the immediate neighbours of this area, namely, St Peter’s Catholic Church, St Peter’s Catholic Primary School and New World. The community board’s feedback to council was that we do not support the installation of 12 Tesla-only chargers in the Anzac Street carpark but would support, at a maximum, three chargers that would charge any brand of electric vehicle.

Finally, the Cambridge Community Board recommended that Waipā District Council adopt a position on how public land will be used for EV chargers in the future.

• As always, if you have any Cambridge community issues you would like to discuss or if you have any feedback for us, please email me. I would love to hear from you! Jo.davies-Colley@Waipādc@got.nz

A potted history of roading

By Peter Carr

Travelling north back towards Cambridge at the weekend my front left wheel slammed into a huge pothole just south of Turangi.

My (earlier) maritime background has fitted me for suitable voluble expletives for such unplanned occurrences – luckily my longsuffering wife has heard them all before.

But this is the main backbone infrastructure of the country - so why are we accepting such poor performance by our professional roading body and their contractors? Why is it that this crater almost cost me a very expensive front tyre? Why should I be complacent and just accept that we are living in (almost) third world conditions despite paying heavy roading taxes through the petrol pump or road user charges for diesel?

You have every tight to chastise me when comparing my incursion into road rage language when set alongside the appalling state of the roads in Northland and on the East Cape. There, frequent large slips and attendant weeks of clearing-up delay far outweigh my discomfort.

Now call me churlish if you will. But either we have first class roading engineers (Transmission Gully says it is so as I drove that over the recent weekend) or we do not.

But potholes, slips and a make-do-andmend mentality abounds. Roads have for 150 years been supported by a ‘she’ll be right’ approach by successive governments afraid to address the big picture.

To the good people of Ruatoria or Wairoa their road is just as important as Transmission Gully. It is their right as taxpayers to expect the same level of smooth tarmac, roadside barriers and relatively high-speed rules as those who experience the Waikato Expressway.

Thinking outside the bowl

By Murray Smith, Senior Leader, Bridges Church

Newly spun Prime Minister Hipkins has correctly determined there is an urgent need to lift the helicopter higher and take a birdseye view of the roading system. Let us make a clear statement here. Alternative movement by rail of goods and people will never cut the mustard in this country.

Narrow gauge old age thinking, lack of electrification and poor, ageing second-hand rolling stock will never meet a modern demand.

Every government sinks huge funds into the rail system just to see it drain out of the bottom end of the infrastructure pit. That said I do have some feeling for those charged with - or possibly struggling with - making a cow out of a pig’s ear regarding the iron track.

They inherited narrow gauge. They inherited the poor topography over which the lines run. They inherited the low-speed average of freight trains at 40kph. And they combat the vociferous pressure of the two main road freight lobbying groups.

Heaven forbid we should wait for another multi-million dollar consultant’s report on the opportunity of coastal shipping to relieve the rail and road-clogging freight industry.

Message for Premier Chippy – just do it lad. Forget light rail in Auckland – the airport does not need a rail link.

Ask the people who are stranded – and will be again if you do not act promptly with leadership and courage.

New-born children and their remotely placed mums have just as much right to expect services as the truck operators and their customers.

“What’s the biggest room in the world? Answer- the room for improvement.”

That’s something I was told a long time ago. It’s helped motivate me at times when the damaging effect of other’s discouraging words have imposed limitations on my sense of identity and purpose in life.

It’s not only other’s words and attitudes that impose limitations upon us… we’re perfectly capable of accepting a lower assessment of ourselves than we should. What we agree with in life, we empower.

As a middle-born child, I overheard my Dad talking to his friend about my brother and sister and me. I loved my Dad and am grateful for his wonderful legacy and guidance in life.

But in this situation, having expounded my older brother’s and my younger sister’s skills and virtues he commented, “Well, Murray isn’t showing much promise at anything just yet.”

That profoundly impacted me. Looking back, I knew I was loved and his inadvertent words were not a critical judgement of me - at that point in time, it was true that I was just not excelling at anything much… I was ordinary.

But I didn’t want to be ordinary and something in me craved a sense of significance. I’ve learned this is not a psychological issue but a deep spiritual issue within every person.

And it is entirely valid since we were born with innate feature of how God designed us. That being so, the sense of significance we need can only ever be fulfilled through relationship with Him.

Sadly, many people’s beliefs about themselves, fall far below how God sees them and His planned destiny. I know of

someone leaving to study in another city. His parents asked him to take his goldfish with him. He didn’t want it, neither did anybody else. Taking it to a nearby lake he liberated it.

The ungrateful goldfish stayed put, in spite of being in a big lake. He threw a stone to scare it into venturing further afield. Hours later he went back to find it still there, evidently conditioned to think small, by life in a bowl.

We do that. We need a revelation of our God-given purpose.

A farmer raised a young eagle he’d caught and gave it a home among his ducks, chickens and turkeys.

Five years later this beautiful bird had a four and a half metre wingspan. A visiting bird ‘expert’ told the sceptical farmer to release the eagle to be what it was created to be.

Stating the eagle would never fly, the farmer put the eagle on his roof-top shouting, “Fly eagle, stretch out your wings and fly!” It looked around, then jumped down to join the other birds feeding.

Early next morning the ‘expert’ rose, taking the eagle away to a mountain summit crowned by a golden sunrise. The eagle trembled sensing new life coming into it. Minutes scrolled by. Then stretching its wings with a loud screech, it launched itself… mounting higher and higher into the dawn sky.

You were made by God - in His likeness. Reject conditioning to think and live below His plans for you. Stretch your wings and fly.

A bridge to Waipā’s past

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

John Barns Graham is on a mission to set the record straight.

The retired farmer, who has a keen interest in history, began looking into the history of Cambridge’s bridges about 10 months ago, sparked by plans to build a third bridge in the town.

He was surprised to discover inconsistencies between the accepted history of Cambridge “as widely published” and newspaper reports of the day.

Now, with New Zealand history becoming part of the school curriculum, he says it’s time to correct mistakes that appear “online in Wikipedia, Waipa District

Council’s website and in several eminent historical publications”.

John contacted Cambridge News highlighting what he believes are several errors in ‘Bridging the Waikato River’, a story on Waipa District Council’s website attributed to edited excerpts from a book celebrating 150 years of Waipā.

According to the story, Cambridge’s first bridge was built in 1870 in the spot where Fergusson Bridge (known as the ‘low level bridge’) stands today.

He says this is not correct: The bridge was actually built 70m downstream at site where a punt had been operating to take people and goods across the river.

According to the online story, floods struck Cambridge in November 1874, lifting the timber bridge and sweeping it downstream to Hamilton.

However, John says articles in the Waikato Times and New Zealand Herald show the floods actually happened 13 months later, in December 1875.

A report on page two of the Waikato Times on December 11, 1875, tells of how, at 7.40pm the previous evening “with a crash that was heard from some distance”, the bridge “parted from either bank and was swept away in a single piece”.

“Word of the event was at once telegraphed to Major Clare,” the article

reads, “with a request that he would, with his men, endeavour at Hamilton to intercept the wreck on its passage down, lest it injure the bridge in course of construction at Ngaruawahia”.

According to ‘Bridging the Waikato River’, “a constable bravely swam to intercept the bridge and secure it by rope to the shore”.

But John says press reports of the day contradict this.

“The very full description in the Waikato Times of December 14 talks about two boats going out to the two sections of bridge as it had broken in two before reaching Hamilton, and the heroic efforts to stop them before Ngaruawahia,” he said.

Another error in the online story, he believes, is in the claim a Howe Truss Girder bridge was constructed on the same site.

“Photographs show this bridge was actually placed some 70 metres upstream on the site where the Fergusson Bridge stands today,” he said.

He believed historians may have referred to a December 1898 supplement in the Waikato Argus newspaper entitled ‘The History of Cambridge’.

“It is a testament to the esteem held for the writer of that supplement that no one has questioned it until now,” he said.

John has made Waipa District Council, the Waikato Historical Society, the National Library, the New Zealand Government’s history department and two museums aware of his

findings.

“It’s up to the experts to decide whether the national press reports of the day are correct, and so change the history books, and not me,” he said.

Cambridge Museum manager Elizabeth Harvey said she and her staff enjoyed talking with John about his research.

“By highlighting the printing error in William Rout’s “History of Cambridge”, published in the Waikato Argus in 1898

and finding the original newspaper reports in the Waikato Times on 11 December 1875, he has helped identify where the error began,” she said.

“We have the correct dates on our website and in new displays we are currently putting together for the museum. When histories are shared, errors will sometimes be made. Finding these errors and talking about them gives us a deeper understanding about where we live.”

Cambridge man John Barns Graham points to the spot where he believes Cambridge’s first bridge actually stood.

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A couple of helping hands for football

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

Selina and Emma Oliver are helping to create football history.

The Cambridge couple have been volunteering at FIFA’s first Women’s World Cup play-Off tournament which wraps up today in Hamilton and Auckland.

Now, the wife-and-wife team is looking forward to the main event, the ninth FIFA Women’s World Cup in July and August.

Co-hosted by Aotearoa and Australia, the tournament will bring 32 nations together at 10 venues, including Waikato Stadium.

“I don’t think people realise just how big this is,” said Selina, who has been volunteering for FIFA since mid-February, helping people get accreditation for Waikato Stadium.

“We’ve never had this in New Zealand before and we may never again. It’s the first time the Cup has been co-hosted and the first time FIFA has held a play-off tournament, so we’re breaking new ground.”

Selina plans to volunteer again in July/ August and Emma will if work allows. Both are encouraging others to get involved.

“It’s just the experience,” Selina said. “It’s something you don’t get to do every day.

It’s fun and it’s interesting being behind the scenes.”

Emma has been working in the guest operations team on game days, welcoming and helping VIPs such as FIFA officials, politicians and local government representatives.

She said there were people from all walks of life in her crew, including many who knew

nothing about football.

Selina and Emma have been playing football since they were teenagers, Selina mostly with Cambridge Football Club and Emma mainly with Hamilton North.

They met when their teams played in a Waikato Cup match more than a decade ago.

“Hamilton North absolutely annihilated us,” Selina said. “I had to mark Emma and I hated it.”

However, the two discovered they were highly compatible off the field when they were reintroduced later by a mutual football friend.

They hope the World Cup will lift the profile of women’s football.

“Hopefully we end up with a (Ruby) Tui – someone just to bring it out on the surface and make it a visible sport in New Zealand.”

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A monthly gardening column, courtesy of Amber Garden Centre As the weather remains so hot, it is important to make sure the garden is well looked after. Watering bigger plants like perennials and hedging heavily a few times a week will be more beneficial than daily light watering. Annuals and vegetables may need more frequent watering. Plants benefit more from being watered in the early hours of the morning or at dusk. This will help prevent leaves from burning in the harsh sunlight

A monthly gardening column, courtesy of Amber Garden Centre As the weather remains so hot, it is important to make sure the garden is well looked after. Watering bigger plants like perennials and hedging heavily a few times a week will be more beneficial than daily light watering. Annuals and vegetables may need more frequent watering. Plants benefit more from being watered in the early hours of the morning or at dusk. This will help prevent leaves from burning in the harsh sunlight

Dig potato crops and store in a cool, dark, airy place. Winter crops of greens – cabbage, broccoli, silverbeet and Chinese cabbage – all enjoy the cooler temperatures. Plant seeds of radish turnips along with peas and broad beans. Bare areas in the vege garden can be sown with green crops such as mustard or lupin, to be dug in later to feed the soil for spring.

Vegetables – February is the month where everything is ripe. So it’s a great time to preserve or freeze excess produced to enjoy over the cooler months. Inconsistent watering can lead to vegetable plants drying out and becoming bitter, it also increases the chances of pests and diseases attacking. Herbs – it is common for softer leaved herbs like basil, dill and coriander to go to seed very quickly in this hotter weather. Harvest the young foliage early and dry it or freeze it to use later.

Vegetables – February is the month where everything is ripe. So it’s a great time to preserve or freeze excess produced to enjoy over the cooler months. Inconsistent watering can lead to vegetable plants drying out and becoming bitter, it also increases the chances of pests and diseases attacking. Herbs – it is common for softer leaved herbs like basil, dill and coriander to go to seed very quickly in this hotter weather. Harvest the young foliage early and dry it or freeze it to use later.

FLOWERS

Winter colour for the garden – pansy, viola, primula, poppies and dianthus. Planting while the weather is still nice will get them established and give colour throughout the cooler months. Spring bulbs can be planted now the soil temperature has cooled.

Flowers – While it is still hot and dry, plants like begonias, petunias and portulaca will do better. It is time to start thinking about your winter garden beds but hold fire on planting until it cools down more, or plant in shade.

LAWNS

Autumn is the ideal time to sow a new lawn.

Flowers – While it is still hot and dry, plants like begonias, petunias and portulaca will do better. It is time to start thinking about your winter garden beds but hold fire on planting until it cools down more, or plant in shade.

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Building alarm and evacuation, Victoria Road

Building alarm and evacuation, Cambridge Road

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Motor vehicle accident, Tirau Road

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Emma (left) and Selina Oliver are encouraging others to volunteer for the women’s football world cup 2023.

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Barrier concerns

On Saturday there was yet another serious crash in the southbound lane of the Cambridge-Karāpiro road.

Waka Kotahi are telling, not suggesting, a wire barrier will stop the accidents/incidents on our rural roads. They should live here and see the line of cars back up with nowhere to go, this included young kids in a wire barrier area getting out of their cars and standing on the road to get a look.

My thoughts and opinions are: drop the barriers we are going ahead with and reduce the speed to 90kph coupled with a double yellow line all the way from Cambridge to Piarere. People respect the yellow lines In my opinion. At present they are coming off the 110kph expressway and still travelling 105kph when they reach the 80kph limit. How does this compact me? I am the owner driver of Safe Drive NZ Travel Shuttle. Installing a wire barrier will increase my travel to Cambridge by around eight kilometres a trip four to five days a week, because they make it impossible to access driveways or turning points on the other side of the road. Added to this is road user charges, time and fuel, adding $1600 to $2000 to my operating cost a year. Every other person travelling to work will have the same added costs, some will be adding up to 16 kilometres a day for their travel to Cambridge.

If any emergency service needs to get to a property, they will have up to an extra 16 km to drive before reaching the patient. I am also concerned that the enclosed lanes may present issues in the event of an emergency –our nearest defibrillator is only about 1.5km across the road, but 9km if I have to drive around the barriers.

David McNally Cambridge

Start with the slip

In response to MP Louise Upston’s comment regarding the Piarere intersection (The News, February 16), the most immediate improvement to the intersection would be to make the slip lane far more obvious to the traffic on SH29, so drivers “know”, not to cross over to the left.

Drivers wait for the north bound traffic to pass on SH1, holding up the traffic behind them. The proposed roundabout is not going to alleviate this situation.

Slowing the traffic only sees long queues building up, just look at the end of the expressway at Cambridge, two lanes with a third converging from Cambridge into one. It brings traffic to a screeching halt and takes kilometres to get moving again.

The queues at this intersection show the traffic counts from 2019 to support the roundabout are way out of date.

During a three-and-a-half-day court hearing I attended there was no mention of the foggy situation in this area. In August 2022 in fog, a heavy transport truck ran into the stopped traffic causing serious injury to the people. Visibility is very important here and a graded separation is needed to keep the traffic flowing. There has to be improvement to traffic flow and safety, the graded separation is the ultimate choice, not the planned roundabout. If that intersection was in another country it would have been improved long ago. Do things once and do it right, Don’t waste money on holding up traffic.

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John Hansen Cambridge

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A very wet summer

It has been a very wet summer in the Waikato. According to my records in the last 6 months we have had about 700 mm rain, compared to the same period last year when we had 300mm. Last year the Tree Trust was obliged to water some of the trees we had planted, this year we cannot keep up with the weeds! This photo was taken in the maple arboretum two weeks ago showing some of our team dwarfed by head-high weed growth. We often cart away three truckloads of weeds and nd ourselves still unable to keep up. However, the good news is that the trees too are growing at the rate of knots. But even that brings its challenges when Cyclone Gabrielle broke some of the biggest and most beautiful

maples in the arboretum, not to mention many other trees around Cambridge. There has been much talk since the cyclone of the importance of ‘sponge cities’ in which urban landscapes work with nature to absorb rainwater, rather than using ever-larger concrete structures to channel it away.

David Hall, a New Zealand contributor on climate adaptation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is quoted in the recent ‘Listener’ saying ‘Urban trees manage to capture or delay water ows from extreme rainfall … you might get 30% captured in the canopy and then

returned to the atmosphere through evapotranspiration. This means you are not getting the [same] ashooding.’

There is no single solution but ‘green infrastructure is often the most cost-e ective intervention’, [besides being good for physical and mental health, biodiversity and carbon sequestration.] So despite the challenges we need to plant more trees in urban areas, in streets, gullies, wetlands and gardens.

Cambridge Tree Trust would like to thank Mitre 10 for their support for these monthly articles which are intended to raise interest and awareness of trees in Cambridge.

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Award-winning historian SAUL DAVID reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.

Devil Dogs

by Saul David

The “Devil Dogs” of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines were among the first American soldiers to take the offensive in World World II – and also the last.

They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942 and were present when Okinawa, Japan’s most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. In between they fought in the “Green Hell” of Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain, and across the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, a campaign described by one King Company veteran as “thirty days of the meanest, around-the-clock slaughter that desperate men can inflict on each other.”

The Devil Dogs were asked to do something extraordinary: take on the victorious Imperial Japanese Army, composed of some of the most effective, “utterly ruthless and treacherous” soldiers in world history—and defeat it. This is the story of how they did just that and, in the process, forged bonds of brotherhood that still survive today. Remarkably, the company contained an unusually high number of talented writers, whose first-hand accounts and memoirs provide the color, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SAUL DAVID is a critically renowned military historian and broadcaster. He is the author, most recently, of Operation Thunderbolt; Crucible of Hell; and The Force. He lives outside of Bath, England, where he is a professor of military history at the University of Buckingham.

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Te Miro chops in…

Te Miro farmer Paul Manion is doing his bit for cyclone relief by organising an event on Saturday to raise much-needed funds.

Paul is joining forces with other farmers in the area to run what they are calling The Great Te Miro Chop from around 8am on Saturday, February 25. One of their number has a supply of leftover logs after having his timber milled, and it is these logs that will be available to be split into firewood for sale.

Paul said they have linked the Te Miro Chop to a Farmlands Co-Operative national initiative entitled the 2023 Cyclone Gabrielle Relief Fund in which Farmlands pledge to

Letters…

Rules and regulations

In response to the Mayor, Susan O’Regan, comments last week, sitting on the fence is not a solution to an emerging problem. The recent disasters in the Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne were exacerbated by the forestry slash. The slash problem has occurred because of successive public organisations sitting on their hands behind a desk. So abiding by the rules is not what these kiwifruit orchard developers do well. They break the rules to see what they can get away with and the response of the council is weak.

The disaster in Turkey and Syria seems to have been compounded by weak regulations, so we need to be more proactive to avoid future issues, and stick to the rules and regulations which are there for the benefit of us all.

Grant Walker

Ōhaupō Museum cost

That the cost of the new museum in Te Awamutu has blown out in five years to more than $28 million (The New, February 19) is

match customer donations to a total value of $50,000.

“We’re hoping we can make around $7000, which once doubled would be $14,000,” Paul said. “It’s not huge and we know it won’t change anyone’s life over there, but it’s more about sending the message that we do care about them and want to do something to help. If other groups did the same and raised similar amounts, it would add up to an amount that really could make a difference.”

Paul is asking people to call ahead so the Te Miro Chop can be held as safely as possible. He can be contacted on 027 662 6212.

abhorrent and unjustifiable in any circumstance, but especially now. Rather than another legacy vanity project that will continue to blow out and add yet more long term financial stress to already overburdened ratepayers, council should consign the project to the scrapheap. Even a small part of the projected amount would be better spent, for example, cleaning the streets, unblocking gutters, repairing roads, improving street lighting in places where it is woefully inadequate and repairing water leaks promptly.

Enough is enough! The contempt council continues to show its residents is exemplified by the public excluded discussions of a “project implementation report”. Ratepayers are paying for this white elephant so have the right to be consulted and have their views made known. I suspect keeping residents in ignorance avoids a groundswell of opposition to the project. It is though unsurprising that the project has the support of mana whenua. Does that support extend to financial capital and revenue support? I doubt it.

Kelvin Dunn Te Awamutu

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THOMPSON Annie (nee van Doorne) – Died 14th February 2023 in Auckland. Beloved only daughter of Bert and Anna van Doorne. Dearly loved sister and sisterin-law of Hank and Barbara (deceased), Tony and Linda, John and Teresa and their families.

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WHYTOCK, Bruce MacDonald

– It is with deep sadness that Bruce passed away suddenly on Friday, 17th February 2023, with the love of his life and best mate by his side. Maureen, Deb & Tonk, Newlands & Lee, Melton, DJ, Dionne & Dylan, Daniel & Toby. RIP, husband, dad and grandad, we will miss your ‘antics’. At Bruce's request a private farewell has taken place. All communications to the Whytock Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434.

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OUT OF ZONE ENROLMENTS FOR 2023

Due to ongoing roll growth at Kaipaki School, enrolment continues to be governed by an enrolment scheme. In 2023 there are two enrolment periods, with the second enrolment period from 26th April 2023 to 22nd September 2023.

The board has determined that:

• Up to 12 places for Year 0/1 students and

• Up to 4 places in Year 2-3 are likely to be available for out-of-zone students in the second enrolment period. The exact number of places will depend on the number of applications received from students who live within the school’s home zone.

For students seeking enrolment within the second enrolment period, the deadline for receipt of applications for out-of-zone places is Monday 27th March 2023. If the number of out-of-zone applications exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot. If a ballot is required, it will be held on Wednesday 29th March 2023.

Parents will be informed of the outcome of the ballot within three school days of the ballot being held.

Details of the second enrolment period are:

Monday 24th April 2023 to Friday 22nd September 2023

Deadline for receipt of applications: Monday 27 March 2023

Date of ballot: Wednesday 29th March 2023

For more information please contact:

Kim Budd - Principal: 07 823 6653 or 0276277373 www.kaipaki.school.nz | principal@kaipaki.school.nz

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

of an application for Renewal Off Licence

LS & NJ McKenzie Ltd has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal of a off-licence in respect of the premises at 14 Anzac St, Cambridge known as New World Cambridge. The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is supermarket. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 7am-10pm.

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

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

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

This is the second publication of this notice. This notice was first published on February 16, 2023.

SITUATIONS VACANT

Cemetery plans advance

Waipā district councillors have decided draft concepts plans for the district’s cemeteries should go back out to the community for a short period of public engagement.

The News reported last week that the concept plans for Waipā’s 10 cemeteries showed nearly two thirds of residents prefer a body burial rather than cremation.

The plans, presented initially to the Cambridge Community Board last week also showed Te Awamutu, Hautapu and Paterangi cemeteries could be full within five to 10 years.

Council’s Service Delivery committee and Te Awamutu Community Board viewed the plans this week.

It is the first time the council has engaged with the community and mana whenua on long-term plans for each cemetery,

Three cemeteries – Hautapu (4.69ha), Leamington (2.85ha) and Te Awamutu (4.78ha) – account for 90 per cent of the district’s interments.

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The draft concept plans presented to Tuesday’s Service Delivery Committee better reflected community aspirations, community services manager Brad Ward said.

“We received a lot of good, strong feedback around issues like accessibility, mana whenua aspirations, and practical issues like parking, seating and shade – all very useful comments.

“People talked around planting and the potential for native planting to be developed on areas not suitable for interment because of their topography or proximity to waterways. That has encouraged us to look at options which may allow us to develop peaceful and accessible places that are culturally sensitive and more sustainable.”

The concept plans include steps to improve landscaping, seating and shade areas, improve access to water as well as pedestrian access and offer more diverse interment options such as ash walls or memorial gardens. There is a strong push to enhance biodiversity to encourage native species.

Further feedback will be sought via an online survey as well as directly from previous submitters and stakeholders. Hard copies of the survey will be available in the libraries. Survey results and any recommended changes will be reported back in either May or June for final approval.

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VACANCY

In the heart of Te Awamutu, Freeman Court makes independent living affordable and a little easier for older people. We have one vacant position to start as soon as possible. COVID-19 vaccination required.

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