Cambridge News | March 16, 2023

Autumn blues ahead

Canadian performers

Big Johnny Blue and Tina Turley are bringing their unmistakeable ‘bluesy music with a rock n’ roll edge’ to Cambridge for the Cambridge Autumn Festival later this month.

They gave The News a preview of their talent outside the Cambridge Town Hall last week in a recce ahead of their March 30 appearance.

Born in Scotland, Big Johnny Blue moved to Canada, to Hamilton in Ontario, when he was young and linked up years later with Tina Turley, an established country crooner.

Kiwi Blues Connection featuring Terry (guitar/ vocals) and Deborah Oldham (bass/vocals), and Hamilton’s Haggis Maguiness (harmonica/ vocals) and Dean McGaveston (drums) are backing Big Johnny and Tina.

Turley craves music right down to the depths of her heart and soul. “I dive right in with my whole heart. It’s like an addiction,” she says, “You can’t shed it, you can’t break it, you can’t stop it. I couldn’t live without it. Wouldn’t want to. It feeds my entire being.”

And the road to her finding exactly where she stands as a musician in the music scene as a Canadian woman and ultimately

where she wants to be, has been a “put-it-all-on-theline,” challenging emotional, “will you sacrifice everything?” journey.

Music is playing a big part in this year’s Autumn Festival starting with the Musica Bella performers at St Andrew’s Church on

March 28.

Paint it Jazz, a fundraiser for Hospice Waikato featuring the Nairobi Trio and artists Richard Adams

and Neal Palmer, is at The Woolshed in Te Awa Lifecare Village on March 31.

Wrapping up the music part of the festival in the

afternoon of Saturday April 1 is the Hamilton Big Band, also at The Woolshed. • Read more about the festival cambridgenews.nz

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Tina Turley, left, and Big Johnny Blue, right, direct from Canada with drummer, Kiwi Dean McGaveston, ahead of their appearance in the Cambridge Autumn Festival.

Photo: Steph Bell-Jenkins.

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Grinners are winners

Cambridge Raceway has launched a sweepstake with a prize pool of $100,000 for the Race by Grins meeting next month with 2000 tickets being sold at $100 each. Ten tickets will be drawn and allocated a horse in the $1 million race. First gets $50,000, second $20,000, third $12,000, fourth $6000 and fifth to 10th $2000 each.

Library fines

A series of plans outlined by Waipā District Council –including scrapping library fines – has gone out for public discussion for a month. The council stopped fining users for late returns of children’s books in 2019.

Website visits

Our cambridgenewsnz online report about the girls’ night in at Cambridge Library about our female writers led our website visitor stats followed by our front page article on rates increases. The rest of the top five were how library fines may be dropped, Mary Anne Gill’s bike ride with Sarah Ulmer and the fund to reduce waste getting a $10,000 boost.

On the Beat

Deb Hann’s On the Beat column runs on page 37 today.

No through road

The rail crossing on State Highway 1B Telephone Road will remain closed to traffic for the “foreseeable future” Waka Kotahi says. The crossing, east of Hamilton was closed in April 2022 after repeated incidents where low vehicles damaged the railway tracks. There is no funding to resolve the issue – which is costed at up to $11 million - but at the same time use of the road has lessened as a result of the opening of the Waikato Expressway.

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Ahu Ake: the details

Ahu Ake is the Waipā Community Spatial Plan

• A blueprint for the future to determine what the district will look like in 30 years.

• It will consider everything from how our towns, villages and rural spaces will look, to how we will move around, what community facilities we need and how we’ll care for our environment.

It considers five future scenarios

• Status Quo

• Back to the Land – how the district might look if there is significant growth in villages and rural areas.

• Hamilton Grows South – if the Southern Links expressway goes ahead, what will happen north of Ōhaupō?

• Population Dwindles – what if there is little or no increase in resident numbers?

• Urban Densification – what if Cambridge and Te Awamutu grow larger and more rapidly than expected?

Aylah Roberts, 8, left and Celestine Ngawaka, 7, (eating a juicy ice block supplied by the Waipā team) point to Karāpiro on the spatial plan map.

Waipā Strategy manager Kirsty Downey and at rear Councillor Roger Gordon discuss the spatial plan with residents.

Waipā Strategy manager Kirsty Downey, retired urban designer Chris van Empel and deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk.

Council’s feedback frenzy

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā’s spatial plan engagement programme has become a victim of its own success and the team behind it is under pressure to provide individual presentations before feedback closes in 11 days.

Strategy manager Kirsty Downey told the Audit and Risk committee this week the plan – known as Ahu Ake – was getting an amazing response.

“There is overwhelming valuable feedback,” she said.

Meetings with the community have been held in Kihikihi, Karāpiro, Te Awamutu, Te Pahu, Ōhaupō, Rukuhia, Pirongia, Cambridge and Ngāhinapōuri. Later today (Thursday) Pukeatua residents will get the chance to feedback, Te Miro and Cambridge next week.

Individual presentations have also been made at schools, including Karāpiro, Cambridge High and Te Awamutu College. Feedback closes on March 27 at 5pm. Ahu Ake will be the blueprint for the next 30 years and provide the vision and foundation for all future planning.

One of the most effective tools is a giant map of the district made of canvas which is laid down on the ground for people to walk over and explore.

Karāpiro School principal Tina-Maree Thatcher said there was a lot of interest when the Ahu Ake team visited because of the proposed new location for the school within the village itself.

“Our board and staff embraced the opportunity to learn more about our community and our next step is to work with the council to access their resources.”

Students are about to start a unit of learning about rights and responsibilities.

“It is really important to us as a school to work with the children to capture their thoughts, ideas and their voice about what is essentially their future community,” said Thatcher.

Downey told The News at the Cambridge presentation in Leamington Domain on Saturday that she had been blown away by the ideas which had come from the community.

An example of one came from former urban designer Chris van Empel who now lives in Cambridge and provided assurance the council was on the right track.

Councillor Roger Gordon, who has attended many of the presentations including the one in Leamington, told the committee the level of engagement mitigated

any risk of a lack of community vibe.

“That really is a positive. We’re getting some great feedback. There’s very little negativity about that, very little criticism,” he said.

“Some suggestions coming out deserve merit,” said Downey.

That might result in extended timeframes.

The plan is to have Ahu Ake adopted by the council in September.

“We’re working through those options. This has been very much a team effort. We’ve adopted a holistic approach to what has been our biggest ever engagement programme. We can all be proud of our efforts.”

There would be sufficient clarity from Ahu Ake to feed through into the 2024-34 Long Term Plan, said Downey.

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Waipā senior strategic planner Vanessa Honore talks observers through the Cambridge section of Ahu Ake. Soil scientist Paddy Shannon and mayor Susan O’Regan.

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Photos by Mary Anne Gill, Alysha Gill, Karāpiro School.

Waipā deputy chief executive Ken Morris discusses part of the plan with a resident.

Waipā commmunity advisor Corren Ngerenere chats with Kakepuku farmer John Hayward.

Kiwifruit decision to be appealed

By Mary Anne Gill

A second controversial decision made by a Waipā District Council independent commissioner in favour of several hectares of kiwifruit shelter belts in Parallel Road is to be appealed.

Alan Withy last week granted two applications from Kiwifruit Investments Ltd which will result in rows of six metre high kiwifruit cloth structures and shelterbelt planting on 35ha at 582 Parallel Road.

Nick Jennings, who opposed the application and is surrounded on three sides of his lifestyle property by cloth shelters and planting, said he would go to the “highest court in the land” to get the decision overturned.

“I’m going to fight this all the way. Do the council want the whole of Waipā covered in shelter cloth?”

Withy said in his decision “the occupiers of what is a relatively small property in a rural area should expect neighbouring land to be developed and used for purposes as proposed in the applications”.

Two kilometres down the road on 69ha at 383 Parallel Road, neighbours have filed a judicial review application against a similar Withy decision made last August.

That decision for GDP Orchards Ltd will be the subject of a High Court hearing on May 13.

Jennings, who said he had already spent $80,000 fighting the application including $32,000 for the day long resource consent hearing

before Withy last month, said the decision made a mockery of the Waipā District Plan.

In both instances, the applicant applied for retrospective consent - meaning they had already built the structures and planted the shelterbelts.

Parmvir Singh Bains, who owns Kiwifruit Investments at 582 Parallel Road and manages the property at 383 Parallel Road, said in his written evidence to the hearing that he did not know he had to apply for a resource consent.

Jennings said approving retrospective applications seemed wrong and Withy had gone against the advice of landscape architect Joanna Soanes.

Soanes, in her evidence, said the minimal setbacks, height of the structures, large site coverage and shelterbelt planting, had the potential to create an adverse visual effect for the Jennings property.

“To me that’s the biggest problem with this decision. He (Withy) has completely dismissed the only truly professional opinion,” said Jennings.

“It’s like someone who is not a surgeon but has a surgeon beside him at the operating table, taking the scalpel and saying ‘I can do this myself.’ It’s outrageous.”

The council uses independent commissioners when planning staff do not have delegated authority to make a decision on notified applications where submissions have been lodged in opposition.

Council’s approved commissioner

pool, in addition to Withy, is Phil Mitchell, Greg Hill, Helen Atkins, Michael Lester, Richard Knott, Rob Van Voorthuysen, Sheena Te Pania, Simon Berry, Steven Wilson and Tara Hills.

In his decision on the Jennings opposition, Withy said on his two site visits he saw planting – “albeit spasmodic in some places” - around

all sides of the Jennings property which gave them a level of privacy from the kiwifruit activities.

The structures and planting were reasonable taking into account it was a rural area where kiwifruit, with structures and planting, might be expected.

The submitters should not expect the level of privacy and amenities

as might be expected in a residential neighbourhood, said Withy. Conditions proposed and accepted by the applicant were appropriate in all the circumstances and should give a reasonable level of protection to the submitter’s property, he said. •Read the decision cambridgenews.nz

Domain planning starts

By Mary Anne Gill

A masterplan for Leamington Domain is underway with a renewal of the destination playground included.

Reserve planner Bonnie Lewis told the Cambridge Community Board last night (Wednesday) –after The News had gone to press – the Domain was an important premier reserve for the Waipā community.

Lewis was also at the Ahu Ake – Spatial Plan open day at the Domain on Saturday and used the opportunity to seek feedback there.

She said the Domain, almost 6.9ha in size, with its existing infrastructure and mature specimen trees provided a wonderful destination for the community.

“It is already well used by families, sport and social groups and it is important it continues to provide quality amenities,” she said.

The council has engaged Xyst Ltd to develop the master plan and

as part of the project will talk to mana whenua, lessees and the community.

The board was to appoint a representative to the project working group which would approve a draft plan for presentation to the council’s Service Delivery committee in August.

The project will not consider the campground or netball courts.

Stakeholders include the

Cambridge Model Engineering Society, which runs miniature train rides around the Domain’s perimeter, Leamington Art Group and Leamington Croquet. The area is also used for junior cricket, market days and skating. One of the Domain’s significant features is the two-storey octagonal Band Rotunda, built in 1910 on the corner of Pope Terrace and Bracken Street and moved to the Domain in 1921.

The Leamington Domain playground is due for a renewal.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Runners answer the dawn call

A record turnout, and a record time.

Rotary’s annual run Run the Runway fundraiser was tagged a “brilliant’ success on Sunday morning as Hamilton Airport hosted hundreds of runners and walkers.

They raised $10,000 which Rotary will donate to the Orange Sky organisation.

It was the second such event in five months – last year’s run was postponed from March to November because of Covid, and it was notably darker this time round.

The event brings together Rotarians from Hamilton, Waipā and Piako and last weekend’s success prompted organiser Mike Cahill to set a target of getting 500 people along next year.

A total of 420 competed this time.

Matangi’s Paul Johnson blitzed the field in a time of 17m 5s to set a new record.

Johnson got back into running after returning home after 15 years in Northern Ireland and said his dad Alf was a Rotarian –“and a better runner than me”.

First boy and girl home prizes went to Benjamin Devcich and Anna Phillips.

Orange Sky launched its fifth New Zealand service in Hamilton at the end of last year – it provides washing facilities for people and clothes. Jude Bartram, who was at the weekend event and also took part in it, said Orange Sky relies on

The Oranga Sky mobile laundry and shower bus, topped with solar panels, is seen where service

providers are operating – such as at Innes Common in Hamilton on a Friday. Bartram said it was not only the homeless who benefitted from the

Cambridge Town Hall

By Simon Brew, Cambridge Town Hall, General Manager

The Cambridge Town Hall Community Trust is continuing to move at pace to activate the Town Hall with the announcement of two exciting concerts for 2023.

The Trust, in collaboration with Chamber Music New Zealand, quickly secured these performances to help boost creative arts activities in Cambridge for Autumn, and bring life into the Town Hall itself.

The first, Les Voisins: A journey into French music through the ages, features acclaimed musicians Justine Cormack (violin), James Bush (cello), and Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo, guitars), and comes together for a lively French music programme, from the Baroque era through to the jazzy swing of the 1930s.

“Touring around New Zealand and playing for New Zealanders all through our stunning country is always an absolute treat for me,” says violinist Justine Cormack.

“In the case of our Cambridge performance on this tour, I am particularly excited to perform

within the iconic Cambridge Town Hall for the first time. I simply can’t wait!’ she adds.

The second concert features acclaimed percussionists, Yoshiko Tsututa and Jeremy Fitzsimons. Formed in 2015, Double Shot provides a colourful mixture of percussion instruments based around marimba and vibraphone.

The duo’s strength lies in the wonderfully subtle variety of their performances and the rich, mellow resonance of their instruments.

From acclaimed New Zealand Composer John Psathas to the group’s own arrangement of Claude Debussy’s La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box), the varied programme of works will fill the hall with colour and a kaleidoscope of musical sounds.

The Trust is pleased that Les Voisins and Double Shot, will bring the hall to life with thrilling music that will surprise

and excite audiences of all ages.

Chamber Music New Zealand’s Chief Executive, Rose Campbell says “Chamber Music New Zealand is thrilled to be partnering with the Cambridge Town Hall Community Trust in sharing Music Up Close experiences with local audiences.

“Working together, we are able to bring special projects by some of Aotearoa’s finest musicians to the Town Hall. The evocative Les Voisins and the dazzling Double Shot have put together extraordinary

service.

There were many instances where people living in over crowded homes did not have access to showers and washing facilities.

programmes, and it is exciting for CMNZ to be sharing this music with our Cambridge and Waipā community,” Rose says.

• Les Voisins, Friday 28 April, 7.30pm

• Double Shot, Friday 26 May, 7.30pm

• Tickets between $16.50 and $35. Available from humanitix.com/nz or from Destination Cambridge.

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On their marks - 420 runner and walkers prepare to step out onto the runway. volunteers and runs 10 shifts with four on each time.

Oranga Sky has taken its Hamilton service to Port Waikato and Raglan – following the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle - since launching.

Going bananas – From left, Jade Paki, 11, Tegan Smith, 12, and Casey Paki, 11, came from Morrinsville for the event.

Hamilton Rotarian Mike Cahill called the shots again for the annual event.

Jude Bartram was among the Orange Sky team at the airport – and she did the run too.

Les Voisins.

Double Shot.

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Out of the mist – runners enjoyed the opportunity to run the length of Hamilton’s runway.

Photos: Roy Pilott

Anna Phillipps, a St Peters School, Cambridge pupil, was the first female back repeating her November effort.

Firefighter Kelly Remkes completed the journey all kitted out – The News camera snapped him last November too. It was hotter this time, he said.

Benjamin Devcich from Hamilton Boys’ High was the first boy home.

Race winner Paul Johnson set a new record when he won the run in just over 17 minutes.

Job almost done – one of the leading runners heads back to the finish line.

Ethical investing on the rise

By Viv Posselt

A talk delivered in Cambridge last week inadvertently championed ‘the teacher effect’ as much as it did its central topic of ethical investing.

Carey Church generated much interest with her address to the March U3A meeting on ethical investing, but it was her heartfelt endorsement on the impact made on her life by former Cambridge High School geography teacher Rosemary Hill that touched many.

Given this week’s teachers’ strike, said to be one of the biggest in the country’s history, the message was timely. Carey spoke of how Rosemary’s teaching had inspired her to do an initial degree in earth sciences and had sharpened her awareness of the wider world to a point where the value of global responsibility remains a key driver for the work she does today in the field of financial investment.

When Rosemary offered the formal thanks at the end of Carey’s

address, the audience applauded generously.

Carey, co-founder of the Cambridge U3A group, has international credentials in investment and recently completed a first-class honours degree in law. Her lecture was entitled ‘What do Weapons, Animals and Chocolate have to do with investing?’

After adding an economics component to her original earth sciences degree, Carey went on to carve out a career in the financial and investment sector in Australia and New Zealand. She and her husband Peter launched Moneyworks in 1997, and over the last five years have concentrated their efforts on ethical investing. Last year, the company became the first financial adviser in New Zealand to achieve a B Corp certification which meant it joined a global network encouraging business to be a ‘force for good’.

A core takeaway from the lecture spoke to the growing number of individuals and businesses that are today choosing to invest

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in companies that meet strict standards of ethical practice, particularly as it relates to human rights or environmental issues, animal welfare and weapons. Outlining ethical investment, Carey said: “There are a lot of words associated with it… our definition is responsible investment that is sustainable, environmentally and socially beneficial, and one that reflects your values.”

She said readily available free resources providing information on companies’ sustainable practices are seeing clients increasingly call on their fund managers to invest in companies with an ethical profile aligning more closely to their values.

“People don’t want their funds tied to companies with dubious records on animal welfare, or the supply of weapons. Even those who traditionally invest solely to make a profit and regard ethical investing as a ‘fad’ are less enthusiastic today about investing in companies where there are

human rights or environmental violations.”

“People ask whether if they invest to reflect their values it means they can expect lower returns for their money. The reality is they are likely to get greater

returns.”

Carey said international research showed that 89 percent of people wanted their values represented in their investment.

“We are starting to see change,” she said.

Teacher and student reunited…Rosemary Hill and her former student Carey Church at Friday’s U3A lecture where Carey spoke on ethical investing.

Audit rebuke for council

By Mary Anne Gill

Audit New Zealand has rapped Waipā District Council over the knuckles in its annual Management Report for approving expenses to the chief executive and mayor without the proper authority.

The instances involved deputy chief executive Ken Morris who signed off on payments for former mayor Jim Mylchreest and chief executive Garry Dyet.

The sign offs should have come from different sources – two councillors in one

Letters…

On the right path

Could someone please explain how a retirement village has been able to acquire part of a Cambridge Street?

This is Thompson Street which is a busy thoroughfare as it leads into Cambridge Park. They have enlarged the grass verge. We are also left with a lot of loose metal which is annoying for pedestrians and must be for residents too. I am wondering if the business paid anything for this.

Anne Leighton

Cambridge

Waipā District Council responds: Lauriston Park is being expanded and, under the terms of its resource consent, is required to put in a kerb and channel on the northern side of the road. A footpath will be installed along with path lighting and new drainage. The loose metal and additional vehicles are a short-term inconvenience while this work is underway. No, the retirement village has not ‘acquired’ part of the street.

case, the mayor in the other.

They came to light when Audit NZ reviewed the council’s expenditure as part of the council’s annual audit for the 2021-2022 financial year.

Audit NZ’s René van Zyl and Kayode Oloro appeared before the Audit and Risk committee this week.

The body acts as a watchdog for ratepayers – there were no questions over the integrity of the expenses signed off, only who actually signed them off.

The process is designed to safeguard councils – and ratepayers - and ensure money spent is approved appropriately.

There was a twist in the tail – because the office was also delivered a rebuke.

It issued an audit report in December and said a final report would not be given until June, a consequence of staff shortages.

Independent chair Bruce Robertson said that was unacceptable.

“Your pressures are not our pressures,” he said. “You’re providing the service to us and I’m not prepared to wait until June to see that letter.”

As part of the audit, auditors checked elected members’ interests.

Morris said “one or two slipped through the cracks” and staff would not “just” rely on elected members’ declarations in future.

They would search the Charities and Companies registers and do a complete check as Audit NZ does.

Details of the expenses’ payments to Mylchreest and Dyet were included in the Management Report where Audit NZ highlighted matters management should address to enhance control environment and reporting.

Auditor Leon Pieterse said his office

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recommended one-up approval on all sensitive expenditure and the approver should be independent of the benefits.

The council said two of the instances picked up by Audit NZ involved expenditure from the Mayoral Discretionary Budget.

“Any expense incurred is considered by staff as being entirely at the mayor’s discretion. The budget is limited to a relatively small per annum amount and the senior staff member providing the final financial approval of the mayor’s discretionary wishes is cognisant of the need for the expense to be reasonable given that it is of ratepayer funds.”

The funds usually go to community groups, the council said.

“A requirement for further ‘approvals’ to be obtained from councillors in this instance would defeat the intent that the mayor has discretionary ability to meet identified ad hoc community needs.”

However, the council said it would implement an annual reporting process to the Audit and Risk committee which would enhance accountability and transparency.

The two instances involving Dyet were incidental travel costs already approved by the mayor and the purchase of council equipment.

Robertson got tetchy again later in the meeting, during discussion about the use of quick wins, to remind staff to fill out timesheets to allocate professional service charges to outside parties.

Staff are regularly reminded to do the timesheets, he was told.

“This is a very key area in my mind.

“It’s a maximisation of revenue,” and not all of it should be from rates, said Robertson.

“It’s a cultural thing as well. There’s always the risk you can’t recover everything.”

The issue was highlighted again when the committee received an audit from Waka Kotahi which said the council needed to review the professional services costs and apply the actual administration costs for its activities.

In its response, council management agreed and said staff changes in the business unit meant it would have to update documentation.

Robertson, a former assistant AuditorGeneral, is an independent member of other Audit and Risk committees in Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Southland, Far North, ThamesCoromandel, Tairāwhiti and Wellington.

He has a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts and is a chartered accountant. He is recognised nationally as an established risk and governance expert.

Audit and Risk committee chair Bruce Robertson.

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Thirty women took the opportunity to hear from 10 successful female authors by enjoying a girls’ night in the Cambridge Library on Friday in celebration of International Women’s Day and Authors’

Month.

The Waikato authors (Cambridge unless specified) were Nikki Crutchley, Julie Thomas, Trudi Caffell, Nicola Turner, Christina O’Reilly (Matamata), Rebecca

Ahlen (real name Silke Deul – Te Awamutu), Sarah Johnson, KT Bowes (Huntly), Holly Christina (Te Awamutu) and Sue Edmonds (Eureka).

A second girls’ night will be held

tomorrow (Friday) at Te Awamutu Library. Te Awamutu authors to feature include Lee Kimber, Deb Hinde, Danielle Hawkins, Tammy Robinson, Amy Harrop, Adele Gaddes and Rachel Numan.

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Waipā singer-songwriter Holly Christina shows the musical component inserted into the audio version of her young adult cli-fi fantasy book ‘Harp and the Lyre’ to Waipā Outreach librarian Dee Atkinson.

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The deal with “supervolcanoes”

Supervolcanoes are perhaps the megastar of volcano misinformation, they get the flashiest headlines designed to grab attention with little to no facts involved.

During my eight years in the United States I spoke to a lot of people about volcanoes, almost everyone asked me something along the lines of “will Yellowstone kill us all?”

The issue is fuelled by tabloids making frequent bogus claims like “Yellowstone volcano eruption warning: hundreds of bison dead as fears of mega blast grow”. The most likely eruption at Yellowstone National Park is a hydrothermal/steam eruption, or a lava flow.

To be honest, I don’t love the term. There is no point in fighting it, but it often lacks context and is grossly exaggerated. It suggests the biggest of the big eruptions will happen– the “super eruptions”.

The truth is, those massive eruptions are also the rarest type, and to qualify as a “supervolcano” the volcanic system must have produced only one of them among the dozens to hundreds of much smaller eruptions, and it may never produce one that big ever again. To get that much

super sticky magma to move is a feat in itself, it’s not a popular eruption style.

Let’s look at Taupō, currently in an unrest period (an increase from the normal level of activity below the surface, which may not lead to an eruption and may not even be driven by magma) and has understandably made people nervous. It is important to note that between 1870 and 2022 there have been at least 17 periods of unrest, none of which led to an eruption. Taupō has produced some big caldera-forming eruptions – when so much magma erupts that the ground collapses, forming a large hole. About 25,500 years ago the one “super eruption” occurred, and since then there have been over 28 far smaller eruptions - the more likely scenarios. It is harder to preserve and find remnants of smaller events, so these are usually underestimated. To summarise, we have these volcanic systems which have produced the largest type of eruption at least once (maybe once or twice), have significantly more smaller eruptions, and have normal periods where the volcano shakes around a bit but does nothing at the surface. What is the global focus? Of

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course, it’s the “big one”.

Do volcanologists take these rare events seriously? Very. There is currently the Eclipse project run by a collective of groups to better understand the central Taupō Volcanic Zone, and it is closely monitored. We also learn about our Kiwi volcanoes through understanding other similar systems around the world. We want to know all there is to know about every possible eruption, what warning signs would precede them, and what the impacts would be. We care if these systems produce any sized eruption. What bugs me is when people are scared by misinformation for clickbait profits. Life is hard enough, you don’t deserve that.

Yes, the volcano is super cool. Yes, smaller eruptions could certainly have big impacts. No, it won’t wipe out life on Earth. How do we know? Well, you’re here reading this. We passed that experiment already.

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Pirongia’s Mike Bowe (pictured) will carry Waikato’s hopes in Feilding at the CablePrice National Excavator Operator Competition.

Bowe is one of 13 champions from around New Zealand whose excavator skills will be pushed to the limit over a series of challenges.

They will include traversing a trench and digging around pipelines, using his 13 tonne digger to slam dunk a basketball into a two-storey concrete pipe using an excavator’s bucket, and a slalom course.

Manfeild Park will host the competition tomorrow (Friday) and on Saturday.

Bowe qualified at the Waikato regional competition in December. The Bowe Brothers Excavating Ltd owneroperator has won the Waikato title four times.

“I know how much work goes into the nationals, it’s

a lot of work and a lot of preparation to build up the skills for the competition,” he said.

“That’s mental preparation too – every time I jump in the digger between now and nationals, I’m thinking about how I can improve, make things better and faster and be prepared the best way I can be. I want to be there and take out the title.”

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Looking at bank profits

By Peter Nicholl

Pressure is building up for a formal Inquiry into bank profitability in New Zealand. Two things are driving this. First, the level of profits of the New Zealand banks is higher than in most other OECD countries. Second, while the cost of living has been rising in New Zealand over the last two years and many households are under significant financial pressure, banks’ profits have been rising strongly.

Banks have also distanced themselves from their customers over the last two decades by cutting out a number of services that customers found useful, like buying and selling foreign cash, and charging higher and higher fees on almost all banking services they still provide. Banks used to encourage their customers to visit their bank branches but now it seems that they would prefer them to stay away and do all their banking on-line.

When I was growing up in Cambridge (a long time ago!!) the local bank branch managers were well-known and important people in the town. Now I, and I suspect most other people living here, can’t name one bank branch manager.

Australia had a major Royal Commission into their banking system in 2018. But that commission focused on conduct issues rather than profitability – and what it found was alarming. New Zealand did a followup review as the banks that were found to be behaving badly in Australia were also our biggest banks. While the New Zealand review did not find the banks were squeakyclean in New Zealand, the conduct and culture problems were found to be much less widespread here than they were in Australia.

But when it comes to profitability, the boot is on the other foot. The profit level of

the Australian-owned banks that dominate our banking system are significantly higher in New Zealand than they are for the same banks in Australia. I have never heard a good explanation from the banks for this. It seems hard to explain it in any other way than a lack of competition in the New Zealand banking market. Even the Reserve Bank of New Zealand said publicly recently that they would support an Inquiry into banks’ profits, saying that the banks here have been quick to increase their mortgage rates as monetary policy tightened but have been slower to raise their interest rates on deposits.

Two different types of inquiry have been suggested. One is a relatively quick, and probably shallow, inquiry by a Parliamentary Select Committee. The banking industry has said they would welcome such an inquiry. The other is a more detailed market study by the Commerce Commission. I have not seen a statement from the banking industry that welcomes this option. It would clearly be more expensive for the industry and shine a lot more light on industry practices. It therefore should be the option the Government adopts.

My concern is that the Commerce Commission has already done three of these market studies: into petrol prices, supermarkets and building supplies. Their reports had lots of criticisms but have led to little concrete action to increase competition in any of the three industries. If the same happened with a market review of the banking industry, it would be an expensive waste of time.

The parable of the pigeons…

By Murray Smith, Pastor, Bridges Church

I watched with interest when a fake owl was placed on top of a building in Cambridge near my office in town. It was put there to frighten away pigeons who had colonised this high rooftop and established it as their toilet with a view.

Initially the imposing owl’s presence worked wonders. The pigeons who had gathered previously en masse, were exceedingly wary of this new, approximately 40 centimetre high ‘intruder’ on their patch. The owl stood there - stock still, its steely gaze, enough to ward off incoming pigeons who found other places to ‘perch’ .

Over time I started to notice the braver ones among the pigeon fraternity started venturing back along the roof ridge line - but still, they kept a nervous distance away from the fake owl. I’d see them, heads cocked on the side, eyeing it, anticipating it making a move. Ever increasingly, pigeons began returning and seemingly, with the passage of time, the fake owl was no longer perceived as a threat. It wasn’t long before pigeon confidence was restored to the point where many returned to the roof, the bravest ones exhibiting blatant disregard for the owl.

This week I laughed to myself, as I saw yet another pigeon sitting brazenly on the owl’s head. They’ve evidently conquered their fear and now cheekily flaunt their triumph over the ‘owl’. That’s what easy familiarity can do I guess.

It got me thinking about how over familiarity can get us into trouble. Some things in life must be approached with caution - healthy appropriate ‘fear’ is the essence of self-preservation. Enlightened self-interest preserves us from harming ourselves by engaging in reckless stupidity or

wrongdoing which can so easily become addictive.

I read a book in which pain was characterised as “the gift which nobody wants.” It made a deep impression on me as it described people with leprosy who inadvertently damaged their hands because their nerves provided no sensation.

Unwittingly picking up scalding items without caution, they repetitively did irreparable harm to themselves.

The pigeons overcame their cautious fear without repercussion - for us however, there’s things about life, where failing to exercise a healthy avoidance default could be lethal. While the word ‘sin’ isn’t popular today, engaging in it certainly is. To trivialise sin, becoming casually familiar with it, is very damaging.

To contrast my picture of the pigeon sitting on the owl’s head with wilful pursuit of sin, let’s remember it’s never benign - we can’t flirt with it and escape unscathed.

We all have God-given conscience. ‘Conscience’ comes from two Latin words, ‘with knowledge’. Conscience is designed to keep us from self-harming or harming others. We’ll either listen to conscience or argue with it.

To continually over-ride our conscience results in catastrophe. It’s akin to ignoring the oil light flashing on the car dashboard and telling ourselves “It’ll be ok!” when it most certainly won’t be.

Listen to that inner voice… that built-in sense of what’s right and what’s wrong. To persist in over-riding it, will ‘cauterise’ it to the point that it ceases to work.

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Like, there’s no irony

By Peter Matthews

For some time now I’ve had a backup idea, a column-writing safety net of sorts. That is to say with a blank screen in front of me, a rapidly approaching deadline, and no subject on the horizon I’ve always had one in reserve. And today is the day I use it.

I don’t mind songs with crazy lyrics; songwriters have often conceived their compositions in variously altered mental states and the outpouring of consciousness can often be hard to decipher. David Bowie’s ‘Jean Genie’ for instance, ‘loves chimney stacks’ for no apparent reason other than a handy rhyme.

What I do object to is incorrect lyrics: Whether the error be grammatic, syntactic, or factual there is no excuse other than ignorance, and as a university lecturer once told me, that is no excuse at all.

Alanis Morissette, for example, considers ‘rain on your wedding day’ to be ironic. This is not ironic, it is simply unfortunate. I confess I have always found irony to be a slippery concept - it comes in many forms and can trip you up.

The official meaning of irony is ‘the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.’

Alanis goes on to list a further example; ‘a free ride when you’ve already paid’.

Yup, she can have that one; it’s not a concept described ironically, more just a statement of the situation but it’s an ironic situation nonetheless - isn’t it? Perhaps a grey area.

Not so grey is Rod Stewart singing ‘holding up for prosperity for the whole

damn world to see’. He simply got the wrong word - it should have been ‘posterity’.

Although there is (I think) a delightful irony in that mistake, since the inarguable result of him singing the song ‘I Was only Joking’ was indeed prosperity.

Now for the big one: In the 1973 hit ‘Live and Let Die’ Paul McCartney sang ‘in this ever-changing world in which we live in’. This was reflected in the original sheet music for the song and is a clanger of epic proportions: At least one, if not two superfluous ‘ins’ depending on how you read it.

A more recent representation of this lyric is ‘if this ever-changing world in which we’re living’ which is perfectly fine. McCartney himself, in an interview with the Washington Post said he doesn’t really pay much attention to how he sings it and it could be either but the former seems ‘wronger but cuter’ which of course compounds the initial crime. Fortunately none of this is important. The word ‘like’ is misused countless times a day by almost everyone with very little negative consequence, and I have just taken up a couple of your minutes for no good reason other than a temporary diversion from your day.

I hope you don’t think it was a waste of time, and I hope your day continues well. Now I shall have to see about coming up with another backup column subject.

REGIONAL COUNCIL VIEW

Managing the water

The rain events we’ve experienced this summer have been hugely challenging for some parts of the country. Acknowledging that the Coromandel has suffered significant landslip damage due to saturated catchments, creating major issues with the roading network, with significant impacts on the local community, the Waikato as a whole has escaped relatively unscathed.

Many will have observed that discharges from the Karapiro dam have been significant at times during the summer months. This is because the Waikato river is managed as part of an integrated whole of catchment approach to ensure as far as is practicable, flooding risks are minimised for those in more vulnerable parts of the catchment that have flood risk.

The Waikato River is New Zealand’s longest at 425km. Overall, it drains water from 12 per cent of the North Island. In addition, water is also contributed via the Tongariro scheme, diverting water from outside the Waikato catchment, and through three hydro-electric dams before entering Lake Taupo and the Waikato system. There are a further eight hydroelectric dams on the Waikato River. When significant rain events are forecast, Waikato

By Stu Kneebone, Waipā-King Country councillor

Regional Council (WRC) and Mercury (operators of the hydro dams) work closely together to manage various risks to the wider catchment from the river system.

The Waipā River can have a significant effect on the Waikato River system when it is in flood. While the Waipā catchment is only 20 per cent of that of the Waikato, it can contribute between half to two thirds of the flow in the lower Waikato river during peak discharges.

When necessary, the management of outflows from the Tongariro diversion, Taupō and Karapiro can lessen the impact of heavy rain in the Waipā catchment on communities further downstream.

When heavy rain is forecast for the Waipā catchment, extra water can be released via the Karapiro gates to create space in the upper river system before the Waipā flood peak arrives. Then when it does arrive, that space created in the upper catchment can be utilised to hold water back to minimise the impact of the Waipā flood flow on the lower Waikato communities.

Prior to the establishment of the integrated flood protection scheme, significant flooding was not uncommon in the lower reaches of the river. A particularly severe flood in 1953 saw the

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Control of the Tongariro diversions, the Taupo gates and the Lower Waikato/ Waipā control schemes all play a part in the management of the overall system, depending on which parts of the catchment are affected.

While a whole of catchment approach is taken to ensure risks and effects are appropriately balanced throughout the catchment, this does not eliminate flood risks, and in the case of sustained and prolonged rainfall events, our ability to manage this becomes limited.

The increasing frequency and intensity of flood events, combined with increasing population growth and development means the provision of hazard information, land use policies, regulations and river and catchment management related activities all need to be understood within the context of managing flood risks within a whole catchment.

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Their world is a stage

Shakespeare comes to Te Awamutu tomorrow.

Te Awamutu College will host Friday’s Waikato Regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival – and it will be the first opportunity students have had to gather face to face since Covid intervened two years ago.

The Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ University of Otago event has been in digital mode during that time.

Schools taking the Waikato challenge of preparing five and 15 minute scenes from Shakespeare plays include Cambridge High, Hillcrest High, St John’s College, Sacred Heart Girls’, Hamilton Girls’ High, Hamilton Boys’ High, Te Aroha College and Te Awamutu College.

A total of 32 regional events – in the 32nd year of the event – will lead up to a national festival over Queens’ Birthday Weekend in Wellington. Selected students will then participate in the National Schools Shakespeare Production in the August school holidays leading to potential selection for the Young Shakespeare Company which travels to London every April to study and perform at the Globe Theatre, London.

The regional Shakespeare in Waipā will be at Te Awamutu College from 10am – 2pm tomorrow and is open to the public for a small door charge.

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Rowers in the medals

Waipā rowers won six golds at last weekend’s North island Secondary Schools Rowing Championships in glorious weather on Lake Karāpiro.

St Peters, Te Awamutu College and Cambridge High featured in more than 70 races over three days as rowers were tested for the last time in competition before the Maadi Cup. That regatta over three days starts at Karāpiro on March 31.

Last weekend’s regatta attracted more than 1800 rowers from 79 schools.

St Peter’s fielded crews across all age groups and reached 17 A, four B and five C finals.

Its highlight was the boys U17 double sculls where two school crews took the podium. Harrison McClintock and Valentin Barrio-Frojan won gold and Josh Yeoman and Khaidar Tuikin bronze.

They then teamed up for the U17 coxed quad sculls and won gold. Harrison made it a triple when he won Bronze in the U17 single.

Finn Scragg won the boys U16 single sculls. The girls U16 coxed quad sculls (Olivia Henry, Zara O’Leary, Maia Suttie, Brooke Weir and cox Skyla Gillbanks) celebrated silver and the girls U16 coxed four (Olivia Henry, Molly McClintock, Maia Suttie, Sophie Hunter and Skyla Gillbanks) bronze.

The girls from the U16 coxed four then teamed up with Peyton Barnard, Genie Tuck, Maia Calcinai and Brooke Weir to row a superb race to win silver in the girls U16 coxed eight. Sophie and Molly then won bronze in the girls U15 double.

The boys U15 coxed quad sculls crew of Jack Calcinai, Angus Denize, Cameron Moores and Leo O’Reilly with coxswain Leon Lee took the bronze medal in their A final.

Cambridge High celebrated gold in the girls under 17 quad sculls, under 17 single sculls and under-17

double sculls.

The quad comprised Isabelle Murray, Libby Tonks, Tegan O’Dwyer, Lucy Eastwood and cox Jack Charlton. O’Dwyer won

the single and Murray and Eastwood the double sculls.

Cambridge also finished third in the girls Under 16 coxed eight – the team comprised Makena Rodger,

Elise Pickford, Keeley Rodger, Millie Balsom, Kendal Muir, Mackenzie Lawton, Charlotte Wilson, Annaliese Jenner and cox Mandy Peacocke.

Cambridge High School boys under 16 double sculls Quinn Steverson and Alex Schuler went on to place in fifth in the A Final.

St Peters’ under 15 boys quad, from left cox Leon Lee (hidden) Cameron Moores, Leo O’Reilly, Jack Calcinai and Angus Denize.

Silver medals went to the St Peters under 16 eight .Pictured from left were coach Norm Charlton, Maia Suttie, Maia Calcinai, Sophie Hunter, Molly McClintock, Anna Gallaher, coach Brooke Weir, Genie Tuck, Peyton Barnard and Olivia Henry.

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Showing how it’s done

Mary Anne Gill looks ahead to Owl Farm’s April open day.

Forty per cent of the people who attend an Owl Farm public open day at St Peter’s School in Cambridge have never been on a dairy farm in their lives.

And Jo Sheridan revels in the challenge those newbies present for her and the property, which in recent years has become one of only three demonstration farms in New Zealand.

More than 2000 visitors come through the gates every year and continue down the drive, past the school, and onto the dairy

farm. They come from all walks of life – students from primary up to university, other dairy farmers and townies.

It is the public day which really gives the farm’s demonstration manager a golden opportunity to educate people about what happens on a working dairy farm. There has been a farm at St Peter’s since 1935 – a mixture of dry stock, dairy cows, sheep, hens and pigs - with profits ploughed into the development of the school. During World War II, half the milk

produced at the school provided town milk to Cambridge. But it was an agreement struck between Lincoln University and the school in 2014 which created the Owl Farm demonstration dairy farm and a role to educate the public which has taken it to another level.

Part of the farm to the east, poorer production land, has recently been taken over for housing development leaving Sheridan and farm manager Tony Alarca with 140ha and 351 cows to look

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into two herds allowing Owl Farm to take better care of the ones whose body condition scores have dipped.

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Owl Farm demonstration manager Jo Sheridan with farm hostess Emjay, a six-month-old labrador.

Photo: Mary Anne Gil Owl Farm manager Tony Alarca puts the milking cup on St Peter’s cows.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Showing how it’s done

“The girls that need to put on a bit more weight are in a separate herd and they get fed extra feed,” says Sheridan.

One cow is an exception. Frankie, number 300, is a maiden heifer. She missed going into calf last year but she has such a personality, staff opted to keep her in the herd without a calf or any lactation. She accompanies the herd to the milking shed and back into the paddocks. Sheridan hastens to add they hope she will get into calf this year.

Most Owl Farm cows weigh about 480kgs, and each produces about 440 kilograms of

milk solids a year, or about 28-32 litres of milk a day. The cows produced 175,000 kgs/ milk solids last year (June 2021-May 2022) but the land loss for housing means that will be about 160,000 this year. In a normal year, the cows would have chewed their way through a brassica diet of turnips and kale and be onto the silage. But because of the wet spring and summer – Sheridan says they have had 1300mls of rain in nine months, usually the total amount for the year – they have been able to grow more grass and keep the silage in storage.

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Recent pasture samples showed grass in the paddocks is of spring quality rather than the parched pasture seen at this time of the year.

Eighteen months ago the farm invested in a system called Halter, ergonomically designed smart collars for cows which monitors them for signs of ill health and provides them with cues to understand and respond to sound and vibrations. Sheridan rates the technology pointing to the half an hour a day it has saved them. They no longer have to shift cows around

the farm using motorbikes, electric fencing, gates and dogs. Virtual fencing has replaced that and they monitor the cows using iPhones.

The technology will be on show during the public open day and if it is anything like others, it will be the young people who will love it.

“One of the things we’ve noticed is students have got a desire to be involved with primary production,” says Sheridan. They are the ones who ask lots of questions around animal care, how Owl Farm looks after the land and are eager to utilise technology.

But young ones are not the only ones interested. Those first-time dairy farm visitors, mostly townies, become fascinated with what they see.

“When they come onto the farm and they get to see the cows getting milked, they get to understand a little bit about how we grow our feed, how we feed our cows, how we take care of the land, all the different things about the milk product and all that sort of stuff, it opens their eye about the biological system that we’re managing.”

That is a win-win because everybody wants to preserve the natural beauty of the countryside, she says. “But it’s only naturally beautiful because farmers are farming it.”

The farm has to be efficient and productive as a farm for it to maintain its beauty, says Sheridan.

“We want to have a place where people are proud of what they’re doing and they can also utilise their skills around technology and use that to create a safer workplace, a more efficient workplace and also get better outcomes for both the land and the cows.

“It’s really important that as farms we continue to grow and provide that opportunity because these kids who want to get into primary production need to have a cool place for them to get in engaged in.”

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Cows fitted with Halter monitors head back to the pastures after milking at Owl Farm, St Peter’s School Cambridge.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Contented Owl Farm cows fitted with Halter monitors head back to pasture after milking.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Mexican on the menu with Jan Bilton

They are meals with real family appeal. Finger lickin’ good, fill-your-own fun south of the border style.

Flour tortillas are the bread of Mexico and are perfect for wrapping around fillings. If they tend to stick together, pop them in the microwave on high power for 20-30 seconds and they can be peeled apart. Tacos are corn tortillas that have been bent in half and fried until crisp.

Pork carnitas are popular street food in Mexico where the pork is submerged in lard and slow-cooked to juicy tenderness. However, most Kiwis don’t have a saucepan of lard on hand, so I used a slow cooker for my recipe. The cooked pork is shredded then pan-fried with some of the cooking liquid until a little crispy but still tender. It’s usually served in flour tortillas but is also great in sliders or on rice. Chipotle powder (pronounced ch-poht-lee) is now readily available in New Zealand supermarkets. It is prepared by smoking jalapeno chillies, which are then crushed to a rich, earthy, smoky powder. It is milder than many chilli powders but provides great depth to dishes. It can be added to soups, pasta sauces, mayo and casseroles as well as sprinkled on omelettes and smashed avo on toast.

MEXICAN CARNITAS

The pulled pork (before crisping) can be frozen in meal-lot servings. Divide the juice and place in ziplock bags to freeze with each serving.

2kg pork shoulder or leg, bone in

1 teaspoon each: salt, freshly ground black pepper

1 tablespoon dried oregano

2 teaspoons ground cumin

1 onion, diced

1-2 green chillies, seeded and chopped

4 cloves garlic, crushed

3/4 cup fresh orange juice

1-2 tablespoons olive oil

Pat the pork dry. Remove the skin but leave the fat on. Combine the salt, pepper, oregano and cumin. Rub the mixture all over the pork.

Place in a slow cooker fat-side up. Top with the onion, chillies, crushed garlic and orange juice. Cook on high for 5-6 hours. The pork should be tender enough to shred. Remove from the slow cooker and cool slightly. Using 2 forks, shred the pork finely. Skim off the fat from the juices in the slow cooker and discard. You should have about two cups of juice. (After cooking, the pork can be cooled and refrigerated overnight. The fat is more easily removed.)

To serve, heat a little olive oil in a non-stick frying pan. Spread some of the shredded pork in the pan — don’t crowd. Cook on medium for 1 minute then add some of the juices. Cook until crispy on one side then turn to sear the other side until crisp. The pork should still be tender. Repeat until all the pork is cooked.

Serve in warm soft tortillas. Great top with shredded lettuce, diced avocado or guacamole, sliced tomatoes, diced chilli, grated cheese and/or salsa. Serves 6-8.

CHIPOTLE MEATBALLS

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1kg lean minced beef

1/2 cup crushed corn chips

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1 teaspoon each: ground chipotle, ground cumin, smoked paprika

1 clove garlic, crushed

salt to taste

1/4 cup finely chopped coriander or parsley

1 egg, lightly beaten

2-3 tablespoons canola oil

Sauce: 2 x 410g cans tomato purée

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2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 teaspoon chipotle powder

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1 small onion, diced

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Combine the meat, crushed corn chips, seasonings, garlic, herbs and egg. Roll into balls a little larger than a golf ball. Place in a medium-sized oiled roasting pan. Roll gently in the oil to coat. Baked uncovered for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, combine the sauce ingredients in a medium saucepan. Simmer for 3-4 minutes. Pour over the meatballs. Cover and bake for 45 minutes.

Great served with corn chips on the side, plus rice, shredded lettuce, diced avocado and sour cream. Serves 6-8.

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Finance offer available on new Nissan Navara models registered between 01/02/2023 and 31/03/2023 or while stocks last. Approved applications of Nissan Financial Services New Zealand Pty Ltd (Nissan) only. Fixed interest rate of 3.9% p.a. only available on loan terms up to 24 month term. No deposit required. This offer includes and establishment fee of $375, PPSR fee of $8.05 and $10 per month account keeping fee. Excludes all lease and some fleet purchases. Nissan reserves the right to vary, extend or withdraw this offer. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. Additional terms and conditions apply and can be viewed at www.nissan.co.nz. Maximum Special Price (MSP) $39,990 is for SL 2DW Manual (D23JM) and includes GST but excludes GST Car Fee (CCF) $1,840 and on-road costs (ORC) of $1,340. ORC includes initial 12 month registration and WOF, 2000km RUC fuel and vehicle delivery.

3.9%

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Finance offer available on new Nissan X-Trail models registered between 01/03/2023 and 31/03/2023 or while stocks last. Approved applicants of Nissan Financial Services New Zealand Pty Ltd (Nissan) only. Fixed interest rates of 3.9% p.a. only available on loan terms up to 24 month term. No deposit required. This offer includes and establishment fee of $375, PPSR fee of $8.05 and $10 per month account keeping fee. Excludes all lease and some fleet purchases. Nissan reserves the right to vary, extend or withdraw this offer. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. Additional terms and conditions apply and can be viewed at www.nissan.co.nz.

DEADLINE SALE

Executive Residence Premium Location

Inspection by appointment

A superb opportunity to acquire a first class residential dwelling built with an emphasis on quality throughout, situated in a premium location within close walking distance to medical facilities and shopping in central Te Awamutu further development opportunities is the bonus.

• 663 Bank Street, Te Awamutu

• 2,317m² of elevated land; potential for subdivision into 3 titles (Council Consent req’d)

• 391m² dwelling (approx.); north facing; built for maximum sun and extensive views

• low maintenance with brick and cedar exterior; aluminium ‘Alti’ joinery, dble glazing, concrete tile roof; copper spouting and downpipes

• tarseal driveway leading to double garage/workshop with auto door & internal access

• external tiled patio extends along the length of the building; sunny, sheltered and accessed from multiple rooms within; sunny, sheltered courtyard at rear

Ph Brian Peacocke 021 373 113

Rural

• a welcoming foyer leads to a formal lounge, connected to formal dining, leading into an excellent modern kitchen and a generous family room

• downstairs includes a sunny master bedroom with ensuite & walk in wardrobe; main bathroom; bedroom (#4); office and laundry

• upstairs features 2 spacious bedrooms offering panoramic views to Maungatautari and Pirongia Mountains, supported by an additional bathroom

• finished to a very high standard; one run carpet & cork flooring; full insulation; security system; solar hot water plus an underfloor, hot water heating system.

TradeMe search # R1422

Sale by Deadline: Thurs, 20 April 2023 4.00pm

021 373 113 bjp@prl308.co.nz

Quality Cambridge Dairy Farm

555 Wallace Road, Cambridge

Well presented, flat, easy care 79.2ha dairy farm with modern 40 aside HB including inshed meal feeders, a 300 cow feedpad and fully compliant effluent system. Expected production this season is in excess of 120,000m/s. Fertile, mature peat soils ensure strong year round grass growth. On Pukerimu water scheme. Good support shedding plus excellent housing with a near new, six bedroom brick home and a good three bedroom secondary dwelling.

rwteawamutu.co.nz/TEA30395

Rosetown Realty Ltd Licensed REAA2008

For Sale

$5m + GST (if any)

View by appointment

Noldy Rust

027 255 3047

The sign you will achieve more.

Achieve more when you list your home with New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty. Unlike mainstream, mass-market real estate companies, placing our blue sign in front of your property, signals to buyers that beyond is a home of superior quality. One that is best in its class, regardless of the price bracket.

To have your sign installed, contact us today and achieve more.

Boomer On Burns.

Deadline Sale

110 Burns Street, Leamington

- Tremendously spacious two-bedroom flat level brick home, which enjoys a sunny aspect.

- Low maintenance, well positioned kitchen and large bedrooms. Open Homes Saturday & Sunday 10.00 - 10.30am

Popular Neighbourhood

BEO $1,200,000

58 Jarrett Terrace, Leamington 4 2 2

- Entertaining is easy – contemporary kitchen, breakfast bar, two living spaces and open plan layout.

- Low maintenance brick build – Lock up and leave.

- Built in 2015 by well established Golden Homes. Open Home Sunday 11.00 - 11.30am

then

Super Views to the Horizon

$1,139,000

27 Kingsley Street, Cambridge 4 2 2

- Light décor welcomes you to a home with four bedrooms; the upstairs master is ensuited and showcases a spacious mezzanine living area with stunning views over the treetops to the golf course.

Open Home Sunday 11.00 - 11.30am

Oh Yes On Oaklands

Negotiation

35 Oaklands Drive, Cambridge 3 2 2

- Attractive backyard and relaxed outdoor living – all on a 702m² (more or less) section.

- Built in 2003, you benefit from an HRV System, heat pump (heating and cooling) and a gas fireplace.

Open Home Sunday 12.00 - 12.30pm

double front entry and generous lobby welcomes you to a well proportioned 353m² home, set off the road in a tranquil setting (1736m² section – more or less).

Set on a 1472m² (more or less) section ready for your additional garden vision, this 264m² Urban Home displays central family living opening to portico entertainment and a large

Style, Space and Privacy

$1,349,000

8 King Street, Cambridge 4 3 2

quiet spot at the end of a short cul-de-sac.

- Large deck off the living room overlooks the back lawn area.

Open Home Sunday 1.00 - 1.30pm

- Four bedrooms (two up, two down) each enjoy their own design features. Space to work from home too and the option to convert the formal dining room with its own external entrance to an office.

Open Home Sunday 1.00 - 1.30pm

190m² (more or less) - 4 bedrooms

+ more

A fairer commission rate of 2.8% to first $300,000 then 1.8% on balance + gst Plus FREE, tailor-made marketing worth $2,500+

Classic Mod - Tantalizing on Taylor

Negotiation

120 Scott Street, Leamington

- The flowing floor plan offers four sun-filled bedrooms, a generous living space and open plan kitchen/ dining.

- Updates include carpet, aluminum joinery, kitchen, lighting & blinds.

Home Sunday 1.00 - 1.30pm

The Work Has Been Done

$680,000

115B Tennyson Street, Leamington

- Modernised throughout, all of the hard work is complete. Move in without lifting a finger.

- Maximised indoor-outdoor flow, with an effortless stream to the sunny and private outdoor entertainment area.

Home Sunday 2.00 - 2.30pm

We’ve Found It

$850,000

Thornton Road, Cambridge

- Super tidy, well presented and fully fenced Hinuera Stone home.

Great sized lounge and dining area, with lots of natural light and pleasant decor and access through a slider to the front porch.

Sunday 2.00 - 2.30pm

Deadline Sale

107 Taylor Street, Cambridge

- Come & enjoy the comforts of a tongue & grove polished floor, new kitchen, the finesse of modern cork tiles, separate lounge, a ¼ acre section (more or less) & spacious double garage/ workshop.

Homes Saturday & Sunday 1.00 - 1.30pm

Lifestyle Ambience In Town

Negotiation

15A Vogel Place, Cambridge 3 1 2

- Modern double glazed brick home, internal access garage, Jack and Jill bathroom (ensuite), open plan living, covered outdoor entertainment.

- The Te Awa walking/cycling track on the back boundary.

2.00 - 2.30pm

Grand, Spacious and Secluded

- Nestled up a tree-lined driveway and set on large, beautifully maintained grounds, this prestigious five-bedroom plus office executive home has the all the space a family could ask for.

- 3.30pm

The Roses..... And

The

Coffee Negotiation

6/24 Duke Street, Cambridge

- Tidy 2 bedroom (110m²) home is perfect for anyone looking for a low maintenance property all within walking distance to town.

- Feature cathedral ceiling in the living creates a open welcoming space. Open Homes Saturday 11.00-11.30am & Sunday 3.00-3.30pm

Lots To Discover - Location, Location

- PRICE REDUCTION!

- The upper level offers 3 bedrooms, large living/dining area, office nook, modern kitchen & added convenience of a downstairs studio.

109 TAYLOR STREET

Luxury Bespoke Townhouses

COMPLETED AND READY FOR VIEWING! Open home: Sunday 19th March: 1 00pm - 2 00pm

4 Luxury Freehold Townhouses

Each Floorplan Unique

World Class Appliances + Fittings

Fully Landscaped Private Outdoor Living Single Garage Plus Additional Carpark South Island Charlestone Limestone + Abodo Timber Features

Ohaupo 469 Mystery Creek Road

4 3 1 1

on a budget, yet is located in a premium lifestyle location and surrounded by more expensive properties. This property boasts four spacious bedrooms, perfect for families and extra visitors, great shedding for car enthusiasts and a barn perfect for the pony. There is even the flexibility of being able to lease a few acres from the neighbour, providing you with plenty of room for additional horses, pet lambs or a couple of beefies. Call Gary today to arrange your viewing!

Karapiro 103 Fergusson Gully Road

5 2 1 1

Entering via an attractive tree clad driveway you will find this cedar clad 5 bedroom home sitting nicely on an elevated setting with stunning views of Mangatautari and surrounding farm land. Large lawn with fruit trees complement the home,  and with 3.65ha of rolling country there’s room for horses/sheep or a few beefies. Concrete floored workshop complete with lean to, provides options for hobbies and storage. With an easy commute to Cambridge or Hamilton and Lake Karapiro nearby this location is sure to impress.

Gary Stokes M 021 351 112

For Sale Price By Negotiation View by appointment or scheduled open day www.harcourts.co.nz/CB4014

Gary Stokes M 021 351 112

Mark Ingram M 027 495 5941

FEATUREDLISTINGS

FINAL NOTICE

We

Corey Hutchison 021 037 3685

More catches to report

As you will have seen from my last two columns, I think it’s important to give you an idea of what your local Police are involved in and the good outcomes we achieve to keep Cambridge safe.

In continuing good news then, the past week has seen two more great catches. Following a thorough investigation, a search warrant was executed at an address where drug dealing was being carried out. As a result, a male was arrested and has appeared before the courts on charges for drug offending as well as several other charges related to dishonesty and driving offences.

Just a couple of days later, police apprehended a female following a theft from a supermarket. In her bid to get away, she rammed a police patrol car and then headed out of town, driving dangerously. Her actions ultimately resulted in her crashing into another vehicle driven by a member of the public.

After she was arrested a search of the vehicle she was driving found the items from the theft in Cambridge plus items from two other high value thefts from The Base, Te Rapa that had been reported in the two preceding days.

This person is now charged with thefts and other driving charges. The value of the items taken was approximately $5200.00 and demonstrates how one offender or group of offenders can be responsible for multiple incidents and significant loss to business.

If someone has just stolen from your store, ring 111 immediately. Your action prevents further businesses in town being hit and the town being seen as an easy target. It also makes us more likely to catch the offenders with stolen property still in their possession. In most cases they will also still be wearing the same clothes pictured on CCTV footage, which provides strong supporting evidence.

In other news I am working closely with Neighbourhood Support and Te Tari Pureke (Firearms Safety Authority) around firearms safety, neighbourhood networking and rural crime prevention. To this end, we are planning some rural meetings beginning with Roto-o-Rangi-Kairangi in the coming weeks. I look forward to the chance to meet with our rural communities again.

If you have not yet joined Neighbourhood Support, I strongly recommend you consider doing so. Our local Neighbourhood Support Group representatives Eileen Hawkins and Kathy Rawlings are working closely with groups around being prepared in the event of an emergency, building a sense of community as well as providing valuable information around crime prevention.

For more details to go cambridgenews.nz

Turn

with Senior Constable DEB HANN

HOSKIN, Bill – A bloody good bugger. You will be missed but not forgotten as our Dad and our Poppy. Forever in our hearts and in our memories. Angela and Clint, Matthew and Jodie, Kassandra and Adam.

HUGHES, Beverley (Bev)

Elizabeth – Passed away peacefully on the 14th March 2023 at Cambridge Life Rest Home, aged 82 years. Cherished wife of Bill for 62 years. Dearly loved Mum of Debbie, and Craig and Marie. A private cremation has been held and a memorial service for Bev will be held in the near future.

LLOYD, Ann – Passed away peacefully on Saturday

25 February 2023 after a courageous battle with illness, aged 83 years. Much loved and loving mum and mother-in-law of Mark, Kim and Frank (deceased), and Janine and Gary. Adored Nana of Nathan, Elle and Matthew. In accordance with Ann’s wishes, a private service has taken place.

VAN DE KERKHOF, Elisabeth Johanna, (Elly) –Passed away peacefully on Saturday, 11th March 2023 at Resthaven Home and Hospital, Cambridge; aged 87 years. Loved wife of the late Cor. Loved mother and mother-in-law of Maria and Iain Fenwick. Very loved Oma of Adam and Megan, and David, Great Oma of Ethan, Sasha, Gemma, and Tegan. A Requiem Mass will be held for Elly at St Peter's Catholic Church, Anzac Street, Cambridge, on Thursday, the 16th of March 2023 at 12:00pm. Followed by the burial at the Hautapu Public Cemetery. All communications to the van de Kerkhof family c/Grinter's Funeral Home, 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434, New Zealand.

Family Notices

Jono Gibson Funeral Director

Cambridge,

07 827 7649 legacyfunerals.co.nz

TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE –Wilson Street, James Street and Victoria Street on Sunday, 26 March 2023

Please note that the roads listed below will be closed to ordinary vehicular traffic between 12:30pm and 1:00pm on Sunday 26 March 2023 for the Maadi Cup Parade 2023.

• Wilson Street – between Duke Street and Victoria Street

• James Street – whole street

• Victoria Street (northbound only) – between Wilson Street and Alpha Street

Arrangements will be made for access by emergency vehicles during the closure, if required.

HOME ASSISTANT wanted –Looking for a home assistant between 55-67 years old. Available 3 or 4 days-nights for independent man at Pukekura area, Cambridge from 1st March. Good salary offered. Ph 027 200 5071 between 6pm-8pm.

Call

027 287 0005 or email janine@goodlocal.nz

For more information, please contact Waip-a District Council on 0800 924 723 or email events@waipadc.govt.nz

Garry Dyet CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

PUBLIC NOTICE

Of an application for On Licence

AS Grewal Hospitality Limited, 7 Frame Place, Rotorua has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the issue of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 19 Kaniera Terrace, St Kilda, Cambridge known as St Kilda Cafe & Bistro.

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is cafe and restaurant. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 7am10pm.

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 105 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the second publication of this notice. This notice was first published on March 9, 2023.

SITUATIONS VACANT

WANTED QUALIFIED / EXPERIENCED CARPENTER

We are on the search for someone that is a hard worker, keen to learn and develop their skills in the building trade, trustworthy, able to take instructions, takes pride in their work. We are in Te Awamutu and a small firm that specialises in renovations. Please email your CV to: LPBUILDERS@OUTLOOK.CO.NZ or phone Logan 027 218 7228

your stories are in safe hands.

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 PUBLIC NOTICE

Of an application for On Licence

Miller and Rowe Limited, 3384 Cambridge Rd, RD3 Cambridge, has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the issue of a onlicence in respect of the premises at 1242 Kaipaki Rd, RD3 Cambridge known as The Lily Pad Cafe.

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is restaurant. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Inside premises, Monday to Sunday from 8am to 5pm and 5.30pm to 12.00 midnight; outdoor area, Monday to Sunday from 8am to 5pm and 5.30pm to 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 105 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the first publication of this notice.

ADMINISTRATOR WANTED

for a busy Automotive workshop.

Approx 30hrs Mon- Fri. Phone 078716710 or email CV to office@kihikihigarage.co.nz

FITTER/WELDER & GENERAL LABOUR ROLE

We are a busy enginee ring company with a well equipped workshop, working in the Mining, Quarry and Transport Industries.

• Up to 12 hour days Monday - Friday

• Reliable and punctual

• Physically fit

• Strong health and safety awareness

• Quality focus and attention to detail

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Must pass Drug & Alcohol test

• Possible transportation availability

Apprenticeship opportunity exists for the right candidate

Please email your CV to: gray.constru ction@xtra.co.nz or phone 021 964 187

SEEKING FULL TIME (WEEKDAYS) EXPERIENCED ALL-ROUNDER: GARDENER, FARM HAND WITH A POSITIVE “CAN DO” ATTITUDE TO JOIN OUR TAMAHERE TEAM: 39-ACRE LIFESTYLE BLOCK WITH A FEW ANIMALS

Farm implement work, operation and maintenance. Upkeep of all gardens

To be successful, you will have:

• Full NZ driver’s license

• Previous experience as a gardener/ general farm hand would be advantageous

• A great work ethic, reliable and able to follow instruction

You will receive a well-paid contract rate

Send your CV to: wairua182@gmail.com

SITUATIONS VACANT

JUNIOR PARTS PERSON

We are currently on the look out for a JUNIOR PARTS PERSON to join our Cambridge Branch

www.gaz.co.nz

PARTS PERSON

We are currently on the look out for PARTS PERSON to join our Cambridge Branch.

This role is full-time with Saturdays on rotation (after a period of training) and is ideal for someone who is interested in farm machinery, is enthusiastic and willing to learn and looking to gain experience that will carry them through their career. This role involves in stock control, identifying, ordering, and selling of parts to customers and technicians. School leavers with the right attitude and aptitude will be considered.

What we are looking for

Mechanically minded with ideally some exposure to/ understanding of farm machinery, or someone who is mad about machinery! Computer literate and willing to learn new systems. Experience in a customer facing role would be advantageous, but high levels of communication skills and a genuine desire to interact with people will be a good fit. Willing to learn new skills and be a critical part of a strong growing team.

This role is full-time with Saturdays on rotation (after a period of training) and is ideal for someone who is interested in farm machinery, is enthusiastic and willing to learn and looking to gain experience that will carry them through their career. School leavers with the right attitude and aptitude will be considered and if applicable can undertake a parts apprenticeship. What we are looking for Mechanically minded with ideally some exposure to/ understanding of farm machinery, or someone who is mad about machinery! Computer literate and willing to learn new systems. Experience in a customer facing role would be advantageous, but high levels of communication skills and a genuine desire to interact with people will be a good fit. Willing to learn new skills and be a critical part of a strong growing team.

Contact Chris Brown for a chat on 027 488 0306 (or stop in at the branch) or email your CV to chris.brown@gaz.co.nz

Contact Chris Brown for a chat on 027 488 0306 (or stop in at the branch) or email your CV to Chris Brown@gaz.co.nz

PUBLIC NOTICES

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Specifications: For supplied adverts: PDF/X – 4 spec, fonts pathed or embedded, text 100% black. Photos & logos – high resolution jpg (300dpi). All files to be large. Colours to be CMYK not RGB. Photos should be colour corrected with a total ink level of approximately 220%.

Rate card: Rates are based over a 12-month period starting from the date the first ad publishes. Rate bracket e.g. 6 insertions, 12 insertions etc. chosen allows ad sizes to vary within the rate bracket. If the number of insertions chosen is not met then a bulk charge will be applied at the end/cancellation of your schedule based on correct rate reflective of the number of ads published e.g. if you have chosen the 12 insertion rate and only publish 6 insertions, the bulk charge will be the difference in price between the 6 insertion rate and 12 insertion rate multiplied by the number of ads published. You pay the rate reflective of the number of ads you actually publish.

Invoicing and Payments: For advertisers on a regular schedule invoices will be sent at the end of the month and payment is due by the 20th of the following month, otherwise payment is required by end of day Tuesday in advance of publishing. Accounts in arrears +60 days may be subject to a $95 + GST late payment fee per month. Advertiser is responsible for all debt collection fees. Cancellation deadline is one week prior to publication. By confirming and placing advertising in Good Local Media Ltd publications you are agreeing to our terms and conditions of trade.

Limitation of Liability: Good Local Media Limited (including its employees, contractors, officers, or agents) shall not be liable for a failure or breach arising from anything beyond their reasonable control e.g. an act of God, fire, earthquake, strike, explosion, or electrical supply failure, unavoidable accident or machine breakdown; and shall not be liable in tort, contract, or otherwise for loss of any kind (whether indirect loss, loss of profits, or consequential loss) to the Advertiser or any other person.

NEW FOCUSED PHYSIOTHERAPY CLINIC NOW OPEN

With the help of our amazing staff, we have now made the move across the carpark and into our brand new clinic. You can expect access to all of our existing services, as well as an expanded offering of specific Neurological, Paediatric and Cancer rehabilitation treatments.

As we continue to support our community in achieving “Movement for life,” we would like to extend a warm welcome to the new physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and administrators who have joined our team this year.

WORKPLACE HEALTH ASSESSMENTS

Is your company hiring? Did you know that we offer employee medical assessments for both Pre-employment and ongoing workplace monitoring purposes? We work closely with our clients to provide assessments tailored to suit specific job roles. Our assessments are performed by experienced health experts that are thorough, and our high appointment availability ensures fast turnaround times for businesses to make employment decisions quickly.

We can offer:

Occupational and medical history assessments

Work Capacity Assessments

• Functional Assessments

Spirometry (lung function testing)

Audiometry (hearing testing)

• Vision testing

• Drug and Alcohol screening

We also have Clinics providing this service in Hamilton, as well as two Clinics in Auckland which are located in Newmarket and East Tamaki.

For further information, please call 09 265 1791 or email bookings@focusedwhs.co.nz.

CANCER REHAB CLASSES

Last week we launched our Cancer Rehab Classes in Cambridge which are held every Monday at 11am and 2pm. The classes are suitable for anyone on their Cancer journey, any age, any stage and any diagnosis.

The cost is $20 per class so come along and give the class a go! Bookings are essential so please phone the clinic on 07 823 1393.

Thank you to ZB Builders, and all of the local contractors who have worked so hard to get the clinic open for us – you are amazing.

Our Cancer Rehab Classes run every Monday – 11am and 2pm

Cost: $20 per class Give